School Idols of the Lighthouse War
Chapter 11
Death from Above
Sansaoban Air Base
23 July
10:00 PM.
Alexa's (Trigger) P.O.V.
It was a great last night in the swimming pool. And I wished myself that I wanted to move away from Osea to Satsuma, but I have no plans to do it, Until I got a call from Air Commander Miyafuji.
*beep* *beep*
Alexa: Hello, Commander Miyafuji.
Miyafuji: Hello, Alexa. I've heard the news from Wiseman. He promised us to reorganize his Special Squadron.
Alexa: Shioriko and Setsuna said that already on me and the others.
Miyafuji: Exactly. I've also heard that you want to move from Osea to Satsuma, am I correct?
Alexa: How did you know?
Miyafuji: Easily. You've dreamt it. My men are already on route to your flat in Oured to get your stuff and furniture. However, you will have to embrace your life on our culture and innovations, though.
Alexa: I've dealt it well, while I was studying with you girls.
Miyafuji: Good thought. You already studied our language and some of our manners and the dance practices and singing practices.
Alexa: I have, but when are your men gonna arrive?
Miyafuji: About tomorrow.
Alexa: Okay. I'll tell Shioriko about my plan to move away.
Miyafuji: Good. Call me if you're done.
Alexa: Okay. Bye!
I hung up the phone and headed to Shioriko.
At Shioriko's office...
Shioriko is very busy in the office while the door is knocking.
*knock* *knock*
Shioriko: Come in.
Alexa opened the door.
Shioriko: Ah, Alexa! I just got from Miyafuji that you are gonna leave Osea and move to Satsuma?
Alexa: Yeah, It's true.
Shioriko: Do not worry, we've already confirmed it. You, Umi, Ayumu and Eli from Proud Island are going to Oured to get your furniture. We've prepared a charter jet for the three of you. Eli will have to use her jet.
Alexa: Cool.
Shioriko: The charter jet is ready to go. See you back in base!
Alexa: All right. See you in a few days!
Alexa and 2 School Idols, Umi and Ayumu are already on board the charter jet and it took of from the airbase to Oured, along with Eli and her Su-35.
Several hours later, they landed in Osea and rode immediately to Alexa's apartment.
At the living room...
Alexa: Are all my stuff in the boxes?
Umi: Almost there, just putting the fragile stuff into the box.
Alexa: It's almost late, it's already 6 PM. I think I should cook for you girls. I make some good fried egg and chicken rice.
Ayumu: That sound tasty!
Alexa: Okay, getting all my cooking equipment ready to go.
As Alexa makes her fried egg and chicken rice along with the vegatables and brings the food to the dining table. And later cleared the kitchen one last time.
After dinner and some cool words, night has fallen in her apartment.
While Alexa watches the skyline of Oured in the night, Ayumu came to the balcony.
Ayumu: How are you doing, Alexa-san?
Alexa: I'm feeling a bit sad that I'm gonna leave Osea for your homeland. But, I'm also a bit shaken.
Ayumu: Do not worry. Umi knew sometimes that if you are alone, we are gonna help you.
Alexa: Thanks, Ayumu.
Eli: Alexa? We need some help with the futons!
Alexa: Coming!
After the girls have placed the futons on the floor, the School Idols immediately went to sleep afterwards.
Alexa: *yawn* I think I'll going to sleep for now...
In bed, Alexa watches the full moon.
Alexa: I think that the full moon bring me at least a good fortune.
And then I shut my eyes.
The next morning, on the 24th, 10 AM. The moving van has finally arrived to pick up Alexa's furniture and moving boxes. The School Idols and Alexa are also gonna clean this apartment up, before they leave.
Eli: The moving van will bring your furniture and boxes on the way to the airport. The administration teams are busing the paperwork.
Umi: It'll take 25 minutes to complete it. Let's go get some breakfast in the cafetaria.
Alexa: Okay.
While the girls are gonna eat some breakfast, the moving van with Alexa moving boxes and furniture arrived at the airport. And with the administration completed, the cargo plane will fly to Satsuma.
After breakfast, the School Idol Girls and Alexa are flying to Satsuma International Airport to get to Alexa's new home adress.
