Code Geass: The Demon and the Dragon
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass. If I did, then what you see below would be the show, instead of a fanfiction on the Internet.
Stage 10: The Saitama Slaughter
-The Dragon-
"Ugh...." Learme moaned as his alarm rang loud in his ear, forcing him awake. Two days after showing C.C around the subterranean facility, he'd been spending most of his nights working on the Io, the Sakanade Prototype and the Akuma, all in preparation for the Saitama operation. Some officials Learme had bribed as Draco said that Cornelia was planning a trap for Zero at Saitama, and further investigation had determined units, starting time, and other rather important tidbits.
The part that interested Learme most concerned the special units, the 1st Area 11 Mabinogi Team and the A.S.E.E.C. The former: an Arawn and three Hafgans. The latter: The Lancelot and the Bors.
He couldn't wait to try out the Prototype Sakanade on them.
-The Orange-
The Bors shuddered under the recoil of the massive cannon, sending a 150mm High Explosive shell into the air, accelerated to velocities beyond that of most modern artillery cannons by the Magnetic Pulse Artillery Cannon. The round descended toward the main battlefield, a small plain swarming with those Burai things that the Eleven terrorists used sometimes. The shell fell quickly, its aerodynamic shape turning the tip towards the battlefield before it impacted.
Right on the Lancelot's right shoulder, the shell's tip deforming as it penetrated the armor before exploding, creating a massive shockwave that blasted the Lancelot apart, igniting the Yggdrasil Drive's Liquid Sakuradite reserves and causing a further explosion that spattered the surviving Burai surrounding the crater once called the Lancelot with burning lubricants and some of the less reactive Sakuradite.
The screens turned blank for Jeremiah as the cockpit opened and the seat extended from the Bors, allowing the former Margrave to climb onto the catwalk behind the Knightmare. He was immediately met by Lloyd, who was standing right behind the Bors.
"Hmm, over-corrected again Lieutenant?"
"My apologies." Jeremiah replied, bowing in apology to Lloyd and Suzaku, who had climbed out of the Lancelot. "I'm not used to such an accurate cannon. The targeting system is, quite frankly, amazing...."
"Yes, well its good we're running these simulations." Lloyd remarked, turning back to the Bors. "After all, it wouldn't do for an M-PAC round to land on one of Her Highness' Gloucester teams, now would it?"
"Lieutenant Gottwald and Warrant Officer Kururugi, please report to the G-1. Again, Lieutenant Gottwald and-"
"Her Highness calls us Kururugi, let's go." Jeremiah called, as Suzaku hurried to follow after the departing Orange.
Later, In the G-1
Jeremiah and Suzaku stood at rapt attention before the startling array of high-ranking officers, mainly some of Cornelia's personal troops, but also a number of Mabinogion Officers and local officers. At the moment, Cornelia was re-briefing them on the details of the operation.
"When we have completely surrounded and cordoned off the ghetto, my soldiers and your Knightmare team, Major Picton, will begin rooting out the terrorists. If all goes as planned, Zero will appear, and we will have him in our grasp." She finished, before glancing as Suzaku. "Warrant Officer Kururugi, your services will not be needed during this operation." Suzaku made to complain, but caught himself and clammed back up. "According to Clovis' former officers' reports, you were disabled in the Lancelot by a Sutherland during the Shinjuku battle. Considering that the entire point of the operation is to create a situation similar to Shinjuku, I feel it would be best to minimize the risk of losing one of our 7th-Generation Frames." Suzaku nodded in understanding. "Lieutenant Gottwald, you will take up position in the Bors next to the G-1 in order to provide long-range artillery support for our forces in the field."
"Yes, Your Highness." Jeremiah said firmly.
-The Demon and the Dragon-
The twins moved out immediately upon seeing the news video. They cleared the elevator in a flash and headed straight for their armor lockers, climbing into the powered suits and arming themselves before opening up the special Knightmare hanger. They strode quickly to their respective Frames, Learme leaping straight into the Prototype Sakanade's cockpit while Lelouch mounted the cockpit cable of his Akuma.
Despite himself, Learme couldn't help but chortle to himself at the thought of what the Sakanade's weapons were going to do to Cornelia's Gloucesters. The Prototype had been fully outfitted, with some new weapons attached to its forearms and a very special rifle developed from one of the Io's experimental weapons attached to one of the cockpit mounts. The standard machine pistol was holstered on the left hip, along with two spare magazines.
