A/N: Well here is chapter seven and Lelouch unleashes his powers deciding to see what he can do…the fruits of his training shall be revealed.


Chapter 7

The Days of Sorrow

(One Day Later)

It was a little pass ten o'clock in the morning as members of the Britannian military were finished finally clearing away the rubble of the destroyed Great Japan Soten Party supply depot which was found destroyed yesterday morning by an unknown enemy, but so far evidence around the site suggests the entire area was razed to the ground and whatever was left behind was burned.

But despite the destruction the Britannian Intelligence Agency now heading the investigating under Dalton's supervision was still successful in finding clues as to what transpired the night before such as finding a few intact bodies in what was believed to be the command center for the supply depot which were sent back to the Tokyo Settlement for examination.

Observing as work crews moved some more of the rubble and destroyed vehicles a soldier approached the tall muscle bound experienced soldier whispering something into his ear…with a nod he made his way to a mobile trailer command center which was being used to properly spearhead the investigation operation here while at the same time maintain communications with the office bureau.

Once alone inside the trailer Dalton took a seat in front of a video monitor, after taking a breath he established communications which opened up a video conference where he saw Cornelia along with Gilford, General Alex and Sub-Viceroy Euphemia li Britannia.

"Your report Dalton, have you and the team found anything new?"

"Nothing at the moment your highness, but we are continuing with the clearing of rubble and the wreckage of destroyed vehicles and machinery we have discovered hoping to find more evidence to shed some light on what exactly happened here the night before."

"I see…in that case since we're all here Alex I believe you have the report from the coroner regarding the bodies that were recovered from the enemy command post."

"I must warn you milady the results of his examination particular on one of the bodies was shocking to say the least."

The Viceroy cast a glance at Euphy knowing that the general was mostly concerned for the young lady, but after a nod from her younger sister.

"Please Alex…proceed with your report."

Cornelia asked as Alex nodded before he began.

"Yes…well…the bodies of the men we found show that they died by excessive blunt force trauma to the skull while one of the others was snapped in two and one other had his skull crushed. The other bodies we found show that death came to most of those men were done by a high-energy weapon of some kind which I must point out that such weapons don't exist, at least not such portable models since the technology hasn't been developed."

"Then that matches with some of the destroyed vehicles and gun placements with found…from what we can tell a high-energy weapon cleaved through the metallic structures with clear precision." Dalton added.

Cornelia remained silent while Alex continued.

"However the body of the man who was the leader of that supply base judging from intelligence we have on the Great Japan Soten party members…well his autopsy revealed a different story. Someone was interrogating this man before killing him. We found the bones in his hand was completely crushed which we are convinced that was a clear sign of a brutal interrogation being carried out, but by the time he was done this man has his hand pulverized…"

"So it's broken…" Euphy asked.

"You misunderstand me; when I say pulverized; I refer to that many of the bones of this man's hand are literally crushed, fractured into multiple fragments. To cause that sheer raw level of damage, you need to use a hammer normally. The issue here is that the hand was broken for what to all evidences suggest the pressure of fingers."

Everyone was shocked with the descriptions Alex was providing to the gathering at which even Cornelia was visibly disturbed by this news while Gilford added.

"What the hell is going on, first that event at Saitama Ghetto and now this?"

"This also shows consistency with some of the wounds that killed some of the individuals here…kicks that shattered spines, punches that caved inwards the ribcages of the victims, or shattered their skulls, and necks snapped with a single hand, while keeping the individual on the air with ridiculous ease. Whatever disposed of this group of terrorists was a literal monster with inhuman strength and it did it with contempt and indifference, like if they were merely vermin to dispose of." Alex said grimly.

"Well we know the Great Japan Soten Party was a radical anti-Britannia extremist, so it's likely they could have had a lot of enemies...its possible a vigilantly group was behind this?"

Gilford suggested while Dalton offered a different opinion.

"Given the weapons they had when they were assaulted by this monster it's not likely this was a rag-tag group."

"A rouge faction of the military?" Gilford suggested.

"Highly unlikely" Dalton answered.

"This was done like I said, by a monster, a single monster." Alex added to drive his point home.

