A/N: Thank you all for the reviews and feedback.

After some discussions with draconichero21 Yang, Blake or Weiss are being considered for pairing with Lelouch while Suzaku is undecided at this time.

I'll explain how Earth and Remnant are connected and how Dust works in Earth despite being another world later in the story, which I do when it's appropriate since I am worried about spoiling it.

And Lelouch's semblance will be revealed in this chapter near the end and I was mindful to avoid something that would make him too OP, but like his Geass it has its own limitations which will be explored in the next chapter.

My reason for giving Lelouch an aura and semblance is primary because Lelouch could potentially be killed by some RWBY characters and the worst part is some of them just playing rough with him could injure him badly which I intend to play up for humor as well.

I will say I don't bash characters, but some are easier to poke fun at than others but only when it's appropriate of course.

I mean Nora giving Lelouch a hug alone without an aura could break some ribs lol. He uses his aura and semblance for more defensive purposes, but it will give him a reason later on for him to try and toughen up…and the keyword being TRY.

This chapter has me doing some test battles namely a one on one between a certain Knightmare Frame and Rosso. It's a bit shorter than planned, but I am hoping for some good feedback because I plan to improve myself further and I'll use the experience from the fight to plan out some future battles between Huntsman/Huntress against Knightmare Frames.

Chapter 3

This Will Be the Day

The people of the Shinjuku Ghetto had little means to defend themselves since those who refused Honorary Britannian status and chose to live in the ghettos were not under any protection of the law, which didn't matter much in either case where the act of discriminating against those not born Britannian was encouraged. This ultimately meant those under Clovis's command had no problem indiscriminately butchering man, woman and child alike since they were Japanese they were deemed inferior to Britannians justifying their right to slaughter them.

It made it easier for Lelouch to kill them without regret.

"You there what unit do you belong to?" The pilot of a Sutherland snapped at a familiar young man dressed up in the grab of a Britannian Soldier.

"I am Sergeant Robertson of Recon company sir," Lelouch said as he pulled out a terrorist communicator from his belt, "I recovered this terrorist communicator and some Intel related to the location of the poison gas. Could you help me transmit the information back to HQ?"

After a moment the pilot of the Sutherland began to leave his machine, "Alright but I need to check your identification first."

"Understood sir, but could you," Lelouch began activating his Geass, "hand over your Knightmare Frame to me."

Instantly caught under the influence of his new power the pilot gave him the activation key to Lelouch along with telling him the password to activate it. Once he finished a fox Faunus wearing a black uniform wearing a black visor masking his face shot the pilot in the head with a silenced pistol.

"Nicely done," Lelouch complimented before handing the activation key to the Faunus who mounted the Sutherland taking it as his own, "proceed to the next stage."

Lelouch and the group of Faunus accompanying him had taken a large number of Sutherlands in preparation for their counterattack; so far they had used the same tactic to lure pilots out of their machines to snare them with his newly obtained power of Geass. At first Lelouch used his human identity to trick some of them into leaving their machines making them think he was a member of nobility needing to be rescue but soon changed tactics. Lelouch stole the uniform of a Britannian soldier and began playing up the intelligence recon soldier to draw them out finding it far more effective.

"We should have enough now." Lelouch said as he brought out his scroll before entering a ruined building to mount a Sutherland he had stolen for his own use. The rest of his followers went to carry out their next set of orders. "Rosso is everything set on your end?"

"We're ready, but are you sure we should even bother with those amateurs?" Rosso inquired as she had second thoughts about arming the resistance group operating out of the ghetto.

"They'll be useful either to boost our numbers or we can use them as decoys if needed."

"Very well we'll get into position and when the time is right we'll hit them hard and fast." Rosso replied.

Minutes later in another area of the ghetto Kallen was engaging the enemy in her Glasgow, which despite missing an arm as the result of an earlier engagement, she was capable of taking out tanks and VTOL gunships with her slash harken. She had only one that was still usable as the other one jammed during a critical moment causing Kallen the loss of her machine's left arm.

Her situation was difficult, but manageable until a group of four Sutherlands arrived on the scene.

"Oh damn it!" Kallen cursed as she didn't have the means to fight off four enemy Knightmare Frames especially considering the condition of her machine.

However salvation came from an expected source as two Glasgows painted black emerged from an alleyway behind them armed with modified assault machine guns. Normally a Glasgow wouldn't make much of a case against a Sutherland that was an improvement over the Glasgow in just about every way, but their weapons were anything but ordinary.

Even through their resources were limited that didn't stop Desmond and Leodore's allies from experimenting and testing new ways to increase the effectiveness of their weapons for the Glasgows.

They used dust rounds and tested various means of mixing Sakuradite to add more of an explosive charge to them, but they did create larger dust rounds to replace the ammunition of the assault rifles the Glasgows were armed with dust rounds. Mixing dust in its raw powder with sakuradite formed provided too unstable to use as a bullet, but they found using enlarged dust rounds for Knightmare Frames to be just as effective.

So when the pair of Black Glasgows opened fire the fireball-like projectiles that shot out inflicted serious damage upon the Sutherlands before they had a chance to turn around and counterattack. Within moments the four Sutherlands, much to a stunned Kallen, had been reduced to melting burning wrecks as the four Knightmare Frames had literally been shredded apart by the enlarged fire dust rounds.

