Code Geass: Duel of Kings Ch 3: The Wheel of Destiny Begin to turn.
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
It was quite in the elevator as Lelouch and the others rode down to the Knightmare hanger. As they rode, Lelouch was formatting a battle strategy, Anya was holding onto his top hat and tailcoat while mentally preparing to become Lelouch's sword and shield during the upcoming battle while Neville and the runner wondered what Lelouch was planning.
"How many of each Knightmares frames and pilots do we have?" Lelouch as they were reaching the bottom of the elevator.
"We have ten Glasgows, five Sutherlands and fifteen knights. Everyone else is on patrol." The runner replied.
"How many Sutherlands did the enemy steal?"
"Twenty-five units, sir."
"Get the five Sutherlands, four Glasgow and six knights."
"Only nine Knightmares? But my lord, that's too few and we would need three more knights." Neville said, puzzled.
"Don't worry; we will pilot the extra three." Lelouch said, pointing at Neville, the runner and himself.
"What about Lady Anya?" Neville asked, wondering if Anya didn't pilot Knightmare frames.
"Don't worry; I have something special for her." Lelouch said, playfully ruffling Anya's hair with his hand.
As they entered the hanger, Lelouch was happy to see that the trailer from Cornelia had arrived. Walking up to it, Lelouch had some technicians remove the covering on it. In the trailer was a red Gloucester that had been modified for assaults. The shoulders, back and legs had been equipped with missile containers. The right arm had been modified to have a cannon built into it while the left arm held the frames signature lance. The chaos grenades and original missiles packs had been retained. Inside, all the systems had been set to Anya's personal combat data as well as being modified to use the new assault weapons.
"This is for me?" Anya asked as she snapped a picture of the Gloucester, greatly impressed though she didn't show it.
Somehow knowing that Anya liked her new Knightmare, Lelouch playfully wrapped his arms around her.
"Yes, this is your personal Gloucester. After I found out that we were coming here, me and your teacher decided it was time for you to have your own Knightmare, so he bought a Gloucester from Cornelia and I hired Lloyd to modify it to your combat style. And since we payed for everything, no one can take the unit from you. Call it a late gift from your teacher for becoming a royal knight."
"Thank you my Prince."
"Alright men, suit up. We head out in 10 minutes."
10 minutes later, everyone was suited up and making final checks on their Knightmares. As Lelouch was getting into the Glasgow he would be using for the mission, Neville came running up to him.
"Prince Lelouch, are you sure you should be going out there sir? Would the Government building be safer?"
Seeing the genuine concern in the older young man's face, Lelouch gave him a clam smile.
"My mother taught me a few things about piloting Knightmares before she died and I have been honing my skills over the years. Besides, if a king isn't willing to take the lead, how can he expect anyone to follow him?"
With nothing left to say Neville walked over to his Knightmare frame, a Sutherland that happened to be next to Anya's new Gloucester
"Good luck, Lady Anya. And I promise to protect you and the prince."
"Prince Lelouch doesn't need your protection. I am all that he needs."
As Anya climbed into her Knightmare, Neville smiled at how she never said that she didn't need his protection. After everything was all set, Lelouch led his troops out. It didn't take long for them to catch up to the terrorist. As soon as the terrorist noticed them they turned around, ready to fight. In the lead was a red Glasgow, the pilot was a young woman with red hair.
"Kallen, don't get to hot headed. We need you to live trough this; after all you are our ace."
"I know Naoto, but I can't just let those damn Britannians think we fear them. Tell Ohgi and Tamaki to be careful."
"Sure, Sis." said an older young man with red hair.
With that the terrorist or resistance as they called themselves began their attack. As they charged in, guns at the ready, Anya took the lead of Lelouch's troops. Before the resistance could fire off their guns, Anya unleashed a barrage of missiles. As the missiles closed in, some of the resistance members tried to shoot them down. Though they were able to stop most of them, two of the missiles managed to make contact with the ground, kicking up a huge cloud of dust and debris from the explosion. Many of the resistance members were frightened by the Gloucester which was reserved for elites. Out of the cloud came two Sutherlands with red shoulders.
"Don't think we are going to let some little girl show us up against those filthy elevens." Cried a man with blond hair.
"Who the hell are those two, they're breaking formation." Lelouch said as the two Sutherlands continued forward.
"That is Villetta Nu and Kewell Soresi, members of the Purest faction." Came Neville's voice over the intercom.
'The Purest faction, That is the faction that believes that only pure blood Britannias should be in the military, the group Jeremiah used to belong to before becoming Nunnally's knight.' "Men, new plan. I, Anya and Neville will follow the two Purest. Everyone else is to circle around, after passing the Purest start firing in between the buildings. Once you get in front of the terrorist, two of you will use your slash harkens to lift yourself up to the roofs and attack from above while the rest fire from the ground."
As the others circled around, Lelouch, Anya and Neville followed the two Purest Sutherlands who had already forced three resistance members to eject. As the resistances began firing they were suddenly assaulted by a hail of bullets from the side and soon after from behind and above.
'Dammit, who is these guys strategist? Could it be that Gloucester?' Naoto thought as five more resistance pilots ejected.
Suddenly, Kallen's red Glasgow charged at Anya's red Gloucester.
"I will take care of the leader."
