...So The Blood Already Spilt Will Not Be In Vain.
Ashford Academy, well it's certainly been some time. Right now I was meeting Lelouch, he was at the old aqueduct or around that area, the same place that that psycho Mao captured Nunnally and placed a bomb next to her. It would be easy to sneak in, it was well past hours and the people that were monitoring Lelouch were now working with him and besides they didn't know my identity, the only ones who did were Emperor Charles, most likely and the one who had captured me. Suzaku Kururugi.
That treacherous bastard. Betraying his family, his country, his legacy. Heh now that I think about it, I'm being hypocritical. I too have betrayed my family, my country, my legacy. I suppose we're alike in that way Suzaku. I exited the elevator and found myself in a room with monitors everywhere and a large table in the centre, there sat Lelouch playing with a chess piece. I thought of something that would definitely confuse him.
"Hey Lelouch." I walked in and sat down.
"Lincoln, welcome." He payed me no mind.
"So Lelouch there's something I need to tell you." Lelouch placed the chess piece down and looked at me.
"Lelouch, think of mother and Nunnally." I commanded him. The image of a bird appearing in my vision. Lelouch looked stunned and then tears started streaming down his eyes.
"You have a Geass!?" Lelouch said between sniffs.
"Yep. Now stop." Lelouch suddenly stopped crying and scowled.
"What does it do?" Lelouch asked taking off his contact lens showcasing the bird on his eye.
"From what I understand I can change the persons thoughts and feelings, like right now, I made you think of... that day." Lelouch nodded understandingly.
"Who gave you it?" Lelouch was certainly skeptical.
"Satan himself." I told him, Stone faced. Lelouch chuckled. My expression remained the same.
"Hm, you aren't actually kidding. Is that what you meant by going to hell? I thought it was just a figure of speech, oh well, so what did you get us?" Lelouch sat up instead of being hunched over like he usually is. "Well apart from my Geass I got a single frame. It's not a Knightmare, not really. But it kind of is. It's for my personal use. As only I can operate it." I explained, tapping my fingers on the table.
"I see, let's hope it can at least match up to the Gurren then. I also have some news... it's about Nunnally." He hung his head low.
"What is it is she..."
"No, no she's not dead. She's the new viceroy of Area 11." Lelouch admitted, I held my head in my hands.
"I suppose that's good we can maybe rescue her-." Lelouch cut me off. "It would be kidnapping, but yes, she's coming her tomorrow on a Logres-Class Flagship. She'll be accompanied by three Caerleon-class Battlecruisers too. We're going to hit them in the middle of the pacific. That way no reinforcements from either Tokyo or Hawaii can make it within the timeframe I've selected." Lelouch explained the basic outline. "Very well, I can't imagine we'll need our cousin and her friends." I asked him referring to Rias. I left them at Issei's house, they were all hungover after that party thing we had with the leaders of the realms. They were all rather nice. Which definitely surprised me.
"They could be useful. But... no. They're our Ace. If we reveal we have magical powers just now someone will catch on and deploy something equally bad."
His reasoning made sense. If the emperor found out he would probably use magic against us. A risk that obviously we cannot take.
"Ok that's good, honestly I could hardly stand to be around them they're all so immature. They have incredible power but don't know how to use it. Anyway listen, my Doom Slayer frame can get us into the consulate undetected. Should we go now?" I asked Lelouch. "Now would be best. We only have fifteen or so Knightmares. So the majority of our forces are going to rendezvous with Rakshata and our R team on the submarine." Lelouch stood up and was about to leave when the elevator doors suddenly opened. Out stepped Baroness Viletta Nu. I burst out laughing.
"Haha! Oh this is just embarrassing for you isn't it! Having to work with- no FOR Zero oh it's hilarious." I was in hysterics. I'm not sure why though, I mean yeah it was kind of ironic and all. But...
This is the side effect isn't it?
By changing ones feelings and thoughts, I end up changing my own mood randomly. After a few seconds of insane laughter I composed myself.
"So Lelouch, I had another idea, I'm coming back to this school. Or rather I'm going to merge the school I'm at with Ashford Academy." I said nonchalantly as if nothing happened, also paying no mind to the woman who just walked in.
