Well, here's chapter 2 of my new story, Code Geass: Lelouch the Full Power. Hopefully this is working out, I'm not entirely sure how to go through with this, so any criticism is accepted. Now onto the reviews!
Zetsueno: It not going to be incredibly focused on and pairing, but it will have slight hints of CCxLelouch, and KallenXLelouch. Hope you stick around!
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"Nunnally?" Zero yelled as he ran down the hallways of the UFN basement. "Nunnally!"
"Look at you, brash as ever." a man said, as Zero entered an large room, likely used for mass storage. "Willing to charge into any danger head on, not afraid of death. Seems the new Zero has some things to learn."
"Who are you?" Zero said, quickly turning in the direction of the voice.
"Now, now. That's no way to speak to your elders." the voice said, walking from the shadows. "My name is Gordon, the new leader of the EU and soon to be controller of this world."
"So you're the one who ordered the attack on the UFN building." Zero said, getting ready to attack. "Where did you take everyone?"
"Come now, Suzaku. We still have much more to talk about before I throw you in the brig with the rest of them." Gordon smirked.
Zero noticeably flinched before speaking up again. "What are you implying?"
"Suzaku Kururugi, Age 18. Dubbed White Knight by his colleagues, and named Princess Euphemia's Knight before her death. Former ace Knightmare pilot of Britannia, earning him the title Knight of Zero. Piloted the Lancelot until his untimely demise when his knightmare was destroyed in a fight with the Guren." Gordon laughed, reading out of a manilla folder. "But this isn't really complete now, is it? Unknown to most, Suzaku murdered the former Prime Minister of Japan, his own father. Under the influence of Geass from the Demon Emperor himself, allowing him practical resourcefulness at avoiding the jaws of death. And last but not least, the successor to the former Zero, Lelouch vi Britannia. Current Age:22."
"How do you…" Zero stuttered, backing away slowly.
"I've kept an eye on the situation. The sign of a brilliant strategist is that he knows all about his enemies, inside and out." Gordon smirked. "So why not take the mask off so we can talk civilly?"
After hesitating for a moment, Zero reached up, removing the mask from his face, revealing Suzaku's face.
"This is exactly what I'm talking about you learning from." Gordon laughed. "If Lelouch was in your place, he would've used Kallen more effectively than just watching your precious Shinkiro. I'd be down in an instant, and the battle would be yours. But alas, you aren't him, which is why you lost."
Suddenly, Gordon's eyes glowed red, and Suzaku's body was coated in a red aura. As suzaku tried to move, his body wouldn't respond. It was as if he had turned to stone.
"What did you do?" Suzaku groaned through his clenched teeth.
"Geass, my boy, Geass. Let me show you the instrument of my victory. My Geass, the Gorgon's eye!" Gordon smiled as he once again allowed the bird to grace his eyes. "Any and all men are powerless if they catch my glance. There bodies truly become stone. Perfect to shatter."
"You won't get away with this." Suzaku groaned.
"Why must I constantly repeat myself? Everyone who could hope to oppose me is gone, left the world's issues behind them." Gordon sighed. "Now as soon as I get the answers I need from you, you and everyone in this building will immediately be disposable."
Gordon slowly walked up to Suzaku, picking the mask up of the ground where it was unceremoniously tossed. "How sad will the world be to find out you've died. Pity I don't share their condolences. Now I'll give you a few chances here, where is he?"
"Who are you talking about?" Suzaku asked, trying to think of a way to stop this.
"You know exactly who I'm talking about!" Gordon suddenly screamed, throwing the mask across the room, watching the glass shatter as it hit the ground. "Quit hiding it from me! I need to know where they are!"
"Tell me who you're talking about, you're making no sense." Suzaku grunted.
"Wait. You haven't talked? You haven't seen him? He hasn't tried to contact you?" Gordon said, his psyche deteriorating with each passing second. "But that's not possible. He had to talk to you, there's no other choice. You're the only one who knows he's alive!"
"What the hell are you talking about!?" Suzaku tried to yell, but was muffled by his mouth not moving.
"He has to be alive. He has to…" Gordon said, before shaking himself back into reality, backing further away from Suzaku. "You're of no use to me now. If you can't give me the answers I need, then you're better off dead."
And with this, Gordon raised his pistol, aiming for Suzaku's head. "This is what you wanted from the start. To be free of your guilt." Gordon smirked. "Well now, your last wish has been granted."
"Goodbye."
"Live!" Lelouch's voice rang through his head.
"Any and all men are powerless if they catch my glance." Gordon's voice seemingly replied.
"I have to live!" Suzaku shouted, a small ring of red glowing around his eye, as the glow appeared around his body once again.
