Turn X: My Big Fat Chinese Wedding
A few days after the battle.
(Bridge of the Sarmizegetusa)
"The Chinese really agreed to that?" Omar said
"Yes, in exchange for peerage and a wedding with me the first prince the Chinese Federation will become Imperial territory." Odysseus replied telling them what Schneizell had told him.
"And you agreed to this?" Lelouch asked curious
"Yes, it seems the best way to tip the balance in our favor so I decided to make myself useful and go along with it, also since it would avoid war with China." Odysseus replied.
"What of the E.U, those Armani wearing bastards aren't just going to sit back and let this happen!" Patton asked.
"I've looked into that matter myself, the E.U is apparently not taking any measures to stop this, no bribes, no threats from emissaries, no severing of economic ties, nothing!" Diethard replied.
"But why does the E.U do nothing to prevent this?…." Suzaku said.
"Because they want this to happen." Lelouch answered his question.
"What do you mean?" Kewell said to him.
"The grand scale in which this wedding affects the world makes everyone be for or against it, if your against it you ether protest or act against it, if you simply stand by and watch it happen, you either will not be affected by its results which in the case of the E.U is not so, or allow it to happen since it would secretly benefit you." Lelouch replied.
"But how could losing their ally and having its territory be absorbed into the Empire benefit them?" Cecile asked confused.
"That's what I intend to find out, we are on our way there now for the wedding, we have until then to find evidence of their true intentions." Lelouch replied.
"Yes, but how are we going to do that? Begging you pardon sir it's not like they'll just let us poke around!" Jeremiah replied.
"The Eunuchs won't have time to worry about the Niddhog since their own Dragon will most likely cause them trouble." Lelouch replied which meant to those present that although the army of the Black Knights would enjoy their rest, they would not get such a privilege.
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." C.C said to those assembled.
"I see you know Sun Tzu" Lelouch replied with a chuckle.
"Are you planning to use those teachings against the very people from where it came from?" C.C said to him.
"Whatever works is fine with me" he replied with a smile.
(Horai Island detention center)
"Hey can I ask you something?" Ohgi said to Viletta.
After becoming a leader Ohgi realized that you need great deal of knowledge and insight of your opponent which were unnecessary when he led their small resistance cell, he was determined to do as best a job as he could, so he decided to try and understand how their enemies mind works, that was why he now visited Viletta in her jail cell.
"You might, but I could decide not to answer, so go ahead." She replied.
"Why are you're people like this, conquering other countries and enslaving them?" Ohgi replied.
"We do it because our government's power is in one man positioned and in that of the king and he decides to wage war" Viletta replied.
"But attacking and enslaving other countries is just wrong plain and simple!" Ohgi replied vigorously.
"Are you saying that you're country wouldn't have done the same if it could!" Viletta snapped back.
"Eh?" Ohgi said caught off guard.
"Don't be naïve, every country in the world wants to have and empire and be the masters of other nations, can you honestly say that your country didn't do the same as us in the past or would do so against in the future if it could? Can you honestly say there wasn't a time when yours or any other country wasn't like us at one point in time?" Viletta added.
"No I…I can't deny that ….but we've changed…we are not like we were in the past!" Ohgi said defending his country.
"Really? Let me ask you this since you are old enough to know what it was like before the Second Pacific War, how many times where there protests in neighboring countries towards their government bending to suit the interest of Japan so they would receive Sakuradite?"
"Or better yet tell me the following and I'll shut up:
You tell the name of one country, any country from any timeframe, any continent which helped another country without wanting something in return or to further their own agenda….give me one example and I will say you're right, Brittannia is the creation of Satan itself…heck I will even join the Slayers and fight against Prince Lelouch himself if you give me one example!" Viletta told him and awaited his answer.
Ohgi opened and closed his mouth between attempts to give one example, but no words came out , he knew that what she said was right, every country in existence only did things that it would suit them, to say that Brittannia was the cause of all the words grievances was bullshit plain and simple.
"Not one example…just like I thought…..you want to know the real difference between Brittannia and Japan or any other country out there?...the difference is that in Brittannia we do not bother to hide the fact that we are like that, the E.U and China do, with us at least what you see is what you get" Viletta replied coldly, at which all Ohgi could do was remain silent.
