Story so far...
When Britannia has begun their attack upon the New World of Cephiro, Hikaru and the Magic Knights took up arms once again, with the aid of their Rune Gods, to drive away the very same invaders that they have underestimated seven years prior. During the fight to save Cephiro from Britannia, the Magic Knights formed an allegiance with Zero and the Order of the Black Knights. It was since then, the two mighty forces of Japan and Cephiro have fought together to push away the Empire from their doorstep. However, not every Japanese citizen is having it. Upon learning that a young Japanese/ Eleven has joined forces with the Holy Britannian Empire as one of the Knights serving their princesses, Hikaru is now caught up in a conflict with Suzaku Kururugi, who was once childhood friends with her and Lelouch. After failing to reason with the Eleven turned Honorary Britannian, Hikaru and the Magic Knights are now being pushed forward into a war involving all three sides in Area 11, considering Suzaku as her number-one nemesis.
Although, Hikaru and her friends successfully rescued the captured Cephirians from the Britannian Government Bureau during the Black Rebellion, with the aid of Cephiro's Alliance and the Black Knights, Zero abruptly vanished during the fight and was presumed dead. Unable to continue without their masked leader giving out orders anymore, the Black Knights fell apart, losing their act of independence in forming the United States of Japan. Therefore, only a handful of Black Knights fled into the shadows, unable to rebel against Britannia, while most of them were captured and taken prisoner in the Tokyo Settlement.
As for the Magic Knights and the armies of Cephiro's Alliance, a dozen of them were captured, detained, and locked up in Pendragon to await their fate. However, when Mokona stowed away onboard the very same ship that hauled the Magic Knights to their final destination, the little white rabbit came up with a daring plan to free the Magic Knights from their captivity one year later.
*For those who are wondering how Mokona was able to help Hikaru get her powers back at the execution grounds in Pendragon, it all started right when Mokona stowed away onboard the Avalon one year earlier...*
After staying inside his hiding spot for several hours in silence, Mokona slowly lifted up the lid of the crate and looked around. Seeing that no one else is in the storage room, Mokona slowly came out of the crate and quietly close the lid before moving on. As he made his way to the sliding door leading to the ship's corridors, Mokona tip-toed quietly on the metal flooring, hoping that he won't make any noise. The moment he went into the corridors of the Avalon, he listens closely to any unsuspecting crew members before navigating around the ship. Without hesitation, Mokona cast an invisibility spell on himself, turning into a phased-out ghost. Just when two crew members walked through the corridor where Mokona was standing, the little white rabbit held his breath as he waited the crew members to walk right past him.
After the two Britannians left, Mokona made light steps around the corridor trying to find the map of the ship's interior. In a few minutes later, while undercover, Mokona eventually finds the map of the ship near the engine room. However, the map is 10 feet above from where Mokona is standing. Feeling frustrated for not being able to jump high enough to grab the map, Mokona was about to give up when all of a sudden, Primera makes her appearance as she appeared from a nearby sliding door behind him on his left, flying a few inches above an invisible Mokona.
At first, Primera wasn't able to see Mokona. But in a split second, the little fairy felt a heavy pounce land on top of her, making her lose her flight before plummeting to the ground.
"What the...?" Primera shrieked before her mouth was covered by an invisible hand. Before she knew it, Primera hears a silent "Pu Pu" noise.
"Mokona, is that you?!" Primera said in a muffled voice.
As Mokona unveiled his invisibility spell, he dragged the fairy into a nearby empty room before Primera could say anything.
"Mokona, when did you get here?" Primera asked when the white ball of fluff shot out a harmless beam at the fairy's forehead.
After getting stunned by the beam's effects for a few minutes, Primera felt satisfied when she learned of Mokona's recent actions through his immediate flashback.
"You sure have a really great way of sneaking around did you?!" Primera asked Mokona.
"Pu! Pu!" Mokona nodded in a positive tone.