Suddenly, lightning as red as blood started circling Suzaku, the two Geass Commands fighting for command of Suzaku's body.
"AHHHHHHH!" Suzaku screamed, feeling a pain he never imagined as the lightning struck every inch of his body.
"Well this is a sight to see." Gordon smirked, "But sadly, I won't let this fight go on any further."
Suddenly, Gordon pulled the trigger, sending the bullet directly towards Suzaku's head. It was in that moment that time seemed to freeze for Suzaku. The Geass continued their battle in his body, but the bullet continued no further.
It didn't last even a second for the outside world, but to Suzaku, it felt like an eternity. His already stone paralyzed limbs screamed at him, yearning to just accept death. His head was not his own, now just a battlefield for the two powers to clash.
"LIVE!" Lelouch's voice shouted in his body, finally dispelling the other Geass, causing an explosion of lightning as the other Geass was purged from his body. The lightning crackled all over the room, collapsing the ceiling bringing the inhabitants of the main floor down to their level.
"Zero!" Suzaku heard Kallen scream, before he had passed out from the pain.
"Don't give them the line!" Tohdoh yelled as he slashed another enemy knightmare in half. "They must not take the city!"
"It's no use, they have too many units coming in." Gino said as he flew by in fortress mode, bombing a knightmare about to strike him from behind.
Gino was right. For every knightmare the commanders destroyed, it seemed ten took its place. The explosion crippled their numbers, making it so that they could barely fight back. Even the commanders had been overwhelmed at times, needing the others for assistance.
"All troops, retreat!" a voice shouted above the explosions of war, causing all the EU units to retreat from the winded commanders and their incredibly slim numbers. "Commanders, you've proven you are true warriors, but warriors aren't what win wars, remember that."
"Let's go take them down!" Gino shouted, about to fly off into battle.
"No, Gino, stay back." Tohdoh advised.
"He's right, we should use this opportunity to regroup." Jeremiah agreed. "For whatever reason, they can't keep this battle going, and we need to know why."
"Zero! Suzaku!" a voice shouted to him as he regained consciousness. "Oh thank goodness you're awake."
As Suzaku slowly opened his eyes, he noticed where he was. He was back inside the Shinkiro, Kallen taking over the controls in his absence. He couldn't remember how he had gotten into the Knightmare, but he did remember…
"Gordon! Where is he!?" Suzaku shouted, immediately getting out of his seat and as soon as he made his decision, immediately regretting it, his entire body screaming at him for moving in the slightest.
"Calm down Suzaku! Don't strain yourself, I don't know what happened, but you're muscles are shot." Kallen said, forcing him to sit down. "Gordon escaped, don't know how, but he did."
"We have to find him, I have a feeling that he knows more about the situation than we do." Suzaku groaned, struggling to get upright in his seat.
"We have intel he's held back his units right now." Kallen reported, "But even then, most of our side was wiped out by the Sakuradite explosions, whereas they keep bringing more and more units in. Our commanders have been holding up, but other than that, we've been at a massive disadvantage."
"Greetings Zero! Or should we greet by first names now, Suzaku?" a familiar voice patched in through the radio.
The voice itself made Suzaku want to jump out of his seat and rip out the radio, but he refrained from doing so from his injuries.
"Gordon…" Suzaku growled.
"Now now, Suzaku, I'm offering a wager." Gordon said, the smirk apparent in his voice. "Duel me, here and now. If I win, you'll either be dead or under my complete control. If you do, then all of my prisoners will be released, and you can have my head on a silver platter."
"And how do I know you're not lying to me?" Suzaku asked.
"You'll have to take my word for it." Gordon replied. "Meet me above Mt. Fuji in 10 minutes. Alone, or as alone as you can be with that red headed shedevil in the cockpit with you."
"I heard that!" Kallen shouted into the radio.
"I know, so pipe down while the big boys are talking." Gordon said. "So how does that sound? the war ends before it even starts, all with one battle."
"You're on, Gordon." Suzaku said, cutting off the signal.
"Are you sure about this Suzaku? It could just be a trap." Kallen asked.
"No, from what I've observed so far,he's a man of his word. He already took advantage of my brashness earlier, this time he'll want a true fight." Suzaku assured. "I'll need your help during this battle, you take the manual controls, I'll handle the shields."
"But I barely know how to pilot this." Kallen tried to explain.
"The manual controls override any attempt I make to self pilot, but controls exactly like your standard knightmare." Suzaku explained. "I had it installed for the preliminaries when I hadn't learned the new Shield generator ."
