Code Geass: The White Devil R2
Act 1: The Vermillion City
Stage 8: The Aeons and the Cabal
Normal POV
A mysterious fish-like machine had come out and attack the Federations troops. No one had any Idea what it was or who was in it despite what they will learn soon enough, that what they are looking at is a highly advanced machine from an ancient civilization that took interest in after seeing the first thought elevator ever to be seen by man.
"You know. I have a feeling Strangelove was right." Rakshata said holding her pipe.
"About the whole ancient but advanced civilization idea?" Viletta asked.
"Pretty much." Rakshata said.
The Shinkiro got onto the deck, checking to see if Xingke was alive.
"Well Xingke, you're still alive." Zero said.
"Zero…." Xingke said as the Shen Hu stopped spinning its harkens.
Schneizel scowled.
"A knightmare?" Zhao Hao pondered.
"Its protecting both Xingke and the Empress?" Xia Wang inquiries.
"I ask this of the Chinese Federation, if you are willing to continue fighting, are you ready for the consequences?" Zero asks.
"What are you doing?!" Zhao Hao exclaimed. "Keep firing! All units, wipe them out!"
"Let it be known that I tried to be merciful." Zero said as a keyboard appeared.
The Chinese fired once again. Lelouch takes off his mask and starts playing on the keyboard that began to sound like musical notes.
The Absolute Defense Field activates, stopping the projectiles.
"The Gawain's Druid System….." Lloyd said with bitterness. "We've lost this one."
The Shinkiro opens up its chest and fires its Phase Distortion Cannon. The Chinese Federation Forces are destroyed in mere seconds.
"This could be a problem." Anya said as her Blaze Luminous shield protects her from being destroyed by a beam.
"Oh Big Brother. You sure over-do it." Nunnally said.
(Play Bayonetta 2 - Moon River or Bayonetta - Fly Me To The Moon)
"Nunna!" Nemo said to her on the headset.
"Yeah?" Nunnally responded.
"Point your sword upward." Nemo said.
"My sword?" Nunnally asks.
"Yes." Nemo said.
The Nemo points its sword to the sky. The Fish-like machine began to fly towards the Nemo. it reaches the Nemo and flies around it.
'It follows me?' Nunnally thought.
A huge swarm of machines come out of the Mausoleum. They all look like the fish-like machine. They surround her, protecting her as if they think of her as their queen.
"Alright then." Nunnally said as she points her sword at the enemy. "Charge!"
The Fish-like machines go and carry out the order by flying in an attack pattern. One of them closes in on a Gun-Ru. The fish-like machine fires a stream of lightning at the Gun-Ru, causing it to explode in a blue flame.
"What are they?" Nunnally asked.
"Aeons." Nemo said.
"Aeons?" Nunnally asks.
"Cybernetic machines built for war." Nemo explains.
"Really?" Nunnally asks.
"Yes, They will follow your orders and are linked up to your brain. Just call them when you feel like needing them." Nemo said. "But after this, they'll go back and protect the master mind whose REALLY controlling them."
Meanwhile, Rai blasts a Aeon in the head. It crashes and explodes.
"Where did these things come from?!" Rai asked as he shot another one down. "And where are they coming from?!"
One Aeon uses one of its tendrils to slice a Club, it explodes. Another one attacks the Avalon's float unit, blasting it with a Lightning beam.
"Float Unit 3 has been lost!" a crewman said.
"Sections 101 through 107 just caught fire!" another crewman said.
"Seal the compartments." Schneizel orders. 'When did these things come into play?'
"Damn you bastards!" Cornelia said as she blasted one Aeon with her VARIS Rifle while in fortress mode.
More Aeons kept materializing. They were coming in from Time and space, from the past and future. One saves the Zangetsu from a strike from a Ward's attack with a stun tonfa by slicing it in half with one of its tendrils.
"What are they?" Todoh wondered.
"Whatever they are, let's not let one of them touch Chiba." Asahina said.
"B-Baka!" Chiba said as her face turn redder than Kallen's hair.
"Well….. This is unexpected." Isaac said.
"Lets use it to our advantage." Shiro said as he shot down a Club.
"Well then…. With this, all the other tasks at hand are now complete." Lelouch said as he watched the Aeons put up a valiant fight to the death.
"Zero, do you really think we can turn the tide of battle?" Xingke asks.
"You know, you are capable of leading your people. they calling out for you." Lelouch said to Xingke.
"Emergency alert, there's been a riot in Shanghai." a soldier said.
