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Leila Malcal readied herself for the coming battle. She didn't like conflict, which was ironic, considering she had decided to return to being a soldier. The entire wZERO unit had become deserters after their last mission during the conflict with Euro Britannia. Afterwards, they had joined a band of Gypsies that had previously sheltered them when they didn't have a place to call home. After a while, the same Gypsies had become akin to extended family to her unit.

After the reign of Emperor Lelouch, and the beginning of global peace, her country gained new leadership. Miraculously, her unit's crime of desertion had been wiped under the rug, no strings attached. Separately, she had been asked to take up her old position with the rest of the wZERO unit being offered the same. They had all unanimously refused. It wasn't until a chance meeting had awakened her to the possibility of even greater evils than she had faced in the past, that she had given the offer some real thought. Eventually, after some negotiating, her unit had accepted.

So now here they were, attempting to prevent another major conflict from breaking out. She knew things could take a turn for the worse, but she wanted to avoid any unnecessary casualties if at all possible. She hadn't asked for it, but the Black Knights had insisted on helping out. Hopefully they wouldn't escalate the situation.

She hailed the captured ship, and the screen came alive. Opposite her was a Japanese man wearing glasses that appeared to be in his thirties. She nodded to him, and began her attempts at negotiations. "I am Commander Leila Malcal. As Captain of the Gallia Grande, and Commander of the wZERO unit, I ask you to peacefully surrender. If you do, no untoward harm will come to you and your allies. We are not here to battle you unless we are left with no choice."

"This is Yoshitaka Minami, acting Captain of the Mieyo. We will not surrender under duress. Schneizel has made it clear that we are all to be executed eventually. We won't go down without a fight."

"I promise you, on my honour, I am not here under acting orders from Schneizel. I have come here under my own volition to seek a peaceful resolution. I'm a personal acquaintance of Zero, I'm sure if we talked things out, then you'll have a better understanding of the situation. He told me to tell you-" Minami cut her off, clearly done with her attempts at de-escalation.

"We have no interest in hearing you out further Leila Malcal. Acquaintance of Zero or not, we can't trust anything that man has to say right now. We're currently considered rogue elements, and have no choice but to defend ourselves. I'm sorry." The screen went black, and Leila sighed in defeat. She supposed things would have to work themselves out the less peaceful way. Hopefully, they managed to avoid too many casualties.

Kallen launched in the Guren Type Special. Even though it was operating suboptimally, it remained their greatest weapon currently. She saw the enemy ships launching their own Knightmare Frames. Nearly a hundred Alexander Drones, and over fifty Sutherland II. The Alexander's all sported some sort of newly developed Integrated Float System built directly into the bodies of the Knightmares. It reminded her of the Nagid Shu Mane. Surprisingly, she didn't see the custom Knightmares of the wZERO's Aces yet.

She activated her Wave Surger, and making sure to keep it within current operational limits, fired off a scatter shot. The wave of energy made contact, and a few dozen Alexander Drones went up in flame. After the initial shot, the surviving Knightmares broke off into much smaller groups to avoid falling to the same attack a second time. They moved to engage the enemy, Kallen's allies doing the same. Her opening move had slightly evened the playing field, but they were still outnumbered several times over.

Tohdoh, Cornelia, and Jeremiah confronted the enemy Sutherland II, while Chiba led the allied Sutherland II into battle against the Alexander Drones. This had been ordered to avoid confusion of opposing forces in identical Knightmares from being entangled with one another. In the best case scenario, friendly fire wouldn't be an issue.

The Sutherland Loyal opened up its remaining Hadron Blasters, and managed to shoot down a Sutherland II, which caused the pilot to eject. The two Knightmares flanking the one he own shot down threw up their Blaze Luminous, blocking his repeated shot. Annoyed at his reduced firepower, he closed the distance, Cornelia and Tohdoh not far behind. Tohdoh engaged a Sutherland in close quarters, the Zangetsu's Break Sword making quick work of their attempts at downing him with their Slash Harkins, and he bisected the machine at the torso, causing another pilot to eject. Cornelia too impaled a Sutherland through its arm carrying an assault rifle, before finishing it off with her own Slash Harkins.

Chiba downed a drone, and threw up her shield to block several others from swarming her. A Sutherland II accompanying her downed another, and their group began picking them off one by one.

