Code Geass: Other Side

Author's notes: Everything is going good so far, I am already a few chapters ahead of schedule. And let me tell you; wait for 5 chapters and by then the story should be boiling over. Just giving you a heads up.

Chap 4. When babies fly, part 1

Khris was up early in the morning reading more of the data he had collected, he hadn't found out much just the name of the girl which they referred to as Code R. They apparently were torturing and experimenting on this girl, the same way they would have done to Erika if she had been their any longer.

They had both read about 10 of the information but it was mostly focused on Code R and her background which was scarce. By then it was late and Erika packed it in, Khris the packed it in as well and slept for a good four hours and went back to work on the computer. He has now read 22 of the data and has found some of it to be interesting, maybe too interesting for Erika.

Khris's super honed in senses then heard Erika stirring and he quickly shut down the computer and pretended that he fell asleep on the computer.

Erika then got up wearing not much but her undergarments (that looks strangely like a smooth, black, one-piece swimsuit). She saw Khris asleep on the computer and gave a small faint smile, and put on one of Khris black big black shirts and tapped his shoulder. "Khris, you awake?" She asked in a quiet voice.

Khris just rose up and gave a fake, but convincing, yawn. "Well… now I am."

"I need to wash up; do you know where a bathroom is nearby?" Erika asked him.

"Sure do, open the left closet door. I have a bathroom in there, but DO NOT OPEN THE RIGHT DOOR!!" He said in a very threatening voice.

Erika was shocked in his sudden blood lusting at the end of the sentence. She was curious about why she couldn't enter but she respected his wishes and entered the left door which led to an indoor bathroom.

As Erika was washing her face she began to think, 'Why does Khris not trust me, I am willing to help him in anyway he wants but he still doesn't confess anything to me? How is this supposed to work out?!' Erika could have kept on thinking to herself while she was in their until she got up to washing her forehead.

"AH!" She gave a small and short scream but it was loud enough for Khris to hear it.

"What's wrong?" He said coming in the bathroom. He noticed right away that Erika was frantically tried to wipe away something that was on her forehead. "Here, let me help." Khris said tried to get one of Erika's hands out of the way.

He was in utter shock as the thing on her forehead was a symbol of Geass that is the same look in his eyes. However, the Code R girl has a "similar" mark but not the exact same. Code R's looks somewhat like the lining of a bird while Erika's looks different, in away Erika's looked "broken" or "incomplete" to Code R's.

"Khris, what is this it looks like-." Erika asked him but was quickly cut off.

"Like the sign of Geass, right. I think I have found out enough from the disk to see a pattern between you and Code R. You are obviously blood related to her, the numbers all add up and you two seem to be experiments of the military. Do you wish to save her?" Khris asked her.

Erika was put in an awkward position, she had no idea who this person, yet she definitely felt a connection with her. "Yes, I would do anything to help her. She is the only person I feel might know who I am."

"Is that your wish?" Khris asked raising an eyebrow.

Erika was quickly silenced to his question, she did want to help him, but did she want to use her wish for her? She put her fingers over her mouth and concentrated in thought.

"Relax, I'm kidding. I'm not some cheapskate who would do anything get out of debts without any effort. If we meet her, I will do anything I can to get her out. I would never leave a lady in the clutches of those with ill intent." Khris explained to her.

"Really…?" Erika asked thinking she is seeing a new side to Khris.

"Anyway, you should stay here for today; I will send you what was taught in class. Homework, class work, lessons the works. But anyway, while you are here I want you to keep an eye on the three idiots via the computer camera. If anything happens to them tell me, call me on my cell phone at anytime development happens at all." Khris told her and even showed her his cell phone and wrote down the number.

"Anyway, I'll see you later okay." Khris said with a smile and headed toward the door.

"W-wait Khris?" Erika asked for him trying to say something but it was too late and he left and shut the door behind him. "Oh well, I'll talk to him later." She said to herself picking up the DS and began playing again.

"Where's Erika?" Marcus asked Khris as they were on their way to fourth period.

"She called me this morning; she apparently hurt herself badly and is spending time at the hospital. She asked me to copy down all the lesson plans for today, she told me she will be here tomorrow, no matter what." Khris explained, he made the story sound like the exact truth.

"I see, did "she" ask you yet?" Marcus asked him nudging his shoulder.

