Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, a huge ship similar to the Avalon appeared above the sky. It happens to be a Logres-Class Battleship that is escorting Nunnally across the sea all the way to Area 11. From both sides of the Logres battleship, two Caleron Battleships are present here to escort the ship that Nunnally was in, along with a Arms Freighter seen hauling 12 huge crates full of newly developed knightmares, weaponry, and additional components used to repair the Sakuradite Gateway as its cargo. As Nunnally made her way to the inner gardens, she couldn't stop thinking about Lelouch; especially after V.V took her to Kamine Island for reasons unknown. However, Nunnally felt relieved that she was still able to speak to Lelouch on the phone earlier. However, she couldn't help but feel concerned after being told by Lelouch to act as strangers for now. As for Hikaru, after learning about her true nature from the account of Suzaku, Nunnally couldn't help but think that whatever Hikaru is going through is, it may be all a grim misunderstanding. After feeling lost in her thoughts for a few minutes, the captain of the ship made his announcement to the young Viceroy.

"Lady Nunnally, we'll be reaching Area 11 in ETA 5 hours."

"Thank you, Captain!" Nunnally replied in a soft tone.


Meanwhile, 1,500 miles west of the Britannian Battleship, the NSX appeared in the clear blue sky. As the Autozamian Battleship is making its way towards the position of where Nunnally's ship is, the remaining members of the Four Holy Swords, Zero, Kallen, and the Magic Knights are standing by at the bridge behind Zazu and Geo.

"So Geo, did you finish prepping the tractor beam onboard the NSX?" Tohdou asked the Autozamian Commander.

"Why certainly!" Geo replied confidently. "Tohdou, you and your men are to give covering fire for the NSX while my crew move in and capture the Britannian arms freighter. The Magic Knights and Kallen will be moving in to secure the Britannian Battleship and capture the new Viceroy of Area 11."

"Don't forget, that they'll immediately be requesting reinforcements as soon as they see use in their sights. So, we need to accomplish this air raid as quick as possible before they overwhelm us." Zazu added in.

"Understood!" The Four Holy Swords said in unison.

"Hang on Nunnally! I'm coming to save you!" Zero thought before turning his attention towards the Magic Knights. "Don't forget to secure the entrance for me once we reach the enemy battleship."

As the heroes of Japan and Cephiro left the bridge, they made their way to their Knightmares in the hangar of the NSX.

For Hikaru, she still felt a bit haunted by the fact that she may end up facing Lord Guilford again, despite of his defeat during the Black Rebellion. As soon as she went into a separate room at the hangar, another voice called out to her in a calm whisper.

"Hello, Hikaru. It's been awhile hasn't it?!"

"Nova, why did you help me?" Hikaru said as the purple-hair girl appeared from the shadows.

"Did you forget that I'm part of your heart Hikaru?! As long as we're together, there won't be anything that you and I can't do." Nova smiled. "Since you defeated Mother Debonair, you and I are finally free from our grief and pain. So, you might as well consider my actions against that Britannian Knight my way of paying you back."

"I suppose that makes sense, Nova." Hikaru replied, feeling a bit relieved. "Though Britannia's warpath still looms over the horizon and I just aroused in more powerful enemies."

"There won't be anything to worry about, Hikaru!" Nova acknowledged. "If anyone can save Japan, it will be you and your friends. I won't get in the way this time, since you and I will always fight alongside each till the end."

"Thanks, Nova!" Hikaru smiled as both girls started hugging each other.

"Don't hesitate to call out for me with your heart!" Nova reminded the Fire Knight.

"Understood. I've got to get going. We're on a mission to secure an enemy arms freighter and capture the Viceroy of Area 11." Hikaru said as she heard knocking coming from outside of the room that she's in.

As soon as Nova disappeared back into the shadows, the door open, revealing to be none other than Colonel Tohdou.

"Pardon the interruption kid, but were you talking to someone in there?"

"Sorry, Colonel." Hikaru said as she turned to face the Leader of the Four Holy Swords. "I got distracted by my own subconscious."

