Author's Note: Sorry for the very late update, the rains ruined our internet connection.
Haha instead of doing my homework I'm prioritizing this, if my parents knew this they won't understand why I'm spending so much free time writing fanfics.
Congrats to me! Silver Medal in my pingpong tourney!! (Pardon me just boosting up my confidence)
GOOD NEWS! There is a epilogueafter this! (And three bonus chapters)
Sakuradite.
Little by little they were moving farther from Ashford, nearing the Tokyo bay area.
"I-I'm inside the Avalon! My escape pod landed there!"
The Guren and the Lancelot vanished in the blinding light…only too appear again moments later, looking like scraps of metal
He called out to Kallen but received no reply…
He saw the troops defeated by the Black Knights; Ogi has succeeded and he's probably celebrating now with the others.
"Human life is much more important than victory, lay down your pride and humble yourselves."
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"LIVE ON!!"
…2
Must escape!
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BOOM!!
The small part of the Tokyo bay area was engulfed by a surge of brightness all over-the structures, the Knighmares, the Black Knights, the Avalon and the ruins.
In that small moment, silence and darkness enveloped the white knight.
In that opacity, all his happy memories returned to him in flashes…He was himself grow from a child to an adult, meet with enemies and friends alike in what seemingly was a second. He dived into himself, accepting his cruel fate smiling…
Then abrupt sounds of metal, machines and electricity awakened his senses.
He heard all the noises around him, tasted blood on his lips and smelled fire, felt the hotness of the cockpit and the coldness of his controls in his hands.
He still saw nothing but he was alive.
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Moments ago: "Ogi, block all reinforcements at the Tokyo bay area, use Rakshata's Knightmare disabler if crucially needed."
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Live
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The dawn shone too shortly, the fast moving grey clouds overshadowed it quickly.
The flashes of lightning revealed the Gawain's presence; it flew over the sea swiftly, nearing Kaminejima.
"CC…I'm worried about the twins. If the twins popped out of the nowhere those people must have freaked out."
"Then…will they just simply teleport back to us?" CC was unusually trying to be optimistic.
"The problem lay there, I commanded them 'stay out of this mess' and they can't go back here. You see, it seems that they can only go to those blood related to them…"
"That may be true, yet I feel that they are completely safe…
The rain started pouring.
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The twins lay asleep on wheel-chaired girl's lap, resting their heads on her chest with both arms embracing them.
"So this one is Eirianell and the girl is Aurora?"
"Y-yes" Nunally nervously answered.
She still hadn't understand how she was taken away from home; the commotion just suddenly died down and it seemed like that her environment changed. However, she was sure that the boy who took her was the one screaming when Mao came in with the chainsaw.
"You father, the Emperor of Britannia, wishes for your safety and therefore sent me" VV told her just moments ago. When she leaned about the rebellion, her worries for her brother and CC became greater for they still haven't come home.
She doubted that the Emperor cared for her; something weird must be going on. "Um VV…how did you get the twins too?"
"There are others like me" he was referring to the twins.
It would take a while before VV can teleport them back to Britannia; he still haven't recovered from the wounds Mao inflicted.
Lelouch remembered the place where he stole the Gawain and stood at its entrance.
It is a large cave with unusual writing and symbols. The Britannians was surely investigating it before and it looked like they abandoned it recently.
"CC do you know this place?"
"I don't…" She really had no idea why that place was almost like related to her. CC didn't know everything at all.
"Then is the one who kidnapped Nunally a Geass user?"
"No, I don't know either…believe me."
There were really things that she won't be able to answer no matter how curious he is. But he doesn't care. "I believe you, at least you know that the Aurora and Eirian is safe"
"Thank you…"
Their Knightmare could surely enter the cave and it would be helpful if it could blast their way in.
But as they stepped inside, waves of light crept into the Gawain.
Her voice entered him. "Don't panic, this is a trap for invaders. The ones who trigger it are-"
CC and Lelouch was thrown into myriads of visions.
It was like when she gave him the Geass, but it was still different…He saw CC's life as a suffering immortal that lived alone. He saw the world war, the persecutions, and the witch hunt -finally he couldn't bear it and screamed "stop it."
The world around Suzaku rocked when his head bumped at all sides as his cockpit appeared to have crashed on something really hard.
His cockpit might me heavily armored (he thought) enough to be blasted away from the Avalon and land on the ground.
But there was no time to rejoice at his survival: He heard footsteps coming closer; shouting "there he is!"
The Sakuradite must have malfunctioned and stopped working and a Britannian soldier from the Avalon must be coming to get him.
He may have to surrender…but as he heard the clicking of the release of guns' safety lock his instinct kicked out:
Live on.
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He ignored the pain of his cuts and wounds and opened the jammed hatch of the Lancelot with a once in a lifetime powerful kick.
He instantly got blinded by the light but ignored it, using his spinning kung-fu kick to knock the enemy down…and he ran straight to the hole he entered.
His head was spinning but he was determined; with a parachute in his backpack he jumped with eyes closed.
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…1
As soon as he pulled his parachute he hit the ground: SPLAT!
It was just 15 feet high. The Avalon has landed.
HOW!?
"Hoy Suzaku!" A familiar voice called him from above.
When he opened his eyes he saw Tamaki… and the guy was rubbing the cheek he kicked.
"How dare you do that to me baka!" Tamaki snarled at him "After discovering that Sakuradite runs the Avalon and calling Rakshata to disable it, this is the praise you give me!? Mistaking me for a Britannian!?"
