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 18: Fight Past
- The Queen -
That Morning
The sound of shattering glass woke Kallen, and she reflexively leaped out of her bed, rolled onto the floor and came up reaching for her sidearm. However, instead of the cool comfort of gunmetal, her fingers grasped the waistband of her silk pajama bottoms. Then she remembered where she was. At 'her' home, although in practice it was more like a boarding house run by her bitch of a stepmother. She wasn't back at the Black Knight's base. She wasn't undergoing grueling assault training.
She was actually rather disappointed at that.
Grabbing a robe out of her wardrobe, Kallen stepped out into the hallway to see what the trouble was.
In the hallway was a blond Britannian woman, clothed in a dress of some very expensive fabrics, and a Japanese maid, with the remains of what had once been an expensive vase.
"Can't you do anything right!?" The former shouted, further cowing the poor maid. If it had been anyone else, Kallen would have stepped in. But.....She just went back in her room. Outside, the shouting continued as the Britannian continued to berate the Japanese......as her step-mother continued to berate her mother. Kallen herself wasn't sure how the arrangement came about, only that shortly after her father had left to head the family business in on the Britannian mainland, her birth mother had been employed in the household.....much to Kallen's disquiet.
She wasn't on very good terms with her mother. In Kallen's mind, her mother was the symbol of all that was wrong with the Japanese during the Britannian occupation. She very nearly loathed her.
"Stop it!" Kallen muttered to herself, hitting herself lightly on the head. She went back to her wardrobe and opened one of the drawers. Digging out and casting aside the clothes inside the drawer, she reached around, and pulled on a string that had apparently gotten snagged on some part of the wood. The bottom of the draw came out, revealing the clothes she wore when with the Black Knights. Shifting through the clothing, Kallen retrieved the activation key that Draco had given her the day before. It was a red block, although on both sides were inscribed 'Q-1' in gold.
Now
Kallen drew her Burai's other dagger, holding both in either hand as the Knightpolice extended their Tonfas. Like the Burai, the Knightpolice were essentially modified Glasgows, although in their case they were made to deal with civilian Frames and riots.
Kallen's new Burai, painted a deep scarlet and with curved horn-like extensions added to its Factsphere armor, was a new model Draco called the Burai-O. According to the brief technical manual Draco had handed her, the Burai-O had landspinners with greatly improved traction, slash harkens with monomolecular lines and greater range, as well as improved pressure jets. Also, the curved horns added ECM capability, allowing the Burai-O to scramble the targeting sensors and radar of other Knightmares. All of this perfectly suited Kallen's combat style: Fast and brutal.
The fight restarted with the advance of the Knightpolice, at the same time, from different directions. Fortunately, these Frames did not have the newer Knightmare combat knives that were starting to circulate throughout the Britannian police units, making it rather easy for Kallen to block a tonfa from each Frame while skillfully avoiding the other two. Either of the daggers, made of the same material used for the Sakanade's devastating pile drivers, sliced partway through the tonfas before Kallen wrenched both to the together, slamming the Frames' arms together and slicing the knives through their respective tonfa.
Almost immediately, the Knightpolice backed away from Kallen, while around them the Black Knights retreated further into the warehouse, moving into more enclosed spaces. Grinning slightly, Kallen widened the Burai-O's stance, preparing to meet another dual attack from the two Knightpolice. Instead, they stepped back through the hole they had made in entering the building, and a new group of Knightpolice entered.
- The Demon and the Dragon -
"Crap." Was Learme's quiet imprecation. "Second Assault Platoon, we have a total of six Knightpolice Frames here in the warehouse, two slightly damaged. Keep on the lookout for others and make preparations to deal with them." Turning back, he gestured at the Black Knights. "Kill the dealers, they'll only slow us down." When the Knights paused and glanced at each other, Learme angrily shook his head at their morality. "Fine, just leave them."
Lelouch, on the other hand, was already making plans. "Learme, take Fireteams Two and Three and get on the second level. I'll take Teams One and Four and head further into the warehouse. Use your teams' heavy armaments and hinder the Knightpolice until the Second Platoon gets here. I'll attempt to secure an escape route." Learme just gestured for him to hurry, while drawing his magnum.
Learme rushed the teams up the stairs, moving Qilin forward with his light machine gun, and heading out into a small office with windows overlooking the room they had entered the warehouse. It was level with the heads of the Knightpolice and Kallen's Burai-O, giving the fireteams perfect shots at the Frames' Factspheres. Learme opened up first with a shot from his magnum when the Knightpolice's Factsphere covering opened to scan Kallen's frame. For something as small as a handgun bullet, it did enough damage to startle the Frame's pilot. Unknown to the Black Knights, Learme was also using his Geass to manipulate the pilots, causing them to see six Burais crash through the wall behind Kallen.
I've gotten better. Learme thought smugly to himself as the Knightpolice opened fire with their machine pistols on the illusory Burai.
- The Queen -
Kallen was astonished when half of the assault platoon opened fire on the Knightpolice from the second floor of the warehouse, light machine guna and assault rifle rounds sparking against the Knightpolice armor. It was almost completely useless. Knightmares might not be as heavily armored as main battle tanks - for one thing, they used light alloys and ceramics instead of heavy metals - and the Knightpolice suffered from having their armor thinned during the modification process, but even then.....