"Huh? Ask me what?" Khris asked completely clueless.

Marcus just rolled his eyes, thinking Khris was just playing dumb. "Come on, I know you two are close, she hasn't asked you to the St.-,"

"Khris, Is that you Khris?" a light voice that was nearby.

Khris turned around to see who it was, but already knew who it was inside. "Oh, hello Hannah." Khris said with a smile.

"Hello! Um, are you in this class also?" Hannah asked, seeming shy talking to him.

"Yes, but you should have found that out yesterday. I saw you in class, but I was busy with the class work to say hi, sorry." Khris said rubbing his head.

"It's okay, I was busy also." Hannah admitted.

RING RING

"Well that's the bell, come on you two." Marcus said as he walked into the classroom.

Khris and Hannah just smiled at each other and walked in as well.

"sigh Why the hell did Khris send me out here?" Erika pondered to herself. She was wearing her school uniform, obviously she blended in better with it. She was playing a game of solitaire when Khris sent her a text message on the computer saying "Go get some snacks from vending machines at school; the mini fridge is low on food, thanks."

Erika kept on thinking about this as she put in a Britanian dollar, but it wouldn't accept the money. "Oh come on, come on!" She said getting more and more frustrated as it kept on popping out.

Finally, the dollar went in the machine and a pack of snacks was rolling down the roll but was caught on the end of it. With this Erika was in a state of wild rage as he banged her fists against the machine, "DAMIT, DAMN YOU SNACK!! DAMN YOU KHRIS!!" Erika yelled.

"Oh, what did he do now?" Joanna asked as her as she appeared from behind a wall.

"What?! Oh, nothing. Um, just having trouble getting out this snack." Erika said, trying to cover up what she was saying before.

"Really?" She asked as she banged on the machine with one hand and it fell with ease.

"Oh, thank you." Erika said picking up the snacks and putting them in a bag.

"So, what's up with you and Khris?" She asked.

"Nothing, nothing at all." Erika said trying to stop Joanna from investigating.

"Very well, see you latter." Joanna said as she was walking away from her.

"Wait Joan, actually I do have something I need to talk about." Erika admits.

Joan just smiles to herself and looks over to her and asks, "Well?"

Erika then took a moment to concentrate her thoughts and then finally spoke, "Well, I have only been here a few days and met a few people here but, with Khris he is always keeping things to himself, I know it. So is it just me, does he not trust me? He seems to put a lot of faith in you and Marcus, so tell me what I am doing wrong?"

Joanna listened to what she was saying and just smiled widely and shook her head from side to side. "Erika… Khris doesn't tell us everything either, that's just how he has always been. And it's not that he doesn't trust us it's either he doesn't want us involved or it's too personal for him. From what I know, there are only two people alive today who he really opens up to."

Erika was slightly surprised by this and just had to ask, "Who are they?"

Joanna just kept on smiling and shrugged her shoulders, "For starters his brother, however he never sees much of him anymore, only enough time for Christmas and the occasional video message and video conference."

"And the other!?" Erika impatiently asked, she really wanted to know at this point.

Joanna's smile quickly faded and became a face of worry. "You mean him? Yeah, he and Khris really connected; if it wasn't for him Khris would be a very different guy. That boy had such a golden smile; he would make Khris laugh all the time. When he was around, Khris would act like a little boy at the park. I worry for that boy every day, he graduated last year and sent over to Area 11 like most of the other graduates. I personally don't think he should have joined the army, he just didn't seem suited for it, his heart was way too pure for it."

Joanna then gritted her teeth and cried a single tear, but that was all. "Poor Suzu…"

Erika was astounded by what Joan had just told her. 'Khris completely different... Khris acting like a child... Who exactly is this Suzu??' She thought to herself but then came back to reality and saw Joan tearing up. "Oh, I am so sorry. I shouldn't have brought that up if it was such a sensitive subject for you."

Joanna just smiled again and wiped the tear from her cheek and shook her head, "No no you deserved the right to know, and now you do. Come on, I have 10 more minutes left of my free period, we can walk around and talk some more. " Joanna said

Erika smiled and nodded, she liked that idea a lot. Erika began to walk forward but all Joanna was doing was staring up at the sky.

"Talking about all that, made me wonder… I hope he is still alive." Joanna said. She then looked at Erika and grabbed her by the hand and began to walk in front of her. "Come on Erika, I know a great place to get some great food." She exclaimed.

