Turn V: Motion in the Ocean.
(Slayers evacuation position)
It had been five days since they faced Lelouch and they knew time was running out for them, the executive committee currently had no job to do except wait for the loading process to be finished so they just relaxed and watch MTV for a while.
Just then the MTV announced the Lady Gaga's new video for Alejandro was going to follow.
The video began and they all watched it.
The sounds of the violin began and the video showed the center square of a city, there you could see an old fat priest, a young nun which was played by Gaga and hundreds of people walking in the square.
Just then the earth shook, a big cross which was hung on the center lamp pots of the square became loose and slighted down making in a reverse cross.
A pentagram appeared on the place where the reverse cross was fathered and flames erupted, from those flames a throne emerged and a young man dressed as Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon appeared, but it was obvious that the character was a personification of the devil.
I know that we are young.
And I know you may love me.
But I just can't be with you like this anymore.
Alejandro.
She's got both hands
in her pocket.
The old priest saw this and came up to him; he presented a crucifix and tried to exercise the demon.
And she won't look at you,
Won't look at you
The masked person looked at the cross for a moment and got up from his throne.
She hides true love
En su bolsillo.
He then touched the cross and kissed it without a moments hesitation, shocking the priest, the masked man hand and lips burned, but quickly healed.
She's got a halo 'round her finger.
Around you.
He then brought his face close to the priest's own exhaled from his mouth a block fog, the pries tried to run, but the fog engulfed him and a woman who was dressed in a conservative religious manner.
You know that I love you boy.
Hot like Mexico, rejoice.
At this point I gotta choose,
nothing to loose.
The old fat pries changed into a young man with a Schwarzenegger-like body physique dressed in a biker's uniform, the woman changed from a glasses and haired tied in a knot persona to a long raven haired biker attire woman
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.
Both of them had their eyes blackened and a strange black light was coming from their orbits and mouths, the man and the woman looked at each other and started kissing and rubbing each other obviously making foreplay before the main act.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch.
Just smoke one cigarette and hush.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Roberto.
The crowd watched in shock at the transformation, the young nun played by Gaga saw that the masked man eyed her and began to run.
The masked figure just slowly stepped towards her.
Alejandro.
Alejandro.
Ale-ale-jandro.
Ale-ale-jandro. [2x]
Just then men with machine guns and tanks appeared in the square.
(Just stop. Please. Just let me go. Alejandro. Just let me go.)
Their leader came forward and gestured for him to go back to hell
She's not broken,
She's just a baby.
But her boyfriend's like a dad, just like a dad.
and all those flames that burned before him.
Now he's gonna fight your fight, gonna cool the bad.
The masked figure just smiled at this attempt and upon seeing this, the leader ordered his men to take aim, they fired and the bullets and tank shells toped in mid air a few feet away from the figure.
You know that I love you boy.
Hot like Mexico, rejoice.
At this point I gotta choose,
nothing to loose
The figure then gave a wave of the right hand from the left to the right which send the bullets bag to the soldiers killing them and destroying the tanks.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.
The figure then continued his slow and calm pace towards the nun, his cloak now grew to enormous size and covered the remaining people of the square.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch.
Just smoke my cigarette and hush.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Roberto.
As he paced forward he dragged the cloak of them revealing that they suffered a similar transformation as the priest and the woman earlier.
Alejandro.
Alejandro.
Ale-ale-jandro.
Ale-ale-jandro. [2x]
As an orgy started all around the square, the masked figure caught up with the nun who had run into a back alley and was trapped with her back to the wall.
Don't bother me.
Don't bother me. Alejandro
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Fernando.
The figure looked at her and she looked straight into his red eyes, he bowed his head towards her and she closed her eyes in fear, he gave her a kiss and she fell under his spell.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Alejandro.
He then broke the kiss and pulled away, the nun opened her eyes and she was now visibly flushed and horny from the almost orgasmic kiss.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch. Fernando.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.
The figure smiled and caressed her face with his hand, he then hugged her and started kissing her neck, she no longer able to resist him surrendered and let him undress her.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch.
Just smoke my cigarette and hush.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Roberto.
A moments later they were bought naked, but he still had his mask on, he kissed her, grabbed her by the hips raised her until she wrapped her legs around his waist.
He then trusted into her and flames erupted in the background where the orgy was happening
Alejandro.
Alejandro.
Ale-ale-jandro.
Ale-ale-jandro. [2x]
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch.
Just smoke my cigarette and hush.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Roberto.
