Title: Plane Ponies #3 Author: Maintenance-Bro Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/GyX31PCJ First Edit: Monday 5th of May 2014 10:35:22 PM CDT Last Edit: Last edit on: Sunday 4th of January 2015 05:44:26 AM CDT Lightning and Raptor's hangar, about fifteen minutes after being told off by Thunderbolt: "Lightning, come out." Raptor said as she sat by Lightning's door. "Raptor go away! I don't want to even talk to you or anyone right now." Lightning said as Raptor put a hoof on his door. "Lightning. I'm sorry little bro." Raptor said as she walked away. Sid came walking into Raptor's hangar. "Thunderbolt fucking shot at me" Sidney said. "She did what?" Raptor said as Sidney flopped down on her couch. "She fucking shot at me." "Sid what did you do to push her over the edge? Thunderbolt's normally a pushover, and now the mare with the biggest gun on base other than Spooky is mad at us. You are officially a moron Sid." Raptor said as she threw a pillow at Sidney. "Hey watch the face, I don't want to ingest anything into my turbine." Sid said as he blocked the pillow. "What did you say to her?" Raptor asked "I said I'd wait for him to get back from lunch and ambush him." Sid said very non nonchalantly not thinking much of his threat. "You threatened Anon? The only good mechanic within a thousand miles of here? Sid what were you thinking?" Raptor said as she punched him for his idiocy. "I didn't say I was going to hurt the guy just ambush him." Sid said trying to defend himself. "Ambush. What does ambush mean to us planes Sid?" Raptor asked trying to dumb down Sid's own actions for him. "Ambush generally means surprise attack. Like I said I wasn't going to kill the guy." Sid said still not dropping his arrogance. "Sid do you got a minute?" Lightning said as he finally opened his door. "Yea, what do ya need kiddo?" Sid said as he got off the couch and walked towards Lightning's room with Raptor close behind. "I just want to talk Sid." Lightning said as he moved just enough for Sidney to enter his room. "Alright Lightning." Sid said he entered into Lightning's room, not before Lightning pushed Raptor out. "Stay out of this Raptor." Lightning said as he closed the door allowing himself and Sidney privacy. "Sid what's your max payload?" Lightning asked, knowing it was kind of a personal question. "Wha? Kid you don't go asking what a plane's max payload is." Sid said embarassed about his measly 9,200 lb payload. "Well mine's 15,000 lbs. But that's with all my pylons and internal bays loaded." Lighting said making Sidney shrink down in the chair he was in. Effectively Lightning could carry 1000 lbs less than Thunderbolt, but Lightning shouldn't be flying low or remotely close to any sort of danger due to his frail composite structure not being as durable as Thunderbolt's thick skin and he knew it too. "9,200 lbs." Sidney said rather embarrassed about his payload capacity. "Dude, Raptor can carry more than you. That's kind of embarrassing. But I can't fly past mach 1.6 or I'll lose control and crash. That and the other F-35s make fun of me for the giant lift fan I've got, and they can carry 3000 lbs more than me." Lightning said knowing his limitations "Kid, don't worry about the others, just be the best VTOL you can be. Hell you're better than me, my guns aren't internal like yours. You also don't have the problem of sucking in hot exhaust gasses like I do. If anything I'm jealous of your lift fan. (and payload)" Sidney said with the last part under his breath as he tried to cheer Lightning up. The poor kid didn't need to hear all this from Thunderbolt, and it just made him angry with Thunderbolt for being such a bitch about it. "Thanks Sid, oh, um you're not really mad at Anon are you? I mean it was just a joke. As foalish as it is, it's harmless." Lightning said wondering how Sid felt about the whole joke situation. "It's childish and he should know better than that. He's our mechanic, he should be professional, not trying to make a joke." Sid said getting agitated about the situation. "Sid, how often do you ever see him outside of his shop? Every now and again he's in the bar or talking to Ivan and the Russians. I never really see him having fun, or really joking with anyone. Maybe you just gave him an opportunity and he took it." Lightning said wanting his opinion of the situation known and both trying and not to defend Anon for his prank. "Fuck him and his joke of