Why Change? (Straight furry story)

28. Discharge

Three and a half years, we are Discharged. "Men," Flight said, "you have fought well, and we have small gifts of appreciation" He pulls out a box, "I have one for each of you, come up in alphabetical order, you know the routine, do it" he says. "Hellfyre," he says, "I knew you when you were sixteen.", I then immediately recognised him, "Sergeant Petricopv... I am so sorry for not recognising you" he smiles and said "remember the plane you 'rescued'?" I nodded and he said "well, the air force took out the old engines and replaced them, and they were smaller, so now you have space for whatever you want. they even renamed the aircraft to Hellfyre." I looked outside and saw the runway.

"hangar 6, should be the only skyhawk there" the guard said. I walked to the hangar and opened it. There it was, I felt like I was getting my motorbike again, I got in and said into the headset "tower 6, this is... Hellfyre ready to taxi from hangar 6".

"Hellfyre, this is tower 6, taxi to runway 2."

"tower 6, this is Hellfyre taxied to runway two, holding"

"Hellfyre, you are cleared for takeoff on runway 2"

I Took off in my jet. I flew for about an hour before landing in Wagga Wagga. I went through the landing procedure and hit the ground. When I finally managed to taxi into the hangar, I called Vexera, "hey, I made it back. whatd'ya wanna do?". I got on my motorcycle and sped off. I was happy until the traffic went into gridlock, I went down the middle of the lanes and saw the crash, many emergency crews were there, and I saw a goat get pulled out of the wreckage. The pickup truck winched onto the car and pulled it up. Being the non-intrusive mammal I am, I rode off and forgot about it.

I was wondering where In Wagga Wagga we could meet, The farm? The town hall? The statue? I decided that the best place to meet after four years is a place that we both like. I called Vexera, "Hi, this is Vexera, how are you going? wait, I'm not here, leave a message" I here my phone beep "Hi Vex, this is Carl, if you want to, meet me outside Wagga Wagga shopping centre, I'll give you until six to be here." So I waited just outside the centre and some people asked what I was doing here, "I'm waiting for someone very important" I would answer with. I sat on a bench with a goat who looked like he had been crying for ages. "hey, mate," I said softly "what happened?" the man turned to me, "what does it mean to you?" he said rudely,

"because I want to help, and you might get some comfort" I say

"My wife was coming here and... well..." he burst out crying and hugged me "she hasn't come yet". I remembered the highway.

"I think I may know where your wife is", the goat looked at me expectantly,

"where?" he asked

"she was involved in a car accident, and I think she may have been airlifted to Brisbane." the goat got up and said "thank you, but I need to go to Brisbane, to see my wife" I smiled as he walked off. Then I saw a familliar face at the other end of the square.