[b][i]Mission Four - Knives in Phnom Penh[/i][/b]

[b]Cambodian National Assembly Grounds - 11/11/2022 07:20 UTC+7, which is 8:20, UTC+8[/b]

Kaden had disappeared under a hail of gunfire, although his corpse was not found; a sign he might be alive. Mykhailo, meanwhile, had been taken as a PoW by a squad of fleeing Special Operations Command soldiers. Dior's 'Death Squad' was slowly being ground down, but that did not change the fact that the Cambodian Prime Minister, H.S., had fled to a car... Which was being driven by one of ASEAN's agents, an Arms Master named Charles Mallete, who had now apprehended him and was taking him to ASEAN lines.

Either way, the Special Operations Command fought on, trying to suppress the mirrors the real Dior conjured up; sixty-one of them firing guns at them even as seven of them fled with a bound Mykhailo. The bullets broke through the constructs, which were meant to be effective against [i]other Noble Arms[/i], and they shattered into blue dust.

Len Vuong, meanwhile, encountered no more opposition on the roof after his onslaught against the snipers and the others assigned to overwatch and suppression.

[b]Cambodian National Assembly Building - 11/11/2022 07:20 UTC+7, which is 8:20, UTC+8[/b]

(Nimbus, Callie's player, has given his authorization for this scene.)

A portal opened, spitting out an exhausted Callie Lindmann, along with two others; the King of Cambodia - Sisowath Samnang - himself, plus a most unexpected guest; Crown Prince Shinyahito of Japan. Myron turned towards her, about to ask what exactly had happened for her to be framed for murder, but he decided not to speak after seeing the expression on her face.

Instead, she gave him an earpice, which contained a recording of what [i]exactly[/i] happened with her father (Kenrick, one of the Maliks of the Hammer of Masters back when it was a formidable force), before passing out, with the Crown Prince personally tending to her as the others - Henri, Nil, Marta, Nico, and Aoi - overwhelmed the remaining security detail [i]and[/i] Cambodia's few Arms Masters (that did not turn against Prime Minister H.S.) in a brief, quick amount of time.

The King then took up the microphone to command the National Assembly and the Cambodian Armed Forces (those who had not returned to ASEAN's side) to cease their attack on ASEAN assets immediately, before announcing the capture of Prime Minister H.S. and denouncing Commander-in-Chief H.M., the son of H.S., as an enemy of the Cambodian Nation and calling on all forces truly loyal to the latter to hand him over to 'face justice'.

Then he gave a Royal Pardon to the main opposition parties of Cambodia, which had been suppressed and illegalized under H.S.' rule, and ordered their immediate release from Cambodia's prisons as a prelude to them forming a new 'Cambodian Unity Government'.

However, what had been done cannot be undone; ASEAN had been shaken to the core, Laos' defection had gone through as planned, and the northern parts of Cambodia had allowed in Chinese troops. China itself had used the time gained by Prime Minister H.S.'s attempted treachery to withdraw its fleet from the Spratlys and the South China/West Philippine Sea... So that it can prepare a new offensive against the Philippine Archipelago.

As for Task Force Obsidian, their leader had been kidnapped, many of its members wounded or otherwise rendered unfit to continue fighting, and one of their new additions, Lupe, had vanished without a trace in the Phnom Penh International Airport. Depending on how many of them remained, not just alive but capable of continuing, this was truly their [i]Darkest Hour[/i].

[b][i]Mission Four has Ended. Thread Two has Ended. Stay Tuned for Thread Three[/i][/b]

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