private Eastern Skies Ablaze

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,026]

"Four years? Seems your lad there has a bit of a more rebel streak in him then." She moves to him shaking hooves. "Star, Warrant Officer Soft Star, Dagger Squadron- 3rd Division- 11th Tactical fighter Wing. Probably the only thestral in this war most likely."  She gestured to Cirrus. "This is Cirrus, we've been together for geeze 7-8 years now? It's been so long I can't remember exactly. Though I don't practice whatever this falconry thing is you speak of." 

Edited December 29, 2016 by Mentis Soliloquy

[FancyHorse 1,209]

"It's just a type of sporting. Abraxis is- at the end of the day- my pet afterall." He says.

 

Approaching from the steps a burgandy stallion approached dressed in a gray hoodie over his bright green jumpsuit, his black mane cut short with a sharp lining to the bangs and a wicked narrow in his eyes. Its as though each smile he has looks more like a sinsiter grin.

 

"Boss man. Meeting the visitors?" He asks- his voice? It seems familiar.

 

"This is Samir. He's one of my squadmates." Tariq replied, the two exchanging a hoof bump.

 

Yes, this must be two of that squad they met on those missions ago.

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"I have a really off feeling that I've met you two before, have we um met before or something?" She tapped a hoof to her chin. "I can't quite put my wing on it when I think about it, something in the voices I think?" Looking at the pair of Arabians, it had not dawned on her that they'd fought together. 

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"Yes- those two operations before." Tariq said. The gaggle expressing a short relive of those two missions- against the fighter squads and pursuing those attack crafts as they flew over the DMZ lines.

 

"So, you enjoying your stay? Needing accomadations?" Samir asked, interupted only by a hustle of bipedal canines approaching on their worn scooters? It seemed a little comical until getting a closer look as the squad of desert dogs passed them giving ach brief wave as they climbed up their stairs to their housing.

 

Looks like a multitude of species serving?

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"No we were given accommodation, we've been stationed here until further notice which I'm thinking will be for the rest of my deployment here in Arabia so this is home away from home..." She sighed a little. "Miss my real home though, your country is way too hot and ponies try to shoot me all day." 

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"Hehe, I think you mean outside the country. Arabia is perfectly safe." Samir spoke, 

 

"Samir!" A female voice called out. (https://mlpforums.com/uploads/post_images/sig-4644875.commission_3___illusive_pony_by_nihithebrony-daez7t0.png)

Stepping down and adorned in a simple white shirt a light cream pegasus, she approaches from the stairs of their housing. Her eyes a sharp emerald color with white accents along her exposed wings with a unique golden straid on her black mane. 

"Samir- for the last time. You need to call for a replacement oven burner- what with your failed cooking attempt." She spoke, rather passive aggressive.

 

The fellow pegasus just smirked. "Kay calm your feathers girl." He teased in his accent only drawing little reaction from the mare,

 

"Peshir- meet our new detachment." Tariq introduced.

Turning to face Star she gave a light bow. "A pleasure." She simply said. 

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"Um anyway, nice to meet you all I'm gonna head back to my accommodation I've got to see if my repairs worked and have to talk about things to my squad." She was not that keen on meeting others today anyway, really she wanted a moment alone so she could call Heavy and tell her all was well and such.

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Back inside after the brief meeting she retreats into her small bedroom with little reply to her squadmates. With her cellphone ready and Cirrus promptly nuzzling her she dials onto her pad.

 

The phone rings for several seconds until the familiar voice came.

 

"Hey there!" Came her cheery tone!

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"Hey Heavy... miss you already, geeze I'm a sop... um we'll we've got a nice new place it's a top floor in a mini apartment block, it needs a lot of work. But we'll see it fixed up soon enough between the five of us, yes I included Cirrus in 5 we don't have some random Arabian pony here too. So how are your honey?" 

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"Heh, well you certainly unloaded everything at once hehe." She chuckled.

 

"I'm doing fine. Not much going on. Maybe I'll go out for a little fly or something." She says, a bit of shuffling can be heard.

 

"Hope the trip went well?" She asked, Star explaining the simplisity of it. Cloud giving a smile and nodding.

 

"Getting along well? No trouble from your new comrades?" She asked

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"No thankfully I mean Cirrus had a run in with another falcon but, nothing to much worse for ware thankfully and I've not gonna and pissed anyone off yet so there is some good news, well... I'll not hold you up on your flight... just stay safe honey, cose if you die, I'll kill ya." 

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"Well don't you worry sweetheart- you're looking at 5 years worth of experience here. Or well... talking. Lunch is gonna serve soon so I'm gonna stuff my face. I'll text you later. Love you!" She says as she in return exchanged a good bye before hanging up. 

 

Coming shortly in Soar peeked her head in. "Umm- may I come in now?" She asked softly.

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She looks up from the phone a clear face of some sadness. "Yeah come in Soar, just finished with my call anyway." She sighed and put her phone away and sat up. "So did I fix the telly when I was outside or is the signal still playing up?" Looking to her for an answer.

