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 15: Purgatory
- The Black Knights -
When she was old and decrepit, with her blonde hair whitened and her usual Ashford-style replaced by a bun, looking back on this, Eris was sure that she'd remember this day with fondness and humor.
Right now? She loathed it. Especially that creepy little bastard, who'd Draco had credited with the nickname 'Bone Snatcher'. All of these thoughts occurred just as the grenades he'd tossed up the stairs detonated with an almighty THOOM!
Immediately after said detonation, Eris and the rest of her team clambered up to their feet, with Qilin covering the stairs with his Type-26.
"Grgh!" Out of nowhere, Tamaki shouted, falling to the ground and holding his arm as electrical shocks coursed through the limb. Despite the fact that their weapons were loaded with rubber bullets, Mischa and Antonio's weapons were loaded with some kind of shocker round, and it hurt. Needless to say, the rest of the team took cover along the walls, leaving Tamaki to writhe in agony.
"Well, looks like he's got us sighted." Kiryu commented. The former Yamato Alliance leader had the disconcerting combination of black hair and green eyes, the latter purportedly from his Britannian side. He was also rather tall, at about two meters, give or take ten centimeters, albeit he wasn't quite as bulky as Qilin was. Qilin himself had the stereotypical chinese features, including black hair and brown eyes.
"I'll go hack the door gate." Ouka offered, before crawling off towards the door behind the staircase. She was a lolicon's dream, barely more than one and a half meters tall, with a ponytail of brown hair and amber eyes set into a cutesy face. This, however, belied an uncanny skill with anything so much as approaching electronics. Which she immediately put to good use, tearing apart the keypad next to the electrified gate covering the door.
"I think there was a real grenade mixed in those." Qilin commented, studying the walls around the staircase.
"Oh come on, he wouldn't...." Kiryu trailed off as the former chinese soldier pointed at the shredded sections of wood, next to the merely somewhat pulverized parts of the wall. Glinting in each cut was a fragment of metal.
"An HEG-2 fragmentation grenade." Eris observed. "Britannian military issue. How did he get his hands on those?"
"I have my ways!" Tony called up, followed by what could only be described as the sound of a madman giggling. The team looked at each other.
"Run." Ohgi said. Without any hesitation whatever, the conscious members of the team ran for the door, leaving Tamaki's inert and unconscious body behind for whatever predations Tony could come up with. The idiot had been stupid enough to stand clear in the open for Mischa to shoot, let him deal with it!
- The Student Council -
Back at Ashford Academy, Nunnally was walking towards the Student Council Room, Sayoko nearby in case she needed help.
I wonder what all that noise is? She thought, even as the uncannily similar voices of Lelouch and Learme began to be heard, volume steadily rising.
"I have told you before Learme, your little chemical nightmare that you call coffee is not for the consumption of others without your condition!"
"Awe come on Lelouch, it isn't that bad-"
"No, in fact it's worse! The student body and faculty at large have barricaded themselves in the gymnasium, turning it into a miniature fort!"
"Really? I gotta have a look at that...."
"No. You are going to help us with the problem you created, and then I'm gonna find all your stashes of that so-called coffee and lock them away until you learn that that is one thing you do not share with others."
"But-"
"........"
"Fine." Judging by the tone of Learme's voice, Nunnally knew that Lelouch had used what her mechanically-minded brother termed 'The Look', which Learme had described as an unnerving combination of a glare, a scowl, and with a hint of a haughty stare, all of which combined to make Learme feel woefully inferior. Thus, it compelled her middle brother (by less than thirty seconds) to obey her eldest brother. "So what's your plan?"
"According to my previous observation of Rivalz under the effects of your brew, Suzaku's approximate speed and strength are about 250% of normal levels. However, he has less than optimal control over these enhanced attributes. Thus, he is inadvertently rampaging throughout the school." Nunnally loved to listen to her brothers scheme. It was quite entertaining.
"So, how are we going to stop him?"
"Quite simple, we, the Student Council, will distract him while you incapacitate him."
"Whoa now, I'm not gonna get near him like this....."
"Of course not. You still possess that 9mm tranquilizer rifle, do you not?"
"Well, yeah. But the only tranquilizer I have left is measured for horses."
"That is of no concern. In this state of heightened metabolism, the tranquilizer will have just enough effect to put Suzaku into a tired state. By the time the effects wear off, the coffee should have metabolized as well."
"He's gonna have diarrhea like hell."
That brought a wince to the faces of everyone involved.
Later
Learme was lying prone on the roof of the Student Council Building, with a long-barreled rifle with a 9mm bore set upon a bipod support structure with an Advanced Combat Optics Gunsight (ACOG) instead of a normal 10x scope. Set in between his shoulder and his ear was his cell phone, on a line with Lelouch's.
"Learme, Suzaku's moving quickly across the eastern grounds, at a pace of 1 meter per second." Lelouch said, sending Learme's sight dancing over to the eastern section of the grounds.
"Target acquired." Learme reported. The ACOG sight had a zoom of 4 times standard magnification, and was rather well-suited for the relatively close-range academy grounds. The lighted tritium-coated crosshairs settled on the eventual path of Suzaku, even as Learme started calculating the variables that would allow him a decent shot.
Just as Suzaku cleared the rim of the ACOG, Learme elevated the rifle slightly and fired. The tranquilizer dart took a ballistic trajectory, arching slightly before it hit Suzaku square in the neck. For a few seconds, the Honorary Britannian didn't react, before he suddenly stopped and fell to the ground. "He's down."
