In our last episode you had just managed to escape from Jaburo, and land in Costa Rica.
However your assault stirred up a hornets nest and the Federation sent its forces in Panama upwards into Central America. You and your wounded forces escaped Costa Rica and landed in the small Mexican town of Salina Cruz, where you set up a defensive strategy whilst the engineers worked on fixing the Gaws.

Yes!

>>8205845

Honestly. I come home early to go to my Pathfinder game, only to find it's bee cancelled.

Ah well, more Zeonquest for you guys then.

>>8205884

And that is why you're awesome.

FUCK YES ZEONQUEST

So what do we have? What's the ETA on the Gaws being fixed? And who is laying awake every night waiting for Unicorn to be subbed?

The earliest you expect enemy forces is at 9am.

The 8 Gaws won't be repaired until 4pm in the evening though.

If I recall last week the following defence plan was this:

Dopps on Anti-Air, Zaku's on the frontline behind tank chassis blockades, supported by a rapid response unit consisting of 4 Gouf Customs and a long range support unit (2 Zaku Canons, Jolynes Dom Cannon and Hovis in the Rhinoceros.)

You and Elaine are in the Doms as a perimeter patrol/outflanking force.

>>8206057
It seems like a solid plan for now, but we should remind everyone that it's subject to very sudden, very drastic change in case of Gundam.

Note that Mexico is a pretty big country there is a chance that the enemy may just pass you by.

What? it could happen!

Any way, your on perimeter patrol when you spot an enemy APC in the NE plains, you don't see any other enemy forces.

You think it has spotted you.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8206194

What's our Minofski density at the moment? Can they radio back to other forces, or would they have to run for it?

>>8206214

Minovsky Density throughout all of Central America has been high ever since some idiot detonated a giant Minovsky Particle Emmitter at Panama. Percentage is currently at 55%, which is enough to degrade his radio to about 700 meters. He'll have to RTB to get the message across.

OH SHIT, ZQ

>>8206255

When we need to take him out, swiftly.

Pursue it personally, with Elaine providing backup in case of an ambush. The Doms can easily outrun it.

Dig a pit outside of town with a fake ground covering. When enemy forces get close, the MS inside pops out of the ground and opens fire, tosses flares to signal artillery, and retreats back into the city.

>>8206255
Don't mind messaging out about it until we take it down.

"Elaine. Shoot that jeep. That's an order."

>>8206255

Yeah, take it out, sharpish. If it gets away we'll have the whole Feddie force down on us. If we can delay that, it's more time to get Gaws fixed and more time to get dug in to our defensive positions.

>>8206270

You tell Elaine to continue her sweep whilst you pursue the APC. The vehicle pops smoke to try and evade you and sweep in after it.

You open up with the Beam Spray to try and clear the smoke, maybe get a lucky hit on the vehicle. It doesn't do much to clear the area, but it helps a little.
You fire ahead of you with the Bazooka, the explosion helps clear the smoke a little better and you can see the Hovertank APC moving ahead in an erratic fashion.

It looks like your attacks miss, but the blast slowed him down a little. You continue to pursue over a ridge, where 150mm shells whizz around you. A couple manage to hit, but your Dom's heavy armour takes it. You see a group of 4 Enemy Tanks hidden below the ridge. The APC is continuing to flee, and is faster than the tanks.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8206394
Would a good parting shot at it have a chance of at least heavily damaging it? I'm worried about our chances of running into some deep shit if we follow it.

>>8206394

The fact there are tanks present would imply that at least the local Federation forces know of our presence.

Continue the pursuit, ordering Elaine to hit the tanks.

Massive bazooka shell in the center of that cluster of tanks.

>>8206394

If we can still hit it with a bazooka shot, take it out. Call in Elane to help with the tanks. We could probably take them out ourselves, but we want to focus on killing their recon.

hit the apc then come back for the tanks

>>8206437
>>8206447

You open up a signal to Elaine about the enemy tanks whilst you fire a shot at them. The blast takes out two and sends another flying into the air.
The signal is breaking up, but you think you hear an affirmative, you then continue to pursue the APC.

The APC jinks from side to avoid your fire, but eventually you are able tag it with a rocket from your 330mm, sending it flipping into the air, whereupon it lands on its side and explodes.

You inspect the wreckage, there don't appear to be any suvivors, the vehicle appeared to be travelling to somewhere over the next ridge.

>>8206648
investigate all sneaky like

You peer over the Ridge with a finger mounted camera. You see what appears to be two companies of Tanks surrounding a familiar if unwelcome sight.

A Morlock class Subterranean Heavy Transport.

You think you see a stencilled in symbol of 01.
Furthermore, nobody appears to have spotted you and if Elaine has finished off those Tanks then they should have NO idea that you're here.
The group is travelling north towards the Zeonic defence line at the Rio-Grande.

>>8206661
This

Funnel here, I thought today was cancelled too, Not that im complaining, Just shocked you know.

Fire the Bazooka at the Morlock, preferably, the tracks. If we can't take it out ourselves, we should at least slow it down.

>>8206766

Don't worry about it, *I* thought today's Zeonquest was cancelled as well.

>>8206779

Second. Get a surprise hit or two in on this thing, do as much damage as we can, and then get the hell out. We do not want this thing coming up behind our defensive lines.

Reload our Bazooka before we start firing. We wanna put as much firepower into it as we can manage before having to leave.

>>8206779
>>8206730

I think we should leave the Murlock alone, For now, I doubt that it is biggest secret around, But we should plant demolition charges if we have any.

