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By Janeil Harricharan
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“Negative Dreamer, it’s a blank out here.” I stared at the dark grey clouds through the cockpit of my Su-30MKK as the Resistance once more makes an appearance off the coast of Nova Scotia. A freighter carrying thermonuclear warheads capsized and started to sink as we desperately tried to get the cargo first for our use.
What was the use of friends? I wanted them. I wanted to play, I wanted to talk, to share common interests. My comrades worked cooperatively with me, but I wasn’t sure if I called them friends. Maybe it was love from a significant other that I wanted. Holding hands, hugging, cuddling, and the likes. I doubt a girl would like a guy with a computer chip on the back of his spine that flew 55 ton robots or space superiority fighters and rebelled against the way things were done, however.
“Hey, are you listening? Do you see anything on the scope?”
I snapped back to reality and quickly looked at the radar that cast a pale green glow. A small blip was visible, but faint.
“Yeah, sorry Dreamer. I’m getting something coordinates 331 mark 18 mark 43. It looks like its high altitude, probably about the size of a transport plane.”
“Intercept the primary bogey and see who it is.”
I fastened my mask as I got another message. “And go have some fun. You’re on your playground.”
I could hear the smile in her voice as I pulled the Su-30 into a straight vertical, shoving the throttle to full. I could hear the engines scream in my ears as I rocketed hundreds of feet per second, experiencing four times the gravitational force on my body.
In about 36 seconds, I broke the cloud cover and hit clear blue sky, the sun blinding me. I slid down a visor and continued my ascent, toggling my null signature device. I had now successfully made my plane undetectable by radar as I decreased my angle of flight and eased off the throttle a bit.
A DC-10 that had been painted in desert camo came into sight. I thermaled it, getting several people, and one pilot.
“Dreamer, I have a passenger airliner in an unusual paint scheme carrying several people.” My screens fizzed slightly as I recognized something was wrong. I started to run other types of scans on the jet when my Geiger counter started to go off.
“Dreamer, get command on the line. Supposed jet is hot and dirty, payload unknown.” I started at the blue cylindrical shapes that the computer simulated on my screen. “I think they’re nukes.”
“They got here before us? That can’t
be! Hang on.”
“Be advised that they are armed, and not inactive.” I added. My flight path had come from the underside, meaning they hadn’t seen me as yet. I started to tail them from above and behind, noticing a small black node on the tail. It appeared to be a crude null sig device. No wonder the jet was barely showing up on radar.
“19, Command says that nukes are still intact, and the jet did not reach the site before. They think that they’re on a kamikaze mission at some specified target.”
“What are we supposed to do…” I got cut off from my computer beeping an alarm. Apparently there was a buildup in their dangerous payload. I instantly hit the data to be linked back to the ship as I started to pull back from the jet in case it exploded.
“I don’t know why they’re trying to blow it up now, but it’ll kill you if you don’t get out of there!”
“Look at the payload! The fallout from that is going to kill a lot more than me or us.”
“Do what you have to do and stop it! Just do it!”
I paused for a fraction of a second, wondering about who would die once more in my sights in my hands, and if there was anything else I could have done about it. Couldn’t people live together? Couldn’t they forget differences and plain old care?
My fraction of a second was over as I let loose with everything I had. Missiles, railguns, Vulcan cannons and lasers. They all converged on the jet as it exploded in a bright light. I had made a rapid ascent away, reaching the edge of the atmosphere back to the Vigilance in space, escaping the explosion of doom.
“Target is down.”
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Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge, but I'd have liked more to tell me the setting (time and place) of this. Maybe more description?
I'm interested in your narrator, and I'd like to get to know him better, too.