Omake: Earn Your Wings Parts 1&2
"Hey is me or does Airman First Class Black looks more attractive since she started Valkyrie pilot training?"
"Nah, is just your imagination. She is still flat as a board."
"Ladies, are you gossiping instead of doing your jobs?" The stern face of a man with a huge scar in the middle of his face looked at the guards with disappointment.
"Staff Sergeant Smith! No sarge!"
"Well, since you seem to have nothing better do, give me twenty, on the ground, now."
The guards did so.
Honestly, to become basicaly obsolete due to Valkyries only working for females and then being forced to work in an female boot camp for Valkyrie candidates. It made him want to start smoking again.
But the fact was that the top brass would not, could not, have all high up personal in the camp be female. So here he was, hoping his wife did not kill him for taking a job that basicaly left him incomunicado until he was replaced in a year.
Top security and that, at least what they were doing was perfectly legal. He had heard rumors China planned to use small girls.
Child soldiers, Christ. It was lucky that not only smoking and drinking was against the rules, but there simple was no cigarretes or alcoholic drinks in the base. Otherwise he would get dishonorable discharge at best since he really felt like he wanted a darn drink. Being a survivor of one of the Antagonist atacks and that.
There was also no cities, towns, or even a gas station nearby. Easier to keep yourself clean with no temptations at close range. Sure there was the fact that for some reason most Valkyrie pilots were attractive women, but that happened to not be one of his vices, thank you very much.
And he really wanted to know were the hell Valkyries came from. Were they some kind of alien tech? Something they stole from the Antagonist, did they just appear out of nowhere?
Whatever, it was beyond his pay grade. All he knew was that those things upgraded any machine they bonded to and only females and maybe a guy in a million could be pilots.
They were using Jets, since it made the transition easier for pilots, but he would not be surprised if in a few years from now the things ended looking like out of one of those Mechas from Japanese cartoons.
"Are you two done? Good, now get back to your post!"
*****
She looked... pretty. Jessie Alice Black, Airman First Class, the most dull looking out all the women in her family, now looked... pretty. The change had been so gradual and she had been so busy with training she did not notice until she finally heard the new gossip about her.
It should not affect her the way it was doing. Not when it had been years since she had simply accepted that every other female in her family just looked better than she did.
There was a war going on, a war with fucking aliens. They were using black box tech only the highter ups might now were the hell came from. And here she was, worrying because Palas Athenea USV B09 was making her more attractive.
Oh, now she could undertand the damn Chinese. If the tech wanted to make attractive women, maybe they would get better Valkyries if they started to bond and train girls who had not even started puberty yet?
A flash of horror showed in her face, what little she knew mixed with all the space opera science fiction she used to read.
If the war went worse, soon not only training by the Chinese would start with young girls who had no idea what they were forced into. The practice would extend to all countries. Children rights ignored in the need of more pilots. And from that, how long until it went to simply have child soldiers?
"Stop."
She was just a Valkyrie
pilot in training, that was it. And she doubted even the President would be able to prevent using young girls if every other country started doing it.
That doesn't meant she could do nothing about it, just whatever she did was a bucket of fresh water dropped in a salt lake.
If she wrote a report, backed it with some evidence, did a few historical comparisons... then what?
Wouldn't that just make the US just start to recruit young girls faster?
How could she keep those girl safer? How could she do her best to serve her country?
Even with jets, she had not been an Ace, just good and experienced. All she seemed good at was at... surviving to see another day?
To survive, was that it?
Valkyries were still quite new tech. If she survived, if she lasted as a pilot long enough, then she would be responsible to teach those little girls.
Damn she really needed a drink right now, but even if she had managed to smuggle one bottle or a dozen, getting smashed was a big no if she really planned to survive long enough.
Those bottles she had not smuggled were better used as bribes. Or maybe she could trade some soap and lotions instead. As a Wingman First Class she had certain commodities that did not extend to all the base.
All unlikely her, most of the base girls tended to be... girly girls. Not that there was anything wrong with that, mind you, it just wasn't her.
"Hey Palas, anything to say?"
[Cats are cute, I want a cat!]
Damn faulty programming, all that Palas did outside training was to spout nosence. Yesterday it had wanted to ride a pink Elephant and sing Macanera at the same time. She let her do the last one.
"Maybe when I become a pilot. What cat do you want?"
[I want a cat that farts rainbows and shots ice cream lasers!]
"Why I am more pretty now?"
[Pretty Warrior of Justice Valkyrie Black, will punish the Antagonist in the name of Love!]
Yeah helpful as usual. But at least Palas was fun. Even if talking to her was not better than using a chatbot unless it was training.
"Palas, were do you think the Antagonist next atack will be?"
[36% of being Africa. All the others units agree. Hard to increase accuracy of prediction without more units in the network.]
What?
"Palas Athenea USV B09, explain about the network."
[All flight members Valkyrie units connected to network. Network increases combat cordination of flight. Network increases processing power of Valkyrie units connected to it. Network formed 10 days, 9 hours, 2 minutes, 23 seconds ago. Network created by order of Airman First Class Black and approved by the rest of the flight.]
"What order did I give to order the formation of the Network?"
[Internet Killed the Video Star]
Whatever, drink now, worry later.
AN: Black rolled both Crazy AI and a high roll in compatibility, so yeah. Internet Killed the Video Star is parody video of an older song. Here: is by The Broad Band. The The Limousines just stole the tittle but their song has nothing to do with it.
