Warning OOC Ruby, AU as well.
"If enough energy gathers in one place, anything is possible. And since we don't actually know that much about the universe, then it is entirely possible that inter-dimensional travel is possible, without even bypassing the laws of science that we have set out in front of ourselves. Despite this we still seek to disprove ourselves in fear of what could be on the so called... Other side. That's why my group and I are sponsoring this experiment. What we seek to either prove or disprove, is whether it is possible to create a portal between dimensions large enough to send matter through, safely. Now, we do have a moderately 'safe' dimension in mind, however, we don't know what will be occurring in the dimension we are seeking to open, the only things we've confirmed so far is that the world we are seeking to open is more or less the same as this one. We know that basic principals like science and history are more or less the same. We also know that the time zone we will be ending up in is somewhere between the 21st and 22nd century. Finally, from what we were able to gather by sending tachyons through the different plains by creating micro portals; we know that the world is more or less in a state of peace, provided the time-scale isn't set incorrectly, and nothing goes wrong. Any questions?"
"Mr. Davidson."
"In the event that something does go wrong, what safety measures are set in place to prevent something from happening. On top of that, what would occur in the event of a collapse?"
"I'm glad you asked. The first set of safety measures we have are extremely powerful electro magnetic pulse generators, in case something out of our control goes wrong, and the portal somehow becomes self sustaining. I've seen it in movies, and I don't want it to happen in real life. Believe me when I say this, there is no way any of us can be harmed, in any way. There's a reason we spent over a trillion dollars and close to 25 years on this project. As for what would occur in the event of a collapse, that I don't actually know, since we never had one, and since the rules of inter-dimensional travel is still up in the air at the moment. However we have developed an extremely powerful containment field. And thankfully, unlike in the movies, it is designed to resist over one million times anything the portal could possibly either take in, or send back. The worst possible outcome is everyone's phones and laptops going dead within the surrounding area, and since we're in the middle of a desert, that won't really be that large of an issue, other than someone'll have to walk a few miles to radio back to base for extraction. anything else?"
"Ms. Deans."
"What will you be sending through the portal to collect the desired data?"
"An interesting question, Ms. Deans. The answer is right behind me, you can come out now."
"B-but there are so many."
"Relax little one," the man said, getting down on one knee, holding the girls shoulders tightly with a smile on his lips. "You're the star of the show."
"O-okay papa." The girl nervously squeaked.
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is my daughter: Ruby Rose, she is pretty much as close to being born with a Steven hawking level intellect, as we will ever get. She finished her High school and mechanical exams with flying colours at the age of nine. She is currently ten, and the only person in the world, who is both bold enough, and has the scientific mind good enough to actually make this mission a reality. And, She's about as cute as they get." Ruby blushed a little at the end of his statement.
"Sir, wouldn't it just be better to send some nobody with different devices to measure everything?"
"That is actually where we have our first, and thankfully only snag. based on our readings, we cannot sent any kind of metal through the portals we create, nor can we send any conductive materials, as they would be superheated and melted almost instantly. And before you ask; it is confidential as to why we can't send metals, other conductive materials are simply because the massive amount of electricity going through the portal. As to why we're sending Ruby here, She is capable enough to both recreate the portal machine, and recalculate the coordinates back to our dimension, so even if she does get stuck, she can fairly easily make her way back to our realm, even if most of the planets minerals are fundamentally different. That is all the time we have, as we need to get this experiment started before the sun starts setting."
With those last words, the group of over a thousand scientists, journalists and the like, quickly disbanded, flocking too and around the test site.
After about 20 minutes of powering up various barriers and safety protocols, the test was finally ready to begin.
Off to the side of the innermost shielding layer, stood the head scientist his wife and his daughter, preparing for the ride ahead of her. One final ruffling of her hair and she was good to go, smiling and giggling. She hugged her parents goodbye, for, for the next three months she wouldn't see them. She openly hoping everything would go according to plan, for as cleaver as she was, she was still only ten, and she loved her parents dearly. Little did she know, this was the last time she would see her parents for a very long time.
Taking a deep breath, Ruby Rose stood ready for an adventure within another world.
On the edge of a small hill, a young boy helped up his friend, pulling the extremely thin ten year old up the small slope.
The two boys were like Yin and Yang- no pun intended -opposites in almost every way, yet almost unable to exist without each other, the only thing they had in common was their stubbornness on everything opinion based.