After the 4 landed, the girls headed to Alexa's new apartment.
Alexa's new apartment
East of Odaiba, Satsuma
13:45 PM
The men of the moving company have Alexa's moving boxes and her furniture put to the highest point of the new apartment, on the 10th floor.
This apartment has everything: A kitchen, a living room, a bathroom, a serre, a billiard chamber, 4 bedrooms, 2 downstairs, 2 upstairs, a balcony and a small office. The ceiling and the floor is pretty huge. And it has a beautiful candlelight.
Alexa: I think that I like this place. And it's pretty high out of there.
Umi: Then let's go unpacking them, the men from the moving company will help us too.
4 hours later...
With everything unpacked, all looks good. All the stuff and furnitures in all of the rooms are packing out and placed in the designated places.
Eli: Хорошо/Harasho! Now, all done. Now you are looking like a student living in a good home. Although the rent is not very high, because is was just finished build.
Alexa: You think so?
Eli: I know so.
Alexa: Did you spoke Yuktobanian?
Eli: Only one word.
Alexa: All right, let's test the kitchen's accesoires.
The stove is modern and automated, while cooking the air sucks to the ranges near the stove, make it easier to cook.
Ayumu: There's a beautiful fireplace and up there hangs the TV! Let's watch something, Umi-chan!
Umi: Calm down, Ayumu. Alexa is a bit busy in the kitchen by now.
And after dinner, on 20:45, The School Idols are watching TV and Alexa is now watching on the skyline on her new home.
Alexa: If I could see your school close enough, Ayumu. I could...
Umi: Hey, Alexa. You need to see this!
Alexa: What is it, Umi-chan?
Umi points to the TV.
News Reporter: The Erusean Military has rebuilt the Artiglio Port after the devastating air strike of the Osean Air Force.
They are now planning to harbor a giant submarine for maintenance.
We are not certain what kind of sub is going there, but we are not sure if the Erusean military will use it.
Umi: So the Eruseans are planning to harbor a submarine. But this one is huge.
Eli: I better call Karibuchi and Miyafuji about this.
Eli calls both Karibuchi and Miyafuji.
Alexa: Are they gonna use that port that we destroyed it last time?
Ayumu: It looks like it.
After Eli's phone call, she has to say.
Eli: Girls, tomorrow, we are going back to Erusea. They are now progressing this intel on the SBI and the OIA as we speak. For now, let's take a shower and head to bed. There are 4 beds, each take one bed, Alexa will sleep upstairs with Ayumu on the other bedroom, Umi will sleep in one bedroom downstairs with me on the other side.
Alexa, Umi and Ayumu: Okay, Eli. Goodnight.
On the next day, after cleaning up Alexa's new apartment and eaten our breakfast, Alexa, Umi and Ayumu return to the charter jet in the Hanede International Airport, where they took the flight back to the Sansaoban Air Base. Eli and her Su-35S returns to the Proud Island Air Base.
After landing in the air base, Alexa and Umi as well as Ayumu reported immediately to Shioriko that the moving day was a success.
Alexa also calls Miyafuji that the day when she moves to Satsuma went very well.
Miyafuji and Karibuchi are working hard on the intel operations in the Usean Continent so far, right now, they are putting the Arsenal Bird intel as a priority and AI aircraft plans also on priority. The intel on the submarine will be on hold.
Sansaoban Air Base
July 27, 2019
9:00 AM
Alexa is now busy to make some zen meditations after waking up until Umi went to her room.
*knock* *knock*
Alexa: Come in.
The door opened.
Umi: Alexa-san, the briefing will soon begin. And this time, Satsuma Air Command has a new plan to execute.
Alexa: Coming! I wonder what they have in store for us.
And a few minutes later, after getting my pilot suit on...
And the satellite link map is opened in the briefing room...
SABO: All right, School Idols.
First of all, Alexa. Welcome to our Satsuman homeland. You just have moved to our homeland and stand out our traditions, but we let also some traditions from Osea on you side.
Anyway, let's begin.
For this mission, we are getting reports from the OIA that the Erusean communication facilities in the Waiapolo Mountains might be possible links that communicates with the swarm of drones.
