Independence

By: C.C. and Raxius

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Trek. All rights are owned by Paramount. And I also don't own Code Geass.

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On with the show.

Euphemia, Darlton, and Lelouch, otherwise known as Zero, made their way to where Darlton's boarding team was going to get inside the Enterprise. They used their Knightmares frames to land in the Enterprise's shuttle bay. Using an electric drill they forced the shuttle bay doors to open up.

The Trio arrived in the damaged shuttle bay with Darlton in his fifth generation Knightmare Frame, Zero in the fourth generation Burai, and finally, Euphemia in her siegfried. The other members of the team had already landed their Knightmares frames and had begun to search the Enterprise.

Zero took a look around the damaged hanger bay. Most of the shuttles already their were destroyed or permantley damaged, and there were wires and debris all over the place. It looked like the power had been cut off, at least, that's how it appeared to be.

Darlton looked around at the scene, then remarked, "Looks like they had one hell of a ride."

Zero remained silent at the comment, though he silently agreed. He could see that something had happened. It's just a mystery of what.

Then, they heard something coming.

Euphie turned to see what was coming. As soon as she saw it, her eyes got wider, and she was happy to see it. She pointed at the right.

"Look," she said, pointing at the Lancelot coming over to land in the shuttle bay. What had made her so excited about seeing the Lancelot, though, was the known information of its pilot, Suzaku Kururugi.

As soon as it landed, Suzaku quickly got out and looked over at Euphie with a concerned look. "Euphie, are you alright? What happened?"

As he walked in, he saw Zero, which stopped him right in his tracks. He knew something was wrong just by his presence.

"Zero, what the hell did you do? Tell me what you did!" said Suzaku, coming up towards him with his hand in a fist, but Euphie had stopped him before he could go any further.

"Zero did nothing, Suzaku," she said, trying to make him come to reason. "We were about to talk until this ship came in. As a personal friend of the Special Administrative Zone for the Japanese and myself, he will help me check out this vessel."

Both Lelouch's and Suzaku's eyes widen at that remark. For Lelouch, this goes way beyond what he was planning. He knew that he couldn't stop her, though, from the determination he saw in her eyes.

'I won't lose you again, Lelouch,' she thought to herself as she looked at the two of them.

After a moment of hesitation, Suzaku simply bowed and said "As you wish, my princess. May I request permission to join you?"

She giggled and replied, "Of course, my knight." She smiled at just the idea of Zero and Suzaku working together.

Meanwhile, on the Bridge an injured James T. Kirk was regaining consciousness. He had a broken arm, and still had a large gash on his forehead. He began moaning in pain from his injuries, but he could see well enough to know that most of his Bridge crew was either dead or unconscious.

'I Need to see if Bones is still alive,' thought Kirk as he tried to move his body, but as he tried, he noticed something that shocked him.

The right side of Spok's face was all green with blood from his injury. Kirk desperatley wanted to get him to sickbay, but what about the rest of the crew? Sulu and Chekov look worse than Spock, and Uhura isn't looking much better either.

Kirk decided to get McCoy over to the Bridge and help out the injuried crewman …..if he's still alive, that is.

Meanwhile, the group walked through the corridors of the ship. Lelouch and Suzaku were both keeping their eyes on Euphie, who looked fascinated and in awe at what each door led to.

Their first stop was main engineering. They soon started to look around the room, which was a two deck tall room that housed the main reactor and the engineering core as well as a large, transparent grill that overlooked power conduits. The room had taken some pretty bad damage as a result of the energy wave attack on the Enterprise.

Suzaku was impressed by the sight of the ship and the advanced technology it contained.

"Wow. Lloyd would have loved this!" he said somewhat excited.

All of a sudden, they saw someone stirring. They all turned to look and saw that it was Montgomery Scott, who was still in shock from that circuit being blown in his face.

"Oi, what the devil happened?" asked Scotty in his Scottish Accent.

It was then that he noticed the group of people staring at him. "Who the bloody hell are you?" Scotty asked bluntly, though demanding.

