Turn XXVI: Ragnarok Part II.

(Damocles)

11:45 am

"First of all let's assess the situation, the enemy currently has 55.000 men, after Kusakabe's offensive we now have 72.000 men, under normal circumstances this would mean our victory, but the enemy has a good defensive position which negates that advantage" Schneizell said to Kannon.

"The logical course of action would be to remove that advantage." Kannon replied to his liege.

"Let's do that then" Schneizell replied.

(Allied army position)

"Schneizell is making another full scale frontal attack, this is unlike his character, what could he possibly gain by this?" Lelouch thought to himself as he watched Jeremiah, Xingke and Todoh move their troops from the foot of the hill to its crest to counter Schneizell.

Lelouch then saw that Schneizell's troops suddenly stopped and where falling back.

And then it hit him and his eyes went wide as he realized Schneizell's intention.

"Jeremiah, Todoh, Xingke retreat your armies as far back as you can! If you don't do it now we will all perish!" Lelouch said to them quickly as he prayed that they would move fast enough.

(Noble army position)

From their vantage point Guinevere, Carlyle, Castor and Pollex who where commanding the Noble's army observed the developing situation.

"My God he is retreating!" Pollex said to his siblings and his soldiers.

"He is retreating! Lelouch is retreating!" Castor added.

Castor and Pollex then charged forward with their frames, and after them the 800 knightmares they commanded and Guinevere and the rest of their siblings followed.

(Kusakabe's position)

"If we let the Brittannian's be the first occupy the hill it will shame the U.F.N forever, gentleman I suggest our personal guard battalion and myself charge and do so before the Brittannian's" Kusakabe said and they all agreed and charged.

(Schneizell's position, Damocles)

"Our forces are all out of range, but unfortunately Kusakabe-san and your sibling with a small force have charged up the hill, what should we do?" Kannon asked his liege.

Schneizell thought about this and hesitated for a moment….but it was only for a moment and he said.

"Fire 25 F.L.E.J.A's at the hill, although it is regrettable that we must do this, sacrifices must be made for the greater good.

(Mont-Saint-Jean)

12:00

Kusakabe was having the best day of his life, he laughed with great joy as he saw just how easy the Allie's abandoned the hill, but among his laughter several bright lights engulfed the hill, and Kusakabe best day became his last along with Guinevere and the other imperial sibling who joined Schneizell.

(Excerpt from the 2090 Kenneth Burns the Third documentary: The Century of War)

"Imagine before you a light of such great intensity appears that it is as though a second sun lighted in front"

"After the light subdued the hill which we just used was gone, in its place was nothing but burned earth and a slight scoop shaped elevation of land which was burned black"

"Also the amount of bombs used made the mud and dirt kick up in the sky blocking the sun, and the electronic pulse scrambled all our radars"

"If I had to compare that situation to anything else I'd say it was like fighting in hell"

Colonel Naoto Kan 761st regiment, 501st division, 42nd corps Black Knights.

Excerpt from the Diary of Naoto Kan.

(Allied position)

12:20

Thanks to Lelouch's quick thinking the Allied army managed to retreat to the woods and reorganized a line there.

"You've got to be kidding me! He blew up the damn hill!" Tamaki said to those on the command bridge.

"It's actually one of the basic rules of war, if your enemy has an advantage, then you must remove it, I only berate myself for not seeing it sooner" Lelouch replied.

"All units prepare for battle the real fight begins now!" he ordered his army.

(Damocles)

"Your highness , I believe destroying the hill is enough, the army should be able to defeat Lelouch now without your help, may I suggest we go into orbit?" Kannon said to his lord.

"That's right, there is no longer a reason to stay here, engine room are you good to go?" Schneizell replied.

"This is the engine room, I am afraid my lord that the use of the F.L.E.J.A's on the hill produced a massive shockwave which unfortunately damaged the engines, we will need at least six to seven hours to rebuilt them" the chief officer of the engine room told him.

"Can't be helped, do your best and repair them as quickly as possible" Schneizell told the engineer.

12: 38 p.m.

"Now while we wait why don't we continue this game little brother" Schneizell said to where Lelouch had his army and he issued his orders.

"We will begin the attack there on his right flank, and if he weakens his center to support his flank then I will now if I was a good teacher or not" Schneizell said as he was anxious to know the answer to that.

(Allied army)

12:44 p.m.

"Commander the enemy has begun to attack the left flank, he intends to rout us on the right" Shirley a bit panicked told Lelouch.

