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Please note, I am not a native English speaking person! Corrections of orthographical and grammatical mistakes are always welcome. The same goes for wrong use of words or phrases. Thanks for your cooperation!
The Date
by Magic
'Keen-edged!' Crazy Sue thought.
The Sidewinder had swept close
under her left wing before it had crashed into the ground and exploded.
Thank goodness, Sue was miles away before the shockwaves could have affected
her. This other jet was bothersome. Yes, of course, it was also dangerous.
But most of all it was bothersome.
She had been on her way to
the Throne-Síd as it had appeared behind her like a police car on
the highway when you and your friends are involved in a high-speed race.
And the cops used to appear very fast. Especially when one of the racers
is an F-15 E jet rolling along the road way at a speed of nearly Mach 1.
Sue was talking out of experience.
Yes, police cars were also
bothersome, but there was something really nice about them: they usually
could not fly.
But this plane could. And it
stuck to Crazy Sue's tail like a moth to fly-paper, or like Rumble to a
TV set... It followed each of her maneuvers absolutely exactly - quite
like a shadow. Sue checked the aggressor's cockpit with her radar. There
was a human being inside, but it couldn't be the pilot. It was a biochemical
fact that a human being needs half a second to realize what happens and
a minimum of half a second more to react to it. This jet was able react
to her own actions within microseconds.
Maybe another Transformer...
Another missile nearly ripped
her hull. Sue dove into a nearby valley. Her radar told her that the Sidewinder
had already lumbered a group of nine pines. The explosion lit up a sign
on the tail of the other jet as it passed by the inferno: a black bishop
in front of a four-field chessboard.
"Lumber-Jack, you are one of
Bishoph-Baby's new Flying Shadows", Crazy Sue sighed. "That explains everything..."
It was time to get rid of that
nerd, or she would be late for her date with Starscream and then they would
miss half of the movie they wanted to watch.
Sue ejected a flare to confuse
the heat-seeking missile behind her. It fell for the decoy and followed
the flare.
Mother Earth! If she still
had her mind Sue would have lost it now... She was a high-skilled airborne
warrior; she knew every flying trick of two planets and she had tried them
all. Even Starscream would not be able to follow her for more than a minute,
but this stupid Bishop-jet had been pursuing her for more than ten now!
She tried every maneuver an air craft could do. Stop... She had tried every
trick an air craft was able to do that had jet engines!
'Lumber-Jack, gotcha!' Crazy
Sue grinned inside.
She dove deeper, sweeping close
over the trees. She could feel the tree-tops tickle along her fuselage.
It was hard for her not to giggle. Eight seconds later, the black F-15
E turned hard port into another valley, still pursued by the Shadow. A
few miles in front of her appeared exactly what Crazy Sue needed - a steep
slope made of pure rock. She steered straight onto it without getting slower.
The Shadow was at her tail. Sue went on, the rock was fast coming closer.
The Shadow's autopilot was
programmed to follow its target's actions, not to react to the environment.
So it continued to follow.
"Three, two, one... Hasta la
baby, Vista!" Sue cut off her turbines and channelled full power into the
front anti-gravitation engines. In other words, she came to a full stop.
Giving up a few meters of altitude, she opened the way for the Shadow
to crash into the rock at a speed of Mach 1.8.
The metal screeched painfully
as the collision's force compressed the jets hull. The craft burst under
the pressure microseconds before it exploded.
Crazy Sue transformed and looked
thoughtfully at the burning wreck below. The passenger had had no time
to eject. There was no chance for him to survive. Crashing into a rock
at supersonic speed means not just to be blown into smithereens, it means
being splattered into molecules. And then the heat of the explosion...
"Water and CO2... That is all
you are now", Sue noticed. "Hey, has no-one ever told you that these things
cause the greenhouse-effect?"
She shrugged.
"Humans! Even when they die
they are bad for the environment. Whatever..."
Her chronometer told her that
there was plenty of time to get back to the Thron-Síd. No need to
hurry. She retransformed into jet-mode.
R. G. Smolder sat on the bank
of a small mountain river watching his fishing-hooks float dancing on the
water. The air was clear and filled with the scent of the wilderness around
him. R. G. took the little whiskey bottle beside him and put it to his
lips. Then he leaned back his head to take a long swig and... froze! A
black F-15 E Eagle jetfighter was crossing the sky above him, very close
to the tree-tops. It flew slowly and by fits and starts like a swimming
frog. And more, it flew upside-down! There was no sound of any engine but
the angler was sure that he could hear a female voice singing "Always look
on the bright side of life..!"
R. G. bowed back his head without
drinking. He turned the bottle around and watched the whiskey as it poured
onto the forest ground...
Deep under the ocean within
the Decepticon headquarters Megatron checked his private terminal for messages.
He found one that had originally been classified as "extremely important"
and then been reclassified as "absolutely ignorable". Both classifications
were done by the sender. The Decepticon leader was puzzled. If the message
was ignorable why had the writer not just deleted it instead of sending
it? So Megatron opened the file and read it.
He read it once.
He read it twice.
He read it three times, shook
his head, sighed "Sue..." and - for the health of his cerebro chips - decided
to ignore the message.
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