Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion/Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch: Lost Soldiers
by: Ominae
Rating: T
NOTE:
All characters of Code Geass are under the copyright of Goro Taniguchi, Sunrise, CLAMP and Bandai Entertainment. All other characters are under my jurisdiction.
Summary:
The Britannian Expeditionary Force commanded by Clovis and Ambrosia to subdue the JLF has been hampered heavily thanks to the intervention of the Lost Soldiers and the Black Knights in the Britannian military's Narita COIN op. However, another force has already made its presence known in the battlefield. How will they be able to change the course of the fighting? Will their intervention be able to bring victory to the Britannians or defeat? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
Chapter 12: Intervention
Bridge, G-1 Base, near Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"Your Highness!" The bridge officer saw Clovis and Ambrosia return inside the G-1's bridge. "The unknown party..."
"Hand it to me, Corporal." Clovis said, taking the officer's headset. Wearing it, Clovis communicated with the other party via headset microphone. "G-1 to unknown party. G-1 to unknown party, are you there? Come in please."
"Viceroy." The Cardinal came up on the radio, chuckling to Clovis. "I'm so glad that you decided to consider my offer to help..."
"I understand. Are you really serious in assisting us in Narita?"
"Of course. In fact, I'll prove to you how my associates and I can help you a bit at least in turning the tides of battle..."
"Clovis." Ambrosia whispered to Clovis after stepping inside the bridge. "Are you sure you know what you're doing?"
"I do." Clovis insisted. "Anyone who's willing to help me defeat the JLF, the Black Knights and the Lost Soldiers are enough for me..."
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"What the heck?"
Tamaki and Nagata were leading a team of 4 Burais in use by the Black Knights when the two Vincent Prototypes, in their gold and red colored accents, had touched down from the sky, landing safely thanks to the mounted air glide wing systems.
"Gold and red knightmares?" Nagata was alarmed by the presence of the unknown knightmares. "Who the hell are you?"
"Your worst..." The Cardinal's Vincent Prototype moved in towards the Black Knight squad. "nightmare."
"Look out!" One of the Black Knight Burais tried to intervene in front of Nagata and Tamaki, aiming its machine pistol. However, the Cardinal used the needle blazer mounted on its left elbow and stabbed its cockpit in one strike.
"Hey, hey, hey!!!" The Second Vincent Prototype, piloted by Michael Yoong, moved in and combined the dual MVS lances into a MVS sword. Seeing the second Burai moving in to assist his colleague, Michael twirled the sword above its head and slashed its adversary into half.
"Holy sh-t!" Nagata cursed, knowing that he and Tamaki are the only Black Knight Burais left.
"Anya..." The Cardinal contacted the third knightmare in his party, the Tristan. "Assist the Viceroy as soon as you arrive and report in to his G-1, understand?"
"Understood." The Tristan flew in its Fortress form towards the G-1, now located a bit further back from the outskirts of the Narita Mountains for its own safety.
Cockpit, Type-02 Guren Mk II
"New knightmares?"
Kallen noticed three knightmares that have arrived in Narita, moving in close to the Burais of her fellow Black Knights.
"Dammit." Kallen murmured, firing her handgun at three incoming Sutherlands. "They're attacking Tamaki and Nagata's group. Gotta help..."
"Kallen." Ougi radioed Kallen. "Did you spot the three new knightmares that arrived?"
"I did." Kallen fired her last handgun burst when she responded. "They're attacking Tamaki and Nagata's group."
"Go on and help them." Ougi told her. "I got Zero on the line about it and he told me to relay the message."
"Understood."
Kallen rushed out to assist Tamaki and Nagata, hoping that she made it in time.
Cockpit, Z-01 Lancelot
"Suzaku!"
Lloyd called to the Devicer, who poked his seat out of the Lancelot's cockpit.
"Yes, what is it?"
Lloyd grinned at Suzaku, "Guess what? We've been given the go-ahead by Viceroy Clovis."
"And what about princess Ambrosia?"
Mariel replied, "She's going to sit this out. We've got reports that Zero's responsible for destroying it."
"Zero huh?" Suzaku mused. "Okay..." He brought his back into the cockpit.
"Suzaku, are you ready?" Cécile's voice was heard on the headset placed on his right ear.
"Already on it, Cécile." Suzaku sealed the cockpit and inserted the key into the console's port, activating the knightmare's Yggdrasil Drive.
Somewhere in the streets of the Tokyo Settlement, Area 11, Britannian Empire
A gray Lincoln Town Car was cruising down the streets of the downtown area in the Tokyo Settlement in the afternoon, having medium to heavy traffic build up.
"How long to our destination?" A man in his early 50s with a mustache was wearing a gray suit and pants with a pair of eyeglasses. He was seated at the rear of the Town Car.
"I'm not sure, Mr. Lubie." replied the Town Car's chauffeur, wearing a white polo dress shirt, black pants and polished shoes. "It's quite traffic down here in downtown. We probably won't be out of this area for a few more minutes."
"I see." His mobile phone vibrated on the pocket of his coat. "I'm not in a hurry anyway. Just try to make sure we get there without getting into an accident."
"I understand, Mr. Lubie."
"Hello." The man was quick to answer the call.
"Greetings Lenard. I hope that I'm not disturbing you or anything, am I?"
Lenard was stunned when he heard who called him, but nevertheless was calm. "No, not really. I'm just...surprised. That's all."
"I see." The other caller replied. "I just called in to see if you're doing all right."
Lenard was a bit alarmed by the response. "What do you mean by that?"
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
The Eden Tengu Ninjas, counting around 8, were scouting the forest of Narita while staying hidden in the forests to avoid being dragged into the battle between the Britannians and the JLF, Black Knights, Lost Soldiers and the recently arrived Cardinal of Eden Vital.
