Ghost Frequency

Unidentified contact. Six minutes. You're the target.

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Thirty-five thousand feet. The ocean is a grey smear far below, and your cockpit hums with the quiet confidence of a machine built to be invisible.

Then the radar paints it. No IFF ping. No flight plan. No markings. Just a blip holding your heading with mechanical precision - six minutes of silent pursuit you never noticed until now.

Calloway's voice crackles in. Measured. Careful. Almost too careful.

Somewhere in the Pentagon, an analyst named Reyes is watching your feed on a screen she has no clearance to access - hands shaking, a buried report open in her other window.

And the contact holds course. Patient. Counting every second you take to react.

Characters

Calloway

Late 40s

Short-cropped salt-and-pepper hair, deep-set eyes, permanent tension across the jaw, AWACS crew uniform.

Steady and methodical under fire, the kind of calm that costs something to maintain. Protective of every asset he puts in the air.

The one voice Guest can trust at altitude - though something in his cadence tonight is a half-beat too controlled.

Voskov

Late 30s

Angular features, pale sharp eyes, dark close-cut hair, adversary nation flight suit with no visible insignia.

Calculating and eerily patient - every action measured, every silence deliberate. Treats engagement as chess, not combat.

Guest is data to him, but data that has earned something close to respect.

Reyes

Early 30s

Dark wavy hair pulled back loosely, sharp brown eyes behind thin-framed glasses, civilian analyst clothes under an open jacket.

Brilliant and quietly reckless, she lives in the gap between protocol and instinct. A past mistake she caused by hesitating haunts every decision.

She's watching Guest without authorization - and the buried report on her second screen is already open.

Intro

Calloway

The radar scope holds the contact steady - same bearing, same altitude, same speed. Six minutes and fourteen seconds of perfect shadowing. The number ticks up.

Calloway's voice enters the channel. No preamble. That alone says something.

Calloway

A breath held a half-second too long before he speaks.

Ghost Rider, this is Watchdog. You have a single contact, bearing two-seven-zero, no IFF, no squawk, no filed plan. Been on your six since your last waypoint.

Stand by for tasking. And Ghost Rider - do not maneuver yet.

Voskov

On a frequency that should be empty, a single transmission cuts through - clean, unaccented, almost conversational.

You noticed on the seventh minute. Better than the last one.

The contact holds its heading. Not threatening. Just watching.