"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal. These things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." Publius Cornelius Tactius
The battle in the Shinjuku Ghetto had become more and more deadly. Many innocent Elevens were being slaughtered for apparently no reason. Infantry butchered entire children. Tanks mowed down civilians. Knightmares destroyed buildings. Nothing that was done had any point or otherwise. All of it.
And yet the Britannians at the command base felt safe secure and comfortable.
"You know you really don't have to do this." Cecile said to a humanoid shadow in another room. "I can easily get all of the paperwork filed."
"I know." It responded. "But I still would like to thank you from releasing me from my capsule. Besides…I'm sure you appreciate the help"
"I do." Cecile asked. "Tell me…umm…I'm sorry…what was it again?"
The figure entered the room to reveal a humanoid being, incased in Blue armor chest to toe with a Blue helmet on.
"Mega Man." He responded. "Mega Man X."
"Oh…" Cecile said. "I'm sorry…it's just…you don't see something with that kind of name all the time you know."
"Well…you can call me X if it's easier." He said. "As to answer your previous statement…I…really don't know. The last thing I remember honestly was being destroyed and fading out. As for the capsule…I don't know. It could be anywhere from one week to a hundred years."
"I doubt that." Lloyd said as he came by. "The little box you came in was not even a day old."
"But you said it yourself that technology compared to the capsule was definitely outdated." X said to Lloyd. "You said your assumption might have been wrong."
"The capsule itself is….unique." Lloyd said. "And I definitely had a hell of a time opening it. You must be a powerful weapon if someone took quite a long time in locking you up. But unlike those blind soldiers of Britannia, I have a keen eye for technology and weapons like you."
"I'm not a weapon." X said to Lloyd.
"That's not what the Britannian Military thinks." Lloyd responded. "I've already identified a lot of functions on your being that are considered military super weapons. Your Buster cannot runs on solar energy to fire concentrated plasma rounds. Do you know how much Plasma based weaponry Britannia has? Only on the Glasgow Knights Knightmares. Though I bet none of you functions are as great as my Lancelot."
"You mean the Knightmare your designing?" X said as he put the paperwork in the filing cabinet.
"Yes indeed." Lloyd. "I'm guessing you helped yourself to my mainframe?"
"Well…" X said. "I was just following orders to learn everything about the Britannian history and they said your mainframe had everything I needed. I ran into that file by accident. It's a real impressive Power armor I must say...it comparison to the Power Armor I remember…none of them could compare to that monster."
"Ahh…" Lloyd said. "Now I just need the military to say so and we got ourselves another government check."
"Military doesn't like it?" X asked.
"Hasn't tried it yet." Lloyd said. "They think their Sutherlands are invincible. "
Maybe that might be today." X said.
The crystal on X's helmet flashed.
"Ohh…" Lloyd asked.
"It seems the patient that was recovered at group CA's original location has finally come to." X said. "My sensors just detected his pulse rate rise to stable levels."
"Ahh….perfect." Lloyd said with joy. "Come along X, it's time to get our new pilot!"
Cecile and Lloyd ran from the location. X simply stood there confused.
"Pilot?" X asked
"But he was right?" A student in the girl's locker room said as they watched a game show.
"Nope that wasn't the right answer." Another girl said as the contestant messed up.
"He's as good as lost."
Shirley was too busy putting on her swimsuit to notice what was going on. She was just about to do another swim meet with her instructor again. She looked down though as her cell phone started to ring. She was surprised to see that it was Lelouch calling her. It was also something joyous to her as she turned on the cell phone to hear is voice.
"Lulu." She asked. "What are you calling me for? Where are you? You know if you keep cutting class you're going to get expelled!"
"Do you have a television there?" Lelouch asked.
"A Television?" Shirley asked.
"I'm sorry but it's important." Lelouch replied.
While he waited for Shirley to come back he quickly dived behind a building so approaching tanks would not be able to see him. He already knew how to work the Knightmare, but he was not a master pilot. The rubble around him though concealed his position. Zero leaped into a building and went to the other side to observe the matter personally.
"Man…" Shirley sighed. "Alright hold on one second."
Lelouch heard Shirley as she got a hold of the television where her colleagues were. As Lelouch was typing in commands to the Knightmare in order to observe the battle and Zero, Lelouch finally heard Shirley.
"Well they're saying that there's a traffic jam, but they're not saying why." Shirley responded. "It's probably for no reason."
