A/N: Alright, now we're back on storyline with the Hotel Jacking and such at Lake Kawaguchi. It's amazing that my brother and I got this done so quickly!! Just about 1-2 days after we upload chapter two and now chapter three is done! Watching the anime really helped. I should do that more often. Anyway. R/R and enjoy! I like this one personally. I have this little feeling that Zero may like Kali on the terms that: THEY THINK THE SAME DAMN WAY! So again, Rate and review. Send me messages if ya want. I'll answer them ASAP. Once more, ENJOY!!
Co-A/N: Disclaimers: We don't own Code Geass, and the belong to their respective owners. We are just using the same storyline of this episode for our fanfic and some later in the future. And we are possibly going to change how events happen in the story later in the future.
"Everybody on the ground! This is a hotel jacking!" a man with a gun shouted. He shot at the ceiling a few times and all the people fell to the ground screaming and whimpering. Euphie and Kali just ducked down. If they weren't recognized, that would make things so much easier.
Kali grimaced, "Typical Japanese Rebels that want the pride of taking Britannia down. They have no honor. They're only concern is who's the first to reclaim Japan."
"Shh," A.A. warned her as the man looked their way.
He stormed over to them waving his gun, "You got something to say girl!?"
Kali snapped, "You think that you're all big and bad because you wave a gun around you asshole!? I could do that too! No, I could one up you, I'd figgin' blow your ass up with a Knightmare!"
A.A. grabbed her arm and acted terrified, "Please, Lilith, don't. He might hurt you!"
Kali glared at him as he growled, "Your friend's right. Watch that mouth of yours! It could be the last words you say next time!" He walked off to yell at some other people.
"You could've gotten killed!" A.A. whispered.
Kali glared at the Japanese man, "I don't care, better me than these innocent people."
A pompous man in military uniform came in as one of his imbecile followers glazed around the room with a video camera. Once the record button was turned off, the Japanese man at the head of the jacking began to speak.
"I'm Kusakabe of the Japan Liberation Front. This stand we're taking is for the freedom of Japan and our countrymen. Even though you are not soldiers, you are still Britannians! You are the ones who rule and oppress us. Sit still, be quiet, and you'll be fine," he announced. Kali was already disgusted with the man. He was for the freedom of Japan, but hurt innocent civilians in the process.
If someone just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, that was one thing. To purposefully go out of your way to capture innocents and hold them as bargaining chips for matters they were not concerned with, that was another field in of itself. Kali noticed some students at the front of the group. Her eyes grew wide in disbelief.
'No . . . damn . . . way!! Milly!? Nina!? SHIRLEY!!?? Why are they here? I wouldn't mind if Shirley was the only one, maybe add Milly, but I don't think Nina disserves this kind of trauma for the rest of her life,' she thought almost angrily at first, but then loosened up in her tone and feelings. This was just going from bad to worse.
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As Suzaku came to report for his duty with the Special Corp, he found another face within the team that he didn't recognize before.
"Oh, you must be the pilot of the Lancelot, Suzaku Kururugi. I'm Alexander si Britannia, tenth prince and will be helping you out on this mission on this team."
"A prince?" Suzaku said in surprise. He didn't expect a man of royalty to be working with Lloyd and Cecile on projects.
"I take it you didn't expect a prince to be working on certain projects for the Britannian military," Alex said. "I pretty much am used to it, although some of my projects are apparently too obsolete for even the military to look into," he said as he looked toward Princess Cornelia's mobile base.
"You said that you were going to help me here, how would you do that?" Suzaku asked him.
"Ah, you want to know right away. Well let me tell you that by helping you, I'm helping myself test out one of my new projects that is based off the Lancelot," then his tone changed to that of loathing, "And saving my sister from them people."
"Your sister, you mean Euphie?"
"Not really, I have a more immediate sister that I need to save. Kali si Britannia, she went with Euphemia just to talk to her while I finished up my work on my Knightmare." Alex then punched the van out of anger that he didn't feel the pain from hitting it so hard. "I should have at least made sure it was safe for her."
Suzaku looked at the man with pity as he walked towards Lloyd and Cecile who looked out to the hotel. Lloyd looked more like he had a look of boredom as he just sat on the ground.
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"An . . . Eleven!" Nina exclaimed terrified. This caught Kali's attention. The guard glared down at the Britannian nerd.
"What did you say!?" he shouted. Nina cowered beside Milly. The man pointed his gun at the girls, "We're not Elevens! We're Japanese damn it!"