Also Inb4 it really is Murlock 04. Meaning there are even more out there.

>>8206806

DO keep in mind that you are on your own, and the thing isn't travelling all that fast. Also keep in mind that if this thing figures out your in Salina Cruz, it could probably take out most of your Gaws when it comes up, and you have very little to stop it.

>>8206824
go back to the gaws and report what we have seen...

if we want to attack we can amass a stronger strike force if not, we at least they know about it

>>8206837

Great idea, Seeing how long ago we fought the 02, They may have refitted the 01 with some anti MS weaponary, Not to mention it might be Carrying some of those Visorheads/GMS.

>>8206837
Don't.

We can't leave, since there is a collection of wreckage and debris from our escapades. Even if we clear that there are recent scorchmarks from explosions on the ground and nearby area, let alone the likelyhood they heard 330MM shells exploding.

Realistically, we can't avoid them knowing something is up with their forward scouts for long at all.

So we HAVE to attack now, or otherwise reveal ourself, lest we lose the chance to control their intel.

>>8206881
... That too is a heavy point, But as it is slow moving it would not really manage to escape that easily.

And if the 01 is carrying GMs then we should keep in mind that we would be horribly outnumbered and out gunned.

I wish Hobbes was here, He would been able to send a message atleast or follow the Murlock.

>>8206881
well how much ammo do we have left?

that is alot of tanks and the drill thing...

do you think we can handle it?

Made quick plan so how we should do this if we do it.

Murlock Assault plan:

Step 1: Go for the Hangar/Loading bay and disable to doors, Make sure they can´t launch anything.

Step 2: Go for any Antenas or exposed comunication equipment, Stop them from calling reinforcements.

Step 3: Go for the threads, Stop it from moving.

Step 4: Temporary retreat, We should have disabled it from fleeing before the battle ends, And By this time there might arrive some reinforcements for it.

Any manned cannons would have to be disable as we go forth.

>>8207048
i agree with this,

but what if it DOSE launch any enemy MS or the sort, what all would we do then...

engage the enemy MS or do we continue with the disabling of the launching area

ps what about the tanks escorting it?

>>8207081
The tanks is where the trouble lies, Therefore we should make use of their weakness, That they can´t aim high.

So we jump t+/onto the murlock and operate from there. Staying as close to it we can, After all, A escort cannot fire in what they are escorting, Right?

>>8207081
>>8207130
but there are more then would be needed to get a few lucky shots off... and because there are so many some will have a clear shot no matter where we are...

ps sorry for the shitty ms paint stuff... got bored and figured a diagram (no matter how shitty it really is) would help in some way

>>8206057

Are our infantry set up to detect enemy forces on our flanks/blind spots?

>>8207255

Hmmm, I could have sworn that the Tanks couldn´t fire that high, IIRC the made pretty big deal out of in During Igloo 2 Episode 2, Where the tanks needed to drive up on ramps to efficently fight Zakus. Hence why jumping up on the murclock would put us out of their range.

Also,Im still of the opinion we should ignore the Murlock for now. Im just giving a idea for a attack plan.

>>8207255
They're tanks. Not too much of a threat. I vote we radio back to Elaine and have her head back to tell the base. Then we can see if we can get the rest of Nactmaren squad out here to help us. Hovis and Jolyne should be able to shell that thing into oblivion, and if any of the tanks come looking, the rest of us can take them out.

>>8207321
how about this, we charge the Murlock but we fire our bazooka at the tanks, when we reach the Murlock we take out our hear sword (OOH YA) and start to hack the thing to bits, going in >>8207048 order

>>8207298

they detect this.
your reaction?

>>8206837

>>8207130

Actually, new style tanks used by the Federation since April have been able to traverse their barralls up to 180 degrees. You discovered that on the same mission that you tangled with this things younger brother ironically enough.

>>8207298

Yes, that's what they did back in Jaburo.

>>8207380
...wouldn't even 90 degrees mean that they can fire straight up? 180 seems like overkill.

>>8207406

Uh, actually that's what I meant. Thanks.

>>8207369
y/n to this?

>>8207413
ps its ok man...lol

>>8207413
No problem. Now radio Elaine and get her to send word of what we've found back to base. We'll keep watch on it from here. But be sneaky and don't let them see us.

>>8207448

I support this, It´s not like the Murlock can vanish without trace, If it does we just need to look for big hole in the ground.

>>8207448
>>8207481

After making sure you are a decent distance not to get intercepted to send a signal out to Elaine to warn them of what you've seen.
You continue to shadow the Mawlock from a safe distance. It's not hard, the vessels moving fairly slowly.
After about 20 minutes, Calvin runs up on foot to meet with you.

"The Captains say that an attack on the Morlock before the Gaws are repaired is a no-go. They say they can't risk stranding the MS forces behind enemy lines. Captain Fontaine however says that once the Gaws are away, he'd have no complaints about Nachtmaren racking up another Land Battleship kill."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8207561
Calvin stays here to keep watch on it so that we don't loose track of it. Elaine and us will head back to base and continue to wait in case the enemy comes knocking. With any luck, the Gaws will be repaired without incident and we'll go after the land-sub.

>>8207561

Hn.

We bail, then. Get back to base. With any luck they won't spot the wreckage for long enough to buy us some time. It doesn't seem like they know where we are yet.

If this thing dives, it could total the Gaws coming back up. And I see no reason why it wouldn't if they knew our location.

>>8207609

You and Calvin carefully retreat back for now. You can deal with the Morlock later.

