"Okay we're heading into the battlefield" Lelouch said from the Albion Shadow
"All pilots are ready" Suzaku said getting into their positions in the square
"I wonder why C.C isn't a part of this battle?" Nunnally asked
"She's got a different assignment" Lelouch said
"What's her assignment" Prima asked
"relax Prima your sister will not be hurt" Lelouch stated
"I'm more worried about the team you gave her" Prima chuckled.
"I'm sure they'll be alright" Lelouch said as the Autobots took up positions as well
"I never thought we would see this day" Jetfire said.
"A human coming back from the dead" Elita said
"Welcome back" Jetfire said
"Thank you" Lelouch said
"Incoming!" Euphie shouted. Lelouch checked his radar.
"So my brothers have given them a new weapon, it does not matter" The Fallen sneered
"I understand milord" Megatron said. The Decepticon forces were amassing in the square
"Hold steady people" Lelouch said "hold, hold, hold" Lelouch said
"Ah, Lelouch they're getting closer" Kallen said
"Steady" Lelouch said
"They'll be on top of us soon" Suzaku shouted
"Nearly" Lelouch said as the first Decepticon got with five meters of the square's centre "FIRE!" Lelouch said. Suddenly gunfire was heard throughout the square
"Eat lead Decepticreep" Gino said firing his rifle at the cons in front of him. "Yee Hah!" he continued to fire to the cons.
"Gino hold up, you're wasting ammo" Kallen said
"Okay" Gino said switching to his melee weapons to cut down the enemy
"Master we must go through with the other plan" Starscream said
"I agree, Barricade begin your mission" Megatron said.
"Yes sir" The Decepticon Barricade said evilly "Move out!" he ordered to a battalion of Decepticons as they approached Ashford Academy.
"Soon the assault in the square will turn to here to rescue the civilians" Barricade said to Frenzy; a human sized Decepticon who blurted something to him in Cybertronian
"Good point, what if they're not in time?" Barricade said. Soon they were going to be in firing distance and with no one to guard this academy; no one would be left alive. "This should please The Fallen" Barricade said as Brawl joined him.
"I agree" Brawl said marching on.
Most of the students were terrified at the sight of the oncoming battalion heading towards their school
"What are we going to do?" "We've got to run" "No I'm not leaving without my sister" "She'll be safe I assure you" Students and teacher yelled. Villetta Nu was helping with the evacuation
"This is taking too long" she growled
"I know we have only a few minutes" The math teacher said
"And the only frame we have has no weapons" another teacher said.
"Where's the council?" a third teacher asked
"Have they been evacuated?" the dean asked
"I haven't seen them" Villetta said
"This is not good" the dean said.
"Okay so why are sitting here instead of leaving or doing something?" Rivalz asked
"Because there is nothing we can do" Milly said down hearted
"Come on Milly that's not true" Rivalz said to her
"It is, nothing we do will cause us to live" Milly cried
"Don't you get the minute we are in range of them we will die, and horribly as well" she cried before weeping into Rivalz's chest
"Easy Milly" Rivalz said stroking her golden locks softly.
"Well at least we'll go out together, at least we've all had first kisses" Shirley said
"I haven't" Nina said
"If we survive, which odds are not looking good we so are getting you a guy" Milly said.
"Yeah" Nina said looking around for her desk
"To think of all the chaos and fun we've had here it is to be the last place we're alive together" Milly said sitting at the window
"I know, too bad the others aren't here" Rivalz said looking outside
"I agree" Shirley said.
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?" a voice shouted.
Josh Lennox was making a sweep of Ashford when he came to the council chambers to find some of the student council still there
"Josh?" Shirley asked
"What are you still doing here, the whole school was been evacuated" Josh said
"they have?" Rivalz asked alerted
"Yes I was sent in to find stragglers" Josh said
"Why?" Milly asked
"Because a NEST strike force is on its way" Josh said
"This is Lennox, I've found the missing students what should I do?" Josh asked
"Yes ma'am" Josh said
"I understand" Josh continued
"Of course, okay I've got to get you to the mobile armoury and suit you up for combat, congratulations you've become NEST members" Josh said leading the four teenagers away.
Outside Cecile walked over to a pink knightmare frame
"C.C. we have a few more recruits" Cecile said
"Who?" C.C asked
"The rest of the Ashford Student Council" Cecile said
"But isn't one of the rules of NEST no school students without military training are permitted to be members?" Epps asked
"In a time of turmoil one must overlook the rules" C.C said
"Understand, anyway with Grimlock and Sludge giving us back up we can't lose" Sam said
"do not get cocky" C.C said to the sniper.
"But" Sam whimpered
"They are Decepticons, not drones they are able to kill us and they will not hesitate to do so" C.C said
"Yes ma'am" Sam said
"I'm not enjoying this" Cecile said as a soft breeze blew her hair
"How long?" she asked "Ten minutes maybe less"
"That's not a long time" Cecile said
"We'll make it" C.C. said smiling
"You're immortal of course you'll make it" she chuckled
"Sometimes hope springs from uncertain places" C.C. said
"Are you ready captain?" C.C asked
"Of course ma'am"
"Good because our ten minutes just got shortened" C.C. said "ARM UP" she ordered.
Soon Sutherlands, Burais, Gloucesters, and Gekkais created a frontline defence, veteran soldiers and freedom fighters fighting side by side in the hopes of stopping a more dangerous enemy: the approaching horde of Decepticon soldiers that were sure to give them a fight if they wanted one
"Come on, come on" Tamaki said getting an itchy finger
"This battle should be over soon" Milly said in her Sutherland
"relax babe" Rivalz said
"Hey I've face one before" Milly scoffed
"When they were frames not like this" Shirley said
"Relax my little cutie honey pie, I'll protect you" Josh said.
