The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. H. L. Mencken
The attack began so fast that the Britannians had little to know time to prepare any form of counter attack. Almost all of the Knightmares on the outside of the base were overwhelmed in a matter of seconds, and soon many Britannians were either dead, or ejected out of their Knightmares. Tohdoh stood at the front of the main force, commanding them from the rear; while Commander Craft shouted his orders to Zero's units.
"First squad, continue advancing!" He shouted. "Zero squad, I want you covering them from the rear!"
"Give them no quarter men." Craft said as he charged alongside Zero, Leviathan, and Marino. "Axl…cover us from the rear."
"Roger!" Axl said on a mountain range farther back, prepping a large anti mechanoid sniper rifle. Even though the base was miles away, the sniper rifle Axl had was still powerful enough to reach their positions. After his preparations were complete, Axl placed the scope on top and peered through, letting his ocular implants take over from there.
One group of the last remaining Knightmares charged at the Black Knights.
"Filithy Elevens!" One of them shouted. It was the last thing he ever mentioned. The unit was hoisted up into the air by Kallen's Guren and promptly destroyed seconds later.
"She sure packs a punch." Shogo said as he rode by.
The other Knightmare raised its gun to fire at Kallen, but then Zero appeared from below, slicing the gun's barrel in two. As he was in the air, the Z-Saber began to radiate with a bright green light from the hilt to the blade.
"Handengeki!" Zero shouted, swing a emerald crescent moon into the unit, cutting it half from the waist down. It exploded shortly after. He then burst forward with his thrusters, moving at the next with frightening speed. He sped past one as he was aiming for one that was busy attacking another Black Knight.
"Shippuuga!" Zero shouted, creating an array of flames on his Z-Saber, striking the unit in its sakuradite tank. Then, right before the unit exploded, Zero transformed his Z-Buster into the Slash Harken, which he acquired so long ago. He fired the Slash Harken onto the unit he missed and reeled himself away from it. He again performed the Shippuuga on that, destroying that unit.
Two other units charged at Zero, but they were gunned down by two shots from Axl a distance away.
"Stay near the Knightmares, Red Knight." Craft shouted. "We can't lose the main bulk of our forces this early."
"Belay that order." Tohdoh shouted. "First squad is able to handle themselves. Push inward and advance! Zero wants us you all to draw out X."
"Is that so?" Craft shouted. "Very well then…Zero…continue your advance!"
"Orders acknowledged!" Zero shouted back, pointing his Buster out at an oncoming Knightmare.
"Headquarters appears to be under some sort of attack." A captain shouted to the envoy.
The entire special envoy looked as if they were shocked, while Princess Euphemia did her best to maintain her composure in this. X immediately drew his X-Buster out and kept it armed in case of any force that may have already pierced this far, but he figured that it would be unlikely if that happened.
"We'll withdraw to the settlement." Cecile said, bluntly. "Can you arrange transport?"
"It may be too dangerous right now." The Captain said.
"Do we know the details!?" Sigma asked
"We are unable to confirm the strength and size of the forces, or their affiliation" The Captain shouted back. "The enemy is utilizing a wide range interference to jam our communications; as well as radar. We assume however it could be the Black Knights."
"Captain…switch to frequency-23B…alert all men that we can to converge back on the base." Sigma said.
"We won't be able to reach every man on that frequency General." He shouted back to him.
"It'll be much better to warn some of our men and give them some reinforcements; than to have none return to the base." Sigma said. The passenger of the jeep who was there nodded in confirmation and then began switching the frequency to try and reach nearby patrols. Still, it didn't lessen the fear of the special envoy any more. Finally, Suzaku turned around to Euphemia.
"Don't worry Princess." He said. "I won't let anyone harm you."
"We'll stay your side until the end." X said.
"No you two." She said. "You should help these men fend off the attack."
Suzaku and X both looked confused at such a response. Sigma also looked in surprise when he heard that, and laughed under his breath.
"Well…" He said. "That's not a bad idea."
"But General…" The Captain said. "He's an honorary Britannian. We are most likely dealing with the Black Knights here. What if he turns the Lancelot against us?"
"Uhhh…" Lloyd groaned. "You do realize you are talking to a member of royalty don't you?"
