"Dude why the hell are you spraying me with a fire hose."
"You are hung over dumb ass, so this is my way of snapping your ass out of it."
"Oh and about the situation?"
"What?"
"Thanks for not throwing me under Mriya or Galactus."
"Yea, but I'm still going to spray you with this hose." You say as he's now blocking his face from the fire hose you're holding.
"Can ya turn the hose off now?"
"Nope, not until you either leave the hangar"
"You can be a dick you know that?"
"Yea I know, get over it." You say as you shut down the hose and let him walk away soaking wet.
A short way away, Ludmila is greeting the other Helipones, as she's Avalon's Shadow's only helipone.
"Havoc? Hind? What are the two of you doing here?"
"Ludmila? It's been a long time since we've seen you. What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I live with Sergei, a Yak-3
8. After flying out for repairs, I met him and I never really left. He's been wonderful."
"Ah, but where are our manners, Ludmila, these are our compainions, Apache and Hellen." Havoc said as she introduced the other two helipones to Ludmila.
"Nice to meet new ponies. Come I show you around da?"
"Why not, it's not every day we get to go to the capitol."
"Here for Fun and Sun?"
"Yes, how did you know?" Apache asked as the five of them walked around Avalon's Shadow.
 
1530 Hrs. Your shop
Osprey is talking excessively with Erwin, you chalk it up to it being the fact that he's a tilt jet, and nothing more, and let her occupy his time as you finish the other three turbines so they won't cause you any problems for a few years at least.
"Osprey, I need you to shush so I can concentrate on this. As much as I love Rolls Royce turbines, they're incredibly picky on what blade goes where for balancing issues."
"So why do I need to be quiet?"
"If I unbalance the turbine, it could shake itself apart, or worse, explode."
"Oh, so should I be quiet now?" Osprey asked as you looked back at her with what do you think written all over your face as you're holding onto a handful of new blades. Thus allowing you to work on the remaining three turbines in peace, considering rebalancing them was all that you had left to do. A few hours later Falken comes into the shop.
"Dad, mom says it's time for you to come home."
"In a minute Falken, just need to put this turbine back in, I'll be there soon."
"Dad, she said now, you're an hour late."
"And I've almost got this turbine seated, mom knows how I work."
"Yea, you don't stop until the work is done sometimes. Oh where'd Morgan disappear off to?"
"Canterlot with Luna." You say
"What's she doing way out there?"
"The Princess wanted an escort back home, Morgan volunteered, and she'll be staying a couple of days. It's just you me and mom right now buddy."
"Cool, could use a little more quiet time to read." Falken said as you finished up on Erwin and began to head towards your home.
"Hey Rex? What about me? I mean where am I going to stay until Fun 'n Sun?"
"Erwin, I'd say let the puzzle complete itself, and if you have to ask me again, you're over thinking it."
"Whaddya mean over thinking it?" Erwin asked as you disappeared from sight.
"What the hell is that guy saying?"
"Well, I can offer you a place to stay, I mean I live alone, and I have a spare room or two."
"I couldn't impose on you like that Osprey."
"No, please, I insist. It's just for a few weeks right?" Osprey said trying to convince Erwin into staying with her.
"That's very kind of you Osprey." Erwin said as he was at a bit of a loss at her kindness.
"Come on now, I'll take you to my place and we'll have dinner together."
"By your lead." Erwin said making Osprey both blush and smile.
It only took the two tilt rotors a few minutes to walk over to Osprey's in the dark, where Osprey made dinner.
 
0800 Hrs. Avalon's helipads.
There's still two weeks until Fun 'n Sun, and slowly plane and helicopter ponies are coming from all over Equestria, and it's mostly the helipones that are coming in first, the plane ponies will come close to the actual days, when the pony vendors come in and there's a huge convention type atmosphere in Avalon.
Hell even you were getting your shop in order for this event, as you had to serve as the only medical facility for the plane and heli pones that are coming.
"God damned it, where's that annoying purple pony when you need her. Got parts everywhere!"
"Anon, calm down, you've still got a couple of weeks."
"Thunder, it's going to take me a couple of weeks to clean this place up. You do realize that I'm going to be the only mechanic here right?" You say
"But still, you have the time to get everyone to clean up the city."
"Yea, while there's ponies arriving two weeks out, Echo and Brezhnev have been bugging me for a finalized list of vendors."
"Vendors?"
"Well, mostly trinket salesponies, we do have the two Princesses coming this year, and I can't not have regular food for the ponies." You say as you look up to see two counter rotating helipones coming towards the pads.
"Who are those two?"
"Hell if I know, they're not like normal helipones if that's what you're asking, counter rotating"
"Counter what?"
"Rotating rotor blades, instead of the standard main and tail rotors, they have two mains and one spins the opposite way to counter the torque effect." You say as the two of them land.
It's a Ka-50 and a Ka-27. The two of them appear to be brother and sister, and they're looking for someone
"Can I help you two?"
"Da, we lookings for Havoc and Hind. You see them yes?"
"Not after they landed yesterday. Couldn't tell you where they are. Feel free to look around for your friends, if you can't find them, come back and I'll call the only helipone here to help you find them."
"Many thanks. Come along Helix." Ka-50 said as the two of them went around the city looking for the four that arrived yesterday. You go back to trying not to freak out about the work you've got to do
 
