Planes: Interception

Battle For Freedom

"One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and a chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish."
-J.B Priestly

Dawn rose on Coningsby, The two pilots got their suits on ready to go and headed to the briefing room.
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All the pilots on base were sitting in the briefing room...waiting.
The CO entered the room and stood at the stand at the front of the room, Looking down on all of them.
"Men and Woman of this air force, I thank you all for committing yourselves to this, You all know what/who we are doing this for but don't think we are doing this just to get two alien planes back home, we are also doing this to end the corruption and the dictatorship of North Korea, to set innocent men, woman and children free from the tyranny of Kim, I can't guarantee that all of you will make it out alive anyway, The south korean army will attack from the ground, they will target Ground to air missiles and any artillerty that happens to be at the border, Ben and Jeremy will be leading the misssion, The rest of you is to provide as much cover as you can, taking out any fighters or ground targets, the USAF will also be there to provide support, Ben will escort the two planes to the 'portal' where he will break away as soon as he can to avoid being sucked in, Meanwhile Jeremy, you will break away and strike the Capital building where Kim will be hiding, Killing him and hopefully end this war, I wish good luck to all of you, We deploy in half an hour."
The men dispersed and headed over to their Typhoons ready to go, Ben and Jeremy headed over to Dusty and Ember's hanger.
Ben approached them, "So, You're all ready to go?"
"Yeah," Dusty replied a little hesitantly.
"You alright?" Ben asked.
"Just, we will miss this place a little, it's been quite a journey."
Ben thought back to everything that had happened since they met, "Yeah, it has been quite the journey, we best get going.
Ben walked over to his Typhoon, Dusty and Ember rolled out the hanger and both started their engines, Ben and Jeremy taxied to the runway with Dusty and Ember in front of them with an armada of 62 Typhoons waiting to taxi, that number would increase as more bases start deploying with them as well as when they join up with the USAF F-22 raptors.
"Right then." Ben radioed to all of them, "We will head over to Seoul, The South Korean capital where we can all refuel and make any final amendments before we deploy into battle."
They took off and headed towards South Korea for a very long flight.
Jeremy opened up his radio to Ben.
"Ben, do you really think we will be able to do this?"
"Of course we will Jeremy, As long as we do it right and get it done as soon as possible we will be out of there in no time, it's not like we're taking on the United States or something."
"I wouldn't underestimate them, Ben."
Ben didn't reply, he was confident that it would be a success and he would make sure of it.
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The flight lasted 32 hours, Including having to land and refuel a couple of times, All of the Typhoons had made it to Seoul without any trouble, the F-22s had already made it.
One of the American pilots approached Ben,
"Well well, These are the two 'planes' that we are covering, eh?" He said.
Ben replied, "Indeed."
"My name's Kevin, I honestly never thought they could exist, do they come from a different world or something?"
"It's the only explanation."
The Typhoons and Raptors were all refuelled, there was about 230 aircraft.
"North Korea won't know what hit them," Kevin stated.
"Damn right you are."
Ben left Kevin and went over to Dusty and Ember.
"You two sure you want to go ahead with this?" Ben asked
Dusty started, "Positive."
Ember nodded, Ben could tell she was scared, Ben was not surprised but it's the only way they can get home.
Ben turned around and shouted, "ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY LET'S GET GOING!"
All the men started running over to their aircraft, all aircraft were armed to the teeth, Ben and Jeremy got to their Typhoons and taxied out with Dusty and Ember and took off the same as before.
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"Five minutes from the border." Jeremy radioed to all the aircraft.
All the aircraft were behind them ready for the first sign of retaliation.
Dusty looked back to Ben, Ben nodded through his cockpit.
"Thirty seconds out."
The border was in sight but there were tons of armaments that were already firing down on the South Korean army but in a few seconds, half the weapons were on them.
