Disclaimer: If only I'm Code Geass' creator, this will happen on the second season hahahaha
Note: WAH, I thought I would never EVER make an update here... .-. Gomen ne...
Thanks to my EijiRyoma addiction, I forgot I have unfinished business here...
Anyway, yey, AT LAST I am able to update!! hehe xD
"Lelouch!"
The called guy stopped from walking and he was cling from behind by Rivalz. Shirley, Milly and Nina were right behind them.
Rivalz pinched both of the taller guy's cheeks as he scolded him. "Lu-Lu! How dare you leaving your favorite friend alone in a heavy traffic jam!? The girls are done torturing me, your turn now!"
"Stop being childish, Rivalz," cross-armed Milly transferred her arms on her waist and winked at the vice chairman. "I'll do the punishment for you, with pleasure."
Lelouch sighed and gave her a hard look. "I don't quite agree on the idea, having a punishment in abandoning a classmate in an emergency crisis."
"You call that emergency!?" the shorter student bawled. "…But yah, it does seem like a national emergency."
Shirley added, "Considering that our classes later in the afternoon got canceled and there's no other news regarding the Shinjuku incident."
Nina nodded, unable to join the conversation but agreed on what the younger council member had commented while Milly was in deep thought.
"Well," the chairwoman finally uttered. "Government concerns are for the government and we have our 'own' council crisis. Since we had a long vacant yesterday, hard work begins today, right now."
A gloomy 'whoa' was heard in chorus, Blondie did all the laughing.
"And of course, the vice chairman will have his paper works from yesterday done today, okay, Lulu-chan?"
The boy's face got pale. "Seriously?"
She smiled in return.
"I think… I'm not feeling well right now…"
Stage Five: A Day at the Ashford Academy
It was clearly detected: Lelouch's hand stopped from writing, and so, a wake up hit landed on his head, followed by Milly's sermon.
"You've skipped council obligations yesterday so sleeping while at work is strictly prohibited Lulu!"
"I'm not sleeping!" Lelouch defended his side. "Logic: it's natural for hands to be immobilized once the brain does the thinking since it's processing-"
"Fine, I appreciated that, but lecturing Science while at the office is also not allowed," and another hit landed.
More files of paper was carried into their sanctuary, and the whining vice president painfully sighed. "Isn't this what they call 'torture'?"
"Not yet." Milly flipped her sagging blond hair from her side. "This one is from last week, I guess." She turned around to face Shirley. "Hey, get the half of the new brought papers so that this man here can stop complaining," followed by a wink.
This made Shirley blush a little; Milly knew something about her and her little feelings and the chairman sometimes played with it, like this one. She was now getting closer to Lelouch's table, and this made her heart pumped more than before. She is now getting the half of the papers, but not quite half of his attention so she felt gloomy.
You should be thankful, Shirley talked to herself and to brush off the bad feelings, she smiled. "I'll take care of this, ma'am!"
Lelouch paused from his writing and looked up at the orange-haired gal. "That's a relief, thank you."
Shirley blushed, followed by Rivalz' sudden 'whoah' reaction.
"Goodness, financial crisis! Red alert here, red alert!"
The blonde council head heard it, so she rushed to the treasurer's table, and became frantic as well.
"How could our council funds dropped like this?"
"Excessive food orders, I suppose," Lulu sounded innocent.
"Oh, we overspent it the last festival, Milly-chan," Nina, at last spoke out, despite her strong focus on her computer data.
Milly sighed and again glared at the financial report. "This is awful. I think having Rivalz alone as the treasurer is not enough."
She walked closer to Lelouch, who was now finalizing his 30th paper work and was about to get another one when suddenly, Milly put her hand over the filed papers. She smiled.
"I can do the rest of this if you like."
The black-haired guy was about to smile back, but when her smile turned to a grin, he pouted instead.
"That's a deal, Chairman."
--
Meanwhile, at the current residence of the Governor of Area-11...
"CIVILIAN? What civilian!?"
Annoyed, Clovis did have a loud pitch on his voice, making his bald general shiver with nervousness. It was the report that had been documented about the pilot of the toy frame Lancelot which was a number, and now, a civilian was spotted on the scene.
General Asprius broke a sweat, "T-This is from the Asplund laboratory and it seemed that this civilian was with the Eleven and the-"
"I'm no longer interested with that crap. Throw it away."
"B-But…"
"Didn't you hear what I've said?"
He got no other choice but to follow. The general passed it to one of the personnel in-charge of filing and collecting data and asked him to delete all of the memory chip's content where the report got its source of information. As the erasing process was rolling, every single image stored in the memory device was shown- one of which was the civilian's identity caught in every byte… it was Lelouch himself.