All of the men that had spoken immediately silenced any further conflict that they had about using Suzaku. Sigma saw this and immediately grinned at them.
"Pathetic." He said. "Caught up in your prejudices that you would even turn down a soldier that clearly outshines the rest of our flanks. In our current situation, sending any regular Knightmares will only turn into more losses. This boy is our only hope in pushing back this offensive."
"But General…" Another shouted.
"Fool!" He barked. "If this boy wanted to go to the Black Knights, he would have done so much, much sooner. The records from the Special Envoy, indicate he's been the only pilot for the Lancelot since it was finished. I'm assuming command from here on out." At that point, all of the men simply grumbled under their breath, and saluted Sigma. Whatever their bias were, they could not argue with a General now. Sigma then turned to Suzaku. "Suzaku…demonstrate your valor to us today. Show us your unwavering loyalty to the empire."
Suzaku turned to Sigma and saluted.
"Right!" He shouted.
"X!" Sigma shouted. "Go on ahead and try to buy enough time for Kururugi to make it there safely!"
"Roger General!" X shouted. Seconds later, Suzaku ran in the back to get suited up, while X was already running towards the base. With all the EMI in the air, both X and Sigma knew teleporting or transferring would not be possible…at least not without the risk of their subatomic structure coming apart. Sigma turned to the men.
"I'm going to rally the squads that are within the interference range." Sigma said. "Once we've secured the base, we'll try to make an adequate defense before the Black Knights overwhelm our position."
"You think the trap will work on Mega Man X?" A scientist asked Rakshada?
"I don't know." She replied. "Never had the time to test it. I'm sure if we can separate him from the rest of his team, it will be fairly easy to do it."
As the two were discussing Ciel stood off to the side, monitoring radar and such. The Black Knights still had decent communication in the black out they created, but some of their equipment was still limited. As she watched the blips that each represented a unit, she saw a series of white blips appear on the radar…they lasted only a moment before they disappeared.
"Guys…" She said.
All of the scientists looked at her as she looked at the radar.
"Uhhh…nevermind." She said.
I could have sworn I saw another series of units moving in from the West.
Kallen fired a large shell from the cannon attached to her arm, destroying the knights of one of the Knightmares. Four other units approached her, firing their machine guns wildly. It was assumed by Zero that they had been struck with fear now that the Black Knights had pierced through their defenses.
"Worthless garrison units!" She shouted.
"They obviously didn't realize they stood no chance." Zero replied back.
As Kallen immobilized one of the Knightmares, Zero dashed on top of Kallen and dashed towards the other four, destroying the first two by extending the saber slash. He then struck the other two with two different attacks. All there was left was the immobilized Knightmare which Kallen was nearby; and Tamaki was riding towards.
"I'll finish the job!" He shouted.
Suddenly, shots from behind him rung out. A large blast of energy hit his Knightmare's foot, destroying it. Tamaki grit his teeth as he watched his Knightmare's unit confirm another missing leg seconds later. Finally, the next shot hit his arm with his weapon, and Tamaki ejected out before more damage could be done to him.
Behind the ruined Knightmare was Mega Man X, in the Falcon Armor. His Buster was already primed to fire another shot.
Upon seeing this on radar, Lelouch sighed.
X is here first? Well…this is a surprise. I expected to encounter Suzaku long before I saw him. But that'll make things all too easy now. I doubt any of the other Reploids such as the green one and red one with a large cannon will have been allowed to come at such a sensitive operation. If the information that Kyoto gave me is accurate, then only soldiers who have proved to keep their composure, as well as serving the empire loyally would be able to attend. I should assume that X is the only Reploid I'll have to deal with this entire operation.
Which is fine by me.
"Red Knight…" Lelouch asked on his communications. "Do you copy?"
"Don't worry boss; I already see him." Zero said, cutting the communications there. Lelouch nodded to agree, even know he knew Zero couldn't see him. He then called up Axl.
"Axl…" He said. "Prepare to fire on Mega Man X."
"Roger." Axl said, aiming his sniper towards X.
Zero walked towards X, his Z-saber still active. X himself kept his X-Buster ready, pointed right at him to fire at any moment. Zero kept walking until he got close enough to talk to him without shouting. As soon as he did, Zero then assumed a fighting pose.