"Well, we're two hours away from our designated target. So, are you ready to face the Britannians again?"

"By all means, yes!" Hikaru replied with full determination.

"Then, let's not waste anymore time!" Tohdou told the Fire Knight. "We want to finish this before dinner!"

The moment Hikaru and Tohdou left the room, Nova appeared again smiling at both of them from afar.


As the ship escorting Nunnally is making its way through the Pacific Ocean, the captain is standing by at the bridge while his crew members concentrate their job at their stations. While looking at the clear blue sky, the Britannian General couldn't help but wonder what Guilford had warned him about earlier. After their conversation back at the California Base, General Upson felt confident that he can take on Britannia's new enemies without any trouble. However, what he didn't know is that they'll be escorted by an enemy vessel, along with a detachment of Black Knights.

"Magic Knights escaping their execution, eh?!" Upson said as he sat on his seat at the bridge while reading his latest newspaper. "It's going to take more than just a few witchcraft-like powers to outsmart a man like me!"

"Don't get too overconfident, sir!" The Captain of ship warned Upson, who is standing next to the general's left. "They almost up quite a challenge against the Knights of the Round."

"SILENCE!" Upson snapped. "They won't get past us, since we have two well-armed Caleron battleships escorting us and our Arms Freighter!"

"We still may need Guilford and the Knights of the Round to back us up too." The Captain informed further.

"Screw them all. I can take on anything that gets in my way!" Upson said in a stubborn tone.


Fifty miles away from Upson's fleet, the NSX de-cloaked itself as the Autozamian Battleship is going underway towards its targets. The 3 Gekkas appeared on top of the NSX's hull along with the Guren and the three Rune God Knightmares. In front of Rayearth, Zero appears as he looked up towards the clear blue sky. While the NSX was moving, Geo made careful surveillance from the bridge. The moment he sees the Britannian Fleet in a distance, the sub-commander activates his communicator speak to everyone on top of his ship.

"The Britannian fleet is seen on sight. Stand by to engage!" Geo ordered.

"Roger that!" Everyone said in unison.

In a few minutes later, all three Rune Gods drew out their swords and took to the skies as they ascended from the NSX. As for the NSX, the battleship deployed its gun turrets and missile batteries, all of them aiming towards the Logress Battleship.

Facing with such intensity, Hikaru and Geo are getting a bit more eager to fight up close and in person. The moment the NSX reached 3 km closer to the Logress, Geo finally gave out the next order in this battle scenario.

"ENGAGE!" Geo shouted.

In two seconds, the NSX started opening fire at the Logress Battleship, while Upson ordered his crewmen to activate their core luminous shield. In the ensuing bombardment, the Rune Gods advanced forward only meet a large squadron of Britannian gunships that just appeared from behind the Britannian Battleship. As soon as several gunships fired their missiles, the Rune Gods took evasive action before returning fire with their magic. For the Black Knights, they opened fire with their wrist-mounted machine guns while standing firm on top of the NSX's hull.

On top of Rayearth's hand, Zero held on before the Rune God reached the hangar of the Logress Ship. Despite getting shot at by the ship's gun turrets, Hikaru held up her shield, this time without activating its electrical barrier. With ease, she was able to shrug off the bullets from her shield while zeroing in towards the battleship's hangar. Halfway there, Hikaru spotted oncoming missles heading straight for her and Zero. In a well-timed reaction, the Fire Knight finally activated her electrical barrier shield, making the missiles explode upon the barrier.

As soon as Rayearth and Zero got inside the hangar, the masked hero jumped off Rayearth's hand and landed on the floor unharmed. The moment several Britannian Marines drew out their guns and started shooting at Zero and Rayearth, Rayearth blocked their oncoming fire with her shield again. Before any of the Marines got closer, Rayearth raised his sword up high and slammed the blade onto the floor, unleashed a massive shockwave that sent them flying backwards. Due to the resulting impact, most of the marines slammed their backs onto the wall of the hangar in all directions, knocking them out of commission. After the marines were neutralized, 10 Sutherlands dropped down from the ceiling of the hangar. As soon as they landed on their feet, the Knightmares drew out their hatchets and charged at Rayearth with all their might. When Hikaru drew out her sword, she makes her announcement towards Zero without even looking at him.

