Alarm Clock

Alarm Clock is a mission in Ace Combat: Joint Assault.

Plot
Having discovered the true nature of the Golden Axe Plan, Fredric Burford and the Antares Squadron defect from Martinez Security, planning to travel to the United States to stop Olivieri Life Insurance's plot. The team uses a transport ship to travel to an abandoned airbase at Midway Island, where they plan to resupply for their journey to America.

Early during June 10, Burford briefs Antares on the circumstances of their mission. The briefing session is interrupted by an attack from members of the Golden Axe Plan, who intend to kill them to prevent them from intervening.

Antares takes off from the base just as Golden Axe aircraft launch an attack on Midway. With Burford's AWACS Canopus unable to take off, the mercenaries fend off the attackers. Their flight operator detects a massive radar signal belonging to an Orgoi airship, the same type shot down in Tokyo, which prepares for a bombing run. They protect Canopus from the incoming reinforcements and destroy the Orgoi's vital systems, causing the ship to explode.

After the Orgoi event, a flotilla of supply ships arrive from the east, which soon come under fire from a second Orgoi. Disabling its weapon bays, Antares saves the ships from destruction, only for a third airship to attack Canopus. The aircraft join and synchronize each other in formation, but are ultimately shot down.

The loss of the two Orgois results in the destruction of the Golden Axe Plan strikeforce. Burford learns from the supply flotilla that the Golden Axe private army intends to attack San Francisco, the home to Olivieri Life Insurance's headquarters, and reports of enemy movement in an abandoned airport near Nevada.