Welcome to R2 of Code Geass: Valiant. If you haven't read R1 then what the hell are you doing reading this! JK!
R1 is very slow to start but gets better over time. So go read it if you haven't!
R2 is filled with even more OCs along with dealing with the losses and events from R1. Please refer to the web link on my profile for the changes with bios of the OCs and most of the Knightmare.
Now on to the Story!
Code Geass: Valiant R2 Chapter 1 - The Fallen Knights
[Italian City of Rome, Military Command Center]
"We hold this city!" Yelled the middle-aged commander of the cities defense. On the screen in front of him, a large naval force waited at the coast of Rome along with a strong coastal defense network and then the army with many knightmare. All of Italy's other forces were spread in the southern area to prevent the Britannian units from marching on Rome. The brits would have little strignth left if they marched from the south and if they came from the sea they would lose to the power of the Italian Navy.
"Commander the Britannians are asking for our surrender and to turn over any X-Lords within the city" A officer reported from the communication console.
The commander looked at him with a hate filled glare "The Britannians cannot hope to defeat our defenses. Rome is the most well defended city in the EU. Tell their commander in my exact words… NUTS!"
After a moment the same officer spoke again "Sir the coast is reporting a unknown ship rising from the ocean!"
"Is it a sub of some kind?" He asked.
The officer gasped in shack and fear "It's the Archangel!"
[Roman Coast]
A Avalon class warship floated towards the Italian Navy. The ship was much different from the Avalon. It's top section was painted a glossy black with gold markings of royalty along the hull. It was also longer then the old Avalon and had a large cannon on each side of the hull, three smaller ones on the top and three more on the under side.
"OPEN FIRE!" screamed the Admiral and the entire fleet fired their full arsenal of shells, missiles, rockets and bullets.
A large cloud of smoke was now all that could be seen. The crew of the fleet gazed into the cloud expecting a burning ship to come crashing out of the sky. But what they got was a clean ship emerging from the blackness with a glimmering light surrounding it like an orb. Suddenly the side of the ship began to shine and spark moments before two large beams of white light tore through the fleet and collided with the coast before causing a pair of large explosions.
The remaining ships began firing again only for their shot to hit a the thin white orb.
A single knightmare rose to the top of the hull. It's was larger then most and blood red in color with gold markings. It's knees and shoulders had bladed harkens and it's forearms extended beyond the hands which were pointed. It had multiple wings protruding from two main wings that attached to it's shoulders just behind the blades. The knightmare itself was so large that it's cockpit was inside the chest and not protruding behind it.
"What the hell it that monster!?" Yelled a young sailor of one of the remaining ships.
The knightmare's wings shot out white energy before forming solid energy between each of the fins to resemble an angel. It then flew towards the fleet at blinding speed.
The captain of the ship removed his hat and sat in his chair "That is the angel of death"
Black blades with a glowing white edge extended from above it's wrists and it sliced through the first ship like hot butter.
The captain watched as the knightmare flew right towards his bridge "The Avengers angered the wrong man"
The last thing he saw was the blade inside the bridge before it all ended.
The red knightmare rose into the air as the ship fired it's positron cannons again with the same devastating results as the last.
To the horror of the few remaining vessels, a pair of Caerleon class ships rose from the sea. Each as black as the Archangel and bore similar markings. They began firing their rail guns on the remaining ships and the Archangel joined in.
The red knightmare flew towards the coast. the coastal defenses began to rain fire into the air but the knightmare flew around their attacks and the few that could make contact were stopped by a white shining orb around it.
"It can't be stopped!" Screamed a gunner just before the white blade cut through his cannon.
The three ships unleashed a volley of fired that riddled the coast in more craters. The red knightmare rose as it's arms began to glow white. It out stretched it's arms as beams shot from them with a roaring sound. It then moved it's arms and the beamed devastated the entire coast like nothing.
The red knightmare returned to the Archangel and the ships simply returned to the ocean.
The remaining forces breath a sigh of relief only for a moment before the Britannian Navy was sighted on the horizon.
[Unknown Location, Kallen's Apartment]
Kallen sat upon her couch in front of the television in tears. The new was replaying the attack of Rome from last week over again. Brittanian news had titles like "Avengers win another for the homeland" while EU and Chinese were saying "Reaper's death toll numbers in the thousands"
Furniture in the room was floating a few inches while most smaller items were moving around randomly.
She had tortured herself with watching every battle the red knightmare took place in and every time the death it would bring to others forced tears to rain from her eyes.
"Kallen, We're back from the meeting!" Came a call from the other room as someone entered the apartment.
Kallen quickly wiped away her tears as little pitter-patter of small feet could be heard coming to her. All of the floating items slowly floated back in place like nothing had happened.