"Beat it pal." He said.
"You should already know the answer to that." X replied.
"I know." Zero said. "You can never be too sure though."
And then Zero charged right X, his beam saber ready to strike. X fired his X-Buster at him, to which Zero reflected away, and tried to slash at X. X moved out of the way and shot several most Buster shots, dashing away to keep Zero from trying to hit. Zero stopped his charge and fired three shots himself. All of their shots missed and the two began combat on the grounds of the base.
Axl attempted to fire at X, his shot barely even coming close. He reloaded and fired again. And again. X was moving too fast, and too quick. Leviathan looked at Axl with her arms crossed as he shots kept going.
"Damn." Axl said. "Geez X…hold still for a few minutes."
"Can't you hit him?" Leviathan shouted.
"I'm trying; but he's moving too fast; and X is a fairly small target from this distance." Axl said.
"Well c'mon already." Leviathan said.
"Hey; you want to use the scope and try to hit him, be my guest." Axl said. "I'm built for this kind of combat…if I can't hit him, I doubt anyone else can…other than Zero, but it won't be by a Buster I know that."
"Hey I'm a more advanced Reploid than you." Leviathan sneered.
"That may be true, but your integrated circuits are designed for more front line combat, if everything I've seen about you is accurate." Axl said. "Mine are designed for firearm expertise. Even if the parts that you have are more advanced, it's still programmed for a specific area. It's hard for a melee combat orientated Reploid to be backwards compatible for this kind of warfare. Maybe with assault rifle distances you could adjust, but this much different."
Leviathan stood quiet for a few minutes.
"You older models sure still do know a lot." Leviathan said.
"Hey I resent that." Axl said. "We older models still know are way around things."
During the middle of the fight, when the Z-Saber and X-Saber collided with each other, the Lancelot appeared from the forest and towards the Black Knights. X and Zero both saw the incoming unit moving at them in a high speed. Both X and Zero instinctively leapt to the tops of the towers behind them and waited for it to pass. The Lancelot made no attempt to fight Zero and sped towards the mountain where Lelouch was stationed at.
I guess Suzaku figured X could handle me by himself.
"Confirming target!" Tohdoh shouted on the radio. "All units assume formation 3 and fall back. Do not fire. I repeat, do not fire on the target!"
Looks like it's begun. Now I gotta hold off X long enough to ensure that they are able to capture Kururugi.
Zero then dashed right at X, using his thrusters to gain considerable speed. X held his position, but Zero managed to knock him off the tower by moving around his saber and knocking X off with a swift kick. Zero then leapt off the tower and towards the forest below.
"Ahh geez." Axl shouted. "They went into the forest. Now I can't even get a lock on X."
"Looks like we'll have to go into the forest?" Leviathan asked.
"More than likely." Axl said, causing his sniper rifle to dissipate. To replace it in Axl's hands were two simple energy pistols. "C'mon…Zero's going to want X, and who knows how the other is faring against him."
As soon as Zero landed on the ground, he crushed X's back with his feet, he leapt off X and reignited the Z-saber. Zero was surprised to see that X was still able to get up and aimed his X-Buster right at him. X fired the large energy sphere at Zero, to which Zero moved out of the way. He landed on a small tree branch nearby, and again X fired at him. Zero leapt to the next tree branch, dodging X's Buster shots in every direction.
X then stopped and turned grey for a second.
"Homing torpedo!" He shouted. X then fired several missiles out of his cannon and towards Zero. Zero saw the missiles coming at him. He grabbed the Z-Saber and channeled green energy into the saber.
"Handengeki!" He shouted, throwing a green energy slash at the missiles. The explosion of the first one detonated the others. Zero then charged a Z-Buster and fired it at X. X then changed his color to light blue and pointed his Buster at the ground.
"Crystal hunter!" He shouted, creating a tower of nearly unbreakable crystals under him, projecting him upwards. The buster hit the bottom of the tower, which caused several cracks to appear on it bottom, but not enough to destroy it. After he exhumed enough of the material, he allowed himself to fall off the tower, and fired several speed burners at Zero. Zero dodged of the way, just in enough time for X to land on the ground, and attempt to fight Zero using his hands and feet. Zero ducked under the first kick, only to be kicked in the stomach by the second, sending him flying.