"Go on ahead, Zero!" Hikaru told the masked hero. "I'll take care of them!"

"Make sure you secure an exit for me as soon as I escape!" Zero replied to the Fire Knight.

"Understood, sir!"

After Zero disappeared into the corridors, Hikaru turned her attention towards the Sutherland on her left, aiming her sword towards its face. Just when the Sutherland struck at Hikaru, she blocked its hatchet with her shield and stabbed the Knightmare with her sword in the torso. In her next move, Hikaru lifted the defeated Sutherland up a few feet above her head and hurled it towards a two Sutherlands up front. As the impaled Sutherland fell on the floor in front of the two Knighmares, they steered towards both Rayearth's left and right hoping to butcher the Rune God all at once. However, Rayearth flung both of his sword arm and shield arm at the two attacking Sutherlands, making them both stagger. Before either Sutherland had any time to regain their posture, Rayearth decapitated the head of the Sutherland on the left with Hikaru's sword, making it collapse onto the hangar floor. For the Sutherland on Hikaru's right, he was met with a grab to the face by the Guren that just followed Hikaru from behind, the moment the NSX got close to the Logress Battleship.

"Don't try to hog all the glory, Hikaru!" Kallen smirked as she raised her voice from inside the Guren. "You still owe me after I got you and your friends out of Pendragon!"

"Fine by me!" Hikaru said. "Let's get e'm!"

After Kallen blew up the Sutherland with the Guren's Radium Claw, she veered her Knightmare towards the 4th Knightmare and impaled it with her Slash Harkens. At the same time, Hikaru charged forward as she jumped over the Guren and slammed Rayearth's right foot into the 5th Sutherland in the face, making him fall onto his back. The moment Rayearth landed on top of the Sutherland, several turrets were aiming at the Rune God and the Red Knightmare from the ceiling and opened fire, giving the remaining Sutherlands some covering fire before they backed away from them. In retaliation, Hikaru charged up her sword while holding her shield above her head and swung a wave of energy at the gun turrets, making them explode violently as the ship started rumbling.

Back at the bridge, Upson spotted the Black Knights, Selece, and Windam intercepting the other two Britannian Escort ship while the NSX headed straight for the arms freighter. As he checked the hangar through one of the internal cameras, Upson spotted that the ship's security team is losing badly.

"Captain, watch the bridge for me!" Upson ordered. "I'll have to take care of the intruders myself!"

Just when the Captain approached the bridge controls, Upson dashed through the hallways and headed straight towards the hangar.

"Damn, those Elevens!" Upson growled. "If I don't deal with them myself, my pride as a Britannian Commander will shatter into a million bits!"

Upson went into another section of the hangar, which was next to where the Guren and Rayearth are at, where his Knightmare Frame is prepped. As he entered the area, he turned on the lights, revealing a Green Vincent Pluton Knightmare Frame standing right in front of Upson. It had dark brown shoulder plates and a silver cross on its tungsten chest. On the Vincent's back, it had a long shafted Maser Vibration Halberd in addition to its slash harkens, sheathed-in MVS, and Needle Blazers. The moment Upson pulled out his key to activate his Knightmare, he embarked onto the Vincent and deployed its landspinners. Without further a due, Upson, who is now piloting the Green Vincent, drove full speed towards the 2 huge doors leading towards where Rayearth and the Guren are at.


After all of the Sutherlands are eliminated, Rayearth and Guren turned towards their right as they see two doors suddenly explode right before their eyes. When the doors fell flat onto the floor, the Green Vincent came out to greet them with a huge swipe with its MV Halberd. Luckily, the Hikaru and Kallen jumped backwards, avoiding its blade by a mere foot.

"Say your prayers, Elevens!" Upson's voice shouted from the Vincent as he held the battle axe to his right side like a flag post with his right hand. "I'll crush you both with my Vincent. Prepare to be annihilated!"

