SYNOPSIS OF PARTS I & II
SJ5’s getting hype, y’all.
Thanks to a sponsor’s selfish and crappy—excuse me, extremely unique and interesting—rules and some genius’s idea to place a hundred million credits (one million yen) on her head, our poor Llenn’s been shot at and blasted by explosions from the moment this game began, but she’s still alive and kicking. Llenn’s a tough girl.
After a long trek through the choking mist, she had at last found her sanctuary, until Fukaziroh saw fit to blast it to pieces with plasma grenades. Still, Llenn managed to escape safely and regroup with her teammate.
But Vivi ran away. Fukaziroh was furious about it. And whose fault was that?
Llenn, Fukaziroh, and Boss formed a trio, running and hiding where necessary, but because Llenn was the one who showed up on the Satellite Scan, she got surrounded by foes chasing the bounty on her head. There was no rest for the innocent.
It was in this situation that they decided to make use of the “loadout switch” feature unique to the game this time around.
Llenn and Fukaziroh were carrying each other’s alternate gear and used it to make an object that looked identical to a trash can made out of armor plating—the Pseudo-Trash-Can Two-Man Human-Powered Armored Vehicle. Plus two lightswords.
Riding in the PM, as they called it, Fukaziroh was the propulsion, and Llenn was the swinger. They happened across the enemy team containing Thane, the famous in-game commentator, and slaughtered the lot of them in mere moments. So long, guys.
Meanwhile…
Here and there around the map, their teammates and allies were doing their best to survive.
Shirley used skis to zip around the snowy area in the southeast part of the map, and she enjoyed a merciless spree of manhunting in the thick fog. Until she ran into one of the exploding guys. By accident.
Clarence started in the wasteland area on the north-middle part of the map, where she met with Tanya from SHINC, and the two enjoyed a thorough round of running around like chickens with their heads cut off. When they happened across the castle in the middle of the map, they saw a very important message before anyone else did.
Pitohui chose a safe location in the woods south of the center and whiled away the time there. The slow life is always best.
M had it the hardest of them all.
He started in the city zone in the northeast and helped Anna when she was on the run from enemies. In this game, she was the designated leader of SHINC—the person whose location would be revealed.
Since she was in danger from the self-detonating team—who were trying to take out the heavyweight contenders—M found a vehicle that they used in a mad attempt to escape to safety.
But of course, they were spotted anyway and got caught in a massive blast. Not only did they get hurled all the way into the snowy area, they also wound up surrounded by foes. It was a bad scene. The only reason they survived was thanks to the help of Shirley, who was terrorizing the area.
When going their separate ways, Shirley did not shoot Anna or M, and they returned the favor. Later, in the forest area, Anna and M met up with the trio of Llenn, Fukaziroh, and Pitohui.
An hour had passed since the start of the game; the fog cleared suddenly, revealing the full scale of the SJ5 map. The game was taking place on a tabletop mountain, at an elevation of ten thousand feet.
The next thing they knew, the mountaintop began to crumble, starting from the edges. The last thing to remain would be a circular castle nearly two miles across in the center of the map, a truly stupi—excuse me, unique and interesting rule. The gang headed for the castle; they couldn’t afford to wait around in the forest.
Unable to cross the last tiny stretch of very visible and vulnerable ground to reach the castle, Llenn’s team was ultimately saved by a smoke screen caused by one of the suicide bombers.
As a matter of fact, he was allied with Shirley. His explosion was meant to get Shirley to the safety of the castle, because she was trapped at a distance just like the rest of her team.
But Shirley did not move. She was working on faith.
When Llenn’s group reached the castle wall, and the dust cloud finally cleared, Shirley’s righteous bullet of revenge traveled eight hundred yards to pierce Pitohui’s skull.
The explosive round killed her.
Llenn was shocked to witness her brutal death.
Of course, Llenn herself had murdered Pitohui several times in Squad Jams prior to this, often in horrible ways of her own. But that was then, and this was now.
SJ5 was ready to enter its final stage.
A fierce battle inside a giant castle awaited our heroes.
After dying, Pitohui was sent back to the waiting area, where she saw a new rule on display.
You may have died, but there’s still something you can do, right? Yes, you can come back and haunt people. So, everyone…would you like to be a ghost?
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