But Zero counter attacked him with a well-aimed Buster shot, pushing X back.
"X…how many times do we have to keep fighting like this?" He shouted.
"Until your nothing more than scrap metal in the ground!" X yelled back.
"Typical." He said. "At this rate, we're not going to get anywhere."
Suzaku rode after Zero's unit, closing in at a very fast pace. They eventually came to a large clearing where there was a unusually large hole. Something that also did not appear to be a natural formation either. Lelouch dove into the hole without thinking, leaving himself stranded in there.
"There's no way his Knightmare has the mechanics to escape a hole of that size." Suzaku said. "Could he be leading me into a trap?"
Suzaku only asked himself this once before he dove in and disabled Lelouch's unit by knocking his machine gun out of his hand. Lelouch reached for his unit's beam saber, but did not activate it. Suzaku on the other hand activated the MVS and pointed it at Lelouch.
"Zero…" He shouted. "I have you…"
"…right where." Lelouch also said, unknowing that he was virtually repeating the same thing Suzaku was saying from the other side.
"I want you." Rakshada said in the same fashion.
Without Suzaku's knowledge, Rakshada had placed a gefjun disruptor around the entire hole. As soon as it activated, a massive malfunction occurred within Suzaku's Lancelot. The disruption began to shut down both Lelouch's and Suzaku's Knightmare (not the Lelouch cared…it was Suzaku with the better Knightmare; even with the modifications Cerveau had made awhile back). Eletricty consumed Suzaku's Knightmare, and his unit ceased functioning.
"What the…" He said. Suzaku began to toy with every single little button he could, but nothing was responding. "No good. The unit isn't responding."
"Suzaku…come out of there." Lelouch shouted. "Your secondary functions should still be active. You will be treated like a prisoner of war under international law. If you don't like it however, we can always just gun you down."
Suzaku gritted his teeth in anger, but he knew he could not do anything. He wasn't even sure if he could escape this situation even if his Knightmare was functioning; as the Four Holy blades; and Tohdoh was not something even he wanted to encounter. He chased them off, sure…but these were still bad odds. Suzaku simply nodded to himself and began to open up the hatch of the Knightmare.
"I don't care what Suzaku wants; have him abandon the unit!" Euphemia shouted at Cecile and Lloyd. "If he stays in it, he's going to get shot down."
"What could possibly be wrong with the unit?" Iris asked as she typed away on the command console to try and override the problem; which wasn't possible.
"I don't know." Cecile said. "Something has happened to the sakuradite powering the Lancelot."
"A Gefjun disruptor." Lloyd said aloud.
"You mean…" Cecile shouted before Lloyd continued.
"But their using it as a jammer instead." Lloyd said. "I thought it only theoretical. What a fool I am. It really is you Rakshada."
"Where's General Sigma!?" Euphemia continued to banter on. "Can we reach him?"
"The EMI in the area is disrupting all long range communications around the area." Iris continued. "There's no way to reach the General until such time as he leaves the jamming field."
"There's got to be a way to reach him." She continued.
Iris looked at Euphemia.
"Well…I have an idea of how we could approach it." She said.
During X and Zero's fight, the two reploids fought for a few seconds more. Since X had a much stronger radar system than the Britannians did, he felt the Lancelot's signal disappear. He stopped fighting, which in turn caused Zero to stop. Zero also felt the large blip vanish from the radar, but he knew the situation.
"Oh no." X stated. "Suzaku…"
"So…they already pulled it off?" Zero asked. "Didn't take that long at all."
"What are you talking about!?" X shouted. "Where is Suzaku! Answer me Zero!"
"Relax." Zero said. "Suzaku's fine…at least I assume he is. Zero's probably only disabled his unit…Suzaku himself should be fine."
X breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that. Truth be told, he still trusted Zero to tell in the truth in situations, and he also figured that Zero would have no reason to lie to him.
"What's your boss planning then?" X asked, pointing his Buster at him.
"Let's just say my boss has a more personal interest with Kururugi; and wants to see if he'll come to serve us." Zero said.
"That won't happen." X shouted. "He'll die before he lets that happen."
"I'm aware." He said.