After climaxing the flames died down and the nun now laid in his embrace, he looked and her and at the debauchery he caused and smiled.
The camera then zoomed at his face and he grabbed his mask in order to remove it
Hetookof themask revealing his smiling face
Alejandro.
It was Lelouch's face.
"Woo! You know guys….call me a nutcase but… the idea of Prince Lelouch being the Devil…..actually makes me want say ' I told you so'" Tamaki replied and to a certain manner the sentiment was shared by those in the room.
(Avalon)
"That was some video! Gaga sure is bold to do something like that!" C.C said to Lelouch, both of them were in a private quarters.
"To be honest I am rather offended that she used my digital image without my consent" Lelouch replied and started to exit the room for the command deck.
"But if she did ask would you allow her to use you it in such a manner? As a dark lord of lust, corruption and destruction?" C.C asked teasingly.
"You've forgot to mention my oratorical skills!" Lelouch replied with a chuckle and went to the bridge.
"How's the enemy progress?" Lelouch asked.
"Well according to our scouts their just about to begin shipping of, we estimate that there are 150.000 soldiers and 850.000 civilians in those transport ships" Cecile replied.
"We will have to wait until they get to the open sea until then we can't manage to sort them out from the commercial ships, tell the fleet to pull back until we are 5 miles short of international waters" Lelouch replied.
"We mustn't let them escape, it took us so long to rebuilt the country, and bring reform to its colonial policy and they are the one thing which always get in the way, they helped Xingke put Lelouch in a coma, because of them Sawasaki took Kyushu and turned it into hell, and now they tried to kidnap Euphie and Nunnally, they must be stopped at all costs!" Suzaku angrily thought to himself
(Slayers command ship eight hours latter)
"Hum….. well from these specks you manage to buy off the black market it seems That Earl of Pudding and Croomy woman are going to build on hell of a monster!" Laksharta said to Kaguya as she looked at the designs for the Lancelot Albion.
"Could you make something to counter it?" Kaguya asked.
"Upgrading the Guren to this level will be a matter of time, it will take a while, but so will their model take a while" Laksharta replied and went to begin designing the Guren SEITEN.
Kaguya returned to the bridge and sat in the commander's chair.
"How long until we reach international waters?" Kaguya asked.
"We are about 7 miles away from entering them" Todoh replied.
"Then it's time to begin the transmission!" Kaguya said and a TV camera was brought to the bridge.
"People of Japan, I am Kaguya Sumeragi Leader of the Slayers, I say to you the following, Brittannia has started and operation of arresting the Slayers and because of that we have decided to go into an exodus for freedom we are forced to run overseas, but rest assured we will return and Liberate the country from these conquerors…."
"Big words and full of lies, I'd expect more of you Lady Kaguya!" Lelouch voice suddenly appeared on the transmission and cut her off.
The TV transmission which was now broadcast to the world had split the screen in two one showing Kaguya, the other showing Lelouch.
"You dare say we broke the truce and attacked you when it is you who never upheld it!" Lelouch said and started showing battle footage.
"Five days ago you and your Slayers attacked the transport convoy of Princess Euphemia and Nunnally, it is clear to all that the attacking frames are those used by your organization, the Gekka's and the Gawain which you stole from us! And a year ago during the battle 50 miles of the coast of Kyoto you're forces aided Xingke in battle on the very same day which you pledged to disarm!" Lelouch said and showed footage of both events.
Kaguya was momentarily caught o guard by this, but she quickly recovered and countered.
"There is no proof that those piloting the frames are members of the Slayers!" she retorted.
"Even if that is so you still are guilty of the crime of selling weapons to enemies of the state, if a man sells a know killer a gun knowing what it will be used for, then he is as guilty for a murder as the one who pulled the trigger!" Lelouch replied and this countered Kaguya and put her in a corner.
"You may bring these lies to the ears of the world, but I will say the truth, people of Japan listen to me, Brittannia is not to be trusted, they seem friendly and caring now, but once you let your guard down they will show it's true face and we will be put in bondage once more, I saw through your illusion Zero and that is why the 'Slayers' are now evacuating Japan, we will not be your slaves!" Kaguya retorted and this made Lelouch tighten his grip on the king chest piece in frustration, Kaguya was a formidable opponent, thinking in his head for a second on the answer, he found the death blow and launched it.
