School Idols of the Lighthouse War
Chapter 10
Pipeline Destruction
Sansaoban Air Base
22 July, 8:00 PM
Alexa's P.O.V.
Aah, another good day. And it's very beautiful. After a lot of nice days after the concert. And we have to say goodbye to Hûxián. She left the day after the concert.
Yep, I have done also some yoga training to get well stretched. And I better get to the catering room, I need to eat some healthy food before we go to the mission.
After arriving at the catering room, at 8:45 AM. Alexa gets her breakfast meals and 10 minutes later after breakfast, she arrives at the briefing room.
Alexa: Good morning, girls.
Chika and Mito: Morning, Alexa!
Alexa: It's time for a another mission!
Mito: Agreed!
Shioriko: You came on time, Alexa. The concert performance of yours is superb, l have to admit that.
Alexa: Why thank you Shioriko-chan, we better listen now what the briefing officer has to say.
Shioriko: Oh yes.
SAFBO: Trigger, School Idols. Listen up.
The Osean Intelligence discovers that the Osean army and air force are taking some rough time because of those drones.
But they found that a huge fuel facility for drones is in the Artiglio Port.
Spare Squadron is already prepared to go to the facility. But we are also going in there, neutralizing this harbor facility and oil tankers.
Lily White and Cyaron! Squadrons, you are assigned to decimate this drone fuel facility.
Cut the oil supply of the enemy.
We are going to need a lot of anti-ground ordinance to destroy this oil base and harbor.
Umi, Nozomi and Rin provide air superiority.
Alexa, Chika, Ruby and You, your task is to destroy the oil facilities.
We also know that a sandstorm is approaching.
Get it on, and neutralize the oil supplies.
Briefing ended.
Alexa: Well, so we annihilate the drone fuel facilities in the port. Sounds easy enough.
Umi: Yep. And CYaRon! Squadron will attack the oil supply of drones with you, Alexa. Let's get ready and take off.
Alexa: You got it.
Artiglio Port
10:00 AM
July 22, 2019
Lily White and CYaRon Squadrons have arrived at the Artiglio Port and prepares for the attack.
Trigger: There it is! It's time for an all out air to ground attack!
Umi: Easy, Lily 4. We will attack, but in an elegant manner of combat.
Trigger: Yeah, sorry. Umi.
Chika: CYaRon! Begin the attack!
You and Ruby: Ganbaruby!/Yousoro!
Umi: Lily White 1 to Spare 2. How are you reading this?
Spare Squadron arrived 1 minute later.
Count: It looks like you girls are still in full swing after your concert!
Tabloid: I always want to count on you to do this.
Full Band: Champ went down crying like a baby.
I knew he was all bark and no bite. The coward.
Tabloid: You're one to talk, running off with your tail between your legs.
Full Band: I wasn't running away. I was retreating.
Tabloid: Well, I can't say I blame you. It was hell out there.
Count: Yeah, leaving Trigger and the School Idols battle against the enemy ace squadron was a bit too cowardly for us.
Trigger: Lily White 1 to Lily White 4. We reached the target area. Open fire!
Umi: Solid copy, Trigger. Engage!
CYaRon Squad, Open fire!
CYaRon! Squad: Yokai!
Trigger and CYaron! Team opened fire on the oil facilities.
Full Band: Man, I am not in the mood for this today. I'm gonna blow stuff up to let off steam.
Count: Targets in sight. I see a lot of oil tanks.
The boats aren't warships. There are plenty of buildings too.
Bandog: Destroy everything in sight.
Nozomi: We're on it.
Chika's Su-34 fired her rocket pods on some of the pipelines, in which the pipeline blew up with an explosive cloud.
Hachinodate: CYaRon 1, target exploded.
Chika: Roger that.
Tabloid: I appreciate the simplicity of the operation, but they don't look like military.
Bandog: You think you look anything like military?
Spare 12: Whoa! The show's well and truly started!
Trigger eliminated 2 oil tankers who tried to get away.
Full Band: Damn! That's what I call fireworks! Ha!
Spare 14: Yeah!
Spare 3: Jackpot! The tanker's full of oil!
Umi: Lily White 2 and 3, we are going after the bandits!
Nozomi/Rin: Got it!
Trigger fires on the oil tanker, parked in the harbor.
