Author Note: As always please throw some reviews my way good or bad, I really want to know what people think about my work. This chapter is probably the cleanest insofar as grammar and punctuation go, I'm sure its still not up to some people standards but meh, I'm having fun. Also to answer a couple PM's at once I'm not really focusing on Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally slaughtering mooks because they're slaughtering mooks, looks cool on screen tediously repetitive to write about. And as far as Tamaki goes he's mildly serious because it amuses me, there is no other reason.
Edit:Fixed a silly mistake with the Kamine Island thing, le sigh
Viceroy Palace April 25 2017 A.T.B
Luluka let out a long sigh after she said "Ditto to you kiddo, ditto" and forced herself to regain her composure, she pushed the constant connection she had to Nunnally's comm unit aside and continued her mission. She was wearing the standard outfit for female base personnel, her hair up in a bun and her haptic interface glasses perched imperiously on the tip of her nose, Kallen had told her she looked like a bond villain in the getup which was very sweet of her. Following the path being projected directly into her eyes she twitched her fingers switching comm channels to that of the Black Knights, timing was everything and she couldn't be distracted by the worry she had for her little sister.
Turning the corner she heard a familiar, if slurring voice coming from the officers lounge, peaking in she saw Euphemia li Britannia of all people holding an empty glass neighboring an equally empty bottle of high shelf brandy. Next to the pinkette was the woman from Shinjuku that Luluka had brained, rubbing Euphia's back trying to get her to drink some water... 'SHIT!' she screamed in her mind, nothing can be easy can it? Continuing on she made it to the central computer hub, activating her Geass she simply walked past the guard taking his keycard and opened the door, walking in like she owned the place she slapped a block of C4 on the central server and set the timer for two minutes. Hurrying out as her Geass started to make her eyes throb she made it out of sight of the guard just in time to drop her power, 'Ok yeah' she thought 'Gonna have a migraine from that one'
Moving back down the corridor she stopped before passing in front of the lounge, she waited until the distant explosion fried every computer system in the facility activating the fire alarms and sprinklers. 'This is stupid this is sooooo fucking stupid' she screamed to herself as she popped into the room and addressed the pair of inebriated women,
"Quick the terrorists are setting off bombs we need to get the princess out of here immediately!" Thankfully the former Pureblood remembered her duty even in her sloshed state and helped Luluka drag her half sister out of the opulent mansion/command center. The rush of the human wave running from the "terrorist attack" carried them to the front door and they got the tipsy royal away from any further danger, Euphemia turned and stared Luluka in the eyes then said
"Hey yer awfully pretty, you know that...wait do I know you? You look alot like..." annnnnd then she threw up all over Luluka's boots, 'That's just...wonderful' she thought. Excusing herself from her half sisters ongoing drunken misadventures and ignoring Viletta's thank you the fake petty officer briskly walked towards the Camelot trailer. Thinking nothing of the abrupt departure Viletta tried to force more of her water bottles contents down the giggling royals throat, wondering if this night could get any more complicated.
Saitama Ghetto April 25 2017 A.T.B
Lelouch's impromptu speech had really been meaningless, he'd spoken in Japanese specifically to get the downtrodden Elevens to pay attention to the broadcast and on the same note annoy his ignorant half sister. He may be a philanthropic revolutionary but he was not above being petty thank you very much, twitching his eyes over his masks HUD he received the signal that Luluka's mission had been complete. Grinning maliciously he keyed in to the three figures demolishing the purge force below,
"Guys we're go for Operation Mjolnir, I'm activating our asset now." He received three double click confirmations then emailed the newest contact on his cell, on the other side of the battlefield in the now brutalized G1 Duke Caleras received a message on his PDA 'Begin phase one'. Eyes glowing with a distinctive red ring around his irises he stood up helping support the disoriented Carine as he bellowed,
"Send in the gunships, I want this entire filth ridden ghetto burned!", the communications officer scrambled to relay the order then announced,
"ETA 5 minutes my lord."
With that the three dozen VTOL gunships on standby where en route towards the melee, unnoticed by them were the ten SAM equipped Burai's under Minami's command, who was honestly quite nervous. SAM units were essentially defenseless outside of their intended purpose, the hardpoints on their cockpit blocks each held a single surface to air missile pod and the rotating collar that replaced each arm holding three more. Snorting to himself he couldn't help but mutter,
"Lucky for us we're fighting a group of idiots that think we're animals and didn't bother with a rearguard." Not realizing he had broadcast this his second in command chuckled and connected a video window, Jeffrey Everett Tyler's dark skin contrasting dramatically with his white smile as he replied.
