Okay, back to the battles, as foreshadowed in the last chapter, this one will have a little fight in it as Nelly finally figured out a way to set up a good trap. However, will that be enough as the rebellion is starting to gain momentum and support? However, I would like to point out that as far as empire's go, Britannia does a really good job of taking care of its citizens as we know that neither Shirley, Rivalz nor Nina were wealthy or part of the nobility yet they and many others in the settlement seemed to have good lives so before you all start to think the empire is doomed, it's not and Lelouch is targeting numbers as they no doubt make up a good portion of the population and not everyone in the empire(Britannians) would be okay with their uprisings and strikes being put down violently like normally, hence why Cornelia couldn't pull her Saitama stunt, too much public attention was on military activities and her trying to replicate Clovis' crimes wouldn't help them at all.

tf330129: I will.

Vein Bloodborne: Yes, they are getting to that point but she doesn't know the Black Knights are being led by her siblings, at this point, only Euphemia has the suspicion due to her remembering Lelouch's final letter to them and Zero's cryptic words from the hotel jacking. She will come forward to her sister about her suspicions soon since as you say, time is running out for them.

Command Unit: Jar Jar…..Man oh man, I hate him so much, even in the CGI Clone Wars cartoon series, he's a blubbing, clumsy and idiotic fool. How Padme can stand him shows she has the patience of a saint, but the fact that they still delegate to him important jobs of representation for both Naboo and the Republic as a whole makes me think she needs her head examined or Palpatine had a sense of humour. Although I do find the theory that it was all an act and he was a sith lord the all-time funny as I can see an abridged movie where he reveals the truth to them and asks them if they actually thought he was that stupid and they say yes.

JCarrasco: Thank you, I will.

Blaze1992: Because the empire isn't that fragile. The cracks are forming but it'll take more than that for shit to really hit the fan.

7: Well royalty and angry commoners are mortal enemies so Charlie is gonna have to worry bout the fires his rebellious kids are starting in his backyard.

Guest: Suzaku was too far for Nunnally to drop off the kid and leaving her would also be a bad move as there was next to no 'safe spots' for a child, especially if she moved to another area as let's face it, kids never stay put. Even though they wanted to stop the massacre, Lelouch wouldn't have done it without more information as to why Clovis would chose such a drastic action as when you think about it, how would the elevens in the ghetto used that knowledge against him as he controls the media, police, military and courts so even if they started rumours about him affairs, politicians and government figures deal with that all the time so next to no-one would buy into it. C.C is also immortal and can't be killed by normal means and Clovis knew that, so it wasn't like he wanted to kill her but rather retrieve her. She was also not willing to share secrets with him so why would he think she would tell others as it wasn't like she had any wounds or scars to back up her story? These are the questions he would like to know. Is it cruel to let people die as he gathered this? Yes, but was it worth it in the end? Also yes as that was what gave him the ammo he used to track down the rest of the evidence and expose Clovis in such a manner it was impossible for anyone to deny his crimes as you must remember, Lelouch is a man that believes the ends justify the means to an extent.

Greer123: Thank you for your kind words, your review came in just as I was finishing this up so you're lucky I noticed it before I posted this new chapter. And there is nothing I like better then seeing the results of a character actions as in cannon, we see how the Japanese rally to his side in both series, to the point that in season 2, some might have considered him divine as he seemingly came back from death and performed even more miracles, the whole scene with him leading 1,000,000 people, all his followers out of Japan to a new land was so well done, it was obvious that it was inspired by Moses and him leading his people out of Egypt, though I can't recall if Moses led over 1,000,000 to freedom. It was also a nice little slap in Suzaku's face as saw first-hand just how many people are devout followers of Zero and his 'immoral' methods and how far they are willing to go as they would rather take exile then live under his and Nunnally's 'rule' as let's face it, how the hell did anyone think she would make a good empress when she had what, a couple months as a viceroy under her belt? At least her brother had experience in leadership, actual leadership as he built and ran the black knights, built the UFN, reorganised the Black Knights into an actual legitimate fighting force, even when she was Viceroy, it was mostly Lohmeyer and Suzaku running the show.

Chapter 29: Battle of Yonozawa: Bloody Snow Fall

14th November 2020 a.t.b. /3 9688 BBY:

Unknown Region:

Milky Way Galaxy:

Earth/Sol-3:

Area 11:

Tōhoku region:

Onroute to Yonezawa

"Does everyone remember the plan?" Cornelia asked everything on the radio.

"Wait for them to come to us," Alfred started to answer from the cockpit of his Vincent Commander Model. He like his brothers, Guilford and Cornelia were not only hiding in the separate train cars of the fake supply train but they were also piloting 7th Gen machines.