Erusean Tanker Ship: Get the ships out of here before they're blown up!
You fired her 8AGMs on the west of the port while Ruby's guided penetration bombs annihilate the oil tanks in the center.
Hachinodate: Good explosion, CYaRon 2 and 3! We'll wrap it up in no time.
Bandog: All squadrons, I've got more bad news.
The megastorm named Inessa 2 that formed a few days ago is approaching our AO.
Tabloid: No time to smell the roses, then.
Umi: Lily 2, use the missile bursts to decimate the facility faster!
Nozomi: I'm on it!
Trigger pulled a salto on her plane to continue the attack.
Count: A fighter pilot needs to fight. Missions like this are too easy.
While Trigger continues to shoot the oil tanks, Nozomi unleashes her missiles and the missiles burst on the exploding chimney stacks.
Spare 4: Look at that oil just burn up the sea!
Spare 16: When boats don't attack, I could sink them all day!
You: Can I question something?
Bandog: Go on, CYaRon 2.
You: Would the oil which exploded fall in the water? It could be a major problem in the environment.
Hachinodate: You might have a point. But don't worry. Our engineers will soon find a way to pump the oil out of the water.
You: I hope so.
Tabloid: Their cargo's just fish food now.
Spare 12: Another one's popped! Fast!
Full Band: Burn, you guys!
Spare 13: Are you guys all nuts? I thought at least one of you was sane!
Spare 9: This beats being stuck at the penal base!
Count: It's like watching a fireworks display.
Trigger and Ruby destroyed several more oil tanks.
Trigger: Oh, I'm gonna show you guys a real fireworks display once we return to base.
Spare 4: Burn, baby, burn!
Spare 18: Trigger, you're just quietly plugging away along with your squadron! You think you're the only sane out here?
Umi: Actually, she has a lot of fighting styles and techniques on her belt, thanks to us.
Tabloid: Bandog was right. We're no proper military. They are.
Full Band: Enough with the holier-than-thou act, Tabloid.
Tabloid: I belong in the penal unit. Trigger, you belong here even more than I do.
Trigger: Maybe, but this is the squad where I will belong. As another new School Idol.
Umi: Well told, Trigger.
Count: It's all about where you're from.
Spare 16: Suck on this!
As the Spare Squadron and the School Idol Air Division continue to attack the oil facilities, Bandog calls this.
Bandog: Inessa 2 entering AO in 3 minutes.
Full Band: We're outta time!
Hachinodate: Trigger, Nozomi, CYaRon!, hurry! Destroy the oil tanks before the megastorm arrives!
Trigger: Working on it, AWACS! Everyone, speed up!
Chika: These oil tanks are mine, Trigger! Firing the rocket pods!
Trigger: My LAGM's will help you!
Spare 9: Yeah! That's the stuff, Trigger! Go ape on 'em!
Umi fired a missile on the enemy fighter.
Erusean Fighter 1: Missile in the air!
Tabloid: Warning! Missile in the air!
Umi: I dodge this one!
Umi evaded that missile cleverly.
Erusean Fighter 2: Enemy has fled!
Erusean Fighter 3: I got hit! But still in the air!
Artiglio Port Facility: There aren't enough interceptors!
Umi: Enemy fighter aircraft neutralized.
Watanabe destroyed an AA gun and an oil tank which exploded on the other buildings.
Tabloid asked Trigger.
Tabloud: Hey Trigger, why do you think this war keeps dragging on?
Spare 12: Here he goes.
Tabloid: It's all because countries exist.
Shouting that and throwing a rock is what got me in here.
Tabloid told that to Trigger while she destroyed an AA vehicle fleeing.
Bandog: Well, you have a free meal and a warm bed. You should thank our good citizens.
Trigger, Nozomi and CYaRon! Squadron has almost destroyed the enemy facility and defenses.
Trigger: Almost there!
Erusean fighters have sights on Lily 3, but Rin sees them and outmaneuvered them.
Rin: Dodged them!
Trigger took out a tanker truck.
Umi has eliminated an enemy fighter and attacks another with a TLAAM.
Umi: Here comes another Love Arrow Shoot!
Erusean Fighter 5: Missile! Break Now!
Umi's missile fired and flew on to the enemy fighter and it destroyed it.