"No luck so far." One of the ninjas searched the forests, seeing corpses of dead JLF guerrillas and Britannian marines. "All we've been seeing so far are dead bodies. Nothing more."
"Keep searching." Another ninja advised. "We can't return back to Eden Vital unless we find a suitable candidate for Master VV's cyberization program that he's been planning for some time."
"I wonder who's going to be the unlucky guy to be the guinea pig?"
"You tell me. I don't even want to know who it is."
"Right, right. Forget I asked in the first place anyway."
Cockpit, Z-01 Lancelot
"Interface complete. Receptor alignment initiating. Man-machine interface confirmed."
Suzaku exhaled his breath, getting his grip on the Lancelot's controls, hearing Mariel inform Suzaku on the progress of the knightmare's activation.
Here goes. I just hope I can make use of this situation to make things right.
"Start up phase. All green."
For Lelouch. For Nunnally. For Father.
"Z-01 Lancelot, now activated."
"Understood!" Suzaku announced. "Z-01 Lancelot, launching!"
Suzaku moved the Lancelot forward, leaving the SDGSD truck straight to the battlefield ahead.
For the restoration of Japan.
Cockpit, Dalque's GX-01 Alpha
"Sancia!" Dalque began to whine, using her Geass conduit to allow her GX-01 Alpha knightmare to battle against the Mark Nemo by hurling several uprooted tree trunks at it. It was somehow shrugging off the attack by using its blonde knives to shred them to bits. "When do we get to do something about this knightmare? All it does is to shrug off our attacks like they're nothing..."
"I was told by the Colonel that the device had a sudden malfunction problem after the trap was prepared out in the field." Sancia replied. "He said we need to hold it out for at least 1 more minute, so don't slack off there."
Dalque sighed, throwing an uprooted tree trunk at Mark Nemo as a distraction for Sancia to rush in with her katana. "Aw, this sucks!" The dark-skinned girl saw Sancia's katana clash with the Mark Nemo's, the distraction apparently worked for her CO to get in close and fight the giant knightmare. "But alright..."
Guess I can't do anything but to provide support...
Dalque decided to move in and tackle Mark Nemo. However, the Mark Nemo leaped out of the way and tripped Dalque's GX-01 Alpha instead.
Somewhere in the streets of the Tokyo Settlement, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"I do not understand what you speak of just right now."
Lenard was getting impatient with the caller on his mobile, not to mention a bit nervous for the past minutes while his Town Car had been moving bit by bit through the traffic. His sedan had once again been stopped at another 4-way intersection in the downtown area of the Tokyo Settlement by another red light.
"Come now, Lenard." The caller had laughed a bit. "I just want to reacquire your...services for the meantime, if you don't mind."
"I already told you," Lenard angrily said over the mobile. "I don't want to do it anymore. Not after designing the Lancelots and the Vincent Prototype."
"You sound certain that you don't want to help us out anymore."
"I don't want to." hissed Lenard. "I had enough of being a knightmare developer." He sighed before he continued, "I only decided to help you just to advance my expertise in creating them. But now's the time I quit for good."
"I see." The caller chuckled, making Lenard nervous. "If that has to be the case for you and me, Lenard..."
What does he mean by that?
The ex-Britannian knightmare developer noticed two Husqvarna SM610 Supermoto bikes were now in the vicinity of the sedan. Lenard noticed each one of the bikes were on both side of the vehicle.
Lenard noticed the bikers were wearing dark windbreakers. Their faces concealed by sunglasses worn with full face motorbike helmets of various makes. Now both of these bikes have arrived on both sides of the Town Car? What's going on here?
"It saddens me that we must end our relationship like this, Lenard Lubie."
"Lenard Lubie." Lenard saw one of the motorcyclists utter his name under his helmet before he raised his Ingram MAC-10 submachine gun, hidden from inside his windbreaker. It was held on his right hand with the submachine gun slinged on the right shoulder.
"My god..." Lenard was shocked to know who the gunmen are. "The Britannian Defense League..."
"All Hail the purity of Britannia!" The riders of the SM610 aimed their MAC-10s, drawn out from their windbreakers, at the Town Car while the traffic signal at the intersection was still red.
"Let's get..." Lenard tried to warn his driver to speed up the Town Car to get away from his MAC-10-armed assailants. It was, however, too late for Lenard to do something as the sedan was being riddled with lots of .45 ACP bullets.
The barrage of gunfire kept going for an unknown number of minutes until the motorbikers determined that Lenard and his driver were gunned down without any chance of being able to move. One of the helmeted BDL gunmen saw some civilians trying to approach them, making him aim the MAC-10's barrel and fire the weapon to discourage them from coming any closer and apprehend them.
"Let's move!" The leading SM610 motioned to his comrades to move out, leaving the area as the bewildered civilians flee in panic from what had just occurred.
"I-I'm sorry, Mariel..." The wounded Lenard was able to speak for a bit before he passed out from his gunshot wounds.
Cockpit, Z-01B Lancelot Club
"Hey big guy!" Marc received a transmission from Rai, all while in the midst of trying to blast Darlton and Guilford's Gloucesters down from a distance with the VARIS. "You still okay?"
"No time, Rai!" Marc gritted his teeth, taking on two of Princess Ambrosia's well-trained knightmare pilots. "Unless it's something important, it better wait..."
"It's about the fact that some of the guys and I've spotted a couple of Sutherland Electronic Warfare types out there. They're most likely the culprits trying to jam JLF communications."
The new piece of information had startled Marc, who was still using his VARIS without success as they keep dodging by moving left and right. RRRGGHH! Holstering the VARIS, Marc connected the ends of his MVS swords into a single MVS lance.
"I see." Marc held the MVS lance above the Club's head and twirled the weapon, intimidating the two men in keeping their distance away for the meantime. "But why a couple?"
"We've taken out most of the EWs at our initiative." came Rai's reply.
