Tokyo Settlement, Area 11

A military plane touchs down on a empty but guarded runway. As soon as the plane stop, a man surrounded by 3 soldiers walks away from the plane. While they unloaded military equipment from the plane.

"So, this is Tokyo. So much have changed from the past 7 years."

"Yes, please get moving, Vonrino-sama. His highness are waiting for you.", voice a formal dressed woman who looks like in hurry.

"Please, do address me as Keira.", he smiled at her words and proceed to meeting with his highness, the Viceroy of Area 11 and the 3rd Prince of the Holy Britannian Empire, Prince Clovis la Britannia.

Kyrul Roze or now goes by his real name, Keira, learnt about the Britannian Empire where they actually existed for a very long time ago but didn't appear in his country's history book. He learnt as about anything basic that he should know. From the heirachy of the Britannian monarch to the history that he had lost from the past 7 years when he was put into sleep.

Somewhere around Tokyo Settlement

Bodies of soldiers and scientists are lying around on a concrete floor. Bath in blood of theirs. Not far from there, a red Glasgow loaded the big truck with a big spherical container. According to their intel. It's the poison gas container.

"Kallen, are you finished with it?", asked the man with a spectacle. The trucks are ready for depart to it's designated location plus, with the gun fight from the earlier, it should alert the guards sooner or later.

"I'm done with the container, i just need to park my knightmare back at the back and we're off to go.", reply the spiky long red hair girl named Kallen. For a resistance group, she looks young and didn't suit at all for this field.

With the Knightmare park, the truck flees away from the scene and onto the road.

"I just hope we'll get this over without a fight with those damn Britannian."

Ashford Academy

The bell rung marking lunch time for the school. Students slowly walk away from the classes and off to rest.

"Hey Lelouch, same routine again today?"

"Yes, a nobleman challenge me. Though i'm only there as a substitute.", the tone are calmer and cold for a boy. He didn't like to gamble but he did that just to embarrased noblemen who held their pride high. Despite a Britannian himself, he despise that.

Viceroy's Palace, Tokyo Settlement, Area 11

As a luxurious car stop. Keira appeared from the vehicle in a black fashionable tuxedo. It's a normal dressed for the rich and famous Britannian. All eyes on him as he walks to the main hall where he'll be meeting with the prince regarding the package. He can heard the whispers that are direct to him, both positive and negative but he could careless about that.

Arrived, it appears that Prince Clovis is giving a heart breaking speech about recent the recent attack from the Eleven-branded-terrorist. After he's done, it appears he's only acting, which he boasts to the other nobles gathered where he transmitted from. This was taken a back for Keira. He never saw anything that has makes him disgust so much as this but still, works needs to be done. He just need to play along.

"It's a nice day isn't, your highness.", Keira are happy to meet with the prince and dealing with him. Though it's not the real Keira. Just the mask.

"Ah, you must be Vonrino Roze then i suppose.", replied the prince. Keira needs to choose his words carefully when dealing with this kind of people. Which he will for a long day to come.

"Yes, indeed i am.", replied Keira but then, their talk are interrupt by a bald fat and ranked man, Bartley Asprius. Keira step away from their talk regarding confidental matter to at least show some respect towards the prince. The next thing caught his attention, the prince's expression. He looked suprise and scared before burst out and command Bartley to get the military ready for a operation. After Bartley gone, he approach Keira.

"My apologise about earlier. Let us talk somehwhere more private regarding this matter."

Just as he guess, the news that makes the prince suprise and it did had something to do with him.

Tokyo Settlement Highway

The chess game didn't took for long as the student who introduce himself as Lelouch Lamperouge, a good-looking slender frame but proportionate boy, ended the game in just 8 minutes and 32 seconds. A new record according to his wing-man, Rivalz.

They're now on the way back to school as they cruise slowly on a bike with Lelouch in the sidecar.

"That first move you made...", the wind breeze over their face as they ride through the empty highway. No motocars to be seen except them.

"Why'd you start with the king?", asked Rivalz. He was there watching Lelouch battle a game of chess with a nobleman and to his surprise, Lelouch picked the King to make the first move.

He stops from reading a text book after Rivalz ask the question. He answered it without hesitation.

"If the king doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow."

"About that..."
"What?"

A short pause coming from them before Rivalz breaks the silence.

"Do you want to run a major corporation or something?"