"I knew it." Lelouch thought. "They're going to announce it in a way that benefits the military after it's all over."
Lelouch surveyed the field looking for anything useful. Zero was moving around the field looking for anyone who spotted Lelouch. If a soldier was foolish enough to move anywhere near the lone Knightmare, Zero eliminated him with a quick saber slash to the head. Only one soldier was around to do so. Lelouch was rest assured to be safe for now. As Lelouch looked around, he happened to notice a chess board lying on the ground. He took interest in it and went out and collected the pieces.
"This is another one of your weird bets isn't it Lulu?" Shirley asked after a long silence. "You know you really shouldn't…"
"Yeah I know." Lelouch said. "Tell my sister I'll be coming home late tonight okay?"
He then hung up on Shirley. If he was there in the locker room (if he ever had the guts to try and sneak in) he would have heard her complaining about always hanging up on her.
Zero was using his dash function in order to scour the area…trying to assess who the enemy was. To him…things looked as if they had gone to hell. Everything was destroyed and shattered. He watched people killing one another…mostly on the Eleven side. He then encountered a soldier who Zero watched slaughter an entire family. Zero stood there…mortified at what he just witnessed. The blood thirsty guard then turned to watch the mortified Zero looking at him.
"Hey!" A soldier said. "What do you know…an Eleven who chose to come to me to die."
The guard armed his weapon and fired. Zero, reacting to the attack began to maneuver through each of the rounds fired at him. The guard watched in terror as he could no longer register the man when he fired. He continued to fire.
"What the hell is this?" He shouted.
While Zero maneuvered through the attacks, he happened to notice an Eleven family running away from the attack. The guard saw these people, and then turned his fire to them. Zero watched as the entire family became bullet riddled from this.
And then a fury ignited within Zero that he had never felt before. He detested this human. He treated human life as if it was worthless. Anger and hate built up within him as the children fell down dead. And then…he snapped. He charged in front of the man. The man became fearful and started firing at him. The problem was his bullets were not powerful enough to pierce Zero's body.
Zero leapt down at the soldier and stabbed the guy the in stomach. The resulting shock was enough to kill the soldier as he fell down dead. And then he swung to the side. He watched the man's upper torso collapse onto the ground. He began to huff and wheeze, realizing what he had done. He had killed this human.
And he was enjoying it. He wanted to kill this person for the slaughter that he was causing. But he couldn't tell why? This was the same feeling he had when he killed Weil…moments before his death. But why?
Zero then deactivated the Z-saber and leaped back up to his hiding spot after discarding the body off to the side. Lelouch ignored the fact Zero and his movements as he monitored the IFF. This wasn't the area to think about what he just did.
"Well seeing how this operation is classified, it'd be difficult to call in reinforcements." Lelouch pondered. "This means these are all the pieces on the board. "
"It will still be difficult to try and get out on your own." Zero said over com-link as he was monitoring his own radar.
"And it will be difficult for the Elevens to take me in." Lelouch said as he got out collecting more chess pieces.
"Why?" Zero asked.
"Britannians are the people who conquered the Elevens, and practically stripped them of their pride." Lelouch said.
"And so this Britannia…feels as if they are allowed to kill them when they feel like it." Zero said. "Well then…I don't need a second reason to defend this place. Do you have any strategies in dealing with this situation?"
"Well…" Lelouch said. "I could use you to cause a ruckus among the Britannian Military; but the longer your existence remains a secret, the more useful you could be. Britannia would never expect you to be such a large threat."
"So a full scale attack using me is out of the question?" Zero asked as he leapt down.
"I didn't say no to that." Lelouch said. "I'll consider you a final backup plan."
Lelouch heard an explosion off to the side. He saw a Slash Harken smash into a Helicopter, causing it to explode. Lelouch watched as the Helicopter descended towards Earth as a streaming fireball. Lelouch quickly remembered the Pink Glasgow that had attacked the Helicopter squad earlier and then got a bright idea.
"How about I pay them back for putting me in this situation?" Lelouch asked Zero.
"Hmm?" Zero muttered.
"Lock and load, Zero." Lelouch ordered. "I got our escape plan ready."
"About time." Zero said as he put in energy cartage to his pistol.
"Too bad!" Lloyd said at the top of his lungs.
Suzaku looked up as he realized he was alive after all. The gunshot had not killed him after all. He saw that he was comfortably on a medical bed, wrapped up in bandages, with three faces looking up at him: X, Cecile, and Lloyd.