"MAMA!" Yelled a small toddler as he ran to Kallen. The boy had almost black, crimson hair to his mid-back already and bright blue eyes.
"Hi my sweet boy" Kallen cooed as she picked him up "Where's Aunty Yuna?"
Yuna Kage walked into the room holding the diaper bag and a smile for the pair "Poor little guy missed his mommy"
"Thanks for watching him again" Kallen said sadly before turning off the TV.
Yuna shrugged off the bag and flopped into an armchair sideways "No prob. Little guy was passed around between politicians and diplomats most of the time. He's a little charmer like his pops… oh yeah, my bad"
Kallen looked back at the blank TV but shook off the pain before tears could fall.
"How'd it go?" She asked the younger teen.
Yuna sighed "They want us out of the EU within three nights. Just before they plan to meet with Prince Schneizel for talks of cease fire"
"Can we head to China and meet up with the Black Knights?" Kallen asked worried.
Yuna shook her head "Hitomi's there now trying to convince those nutless fools but don't hold your breath"
"Awndy Toma!" The boy yelled at the mention of Hitomi.
The girls giggled at his youthful happiness while everything was just so wrong.
"Logan do you want to go see Miss Destiny?" Kallen asked.
The boy nodded happily "Dessie!"
The girls giggled again.
"I'll stay here" Yuna said "I'm bushed after dealing with political BS all day"
Kallen picked up her son and walked to the door. As she passed the window she glanced out at the city of Athens far below her.
Outside the room was a hallway with other doors to other high-end apartments and an elevator at the end. She went to it, it's walls each had the Valiant sigil which always caused Kallen to shiver at the sight of. She pressed several numbers on the panel and the elevator began to descend.
She was near the top of the building of 500 floors and after nearly five minutes the numbers hit zero and began counting up with a negative sign. It finally stopped at -51.
She walked out into a coridor with another elevator, only this one had the words Deck-1 Bridge, Deck-2 Officer Quarters, and so on.
After a moment more she was at the bridge of the Hydra where a woman with light red hair and blood red eyes in white and red Japanese garb, was standing talking with another girl with blonde hair around her age in a business suit.
"Has young Lord Blitz returned from the council meeting?" The blonde asked.
Kallen nodded before placing her son down "No touching remember"
He nodded and then ran towards the blonde "Jewet!"
Juliet smiled and hugged the child "Hey lil' master"
"Des, we need to get out of the EU" Kallen informed "Hitomi's trying to get China to take give us passage to the other base but it's not likely unless we assist the rebels"
Destiny looked to ponder for a moment before the holo-table moved activated and overlooked Athens.
"We don't have the time" She said as her eyes scanned the city.
Suddenly a alarm rang, but not in the ship. It was coming from the facility itself.
"Attention Valiant personnel" A automated voice sounded "This is an Omega level order. All Valiant personnel are to abandon their current projects and proceed to the assault shelter on the first floor. Activating defense system in ten minutes"
Kallen froze and whimpered "Omega level. He's here. He's going to kill me he's-"
A loud smack rang through the room and suddenly Destiny was thrown across the room by an invisible force.
"Dessie! Mama!" Cried Logan loudly.
Kallen held her bruised cheek and looked shocked at the other girl who stood like nothing happened when being thrown with such force into solid metal would've killed most others or at least left them badly injured.
"To think he fell in love with a coward" Destiny said emotionlessly before walking out of the room.
"DESSIE!" Logan cried out but she ignored his cries.
Kallen picked up her son and bounced him to calm him down but he continued to reach towards the doorway that Destiny had just gone through.
"I'll never understand why he likes her so much" Kallen said. "She's not even a cold person, she feels nothing at all for anyone"
Juliet shrugged "Only Neo truly knew anything about her. Hitomi knew something but locked it out of her memory under his orders"
"It's starting" Kallen said looking at the holo-map. The Archangel descended from the clouds along with it's escorts just above the Valiant Tower at the center of Athens.
[Athens]
Several knightmare emerged from the Britannian ships. 25 Vincent frames painted black and silver, 2 more were specially painted ones that took the lead of groups of ten. One was dark green with red and bore a pair of large axes. The other was white and blue with red trim and wielded a pair a bladed bow.
The others who took the lead were, a silver and white knightmare that looked like breed of Britannian and Black Knight design. In truth it was a Valiant Dark Design. A purple Vincent with gold markings of royalty and resembled Cornelia's Gloucester with it's large jousting lance and had an escort of five Vincent. The last was the red knightmare in the lead of the others.
To the people below it was like the sky opened to reveal the gate of hell and these demons emerged. It made it all real when the pilot of the red knightmare spoke.
