Thief of Joy
An Ace Combat 8 time-travel AU
Jan Cope survives the prologue, because the stranger in his back seat pulls him out of the sea. The stranger takes a new call sign, Ray. He flies like nothing anyone has ever seen, he knows things nobody could know, and he has come back from a war that hasn't happened yet, in which everyone he loved died. This time he isn't going to lose anyone. Not Joker, not Queen, not Purple Magic, not the people of a town in the mountains. Not even the woman who killed his best friend. And not Kate Evans, whom he loved once and has decided he no longer deserves.
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Contents
- Second First Meetings
- Ray
- Jokers Wild
- Nomad
- Purple Magic Takes Flight
- Not for Any Injury
- The Fall of the Numbered Fleets
- Another Morning
- Retaking of Theve
- Four Chairs
- Attack on the Drinwich Airfield
- Forty-Eight Hours
- A Lifeline in the Desert
- Front Row
- Clean Sheet
- Second Opinion
- In His Name
- Retaking of Theve II