“Shit,” Gucci said, and then whistled. “Panther came to play.”
Hell yes he did, I thought, as he went vertical and then swooped around, upside down, to move in directly behind Levy. It was a sweet move, and gasps rang out across the room.
“Oh my God, he’s got him,” Whiplash said.
But as soon as the words were out of her mouth, Levy pulled a hard right and gunned it, getting himself out of Panther’s line of fire before he could get a lock on.
The battle continued, neither side giving an inch, neither of them saying a damn thing, which frustrated me to no end. If it were me, I’d be giving my classmates a play-by-play, letting them know exactly how I was dominating my opponent.
But no. Not Panther. That same strong, silent type that left me exasperated but also turned me on. And even without saying a word, his flying right now was a serious fucking turn-on.
“There he goes again,” Houdini called out. “I think this is it.”
No one breathed as Panther zoomed in on Levy from seemingly out of nowhere, and just when I thought he was ready to call it, words I never expected to hear out of his mouth echoed across the room.
“Air in the cockpit,” Panther said, his tone clipped, still in control, but with an edge of panic in his voice. “Ready to eject.”
Holy fuck…what? I jumped to my feet, my heart practically stopping as I ran toward the glass. Then Panther’s voice came through the speakers again.
“Altitude dropping. Controls lost.”
Fuck. Fuck. This couldn’t be happening. It had to be some kind of mistake. But as I stared out the windows alongside everyone else, we watched in horror as Panther’s plane began to plummet to the earth.
The silence in the room was no longer rife with tension and excitement, but horror and dread, as the Hornet dropped ten thousand feet in a matter of seconds.
It was like watching your worst nightmare, but if you looked away or even blinked, you might lose sight, it was falling so fast. As I stood there helpless to do anything but pray that Panther had time to get himself in position, my gut twisted around on itself until I wanted to vomit.
“Come on, Panther,” Houdini said, his best friend voicing my own thoughts as we all waited for that moment we knew was coming. One we’d all trained for extensively, and hoped like hell we’d never have to employ, because no pilot ever wanted to be in a position where they had to eject from their aircraft. It was literally the last course of action you could take to try to save your life. But when the options were to plummet headfirst into the Pacific Ocean or blow yourself out of the cockpit and hope like hell all your limbs were intact and you survived, there really wasn’t much choice.
Not a second later, the blast from the rockets under Panther’s seat lit up the sky as he was catapulted into the air like he was nothing. The world went silent for a heartbeat, then two, and then emergency sirens blasted through the base, jump-starting my heart again.
Chaos erupted and someone screamed, but all I could do was watch as the plane careened on a death spiral to the water below. I frantically searched the sky for Panther’s chute, for any sign of him, but instead, all I saw was nothing…
He was gone.
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