Part 38: Mission 15 (Japan Route) - Separation ~ Friends - Part 2
And now you have 5 turns, counting the current one, to get Koyo to that spot. Here’s why I said you wanted our folks around the N/NE part of the island: Koyo’s Fafner is running solo, meaning it won’t fly and if you sent too far, the forest and Festum swarm may just stop it from getting in place.
But we’ve plenty of leeway now, so we’ll deal with Jin and kill whatever we can before sending him in. The Festum will respawn endlessly, so this mission is your first decent farming spot for kills – there’s a better one down the line, mind.
SRW UX - Shangri-La
Kill the first Riot C and…
: U-Uwaaaaaaah!
: Jackson…?!: Forgive me, Captain…! I couldn’t do anything…!
: Jackson! You bastards… you killed my man!
SRW UX - Tales of Mirisha ~ The Brave Legend
Kill the second one…
: Argh…!: Cameron, eject!: I-I can’t… it’s not working! No…! Aaaaaaaaah!
: Cameron! Rrgh… You’ll pay for this, UX!
And the third one...
: Gwaaargh! My… my eyes!: Barkley!: C-Captain… where’s the enemy?! I-I’ll try to ram them—!
I took this picture on the Europe route, so don't mind the different troops!
: My… my Unit…! They were the very first subordinates I ever had…!: Unknown Xtrikers…! YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!
And now that we've crushed Jin's spirit, we’ll focus on him while Koyo gets in position.
SRW UX - Tales of Mirisha ~ The Brave Legend
: The Federation Army also fights to protect the people, right?! Then there’s no reason for us to battle one another!: Are you joking?! You’ve got a lotta nerve saying that to me after your gang’s wholesale terrorism…!
SRW UX - Shadows that Rend Darkness: UX! You turned Arnie against me…!
: I won’t deny that, but…: He’s just trailing what he believed to be the right path!: “The right path”?! There is nothing right in a path that has him join terrorists!
SRW UX - Linebarrel
: Would it kill you to just listen to what Ensign Berge has to say for one second?!: So now you’re trying to rope me in too?! : I’d never let worms like you trick me, though!
SRW UX - Shangri-La
: You’re with the Federation Army, right?! Then why are you pointing your gun at other humans?!: Because you’re goddamned terrorists! And it’s a soldier’s duty to destroy subversive elements!: What…?! I’m just trying to keep the people of my island safe…!
SRW UX - Love Survivor: You’re one of those alien mechs that showed up in Arkham City!: If you’d just surrendered without a fight back then, we…!
: Hey, how’re you pinning that on us?! Ask anyone and they’d say that’s totally uncalled for!
SRW UX - Shangri-La
: We’ve got a bunch of Festum right there! How’s this the time for people to be fighting each other?!: Shut the hell up! The UX kill innocents wherever they go… they’re just as big an enemy of mankind as any other!
SRW UX - Life Goes On: I can’t believe even ZAFT’s old ace went and teamed up with terrorists!
: You label people as “good” and “evil” without even taking the time to try and figure out what the truth actually is!: Seems to me that the Federation just won’t change its ways, no matter how much time passes!
SRW UX - Future-Bound Fighting Spirit
: Jin, listen to me! I didn’t betray you!: Stuff it, Arnie! Do you even understand what you’re doing?!: They’re the UX! They’re terrorists who’ve killed innocents again and again!: What happened to you, Arnie?! Since when did you become a terrorist?!: The UX are not terrorists! : All I want to do is protect the lives of others…! I’ve joined them so that I could be true to myself!: Then I’ve something to say to you too!: I’m putting you down, Arnie… so that I can protect my pride!: Why…?! Why do we need to do this?!
: Urrgh… No, I’m not going down like this…!
: …?! Jin, stop! If you don’t—: Shut your mouth! I’m ending you if it’s the last thing I do!
: Uwaaargh!: Ensign?!: Haah, haah…! A-And now… you’re finished!
: Wh-What?!
: U-Uwaaaah!
: Jin…?! Is it happening again…?!: Readings off his accelerated particle engine are spiking! Its anti-particles are going out of control…! : Wh-What’s going on?! The emergency shutdown system isn’t working...! The generator’s internal pressure is…!
: Not good…! We must do something or it’ll go into particle annihilation!: Hrm… Talk to me, Ms. Saya! There’s a way to force the Proton Generator to decelerate, right?! Something that can be done from outside?!: How did the Major save me in Arkham City?! What do I need to do to save Jin like that?!: It's out of the question for you! What he did was a make-or-break gambit with his very life on the line... : I'm already risking my life at every turn anyway! SRW UX - Prologue: …?!: Please, Ms. Saya! He… Jin’s my best friend! I'd easily put my life on the line for him! So, please…! : Arnie…*Beep.*
: Accelerate your Lepton Vectrer all the way into overdrive, get it to sync up with the Proton Generator and then power it down directly. : ?! Maj. Richard…!
