School Idols of the Lighthouse War
Chapter 17.2
The Anchorhead Raid Part 2 - The Battle.
Anchorhead Bay
14:00 PM
10 September 2019.
After getting everything prepped, and already taken off from the aircraft carrier, Me, You, Honoka and Eli arrived at the designated location, the rest of Strider Squadron is there too. The School Idols and me, we are all equipped with tracking long-range LASMs, XAGMs and for me, my F-15C's special weapon is now the SFFS bombs, modified by Wakana Shiki.
We have to fly very low due to enemy detection.
Alexa: Here we are…
Honoka: Okay, this place is where we are going to attack. Confirmed.
Count: I can almost touch the water.
Transmission
Wiseman: Altitude restriction lifted. Begin op!
Eli: Muse 2, understood. Launching a TLASM now!
Eli fired her first TLASM.
Long Caster: The food at this party's served buffet-style. Pick whatever dish you like before the host mounts a resistance!
Húxiān: Wilco! I'll eat their hearts out!
Eli's TLASM hit a ship turret and exploded.
Count: Whoa! School Idols! Don't you dare touch the juicy stuff before I do!
Honoka: Sorry, Count. First comes…
Yukiho: …First serves!
Alexa: Time to use the SFFS!
The SFFS bombs fell on the unsuspected AA vehicles. And they explode later.
APF 2: Emergency! Multiple bogies! ETA 2 minutes!
APF 1: They're already here!
And then, Alexa smashed the agrounded helicopters.
Long Caster: You've got multiple return lines, and there's plenty of ammunition to go around. Make use of them.
Count: You bet we will, it's gonna be raining bombs all day!
The unsuspected AA guns got blown up by Alexa's SFFS.
Count: Nice, Trigger. There's no movement yet.
Long Caster: Gobble up all high-value targets! Forget about your manners!
Húxiān: Never had any of those to begin with.
Lanza: Alright, where's my artisanal burgers? I had to stay behind last time. This is gonna be a walk in the park! It's a good warm-up to get back in the game!
You's F-35C launches some SOD glide bombs, and the ship blows up in the harbor.
You: One enemy ship blown up!
Count: Long Caster, I don't see the Alicorn anywhere around the port Trigger and I are flying over.
Húxiān: No sign at the northern port.
Long Caster: Understood. However, it's a submarine. Keep your eyes peeled.
Eli's TLASM hit another enemy ship on it's chimney, and exploded in a fireball.
Long Caster: Resistance from enemy air defenses confirmed. Keep on dining. Just don't pay for it!
Count: Righto!
Alexa close in on a the Aegis Ashore weapons and the system is destroyed.
APF 2: General quarters! General quarters!
Rán Fleet: Begin firing SAMs!
EGU 1: Fools! They think they've already won! Now's our chance!
EF 1: Now time for a counterstrike!
APF 3: Dakiouk Bay's taking damage from air strikes!
Aegis Ashore 2: Aegis offline!
Aegis Ashore 1: That weapons system is beyond the sea! You gotta be kidding me!
Alexa destroyed more AA guns.
Count: Those newly online ships are a pain!
Lanza: If only we had anti-ship missiles by the truckload.
Honoka: I'll deal with the helicopters!
Alexa: Go for it, Muse 1!
Shepherd: Brigadier General Clemens, about Three Strikes… You sure we'll get a positive result this time?
Honoka shot the helicopters down, they are about to take off.
APF 2: This is not a drill, I repeat, not a drill!
Clemens: Yes, Lieutenant General Shepherd. Operation Dominoes is going as planned. 30% of the enemy forces have been neutralized.
Shepherd: That's mostly the work of Three Strikes and her Satsuman allies. Now's the time to pull out any tricks you've got.
OSO 1: So that's the pilot we're hearing about.
OSO: Hm. We'll have to reconsider our thinking.
Honoka eliminated the enemy UAVs, launched off the container boxes.
APF 4: That's a lot of ships lost! We're gonna make a fortune once the war is over. Buy stock in salvage companies while you can.
