"Captain Blanc, meet your new recruits," Trudy said, waving at Sonic, Zouichi and Jalith. "How about you take them out and see how they work as a team?"

Skull had been short-handed so long that it felt good to have more bodies to put in those fighters. It made her feel more comfortable about its viability as a squadron - the VFs were useful machines, especially as far as covering the other squadrons went.