"Lelouch"- talking normally

'LOADING SYSTEM.'- Computer infomration

"Roger."- Radio/Walkie-Talkie

Mountain safehouse, Himichal Pradesh, Militarized Zone of India, November, 2017.

Inside a room with a few computers at the mountain safehouse, Zero saw a few personnel looking at intelligence that had been gathered. Apparently Odysseus was going to be joining hands with the Empress of the Chinese Federation, a young thriteen-year-old girl named Jiang Lihua, in three weeks. The seventy-five soldiers who shared the safehouse with the Black Knights were members of an organization called a Private Military Company or PMC. They had helped the Black Knights settle into the Chinese Federation only a mere two days after the Black Knights had arrived.

When the Black Knights were accepted into the Chinese Federation, they initially had nothing except for their submarine and any equipment that had been onboard. After receiving help from the PMC, the Black Knights had gotten a safehouse in China proper and from there they received their first mission on the fifth day since their arrival from the Empress, who answered by the alias Tianzi. Extremely violent riots had broken out in Shanghai and the Black Knights were to assist the PMC in suppressing them. The mission was a success and with it the Vermillion Forbidden City became a second safehouse that the Black Knights could operate from. Seven missions later, with one mission being performed each week, the Black Knights now had a total of eight safehouses throughout the Federation. The High Eunichs were not happy about the Black Knights blatantly operating and tried to devise a plan to replace the current Empress with an anti-Black Knight one under their control, but Tianzi had enough of their schemes and the sixth mission of the Knights was to destroy the Eunichs.

Needless to say, it went semi-flawlessly and Tianzi began the slow process of consolidating her power through the Black Knights and the PMC. However, Britannia found out about the destruction of the High Eunichs and began plotting to defeat the Black Knights by capturing or killing their leaders. Shortly after a mission that involved receiving assistance from the PMC, the PMC had brought to the safehouse a critically injured soldier who went by the designation 'N-11' and was a very resourceful man.

The leader of the PMC, a man called Harsha Vazano, said, "Zero, we've got vital signs, but they're weak. N-11 won't last without proper medical attention."

"N-11 is a hard bastard. Trust me, he'll make it." Zero replied but very quickly on a small monitor the words 'PERIMETER BREACHED' appeared as a radar alarm sounded and a Black Knight came to Zero and said, "Incoming signatures."

"We've got company." Harsha said.

"It's the Britannian Empire. They're tying up loose ends. Who's your best man." Zero remarked.

"Ivan. Ex-Russian. Only man I know who hates Britannia more than you."

"Get him. They'll use the ridgeline for cover and fly in from the south with foot soldiers." Zero said as the monitor hooked up to the radar tracked hostiles approaching the safehouse.

"How do you know?"

"It's what I would do. Additionally, the area around this safehouse is currently being covered by the effects of a special jamming field that prevents any Britannian Knightmare Frames from operating at all and even if the jammer was taken offline, the terrain makes incoming Knightmares easy targets."

"Britannian attack choppers coming in from over the ridge!" a PMC soldier shouted.

"How many of them are there?" a Black Knight asked.

"Five VTOL Gunships and six- no, seven transport helicopters! Commandos fast-roping down!"

"Get a fire team on the roof!"

"Ivan! Ivan, over here!" Harsha shouted as Ivan came into the room where Zero and Harsha were watching a doctor attempting to patch up one of N-11's wounds. N-11, a young man with brown hair who wore a red headband in addition to the PMC uniform, grabbed Ivan's shirt and coughed from his wounds.

"We need to get N-11 to the evacuation chopper!" Zero said.

Harsha heard a low flapping sound and asked, "What is that!?"

The sound gets louder and both Harsha and Ivan turn to face the far wall. Suddenly a Britannian VTOL Gunship crashed through the wall and knocked everyone down before falling out of the room. Outside, Ivan saw seven Britannian transport copters fly in and begin to drop Britannian Special Forces as Zero asked, "Is everyone alright?"

Harsha then motioned Ivan to Zero and said, "Do whatever this man says!"

"Ivan, take position on the balcony! We need to buy the doctor some time! Keep your eyes on the courtyard." Zero said as Ivan pulled out and cocked an AK-47 that had a GP-25 under-barrel grenade launcher and Red Dot Sight. He saw a PMC soldier shoot down a transport copter with a Rocket-Propelled Grenade and then the courtyard's gate exploded as Britannian Commandos breached and both the PMC troops and Black Knights began to engage them.

"They've breached the courtyard! Take them down!" Zero shouted as he pulled out a Britannian Assault Rifle and began firing onto the enemies in the courtyard with Ivan. After about twenty commandos were killed, Zero ordered, "We need to hold them off until we can move N-11!"

