Akerson Hill Incident

The Akerson Hill Incident is a military incident occurred within Osean Federation territory at the mid-stages of the Circum-Pacific War.

Prelude
Two weeks prior to the Akerson Hill incident, Yuktobania launched a massive sea-based landing operation in an attempt to take over Sand Island AFB. The battle, however, ended in a catastrophic failure for the Yuktobanians, as Operation Vanguard (the Osean-assigned name of the mission) marked the destruction of the Scinfaxi-class Submarine, an underwater aircraft carrier that dealt a massive blow to the Osean 3rd Fleet during it's advance through the Eaglin Straits with it's ballistic missile payload. Yuktobania then canceled all & any subsequent reinvasion attempts, presumably because of the destruction of Scinfaxi.

Battle
In October 22, 2010, the 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron (the very same squadron that sank the Scinfaxi) was sent on a mission to patrol the northern coast of Akerson Hill, a region located in peninsular Osea protected by the local AA missile system (which covered all except the northern coast). For this occassion, Wardog was split into two separate groups, one formed by Alvin "Chopper" Davenport and Hans Grimm, and the other formed by Lieutenant Kei Nagase and flight leader Blaze, with the latter heading towards northern Akerson. When Edge & Blaze entered the airspace, they found a lone Osean C-5B Galaxy transportwith radio problems. The C-5B revealed itself as Mother Goose One, which was headed towards North Point in eastern Usea, however the secrecy of its mission prevented it from transmitting a friendly signature, thus prompting the AA network to fire upon the aircraft, thus knocking out its radar and damaging its radio. Blaze & Edge then led Mother Goose One through the AA to northern Akerson, which was outside the system's operative range. During their travel through the AA network, Chopper mentioned that a group of Yuktobanian aircraft (the first one in weeks) was detected approaching Akerson Hill at the moment.

Shortly thereafter, the three aircraft reached northern Akerson with Chopper & Grimm reuniting with Blaze & Nagase. However, the aforementioned Yuke interceptors arrived to Akerson, prompting Wardog to protect the transport.

As the Osean pilots were busy with the enemy fighters, Mother Goose One began reporting the death of one of its engines; meanwhile, a passenger caught Mother Goose One's attention, before the "passenger" (in reality an spy) assassinated the pilot, which sent Mother Goose One into an out-of-control Dutch roll, as commented by Chopper ("Hey, it's Dutch rolling!".)

Shortly thereafter, the aircraft recovered, now being piloted by an anonymous man, forcing Chopper to ask what was the situation onboard the Galaxy: the pilot was dead and the co-pilot injured by a stray bullet, thus forcing a secretary pilot called Tommy to command the C-5B. The man then identified himself as "Mr. Cargo", in order to preserve his anonimity.

The damage absorbed by the mainframe forced Mother Goose One to attempt an emergency landing in the fields of Akerson Hill, which prompted Mr. Cargo to ask for Nagase's name, leading to Chopper introducting himself and a brief conversation between the two.