"Heh, no joke, seriously if you aren't a royal or a nobleman you're as dumb as they come in their book..., oh hey incoming bud, lets do this." With that his Britannian subordinate cut the signal and activated the RADAR dome in place of his Burai's head. Dozens of signals lit up his screen at once all coming directly towards them in one sweeping wave, not able to maintain his composure Minami had to snark out,
"Oh yes clump together in one huge group so only one wave at a time can fire and you cannot perform evasive maneuvers, flanking is for pussies apparently." Jeffrey, or rather Jet as his friends called him started laughing when he asked the question of his heart,
"Mini...please please please buddy lemme give the order," smirking at the young man's excitement Minami laughed then gave his assent. With a very manly giggle Jet bellowed, "Knock 'em out of the sky ladies and gentlemen!" And in less then thirty seconds all air support for the genocidal purge was lost.
Back in the G1 Carine was going absolutely ballistic at the loss of their gunships and even with the Geass over himself Caleras was annoyed, the whiny little royal was the one who insisted they didn't need air cover, the only reason they had what they did was because Euphemia had insisted on it, lot of good it did anyhow. Choosing to not air that revelation Caleras received his final message. Glancing at the PDA he read "And I Saw a Pale Horse", eyes glowing unnoticed he grit his teeth and ordered,
"Contact the IMS Indomitable and order it to fire on the quadrent the three terrorist Knightmares are fighting in!" The room went dead silent, one of his aides actually had to the courage to question him,
"My lord, what about our soldiers on the ground? There are still over 1,500 troopers plus our knightmares out the-"
Caleras pulled out his sidearm and shot the woman in the head, all other arguments ended before they began, Carine was grinning at Caleras and nodded her head in agreement,
"Fuck 'em all we can always order more soldiers, drop the monkeys with thunderclaps," with that the massive Ranger class missile cruiser parked in Tokyo bay fired four cruise missiles at the ghetto.
Outside the Viceroy Palace
Tamaki pulled his motorcycle into an alley and cracked open the dead drop awaiting him, donning the emergency response gear and setting the face concealing respirator in place he waited for the fun to start. Not five minutes later amidst the panic he heard from the other side of the wall he saw the gates open as several firetrucks, Knight Police, and ambulances pulled up to enter the compound. Shifting the short tube in his hands he pulled the fire extinguisher from its canvas bag and followed the group of similarly dressed emergency responders into the belly of the beast.
Saitama Ghetto
The roar of the missiles could be heard in the distance, Lelouch watched with a contemptuous grin on his face twirling the King piece in his left hand at blurring speeds. As the missiles sped towards the ghetto they overshot their target and kept moving on a coarse towards the Tokyo Settlement, he let out a well earned cackle as he whispered,
"Dance puppets, dance."
Viceroy Palace Front Gardens
Every modern facility that maintains a conquered territory is protected with state of the art defenses, camouflaged retractable anti-personnel guns and mines, hidden elevator lifts to launch Knightmares, electronic countermeasures to spoof missiles, and dozens of CIWS guns to swat unguided rockets out of the air. This is all controlled by the equally state of the art central computer held in a secured armored room in the dead center of the building, unfortunately for this particular base the control room was currently blown up and on fire.
Tamaki casually swung up the painting laser concealed in his fire extinguisher and pointed the lens at the palace, 20 seconds later 4 thunderclap missiles slammed into the residence turning it into a massive greasy fireball. Pulling himself up off the ground shaking off the effect of the explosion he walked away from the burning wreckage as casually as possible, exiting the front gates he thanked his lucky stars the bulky respirator hid his laughing.
Saitama Ghetto
Lelouch gazed upon his kingdom of death, men and women falling by the dozens by his command, and in truth it did bother him to an extent, most of these people were in fact just doing a job. These weren't the same sycophants who had invaded Japan and tried to murder his family, the first invasion forces were Britannia's rabid dogs, those lusting for destruction, rape, and looting, garrison forces were just working for a pay check. So unlike his Japanese cohorts he didn't revel in the slaughter, he just accepted it as a fact of war and filed it away in the hole that use to contain his empathy. Shifting his gaze from the chaos his family was causing he made the decision to end this charade, opening a channel to Ohgi he said,
"B1, deploy your Knightmares to flank the remaining forces, spare any ground crew that surrender no need to make this more of a slaughter, R1 and R2 you're to make sure the kids don't bite off more then they can chew" with a "Roger", "Yes my lord" and a "Hai!" his orders where fulfilled, switching channels to Inoue's group he commed, "B3 take your unit and escort B4's flyswatters back to base, you're weapons free to deal with any stragglers that get in your way, Zero out".
