"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative." E.B. White
"What's going on!?" The General of the JLF shouted as he entered the meeting room.
The meeting room looked like that of a Japanese home on the outside. On the inside however, it looked like that of a war center.
"The Britannians are making an attack on the mountain." An officer said. "We've counted over a hundred units. We're completely surrounded and our underground reserve forces we're captured all at once."
"Sir…" Another officer said to the right of the General. "We're receiving a message from Cornelia; demanding our surrender."
"Imbecile." He said. "If we fall, the entire Japanese Liberation movement falls with us."
"Then what do we do General?" Another officer asked. "Do we engage the enemy; or do we dig in?"
"What about Tohdoh and Axl?" The General asked.
"They went to Kyoto to pick up the Burai customs." He replied. "The Four Holy swords are traveling with him too. If all goes well, they'll be here on time…but…"
"Tohdoh won't make it on time." The General said. "ARGH! We should have kept Axl here with us! Prepare the Burai's! We'll break the encirclement on one side and then evacuate! We'll show them the Japanese spirit and pride! This is the moment of truth!"
Harpuia and X continued to speed towards the location (or what they believe was the location of the enemy base) of the enemy base. As they continued, Harpuia looked at X was curiosity. X had told him something that left him confused. After about ten minutes when they had well sped past most of the Knightmare flanks (Except Gilford's), Harpuia decided to ask.
"Master X." He said.
"What is it Harpuia?" X asked.
"About what you said earlier…" He asked.
"What?" X said.
"When you said…"I do not know the definition for Maverick anymore," what did you mean?" He asked.
"Well…" He said. "I mean…look at all the Reploids that have made an appearance so far. Zero…Leviathan…Phantom…the Reploids back at the resistance base… even you. Everything. They all violated the First law of Robotics: A robot cannot kill a human. But every time I fight them, every time I peer into their eyes, I don't see a Maverick. I mean Zero…after I defeated him the first time…he went over and rescued a girl who was being taken by Britannian guards. I swear I thought he was going to kill her. But he rescued her from the guards and took her away. I think I even saw her a second time when we we're fighting back at the resistance base. Then there's your case. You we're at first fighting Britannia, yet now you're fighting without killing humans almost instantly. As far as I know, you haven't killed a soul yet. And even if you haven't, you're restricting your aim and power."
Harpuia stood quiet and ducked his head a bit; knowing that he had killed humans without X knowing; even though he did do it under orders and not of his own will.
"So I'm wondering now…is there even a virus?" X asked rhetorically. "Or has this Evolution that both Sigma and Lumine promised happened without us knowing? I don't know anymore. All I know is that I can't make a stern judgment on anyone...look at me...spouting that rhetoric out and still passing judgment without thinking about it...I've reverted back to who I was at Neo Arcadia."
"I know how you feel Master X." Harpuia said. "I do feel the same way. And you're points are interesting."
A few Knightmares passed X and Harpuia and proceeded up the mountain.
"This isn't the time to discuss this." X said. "Let's get the general and this battle. Only after the JLF are defeated can we hope to have peace in this sector."
X and Harpuia activated their Acceleration system and sped back up the mountain.
"We should be coming up on the enemy soon." A captain said as a group of Knightmare frames advanced up the rocky section mountain. "Switch to ECCM mode. Link up on channel Alpha-4."
"Hey about the enemy?" General Dolton asked. "What are we calling them again?"
"Burais sir." The captain responded.
"Yes watch out for those Glasgow clones." He said.
"Yes my lord." The Captain said.
Cornelia's unit proceeded on a plains portion of the mountain. Her unit had not encountered resistance yet. Cornelia and her units we're wondering if they would see any action at all.
Their answer came when she saw several trees open up in the mountain and three Burai appear out of the ground. The Burai we're similar to that of a Sutherland, but they we're different. Their heads we're changed to look like Samurai's and the body color and type was different.
"How clever!" Cornelia sneered. "They turned this whole mountain into a fortress!"
Cornelia pressed the accelerator on her Knightmare and proceeded towards the group of three Burai.
