Ace the beginning

Burner felt proud about moving to 98 squadron, but there was still a dark fear embedded in her brain that if she ever encountered the pilot again, she would be killed in a burning fireball. She put this fear at the bottom and thought about her first mission briefing with her new squadron. Burner and Eclipse went out to play cricket with the other ponies assigned to 98 squadron.

20 minutes after playing cricket, it was mission briefing time and Burner had excitement clearly shown on her face as she wanted to know her first mission. "Right listen up, your task is to intercept bombers coming in from the Pliohippus sea, your task is to get them to break away before they threaten the dummy targets set up 10 miles inland."
Most of the ponies let out a sigh of displeasement. A colt shouted to the C.O, "Why the hell must we do this? We already know what to do, we just fly next to a bomber and make sure he turns away?"
The C.O replied with confidence knowing he would win this conversation, "well, what if it was a bomber with machine guns in the tail and you didn't plan or know about it? You would be shot to bit's as easy as shooting a target that's at point blank range! What if there was fighter cover and you didn't know they were there? You're screwed! You need to know these things to stop your ass getting kicked by the enemy, so you will go up without any more questions or I will make sure your an ace janitor. It's either cleaning toilets or completing your training so you can move to 195 ace fighting squadron, which do you choose?"
The pony felt obliterated by what the C.O said and his confidence had seeped out of his skin like water out of a colander.
The C.O then explained about the rules, "Right, the rules are you are not permitted to go over 30,000 feet and not to get within 150 feet in distance of the bomber, there is no fighter escort but the are machine guns in the tail and they are flying at an altitude of 20,000 feet. You will be split into pairs and there are 8 bombers to intercept, Burner, you are paired with Sonic Hammer, Whirlwind with Nimrod, Taurus with Valkyrie, Sovereign with Sky Drifter, Shadow with Sky Raider, Dark Ray with Death Rider, Mosquito with Doom and Pounder with Shadow. Now scramble to your jets!"

Burner and Eclipse made their way with their new colleagues (who were on their first mission with 98 squadron too) Sonic Hammer and Raptor. Sonic Hammer was a colt with jaws as wide as the mouth of an estuary, eyes that were as orange as fire and grey fur and a dark blue mane. Raptor was Sonic Hammer's female co-pilot who actually looked a lot like Rainbow Dash but had dark green fur and a lime mane. They made their way into their F-15d's and they took off. Burner felt proud of flying her dream aircraft (well sort of), the acceleration was more forceful and was more maneuverable.

Within 10 minutes, the target was in sight Burner ordered the Bomber pilot, "Bomber pilot, shut down your guns I repeat shut down your guns or you will be shot down. "
The Bomber pilot shut down the guns which were slowly making their way down. Burner then Ordered Sonic Hammer, "Keep me covered while I get close to the bomber.
Roger that Burner."
The even though the guns were shut down, the bomber pilot was still intent on reaching its target like pressing on regardless. Although Burner ended that, "Bomber pilot turn away from the coast, I repeat turn away from the coast."
The Bomber turned away from the coast. Burner looked at the Behemoth as it turned away with the sun engulfing it as it sets. Burner said in a calm soothing voice to the pilot, "Thank you for your co-operation."
Then A.T.C were directing Burner and Sonic Hammer to come home.

Burner and Sonic Hammer enjoyed the view of the sun starting to be engulfed by the Monstrously Gargantuan mountains up north, they wished they could look at the view for hours, but within 10 minutes they were ready to land and they were to land side by side with Sonic Hammer slightly in front. Then, rather subtly they gently touched down with hardly a bump, the roar had now turned into a quiet whistle. They were the first ones to arrive at base, the whistling F-15's were shut down, the cockpit canopies came up and Burner quietly muttered, "Good F-15!"
She Clambered out along with Eclipse and they Both gave their F-15 a good pat on the fuselage, they then walked over to Sonic Hammers F-15. Burner lifted her hoof in the air and Sonic Hammer Understood what she was doing and put his hoof in the air, they then touched hooves, Raptor and Eclipse did the same. Confidently, Sonic Hammer Congratulated Burner, "Great work out there Burner, well done!
Couldn't have done it without you Sonic Hammer."
When they put their hooves down the C.O clamber out of Land Rover and came straight over to Burner and Sonic Hammer, "Well done you four, Because the weekend is nearing I letting you four on leave, whereas the rest will be still on duty because they can't be bothered, so when I tell them, they're on duty all weekend, it will finally sink into their thick skulls that this is important. Anyway, well done on today, use the weekend wisely."
All four saluted and walked off, the C.O waiting for the inevitable.

The Four ponies stopped, turned around and looked at their sleeping F-15's with Raptor Implying, "Well their our F-15's, now loyal to
us, it sounds nice I think."
The other three ponies nodded in agreement and let out a little smile as they walked further away from their F-15's.
"So What will we do on leave then Burner?" Eclipse asked.
Burner replied with, "I don't know yet. you don't have to follow me if you don't want to you know either."
Strictly, Eclipse argued, "No I wan't to come with you, I want to know more about you."
Then Burner replied while she chuffed, "Alright alright, don't explode! Anyway, I think I've planned something, how about we go the mountains tomorrow and then visit Ponyville on Sunday, does that sound good?
Yeah that sounds good Burner, I will come along with you."