0X05 A Friend in Need

A Friend in Need is the 5th episode of Project Zero-X

Plot
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 an intel in Ukraine, former Belarusian leader of "Girl Scouts" rebelion squad, "Mira", tolds that she needs supplies from Anna, while mentions that she founds a "bizarre" server rack that may related to the case.

The following day, Anna 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").

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 Akagi Kichiro, Madison Taylor and Marcy) got ambushed by an unknown 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.

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 sLife 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 either" is also the reference to the meme that was also from "Chernobyl" series.
 * The scene when Mira tolds Ayato and Anna "they must help them, and to help, they must fight" is a reference to the beginning cutscene of Modern Warfare's 3rd campaign mission, "Embedded"; when Alex (a CIA/SOG agent and of SAS Cpt. John Price's task force) go to Urzikstan to contacting Commander Farah Karim about the terrorist gas attack in Picadilly Circus that happens 48 hours ago, to which Farah tolds Alex that "if he stays then they (Urzikstan Ground Force) will help him (Alex), but if he stays, he fights (back at the bad Russians)", to which Alex replies "then let's fight" in Arabic.