[Project Wingman] Pixy vs Crimson 1

Happy 1 year anniversary Project Wingman :)

BGM: Zero (Ace Combat Zero), Galm 2 (Ace Combat Zero)
Difficulty: Mercenary
Modifiers: None

Mods used:

[thatonedude]

4:06 _"Monarch. You use the name of a King, but what do you rule over? The dead?! The Federation fought for peace in this war, and you denied them that!"_
*_"While you're up here 'fighting for peace', tons of blood is being shed on the ground. Some peace, kid."_*
_"How dare-"_
*_"You're still yapping, aren't you? That tells me you're fine."_*

[FurnaxIkki]

Crimson 1: "How's it feel to not have borders?"

Pixy (later): "And I took that personally."

[kaffykathy]

POV: You are a veteran of a war against your own country; a Mercenary with a past mostly forgotten by time. A war that ended with the nation you were born from launching nuclear missiles on their own land out of mad desperation.

You nearly did the same too, wiped the whole slate clean in your own anger at the pointlessness of this war. Only you didn't, because you were stopped by the only pilot that was just as good as you, and humbled you. Your old buddy, your past Wingman. And it probably stung the both of you once it was over.

After much soul searching, You decide to join with a PMC group to undo those mistakes. You join in the liberation of... Wait, something seems familiar...

As the war goes on, things started to decline. Old scars start opening up. Your new wingmen can barely keep up with you, but you will do anything to keep them alive. Soon you find yourself defending Presidia, soon a truce was in effect but everything feels uneasy for you. You already know how this is going down.

And then it happens. Crimson 1, twisted by is own hatred towards you, does what you couldn't. He wiped the city back to zero.

You're no longer in Casscadia anymore. You're back at Avalon Dam. The red snow of a nuclear winter begins to kick up.

Memories of blue skies and a familiar call signs mock you as they dance in your head. You're no longer Hitman 1, you're a man fighting some corrupt reflection of his own past actions.

You are Solowing Pixy.

[ImmaLittlePip]

Pixy: Who are you?
Crimson: I'm you just off my meds

[yousseftamer]

Pixy just refutes every argument Crimson 1 comes up with, damn.

[challacustica]

Pixy has had a crazy life. First he fights in the Belkan war. He gets taken down by his friend. He atones for his sins in Cascadia, over the burning ruins. Then he's reunited with his friend yet again, many years later on the distant planet of Rubicon, when their planes have arms and legs. He's just happy to fight alongside with his 'buddy' again.

[SundanceMLD]

“You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves.”
Holy shit; Pixy you didn’t have to speak such raw facts like that.

[mpcrauzer]

This fight was Pixy redemption on the purgatory

[rhysthereddragon]

This genuinely feels like it could be actually part of the story. Pixy could have took up flying again in some point in the future, joined up with another mercenary corp, took a new codename, Monarch, to distance himself from his past, along with rarely ever speaking, and started fighting in another war.

Then, he starts encountering Crimson 1, and starts seeing vestiges of his past self in the man. Probably gets some old wounds opened up in the process. By himself, he sort of contemplates it all, seeing the similarities, as well as the differences. To our ol’ buddy Pixy, Crimson 1 is like a twisted reflection of himself, and that reflection only distorts more with each meeting, until...it happens. Crimson 1 succeeds where Pixy failed.

With that, all the gloves come off, and Pixy starts to speak up, not only making comparisons, but picking at Crimson 1’s ego, giving the “ace” a few life lessons. He’s the only one around to hear, so why should Pixy care? It comes down to a man who went down this road and came back, and a vision of what he would become if he went too far. Pixy takes down Crimson 1, maybe wondering if this is how Cipher felt when they fought, and as Crimson 1 goes down, his last words followed by a massive explosion, Pixy goes quiet, likely reflecting on the fact he fought a man who was similar to himself, and won...conquering his demons. The Pixy of the past is gone, and in his place, is a Monarch.

Maybe sometime later, he’d get involved in another conflict, still looking for the meaning behind “borders”, and encounter Galm Team, fighting on the same side...and maybe, just maybe, he’d hail their ace pilot with a familiar phrase.

*“Yo, Buddy...still alive?”*

[alphaperfect]

Meanwhile Diplomat:
"Shut up! Nobody asked! Do you think I care enough to listen to both of you?! Just shut up and fight!"

[Exilir]

Good use of Crimson 1's "How dare!?-" voice line when Dip' lashes back at him.

[astrofox]

4:06 Love how Pixy rips into Crimson with this dialogue

[nexuslord]

I like to think when Pixy yelled “C’mon!” it was less to himself and more to Crimson.

Like “You did all this for your country, you’ve got more in you, don’t just die now!”

[backgroundcharacterj]

Took the meaning of die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain and flipped it

[NuclearFalcon]

Nice to see an alternate flavor of this duel. Raptor Elite's version with Kings and one with Zero. Also this time with Pixy's actual plane.

[strix]

Even without his iconic laser Canon, pixy still win

[xavi-kun]

Pixy and Crimson 1…
The Mercenary and the Soldier…
One fought to upend the status quo…
The other fought to preserve it…

And while one failed to set the skies alight…

The other succeeded…

[WaffleCopter]

It's so satisfying to have a crossover fight where the conversation fits in how Pixys replies make sense to the situation. Really good work here to replay watching to

[beefstroganoff]

all of the pixy vs crimson videos were made because crimson 1 said "borders" once

[bendickinson]

I occasionally come back and rewatch this just to hear Pixy tell Crimson-1 "Crash where I can't see."
Just the the sickest BM.