Suddenly, however, jets roared over their heads, armed for one exclusive purpose. Kill the Japanese prime minister, his family, and the young boy and girl known to the world as Lelouch and Nunnally Vi Britannia.
When the bombs fell, almost everything turned into hell, first, the prime minister died, then his staff, finally, only narrowly escaping, was Nunnally, Lelouch's crippled and blind little sister. This did not, however, save her from being burned across several parts of her body.
In an anguished cry of sorrow, Lelouch -showing more speed and stamina than even Suzaku could, ran fearfully in anguish towards the burning house, only to hear the painful screams of his little sister.
"Sir, the time-scale is off by about a hundred years, Should we still proceed?" one of the monitoring scientist called from his console.
"Proceed as planned," he simply stated, ignoring the fact that Ruby's farther was being restrained behind the tinted glass of the observation building.
"That's my daughter that's about to walk through that portal. you can't just sacrifice her like that, We don't know what's happening on the other side, there could be a worldwide war going on. she could materialise in the middle of a god damned nuclear bomb." He desperately screamed in protest, quickly being silenced by a stun gun after the head scientist had had enough.
"Proceed as planned," the scientist called to the monitoring team. "Y-yes sir." one of them said.
"Miss Rose, please enter the portal as soon as the fields are properly aligned. We will open a portal the same place in exactly three months, the planet is in the exact same orbit as ours, so the calender should be accurate."
"3...2...1...NOW," another member of the monitoring team called.
And with that, Ruby walked through the portal...
What she saw on the other side, however, was nothing short of a complete nightmare.
Bombs were falling left and right, annihilating almost everything in sight. She wasn't even safe for a second, as a napalm bomb landed right next to her, throwing a burning sticky substance all over her left arm and leg, Causing her to scream in pure agony. She had studied napalm, and knew that is could easily melt through most metals, and that it did not wash off, unless one had a certain set of chemicals. Thankfully, though, she also knew not to touch it with any other body part, else it would just stick to that as well. Unfortunately, she had to endure the most agonising pain she could imagine for almost an hour before the substance finally burned out, leaving charred blackness and ask in place of her once beautiful alabaster skin.
The only thing she could do was crawl along the dirtied stone and rubble around her, before eventually passing out under a small rocky outcropping finally safe from the next few volleys of bombs, though she would most like die from shock if nothing else.
Thankfully, she was not the only one who found the small outcropping, for the three young children that came barely five minutes later definitely saved her life.
15 hours later, G1 mobile hospital base.
Thanks to looking like a Britannians, three of the four easily got access to the mobile hospital.
As for the forth; he was separated from the group some time ago, leaving Lelouch to carry Nunnally on his back, and drag the unknown girl behind him, stopping every hundred metres for breath.
1 week later.
"I swear, Suzaku, one day I will... Destroy Britannia."
Unbeknownst to Lelouch, Ruby was making the exact same vow only a few metres away from the boy.
Three months later 2010 a.t.b. Ashford Academy.
"All right everybody, quiet down, we have some new transfer students today. You can come in now."
Through the door stepped a single ten year-old followed by an eight year old in a wheel chair with her eyes closed.
"this is Lelouch Lamperouge, and Nunnally Lamperouge. Please, treat them well."
Unbeknownst to the rest of the school, and thanks to Ruben Ashford, Ruby Rose was working on her first inconspicuous prosthetic limb design, right beneath the student body's noses.
Thanks to the war, her age, and the shock of being engulfed in pure torture for the better part of an hour, Ruby was unable to attend class, mainly due to her mental condition caused by the recent events. After a long conversation between Lelouch and Ruben, she had been allowed to stay in the student council building with Lelouch and Nunnally, provided she still study. It was a school after all.
She had quickly passed almost every school test within a month, and even finished all of her exams just a few hours after she had received them. not only that, but she had near-perfect grades and was at the very top of the class, despite never 'showing up'.
Many students wondered who the mysterious student known as Ruby Rose was, and what she looked like, since she never showed up for class. according to Millie, she was a ghost. Thanks to a deliberate slip of the tongue from Lelouch, she was later 'confirmed' to be his and Nunnally's half sister, who was confined to live with the two siblings, due to her condition, what her condition was, however, remained a mystery to even Millie, who, despite being a master of blackmail at the mere age of fourteen, still couldn't find anything about her condition... Or her for that matter.