You fired another glide bomb on the enemy destroyer named Calypso.
The glide bomb hits the destroyer, it blows up and sinks.
Long Caster: Destroyer Calypso has been destroyed!
Rán Fleet 3: Our reduction gear and shaft have been badly damaged! We're disengaging!
Rán Fleet 4: Sir, none of our ships are operational. Search and rescue operations are underway.
ESO 1: This is definitely the work of Three Strikes. They'd reject my report if it weren't!
Alexa and Honoka engage the enemy UAVs.
Long Caster: Strider 1, Muse 1, enemy forces around Dakiouk Bay's shipyard have been mostly eliminated.
Húxiān: Get over here, you two. I got some units for you. If you'd like. There's plenty for some of us!
Alexa: Well, bring it on, Húxiān!
Alexa shot down an enemy bandit.
Transmission
Tucker 0-4: This is Tucker 0-4, requesting an air strike on the helicopter carrying our target. The target is Vice Chief of Naval Ops, Rear Admiral Samuel Prin. Sending the coordinates!
Transmission
Long Caster: All aircraft, we've data linked to the intel we've received from our recon team. If you have a visual on the target, shoot it down.
Eli: Copy that, Long Caster. I'll go find it.
Long Caster: Trigger, get on the return line if you need to. There's no need to wait until you've emptied your weapons bay.
Count: Don't let your guard down, guys! 100% survival rate, let's go!
Húxiān: Yeah, we're all going home together!
Eli managed during the attacks, she shot down the target Tucker 0-4 requested.
Tucker 0-4: Target confirmed down. With Samuel Prin gone, Erusea's naval stratagem will lose its edge.
OSO 5: I thought that 4 aircraft would be too few, but…
OSO 6: Three Strikes's performance cannot be understated.
OSO 7: Same goes for her allies in Satsuma, they'll do what is right and wrong.
OSO 8: I've met some of them before…
Shepherd: This is Shepherd. It seems Three Strikes is showing a stellar performance. Osea has much need of her. Her Satsuman allies are also giving us beautiful performances, like in the air or in a concert on the school grounds.
Guess our DND and the Satsuma DND did what they wanted even though we didn't know.
That's the unanimous conclusion of those in this room, Brigadier General. Certainly not the result I'd predicted.
Clemens: …I'm sorry, sir.
Alexa's bombs fell on the anti-air vehicles.
Lanza: Came here for a picnic, found ourselves in a marathon.
Count: I thought you said this was gonna be a walk in the park?
Long Caster: You take walks to… well, walk. But a picnic, you have to eat.
Count: Eh, you don't have to tell me which you prefer.
Honoka and You smash an enemy destroyer named Thalassa.
EGU 3: We've lost contact with the second platoon!
EGU 4: If they're gone, that means we have less than half of our forces left!
Alexa: Targeting the enemy battlecruiser!
The SFFS bombs dropped on the ship, scoring devastating hits. Destroying the ship as well.
Long Caster: 4 Mig-31s approaching! They're fast, these guys are interceptors! Bearing 310. Altitude 2000!
Hrotti 2: This is Hrotti! We'll buy time until our rear catches up!
Ask 1: Stay back! You're not equipped for air-to-air!
Hrotti 1: We've still got machine guns! Engaging!
Alexa, You, Húxiān and Eli attack the enemy naval fleet.
Húxiān: Enemy fleet up ahead.
Long Caster: If this size of that fleet were to head to Farbanti, Osea would have a tough fight.
You: Then we have to stop them before they leave!
Húxiān: Well, looks like it's gonna be the three of us and the School Idols. You ready, Count and Trigger?
Alexa: Let's get them all!
Count: You betcha! Not a single ship's gonna leave the port!
Alexa: Enemy missile boat down.
Count: Alright! We've wiped out most of their forces in the urban area.
Húxiān: I still see some ships moving. Trigger, let's go for those.
Long Caster: There's no need to go through the whole menu. Focus on the juicier targets!
Count: Roger that! Here we go, Trigger!
Eli wiped out an enemy frigate.
