K, but consider this.
Goose Echo had a friend. Like, a brother friend. That died in an accident. Delta. Like.
When Goose died in Top Gun but it's Mav instead.
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tw/death, drowning (not really descriptive), grief(..? Kinda..?)
I swear these guys are such blanc slates according to the wiki yk I had to give 'em some trauma 😔/j
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Echo hated the empty feeling in his tanks when he was alone. Bravo was out, doing god knows what, Delta (Mav) has other things on his head, and he's stuck on board the ship. His engines ached for a little action. Suddenly a bang sounds through the hall, followed by a scream. Delta!
"...Delta?!"
Echo's engines flared up with fear. Delta never, never screams like that, unless he's in real trouble.
"Delta!"
He rolls forwards, cautious for any debris or gas or whatever could cause his best friend to scream. Glass cracks under his lading gear.
"...N-no..."
His movements get more frantic, every corner he passes feeling like a clump of ice drops in his tanks. It's quiet...
He rounds another corner, and...
"BOO!"
Delta jumps out, wings folded with his wingflaps up. He's grinning like an idiot, his red-blue helmet shining in the dim light.
"HAH! Oh man, Echo... You should've seen the look on your fa-ha-haace... Wooooh..."
He snickers, putting his wings and flaps back down when he sees the annoyance in Echo's face.
"Sorry, sorry... I just... y'know, I had to. But you gotta admit, that was good, huh?"
Echo groans, angrily swatting Delta with his wing.
"...Bastard... I thought you were in real trouble."
He sighs, and gives Delta the Disappointed Dad™ stare. Not that he's his dad, he just likes doing it.
"I'll be on deck if you need me, scrubbing window-washer fluid out of my eyes."
Delta just snickers, and starts cleaning again.
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"Okay, so lemme get this straight. You two figures are going to do what?!"
Bravo never heard so much bullshit in one sentence. First, Echo and Delta were gonna do the most dangerous stunt he'd ever heard of. And they were gonna do it in opposite directions, at the same time. This could only end in chaos.
Echo snorts, flapping his flaps up.
"Come on, you gotta stop being so ice cold to these ideas, man! Come on, join in! Delta knows what he's doin'."
Delta, who's standing a little away, does in fact not know what he's doing.
"Come on Echo! Let him sulk, we're gonna have some real fun!"
And Echo believed him.
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It went so well, and then...
"DELTA!"
Jet wash, the most dangerous thing in aviation. When Echo and Delta passed each other at the top of their loops, Delta flew straight through Echo's. His engines splutter, his eyes wide as he loses altitude.
"ECHO!"
He tries everything to get out, to just climb, gain altitude, gain his engines back... There's tears dripping down the sides of his face (not from fear, but from the fact that he's plummeting to the ground at mach 11045 or something), teeth gritted in concentration. Bravo tries snatching him out of the sky, but in the process he almost takes himself down too. At the last moment he has to disengage, letting Delta splash into the icy ocean below. For a second they see his terrified face below the surface, before he sinks into the deep, dark blue. And Echo can't stop the soft whine his engine makes.
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The funeral is short, but even that's too much for Echo. He blames himself. It was his jet wash, after all. That must make him guilty, right?
He got send to the mainland for a few days, getting a court reading where they explain neatly how this wasn't his fault, since a jet wash is invisible, and he didn't intent to down Delta, and blah, blah... Echo'd stopped listening after they said he wasn't guilty.
But still, he felt incredibly, incredibly guilty.
"...I should've gone down, not him..."
He barely left his room for a week after coming back to the carrier, his head hurting from the many sleepless nights he'd spent in his quarters.
"...It's just... not fair, y'know?"
"Yeah, I know, buddy."
Only Bravo could coax him out of his room sometimes, getting him some fuel and talking for a bit. But he knew it too; the old Echo was gone. Replaced with a shivering wreck of a plane that was almost too scared to even fly...
Until that faithful day when he did.
Bravo finally managed to convince Echo to go out flying with him, promising to not even go near his rear to avoid the jet wash. It was stupid, but anything to get his best friend back was worth a shot.
They loaded onto the catapults, and took off. The second Echo got airborne he sunk down, landing gear out as if trying to land on the water. His eyes lock onto the ocean, seeing the face of Delta sinking down slowly into the blue...
"...B-Bravo..? I... I'm gonna go back..."
Bravo whirled around, spotting his friend slowly moving back to the carrier.
"No. Echo..."
He quickly caught up, giving Echo his recreation of the other jet's famous Disappointed Dad™.
"Come on, one lap. You agreed to one lap around the perimeter. It's just 83 kilometres..."
Echo sighed, regret and desire swirling in his tanks until he got nauseous. He did agree to one lap...
He sighed, then pulled up.
"Fine. One lap."
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Once Echo got up to speed, the doubt slowly started to melt away like snow in the sun. Hell, he even found a smile tugging his mouth as he sped up more and more, overtaking Bravo at Mach 1. In less than four minutes he'd cleared the lap, engines roaring for the second.
"Keep up, slow coach!"
Bravo growled, engines flaring up as he caught up to Echo again.
"There he is! There's my stupid idiot Echo!"
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After the race, the ice clump in Echo's tanks melted slightly. He still felt chilly and alone, but knowing Bravo had his tail fins really made everything a lot better for him.
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