School Idols of the Lighthouse War
Chapter 18.4
Salvation - Last Blow
Prieviously...
The Alicorn's rail cannon barrel was lowered, but it fired it's shell.
Skald: It fired!
Alexa: That was too extremely close!
David: It's okay! The shell will miss!
Torres: What happened?!
Count: *laughing* That's a blatant violation of orders, you dumbass!
Torres: Load the next shell!
Alicorn Crew 3: Aye, aye, sir!
Transmission
Wiseman: All aircraft, destroy the Alicorn!
All Osean Pilots and School Idols: Wilco!/Alright./Understood!/Yokai!
David: Alexa! Hit the base of the rail cannon! The core over there is the weak point!
Alexa: Understood! Riko, Rina, you're with me!
Riko: Hai!
Rina: Rina-chan board: Let's do this!
Alicorn Crew 4: FCS error! Can't raise the elevation of the barrel!
Capt. Torres: Three Strikes in the sky is a sign of an ill omen…!
Alicorn CDO: Captain?
Torres: All slow ahead!, flood the aft trim tanks!
Alicorn CDO: Sir, the boat will sink aft first!
Torres: And that'll give the gun the elevation it needs! Don't you see?! If the gun won't move, then we move the sub!
Alicorn Crew 6: Sir, the supercapacitor's charging. Now at 15%.
Torres: Don't you see, Three Strikes?! 10 million lives will be saved, at the cost of a mere million lives!
David: You liar! You just want to kill people! We won't let you!
Alicorn Crew 7: Supercapcitor's charge at 45%
Alicorn Crew 8: Pitch angle at 2 plus degrees!
Honoka: All Idols, launch a saturation attack! Let's hit it's hull!
All School Idols: Roger that, Honoka-chan!
The School Idols lined up from the left, while on the SN Kongo…
Capt. Koyama: All ships, fire the cruise missiles! Hit it with everything you got!
Capt. Tanaka: Fire!
All School Idol aircraft and the SN warships, except Riko, fire all missiles on the sub.
Wiseman: Trigger, School Idols, you all put an end to this!
Jaeger: Don't hesitate! They quit being soldiers the moment they faked their surrender!
Alexa: We will put an end to it!
Torres: A powerful boat, a powerful gun, powerful ammunition! Add to that lots of people and a precise aim…
…Then sprinkle death over all of it, and the formula is complete!
Yohane sees and fires her other missiles on the drones, which destroys them.
David: You're nothing more than a mass murderer!
Torres laughs it off.
Torres: Then indulge me! What makes you and I any different? You want to kill the 300 men on this boat to save a million. How is that any different?!
Long Caster: Good! Here comes the rain of missiles!
The missiles on both sides hit the sub and some hit the core, but the core isn't destroyed yet.
Capt. Tanaka: Target hit! The rest is up to them.
Alicorn Crew 9: Hull breach on both sides!
Long Caster: That softens it up. Your attacks are hitting the base of the rail cannon!
Count: You've just made a statement right there, don't you, Trigger? You better know what's on your shoulders. Only you and your allies can save Oured!
David: Trigger, School Idols, give him the answer! Have him take it to the bottom of the ocean!
Alexa: Yes, David!
Torres laughs.
Torres: Don't you see?! Landing a clean shot on a difficult target! That is what makes it elegant! That is true beauty!
David: Finish him off, team!
Alexa: Riko, fire the TLS!
Riko: Roger, laser activated!
Riko activated the TLS on her F-15C and it hit the deck hull and the core of the rail cannon.
Alexa: Keep the laser steady on the core!
Riko: I'm holding it!
Alicorn Crew 9: At plus 4!
Alicorn CDO: Everyone, grab something!
Alicorn Crew 10: At 60%!
Torres: Alas, you don't see, Three Strikes! Of course you wouldn't!
Alexa: Owari da!/It's over! Take that!
Rina: Firing!
Alicorn Crew 11: At plus 5!
Alicorn Crew 10: At full charge!
