Ch. 21 Shinjuku Pt.2
"Do you really think this has to do with the Code-R project?" Jeremiah asked.
"Why else wouldn't Clovis call me to take care of this mess?" Lelouch answered. "I have an idea, see if you can intercept the terrorist radio signal" Jeremiah nodded and turned his attention back to the communicator still fixed to his ear.
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"What do you mean the terrorists got way?!" Bartley demanded over the radio.
"Forgive me My lord!" the voice of a random officer pleaded back. "We couldn't open aerial fire straight away. Prince Lelouch's private transport just happened to be on the road at the time."
This got Clovis' attention he looked up from the hand he was burying his face in while trying to think "Lelouch?" he said to himself.
"The terrorist were ramming his car with their truck. I believe it may have been Gottwald who opened fire on them from the ground." The voice continued. "We think both of them may have escaped into the Shinjuku ghetto after the terrorist Glasgow took down out helicopters with its slash hearkens."
"The plan has moved forward into the next phase" Clovis said quietly.
"But your highness!"
"If knowledge of her gets out I'll be disinherited." Clovis sighed regretfully "Tell them back home we're carrying out a planed urban renewal." He then got up from his throne and in a commanding voice said "As Clovis third Prince of the Empire I command you! Destroy Shinjuku ghetto leave no one alive!"
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Back at Ashford
"So that Suzaku guy really came by helicopter and picked Nunnally up?" Rivalz asked after having found the girls after he heard about Nunnally being air lifted to the government complex.
Milly nodded "mmhhmm…said Lelouch ordered him to do it, but he didn't know why."
"I wonder what's going on" Shirley mused out loud.
"Lelouch wouldn't have sent a helicopter for Nunnally if it wasn't important" Milly supplied.
Shirley took out her cell phone and began to dial his number "I'm going to call him and see what's happening" she heard the phone ring on the other end a couple times then Lelouch picked up.
"Shirley now's not a good time!"
"Oh, sorry Lulu I just was wondering what was going on. Your friend Suzaku said you ordered him to come and air lift Nunnally to the government complex. Is everything okay?" Lelouch didn't answer all she heard was a loud popping sound and someone in the background yelling about more Knightmares coming towards them. "Lulu is that GUN FIRE?!IS SOMEONE SHOOTING AT YOU?! WHO'S THAT IN THE BACKGROUND?! WHAT DO THEY MEAN KNIGHTMARES ARE COMING TOWARDS YOU?!" She shouted.
"SHIRLEY I HAVE TO GO!" he hung up the phone on her.
Milly, Rivalz, and Nina stared at her wide eyed "That did not sound good…" Rivalz said
Milly pointed up to the sky and shouted "To the student council room!" They all looked at her blankly "There's a TV in there we can see what is happening on the news" she explained.
"Ohhhhh…" the rest of them said in unison.
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Lelouch's chauffeur made the car screech around a corner and down a side street to avoid the Glasgows that were coming towards them head on just a moment ago. Lelouch had abruptly hung up on Shirley and had just put his phone back in his pocket.
"Why is Clovis opening fire on civilians?!" Lelouch demanded horrified at the new bloodshed he was now witnessing when a stray bullet struck the unsuspecting driver in the head killing him instantly and leavening the front seat and windshield covered in blood and gore.
Lelouch immediately went for his seat belt while Jeremiah only managed to mutter "Oh fu…" before the beat-up limousine swerved into a wall and flipped on its side. In a hail of broken glass and sparks from metal scraping against pavement the car eventually came to a halt.
"My lord, are you alright?" Jeremiah asked dizzily.
"I don't know I can't move" Lelouch said simply.
Jeremiah panicked slightly thinking his prince had been paralyzed or something. "Are you injured your highness?!"
"No, you're on top of me." Lelouch muttered.
Jeremiah quickly scrambled to get off of his master despite a dislocated shoulder.
Lelouch undid the seat belt that held him down and opened the side door that was now over head. He climbed out and then gave his knight a hand the sound of gun fire and terrified civilians trying to flee the area still around them. They observed the damage "Can't catch a break can we? Blew the drivers head clean off."
"Poor bastard" Jeremiah then took a good look at Lelouch "Your highness you're bleeding" Jeremiah said seeing the thin trickle of blood going down his masters fore head and a few scrapes and just forming bruises accompanying the injury on various other areas of his body.
"It's just a cut don't worry about it. Your arm is out of its socket…here" Lelouch said grabbing the dangling left arm of his knight and giving it a hard pull until he felt it pop back into place. Jeremiah hissed in pain wand moved his other hand to the offending appendage rubbing the shoulder once the deed was done.
