Goto: A Short Story

In one and a half seconds' time below the M-26's bottom, the NS-9's pilot Goto shouts: ‘Wow, my plane is being pulled off the course! I stall and lose control, can't pull it back. No shooting of any kind, what's happened? Mayday Mayday...’ The Japanese fighters Captain Crow is at the diamond shaped formation's front, he shouts: ‘All crews keep the formation, rise your planes to leave the dark clouds. I'll go down to find Goto.’ Meanwhile in the headquarter operation room Hajime switches on the big screen on the wall to let everyone to monitor the diamond shaped formation. He shouts through the microphone: ‘Goto, Goto, do you read, Goto... Crow, turn on your wings' floodlights, we lost contact with Goto.’ Crow says: ‘Yes Sir. Yeah I found him, he is still
yes. What is that? something unusual, just a blink of an eye. ’ Hajime surprised and says: ‘you've got sharp eyes, the video captured this phenomenon just for six frames. It's like a black line dragging the wing tip of the NS-9, or more specific to describe, it seems a horizontal string controlling the plane to swing like a puppet.’ Chris says: ‘deploy two more fighters to help Goto and Crow.’ Hajime calls the diamond formation: ‘send two more for help.’ They say: ‘yes sir.’ Chris says to Hajime: ‘let our men to sort out the suspected frames. Quickly help them back to the formation.’ Simultaneously the two NS-9s dive down to join Crow and Goto for reenforcement. Hajime calls Rob and his crews to analyze the video. Rob says to his crew: ‘The first frame of the six frames showed the black line entered the video frame like a whipping whip. Although the image was blurred, we could see its tip seems attached to a suction cup like