Turn XXVII: Ragnarok Part III.
Allied position.
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18:48
A bleep appeared on the radar and Cornelia and her forces had arrived.
"Thank GOD!" Lelouch said to himself as he was now sweating bullets.
18:49
Damocles
"Now ambush knightmare party attack!" Schneizell ordered his man and their assaulted Cornelia's forces destroying them.
"Good, now tell those knightmares to get back here and join in the final push" he ordered.
Diethard was watching the battle alongside Schneizell.
"Might I offer my congratulations early on your victory in the battle and becoming the all powerful master of this Earth?" Diethard said to Schneizell.
At this Schneizell for the first time in his life scowled and said to him.
"The Battle is 90% won, as long as there is even 1% change for us loosing then that mat happen"
Allied position.
18:50.
"Cornelia! Cornelia are you ok?" Lelouch asked her through the comm.
"Yes I am fine, but that doesn't matter now…" She replied.
At that moment Lelouch saw just how hopeless the situation seamed, his forces where being pushed on both flanks and his reinforcements where now destroyed.
"As soon as those knightmares rejoin the army we are doomed!" he then saw that Damocles was now starting it's engines.
"We may have lost this battle, but we can still win this war"!In his mind an old song form Pet Shop off Horror's started playing
He's got your number now
He knows just what you've done
You've got no place to hide,
You've got nowhere to run
He knows your life of crime
I think it's suppertime
„All remaining heavy knightmares this is Zero, all unit we are abandoning the left and right flanks, reorganize into a spindell and chage the Damocles, we can still win this with Schneizell's center being devoid of knightmares!" Lelouch ordered his men,.
Come on, come on,
Think about all those offers
Come on, come on,
„My lord the enemy has formed a spindell and are breaking throught the center, may i suggest firing a F.L.E.J.A?" Kannon said to him.
Your future with Audrey
Come on, come on,
Ain't no time to turn squeamish
Come on, I swear on all my spores,
„Very well" Schneizell replied to him, but the truth was that using a F.L.E.J.A was in essence cheating and deep down inside he wanted to know who was better the master or the student.
When he's gone the world will be yours, yours
Lelouch let the Shinkirou, Guren, Lancelot's, Siegfried, Ikaruga and Sarmizegetusa in one desperate thrust to Damocle's right engine.
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Come on, come on. Come on, come on.
Schneizell looked through the monitor staright at the Shinkirou
Come on, come on. It's suppertime. It's suppertime.
Lelouch not moving a muscle looked starigh on at the aprorachign ship and instinctivily to where the command deck was situatted.
Come on, come on. Come on, come on.
For Schneizell timestopped became a moment.
Come on, come on. It's suppertime.
For Lelouch that moment became time , seeign the F.L.E.J.A fired he immediatly activated his Druid system and piloted at the bomb, he quickle caugh it and deflecting it's tragectory he made it miss his forces.
„phase one!" Lelouch said and all his forces used pinpoit fire on one portion of the Damocles's shield weakening it.
The Shikirou then craged it and opened a small breach in the shield.
It's suppertime. Suppertime.
„Suzake Kallen now!" Lelouch said as he ejected his cockpit
The concentreted fire of Lancelot and Guren now detroyed Schneizell's engine, grounding the Damocles and detroying the Shinkirou.
It's suppertime. Suppertime.
Damocles.
19:01
"Sir, our engines are destroyed, also Lady Cornelia is hailing us for our surrender" Kannon replied at which Schneizell told him to open a comm. Link.
"Cornelia dear sister I am afraid that is not possible for you see just as their cannot be two sun's in the sky, their cannot be two kings, since Lelouch has shown that he is superior I cannot continue to live, it would be an insult to him and to me….. " Schneizell said as he activated the self destruct.
10
"Brother wait you don't have to do this!" Cornelia desperately said to him.
9
"I don't want to but I must….also tell Lelouch that I am proud of him" Schneizell replied indifferently and closed the channel.
8
"This m-must be some elaborate plot to fake our death right? So what do we do now your highness?" Diethard asked now greatly worried.
7
"Why we die of course" Schneizell replied with a smile.
6
At which Diethard panicked ran out of the room for an escape from this fate.
5
"You can still escape Kannon if you like" he said to him.
4
"My place is at your side my lord" Kannon replied.
3
"Then we will go to hell together my old friend" Schneizell said as he got a white and black king pieces from his pocket.
2
He placed them on a chest board which was next to him, after a moment he placed the white king lying down and the black king on its feet next to it.
1
"Checkmate…..well played little brother" Schneizell said as a perhaps the most beautiful smile came on Schneizell's face .
0
Damocles exploded.
The Damocles exploded greatly damaging what was left of the two armies.
(Excerpt from the 2090 Kenneth Burns the Third documentary: The Century of War)
"November 23rd,…Mont-Saint-Jean Belgium….
…I died…."
Colonel Naoto Kan 761st regiment, 501st division, 42nd corps Black Knights.
Excerpt from the Diary of Naoto Kan.
(Shinkiro cockpit)
This horrifying sight of pure destruction paid truth to the following quote:
In war, there are no winners.
Ramman Kenoun
After an hour when the dust finally settled Lelouch looked over his soldiers both friend and foe as they were treated by the doctors.
As he surveyed the horrifying sight his mind involuntarily flashed him memories of his past.
"WHAT SAY YOU BLACK KNIGHTS ! SOUNDS GOOD?"
To this question a deafening roar of cheers, whistles and applauses flooded the area like a tidal wave, their commander was beyond what they would ever imagined."
He remembered how happy his original 42nd corps was when he became their commander and that he would lead them, and here is where he lead them…
His mind started echoing memories from the past which have come to haunt him.
"you will hate me until you are old and wrinkled, but the good news is that under my command you will have a better chance of reaching old age"
He saw well trained and very athletic soldiers, many of them, if not all were badly wounded.
"I vow to bring as many of you back alive as possible, however some of you will die!"
He looked at the field of war, the corpses now cowered the ground turning it into a massive rug of dead flesh.
"I have come here to lead you to victory, not death and defeat"
Tactically and strategically this was a victory, but could it be called so from the sheer number of both soldiers and key knights and officers who died?
"now I know what the cost will be to change the world, if need be I will spill as much blood as it takes, bring more sorrow, more destruction so that a new world can arise!"
His mind flashed to those words he said to C.C as he looked at the sheer tragedy which was before his eyes.
He closed his eye and took in a deep breath, the old Lelouch would have cried his heart, but after what he has been through, from the fact that he wasn't crying made him understood one thing.
"If a devil is what I have to become, then a devil I will be!"
"I made a vow….and I kept my word." He said to himself as he just stood there in his frame and burned this image into his subconscious forever.