That action made Lloyd raged with the prince so he slumped on his table, which was observed by Cecile, who was busy doing the brewed coffee. "You seemed down."
"Why won't I?" the eye-glassed duke grumped. "His Highness doesn't want to give credits to the Lancelot which actually brought victory for his troops!"
"Prince Clovis himself?"
"Who else! If only he could see how heroic my Lancelot was-" and the scientist again slumped hard on the wooden table.
The lady paused for a while to think. "Maybe because Suzaku-kun is an Eleven…"
Lloyd stopped cursing as he listen to his partner," … and with it, he doesn't want to appreciate what the number has done for Britannia. Poor Suzaku-kun…"
"If only the Governor would be fair…"
"Well, the prince himself has never been fair when it comes on giving credits to the army, hasn't he?"
They paused for a while, and two pained sighs followed.
--
In an abandoned place where the Resistance group hide, the said rebel group was in a crucial moment, planning and deciding when to strike back, now that in the latest battle, they pathetically lost in the end; thanks to that white frame that suddenly dashed in.
The man Ougi stood at the center of the meeting area, his members circled around him, as he had hard time thinking.
"That voice," he suddenly uttered. "He did at least something to help us but he never contacted us again. Strange…"
"But at least he won't be commanding us anymore," Tamaki, the hot-headed Resistance member blabbed. "We're not sure of his identity. What if he is an enemy in disguise?"
"True, but what if he comes back?"
"He won't be coming back, probably."
At last, Kallen spoke out. "I saw his frame got ambushed by the newbie robot. I'm afraid he didn't survive that."
"We aren't sure, are we?" Ougi commented. "To be honest, I'm not into his sudden entry yesterday, and it was an insult for me, as your leader, to comply on all his words but as his powerful voice made an excellent outcome, I'm so thankful; we somehow had outwitted those monsters, not mentioning further about the ending. I'm also worried that he got caught and he's tortured right now."
His eyes fierce. "But the thing is, there's no news flashing about the incident nor the capture of the culprit. If there were serious in making us die in shame, why don't they feature to the whole that crappy victory they'd grasped?"
All of the members got speechless while Kallen closed her eyes to think about things. She herself was clueless and all she could do was to whisper a prayer; for her peers, for her deceased brother, for their beloved home land…
--
Ashford Academy? I never thought you'd have any interest in studying, Suzaku-kun!
Private Kururugi was still blushing while refreshing that moment when he asked about that particular school name and he received teases instead of its address. He shook his head to brush off the bad memory.
"It's not that I want to take up academic education. That's the address Lelouch gave me and I was stupid to receive it without any street name or number."
He sighed afterwards and continued his walk. He turned left and stopped for a while; a lady's voice distracted him… from above.
Too much to his surprise, a girl was about to jump from a window, and she would land on him.
"Hey!" She called out. "Catch me, okay?"
Frightened for her attempt and himself as a human trampoline, he stretched his sturdy arms was about to catch her but he missed her by a step. She ended up landing on him instead.
The girl; having soft pale skin, long cotton candy-colored hair, long skirt and shades stood up form his back and offered her hand to help him.
"N-No, don't trouble yourself. I'm just fine," but his face twitched immediately, his left hand flying off on his still unhealed wound on his right side but tried hard for her to notice.
He blinked for a moment; he noticed her light-colored eyes lingering at him, and it gave him such feeling.
"H-Hey…"
Suddenly, she drew a big smile on her lips and grabbed his hand before dragging him, as she started to run.
"Help me elope for a while, okay?" she said with a wink.
Suzaku burst a frightened groan.
--
Upon stepping his foot in the classroom, Lelouch's eyes scanned over the entire area, and suddenly set his on his classmate Kallen Stradtfeld, one of the finest students of Ashford, yet one of the strange people around. He kept eyeing the said girl which was weakly smiling at her chattering classmates and when he got near his chair, Rivalz immediately teased him.
"Say… Lulu I never think you're into someone in your class. Do you like her?"
Shirley side-glanced at them.
"Impossible."
When the longhaired girl heard that, she turned back to her reading. Lelouch added, "It's only the second time I see her."
"Kallen Stradtfeld. Well, I heard she has a weak body so she stays at home a lot. But surprisingly, she has good grades and totally an outstanding student. And since she's from the Stradtfeld, definitely she has the money. Brains, beauty and wealth; you do have a good taste in babes, Lulu!"
Lelouch continued staring at Kallen, then at the paper which Milly gave him as the exchange work for the filed paper works hours ago, then back on Kallen.