"You're highness; fall back!" Gilford shouted.
"Gilford; don't take me as one of your women." Cornelia said.
Cornelia continued her charge. She sweep kicked the first unit in front of her, knocking the first Burai off the ground. The second one lost its arm to her slash from her Lance (promptly which, several of her backup units destroyed it with machine gun fire) Cornelia finished the third one off with a thrust from her lance. She caught it and stuck it in midair, before it exploded in a massive fireball. Cornelia charged forward and fired her Slash Harken at an unsuspecting concussion turret and destroyed it before the gunner even realized how much danger it was in.
Gilford was in complete shock and awe from the Viceroy's performance.
"Right…" He said. "I'll cover you from the rear."
"Well!" Cornelia shouted on an open channel. "Cornelia is here! Is there no one who will challenge me!?"
"What's wrong?" Lelouch said, still holding the pistol to anyone who would have picked it up. "Is there no one who will challenge me?"
No one said a word.
"Whatever; do what you want." Tamaki said.
"We acknowledge you as our leader." They all shouted.
Cornelia continued her assault on her section. She finished off another Knightmare by jumping from the sky and penetrating its chest using her lance. She drove on as the Burai exploded behind her as she continued her attack.
"They're too fragile." She said as she continued her attack; Gilford's unit backing her up from behind.
"The enemy's main attack seems to be concentrated over here!" Dolton shouted as his forces came under fire from a large amount of Burai. Dolton watched as two Sutherlands we're destroyed from incoming mortar shells from the Japanese Burai. "This may be where they are located at! Split up now!"
Dolton dodged two shells and hid behind a large rock formation. He fired his massive cannon at the rock formation and destroyed a Burai attempting to escape from the fight among the area. The Burai's continued their assault among the main lines, but had no effect on the approaching wave that came before them. They we're all destroyed within a few minutes.
Dolton proceeded up through trees and rocks; until his force found an unusual looking lodge in the mountain.
"Based on our interpretation of the JLF base, the entrance should be at that lodge in the mountain." A soldier said.
"Well; looks like the situation is BINGO!" Dolton said.
"Well to be more precise sir, the situation is…" The soldier began.
"Oh just call it in already Mr. Literal." Dolton said.
Dolton watched as he saw a Knightmare fire a large flare into the air. A massive firework went off in the area and lit up the whole mountain. All of the units who we're fighting below watched as the firework went off and faded out after a few minutes.
"Was…that…Dolton?" Cornelia asked.
"Seems like it." A soldier said. "That flare came up from an area somewhere near by Dolton's position."
"Very well; we'll hold position here." Cornelia said.
"Are you sure?" Gilford asked.
"I don't need to steal glory from my men." Cornelia said. "Send a reserve force and Mega Man X's unit to backup Dolton. Looks like both of them will be getting another medal."
Mega Man X and Harpuia came under fire from the JLF minutes after they proceeded towards the position. One of the cannons fired at X. X leaped into the air and dodged the cannon shell as it fired on him. X landed on the top of the cannon and drop kicked the JLF trooper off the cannon. X made no attempt to finish him and leaped into the air and fired his X-Buster, destroying the cannon.
Several Burai's approached X's position. X boosted towards the first Burai and slashed at the legs. The Burai continued to fire as the top section fell down. Harpuia blasted forward as the top section fell down and sliced two arms off the next one that that attacked X after he defeated the first one. X charged forward and slashed the Knightmare from the waist, severing it from the legs. He then jumped up and kicked it off the legs. X leaped on the legs and leaped up and fired an X-Buster at the next one that approached them. The blast of energy smashed into the IFF (aka the head) and blasted it into pieces, immobilizing the Knightmare.
Another Knightmare charged forward and began to fire at X. X used Guard shell and deflected all the ammo that came his way. None of the bullets we're able to punch through X's barrier and X fired another X-Buster at the IFF, destroying it. Harpuria sliced the legs and arms off in order to disable it.
"X; did you get the…" Cornelia began.