"Inform Black Alpha to tell Quartermaster that the enlarged dust rounds were very effective against enemy Knightmare Frames." The pilot of the first Glasgow said. He was a Faunus with deer-like antlers on his head with green eyes and a suntanned skin complexion.

"Who the hell are you guys?" The red-head demanded.

"We are allies who are wishing to arm you and your friends with better weapons if you want to win and save everyone in this ghetto." The pilot of the second Glasgow said. She was a Faunus with bear-like ears on the top of her head with dark brown hair and a fair skin complexion.

"Follow us so we can present you and your friends with the tools for your victory." The first Faunus Glasgow pilot said as the machine gestured for Kallen to follow them.

Kallen was reluctant at first, but she knew their chances of surviving let alone winning the battle was extremely low so she complied.

Within ten minutes Kallen was led to a warehouse where the interior was filled with at least twelve Sutherlands, almost one for each member of the resistance. Her jaw was left hanging in shock at the stockpile of weapons prepared for her and her friends.

At that moment the rest of the resistance group Kallen belonged to arrived on the scene.

"Kallen! What do you know about that radio message earlier?"

"What," Kallen was confused before she realized, "you were contacted too?"

The leader of the group was in his late twenties with brown hair wearing a large brown jacket with a shirt underneath and jeans with a red headband.

"We sure were," Kaname Ohgi replied, "And Yoshida's group ought to be here soon."

Ohgi's radio began to crackle to life as Lelouch contacted him. "Are you in charge?"

"Ah, yeah."

"I present to you the Knightmare Frames in that warehouse over there. They're tools for your victory. If you want to use them to win, then follow my orders. My allies will assist you as well." Lelouch commanded observing the battle from inside the ruins of the old Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building providing him a bird-eye's view of the entire ghetto. He was sitting within his own Sutherland, but unlike all of the other Sutherlands they had captured their IFF transponders were removed allowing Lelouch to monitor the enemy units using their own IFF transponders.

Ohgi and the rest of his group were impressed as Kallen by the stockpile of Sutherlands, which would give them a good chance of turning the battle around.

"All this?" The red head couldn't wrap her mind around how this was possible, but nevertheless she regarded as the miracle they needed to win. Nevertheless the question lingered and wouldn't leave her be. "But how?"

Lelouch's words over the radio shook Kallen from her thoughts. "Woman in the Glasgow!"

"Yes!"

"Stay where you are. Your unit's gonna run decoy. You got that?"

"Understood."

"Energy filler status?" Lelouch asked.

"About fifteen minutes worth."

"Then recharge it! In ten minutes, I'll contact you with your next instructions." Lelouch replied before ending his radio conversation with Kallen. He turn activated another channel to keep private between him and Rosso who was leading another group on their own mission. "Rosso what is your status?"

"We prepared the first bomb at the recommended location, but the second bomb might take a little longer." Rosso replied as the sounds of her men working could be heard behind her. "You know how violate dust in its powder form can be and mixing it with Sakuradite is even more dangerous. You remember what happened when we attempted to experiment with creating ammo for Knightmare Frames using the mix."

"Yes and its fortunate we were using a remote firing system to test it." Lelouch answered as he recalled the incident as the Knightmare Frame assault rifle they rigged to test hybrid ammo remotely exploded upon the trigger being pulled. Even though they couldn't use the mixed substances together as ammo for their machines and troops they did find that mixing Sakuradite and Dust in its powder form made for a very powerful explosive.

A small amount alone was highly destructive with the slight disturbance capable of setting it off thanks to the violate nature of powder dust.

The bombs in question were designed with two tanks, one containing Dust powder and the other tank liquid Sakuradite. When the bombs were armed one tank would be filled with the contents of the other, so once the contents of the two tanks were combined the bomb was ready. The slightest shock was capable of setting it off.

To make the situation even more precarious was the fact that the first bomb they had already assembled originally to conduct a test on its destructive capabilities while the second bomb was being quickly put together using spare parts and other suitable components. To say the two Faunus assigned to put it together were nervous was an understatement. They would gladly be anywhere else, but their assigned job right now.

"Either I am looking forward to see how destructive the bombs will be, but having said that I hope you'll keep everyone at a very safe distance."

"Of course, this was why we all agreed to the set up and execution of the final step of the plan."

As Lelouch, Rosso and Ohgi's group prepared for their counterattack Suzaku awoke, but he found himself lying on his back in what he recognized to be mobile infirmary vehicle. Upon awakening however he was greeted by someone who clearly wasn't involved in the medical field if the fact he was wearing a high-collar lab coat, had light blue eyes, glasses, and a fair skin complexion and lavender hair.

"So are we having a bad day?" Lloyd Asplund exclaimed treating it as if Suzaku had won some kind of prize with his seemingly carefree expression. "Looks like you missed a chance to go to heaven, Private Kururugi. But then again you were sent flying by an explosion into a pile of rock." The eccentric scientist said with a coy smile before adding off-handily. "It's not like you were shot in the back that might have guaranteed your death more."

"I did," Suzaku began as his last few moments came back to him, "Where?"

"Ah, we're still in the Shinjuku Ghetto." Lloyd answered before his assistant, a young woman with medium-length blue hair and light blue eyes wearing an orange and black military uniform complete with a skirt approached.

"With Prince Clovis nearby this is probably the safest place anywhere." Cecile Croomy said before holding up Suzaku's helmet. "This is what saved your life, Mr. Suzaku."