"So it should pilot just like my Guren?" Kallen asked, a smirk growing on her face. "Then this fight should be no problem."
"Well, well. You actually showed up." Gordon applauded over the radio as the Shinkiro flew into the airspace over Mt. Fuji. "Welcome to the battle. I regret to inform you that you won't be walking away alive."
"Enough talk, Gordon. Let's just get this over with right now." Suzaku cursed.
"Very well. But lets see how you deal with my knightmare." Gordon smirked as he flew out of the surrounding forest. He was alone, as promised, with his own custom knightmare. As opposed to having legs, the knightmare had one sole tail like appendage. It had a sleek appearance, more humanlike than most knightmares. Attached to it's head were hundreds of small wires, each moving of it's own accord. "I introduce to you, the Medusa."
"Well if introductions are over, then let's go!" Suzaku shouted, Kallen starting up the knightmare charging directly towards the Medusa.
"Good luck getting close enough to do anything." Gordon laughed as the Medusa began shooting lasers out of its wires, each aimed directly at the Shinkiro.
"Evade!" Suzaku yelled.
"Got it!" Kallen answered, immediately switching from an attack to evasion. But it didn't seem to matter where Kallen tried to run to, The wires followed and continued its bullethell-rate fire.
Immediately the Shinkiro stopped, enabling it's shields at the last second, protecting it from the onslaught of lasers. "Keep pushing forward, I'll deal with these!"
The Shinkiro swiftly resumed its course towards the enemy knightmare, trying to get close enough.
"Checkmate." Gordon smirked, as he disengaged the lasers and flew straight towards the approaching mirage.
The Shinkiro disabled its shields and stopped, engaging its Zero Beam. After shooting out it's crystal, the Shinkiro was ready to fire when the Medusa used it's own weapon against him, firing its multitude of lasers at the crystal and focusing them into a powerful beam, striking the Shinkiro directly in the chest.
As the Shinkiro readjusted itself to the laser, the Medusa was already upon him, the wires on its head circling and attaching to the Shinkiro.
"And this, valiant knight is where it ends." Gordon smirked, pressing a button on his console.
Suddenly, the entirety of the Shinkiro's systems failed, rendering it completely useless.
"Suzaku!" Kallen yelled, her eyes pleading.
"Try the escape pod!" Suzaku yelled.
"It won't work. It's jammed!" Kallen answered, growing more and more stressed.
"Here then, let me help!" Gordon said as he ripped the top off the Shinkiro's control booth. "Look at you Zero, so helpless. It's a shame you have to die so soon."
"Live!" A voice shouted from below in the lush forest of the surrounding area.
"Who was that, no, it couldn't be!?" Gordon shouted, losing his concentration.
"Kallen!" Suzaku yelled as he grabbed her by the wrist and used every muscle that would respond to jump out of the Shinkiro, sending both of them soaring towards the ground.
"Damn!" Gordon growled. "Oh well, they won't be able to survive, I'll have to send out a search party for them later."
"You said you wouldn't get involved in the world anymore." a voice said, monotonously.
"Well I can't sit idly when this is happening. The world wasn't going to stay peaceful, we knew that." a teen replied. "Now come on, let's go fetch out prize."
"Hold on, Kallen!" Suzaku yelled as they fell through the air. Grabbing her in both of his arms, he positioned himself underneath her so he would take the brunt of the pain.
The continued to fall, until they fell into the trees, breaking through branch after branch before landing on the ground, Suzaku's back cut from the branches.
"Kallen? Kallen, how are you?" Suzaku groaned, "Are you ok?"
"Yea, I think I'm ok." Kallen said, struggling to get up.
"Good, good." Suzaku said, remaining on his back, panting, barely conscious.
"You don't want it to end here, do you?" a voice echoed through the forest.
"What?" Suzaku groaned, pulling himself to his knees.
"You still have a reason for living." The voice continued. "I've granted you power, but will you go on? You granted me my last wish, and were given the power. The contract was accepted, along with all its conditions. While living in this world of humans, you've lived like no other: a different providence, a different time, a different life. This power condemned you to a life of solitude." Suddenly, a dark haired man exited the forest, smirking. "But you accepted it."
"Wha-" Suzaku started, before again passing out from the pain.
"All hail the new world order!" Gordon yelled as he approached the waters of Tokyo, his knightmare carrying the disabled Shinkiro along with him.
"Tohdoh, we have an incoming!" Jeremiah shouted, seeing Gordon approaching.
"Yes, all of you come at me! I defeated the combination of the two strongest Knightmare pilots the world over, I challenge you to take me out!" Gordon laughed, prying the crystal out of the Shinkiro's chest before throwing the knightmare into the waters.
