"We hereby declare to resurrect Japan as a lawful independent and sovereign nation!" A sudden voice sprang from within the media all around, this man was known as Sawasaki Atsushi... What hid behind him were an army of knightmares, highly different from other knightmare designs.
...
"Atsushi Sawasaki, leader of the forces that have occupied the Fukuoka Military Base was the chief cabinet minister of the Kururugi Administration in the former nation of Japan. After the war, he fled to the Chinese Federation, now making his move recently in response to the civil unrest caused by Zero, whether The Black Knights have played a role in these unfolding events is still under investigation..."
Sets of TVs were watched by many citizens of Britannian race outside the store window, many people began to stare at the events that were about to come while some didn't bother with the news at all and went on with their life. However one certain thing that stood out was an eyebot looking at the television screen.
"Hey who the hell left this thing near my store!?" A fellow Britannian owner asked, pointing toward the strange floating object. Some citizens watched as that one guy walked up and faced the eyebot. The grumbled man decided it would be fun to mess with the thing.
"Ha! This thing would be pretty valuable to sell at a pawn shop or something, so back off it's mine now." The citizen said to near Britannians, most just shrugged it off the citizen's comment on the eyebot, walking away from the scene while some simply observed the floating machine, waiting for something to amaze them...
"Now how the hell is this thing supposed to work?"
*Thud *
The civilian quickly reacted to the eyebot turning. One second later the civilian received the shock of his life.
The eyebot reacted with self-defense by firing the built-in laser tool it had. The citizen's last expression was a horrified wide open mouth about to scream for mercy until it was too late, the civilian was already vaporized from the laser. The man was no more, becoming a pile of ash where it shoes once stood.
The people turned from curious to a frightened expression immediately around the dissolved man, after a few seconds many screamed at the realization, soon this incident would go on the news when the police force got involved...
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Suzaku Kururugi, Honorary Britannian, from a regular soldier to a knight selected by the third princess of the royal family. Over the days Suzaku had serve Euphemia, he began to feel something about her. Her looks and personality, even ideals made Suzaku want to admire her. She was unique when it came to her kindness towards to anyone that wasn't Britannian by birth unlike her sister...
Suzaku standing in front of the third princess herself, pulled out an object inside of his pocket. Euphemia watched as Suzaku pulled out the unique thing, with a frown expression shown on her face.
"I dishonored you..." He admitted, his depressed face caused Euphemia to pity the poor Japanese knight.
"Suzaku, if this is about the incident back on the island then you have no worry to blame yourself." The princess said, the only thing that should be blamed for was the Enclave for the given situation.
"I was there beside you while you were being attacked by soldiers, I sat there staring. The only reason the mission was a failure was because of me." Suzaku admitted, however due to his high skill and superior knightmare to other models was also the reason Britannia even put up a good fight to take on the Black Knights.
Euphemia hesitated to believe the statement Suzaku had made to the princess, turning her head away from the knight in the military uniform. "I can't forgive myself if I have not been punished. I'm grateful for being a knight Princess Euphemia, but I'm just not worthy to be a knight..."
"Suzaku, you have no right to blame yourself over anything. Please don't do this..." Euphemia pleaded, before the princess could say another word Suzaku pressed his hand on the princess's received badge, squeezing the princess's hand tight, clenching the hand. Suzaku gave a last look at the surprised and innocent Euphemia, regretting his actions every second he had left.
"I'm sorry..."
The knight in white no longer wanted to see the princess has he couldn't bare to see her frown or sad in any way, he turned and left. Leaving a poor princess on the premises.
Meanwhile on the Britannian side, havoc has erupted near the coastlines. The forces of the Chinese Federation has caused a large stir on Area 11 soil, making Britannia take action. Unfortunately for Britannia, it doesn't seem to go well for starters.,,
Arrays of fire from the forces of the Chinese were tearing Britannia a new one due to a stroke of luck from the tempest that has prevented the army from using their air assets. Both sides were at different grounds, Britannia having the ocean while the Chinese have the land, being the high ground they are, they took advantage of the land.
The Federation's artillery continued to blast the knightmares underwater into heaps of parts and metal, leaving them floating in the ocean.
