That was when Zero calmly walked in behind Lightning and Nathaniel, holding a small detonator in his hand. Behind the mask, Ghost smirked.

"Hello, gentlemen. Please, feel free to let my associate up and drop your weapons. This is linked to a small-scale FLEIJA warhead that will destroy the entire school if detonated, along with everyone in it." He stated calmly. "I will not hesitate to detonate it should either of you make the slightest move that I don't like."

Lightning looked at Zero, keeping his gun trained on the false Zero. "Oh Really?" Lightning said, taking a few steps back, "Do it, then. The great and proud Zero could not simply sacrifice his life. You are FAR too self-righteous. So go ahead. Press the button, if you can stomach it.... what, that didn't go as planned? You made a fatal mistake, Zero. I will not bow to a terrorist like you. Go ahead. Do it."

He acted a lot calmer than he felt. But he felt as if he had encountered Zero before, and he was POSITIVE that he wouldn't sacrifice himself just to take out two knight of the rounds, and Nathaniel as well, at the cost of his own lives, maybe even other Black Knights who was in the area.

"So, you've called my bluff, then. I would expect nothing less from a Knight of the Round." Zero said. "I suppose that I'll have to use my contingency plan."

With that, he pulled up one of his costume's sleeves, revealing a small computer. He tapped a few buttons, and without warning, a flurry of spherical Hadron blasts slammed into one of the class buildings, destroying it. A small echo of screams rebounded around the courtyard for an instant. A second later, the Shinkiro lowered into view outside the window, being controlled remotely.

"That's one building full of students dead, Knight of Three. I believe that that is Check."

(AN: The Shinkiro was on station in case Zero would need to pilot it... or need to do exactly this.)

Lightning looked to one of the dead soldiers... or, more precise, the one that had been filming everything. Sure, he was dead, but he had been on a live broadcast.

"...I'm afraid the check is on you, Zero." Lightning said. "Exactly how much do you value the life of your... slave, shall we say? A deal: You leave... far away, and I release this fake. Heck, I won't even remove his mask? Say no, and I shoot. It's as simple as that. If you don't think I won't, just remember, I'm the Dark Death of Britannia. One terrorist is nothing to me. Or... are you STILL willing to kill numerous innocents on your quest? Make your choice, terrorist scum."

Lightning's mind was racing. He had called Zero's personallity perfectly... could he use that?

There was suddenly smoke in the air, and the last thing Lightning felt was a swift pain in the face.

Rose landed after her swift spin-kick, KO'ing Lightning. "That's Check-mate." She said, glad her appearance was masked by Morgan. "So, Zero, shall we head out? You're out numbered, Knight of Nunnally." She said, reading a flash-bomb and a kunai. "I suggest you go."

Finishing the last Knightmare frame Cyrus watched as a building full of students were destroyed by a flurry of spherical Hadron blast. His eyes went wide when he saw the Shinkiro a thought went through his head, he just killed a building of innocent students you have to destroy kill him now. Charging his Vincent the MVS was already out and Cyrus yelled, “Zero!!!!!!!!!!” He made a strike at the Knightmare, hoping to destroy the hands first.

Zero moved the Shinkiro out of the way narrowly, just dodging Cyrus' strike. He moved the back of it towards the headmaster's office and opened the cockpit, before shooting out the glass window.

"Ark! Get off the floor and into the Shinkiro." He ordered, before turning to Rose. "Well done. You have just saved Ark's life."

