"because then he's not in the way of us"

~~~~~

"attention on deck" we all stood strait up from our seats, i sat at a table with coyote since he was my backseater

the admiral made his way in front of the room "morning, welcome to your special training detachment, be seated" we followed his orders, i got a piece of gun and threw it in my mouth

"want some?" i asked coyote and he laughed, shaking his head

"i'm admiral bates, your all top gun graduates, the best of the best" he stated "that was yesterday, the enemy's new fifth generation fighters levels the playing felid. we have very few details but we don't have the technological advantage anymore, success now more than ever to the man or woman in the box"

admiral bates continued "half of you will make the cut, only one of you will make mission leader. and the other half will remain in reserve"

we all turned around seeing a good looking old man walking down, through all of the desk

"your instructor is a top gun graduate with real world experience in every mission aspect you will expect to learn and master, his exploits are legendary, what he has to teach you will be the difference between life and death"

"i give you captain pete mitchell, callsign: maverick" admiral bates walked away while maverick walked into all of our views

i looked at coyote who was sinking in his chair, huh?

"good morning" he greeted then held up the f-18 handbooks "this book contains everything you need to know about your aircraft, i'm assuming you know this book inside and out"

"damn right" payback called out

and hangman said "damn strait"

i smirked when he threw the book in the trash, i like this guy

"so does you enemy, but what your enemy doesn't know is your limits and i intend to find those limits, test them and push beyond them. so today we will start with what you think you know, show me what you made of" he looked at us

~~~~~

"good morning aviators, this is your captain speaking" i heard maverick through the helmet, right now it was me and coyote with hangman against mav

maverick continued talking "welcome to basic fighting maneuvers, as briefed today's exercise is dog fighting, guns only no missiles. we do not go below the hard deck of 5000"

we already established that the loser had to do 200 push ups

i looked to my left and saw hangman in his jet "hey coyote" he looked behind me "hey lex" i rolled my eyes at him

"where's mav? do you see him?" i asked both coyote and hangman

coyote answered me "he's not on the radar"

i took a deep breath before speaking "he has to be below us th- oh shit" i got ahold of the throttle and pushed it away from me when maverick flew in between hangman and i "hold on" i told coyote

when i pushed it away from me it made the jet go down, "he's coming towards us scout" coyote told me

i yanked the throttle towards me making us jolt up very fast, so fast i heard coyote spitting out curse words

"talk to me coyote" i said still flying up

"take a hard right" he told me and i did.

i moved the throttle to the right then yanked it back up doing a 360 circle over maverick to where i was then chasing him 

"woah" i head hangman say "when did she get that good"

"cmon" i whispered, accelerating my speed and pushing the throttle away, so i could go down to follow him

"scout were gonna break the hard deck" i heard coyote say and i looked at the feet and it read '4,528'

"oh crap" i then yanked the throttle towards me again and we flew up past hangman, with mav still following us

"you know your really good scout" i heard mav say "but not as good as me" he got locked on me

"damn it" i let out a breath i didn't know i was holding "sorry coyote"

"don't be, your really good" he told me

now maverick was chasing hangman and they were going straight up

hangman asked us for help "where is he guys? i can't see" he was looking strait up at the sun

"i'm dead dick head" i joked and coyote started talking too

"see you in the after life bagman" i laughed at coyotes words

(i stole phoenix and bobs words, i just wanted to use em so bad lol) 

sooner than later maverick got him locked and we wall landed on the runway again

~~~

"198"

hondo yelled out

"199"

"200"

i stood up and walked away with coyote and hangman following 

"lexi wait up" i heard hangman call out

i turned around while groaning "what?" i asked me, i don't mean to sound rude i just want to leave and got shower in the locker room

"you okay?" he asked and i nodded "wanna hang out?"

"i dunno about tonight, tomorrow?" i asked and he slowly nodded

"yep for sure" he gave me a thumbs up