Trigger: I deal with the trucks later, Lily 1, I'm coming to help you.
Umi: Thank you, Trigger.
Artiglio Port Facility: They're targeting every last oil truck!
Trigger took out an enemy fighter.
Bandog: All squadrons, the dust cloud has entered the area of operations.
Trigger: I see it. This storm is so massive.
Hachinodate: No doubt about it, Lily 4.
Bandog: Spare Squadron, Finish your work if you wanna stay out of solitary.
One minute remaining.
Artiglio Port: Why are we getting hit after reinforcements came?!
Chika: Hachinodate, all facilities destroyed!
Hachinodate: That's it. Great work, School Idol Air Division. But stay alert, our mission is not over yet.
Trigger flies north, eliminating an enemy aircraft.
Erusean Fighter 8: They got me! Ejecting!
The Erusean fighter pilot is forced to bailed out.
Count: I don't know what they're keeping in there, but it's all ashes now.
As Trigger flies to attack the enemy fighters, Bandog has something to say.
Bandog: Looking good.
Full Band: I'll take jobs like this any day.
Bandog: Megastorm Inessa 2 is about to arrive.
While in the destroyed port…
Artiglio: Right, bring out the trucks! Make sure that the routes are split!
Take every drop of fuel you can carry!
The oil trucks left the port and are about to ride away from the AO.
Mission Update
Mito: Hachinodate! Several surviving oil trucks are escaping to the desert, permission to chase them!
Hachinodate: Permission granted! CYaRon members and Trigger, eliminate the escaping oil trucks! Check your radar for the targets!
Trigger: I see' em! Going in now!
Bandog: HQ picked them up on satellite. Remember, the order is to destroy everything.
Count: Why are they popping on and off on radar?
Bandog: Sand clouds. Sand breaks them up here and there. That's when our radar picks 'em up.
Shouldn't be an issue. You Spare members are idiots, but you've got good eyesight.
Count: Staring at my radar and trolling? That's not my style.
Bandog: Even in sand, you can lock on if you get close enough.
Spare 19: Easy for you to say!
Full Band: I can't find them fast!
Hachinodate: Too bad for you, Spare Squadron. We on the other hand have a much better radar temperature.
All Squads, activate the thermal devices on your pilot helmets.
Lily White, CYaRon and Trigger: Understood!
The School Idols and Trigger activated their thermal equipment on their pilot helmets and dived in the sandstorm.
Trigger: Okay, I see one, firing now.
Bandog: How did you guys get the thermal equipment in your helmets?
Hachinodate: We are a Special Unit of pilots, remember?
Count: You guys do whatever you want. I'm going off by myself.
Tabloid: Okay, if you think that's for the best.
Trigger destroyed a tanker.
Hachinodate: Tanker truck destroyed. Keep an eye out for more of them.
Trigger: Check. On it!
Spare 14: Take that!
Tabloid: Eyes like a jackal, Trigger.
Meanwhile, Watanabe destroyed 3 trucks up north.
Hachinodate: Vehicles down!
Bandog: The rising smoke marks their graves.
Count: Nice sentiment, Bandog!
Spare 17: Nothing but sand and rocks. Nice place to build a prison.
Bandog: We can toss you in it as soon as it's up.
Hachinodate: All squadrons, new enemies are approaching. Bearing 350 from the reference point.
Tabloid: They're coming from the north! Did they pick up Count's aircraft?
Count: Wait a sec! Don't go blaming me!
Bandog: They appear to be Erusean drones.
Trigger: Here we go again! CYaRon! Stop the trucks! I'll stop the drones!
Umi: Wait, Trigger. Let's take them out together.
Trigger: Good plan, more people, more fun.
Spare 14: More UAVs? Why are they always after us?!
Bandog: The mission stays the same: Destroy all tankers.
Full Band: There is no way we can chase the damn tankers now! They are coming!
Spare 16: You're out of your goddamn mind!
Full Band: A cat doesn't have enough lives to carry out your orders!
Bandog: Spare Squadron, do your duty and take out the tankers.
Ruby's F-16 eliminated another tanker with her GPB.
Hachinodate: Tanker eliminated.
Spare 4: Haha! You can't run from us!
Bandog: Keep going. Burn it all.
