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== Prologue ==
== Part One ==
=== Chapter 1 ===
=== Chapter 2 ===
Mrs. Vmeer, Spensa's Work Studies instructor, introduces Citizen Alfir, a man from Sanitation Corps, asking him to discuss his job. Spensa's classmate Dia taunts her, telling Spensa that cleaning waste would be a perfect job for the daughter of a coward, and Spensa has to restrain herself due to Dia being Mrs. Vmeer's daughter and already having gotten into trouble for fighting before. Alfir continues speaking, saying that even though his job doesn't seem significant, it is still vital to keep their society running. Spensa notes that several of the other speakers have said the same things about their roles, and finds those attitudes not passionate enough for Defiants. Citizen Alfir finishes his presentation, and the students stand up for a break. Spensa avoids to Dia to try to stay out of trouble, and instead approaches her friend [[Rodge Mccafrey|Rodge]. They discuss their wishes to become pilots, and review some material they need for the pilot test. Just then, Mrs. Vmeer approaches Spensa with Alfir, who tells Spensa that they need people like her in Sanitation, offering her a guaranteed spot there. Spensa turns him down, and Dia tells her that the authorities will definitely prevent her from passing the pilot's test, even though everyone is allowed to take it. Spensa notes that Dia doesn't seem to care if she believes her, unlike her usual taunts. She goes to confront Mrs. Vmeer on the topic. Mrs. Vmeer tries dance around on it, claiming that Spensa's father being a coward makes it a delicate situation, but is eventually forced to partly admit that she won't be allowed to get in, though she doesn't say that the admiral specifically ordered her to be kept out. Mrs. Vmeer then tries to coax her into taking another job. Enraged and humiliated at being lied to about being able to get in, Spensa storms out of the room.
=== Chapter 3 ===
== Part Two ==
=== Chapter 7 ===
Elevator doors open, giving Spensa a view of Alta Base. She stays in the elevator as everyone else leaves and is approached by [[Kimmalyn]]. She's confused by Kimmalyn's friendliness as the majority of people in her life treated her like a pariah, but heads towards the base with her, gaping together at a fountain. While walking towards the base, they learn that they are both part of the same flight. They discuss possible callsigns, and Kimmalyn tells Spensa she came from [[Bountiful cavern]]. They walk through an orchard and Spensa marvels at the size of the trees. Together they walk towards [[Flight School]], a building near the launchpads. Kimmalyn leaves to talk to a friend, and Spensa tells herself she'll have to get used to the sky and how much more open space there is above the planet. When Kimmalyn returns they find their classroom and open the doors.
In the room sits ten mock cockpits, arranged in a circle facing inward. Spensa and Kimmalyn enter the class, realizing they are the first to arrive. Spensa walks around the cockpits, noticing they resemble the layout of a [[Poco]]. Two cadets enter, an athletic girl ([[Hudiya]]) and a [[Yeongian]] with blue hair ([[Bim]]). They are then followed by a Vician ([[Freyja]]). Kimmalyn introduces herself and learns the names of the cadets. Three more boys enter, and Spensa recognizes one as the son of a [[First Citizens|First Citizen]] she saw at the exam ([[Jorgen]]). Jorgen attempts to order the cadets to stand in formation, with is met with derision by the other cadets. When Jorgen insults Kimmalyn, Spensa calls him "Jerkface." Jorgen recognizes Spensa, and they soon begin to insult one another. Spensa then realizes that none of the cadets knew her as the daughter of a coward. As Spensa and Jorgen are insulting one another, [[Mongrel]], their instructor, walks in and tells them to refer to him as Cobb. He then proceeds to name Jorgen flight leader, which upsets Spensa. He then takes Spensa into the hall and informs her that she needs to control herself so that she can remain a cadet, explaining that he chose Jorgen as flight leader because of his flight experience. Spensa apologizes and heads back into the room.