"Well, when I saw Lantis and his Knightmare get towed away onboard this ship by one of those Brit weirdos, I immediately hid behind his knightmare until it landed inside the hangar." Primera explained to herself. "Just when they took Lantis away into one of the prison cells inside the ship, I tried to follow them but I almost got caught in the hallways. Right after I got away from them, consequently I lost track of where they took Lantis. Perhaps you can help me?"
After listening to Primera's speech, Mokona had a light bulb lit up above his head, as he came up with a brilliant idea on how to rescue Hikaru and the Magic Knights. Mokona grabbed Primera's hand and took her to the very same spot where he saw the little fairy. Before Primera could say anything, Mokona pointed towards the map above him as if he wanted the fairy to get it. Upon learning what Mokona wanted her to do, Primera flew up and grabbed the map of the ship from the wall and lead Mokona back into the room that they're both hiding in.
As they put on map on the table inside the room they're in, Primera and Mokona looked closely at the map's details. After surveying the map, the two little creatures found that the prison floor is one floor below them. The only way to make it down below without getting caught is by the ventilation shaft. Without wasting anymore time, Mokona climbed up the metal shelves in front of him and went up to the vents, with Primera flying towards them behind Mokona. The moment the two little creatures went inside the vents, they crawled towards shaft leading down to the next floor. On the way to their destination, Mokona and Primera see various Britannian crew members hanging out in the crew quarters, the mess hall, and in the medical ward below them, unaware of their presence.
Infuriated of how Lantis was captured by those Britannian goons, Primera made all sorts of moody faces, ranging from spitting her tongue out at them in silence to stretching down her cheeks and made silly mocking gestures. Not wanting Primera to waste time on such lame expressions, Mokona kept dragging her along while making his way down to the next floor.
"Pu! Pu!" Mokona scolded Primera while giving the fairy a stern look.
"Yeah, whatever!" Primera replied in embarrassment.
After slowly crawling through the vents, Mokona looks down below him and see all three Magic Knights locked up in separate cells, still wearing their straitjackets as it restrains them from moving their arms. Before Mokona could make his move to help any of them escape the ship, the doors open in front of Hikaru.
Upon hearing the doors open up, Hikaru looks up towards her captors in anger and in silence. In front of the Knight of Fire, Hikaru sees Prince Schneizel appear before her and gave her a small smirk on his face.
"So, you must be that Knight Eleven that Cornelia and Euphy was talking about or should I say the Pillar of Cephiro?!" The 2nd Prince of Britannia spoke calmly. "Hikaru Shidou, isn't it?! It's been an honor to meet you."
"Yeah, what of it?!" Hikaru glared at Schneizel in disgust. "I thought for sure that your country will no know nothing of the world that we cared for. But it was thanks to a cruel Prince Clovis that we were proven wrong! What's worse is that it was because of him that we had no choice but to fend off Britannia from Cephiro."
"Well, Prince Clovis is my younger brother!" Schneizel replied. "You should at least try to understand us a bit more, than rather get overzealous after you and your friends took a trip to another world and became heroes of its people despite your lack of citizenry there."
"Why should I?" Hikaru asked, feeling offended by where Schneizel is getting at. "I already have waited for seven long years to find ways to get along with the Britannians but it was hopeless. Anyway, I still thought of Cephiro the same way as I thought of my former homeland. Just who are you?!"
"My apologies, Lady Hikaru. I guess I should've introduced myself first. I am Schneizel el Britannia, the second prince and Prime Minister of the Holy Britannian Empire!" Schneizel said in a calm, prideful tone. "I know Prince Clovis from the back of my hand. Though, he does get pretty vain when using his authority as Viceroy of Area 11. But he was sent to another campaign in another world, leaving my sister Cornelia in charge as the next Viceroy. I do want to apologize for his behavior and for that, I'll have a good long talk with him very soon."
"Well, I doubt she'll ever continue her awful campaign in Area 11, especially when I was able to put her down by force!" Hikaru smirked in amusement. "I mean, Cornelia took away my family seven years ago only for them to serve under her feet until just recently."