Sakuradite disabler? The Knightmare disabler? It was the "BOOM"?
Tired, Suzaku rolled and lay his back flat on the ground and wiped his bleeding nose "Thanks…" he said weakly, but he was actually more than thankful to Tamaki "But by the way where's Prince Schneizel?"
"He's not here, he just used a hologram" his tone was obviously annoyed. "But Suzaku it's time for celebration!" said Tamaki in his usual energetic and arrogant voice "We won, Japan is free!"
He heard the Black Knight's victorious cries.
But wait! Where is Kallen?
An endless nothingness surrounded Lelouch. It was all white and memories flashed in his eyes behold the girl in front of him.
"CC, this is your…"
"That's all that was left of my memories, sorry if I wasn't able to tell you…the contract was already fulfilled, it was when I was given a chance of mortality." She didn't pause while speaking, her tongue was filled with words "I'm sorry if I didn't tell you…I was too afraid that you'll leave me alone when you learn of that-"
"You'll never be alone. We're partners right?" He smiled at her "If the contract is finished, let us make a new one…and now it will come from me."
He offered his hand to her.
Smiling back with tears building up in her eyes, she reached out her hand to him.
…
But a sound of a harken broke her thought. Her response was quick with her reflexes; she evaded just in time before a green spike fired again.
"IT IS ME!! ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
The Siegfried spun again, uprooting trees in the area and causing some landslides.
"You annoying moron!!" Lelouch yelled as he saw the entrance of the cave being blocked by boulders.
They were pushed away from the island and the fighting continued above the raging sea. CC has no flight pattern making it hard to predict and the blending of the Gawain's dark colors in the dark thunderstorm clouds proved to be useful.
"MY BEAUTIFUL HUMILIATION!!" Orange-kun aggressively and mindlessly charged at them.
Yet when all the seven green harkens was released, it was clear that the Gawain has its limitations; one scratched the side of a cockpit, causing a minor damage in the weapons systems.
Lelouch winced in pain from the electrocution "Due to the damage made by Cornelia-"
"We can only fire the Hadron canon one last time!" CC distressingly shouted back as the Siegfried was getting dangerously close to them.
So he fired it into the ocean: the impact was strong enough and produced a wave that pushed the Siegfried back, away from them.
"Leave this to me. You go save Nunally and twins!"
"You? Pilot? Don't joke around! And this thing will be out of energy soon!" CC protested.
Lelouch sat up from his seat and went behind hers "Trust me; I think you understand why I'm doing this don't you?" She knew that he might do this, and she'll have him do his own way as a man. So she let him have her seat.
They escaped the fountains and headed back to the island as fast as they could.
"You must win Lelouch." CC told him before the hatch was opened.
"Yes, of course." He stood up, leaned forward and gave her a quick kiss.
All over the United States of Japan, one can hear the cries of freedom. The place was filled with ruins and fire. Still, what ravaged more was the presence of death all around the place; some of the wounded lay untreated on the ground. And the fact that those Britannians who surrendered were being attacked by vengeful Japanese cannot be denied.
"Kallen!" Where are you!?" Suzaku called out to the rubbles.
He and Tamaki, and some other knights as well were looking for her for minutes. But they were beginning to lose hope as they couldn't find a one-piece Guren.
"Kallen!?" Tamaki saw a red haired girl sitting amid the scattered parts of the eject pod. He ran out to her and called out again "Kallen! It's me!"
Suzaku followed him and they ran towards her…But as they were getting nearer they noticed that she was…hugging her big chest and crying.
"K-Kallen…it's allright" Tamaki was blushing a little.
"Thank god for these…"she hugged them more tightly "I was about to die and they saved me." She told him between sobs.
"Errr that's good…"Suzaku can't find words as he was also being distracted by the sight.
"If I don't have these, the impact could have been fatal…they saved my head…I thought I was going to die!"
"So it was you who kidnapped Nunally...Where are they now!?"
CC pointed a pistol to the child in front of her.
"Don't worry, they are still here. What can you do anyway? You're weaker than me CC." He replied flatly.
"I don't care, I'm smarter than you" she jeered at him, pointing the gun down.
He just laughed back "But you might have lost your immortality CC, and little by little you are losing your abilities…you are turning into a human. Isn't that what you wanted? But too bad, I'll kill you now" He pulled a pistol from his pocket "I wonder what experiments they'll do to the twins?"
She was provoked by this-she can't bear to think that her children might experience what they did to her in Code R. Her shoulders shook in anger though she kept her cool stature.
And she chuckled "But don't you know that I know how to kill you VV? I know how."
The boy's eyes widened.
"Yes, it is really that easy…"
"Lelouch, don't die." She said in a commanding voice as the Gawain's remaining arm placed her at the ground.
He replied snobbishly "Who do you think you're talking to?"
'Yes that's right' she thought, then she smiled and looked away. "Yes… my answer is "YES"! She shouted at him before running off to the partly blocked entrance of the cave.
Once again, the Gawain flew up and braced itself for the enemy.
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The shaking boy hastily pointed the gun at her
"CC!!"
She grinned and did the same.
"VV!!"
They cried the names full of hatred
Click
A metallic sound of a bullet reverberated.
…
After which CC fell into the cold ground…
and a droplet of water fell into her pool of blood.
Is it me…the one who'll die?
NEXT CHAPTER: EPILOGUE entitled "GOODBYES"humor and drama (it was supposed to be combined with this, but it would be too long.)
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