"We already got the orders; we're on our way." X said. "Just encountered some minor resistance n our way up!"
"An impressive deployment Cornelia." Lelouch said as he opened up a folder, containing the layout of the Narita mountain in his Burai. "Excellent as it is, it is also easy to read. As is your position."
Tohdoh and the Four Holy Blades had just picked up the Burai's and we're on their way to where the battle at Narita was occurring. They haven't made it to the location of where the block offs we're, but the Britannians had put off smaller blockades around the area. Tohdoh had two trucks carrying the four custom Burais. Tohdoh was currently stopped by one of the guards at the blockades. Some of the guards decided to have a break, but there was still one there who was watching. He went up to where the truck was and stopped.
"You wait like everybody else pal." He said.
Axl appeared suddenly from the window of the car and fired a shotgun into the face of the soldier. The soldier fell down dead. No one knew what happened until sometime after they men went out. And by then, the trucks had long left the area.
Gate was in the server room. He was currently readjusting the entire Geass Order database, while continuing to upgrade the weapon schematics of the Siegfried as he worked with his computer. Although Gate was glad to have a second shot at life, he was already rather bored. He already knew how to upgrade the weapons of the Siegfried to an even greater extent, and organize the database into something that was super easy and efficient to use. As he continued to work, he stumbled upon an unusually looking file, saying something about the Order of the Kings.
Gate's curiosity was peaked. Gate moved the arrow cursor on his Mac and moved it over the file on the Order of the Kings word file on the network hardrive. However, he quickly moved the cursor away.
"What is this?" He said to himself. "Geass..."
Gate got up from his chair and went away from the servers to get some fresh air. He couldn't however, deny the fact that the file was most interesting. Gate continued to stare at the screen. He was unable to take his head away from the screen.
The kind of file should probably be in the administrator's database, and not here. It would be most unwise to download the contents of this file for further use...then again...
Finally, after a few minutes, he returned to his chair and began to explore the contents of the file.
"Old habits die hard." He said as he continued to look at the file, along with any files that ran similar to the name.
"Gate." A scientist said as he entered the server room.
Gate nearly fell off his chair as he shut the screen off and quickly made it look like he was working.
"Uh…yes…yes sir?" He asked.
"Hey have you heard anything from squad 23?" He asked.
"Squad 23?" Gate asked. "Weren't they exploring the region along the desert to find a suitable place to store our military equipment?"
"Yes." He replied. "They haven't checked in for four days now. You hear anything?"
"No." Gate said. "Odd…what could have happened?"
"I thought the reserve units we're supposed to be assigned to General Dolton?" Jeremiah asked.
"We we're." Vlletta said.
The Orange incident had still hurt Jeremiah's reputation. Even though it was long past, and trust was once again building back up with him, no one trusted him on the frontlines yet. So Jeremiah once again was cheated out of battle.
"But our unit has to secure the rear line of Cornelia…" Vlletta said.
"You mean this is where we have to be!?" Jeremiah shouted with absolute anger. "It's so far away from the battle. How am I supposed to redeem myself if can't even get into a battle!?"
The JLF continued to fire at the Britannian units. Although they had gained some kills, (only fifteen at most), most of them we're killed in action. A squad of three Burai's we're instantly destroyed from a Slash Harken\machine gun combo from Dolton's squad.
"Ackamaro's unit isn't responding." A JLF member said as they monitored the battle from their tactical holo screens.
"Sector three is offline." Another shouted.
"Sir Tubtua has been killed." One said from the far end of the room.
"Naga's been killed in action." Another said.
The General was looking in complete despair as he bowed his head low in shame. He knew that sooner or later, the Britannians would encircle his position and that they would be killed or executed.
"Tohdoh…" He said. "If he we're here, the winds of fate would blow in our directions."
Tohdoh's truck still continued towards the Narita mountain. The Britannian infantry began to realize this was not a supply truck and began to fire on it. They're small machine guns could not however, penetrate the defenses of the truck.