"You're lucky your protective gear and suit took the blunt of the explosion and the impact you suffered otherwise without that helmet alone your head would have been cracked up like an egg."

"Oh and the doctor found this when they remove your protective suit to check you for further injuries." Cecile said putting down the helmet to offer Suzaku a broken pocket watch. "I assume it's some kind of keepsake isn't it?"

"Yeah, very." Suzaku said excepting the watch as he sat up. He was without his shirt and the protective gear there as he had some bandages around his torso and shoulder with some light burses showing the damage he endured from slamming into the rocks.

"You Elevens believe that gods live inside of everything, even objects, don't you? I guess this one…" Lloyd began before Suzaku interrupted him.

"Is Lelou-" The brown-haired Japanese boy stopped himself before correcting himself. "What's the latest on the situation?"

"It looks like the poison gas was released. Massive Eleven casualties have been reported." Lloyd answered; although Suzaku was shocked he restrained himself from mentioning the fact the poison gas was a lie. He knew what was inside and what had really been stolen, but this confirmed what Lelouch had assumed when his superiors didn't want anyone to know what was really stolen.

However this caused a more unsetting thought to come to mind.

Are they wiping out everyone in the ghetto to find it, to eliminate potential witnesses to those who might have it, or both?

"They haven't caught the perpetrators yet." Cecile added.

"They haven't, huh?" Suzaku said as he pocketed the pocket watch "Not yet?"

"Private Kururugi, how much experience do you have in piloting a Knightmare frame?" Lloyd asked with a coy smile.

"But there's no way an Eleven would be made a knight." The young Japanese teen said in genuine confusion, but now that he thought about it the fact a scientist being inside the mobile medical infirmary vehicle was rather strange.

"Well, supposing you could?" The scientist replied dangling a gold activation key in front of Suzaku.

Suzaku was understandably confused and surprised at the same time, but then a thought came to mind.

Maybe I can use this to find Lelouch and save him, but at the same time if I can catch those who stole the capsule in first place maybe they'll stop their attack. Suzaku thought seeing a chance to ensure his friend made it out safely, although he knew it was a long shot that even if he stopped all of the terrorists in Shinjuku Ghetto they might not stop the attack with Clovis seeking to make an example of them or just wiping out potential witnesses.

Still Suzaku knew he had to do something.

"I would be interested if that is what you are offering."

"Indeed we are Mr. Suzaku." Cecile offered.

"Then alright I do it…although my only experience with Knightmare Frames has been in the simulators."

"Then congratulations, the only Knightmare of its kind awaits you!" Lloyd exclaimed happily much to Suzaku's surprise as he would have thought they would have sought a more experienced pilot to handle such a machine. "Once you take the controls of this big beauty everything will change, you and your world."

"Whether you want it to or not." Cecile added before Lloyd walked away for a moment to fetch a case containing a pilot suit for Suzaku.

"Well Miss Cecile should we leave Suzaku to change."

After Lloyd walked away Suzaku decided to ask something to the young woman who remained.

"Excuse me Miss Cecile wasn't it?"

"Yes…"

"I mean no disrespect or anything for asking because I am grateful for the offer, but why me? Surely you could have gotten a more experienced pilot right?"

Cecile sighed in response, "Well the truth is that we tried to. But the pilot we had originally in mind was unavailable so we were forced to pick the first one we could recruit since we have been unable to find anyone else until now."

Suzaku took this meaning they were scrapping the bottom of the barrel, although he wasn't offended by the thought but it did make more sense as to why he got picked. It made him wonder just what kind of machine he would be using.

Meanwhile back in Shinjuku Ghetto the remaining Japanese civilians, or at least a group of those, who had managed to escape being slaughtered along with the others had found refuge within the ruins of an old building no one would consider living in hoping the Britannians would over look it. Sadly they were wrong as a group of Britannian soldiers accompanied by a tank arrived on the structure intending to destroy it.

Then the soldiers would gun down anyone who fled the collapsing building.

Before the attack could begin a dozen smoke grenades were thrown blanketing the tank and the soldiers in a cloud of smoke. The soldiers tried to see who had thrown the grenades, but one by one the soldiers were quickly picked off before their helmets could adjust and detect who was moving through the smoke killing them. Once the tank was left two of the Faunus members of the rebellion group led by Rosso as they had taken advantage of the smoke screen to pick off the soldiers before planting bombs on the side of the next.

They got away from the tank before the smoke cleared and seconds afterwards the bombs went off destroying the tank.

The Faunus troops behind the destruction of the tank went to the aid of the refuges leading them to the safety of the subway tunnels to escape the warzone while in another part of the ghetto a pair of Sutherlands searching the area for any terrorist or civilians to put down were attacked by RPGs wielded by more members of their yet to be named organization.

The counterattack was beginning was small, but it was building up to a much larger one with the smaller attacks being only to both buy time and to keep the Britannians from discovering their preparations.

Despite these small attacks and ambushes Prince Clovis and his Staff Officers including General Bartley were unconcerned seeing them as minor inconveniences and nothing more.

"The terrorists are mixed among the Eleven populous and they're mounting a minor resistance against us." Bartley explained before gesturing to the tactical map being displayed on the wall monitor in front of Clovis. "But they pose little threat to our vastly superior army."

"We know that." Clovis said sounding impatient as the entire slaughter being carried out was minor compared to his real concern. "Moving on."