"Is it Italian?" Erika asked.

"Yes." Joan answered.

"Then it's okay with me." Erika responded.

Later…

Erika was right in the middle of playing on the DS, but this time things seemed tense. 'Almost there, let's see if you like this black hole army!' She thought to herself as she began her turn she sent her tanks through the enemy lines and set up a passageway to the enemy HQ and she sent an infantry unit to capture it. 'Take that!' Erika thought as she ended her turn and would beat them in the next turn by having the infantry capture the HQ completely.

Suddenly the enemy tanks came out of nowhere and destroyed her's and easily killed the infantry trying to capture the HQ; her entire effort was blown away. "WHAAT?! HOW DID THEY DO THAT!!" Erika exclaimed in frustration and closed the game and set is aside.

She folded her arms; she was tired of playing that game, for now. She looked at the window and briefly took a look at the clouds outside, to calm herself down. They seemed so peaceful and gentle but then the clouds were all blown away by a fowl wind and this made Erika slightly sad.

She then looked down on the ground and saw a familiar figure, Khris. He was walking with some girl, whom she had never seen before until now. She was shorter and seemingly younger than Khris, they were most likely a junior or freshman. The girl and Khris seemed to be talking about something.

"Hee hee hee, your so funny Khris." Hannah said trying to hold back her giggling. Khris just smiled.

"And it's true; I have a million of those kinds of stories." Khris told her.

"Yeah, you always do seem to have the thing to cheer up anyone." Hannah told him, with her face blushing up a bit.

"Oh please, you're too much." Khris answered acting politely humble. He was about to continue walking, but he saw that Hannah had stopped and so did he. "Is everything alright Hannah?" He asked.

Hannah just gave a quick nod and looked up at the sky for only a moment and then looked at Khris. "Khris, I want to ask you something." Hannah said trying her best to hide her blushing cheeks.

"Sure, go ahead." Khris told her with a smile.

"Well, I was just wondering… would you go to the St. Valentines dance with me?" She quickly spat out and her face was completely red.

Khris just stood their, not shocked or surprised just standing there and took a deep sigh. "Well, I can't say no too you, now can I? Of course I will go to the dance with you." Khris told her.

Hannah then lit up in happiness and emotionally hugged Khris. "Thank you Khris, thank you." Hannah said overwhelmed with emotions. This was obviously her first time in love and very precious feelings for Khris.

Erika just stood in the room looking out in the window feeling helpless to how the situation will end; she only looked away and walked out of sight from anyone.

Khris seemed not to be in as much emotional craze as Hannah was; he was just standing their letting Hannah hug him as if nothing was wrong.

Hannah was a bit in disbelief, she still couldn't believe the guy she has had such a huge crush for so long is going with her to the dance. She was so excited and yet she didn't know how to exactly show it. She was then getting close to Khris's face, without him really noticing, about to go into a kiss.

Ring Ring Ring

Khris then quickly pulled away from Hannah and held up a finger to Hannah. "Hang on just a minute; I really need to take this." Khris said as he pulled out his phone and took the call.

"It's me, get back over here quick. I think the boys are snapping out of the trance." The voice said and then hung up.

Khris already knew who it was in the first few words the caller spoke, it was Erika and apparently the subjects are out of the Geass trance. "Sorry Hannah, I really need to get going. I'll see you tomorrow at the dance." Khris said running towards his room.

Khris came rushing into the door to find Erika at the computer looking at the screen like something is wrong with it. "So, how are they?" Khris impatiently asked her.

"They're still." Erika answered.

"Then why did you call me, I told you to call me only if they were moving? If anyone knows that someone is calling me from my room, it would be bad for the both of us!" Khris lectured her.

Erika just sat their and held her tongue, he couldn't piece together the obvious answer of why she called him, even he would know that they were only a few meters from his room. He couldn't come to a conclusion that maybe she was a bit jealous of that girl and wanted to stop her from kissing him?! But she kept quiet and waited for him to stop talking, for that was not the reason she called him.

"If you let me finish Khris, I would have said they were moving before but a little before you got here they stopped moving again." Erika explained.

"I see… rewind the feed to when they were moving." Khris ordered and Erika easily complied.

