School Idols of the Lighthouse War
Chapter 18.3
Salvation - Battle
OF 2: VL-ASROC ready for launch!
OF 3: Line of fire is clear.
OF 4: Ready!
Capt. Tanaka: Fubuki ready for fire!
Capt. Tokayo: Ready for the attack.
Capt. Koyama: Ready here!
Capt. Misaki: Fire all missiles on the sub!
SF and OF: Fire!
OF 2: Missile away!
The VL-ASROC's on both the Osean and Satsuman fleets are launched.
Alexa flies around the location where the submarine is.
OF 1: All anti-submarine missiles launched!
The VL-ASROC's are parachuting now on the water and sink deep to explode underwater.
OF 4: Report the results!
The impacts on the water confirms the hits.
Capt Koyama: Did we get 'em?
And then...
The Alicorn begins to surface.
OF 4: Alicorn spotted; It's surfacing!
And then, the Alicorn turns left and preps the railguns on the Osean Fleet.
Lanza: Surfacing?! We haven't sunk it?!
Skald: It's attacking our fleet!
Count: Son of a...! We didn't hit 'em!
Húxiān: What?!
The Alicorn fired her weapons and destroys the Osean Fleet.
Wiseman: You're wrong, Count! We've backed them into a corner!
Transmission
Wiseman: They're vulnerable now that they've surfaced! Follow up on Trigger!
All Strider and Cyclops: Roger/Understood/Wilco.
Alexa: Capt. Misaki, prep the other weapons, we need all the help we can get!
Capt. Misaki: Copy that, Strider 1 Actual. Prepping the cruise missiles!
OF 1: Crew, prepare to abandon ship!
OF 2: We can't drain it! Evacuate!
OF 3: We've lost Destroyer Seagull and Aegis vessel Canary!
The order is to abandon ship!
Capt. Tanaka: Satsuman fleet! Prep for battle agains the sub! Support the School Idol Assault Squadron!
Capt. Tokayo: Roger!
Torres: The 2 years that we fought at the bottom of the sea...! I will not allow our perseverance to be desecrated!
Alexa: School Idols, attack the Alicorn's weapons! The ballast tanks will be dealt later!
School Idols: Yokai!
Transmission
Long Caster: You're being locked onto the railguns! Increase your speed and run, Trigger!
Count: If one of those railguns hit us, we'll be torn into a million pieces!
Alexa: Time for a hit and run acceleration!
Wiseman: They'll be looking for aircraft as well! Don't flutter about!
Count: Throttle up!
The Alicorn railguns fired.
Long Caster: The Alicorn fired its railguns!
Alexa: Watch the range of their fire!
Alexa hit the hull of the submarine.
Alexa: Jeez! That thing is tough! I need assistance!
Yohane: I got this one, firing!
Yohane destroyed an enemy VLS unit.
Yohane: One turret of the Alicorn down!
Jaeger: The Alicorn is diving!
David: It's ballast tanks should be damaged! It will have to surface again soon! You should shoot down the drones that have been launched!
Alexa: Okay. You-chan! Riko-chan! Eliminated the enemy drones!
You and Riko: Okay!
Torres: There's no means of retreat! We'll have to kill them all if we are to live! If you wish to live, then you must let go of your life!
Riko and You shot down 4 drones.
Specter 1: Specter Squadron will continue surveillance! We might be able to locate it if it's about to surface.
Long Caster: That's more than enough. All aircraft, position yourselves to hit the Alicorn as it surfaces.
Count: Righto.
Eli: Copy!
Alicorn Crew 1: Oxygen generator damaged! We can no longer supply oxygen!
Alicorn CDO: We're surfacing as soon as the captain orders it!
Specter 1: Sub spotted! Sending underwater coordinates!
Alicorn has surfaced.
Long Caster: Enemy submarine surfacing!
Torres: Be not afraid! Did you not leave your fears behind at the bottom of the abyss?!
Mari hit one of the ballast tanks.
Mari: Hit on the ballast tank!
Alicorn Crew 2: Check the radiation level every 5 minutes!
Alicorn Crew 3: Do we have any coolant leaks?!
Alicorn CDO: We're sinking even if the reactor's no good! Focus on anti-air combat!
Alicorn's Railguns fired.
Leah hit an enemy installation of the sub.
Leah: Enemy VLS destroyed!
Long Caster: The Alicorn has launched some aircraft!
Jaeger: That's some real skill there! They got serious guts to take off!
Húxiān: That ain't guts! They're just damn crazy!
Alexa: Yohane, stop the enemy aircraft!
Yohane: Those souls will not stand against Yohane, the fallen angel! I'll get them!
The Alicorn launches some objects.
Long Caster: Flying objects have been launched from the Alicorn! They have different signatures from the UAVs we've seen!
Count: I wouldn't be surprised by anything at this point!
Jaeger: Stay sharp!
The unknowns activated a barrier.
Skald: The small UAVs have activated EM barriers!
Húxiān: I have visual! They look similar to the Arsenal Bird's defense system!
