0X05 A Friend in Need

A Friend in Need is the 9th episode of Project Zero-X

Story
Following the suicidal series of all 6 lawyers that against Zero-X Foundation's President Musashi Hishikimori, the whole team, by the order of General Hirashi Hishikimori, requested them to solving the case.

While the team was on full working capacitance, Uchino found a Tier 0 dossier contains the files that were related to the case against Musashi, while both Anna Novackova and Marcy founds the trails of the file were from an abandoned server in Kiev, Ukraine; however due to lack of necessary informations that related, the operation were puts on hold.

2 days later, Anna received a call from her former Belarusian sister-in-arm and leader of "Girl Scouts" rebelion squad in Ukraine, "Mira", tolds that she needs supplies from Anna, while mentions that she founds a "bizarre" server rack that may related to the case. Anna then rushed to Ayato's dorm, then told him the whole story.

The following day, Ayato reports the situation to "The Boss", and request the team on stand-by for an unsanction trip. "The Boss" then approves the request and the team was en-route in 0300 (with Anna and Ayato already moved 6 hours prior).

Upon arrival in an abandoned apartment, the two meet up with Boris, Mira's 2nd-in-command, and Anatoli, his cousin.

In the middle of the conversation, however, Mira's squad spotted their rival gang, "The Death Elves", and tolds Anna and Ayato that if they want the server, they must help them, and to help, they must fight; to which Ayato accepts in Ukrainian.

15 minutes later, the gang arrived, and the crossfires begin.

After the fight ended, and Mira impressed about their skills, she gave them the map to the location of the server (which is also the headquarter of "Girl Scouts").

The girls in camp talks to Ayato and Anna about their life before and after "The Civil War", which results in the current state of Ukraine economy.

During the talks, their base was compromised, and the 2 once again in a fight. The fight was luckily stopped, but 30 girl scouts were KIA'd.

Mira arrived shortly after, and the team gets into the server room, only to found a suspicious duffel bag. When Mira comes check the bag, it was an armed C4 with only 2s to explodes. Although the 2 other were saved, it was at the cost of Mira's death due to the explosion.

Desperately hopeless, the 2 got into an argument, then agree-to-disagree. At the same time, Bravo team (consists of Richard, Tomoyo and Marcy) got ambushed by an unknown (possibly an Ultranationalist) para-military unit.

With no other option, Ayato sitrep to "The Boss" and requested a supply drop and paratrooper unit, while Oscar Mike to the point.

The story then follows by Unfinished Business.

Transcript
A Friend in Need/Transcript

Trivia

 * Mira's 2nd-in-command, Boris, and his cousin, Anatoli, are based on the actual characters of Russian-Estonian Youtuber Life of Boris and Life of Anatoli, also Boris' cousin.
 * The yellow tracksuit that Boris wore was also based on Boris' signature model of his own brand of tracksuit, Weslav (now under the name "Boris Merch).
 * During most of the times, both Boris and Anatoli wears ushanka hats, despite the fact that it was Summer in Ukraine.
 * When Ayato asked why both of them wears ushanka in summer, Boris mocks him by saying "You never sunbathing in Chernobyl before? It's always 3.6 degrees there. Pfft, I even called it lukewarm.", a reference to HBO's Special Series "Chernobyl", which are based on actual events of 1986 Reactor No.4 Explosion in Chernobyl.
 * Ayato replies on Boris' mock "3.6? Not good, not terrible" is also the reference to the meme that was also from "Chernobyl" series.