"Rioting?" Zhao Hao pondered.
"People are rising up everywhere." a soldier replied.
People are rioting all over the Chinese Federation. Burma, Jakarta, Shou Xia, Beijing, Islamabad and 14 other areas as well.
"There was a broadcast of Zero and the High Eunuchs." Cecile reported.
"So they conspired against us without informing us." Kanon said.
"Can you run it?" Schneizel asks.
"Yes your Highness." Cecile said as a image of the Shinkiro and the Shen Hu standing in front of Kaguya and Tianzi.
"The Empress is merely a system." Zhao Hao said.
"She could easily be replaced with anyone." Xia Wang added.
"What about the people you swore to protect?!" Zero pressed.
"Tell me Zero, when you walk down the street, do you worry about stepping on the ants?" Zhao Hao said.
"Masters and commoners will always breed." Xia Wang said.
"Like Insects." Cheng Zhong added.
Lelouch scoffed. "Thanks to the Empress, the High Eunuchs are now casted firmly as the villains."
"You planned on their betrayal?" Xingke asked.
"This is happening too quickly." Kanon said. "He must have used someone's plan."
"That's right, I stole one of your strategies, we start a coup and the people rise up." Lelouch said.
'Lelouch you amazing bastard!' Rivalz thought.
"In other words," Todoh said before striking down a Knightmare Frame. "We are not trapped without reinforcements!"
"We have reinforcements." Diethard said as he worked on a keyboard. "The starving masses of this land ARE the back-up we needed!"
"Then let's strike back with what we've got!" Medea said. "Have the Iron Horsemen mobilize and begin their attack at once!"
"Damn it! Fall back!" Cornelia said as she retreated back to the Avalon as an Aeon fired laser bolts from its tendrils.
"Yes your highness!" Rai said. "Come on Anya move it!"
"Can't believe we woken the hive." Anya said as the Mordred retreated.
"Let's push them back now!" Tamaki said as Akatsuki Frames went into the battlefield.
"Guess we're leaving them to die are we?" Rai asked.
"That's what they get for treating people like insects. Even I would not do such things to my own people." Cornelia said.
(Play World of Final Fantasy OST FF11 Awakening [Shantotto Summon])
Someone entered the room where the Eunuchs were in. it was Mitsunari. He held his photon saber in hand and activated the saber. A red light came in the form of a blade.
"Who in the world are-?"
"Die." Mitsunari said as he killed Zhao Hao with the photon saber.
He then slashes Xia Wang, and Cheng Zhong. The High Eunuchs are dead.
"Useless idiots." Mitsunari said as he left the room with a completely terrified Xianglin.
He comes back to remove the gag from her mouth and leaves.
A hole busts through. It was the Shen Hu.
'Oh thank goodness.' Xianglin thought as Xingke got out and untied her.
Geass Order
"Can't believe this is happening." V.V said to himself. "How in the world did that ancient technology reactivate itself? Could it be….. A thought elevator? Or did someone reactivate them manually?"
"No matter, I have the Cabal at least to protect this place and its secrets." V.V said as he gazed at a Sutherland.
(Play Cabal Stomp)
The Sutherland did not hold the traits a normal Sutherland had, these Sutherlands were given humanoid looking arms, clad in steel armor. Its head had jaws below the rest of the head. Its yggdrasil drive was replaced with a glowing red core in the chest. It had no cockpit, but still retains the block.
These Sutherlands were ancient machines called Cabal, they once humans themselves, made to be the next stage of human evolution, they were the ancestors of Britannia's Knightmare army. These were made by an advanced civilization from 7000 years ago, long before anything else. They obeyed an Immortal called X.X, an Immortal whose power is second to none with the Gods and their power. He went to make an army of soldiers to make a world where he is a God, and that he was the ONLY God to exist. His army spreaded worldwide terror 7000 years ago and threatened the world with world domination.
X.X was forever cursed to live inside the Tree of Yggdrasil by A.A, who was called Adam. Adam and X.X were brothers once, X.X desired power while Adam desired peace. The two were at conflict of each other for years. X.X had now risen from the Tree of Yggdrasil in the form of a Cabal that was infused with the power of TERA, imbued in its core, the Sauron, the one that was seen in the present, was one such Cabal.