"Understood." Rai clashed against Guilford, using the MVS lance to block a stabbing attempt with his jousting lance. "As soon as you destroy them, contact the JLF immediately and let them know we're able to destroy them."
"Got it!"
Hmm? Marc disengaged from Guilford and rushed in to Darlton, seeing him trying to approch the direction of the Narita Mountains. His Gloucester was now armed with a cannon-type gun.
"Come now, Darlton." Dashing on the side, Marc twirled the MVS lance and hacked the cannon gun into two pieces. "I've been playing with your friend for the past few minutes and you're running away? That makes me a sad, sad man..."
"Stay back!" Darlton fired the anti-personnel machine gun at the Club, making it block the gunfire with its Blaze Luminous MSV particle shields covering its head and chest.
"Gee Darlton." Marc continued to mock his ex-CO. "And I thought that you'd be aware of the properties of the Z-01B Lancelot Club?"
"So you stole it huh?" Darlton drew out his machine pistol. "Makes this situation much more interesting."
"I know." Marc moved in before Darlton completely drew out the machine pistol, stabbing the Glocester's left shoulder before dismembering it with a quick slice from the MVS lance. "I feel the same way."
Cockpit, Type 3F Gekka Prototype
"There they are! Look!"
Rai, leading Jean and Henri, began to approach the two Sutherland EW types while Yi and Ken followed them from the rear.
"All right! They're the last EWs we've hunted down in the area!" Henri yelled, seeing the two knightmares being caught by surprise. "Let's get them!"
"Watch out!" One of the Sutherland EWs noticed the approaching Sutherlands, noticing them as hostile if they were not traveling alongside the Gekka Prototype. "It's the enemy!"
"Action!" Rai went straight to one of the Sutherland EWs with the Gekka Prototype's Fukushahado to grab one of the EWs head/Factsphere unit by surprise.
"What the..." The EW pilot suddenly didn't have time to react since his knightmare was being warped from its interior due to the presence of radiation emitting from the Fukushahado. "NOOOOO!!!!" The knightmare was subsequently destroyed in the attack.
"Eat this!" Jean and Ken teamed up to use their machine pistols on the second EW, riddling its cockpit and chest with bullets before the former fired the machine pistol's underbarrel grenade launcher.
"All right, we did it!" Rai informed his colleagues. "Inform JLF command that we've been able to get rid of the Sutherland EWs near the Narita Mountains ASAP!"
Command Center, JLF Headquarters, somewhere in Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"General Katase! Incoming transmission from the Lost Soldiers!"
Katase had been surprised to hear from the Lost Soldiers. The last transmission he had received was that they were busy having their hands full fighting the Britannian forces.
"What about it?" Katase had asked.
"Sir, the Sutherland Electronic Warfare type knightmare squad was wiped out by the Lost Soldiers." replied the command center officer. "We're now able to resume all forms of communication with our knightmare and infantry forces in the field."
The old man felt a glimmer of hope when the officer had informed him. It seems they're the ones responsible for jamming our communications from HQ to our JLF Burais in the field. Perhaps there is some slight chance to beat back the Britannian army despite the presence of three unknown knightmares. We have a chance to defeat the Britannians and have another miracle at our hands.
"Send word to any knightmare pilot in our base to be ready for any further instructions." Katase relayed the instructions.
"Understood, General." The officer promptly saluted Katase.
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"ZERO! BUDDY! You made it!"
Tamaki was ecstatic to see Zero arrive to the rescue as he and Nagata had been on the defensive fighting against the Vincent Prototypes of the Cardinal and Michael.
"Tamaki, Nagata!" Zero spoke to his Black Knight subordinates. "Get out of here!" He cracked the gloved knuckles on both of his hands. "This one's mine."
"U-understood, Zero." Nagata replied, being the first to leave the scene.
"Just don't die on me, Zero!" Tamaki yelled to Zero before he too left the scene to follow Nagata's retreat.
Yeah, whatever.
Zero was alone, facing off against the two Vincents that were towering before him.
"So this is the great Zero of the Order of the Black Knights huh?" Zero heard Micheal mock at him from his Vincent. "And here I thought that you'd be facing against me in a knightmare."
"Darlton!"
Seeing his comrade's Gloucester get damaged by Marc's Club, Guilford had a Chaos frag grenade on its left hand at the ready.
"Guilford!" Darlton was somehow able to get away from the Club and prevent itself from being damaged, using its right hand to hold its machine pistol. He was lucky that he didn't use the knightmare's left hand or he would be left with little weapons for his Gloucester to use.
"Take cover!" Marc suddenly went on the defensive, getting rid of the MVS lance by detaching the dual MVS swords. He used the Blaze Luminous MSV particle shields and covered his head and body after manipulating the Club to kneel, ensuring that his knightmare won't get damaged by the shrapnel that came out of the hurled weapon.
Cockpit, Z-01 Lancelot
Suzaku had been on the move ever since he left the SDGSD's trailer, engaging JLF and Black Knight Burais by using the dual slash harkens to incapacitate them.
I can do this!
The Lancelot Devicer saw a JLF Burai getting ready to aim its machine pistol at him. At instinct, Suzaku had the Lancelot execute a jumping spinning kick that struck the Burai on its left temple by surprise.
"What?!" Suzaku dodged the gunfire from the Burai's machine pistol when it was fired after being struck by the kick. Good! Leaving the downed Burai, Suzaku continued to move on in the battlefield in order to help around as much.
"Major Kururugi!" Suzaku heard Guilford's transmission on his radio.
"Sir Guilford!" The Devicer immediately replied. "What is it?"
"I'm assisting Major Darlton to get away from the Lost Soldiers!" Guilford told Suzaku. "I need some assistance in evacuating him at least until he can get back to the G-1."
"Understood." Suzaku had armed the Lancelot with the VARIS, taking aim at the Club. In response, the Club deactivated its Blaze Luminous MSV particle shields and also drew out its own VARIS.