"And when they get close, we spring the trap." Bart continued on as he rolled his shoulders in anticipation for the upcoming battle.

"While a third of us stays and fights, the other two thirds will flank them from both sides." David finished with a smirk, finally being able to ride into battle and avenge their father.

"Beautiful. Gotta love when a good plan comes together." Nonette commented from the custom built knightmare, the 7th gen model Lloyd named Bors. When she had first laid eyes on it, she was immediately in love with the unit and now she would finally be able to prove its worth in battle.

"What I'm more concerned about, is whether or not they'll show up." Guilford, being the voice of reason voiced as it was no guarantee that the Black Knights would show up, and if they did-would it be a large force?

"Our scouts in the area have reported significant Black Knight activity in this region. We were as careful as we could be to leak the false information about this train without making it seem like a trap. All we can do now is have faith that the plan will succeed." Claudio replied as he understood the elder male's concerns as he would hate to use off their new machines to their enemy outside of a major engagement as that would give Zero time to plan for them.

"That is right, I'm tired of being on the back foot. This time we strike back." Cornelia stated as she gripped the control columns tightly, his eyes set on the enemy that had yet to appear.

"Yes, your highness!"

"Nelly?" Nonette asked on a private line after everyone else signed off.

"What is it Nonette?" Cornelia asked her old friend.

"About that Euphie brought up…" Nonette started as Cornelia had shared her thoughts on her younger sister's words to the knight of round and she, like herself was a bit sceptical on it.

"It's not something I like to entertain, even if it does make sense." Cornelia said as she wasn't blind to the situation, things hadn't been going their way since she first landed here. The presence of a knight of round doing nothing to help.

"Well, she does make a point." Nonette said as she reached for her neck and pulled out a necklace. "Things are only heating up." She finished as she stated sadly at the broken key on the end of it. Thinking of her own past.

(In Yonezawa)

"The train should be here any minute now." Alleujah reported as he and the rest of the Zero squad hide amongst the ruins closest to the rail-line the train had to take.

"Same routine as before?" Liu Mei asked with a smirk as she fastened her helmet on.

"Tag it, bring it to a halt and steal whatever we can carry. Burn the rest." Lockon answered from him position 3km back. His machine covered by a camo tarp to ensure it would hard to spot him.

"Isn't this load a bit big?" Kallen asked, eager to test out the new upgrades to her Guren as Rakshata was finally finished up the new additions.

"Normally I would say yes, but the imperials have been bleeding for supplies up north." S.K answered. His own unit close to Kallen's as he was given command of their entire operation by Zero himself, which meant his personal force was under his direct command for this mission. "This shipment also has a larger than usual number of guards going from our scouts reported. So it would be fair to say that the imperials really need this one." He finished explaining as he had his own doubts about this mission it wasn't too out of place.

"Still, I'm feeling uneasy about it all, maybe that's cause the boss ain't here." Lockon spoke up as they never really did do a lot of missions without Zero being somewhere on the battlefield. It was even an unspoken rule amongst them that he always have at least one of them nearby in case of emergencies.

"Even though he would love to lead by example, we all have our roles we have to fill." S.K stated just as one of their scouts called in.

"Sir, we have incoming." One of their teams of scouts in the area reported, this particular duo laying low on a building's roof under camouflage blankets with the other using a pair of binoculars while the one speaking manned their radio.

"Aright people," S.K said as he and the rest of their raid party begun to slowly move towards their positions. "Show time."

(On the train)

"Passing though Yonozawa now." One of the conductors said aloud as they rolled on through the ruined city.

"The place's a ghost town." The other pointed out as he looked out the window at the empty streets and snow covered rubble caking the area. Good thing it wore his jacket today.

"Yeah, well the elevens don't come to the city centre all that much anymore. The only thing here is a small collection of factories." The conductor replied as the town was largely abandoned, using some parts of the outer districts were in use.

BOOM!

"What the hell was that?!" The second conductor yelled as they had felt the explosion before they had heard it, the conductor would had been knocked to the floor got up and saw that the large cloud of smoke where he believed the explosion to have originated, was right in front of them and closing fast.

"The tracks been blown out! We need to break, now!" The conductor yelled as he reached for the emergency break.

"Breaking!" He yelled as he pulled the lever, causing all the breaking discs on all the cars to lock up at the same time, it was a dangerous move as it wore down both the breaks and the wheels but it was the only way to prevent them from derailing and crashing.

'Looks like those bloody numbers took the bait.' The second conductor thought to himself as he held on for dear life as the train begun to slow. Pretty soon the train came to a halt just a mere couple metres from the mangled and destroyed remains of track. Not a moment later, 15 Black Knight knightmares, supported by at least 2 dozen infantry that were hiding in the snow came out of hiding and approach them, guns aimed at them.

