Hi, this is my second attempt on a Code Geass story, I erased the other one because I thought it was rubbish. Now I'm just testing my literacy and writing skills and am hoping that my dialogue and battle scene skills have improved. If not I'll try again next time. Well here's some stuff you ought to know when reading this.
1. "Words like these are things said aloud."
2. 'Words like these are thoughts.'
3. "Words like these are sound effects."
4. Words like these are just narration.
I'm trying to make this as canon as I can, but since Code Geass R2 ended the series so tightly, it's a bit hard. Therefore the epilogue in R2 didn't happen here, because it makes the story even harder to write.
This story was inspired by many others and so I would like to praise them here.
This is a test run to see how far my writing skills can get me, if people like it I'll continue, if not I'll retry it next time. In all fairness I'm expecting people to flame me after reading because after I read this over I had to make about 30 changes to make it better.
Oh and by the way this contains spoilers up to the end of R2, don't read if you don't want to know.
I have a problem with character focus and tend to focus on some characters on one chapter and others in another.
Well that's that, enjoy!
DISCLAIMER : I do not own Code Geass in anyway.
World Of Geass
Turn One - Life and Death
2018 a.t.b
Streets Of Tokyo Settlement - Execution Grounds
A sharp noise echoed throughout the paralysed crowd as 'Zero' pulled his blade from Lelouch Vi Brittania's chest.
At that moment it was as if time stood still, everyone who witnessed this event seemed utterly stunned and through the silence you could hear blood dripping from Lelouch's wound.
Under Zero's mask, Suzaku sobbed silently as he gritted his teeth as hard as he could. This was his punishment, ever since that day eight years ago, when he had killed his father, all he wanted was atonement for his sins. It was what he wanted, what he wished for and yet he couldn't stop himself from feeling wrongly about this.
'Lelouch is dead, Euphie's killer is dead.' he thought through his mixed emotions, but it didn't matter because the horrible reality was that he had killed his best friend.
The black knights who were about to die just a few moments ago were equally stunned.
Kallen Kozuki was probably the most surprised by Lelouch's death, her mind was racing, there were so many unanswered questions.
'How can Lelouch be dead?'
'Lelouch is supposed to be Zero, then who's the one behind the mask?'
'What's going to happen to us?'
'Did Lelouch really betray them?'
Then it hit her just like that and she knew what Lelouch had done, almost all her questions were answered after she realized that.
The silence was interrupted by a large explosion and out of a building on one side of the street came a group of Black Knights led by Lelouch's half sister Cornelia. They charged onto the platform on which the rest of the Black Knights were being held and were soon joined by about half of the people gathered around.
The Brittanian soldiers were suddenly trampled by a surge of people rushing on to the platform, even their knightmares didn't seem of much use. Finally Jeremiah's voice echoed through the crowd ordering them to retreat.
Throughout the settlement you could hear the people chanting repeatedly.
"ZERO ZERO ZERO"
"ZERO ZERO ZERO"
A few people weren't chanting along however, one of them was Suzaku who was thinking about what he was to do next, Lelouch never told him what to do next, did that mean he trusted Suzaku to lead the world into a new era on his own or was there something else?
Kallen was also refusing to chant along as was most of the official Black Knights, she had realized Lelouch's plan and was lost in her own emotions. Todo had also figured out Lelouch's plot by observing Zero's movements and Lelouch's own, while others may have not guessed it, Todo was an expert and decided that it was all Lelouch's plan.
Nunally was yelling, but it could not be heard through the roar of the crowd, she screamed numerous times at the dead body of her brother, crying 'Onii-sama' and 'Please brother...'
Finally Zero yelled over the people's chants "Everyone, please listen."
The crowd suddenly stopped and were keen to hearing Zero's words.
"The death of Lelouch Vi Brittania doesn't mean the end of terror in the world, no this is just the one obstacle in the way to peace, to the future. While Lelouch may be dead, there are numerous others who will be an obstacle."
