I do not own any of the characters or references of Code Geass, Gundam 00, or any other game or anime mentioned in the story.
Still an inexperienced writer. Will have irregular updates.
Chapter 1
The peace that was once was...became but a fleeting memory.
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DADADADADADADA. There were gunshots, screams, and blood.
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TIme had to keep on moving, a destiny that was set in motion.
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"NUNNALLY! MOTHER!"
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A promise, an oath...
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"I swear...I WILL OBLITERATE BRITANNIA!" "A gentle world...a world that Nunnally can live in peace...I want to make it with my own hands!"
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A desire, a wish for a future that was twisted into a form of a cursed blessing.
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"Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you, DIE"
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A future that has yet to come, will be forever changed.
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"Gundam…"
"Yes, a new future. A future filled with colors of hope. " Speaks out a feminine voice.
Floating in an open space within a dark room, was the ethereal form of Colette gazing at a rotating blue planet behind a wall of glass. She reaches out towards it as if trying to grab it in her hand.
"A never ending tomorrow that continues to come. In order to bring upon that vision, we must prepare for the dialogues to come. The world has to reform."
Colette then smiles, pink eyes turning towards a male figure floating next to her. His eyes closed as if he is asleep.
"Isn't that right...Len?
"Yeah."
Eyes once closed opens to reveal the color of gold, glowing with constant energy and long silvery, metallic hair. His hand moved towards the direction of a beacon of light that emitted green particles, seemingly heading towards the Earth.
"Even if man has given up on believing in God, I believe in the light that was left behind within us...the light within Gundam and I...to change this world."
(Opening: UverWorld "")
Before love refuses to understand love, saying "it's too heavy"
(The 0 Gundam floats into view before the image is expanded to reveal the younger forms of Len, Lelouch, Suzaku, and blinded Nunnally looking at the Gundam at awe in the middle of burning wreckage. The image then quickly flashes to scene of Marianne's murder, to young Kallen crying into the arms of an equally crying young Teenager Naoto, to Young Suzaku gazing at a pocket watch, to young Lelouch before Emperor Charles, to young C.C. covered in spots of blood with a shocked expression, and to young Len reaching out towards a Gundam.)
And it changes into hatred…
(The image quickly flashes between the determined faces of canon Lelouch, Kallen, Suzaku, Nunnally, C.C., and Len.)
Everything's like that, right?
(The Lancelot decimating Black Knight Knightmares with its VMS sword and martial arts.)
It's the reality of an imposter who always puts a lid on embarrassing situations
(The Guren destroying a Britannian Knightmare by grabbing them with its Radiation Wave Unit)
In this age of warped dilemmas
(The screen shifts to the Gundam 1.5 destroying various Britannian Knightmares with a beam saber.)
Even a couple who should've made a promise pass by without noticing the other
(Shifting screen to Len wearing a Celestial Being pilot suit falling towards the Earth from space before the title appears.)
Breaking each other and understanding each other
(Screen shifts to Lelouch sitting in the Student Council room with the rest of the Council members. Milly stands up to make a grand statement, while the rest of the showed various reactions of shocked, mirth, stress, etc. Nunnally giggles at their antics, with Len coming in the background with a tray of tea and snacks with a smile on his face.)
I've left it all behind
(Shift to Suzaku working on homework next to the Lancelot, before looking up to see Loyd working on the computer with a weird smile on his face. Cecil comes in, offering a food container to Suzaku, in which Loyd turns toward them with a stiff face.)
Is this what's become of me?
(Shift to Kallen walking towards the Guren stored in a hanger, before greeting the Resistance Members in Black Knight uniforms with a smile.)
Even when I confront it without accepting it
(Shift to Cornelia and Euphemia having tea in a garden area, with Dalton and Gilford in the background inattention. Shift to Jeremiah and Villetta walking down a hallway with determined faces.)