Britannian ships in the tempest were proven to be in a very difficult situation, their only option was to wait it out for reinforcements or be plunged into the sea by the Chinese Federation's firepower.
"Princess Cornelia, we've taken too many casualties, this tempest is preventing us from using our air forces. We have to delay the operation until the tempest has been cleared." A personal knight has stated beside another princess in heir. Dark pink hair at best with a red military uniform confined by a white cloak on the back.
Cornelia herself was frustrated in the skirmish, gritting her teeth to show. A hand on her hip, At a loss she had to listen to her second personal knight, continuing a charge on Kyushu would only cause massive amounts of unnecessary deaths until few can enter Chinese-occupied territory which is very unlikely. Cornelia didn't like the fact that she couldn't do anything about it, she would rather do it herself if it means suicide.
"Fine Guilford. Order to cease the landing operation and wait for further instructions by the time the tempest is gone. I want everyone prepared once the operation can proceed."
"Yes my lady..."
A rather weird silence had been on for a few seconds until one familiar Black Knight interrupted the quietness.
"What!? Why the hell are we focusing on some new people joining in on the fight while we should help Sawasaki?" The dimwitted Tamaki was an upset man, behind many members of the same group and only a few feet away from Zero. The looks on some members gave a nod towards Tamaki's question, agreeing that they shouldn't be worrying about the 'new comers' in town, especially ones that aren't even known across the globe.
"Because Sawasaki isn't important." Zero declared, causing most of the people on the meeting to gasp or make a funny weird face on their expression. Usually the serious people who took Britannia seriously were shocked Zero couldn't care less about Sawasaki.
"What do you mean? Sawasaki says he's fighting for Japan." Another member said, assisting on Tamaki's opinion.
"His Japan is a sham, Sawasaki is simply a puppet for the Chinese Federation, an excuse to make war on Britannia. The only difference between us and his is simply a different name and a new leader, nothing will change, only for the worse..."
"So you're saying we should just ignore him and basically do nothing?" Asahina asked. His support for Zero was rather sour, just like Chiba, however pretends to think his commander, Tohdoh is the one doing the work.
"No, we will do something, Sawasaki is only doing this for his own reputation, which is why we can't allow him to succeed." This caused a massive confusion, questions and some remarked how Zero was insane if he thought this was a good idea.
"Zero, Sawasaki aside, what do you proclaim about these soldiers on the island? You seem to be only focused on them." A blonde named Diethard stated. After his sudden interruption, Kallen remembered what Zero asked about what happened on the island when she and Suzaku had the Enclave take them as prisoners by force.
She hated what they did to her, if Kallen sees the president who's calling the shots, she'll probably stick a knife in one of his eyes.
"These soldiers are called the Enclave." Zero said, turning his head over to Kallen. The members in front of Zero got their attention on this so-called 'Enclave' now, no longer worrying about what was to come in the night about the arrogant man .
"Although we have just been aware of their presence, it would be utter idiotic if we ignored them. They've tried to capture our ace in the group, we can't accept that." Zero said.
Tohdoh too was watching the mysterious masked man, after Zero came to rescue Kallen, while seeing the stolen Gawain as a asset to the Black Knight's Military strength, he noticed Rakshata with a floating eyebot while she was doing what scientists do. The eyebot itself was basically a radio talking about the Enclave and how it's their job to restore order among the Wasteland. To him, the Enclave were probably going to get themselves killed by one of the superpowers some day...
"You're saying we should destroy their entire organization before they destroy ours?" Tohdoh questioned.
"Right now, we should just be aware of them, there is no telling where they are, that's if there even on land..."
"Actually Zero, there was something I'd like for you to see that could give a look into in the Enclave matter for the Black Knights." Diethard interrupted, causing everyone to give attention to him. Diethard was a difficult case as a member, seeing he isn't Japanese makes all the members distrust him.
"Is that so? Then show me what you have to offer Diethard." Zero requested.
As Diethard went to the back of the 'stage' to get what he needed to show Zero, many were anxious what was about to come, some wanted to keep a close eye on the Britannian. Diethard now received a briefcase from the back, holding it one hand. He walked forward to give Zero a closer look into the case.