All the attention was focused on Zero now and no one seemed to notice Lelouch's body on the lower platform. Nunally had been taken by Cornelia, away from her brother.
With everyone focused on Zero, no one noticed a cloaked figure replacing lelouch's body with an exact copy.
"Lelouch's death means the beginning of the war we will have to face in order for the future to come, the war which will decide the path humanity must take and the war which we shall triumph in!" it took Suzaku all his might to bring those words out and the crowd roared with applause.
2019 a.t.b
Headquarters of the UFN (United Federation of Nations)
Everything had been going smoothly for the UFN after the death of the Tryant Emperor. After his death Brittania had started collapsing on it's own under the poor leadership of Alastor Gryfenwalt, an ex-bishop for the 98th Emperor, Chales Di Brittania.
Firstly most of the Brittanian colonies in the Asian continent had been completely overthrown and the territories were now given their true name and their prople had regained control over it once more.
Second was the archipelago islands that made up the colony of Oceania, which was also where 20 percent of the Brittanian army was stationed, had undergone a major revolution from it's people, the Twelves.
After that some of the areas in the Brittanian mainland formed a country and separated itself from Brittanian rule. The remaining Brittanian forces across the Atlantic were under daily attacks from the newly formed Euro Universe, which was now a section in the UFN.
Probobly most useful of all was when Brittania launched an attack against Australia, the most powerful country that was not in the UFN. This was a fatal mistake as the UFN helped anyway and the Australian military was more powerful than they had anticipated, their knightmares were few in numbers, but were all ranging in between 6th Generation and 7th Generation. This made them a force to be reckoned with.
Even after all this, when it was obvious that Brittania had no chance of winning they still stood firm. As such the UFN were forced to deliver a final blow, they attacked the rebuilt Imperial City of Pendragon. Alastor wanted to fight to the death, but his military general, Damian Waltz refused to sacrifice his men for an unwinnable battle. This gained him a lot of respect from Todo, whom accepted his surrender.
Alastor was captured, the last loyalists of Brittania were forced to flee the city and the flags at the outskirts of Pendragon were taken down, the flags that had stood since the days of Julius Ceasar and Augustus Ceasar were destroyed.
Even without anyone pointing it out it was obvious to everyone what the capture of Pendragon meant, the end of Brittanian rule over the planet that can now be called Earth once more.
The Black Knights however continued their search of the Brittanian loyalist even though they were merely a group of rebels now and nothing more. The Knights argued that they themselves originated from being a group of rebels and were now one the most powerful organizations in the world.
The first 5 months after Lelouch's death had been the best for the UFN. Unfortunately nine months after Lelouch's death, the tide started to turn. More and more countries in the UFN were starting to form rebellions, crime rate was rising once more and people were starting to have doubts about the UFN.
UFN Headquarters - Black Knights Department - Zero's Office
Suzaku sat at his desk, he finally figured out why Lelouch didn't give him any futher instruction. It seemed as though the world was evelving, advancing into the future without any more help needed. Lelouch was right, Zero had become a symbol of justice, hope and peace, that was all he needed to do now. His last mission, one that Lelouch had given him was to keep Zero alive.
Luckily enough, the Black Knights who knew of Lelouch's identity as Zero weren't as suspicious of him as he thought. Maybe it was because they didn't want history to repeat itself, he couldn't blame them after all the last Zero betrayed them all.
He quickly put on his mask as Ogi walked in, wearing the uniform for a UFN Minister.
"Zero, Prime Minister of Japan and Black Knights Chief of Staff reporting to duty."
"Ogi, our forces against the Neo-Europe Criminal Empire in Ireland have discovered that the enemy currently has access to knightmares and are gaining essentials from unknown resources, send Gino to take charge with Xing-Ke's Battle Plan."
Ogi scribbled a few note down on a piece of parchment before gesturing for Zero to continue giving orders.
