A: I'M ALIVE! Yes! I'm back, and started writing again for real! And I have one of my roommates at college to thank not only for this idea but for getting my writing drive back. I watched Code Geass a few months ago, and she recently got me hooked on the new Voltron reboot. If you haven't seen it and have a Netflix account, GO WATCH IT! Anyway, this is technically a crossover with Code Geass and Voltron: Legendary Defenders. Both shows involve fighting giant robots so I thought: why not? I do plan to post this snippet and a few more chapters to this once I'm finished converted the first Voltron episode on paper. After that, since this seems to be one of my newer obsessions, I'm going to make it my goal that for every chapter I do of this, I write at least one chapter for Akame ga Titan and/or Spark of Fire, so those stories should be getting updates as well soon. With that said, enjoy this preview.
P.S. It's been a while since I've watched Code Geass, so sorry if some characters seem a little OOC. This takes place a little after Suzaku gets rescued by Zero, but before the Lake Kawaguchi incident.
"What is that?" Shirley asked nervously, staring at the giant robot lion. The lion itself was made out of blue metal with metallic legs and torso. The face of the lion looked like one you would see on an ordinary lion with bright glowing yellow eyes and a white muzzle with blue on the edges.
"I haven't seen any Knightmare frames this advanced or in this design before, not to mention it's way bigger!" Suzaku said. Being a member of Earl Lloyd Asplund's engineering core allowed Suzaku to know about a lot of the military's weapon projects, but as far as he knew there was no mention of a weapon like this.
"Me neither," said Lelouch, "you think this is a secret weapon the military's working on?"
"I don't think so," Suzaku said, "if this was a secret base we should've run into at least a couple of soldiers by now, or they would have already gunned us down for trespassing."
"Then… is this that Voltron thing that Nina mentioned earlier?" asked Kallen.
"It must be…" Milly said, unusually serious.
"But then why is it here then?" Kallen asked, no one seemed to notice that she dropped the ruse of being a sickly girl.
"I-I don't know," Nina whispered, "but this must be where I'm getting all those readings from!"
Lelouch started approaching the lion, seeing that there wasn't anything or anyone here to stop him from doing so. The other student council members followed close behind. "It looks like there's some sort of force field around it, so it should be okay to approach."
As they walked closer Rivalz kept his eyes on the lion. The teen couldn't explain it but it felt like the lion was staring at him. "Um, does anyone else here feel like this thing's staring at them?"
Everyone looked at him like he was nuts, "No..." Kallen said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, the eyes are totally following me!"
Lelouch was standing right in front of the force field and he put his hands on the surface, his eyes squinted in concentration, "Wonder how we get through this…"
"Maybe you just have to knock…" Rivalz said sarcastically, and did just that. He yelped when it felt like a jolt of electricity ran through him. The forcefield glowed with a blinding light before vanishing from around the lion and the platform underneath suddenly lighting up as well. The ground beneath them also rumbled as everyone simply stared at the lion in shock.
Suddenly and image of seven lions, each looking similar but each a different color, fly high into the sky like shooting stars. In a flash of light the lions were gone only to be replaced by a gigantic robot with red and green arms, yellow and blue feet, an orange and purple chest plate, and a head with the same glowing yellow eyes inside the head of a black lion. It swung it sword of fire across the sky lighting it for the universe to see.
"Woah!" Rivalz muttered in awe as did everyone else. "Did everyone just see that?!"
"Voltron's a robot!" Shirley shouted in shock.
"A huge… huge AWESOME robot!" Milly practically squealed in excitement.
"And this thing is only one part of it," Kallen added, "I wonder where the rest of them are?"
"If that's the case then what is it doing down here?" Lelouch asked, "And why isn't it with it's other pieces?"
"I don't know," Suzaku muttered, "but it's still incredible."
The lion suddenly started to move on its own as it lowered its head in front of the students. Nina and Shirley immediately started screaming in fright scared that it might eat them. That turned out not to be the case however as the lion's mouth opened right in front of Rivalz to reveal a pathway inside of it.
Skeptical, but still curious to what was inside, Rivalz approached the platform and walked in. The other students followed close behind. Right before the lion closed it's mouth though, another person also snuck on behind them. The green-haired woman quietly found what looked to be a small supply room in the back of the lion and snuggled into the space without anyone noticing.
Rivalz quickly took the path up and found what looked like the pilot's control room with a single chair in the middle of the room. Looking around, Rivalz took a seat and crossed his legs in a smug smile.
"Well, here we go-woah!" Rivalz was cut short as the seat suddenly pushed him forward to the front. Once it stopped the room started glowing in a bright blue aura and control screens popped up in front of Rivalz. The other student council members weren't too far behind him, all of them staring in wonder at the advanced technology inside.
"Woah!"
"Cool!"
"Wow!"
"Alright very nice!" Rivalz said with a laugh as the main screen in front of them turned on to show the inside of the cave they were just in.
