Stage 04 (FM4)/Transcript

The following page is a transcript of Scene 04, the fifth mission of Front Mission 4, in addition to the dialogue before and after Scene 04.

Pre-Mission Dialogue

 * Captured Pilot: H-help!


 * Darril: Don't worry, amigo. We're not going to kill you. We only want to ask you a few questions. First, how much do you know about us?


 * Captured Pilot: Just that you stole the cargo that was on the governor's transport. The governor himself has ordered your capture...


 * Renges: How do you guys know it was us?


 * Captured Pilot: The radio. We overheard you talking on the radio after the transport crashed.


 * Renges: What!?


 * Darril: Chaeffer... Please tell me you changed frequencies after we heard that distress call from the transport...


 * Chaffer: No, I didn't. I just turned the volume down 'coz it was so loud...


 * Darril: Chaeffer, I'm going to kill you!


 * Chaeffer: Aiiigh! Help!!!


 * Renges: Do you know what the transport was carrying?


 * Captured Pilot: No. We were not told anything about that.


 * Darril: Get back here, Chaeffer!


 * Chaeffer: I-I'm sorry, Darril! Don't hurt me!


 * Renges: Easy, Darril. We have more important things to worry about now, don't we?


 * Darril: Hrmph... I guess you're right. Chaeffer, I'll kill you later.


 * Renges: What base are you stationed at?


 * Captured Pilot: Guinerama.


 * Darril: That was fast. Why the loose tongue?


 * Captured Pilot: I do not want to die. Besides, it is not as if we are fighting for some great purpose. We are just doing our jobs.


 * Renges: Isn't secession from the U.C.S. a great purpose for you?


 * Captured Pilot: No. Not for us.


 * Darril: Never mind. Show us where your base is.

The screen fades to a map, with a route from the group's current location to Guinerama base marked.


 * Darril: Hey, that's pretty close.


 * Captured Pilot: You are U.C.S. soldiers, yes? Why don't you know where our bases are...?


 * Renges: Because the three of us aren't really interested in this war. We're like you--we don't have a great purpose worth fighting for. And... also because we've always hated doing our homework.

The screen fades back to the group.


 * Chaeffer: What would we want with a State Army base?


 * Darril: We need a new truck.


 * Chaeffer: Yeah, so?


 * Darril: It's a military base. They should have one big enough for us, right?


 * Chaeffer: So we're gonna steal another truck...


 * Darril: No, we're only trading our old one for one of theirs. Sorry for leaving you tied up here, amigo, but I'm sure your buddies will come and find you soon enough.


 * Captured Pilot: All right.


 * Darril: Oh, and we need your uniform, too. Sorry.


 * Captured Pilot: Okay... You people are strange. You do not act like soldiers.


 * Darril: You're not the first one to tell us that... But we like the way we are.

[Talk to Renges]


 * Renges: We should get out of here before they send a search party for that squad.

[Talk to Chaeffer]


 * Chaeffer: Sneaking into a State Army base...? I hope nobody gets hurt...

[Talk to State Army Pilot]


 * Captured Pilot: You must have stolen something very important. The governor was really upset.

[Guinerama Base]


 * Darril: Darril here. I'm in the base.


 * Renges: Roger that. We're ready to give you covering fire if anything goes wrong. What did you do with the crate?


 * Darril: I managed to 'convince' one of the mechanics here to bring it to the base with a forklift. All I need to do now is to load it on the truck and get out.


 * Chaeffer: I hope we don't have to fight again...


 * Darril: Wait... Someone's coming. Darril out.


 * V.S.A. Officer: ... so we are currently preparing to send out a search party.


 * Diaz: I don't care about the soldiers who failed to do the job! I have not come all the way from Caracas to listen to your excuses! What about the cargo?


 * Darril: So that's Governor Diaz...


 * V.S.A. Officer: We are still searching for it, sir... But the U.C.S. soldiers who stole it could not have gone far. We know their names, and they are bound to pass through one of our checkpoints.


 * Diaz: I hope so, for your sake. Now, about the contents of the crate...


 * V.S.A. Officer: The men who intercepted the radio transmissions have been instructed not to tell anyone. Aside from them, I am the only one who knows, sir.


 * Diaz: Good. Don't worry, Commander, you have nothing to worry about. But we need to find that crate as soon as possible...


 * Darril: Heh... The governor sounds like a real crook. Now I feel better about taking his gold stash. I guess I've seen enough. It's time for me to ditch this place...

[Outside Guinerama base]


 * V.S.A. Soldier: Hey, I haven't seen you before. Why are you wearing that pilot suit?


 * Darril: Well, I was ordered to bring this truck to headquarters in Caracas.


 * V.S.A. Soldier: Orders? Whose orders?


 * Darril: Uh... It was what's his name, you know... The guy with the beard...?


 * V.S.A. Soldier:All right... let's see some ID.


 * Darril: I told you, it was... uhh...


 * V.S.A. Soldier:Your ID! Now!


 * Darril: Aw, the hell with this


 * V.S.A. Soldier:Hey, you! Stop! Sound the alarm!


 * Chaeffer: You did it!


 * Renges: We're not all of this yet... We won't be able to go far before they catch us.

Several V.S.A. wanzers are deployed.


 * Darril: I guess we need to slow them down a little...


 * Chaeffer: Oh, no... we're gonna fight again, aren't we?


 * Diaz: Agh! That crate! Yes, that is it! What are you waiting for? Go after them!

Mission Start

 * V.S.A. Officer: Yes, sir! We will send out all available wanzers!


 * Diaz: Listen to me! I do not care how many men or how many wanzers it takes! Just get that crate back!

Post-Mission Dialogue
The screen focuses on the captured truck.


 * Diaz: What are you waiting for? Send the rest of your troops out!


 * V.S.A. Officer: But sir... They took out all the wanzers we could muster. And I cannot send infantry against them...


 * Diaz: I told you, I do not care what it takes! Send them!


 * V.S.A. Officer: The enemy is on wanzers, sir! I cannot send my men to be slaughtered!


 * Diaz: Are you telling me you will disobey a direct order!?

The screen focuses on Darril's team.


 * Darril: What are they doing now?


 * Renges: They're just keeping an eye on us. I don't think they have any operational wanzers left. If we're gonna make a run for it, we should do it now.


 * Darril: Then it's time for us to say adios!

Darril's team leaves.


 * Diaz: No... it's getting away! My gold... my gold!