"Also contact Jeremiah and have him support Tamaki's forces in the Arctic Ocean, the battle is taking too long and our men are running out of supplies."
Ogi finished taking notes before bowing and turning to leave, but was nearly slammed down as Rakshata came rushing in.
"Zero, we have an emergency! The research facilities in Greenland have been destroyed, as well as a UFN Administrative Zone and four military bases have been ravaged. Todo just finished his mission in the Bermuda Triangle and his fleet is now speeding across the Atlantic to Greenland."
Rakshata had become the UFN Head of Reasearch and Developement while Lloyd became the Minister Of Technology. Their two groups were always competing to see who could create things that impressed the UFN first.
When Zero remained silent, Ogi said "Zero, you should send Xing-Ke and a fleet to-"
He was instantly cut off when Zero spoke "No Todo will arrive there in a few hours, Xing-Ke is currently trying to suppress the resistance in Pendragon. 15 percent of the UFN forces were stationed at Greenland so whoever were up against have more power than we think."
He paused for a moment before continuing. "Send Schneizel to take command and make sure no one goes in or out of the country."
Ogi and Rakshata both nodded and ran out the door.
Suzaku spent the next 5 hours talking to UFN Heads about the situation until he recieved news that Todo's advance knightmare squad had arrived, his main fleet would take another 8 hours and Schneizel would take until morning to arrive.
After he closed the communication screens of the UFN Heads, he sat down and leaned back into his chair, it was starting to be like before when Lelouch had taken on the role of Zero and leading a war against Brittania.
Suddenly hisscreen opened and a UFN soldier reported "Sir a large fleet is currently heading into the UFN Capital, we estimate about 130 knightares and 40 ships."
Battle In the Arctic Ocean
It was here that Tamaki, Jeremiah and 130 UFN soldiers were fighting against the Brittanian Purists who had decided to make a last stand, the battle had been going downhill for the UFN until Jeremiah evened the scale.
Jeremiah Gottwald had abandoned Brittania after Lelouch's death, he was made the battle commander of the UFN Special Ops Division as well as Super Intendant of the UFN Knightmare Training Instistute.
Right now he was leading 10 soldiers against 30 knightmares and a battleship. It didn't seem equal, but Jeremiah spearheaded the attack and no one on the Purists side could even touch the Seigfried.
He was currently taking on 5 units at the same time while his troops were all going one on one with the rest. The Purists main battleship was under heavy fire from Tamaki's forces. It amazed Jeremiah how Tamaki could possibly have survived this battle so long using only brute force and no strategy whatsoever.
After a few more hours of heavy battle the Purists were down to their final battleship and a single knightmare. Unknown to them however was the Purists had one last secret weapon.
"Britannian Purists, the battle is lost for you, surrender yourselves to the United Federation of Nations or suffer the consequences." Jeremiah called.
The single Purist knightmare called back "We'll never give up so you might as well kill us you unfaithful Brittanian traitor!"
These words would probobly not have affected someone else as much as it had affected Jeremiah, to a man who honoured loyalty above all, these words were as good as telling him to die.
Without a second thought, Jeremiah launched one of his four main tasers and instantly decimated the poor Purist.
The top of the Purist ship suddenly opened and what came out shocked everyone.
Jeremiah was the first to regain his senses and yelled at the top of his lungs "RETREAT!"
Most of the knightmares followed him away, but it was too late the ship had already fired it, it fired the FLEIJA warhead from a launcher similiar to the one Lancelot had that was attached to the ship's main cannon.
The Brittanians inside the ship yelled across the battlefield "ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!"
The ball went to the top of the battlefield and released a large amount of energy causing a nuclear sphere to erupt, destroying everything in it's path.
The blast was nearing Jeremiah and was about to be caught until the knightmare behind him punched his cockpit, propelling away from the blast.
Moments later Tamaki's voice went on an open communications channel "All remainining units return to Point 17."
