Soaring into the Sun - Part Two

Posted on Thu Mar 5th, 2020 @ 4:50pm by Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Yamaguchi-Solusar

Mission: Mission 63: Second Nature
Location: Various Locations - USS Dreamcrusher
Timeline: 1830Hrs - February 9th, 2392

Music Soundtrack: Evangelion 3.0 you can (not) redo - Track One: Gods Message

Yamaguchi caught sight of the contrail as she rolled inverted before diving into the cloud layers. "Magic, I have been engaged..". Babs almost announced, she sighed softly as she felt enraged. She didn't lose control of her emotions as Mouse commented. "Incoming Babs." The words had deep implications for herself but also for her homeland and for the greater world at large, the Third World War had come to Korea.

Yamaguchi turned her head as she rolled right and then snapped left off of the heading that she was just traveling before she watched a missile launch off of another of the Chinese Shenyang J-31's but she pressed the trigger, a line of tracers went from her fighter to the Chinese in a fraction of a second, one could almost hear the crunching sound of metal on metal as the slugs impacted the Chinese jet.

Smoke began to trail from the jet as Yamaguchi snapped the stick over to the left before beginning a barrel roll to bleed off some of her airspeed, it worked just as she had intended, her tracking system began to speak to her and once she got a solid lock. She did not hesitate as she squeezed off the one missile off of her wings. It flew straight and true into the back of the Chinese jet, disintegrating it in a molten fireball.

Babs did not celebrate her kill as she got a cruel reminder that she was still in trouble as a missile shot past her nose about a hundred yard's off as she turned out her wingman's voice on the radio screaming for help.

The effect of her wingman demanding help snapped her out of her funk state, she snapped the stick back to the right as she started a second barrel roll and the tracking systems on her missiles worked perfectly as she pulled the trigger, letting fly with a second missile which overshot but still riddled her target with super heated shards of shrapnel, the fighter flew on but suddenly exploded five seconds later, this got Babs her second kill.

The two remaining Chinese Shenyangs all turned and fled, saving Babs and Boozehound from both being shot down, however Babs knew that this fight was only just starting. This day would only further heighten issues and cause more problems, it didn't matter that the Chinese started it. "Oh yeah... We're screwed now ." Babs said over the coms.

Magic muttered something back at her in Korean while a sigh escaped Yamaguchi's lips. "Abort your mission Babs, head on home... We'll bring in four replacements for you." as Mouse added. "Babs, this wasn't your fault.. you did only what you had to do."

"Confirmed Magic... Heading for home." Elizabeth suddenly pulled inverted as she pulled over the top, doing a rather fancy barrel roll before she and her wingman both headed for home.