Chapter 12: Turn Back the Magic Clock – Battle One

(A/N: Thank you all for voting! The poll has closed at the time this chapter was posted! Now I'm going to tell you all something… I'm going to do a bit of back-tracking. That's right; I'm turning back the time for the flashbacks. It's similar to Bleach'sTurn Back the Pendulum arc, except it's just the battles and dialogue during that time; not too much focus on the back stories.

This first chapter is the one you all voted for the most, then it will be the next chapter you voted for until I finish capturing all of the battles; all of which will be released as soon as I can get them done. Please note a lot of these chapters won't be at least over 3,000 words, so I may choose to write an omake or two; some of which might be FC canon. Enjoy!)

I do not own Code Geass, Fairy Tail, or the original design of the expies. Draconichero Okayed my title a long while ago.

The time is the 12th of March, X 788; around three years after the legendary battle of the Baram Alliance, the Black Knights and the Great Wizard Generals. But what actually occurred on that day? Time has lost most of these battles, but now they are starting to resurface for one last preview.

These are the lost chapters about the battles that the men and women of the three armies fought.

March 10, X 785 – Zero vs. Tsumibito

Tsumibito has just killed Kishi Barasono, and Zero, in a rage of fury, commenced a battle with the leader of the Baram Alliance. Lelouch Lamperouge doesn't move from the impact Zero and Tsumibito made from their respective ranged attacks. Deciding to take the battle to a different location, the two personas of tyranny and revolution head towards the centre of the storm, where lightning cracks loudest, and where rain hits hardest as they burst from the overload of water inside the black watery mist known as clouds.

Tsumibito's white wings have been summoned. His upper body clothing has been torn to shreds from an earlier encounter with Lelouch. His back was stinging from said person using an 'Angel Knife' on him. He looked very pleased with how he made 'God' an emotional wreck, by killing his love interest, Kishi.

Zero was unharmed at this point. He's already summoned his mechanical float system, which looks like it belonged to a certain 6-metre robot with something called Hadron Cannons on its shoulders. His hands and forearms have been coated with what looks like the arms of a shape-shifting robot. He has solid black armour covering his entire body.

Tsumibito said to Zero, "Well, well, well… Where have I seen this before?"

"That's in the past, Tsumibito," Zero shot back. "Right now all I want to do to you is tear you apart for killing an innocent girl." The hate in Zero's voice was so thick you could run you hand through it.

"Oh? Is our past a sensitive spot for you? I guess it makes sense, seeing as how you and I-."

"SHUT UP!" Zero charged forward at Tsumibito with blue lightning in his right hand, and grabbed Tsumibito's face, then proceeded to move forward into the storm clouds at blinding speed, where lightning was striking hard.

Tsumibito was growling from the agonising pain Zero was inflicting. This is… He thought to himself. This is what I used on Lelouch to steal his Geass power…!

"Looks familiar, doesn't it?" Zero said to Tsumibito. "It's a good thing you and I can use the same technique to steal Geass away." He continued to run Tsumibito through the clouds, having lightning striking Tsumibito as he ventured through the endless stream of black clouds, and dampening the Baram Alliance leader's hair from the rain; all the while stealing Tsumibito's Geass.

Tsumibito 'stepped' out of Zero's grasp, and reappeared behind the masked man, then performed 'White Judgement'; a similar move that Lelouch used earlier.

But Zero anticipated this, and blocked Tsumibito with his pink energy shield (which also resembled a robot's defence system). Deescalating to get underneath Tsumibito, Zero dashed behind him, Hadron Cannons at the ready, and fired two large beams of powerful magic at his enemy.

Tsumibito 'stepped' out of the way and charged a 'sphere' in his left hand, then fired it at Zero. The white beam caught Zero off-guard, resulting in him having to take the full blast. With a 'knife' in his right hand at the ready, Tsumibito called out, "That shield of yours is interesting. It comes directly from the Shinkiro; as do your arms when they're not transformed into the Gawain's Hadron Cannons. Zero, your magic merely copies our Knightmare Frames' capabilities. You don't have Black Angel Magic or White Demon Magic. You have something else." He smirked. "Care to tell?"

Zero was nowhere in sight. He approached Tsumibito from behind and used his mechanical fingers' special function: they could extend from the hands. He used his fingers to wrap Tsumibito in place.

