Code Geass: The Demon and The Dragon
Omake: True Fanatics
- The Demon -
At the Black Knight's base, Lelouch was woken from a relaxed and fitful sleep by the sound of explosions and what sounded like VARIS fire. The next explosion sent him tumbling out of bed, but ruthless training from his brother ensured that the master strategist landed without harm, and sent him bolting for his Mephisto armor. Within seconds he had switched off the security system, closed it, attached the helmet, and picked up the failed Britannian experimental assault rifle (an Experimental Mk.8 that fired hardened 5.56 steel penetrators) bypassed his room's security systems and was out the door before more than twenty seconds had passed since his awakening.
He was trying to contact Learme when he saw the source of the noise.
It was an enormous plasma television screen, as large as three Burai standing in a row, and displayed on it was a view of a primarily black expanse, with a strange green Knightmare Frame on it. The Frame was large and bulky, and had four strange binders around it, with tiny ball-shaped turrets on the inside surface. As Lelouch watched, the forward binders extended out, and a woman's voice said "Funnel," whatever that meant, and the ball-turrets popped out of their sockets and rotated a bit in the air, before blue-white jets maneuvered them away from the Large Green Frame.
The view switched to a screen of a woman in some kind of purple and white pilot suit, with a blue-tinted visor. Reflected off of her visor was what was presumably the view of her HUD, which showed small circles surrounding larger circles marked with Ms. In the next instant, parts of the M-marked circles flared red, a sign that Lelouch recognized as a lock-on signal, and the view switched to one of the ball-turrets which spun about a few times, firing green-blue energy beams.
The screen then showed a less bulky Frame, this one colored mainly a blue-green-gray and equipped with a rifle that fired pink-red energy beams. The energy beams from the moving turrets blasted away sections of the new Frame's armor, leaving portions of it glowing a heated orange-yellow. Eventually, the turrets' green-blue beams totally dismembered the grayish Frame, leaving only its torso to explode.
Then another Gray Frame drifted into the view, with the explosion of its comrade in the background. It was firing what appeared to be bullets from its head, judging from the casings that were ejected away from it. This frame however lasted shorter than its friend, the green-blue beams desicatting its upper body before it exploded.
And now the screen showed what Lelouch thought was the large Frame's HUD, following the last of the three Ms, which switched over to a zoomed-in view of another Gray Frame, this time with tan attachments to its back and similarly colored three-shot missile launchers over its shoulders. The Gray Frame pivoted and shot off a round from the bazooka it held, and the screen showed the hand of the woman pilot tensing, before switching to the image of the Large Green Frame's binders opening up, the thrusters inside flaring to correct its course. Just in time apparently, as the view expanded out to show a small explosion, presumably the gray Frame's projectile, showered the space the Large Green Frame was about to enter with blue streaks of what Lelouch guessed were some kind of armor-piercing fragments.
Yet another scene switch, this time showing a gloved hand on a throttle, pressing on buttons built into it, and then showing the missile launchers on the last gray Frame's shoulders firing their payload, first the left launcher then the right. The TV then showed the Large Green Frame accelerating, dodging the missiles that alternated between stereotypical explosions and bursts of blue fragments. The Large Green Frame accelerated, then fired its thrusters in sequence to make it so it 'stood' so that the camera showed its full body.
Ugh, how many scene changes are in this thing? Lelouch though irritably, as it showed another HUD, with a gloved hand similar to the one shown firing missiles pressing on several buttons on a screen before pressing the throttle buttons. It switched to show the missile launchers on the Gray Frame detaching, and the Gray Frame accelerating as it threw its bazooka away. Again, a switch to show one of the ball-turrets maneuvering until the darkness swallowed it, followed by the scene of more green-tinged energy beams firing, with the Gray Frame accelerating past, a single beam striking one of the arms it was shielding itself with. Then a tube extended from its forearm, which its hand grabbed and extended out, the tube emitting a pink-red cylinder of energy. And then it showed the Large Green Frame, now with a similar tube in its hand, only a green energy blade, as the Frame started spinning around, thruster flare following.
The scene expanded to show the Frames collide and separate, expanding outwards again to show their curving routes and then switching to the Gray Frame righting itself and then showing the Large Green Frame doing the same. They accelerated at each other once again, slashing at their respective targets, twice, with the second time resulting in both pushing their energy blades against their foes, not backing down. The Gray Frame pushed the Large Green Frame away, before holding its blade in a position to stab its foe and then accelerating forth, blue thruster wash consuming the rest of the screen.
It was with irritation that Lelouch realized he'd been holding his breath in awe for the last twenty seconds.
Just before the Gray Frame stabbed the Large Green Frame, the latter's thrusters fired, sending wash into the Gray Frame's face and countering its acceleration. The Large Green Frame seized the opening without pause, slicing across its opponents torso and bisecting the Gray Frame.
Whatever happened next, there was an enormous excited roar that Lelouch glared at, finding the Black Knights arrayed before the ginormous TV screen. The entire body of the Black Knights was there, and at its head was Learme, in his Draconian armor.
"DRACO!!!!!!!" Lelouch roared, firing off a burst from his XMk.8 into the air. Everyone and everything froze, including the TV screen. "Explain this!"
"It's the first Unicorn Gundam OVA episode Zero!" Learme said, standing for the Black Knights. "It's not like we could-"
"I order you to stand down, and dismantle this crazed set-up!" Lelouch commanded, noting the enormous speakers arrayed around the base, with cables of monstrous size connecting them to the television screen, which Lelouch realized was actually a computer screen, after noting that thin wires connected it to the laptop Learme cradled in his arms. "You've jeopardized everything we've worked for! All the blood, sweat, and tears we've shed, might be wasted, all because of a Damn Idiotic Anime!?"
It was only about five seconds after he said it that he realized he said the wrong thing.
Stiff, and slightly trembling, Learme about-faced, walked up to the screen, and set his laptop before it reverently. Then he drew magnum and katana and spun to face Lelouch, katana tip pointed right at him.
"Slay the Unbeliever" He roared.
As the crowd clamored, following Learme in his charge at Lelouch, the Black Knight's leader realized he had only two spare magazines for the XMk.8.
"Fuck my Life." He grated, shouldering the rifle and taking aim.