"Understood, Your Highness. The gas capsules will be-" The bald general began before he was interrupted by Clovis.

"What the public thinks."

"Yes. We'll keep searching for her."

"Either way I want her captured dead or alive." Clovis said before one of the Staff Officers noticed something on the map that got their attention.

"Enemy spotted at point F31."

"A feint, eh? How pedestrian." The blonde-haired prince said before causally gesturing for Bartley to handle it.

"Tell Laslo's squad to go straight in. Have Eugen and Valerie strike from the rear." Bartley ordered, but moments later the two units meant to strike from the rear were suddenly taken out in what appeared to be an ambush.

"Sir Eugen and Sir Valerie both lost." Another Staff officer reported.

"An ambush?" Clovis said genuinely surprised, but he found it to be no cause for alarm. It was just the terrorists getting luck that's all.

If only Clovis knew how wrong he was as it was the beginning of a large counterattack.

Inside the cockpit of his Sutherland Lelouch began chuckling to himself as he mused at how successful his initial strike was thanks to monitoring the movements of the enemy using their own IFF signals.

An ID signal can be a double edged sword. Besides, if the terrorists follow the orders I issue, stage two of my plan will pave the way for stage three.

"Attention Alpha P1, P4, P7, move a hundred meter to the right and fire your slash harkens toward three o'clock. Then I want Sutherland attack group Beta P5, P1 and P3 to move westward and strike at those patrol of VTOL gunships to begin clearing the skies for us."

"The enemy's moving towards G 28." A Staff Officer on the bridge of the G1 reported.

"Send Laslo's Squad, I mean Glaubey's Squad!" Bartley said who was sweating more profusely as his earlier confidence began to fade when he and Clovis realized something behind each of the attacks and ambushes they began to suffer systematically across the battlefield as Sutherlands groups were being taken out along with armored divisions and VTOL gunships.

"This means terrorists have our military weaponry?"

Their fears were only confirmed when the squad Bartley had just sent in were ambushed and quickly wiped out.

"Sir Glaubey has ejected! His unit's been lost!" Another Staff Officer replied causing Bartley to become more panicked.

"Change our codes, they're intercepting our transmission."

"We already have sir, four times!"

"Do it again." Bartley roared.

"We just lost air squadron travel and another armored patrol." Another Staff Officer reported to Clovis's growing anger.

"This failure is unacceptable." Clovis snapped rising from his throne expecting him to take control of the situation.

"Forgive me." Bartley said fearfully as he did not wish to disappoint his prince further, but his mood only worsened when the image of Lloyd appeared on the overhead monitor as he had been monitoring the situation.

"Good afternoon." Lloyd greeted almost mockingly.

"What is it? We're in the middle of an operation." Bartley snapped not wanting to deal with Lloyd.

"I'd say it's time to deploy the ASEEC's (Advance Special Envoy Engineering Corps) special weapon." The eager scientist said hoping the dire predicament of Clovis and his men were facing would give Lloyd the opportunity he needed to unleash his creation.

"We've no time for this right now." Clovis snapped approaching the tactical display intending to take charge of the situation.

"We just lost Laslo's Squad. That is over forty percent of our forces if we lose anymore we won't have enough mean to maintain the encirclement." Another Staff Officer reported.

"So do it." Clovis commanded. "We'll have to bring up Quincey's squad."

"My Lord that will break the encirclement." Bartley cautioned as he knew this was a tactically bad idea.

"Then we'll reinforce the breach with some of the units guarding me. All we know for certain is that enemy forces are here. We surround them and overwhelm them with sheer numbers."

"Very…very well my lord." Bartley said reluctantly hoping they were not making a mistake, but as their troops began converging on the center dot where all of their intelligence gathered from the battle implied it was where the enemy was gathered.

"All right, send in Burts and the others too." The blonde haired prince said happily confident that he would win. "Concentrate our forces there and surround them. Finish every one of them off!"

As Clovis proudly watched as close to fifty machines closed in on the center dot, but little did Clovis realized it was a trap as Lelouch having deduced that it was Clovis leading their forces had purposely been fooling him into believing their forces were in a location that was being set up as a trap. Kallen and her resistance group along with those of Lelouch's side who had been helping them had already escaped through the subway tunnels.

Lelouch was now holding a remote detonator as he waited for all of the enemy's forces to arrive…once they had reached where they thought the enemy was he readied the detonator.

"With this, I call check." The former prince said before setting off one of the bombs hidden directly below where the so-called enemy was supposed to be.

The explosion was far more destructive they had realized as the resulting explosion vaporized the Knightmare Frames who had been standing above the center of the blast while others including nearby structures collapsed with most of the Knightmare Frames either being destroyed by the explosion or crushed by debris as the road itself caved in burying some of the enemy machines under tons of rubble.

Over fifty Knightmare Frames and other military troops and ground vehicles were lost in less than a second.

As Lelouch was laughing taking delight at the success of stage two of their overall plan Clovis was terrified as he stepped back realizing he was facing someone far more capable than the so-called Tohdoh the Man of Miracles who had been the only man to ever outwit Clovis in battle.

Now there was someone else.

Who? Who in the hell am I up against? What if he's even better than Tohdoh?

"Lloyd!" Clovis called out feeling he had been backed into a corner.