"But given the wounds these men suffered...it's none of them...this is slightly similar to what Zero did, but not as destructive?"

Guilford said while Cornelia was growing concerned.

"Any sign of what this attacker was looking for?" Cornelia inquired finally.

"At the moment Princess I am afraid we haven't found anything yet, but we will keep searching and I have instructed the Intelligence Agency to use what agents and information sources they have to uncover anything related to this base that might tell us was there anything they knew or what was being conducted here that could have made it a target."


Two days later in space Lelouch was one his final planned day of training, but after spending half of the day training in deep space the young man walked through the alien city with a renewed sense of confidence feeling he held a greater understanding of his new powers and felt ready to return, but still the former prince felt another form of training was still needed to confirm and to test his improved prowess.

As Lelouch walked pass an alleyway he heard voices that drew his attention where he turned and noticed a trio of large muscle bound men had surrounded a green haired woman in her late teens with pointed ears wearing a pale white dress holding a paper bag filled with food and a few other common groceries found in a local supermarket.

"Come on little lady we can have some fun together."

"Yeah we'll even help ya carry your groceries!"

"Oh come on are you scared?"

Seeing one of them was drawing a knife the young former prince decided to step in as he approached the men from behind.

"I think it's obvious, that the young woman is not interested in your company."

"He's right I need to return to my friends so get out of the way."

The green haired girl snapped while her cat-rabbit-like pet sitting atop her head attempted to its own disagreement in support of the girl it was with.

"And what are you going to do about it punk!"

The man holding the knife said as he advanced on Lelouch ready to stab him, but with a lightning fast kick to the side of the head the older man was sent slamming into the wall instantly knocking him out while the two charged the former prince intending to double team him while the schoolboy grinned evilly before punching the two men in the stomach at the same time with such force they stopped in their tracks. Overcome with pain the two dropped to the ground holding their stomachs in intense pain.

"Are you alright?"

"I am fine thank you very much although I think Fuku and I could have taken them."

"I am sure you could have." Lelouch said trying to be nice although he couldn't quite see how she could have handled them.

"My name is Neju and this is Fuku."

"Meow!"

"Neju…I am Lelouch."

"Either way it was nice of you to step in like that."

"I am what you call the Good Samaritan…I couldn't walk away when someone was in trouble."

"That's nice of you…you have a good heart."

"Well thank you. If you'll excuse me I have to be on my way you and Fuku just be a little careful."

"We will and thanks again."

Neju said as Lelouch walked away while Fuku waved at the young man trying to say good bye as well to the boy, but once he was away from them the young former prince realized the cat-like creature atop her head was strangely similar to the pet Sasami had.

That creature…I swear it looked identical to Ryo-Ohki…no it couldn't be possible.

As Lelouch continued down the street pondering on this little discovery he made something that felt like an earthquake shook the entire city. Bracing himself against the side of a building the young former prince watched as the citizens of the city began fleeing as the sky above became filled with the sight of spaceships bombarding the city.

What the hell is going on here is another civilianization invading this planet?

"Everyone run the Chimera Pirate Guild is attacking again."

An officer shouted.

"Everyone head for the nearest shelter."

Space pirates!

Suddenly a blast from an energy canon struck the side of a nearby building sending large pieces of metal and stone falling towards the street below where a woman was running to grab her small five year old child who was paralyzed with free at the falling debris. Lelouch saw the child and after making a quick look around he saw no one was looking so he summoned forth the shadow hawk wings before him.

Seconds before the debris would land on the ground crushing the girl and her mother who had successfully reached her daughter, but there wasn't enough time for her to escape. Then at the last second a black wing shielded her and the child protecting both of them. After the cloud of dust cleared the woman and her child was completely unharmed, but standing next to them was a man dressed in black ornate medieval-style armor.

The entire armor was polished back with wing-like ornaments on the knees and elbows and claw-like metal gantlets while a number of black tassels tipped with metal hung from his waist and his shoulders while two large ribbon-style cape extensions were attached to his back. His mask retained a number of the key features of his Zero mask, but it was styled now more after a knight's helmet.

"Madam, please take your child and seek shelter."

"Who are you?"

"I am…Zero!"

