"Lord Vader has a new assignment for you."
Lelouch got up from his seat walking past the storm trooper.
'Of course he has a new assignment for me, I'm his favorite, still not sure if I should be honored, disgusted, or down right terrified.'
He sighed inwardly, thanked the trooper and left the office walking down one of the many halls in his home to his private quarters. He walked in, making sure to take the red sucker that C.C. had been sucking on out of her mouth after spotting her in his chair.
She opened her eyes, which had been closed and crossed her arms, pouting.
"Hey! That one was my favorite flavor!"
"Really?"
He smiled inwardly, C.C. had been there when the sword of Akasha tore itself asunder, she didn't make herself known to Kallen, she knew it wasn't her place, but when they got sucked into this back asswards galaxy she teased the hell out of him for the kiss, they had grown very close since then, they where best friends, practically like brother and sister.
"Yea, it was a blood pop."
"I knew you where a vampire. But seriously, what flavor is it? I'm curious."
"It tastes like cherry to me but according to the guy selling them it was supposed to taste like Jogan fruit, whatever the Fuck that is..."
He shrugged putting it back in her mouth as he walked to the transperasteel windows, gazing at the stars.
"... You still miss her, don't you."
She was talking about Kallen, she was no where to be found when he found himself in this new world, in the middle of a seemingly important conversation that he didn't understand at the time, C.C. was there though, so he wasn't entirely alone. Still, he missed her, and hadn't stopped trying to find his queen and dame, he refused to stop, he couldn't forget her, he relived the experience of what happened in the thought elevator every night ever since they got here.
That was over a year ago, he had played along with what was happening and adapted well to the new enviornment quickly with C.C. by his side, but he missed Kallen regardless, even if she had moved on and found someone else, he needed to know what happened, to both see her face one last time, hopefully speak to her again, and if she is no longer a mung the living, then at least she was in a better place like she deserved and he had some form of closure.
He was apparently a sith inquisitor, and the left hand Man of emperor Palpatine. Vader was obviously his right hand. He did, at first, consider rebelling just like he did when he was still on earth. But he couldn't for a multitude of reasons.
The first being that he was too well known, only two other people where more well known than him in the entirety of the galactic empire, Vader, and Palpatine. If he tried to run from this and rebel then it was guaranteed he would be found out, and faking his death would only work for so long.
The second was the fact that this empire, while it certainly had its flaws, did have a much better number and ratio of people who wanted to change the empire for the better, and had a decent amount of power to back it up, they could prove invaluable if they where willing to help. Many of them where influential politicians who wanted something similar to the old Republic and Military leaders who didn't a prove of the many violent tactics their peers used to kill and enslave the un armed and innocent when they didn't agree with the empires policies. He had amassed quite a bit of support.
The third, last, but certainly just as important reason is that the rebel alliance was far too similar to the JLF, a bunch of terrorists that wanted to die taking out as many as they could with them, even if they where innocent civilians. The death star's destruction over Yavin 4 was the most appalling, true, it was a terrible weapon that shouldn't have been created. But when the alliance blew it to kingdom come they did something even worse with it...
They DESTROYED the ENTIRE galactic economy, the loss of hundreds of trillions of credits worth of material, along with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, not just soldiers, but innocent crew members and other people just doing their job, all of it gone, the stock market crashed, the banks de-regulated, over half the galactic empires population became unemployed, people lost their jobs, their families, their homes, all of it. It was a galaxy wide recession on a scale and severity unlike anything ever seen before.
Why did they have to use a proton torpedo? They could have just used a ion torpedo, it would have had the same use! The station would have been shut down due to an electrical overload and thus they could only use the back up generators for life support, lighting, small defensive capabilities and communications. The super laser would have been rendered in operable and they could have escaped.
It's true he could try to start his own rebel faction but it would take far too long, it would be even more difficult as well. He was willing to try Suzaku's way, it might not have been his prefered method, but he honestly didn't have as many options now. Besides, Palpatine had no heir to take his place besides Vader, and they where both going to die eventually, when that happens the corrupt imperial governors that, unsurprisingly reminded him of the noble cock roaches he used to gamble with and step on during his rebellion, will split the empire into multiple factions and they will fight amongst eacho ther, providing him with the perfect opportunity to take power and fix things himself.
