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OD-ST-1
Operation Lamarck
Operation Originium Dust: Task Record
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Magnethill No. 2 is a biological evolution lab located in the southern Ural Mountains. Abandoned for years, the lab has been forgotten with the passage of time. Ten days ago, a group of unidentified militants snuck into the lab and began to activate the equipment in the lab.
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Magnethill Corridor
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Magnethill Lab
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Desert
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Team Rainbow makes a deep incursion into an abandoned laboratory in the Ural Mountains, preparing to capture the mad scientist, Levi Klitschko. What they find defies all expectations.
<Background 1>
[On the Ural Mountains, Russia, in Earth (i.e. our world), Eliza "Ash" Cohen of Team Rainbow walked through an underground bunker's corridor.]
Ash We've arrived at Magnethill No. 2. Repeat, we've arrived at Magnethill No. 2.
Iana, Ela, report the situation on your end, over.
[Elzbieta "Ela" Bosak answers Ash's call.]
Ela Business as usual. Just putting in the finishing touches.
Over.
[An explosion is heard.]
Ash Ela?
[Ash reaches out to Ela again, who are engaged in combat alongside Nienke "Iana" Meijer.]
Ela Iana, enemy incoming!
Iana In position!
Gemini Replicator activated!
Ela Mines deployed!
If the intel we got is correct, this should be the last batch!
We'll head towards you after we clean up over here!
[Another explosion is heard.]
Ela Gówno![note 1]
Ela, ending communication!
[Ela abruptly ends the call.]
[Later Ash is joined by Elias "Blitz" Kötz, Tina "Frost" Lin Tsang, and Alexsandr "Tachanka" Senaviev, as they gave her a sitrep.]
Ash So that's the situation...
Blitz Just sit back and leave it to the Poles.
I already hear the sound of Grzmot mines going off. They'll be just fine.
Ash And you, Blitz, you're supposed to be doing your job. Namely, standing guard.
Blitz Whatever you say, ma'am.
Ash Pay attention to the meter's readout. The intel shows that there's nuclear waste sealed inside this building.
Frost, how far until our objective?
Frost After we pass through the checkpoint and the storage room, the main laboratory should be right there.
The drones showed that the mercenaries set up some simple fortifications at and around the checkpoint.
No bunkers, no dead ends. The entrance has been sealed shut, and they've laid a lot of barbed wire all around.
Ash Their numbers?
Frost Nine. Their rough positions have been marked on the team terminal.
The entrance of the long corridor leading from the checkpoint into the storage room has been completely sealed, and the drones haven't been able to get in any farther.
Report complete.
Ash Any other entrances?
Frost None that I can see.
Ash Okay, I'll take care of this.
Do you have any suggestions, Lord?
Tachanka I still have some extra incendiary rounds. How many do you need?
Ash Two should do.
Tachanka Got it.
Ash The checkpoint entrance's full of obstacles. Blow it up, and the rubble's just going to be in the way.
Here's the plan. We'll blast the ceiling and the wall on the right. One of us will rappel in from the top and provide cover fire. The rest of us will breach from the right side.
Frost, you're on cover fire and support.
Frost Understood.
Ash Once the charges go off, Tachanka, drop a grenade from up top. The rest of us will throw flashbangs at the designated locations.
On the ground, we'll head inside in this order: Blitz, Ash, Tachanka. Look alive out there. Don't let this opportunity slip away.
If you have any questions, it's now or never.
You all ready? Good. Take position.
Frost, on your mark, that's when we'll begin.
Frost I'm heading to position.
Breach Charge is hot.
Blitz Explosives ready to go.
Ash Ready!
[Frost detonates the Breach Charge, creating an opening for the squad to enter.]
Frost Flashbangs!
[Frost throws a flashbang, dazing hostiles in the room.]
Tachanka Throwing frag grenade!!
Ash Move! Move! Move!!!
[Frost eliminates some of the hostiles with her Mk1 9mm handgun.]
Frost Enemy down!
Ash Blitz, two o'clock!
[A hostile charges at Blitz, but he blocks them with his G52 Tactical Shield before taking them down with his P12 handgun.]
Frost Frag out!
[Frost throws a frag grenade, taking out more of the hostiles.]
Frost Machine guns! Ten o'clock!
[Tachanka fires at the hostile machine gunner with his DP27 machine gun.]
Tachanka I'll provide cover fire. The rest of you, move up!
Ash Firing Breaching Round!
[Ash fires her M120 CREM at a fortified position, knocking it out of action.]
Ash Fortifications down!
Blitz There goes the bad guys!
Frost Three more! Straight ahead!
[Frost takes out more hostiles...]
Frost Two!
[...and all hostiles are eliminated.]
Ash Clear!
Blitz Clear!
Frost Clear!
Tachanka Clear!
Ash Everybody okay?
Alright, let's keep moving.
Frost, watch our six!
Frost Understood!