"Thank you so much Zero!" The woman said carrying her child away while she fled to the nearest shelter.

Destroying those ships would be risky to the civilians here so I'll find their leader and attack him forcing them to withdraw.

Lelouch took to the air and flew pass the ships slashing them as he goes inflicting some light damage before heading into space seeking the lead ship commanding the pirates. Once he left orbit he found another gathering of space ships identical to the ships attacking the planet below. The majority of the ships in space aside from the large number of simple transport ships refitted with weapon placements, but for more of their combat hardened ships were Grapple-class pirate ships armed with long arms with clamps on the end for seizing ships.

Just as I thought for an attack of this scale they would keep their main force in space to cover their forces from counterattacks from above as a precaution.

Extending the blade of his sword the former prince cleaved one of the ships in half destroying it before using his two shadow hawk wings for flight and defense while he moved onto another ship to destroying it in one strike by cutting it in two. An evil grin appeared on Lelouch's face as he increased the length of his blade dramatically and cleaved four ships at once which was finally enough to send the pirate leading the attacking fleet into recalling the ships on the surface to engage the masked being attacking them.

On the bridge of the largest of the pirate ships a large muscular man with a mechanical right arm, seven scars on his head and face along with an eye patch over his tan-colored skin wearing tattered white shirt with a leather jacket and black pants with boots.

"Captain we lost two more ships, no we just lost another one!" A crew member frantically shouted.

"Calm down, recall our ships on the surface order them to return and protect the main force from whatever the hell it is attacking us!"

"Sir two more ships have gone down!"

"Captain we just lost another one!"

As more reports of ships being destroyed filled the bridge, the captain's calm demeanor changed rapidly as the situation grew worse.

"GET THOSE SHIPS BACK INTO SPACE NOW WE NEED BACK UP!"

Lelouch continued to lightly attack the ships while also trying to panic the leader of these vessels into recalling all of their forces from the planet to help defend his flagship, but after several minutes of blocking all of their attacks while using his sword and bolts of black energy fired from his wings to shred apart another pirate ship leaving more than half of the ships around the flagship destroyed.

Heh I was certain by now they would have been screaming for reinforcements.

Behind him the masked youth was assaulted by energy cannon fire as the pirate ships from the planet's surface had turned around and flew back into space to engage their masked foe.

Ah finally…time to end this farce.

Gathering dark energy in front of his body into a giant sphere the young man released the energy instantly consuming most of the remaining ships that had been protecting the flagship destroying them instantly before Lelouch moved to attack the ships that had just entered orbit. With a smile on his face as the vessels hammered away at him with their energy weapons the young man was pleased that the two wings he was currently using as shields were successfully weathering everything the pirates were throwing at him.

The defense capabilities of these wings are remarkable, so far nothing these pirates are using against me aren't working…if their weapons can't harm me then nothing Britannia has will do nothing against me.

A gleeful smile on his face Lelouch moved behind the ships charging up another powerful energy blast intending to wipe out most of the ships in one shot similar to what he did to Cornelia's forces back on Earth, but this time the blast would be wider and capable of consuming more ships on a wider range. A blinding flash could be seen from the planet as a blast of energy destroyed the pirate ships vaporizing them…all…but one were destroyed.

The flagship alone remained, but the portside was damaged by a glancing blast from Lelouch's last attack.

That was perfectly executed…now to finish this by finding out the pirate's stronghold.

In an instant Lelouch teleported onto the bridge of the pirate ship where he found the bridge of the ship in complete chaos as members of the crew were fleeing the bridge while the captain was screaming for his men to come back to man their posts, but it was in vain as his own men were left completely terrified by the masked teenager's last attack.

"You must be the captain of the fleet…can't blame your crew for fleeing for their lives."

The blood drained from the man's face as he turned coming face to face with the young man responsible for destroying his fleet sparing his flagship for the purpose of learning where their stronghold is. The pirate drew his gun and began unloading the clip trying to kill the intruder, but the bullets simply bounced off the young man.

"You monster stay away, DON'T COME ANY CLOSER."

Lelouch moved with speed fasting than what the eye could see as he punched the man in the face grabbing him by the collar and holding him close to his own face while the captain snapped.

