Lelouch POV
Normally Lelouch would laugh about the irony in this situation, one person, the first that he ever considered a friend, was doing his best to save him from another one of his friends that's was as well trying to save him, but he wasn't in the mood to appreciate it, not after the third time in which Suzaku's sword almost cut off his head.
He tried to scream to Suzaku to retreat, and that he would find a way to escape, Suzaku heard him and stopped for a moment, but then he simply started attacking again, there was nothing he could do.
He was powerless at that moment, even giving Kallen proper instruction was out of the question, if Kallen could hear him Suzaku would probably do it as well, all he could do was hope Kallen had a plan.
And so he waited, watching the two best pilots he has seen since the time at the Alres Villa, he would even appreciate how much Kallen has improved in the last month or how surprised he was from how Suzaku was going toe to toe whit her, despite this, all he wanted was to it to end, but the situation got worse when Jeremiah and the Glasgow he was fighiting against reached them, and it became a 2 vs 2, even more people that could kill him for no damn reason, and all of that just for the mysterious woman right beside to him,
The fight prolonged for more or less a minute, and with every passing second the outcome looked to favorite Gootwald and Suzaku, in a last effort to turn the situation around Kallen tried to thrust her sword pointing toward Jeremiah's cabin, but she was to slow, her attack was blocked and she was too unbalanced to block Jeremiah counter attack, her knightmare fell on the ground, the glasgow tried to help her firing one of his slash harken, but it was interjected by Suzaku, and now Jeremiah was above them ready to give the killing blow, Lelouch was in disbelief, rationally he knew Kallen could lose, but he didn't really believed it, no one had yet managed to beat her, and it all happened way faster than he ever expected, all he could do was watch while another person dear to him was about to be killed.
"PLEASE, STOP!" He shouted in desperation and without even thinking, and to his surprise the man started looking at him, now he was giving him his full attention, he totally stopped moving, probably pondering if he was allied with the terrorist.
Luckily Kallen used the opportunity to take her riffle and shoot at his Knightmare, Jeremiah was expelled, he probably managed to come out alive, but his Knightmare wasn't so lucky.
In the meanwhile reinforcements from the Naoto group arrived forcing Suzaku to retreat.
Before they could reach them Kallen escaped, bringing Lelouch and the woman into one of the many abandoned buildings.
Finally free from her hand, he could permit himself to lay down on the ground, allowing the pain to finally take over, but Kallen didn't give him much time to rest, she exited the Knightmare and handed him a tablet, which showed the position of their Knightmare and some of the enemy one(the one's spotted).
Kallen "I know you want to rest, but there is still a lot of work to do, Zero".
Lelouch looked at her, unfortunately, she was right, he then grabbed the tablet and started to analyze the battlefield, it was worse than he initially thought, probably whatever force Clovis could muster in such a short time was here, Naoto's troops were surrounded, but most of his were not.
Lelouch "Kallen, as you can see my mask was destroyed in the battle, my voice is recognizable, so I will lead through you, first of all, I need as much information as possible about the enemy position, send some men in high place to observe the battle" having access to the enemy frequency would make this so much easier.
Kallen "No problem, anything else?".
Lelouch thought about this.
Lelouch "I want you to say those words, if you wan...".
Naoto POV
"...na win, you're just gonna have to trust me".
An altered female voice stated.
Win? They were completely surrounded and outnumbered, right now even surviving was enough, and while a part of him was hoping, the fear of betrayal was still strong... On the other hand... He may have managed to resist until now, but he was quickly running out of ideas.
"Very well, what do we have to do".
Lelouch POV
And then the real battle started, luckily one his men spotted a train heading toward the battlefield, Naoto was informed and they managed to intercept it, gaining 8 Knightmares, that first little victory increased their morale, not that it was really needed, after all the fight reached Shinjuku, their home, and under Clovis command the army of Britannia was slaughtering both rebels and civilian without distinction...
Lelouch still remembers the few happy moments he passed as a prince, Clovis was in many of them, but in the years, looking at how his brother ruled, he slowly lost most of his hope in him.
How far his brother had fallen...
Now none of this mattered, he was just an enemy doomed to fail, he was fighting in a territory he barely knew, and this made creating ambushes very easy, the limited information made Lelouch make a few errors and lose some Knightmare, but for the most part they continued to gain many little victories, and making his man slowly retreating toward the center of the ghetto he gave the enemy a target, as he expected Clovis lost his patience and sent most of his remaining troops hoping in a final victory, at that moment Lelouch gave the order, dozens of enemy, saw the ground disappear from under their feet, literally.
Lelouch would laugh if doing so wouldn't make him feel more pain than he could bear, but even that wasn't enough to make his smile fade away, he could really win. and now it was time for the final act.
But before he could start the girl next to him awoke.
Lelouch tried to get up to stop her, but he was too weak"Wait!".
The woman actually stopped, launching a grin at him "We'll see again soon, and then we'll have time to talk" and then she walked away.
Clovis POV
Bartley and most of the others were already gone, directing from the ground what remained of his army, and then they were attacked from behind, at that moment panic exploded, most of the division ordered to return and give assistance were now fleeing, So he and the officer's whit him tried to evacuate, many managed to escape, he wasn't so lucky, the few men guarding him were quickly overrun, and now a woman was pointing a gun at him.
Clovis "Attention all forces, cease fire at once".
he announced.
Clovis "I Clovis, third prince of Britannia and royal viceroy of Area Eleven, here by command you, all forces are ordered to cease fire at once you and retreat, also cease destruction of any buildings or property. All casualties, whether Britannian or Eleven, shall be treated equally and without prejudice, in the name of Clovis la Britannia, you are hereby ordered, cease fire at once, i shall allow no further fighting".
Clovis asked maintaining his royal tone "Are you satisfied?".
The disgust in her voice was clear "Not really, i would prefer to put a bullet between your eyes, but Zero asked of you".
Clovis stood up, resigned to be taken hostage, unfortunately for him he had to sit down immediately after the red-haired woman's punch knocked all the breath out of his body.
Another punch landed in his face right after.
"That's for all the people you killed today, now get up if you don't want another one".
A sip of his blood stained the ground, for the first time in his life Clovis really started to fear for his life.