Kallen zipped around the battlefield, not risking hitting her allies with the Wave Surger at range, and easily took down the drones en mass. For some reason, in spite of the numbers advantage, the enemy seemed underwhelming. After narrowing their numbers by a third, the drones movements drastically changed. She aimed for another with a Slash Harkin, but somehow it slipped the attack. "What the hell?! How did it move like that, it's not even being piloted." It closed in, before self destructing. Not expecting the kamikaze maneuver, Kallen was thrown back in the Guren. Another drone closed in, and she managed to get her shield up in time to block the explosion. "Everyone, be careful, they're self destructing!" Kallen looked over, before seeing an allied Sutherland II take critical damage, forcing the pilot to eject. "Damn it, take evasive maneuvers!"

The squad Chiba was leading disengaged, and began fleeing the incoming drones. Another got in close, forcing the second ejection on their side. That left them down to ten Sutherlands.

Elsewhere, the other half of the battle took another bad turn. The enemy pilots had wised up to not engage in close, and opted to drown the others in automatic fire. Tohdoh, Cornelia, and Jeremiah were all forced to engage their shields, lest they be shot down.

Kallen took another gamble, narrowing the beam of her Wave Surger, and fired, which took down another three drones. In the second it took her to pull it off, a strong impact nailed the Guren. Her armor managed to shrug off the worse of it, but after her systems tracked the trajectory of the projectile, she noticed a custom Alexander off in the distance, clearly wielding a sniper rifle. It fired another shot, but she intercepted the round with her Radiant Wave Shield.

"Annoying!' She was about to fire off the Wave Surger, but incoming missiles forced her to evade instead.

"Nice save Ryo. One shot from that would have taken me out." Yukiya Naruse readjusted his custom Alexander Valiant's Linear Rifle, attempting to get another bead on the target. The first few rounds had failed to do anything notable, and now the Guren was casually avoiding his attempts to shoot it down.

"No problem. The rest of us will slow it down so you can get another shot at it. That thing's armor is tougher than it looks." Ryo Sayama closed in, his own custom Alexander spitting rapid fire with its own Linear Chaingun. Hitting the Guren at range seemed to be a Herculean task. He readied his large Anti-Knightmare Axe, and moved in tangent with Ayano, her own Alexander wielding its 'Augus Longray' Sword.

"Don't move ahead of me idiot, if we go in one at a time she'll pick us off!" Ayano scolded him, deciding to match his frantic pace.

"Can it. Focus on the battle." The two Alexander Valiants swung both of their weapons at the Guren, who was still avoiding sniper fire. Yukiya was clearly frustrated his shots weren't hitting home.

The Guren back handed the axe with its gauntlet, before catching the sword with its other hand. "Got you!" Kallen fired off both the Guren's Slash Harkins, which were deflected off a Blaze Luminous shield, another Alexander variant having joined the brawl. It skillfully aimed its own blade, a katana, attempting to cleave the Harkins from their cables. Only quick maneuvering saved it from being skewered when the Guren's Harkin Boosters activated.

"That was close." Akito Hyuga readjusted his Alexander Liberte, sizing up the Guren.

"Thanks Akito. You saved me." Ayano brought her Alexander around, flanking the Guren.

"I know that Knightmare. You're the Ghost of Hannibal. You're supposed to be as good as Suzaku." The Guren raised its Wave Surger, ready for another head on attack. She intercepted another sniper round with it, refusing to be caught off guard again.

"I guess I am. I don't know about being as skilled as the Knight of Zero, but I won't let you hurt my friends." The Liberte angled its katana for another attack. Ayano and Ryo did the same.

"Hey, I'm not the one that showed up here looking for a fight."

"You could have surrendered peacefully. Things didn't have to devolve into a battle."

"Surrender to someone working with Schneizel? Fat chance!" The Guren fired off a radiant energy disk, which Akito dodged by rushing forward, narrowly ducking the attack.

"We're not with Schneizel. We only take orders from Leila!" Ryo retorted while swinging his axe, which the Guren again dodged, before it parried the follow up attacks from the Liberte and Ayano's machines. The frequency of the attacks let Yukiya slip another ranged shot in, which forced Kallen to throw up her shield.

"That damned shield needs to go. Akito disarm that Wave Surger." Another shot was blocked, and Yukiya clicked his tongue in frustration.