"Thanks, Nina you okay?" Cecile asked
"Yes I'm fine Miss Croomy has my back" Nina said shyly.
"CONTACT" C.C. said firing off a blast of her VARIS at an oncoming Decepticon. "FIRE" Cecile ordered.
Soon Ashford Academy's beautiful lush gardens and fields became a deadly battlegrounds
"I need support" a Burai pilot said
"On it" Nina said firing her rifle
"good shot" the pilot said
"Thank you" Nina blushed
"My name's Spike, whats yours?" Spike asked
"Nina" Nina answered
"How about after all this chaos we get a coffee some time?" Spike asked
"Sure I'd like that" Nina said firing her harkens "if you survive" she said flirting
"Sure" Spike said moving off. Milly, Shirley and Rivalz were back to back with assault rifles firing at maximum
"We're nearly out of ammo" Milly said
"And that's if we don't burn our guns out first" Shirley
"Stop complaining you two" Rivalz said
"What about you, you're in the same boat as us" Milly said
"Not yet" Rvalz said
"Why?" Shirley asked
"because I've been conversing ammo" Rivalz stated
"Slacker" Milly shouted blasting another Decepticon.
"There's too many" a pilot said
"Hold it together" Tamaki said as three cons perused him "This is intense" he said
"Hold on Tamaki" Cecile said firing at the three behind him.
C.C and Grimlock were facing Barricade;
"Grimlock can't take much more" Grimlock said
"Stay with me Grimlock" C.C. said
"Grimlock can't" Grimlock said shutting down
"GRIMLOCK!" Cecile said in shock as she saw an old friend shut down "No please, not him" she cried
"Cecile calm down we still need you in this fight" C.C said
"C.C face it we've lost; we need to fall back" Epps said zooming across the battlefield
"No we can't for if we lose here then Lelouch and his team will be overwhelmed and I will not allow that!" C.C. said
"C.C" Cecile said
"Never mind that we have to fall back our numbers will be critical in a few minutes and theirs won't be" Tamaki said.
Suddenly a blast was fired out of nowhere, shocking those gathered.
"Huh?" Milly asked as Gun-rues and Shenhues appeared
"Secure this area" Xingke ordered from his Knightmare
"Xingke Li!" Tamaki said
"sorry we're late, we had a run in with a bird like Decepticon" Xingke said
"Xie Xie XingKe Li" C.C. said "It is my pleasure hopefully after this we can celebrate?" Xingke said
"Possibly" C.C said
"Alright now charge!" the leaders said.
An hour later the Decepticons were lying in a heap of red hot scrap metal. The pilots were out of the now hot cockpits
"That was tough" Tamaki said removing his jacket
"I heard ya" Epps said handing him a drink
"Over two hours of fighting, man that has got to be a new record" Sam said smiling as he lent against his frame's leg. Nina was hoping down from her Sutherland when she tripped and fell
"I got you" someone said as she was held.
"Thank you" she said shyly blushing
"no problem, my name is Spike" "I'm Nina" the pair said
"Easy you two" Milly said walking up behind them
"So the assault on Ashford is done" she said looking around
"Milly!" a voice said
"Daddy, over here" Milly shouted as her father and grandfather came racing over the hill
"Camilla Judith Ashford" Richard said bear hugging his daughter "Do not scare us like that again young lady" her father said
"Sorry" Milly said. Soon an explosion was heard from the city
"I'd better go I don't want Lelouch dead again" C.C said "Epps, you and Witwicky are in charge of clean up" she ordered before taking off
"Yes ma'am" Epps said
"come on" Sam said walking off.
In the square Lelouch and Suzaku had dealt damaging blows to Ramjet who crashed with energon pouring out of his wounds
"Another one down" Suzaku said
"Understood" Lelouch said looking at the sky
"okay, Stratosphere, this is Zero time to drop the surprise
"What surprise?" Suzaku asked
"A good one" Lelouch said unsheathing his black MVS longswords
"Okay, Euphie are you okay?" Suzaku asked
"No I'm about out of energy" Euphie said as her frame fell to the ground
"EUPHIE!" Suzaku said
"This is the Tristan, I'm going down, Mordred Gawain and Vincent also down" Gino said
"The Zangetsu is down" Tohdoh said
"Right no more!" Lelouch shouted taking off. Soon after that Suzaku was down from a Decepticon attack.
"Our hope rest with you Lelouch" Suzaku said crawling out and over to where the pilots of the downed frames gathered
"Suzaku" Euphie said helping him
"We're going to die" Cornelia said holding Nunnally
"No we won't Lelouch has got something incoming but what I don't know" Suzaku said. After Suzaku said that a C-130 flew over head.
The plane flew over the square
"Unlocking clamps" the pilots said "Opening ramp" the co-pilot said "Big-Rig is away I repeat Big rig is away" The pilot said as a rig rolled out of the carrier plane and plummeted towards the earth, during the fall a series of movements occurred and soon in the place of the rig falling was a humanoid machine with a rifle in his hand and a battle mask over his face. On the ground Jazz was firing into the sky when he spotted the falling machine
"Huh? It can't be; IT'S OPTIMUS!" he shouted in triumph
"What?" Jetfire asked looking at the now dusk sky
"It is" Ironhide said
"He's online" Bumblebee said "HE'S ONLINE!" he cheered
"Alright" Skids cheered. Elita was speechless in joy as her sparkmate fell to the earth in a spiralling form
"how?" she asked
"Who knows?" Wheeljack said. Once the Decepticons saw the now revived Optimus Prime falling panic set in.
"Autobots form up" he said engaging his swords after landing.