Welcome to chapter 4 of The Black Knight :) I am really happy I squeezed this chapter out before I go on hiatus until August :)
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'xxx' thinking
Xxx Report/Computer chat
‚Ohw, where am I?' Lelouch thought while his consciousness slowly returned. Looking around he noticed that he was inside a warehouse and going by the damage on the roof and walls it was probably abandoned since the invasion and was the hideout from the terrorists that captured him.
'Well, that was a colossal fuck-up from me. I have to get out of here somehow, Nunnaly and the rest of the student council are probably really worried about where I am. Now that I think about it, why hasn't anyone from them tried to contact me?' That fact confused him until he noticed that the familiar feeling of his phone in his pocket was gone. Sighing he accepted the fact that the terrorist wouldn't make it that easy for him. Well maybe that Tamaki guy, you had to be pretty incompetent to be able to let real names slip in the presence of an enemy, even if it was just a student.
It was interesting that one of them is a Britannian girl and that she even goes into the same class as him, he needed some time to remember her, but again thanks to Tamaki, the loudmouth, it clicked and he successfully identified her. And that was pretty much all that happened in the truck, they knocked him out after Tamaki revealed their identities.
Looking through the hall again he noticed a few things that he ignored when he first glanced over it. It was almost empty, besides what seemed to be tools for Knightmare repairs, some weapons, but by the looks of them he would be amazed if they still worked. If he didn't know better he would have thought they stole them from a museum. Beside the weapons was a table, five chairs and on the table were some cards and chips. Beside that the hall was empty.
Leaning back and wondering if that hall was just a safe house or if that really was their base and they were just that pitiful he noticed that he leaned not onto a wall but on the container from the truck?!
Scrambling away he noticed a blinking light on the container. Looking over the container he had a few thoughts about what could be inside the container, but not one of his ideas prepared him for what would happen next.
ZZZZsssscccchhhhh
With that sound the container sprang open and Lelouch was momentarily blinded by the smoke/gas coming from the now open container. After confirming that he was still breathing, his skin was not rotting and his eyes still functioned he concluded that the container at least didn't house poison gas.
The relief soon vanished as two people stumbled out of the two separate chambers of the container. The first one was a beautiful green haired girl. She was in a prisoner suit and looked at him with her yellow eyes that seemed so much older than she looked like. After the first step out of the container the girl stumbled and it looked like she would fall onto the ground. Lelouch wanted to help her, but bound as he was, that not only seemed to be impossible for him. But just before she cashed a hand shot out and caught her mid-fall. The boy was around his age and was clearly Japanese. He had black hair, onyx eyes and wore the same prisoner suit as her with the difference that he somehow got his hands free.
After making sure the girl was ok he looked at Lelouch and asked him where he was.
"Where am I and what happened and why are you bound?"
"For the first question, you are in a warehouse as you can see, probably in Shinjuku Ghetto, but it could be somewhere else. For the second question, well I would also like to know how all this happened. And about my unfortunate position, that's because I got mixed up with some terrorists and they were not too happy that I now know their identities." Lelouch stated with a rather calm tone, concluding that this boy and girl were his best bet to get out of here and get back to his sister and friends.
"You sound pretty calm for a simple student that just got kidnapped." The boy raised an eyebrow at him while Lelouch could practically see the suspicion in his eyes.
"Would it help me if I panicked and cried or raged around?"
"Well guess not. Just asking but if I got you free would you help me?"
"And how would I be able to help you? I mean I would certainly be grateful and all, but my options are a little limited as student."
"You know at least your way around and what is happening, I los-" just as he was about to explain what happened to Lelouch a ringing interrupted him.
'What was that?' the boy looked around the room and noticed a phone that was on the table, hidden under some cards. He went over to it and while picking it up he noticed the look of recognition on the bound boys face.
"Is this your phone?"
"Yeah, could you give it to me please?" Lelouch asked, hoping it wasn't his sister, he would have to lie to her about where he was and he really didn't want to lie to her and if he told her the truth she would worry about him and that was something even less desirable.
"Just wait a second, bound as you are you wouldn't be able to do a lot with the phone." After saying that he started freeing Lelouch and as the last rope fell to the ground Lelouch took the phone and noticed it had one new message.
He looked confused when he looked at the sender and all that greeted him was a Y. The message itself managed to confuse him even more as it stated: Give the phone to the black haired boy in the capsule. It should have opened by now.
Before Lelouch could come up how this Y got his number or how he knew about the boy in the capsule, the Black haired boy took the phone from him and Lelouch noticed that he had a look of joy, desperation and hope on.
"Oh yeah, we haven't introduced ourselves yet. My names Kazuto, but most just call me Kirito, use whatever you think is right." He told Lelouch while typing a message on the phone.
"Thanks for your help Kirito, I'm Lelouch." While saying that he moved next to him and watched him typing.
K: Y are you Yui?
Y: Yes daddy, thank god you are ok, when the truck crashed and drove into the tunnels I couldn't watch you through the cameras anymore.
K: Which means you got me out of that torture, right?
Y: Yes, it was pretty easy to hack into the facility after tracking you down, but as soon as I saw what they did to you and the girl, I organized a transfer and got the resistance to abduct you. Tell Lelouch that I am sorry that he got involved :-(.
K: How do you know his name? And have you any idea where Asuna is and where I should go now?
