'Baka.'- thoughts
Office of Secret Intelligence Area Eleven branch headquarters, lobby, Hiroshima, May, 2018.
Suzaku peeked his head out of a ventilation duct and used his infrared goggles to see the laser sensors that were monitoring the floor. Seeing as how he would not be able to traverse the floor safely, the Knight of Seven clung to the wall, aware that there were pressure sensors hidden inside them at specific points as he made his way to the elevator. Once he reached it, Suzaku then pushed the button and heard the elevator door open before he felt his body move on its own into the elevator in such a way that no sensors were set off. He then pushed the button for the B5, the lowest level that the elevator could access and the door closed before the elevator began its descent. Once it stopped, Suzaku immediately got onto the elevator's ceiling before the door opened as he saw a Britannian Sentry Gun unleash a hail of bullets into where the Knight had once been.
Staying on the ceiling as he advanced to the door that was behind the Sentry Gun, Suzaku noticed that the weapon didn't notice him at all, even when the Honorary Britannian sneezed out loud and he was certain that an alarm would have AT LEAST been set off. Yet, an alarm didn't sound when he had sneezed. Suzaku thought that something bad was going to happen to him later because of all the luck he has so far as he went through the door and down a flight of stairs into an ordinary-looking hallway that, upon inspecting with the infrared goggles, was being monitored by motion detectors on the floor AND ceiling. It was thanks to a special body suit that he was wearing right now that Suzaku had been able to even breach this far into the OSI headquarters in Area Eleven.
Clinging onto the walls, Suzaku went down the hallway and reached the door on the other end. Once he went through it, he looked to the right through bullet-proof glass to see a VERY LONG flight of stairs that went down at least ten floors and ahead he saw a door on the right side of the wall. Rushing to the door, he went through only to trip a set of laser sensors that immediately sounded an alarm.
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Three Spec-Ops soldiers armed with Assault Rifles suddenly appeared from the doorway that led to the hall that was covered by motion sensors on both the floor and ceiling and began running towards Suzaku. Naturally, Suzaku assumed that these guys were the type to shoot first and ask questions later. He then noticed that the laser sensors that he had set off couldn't be bypassed at all. Since Suzaku knew that these men were hostile, he did the only thing that was sensible to do in this situation:
Run the fuck away.
He went down the stairs and tossed a flash-bang behind him. Since he was running away, he wouldn't suffer the full effects while his pursuers would be knocked out, only for another three Spec-Ops troops to replace them. Suzaku had to repeat this ten times as he went down the stairs before finding a door at the bottom that led into a hallway that had a four-way intersection. Suzaku left another flash-bang ready as he ran to the right. He found a door and then went inside to find a room full of dead bodies, many of which were just around Suzaku's size, but there were also several that were larger or smaller. Suzaku hid in the corpses and when the Spec-Ops soldiers came in, they began checking the bodies for any sign of Suzaku.
They almost gave up, but then Suzaku sneezed and ran out of the room before the Spec-Ops could react. Heading straight ahead, which meant that from the perspective of coming from the flight of stairs he was going to the left, he found another door and went in, only to find a long straight hallway with nothing decorating it. Running down the length of the hallway, Suzaku went through a door and found himself in a large room with lockers that could fit a grown man inside. Suzaku hid inside one of them and once he did, the Spec-Ops soldiers were searching for the Honorary Britannian again. The Spec-Ops found him this time without a sneeze giving his position away but before they could kill him, Suzaku had a flash-bang ready and knocked out his three pursuers again, if only for a short moment.
Running back to the hallway with the four-way intersection, Suzaku knew that he had not gone down one last path. Retracing his steps, he found the long flight of stairs to his right and upon opening the door found another set of laser sensors that could not be bypassed at all. Suzaku turned his back on that door and went straight. The door led into a hallway that had a T-intersection and the Honorary Britannian went to the left and found himself in another large room full of dead bodies after going through a door. This time when the Spec-Ops soldiers checked the bodies, they never found Suzaku and gave up. As they left, Suzaku knew that the state of alert had been lifted for the time being and exited the room.
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Back at the T-intersection, Suzaku went to the right and found himself in a high-tech area that would look like Lloyd's laboratory had been increased in size six times over.
'So this is the true face of the Office of Secret Intelligence.' Suzaku thought to himself as he mentally went over his objectives. They were simple:
Objective 1: Infiltrate the Area Eleven OSI Headquarters in Hiroshima (completed)
Objective 2: Find Clara Frank and steal her card key.
Objective 3: Break into the Data Hive and obtain the confidential Intelligence.
Objective 4: Set the bomb and escape to make it look like the Chinese Federation were responsible.
