Code Geass: The White Devil R2
Act 3: The White Demon Lord of the Round Table
Stage 14: A World United
Shiro POV
Everything was changing. Lelouch had ordered that the Mausoleum of Charles Zi Britannia burned away, he abolished the Number System, taking the Honorary Britannian System. He took down the aristocracy, costing him the loyalty of about ¼ of the Empire. Now he was about to integrate the Britannian Empire into the UFN. I was given orders by Wolfsheim, who had promoted me to a General, to go and eliminate the remnant forces that were loyal to Charles Zi Britannia.
Lelouch and Nunnally were coming with me, as to help me put them down.
Normal POV
The Knights of the Round had started a coup, and were making their way to Pendragon. They had also brought their personal forces.
"We swore loyalty to Charles Zi Britannia." Bismarck said.
"We will never recognize that childish boy as our emperor." Dorothea said as she noticed something. "3 interceptors?"
A beam blast hits her Palmides, destroying the head, forcing her to eject.
"Is that the Freedom?" Bismarck inquired.
It was the Freedom alright, followed with The Ganymede Nemo, reborn with the new Energy Wings, Ganymede Tenshi. Along with the Ganymede was the Shinkiro, which is also using Energy Wings, it is now Shinkiro Nobunaga.
(AN: Kudos to the guy that designed it, unoservix)
The 3 Knightmares open their wings, expelling a ring of energy.
"Bits." Shiro said as the Bits detach and fire at the enemy.
Lelouch fires the Phase Transition Cannon, destroying the enemy. The Ganymede flies off at high speeds.
"It's a 9th Generation Knightmare Frame." Monica said as the Ganymede delivers a solid kick to the head of her Florence. "It's Princess Nunnally!"
Monica ejects from her Florence. The Tristan faces the Freedom.
"Alright pal! Let's see what you're really made of!" Gino exclaims as he fires 2 slash harkens.
"I don't have time for some flake." Shiro says as he uses the bits to destroy the harkens.
"Wait, where did that come from?" Gino pondered.
The Freedom destroys the Tristan's float unit, then kicks its head off.
"Shiro Tokugawa Siegfried!" Bismarck howls.
The Strike blocks the Galahad's attack.
"I heard you had the skills that would have made you the Knight of One." Bismarck said as his left eye begun to resist the sowing, opening up, revealing his Geass. "But I am the Knight of One, and the strongest knight of Britannia, and I refuse to give that title to a traitor like YOU!"
The Galahad brings his sword down as the Freedom dodged the attack.
"I am the Knight of Zero, a title that outranks you Bismarck." Shiro said.
"A title that bears no honor!" Bismarck howls as he swings his sword, Excalibur.
The Freedom dodges the attack and attacks using its bits, but Bismarck dodges them easily.
'He can see the Future, but only certain people's future.' Shiro thought as he began to change his tactics.
"I only used this power when I fought Lady Marianne!" Bismarck howled. "There's no way you could possibly defeat me, White Demon Lord of The Round Table!"
"Guess I have but no choice but to use the power I used when I fought in Narita!" Shiro exclaims as the Strike began to change.
(Play G Gundam-Burning Finger Theme)
A yellow aura came forth from the Knightmare, the wings turn yellow, the right hand of the Freedom glowed yellowish orange.
"This hand of mine burns with light! This light holds all of my power! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you!" Shiro exclaims.
"Spare me the Theatrics!" Bismarck exclaims as he charged with his sword.
The Freedom charged head-on. It thrusts its hand through the blade. The glowing hand breaches the Galahad's cockpit.
"WHAAAAAAT IS THIS?!" Bismarck exclaimed.
"This is my power, the power of Geass. You never really mastered it." Shiro said. "Any last words?"
"Go to hell you White Demon Lord!" Bismarck said.
"Well then, Omae wa mou shindeiru." Shiro said.
Bismarck knew what the phrase means, he learned it from Suzaku. the phrase was translated to...
"You are already dead."
"Lady….. Marianne…" Bismarck said in his final moments before his Galahad exploded.
"That is going to be the last were doing that." Shiro said.
"Aw but it sounded so cool!" Isaac said.
"Don't get Milly with me Isaac." Shiro said.
"Well, now that this is all over, let's get to what I had in mind." Lelouch said.
"Right." Shiro said.
The 3 head back to Pendragon. After all that had transpired, the 3 head off to the Tokyo Settlement back in the USJ. once Britannia was part of the UFN, the fighting will truly end.
Tokyo Settlement
Today was a special day in Tokyo, today was the day that Zero first appeared. Everyone was celebrating the holiday, kids were running around in Zero Masks, men were telling tales about their encounters with the Black Knights, some of them were actually members during the First Black Rebellion. Women were telling stories of how Zero and his Knights of Justice brought peace and order to not only Japan, but to the world.
The Ashford Foundation was booming again, probably to the point that arranging a marriage with Milly was of no need. Kyoto had still prospered from the Sakuradite. The meeting for Britannia's entry to the UFN was held in the Gym of Ashford Academy.
Lelouch made it to the Gym. Nunnally and Shiro were outside.
"So… what are you going to do when the fighting really ends?" he asks.
"I don't know." Nunnally said. 'Should I confess to him now?'
