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"You say that today is meant to be a day of peace. To serve as an example of unity and compassion. I'm afraid I must disagree."

Euphie could only watch the caped man with wide eyes. She had no true comprehension of what he was.

"For all of its history, humanity has been nothing more than a pack of scared and destructive animals. You purge all that is different, under the false pretense that you are the superior race of this planet. I have come to demonstrate otherwise."

With a slight of his hand, another Knightmare was lifted off the ground. It was placed in an empty spot on the roof of the stadium, where it would keep watch.

"What are you doing?"

Euphemia asked this question of the hidden man with the cape. She could think of nothing else to say.

She received no response. His eyes burned into her.

"Euphemia li Britannia" He stated calmly. "A member of the royal family. The same family that stands as my enemy, along with the rest of mankind."

"Mankind? What are you talking about?" Euphie didn't understand what was happening. "We're all people here. The zone is..."

"I am not a human. Do not belittle me by considering me a genetic inferior" Lelouch claimed. "I am a Homo Superior. I am a Mutant!"

There were scattered gasps throughout the stadium. One of whom was Euphie. She had heard rumors about a supposed sub-group of humans. People with strange appearances and abilities. But that all it was supposed to be. Rumors.

"For too long, my people have suffered by the hands of those beneath. Humanity will never except mutant-kind."

"That's not true!" Euphie begged. "Today is supposed to be a day for peace. For unity! We can..."

"Do expect me to believe any of that? After all the crimes your family has committed against my people?"

Euphie frowned. What crimes?

"You don't know, do you?" Magneto chuckled. "Of course you don't. They wouldn't tell you. Allow me to show you."

Holding his hand outward, the audience is confused when nothing seems to happen. But that only lasts a few seconds, before everyone can feel a rumbling. The stage, the stadium, and even the earth were shaking. Lelouch's eyes were closed, as he focused on whatever he was doing.

Suddenly, a giant metal square exploded from the back of the stage. All of the leaders and soldiers standing on it were forced to duck to avoid being beheaded. Magneto pulled the room close to him and dropped to the ground.

"Just like all the rest," Magneto said in disgust. With one swift motion, he yanked a large chunk of the metal wall, leaving what was inside the separated room visible.

And what it was shocked everyone in attendance.

The room was a laboratory. There were many scientific formulas and notes written everywhere, even on the walls. The room had tables, beakers, and small instruments obviously used for experiments.

Human experiments.

If the open notes didn't make that clear, then the literal skeleton floating in a tube got the message across.

"This is the fate that awaits all of my people," Magneto spat. He turned away from the stage once more, this time to face the cameras directly. And when he spoke again, his voice boomed louder than before.

"I give this message to all of my mutant brothers and sisters in the world. I say this"

"No more hiding."

"This- this can't be real, right?" Tamaki said, his voice shaking. "This is all an act. Just special effects meant to scare everyone? Right?"

"I don't think it's a lie," Ohgi quietly said. The rest were silent in their opinions.

But Kallen was silent for a different reason.

There was a man on TV, making a speech about people who were different. People like him. People with power, who would be hated for that power.

Just like her. And her brother.

"No more suffering."

C.C smiled at the screen. The plan was working.

The world was seeing.

"You have lived in the shadows in fear and shame for too long."

"What a nut..."

"This can't be real..."

"How is that possible?"

In the crowded streets of the city, people were gathering to watch events unfold on the Jumbotron. No one could look away from what was happening.

But one person was watching from a shadowed alleyway, away from all the people. He heard the man's word and wondered.

"Is he like me?"

He lifted his head, revealing brown eyes and blue hair. And blue skin.

"Come out. Join me. Fight with me in the Brotherhood of our kind."

Only a few miles away from the stadium, Suzaku was smiling as well.

He didn't think he would be needed today. And that was alright with him.

"Today was meant to be a display of human progress."

"Can't we stop this?" Scheinizel asked, an uncharacteristic nervousness in his voice. He had been prepared to face some sort of terrorist threat at the event. It was why he had sent the Knightmares.

But he never expected anything like this.