X.X led to the world's destruction by using a old weapon, this weapon was called, the Anima, a energy cannon that fires energy blasts similar to the energy of Nina's FLEIJA Battery. X.X's consciousness was put back together, but needed a host to feed off of. If the Sauron gets its hands on Shiro, or anyone on his level, but that wasn't the only thing that could possibly be bad. X.X is Shiro, for a part of his soul was imbued into the child by the Sauron when X.X made the Child using V.V's Blood sample and DNA with the TERA-Bites that made the child, he left a part of his soul on the child.
Just incase anything went wrong, X.X made a copy of the child so that he could use as the life core unit of the Sauron. Soon, X.X can move his soul from inside the Sauron and back, he can summon the Sauron to him and use it, but even his new body could succumb to the burden of being used as a life core unit, so X.X made even more copies. His plan to rule this rule with the power of the Anima could come back anew if X.X is allowed to live. If not stopped, he could plunge the world into chaos once again.
Lelouch POV
It was over. The battle with the High Eunuchs has ended in victory. Nunnally surprised me at first, but we won none the less. Diethard wanted word to spread that the Wedding between Odysseus and Tianzi was off. His first Idea was kind of questionable, mostly for Shirley and Kaguya, even Chiba was against it along with Nunnally. The Idea was scrapped anyway. Besides I have even better plans.
The Geass Order Rolo came from, he told me that before he left, he saw an orange-black Knightmare Frame along with countless other Geass Powers. If I can get the place, then all the Geass in the world could be mine, It might also be best to try and unearth the truth about those 'Aeons' that helped us out along with Geass, like its origins, its past history, even the Thought Elevators like the one Shiro and Kallen saw with me on Kanime Island.
The Energy Wings that were found on Naoto's data knife that he got from Shiro as a present was downloaded to Nina's computer via a connection with a Data Knife module attached to a USB cord plugged into the computer, with this, we could upgrade the Guren. But if I know Schneizel, he had a backup copy with it, even he might be able to use it to upgrade the Lancelot.
But now that we have the Tristan, Shirley will be astonished after the upgrades on her Knightmare finishes.
Britannia POV
Gino was found moping in his room. He was just mortified at the fact that he lost his Tristan to the enemy and may never see it again.
Flashback
"You can't be serious." Gino said.
"You left it there for the Black Knights. Just be glad you get to stay as the Knight of 3." Cornelia said.
"No. No. No! NO! NO NO! NO!" Gino began to chant as his legs give way, going on all fours. "No. No no no no no. No."
"Don't worry bud. There's plenty of fish in the sea." Rai said patting Gino's back.
Gino continued to mope in agony.
Flashback over
"Well at least the bridge is fixed." Rai said.
"Yeah good thing the bridge was patched up after the whole thing." Suzaku said.
The Avalon reached the Homeland safe and sound, the float unit on the ship will have to be fixed and all the Knightmares need repairs and refitting. Gino was told to stay in the Homeland until his replacement unit gets built and ready to go.
Shiro POV
"Auron! Wait!" I said to the man in white.
Auron was my best friend, he was great in theology, metaphysics, and even a great philosopher. He'd disappeared for the same time I was when I left the Military, I saw him somewhere in my quarters, he went outside so I followed him.
I saw him by at the Tower. I got up to where he was.
"Auron, wait up will you?" I said to him.
"Says the man who has the physical stamina to catch up to me." he said behind his white mask, he never took it off, not even once.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Oh. that well, It's about the Geass Order, I used to be its head once, well, my father actually." he said.
"So what does that have to do with us?" I ask.
"Because there is a much greater threat that we need to put a stop to." Auron said as he went down the stairs. "Follow me."
I followed him as instructed and he taught me all about the order. The Geass Order was trying to study the nature of Geass and its History, not only that, but they were making an army of super-soldiers that possessed the power. An Army of Geass soldiers wasn't enough however, they were also studying the ancient technology created by the "Mythos". The Mythos was civilization that had existed for 7000 years, they were also the first to obtain Geass.
Apparently God was the creator of Geass, he needed those who would watch over his world and make sure it never deterred from the image God had made it to be. His words fell on deaf ears as Humanity became greedy and misused the power. Soon, the Mythos were brought to an age of Collapse and Calamity, opening Pandora's Box. Pandora's Box was used as a term for the event that had caused a Great Terror to ensue upon all who inhabit the world.
Soon, mankind was officially divided from that point. War began and continued for many centuries. Soon, the world that was once united fell apart and was destroyed. There was a weapon that had the potential of annihilating whole cities if not countries itself. That weapon was called "Anima". It was a flying impenetrable fortress, capable of firing an energy blast similar to what if Nina's FLEIJA Battery went critical during a testing phase of a new technology.