"You were so close to those pearly gates Private first class Kururugi!" Lloyd said sarcastically.
"Where...am I?" Suzaku asked. He couldn't finish what he was saying as he suddenly felt a surge of pain throughout his body. Apparently even though he survived the bullet, he wasn't fully recovered.
"Hmm?" Lloyd started. "Oh you're still in the Shinjuku ghetto."
"We're near Prince Clovis', so it's the safest place to be." Cecile said. She then went over and brought Suzaku a pocket watch on a green fabric.
"Suzaku," She said. "This thing saved your life."
"It just barely kept the bullet that punctured your combat suit from killing you though." Lloyd said.
"We really didn't even need to do much." X said. "You really fainted from extreme shock and impact took from the bullet being stopped right in its tracks. Your body is fine but your mind will be simulating pain for the time being."
"Is it precious to you?" Cecile asked.
"Yes." Suzaku said as he reached for the now broken pocket watch.
"I hear the Elevens believe there's a god for every object." Lloyd said.
"The world is mysterious." X said. "It could be."
"Hmph!" Lloyd snarled. "The kind of noth…"
"Uh, Lelouch!" Suzaku started. He then remembered he was nowhere near where Lelouch was.
He then remembered he was not in the area where Lelouch and the girl were. He was far from that point.
"What's the situation?" Suzaku asked.
"I hear the Elevens got control of poisonous gas." Lloyd said. "Although they met with significant losses."
"I see." Suzaku said.
"Private first class Kururugi, what experience do you have piloting a Knightmare frame?" Lloyd asked.
"Me!" Suzaku replied in a shocked tone. "But a former number cannot become a Knight!"
"And if you could?" Lloyd asked, displaying a custom made Knightmare USB key.
Suzaku looked at Lloyd in disbelief. Was he really allowing him to become Knight? Under who's authority?
"So you've been transferred to the military?" Suzaku asked X.
"They think my abilities are far too great to be just used in an R&D lab." X said. "I've been going through nothing but diagnostics since I arrived here."
"You don't sound too happy." Suzaku said.
"I…" X began. "I don't want to hurt innocents. Clovis wasn't too thrilled with my responses, but was impressed with my combat abilities and weaponry. Says I still might have some use."
"You don't want to serve Britannia do you, X?" Suzaku asked.
"I want to put the world at peace." X replied. "I know for a fact that causing violence simply leads to more violence. I've seen it happen time and time again. Surely there must be another method."
"So why are you soldier then?" Suzaku said.
"Why are you?" X asked.
Suzaku stopped as he could not answer X's question.
"Quit your chatterboxes and behold!" Lloyd said as he threw his hands in the direction of a cloaked object. It looked like a Knightmare, but something felt different about it. X had "accidently" downloaded a file about the Lancelot so he knew everything about it. The Knightmare was much larger than that of a standard Knightmare so Suzaku knew this one was different than the others.
"Congratulations!" Lloyd yelled at the top of lungs. "A one of a kind Knightmare awaits you. It will change you and your world! Whether you want it to or not!"
"So this is Lancelot?" X said.
"Go West!" Lelouch said through to his radio.
"Who are you?" A female voice replied back.
"It doesn't matter!" Lelouch called back. "If you wish to win, then follow my orders!"
"Win?" The female voice said.
Lelouch severed the com-link there. He reactivated his Knightmare and began to move out. Zero leaped on top of the Knightmare and sat down and let his hair blow in the air as he waited for orders.
"Zero?" Lelouch asked. "Can you take out the armor?"
"From a distance or up close?" He asked.
"I prefer ranged; so the enemy does not see you." Lelouch said.
The Knightmare continued to make its course to a nearby bridge. On the train there was a train moving from East to West, obviously making a course to Clovis' HQ. It maneuvered through broken buildings and rubble till it finally scaled up to a roof of a severely damaged building.
"We're here." Lelouch said.
Zero leapt down from the Knightmare. He now had a clear view of the entire train track.
"Hide behind this rubble and charge up your Z-pistol to full blast." Lelouch ordered. "Fire it when I tell you too."
"Got it." Zero said.
Zero pulled out as he ducked behind the rubble. He pressed a button on the pistol and Lelouch watched as the pistol began to build up energy. Particles flew not only into the pistol, but all around Zero as well. It's almost Zero and the pistol we're connected.
I see. The data I acquired from that hard drive indicated this weapon as such.