Alexa's F-15C fires a missile on the core, as well as Rina's missile, being hit by the laser and Alexa and Rina's missile blows it the core of the railcannon up.
Count: All right!
Long Caster: Target hit! Target hit!
The rail cannon barrel fell down on the deck, causing more short circuits all over the sub.
Skald: Oh yeah! That's the stuff, Trigger and the School Idols!
Húxiān: Confirming explosions! The rail cannon's been destroyed!
Lanza: Yeah, baby!
Ayumu and Setsuna: Rina, you did it!
Rina: Rina-chan board: Yay!
Mari: Nice work, Riko-chan!
Riko: Thank Alexa for this! She guided me to the core!
You: Alexa-chan! Expertly done!
Alexa: A Yousoro for you! I saluted at her.
All other Osean pilots: Yeah!
Torres chuckled.
Torres: Oh, don't you see? 1 million! 1 million lives! *evil laughing*
And then, a massive explosion blew the Alicorn up, killing Torres and the crew inside.
*comms offline*
Alexa sees the explosion.
Alexa: Now that's what I call fireworks, good riddance!
Jaeger: The Alicorn's hull is severely damaged! No, it's completely split in two!
Húxiān: You all really pulled it off.
David: And that's our final answer.
Count laughs.
The Alicorn sinks after it's hull is destroyed.
And some minutes later, several underwater explosions rose the water up and rains down over the Harekaze and Fubuki.
Jaeger: I see floating objects in the waves. I don't think there are any survivors, Wiseman.
Wiseman: Copy that. The submarine has been destroyed. Operation is complete.
Húxiān: That was unbelievable. Just… all of it.
Count: That's right. Yeah.
Honoka: Phew. What a fight!
Setsuna: I think that this one, for us, we will all be decorated for this heroic battle. Medals and honors.
Yu: You said it, girls!
David: There are some who send those around them to their doom.
Like Captain Matias Torres, who was a devil incarnate. But there are others…
Others who show the way to everyone else. Those who stand at the forefront to cast a light. Those who follow them can't help but feel that they're in the right hands. That they'll make it.
This is an era where there isn't a singular answer like a quiz question. The world awaits a hero to keep the torch aloft, banishing the darkness.
Count: Quite the poet.
Jaeger: That's a story I'm gonna have to tell my kid.
Long Caster: All aircraft and David, the operation is complete. Return to base and the carrier and get some rest.
Oh man, finally time for some munchies. Could you hand me a burger over there? Oh and the knife and fork too, please.
Mari: You are quite some mannered man for some eating, Long Caster.
Count: Once I get back to base, I'm heading for the mess hall.
Alexa: Haaah. Another job well done, All School Idols, let's go back to the SN Sakamoto! The crew is waiting for us!
And so, the squadrons return to the carrier and the airbase respectively.
Debriefing Osean Military
Wiseman: Operation is complete.
Skald: Can we celebrate now?
Wiseman: ...Yeah. Good work everyone.
All of the LRSSG members celebrate.
Wiseman: However, your next mission's in 32 hours.
Lanza: Woah!
Húxiān: Are you crazy?!
Jaeger: Not something I'll tell my son about.
Count: Gimme a break!
Wiseman: Okay, You can party now.
Count: Much better.
Debriefing School Idols Air Division
Alisa: Impressive work, Alexa, everyone.
With the Alicorn finally destroyed, Oured is safe! I got word from Miyafuji that every idol of our division will be decorated soon. The DND of Osea and us are will soon be awarded with medals for our spectaculair performance against the Alicorn.
Riko and Rina, you will be getting a major commendation for your efforts with the destruction of the core.
I think that we can celebrate with a nice feast with of all the meals we prepared.
Debriefing Ended
At David's home office...
The OBC News reported that the OADF and the SAF destroyed and sinks the Nuclear Submarine Alicorn supplied of weapons despite being advanced ship carrying nuclear weapons.
While David writes the last parts of the Alicorn report, his phone rings.
But he declined the call.
David: I'm good, Alex. Won't need that wake-up call every two hours anymore.