0930 Hrs. Temporary Helipone hangar.
"Is just like remember no?"
"Da, is exactly like I remember. Havoc and Apache arguing like foals, you Helen and I sitting and watching. Is familiar."
"Is good to be talkings with you again Ludmila. You know Hokum and Helix da?"
"Da, I know those two." Ludmila said as there was a knock on the hangar's "door"
"Hello, we lookings for.......Ludmila?"
"Hokum?"
"Is regular gathering from home. Everypony here."
"Da, when you arrive?"
"Ten minutes ago. Man say look around, maybe find Havoc and Hind, if not he call only resident helipone."
"Rex was talkings of me." Ludmila said as the other two ponies were surprised to see her
"Wait, little man Rex Tremendae?"
"Da, he very modest in appearances. He think does not need to be formal with us."
"This is not normal."
"Is for Rex." Ludmila said as Helix shyly hid behind her brother.
"Is something wrong Helix?"
"Who's that?"
"You know Helen, the UH-1 that lives with Hind and Havoc back home."
"No, not her, him." Helix said as she pointed to Sergei, who was half stumbling through the hangar, either to appear drunk, or he was. Now it was Ludmila's turn to yell at Sergei.
"Sergei! Why are you drunk again!"
"I not drunk. Only slightly tipsy."
"Sergei, Sun 'n Fun is in two weeks, you best not be warming up for it."
"No, getting binge drink from system, I don't need drink during event, I have to show off." Sergei said as he leaned against Ludmila for a bit of support in his clearly inebriated state.
"Is Ivan?"
"Completely hammered. He blackout several times, every time he get up, he drink back to blackout."
"What is Rex going to do with that IL-2?"
"Nothings, Ivan is beings Ivan. Rex know impossible to keep Ivan from vodka." Sergei said laughing a little in his drunken state.
"Ludmila, why so many helipones here? Thought event two weeks away."
"Sergei, they here early, to settle for while then be ready and rested for Sun 'n Fun. Helipones not good at long flights. Need rest. Except those two." Ludmila said as she pointed at the two arguing attack choppers.
"For love of Celestia, shut hell up!"
"Hokum? When you get here?"
"Just now. Why two of you always argue?" Hokum asked after getting their attention. With the stoppage of Havoc and Apache arguing, the seven helipones, and Sergei sat around and chatted for the rest of the day.
 
1000 Hrs. Osprey's hangar.
"It's really nice of you to let me stay here Osprey. Is there any way I can make it up to you?"
"Not that I can think of."
"Osprey, you're letting me stay for two weeks, maybe more, there's got to be something I can do for you, like cook or clean or something." Erwin said
"Well, you could help me with cleaning. Rex wants us all cleaning up Avalon's Shadow before the big show."
"Alright, least I won't just be sitting on your couch."
"No, you'd be out practicing for the show." Osprey said as she looked back at Erwin who was sitting on the couch like he said.
"And how would you do that?"
"When I first got here, there was a Hornet that approached me, I nearly took his head off by accident, to get you up in the air, I'd do the same thing, except this won't be an accident." Osprey said only to laugh knowing she could never hurt a pony, or even ruin one of her massive props.
"Heh, I can see how you could do that without them noticing you're close enough to do that with those big, beautifully crafted props of yours." Erwin said making Osprey's face turn bright red, and embarrassing her enough for her entire instrument panel to light up, back lighting her eyes.
 
