At the interrogation chamber, a beaten, broken, and half-alive Changeling had his head down on the enchanted chair, below him were some... Stuff he released due to the amount of fear he faced by the hands of the human. Lance, is standing next to him, with a devious smirk on his face, his hands were covered in green blood.

"So, you're answering or shall I continue?" he said to the traitor, who had his head hang low, not making a sound, "Oh well." Then he took out a taser and stabbed in into the traitor's open wound, and pressed the trigger. The Changeling screamed in agony, that taser contains electricity that's strong enough to take down an elephant, so imagine that going out in your body.

After about five minutes, the traitor is near death, still breathing, but clearly couldn't take it anymore, qhilwe Lance is whistling as if nothing is happening. Finally, the Changeling gave up, "S-STOP! I-I'll t-tell you e-everything..."

"About time." Lance smirked as he pulled the taser out, then bend down to the changeling's level, "Go ahead."

"Uh... I-I was contacting S-Steel Jaw. G-General Steel Jaw... F-From what I know... He's.... He's uh... He's at the Everfree Forest, but I do not know the location of his base..." The traitor stammered, but Lance can see the hesitation in his eyes. Liar, he had another devious smirk on his face, which is starting to freak the changeling out.

"So, tell me traitor, aren't you thirsty from all that sentencing?" Lance asked, which confused the traitor, "Oh, don't ask, here, drink some." Then he brought out a bottle o water and handed it to the thirsty Changeling, who sniffed it before gobbled it up, not noticing the Lance's cold eyes with a even darker smile. Soon, the changeling began to feel air-headed and starts to wobble.

Seeing the mental paralysis drug working, Lance began his final interrogation.

"What is your name?" He demanded.

"Flare Horn." The changeling replied unconsciously.

"Is Steel Jaw really the one you talked to?"

"Yes."

"How much do you know?"

"A lot."

"Tell me all of it." Now Lance is getting really intersected.

"Steel Jaw is located in the Southern Badlands, not far from Kudgetown, he had many workers there. But some were forced, Steel Jaw has more than 100,000 loyal changelings, 8,000 aircrafts, 12,000 armored vehicles, and numerous missiles of all kinds." Flare Horn blurted everything out, while Lance's frown deepened, "Also, Steel Jaw is secretly processing what he called the Project Praxidike... From what I know, he is researching a new fighter jet called X-02S Strike Wyvern... The new airframe uses redesigned engines with heat-resistant magnesium alloys to enhance thrust and fuel efficiency, compensated by expanded air intakes. The exhaust nozzles were changed to a saw-tooth design to lower the plane's infrared signature and make it quieter. The shapes of the weapon bays were altered and conformal fuel tanks were added to the top of the aircraft. X-02S's control programs were updated to allow full use of all of the aircraft's moving parts: the new folding canards, the signature variable forward-swept wings, the V-shaped tail, and the 3D thrust vectoring. The ventral fins were deemed unnecessary and removed. The combination of all of these parts leads to incredible maneuverability... Nearly no aircraft can beat the X-02S..."

Lance sighed, nothing good, "How did you know so much?"

"I worked for Steel Jaw's Project Praxidike for about 10 months before been told to go undercover into Chrysalis's hive." Flare Horn blurted.

"Anything to say about Steel Jaw's basement? How to destroy the basement easily?" Lance asked, an operation starting form in his head.

"Steel Jaw's basement is deep underground, at least 1,000 feet down. Many Anti-Air weapons were located near the base, there's twenty SAM sites, numerous anti-air vehicles, and six anti-air radar sites." Flare Horn continued.

"Types of fighter jets Steel; Jaw's Air Force uses." Lance said.

"2,000 Su-27 Flankers, 500 Su-35s, 1,000 Su-37 Termintors, 500 Su-34s, 1,000 Tu-95 heavy bombers, 200 Tu-160 bombers, 800 Su-25s, 1,000 Mig-29
Fulcrums, and 1,000 Mig-19s. There's also an arsenal bird patrolling near the airspace. "

Now where's all the jet factories at... "DO you know the locations of the jet factories?" Lance asked, unfortunately the answer disappointed him.

"No."

