0X04 Sixteen-minute of Darkness

Keep the mission on a silence, only speak when necessary. Mission Briefings by "The Boss"

16-minute of Darkness is the 4th episode of Project Zero-X.

Plot
48 hours after the Shoki Office arsonic attack's files were recovered, pointed to a small factory inside a small forest 12km West to Okinawa Prefecture. The team were advised that the factory is in charged and managed by the son of a Russian Mafia gang named Alexeiy Bordovich, and the safest way of infiltration is by an underground sewer system that lead to the bathroom of the facilities.

The mission is to gather a server rack contains all the informations of the deal by silence infiltration, and get out with minimal casualty, while keeping it "on a tight loop".

The team then splits into 2 branches (Branch A consists of Uchino Hakazaki, Akagi Kichiro and Yamada Kyoko, Branch B consists of Ayato Tokouryo, Anna Novackova, with Marcy infiltrating the outter side of the forest), with branch A goes to the dorms by the front gates, while branch B goes to the security room to disable the defensive systems via the underground system (which was powered by a backup power-grid outside of the system).

Team Alpha then successfully infiltrated the facility, then shutdowns the entire facility power-grid.

When Ayato founds the server-rack, he commanded Anna to manning the cameras and warns him if the powers came back, while tolds Marcy to cover her 6.

Ayato then proceeds to infiltrate lower base, before the elevator falls. He was survived, but tripped an alarm.

He fights his way to the target, only to found out that the hard-drive contains the files were burnt and broken, deeming it useless.

While on the way out, he trips on a cracked plank, and falls to a room, which he fought back. He almost got stabbed by a merc, only for the merc to get shot in the head with a shotgun by Madison Taylor.

Madison and him then gets out, calls a QRF force and a pickup helicopter.

Trivia

 * This episode have the least number of voicelines (only 100 towards the entire episode), as most of the action were mainly body-language and sign-language, similar to an actual special ops unit.
 * This is also the first episode that features Madison Taylor.
 * Ayato calls Madison "the angel with a shotgun" is a reference to the song of the same name by The Cab (more specifically the nightcore version of it)