FINALLY! This is my first two-digit chapter story! Yay! Anyways, there's nothing much to say, so I hope you like the 10th chapter! I wanna thank the author who reviewed my last chapter!

IMPORTANT QUICK NOTE! I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHAT THE HECK ARE THE KNIGHTMARE'S WEAPONS! I'LL DO SOME MINOR EDITING IN THE LATER PARAGRAPHS AND ON CHAPTER 11! THE SLASH HARKIN WAS ACTUALLY THAT HOOK THING AND THE SWORD-LIKE WEAPON IS CALLED A SWORD BUT I DUNNO! PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR THE LAST 10 CHAPTERS FOR BEING SO DUMB! ANYWAYS READ ON!

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN CODE GEASS!

Enjoy!

Chapter 10: Intervention

The raven was in a loss of words as the knightmares went past the Shirasei. The Kurisoda kicked Lelouch's knightmare down to the ground. But it recovered in a matter of seconds before flying back up in the sky.

"So long, Lelouch." Charles said as he went after the group of knightmares.

"FATHER!" Lelouch yelled. He cursed under his breath and contacted C.C. "Witch, leave that area and get to the palace!"

"What's wrong?"

"There are tons of squadrons coming." Lelouch said. "I need you to prevent my father from reaching Nunnally! NOW!"

"I'll be right there. Do we still have time?"

"Not much" the warlock responded.

"Alright"

The Shirasei began to destroy the units going towards the Royal Palace.

"What is he doing?" Kallen asked

"Kallen, let's assist him!" Suzaku said "We may not know the pilot, but its' the only way! For the sake of her highness!"

"Gotcha!" the Japanese girl said.

Lelouch fired the hadrons and plunged the sword into the enemy's cockpit. A knightmare came close to him. The Shirasei kicked it down and continously fired the beams. It strucked the whole knightmare's torso and it exploded. Another two surrounded Lelouch. But they wre destroyed when two shots came from behind.

What the? The warlock saw the Guren and the Lancelot Albion entering the airspace.

The Guren used its Radiant Wave Surger at a knightmare and the claw caught its head "You idiots have no mercy for the world!" Kallen shouted. She pressed the button and the steel claw's core began to glow. Then, the knightmare exploded. The Guren got out its red sword and defeated down several enemies. It fired the slash harkin and hit a few knightmares.

"Stand back! The Empress needs to be captured!" a pilot said.

"I'm not letting you psychos lay a finger on the Empress!" Suzaku shouted and aimed his rifle. The Lancelot's green energy wings were tilted forward. "DIE!" the brunette shouted again. Green beams came out of the rifles. Spikes of the same color came out from the wings. It hit the knightmare and fell down.

Looks like Kallen and Suzaku came for my assistance. Lelouch thought. Hmph. I can't just stand by here. I need to protect Nunnally! The Shirasei flew towards the knightmare targetting him. The enemy slashed the sword before it, the warlock's knightmare circled behind and used its' sharp blade to scratch the knightmare's cockpit, then, moved away as it exploded. The Shirasei penetrated the smoke from behind, and sliced down a trio of knightmares. Beams were fired at it, the Shirasei evaded each attacks.

"His fast! But-!" the pilot of the enemy knightmare was cut off when it approached closer to him. "Not gonna happened!" he rasied his knightmare's rifle at him.

"YOU'RE DEAD!" Lelouch yelled. The rifle's tip was cut into half by his sword.

"W-WHAT?!"

"Goodbye." the raven said softly and plunged the sword into its core. He released it and..

[ BOOM! ]

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The Shinkiro made its way to the palace.

So..Charles did his intervention huh? C.C. thought What an utter coincidence.

"Where do you think you're going?!" The enemy pilot called from his knightmare. "There's no place for reinforcements here!" he shouted.