1030 Hrs. "Abandoned" Hangar.
"Blue since big event two weeks away, you mind helping me?"
"Helpin ya with wot mate?"
"MiGs and I need practice, since is good time to show off. Most of families here do so. We have been giving Sukhois run for money, need beat them."
"And ya want my help?"
"Da." Strizh said as the two of them were in the kitchen, one washing dishes while the other put them away.
"Well, how am I supposed to help ya? I mean it's not like I know what those Sukhois are up ta this year."
"Is ok, I need partner to practice with. Others say I too fast, or just not like practice with me."
"Wait, are ya also askin me to be in with the MiGs?"
"If they think you keep up, Da. Also askings of you to compete with us." Stizh said a little embarrassed at the fact that he had to ask for the ENTIRETY of the MiG family.
"Well, I doubt I 'ave a chance in hell to go back with the Hornets, an I am their best flyer. So why not?" Blue said as Strizh let out a massive sigh, clearly relieved to hear that Blue would join up with the MiGs to finally beat the Flankers for once
"That massive relief, Mikoyan family grateful for you helpings us. Worried you say no, and we not stand chance against Sukhois this year. Terminator's very young friend compete with them then her family."
"Oi, who ya talkin about? Terminator's young friend? Who's that?"
"Only one young girl here. Who you think?"
"You're bloody kiddin right? Please tell me it's not who I think it is." Blue said as she was worried about a pony competing twice.
"Is Morgan. She competing with Sukhois and Rex. I would say not fair to let her compete twice, but is going against Rex. Man laughed and pointed out that Sukhois have relation to her. Morgan very much like Berkut, but different, which why she get to go twice."
"Damn it Rex, he can't do thing like this. Even if she is related to those damned sea flankers. I'll 'ave a talk with 'im and see if I can't get this straightened out."
"Is impossible Blue, man not listening to reason now, too busy with Fun 'n Sun to care."
"Well, I'm still gonna go give 'im a piece of my mind." Blue said as she stormed over to your shop were you were rearranging all the parts you had inside and in your inventory hangar.
 
1040 Hrs. Your shop
"Rex I need to 'ave a word with ya."
"Busy, need to rearrange shop to accommodate every plane pony in existence." You say as Blue is clearly irritated with you pushing carts of parts around.
"I said I needed to 'ave a word with you."
"About what? Must be pretty fuckin important if you're still here to bother me."
"Why is Morgan flyin with two different families?"
"You see my ADFX over there?"
"Yea, what about it?"
"What does it's nose look like?"
"Why should I care?"
"It's design is Sukhoi based. You're asking why Morgan's flying twice. She's partially Sukhoi, and then modified. I know you're flying with the MiGs Blue, so that's why I allowed Morgan to fly with the Sukhois."
"How'd ya know that?" Blue asked a little shocked by your explanation.
"One of those MiGs has a big mouth, a MiG 21 to be precise." You say
"And what if I told Strizh no?"
"Then I'd pull Morgan. Simple as that. Anything else you want to add Blue?" You say as you're looking up at her, since she stopped you from working.
"Yea, I'm not competing."
"You do realize this is just a battle for second place right? The judges are going to be biased as all hell to me, which means I know my family's going to win unless we pull an utter shit tier performance."
"Well, since I ain't competing, you going to pull Morgan?"
"Guess I have to, but, the MiGs are in the order before the Sukhois, and if you fly with them, Morgan goes in. Again."
"I'll keep that in mind. Thanks Rex." Blue said as she went back to her home to tell Strizh the news.
 
1050 Hrs. "Abandoned" Hangar.
"Stizh, I 'ad a talk with 'im. Told him I'm not going to fly with ya. One of yer MiGs opened their mouths and he heard that I was flyin with ya."
"I need have chat with Misha. Know was her doings. So you not competings with us?"
"I can't, if you want Morgan pulled from the Sukhois, I can't go with ya, I can help ya practice, but I can't fly in the tournament with ya."
"Is load of shit. Least he listened this time." Strizh said with frustration filling his face.
"He didn't want to. I half forced him to listen to me. Interrupted his work. MiGs are to go before the Sukhois, he'll know if I am lyin." Blue said as Strizh now cursed in his native language, trying not to offend Blue in the process, but she understood that Strizh was effectively pissed off.
 
1115 Hrs. VTOL Hangar.
"Hey Sasha, is there anything I can do for ya?"
"Get me large hangar blanket, wantings to go out, but also wantings to be covered. Embarrassed enough by Rex."
"Alright sweetie, I'll get you a blanket."
"And cream cheese."
"Ok, a blanket and cream cheese. I'm going to have to go and buy the second." Lightning said as he draped a large blanket over Sasha, allowing her to conceal the baby bump as the two of them walk to the general store.