You return to your patrol sweep.

Two more hours pass. It is now 1pm, and a couple more Mobile Suits have been repaired, and shuffled off to either the blockade line or Field Support. So far no problems.
It's beginning to look like you may have dodged a bullet. (Touch wood.)

>>8207606
>>8207609

Leave Calvin for tracking duty, The rest RTBs.

>>8207847
Well, nothing much we can do but sit and hope that they pass us by.

>>8207847
its quiet,

too quiet...

>>8207847
>>8207888

Oh. Oh shit.

Have we got seismic monitors rigged up? Now that we know there's a Morlock around, it would be REALLY NICE to have some stuff set up to detect ground tremors such as might be made by, say, a giant underground land battleship burrowing around to kill us all.

Talk to Engineering about this. It is important.

>>8207913
Eh, we should be safe. They don't even know we're here.

>>8207927

So far as we know, yes. I'd still rather not have our first clue that it's coming be it exploding out of the earth and totally a Gaw.

>>8207913

You ask Calvin about Seismic monitors and he says that they put up an ad-hoc passive seismic sonar network up the moment they heard the Morlock was in the area. Nothings been triggered thus far, but it was adhoc, so you might not get all that much notice.

About an hour later however the other shoe you were waiting for drops. Calvin picks up an incoming column of enemy armour heading towards the town. It looks like Tanks supported by a single Big Tray class Battleship. No sign of enemy mobile suits, but a couple of those Hovertanks are present. You can't really see numbers just yet, they're too far away.
They haven't spotted your forces, but they will soon.

Everyone scrambles to their posts.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8207988
RIDE OUT TO MEET THEM HEAD ON!...

we need to keep them as far away from the GAWs as we can... i figure if we suprise attack them from the side we can get at the big trey and then have a shooting gallery with the tanks

>>8207988
Stick to the plan. Get their coordinates and start shelling them with our artillery. Once they've closed the Gouf team moves to flank them while the main like of Zakus pours on the firepower. Us and Elaine will use our MASSIVE SPEED to zip to the Big Tray and take it out before it can get a firing solution.

No one else is here?

Whatever.

Get around them. There should be some ridges and hills I believe, if memory serves.

Attack from their sides with grenades if we have them. Otherwise bazookas. Then circle to their flank and move in.

>>8207988
Try and pick some off. Same tactics as last time.

>>8208033
This. And have the Rhinoceros prepare to bombard the shit out of them.

>>8208033
The posting was down, Meaning it was impossible to post.

>>8207988
Ambush them.

MISSED YOU SO MUCH ZEONQUEST.

Anway, seconding >>8208027. Shell them into an anvil of Zakus, send in the Goufs to break their formation, and Doms make a break for the Big Tray.

Wait.

Is there a Big Tray AND the drill ship?

>>8208102
yep feddies are goin all out here

MS forces need to make use of our jump jets when we get into close range combat. Jump and fire. Jump and fire. Stay clear of their shots.

>>8208102
Not in this formation. The drill is somewhere else.

>Stick to the plan. Get their coordinates and start shelling them with our artillery. Once they've closed the Gouf team moves to flank them while the main like of Zakus pours on the firepower. Us and Elaine will use our MASSIVE SPEED to zip to the Big Tray and take it out before it can get a firing solution.

Keeping to the plan, you and Elaine travel east to the hilly region, where you wait for the right time to strike.

As the enemy get close you get a better look at their numbers. It looks like 3 Companies of Tanks supported by Hover-Tanks and a Big Tray. No sign of air units.

Their formations are loose, to reduce artillery damage, but large explosive plumes begin to fall around them as the artillery support teams begin shelling the enemy. You see rockets catch five tanks in a barrage, leaving them nothing but wreckage - that'll be Hovis in his Rhinoceros.
The tanks increase speed in order to make artillery spotting more difficult.
As they get closer to the town, the Zaku squads reveal themselves and open fire on the Tanks. The front outriders are mostly destroyed and the rest begin to scatter into the ruins to their right.
The Big Tray, now with reduced escort begins to accellerate towards the blockade line.

It looks like now's the time for your move.

>>8208182
Bazooka rounds to the bridge. Even if we don't destroy it we'll have it distracted. We were able to take these things down with regular zooks, these 330mm will be able to do art least as well, I'd think.

>>8208182
Hit that Big Tray like the fist of an angry god.

hit it from both sides if you can Elaine firing her zook at the front right track, us at the rear left. then close in for the kill

>>8208182
Bridgeshot. Approach from the left or right flanks to minimize chances of return fire. Try and jump on the back for more damage and a shot at heat saber to the turret, bridge, or their mini-launch bay.

>>8208257
It's a hovertank. It doesn't HAVE tracks.

>>8208316

was thinking of the really big one we already killed with hover tracks. you get the idea though

>>8208257
Once we (Zeon as a whole) runs into Amuro and his Gundam, I actually suggest we start retooling zakus to look like this, at least a few of them.

That way, if we ever run into Amuro, we can field a couple of those to make picking firing targets more difficult for the feddies, so that the Gundam will have less supporting fire.

Plus, D. Lister has been taking a break from trolling shenanigans. What was his last one, the rock candy at the meeting?

I want to see D. Lister infuriate everyone involved in making the gundam by making cheap knockoffs.

>>8208437
Oh yeah..... Those were some good times. We really do need to do more obnoxious yet harmless things to our commanders.

>>8208478
Right.

I'm not advocating LOLRANDUM stuff, just any bit of assholery we can get away with that would not inconvenience us.

Hell, this bit of trolling might actually yield a positive effect, a nervous gunner might target the gundam by mistake.

>>8208182
order the artillery to concentrate on the land battleship...

when it gets closer charge with doms

>>8208478
>>8208437

Agreed... On both points.

Our next trick should be buying everyone booze. Only that the "Booze" is Vinegar.

>>8208575
No. We do not mess with the booze. That's just...wrong.

>>8208218
>>8208306


You and Elaine emerge from your ambush spot and dart towards the enemy battleship.
It fails to spot you as it charges the friendly blockade line, the Zaku's 120mm shells bouncing off the heavy frontal armour ineffectively.

"Remember! First Rocket goes into the bridge, second into the hovecraft skirts, then concentrate on the turrets."

"Yes sir!" Elaine replies

"Use your speed to make you a hard target, don't get careless and get tagged by those cannons, even our armour can't take hits from guns of those calibre!"

You dash in and open fire. Both of your shots are on target and they impact on the ships bridge. The area is obscured in fire and smoke. You split right and Elaine jinks left as you both send your second shots into the hovercraft skirting. There's a pronoucned 'WHOOSH' of escaping area as the air cells are ruptured in two places, and the Big Tray begins to list to the side. The two of you then begin to concentrate on the guns which are firing erratically and inaccurately.
Eventually after you and the Zaku's pour enough fire into it, its burning wreck stops moving

The tanks that were escorting the Battleship are either currently in the ruins or destroyed.

YOUR ORDERS?

David Lister is more efficient than that. Why can't we confuse people by making Zeonic weaponry look like a Gundam WHILE cracking immature jokes?

Pic related.

>>8208669
return to friendly lines and get a sit rep

>>8208669
Why do they keep building them at this point?

>>8208669
>Our shields can't withstand firepower of that magnitude!

FTFY

Bring some of the tank shells back to the town so as to make more barricades.

>>8208669
Well, That was easy...

Wait... It was too easy.

Back to the Gaws ASAP, Im getting a feeling that 01 will come visit us soon.

After all with this easy this attack migh quite possibly be a feint.

>>8208775

cause only David Lister, Nichtmaren unit, and the guys from Zeonic front can destroy a big tray

So I'm asking out of curiosity now that this has had 40 fucking episodes has the main character ever failed or been defeated or injured yet?

Or is it still an amazing wankfest it has been every time I glanced at it?

>>8208814
We spent half of the Battle of Midway running around on the wrong side of the island in a wild goose chase while our base got blown to hell and back, most recently.

>>8208814
Yes, we have. In fact, we are RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT on our way back to base after failing a mission. We have been defeated several times over the course of this quest.

>>8208776
Fuck that, rip off some of the Tray's armor, if anything.

>>8208786

Well, you DO still have a load of tanks hiding in the ruins that used to be the outskirts of Salina Cruz.

That could do with some dealing with.

DYNAMIC ENTRY TIME

>>8208814

Our lowest moment was the battle of midway. We lost almost the entire zeonic naval fleet and tons of resources and material, plus an awesome competent commander and a bottle of finely aged Whisky.

>>8208814

Battle of Midway, We still came out of top, But Hovis lost his leg and we lost alot of respect from the top brass. Futhermore, When we actually encountered the Gundam we could only run since if we had actually fought it we would have been raped.

We can lose, But we tend to make the smart/correct choices in the life and death situations.

>>8208829
>>8208838
Fantastic. I'll give it that it is better then most of "You are a <Insert fantasy creature or Class here> quest"

But unless you can truly fail or die or lose a fight, I don't even see a point in the choices.

>>8208908
Well, think of it this way.

We've just made the right choice, or one of the partially right choices (in that we don't die horribly) thus far.

>>8208908
Oh, we could have died. We just chose to run away instead of fight a hopeless battle. But I suppose that nothing will suffice as proof until we manage to really screw up and actually die, will it?

>>8208908
>But unless you can truly fail or die or lose a fight, I don't even see a point in the choices
I'm sure we can, it's just that most of us are genre-savvy, have knowledge of the universe, and/or use common sense.

>>8209006

This.

As long as people keep being sensible with the occaisional dash of chutzpah then you'll do okay. Also, the posters have had plenty of imput and have in some cases radically altered my basica plans for series in places.

Like Ruubens. I honestly never planned for ANY of that, it just sort of happened.

>>8208860
Then let's go and take them out. Last thing we need is some left over tanks pulling hit and run on us if another wave comes.

Anyway.

You salvage parts from Big Tray, helping out the Zaku Tanks whilst they reinforce and lengthen the barriers.
Meanwhile you hear the occaisional explosions and chatter of fire from the ruins. Apparently the Gouf Squad went in to deal with your tank problem.

About half an hour later Zolomon's Gouf walks out, a little bit scuffed and dented but otherwise no worse for the wear.
"Jobs a goodun boss. We've got a squad of Zaku's patrolling the perimeter for stragglers, but I doubt we'll get much trouble. It's a fair bet that the Feds know where here..."

"Anita, whats the engineers ETA on the Gaw repairs?"

"Jobs almost done Lieutenant, half of them are taxiing to your position to load-up and take off now. We should be in the air in 15 minutes."

"Roger."

MAKE IT FIVE, I DONT THINK WE'LL HAVE 15, ESPECIALLY WITH THAT GOD DAMNED DRILL TANK STILL OUT AND ABOUT

>>8209260
Excellent, we've made good time. Once everyone is up and loaded, we'll get to stage an attack on the drill, right?

>>8209342

Sounds good to me.

god dame it, late agine ><

>>8209308
>>8209342

You order them to hurry it up. And the unit doubletimes it to the Gaws and in 10 minutes you're all in the air.

Once you're all up, Captain Montagu from the 123rd calls you over the comms.
"Well Lt. This is where we part ways once again. It's been a real pleasure working with you. "

"Yeah... if you like everything blowing up everywhere forever..." Zolomon remarks quietly to himself.

The Gaws are headed back to California.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8209672
Take the Outer Heaven. Use its FUCKHUEG GUNS to destroy the drill without ever having to leave the hangar.

>>8209700

Great idea, Im feeling lazy today and so do probably the rest of the team, Hit and Run with OH.

>>8209700
I'm okay with this.

>>8209700

Yah. Good plan. Unless it's gone underground, in which case we'd have to either give up on it or follow it under in the MSes.

>>8209700

won't that leave us vulnerable if enemy fighters find us?

>>8209778

To an extent, but the Outer Heaven's pretty tough, and isn't exactly lacking in defences. Plus we still have the Nachtmaren on board, so we can stand on top and shoot fighters, if it comes to that.

>>8209778
No more vulnerable than if we left the Outer Heaven to do it ourselves. Besides, it has some point defense guns, right? And we've got no reason to believe that there are any feddie aircraft around here.

>>8209738

You break from the Gaws and their Dopp escorts, and head back to where you last saw the Morlock.
Tracking it is easy since unlike the 02, this Morlock uses catapillar tracks.
You follow it for about 10 miles before reaching a giant hole.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8209738
WHY ARE YOU GIVING IDEAS?

>>8209899
A MAN ONLY HAS ONE PURPOSE WHEN CONFRONTED WITH A GIANT HOLE

FILL IT

>>8209899

Hn.

This does not make me feel especially keen. You just *know* that if we get off to follow it down the hole it'll have looped back and will crash through the wall and drill us all to death or something.

Still, Minovski density means they can't have *too* much idea about what's going on.

>>8209899
God damnit. Time to get moving. Is it big enough for the Rhino? If not, leave Hovis.

>>8209899

Crap... Deployment time, And we were just going to get comfortable and sit back for once.

I guess we can do the normal depoyment schtick.


But we can alternatively carry some timed explosives with us, Take some fast MSes, And race in, Plant the explosives near the enmy murlock, race out before detonation and watch them suffocate or emerge to surface, Where the OH would wait for them.

>>8209995

The Morlock is the size of a goddamn Big Tray. Hovis can fit.

Although all things considered, excessive use of high calibre explosive munitions inside a distinctly adhoc tunnel which was not left with the intent of being permanant? Perhaps not such a smart plan.

>>8209995
>God damnit. Time to get moving. Is it big enough for the Rhino? If not, leave Hovis.

The Morlock is about the same height as a Big Tray, so yes.

>>8210045
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE AWESOME IDEA OF HAVING HOVIS FIRE THE 300MM CANNON INSIDE THE TUNNEL!

>>8210045
He still has several machineguns, though the rocket pods may be a bit iffy.

Let´s just go on, Hole, Man, Job and Thrust. Need i say anything more?

You have the engineers rig up some high powered explosive charges for you whilst you, Elaine and Jolyne prepare to drop down the hole and attack the Morlock from behind.

Carrying the explosives the three of you dive into the hole and speed through the tunnel.

It seems ridiculous not to bring Zolomon and his high speed custom Gouf along.

>>8210292

Why do i get flashes from Old Roadrunner cartoons from this?

>>8210292

You spend about 30 minutes travelling through the tunnels, the hovor thrusters make travelling fast work. You eventually reache the rear end of the Battleship. You see rear facing point defence guns swivel to face you and begin firing at you.

They only look like 100mm shells, enough hits could cause you damage, but one or two probably wont take you out.
That said, you aren't sure how armoured those bombs you're carrying are.

>>8210436
I'm thinking getting hit on this particular mission isn't the best idea.

Shoot the shit out of those turrets. Then climb on the back of that bitch, carve a hole through the armor, shoot around inside, drop the bombs in there some place, and gtfo.

>>8210436
We still brought our bazookas, right? And Jolyne has the Dom Cannon. Start taking out those PD guns.

>>8210436

We give our share of the bombs to Elaine temprarily, And disable the PD-Cannons after that Elaine should have clear way to move up and help us plant the bombs on the Murlocks rear end. That way they will move with the Murlock, Making sure it gets closed in tightly when we detonate them.

>>8210506

You bring your Bazooka to bear and fire at the nearest gun. Unsupported, the Bazooka bucks in your hand and the shot goes wild, impacting on the ceiling causing rocks to fall onto the gun. It stops firing but you can't tell if it's permanently out of action. Elaine and Jolyne follow suit, their gunfire is a bit more accurate and doesn't manage to take down the tunnel.
You begin planting the charges whilst the other two finish off the rear guns. You then cover the other two whilst they do the same.

WHAT LENGTH OF TIMER DO YOU WISH TO PUT ON THE BOMBS?

>>8210726
Why was it unsupported? Or are we using one hand to hold the bomb? I had assumed it was strapped to our back to minimize the chance of it getting hit.

1 minute and 20 seconds.

We hightail it. After 1:20, we'll be miles away from each other.

>>8210786
Will the bombs collapse only this section of the tunnel, or the whole thing? I'm assuming it will cause a cave-in in this immediate area, so a minute and 20 seconds seems sufficient.

>>8210786
Shouldn't we plant the bomb on the digger before we run though?

>>8210786
Sounds good, Discard our weapons if we have to in order to gain speed.

>>8210837
I'd assumed we had.

With such a short timer, it seems unlikely the feds would be able to disarm it, or because of the drilling, get far enough away if they detached.

I like it.

>>8210871
So did i.

>You begin planting the charges whilst the other two finish off the rear guns. You then cover the other two whilst they do the same.

I interpret that as that all charges have been set.

>>8210871
*facepalm*

I totally missed the last sentence of Apologized's post. Yeah, we have. My bad.

No more than 2 minutes I'd say. Do we have a way to remotely disable them should something bad happen to us?

Any cameras on this Morlock we can blind? They wouldn't have them just mounted on the ends of the guns since aiming would be wild.

>Shouldn't we plant the bomb on the digger before we run though?

You HAVE just placed the bombs.

>>8210786
>>8210836

You set the timer for 80 seconds and retreat at high speed. The three follow you as you move as fast as possible back up the tunnel.
80 seconds later, you hear the blast of the detonation and the entire tunnel shakes. Clumps of rock begin to fall and the three of you scramble to avoid the debris.

"Oh shit sir, I think I can see the blast catching us up!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8211051
Wait until JUST before it hits us, then dive dramatically out of the tunnel, with the explosion at our backs like an action movie!

If it's going to hit us, pick up a piece of metal or some shit like that, hold it like a shield, and let the blast from the bomb shoot us out of the tunnel like a gun.

>>8211051
RUN. FASTER. And make us take the rear, if anyone stumbles or whatever we're only going to have one chance to pull them to their feet.

>>8211051
Go faster? Order the others to disengage the limiters if you have to.
Through when we get to the end of the tunnel we're going to be experiencing some hella-crazy G-forces on the up slope.

>>8211051
LIMITER DISABLE, THROW AWAY ALL WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT, USE ALL BOOSTERS, OUT RUN IT.

Or do >>8211096.

GOD DAMMIT. I WOKE UP EARLY, THEN WENT BACK TO BED BECAUSE I WAS LIKE "OH YEAH, NO ZEONQUEST THIS WEEK." GODDDAMMMIIIITTTT!

In other news, I wish I'd been here earlier. We could have Apsalus'd the Murlock before we engaged the proper Assault force, and avoided all this mucking about in giant holes.

As for the problem at hand dump weapons if it will increase our speed in a substantive manner. If not, fire our 'zook behind us into the ceiling. The firing should move us forward, and the ensuing rockfall could ablate a bit/some/all of the blast depending on our luck. If neither of these ideas make any sense, disengage our limiter, but only if we don't leave the rest of the squad behind.

>>8211192

>>8211200
I like the way this anon thinks.

FIRE EVERYTHING INTO THE CAVE WALLS AND CEILINGS BEHIND US.

THE EXPLOSIONS AND FALLING DEBRIS SHOULD HELP SHIELD US AND SHIT.

>>8211096
Physics doesn't WORK LIKE THAT! If the explosion / fireball / compressed air wave is coming towards us, we can only RUN. If it hits us, our suits won't absorb enough of the energy and the pilots might absorb the pressure wave. Jellied humans, yum.

>>8211235
Better idea, Let´s do both ideas ideas at once.

I mean, The arn´t mutually exclusive to each other.

So we fire the bazooka to cave in the tunnel, Then throw away the resto of our weapons and keep on running with a disable limiter.

>>8211279
Now isn't the time for science, damn it!

>>8211329
THIS IS GOOD. GO WITH THIS! If we put enough earth in the way of the blast wave, it might absorb all the energy. Like a bullet into a sandbag.

Two options:

Running (We're fast, but not supersonic)

Collapsing the Cavern behind us (Might stop the explosion, or it might just add more shrapnel to the blastwave)

Both are risky, I don't know which to choose.

>>8211339
There is always a time for science!

>>8211370
Or it could reflect it back down the tunnel to hit the digger again. Either is good.

>>8211109
>RUN. FASTER. And make us take the rear, if anyone stumbles or whatever we're only going to have one chance to pull them to their feet.

You tell the two of them to push on at full speed whilst you take the rear. Behind you you can see the unwelcome glow of the onrushing explosion, luckily at the speeds you're going, you might just make it to the exit.

You see Jolyne stumble to avoid falling rocks and you grasp her Dom Cannon and lift it over the debris until she can get back on her feet. The blast is catching up.
5 minutes of frenzied dashing later and the three of you leap out of the hole, a massive plume of fire erupting behind you as the tunnel collapses behind you.

Well, another Battleship bites the dust.

>>8211425
Well that was fun. Sitrep on the Outer Heaven for pickup?

So all that debate on how to deal with the situation, and the answer was run fast.

>>8211425
Ah well. The simple solutions are the best ones I suppose. Hooray for savior points with Jolyne.

>>8211425
Double check that everyone made it, Then return to the OH and celebrate for surviving a suicide mission with booze. Then ask Little Miss Operator/Bridge Bunny if we have any new missions waiting for us.

>>8211425
>Well, another Battleship bites the dust.

We hope. Might be a good idea to leave a few seismic sensors around where it is in case it survived and starts moving again. At least this way well know if it survived.

>>8211425
That thing was able to tunnel more than 20 km since we ran into it in the morning!?

>>8211500
Seconded. Can never be too sure.

>>8211503
Obviously. What other explanation is there? Plot?

>>8211500
Odds are it's probably toast either way. Even if it's still mostly intact, I doubt it's in any shape to move, and it's now trapped underground in a sealed tunnel, dooming its crew to a slow death.

>>8211425
Tell the girls that they've just been introduced to the real joy of working with us and Zolomon. EPIC EXPLOSIONS complete with DEATH DEFYING LEAPS.

>>8211558
Is now a bad time to mention that some of the most complex natural cave systems in the world are located in Mexico?

>>8211558
A slow agonizing death... Crap, We really acted like villains this time around.... Didn´t we?

Thankfully we arn´t sensetive enough to actually feel their deaths... Let´s just hope that they died in the explosion, For their sake.

But i guess this is a nother thing we should try to forget, Like the "torture a man to death" thing.

>>8211558
If it's mostly intact then the DRILL BATTLESHIP can probably DRILL its way out. It will only take a few moments and could provide us with a waring if it isn't destroyed.

>>8211658
If it's smart, they know they're damaged, and will wait until we're gone before they start drilling out.

With the bombs placed and the tunnel collapsed there's not really much more you can do but return to the base.

About an hour in, Anita contacts you with a priority message from command, she patches you in with Garma.

"Lieutenant, good work on safeguarding friendly forces. You're skills are now needed on the Mexican defence line. You're needed to travel to the Zeonic Southern US Ops center in Arizona. Once again, good work in Jaburo, the rest of command be classing the operation as a marginal failure, but I think we've dealt a great blow to the Federation, and one way or another, I think this deadlock is about to break."

You can do nothing but salute smartly and get back on with saving Zeon singlehandedly.

STORYLINE ARC COMPLETE

>>8211658
After we just blew open its entire aft section and dropped the entire tunnel on it? I think you're seriously overestimating its structural integrity.

>>8211611
>Is now a bad time to mention that some of the most complex natural cave systems in the world are located in Mexico?

No. I am so taking that down for future ideas.

>>8211693
No talking with Garma? Eh, here's to hoping for an interesting Omake. Maybe a slice of the enemy pilot's life.

We definitely need a fed perspective omake

>>8211733
Aw crap... I can see a cave battle with the enemy ace going down right about now...

>>8211698
Hey, you're the one who brought up the possibility that it might survive intact, not me. But it's a moot point now anyway.

>>8211693
Awesome! So, you still trying to finish the quest by part 50?

>>8211693
More defensive action? Sweet. It'll be nice to deal with a good old "Odds stacked against us" mission rather than "ASSAULTING THE ENEMY HEADQUARTERS WITH DRILLS AND SHIT!"

>>8211733
Most of them are underwater. I'm not sure which National Geographic I read about one particular expedition in. They were exploring for weeks and they had to take that special closed type diving gear so that they'd de able to recycle their air.

Pic is just a random example of one off Google.

>>8211761
Most likely at Part 50, there will be a major regime change that will alter our military side. We might be working for the Feds, or for another split. Who knows. I hope this quest isn't rushed to fit into 50 episodes though.

>>8211761

Yeah... I'm looking at that and I honestly can't see it happening now.

I mean next week were up to episode 40, and the events of MSG haven't even started yet.

Well, if I cant make 50, I'm going to damn well go for broke and break Dorf Quests 4chan record of 68 threads.

My hands will have fallen off, but I think I'll do it.

Also, these threads are doing wonders for my typing speed and touchtyping abilities.

>>8211835
Do it. Zeon Quest is the greatest quest. Lets go Zolomon all over that record.

>>8211835
Let the quest thread number PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

>>8211835
Ysy! I was sad at the thought of only having 3-4 more weeks of Zeonquest. Also, what is MSG?

>>8211882
Metal Solid Gear

>>8211647

I totally forgot about that. When did we do that again?

That stuff they put in the chinese food

>>8211761
If im guessing the pacing right Episode 48 or 50 would be around the time Garma dies in canon, And if he dies we will have already lost, And if he survives we should manage to launch peace talks pretty quickly afterwards.

Then after it would probably be "ZeonQuest: Apocalypse" or something, Complete with episode countreset, Like with the IGLOO OVAs.

>>8211902
That town in Arizona that some Feddie deserters had taken over.

best guess would be mobile suit Gundam. Which mean we are right at the point of operation British. So the feddies aren't too bad yet. Get ready for a gundam fight sometime soon ladies...

Oh, and I think I remember last week you mentioned something about a Zeonquest sequel involving Ruubens and the rest of us as crotchety old folk who still kick ass in our outdated suits. Is that a real possibility? Because I'd pay to see that. If I had any money, that is.

>>8211882

Abbreviation for Mobile Suit Gundam, generally used to name the original series.

>>8211953
We should totally try and play matchmaker with Ruuben's grandson and GARma's granddaughter while we are at it.

>>8211810

>>8211835
Are you making AEUG quest

>>8212015
We havent even finished this one yet.

>>8211998
Yes. We can entice them with stories about how things were back in our day. Kids love listening to that kind of thing, right?

>>8211953

IIRC the possible sequels Apologized said might happen are.

DelazQuest(0083)
AEUGquest(Zeta and ZZ)
CrossboneQuest(Crossbone)

The one with old people are Crossbone, Since the main character in crossbone is Tobia Arronax, whos last name shoudl sound familliar.

I would like a F91-quest, but i guess that would be included as Miniquest/Flashback in Crossbone.

>>8212064

Oh, sweet F91, what could have been...

Apologized had better be writing an omake right now

>>8212120
That possibility is why I'm still here. I'd love to see a slice of what the Feddies think of us.

>>8211953

Not REALLY no.

There ARE quest threads I might be tempted to do after this, but not really for a while.

Currently the list includes:
AUEGquest - Assuming AEUG even has a reason to exist after Zeonquest.
FEDDIEQUEST - Playing the other side.
SpyQUEST - Vodka Martini's, Villanous Organisations named after sinister acronyms, silenced hanguns, suits and terribly one liners.
BugboyQuest: Go read the Marines Handbook for Aliens, trust me, references are in there, and I have some pretty sweet ideas for this one.
SpaceEmpiresQuest - Rhinehard or die trying.

That's pretty much it.

Bug-Boyquest

>>8212146
Me too. Yeah, we just attacked and breached you most defended HQ and took out a bunch of your ship manufacturing capabilities. Nervous yet? How about the fact that you just lost your other digging battleship?

I need to hear what they're saying about us!

>>8212159

Fuck, didn't realise I'd done that at the end.

>>8212159

>>>>>> SpaceEmpiresQuest <<<<<<<

>>8212159
Awwww.....

>Reinhard or die trying

>>8212171
>>8212146

I would love to see a Omake or miniquest from the PoV of Bandit.

I mean i bet we killed alot of his friends, But he doesn´t seem angry or mad at us, So i think he is kinda like a mix of Jerid and Sleggar for some reason.

Oh fuck, Jerid quest

that would be great.

>>8212204

Worry not! Kaiser Reinhard von Lohengramm may yet lead us to greater things!

Sieg Mein Kaiser!

Sieg Kaiser Reinhard!

>>8212159
I was thinking about doing a Colonial Marines quest, but it appears you have an idea towards something similar.

I concur. The next quest should be REINHARD QUEST.

>>8212317
>>8212292
>>8212218
>>8212159
Who or what is Reinhard?

>>8211200
>Apsalus'd the Murlock before we engaged the proper Assault force

Oh god dammit. I totally forgot about that flying hunk of junk.

>>8212399

>>8212401

I doubt that Mr.Douche would let us use it anyway. Besides, This way we disproved the need for LOLSUPERWEAPONS, and took no casualities when dealing with the 01.

>>8212528
When did Gundam and Transformers merge?

OMAKE.

An explosion, the sound of water, lights.

"I'm getting fresh air here!"

"We'll start moving out the wounded. It doesn't look like there's been any recent collapses either."

More lights, more sound.

"Are any of these caves on the maps?"

"No, I've got people checking the caves for exits, maybe we can find a way out from here."

"I thought you said the cave network was mostly underwater?"

"It was, but that was before the Colony Drop, maybe, maybe they drained out a little bit somewhere? Maybe there's a tunnel leading up to the surface somewhere around here?"

"Hey, I've got an idea, I could strip a sonar rig from one of the command hovertanks, maybe we could use that?"

Time passes.

"So, we've definately got nowhere out that's dry?"

"Sorry, the Morlock comes with limited oxygen gear we might be able to SCUBA with, but that doesn't help us with the wounded. Even then were looking at a two hour journey through pitch darkness in hazardous terrain before we reach the lake. I don't see how we can do it."

"How much oxygen do we have left?"

"Enough, luckily the blost didn't touch the Oxygen tanks, or we'd have all gone."

A pause.

"Wait, don't we have all the spare pressure seal walls down in cargo bay 4?"

"Yeah."

"Well, cant we use those to make, a diving bell of some kind?"

"A what?"

"No, he might be onto something, most of these tunnels are pretty wide and deep, I'd have to check the sonar map, set up some spare air-tanks and an airline all the way back to the Morlock. This might work!"

"All right! Next stop Lake Chalco!"

>>8212399

>>8212625

.... Im happy they survived... Is that bad?

I mean, Atleast they won´t be able to salvage the Murlock so we still suceeded.

Oh god if there's any chance of Reinhard quest I need to stop putting off watching LoGH right fucking now.

Hey! So the Morlock people survived. Well, even though we weren't said to be thinking of them, and we don't know that they were alive IC, that's cool.

What's up with the One Armed Bandit?

>>8212625
Thanks Apologized. I love views of the other side.

>>8212625
SEE, I TOLD YOU WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT A SEISMIC SENSOR! NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TURN THE THING INTO A DIVING BELL AND MANAGE TO SAVE IT!

>>8212683
Yeah, but no mention of us. "Fuck, did you see those zeon bastards on the camera? They had Nachtmaren colors. Jesus. Are we really still alive?"

>>8212731

I think we came around them from behind in pitch black. So yeah, that being how we usually roll, all stealthy as anything, But yeah, I think only Federation Units in Mexico know us as the utterly terrifying "El Muerto Gigante".

>>8212754
Ah, but the Nacthmaren unit has been tearing shit up all over the place. I'm sure Fed high command has heard of David Lister, Knight of Zeon.

>>8212625

Well, at least we probably didn't sentence them to die a slow, horrible death underground. I do hope they won't be able to salvage the Morlock those. Those things were a pain.

>>8212702
LoGH is my next thing to watch after Unicorn, For which i am waiting for subs before watching.

>>8212723
To make it work they need to use parts from the Murlock, Meaning it is now a pile of scrap, The crew lived, The Murlock is toast. I´d say this was BEST END. After all, We arn´t trying to massacre the Feddies, just gain independence.

>>8212856
Oh, I thought the were going to turn the Morlock into a diving bell by just shifting around the air and whatnot, thus keeping it intact. If they have to scrap it for parts and abandon it, that's okay.