When the Knightpolice started firing at the walls around Kallen, she chalked it up to the Burai-O's ECM and started her attack. She lowered the Burai-O's shoulder to face a Frame and charged, slamming it into one of its compatriots. Turning swiftly, she sliced her right-hand dagger at the neck of an adjacent Frame, decapitating it before going three-sixty and plunging her left-hand dagger into its cockpit.
Behind her, Draco directed the teams' fire down and away from Kallen, targeting the Knightpolices' landspinners, actually managing to damage one to the extend that the Knightpolice spun out, crashing through the same wall the Black Knights had blown through.
Kallen ignored the positive development to focus on the remaining two Knightpolice, when out of nowhere her Knightmare's hand exploded, spinning her around before she regained control.
"Fuck! Second Platoon, check for a Knightpolice with a sniper rifle! Dammit, Kallen, I'm moving to assist."
"Wait, what?" How the hell ar-" Kallen's gasp intruded on her perfectly reasonable query when Draco climbed up onto the window of the second-floor office and leaped at one of the Knightpolice. Most people would have fallen to break their bones on the hard floor about five meters down, barely even reaching the Knightpolice that was about ten meters away, give or take a dozen centimeters. Draco not only made it, he made it hard enough that he slammed into the Knightpolice's head and jerked the Frame to the side. For a second, while he steadied himself and found a good grip in the edges of its Factsphere armor, the Frame just stood still. Then Draco looked back up and waved.
As though the wave was a trigger, the Knightpolice dropped his machine pistol and started whacking at Draco with its hands, although it missed by an arm-length as the Dragon scampered over the top of the Frame's head and towards the cockpit like a gecko on drugs. By now the Knightpolice was acting like someone with a bad itch, scrambling and trying to reach Draco. Unfortunately, Knightmare Frame's arms were not designed with the flexibility to grab at their own cockpit, so the second-in-command of the Black Knights made it to the hatch unscathed.
Kallen couldn't see what happened, but a few moments after Draco reached the cockpit there was a gunshot and the Knightpolice's pilot was pushed out of the cockpit, minus half of his head.
"Ugh. Word to the wise: when hijacking a Knightmare Frame, do not shoot the current pilot, just stab him or break his neck or something, because my current circumstances are disgusting." Draco said over the radio. Kallen winced at the image in her head, of Draco sitting in a mess of gore.
She really should have concentrated on the remaining Knightpolice. The remnant grabbed the Burai-O's hand and jerked it to the side in front of its machine pistol. Kallen barely managed to save herself, ducking the Burai-O to the side and down. However, this did not save the Burai-O's shoulder and arm from the point-blank burst of bullets from the machine pistol that shredded apart the armor and severed the limb.
"Kallen, get out of here!" Draco ordered, slamming his Frame into the Knightpolice and smashing a tonfa into its Factsphere.
"But-"
"That's an order! The Burai-O is too damaged to continue fighting. Escort Zero and the First Platoon out of the warehouse and get Second Platoon to ambush positions! I'll draw them in." Draco continued, wrestling the Knightpolice down and brutally smashing its leg in with a tonfa. Reluctantly, Kallen turned her frame around and headed for the central area, while Draco continued smashing down the Knightpolice.
Ducking the Burai-O under the second floor, Kallen couldn't believe what she saw in the center.
- The Author -
Short chapter, I know. I've been kinda backed up this month, what with acquiring some new games......er....I mean.....my internet connection going kaput. Heh. What? Don't look at me like that, I'm irresponsible!
Replies:
Alex Yamato: Thanks.
Wait till Narita. That'll be fun.....
Weren't we all?
There's an idea that sounds good. I'll work one up.
Yeah, this one's kinda......eh.
I see you've started your own fic.
Kojiro Kun: Learme makes a difference. Military Otaku that he is.
Don't forget the mad engineer/scientist aspect.
Not really no. For one thing, he really doesn't need such a figure.
Infinite Freedom: I've been imagining that maneuver for most of the story.
Sakurahanaalice: Just like I would have done. Only, alone, in my room, with a notebook ready to write down weapons and engineering ideas/facts.
Truth be told, I haven't actually thought about that......
G. Wagers: No, it's just that with Unicorn Gundam out, I've sort of been in a UC mood. That, and I've heard that Kamille Bidan was like Shinn Asuka, and I only tolerated Mobile Suit Gundam's outdated animation for the length of time it took for me to imprint Amuro Ray as a whiny idiot in my head.
Danke.
Zenith010: Thank you very much, and I guess I could fit such a weapon on a Brit Knightmare.....probably an Arawn.
Blitz182: Thank you, and either of those two drinking it would be an Armageddon in the making.
Oh, well, I take french, and it turns out that Lelouch's name means 'The Suspicious' (Le = The, Louche = Suspicious). With Learme, I did similar, only it now translates into 'The Weapon' and I forgot to take the 'e' on the end off.
00virtuezero: Heh.
Somehow, I don't see anyone respecting Logos members. Really, I don't.
No problem.
Maybe it can be one of the three stolen Gundams in S2.
Eh, I'm personally more interested in a straight-up Kingdom Hearts 3 (no PSP for me) and I'm also holding out for Armored Core 5.
thyrokio: Thanks.
Orchamus: Death and destruction follow that path. Generally, it seems only guys get harems.