Soma woke from his nightmare to the sound of the hum of the countless computer monitors in his room. If he had another dream about his father he would go crazy. These nightmares were coming more frequently than ever. Soma rolled over and looked at the clock on his counter. 4:38 A.M. Way to early to be up. He had to get to work early today for a customer's car inspection but this was ridiculous. Trying to go back to bed was useless. Soma tumbled out of bed and stumbled out of his room into the hall. At least he should get something to eat. The kitchen was bathed with an eerie glow, moon light streaming through the big glass windows. Soma opened a cabinet for a cup stretching out to reach for one. His fingers grazed the cool glass as he failed to grab the cup before it crashed to the ground abruptly breaking the silence. "Shit." Soma swore, kneeling down to pick up the pieces. He froze. His fathers room led directly into the kitchen and Soma had not been in there since he died. But for the first time he noticed a soft glow of light coming from under the door. Was that there before? Soma sighed. "Great, I break one of dad's cups and he comes back from the dead." Entering in the combination code to his dad's room, he hesitated. Why the hell was he doing this? The old man was long dead and he wasn't coming back. Even though, that light had not been there before. Curiosity got the best of him and as he stepped forward the door slid open releasing a cloud of dust. The room had looked the same as it always had but dust was everywhere and a multitude of spiders had taken over every corner of the musty room. The light was not hard to find as it was coming from a rectangular panel on the wall just beside the large desk strewn with papers that had not been touched for years. Soma had always seen that panel on the wall but it had never started glowing before. He went over to inspect it and he leaned in closer to see what was on the surface. Suddenly the room lit up with a brilliant flash of white light and Soma jerked back rubbing his eyes. "Ocular recognition confirmed. Soma Schicksal. Access granted." The panel spoke in a electronic monotone voice. Soma blinked, staring at the panel. The ground underneath him shifted and before he knew it, the ground started moving down with blinding speed leaving the room above it.

Ark was trembling. He couldn't believe what he'd just saw. His superior, the one he'd put all his faith into, had murdered a building full of innocent students. How could he? it wasn't possible. It was insane. of course they were Britannia, but the terror they were capable of hadn't been wrought yet. His stomach lurched as f he was about to wretch. He stumbled to his feet. Everything around him felt like it was spinning. To bring himself back to reality he reminded himself of the danger he was in. He jumped through the hole in the wall and grabbed Zero's hand who pulled him into the Shinkiro. Ark looked back into the building staring back at Rose, When they were bombarded by a knightmare.

Nathaniel watched as Zero’s bluff was called, but when the computer appeared it took him less than a second to turn to Milly’s desk and hit a statuette which folded over connected to the desk. He heard the screams from the other building, as well as screams from every building in response and his blood turned to ice. But as Light was taken down and Zero began to escape he came back to reality.

His left hand aimed at Ark, his right at Zero. He fired, but didn’t have a clear shot on either, instead of hitting Ark in the shoulder and Zero in the head he had to aim lower, one round perfectly aimed to put a bullet into the real Zero’s right shin bone. The left gun fired at the arm of ark, but it wasn’t as clear a target as the leg had been.

He spun about, content to leave the situation of the Shinkiro to the men outside, and turned to aim at Rose. But his guns were empty. He moved forward, the bar pistols still out like tonfas as he approached. She may have found it easy to knock out Light, but he wasn’t going to go down so easily. His right knee flew up toward the girl as he came flying at her. His arms held in a perfect defensive position. Neither had the element of surprise, it was going to be a fight os skill and skill alone.

Rose nodded, "I radioed the o-kay for the Helel to get here, so I'll cover our escape." Rose said with a nod. "Sorry, big boy, I'd like to engage in combat with Nunnally's knight, but I got things I myself need to handle. We'll meet again though." She said, throwing the flash bomb she concealed in her wrist, and used the split second to jump out of the window.


She ran to a Semi, witch opened up to reveal the Helel, in all of it's glory. It was already running, so she hopped in, and launched it in a fluid motion, flying next to Shinkiro, pulling out a keyboard, readying the ADT. She laughed, "While this holds no major weapons, the Helel is the worlds best defensive unit. That knight won't be touching us anytime soon. Let's get out of here, Zero."


Lightning jumped up, swiftly waking up. "Damnit, who does she think she is?." He said, holding his face, sure his jaw was broken. He looked at the camera, and waved, "That's all folks." He said, and promptly headed out.

There was a beep, "Izanagi Okami is fully operational again, my dear devicer! Meet us outside, and catch those terrorists! We have the Lancelot Conquista too, if dear little Nathaniel is there, too."

