Baa Baa Black Sheep

Posted on December 05, 2007 @ 03:52PM

“How was your flight sir?” the Plane Captain shouted up at me, I turned away from the beautiful view and climbed down from the aircraft.

“It was a glorious flight Tailleur.” I responded as I reached the ground.

Sandrine Tailleur popped open a small door on the side of the aircraft, removed a data shard, and handed it to me, “The skipper wants you to report to her office ASAP, she wanted your flight shard to review as well.”

“Any idea if there’s another flight tonight?” I asked.

“Well, your not flying my plane again tonight,” Tailleur responded with a smile, “I’m putting her to bed for the night after I make sure you didn’t break anything on her.”

“I thank you very much for the use of your aircraft then Plane Captain Tailleur.” I responded while giving her the V salute.

Tailleur responded with the V salute as well, “You are welcome sir, have a good night.”

“You have a good night as well Tailleur.”

The light North wind blew some of the feathers up on Lex’s head as she walled around the nose of my aircraft. She had that look in her large orange eyes again, the one that let me know she had something important and fun to tell me. I mentioned that to her not long after our first meeting and she thought I was crazy. Since then it’s become apparent to both of use that I am the only person who notices these slight changes in her eyes. Right now her pupils had taken on a slight yellow tint letting me know that she was excited about something. I wasn’t looking forward to the next time she had red highlights in her iris, the last time was not fun at all, it was even worse for the other parties.

“I need to get this video shard to the skipper, tell me what’s got you excited Circe.” I said to Lex as she walked up.

“You know I hate it when you call me that right?”

I smiled and looked over at her, “Yes, I know that.”

Lex had never fully adapted to her given name of Circe, she said it never really seemed to fit her. Personally I liked her name and tended to use it just to aggravate her sometimes.

“Uhh, sometimes I wonder why I put up with you,.” She said laughing. “Back to the good part. I was randomly going through some channels on the Vybernet and ran across a pre quake show that you will love!”

“Oh really, well now you really have me intrigued Circe, maybe I won’t have to fly again tonight if I’m lucky. What is this show anyhow?”

“It’s called Black Sheep Squadron ,remember the section in flight training on fighter aces?”

“No way!” I exclaimed, “That was the squadron of Pappy umm..”

“Boyington!” Lex said as she smacked me on the back of the head.

“Okay Circe,” I said after the failed attempt to duck her smack, “I’ll see you later tonight then.”

“Deal.” Lex responded with the V salute and then walked off towards the avionics shop while I heading through the doorway that went upstairs.

Stepping through the doorway into the vast hallway that stretched above the hangar floor I looked through the window that ran the length of the hallway. From this vantage point I could overlook the maintenance being processed on some aircraft from my squadron as well as from our sister squadron the VFX-213 Black Lions.

It was brief walk down the hallway before I reached the closed door of Capt Yu’s office. I stopped in front of the door and knocked.

The voice from within the office answered, “Come in Ensign.”

I was still getting use to the fact that the skipper was such an amazing clairvoyant unlike any I had meet before. Her ability in seeing things heightened her already impressive skill in the cockpit as well. The rumor was that she used that same ability to hand pick everyone in her command but I’m not sure how true that is.

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