Lelouch moved the Akuma quickly, heading towards the subway entrances. As with the Sakanade, the Akuma was developed from the Sutherland frames, albeit for entirely different reasons. Instead of serving as a counter-Gloucester unit, the Akuma is a command-and-control Knightmare, the first of its kind. It was far heavier than most modern Knightmares, the specialized Io-derived Generation 4 Chobham plates covering it giving the Knightmare an impressive degree of survivability. The main body of the Akuma was similar like that of a Samurai's armor, minus skirt armor to allow the Frame a greater degree of mobility. Following the Burai and the Sakanade, the Akuma's face was derived from a mask of the face of the mythological beast the Akuma was named after, a red fanged mask resembling a devil. The only weapons the Akuma had were Slash Harkens, a Battle Rifle, a 15mm torso machine gun, and a Knightmare Naginata. The overall idea was to keep the Akuma, and by extension, Lelouch, away from the enemy. In the case that he couldn't, the Chobham armor was supplemented by a Hardened Beryllium Carbon oxide composite and Nickel-Alumina oxide Aerogel Shield.
"You have everything planned?" Learme queried, shouldering the Sakanade past the Akuma as he took the lead.
"Of course." Lelouch answered, slightly miffed. "I have all contingencies planned for. And even for ones I weren't able to predict, the Sakanade should be able to compensate for them. You installed the IFF unit?"
"Yep."
"Good."
The two made good time, the new Landspinners Learme developed increasing speed by a significant degree over that of standard Knightmares'. Within an hour of seeing the news report, they were in the Saitama Ghetto's tunnel network, working their way into the center to avoid popping up in the middle of a Britannian patrol. As soon as they came within 2km of the central point, Learme punched the Sakanade's fist through the ceiling before backing off. The section fell down hard, hundreds of kilograms of dirt, concrete, and cement caving inwards, leaving a hole big enough for a Knightmare, as well as leaving an 'unpaved road' up.
The road of rubble would have been a challenge for any Knightmare to ascend, excepting the Bors, but the Armored Adhesive Landspinners of the Sakanade and the Akuma propelled them up easily, straight into a building.
Currently occupied by the JLF-allied resistance known as the Yamato Alliance.
"Well, that was easier than expected." Learme commented dryly. Without a word, Lelouch opened the Akuma's hatch and stepped out, onto the top of the cockpit.
"Members of the Yamato Alliance." His voice boomed, echoing throughout the re-purposed warehouse. "I have come to offer my aid." Mutters arose at that, hopeful and somewhat suspicious at the same time. Then one of them stepped forward, one who looked more Britannian than Japanese.
"How do we know we can trust you?" The apparent leader had an old anti-tank rocket launcher slung across his back, and was cradling an assault rifle in his arms.
"And you are?" Was Lelouch's query, the blank-faced mask turning to look at him.
"Kiryu Sakumo."
"Well, Sakumo-san, here is your answer." A loud thud was heard outside, and a few rebels ran outside to see what was going on, when their jaws dropped at the sight of the freight container, slightly crumpled and with the Sutherland cargo gleaming in the slight sunlight from the remotely-opened doors.
"Holy Shit! There's at least ten Sutherlands in that container!" Following this was two more earth-shaking thuds, the new container's doors opening to show five more Sutherlands each, along with enough weapons to arm all of the Knightmares.
-The Orange-
"Milady, there is a large VTOL aircraft in the airspace." Jeremiah overheard one of the techs on the G-1 inform Cornelia, even as the Bors' sensors pinpointed the target. "It's dropped three objects to the ground near the center of the ghetto.
"That must be Zero. Mabinogi Team, launch and track down those objects, and eliminate Zero and Draco if you find them!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" Was the chorused reply, the Arawn and three Hafgan Knightmares accelerating out of the G-1's catapults to speed into the thick of the concrete mess of the ghetto.
"Your highness, we've lost Jordan's unit, and Dirk's as well."
"Hmph. So, he's truly shown himself now." Cornelia mused. "Recall the standard forces. Let the Mabinogi flush him out. Lieutenant Gottwald, begin artillery barrage on the ghetto. Use scatter ammunition for maximum effect."