Lightning hopped into Izanagi, and roared it off, flying into the air like one would enjoy a new-car smell. Flying high-above Shinkiro and Helel. "I've heard of that unit, the Helel. That was Rakshata's last development, before she ran off. No weapons to speak of, but she has the highest defensive ratio, period.... Nathaniel, we may have lost this one

Morgan watched as everything happened.
She smirked, until Zero destroyed a building. Didn't the title, Zero, stand for something?
Wasn't he suppose to protect the innocent? Morgan wasn't an expert on innocence, but she knew that children were the most innocent out of all people.
She growled in her throat until she felt an electric current go up her leg and into her body.

She fell over, stunned, and saw that a JLF solider she thought she killed dragged his body over to her and used a taser on her.
Her body shook and she wasn't able speak, or yell for help, as her fellow knights left without her.
'Shit.' she thought as she fought for breathe.

Darkness. There was a soft click and then silence. Only a low humming and the sound of Soma's breath broke the unnatural silence of the giant space. Soma put his hand in front of his face but it was so dark that he couldn't even see it. "Where the hell am I?" His soft whisper reverberated throughout the dark space echoing back to him. Without thinking he took a step forward. There was a loud beep and there was another blinding flash of white light. Soma had to rub his eyes to get adjusted to the abrupt change in the lighting and when he finally found that he wasn't blind his mouth fell open at what was before him. A massive room spread out before him and he couldn't believe how high the ceiling went. This must be far underground the house for a room this size to fit in. But what struck him was not the gigantic room but what was in it. Kightmares.

Dozens and dozens of them perfectly lined up in countless rows computers and display screens scattered around them that looked like they have not been touched in ages. Soma went and walked slowly to one of the front computers. As soon as he touched it, everything suddenly came to life. All the monitors flashed on, displaying specs and the condition of the knightmares. It was unbelievable. How could his father have a underground kightmare garage under their house without him having the slightest inkling of its existence. There suddenly was a sound coming from the far left wall. It was a continuous beeping sound that came from a large monitor screen attached to the gigantic metal wall and Soma went over to inspect it. The wall towered above him and then a face appeared on the screen. Soma took a step back and almost fell over.

It was his father. "Hello Soma." This fathers clam face spoke and he seemed to be looking directly at him. "If you are watching this then that means that the Britanians have finally found this place. I'm sorry I haven't told you about this sooner but i wanted to make sure you were ready. The time has come were you will need my help to stay alive. If the Britanians get a hold of certain Knightmares in this facility then they will certainly be very hard to take down and you will almost certainly be dead. Soma. Everything I have taught you, every little piece of advice I have ever given to you. You will need all of this knowledge to seek your revenge." Soma couldn't believe what he was hearing. It was all to much. "Dad." "Now what I am about to show you is of the utmost importance.

Stand back please." There was a loud screech and the whole wall in front of him, monitor and all began to separate. Another click and the wall had completely separated leaving a large opening before Soma. Another monitor blinked on in the darkness as his father's face appeared before him once again."Come in Soma."

Zero grunted in pain as the round grazed his leg, drawing a thin sliver of blood and tearing the costume. A slight amount of red dripped onto the floor, but he ignored it, staring at the one who had shot him.

He drew a long two-handed sword out of his cloak-like costume and charged towards Nathaniel with surprising speed, swiping at the younger man's torso.

Ark through himself back into the pilot chair, closing the entrance to the knightmare he watched as his fellow knights disappeared behind the wall and the monitors inside the shinkiro came to life revealing his opponent. Ark slid his fingers across the key board based control system throwing up the The Shinkiros ultimate defense system which issued a shield of violet hexagonal shapes to block the knightmare from it's opponents attack. The Shinkiro swung around on it's heels thrusting it's arm up and firing the Hadron canon under it's wrist.

Nathaniel was shocked to see Zero produce such a blade, but remembering that the Zero who had killed the demon Lelouch had done something similar he shook it off swiftly. It took him less than a second to turn from his female opponent and place the Barrels of the guns intersected to block the sword. The strike was powerful, and almost dislodged Nathaniel from his stance, but he stayed planted as he pressed back.

He grunted at the effort needed to push his opponent back, but this was a battle in Nathaniels court. Every time he got into the cockpit of a Knightmare he was heading for a losing battle. IT was simple. He often managed to survive enough to stop the enemy from killing others but he always took the most damage. This was different. His skill was a Knightmare ended at the point of the Knights of the Round, but here on the ground he surpassed them.