"I'm trying. She's good. Better than Shin." The Liberte got into a heated exchange of blows with the Guren, before Kallen pushed him back. Ryo was nearly bisected when Kallen fired off her Slash Harkins to intercept his own. The force of the collision shattered his, and the Guren's Harkin Boosters activated again, before Akito deflected one with his Blaze Luminous.

"How is she holding off all four of us at once?!" Ayano whined, annoyed that the Guren was overwhelming three opponents in melee at once despite their long range fire support. She fired off her own Slash Harkin in frustration, when the Guren grabbed it by the blade. "Shit!"

"Time to go for a ride!" Kallen began dragging the Alexander by its weapon, before Akito cut it free with the Liberte's katana. Ayano's Alexander rolled in the air wildly, before Ryo caught it with his own.

"Oh God, I think I'm going to hurl." Ayano fought the bile coming up, and barely managed to avoid getting sick. She shook her head, thoroughly dazed.

"Watch it. The Slash Harkins are useless. She'll just destroy them, or worse try to drag you along." Akito aimed for another disarming stroke on the Wave Surger, which only narrowly missed, scarring the gauntlet of the Guren.

"Sorry. I'll be careful." Ryo and she backed Akito up, piling on the attacks, none of which made contact again. Kallen, now used to the flow of battle, continued to parry or dodge everything they threw her way.

"We're getting nowhere. Everyone, prepare for BRS overclocking." Akito backed away, warning the others that the BRS, or Brain Raid System was going to pass the normal operating levels. The synchronous effect strengthened, sharpening his squad's reaction time and coordination. In a split second, the tide of the battle turned, putting Kallen on the defensive.

Leila watched the battle from the bridge of the Gallia Grande. The drones had peeled off from the Guren, and were now only engaging the remaining Sutherland II, now cut to half of their original number. Akito and the others were keeping the Guren in check, while the Black Knights that had arrived with her ship were confronting the other Ace pilots of the opposing forces. They had lost over a dozen machines, despite outnumbering the trio nearly twenty to one.

"What's the BRS operation rate?" Leila wasn't fond of pushing the system to its limits, but the caliber of the Guren's piloting skill left no alternative.

"Over 200% and climbing. Their adrenaline is spiking drastically, but it should be sustainable for now."

"Good. Let me know if it breaches 250%. Any higher and we risk anomalies popping up." She bit her nail, assessing the flow of the battle. Things were slowly changing into their favor, and every Knightmare disabled on the rogue factions side brought the battle closer to the end. "Prep the Red Ogre. I want Ashley to engage the enemy Aces."

"Yes ma'am."

The battle would soon come to a close. Things appeared to be going smoothly. She wanted to avoid as many casualties as possible, but knew that a few would slip though in spite of her best efforts. Use of the drones cut back on that a great deal, but the allied Black Knights had already confirmed the deaths of three pilots. Most of their members had managed to eject, but the enemy unit carrying an EN Lance seemed especially fond of lethal tactics, usually consisting of impaling the enemy cockpit, thus preventing the ejection system from operating.

"Please Akito, come back safe with the others. This was never supposed to turn into a battle."

Ashley Ashra launched inside his Alexander Red Ogre. The machine beelined towards the battle against the opposing Ace customs. His target was the Gloucester-esque Knightmare wielding an EM Lance. If intelligence was to be believed, the pilot was supposed to be the 'Witch of Britannia' herself. "Finally a worthy challenger. The others are busy with that Guren pilot, and I was worried no one else would still be kicking long enough for me to see any real opposition." A wicked grin split his face. In spite of his battle lust having calmed a good deal in the last year, a good fight always got his blood boiling.

The Red Ogre drew its twin Heat Swords, and rushed at the Quin Roses. "Ashley Ashra challenges you 'Witch of Britannia', come meet your destined foe!"

He swung the twin swords down, aiming to slice the EM Lance in twain, but was blocked by a Blaze Luminous from a custom Sutherland.

"Fight someone of your own station. Jeremiah Gottwald meets your challenge!" Not expecting to be intercepted, Jeremiah managed to grapple one of the Heat Swords, before ripping it free from the Red Ogre's grip.

"Unhand my blade. It's not meant for the likes of you!" He drew his Heat Knife in the Red Ogre's off hand, and tried to slice off the Sutherland Loyal's arm that was wielding the stolen weapon. Jeremiah expertly reposted, matching every blow evenly, catching any offhand strikes with his remaining shield.