Y: Asuna got transferred before you and I wasn't able to hack into the facility she is held at, it seems they have their own intern network and since it isn't connected to the internet there was no way to hack into it and it would be too suspicious to transfer her so soon again.
K: But we have to get her out of there!
Y: Don't worry, she is as ok as she can be, because or rather thanks to the fact that she is still in coma they haven't done anything to her. About your further steps, please give the phone back to Lelouch.
Since Lelouch was reading with him he simply took the phone from him and started writing.
L: How do you know my name?
Y: Once you hack into the settlement servers it isn't all that complicated to identify someone your highness ;-)
At that Lelouch froze. He was discovered, which meant Nunnaly also wasn't safe anymore and all the work he did to conceal them for the last years and to give Nunnaly a normal life were destroyed.
Before he could go further down into panic mode he got another text.
Y: Don't worry, I won't tell anybody about this and just too easy your mind, you did a really good job hiding, nobody even suspects you to be still alive, even if I have to say, not even changing your name was pretty daring.
L: Well thanks for that, but I am pretty sure that you want something for not telling the world who I am.
Y: Yes I have a request for you, but I wouldn't put your life into jeopardy just because you refused.
L: Well we will see, what is that request of yours?
Y: Please help my daddy hide and rescue mummy. I know from what little I was able to gather about you that you have no racist views about the "numbers" and you are our best chance, our only other two options would be other terrorists, which I know wouldn't work or going alone, which also doesn't have a too high chance of working.
L: Hiding him would be possible for me but how do you think that we can rescue her?
Y: I am still working on that, hopefully something similar to how I got daddy out will work.
"Kirito what does she mean by daddy?" Lelouch asked, after finally noticing how Yui referred to him.
"It's a pretty long story, but you can say she is my adopted daughter. She almost died and later helped me safe my girlfriend Asuna." He stated with a sad look in his eyes, knowing that saving her would be very difficult.
"Ah ok, you can tell me later when I figured out how to handle this mess." Lelouch wasn't going to let Kirito hanging, he seemed nice and he did help him out of the ropes, even though it looked like he was tortured by other Britannians, he couldn't see any damage on his body, but it was mostly covered by the prisoner suit and since the container was from a britannian facility and Yui stated that he was tortured, he would believe it for now. He could make sure later.
L: We can discuss the rescue later, first we need to get out of here.
Y: That shouldn't be too hard, I located you thanks to your phone and the warehouse you are isn't too far away from the settlement and not in a heavily populated area.
Just before Lelouch could send his answer, he got a second text from Yui.
Y: It seems Clovis noticed that his experiments got away. He doesn't know where you are, but a Villeta Nu reduced the possible locations to three different Ghettos and one of them is Shinjuku! You won't be able to get out of there by normal means, they blocked down every street. And Clovis just publicly announced that a renovation project is to be started in those three ghettos, which means he wants to burn them down to the ground.
As Lelouch read the last message he already heard that shots were fired in the ghetto and judging by the increasing amount of it, he could only come to the same conclusion as Yui: They want to burn the Ghetto to the ground.
L: Do you know if the terrorists are still fighting?
Y: Yeah they do, but it doesn't look too good, they only got one Glasgow and their cell just has a little over a dozen members.
L: If we had more Knightmares I could do something, but with just a Glasgow we can just forget it.
Y: I can redirect a train full of Sutherlands into the Ghetto and send an enemy KMF to you, so that you can kidnap it, Kirito should be able to defeat the pilot, if you can get him out of the KMF.
L: I should be able to do that, please arrange that.
Y: It's done, the Knightmare will arrive in 5 minutes and the train in around ten.
L: Thanks.
"Well, looks like I have some work to do."
-_-_-_-_-(8 hours before; Viceroy Palace)-_-_-_-_-
"Clovis, how goes your little Project?"
"According to my researchers we are standing before a breakthrough, the other specimen we found in the Purist building is also very interesting, after a very detailed research we found nothing about him, which wouldn't be particularly alarming, but we noticed slight changes in his DNA, we are still trying to find out what caused it, but thanks to those anomaly's we were able to safely inject him with the Implants." Clovis replied to the audio only screen which was located in a secret communication room inside the palace.
"Very good. Looks like you aren't as big of a failure as a thought, after years of research about CC with nothing to show for." The last bit was said in a tone that made him shiver.
'How dare he talk to me A ROYAL like that! Calm down Clovis, calm down. Getting angry will solve nothing, he has enough resources and probably a link to the emperor, at the moment I can't harm him. Hell I don't even know his name, gender or age. But once my research is completed I will make him pay.' Smirking evilly he said with a tone, that was barely free from his anger: "We will soon have the information about Code-R that we need."
"Good, I will contact you later."
"Asshole!" Clovis said after the call ended. After this unpleasant conversation Clovis typed the number of his research facility in the dial and called them to give him the latest news.
AN:
Hope you all like the chapter, I wanted to write something longer and I still didn't get to the fighting part, but I don't have the time at the moment and until August there won't be any new chapters. :( Because of this time problem I also didn't proofread the chapter, I hope the quality didn't suffer too much, if there are a lot mistakes I will later edit the chapter to improve it :)
But when August comes I will have a completed storyboard with a hopefully good plot and also some twists
I am looking forward to your reviews :)
Disclaimer: I neither own Sword Art Online nor Code Geass