Opening up the briefcase, an inch later, Zero was surprised to find a helmet and a handgun that looked so bizarre there was no way that could have been a real gun.
Zero pulled the gun and the helmet out of the briefcase, observing the two with suspicion. The member gave a glare towards the equipment Diethard found.
"Thank you Diethard, I'm sure this equipment will give us more info about the Enclave."
"Yes of course..."
It was now night, Britannian naval ships stood as the sea no longer waved, the clouds drifted off from the sea and disappeared. Cornelia was ready to strike.
"The tempest is gone, good."
"We can now resume the landing operation, We will try to put Schneizel's plan to action." The personal knight Guliford said.
"You think the special core can break through their line?" Cornelia asked.
"With Kururugi it's possible..."
Cornelia, skeptical at first, now even more skeptical when the word Kururugi came out of Guliford's mouth, as a racist towards others but her own she couldn't trust Suzaku, especially when Princess Euphemia, her own sister mind you elected him as her personal knight. It would have to take a dozen of taking bullets for Cornelia, then she MIGHT consider it. Right now she was in a battle and if she see one mistake on Suzaku's part she 'll have him punished harshly like an honorary britannian.
"Hmph, using him could mean trouble, let's hope he doesn't do what happened before..."
Cornelia had hoped, although a thought came to her mind once Suzaku were to break through the front line, proving him to be a distraction while Cornelia's troops can charge in. Taking Sawasaki down by the time it's still night...
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As the battle continued, what emerged out of the clouds was a behemoth, it's size compared to other aircrafts was very large. If that thing could find one of the Enclave's bases, they were toast sad to say.
Three main cannons are confined to this heavy airship, it had automatic machine gun turrets spread across the hull and missile launchers along the topside.
Inside felt more like a personal base than a weapon built for combat.
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As Suzaku had entered into his personal knightmare, the Lancelot. As the user interface of the knightmare had popped into his main screen, he grabbed his controls, his mission was simple: Destroy as much enemies in the base and find Sawasaki.
"Are we sending up a barrage?" Suzaku asked through his open channel, talking to his superiors. As a soldier, Suzaku thought war was a horrible thing, no one should have to experience it. But as a student he just enjoyed every little thing that would make him happy on the inside. His friends. It made him glad they all accepted his race as a Japanese.
"We'll be fine in this position." A lady like voice spoke through the channel.
As the Avalon came closer to the Fukuoka Military Base, it senses of expecting missiles on the bridge were quite correct. Over dozens of targeted-heat seeking missiles shifted across the clouds, cutting up the air like cake. It was seconds until the missiles would hit the Avalon in spare pieces for power armor. Before the explosions have begun destroying the huge airship, a green transparent tint has appeared around the ship. On impact the missiles have done their job, causing a massive explosion, engulfing the Avalon with the scorching fires of hell.
However the airship wasn't finished yet, with its built-in shields harvested from the Lancelot shield system itself. It wasn't going to be blown up anytime soon from mere toy rockets. The Avalon continued its quest for the military base ignoring the previous action like it didn't even happen before.
"Major Kururugi, I am laying out the mission plan for final verification, this ship will breach enemy front lines in high altitude to the launch point. The advanced systems Z01 Lancelot systems using a float unit will attack the enemy headquarters at Fukuoka Base. Pay attention to your energy time, the float system will consume the filler very fast on the Lancelot."
The mission was settled by the superior woman, as Suzaku prepared his thumbs on the controls, the door to the launch quickly opened for the Lancelot to fly out. Once the Lancelot posed like an olympic champion, the knightmare's energy core activated.
"Lancelot unit now Launching!"
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"Launch!"
The tables have now turned, as Lancelot slid down the long narrow trail, using his landspinners to do the sliding for it. Seconds later, Suzaku had already launched off the Avalon. Suzaku had begun to activate the thrusters on the float system his superior told him about. As the thrusters increased flame outtake, the Lancelot was the speed of a jet, no, faster than a jet. The float system proved to be a very valuable asset, giving Suzaku an advantage on the Federation if he could play his cards right.
