"All aircraft, this is Lioness, Excalibur One. We are cleared for takeoff on Runway 2. Follow me for fast-taxi to takeoff. We will take off in tactical formation, paired on the runway. Climb to Angels 10 and match my heading until we get direction from AWACS to intercept bandits. Let's go, over"

"It's go time!" Miyoshi said to herself, and edged her Foxbat out of its parking space and into taxi formation behind Excalibur One. She quickly noticed that her albino twin, Excalibur Six, was following and pulled up next to her on the runway. She looked over and gave him a quick salute before powering up her engines for takeoff. After rotating with the rest of the squadron and climbing to 10,000 feet, she said "Excalibur Five leveled at angels ten" along with the rest. The AWACS "Overwatch" came on the comm and immediately after came the confident voice of Excalibur One, instructing her and Excalibur Six to intercept the just-launched cruise missiles. "Roger, Excalibur One," she responded simply. "Moving to intercept."

Before Miyoshi could call out to her fellow interceptor, he beat her to the buzzer. ''Excalibur 5, this is Excalibur 6. I take the primary missile, you deal with the secondary. Deal, over." "10-4, Excalibur Six. Moving to splash secondary, over," she responded, and immediately inverted and nosed hard left and up (down), letting her lighter and more maneuverable airframe work its magic. Taking care to not go too low until she had to to maintain airspeed, she leveled out a fair amount above the missiles, having gained a huge amount of airspeed in her steep dive. Looking out of her canopy, she spotted Excalibur Six leveling out in a more shallow dive and looked forwards again as she punched the afterburner, accelerating from her already very high rate of speed to well over Mach 3.

Before long the AESA radar picked out Miyoshi's target. Flicking her fire selector over to the Vympel K-77M, she initiated a shallow dive to get behind the missile, and was soon ready to fire. The missile would be easy pickings for the K-77M's Mach 4.5 cruising speed. Just then she gained missile lock, and depressed the trigger. The missile left its position on the wing and streaked towards its target as Miyoshi called out "Fox Three!", briefly looking over to Excalibur Six to check his progress.