"Take this!" Suzaku fired the VARIS when he went on the offensive, moving forward. He saw the Club doing the same action that he did, noticing their VARIS projectiles making contact with each other.
"They collided?" The two Lancelot-type knightmares were nearly knocked out when the projectiles exploded when they collided.
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"I think I found something!"
An Eden Tengu ninja spotted the bodies of soldiers from the Britannian Army's Purist Faction, some of them found outside the scattered wrecked cockpit modules.
"Good work." The ninja signaled to his colleagues to scout the area and make sure no enemies were in sight.
"Perfect." The senior ninja in the squad said to the others. "The Purists. They'll be quite useful in case we'll be able to find someone still alive for Master VV's cyborg program."
"So what now?" The ninja asked the senior.
"Start searching!" The instructions were then relayed. "Make sure that there's a Purist soldier who's still alive, understand?!"
"Sir!"
Cockpit, Type-02 Guren Mk II
"Two Lancelots?!"
Kallen, on her way to reinforce Zero's position, noticed the two Lancelots fighting each other. First they used their respective VARIS rifles to pick the other off from a distance. When it didn't work, they came into close quarters and chose to use their respective MVS lances instead.
There's one way to tell which one's the Britannian from the other. Kallen charged in the fight with the fork knife at the ready, already held in a reverse grip on its left hand. And that's the one without the blue-tipped horn!!!
She took the gold and white Lancelot by surprise, striking its right arm with the fork knife.
"Kallen!" She received a transmission from the Club. "Thanks for dropping by. I was getting a bit worked up here..."
"Not a problem!" The Lancelot, now on the defensive again, attacked the Guren Mk II with one of its MVS swords after deactivating its MVS lance. "I'm glad to help a fellow anti-Britannian fighter in mind."
"I know." Marc used his MVS lance to further put the Lancelot on the defensive. "But we can't stick out here for long. I heard that your Zero needs some help out there."
"ZERO?!" Kallen yelled out loud. "ZERO!!!"
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"Have some of this!"
Michael's Vincent went on the offensive first, using its handgun mounted on the knightmare's left arm to attack Zero.
"You missed a spot there." Zero went to humor his opponent when he leaped back to evade the incoming handgun fire.
"Why you?!" Michael was frustrated, seeing Zero move so fast that his handgun barrage was not even at least hitting him. "Pesky, annoying little insect..."
Zero eyed the other Vincent, standing by to watch him. This feeling's quite familiar. I can sense him, but I don't know who he is.
"Hey!" Michael yelled at Zero, striking him with a punch when he tried to leap in close to his Vincent. "Stop dawdling around and pay attention to me!"
Cockpit, Sancia's GX-01 Alpha
"Irregulars!" Sancia communicated to her Irregulars subordinates. "We've got the word from Colonel Madd! Prepare the trap!"
"Understood!" Alice and Dalque both replied in unison, attacking the Mark Nemo.
"Lead it to the trap as designated." Sancia told the girls, seeing the highlighted portion of the Narita Mountains in her console's tactical map where the trap had been laid by COSMOS personnel.
I just hope we can beat this thing once and for all.
Sancia armed her GX-01 Alpha with a rifle, taking aim at Mark Nemo while Alice engaged it with her katana.
And fire!
The Irregulars team leader fired off a shot from her rifle after targeting the Mark Nemo's head.
Bridge, G-1 Base, near Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"Your Highness." Madd reported to Clovis, studying the Narita Mountain tactical map. "My men in COSMOS has laid a special trap for the unknown knightmare out there. My subordinates will see to it."
"Alright." Clovis replied. "Report back for any progress regarding it."
"Yes, your Highness."
"Your Highness!" The bridge's communications officer reported to him. "We're getting an incoming transmission!"
"What's the source?" Ambrosia asked.
"I don't know." The officer shook his head. "For some reason, it seems to be encrypted."
"Let's make contact with her." Clovis instructed the officer.
"Greetings, your Highness." Anya's voice was heard on the main screen, which had the words "SOUND ONLY" shown. "My name is Anya Alstreim, here to assist you in your operation."
"Anya?" Ambrosia was shocked to hear the name. She then told Clovis, "I remember that she was supposedly a student of Lady Marianne in etiquette back in the mainland when she was killed by pro-republican terrorists."
Clovis replied, "You're right." But he frowned in front of his half-sister. "But what's she doing here, joining in this operation?"
"Your Highness? Is there something wrong?"
Clovis realized that Anya was waiting for a reply from him.
"No. I apologize for keeping you waiting." Clovis responsded. Darlton and Guilford entered the bridge, still wearing their Devicer suits. "Your assistance is appreciated, Anya."
"I'll be heading out now." The connection ended with Anya's Tristan seen outside the G-1, leaving towards the direction of the Narita Mountains.
"What do we do about this?" Ambrosia asked Clovis.
Clovis sighed. "How the hell should I know?"
Cockpit, Alice's GX-01 Alpha
"You're almost near the trap, Alice. Just keep pushing her there."
"Got it." Alice received Sancia's message, keeping up the offensive against the Mark Nemo with her katana clashing against her opponents while Sancia assisted her with long-range fire support to further push the Mark Nemo towards the trap.
"HHHAAAAAAHHHHH!" Alice yelled at the top of her voice, going to slice off the Mark Nemo's left arm. However, Alice was pushed back by its blonde knives.
"Here I come, Alice!" Dalque came rushing in to assist her Irregulars comrade, using the strength of her GX-01 Alpha and the Geass conduit included, throwing in several uprooted tree trunks at the Mark Nemo. Alice saw the Mark Nemo was moving backwards, step by step.
"Thanks, Dalque!" Alice had her knightmare rush in after Dalque had finished her job, performing a tackle on the Mark Nemo while it was caught off its guard.
