Operation story: 6-12

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Doctor Amiya Blaze Ch'en Nine Phantom Crossbowman L.G.D. Officer Rhodes Island Operator Reunion Member Nesti Petrova Yeti Squad Member
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Before operation

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While Rhodes Island and the L.G.D. systematically eliminate the remnants of Reunion, the Yeti Squad members give up their lives to protect FrostNova from the powerful black raincoats.

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<Background 1>
Yeti Squad Member A	All of the Reunion teams I could reach have pulled out.
Yeti Squad Member B	That's a lot of people.
Yeti Squad Member A	It's incredible... like a river.
Nesti	It'll be a river out there in the wilderness... a river of refugees. There's Ursus and Lugmenites[sic] out there. Infected and ordinary folk alike. No matter what they came with, they're leaving empty-handed. They thought there was a place that would take them. Now they know there's never anywhere they could've gone. This river won't flow forever.
Yeti Squad Member B	...... (He sounds so sad.)
Yeti Squad Member A	(He picked that up from Big Daddy.)
Yeti Squad Member B	(No wonder. Anyone would get sentimental at a time like this.)
Yeti Squad Member A	If Big Daddy was here, we would've won the fight and it wouldn't have come to this, huh?
Yeti Squad Member B	It's the luck of the draw. No use thinking about how things could've been. ......Get ready. I'll go talk it over with the Phantom Crossbowmen.
Yeti Squad Member A	Don't rush me. It's not like I don't know.
Yeti Squad Member B	Hurry up already. Quit screwing around.
Yeti Squad Member A	I'm pretty choked up too!
<Background 2>
Blaze	Are you sure?
Rhodes Island Operator	It's Yeti Squad.
Blaze	What about Amiya and her people?
Rhodes Island Operator	They're already on their way. Amiya said to tell you to "take it easy".
Blaze	...... She knows better than to tell me that. It's me, Blaze. When do I ever take it easy?
Rhodes Island Operator	Blaze! Where are you going?!
Blaze	To save lives!
<Background 3>
Yeti Squad Member B	Crossbowmen! Wait up!
Phantom Crossbowman	Yetis... what are you doing?
Yeti Squad Member B	It's Sister FrostNova... She's growing weak. She can't keep this up for long. She exhausted her energy pushing back Lungmen's forces. She may not wake up for a while.
Phantom Crossbowman	You mean you want us to take her with us? But we aren't going back to Chernobog. Faust didn't want Mephisto to go back...
Yeti Squad Member B	We're begging you! We want Sister to be together with Patriot, in the end! We know, they're not exactly getting along right now, but... their bond is stronger than blood. So please... we beg of you.
Phantom Crossbowman	...... And what will you do?
Yeti Squad Member B	We'll cover you. If we don't hold them back, the Lungmenites will catch you in no time. Once you're all far enough away from Lungmen that you're no longer a threat to them, they'll give up the chase.
Phantom Crossbowman	But that means, you guys will...
Yeti Squad Member B	Live by the sword, die by the sword. We're okay with dying in battle. The future that Sister FrostNova spoke of is still a ways away. But we don't need to see it for ourselves.
Phantom Crossbowman	We owe you our lives.
Yeti Squad Member B	That's nothing. You're saving our Sister.
Phantom Crossbowman	...We will do what you ask of us. I swear it.
Yeti Squad Member B	Take these armguards. And put on this protective suit.
Phantom Crossbowman	What for?
Yeti Squad Member B	Our Sister is far too cold for you.
Phantom Crossbowman	...She... ...She's so light...
Yeti Squad Member B	The Arts have emptied her body. Easy now, easy... Don't wake her. Look at her... look how softly she sleeps. Goodbye, Sister... We'll be waiting for you.
Phantom Crossbowman	...All right then. Let's... move on.
Yeti Squad Member	It's us that's moving on.
Phantom Crossbowman	We'll meet again, Yetis.
Yeti Squad Member	Not too soon, I hope.
<Background 1>
Yeti Squad Member D	...... Are we going to die?
Yeti Squad Member A	...... *Ursine profanity*, what are you crying for? Are you a Yeti or not?!
Yeti Squad Member D	Are you not crying?!
Yeti Squad Member A	What am I crying about...?! Did you forget what Sister said?!
Petrova	She said not to cry.
Yeti Squad Member A	Right! She said not to cry... More than a decade ago, she said not to cry! So I don't want to see any tears! We don't get to cry... because we haven't won yet!
Yeti Squad Member D	Once we win, once we're free...
Yeti Squad Member A	Once we're free, we'll cry our eyes out, in the wilderness, in the snow, in the stacks of wheat piled high, we'll be bawling!
Petrova	Sister was crying as she said it, you know.
Yeti Squad Member A	She was only nine at the time. We were all a little older than her...
Petrova	Without her, we would have died in that mine. Did you bring the sauce?
Yeti Squad Member A	Bring the what...? Wait, I thought we weren't allowed to bring it?
Petrova	You're not allowed to drink on the march, but you had it with you, I know.
Yeti Squad Member D	I want a drink too...
Yeti Squad Member A	You're not old enough yet, are you?
