ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

Unfortunately, between you and the roosterpit is the entire rest of the plane (as you stated you would remain behind it to avoid the chin gun). Regardless, you manage to take out a huge chunk of tail with a lucky shot. The doomed craft makes no attempt to regain control, instead deciding to accelerate, ramming and destroying both itself and the Mercanan AWACS in a spiteful blaze of glory. As far as you can see, it's just you and the cargo planes now. The only saving grace is that you're almost to McNamara, and the remainder of the flight is uneventful, with no sign of the other Rafale you engaged. They must have either been shot down or decided to flee after their support craft went down.

Either way, mission accomplished. You and the remaining cargo planes are able to land without incident, and SAR is deployed to look for Kissinger and Steele.

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[Operator¹]

Bell taxis the plane into the hangar and goes to take a shower afterwards. When she is done, Bell climbs on top of the hangar and watches the runway, waiting for the SAR team to get back.

[Gojira]

Steele continues to be dead.

[blockguy™]

I continue being a dumbstuff.

[Qwepir]

Bell taxis the plane into the hangar and goes to take a shower afterwards. When she is done, Bell climbs on top of the hangar and watches the runway, waiting for the SAR team to get back.

It takes a few hours, but they come back with Kissinger and confirmation that Steele is very much dead.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Before.


I leave the burning wreckage of my aircraft, having made peace with the craft. I jog about two kilometers to where parts of Steele's craft crashed. I find what I believe to be a roosterpit. Not much left. Not much of a body either. I kick a fragment. It's a piece of his helmet. I snap and start crying in the desert. The tears are quick to evaporate.

In the distance, I hear SAR Helios. I sit on the desert floor, and angrily throw a flare at the ground. Red smoke bleeds into the sky.

I'm pissed the whole way home. Steele was the person I fell closest too. Now, he gone.

The waterworks flow the whole way home.

[Tayasaurus]

I storm towards the hangar and spot one of the pilots sitting on top of the hangar.

"What happened? What did i miss!"

I continue being a dumbstuff.

You messed up. Big deal. You can still contribute to the game appropriately though without posts like these

[Operator¹]

"Steele got wasted in the field by a Huit AWACS, Kissinger got shot down but at least he made it back alive, most of the Mercanan escort squadron got shot down, but the job got done."

Bell doesn't seem to be enjoying the fact that Steele got blasted by a laser, since it reminded her of getting shot down by the Octarius.

"At least he isn't going to get grilled by the Kintharian technical sergeant, the Huits handled it for her."

[Mr. Hurricane]

I walk, hands in pockets, slumped over. Pissed. Angry at command. Angry at the huitz.

I walk into our barracks and pass Steele's dorm. I stop.

The old, off-white metal door stands in front of me. I fidget with the piece of his helmet in my pocket.

"What the forget kind of cargo is worth a human life!" I yell at the top of my lungs.

I yell. It's an angry and sad yell. Perhaps mournful. I walk off in the same manner as before. My blood boils with anger.

[Qwepir]

"At least he isn't going to get grilled by the Kintharian technical sergeant, the Huits handled it for her."

: Who got handled? What happened?

"What the forget kind of cargo is worth a human life!" I yell at the top of my lungs.
I yell. It's an angry and sad yell. Perhaps mournful. I walk off in the same manner as before. My blood boils with anger.

Almost as if on cue, a pallet is rolled down the hallway towards the armory, stacked higher than a person with munition crates covered in Gothic text.

[Tayasaurus]

"Quite possibly weapons to kill the bastards even harder with it seems."

I know where this conversation is probably going and i'm already adjusting my helmet nervously.

[Juncoph]

Reading a book in my room, I overhear someone yelling. It sounds like Oxide...

I exit the room and see him storming down the hallway. I catch up with him.

"Hey, uh, what happened?"

[Operator¹]

Bell goes to the barracks with her flight bag and sees Junkers come out with Kissinger going down the hall.

She signals to John that she is coming over to explain the situation, but that he shouldn't talk to the understandably outraged pilot storming down the hallway.

[blockguy™]

I decide to go outside to get some fresh air. I notice Taylor, and a few other pilots sitting atop the hangar.

"Are you guys all right?! What's goin' on?!"

[Juncoph]

Bell goes to the barracks with her flight bag and sees Junkers come out with Kissinger going down the hall.

She signals to John that she is coming over to explain the situation, but that he shouldn't talk to the understandably outraged pilot storming down the hallway.