As they fired, Axl popped up from the window and activated his machine gun weapon. Axl opened fire on several of the guards and killed three of them; before Tohdoh's truck smashed through the barricade. The troops still fired, but it did no good by now. Axl shot one more down, before returning the truck on the inside.
"Can't this thing go any faster?" Axl said as he reloaded his gun.
"Chiba, Asahana, prepare the Burai customs ASAP." Tohdoh said. "Axl, be quiet and keep driving!"
"Why am I the chauffeur!?" Axl shouted as he grabbed the wheel.
"Because all of us will be prepping the Burai customs." Tohdoh said. "Traffic is blocked along the whole area. They've already begun their attack!"
"Yikes!" Axl said as Tohdoh moved over so Axl could drive. "Why don't I just teleport down there and buy you guys time!?"
"We'll get there." Tohdoh said.
The Britannians had wiped out all of the JLF's defenses. They had suffered the loss of twenty Knightmares by the end of the fight. They JLF had lost a hundred-forty two. The Britannians and the Reploids began to climb up the mountain.
"Now soon…" Dolton began. "The Japan Liberation front…"
"We'll be gone forever." Cornelia said.
"And peace will reign over the sector." X said.
"Zero…is this how it's going to be?" Ciel said as she observed the battle going on with her holo screen. "Will all forms of peace have to be achieved through violence?"
Zero was busy readying his equipment. His sub-tank was currently being charged at a console by Cerveau. Zero had put on his helmet and put his saber on his sheathe. Zero turned away from the console that was charging his Sub-tank and looked at Ciel.
"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative." Zero said. "Sometimes no matter what happens, you can't avoid conflict."
"So this…this is how it has to be?" Ciel said.
"I'm afraid so." Zero said.
Ciel turned her head down. Zero knew how much she hated combat. He knew she hated it with a passion. Ciel bowed her head low. A single tear formed from her head.
Zero immediately felt a surge of emotion go into his brain. He didn't realize what was going on. He couldn't accurately interpret what he was thinking. But suddenly he felt as if he had to do something. Zero put his arms of Ciel and hugged her tightly.
Ciel gasped in shock, awe, comfort, and pleasure. Ciel couldn't figure out why Zero was doing it. Quite honestly, neither could he. She looked up into Zero's eyes and he gazed into hers. Ciel looked at him with both awe and admiration. Zero gave no look, but she could tell he was thinking of a multitude of things.
"Even with the darkest of deeds," Zero began. "Can the greatest of deeds be born. I have proven this when I went up against Neo Arcadia. Saving the resistance, stopping Elpizo, and destroying Weil and Copy X. I allowed you to survive. And I promise you…with all that I can call my heart and soul…I will do the same. And yourself are a strong kind-hearted woman. The very kind of woman in this life that the people need. You what decisions need to be made in order to bring about the peace in this life."
"Zero…" She said.
Ciel and Zero, without them knowing, had their faces and lips going closer and closer to each other. Cerveau was too busy working so he had no idea what they we're doing. But before Zero and Ciel's lips touched, Lelouch had his voice boom on the radar. The two at first looked at the radio. Then they turned to each other's faces. Once they realized how close they we're to each other's faces, they shot away and blushed all over.
"All right!" Lelouch shouted. "All the phases of the plan have been completed! Black Knights…begin to move out!"
Zero looked outside from the truck as he saw the Burai of the Black Knights rise up and the Guren go over one of the drills. Leviathan and Phantom we're both seen getting ready to fight. Zero grabbed his Sub-tank and looked at Ciel.
"I'll be back." He said.
Zero ran out of the truck and ran by each of the Black Knights. Each one of them we're loading their ammunition and preparing their Knightmares as the units began to move out.
"On my command!" Lelouch shouted. "We the Black Knights will make a surprise attack from the Summit on the mountain. On my instructions, you will charge from this location to point three. And the intention of the operation is to capture the second princess to Britannia: Cornelia. Our break through maneuver shall be given to us by the Guren MK II."
Zero looked towards Kallen as she activated the Guren. The Knightmare sprung to life as she put its massive claw on the top of one of the drills.
