Independence Day by Dean Devlin

Author:Dean Devlin [Devlin, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Movie
Published: 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"You get out, Stevie."

"Don't start that crap on me. We're together all the way, you hear? But you gotta keep your speed up, man."

Steve slowed to keep him in sight, watching his jet continue to drift right. The attackers began to close in. "We gotta go, Jimmy! Gotta push it!"

It was no use. The attackers were tucked in tight behind them, tracer fire whizzing past. Steve screamed into his microphone, begging Jimmy to wake up, but it was no use. He took a quick glance backward and saw his partner's silver jet flying itself, already miles away. Just as he was about to turn and follow, he saw the flash of light. The enemy planes had split up and the one following Jimmy had shot him down.

Steve screamed with his whole body and began shaking the controls, making the plane convulse with his anger. He re-revved the engine thrusters forward so hard he bent the shaft against the stop, and still screeching, he pushed the plane to the very limit of its speed. At Mach 2-plus, the desert was a fast blur of brown scrub hills crossed by flashes of highways and small towns. It felt like being in the flight simulator with the pursuit speed setting stuck on "Impossible." For a couple of minutes, anger and pain still clouding his mind, Steve flew in a straight line without checking behind. Given the opportunity, he would have flown kamikaze, head-on into any attacker in his way. His rage subsiding, he finally checked behind and found he had a single attacker at five o'clock, trailing him patiently. He knew there was no way he could win a fire fight. Escape was his only hope. But, as he flew through a cloudless sky over the vast empty stretches of Death Valley, there weren't too many places to hide. Something glinted far out on the white horizon of the desert, a city rising out of nowhere. He banked north and flew that direction. Within seconds, the distant city was beneath his plane. Steve could see enough, just enough, to tell him the city was Las Vegas.

The engines were feeling the strain. Their whining told Steve they wouldn't take this kind of punishment much longer. Still running north, he flew past what looked like a small airbase with a pair of crisscrossed runways built on a dry lake bed. A pair of radar dishes were pivoting on their towers, and it looked like there were camouflage trucks parked next to a couple of hangars. His eyes searched for any sign that they knew what was happening to him and were sending help. He didn't recognize the place at all, didn't know of any base this far north of Vegas.

Then, all at once, he knew exactly what he was going to do. He pulled a hard right over the airbase and lifted over the chain of hills that had created the lake bed ten thousand years before. He checked his compass for due east and turned in that direction.

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