Ok….so yeah I know that I kinda let this fic go…but I have good reasons! I DID have 9 more chapters written up….then my other computer died. This will indeed show me for not backing up stuff on an e-mail or what not. Fortunately I remember the plot…hell almost all of the details of the chapters the problem is writing it. Damn my laziness! Oh well these chapters should be better considering I don't have to go through translating engrish and with less exposition. So on with the show.
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Alex and C.C. arrived at the Britannian Embassy shortly before their scheduled time once again riding Alex's motorcycle. The two came to a slow stop before putting the vehicle's kick stand down and turning off the engine. "Well I almost thought you two wouldn't show," Cornelia spat at them as she strode down from the steps of the embassy.
"Don't you mean wish we wouldn't show?" C.C. asked smugly as she swung her leg over the bike, the pointed heel of her shoe clicking on the asphalt road.
"Actually for once in my life I'm glad to see your kind," the woman said with venom in her voice. The glare she was giving the green haired woman would've killed her had she not been immortal. "Your job here today is simply to convince the UFN that leaving the rest of your little family, or cult, or whatever it is that you Geass users consider yourselves, would be detrimental to the stability of the current peace."
"And you people can't do that yourselves why?" Alex questioned in a bored tone as twisted his torso in order to crack his back. "From what I've gathered from my…what lover? Girlfriend? Black hole for pizza?" he meandered off as he looked at the golden eyed immortal.
"The last one seems appropriate," C.C. remarked jovially as she idly brushed her white sun dress.
"From the immortal there, is that you a long with a good number of people know about Geass already," the man explained as he leveled a look at the purple haired woman, "why not just explain the danger yourselves."
"And what, seem like a bunch of raving lunatics?" the woman said with a laugh as she brought a hand to her temple. "At best we'd be discharged from our stations for believing such lunacy, at worst we'd be incarcerated in a mental institution."
"You talk as though that's a fate worse than death princess," the brown haired man smugly stated as he looked towards the woman, a smirk slowly creeping across his face, "and believe me when I tell you that death is what you face."
"That is why I need you to do this," the woman growled, refusing to make eye contact with the scarred man. "As ironic as it is for me to be saying this, I enjoy this peace. For the first time in a long time I feel content with my life. I am surprisingly glad that every moment of my life isn't consumed with war and I want this to last…"
Alex let out a sigh before he began to chuckle, getting a strange look from both of the women present. "You'll owe me one," the man said with a smirk as he looked at her, "and this time it'll be a big favor."
Cornelia contemplated this for a few moments before letting out a regretful sigh. "I have no choice in the matter do I?" the woman muttered as she looked behind her to see Zero pushing the empress out of the embassy with Nonette following closely behind them. "Your highness, I was expecting you to be heading back to the homeland by now."
"I wanted to oversee this development myself sister," Nunally said with steadfast devotion in her eyes. "Brother Schneizel will be staying here while we're at the UFN meeting."
Zero looked over to Alex and C.C. asking, "Are those two accompanying us to the meeting princess?" the masked man asked as his gaze locked on the scarred man.
"They are going to testify to the UFN the dangers of the enemies that have arisen as of late," Cornelia stated simply, resigning herself to the fact that she needed the Geass user's help.
"Princess I must object," Zero stated as he looked at the man in question. The wild look in his eyes and the insane smirk he had plastered on his face set the masked man on edge.
"Why?" Alex asked as he flung his arms open. "Because I'm a weapon? Because I have been engineered into the perfect killing machine?"
"Yes," the masked man stated as he gripped the empress's wheel chair tighter, restraining himself from doing anything that would cause a scene.
Alex let out a maniacal laugh that even put C.C. on edge as he looked at Zero, almost challenging the other man to conflict. "Enough now," the immortal woman finally said after a few moments of tension passed putting her hand on Alex's chest. "We're not here to make more enemies than we already have. Let's just head to wherever this is going to happen at so Alex can say his piece."
"Lets," Zero said as he wheeled Nunnally to the white limo that had just pulled up for them.
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"This is Milly Ashford here at the main government building in Tokyo," the woman said grievously as she looked at the convoy of cars that were rapidly forming themselves into a convoy of sorts in front of the building, the vehicles offloading their passengers into the building. "The UFN has called an emergency meeting to discuss the recent attack that occurred several days ago. Due to apparent security issues and damage that had occurred at the UFN building the meeting has been relocated into the Japanese government building.
"Almost every head of state is arriving here with or in lieu of their country's representative. Reports also confirm that later today that General Kyoshiro Tohdoh, current CEO of the Black Knights, has called for a meeting of all branch heads of the organization." The woman paused for a moment as she touched the inside of her ear, "We're going live now to the UFN meeting that is starting now."