: Be quiet, Saya.: Listen to me, Arnie. If you mess it up, both the Orphes and everything around it’ll be reduced to a smoldering crater…: This is a major gamble, and you need to get it perfect down to the second. Understand…?: … SRW UX - Roaring Deathblow: Yes, sir…!: (Hold on, Jin… I’ll save you! That’s a promise!): Lepton Vectrer, emergency acceleration!
*Arnie rushes down the Riot A!*
: Rgh…! Wh-What’re you up to!?: Engine pressure rising, synchronization coefficient 57%... Come on, just a bit more…!: Damn it, move! Move, Riot! We gotta do something or he’ll…!: Synchronization coefficient 60%... safety lock released, initiating synchro-overdrive!: That’s too soon! The other engine’s acceleration’ll overpower yours!*Whiiirrrrr!*
: Krrgh…! S-Synchronization coefficient… 147%?!: Arnie…!
: Pressure set, safety lock released! Accelerated particle engine, all green!: Now, Arnie!: Haaaaaaaaaaah!
“If I can just power down his Proton Generator…!”
: Urgh…!: Jin…!: Arnie… H-How could you—!
: JIIIIIIN!: Wh-What happened?! He shot him down?!
: No, what he did was protect both ours and his friend’s lives from the particle annihilation…: But the guy’s mech sunk straight into the water! We gotta pick him up quick or else…!: Haah, haah… Rrgh!: Arnie…!: I-I’m fine…! We need to find Jin…!: Leave the search and rescue for the Elshank’s crew. We need to focus on the Festum right now!: O-Okay!
Here we go.
: This is the place?!
: We’ve confirmed the Mark Vier’s arrival at the target area. Koyo, is the investigation team safe?: Th-They… There’s no one in the capsule!
: What…?!: What happened, Soushi?! Weren’t they ordered to withdraw?!: Yes, they were getting out while we kept the Festum at bay. They could just be running late, or…!
: Y-You don’t mean…!*Beep!*
: Mark Vier, do you copy? There’s very little time before the Fenrir goes off. Evac immediately!: Are you nuts?! The investigation team’s not here yet…!: Then it’s likely they were already assimilated by the Festum inside the facility! We can’t afford to risk losing another Fafner over something as uncertain as this!: So you’re telling us to run and just save ourselves?! That’s bull—!
: Koyo, behind you!: …?!
: Are you there…?
: Ugh…UWAAAAAAAH!: Koyo!: Mark Vier, retreat now!: N-No…! I’ve had enough… of all that grief…!*Back to the capsule spot.*
: I-Is that?!: Mr. Mizoguchi…!
: Time is short! Investigation team, get aboard the escape capsule! Quickly!
: Ka… Kasugai?!: Tou…mi…! I’m coming to… save you…!
: All four team members are inside the capsule!: Hrrgh… Raaaaaaaaah!
: KOYO!!: I’ve… got them…! They’re safe…!: Soushi! They need our—!: Stop! Stay away from him or you’ll get assimilated as well!
: Then what the frick are we supposed to do now?!
SRW UX - Shangri-La
: We’ll take care of it!: Sakura?!
: My Mark Fünf’s Aegis can handle a Festum’s attacks! : I’ll get in the Festum’s face and keep it pinned! Then, Sakura and Kenji’ll take it down and rescue Koyo and the investigation team! Got it?!
: Ooooh, can we really pull that off…?!: Mark Fünf, stop this right now! You’ll put everyone at risk if you can’t keep the Festum at bay!: Hold fast to your belief in a brighter tomorrow and fight on, even when victory seems impossible…! That’s the spirit of the Mobile Samurai, Goubine! 
: Ooh, he’s so cool…: He’s insane…!
: Still, I have heard far worse plans than his! We must execute it quickly, though…!: Soushi, please, have faith in our friends just this once!: …: Very well. But you three cannot fail, understand?! Forward, Fafners!: Time to show everyone the fruits of all our training!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhfl3Iq_NZ4
Captions are available for GOUBINE
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: W-We did it! We beat the Festum!: W-Waaah! That was so scary, mooommyyyy!: Now force-eject the Mark Vier’s cockpit!*Done.*
: Both the escape capsule and Koyo’s cockpit have been recovered!
: Good, then all units return to the Elshank! That bomb’ll go out any second now!: Ylbora, wait! What about the downed Federation pilot?! He hasn’t been found yet!
: We’ve done everything we could! If we stay here any longer, we’ll be caught in the blast as well!: B-But…!: To all mobile forces: return to the Elshank at once! That’s an order!
: Ensign, what’re you doing?!: P-Please, wait! Jin’s still somewhere around here!: There’s no time! We have to retreat right now!: Just give me one more minute! I just need to find his cockpit block…!