"Your accusations are nothing but proofless speculation, propaganda meant to vilify and paint a false image of me and my Black Knights, but the following fact are without a doubt true and with proof:
You sold weapons to the enemies of the state, it was those weapons which gave Xingke enough power to place me in a coma, and my wounding gave enough chaos for Sawasaki to take over Kyushu and turn it into one big dungeon, continuing this conversation is now pointless, no matter what I say you will still come up with a lie to give justification to your actions, which are nothing short of pure terrorism! And since you and 'The Slayers' are nothing but criminals I will bring you to justice!" Lelouch replied, put on his Zero mask and ended the transmission.
Kaguya did the same.
"Enemy sighted! 10 battle ships 3.7 miles in front of us!" Sugiyama who was operating the radar reported.
"How long until the reinforcements arrive?" Kaguya asked.
"They estimate that 10 minutes is what they'll need!" Yoshida replied.
"Then we will prevail today!" Kaguya replied and calmly returned to her captain's seat.
(Schneizell's office, Pendragon)
"So in three weeks it is time for the big show isn't it?" Schneizell asked the Maharaja of India.
"Yes, Schneizell Sahib, any longer than that we cannot postpone, everyone is at their limit of patience. Also three weeks is the only time the seas will be clean enough of E.U or Chinese warships to allow any major transport to occur. Also we would prefer in you'd choose your brother Lelouch for our request!" Manmohan Singh replied.
"I will talk to him and see what I can do, but rest assured that even if it's not Lelouch we will do as you requested" Schneizell replied.
"I thank you Schneizell Sahib." Manmohan Singh said and ended the transmission.
(4 miles short of international waters, the Pacific)
Lelouch, Suzaku, Anya and Gyno were in their knightmares which were the only ones that survived the battle days ago and with the fleet of tens ships and the Avalon were blocking the Slayers escape route.
"This is Field Marshall Lelouch vi Brittannia speaking, Slayers know that you are in a hopeless situation, the ships you are using for transport are unarmed, while we have ten war vessels with us, if you surrender now I will grant you the following terms:"
"You're leaders will not be executed, but they will be incarcerated for life for their crimes, the rest of you will not be prosecuted but will be allowed to return to Japan or go wherever you please without fear of arrest or detention, but you must accept those terms now, if I do not hear a reply within the next ten minutes I will assume that you have chosen to fight to the death, I will then order all of my ships to open fire on your fleet and sink everyone of your vessels, there will be no life boast deployed, no rescue operation, if you choose to fight me then you will fight o the death!" Lelouch announced to the enemy fleet with his knightmares speakers.
"We're trapped! Every knightmare we have is still in repair!" Kallen said now trembling in fear.
"Also if we choose to fight to the death, the women and children who chose to join us will all drown!" Tamaki added.
"What shall we do Kaguya-sama?" Ohgi asked her.
"Zero has given us ten minutes to surrender or be crushed, but in one minute he will be the one crushed!" Kaguya proclaimed and the others just stared at her in amazement.
Back in the Avalon Nunnally and Euphie were horrified at what was about to happen, they knew Lelouch was serious in this matter and what was worse Suzaku supported him 120%.
They prayed, hoped the Slayers would surrender so a blood bath would be averted!
"Stubborn as always.." Suzaku said to himself.
"But no matter what she does it's hopeless, she is in check *BOOM*" A cannon shell explode near Lelouch's position and he and Suzaku, Anya and Gyno looked to see where it came from.
"Wha…what it that thing!" Kewell said from the bridge of the Avalon.
"Iceberg Carrier…." Lloyd replied which drew all those present towards him.
"A few years ago the Chinese started a project to create a Peltier film and insulatory polymers to turn icebergs into massive unsinkable carriers and battleships." Lloyd replied to those present on the bridge and to the flying knightmares who had a radio link with them.
"To think that the Kaguya could somehow manage to obtain this much support from the Chinese empress…..she truly is a frightening opponent!" Lelouch said and from hunter they had become the hunted.
"Iceberg Carrier Sorajima, this is Kaguya Sumeragi, do you receive us?" she said through the radio.
"This is Iceberg Carrie Sorajima; we receive you Kaguya, pardon us for our tardiness, and please issue your orders!" Taizo Kirihara said from the ship.
After the failed operation, The Six Family leaders knew that Lelouch would come after them so they evacuated early with their personal security details and used those details to man the Iceberg and bring it as an escort.
"Kirihara-san you and the ship will engage the enemy fleet, keep them busy so we may reach the safety of international waters, after you dispose of them rendezvous with us at Horai Island!" Kaguya replied and they complied.
The carriers massive and numerous guns and missiles started firing at Lelouch and his small fleet.
