Jay had managed to get most of the fighters of his tail but one very persistent pirate kept chasing him, as he dodged it's weapons he saw Valian's ship and was about to contact him for assistance when a bolt hit the fighter behind him, he quickly found out it was Cy above them taking out fighters with his ships weapons. He was grateful for the assist of course but he silently wished that the team was a little more coordinated between them, they might be able to handle these pirates like this but fighting a more competent enemy such as XRF regulars, Imperial forces, or even the Illyrian armada might prove to much.

Regardless, with the fighter off of him he made for the anchors again with the intention of detaching the rest...or leaving one as John's message asked, though before he could, in a moment of terrible luck and timing he wound up between the Valis's ship and one of the fighters it was aiming at, the bolt went straight through his ship on it's way to it's target shorting most of his systems and sending him careening toward the pirate's cruiser, the effect wasn't as drastic as if he was the intended target and he got his forward shield powered back up before hitting the hull and breaking through. several pieces of debris and a few pirate crewmembers were vented out of the resulting hull breach before a secondary bulkhead closed to seal it.

Jay pulled himself up with a groan, grimacing at a pain in his side "[color=9e0b0f]just wonderful[/color]" he murmured, he tried contacting the others but found his comm unit was still dead. he sighed, pulled out his pistol and slowly climbed out of his fighter's cockpit, looking around for any of the pirates.