"Yes, we're aware of that! Just lay off of her!" Milly shot back venomously. Kali couldn't call her a helpless prep anymore, oh well.
The man turned his glare to the blond, "Then correct her! We're not called Elevens!"
"Fine!" Shirley exclaimed, "We'll correct her!"
"How dare you speak like that to me!" the guard yelled.
Kali rolled her eyes, 'Bipolar much, buddy?' She began to stand to distract the ill guided Japanese guards when A.A. grabbed her arm again.
He shook his head slowly, "Not yet," he whispered.
"You three!" he continued, "Come with me to the next room and I'll teach you a real lesson!"
Nina started whimpering in terror. She was close to hyperventilating. Euphie began to stand but their guard grabbed her wrist and shook her head. Kali was reaching the end of this. NO ONE WAS DOING ANYTHING!!
"I SAID GET UP NOW!" the man shouted grabbing Nina by the arm and dragging her up. The poor girl screamed in fright.
"LET ME GO!!" she pleaded trying to twist out of his grip. Euphie was feeling the same as Kali. The third princess twisted out of the grip of her guard and stood up.
"Stop it!" Euphie cried taking the guards' attention away from the three school girls.
"Who the hell are you!?" the first guard commanded as he threw Nina to the side.
"I demand you take me to your leader right now! Understand?" Euphie said in a tone of authority.
Kali couldn't let Euphie do this alone. She stood up beside her half sister, "As do I!"
"What!?" the Japanese exclaimed.
"Please don't, the two of you may get killed!" their guard hissed worried.
"You are addressing Euphemia le Britannia, the third princess of Britannia," Euphie stated coldly.
"And Kali si Britannia, the sixth princess of the Britannian Empire," Kali finished for her sister. She looked to her "Guardian" who was shaking his head in exasperation.
All the guests murmured in awe at the two Royal girls. Kali caught Milly, Shirley, and Nina looking at her in utter shock and disbelief. She could almost hear their thoughts. It was amusing enough to give her a smug smile, though the guards were sure to take it the wrong way.
"Are you alright young lady? You haven't been hurt?" Euphie asked Nina softly. Kali glanced at the green haired girl with a small encouraging smile.
"N-No," Nina managed. She seemed in a daze that royalty would care for her or something like that.
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Suzaku was prepared with his Lancelot, while Alex carefully placed his own Knightmare down there with him. Suzaku had noticed that it was built differently as if it didn't stand upright, but rather on all fours.
"You mind answering me what it is that you're using my Lord?"
"Please don't call me that, but with that out of the way. It's the first of its kind, and will most likely be the only one of its kind of Knightmare that is more based on an animal that I have great respect for."
"And what would that be?"
"A wolf, thus meet Lupus."
The cloth was then removed and it showed a four-legged Knightmare that was colored gray with a number of areas on it being black and white, making it look like a metal version of the Grey Wolf.
"So, how is it based off the Lancelot?"
"I used the blueprints to incorporate its functions and capabilities into it, and according to my calculations it should be just as fast if not faster than your Lancelot," Alex said with great pride in his voice. "However, one of its drawbacks that I do have to admit is that I haven't been able to work on utilizing close combat maneuvers and it does have a lack of armor plating in order for me to increase its speed. That and I haven't been able to test its mounted gun turrets yet."
"Well, I have twelve minutes before my operation begins. You might as well use that time to make final adjustments to it before we move out."
"I might as well," Alex told him as he began making last minute adjustments.
Cornelia was against him testing his new 'toy' with an Eleven soldier that was going on a suicide mission, but he won her out by telling her that if Lancelot failed he would at least be able to rescue their sisters. So she gave him permission to go ahead and join with Suzaku, despite the fact that she was in a way probable sending her half-brother to his death as he had little experience using a Knightmare outside of a simulator. But Alex didn't seem to give a damn as he was focused on rescuing Kali. And this time, he wasn't going to fail in his duty as her older brother.
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"I brought the hostages that I radioed about earlier, for the Lieutenant Colonel to see. They claim to be princesses of Britannia!" The guard informed another at a door leading into one of the many rooms in the hotel.
Kali waited for the gauds to stop talking as she heard something on the other side of the door.
"Zero! There's no point talking anymore!!" a voice shouted from the other side. Kali recognized it as Kusakabe's voice.
'Zero? A terrorist is on the other side of this door?! The man who killed Clovis and may murder Euphie and I since we are part of the Britannian Imperial Family! . . . SWEET!!'
