"Princess! I will try to contain Princess Cornelia's machine while you attack their regular troops." Oldrin Zevon said to her, Princess, as she looked at the lance-wielding mobile suit, which was looking back at her.
"Oldrin, I know you are a good pilot, but we are talking about one of the KK machines." Marrybell looked concerned as they were here to try to slow down Anaheim.
They didn't imagine the sheer scale of soldiers they would have just months into becoming a nation.
"I know. But I should be enough to hold her down just for a bit." As she said, her red Zaku Custom type 2 descended on Morrigan.
The beam rifle opened fire on War Goddess.
"Hmm, so you people figured out how to wield beam technology, about time." Cornelia completely ignored the beams as she rushed at Oldrin like a missile.
'Damn, she is fast!' The blonde girl yanked herself to the side to dodge the incoming attack.
"However, your movement is still robotic." The KK-Unit kicked the Zaku to the side.
Oldrin gnashed her teeth as she felt how her mech was shaking from that kick. Her systems were sending warning messages from that single kick!
'Damn, so much force. How can it be in such a compressed size?' The red Zaku pulled out an axe which had glowing red edges.
"Oh? Beam technology is used to improve the weapon's sharpness. Impressive."
Oldrin tried to intercept the incoming lance with her axe, but the force behind the thrust caused her machine to fly back.
'This is ridiculous!' The blonde girl grimaced as she was feeling the G Force behind that strike; she nearly threw up!
"Oldrin!!!"
Another red machine moved in to assist the blonde knight.
"That voice. Marrybell." Cornelia stopped fighting and looked at another Zaku.
"Sister."
The red machine pointed her beam rifle at Morrigan.
"That won't work, Marrybell." Cornelia swirled her lance as she looked around.
'Those Zakus look decently capable.' While in limited numbers, they can keep up, as some of the Setantas did blow up.
However, she did spread out her numbers like this on purpose. She made sure her forces were stretched out so she could goad Britannia into action.
The one who knows her homeland's army is her.
"We can't know that until we try, don't you think?" Marrybell said that while opening fire on Morrigan.
Cornelia simply looked at incoming beams without trying to dodge them, as a force field around her machine simply reflected such attacks.
At that moment, Oldrin blasted forward and tried to deliver a downward swing with her axes while empowered by thrusters.
But Morrigan simply backslapped with the lance, sending the red machine flying back.
Then the Mobile suit rushed at the falling Zaku, trying to impale, but at that moment, a dozen beams rushed towards Cornelia.
'Who?'
This time around, the KK unit dodged elegantly like it was swimming through the air.
She looked at the source. It was coming from the airships.
The red machines regrouped as they moved in with synchronisation like a well-oiled team.
'Not bad girls.'Cornelia smiled as she needed to defend herself, but then her eyes gleamed with amusement as she simply moved… faster as her lance nailed Oldrin's machine before pulling back and then throwing her lance at Marrybell's.
"..."
"..."
A part of Zaku's head was ejected and flew back to the airship as Cornelia effortlessly destroyed these two mobile suits.
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Back at the airship, the duo of Princess and her Knight exited the Zaku's heads; they looked like ruffled chickens.
"What was that!?" Oldrin exclaimed as she looked annoyed. She thought that she could at least keep up to some extent, but Cornelia just got faster!
"It would seem she wasn't taking us seriously all the time; only when our numbers increased did she take us a bit more seriously.
"..."
The blonde girl clicked her tongue in annoyance before checking the data she got from the fight. They need to get this back to Rakshata.
"We are retreating. Eastern Europe is lost. We can try to fight Anaheim in Siberia." The Princess ordered the airships to retreat as much as they could. The remaining Zakus began to retreat.
Some of them had some loot, but it was nothing new.
"Any Commander units?" Princess asked the Comms officers.
"...Sadly, those are rare. We only confirmed those wearing Cornelia's colours. I assume they are her elites like Guilford, Darlton or the Glaston Knights under her." The comms officer shook his head.
"...Those would take effort to pin down to capture." Marrybell frowned. This was a hard battle for her troops.
She lost more than half of her mobile suits in this battle, leaving her with a measly few Zakus.
"For now, we retreat to Alaska and recover our numbers before returning to assist Euro Britannia." The Princess instructed her airships to move far away from the frontlines swiftly.
~~~
"Should we chase after them, Princess?" Guilford asked his Princess as his image appeared on Cornelia's screen.
"No. Our goal is to secure Asia and all of Europe. Not fight Marrybell."
"But if we take down Glinda's Knights… It will be a massive loss for Britannia. It would only leave the round table."
Her knight commented as he was confused about this.
"I know. But this is a great opportunity to improve our Setanta units.
As you saw, we lost over ten machines and their pilots. We need to improve survival rates." Cornelia was more concerned with her troops than the Britannians.
If they become dangerous, she can simply order tactical orbital bombardment to wipe out Britannian forces before she invades her homeland.
Not that will be necessary….by this point, Anaheim's industrial might makes Britannian look insignificant.
"...So you are going to point this out to Prince Lelouch?" Guilford realised what this means.
"Indeed. I am well aware that he wants to take his sweet time to conquer Britannia. He wants to see if our father caves in and surrenders, or if we will conquer it.
After all, Lelouch might call himself Exiled, but the Emperor never accepted his demand to remove him from the inheritance."
