Chapter 34 : Nightmares from the past.
Weiswolf, 3.15pm
Marianne was in her bedroom and was surfing the internet thanks to a PC she had bought earlier. As she imagined, the main news was about the war between humans and aliens, and he would have been surprised to the contrary.
Damn ... It took a while but the extraterrestrial threat was expelled from Europe. And the credit is largely from my son Lelouch, even if it disgusts me to admit it.
She think.
At one point she was hungry.
Luckily I got myself forewarned ...
She took a sandwich with ham and cheese from her desk, leaning next to the computer. She was about to bite him when someone knocked on the door.
Perfect timing….
"Come in!"
"Hello Mom."
"Good afternoon, Marianne."
Christ…
Mentally cursed the woman, not at all happy with that visit.
She put the sandwich down.
"I don't want to see ..." She stopped, looking at them in front of her, both standing and smiling.
"I don't want to hear you!"
"Aren't you going to be angry about that?"
"Because of you the connection Ragnarok failed, because of you I am a widow, because of you I spent a decade imprisoned in the world of C! Of course I'm angry! "
"The Ragnarok connection was a crazy project."
"Said by a man who enslaved humanity with the geass ..."
"A security measure, to prevent plots and rebellions against me. By the way, I'd be curious to know how you got back. "
"My body was kept in a place of worship under the ruins of Machu Picchu. I was awakened by a group of people led by Toto, a former cult affiliate. "
"I guess your hand is behind this initiative ... True, CC?"
"I needed people with geass, so they could create a team that could break down your dictatorship."
"A superfluous initiative, given that Evergreen was enough to neutralize me."
"True ... Look on the bright side, at least you have not suffered contrary to your dead comrades."
Lelouch sighed.
"Not comrades, traitors. After all I did for them they dared to rebel against me. My revenge was more than right. And do not believe that my hibernation was all roses: I still had feelings and thoughts. It's a tough three-year nightmare populated with the worst moments of my life. "
CC and Marianne looked at him strangely.
"Were you conscious?" His mother asked him.
"Exact. I couldn't move or talk about it, but my mind was still active. "
"It must have been terrible ..." the green commented.
"More than you think."
"Anyway, disappear. I have to eat. "She called them Marianne.
"Can't you eat anyway?"
"With your faces in front of me I would go sideways ... Spin!"
"We came to visit you ..."
"Do you want to understand that I hate you? Because of you I spent 10 years of hell! "
"We've all had it, especially myself. And not a decade, centuries! "
Annoyed, Marianne looked away.
"I just wanted to create a better world ... I acted with the best intentions!"
"Some of the scariest things you can ever imagine were done with the best intentions ... Come on, Lelouch. Obviously we are not welcome. "
The girl came out, closely followed by her lover, while Marianne took her sandwich and began to eat.
Stupid!
She thought, between bites.
"It didn't go the way we hoped." CC said.
"Not at all," Lelouch added.
"What did you think she would do? You saw how she reacted to your first appearance. "
"I saw and heard."
"So I don't understand why you aim to reconcile yourself with her, especially after what she did."
"We are at war. At this moment we must be united, and grudges undermine the cohesion of the group. This can negatively affect the morale and conduct of the chain of command, and consequently on the army. "
"Only for what?"
"Should there be another reason?"
"Lelouch, it's still your mother. Despite her past behavior I doubt you could hate her, at least not totally. "
"This is a secondary issue, to be postponed until after the end of the conflict."
"You're right."
Toromo Institute, 9.30 pm
Zhou was in her quarters and was lying on the bed.
The war, albeit slowly, begins to turn in our favor. The invaders retreat everywhere in the world, and this is a good thing, if we consider that until last week we were in trouble. However, the alien threat is far from being eradicated. Half of the world is still in their hands.
She turned on her side and closed her eyes, falling asleep after a few minutes. However, her sleep was troubled by a memory dating back many years.
Start dream / flashback
Gobi Desert, former Chinese Federation, October 1, 2019, 7:49 pm
Zhou was at an abandoned military base located in the Gobi desert; once it had been one of the most important military structures, only to be evacuated at the time of the so-called Silk Revolution, which had broken down the oligarchic and corrupt regime of the Great Eunuchs, vile and inept men, who with their politics had led the Chinese Federation to the collapse. Their fall was followed by the brief period of government of Li Xingke (known as Shinku), her superior, who had taken the reins of the country with the support of the Black Knights, governing the nation for a short period instead of the young empress Tianzi. This was before it was swept away by the rise of Lelouch vi Britannia, who had taken control of the entire world for about a year. Few opposed his tyranny, small resistance groups scattered around the globe, but they could do little against imperial dominance. She was driving one of these. At that moment she scrutinized the horizon from a lookout tower, aided by the light of the full moon and the innumerable stars covering the sky. Beside her stood Hong, clearly worried.
"Why doesn't it come? Did the mission fail? " She asked himself.
"Will arrive. Xia is a smart girl. "
"I do not doubt it…"
"Here it is!" The woman exclaimed.
On the horizon three military trucks and a pick-up appeared.
"Will she be able to get hold of the load of weapons?"