"You wish!" Kallen and Hikaru both shouted back in unison.

When Upson's Vincent grabbed the Halberd with his left hand, he zoomed towards Rayearth with his landspinners as he lifted the shafted weapon up high above his head. The moment he is about to slam the halberd on top of Rayearth's head, Hikaru made a upper-cut block with her sword and veered the halberd to her left before ramming her shield at Upson's Vincent. Upon impact, Upson held fast against Hikaru's shield in a horizontal stance with his halberd, making him skid backwards before stopping. Grunting in a stern manner, Upson lifted his halberd and shove Rayearth away from his Knightmare with a thrust kick at the Rune God's shield.

As for the Guren, Kallen charged forward to intercept Upson's Knightmare. Before she could reach out and grab the Vincent with her Radium Claw, Kallen was met with a halberd jab aiming directly at the Guren's face. Fortunately, the Guren unleashed its radium waves as soon the halberd's pointed tip made contact with the Guren's Radium Claw. In her second move, Kallen swung her Fork Knife at the Vincent only for Upson to lean the Vincent's head backwards before jumping away from the Guren. Just when he was about to reengage the Guren, Rayearth stepped in again. This time, Hikaru slammed her sword onto the floor and fired up a line of destructive energy towards Upson's Vincent. As the energy exploded in front of his feet, Upson was sent flying 10 feet away from the 2 red Mechs.

When Hikaru approached cautiously towards Upson's Vincent, he reacted by lunging his Halberd at Rayearth only for her to sidestep to her right and chopped off the blade from its shaft with her sword. Just when Hikaru is about to finish off Upson, the Britannian General isn't done yet. He activated one of his Needle Blazers, making the Rune God stagger backwards before he made a backflip away from Hikaru. As soon as Hikaru regained her guard, Upson's Vincent drew out a Maser Vibration Sword from one of its sheathes and lunged at the Magic Knight of Fire. The moment Upson struck with his MVS, Hikaru counterattacked it with her broadsword, blocking the oncoming blade from reaching Rayearth's left shoulder. Rayearth's fist lit up in flames as he is about to unleash a fiery fist at the Green Vincent. The Vincent actually dodged Rayearth's gaunlet and attempted to jab the MVS straight into the Rune God's face. Rayearth tilted his head to the right, barely evading the blade by a mere inch from his cheek. Hikaru jumped backwards and then whacked her sword again at the Vincent, making both her Rune God and Upson's Knightmare trade several more sword strikes at each other. For the Guren, Kallen kept a close eye on Upson's Knightmare waiting for an opportunity to strike at his opening.


Meanwhile outside of the Logress Class Battleship, after taking down the two Caleron Battleship escorts, Tohdou, his squad, and Geo Metro eliminated most of the defenses and Britannian Knightmares protecting the Arms Freighter. However, just as the NSX fired its tractor beams at the Freighter, Geo started hearing several alarming beeps while piloting the GTO. As soon as he pulled up on of the screens, the Sub-Commander spotted enemy reinforcements coming from behind the NSX.

"ZAZU! Enemy reinforcements!" Geo shouted through the communicator. "They're coming in from your rear!"

Upon hearing Geo, Zazu ordered the NSX to steer above the Arms Freighter while holding onto it with the ship's tractor beam. While ascending higher towards the clear, blue sky, the NSX's engines started to gradually increase their speed. As for Geo, he flew his GTO to the rear of the NSX before getting ready to fire at the Britannian Interceptors. As the Britannian reinforcements got closer, Geo spotted the Mordred, Lancelot Conquista, and the Tristram appear right behind a squad of Vincent Glindas.

"Suzaku!" Geo growled in fury. "What did you do to Commander Zulrich?!"

"You won't be seeing him again for long time, Geo!" Suzaku smirked. "You didn't bring the Magic Knights with you, right?!"

"WRONG! They're here with me." Geo roared as he opened fire at the Lancelot with the GTO's shoulder cannon. "I wish you hadn't joined the Britannian Empire Army in the first place!"

