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Operation: chain Reaction
“Yuktobanian aircraft have suddenly been detected on radar at southeast of Oured. They are flying in the direction of
Apito International Airport, located in an area between Oured Bay and the capital. Apito International is a civilian airport.
The enemy's intentions are unknown. Passengers and personnel are currently being evacuated, but the sudden appearance of enemy
has punched the airport into plunged the airport into chaos. Intercept and engage invading enemy formation, and protect Apito
International Airport.”
When we arrived over the target area, it was night.
“I can't believe we flipped a coin for this mission. This isn't funny, man.”
“This is the Airport Control Tower. Emergency Alert! All planes, cancel takeoff clearance! All approaching flights,
change course immediately!” the Control Tower said.
“Change our Course? Change it to WHERE?” I heard one of the civilian planes say over the radio.
“This is Air Ixiom Flight 31. A high-speed aircraft just passed by us 600 yards away!”
“They're allied fighters taking off on an emergency mission. All flights, be heads up for mid-air collisions!”
“A fighter? I thought the war was over the west coast.”
“Aww, how peaceful this place is. I'm chokin' up here.”
“Which squadron was that, do you think?”
“It's the Capital District Air Defence Squadron. The enemy has unleashed chemical weapons in a college town, 400 miles
from the airport. One squadron is on its way there to spread neutralizers. You're the only ones that can defend the airport.”
“How could they?”
“It sounds the other side of the coin is bad news, too, huh?”
“Unfortunately, yeah.”
“Tossing a coin to assign us a mission was a dumb idea to begin with.”
I saw about five fighters patrolling the sky, I fired four Phoenix missiles, three of them hit, but the fourth one missed.
I watched that missile head happily off course, and out of sight.
“The air’s full of Civilian planes! We have to be careful using our missiles!” Grimm yelled.
I was forced to agree, if we missed, the missiles would either nail a civilian building, or lock onto a civilian plane, with
some rather serious consequences for both the plane, and the people in it.
“Hey, what's all the ruckus outside?” I heard over the radio.
“Attention, all airport personnel,” I said, trying to buy some time for the people on the ground. “This
is an emergency, evacuate immediately!”
“Emergency? What's going on?”
I didn’t answer; instead, I toggled the HUD to the GUNS configuration, and started firing at the enemy planes. I decided
that this would be my weapon of choice for this mission.
“DAMN! MY PLANE’S BEEN SWISS-CHEESED!” one of the planes yelled. I guess I hit something fairly important,
because smoke started to stream out.
“This is Omega Nine! My plane’s been damaged internally!” I let whoever that was leave. No sense in shooting
down a guy who was damaged and going to be shot down or crash anyways.
“So I guess our anti-air defence system was full of holes, then.” Grimm said.
“Yeah, I guess so.” I replied as I shot down the last plane
“LOOK AT ALL THE ENEMIES ON THE IFF!” Grimm suddenly yelled.
“WHERE! Down below? On the ground!” Chopper demanded.
“This is Airport Control Tower. Military transport planes parked on the runway, state your squadron number and callsign.”
“This is Capital District Air Command. We haven't deployed any allied military transport planes to civilian airports
at this time.”
“Tanks are coming out of transport planes! They're firing! It's the enemy! Enemy forces inside the airport!”
“Hey, Kid, did you hear that just now?” Chopper asked
“Yeah, what the hell’s going on?”
“This is the middle of Osea. How can they be attacking here?”
“How did they sneak in here?” the Control Tower said, confused.
“Never mind, just destroy the tanks and transport plane. Don't let them cause any more damage here.” Capitol District
Air Command said.
“It looks like we where tricked.” Grimm said, as I started firing.
“Looks like,” I said.
“They where really after the airport.”
“What I can’t understand is that when we passed over the airport, everything was fine!”
“Never mind that now! Let’s just destroy those tanks!”
” AER Flight 302, ABS Flight 417, landing clearance cancelled. Abort your landing.”
“This is Flight 417. We've been in holding pattern for hours. We're on emergency fuel.”
“It's too dangerous. I can't give you clearance to land right now.”
“Tell that to my fuel tank. Can't you help us land here?”
“This is OWA 783. We're running out of fuel, too.”
“Are you listening! This is war here! The freight terminal's getting shot at! Dammit! This is a civilian airport!”
“Then again, we did sorta do the same thing to them, over in their country.” Chopper commented.
“So this is their retaliation for that? Why do people have to be so stupid!” Nagase yelled.
“We got word that the enemy Special Forces unit that gassed the college town is headed for the airport. Stay heads up.”
“Dammit! Damn those dirty Yukes!”
“Well, if that's what it is, then where did all these fighters come from? Even if they could refuel in the air, fly
all the way here and get thorough our distance to destroy our capital, there's not nearly enough of them to occupy the entire
country. These guys are on a suicide mission, and they know it.”
“Dammit...Dammit!”
“Hey control tower, I feel like crying too, believe me.”
I was really getting sick of this mission. I fired everything I had into the remaining fighters, and then blew the hell out
of the ground forces.
“This is Blaze, all enemy forces are destroyed,” I said, angry. “we’re RTBing. Over.”
“Enemy forces annihilated. Airport control tower, what do you say?”
“Affirmative. Enemy defeat confirmed. Give our thanks to your aces up there.”
“Roger. Operation complete.”
I after my landing, I went straight to my rack, and fell asleep. This was getting to be too stressful for me, and my squadron.
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