"What the master intends to do and what he actually does will be as different from white knight to Black bishop" Lelouch replied.

"Hey let me take my regiment and sweep them from the left side!" Tamaki said to Lelouch eager to join the battle.

"I don't intend to run around for every treat I am offered like some stray dog…there will be plenty of time for that sir, plenty indeed" Lelouch replied to Tamaki's enthusiasm.

(Allied position, right flank)

"Hey yaaaaaaaaaa!" Suzaku shouted as he destroyed another enemy.

Just then an incoming rocket prepared Harken came at Suzaku and after catching it and destroying it he recognized it as belonging to Gyno.

"Snap out of it Suzaku! You can still return to our side!" Gyno said to his friend.

"Return to your side? It is you who should be returning to our side! You pledge to serve the Empire, Lelouch is now the Empire, or do you intend to Betray Brittannia?" Suzaku said which caught Gyno off guard.

Not hesitating a moment Suzaku attacked Gyno and Disabled his knightmare without killing him, and Gyno was captured by Lelouch's forces.

"You just stay put Gyno, we will finish this latter." Suzaku said to him and continued in his fight.

(Damocles)

13:58 p.m.

"He hasn't moved, he's glued himself to the forest, you have been a good student Lelouch, you have too qualities I admire caution, and above all courage" Schneizell thought to himself and despite the fact things weren't going his way was pleased he had been such a good teacher.

"We should proceed to his left flank as well, order the attack!" Schneizell told Kannon.

(Allied position, left flank)

"From his artillery shots he seems to intend to pay you a visit Todoh" Lelouch said to him.

"I've never seen troops move so fast! It's like we are facing a totally different army" Todoh said and was genuinely impressed.

"Schneizell can move troops with the swiftness of chessboard pieces, hold their advance, notify me if you need reserves" Lelouch replied to him.

"Understood!" Todoh said and he got to work.

"Chiba prepare your division for assault, I will bring up the rest of the troops" Todoh told her.

"Don't strain yourself Sir my boys will hold them" Chiba replied.

"I'll take your advice, also don't you dare die, I have already lost to many valuable friends to bare loosing you two" Todoh said to a now blushing Chiba.

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Kallen and the knight of One Bismarck where docking it out.

"While I acknowledge your talents, I do not acknowledge your fiancée, the usurpers as the Emperor and so I will destroy you" Bismarck said and he activated his Geass to use against Kallen.

(Damocles)

14: 32 p.m.

"Move our center to attack their center, but only to demonstrate, have one regiment from our reserve forces move around their right flank and attack them from the rear" Schneizell ordered

(Allied position)

15:09 p.m.

"Viletta this is Lelouch, the center is under heavy attack and a gap is threatening to appear, assist Xingke if you please." Lelouch ordered her.

"Understood, I will show the enemy the fury of a warrior woman" Viletta replied with a smile and Lelouch did the same with a chuckle.

"This is Jeremiah! An Enemy regiment has appeared on our location and is flanking us with the intentions of attacking us from the rear" Jeremiah said to Lelouch.

"Omar align the tanks and infantry into a defensive formation around Jeremiah's rear , George you will withdraw the Knightmares a two hundred passes and on my mark will charge the enemy" Lelouch ordered his men.

"Understood!".

"Odysseus use your artillery to support George and Omar, ignore the other Area's for now"

"Understood!"

"General Ohgi move the Ikaruga 300 meter forward so we can better observe the battle and give the center fire support with the Hadrons" Lelouch ordered.

"Yes sir" Ohgi replied "Even in a situation as dire as this he is as calm as a rock is hard!" he said to himself and he was impress for he now witness for the first time how Lelouch behaved in a battle, the eerie calmness and sound judgment which where characteristically of him was very inspiring.

(Damocles)

15:31 p.m.

"The flanking force hit a well defended position and was itself flanked?" Schneizell said to Kannon after he received the news.

"Yes sir, the regiment has been broken and is being destroyed, shall we sent reinforcements, we still have 4 regiments in reserve?" Kannon replied.

"That would not be a good idea, the forest and electronic interference makes us blind, if we try to flank them again I am afraid we may lose the flanking for once more in a similar manner since, looks like we must rely on frontal assaults to break Lelouch's line" Schneizell replied to Kannon.