"And how do you plan to do that? First off your school is mixed. And second of all the Knights of The Round are also on the student council meaning that as soon as Suzaku sees you you're done. Oh well tell me what's your plan?" Lelouch was genuinely intrigued. "Appealing to Nunnally's caring nature of course. Suzaku changed the way this school views Japanese. And if a school building is blown up by terrorists. The students have no where to go, thus meaning we'd have to transfer somewhere. You are going to command the head of the Ashford family to make the request that allows the students of Kuoh Academy to come to Ashford to the new Viceroy, she'll accept. It would help give her what she wants, a more liberal and free Area 11." I explained my plan. Lelouch was thinking.
"No, I'm not having the black knights be blamed for blowing up a school building." Lelouch told me.
"I never said it would be the black knights, I've already made a deal with some Middle Eastern terror group. They get a truck load of weapons from me. And in fact... it's already happened." I looked at my watch, the time was 11:46 the building was blown up a minute ago. "Ahem." Viletta coughed.
"Oh, you're still here?" I said sarcastically.
"Shirley has been asking for you Zero. I normally wouldn't bother you with this but it's serious." Viletta admitted. "It'll have to wait, whatever it is." Lelouch brushed it off. Viletta groaned, she clearly hated this. "Well see ya'." I waved to her as me and Lelouch departed.
We were both in my Knightmare. I had requested the computer to create space for a second pilot, similar to how the Gawain worked. I heard a sound, like a phone ring tone, I looked down at Lelouch, he shrugged. "Not mine." He said. "
"Incoming call from contact AK. Real name Akeno Himejima." The computer said, well it was actually an A.I.
"Answer it." I commanded. Akeno suddenly started talking into the sound system, I could hear sirens. "Lincoln! You're alive!" Her voice was loud, very loud. "Ah! Computer! volume to 55." I ordered.
"Ahh sorry. Yes I'm alive AK, why are you surprised, did something happen?" I asked, grinning.
"The school, it blew up. I don't know what happened but they said a group called Al-Qaeda blew it up." Akeno had given me confirmation that it had definitely happened.
"How do you know it wasn't the Black Knight's?" I asked her, fake concern in my voice. "They said they found one of the terrorists shot dead inside and their flag next to him. I'm just glad you're alright. Everyone else is fine... I have to go now, bye Lincy." Akeno hung up. Lelouch laughed. "AK? Lincy?" He turned around to me. "Shut... up..." I looked down slightly embarrassed. That's the first I've felt that since... well before the Black Knights.
"Master Lincoln. We are here." The A.I reported. "Lelouch, masks, remember?" I reminded Lelouch as I slid mine onto my head. We Both stepped out, meeting Kallen and C.C. Both had just been sleeping but were armed in case it wasn't us. Kallen with a rolled up newspaper, and C.C with Cheese-kun.
"Nice Knightmare." Kallen stated.
"It isn't... A Knightmare, it is actually quite nice." I told her.
"Something about you has changed, Lincoln. Do you have a..." C.C was waiting for me to answer. "Yes C.C. I have a Geass, I can change others thoughts and feelings. It's similar to Lelouch's but I can only change thoughts and not force them to do anything. For example if I said kill all the Japanese, Kallen wouldn't do it." I explained referring to what Lelouch had done before. "However say somebody was trying to ascertain whether or not I was a threat. I could place doubts in that persons head and even if they knew I was, they would do nothing about it."
I explained further, alluding to what I was going to do Suzaku once we met again.
"Who gave you it." C.C clasped cheese-Kun tighter in her arms. "My cousin, Satan." I told her with a smile. For once she made a half smile. Certainly unexpected.
"Uhm... nice metaphors and all but what was that all about at Babel tower you just... disappeared?" Kallen scratched her head. "Teleportation, anymore stupid questions? No? Then let's get inside I'm starving."
"Oh you bastard! I had 24 kills! I could've totally gotten a nuke!" Tamaki shouted at the TV. Me, Zero, Kallen and C.C walked into the main living area of the consulate as if it was nothing.
