Code Geass: The Demon and the Dragon

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass. If I did, then what you see below would be the show, instead of a fanfiction on the Internet.

Stage 14: The Beginning of Hell

- The Student Council -

Exactly thirty minutes, seven seconds after the end of the last chapter

"Alright, what the hell is this about Milly?" Learme asked crossly. Currently, he and Suzaku were tied to one of those spinning circular boards, a more modern, less painful variation on the Catherine wheel from medieval times.

"Well, Learme." Milly started, still dressed in that leotard, although now she had the cape gathered further back from her chest, showing off her - very - ample bosom. "Upon being informed that you were taking our newest member, Suzaku, to get a mug of your rather infamous coffee, we decided to intervene." Learme frowned.

"How the hell did you-" The sight of Lelouch, with an apron thrown over his school uniform and carrying a plate filled with various foods. "What the hell are you doing Lelouch?"

"This?" Learme's twin asked, arching an eyebrow and gesturing fancily to the plate. "This is the snacks that I've prepared. Seeing as how Milly probably isn't going to let you go until you swear not to give Suzaku any of your coffee." Upon the plate was arranged shrimp, croissants, cookies, biscuits, muffins and an assorted array of skewered bits of meat. A strange and varied mess of snacks, befitting she who snacked upon them. Namely, Milly.

"Now, there's nothing wrong with wanting to share a drink with a friend." Learme protested. A muffled sound indicated Suzaku's agreement in this matter.

"Even when said drink caused Rivalz to rampage throughout the school, literally jumping off of the walls and trashing the grounds? All of the grounds?" Milly said, righteous fire in her eyes. Rivalz, on the other hand, shrunk back slightly in embarrassment.

"Normally, I'd dispute that." Learme said, glaring at the Student Council President, with a little of the force leaking off onto her unfortunate lackeys, whose knees knocked together, still dressed in false chevalier armor. "But all I have to say now is....SEE YA!" This last was said as he and Suzaku leaped off of the wheel, spinning it, over Milly and the others, and landing right next to the Council Room door. Both martial artists delivered an almighty kick to the barricade, splintering the ill-kept wood into dozens, if not hundreds, of broken pieces before quickly opening the door, entering, and closing it behind them.

"How did they get out?" Shirley asked, awed by the speed. Lelouch simply moved to the wheel and inspected it.

"It was Suzaku." He declared. "Using one of Learme's hidden knives to cut at their bindings."

"How did he hold it?" Rivalz asked.

"His mouth." Lelouch replied, picking up the foot-long knife by the grip before dropping it to wipe off the remnant saliva on his apron.

"Minions! We cannot allow them to drink The Coffee!" Milly declared, throwing her hands up and allowing her cape to flutter about her. "Quick, charge the room!" Both Shirley and Rivalz ran to the door, and tried the handle.

"It's locked." Rivalz reported.

"Lelouch!"

"I have no desire to be involved anymore in this." Lelouch retorted, turning back to the kitchen. Milly got a grin on her face, spreading ear to ear like the Cheshire Cat's.

"And on the 14th of February, the Lamperouge Twins-"

"Alright!" Lelouch interrupted. "I'll help." Striding to the door, Lelouch pulled out a paperclip and a steel nail file, before going to work on the lock. Within fifteen seconds, the door was unlocked, and all four of them burst through the door, to see-

A dark-haired blur swept past them, tumbling Shirley and Rivalz to the ground, while sending Milly and Lelouch flying back into the ballroom, before making a quick turn towards the exit and blazing a path out. By the time they had stumbled back to their feet and entered the Council Room, the blur was long gone. Inside the Room, Learme was sitting calmly at the table, sipping a mug of coffee.

"I really don't understand what all the fuss is." Learme said. "I mean, this is awesome coffee, but if you want some, why don't you just ask?"

"Learme," Lelouch said, "Please tell me that was Arthur that just darted out the door."

"Nope, he's over there." The twin replied, pointing back towards the cat house/miniature amusement park the Council had made for him. It was engulfed in what could only be described as a black maelstrom of super-caffeinated kitty.

"Then, the blur that went through the door...." Shirley trailed off.