opportunity if he's' going to be doing shit like that do it outside of the shop not in it while i'm on life support for a turbine overhaul." Sidney said as he was about to punch the wall, but remembered he wasn't in Raptor's room where it was acceptable. "So what he got you with your panels open. It's not like all the times we tease him about not being able to fly it doesn't hurt him. I've seen his face when we do, especially when you do the teasing Sid, his normal blank response goes to anger. I've heard what humans can do, you don't want to know how much damage he can cause. So excuse me for trying to stay on his good side. Sid, you've overstayed your welcome in my room. Now get out." Lightning said thinking for himself for once instead of having his thoughts fed to him by his big sister. "You're a fuckin brat you know that?" Sid said clearly pissed off at Lightning. "I hope you suck a bird into your turbine." Lightning said using Anon's insult to the jets that made him angry. Sidney left in a huff, allowing Lightning to sigh and relax for a moment, while he was all jittery with the adrenaline of actually telling Sid that he was an asshole. "Your kid brother's a fuckin brat Raptor." Sid said as he went back out to the couch. "Don't you fucking say anything about my little brother Sidney, or you're going to have another enemy, which means you're going to start running short of friends. Besides have you talked to Yak 38 or 141 in a while? Aren't they other VTOL like you?" Raptor said as she was about ready to fox two his ass out of her hangar. "The fuckin Russians? Fuck no, I don't talk to Russian planes." Sid said as the thought of congregating with failed VTOL ponies angered him. "Then watch what you say about my brother, or my friends and I are going to leave you for dead. Since all it takes is a well placed missile, and you're walking back, you best watch yourself Sid, I know he calls me and Lightning Composite Nightmares, but he's good at what he does. This is just a warning to you Sid, you best not say anything else bad about my little brother, and don't think I won't get the MQ-9s to follow you Sid. You're just lucky that's all." Raptor said as she gave him the bedroom eyes. "Oh I like where this is going. Lightning going to catch us?" Sid said as he moved towards Raptor's room on the other side of the hangar. "Please catch us? Never, the moment he even hears this he leaves. See?" Raptor said as she pushed Sid onto his back and mounted him. Lightning left for other reasons other than his slutty sister railing Sid for the ninth time this week. "I gotta go and apologize to Thunderbolt. I wonder if she's still at Anon's shop." Lightning said to himself as he went towards Anon's shop. "You little one." a Russian voice called out to Lightning as he was walking past the bar. "Who are you talking to you drunk Russian?" Lightning said as he stuttered a little, without Raptor around to provide him support he was a little unsure of himself. "Yes you the little VTOL. Raptor's brother Da?" another Russian voice called out to him. "Wha.. What do you want?" Lighting said as he armed his AIM 9s and prepared for the worst. "VTOL not common sight on base. Name Sergei, Yak 38." Sergei said as he made himself visible in the light, though Lightning could see him just fine in the dark. "I am Sasha, glorious Yak 141. Little one there is no needings to be afraid of us." Sasha said as she came into the light. again unneeded. "Many apologies if we have startled you. Was not our intent. We simply wish to learn who you are." Sergei said as he went back to his seat. "What?" Lightning asked as he approached the Yakovlevs. "Unless you hand things to be doing, we just want to know about you." Sasha said as she still stood in the light, before hovering slightly and being careful to not be there for more than 2 minutes as she had been instructed. "You're VTOLs?" Lightning said very confused about seeing them, he only knew about Sidney and the Harriers, but never heard about the Russian jump jets. "Da, we are what you call jump jets." Sergei said as it was his turn to hover over to the edge of the patio. "I didn't know there were others like me." Lightning said putting apologizing to Thunderbolt in the back of his mind. "You either are deprived of information or have been living in cave." Sasha said as she had a bit of issue putting words together. "Sasha, nyet, you must be sheltered" Sergei said.