Chapter 1

In 2027, Britannia's domination of Japan was about to come to an end. A people's Rebellion, led by General Julius ti Britannia, spread from the arid mountains of the south to the rich and fertile province known as Shinjiku. The people of Japan gathered in the streets, calling for the blood of the last Britannian Governor, Charles zi Britannia. Although, under orders to return to Britannia by his father, Charles refused to relinquish power without one final reckoning.

Many and hundreds of people were all gathered in the streets, outside of the building where Charles zi Britannia lived. The crowd was shouting, urging Charles to leave their country at once, demanding the freedom of their land.

Watching from the crowd from a close range where three young children, one about the age of 15 and the other two were about the age of 12. The oldest one was named Naoto Kozuki and the youngest one's were Naoto's little sister, Kallen and young Suzaku Kururugi.

Naoto and Kallen were orphans, wandering the streets and stealing to survive. A while back, their parents had been killed during a riot during an assassination attempt on Charles zi Britannia. Their parents took no part in the riot, they were merely caught up in the chaos.

Suzaku Kururugi had been orphaned since he was 7-years-old after his mother died. Naoto and Kallen found him living in the slums and took him in, teaching him to steal to survive. Suzaku had been the son of Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi, who did everything in his power for equal rights for the people of Japan.

One day, Charles had invited Genbu for dinner that one evening. During their conversation at dinner, Genbu was poisoned when he had been served wine by one of Charles' servants. In truth, Charles had Genbu poisoned as he felt the Prime Minister stood in his way of his goals he hoped to achieve. With Genbu out of the way, nothing could stop him in his quest for power.

Though Suzaku barely knew his father, he eventually learned the truth on his own when he got older and hoped the day would come when Charles would choke his last words.

"Where is he?" Suzaku wondered.

"He sent an invitation to the Governor that he would make him go back to Britannia if he doesn't relinquish power," Kallen said. "There's no way he could back out on this."

"Don't worry, Zero will come," Naoto assured them. "When he does, he'll do what he always does. Humiliate the Governor and order him to head back to Britannia. This is the day he will finally get rid of that monster for good."

What was happening during the crowd was full of outrage. Charles had ordered his guards to take any of the citizens from the street, 3 at least, and had them tied up on a large podium, had them blindfolded, where they would be awaiting execution.

Appearing outside of the patio from his mansion was Charles zi Britannia himself. The very sight of him was enough to disgust people. The screams and shouts were even louder in the crowd as the guards try to hold everyone back.

The guards pushed the crowd back even more to make room for someone important arriving. Making his away amongst the crowd was Charles' brother. V.V. He quickly made his way into Charles' mansion, heading into his office where he saw him staring at the angry crowd from the patio.

In a panic, V.V. asked, "Charles, my brother. For god sakes, why are you still here?"

"And why shouldn't I be?" Charles questioned calmly. "More importantly, why are you in such a rush? Is there something we should be afraid of?"

"As a matter of fact, yes," V.V. told his brother. "You know how ruthless our father can be, even if it's his own children. Our father's men are three miles from the sector. You have to leave at once, brother."

Turning to his brother, Charles replied, "The government of Britannia would like to thank you for your devoted services." He gestured at the papers on his table as V.V. took them to read what they had to say.

Shocked from what he read, V.V. asked, "How did you do this? Just how did you manage to claim this land as the property of the Britannian government."

Charles made a sinister grin. "I have my ways of persuading people. More importantly, the Japanese will only be able to claim this land unless I hand it back to them, which I have no intension of doing. I manage to get a good deal out of our father and he has decided to let me, you and the aristocrats to keep this land for ourselves. I also manage to divide this land into eleven sectors, which we and the rest of the aristocrats get rule over. I myself will rule over Sector 11."

V.V. found himself stunned and yet satisfied the deal Charles manage to get in order to keep the land of Japan. For once, everything was going their way and they had nothing to worry about.

However, they were unaware of the masked avenger known as Zero was watching everything transpiring from the shadows.

Zero was an infamous masked warrior who was a nuisance to the Britannian government. He was also the sworn enemy of Charles zi Britannia, who had vowed to destroy Zero. Every attempt failed and each time, Zero thwarted all of Charles' schemes, all of them that resulted in his humiliation.

While Zero was a champion to the people of Japan, the most ironic part was the Zero was not even Japanese himself. In fact, he was a Britannian. The real identity of Zero was Charles' own son, Lelouch vi Britannia.

Even though he was raised in the royal family, Lelouch could no longer tolerate all the crimes and schemes he pulled on the people of Japan. In order to stop his father, he only pretended to agree with his ideas as he secretly worked behind the scenes, using the family's fortune to build himself a secret lair, training in secret in the art of swordsmanship and training his body as well.

The more Lelouch humiliated his father, the more he fell out of favor with Julius ti Britannia, Lelouch's grandfather. After all, why should his grandfather trust his father when he couldn't even handle one man? As Zero carefully plotted his next move, he knew this one humiliating defeat would be enough to disgrace his father so bad that he will have no chance but to give Japan back to its own people.

When he saw the guards making their move, Zero knew now was the time to take action.

Disclaimer: I would like to confirm that I do not own the film, "The Mask of Zorro" as it is the property of film director, Martin Campbell and I do not own "Code Geass" as well since that also happens to be the property of Goro Taniguchi.

Notice: Just to let you all know, this is based off the 1998 film of our favorite sword swinging black caped crusader. There are a few differences and changes I made myself and I do hope you enjoy this version of the story and I look forward to hearing your reviews.