Ash I'll open the door.
Blitz, stay alert. Tachanka, use the drone and check out the hallway and the storage room's status.
Tachanka I am on it.
Ash Sure.
How is it looking up ahead?
Tachanka The storage room was filled with ammo and supplies. They had been stationed here for some time.
There are no hostiles in the storage room. Just black crystals on some petri dishes.
Ash Is it a threat?
Tachanka Hard to say.
Blitz What's this stuff inside the cans?
Tachanka Glowing mineral crystals. Never seen them before.
Ash Minerals. Composites. As long as they are glowing, they might be radioactive.
Blitz Don't worry. Geiger's not reacting to anything.
Ash Then let's leave them be and go straight in.
Time's a wasting, team. Let's move.
[Iana contacts Ash.]
Iana Ash, this is Iana.
We have just taken care of the enemy, but they have blocked the corridor passage with a lot of obstacles.
We have to take a different route to the core, over.
Ash We're about to head inside the main laboratory. I need you to come back us up ASAP, over.
Iana Copy, Iana out.
[Iana ends the call.]
Blitz What now? Shall we wait for them?
Ash No, time is pressing. Keep going.
Blitz Up ahead is the main laboratory.
Ash Get ready, we're going in.
Stay alert. Subdue the target when you have them in sight.
Look alive.
Go!
[Ash opens a door and goes in along with the others.]
<Background 2>
[Blitz takes point...]
Blitz There's no one here, just these strange machines.
[...as Ash follows...]
Ash Don't let your guard down. The lab equipment's running, which means the target is still here.
[...alongside Tachanka.]
Tachanka Then we need to head inside the real laboratory.
This here is the control room. You see the machines on the other side of that window? That's where the actual experiments happen.
Stay alert... We don't know how many hostiles we have here.
[Levi Klitschko, the scientist who were Team Rainbow's target, reveals himself.]
Levi I see unwelcome friends will always invite themselves in.
Ash (Target in sight. Hold your fire. )
(Give me a sitrep. )
Blitz (Looks like we're the only ones here.)
Tachanka (No other hostiles detected.)
Ash Put your hands up, Dr. Levi. Move away from the terminal.
Levi And here I was wondering how much longer it would take you to show up.
Did you take out my security detail? What a shame.
I cut them their last paycheck just yesterday.
Well, I ask you to be careful with the things here. They can be delicate.
Ash Don't even try to do anything funny. This charade is over.
Levi Over? My new experiment has just started.
Ash Stop what you're doing... This is your last warning.
Levi Hahahahaha, and what if I refuse?
[Levi approaches the consoles, ignoring Ash's warnings.]
Ash !!
Levi What's the matter? Are you afraid of a senile, defenseless ordinary citizen?
Tachanka You're hardly defenseless or ordinary.
You are the chief scientist of the Magnethill No. 2 laboratory, Levi Klitschko.
Ash Stay away from the equipment. I know exactly what you're trying to do.
Blitz, cuff him.
Blitz Understood.
[Levi smirks as Blitz prepares to restrain him...]
Levi I've got to hand it to you. Your team works fast.
But not fast enough.
[...before he activates the reactors, causing an alarm to blare and the ground to tremble.]
Blitz The reactor's activated!!
Frost The black rocks are glowing!
Ash Get it to stop.
Levi I'm sorry, I'm afraid not.
Ash Get it stopped! Right now!
Levi Hahaha...
Hahahaha... Hahahahaha!
There's nothing you can do to stop it, but do feel free to fire your weapons.
This is my life's work.
If it wasn't for those shortsighted, useless morons getting in my way again and again...
I would've finished all of this twenty years ago.
Ash You have no idea what you are doing.
The equipment in this lab is in disrepair, and you are creating a nuclear contamination disaster!
Levi Of course I know what I am doing.
The road of exploratory science is a treacherous one.
Yet it's a road worth taking. Roads that lead to the truth are always worth taking.
All I am doing now is getting the results I should've had twenty years ago, and no one has the right to stop me.
[The reactor emanates a bright flash that blinds everyone, and...]
<Background 1>
[Unaware what is happening, Ela rushes through the corridors...]
Ela Darn mercenaries...
[...as she meets Iana.]
Iana You doing okay?
Ela Uh, just complaining a little bit about the close miss just now.
We could've regrouped with the rest of the team at the main lab!
Iana It's not too late.
The checkpoint's right ahead.
[The alarm blares as the ground quakes.]
Ela What's that sound?
Iana ?!
An earthquake?
Ela No, it's coming from the lab!
Get your Replicator ready. They might be in trouble.
[Ela and Iana rushes to the main laboratory...]
<Background 3>
[...but when they arrives, a large hole is present on where the main laboratory was supposed to be.]
Ela Wh-What the hell's this?! Where's everyone?
Iana Wh-What happened?
Ela No, where's the lab?
Where's the map? What's with this huge hole?