Upon seeing the Green Mecha shooting at him, Suzaku steered his Lancelot to his left in evading the GTO's cannon fire. At the same time, the Lancelot activated its Hadron Blaster with the aid of the VARIS.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY, GEO!" Suzaku shouted as he let loose a powerful beam from the Lancelot's Hadron Blaster.

At first, Geo felt confident in shrugging off the Hadron beam with the GTO's in-built shield. However, the moment the Hadron beam struck its barrier, Geo could feel his cockpit vibrating as the red lights started blaring at an alarming rate. Before he knew it, Geo's Mecha got shoved away from the encroaching Lancelot as it slammed into the rear view of the command bridge of the NSX.

"GEO!" Zazu shrieked as he spotted the GTO suffering critical damage on the main computer.

"DAMN YOU!" Geo gasped for air as he felt blood coming down from his forehead before blacking out.

After getting shot down by the Lancelot, the GTO was laying on the top hull by its right side with its cannon destroyed in the process.

Luckily, Umi and Fuu were nearby when they both saw Geo Metro get taken down by Suzaku's Lancelot. So before the Lancelot got any closer, Selece Omega and Windam Delta intercepted the white Knightmare as they held their swords against his large energy shield. Behind the Lancelot, Guilford and his squad moved in to secure the Logress Battleship while the Mordred and the Tristram moved in to intercept the Black Knights.


Back inside the hangar of the Logress, Upson attack the Guren next with the Vincent's MVS. Just when the Guren reacted with another Radium surge coming out of its hand while blocking the Vincent's MVS, Upson's communication channel opened up inside his cockpit.

"General, Lord Guilford and the Knights of the Round are here to assist us!" The Captain's voice echoed through Upson's communication channel.

"So what?! I can't always rely on them all the time. I have to fight too you know!" Upson said in a stubborn tone of voice. "I can still win this on my own!"

After disengaging with the Guren, Upson's Vincent steered backwards away from Kallen and opened fire with its slash harkens only for the Kallen to steer clear away from them. Before the Guren continued to charge forward towards the Vincent Pluton, Upson spotted several jousting lances on a nearby weapon rack. In an instant, the Vincent grabbed one of the lances and hurled it at the Guren, only for her to jump over it and kicked Upson's Knightmare in the face, making him crash into a nearby wall, leaving behind a billow of dust in its wake. As soon as Upson's Vincent got up again, he was met with a finishing blow by Rayearth's sword puncturing the General's Knightmare in the chest, with the blade coming out of the humpback cockpit.

"NOOOOO!" Upson screamed in terror as he coughed up blood, feeling the blade of Hikaru's sword penetrating his body. "I-I l-lost..."

After coughing up his last breath, Upson collapsed dead on top of the controls inside his very own Knightmare. The moment Hikaru pulled her sword out of the defeated Vincent, the Green Knightmare fell to its knees and collapsed onto the floor with its torso.

Before either Hikaru or Kallen could say anything, they both received an immediate call from Zazu Torque.

"Hikaru, Kallen! Britannian Reinforcements are here. They're being lead by Lord Guilford and Geo Metro is down!" The young mechanic's voice spoke in fright.

"Let's go, Kallen!" Hikaru told the Black Knight ace as the Guren and Rayearth headed out the exit of the hangar. "We have to help the others!"

"I'm on it!" Kallen replied while following Hikaru from behind.

By the time, Hikaru and Kallen were outside of the hangar, they see most of the Black Knight forces get taken out as they ejected from their knightmares before they exploded. But for the Four Holy Swords, Senba gets killed by one of the Knights of the Round before Tohdou and Nagisa ejected from their Knightmares as they all exploded into nothingness. For Umi and Fuu, they both got pushed back by the Lancelot's and Tristram's advances. Before they knew it, the Mordred opened fire with its missiles, making both of their Rune Gods flying away to safety. Unfortunately, they soon find themselves in the crossfire when a squad of four Sutherlands equipped with float systems hurled several chaos mines at them, making Umi and Fuu get rounded up immediately while in the air.