"Pretending to be civil and innocent, while you further your own goals by whatever means possible…you Japanese are just like that us, the only major difference is that we are better at playing this game than you are." She added with anger for this man's demagoguery or plain naivety, whichever one was the case.
"When you put it that way I guess it's true….." Ohgi lamented.
Just then Ohgi received a message on his cell phone asking him to come to a meeting.
"Please excuse me, I have to go." Ohgi said and got up.
"Oh don't worry about me; I won't be going anywhere soon." Viletta replied sarcastically and Ohgi could not help but smile at the joke
(E.U council meeting room)
"So the Iron Prince will be at the wedding?" Philippe Petain said to his council.
"Yes, your Excellency, prince Odysseus is after all his chief of artillery, and we have reports that his Lieutenants, including the Silver Knight will be there." One of the councilors replied.
"His presence will not be a cause for concern, if all goes well then both China and Brittannia will be turned to ruble, and we will be done with both the Johnny Chinese and the Damn Yankees." Petain confidently said to them.
"Despite China doing this without consulting us, this will be to our advantage, and I will go down in history as the man who crushed both China and Brittannia." Philippe thought to himself and if all went well, then they would truly be able to do that and without moving a finger.
(Dragon army and Slayers meeting room)
"They're going to sell the Tianzi to Brittannia?" Kaguya asked Xingke.
"Yes, in exchange their going to be made nobles." Xingke replied disgusted at just how low the Eunuchs had stepped to.
"This is a huge calamity for our side, the only one who could possibly have the charisma and skill to make such a deal is Schneizell without a doubt." Todoh added.
"What do we do now?" Kallen asked concerned for their future.
"For tonight we do nothing, but tomorrow we start our coup." Xingke replied.
"But isn't it too early? We still need time to organize our forces!" Ohgi replied, he didn't knew much about tactics and strategy, but his time as a leader showed him that how you prepare for a battle is even more important than how you perform during it.
"Our forces might not be ready, but neither are theirs, they have sent most of their armies to the provinces outside China to ensure stability from Lelouch actions in India" Hong replied.
"Then it's now or never, tomorrow the U.F.N will be born or will be miscarried." Kaguya proclaimed it as a battle cry and everyone rallied around it.
(The Forbidden City, a few hours later, the reception for the Wedding)
"I must say it is a pleasure to meet you once more Lady Kaguya." Schneizell said to her, Kallen was behind her acting as a guard, the same could be said for Anya and Gyno who were acting as Schneizell's guards.
"This is really unexpected considering we are our mortal enemies." Kaguya said to him in a neutral tone, not one of joy, but not one of hate either.
"Just because we are enemies doesn't mean we can't be civil, also unlike others who opposed us you did not try to cover your actions with the false wail of acceptance" Schneizell replied unfazed and eyed the other Kyoto family heads who were with the high Eunuchs
Just then the doorman made an announcement.
"His Highness Crown Prince Odysseus di Brittannia….and Field Marshall Lelouch vi Brittannia and co."
A round of gasps and silent gossip flooded the room, the Chinese did not like the presence of the one who had inflicted upon them some of the greatest military defeats in history.
As Lelouch and Co entered the room he stopped while he passed Kirihara and the other heads.
"Hello lord Kirihara and you gentleman I see all of you are going for the record and going for the sixth abandonment. " Lelouch calmly said to him.
"Sixth abandonment?" Tousai Munakata asked.
"Yes…first you abandoned the constitution of your country and secretly influenced your government, your second abandonment was when you cooperated with us to establish our rule in Japan or at least pretended so, thirdly you abandoned your oaths and sponsored terrorists cell's nationwide and even on the mainland, fourthly you abandoned those cell's and supported the SAZ, and fifthly you abandoned the SAZ and rained fire upon us when you attacked us with the Iceberg carrier, if there's one good thing that came from the Slayers exodus a few weeks ago is that you lot are someone else's concern now" Lelouch calmly replied.
"Why you little!..." Kirihara tried to say but he somehow managed to restrain himself.
"That shows more of your lack of character than theirs" Kaguya replied and walked over to Lelouch followed by Kallen.
Suzaku and Jeremiah who were acting as his bodyguards where a bit nervous by Kaguya and Kallen's presence, but a hand gesture from Lelouch made them stand down.
"What do you mean?" Lelouch asked curious.
