Disclaimer: I am not the, creator or owner of Code Geass and am not earning any money with spreading my Code Geass fanfic. All right to the characters and world, belong to Sunrise, directed by Gorō Taniguchi, and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi.
Rising of a Geass Army by Morpheus_Dream_Maker
Chapter One:
Deaths Begin Anew
"In financial news there was a sharp down turn in stock in several Sakuradite mining companies in Japan, with the discovery of large vein of the high temperature super conductor in the Outback of the independent Nation of Australia." An Asian female voice carried from the wide flat screen television on the wall and through the large and very dimly lit room.
The words mingled with the only other noise that echoed through the room that of buttons of a computer's keypad being tapped rapidly, and repeatedly by long and white fingertips that moved with purpose over them. Abruptly a heavy sigh followed the silence of the noise from the bottoms of the computer's keypad. Then with a creak as the chair before computer keypad and the monitor upon the desk and young man in his early twenties turned, about to face the far wall the television was mounted upon the wall.
The young man seated in the chair placed his elbow upon the armrest and touched his fingertips to his right cheek as the white glow from the computer's monitor streamed over the left profile of the young man. His violet eyes gazed over the television on the wall that had an eerie shade of blue, lit most of the room that was sparsely furnished. He took in the sight of the woman with the short black hair who looked to be in her early to mid-thirties dressed in blue blazer and white blouse beneath it as she sat behind a desk within a television studio with a simple bright green back drop.
"The price of Sakuradite has dropped greatly in Japan from two hundred, thousand yen down to one hundred, twenty-five thousand yen with this breaking news. It is likely to drop further in the coming weeks when mineral experts estimation on the supply of Sakuradite in the Outback of the Nation of Australia." As the woman continued to speak the young man's violet eyes then moved downward on the screen to the bar that scrolled by with symbols and numbers of the Japanese stock exchange.
Then a male voice announcer's voice spoke off screen within the Newsroom's studio. "Thank you Miss Akemi Kobayashi for that financial news, now to on site reporter Daichi Maki in the Industrial section of the satellite city of Shinjuku on the outskirts of Tokyo City."
"Thank you Mr. Saito and my co-worker Akemi Kobayashi in the studio." While the reporter spoke the image on the TV's screen from the Asian woman in the studio to a long street and a tall man with dark brown hair dark eyes behind golden framed glasses. He dressed in a white shirt, loose dark blue tie and tanned slacks while he walked backwards down the street with a microphone held in one hand. "I am reporting from Shinjuku's Industrial section three weeks from the fifth annual celebration of the freedom of the world from a tyrant in The Black Demon King Lelouch." The young man in the room's violet eyes suddenly darted up to look at the image of the reporter on the television across from him in his bedroom. His of course were, drawn away from the television screen by the door chime to his room as his eyes darted up to the wall and the security monitors above the desk he sat at. The shifting images of both the exterior of a house and interior of rooms and corridors filled with a few people in uniforms of servants who worked within the house. On the last security screen was the image of a young women with long, lime green hair dressed in a towel who stood before a door and who without warning pressed her palm to the door's panel.
Suddenly with a swishing noise door to the left side of the desk the man sat at slide open and a woman stepped in without an invitation just as the reporter continued to speak. "The, reason I am reporting from Shinjuku's Industrial section is because of rumors that this year. Not only will the usual float dedicated to the masked hero of the world Zero who killed The Black Demon King otherwise known as Lelouch vi Britannia here in Tokyo City. This year the man himself will be in attendance seated upon the float which is still under construction here in Shinjuku's Industrial section."
"Truly Lelouch I didn't know how morbid you were until now." The lime green haired woman murmured in a cool and casual tone while Lelouch had reached for the flat screen's remote and muted it as she continued, "to listen every year about your death truly is even morbid even for my taste." "Yes it would be morbid of me if I sought out news reports about my death every year." Lelouch responded back gruffly as he rose from the desk chair and moved across to sit down on the side of his bed. He gesturing towards the chair that the young woman ignored as she walked off towards the television on the far wall. "Because you know that must I keep up with the financial news, in order to keep us both well pampered as we are in the gilded cage of ours for Leonard Zachary Botwright and Cera Cross." Lelouch added as he pointed to himself and then the lime green haired woman, before he then made a grand gesture with both arms and hands to the four walls of his bedroom and up towards the ceiling.
"You know I hate that you know my real name and prefer to be called C-two," the woman who called herself C-two responded, back firmly as she flashed a slightly angry glare of her golden eyes at Lelouch. She then stopped at the wall beside the television. She began to dry her hair with the towel about her head while she glanced back to Lelouch opened her mouth to say something else, before she stopped. The image on the television's screen shifted from the reporter in the street to the sky and a battle of eight Knightmare frames overhead. Seven of the eight Knightmares were humanoid in appearance while the eighth was more a jumble of three different colored shapes connected together. The main body of the jumble shaped Knightmare was, a large, orange, upside down trapezoid. The trapezoid body was, flanked by two bright red parallelograms with large green cylinders, attached to one side of both parallelograms. There were two more cylinders supported above and suspended beneath the Knightmare's trapezoid body.
