Chapter 1 – Defense of Farbanti



“What a beautiful day it is today.” Said Ace. Chris, or rather his widely used nickname of Ace, was a proud pilot of the Usean air force. He stands at 5’8” with a lean build and a weight of a mere 135 pounds. He kept good care of himself and his aircraft. The aircraft being an Su-37 Super Flanker. The plane had a blue camo paint scheme on the top, and white on the bottom.

Recently, there’s been news of an ISAF ace, Mobius 1. He’s been destroying our forces left and right. He even destroyed Stonehenge and killed Yellow 4. “He can’t be human to do all that.” Thought Ace as he was reading a newspaper article on it. “If there was ever a worse time to be stationed in Farbanti, it was now. With ISAF and Mobius 1 regaining land so quickly, it would only be a matter of time until they were here and I’d have to face death.” Weeks went by and ISAF was still advancing. They were now en route to the capitol of Erusea, Farbanti.

Finally the day came. ISAF has finally made a strike against Farbanti. The radar spots incoming ISAF aircraft and the alert goes out to all pilots. Ace marks his book page and puts it down. He jogs into the locker room and starts to put his gear on.

“Stupid war. If only ISAF would’ve accepted defeat, nobody would’ve had to have been killed.” Said Ace.

“We would’ve done the same thing, Ace. It’s all just a matter of perspectives.” Said Liz, his girlfriend and wingman.

Liz was a lot like Ace. 5’7”, lean, and only 120 pounds. A great pilot too.

“Yeah, I suppose. But we gotta survive at the least. Let’s go out there and show ‘em what we can do.” Ace said.

Liz nodded her head and they both went out to their Su-37s. Greeted by the squadron mechanic, Kyle, they climbed into the cockpits quickly went through the pre-flight checks. They started their engines and taxied out onto the runway.

“CT, this is Phoenix 1. Requesting clearance for take off.”

“Phoenix 1, cleared for take off.”

Ace rocketed down the runway and takes flight. Liz (Phoenix 3) follows him and she’s followed by 3 other squadron members, Dan (Phoenix 6), Jack (Phoenix 8), and Katy Phoenix 5). The members of the 657th Fighter Squadron “Fire Birds”. In about half an hour, they meet up with the ISAF air forces.

“Bandits at twelve o’clock. Break and attack. Looks like they’re F-22s.” Said Ace.

“Roger that, Phoenix 1. Phoenix 8 breaking formation.” Said Jack.

Jack breaks to the left along with Katy. Dan and Liz break to the right, and Ace makes a sharp dive. In the ISAF squadron, there were only 4 aircraft.

“What the…? One of those aircraft has the ribbon insignia! Stay frosty and don’t get shot down.” Said Ace.

“What? Mobius 1 is here?” Katy said. “We’re all gonna die!”

“Yeah, but we’ll go down in glory.” Dan replies, surprisingly calm.

Ace spun his aircraft around and got a lock on an enemy bandit.

“Phoenix 1, Fox 2!” Said Ace as he launched a missile at the ISAF plane.

The ISAF plane turned hard but it was too late. The missile smashed into the F-22’s engine, making the plane spin and hurdle into the water underneath them. Ace kept flying forward to make a hit and run attack into the fray.

“Bandit down!” Said Ace, declaring his kill.

Meanwhile, Liz had gotten a kill by landing a lucky yet skilled shot onto the nose of an ISAF F-22. Jack didn’t have as much luck as Ace or Liz. On his tail was the ribbon aircraft.

“On no! I’m gonna d-“

The transmission soon turned into static as a missile hit Jack. Ace looked at where Jack was and saw Mobius 1 fly through the smoke of Jack’s jet, which was hurdling towards the ground in flames.

“Jack….” Ace said sadly.

He remembered when he and Jack first met. It was soon after Ace was stationed here at Farbanti. Jack was transferred into the squadron and Ace came to know him. After Jack’s wife fell to cancer, he went into a deep depression. The squadron members worked long and hard to bring him out of the depression. After weeks, he came out of it, but people weren’t so sure about it. He was a good friend, always loyal.

Before he could think of anything more, another one of Ace’s squadron was shot down. This time Dan, the loner of the squadron. Good with machines too. He could always be counted on to fix the TV or whatever else was broken.

Ace turned his head and looked at the flaming jet and noticed a white parachute. He let out a sigh.

“I can’t believe it…he actually made it out.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Ace noticed an ISAF plane, it wasn’t the ribbon. The plane shot at Dan and flew past him; Dan went limp. The resulting wind got the parachute tangled in Dan’s lifeless body and plummeted into the water. Ace was both shocked and infuriated. Shooting someone down was one thing, but shooting them after their plane was downed is ruthless.

“Damn that SOB…” Ace muttered, sharing the same anger as his remaining wingmen.

“Fox 2! Fox 2! Now kill that heartless SOB!” Yelled Katy who was near where Dan was shot down.

A missile rocketed into the tailpipe of the ISAF jet. Flames immediately engulfed the cockpit and the in it snapped off the rest of the plane. But a realization soon came into Ace’s mind. Where’s Mobius 1? And as if it were a cue, Mobius 1 emerged on Liz’s tail and unleashed his machine guns.

“Augh! He broke my plane!” Liz said in frustration. “Ejecting!”

Liz ejected and watched her plane smash into the water. She sighed but was happy that she was alive at the least. Mobius 1 turned sharply left at Katy; Katy turned right so she was facing Mobius 1. Mobius 1 launched a missile and a second later Katy also launched off one.

“Fox 2!”

It seemed like forever before Mobius 1 turned hard and narrowly evaded Katy’s missile. Katy, however, was hit near the rear of the plane. It hurdled out of control and she ejected just before the plane burst apart and all it’s pieces splash into the water.

“At least they survived.” Said Ace to himself.

With all his wingmen down, it would be many times harder to stop Mobius 1. With only a short way to go, Ace turned a little to the right and soon found himself on the ISAF ace’s tail. With the pull of a trigger, Ace began shooting Mobius 1’s fuselage. The ribbon pulled off and came back from behind Ace, guns blazing. Mobius 1 launched off a missile and Ace inverted his Su-37 and pulled up (which would make him go down). The missile missed and the ISAF F-22 followed and launched a missile. The missile hit Ace’s Su-37 in its right engine. The cockpit was soon engulfed in flames; Ace’s face was scorched, but he managed to eject. He watched his jet splash into the deep, dark, cold water; he soon found himself in that very water. He began to swim to shore; it seemed like an eternity before he actually reached land. He was very relieved to find Liz and Katy swim up on shore. By this time, that battle was already over and they had lost. There was nothing they could do now except live as civilians, or move and join a different force because there would be little chance of anything left in Erusea for them. Neither Ace nor Liz was humble enough to be civilians. They married and moved to a neighboring continent where they joined its air force.


[Next Chapter: Coming soon]
(I can’t tell you the name or start the story because it’ll be on Ace Combat 5)