Some speculated that perhaps she had something akin to Nunnally's condition, only worse, causing her to be permanently bedridden. Others thought that she was a complete recluse, due to unknown reasons. The last few students (and teachers), either simply brushed it off as unimportant, or simply ignored it. Lelouch, Nunnally, Ruben, and Ruby herself, were the only ones that knew the truth. The truth being that she was completely insane in every sense of the word, and had no morals at all, thus she was not allowed near other students. Another factor that developed over the years, was that she always carried at least ten different lethal weapons with her at all times, she even slept with a custom made sakuradite grenade under her pillow.
She was also the very first asset Lelouch ever acquired in his mission to destroy Britannia.
She was an excellent engineer, and made knightmares for various terrorist cells for a living. She was single-handedly the leading producer of new and advanced knightmare technology, and no one even knew who she was.
much as the mysterious student; Ruby Rose, was investigated, so was the oddity that was the inventor of the most advanced knightmares in history, known only to the world as Nihil ('nothing', in Latin), despite the numerous investigations into her identity, the agents sent, either didn't find anything, or were posted back to whomever sent them in tiny lumps, each being exactly one cubic centimetre in size.
She also worked in genetic mutation, but stopped when she occidentally spilled a mysterious concoction into her soda, causing her to gain super speed, and whiplash resistance after drinking it. This allowed her to both think and make knightmares at super speed, almost tripling her production speed and income.
2017 a.t.b. second break. Ashford basement.
"Hey Lulu." Ruby called, removing her welding glasses as Lelouch disembarked the elevator.
"Hey Ruby. what's that?"
"Oh nothing, just a FLIPPING ARM MOUNTED RAILGUN THAT USES PHOTONS TO ACCELERATE PROJECTILES AT OVER MACH TWENTY," She screamed in delight.
"Oh, cool," he said, genuinely smiling at his adopted sisters latest creation, something he rarely did in the presence of anyone other than his two sisters. One of the only things that put a genuine smile on his lips other than Nunnally and winning in chess, was watching Ruby create new designs at almost unbelievable speeds, hell she had to completely create a new set of robotic limbs after her small mutation accident, later dubbed 'The soda incident'.
"Speaking of cool things, I've almost completed a new propulsion system that uses anti gravity in order to achieve levitation, and acceleration."
"I'm not even going to ask how that works," Lelouch sighed.
"Good, because it'd take longer for me to explain than to finish it, it should be done next month if that gives you any idea," She chirped happily. As she said that, another Genuine smile made it to Lelouch's lips, one that would be famous for reaching his eyes, provided that someone actually saw him next to Ruby when she was working.
"By the way, You have a chess match with Rivalz in about three minutes. If you don't want to miss it, I suggest you get going now, I'll just be here, creating a scientific revolution."
"Oh shit, Thanks Rubes. I'll see you later," He said running back to the elevator.
"Wait. Before you go, take that device in the gun rack over there." She said, roughly waving over to the elevator, already completely engrossed in her work.
"Thanks, but... what is it?" He asked, staring at the small arm guard looking device.
"Tracking beacon, grappling hook, EMP, EMP resistant radio that can tune to all frequencies, sonar, vitals monitoring system, and a small gun. there's extra ammo on the table over there, it's the one that's about one by three centimetres." She explained.
"Uh Tanks, but what'll I need it for?"
"You never know, besides, even with my super speed, a grappling hook comes in handy, how do you think I get all the way up there whenever I sleep?."
"You use that freaky spider mech-leg-replacement-attachment-thingey."
"..."
"Well, I'll be going then."
Shinjuku ghetto.
"Uh, Was that our fault?" Rivalz asked, staring down at a large crashed vehicle, that was partially embedded in the side of a construction site.
"That depends. They were driving like maniacs way before we got in the way, however you were barely driving half the speed you should have been, considering the type of road we were on."
"Oh..."
"Whom ever's fault it was, I'm going to go help them, since it doesn't look like anyone else will."
Using the Grappling hook he'd received from Ruby earlier, quite to the shock of Rivalz, as it appeared that he just leapt of the highway, however he was quickly relieved to see that Lelouch had somehow gotten his hands on a wrist mounted grappling hook. That still remained a mystery, even to this day.
Landing in a Small crouch, Lelouch quickly made his way over to the crashed vehicle.
"Are you hurt? Can anyone hear me?" He asked. As it seemed that no-one could hear him, he began to climb the ladder that was conveniently placed on the side of the truck.
