The people of the Shinjuku Ghetto were running for their lives in horror as Britannian soldiers and their knightmares were shooting and killing people. To the Third prince of Britannia these were acceptable losses nothing more than sub humans that could be disposed of without a second thought in order to protect the secret that would make him the 99th emperor. The massacre continued on in Shinjuku as innocent men women and children attempted to flee for their lives, only to be shot down without mercy by their Brittanian overlords. Meanwhile, Lelouch was running with the mysterious green haired girl with him. For C.C. after she felt that she was some degree of safe looked over her at her savior and felt a gasp at the sight of his wrist blades. In her over 800 years of immortality she had made many contracts in an attempt to rid herself of her curse however each and every time the same thing happened, she got to attached. There were names and faces that she never forgot of her contractors, and she had seen those blades amongst them. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward James Kenway, Ratonhnhaké:ton, Arno Victor Dorian, and the twins Evie and Jacob Frye. They had all weld those blades and had become some of her closest friends before their deaths.

"It's a damn slaughter," Lelouch said angrily. The sudden voice of her savior broke C.C. out of her memoires. " I know why Clovis wanted you and I can keep you safe."

The girl just looked at Lelouch and nodded and Lelouch helped her up. Lelouch kept going, guiding, C.C. with him staying in the shadows in an attempt to stay out of sight. The pair got to a warehouse and as they arrived, they witness a man in a suit running scared out of his mind. Lelouch quickly turned towards the direction that the man was running from and saw Clovis's royal guards heading towards him.

"Why?" The man in the suit said, "Why are you doing this? This doesn't make sense; you're just killing for no reason." The man was immediately shot and he fell dead.

Lelouch witness what had just happened and just looked at the man who was questioning the reasoning of the soldiers.

"Well?" The Royal Guard leader asked.

"Nothing but Elevens sir," One of the soldiers said.

"I see," The Royal Guard leader looked around, "are you sure the exit comes out here?"

"Yes sir, it matches up the map of the old city." Another solder answered.

"They believe they are justified," Lelouch said, "they're just cold-blooded murderers who kill out of a whim and convenience…and Clovis is the worst of it."

Lelouch cell phone suddenly rang and it surprised him as well as giving him away to the Royal Guard. Seeing that Shirly was on the other end he quickly pressed end on the phone as he tried to run with C.C. The guards however were faster and caught up to the pair rather quickly. Lelouch was slammed into the back wall of the where house that he was in as he glared at the members of the Royal Guard. C.C. was being held down by two members of the Royal Guard as she tried to struggle against her captors while rest were pointing their guns at Lelouch.

"Damn you," Lelouch said in anger.

"An appropriate location to end a terrorist," The leader of the Royal Guard said with a smug.

"You people…" Lelouch growled out

"Still, you did well for a Britannian. It's a shame that we have to kill a fellow Britannian as a terrorist, but we have our orders so your future ends here schoolboy." The leader of the guards stated.

The Royal Guard leader brought up his gun and pointed it at Lelouch, who prepared himself to move and fight back. C.C. freed herself at that moment and ran in front of Lelouch.

"He mustn't die!" The C.C. yelled out

The leader of the Royal Guard fired his gun. The bullet struck true and hit C.C. right in the center of her head, she fell on the floor dead in an instant. Lelouch was in shock as he looked at the girl that had just shielded him with her own body. This also surprised the members of the Royal Guard as none of them expected the girl to take such action.

"No…" Lelouch said softly, "why would you…?"

Lelouch kneeled next to the girl and the girl lied dead as she was bleeding from the gunshot in the head and the leader of the Royal Guard sighed.

"Oh well," The Royal Guard leader said, "we were told to bring her back alive if possible…" The leader smiled, "we'll tell our superiors this. The Royal Guard found the terrorist hideout and wiped them out. However, the hostage was already tortured to death. What do you think schoolboy?"