Zero had made an error, as Nathaniel told him, “You’ve picked the wrong fight, Zero!” he roared as he pressed forward and parried the first strike against him, using the reinforced barrels of his gunsticks (they don’t have handles up his sleeves, they are straight) like tonfas as he advanced. He launched into the air and spun once, bringing the metal plate on the back of his boot down toward Zero’s head. The sword was sharp, but unlike the movies this was reality, and that wasn’t an MVS, it wouldn’t cut through the barrels of his guns or the few metal plates he had placed on his feet, knees, elbows, and shoulders. Ironically these plates aren’t armor, but weapons so he can use his body like a mace at several points.

Cyrus watched the Shinkiro dodge his attack, he would have gotten a hit if he had his Susano’o. Still this Vincent was above all of the others, it was powerful enough to take on eighth generation Knightmare frames. He knew about the Absolute defense territory, but it required incredibly complex calculations to form effective barriers, he wondered Zero was able to create them. He had seen videos taken showing the Shinkiro in action so he would proceed with caution. Aiming his varis he shot ten blasts at the Shinkiro while using the blaze luminous to shield from the attacks.

Zero danced back out of Nathaniel's melee range as he felt the strikes connect with his head, and tried to ignore the pain as he dived forward again, feinting to Nathaniel's head and then moving his aim to his opponent's waist.

"On the contrary, Nathaniel..." He stated.

Ark's finger tips were jumping from key to key thrusting the Shinkiro driving backwards swerving from side to side to dodge each blast, though one hit the machine, but it's full force was reduced by Ark who hastily threw up a hexagonal shield. He'd never used the Shinkiro, but he was quickly getting the hang of it. Thanks to his innate ability to adapt to whatever situation he was in. His head wasn't big enough to realize that he was at an extreme disadvantage. They were surrounded by the britannian military and his opponent was obviously more skilled when it came to the knightmare he was using. "This battle is pointless." Ark tapped the button that would connect him to Zero and other members of the Zero division. "Zero" Ark began while throwing up both of the hadron canons and firing them both in the direction of the knightmare speeding towards him. "The JLF has been neutralized. There's no reason for us to continue fighting here. We should make our escape."

Cyrus returned his varis to the Vincent’s back, he managed to dodge and block all except two blast; he lost his left arm to them. You may be good but your fighting a knight of the round. He kept out of the way moving around the Shinkiro, he couldn’t get past the Absolute defense territory. Use the sword, huh who’s there, no response came, the mvs wouldn’t work but what about the BLS it was a upgraded version of the Excalibur. Unsheathing it from the guard, he charged at the Shinkiro. When he was right by it he powered up the sword, a green glow swept through the outside, the middle looked like a green river glowing. He swung right side, he had to bet that the sword would destroy the shield.

Nathaniel ducked low, making to sweep the man off his feet as he came at him again, but to do that he had to feel the pain in his right shoulder of a blade cutting through his skin. It wasn’t deep enough to do damage to the bone, but it hurt like hel;l. But Nathaniel wasn’t about to let that go. He countered by bringing both of his arms down on the blade as it had slashed him, the metal tonfas crossed. He would try to hit the hand guard hard enough to knock the blade from Zero’s clutches.

Regardless of the success of this attack or not, he left foot did continue its path to the right knee of the man. An object in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an outside force. In this instance, that force would hopefully be the kneecap of this Zero before him.

Outside a large truck came barreling around the corner as a man with brown hair came up on the screen of the pilots. “Hey there boys and girls, Lloyd you old dog, looks like you could use some help” he said as he pulled the large truck over to the side of the school near the Izanagi. The trailer of the truck opened as a large silver object raised above the vehicle as if presented to the Izanagi. “Take this, Knight of Six, and go for the throat of these child murdering bastards!” the young man said before the feed cut out.