His weapons were useless. Whoever the man with the cape was, he was capable of moving things with his mind. He didn't know how that was possible, but it was happening on live television, in front of the whole world.

"I'm afraid we can't, your highness," Kanon, Scheinizel's personal assistant informed him. "No one in the broadcast room is responding to any calls to stop the broadcast. And the fastest time our personal men could get there is a few hours. We are nowhere close to Area 11."

Now truly concerned, Scheinizel continued to watch. There was little else he could do.

"Instead, I stand here to inform you of the power my race wields over yours."

Cornelia's urge and worry was reaching a boiling point. How Could This Have Happened?!

"Is there nothing we can do?"

"Unfortunately, most of our men are here," Guilford said. "That puts them at half an hour, at least. And based on what I'm seeing, they may not be very effective."

Cornelia turned to her knight in shock. Was he having doubts?

"Look at how quickly he took control of the situation. He pulled away all of the men's weapons. He's using the Knightmares as his own personal guards. I can fight terrorists and threats to the empire. But for him? A-a mutant, as he called himself?"

Guilford sighed. "I must be honest my lady. I don't know how we can win here."

Frowning, Cornelia turned back to the screen.

"A new tomorrow. That starts today."

The end of his speech was met with silence from the audience. No one dared say anything against the man who seemed to have just declared war on the human race.

"Why are you doing this?" Euphie choked out. "This zone is supposed to create peace. Why can't we figure this out?"

Magneto only chuckled. "Clovis said the same thing to me so many months ago," he said, gaining the shock of everyone present. "I wasn't foolish enough to believe his lies. I knew he would try to experiment on me the way he did with so many mutants."

Magneto's fist shook as he gave a hint to his tale.

"No needle will ever touch my skin again. I would not allow him to test me. That's why I killed him."

That announcement gained gasps from the crowd, as well as the world at large. He had just admitted to killing a prince.

"And the world is now destined for greater chaos."

he then took a pause, almost like he was considering an idea. Then he smiled.

"I will give everyone in attendance ten minutes to evacuate the area. Anyone who remains will suffer the same fate as these men before you."

Euphie and Naoto both frowned, but only she spoke. "What fate?"

Magneto snapped his fingers, and the guns holding the soldiers at bay went off.

BAM!

All of the soldiers instantly fell dead. Now panic was sweeping throughout the stadium.

"I will only say this one more time. Leave, if you wish to live."

With a flick of his hand, Lelouch threw open all of the exit doors. The screaming masses were now jumping over each other to get out.

"Please leave calmly. We don't need any more injured," Euphie said, trying to instill a sense of calm. Magneto merely stood in his spot, waiting for everyone to evacuate.

"How can you do this?" A new voice suddenly said. Magneto turned to see Naoto, with a look of indignant anger on his face.

"What do you hope to achieve by doing this? There were other plans in place."

Lelouch faced Naoto with a scowl of his own. "Other plans? Piece for humans, you mean? At the cost of my people?"

"No! This zone is only the beginning! We can use this system to protect your people, along with the Japanese. There is no need for this!"

"You're an even bigger fool than I thought," Magneto said with disgust. "Do you honestly believe humanity will not try to subjugate us, or flat-out kill us?"

Gritting his teeth, Naoto bought his hands close to his glasses. Only for metal bindings to suddenly cover his mouth and hold his hands in place.

"I've heard enough from you. I will not allow my kind to fall victim to humanity's atrocities. I will protect mutants."

He waited until all the people were gone. Once Naoto and Euphie were the only people in the stadium aside from him, he walked to the very center of the area.

"I will start by demonstrating just how powerful I am. How inferior you all are to me."

Magneto lifted both of his hands. He closed his eyes, seemingly to concentrate. When he opened them again, they were glowing a brighter purple.

Suddenly, the earth was shaking again.

"What's happening now?" Euphie wondered as the guns and sword holding her and Naoto and place dropped. But neither of them could do anything. Not least because of the fact that the trembling ground kept them from standing. And there were... cracks? Forming on the stadium?

All across them, it looked like the foundations of the structure were ripped apart. Or more specifically, ripped upwards. The concrete and plastic parts were falling down, while all the metal foundations of the stadium were being lifted towards the sky. And Lelouch was floating with it.