"I, Neo Von Waldstein, Lord of Valiant and Knight of Two of the Holy Britannian Empire, claim the land of Greece as Area 20. Turn over the X-Agents that are hiding here. Oppose us and die"
"You wont take us so easily!" Suddenly a black knightmare appeared in the sky in front of the red knightmare and fired from a black VARIS that shot a large white beam at it only to hit the shield.
"It's the black knightmare again!" the pilot of the white Vincent said.
"Jenny, take your squad right. Get behind it before it can disappear again!" Yelled the pilot of the green one.
"You are not the one I want" Neo growled "Where's that bitch Kallen Kozuki! I will see this city painted red with her blood as Tokyo when she killed my sister and my friend!"
The black cloaked knightmare turned the head slightly and watched as the Vincent teams surrounded it.
"Trivial" Destiny said. Suddenly white beams shot through the Valiant Tower from below and wiped out a large number of Vincent.
"Princess move!" The pilot of the white knightmare yelled and pushed the royal Vincent away.
Neo's shield protected his knightmare from the blast but caused it to deflect off of the shield and shower the city below with energy bolts that exploded.
The Hydra emerged from the wreckage of the now collapsed Valiant Tower and began ascending.
"She's down there!" Neo yelled manically before diving for the ship.
"Princess, Kyle, You take that knightmare while Ashley and Jenny will reinforces Lord Waldstein" Kira ordered from the ship.
"Affirmative" Kyle Valentine said "Princess, You and the Vivian stay back until I can assess this things traits"
The Vivian moved in fast at the black knightmare with it's lance only to be blocked by a black sword with white edge. The Vivian backed away just as the black one slashed with a second sword. The Vivian then pointed the lance at it's enemy and the weapon glowed before firing a large white beam.
A both of lightning shot out from the side of the Hydra at the red knightmare only to hit the shield.
Neo laughed "The Omega cannot be defeated by a mere lightning rod"
The Raiden flew into the air towards the Omega which readied it's blades but the Raiden flew over it and into the hoard of Vincent before it's blade sparked wildly.
Neo looked for a moment but turned back to the Hydra, leaving his people to their fate.
Having advanced Vincent models, Ashley's Marauder and Jenny's Rouge were able to activate their positron shields in time to block the lightning attack while the standard units flew from the sky and exploded in the city below.
"That's the fifth team this month!" Jenny yelled.
Suddenly the Raiden's sword was pushing into the shield of the Marauder.
"Damn these cheep imitations!" Ashley said. The shield of the Vincent Type-V's were no where near the power of the Omega.
The Rouge slashed at the Raiden and forced it to back off of Ash but Raiden had left a small device within the shield that exploded and dropped the shield completely.
The black knightmare had both arms crossed in front of it with a pair of solid white blaze shields but the cloak burned away.
"Lancelot!" Kyle gasped "Another copy?"
"Guinevere is her name" Destiny said "It was X's gift to Earl Asplund"
"Well this is the Knightblade" Kyle said as he removed small cylinders from each of his thighs that shot out a white beam saber "A gift to me when I terminated my association with X"
The two charged at each other with their duel blades and clashed.
The Omega stopped near the Hydra and it began charging it's wrists.
"Now to destroy the last of X's accursed followers!" He shouted and fired the beams.
A dark beam shot out and clashed with one of his beams while the other alone wasn't strong enough the penetrate the shield.
"There you are!" Neo exclaimed at the sight of the Guren shooting a beam of Radiant Energy into his positron one. He then turned the other cannon into the one super large beam that began over powering the Guren's "Die you bitch!"
"Someone please!" Kallen begged in tears "I cant fight him!"
Suddenly Neo grabbed his head in pain. Images flashed in his mind faster then he could see what they were. It all stopped on a boy of ten years with long crimson hair and a pair of geass sigils looking into his eyes.
"Remember who I am" the boy said.
"What the hell is this!?" Neo growled in pain.
The boy changed into a nude Kallen "Remember who I am"
"You killed Elly!" Neo roared.
She changed into V.V. "Oh yeah? Was that what you were told? Remember who I am"
"You are my master!" Neo said through the pain
He then changed into X "There is only one master!"
"Kira killed you!" Neo roared "What geass is this!"
X changed into Neo wearing the Ashford uniform and then the Valiant one "Remember who I am!"
The Omega suddenly turned around and fled towards the Archangel.
Ashley and Jenny watched as the Omega sped past them and the moment they looked back to the Raiden, it disappeared.
Guinevere fell back from the Knightblade and fired it's VARIS at it only for the Vivian to block it with it's positron cannon. The Vivian took the chance to come at the Guinevere with a jab but it pushed it's blade down the side of the lance towards the Vivian itself but it was stopped by batch of hexagonal blaze shields floating on their own.