I can't run away from the images when I fall
(Shift to C.C. sitting in a private office eating pizza before the camera moves toward Zero, who then removes his makes to reveal the left side of Lelouch's face, in which his left eye turns into geass and activating its effect.)
Ah, I'll search again and again
(Shift to a low lighted room, with a U-shaped table with darkened silhouettes, their eyes visible to see the golden color of innovators and VEDA's core in the background. At the head of the table is Len, hands cupped together with sapphire eyes, smiling at the camera.)
For your eyes, for the warmth of those hands
(Len then blinks to reveal golden eyes and the background changes to different Gundam silhouettes floating behind him with optics glowing.)
"Love always only hurts me..." you mutter
(Shift to Zero and Cornelia directing various orders in the Command Centers, Euphemia standing in the background with her hands together in prayer.)
You must've been scared and cried over things you believe in
(Shift to Len in a Celestial Being pilot suit jumping into the cockpit, to Suzaku inserting the activation key, to Core Luminous activating, to Kallen's monitors activating, to 1.5 Gundam soaring off with a burst of GN particles.)
Knowing weakness makes you stronger, and not fearing to believe
(Shifts to the 1.5 Gundam shooting several beams and blitzing through a knightmare with a beam saber, before posing in the explosion. Shift to Lancelot and Guren clashing into a deadlock, with the images of Suzaku and Kallen glaring at each other above them.)
Surely lets you know true love before it changes into hatred
(Shift to 1.5 Gundam activating Trans-AM and flashing into the sky with several other silhouettes, leaving a trail of red and green particles. At the end of the song, the screen stops at the image of Earth from space.)
(End of Opening)
(Third POV)
"Lulu, where are you! Class is about to start!"
Step, step, step.
Walking down the corridors of Ashford Academy was a girl with long orange hair that reached her hip area wearing a tan colored school uniform. A large portion of her hair on the left side hangs down over her shoulder. In the middle of her face, another portion of her hair reaches down though it is much shorter than the one on the left. Her yellowish green was filled with worry and slight annoyance as she kept looking through the hallway.
"Are you in here?!"
Stopping to enter the Student Council room, only to see it empty of all except one. Surrounded by a number of files and paperwork spread out on a desk, sat a young man with long silver-white hair, styled similarly to Kyosuke Kuga, wearing a black male school uniform. Hiding behind a pair of black half-rimmed glasses, his clear sapphire eyes that were looking down on the sheets of paper looked up in surprise to see the incoming girl. On his left, was a T.V. that had the news on.
"Hey, Shirley. Did you need something?"
"Yeah, have you seen Lulu? I can't seem to find them anywhere and class is almost about to start."
Len scratches the back of his head as he thinks of the possible places the Lelouch could be.
"Hmm, if he is not at school, then he probably went out with Rivalz. I saw Rivalz getting his bike from the shed."
"What, they went out gambling again! Honestly, why do I even bother!" Shirley growls in frustration, before sighing in resignation. "I hope they don't get into trouble. If they keep cutting class, they'll never be able to graduate."
"Well, with you acting like Lelouch's wife, I'd say he'll be just fine~~." Len replies with a teasing smile.
"Wha-wah-what!" Shirley sputtered. Her face was red with embarrassment as she tried to deny the allegations.
"Well, you are in love with him, right? Hmm, knowing young people these days, having a child would not be that far off, but Nunnally would probably not want to be an aunt so soon." Len puts his hands to his chin in a thinking position. "Well, I am not averse to having little Shirleys and Lelouch's calling me 'uncle' though."
Shirley's face became redder and redder as she started to imagine 'mini-me's of her and Lelouch calling them mama and papa. As steam starts to rise from her head, she reached her limit of the tease and ran away.
"Wah-I-I-I h-have to get going! BYE!"
(First POV)
Watching Shirley run away in a hurry, I couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Man, who knew that teasing people could be so much fun! I can totally understand why Milly was so into teasing others. Calming down from the laughter, I leaned back on the chair I was on and looked at the T.V that was turned to the news.