"Off the train! Now!" One of the costumed CGUE demanded of them as the Black Knight infantry, in their white and grey camouflage combat uniforms slowly approached the head car from all sides, their rifles loaded and primed to fire on any who thought themselves heroes.

"You have 40 seconds to comply or we will fire on you!" Another knightmare, this one being a red hunched beast with a silver claw spoke as it moved closer through the snow.

"No Wait! We're coming out!" The main conductor yelled over the speaker before they started shooting.

"How many people are on this train?" The first knightmare, this one piloted by Alleujah asked.

"Just us and three others acting as guards." The conductor replied, a bit scared that this may be his dying day. Even if he agreed to the viceroy's plan, it wasn't as if he could have said no.

"Do it." Kallen said over the radio to the infantry as they moved in faster now to check the cargo of the train.

'Shit, that doesn't look like Zero's. Does that mean he's not here?' The second conductor thought to himself as he reached for his sidearm. He knew it would be useless against the knightmares but the infantry-he wasn't too sure of the even if he didn't get a good look of their combat gear, he could tell that it wasn't some 2nd hand black market gear.

"Let's see what we have here, maybe it'll be another ration delivery." One of the troopers on the ground said as he let go of his Heckler & Kock G36 since he was wearing the strap for it and climbed into the train car. He was reaching for the door when it opened itself, before he could make sense of the situation, he found himself being shot by automatic fire. "What the-ARG!" the trooper screamed in surprise and pain as although his armour soaked up the worst of it, he was still shot in the arm twice and fell off the train car.

"What is God's name!?" Another trooper yelled as one they all trained their guns on the car from which a familiar sight of a Gloucester jumped out and started to fire on them, and it wasn't the only one as more came out of the car with imperial infantry shortly following. "Ambush!" A trooper screamed as another run forward to retrieve the wounded trooper as the other train cars opened up and from them, imperial forces raced out to meet them.

"Scatter, scatter your fools!" Kallen ordered as she jumped in to engage the enemy knightmares to give their infantry time to retreat to better ground.

"The trap is sprung, attack!" Cornelia yelled over the radio as she piloted her light purple and black Vincent Commander Model into the light of the snow covered day. As she jumped out of the train, she spotted an enemy GINN and with speed and reflexes the eleven pilot couldn't track, she closed the gap.

"Yes, your highness!" She heard her troops rely as she impaled the GINN with her double Lance-type MVS blades(She already snapped the two lance type blades together so she's using it like every other Vincent pilot in cannon), it's armour proving to match for the blades as it pierced right on through, causing the unit to explode along with its dead pilot.

"That's no Gloucester," One of the pilots near to Kallen tried to curse but found himself being confronted by two members of the Glaston Knights, hungry for blood. "It's too fas-AAG!" He tried to fire on but David fired his slash harken, knocking the gun of his hand while the Bart came around and stabbed him right in the back.

"How you like them." Lloyd asked them over the line. As he was no soldier and not even Nonette could stop him, he was monitoring the systems of the Vincents from a safe distance of around 40km, well out of range of enemy scouts or fire. He wasn't alone as like always, the entire A.S.C.E.E.C. was with him, with the Lancelot acting as back-up if anything went wrong.

"These new models are amazing, looks like these dirty elevens lost their edge!" Alfred boasted as he got in close with another GINN, primed the systems and landed an elbow strike to its chest, however it was no normal strike as the Elbow-mounted Needle Blazer shot off on impact, blowing a hole in the unit clean to the cockpit which killed the pilot and down the unit.

"All that time in the simulations and dry testing, it all pays off. We're gonna pay you back for all the deaths you caused!" Edgar raged as he engaged with a fierce battle with Alleujah, he was actually being pushed back, much to his surprise.

'New enemy models? Now of all times?' Suzaku thought to himself as he jumped head long into battle along with Kallen but found himself being confronted by two Gloucesters, both armed with their golden lances. 'Focus Suzaku, they were bound to create them sooner or later, but I would have thought Cornelia would save them for the field of battle.' He finished the though as he drew both his vibro blades and got to work, easily fighting off the outdated machines.

"Sir, we've been caught in a trap. Shall we retreat?" One of the pilots asked of him.

"Don't be a fool, they may have new machines but we have combat experience, switch to plan B-12 and attack!" SK ordered as he bashed aside one knightmare before slicing into the second, causing enough damage in that one attack to cause the cockpit block to jet away.

"Sir!" And with another stroke of the controls, he blocked a strike from the second enemy knightmare but didn't give it time to break away and regroup as he activated one of his 75mm Foldable HEAT Railguns and blasted a hole the size soccer-ball right on through the enemy knightmare's lower torso, a second later-it exploded before the damaged cockpit block could eject.