"Oh just get out of my way." C.C. said monotonously. "I have no time to deal with likes of you." She activated the Shinkiro's black sword-like blade and engaged at the enemy. She slashed off its' left arm. The knightmare made a move to overtake behind the Shinkiro and intended to shoot the cockpit. However, the witch has sharp eyes and immedietly got out another sword and destroyed the enemy's gun. She lifted her knightmare's leg and kicked him down. She aimed the hadrons at the falling wreckage.

C.C. sighed "If only you moved aside, this wouldn't happened to you.." she said "But you didn't ,so be it." She pulled the trigger and missiles hit the knightmare

[ BOOM! ]

The Shinkiro continued to move "People in Charles' group sure are hopeless aren't they?" the witch said.

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"Screw this! Screw it all! My main cannon's exhausted and the hadrons are all out!" Lelouch said. "Where is that witch?!"

He found a quadre of knightmares going after him. Red beams reflected in the each sides of the Shirasei. "So you want to fight.." the warlock started as he evaded each and every beam "THEN, FIGHT ALL YOU CAN!" he yelled and released the black sword. The Shirasei's structure began to glow that purplish light again, dissolving any supporting attacks from the rear of the qudare in its' light. In just a few seconds or so, they were all disarmed. The Shirasei chopped off the torso of the first knightmare, and got out another blade and thrusted it at the other one's cockpit. The sword was released from the cockpit and the Shirasei moved away as the knightmare exploded. It pursued the two remaining knightmares then fired its slash harkin at their cores.

Lelouch's eye caught a knightmare targetting his gun at the Guren without the red knightmare noticing. "You.." he said coldly. The Shirasei flew towards it and started to smash the sword over the knightmare's head. The enemy noticed the glowing source and brought out its' sword to block the attack.

"CURSE YOU! GET OUT OF MY SCREEN YOU FOOL!" the pilot scowled.

"DON'T YOU DARE FIRE THAT THING ON MY Q-1!" Lelouch shouted. He maximized his knightmare's boosts and pushed the controller forward. The light grew brighter and the knightmare was thrown off as the Shirasei repelled from it.

"How dare you!" the knightmare flew up and fired the hadrons. The Shirasei released its' shield. An explosion was heard but the black and yellow frame came out from the smoke and cut the knightmare's lower region down. And it exploded.

..! I can feel that light again! Kallen thought. She turned her Guren around and her eyes widened as she spotted the knightmare that was spreading out the light. It was the one that saved her from the Kurisoda's cannon attack. The frame that has the similar look as the Shinkiro and has glowing purple energy wings that matches her Guren's red ones. Wait,if it looks like the Shinkiro, then..the pilot must be... The female ace pilot's voice hitched and she remembered a raven-haired young Emperor from before. The man who lied to her and became her first kiss.

"No way.." she said. The Lancelot stopped beside her knightmare

"Kallen, what's wrong?" Suzaku asked through the intercom.

"Suzaku.." Kallen began "I got this strange feeling that..the pilot of that glowing knightmare is..Lelouch."

"What are you.." Suzaku trailed off and eyed the knightmare. It was moving swiftly and swinging its' swords against the knightmares. "No way..how could you say that?"

"It looks like the Shinkiro.." Kallen said. "Although I know the pilot of that knightmare is C.C. right now, this guy could be someone else.." she added.

It can't be Lelouch..Suzaku thought In fact, he can't be this skillful at piloting a knightmare..

The Shirasei flew upwards and aimed all the guns it carries, including the missiles attached in between the energy wings. A dozen of red dots appeared in the screen, showing the enemies "I WON'T LET YOUR MURDEROUS ACTIONS TOUCH NUNNALLY!" Lelouch shouted in anger. Red beams and missiles hit several targets.

"Amazing.." Suzaku said in surprise. "It can do multi-targets!"

Royal Palace: Operating Room

"Your highness!" an operator called out to the Empress "An uknown unit detected! Its' eliminating the enemies!"

"What unit is it?" Nunnally asked.