I'd dreamt of this…
Not this way, though…
After an hour and a half Math class, Lelouch, without further hesitations, suddenly stood up from his seat and walked closer to where the red-haired girl was sitting. Upon reaching her location, he paused before her, making Kallen look up at him.
"There is something I want to talk about with you."
Malicious girl classmates squealed with excitement, and Shirley groaned with disbelief.
--
He took her into the clubhouse where the Student Council was and before even opening the door, Lelouch ceased for a moment, his hand resting on the doorknob.
This girl right behind me, is one of the terrorists who fought at Shunjuku.
She's hiding with a persona of a weak person to be able to mislead people.
I don't have to use the Geass to confirm that…
Kallen was already uncomfortable with her situation: a classmate who'd she had just met invited her to have a private meeting, made her walk a distant from the school building going to that secluded area and now he was acting strange all of the sudden. Her vein twitched with irritation.
"You suddenly got silent. If you think you could-"
"I'm sorry I made you worry: he uttered before finally twisting the knob open and slowly pushed the door backwards. He was the first one who entered, followed by the scarlet-head which still had doubts.
"This is the school clubhouse, and where the student council resides."
"S-Student council?"
Party confetti popped from above and rained on Kallen's location. The girl blink with wonder as Rivalz, Shirley and Nina showed before them.
"So that's why Lelouch was busy tracking Kallen's every move," the treasurer said with a chuckle. "I bet this is the Chairman's plan."
"Yes, definitely!"
From the kitchen, Milly came out while pushing a food cart loaded with goodies she herself prepared. She stopped from walking and stood before the newcomer.
"So this is Kallen Stradtfeld. Thanks for accommodating her, Lelouch!" The blonde smiled.
Kallen's eyes widened, "W-Wait, what's this…?"
"From the principal himself, he asked me to add you up as one of the student council members since the other clubs' activities are too much for your weak body to bear. But don't worry, council works aren't that hard, right Lelouch?"
The called guy looked away pouting while the shorter male member happily greeted her, "I'm Rivalz Cardemonde, and I'm the treasurer. Nice to meet you, Kallen."
"I'm Shirley, nice to meet you too," the swimming club member pointed out herself, then shifted her finger to the eye-glassed girl beside her. "And this is Nina-san."
Though still clueless with everything, Kallen smiled and tilted her head. "Nice to meet you all."
"ALL RIGHT!" Rivalz exclaimed and grabbed a bottle of chilled champagne. "Let's make a celebration to welcome our newest member!"
Shirley, concerned about youth rules, protested. "Hey, not with that! We're the student council and we should be-"
Milly's face was already two inches before her and this made the girl jumped with fear. The blonde winked, "It's okay, this is what we call social drinking. Protest more and someone will be turned off," then she used her mouth to point at someone. When Shirley followed it, she blushed and again bawled, "Chairman!"
"Wow, it seems everyone is having fun."
Everybody paused to looked at Nunnally who just got out form one of the rooms in the clubhouse.
Kallen held a curious look at the little girl, since the guy beside her suddenly cast a smile over the newcomer. Milly volunteered to introduced her, "Meet the princess of the of the council, Nunnally Lamperouge."
"Lamperouge?"
"Yes. She is Lelouch's beloved little sister."
The young girl stuck out her tongue, "I'm just a half-member, Milly-san!"
--
A big blast happened again at the Shinjuku Ghetto. Intelligence reports were pointing out the devastated area as the new hideout of the terrorists that had damaged it before. News flash interrupted every channel in the city; revealing Prince Clovis' decision of complete eradication of the said ghetto as soon as possible for Britannian's safety.
This news distracted the student council's welcome party and Suzaku's 'elope game' with the female stranger. A call from her cellphone caught Kallen's attention and left the clubhouse while everyone was focused on the news, but Lelouch was able to track her.
At the park, Suzaku made the girl sat on a stone bench beside the fountain and told her, "I have to go somewhere for a while. It's up to you if you're to stay here or not, but I have to leave-"
"Your name."
"H-huh?" The boy blinked.
The girl smiled, "Leave me your name."
Jade eyes lingered with her happy face, and he smiled back. "Suzaku. Kururugi Suzaku.
"I'm..." She thought for a moment. "..Euphie."
He smiled wider, before finally leaving the area with a dash. The lady, who named herself Euphie, was still following Suzaku's moves with her eyes and when she closed her eyes, she felt a soft breeze kissing her cheeks.
"Onii-sama... has done it again. I wonder what would the Lancelot do...
... in this crucial time..."
--
"W-what, the man with the mysterious voice again called you?"