He just needed to be patient.
"Yea, yea I miss her."
"You are so whipped boy."
"Shut it."
"... so what's the mission tall, dark and scary gave you this time?"
She really liked to talk shit about Vader for some reason.
"Apparently the rebel alliance is amassing a fleet near Sullust..."
"That volcanic planet, the one that's a little like Mustafar?"
"Yes, they dispatched a small force to the space station on the outer edge of the system. A TIE fighter factory, it's currently under siege and is about to be boarded, the rebels are most likely trying to take it over for their own use."
"They've been getting more ambitious, they're growing bolder with these new attacks and the growing numbers they posses. I've heard that Sullust is supposed to be close to the Endor system, where the new Death star is being constructed in its orbital ship yards."
Lelouch nodded.
"Palpatine plans on visiting after he does some damage to the rebel attack force on Sullust. They've angered him, rumor has it that Vader and a task force are going to be hiding within the Endor system for when the rebels inevitably attack, though I'm curious as to why Darth isn't using death squadron."
C.C. stood up and walked up to him, gazing out of the window at the stars.
"He probably sent them out to defend major star systems just in case this next attack is one of many, or a diversion. So are you going to dispatch your whole fleet or a small expeditionary force?"
"I'm not sure, part of me wants to take the fleet in, guns blazing, destroy the rebel star cruiser, board the station, kill everyone myself, then leave. The other half of me wants to make this a challenge and take a small force, board both the station and the ship, take as many prisoners as possible and see how fast I can accomplish my mission."
She walked over to his table in the center of the room and activated the tactical holographic projector, reading over the report.
"According to imperial intelligence they've only sent one ship, an MC-80 Liberty class star cruiser, there's just a bit of fighter support to go with it, a couple of X wing fighter and Y wing bomber squadrons, maybe a squadron of B wings at the worst."
"So essentially a modified cruise liner and some stolen snub fighters?"
"Yup."
He sighed again. His fleet was more than a match for a re fitted luxury ship and a couple of hot shots.
Both C.C. and himself left the office and went to the bridge. Sparky, a good friend of theirs was waiting for him.
"Good morning sir, did you sleep well?" Sparky asked this, he was a bit of a unique case. When the Republic won and reformed into the empire the Droid armies didn't just vanish into thin air, they where taken, reprogrammed and put to work acting as planetary security, and sometimes as reserve military forces just in case a planet was under rebel control and they didn't deem the use of storm troopers to be neccesary.
When Lelouch found out, he was disgusted with the sheer stupidity that they where programed to have, he set out to make his own Droid forces, reprogramming them and he did, they where now at least of average intelligence and no longer died just because of bad programming, many developed personalities, and where quite friendly, the droids in his fleet where treated like any other and held a multitude of jobs, as crew members, engineers, doctors, security, and soldiers.
Sparky was one such Droid, a B -1 model, OOM 9 class battle Droid commander with a standard yellow paint stripe on his head and some more yellow on his main body that depicted his status as an officer.
"The usual."
"I see, as always I hope you can find peace one day sir."
"Sparky, how many times do I have to tell you that you may call me by my name?"
"At least once more, as always lord Zero."
"Cheeky droid."
"I try."
"Alright let's head out, set hyper drive coordinates for the Sullust system and jump when ready, alert me when we get close, contact captain Leisen of the Archlight, let him know he is in charge of the rest of my fleet and the defense of Taris until I return from my assignment."
"Roger, roger! You heard him ladies! Fire up the hyper drive and set coordinates for the Sullust system!"
Lelouch and C.C. walked off the bridge as his flag ship, an imperial - 2 class star destroyer named Gawain was thrust into faster than light travel for another assignment.
A/N the next chapter will give you a report of Lelouch's fleet size and what ships he uses. I hope you guys like this! Also I know it should technically be in the crossover section, but the star wars/ code geass crossover section is small and does not get much attention, I wanted as many people to be able to see this as possible.