Finals - Part One

Posted on Thu Feb 27th, 2020 @ 11:58am by Division Admiral Thomas Lasky & Post Captain Keyan Fardreamer & Lieutenant Colonel Kell "Cyclops" Tainer & Jillian "Phoenix" Sullivan

Mission: Mission 18: Aces High
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 1300Hrs - December 22nd, 2390

Wukari was the first to enter the meeting area with her four Squadron commanders, Leadfoot, Wicked Witch, Sideswipe and Mirage. This was the day that they where going to work out the final tests for the pilots, but Wukari was glad to be out of sickbay. Wukari looked at her squadron Commanders as they all took their seat in random areas, some on the floor, some on a nearby fighter. None of them where in a very good mood, as each of them had at least one or two fuck ups in their squadrons. Wukari looked at the list of names that stood out, and there where 8 pilots that stood out as being bad. But Wukari still wanted to see how they would perform in the final two tests that Fives was planning.

Boomer meanwhile was sitting at the table already, PADD in hand as he nodded to each of the pilots in turn.

The door opened a moment later as Camshaft and Ironhide entered, followed by Cyclops and Jetfire last, Boomer rose to his feet as Phoenix entered last. "Alright.. now that we're all here... we shall begin.."

"Sit," Phoenix insisted as she sat gently on one of the wings of a Valkyrie. Firstly she looked to Wukari and smiled, "I trust your therapy goes well?"

Wukari held out her hands, showing that they where still shaky, and had braces on them, "Well, I'm better now, but my hands still need time to recover, I wont be able to even fly a simulator for a while."

"I sent ya flowers when you were in hospital," Phoenix spoke apologetically. "I wanted ta visit ya, but I had a terrible spot myself. I'm sorry I didn' though."

Wukari shrugged," No its fine, i had plenty of support while I was there."

Boomer nodded. "Alright... First off.. welcome back Phoenix and Desert Fox.." he commented. "Phoenix... while its nice to have the Wing Commanders job... I can honestly say that my girlfriend and your girlfriend need to understand two things.... Tressa is going to know what several hours of angry sex feels like... and as for your girlfriend... the less said about it, the better.." he commented. "this pile of yahoos have been pissing me off... I wanted to revoke all of their flight status but I was overruled..."

"So then this simulator run will be a do or die." Phoenix nodded and smiled to Boomer's comment. "I assume you have a great eliminator for this bunch of yahoos?"

"Oh yes..." Boomer rubbed his hands. "I do indeed... one of the tests from Top Gun. You might remember it... An attack by a Squadron of Jem'Hadar Fighters on a small Federation Battle-group in the Mev system during the war... The ships were Odysseus, Zeus and Thor.

Ironhide nodded his head. "I remember that mission." he commented with a smile. "The three Federation ships all came out damaged but they all survived.."

"Indeed." Boomer responded. "Lets see how these idiots do against Jem'Hadar opponents." he paused. "Also we're going to do a Squadron based competition... see how your pilots perform... how you guys want to do this evaluation is up to you.... you can switch out the capital ships for freighters... make it a challenge. How you do it is up to you.." he explained. "the last one will be a wing versus wing dual, whoever fails... loses their flight status."

Wukari added in," Well, this is supposed to be a test of the pilots ability to fight, so I think we shouldn't even give the warship option at all, and eliminate any extra variables. Also the simulation will have to be adjusted for the scorpion pilots, since their fighters are more powerful."

Boomer raised an eyebrow. "Which is why for this first test. I'm going to leave it to each Squadron commander and Wing Commander to handle as they deem fit." he commented, while trying hard not to lose his temper, the last couple of weeks had tested him in ways he'd not seen coming.

"Scorpions are more powerful, but a bit less agile," Phoenix winked at Wukari. "An' since you can't fly, my results are your results on this one."

Wukari attempted to pull out a padd, but unable to grip it properly, she ended up dropping it. She attempted to pick it back up, but with a lot of difficulty, when Leadfoot decided to help her out.

"Thanks," Wukari commented, her hands still shaking. "Well, I've had to reorganize my wing, and shift the better pilots to 1st and 4th squadrons, since the R&D teams are going to use those two squadrons as test beds for the new weapons systems they are developing. So I am going to set all my squadrons to have the same test, defending freighters against a Jem'Hadar attack. I need the same test to determine which pilots I need to shuffle around."

Boomer noticed that Wukari was having issues holding onto things with her hands as he felt a wave of anger rush through him, he was reminded of the fact that Gonad wasn't around anymore and he was suddenly grateful that the man was indeed gone.

He looked at his four squadron commanders. "All of you do the same test. swap out the warships for unarmed freighters that can't run very fast... we need to find out who the none-hackers are..."

"Well since I am a fill-in for Wukari, I will set the standards based on what she wants for her guys," Phoenix spoke respectfully to her counterpart.

Boomer nodded. "Alright.." he commented. "We start these tests in an hour.."

Wukari simply nodded, saying to her Squadron leaders, "Well guys, get you squadrons together. I will still be watching."

Phoenix gave Wukari and gentle squeeze on her shoulder in parting. As if to let Desert Fox know it would be OK.