Khris looked at the footage carefully and then noticed from one of the thugs a slight shiver and two blinks. "He is defiantly awake." Khris said as he then fast forwarded to the present feed. "They are all awake now; their muscles are all still asleep however so it will take them a few minutes to wake their muscles back up so they still look like they are frozen."

Erika then looked at the live footage again and said, "How are you sure?" She asked.

Khris just simply pointed at the screen and Erika did. The three of them were both shaking and then they started to fall down and they all started to curse in wonder of how they got up there. "We need to get up their now." He said reaching for the door handle as he was about to just walk out.

"Are you going to see them like that? They are going to the school when they find out who you are." She told him.

Khris thought about this and she was absolutely correct. He took his hand away from the door handle and looked around his room, he had an idea. "Go to the roof and make sure they don't leave yet. I will be up their as quick as possible."

"Why the f are we up here, boss?" One of the thugs said to the leader of their pack as he rose up and tried to regain balance.

"I have no idea, my memory is a blur all I remember is screwing around with that b." The man said rubbing his head; he was getting a really bad headache.

"Ahh, you are all still here? That's good." Erika said as she climbed the ladder up to them. "Anyway, if you will all stay up here for a second everything will be ex-,"

BANG

A bullet flew right into Erika's shoulder and she moaned in pain. "All right b, your going to tell us what the hell you did to us or a bullet is going into your head!" The man exclaimed as he pointed his pistol right at Erika's left eye.

"I don't believe you will be doing that." The ominous voice said from out of nowhere.

The two thugs were absolutely frightened of the voice they just sat down and kept quiet, the leader however was also frightened but held onto Erika and stuck the gun to her head like she was a hostage. "Where are you?! Show yourself, or the girl dies!" He demanded.

"Very well, I shall." The voice spoke.

The leader was shaky and impatient, and looked from left to right to see where this person would reveal himself. Then suddenly the two goons were whimpering behind him and he turned to see what it was.

A somewhat tall figure in a crimson blood red cloak with a bandana covering his hair and a strange looking mask covering his face was standing behind him. Then he began to rapidly shiver with fear looking at this figure and didn't make a sound. "Who… are… you…?" were the last words to leave his mouth before completely succumbing to the fear.

"I am the lost relic from the creation of Britannia, a forgotten hope that was thought to be destroyed long ago. I am Red Fox." The figure answered. He then looked at Erika who was bleeding pretty badly. "Did you do that to her." He asked.

The boy just stood there trying to figure out the right answer to tell the man, "Umm… no." He said trying to sound like he was telling the truth.

Red Fox just stared him down for a long moment, "Get away from her." He told him and he quickly backed away from both of them and back to his friends. "You really don't get it, a girl is bleeding in your arms and you're holding a pistol to her head. Just how stupid are you?" He asked mocking him.

"You were the one who asked me!" He exclaimed pointing the gun at him, he was tired of reasoning and wanted answers.

Red Fox then started a quiet short chuckle and then looked at the three one last time. "I was asking to see if you had any honesty whatsoever, guess what the answer is. Anyway, it is time to bid you all ado." He said pickingup to see her current condition.

"Wait! Just what are you!!" One of the thugs just shouted.

Red Fox seemed silent for a moment and then put his hand on his mask and gave a sinister laugh. "You finally asked the right question. What I am… is your destruction." He said as he lifted his mask 1/3 of the way to reveal his left eye with the Geass active.

The three of them stared into it and the iris in their eyes like last time. However, this time it looks like the three of them were seeing something, they were looking right at Red Fox. They were shaking some even crying and then quickly fainted.

"Well, that was eventful." Red Fox said as he pulled off his mask and set it down. "For a moment there, it seemed as they were seeing something in me. Maybe my Geass as some kind of extra ability to it, I'll have to test it out later, huh Erika." Khris said as he looked over at Erika, who seemed to be asleep.

He checked her pulse and it was a surprise, it was faint she was about to die. 'No…' He thought shocked at this. He thought quick and started pushing down her chest with one hand and covering the wound with the other. "Damn it, not now!" He muttered to himself trying his best to revive her.

He then held her close trying to listen to her heart to see if it is still beating. At first nothing but then he felt a warm tingling feeling on his hand covering the wound. He then looked at it, the wound was healing and closing at a very fast pace. Khris was astounded by this and listened as her heart was beating at a normal pace again.

Erika then opened her eyes and immediately said, "I heard everything you said."

