Author's notes: Sorry for the late update! I know that these last chapters are beginning to suck... but no matter I will still finish this! It might also seem like as if it was rushed... Sorry, me doing homework while writing this kind of affected it! T_T It's really hard to work with several characters... O.O
Italics are for character thoughts: 'examplethought'
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North Pacific Ocean
The waters of the ocean was calm as a few seagulls flew above, the sun was high up in the sky, as a cold breeze passed through the area. From beneath the depths of the ocean a dark shadow, which can only be noticed by the keenest of seamen, moved westward as it got bigger and bigger.
SPLUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHH
The sound of water roared, as a gigantic metallic frame rose from the water, blocking a large portion of the sky, as it rose up higher while moving westward.
"Destination has been locked on, we are moving at the highest possible speed." A soldier, dressed in a white uniform reported with a salute, as he left the observation deck of the airship.
"Soon Charles! Our dream can be realized!" VV proclaimed to himself, as if he was in front of an audience.
Kanime Island - Japan
Lelouch was standing on the cliffs of Kanime Island, a dark cloud covering the horizons that he was seeing.
"No! It can't be!" Lelouch wailed, as a sudden guilt and sadness overcame him, without knowing the reason to his feelings.
Nunnally, Euphemia, Cornelia, Shirley, and Suzaku appeared behind him, as he turned back to run from the darkness.
"N-Nunnaly? Euhpie?" Lelouch gasped in shock, as the figures in front of him began to melt, "NO! This can't be happening!" Lelouch fell on the ground, as he began to cry.
"Lelouch!" A familiar voice called out to him, a voice that soothed his guilt, his sadness.
"Lelouch!" Said boy woke up from his nightmare while leaning on a pillar, as he was greeted by a pair of golden orbed eyes. "Lelouch are you alright?" CC asked said boy as he hugged her close, as she smiled.
"Thank you CC, you have always been there for me." Lelouch tightened his hug on CC, as she simply buried herself into her lover's arms.
"My warlock, you have made me yours as you have given me yourself." CC purred while her head was leaning on Lelouch's chest.
Just then, a minor quake shocked the two as Jeremiah and Kallen appeared to protect them from any intruders.
"Lelouch!" Kallen called, as she readied her hand gun to fire at any enemy who dares disturb the person she cares for most.
"Your majesty!" Jeremiah position himself in front of the two immortals.
"Those were explosions. Someone is attacking the thought elevators." Lelouch stated, as he began to think of any possibilities that can happen.
Lelouch then remembered his dream, "It can't be!" Lelouch stated, as he stood up, with a realization.
"Euphie!" Lelouch screamed through the air, as the collective consciousness of the world of C emitted a faint glow.
"Brother." Euphie's voice boomed throughout the world of C, sending shivers through the occupants.
Lelouch then began to tear up, as he once more shouted, "Euphie! Please! Forgive me!" Lelouch was now on his knees as he supported himself with his hands, while CC, and Kallen rushed over to him.
"It is alright brother; please stop what you are doing." Euphie's voice gently echoed throughout the empty World of C, the new modified Sword of Akasha standing silent, as the dark corners of its purpose are revealed.
"Why Euphie? Will you not grant me my own peace?" Lelouch inquired with sadness, looking down at the ground, as he will do as his sister asks, to atone for his sins.
"Brother, look up." Euphie's voice gently asked, as Lelouch looked up to see the calming skies of the World of C.
"Brother, this plan of yours, by separating yourself, and geass itself you will destroy this world in the process."
"W-what?" Lelouch's face changed to one in shock, as he discovered the flaw in his plan.
"Brother, everything in this world is connected, every piece is connected; by removing one, you are destroying everything else." Euphie explained, as Lelouch began to take in the information that he only learned of now.
"Lelouch." CC muttered, as she looked at her lover in worry.
"I'm fine."Lelouch replied, as he stood up and walked over to the modified Sword of Akasha, "Euphie! If what you say is true... Then..."
'I can't simply sacrifice others for my own happiness... This world must be protected...' Lelouch thought, as he clenched his fists, and went into thought.
'This world... A gentle world which I created for Nunnally, a world where everyone can live in peace and look forward to a future.'
'A world where your own friend betrayed you.' A voice that he immediately recognized buzzed in his head.
"VV! Show yourself!" Lelouch turned around to see VV coming out from behind one of the pillars, while holding a sub machine gun.
