The Lost Fight

(1958. A guest room in an air base.) Colonel: What is your name? Ducker: Lieutenant Timmy Ducker, Royal Flying Corps. Colonel: Don't you mean Royal Air Force? Ducker: No, sir. Colonel: Tell us again, Lieutenant Ducker, where you were before we saw you coming out of that cloud in that antique. Ducker: I was hiding, sir. Colonel: Hiding? Ducker: Yes, sir. The year was 1917. We ran into a superior number of enemy planes and I flew into the cloud to hide. Colonel: Where was your flight leader? Ducker: He was surrounded by enemy planes. They were shooting at him from all angles. The last I saw of him he was shaking his fist at me as his plane grew smaller and smaller. Colonel: Lieutenant Ducker, that is the most appalling confession of cowardice I've ever heard! Ducker: But you don't know what it's like up there! When they're all around you shooting at you! They want to kill you! It's simply terrifying! Colonel: And what about your flight leader? How could you run away on him like that! Ducker: You don't understand. He was beating me at chess. We had a game going and he was winning. I'm telling you, when you look around you and you see a pawn here and a rook over there and a knight standing right in your way, it's too much! Anyone would crack under those circumstances. Colonel: What was his name? Ducker: MacIntyre. Why? Colonel: That's interesting. Air Vice Marshall MacIntyre is coming to visit us at this moment. (Enter MacIntyre) Ah, here is is. Vice Marshall MacIntyre, I would like to introduce you to- MacIntyre: So! It's you! I knew you couldn't hide in that cloud forever! Ducker: Captain MacIntyre! How did you survive? At any rate, you don't look well. MacIntyre: It's Air Vice Marshall MacIntyre now! And I've been waiting over forty years to tell you this: queen pawn five to queen pawn six! Ducker: No! (He explodes in fear and breaks out of the room. He runs down the runway and finds his plane. He inadvertently kicks away his pursuers when he kicks his leg to help him spin his propeller. He is soon in the air.) MacIntyre: Launch all surface-to-air missiles. Repeat. Launch all surface-to-air missiles. Target is climbing slowly and heading for the nearest cloud.
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