fanfic_name = Asian's Contributions

chapter = Chapter 4

author = Shark 1

dedicate = My fellow ex and current platoon leaders.

fanfic = On board the SDF-1, the Sterlings are spending their much needed day off with their daughter. “A few days are like a few months if we’re apart from each other.” Max said to his daughter while playing with her in the living room. Then Miriya came in from the kitchen with her hands on her hips. “What if I’m away from you? You won’t miss me?” She said in her teasing voice. She sat next to them and Max put his arm around her shoulder. “That depends Mrs. Sterling.” He replied. Miriya slapped him on the shoulder and start tickling her husband. Dana helped her mother tickling his neck. He couldn’t move because both of them were on top of him. He was laughing until he was in tears then they stopped the torture.

 

“Ever wonder why they made me the Quadrono leader?” She asked him while holding Dana in a hug. She was panting as well because of the laughing she had while tickling her father. Max sat up while fixing his glasses back on. “Ever wonder why I married you?” He hugged her while Dana sat on the floor looked up to them. He lay her on the couch and was about to give her a kiss when he stopped half way and whispered. “But that doesn’t mean I can’t get even.” Miriya’s eyes grew wider. Before she could do anything, Max tickled her without mercy. Dana joined in as well. They were having fun until Lisa and Rick came in and saw what were the Sterlings doing. “Hei you two. There’s a child watching.” Teased the vermilion leader while picking up Dana and put her on his shoulder. “How are you guys doin’ this lovely morning?” Max entertained them while Miriya went to the kitchen to make some tea.

 

“Don’t tell me that the two of were playing like that on the carrier.” Rick said as if he was guessing. Max and Lisa laughed before he could answer. “I was tempted on several occasions. Especially when we were on standby, Miriya and I were so bored that we teased each other on how we slept that night.” Miriya interrupted them as she came from the kitchen. “I thought we agreed not to tell anyone about that.” “I’m sure it’s not that bad Mir. After all, most of us had our times of humiliation.” Lisa was about to continue but this time Rick interrupts. “For example, when Lisa’s asleep, she murmurs about location codes and giving out orders to pilots.” Lisa pinched his thigh before he could add some more. They kept on talking and joking until Rick and Lisa were paged for duty. They said their goodbyes and head towards their respective posts.

 

As soon as Lisa stepped into the bridge, Captain Gloval asked her for some opinions. “Commander Hayes, should we let the SJS join us to launch an attack on the rest of the Zentreadi outpost or should we do it ourselves?” Lisa took a few seconds to think about her answers. We can ask them to join us because they’re very talented pilots as well sir. We’ll only have to ask them if they’re willing to do so.” “They should be arriving soon.” After his last words, Sammy reported that there’s incoming message from the SJS carrier requesting permission to dock by the Prometheus.” The Captain gave the signal of approval and Sammy complied. Once the carrier was secured, Colonel Richard and Captain Rizal came aboard the fortress and were greeted by the Captain and Lisa. “Welcome aboard my friends. It’s good to see you again.” They boarded the military Hummers and headed towards the base. On their way to the base, The Colonel was occupied by Gloval’s explainations of the situation while Rizal was occupied by Lisa’s appearance. Once they’ve reached the base, the Captain begins his briefing. “As I told you earlier colonel, we’d like you and your crew to join us to defend the Earth from the rest of the Zentreadi. Of course your men will be equipped with our weapons as well. We’ll have them trained in 2 weeks.” Rizal was excited about the news but the Colonel had to spoil it.

 

With all due respect Captain, we can’t sit here while waiting for my pilots to get use to your environment. We need to strike and we need to do it now.” The Captain sighed before answering the statement. “Colonel, I understand that you’d like to get rid of this invaders more than we do but you have to consider to attack them with your weapons won’t exactly stop them. If you insists on using your own weapons, than it’s your choice but you have to consider that we need to plan an optimal strategy.” Colonel Richard smirked confidently and Rizal didn’t like it one bit. “I’ve sent my best pilots to do a reconnaissance earlier today. They’re currently flying into the enemy’s airspace as we speak.” Rizal bowed his head down but the colonel was still sitting straight up feeling proud of himself. Captain Gloval now trying to sound as calm as possible. “Colonel, are you aware of what you are doing? We’ve lost two of our reconnaissance planes and four of our fighters yesterday. First you asked for our assistant and we are here to help you.” The Colonel gave Captain Gloval a mean stare. “Then we only have 2 choices. One, it’s either we’ll strike them immediately or two, we’ll launch an assault ourselves.”