We need to destroy it to destabilize the communication with the Arsenal Bird.
Even though it might be important, the Eruseans and Osea might send AI made drones and aircraft to the fight.
This location is watched over by spy satellites, but our AWACS will provide anti-detection equipment. Our planes are now upgraded with these stuff too. But watch out for AA missiles.
Alexa, Satsuma Command decided that you must take this mission with 2nd lieutenant Ai Miyashita, callsign Diva 2.
Ai: Don't worry, Alexa-san. We will handle this with the 2 of us.
Alexa: So we will, Ai-san.
SABO: Also, There are a lot of clouds. Use them for cover against the satellites.
Spare Squadron is also on their way, but they will be detected for later reason.
It might be a good chance for you, Alexa. To command this task. We'll evaluate your skill to command after the mission. Good luck and be careful, you two.
Briefing ended.
Alexa: Well, we have our mission and I have to sortie with Ai-san. She might be the queen of puns, and I heard that her jokes made the wing commander Yu laugh. Pretty energetic girl for something.
Waiapolo Mountains
27 July, 2019
10:11 AM
We just took off at 9:45 AM and me and Ai are eager for this task.
Ai: All right, Lily 4, This is Diva 2. I'm ready to take orders from you.
Alexa: Roger, Diva 2. Follow my lead. Hachinodate, activate the anti detection equipment. We'll do the same, Ai-san.
Ai: Roger that.
Hachinodate: Anti-detection activated, you two.
Ai: Cool, now Spare squadron should be here about, now.
Spare Squadron has arrived.
Alexa: Great timing, Ai-san!
Ai: No problem.
Hachinodate: Let's mix in with them.
Meanwhile with the Spare Squadron...
Bandog: Spare Squadron, the enemy is watching from above. Stay in or below the clouds to keep hidden.
Count: Talk about an enclosed space.
Bandog: What's more enclosed than solitary? Commence operation.
The Spare Squadron is going to attack the radar facilities, until Trigger and Ai arrive to join in.
Hachinodate: Bandog and Spare Squadron. Once again, you have no idea what we are up to. We are also going to attack the radar towers.
Bandog: Seems that you girls and the Satsuma Military are also very busy. I guess that you give us an example.
That over there is our target radar. Neutralize the anti-air weapons around it, too.
Alexa: I'll show you what we can do, Ai, take the radar tower down.
Ai: Yep, I copy that. Open laser fire.
Ai fired the pulse lasers, and her laser bursts destroyed at least the radar tower and some rocks.
Erusean Ground Unit 1: Enemies are attacking! Enemy aircraft are heading this way!
EGU 2: Just drive them away! Chase them upward! Lead them into the missiles! Are they from Osea?
EGU 3: We don't know. We can't see it.
Bandog: Radar site confirmed destroyed.
Hachinodate: Good shooting, Ai!
Ai: Thank you, those lasers have a major good punch!
Bandog: Are you girls now observed?
Hachinodate: Nope, we have activated our anti-detection equipment. Which you don't have.
Bandog: That's a bit cold from you. But stealth is the best idea. Watch out for the missiles.
Count: It feels like I'm being watched by a pack of Bandogs.
Bandog: There is only one Bandog, Count.
Hachinodate: The Erusean missiles are guided by a combination of satellites and the radar facilities. So if we destroy the radar sites, the missiles should stop hitting their targets.
Alexa: That surely works. But I'm not very sure.
Full Band: Are you sure you can trust that intel?
Bandog: Who knows? Only one way to find out.
Trigger and Ai destroyed several anti-air defenses with missile and laser fire.
Bandog: Is that laser fire?
Hachinodate: Correct, Bandog. It's still a test run though. But our nation is already beginning its full use.
Bandog: That's cool. Guess you are not very far behind in technology.
Count: One question, Bandog. What if the radar isn't under a cloud?
Bandog: Just destroy it. And then scurry if you value your life.
Bandog: I thought you'd say that.
Trigger and Ai destroyed another radar and an anti-air weapon.
Bandog: I'm surprised that you didn't be seen to the enemy even in the clouds!
However, not all radars have been taken out. The satellite's still in operation.