Rán Fleet 1: How many ships in port are still operational?
Rán Fleet 6: We've yet to assess damage, but likely less than half!
Rán Fleet 1: Ludicrous! They'll fill the port with scrap metal at this rate!
Long Caster: Bandits coming from the Northwest! They're in large numbers! 8 Su-37s!
APF 2: 8 fighters incoming at super-low altitudes from bearing 015! We have a report that Three Strikes is among them!
We have no further intel. Sorry, we couldn't protect the port.
Egil 1: Roger that. Leave the rest to us! Ask Squadron, Egil Squadron. Cleared to engage!
Eli sinks an enemy destroyer while Honoka shoots down an enemy fighter.
Long Caster: Confirming additional hostile ground forces.
You: I see them! Engaging!
Transmission
Tucker 0-4: This is Tucker 0-4, requesting air strike. Sending the coordinates!
Alexa destroys the enemy Aegis destroyer named Ceto.
Long Caster: Wilco. Relaying intel to friendly aircraft.
Rán Fleet 4: Half our ships have either sunk or stalled! Somebody do something about those bastards up there!
Honoka shot down another Hrotti fighter.
Hrotti 3: Lost control! Returning to base!
EF 3: I've heard about you. You always have aircraft problems when either Three Strikes or the School Idols are around!
Hrotti 3: No joke! I've lost control!
Ask 4: Hrotti brought us time, don't waste it!
Long Caster: Foxhound destroyed!
Eli: Firing the enemy target!
Eli shot down an enemy target, carrying an V.I.P.
Tucker 0-4: Target confirmed down. The man you've just killed, Captain Dirk Tarnat, was the main reason why cruiser Enyo was deemed such a threat!
Ask 1: Ask and Egil, be advised! Three Strikes is among the bandits!
Wiseman: Good, we've reduced enough of the enemy forces. Job well done.
Long Caster: That prime rib and truffle soup sure were good. But hold on, lunchtime isn't over yet. Go grab some desserts!
Count: I knew you'd say that!
You fires another SOD glide bomb on a another Aegis Ashore, which destroyed the base and the CIWIS alongside.
Long Caster: Enemy CWIS base destroyed.
Count: Ha! Aqours 2 took care of those pricks!
Egil 2: You're gonna regret not bringing more of your friends!
Transmission
Long Caster: Hostile ships approaching from the southeast! It's a large fleet, with Aegis vessel Metis and battleship Dysnomia numbering among them.
Húxiān: We have to fight a pristine fleet? After all that?!
Count: Let's do this.
Rán Fleet 7: Bridge to CIC! Multiple smoke plumes from the port!
Rán Fleet 9: If it weren't for the bad weather, we would've been caught in there. Prepare for anti-air combat!
Eli shot down another high value target.
Tucker 0-4: Target confirmed down. That was Fleet Commander Gleb Almazov on board. It's gonna take a long time to rebuild the fleet without him.
Alicorn Transmission
Alicorn Crew: Marker drone has reached the target.
Alicorn CDO: Captain, we're starting the guided artillery fire drill.
Torres: Command Duty Officer, what do you think would turn a drill into a real war? You don't see it, do you? It's imagination! So use your imagination, my fellow submariners! A single shell will save 10 million lives!
Alicorn CDO: Begin drill! Ready for anti-air combat!
You's F-35C destroyed the enemy destroyer named Eunomia.
Erusean HQ: 8 aircraft destroyed the entire port?! You must be hallucinating!
APF 2: It's not a hallucination, it's a nightmare!
EGU 6: Camelot Platoon, take a roundabout toward the joint government office from the waterfront.
Long Caster: Additional UAVs on radar.
Lanza: Pretty shabby for a reinforcement.
Húxiān: Stay sharp. There's something's amiss!
Egil 4: If it's my time, all the more honorable if it's at the hands of Three Stri–
*Comms offline*
Honoka: Got them!
Honoka shot down the two Flankers.
Clemens: Three Strikes is performing well above our expectations. As well as the School Idols, they perform beyond our expectations either!