"Yes, Your Highness." Jeremiah replied, starting up the sequence. The M-PAC mounted on the right side of the cockpit rotated into position over the Bors' shoulder. The targeting system activated, collecting data from Factsphere feeds and radar scans, along with scout drone footage to construct a 3-dimensional replica of the ghetto. Jeremiah simply selected a target area and ordnance, then fired. It proceeded much like the simulation, with the slight shudder as the cannon discharged. The shell arced over into the center of the ghetto, before splitting in mid-air. the sub-munitions previously held in the shell flew outward, spreading out until impact with the ground caused them to explode, making the ground shudder even from so far away.
-The Demon-
"Stay calm, it's just a barrage intended to drive us out." Lelouch barked, as the Sutherlands showed signs of hesitancy. In fact, the only Knightmares that hadn't started to reverse was the one piloted by Kiryu, and two others, one piloted by a chinese man, the other by a short, loli-like girl, Qilin Sheng-Ha and Ouka Shinobu, so Lelouch had been told. Kiryu's frame carried a large cannon, and had a short improvised blade sheathed at the waist, while Qilin's was carrying a re-purposed battleship CIWS turret. Ouka's frame, however, was very lightly armed, only an assault carbine and a knightmare knife.
"R-1, R-2, and B-1, proceed to the next intersection and make ready for a patrol of five Sutherlands heading towards the outskirts."
"The outskirts? Are they retreating?" Asked Qilin.
"Indeed. It would appear Cornelia wishes to use the Mabinogi Team she requisitioned to 'beat the bush', so to speak."
"Mabinogi team?" Ouka, a slightly excited tone in her voice.
"Knight One is proceeding to deal with them." Lelouch replied, turning his attention to the section where Learme was to begin. As planned, the IFF signal appeared on the radar, broadcasting the signal of one of the Sutherlands Learme had trashed only a few minutes ago.
The three terrorist-piloted Sutherlands arrived at the ambush point, with the heavier-armed ones settling in while Ouka's lightly-armed Sutherland anchored a Harken on the side of a building and leaped up, going up and over the roof. It wasn't long before the Britannian Sutherlands arrived, skidding to a halt as they ran into the entrenched Yamato Alliance members.
The short battle started with Ouka's Sutherland leaping down from the buildings on the right of the Brit Sutherlands, Slash Harken already lunging out to hook into the roof of the buildings on the other side of the road. In the few seconds she was on the ground, she managed to eliminate one Sutherland with a quick knife jab to the center-back of the cockpit, presumably impaling the pilot through the torso, and shot out the legs of another before leaping back up to the rooftops.
It ended when Qilin opened fire, the 30mm gatling gun starting to rip around the Sutherlands' armor and tearing off limbs, with a few cannon rounds from Kiryu serving to finish it once and for all.
Hmm. Good teamwork. I'll have to have Learme look into them..... Lelouch thought, filing the notion away. The other Yamato Alliance members were performing similarly all around the Ghetto, just not as efficient or fast.
-The Brits-
"Milady, Dirk's unit has reappeared." Came the somewhat confused report.
"Where?"
"Near an old skyscraper, along the line of retreat from his last known position to here."
"Scramble a rescue team." One of the local officers barked.
"No. Bring up Major Picton." There was a small buzz before the line connected.
"Yes, Your Highness?" Came the lazy question. As a result of Jeremiah's own continuous connection to the G-1, he was privy to the communications link, causing the good Major to show up on his own screens. The Major looked slightly younger than his thirty-four years of age, and had an air of ease. He was one who you could loosen up around. His facial features were lean, not sharp or fatty, just lean, as though he ate sparingly. His eyes were a unique shade of blue, so dark it seemed almost black with flecks of green, and his blond hair was in a state of disarray, almost like he'd just gotten out of bed, but somehow stylish.
"Major Picton, there is an IFF signal from one of my Sutherlands in your vicinity. I would like you to go eliminate it."
"Oh? I thought you'd ask me to rescue him or something."
"If it is one of my troops, then I have no use for someone who can't obey orders. Eliminate it. The Bors will fire an artillery barrage prior to your arrival."
-The Celts-
"Damn. Her Highness is one cold royal." James observed.
"Yep." First Lieutenant Barry Thompson agreed. The other two Hafgan pilots, Sergeant-Majors Jean Feris and Horace Yabes just nodded, too concentrated on their surroundings to involve themselves more.
The Hafgan is, like the Arawn, an advanced Knightmare Frame, and had the distinction of being the very first Sixth-Generation Frame ever devised. Unlike the Arawn, however, the Hafgan's role is that of modern rapid assault, utilizing various upgraded versions of standard Sutherland weapons in order to achieve this.
