Turn 7: Showdown at Kururugi Shrine

"Hello my dear Black Knights friends! As you are aware we have two of your UFN menbers hostages, the chairwomen Kaguya Sumeragi and United States of China Empress, Tianzi. Now these are our instructions: First, we want all imformation of the victims of Geass, the identity of the first zero,
Lelouch vi Britannia given by Schneizel el Britannia. Second, we want the second zero, Suzaku Kururugi. If you can find him. You have 24 hours. - Gregory James Knight.

"Do you realized what this means?" Sugiyama discussed with Ohgi "The truth of the black knights and zero!". "I'm aware of that Kento!" Ohgi answered. "If we can get our hands on them. But right now this is a matter of a risk." Ohgi just sat down and stood silence for a moment.

Jeremiah's Orange Field

Suzaku stood looking at the moon. Thinking of the situation of what have just happened and his cousins life, Suzaku still couldn't bear to go out there again. But he knew that Kaguya and Tianzi were in danger, and that he must decide for his problem.

Special Administrative Zone Massacre Site

Troy Becket walked around the zone looking at the bullet holes in the walls and the chairs and seats destroyed.

Troy: So this is the Massacre Zone

Terrorist 1: This place gives me the creeps!

Terrorist 2: The Site of the Massacre Princess!

Troy: Show your respect to the late Princess Euphemia li Britannia.

(He turned to Tianzi held at gunpoint.)

Horai Island

A tape recorder lays in the office of Kaname Ohgi. Ohgi plays it:

"Now you got our first message, now here's our next: You will take the imformation to the Special Administrative Zone Massacre Site for the Empress Tianzi, While you take Zero to the Kururugi Shrine for Princess Sumeragi. Hurry, time is running out!"

"We haven't found Zero yet!" Minami yelled.

"I'm know! Ohgi replied felling nervous of this ordeal.

Kallen walks up to Ohgi "I'll find Zero for you!" She said.

Jeremiah's Orange Field

Cornelia walks up to Suzaku "We know where your cousin is." Akito watches from the back.

Kururugi Shrine

Gregory points a gun at Kaguya. "What point is with you around mocking your feeling out in about?"

"What goodness do you have for murder?" Kaguya said.

"I just get paid for it." he replied.

"Paid for? By who? As i ask?" She asked.

"I never ask who's my payer is!" He answered.

Several Gloucesters stand guard outside the shrine.

Special Administrative Zone Massacre Site

Tohdoh walks towards the site with the documents.

Tianzi stood trembling with terror.

"Right on time!" Troy spoke.

"I've have the documents righthere!" Tohdoh answered.

The man walked up to Tohdoh with a gun. "I'll shall have those over while you have the girl." Troy demanded "What if i don't!" Tohdoh asked "What if there's a slip up! Maybe it's best that we better go unless you tell your men to back off."

Kururugi Shrine

Zero begins to climbs the stairs to the shrine. The night was no night for victory call, but for a demand of his cousin's life. The Gloucesters aims at him. "Let him in!" Gregory ordered and they let Zero in. Zero then walked into the shrine, looked around the darkness surrounding him. Feeling his way through the darkness of his old home and finally makes his way to the shrine's backyard garden. There in the garden, was Kaguya down on here knees at gunpoint. "Zero!" She shouted.

Gregory: So you're here!

Zero: Yes!

(Zero then pulls off his mask, revealing Suzaku's face.)

Gregory: What a plesent face!

Suzaku: Release the princess immediately!

Kaguya: Suzaku!

(Gregory's men cocks their guns against Suzaku)

Suzaku: I think I made a grave error.

Special Administrative Zone Massacre Site

A sniper is slayed by a white masked man, he later then walks slowly towards a soldier and cuts his neck, walks slowly upon the hand over. Troy stood for a moment. Tohdoh watches him. "Give me the documents and i'll give you the girl." Troy ordered. Tohdoh didn't just trust him for this, but he had no choise but to do it. He walked up to him and passed the document to him.

Troy: You were foolish enough for this. But it wasn't enough for her. Kill her

(A gunman aims at Tianzi, but the white stranger chops his head off with his sword.)

Tohdoh: Take cover!

(A gunfight breaks out between the Black Knights and the Terrorist. Tianzi is saved by Tohdoh)

Kururugi Shrine

A Gloucester explodes, then another and another by a strange Knightmare. "What the hell?!" The pilot spoke out of terms. Just then another Knightmare jumps out and pierces throught his cockpit. "What the fuck's that thing?" he demaned, then Kaguya knocks his gun out of his hand and Suzaku draws his sword and slashes a gunman and another. "Kill him!" He screamed in command, while he takes Kaguya to the back of the shrine with two of his men. Suzaku then went after them to the back of the shrine.

Gregory: Are you out there Zero?! Come on after me! You want your cousin alive?

Suzaku: You want me for one reason?