"How perceptive of you master LL." VV mockingly said, as he fired his gun at Lelouch, CC and Jeremiah, who simply deflected the bullets with his cyborg body, CC however, blocked the bullets from hitting Lelouch, falling unconscious, due to her code, in front of Lelouch, who simply stared in shock.
"C... CC!" Lelouch cried, as he grabbed his wife, and held her head within his arms, "I'll make you pay you bastard!"
"Now, now... is that how you would treat your uncle?" VV sarcastically stated, as he discarded his weapon, and grabbed a hand gun from somewhere within his cape, which he then pointed at Lelouch.
"That won't kill me." Lelouch said, as VV smiled, which caused Lelouch to get agitated, but he immediately discarded this.
"Your majesty!" Jeremiah shouted, as he jumped on VV, who simply sidestepped and dodged his assault, while pulling out a button and then pressing it.
Jeremiah then started to feel pain, as all impulses within his cyborg body stopped, "A Gefjun disturber!" Jeremiah cursed as he tried to move.
"Of course it won't kill you nephew; but it will be enough; enough to use your code to cancel the destruction of the Sword, and then activate it." VV continued as he smiled and began to walk nearer, while still pointing his gun at Lelouch.
"Do you know what I went through?" VV asked, as he edged nearer, "When my code was stripped away from me, I had to crawl my way out of that pit which used to be my headquarters; I then had to walk through the blazing Tengger Desert." Lelouch then heard VV's gun click, as VV aimed it at his head.
'It can't be!' Lelouch felt déjà vu, as once again, he had a gun pointed at him, while CC was 'died' from protecting him.
'CC... you were the first one who protected me... even though you planned to use me to kill yourself... you are the first one who protected me.' Lelouch reflected upon CC as he readied himself to his fate.
'Gods! If you can still hear me! Please! Answer my last request!' Lelouch pleaded in his mind, as he heard a gunshot, and prepared himself for the incoming pain that he will feel from the impact of the bullet.
Nothing.
Lelouch felt nothing, as he slowly opened his eyes, and blinked.
"Lelouch!" A voice that was all too familiar to him called out through a speaker, as several more voices that he knew all too well began to make noise.
"Kallen!" Lelouch called out in joy, as he saw Nunnally being pushed in her wheelchair by Suzaku, followed by another whom Lelouch identified as Cornelia who was now walking up the steps towards his position.
"Lelouch, you can let go now." CC smirked, as Lelouch noticed that he was squeezing her too hard.
"Brother!" Nunnally screamed, as she was now in front of Lelouch who hugged her and Cornelia, whom was simply too stunned as to where they were now.
"You fools..." VV muttered under his breath, as he fainted from the loss of blood that was caused by his body being cut in half by the Guren's anti-knightmare rifle. VV's blood now formed a pool around the upper half of his body, while his lower half could not be found in sight, as it was most probably disintegrated by the strong blast of the anti-knightmare rifle.
"Lelouch! How selfish of you!" Nunnally started to scold her brother, as he simply smiled, while acting as if he was being reprimanded, by bowing his head down.
Jeremiah, was by now free from the Gefjun disturber's influence, since it was destroyed when VV was shot by Kallen. As the group was about to settle down, another explosion rocked the World of C, as several knightmares appeared, and hit kallen with their anti-air missiles, and anti-knightmare rifles. The damage was minimum, as the upgraded armor of the Guren SEITEN did its job, and protected all vital and weapon components of the knightmare.
The knightmares, which were silver in color, began to surround the Guren, and the group, as Kallen blocked shots that were aimed at the vulnerable members of the group, whom were not in knightmares.
"Damn bastards!" Kallen cursed, as she deflected a shot with her energy shields, and fired one back, which in turn hit one of the silver knightmares, forcing the pilot to eject, as his knightmare reached dangerous critical conditions in that one hit.
"GLORY TO THE ONDRAEDAN KNIGHTS!" The pilot shouted, as he was ejected out of his cockpit, and as he landed on the steps below, he took out his side arm and fired his round onto the Guren.
"Fanatical soldiers aren't they?" Jeremiah asked hypothetically, as he jumped into the fray, and then tearing the cockpit's door open, and then killing the pilot inside with his sword, "BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH TO TEST MY LOYALTY!" Jeremiah exclaimed, as he moved to another knightmare and tore its head off, leaving a grenade, which then exploded; killing the pilot inside as the grenade was in near proximity with the cockpit.
