Here's the first actual chapter. I know the Prologue was a bit short but it was more meant to be a short overview for the character. Like what I said for the Prologue though, hope you enjoy and give constructive reviews, I will appreciate them!

-Caged Bird of Society-

August 10, 2017 a.t.b.

Ekkehardt, the seventeen year old Ashford Academy student, sat on a bench outside in the courtyard with a laptop on his lap. It was lunch break so he took the time to look up stuff on the Internet while eating a wrapped sub-sandwich. He didn't intend on attending his next class anyways, he didn't care about science much. His browsing though, was mindless as he found nothing interesting. Two of his friends, Lelouch and Rivalz, were ditching the academy once again. Most likely a poker game came up and they wanted to reap what has been grown, or even a chess game that Lelouch loves to play. Ekkehardt tried the game against him five times to count now but has lost all five. Lelouch is a genuine master at it.

More mindless clicks here and there and two more bites of his sandwich before Ekkehardt came across something on the recent news posted on the Internet. "Shinjuku Ghetto closed off? For what reason?" Ekkehardt asked himself before leaning back and reaching on his head with his right hand to scratch an itchy spot. "I hate how the news media either doesn't get the reason, or is told not to tell the truth. I will maybe see though." Ekkehardt said to himself. He is part of the Britannian military, so he may or may not get the deployment order from his officer. He read more about what was said about the situation despite the bell rung for the next class.

"And what are you doing?" A girl's voice said to Ekkehardt from behind. Ekkehardt jumped after the spook and turns to see a girl standing behind the bench, looking down at him. The girl's long lavender hair was tied up into a ponytail higher than Ekkehardt's, which meant the she was doing an errand.

"Ah Hannah! Don't sneak up on me from behind like that. For a second there, I thought you were Mr. Summers ready to catch me red-handed." Ekkehardt said to the girl with a calm smile as he closed the laptop down and got to his feet. Hannah Trafford, a serious, straight-to-the-point type of girl with a love of reading books, at least, according to Ekkehardt. He assumed that if she kept on reading books for the rest of her life that she would read every existing book there is. That was purely exaggeration of course.

"You seem to forget that I did catch you red-handed. What were you looking at and what can it be more important than class?" Hannah said to Ekkehardt, looking at him with cold black eyes. She went on to her next destination while Ekkehardt followed at her side.

"Ah, that was just recent news of the Shinjuku Ghetto. Apparently the military closed it off, but no reason has been officially shown." Ekkehardt answered Hannah's first question, though he avoided her second question. "Yeah, about that, do you mind giving Mr. Summers my most sincerest apology?" Ekkehardt begged to Hannah. His hands were even clasped together in the begging matter, but he kept his smile like a devious fox. "I mean, I got all of the credits I needed, why stick around?" Ekkehardt explained his reason to Hannah. She could only give him a scowl since she didn't accept this.

"You may have all of the credits you needed, but you still can learn things if you just-" Hannah rambled to Ekkehardt but when she looked towards him, she saw him running off. She gave a pout in the expression that he arms stiffened straight on her side. "Hey! Where do you think you are going!" Hannah yelled to Ekkehardt, sounding like a teacher.

"I'll see you at the council meeting okay!" Ekkehardt returned the question back to Hannah before cutting around a building corner. After getting though a couple more buildings, Ekkehardt stopped and leaned on a wall with a sigh of relief. "If I stick around her for too long, I'm certain she would turn me in." Ekkehardt said to himself before his phone vibrated in his uniform. He took it out to check what it was and it was a message from his officer. Military Deployment. "Looks like I will be getting to see what is going on after all." Ekkehardt commented before he started to run again. The running trip isn't a fun one, very long trip from the academy to the headquarters where he needs to go to.

Area 11 Britannian Military Headquarters

After the enduring long running trip from the academy to the headquarters, Ekkehardt stopped to catch his breath before an officer came up to him. "Well, don't just stand here to catch your breath, get into your uniform and get your butt in your Knightmare Frame!" The officer ordered Ekkehardt, which prompted a motion of standing tall and saluting towards the officer from Ekkehardt. "Yes Sir!" Ekkehardt responded before jogging into the barracks for his locker. Inside, he changed out of his Ashford uniform into his Knightmare Frame uniform. While hanging his school uniform up in the locker, he sneaked his phone into his uniform as he would need to contact Milly about not attending the council meeting.