Suzaku set off aimlessly through the large room, thankful that there were no guards, security cameras, or sensors inside. Meanwhile, Anya Alstreim and Gino Weinberg were on their way to Area Eleven, aware that they were being deployed there because of the recent actions of the Black Knights. Gino in particular was thinking about why only he and Anya were being deployed there when Suzaku was already in the area. It was five minutes until they arrived and both the Mordred and Tristan had been stowed correctly before they had left Pendragon, so the Knight of Three and the Knight of Six wouldn't be immediately sent into combat. They were both shaken out of their thoughts once the plane landed.
At the military Aerodrome in the Britannian Tokyo Settlement, they strode off the plane and were greeted by Cornelia and Schneizel before being escorted into an armored limousine and taken to the garage of the Area Eleven Administration Building. From there Cornelia requested for them to follow her into her office and once there they both took a seat before the Second Princess sat in a chair behind the desk of the Viceroy.
"Alright then, you two are Gino Weinberg and Anya Alstreim, correct?" Cornelia asked.
"You got it!" Gino said enthusiastically while Anya gave a simple, "Yes, ma'am."
"Welcome to Area Eleven then. You probably know who I am, but just to make sure, I am Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia, General-in-Chief of the army and Viceroy of Area Eleven."
"So I take it that Fourth Princess Nunnally vi Britannia has been replaced by you because of something that happened?" Anya asked.
"You are correct, Anya. However, to be more precise on the situation, I replaced Nunnally as Viceroy because she has been kidnapped by the Black Knights. Even though Alice was with her, they had managed to infiltrate the building and took off with both of them in Russian BTR-80 Armored Personnel Carriers. This information hasn't been released out to the public yet, but I'm sure that many people, mostly the nobility, military, and Imperial Family, are going to be furious about this since it's thrown all of Area Eleven into disarray. Gino, from what I know, you probably intend to enroll into Ashford Academy, do you not?"
"Yes, ma'am. How did you find out?" the Knight of Three asked.
"That is something that I would like to know as well." the Knight of Six said while adjusting her cloak.
"The President of the school's Student Council, Milly Ashford, has been confirmed kidnapped along with fellow Student Council members Shirley Fenette and Sophie Wood. Secure them if reasonably possible, but your top priority is rescuing Fourth Princess Nunnally vi Britannia and her personal Knight, Alice." Cornelia stated.
Anya nodded in agreement while doing something with her phone while Gino said, "Please excuse Anya for using her phone to update her blog right now, Princess Cornelia. Miss Anya doesn't trust her memories and as such maintains a blog whenever anything happens. That being said, don't be surprised to see her doing something completely random and then recording it in her blog afterward. Trust me, she's seen me naked before."
Cornelia noticed that Gino blushed heavily when she heard him say that the Knight of Six had seen him naked in the past and said while blushing heavily, "Well hopefully that doesn't happen to me because I would be absolutely embarrassed if Anya snapped a photo of my private parts and put it on her blog."
"I honestly don't even know what's up with her. One time, she parked a Knightmare inside the barracks I was living in and ended up having to transfer to another one. The worst part of it all was that Anya followed me to my new barracks, so I've never been sleeping in one location for more than a week at most."
Back at the Area Eleven OSI headquarters, Suzaku had just cornered Clara Frank and knocked her out with a single kick to the stomach before shaking her down and stealing her card key. He then turned around and ran up to a corner and peeked around to see the entrance to the Data Hive, the nerve center of the OSI headquarters in Area Eleven. Suzaku knew that each area within the Britannian Empire had a local Headquarters for the Office of Secret Intelligence to operate out of and that each headquarters shared information with each other regarding certain weapons and drug traffickers who were notorious for evading capture, notorious terrorist organizations such as the Black Knights, and the Purist Party's embezzlement of funding for the personal gain of its members. Getting to the Data Hive's entrance took ten minutes, and Suzaku often had to distract guards before knocking them out as well as avoid trap doors and gun cameras, surveillance cameras that were set to kill intruders on sight using a mounted machine gun instead of raising the alarm. At the entrance of the Data Hive, Suzaku noticed a wall panel and swiped the card key through it and the security door opened, granting him access.
He then ran into the open entrance-way of the Data Hive, ready to find out what the OSI were trying to keep from the world at large.
On the next chapter: Suzaku learns of the terrible secrets kept by the OSI and hightails it out of their local HQ in Hiroshima while the Black Knights hightail it out of Tokyo, very aware that a hornet's nest has been stirred up due to them kidnapping Nunnally, but also unaware that they are now in the cross-hairs of the Glinda Knights.