Khris was a little embarrassed from what she just said and gently pushed away from her.

"Well it was nice to know you don't want me dead, thank you." Erika said with the slightest hint of sarcasm

Khris looked at Erika and she looked back at him and they both smiled at each other. "Come on, I need your help moving these guys."

"So are you completely all right?" Khris said typing away on the computer.

"Yes, I feel completely the same. I felt the bullet go right through me, I then slipped into a somewhat unconscious state but I heard everything that was going on around me. I heard everything from you appearing and you trying to wake me up. Which, by the way, was very sweet of you." Erika told him and then smiled.

Khris just shifted in his chair and grumbled, "Yeah yeah, it was no problem."

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Khris showed a look of surprise and quickly turned his chair to his laptop and clicked on the blinking icon.

"Incoming video message!" The computer spoke. A screen popped open with a boy with dark brown hair, wearing a blindfold over his eyes.

"Hey little brother, it's me again. I just want to thank you for the present you sent me for my birthday. It's just what I wanted, so thank you. School has started up again, boring as usual but it can't be as worse what they are teaching you at boarding school. Anyway just checking in, have you found a girlfriend yet? If not, I am going to win my bet of your sexuality. So for now, ta-ta." The boy said and the screen then vanished.

"End of Video." The computer said.

Khris just stared blankly at the screen, not a single facial expression from his face.

Erika, who saw the whole thing, went over to Khris and put her hand on his shoulder. "Who is-?"

"His name is Edd, 1 year my senior. He lives on the East coast of the Homeland, so we don't see each other much often. He lives an ordinary life with his foster parents, ordinary life at school, ordinary everything." Khris explained in a few sentences.

This answered a few of Erika's questions, but also left many of them still open and she was determined to have them answered soon. "Wait, but why was he wearing a blindfold, why does he think your at a boarding school and why the hell is he living with foster parents and not his real parents?!" Erika exclaimed.

Khris was silent and then got up from his seat. "I need to go." He said.

"Answer me, damit!" Erika exclaimed as she blocked his path with her arm.

Khris just looked at her with the same blank, unemotional look on his face and simply pushed the arm out of his way. "I don't feel like telling anybody, right now." He said as he opened the door and then slammed it shut.

Erika was extremely frustrated with him and she just jumped on her bunk and pulled out the DS and restarted the final mission over and began mercilessly destroying all the enemy troops she could find. "Stupid Black Hole Army… Stupid Khris!!" She loudly muttered and zoned out into the game.

"Ohh, owwww…" One of the thugs said, getting up from the ground. He looks up around and sees his friends beside him.

"Damn, where are we?" The leader said rubbing his head and looked around his surroundings. They quickly realized that they were at the exact same place they were when the boss was hitting on Erika.

"How the hell did we get here?" One of the thugs asked. He then felt a sharp pain on his cheek and noticed there was a fat red slap mark on his face. It must have hit pretty hard to stay on for so long.

"So, that girl beat us up and we have been knocked out since? I guess that makes sense, come on lets go to the arcade." The leaders said and the thugs followed.

To Be Continued…

Then Erika suddenly stopped playing and sat up and stared out into space. She seemed scared but also interested. "Who are you? And why are you in my head?!" Erika asked. Erika was talking aloud but there was no other life in the room.

"Like you. What is that supposed to mean?" She asked.

"You know who I am… that's a load of bull-," Erika then stopped talking.

"How do you know about that!? Are you reading my mind?!" Erika exclaimed.

"Fine, if you know me so well then what's my real name?" Erika asked.

"Real and true… what does that mean?!" Erika said getting frustrated.

"Then which one do you know." Erika asked.

"That's my true name… then what is the difference from my real name?" She asked.

"Stop calling me E.E! If you want to call me something, call me Erika!" She shouted.

"Yes, and I like the name he gave me! It makes me sound more human." She admitted.

"Then what am I, first I find out I am invincible then next some strange girl's voice starts popping into my head. I honestly don't know what I am!" Erika exclaimed.

"Is that what I am, then fine, I don't need you. Heck, I don't need anyone!" She yelled.

"What him? I don't need him, I can fend for my-," Erika was then cut off once again and listened.

"What?! I don't… It's none of your business anyway!" Erika said with a sign of blush on her cheek.

"Really, and just tell me what happened to you?" Erika asked.