Lelouch had his head down, stood up, and had his hands behind his back and he sprung two knives from sleeves. Lelouch looked at the soldiers in front of him with cold eyes and threw his two knives. The blades truck true and embedded themselves into the necks of two members of the royal guards. Lelouch quickly ran forward, taking advantage of the shock that the guards were. He them struck the leader in the face with a powerful plan strike stunning the man and Lelouch using this to his advantage yanked the gun away from the Royal Guard leader's hands, at the same time he spun himself and the guard around so that they were facing the other members of the royal guards. Lelouch had the man in a head lock with one arm and the gun in the other. the solders hesitated for a moment not wanting to hit their leader. Lelouch quickly took advantage of his opponents hesitation, he began to fire at his opponents quickly dispatching them.

"Why you…" The Royal Guard leader spoke still shaken by what he saw. Lelouch didn't answer the man as he dropped the stolen fire arm and plunged his hidden blade into the guards neck

He then went over to the dead green haired girl and was sad to see her dead.

"I'm sorry," Lelouch said with sadness, "I should have protected you."

At that moment C.C. reached up and grabbed him despite the fact that she had a gapping head wound and pulled their lips together. He heard the girl's voice echoing inside his head, "You don't want it to end, do you? You appear to have a reason for living. If you had power, could you live?" In black and white images of the girl started flashing in and out in front of him, before what appeared to be two planets close together appeared, with the sun rising in between them. Other imaged invaded his mind, images of the artifacts of Eden glowing brightly.

"In exchange for power, you must make my wish come true. Accept this contract, and while you live in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other. A different providence. A different time. A different life." C.C's voice continued. More images assaulted his mind. A large field of people each bearing the same mark as she had on their foreheads, standing with their heads down. The image shifted once more as his mind went deeper into the vision.

His father's voice echoed around him, "The Ragnarök Connection? So the myth begins again…"

Lelouch had already made up his mind made up his mind at that moment, feeling that he needed to accept and yelled out "I accept your contract!". He then returned to the real-world C.C. still dead in his arms, and death and destruction all around him.

In the warehouse, Lelouch was looking over the dead bodies of the Japanese that were killed by the Royal Guard. Lelouch didn't get to time to think about his next move because a Sutherland suddenly arrived and just started to fire discriminately all around in an attempt to cause more casualties. In the cockpit, Villetta activated her sensors and saw the bodies of the Japanese and then she was surprised see the members of the Royal Guard dead.

"What the hell happened here? Why are His Highness's Royal Guard here and dead?" The Villetta asked to herself shocked. She didn't notice Lelouch who had used the time that the pilot was firing to hide himself. Lelouch hoped that she would get out of her Sutherland so he could hijack the thing. He would test out his new powers, which he some how knew would allow him some form of control over others. The Villetta Nu got out of her knightmare in an attempt to investigate the cause of the royal guards death, something she couldn't properly do in her massive war machine. Lelouch jumped out of his hiding spot and Villetta spun around to face her attacker.

"Obey my orders," Lelouch said as he activated his Geass. Any and all fight that Villetta would have put up just ended as she entered a trance like state awaiting orders.

"Yes, of course," Villita said dully

Lelouch said in a commanding voice, "Answer my questions, what is your name and unit?"

"My name is Villetta Nu, 8th Mobile Battalion, part of the Purist Faction." Was the response.

"Tch, the Purist Faction," Lelouch said as he was disgusted, "What is your objective?"

"To eliminate the Elevens here in the Shinjuku Ghetto."

Lelouch despite wanting to didn't kill the woman right then and there before asking, "What do you know about the reason for it?"

"I was told that terrorists have obtained poison gas and they were hiding in Shinjuku and the Elevens living here are aiding them."

Quickly understanding that only the now dead royal guards had any information on the true nature of what was going on decided to end the conversation and Lelouch said, "Give me your knightmare."

"Of course, the code is XG21-G2D4," Villetta said as he tossed her knightmare key to Lelouch.

Lelouch caught the key and decided to give one last order, "Villetta Nu, lay down in the middle of the royal guards and close your eyes, do not act for the next 5 minutes."