Count: Oh, you sound downright ecstatic. Alright, Trigger. Let's go get 'em.
Alexa: Copy, Count.
Long Caster: Warning! Incoming high-speed projectile!
Lanza: Projectile?!
David: It's the terminal guidance! Get away from that UAV!
Count: What do you mean?!
Long Caster: Contact imminent!
The UAV explodes and so is the explosion impacts around it.
Torres: Salvation!
Húxián: Agh!
Long Caster: Impact on the UAVs coordinates!
Húxiān: Damn! I'm hit!
Count: What?!
Lanza: What happened?!
Long Caster: More on the way!
Húxiān: What in the world…?!
Honoka: Húxiān! Daijoubu?
Long Caster: Fire incoming! Distance 50,000! Contact imminent!
The UAV detonated on impact.
Count: Gh! Trigger!
Alexa: I'm good!
Torres: Picture it! Salvation! *laugh* The death of a million is a necessity!
Long Caster: The analysis shows the projectile was a railgun shell. We're currently determining the launch site!
Karibuchi: David, our Satsuman satellites discovered that the Alicorn is firing its railgun shells outside at least 40 km from the port!
David: They must be shooting from beyond the horizon. That's why they need the UAV for terminal guidance!
Transmission
Long Caster: We'll data link the predicted explosion radius from now on!
Count: You know, you could have just said that you were okay, you idiot!
Lanza: What the hell are you so pissed about, Count?
Eli shot down another enemy fighter.
Húxiān: Dammit, you're telling me to leave my teammates behind?
Wiseman: Húxiān, head back. I want that 100% survival rating.
Húxiān: …Roger that, I'm pulling out!
Count: We got the rest covered. You just sit back and watch.
Húxiān: Hell, you worry me most, Count. But I'm counting on you.
Alexa: If you see Saint Snow Squadron, tell them that they have to come here.
Húxiān: On that, I'll give them the word. If I can.
Alexa shoots down everything who stands in her way. And then she shot down a marker drone before it exploded on impact.
Long Caster: Projectile exploded in the distance! Must be a fail-safe!
Lanza: Bingo! Looks like we found a solution!
Long Caster: Alright, all aircraft, follow Trigger's example if you can!
Count: Hell, that's easy for you to say!
Alexa: You-chan, Honoka-chan, Eli-chika, listen up. The enemy has placed marker drones, if you have the opportunity before it explodes, shoot it down.
Honoka: Yokai!
Eli: Harasho!
You: Yousorou!
Alexa: I have to return the aircraft carrier and switch my weapons now.
Honoka: Roger!
I went back to the aircraft carrier to refuel and restock my ammunition.
Sakamoto ATC: Strider 1, you are cleared to land.
Alexa: Roger, get the landing area clear, I'm coming right in.
And I landed very smoothly.
Alexa: Has Sarah and Leah taken off?
Mari: They have. When they learned trom the news of the Alicorn is firing from the horizon, Karibuchi ordered them to take-off immediately.
Alexa: Good. Where are they?
Mari: They flew southwest. On route to your location.
Alexa: Good. I better go now.
I went back to my plane, took off from the aircraft carrier and went back to the AO.
Alexa: I'm back!
Eli: Good! We need some support! We are going to attack the enemy vessels!
Alexa: I'm on it!
Torres: *laughing* Picture it!
Long Caster: 5 minutes remaining.
Alexa: Roger.
Alexa locks on the enemy ship.
Alexa: Bombs away!
The SFFS bombs are dropping on the enemy warship. It exploded and sank later.
Long Caster: Target destroyed!
EF 8: Fire and smoke rising from Anchor Bay and Dakiouk Bay!
Eli destroyed the Aegis vessel Metis.
Eli: Aegis vessel Metis is destroyed! That was some good skills on my standards!
Rán Fleet 9: Respond! Metis, please respond!
Honoka's TLASM hit the large warship and Trigger's bombs blew up the warship.
Count: Trigger and Honoka just sank a battleship together!
Rán Fleet 8: Battleship Dysnomia is crippled! Navigation is disabled!