"What are you, a damned hero?"

A dark smile appeared on Lelouch's face as he replied.

"Not quite a hero, but something…different…I am…a demon."

Throwing the man back the masked man stood where he was, but before the captain could flee Zero spoke again.

"I'll spare your pitiful life under one condition open a communication line with your superior at your stronghold…NOW!"

Lelouch commanded as he held his sword pointing the blade at the man's throat.

"(Gulp)…sure…no problem…here!"

The terrified captain said as he wasted no time opening up a communication line. A few moments of static on the screen later an elderly man with a scar on his cheek wearing black robes appeared on the screen in a foul mood.

"What is the meaning of this communication Beck...WHO IS THAT?"

"Run to the escape pod!"

Lelouch said before running his sword into the ground cutting clear through the ship hitting a vital point before teleporting off the bridge and reappearing behind the elderly pirate leader.

"Now I'll crush the leadership and your hideout!"

The prince said as Lelouch cleaved the head of the pirate leader off with his sword seconds before communication was lost.


Meanwhile the Kamidake II had reached orbit after fighting off some pirates that had attempted to attack their ship on the ground with some troops their ships had dropped during the first attack on the planet. Seina was seated in the captain's chair, but the crew was shocked having been expecting a fleet of pirate ships waiting for them in orbit…however all that awaited them was wreckage and charred remains of destroyed ships and the pirate flagship exploding in the distance ahead of them, but not before a lone escape pod was launched from the ship.

"What the hell happened?" Amane shouted while the crew wasn't sure what to say to what they were seeing.

"The readings we picked up earlier were right something else attacked the pirates and wiped them out, but what?"

Kiriko said as Ryoko was detecting the escape pod.

"We have a survivor an escape pod was launched from the last ship right before it exploded."

"Recover it we might learn what had happened and what attacked them."

Hakuren said while Seina agreed and the escape pod was recovered several minutes later as it was brought aboard with Ryoko eventually brining the terrified captain of the last ship Zero destroyed only he was pale as a sheet and shivering uncontrollably.

"Alright tell us what happened…what attacked your ships?" Seina inquired.

The man began to gibber some words from his mouth, but the only words that made sense to anyone standing within earshot were.

"The Black Wings of the Demon…they took my men…"

"Black wings?" Neju asked.

"An alien monster?" Amane suggested.

The man was too scared out of his wits to respond, but when Seina asked a new question.

"Where did this demon go?"

"He…he…had me contact my…superior and then he vanished and reappeared behind him."

"He must have teleported…WHERE is your superior located where is he?"

Kiriko demanded as the man tried to mouth the words together to form a sentence.

"He's…our headquarters…are…located in the Beta Quadrant the Mau System on the forth planet."

"According to the charts that planet is located in an unexplored region of Rezna Federation space, but we have the coordinates."

Ryoko said as Seina nodded while Fuku took it as a sign to have the Kamidake II head straight for that planet.

Even through it was the fastest ship in the Galaxy Police the spaceship wouldn't reach their destination for at least two hours. But during the two hours travel time with the Galaxy Police ship traveling at top speed the wait time was nerve racking as Seina along with the rest of the crew aboard the ship were nervous about encountering what not only destroyed the pirate fleet single-handedly, but also was terrifying enough to scare a ruthless pirate captain half-to-death.

Finally as the Kamidake II came out of hyperspace a frightening site greeted them. All around them drifted the wreckage of at least more than a hundred pirate ships completely destroyed, but that was merely the tip of the iceberg when they saw the planet itself where the pirates had their headquarters located on.

"My god…is that the planet?"

Kiriko asked knowing the answer, but she only wanted to be sure they were at the right coordinates.

"It looks like someone or something craved it up."

Amane commented as sure enough just looking at the planet and one could very easily tell the scars this planet suffered were not natural, but rather the planet appeared that someone had taken a large knife to it and craved into it leaving very massive deep crevices across the planet's surface cutting clean through the planet's crust and exposing the planet's interior to any watchful eyes in space.

"Just what the hell did that?"

One of the Rezna girls aboard the ship asked, but soon Kiriko detected something off to the starboard side.