Euphemia, most curious in this man, replied kindly, "My name is Euphemia Li Britannia, third Princess of the Britannian Imperial Family," she said, then pointed to Suzaku as she introduced him, "my personal knight, Suzaku," then to Zero and Darlton as she had done Suzaku, "and this is Zero and General Darlton." Both of them nodded to Scotty.

Lelouch looked over at Scotty, determination and eagerness in his expression behind his mask.

"Tell us the powers of this ship and the things that it can do," said Lelouch as he opened up an eyelid and the compartment opening in his mask to reveal his Geass, taking over his mind completely to get the information he wanted.

"The main reactor is powered by Dillithium crystals," he said, shocking the group with the comment.

Darlton looked over at him with the curiosity on his expression as he dared to ask, "What exactly are Dillithium crystals?"

Scotty looked over at him with the tranced look from the Geass power that overtook him, the command still seen in his eyes, and replied, "Dillithium mostly occurs as crystalline mineral Housed in a Dilithium crystal converter assembly. The crystals were used as a power source as well as a regulator. Dependency on that power meant the ship risked losing the ability to maintain an orbit, let alone use of their warp drive, when a number of dilithium crystals were drained of their power or became fused in their assembly. In other words, it's used to power the warp drive of this ship."

Euphemia, confused by what he said. looked over at him, growing more and more curious as everything happened. In her eyes, it was all an exciting adventure. "Um, I hope you don't mind me asking, but what's a Warp drive?"

Scotty continued as before. "Warp drive is a is a technology that allows space travel at faster-than-light speeds. This is accomplished by generating warp fields to form a subspace bubble that envelops the Enterprise, distorting the local spacetime continuum and moving the ship at velocities that exceed the speed of light."

They were all shocked and amazed by what he was saying. They never imagined that kind of technology existed.

Lelouch had heard enough, so he deactivated the Geass on Scotty. When he snapped out of it, he suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't remember any of what had just happened.

"Whoa, what happened?" asked Scotty, not remembering anything he just said.

"Nothing," Zero lied. "Nothing at all."

Euphemia looked concered at Scotty, then supicously at Lelouch, still at the moment unaware of his Geass powers.

Darlton and Suzaku both looked over at Scotty, trying to process everything about the Warp Drive, while Zero looked over at the two of them.

"What do you propose we do with him, General Darlton?" he asked, trying to form his plan from here, though he knew that he didn't have all of the information needed to complete it.

Darlton sighed as he stepped towards the injured Scotty, looking down at him with determined eyes. "He's injured, and there are probably more around here. I suggest he get some medical help while we search for other survivors."

Lelouch nodded, and then looked around, trying to sort out his thoughts.

Suzaku looked over at him with a curious look, trying to figure out what was going on in his head. "What do you believe happened, Zero?" he asked.

Lelouch looked over at him, a sly look on his face under the mask. "I believe that he said it, did he not?"

"Well, he said a bunch of stuff about some crystals and a Warp Drive, but I didn't really catch it all," he replied, unsure about everything that had to do with the Enterprise Ship.

Lelouch sighed, then looked up at the ceiling with his arms crossed. "He said that the ship was powered by Crystals known to them as dilithium cryatals, which mainly supplies the Warp drive. Do you remember what the Warp drive is?"

"Yeah, I caught that," replied Suzaku, giving him a look that said 'I'm not a scholar, but I'm not stupid, either.'

Lelouch continued on. "He said that using the crystals gave a risk of being able to maintain orbit because they depended on the crystals to power the ship, so it's simple. They were unable to keep control of the ship, and they ended up here."

"But, how did they end up here? How did them not being able to control put them here?" he asked, still not getting his whole answer.

"I'm still not fully informed about all of their advanced technology, but it could have been that when the subspace bubble enveloped the ship, instead of just going light speed, it zoomed them through the wormhole, but the problem with that theory is that they didn't come through at light speed," he said, attempting to figure it all out. "Though, like I said, I don't know everything about their advanced technology."

Suzkau wasn't really buying Zero's 'friendship' with the government at the moment. He figured that he had something going on up his sleeve. He thought it was weird, though, that he recognized his thought process, though he couldn't really place where he'd seen it before and why it seemed so familiar. He decided to dismiss it for the time being and just keep an eye on him, make sure that he's not alone with Euphemia.