"With the coming retirement of Third CEO of the Fereshte Corporations, Alejandro Corner, who has now turned 65 this year, it has been announced that his successor would be Ribbons Almark, formerly COO of the FC and currently 25 years old this year. While this information has been confirmed officially only recently, it has been rumored that the decision has been made months before. It has also been confirmed that the official ceremony will be-" RING RING RING
Turning off the news, I set down the remote and picked my cell phone.
"It's me…Yeah, it's time...Roger, Len out."
Leaning back to stretch my body a bit, I then stood up and head for the doors.
"Well, I suppose it's time. No turning back now."
Leaving the room, I started walking down the hallway, not towards the classrooms, but towards a secret back door elevator behind a well that leads to a hidden terminal room. Moving towards the chair at the center of the room, as the holographic monitors come to life.
"Now...let's get the show on the road."
(Scene Break)
Location: Unknown, Eastern Coast of Area 11 (Formerly Known as Japan)
A ship similar to that of the Ptolemaios II reveals itself from the oceanic waters, the spaceship, facing towards the direction of Shinjuku. Opening the side catapult, a white and blue object goes flying out at high speed, leaving behind a trail of green particles, before the ship re-submerges into its aquatic camouflage.
(Scene Break)
Bang, Rumble, Bang.
Step, step, step.
Within an old subway corridor, were two figures running as fast as they could as the explosions and tremors happened above them on the surface. The lead figure was a teenage boy in a black school uniform pulling a lime-haired girl in a white straight jacket.
(Lelouch POV)
"Hah hah, hah."
Damn it! Why is this happening! Lelouch cursed in his mind. After making a killing from that arrogant noble from the chess game, he encountered a speeding truck that ended up crashing off the highway bridge. Trying to assert the damage, he went down to look for possible wounded or dead. In the process, he got wrapped up in a terrorist incident with the Britannian military chasing them. Then he finds this woman trapped in the metal capsule and Suzaku, who apparently joined the military at some point, gets shot right in front of him. To make matters worse, the whole Shinjuku Ghetto was being destroyed by the Britannian military and its inhabitants massacred indiscriminately. All for this one woman.
The said woman then trips on to the ground.
"What the hell are you?! This chaos is all your fault, isn't it?!"
Lelouch leaned against the wall, his hand holding his forehead as he tried to make sense of the situation.
"And Britannia...They even killed Suzaku!"
The girl looked at him passively as the tremors continued around them.
(Scene Break)
"Okay? Wait here."
Lelouch and the girl were crouching behind the walls of a stairway leading towards the other entrance of the old subway tunnel. Lelouch quietly crawled up to see if anyone was waiting on the other side before the sound of rapid gunfire and a loud thud of a body hitting the ground stopped him cold.
"Well?" Called out the voice of a Britannian commander.
"Only looks like Elevens here, sir." Responded a Britannian soldier.
"Hm…" Frowned the commander. "You're sure the exit comes out here?"
"Yes, sir. It matches up with our map of the old city."
Lelouch moves backward, hoping to quietly escape the notice of the Britannian soldiers before gasping at the sound of a crying baby. He flinches at the gunfire that followed, ending the cries of the babe, that was most likely dead. Lelouch felt horror and disgust at the cruel actions of the soldiers. He didn't have time to think before his phone began to loudly ring, giving his position away to the soldiers chasing him and the mysterious girl. Even his quick action of turning off the ring couldn't help him.
(Scene Break)
"That jerk hung up on me!"
(Scene Break)
"Gghh, ack!" Lelouch grunts in pain as he was roughly shoved into the wall of an abandoned warehouse.
The bounded girl moved to assist him, before being stopped by two soldiers holding her.
"An appropriate location for a terrorist to meet his end, isn't it?" The Britannian commander asks mockingly with a cruel smile.
