Inspiration: This story was partially inspired by another story. In this case it's The Bonds of Family (formerly A Blast From the Past) by Shadow At Midnight. Check it out if you want to see just how the hell this got up off the ground.


Phase 7

Tearing Up Trouble

Cornelia spotted the entrance to the mountain base and went in with just her Gloucester. She had found the central base of the Blood of the Samurai one week earlier and was making her attack now to see if they truly had disbanded. After heading through a short tunnel she saw an anti-aircraft gun that wasn't manned and scanned the surroundings with her Factsphere Sensors. To her irritation, nothing was detected. Sighing, Cornelia opened her cockpit and drew her personal weapon out as she looked around with her own two eyes. There were cobwebs in a few corners of the room, signifiying that the place hadn't been used recently. Cornelia got back into her cockpit and transmitted, "This is Cornelia. There's nobody inside the mountain base. The anti-air gun isn't manned by anyone and I saw some cobwebs in here. Seems that the Blood of the Samurai, assuming that they're still around, have abandoned this base."

"This can't be right. They wouldn't have abandoned the base like this." Darlton transmitted. He and Guilford arrived four days after Cornelia became Viceroy and helped in eliminating two resistance groups. They were both small cells with no more than sixteen members and thus easy to take out. The Blood of the Samurai though were one of the largest resistance groups in Area Eleven. They wouldn't have abandoned the base without extensive planning ahead.

"It seems that the Blood of the Samurai aren't here anymore. Even the anti-air gun doesn't have any ammunition. We now have to consider that either they really did disband or they're heading somewhere we don't have ears at."

"Princess Cornelia, we've got reports of a situation ongoing in the Greater Tokyo Area. A trainload of Sutherlands was stopped while being transported through the Nerima Ghetto. The guards protecting that train are reporting that they got ambushed and are pinned down by terrorists right now. From what we've got from them, they're the same terrorist group from Shinjuku that gave Clovis a hard time." Guilford transmitted.

Cornelia sighed as she sped out of the abandoned base and went off. Meanwhile with Kallen and the other Shinjuku terorrists, they were fighting off the guards while a few more members hijacked Sutherlands from the train. Sugiyama and Ohgi had some of the guards pinned down with small arms fire while Kallen and Yoshisa dropped in from above in Sutherlands and crushed the Britannian guards with the weight of their Knightmares. Sugiyama and Ohgi stopped firing and then said, "It looks like these guys are downed. Let's move and keep an eye out for reinforcements."

Sugiyama silently agreed with Ohgi as did a few members of the Kozuki Resistance as they stole the Sutherlands from the train and escaped before Britannian reinforcements arrived. Guilford and Cornelia's Gluocesters arrived just as the stolen Sutherlands fled into a tunnel that was used as an escape point.

"Damn! Looks like we got here too late to stop the terrorists!" Guilford shouted through his loudspeakers.

"Search the area for survivors. There have to be at least some around here." Cornelia transmitted to her royal guardsman.

"Understood, your highness." Guilford said before he began to search for survivors. He found one after moving an overturned train car and helped the man up. "What happened?" the royal guardsman asked.

"We were ambushed by terrorists who destroyed the lead car of the train. I was stuck under the overturned car you moved so I wasn't able to partake in the situation." the guard replied.

"What happened is unfortunate but at least you're alive." Guilford said before Cornelia transmitted to him, "Guilford, what's on your end? I just got two survivors back on their feet."

"I managed to find one survivor who was stuck under an overturned train car. I helped him out and as it so happened he said that the train was ambushed." Guilford replied.

"Oh well. I'll need to schedule a meeting with Ruben Ashford sometime soon and learn from his grand-daughter Milly why two important people fled."

A/N: I am so tempted to split this into two stories soon. This story, One Brocon Too Many, will still remain strictly Lelouch x Nunnally while the second story will give Lelouch a harem that includes Nunnally. This ended up being a short chapter but bear with me for now.