Lily White and Trigger are eliminating every drone they see, while CYaRon! Team wipes out every tanker that tried to escape.
Hachinodate: Remember, take out everything that you see!
Chika: Already on it!
Trigger took out an UAV tryin to outfly her.
Full Band: UAV down! Was that Trigger?!
Spare 18: All right! We might just get out alive.
Trigger eliminates the enemy ace named Gazelle.
Hachinodate: Trigger, keep at it. Every drone that you and your fellow School Idols eliminate will give us an advantage to find the real enemy.
You just need to stay focused and you will survive. CYaRon and Trigger, find and destroy the drones and tankers.
Spare 13: I'm sticking around. You know why that political offender is still alive, don't you?
Full Band: Trigger?
Spare 19: Higher chance of living with him.
Tabloid: I object to the term "jackass," but yeah, it's because of Trigger.
Chika and Mito managed to shoot down another tanker.
Full Band: Allied aircraft downed by a UAV!
Bandog: Pipe down and keep your mind on the mission, Full Band!
Tabloid: Lily White is tying down the UAVs!
Spare 9: This mission's become way too dangerous.
Spare 11: Damn Count for dragging us!
Count: Shut the hell up. This has nothing to do with me!
Bandog: You guys are celebrating, but I don't hear anyone saying all targets have been taken down.
Trigger and Rin each eliminated another enemy drone.
Spare 12: Going after the tankers while this goings down is suicide.
Bandog: Prioritize the tankers. Worry about the UAVs later.
Full Band: Damn.
Trigger and Lily White eliminated 7 drones.
Tabloid: 7! 7 UAVs down!
Spare 14: Guess there're less of them now. Glad I decided to stick around.
Watanabe and Ruby just destroyed 2 more tanker trucks.
Ruby: Good one, You-chan!
You: Thanks, Ruby!
Spare 13: Fly along, Trigger!
The Lily White squadron eliminates more drones.
Full Band: They'll run out of gas, right?
Spare 18: They've got trailers full of fuel.
Full Band: Trucks don't run on jet fuel.
Tabloid: I heard diesel engines can.
Bandog: Quit yapping and hunt down your targets!
While Trigger destroyed the SAM site and the tanker truck, the tanker fuel exploded with the drone fuel.
Tabloid: Huh?!
Count: What was that explosion?
Trigger: I think that tanker was loaded with drone fuel.
Bandog: You can't stick around forever. Find those targets.
Tabloid: Trigger thrashed the target.
Spare 12: Woo!
Spare 16: Trigger again?
Spare 18: It's really burning! That was some primo jet fuel!
Tabloid: Nah, jet fuel doesn't ignite easily. That was standard gasoline.
Bandog: How about taking targets down instead of flapping your gums?
Chika and Mito eliminated another tanker.
MIto: Another tanker down.
Spare 14: Pop 'em all!
Hachinodate: A few more to go, CYaRon Team!
Bandog: Dig around.
Spare 16: Damn, that truck just vanished into the dust!
Bandog: Chase it down, dimwit!
Trigger sees the tanker and destroys it with her missiles.
Hachinodate: Target tankers are down, Well done, Trigger!
Trigger: Thanks. 2 more left!
Bandog: That's a lot of fuel up in smoke, but there could be more hiding somewhere.
Full Band: The bastards picked up a hell of a place to hide!
Chika and Trigger see the last of the trucks. Trigger took out the SAM and a truck, while Chika and Mito destroyed the last truck.
The truck exploded with the drone fuel in it.
Chika: Whoa, what was that?!
Trigger: That's the drone fuel you girls took out!
Full Band: That cheers me up! Not that I give a rat's ass.
Tabloid: You sound like you know somethin'.
Full Band: I don't just give intel away for free.
Hachinodate: That was the last of the tanker trucks out there in the desert. School Idol Air Division and Trigger, mission complete. Well done!
Bandog: HQ sent a message. That was the last one. All aircraft, return to base.
Burning up all those trucks will starve their drones for a while.
The Spare members cheered themselves that they are still alive.
Full Band: "Stick with Trigger and you'll make it." Worked like a charm.
Bandog: If you think that's all you need to survive, you might as well get your last rites now.
Count: Exactly. That was all dumb luck.
Full Band: Wait. You were in earshot, Count?