Gunshots were suddenly heard. Everyone looked to the room in shock. Kali sighed, 'Oh, you hear gunshots, but not some moron screaming his ass off? Go fig.'
"Colonel!" one of the guards shouted, but was then shot in the shoulder. Kali looked at the wound with morbid interest.
A voice drifted out of the room, "Calm yourselves."
"Zero," Euphie murmured in awe. Kali felt like releasing a fan girl squeal, but that would make her seem too feminine, so she decided against it.
"The Colonel and the others committed suicide when they realized how meaningless this operation was. Euphemia. Kali. You were willing to sacrifice yourselves for the commoners. Neither of you have changed. At least, you haven't Euphemia."
Kali eyed Zero suspiciously, 'How would he know if he doesn't know our pasts. The only one here that would have a motive is-.'
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"Lancelot now launching!" Cecile's voice announced over the radio.
It caught Alex a bit by surprise as he just finished his last adjustment right when she said those words, and now Suzaku got a giant lead on him.
"I'm not going to let you beat me to the target Suzaku," Alex said with a smirk as he got Lupus chasing after it nearly at the same speed that Suzaku left at.
"Reaction confirmed, two enemy Knightmares. They're moving twice as fast the others!"
"So what, they'll end up like the rest. Super electromagnetic shrapnel cannon, FIRE!" The cannon fired it ordnance right towards them.
Suzaku saw the attack and began dodging the attacks as if they were nothing. Alex on the other hand was trying his best just to keep up with the honorary Britannian while some of the attacks had hit the legs, but the damage was minimal.
Another shot was fired from the enemy that Alex decided to play it smart and match the Lancelot's speed and stay behind it as it used its Blaze Luminous shield to deflect the attack.
"My Lord, are you alright?" Suzaku asked after he filed in a report that the Blaze Luminous could handle the stress.
"How many times do I have to ask you not to call me by such titles? But I can still keep up; I'm only running 70% on its full power."
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"I hear that you are the Sub Viceroy now, Princess Euphemia le Britannia. Why you are here I still have yet to know, Princess Kali," Zero addressed them in private.
Euphie looked back at the terrorist with even eyes, yet still an uncertain disposition, "It's not an appointment I'm happy with."
"No, that's because Clovis was murdered," Zero guessed, "That was my handy work."
"No shit. I didn't think God would suddenly step in and kill the pompous son of a bitch. When your name comes up, rumor that you killed him always follows. It's the only explanation," Kali commented with a shrug. She didn't like the thought that Zero felt like he needed to spell everything out.
Zero seemed a little amused, "He begged pathetically for his life to the very end. He pleaded with the same tongue that ordered the deaths of Elevens."
"Those who kill with the sword die by the sword," Kali muttered.
"So is that the reason you killed my brother?" Euphie asked.
"No," Zero stated.
"Then why!?" Euphie demanded for his explanation.
"Because Clovis was an offspring of the Britannian Emperor. That reminds me," Zero pulled out a gun, "You're both his children too, aren't you?"
"No fudge Sherlock! You think we take up the name Britannia because we want to!? It's a cursed name as I can clearly see, but it's not as though we asked for it!" Kali shouted at him.
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"That thing broke through solid number 5! I can't believe it!"
"Just don't panic! Deploy the Quad-link Free Fire Arm Gun, batteries too! We'll seal this final defense with our lives!"
"Miss Cecile, it's time for me to use the VARIS."
"No! You could get killed!" she shouted into the radio.
'Oh boy, if he gets killed I probably won't be able to get through this alive! And my sister… No, I will not let that happen!'
"Suzaku let me get ahead of you!" Alex commanded toward the honorary Britannian. "Even if I fail, you will get the chance to save the hostages and my sisters. Even if it means my death."
"But… My Lord…"
"Stop calling me that! My sister is all that matters to me, and even if I die at least she'll be able to live on!"
Suzaku realized that Alex's feelings for Kali were similar to Lelouch's feelings to Nunnally. "No My Lord!" Suzaku said defiantly, "There is no room for either you or me to evade and I would rather risk getting blasted to take the first shot!"
Suzaku then pulled out the VARIS and prepared to fire at the enemy.
"Increase maximum output, I don't give a damn if it destroys the guns! Be prepared to die defending this spot! SMASH THEM!!"
