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The two fighters ended up going just infront for a moment and quickly repositioned themselves dropping back to a poitn where they were alligned up right next to Kemono at both sides blocking his random zig zag patterns as best they could without crashing into Kemono at both sides. While now both holding him on a specificalyl set flight path with the two fighters the first fighter took its chance to fall back behind the three of them and gain altitude to be above them all.

The first fighter now had to make a move that would likely sacrifice the other two fighters. It began to relock its missles on Kemono though it had to make sure it locked on Kemono not the other fighters. That with a slower lockign system due to being hit by Kemono on his previouse attack made the lock even slower anyway, but with both fighters flying at both sides close to him they were planning on using that to by themselves time until the missles were ready, then it was down to timing if they held positions long enough.

Junichiro however sat quite interested in both Kemono and how he had made his AI fighters act. He thought to himself, ''Thats strange my AI fighters would usually never sacrifice or risk sacrificing eachother to brong down a single enemy...What an interesting development...'' Junichiro then began to think to himself judging the battle thus far and simply smiled as he was already impressed that Kemono could time and again formulate effective tactics in even the most intense heat of his battles and come out on top despite the odds being so clearly not in his favour, Junichiro chuckled to himself and resumed watching the impressive display of skill Kemono was putting on and was excited to see how he would get out of his current situation.

The fighter had to now push against Kemono's to keep him from escaping, the other had to then move in closer to try and stop the 2 of them moving off somewhere else. The first fighters missles had succesfulyl became armed and ready for use, though it was now down to Keono staying still long enough for the AI's locking system to get a chance to make a lock on before Kemono could find a way to escape. The fighter AI had to come up with a contingency plan incase he did escape since Kemono was full of little tricks that got him out of some dangerous situations.

The fighter had to sacrifice a little more time from the lock on to come up with creating a back up plan. The fighter however had an easy time keeping up with the other fighters since they were having the hardest time since Kemono had resorted to using his fighters as a battering ram to try and throw the 2 fighters off him, though he had seemed to be focusing on one more than the other as the other remained backed off a little as it had always done during this plan while the other was now locked in a power struggle for dominance in the lock between the fighters.

The desperate fighters made further miscalculatins as they only pinned Kemono from shaking away from them from the front, back and either side, they did not account for being able to escape from above Allowing Kemono to escape via that particular route. The ramming fighter eneded up ramming straight into the other fighter on the other side of Kemono and caused them both to take damage to both the main body of the fighters and the wings making them drop back to the first fighter that was locking missles. The first fighter managed to dip under them as they fell back and eventually pulling themselves away from one another and resuming following the first fighter though now very shakey in flight.

The first fighter now in front made a quick pull up under Kemono and fired two missles immediately as he came into firing range. The two missles fired towards the back of Kemono's fighter aiming for the engines as they were the easiest area to hit from the angle the fighter was placed in. The fighter had also fallen back consdierably from Kemono since it had to make a nose dive to evade the other two fighters, this meant the missles would take several crucial seconds to reach the engines and provide time for Kemono to think, though short the time granted is more welcome than not.

The turn Kemono made after being struck by one of the two missles was somewhat unexpected by the AI as they expected such a maneuver, but did not expect him to pilot well enough to avoid one rather than both as being hit by the two would have been very dangerous for Kemono to pull any stunts or sudden manuevers, but he had managed to save himself again. The fighters had to quickly react to this course of action ontop of the matter of the three of them now being assaulted by vollies of bullets again. If the fighters had learnt anything from this is that Kemono was very cunning and was prone to making risky moves to gain the edge over his opponents by throwing them off with almost suicidal manuevers.

To be on the safe side the two more heavily damaged pilots backed off leaving the first fighter that had more functional systems to combat with Kemono while the other two gained distance and began making preperations of their own while the first fighter kept Kemono at bay. The first fighter now played chicken with Kemono, the AI had logged information regarding some of his piloting skills and decided to experiment. The fighter kept its missles arms but disengaged the lock on Kemono since firing them while flying at Kemono would result in them both probably destroying eachother. The fighter instead began returning fire as it flew at maximum engine capacity, that it had left considering damage, and decided to set its flight course in a mirror image to that of Kemono's while exchanging fire, this however did mean the fighter recieved impacts from Kemono as it flew directly at him.

The gap between the fighter and Kemono grew smaller and smaller while they both exchanged barrages of bullets. The ship was only wavering because it was being hit, not because it was getting less time to move out of the way. The other two fighters were however still a short distance further behind the first fighter due to them being in worse condition than it was even after recieving the bullet impacts. However at the last few moments it had left to mvoe it acted peculiar, it haulted its firing and quickly began slowing its speed pulling up hard flying straight up and over Kemono, though once its whole body was out of the way the other two fighters had been revealed.

The two fighters immediately fired two missles from under each wing, this totaled eight missles in flight, though since it was a surprise attack they did not lock but relied on the short distance and fact they had set up an ambush up to try and catch him off guard with the sheer number of missles at once. Though risky for not just Kemono but the fighter that had recieved many bullet rounds flying over Kemono and that the two fighters that shot the missles quickly had to make hard turns left and right to try and recieve as little damage from either an impact on Kemono resulting in a large shock exlosion, or if they were shot down or even hit into eachother. Either way the ships had to quickly manuever away from what was soon to be a large blast radius.

Junichiro chuckled lightly to himself and quietly spoke to Sagittarius, ''Bring them aboared and retreive the fighters...'' The fortress spoke quietly back, ''As you wish captain''. The three damaged fighters made their way back to the hanger where upon landing metal limbs began unfolding from the walls and ceiling and began repairing them. The fortress however retrieved Kemono and his crashed ship bringing them up into the hanger once more.

((posts will resume in the hanger we were originally posting in, also you did well defeating the odds and holding you're own like that.))