"Suzaku. He seems to really like my brew."

"Oh shit." Rivalz groaned.

- The Black Knights -

At this point in the Black Knights, they felt their life was a living hell. Shortly before Zero and Draco had left to 'secure intelligence on future Britannian Operations', they had announced that Mischa and Antonio would be training them.

Things had gone downhill from there.

The two had started by splitting up the Black Knights into six-soldier infantry teams, before running each unit through a hardcore thee-dimensional maze filled with automated gun turrets loaded with paint and rubber bullets, stun mines, electroshock gates, and other various instruments of military training torture. As if that wasn't enough, while trying to shoot the turrets with their own rubber-loaded guns, disarm the mines, and hack the gate's control pads, they were being ruthlessly pursued by either of the two mercenaries: The Professional with a sniper rifle and the Bone Snatcher with a tazer and a stun tonfa.

At this point, seventy-two of the one-hundred and fifty Black Knights in the command cell had gone through the exercise three times, with the remaining thirteen teams having experienced it only twice. For the team of Oghi, Tamaki, Kiryu, Ouka, Qilin and a new member called Eris had been darted, shocked, stunned, and shot several times.

And it was their turn next.

Ohgi and Tamaki were both armed with the new Type-20 assault rifle. It was a design based off of a weapon currently in production in the Euro Universe member nation of Belgia. Like its inspiration, the Type-20 was a bull-pup weapon with the magazine loading behind the grip but in front of the stock. From the grip, it curved up to the barrel before heading back to the stock with a flat Weaver rail mount system on top of the barrel that was compatible with various sights and lights, including the reflex sights that both Ohgi and Tamaki had on it. However, it was chambered for a 7.62x39mm hardened steel penetrator round, and had a built-in silencer/flash suppressor in the barrel.

Qilin was carrying the Type-26 LMG, based off of the Britannian bullpup L86 LSW. It was belt fed, with the ammunition contained in an attached lightweight polymer box. It utilized the same ammunition as the Type-20 rifle. Dual Weaver rail mounts on the top and bottom of the barrel were occupied with a reflex sight and a vertical foregrip, respectively.

Kiryu, Eris, and Ouka were all armed with the Prussian MP7A1, which fired 4.6x30mm hardened steel penetrators, and had three Picatinny rails, on the sides and top. Each had a reflex sight and a suppressor on theirs. All of them had the Type-13 11.5mm handgun as sidearms, usually loaded with Black Talon 11.5 Auto rounds. The perforated, star-shaped round was extremely dangerous, splitting into six razor-sharp shards after penetration to deal significant damage.

Although, instead of their usual ammo, all the guns were loaded with rubber stun rounds for the training exercise.

The team was armored in the Type-10 'O-Yoroi' body armor. Originally a term applied to old Samurai armor, meaning 'great armor', the Type-10 consisted of a cover-all made out of heavy Kevlar and Gore-tex fibers coated with a reactive ferro-fluid that temporarily hardened upon impact, and had 2mm coin-shaped plates of silica carbide ceramic covering the material. This was capable of blocking shrapnel from a very close distance, and pistols from a medium distance, rifles from long. Over this went the Samurai-esque plates, which were made of a layer of titanium carbide and titanium boride sandwiching a ferro-rubber layer in between. The helmet was made of the same material, and was also similar to Samurai armor, down to the Oni-like gas mask. Its visor was made out of the same material as Draco's disguise windshield for his truck, and had HUD screens projected onto them. It also incorporated quantum-encrypted radio and helmet cameras.

At this point, they were proceeding through the entrance with Ohgi and Tamaki in front, Qilin in the middle, Eris and Ouka on the sides, and Kiryu acting as rear-guard.

"They learned quick." Mischa approved, watching them through his Walther WA2000 sniper rifle's scope. A weapon of which only one-hundred and seventy six were made, Mischa's was particularly deadly, with a recoil compensator, liquid cooling system, expanded box magazine, silencer/flash suppressor, open sights and a high-powered telescopic sight, and an infrared targeting laser, he could single-handedly bring down an entire platoon without reloading within five seconds, due to both the 30-round magazines and his marksmanship.

