𝔹𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕚 | Bradley Bradshaw

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"Wait wait wait... Who the hell is that?" Thumper calls out, pointing out on the radar. "Blue team, you've been spotted." Maverick's voice called out. Bambi became tense. "It's Maverick." Bambi tells both Moose and Thumper. "What the hell is he doing here?" Moose asked. "I'm a bandit on course to intercept." Maverick states. "Blue team, what are you going to do?" He asked them.

"Twenty miles left, Ten o' clock, 200 knots closure." Thumper warned them. "Your call, What do you want to do?" Moose looked over at Bambi for suggestion. "We should continue, we are close... Stay on target." Bambi replied. "He's swinging around to the north." Moose states as she keeps an eye on Maverick. "Standby for pop up." Bambi stated. "Be ready on that laser there, Thumper." Moose told Thumper. "Copy, On it!" Thumper replied.

"Blue team, Bandit is still closing." Maverick warns them. "POPPING NOW!" Bambi exclaimed pushing throttle to the max, pulling tight on the control stick. They inverted after five seconds of high-speed climbing, "Thumper, Where's Maverick?" Bambi asked. "He's five miles out. He's coming in quick." Thumper responded. They leveled out of the inversion, Bambi pull throttle back to MIL, making sure that they continued to lower their altitude, this making the bomb dropping easier.

"Target's in sight." Moose states. "Where's my laser Thumper?" Bambi asked as stress began to creep on her. They were getting close to the target quick. "Dead eye, Dead eye! It's no good! Sorry I can't get a lock." Thumper states as Bambi sighs. "I'm dropping blind as we are out of time." Bambi tells the pair. She presses the button that releases the missile and it misses by a long shot. "Damn it! That's a miss." Bambi said as they both prepare for the second and even steeper climb out.

Bambi pushed the throttle to max and with both hands bring the control stick as tightly as she could to her body. Her body tenses as the weigh of the G's hit her. Her muscles feel as they are pulling her body back to the ground. She struggles to breath as her lungs keep depressing without expanding Darkness starts to fill her vision. "Oh dear... no no no." She states as she fights it.

"That's tone." Maverick says as Storm heard the missile lock go off in Moose and Thumper's Cockpit. "Maverick's got a missile locked on us." Thumper states to Moose. "Shit! We're dead." Moose said as he pulled their plane down. Thumper looked at Bambi in concern as she didn't follow. "Bams?" Thumper questioned, Moose looked at Bambi's plane in concerned. "Blue team that's a fail, Level out there Bambi." Maverick said. Bambi felt the darkness taking over as she let go of everything. "Bambi!" Moose exclaimed as he and Thumper saw Bambi's plane come down. "Bambi Come in." Maverick called out to her and no response."Bambi, level out wings." Maverick called out and still no response. 

"Ghost, Scoob and Valor, you three need to get out of there!" Maverick exclaimed. "Ghost!!!! We are in woozy!" Scoob exclaimed. "I know that but my wife is in G-LOC!" Ghost exclaimed back. "VALOR!"

"Oh my gosh she's in G-LOC." Maverick muttered.

Meanwhile everyone on base, Phoenix and Bob's stomach dropped when they heard Bambi was in G-LOC. "Come on, Bambi." Rooster muttered in fear.

"BAMBI! BAMBI!" Maverick called out. "She's going to burn in!" Thumper stated with fear. "I'm going after her!" Maverick said to Thumper and Moose as he took off. "Come on Come on, Give me tone, Give me tone." Maverick said as he locked Target on her. The alarm started blaring in Bambi's Cockpit. "Snap out of it Bambi!" Maverick said. "Come on Come on." Moose muttered as he was on edge. "Come on, COME ON!" Maverick exclaimed. Bambi opened her eyes, hearing her name and the alarm telling her to pull up. "BAMBI! BAMBI!" Maverick shouted. She looked as she was almost about to crash. She gasped and managed to pull up successfully. "Holy Shit!" Bambi exclaimed as she then met up with Maverick, Moose and Thumper.

"Bambi, are you ok?" Maverick asked her. "Yeah, I'm fine, i'm okay." Bambi said. "Mom?" She mumbled but loud enough that Rooster heard her and so did Maverick. "That's enough for today." Maverick says as they made their way back to base. "That was so damn close." Moose commented. "Very close." Thumper added.

.....

Bambi and Rooster sat in the room, after everything unfolded. Even with Bob and Phoenix, Thumper and Moose went with them both. The duo sat in silence until Rooster broke it. "You okay?"  Rooster asked. "I went into G-LOC..." Bambi replied. "You mentioned your mom?" Rooster questioned. "Because the same thing happened to my mom, except they were on a mission." Bambi said. "Wait... that was thing that...." Rooster said and she nodded. "Oh Bambi..." Rooster said then he pulled Bambi into a hug, then they heard the door open, it was Maverick.

"Phoenix and Bob are in the hospital, Few scratches and bruises but they'll be fine." Maverick informed Rooster and Bambi. "That's good." Rooster said. He sniffed. "I've never lost anyone and I don't know if I could handle it." He explained. His voice was strained. Bambi grabbed a hold of his hand and rubbed it. She felt her emotions coming in.

"Well you can rest now... the both of you." Maverick said instead. He didn't know how to answer his question. "That's not what he meant." Bambi said couldn't believe what she and Rooster was hearing. "You think it's so easy huh? You have no one to mourn you, that must be sad. No wife, no kids, no friends." Maverick sighed and said "Go home, get some rest." Rooster shook his head as he and Bambi got up.

"Why did you pull our papers out of the academy, why did you stand in our way!" Rooster yelled at him. "You two weren't ready." Maverick said calmly. "Bullshit!" Bambi snapped. "Ready for what? Huh? to fly like you? You had no right to do this to Bambi either." Rooster said as he growled through his teeth. "My parents didn't appreciate it either." Bambi snapped. Rooster shook his head. "No, ready to forget the book, trust your instincts, don't think just do, If you and Bambi think up there your dead. Believe me." Maverick said.

"My dad and Valor believed in you, Bambi and I are not gonna make the same mistake." Rooster said to him as he held Bambi's hand tightly. Maverick sighed as he kept eye contact on the both of them, then the door knocked. Maverick opened it to find Admiral Bates standing there, "Maverick."

Bambi froze as she looked at Warlock. "Bambi?" Rooster whispered. "Roost... it's Iceman..." Bambi said. The both of them stormed out of the room.