"This is not good!" Hikaru thought as she ascended her Rune God up into the sky once again. "I hope Zero can make this quick."

After realizing that their mission is going south, Hikaru can't help but fear that she and her friends will not be able to take the Arms Freighter with them and that Zero will not get Nunnally back. Before Hikaru had any time to think about how to address the situation, she spots a Vincent Commander Model, who is equipped with a Float System, charging straight at Fire Knight while in mid-air, barely giving her enough time to hold her ground against the Knightmare's Maser Vibration Spear with her sword and shield.

"It's been awhile, hasn't it Hikaru?!" Guilford's stern voice echoed from inside the Vincent Commander.

"GUILFORD!" Hikaru roared as she swung her sword back at Cornelia's Knight is fury only for Guilford to steer backwards away from it.

"WHERE IS SHE?!" Guilford shouted as he pulled out the Vincent's Assault Rifle and started shooting at Rayearth. "WHERE IS PRINCESS EUPHEMIA?!"

Not replying to Guilford's question, Hikaru steered her Rune God to her right while evading enemy fire coming from his Vincent. In retaliation, Hikaru fired another wave of energy from her sword at the Vincent Commander only for it to fly around in evasive maneuvers, away from the Fire Knight.

Before Kallen intervened, Suzaku charged forward to where she and the Guren are at, firing another Hadron beam at her Red Knightmare.

Just when Kallen used the Guren's Radium Claw to block the oncoming beam, her main weapon started malfunctioning. The next thing Kallen realizes is that the Guren's Claw blew apart, much to her horror.

"NOOOOOOO!" Kallen screamed as her Guren lost its footing on top of the ship's hull.

Upon seeing Kallen's Knightmare falling straight into the ocean, Hikaru shrieked as she tried to break away from Guilford just to rescue the Black Knight Ace.

"KALLEN!" Hikaru screamed as she descended from the sky.

Unfortunately, before Hikaru could get any closer in stopping Kallen from crashing into the ocean, she felt the leg of her Rune God get snagged by a whip belonging to Gino's Tristram in the ankle.

"HEY!" The Fire Knight gasped in horror as she was getting pulled away against her own will.

"Nice try, Hikaru!" Gino smirked. "You're not going to get away from us this time!"

When the Tristram pulled Rayearth upward, Hikaru finds herself get cornered by the three Knights of the Round, Lord Guilford, and his squad of Sutherlands, all of them aiming their weapons at her and the Magic Knights. Seeing themselves surrounded by the Britannian Knightmares, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are now the only ones remaining during the aerial battlefield while still piloting their Rune Gods.


As Kallen continues to fall straight down along with her Guren, she sees her friends get surrounded by the Britannians. Despite all of her effort of saving herself, Kallen's ejector seat won't budge.

"Forgive me, Guren!" Kallen cried, seeing that her defeat will be imminent. "Hikaru! Mother! Naoto!"

Just when Kallen thinks its the end of the world for her, a small screen popped up, revealing a joyful Rakshata.

"What a perfect position! Sorry to keep you waiting!"

"R-Rakshata?!" Kallen gasped after seeing the Weapons Developer on screen.

"I have the new Black Knight glide wing pack ready for you." Rakshata continued. "You already read the manual from earlier, right?"

"Yeah, sure!"

"Then, it's time!" Rakshata smiled.

"Opening number three launch chamber!" The Black Knight operator announced.

Down by the ocean, a large Black Knight submarine was positioned to help bring back the Black Knights that ejected from their fallen Knightmares. On top of the sub, eight large hatches have all opened up, revealing an expansion made for the Guren MK II.

"Take to the skies, my soaring glide wings!" Rakshata grinned.

As the glide wings launched from submarine's hatches, it flew straight at the falling Guren.

"ROTATE!" Kallen shouted as she makes preparations in upgrading her Knightmare with the glide wings.

"Guidance signal confirmed! Contact angle aligned!"

The moment the glide wings attached to Kallen's Guren, her Knightmare rebooted itself as it started gliding over the water instead of crashing into it. Just like that, the Guren is only flying above the ocean before ascending back into the sky.