▲=== Chapter 8 ===
=== Chapter 9 ===
Spensa is distraught when faced with the possibility that she won't get to fly. Cobb informs the cadets that the cockpits are simulations, and that they will need to pick a callsign sometime in the next few days. As he is saying this, Rig bursts into the room. Spensa is elated, and Rig explains to Cobb that he was late because the elevator was down. Cobb announces that Rig received a perfect score on the exam. Cobb begins to turn on the simulations as Spensa climbs into her cockpit. Spensa marvels at how realistic the simulation is, sticking her hand outside to make sure it isn't real. Cobb informs the cadets they will be practicing takeoffs, and Jorgen volunteers to teach them. Nearly half the cadets crash when attempting to take off for the first time. For the next three hours, the cadets practiced taking off and landing ships. Cobb informs Jorgen he needs to get a confirmation of readiness from each member of the flight, and Bim asks Cob what happens when a cadet ejects. Cobb grumbles about rumors spread that acclivity rings are worth more than the lives of the pilots. The cadets give verbal confirmation of their readiness, and declare their callsigns. When Jorgen learns that his desired callsign has been taken, Spensa says that the cadets can call him Jerkface. As the cadets begin to learn how to move forward, the attack warning began to go off. Admiral [[Judy Ivans|Ironsides]] told Cobb to send the cadet's flight, dubbed flight, into the air. Cobb sends the cadets to the launchpads.
=== Chapter 10 ===
Spensa wonders why the admiral is sending her flight into the air as Cobb shuts down the simulations. As they leave the training room, Spensa talks to Rig about how they can't believe they made it. The cadets then boarded into their ships. Spensa turned on her ship and lifter her Poco off of the ground, as did the rest of her flight. After taking roll call, they engaged their boosters and sped towards the battlefield. Cobb informs the cadets that they won't be fighting, and will soon be relieved by a reserve flight. Spensa, Jorgen, and [[Arturo]] discuss Krell attack strategies and the plausibility of the use of a [[lifebuster]]. As Spensa wonders why Cobb isn't flying, the cadets discuss a callsign for Bim, who hadn't yet chosen one. While watching the battle, a Krell ship suddenly began streaking towards the cadets. The cadets inform Cobb and he clears them to engage. Jorgen and [[Nedder]] break formation to chase it, and Spensa and Hurl follow. As they approached the ship, it turned around and began to head straight for them.
=== Chapter 11 ===
As the ship rounds towards her, Spensa realizes she isn't afraid despite her lack of experience. She attempts to maneuver her way behind the Krell but almost hits Hurl instead. The Krell ship attacks Jorgen as Spensa struggled to get in position, and Cobb warns him that the Krell attack the pilots who fly the best. As Jorgen continues to maneuver, the Krell ship sends some destructors towards the rest of the cadets, and a few hit Rig's ship. Jorgen asks Cobb when the reinforcements are coming, and he realizes that his shields are down. Spensa flew up towards Jorgen in the hopes of racing him, but she began to fall unconscious due to G forces. Just as the Krell was about to take out Jorgen, a long-range destructor shot by Kimmalyn beamed upwards and destroyed the Krell ship. The cadets assess headcount, and note that all are safe, but Rig is badly shaken and threw up in his ship. Cobb orders the cadets back to base, and the cadets land safely. Hurl and Kimmalyn celebrate while Jorgen admonishes Spensa and she restrains herself from fighting back. Cobb both disparages and compliments the flight on their performance and tells them to wash themselves and eat. The admiral compliments Skyward flight over the intercom, saying they "With possible exceptions, are a group to be admired," which Spensa believes to be directed at her. As Spensa reaches the bunks, she realizes that there is no place for her to sleep. When she goes back into the halls, Cobb tells her that the people who run flight school have decided not to allow Spensa to sleep or eat there. As she is leaving, she overhears Jorgen complaining about how the cadets don't respect him, and Cobb tells him to accept it. Annoyed, Jorgen walks to his hoverer and left. Spensa left the compound and headed to the elevators. Considering the long commute, she decides to look for a place to stay closer to the base. Leaving the elevators behind, she walks to the cavern with the crashed ship in item and bunks down there for the night.