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Princess Kaguya Sumeragi stood at a podium at the head of a large meeting hall, long tables lining the sides with various representatives from every country in the UFN lined up behind them, facing inward on a large open space meant to be for people who were addressing the representatives. There was a quiet murmur covering the entire floor as the raven haired woman behind the podium cleared her throat before speaking up, "May I please have everyone's attention. This meeting was called today in order to discuss the attack on the UFN that happened several days ago."
With these words everyone quieted down and turned their full attention to the chairwoman of the UFN. "Several days ago this organization was attacked by a group of terrorists calling themselves the Geass Directorate. Other intelligence has identified them as the Order of Geass. Not much is known about this organization at this time. To help with that Princess Cornelia li Britannia, head of the Britannian division of the Black Knights, has asked us to hear testimony from an outside source." As the woman spoke her words were calm and collected but her eyes showed the fear and worry that she truly felt.
A few moments after the woman spoke Alex and C.C. walked into the middle of the room causing a bit of an uproar from the dignitaries. "Isn't that the man who stopped the assassination attempt?" one of the dignitaries from the right hand side of the room questioned.
"I heard he has some kind connection with these people," another voice muttered from the other side of the room.
"If we may," Kaguya spoke, her voice silencing everyone in the room immediately. "I give the floor to Mr. Alex."
"Thank you Princess Sumeragi," the brown haired man stated with a smirk as he walked into the middle of the floor. "I was told last night that I would be speaking to all of you today, to inform you all of the dangers of the Order." The man paused for a moment taking in the suddenly grim atmosphere, smirking as he continued, "I thought long and hard last night about what words I was going to use to convince you of this danger, but as my girlfriend can tell you, I'm not very good with words."
"He's not," the woman said as she brushed her green hair over her shoulder. "He's quite illiterate; I'm surprised he manages to function at all."
"Thank you," Alex stated, slightly irritated by her need to over explain his point. "As I was saying I'm not good with words; what I am good with, are actions!" he declared as he swept his black shirt up, pulling two guns out of the back of his waistband.
For Kaguya the scene before her seemed like it was moving both too fast and too slow at the same time. Alex rapidly shot both guns, each shot landing square on a dignitary, their chests erupting in a slash of red. As Kaguya returned her attention back to the brown haired assailant she found him missing; the green haired woman standing calmly in the middle of the room.
She then felt a circle of metal pressed against the back of her skull and her entire body stiffened. "Wh-why?" the young woman questioned, tears brimming in her eyes. The woman clenched her hands in rage, restraining herself from acting in a foolish way.
"To make a point," the man said slowly as he pulled the trigger. Kaguya yelped as a sharp pain shot through her skull but was surprised when the pain continued as did the noise from the commotion that the psychotic man had caused. The woman reached up to the back of her skull as she spun around to confront her attacker only to find the air behind her. She turned back and brought her hand down, looking at what looked like blood on her hand. Looking back to C.C. Alex had reappeared beside her, a smug and satisfied look on his face.
"You bastard!" Cornelia roared as she jumped over the table, Zero and Nonette tending to Nunnally who had been shot in the chest. The woman rushed forward, throwing a punch at the Geass user. Right before her fist made contact with the man's face he seemed to disappear from her view, and she suddenly felt a sharp pain hit the back of her neck as Alex's elbow hit her. Quickly the man reloaded one of the pistols and unloaded five rounds into the woman's back before she hit the ground.
Alex smugly held up the gun for everyone to see and smirked as he surveyed the room, everyone in various states of pain and rage. "Training rounds," the man said calmly, hearing a commotion coming from the entrance of the room as guards burst through the door.
One of the guards level her rifle at the couple standing in the middle of the room when the raven haired woman at the podium spoke, "Wait," she commanded, watching as the guards stopped their advance, keeping their rifles aimed at the pair. "Would you care to explain yourselves…" the woman growled as she resisted the urge to touch the back of her head again, the pain throbbing through her skull making even her teeth throb.
"Just wanted to show you what one man with less than twelve hours of planning could do to kill thirty one heads of state," he explained, excitement tingeing though out his words. "I was trained by the Order, their best agent, but there were plenty more where I came from." Those words managed to get all of the small whimpers of pain and the growls of anger fall silent. The whole room was quiet enough to hear a pin drop. "Good, now that I have your full and undivided attention let me explain the situation. The Order of Geass is an organization that takes people and turns them into weapons, makes them into a bigger threat than a sword, or a gun, or a Knightmare.
