Soldiers: Skyfall

"Fix Bayonets...."
--Order given by unknown EDF officer near Evacuation Site Beta, Vanhoover.

Date: August 9th 1666 CC
Time: 12:38
Name: Danic al’Remian
Location: Whenil International Airport, Saddle Arabia

Danic sat at his duty station watching the blips move across the screen each marked with a series of letters and numbers. Around him other air traffic controllers manned their stations and spoke to the aircraft that were coming, going or passing through the tower coverage to other parts of the world.

As he was starting to click over to wish a flight that was about to leave their cover another blip appeared on his screen flying at an unusual speed and altitude for an international flight. He did a quick search of their database and nothing was in the record for that flight coming to them but the call sign did mark it as an Equestrian Airways passenger jet.

He clicked over the radio. “DC-45X this is WIA you have entered our coverage, can you transmit your flight plan.” he said in Equestrian. He waited a few seconds and received no response. “DC-45X please respond.” Again nothing.

He flagged over his supervisor switching to his native tongue. “I have a flight from Equestria that isn’t responding….may have a possible hijacking.”

The supervisor frowned and put on a second headset and tried to raise the jetliner as well.

Upon receiving no response the supervisor headed for a red phone on the wall.

Date: August 9th 1088 CC
Time: 12:50
Name: Revia to’Dani
Location: 200 miles southeast of Whenil International

Captain Revia flew at the head of the 5 fighter jets that had been rerouted from their training run to investigate a jetliner that wasn't responding to the tower.

As they neared the jetliner they could make it out and clearly see it trailing smoke as well as it moving very erratically. If Revia didn’t know any better she’d have thought it was evasive maneuvers.

“Command, we have a visual of DC-45X, they appear to have suffered damage, switching to short range emergency radio.” She reported thinking that may be the reason they were not responding.

“Affirmative.” Command responded.

She clicked over as she started to speak equestrian. “This is Captain Revia of the Saddle Arabian air force, please res–”

“This is Equestrian Airways Flight 4490, we are under attack! Please shoot the people chasing us!” Cam a frantic voice cutting her off.

This put her on alert as she now focused more closely on the oncoming jetliner and now could make out smaller craft flying around it and just barely make out weapons firing on the jetliner that was desperately trying to dodge.

“Command, we have a visual of unidentified aircraft attacking the jetliner, the pilot has requested immediate assistance, permission to engage.” Revia spoke to command.

“Captain, can you identify hostile aircraft?”

She squinted. “Negative.”

There was a few seconds pause. “Green light, Green light to engage.”

“Squadron prepare for combat, engage enemy aircraft on sight and defend those civilians.” She radios to her squadron and get confirmation as they disengaged safety systems on their weapons.

“Flight 4490 we are engaging hostile craft.”

“Oh thank the gods, I wasn't sure how much longer we could keep this up.” The voice came back still panicked but somewhat less so as the fighter jets moved to engage.

As soon as they were within range they opened fire with their cannons due to the proximity of the enemy craft to the jetliner.

The enemy craft moved like nothing Revia had ever seen, far more maneuverable and it quickly became apparent their missiles were useless as the strange craft just dodged the missiles leaving their cannon as the main weapons.

There were two enemy craft vs their five and even with those odds her squadron was having trouble bringing them down as the jetliner began to descend to try and get out of the fighting.

As they fought one of the strange craft managed to bring down two of her squadron, their weapon completely designed the craft, only one of her fellow pilots having been able to eject before the shot hit.

Even with all of them engaging it still took way more shots from their canons to finally bring down the enemy craft.

With the last craft plummeting to Equus they turned back to the jetliner “Thanks the gods you arrived when you did.” The pilot said as the fighter flew up alongside to escort them to the airport. It was now that Revia could see how badly damaged the craft was and that it wasn't one usually used to fly internationally from Equestria only having two engines, one of which was almost entirely gone and the year of the craft had a massive hole in it tail secession and she could see into the cabin.

The wings and tail were also damned and scorched from near misses, it was a wonder the jetliner was even in the air still as it limped along.

Revia began relying information from the tower to the pilots and back as she learned the jetliner was running on fumes and were going to need to land soon else they'd be landing harder.

This was relayed to the tower, and they were clearing a runway as well as preparing emergency vehicles.

All Captain Revia could wonder was, what was going on in Equestria?