"I have a massive energy reading to the starboard side…I am putting on the viewer."

Far in the distance off to the starboard side of the ship was a grappler-class pirate ship attempting to flee the area, but unfortunately the power behind the destruction of these ships and the serious damage inflicted upon the planet had no intention of allowing any pirates to escape as the shadow-hawk wings belonging to Lelouch had become a pair of grasping claw-like hands which had begun to pull the ship apart with one hand grabbing the bow and the stern of the ship…after ripping off its grappler-like arms.

It was all over in a matter of seconds as the pirate ship exploded into a large ball of fire disappearing from sight with all remains of the ship consumed by the void while leaving Lelouch completely unharmed as his three Shadow-Hawk Wings surrounded him.

I am far more powerful than I realized to think I could be capable of such destruction.

Suddenly the young prince felt something nearby and turned his attention to the Kamidake II off in the distance.

Another pirate ship…no it seems different, an enemy flagship, someone just passing through?

After going through more possibilities in his head the young man decided to investigate the ship up close and see if the ship was really another pirate ship he needed to destroy or something else, especially since they are not firing at him or trying to flee.

"Those look like Light-Hawk Wings, but they are different."

Kiriko said as she tried scanning the masked being.

"I think he sees us!"

Ryoko said as she was alarmed by the dangerous situation they were in.

"Oh crap lets RUN FOR IT!" Amane shouted.

"He disappeared?"

Kiriko said suddenly loosing track of the masked young man.

"Your uniforms are certainly different I don't think you are with those pirates, so are bystanders passing by or something else?"

Everyone's heart skipped a beat as all eyes looked up towards the ceiling where they saw Lelouch looking down at them through the mask he worn to hide his identity. Lelouch calmly kept his eyes on them while using his ability of matter conversion to convert the third-shadow hawk wing acting as a scorpion tail behind him into his large black void-like sword once more as he pointed the blade at them.

But much to their relief Lelouch lowered the weapon when he recognized Neju and Fuku among them…now he felt more convinced that the people before him weren't involved with the pirates he had ruthlessly wiped out.

"So tell me who are you and what organization do you belong to?"

"We're with the Galaxy Police."

Seina Yamada declared to the masked teenager now standing in front of him.

"Police officers…interesting. Although it seems no matter how advance society becomes law enforcement is still lacking in punctuality to reacting to a crisis. Nevertheless for a planet controlled by pirates I was somehow expecting more than one ship to be sent to this neck of the woods to deal with them?"

"We didn't know about this planet until we found the captain of the fleet you destroyed at the Rezna Federation capital."

Amane snapped as the young man realized what their actual intentions were.

"I see so you were curious to what destroyed the pirates then and the captain I spared told you where to find this planet."

"Those wings they look like Light-Hawk Wings, but they are completely different. We couldn't detect you until you had just about destroyed that ship."

Light-hawk wings, but different. Interesting is this what my power is called, but she said different…but how exactly? In any event if they couldn't detect me until I had began destroying that last ship then these powers must grant me some form of stealth.

"They are like some kind of Shadow Hawk Wings."

"Shadow Hawk Wings I like the name."

Lelouch said while amused by the idea.

"I have made highly effective use of these wings as you can see and I must admit I am pleased with the results. Those pirates presented me with the perfect opportunity to combat test my abilities in a real-life combat situation which worked out perfectly for me. Of course I see the removal of scum from the universe as an added benefit."

"Just who the hell are you?" Karen demanded.

"I am Zero."

"Zero as in nothing?"

"I am clearly a little more than that now I believe." Lelouch said with a smirk underneath his mask.

"Then what do you intend to do?"

"I will be the instrument of a largely awaited retribution upon those that believed themselves free of punishment for their crimes upon my world."

"Your world?" Kiriko inquired.

"Tell me if advance civilizations have existed for clearly sometime I take they have avoided contact with lesser developed civilizations for their own safety am I right?"

"What?" Amane asked confused by the sudden question.

"According to galactic law undeveloped planets are to be left alone while their civilizations are still in the development stages until they are more suited for life beyond their own solar system not just due to potential outside dangerous, but reactions to such knowledge if an undeveloped civilization suddenly learned there was life on other planets." Neju answered.