Lanza: What do we do then?! We don't have Stonehenge to bust through them, you know?
After launching, the Alicorn is diving again.
Long Caster: Enemy submarine diving!
Torres: My fellow submariners, your lives carry weight! It gives you the right to take the lives of others!
Specter 1: It's up to them from here on out.
Ayumu shot down 4 drones, while Setsuna destroyed 2 enemy Rafales.
SACS 2: The aircraft with the three scars… We've lost many because of her!
One SLUAV attacks Yohane, but misses the target.
OF 3: Okay! Fox 2!
Alexa shot down the SLUAV that was chasing Yohane.
Yohane: Nice one, Alexa! The Fallen Angel still stands!
Specter 2: We've picked up the Alicorn underwater.
SACS 3: We're dead men walking! Why should we fear death?!
Honoka destroyed an enemy UAV.
OF 4: Good shot! That School Idol shot one down!
Long Caster: The Alicorn has resurfaced! Commence assault!
The Alicorn's railguns opened fire as well.
Alicorn Crew 5: We've got a boat full of AA weaponry, and still they won't even flinch!
Count: The enemy sure is making things hard for us!
And then, You's SOD glide bombs managed to destroy one railgun.
Long Caster: Aqours 2 has destroyed a railgun!
Honoka: Nice work, Aqours 2!
You: Yousoro!
Skald: Awesome! That's one horn snapped off!
Alicorn Crew 6: Direct hit on main gun! It's wrecked!
Torres: That's it! Keep firing! Crush their lives under the weight of your lead!
Sarah: We have to help them! Fox 2!
Sarah's missiles destroyed an AA gun.
Alicorn Crew 5: Concentrate all firepower on the assaulting aircraft!
Leah and Setsuna destroyed the enemy CIWS.
Alexa: It dives again!
David: Hello, this is North. What's the situation over there?
Count: We've got a moment of two. Statrep?
David: It's the advertising drones! These guys are doing the terminal guidance!
Lanza: Hey, hey, chill!
David: There are advertising drones flying above the demonstrators! They're perfect for a guidance system! But your opponent is that captain… I'll call you back! Alex, how far away is the closest air base?
Alex: Roughly 51 miles.
Alexa: Now it makes sense what I and Eli found out!
Torres: Yes, do you see the lives being lost? Completion is at hand!
More and more drones are going down by Alexa and the School Idols.
Torres: The souls of the dead are coming together like the pieces of a puzzle!
The submarine resurfaced.
Alexa: Again! Continue to attack.
Torres: We must save those souls that die chained by the prison of ethics!
Alexa fired her missiles and destroyed the last SAM.
Long Caster: All SAM sites are destroyed!
Count: Yessir! *laughing*
Alexa: Nice! Hang on! I got jammed! The sub has a jammer now?
Jaeger: Long Caster, my HUD's glitching! Trigger, Count, how are things over there?
Long Caster: We've identified the source of the jamming signal! It's the Alicorn!
Count: And I thought sinking a surfaced sub would be easy!
Alexa: Hanayo, Rina, destroy the jammer of this sub!
Rina: Rina-chan board: Yokai!
Hanayo and Rina fired their missiles and destroyed the jammer.
Rina: Enemy jammer down!
Hanayo: Good one, Rina!
Skald: We've hit them hard! They should have taken heavy damage!
Lanza: Quick at work, just as always!
Húxiān: Thanks, Hanayo and Rina!
More enemy aircraft are launching from the Alicorn.
Alexa: Honoka and Yohane, you know what to do. Swat them!
David: Trigger, listen to this. The drones can be destroyed before they activate their barriers!
Lanza: That's a pretty small window! But I know Trigger can pull it off!
Alexa: I can, but I have an alternative! Mari! Destroy the barrier drones with SASM before they are activated their barriers!
Mari: No problem!
Mari fires a SASM and the impact destroys the barrier drones.
Alexa: Breaking off from the railgun lock!
Alicorn dives again.
Long Caster: Wait for the next window to attack!
Lanza: It got away!
Alexa: Not yet!
David calls in.
David: Hello?
Count: We're in the middle of a search. How are things?
David: We're going to jam this entire region using the Air Force's EW aircraft!
Lanza: Woah!
Skald: That's a big bang!
Eli: Did it hit something?
David: All radios will be disabled! Controlling of the drones and terminal guidance will be impossible! It's crude, but effective!
Húxiān: Bastard.
David: All cell phones will stop working too. This might be our last call!
Count: Leave the rest to us!
Alexa shot down an enemy drone.
OF 8: Hell yeah! Way to come through!
The Alicorn is surfacing again.
Alexa: Time to attack!
Torres: What we have to do is simple! I give the orders and you snuff out the target!
Alicorn Crew 6: Ballast tanks have been damaged! We can't maintain buoyancy!
Long Caster: More and more aircraft have been taken off!
Honoka: I'll get them!
Honoka shot down the enemy fighters.
Count: Trigger, let's end this, once and for all!
Alexa: Copy that, Count. Let's give that submarine hell!
SACS: I can't shake that girl off!
The submarine dives again.