"We are positioned in an open field Lelouch is heavily camouflaged in a forest, he sees our every move, we only see the enemy we come into contact with, and we do not have radar from the debris and electronic interference from F.L.E.J.A, and without radar we cannot target Lelouch to hit him with another bomb, maybe blowing up the hill, wasn't such a good idea" Schneizell thought to himself.

"How much time we estimate until Cornelia arrives?" he asked.

"Three and a half hours my lord" Kannon replied.

With the added time limit to the difficulty of this match Schneizell then felt something he did not fell in years…he felt excited, for the first time in his life, he was fighting a battle in which he was not certain of victory.

"Tell the remaining regiments the following:"

(Allied left flank)

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"This can't be! I am loosing even with my geass!" Bismarck thought to himself as he took Kallen's merciless offensive, until finally his sword broke under the pressure.

"This is for the countries you enslaved!" Kallen said and smashed Bismarck's knightmare left arm.

"This if or the people you killed!" she added and destroyed his knightmares torso.

"And this is for me, SAYONARA!" Kallen screamed as she fired the radiation wave destroying the Knight of One.

(Allied right flank)

16:21 p.m.

"This is great left, right, up, down is filled with nothing but enemies!" Luciano said with glee as he destroyed another enemy frame and looked for his next target.

Suddenly one lost infantry man who was on the ground and hiding in the ruble saw that Luciano's frame was in a vulnerable position and he fired an R.P.G at it,.

*BANG*

The rocket hit Luciano's cockpit, it was not enough to kill him, but just enough to mortally wound him , his frame however was still operable.

"W-What is your name?" Luciano asked the now terrified infantry man.

"I want to know the name on the man who struck me down Luciano said as blood started to drip from his mouth.

"R-Robert F-F-Ford" the soldier hesitantly and now very scared replied.

"Robert ey, well Robbie let me show you a trick as a reward for killing me" Luciano said and without looking to his back he threw his lance backwards and it impaled an enemy frame destroying it, a wire was attached to his lance and Luciano pulled it back to hi, he then turned to the colleagues of the frame he just destroyed.

"Let me ask you ,you scum what is the most important thing to man, the answer is life and for life we will lie, cheat and steal even kill to protect it, if I wasn't clear enough THEN LET ME ELABORATE FOR YOU!" Luciano shouted and he hurled himself and the group of frames.

(Allied center)

16:38 p.m.

Xingke was giving orders and fighting from his frame the Shen-Hu the enemy, when a great pain came over him and he started to cough blood.

"Damn it my disease has now gotten the best of me, why now, an hour…no just 30 minutes latter would have been enough" Xingke thought to himself.

"Zhao Ling I am giving you command I am afraid this reached body of mine no longer wants to cooperate" Xingke said as he started losing consciousness.

(Lelouch's position)

17:00 p.m.

"He's gathered his reserves of both my right and left flanks, infantry, tanks and artillery, but no knightmares. Smoke without fire…..what are you up to big brother?" Lelouch pondered to himself.

(Allied right flank)

"Come on you scum, you daddies cheap excuses not to buy a condom, which one of you….which one of you ill have the honor of being the last man Luciano Bradley kills!" Luciano said as he slashed and carved his way through the enemy frames, all the while he was losing blood and dying.

"This guys a monster!" one soldier shouted.

Luciano felt his body being drained of too much straight to continue killing so he stopped.

"People called me insane…but in this world of death and destruction was I insane or was I the only person who truly saw mankind for what it is, savages, I am not insane I am….I was the only sane person one this planet" Luciano thought to himself as he felt his life fading away

"I n-never did get to read…..the second volume of that book….t…..th…..though…." Luciano said as his body finally gave away and he died.

(Lelouch's position)

17:48 p.m.

"Luciano has been killed in battle?" Lelouch said to Shirley after she told him the news.

"Yes,…also the following transmission are coming in: General Xingke has collapsed due to illness, Shen Hu is now inoperable and the center is under heavy attack from enemy reserves"

"Kallen's frame has been brought back to the hangar for maintenance"

"Both Flanks are reporting a shortage of munitions"

"What are your orders?" Shirley asked.

"Distribute the armory to all available personal, cooks, engineers, medical staff and tell them to join the fight, Have Omar and George reinforce the Flanks, and prepare the Shinkiro, I am joining the fight!" Lelouch said as he left for the hangar.

"Give me a miracle or give me Cornelia" Lelouch thought to himself as he gripped the crucifix which he had been wearing around his neck since Fukuoka.

Author's note:

Read and review, let me know if I should continue.