"I see"

Lelouch said while he thought.

As I suspected it did seem strange a language known on Earth yet at the same time known throughout the galaxy or at least in parts I have visited are likely the same language, but also given how people typically are the people of Earth…especially Britannia wouldn't react well to all this as a whole.

Sensing a faint waver in the masked man before him, but Lelouch decided to ask something that was more of a minor question noticing there weren't any other male crew members aboard the ship.

"Is it usual for Galaxy Police policy to have only one male aboard a ship full of women?"

"WHAT…well not quite, but you see I am married to everyone aboard the ship."

WHAT?

"All of these women?"

Lelouch asked sounding a little surprised while the women nodded their heads.

"You're not a corrupt cop or anything like that?"

"OH…NO, no, no…no it was a political marriage I'll admit I wasn't expecting it…it was sudden when I was told it was going to happen."

Seina said raising his hands in defense hoping not to incur Zero's wraith.

"Yeah a lot of us didn't see it coming too." Amane commented.

"Hey it was his first official mission after graduating from the academy was to get married to all of these beautiful women you see here and boy let me tell you the honeymoon was really something."

A small sphere like robot said moving towards the young man.

"Just who are you?"

"I am NB the personal helper of the captain."

Are robots really designed like that?

Lelouch thought to himself while the look of concern on his face was hidden by the mask.

Who the hell designed and created such a perverted machine?

"NB stop telling tall tales!"

NaBiko snapped hitting the male robot in the back of the head with a small rubber bat knocking the machine forward.

"He's a member of the Jurai Royal Family and third in line to the throne of the most powerful empire in the galaxy NB; it was all a political marriage remember? Besides Seina didn't have a choice."

A royal prince working law enforcements well that's interesting and I guess a welcomed breath of fresh air too.

Deciding that they seemed to be an honest bunch and since they were members of galactic law enforcement the young masked man decided to not to harm them since there was after no reason for him to do so. The former prince took a moment to politely bow to the crew of the Kamidake II before suddenly teleporting away leaving the area completely.

"Where did he go?" Ryoko said seeing Lelouch vanish.

"I can't track him." Kiriko replied.

"Just what the hell is with that guy?" Amane asked.

"Get on line and contact headquarters immediately…we better let Airi and Mikami know about this right away."

Seina ordered as Harken was already preparing a data package of all of the data they have to HQ regarding Zero.


Moments later in orbit above the Earth…Lelouch reappeared with his bag in hand while still in his armor form looking down upon the planet. A smirk appeared on his face as his mind was filled with possibilities of what he was capable of now and what he was planning to do once he returned. He had the power now to crush Britannia, but after going all out on the pirates at their stronghold as he had done he was worried about excessive collateral damage so the young man knew it would be best to hold back a little to prevent himself from accidently destroying the planet.

But for certain Lelouch would proceed with a plan he had in mind…something he realized when his plans nearly fell apart during his encounter with his older half-sister Cornelia. In order to operate efficiently and more effectively against Britannia Lelouch would build up an army, an organization of his own dedicated to fulfilling his goals as well as crushing Britannia and to create the ideal world for Nunnally.

I will see you beg for my mercy, you will wish you hadn't thrown us aside like broken pawns, I'll take everything from you and make you suffer as you will watch everything fall apart around you. It will happen because I'll make it happen.

The smirk still on his face Lelouch descended to Earth before teleporting the rest of the way with a plan already forming in his mind.


A/N: Lelouch has returned to Earth now with a better understanding of his powers…at least to where he won't accidently kill Nunnally or anything like that, but it will soon begin Britannia is in deep trouble now lol.

Also on a side note on my profile page I have a small poll going for a Code Geass crossover I am planning in the future I have no intention of working on it and writing it at the moment until I complete either this story or my KH-crossover. Please read the forum for details for the idea I have in mind and the poll is merely to decide pairings and will remain open until the end of this story or the other one. By then I should have re-read the books I'll need to refresh myself. The forum is under Code Geass Research and Development Forum I have made which I may also post some of the other projects I have in mind to be future fanfics.

Thank you all in advance and thank you once again for your input and reviews.