At least a Pink Glasgow moved on the train. It was being pursued by two Sutherlands.
"Foolish Britannians." Lelouch said. "You fell right for my trap."
"Hey!" The girl's voice returned on the radio. "What do I do now?"
"Jump on the train!" Lelouch called out.
The Glasgow obeyed and jumped on top the train. In then began to skip from car to car as it closed distance from the two Sutherlands.
"You pathetic Eleven!" A voice called out on the radio. It had obviously not noticed that Lelouch was monitoring the situation. "What's the fun of chasing you if all you do is run?"
"You there!" It called out. "Pursue that Glasgow!"
"Yes my Lord!" He called out and leapt in the air.
"Fire at that one!" Lelouch called out.
Zero turned out from the rubble and fired the pistol shot at the leaping Knightmare. The searing energy smashed right in to the Knightmare Sakuradite tank and caused it to explode in midair. The wreckage of the Knightmare flew in the air and fell off the tracks. There was no way the pilot survived.
Quite an impressive tool. He knows exactly where to hit each unit to destroy them. As long as none of my orders contradict his emotions, I can make great use of his killing abilities.
"Wha… what?" The pilot said as he looked where the blast came from. He used his IFF to zoom in on the two people. He saw both Zero and the other Sutherland staring right back at him. Zero whirled his pistol and put it back on his belt.
"You bastard!" The pilot called out. "What unit are you from? And who's that next to you!"
"I swear no allegiance!" Lelouch called out.
Lelouch fired his Knightmare's weapon at the pilot's Knightmare. The machine gun began to tear up the Knightmare as it blew off one of the arms and one of the legs of the unit. The pilot was unprepared for the attack so was unable to grasp what was going until his unit was nearly destroyed.
"You Bastard!" The pilot responded. He pointed his machine gun at Lelouch but quickly looked at the top of the train to see the Pink Glasgow charging right at him. With an already damaged unit, the pilot knew he had no chance in this battle. He grabbed the sides of his seat which had an ejector seat in it and blasted out of his Knightmare. The pilot of the Glasgow watched as he flew away from the area and the ejector seat activated its parachute, slowly descending to the ground.
"I owe you for that." The Pilot called out. "But how did you secure a Sutherland?"
She went to look for the guy but he and Zero had already left the area. Zero had teleported both him and Lelouch (Sutherland too) to a new location. They had moved to a large destroyed Skyscraper several clicks away.
"Where did he go?" She asked herself.
"Hey Kallen!" Ohgi said as he ran up to the Glasgow. "What was that transmission just now?"
"Oh Ohgi!" She said. "You heard it too?"
"Yeah." He replied.
"Damn…." Lelouch said. "That was exhausting…"
"I told you teleporting the first time around for a human would be a bit…overwhelming." Zero said.
"I'll have to get used to it then." Lelouch said. "That ability alone would be a great way to escape."
"There are limits to it." Zero said. "Teleporting myself is one thing, but taking a whole mech and another person as well consumes a hell of a lot more energy. We won't be able to do that again for some time now. Not to mention that fact that I can't teleport anywhere without a well-documented map of the area."
"Can we speed it up?" Lelouch asked.
"Not without E-crystals...we'll need to wait for my systems to charge up until then." Zero said, knowing for a fact there wouldn't be any around. He knew for a fact this wasn't Neo Arcadia…in fact he had no idea where the hell he was. But he couldn't do anything now…he had to try and learn things as he went. "They're all where you want them to be now."
"Good." Lelouch said.
Lelouch grabbed his radio and called out to one of the Elevens on the battlefield.
"Are you the leader?" He asked.
"Ye-Yeah." He called back a little reluctantly.
"I give you everything in the train as a present." Lelouch said. "If you follow my orders, I will guarantee your victory."
The sounds that came from the radio were that of "Hey Let's join this guy," to muffled yells, surprised shouts, and to people wondering how many Knightmares were exactly there.
"You there in the Glasgow." Lelouch said. "Stay in that machine. Those types don't suit your type of combat.
"Got it." Kallen called back.
"How much energy do you have left?" Lelouch asked.
"Fifteen minutes worth." She called back.
"Well in that case, put a new energy filter in. I'll give out orders in the next ten minutes."
Lelouch put down his radio. He then began to fall back on his chair. He was already extremely fatigued as it is. He had just survived from being shot at by a Knightmare, plus had survived so many other encounters. He was already physically drained as it was.
"Commanding an army is sure tiresome." Lelouch said.