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"Eh Razor actually kinda-" Soar was interupted by Kris' yelling.

"Back to the left! Come on it was just there- Oh fuck! Is this all gonna be in Arabic?" He whined out- noting that Razor perhaps was on the roof.

 

"They're handling it hehe." Soar said shutting the door. Noting the expression on her face.

"Is there- anything you wanna talk about?" She asked. 

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"Not really I mean can talking make my girlfriend turn up or make this war end today so we can go home? That... sounded really depressing, sorry um yeah we can talk about stuff I guess." She wanted to sound genuine, well she was in a regard, talking would take her mind off the negative things moving around in her head. 

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"Well- I can't guarantee it.." Soar scratched her hoof a bit. 

 

The two take a seat onto the bed begining their general discussions. 

"Well they seem nice so far." Soar spoke, referring to their new found comrades and just in general the Arabians- though she's simply repeating herself. Perhaps she's unsure herself on what to bring up.

 

"J-just a little- Stop! Right there! Okay!" Kris hollered out. Razor swooping back after her brief ordeal with the antenna. 

"Damned thing- Never liked dealing with these stupid things." She muttered. 

 

"One, two, three- four. Four channels- fantastic!" Kris exclaimed in deep disappointment- audible from their bedroom. 

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"I bet it'd be a good idea to pitch in, like us all to get a dish for the TV then we could just watch all the channels from home without having be stuck with everything in Arabian or dubbed in it anyway." She looks to Cloud. "How much is a dish anyway? I bet with our salaries we'd get it no problem." 

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"I'm not sure. We'll have to take a look at some of the prices."Soar said. With the two finished with their brief moment they return to the living quarters- noting at he staticy television with a blurry image upon it slight Arabic being muttered about from its speakers.

 

Several minutes continue a bit on their little stay about.

 

Surely the commander would have sent for them?

 

The group devovled into looking upon their mobile devices with Razor still fidling with their antenna.

"Oh sweet! I got us some wifi!" Kris noted as he opened his wireless settings noting at the open internet access the base has allowed- or and unlucky neighbor who failed to have a prorper access code.

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"Well, wait hold on maybe we don't need a dish if we get a smart TV we can just plug it into the wifi and watch our home TV on the net and we won't even need a dish." She looks to the TV that is currently there. "Anyone think the current tele is a smart one? Come on Kris your the tech guy." 

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Kris began to examine the small flat televison. First from its frontal features till he flipped it about. 

 

"Eh, well it can support HD. But I'm not seeing no broadband connectors or such-" he was cut off.

"Umm.. It just say.. HD Tv.." Soar pitched in. Noting at its labeling on the front. With no obvious indication of Smart systems on it. Its just a basic HD TV. 

 

"Well that's a bummer." He says. 

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"Smart TV's are not that much I mean heck I've got two at home, we all pitch in for one, heck that's nothing I'm sure we can find a shop or get one delivered to the base at least and then we can watch all our home shows and such on it." She sat down and got her phone out to start looking for one. 

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With an untimely matter there was a loud knock on their door. 

 

Razor approaching looked through the peephole before opening. Standing before stands two armed guards- both desert canines. They nodded before the one to the left spoke. 

"The commander had sent us to retrieve you." He said in his best possible Equestrian. 

 

Looking back to her squad she returned to their attention- "Give us a few minutes." She says shutting the door lightly. 

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"Really? We just got here and they want to talk to us? I bet it's some shit ass mission they don't want to send Arabians on, so there like 'oh hey lets just send those Equestrians we have!' I damn well... geeze I'm more negative these days than I was before... um shall we go boss?" 

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"It's for our debriefing." Razor iterated- correcting Star's assumption. 

 

With everypony gathering themselves they follow the two guards out locking their home behind them and entering into the van transport awaiting outside. Their drive taking them along the sides of the runways heading for the main headquarters building. Passing upon rows of gunships, helicopters and the occasional passing van or truck- even spotting an attack craft entering onto the runway. 

 

Within a brief 10 minutes they arrive parking close to the steps of the rounded driveway part of the pavement itself (an odd design choice?) 

 

Unbuckling the two guards continue leading the ponies onward up the stairs and into the first hall greeted by the biege colored tiles and plain wall coloring with amounts of traffic inside at a medium size, ponies and other creatures coming and going with their hectic prancing about, papers exchanging, folders swapping and keyboards clicking filling the air. 

 

Past the crowded halls and into the next hall to their left they approach to the room door labeled obviously "Debrief/Planning" The empty spacious room containing a multitude of seats, tables and a presentation board. Obviously no major debriefing for the time. 

"Just have a seat, the commander will join you shortly." One of the guards speaking before the two departed. 

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"Well ya could of told me we were being debriefed Razor I mean come on..." She muttered in a bit of protest. She just picked a random chair and sat down at one looking towards the board. "Why would they need to debrief us anyway? I mean it's not like we've not been in the area kinda..."