Later, a fleet of simple-minded helicopters equipped with missiles have encountered the white knight. Wanting to take the offense first, the fleet of helicopters fired their entire arsenal of missiles at the knightmare. Too bad this knightmare has the agility to dodge at a very fast pace...
The missiles were dodged in shame as their explosions had hit no one but the sky itself.
Suzaku unleashed his wraith upon the helicopters using his slash harkens, like how he defeated the vertibirds with. Before these pilots could say "SHIT!" their fates was simply another casualty in war, exploding in mid-air while their burnt helicopter fell from the sky, then into the water or land.
Suzaku had only just passed the beginners course as there will be more to come later once he has infiltrated in the Military base.
One helicopter had flown into the battlefield, using the charge in Infamous Leeroy Jenkins in order to try to destroy Suzaku's superior knightmare. The Lancelot had a switch in equipment, using its lance shield to prevent any fire penetrating the machine.
Once Suzaku got the chance, he did not hesitate to use another slash harken attack on the helicopter.
After that was over Suzaku received an unexpected open channel from his radio. Very surprised to say the least, he gave the call a chance and let the open channel reveal itself to be none other than Sawasaki...
"This is Minister Sawasaki, is that Prime Minister's son in the pilot seat?" The arrogant man himself asked.
Suzaku didn't answer, when he had heard the title Prime Minister it automatically made him remembered what had happened seven years ago. Killing his own father was the first to come to mind.
"I see, I didn't know he had a son like you..." Sawasaki claimed.
"This has nothing to do with my father. Sawasaki please surrender now, this can end in a peaceful way." Suzaku said. The Lancelot was finally closing in on the Fukuoka Base, the knightmare activated its landspinners, no longer using its float system to fly.
"Hmph, you would rather take Japan's freedom then fight for your own country?"
"Freedom must be solved the right way, violence isn't the answer!"
"You lack out of selfishness? I thought you were better than that Kururugi." Sawasaki stated.
"Don't make this any worse, we can sort everything o-GRH!"
Just when worse matters came into play, the Lancelot had taken a beating by an explosion , causing Suzaku to ignore the arrogant old man in the open channel. However very unfortunate that the arrogant Sawasaki had planned to do this to distract Suzaku long enough to set up an ambush while both were talking. This quickly led to the destruction of the Lancelot's primary weapon, fallen out from the knightmare's inventory.
Suzaku reacted, seeing knightmares approaching the battlefield.
"Those are Chinese Federation Gun-Rus..."
Taking out his only weapon that the Lancelot had left, Suzaku pulled the knightmare's sword from the back. The matter worsens as many Gun-Rus surrounded the single white knightmare. Less stronger by a single number but stronger by many had the Gun-Ru taking the upper advantage on the Lancelot.
The Lancelot took so much damage, causing it to lose most of its energy from enemy fire, including his sword.
"Suzaku! Remove all power, into combat and com systems!" The returned superior commanded.
"Got it!"
The Lancelot had made it's 'supposedly' final stand, putting all it's energy into combat, it would require a miracle for Suzaku to survive against all odds.
"Surrender Suzaku, since you are the Prime Minister's son I could promise you will be very well treated my boy, that's if you won't hesitate to join us..." Sawasaki said.
"No, if I use my father's name in this then I can't forgive myself, this is settled between you and me only!
"Hahaha, I see, you're just like your father, foolish, stubborn. Once you're disposed of Kururugi your name will be forgotten in a matter of years once Japan has been reborn. Just like your father..." Sawasaki's communication signal had ended with a sudden closure from the arrogant man. Right after Suzaku had other things to deal with another communication line opened up.
"Suzaku Kururugi!"
'That voice' Suzaku thought, his eyes opened wide when he saw the same pink he had seen before.
"Euphemia..."
Suzaku gazed into Euphemia's beautiful eyes, the fact that she was there on the communication made him glad he won't die alone.
"Suzaku... The truth is you and I that is... something."
"Sorry! Right now is very important!" Suzaku quickly stated, his thoughts were interrupting him in combat, struggling to take down each Gun-Ru he had seen on sight.
'I can't die... not right now...' every inch of effort came down to fighting the enemies. Suzaku's only tactic would have to be very fast and slice-n-dice knightmares before he gets shot down.