Since Anya's Gloucester was redesigned for assaults, the speed had been reduced which allowed Kallen to get in close before Anya could fire a shot off. Pulling out one of her stun tonfas, Kallen swiped at the Gloucester's chest only to be blocked by its lance. As they held each other in a stalemate, Neville and the two Purest came up behind them.
"Ma'am, are you okay?" Neville ask, so worried about Anya's safety that he forgot to put his speaker on a private line.
"A girl huh." Kallen said, interested.
"I'll take care of her, go help Prince Lelouch." Anya said, having kept her speaker on a private Brinntaian line.
As Neville and the Purest were catching up to Lelouch, they were attacked by three members of the resistance who unleashed a barrage of bullets pinning them down. Seeing Neville and the others in trouble, Anya tried to help them Kallen jumped into the way both of her stun tonfas out in challenge. Anya accepted the challenge, charging forth with her lance at the ready. Naoto, while trying to get to Kallen, ran into Lelouch's Glasgow. Expecting an easy kill, Naoto was surprised by Lelouch's skill. Using the abilities taught by his mother and honed by years of training, Lelouch was easily able to take control of the battle. As Naoto was on the verge of defeat, Ohgi and Tamaki joined the battle, turning the tables on Lelouch by using their superior numbers and Knightmare frames. As Lelouch fought the trio, Anya and Kallen were still going head to head. While Kallen had originally been able to use her Glasgow's faster speed to her advantage to keep Anya on the defensive, Anya had started using her slash harkens as zip lines, increasing her speed. When three resistance members came to back Kallen up, three of the allies Sutherlands were thrown into them, compliments of Neville, Kewell and Villetta. Watching the fights, all three were impressed by the Prince and his knight's skills. Lelouch had been able to avoid the constant attacks coming his way, though he hadn't had a chance to counter attack. Suddenly, the resistance members went into a triangle formation before firing their slash harkens. Though Lelouch was able to dodge most of them one struck home, taking off the Glasgow's left arm. Just when the three resistance members started firing on him, Lelouch used his slash harkens to lift himself into a building. As the resistance members started firing on his position Lelouch reappeared 10
Stories up from where they were firing. As soon as he had landed behind, Lelouch began firing his rifle until it was out of ammo, though each shot missed the resistance and hit the building just behind them.
"What horrible shooting, this guy sucks." Tamaki laughed.
As the resistance members mocked his aim, Lelouch started speeding to the left. His slash harkens, which were still in the building, easily cut through the building, causing it to collapses. As the building fell on their position, Naoto was the only one able to get out of the way in time, leaving Ohgi and Tamaki to eject to safety. As Naoto looked at the wreckage in amazement two slash harkens shot forward and cut off both of his Sutherland's arms followed by Lelouch shoulder charging him into the wreckage. As he looked up, Naoto saw Lelouch standing before him pointing a stun tonfa.
"Who is this guy? Those tactics, could he be the commander?"
"Good job your highness." Neville said.
Hearing this, Naoto couldn't believe it, there was a royal on the battlefield.
"Did Clovis come out to fight? And his tactics, how good is he?"
Over at Kallen's and Anya's battle, things were heating up. Speeding at Anya, Kallen fired one of slash harkens only for Anya to block and destroy it with her lance. Just as she got to Anya, Kallen swung her stun tonfa only for Anya to catch the arm and bring the lance down on it, taking off the arm before swinging the lance back around to cut Kallen's Glasgow in half. Kallen was able to move back in time to save herself but still received a slash to the chest. Just when Kallen thought she was safe, Anya punched her in the face causing her to fall back.
"Dammit, it's not just the machine; it's the pilot who is better than me as well."
Just then, Kallen heard Neville's call to Lelouch.
"What a royal? Could it be Clovis? If I take him down, then we would prove that we aren't just some other terrorist group." Kallen said as she smiled at the prospect.
Throwing her last stun tonfa to distract Anya, Kallen bee lined for her rifle. Grabbing it, she fired off her last slash hearken, launching her into the air, putting above Lelouch. Seeing pointing the rifle at him, Lelouch tried to move out of the way only for the Glasgow's legs to breakdown from when he had jumped from the building. Just as Kallen was about to start firing, Naoto's Sutherland came and knocked her away. Before Kallen could ask why, something struck Naoto's Sutherland, which was right where Kallen was. The thing that had hit his Knightmare easily ripped through it, destroying the top half. As the Knightmare fell something fell out of it, the headless body of Naoto Kouzuki. Standing not too far away from the destroyed Sutherland was Anya's Gloucester, its cannon smoking from the recently fired shot. Kallen just stared at her brother's headless corpus. Suddenly one of the remaining resistance Sutherlands came and grabbed her, pulling her away from what was once Naoto. Inside her Gloucester's cockpit, Anya was shaking from her first kill.
Finally done. Sorry it took so long to update but I have been having computer problems, but I finally got that taken care of. Because of work my updates may be a little random. For those of you who have read, reviewed and who will continue to read and review, I thank you. Anyway I got a question asking about Lelouch and Anya's relationship. Truth be told, I don't really know what it is. As of now it is not romantic, but that may change later, but they both see each other as important in each other eyes which has to do with the past they share. If you want me to go into more detail or have any more questions, please review. Anyway on to the question.
1. What to do you think is wrong with Anya and what will Lelouch do?
2. What will Kallen do now?
3. How will this help Clovis?
4. What do you think of Anya's Knightmare frame?
5. Who trained Anya to be a royal knight?
6. What do you think of the story so far?
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