Gregory: You saw what happened at your old school? There was a sweet chick tart, with tits big as melons, and hair yellow as a cornfield.

(Suzaku is shocked to hear about Milly.)

Gregory: I had a good time before I left the school!

Special Administrative Zone Massacre Site

The gunfight is over, the white man in the white mask has vanished. The Black Knights capture Troy and few of his remaining men. Ohgi walks up to him "Who sent you here?" He asked, but then Troy pulls out a box of cigarettes. "Do you have a lighter?" Troy asked and Ohgi was about to give hime one, when he heard a crunching sound and Ohgi knocks the cigarette out of his mouth and foam starts drooling out of his mouth. "Who are you!?" He demanded, but Troy drops dead. Tohdoh picks up the cigarette and smells the faint scent of bitter almonds. "Cyanide pill!" He exclaimed.

Kururugi Shrine

The strange Knightmare Frames have vanished and Black Knights reinforcement have arrive. Outside the front of the back shrine Suzaku comfront Gregory with Kaguya at gunpoint in his arms. "Keep back!" He ordered, then the man in the white mask slashes off Gregory's arm, releaseing Kaguya. A Gloucester pops out of hiding to kill them, but then a brand new Zangestu slices it in half. Tohdoh plioting it sees Suzaku running towards the back shrine.

Suzaku walk through the darkness of the back shrine, following the blood trail that leads to a injuired bleeding Gregory.

Gregory: Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, you crazy son of a bitch! Finish!

(Suzaku points his sword at Gregory.)

Tohdoh: Suzaku! Suzaku, don't do it!

Tohdoh: Listen to me, Suzaku... or Zero! You have no chance. Drop your weapon. We're going to order a airship in
and fly you back to Hanoi Island.

(A Black Knight soldier opens fire on Suzaku.)

Tohdoh: Hold your fire!

(Tohdoh walks outside)

Tohdoh: Sugiyama!

Sugiyama: Yeah?

Tohdoh: Hold your fire!

Sugiyama on megaphone: Hold your fire. Hold your fire!

Tohdoh: Think about what you're doing. The building's perimeter's covered. No exits. There's nearly 200 men out there and a lot of Assult Rifies! You did everything to make this private war happen. Not after what happened at Asford Academy. You've done enough damage! This mission is over, you understand me?

(Slams Down Sword)

Tohdoh: This mission is over!

Tohdoh: Look at them out there. Look at them! If you don't end this now, they're going to kill you. Is that what you want?

(Suzaku walk away from Tohdoh)

Tohdoh: lt's over, Suzaku. lt's over!

Suzaku: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! lt wasn't my war. You asked me, I didn't ask you! I did everything I had to do to win for my people, but someone wouldn't let us win. Then I come back to the world for a new life and I see all those maggots at the airport protesting me, spitting. Calling me "Brittanian Lover" and all that vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about?

Tohdoh: It was a bad time for everyone here in Japan, Suzaku. it's all in the past now.

Suzaku: For you! For Lelouch! For me, the life of Zero is nothing. In the field, we had a code of honor. You watch my back, I watch yours. Back here, there's nothing!

Tohdoh: This isn't the way Lelouch wanted for you, don't end it like this.

Suzaku: Back there I was the best, I can pliot a Knightmare, I was in the Knights of Rounds as Knight of Seven, then Knight of Zero. Back here I can't even hold a job parking cars!

(Suzaku throws his Zero mask to the ground, then sobs)

Suzaku: Where is everybody? Geez. Oh God.

Suzaku: Where is everybody? Oh, God.

(Suzaku pants, Tohdoh looks at him)

Suzaku: Where is everybody? I had a friend who was there for me and Nunnally. There were our own people. Remember Julius Kingsley?

Tohdoh: Julius Kingsley?

Suzaku: It was a year after the First Black Rebellion and Euphemia's death. He was a military advisor deployed to St. Petersburg in order to take charge of the operational planning for the war effort being carried out by the forces of Euro Britannia and the E.U., i hated him after we were captured. Then one day he asked for some water. I gaves him the water jug, but i wanted to avenge Euphemia so i began choking him to death, but then he begged him to kill him. Then i saw a tear from his Geass eye, and then he releases him. He tells me to go together and see Nunnally.

(Suzaku then sheds tears)

Suzaku: Its been one year. I can't get it out of my head. Euphy loved me. Every day it hurts. Sometimes I wake up and don't know where I am. I don't talk to anybody. Sometimes a day. Sometimes a week. I can't put it out of my mind.

Tohdoh kneels down to Suzaku, who sobs into Tohdoh's shoulder. After he is done, an emotionally exhausted Suzaku turns himself in, with in Tohdoh's arms and wearing his coat. While they go out, they look with scorn to Gregory, who is arrested and taken away in an ambulance.

A small scene from First Blood (1982). A/N: In the next Turn, Okinawa's Summer Festivial turns into a nightmare as an unknown force launches a surprise attack. Sorry it took so long.