Lelouch, and the others, including Kallen, simply stared in awe as Jeremiah wreaked havoc on the Ondraedan Knights.
"For his majesty Lelouch!" Jeremiah roared as he literally punched the arm of a knightmare off, as it tried to crush him with said arm, as several more enemy knightmares entered the World of C.
"For master VV!" One of the silver knights shouted, as he flew towards the sword and rammed it with his knightmare.
"That fool! We do not know what will happen if one comes into contact with i-"
VV simply smiled as he regained a bit of his consciousness, as the sword began to glow with a faint aura, while it still continued to disintegrate.
'Damn it!' Kallen thought, as she slashes three silver knightmares in the air, as she aimed here rifle at the knightmare which seemed to be combining with the distintegrating sword.
'Lelouch, help them' CC told Lelouch telepathically as he simply nodded and left CC in the hands of his sister Cornelia.
Kallen aimed and then fired; she then watched on as her shot flew past enemy knightmares, and then finally; hitting her target head on. She was the surprised by the outcome, as the knightmare, was still there, and now looked as if it was repairing the crumbling sword.
"Everyone!" Kallen screamed, "The knightmares are somehow repairing the sword by touching it!"
'DAMMIT!' Lelouch inwardly screamed, as he made his way towards the base of the steps, where he found a number of the ejected Ondraedan Knights dead, or knocked unconscious. He then cautiously made his way forward, until he found he reached the stone framed door.
"Master LL!" Noland saluted in attention, as the other Knights Templar did the same.
"Lelouch! You finally made it!" A squeaky yet a very intelligent voice, which was none other than Lloyd Asplund's, called over, as he pushed Lelouch towards the cave's mouth.
"Now, I present to you my greatest creation, next to the Lancelot Albion, the Shinkiro Mk IV!" Lloyd ecstatically stated, as he presented the knightmare with his hands in a salesman like fashion. Rakshata then appeared from the knightmare's cockpit and bumped Lloyds head with her fist, "It's mine Earl of Pudding!"
"But I designed the Gawain, which you used as a basis for this one." Lloyd said with his index finger pointed up, as Cecile walked towards them.
"This has the latest in weapon technology, and has a more flexible hadron cannon that has the ability to lock on to targets." Cecile explained as Lelouch walked towards the knightmare, while reading the manual, and taking in all the information that he could in the little time that he had.
"Its armor seems to have also been upgraded; thank you." Lelouch said, as he climbed into the cockpit.
"Of course! Our greatest sponsor must always receive our top of the line products!" Lloyd bowed, as Rakshata did her last checks on the knightmare's stability.
"Noland; you and the others make sure that none of the Ondraedan knights may escape, keep in touch with the others as well, I want to receive a report later of the current status of our allies."
"Yes master LL!" Noland, and the other three members of the Knights Templar replied, as they went back inside their knightmares and continued to guard the Thought Elevator.
'It's time to end this' Lelouch thought to himself as he entered the Thought elevator, while inside his knightmare.
China- Thought Elevator
"Darn it! Edward, don't let any more of them enter through the Elevator!" ZZ ordered one of his troops, as he destroyed twelve silver knightmares with his own knightmare's arm mounted missile launcher.
"Sir, we have sealed off the entrance with our formation; everything down here is now secure Master ZZ!" A voice crackled over ZZ's radio.
'LL... I hope you know what you're doing.' ZZ thought to himself, as he charged through another group of knightmares.
Kallen was low on energy now; she took out around fifty of the Ondraedan Knights, but there were still around twenty from what she could count, that was on the loose, as some of these knightmares stuck themselves, to a now reforming Sword of Akasha.
'This looks bad.' She thought.
"We have to do something about that pillar! Zero, do you have anything that you can do right now?" Cornelia asked, as she thought up of a way to slow the now reforming Sword of Akasha.
"Hahahaha! You people are fools! Do you really want this world full of lies?" VV mocked from where his upper torso lay, as blood still continued to flow out, as though it was bottomless.
"Shut up!" Nunnally said in a voice, that VV almost mistook for Marianne's.
'Hmph, even in your death, you still get on my nerves.' VV thought to his self, as he spat out some blood, "It won't matter, because soon, the sword will be rebuilt, and you will finally see this world that even your own father and mother tried to create." VV laughed a bit, only to be interrupted by CC.
