Starfighter Training Academy Boxed Set by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KSA Publishers

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Lieutenant Graves escorted us from General Jennix’s office to the launch bay that served the Starfighter teams aboard the Battleship Resolution. Our first stop was the mission prep area, where we were brought our flight suits. Graves waited while Mia and I changed from our standard black uniform into the sleek Starfighter space suit. The material was thin and comfortable, but I knew the suit would protect us from small laser blasts, was fireproof and, with the retractable helmet all Velerion space suits had stored in the collar, capable of keeping us alive on a spacewalk, if necessary. The uniform looked almost exactly like the standard Starfighter uniform, except the space suits had the integrated helmet and the swirl on the chest was silver, not black.

Once we were in our flight gear, Graves walked us through the small launch area. There were two Starfighter Pilot teams serving on the Resolution, and their sleek fighting ships shone with a glowing metallic black that made me think of danger and war and death. Their larger ships were meant for combat, loaded with weapons and fuel. The MCS ships would be just as fast but smaller. Sleeker. With limited weapons and most of the interior loaded with communication and computing equipment rather than cannons.

I was guessing, of course. I’d never seen one, only in the training simulation I’d completed with Mia. The stealthy MCS ships were so secretive that no one but the Starfighter specific mechanics’ teams were allowed anywhere near them. And that was only with permission from the Starfighter assigned to the ship. As the pilot and secondary MCS officer, I was there to serve in a support role for Mia. Make sure she arrived safely, evaded enemies and survived to fight another day.

Although I was the pilot, The Phantom was Mia’s ship, not mine. Her position as the lead MCS officer on our team meant the ship belonged to her, as I did. Body and soul. I wished for more time alone with her. To get to know her. Inside her head. Inside her body. That would have to wait… for now. I wasn’t sure if I could hold off long. I wanted to touch her. Watch her as I made her pliant, as I made her scream.

Mia had a spring in her step.

“Headache gone?”

She grinned at me. “Mostly. I can’t believe I’m going to see the Phantom. For real.”

Her excitement was contagious, and I grinned back as we increased our pace, causing Graves to lift a brow as he hustled to remain a step ahead of us.

I thought I was mentally prepared to meet my future head-on. However, when I saw the Phantom for the first time, my entire body went taut with a feeling of dread… and elation. The ship was a living, breathing nightmare to my senses. It was darker than deep space. Staring at the outline of the hull, I squinted as the edges blurred, moved, and reappeared in a state of constant change. Like a river of black water flowing along its banks.

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