His climb was cut short however, when the truck suddenly jerked, and began backing out from the crashed building, making Lelouch fall inside, landing on his head, dazing him. - He vaguely heard something about bloodbath and some gunfire, along with seeing a quite attractive redhead, before he awoke with a start, as the massive vehicle stopped in it's tracks.
He slowly got up and allowed himself to breathe as the door opened, allowing a Britannian soldier to spin-kick him in the face, knocking him down.
He was quickly held down by his throat, and was beginning to be interrogated by the soldier.
"That's enough mindless murder."
"W-wait, I'm not one of-"
"Planning to use poison gas? Don't play dumb with me."
"GET OFF ME," Lelouch spat, narrowly missing the kick aimed at the unidentified soldiers gut.
"I'm not here by choice," he continued, "And if that's poison gas, then it was made in Britannia, wasn't it? Mindless murder? then why don't you just obliterate Britannia?" Lelouch yelled, causing the soldier to remove his helmet.
"My god, Lelouch, It's me; Suzaku." Lelouch stared in shock for a moment before regaining his previous expression, "You became a Britannian soldier? even after what we went through together?" This time Suzaku looked down in shame, but quickly raised his head, "That doesn't justify terrorism," He responded.
Lelouch could do nothing but stare in shock at Suzaku for almost a minute before his rage built high enough to finally respond. "Two million..."
"Huh?"
"Two million people were killed in the bombings, over 75% of them were confirmed to have died both slowly, and painfully, and you don't think that it's justified? I was never hit by a single bomb back then, but Nunnally was, and even as forgiving as she was, nothing could make her love her previous country again. Do you remember Ruby? how we found her in that cave on the very edge of death? Well she once described to me what it was like to have your limbs literally burned off, how she knew a little about napalm, and how she knew she couldn't do anything about it, even if she tried. It broke her, you know, there's nothing left of the old her after the war, she can't even remember how she was like. Live through that, and then tell me that it doesn't justify terrorism."
Suzaku just stared blankly in shock, no words, nothing.
He was quickly snapped out of his daze when the massive container suddenly began opening.
Without thinking, Suzaku quickly pushed Lelouch to the ground, pulling his gas mask over Lelouch's face, with no regard for his own life.
When it opened, however, it was certainly not poison gas that came out, instead it was a stunningly beautiful woman with green hair, her body bound and restricted by some form of straight jacket.
"That's not poison gas..." Suzaku stated dumbly. Lelouch would have responded with something along the lines of 'no shit,' but his Suzaku's gas mask was still held tightly around his mouth.
The woman seemed to look at them for a second before falling completely unconscious.
"Tell me the truth, Suzaku," Lelouch started, pushing the gas mask off his mouth. "poison gas? This girl?"
"It's what they said in the briefing, I swear."
Before they could continue, however, another voice cut in through the darkness of the tunnel.
"Stinking monkey, Being an honorary Britannian won't excuse you,"
Recognising one of the many officers above his rank, Suzaku quickly leapt to his feet, saluting the officer, "Sir, I was told this was poison gas," He started.
"How dare you question orders... However, in light of your outstanding military achievements, I'm going to be lenient. Take this gun and execute the terrorist."
"But sir I can't, He's just a civilian that got caught up in this." He argued.
"You fool, didn't you swear your loyalty to Britannia?" He asked angrily, his patience shortening at the disobeying private in front of him.
"Yes but. I can't, I just can't shoot a civilian." Suzaku said, turning and smiling a genuine smile, knowing that at least he got to see one of his old friends before his untimely end.
It seemed like his commanding officer didn't give two shits, as he immediately shrugged off the statement, and shot Suzaku in the back, the abnormally quiet pistol silenced even further by the armour Suzaku wore.
"Well, school boy, you picked the wring day to cut class." He said, smiling jovially at the simple thought that even a Britannian student lived longer than an 'eleven' soldier. "Collect the girl, after you've done that, kill the student."
Meanwhile, in the cabin of the crashed truck, one very injured, but still very much alive terrorist, raised his hand, speaking in fluent Japanese, a language thought long dead. "Nippon banzai." With his final words and a grunt of pain, he gracelessly flipped a small switch near the steering wheel of the vehicle.
Almost instantly, four of the Royal guards were on the floor, either dead or dying, thankfully, this allowed Lelouch to both carry C.C. out of the area and call Ruby for assistance.
"Hellooooo," Ruby chirped, "How's my not so latest invention doing?" She asked happily.