Suzaku and Naoto could only watch with wide, disbelieving eyes as Magneto lifted the entire stadium and every present Knightmare towards the sky.

"How could he be this powerful?" Was the only thought on both their minds.

Ignoring them both, Magneto gazed out to the city while holding all the necessary tools. His destination was in sight.

"Time to leave the Viceroy a gift."

"That's my cue," C.C said as she watched Lelouch take the stadium. She turned to all the workers around her. "Don't tell anyone I was here."

"Understood," was the response from all of them.

Quickly going through the door, C.C can't stop the sudden adrenaline going through her.

"And I didn't even want to come. Now I wouldn't miss it."

Her mutterings would have continued, if not for the soldiers who came behind her.

"Her! She's with him!"

She quickly turned around to see the two guards from the broadcast room aiming their guns at her.

"I let them go too quickly. And I can't give an order soon enough now."

Their fingers were about to pull the triggers.

"Plan B then."

The bullets shot out, collided with her skin.

They bounced off.

C.C's entire body had turned into an organic, green-colored diamond form. None of the bullets were able to penetrate her.

"What? She's like him. They're both freaks!"

"That's true," C.C said, her skin reverting to its normal form. "But we prefer to be called mutants."

Pressing two fingers to her temple, she began her assault on their minds. It was a useful trick, one that a friend had dubbed the Psychic Shout. Caused a lot of pain to the subject, and only she would be able to stop.

She left both men screaming in pain on the floor until she was a safe distance away.

Cornelia stared at the TV, for once shocked beyond words.

She just saw a man take an entire stadium hostage, kill some of her soldiers with floating guns, and now he was lifting a stadium and dragging it through the sky.

When had things stopped making sense?

"Princess, we need orders," Guilford said, dragging Cornelia from her thoughts. "What are we supposed to do about... that?"

Cornelia needed to seem strong to her men. She was the commanding officer. If she crumbled, so would everyone else. She needed to be strong.

And besides. That man had threatened her sister. He wouldn't get away with that.

"Call our air fighters. Tell them to shoot that bastard out of the sky."

"But your Highness! He can move things with his mind! Our weapons would be useless!"

Shit. He was right. But maybe...

"Alright. What about that energy cannon that Asplund made for us?"

Guilford's eyes widened. "But my Lady! We haven't tested it. It has only been installed to the base for about a week."

"Well, now is as good a time as any to test it out. Get them ready."

Diethard's mouth was on the verge of salivating. For years, he was searching for a worthy story to follow. A narrative so powerful, he would go down in history as history itself was made.

And now he found it.

Or more specifically, he was driving through the streets like a madman to keep up with it. The floating stadium in the sky. The same stadium that a caped man was holding up with his mind. He claimed to be doing this on behalf of people like him. That meant that there could be more people he could find. More stories he could tell.

Mutants. He had called them mutants. If he could find more, the number of stories he could tell would be infinite.

CRASH!

He swerved to avoid a car that had a large chunk of concrete smash into it. He wouldn't be able to tell any of those stories if he died.

For now, he would just focus on following the stadium.

"They'll send something out soon" Magneto muttered to himself as he continued floating. Sweat was dripping from his face. For all the improvements he had made in the past few years, holding up something this heavy still took a lot out of him. He would need a lot of rest once it was over. But he had another issue to focus on now.

"Cornelia may never have been as strategically gifted as me or Scheinizel, but she's not stupid. She won't risk sending any jets or Knightmares at me. She saw me move things with my mind, so she'll know that won't work with me. But still, she's not one to lay down quietly. She'll try something."

The Knightmares stood at the top of the stadium. They added weight, but they might serve a use.

"I just have to keep my... eyes...open."

Magneto's gaze narrowed as he looked ahead. Something was coming towards him. Something red. And fast.

Reacting quickly, Lelouch pulled one of the Knightmares and tossed it at the beam that was shooting towards him. Once the two collided, an explosion occurred. One that may have deterred Lelouch, if not for the shields he had set up around himself.

