I had hoped to get this out sooner, but what can you do?

I do not own Code Geass or DC Comics. Enjoy!


Demons Arrival

"No! No! Stay Awake!" I tell Atrocitus as the shuttle continues flying throughout the sector. His only response is a groan.

Atrocitus isn't looking good. The blast he received had torn a melon-sized hole in the bottom left side of his torso. If only his ring hadn't been cracked and damaged, then healing would be easier.

"Dex-Starr! Help him however you can! I have to navigate the ship."

"Got it" the cat responded.

I rushed from the medical bay to the console in the main hanger. Once there, I activated the ships A.I.

"LANOS!" I yelled at the console.

"Yes, Lantern Rankorr?" the console responded.

"I need you to scan and set a course for the nearest inhabitable planet. Make sure to land in a deserted area. We can't afford detection."

"Understood."

"Good. Look up any information you can find concerning Ryutian biology. Transfer it to the screens in the Med Bay."

"At once."

I run back to the Med Bay. The wound is still bleeding. Profusely.

"Please tell me he's still alive" I tell Dex-Starr.

"He is. But fading."

We need to hurry. "L. !"

Suddenly, a holo-screen shows up, displaying Atrocitus' internal biology. From the looks of it, the wound grazed his stomach. Thankfully, he doesn't have any other important organs in that area.

"We need to stop the bleeding" I tell Atrocitus. I then point my ring at the wound. "This might hurt."

Atrocitus holds a steady gaze as he stares at me. "Do it" he tells me in an even tone.

I point my ring at the wound. I fire.

The bleeding from the wound stops. Atrocitus barely winces.

"L.A.N.O.S! The Nano-Disk!"

A hole in the ceiling opens, and a disk falls from it. I grab it, and seperate it into the two halves. I place one on each side of the masters wound. I turn it on.

"The nanites in the disk will help speed up your healing. You'll be fine" I tell him.

"Good then" he says as he settles himself into the bed. "Do you know where we are headed?"

"L.A.N.O.S! Did you find a planet?" I ask the computer.

"Yes. It is located within the Sol System. It is the third planet from the sun."

"Third planet? That sounds like..." I stop as me and Atrocitus both realize which planet she is referring to.

"Earth" he finishes for me. I can feel the apprehension in his voice.

"L.A.N.O.S. Are there any other planets we could land on?"

"The other closest inhabitable planet is several lightyears away. Fuel levels too low to reach" the computer informed us, using the holo-screens to show that the fuel levels were in the red.

This was bad. Me and Dex-Starr could fly ourselves to a different planet. The problem was the master. He was too injured at the moment, and leaving him behind was out of the question.

"What do we do?" I asked him.

For many moments, he said nothing. He simply laid on the bed with his eyes closed. If not for the look of concentration, I would have thought he passed out.

Then, his eyes shot open, and he looked at me.

"We will have to land on Earth. But we must stay hidden" he told me.

"Understood" I respond.

I quickly rush back to the ships command center. "L.A.N.O.S, scan the planet. What level is their technology at now?"

The computer takes a few moments to analyze. A 'bing' lets me know it finished. "Scan complete. Planetary advancement is at Level Six."

That low? I wasn't sure whether to be relieved or just... disappointed.

"Ok then. Hack their satellites and global systems. Make sure we aren't detected."

"Affirmative" the computer said as it set to work.

I watched to work, wondering when we would be close.

Then it came into view. The same planet where I lost everything. The same planet I was told to never return to.

"Three minutes to landing" the ship told me.

I decided to let the computer deal with the rest, and moved back to the Med Bay with Atrocitus. Dex-Starr layed next to him on the ground. Atrocitus was stocking his head.

"We're going to land in less than three minutes. What's the plan?" I asked him.

Atrocitus didn't answer immediately. Instead he took the arm that wasn't stroking Dex-Starr and grabbed mine.

"Hope, boy. Hope and pray."

He closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Pray to the Butcher that our actions do not cause the Blackest Night."


The night was starry over Kamine Island. The Island was completely deserted. The secrets it held had yet to be discovered.

Therefore, when an alien ship descended from the sky and landed, tearing through trees and creating a crater on the ground, no human on earth was any the wiser.


"L.A.N.O.S, is there a reason that you didn't warn that the ride might be a little bumpy?"

I was understating. The ship had crash landed on whatever island we landed on. The constant smashing into trees had not been pleasant.

"You were speaking to each other. I did not wish to interrupt."

The three of us simultaneously growled at L.A.N.O.S. Dex-Starr, per usual, had blood dripping from his mouth.

"My apologies."

Atrocitus sighed and laid back on his bed.

"So what do we do now?" I asked him.

"I"m not entirely sure Rankorr" he told me. "For now, why don't you and Dex-Starr rest. Tomorrow, you both go outside and see about finding us some food?"

"Meat?"

"Please."

"Alright. You staying here Dex?"

The cat nodded.

"I better head to my quarters then. I'll see you in the morning."

I walk to my room, and the pad on the side of the door scans my ring before letting me inside. I look around to make sure I have what I need.