"Looks like I'll be getting a workout after-all." He muttered himself as he looked around and saw that they were engaged in a ferocious battle rather than a simple supply raid as originally planned. He was about to move to assist them when his force sensitivity alerted him to a danger before the knightmare could and like a muscle reflex he brought up his shield to block a powerful shot from an incoming threat.

"Hi there!" Nonette greeted as she came to halt right in front of him, her new machine kicking up snow and ice. And speaking of new machines….

It was clear to him that whatever this was, it wasn't some customised unit but one specially built, most likely 7th gen like the Lancelot. From the scans his AI was running, it was both taller and heavier than the Lancelot model. It was as sleek as one would expect from a 7th gen and painted purple and white, with shining gold eyes. For armament, it was equipped with a larger than normal Blaze luminous shield generator on the one forearm and what they came to know as the VARIS rifle in the other. There was also a stored blade, most likely MVS on its back but the handle seemed longer than normal, the end looked funny as well.

"A Knight of round? Looks like the colonials are pulling all the stops." SK joked as he crouched down slightly, he wasn't dumb enough to go easy on someone of her talents so he got ready for a serious fight.

"Sorry about this but you're gonna be my dance partner today," Nonette said as she put away her VARIS and pulled out the MVS that Suzaku noticed and activated it, showing that it was no blade but rather a double sided MVS Axe(think Astrid's from How to Train Your Dragon) "Hope you can keep up." She finished as she charged him down.

"We'll see you leaves who in the dust!" Suzaku shot back as he fired both his railguns at her, which she reacted to quite nicely as she jumped over them as they slammed into the ground, digging up the dirt still moving towards him, she swung her awe around her knightmare's body as she came down on him with a heavy swing, to which he blocked once more with his shield, however the force the blow did push him back and leave a sizable burnt looking gash on the shield's surface, something Suzaku noted proved that weapon as no joke.

(Meanwhile – On the outskirts on the other side of town)

"What, the raid party is engaged in combat?" Warwick asked, having just been informed of the battle unfolding on the other side of town from their field office.

"It appears so, looks like the imperials set up an ambush using the train." One of the operators reported as he along with the rest of the staff were in another mobile command truck.

"Cheeky colonials, didn't think the so called Goddess of Victory had it in her." One of the senior officers present muttered to herself.

"Not important, what is their current status?" Warwick cut through that as he directed his attention to the screen showing the positions of all their assets in play.

"Sir, it looks like they've already lost 3 units. Enemy numbers is 20 units, including eight unknown frames and infantry support." One of the controllers reported to him as he listened into incoming chatter.

"Unknown? Are they customised units?" One of the officers asked as she turned away from the tactical screen to address the controller.

"Negative, they appear to be completely different to almost anything in we've seen, however, according to Alleujah, they seem to be modelled after the Lancelot unit." The controller reported back as they switched one of the screens to the live camera feed of Alleujah's unit and to their surprise, they saw that he was engaged in combat with two of the Glaston knights in unknown frames.

"They already have 7th gen machines based on it? That is fast, we didn't think they'll get so many combat ready at this point." Another officer said as he turned back to the screen and saw new enemy dots being highlighted.

"Sir, enemy troops are flanking the raid party. Scouts report 8 to either side of them." One of the controllers updated them as they scouts radioed in saying that enemy units were trying to flank their main force and they were currently engage in a fire fight with them. Warwick turned his head to look at that portion of the tactical display and sure enough, a combined force and infantry and knightmares were moving up on them, he immediately realized that their scouts had nothing that could take down knightmares and would be wiped out if they didn't receive aid.

"Dammit, send in reinforcements. Tell them to go after those flanking troops before they can dig in, if they do-it'll be a turkey shoot." Warwick ordered.

"Sir!" A controller replied as they immediately set to work contacting the force of knightmares they left in the ruins to meet up with the scouts while another 2 dozen infantry were make their way to assist SK and his men fight off Cornelia and her knights.

(Meanwhile – With Zero)

"Greetings, Foreign Affairs Minister Chugunkin. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Zero greeted in Russian over a telecommunication line with his Russian half. He was currently back in Black Knight Kanto command, taking the call in the main meeting room.

"And you as well, Zero though, I was not expecting you to know Russian." The politician replied to him, speaking in their native language. Foreign Affairs Minister Chugunkin was a rather short but still intimidating women in her late 50s going by the slight wrinkles around her eyes and greying brown hair. She had pale white skin and bright steel eyes hidden behind a pair of rather expensive looking glasses.

"When it is the language of over 143 million people, one should consider picking it up." Zero replied to her, to which she didn't visible react but he could tell that she wasn't unimpressed.