In the midst of raging fires of exchanging gun shots, Ougi replied on the other line, "He told us that the army would pass by here to completely destroy the area. We badly need you here."
"Don't worry, I'll be there in a short while," and she cut off her line. She quickly left Ashford Academy, not knowing that soemone had eavesdropped the conversation, and he was in terrible confusion as a particular part of his erased memory had been cleared.
Now I remember...
It's him...
Zero...
He's done again...
How come he was against Britannia like I do...
How come he was helping the terrorists like I wish I did...
Who the hell is he...?
Immediately, the Lancelot was launched to secure the area. Despite the Governor's annoyance to the fact that an Eleven was driving the latest Knightmare Frame, he still ordered for its presence at the ghetto for maximum protection.
Frames were busy firing at the powerless humans who were running for their lives, the terrorists' own Frames trying to steal the army's attention at them for those monsters to leave the civilians alone; for Kallen, who was now loaded at the Glasglow, history had repeated itself. Nothing had changed, and it was all sickening and tiring all of the sudden. Just when would the Japanese people had their chance to win against the monstrous empire like Britannia?
A land soldier was busy securing his perspective area when suddenly a high school student greeted him, and he was caught under the teen's curse.
Another call was made, and Zero was now talking to Kallen. He was located at a room with glass windows not so far from the battle field and he could clearly see the small smokes coming from falling debris. He could also spot the frames in action, and the wires surround at the radius, but he commanded the woman to continue distracting the enemy and made her position within the circle. When the call ended, he settled to smile.
"I'll make you decide who will be our first casualty... Lelouch..."
Those wires...
I'm sure there are connected within a trigger, and one mistake, this whole area would be in ashes.
But that's not the point now.
I woke up from a dream that's full of possibilities that it can happen.
Not all of it though, but some crucial incidents... like this one.
This scenario...
This exact scene...
I might know where Zero can be...
... and he's on a bloodshed.
But who could be the first victim?
Clovis was innocent, he said in my foresight, but was that true..?
He said he didn't know anything about my mother's murder, but do I have to believe with what I'd seen only in a dream...?
There's only one way to find out...
Lelouch, after cosplaying as a soldier just to get near the huge vehicle where Prince Clovis is, immediately went to the particular room, and to secure himself a safe passage, he kept his Geass activated.
The stairs led him to that certain room he was looking for, and when he harshly opened up the door, he was welcomed by a pitch black room, with low frightened groans of a familiar voice. He quickly walked closer to see if it was his older half-brother, but he sensed that there was another presence there inside.
"As expected, you'll be here in time, Lelouch..."
Lelouch's body hairs rose up with fright and he was about to step background when suddenly, he wasn't able to move again, just like what had happened to him before the first time he met up with Zero.
Zero switched position- from facing Clovis with his gun pointing at the Area 11 Governor to his side, for the Britannian Prince to see his long lost younger brother. When he did, tears formed in his eyes but he wasn't able to talk. Lelouch noticed it.
"Clovis is a type of person who loves to blab all the things he has and has not to say, so I made him shut up."
Tension elevated as the masked guy showed a button remote at the teen; it was the control of the nuclear weapon at the ghetto. Lelouch's eyes quivered with the pressure he felt.
"A casualty is needed to heat things up, but I'll make you decide yourself...
This gun has a bullet to scratch this useless trash's mortality, while this button here will let those dumb Japanese people end up as sacrifices. Don't worry, I'll give you enough time to decide..."
The teen felt his head twisted with the options. It was a torture... a torture he didn't imagine to endure long...
Clovis, or the terrorists?
He looked at his already sobbing half-sibling -- within his dilated eyes were fear and depression mixed up. He closed his eyes and imagined how could Shinjuku end up with one blast. He was confused. He didn't want to think anymore...
Suddenly, Zero shifted back in facing the Governor and walked closer to him. Clovis looked up at the masked guy as he slowly unveiled his identity. When the masked was completely removed, the prince was terrified; his eyes shifted to look at Lelouch at the back, then at the guy before him again.
"Too bad this is what is decided..." And he pointed his gun at the guy's forehead.
Lelouch heard this and was about to speak when he felt his body get numb with vision getting blank.
You yourself had decided...
And this is only a mere beginning...
Don't weep too much, heheheh...
Clovis...
...
Onii-sama...
I'm sorry...
A gunshot had occur...
Stage Six Preview: Britannia's mourn, Suzaku's debut in Ashford Academy and the moment Euphie saw Arthur (which I forgot in this stage hahahah xD)
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Another Note: I am done with Stage Six's story outline. What worries me is when can I update again hahahaha
I love Shuu Takamura's support, and I'm in love with his roleplay character hahahahaha xD