The Anima was destroyed, but at a cost too great, humanity's future. To ensure that future generations don't repeat the mistake they made, they built the Geass Temple, a base for the Order. The surviving Mythos hid themselves away, never to be seen again. The Aeons then took over,they were machines intrusted to those who stayed above ground and rebuilt the world, only for it to fall once again to another calamity started by an Immortal called X.X.
X.X was so powerful, that he was a second to god. He wanted to achieve godhood himself and wanted to rule the world as he pleased. His army of Cabal soldiers, Biomechanical machines designed to be the next stage for human evolution, were his pawns that caused destruction and terror for all. The Aeons and the Cabal fought each other, the Anima was rebuilt, and soon again destroyed, X.X was sealed in the Tree of Yggdrasil. The world was ravaged, there was nothing that could be preserved except humanity's future.
Humanity moved on from the long 7000 years, it was all forgotten until now. Humanity still fought each other, as it evolved, conflicts became even more devastating, many people were dying, and even the power of Geass would not help. Soon X.X was released, however, his soul was bound into a Cabal that used the power of TERA and sorcery. That Cabal was the Sauron, the Knightmare I had seen in the prison when I busted Alex out. X.X needed bodies to ensure he stayed awake, if he were to fall asleep without some sacrificial lamb to keep him running, he could be sealed again.
Half of his soul was bounded to the Sauron while another half had slept somewhere outside him. I asked Auron where the other half was, the answer?
"Its within you." Auron said.
"Ok hold up a minute that's impossible." Isaac said as he phased out of my head, his singular optical sensor glancing at Auron.
"Wait, what do you mean by that?" I ask.
"You ARE a part of X.X." he said.
Now I wondered if I should have even asked that question, part of me wished it never did.
"Where's the proof?" I asked him.
"The Proof lies within your Geass." he said.
"What the hell does that mean?!" I ask him, demanding an answer.
"You both possess the ability to copy a Geass." Auron said.
I wanted to tear his mask of his face and see that he was a liar.
"He created you so he could become one with himself." Auron said pulling a gun to my face. "If he gets you, it's over for both of us."
I whip out my gun and aimed at him. We stared at each other's eyes. His were concealed by his mask.
"But there is an alternative in destroying him." he said putting the gun down. "The lance of Longinus, you drive that thing in X.X's heart, it will all end and his soul will be tossed into the Void where he may never return. You could possibly destroy it using your own power, but he is you, and you are him, you are two sides of the same coin, his soul."
"What are the consequences?" Isaac asked.
"You destroy him, and all that is connected to him will cease to do anything, even if it was existing. Well, anything connected to his sorcery." Auron said. "In short, you die along with him. But you will regain the memories he and Charles Zi Britannia took from you."
My partner's singular eye widened. He glances at me.
"However, if your ties to the world are strong, you will return." Auron said. "If God allows it."
He vanishes into air. Never to be seen again. I roared in anger at the sky and stomped on the steel floor. To think that I was the mere extension of some monster….. It made me feel even more angry than ever. I know now that if I were to destroy him, his soul would go with him, dragging me down as well, destroying him entirely.
I begin to wonder why or how this had happened to me. Better question is, after all the fighting ends….
Who will survive?
AN: that's the end of Act 1. By god do we have something that just goes beyond what anyone's guess was. All that was coming from an inspiring story I read. Its called Code Geass: Infinity by KingsJester. Shout out to you buddy. I mean the Idea of an ancient civilization that had existed with the same tech that happens to also seem similar to Knightmare Frames is a great Idea because I had been wondering "where exactly did Geass come from and why was it made?" and I never found the answer so I assumed that this was the Gift of the Gods to certain individuals just so he could have those who could protect the world he made.
I got to give the Jester credit for the Idea, and you should too. Trust me. Also the Idea of Shiro being just a half of what X.X was before being cursed inside of a machine for thousands of years came from Fire Emblem Awakening, and spoilers, when you reach the end of the game, where you not only just found out that if you defeat the final boss, you have to choose who lays down the REAL final blow. You can have have yourself end him, thus ending your existence because you ARE a part of the Final Boss, or you choose NOT to do it and someone finishes him off and he's put to sleep.
You lay down the final blow, you simply disappear from existence. But there's a surprise for you when the credits end. I hope I did not spoil too much for those who have not played it. See you in Act 2.