It was obvious that, to a certain extent, people could never compete with machines.
Otherwise, the Oración Seis and the others wouldn't have tried every possible way to destroy the Blue Pegasus airship, the Christina, as soon as they learned of the four-guild alliance's plan.
Unfortunately, the Oración Seis' plot to destroy the airship had nearly succeeded. If only that troublesome little girl of a guild master hadn't been aboard the beautiful, Pegasus-shaped airship and brazenly seized the captain's position from its rightful occupant...
But there were no "ifs" in this world. The situation now was this:
The Christina was still intact, still flying arrogantly through the skies above Waas Forest, and that troublesome little girl of a guild master was still in command of the airship. Naturally, the Oración Seis' situation could only get worse and worse.
After one fellow who'd ridden a flying snake and tried to destroy the airship was blasted out of the sky by that troublesome little girl and rendered completely unable to fight, another powerful wizard—Racer, who was famed for his "speed" and had left Natsu and Gray unable to fight back—was once again engulfed by a sustained barrage of explosions. Badly wounded, he became a prisoner of the four-guild alliance and was locked in a cell aboard the Christina.
And just like that, the Oración Seis' original six powerful enemies had been reduced to four.
Of course, things weren't going all that well for the four-guild alliance, either...
The so-called strongest fire dragon in Fairy Tail, Natsu, and its strongest Ice-Make wizard, Gray, had been caught in that terrifying aerial bombardment. Like Erza before them, they'd been carried into the airship's infirmary in rather spectacular fashion, where they became roommates with her.
The result could have been worse. At least they were alive,