"Clovis is massacring innocent people." Lelouch said in disgust. "I'm going to try and order a cease fire." Lelouch put his ear piece back on to radio Clovis' men. "What was the code to their frequency?"
"I believe it was code five-two-six-nine your highness. Do you still want me to intercept the terrorist code?"
Lelouch nodded tuning his radio to the correct channel. "This is Prince Lelouch vi Britannia I order you all to cease fire immediately!"
The voice of an officer he did not know answered him "Sorry your highness but we were instructed to disregard your orders by Prince Clovis."
"I see." Was all Lelouch could say as he cut off the radio feed.
"My lord I have intercepted the terrorist radio signal. Its code is four-three-seven-eight."
Lelouch turned around and looked at him "Good work, first thing is first we need to get out of this area."
"If we find the old subway tunnels we could use them to safely move from the area to a more stable location. If my memory from before the settlement was finished being built serves me right there should be an entrance nearby."
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"I don't understand how can there be nothing on the news about it?" Shirley asked frustrated as Milly flipped through the channels.
"Are you sure that was gun shots you heard?" Rivalz asked.
Shirley nodded "I'm positive and then someone in the background said something about Knightmares coming towards them."
"Maybe they were doing something for training purposes…" Nina guessed.
"Yeah, I bet that's it! If Lelouch was in any real danger it would be on the news by now. I bet Suzaku coming to get Nunnally was just a drill or something" Rivalz said allowing himself to relax.
Shirley got up from her seat and gathered her things together "Well since we're agreeing that this is a false alarm I have to go to class…I can't believe that jerk hung up on me for a stupid drill."
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"What exactly do you plan to do with the terrorist radio signal?" Jeremiah asked descending crumbling cement steps that lead to the abandoned subway tunnels.
"I'm going to use the situation to our advantage. I'm going to give the terrorists the upper hand and help stop this blood bath."
"You want to help the terrorists? But they nearly killed us earlier…"
"At first I just wanted to help them escape so I could persuade them to turn over whatever it was that they stole to me. But since Clovis ordered this carnage and I can't call a cease fire since he told his men to disobey my orders I'll just have to get the terrorists to push them back out of Shinjuku for me as well."
"My lord you do realize you have an entire army at your disposal. All you have to do is give the order and Kewell and Villetta will be here in their Sutherlands in five minutes."
"We can't fight Clovis' men openly it would cause too much confusion and raise too many questions afterword. All it would do is make the situation more toxic. But what we can do is help the established enemy fight back while seemingly keeping our hands clean of the whole situation."
Jeremiah smirked in understanding "I see, you really do think things though thoroughly don't you? A true master of strategy."
"Don't stroke my ego too much Jeremy I might begin to like it, and you don't want to end up a hopeless kiss ass like that parasite Bartley now do you?"
Jeremiah chuckled "Certainly not" then he shook his head "No one's called me Jeremy since I was your age and in the Academy"
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Lelouch's apartments
After the Helicopter touched back down on the landing pad of a building adjacent to the military living quarters, Suzaku escorted Nunnally and Sayoko to where Lelouch took up his residence. He wheeled Nunnally past the guards at the door and into the lavish living quarters of his best friend and situated her and Sayoko in the dining room. He then radioed Lelouch.
"Lelouch I have Nunnally and Syoko at your apartments. They're both safe."
"Good stay there with them and keep guard, maintain radio silence until further notice."
"But…"
"That's an order Major Kururugi" Lelouch said addressing him by his rank in a no nonsense tone.
"Ah…yes sir"
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Lelouch and Jeremiah continued to walk though the abandoned subway tunnels and Lelouch was getting increasingly frustrated with his ear piece's lack of ability to pick up a signal.
"Dammit I can't get a signal down here" Lelouch growled in irritation.
"But you just spoke with Kururugi a moment ago."
"We weren't so far underground when I received the message it must have held onto the signal until I cut it off" Lelouch explained as he checked the cell phone that was still in his pocket and showed it to his knight. "See no cell phone service either. We're going to need to get back up above ground" they continued to explore the tunnels trying to find their way to an opening until they came into a large opening with a familiar truck stuck in a large pot hole.
Jeremiah and Lelouch looked at each other and Jeremiah took out his hand gun "Approach with caution" was all he said as he motioned for Lelouch to stay behind him as they slowly walked up to the immobile truck. Jeremiah walked up to the cab of the truck and ripped the door open pointing his gun. What he saw was one of the terrorists lying in the front seat with a bullet wound in his left shoulder he looked like he had died from blood loss so he closed the door and looked to Lelouch "One dead."
"Let's see what all this fuss is about shall we?"