"I HEREBY COMMAND YOU TO LOVE ME!"
"Right... what..."
The single comment had stunned the Japanese white knight, how does one command someone to love them he thought at first. Then in a matter of love he knew what she was actually talking about...
"And in return I will love you, forever." The third princess declared, her desire to be with Suzaku change many things when they were together.
"So please don't hate yourself!"
The state of struggle from the white knight came down to a halt by Euphemia herself. Suzaku no longer worried about the Gun-Rus, to him it felt something was stopped in time. As he fought off many it felt everything was going to be alright. Then that was just a placebo due to the comfort of Euphemia.
One thing that signaled danger was something the Chinese had another up their shelve.
This wasn't a knightmare out of the mist, this wasn't a simple weapon, it was a heavy canonized tank. How the Federation managed to get one of these was a mystery...
As Suzaku noticed, it was too late to react. The Lancelot couldn't get to the mysterious tank on time as its main cannon fired a devastating laser that would heavily damage the knightmare. Without the shields system, the white knightmare would have been destroyed on the battlefield. "GRH!"
"Suzaku!" The third princess yelled in agony, she couldn't see her ex-knight be killed in such a manner.
The Lancelot's energy filler was now gone, the last hope for Suzaku to survive has disappeared in the dark. His only hope now was to say his goodbyes and prey for his fate...
"Princess Euphemia... I wanted to say thank you for all the good times I had with you, please don't tell anyone about my death, I don't want anyone to feel miserable... Heh, I pushed my limit, I was very stubborn to the end..." The Gun-Rus were closing in on the damaged Lancelot, surrounding it in a circle, causing any exit futile.
"NO, Suzaku you can't die now! YOU HAVE TO LIVE!"
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The sudden glowing heated knightmares around the Lancelot have submerged into a melted state, causing all pilots inside to be killed in a fury of explosions. Suzaku, amazed to see such a big damn hero moment from none other than the mysterious knightmare from the sky.
It's black and golden-colored 'bling' looked like it was basically the opposite to the Lancelot. The opposite to the Lancelot had flown down to the same altitude as the Lancelot. Eliminating any threats in a swift with its destructive laser beam. The Chinese tank from before had also appeared, wanting another challenge from the black knightmare until it was quickly eradicated just like the rest of its comrades. Too bad...
"Hmm, looks like integrating the Gefjun Disturber has worked on the Gawain, too bad that float system is more advanced than mine. So my opponent is the Earl of Pudding I guess... How distasteful..."
Before Rakshata could say another word to her two 'minions' the submarine had received a quick impact on the side. Causing to get most of her attention unfocused on the stolen Gawain's blue prints. The rest was soon to become a real problem for the Black Knights.
Back to Suzaku, the Gawain had kneel before the Lancelot, bigger in size.
"Kururugi, is the Lancelot still operational?" The modified voice sprang from the black knightmare showing that the masked man, Zero was inside.
"Zero, I should have known it was you inside..."
Before the Lancelot had a chance to make a move, something catched upon Suzaku's eye. An energy filler on the black knightmare's left hand. That was a good thing, but why would Zero do such a thing? In Suzaku's mind he wasn't sure if he were to trust him, especially after trying to sell Euphemia out to The President.
"I'm going to take out the enemy command center. What will you do? Could you go on?"
Taking a few secs to make a decision, This had only made Suzaku smirk at the masked man, fighting alongside your rival was a rather tedious idea, but if it involved completing your mission Suzaku had no worries with that...
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"Sorry Zero, I'll be hitting them first..My way." Suzaku had accepted Zero's offer to fight alongside him, two rivals joining together fighting for justice, for the greater good of all...
The Lancelot had received the energy filler, placing it on the back, fully increasing its energy. The Lancelot had turned all its power into it's landspinners increasing full speed into the base straight ahead, Zero following pursuit by flying using a customized float system. Many groups of Gun-Rus and tanks have tried to out smart and destroy the two knightmares, yet have underestimated the power of the 7th generated machines that were capable of much more than breaking inferior tanks and knightmares. With the Gawain's ranged weaponry and the Lancelot's melee weapons, they were an unstoppable force to be reckoned with by the whole army of Sawasaki.