"Understood," Villetta said as she went and layer down next to the dead bodies of the Royal Guard. Before walking into the nightmare Lelouch slammed his foot into Villietta's head hard enough to leave a bruise. He knew that he should kill her but their had been enough blood spilled this day and didn't want to kill anymore than necessary, he knew he would cause more deaths, than just the royal guards. As he began to drive away on his ill-gotten Southerland his phone began to ring.

On top of a roof near the edge of the Ghetto two figures in Assassins robes were watching the chaos unfold below them. The first of the pair was a young man no older than Lelouch. He had shaggy silvery white hair and piercing blue eyes, and a slim figure that hid the fact that it was packed with muscle. He was currently holding a cell phone up to the ear of the other assassin. The second assassin was older around the age of 35. He was tall and and was built like an Olympic gymnast streamlined but muscular. His brown hair was short but the front was wild yet some how out of his face, which was covered by a goatee, though the beard and moustache were not connected. His bright green eyes were looking down the scope of his modified Mosin–Nagant sniper rifle. With a smirk he said "Lelouch do you mind explaining what your doing down there, Imagine my surprise when I saw you enter a stolen Sutherland"

"Flint am I glad to here you. Are you alone or are there more of us here. And where exactly are you" Lelouch answered his voice coming out through the phone.

"I'm currently about 5 Klicks east of your position roof of the tallest building. Just me and out new recruit Rai up here. Was taking out our newest recruit for a free running lesson when shit started to go down, so what caused this mess, and how can I help pull your ass out of the fire" Flint responded. His smirk widened as Lelouch muttered about him being a cocky jackass.

"I'll give everyone the long version latter. Simply put Clovis found something, or more accurately someone connected to the first ones. The fool decided to try to control them in an attempt to overthrow father, using poison gas as a cover story. The terrorists learned of the cover story and stole the person. Now Clovis is trying to slaughter everyone here to cover up his monstrous actions and his stupidly" Lelouch surmised.

"That monster. I'm gonna" Rai started.

"Don't worry, Clovis is going to get what is coming to him. I'm gonna take command of the terrorists and turn the tide of battle. Flint, Rai, your my eyes in the sky, keep watch of the command center. Let me know if anything unusual happens their. I have access to Clovis's positions" Lelouch answered.

"Your wish is my command your majesty" Flint responded in a sarcastic tone. He turned to his fellow assassin "Rai lets move to a better position."

"Yes sir" Rei responded. The two of them leapt into action and ran to a better spot.

Meanwhile, the Sutherland that was piloted by Lelouch began to move into action. Lelouch was feeling better knowing that he wasn't alone in this mess, quickly getting a feel for the control of his new vehicle and drove out. He soon spotted a Sutherland slaughtering people that were trying to escape with their lives. Lelouch moved and began to fire upon the other nightmare drawing its attention away from the civilians.

"What…what the hell? Who—?" the pilot cried out

Lelouch quickly charged the knightmare slamming into the other mecha causing it to fall to the ground, before filling the vehicle with lead from his nightmare's gun. Lelouch quickly moved on to avoid being seen by other enemy knightmares and hid between the buildings and activated the sensors. Lelouch looked at the monitor in the knightmare he was piloting and began to plan out his his next move. Flint was still on the phone and had informed him that the pair were monitoring the enemy command center but they had made no moves since they arrived. He suddenly heard a loud noise and he looked and saw a Slash Harken that just brought down a helicopter and he saw the red Glasgow.

"That red Glasgow," Lelouch said, "it must be Kallen," Lelouch smiled he now knew how to introduce himself to the terrorists, I just hope they trust me enough to follow my directions," Lelouch then picked up the radio he got from truck, "good thing I kept this."

Meanwhile Kallen in the red Glasgow had two Sutherlands behind her which were trying to shoot her down and Kallen was fleeing for her life. In the cockpit in one of the Sutherlands, Jeremiah grinned. "That red Glasgow "

Jeremiah rushed in and started shooting and Kallen retreated not wanting to caught and killed or worse captured. Kallen looked at her power supply reading and saw that it was low. "Damn, only 30 minutes at the most"

"The west entrance," Lelouch's voice suddenly spoke. As he saw the Sutherlands closing in on her Nightmare.

