"Alright, You gave me your word, now I'm giving you mine," I said, switching back to guns and taking the lead, "Switch to frequency 217.4Mhz."<br/><br/>I followed my own command and turned toward the mercenary base I was supposed to be at already in a modest climb. I was still tracking that airliner and it was almost out of my radar range, making it immune to enemy action for now. What confused me was its heading would take it over the Mercenary base. Suspicious now, I punched up my speed some. Just where was it going?<br/><br/>"At this point, consider your past life over," I said after a few minutes, positioned so the Flanker pilot would have to turn almost 90° degrees to his left to get a shot at me, "Far as I'm am concerned you just died back there."<br/><br/>The base was still a ways away but a automated KC-10 Extender was was coming up. I burned a lot of fuel running my afterburner so much. A check told me I didn't have enough fuel to make it. I started to climb to the KC-10's altitude with the flanker behind me. It would accept me but I would have to think about what to do about the Flanker pilot.<br/><br/>"What's your fuel status?" I asked spotting the tanker to my high 2 o'clock, "I got a fourth of a tank."<br/><br/>Reaching the Tanker, I did my best going through the mid-air refueling procedure. When I was ready for a try, ir came as a shock when I linked up with it first shot and just moments after starting. It was only three or four minutes of being hooked up to the tanker before I was disconnected and drifted back and down as I cleared the way for the Flanker pilot to refuel. I looped back around quickly so I could assist if necessary. This could get interesting real quick.