"Sancia!" Alice made contact with Sancia after seeing the Mark Nemo in the target area. "The Mark Nemo's in the target area! Activate it!"
"Activating!" She heard Sancia reply, seeing a flash of light from the ground when it was activated. Alice saw that the trap had been camouflaged carefully that even the Mark Nemo was not aware of its existence.
Bridge, G-1 Base, near Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"And there you are, your Highness." Madd pointed out the location on the tactical map where the Mark Nemo was cornered when the trap was activated by Sancia. "The Gefjun Disturber."
"It's disabled?" Clovis observed on the main screen, via cameras from the GX-01 Alphas on the field, saw the Mark Nemo squirm in pain as it tried to escape from the Gefjun Disturber trap.
"If it was that easy," Darlton commented, seeing the circular trap used agains the aggressive knightmare. "then why didn't we deploy that thing in the first place?"
"We needed some time to study its tactics, Major Darlton." Madd defended himself. "Of course, we didn't even know of this knightmare's existence until it made its debut in the Shinjuku ghetto."
"So what's next?" Guilford asked.
"What's next?" Madd grinned. "It's simple. We take it down for good..."
Cockpit, Type-02 Guren Mk II
Kallen had been fighting the Lancelot together with the Club for an unknown period of time, using their handheld weapons on the offensive or on the defensive.
Must get the advantage to us instead of this Lancelot-type knightmare. Kallen felt she was getting tired. The Eurasian noticed her muscle movements were getting a bit slower and slower, her joints aching in the arms and hands. She, however, resolved to win the fight.
Even if it meant being killed in the name of the liberation of Japan from Britannian occupation.
Hm... She noticed the Lancelot was about to punch her Guren Mk II. "Oh no, you don't!" Using her claw arm to grab it, Kallen activated the Fukushahado immediately. The Lancelot reacted by detaching the Blazer Luminous module on its left arm, using its right arm to take hold of one of its MVS swords.
"Not a chance!" Kallen did the same thing again, grabbing it with the Fukushahado and activating it to destroy it.
The Club assisted Kallen in the fray, getting a hold of its MVS lance and stabbed the Lancelot's right Factsphere unit.
"Thanks a lot..." Kallen thanked Marc for the backup.
"Not at all." The Club twirled its MVS lance. "We have the same objective in mind after all."
"Right!" Kallen charged in and fired the handgun, forcing the Lancelot to dodge the gunfire.
"Here goes!" The Club deactivated the MVS lance once more, arming itself with the VARIS instead. Taking aim while the dodging gunfire, Marc took careful aim to ensure that he would hit the Lancelot.
Wow! Kallen was amazed, seeing the Club's VARIS hit the Lancelot's left arm and head with perfect accuracy when she distracted the Lancelot with handgun gunfire. I remember hearing from various underground anti-Britannian occupation forum boards that a select group of Britannian soldiers were enhanced to have meta-human like reflexes in their movements, especially when manipulating their knightmares.
She stared at the Club, lowering the VARIS after it did its job.
Does that mean, Marc-san's really one of those soldiers with meta-human enhancements?
The two knightmares were then strafed by machine gun fire, coming from the air.
"What is that?" Kallen saw the Tristan, in its Fortress Mode, continuously strafing them in the air.
Cockpit, Tristan
"Sir Suzaku Kururugi." Anya tried to make contact with Suzaku's damaged Lancelot.
"W-who are you?!" Suzaku was startled that someone from outside the Britannian military or from the current Imperial family would know his full name.
"There's no time for that." Anya told the startled Devicer. "I am here to assist you in battling these guerrillas."
"Oh." Suzaku understood Anya's message. "I see. Thank you, but I'm badly damaged as you can see."
"Please retreat." Anya advised him. "I have received instructions from Earl Asplund, requiring your immediate withdrawal back at once."
"All right." Suzaku began to retreat. "Thank you."
Cab, Freightliner Cascadia semi-trailer truck, en route to Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"Todo-san!" Nagisa called for Todo's attention, her left hand on the truck's microphone with her right hand on the steering wheel. "Communication with HQ is clear! I can contact them again without any electronic intereference."
"It seems the Sutherland Electronic Warfare types have been taken care of." Shogo surmised the situation. "Courtesy of the Lost Soldiers."
We'll need to thank them later. "Nagisa! Inform Ryoga and Kotetsu to get ready at once!"
"Are we going in with the Burai Kais, Todo-san?" Shogo asked Todo.
"Ah..." Todo was quick to reply. "As you can see, the fight at Narita's turning into a fight with multiple factions. You got the Britannians facing off against our comrades, the Black Knights and now, the Lost Soldiers."
"So we'll be going in while the Britannians are still distracted?" Nagisa asked.
Todo nodded. "Ah, you're right. Be sure to keep the truck going once we're all in our Burai Kais."
"Yes, sir."
Cockpit, Mark Nemo
"What is this?!"
Nemo was stunned to see that the Mark Nemo was caught in a trap.
"So this is the horrifying and stunning power of the Gefjun Disturber." Nemo murmured, seeing that she cannot manipulate her knightmare. "How could I have been so blind? Me, having the powers of the Demon King, caught in an elaborate trap such as this?!"
What do we do, Nemo? Nunnally asked, apparently feeling scared that the Mark Nemo was not moving.
"Quiet, Nunnally." Nemo retorted. "I'm thinking of a way out." But this may be bad, considering that I can't move the knightmare.
Nemo saw Alice charging, seemingly reckless, using its katana to dismember the Mark Nemo's left arm off. "WHAT?! Goddamit, move!" The attack was followed by another attack from Alice, this time taking out the Mark Nemo's head.
"This cannot be!!!!" Nemo shouted, still trying to get out of the Gefjun Disturber trap.
She noticed that machine gun fire was heard from a distance, being fired towards the trap that the Mark Nemo was on.