"What the-?" Tsumibito wasn't expecting that.

"That's not all I can do," said Zero. "Remember what the Gawain could do with its fingers? They act like Slash Harkens; which is exactly what I just did to you, using my Knightmare Magic."

"Tch…" Tsumibito couldn't believe it. How could he forget that? Oh well; it's not like he can't break free. "Impressive, Zero." He turned to face the masked revolutionary with a smirk. "I expect nothing less from someone who has the same high intellect as I."

Zero asked, "Tell me: why did you kill that girl? What were you trying to accomplish by killing her?"

Like I'm going to tell you that, Tsumibito thought. He lied by saying, "Because I enjoy watching my enemy squirm. After all, that's the kind of person I am, right?"

"Oh I see. You wanted to make Lelouch stronger, didn't you?"

Tsumibito scowled.

Zero chuckled. "You still underestimate me, even now?" He retracted his fingers so Tsumibito was close to him. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

Tsumibito 'stepped' out of Zero's grasp. Standing in front of Zero's line of sight at a distance, he threw his hands to his right side close together, and then drew them apart, simultaneously summoning a cylindrical burst of white wind. "I didn't." Clasping his hands together (and therefore compressing the wind he created) he let his right hand chuck the wind at Zero while returning his left hand to his side. The wind expanded into a titanic size, capturing the storm clouds in its radius.

"!" Zero dashed for it. There was no way he was going to get caught in this hurricane. Damn it! That hurricane is as powerful as a Class-5! He steered left to try get behind the stalking mass of powerful wind. As he looked at it, he realised it's only heading in a linear direction. So it can't follow me.

"Nice try, Zero!" Tsumibito 'stepped' in front of his attack and threw his left arm across his body. The hurricane steered towards Zero.

"Crap!" Zero had to think of something fast. If he doesn't, the hurricane would tear him apart. So he formulated a plan as quickly as he could.

Satisfied with what he had in mind, Zero charged straight towards the hurricane.

What the hell is he doing? Tsumibito thought to himself with a confused look on his face. Wasn't he trying to avoid my Arch Demon Hurricane all this time? Tsumibito was referring to his attack that he unleashed. Lelouch has his own version as well.

Zero summoned his shield and collided with the powerful torrent of wind. Sparks were flying at an intense rate. Just a little more…! Zero pressed on. Finally breaking through the hurricane, he flied as fast as he could so as to not get caught up in the wind's direction, and came out of the other side with his Hadron Cannons ready to fire. He disengaged his shield.

Predictable, Tsumibito mused as he held his hands in front of him, with charged 'spheres' in his hands.

And he fired as Zero did. The two gigantic beams fought for dominance; the winner of the standoff changing from one to the other. Eventually, Zero's began to overpower Tsumibito's.

"What!" Tsumibito's eyes widened. Can Zero really be this strong?

"Take this!" Zero pushed one last time, and Tsumibito got caught in the blast. The blast was so strong that it tore through the skies, leaving a large hole that revealed the night sky.

The beam subsided. Tsumibito was missing. Zero knew where he was.

Tsumibito appeared again, with blood dripping down his forehead, and went to stab Zero with his 'knife'. Zero parried with his shield, and fired his Hadron Cannons again (at a much smaller level of strength). Tsumibito blocked with his shield surrounding his right arm, and 'stepped' behind the masked man again. He charged another 'sphere' and blew off Zero's mask, sending it flying.

He 'stepped' again and grabbed the mask. He looked at it slowly. "I must say, you've become quite annoying…" He stared at Zero with a fierce glare. "…Zero."

Zero, with black smoke seeping from his neck dashed in front of Tsumibito and grabbed his face again, using the same electricity as when they began. "Good." He intensified the electricity as a small pink glow began to illuminate the base of his neck. Raising his left hand into the sky, lightning struck the two men.

Both of them groaned in agony. Zero lowered his left hand to grab his mask from Tsumibito. "With this, the playing field will be evened out."

Tsumibito couldn't break free from Zero's grip, as the lightning from both him and the sky was too much to bear. He rapidly felt his Geass disappear from his right eye. D-Damn it… Come on. Don't let it end here. You have a goal to accomplish, don't you? Are you going to go through with it or not? Well? "You bastard…" Tsumibito uttered as his right eye lost its Geass.