Kallen was surprised, "What the…that voice…who…?"

"Use the train tracks to move over the west entrance."

"Who is this?" Kallen asked, "How do you know this code?"

"That doesn't matter at the moment Kallen, but I'm a friend, if you want to win, then you'll need to trust me." Lelouch answered.

"To win?" Kallen asked surprised. How could this voice be so sure of victory in this situation.

"West entrance by train tracks, hurry Kallen!"

Kallen was not sure but she decided in a moment's haste to listen and she piloted her Glasgow to the train tracks.

"Hey, what do I do now?" Kallen asked being very nervous as two Sutherlands were tailing her.

In one of the Sutherland cockpits, Jeremiah was finding it amusing.

"Pathetic Eleven," Jeremiah commented, "What kind of hunt is this that you just run away?"

Kallen noticed that a train was coming along and knew what the voice was talking about. Kallen uttered "A train…"

"See Kallen, because you trusted me, you get to win," Lelouch said, "jump on that train."

Kallen did what she was instructed and hopped on the train and it stopped Jeremiah.

"Tch, you actually think you get through that way?" Jeremiah asked not being impressed as he had his Sutherland stopped the train and then he turned to the Sutherland with him, "you go after that red Glasgow."

"Yes, My lord!" The other pilot responded.

The second Sutherland jumped to go after Kallen but as the Sutherland was in the air, it was struck by two Slash Harkens, damaging the Sutherland and knocking it off the track. This surprised Jeremiah and he looked to see the source and saw a Sutherland, that unknown to him was piloted by Lelouch that was inside a building as the Sutherland retracting its Slash Harkens.

"A friendly fire?" Jeremiah asked, "What's your unit?!"

Lelouch pointed his machine gun at Jeremiah's knightmare and started shooting. Jeremiah's knightmare suddenly began to take damage from this surprise attack. "A terrorist?" Jeremiah spoke surprised, "But how did you…?" At that moment the leg of Jeremiah's mecha got blown of forcing the machine to the ground.

"Damn you!" Jeremiah responded by pointing his machine gun at the Sutherland shooting him. But before he could act Kallen charged her Glasgow toward Jeremiah, seeing the incoming charge decided to eject from the badly damaged knightmare cursing being outwitted and being forced to retreat. Kallen cursed unhappy that she didn't get to finish him off.

"You saved me," Kallen said, "but how did get a Sutherland?"

Kallen looked and was surprised that person that helped her disappeared from sight.

"What, where did he go?" Kallen asked. Not knowing what to do next she looked around. It was at that moment that the rest of her group began to converge on her location.

"Kallen, what was that radio message from before?" Ohgi asked not knowing what to make of what had just happened.

"You heard it too Ohgi?" Kallen asked.

"Yeah," Ohgi said as he nodded.

"He contacted us as well," Ohgi said, "in fact Yoshida's group should be here soon."

"I wonder…" Kallen spoke.

"The one holding the radio," Lelouch said, "who is this?"

"Oh, this is Ohgi," Ohgi answered.

"Ah yes, Kaname Ohgi." Lelouch answered

Thank you for saving us" Ohgi responded

"Hold your thanks until after we stop Britannian forces in their tracks," Lelouch said, "anyway, the cargo train that had stopped there is my gift to you. They're tools for your victory. If you wish to use them to win, then follow my direction."

To that the group opened up the train cart and saw that it was transporting Sutherlands to the battlefield, which was honestly overkill against an enemy with a single Glasgow.

"Wow," Kallen said.

"There's more here too," One of the members of the group said.

"This is amazing, let's hear what he has to say," Another member said.

"All this…but how…?" Kallen asked.

"All these Sutherlands…" another terrorist said.

"Kallen," Lelouch called.

"Uh, y-yes?" Kallen responded.

"Stay where you are, that unit is going to be used as a decoy. It's the only one that the enemy knows we have"

"Understood." Kellan said with a nod

"Energy filler status?" Lelouch asked

"About 15 minutes worth." Kallen answered.