Count: They sure aren't making things easy for us.
Tabloid: All this can't sit well with you, can it, Trigger?
I mean, why are we being made to do this?
No matter how short-staffed they are, who in their right mind would give fighter aircrafts to a bunch of convicts?!
Bandog: Silence! If you've got time to yap, you're not doing your job right.
Ai: I see an enemy warehouse, Alexa. Better take it out before they know it.
Alexa: Go for it.
Bandog: Cancel the alert.
Ai fired a missile and destroyed the warehouse.
UGU 4: They use the clouds to slip in undetected!
Ai: Got it!
Alexa: Watch your ground level, Ai-san!
Bandog: Trigger, did you speak Satsuman?
Alexa: I did. Why?
Bandog: You've changed a lot since the Satsuman School Idols took you in. However, your fighting skills are the same as everyone else's.
Alexa: It's more getting integrated by many cultures. She said that while destroying the radar tower and heading in the clouds.
Hachinodate: Target destroyed. Watch out for ice in the clouds while you're in there.
Ai also fired her laser bursts.
Hachinodate: Watch out for missiles, Ai! Get to cover!
Ai: Already in low ground.
EGU 6: Bring them down with the anti-air guns! What happened with the missiles?
EGU 7: They evaded it while heading for cover!
Hachinodate: Targets destroyed. 2 remaining!
Alexa and Ai fly in the mountain levels.
Tabloid: Damn it, they're making us do something, but just what? It's a dangerous operation, but it's better than running through a minefield blind, I guess.
Full Band: You're so naive, Tabloid. What we're doing is exactly like running through a minefield blind.
Tabloid: You sound like you know somethin'.
Alexa's Mig-29 flies through the mountains and fires many LAGMs on the next radar site, which destroys it.
Full Band: We're running through a minefield, obviously. This is why they want the penal unit directly in the enemy's way.
Bandog: The other squadron does the different way, they are a special unit that do not enter a minefield, they go on a different road.
And that's your second strike, Full Band. There won't be a third.
Hachinodate: Radar site destroyed, Show the last one the same hospitality.
Ai: We're on it, Hachinodate-san.
Full Band: Got in using a trick any amateur could think of. Picked up a bunch of intel. I got my hands on a password, and after some digging around, I found a bunch of stuff.
Bandog: I'm not sure you understand what you're saying, Spare 6.
Full Band: I'll let you in on it while we're home, Bandog.
Bandog: If you make it home.
Full Band: It's pretty juicy, You can have a bit of a sampler, if you want. In this war, intel is a life-or-death matter.
Bandog thought about it.
Bandog: I think you might be right.
While Bandog is thinking, Ai fires a missile at the enemy helicopter.
Hachinodate: Diva 2! Missile inbound!
Ai sees the missile coming, but her Ultra orange F-15C evades it with ease.
Ai: Missile dodged!
Full Band: I'm starting to feel guilty about leaving everything to Trigger.
Bandog: Well, she and her fellow School Idols do the most impossible. While in that case, use yourself as a decoy for the surface-to-air missiles.
Alexa fires her TLAGM on the next radar tower. While out of the cloud bank.
Bandog: Lily 4, get in the clouds!
Alexa dove very fast after firing.
Full Band: I almost got hit by AA fire!
Ai sees more warehouses and destroys them with laser fire!
Hachinodate: Watch yourselves!
Ai and Alexa continue their attack with TLAGM and PLSL attacks.
Bandog: Magnum.
Spare 14: So we're using the clouds to escape.
Bandog: No way, you're using them to fight.
Ai destroyed an AA gun.
Ai: Alexa, watch out for that missile!
Alexa heads for cover for another missile.
Ai: Nice dodge!
Alexa sees a radar tower.
Alexa: Diva 2! The last radar tower, destroy it!
Ai: I got it!
Ai fires the lasers and missiles and it hits and explodes the radar.
Hachinodate: Nice combination attack, Diva 2!
Ai: I'll do what's best!
Hachinodate: Good job, that was all the last radar site that we needed to destroy.
Bandog: That probably put a stop to their satellite's missile guidance capabilities.
Someone fly in the clouds.