"Yes, Your Highness." The scientist was smiling because this was such a situation he had been hoping for if only for the sake to give his creation a chance to enter the battlefield to collect the data he wanted.

"Can it win, will your toy beat them? "

"My Lord, please be so kind as to call it Lancelot."

Lelouch was pleased with himself, but destroying a large portion of Clovis's forces was merely the build up to the grand finale he and Rosso had planned. The second bomb was ready and it was fortunate the explosion of the first didn't set it off, but the bomb was ready and could be remote detonated at any time.

"We'll push them one more time to weaken the checkpoint further then we'll begin Stage Three." Lelouch said talking to Rosso on the radio. "It is fortunate Clovis is forced to rely on what forces he brought with him since calling in reinforcements would make keeping a lid on this information difficult."

"I agree, but do you think he'll just retreat?"

"No as he has much more to lose, but unless his position is threatened that is unlikely."

"What a stubborn fool and," Rosso was about to say something when a subordinate with her reported something by whispering into her ear, or so Lelouch assumed judging by the background noise he was hearing.

"What is it?"

"We might have a problem. The forward unit we sent to monitor the G1-base just reported a new model was launched heading into the ghetto."

"A new model?"

"Yes it's unlike any Knightmare Frame we have seen before and it's moving very quickly to the location those resistance fighters are at."

"P1 and Q1 do you both copy?" Lelouch said changing channels.

"We hear you." Ohgi asked followed by Kallen.

"What is it?"

"We have one enemy incoming, a new model and its moving quickly. It will arrive at your position very soon so be ready."

Arriving in downtown Shinjuku a white Knightmare Frame with an unusual frame design looking more like a knight dubbed the Z-01 Lancelot arrived where it quickly cut down a Sutherland using one of its forearm mounted slash harkens as a blade to behead it.

"This is cooler than the manual, but with this I can end all of this fighting right now." Suzaku said determined to put a stop to the terrorist group hoping it would make Clovis stop his slaughter of the ghetto's residence.

Despite piloting Sutherlands which were superior to the old Glasgow units seen in the hands of terrorist units the Lancelot was vastly superior to the Sutherland in every way which was only magnified by Suzaku piloting skills and handling of the Lancelot. His combat and piloting skills were like second nature to him, so he had no trouble overwhelming the resistance group and their stolen machines.

Even worse it was armed with a new technology that allowed it to deflect bullets through special shields on its forearms that projected an energy field.

"What? It reflects bullets?" Lelouch asked as he was getting a report from one of the members of Ohgi's group who were engaged in battle against the Lancelot.

"Arrh, what do we do? Ishida! Ah!" The pilot replied before the Lancelot effortlessly defeated him as well.

There were no casualties, but their machines were being quickly disabled one at a time.

"N4, N5, hold there. When the rear units arrive, surround that thing." Lelouch called hoping to use numbers to overwhelm it, but the Lancelot was too much for them.

It swiftly cut off the gun arm of one before shooting its head off with its slash harken, after it went after the second Sutherland defeating it just as quickly while the pilot cried out.

"We can't stop it!"

"Damn it…we're losing ground at this rate." Lelouch cursed realizing Kallen and her friends were hopelessly outmatched prompting him to change radio channels. "Rosso the Sutherlands we gave to the resistance group are being overwhelmed I think we'll lose them in two maybe three minutes tops at this rate."

"I'll engage it myself."

"But that is a Knightmare Frame…"

"And I have fought Grimm and Atlas machines about its size before." Rosso said before leaving to face the Lancelot herself. "You need to find a new location and carry on with the plan."

Lelouch was hesitant before he replied, "very well but I arrange for some back up to provide some fire support after you engage the enemy machine."

On the streets below near the building Lelouch was using a vantage point to observe the entire battle the Lancelot was effortlessly cutting down one enemy Sutherland after another allowing the Britannian forces to regain lost ground even though they still lost a considerable amount of their forces. Without calling in reinforcements using what available troops they had left without breaking the encirclement even further would make wiping out the rest of the ghetto more difficult.

Even the squad of Knightmare Frames led by one Jeremiah Gottwald was finding it difficult to find and wipe out more of the ghetto's inhabitants.

Inside the cockpit of his machine a man with blue hair and tanned skin complexion with orange eyes was locked in a fire fight against members of the resistance using Sutherlands they had stolen from them, which was a fact that angered the Britannian Margrave greatly.

"How the hell did these Elevens get their hands on our own weaponry?"

"We don't know sir?" His second-in-command and right-hand woman replied.

She was slightly younger than Jeremiah with a mocha skin complexion with silver hair and yellow eyes with her hair styled into a long ponytail.

"Damn if we ever find out who their pilots were there will be some serious repercussions for this."

Even through Jeremiah and his associate Villetta Nu were confident in their skills as pilots to see them through, but it was risky to simply charge the enemy because they were spread out using their assault rifles to keep them pin down. If they rushed them recklessly they would be mowed down, but they couldn't stay either.

Yet as the battle dragged on Jeremiah noticed something odd, call it instinct, because no matter how they pushed the enemy they seemed content with keeping them pinned down.

"Margrave Jeremiah, Prince Clovis is sending reinforcements your way." A Staff officer on communication channel reported.

"How because I recall Bartley stated we only had the troops we brought with us." Jeremiah snapped knowing that the Prince had stated that they would not call in reinforcements as to better control the information about the poison gas and to avoid public panic if word got out.