"It's still never too late to start over again, whether or not my siblings caused you trouble in your deprived childhood!" Schneizel grinned. "Now that I thought about your expertise and your combat abilities on the battlefield, I can't help but feel impressed by your actions. When I watched you during that incident at Mt Fuji, you remind me a lot like Suzaku and Cornelia."
"You were watching me the whole time?!" Hikaru said in shock. "Not that I cared about it, I couldn't help but feel traumatized after Euphy gave out that crazed order to have my people get slaughtered at Mt. Fuji. I wanted to hate her for doing that, I really do. However, I still think that something is going on in Euphy's head that what meets the eye, since Clef was able to sense it."
"Your guess is as good as mine. I was totally shocked after witnessing such madness back at Mt. Fuji." Schneizel added in. "I seriously doubt Euphy would ever pull such a thing, since she's my little sister. So, I'll do my best to investigate Euphy's case further, only when the time is right. Other than that, if you join us, we'll overlook everything that happened starting when you and your friends entered the New World when Clovis was there. I'll even make you as one of our Knights too. You do that and your friends shall live, do it not and you'll be tried for witchcraft and executed at Pendragon."
"You wish. I mean, you don't even know me and I sure as hell I don't know anything about you." Hikaru said, feeling offended by what Schneizel is offering. "I've been protecting Cephiro for a long time, not just a Magic Knight or as their Pillar, but as an honorable hero. Besides, I have already waited long enough to give Britannia a chance to display their peace offerings only for it to end in total failure. So, I can assure you, I'll never deliver Cephiro to the likes of you. Never!"
"Then, you might as well meet your fate my dear!" Schneizel smriked at Hikaru. "At Pendragon, it'll be crawling with Britannian Soldiers accompanied by the Knights of the Round. I don't think any of the Black Knights from Area 11 or the native warriors of the New World will ever launch any attacks at our capital just to save you. If they did, they'll get obliterated in a blink of an eye."
"Knights of the Round?!" Hikaru asked, as her eyes widened.
Upon hearing what Schneizel just said, Hikaru may be facing more adversaries if she every found a way to break free from her imprisonment in Britannian custody.
"They happened to be the strongest warriors in all of the Holy Britannian Empire!" Schneizel explained. "Some were serving the Royal Family of the Empire very closely. Each of them has been bled by the Emperor himself for their act of heroism and honor! They were in Area 11 when they brought you onboard the Avalon, along with the other Magic Knights and the Leaders of the New World."
"I hope you haven't done anything to them because they're all friends of mine, Schneizel!" Hikaru snarled. "You lay a hand on any of them by the time I break free from these restraints and I'm going smash your head in with Rayearth's feet!"
"Nice try, kid." Schneizel laughed in amusement. "Anyway, I have other matters to attend to. In the meantime, you might as well think twice before going after my siblings."
The moment Schneizel makes his way out of Hikaru's prison cell, Bismarck Waldstein appears in the corridors. Before Schneizel left, Bismarck took a bow towards the second prince of Britannia. He happens to be the Knight of One in the Holy Britannian Empire. As he made his appearance in front of the restrained Knight of Fire, he grinned at Hikaru as if he thought she was a joke. He was a tall, muscular man who is wearing a white cloak with golden linings. He had dark-blue hair and blue eyes, though his left eye has been sewn shut due to the fact that he has a future-seeing geass ability concealed within it. After taking a good look at the red-haired Eleven Knight, Bismarck couldn't stop laughing from the fact that she was the one who started a revolution in the New World.
"I never thought that the Knights from the New World would actually be a bunch of lowly female Elevens that made quite a show at Area 11." Bismarck cackled. "I was expecting more from that!"
"Really?" Hikaru glared at the Knight of One as he lifted her chin up with his two fingers.
"You may have gotten past Princess Cornelia, but you haven't faced off someone like me!" Bismarck continued as he smirked at the Red-haired girl. "Defying the members of the Royal Family will be the last thing you would ever want to do, especially when relying on a weird Knightmare like yours! Hope you had fun here little lady, because you won't live to see the next era of the Britannian Imperial Rule."