After a few seconds, during which Zero and Ivan were able to kill an additional ten or eleven commandos, the Britannians popped smoke in the courtyard as a VTOL Gunship appeared and fired a burst of ventral cannon fire, killing the doctor before it was shot down by an RPG fired by a PMC soldier and crashed into the surrounding area.

"The doctor's down! Ivan, we need your help! Get over here and give N-11 the shot!" Harsha shouted. Ivan then proceeded to the table, picked up a syringe, and gave N-11 a shot of adrenaline to keep his heart beating. A Britannian commando then broke down the door and entered with the intent of capturing or killing everyone, but Zero quickly pulled a pistol out and shot the hostile in the head.

"They're on the roof! We've got to evacuate the safehouse and get N-11 to the chopper!" Zero shouted.

"I've got him!"

"Ivan, you're with me, Kallen, and Tamaki!"

In the hallway of the safehouse, three enemy commandos roped in from the roof, but then one of them pulled his pistol out and shot his comrades in the head before putting his weapons away and taking his helmet off, revealing the face of a boy with brown hair and violet eyes.

"I don't know why you decided to betray the Britannians now, but you're gonna have to go with us if you want to survive." Zero said to the boy.

"My name's Rolo Haliburton. I'll be fighting for the Black Knight now." the boy said before he put his helmet back on and pulled out his assault rifle. He then opened the door and went down the stairs before Zero and Ivan did so as well. It was then that Ivan and Rolo were introduced to Kallen and Tamaki, both of whom wore the uniform of the Black Knights and a red headband. As the five of them headed into the courtyard, the PMC soldiers and the Black Knights continued to hold back the Britannians.

Meanwhile on the Avalon, Suzaku and Schneizel were watching the situation on the ground from the bridge.

"Dammit! Rolo turned traitor on us now, of all times!" Suzaku shouted as he banged his clenched right fist on his chair as he viewed Rolo's betrayal from a dead commando's helmet camera.

"The situation is still salvageable, Knight of Seven. We just need to find that Knightmare Jammer and take it out, then we can use our Knightmare Frames and easily rout the enemy." Schneizel said with a calm look on his face.

"You think now would be a good time to deploy one of them?"

"Aye." Schneizel said before he transmiteed, "Air Battalion, deploy SR-02 'Angel' Spy Plane #024453."

"Roger that." the commander of the Air Battalion remarked as a Britannian Spy Plane took off. Meanwhile, the safehouse had been cleared and Zero, Kallen, Rolo, Tamaki, and Ivan saw civilians running away as they exited through the front gate while the rest of the PMC troops except Harsha and N-11 and Black Knights evacuated the safehouse another way.

"Hold fire! Civilians!" Zero commanded. Down the street to the left, Britannian soldiers were firing on the civilians and managed to kill some of them. The four Black Knights and Ivan began to engage and noticed a car crash onto the side of the road.

"Watch the balconies! Harsha, hang back and protect N-11! Ivan, doorway to the right!"

Ivan aimed and fired his AK-47 to the right and killed a Britannian commando as he advanced with the Black Knights. At the corner of the road, a transport copter stopped to drop more commandos, but it was shot down by evacuating PMC troops after only two disembarked and later crashed in a nearby street where no fighting was occurring.

"Machine gunner on the balcony! Coud you take him out?!" Kallen shouted.

Ivan opened fire and killed a commando operating a heavy-duty machine gun mounted on a balcony but when the position was downed, the three remaining VTOL Gunships began opening fire on the streets, prompting the Black Knights plus Ivan to take cover inside the buildings. Before the gunships could make another pass, one of them was shot down by PMC soldiers that had evacuated the safehouse and the other two had to scatter.

"The chopper's this way!" Tamaki shouted as he led the Black Knights and Ivan down an alley on the left.

"The weapons are in a building directly ahead!" Harsha transmitted as everyone came across a closed gate where a large group of Britannian commandos were firing at the four Black Knights plus PMC soldier from behind said gate.

"There's too many of them between us and the chopper! Harsha, we need that Unmanned Ground Vehicle now!" Rolo transmitted.

"You're almost there! Go through the building!"

"Ivan, this way! Kallen, Tamaki, Rolo, remain in cover!" Zero commanded as he and Ivan entered a house on the right. Back on the Avalon, Suzaku was viewing what the launched Spy Plane was seeing when it was suddenly shot down. Before the 'LOST' message appeared, the Knight of Seven saw a strange looking tower about 250 kilometers away from the enemy safehouse.

"Knight of Seven, what is that?" Schneizel asked.

