[Meanwhile, within the detention center codenamed "Mario's Princess".]
[Medical Room, 4/F. An hour into the counterattack.]
FN-49: U-Um, FNC! I'm out of ammo!
FNC: Hmm... But I can't let you have mine.
Skorpion: Hey! What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to hold your fire here?!
There are too many of them on the floors below! We're gonna be wiped out soon!
FN-49: But we still haven't finished off the enemies here!
Skorpion: But there are more of them downstairs!
FNC: But they’re still very far from us!
Skorpion: But they have a much longer firing range!
FN-49: But the enemies here have more firepower!
Skorpion: Hmm... You do have a point...
Ahhhhhhh!
No commander, and no preset stratagem! What should I do?! Somebody please tell me!
[...BOOM!]
FN-49: Um... The floor below seems to have cleared up!
Huh? You...
M4A1: Everyone cease your fire and retreat to the dormitory common room on the third floor!
FN-49: Huh? You are...
FNC: You're not a member of our team, but you can give us orders??
Skorpion: Who cares! Just listen to her and retreat!
[Dormitory Common Room, five minutes later.]
M16A1: M4, Skorpion's group is the last batch. All T-Dolls on the second to fourth floors are all here.
(Hands over) The ones on this list are too seriously injured for further combat.
M4A1: Got it. I shall assign suitable units to care for them.
M4 SOPMOD II: But what about the ones on the first floor and in the basement?
FNC: We make our way down there and bust them out, bien sur!
FN-49: But...the signal is completely jammed. Barging our way through will surely be dangerous...
Negev: Calm down you lot. It's not like we don't have a commander here.
FNC: Commander? But the commander ISN'T here...
FN-49: (Whimpers) The commander hasn't come... Maybe we've been left for dead...
Skorpion: Hey, enough with this rubbish!
M4A1: Everybody please listen.
Have you noticed? The Sangvis attack has significantly weakened compared to an hour ago...
Which means the commander has been destroying a lot of enemy units on the outside - for our sake.
The commander has made it in time and is doing everything that is possible to aid us...
Now we only have to finish off what is left of the enemies, and we will be safe.
Skorpion: But how do we make it down there? We don't have something that remotely resembles an autonomous stratagem...
M4A1: That is unnecessary. I shall command you.
I am a special T-Doll developed by 16LAB and equipped with a highly efficient module for issuing commands.
If the occasion calls for it, I can give orders in the commander's place. Even if electronic communication is down, I can give verbal orders.
FN-49: So...that means...you're our commander for now, right?
FNC: Uh... But we saw you once before, and you were super suspicious back then...
Besides, wasn't Skorpion set up by the AR Team?
They used her then just let her get captured by Sangvis Ferri...or something...
Skorpion: ...
No, that's not what happened...
I was abandoned by my original commander on the field along with some other squads...
Agent from S.F. brought along so many units we were almost completely overwhelmed...
If it hadn't been for M4, we'd probably have met our end then and there.
So I trust her. Or at the very least, I trust her abilities!
FN-49: I-I also think it's worth a shot! It certainly beats cowering in here!
FNC: Ugh... If that's what everyone has decided on...
M4, you'll get us all out of here, right?!
M4A1: (Nods) I will.
I will try my utmost best in being a temporary commander and lead us all to victory.
M16A1: Don't just try. Do it.
Tonight, we MUST survive!
M4A1: ... (Nods)
Everyone move according to my orders!
Let us make our way out of this place!
I must stop eating my heart out...
I have to live... Make use of my abilities...and live through this with my friends!