"FLY!" Kallen shouted as she regains control her Guren once more.

"Armor-piercing Artillery right arm unit ready!"

"Right arm unit decelerating!" The operator announced as a missile started shooting from the submarine adjacent towards the direction of the flying Guren. "Transmission neuron 0.5 to 0.8 MP! No obstacles detected. Activation shock control confirmed. Linking up!"

The moment the right arm unit attaches itself to the Guren's right should, the Knightmare is now upgraded with a new kind of Radium Claw. At the same time, Guren is now seen with both red and orange embroideries all over its Tungsten armor and face. Now picking itself back up, the Guren opened up its purple energy wings sprouting from its back while raising its Radium Claw up to the sky.


"This is it, Hikaru. Your time is up!" Lord Guilford announced as he aimed his Assault Rifle at Hikaru's Rune God. "Tell the Autozamians to release the Arms Freighter and leave this area at once!"

"NEVER!" Hikaru shouted in anger. "We'll fight to the last warrior!"

"What stubborn little lady you are!" Gino laughed in amusement.

"SIR! WE'VE GOT INCOM-AAAARRRRRGGGGGH!" One of the Sutherland pilots shouted before he losses contact with Guilford's communication channel.

"What just happened?" Guilford said in confusion.

The moment both Britannians and Elevens turned around, they see the Guren approach them in full fury. As soon as they all took a good look at the Guren, they just realized that the Guren has got wings, much to the awe of the Magic Knights.

"It's about time we have more people using a similar flight system fighting by our side!" Fuu cheered.

"HIKARU, UMI, FUU! STAND CLEAR!" Kallen shouted as she raised the Guren's Radium Claw at the group of Britannian Knightmares.

As soon as all three Rune Gods flew further up above the Britannian Knightmares, a beam long-range was unleashed from the Guren's Claw. In an instant, the rest of Guilford's entire squad was obliterated after getting consumed by the Guren's Radiation beam.

"No way! At long range?" Guilford shrieked as he ejected from his exploding Vincent Commander.

"Oh my god!" Umi gasped in awe. "That's just bad ass!"

Ignoring the Magic Knights, the Tristram and the Mordred were about to engage the Guren only for it to evade both of their firepower with all sorts of intense pinwheel flips and barrel rolls.

"Wow! Look at her go!" Fuu cheered.

In an instant, the Guren slammed its left foot onto the Mordred, making it stagger a bit before evading its barrage of missiles. The moment Kallen had both the Tristram and Mordred in her sights, she activated a widespread Radium wave that only disabled both of the Knightmares as if it were to be an EMP weapon.

"I guess there's only one thing left to do before finishing off this mission!" Hikaru said as she flew towards the Logress Battleship.

The moment the Guren regroups with Rayearth, 15 more Flight-mode Sutherlands appeared in front of them and opened fire with their Assault Rifles, much to Hikaru's and Kallen's annoyance.

"Shall we, Hikaru?!" Kallen grinned.

"Absolutely!" Hikaru nodded.

At the same time, Hikaru powered up her Escudo Broadsword once more, engulfing it into white flames, and Kallen's Radium Claw started lighting up in a red-purple hue. As the Rayearth and the Guren Flight Mode readied their powered up attacks, they unleashed a massive beam of magic and radioactive waves that swirled around each other and swallowed up the entire regiment of Sutherlands, making them explode like fireworks!

Unfortunately, both Rayearth and the Guren's attacks accidentally blew up the Logress' right wing along its engines, making the ship lose its ascension as it heads straight into the sea.

Back at the bridge, the crewmen started feeling the ship ship is shaking violently as red lights started flashing. One of the crew members stood up after spotting a grim result from his computer.

"Captain! We lost our flight system! The engines and the right wing have both been destroyed! We can't take anymore damage! We're heading straight for the ocean!"

"All hands! Prepare to abandon ship!" Captain announced as he and his remaining crewmen left their stations at the command bridge. "And have one of the Knights of the Round rescue Viceroy Nunnally!"