=== Chapter 12 ===
Spensa wakes up in the
=== Chapter 13 ===
=== Chapter 14 ===
=== Chapter 15 ===
Spensa tries to fix the crashed ship with materials she scavenged. [[Doomslug]] the Destroyer, the slug she has dubbed her mascot, repeats whatever she says to it. The materials she gathered aren't sufficient to power the ship, and she leaves to go to class. In the simulations, Spensa has gotten better at dodging debris, but is still not especially proficient with light-lances. She finally spears a peace of debris, but crashes as a result. The cadets continue to practice with light-lances, and Spensa explains some terms to Morningtide, who doesn't speak english fluently. Before booting the simulation back up, Spensa feels the inside of her helmet, which had been chafing her. Cobb explains that the medical wing insisted that her helmet have sensors that monitored her bioreadings, and that hers was the only helmet to have such features. After Bim complains that the other flights have been practicing dogfighting, Cobb starts a game involving flying through golden rings. When Spensa realizes that Jorgen, who waited until the other cadets finished, would easily defeat her, she speeds her ship into his, freezing his score below hers and winning the game. This annoys Jorgen and frustrates Cobb, but Spensa merely grins. During the five-minute break, Bim flirts with a confused Spensa, who flirts back once she realizes. Jorgen, still angered over Spensa's actions during the game, reveals that she is the daughter of [[Zeen Nightshade| Chaser]]. This makes Spensa feel sick with anger and embarrassment through the set of drills, as she had liked being able to make her own way in life. Hours later, Spensa walks past the mess hall and sees her flight eating, and as she walks out she spots Jorgen's hovercar. She then slips into the hanger and steals his power matrix so that she can power the crashed ship.
=== Chapter 16 ===
Spensa wakes up in the
=== Chapter 17 ===
The ship, which
=== Chapter 18 ===
Spensa
=== Chapter 19 ===
Spensa anxiously begins running to Alta Base. She enters the base and dashes to her ship, where the ground crew helps her into her ship and informs her that the rest of her flight went into the air nearly half and hour ago. She rises into the air, and speeds towards the battlefield as fast as safely possible, listening to her flight fight. When she nears the battle, she decelerated quickly by spinning around, Jorgen orders Spensa to help Morningtide, who is being trailed by Krell. Spensa head towards her, but sees that Morningtide was being followed by three, and is taken out before Spensa has time to do anything about it. Spensa starts to cry, by Jorgen tells her to grieve later and to get into defensive position. As Spensa tries to cover Bim, she herself picks up a tail, which she loses with by looping around debris. As Cobb is congratulating her, Bim spots a [[lifebuster]], and tells Cobb he can take it down, despite orders to leave it alone. Bim asks Spensa to help him take out the life buster, and she willingly agrees. As they approach the larger than usual bomber, four smaller Krell escort ships peel off of it. Cobb orders the two to fall back, but Bim instead charges up a long-range destructor. As he does so, the four guardian ships fire at him and his ship explodes. Spensa's ship began to spin and she nearly blacked out, but recovered. Soon afterwards, the Krell begin to fall back, and Jorgen asks the motionless Spensa if she is doing alright, then gets vocal confirmation of status from the rest of the cadets.
== Part Three ==
=== Interlude I-1 ===
Judy "[[Ironsides]]"
=== Chapter 20 ===
Spensa arrives late to class, noting the sense of wrongness she feels because of the death of Bim and Morningtide. After she walks over to Morningtide's model cockpit, she asks Freyja where the absent Kimmalyn is. Jorgen then stands up and reads some words from the DDF handbook regarding how Bim and Morningtide were models of bravery, which Spensa believes to be senseless. After Jorgen sits down, Cobb walks in and immediately tells the cadets to begin training. Spensa asks why he's ignoring the events of the previous day's battle, and they glare at each other until Kimmalyn enters. Spensa notices that Cobb thought she'd given up, and admires Kimmalyn's strength. Spensa gives a speech, beginning with the phrase "claim the stars." When she finishes, she notes that the sensors in her helmet are warm, and Cobb tells her that the medical staff believes they can determine if she will be a coward based on the readings they received.