After Bismarck lets go off Hikaru, he left the prison cell as he silently cackled to himself.
After looking at Hikaru for a while, Mokona continued on to find where they took Hikaru's magic glove at. The white fluff ball thought about rescuing Hikaru but he still needs to find a way to plan ahead first. Otherwise, he'll be caught causing a breakout, along with Primera. While scurrying though the vents in finding Hikaru's magic glove, he and Primera eventually looked down and spotted a white lab below him. After taking a good look at what's in the lab, they spotted several scientists studying and analyzing the magic gloves belonging to Umi, Fuu, and Hikaru. They went inside separate capsules. While doing their work, the scientists were using all their computers to scan the magic gloves for any data. As Mokona is about to come up with a plan to retrieve the magic gloves, Lloyd Asplund and Cecil Croomy entered the lab.
When the Earl of Pudding went up to one of the scientists while conducting all sorts of tests over the magic glove belonging to Hikaru.
"So, what have you got?" Lloyd asked the scientist.
"It seems that those Knight Elevens were using these powered up gloves to bring out their own Knightmares into the battlefield for a very long time!" The scientist spoke clearly to the Earl. "I don't know how did it happen, but I bet that Black Knights Researcher must've used an experimental piece of technology to strengthen their abilities in Knightmare combat."
"Can I take a look at it?" Lloyd asked, in a curious tone.
After the scientist got out of his seat, Lloyd sat down near the computer before taking a good look at the Magic Knight's machines from the computer screen. Lloyd couldn't help but feel awestruck by such changes to their Rune God Knightmares. Behind Lloyd, Cecil approached the computer to see what the Earl is looking at. The moment Cecil looked closely at the data from the Magic Knight's gloves, she felt a bit jealous of how unique they naturally function.
"We may need their power to strengthen the Britannian Knightmares before they assume their attack upon the New World," Cecil suggested Lloyd.
"It may be easier said than done. Those Knight Elevens are full of unpredictable surprises. Remember when Lady Anya told us about that one Knightmare that was actually fused from all three of their Knightmares? It's power can be even more terrifying than the experimental Gawain that Rakshata finished." Lloyd said, feeling anxious in researching the Magic Knight's machines overall strengths.
"Since Prince Clovis was able to send in the data of their machine's strengths and weaknesses to us from the NSX, I'm sure we'll work something out in developing something new from the Magic Knight's Knightmares." Cecil said with confidence and determination.
"I hope you're right." Lloyd said in a nervous tone.
"All hands, this is Prince Schneizel!" The intercom spoke from within the lab. "We are requesting all hands to report to the bridge immediately. We'll be heading to Pendragon in T-minue 30 minutes!"
Upon hearing the announcement, Lloyd, Cecil, and all of the scientists abandoned their work and left the lab.
Seizing the opportunity, Mokona watched all of the Britannians leave the labs before carrying out his plan.
"So, Mokona, how do you think we're going to recover those magic gloves from them?" Primera asked.
As Mokona opened up the vent and before he dropped into the lab, he peered his head from the lab's ceiling to look for any active surveillance cameras. After looking around from the vents, Mokona spotted one camera hanging above the ceiling at a corner left of the sliding door. When Mokona waved his arm to have Primera come over to his position, Mokona pointed at the camera for he wanted her to neutralize it.
When Primera flapped her wings, she hovered close to the ceiling as she went down from the shaft and flew towards the camera's blind spot. The moment Primera went behind the camera, she pulled off its cables, making it shut down before Mokona moved in.
Back at the command bridge, one of the crew members spotted that the surveillance video leading to the lab has been cut off.
"Sir, we lost connection with the surveillance camera inside the labs." The Crew member said, making his report to the Captain of the Avalon.
"Send in a security team and investigate what has caused it!" The captain ordered.
"Yes sir!"