"Well your highness you said that they officially cooperated with you and secretly sponsored the resistance, but that shows more the ineptitude of the OSI and the Brittannian government, we managed to escape which show the poorly leadership skills present in the Brittannian army and navy, also you yourself knew about them but could not prosecute, this shows your own ineptitude on the matter." Kaguya said with a smile which caused a huge gasps in the room.
People were shocked at her boldness; Jeremiah looked like he was ready to snap and Suzaku was boiling with anger since Kaguya was boasting of the Slayers achievements and glorifying the Failures of the Black Knights.
For a moment there was silence in the room and everyone looked at Lelouch to see his reaction, an eerie silence filled the air.
And Lelouch broke the tension in the most unexpected way…..he chuckled.
"He, he I suppose you're right about that…tell me lady Kaguya did these old men listen to your ideas often?" he asked curious.
"Not really, I could count on one hand the number of times they did." She cheerfully replied.
"Well good thing for me they didn't, you have more brains in your pinky than they have in their heads combined." Lelouch said with a smile and Kaguya blushed slightly at his complement
"May I have this dance?" Lelouch said to her as he heard the orchestra playing one of his favored tunes.
Kaguya looked at Kallen for a moment uncertain of what to do, Lelouch noticed this and decided to have some fun.
"If you are hesitant to leave the side of your bodyguard then I could just dance with both of you at the same time.
"He? That's not possible!" Kallen replied a bit startled.
"Not to me, we could to it like this" Lelouch replied and he took both women's hands, spun them around simultaneously and he then placed his right arm around Kallen's torso and his left arm around Kaguya torso and started dancing with them, much to the amazement of the crowd, for he was actually dancing quite gracefully with the two women, almost as if he did this all the time.
Schneizell was unfazed, he saw Lelouch perform something like this a year ago at his reception in Pendragon, at one point a pair of young ladies argued over who should he dance with an to prevent a brawl he did so with both at the same time.
"You seem to be quite skilled at this!" Kallen said amazed at just how graceful the whole affair was.
"I have experience in maintaining balance between two ladies during activities which require great physical effort" Lelouch replied.
"Really? And where did you learn and practice this? The Shultz Imperial School of Dance, or the Pendragon University of Arts?" Kaguya replied curiously.
Lelouch leaned his head to the two girls and whispered into their ears:
"In my bed, after a stressful day."
"You….you had threesomes!" Kallen silently whispered to him heavily shocked and blushing at what Lelouch had just greatly implied, Kaguya joined her in that manner.
"Why do you ask? Are either of the two of you interested in participating in one?" Lelouch said to her which caused both girls to blush heavily and to tell the truth Kallen under normal circumstances would have slapped him silly, but since she had experience with Lelouch's "'activities which require great physical effort'", she for a time when they were still together once wondered how much different the experience would be with a third person.
Kaguya herself despite being a virgin had great knowledge of sexual relationships and was also curious at the reason for the high praise of the ménage.
That caused both girls to respond with heavy blushes instead of slaps to Lelouch's face, he noticed that and was relishing it.
"I'll be damn they are actually blushing instead of slapping me silly, I'm beginning to think that witch C.C might have given me Geass after all…..the power of Absolute Sexual Seduction." Lelouch in gesture thought to himself.
Fortunately for the world and Lelouch this was not so, for it would spell the doom of both him and the world if it was true.
Doom for the world because, a Power of Absolute Sexual seduction combined with Lelouch natural charms would have taken away the women's desire to reproduce with anybody other except him and the human race would die from lack of procreation, and Lelouch himself would probably die from exhaustion.
(A few hours before dawn, rooftop of the Imperial Palace)
"What should I do? Should I fight to free the Tianzi or for the good of the people let thing progress as they are intended to?" Xingke thought to himself, and it was a serious dilemma.
If he freed the Tianzi then it would be seen as an act of war from Brittannia and the Federation could not at the moment survive such a war.
But if he let the wedding progress then Brittannia would take over the country, they would rebuilt it's corrupt and failing agricultural system, reform the taxes, eliminate inefficient officials, built cities and homes for the workers, it was how Brittannia operated.
If a country accepted their rule they would invest massive money into its development, this was common sense since in the future it would increase revenue, but if it resisted like Japan did, only those who would apply for Honorary citizenship would receive such action.