"I'm more than worthy. Behold, the meaning of Loyalty!" Jeremiah forced Ashley's machine into a blade lock, and opened up the array of Hadron Blasters on his Knightmare's shield arm. The Red Ogre opened up its own missile pods, throwing off the aim, and both weapons shot wide. Ashley forced the Loyal to break apart, which opened its Blaze Luminous to meet a barrage of rifle fire. The two machines were jockeyed for an opening to strike the other down, but were evenly matched.

"So you're a capable warrior as well! I had my eyes set on another prize, but to think I'd be spoiled for choice. What a glorious day!" Ashley fired his Slash Harkin, which was intercepted midair by Jeremiah's. Every attack was met with equal force. "So this is the infamous Orange. I never thought someone could pilot a Sutherland so ferociously!"

"I'm humbled by your praise. Tell me again, who do I have the honor of facing?" He paused the battle temporarily, saluting his opponent with the acquired blade.

"You face Ashley Ashra. Former leader of the Asura Strike Force. Current member of the wZERO unit. Ace pilot of the Alexander Red Ogre." Ashley returned the salute, and the battle began anew.

Cornelia was annoyed that Jeremiah had interrupted the challenge she had received. She hadn't gotten a single word out before the man threw himself at the new opponent that had appeared. Still though, she was impressed. The new pilot was a perfect match for Jeremiah. They fought with equal skill and ferocity. It was almost uncanny how similarly they acted. This Ashley fellow was certainly more rough, a contrast to Jeremiah's elegance, but they were both honorable to a fault.

Tohdoh and herself were clambering to not be overwhelmed by the sudden increase of focus on them now that Jeremiah was busy with another Ace. She supposed that was the plan. Keep one of them preoccupied so the rable can swarm the rest with pure numbers. Whether she had been the original target or not, the problem didn't change. The issue was, given their own dwindling forces, things would only progress towards a worse outcome.

She blocked more assault rifle fire, and managed to shoot down another Sutherland II with her own gun. That was her seventh takedown of the battle. Tohdoh was sporting a similar amount, and Jeremiah had taken down six before he had been engaged one on one. She was quickly running out of ammunition, and the repeated assault on her Blaze Luminous was eating into the energy reserves. The pure volume of enemy fire was getting the best of her.

This had quickly turned into a battle of attrition, which wasn't something their inferior numbers were cut out for. She had faced similar odds in Zilkhstan, but the tech gap between her Knightmare and their mass produced model, the Ghedo Vakka, had been more pronounced. The Quin Roses was a 7th Generation take on the Gloucester, while the Ghedo Vakka was more akin to a 5th Generation Knightmare. The Sutherland II, even if it was a mass produced model, wasn't far behind her unit in combat ability. The only real advantage she had was superior agility and melee ability. The difference in numbers made up for that in spades. Only her prodigious piloting skills acted as an equalizer in her favor.

Tohdoh, who wasn't far from her, pulled off a daring maneuver, which landed him another two kills simultaneously. One Sutherland II was bisected in two, while another close one had been impaled by his Break Sword's mounted Slash Harkin. The fact that Tohdoh of all people had to take drastic risks to make headway in the battle didn't bode well. The attempt had nearly gotten him shot down.

"Tohdoh! I'm going to have to try something. We're making progress, but it's too slow. We're backed against the wall here." More enemy fire glanced off her Blaze Luminous, Tohdoh's own Radiant Wave Shield providing more protection.

"What did you have in mind?"

"If we free up Chiba and the others, then we might be able to turn the battle into our favor again."

"We had them engage the drones because they're piloting identical models to the enemy. If they get involved, we might shoot them down accidentally."

"Exactly, we'll use the confusion to our advantage. If the two of us break away, and distract the drones long enough for Chiba and the others to peel off, they can turn off their IFF Transponders, and force the other Sutherland II into a guessing game. Then they just have to aim for the ones still giving off their signals."

"That might work. If they get in close, then the enemies won't know for sure who they're next to before it's too late. Let's go for it. We don't have much of a choice." The two Knightmares broke away at speed, causing a trio of Sutherland II to chase them.

"Chiba, you and the others need to go dark. Break away when we give you the signal." Tohdoh and Cornelia plunged into the swarm of Alexander Drones, their shields at full power. Several of them self destructed when they got in proximity, which created a large smokescreen. The enemy Sutherland II continued their pursuit into the smoke cloud.