"I had read about the new advancements in energy weapons. It seems Cornelia decided to hog some to herself" he mused. The beams are energy-based, so I won't be able to do much until I find the source. I suppose these Knightmares will have to serve as cannon fodder then."

He continued floating forward.

"Did we hit him?"

"No, your highness. He tossed a Knightmare in the direction of the blast. We only managed to destroy that machine."

"Then fire again! Keep firing, until we hit him!"

"But your highness, the weapons are untested. There is no telling what kind of side effects..."

"We'll deal with the effects once this is over! Right now our only priority is killing this threat to the empire! Understood?!

Despite some reluctance, the answer was unanimous.

"Yes, my Lord!"

"Now fire again!"

"Any second now, another blast will come. I should prepare myself."

Just as he was saying that he saw another beam heading towards him. Just like before, he responded by throwing another Knightmare at it.

"I might actually run out of Knightmares at this point. I might need... Ah." Finding a solution to his problem, Magneto pulled several billboards from their spots on the stadium. They weren't as bulky as the Knightmares, but they should be able to shield him for now.

"Why haven't we hit him yet?!"

"My lady, he keeps seeing the blasts coming. And he keeps using Knightmares to take the blasts. It takes time for the weapon to charge, in fact, it's starting to overheat."

"I don't care about any of that! What I care about is figuring out how to blast him out of the sky!"

"M-my lady" Guilford suddenly interrupted. "It may be too late for that."

Guilford pointed outside the window, and Cornelia followed his line of sight. What she saw had her trembling.

He was now visible outside the window. As was the stadium he was holding up above the buildings. There were both withing eyesight. Which meant he was dangerously close.

"My lady, I hate to suggest this. I truly hate to suggest this. But perhaps retreat is now our best course of action."

Cornelia looked at Guilford as if he had grown a second head.

"I understand that our policy is to make sure no threats to the empire survive. But in this case, I just don't see how we can win."

Cornelia realized that she was going to have to swallow a bitter pill. She wasn't going to win a fight against him. The only victory she would achieve is serving this encounter.

"Alright. Get the plane ready."

"Is this all it takes to make Cornelia, the Goddess of Victory, run away? I expected that to be more difficult."

He watched the plane fly away. It would be fairly easy to pull the metal machine towards himself. But he had another mission to complete. Killing the Princess could come another day.

As he carried the stadium above the base, he located the energy weapon.

"Interesting little contraption there. I wonder..."

Reaching out towards it, Magneto grabbed hold of the barrel of the weapon and closed it shut. Even from as high as he was, he could see it begin to overheat.

"Good."

Making sure the angle was right, Magneto turned his hands down. "Cornelia always did say it was important to block out the commoners."

When the stadium dropped, it engulfed the entirety of the Viceroy's base. It was not completely cut off from the city around. And that made what came next much more pleasant to look at.

The energy cannon, unable to expel the energy held within it, exploded. And that explosion soon spread to the machines it was connected to. The fires from these reactions soon spread, until the entire base was engulfed in flames. And because the stadium was surrounding the base, the destruction was unable to spread, staying right where it was. Likewise, no one would be able to get inside to help.

Magneto couldn't help but smile at the sight.

"How long will it take us to rebuild?"

Guilford hesitated before answering. He was still shocked by what he was seeing on the news screen. The entire base was gone.

"A long time princess. That building was constructed when the area was founded. Back when enthusiasm and hope for the empire were at an all-time high. It- might be difficult to recover from this."

Cornelia didn't even try to cover her sour mood. It only took one day, scratch that, less than two hours, for everything to go wrong. She already knew that Euphie's Special Zone wouldn't work. But she never expected anything like this.

And that bastard said that there were more people like him out there. If that was true, then they might have another war on their hands. One that they might not win.

"Let's just focus on getting Euphie. I don't even want to think about this."

Magneto took a moment to admire his work. What was once the base of Area 11's Viceroy was now a burning husk trapped inside of a dome. Yes, causing this took a lot of effort and stamina from him.

But the results were most certainly worth it. Now humanity would know that his people were the superior race.