"We have to assume it's the Knightmare Jammer. Unfortunately it seems that hostile Anti-Aircraft systems are protecting it. There's also something worrying that the Spy Plane saw a few seconds before it saw the jammer and was subsequently downed." Suzaku said before pushing a button and bringing up an image of a Raikou preparing to fire. However, the Raikou had a metal sphere placed on the business end of its barrel.

"What the heck is that thing on the Raikou?!"

"I don't know, but whatever it is can't be good!"

Inside the basement of a small house, Zero grabbed a crowbar and opened a large wooden crate in the middle of the room that had the number 526 on it, revealing a UGV assault drone.

"Unmanned Ground Vehicle. 2 centimeter armor plating, mounted mini-gun, and grenade launcher. Controls are going to be in Russian. Ivan, you're up." Zero said.

The ex-Russian got onto the computer controlling the UGV and turned it on. The monitor began displaying the UGV feed and it read, '[SISTEMA ZAGRUZKI]' - ('[СИСТЕМА ЗАГРУЗКИ]' - '[LOADING SYSTEM]').

"Harsha, what's N-11's condition?" Zero transmitted.

"We've got to get him out of here!" Harsha transmitted.

"Ivan, clear a path to the chopper! We'll be right behind you!" Zero shouted as he lifted up the garage door. On the Avalon, Schneizel's blood ran cold as he saw a garage door open and a vehicle with a mounted mini-gun and grenade launcher rolled out. The mini-gun began to spool up and then it opened fire, killing all of the Britannian commandos behind the closed gate.

"What the hell is that thing!?" Schneizel asked.

Suzaku did a thermal scan on the vehicle and said, "It has to be an Unmanned Ground Vehicle! Judging by its specs, it's a Russian-made unmanned weapon that can take on tanks and helicopters just as easily as it can destroy foot soldiers!"

"U- Unmanned!? Does that mean nobody's inside it!?"

"Unfortunately so."

Back with the UGV, it went down a hill and was destroying concrete pillars and barriers that Britannian commandos were taking cover behind. It turned left at the bottom and began engaging enemies on the balconies of a three-floor building. As it moved forward, a VTOL Gunship and two transport copters appeared with the intent of destroying the evacuation chopper, but the UGV shot them down quickly and resumed engaing Britannian commandos on the ridge.

"Ivan, we're moving up! Keep them pinned down!" Zero transmitted as the UGV arrived at the evacuation chopper. A large group of hostiles appeared along with the last VTOL Gunship, but the enemy copter was shot down by the UGV as it cleared the area. Zero, Kallen, Tamaki and Rolo covered Harsha as he brought N-11 to the chopper.

"We're at the chopper now! Loading N-11 in!" Zero shouted.

"He's not looking good." Harsha said.

The Avalon unleashed a missile and it disabled the UGV, knocking it over as the fuzzed camera saw the airship in the sky.

The Raikou charged up energy and then fired, launching the sphere towards the Avalon. When it was about four hundred meters above the airship, the sphere split open and revelaed a large Chaos Mine that opened up and unleashed a massive hail of shrapnel onto the Avalon. The ship's Blaze Luminous shields were raised as Suzaku saw it coming, but the raining shrapnel ultimately proved to be too much for them to handle as only a few seconds after the shields were raised, their color changed from green to yellow to orange and finally red until they were broken by the sheer amount of shrapnel being unleashed and it proceeded to inflict an extremely heavy amount of damage on the Avalon as an officer exclaimed, "Charlie Foxtrot!" Suzaku got up after the shrapnel ceased to come and shouted, "Officer, status report!"

"The Avalon has been severely damaged! Ship integrity is at thirteen percent right now!" a bridge officer reported.

Schneizel then ordered, "Everyone, we're getting the hell outta here!" as something appeared on the display.

"What the fuck!?" an officer said.

"How is that possible!?" another one asked.

"We're all gonna die!" a third panicked.

"That- that was a Chaos Mine! But how- How did the Black Knights create one so large and powerful!?" Suzaku shouted as the Avalon retreated.

Back on the ground, Ivan had made it back to the chopper and got onboard as it began to take off and escape.

"Ivan's onboard." Harsha said calmly.

"Good, we'll need him. We're abandoning this safehouse." Zero said.

"Who the fuck's Ivan?" N-11 asked.

"Huh? Th- That voice! Is it you? Naoto-Nii-Sama!?" Kallen wondered in a happy tone.

"Wh- what? Is- is that you, Kallen?"

A/N: And what do we know, N-11 turns out to be Kallen's brother Naoto. Next time, more of the Chinese Federation. Also, as for what the PMC uniform looks like, it's basically the clothes worn by the multiplayer model of a Delta Force soldier from Modern Warfare 3.