The stillness of the skies was suddenly shattered when the airwaves lit up with piercing static. Soon after, almost predictably, Miyoshi's radar warnings blared and, amidst Ariella's damage callout, Miyoshi jammed her stick up and right to avoid the assailing aircraft's initial attack. With her head on a swivel, she caught glimpses of them: judging by their speed, agility and general profile it seemed likely they were UCAVs. Whatever they were, they had Excalibur's number.

It was time to put Massao to the test, though at this point it was less about racking up kills than not getting shot down. So far, Miyoshi and her Foxbat succeeded, darting and weaving in and out of the darting and weaving UCAVs, who would not quit. Miyoshi tried to draw a bead on one of them in hopes of taking it out, but it became too risky so she went back to simply surviving (with the occasional salvo from the cannon at They had to get out of the UCAV hornet's nest immediately, but she couldn't just hit the afterburner and fly into the horizon. Although her modified MiG-25 had a significantly higher top speed than...well, pretty much anything else there, it wasn't fast enough to outrun the inevitable barrage of missiles that would be sent furiously towards the navy blue and grey MiG as soon as it attempted an escape.

At this point Miyoshi was watching for Ariella to suddenly break and head for the hills, at which time Miyoshi would follow suit. For now though, she was stuck trying to survive against the midst of UCAVs that were out for blood.