"Maybe, but did they learn it well?" Tony asked, skulking around the maze. An IFF signaler clipped onto his belt relayed a signal that caused the turrets and stun mines to ignore him, and the gates to allow him through. "And can they trust the newbie?" Eris, full name Eris Baxter, was a former Britannian Army officer. During her processing, Tony had learned that she had been dishonorably discharged due to a few 'unfortunate' explosions during her time as a demolitions specialist, and one incident.

She'd go far in this organization.

The team was proceeding down a hallway now, heading for some stairs. From experience - very painful experience - they knew that these stairs were surrounded by stun mines, and were also guarded by turrets on the next floor.

"Alright, um....Eris, could you..." Ohgi.

"Yep." The Britannian said brightly, moving forward to deal with the mines. Qilin, meanwhile moved up as well, levering his machine gun to aim at the top of the stairs. In order to simulate actual enemies, the turrets were equipped with pressure sensors on the flat shield-like part where the gun was mounted. When the rubber bullets struck a sensor, the turret automatically swung out behind the wall, or other piece of cover.

When Eris nodded, she fell back to cover their backs while Ohgi and Tamaki moved forward with Qilin, going up the stairs.

Just after they reached the midpoint, Qilin started firing. The rubber rounds impacted on the turret's forward shield and caused them to flip to either side of the staircase. Ohgi and Tamaki rushed forward and popped up onto the next floor, setting off the turret's close range detectors and shutting them down.

"Hoy, Ohgi!" Kiryu called out. "Bone Snatcher coming up from the rear, fast!" The rear guard was firing down the corridor, keeping Tony pinned down in a doorway that recessed twenty centimeters into the wall. Then he tossed out a grenade.

"Oh boy, 'nade incoming!" He shouted again, rushing up the stairs with Ouka and Eris quick behind. Just after they cleared the first ten steps, the grenade detonated, sending large rubber balls flying everywhere in a hail of painful pseudo-shrapnel that very effectively faked a real grenade explosion.

"They seem to work well together." Tony noted. "Would you kindly pin them down?"

"Why, what are you going to do?" Mischa asked.

"Overkill." Tony replied simply, priming four grenades. In the next second, he tossed all of them up the stairs.

"Aw shit." Tamaki said, as they bounced off of the stair walls and up into their floor. The team dove down, hoping that the rubber 'shrapnel' would harmlessly pass over them.

- The Student Council -

"Everyone!" Milly's voice echoed throughout the Academy, causing students and staff alike to glance up, hoping for or dreading an event. "Suzaku Kururugi has drunken of Learme's Coffee! Find and detain him immediately!"

"You do know they're more likely to run in fear right?" Lelouch commented dryly, having divested himself of the apron and sitting next to Milly.

Back in the Academy, most of the student body, along with the teachers, had barricaded themselves in the gym, fearing an encounter with the afflicted Suzaku. Who was actually running around the grounds, generally leaving a trail of unintentional destruction and garbled apologies.

- The Author -

Yes, the Black Knights are extraordinarily well-armed. Yes, there is a reason why Learme has a coffee that makes normal people go nuts. No, Suzaku's not gonna live this down in the eyes of the twins.

Replies:

Infinite Freedom: You found the original Godzilla scary? I thought it was awesome. All that collateral damage.....

Kojiro Kun: Thank you.
Perfection is boring.
Alright.

Omegadramon2: Got your messages, all of them.

Blaid: Is free synonymous with desiccated and destroyed? (Joking)
I dunno, I think we're getting to maximum OC capacity here.
Thank you.

Haavu: One can be surprised how much damage you can do with an apple.
You should be a poet. And don't worry, I can deal with a lot of stuff. Just don't act like my sister.
Thanks.

sakurahannaalice" Thanks

couldn't log in....: Peace is boring. War now.....fictional war that is.....that's very amusing.

Helen Rasberrih: Twisted like.....huh, I don't have a ready analogy for that.
The origin of The Scar will eventually be revealed. In flashback. As soon as I decide which of the two ideas should be put in.
Lelouch, twenty-seven seconds.

00virtuezero: Very awkward indeed.
Perversion is easy to write, IMO.
PMed you.