Without sparing anymore seconds, the Captain and his crew ran straight towards the escape pods. After they all left the bridge, it gets consumed by immediate explosions. After Hikaru and Kallen see the escape pods launching out of the fallen Logress, they both just realized that they overdid their actions.

"Whoops! I think that was a little too much, don't you think?!" Kallen said, feeling a bit embarrassed for what she just did.

"Let's not stand around, Kallen!" Hikaru shouted. "Zero is still inside that ship! We need to get him out!"

At the same time, after Suzaku spotted the idiocy that Hikaru and Kallen just displayed in front of the Logress Battleship, the Knight of Seven receives new orders from Cecil.

"Suzaku, we've located the Viceroy she's in the garden space to the rear of the main bridge! You have 47 seconds to rescue her before the ship crashes into the ocean!"

Wasting no time, both the Lancelot and Rayearth zeroed into the last location of where Zero and Nunnally are at.

"HIKARU, YOU IDIOT!" Suzaku growled as he turned towards the Red Rune God! "You and Kallen just had to cause more extensive damage to the ship that Nunnally was in!"

"SHUT UP, TRAITOR!" Hikaru shouted back at the Knight of Seven. "They were all getting in our way! Besides, we can't leave Zero behind!"

Not wanting to stare at each other, Rayearth and Lancelot were racing against each other to get Zero and Nunnally out of the garden area. As soon as the Lancelot got closer to Nunnally's location, Suzaku activated the Core Luminous Cone and with it, he burst his way into the garden area, followed by a powerful gale force from behind the white Knightmare.

"SUZAKU, OVER HERE!" Nunnally cried as she reached her hand out to the Lancelot.

As soon as the Lancelot landed in front of the Viceroy, he picked Nunnally up with his hands before activating the core luminous again while leaving the garden area from inside the Logress.

At the same time, Zero could feel himself flying away from Nunnally by the same gale force engulfing the garden area.

"NO! Not after he sold me out to the Emperor!" Zero thought to himself in horror! "NUNNALLY!"

The moment the Logress lands into the ocean and explodes, Zero was hurled out of the battleship only for Rayearth to catch him with his right hand. After seeing Nunnally and the Lancelot disappear away from the battlefield, Zero slammed his fists onto the huge palm of Rayearth's hand in disgrace.

"DAMMIT! Nunnally!" Zero wailed out of spite.

"Hikaru, this is Zazu!" The voice spoke from Hikaru's communicator. "We've been able to bring all the wounded onboard the NSX and secured the Britannian Arms Freighter. We'll be heading out as soon as you, Zero, and Kallen return to the ship!"

"Understood!" Hikaru said as she turned to face the Guren. "Kallen, let's get out of here!"

As Rayearth and the Guren flew back to the NSX, Zero turned to face the sky in their opposite direction for he couldn't stop thinking about failing to save Nunnally not once but twice.

"Sorry about this, Zero!" Hikaru told the masked hero. "We got a little preoccupied with our enemies!"

Feeling lost in his thoughts, Zero looked down at himself in frustration not knowing how to get Nunnally back anymore. While Kallen felt pity over Zero's failure, she never thought that Zero would suffer more without his little sister. Not wanting to dwell on their failures, the Rune God and the Guren reached the NSX and dropped off Zero before he made his way back inside the ship.


Back at the command bridge of the NSX, Geo appeared with a huge bandage over his head and holding onto a crutch with his right arm. As he approached the bridge controls, Geo felt a bit disgruntled after losing his fight with Suzaku Kururugi. Not wanting to dwell over his personal loss, Geo sat down on his seat and turned towards Zazu taking a few deep breaths before making his speech with the mechanic.

"Is the Arms Freighter secured?"

"Y-Yes sir! It is!" Zazu said as he showed the sub-commander that the NSX's tow cables are in place around the Arms Freighter v.i.a monitor.

"Good work, Zazu!" Geo said, feeling a bit relieved. "Helmsman! Take us out of here! Our mission is finished!"

"Aye, aye sir!" The helmsman acknowledge as he steered the NSX away from the fallen Logress Battleship.