Sad Icemav hc #29
(⚠ Warning ⚠ for Main Chatacter death, not Explicit)
Thinking yet again about an au where Mav is front line in the wars and Ice is a big bad admiral who doesn't have time any more for his wingman, or really anything beyond his ambitions. They're still not officially together, acnt be, but they haven't actually non-officially been together for years now. It slowly trickled to a stop, so slow they never noticed.
Then, Ice personally assigns a mission to mavs squad. His section leader is nervous but ignoring it for the sake of impressing Admiral Kazansky. Mav takes one loom at the mission detail and commandeers a satellite phone to rip Ice a new one for assigning that to anybody. The Intel is too thin for all its impressiveness on paper, and the parameters are ridiculous.
They argue and rail at each other and hang up seething. Mav comes to base command the next day, a small shack-like tent, to be told he's been assigned the mission, a suicide run at best, by the personal order of one Adm T Kazansky. He leaves in twenty minutes.
Mav is raging, but short of disobeying direct orders and going AWOL, leaving some poor other schmuck to take the mission orders then and come back in several bloody pieces in a pine box, he has no choice.
Mav files the mission, gets the information, and is shot down by enemy combatant jets. His jet explodes and hurls into the dunes, and command has him declared KIA, his emergency contact informed and given the flag and condolences. There is no body, nor bloody pieces to ship home in a pine box.
And halfway across the world, Tom Kazansky gets a knock on his door at 9 o'clock in the morning.