Ashford Academy Student Council

After classes were over, the Student Council met up. So far it was all of the girls including Hannah. Lelouch, Rivalz, nor Ekkehardt showed up. Milly sighed because not any of the boys showed up for the important meeting. "Where could they be…" Milly asked. Shirley gave a fumed expression. "Lelouch and Rivalz ditched again to do their gambling. Ekkehardt I'm not sure about though." Shirley answered. Hannah was reading a book while the discussion was going, thinking about why Ekkehardt lied to her. She isn't one to make lies, so this was the one-time thing.

"Ekkehardt, he said that he had some…Family affairs to attend to." Hannah said to Milly about Ekkehardt. Liar. Hannah mumbled under her breath as if an insult to Ekkehardt. Milly and Shirley looked at Hannah with a confused expression.

"Family affair? I thought Ekky didn't like his father?" Milly pondered about the case. Ekky was her way of naming Ekkehardt, like how she shorted Lelouch by saying Lulu. It wasn't until then that her phone rang a tone and she checked that it was a text from Ekkehardt himself. It read: Sorry for not attending meeting. Military deployment at Shinjuku Ghetto. "Hannah you silly girl, Ekky has military deployment order. At Shinjuku Ghetto." Milly said to Hannah with a light smile. Hannah gave a guilty look before hiding her face behind her book. Shirley looked as if she has something to say. "Now that you mention Shinjuku Ghetto, Lelouch called me during when I was in the locker room for my swimming class asking about it. All roads are blocked off but I don't know the reason. Of course he hung up on me!" Shirley said. By that time, Rivalz came into the room looking exhausted. "Where's Lelouch? I thought he was with you?" Shirley asked him.

"The guy ditched me after an accident happened nearby. Leaving me be to push my bike all the way to the repair shop and coming back here." Rivalz answered. Milly was texting back to Ekkehardt. "Oh well, Ekky has double work then!" Milly said in a teasing matter. Rivalz smiled and reached his hands behind his head. "Well, sucks to be him." Rivalz commented before Shirley stood up and slapped her hands on the table. "You and Lelouch have double work to do also. Thanks what you get for ditching in the first place!" Shirley exclaimed to Rivalz who jumped at her reaction.

Shinjuku Ghetto

Ekkehardt sat inside the cockpit of a Sutherland Knightmare Frame, following his squad on the streets of the Shinjuku Ghetto. He felt his phone vibrate and he checks it to see that Milly returned a text back, saying that he has double the work for the council next time and he has to tell what happened. He could only give a small laughter. "Alright Pres, you got me there." Ekkehardt commented to himself before adverting his attention back to his objectives. He received Intel that some rebels stole a weapon from Britannia and has hidden it in the ghetto. As his squad went down a street. Ekkehardt however, got a bad gut feeling about this and he steered backwards only to see that the other members of his squad got shot down from something behind the walls. Fortunately they had ejected before the explosion of the Knightmare Frames. He controlled his into bringing the assault rifle up and returning fire before turning around and speed away from the hotspot.

"This is a member of Squad 4. We have encountered resistance and I am the only available member still active. Attempting to return to the G1 Base to regroup." Ekkehardt said on an open channel but by then, the ground underneath him collapsed. He forced the ejection and it was successful as the cockpit flew off away from the body of the Sutherland, which exploded. He got to a safe area of the ghetto before getting out of the cockpit. "The rebels are getting smarter…How were they able to determine my squad going down that street?" Ekkehardt asked himself before proceeding his way to the G1 Base, lucky enough to find a fellow pilot to help him return to the base.

Ashford Academy

It was by the late afternoon that Ekkehardt returned to the Ashford Academy, in his school uniform. He found it odd that Price Clovis, the one who ordered the attack on the Shinjuku Ghetto and spare no one, then give a cease fire order. He shrugged it off as he was more thinking of how fortunate he was not to get injured during the skirmish. Along his way to his dorm, he stopped to see that Hannah stood a couple of feet away from him.

"Hannah, you've been waiting for me here? Sorry for not attending the council meeting, duty ca-" Ekkehardt said to Hannah as he walked up to her, interrupted by being slapped from her. This caught him by surprise as Hannah had her head bowed, her hair not into a ponytail which cloaked her eyes.

"You idiot, to think I had to lie for you…" Hannah said before walking off back to the girl's dorm. Ekkehardt watched her back as he rubbed his cheek that got slapped. He was confused by what she meant. He didn't think that she would say that really, after all, she is a bit of a social recluse. He shrugged the thought off before coming to his room in the boy's dorm to do some work before retiring for the night. It has been a long day for him.