Back at the labs, Primera picked up a nearby small axe from the tool cabinet and started hacking into the capsule containing one of the magic gloves. After a few whacks, the capsule broke, letting the shattered glass fall onto the floor. Without hesitation, Primera grabbed the blue magic glove belonging to Umi's and threw it to where Mokona was at. The moment Mokona caught Umi's glove, he used his magic to teleport it into his inventory.
However, before Primera was about to get the second glove, the two little creatures heard foots steps heading straight into the labs.
"Mokona, I think I hear them coming closer. What should we do-waaaaaaaggghhh?!" Primera asked before she started freaking out when Mokona grabbed her hand.
The little fairy suddenly get tossed out of the labs by a snickering Mokona.
In his mind, Mokona insisted on using Primera as a distraction while he continued to recover Hikaru's and Fuu's magic gloves. As soon as the little fairy gets thrown outside of the labs, Mokona cackled as he closed the sliding doors in front of Primera.
"HEY! WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!" Primera shouted in anger as she started pounding on the closed doors.
Before Primera could get a response from the mischievous Mokona, a group of four Britannian Marines spotted her and immediately alerted the captain.
"Captain, we have an intruder alert!" The Marine spoke through his intercom.
"Uh Oh!" Primera gasped, realizing that she's been found out. Not wanting to stand around, Primera flapped her wings and flew as fast as a speeding bullet in order to evade capture but not before she muttered in anger over what Mokona just did.
"I'll get you for this, Mokona!"
While the security team was chasing Primera all over the ship, Mokona continued on where he left off. After snickering to himself for using Primera as a distraction, Mokona grabbed the ax with both of hands and jumped up high before slamming it on top of the second capsule.
As the capsule shattered, Mokona felt the heavy weight coming from the axe that he was holding. The moment the ax struck the capsule, he felt a vibration as Mokona bounced backwards before land on the floor with his back. Mokona immediately jumped back on top of the second capsule and put Fuu's glove in his inventory.
For the third magic glove, Mokona was about to recover it only to see that the axe was broken into two pieces from the resulting vibration. Feeling undaunted over a damaged axe, Mokona backed all the way to a nearby corner and charged at the third capsule, using his white body as a small battering ram. In such a fast pace, Mokona jumped towards the third capsule and body slammed it forward, making it topple over before it hit the ground. As a result, Mokona's stomach hurt a bit for using too much force on the capsule, making the white furball collapse on the floot, struggling to catch his breath.
When the third capsule fell to the ground and shattered, it caught the attention of someone outside of the labs.
"Who's in there?!"
As Mokona gasped upon hearing a voice coming from outside of the labs, Mokona pushed himself up, ignoring the pain in his body, and grabbed Hikaru's glove before he bounced on top of the tool cabinet and disappeared back into the vents. In a split second, Mokona used his magic to pick up the ventilation grate and closed it back up just when the security team entered the lab.
When the Britannian security looked around, they see three shattered capsules in front of them, a broken pick ax next to the vandalized scene, and a security camera that had its wires ripped off.
"What just happened here?!" One of the Britannian Marines spoke in confusion.
Just when Lloyd and Cecil emerged from within the security team, they realized that the magic gloves that they were analyzing just disappeared.
"No way, those gloves are gone. All three of them are gone!" Lloyd shrieked.
"I think someone stowed away on this ship and grabbed them. We need to have this entire ship searched!" Cecil suggested the Earl of Pudding.
When the security team scrambled to find the stowaway, Mokona grinned in amusement that they haven't realized that he recovered all three of the magic gloves belonging to the Magic Knights of the New World. Before Mokona could make his way back to where Hikaru and the others are being held up, he heard vibrating all over the vents, rendering him unable to move inside the vents. After a few minutes, the vibrating stopped, letting Mokona give the opportunity to make his way back to the vents leading to the prison cells. However, by the time he got there, Mokona looks down and sees Hikaru and her friends get dragged away by the Britannians. It turns out that the ship has landed at their destination.
But not that it matters, Mokona takes out the map of the ship and used it to direct him to the ship's exit. While on the way out of the ship, Mokona makes his silent vow to save the Magic Knights as he started cackling and snickering to himself with delight and determination.