My battery is on a post next to my bed. Glad I didn't lose it.

My personal copy of the Butcher's Book is on my desk. I would try reading it, but I'd rather not relive recent events.

My desk also has the divining rod Atrocitus had helped me build. Useful thing.

The blue bracelet from eight years ago is there as well. I always keep it safe.

I managed to to get some of m posters here as well. The bands Disturbed, Skynard, and Aerosmith are hung up from when I used the ship before. Music is one of the reasons I'm glad I wasn't raised on Earth. This pplanet doesn't have any like this.

There was more stuff I had with me, but it was in a trunk in the corner. I'd deal with it another.

The only thing that mattered to me was rest.

And when got on my bed, that's exactly what I did.


"That's 11" I tell Dex-Starr as I shoot down my latest bird. "I think I might just win."

"No! No! I will win!" Dex-Starr declares as he looks to the sky for more birds to shoots. We had tried looking for bigger game since sunrise, but the island we were on seemed to be scarce on them. But the beach we were standing on, seemed to be teeming with these birds. They looked like small pelicans, but that didn't matter so long as they were edible.

So we decided to entertain ourselves with a game. Whoever could shoot down the most birds could win.

And Dex-Starr was catching up. "Ten!" he shouted as another fell to the sandy shore.

I stopped aiming my ring. "Twenty-one birds. Think that will be enough?"

Dex-Starr, instead of answering, shoots a blast into the air. Two more birds fall into his pile.

"Yes! Yes! I win!" he shouts while jumping up and down the sand in joy. I chuckle. I could have beaten him, but his reaction is to adorable to pass up.

"Alright. Let's get them back to ship."

We aim our rings at our piles, and levitate them with us back to the Interceptor. We had used our rings earlier to regrow some of the trees we had knocked down. It helped keep the ship hidden.

"L.A.N.O.S! Open up!" I tell the ship. The doors open, and we go inside.

"Get the oven ready" I tell the computer. A console opens on the side of the wall. Me and Dex-Starr dump our bird corpses in, and move on to the Med Bay. Atrocitus is in his bed, talking into his ring. The only sound coming out is static.

"No luck contacting anyone?" I asked, even though I could already guess the answer.

"None. They are beyond reach" he tells me.

"Do you know where anyone is?" I ask.

"Skallox and Zillious I ordered to sector 2815. Veon I sent to merchant space. Everyone else went their own way after the attack" he informs me.

I sigh. "So we have no way to contact them?"

"At present no. The destruction inflicted on Yhsmault tampered with communications. We are fortunate the Central Battery wasn't destroyed, otherwise all our power would be gone..."

"And we would be dead" I finished for him.

He looks at me. "Exactly."

He leans back into his bed. "What's more, my ring was damaged during my battle. It will take time to repair it."

I chuckle without humor. "So many problems. Not a lot of solutions."

I stand up. "Where are you going?" Atrocitus asks me.

"I'm going to walk around the island. See if I can find anything useful."

"What about food?"

"LAMOS should be done cooking by now. I'll take something with me."

I open the Med Bay door when he speaks behind me. "Rankorr."

I turn to him. "Be careful. We don't know what dangers lie on this planet. And don't want to see any more injuries to deal with" he tells me while rubbing his own.

I nod to him and head out.


Nothing.

The island had tress, sand, and rocks. There seemingly nothing here of interest.

"I've been on deserted planets that are more interesting" I think to myself as I throw away a now clean bone. The bird was actually pretty good.

Just as my boredom is about to overwhelm me, I make it to a cliff. I look down, but don't see anything new.

"Maybe I should get closer" I think to myself as I move a few steps back. Once my distance is good enough, I rush to the edge. I jump off the cliff, make a flip in the air, and land on the sand. I managed to maintain perfect form the whole way down. "I can never thank Laira enough" I say as I glance around.

Behind me, I see a cave. "Please be something good. Please be something good" I mentally repeat as I walk into the cave.

It is good. Or at least interesting.

The first thing I see when I walk into the cave is a wall. Actually, it was a large, lavishly decorated door. It was adorned with a strange symbol. It sort of resembled a bird in flight.

For some reason it seemed... vaguely familiar.

I decided to scan the wall, and the symbol, with my ring. "What can you tell me about it?" I asked.

"Architecture and symbol are of extraterrestrial origin."

"What?!" I almost screamed. How was this possible? Aside from me, Earth never had contact with life outside of itself. It would have made headlines if it did.

Unless..

None of the structure looked new. The dust and cracks suggested age.

"How long has it been here? Decades?" I asked my ring.

The ring took another scan. "Several millennia. Two-Hundred Thousand years to be precise."

That... was actually a good explanation. It explained why no one was making a big deal of it. It's been on the planet since before humanity became an intelligent species.

But that did raise another question.

"Can you determine which civilization made this?"

"The symbol is the mark of the House of Eas. The structure is reminiscent of those once found on Krypton."

That... is surprising.


"This is troubling boy" Atrocitus tells me from the captain seat on the command deck. I had just finished telling him what I found.

"It is. And confusing as well. How does Kryptonian architecture end up on Earth for so long?"