"Indeed, but we are both busy people, what us your business here?" Chugunkin stated as she waved her hand at him as if he were a servant and unlike the grand majority of his siblings, he didn't take offense or at least, didn't react like a spoiled child but went with it.

"Straight to point, that I can appreciate. As for what I am looking for, we would like to open a trade deal." Zero told her rather bluntly.

"Trade deal? If you wanted such a thing, then I'm the wrong person to talk to." She replied to him.

"Not so, if it were a normal trade deal, then going to your minister of commerce would be the logical step but this is anything but normal." Zero answered the unspoken question of why came to her.

"I'm listening." Chugunkin replied as she leaned in slightly, giving him her full attention for him to give his pitch.

"I'm sure a women such as yourself can tell that the Black Knights have not only done much more than anyone expected but we also have quite the potential to accomplish greater things." The masked man started.

"I will admit that you and your people have caused quite a stir in Area 11, even having heads turned to observe you here in mother Russia but what of it? At the end of the day, for are talented and proven you are, you are a terrorist organisation." She said harshly, not entertained if he thought this was some kind of Dragons Den situation.

"I will not deny your claims as you are correct, we are a textbook example of such an organisation but we do have bigger ambitions than merely retaking Area 11. We plan to change the world for the better, so such powers as the federation and the empire can never rise again." Zero replied, not at all offended by her words as she spoke truth. They were terrorists, terrorists that had a moral and ethical compass yes, but terrorists nonetheless.

"That sounds like nonsense, Napoleon said the same thing when he marched on St. Petersburg and forced a peace deal that favoured him. What makes you so different?" She asked him as she recalled that bitter time in Russian history when that French Bastard, Napoleon actually planned for a winter war with Russia and had enough supplies to keep up his march all the way to the capital where he forces to Tsar to sign a 'peace' treaty that basically had them admit defeat, pay 80% of all the charges the war brought on for both sides and made them subservient to France which two years later, established the EU.

"Because I've learned from Napoleon's mistakes. He believed that his family and relatives could bring about a new day but in reality, he was only in it for France. Why else had Russia, the nation with the largest population in mainland Europe, been delegated a lesser seat then Spain and France?" Zero asked of her, playing on the long present Russian resentment towards France but he wasn't wrong as Russia had a less voting power then both Spain and France, only having more voting power then the individual eastern and south eastern European nations. "The world I and my people wish to bring about would honour the lies sprouted by the leaders of the EU, true liberty and justice for all."

"That's s a nice little speech Zero, did you plan that?" The minister asked of him, intending to mock him to try and bring him down a peg.

"My yes I did, one must be prepared for such meetings after all. But let us discuss such now, let us discuss the deal I wish to make you." Zero joked, not at all phased by her bait.

"Alright, you have my full attention, Zero. Speak." The minister chuckled a bit at his answer.

"I wish to open a trade deal with Russia in which, for exchange of material such as food and medicine, we supple you with arms since you must know that our knightmares, are state of the art. Far superior to anything else in mass service such as the Panzer Hammel or Sunderlands of the empire." Zero proposed to her, catching her off guard slightly.

"You would trade your equipment for such few, no weapons?" She asked as most resistance/terrorists groups would only ask for war material.

"We already have our ways of obtaining such. But for the new nations to succeed once we banish the imperials from its shores, we will need to feed and care for the people." He answered her, showing that he did indeed believe that they could win this fight and that he was also planning for the burden that came with governing and caring for a nation.

"So you really thing you can do that?" She asked, intrigued but this man who had done more harm against the empire in the months he had been active most other resistance movements had done against the empire in the last 20 years.

"Of course, with our strength in arms and growing numbers, soon the people of the Japanese isles will know freedom once more." Zero replied, his confidence in his people and strength absolute, something the minister noted.

"What would be the numbers here?" She asked of him, wishing to know what she would need to report back to her Tsarina.

"As you are not currently in dire need of them, 200 knightmares with an additional 40 every month for 18 months." Zero replied, having already made orders to his R&D to set aside the necessary units for the deal. "In exchange for 39.191 billion rubles worth of food and medicine for the first 200 and 7.838 billion for the 40 knightmares being offered, monthly." He finished.

"That is a high price Zero. Are your machines worth such an investment?" The minister asked him as she did the math on her calculator quickly and saw that for the 720 coming in at the end of the 18 months, they would need to pay over a trillion rubles. If she was taking to anyone else, she would have ended the call right then and there but so far Zero had proven himself so she gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him continue.

"That and more, what you are being sent in actual combat footage of one of our GINNs with a rookie pilot vs an Imperial Sunderland. Observe." Zero said as he tap a button on his keypad and within seconds, she had received an encrypted file which auto played itself. She was treated to actual combat footage off the GINN in combat and saw that it was superior to the imperial model in every way.

