Code Geass: Nunnally on the Insurrection

Operation: Narita

Days earlier, and the countryside rang with the sound of battle. The heavily forested hills were hard to move through in a Knightmare, and the muddy roads were barely passable. A rebel force was here to draw attention and fight the garrison of Brittanian forces, weakening the enemy for the war the all expected to come.

Ohgi cursed softly as the stolen Knightmare Frames moved in a wedge, smashing into a slightly smaller Royal force. The brown haired man and his team weren't experts in the Knightmares yet, but hard drilling from Nemo and others had raised their skills.

'I feel like I'm losing control of our cell,' Ohgi admitted, hair falling into his eyes. He was still officially in charge, but more and more tactics and strategies were coming from Nemo. Worse, the majority of their comrades knew it.

Ohgi got close enough to punch one Knightmare, then fired off his slash harkens to put it down. Around him his fellow pilots hammered the enemy, breaking the smaller patrol and forcing several to eject from their Knightmares.

The survivors tried to pull back, when another Knightmare came from behind. The mecha was the same model as the others but somehow it moved faster, struck quicker. The pilot dodged and weaved like a dancer as it destroyed the retreating Knightmares, shattering metal and breaking the heavy weapons.

"This is Nemo," she said, though her skills had almost instantly identified her, "our scout team has found the entrance."

Ohgi raised his eyebrows, feeling faintly surprised. The group had chosen this area to attack for the distraction because of a rumored Britannian lab, but he really hadn't expected to find it. Briskly he said, "Take your team in, the rest of us will keep them busy."

"Understood," Nemo said, then she hesitated a moment. "I strongly advise you not to engage the White Knightmare unless you have a overwhelming force advantage. The pilot is just too damn good," she warned.

"Do you think you could take him?" Ohgi asked her curiously as he led his squad off.

"I don't know," Nemo answered frankly, "and now really isn't the time to find out."

"Got it," Ohgi nodded agreement. He smiled coldly as he considered, 'A lot of pure blood Britannians dislike that pilot, I've heard. Maybe I can get them to target him?'

Nemo piloted her Knightmare across the fields, even as she felt a pang of guilt for leaving the others to fend for themselves. 'They're trained and as ready as I can make them,' she reminded herself firmly. Switching to a private frequency she asked, "CC, Viletta, Jeremiah, are you in position?"

"Yes ma'am," Jeremiah Gottwald answered briskly, "we have found the emergency exit, even as your Knightmares are assaulting the main access."

"Good, I'll meet you there," Nemo agreed as she went over the rise and raced forward.

The original plan had been for this attack to be a distraction, while a crack team made up of former Japan Liberation Front members assaulted a troop transport to free Tohdo. Up to a point that was still the plan, too, except that new information made this operation a bit more complicated. They had chosen Narita because it was important enough to be protected, but not too protected, but apparently there was more here than meets the eye.

The access was where Jeremiah had said, and Nemo advanced towards it on foot after stashing her Knightmare nearby. She wore the semi-official new uniform the rebels were using, black military style wear trimmed in red, her usual sunglasses hiding her eyes.

"Are you sure just four of us are going to be enough?" CC asked pointedly, the green haired woman dressed in a slinky long black dress in complete defiance of Nunnally's orders. Of course, both of them pretty much expected that at this point...

"The security forces should be responding to the attack up front," Nemo said briskly, "we can handle anything left." She shrugged, "Besides, four people are less likely to trigger a alarm."

"Yes, my lady," Villetta Nu bowed, her eyes nearly glowing with admiration.

Jeremiah looked more amused by the obvious interest his subordinate showed to Nemo than disturbed, but he still shook his head. "The security here is pitiful," he informed Nemo as they stood by the open hatch, "standard access codes opened the door."

"Then let's go in," Nemo said.

The base was built underground, apparently for an added layer of security. The hill it was under looked no different than any other in the area, and the air and waste vents were disguised to look 'natural' as possible. Still, as they descended Nemo was surprised at the lack of active security. No gates, no lasers, no card swipes... the place was wide open.

"We need a map of the facility," CC murmured to Nemo, her breath blowing across her ear, "there's no telling how deep this place goes."

Nemo shivered slightly, feeling CC's apparently bra-less breasts press into her back. "Map," her voice sounded rough, "right, yes..."

Villetta hid a smile as she said calmly, "There's a computer terminal over there. Shall I try my access codes?"

"Worth a try," Nemo said briskly, knowing any codes memorized in her childhood were probably useless now.

The infiltrators managed to find a schematic of the interior, including access to the vents running from level to level. "What kind of idiot puts this sort of information in a standard base map?" Jeremiah asked, sounding desgusted.

"Someone who thinks they can't be invaded," Nemo noted, frowning as she read several notes on the diagram. "We need to get two levels down," she said flatly, "quickly."

"Why...?" Villetta asked as they hurried after the now running Nemo.

"They're holding people captive down there," Nemo said grimly as they pried open a vent and climbed in, heading for the ladders leading down, "and if I read the notations right, they're doing biological experiments on them."

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Prince Clovis la Britannia felt like the entire base was coming down on him as he sat in the control center. Well, more like cowered, as the brown-blond haired man watched his career coming crashing down on his head. 'How could they know about this facility?' he thought as he watched their security team of Knightmares jousting with rebel forces, 'It's not possible!'