=== Chapter 21 ===
As the diodes in Spensa's helmet cool, Cool runs the cadets through maneuvers without pause for hours to take their minds off of what occurred the day before. Afterwards, the cadets engage in friendly banter, although Hurl ignores Spensa, they way she has since Jorgen revealed Spensa's identity. Talking with FM, Spensa learns that the girl is a [[Disputer]], a person who objects to the way the government conduct society. As she walks out, she sees that Cobb is rewatching footage from the battle the day before. When Cobb notices, he compliments her flying, and gives her a personal radio so that he will be able to contact her in the event of Krell incursions. Afterwards, Spensa asks him why he doesn't fly, and he discloses that he finds it difficult to do so since having shot down her father. After insisting that her father wasn't a coward, Spensa asks what happened at the [[Battle of Alta]] in actuality. Not meeting her eyes, Cobb tells her the information written in the official report, but when she presses further, he refuses to confirm its veracity. Cobb then sends Spensa away when she asks further questions, but she leaves knowing that she'd been right about her father.
=== Chapter 22 ===
Spensa lies underneath M-Bot, redoing the wiring and talking with Rig about the DDF's cover-up. Rig shows Spensa that M-Bot was constructed with components created with more precision, and that it should function better than any ships flown by the DDF. When Spensa inquires as to where Rig acquired the materials, he informs her that some schematics he drew of M-Bot were seen by his superiors at the Engineering Corps, and he is now given great leeway. M-Bot finishes conducting his diagnostic, while Rig and Spensa continue to discuss possible reason's for the slandering of her father. Soon, Rig tells Spensa that he should be able to get M-Bot in working condition as long as Spensa is able to acquire a new booster. Afterwards, Spensa uses M-Bot's cleansing unit to wash herself. Afterwards, M-Bot asks how he can trust her if she is willing to lie, and she responds that all beings have to live with that risk.
=== Chapter 23 ===
Cobb announces that the cadets have reached an acceptable level of skill with their maneuvers and light-lances, and declares they'll now be working with IMPs. After trying to talk to Hurl to no avail, Cobb asks her to explain the function of an IMP. Afterwards, the cadets practice getting near enough Krell ships to take out their shields without catching their wing mate in the pulse radius, and Spensa talked with Nedd about his life and the personal lives of the other cadets. She talks to Kimmalyn when M-Bots voice emits from her headset, and M-Bot tells her that he is able to easily access DDF communication lines, due to his nature as a stealth ship. Spensa's turn in the simulation comes up, and Cobb decides to make her run more difficult by adding another ship. She succeeds when she IMPs the target, but "dies" in the attempt. Cobb assigns more work and leaves for dinner. After the cadets finish the maneuvers, Spensa decides she needs a break and removes her helmet before lineup. Jorgen chastises her for disobeying orders, and insults her father. Spensa, furious, physically assaults Jorgen. Need convinces everyone to ignore the incident, but Spensa believes that Jorgen intends to exact revenge.
=== Chapter 24 ===
Spensa recalls other events when she'd lost control of her emotions and engaged in acts of physical violence. Eventually, she notes a faint buzzing emanating from her pack, which is revealed to be M-Bot patching into her radio, who asks about the Krell. Spensa futilely asks if M-Bot knows anything about human life before the Krell, and then heads to the Admiral's office to accept her punishment. She decides to wait to until the Admiral leaves her room to talk with her just before M-Bot plays the[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvořák) New World Symphony]. The Admiral leaves, and Spensa attempts to confess but Jorgen, who was talking to the admiral, interrupts. When she tells him of her plan, he tells her he isn't going to turn her in because he wouldn't want to lose another pilot. At this point, Spensa confesses that she stole his power matrix, and he reveals he hadn't even suspected her. Jorgen finally leaves, and Spensa realizes she considers his actions somewhat noble.