"...You mean… he is still 11th to the Imperial Throne?"
Cornelia smiled at that exclamation.
"Indeed. Have checked all the documents while looking for him. None in them was mentioned as dead, only missing or that he was not 11th to the Imperial Throne." She explained to him.
"...I see… then Princess… do you think Britannia could join Anaheim?"
"...That much I do not know. It depends on my esteemed father and his pride." The Princess shook her head. With all the revelations and what he wanted to do, she can safely say she has no idea what that man is thinking.
~~~
Marcus looked at the world map and the changing borders. Oh, he loves to watch his black-and-purple controlling close to 40% of the world's landmass.
This was beautiful to look at.
A pair of hands wrapped around him as a certain witch placed her chin on his shoulder; she was behaving like an affectionate kitten.
"How is it going?" She asked as she looked at the map before him.
"...My dear older sister smashed through and is moving towards Saint Petersburg. According to her, the Britannians used their Glinda Knights to engage her and her army.
We lost 10 people in this engagement." He explained to her as he pulled the witch to his lap and wrapped his hands around her waist.
C.C. smiled as she got comfortable in his hands.
"What are you planning to do to change that?" She stroked his chin as she got quite close to him. The beauty is actually very satisfied that he can ignore her Geass. It's such a boon to her. The girl, in a way, realises that he has broken the curse of Geass.
Maybe what he said is true? Can he usher in a new era for humanity with Geass in complete control?
"Upgrade." He smiled as he looked into her gorgeous eyes. He does love C.C. with Geass… better than the Code on her forehead.
"I am going to improve them the same way I improved my KK units. I call it Project Cu Chulainn." He accessed the data he had on Setanta.
"KKS-01/CC01, the upgraded models of Setanta, are based on all of the conflicts so far.
The frame is slimmed down, and the cockpit can eject the same way Knightmares do. It was something Cornelia insisted.
And I guess it is understandable since these are not like my KK units that are barely damageable." He explained to her as he showed her the new weaponry he had prepared for these machines.
New weaponry modules based on his G-Force Gundams.
A sniper rifle that is based on a railgun, missile pods, an anti-beam shield, and several different types of beam rifles.
Customisable types of modules for weaponry.
"...It would seem you are excited that there are enemies that can resist… somewhat." C.C. giggled, seeing him excited that enemies were resisting, he was happy that his Setantas were destroyed.
"...This well…" He looked a bit embarrassed when he noticed that.
"I am a creator, I am happy that people can resist my machines. That means that I CAN improve them. Make them stronger, more efficient, safer, that is what it means to make things, my dear witch." Marcus snuggled into her as he explained how he was feeling about this.
"Is that so? Then it means Charles is falling into your trap just by resisting you?" The green-haired beauty realised that with an amused look.
All he did was smile at her as he proceeded to activate the project.
Just like that, the order was sent out for the refurbishment of the backbone machines of his growing faction.
~~~
The conflict with Euro Britannia accelerated as the most populated parts of old Russia swiftly fell to Anaheim.
Meanwhile…
In the EU…
From the sky, five machines began descending over Middle Europe, while Marcus's private three warships entered Poland.
The EU's response was mixed. The countries under the EU were preparing for the conflict, but Anaheim was like an avalanche; not only were their numbers constantly growing, but they were also moving nonstop forward with a few short weeks in between.
That means the mobilisation of forces had to be rapid, and when it is, it's not the best result, considering most of the EU were fighting on the Eastern European border… The EU already lost Poland several times thanks to the war with Euro Britannia.
So it was quite easy for the G-Force to descend and engage with minimal resistance.
Gundam Strike unfolded its Positron cannon as it had a base-busting loadout. The mech pointed at the base below before unleashing a massive amount of damage.
'Unbelievable, Prince was able to shatter this Super Nation before he even invaded.' Maya, the Gundam Pilot, pondered on this as she rapidly erased the defences before moving forward to the next one.
As G-Force was rampaging behind the enemy lines… Dagda, piloted by Kallen, landed in Paris in front of the Parliament building.
The mech was the support for Gene Smilas, who, with his followers, rushed into the building.
'This is new. Haven't done something like this before.' Kallen, inside the cockpit, relaxed a bit as her gaze was on the building, then at the nervous-looking soldiers who were her support. They all had purple and black armbands, representing the pro-Anaheim movement.
"Traitors! How could you!?"
'Hmm?'
Dagda turned around and saw a group of Panzer Hummels.
'Cute. They are trying to resist.'
"Sorry, but I suggest you guys turn around and return from whatever base you came from." The crimson pilot girl commented as she sat down properly in her seat and moved her KK-unit into fighting position.
"Nonsense! We shall fight till the end!" The EU Knightmares opened fire on her.
Kallen's mobile suit lifted its hands and wave projects caught the bullets before making them ignite at a distance away.
This time around, she had actual human allies around, so she needed to protect them.
"Your funeral then." Dagda's blue eyes glowed as the mech's claws started to glow. The KK unit flew in at insane speed before slicing the EU knightmares into pieces.
It was fast and made these Panzer Hummels look as if they were made of tissue paper. Might as well, it was as if the claws of Dagda were literal miniature beam sabers.
In mere moments, all of them were down. And Kallen was back on watch duty.
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