In the meantime, Darlton was walking around the ship, trying to find other survivors for whatever happened. Euphemia was gazing around the ship in every room, just in complete awe of the place. She wouldn't know if the Earth became dust while she was in there.

Darlton just let her have her fun, and from time to time look over at her to make sure that she wasn't getting into any trouble.

It was then that in the corner of a room, he heard coughing, hard coughing, like someone with bronchitis.

"Darlton, did you hear that?" asked Euphemia, looking over at him.

Then, they heard it again, and both went running over towards the coughing to find a black man with silver hair pulled back in a braid. He wore the same kind of clothes as the other aliens, and for the split moment that they saw his eyes, they were yellow. There was a pool of blood sitting next to him, and he had some wounds, but they didn't seem as bad as they could have been. In Darlton's eyes, he was a lucky man.

"Princess Euphemia, stay here and care for him until I get back," he said, getting up and running back the other way to get some help.

Euphie looked over at him as he ran off, then with confidence, looked over at the injured man, who seemed fairly large, but not from fat. He was just tall and full of muscle.

He coughed again, then stroked his face to try and comfort him.

"It's alright. You're safe now. We're going to get you some medical help," she said, looking over at his wound, which already looked better than it did. Not a whole lot better, but just enough for her to notice.

"That (cough) isn't nec(cough) necessary," he said, holding his hand up to cough into. His cough even seemed better. Again, not drastically, but noticeably better than it was.

"Of course it is!" Euphemia argued. "You've got several injuries, and you're coughing like crazy! For crying out loud, you're sitting next to a pool of blood!"

The man laughed, though Euphie didn't really know why. She just dismissed it as him being injured and from his amount of blood loss.

Kirk was also having trouble, for he couldn't find McCoy anywhere, though he wasn't able to get much of anywhere from having to crawl everywhere. He was lucky, though, to have been heard, because right as Darlton was running to find someone to help their unknown man with Euphemia, he heard him crawling around, trying to find a way to stand.

"Hello? Is anybody there?" cried out Darlton, looking around the room with curious eyes, and that's when he saw Kirk on the ground.

Kirk looked at him in confusion. "Who are you?" he asked, politely, yet demanding.

"I'm General Darlton. Are you hurt?" he asked, kneeling down next to him to see his wounds.

"Yeah," answered Kirk, trying to stand up with a chair.

"Here, I'll carry you out," said Darlton. "You're not the only one on this ship that I need to get help to. Do you know who's in charge of the ship?"

Kirk looked at him with a concerned face that was also determined and serious. "I am. I'm Capitan James T. Kirk," he said as he started to fall back to the ground, but Darlton was able to reach him before he landed on the ground.

"I'm going to carry you out and get you some medical help. Maybe you can help shed some light on all of this," said Darlton, grabbing his arms and puling them to the front of him to try and carry him on his back.

"Thank you, General," said Kirk, looking at the back of Darlton's head.

Darlton nodded, than firmly replied, "There's nothing to thank me for."

Meanwhile, Euphie was still with the strange man, who was now almost completely healed in an unknown way. She was dumbfounded by the sight of his miraculous recovery.

"Sir, how is it that you've healed?" she asked, toughing the places that were once open gashes on his skin from his wounds.

He smiled as he got up on his knees. "I'm just able to heal. It's just who I am," he said, looking down at the ground, then up at Euphemia.

The moment he saw her, he was baffled by her. He thought she was just absolutely beautiful.

"Why, hello there," he said, trying to seem smooth, yet not completely obvious about it. "Do you have a name?"

Euphie giggled at his remarks. "I'm Princess Euphemia, but call me Eupie," she replied, looking up at him.

'Oh, man, a Princess! I hit the jackpot,' he thought with a big smile on his face.

"Do you have a name?" asked Euphie, looking at him with curious eyes.

"I'm C4," he answered.

"Hm, well, C4, since you don't need any medical help, would you care to lead the way out for me?"

C4 stood up, then grabbed Euphie's to assist her. "I would be happy to," he replied with a smile on his face.

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