The MegaMech Cometh

Agree to form a task force

If you think you can handle it, I can put you onto the biggest action Striga isle has ever seen. I don't have the whole story yet, but I've learned that the upper echelons of the Council are planning a massive assault on paragon City. If you're willing to work with me, I think I can help you stop it.

The first thing I need is for you to get to Archon Burkholder's robot factory and scout around for clues. I don't know what all we're dealing with yet, and we need more information.

For everyone's protection, you'll need a code name. Task Force Enigma should do it.

You hear a squeal of pressurized steam.

Objective: This schematic details plans for a massive Zenith Mech.

Schematics

This blueprint details the inner workings of a Zenith Mech's joints.

Objective: This schematic details plans for a massive Zenith Mech.

Schematics

This blueprint contains many equations reguarding the balance andmovement of an enormous Senith Mech. On the back is scribbled a desperate note:

'Help me, please! The Council will never let me go!'

Mission Complete: You learned about Burkholder's plans.

These blueprints you found are quite disturbing, Task Force Enigma. According to these, Archon Burkholder is working on a Zenith Mech of massive proportions! And he's forcing someone else to work on it, too!

Rescue the scientist

if that note is to be believed, Archon Burkholder is holding some scientist in the facility I'm sending you to. it seems he needed a little help to bring hi giant Zeneth MEch to life. I need you to go in and extract that scientist, Task Force Enigma. Not just because it's the right thing to do. But also because they should have valuable information about the state of Burkholder's progress.

Sure, I feel for that scientist, but my objectives here are very clear. I'll break a few eggs if I must in order to keep the Council down.

The floor trembles with the vibrations of vast machinery.

Objective: You have destroyed the power generator.

Mission Complete: You have rescued the scientists.

Dr. Faber's story

When you rescued Dr. Faber from the Council, she told you:

'Archon Burkholder is mad! He forced me to help him build an enormous Zeneth Mech! You won't believe the size of it. And he plans to loose it on the city! You've got to stop him. Please! Or I'll never forgive myself!'

A word of warning: don't trust that Ernesto Hess too far. He was on guard duty here a few nigths ago. He didn't tell you that? I didn't think so. There's something sneaky about him.

We need more details on this giant Zenith Mech, Task Force Enigma. The Council's robots are already a significant threat in their own right! If they're getting bigger and better, we need to find out how!

I got to admit, you're made of sterner stuff than most heroes. You may beat the Council yet!

Take out the radar stations

I'm about to send you into the Council's most secret stronghold, Task Force Enigma, but first i want to improve our communications. The Council's rader stations are preventing me from contacting you by cell phone. If we're going to continue, I need you to take out those radar stations. I want to be able to keep tabs on you.

There are four stations to eliminate. Phone me when you've finished.

Taking out these stations should disrupt the Council's communications as well as improving your own.

Objective: You have destroyed the computer, but you salvaged some information about Council ciphers.

Salvaged cipher data

While taking out the first radar station, you recovered this data on Council ciphers.

Mission Complete: You disabled the radar station.

Without these radar stations, the Council have a hard time getting orders to its troops in Paragon City.

Objective: You have destroyed the computer, but you salvaged some information about Council troop movements.

Salvaged troop data

While taking out the second radar station, you recovered this data on recent troop movements.

Mission Complete: You disabled the radar station.

The Council's communications network is notorious for its complexity and redundancy.

Objective: You have destroyed the computer, but you salvaged some data about Council base locations.

Salvaged base data

While taking out the third radar station, you recovered this data on the locations of Council bases.

Mission Complete: You disabled the radar station.

This is the last of the Council's radar stations.

Objective: You have destroyed the computer, but you salvaged some data about Council ordinance specifications.

Salvaged ordinance data

While taking out the fourth radar station, you recovered this data on the specifications of the Council's weapons.

Mission Complete: You disabled the radar station.

Good work, kids. Now I can contact you wherever you are. And the Council will be scrambling to get their communications network up again; that ought to keep them out of our hair.

Some people I know would be very interested in all this info you collected along the way. Dont' wory, I'll make sure it gets to the appropriate individuals.

I won't forget your valour, Task Force Enigma. I'll remember each and every one of you.

Inflitrate the base

Alright, Task Force Enigma, the scientists have given us the location of Archon Nurkholder's giant robot factory. It's within Mt. Richardson itself. You're going to have to inflitrate it. Not lisen up: I need the location of the pending attack. And I also need you to take out the base's main generator, to buy us some time.

Once we have that information, we'll know how to respond.

You slip into the Council base unnoticed.

Objective: You have destroyed the power generator.

Objective: You have found information on the planned attack!

Attack orders

According to these orders, Archon Burkholder plans to unleash his giant Zenith Mech on Atlas Park itself!

Mission Complete: You have information on the robots' planned attack.

Well done, well done. Now that we know where the attack is planned, I can get a response team to work. Of course, that doesn't mean you job's over. Not by a long shot. Uh uh, Task Force Enigma, you're going to have to go back.

Find intel on the MegaMech

We need more intel on this Zeneth MegaMech, heroes. You've got to go back to that factory and see what you can dig up. We need a weakness, something we can exploit. Otherwise Archon Burkholder's plan may come to fruition!

Anything you can do to weaken the Council will help.

So, the Mech can be piloted only by Archon Burkholder. I should have guessed. Burkholder's the key, then, Task Force Enigma. We take him down, we take down this entire brilliant plot!

Take out Archon Burkholder

If the intel you got out of Sanders can be believed, Archon Byurkholder is the only person who knows how to pilot the Senith MegaMech. I guess that doesn't surprise me. The word around the base is that he's obsessed with robotics. He even volunteered for Maestro's crazy medical experiments, with the condition that he be given a robotic arm.

What this means for us is simple: if you take out Burkholder, you take down his entire scheme.

I'm counting on you to end this, heroes. You'd be surprised to know what's riding on this one.

In the presence of the MegaMech, even a hero such as you is awed.

Archon Burkholder [Arch-Villain] Archon Burkholder is a relic from another villainous group that was recently subsumed by the Council. Nevertheless, he seems to have made a place for himself in the new regime. His obsession with robotics led him to carve off his own arm and replace it with one of steel; it also led him to create this terryfing robot factory. To prevent the launch of the giant Zernith Mech, you must defeat Burkholder.

Mission Complete: You defeated Archon Burkholder and stopped the launch of the Zenith MegaMech.

Burkholder's Bane
Awarded for completing the final mission of the Task Force.

You stopped Archon Burkholder. Good work. I'll call in some friends to begin dismantling the MegaMech. I'm sure we can learn a lot from it. Thank you, Task Force Enigma. Thank you. Your service has been invaluable to me and my associates. You've kept the Council from growing too strong at a time when we could not afford it.

Who are my associates? Well, that's a story best left for another time. But rest assured, they can spin a tangled web.