Spare 18: How about you do it?
Full Band: I like the sound of that.
Spare 16: You can do with the exercise.
Ai: Hang on a second.
Hachinodate: What is it, Diva 2?!
Alexa: You see something?
Bandog: Wait a minute. Hold it.
Tabloid: What's going on, Bandog?
Unknown aircraft are approaching. Bandog decides to call in.
Bandog: This is the Air Force Base 444 Squadron. What is your affiliation?
No contact was given.
Count: Nobody told me there was this many nearby. Incoming allied fighters, respond.
The unknown aircraft broke off.
Count: The regular forces don't want to do anything with the penal base.
Alexa: I don't like where this is going…
And then…
Spare 17: Hey! They have a radar lock!
Alexa: What?
Count: The IFF says they're allies!
Full Band: Whoa, time out! Don't tell me they're barrier troops!
The unknown aircraft opened fire on the penal units.
Tabloid: Warning! Missile in the air!
Count: Evade!
The Spare members dodge the enemy missiles.
Bandog: Osean fighter aircraft, do not attack! Not good!
Ai: Hachinodate, I think that I know what's going on with them! They aren't allied aircraft! Those are AI manned aircraft! Probably used by Eruseans! And it seems that they use these to fake the Oseans!
Hachinodate: It seems to be that way, Diva 2!
And just while Ai and Alexa are trying to find out, the radio comms with Shioriko come in.
Shioriko: Hachinodate, Ai-san, Alexa-san! Are you girls all right?
Alexa: We're all good. We see AI-controlled aircraft. Probably hostile on the Osean aircraft, but not on us.
Shioriko: I see, while you girls are on to this task, I already sent Azuna Squadron on the way to help you out. Me and Lanzhu are also on our way now.
Alexa, your command style has given us a full approval, your promotion to a regular School Idol Ace is almost there.
Alexa: Roger.
Bandog: These guys aren't allies!
Full Band: Are they spoofing our IFF?
Bandog: Modern IFF connects to our strategic system via satellites. But, it's not very reliable. And it can't be decoded!
Spare 4: What the hell?
Tabloid: Information regarding IFFs is top secret. There is no way they could make a fake.
The AI-controlled aircraft shot down Spare 19.
Spare 19: I'm hit! I'm done!
Spare 19 went down.
Spare 17: This is close combat! I don't know who's on whose team!
Bandog: At this rate, no one's going to get out alive! All aircraft, head into the clouds. Get out of the enemy's sight!
Alexa: Ai! Stay on my tail!
Ai: You got it!
Count: Uh, and then what?!
No one responds.
Count: Hey, the enemy is working in coordination!
Alexa: Those planes are good!
Spare 16: The enemy's showing no mercy!
Full Band: Someone's on me! Is he an enemy?!
Alexa: The AI-controlled aircraft are making chaos on the Spare Squadron aircraft! They don't know what's going on!
Ai: Shioti, any news?
Shioriko: Alexa, Ai. Take the AI-controlled aircraft down! Let's show them what a School Idol is made of!
Ai: Okay!
Tabloid: All aircraft, gather up on me– I mean Trigger!
Count: What?!
Tabloid: Hachinodate, can you register Trigger and the blips around her as friendlies?
Spare 18: What are you thinking?! What good is that?!
Tabloid: What other choice do we have?
Hachinodate: Already done, Tabloid. Go!
Tabloid: All right, all aircraft, form up on Trigger and Ai! Nice and tight!
Alexa: Good thinking, Tabloid. All Spare aircraft, on me.
Tabloid forms on the left behind Trigger, Ai on the right, and three more aircraft, including Count are right behind them.
Tabloid: Hachinodate, Bandog, it's on you.
Bandog: Full Band, what's your position?
Full Band: The tail end!
Bandog: Understood.
I've sent the new ID data. Enemies will be marked as enemies.
Spare 11: Yeah. My radar display's been updated.
Ai: Time to take the enemy down!
Alexa shot down an AI-controlled plane.
Spare 16: On 'em!
Full Band: No way I'm dying out here.
And at the same moment, 2 AI aircraft are taken out by the Azuna Squadron.