Then David puts a file of Trigger and the file of the report in the other desk page. Which it is copyong for at least 17 seconds.
David mimics his voice to his superior.
David(mimicking voice): "David, only the summary is fine. Give me the report ASAP. I'll hand it to the president."
Back to his normal voice.
David: That's why I haven't slept in the last 80 hours.
Alex: 78 hours and 52 minutes.
David: OK.
David strecthes on his chair.
David: Well, now the conclusion.
David checks the computer.
David: Assuming that Three Strikes is a singularity, why not terminate him?
At Alex's logical and sensual data, and after all the missions Three Strikes participated...
Alex: There is a fact that has been observed in all of the missions Three Strikes has taken part in. All dependent elements that either mimic or follow the subject have increased chances of survival.
David: Try to be more sensuous.
A green moving arrow leads along the blue arrows.
Alex: Go Trigger's way, you'll make it. He leads the way.
David: Really?
Alex: Significance is high.
David: And the School Idols?
Alex: In some of the missions they went, it's the same like Trigger.
Follow the way of the grace like the School Idols, and you will pull through together.
Significance of them is also high.
David: *chuckle* That's uncharacteristically illogical of you.
Alex: Hehehe.
David laughs.
David: Is that really how you laugh?
And the copying the data of the report and the file of Trigger are completed.
EASA Air Base
20:01 PM
14 September 2019
Mihaly and her granddaughters, as well as the Sol Squadron members are now continuing their days of time, until...
Seymour: Sol 1! I have news! The Alicorn is defeated! And that bastard of a Torres is dead!
Mihaly: Hm... Well, that's that for that bastard. He might want to nuke the Osean capital, but thankfully, those Osean and Satsuman pilots put a stop to his diabolical plan.
Wit: Indeed. He's out of his mind doing this! Nuking a city is serious offense of dire consenquences!
Hermann: Well, with him and the Alicorn gone, what shall we do with the Satsuman pilots?
Mihaly: We still stick with our plan, but with the School Idols getting some fame, I think that we will play a game of tag with them.
Roald: A game of tag?
Wit: A sort of a game of tag. If one of their plane is hit, she have to break off.
Mihaly: We shoot the Oseans with our missiles, but for the Satsuman pilots, we'll use our machineguns to play this game of tag. We will be ready to face this type of challenge in Farbanti.
Wit: Understood.
The Sol Pilots left Mihaly to watch the sundown.
SN Sakamoto, Spring Sea
22:00 PM
14 September, 2019
Alexa(Trigger)'s P.O.V.
After we landed, and got some rest, all of us in the Sakamoto came here in the mess hall, where we cheer for our success.
All School Idols and Alexa: Cheers/Kampai!
Everyone talks how they did and they gave both Riko and Rina some additional drinks.
Riko: I hope that this one is a big memorable event that we never forget!
You: You bet, Riko-chan!
Sarah: It was so good to help Alexa out of that fire so that we can defeat that hitman team!
Leah: Yeah! And with their sibling in custody, things are now coming a lot better!
Alexa: Wow, never drank so much orange juice in one evening!
Karibuchi: You are, also Alexa, your next mission will be in 32 hours.
Alexa: Okay. Some good hours to party and some rest before the mission. May I have a fried shrimp?
Eli: Sure. These are tasty!
And while Alexa eat one...
Alexa: Oof! They taste good! And they are a bit hot!
Yohane chuckled.
Alexa: Yohane, did you put tabasco in the shrimp?
Yohane: Yep! It's an ingredient of the tears of a Fallen Angel!
Yohane took a bite in her made fallen angel food.
Alexa: I'll never find out about the tastes of your homeland.
And so, we celebrated our victory of the destruction of the Alicorn until midnight.
End of Chapter 18.4
And so, the DLC operation comes to an end.
Next time, the School Idols will go to the next phase, the fight for Farbanti. Mihaly surely will come there, along with it's members.
Will Alexa and the School Idols give Mihaly a lesson he won't forget?
Until the next mission and chapters!