mpbt16 ligaya bombers

Blasts rocked the floor, filling the Bishop Witch's ears with the sound of whistling, explosions and cracking marble. The Bishop Witch picked herself up from the floor and raised her head, urging her allies to rise with a shrill, rousing cry. The noise of the blasts soon subsided, but only to be replaced with the roar of B-17G Flying Fortresses. An entire squadron of twenty-four heavy bombers appeared flying on the deck at just over three-thousand feet, parting the clouds of dust and smoke with their powerful engines. Aboard the bomber at the center of the formation were the three Puella Magi they had hoped to fight. They were going to be flown over.

Audrey, Michi and Ligaya watched the Witches down below them from the wide-windowed cockpit. They could see the Witches looking skywards, taken aback by the low-flying planes. It was an attack run.

At the Filipina's command, the bristling batteries of forward-mounted M2 Browning machineguns of the B-17G squadron fired. They fired an overwhelming hail of bullets that tore into the unprepared ranks of the Witches on their approach, pinning a handful of the pawns to the chessboard floor.

As those pawns struggled to rise back up to their feet again, those twenty-four B-17G bombers finally flew overhead with their bomb hatches opened. The downed pawns looked up to see thousand-pound bombs falling from the hatches and into their battered ranks. A sea of fire promptly consumed those pawns and incinerated them where they lay.

(Magia, Pacem, Bellum Terarrum, Chapter 16)