The Quin Roses and Zangetsu broke the cover, and doubled back to the larger group of Sutherlands, three Knightmares still pursuing them. When they broke into the engagement again, Cornelia and Tohdoh each taking another enemy down respectively, all hell broke loose. To the horror of the enemies, the trio that had been pursuing the pair started raining fire on their own allies. Three more Sutherland II went down in quick succession.

"Fools. That was too easy. They didn't foresee using the cover of the drones self destructing to camouflage the others taking down our pursuers and taking their place."

"Speaking of which. The self destruction payload couldn't breach our shields. Are you thinking what I'm thinking Cornelia?"

"We rush headlong with our shields active, and force as many drones to self destruct as possible?

"Precisely." The two committed to their next course of action, having managed to finally catch a break. Only two Sutherland II aside from Chiba's remained of their own forces, but the enemy was in too much disarray to quickly sort out who was who. Multiple machines had already fallen to friendly fire. Things were starting to get even more hectic.

"Deactivate the proximity trigger for the drone's self destruction sequence. We're bleeding too many numbers. Give me a report of combat losses."

"Yes ma'am. We lost another dozen drones to that last tactic. Currently thirty four remain. Eighteen Sutherland II are still operational. The enemy Sutherland II have turned off their IFF, and the battle is too frantic to tell friend from foe. The Valiants, Red Ogre, and Liberte are still near fully operational. The BRS is currently at 230%."

"How did we manage to lose roughly 60% of our forces? The enemy only started with fifteen Knightmares, and we've barely managed to take down half their numbers." Claus Warwick palmed his face. Things were never supposed to end like this. The battle had started out so promising. The enemy was far more tenacious than anyone would have guessed."

"It's their Ace pilots making the difference. The Guren is single handedly keeping Akito and the others busy, and even with them overclocking the BRS, they are barely keeping pace. They have to constantly keep on the pressure just to stay at parity. Neither side has an advantage, but the longer this drags on, the worse it is for Akito and the others. While we might have made significant improvements in the systems safety, this kind of strain on their mental state isn't sustainable." Sophie Randle, one of the lead creators behind the BRS frantically took stock of the system readings. "Ashley just synced up with the others. His own reading has skyrocketed as well. BRS is now operating at 240%."

Leila and the others saw the Red Ogre's movements become more refined, and at least he quickly managed to overwhelm his sole opponent, finally disarming them of the stolen Heat Sword. Two explosions rang out as two of the hiding Sutherland II were finally identified at the same time.

"I don't like it, but that gives us another advantage. The Sutherland II have managed to take down two of the remaining Knightmares as well. Only one enemy Sutherland II remains, but they've gone quiet. Now that they're alone, they don't want to be made a target, so things have quieted down on that end. The other two Aces are slowly being overwhelmed by the remaining drones. Only the Guren is still a major obstruction."

Multiple things had compounded to losing more of their forces than were acceptable. If the bulk of their unit had been manned machines, she would have ordered their retreat earlier into the battle. Luckily, she had pushed to reinstate the drone program, and the science team had made strides in the AI field. The AI controlling the drones was now on par with an average Knightmare pilot. They could adapt to obstacles more easily than before, albeit things like the self destruction protocols were only ever approved or disabled manually by herself or another officer.

"Order the retreat of the remaining Sutherland II. We don't need any more casualties. Seven of the Black Knights that were shot down couldn't eject, and we don't need any more blood spilled on our end."

"What of the remaining one in hiding?"

"Tell the others to let them retreat. Don't chase them down unnecessarily. It's only a single machine." The Sutherland II returned to their respective carrier, and the enemy pilot took advantage to break off, and started engaging the drones alongside the two Aces.

Ashley was still engaging in his duel, but the tide had turned into his favor heavily. Only five opposing machines remained, and it was time to pressure them into surrendering.

Jeremiah Gottwald was roughly knocked back, his remaining shield arm being severed at the elbow. He was now down to only the Slash Harkins on his Knightmare, as the backup assault rifle had been destroyed earlier. He deflected assault rifle fire with the remaining arms Blaze Luminous, and attempted to make space, but the Red Ogre came in hot, having regained its Heats Sword's other twin. The change in skill level of his opponent had been sudden, but drastic. He had heard whispers of some advanced mind sharing technology that supposedly came from the EU, but to experience the effects first hand was another thing entirely.