Atrocitus leans back in his seat in thought. "This is merely speculation, but Kryptonians were known for having an expansive period in their history. They traveled to any planet they would come across, establishing outposts for operations. What you saw may have been a result of the expansion."

I nodded at his explanation. "That makes sense. But it does create a dilemma."

I turn on the main console to display the symbol of Eas. "What do we do about it?"

Atrocitus shot me a confused look. "What do you mean? How does this affect us?"

"The prophecy Master. It states that the Blackest Night will arise when humans make contact outside their world. That's why travel to and from earth is illegal" I began explaining.

"But it already happened. The Kryptonians already set foot on earth. The prophecy may have started centuries ago!"

Now Atrocitus looks concerned. "Your words hold truth, but we cannot afford to be rash."

He holds his chin in thought, then speaks again. "Computer! Analyze the energy signature from the ruins. Then scan the earth for any similar signatures."

"At once, Lord Atrocitus" LAMOS responded.

"What are you doing?" I asked my master.

His response was to point at the main screen. I looked, and what I saw caused my eyes to widen.

There were at five locations pinpointed on a global map, not including ours, all represented by orange circles. Two was in the Chinese Federation, one in Britannia, another in Spain, and the last one was in... Japan. My mood dropped when I remembered my experiences there.

Atrocitus took notice of this. He stood up and walked over to me, putting his hand on my shoulder. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"I'm fine" I said as I brushed him off. "I take it we should do something about this?"

Atrocitus sighed as he turned his attentions back to the circles on the screen. "You are right in that we cannot ignore this. Alien interference on Earth could spell trouble. But we mustn't be brash about this. One wrong move on our part could spell disaster for the universe as a a whole."

As much as I hated to admit, he was right. As usual. But that didn't mean I couldn't right as well.

"What if we treat this like a stealth mission?" I suggest.

Atrocitus looks at me, intrigued. Even Dex-Starr, who had just been sleeping on the floor, perks up at the word 'mission'.

"We go after the energy sources quietly, and study them. If we watch them, we can determine whether or not they pose a threat."

Atrocitus grins. "Interesting idea Rankorr. Let us attempt it."

Excitement fills me as i smile. Our time on Earth might just yield some results.

"You and Dex-Starr will go to Japan first" Atrocitus says.

My smile disappears.

"What? Why?" I ask. I have no desire to go back there. I don't want to relive what happened there.

"I understand your reservations, but look." Atrocitus says as he points to the energy signifier over Japan. "The output of this one is significantly lower that the rest."

He was right. The circle in Japan was much smaller. The largest was in a desert in the Chinese Federation.

"The means that, should these signifiers be hostile agents, this is the weakest one" Atrocitus explains. "It will the easiest, and safest, to deal with."

"Yes, but..." How do I explain it?

I don't want to face the ghost of my past? I'll sound like a coward.

I want to go after another one? I can't contradict Atrocitus. He always wins in arguments.

Ignore all of this? I'm the one suggested going after them in the first place.

As I keep running into mental dead-ends, Atrocitus places his hand on my head. Just as he has so many times in the past.

"I understand your apprehension. I felt it myself when I returned to Ryut after the... After the massacre" he says.

He looks straight into my eyes. "I remembered a pain I can never truly heal from. But that reminder is what fuels my rage. It is what makes me get up every day and keep fighting. I swore I would destroy all evils that I encountered, and the memory of my family strengthens my vow!"

"You must do the same."

"... You're right. Like always."

"'As usual'" Atrocitus corrects me. "I have been wrong before boy. You should remember that."

He let me go. "You should also remember that this mission calls for stealth."

"Got it. Stealth mode" I tell my ring. Instantly, my Red Lantern uniform that I had worn for years is changed. I am now wearing a fully black, padded bodysuit. The only color is the Red Lantern insignia on my chest, designed in thin scarlet. Instead of the full mask I wear on regular missions, I only have a red domino mask now.

Dex-Starr changes his uniform as well. Now he only wearing his ring and a collar. The collar is fully red, with the insignia branded on it.

Me and Dex-Starr exit the ship from the back. "Remember" Atrocitus tells us. "You are only going to observe and analyze. Try to prevent confrontation. And avoid attention by any means. Understood?"

"Understood" we say in unison. Atrocitus nods at us.

Dex-Starr and I take off to the sky, and make our way to Japan.


So Rankorr, Atrocitus, and Dex-Starr are now on Earth. Something attacked Yhsmault. Something powerful enough to send the Red Lanterns running. What was it? You'll see.

Geass, as you can see, is not native to Earth. It is also possible for the Interceptor (the ship) to track those related to it. As for what it actually is, I'll elaborate in further chapters.

And yes, rock music exists in space. Because America doesn't exist in this world, rock and roll was never invented on Earth. Rankorr is the only human that knows of it's existence. It's mostly a way for me to reference the music that motivates me to write this story.

As usual, feel free to leave reviews or PM opinions to me. I appreciate both.

And as I've been saying, fan art would be welcomed (since I can't draw). Just give me a link.

Anyway, until next time.