Yeti Squad Member D	B- but I've never tried before. I don't want to die without ever tasting it...
Petrova	Give him a little.
Yeti Squad Member A	Petrova... Fine, take a swig. But not too much, we all need a share. Na zdorovye, brothers! Warm up!
Petrova	To Sister! And Big Daddy!
Yeti Squad All Together	To FrostNova! And Patriot!
<Background fades out and in>
Ch'en	Do you know these Infected?
Amiya	I do, Officer Ch'en.
Ch'en	But this final battle must be fought.
Amiya	Do we have a choice?
Ch'en	We may not. Look behind you. They're not even trying to hide themselves anymore.
Amiya	...The black raincoats.
[Several of the so-called black raincoats are watching Amiya and the Doctor.]
Ch'en	So, we have to fight them. This is what we must do. If we don't, we'll fall short. And the business of pushing the special forces into the Yetis becomes pretty unconvincing. Unless you could convince them to surrender?
Amiya	As long as there's Infected behind them... they won't give up.
Ch'en	...Amiya. I won't force you to fight.
Amiya	I'm sorry, Officer Ch'en. But... but we will witness it. The L. G. D. fought bravely, no one can deny that. You fought for Lungmen, against the invaders. This is how we will help you against those special forces. And for our sake... We must record every battle for the Infected. Every single one.
Ch'en	Amiya.
Amiya	Officer Ch'en?
Ch'en	When this battle is over, let's grab a bite together.
Amiya	B- but I'm Infected...
Ch'en	I don't care. The loudmouth and the tall lady? They won't mind either. This battle... it's going to cost a lot.
Amiya	For us, it's a battle. For Lungmen, it's a war. And that's what war is.
Ch'en	But whoever it was who planned all this, they're not here.
Amiya	......
Ch'en	Say, there's something I have to tell you—— ——But not right now.
Amiya	Yeah. Not right now, Officer Ch'en.
[Ch'en cuts off.]
Amiya	...... Doctor......
Doctor	Don't want to watch?
Amiya	...Mhm. I...
Doctor	But just like in the ruins of Chernobog...
Amiya	...... You're right. I decided. I need to see it... with my own eyes.
Doctor	Together.
Amiya	Together.
<Background fades out and in>
Yeti Squad Member D	So we don't call her Big Sister because she's older than us...? Why am I just learning this now?
Yeti Squad Member A	Well, it works for you. You were three years old back then.
Yeti Squad Member D	Pfft!
Yeti Squad Member A	Hey, what's with the attitude? Did you get drunk off two sips? When you cried out for food, did I feed you or not?
Yeti Squad Member D	That was then, this is... now!
Petrova	You know, it's funny. I'm suddenly thinking about those Rhodes Islanders.
Yeti Squad Member A	Why?
Petrova	That one cat, with the hot body, the one who said she wanted to drink with us. It's too bad. She looked like she'd be able to hold her liquor. She looked like a real good time.
Yeti Squad Member A	But the little rabbit, she can't be old enough yet? What is she? 16? 17?
Petrova	More like 14. She just seems older because she talks fancy.
Yeti Squad Member A	As old as Sister was... back then. Let's toast them one more time. So it is said, so shall it be done!
Nesti	So shall it be done!
Yeti Squad Member D	Um, uh... so shall it be done!
<Background 2>
Nine	...... Lungmenites should be more coordinated.
Reunion Member	Get out of here. The Yetis can only hold them for a while.
Nine	You don't think what they're doing is incredible?
Reunion Member	If we die, then they did it all for nothing. The Phantom Crossbowmen say we can't go back to Chernobog. So we're going to a new place.
Nine	......
Reunion Member	You don't care where our new base is?
Nine	Wherever it is, I'm going with you.
Reunion Member	Heh. You Lungmenites are no different from us. I was hoping they'd treat you better here. Turns out it's the same as it was in Ursus.
Nine	Infected suffer the same everywhere.
Reunion Member	That's not what you said when you first got here.
Nine	People change.
<Background 2>
Blaze	Yetis? Are those the Yetis? It's the Yetis! R- right...? Definitely! Yetiiiis... Yetiiii! Why are you Yetis like this?! Damn it! Don't die! I won't let you die! Just hold on, I can save you! I'll get you to safety...! Why do you Infected want to die here?!
<Background 1>
L. G. D. Officer	The special forces stopped attacking? No, looks like they're pulling back...?
L. G. D. Officer	Seems... they're giving us the initiative.
L. G. D. Officer	Are we showing the power of Lungmen's law enforcement? *Lungmen profanity* They underestimated us!
L. G. D. Officer	...Never mind. Listen up, this is the last wave! Don't disappoint the people, or Ch'en Sir. We'll show Reunion how powerful Lungmen is! The Infected won't dare attack our city again!
<Background 2>
Petrova	Hah... Phantom Crossbowmen, don't let us down. You have to get our Sister back to the old man. ...She's running out of time. She should spend it with him.
Yeti Squad Member B	We don't have much time left ourselves, eh?
Petrova	Ready?
Yeti Squad Member B	Ready. Let's give back our lives. Let's show them what the squad trained by Buldrokkas'tee, Ursus's greatest soldier, and led by it's coldest nightmare, can do!
Petrova	The last of Sister's Originium Arts... Frost Originium, ready to loose! Nesti! We're coming!
Blaze	Yetiiiiiiiiiis!!!