Taking his eyes away from his work, Magneto saw paramedics, policemen, and even reporters pulling up to the scene. But one individual that caught his eye was one that recklessly drove his car to the stadium, and leaving it with nothing more than a camera in his hand.

Suddenly getting an idea, Magneto smirked. He reached out with his power and took the camera from the man's grasp. Pulling it closer, he checked that it was on, pointed it at the stadium, before finally speaking.

"Look there, was is now a flaming husk was once a proud symbol of human power. But with just a little effort from me, it has been reduced to what it is now. And I am not alone."

He turned the camera back to himself.

"To all the mutants who see this, go to where all the lost end up. You will find me there. And together, we can protect our species from those who would see us either destroyed, experimented, or enslaved. Help me to save our people and I promise, I will help you to live without fear."

Turning the camera off, he sent it back to the person who had it, and he flew away.

Diethard held the camera in his hand like a newborn infant. No, the footage within it was more important than any child.

This was the key. The grand narrative he had been seeking for years. He would finally have it!

All he had to do was publish a video.

"So when's our next move?"

"Hopefully soon. For now, we need to wait to see how the world reacts to today. Once more mutants join us, we can discuss what to do next."

"That makes sense. Keep me posted."

"Obviously. I'll see you Suzaku."

Lelouch sighed after hanging up on his old friend.

"You certainly overworked yourself."

Both Lelouch and Cera plopped down on the couch in their apartment. When people asked how they were able to stay there, they just said that Lelouch's dad had money. It wasn't a complete lie, and it was easier to explain the Cera using her telepathy to convince the owner to let them stay free of charge.

"I don't even have the energy to retort that. Lifting that stadium took a lot of power from me."

Cera grinned. "How does it feel though? Knowing that you are able to do that?"

Lelouch chuckled. "It's- it's incredible honestly. The first time I used my power was to try to move a gate. I never imagined I could move something that large. I don't even know if that's my limit."

Cera frowned. "What do you mean? Didn't you say that lifting the stadium drained you?"

"It did, certainly. But at the same time, I felt like I could do more. That there was more I could do with my power."

Cera took on a thoughtful look. "Shaw said that your power is connected to magnetism itself. It that's true, then there really is no telling what you could do. Magnetism is one of the fundamental forces of the universe after all."

"And if I could control all of that... it's actually scary to think of having that much power. It's a lot."

"It would be useful though. Especially with the war now on the horizon."

Lelouch frowned at the reminder. Humanity knew about them now. The governments of the world would now be searching for more mutants. His people would be hunted like vermin. For their sake, he had no choice but to fight for their survival.

"I know. I just hope I can find more mutants willing to fight with me."

"You have me," Cera said, resting her head on his shoulder. "You can start with one follower, right?"

'Partner," Lelouch corrected, earning him a smile. "And yes, it's a start. But if we are to win the war, we are going to need more. An army, preferably."

"Are you prepared to lead?"

"When I was a prince, I was taught to contribute. I would one day take a role in leading the empire. And Shaw taught us both how to control the gifts that evolution gave us. I certainly feel ready."

Lelouch sighed. "I just hope that they can choose to come. Fear has been rampant for so long. Many may not be willing."

Cera smiled softly. "Could you pass me the remote?"

Complying, Lelouch held out his palm, to which the remote floated to. He handed it to Cera, who proceeded to turn on the TV. The news was still covering his message, as well as his attack on the Viceroy. After flipping a few channels, they realized that he was the only story the news was covering.

"The message was heard all over the world. There may be some too scared to fight. But those who are willing will also hear you. And they will come to join you. I'm sure of it."

"I hope so," Lelouch said, wrapping his arm around Cera to bring her closer. "This war will determine the future of our people. Failure, just like peace, is not an option."

Now the fun will truly begin. The next chapter will mostly focus on establishing aspects of this world that will be important later on. Also, it will show the reactions of other characters to the events that just took place. I'm looking forward to that.

I'll also be showing some other characters in the next chapter who are also mutants. Not every Code Geass character is one though, so don't expect everyone to suddenly have powers. Still, some revelations ought to be fun.

Anyway, please leave reviews, tell me what you think, and I will see you all next time.

Bye!