*Grab!*
: That’s enough, Arnie…: Maj. Richard…?!: I’m really sorry… but we can’t do as you ask. Not today.: P-Please let me go, Major! I… I can still find Jin!: Saya, we’re pulling back double time!: Yes, sir!: Jin…! JIIIIIIN!
Location: Inside the Mark Vier’s cockpit
: Hmm… I-I’m…?: You’re awake, Koyo…: Soushi… is that you, Soushi…? Angela - Separation: ?! Koyo… are you…?!: Tell me… Who… who did I save?: …: It was Toumi and Mr. Mizoguchi’s group…: Toumi…? I don’t remember who that is… Why can’t I remember…?: Koyo…: Is this what’s it’s like to be assimilated…?: I don’t feel anything… I know I’m supposed to be sad about something, but…: That’s it… It was because of Shouko…: …: Shouko…: Who... Who is Shouko...?
Location: ALVIS – ICU
: …
: This… This can’t be real…
: It is, unfortunately…
: What the hell is this?! Why’d you stuff him in this life-support pod thing?!: Is… Is he alive?: Yes, but his central nervous system was assimilated during battle. : This is what happens when the Festum assimilate you…?: It’s how they fight. They take away everything we have: our mind, our memories, our emotions… until there’s nothing left. 
: Th-That’s…!
: This is my fault… If I’d just pulled out his cockpit block sooner…!
: You’re wrong, chief… I was the one in charge of getting his cockpit out. This is my fault…: It’s no one’s fault! The Festum were the ones who did this to him!: Only because he had to come and save us…
: Stop blaming yourselves! This is no one’s fault… It’s not…
: This… is what he brought onto himself.: …?!: Y-You… What’d you say?!: And we lost a Fafner because of it. We’ve no time for sentimentality.: Minashiro…!*SLAP!*
: …?!: How can you say something like that?! You were the last person he was able to talk to – the only one he had in the end!: Do you feel nothing for him?! Are you just that heartless…?!: …: Gch… Waahaaaah…!
Over by the CDC, Makabe and Mizoguchi both agree that the Fed’s timing was waaaay too perfect on that. How many spies have they managed to sneak into the island? Mizoguchi asks if he should try and deal with them, and Makabe allows it BUT they are to be treated with the care they deserve as fellow men and women.
Aw, really? They could probably squeeze something good outta them if they threatened to make them swim with the fishes. Makabe isn’t budging, though, and Mizoguchi understands: he doesn’t want to fight other people. “That said, what about them kids? The idea of fighting other folks scares them just as bad, but they’re doing it anyway,” Mizoguchi argues. “Won’t be long before we grown-ups have to stop running from that, you know…?”
SRW UX - Prologue: Hrgh…!: Are you alright? This is precisely why they said you couldn’t pilot anymore. What were you thinking pulling a stunt like that…?: Easy, I’ll be fine. Not like we used the Hell Stringer or anything.: And more important than me: how’s Arnie doing?: Joe and Rennie are with him, but… he took quite the heavy blow.: Understandable… I think he sort-of expected this to happen when he quit the Federation Army, but doing the deed himself is probably what’s hurting the most…: Which is why you shouldn’t have enabled him back then. : If I may be frank, the only reason he wound up shooting his friend down himself was because you opened your big mouth…: Still, despite your misgivings, you sure pulled out all the stops helping him, no?: ?! I-I…!: I’m glad you did, too, as the Orphes would’ve also gone into particle annihilation otherwise.: As a matter of fact, that was quite the show of skill back there. I might even say you did better than when you worked with me. : Th-That was simply because I couldn’t let the Orphes be lost to us! That’s all there was to it!: Hmhmm…
: …
: Um, well… We were way in the middle of the ocean, right? The water’s pretty deep out there. Who knows, maybe they cushioned the blast and he made it out alive…?: …
: Ensign Berge…: Aargh, screw it! We’re just feeding him a buncha crock and that ain’t gonna make him feel better! : J-Joe, hold up!: Listen to me, Arnie. You know I can’t stand Ylbora, right? But even I gotta admit that he was doing everything he could to find your friend – he kept at it ‘til there was just no time left on the bomb’s clock!: And he wasn’t the only one either! Saya, the Tatsumiya kids… all of us did everything we could, didn’t we?!: I know… and I’m grateful for the help. I’m sorry to have put you guys in that spot…: Then…!: Jin and I… neither of us had any parents, so we grew up in the same orphanage…: The two of us have been together since we were kids. We went through so much, worked so hard over the years, to make something of our lives…: So I was sure that even if we went down different paths, we’d eventually come to terms with one another… I was sure of it…!: …: I really am grateful to all of you. But, I…: I wanted to save him…!: Arnie…: Th-That’s all I wanted to do… kch…!: I’m sorry, Jin… I’m so sorry…