Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass or any of its characters.
A/N: I'm surprised at the reviews, the story favorites, and story alerts for this. I thank you for all for the support.
To ItalianFan: If you continue to expect this to be not a fanfic with the reason of dissatisfaction of canon plot, you might as well look elsewhere. It is as I stated in the summary as in there is no Zero Requiem in this fanfic. The point of some fanfics is to allow writers to deviate the canon of any series and/or movies. I can't help to wonder if you don't like fanfics with 'what if', then why bother reading this one?
One last thing, some of you may be wondering why I made it that Suzaku would just let Lelouch walk away, the answer is in this chapter.
Anyways, that's all from me and now on to the second chapter.
The Planning Begins
Lelouch was able to contacted Jeremiah and had let him know what had happened regarding his parents and the Ragnarok Connection with the Sword of Akasha. It was hard for Jeremiah to believe about what had happened with Marianne, the woman he had so much respect for and still did, was involve and had the intent with Emperor Charles to cause the world to be held in the past forever. It bothered the cybernetic knight greatly that the woman he held such high respect was not only alive in Anya's body but like Emperor Charles, she had ignored the real world and leaving her own children defenseless in foreign land. Jeremiah Gottwald was not sure how to describe it in words.
Lelouch brought Jeremiah in to inform him with the intent to become the next emperor.
"You desire to become emperor my lord?" Jeremiah asked.
"That's right," Lelouch answered, "I desire to reform Britannia for the better. I've been looking at this all wrong."
"What do you mean my lord?"
"I always thought that Britannia itself was just rotten to core and that it would be impossible for the country to redeem itself no matter what. But I was wrong, the reason the way Britannia is what it is today is because my father ran the country."
"My lord?"
"My father's policy has always been, 'the strong will devour the weak'. That damn belief of his is why he was willing to invade other countries and spread war and discrimination to not only to foreign lands but even to our own people. All of this and no one close was able to see the real motivation of that bastard's real goal."
"Yes, that's true. Also those who may know were silenced, the purpose of the OSI and assassins from the Geass Order."
"Yes, I've thought about it when I confronted my parents, if the head is rotten and evil, the body will be infected as well."
"I see," CC spoke, "since Charles was evil and rotten, Britannia itself became infected and its system was evil and rotten as well."
Lelouch nodded, "That's correct."
"Your highness…" Jeremiah spoke
"I will start a new era in Britannia and show the people that my father was wrong. I don't expect this to be easy and I imagine that it will be a long and harsh road but for the sake for those who lives were torn by Britannia's policies and for the sake of those who lost their lives, especially Nunnally…"
Jeremiah flinched at the name of Lelouch's sister and cursed himself for not being able to protect her, "My lord, about Lady Nunnally, forgive me for my incompetence, I should have-"
"Stop it Jeremiah," Lelouch interrupted his knight, "You are not to blame. I blame myself for giving in to my anger and not believing Suzaku and Suzaku for firing the F.L.E.I.A. at the government bureau."
"But still…"
"Jeremiah, you have proven your loyalty and followed my orders, in fact such loyalty and dedication deserves such reward."
"My lord?"
"Jeremiah Gottwald, when I become emperor, I want you to be my personal knight."
Jeremiah was shocked to hear this, "My lord?"
"You will be a Knight of Round. You're a man that I know that I can trust with my life. Please say you will accept a position as a Knight of Round."
Jeremiah was on his right knee with joy, "It will be my honor for such a position and give such extent of my service to you, your majesty."
"Good, let's go, we head for Pendragon."
"Lelouch, are you sure about this?" CC asked.
"Hm? What do you mean CC?" Lelouch asked.
"About changing Britannia, you know that you will meet a lot of resistance. The mindset of most Britannians that was set because of Charles has been ingrained. You'll be dealing with a lot of rebellions. Who knows if you will actually succeed in your plan."
"I know CC, but I intend to go for it. Besides, it's not like I have anything left to live for. I might well do what I can do."
CC and Jeremiah looked at Lelouch with concern.
Lelouch put on a sad smile, "We should go, if we don't hurry, someone might get the idea to take the throne for themselves and things wouldn't change for the better for the people."
Lelouch, CC, and Jeremiah leave and head for the capitol of Britannia.
The Avalon
Suzaku Kururugi, the Knight of Seven had just returned to the Avalon. Suzaku wondered if it was okay for him to just let Lelouch just walk away. On one hand, he knew that Lelouch had to be brought to justice for the things he had done. On the other hand, he knew that things may have ended better at the Kururugi Shrine had it not been for Schneizel's intervention and the fact that though he knew about the geass command that Lelouch placed on him, he got in a situation where his life was in danger and the command took control of him against his will making him fire the F.L.E.I.A. warhead and in which Lelouch's sister, Nunnally was caught in the blast. It was also the fact that the Japanese knight was concentrating in killing the emperor because he was sick of things not going his way to become Knight of One and in a way; he would avenge Lelouch and Nunnally. He figured that he could let Lelouch go with the vow that if Lelouch interfered with his own goal, he would bring him down himself. So for now, it was fine since he figured that Lelouch had nothing left.
He had contacted Schneizel beforehand and informed him of the events that happened in C's World. He headed to the bridge and was greeted by the second prince and his aide, Kanon Maldini. He saw Lloyd and Cecile but he saw that they had uncomfortable looks on their face. Suzaku expected this from them, after all, he declared of assassinating the 98th emperor and that was obviously an act of treason. He wondered if things will be smooth between them again and if they could understand his choice.
"Welcome back Suzaku," Schneizel greeted.
"Thank you your highness," Suzaku responded respectfully as kneeled before Schneizel.
The second princess, Cornelia walked in the bridge and saw the Knight of Seven, "Hmph, so you're back, Kururugi."
"Yes your highness," Suzaku responded to Cornelia.
"Cornelia…?" Schneizel was about to ask but Cornelia answered.
"Gino and Bismarck have left."
"Hm, I see," Schneizel responded, "well, I think it's time that we left as well."
"Yes, we must return to Pendragon," Suzaku stated.
"No, we won't be returning to Pendragon Sir Kururugi," Kanon stated.
"Huh? Why?"
"I've decided that we need to move on with the plan," Schneizel said.
Suzaku was confused, "What plan?"
"I'll tell you on the way. It's the way to assure peace to the world."
"Really?"
"Yes, a way to end all conflict will be at hand. First, we need to go to Cambodia and Suzaku; there is someone who would like to see you."
"Who?"
"You'll see." Schneizel smiled at this.
"I see, but Prince Schneizel, what about my position in becoming Knight of One."
"I haven't forgotten. We'll talk about all about this."
Suzaku nodded, "Alright."
It was there that it was decided that they would head for Cambodia. Suzaku was now confident, confident that his goals were finally realized and controlling Japan was in his reach.
That's it for now. Next chapter Schneizel informs the Black Knights of his departure, and Kallen and Suzaku confront each other before the departure which will not end well.