In the case of the First Area 11 Mabinogion Team, Lieutenant Thompson's Hafgan was equipped with a 35mm Assault Rifle, four Chaos Grenades in hip containers, with four magazines of spare ammunition set in the thigh containers. Both Sergeant-Majors' Hafgans were carrying 45mm Machine Guns in their hands, with shotguns slung over the right or left shoulders. Four High-Explosive Grenades were in the hip containers, with shotgun shells in the thigh containers and a drum magazine tied to each upper arm.
The combined thud-BOOM of the M-PAC shells shuddered the ground the Mabinogi Frames raced upon, with the pilots automatically avoiding any falling debris from the derelict buildings.
"Alright, you three head straight for the IFF signal. I'll climb the buildings and attack from above." Picton ordered, his Arawn's custom monomolecular scythe swinging off of the Frame's back and into its hand as the Harkens lashed out and hooked into the lip of a roof, allowing the Knightmare to accelerate up the side of the building.
"Come on you two, I want to get this finished so that we can get back to looking for Zero." Thompson ordered. All three Hafgans squatted as their Landspinners accelerated. During this, a pole extended out from the bottom of the cockpit protrusion on the front torso, a smaller Landspinner attached to its end. When it touched the ground, the Hafgans accelerated slightly.
Soon enough, they emerged into the relatively clear area next to the skyscraper mentioned in the techs' report. The only thing the three Hafgan pilots saw was a broken statue, unrecognizable, and a few piles of rubble.
"What the hell? There's no one here!" Yabes snapped, his Hafgan's Factspheres scanning the area twice over. The trio kept their Knightmares together, moving in wedge formation next to the skycraper.
"Aw shit. Thompson to Picton. There's nothing here."
"Are you sure?"
"If there was something here, then we'd be shooting it, now wouldn't we?"
"Did you check the-" At that moment, the skyscraper's wall exploded outwards, and a four-digited, clawed hand reached out and grasped Feris' Knightmare by the shoulder, the claws digging in through the armor and giving whatever monster they were attached to increased leverage on the Frame. Within the next instant, as Thompson swerved to take aim with his rifle, a second limb arced out of the cloud of dust and debris to slash into the Hafgan's head. The other arm drew the Hafgan closer, into the cloud as an attachement on the second arm extruded a long blade, which smashed into the Knightmare's lower torso.
"Fuck! Jean!" Yabes growled, Hafgan dropping the machine gun in exchange for the shotgun. Without any warning, Feris' Hafgan lurched out of the cloud, prompting a startled cry and a reactive shotgun blast to the legs. The concentrated tungsten flechettes shredded the limbs into stumps, even as the majority of the Knightmare smashed into the front of Yabes' Hafgan.
"Disregard my last." Thompson relayed dryly. "He's hiding in the skyscraper."
"You looked there just now?"
"Nope. He popped out of the wall and dragged Jean back in. He's dead now."
"Oh, good. Secure the area and-"
"Not him. Fucker killed Jean." Thompson clarified, studying the blood-spattered cockpit, torn to shreds.
-The Demon, The Dragon, and the Yamato Alliance-
Lelouch grinned at the intercepted communication. Apparently, Learme had accomplished one of the primary objectives. After all, they wouldn't be taken seriously if they didn't deal with at least one of their pursuers. The three rebels and/or mercenaries accompanying him were speeding away from their most recent ambush towards the encirclement, along with the intact Sutherlands of their compatriots.
"All forces, link up at Point G. Knight One, proceed to Assault Position Two, Level Eleven." Learme grinned as the Sakanade sped along its way, passing the gathering Yamato Alliance rebels before firing the Slash Harkens at another skyscraper, far less intact than the one he had recently used as an ambush point, but still serviceable for his purposes.
Then the Arawn slammed into him in mid-air.
They watched, jaws agape, as the Sakanade and the Arawn flew off through the air, landing with a thud in the middle of the rendezvous point. The Knightmares were clenched together in a wrestling bundle, with the Sakanade holding the Arawn's deadly scythe arm off with one hand while the other was restrained by the Arawn's free hand.
Lelouch swore under his breath before issuing new orders. "Rebels, ignore the Arawn and proceed to Point Z. Knight One, deal with it and move to Assault Position Three!"
"Yes sire." Learme grunted, wrenching the Sakanade's arm from the grasp of the Arawn just in time to avoid what would have been a very debilitating, if not fatal, slash from the monomolecular-edged weapon.
