Barring a few mid-air fuelings, a whole bunch of nothing happens while you make your flight across the ocean. Eventually, the Mercanan AWACS makes contact with you.
AWACS: "Mjolnir Flight, this is Oracle. Good to see you. Be advised, we've picked up a single plane about 30 klicks away from your location that's giving us loads of trouble. We believe it's
General Tlacelel's plane.
Misfit flight is currently engaging him, patching you through to their comms now."
1-2: "I can't seem to land a hit on him, my missiles keep exploding before they even get near. Snake Eyes, keep that damn laser on him."
1-5: "I
am, he's carrying some kind of point-defense module!"
AWACS: "Misfit 1-5 you are spiked 40 times over, get out of there!"
1-5: "Forty- what?"
1-1: "Ark's exhaust,
look at all of them. Snake, drop flares and break right, I'll cross over behind you and see if I can't spoof a few more of them."
AWACS: "Good flares, I repeat, good flares, I'm reading 38 missiles have gone for the bait."
1-5: "I- I can't shake these last tw- I'M HIT"
1-4: "Quit your bellyaching, you're still in the air."
1-5: "...I am? Oh wow, I
am. Uhh, TAG's been knocked out though, and I'm out of missiles."
1-1: "Then return to base, you're a sitting duck up here with no flares left. Bomber, Iris, you're with me, we're going to hit him with our guns."
1-5: "Understood, good luck up there."
1-1: "Let's see his point defense shoot down hot lead coming in at mach-"
*STATIC*1-3: "What the hell was that."
1-4: "His roosterpit just
exploded!"
1-2: "Does anyone see a chute?"
AWACS: "Negative, no chute."
1-4: "Oh man, TAG is gone, Hawk is gone, our missiles can't hit him, if we try to use guns we explode, what do we
do?"
AWACS: "Misfit 1-2, pull your men together. You are in command now."
1-2: "I never asked for this. Alright, Bomber, Iris, we're going to keep him distracted and hope we can keep him off our dockyards until those allied planes can arrive."
1-4: "Ark preserve us if his help shows up."
AWACS: "Not to worry, 1-4, Mjolnir Flight is entering the AO. Stand by."