Rán 10: That ship is heavily armored! How could that be?!
And You destroyed the last vessels.
Long Caster: All hostile ships in the vicinity have been destroyed. Taking on this much naval firepower is an astonishing feat.
Honoka: Arigatou!
Transmission
Tucker 0-4: Tucker 0-4 to Long Caster. We need you to attack the designated heli.
Torres: *laugh* Imagine!
EF 10: Where did the shells coming from?!
Eli: I'm on it!
Eli fired at the enemy helicopter, eliminating a high value target with it.
Tucker 0-4: Target confirmed down. With Captain Alonso Tarragó gone, Aegis vessel Thalassa won't be much of a threat.
And a minute later, another went down by Eli's fighter plane.
Tucker 0-4: Target confirmed down. In ten years, Vice Commander of the 7th Destroyer Squadron, Tâm Vãn Lý, would be in charge of the Erusean Navy. Well, would have been, actually…
All VIPs on the choppers are shot down! Thanks for the assistance!
Long Caster: Nice work, Major Ayase!
Eli: No biggie for me, they won't stand a chance against an Idol Student Council President.
More explosions come in the sky.
Torres: *laugh* Deliverance!
EF 11: Friendlies are getting caught in the blast!
Count: How are we supposed to hit the port in this mess?!
Honoka defeated the rest of Hrotti, Ask and Egil Squadrons.
Honoka: All 3 squadrons in this area are defeated!
Eli: They are good, but good will not cut it against us.
The Alicorn continues to fire shells while Torres still laughs.
APF 3: Where are the Oseans firing from?! They're even shooting down their own!
The APF staff had no idea that the Alicorn was attacking both Osean and Erusean planes.
The air battle continues till 3 more minutes. While Honoka and Trigger also destroy the terminal guidance drones launching from the Alicorn.
Quarkman: Valkyrie, this is Quarkman. Packaged eggs are ready and waiting, count 2.
Torres: Two, worth a million lives each… *chuckling*
Quarkman: Sir, something's come up. Zul and Xandra were in contact with Osea, but they stopped reporting in. Also, there's a rumor going around the military: "Three Strikes in the sky is a sign of a ill omen".
Also: "The School Idols are the sky's beautiful angels defending the worthy and the bravest."
They may end up throwing a wrench in our plans.
Torres: The School Idols… They have the grace and the courage, let 'em have that. They are not my problem. But Three Strikes… She lacks the drive.
Imagine you're just about to be killed. "Why am I going to be killed," you ask?
Because they wanted to steal from you, to torment you, to cut you apart! It was for your sins, your actions, your vengeance! There has to be a reason!
Three Strikes has none of that. I do!
Do you see, Command Duty Officer? You don't, do you?
Alicorn CDO: I didn't. And I wasn't even listening!
Torres: Oh. Well, I've got a lot of things I want to tell the people I'm going to kill! That's the difference.
And after 3 minutes of air combat, time's up.
Wiseman: Phew… well done! We've managed to hit the Erusean Navy's fleet and command structure pretty hard!
Lanza: Hahaha! That was definitely a free lunch, if there ever was one!
Alexa: Honoka, Eli and You. Nicely done. We hit the enemy very hard, they won't recover on this one!
Honoka: Indeed.
Eli: All aircraft, let's leave it.
Wiseman: Mission complete. Return to base! Withdraw from the operation airspace. You completed the mission, but it's not done until you return home.
Alexa: Roger, we are returning to the aircraft carrier! Sarah and Leah, come in, where are you?
*radio noise effect*
Sarah: Alexa, we're heading for your location. ETA 1 minute!
Alexa: Good. Meet me there.
Count: Heh, arrogant bastard.
Alexa: Wait!
Eli: Something wrong, Alexa?
Alexa: I sense that an enemy squadron is coming.
Long Caster: Stand by. Warning. Two bogeys, inbound! Bearing 090, Su-47s!
Alexa: They are here!
Count: Lanza, missile! Behind you!
End of Chapter 17.2
Next time, see the confrontation of Mimic vs the Saint Snow duo!