The country would be like centuries before, under the dominance of the white people, but does that really matter to the common man, if he has a good home, good job and can provide for his family would he revolt against a tyranny like Brittannia?
Of course he wouldn't, for fear of losing all those benefits that is why Japan is now experiencing stability and demilitarization, the Japanese now live to good a life to risk losing it in open revolt and fearing being demoted to a correctional facility for it.
The Chinese people would have to forgo their pride as a nation, but does pride matter to a father whose children beg for food, a man would do anything to give his family a better life, even sell his soul…..
"Xingke-san, everything is prepared, we only await your signal" Zhou Xianglin said to him.
(The wedding ceremony)
Odysseus was at the altar with Tianzi when Xingke suddenly smashed the doors and with a few of his me entered the room.
"Neither the heavens nor the people approve of this marriage so how can I?" he boldly proclaimed as he entered the room.
"Xingke, what is the meaning of this!" one of the Eunuchs said panicking.
"Shut up! I am freeing the empress from your slimy grip here and now!" Xingke said and he and his men attacked the guards stationed there.
"Looks like things won't go as smooth as we hoped." Schneizell said to Lelouch who was sitting next to him.
Just then the roof was smashed open and Todoh and the Guren appeared carrying a container.
"I never thought I would use this Zangetsu to steal a bride." Todoh said and the container opened to reveal that inside where two seats, one of them occupied by Kaguya.
"Tianzi-sama please get in here, we along with Xingke are here to take you to the outside world." Kaguya said and upon that statement she ran inside the container.
Just then Todoh noticed Lelouch's presence and extended one arm try and capture him, but Jeremiah, which was besides his liege quickly unsheathed and activated the MASSER sword he received from Lelouch, he jabbed at Todoh's hand severing his frame's middle finger.
"What the?" Todoh said startled at the current situation.
Just then an impact alarm was heard from his console, and he quickly deflected with his sword the harken of the Lancelot Conquesta.
"So he already appeared." Todoh said to himself and he went skywards to face Suzaku, while the Guren took the container outside.
"It looks like we have a rebellion on our hands, how long till your men are ready." Schneizell asked Lelouch, as he and the other where making their way towards the Sarmizegetusa and the Avalon.
"I'd like to request you let me pursue something else than the rebellion at the moment." Lelouch said to him and Schneizell stopped walking and turned to him and said:
"What do you mean?"
"Brother you must find it odd that they so easily sold their whole country for a measly title of Barons, I want to use the chaos which is now present and dig for information to see what the real situation of the Federation is." Lelouch replied.
"Very well then..but do it quickly, meanwhile myself and the Avalon will assist the Eunuchs" Schneizell said after a moment of pondering and they both went their separate ways.
Skies above the Forbidden City.
Todoh and Suzaku' blade clashed, they then both backed up from each other putting distance between them and then Todoh unleashed on Suzaku his sword mounted harken.
Suzaku, blocked it with his left shield arm, Todoh upon seeing this flew to a higher altitude, Suzaku then aimed his VARIS rifle at him and fired, Todoh' energy shield activated and it blocked the bullet.
"The same system as the Guren?" Suzaku said surprised since this upgrade was not present during the battle a couple of days ago.
"This works after all. With this Zangetsu, even if it's against you, Suzaku I will not lose." Todoh said to himself.
"But with this…" Suzaku said as he connected his rifle enhancer to the VARIS and prepared to fire.
"How naïve!" Todoh said and he flew past Suzaku and positioned himself with the Forbidden City to his back.
"The Forbidden City…." Suzaku said to himself in frustration, he then noticed the transport container being carried by the Guren.
"Kururugi Suzaku, it ends here!" Todoh said as he rapidly flew behind and above Suzaku and then flew down towards him to slash him.
"Todoh Kyoshiro, not yet!" Suzaku said and moved to the left therefore, avoiding the blow, but Todoh then made an upward slash which severed part of Suzaku's float system.
Suzaku then made a slash with his sword which made Todoh duck and he then did a whirlwind kick which Todoh blocked with his left arm, but it got damaged from the power of the blow.
"Todoh, retreat for now, destroying the Lancelot's float unit is enough, he won't be able to pursue us for now." Xingke told him.
"Understood." Todoh replied and complied.
After a few minutes the Guren landed the container in a designated transport truck with escort.
