Movement Nine: Breakout
Location: Frontier Command
"General offensive commencing, confirmed." Silence is broken by Commander Specter, who is monitoring the court via UAV. What can be seen on the screen of terminal controller is outside the District Count of Tokyo, everything can be broken is broken, everyone can escape had already escaped, only a M2 and a M1A1 are pouring out their firepower unilaterally. "Activate jamming system." As Price commands, roofs of five tall buildings situated respectively in Ginza, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Odaiba and Hibiya District begins to vibrate, those are vibrations of high-power jamming devices which just put online. The top floors of each building had been rented by Kotonoha's father in names of different briefcase companies half a month earlier and were installed with those equipments. Now they are emitting extremely powerful interference waves to entire capital sector.
"What's going on? You're attacked by Americans?" "We're…retreat…" "What? Say it again!" "We…we…can't…we can't…" "We're under powerful jamming!" In the Tokyo Downtown Police Command, which takes the commanding role from paralyzed Tokyo Police Command HQ, every communication frequency, every headphone are "filled with sand", unable to send or receive a clear word. "Switch to wire link." "Optical cables are sabotaged! We're completely cut off!" "How can this happen…" Two kilometers away, Captain Won drops radio detonator, his sunglasses reflect smoke generated by a series of small-scale explosion and Tokyo Police Command HQ which had already been messed up. "We located jamming sources! Inside multiple structures of different districts!" "Cut off their power supply!" Five districts are cut off from central power grid, all neon lights and air-conditions that never stop no matter the season and weather, now cease functioning, but like laughing at those stupid enforcers, jamming devices are still running at full efficiency, for they have backup power generators and cooling systems. "Check out what's inside!" Some securities attempt to break inside top floors, but can't proceed due to the passageways to destinations are well barricaded. Traffics are down, communications are down, policemen are in a miserable condition, although exhausted by fighting a way through "hardened" roads, they're still crawling to Tokyo Police Command HQ to answer the initial distress signals. No reinforcements are sent to District Count of Tokyo, which needs help the most.
Location: District Count of Tokyo
With a loudly sound of an external explosion, courtroom trembles as if hit by earthquake, some ash of lime drifts down from ceiling. "Is that an earthquake?" The courtroom just received hazard warning, still unprepared for it. "No! This is an explosion!" Okamura is smart enough to recognize what is happening: "Quick! Take the defendant away!" "Yes sir!" Wakened by order, bailiffs grab Kotonoha's arms to drag her out from here. This is Simcity's only chance, if he let it go, everything will be late! "Freeze!" Without permission from frontier command, Somcity puts out a pistol made by specialized plastic, which enables it remain stealth to metal detectors. "Idiot!" Several JSDF soldiers in civilian disguise stand up from public gallery, fires MP7 sub-machineguns to Simcity, don't care about possible neutral casualties at all. As an experienced commando, Simcity can sense approaching bullets, he crouches on floor in time to dodge them. Immediately, courtroom is overrun by terrorized screams, people in public gallery and witness stand take every possible shelter as if there are next targets. Major Longbow, who happens to sit beside a JSDF soldier doesn't stand up, instead he paralyze him with an elbow punch on stomach, then takes the MP7, shoots the other two soldiers: "Silence! This is courtyard not shooting range!" Commander Rico jumps over five chairs, crash lands on a soldier, and breaks target's cervical vertebra with "hand blade" before he can react. Suddenly ten JSDF soldiers appears from rear sector of the court, eight of them fire at commandos, the other two replace bailiffs to continue dragging her away. Situation is not on commandos' favor, Simcity's plastic pistol must reload after each three shots, Rico is hit, not a fatal wound, but he can't fight as usual. "We're suppressed! They're taking 'Mave' away!"
The gate of courtroom is collided wide open like toy bricks, landed heavily in front of tribunal, cut half of it away. Bearing pillars beside the gate are bended for over fifty centimeters, exposing muscle-fibers-like rebars. Barrel of M1A1's cannon extends through wrecked gate, points at four JSDF soldiers, the 7.62 mm machinegun beside the cannon fires, turns them into hives. "We're coming!" Rei and Deathshead thunder in via the hole opened by tank. More JSDF reinforcements come from rear sector of the court, knowing Kotonoha Katsura is the objective, they use her as a shield, return fire at commandos. "Hold your fire!" Plasma Snake turns to com-link: "Hostiles, lift corridor, hind section, third window, two meters backward, fire!" In less than five seconds, the M2, driven by Captain Yoshino, clashes into designated corridor, this collision is too violent, several JSDF soldiers are crushed onto wall and are squeezed into fragments of blood and fresh, others are shot right on heads by Captain Obi via gunport before they can understand what just happened. "Maximum firepower!" As Commander Klepacki, also the commander of M2 gives the order, weapon operator Captain Spock points the 25mm automatic cannon on turret to remaining JSDF personnel, pushes button. High-explosive shells cut the nearest soldiers into halves, then release countless shrapnel to form a metallic hurricane, pours on those suckers. It can be assured that after the operation, each human fragment here can be recycled to metallurgical plant for refining. Ground shaking cannonfire stops, entire place goes back to silence, but two engine-snarling monstrous machines announce who now is the real dominator here.
Location: Tokyo Police Command HQ
Outside the chaotic HQ there is another fresh outlook. EЛиМинко deploys a M249 on parterre, spraying dense bullets to police wagons' tires, his effort constantly takes effect: Tire-shot hostile vehicles lost much of controllability, messed into piles of junks, making sharp noises of scratching metal. Deuterium holds breath, aims on a squad of S.A.F. with heavy-duty flak jackets and riot shields via scope of AS50, unloads all five rounds in clip in a blink. AS50 is designed to eliminate targets stronger than human but weaker than tank, those heavy-duty flak jackets and riot shields are merely layers of paper to its terrifying execution. "This is the ninth wave, won't they ever learn?" Won fires a PF-97, generates a sea of flame and overthrows two S.A.T. armored vehicles. "Enemy chopper! Watch out!" A machinegun-mounted police helicopter appears from the back of structure, its rotating rotor disturbs a gale. Helicopter descends, flies directly to commandos, drives them to another side of IFV by a strafe. Slugs of machineguns produce blazing sparks on hull of Bradley, after flies above commandos and their M2 and forwards long enough, helicopter circles back to strafe again. Before it reaches attack position, Destro raises a FIM-92 Stinger launcher, actives missile's homing node to scan for infrared signature from helicopter. Launcher's interface gives a feedback, showing "Targeting…Locked" with a beep. A dragon of fire flashes out from the tube-shaped weapon on Destro's shoulder, propels a slender missile, accelerates, corrects its course of the kamikaze collision to the helicopter. "They have SAMs…" Helicopter is hit, blasts in pieces in mid-air. "I bet those cowards even never see a real robber." Zaku continues to fire grenade launcher to charging police, forcing them to retreat. It seems a "principle" is established: Policemen charge forward to commandos, get their asses kicked instantly and run like hell in thirty seconds, then another group of police charges, get their asses kicked instantly as well…commandos are fighting like playing a video game, their scores are climbing up without breath. "Confirm court is claimed. Move out!" "It's getting hotter and hotter, let's go before the water boils." Deuterium packs AS50 and boards M2. "Final call, the auction is over." Zaku fires a fuel air explosive rocket into Police Command HQ, a major explosion blows a blizzard of files stored inside, floating above the block as commandos retreat by IFV safe and sound.