The enemy fired its ordnance right towards them as the Lancelot fired VARIS. Alex was amazed to see that it blew up the enemy ordnance and was still going toward its target. It then was destroyed as well, causing a massive explosion that gave both Suzaku and Alex extra momentum that lifted them both into the air. Suzaku then began firing at his targets that would sink the Hotel into the lake and give the rescue team time to evacuate the hostages.
"No way!" Alex heard Suzaku say and was wondering what could get his attention when he spotted Zero in the Hotel as well.
"What the hell?!"
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"The White Knightmare from before," Lelouch said as he spotted it, and noticed a second Knightmare with it. "And it looks like he gained a pet," as Lelouch noticed that it was shaped more like an animal than a knight.
He activated the remote that exploded the bombs that were strategically placed throughout the hotel.
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Suzaku gasped as he saw the hotel explode right in front of him, and the explosion pushed both him and Alex away from the hotel.
"EUPHIE!" Cornelia screamed into the night.
"KALI!" Alex shouted out in pain.
"MY FRIENDS!" Suzaku yelled like a madman as he recklessly jumped into the smoke to try and save his friends.
"WARRANT OFFICER KURURUGI! DON'T!" Lloyd shouted into the radio.
Alex looked on as the hotel crumbled into the lake. The smoke was clearing to only show the Lancelot still in one piece.
"Kali," Alex said slightly as he hit his fist on the side of his cockpit in pain. "I'm sorry sis, I failed to protect you." Tears were streaming down his face and his glasses had fallen down to the floor of the cockpit.
Suddenly a giant boat appeared out of the smoke. Life boats that held the hostages were scattered about. Zero's voice blared over a speaker in the night.
"My dear Britannians, do not fear. All of the hostages from the hotel are safe and sound. I, Zero, return them to you unharmed."
"KALI! Oh my God, your alive!" Alex exclaimed once he caught sight of his sister in a life boat, despite not having his glasses on.
Lights on the large, white boat suddenly flicked on one at a time to reveal Zero and his followers dressed in black. All wore masks.
"People, fear us, or rally behind us as you see fit. We, are the Black Knights! We of the Black Knights stand with all those that have no weapons to wield, regardless of whether they be Elevens, or Britannians. The Japan Liberation Front cowardly took innocent Britannian civilians hostage, and then mercilessly executed them. It was a wanton and meaningless act. Therefore, they have been punished. Just as former Viceroy Clovis was punished for ordering the slaughter of countless, unarmed Elevens. We cannot stand by and allow such cruelty to be carried out. And so we made him pay for his actions. I will not repudiate battle on a fair and level field, but neither will I tolerate a one-sided massacre of the weak by the strong. The only ones who should kill, are those who are prepared to be killed! Where ever oppressors that abuse their power by attacking those who are powerless, we shall appear again, no matter how mighty, or how formidable our foe maybe. Those of you with power, fear us! Those of you without it, rally behind us! We, the Black Knights shall be the ones who stand in judgment of this world!" Zero announced dramatically to all of Area 11.
Alex listened to this speech that he knew full well where Zero stood, he stood for the common people. But did he really have to scare him to death by making him think that he killed his only sister.
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Kali stood on a boat different from Euphie, beside her was A.A. They looked up at Zero, but was it symbolic that they would look up to him one day? Kali couldn't tell, but she took the wager. Zero would be the light of the starving people. Zero: Murderer, Terrorist, Revolutionary, Hero. That was Zero's destiny. At least, that's what she guessed.
"You get a kick out of near death experiences, don't you?" A.A. sighed. He and Alex had shared the mutual freak out.
Kali smiled to him, "Oh, you just now realized that?"
He sighed, "I'm trying to keep you alive, can't you try to make my job easier?"
"But if it was easy, you wouldn't be employed," she teased casually.
"You were lucky Zero was here," A.A. growled.
Kali nodded suddenly thoughtful. It hadn't sounded like Kusakabe wasn't realizing what he did was utterly stupid and asinine. It sounded like he wanted to kill Zero."
"What are you talking about?"
"Zero told us that the Colonel and his personal guards killed themselves. That was obviously true. But the reason he gave us was so see-through it wasn't funny. I'm thinking that Geass is the answer."
A.A. thought for a minute, "You are most likely right. That'll explain all the strange happenings around him. People obeying him and such. You could've found the last missing piece to this Zero person. You know how Zero is making all this work out for him, now what are you going to do?"
Kali smirked challengingly, "Find him! DUH! And I've already got a preeeeeety good guess on who he is."