"Okay, uh everyone," Shirley said nervously, "I think I just need to point out, just so we're all, you know, aware. We're in some kind of futuristic and/or alien cat head right now."
Just as the words left Shirley's mouth, Rivalz felt another jolt of electricity run through him, only this one seemed to penetrate to his very core. His ears suddenly filled with the sound of a purring lion.
"Woah! Did you guys just hear that?!" asked Rivalz almost frantically.
"H-hear what?" Nina asked anxiously. The poor girl looked like she was about to have a panic attack.
"I-I think it's talking to me," Rivalz tried to explain as he examined the control panels in front of him before spotting a keyboard. For some reason, as if through instinct he knew which buttons to push. He had no idea what was happening, but it was like the lion was telling him what to do somehow. After pushing the correct keys the legs of the lion moved and it lifted it's head and let out a mighty roar that shook the cave. The lion seemed almost happy to be moving around, but no one could feel it's excitement as much as Rivalz was.
"Okay got it," he said with a grin, "now let's try this!" Rivalz pushed the controls forward and the lion shot out of the mountain cave like a rocket and flew into the sky, and as it was descending to the ground it did a front flip before using rockets in it's legs to fly across the ground. It then shot into the air again with a series of corkscrews, with everyone inside the head screaming at the top of their lungs, and everyone holding onto either the pilot seat or Rivalz himself.
"RIVALZ!" screamed Kallen as the lion did a few more flips, "YOU ARE. THE WORST. PILOT. EVER!"
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Meanwhile…
"What in King George's name is that?!" exclaimed Viceroy Cornelia li Britannia, seeing the blue lion swooping around near Lake Kawaguchi. About a few miles away from where the lion was discovered, a small military base had been set upon Earl Lloyd Asplund's request, believing it could function as a good practice sight for the Lancelot Knightmare Frame that Suzaku piloted. Cornelia had visited the base to ensure everything was in order only to receive a shocking surprise at the blue lion's appearance.
"It appears to be a flying lion-like knightmare ma'am!" a soldier next to here reported as he lowered his binoculars.
"I can see that you fool!" Cornelia exclaimed, "What I mean is, is that knightmare one of ours? And if it is, why wasn't I alerted about it?"
"Alerted about what?" the voice of Lloyd Asplund asked behind her followed by Cecile Croomy his assistant.
"Asplund, why wasn't I alerted about this test run?!" Cornelia demanded.
The Earl blinked, "Test run? I don't recall authorizing a test run on any knightmares." he took the binoculars from the soldier next to Cornelia to see for himself as Cecile pulled out one of her own.
"I don't believe that knightmare is ours Viceroy," Cecile informed Cornelia, "and if it is the engineering corps wasn't aware of it… Lloyd?"
The Earl slowly lowered the binoculars. His mouth was open with his tongue hanging out and eyes sparkling with stars, drool descending down his chin. "I don't know whose that is… but I want it."
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The blue lion landed on the ground once more and began bounding around like a mountain lion. Everyone inside the head held onto something as the ride continued.
"Isn't this awesome?!" exclaimed Rivalz with a large grin.
"Make it stop!" yelped Shirley, who starting to look a little green, "Make it stop!"
"I'm not making it do anything, it's like it's on autopilot!"
Suddenly, the lion's back legs fired it off the ground and the lion descended into the sky.
"Rivalz!" shouted Suzaku, "Where are you going?!"
"I just said it's on autopilot," he explained, "it says there's an alien ship approaching Earth, I think we're supposed to stop it!"
"What did it say exactly?" Milly demanded.
"Well, it's not like it's saying words, more like feeding ideas into my brain… kind of!"
"Wait, an alien ship is coming?!" Nina asked in a panic.
"That's what I just said!"
"Wait, if this thing belongs to those aliens, why don't we just, I don't know, give to them, maybe they'll leave us alone?" Shirley suggested, "Sorry lion, nothing personal."
"Or we end up giving it to them, and they turn on our planet!" Lelouch argued, "This the first time we're contacting other life outside Earth, we have no way of knowing if they're hostile or not. If we give this to them, maybe not even the Britannian Empire can stop them."
Everyone seemed to agree with Lelouch's statement, even Suzaku and Nina who were all glaring at Shirley. Her eyes widen in realization at that possibility and had the decency afterwards to look a little sheepish.
"Oh… nevermind then."
It wasn't long before the lion exited Earth's atmosphere and entered open space. The group didn't have time to admire the stars though as moments later a large purple ship with illuminating purple lights appeared front of them like a bolt of lightning, and twice as fast.
"I-Is that what I think it is?!" Nina yelped frantically.
"An alien ship?!" Shirley exclaimed, just as panicked.
After floating and observing the ship for a few seconds, the ship started firing purple lasers at them.
"We need to get out of here!" Milly ordered, sounding uncharacteristically frightened.