=== Chapter 25 ===
Spensa straps herself into a real Poco with the rest of Skyward flight for the first time since the battle where Bim and Morningtide perished. Not knowing the reason, they head to specified coordinates and see several more flights in the air above them. As debris began to rain down from above, Cobb tells the cadets that they're present both to watch for Krell and to practice formations while tagging debris for salvage to investigate. Spensa begins working, and M-Bot taps into her headset soon afterwards. AFter Kimmalyn snipes three pieces of debris in quick succession, Spensa ask Cobb why they don't use her to snipe the Krell, and he responds that the Krell swarm any pilot who poses too serious a threat. When Cobb leaves the line, Spensa notes a Krell incursion, but he claims that the senior pilots will be able to handle it. The cadets continue to tag the debris, and Spensa asks M-Bot for information about the battle. After one of the pilots fighting the Krell enters a death spiral with ejecting, M-Bot finds the video feed for the battle. Suddenly, a ship with hundreds of acclivity rings decays out of orbit and sprawls across the sky, creating a massive shadow. The cadets increase their speed to move away, but are followed by a number of Krell. Spensa draws a Krell ship towards her, and after looping to generate some distance between the two, the ship is shot down from afar by Kimmalyn. The flight forms a defensive position, and M-Bot reports to Spensa that the Krell are attempting to prevent the humans from obtaining the starship. When two DDF fighters pass by, followed by a sizable group of Krell, Nedder breaks formation to chase the Krell. Spensa follows Nedd, and the two ships enter the falling starship, pursued by the Krell, Nedd, and Spensa.
=== Chapter 26 ===
Spensa flies through the falling ship, accelerating to catch up to Nedd. Using their comms, the two cadets form and begin a plan to IMP the group of Krell.. Soon, M-Bot announces that the ship they are flying through will hit the ground. Spensa light-lances an unwilling Nedd and pulls him back, and then follows M-Bots directions on how to escape. As they near the exit, the Krell detonate explosive charges, and Spensa learns from M-Bot that they won't escape the blast radius at their current speed. Both Spensa and Nedd accelerate as quickly as possible, narrowly escaping. Afterwards, Jorgen scolds Spensa, and she informs him that Nedd began the chase. Upon learning the name of the flight of the two pilots they chased, Jorgen tells Spensa that they were Nedd's brothers.
=== Chapter 27 ===
=== Chapter 28 ===
== Part Four ==
=== Interlude I-2 ===
=== Chapter 30 ===
=== Chapter 31 ===
=== Chapter 32 ===
=== Chapter 33 ===
=== Chapter 34 ===
=== Chapter 35 ===
=== Chapter 36 ===
=== Chapter 37 ===
=== Chapter 38 ===
=== Chapter 39 ===
=== Chapter 40 ===
=== Chapter 41 ===
=== Chapter 42 ===
=== Chapter 43 ===
=== Chapter 44 ===
=== Chapter 49 ===
=== Chapter 50 ===
=== Chapter 51 ===
=== Chapter 52 ===
=== Chapter 53 ===
Ironsides observes in the command center as Terrier, flightleader of Riptide Flight, announces that the
Spensa attaches the bomb to her ship via light-lance and flies away at full speed, far faster than any normal DDF ship, as the bomb's timer counts down, hoping to get it out of the death zone before time runs out. M-Bot notes that even though they can get it out of range in time, they themselves will get caught in the blast. Spensa is calm and feels as though she is part of the ship's processors. As the countdown reaches its final seconds, M-Bot lists off his functions. Just before the bomb explodes, M-Bot's systems report the presence of a "biological component" and that the cytonic hyperdrive is now functional. He tells Spensa to engage that system, and she utilizes her cytonic abilities, sending the two away from the explosion.
=== Chapter 55 ===
Spensa thinks to herself that choosing to fly through the hole is an unwise decision, but she feels an intense need to see what is up there. As they continue going upwards, she realizes that the debris fields are really a series of organized platforms. They eventually see a space station and some boxy Krell ships, and Spensa realizes that she can hear their communication, sent through the nowhere-place she can sense, and wonders if they know about the dangers of using it. M-Bot tells her that they are also using normal communications that he can decipher. Suddenly, Spensa is hit by something, and realizes that the Krell are trying to overwrite her vision. M-Bot engages his stealth and jamming system, and the sensation goes away. She tells M-Bot about the defect that she has, and that she thinks her father turned traitor on his flight because the Krell made him think that they were dead and that he was shooting at Krell ships
== Epilogue ==
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