"He defeated Zero?" Gino asked, "There's no way!"
"At this moment, the resistance will falter!" Gordon shouted as he began firing his lasers from the wires connected to his head.
"Everyone, back." Anya said, stepping forward with the Mordred, firing its proximity missiles to fend off the multitude of beams being fired. Each of them hit their mark, canceling each other out.
"Well, you all won't be as easy at I thought, then take this!" Gordon shouted, throwing the reflection crystal into the air, focusing all of his smaller beams into one powerful attack.
But the Mordred was prepared for this as well, breaking out her Stark Hadron Cannon, and fired it, once again reaching a stalemate.
"I know exactly what to take from your knightmare when I salvage it." Gordon smirked, before charging in for the kill.
"Not so fast." Gino said, jumping in front of him with the incredible speed of his fortress mode.
Gino immediately transformed back into his knightmare form and attempted to strike the Medusa with his Excalibur.
"Perfect!" Gordon said jumping back from the swing, before attaching his wires to the Tristan, disabling it as he had the Shinkiro.
"Now that you're out of the picture, I doubt you'd mind if I took this." Gordon smirked as he took one of the two blades from the Tristan before throwing him back towards the shore.
"Gino, pull up, get out of there!" Tohdoh shouted to him.
"I can't, he did something to it!" Gino yelled before he hit the beach, immediately surrounded by EU forces.
"Data analysis complete." Gordon smirked, twirling the Excalibur around as if he was a master with it.
"Tohdoh, let's go!" Cornelia shouted from her newly upgraded Gareth, still toting around her lance, upgraded to launch the lance similar to the Siegfried.
"Right behind you!" Tohdoh shouted.
The two of them charged the Medusa, each with their own weapons at the ready to crush through it.
But the Medusa was prepared, He quickly parried the Zangetsu's Seidoutou and dodged Cornelia's Lance, wrapping his tail around her Gareth.
"And now, your weapon becomes mine as well!" Gordon smirked, his wires worming their way to the systems of the Gareth.
"Cornelia!" Tohdoh shouted, catching Gordon of guard with a slash, forcing him to back away.
"Tohdoh! That does it, you're next!" Gordon cursed.
Suddenly, the Zangetsu was stabbed from behind, the other half of the Excalibur sent careening through the air into his back.
The Gordon took advantage of this and grabbed the sword wedged in his back and swung, severing the Machine in half.
"Now, I'll need this!" Gordon yelled as his wires found their way into his system.
As soon as he was disabled, Gordon took his Seidoutou and threw him to the beach to join Gino.
"Units, battle reengaged, but leave the Commanders to me." Gordon said, placing the Excalibur blades behind his back, sheaths appearing from the circuitry of the Medusa and holding them, leaving only the Seidoutou in his hands. "Another for the arsenal."
"You'll pay for what you've done!" Cornelia shouted.
"Then bring it on!" Gordon said, thrusting his sword forward as he charged.
The Gareth dodged the Medusa's preliminary strike, but was not prepared for the Slash Harken that was shot out of the hilt and wrapped its way around her knightmare.
"Now I have you!" Gordon smirked as he pulled her knightmare over to him before plugging himself into her circuitry.
As he downloaded the information, he placed the Seidoutou at his hip, another sheath building itself around it. As soon as the download was complete, he took the Lance from the Gareth's hands and threw her to the beach as well.
"Anya! Keep your distance!" Jeremiah shouted as he charged up his Hyper Velocity Cannon.
"Wait, Jeremiah. Take the rest of the troops and retreat." Anya said, stepping in front of him. "We need someone to get out of here, so go back and gather more troops."
"But Anya..." Jeremiah started.
"I don't need a guardian anymore, I'm old enough to make my own decisions." Anya said, setting up her Stark Hadron Cannon. "You've helped me for 4 years now, actually made me live. So please, let me help you escape. The Mordred is a good match for whatever abomination that is now. I'll cover your escape."
"... Fine. But just make sure you make it out alive, ok?" Jeremiah said, disengaging.
"I do. Goodbye, Dad." Anya grinned.
A smile crossed Jeremiah's face when she said that. "Alright, all troops, retreat to Britannia, we will regroup with the second group and prepare for battle anew!"
And with that, the Sutherland Sieg led the remaining troops back to Britannia, leaving behind the Mordred to fight.
"You do know you won't win, don't you?" Gordon said as he approached the Mordred.
"Of course." Anya said. "But I won't be going down without a fight."
"A little fight, eh?" Gordon smirked. "I like that in my victims."
And there's the second chapter for you. Hopefully this is good enough. Again, any criticism is accepted. Until Next time!