Iana There's no problem with the map. The main lab should be behind this door.
The lab's... gone?
<Background black>
[Ash is unconscious and can only faintly hear someone speaking.]
??? ...up... Wake... up.
Cohen, you okay?
Cohen?
??? Let me do it.
Ash Erm...
[Ash catches a glimpse of a desert as she briefly opens her eyes.]
??? Well, I'm impressed.
??? I'm just giving her pressure points a few presses to help patch her up.
That should do it.
[Ash started to regain her consciousness...]
Ash Wh-What happened...?
<Background 4>
[...and comes to, seeing Blitz, Frost, and Tachanka with her.]
Blitz Alexsandr, she's awake!
Tachanka Well done.
Frost You doing okay, Cohen?
Ash Where are we? ...What happened?
Tachanka That's a good question.
Frost ...After that madman activated his equipment, the whole lab was swept by a huge shockwave.
Ash Where... are we?
Just where are we?!
Frost No idea.
The target activated that weird device of his, and we all got knocked out by the blast.
And after we came around, well, this is it.
We don't have any signal, so we can't contact Ela and Iana.
The compass isn't working either.
The only thing I am sure about is we definitely aren't anywhere near the mission area.
It's hardly the most precise way to put it, but it's like we were... teleported... somewhere with the whole lab.
Ash What?
Tachanka She's right. It's like we were suddenly launched by a rocket to the moon and that's not a joke.
Through a huge crack in the wall, all one can see outside the house is a desolate desert. As if the house had fallen from the sky to the desert.
Ash ......
Frost Should I go on recon?
Ash No, don't be hasty.
Frost Understood.
Ash If Levi Klitschko was swept by the shockwave too, he'd probably be in a similar situation.
We'll rest up first. I'll plan our next steps.
Tachanka Good news first. The supplies for those mercenaries have been thrown in with us, so at least for a short time ammo won't be an issue.
Ash What about the bad news?
Tachanka The bad news is...
[Ash heard strange noises nearby.]
Ash ...... And what is this sound?
Blitz Eyes open! There's something outside coming toward us!
It sounds like some sort of heavy machinery... but it's way too fast!
Tachanka Let me have a look.
[Tachanka looks outside to notice metallic "arthropods", which means that the place is definitely not in Earth.]
Tachanka ......
...... I can't believe my eyes.
*Profanity* We're in big trouble! Prepare for battle!
Blitz What exactly did you see?
Tachanka Have you ever seen an arthropod as big as a small car?
Blitz What did you say?
[The arthropod creatures get closer.]
Blitz Oh, screw it!
Now we see it.
Ash Open fire! Fire at will!!
[The squad engages the arthropods.]
Ash Blitz! Get back!!
[One of the arthropods break through Blitz's G52 Tactical Shield.]
Blitz Ahhhh!!
My shield!
Frost Normal bullets aren't going to penetrate its husk!
If we let that thing tear the control room's wall down, it's all over for us!!
[Tachanka fires at one of the arthropods, with his DP27 machine gun loaded with armor-piercing ammunition managed to actually harm the creature.]
Tachanka AP's effective!
But shooting its legs isn't stopping it!
Ash Let it come in!
Tachanka What?!
Ash Cease fire!
Let it bring the wall down!
Frost Blitz, you okay?
Blitz I'm fine. It's just my shield's busted.
It took a good bite out of the wall.
Let's be sure to take its husk down when we get our payback.
Tachanka Ash, quick! What's your plan?!
Ash I'm not sure we can call it a plan, but it's the only choice we have.
Your ammo is the only thing we have that's doing any damage to that thing. Plus my breaching rounds, maybe.
And I have... one left.
We'll take him down the moment he breaches the wall.
Judging by the damage AP's done on that thing, the breaching round should take its leg down. Hopefully that'll give us a clean view of its underside.
After that, it's going to be all you.
[The arthropods began to tear through the wall.]
Ash If any of you has a better idea, I'm all ears.
Alright, time's up! Ready!
[The arthropods break through only to be "welcomed" by a hail of AP bullets from Tachanka's DP27 machine gun.]
Tachanka Reloading!
[All of the arthropods are eliminated.]
Tachanka It's over.
What on earth is this!
Blitz Ahh, finally time to take a breather.
Phew—
Man, that was close.
Is this really Earth?
Like, you know, the planet we all know about?
Ash No reason to think otherwise.
But we need to prepare for the worst.
[Ash steps outside.]
Rainbow Six in Terra
Ash With the wall collapsed, we can't even use this place as shelter.
Alien Yet Familiar Desert
Ash Let's get moving. At least until we find another place to hunker down.

Trivia[]

  • OD-ST-1 is the only story content in Arknights that do not take place in Terra, though only on the first half.

Notes[]

  1. "Shit!" in Polish. Do note that "Gówno!" is not used to express surprise the same way English "shit" is; instead, it refers to literal feces.
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