One of the American pilots radioed.
"Heads up, Enemy fighters straight ahead."
Ben radioed, "This is it, Commence the attack, Stay in formation."
Jeremy radioed, "Target in sight, Roger."
"Let's see if they show some compassion, ATTACK!"
The aircraft broke away which dispersed the North Korean aircraft, In a matter of seconds the sky was full of smoke and debris, most of the aircraft going down belonged to the North Koreans but Ben could see some Typhoons going down and a couple of Raptors as well, the screams he heard coming out of the radio would haunt him, he saw some had managed to eject and managed to parachute just on South Korean territory but by now they were well over North Korean land and if they were shot down and ejected they would have no hope anyway.
"Alright, Jeremy we're almost there."
"BEN, WATCH YOUR SIX!"
Ben turned around to see a well-outdated MIG from the cold war on his six, Dusty and Ember looked at him worryingly.
Ben laughed, "If that MIG thinks he can shoot me down he can think again."
Ben turned sharply with his afterburners firing up, He got round behind the MIG easily, and locked on, He fired one of his meteor missiles, It hit the wing and the MIG spiralled downwards towards the ground but the pilot managed to eject just in time.
Ben saw another MIG heading towards him, he did the same turned round on him, locked on and fired, this time the pilot in it, didn't escape.
Ben went back into the formation with Dusty, Ember and Jeremy.
"Nice shooting, Ben!" Jeremy complimented him.
"Thanks, Jeremy." He said compassionately.
Jeremy laughed, "I think you are right when you sai-, AGHHHH!"
"JEREMY!"
Jeremy's wing had been shot and was set ablaze, the Typhoon was barely flying.
"Jeremy, you're ok just turn back and head back to the airport."
Ben got no response, The fire on his wing was getting larger and before Ben could blink the wing ripped right off, The Typhoon dived at over 500 knots, Jeremy had no chance of escape, he was already killed from the shot, The Typhoon smashed into the ground into a massive fireball.
It was if time had slowed down for Ben, he watched the burning wreck from above.
Dusty and Ember also looked down in horror, Both feeling responsible for his death because they had come into this world.
"GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Ben Rolled directly to the MIG that had shot Jeremy and aimed for the canopy, purposefully aiming at the pilot, Ben let out a small burst the cockpit glass was sprayed with blood and the MIG gradually descended crashing into the forest.
Dusty's eyes widened, "There it is!"
The portal was a small green spiral shape, Slowly spinning in the air.
"I'm not finished," Ben said aggressively.
Ben rolled over and dived down and was flying very low at 200 feet, He was heading straight for the capital building where he could see Kim looking at him through binoculars but tanks and helicopters were surrounding it, He would have no chance but he saw bombs falling towards the tanks, He looked up to see tons of B-1 spirit bombers dropping bombs.
"At your service, Ben!" Kevin said.
Kevin flew his raptor close to Ben's Typhoon, Ben pulled towards the left helicopter and Kevin had pulled to the right helicopter, They were easy kills, they only required bullets to take down.
Ben could see Kim about half a mile away, His face looked like it was full of shock, Ben sped towards the building and didn't plan to fire until the last second just to increase the fear inside of Kim, Ben dropped all his bombs and fired all his missiles into the building, He pulled up and looked down, The building collapsed taking Kim with it.
It was a victory for the Allies,
"Alright Dusty and Ember, Let's get you two back home."
Ben formed a formation on Dusty and Ember approaching the portal, Ben thought about his friendship with Jeremy, he still couldn't believe he was gone, His best friend since secondary school, the long journey they had together to get into the air force and he was gone within a second without notice.
They were now less than a quarter of a mile from the portal.
"It was nice knowing you two." Ben radioed to both Dusty and Ember.
"You too." They both replied simultaneously.
Ben was about to break away when an alarm went off, both his engines had failed and he did not have enough power to break away, He saw Dusty and Ember fly through the portal, Ben tried to break away but he was also sucked in, Ben closed his eyes waiting for the worst to happen.

End

To be continued in, Planes: A new world

Thanks for reading, it has been fun....and sometimes tiring to write this, lol, I hope you enjoyed the story and I will see you in the next book.