Simple rocket-equipped tanks were obliterated by the Gawain's hadron cannons, causing the same old explosions just like the rest. The Lancelot used it's trusty sword of slicing to cut open many Gun-Rus into small robotic limbs, causing struggle within the Chinese Federation's small army.
Just when the mysterious tank wasn't enough, three had shown up to kill the two rivals with ease and revenge. Three fired it's blue lasers onto the Gawain's main torso, once one of the tanks have missed a shot, Zero caught three trying to shoot him down. Two have easily damaged the Gawain's torso, causing an electrical charge.
With no hesitation and a minute, Zero had used his primary weapon to fired at one of the tanks, causing another blast. It was all a matter of dodging and firing really. Soon none had survived the wraith of the Gawain.
From the distance you can see a small fire down near the whole base, that shows how much ass kicking the two are making. Group after group, each Gun-Ru and vehicle was bound to be destroyed in a fury of their own knightmare.
Once the job of eliminating any remaining armed forces were gone on the field, the Gawain had unleashed the hadron cannon, craving a circle in the center of the base.
"Zero! Shouldn't we be fighting alongside together as comrades, do you not care about the people of Japan!?" The voice of Sawasaki had come up upon the open channel. Zero had known Sawasaki would have begged like a dog, it was his desperation in order to convince Zero to join him. Sawasaki was simply a dirty coward...
"The Black Knights stands against anyone that uses violence unjustly for their own needs and wants..."
"What!? I'm doing this for Japan!" Sawasaki yelled in anger.
"Sawasaki, If this is for Japan why didn't you stay for everyone's sake?" Suzaku asked, this caused the old arrogant man to break in frustration.
"YOU BRAT!"
(The song ends here citizen!)
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Sawasaki, the man who promised to make Japan a sovereign nation and independent country quickly escaped with his subordinate on a cheap vehicle, the arrogant man's plan had failed resulting in over half of the Chinese Federation's troops in Kyushu to be killed or either end up missing.
"What's wrong with going to another country and wait for the right moment to strike back? It's an efficient plan." Sawasaki said.
"We can set-up a new line of defense in Kagoshima, that will ease off almost all the attention off our backs!" The general cooperating with Sawasaki quickly said, almosting running out of ideas for a new plan to over take a region in Japan.
"Damn, we've should have looked into more of those 'Chimeras tanks' instead of worthless knightmares like the Gun-Ru. Now everything is ruined..."
After the ride to their escape helicopter was finished, the two men couldn't bare to see their only escape route was suddenly pulled out of the helipad by a slash harken out of nowhere. Then the Lancelot and Gawain appeared right in their eyes.
"That's far enough." Zero declared
Sawasaki was a damn mess, his eyes and mouth couldn't even function to their desire.
"Im-Impossible... They took the whole fortress without any effort! No...
NO!"
After their little trip to the Fukuoka Base. Zero and Suzaku settled their ways, and made a truce... for now... The Gawain traveled at a constant speed, damaged at the fact those Chimera tanks caused the druid and stealth system to be disabled, not to mention there's even a chunk of the black knightmare missing on the torso. It was a rough yet satisfying day for Zero.
He was surprised he haven't got any communication from the Black Knights for quite a while. When Zero had finally found the submarine, it looked okay from the distance that is until it was accompanied by another submarine...
Very odd. Wait... that's bad...
Zero had quickly got out of his personal knightmare, heading straight for an entrance inside the sub. Once he was inside the sub, a surprise would stunn the masked man in either frustratation, defeat, or even shame . The entire hanger was crowded with Black Knight members, tied by ropes and hand cuffs. Weapons had been pointed in front of their faces by men he had seen before...
As one man had worn a suit had catched Zero's eye. Adjusting his tie, the bald man walked closer to see Zero's helmet, leader to leader.
Richardson...
"Hello. Zero... We have much to discuss about your organization's fate..."
(Pretty much my first chapter that had over 5,000 words. Hopefully the basic chapter length would be 3,000, maybe even more if there's a major battle coming up. Thanks for reading folks! Also there will be a mini-series that is NOT Canon, only for a what-if situation involving a rather large robot terrorizing the world of Code Geass.