X was stunned when he heard Zero say that. He said also as if he knew Kururugi personally, without even taking the slightest amount of time to think about his answer. Did he know Suzaku somehow…did he know how he acts and what he believes.
This wasn't the time for asking questions though. He knew he had to get to Kururugi before he could let him sacrifice himself. X charged ahead, dodging a saber slash from Zero. As soon as Zero realized he missed, he used the Hienkyaku to teleport himself directly to where was, and delivered a swift kick in his face. X from where he was and crashed into a tree, the mere force of him hitting it uprooted the thing all together. As the tree fell, X leapt off of it and fired a charged X-Buster using a Quick charge part. The blue beam of energy smashed right into Zero, forcing him onto the ground. X then activated the Falcon armor's ability of flight and crashed into Zero, throwing him into a tree. Zero tried to regain his footing, but X flew over him and shot him midair.
Zero managed to roll out of the way and deflect a saber slash from X before, using both of his hands to perform a hand stand. Then then swirled his feet around, kicking X's Buster away from him. He then scrunched his feet up and used his hands to propel him forward into X. X fell to the ground, while Zero regained his footing. X then himself regained his footing, just in enough time to block a saber slash from Zero with his own.
"Let me go Zero!" X shouted.
"I can't do that X." He said.
"Then I have no choice but to retire you." X said.
"Go ahead and try." Zero barked. "You're not taking me without a fight!"
Zero and X leapt away from each other, and pointed their arm cannons at one another. Just as they did, several shots rang out on both sides. X leapt away to avoid gunshots hitting, as well as Zero. Seconds later, a contingent of twelve Britannian Knightmares, and Axl with Leviathan emerged from the brush. The two sides aimed their weapons at the individuals.
General Sigma led the pack.
"X…are you alright!?" He shouted, moving to his side.
"General." He said.
"Sorry I'm late…turns out some of my squads were attacked by the Black Knights before this operation even began." He said. "Some of the patrols were wasted so that they couldn't report the Black Knight's presence here."
"Damn the Black Knights." X said. "I understand that there are problems with radical racism in Britannia, but disrupting peace like this doing nothing but hindering the people's minds."
"I agree." Sigma said. "We'll need to deal with these machines now."
"General…Suzaku's machine has been disabled; and he needs rescue." X said. "Permission to break off from the fight to fight off the Black Knights?"
"Permission granted." Sigma said. Sigma then reached for his saber and drew it out "I'll deal with these units."
"Thank you sir!" X said, before saluting him. X then ran behind the Knightmares and dashed away.
"Out of my way!" Zero shouted, charging at the Knightmares with incredible speed.
"Evade and attack!" Sigma shouted. The Knightmares immediately broke off into different groups and formed what appeared to be some form of encirclement around the area where the Reploids were.
Suzaku departed the Lancelot's cockpit and walked towards Lelouch who had his gun pointed out at him.
"I'll get right to the point." Lelouch said. "I want you to join our forces."
"Is that a threat?" Suzaku asked. Lelouch gave no response. "Well you can forget it. I told you before…results gained through contemptible means are worthless to me."
"So…you wouldn't describe the peace we have now as worthless?" Lelouch asked. Suzaku was stunned for a second, but he stood still.
"What do you think would have happened if Japan had resisted to the very last man?" Lelouch continued. "The Chinese and the EU would have stepped in, and the nation would be split into three. They would still be fighting even now. The current peace that we have is the result of Japan's immediate and unconditional surrender."
"Your right." Suzaku said. "I'm fighting now to preserve my father's peace."
"Your wrong." Lelouch said. Suzaku again was stunned and backed up away, but still held his ground. "Prime Minister Kururugi, elected by the people did not choose surrender. That decision was selfishly made by his killer." Now Suzaku knew it. Somehow, Zero had known what had happened. As much as he didn't want him to continue, he could already feel it coming. "The government was thrown into chaos. Surrender became the only logical option at that point. The people's will was stolen from them by a criminal's own selfish agenda!"
Suzaku stood there, stunned. Zero didn't call him out, but he already knew that he knew.
"How on earth do you know that?" Suzaku asked.
"There's only one way for you to atone now." Lelouch said. "Make the decision that was stolen from them seven years ago."
