Part 61: Mission #58: We Rescue 95% of Emma!

Mission #58: We Rescue 95% of Emma!



Finally, it's time for the ultimate showdown with Lukav, deep in the core of Ocean City...



It's time settle this shit once and for all!

: !?
: What's going on? Where is everyone?
And Lukav escaped again. Christ, the party is just...terrible.
: What? Did Lukav get scared of us?
: Where's MIDAS!?
: Kazuki, over there!



: ...Is that a person!?
: ...S-Sis? It's my sister, Emma! What's wrong!? Are you okay!?
Yes! We did something right! Finally, something worked out, and nothing the game can do can take that away from us!



Except Lukav destroyed her brain after extracting the MIDAS information...or maybe he destroyed it in the process of getting the information, either way, the game once again shows us how crappy Kazuki is at this whole 'hero' thing.
: What happened, Alisa!?
: Sis is... Sis is...
: ! This is Emma...?
: ...A...
: This is Lukav's doing. He probably forcefully extracted information from her...
: Dammit!
: Sis...
: Oh no!
: !? What is it?



: What is this?
: This is the power block. MIDAS was in there.
: Was it already transported away!?
: No, it's worse. MIDAS has already been activated!
Yeah, but at least we stopped Lukav from...from...oh, God, we've accomplished nothing! Hell, we made things worse a whole bunch of times!
: !?
: !?
: Can't we just stop it?
: Once it starts, you can't stop it. It's over...
: That can't be! What is Lukav up to!?
Vaporizing us, apparently.
: There is no need for you to know.
: !
: Lukav's trying to take us out with MIDAS. He'll be able to stop all his opposition then.
: But that means he'll lose MIDAS.
: He already has information concerning MIDAS. He can make his own MIDAS.
: You talk too much, Real Number.
In fairness, Liu wouldn't need to talk so much if Kazuki would just fucking pay attention.



: We're running out of time! Get out of the way!
: Forget it. I'll not let you get to Lukav.
: Are you stupid!? You're going to get caught in the explosion, too!
: It does not matter. I simply execute Sir Lukav's orders. That is all.



The end is close, so I need to conserve my good wanzers. Ryogo, Alisa, Pham and Lan go in for their final battle.



Not a particularly interesting mission. The only thing of note is that every enemy has a machine gun or shotgun, which makes this a good mission for missile launcher wanzers, I guess, but I bump Mayer to next mission regardless.



Pham is a model of machine-like consistency.



Oh, fuck. The difficulty does spike a bit in the endgame, it probably would have been interesting to see what would have happened if I had used your designs, but, I suppose it would have been hard to Let's Play the other branch after I shot myself in the brain.



I probably should have used a shield here, but I'm conditioned to never using one in response to a burst attack that it didn't occur to me that something like this would have happened.



10 Crush
20 Kill
30 Destroy
40 GOTO 10



Okay, next branch, I use your designs all the way to the end, this just isn't sporting.



The massacre continues.



Spider-Mech on Spider-Mech violence must end!



Pham sends another wanzer to the shores of silence.



Hey, it's another one of these Battle Skills! Backup Melee triggers when a character has a ranged attack and there is an allied wanzer in melee range with a melee weapon. It's the battle skill of the Yongsai body, in case you were wondering. The chances of that arrangement happening aren't particularly good, but, hell, I'll take it.



Alisa helps out a bit. Eh, not terrible, but not something to build your wanzers around.



Not good enough! Ryogo, finish this damnable mission!



: What is this I'm feeling? Is this...fear!?
Probably. On the plus side, you'll never have to feel it again.



I should have used the shield more...what a fool I've been!



: There's no time to grumble about it! At this rate, we're going to vanish with MIDAS!
: But if MIDAS explodes, it'll take Okinawa, too...
: Should we sink this section to the bottom of the ocean?
: !
: I think that's the only way to minimize casualties.
: But if we do that we won't be able to escape!
: Lukav sacrificed his men so he could escape. They must have used a ship for their landing. If we use their ship, we can escape.
: I guess if we don't do anything, we're all going to be vaporized. There's nothing to lose! Let's do it!
: Alisa, what's wrong? Let's go!



: Sis...I'm sorry. I have to apologize to you, sis. I didn't mean all this to...
: ...
: Sorry...sis. Sis... What should I do...? I don't know, I just don't know... Save me...sis... I can't...
Yes, Alisa, I'm sure your traumatized sister is really going to be capable of giving the emotional support that you apparently need to not let yourself be incinerated. You know, I'm reasonably sure that Alisa has, single-handedly, set the feminist movement back fifty years. And do you know what was an acceptable way to deal with a woman fifty years ago?



Slapping her until she does what you say! It's kind of hard to get a good screenshot of Liu hitting her though.
: Get a hold of yourself! Are you trying to die with MIDAS!?
: ...
: I hate to admit it, but I need your help to stop Lukav. If you have any intentions of stopping him, come with me!
: Liu..
: ...All right. Let's go together, sis.
: ...
: We're going to go stop Lukav!

Next Time: Less Co-dependency, More Co-bliteration!