That should be enough, Zero thought as he let go of Tsumibito.

Tsumibito barely held himself up with his wings. "You… What are you doing?" he asked with his head held low. "Weren't you going to take it all from me? Why did you leave me with half of my Geass power left?"

"Because unlike you, I don't need all of someone else's power to complete my future plans. I can rely on my own power too. The Geass power from your right eye is more than enough for me."

Tsumibito lightly chuckled. "I see. You're trying to be different from me, aren't you?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Tsumibito lifted his head up. "Of course it is. I understand your reason for doing so completely. After all, even though we're not the same person, we both still came from Lelouch. Isn't that right?"

Zero chuckled as well. "That depends on what's true and what's not."

Suddenly, the two men felt a large surge of magic coming from below them approaching. Tsumibito looked down towards the source. He smiled devilishly. "Looks like he did it."

Zero dashed in front of Tsumibito with his left hand above his head. "Don't lose focus, Tsumibito."

"!" Tsumibito couldn't react fast enough as Zero whacked Tsumibito on the head with his fist, sending him down to where Lelouch awaited them both.

"It's time to end this fight for good." Zero followed suit, passing Lelouch, who followed him as well.

The three of these men's histories went on from there.

End of Chapter 12

(A/N: And there you have it. That's what happened with Zero and Tsumibito. If you have questions about their dialogue, I won't tell you anything. Sorry.

But seeing as how this fight didn't last long, I'm going to present you with my first omake. Enjoy the humour. I recommend starting this off with Code Geass' "Stray Cat". It suits it.)

Omake: Chapter 11 AU - Lelouch's Best Plan in the Whole Fucking History of the Planet (NOTE: this can never happen in canon)

When Ryuko Seishikina asked Lelouch to come up with a plan to combat the Baram Alliance, it wasn't too hard to think about for someone like him. After all, he was a Magnificent Bastard; he always had something in mind. Until he just realised something.

He didn't know what the fuck to do.

All of his brilliant scheming, all of his amazing declarations, all of his awesomeness; all of it is just gone. Having memory loss is a bitch.

"…" Lelouch figured he might as well say it. "I have no idea what to do."

Remember that mocking wind from the actual chapter 11? Well, it decided to appear again, while everyone there turned into chibi versions of themselves.

In chibi form, Ryuko asked with a budget cut in animation of shaking her fist in the air, "You can't be serious! Aren't you the master of strategy?"

Lelouch, also still in chibi form, and also shaking his fist in the air with a budget cut initiated, said to the Saeko Busujima expy, "Shut up! Memory loss is serious business!"

"Wait a second," a chibi form of Andreas (aka. Asura the Destructor expy) began to point out, with a cut in animation to his mouth. "You weren't meant to say you lost your memory until you kick Shokan's arse later on in the chapter!"

"Pipe down," Reiji Soyokaze, the expy of Jerk with a Heart of Gold Kazuma Yagami, told everyone with the same amount of cut in his animation. "This is an omake; we can do whatever the fuck we want here."

"Um, Reiji?" Kishi muttered in chibi form, and also had (yeah, you get the idea). "Where are your clothes? And why are you and Andreas here? Weren't you fighting back inside?"

Indeed, Reiji was copying Gray. And he was with Andreas, not fighting him like we'll see him do in a few chapters. "See what I mean?" he said with a troll face pasted over his own face.

Lelouch felt a migraine coming along. "Alright… What do we do now?"

Exiting chibi form, everyone answered simultaneously, "Who knows?" Except for Jellal. For some reason he stayed quiet.

I'm only just starting to wonder why I chose these people to be my Generals in the first place. Lelouch then had a thought. If this is an omake, then… "I have a plan!" he declared epically.

"Oh boy, here we go." Reiji's troll face was still pasted.

"Trust me on this one. Now, let me ask you all something: this is the one place where we can access the real world and not get destroyed by the power of story-telling, right?"

"Yes," everyone answered.

"So taking the laws of physics into account, we can still do what we want, right?"

"Yes," they answered again, not seeing his point (and noting that physics is unrelated at the moment).

"Then that means we have a trump card!" Lelouch posed in the hammiest way he could think of, feeling invigorated by the sensation of being awesome.

"Get to the point already," everyone told him in perfect unison.

"What's the most epic and amazing thing the real world can offer?" Lelouch asked.