"As you already know, the Sunderland is the backbone of the imperial knightmare forces and is already better than the European Panzer Hammer and Federation Gun-Ru, so you can imagine well advantageous having knightmares capable of running circles around them and gloucesters would be." Zero tells her as the video switches to show GINNs piloted by Tohdoh and his Holy Swords running circles around Cornelia's royal guard, something that the JLF didn't know about as he neglected to inform him that the GINNs he gave them had been fitted with anti-theft fail-safes, trackers and transponders that sent the BK all their combat data. He knew it was shady but he didn't waste years learning politics and tactics for nothing.

"I will admit, they are quite the tools of war." Chugunkin replied, trying to hide her own amusement at seeing such a skilled team being defeated. "But I would imagine that you would offer…more?" And just like Zero predicted, she was a politician so of course she would see how far she could push the envelope to benefit her side.

"Indeed. If you accept this deal, the Black Knights will continue to export Sakuradite to Russia as always but we will do so at a reduced price, around 45%. As well as exporting the unique fuel out Knightmares require as well." Zero offered as truthfully, he and the Black knights didn't even need the sakuradite reserves in Japan as they had much larger sources off world that only the knew about and could reach. The main reason he chose to retake it from the imperials was to put a strangle hold on their war machine as without area 11 to fuel it, their military efforts would have to be drastically cut. It was for that reason and his council didn't see the harm in offering discounts to friendly nations.

"I think we can work something out, tell me more, Zero." The Minister replied to him with a sly smile, believing she just got the best deal.

"As you wish, Minister Chugunkin." And she did, the best Zero would give her as he not no delusions here, he knew that if need be, Russia would sell him and the Black Knights out. So he rigged the whole thing so that if or when that situation arose, there'll be a nasty surprise waiting for them.

(Back in Yonezawa)

"Keep up the fire!" On the GINNs called out as they hide behind a ruined wall to avoid the fire from the other side.

"Pin them down!" A Black Knight trooper yelled at another as she fired off her rifle towards the imperials, successfully, shooting on in the head.

"Take out that building, they're using it as sniper's nest!" An Imperial yelled as another threw out a grenade towards the Black Knights.

"Wounded! I got wounded!"

All around the rail line, scenes like this were playing out in vivid detail. The imperials fired off from the train and nearby buildings while the Black knights countered from positions deeper in town, using cars and shell holes/bomb craters are makeshift trenches to protect them. The battle hadn't been going on long but it had been high passed enough for dead and wounded to start to pile up on both sides. The Black Knights may have been out-numbered but they made clever use of the terrain which combined with their experience in guerrilla urban warfare, gave them a fighting chance.

'Dammit, things are really going to hell over here!' Suzaku thought to himself as he fought with the Knight of Nine, finding himself unable to downright defeat her which at least showed off she wasn't another noble in a robot.

"Sir, do we keep this up?" A trooper asked him over the radio from their positions near the thick of it. Already the trooper had lost three guys with another wounded which left blood stains and puddles all over the place, painting the white snow crimson as more fell on either side.

"Don't give them an inch!" Suzaku replied to him, already feeling the pressure of leadership as he had been informed that the back-up that should have been larger than the couple extra guys they got was being redirected to prevent the imperials flanking them. He knew that he could retreat into the crowded city but that would mean giving up more ground and limiting their escape routes as most of the subways lines here was too dangerous to move something bigger than a car, never mind a knightmare. "As for you, you're really starting to bug me."

"Just starting do, my I feel offended." Nonette quipped as she jumped back to give herself some distance. "That shield of yours is pretty tough, but I can see that sooner rather the later, I'll smash right through it." She observed with a smile as she was really enjoying having this advantage again, as for Suzaku, he merely tightened his hold on the control columns as he gave his shield a side glance and saw that it was covered in gashes and cuts, even missing nicked off pieces.

'Dammit, she's right. This was designed to be used against Blaster Fire, not MVS.' He thought to himself as he figured he could use the shielding but that would draw power from other systems to reinforce the shield itself. 'The only consolidation is that her shield takes up energy to activate and hold, mine doesn't.' He concluded as unlike his own shield which was for the most part, a solid piece of gear-she had an energy based one which meant that if her power dropped, so too her defence.

'So which will give first, his shield or many energy levels?' Nonette asked himself as she had the same line of thinking, even if she didn't show it, SK was really pushing her towards her limits as already she had to blocked more than a couple shots from those hip mounted railguns of his and they were powerful, not as strong as a fully charges VARIS but close as it took a lot of power to block.

"Burn, Britannian!" Meanwhile nearby, Kallen was having no such trouble as she was able to smash right on through the imperial ground troops, killing a couple under foot before she grabbed the head of a gloucester, with a flick of the wrist and a push of a button, she filled it with enough radiation to cause an explosion. No cockpit was ejected.