"keep it down, I've just ran away from a bunch of psychopathic, murderous Britannians." Lelouch whispered.
"Did you use the grappling hook? was it comfy?" She asked joyfully, despite pretty much just being told to shut up. At least she turned down her input volume.
"Yes actually, and it was surprisingly comfy, however that's not important right now, what is, is me getting extraction."
"No, sorry," Ruby started, "Clovis just ordered the entire Shinjuku ghetto be destroyed, So I can't send extraction. However, we can kick start our rebellion, provided you play your cards right." She almost sang, "oh and by the way, there's a portable ear-bud that's directly connected to the innermost forearm if you don't wan't me to be loud."
"Thanks, but what do you mean by 'if you play your cards right'?" He asked.
"ugh, sometimes your just so slow," Ruby Groaned, "What I mean is, you need to assist the terrorists and then meet up with them later. They could literally be tour main force provided they don't die under your command." She explained, sucking on some from of juice.
"Thanks for the confidence vote... Wait, how'd you know that Clovis was ordering everyone in Shinjuku to die?"
"Oh nothing, I just hacked into their Mobile G1."
"..."
"what?" She asked genuinely curious about his reaction.
"You... Are brilliant."
"Aww, he's already proposing, How sweet."
"Most of the time... I can hear your pout over the radio, It's distractingly cute even though I can't see it."
"Ok, by the way, there are royal guards up those stairs."
"How do you even know that?" He whispered.
"I have my ways. Anyway, I have to go now, Crescent rose's blade is done tempering. LATER."
Removing and replacing the small ear-bud into its holster, Lelouch quickly walked to the stairs, careful not to make any noise. His phone however was not quite as inconspicuous, as it started loudly ringing, catching the attention of the remaining royal guards.
"What an appropriate location for a terrorist to meet his end. Still, you did well for a student, but that's to be expected, you're a Britannian after all. Unfortunately my young friend, you have no future," He stated, still smiling as he pulled out his gun, causing Lelouch to almost cower in fear.
Almost instantly, C.C. jumped out from the two guards holding her, and blocked the bullet with her forehead, causing her to fall over, dead.
"Our orders were to bring her back alive if possible, oh well, nothing can be done about it now. We'll tell our superiors that the royal guard found the terrorists' hideout, and killed them all, regrettably the female hostage had already been tortured to death."
Lelouch, being the ever loving big brother that he was, he quickly began to cry over the fact that not only would he never see his sisters again, they would most likely never see him again. "Nunnally, Ruby, I'm sorry." He whispered.
Before the could fret any further however, C.C quickly grabbed his arm, despite being dead.
Strange images flashed before Lelouch's eyes as he began hearing her voice, though it was distorted in some way, as if it wasn't quite her own, but rather her minds. "you don't want it to end here, do you? you appear to have a reason for living, so if I grant you power could you go on? I propose a deal. In exchange for this power you will make my one wish come true. accept this contract and accept it's conditions; While living in the world of humans, you will live like any other. A different providence, a different time, a different life. The power of the king will condemn you to a life of solitude, are you prepared for this?"
Another voice quickly interrupted them, and Lelouch saw what could only be his farther, the emperor's back, turned to what appeared to be a spiral of faces. "A convergence with the ragnarok connection? so, the myth is beginning once again?" Despite hearing his farther's voice, he quickly lashed out in reply. "Yes I accept the terms of your contract." Instantly, he got up, after having been ejected from the so-called trance, that he'd been thrown into.
slowly lifting his head, he covered his left eye with his right hand, a wave of calm thrown over him, causing the royal guard to be deeply confused. "Say," he began, "how should a Britannian who detests his own country, live his life?" he asked, an ungodly smirk across his features, a smirk that would come to be very well known among his closest comrades.
"What are you, some kind of radical?" The commander of the royal guards asked.
"What's wrong? why not shoot, after all, I'm just a school boy. Or have you finally realised; the only ones who should kill, are those who are prepared to be killed?"
He removed he hand, flicking away his hair in the process, allowing a red, bird-like symbol to appear within his iris.
"I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you. Now, all of you... DIE."
almost immediately, the royal guard relaxed, and began giggling, "Happily your highness," They aimed their pistols to the main artery in their neck. "FIRE."
With that command uttered, they immediately executed themselves, smiling all the while.
for a short while, Lelouch seemed to only stare in shock at the bodies, before a smirk that would put the devil himself to save appeared on his lips.
"Well then, This is going to be interesting."