"Alright, the interrogation is complete. Die now." Lance said, Flare Horn's head hang low again, his breathing slowed down, until his body went limb. Lance sighed before walking out the interrogation chamber, signaling two guards to get the corpse out. Lance then went on the meeting with the high rank officers, squadrons for sortie Pharynx, and Chrysalis.

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In the Military Meeting Chamber, a large table was at the center with chairs surrounding it, each sat the hit-ranked officers. Pharynx, Thorax, and Chrysalis were at the center of the table. Meanwhile the pilots of the Mage Squadron and Shifter Squadron, some Lance recognized; Sword Tail, Quick Slash, and a few other pilots he don't know yet. A projector map is at he center of the table, it forms a 3D view of the operation.

Seeing Lance walked in, Chrysalis smiled, "I suppose the interrogation is completed?"

"Yes Chrysalis, and I've gathered enough informations to begin an operation." Lance replied, receiving serval glares from some officers for saying their queen's name instead of 'your highness' or 'your majesty'. However, Lance ignored them and continued with his operation.

"During the interrogation, I've gathered several useful info; first of all, Steel Jaw and his basement is located in the Southern Badlands, near a place called Kudgetown." As he starts speaking, the 3D projection shown the Southern Badlands, along with Steel Jaw's basement. (The map looks kinda like the one in Ace Combat 7, so are the briefing... Cuz why not?)

"I also received the fact that Steel Jaw is secretly researching a new type of fighter jet named X-02S, shown above. According to the interrogation, it was designed to have high maneuverability, stealth, speed, and fire-power. It'll be a horrible enemy to us once it enters service. The lab of the X-02S however, remains unknown to us. But by attacking Steel Jaw's basement we could effetely slow the production down." Lance explained his plan, "There'll an arsenal bird patrolling its airspace, carrying many fighter drones known as MQ-101, they're small but deadly, make sure to destroy them as fast as possible. You'll spot many anti-air vehicles and SAM sites, destroy them. Eliminate all the enemy fighters. Also, Steel Jaw's main base would be 1,000 feet below the ground, for this mission, I prepared a B-52 heavy bomber for support, it'll carry GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators. However, you must make sure to laser guide the bombs. To conclude this mission; our main objective is to find and destroy Steel Jaw's basement... Along with some of his toys if you spot them."

The pilots and the officers glanced nervously at each other, Lance caught that, "I know this is a dangerous mission, also unpredictable, but the goal is critical to us, we must complete this."

He then changed the 3D map into the battle formations, showing each squadron's battle stations.

"Mage Squadron, I'll be the lead of you guys, Sword Tail is the second in command; you guys will be the main attack force of this mission; search and destroy all enemy fighters, anti-air vehicles, and search radar. Then we'll laser guide the bomber. Sifter Squadron, you guys will be providing cover for the bomber. DO NOT let any enemy aircrafts approach the bomber." Lance said, then he closed the map.

"This is a critical strike, we make it to their base, fuck it up, and go RTB." He then glanced the pilots, "This mission, will be named... Operation Bullseyes. Dismissed!"

------(~*~)------

Steel Jaw's Secret Research Lab, Unknown Location

The evil general stood in front of the experimental fighter aircraft that'll soon strike fear into RCAF's heart, he's staring into the new aircraft, imagining the horrified screams of the dying pilots getting shot down by him... He smirked. Steel Jaw was the most deadliest pilot of the RCAF before Chrysalis returned, now he's here, training his own elite squadron; The Shadow Squadron.

He turned and asked an engineer, "How's the new aircraft going?"

"Everything's good, the experimental X-02S is about to take its first test flight, sir... Except..." Th engineer stammered.

"Except what?" Steel Jaw demanded.

"Our progress on designing and making the G-Force Suit for X-02S's pilot is... Somehow slower than usual. High maneuverability and speed of this aircrafts can perform many high-G turns, but it also costs the pilot's body to be suitable for the flight." The engineer said.

"Continue on, I'm flying that anyway. I'll check the sun every now-and-on, prepare flight simulations." He then placed an insane smile that sent chills down the engineer's spine, "And I'll make sure.... To play with that new Human name Lance... Been such a long time since I last played with a good pilot... You're dismissed." The engineer saluted before trotting away.

Steel Jaw turned his attention onto the X-02S again, "Just you wait Lance, just you wait..."

Author's Note

The X-02S:

GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator: