The first part comes, folks.
(As always, Chinese translation made by cnfmp and Working House)
Prologue
14 hours after the fight in Mexico (MMD), the third meeting of Amalgam leaders continues. Mr.Au asks about status of Mr.Ag (Leonard), and Mr.K (Kalinin) replies "It's serious" without any signs of feelings. It's observed that, after a few months of conversations with him, he's just an ordinary, loyal soldier without interest upon politics and money. H eeven doesn't pay notice to the thing that Mr.Au had used "Reinforcements" as the excuse to send units to attack Leonard, or the fact that Amalgam is now becoming more desperate. Probably he also know that most of the people around are now on Mr.Au's side by threatening or flowing words. Kalinin continued that Leonard is being treated in an hospital in Acapulco (Mexico), and even he got saved it may lead to other consequences, like he may not stand up anymore. Mr.Au feels regret about this news.
The leaders are still scattering around the world, and Mr.Au is a Japanese living in Tokyo. (His flat got strong anti-bullet glasses, and it's positioned in the north of Tokyo Harbour) It's described that he is still a patriot despite he wields great power, and will limit the terrorist attacks in Japan whenever he can.Though he allows the usage of Benemoth for A21 to wreck havoc, he never allows nuclear attacks, and he had actually prepared a self-destruct system within it, so that if the Benemoth is moving towards centre of Tokyo he'll take it out. After the "negligible" terrorist attack last year, he gained more influence over the Japanese safety departments. Let the loyal, helpful guys to do the rest, set up stages for those easily-controlled to suscced his place, flaming about the external threats and label moderates as traitors------they're indeed traitors since the world is made by cheating and marauding each other. As an island country with scarce resources, it's a miracle for the country not to involve in major conflicts and continue to prosper, and he had to prolong this miracle. That's why he's using Amalgam.
After some discussions about Kalinin's further actions (regroup to guard Leo and gather info of remants of Mithril), Mr.Na mentioned that TDD will show up eventually after Mr.Au said that they seem escaped trackings from US Navy, and said that they can't be ignored now. Mr.Au said only Codarls will be enough for the trheat is just teh white AS, and Kalinin said "you understand military affairs so well" (the actual meaning is the reverse). Mr.Au responds by saying the core of a problem are alike in other affairs, of which he and Leo had misunderstood upon. Kalinin agrees, but he continues by saying that he and himself had tolerated their evil minds for too long. At the same moment, Mr.Cu, Mr.Sn and Mr.Na were being attacked, with Cu and Na being shot, and it seems that Sn's bring was smashed and stuff within spilled upon the desk. Then 3 people shows up upon the line and reports "Suppressed", and it's revealed that those 3 killed people had planned to kill Leonard along with Au. Mr.Au was shocked, but Kalinin was sneaking up his back already, and throws aside the communicator he used. He then said that the security forces are suppressed already and no one will help him. It's shocking that he knew his living place and real identity, but what's more is that he shouldbe definately in Mexico half a day ago, and travelling to Japan will need 20 hours of flight.
Soon after a short speech, Kalinin pushed his head onto the desk and breaks his head by an arm attack. Mr.Au dies in an instant.
Afterwards, Kalinin picks up the mic on the desk and said that it's teh retailiation against the act of plans to kill Leonard. The rest of the leaders had calmed down already, and some of them had even predicted such thing will happen, so they didn't object to his action. But then he asks "soemone" to respond------he had never appeared in the meetings, but he's always there. If conflicts within leaders had become a state like this, he'll definately show up.
Amalgam had no actual leader as mentioned before, since their form is in a network-like organization. But without an Administrator the organization can't tighten it. He never shows his thoughts, never shows up, but only giving a place for others to gather, acting as the Regulator, gather all sort of elements to form Amalgam. Kalinin calls Mr.Hg once more or they will reconsider the level of trust towards him, and he finally show up, using a voice change and speaks "Seems that something has gone wrong".
Chapter One: Wall of sand
Major Martin Estis (my crappy translation, see Engage Six Seven for details) had received a bad news: Enemy forces had been approaching this base built upon ruins from Sulalah al—Mariniyyin era, 30 MBTs and 4 2ndGen AS, and probably more will come. Obviously these are from Amalgam forces in Morocco, and they finally come to destroy those surviving, gathered Mithril remants, who're waiting for a chance to counterattack.
Their place is within the desert right between the borders of Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara and Algeria, no hills around and it's so hot. Tents and barracks are camofluged within the ruins, the runway is an open ground with cracks, so though it can escape from the views of satellites, but it's far from being called as a base: only <100 people, just a few 2ndGen AS and some incomplete M6 parts. Though it's surprising for them to find this place, but is that necessary to send such a huge force? Sergeant Gima (my crappy translation, see Engage Six Seven and Confronting Festival) comments that it may due to they didn't know how much forces they had left.
In the past in Belize (Central America), there was a training camp of Mithril units that gather all mercenaries around the world, and pick out suitable candidates for Mithril, which accounted must of the fighting force of it, including the Trio of Pacific Battlion. Because of Amalgam's attack in the beginning of the year, they're forced to escape within the wetland in Belize, abandoning stuff like armour vehicles and AS and after 3 weeks of escape they finally arrived to Columbia from air transport in Honouras. After they arrived to Medellin, most of the trainees had gone back to their hometown as well, leaving just <20 officers and some trainees. With just less than 20 men they can't do much, so they started a small civil military company in North Africa and gathers information of teh allies. Months later, all doesn't gone well except about 10 former Mithril men gathered there, and it seems that others are also holding small groups for observation, but it's almost equal to impossible for them to find them all out, for those who they can find are also pessimistic and choose not to team up. Even Martin and his gang had less hope for reforming the force, and thought they can just run like a small civil military company......
Until the event in San Fransico breaks out.
News reported that it's "explosions in the port", but by just seeing the few photos they considered that it isn't a normal explosion, but caused by AS fights. As such, Martin led a few men and flies there and gathered information from local workers, surveilience cameras and other stuff, soon they concluded that it's a black M9 fought with a Codarl, and with a Cruise Missile from nowhere the Codarl is destroyed single-handedly by the M9. They know about the M9 is probably piloted by Clozort, and the missile was fired from TDD with a dareful commander. Their delight of knowing this is more than just happy, since the South Pacific Battlion had survived and hit Amalgam hard once. This event seems to spread among former Mithril men, and more and more people comes to contact him for revenge as they're inspired by this fight.
2 months after that, the size of the whole unit had tripled and can set up a base in teh current position. They tried hard to retrive funds from European banks for the training camp and buy necessary stuff, but as they're preparing for the actual expansion of fighting force, enemy comes to attack them. It doesn't matter how they find them, but their forces are overwhelming. Even they try to escape, they'll still being caught, and it's impossible to hold on until the transports arrive at this place, which need at least 2 hours.
As Martin and Gima are preparing to defend the place in this despearate battle without any signs of fear, they spotted a 4WD is rushing towards them regardless how rough the ground is. As they decided to observe, the car is so close that the driver's face can be seen. It's "him" (Yen), the Korean who passed the training 2 years before, but they just can't call his name correctly. ("The one that complete all tasks perfectly even he looks so weak" by Gima, "The strange one who passed the training unnoticed even he isn't that noticible" by Martin. Yen, you're so unnoticible from others from teh beginning to the end. Duh.)
The car arrived without being shot from this side, and the driver jumps down and runs towards them. After some tricks by Gima to get Yen's name correctly (also, we noticed that even Yen is a Sergeant now. Sousuke, what's your purpose in the SRT now?) by ordering him to report his name and ranks, Martin observes that Yen must have know that enemy are coming.
And they did as Yen is speaking. The first shell from artilleries had destroyed Yen's car already. But it's just a testing shot and teh artillery units will fix their aim for a few times before starting the actual barrage. They have no time to idle, and teh three retreats back to the line.
Enemy barrages from artilleries and tanks poured upon the Mithril base, though men are mostly unscratched thanks to trenches, their exposed resources and vehicles are mostly being blown up. In the meantime Yen wants to speak with Martin for a few times, but are rejected all the times as Martin is still trembling with the despearate situation. The tanks are approaching in a few directions, and facing them are 12 modified M60 MBT, probably more. Though they can reduce them to under half strength, it's still meanless as they'll be annihiliated by the rest......
BLAM.
Then another BLAM, BLAM, BLAM. The approaching tanks explode one by one, by probably Sniping Cannons and High-speed Missiles which Martin and the rest can't see. Yen orignally wants to tell Martin that "reinforcements will arrive in 15 minutes" and which they had come early, but Martin had rejected to hear it from him......And when he wonders where the reinforcements are, a M9 lands just above him, with ECS disabled. Martin immediately recalls that it's Mao piloting, and which is carrying a K-1 "Javelin" High-speed Missile Launcher. But Martin is still worried about it, for only AS as reinforcements will be troublesome since deserts are troublesome terrains for them.
Elsewhere, "he" is receiving more and more information about the situation. The TDD Battlion has fully reinforced the base, but their ammo starts to run low and enemy fire are so concentrated and massed. But despite how dire the situation are, the communications are just as calm as ever, just like himself------a machine. AL, boarding ARX-8 Laevatein, is processing the all the electronic data received. Laevatein is still standing by elsewhere within Pave Mare (ECS on), and by TAROS he can feel that the controller is nervous for some reason. He won't commit faults due to pressures, but in order to make sure the LDS is functional it's necessary to make him more relieved, so he suggested to play some music, which is rejected by the controller Sousuke. By the conversations we know that AL treated all sorts of "shut up" as normal replies from him.
In fact, even in normal battlefields an AS can't confront a MBT directly and win, because of their weaker armour, inability to destroy one by Assault Rifle shots upon the front and their size differences, not to mention they have to fight in such difficult battlefield, so their AS must use the trenches around the base to maximuze their mobility, meanwhile destroying approaching threats by AT weapons. On the other hand, because of the terrifying offensive power of Laevatein, it better holds in reserve and pose an indirect threat to enemy forces (of which they must retain some reserve forces to deal with this serious threat), and can act as a mobile defender since, if it shows up early, enemy may just escape or pour all power to destroy it.
As teh partners are guessing if the commander is Kalinin or not, it's revealed that the enemy force indeed hold some reserve force in southwest, and are used now due to the strong resistance. After a short dissussion it's decided Laevatein will intercept these folks, but as Pave Mare is flying to the interception point, Kurz suddenly tell them to check for a suspicious small hill nearby, and tell Sousuke to look out for sniping fire. Laevatein lands before the enemy column, and by using Gun-Howizter Mode of 165mm Demolition Gun, he fires a shot. Missed, but predicted. By receiving the data given by Pave Mare, they adjusted the angles of fire while reloading, but the enemy has already fired upon them adn hit twice, shaking the whole unit. AL suggests to change firing position for safety but is rejected. It's revealed that Sousuke has left out of hesistation in decision making as when piloting Arbalest, being supported by a "strong will" behind, and also AL is knowing human emotions despite he's a machine, and has an independent personality growing up------sometimes ago Kurz and a few other people suggested to change AL's voice into a female one "to make others feel loving towards AL", but was rejected by AL and Sousuke because both thinks that it's disgusting and humilitating to change the voice of "a veteran like me" into a soft female one.
Enemy shells are landing accruately upon Laevatein, but by the action of TAROS it's now in a defensive stance and LDS activilates, vaporising the shells like it's a casaul run. Then Sousuke responds by firing the cannon to destroy the tanks while blocking incoming fire, and enemy retreats gradually from all sides because the reserves are being drained so much. They're winning this fight------
NO.
Sousuke suddenly controls the unit to dodge a 1km/s sniping fire among teh rocks, as the shot PENETRATES teh LDS barrier and passes its left shoulder, if Sousuke dodges any 0.5s later, Laevatein may well being halved by the shot. Undoubtfully the shot is supported by Lambda Driver, and though Sousuke can't see the enemy he attempts to fire back. A shot seems to land near to the enemy, which Fairy's Eye detected a strong interference of LDS systems. The enemy unit still makes a fast decision and retreats with haste in ECS. They decides not to pursue.
TO BE CONTINUED
(This is freaking long to translate)