"He diverted men from the encirclement, but he has spread the rest of them to hold it." The Staff Officer replied carefully.

Jeremiah wanted to yell at him for allowing such an incompetent and overall stupid decision to happen, although he was loyal to the Imperial Family that didn't mean he wasn't above disagreeing with them especially over such a stupid move which is more likely to invite disaster.

At that moment realization dawned on Jeremiah as a thought occurred to him.

Could the enemy be aware of the limited number of troops we have?

Then that explosion earlier that wiped out most of their available forces, but yet with all of the men the enemy had they had yet to make an attempt to break the encirclement or attack the G1-base especially if escape was their plan.

Taking a moment to look at the tactical map using his Knightmare Frame's forward monitor Jeremiah's face paled when he saw how dangerously thin the encirclement had become with some areas only protected by foot soldiers and tanks that could have easily been taken out by a group of Knightmare Frames seeking to escape.

More worrying was how lightly guarded the G-1 itself was.

In that moment Jeremiah had a worrying thought come to mind.

Could the enemy be thinning out our forces maintaining the encirclement to mount an escape or…no…?

"Villetta we must make haste to Prince Clovis…the enemy has been setting us up!"

"What?"

"The enemy has been purposely pushing those idiots with the Prince into weakening the encirclement and the forces protecting him."

Lelouch observed a group of Knightmare Frames beginning to hurry back to the G-1 causing him to wonder if they realized what he had been planning. A dark smile crossed his features as he knew it was too late and now that everything was ready he simply raised the detonator and pushed the button.

"Too late…"

Another explosion that wiped out the men Clovis had foolishly sent to their deaths went off, but this time it was right next to the area the G-1 was located as some of the forces closest to the explosion were killed, but that was not all. Even though they couldn't move the bomb directly under the G-1 they placed it in its location because drainage tunnels used to protect the subway tunnels from flooding ran below the subway tunnels. The resulting pit the explosion created coupled with the collapse of tunnels allowed for a number of supply vehicles, Knightmare Frames and armored vehicles including the G-1 base to tip into the underground collapse.

Some of which were crushed by the G-1 setting off some explosions.

A few vehicles were lucky, which included the ASEEC transport trailer which was outside of the range collapse. The ground contained the worse of the blast, but it still sent rock and debris flying everywhere. Lloyd walked over to the edge and saw the damage who was remarkably unharmed despite rocks still falling from the sky, but it was just the start as some of the officers had survived were already calling for aid from all available forces. Their panicked and pained voices sent the remaining Britannian soldiers out on the battlefield into a panicked frenzy as well as they rushed to the aid of the G-1 fearing the enemy would strike.

It was exactly as Lelouch had been planning.

As the encirclement broke down into soldiers and Knightmare Frames rushing to the G-1 they were ambushed by members of Leodore's group while others went down alleyways and roads that would have taken them to the G-1 quickly that had been booby trapped with landmines and explosives. The corner soldiers rushed head first into Lelouch and Rosso's trap where they were being swiftly wiped out. The ambush groups were backed up by Sutherlands hijacked for their own forces mixed with Glasgows they had using Chaos Grenades to wipe out infantry and tanks.

Jeremiah's eyes widened in horror realizing this is what the enemy had been planning for using the resulting panic of Clovis's G-1 being attack to send their forces into a frenzy to protect him. With the chain of command disabled and every soldier rushing to save the prince made them easy targets the resistance fighters under Lelouch's command.

Suzaku was hurrying back to the G-1, but unlike the rest of Clovis's forces his way was blocked by Rosso who rushed at the Lancelot.

She can't be serious?!

The young man reacted when she attacked, a combat reflex which saved him, as she hurled her blade forward intending to impale the head of the incoming machine. Suzaku was even more surprised when Rosso began moving much faster using speed and agility that appeared to be superhuman as she skillfully wielded her weapon before hurling the other half while retracting the other blade to strike the Lancelot.

The Lancelot stopped to deal with the foe once Suzaku realized, despite it being seemingly impossible, that the woman with horns on her head was actually keeping up with his machine if just barely.

How is it possible for her to move like that, Suzaku thought as a look of awe mixed with perplexity etched on his face.

Suzaku didn't dwell on the thought, but if he was clearly he feared she could disable the machine or worse. Deciding to focus on his task at hand Suzaku struggled to land a blow on the woman, but her small size and superhuman agility and stunning display of aerobatics kept her ahead of the Lancelot's attacks.

One mistake on her part could end badly if Rosso wasn't careful since she was just barely evading Suzaku's counterattacks by a hair.

His machine is remarkably a lot faster than those tin buckets Atlas uses, but I guess they got a damn good pilot at the helm.

Rosso kept Suzaku on the defensive as one of her chain blades was being used to aid her in her evasion and impressive displays of agility while the other was being used to attack. Before Suzaku could attack to cut the chain using the slash-harkens on the forearms of the Lancelot he was already being forced to evade another incoming blade.

To a casual observer it was like a violent confrontation of a giant attempting to wrestle with a giant snake that was just too slippery to catch. Except the pace was difficult to keep up thanks to how Rosso wielded her chain blade as they spun around her like extensions of her body moving as she wanted them to do.

The pilot of the Lancelot thought about using the Blaze Luminous Shields to deflect Rosso's attacks to create an opening, but Suzaku was forced to abandon that idea because he came under fire from a group of Sutherlands that had arrived on the area to give Rosso some support fire to keep the Lancelot on the defensive.