"Kallen…use the penetrating probe MK III." Lelouch commanded. "Smash at their forces with one blow."
"Yeah got it." Kallen said.
Kallen securely placed her Knightmare's claw on the top of the lead drill.
"Output levels normal." She said.
She let out a small breath of relief. She knew within minutes after pressing the switch, she would be out in the middle of combat. The time for revenge was now. Kallen activated the claw and pressed the output claw.
Within seconds, a burst of radiation that leveled about 3500 burst from the claw and went from the drill into the bottom of the mountain. Zero could feel the radiation levels echo all the way from the mountain. At first nothing happened. But within seconds, Zero felt an earthquake from the mountain. Within a few seconds, Zero watched as a massive waterfall rose from the bottom of the mountain to the top. Zero grinned with a smile when he deduced Lelouch's plan.
Brilliant Lelouch. Unleash a massive pulse of radiation below the surface of the earth to ignite enough heat in order to force the water from the bottom to the top of the surface. Then with the water mixing with this position, it'll mix with the water and create a massive mudslide, utterly destroying fifty to seventy percent of all their forces.
Zero jumped up to avoid being swept to a higher elevated area. The water quickly mixed with the mud and the mudslide was created. Zero watched as the water began to rush down the mountain. He could only venture guess how the Britannians would be feeling.
The Britannians we're in complete disarray when the mudslide began. Within seconds, the Britannians on their tactics screen watched as the landslide began destroying one unit after another.
"What's that?" Euphiema asked.
"Impossible!" One of the captains said. "How could a landslide be happening right now!?"
"What the hell!?" X said as he saw the landslide come down. "What's going on!?"
"I don't know!" Harpuia said. "Britannian units; status report now!"
Harpuia only got static from his radio.
"Come in!" He shouted.
Still silent.
"Damn it!" He shouted.
"Someone help me!" A voice on X's radio shouted.
X turned around to see a Knightmare caught in the landslide. It was only hanging by its Slash Harken by the mountain.
X wasted no time. He charged towards the Knightmare and leaped on top of the Knightmare. He pulled out his blue beam saber and began to carve his way through the cockpit. X made a whole circle around the cockpit. After he cut the hole, he grabbed the pilot and leaped back to safe ground; right before the Knightmare was crushed by a massive boulder and destroyed. X and the soldier began to pant as that was a close call. Even Mega Man X couldn't survive landslide of that strength.
"What happened?" Cornelia asked.
"We're still trying to figure out." A commander said. "Your highness; pull out of there. You're in danger…"
"I don't care!" She shouted. "Find out what's happened. Where's Dolton and Alex!?"
"Oh my…" Lloyd said as he monitored the landslide on the. "It looks like they'll be sent to the bottom of the mountain."
"These heat readings are abnormal!" Cecile shouted. "Do you really think a volcanic eruption could have caused this!?"
"Well of course not." Lloyd said. "It would take a Rakshada blast charge in order to do that."
"What's going on?" Suzaku asked as he was prepping the Lancelot.
"Oh nothing." Lloyd said.
Within minutes after the landslide, the entire west side of the mountain was destroyed. The mudslide made a massive brown cover over the entire city. The entire city was even leveled to the ground. Lelouch could theorize how many soldiers and citizens we're killed. By the complete end of the assault from Lelouch using the mudslide, only twenty-percent of the Britannian forces survived.
It was even more deadly than I anticipated. Even though we successfully isolated Cornelia's unit from the rest of her squad, we could have been a little more through. Perhaps I should have consulted a physics teacher…or have Nina tutor me in probability.
The Black robot stood on the top of another section of the Narita mountain. He was using his HUD on his eyes to monitor the whole battle. He was thoroughly impressed with the attack Lelouch had given. However, Lelouch was not his target. As soon as the mudslide was done, he turned off his HUD.
"Guts man, Cuts man, Electric man, Fire man," He began. "It's time."
"Yes lord Bass." They all said.
All five robots leaped from the mountain to the battle below.