"Lelouch will stop you, just as he did to Charles and Marianne." CC stated, as VV only looked at her in curiosity.
"You really believe in him don't you?" VV asked, with a serious tone.
"Of course I do! I am his wife after all... And he was the one who did conquer the world once." CC trailed off, while looking at a place which was not within anybody else's line of sight.
"Heh!" VV simply gestured, grinning, as he let himself fall into unconsciousness once more.
Two more silver knightmares were able to stick themselves to the now forming Sword, the disintegration, unable to keep up with the speeding regeneration.
Jeremiah, then used the pillars to jump himself high unto the Sword of Akasha, as he tried to pry one of the knightmares, only to no avail.
"This is not working!" Jeremiah stated, as he tried to jump away from the Sword, only to find out that he couldn't break free.
"Lord Jeremiah! Kallen called out in worry, as she could only watch the cyborg try to pry itself out from the Sword of Akasha, as it began to devour him as well, as she slashed one of the silver knightmares in half, as the rest fired their rifles at her, forcing her to go on the defensive once more.
On the ground, Zero(or Suzaku) and Cornelia fought off the Ondraedan Knights which were able to eject themselves out from their knightmares before it got destroyed.
Zero dodged the shots from the fanatical pilots as Cornelia returned fire, with her own sidearm.
Two pilots got spin kicked by Suzaku, as they aimed their weapons at him, only to realize that what they saw was an after-image. Suzaku was using his geass command in his advantage, as he punched another in the gut.
"Kill them!" One of the pilots screamed, as they got desperate and tried to land a hit on Suzaku with their fists, only to be met by their own broken arm, and cracked ribs.
"Amazing..." Cornelia could only watch in awe, as Zero weaved through the Ondraedan Knights like they were untrained children in a war.
"Shit!" Kallen cursed out loud, as her knightmare reached empty on its energy bar, as several silver knightmares launched their attacks at her.
Kallen closed her eyes, waiting for her knightmare's automatic ejection.
"Five... Four... Three... Two... One..." Nothing came, as Kallen opened her eyes to see an energy field, which she immediately recognized as the Shinkiro's Absolute Defence.
'Lelouch' Kallen thought, as five beams hit the five knightmares which were attacking her; destroying the knightmares, killing the pilots in the process, as it left them with no chances for ejection.
"Arrgh!" Jeremiah grunted, as he tried to pull himself out, as a silver knightmare headed in his direction, "Shit!" Jeremiah cursed in a shout, as he noticed the bind he was in.
Suddenly, the knightmare exploded and replacing it was a black knightmare; a knightmare that Jeremiah immediately recognized, "Your majesty!"
"Jeremiah, be careful next time." Lelouch's voice echoed from the speakers, as the Shinkiro grabbed him with its hand and pulled him out by using its air glide system at full power.
"Sorry your majesty, it will not happen again." Jeremiah apologized, as he was placed at the ground by Lelouch through the Shinkiro, and proceeded to help Cornelia and Suzaku protect CC and Nunnally whom were seeking cover behind one of the pillars.
"Kallen! Listen to me." Lelouch called, as he began telling her his plan.
"I got it!" Kallen replied as she heard the rest of Lelouch's plan.
Lelouch then flew towards the Sword, and aimed at it with his Hadron Cannons, gaining the attention of the Ondraedan Knights, who in turn tried to stop him.
"How predictable." Lelouch smirked, as his hadron cannons aimed at his enemies and fired; totally obliterating a number of the silver knightmares in one shot.
"Do it now Kallen!" Lelouch shouted, as the Guren charged up its arm and used it on the sword.
'That sword is made up of a highly unstable material that desynthesizes other materials and merges them with itself, and a well placed radiation wave can easily disrupt the process.' Lelouch thought, as he watched the sword begin to crack, as it became brittle, and got crushed under the Guren's weight.
Lelouch then fired his Shinkiro's Chest-mounted diffusion cannon at the remaining Ondraedan Knights who were stunned at the scene that was happening before them, forcing them to eject out of their knightmares.
"Lelouch..." CC muttered as she stared at the Shinkiro, not knowing that Lelouch noticed her stare, and simply smiled.
After-story notes: Sorry if it seems as though it was rushed! _ The next one will be the epilogue!
New end notes: Sorry if anyone got an alert or something; but I would just like to say sorry for the delay, I am being swamped with homework and projects right now! T_T