Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-33426474-20171226054657/@comment-30700719-20171226111359

Looking up from Aces High in my ears, I notice some of my clients in trouble. Quick as a flick, I start hitting switches, warming up the engine and powering up the rotors. "Dammit, come on..." I slap the control panel in frustration, and look up again.

"They're never gonna make it out if I don't do something!" The machine was only two-thirds ready; I still gunned the throttle. The heli sluggishly leapt into the air, and I spun it around towards the horde and their targets. Reefing back on the stick, the craft came to a halt, the downdraft knocking some of the larger ones off their feet. Yawing to the side, I opened the door for the young men who took no chances. "Anyone else?" One of the younger ones nodded. "I think I saw Billy cornered in the-" We all looked at the kid, then at each other. "Ah hahaha ha! Hoo he ha ha!" We all broke out in laughter at the notion. "Ah...good joke there...Neil? Yeah..." I wiped a tear from my eye, noticing the oddly formed craft approaching us. My expression sobered as I yelled, "Well, shit. Buckle your seat belts, 'cause we are long gone!"

I punched the throttle, backing away from the Gremlin fast approaching. "Say, any one of you boys back there got an anti-air missile on you? No? Darn." The Gremlin's...vehicle was catching up. "I think I might have to do some evasive manoeuvres here." I spun the nose around to the front, moving a bit faster. "Okay! We're all buckled in!" The Gremlin zoomed past, & I rolled the craft to the side, the rotor almost perpendicular to the ground. "Took you long enough."

Like a metal-grey blur, she shot past. A light started to blink in the cockpit. "No." I reached out and flicked a switch, then two others. The light went out, and I glanced around. "Hey, where'd she go?!" She shot past the cockpit, as if we were standing still. "Oh, that's the game you wanna play?" She flew around the helicopter, rising to dive down on the cockpit. I pulled as hard as I could on the joystick, just managing to avoid her. However, she did graze the underbelly. Numerous lights began flashing, and alarms were blaring in my ears. We were losing altitude, fast. "Son of a-"

Then the world went black.

(Hey, feel free to continue, if you like.)