"Fighting Britannia!?" Suzaku barked. "That again!?"
"It's an option worth exploring." Lelouch said. "Or would you rather have the Japanese continue down the path driven by your own egotism. You call that peace!?"
Lelouch and Suzaku stood at a standoff for a few seconds. Seconds later, a radio transmission began to break through the field.
"Suzaku Kururugi come in." The voice shouted. "Suzaku do you read?"
Suzaku went to touch his ear piece. Before speaking into it, he looked at Lelouch.
"May I?" he asked.
"Go ahead." Lelouch said.
Suzaku held his ear piece to his ear.
"This is Lieutenant Colonel Fair." He shouted. "We are launching surface to surface missiles against the terrorists! Your orders are to keep Zero there until the X unit immobilizes him and provides rescue! Do not let him leave!"
Lelouch's brain shot in the moment he heard that.
They're giving him up to die!
Within the next few seconds, Lelouch found himself at the mercy of his own gun.
Sigma leapt at Zero, who in turn deflected the attack. Sigma rolled away from Zero and moved in to attack Zero. Zero parried the strike and tried to hit him, though he was unable to do it. A Knightmare moved in to try and gun down Zero, but Zero cut the unit in two with a saber strike. Two others tried to fire, but Axl destroyed the cockpits with rockets from above. He had moved into stealth mode when the pilots surrounded him so they had lost track of him.
As for Leviathan, she herself created an array of ice of which traversed on, and then leapt off. She plunged her lance into the cockpit of one of the units, and allowed his buddy to obliterate the remnants of it with his own machine gun.
"Britannian punks!" She shouted. She then hurled her spear into one of the units, destroying its IFF. The pilot ejected out seconds later.
"All units back off from the area." Sigma said after he deflected another attack from Zero. He then backed away to gain some ground away from Zero. When Zero tried to dash away to where X had gone to, Sigma appeared in front of him and deflected his attack. "These special core units will dispatch more of you at this rate. Let me and Vile handle this."
"Yes my lord!" They shouted. All but one of the Knightmares rolled away from the area.
"Their retreating?" Leviathan asked as she retrieved her lance.
Zero charged at Sigma, trying to get in a couple hits. But Sigma managed to fend off his saber strikes with his own saber. Sooner or later, he and Sigma engaged in a fight that was very comparable to something from Star Wars. Zero could not break his guard.
"Dammit." Zero shouted. "Let me through!"
"You'll have to destroy me first!" Sigma shouted.
"With pleasure!" Zero barked back, throwing Sigma off. "I don't care if your memories are gone. You're still just a maverick to me!"
"This again huh?" Sigma said. "I don't know what you're talking about, but it's beginning to bore me!"
While the two fought, Leviathan tried to get into position to strike down Sigma. As she did, she saw that one of the Knightmares that didn't leave was charging right at her. Leviathan threw her lance at it, but she saw the Knightmare perform a complex maneuver that in turn dodged the attack.
Whoa…I've never seen pilots do that before.
The Knightmare then leapt in the air, moving it's foot up to kick Leviathan. Leviathan saw that she was in a position that was not optimal for her to escape, so she simply rose up her hands to block the attack. She flew from where she was and landed on the ground, damaged badly. The Knightmare then pulled out it's machine gun at her.
"Insolent piece of scrap metal!" Vile shouted. "Think you have what it takes to best me!?"
He then fired his machine gun, but Leviathan was scooped up by Axl and taken away to safety. Vile saw the Reploid girl moving away from the area.
"Oh no!" He shouted. "Your not getting away!"
Vile hit the accelerator on his Knightmare and began to pursue the two. As soon as Zero saw this, he attempted to destroy the legs to his Knightmare, but Sigma forced him to parry and his shot was canceled.
Axl however must have seen that, as Zero got a short range transmission at him.
"Don't worry about us." Axl said. "Leviathan's a little winded, but she'll be fine. Just stop X!"
A second later, a rocket came out of the woods. Vile saw it and moved, but he turned his head at it, as he realized it was not aimed at him. Zero saw the rocket was actually aimed at him.
And then he had an idea. He allowed the rocket to get as close to him as possible. At the last second after he parried Sigma, he then swung on top of the rocket.