Lelouch dove for the remote to restore sound to the television while both he and C-two watched explosions erupted around and upon three black and white Knightmare frames in the air. "I am Lord, Jeremiah Gottwald Field Commander of the U.F.N's army the Black Knights, and captain of the royal guards of her Highness Empress Nunnally vi Britannia." A male voice boomed from the jumble shaped Knightmare while three of the Knightmares in the same colors soared back and forth to engage the remaining three black and white Knightmare frames. "I and my Knights have permission to be in Japanese air space from an agreement between Prime Minister Kaname and C.E.O of the Black Knights Zero." This announcement from Jeremiah Gottwald caused the image to expand to capture more of the sky battle between the six humanoid Knightmares. Lelouch and C-two watched in horror while the Knightmares streak through the air while beam weapons streamed out at the both sets of Knightmares. Each of the frames able to block or absorb the others attacks with violet shielded systems.
"Are those the tenth generation Knightmares frame the Lancelot Flyers'?" C-two shouted out as suddenly one of the orange, red and green Knightmares was, caught suddenly by the one of the black and white Knightmares. She and Lelouch then watched in horror as the chest, which for a moment had the sigil of Geass on the black and white Knightmare before it opened up to reveal a seemly secret weapon before a pulsated beam of dark crimson plasma shot out Knightmare and against the Lancelot Flyer's violet shields that quickly shattered away. The black and white Knightmare then seemed to leap backwards as the plasma consumed the Lancelot Flyer. Lelouch's amethyst eyes widen as he watched as the other two Lancelot Flyers who were so quickly destroyed in succession and left only Jeremiah's Knightmare with the only remaining, Knightmare against four.
"Jeremiah radio for back-up you fool," Lelouch shouted at the screen before him as he watched as he dropped down onto the dark carpeted floor of his bedroom. He watched along-side C-Two as Jeremiah launched all four, cylinder harkens at the now four humanoid Knightmares. They buzzed around as the, harkens continued to miss their targets and plunged and smashed violently into the upper floors of the buildings within the Shinjuku's Industrial section. A sick feeling filled Lelouch's stomach as he watched as the camera, man began to run backwards away from the rumble that began to rain down as the black and white circle Jeremiah and repeatedly used their own harkens crash into the body of the custom Knightmare. The image jerked about and static began to distort the image. There as a thin layer of perspiration upon Lelouch's brow and his mouth seemed to have dried up as he watched the four Knightmare frames cut the cables to Jeremiah's harkens while his Knightmare rotated. It seemed too spiraled out of control through the air as it began to collide with the sides of the buildings while trying to escape the four able bodied attackers.
"I am, Lord Jeremiah Gottwald and I shalln't be defeated by you vermin," Lelouch heard fear in Jeremiah's words and being a superb, combat tactician he knew that Jeremiah was about to be defeated, and most likely die at the hands of these unknown Knightmare pilots. Even though Lelouch knew, the out come that would soon come to past he watched as hatches in Jeremiah's Knightmare before missiles were, launched out at the four enemy Knightmares. The camera man seemed to have calmed down as the image gradually settled down even as the four black and white Knightmares destroyed the missiles quickly as they flew to the encircle Jeremiah's Knightmare as their chest cannons before the pulsating plasma beams erupts from them and engulfed Jeremiah's Knightmare. It then exploded into smoking heap that before it plummeted onto the deserted Shinjuku streets.
"T-t-this is D-daichi M-maki," the reporter who had been speaking easier stuttered out nervously as the camera panned away from Knightmares that soared upwards into the partly cloudy sky. The image of the reporter slightly disheveled appeared on the television screen as he continued to report. "Lord Jeremiah Gottwald and his Knight guards have all been k-k-k-illed by some unknown attackers in some very new and unfamiliar Knightmare frames. What the Holy Britannian Empire, and Empress Nunnally vi Britannia's government or the U.F.N will, response to this unprovoked attack." With that said Lelouch turned the television with the remote and rose up from the carpeted floor of his bedroom and moves towards the intercom beside his bedroom's door.
"Carine, please wake up Artorius and have him fuel up the jet and file a flight plan for Japan. Then inform Guinevere that Miss Cross, and I will be leaving for a few weeks." Lelouch speaks firmly into the intercom while he glanced towards C-Two who rested up against the wall beside the flat screen television. Her eyes tightly closed, though he knew that she most likely searching her brain, for any knowledge of who could have created the Knightmare and brand it with the sigil of the Geass order.
"Yes Mister, Botwright." The young female voice responded back before the intercom clicked off and Lelouch took a deep breath and moved to drop down into the desk chair he had been, seated in a short time ago. He wished that he could go back to the business of simply making money from the computer programs for Knightmare hardware. Now he sat there as he stared indifferently at the computer monitor as he pondered who it was that had destroyed the stable peace his supposed death and the death of countless others that had been five short years.