"Hong, if she didn't succeed she wouldn't come back alive. Let's go and welcome her. "
"Agree."
"Open the gates!" She ordered, via radio.
"Yes, ma'am!" A voice replied.
Once out of the tower the two reached the courtyard and waited for the arrival of the small convoy, which arrived in a short time. Xia Yu Lan, a girl with short black hair and red eyes, who had once served in the former Chinese army as a frame pilot descended from the pick-up.
"How did the mission go?" Zhou asked.
"I have two trucks loaded with weapons, but unfortunately we have suffered losses." The new arrival replied.
"It was predictable ... Let's make sure they didn't die in vain."
"Look, I need to talk to you. In private."
"Agree. Hong, stay here. Xian, follow me. "
Zhou led her guest in her office, once occupied by General Cao, author of the unlucky 2017 Kyushu blitz. It was simply furnished: a desk with some old paperwork on it; two decorative plants, now dried up; a chair in front of the desk; finally, a bookshop with some books, including the Art of War by Sun Tzu, a text dating back at least to the 6th century BC and basic work of the Chinese military for countless centuries. The same emperor Lelouch had read it, or so it was said.
"What did you want to talk to me about?" She asked.
"We are at a standstill."
"What would you say?"
"We are few. The weapons we took will keep us going for some time, but once we run out of ammunition we're going to do? Will we embark on new suicide attacks? "
"I understand your point of view ... But we must continue to fight for the freedom of our homeland and the world. Lelouch can't have won it. "
"Can't win ... Do you think it's a game?"
"Lelouch is enslaving people with his geass. At this rate we will all become puppets in his hands ... And Shinku will be dead for nothing. "
"You must think of the living, not the dead!"
"In fact, I think about it!"
"I do not think so. Why don't we give up this madness? We can settle in some remote region and live there. "
"And abandon our people, indeed the whole humanity in the hands of that monster? No, I cannot."
"Alright then…"
Suddenly Xia drew her gun and pointed it at Zhou, surprising her quite a bit. From the outside came a series of shouted orders, followed by bursts of machine guns. The British army had found the base, it was slaughtering the rebels.
"NO!" The woman shouted in alarm.
She started to stand up but Xia hit her in the head with the butt of his pistol, knocking her unconscious.
When she came to, she was tied to her hands and feet in a cell, and Xia stared at her mockingly.
"Well woken up, my friend ... You slept for many hours, you know?"
"Bitch ... You sold us!"
"I had no choice ... Lelouch now dominates unchallenged. No one can stop it. "
"Your friend has a lot more brain than you ..." A man's voice said from behind Xia.
The girl stepped aside, showing Lelouch in the company of Jeremiah and Cecile.
"Where is Hong?" She asked anxiously.
"He is fine. He is now a loyal servant. And you too will become one. "
"Stay away from me! I will not fall in your power! "
The emperor smiled wickedly at those words and approached her. He took off his colored lenses and said:
"Lelouch you Britannia orders you: become a my slave!"
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Zhou shouted, terrified, before giving in to the geass.
"Yes, your majesty."
"Perfect ... Answer a question."
"Which?"
"Where is Cornelia?"
"I do not know. We separated after the execution of the prisoners and I haven't seen her since. "
"Too bad ... Jeremiah, free her."
"Are you sure, majesty?"
"Do you doubt my geass, maybe? Now she is a docile mannequin in my hands. "
"Excuse the question."
The man loosened the chains that immobilized the young woman's hands and feet, which fell to the ground. Lelouch opened the zipper and pulled out his erect dick.
"You know what to do, don't you? You are certainly not a child ... "
Zhou began to suck it without hesitation.
Good girl ...
The boy thought, lustful.
At one point he came copiously, dirtying her face. Noticing that a few drops had ended up on the floor, he grabbed the girl by the hair and brought her face an inch from them.
"Pull out your tongue ... AND CLEAN!"
Zhou obeyed without saying a word. When he had finished Lelouch laughed diabolically and kicked her in the stomach, causing her a tremendous pain to the point of bending her in two.
"Soon everyone will be like her ... I will impose geass on the whole human race! I am already at work to reach this goal ... And I will get there! "
"Your majesty, it's time to go back to Pendragon." Cecile warned him.
He stared at her grimly.
"Are you ordering me?"
"No ... I just wanted to remind you!"
He slapped her.
"You only serve me to appease my desires, not to remind me of obviousness! Am I clear?"
"Yes, your majesty. Forgive my insolence. "She apologized bowing.
"Next time I won't be so forgiving."
"I'm going to prepare the car."
That said the woman took her leave.
Lelouch turned to Zhou.
"Follow me, slave. You too, Xia. "
"Yes, your majesty." The two women answered in unison.
End of dream / flashback
Zhou awoke.
Yet…
She think.
After the capture Lelouch had taken her to Pendragon, where he had been a concubine for a few years ... A period marked by humiliations and repeated abuses. Then, in 2022, he named her governor of the province of China, also because she had found better concubines than she. Fortunately he had now been dethroned and lay somewhere where he was reduced to a stone statue. Comforted by that thought, she fell asleep again, hoping not to have other nightmares.