And then he used his feet to push it upwards. He was flying.
Quick thinking Axl…thanks.
"You won't get away that easily!" Sigma shouted. Sigma then charged an energy beam from his head and fired it at Zero. Zero used Guard shell to deflect the beam to somewhere else. Sigma watched as his beam did nothing.
And then he smiled.
"Not bad Red Reploid." He said.
Then he clenched his fist and began to glow. Those who were able to see him (which was no one at this point) would have changed from what it is to something else. Parts of Sigma's body changed around, until it formed an entirely new body. When it was complete, Sigma was in a purplish armor that had a jet pack, a shield, and what looked like a flame thrower.
"But not good enough." He said.
Sigma then flew towards Zero.
Yoshida saw X charging at them.
"Blue Reploid spotted." He shouted.
"Oh no; that's the Britannian equivalent to the Red Knight!" Chiba shouted.
"That's not all!" Ohgi shouted, looking at the radar. "Incoming missiles confirmed!"
"Damn!" Tohdoh shouted.
X looked up and saw the missiles approaching at a marginally fast speed. X looked up in shock as he saw this.
"Damn!" X shouted. "What are they thinking!?"
"X…come in." A voice shouted. X pressed his hand to where his ear would be. "This is lieutenant field. You have orders to bind Zero to that location and rescue Kururugi. If you cannot do so, then ensure Zero cannot leave the area. The ETA of the missiles strike is five minutes! If you wish to save Kururugi, do so now!"
"Commander!" X shouted.
Seconds later, a large burst of static blew through X's scanner. X…who was normally able to hear through such jammers found himself unable to hear anything. Even he was stupefied when this occurred.
"I'm being jammed?" X asked. "What's going on?"
"What's going on!?" Lieutenant filed shouted. "Why have we lost communication!?"
"I don't know sir!" An officer shouted. "A secondary jamming device has been detected all around the island. It's emitting a large burst of interference greater than the first one."
"Is it the Black Knights!?" He shouted.
"No; the central part of the jamming field seems to be concentrated at an auxiliary location." They shouted.
"Then who else is on this island!?" He shouted.
"All Knightmares!" Tohdoh shouted. "Throw up a barrage! Empty your guns if you have to! Do whatever it takes to destroy that Reploid and missiles."
"We don't have enough ammo to deal with both!" Chiba shouted.
Tohdoh watched as X ran at three of the Black Knights units. Yoshida tried to strike at X, but X managed to maneuver around the strike, and then fired at his Knightmare's feet. The knee of the unit fell apart and his Knightmare collapsed. Shogo tried to strike at him with his sword, but X leapt into the air and held out his saber, deflecting the strike. Of course the force of the unit forced X back onto the ground.
Shogo then tried to shoot X, but the Falcon armor made X made much too fast to be hit. While some of the Knightmares broke off to deal with X, the rest of them fired their guns to unleash a barrage against the missiles, destroying most of them.
As X disabled two more of the Black Knights, Zero leapt off the missile he was riding on.
"Sentsezian!" He shouted, directing his Z-Saber towards the ground, creating a wave of energy when he hit the ground. X flew from where he was and landed on his head and then his back. He pulled himself to his feet and pointed his X-Buster at Zero.
"I don't have time to deal with you!" He shouted.
"How typical." Zero shouted, looking at the missiles. "Sacrificing someone that's not their own to accomplish their goals. This is why I fight against them."
"The Britannians are only doing what they feel will stop that terrorist your harboring!" X shouted.
"The worst government is often the most moral." Zero shouted. "One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. And your government is full of fanatics!"
"I don't have time to argue this!" X shouted. "I have to save Suzaku!"
"That makes two of us then!" Zero shouted.
"Huh!?" X barked. "What do you mean?"
Before Zero could answer, the two looked up to see a large ship appear on the horizon.
And then…blackness was the only thing they could recall.
Changes done to Chapters 31-35
1. Minor spelling mistakes resolved
2. Grammar mistakes fixed.
3. Changes to dialogue have been made; as well as expanding on certain scenes to make the characters sound more like themselves.
4. Two new scenes added:
A. A scene with Axl nervous about him and Leviathan
B. A memory scene with X desperately trying to save Alia