"A druid system?" Destiny said as she backed away.
"We're not done yet!" Kyle roared and aimed his arms at the black Lancelot and fired it's wrist mounted Hadron Blasters.
The moment they should've hit the knightmare vanished.
A moment later the Hydra reached the clouds and it's large read engines activated and the ship sped off above the clouds and out of reach of even the Omega.
[Tokyo Settlement, Chinese Consulate]
Elly smiled as she sat back in her chair. On the desk was the mask of Zero and she was now sitting within the United States of Japan.
"Phase one of the operation is complete" She said to C.C.
The immortal nodded "It's all up to Kallen now. We have our king"
Elly looked at the chessboard on the desk.
It was still being set up but was wrong. Black, queen's knight was on the Britannian side along with the a black second queen and a rook.
"We'll have it all soon enough" Elly said smiling "Neo ensured that a year ago"
[Flashback One Year Ago, Hydra Bridge]
"Where are they!" Elly yelled at Hitomi who looked dazed.
The immortal ninja shook her head as if to clear a fog.
"Where is my brother!? Where's my Lelouch!?" She asked again.
Hitomi looked around and quickly went to the holo-table.
"What are you doing?" Elly asked.
"Blackout has been activated" Hitomi gasped "This cant be"
"What?" Elly asked worried.
Suddenly a holo-gram of Neo played.
"If this message is being played, then I was pulled though the Thought Elevator and likely to my death or to face the emperor. I know of only those two likely outcomes that Valiant Dark will lead to if I've been captured. As most of you know, Valiant Dark is run by most of the Valiant Heads all over the world in the different Valiant Industries facilities. As CEO, I will notice the workings of it and destroy it. As this message is being played, a virus is working it's way through the Valiant servers to remove all traces of Valiant Dark from everything but my personal sketches. As of now Valiant Dark is dead. I've left instructions with different people in the order and this message is going to every head of Valiant Dark. This will now play for those nearby"
Elly watched frozen as the room sensors scanned the room. Hitomi just watched intensely.
"Hitomi Yamato - Agent Hokage. Hitomi, I'll leave you in temporary command until Destiny is complete, that is if I was successful in my mission and the project works. She is to have the Lancelot-Hood or Guinevere as the techs call it. I want you to take the Hydra and flee to the EU facility in London and assist the EU with fending off the Britannians while building what you can with the data in the Hydra's computer. If you can unite the EU and Chinese Federation with our forces then we can still win. Good luck my friend and thank you my knight"
Hitomi shed a sigle tear before wordlessly going to the helm and setting a coarse for China to drop off the Black Knights survivors that Elly had waiting in the hanger.
Elly watched as Neo seemed to looked right at her.
"Elly my sister. If you plan worked then you are now considered dead and free to be Eve and serve Lelouch. I'm sorry I cannot assist further with the two of you but you will need the EU's help to hold Japan and I have good people there that wont claim it for themselves. If I'm dead then you will be the head of Valiant and own the mining rights to japan and thus hold the world. I wish you and old Lulu all the love and good luck trying to get him to actually express some damn affection. That guy's horrible at that stuff. I love you sis, always remember that no matter what I am forced into"
Elly just broke down and cried. The sobs waking the knocked out Kallen who the message was now for.
"Kallen, my soul. I'm sorry I couldn't free Japan with you or be there for our son. Once I saw that vision any number of events could've changed to lead to him being forced to lose his father. I may be dead or I may become a monster of Britannia, of that I am uncertain. But no matter what happens, protect our son. Protect yourself, and If need be, kill me to do it. I don't want to see you in C's world until I've had time to build the house okay? You are my heart and soul my love, and our son is my legacy. Logan Von Waldstein-Kozuki-Valiant"
Kallen was able to get into the captain quarters that was attached to the bridge before breaking down.
Chapter End
AN: Okay that's chappie numero uno!
FYI: Elly's part is after the recovery of Zero(Episode 2). it all happened the same way so i didnt write it out.
The chess piece this was as so
Neo is the Rook seeing as he's a strong piece but lacks the restraint of a king and the loyalty of a knight.
Kai/Kyle is the knight since he was Nunnally's knight.
And last is the second queen, Nunnally. More as Lelouch's personal thought towards her then the ability to do anything of the board.
The X-Agents is now what Valiant Dark calls themselves.
Same goes for the Avangers being the Old Valiant Knights only without the old restraints of honor and now only want to avenger their dead.
Logan is a very advanced 1 year old due to a special factor that no one expected or knew was possible.
I had intended for this to come out for my birthday on feb 10th but I had to do job applications and didn't have the time. Yay I'm 19!
THANKS.