But apparently it WAS possible. It had been bad enough when the rebels attacked the military base nearby, but now a second group was attacking here. The enterance was hidden, and supposedly only certain soldiers with the proper access should even know about it, but somehow the rebels knew and were attacking with a small force of Knightmares and ground troops.

'Father is going to be furious,' Clovis thought bleakly, knowing how important this research base was. They were trying to understand the power of Geass and how it changed the bodies of living things, as well as how to induce it artificially. Charles had told him that the research was vital for his long range plans, and Clovis didn't even want to imagine his reaction to this.

Clovis got up from his chair, tidying his uniform as he said, "I'm going down to the labs. Notify me once our reinforcements arrive."

Dorothea Ernst, the Knight of Four and the head of the facility's security, gave him a withering glance. "Sir, we do not know if we're getting reinforcements," the dark skinned and dark haired woman reminded him flatly.

"The rabble out there will not prevent our loyal forces from arriving," Clovis sniffed, even though he was more than a bit afraid of the warrior assigned to watch over him.

Dorothea shook her head, "I've been watching the conflict over remotes on the surface, these people are good."

"Our forces will reinforce us," Clovis insisted. He walked to the access door, "Now watch the base, I'm going to the labs."

"Sir," Dorothea nodded stiffly.

Clovis took the stairs down, gripping the railing to still his quivers of fear. Dorothea was there to guard him, and Clovis knew that the fourth best knight of the realm was there to execute him if needed. There was no other reason to have such a great fighter assigned to a base like this.

Shaking his head Clovis reached the lab levels, looking around with a faint degree of queasiness. It was necessary work they were doing, for the benefit of mankind, but it still made him just a bit uncomfortable.

Elevens waited in the cages lining one side of the room, drugged to unconsciousness. When they were awake they kicked up a terrible racket, and were even louder when they were taken to the labs. There scientists belonging to the Geass Order attempted to artificially stimulate the brains of the subjects, based on studies of subjects with actual Geass abilities. They'd had limited success so far, but they were making progress...

General Bradly nodded in greetings as the overweight man waited by the doors to the main labs. "Sir, the labs are secure," he reassured Clovis.

Clovis gave the other man a grim look, "Let me be the judge of that." They advanced together as he added, "Our main source of security was concealment, after all."

"Of course sir, but...," Bradly started, then trailed off as the doors slid open and three guns were revealed pointed at their heads.

"Hello, Clovis," the woman dressed in a military style uniform in black and red said calmly, "it's been awhile."

"What is the meaning of this...," Clovis started before recognizing one of the women with guns and murmuring, "CC?"

"Disarm them," the sunglasses wearing woman ordered, and in moments both Clovis and Bradly lost their guns.

"Gottwald? Nu?" Bradly sounded shocked as he recognized the two officers, "How dare you attack a superior officer..."

"Shut up," Jeremiah said flatly, "we've seen what you've been doing in these labs, General. How could you?"

Clovis visibly paled at that comment. The labs were top secret for security, but also to keep what was going on away from the public. If the common people learned about what they were doing here, they would be rather... upset.

"He's right," the women said as she removed her sunglasses, "how could you, brother?"

Clovis' eyes widened as he recognized the woman, even if he hadn't seen her in many years. "Nunnally?" he breathed out.

"It's been a long time," Nunnally agreed as she stepped forward and punched Clovis in the guts.

"Oof!" Clovis yelped as he doubled over, then made a gasp of pain as Nunnally yanked him forward by the collar.

"You were experimenting on children, brother," Nunnally spat. "How dare you!"

Clovis flinched, but he couldn't answer her. In all honesty he didn't know what to say. He had been obeying orders from Father, but even he could see that wasn't a excuse...

Nunnally stared down at him a moment, then looked at Bradly. "I want to evacuate the people here," she said flatly, "and you are going to help me."

"And why would I do that?" Bradly demanded.

Clovis watched as the Geass effect manifested in Nunnally's eye, his blood going cold. 'She has Geass? How? Did CC...?'

"Because you are now loyal to me," Nunnally said as a stunned look appeared on Bradly's face.

"Yes, my lord," Bradly bowed.

Nunnally looked at Jeremiah and Villetta, "Work with Bradly, we need to get all the mobile survivors out of here."

Jeremiah nodded as he asked, "And the ones on life support?"

"I'll deal with that later," Nunnally promised as Villetta, Jeremiah and Bradly hurried off. She looked at Clovis as CC stood back, gun ready, "So, what am I going to do with you?"

"I have valuable information," Clovis said worriedly.

"I don't know if I really care," Nunnally admitted as she met his eyes. "You ordered the Shinjuku Massacre, killing who knows how many Japanese to hide your loss of CC. And now what you've done here...," she shook her head grimly.

Nunnally's tone and hard gaze filled him with fear. Clovis made himself stand up, his expression

haughty as he said, "You wouldn't kill me, Nana. We're blood."

"She might not," CC raised the pistol, "but I certainly would."

BLAM!

To me continued...

Notes: This expands on the earlier mention of a Narita raid. Since I had mentioned Clovis was transferred there earlier, I figured I should follow up.