However Suzaku knew he still had a chance to win, because of one critical difference between his foe and the Lancelot.

You might have superhuman agility and usually powerful weapons, but even your endurance can't allow you to keep fighting at such a pace indefinably.

Suzaku reasoned that if his foe was flesh and blood then she couldn't have infinite stamina and become exhausted eventually, so the battle was a waiting game to see who would be worn out first or made a mistake creating an opening for their foe. Of course since Suzaku was dealing with a very small and fast moving target he knew he could make a mistake that could cost him, but the presence of the enemy Sutherlands merely increased those chances since he had a chance of being shot or hit by Rosso.

If I use the Blaze Luminous I'll just be pinned down and open to an attack from behind.

However time might not give Suzaku such a chance as a call from Cecil came through on the speakers.

"Private Kururugi we need you to return to base immediately before the enemy can overwhelm our position. You must rescue the Viceroy and escape Shinjuku Ghetto with him."

What, Suzaku exclaimed in his mind before looking down at his tactical monitor and saw to his horror that virtually all of the military forces Clovis had brought to Shinjuku Ghetto had been practically wiped out save for a group of Knightmare Frames piloted by Jeremiah and his group remaining.

Like the rest of the Britannian Military they were fighting their way to Clovis, but having realized the enemy was ambushing them along the way Jeremiah and his group were more cautious and managed to avoid being wiped out in waiting ambushes or running into traps set by the enemy.

"Understood Miss Cecile I am returning." Suzaku replied looking for an opportunity to break away seeing that the fight was a stalemate anyway unless he could create an opening.

Knowing what had to be done while mentally preparing himself to apologize to Lloyd later Suzaku allowed Rosso to land a downward vertical strike on the arm of the Lancelot, although he had expected the armor to withstand the cut he was shocked to see it actually cleave through joint connecting the arm. Rosso targeted the joint instead of the shoulder itself which could not have been an easy target to hit, but Suzaku used the ejection of the arm to break the battle's momentum for a few seconds allowing him to make a break for it.

Rosso jumped back expecting a counterattack after the explosive ejection of arm mixed with the damage she inflicted at the same time, but was surprised to see the Lancelot fleeing.

He has good instincts that one, he knew this fight would only drag on until one of us makes a mistake or wears out first. Rosso complimented internally.

"Should we pursue?" One of the Sutherland pilots asked who was a bull Faunus with horns.

"No, but recover the arm it left behind…we could learn a thing or two from it."

Even through Rosso didn't win the fight she did accomplish her mission and kept the Lancelot from interfering with the battle.

Cecile and Lloyd fled the area as ordered taking some non-combatant survivors with them knowing they would just get in the way if they stayed, although an engineer working with Cecile was forced to calm Lloyd down after the Lancelot lost an arm but it was for the sake of escaping its foe. The area that had once been the safest in Shinjuku Ghetto with the presence of Clovis's G-1 had turned into a warzone.

After most of the retreating forces who were rushing to Clovis's aid were wiped out in well-planned ambushes the rest of the enemy force descended upon the G-1 with Ohgi and the remaining Sutherlands they had moving to join in on the battle to repay them for all of the civilians they slaughtered. The Britannians with most of their forces wiped out and their chain of command broken was fighting a losing battle.

Clovis was being pulled out of the wreckage of the G-1 one by one of the Staff Officers while helped by a Britannian foot soldier as an injured Bartley was trying in vain to regain command of the situation. Clovis himself had bumped his head during the G-1's fall and was unconscious. The combined might of the resistance groups and their stolen Sutherlands were barreling down on the G-1 as the pit they and the remains of their forces made them easy targets.

At least until Jeremiah and the members of his Purist Faction showed up followed by the Lancelot that had chosen this moment to arrive using its remaining arm and its slash harken to cut down any enemy Sutherlands in its path to make a bee-line for the fallen G-1. The arrival of Jeremiah and his comrades gave Suzaku the chance to enter the pit and to reach the wrecked G-1 where Clovis and the surviving Staff Officers could be found.

Upon seeing the Lancelot a sense of relief mixed with dread appeared on Bartley's face. He was relieved because it meant Prince Clovis could be saved, but dread because it would mean they would have to be left behind. However Bartley was loyal to his prince and would do his upmost to ensure he survived.

"You get his majesty out of here!" Bartley snapped.

"Yes sir…" Suzaku replied opening the cockpit of the Lancelot to allow Clovis to be loaded into the machine onto the pilot's lap.

Although Bartley was shocked to see an Eleven piloting the Lancelot, but he didn't have much of a chance to protest it as the terrorists were closing in and they had little time left. Clovis needed to be taken out of Shinjuku Ghetto NOW.

"NO MATTER WHAT GET HIS MAJESTY OUT OF HERE AND PROVE YOUR LOYALTY!" Bartley snapped at Suzaku as a Staff Office and Britannian Soldier helped Clovis into Suzaku's arms before entering the cockpit of the Lancelot with an unconscious Clovis with him.

"You have my word I will."

Without another word the Lancelot hurried off using the slash-harken of its remaining arm to scale the pit and make a break for it. Jeremiah realized Prince Clovis was in the Lancelot so in turn ordered his forces to attack the enemy to give it a chance to escape with its precious cargo aboard.

