User blog comment:TheJanadianKing/Ask TheJanadianKing/@comment-30014014-20170428145113/@comment-30700719-20170430162310

"Well, quite the trick you got there. The story of how I was taken to this world. It's a pretty long story, you know. Ah well, here we go." I adjust my position and lean back a bit, staring off into space.

"It was just an ordinary day, you know. Standard procedure. It was my turn to go destroy the enemy fleet. It started off simple. Assemble a Rauser, clamber into the cockpit, and launch. The Trieste submerged: it didn't need to help. Rausers are made to be the greatest combat aircraft created. I watched as the Trieste sank beneath the waves. I had decied to launch deep into enemy territory, where their experimental aircraft and navy were. We called it 'SFMT mode'. I had no idea what it stood for. I had gone into SFMT before. I even shot down a Blimp. Anyway, it was the usual. As soon as I launched, there were enemy Fighters swarming me, with Jets swooping past, leaving trails of bullets behind them. I destroyed them. There's a reason I've got a Blimp Killer rank. So I'm taking down enemy aircraft, with Aces spewing out bullets and a Blimp raining down shots from above, when they caught my eye. A squadron of Laser Aces, their forward-swept wings raking through the air. They seemed to be staying away from the fighting. I honestly can't blame them, their friends were getting destroyed before they could even shoot at me. Then, the radio crackled. "Heads up, something strange heading your way." I snorted, the warning was a little late. I had already spotted the Laser Aces. But then, all of a sudden, it stopped."

"The Fighters peeled away from me, the Jets stopped their kamikaze attacks. Even the Blimp overhead seems to retreat above the clouds. "I've got a bad feeling about this!" I shouted into the radio. The Trieste was radioing up to me, something about being forced to surface. The Laser Aces were getting into formation. They formed up into a circle, like a clock on a wall. Then, the radio went silent. I looked down and saw the Trieste surface, followed by about six Acemarines. Then, that's when it happened."

"The Laser Aces fired, their beams streaking forward. However, they didn't hit me at all. Intead they were spiraling downwards, each beam intersecting another and getting intersected. I looked through the loop they had made...and it looked normal. Just the horizon of the sky meeting the water. But the water was a different colour. The water below me had a green colour, but the water behind the loop of laser beams was a dark blue. The Laser Aces caught the Trieste in this loop...and when they peeled off, the Trieste was gone. Too late, I realised it was a portal. The Laser Aces caught me off guard, and I flew right into the portal."

"When I opened my eyes, the world was different. The entirety of the water was dark blue, instead of the murky green it had been. I whipped out my knife and made a hole in the cockpit canopy, then bailed out over the Trieste. It was tricky, because Rausers were not designed to eject the pilot. When I entered the ship, nobody was there. The entire crew...gone. I went through everywhere. Finally, I managed to get the ship online again. The GPS systems were kaput. ICARUS greeted me, out of nowhere. I still remember the first tiem that he scared me. A disembodied voice can be a little scary. Anyway, me and ICARUS are now the only two sentient things left of the crew of the Trieste, a young man and an AI."

I lean forward again. "And that's the story of how I got here. I remembered most of it, and pieced the rest of it together with data recorded from the Trieste and my Rauser. Say, would you like some refreshments? I'm a bit thirsty right now."