"Holy shit! Red you're still alive!" Tamaki had noticed I was here. "Tamaki, still as loud as ever." I extended my hand out to him. "Handshakes are for coworkers! We're brothers in arms, right?" Tamaki hugged me, not in a loving way but in a 'you've been away for year and just suddenly show up again kind of way'.
"Commander, glad to see your still alive." Tohdoh corrected his posture and saluted. "Good to see you General." In most places General outranked Commander and he did outrank me but I was still known as Zero's right hand, an unofficial title yes. But it meant that I was pretty much second to Zero. Similar to how C.C has no rank but is still listened to and respect, by most.
"Deputy commander. I see you're still standing." I greeted Ohgi. "Yeah good to see you too."
"You're the one they call The Red Right Hand? Is that correct?" Someone asked, I turned around to the direction of the voice, it was Li Xingke.
"Li Xingke. I've read about your exploits, you're a fine warrior, a man with a good heart and inspiration to me and all the Chinese people." Most people would assume I was just flattering him, but I meant every word of it. "I've also heard lost about you. The executioner. The leader of the fearless Samsara team whose face shall never be revealed. From what I've heard you're one of the greatest sharpshooters to ever live once taking out a britannian general at over 4 kilometres away, and a fine hand to hand combatant." Xingke extended his arm, we both shook. The faceless Samsara he was referring to was once an elite unit I commanded before the Black Rebellion. Lelouch had captured Britannian fighters, the best. And Geassed them to follow my every command. They all wore the mask of Zero. They all died back then, they were... useful and lethal. "Well it's been an honour to make your acquaintance." I bowed slightly. "Anyway, is anyone going to have that pizza?" I pointed to the Pizza Hut box. C.C ran over and clutched it.
"Okay then... fine."
"It's time Suzaku, you're going to kill me."
"I will not let you call that a lie! Over my dead body!"
"I'm not going to be discouraged by fate."
"Even a Pawn can take out a King."
"I won't give up, it's all I've got left!"
"Run. Run and don't look back."
I shot up out of my slumber, cold sweat again. Ever since i gained my Geass my dreams are no longer about what I've seen and done. It's just random sentences, Quotes. The voices are always so familiar but I can never place who's saying it. I looked around at the bedroom I was in, or makeshift bedroom I suppose. I was with Lelouch, Kallen and C.C. Not on the same bed obviously. Me and Kallen were lying on different sofas. Lelouch and C.C slept on a single bed. She used to do that before, I don't think she loves Lelouch or wants him sexually, she just seems to do things that feel nice. I looked at my watch it read 06:56. I stretched and groaned.
Then an idea popped into my head. I materialised a water gun and walked over to Kallen, then an even better idea popped into my head. I materialised yet another rifle and held one in both hands. I aimed one at Kallen and the other at Lelouch and C.C, I pulled the trigger.
"Idiot! I'll kill you!"
"Ahh! What the hell!"
"Mmgh."
Kallen tackled me and Lelouch stumbled over her. C.C still lied soaking wet in bed.
"Where did you get a water gun!" Kallen interrogated me. "Hm, wouldn't you like to know." I smirked. "Do you want to get off of me, you're, Y'know naked." I told her. Her face went beet red and she quickly jumped off me running into the bathroom adjacent to the room. Lelouch gathered himself. "Funny joke brother. Ah, I suppose we do have work to do." Lelouch stated, running a hand through his now matted hair. "You should really get that cut, unless you like the emo look." I mocked him.
"And have it look like that microphone on your head? No thanks." I smiled. When I was with the Black Knights I felt alive. I didn't feel the need to act superior to others. Because, well I was here. Except for Lelouch.
We ascended into the sky, about 4000 ft in the air, not very high up if I do say so. The other Knightmares were being airlifted up, except for mine. Mines could fly on its own. The Flagship and it's escorts came into view.
"The Objective of This Operation is the captured of the new viceroy. No matter what happens! She absolutely must not be harmed. Keep her safe! Is that clear!!" '
Don't worry Lelouch anybody lays a finger on her, they get head full of lead.'
"Roger."