Chiba finally rejoined Cornelia and Tohdoh. Neither of their Knightmares were in good shape. Both of their shields had been overwhelmed to the point of catastrophic failure, Cornelia losing her EM Lance in the process. Tohdoh had no ammo remaining, and Chiba had to hand him a spare assault rifle she had pilfered off a downed enemy Knightmare.

"This isn't sustainable. Orange is losing badly, and we're hanging on by a thread!" She threw up her machine's Blaze Luminous to block a barrage of fire. Somehow her Knightmare was in the best shape. She supposed it was due to her taking fewer risks, and also not being dragged into a battle with another Ace pilot.

"We need to hold fast. As long as Kozuki is still going strong, we have a chance." Tohdoh was forced to use a Slash Harkin to down a drone that was getting too close.

"I don't know how she's doing it, but four of the enemy's custom Knightmares are being occupied by her alone. If every one of them is as good or better than Jeremiah, then it's a miracle we've held out this long." Cornelia shot down a drone, and moved to repeat the process before her gun clicked empty. "I'm out!"

"Me too, all I can do is use my Slash Harkins and shields. I'll cover you two the best I can."

Tohdoh removed an arm from a drone with his Break Sword, and tossed the limb to Cornelia. She gratefully caught the limb, and liberated the knife stored inside the wrist. "Much appreciated. It's not much, but it will have to do." She drove the knife into the head of another drone before kicking it away, and Tohdoh finished it off with what remained of his assault rifle's ammo.

"I'm empty too." The Zangetsu chucked the empty weapon uselessly at a drone, before he cut the machine in half. Chiba covered both of them with her Sutherland's Blaze Luminous, and Cornelia came back to back with the others.

"This is it. We hold out here, or die trying."

"I wouldn't spend my remaining time with anyone else. It's been an honor." Tohdoh readied himself for the final confrontation as the drones swarmed around them from all sides.

"You promised, we would both survive. So please, don't give up yet." Chiba desperately pleaded for him to hold on just a bit longer. "If Kallen pulls through, then we just need to believe we can survive."

"I'm missing some context here, but Chiba's right, Kozuki can still turn things around. We can't give up too early."

"How foolish of me. Of course you're both right. We can't let things end here!" The drones began to tighten the encirclement, and the three pilots tensed, ready for things to erupt into another frenzy of violence.

Minami bit his lip. Things had taken a terrible turn. Only Kallen and four others, all Aces, were still holding on. Only half of their pilots that had been taken down actually died, but it was still looking bleak. Jeremiah was on his last leg, forced to fight defensively to survive. Tohdoh, Cornelia, and Chiba were about to be overwhelmed by the swarm of drones. Only Kallen, holding off four Aces alone was still fighting at any decent capacity.

"Maybe we should surrender. The enemy commander has a reputation for mercy. It might be the only way the rest of us survive." Ohgi looked like he had swallowed his tongue, but Minami knew he had a point. It was his job as Captain to make sure as many of their forces survived as possible. They still had the Moosa in the hangar, but it lacked any weapons for combat. Their remaining options were running out.

"Sir, Kozuki's taken a hit!"

"What!? How bad is it?"

"The Wave Surger is offline. She overtaxed it to keep up in the battle. The mechanisms are totaled. The gauntlet can barely move."

"Damn it! Fine, hail the opposing commander. Let them know we're ready to negotiate their terms of our surrender." The communication screen came online, and Leila Malcal was once again visible.

"I see you're aware of your situation. I promise, order your pilots to pull back, and I'll ensure their safety. No one else needs to die."

Minami paused, now second guessing his decisions, when an alarm went off. "What's that?"

"Incoming beam. It's huge!"

"Brace for impact!" Everyone gripped the bridge, expecting the worst to come to pass. Then the incoming beam did something they weren't expecting. It cut through the swarm of Alexander Drones, downing over half the remaining units in one fell swoop. Another image appeared on their screen, cutting off Leila's feed.

"To all allied forces. Do not surrender, for your miracle has finally arrived!" The Gekkoei, in all its glory, finally arrived on the field of battle. Its completed stock of weapons ready for their first test run.

A/N: Finally, enter Lelouch and C.C. with the completed Gekkoei, or rather Gekkoei Sui. To those who have played Super Robot Wars 30, I'm sure you're aware of what this thing is capable of. The battle isn't over yet, but things are going to come to a head next chapter. Thanks for reading, until next time.