The youth was none other than James Operthand, the personal engineer to Nathaniel, and the weapon system he had just presented consisted of a large MVS and a Blaze Luminous System with an Auto VARIS. James got out of his truck and crossed swiftly over to the truck with Lloyd and Cecile, “Sorry I’m late, it took a few minutes to tweak the Arms System to match up with the Izanagi…” he stepped up to the computer and called to Light, “Knight of Six, this is James Operthand, that weapons system should let you peirce their defenses, but be careful, you’ve got only two minutes of an operating time with it.” He warned. The weapon wasn’t known to the Black Knights so they wouldn’t have there shields tuned to it yet. But the unit uses a lot more power than even a Ninth Generation could produce. It would drain his system fast, even with his multiple fillers.

Ark Yelped dashing his fingers across the key board throwing up another shield in time to catch the attack from the sword. "That sword...Excalibur?" Beads of sweat were racing down Ark's forehead as he held the shield against the luminous blade that seemed to be slowly tearing through. "This is bad." Ark prepared to fire a hadron, but he was too slow as the Excalibur tore through the shield, shattering it like glass and slashing off one of the knightmares arms.

Zero laughed as the foot made a metallic bang when it collided with his foot.

"You think you're the only one who wears knee guards?" He asked. He wrenched the blade out from between the Tonfas, but the action had put him on the defensive, and slightly unbalanced him.

(We need a conclusion to this fight... Zero won't run as a matter of his planet-sized ego.)

Cyrus grinned with joy as he saw the shield be destroyed and the sword tear the arm of the Shinkiro off, good were even now die Zero. He saw that the green glow died down, it had served its purpose. He returned the blade back to the Vincent’s back while taking one mvs out, he charged again hopping to close the small distance between the two KMFs. Cyrus launched a single jab but he knew that it would be a miss, it seemed that he only had a few minutes of operation time before he needed a new energy filler.
(But he's not Zero he's ghost.)

Lightning nodded, hopping in Izanagi. The energy would last slightly longer if he took out the blaze luminous out, so he did so. He checked the filter's and roared it to life, readying his MVS sabers, and his new AUTO V.A.R.I.S, and dashed off at maximum speed.

As he reached the Helel, Rose gave a slight laugh, clicking the correct keys faster then sound as her reinforced ADT blocked the first VARIS shot, but soon, she became nervous. Her shield... was actually CRACKING. Taking it to the extreme defensive, she focused on dodging and weaving, stalling to find out what she should do. However, Izanagi was still the world's fastest unit, and she simply could not dodge him forever. He span kicked Helel, using the rebounding motion, to jump higher (he had the wings off), and rain a score of VARIS shot's from above, landing with his sword attempting to pierce the ADT. There were a few cracks along the edges of the shield, cracks that were growing in size by the second.

Rose cursed, and activated her only weapon: The bombardment type radiant wave surger, aimed, and took a shot. Izanagi danced out of the way, piercing the shield as he rolled out of the way.

Lightning laughed, he still had a full minute on the clock, more if he powered of the varis, witch he did, granting him another minute of life. He jumped, corkscrew over the helel, and did a rolling slash, and the ADT finally gave way with a massive "CRASH!"

Lightning laughed, piercing Helel's legs, so it could not run away, and he sliced the face of the cockpit off, revealing the black knight, still struggling to reactivate her ADT "You're excellent at normal combat, but I have the upper hand at k nightmare combat.

He disconnected the combat, Izanagi still holding them in place, and he drew his pistol, and clicked the safety. "Now, hands up, you're under arrest."

Kira looked down from his position, he was sent by Rakshata to see how well the Vega did in combat. A fight from the looks of it was coming to an end; he could see that the Izanagi was finished with the Helel. He knew one person who piloted a fast unit and that was Lighting. Grinning with joy as he was about to test out his old comrades abilities, it would be a battle to see who is better. He aimed the two Super VARIS rifles, from the side near the air gilder system two large things moved to the side, they were Chaos blasters. The chaos blasters were like a VARIS but different they fired off radiant surge beams similar to that of the guren's but stronger. He aimed and fired, his shot wouldn’t even scratch the Helel. The four beams went straight at the Izanagi heading for the back, and the arms. “Let's see what you’re made of Lighting,” Kira said within inside to himself. Switching to a different channel he spoke to Rose, “Listen I’ll handle him while you make an escape.”