"Hang on!" shouted Rivalz as he pulled on the controls and the lion flew off at top speed. Even though Rivalz had little to no idea what he was doing, it seemed the lion knew what to do as it maneuvered and dodged all the attacks with little to no effort.
"Okay, I think I know what to do!" Rivalz exclaimed.
"Rivalz, be careful!" shouted Suzaku, "This isn't a simulator!"
"And you don't think I know that Suzaku?!" he replied as he helped maneuver the lion around the lasers. He then pushed down on one of the control levers and the lion's mouth opened wide and fired a powerful blue beam directly at the side of the ship. It sliced through it like a sword, causing massive explosions.
"Let's try this!" Rivalz smiled as he flew the lion closer to the ship, scrapping the lion's claws on the other side leaving deep gashes, causing explosions as well.
"Nice job Rivalz!" Lelouch praised.
"Okay, I think it's time to get these guys away from our planet!"
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"Lord Zarkon, the people of this planet found the blue lion. It attacked us and is heading out of the system," the captain of the warship reported to the overlord on the computer screen. The shadowy figure on the other side narrowed his eyes.
"Follow that lion and alert all ships in the area to intercept. Capturing that lion is your first and only priority."
"Yes your majesty. Full power, after the lion."
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"Oh no!" Nina gasped as the ship started picking up speed behind them.
"They're gaining on us!" Kallen exclaimed.
Lelouch's eyes furrowed, "It's weird, they're not trying to shoot us. They're just chasing!"
"Okay seriously, so now we think having aliens follow us is good? I'm not on board with this new direction guys!" Shirley exclaimed.
"Where are we?" asked Milly looking around.
"The edge of the Solar System," Nina gasped in awe looking at a distant moon to the side, "That's Keroberos, Pluto's moon!"
"That's impossible!" Suzaku exclaimed, "It takes the most advanced spaceships decades to get out this far! We got out here in like ten seconds."
Suddenly, what appeared to be a swirling, sparkling wormhole, like a vast swirling ocean.
"What is that?!" Shirley nearly shrieked at the sight of it.
"Uh, this might seem crazy but I think the lion wants us to go through there!" Rivalz explained hastily.
The gang looked at the vortex. There was no telling what was on the other side of it. There could be more danger. Despite these possibilities though, they're instincts were telling all of them to go. But they all knew that whatever was on the other side was important, and something that they needed to know desperately.
"Where does it go?" Kallen asked Rivalz.
"I-I don't know… Lelouch what should we do?"
"Why you asking me? Ask Milly, she's the president."
"You're more experienced with this than I am Lelouch. You're the chess master, not me, so what's the best move to make right now?"
Lelouch stared at Milly in shock for a second, realizing she was talking about in her hidden message. As much as he wanted to deny it, he was still technically a Prince of Britannia, and now it was time to act like one. He furrowed his eyebrows as his brain worked on overdrive. If they went through that wormhole, there was no telling if they would come back. A minute on the other side of that wormhole could equal a century or more on Earth. Thought opposite was possible as well. He had left Nunnally behind on Earth, and while he trusted Sayako to keep her safe, once word got out about the seven of them being missing, his identity as Lelouch vi Britannia could be exposed. Should his face make it on the the news, Cornelia, Euphemia, or someone else from the military could recognize him and there'd be Britannia soldiers swarming Ashford Academy faster than he could say "I am Zero!" Not to mention that the Black Knights would be awaiting orders from him, and once they found out Kallen and him were missing they could resort to something drastic and ruin everything he tried to build up with them. However, if he found out what this lion, and it's other pieces were capable of, and convinced the others, including Suzaku, to help him, he could use this 'Voltron' to defeat Britannia. Not to mention that there seemed to be little to no chance that the lion was willing to turn around and go back to Earth even if they tried, not to mention that if they did manage to turn around, the aliens would no doubt follow them, and possibly invade Earth, endangering not only Nunnally and Japan, but the whole world as well.
Once everything was thought over, there was really no choice in the matter.
Clenching his teeth in frustration he finally spoke, "Whether we like it or not, the lion seems to know more about what's going on than we do. Besides, I doubt we can force this thing to turn around, not to mention that those aliens will follow us back to Earth as this lion seems to be their target. From the way things look, we're going to have to trust it. But if we're in this together, we should decide as a group."
Everyone took a moment to look at one another, all of them, though some reluctantly, seemed willing to go through with this, after all they wouldn't be alone in this.
Rivalz sighed, "Alright, guess we're all ditching class tomorrow."
With that said, Rivalz urged the lion towards the wormhole, which almost immediately upon entering, closed behind them, the alien ship pursuing them missing it by seconds.
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A: So this will be up within a few days, and I will try to find time to balance my college work with my writing as well. I have a few midterms coming up but I will try to get some more chapters up. Thanks so much for your patience! 3.