 

As they were discussing, Azzedy was preparing the F-117 for take off. “Do you think he’ll allow you to take this?” Azrul asked him while watching his friend strapping himself in the cockpit. “I’m just worried that she might get into trouble. Relax, we’ll be back before they know it. Besides, I asked Rizal to cover things up.” He then closed the canopy and went up the control tower to hear his friend’s radio conversation. From the tower he could see the fighter was moving towards the runaway. “Tower, this is Shark leader requesting permission to take off on a test run.” “Shark leader, you are clear for your test run.”

 

Azrul held his laugh when he heard the fake request by his friend. The fighter took off and headed towards Jennifer’s location. Jennifer was already inside the enemy’s airspace for about 2 hours. She had gathered some vital photos of the enemy’s main outpost. “Alright Jenny, we’ve got everything we need so let’s get out of here.” She was about to leave when two fighter pods engaging her. Alphonsus was looking at their tail and saw the fighter pods were closing in. “WE’VE GOT INCOMING!” “Tell me something I don’t know.” She broke off and fled towards the carrier’s location. The pods were firing but she did a good job of evading it. “Jenny, do something!” “Like what, swear them off?!” She was doing well when she saw another anonymous reading on her radar. “Great, now what?” Then came the familiar voice that she least expected. “Jenny, do you read me? I need your location.” She just remembered that she didn’t turn off her stealth mode. That’s why Azzedy couldn’t find them. “Eddy, we’re in deep shape. I’ve got two on my tail!” When he saw the plane already in sight he armed all his missiles. “You can forget about your locations. I’ll be there in 30 seconds.” The pods are getting closer to her Black bird. “Eddy, please save our backs.” Alphonsus now sounded very worried.

 

The moment he finished his words, one of the pods blew up. “Get away from them you son of a crap!” Jenny was glad to see her wing mate in sight. The last pod was about to retreat but Azzedy’s missile caught it first. “Now let’s head home before the rest of the world knows we’re here.” They sped off through the sky in order to reach the carrier as fast as possible. “Say, how’d you get your hands on the stealth? The Colonel’s not gonna like this.” Azzedy laughed and ignored her statement.

 

The two stealth fighters are now approaching the carrier. Once they’ve landed, they were laughing and teasing one another while walking to the locker room to change into their uniforms. They didn’t talk about the flight as someone might be suspicious of his illegal ‘test flight’. After they change, they went to the mess hall to get something to eat. While they’re there, Azrul came to see them. “So, how’d you like it?” Azzedy looked at Jenny’s face and smiled. “It was beautiful. But only if could have more missile loads, I won’t mind flying it full time.” They kept on joking and laughing until Rizal came into the mess hall. “Hei captain, over here.” Azzedy yelled. Rizal walked towards them and sat next to Azrul. “What’s with the gloominess? Drinks are on me everyone. Any good news from your visit with the colonel on board the SDF-1?”

 

Rizal sighed heavily and massaged his cheeks. “First, it was supposed to be good news. The Captain was offering us to fly their veritechs with 2 weeks of training. But, the Colonel declined it. He only asked the RDF to supply us their cluster missiles.” Everyone went silent. When the drinks arrived, Rizal took a sip before he continued. “Furthermore, after the meeting, he told me that if the RDF still wants to wait for a battle plan, he’ll execute his own plan within the next 48 hours.” The pilots looked at one another. “So in another word, it’s a suicide mission.” Alphonsus told them what he thought of it. “He’s doing this is because if we succeed, they’ll make him the governor or some hero.” Added Rizal with his disgusted voice mimick.

 

Azzedy then looked into his friend’d face. “Rizal, are you scared that we’re gonna die?” Rizal nodded his head gently. “Look at us. The moment we’re airborne, I’d always thought that I’ll never make it back alive. But when I thought of my families on my wings and here, it inspired me to live longer to protect them.” Rizal just nodded and excused himself. “Poor guy. I mean after the pressure of command that the colonel had given him and now this? He’s pretty messed up.” Azzedy was actually pretty much as messed up as his friend but he was so good at covering it. Despite his strong feelings for Jennifer, he couldn’t find the right time to tell her. Even though all of them went to the same academy but their feelings were building ever since they were stationed together on board that carrier. Jennifer was feeling the same but like Azzedy, she couldn’t find the right time. To her it was a different feeling when she was around Azrul and Alphonsus. They were more like a brother to her. Rizal was taking a stroll down the memory lane on the upper decks. He remembered the days when all of them were still in the academy just over 6 months ago.

 

State = Continuará/To Be Continue

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