- The Black Knights -
Once Ouka had shorted out the gate, the remaining team members had shot through the door like their lives depended on it. Kiryu made it through last, only to be felled by a shot through a window on the left, angled down to strike his calf. The resulting shocks caused a slight seizure of the muscle, sending Kiryu tumbling to the ground. He gritted his teeth and raised his MP7 to fire a burst through the same window, rubber bullets bouncing off of a now-empty platform.
"He has good reaction speed." Mischa approved. The burst of bullets had missed him by only a few inches, when he was moving to another of the platforms set up around the faux building.
"Well, they're still not acting precisely as a team. Tony replied, standing over Tamaki. "They left this asshole behind." At that moment, the stunned Black Knight groaned, prompting Tony to whack him in the neck with the stun tonfa before he slammed the tazer onto his torso. The combined effect of a large amount of electricity and the debilitating strike ensured that Tamaki wouldn't be waking up any time soon.
"Hmm." Mischa grunted in reply. He now had a good target in the form of Eris, who was standing right in the middle of the room, checking around for any stun mines. "I've got the Britannian recruit in my sights."
"Got the Yamato FNGs staring at me." Tony reported, advancing slowly. The Type-26 and MP7 came up, centered on his chest before firing a combined long burst of elastic projectiles at the Bone Snatcher. Tony simply stepped to the side, taking cover behind a wall. He then unhooked another grenade from his belt and tossed it in. Instead of an explosion of rubber balls, the grenade issued a generous volume of smoke.
"Switch to thermal!" Kiryu grunted, raising a hand to his helmet to switch to the built-in camera feed. As their HUD flickered to reveal the reds, yellows, greens, and blues of thermal vision, they showed the form of Tony rushing through the smoke, stun baton out and tazer before him, already through the door and on top of Kiryu. And during this, Mischa fired, his bullet streaking through the same window he'd shot Kiryu through earlier to strike the Britannian recruit in the stomach. The situation looked pretty bleak for the team, barely ten minutes into their third run of the exercise and already most of them were at least temporarily incapacitated.
Then, out of nowhere, out of the staircase behind Tony, some guy with a katana and dressed in a black knight's uniform with a set of wraparound sunglasses on his face. He was rushing up to the Bone Snatcher, drawing the katana back to slice him down. Tony turned and punched him in the gut with the tazer. While Tony leaned over and removed his assailants glasses, Ohgi motioned for his team to retrieve Kiryu and Eris, before they moved outta there.
"Who is this guy?" Tony muttered.
"Who?"
"This guy just rushed out of the stairwell and tried to slice me from behind."
"Describe him."
"He's got dark brown hair, Asian features and.....well, red-tinged blue eyes."
"Purple?"
"Nah, a bit off." Tony said, moving his unconscious assailant's face a bit to get better lighting.
"Alex Yamato." Mischa said, shifting his aim to the Japanese man and reaching back for one of the real bullet-loaded magazines he kept with him at all times.
"Who?"
"A mercenary. I ran into him during an assignment in Cambodia." Mischa explained, unloading the rubber rounds and slamming the live rounds in. "He's rather deadly."
- The Student Council -
The student council was, at the moment, gathered around Suzaku, who seemed perfectly normal despite being shot full of enough tranquilizer to fell a horse.
"How you feeling Suzaku?" Rivalz asked. He himself remembered 'coming off' of Learme's coffee, feeling cold and slow, and having regurgitated a good deal of everything he'd eaten that day.
"I feel fine." Suzaku replied, glancing back at his trail of accidental destruction sheepishly. "I do feel guilty about the damage though....."
"Oh, come off it." Learme grumbled. "You're not the one who has to deal with it."
The Next Day
Lelouch and Learme were in history class, supposedly learning about the exploits of King Arthur Pendragon, and his Knights of the Round Table. In truth, Lelouch was formulating the Black Knight's plans for the coming engagements, while Learme........
"Lelouch, what in the world is wrong with Learme?" Their teacher, Mr. Salisbury, asked.
"Oh, he forgot to take his medication. He's narcoleptic, remember."
"Ah."
- The Author -
Forgive me if I seem a little slow and short on the chapters. Filler always kinda bored me, so I really want to get to the action.
But know we know why Learme has coffee fit to make a blue whale wiggle its flippers fast enough to flay.
By the way, totally made up their history teacher.
Replies:
Infinite Freedom: And I was 2. Nothing addictive (They hope), and actually I think they'll hate Mischa and Antonio more.
Alex Yamato: Well, here you are.
Jaksio: Actually, Lelouch would castrate and torture him for that. There'll probably be a little more Lelouch/CC later on, but I've already added a bit of Learme/Kallen.
Haavu: It does doesn't it?
Like a ten-year old on crack.
One could also mention Original Sin, but I prefer your comparison, yeah.
G. Wagers: Actually, Tamaki learns how to play dead.
Kojiro Kun: I was wondering about the uniforms, you're sending untrained revolutionaries into battle with trained and experience soldiers, and you give them the cheap equivalent of a dress uniform? Sheesh Lelouch.
That would be funny.
Sakurahanaalice: That would be terrifying, but I think Milly would scare even Mischa and Tony (Sorry Velshard)
It might be foul for most living creatures, but not him. Imagine falling asleep while you're aiming down a sight at a high-value target. Embarrassing, right? (It actually happened to me while playing Modern Warfare 2. I got stabbed in the back.)