We all said unison, even though Lelouch had a voice synthesiser there was obvious haste and desperation in it. The Britannians had scrambled fighter jets, they had already taken out two units before I disabled them. The other guys had activated their smoke as we originally planned. Me, Kallen and the four holy swords landed on the airship disabling the top mounted AA canons. The smoke erupted into a huge fireball set of by Ohgi in an attack chopper. "We're withdrawing." Ohgi said over comms.
"I'm entering the ship. Whatever you do it is paramount that you do not cause any significant damage until I say otherwise." Lelouch turned off his comms there and then. I activated my palm mounted magnetohydrodynamic gun. Or MAHEM for short.
What it does is pretty much fire molten metal at insanely high speeds using electromagnets, causing lots of damage, the interesting -or rather one of the- part about the Doom Slayer frame is that it takes advantage of my sacred gear. So I can effectively change the weapons on the frame at will. I aimed my arm at the escort ship and... it imploded in not even a second.
"Woah." Kallen said amazed at the destructive capabilities.
"Looks like their running out air strength too." Shōgo Asahina said overflowing with confidence.
"You'll end up a skinned rabbit. Don't get cocky." Senba reminded him.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll stick to basics but-." He stopped talking, most likely dealing with enemy forces. "Reinforcements from Tokyo, so soon?" Chiba asked bewildered, I looked on my radar and sure enough I could see four targets.
"No, it's their rear guard and they have float units." Tohdoh said what I suspected. "I'll deal with them." I finally entered the conversation.
"There's four of them! How exactly are you going to take them out." Tohdoh asked.
"Sounds about even." I smirked, flying into the air.
"Is that?.." Kallen too had figured out who led them.
"Lord Guildford." I finished her sentence. Lord Guildford flew towards the Gurren seemingly ignoring the much more powerful Knightmare above him. 'Fine then Guildford I'll just take out your minions.'
I flew into one of the Knightmares at high speed, higher speed than any other Knightmare on record, but I couldn't go all out. Lest I destroy Lelouch and Nunnally. "Sorry I'm out." One of our pilots ejected. 'Great now we only have six active Knightmares.' I shot 800mm rounds at one of the Knightmares imploding it upon impact. Yeah that's right. I just fired the largest caliber ever produced out of a mech. So what? "This guy! what the hell is that thing!" One of the pilots asked obviously shaken. "The one who'll deliver you back to your family in a bag!" I said sarcastically into the loudspeaker before firing a 20 ton tungsten round from my Magnetic Accelerator Cannon. The laws of physics didn't apply to me or my Doom Slayer.
Fuck you Newton.
"That's one weird fighter plane." Asahina remarked.
"A Knightmare!" He said immediately after. I ripped the last of Guildford's Knightmares apart before looking back at the ship. One of the escorts was about to crash into it. Realising this fact I threw myself into it attempting to move the impact trajectory to elsewhere. Suddenly a large flash of light engulfed my vision before flinging me at least two miles away. It was a hadron cannon all right. "Warning! Warning left wrist is no longer functional, shall we heal it." The onboard A.I asked. "Do it!" I said without thinking, an agonising pain shot up my left arm. I screamed in pain. It felt like it was just broken and then snapped back into place. "Regeneration Cycle complete." The regeneration thingy has finished. I found the source of the hadron cannon. They wouldn't dare use it again, the same way I couldn't use the full potential of this beauty.
I flew forward, breaking the sound barrier and smashing into the Knightmare that had shot me. "You bastard! You'll regret that!" I shouted over the speakers. The Knightmare fired a shot into the chest plate of my Doom Slayer to no avail. The person inside audibly gasped. "Heh." I was prepared to rip through the cockpit when something grabbed me and threw me away, for a brief second I could see what it was.
The Lancelot.
"Kururugi.
You bastard...
I'LL KILL YOU!" I straightened myself in midair. But I wasn't facing Suzaku I was facing another.
The Tristan, a Seventh Generation Knightmare, piloted by Knight of Three Gino Weinberg. An old friend from before the invasion of Japan.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Gino fired 20mm rounds which were easily dodged and deflected, I was so fixated on Suzaku I couldn't care about Gino. I launched the fist forwards into Suzaku.