"General Todoh refueling and maintenance will start with the Guren." Minami informed him over the radio.
"Understood! The Zangetsu can wait until we reach the Ikaruga.
A few minutes later Xingke in his Shen Hu and his dragon cavalry escort arrived and joined the transport convoy.
Tamaki, who was driving the truck suddenly, stopped it since a bridge was out demolished.
Behind them the vanguard of the army send by the eunuchs to stop them was closing in.
"It looks like they fell for it, Asahina!" Todoh ordered and Asahina and the ambush forces of both the Slayers and the Dragon cavalry emerged from their hidden position to pummel the vanguard.
After destroying them they continued on their way to Xiaoping where Xingke main army was located.
Forbidden City parliament.
The senators where all under heavy mental strain since they were now captured by Xingke forces, just then a sound of gunshot was heard, the troops guarding them quickly went to face the potential threat only for them to be killed as well.
Then Lelouch with his mask on, followed by Jeremiah and Kewell entered the room.
"Thank God you people came" the chairman said and he opened his arms and approached Lelouch with the intention of hugging him, but was stopped by Lelouch, who put his gun at the man's throat, but thanks to his cloak, the other persons in the room could not see it.
"I did not come here to save you, you are the chairman and the right hand of the Eunuchs or the servants here tell me so you know why they accepted the treaty so easily, you are going to come with me and tell me and you are going to show me proof of why they accepted or I will kill you." Lelouch said to the man and he now very frightened agreed to it.
A few moments later he led them to an office and pulled out a file and gave it to Lelouch.
Lelouch opened it and started reading, his helmet had a built in word translator which converted the characters into their English equivalent.
"My God!..." he said after finishing reading the file.
He then made the man do a confession with a video recorder.
"Jeremiah get the Sarmizegetusa ready, we must tell my brother immediately about this." Lelouch replied and Jeremiah and Kewell quickly went to bring the ship.
Lelouch then turned and shot the chairman, splattering his body all over the room.
He felt no pity for the man, since he was in on the endeavor which would have spelled the doom for the Empire, he then left to board his ship.
(Xingke and Slayers armies' position.)
Xingke army was doing great progress until suddenly an artillery barrage destroyed their forward units.
"What just happened?" Xingke asked from his Shen Hu.
"Enemy units are in the hills in front of us!" Sugiyama replied to him.
"Impossible! The nearest Eunuch army is at least two hours away!" Todoh said to himself.
Just then a radio transmission was heard from the opposing army.
"This is General Frederick of the E.U Asian expeditionary force, you are all ordered to surrender at ounce."
"Frederick-san what are you doing? We spilled our blood for each other back in India and this is how you treat comrades?" Ohgi said over communications.
"I am sorry General, but my government has decided to support this union and I am ordered to assist the Eunuchs in your elimination, whatever my personal feelings are I am obliged to obey my government." He replied and continued with another artillery barrage.
"God damn Europeans, they sold us down the river!" Tamaki said over the comm..
"Xingke, this is Todoh, we do not have the numbers or time to break through and reach our reinforcements, I suggest we retreat to pint nine and call our reinforcements to meet us there." Todoh said to him.
"Under the current circumstance I agree, all units you heard General Todoh, redeploy to point nine at ounce." Xingke said and they complied.
Point Nine was in fact the Tomb of the Emperors and they deployed there.
"So all we have to do now is wait for our reinforcements from Horai island and the Dragon cavalry to arrive now?" Tamaki asked.
"That right, but until then we have to withstand the assault." Chiba stated.
"Guess this is our Helm's Deep battle." Asahina added.
"You said the same thing about Narita." Senba said.
"Oh! Then this is our Battle of the Pelennor Fields then." Asahina replied
"You and your LOTR comparisons!" Urabe added frustrated of Asahina's carefree attitude.
Just then an air bombarded began on the tomb and from the bridge of the Ikaruga the enemy became visible.
"My God! Not only do we have to deal with the Eunuchs army and the European task force, but two Knights of Rounds led by Schneizell himself!..." Ohgi said to himself.
"….Also Lelouch and his men are on their way; this will be one hard battle!" Todoh said to himself, and despite his better judgment the situation at present was very much like Helm's deep, he only hoped they would last until help came
Authors note:
Read and review, let me know if I should continue.