Giga-Mishhu
The Giga-Mishhu certainly noticed the S6 fleet moving into a defensive position around the planet. It was already heading away from the system towards the Itano when the spread of weapons fire started coming towards it... the ship phasing out and disappearing to leave its smaller Kilo-mishhu escorts behind. The unguided and kinetic energy rounds had little chance of hitting at this extreme range, giving the NMX nearly a minute to dodge with no ability to track the target after they had been fired. With millions of kilometers to work with, the smaller NMX ships could remain at a safe distance for the time being.
Similarly, the S6 fleet was out of range, so long as they could maneuver there was little chance of the NMX weapons hitting their targets.
Unless of course, the target couldn't move.
A target that they'd still need to protect.
The Gigamishhu would phase back in, nose pointed towards the planet, firing off an extremely long range salvo towards the PsychoPomp base....
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Red Battlepods
As the Itano and her escorts moved to put themselves between the battlepods and the Araxie, the Red-battlepods started to break off. They had gone far enough, having escorted their payload of the bulbous battlepods to an appropriate target. The red battlepods would turn around and head right back towards Alex. The pods themselves would start launching their own mini missiles, targeting Alex's projectiles.
The dozen pods then grouped themselves into units of two, one lead fighter than took aim at Alex, looking to fly by him as close as possible, their main weapon firing out a thin strand of high speed metal, the 6 pods creating a lace pattern around Alex while each pod's wingman held back slightly to cover their flight lead.
"Kyaaaa!" Mikali cried, firing an EMP burst from Alex's mecha at the battlepods' missile volleys. Each mini-missile sputtered and tumbled out of control as their guidance systems were fried, rendered useless and flying drunkenly, flying right past the projectiles they were intending to hit and giving the battlepods minimal time to evade. The leading battlepods would only have a few moments for their wingmen to shoot down the incoming projectiles with their own metal lace. One battlepod erupting into a brilliant blue fireball, while another four started trailing smoke.
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Grey Battlepods
The grey battlepods would continue forward, not seeming to mind losing a few to Alex's missiles. First they would charge through the massive swarm of missiles the Itano released, impossibly bright flashes going off as the swarm of defensive missiles impacted the swarm of attack pods.... the smaller number of ships getting through would be moving along with a giant cloud of expanding debries
Even fewer would get past Indigo squadron, their gunpods and missile launchers taking a further toll on the thousands upon thousands of battlepods.
By the time the cloud of debries and pods reached the ships it was getting hard to pick targets. The Itano would move between the cloud and the Araxie, while the C5 drones would move out in front, their lasers spreading out to swat down incoming targets.
As the cloud began to impact the ships' shields, so too did the battlepods. The first one slamming into the side of the Itano's barrier with a blinding flash of light.... more would soon follow, more than a dozen battlepods hitting their targets in the span of a fraction of a second. 4 of the 5 C5 craft had been cored, while the Itano herself now had a perfectly burnt hole right through the lower radiator.