"Gino! Who the hell is this guy!" He asked over speaker. "Don't know!" Weinberg tried to slice his blade through the cockpit but instead it bounced off. Like hitting a metal box with a metal pole. In fact that's what it literally was.
"What the-!" I punched his Knightmare sending him away and in an act of irony delivering a spin kick to suzaku's Lancelot. The three knights of the round gathered together.
"Bring it." I said quietly to myself, preparing to take them all on, but as fate would have they all turned around to look at the new long range radiant wave surger Rakshata had shown me on the train to Hell. It destroyed two Knightmares and Guildford's but he managed to eject. "Suzaku save the Viceroy!" Gino ordered. "Kuzuki. Save the two of them. I'll deal with these so called Knights." I ordered her.
"Roger sir!" She speeded away trying to pinpoint Lelouch's location.
"Well Gino, how long has it been ten, eight years? Look at you, working for the same people who detested your relationship with that Eleven!" I'm not sure if he knew who I was.
"Who are you? How did you know that?!" Yep, he didn't, he was never the smartest. I fired a tungsten shell at the other Knightmare, it managed to dodge it. Opting for close quarters combat I pulled out my plasma sword. "Woah! That swords neat! Too bad you won't have it for long!" Gino boosted forward at me, his own sword out, I didn't even need to block his attack, his sword melted right through mine. "Now... what can you do?" I flew up to the other Knightmare, it atttemped to fire its hadron cannon, i dodged out of the way landing a hit on the Knightmares right leg.
"I'll admit it your skills are on par if not dwarfing mine. Right old friend?" Gino may have figured out who I was or at least narrowed it down, he was quite popular back then so the chances of him knowing it was a member of the Britannian Royal Family would be quite low.
"You're also very skilled, all of you, perhaps if things were different we would need not fight. But... well you know." I told him. He mumbled in agreeance
"Till next time." Him and the other pilot flew off, with suzaku who had taken...
Nunnally. I wanted to do something, anything, but I couldn't. I might've killed her if I did.
Once the fighting had stopped my head felt heavy. My left arm started tensing up, and I couldn't do anything to stop it, it started glowing white. My body felt stiff, my lips were cracked and dry. I struggled to keep my eyes open but I did through sheer force of will. I made my way down to the sub once I landed on the Hull I must've dozed off or something Because when I woke up Rias stood over me.
"R-Rias? What the? How are you here? In fact where am I." I slowly opened my eyes. "My house, calm yourself, it'll only make your condition worse." She placed her hand on my chest forcing me back down.
"Your house? I thought you lived with Issei." I asked her, reaching for the glass of water next to the bed.
"I did but we're changing schools. That's the orders of the new viceroy." Rias said, a second later her entire demeanour changed like she had offended me.
"Viceroy? Viceroy...! Nunnally." I shot up, my body still stiff.
"Careful! Careful! Your condition won't stabilise if you do that." She said trying to slowly place me back down on the bed.
"What condition?" I asked her my head still a mess.
"Your sacred gear it's... changed or rather upgraded I suppose. But that, your Geass and the Doom Slayer my brother gave you, they're taking a toll on your body." Riss explained. "Well not really Rias. What's happening is his metabolism and muscles are adjusting to all the added variables. And of course the usual sacred gear upgrade." A man interjected, the voice was familiar.
"Your Azazel right? We met at that party?" I recognised his brown and blond hair and his goatee.
"Sure am. Now fortunately there is a cure for this, that'll work instantly, but it'll only work if you've never been with a woman before. I trust you haven't?"Azazel said with a smirk, I couldn't even form one.
"No...ahh, I haven't." I groaned in pain. "Well it goes like this, you and another virgin cuddle for about a day or so and voilà back to perfect health." You know, his hand gestures during talking could rival Lelouch.
"Fine, just give me morphine or something, please." I pleaded with Rias. "Ok fine but only because you asked nicely. Luckily for you it's only the afternoon so you won't be late for our new school on Monday." Rias giggled as she gave me some morphine, I started to slip away, thinking about everything at once.
Fight.
Fight.
Fight.