"We are tools of war, designed for the soul purpose to carry out the goals of the Order," he stated calmly, anger beginning to tinge in his voice. "We were trained from childhood to become killing machines. Put through tests, trials, tortured, had every bit of humanity stripped from us! They did this," the man said as he pulled up his sleeves revealing how the limbs were covered in scars, "just to see how far we could take it! And this…was when I was a child. They have no restraints, no qualms and will do anything and everything to accomplish their mission!" he snarled, anger burning in his eyes.
There was a silence in the air for a few moments before Kaguya spoke up again. "And what goal is that?" she asked, afraid of what the answer might be.
"To kill God," the man stated with a laugh, managing to recompose himself from the previous outburst. That statement made the whole room erupt into chaos. No one voice could be distinguished above another until the room was brought to silence by the chair woman.
"Enough!" the green eyed woman shouted, her calmness beginning to give way to the events that were taking place before her. She took a few deep calming breaths before she let herself continue with this circus. "Lelouch…this is just like when you took over the world but with much less finesse…what will the outcome be this time?" the woman thought with a grim smirk. "How do these people plan to…as you put it 'kill God'?"
"What is the one way you can think to kill God?" Alex asked with a sadistic smirk on his face. Alex looked around the room as everyone around him seemed to either be blissfully unaware of the intentions he implied or were completely unaware of what he was implying. "For those of you who can't put two and two together; they plan to commit global genocide. Kill as many people as possible and presumably let those left after the chaos rip each other apart."
The room once again erupted into chaos. Shouting, murmurs, accusations, the room was threatening to rip itself apart in under half a second of that declaration. People pointing fingers, trying to lay blame, others defending, and some just shouting to be the loudest voice in the room.
"Alex," C.C. muttered angrily as she saw the room, her golden eyes burning with a mixture of fear and rage. "You said that you were going to stop the Order from destroying the world, not speed up the process."
"Give me a moment," the man said with a smile as he surveyed the growing chaos around him. "I'm taking a page from your old boyfriend's playbook. Stir up some emotions, get people pissed off, make yourself the only solution that's viable. I want these bastards on a plate and I need their resources to get them."
The immortal woman gave the man an evil smile as she slowly twirled a strand of her hair around her finger. "It appears that you are a bit more clever than you seem," she stated, her tone almost seeming impressed with the man's actions, "not as clever as Lelouch mind you, but clever enough."
The brown eyes man gave the woman a smile as he turned back to face the chairwoman of the UFN. "If all of you morons would finish squabbling I have a plan that will save your sorry asses and stop these people from basically turning the world into a giant hell storm!"
"And what exactly would that be?" Cornelia growled as she rose to her knees, her whole body shaking from the pain that Alex had managed to inflict on her.
Alex smiled as he looked down at the woman, "Oh, good to see you up. I thought I might have given you a concussion," he stated before directing his attention to the rest of the room. "My plan is simple; a task force, one at my command with the soul purpose of finding and destroying every last remnant of the Order."
"Why would we even begin to trust you?" a woman with a French accent demanded as she stood up, a red stain on her blouse.
"You just came in here and shot us!" another man accused, his accent and skin tone suggesting he was of Indian descent.
"You're a renegade psycho!" woman with dark brown hair snarled, her accent indicating she was from some part of Russia.
Alex let out a laugh that only seemed to enforce the accusation that he was less than mentally stable. "You want to know why the hell I want this power? Why I even came to you?" the man asked as he glanced around the room, noticing that everyone had gotten even more on edge with his laugh. "Because I'm the only bloody option you have available! You have no options left! It's either entrust me, the only possible person who could lead you to, and stop these homicidal maniacs; or try yourself, fail, and watch as things start to burn around you. Whether it's now, or in six months you will approach me and by then my help may not be up for sale."
There was a silence in the room that lasted for several minutes before someone spoke up. "I call for a vote," Empress Nunnally called out, her eyes set in determination, tears threatening to spill out of them. "I think we have heard enough from this man and seen what he can do to make our decision. I call a vote to decide if this task force is necessary and if this man shall lead it."
"I second that vote," Princess Kaguya stated, as she took measure of the scene before her. "People will doubtless call for judgment on the criminals that attempted to attack us days ago, and I believe we need to make the decision on how we handle this now rather than later. So we will break for half an hour to let the representatives discuss their thoughts and return to vote. I would ask that you, Mr. Alex, find it to stay here and see if your services are required."
"I wouldn't miss this three ring circus for the world," the man stated as he met the woman's eyes.