"Then load a new one because in 10 minutes, I'll contact you again." In the cockpit of the Sutherland, Lelouch sighed. "Okay, so far so good it's nerve-wracking but I need the will and determination to succeed. After all, I'm betting my life on this."

Later after a small lull in the fighting the Ohgi and the others were getting into the stolen Sutherlands and talking amongst themselves however one member wasn't so happy with what was going on. Kellan meanwhile was doing her job and running a destraction.

"Hey, are you sure about this?" Tamaki asked, "Their IFFs have been stripped. Are you sure this isn't a trap?"

"The other side has the total advantage in this war Tamaki," Ohgi pointed out "they don't need to set up any traps."

"P-1, can you move?" Lelouch asked.

"Uh, me?" Ohgi asked.

"Yes, you Ohgi. The fundamentals shouldn't be any different from what you're used to." Lelouch answered.

"Who are you? Can you at least tell us your name?" Ohgi asked

"Right now would not be wise, our signals could be intercepted, hence why I'm referring to you as code names now. But just know that I'm a friend. Anyway, if Q-1 is on schedule, enemy Sutherland will be reaching you in 23 seconds, probably several of them. Shoot them through a wall."

"Huh, what the hell is he talking about?" Tamaki asked being confrontational as always.

"Everyone," Ohgi called, "make sure you double check your weapons."

"Ohgi, you serious?!"

"Yes Tamaki, I am! Stop arguing and move it, we need to get ready now!" Ohgi shouted at the other rebel.

Meanwhile Kallen arrived at a spot and she looked around. A helicopter pilot spotted the red Glasgow and reported in.

"Enemy spotted at F-31," The helicopter pilot said.

At the bridge of his command center Clovis was listening in and commented "A feint? The monkeys play at being human…"

"Have Lazlo squad proceed straight in!" Bartley ordered, "Send in Eugen and Valerie! Have them strike from the rear!"

Back in the ghetto in the cockpit of one of the Sutherlands, Ohgi narrowed his eyes as he and the others in others Sutherlands prepared.

"3…2…1…Fire!" Ohgi ordered.

Ohgi and his group started shooting the walls. The bullets hitting the walls went through and struck the Britannian forces that were passing by, catching them by surprise and destroying the knightmares.

In the G-1 Base alarms went off at the loss of the Nightmares "Sir Eugen and Sir Valerie," One of the staff members said, "both lost!" This surprised the others in the bridge.

"An ambush?" Clovis asked in shock not knowing what to do

Cockpit of a Sutherland

Lelouch watched as enemy units were lost and he nodded as he was pleased.

"An ID signal can be double edged sword," Lelouch said, "If Ohgi and his group follow my direction, this will be a blow to Britannian forces," Lelouch narrowed his eyes, "then I will personally deal with Clovis but not before I get him to tell me what he knows," Lelouch pressed a button, "P-1, P-4, P-7, move to the right and fire your Slash Harkens towards three o'clock."

Meanwhile, Tamaki was still not liking the direction that they were going with but didn't do anything to oppose it.

"Dammit, what else can we do?" Tamaki complained.

"P-5, haven't you moved yet?" Lelouch asked a bit impatient, "This is critical."

Tamaki clenched his teeth, "Fine, I'm going and don't call me that!"

Tamaki boarded the knightmare. Meanwhile, one of Ohgi's members struck on of the enemy Sutherland with their Slash Harkens and destroying their frame.

One of the staff officers of the G-1 base reported. "Enemies sighted moving towards G-28,"

Bartley was nervous and wondered what was going on. This was originally so easy what had happened why where they losing now Bartley thought before ordering "Send in Glaube after them!"

Clovis wondered what was going on as well and he had his suspicions before commenting. "Is it possible, that terrorists have gotten hold of our own weaponry?"

Their monitor was showing that Glaube have been defeated. One of the staff officer said. "Sir Glaube has ejected and his knightmare has been lost,"

"Change codes!" Bartley ordered, "They're intercepting our transmissions!"

"We've already have, four times!" another staff officer replied

"Then do it again!" Bartley ordered not wanting excuses.