Jeremiah replied. "Tamaki my knightmare is destroyed so I can't use the energy wings to fly back."
Tamaki's reply was almost instant "I'll send a scouting unit to pick you up. Over."
'At least we won in the end' Jeremiah thought before passing out.
UFN Headquarters - Black Knights Department - Zero's Office
Suzaku was unprepared for this, he hadn't expected anyone to launch an attack on the UFN Capital, but right now it was severely unprotected since most of the UFN militia had dispersed across the globe.
"How many units are available at the moment?" Suzaku asked while trying to formulate a battle plan.
"Somewhere between 90 to 110 knightmares and about 36 ships, the Shinkirou is available, but the Lancelot and Guren haven't finished repairs yet." the man answered.
Suzaku was hoping that the Guren and Lancelot were finished repairs and the Shinkirou was far too complex for anyone to pilot it. They were outnumbered and it would take long for reinforcements to arrive from China.
Suzaku was about to ask another question when a large blast came into view and he lost contact with the man.
"Damn it all" he called as he phoned Ogi.
"Zero, I was just about to call y-" Ogi started, but was cut off once more.
"Send out all our units and start a full scale evacuation, load the Guren and Shinkirou into the Camelot."
"Yes, sir" Ogi said before signing out.
Suzkau ran down to the hangars where his Lancelot was being repaired.
"Lord Zero!" the mechanic said surprised.
"We're under attack start evacuating, I'm going to pilot the Lancelot" Suzaku said getting on the Lancelot.
"Sir, repairs aren't complete yet." the mechanic argued.
"You have your orders." Suzaku said in a way which took away any complaints the mechanic may have had.
Battle Of the UFN
Suzaku joined the battle later with his Lancelot, it flew perfectly well and the energy wings were complete. He didn't understand what was still the matter with it.
He skillfully dodged a projectile and dashed at top speed to the nearest group of enemies. They were in knightmares he never saw before and he knew from the way they fought that they weren't just grunts. No they were highly trained and experienced in combat.
Suzaku flew to the center of the group and attempted to release his tasers, but found they were unavailable because they hadn't been repaired. So instead he drew his MVS Sword and clashed with two unknown knightmares at the same time while another two came from behind him.
He quickly flew to the sky and dived down slashing an enemy unit along the way. He stopped midway and charged through the enemy's front lines.
Then he was suddenly rattled by two units that were different from the others, they were basically a black version of Cornelia's Gloucester with a chain gun on one hand and a Slash Haken on the Other.
Suzaku countered with his MVS and pushed their Hakens aside by flying and flipping in mid-air. He then dodged the chain gun bullets fired at him and moved like lightning to slash apart one of the cockpits.
It exploded causing smoke which Suzaku used to spear down the other unit. This one defended with it's arms and launched a tiny object at Suzaku, it attached to the Lancelot, but nothing happened. The black unit fell after continous slashes from the Lancelot.
Another five of the simpler units came at the Lancelot. Suzaku charged at them and slashed down one of the units before something caught his eye.
His energy meter was nearly all used up, but how did he exhaust it so quickly.
'Damn it Lloyd.' he inwardly thought as he used the remaining energy he had to retreat into the nearest UFN battleship. Unfortunately, the ship had no energy fillers left and the last ship that did have it was destroyed a few seconds after Lancelot joined the battle.
Suzaku as Zero asked the ship's captain for a battle report and saw that the UFN had lost nearly 50 percent of it's forces while the enemy remained at large. He decided it there that the battle was lost and ordered a full scale retreat after the evacuation was reported complete.
Unknown Location
"Clack"
"You're moving your king" a voice asked from the shadows.
"Of course, if the king doesn't move, his subordinates won't follow." another voice replied.
"Hmph, that's always been your motto ever since, right Lelouch"
Okay that's it for chapter one of my little project.
Please tell me what you think, I'll accept all tips and advice.
Please R&R,
Until next time.