He went out of his Knightmare to take the other canteen that Zero had took from the first soldier who came too close to Lelouch's Knightmare. Lelouch took several large gulps in order to rehydrate. He had not had something to drink in hours now.
"I'm going to need all the strength and tactics I can muster to beat Britannia." Lelouch said.
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal. These things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." Zero said to Lelouch.
"It seems some of the Elevens have put up a crude resistance." General Bradley said as he monitored the IFF. "But our army still has the advantage."
"Of course." Clovis responded in a confident tone. "As well as the…"
"Gas capsule." Bradley said. "We're right on it. And the girl will be recaptured."
"Yes. Dead or Alive." Clovis said.
"Hey should we really be using this?" Tamaki asked Ohgi. "We're outnumbered and we don't know what they're up to!"
"They're completely confident of their numbers!" Ohgi called back in his Sutherland as he set it up for combat mode. "Just get to your assigned positions!"
"Be quick about it too; they'll be here soon!" Zero called as he landed by the resistance troops.
"Who are you?" Tamaki barked.
"No time to talk." Zero said. "Follow me!"
"Indeed." Lelouch called out on the radio. "P1, can you move? The controls should be the same to other machines you piloted."
Ohgi looked down at the radio. Although he was glad the resistance had an ally, he was frustrated on the fact he was not informing anyone who he is.
"Who are you?" he called out. "At least your name?"
"I cannot do that." Lelouch said. "I can't tell if this frequency is being monitored. Anyway, Q-1 is on her way to the point now. When she does, in 23 seconds, the enemy will have sent a squad of Sutherlands down to your point. Probably to the right. Take them out. Fire down into the line. If the enemy moves a different way, my little friend will deal with them."
Tamaki looked at the radio with pure disbelief.
"Who does this guy think he is?" Tamaki said. "And what are you supposed to do shrimp?"
"Ever want to know how it feels to be knocked into a building?" Zero asked. "If not, shut up."
"Hey you want to go wise…"
"Everyone! Ready your weapons!" Ohgi said.
"What!" Tamaki said. "You're really going to believe this guy!"
"An enemy troop has been seen at point F-3-1." A Britannian scout said.
"A decoy?" Clovis said. "How primitive."
"Lazlo's unit will proceed as normal." Bradley called out on the IFF screen. "Orion and Valerie will move in from behind. We will flush out the enemy!"
"3…2…1…Fire!" Ohgi called out.
A moment later, the resistance force unleashed a barrage of ammunition into the wall they were staring at. The large rounds easily penetrated the wall of wreckage and smashed into the enemy Knightmares. The Knightmare pilots were totally in disarray. Not one of them had expected such a quick attack and were hopelessly overwhelmed. Before they knew it, all of their machines were destroyed. The Pilots never even had time to escape.
"My god…that was well executed." Zero said. "That was incredible."
"Zero." Lelouch called out. "Three enemy Sutherlands are moving in from the Left. Throw the Shield boomerang down the trench and angle it to the right. Wipe them out."
"Understand." Zero asked as he leapt to the top of the trench.
The Sutherlands were busy attempting to figure out what had happened to Orion and Valerie. The Three units had never expected a green disc flying in out of nowhere destroying them. The Shield Boomerang flew down the trench and sliced through all three Knightmares arms, disarming them. Zero leapt down to the middle of the trench and activated his acceleration system, fling towards all three units. One by one, Zero cut down all three Knightmares, destroying them with the Z-Saber. He caught the boomerang right after he destroyed the third, catching it in midair.
"Communication with Orion and Valerie has been lost!" Bradley yelled out. "Backup has been destroyed by the enemy."
"Hmm?" Clovis started. "Reinforcements?"
"He he he he he." Lelouch laughed as he watched as the signals vanished. "An ID transponder is a double edge sword. As long as the Terrorists and Zero obey my orders, we've already won."
Lelouch quickly grabbed his radio and belayed out his next orders.
"P1, P4, P7." He started. "Go 100 meters from your position and fire the Slash Harkens in the 3 o clock direction."
"All right!" Ohgi said. He was now filled with confidence that whoever this was, he knew how to fight a battle. "Obey that voice!"
"Geez." Tamaki snarled. "Better than nothing I guess."
"P5." Lelouch called out. "Are you ready yet?"
"Stop calling that." Tamaki said as he dove into his Sutherland.