Clovis clenched his teeth as couldn't take this failure that was occurring and he stood up from his throne. Clovis said loudly. "This failure is unacceptable!"

Bartley turned to Clovis, "Forgive me—"

Bartley didn't get to finish because Lloyd suddenly appeared on the monitor. Lloyd greeted. "Hello there,"

"What do you want?" Bartley asked annoyed that Lloyd would interrupt them, "Can you not see we're in the middle of an operation?"

"Then it's a good time for you to deploy the A.S.E.E.C.'s special weapon." Lloyd commented.

"This isn't the time," Clovis said as he was annoyed as well with Lloyd intervening. He had more important things to do.

An enemy tank was just shot and destroyed. Lelouch in the cockpit of the Sutherland began to give more orders. Time and time again Lelouch's orders were followed and brought the rebels closer and closer to victory as the Britannians losses began to mount up.

"Wow. He's really turning the tide of battle" Rai commented, Lelouch hearing Rai's comment from the phone replied "Honesty whoever is in charge is only barely competent as a commander"

"Yep, idiot is some noble that probably bought his position in the army then moved himself to a location already concurred. Flint stated, "truly a Paragon of Brittanian might."

In Clovis's command center panic was taking over. One of the staff officers reported "We've just lost the Lazlo Squad!"

Clovis moved forward, Yelling out "Now bring up Quincy's squad!"

"Your Highness, if we do that, we'll break the encirclement!" Bartley pointed out.

Clovis clenched his teeth. "You may reinforce the gap with units from the ones guarding me, We're certain that the enemy has his forces right there."

Britannian forces were moving to a direction and they were being observed by Jeremiah who was confused with what was going on.

"Are we breaking formation?" Jeremiah asked, "But why?"

Lelouch was seeing what move they were making and he couldn't help but to chuckled as he shook his head. This was definitely his brothers order. There was no way that any commander with any brains would just give the order that he did.

"My, my," Lelouch said, "this is stupider than I actually expected but it makes it a lot easy for me. You're really not much of a commander my brother," Lelouch held the radio over his ear, "Q-1, your map is accurate, correct?"

"Right, for the old town," Kallen responded on the other line, "but without any landmarks…"

"Don't worry Kallen, it will do." Lelouch replied with a grin

"…Okay, if you say so."

"Thank you for trusting me." Lelouch still had the radio over his ear, "Mission number 3."

"Ready for them?" Lelouch asked.

Back at the base it seemed as if thing were turning back into the Britannians favor as they surrounded the terrorist's position Clovis said and then he grinned "The enemy's main force is where that dot is Finish them." He didn't know how wrong he was.

Lelouch smirked in his cockpit, "I've got you." Clovis had fallen right into his trap. Enemy forces were moving fast and closed in but there was no one there and all that they saw saw were each other.

Clovis and his staff were seeing what happened and they were shocked.

"What?" Clovis said stunned, "The enemy isn't there?!"

Kallen and the others were traveling through the tunnel underground. Kallen stopped and looked at the certain point and then she shot one of her Slash Harkens. Which caused the ground above them to break and caused a collapse and the enemy knightmares standing suffered by falling in the hole that was created. A hole was created making it bigger and bringing down the Britannian forces that fell in the trap.

Lelouch placed the black king chess piece in front of him, "Checkmate."

"This can't be," Clovis said as he and his staff officer were shocked in seeing they were gradually losing their forces. Clovis was stepping back as he was still in shock in what was happening and he was wondered who he was fighting.

"Who…who in the world am I fighting?" Clovis asked in his head, "Could he…he's even better than Tohdoh!" Fear was taking over the third prince, Tohdoh was one of the few people he had actually put in effort to track down when he began to lead Area 11 seeing him as the biggest threat to his rule the idea that some one better than him was around was the worst thing that could happen to him. Clovis made a decision, "Lloyd!"

"Oh? Yes, Your Highness?" Lloyd responded as he appeared on the screen smile.

"Can it win? Your toy that is, can it win?"

Lloyd still smiled, "Your Highness, please call it the Lancelot."