"Dam it all, if I order my fleet to destroy the transports we will be all killed, and if I concentrate on the Iceberg the Slayers evacuation fleet will escape!" Lelouch mentally said to himself in frustration.
Deciding to let them go and live to fight another day he gave the orders for the fleet to concentrate on the Iceberg.
"Understood! All units this is General Jeremiah, ignore the transports and concentrate all fire power on the Iceberg!" Jeremiah ordered and a salvo of bullets was returned to the Iceberg.
A second, third, fourth and fifth salvo was also fired.
"Barrage accuracy report!" Kewell said to the crew.
"Artillery reporting in, only 25% of the salvo managed to hit the target and only half of those were close to any vital area!" the artillery officer reported on the bridge.
"Only 25%!" Suzaku said astounded as the sheer inefficiency which was uncharacteristic of the Black Knights.
"We should have returned to Kyushu and picket up Odysseus for this….without him….our artillery is nothing more than giant vuvuzelas." Lelouch said to himself now desperate for his chief of artillery.
Just then from the Iceberg the guns fired a simultaneous volley from all their cannons, and it mercilessly hit Lelouch and his subordinates.
"All units damage report!" Lelouch quickly said after he recovered from the impacts recoil.
"This is what the surface fleet looks like, 3 ships are hurt badly but are in danger of sinking, four have been hurt in the critical area and will eventually sink, but the crews have already begun to enter lifeboats and the remaining three literally exploded when they were hit!" Jeremiah replied, his radio was full with sounds of damage coming from the bridge and alarms sounding of the Avalon.
"This is the Avalon status! Our shield managed to hold out against that salvo, but it drained our power reserve, I don't think we will be able to survive another blast!" Lloyd replied.
"One more salvo from that thing and we will all be dead!" Lelouch thought to himself.
"All units listen up this is what we are going to do:
Jeremiah get the fleet away from here, there's nothing we can do about Kaguya so just get the hell out of dodge, Suzaku you Gyno, Anya and myself will cover the fleets retreat!" he ordered and they deployed.
Lelouch charged the Iceberg Carrier and with Suzaku, Gyno and Anya stopped a few hundred meters short of it and started their covering operation.
Kirihara seeing this immediately ordered all batteries to concentrate their fire on the four frames.
Anya and Lelouch used their shields to block the cannon shells while Suzaku and Gyno from behind Lelouch and Anya used their rifles against the missiles.
"Never a dull moment when were serving under you Lelouch!" Gyno jokingly said, but his voice was now filled with exhaustion from the constant need to hit incoming enemy missiles.
"This is insane; we are literally being used as human punching bags! It's only a matter of time before we run out of power or ammunition and then we will be blown to bits" Lelouch said and he activated the Colgrevance's scanners in the hopes of finding some kind of advantage or weakness in the massive Leviathan that was pummeling them.
(Avalon)
Nunnally and Euphie upon seeing that the Slayers fleet had managed to escape and Lelouch wasn't forced to start a massacre let out a breath of relief, only for that breath to turn into a gasps of horror upon seeing the four airborne knightmares fly to the iceberg to shield their retreat.
"Lelouch, Suzaku…..don't die!" Euphie said as tears streamed down her eyes.
Nunnally was in the same mental state as Euphie and she had started to cry as well.
"Come on Lelouch! You call yourself the Niddhog, can you really cal yourself a dragon if you cannot win against the mere creation of a few mortals!" C.C said to herself as she frantically watched the merciless pummeling behind their current position.
"Jeremiah can you hear me?" Lelouch asked the Avalon
"Yes my lord! What are you orders?" Jeremiah desperately asked.
"Do we have any torpedoes left?" he asked.
"Yes sir and plenty of them!" Jeremiah replied.
"Arm them and fire them at the following coordinates immediately." Lelouch said and transmitted the coordinates.
(Slayers command center)
"Zero is covering the retreat of their fleet?" Kaguya asked, their fleet was now in international waters far away from danger.
"Yes ma'am! It appears so!" Minami replied.
"Give us a visual" Todoh ordered and Minami complied.
What they saw shocked them.
"They….they're taking all of the Carriers punishment to allow their ships to escape!" Ohgi said astounded at their bravery.
"Magnificent valor!" Todoh said and despite the fact that they were enemies the Slayers where all moved by what they saw, chivalry in its purest form!
(Lelouch's position)
"Jeremiah can you hear me?" Lelouch asked the Avalon
"Yes my lord! What are you orders?" Jeremiah desperately asked.