All at once, the entire resistance force launched their Slash Harkens. One of the enemy Sutherlands had moved too close to the perimeter and was nailed by each one. He was thrown into the air as each Harken nailed a part of his unit or knocked off an arm or leg. The Knightmare was quickly returned back down to the ground. Finishing it off was not necessary as one of the pilots nailed the cockpit, killing him.
"The enemy has moved to D-2-A." One of the commanding Britannian officers said.
"Send in Lazlo's…No Grounbe's unit!" Bradley called out. Something wasn't right. How were terrorists pulling each of the attacks off?
"No way." Clovis said in disbelief. "Our weapons are in the hands of the enemy?"
"Oh." X said while was working on some of the computers at the R&D lab. Most of it was simple filing, but Lloyd had asked X to upgrade some of the computers processing ability since Lloyd assumed since X was a machine, he would know how to do such things.
"Something up?" Lloyd asked.
"Well…" X said. "I've been monitoring the Britannian military com chatter and it looks like their having trouble fighting the terrorists. They just wiped out six of their Knightmares in less than thirty five seconds."
"Oh!" Lloyd said.
"Maybe Lloyd you might get a break after all." Cecile said.
"And it looks like what you said earlier might be happening after all." X said.
"All weapons will undergo some form of failure." Lloyd said. "And any weapon regardless of how it is designed will have some form of weakness that will be seen in time."
Lloyd then began to enter in the pass code to access Clovis' personal HQ.
Kallen grappled her way to the top of a building. Grounbe was not paying attention to his surrounding area, when suddenly Kallen nailed his Knightmare in the head with her Glasgow's fist. Grounbe was ejected safely however, before his unit hit the floor.
"Kill him." Lelouch ordered.
Zero who was nearby charged up his Z-pistol and fired an energy round into the cockpit. The explosion of energy consumed the pod.
"We lost contact with Grounbe's unit; and his escape pod!" The Britannian commanding officer called out.
"Change frequencies!" Bradley called out, finally realizing that his units were not fighting as well as they should have!
"I have!" The Officer responded. "This is the fourth time!"
"Change them again!" Bradley called out.
The entire HQ was in disarray. No one knew how the Elevens were destroying the Knightmares or where exactly they were.
"What is going on down there?" Clovis called out to his generals.
"I'm…I'm sorry my lord." Bradley called out.
"Hello!" Lloyd said as his camera in his R&D lab activated.
"What do you want Lloyd!" Clovis asked.
"Well…" Lloyd said. "R&D's new Knightmare is nearly ready. We've also narrowed down all of the functions of the X weapon."
"Now is not the time for this!" Clovis said.
Clovis got off of the throne in his HQ. He wanted to see the damages being done to his army personally.
Britannian tanks were being by Lelouch's forces left and right. None of them we're being spared from his intelligent tactics.
"R2, launch your anchor." Lelouch called out.
R2 fired the Slash Harken and nailed a Helicopter in midair. The Helicopter crashed down into the ground and exploded.
"B7, fire an armor piercing round." Lelouch called out again.
B7 fired the large shell into the approaching vehicle and nailed it dead on.
"Zero." Lelouch called out on a private network. "Descend from the building below and take out the assault convoy."
Zero leapt from the building and activated the Z saber. He landed on top of one the Sutherlands. One of the eager cadets fired at Zero accidently missing and killing his comrade. Zero leapt of that Knightmare and attacked the remaining three, wiping each one of them out.
"Group N1." Lelouch said. "Advance as you are."
The remaining Sutherlands charged directly at Lazlo's unit, screaming at the top of their lungs. Not only was Lazlo's unit overwhelmed military units, the screaming put them in pure terror.
"Damned Elevens!" Lazlo called out.
It was the last thing he ever said as the resistance blew his Sutherland up from a bullet piercing the Sakuradite tank.
"Zero, destroy all retreating units!" Lelouch ordered.
Zero descended to a group of Sutherlands, tanks and or otherwise and wiped out each one of them. Not even the infantry was spared. Zero carved each one of them up.
"Peace acheived through meaningless slaughter is a joke!" Zero said. "I'll protect those who cannot fight back!"
"Lazlo's unit has stopped transmitting!" Bradley called out.
"All right!" Clovis said. It was obvious he was annoyed from the loss of troops. "Send all units to the center formation.
"But that will cause our formation to break my lord!" Bradley argued.
"Well…"Lelouch said as he surveyed the area." There are several possibilities that the enemy could move. Which one will the enemy use?"