Enter the danger zone!

After taking down those first line of defense fighters, next came the real challenge. You were all going in behind enemy lines to help the bombers carry out the ****. That meant watching out for battery fire along with the enemy fighters coming your way and those types of battles got hazardous real fast, laser, missles, and other explosions nearly clouding your vision, leaving you nearly blind in the chaos as you flew this way and that. You were left with a few moments of calm before a blast went off.

Looks like someone tried to take you down again.

You wasted no time in retaliating, swerving out of the way, launching a seeking missile, and knocking the fighter out. More African fighters were coming in from the upcoming carrier, like hornets straight from the next protecting their queen. "Remember!" You told your team, "Those who win the dog fight win the day! Keep the bombers safe at all costs!"

"Yes, ma'am!" They said at once. All you had to do was keep those bombers safe then you'd all be heading back home tonight, chocolate in hand and drinks in the other. If you did your job good enough in the first half of this fight, you could help in disabling those pesky turrets on the carriers too and that would make the job go by much more smoothly. But that was if you guys managed to decrease the fighters numbers first.

Blasting another fighter out of the war zone, you said with stoic expression, "Pilot skills, don't fail me now."