User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 305: Fairy Tactician, Review./@comment-5113042-20121028004048/@comment-3290324-20121028032744

These aren't humans. They are trained for battle and combat. They've received "shocks" much worse than this and reacted in much better time. You can't feed me that they are in "panic mode." Mashima just didn't have them flying because it wouldn't fit in with his plan for this arc. It's that simple.