While Ignacio and Kal-El continue to shoot down enemy planes, Benjamin and Noriaki spot the enemy battleship and begin providing recon about the enemy's position back to HQ. Although hesitant to use the students' reports at first, Admiral Melze is convinced by Nina that they are up for the job, and the two students are made temporary recon observers. Their accurate data is enough to get the Isla battleship's guns trained on the enemy battleship, but their plane is shot down in the process, with Benjamin losing his right hand before they bail out...