User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-32153758-20160901194544/@comment-32153758-20160918200234

OOC: Music to set mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ugUf88eco

The ruins of the Funale were silent, as the 9 CCCP planes somberly flew on. Several of the aces had damaged planes, reducing their ability to maneuver, one that would be risky in this upcoming fight.

Silence.

The VK Commissar, out of the simulation, walked up the A-1 holding Darksire's radio.

"My troops have been waiting for a while, y'know. If you don't bring that last plane now..."

"It's coming. Calm down."

The VK Commissar sat down, and waited. They all waited. The wind blew, and the ominous cries of a cicada started to play from all the radio channels.

"Komrade! What is this!?" Yevgeny cried out loud.

The cicadas chirped for a while, their loud noises unsettling the pilots. Rohzkov remained silent, while Vladimir wriggled in his seat. "I don't like this noise..."

The cicada's stopped chirping, and in the far off distance, they could see a single, bright orange plane, in the far distance.

"...what is that?"

Surrounding the front of the plane were several green "optics", dedicated to giving the plane a 360 degree view of the world around it.

"...what, they sent one plane after us? What a jo-"

At the back of the orange plane, flames burst out, and the plane instantly accelerated to Mach 10 in mere seconds, blinding past every one of the CCCP planes. As it passed, the pilots could see flames surrounding the plane, as it strained its bodywork. Held up by several carbon nanotubes, the plane was able to hold itself better than any other plane in its rapid acceleration.

It rocketed straight up, and from the middle of its bottom, and from two pods on its sides, several tiny missiles spit out; about 15 of them. They turned and swirled towards the pilots.

"Evade, evade!" Vladimir shouted, and the planes began to maneuver, avoiding the missiles. However, the missiles tracked them down better than many of the HYDRAXIS planes they had just fought, and in the end, a ST-1 and S-90 were destroyed. The CCCP group went back into formation.

"7 planes left. This isn't good." The planes grouped back together, and nodding heads, decided to take Despair down as a group. After all, no plane can handle a swarm, right?

The two groups split in half, and one group was responsible for luring Despair, while the other was supposed to catch it while it was distracted.

Vladimir was in the killing group, while Rohzkov was in the distraction group. Setting off, Rohzkov's group went off in front of the Despair, shooting a few railguns to get its attention. Of course, the Despair dodged.

The group moved together, and Despair chased them down, in its high speed. Vladimir's group stayed behind Despair.

"NOW!" Vladimir shouted. The S-90s aimed their railguns behind them, and the ST-Is readied. They shot at once at the Despair, causing a massive explosion.

"Whew...that was easy." Vladimir wiped the sweat from his brow. However, when he looked to the right, he noticed that one of his was gone.

"...Where is he?" Vladimir looked around. Silence. Then he looked behind him.

The Despair had pulled a quick Kulbit to get behind his formation. He looked at the bottom, and noticed, under the vertical stabilizer, a strange device.

"LOOK OUT!" Vladimir shouted, and his squad dispersed. The Korhals were too slow, and one of them was unable to avoid the long red laser that emitted from Despair, ripped apart and split in half at the mere touch of the laser. The device turned off, and the vertical stabilizer moved up, closing the "mouth" of the plane that fired the laser."

"5 planes left on our side, watch yourselves!" Group tactics wouldn't work. They dispersed, in order to chase it by themselves. The Despair chose one of the younger Russian planes, and gave pursuit. It shot its rotating gatling guns, and the plane, unable to shake off the Despair, was killed.

Maxmillian, behind, screamed as he launched a missile at the Despair. The Despair pulled down, then immediately went to a Pugachev's Cobra, activating its laser and destroying the S-90. Max slammed on the simulator chair.

"This is b*llsh*t! What is this plane!" The second-to-last Russian plane, Yevgeny, dove to replace Maxmillian, planning to get the Despair while it recovered from the Cobra. However, the Despair, able to control itself as it stalled, pulled two 360 degree spins, laser still around, and also sliced poor Yevgeny in half.

Now, it was just Vladimir and Rohzkov. As if mocking them, the Despair burst forward (away from them), and did the same Immelsman turn that Vladimir did against the Poe, quickly accelerating back behind them, and away. The two flipped around and followed the Despair, but due to their slower acceleration, could not keep up.

"That isn't a plane...that's a monster."

As they stared at the plane in front of them, the sound of cicadas played again, as Darksire's voice echoed from the radio channels.

"Don't worry, my pilots. This plane is the pinnacle of HYDRAXIS aerial technology, the most maneuverable plane in the world. Sadly, due to its price, only three will be made, and only one can be in service at a time. Able to pull every kind of twist or turn you ask it to. The problem is, no human can handle the G-forces of this plane's turning. So, we outfitted an AI on it."

"This plane has an AI almost the level of Delusion, dedicated simply to the task of handling aerial combat. To outwit this brilliant plane will take you all the effort you can. Don't think of trying to trick it into running into an obstacle in the ruins, because it won't fall for cheap tricks."

Continuing to mock them, the Despair started to barrel roll rapidly, moving in a rapid vertical orbit around its old location. Yet, the two still couldn't keep up with the plane. The plane stopped, and immediately reeled over to the right, barrel rolled once more, and launched 15 more smaller missiles, that headed towards the two aces.

This was the final fight. Far deadlier than any foe they had fought before.

The two had come to witness the ominous flight of Despair.