Wing Commander

[Morgoth]

"Sims. Couldn't help it. I saw this simulator with a big: Top Secret, and I just had to try it", shrugged Dima.

 

[Angelus]

"I should have done that myself but seeming as I am a by the regs type person I know that I wouldn't have but it would have given me an edge in flying it. But they will probably have a sim upstairs in the main computer so I will go on there as much as I can."

 

[Morgoth]

"You should. It was really an enlightening experience", said Dima.

 

[Angelus]

"I might have to do that. After I make sure that all of the squadrons land that is and we get underway because I don't want to be sitting in a simulator going through a mock battle when there is a real one going on outside."

As soon as he finished talking a member of one of the squadrons brought their ship in for a perfect landing in the hangar bay, followed close behind by another.

 

[Morgoth]

Finally, all of the squadrons were in and Dima walked with Blair to the 2nd floor. They got into a sim room.

 

[Angelus]

Blair sat down on one of the simulators and put the helmet on then pushed the button to start it. As soon as the image came onto the screen he recognized it instantly as that of the cockpit of the new fighter.

 

[Morgoth]

Dima turned on the hyperlink and got into another sim. Soon, he appeared on Blair's screen just as Blair appeared on his. Dima turned the difficulty onto Real Life.

 

[Angelus]

As Blair watched the screen several fighters appeared and began to fire at him, making him juke left and right to get away from them.

 

[Morgoth]

Suddenly a ship that resembled a green pickle floated on screen. Every 1 ft of it's 20 miles was covered with heavy lasers. It's port side was facing them as it opened up a huge barrage of laser.

 

[Angelus]

"Holy shit, what have you put me into?!" Blair shouted at as several laser bolts flew past his fighter. He looked over and saw that Dima's sim fighter was having the same trouble until he turned it into its gundam form and began firing straight at the ship and the fighters that had appeared.

 

[Morgoth]

"Real life", said Dima dryly. The fighters resembled something of a Scarab completely covered in weponry. "Holy shit, Blair! Those are Mantis fighters. last time I tried this sim, they weren't in here!" exclaimed a surprised Dima.

 

[Angelus]

"Now you tell me!" Blair shouted out as his simulator chair was rocked as his simulated fighter was hit by shot after shot. He juked left then right to try to avoid the heaviest amount to fire but in doing so flew straight into another which rocked his ship even more.

 

[Morgoth]

Suddenly a huge ship that resembled a huge machine gun loomed out of the distance. "A mantis BFG Flag Carrier", whispered Dima, trembling, his eyes opening wide. A huge orange and black sphere appeared on a huge turret on the Flag Carrier's back. The Mantis fighters quickly retreated into the ship and the Kilrathi flew like ducks at a hunt. The sphere suddenly exploded into a bright shockwave. Both gundams exploded immediatley. Every fighter withing 200 hundred miles went up in flames.

 

[Angelus]

As soon as they were both out of the simulators Blair looked at Dima and said, "What the hell was that thing. It destroyed our ships faster than we were able to lock on it."

 

[Morgoth]

"The Mantis BFG Flag Carrier", said Dima with a tremble. "Watch this", beckoned Dima to a holo-table. Blair walked over. A picture of the Carrier and a planet appeared. A hole in the front of the carrier suddenly began to gather ions and the green particles swirled around the hole. They gathered into a green ball. Then they shot out in a huge green ray. It collided with the planet, and began to spread in all directions. In a minute, the entire planet was completely covered with the green blanket. Then, the green dissapeared in a bright green flash. What was left of a once inhabited, forested, watered planet was now a barren wasteleand, nothing left on the surface. The planet was completely flat and had absolutely nothing on the surface.

 

[Angelus]

Blair's knuckles turned white on the table as he watched what happened to the planet and he said, "Those bastards have to be stopped. If they do that to Earth then there will be nothing left but a barren wasteland and Confed would be demoralized. The Kilrathi would destroy us at leisure and we wouldn't do anything to stop them."

He stood up and walked towards the door then turned to Dima and said, "I am telling everyone to train in these simulators because we have to win this and if we go into battle with no experience then we will surely be killed."

 

[Morgoth]

"Go ahead. The mantis are a race that only live for conquest and annhilation. They are rumored to have created a new Temporal Gate that lets them jump dimensions", confirmed Dima. Then he walked back to the simulator and powered it up.

 

[Angelus]

Blair walked from the simulator room and went to the large cafeteria room then called the names of the Death Dealers and Crusaders who walked up to him. As soon as they were all standing before him he told them of the simulators and how he wanted them to train in them. They all rushed to the simulator room and strapped themselves in, getting ready for a hell of a battle.

 

[Morgoth]

Dima started them out on Babish difficulty, but it was still hellish. With the new fighters and ships installed, they were getting the hell whipped out of them.

 

[Angelus]

As Blair flew around in the simulator he saw that the other pilots were getting truly hammered. They were down to fourteen out of the original twenty four that has gone in. Blair was getting off lucky although his shields had taken a battering. He banked off to the right but as he did several fighters showed up and fired straight at him which took out the rest of his shields and before he could fly out of the way his engines.

 

[Morgoth]

Dima hurtled in from above and threw 10 rockets at the fighters against Blair. They exploded and Dima reveled in their bright orabge balls. He switched back to fighter mode and armed the machine guns before sending 20 mm rounds at a closely clustered group of Mantis fighters, sending them into crazy spirals, before they crashed into one of their carrier ships.

 

[Angelus]

Blair sat there and watched as the fighters hurtled into the carrier a second before his screen went blank and he knew that he was dead. He unstrapped himself and got up out of the simulator to see the other dead pilots standing there- quiet reflection on their faces.

"Don't worry any of you. We did the best that we could against an enemy we know nothing about and we can only get better."

 

[Morgoth]

Dima screamed as the BFG Carrier unleashed the BFG, annhilating everything out in the open. Dima got out of his simulator with the others. "We're gonna have to train a long time and hard at it", he commented.

 

[Angelus]

"I have the feeling that you are right. There has got to be some way to destroy that thing before it gets us and even if it takes me hours I will find a way to destroy that thing."

 

[Morgoth]

"I think we should upload our carrier onto the sims and concentrate on the BFG Carrier alone until it's gone", suggested Dima.