He lifted his mask just enough to smell the battlefield, even up here he could smell the smoke, dust and blood, grimacing at the memories it stirred he let the mask fall back into place. Staring at the derelict G1 he glared at it with pure malice, as if he could see the bloodthirsty witch through the cracked armor walls, "Time for you to pay for what you wanted little sister..." he switched over to all open channels and keyed the comm
"The ultimate high as all beautiful dies, a rulers tool, a priests excuse, a tyrants delight, see what you've wrought upon your own subjects Carine, watch as all your hope dies." Pinging Nunnally's Valkyrie he ordered her to approach the G1 as he continued his broadcast, "tonight you meet your end Massacre Princess, it is your choice whether it is as a sow in a burning stall or as a soldier on her steed." With that he cut the comm and and made his way down the wrecked buildings stairs not noticing that he was being followed by one of the news station hover cams.
Viceroy Palace Crater Outskirts
Luluka walked into the Special Envoys trailer startling the two scientists huddled over a terminal, she feigned shock and stuttered out,
"Ter... terrorists just se.. set a bomb of.. of.. off in the Palace! I was ordered to chec-" and then boom, even with the doors sealed the shock of the explosion was enough to set her ears ringing as the pressure wave sent all three flying. The man groggily stood helping his compatriot up, she was bleeding from a cut on her head but looked all right. Luluka hated to admit it but damn that one rattled her, was not expecting quite so much boom, she'd have to have a word with her brother.
"Cecile my dear are you all right?" The man asked earnestly, this for some reason seemed to startle Cecile, huh, weird. The woman looked even more flummoxed when the other scientist tore a strip from his jacket and wrapped the head wound helping her up.
"I...I'm fine Lloyd, thank you very much" she said smiling, 'Ah hell did I just walk in on another soap opera? Sigh...get enough of this crap at home', with that she finally was able to stand up. Lloyd walked over to the main hanger to see a large piece of marble crashed through the door and planted firmly into the bay.
"Well...at least we already transferred the Gawain to Kamine island...would hate to lose another prototype to the terrorists." Cecile replied to him as she was checking Luluka over for injuries,
"Yes, losing the Lancelot was only made bearable because it got rid of Bradley, if we lost the Gawain for nothing...I doubt the prince would be happy." Interesting, most interesting, Luluka filed away all these juicy little tidbits for later, either these two were the most trusting flaky scientists in the world or they were as equally jittered as she was from the explosion, maybe both.
"Cecile, take a look" her partner stated staring out the massive hole in their trailer, as she moved towards him Luluka flared her Geass and ran to the computer that was as luck would have it unlocked. She jammed the datastick into the port and started an information dump, she limped back to the odd couple and dropped her Geass, peaking around the corner of the rended metal she gasped. The palace was gone, either completely annihilated or collapsed into itself she couldn't tell, silently hoping she got Euphia far enough away she couldn't help but quip,
"Now that is a big goddamn hole," luckily for her they hadn't picked up her tone of satisfaction, Lloyd simply nodded and Cecile responded with,
"Well...it was an incredibly ugly building anyway..." staring at the two scientists cockeyed she vaguely wondered if she could keep them, they were her kind of crazy. Looking back at the computer the light on the data stick flickered to green, transfer complete, once again casting her Geass she rushed over, nabbed her prize and got back behind the pair before they noticed her missing. Mission accomplished she looked to Lloyd and said,
"So...got anything to drink in this thing?" Cecile snorted and motioned her towards the back of the lab.
"We're engineers working directly beneath the Prime Minister dear, of course we do, you like scotch?" Smiling Luluka thought 'Yup, totally wanna keep em'
Closing thoughts- I introduced the character Jet due to a few reasons, but mainly it comes down to wanting to introduce positive Britannian characters while having someone to base some of his idiosyncrasies on (mostly my friend who has a similar name structure that gave her a very unwanted nickname that will never go away). He won't be a major character but he'll be an interesting background one I hope, time will tell.
Also, I'm seriously considering going back to earlier chapters and expanding them as well as fixing some of the more horrendous formatting issues they have, anyone think that's worth while?