Cockpit, Type 3F Gekka Prototype
"Ah, our once esteemed comrades at the Irregulars." Rai mocked Sancia and the others, using the Gekka Prototype's handgun to destroy the Gefjun Disturber trap and the hidden generator camouflaged nearby. "Salutations to you all."
"The Lost Soldiers!" Dalque shouted, tossing in an uprooted tree trunk at Rai. He evaded it by shooting it to pieces with the handgun.
"Rai!" Jean made contact with Rai, engaging the GX-01 Alphas with the machine pistol. "Boss is being held up with Kallen by some flying knightmare. Said that he'll be late for the party to engage the Irregulars."
"H-hold it!" Rai engaged Sancia, clashing the Katen Yaibato against her katana. "I'm getting a frequency update from the JLF! Check this out guys..."
"Attention to all friendly forces! This is Kyoshiro Todo of the Japanese Liberation Front! We're coming in to assist you!"
Somewhere near the G-1 Base, near Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"INCOMING!"
One of the Sutherlands pointed out the incoming Freightliner Cascadia trucks that were driving straight for the G-1 without any signs of stopping.
"Fire! Fire!" The Sutherlands opened fire with their machine pistols at the trucks, blowing them up when machine pistol fire struck the vehicles.
"What the heck was that?" A Sutherland armed with a jousting lance tried to come forward to inspect the smoldering wrecks.
Instead, he met a leaping knightmare that resembled the Burais being used by the JLF and the Black Knights. Its head/Factsphere unit had two white antennae protruding from it.
"Oh god! AAAAHHAHHA!!" The lance-armed Sutherland was taken by surprise when the white antennae-looking knightmare used its seemingly revolving blade sword to slice the Sutherland into half.
"It's the enemy! Don't get them near the G-1!" Several of the Sutherlands had fired either their machine pistols or their large cannons to attack the five knightmares that had arrived.
"Everyone!" Todo yelled to his Four Holy Sword subordinates. "Let's show these Britannian the power of the Burai Kais! Capture Clovis and Ambrosia!" He once again used his Burai Kai's Seibato sword to take down another Sutherland after stabbing its cockpit. "Take revenge for what happened to our country 7 years old!"
"Understood!" Nagisa, Shogo, Kotetsu and Ryoga shouted in unison. "For the honor of the Four Holy Swords!"
"It's Kyoshiro Todo!" A machine pistol-armed Sutherland charged in to face the Burai Kais. "Get him! He's on the military's high priority list!"
"You Britannians are not really understanding the power of our Burai Kais." Shogo intercepted the knightmare. "To prove it, I'll show you the power of the Four Holy Sword's Katen Yaibato revolving blade sword."
Shogo subsequently stabbed the offending Sutherland with his Katen Yaibato, its saw tearing the cockpit before he withdrew the blade and slashed its waist.
"Charge!" Todo led Nagisa, Ryoga and Kotetsu in attacking another lance-armed Sutherland, which didn't have the time to immediately react to their presence as the three Burai Kais used their swords to slash and hack the Sutherland down.
Cockpit, Tristan
"Anya!"
Anya received a transmission from the Cardinal's Vincent in the midst of engaging the Guren Mk II and the Lancelot Club, using the Tristan's Fortress Mode to constantly harass them from the air.
"Yes?" Anya replied to the transmission.
"I've received some incoming transmissions from the Britannian army." The Cardinal informed his Eden Vital subordinate. "Todo and the Four Holy Swords have arrived in the area near the G-1."
"What are my orders?" Anya asked for instructions, still harrassing the two knightmares on the ground with the Tristan's mounted machine gun.
"Assist the Britannian force at once."
"But I am engaging knightmares from the Black Knights and..."
"Forget them! There are other things to worry about!"
"Understood."
Anya seized firing the Tristan's machine gun at the dodging Guren Mk II and Lancelot Club, flying towards the direction of the latest incursion by the Four Holy Swords while leaving her opponents alone.
Production Control Room, BRBC Building, Tokyo Settlement, Area 11
"Alright! Looking good."
Diethard directed the production crew in editing footage from filming the BRBC journalists a while ago regarding an increase of military forces stationed in Area 11.
"Thank you, Mr. Reid." One of the production crew members thanked Diethard.
"Sir!"
A BRBC employee arrived in the room, opening the door loud with a piece of paper at hand. He was in his late 20s, having brown hair and wearing a blue dress shirt, brown pants and black shoes.
"What is it?" Diethard stared at the employee angrily. "Can't you see that the production crew's busy trying to work here?"
"I..." The employee panted for breath as he had been running at the building to locate Diethard. "I'm sorry, Mr Reid. But there's some information regarding the battle at Narita."
"Hmm?" Diethard approached the employee and took the paper from him. A memo to broadcast the battle at Narita? I thought it wasn't allowed yet? "From what I heard a while ago, we're not suppose to broadcast anything about it due to operational security reasons as instructed from the Viceroy's Office and the army."
"The higher ups wish to make this a top priority." The employee replied.
"When? The BRBC hasn't received any kind of clearance from the army or from the Viceroy's Office to officially broadcast the battle aside from martial law being upheld in certain parts of Area 11."
"We were suppose to go ahead with it," The employee said, scratching the rear of his head. "but we haven't received word yet if it's okay to broadcast for the BRBC World Headlines."
Diethard sighed. "I understand." He handed the memo back to the employee. "Tell the top brass that I'll prepare the crew to have the battle broadcasted if and when the army or the Viceroy's Office supplies anything we can use for the BRBC World Headlines hour later."
"Got it, Mr. Reid."
Cockpit, Type-02 Guren Mk II
"So what now?"
Kallen saw the Tristan fly away from them, still in its Fortress Mode.
"Let's go and see Zero then." Marc suggested, starting to move the Club near a section of the forest. "Got word that there's another faction that arrived."
