Holy Diver looked out the airplane window to see their support forces already engaged with the enemy, fighting in the town below. The Russians had provided armoured support, which was rolling through the fields, pelting the houses with fire while artillery on both sides tried to get a hit on the other. A militia column of tanks was rolling from the north, ready to engage their allies. "I didn't expect a whole battle down there" she told Freya, as an American drone started raining fire on some hard targets, before being taken out by an anti-air missile. "Pilot, avoid the firing range of those SAMs, we´ll land when we have air superiority.

As the Mei circled around the battlefield at a safe distance, their sensors detected aircraft. "Friendly?" she asked the pilot. "Enemy bogeys! Bound for our position! Sit down and buckle up. Midoriya, what weapons are on board?" Midoriya walked over to the co-pilot seat, switching on a nifty helmet that assembled itself and connecting it to a cable.

"We´ve got flares, chaff, implosion missiles and a capture net for giant villains." "Not exactly a fighter, this plane, but it´ll do." The pilot, a Japanese kid they had picked at the airbase, Airman Tanikaze, punched the throttle and pulled on the flight stick, taking them up. "Midoriya, I´m going to try and lose them with altitude. Tell me what kind of planes they are."

Midoriya looked at a screen with an array of data that Holy Diver had no idea how to understand, and answered "MiGs, latest model, air superiority fighter configuration." "Tough bastards, we need to be nimble to survive this!" The plane aimed its nose to the sun, the viewscreen darkening to the light. At the speed the Mei could go, they could outrun the pursuers with enough clear skies, but the radar gave them another warning "Two more bogeys on intercept path! Three more ready to flank us!"

"Pestilentia has the goddamn air force in his pocket?" she asked no one in particular as the G-force built inside the plane to "roller coaster on a 20-meter drop" level. "I´m taking it vertical!" Alarms pierced the air "Missiles!" said Midoriya in fear. "The countermeasures, now!" Izuku pressed buttons on the co-pilot´s stick anxiously, and they heard three explosions, one after the other, each one a bit closer. "The fourth missile is still there! Its turning!" One of the fighters was manipulating it manually!

"Flares and chaff will not work with this one, we have to outrun it, outmanoeuvre it!" yelled Tanikaze from the pilot´s chair. The G-force increased, around Toga and Freya formed bubble helmets filled with some sort of foam padding, from the collars Hatsume had provided. Anna had her own helmet, as did Midoriya and Tanikaze. "Himiko, connect to the plane!" Small tubes dangled from the ceiling to give everyone pressurized oxygen inside their helmets. When everyone plugged in, Tanikaze purged the atmosphere, making the plane lighter.

The missile was seconds away. The G-force increased with the speed. "I´ll have to do the Cobra, the missile accelerates faster than the plane!" "What the fuck´s the Cobra?" asked Anna. "Just close your eyes and try not to puke. Midoriya, fire an implosion missile on my mark!" Anna closed her eyes, and then felt her stomach lurch inside her as the world moved everywhere at once. She heard the sound of a vacuum sucking in the air outside the cabin at a frighteningly close distance, and then the alarms stopped. "We are out their range. It would take them minutes to reach us here." "We´ve got a message from the USAF, friendly fighters are in the area, armour destroyed Anti-Air defences. We can land!"

Tanikaze took the plane back, as the fighters from both sides zoomed by, fully engaged in furious dogfighting. Below, it seemed the allies were pushing the enemy back, winning for the moment. And Russian reinforcements were already on the way, a VDV battalion in helicopters.

"Breach and clear. Midoriya, take Toga and clear the lower levels. Freya and I will sweep the top and prevent reinforcements from reaching you." The pilot hovered over the school and shot two implosion missiles, one at the roof and one at the yard, opening a pair of meter-wide holes. "Feet first into hell, Izu-Izu?" asked Toga to her boyfriend. Before the boy had time to answer, Freya had walked over to the platform "All the way, oorah!"

Then the Shieldmaiden jumped down through the first opening, her armour already blasting music. "Your girlfriend got my helljumper reference, General Bitchface, you have taste!" said Toga as Izuku jumped with her piggybacking on him. "Ughh, why didn't I get super Quirks that stop legs from breaking?" she said as she fast roped into the building.