"Uknown name. According here to the test results, that knightmare has the same features of Knightmare Frame Shinkiro but equipped with energy wings. We did a record of its' actions."

"Get a visual of the unit please. As well as the action recording" the Empress ordered

"Of course."

Nunnally looked at the visual. The knightmare was glowing and eliminating various knightmares in outstanding movements. She watched the way it evaded the attacks so fast. And she could tell, the pilot is highly vigilant of his sorroundings and acumend at piloting. His skills are fast and impressing..and its' glowing the same light from before... Nunnally thought.

Then, the record appeared this time.

It showed that the knightmare defended the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N with its' beam tiled shield and damaged the huge cannon of the enemy. Its' so unbelievable..

"Alert!" another operator exclaimed "Enemy soldiers have entered the palace!"

"Can you try to contact the guards?" Nunnally asked

"There's no response!"

This is not good. All of our security forces are down and the two remaining knightmares are the Lancelot and the Guren. Nunnally thought worriedly "What about the Tristan? Can he launch?" she asked.

"Yes, Ma'am. I'll contact Gino Weinberg right away."

Outside The Royal Palace

C.C. landed the Shinkiro in front of the palace. "Time for the guns to shine." she said as she took out a famas gun and a knife from the storage container beside the pilot seat and jumped out of the cockpit. She ran to the entrance and met by two Revolutionary Men soldiers who are gurading the door.

"Hey you!" one of them exclaimed "Are you coming for the Empress?"

"Yes." C.C. said flatly "Now, move. I've got business to finish"

"No can do, woman. This is a very dangerous place. You are not to enter it." the other said.

"Don't tell me what to do." the witch said coldly.

"You want to fight huh?" they aimed their gun at C.C. Their fingers were firmly placed on the triggers.

[ BANG! ] [ BANG! ]

The two soldiers were bleeding down the floor. C.C. was holding her famas. Without saying a word, she ran deeper inside the palace.

"An enemy!"

"Quick! Fire!"

I do nothing but to eat pizza on bed. But I'm not poor on stamina. The witch thought and smirked widely. She fired her gun at the duo soldiers guarding the hall entrance. As they fell down bleeding, C.C. passed the hallways. More soldiers came out of hiding, she fired her famas again and took out a knife. She stabbed the last man at the chest. Then, she moved a hand at her side and took out a bomb. She tossed it at the exit of the first hall. The bomb exploded and C.C. took the left turn. She saw shadows of people coming from the left and right. She threw a bomb again and saw the both of them fell through the smoke.

"Foolish men." C.C. muttered as she continued her quest.

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"PISS OFF!" Kallen shouted and used the Guren's steel claw at the enemy. After dealing with the last one, she fired a slash harkin at the trio units heading her way.

The Lancelot's wings spitted out green spikes at the firing knightmare. "My wings are out." Suzaku said. He spotted another knightmare holding a sword that's about to hit the left side of the cockpit. Luckily, a random unit destroyed it. To the brunette's surprise, the Tristan was the one who saved him.

"Gino?" Suzaku said in surprise.

Kallen saw the Tristan pass by "Its' Gino!" she said.

"Looks like I'm a little late guys!" Gino said grinning. "But this bad boy can take out any knightmares in your way!" he protested as his knightmare changed into its normal form and fired a slash harkin.

Another knightmare? Lelouch thought. "The Tristan! Gino Weinberg!" he said.

"Hey Mr. Pilot there!" Gino called to the Shirasei from his knightmare "Whoever the heck you are, you're good." he said.

Gino..what a surprise..

"That knightmare of yours is like the Demon Emperor's, you know that?" Gino said "But that guy's dead. Just concetrate on the fight."

Serves you right... Lelouch returned his gaze at the battlefield as the Tristan began to attack. He looked at the status of Shirasei's light "Only 10 minutes left, this light is gonna die down.." he said. "Better not waste it!" He flew the Shirasei towards the other squadron of enemy knightmares and fired the hadrons.

