Dixie's Bloodhawk was the first to launch, tilting down out of the open belly hatch in the Zeppelin's hangar, before the launcher's clamps released, the sudden jolt also causing the Bloodhawk's engine to roar to life, its propellers pushing the plane towards the clouds below the Zeppelin, just in time to spot the two PR-1 Defenders that had broken away from the Ridge's port flank.<br/><br/>Both hostile planes were barely out of the clouds, their green paint marking them clearly for Dixie's gunsights.<br/><br/>Less than a minute Later, Aime's Devastator was Also released from the Bowels of the Blue Ridge, the Biplane's lighter nose allowing the Devastator to pitch up faster than the Bloodhawk, giving the Louisianan a perfect view of the bright red glow to the Starboard side of the ship, the incoming aerial torpedo still relatively far away, but creeping closer as seconds ticked by.<br/><br/>Alec's Avenger was released seconds after the Devastator, the heavy fighter dropping fast towards the clouds and the first pair of PR-1s, looking like a hulking great green bird of prey aiming for an unsuspecting rat.<br/><br/>Finally, Maxwell's damaged Raven was dropped out, the engine starting cleanly, letting the agile fighter whip around as the pilot chose.<br/><br/>The PR1 Defenders, for whatever reason known only to the gods themselves, maintained their courses, as if none of them knew about the four hungry fighters that were ready to pounce upon them like a lion would pounce on a haunch of meat.