Jeremiah nodded and drew his weapon again before he forced the side door open. He put the gun back down when he saw nothing but a large capsule. "What do you think is in there?"
"I don't know but it must have something to do with Code-R." Lelouch put his hand on it and it opened on its own.
"Your highness get back!" Jeremiah yelled pulling him from the truck bed and away from the potentially dangerous weapon. They were both surprised to see what came out of the capsule was a girl with long green hair was bound up in prisoner's clothes. "Well you were right about it not being poison gas."
"A girl…what?" Lelouch whispered in confusion before going over to help the young woman, his nimble fingers making a quick job of unbinding her legs and feet before some light flashed upon them.
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"Lelouch tried to call a cease fire?" Clovis asked sitting up in the glorified chair.
"Yes but the order was disregarded as you commanded sire" Bartley answered
"Still no word on his exact location?" Clovis asked.
"They found his car overturned in an alley near exit fifteen. The divers head was blown off but neither Prince Lelouch nor Gottwald were anywhere near the sight of the accident but they could not have gotten very far."
"General Bartley Sir we have Located Prince Lelouch and Gottwald they are with the target" the radio cut in.
Clovis got up from his throne once more and sighed "So it's come to this has it?"
"Your highness?" Bartley asked.
"You men know your orders kill anyone who gets in the way!"
"Your highness! Are you actually suggesting that we kill an heir to the Empire?!"Bartley gasped.
"We have no choice. If anything we can blame it on the terrorists."
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"Good day your highness" an officer with a scar under his eye said as he and his men approached them. "It seems you have secured our target for us I thank you. Unfortunately we were given an order to kill anyone who got in the way and that includes you."
"You dare threaten my Prince you swine!" Jeremiah yelled furiously as he aimed his gun at the man and pulled the trigger, alas he was out of ammunition from when he opened fire on the terrorists in traffic.
The officer laughed "It looks like you're out of bullets Gottwald. Unfortunately for you you're over enthusiasm for the job won't save you or your Prince."
Jeremiah snarled as he threw the hand gun down and quickly reached for one of the blades he kept on his person but while this was taking place no one saw the previously thought to be dead man in the front seat of the truck move to reach for a switch that would detonate a bomb from underneath the carriage they didn't even hear the low moan of "Death to…Britannia…Long live…Japan" before he flipped the switch and triggered a large explosion.
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"They got away?! And you call yourselves the royal guard?!" Bartley yelled.
"Forgive me my lord! The blast was mainly directed upwards, but the bedrock…" the officer on the radio said.
"Why do you think we only told you people about this?! This is exactly why we didn't want Prince Lelouch involved!"
"We believe that he and Gottwald may have been separated during the blast once we relocate him and the girl he shouldn't be too hard to subdue without his knight around to protect him."
"Lelouch…I sorry it had to be this way." Clovis mumbled to himself.
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Lelouch franticly ran with the still half bound girl down a tunnel until she tripped on a pot hole and fell to the ground.
"What the hell are you?!" He leaned up against a wall and put his head in his hands. "This chaos is all your fault, isn't it? You pose such a threat to Clovis he's willing to kill me just for knowing about you…and those officers they've probably killed Jeremiah by now if the blast didn't. HE'S IRREPLACEABLE!" Lelouch's breathing slowed as the girl helplessly stared at him. He quickly collected himself and helped her up they eventually found their way to some crumbling steps leading to ground level. Lelouch stayed low as he crawled up the steps looking back to tell the strange girl to wait here and keep quiet.
He poked his head over the wall and saw the same unit of royal guards from before gunning down civilians. He quickly ducked his head back down so he wouldn't be seen.
"Report." The leading officer ordered.
"We found only elevens here sir. No sign of his highness or the girl."
"You're sure? That exit does come out here doesn't it?"
"Yes sir it matches us with our map of the old city"
Lelouch heard them say before he heard the cries of a small child be silenced with more gun fire. The officers were about to leave the area to look elsewhere until, to his horror Lelouch's cell phone rang. He quickly shut it off.
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Shirley stood outside the building that her next class was in with her phone to her ear. She had decided while on her way out of the clubhouse that if Lelouch was going to hang up on her for a stupid drill then she was going to give him a piece of her mind but apparently Lelouch had other ideas "That jerk he hung up on me again!" she cried.
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The leading officer tried to grab him but Lelouch blocked the man's arm and managed to take his feet out from under him with a swift low kick. Two other officers quickly grabbed him from behind and threw him against a wall while the rest of the unit held the strange girl at gun point. Their superior got back up on his feet and had a look on his face akin to a large jungle cat about to do in his prey.