Reiji: "Porn."

Ryuko: "Zombies."

Andreas: "Being a MAN!" It's acceptable for him to say as such, seeing as how Elfman and he share the same Japanese seiyuu.

Doma: "Master Jiraya."

Everyone looked at him funny.

Doma looked at them in confusion. "…" Then he said, "What?"

Kishi: "I'm going to say you're the best thing real life could offer, Lelouch."

"CLOSE, but not quite." Lelouch smirked. "For you see, there is something even more amazing than I!"

Everyone gasped as the background music went, 'Dun-dun-Duuuuuuun'.

"You don't mean…!" Andreas went in chibi form again, for no particular reason.

"Yes… I mean-!"

[Okay, nows a good time to go to Youtube and look up the following song: "Exodus" by Two Steps from Hell. Just hurry up and do it. I don't care if you don't do that when you're reading, you're going to do it. And you'll like it. Now come on: Lelouch and the others are waiting for you.

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You done? Okay, good.]

Lelouch, standing underneath the lone spotlight, faced the audience with his head held low. He let the music drag on. But he knew… Oh, did he know. He was going to conduct this wicked music himself. He was going to use this to defeat Tsumibito and Zero (who shouldn't be there yet). With this!

Turning on a dime to face what was behind him, the spotlight on Lelouch grew to show a giant orchestra behind him this whole time. He threw out his right hand at a 45-degree angle, ready to lead these sons of bitches to a new height of awesome. He raised it to the beat, and slowly smirked to himself. This will be fun. He threw his right arm across his body, starting the piano.

The piano man (who for no really logical reason is Reiji) slowly swayed his body to the perfect rhythm he fell into with his fingers on the keys. The drummer was revealed to be Andreas (seemed logical enough) very accurately hitting the drum set he was given by… …someone. Lelouch moved his left hand to the beat as well. He let the music take his body. He didn't need to control his body to make hammy poses and give off magnificent smirks. He was just that awesome. After all, he's Lelouch fucking-Lamperouge. He nodded for the rest of the instrument players to get ready. Yes… This is what it feels like to realise your victory. This is how you do it… Always- Always, use Two Steps from Hell! He brought his feet together and flung his arms straight into the air as the rest of the orchestra played to the song, feeling the same aura Lelouch was feeling as they did so.

The drums beat again.

Lelouch was enjoying this. He was flinging his fingers, his arms, and his upper body to the incredible beat of the music, then moving slowly to the beat of the drum as it played solo, and then picked up the pace as the orchestra came back. He stopped at a pose for the hand-thing Fairy Tail does, looking awesome as he did so. He brought his arm down slowly, savouring the instruments' sound as they fall back to let Andreas do his thing.

Now then… It's high time I summon the choir. Lelouch smirked as he knew what was coming next. Because you know, he listened to this shit whenever he's off-page (not off-screen). Here it comes…! He threw his right hand out in front of him with a brilliant smirk.

And the choir sang.

Oh, how amazing it felt to hear everyone singing on key and in time with each other. And the drums… God, it was awesome. Lelouch knew that he had this in the bag. Tsumibito wasn't going to win, because Lelouch had Two Steps from Hell on his side. He can listen to all of his Hans Zimmer or Danny Elfman (no, not that Elfman) or his… His John Williams. Two Steps from Hell is the shits. End of story.

Things went on like this for another minute and twenty seconds. Tsumibito could only gape at Lelouch. How did he know that this music was his one and only weakness? He was supposed to have no weakness in this story, because he was a motherfucking Lelouch expy for Christ's sake. He turned to Zeref and Shokan, who were both cradling on the ground with their thumbs in their mouths. "Well, I have three options here: I can kill Lelouch now and stop his awesomeness, I can side with Zero and conquer Fiore that way, or I can get crushed by a gigantic toy robot that makes me look like an ant and then suck my thumb while in a foetal position after it scrapes me off its foot-."

Just as he said that, a gigantic robot stepped on top of him, squashing him into the ground. The robot, realising he stood on something, went to a nearby (burn-out) tree, and scraped Tsumibito off its gigantic foot. Being careful to avoid stepping on Zeref and Shokan, he continued to make his way to the mountains. For no. Fucking. Reason.

"Foetal position it is, then," said Tsumibito as he began whimpering and sucking on his (flat) thumb.

End of Omake