"And what about this faction?" The Guren was now traveling alongside the Club, fork knife at the ready.
"Let's just say..." Marc armed the Club with the VARIS, porting it with its arms. "that they're not on out side."
Cockpit, Alice's GX-01 Alpha
"Alice! We need to retreat! Colonel Madd's ordering us to back up the G-1 against the Four Holy Swords."
Alice didn't pay attention to the transmission that she received from Sancia, who had given the order to quickly retreat back to the G-1 and assist the main Britannian force in tackling Todo's Four Holy Swords.
"I've got other things to worry about right now, Sancia." Alice, katana in hand, moved her GX-01 Alpha in towards the semi-disabled knightmare. "Like this knightmare for instance."
"Alice!" Sancia shouted to Alice. "You're disobeying a direct order..."
Yi used her Sutherland's machine pistol to harass Sancia, hitting a patch of ground near her GX-01 Alpha.
"Sancia!" Alice noted Dalque rushed in to try and assist her with her personal GX-01 Alpha. Jean and Ken fired the machine pistols of their own Sutherlands to harass her.
"Take this!" Alice executed a slash to the Mark Nemo. In response, the Mark Nemo leaped back and used the blonde knives to disarm her of the weapon and aggressively attack her knightmare.
"Why you!" The Irregulars operative snarled at her enemy when the blonde knives further attacked her knightmare, dismembering her GX-01's arms and head.
"Let me help!" Rai moved in to intervene, surprising Alice when the Gekka Prototype's claw arm grabbed the GX-01 at the right arm.
"Alice!" Alice saw Sancia and Dalque still trying to move in, despite being pinned by machine pistol fire with grenade fire being included in the mix.
"Oh no!" The console began to blare out, warning Alice that she needs to evacuate from her GX-01. "Dammit, radiation's already starting to wreck havoc on my knightmare!"
Without having any control but to leave before she would be killed by the incoming radiation, Alice quickly opened the cockpit's rear hatch to allow her to escape by jumping off her seat.
"Errgghh!" Alice had barely landed safely on the ground when the Gekka Prototype backed off, the explosion caused by the radiation surge blowing up her GX-01 in a ball of fire.
Command Center, JLF Headquarters, somewhere in Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"General!" The communications officer studied the main screen before he called for Katase's attention. "Todo and the Four Holy Swords have already made contact with us!"
"Good work." Katase was somehow happy that Todo was diverting the Britannian's attention to their rear. "How is he doing?"
"So far he's been able to distract half of the Britannian forces, including the Marines towards them."
Katase nodded. Looks like this is our chance to push them back away from our Narita HQ once and for all. "Order all of our Burai forces standing by to get ready for deployment! And tell our forces to immediately regroup and join forces with the Black Knights and the Lost Soldiers for a final assault."
"Yes, General." The officer saluted Katase before going back to his work station to make an annoucement to the JLF Burai pilots standing by at the base's underground knightmare hangar.
Somewhere in the forests of Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"Is this who I think it is?"
The Eden Tengu Ninjas spotted the downed body of Jeremiah Gottwald, known leader of the Britannian Army's Purist faction, wearing his well-known purple Devicer suit. He was found lying on the ground, face flat.
"I don't believe it." One of the ninjas murmured to his fellow ninja. "Either I'm sleeping too much or that has to be Jeremiah Gottwald himself."
"How is he?" The senior ninja asked, looking around to see if anyone was watching them.
Another ninja kneeled down next to Jeremiah, using his gloved left index and middle fingers to observe for some signs of a pulse on his neck. "He seems to be alive, although unconscious."
"Must be due to his Sutherland Purist being slashed up and all." A ninja pointed to the others the wreckages of the Sutherland Purists, now in several pieces including dismembered arms, legs, heads and wrecked cockpit modules.
"So we have a candidate for the program?" The ninja checked the pulse on Jeremiah's left arm just to be sure.
The senior of the ninjas nodded. "Yes we do now. All the other Purist Devicers are killed after they were attacked by some unknown." He pointed out the unconscious Jeremiah to the other ninjas. "We're just barely lucky today that we may have a suitable candidate for Eden Vital for all we know."
"So what do we do now?" A ninja sheepishly raised his hand like a elementary/middle/high school student would do to acknowledge themselves to the teacher.
"Better contact HQ." The senior ninja replied. "We need to let them know, including the Master, that we have a candidate ready for him."
Cockpit, Z-01B Lancelot Club
"It seems that you're in need of some dire help, Zero."
The Club and Guren Mk II arrived in time to see Zero take on the two Vincents all by himself. He had been dodging their handguns and MVS lances, even though his Zero suit would be able to withstand bullets and all known handheld weapons from both humans and knightmares.
"Shut it!" Zero dodged to his right, avoiding being stabbed by the Cardinal's MVS lance. "Q-1! I need your help here!"
"Will do, Zero." Before Kallen could move in to figure out which Vincent to taken on, she found herself being tackled by the Cardinal's Vincent.
"You must be the Ace of the Elevens." The Cardinal mocked her, using his MVS lance to attack the Guren when Kallen countered it by using the fork knife to block it. "It's a pleasure and a honor to meet you in person."
This person. Kallen felt a bit confused. He has the same voice as Lelouch. Is he tricking me and the Black Knights? The Guren's fork knife pushed the Cardinal's Vincent temporarily back. Or is there something that Zero, no Lelouch, knows only?
"Get the f-ck away from me!" Kallen shouted, firing her handgun at the Cardinal's Vincent when he flew above her thanks to the air glide wing system. "Stop moving around and stay still!"
Zero, for his part, had black whips emerge from his body to attack the same target. The Vincent countered them by firing its handgun at them, taking them out of battle.
"Eat this!" Marc fired the VARIS at Michael's Vincent while Zero began to rush towards Kallen's Guren to assist her.