"Do we have any torpedoes left?" he asked.
"Yes sir and plenty of them!" Jeremiah replied.
"Arm them and fire them at the following coordinates immediately." Lelouch said and transmitted the coordinates.
"Gyno, Suzaku listen up when I give the orders I want the two of you to run like fury towards their main propellers and hit them hard, do you understand?" he asked
"Yes sir!"
"Yes sir!" the both of them replied.
Just then the torpedoes Jeremiah launched hit their targets which were a few strategic points on the seas bed.
"What's going on?" Tousai Munakata asked as the Sorajima started shaking violently
"The Black Knights have detonated a few torpedoes on the sea bed, making a gas pocket erupt!" the sonar officer replied.
"Will this ship capsize and sink?" Hidenobu Kubouin asked.
"No sir! This is ship is to big to be affected like that, however….."
"The vibrations make it impossible for the targeting computer to lock on and fire at them, meaning…" Kaguya said to her men.
"We now have a window of opportunity, Suzaku, Gyno deploy now!" Lelouch ordered.
"Suzaku immediately activated his Lancelot Conquesta shield barrier and hurried towards the left propeller; Gyno turned his Tristan into a fighter jet and at full thrust went for the right one.
Gyno unleashed his rocket propelled slash harken destroying the right propeller, Suzaku meanwhile did not stop and fire but rammed his Lancelot right into the left propeller and with his shield the Lancelot went through the massive propeller like a chainsaw through a piece of paper.
"Alright, good job you two, now let's rendezvous with the Avalon and the rest of the fleet, we can't fight that thing, but now I won't be able to pursue us!" Lelouch ordered and they replied and got out of their before the gas eruption stopped.
"A….amazing!" Kallen said as she just witnessed how Suzaku and Gyno disabled the Sorajima "When Lelouch and Suzaku are on the field nothing seems to be able to stop them!" she thought to herself.
The same awe for them was shared by the rest of the Black Knights.
"Ha ha! He did it! That son of a bitch pulled it off!" Patton happily shouted out much to the joy of the others present.
"This is the Lancelot, request permission for myself and the Colgrevance, Tristan and Mordred to dock" Suzaku said over the radio.
"Permission granted, welcome back!" Bradley replied over the mike.
Lelouch and the other docked on the Avalon and were greeted by everyone from the bridge.
After the applause and cheers died down Lelouch gave them their next set of instructions.
"Listen up, although we failed to stop their escape we now know just how many enemies we have and where they are, so it's only a matter of time until we face them on the field, in the meantime we will do the following:
"Suzaku! Since you are now the only member of the six families which is still loyal to the Empire I want you to claim ownership over their assets, Mister Reed I want you to help him in that matter!"
"Understood!"
"Understood!" Suzaku and Diethard both replied.
"Jeremiah set a course for Kyushu, I want to meet with the Black Knights, I have a feeling we will give those five new corps their baptism of blood soon"
"Yes my lord!" Jeremiah replied.
"My lord should we order the Royal Nay to assault the Iceberg Carrier?" Viletta asked.
"Negative General Nu, the navy is already preoccupied with the sea war against the E.U, and it would take considerable fire power to sink that monster…..also to move such a ship as that Iceberg requires considerable resources, they will probably move the ship to wherever in the Chinese Federation they will dock and leave it there, so it is not a thread anymore" Lelouch replied and Viletta understood and said no more.
10 minutes latter Lelouch quarters…
"…God, fate or whatever force that governs this world has a way of evening the odds', wasn't that what you told me a year ago?" C.C asked Lelouch.
"Yes it is so what of it? If Odysseus was with us or the other Lancelots had survived the battle a week ago I would have won this battle in two minutes" he spat out still angry at the humiliating defeat he suffered.
"You really are such a baby, you underestimated your opponent and lost a fight because of that, even the best of generals suffer defeats and like a baby you now through a tantrum!" C.C said and despite what she was saying in a sense she was calming and comforting him
"I know that…" Lelouch said now calmer than he was a few minutes ago.
"…..that's why….I will never make the same mistake again….I will make everything more powerful than anything else my enemies have…..my army…my soldiers…..and my country!" he replied with great determination in his voice.
Just then Lelouch's cell phone rang, it was Schneizell.
"Hello brother, what is it?" Lelouch said answering Schneizell's call.
"Hello Lelouch, tell me brother, what do you think about India?...
Author note:
Read and review. Let me know if I should continue