"I must admit that I will enjoy returning you to the grave your highness" the man said with a twisted grin. "An heir to the throne with commoner blood, ha! Utter blaspheme." Lelouch was too angry at the man's remarks to respond as he watched the officer reloaded his gun before speaking again. "But still, you did do well considering your age, but that's to be expected even though you are half commoner you're still the offspring of our great Emperor. It really is a pity though, I understand you're quite the talented Knightmare pilot but unfortunately your highness you won't get a chance to prove your worth to the empire on the battle field for you have no future." He pointed the gun at Lelouch and was about to pull the trigger until the girl broke free.
"He mustn't die!" she screamed throwing herself in front of Lelouch, the bullet colliding with her fore head she then limply fell to the ground.
"You shot her!" Lelouch yelled. 'If they're willing to murder me over this then why would they kill her?'
"Our orders where to bring her back alive if possible, oh well nothing can be done about it now. We'll tell our superiors that the royal guard found the terrorist hideout and killed them all, regrettably Prince Lelouch and the girl had already been tortured to death…What do you think, your highness?"
Thoughts ran through Lelouch's head at a million miles per hour as he crouched down to see if the girl had really died. 'How can this be happening? After everything I've been through, after being forced to return to serve my father? First Jeremiah's killed and now this girl? Now I'm about to die…Before I've even had a chance to do a single thing with my life…It's all gone in heart beat. If I'm gone what will happen to Nunnally? What will the Emperor do to her without me to make use of? What will happen if I'm not around to protect her?' to his surprise the girl he thought had just died in front of him grabbed his hand. He felt like he was thrown into another dimension strange images flashed before his eyes and he heard a voice of a woman in his head.
"You don't want it to end here, do you?" that voice said.
'What?'
"You appear to have a reason for living"
'The girl? That's impossible'
"If I grant you power could you go on? I propose a deal. In exchange for this power you must agree to make my one wish come true. Accept this contract and you accept its conditions. While you living in the world of humans you will live unlike any other a different providence, a different time, a different life."
More images flashed before his eyes, a group of strangely dressed people, a red planet…
"The power of a king will condemn you to a life of solitude are you prepared for this?"
Lelouch saw what looked like a whole galaxy come towards him and then he saw his father with is back to him then he heard him speak "A convergence of the ragnarok connection? So the myth is beginning once again?"
"Yes!" Lelouch said "I accept your contract!"
He was suddenly snapped back to reality and while clutching his eye stepped away from the body of the girl. "Say…how should a Britannian Prince who detests his own country lead his life?"
The officer raised his gun again "what are you saying? Are you admitting that you're some kind of radical or something?"
"What's wrong why not shoot? I'm unarmed my knight isn't here to protect me." Lelouch taunted. "Or have you finally realized the only ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed." He moved his hand from his eye revealing a glowing signal.
"What's happening here?"
"I Lelouch vi Britannia command you. All of you…DIE!"
The man began to laugh "HAPPILY YOUR HIGHNESS!" he and the rest of the men in the unit put their guns to their necks "FIRE!" they all pulled their triggers causing a spray of blood from the individual officers some of it landed on his face.
Lelouch stood there a moment tiring to take in the whole scene 'this is the turning point' he thought to himself 'I'm sick to death of the way the world is, but I refuse to give up in despair. And now I have this power…' Lelouch looked to the lifeless body of the girl lying on the ground. 'I don't understand. What it is you want me to do' he continued to contemplate what had transpired when a loud bang interrupted his thoughts. He looked to his left and saw a Glasgow plow its way into the structure he was in.
A familiar voice came on over the intercom "My lord, thank god you're alive! Are you alright?"
Lelouch let himself relax "Jeremiah?...Man am I glad to see you!" Jeremiah exited the cock pit and lowered himself to the ground. Lelouch ran over to him. "Where did you get the Glasgow?"
"Hijacked it off of some pitiful excuse for a Knightmare pilot when he left the cockpit to take a leak."
Lelouch looked at him "No kidding?"
Jeremiah saw the dead bodies piled on the ground "Your highness what happened here?"
Lelouch smirked "Something very interesting…"
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AN: Pretty violent chapter huh? Part 3 is coming soon! (Lol a three part chapter! Now I'm just messing with you guys! XD I'm such a bitch.)
So things are still pretty close to cannon except for the obvious changes and Clovis ordering that Shinjuku be destroyed a little earlier. Can you believe Clovis ordered them to kill Lulu? He's such a bastard underneath it all! Well I guess he did feel bad about it though…oh well.
I know Lelouch actually fighting that other guy back was a bit OCC but you have to remember that in this story even though he's still not the strongest guy in the world he's still a soldier and has been trained to defend himself.
CC has finally made her entrance! Yay CC! Yay Geass! :)