Let's set the scene, first.
The MDA is just on the heels of, what's arguably, their greatest victory yet. The air is under their control, Wright Airport has been (re-)captured by numerous ground units, and thanks to the RCF having no Navy, there wasn't even a fight for control over the seas. Things were really looking good for the MDA. But nature would've had to step in eventually. Brewing for days, it finally came...
TK-3: Hey guys, either my maintenance crew made a mistake, or it's hard to fly out here!
Tower: I don't think that's just you, Crossbow 2. Our readings are picking up heavy rain and monstrous winds with a chance of hail.
TK-3: WHAT. How am I supposed to fly in that?!
Tower: You can't.
TK-3: Well I can't exactly land, it's too dark to see the runway!
Tower: Just land anywhere you like, there isn't any traffic right now anyways.
The TK-3 makes a safe emergency landing in the grass.
F-36A: Bro. I cannot see.
Tower: WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT! YOU CAN'T FLY IN THE STORM!
F-36A: I can fly above it.
Tower: You'd have to LIVE long enough to do that first!
F-36A: ...true.
The F-36A would land shortly after.
Meanwhile, on the ground...
Enargite VII (A): Huh. Aren't those guys supposed to be flying patrol?
TVT-100: Eh, storm's getting worse. Maybe they don't like eating rain and wind.
Loud but fading static on radio.
Enargite VII (A): Wait, we're getting a transmission.
Transmission: All units, this is MDA Base Yeager. We're gonna need your attention because we have a big announcement to make... so, the little "storm" you guys were dealing with? Yeah, it's a hurricane. We don't have any dedicated weather fighters, which equates to there's nothing that can fly in this weather. The SK-3, FA-31, and FA-32 did in the M-War, but that was an emergency with high risk, if you remember one of those FA-31s crashed on the ground... so, in the shortest terms possible, the CAS will not be on the way; you're on your own, now. Wishing you the best of luck.
Radio clicks off.
TVMX-155: ...
TVT-FT: ...
AMX-10M: ... eh bien, nous sommes complètement foutus. Je récupère mon matériel de camping.
Tonk: AMX, WE JUST LOST OUR FREAKING AIR SUPPORT TO A STORM, AND YOU'RE GOING CAMPING?!
TVD-155: No no no, she has a point. We can probably use a tent as like an umbrella or something, and AMX DOES have an axe, right? Like one of them survival games?
AMX-10M: J'ai laissé ma hache dans le magasin de lait. Je pensais que ça pourrait plaire à ton père.
TVD-155 and Tonk just freeze in disappointment.
TVD-155: On the bright side, we're unopposed here on Wright...?
M49A3-C: Not quite guys. Take a look.
Everyone looks in the direction the M49 is looking in.
M49A3-C: See those mountains over there? Many of the surviving RCF forces are hiding there. With our best advantage now disabled, they won't be as afraid to come and fight us. Our re-capture process didn't have enough time to finish, so they outnumber us...
M49A3-C: ...besides, ever heard of a flash flood? If this hurricane gets too rainy- which it will- water is gonna come tumbling down that mountain, and more than likely, we are all cooked. Or bathed.
TVAA-30: Why are you glaring at me now?!
M49A3-C: I genuinely don't know, but this concerns you too, bud.
AMX-10M: Choc, vous connaissez le LVL-100, LTD et je peux juste... flotter, n'est-ce pas? Oh, aussi ARV, Enargite et Shrike, mais je jure qu'ils ont tous les trois les cellules cérébrales d'enfants élevés sur Cocomelon.
M49A3-C: Yeah, but this entire airport is in danger now. There are still people here-
LVL-100: Hollup we bombed an airport with ci-
M49A3-C: PEOPLE MEANING HUMANS IN GENERAL, NOT CIVILIANS!
LVL-100: Oh ok.
M49A3-C: (Sighs in tank) Well, point being, we can't let the airport be destroyed. Yet, we're gonna have to survive at the same time.
Literal Tank Destroyer (LTD): Hey guys! Just remember, the water's fine out here!
TVT-FT: Why is that guy out on the water in the middle of a hurricane?
M49A3-C: (Sighs in tank again) He's always been insane like that.
Transmission end.
Credits:
MDA:
@TheMouse
@CrestelAeronautics
@MIGFOXHOUND31BSM26
@windshifter1
@Karroc9522
@KPLBall
@Christiant2
@JaxHere
@Randomplayer
@TheUltimatePlaneLover
MDA Allies:
@Marulk (allied supplier of the MDA, specifically with the Hsiang drones and Soko J-20 Kragujs)
@JABH (manufacturer)
@Boeing727200F (builder of the F-13Q and A-19, as well as several other aircraft and weapons utilized by the MDA)
@Noname918181818181818181 (maker of the freaking epic Lagwing)
I know the said vehicles aren't here but I'm giving credits anyways.
Retronian Colonial Forces:
@SPSidearm
Random Lore Dump:
AMX-10M speaks in French. Tonk and Somua also speak, respectively, Italian and French, but both of the latter-mentioned know English. AMX-10 does not. Probably a contributing factor to her hermit nature, considering almost everyone else in the MDA either speaks English or doesn't understand French. That and people got something against France (I'm looking at you @nukethefrench (/j))
Oh also, the LTD scene wasn't just for humor, that's a foreshadowing;
The air is unavailable, but somehow the sea survived the hurricane. Water transport and warfare may finally find use here!
@JSTQ I’m sure there is
@Boeing727200F …
well then, somebody has to have made one.
also I'm sure there are aircraft able to make it through the Storm.
@JSTQ weather hunters?
They are aircraft that fly into storms to collect data. They sometimes drop weather buoys
@Boeing727200F Just a reminder, in the red alert, weather weapons and nuclear bombs are weapons of the same level, do not misuse them
@JSTQ about the deal,
The missiles are otw.
@JSTQ huh?
wdym?
The RCF Is now developing a new type of Tank other than the ZoVs.
Gray_Tank.
@Boeing727200F em… How do you manage to support another weapon of mass destruction while rejecting nuclear bombs? If I were an enemy, I wouldn't take off planes anymore. I would drop nuclear missiles
@KPLBall k
@TheUltimatePlaneLover Ill make a post instead
@KPLBall Oh
Tag?
@TheUltimatePlaneLover no
my B-26 senator jet bomber
@KPLBall
I already have my concerns, but the B-26 Marauder?
@TheUltimatePlaneLover use the F-120, B-62, B-26, and PZL-153 B. They are all weather fighters/bombers
Oo, a hurricane, perfect shock cannon conditions.
Ive got an idea. A DROPPABLE WEATHER BUEY! Can be dropped from a bomb bay.
@TheUltimatePlaneLover you have a huge military without a stom chasing research plane! You could have notified me!
Out in the ocean during a hurricane? Yea sounds like a me move to make
@Boeing727200F aite
@TheUltimatePlaneLover well I have ordered 10E+60 seaplanes, sure at least a handful can make it through.
going to modify them too
@Boeing727200F Not quite, it's a severe hurricane, even the A-40 can't fly though this stuff (imagine being the strongest plane in the world and completely unable to handle a bit of wind)
@JaxHere
OK, so long story in the shortest terms possible...
We went to war with SPSidearm, he captured Wright, we got it back, but now there's a storm, so the entire war is going to be land/sea based (mostly land)
@TheUltimatePlaneLover well then, somebody has to have made one.
also I'm sure there are aircraft able to make it through the Storm.
@Boeing727200F We don't have weather fighters ;-;