[url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4139850][img]http://i.imgur.com/XetTf5b.png[/img][/url][right]These were the decisions which always brought everything into perspective. Soldiering is all good fun when it takes place on a bright, cheery propaganda poster, where everyone is handsome and happy with his rifle and helmet; or in the nine-hundred-ninety-nine boring days where a guy wishes for action from the other one. Now people's lives were at stake. Now a screw-up, a miscalculation of enemy movements and intents, splashed blood on their hands. Preventable blood, blood belonging rightly in the tips of the ears and nose on a cold day like this.

If any reinforcements were on their way, Troy was in the best position to stop them. So it would be [i]his[/i] fault if something happened while he moved in to "rescue" everyone, allowing a flanking maneuver to let Charlie envelop them. Then again, all he had to do to make up his mind was imagine Kawal's screams as the glowing fuel burned him up, as his oxygen leaked through the cracks, as his broken cameras and broken microphone closed him off to the world beyond his armored shell. Kid's annoying like corn shells stuck between the teeth, but he's an ally, Troy thought. That settled it. He felt the lurch in his seat as his Chicken's legs unlocked. The engine roared; the whole machine purred with vibrations.

"[color=54b9da]Cam, there's no one else on radar, so I'm moving in,[/color]" he said. Better move his slow ass over there now, before Charlie (who, Troy was properly convinced now, watched from somewhere afar) decided he didn't want them regrouping. "[color=54b9da]If the girls don't stop yapping and get back to work soon then I need you to cover me while I secure the tow lines to the fuselages. Let's save Kawal before his cabin loses its atmosphere. Over.[/color]" What an inconvenience. Only God knew what kind of damage he was looking at when he got back to the hangar; and that was only the least of his worries if the pilot was already dead. Would they draw straws to decide who recorded the videophone for the kid's parents back on Titan?[/right]