Ai: It's Ayumu!
Alexa: Yeah! AZUNA is here!
Hachinodate: Nice, and Shioriko and Lanzhu are also here too!
Shioriko: We've formed up too, now. Let's get them!
Hachinodate: I got the data.
The School Idols and Trigger: Roger that!
Bandog: This is the penal unit, Full Band. I decide when you die.
Alexa and Ai pursue their attackers.
Count: Get ready, you bunch of fakers!
Alexa and the School Idols take out as many AI-controlled aircraft as they want.
Bandog: Projectile incoming! Damn it, not right now!
Count: That doesn't sound good!
Full Band: Tell us what's happening! Come on!
Bandog: Air contact incoming at high speed! It's too fast to be an aircraft!
Spare 12: If it's not an aircraft, what is it?!
Full Band: What do we do?!
Tabloid: What's going on?!
While Alexa and School Idols fight hard, Shioriko orders this.
Shioriko: All School Idols and Trigger, let's break off!
Bandog: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, here it comes! Impact!
Spare 14: Son of a bitch!
An explosive flash is blasting around.
Full Band: Ungh..! That shockwave!
Spare 18: My aircraft is gonna break up!
Hachinodate: Yosh!
Incoming transmission from Miyafuji, Yu and the SBI, the Eruseans launched a missile called "Helios"!
Bandog: It's a long-range missile carried by the Arsenal Birds!
Tabloid: Arsenal Birds?
Alexa: I think I might have known them. During that failed rescue mission!
Lanzhu: You know that?/你知道吗?
Spare 20: Why are they aiming for us?!
Setsuna: Here comes another, brace yourself!
Bandog: Another projectile incoming! It's a Helios again! Me and Hachinodate are sending over the predicted impact zone. It's coming in hot!
Count: Damn, you are working quick today, Bandog!
Bandog: Get too chatty and you'll die!
Hachinodate: Check your radar, School Idols, the same goes on you, Trigger!
Bandog: The warhead split into three! All aircraft, scatter!
Spare 21: Don't get caught!
The Helios exploded in the sky in a blue flash.
Tabloid: How can they fire like that when they've got allies in the airspace? Don't they care about the pilots?
Count: Heartless bastards. They got some of their own like that.
Bandog: There are a few targets remaining. Just concentrate! Shoot down all remaining hostiles!
One AI-controlled plane succeeded to hit Spare 23, but got shot down by Shizuku.
2 more are destroyed by Lanzhu.
Tabloid: Enemy down. Stay sharp!
Another controlled AI-aircraft went down by Trigger.
Spare 24: Watch your radar!
Spare 18: I can't find a way out!
Count: There's no way to run!
Alexa: I'll stay off the blast zone, more coming in!
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Impact!
More Helios exploded.
Spare 24: It's only a matter of time before we're all dead!
Spare 21: How did Erusea get their hands in explosives like this!
Spare 22: At least we now know who to aim at!
Bandog: Damn! More of Helios inbound.
Hachinodate: Displaying the line of fire!
Count: Evanding!
Spare 16: I can't!
Other Spare members like 14 and 22 are taken out.
Bandog: Prepare for impact!
Alexa: Counting in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Impact!
The Helios missile exploded.
Spare 16: I'm hit! I'm going down!
Spare 16 has going down.
Count: Where's the order to retreat?!
Full Band: We're dead meat out here!
Alexa: I'm on a bandit's tail.
Lanzhu: 狠狠地打他一拳!/Hit him hard!
Alexa's Mig-29A fired the machine gun and destroyed the AI-controlled F/A-18F.
Bandog: Count, one to go! Go get him.
Full Band: One to go. Where is it?!
Bandog: Count!
Count: Righto. This is it!
As Alexa and the School Idols fly to Count's position, Count said this:
All right! I got the last one!
Spare 13: Oh yeah! All right!
Full Band: The ejection's handle is stuck!
Setsuna: Osean friendly fire! Osean friendly fire!
Ayumu: Blue on blue! Blue on blue!
Full Band: Dammit! Goddammit! Why does this—
*comms breakdown*
Full Band is going down and died in the attack.
Alexa saw it and is shocked.