Freed from the Mabinogion's grasp, Learme wheeled the Sakanade back a fair distance, setting his back towards the relocating Rebel Sutherlands.
"A scythe. You must be James Picton-"
"Major James Picton."
"Just as well. I've wanted to fight you for a long time."
"You fucking murderer! You slaughtered Jean-"
"Shut the hell up. He was a soldier, I'm a soldier and you're a soldier. We all know what's likely to happen when we sign up. Although I suppose that you nobles don't grasp that. I don't suppose you've actually had an all-out fight with a modern Knightmare? And don't say you've dueled in them, cause that doesn't count." Learme snarled. I suppose it was too much to hope that the noble-class Knightmare devicers ever grew up.
Thankfully for Learme, Picton didn't waste any time in charging the Sakanade, the Arawn's deadlier-than-normal monoatomic-tipped Slash Harkens lashing out at the prototype. The flash of one forearm, and the Titanium-Nitride Pile Driver, sliced at the flat of one Harken and knocked it away. Learme simply dodged the other, accelerating the Sakanade to top speed at the Arawn. The Arawn readied the scythe in both hands, ready to slice the Japanese Knightmare in half.
Learme had no intention of allowing him to do so. Instead, he pulled the Sakanade up short and drew the machine pistol holstered on the left hip. 30mm High-Explosive Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds peppered the Arawn's legs and lower torso, ripping apart expensive Titanium Boride-alloyed Steel composite armor, breaking the superstructure in half and pretty much crippling it.
Without ceremony, Learme kicked the Sakanade's leg out, flipped the Arawn over to expose the cockpit block, and-
"Get away from him!" A hail of bullets lashed out at the prototype out of the facade of a nearby structure. Most of their force was robbed from proceeding through the dense concrete and steel, but there was just enough to split the machine pistol and the Sakanade's left hand apart. Learme cursed as he dodged aside, leaving the broken Mabinogion as he avoided the bullets. The hail stopped for a brief moment, when the Hafgan stepped out of its hiding spot, loading a magazine into its assault rifle. Learme took the chance.
He turned and ran the Sakanade out of there. Not out of cowardice, no. He had an upstart princess to deal with, and that was more important than any mere knight.
Lelouch and the Yamato Alliance were proceeding swiftly towards the last point in his plan, when a Hafgan swerved into their path, two machine guns held in each fist.
"Eat shit and die!" Yabes shouted, the twin machine guns opening fire on the lead Yamato Sutherlands. Kiryu and Qilin barely managed to dodge out of the way, even then acquiring some rather startling hits to the lower edge of their cockpit blocks and legs, while Ouka just jumped aside. The rest of the Yamato Alliance, and Lelouch, weren't so lucky. The majority of the Sutherlands were ripped apart, the high-velocity armor-piercing round carving into and through armor almost like it was cloth.
Yabes fired until the drum magazines were empty, where upon he dropped them and slung out his shotgun. At the end of the road, perhaps 30 meters away, the Akuma stood behind its shield, the composite and aerogel structure performing perfectly in deflecting or stopping the HVAP bullets.
"You must be Zero." Yabes growled. "I'm gonna rip you apart." Lelouch said nothing, merely moving the Akuma's shield aside to aim the Battle Rifle down the road. Yabes did nothing but accelerate the Hafgan towards the Akuma. He'd piloted the Hafgan in several anti-terrorist actions in Area 11, and none of their rounds had so much as blasted a finger off.
The Battle Rifle flashed, and instead of the normal yellowish flash of gunfire, it was a blood-red streak, accelerating a bullet with a glowing pink tip into the Hafgan's knee joint, breaking it apart and sending the Knightmare slamming into the ground.
Lelouch wasn't a sniper, but he was pretty damn accurate at medium range. And the magnesium/Sakuradite tipped full-metal jacket rounds, with a powdered Sakuradite-based propellant, were pretty damaging.
"it's unfortunate that you had to do this." Lelouch muttered, the Akuma's speakers turned on. "I would've preferred to bring most of them out of this alive." He retracted the landspinners, folding them up against the Akuma's calves as he stepped it over the broken bodies of the Yamato Sutherlands. "It is also unfortunate in that I'd have liked to bring this Hafgan back, with you as a prisoner." He holstered the Battle Rifle, drawing the Knightmare-sized Naginata from its sheath on the cockpit pod. "Alas, you've deprived me of my primary means of transporting it. So, goodbye." Now Yabes managed to get the Hafgan up by two arms, before swinging out the shotgun to aim at the Akuma's torso. One heavy, chobham-encased foot stepped firmly on the weapon, slowly crushing it as more and more weight was forced upon it. In the next instant, the Naginata stabbed at the cockpit block, slicing into Yabe's head and torso before slicing up and down to bisect the entire structure.