"Its' him again!"

"ATTACK!"

They fired their knightmare's missiles at the Shirasei.

"I knew you people would fire at me." Lelouch predicted and activated the shield. The missiles strucked it and fired the main cannon, which hit a chain of knightmares. Then, he fired all the guns and missiles of the Shirasei. And for the finishing touch, the slash harkin. The purple light disappeared.

''My targets are all eliminated" Lelouch said. He set a course to land.

XXXXXXX

C.C. stopped by the metallic door. "This must be the operating room.." she said.

"Stop right there!" a voice called.

The witch turned around and saw a soldier holding a dagger.

"Hmph. Looks like some idiot dares to stop me." she said in her cold tone. "I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to die.'' she pointed her famas at him.

'"SHUT UP,WOMAN! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S GONNA-!"

[ BANG! ]

"Pathetic soldier." C.C. said as she looked at the corpse.

She typed the code of the bridge. The door shot open.

Nunnally looked back and saw the green-haired witch.

"C.C.! You're alive!" she said in surprise.

"Immortality is the reason" C.C. said.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came here for your assistance" the witch told her "Charles is coming to kill you and its' my duty to protect you. Lelouch entrusted me to watch over you as well."

"How were you able to get here?" Nunnally asked "I thought you were living in Japan now." she said.

"I used the Shinkiro to get here." C.C. said "Don't worry about the knightmares in the airspace. I'm sure your knights are doing their best to get rid of them as soon as possible. And one person too." she finished as she remembered her warlock and his knightmare.

The Empress turned her eyes at the main screen.

C.C. began to wonder. Charles and his minions manage to barge in the palace. Fortunately, Nunnally is safe in my hands. It shouldn't be a problem. She caught a glimpse of the Shirasei X-III, fighting in excellence in the main screen. Lelouch, I know you. You are a strong-willed man and a great pilot. At least get rid of Charles and save the world.

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"Going somewhere pilot?" the enemy said as his knightmare pointed his gun at the Shirasei.

"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Lelouch yelled. He destroyed him with the slash harkin and landed in front of the palace.

He deactivated the energy wings. He noticed the Shinkiro was settled a few meters away. Good, C.C.'s here. I bet she's with Nunnally now. he thought in relief. He grabbed a chain gun from the storage container and suddenly found a sword. Perfect. He got off his knightmare and pursued his wicked father inside the palace.

Damn it! They ruined almost everything here! Those terrorists..! Lelouch passed the hallways. He took the left turn. He stopped in his tracks when he saw a shadow heading towards his direction. He immedietly pointed his gun at the anonymous shadow.

"Who the heck are you?!" Lelouch hissed. No response.

"Answer me!" he commanded "Show yourself!"

"So you came, my son..." he started "What a surprise..I thought you were up there, taking my forces down."

"Father?"

"You got me all right!" Charles laughed as he got out of the smoke.

Lelouch replaced his gun with the sword. "I knew you would show up.." he said.

Charles took out his sword as well "I, Charles Di Britannia, challenge you in a sword duel."

The youth tried to hesitate but then, he realized its' only way to keep him away from Nunnally. His expression turned into a determinated warrior and told the Britannian Emperor his decision.

"Very well. I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, accept your duel!

Lelouch ran towards his father with his sword gripped tightly in his hand.

You're going to pay for everything! I'm gonna shoot you down..and that's a promise!

A/N: Uh-oh, looks like the next one will be a father and son battle! Anyways, do you like it? Well, I suggest you to review! Suggestions are welcome! Oh BTW, I made a change of plans. Instead of publishing my fantasy story after this, I decided to make a SEQUEL for this story! ITS' A GOOD NEWS FOR YOU GUYS! Anyway...

Next Up! Chapter 11- Kings' Duel

Until next time, my dear readers! :D

~Dark Zero 1718