Alexa: Shioriko-chan. Full Band of the Spare Squadron is going down. He's gone.
Shioriko: Confirmed. Lily 4. Blue on blue.
Count: What?! Full Band?!
Spare 21: What the hell?!
Spare 26: Full Band is going down!
Spare 17: Friendly fire?!
All other Spare members were shocked when Full Band's plane went down.
Tabloid: Full Band got tagged as an enemy!
Spare 17: What?!
Alexa is pretty shocked, but shaken.
Alexa: That reminds me of the mission in the space elevator, but now I'm not the one who shot it.
Count: You did that on purpose, Bandog.
Bandog: I did what?
Count is enraged.
Count: Don't play dumb! Full Band!
Bandog was quiet.
Bandog: He knew too much. Actually, no. He did too much. Everyone here is a witness. Even the School Idols. Sorry that you have to see this.
Lanzhu: 我们已经知道这一点./We already know this.
Bandog: I see. Return to base. For now.
Count: Son of a bitch!
Count is angry after this has happened.
Alexa: All School Idols, I've seen enough for a day! Are you girls all right?!
Shioriko: We are all good, Lily 4! Let's go home, we need to talk with Miyafuji and Yu.
Alexa: Good. We have to talk with her about what happened.
And so, our mission was a success, but for the Spare Squadron, Count is not very happy in the end.
Debriefing Spare Squadron
The mission was a success. There's nothing else I need to say.
Dismissed.
Hold on, Count. It looks like your kill numbers are going up every day.
You know what happens by giving false reports.
Anyway, you pilots should learn from him. I'm getting the hell out of this dump.
And when I do, their kill count will make my star shine brighter.
Debriefing School Idols Air Division
Alexa, School Idols. Nicely done out there. Taking the Erusean radar towers out was a proven success.
However, the AI-controlled aircraft and the Helios missiles are for us a nasty surprise for the Oseans and even for us.
The SBI and Karibuchi are also uncovering the news for the Arsenal Birds. Appearently, the Arsenal Birds are getting modified with unknown technology, that weapon might be a Helios fueled-air missile that fired on us.
But we'll get the Arsenal Birds sooner or later.
Alexa, your style of commanding an team or squadron is on good favorable terms.
Also, we have asked Wiseman that Miyafuji, him and Yu are creating a joint-branch fighter wing of Oseans and Satsumans.
I think that you'll gonna like this new fighter wing.
But we also learned that the chaos in the Spare Squadron was that the modern Osean IFF is clearly not reliable. Our modern IFF is pretty crystal clear and modified with the latest gear and security.
The Oseans are geting chaotic at this moment. That's their own affair that they must face.
Anyway, Alexa. Fine work commanding the units, your promotion is not far off.
Just a few more training sessions and you get through the basics of commanding a unit.
Debriefing ended.
Sansaoban Restaurant
18:00 PM
July 27, 2019.
Alexa's P.O.V.
Later, in the evening, I went to the Satsuman restaurant where we last time went there with my School Idol friends. And this time, I headed there alone.
I was waiting for my salmon and tuna sushi, as well as some rice meals, until Shioriko arrived.
Shioriko: Oh, there you are. Alexa-san!
Alexa: Shioriko-chan! How did you find me?
Shioriko: Easy. You are not going to do this all alone. Me, Lanzhu and Mia, we are gonna enjoy our feast together.
Alexa: Thanks. About that--
Shioriko: No need to pay. This restaurant is also owned by the airbase. You'll get the free meal. And about that chaotic mission, we likely not want to interfere for it, but it was a shocking twist.
False reports, unknown weapons, AI-controlled aircraft. This war is gonna be a lot more dangerous than we thought. And the trust in the army is gone really bad in the Osean Military.
For now, we can only trust several Satsuman units and some Osean allies, like the Cyclops and Strider Squadron.
Alexa: I see. Well, it seems that we have to trust on our own skill and mind and our friends either.
Mia: Yeah, exactly.
And after some confidence from Team R3BIRTH, I knew that we are getting a good bond that we need to do well. We must stop this war. We have to stop this menace very soon hopefully.
No matter the cost.
End of Chapter 11.