"Well..." Michael chuckled, dodging the VARIS shot before he fired his handgun at him. "I never expected the once ace of COSMOS to be here fighting against the power after being absent for so long..."
"Michael Yoong?" Marc was startled to hear a familiar voice. "I thought you were taken out of action back in the Second Pacific War!" The ex-Eurasian child soldier kept the pace, firing his VARIS at Micheal's flying Vincent.
"I didn't die out there, good sir!" Having landing the Vincent, Michael got his MVS lance ready and began to fight the Club. "Instead, I got my position in the Irregulars as a request from Colonel Madd after being treated thanks to the scar you gave me!"
"Damn you!" Marc gritted his teeth, dodging the attacks of the Vincent's MVS lance with one near strike blocked off with the Blazer Luminous particle shield mounted on its left arm to block the stabbing attempt at its chest. "I should have stabbed you in the heart instead of leaving you to die by bleeding to death back in the war."
"My dear, dear leader." Michael mocked the ex-COSMOS soldier while continuing to strike the Blazer Luminous shield that protected its chest and head. "You can't escape from it. The past," He struck the MVS lance at the head once again, only to be blocked by the shield. "the history," Michael went for the arm, which was blocked by the shield again. "and our purpose in the Britannian Army."
"Bastard!" The Club went on the offensive against Michael's Vincent, clashing their MVS lance blades against one another with one hit connecting the next as if they were reading each other's mind to figure out where their opponent would try to strike next. "You're going down!"
Bridge, G-1 Base, near Narita Mountains, Narita, Area 11, Britannian Empire
"I don't believe it."
Clovis had seen the battle's outcome for himself; the appearance of Todo's Four Holy Swords at their rear has taken him and the rest of the officers abroad the G-1 by total and sheer surprise.
He's doing shock and awe now. Clovis studied the bridge's tactical map, seeing their numbers beginning to decrease thanks to Todo's use of hit and run tactics against the Sutherlands as one of the many tactics that can be used in guerrilla warfare. It seems I've underestimated Todo and the rest of the JLF.
"This can't be." Bartley studied the map for himself. "Todo and the Four Holy Swords are attacking our rear with an unknown number of knightmares from the JLF and the Black Knights taking on our scattered forces at the front." Ambrosia had left the bridge to attend to the repairs of her personal Gloucester while Darlton and Guilford had left to fight against the Four Holy Swords, the former already having his Gloucester repaired to operational conditions.
"If this keeps up," Madd surmised their situation. "we may be forced to retreat even with my subordinates dispatched to assist Princess Ambrosia's officers in quelling this new problem."
"I agree with Colonel Madd's assessment, your Highness." Bartley said to Clovis, feeling sweat trickle down his bald head. "This battle has too many unknown factors for us to make this fight into our advantage!"
"Calm yourself!" Clovis shouted at Bartley. "It won't be good if you start panicking right now."
"Y-you're right, your Highness." Bartley got a handkerchief from the left pocket of his pants, wiping the sweat on his forehead.
"Your Highness!" A communications officer ran up to Clovis and the officers, saluting them. "I have some urgent news!"
"What is it?" Clovis asked the officer. Unless if it's important, it's in my best interest to tell him to go away...
"We're receiving some transmissions from our Sutherlands out in the field." The officer told Clovis.
"And what about these transmissions?" Madd himself asked the officer.
"Well, Colonel. They were saying..." The officer was about to stutter when Bartley banged the tactical map with his clenched left hand.
"OUT WITH IT ALREADY!"
"Well," The officer cleared his throat. "It's the JLF, sir."
Clovis, Madd and Bartley were startled.
"They have a massive force assembled in the front with help from the Black Knights and Lost Soldiers. And they're coming straight here. They're already starting to overwhelm some of our positions out front; I've got reports of casualties filing in."
Clovis now felt the need to barf after hearing the news from the communications officer.
The JLF has a massive force coming straight for us with help from the Black Knights and the Lost Soldiers? We're doomed. Our forces are scattered so far apart, I don't think we can launch a counterattack...
Chapter 12 END
PS - Hope this chapter was great, especially with some of the divergences that I'm starting to place in here. I'm also placing in some references in part from the Metal Gear series, one of my favorite video games ever played. (Though I've yet to play the 1st Metal Gear released in the MSX console). For instance, a reference to the Metal Gear Solid 2 game is already present in the previous chapter. MGS2 players would probably know who they are. Come on, this part's easy... ;)
Well right now, my back's getting better. However, I do feel some pain when I lie in my bed to go to sleep. I just hope that it's a phase thing that my back recovered after a week or so. If not, then a doctor's appointment would be in order.
Things should get really interesting now. Thing is, I'm trying to figure if I should integrate R2 events or not. If I won't do it, I probably will put references in it I guess. I'll figure it out later on.
Anyhow, I've received the results of the test for my Canadian citizenship. I've been told that I passed and I'll be swearing in to be a Canadian national pretty soon. So another update or so for Lost Soldiers and Files of the 4th Division would probably be delayed (if one or the other is not finished in terms of being updated/published here in ) for a while after I get rid of the time needed to spend for the oath taking and the processing for a Canadian passport. So yeah, another phase in life's now complete while I'm in my 2nd year of university here in Vancouver. Before that happens, I'll try to update as much as I can. No guarantees though. I hope you don't mind reviewing "FO4D" when you're doing reading this chapter, yeah? Those Tokusen 4 are so likeable; too bad they were made cannon fodder. : (
For now, let me know how I did. Reviews/suggestions/comments/reactions would be great. Flames too to help me make sure I don't mess anything up. Personal flames are a big no no here; they'll be heading somewhere else instead.
I feel like working on another fic like Sekirei and Until Death Do Us Part. But my rule is to do only 2 fics at a time. Adding one or two more may cause me to devote equal times to each one of them unless I can multitask them more effectively.