"No way, weird dreams like that will ruin your life—"

Suddenly, a loud sounds of horn honking behind them, it's a big truck coming on to them. Fast. Rivalz accidently cut infront of the truck's line and before they knew, the truck swerve into a closed road that lead to building that's under construction and crash. Rivalz immediately stops his bike and suprise by the incident.

"Um...Was that our fault?"

Lelouch get up and out from the sidecar, approaching the side road to see the aftermath of the incident.

"Hey, Lelouch! Looks like our energy line's been cut."

After causing a crash, now Rivalz bike are down on power. Which means they'll arrive late to school. The thing that they wanted to avoid the most.

But Lelouch barely heard what Rivalz said when he saw a strange phenomena happens on the backside of the truck. People gather , but to Lelouch's disgust, they are more interested in placing the blame and gawking over the incident than helping, prompting him to go and assess the situation. Leaving Rivalz with his bike alone.

"Okay look...I know it's the right thing to do but i wish he'd stop showing off this meaningless pride for awhile. Now we're going to be late for school.", lamenting Rivalz who had to push his bike down to assist Lelouch.

As Lelouch inspect the crash, he hears a voice calling upon him but is then suddenly thrown in the back of the truck as the Nagata, the driver of the truck and the hijacker puts it in reverse for an attempted getaway. Lelouch have no clue what he's dealing with. A resistance group that could cause his innocent lives.

The truck moves and speed up in rush but then, to Lelouch suprise, they're followed by a squad of VTOL aircraft who fired a round of warning shots. Warning them to stop. Lelouch are indeed surpise by that and know what's he's dealing with after a girl came out from the truck and enter the container room. Where he seems to know the girl and probably must had seen her somewhere before.

The girl gets into a red Knightmare frame called, Glasgow and fires a Slash Harken towards the VTOL aircraft and explode in process. Later, the Glasgow jumps out from the back of the truck and onto the highway. Defending the truck from getting shot or capture. Another explosion can be heard. It was like a battlefield at the outside of the truck.

Afterward, another Knightmare appeared from the military side, but this time, the Glasgow is clearly outmatched against the latest Britannian Knightmare, Sutherland who's pilot by an elite Knightmare pilot and a member of the Purist Faction, Jeremiah Gottwald. Both of the truck carrying a package and the Glasgow are seperated because of that. The truck enter an old subway land that will leads into a ghetto, which is a dangerous place to be for Lelouch but he had it figure out.

Viceroy's Palace, Area 11

Armoured vehicles rolling out from the hangars as they're designated for a mission to obliterate terrorist inside a ghetto and to retrieve a poisonous gas container under Prince Clovis order. Just outside the hangar, there're 3 people in coversation and one of them is Bartley, along with a man, dressed in a lab coat, Earl Lloyd Asplund and his assistnace, Cecile Croomy.

"Aha!"

"What are doing?", Bartley respond to Lloyd attack.

"Looking at the man who blundered, am i right?" , Lloyd saying it as carefree as ever.

"Why you-!", and Bartley didn't seem to be happy about it.

"You really screwed this one up. Terrorist came along and stole whatever it was that you and Prince Clovis were secretly working on. Retrieving is simple but you want to sweep up all their compatriots in addition. Let the terrorist go and you can find their hide out too.", explained Lloyd as more and more armoured vehicles began to roll out. The smell of burning rubber and gun powder conquers the place. Lloyd turn to Cecile in happy body language.

"Congratulations! Your reasoning was spot on!", cries Lloyd in joy.

"It was nothing. I just thought it was strange.", replied Cecile. She seems a bit awkward but Bartley had enough of this random babling and ask them straight to the point.

"So what does Special Corps want in all this?"

"I'm saying I'd like to help with the clean up."

"Help?"

"I want data."

Cecile then intervene by asking the reason that a whole battalion army been deployed.

"So, what is it they stole , anyway?"

Bartley hesitate to answer the question. It was strictly confidental. Even to Special Corps itself but they already had it covered up.

"Chemical weapons. In other words, poison gas."

Soon, after their conversation, Lloyd and his Special Corps team gets to assist with the mission but if only their given permission or request by the prince himself. Plus, they need to call up their test subject. Cecile opens up a document and flips page by page regarding the subject. The name, Suzaku Kururugi. A japanese. An eleven according to the Britannian. An hononary Britannian and the only child of the former Prime Minister of Japan.