[b][color=00a651]Fuka Nakano[/color][/b]

Her chandelle had been a hasty manuever performed to buy her time without expectation of a successful escape. Peacenik assumed that if someone had been entrusted with a fancy-supertech stealth fighter they were good enough to stay on her tail. Shifting into the long, climbing turn would only break missile lock, give her a chance to think. After that she was back in the fire. 

[quote=@Damo021]
[color=00aeef] "Cobalt 6, Fox 2" [/color]
[/quote]

Valkyrie came in swinging, her wild haymaker of a missile launch missing its target but forcing him away. Good. Great, actually, a better result than she hoped for. With a second bandit hounding him he'd find it hard to recover his momentum, a problem Fuka could commiserate with. They had the same problem: flying a big, heavy craft while trying to outmaneuver someone throwing much less weight around.  

In the time it took for the Titan to get a lock Peacenik had already come out of her turn, tilting the Black Bunny to provide a smaller cross-section as she activated the usual countermeasures. Flares and chaff spread out behind her as she continued, showing no more concern than if she had just merged onto a particularly tricky section of highway.

[color=00a651] "Thanks for the assist, Valk. Heartbreak, good copy. Trusting you to not get me killed." [/color]

Turning her back on an enemy while they were still alive made the hairs on the back of Fuka's neck stand up, but what could she do? If two ace pilots weren't enough of a distraction to keep the rival gun-for-hire busy she might as well've pulled out her pistol and ejected her brains across the cockpit. 

[color=00a651] "Cobalt 8, 9, I'm coming in. Stagger your shots, we'll catch them in a buckshot pattern." [/color]

[color=6ecff6][b]Ximena Huang[/b][/color]

The aqua-tailed prick flinched once Ximena got them in her gunsights, Jefe snarling in savage glee as her opponent was forced to abandon their original plan. Strike Eagles were a touch faster than La Catrina, yes, but that wasn't everything. There wasn't enough of a power gap between the systems to make up for a skill and positioning gap, and Ximena was ahead in both categories. 

[color=6ecff6] "Where the fuck do you think you're going?" [/color] she hailed, well-aware that the Titan wasn't any more likely to respond than her peers, but so high on adrenaline she didn't care. [color=6ecff6] "You're not sneaking out of this!" [/color]

She essentially copied Miss Blue's maneuver, overshooting the Silent Eagle while lurching La Catrina's nose in tandem with the enemy. A minute earlier the burst of laserfire might have caught Ximena off-guard but now that she knew energy weapons were on the field? Not a chance. She dipped low in the midst of her swing-round, beams of light lancing over her head. A stray shot hit, but at an oblique angle, scorching the seabird's underbelly. La Catrina didn't even shudder, the massless bolt singing through the stealth-coated skin and into the air intake. 

[b][i][color=000000]“Minor damage sustained.”[/color][/i][/b]

[color=6ecff6] "I noticed babe! Don't worry." [/color]

Had it been a straight-on shot the injury would have been catastrophic. But Ximena understood laser technology, knew the upsides and downsides and how it worked. Moving at an angle forced the light to reflect awkwardly, wasting some of its thermal energy. Instead of destroying her intake Miss Blue had only damaged it, and not overmuch at that. La Catrina was pulling to one side due to inefficient engine thrust but a quick glance at the HUD told Jefe she hadn't lost any of her electronics or weapons. There was no fuel leakage, no fires to extinguish, only a bitch to put down.

[quote=@Finetales]
[color=lightcoral]"Fox Two"[/color]
[/quote]

Calico had the same brainwave, Ximena watching as three missiles streaked out in search of fresh meat. A second later Peacenik joined in with a Fox call of her own, and then a second after that-

[color=6ecff6] "Fox 2, Miss Blue. ¡Métetelo por el culo!" [/color]
 
She didn't know if Calico spoke Spanish but Peacenik probably knew a bit-

[color=00a651] "Cobalt 9, keep the commentary to yourself." [/color]

Yep.

[@Finetales] [@Rhona W]