As Kiryu, Qilin, and Ouka gathered around him, Lelouch took stock. In one fell swoop, the majority of his forces had been eliminated. He could no more realistically destroy the Britannian force and capture Cornelia than a handful of termites could infiltrate an ant hive and slay the queen. And while he could commandeer a Sutherland and sneak in, it was unlikely to turn out well. There were a few options. He chose the most cautious.
"Learme, fire the Sukur as planned, but be ready to exfiltrate afterward. One of the Mabinogion pilots just annihilated the better part of our forces."
"Fuck."
"On the bright side, I think I have a few candidates for your special forces unit."
"Roger that. Proceeding to Assault Point three, charging Sukur capacitors."
This time on top of a tall building that may have once been an apartment complex, the Sakanade knelt, holding the rifle that had been holstered on the cockpit. As the weapon hummed, and a section on the chest opened to reveal the Advanced Factsphere he'd designed just for this purpose, Learme drew a bead on the G-1 about five hundred meters away. Aiming at the center point of the G-1, Learme ignored the startled firing of the Sutherlands and Gloucesters arrayed around it, some of the rounds deflecting off the curved armor, but most missing.
Then he fired.
The Kinetic Penetrator round in chamber was almost instantly accelerated to a speed of 2 kilometers per second, or 7200 kilometers per hour (4474 miles per hour), streaking through the air in almost the blink of an eye before slamming into the G-1. The impact had such kinetic energy that it fragmented the majority of the G-1's mass in the area hit, turning it into spall and shrapnel, blowing back into the large mobile command unit to slaughter every single crewmember below the bridge, slicing them into bloodied confetti. The G-1 was also thrown back about 50 meters, although using such gentle terms understates the violence.
In the ensuing confusion, as some of the weaker-willed pilots dropped their weapons and fled, and the Gloucesters moved to assist their princess and commander, Lelouch and the Akuma led the surviving Yamato Alliance members out of the encirclement through the weakest point, shoving past Sutherlands.
Learme took a more direct route. Extending the Titanium Nitride Pile Drivers on either of the Sakanade's arms, he accelerated straight into a Gloucester, both pile drivers smashing into the torso before he shoved the Knightmare into some of the Brit's comrades. The only thing he stopped for, was to see the Bors laying on its side buried in dirt.
-The Orange-
Half an hour later
Lloyd just sat there. He took it all in. The shattered G-1, command bridge just resting on the ground ever since the smashing attack that had nearly destroyed it. The A.S.E.E.C trailer, score and pock-marked from the spall and shrapnel that had hit it, although none was as serious as the group of fast-flying pieces that had ripped off the entire side. The Bors, that had lost an entire arm to a particularly large piece of shrapnel from the back of the G-1.
"Wow." He said.
Jeremiah, laying on the ground with a compress on his head, agreed.
-The Author-
So yeah, as promised: Very Bad Things Happened To The Brits. In other news, we now only have about two, count em, two major incidents before we get to the part I've been itching to write. So, I believe next up is Kawaguchi, then the anti-refrain operations.
Oh, by the way, the original Sakanade is Velshard's design. The Prototype is just a re-make I modified swiftly.
Replies:
Infinite Freedom: I guess.
Alex Yamato: I hope you like it. Regarding Zero Squadron OC Frames, I'm already picking and choosing who gets what. Heavy Weapons/Support and Electronics get one, while Snipers/Melee/etc. get the other.
00virtuezero: In Black Knights Japan, everyone gets a new toy! They're twins, although if you count the seconds, I'm sticking with Lelouch. AVATAR FTW!
I personally prefer a WA2000 rifle with thermal scope and silencer. Although I'm hoping to upgrade to a M14 EBR..... About the only thing that I'd miss from that, is Vader force-choking stupid people. Although I suppose an element of awesome could be maintained with Lelouch commanding them to choke themselves....or Learme just ripping heads off necks.
Hope you like what I did with him.
Omegadramon2: Thank you, and I'll try to work him into the Kawaguchi chapter.
Kojiro Kun: I dunno, she still seems kinda reckless to me.
SharinganUserX: Indeed.