Spare 13: Must've been straining to hear from high altitude.
Bandog: It seems you've learned nothing in the sky, Count.
Count: Well, yeah. It's nothing like there's anything to learn from Trigger.
Trigger: I'm much different. You know that.
Chika: Let it go, Trigger. They just don't know about your power and skill, except Tabloid.
Trigger: Yeah, anyway. Let's go home, School Idols.
Debriefing Spare Squadron
The joint mission was a success. There's nothing else I need to say.
Dismissed.
So, it looks like we are getting attention from above.
If any credit is due, it should come on me. Prisoners deserve nothing.
Debriefing School Idols Air Division
Fantastic work on this mission, Lily White and CYaRon! Squadrons.
With much of their oil supplies destroyed, the Erusean warmachine should be on halt. Mostly the drones.
What we found out during the battle is that there are 2 tankers filled with drone fuel. We do not yet know why that fuel got here, but our intelligence will do what they can to find and develop.
Anyway, fine work. I think you girls will deserve a nice sushi feast for your great work.
That will be all.
Sansaoban Air Base
15:00 PM
5 hours after the mission
Alexa's P.O.V.
Man, that was nice job out there!
Umi: You are right, Alexa.
I mean, blowing up so many oil supplies of the enemy. That much is certain.
Ai: Alexa-san! You got a package!
A package?
Ai: Yeah. Shioriko has the package and wants to meet you on the common room.
Alexa: Okay. Heading there now.
A few minutes later... in the common room.
Shioriko, do you have my package?
Shioriko: I have. Here it is.
Wow, that's a big package.
Mito: What is in there?
Setsuna: Let's find out.
After carefully removing the tape of the package...
Lanzhu: Those are aircraft modifications. What does it do?
Mia: I think those modifications are for Alexa only.
Ayumu: Oh! There is a note attached. It reads this.
Dear rising school Idol,
I hope that you read this, but those modifications are from the penal base, so I decided to put them on a box and deliver them for you. These parts are the best and you're gonna need it if you want to defeat that ace.
Also, sorry for what happened on the Space Elevator. You knew that was going so very bad. And I knew that you weren't responsible for the death of Harling.
Good luck on your next battle with the School Idols.
Avril Mead.
Mechanic of the 444th.
Ayumu: That's all what it says.
Really? Well, I'll talk to the engineers that they are going to refit my aircraft.
Shioriko: Do that. And over a few hours, we are going to a Hotel and pool close to the base. The fireworks on that base have been installed and will soon launch at 22:00 PM.
All School Idols and Trigger: Okay!
Hotel and Pool nearby the Sansaoban Air Base
20:45 PM
Alexa's P.O.V.
We are all clad in geisha uniforms in the restaurant, waiting for our sushi meals.
Oh, are all those fish meals very good?
Umi: Indeed they are, we also have udon noodles added in the meal.
Tasty!
Chika: You liked it?
Indeed I do! I love noodles!
The waiters hae arrived with the food. The School Idols dig in right before they say.
Thank you for the meal!
And they eat the sushi meals.
And 30 minutes later, they are heading for the Pool in the hotel. The school Idols and even Alexa are all wearing their swimsuits and they even have swimming toys with them.
Wow, I have never swimming so well, and the water is warm!
Setsuna: Girls, gather around the balcony.
The girls gather by Setsuna on the balcony.
We are all here to put up an end of this war, but we are by now resting our bones after the concert and the mission hours ago.
Alexa, with you around as our asset. We have a great time flying with you.
And we have message from Miyafuji, minutes ago. She got a call from Cyclops 1 named Wiseman, that the requests and the joining forces are approved! The Oseans want to sacrifice for us if they have to.
All girls clapped.
Shioriko: I knew Miyafuji and several members of both intelligence agencies can do the agreements!
Setsuna: So for now, lets do our to help out the Osean people!
All School Idol Girls: Ooooohhh!
While the School Idols cheered, the fireworks are flying in the air and they explode in the air with many colors.
Wow! I'll make a picture from it!
Alexa makes a nice picture on her smartphone.
Picture is taken. Maybe I'll get an award. And maybe, I'll move away from Osea to Satsuma. I shall ask Miyafuji for a request to create a agressor unit.
End of Chapter 10