Skald: It can still dive?!
Setsuna shot down a drone.
OF 9: I'm grateful that you're around, Satsuman pilot!
Alexa: Wait for the next round of attack!
Inside the sub…
Torres: Lieutenant Louis Barbieri. I heard that you have yet to write a will.
Barbieri: …I've lost all my family in the war, sir.
Torres: Perfect! You shall be a part of our salvation. Go die! You have permission to take off!
Barbieri: Aye aye, sir!
The Alicorn resurfaces.
Alexa: Now!
The Alicorn launches a single aircraft.
Long Caster: Detecting hostile aircraft on radar. One bandit coming straight this way.
Sarah: Alexa, this one is mine! Go take on the sub!
Alexa: Alright!
Sarah goes after Barbieri.
Sarah fired some missiles and it hit Barbieri, yet he used flares in his plane.
And the next missile hit Barbieri.
Barbieri: I hereby swear that I will be a proud, brave, and vigilant soldier.
Barbieri's last words until his plane got destroyed by Sarah's Su-47.
Yohane's LAGM destroys the last railgun.
Yohane: No more railgun firing!
Long Caster: All railguns are destroyed!
Count: Hahaha! Team Aqours tore both of its arms off!
Alicorn Crew 7: We lost both of our railguns!
Torres: Fire all remaining weapons on Three Strikes! Ignore the other aircraft!
The Alicorn continues to dive again.
Lanza: Where's it gonna come up next?!
More drones are gonna come until…
David: Hello?
Skald: I thought you couldn't make calls anymore.
David: I'm using a pay phone! For the first time, too!
Transmission
Wiseman: They've started the barrage jamming over Oured. You guys stay focused on that submarine.
OF 5: I got this one!
More UAVs are eliminated.
Long Caster: Alicorn surfacing!
The Alicorn resurfaced.
And more aircraft are taking off, while Alexa destroys the last AA gun.
Long Caster: All AA guns destroyed!
Jaeger: Yeah!
SACS 12: To my superiors…
The other aircraft is now going to take off, but Leah fired a missile and destroyed the Rafale, crashing it to the sea.
Riko fired her missile, destroying the last ballast tank.
Riko: That's the last of them.
Jaeger: The enemy submarine's outer hull is severely damaged! It won't be able to dive like that!
Skald: Yes!
Lanza: All right!
Other Osean pilots: Woo!
And the last SACS fighters are shot down.
Rina: That's the last of the enemy fighters!
Some minutes later…
Torres: *exhausted* …We surrender.
Alexa: Huh?
Húxiān: What?!
Lanza: What's going on?!
Skald: I know this voice.
Torres: This is the submarine aircraft cruiser Alicorn. We surrender! Stop shooting!
Long Caster: All aircraft, cease fire!
Honoka: Hold your fire, all School Idols!
School Idols: Yokai!
Count: That's a con man talking, I should know.
Húxiān: I'm pretty skeptical!
Long Caster: We cannot fire on those who have surrendered! That's a breach of international law!
Torres: I repeat! We surrender!
Húxiān: Alexa, what do we do?
Alexa: Hold your fire, Húxiān. I've got a bad feeling about that.
Long Caster: Weapon use is prohibited!
Count: Why hold international law so dearly?
Jaeger: We'll no longer be soldiers the moment we don't!
Count: Then I'll happily quit my career!
Alexa: Count!
Long Caster: Do not attack! There's nothing more I can say!
After some flying…
Torres: We will surrender. We are currently making preparations to be disarmed.
Alexa: Stand by, Captain. I'm handing over comms to David North.
Torres: Understood, Three Strikes.
David: I'm David North, an analyst at the Osean Intelligence Agency. Captain, we have already jammed your terminal guidance system over Oured. Your shot will miss the mark.
Torres: Let me tell you a story, analyst. Three Strikes and the School Idols, I hope that you hear it well.
Back when I was a gunnery officer…
I had to aim a at an enemy ship 30 kilometers away in the middle of a storm.
Torres: The seas are rough that day, and still I landed one of the two shots. It was a good skill.
David: Here's a question. Was your plan elegant? The answer is... yes. At least until Three Strikes ruined it!
While Torres was talking, he secretly activated the rail cannon.
And he aims it up.
Torres: What do you know of beauty?
Alexa: I knew it!
David: They have no intention to surrender! Stop them, Trigger!
David: Hit the barrel, Trigger! Hurry!
Count: Do it! Trigger!
Alexa: I'm going in!
Alicorn Crew 9: Charged up!
The rail cannon of the Alicorn is charging up.
Torres: Now we are ready to disarm! Come! We have 2 shells to show you. Two!
Target is the Osean capital of Oured!
To take away the lives of 1 million people, 5,000 kilometers away, with my very own hands! *evil laugh*
Alexa: Not so fast, pal! Haiya!
Alexa fired a missile on the rail cannon.
The barrel dropped 3 degrees.
And then...
Skald: It fired!
Alexa: That was extremely close!
David: It's okay! The shell will miss!
To be continued in Chapter 18.4