After bolting from the warehouse to the transport planes, Akiba once again decided to forgo reaching the ground once deployed, and was once again suited in the Mark 1 Rodan gear. From his angle, supposedly safe far above the attacking Kaiju, Akiba couldn't really see where the Kaiju touched ground, and their appearance was confusing enough as it is. There was no way for Akiba to tell whether or not the pixellated Kaiju were hovering or sliding along the ground some way, so it wasn't obvious whether or not Akiba was safe up there.

It also seemed like Cia was having trouble getting through the ghosts surrounding Pac-Man, so there was really no time like the present to test his limits. While flying circles around the kaiju, Akiba dipped down to aim the cannon at the ghosts before dipping up again.