"You'll pay for that, you Red devil!" Alfred yelled as she came screaming down on her to avenge his fallen countryman. He went for a thrust with his lance but Kallen saw it coming and reacted like a true ace.

"Get real." She yelled back as she grabbed at the lance with her silver claw and activated the surger, and just like everything else she used it hold, the weapon bubbled up, forcing Alfred to abandon it before the effects reached up his arm with the weapon being discarded just as it exploded. But that did leave him an opening to exploit.

"Goodbye!" He smiled as he fired off both slash harkens at her chest and head, hoping for a stun blow but he was in for a shock when the harkens didn't even phase her and merely bounces off, as if striking an even harder surface. "What! Impossible!" He yelled in disbelief but found himself distracted, something that cost him dearly Kallen made her move and grabbed the head of his Vincent, the claw digging into the material.

"This the power of the Radiant Wave Surger! The moment you stepped in close, my victory was assured." Kallen told him as she fired off the surger, blasting lethal levels of radiation through the Vincent's head into the rest of the body. She didn't even move back as the unit exploded, killing the pilot as her own newly installed shielding took the blast without fault. 'Good thing Rakshata was able to complete those upgrades, the new shield generator may be an energy hog but it really help in a tight spot.' She thought to herself as she moved on.

"Alfred!" Claudio yelled over the radio as he just watched his brother die. But before he could try and chase down the Guren, Lie Mei was able to knock him back and with her shotgun, fired a blast of towards him, he was able to dodge the worst of it but it still caught him in the arm, blasting the limb off from the mid-forearm. His only saving grace was that it wasn't the arm carrying his duel MVS lance.

"Your fight's with me, little man." Lei Mei joked as Alleujah used the chance to meet up with their infantry to try and take care of the foot soldiers.

"Dammit!" Claudio cursed as he charged his new opponent who just took to the skies and flew over him and started to fire with both her rifle and shotgun, forcing him to dodge shot after shot with the added bonus of hearing her taunt him over the radio.

"Long ranged support, people! On the way." Lockon called out as another one of his shots hit home, this time causing a small garage a group of imperials were using to take cover in to collapse on them.

"Would you pleases stop that? We don't need you saying such nonsense every time you fire." Tieria asked as he fired off a volley that took out two enemy knightmares and a train car. At this point, there wasn't much left of the train as both the head car and several others had either been shot full of holes or downright destroyed.

"What? It adds to the experience. It's not like I say the same thing." Lockon teased as he aimed for another target, this one being one of the knightmares trying to move in from the side.

"And yet, it's equally annoying each time." Tieria replied as he fired off a shot and killed a group of imperial taking over behind a building, a lot of good it did it as his shot demolished the building before blowing them to bits.

"Party pooper." Lockon replied with a smirk as he successfully crippled the enemy Sunderland as his shot took out one of its legs.

"Call me your immature names, I have a job to do," Tieria answered as he lined up his shot to a special target. "And a target in sight." He finished as he tried to lock onto a certain light purple and black knightmare.

"Claudio! How you holding up?" David yelled over the coms.

"Fine, these terrorists don't know when the quit. Where the hell is that flanking team?" Claudio demanded as it had taken far too much time, they should have been in positions by now.

"They say that they were intercepted. They making progress but it's slow." Guilford said as he took out his fourth enemy knightmare and dashed off towards the would-be fifth.

"Die, you eleven!" Cornelia yelled as she came down on Suzaku while he was still busy with Nonette.

"Shit!" He thought to himself as he help up his damaged shield just in time to block the strike, which proved to mush stronger than anticipated as the blow cut deeply into his shield.

"Can you handle the two of us?" Nonette pressed into him as he was barely holding her back with his one blade against her axe, the sheer weight of the weapon pressing down on him.

"He doesn't have to, Brit bitch!" Luckily for him, Kallen had been pursuing Cornelia and was able to jump to his aid. Kallen reached out to grab Cornelia but she saw the move coming and recalling what that claw could do, broke off from her attack on SK and retreated a bit.

"The one from Narita, this time will be different." Cornelia vowed as he twirled her duel MVS Lance.

"Ha! I'll have to wait till I see it, witch. This ain't Pendragon, so get use to things not going as you want!" Kallen taunted as she charge the princess with her claw and combat dagger at the ready.

"The nerve!" Cornelia raged as she pushed her own machine forward to meet Kallen in a high speed melee. Cornelia was careful to avoid the claw as she knew that if it caught her lance, it was a goner so instead she pushed for Kallen other side where all her unit had was a knife.

