"Good, leave your Zingers and AT4s here. As soon as we fire Zingers, you run back here, we're going back into that conduit for a quick run to the next exit." The Ruhar would shortly turn the garage into a pile of rubble after we shot at their aircraft. "Everyone else, get your Zingers ready.  Amaro, see if you can get this rollup door open, we'll need to make a quick exit." I shrugged off the strap to one of the Zingers I carried, flipped open the targeting panel, and pressed the first button to activate it. The weapon's seeker would stay active for several hours now.

Pope and Wayne set their missiles down, peeked out under the edge of the roof, and sprinted off under the trees. In a couple minutes, they were under a tree across the road from me, we were able to communicate by talking loudly, the hand signals had been for communication when enemy aircraft were flying loudly overhead. Almost as soon as Pope and Wayne got settled under the trees, we heard aircraft approaching. One Dodo and one Vulture.

I shook my head and gestured thumbs down with one hand. If no more tempting targets appeared soon, I'd settle for a Dodo, I had to worry about Ruhar troops driving along the access road and seeing us. Surely the Ruhar were going to recon the whole area.

Another aircraft approached from behind us. A single Vulture. Again I gave the thumbs down. Checking my people, I could see they were so keyed up that we needed to do something soon. "Check your safeties, people, nobody fires until I give the signal." I made people acknowledge my order one by one, looking each person in the eye. Myself, I tried to act calm, even bored, I stifled a fake yawn. "Damn, I wish they'd get here soon, I'm hungry." I complained, and that drew some nervous laughter.

The Whale at the airfield finished unloading, the Ruhar troops had marched off the tarmac into the jungle, and it lifted off. This Whale flew almost directly over us, I could read some of the marking on its belly and wings. As it approached, I made sure everyone saw my thumbs down. If we had to, I'd attack an empty ship on its return flight, that wasn't my preference.