"You people!" Snarled Lelouch as he was held at gunpoint.
"Still, you did well for a student." The commander continued. "I'd expect no less from a Britannian! However…" The commander raises a pistol. "Your future ends right here."
Lelouch closes his eyes, waiting for the inevitable gunshot before the bounded girl breaks free of her captors.
"Don't kill him!"
And takes the shot in the head.
Both sides looked in shock at the self-sacrifice as the body fell to the ground. Lelouch moved towards the dead girl's body.
"Hey!"
The commander only looked at the sight coldly.
"Hmph, we were to bring her back alive if possible but…We'll tell our superiors the following. 'The royal gourd found the terrorist hideout and wiped them out. However, the hostage had already been tortured to death.' What do you think, Mr. Student?"
Lelouch ignored the commander's words as his whole body shook with overwhelming fear and helplessness while looking at the body of the girl that saved him. Her blood seeping out of the bullet wound, creating a crimson puddle around her upper body.
What is this? Suzaku...And now this girl...Is this the end for me?... With me not having done a single thing in my life… Lelouch despaired, when all of a sudden, the girl's hand grabbed his wrist. The world seemingly stopped as the girl's voice echoed into his head, visions of light passing through his eyes.
You don't want it to end here, do you?
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What's…?
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You appear to have a reason for living.
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The girl? It can't be!
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If you had power, you could live?
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I'll make a deal with you. In exchange for power, you must make my one wish come true.
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Accept this contract, and while you will live in the world of humans, you will live, unlike any other human.
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Different logic, a different time, a different life.
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The power of the king will isolate you.
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If you are prepared for it…
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Lelouch made up his mind, as memories and emotions came to life.
"Very well! I accept your contract!"
After uttering those words, he finds himself once again beside the girl's body, unmoving and cold. It was as if she never even moved to grab his wrist.
The feelings of despair and helplessness were gone as if washed away by the confidence empowered by a certainty of power. He stood up from his position, his hand covering his left eye.
"Tell me, how should a Britannian who hates Britannia live?" He asks rhetorically.
The commander humored the boy, "Are you some kind of radical?" But then frowns at the sudden change in atmosphere around the boy.
Lelouch only smiled.
"What's wrong? Why not shoot? Your opponent is just a student. Or have you realized?..."
Lowering his hand, he stares into the eyes of the soldiers, revealing the red 'V'-like sigil at formed in his left eye.
"...The only people who should kill are those prepared to die themselves!"
The soldiers were taken back by the sudden change in his left eye.
"What!?"
Lelouch continues, raising his hand with flare, before swiping it to the side.
"Lelouch Vi Britannia orders you! All of you...Die!"
The red sigil takes flight like a bird, overtaking the visions of the soldiers as it overwrites their mind with that command.
The commander momentarily stumbles, before laughing with maniacal joy. His eyes revealed a red tint around the iris, mirrored by every other soldier around him. He raises his pistol to his neck with a smile.
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Following the actions of the commander, the rest of the soldiers raise their firearms at themselves and at each other, smiling like a maniac, before pulling the trigger. At that moment, blood began to fly into the air as bodies fell to the ground.
Lelouch, as if waking from a trance, touches the blood splattered on his cheek. He begins to realize what he had done, surrounded by corpses that stained the concrete floor red. Horror and nausea began to rise from his body, before being replaced by a cold smirk.
"Thanks."
Hey! Long time no see! Yeah, I am alive and so is this story. I am really grateful that you guys like my story, though I did said that this is an irregular update. I read through your comments and suggestions on how the story should progress, but honestly, I am a bit tired of reading OC-inserts of being with Cornelia and that. Sorry for the hopefuls. Also, I need a title for this chapter. Not so creative in chapter titles. Yep. Any suggestions would help. I will also try to get to updating the other stories too. Any more questions and comments into the reviews or private messaging.