"Looks like she made nelly angry." Nonette joked as she fired at SK with her VARIS, forcing him to dodge as he pulled out his own rifle and started to return the favour with blaster fire.

"Trust me, you're princess will be nothing more than melted flesh soon enough." SK said as he jumped over a shot and fire both his rifle and railguns on the knight of nine, forcing her to put up her shield to tank the blast.

"We'll see about that, Black Knight!" Nonette claimed as she advanced on him, firing low powered shot after shot try and nail him with rapid fire.

"My lady!" Guilford called out as he came to Cornelia's aid, surprising Kallen as he came up from behind and forcing her back from Cornelia, at the cost of knife which she had to abandon.

"Great, another one!" Kallen swore to herself as she found herself in a two on one.

"Leave this one to me!" Guilford said as he held out his lance towards the Guren.

'Shit!' Kallen thought to herself as she saw that back-up wouldn't get to her in time and she was now up against someone with much more experience than she and with a machine that could keep up. She was about to think of a way out until she saw a message from Tieria pop up on her screen, telling her to move. 'Wait a minute.' She read the thing and nearly instantly realized what it meant as he would always give such a heads-ups before he fired a shot near friendly forces.

As if commanded by the Gods themselves, Kallen surprised the two imperials when she ran to the side and jumped unto what was left of the train and raced off. They were surprised as neither picked her out to be coward and she had no real ranged attacks other than her grenade launcher. They immediately went to pursue but heard another one of those booming shots. As it picked up the shot being fired, Guilford realized why the Guren moved back.

It was coming for them.

"Your highness-ARG!" Guilford yelled out as he pushed Cornelia out of the way and found himself shot by Tieria. However unlike with Andreas, the shot didn't hit his Yggdrasil reactor but it still did a number as it tore right through the right side of his unit, taking and portion of the cockpit block with it.

"Guilford!" Cornelia screamed as she could once more, only watched as one of her closest friends and confidantes took a hit meant for her and paid for it. The only good thing that came from it was there was no explosion, only the crashing sound of Guilford's unit ploughing into the snow due to its own momentum and loss of balance.

"Gill!" Nonette cried out as seeing his unit slide through the snow till it came to a halt, leaving a trail of oil in its wake. However in her surprise, she left herself open.

"Wide open!" Nonette heard SK cry out as he charge her, knocking back into the fight but it was too later as before she could activate her blaze, SK brought down his blade on her Blaze generator, cutting right on through and deep into the arm before he pulled it out and fired on her, forcing her to fall back now that she had no way to shield herself. "All Teams, retreat! I repeat, retreat!" SK called out over all BK frequencies as he put away the blade and pulled out a chaff grenade before throwing it down.

"We're running?" Alleujah asked as he fired on Bart's unit, managing to hit the unit in the right shoulder and taking out the arm.

"This whole operation was a bust. We've lost enough men already, all men to your assigned retreat locations, fall back!" SK ordered as he piloted her machine into the ruins of the town in search of his subway exit point, the rest of the zero squad soon on his tail. Within minutes, almost all BK forces had pulled back and successfully escape the combat zones, leaving nothing but ask bloody snow, bodies and wrecked equipment in their wake.

All was not known to Cornelia as she cried out in shock and desperation as she hurriedly dug at the snow and dirt that Guilford's unit was partially buried in to try and save him, hoping against it all that he was still holding on to be saved.

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The first and only battle on Yonozawa…ended in a blood stained and bitter stalemate.

And I'm done, it's the end of the month but it's done, the last posting of the month as there is no way I can finish anything before midnight so I won't even try. That was a great chapter if I do say so myself. I was able to do a battle scene, show off the skills of those involved and fit in a character death or two. Before you ask, yes I'm messing with Cornelia but giving her the protagonist treatment where they don't die but rather others take the bullet for them. First it was Andreas now it could be Guilford who pays the ultimate price. Also for the type of damage his unit took, think what happened to Cornelia's knightmare when the geassed Dalton threw his lance through her, just more devastating.

For Kallen and the Guren, Rakshata simply added in a shield generator and some better equipped servo motors and OS. SO the Guren was much faster than cannon and could take a beating as the shield would soak up any real damage. An actual flight system will have to came later as they may need to swap out the Yggdrasil core for it's star wars counterpart for that, so for now-she's a land-lover.

The armour of the Black Knights troopers wasn't the same of Republic troopers of the Old Republic but rather more along the lines of what Mandalorians wear, it doesn't cover everything so it's lighter and can take a beating as that one soldier who was inspecting the train found out, he was shot at by more than one person mind you, and yet-he didn't die as the armour soaked up any damage that would have turned his organs to mush.

I hope that the chapter was to your liking as more like this one are coming since as previously stated, soon the entire of area 11 will be caught in rebellion, a war of independence.