As her targets began to fall out of the sky, Natasha was about to prepare for an attack on the remaining two Tu-95s. Meteor and Border Boy's planes soon came into view, the Jaguar and Phantom on an attack run. Soon two missiles came streaking from the Jaguar, downing one of the remaining Bears. Natasha decided to leave the last one to Border Boy as he approached, and throttled up to assist with the remaining Tu-22Ms. They were all downed before she got there, though, and it was then that the disturbing AWACS order change scythed through the airwaves. Natasha desperately wanted to do something, but the XB-70 was out of her plane's league and she was powerless to intercept it, as was everyone else. Wrestling with her own emotions, she threw the plane into a high-G turn and hit the afterburner once she was pointed towards the bay. To her left she saw Romeo's A7 climbing with whatever it had left; it didn't look like much, judging by how much black smoke was pouring out of the back. As her own MiG-23, in significantly better condition, rapidly sped up to over Mach 2 and away from the predicted nuclear blast, she had many thoughts in her head - things like [i]there must have been something we could have done[/i], [i]we should have figured out that the bombers were drones...[/i], and [i]When/if we land, Romeo had better be given a new aircraft[/i]. As she pulled away from the rest of Peace Sparrow, having the highest top speed, she fervently hoped that everyone would make it out. She didn't want to lose her entire squadron again.