𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 ✩ 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒘

𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

UNDER PRESSURE
- Queen, David Bowie -

✈︎✈︎✈︎ ✰ ✈︎✈︎✈︎

Pressure pushin' down on me
Pressin' down on you, no man ask for
Under pressure that brings a building down
Splits a family in two, puts people on streets

✈︎✈︎✈︎ ✰ ✈︎✈︎✈︎

✈︎✈︎✈︎ ✰ ✈︎✈︎✈︎

THE TWINS COULD feel their hearts beating fast as they thought of what to do. Emily already knew that she wanted to go back to her father, but she didn't know if her brother thought the same. Saving their father would have basically meant suicide. And what about the ring Logan had brought with him all this time? What about Natasha?

She turned to look at her brother and in his eyes she saw a mixture of determination and sadness. Logan was conflicted, but he knew that Natasha would understand. That's one of the endless reasons why he loved her. She could always understand him.

"I'm sorry, Nat", he said with a sorrowful voice and before she could even reply Star had flown away, Rooster immediately behind her.

"Can you see him?", Rooster asked as he flew behind her after a while of searching around.

"Wait! There! That helicopter is about to shoot at someone", she exclaimed as she spotted a big helicopter preparing to shoot.

"It gotta be him", Storm said from behind her.

"Let's go", Rooster said and went to fly beside her. Quickly they reached the helicopter and just as it was about to shoot they shot it down instead. As they did, they kept looking for Maverick when finally Storm spotted him.

"There! I see him!", he shouted, but just then they started hearing a beeping sound. The SAM's had intercepted them and before they knew it both planes were hit.

"Eject! Eject!", Rooster shouted and immediately the three all ejected from their planes.

The wind was harsh so when the parachute opened up they were all sent different ways. Emily started lowering on some trees. She watched as they got closer and closer and tried to move away to not hit them, but just then she realised that there was a small hole in her parachute. Just her luck.

"Fuck!", she shouted as she basically landed straight towards a big tree. She let out grunts of pain as she fell through the branches until the parachute got caught in one, leaving her dangling in the air. She looked up and started pulling on the string of the parachute attached to her suit until she was finally free and fell on the cold snow with a grunt.

Slowly she pushed herself up when suddenly she felt an harsh pain on her side. The stitches of her wound had opened during the fall. She took a sharp inhale and stood up, helping herself as she leant on the trunk of the big tree beside her. She moved to where the parachute was still stuck on one of the branches and pulled it until it fell down on the soft snow.

She knelt down beside it and pulled on it until she was able to tear a piece. Slowly she lifted her suit up to her wound and wrapped the piece of parachute around her abdomen. As she secured it and tightened it on her wound she let out a low groan. In this way she would have at least stopped the blood.

She pushed back down the suit before standing up. She looked around only seeing snow and trees. But just then she heard some voices in the distance and slowly walked to the source. She wandered around for a while until she finally spotted three figure in the distance.

She recognised her father running towards what she also recognised as Logan and Bradley. She let out a sigh of relief at that. She kept walking to them when she saw Maverick reach them. Before they could even say anything he had suddenly pushed them both, making them fall on the snow. At that Emily couldn't help but laugh as she kept walking to them.

"What the hell?!", she heard Bradley shout in disbelief as the three men threw their helmets on the ground.

"What are you two doing here?!", Maverick asked them as the younger men stood back up angrily.

"Really?! What are we doing here?!", Logan shouted angrily. He was already angry because he couldn't find his sister and now his father was reacting like that?!

"You guys think I took that missile just so I could see you down here with me?! You should be back on the carrier by now!", Maverick shouted back at them.

"We saved your life!", Bradley shouted angrily.

"I saved your life! That's the whole point! What the hell were you even thinking?!", Maverick yelled.

"You told us not to think!", Bradley shouted back. Yeah, he wasn't wrong.

Just then Emily had finally reached them and was watching a few feet from them as she watched realisation settle in her father's eyes as the three men looked at each other breathing heavily. In that moment as silence settled upon them Maverick finally realised that someone was missing. Where was his daughter?

"Wait, where's-", he began with a panicked look but Emily cut him off.

"Are you three done arguing like little kids or can we actually make a plan now?", she asked them as she walked to them, making the three whip around their heads to her.

"Emily, are you okay?", Bradley quickly asked her  as he moved to her with a worried gaze. Emily looked in his worried eyes debating if she should tell him that her stitches had reopened and that she was losing blood in that moment, but decided not to worry him even more.

"I'm fine, don't worry", she told him with a reassuring smile.

"You had us worried sick", Logan said quickly taking Bradley's place and briefly hugging his sister while she simply chuckled in his shoulder.

When they pulled apart her eyes fell on her father who was still worriedly looking at her.

"You good, old man?", she asked him with a small smirk making him chuckle.

"Yeah, you?", he asked her with a smile.

"Couldn't be better", she shrugged then looked at all the three. "So, what's the plan?"