"Villetta and Kewell I want you two to escort that white Knightmare Frame and ensure it makes it out of the ghetto to a secured location where the Viceroy can be taken back to the Government Bureau." Jeremiah ordered taking a deep breath, he might now have had a very high opinion of Clovis personally but he was a member of the royal family and he would faithfully serve them and ensure their survival.

"What about you Lord Jeremiah?" Villetta asked.

"The rest of us will attack the enemy to cover your escape then we'll attempt to rescue Bartley and the others if we can, but if not we'll fall back."

"Lord Jeremiah the enemy outnumbers us."

"Yes and the longer we wait the worse it will get." Jeremiah said, but he knew from the condition he saw the Lancelot in that there was still more of the enemy still on their way. He didn't exactly know how a brand new and fast unit like the Lancelot lost its arm, but he took it as a sign that the rest of the enemy had yet to arrive.

They could easily flank us without reinforcements to aid us.

"Unless reinforcements are on the way our priority is to get the Viceroy to safety." Jeremiah answered knowing full well he might not survive the coming battle with the enemy.

They were using the remains of destroyed vehicles or ruins of nearby structures as temporary cover as Jeremiah and his Purist followers exchanged fire against the enemy Sutherlands, but just like them they were using whatever cover they could gain however they were still outnumbered and their ammunition was already close to depleted.

Villetta was reluctant, but she complied with Jeremiah's orders as she and Kewell departed to provide escort for Suzaku and the Lancelot.

In a final desperate last stand Jeremiah called on those Britannian soldiers to give it their all against the enemy, but it was then Rosso and the last of those following Lelouch's orders arrived on the scene. They didn't even see Rosso coming and Jeremiah's machine had its legs cut out from under him before being nearly split in half. Lucky for him a fellow pilot intervened taking the blow for him as his cockpit block was cut in two along with part of the machine causing the two machines to be engulfed in a fireball.

Using the resulting confusion the arriving resistance fighter Sutherlands began moving them down as the last of the Britannian Sutherlands were trapped between two groups of enemies while Rosso attacked them until none of them were left.

Bartley and the surviving Staff Officers were surrounded by Sutherlands piloted by Rosso's subordinates with armed Faunus wearing black uniforms approached them holding them all at gun point.

"What are you fifthly Elevens waiting for just kill us." Bartley spat defiantly, but the sweat and the way his body trembled revealed that beneath that mask of defiance the bald general was terrified.

"No they are Faunus." Lelouch said as he disembarked his Sutherland wearing his Britannian soldier grab with his sword out. As he approached his eyes began glowing blue causing Bartley and the Staff Officers to gaze upon his eyes. "How does it feel to be powerless?"

Using his Semblance called Powerlessness; Lelouch caused their nerves system to overload resulting in their bodies locking up causing short-term paralysis. However they could still speak and move their eyes, but their limbs was frozen in place.

"My semblance isn't flashy, but it's useful."

"Who…who are you?"

"Who am I?" Lelouch said removing his helmet to allow Bartley a good look at his face, which surprised the old general to see his foe was Britannian, "I am the eldest son of the late consort Marianne and seventeenth in line to the imperial throne, Lelouch vi Britannia."

"WHAT!?" Bartley exclaimed looking at the young man more closely before recognizing him from a painting Prince Clovis had shown him of Lady Marianne famously known as Marianne the Flash a former member of the Knights of the Round. He had painted an impressive portrait of her and her children with Lelouch being virtually identical to her eldest child he had seen in that painting. "Impossible…he…he died seven years ago."

"As you can see that is incorrect, but I have risen from the depths of hell to change everything. But first all of you are going to answer some questions for me."

The blue light faded with Lelouch's eyes before his left eye began glowing with the power of his Geass.

A/N: Lelouch's semblance is Powerlessness, a feeling he felt throughout most of his life until recently and now his semblance allows others to experience that sensation first hand. The paralysis is short term lasting about five to ten minutes. A trained Huntsman/Huntress can recover faster (five minutes) thanks to their aura and an average human takes longer or a huntsman/huntress with a depleted aura (ten minutes).

The semblance requires direct eye contact for it to work…it is like a version of Medusa's Gorgon eye except you aren't turn to stone and the effects are temporary.

I thought about expanding some of the battles, but even without his extra help the fight in the original canon was a bit one sided in Lelouch's favor thanks to how terrible a commander Clovis is. However we do have a different outcome showing that Clovis escaped, but his men in the G-1 were left behind and at Lelouch's mercy. So I decided to provide with the battles as they were except Lelouch being a little more prepared for leading a resistance knew the moment they began attacking the G-1 the rest of Clovis's followers would rush to his aid allowing Lelouch to ambush them and systematically wipe the rest of them out despite the inference of the Lancelot.

If the Lancelot hadn't been caught fighting against Rosso it would have eventually turned the tables on Lelouch, but now without the Britannian Army still suffering some serious losses just the same.

This was a difficult chapter to write (in terms of some of the fights), but I hope the experience from the fight between Lancelot and Rosso will help me do some improved battles as the story progresses while delivering some bigger scale battles which I always seem to have some trouble writing even through Lelouch dominating Clovis through superior tactics remained the same just expanded a bit.

Now how will things change with Clovis surviving Shinjuku Ghetto and someone else overheard his declaration?

We'll be returning to the RWBY world in due time, but for now thanks in advance for the reviews.