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Fortunately he didn't have to wait long, as he had the Lancelot go into a roll across the ground, moving to the Panther I's right, to which the fourth generation knightmare was just too slow to catch up. From there, Suzaku fired off another VARIS shot upon reorientation, taking out the rifle arm and knocking the enemy knightmare back several meters. The Panther I retaliated by drawing its battle axe with its opposite arm, but by that point Suzaku was moving again. He closed in and leaped into the air, performing a Blaze Luminous reinforced spin kick that knocked the Panther I away and onto its side against a nearby structure, which might have been a statue at one point. Suzaku then promptly switched the VARIS to burst mode and fired off the finishing shot, destroying the Panther I, the structure and much of the nearby surroundings.

It wasn't long before additional enemies, namely two Panther IIs and a Panther III, targeted him again, to which Suzaku was forced to leap away from their assault rifle attacks. Upon landing, he withdrew his VARIS and replaced it with his MVS, to which he sped into the firing wake. Quick to respond, the Panther IIs both drew their axes and moved in to engage the Lancelot at close-range. Their first and last mistake, Suzaku thought, as he easily maneuvered around their attempts to hack him, then proceeding to cut them down. The second one just managed to raise its blade up at the Lancelot's head before Suzaku slashed it across the torso, causing the frame to collapse to the ground as the cockpit pod ejected.

At that, Suzaku turned to deal with the Panther III, only to find that the European knightmare was already upon him, having taken the time Suzaku had spent dispatching its subordinates to cross the distance. Just as Suzaku brought his left MVS down to strike, the enemy knightmare parried the blade with its own, and then struck the Lancelot's torso with its shield. Gritting his teeth, Suzaku attempted to withdraw, but the Panther III only pressed the attack, forcing the Round to engage his Blaze Luminous to defend. The Knight of Seven was just able to see the Panther III's mono-eye flash blood red through the green of his shield, to which Suzaku moved to engage his hip-mounted slash harkens to counterattack.

The Panther III was indeed struck by a slash harken as second later, but not the Lancelot's. Rather, before Suzaku realized what was happening, another knightmare frame launched itself into the Panther III's side, knocking it away and thereby allowing the Lancelot to reorient and reverse itself. Colored in green with gold highlights, the newcomer drove its elbow into the European knightmare, then emitting an energy blast that tore straight through the Panther III. The cockpit pod ejected away just before the stricken machine exploded.

"What was that Suzaku?" the voice of Sir Gino Weinburg, Knight of Three and Eagle of Britannia, laughed over the radio as the Elyan sped toward additional targets. "Don't tell me you're getting slow."

"Hardly," Suzaku countered as he swung both MVS about and charged, following his comrade in against the enemy barricade itself. "What are you doing here anyway Gino? I thought you were still engaged in Sector Theta."

The Knight of Three let out a laugh at that as he slashed another Panther II diagonally with his maser vibration lance. "We cleared that sector a long time ago!" he hollered as he fired his left hip slash harken, impaling yet another Panther II through the middle and causing the cockpit pod to eject. Another Panther III, one armed with a bazooka, attempted to level its aim at the green knightmare, but the third Round was much faster, leaping around the projectile and dashing over to the command unit, where he proceeded to sweep it off its feet. Gino then finished it off by striking his lance blade into its torso. "Now I'm here to strike at the heart!"

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes lest he lose focus, Suzaku could only join his fellow Round in attacking the Europeans at melee range, effectively ripping a hole through the defensive line. Two more Panther Is moved into focus their fire on the pair, but both Rounds had little issue dancing around them, from which they both dispatched the older knightmares with single strokes from their melee weapons. After that, Suzaku twisted around and launched a slash harken into a Panther II's head, drawing the enemy knightmare to him so he could slash its torso, cutting into its Yggdrasil drive. Then, without halting his movement, he flung the grievously wounded frame into one of the remaining Panther Is, with both detonating in the resulting explosion.

"Show off!" Gino called out as he sped the Elyan at another Panther I, which was desperately trying to gun him down only for the Knight of Three to literally dance around its fire. After that, it got close enough to move in and cut away the left arm arm in a running slash. The Panther I twisted around to counterattack with its axe, but Gino easily circled around its attempted chop, then dashed again and cut away the right arm as well. The Elyan drew upon the disarmed knightmare's side and made another run, cutting away both legs on a single pass. And then at long last, Gino finished it by stabbing one end of his lance into the knightmare's broad torso, disabling the Yggdrasil drive within. All in little more than a minute.

Once more resisting the urge to roll his eyes at his fellow knight's display, even when he was in the middle of impaling yet another Panther II through the center, Suzaku could only withdraw his sword and let the now pilotless knightmare fall back and look for more targets. By now they had well and truly breached the headquarters grounds, with several of the regular troops moving in to secure it. There were still a fair number of Panther IIs remaining, and at least one Panther III, which one of the Gloucesters took out with a lance strike. Alongside them, there were also a fair number of ground troops attempting to resist, but as far as Suzaku was concerned, they were little more than a nuisance.

We've breached the fortress. Suzaku thought as he engaged his factspheres, scanning the main headquarters building for any last minute surprises. He wasn't about to let the battle turn sideways after getting this far.

What his sensors picked up within the main hangar, however, made his eyes widen a fraction. A transport VTOL? Suzaku thought as his factspheres picked up the vehicle in question, which was beginning to lift up from the hangar. That has to be carrying the local commander!

He quickly keyed into the Fortitude. "White Knight One to Fortitude, we have a Victor-Tango taking off from the HQ. Possibly carrying enemy command staff."

Seconds later, the VTOL emerged from the building and took to the open sky. And once again, Suzaku wished that the Lancelot retained its float system, as the transport was already too high for him or Gino to catch in time. "Requesting air support to intercept."