She had bought him a wedding ring. When the fighting was over, she would ask him to marry him. But problem is what will happen if he found out, he could reject her just at the last minute.
Nemo was behind a tree, watching the couple.
"Love is such a sinful thing." Nemo said.
Nunnally moved closer, her heart began to race. She lays her head beside Shiro.
"Shiro, I-"
"What in the world?" Isaac mutters, this gets Shiro's attention.
"What is it?" Shiro asks.
"There's been a report coming from HQ. it said that a base of ours in the Pacific just got destroyed by a flying fortress." Isaac said.
Shiro's eyes widen in disbelief.
"Damn, anything else?" Shiro asks.
"It's Schneizel, he's leading a coup." Isaac said.
Britannia was temporarily allied with the UFN to put down the coup started by Schneizel. But what's even worse, The Sauron had found the Core of Jubileus, and plans to use it to become god. He had torn through every Aeon that got in his way. X.X takes the core and leaves.
As for the Black Knights, the Blue Knights, The White Knights, and Britannia, they moved in on the coup forces, attempting to stop the coup. The Damocles was climbing steadily. It was theorized that if the Damocles goes straight out of the atmosphere, its FLEIJA warheads could potentially strike every country that would oppose Schneizel. Little did both sides know, the threat of X.X and the Cabal is starting to rise, if it goes beyond the point where it cannot be stopped, X.X could permanently become god.
The Cabal intercepted Schneizel's splinter faction first, the Sauron in the lead.
(Play Anti-Spiral Theme)
The Sauron's evolution made it much more powerful than it was last time, now it had grown to the size of just 2-3 times Gawain's height and its weapons had been upgraded. Now it can use beam cannons its shoulders, 4 of each on the front, 2 on the back, Fires beams from its fingers on its 2 main arms, 4 wire controlled bits that come with Beam Sabers and Beam Guns.
(AN: think of Neo Zeong, only now it's core unit is Jaguarondi.)
The giant Knightmare also had a waist mounted S-Field Generator, 4 of them, 2 on the front and back. It also comes with a new weapon, the HALO Energy Ring, the ring itself can release massive amounts of TERA energy, causing anything to get caught in its field to melt and explode. The Sauron uses it's weapon to lay waste to Schneizel's forces.
"Pathetic." X.X says as he approaches the Damocles.
He sees a FLEIJA warhead speeding towards him. X.X analyzes the warhead and noticed something familiar about it.
'Could this be something like the Anima?' X.X thought as he fires a waist mounted Bayron Cannon at the warhead.
The FLEIJA exploded. X.X, though his metallic body could not do it, was smiling at the fact that his enemy tried to use the same technology the Anima was based off.
'Do they really think some imitation of the Anima will stop me?!' X.X thought as the Sauron punched its way through the defenses. Sooner or later, the Cabal would have seized the Damocles, and once they did, no one could stop it, unless the way to such a task was revealed.
Ikaruga
The Strike Force that went out to stop Schneizel saw Cabal up ahead, the Damocles had took a different shape from before, now it had turned into the shape of a sphere.
"Is that a moon?" Tamaki asks.
"No. that's no moon, that's Damocles." Naoto said. "Well… it used to be."
The Cabal turn their attention to the United Army of the Black, Blue, White Knights and Britannia.
"maybe we ought to fend them off until we get a understanding of what's going on." Jeremiah said.
"Good idea." Naoto said.
The United Army had set forth to try to get a hold on the situation. Among them was Princess Guinevere's personal Knightmare Frame, the Gabriel. It uses 2 High-Powered VARIS Cannons, and up to 12 Neural Link Bits.
(AN: Elmeth From Gundam)
The Shinkiro and the Morgan fire their Phase Transition Cannons at the Cabal, the Gawain fires its Hadron Cannons at the Freedom attacks with its all-range bombardment, the Gabriel sends its bits to destroy the enemy. Many Cabal were eliminated in the blink of an eye.
A Bayron Beam from the Sauron hits and destroys a Battleship.
"Whoa! What was that?!" Naoto exclaimed.
"Don't know, but I think we have our answer." Rivalz said as the Sauron comes into view.
"I definitely do not remember it being that big." Isaac said.
"Foolish mortals, you dare to defy a god?" X.X said.
This had shocked the group, to think they were up against something more than just a machine.
"Wait, did he just call himself god? Pretty sure he did." Naoto said.
"Let's see he tries to prove it with a Hadron Blast to the face!" Rai exclaimed as he fires his Club Albion's Super VARIS Rifle's Hadron Cannon.
The Hadron makes contact but gets deflected.
"What?!" Rai exclaimed.
"Hmph." X.X scoffed.
The Sauron felt unscathed. The United Army attacked the Sauron. The Army were getting lots of casualties. The Sauron was just too powerful, simply attacking it won't work. Along with the sheer amount of Cabal, there was just no way of stopping the Sauron.
The United Army, facing very huge casualties, decides to retreat. There was a conference, the United Army needed a way to defeat The Cabal before the worst ever comes of it. Auron enters the room and had already understood the circumstances of the foe Humanity now faces.
"Wait, you know a way for us to beat this 'X.X' dude?" Naoto asked.
"Why of course, why else would I be here?" Auron said.
"Just tell us where to go." Lelouch requested.
"You must head off to the Vault Of Glass, to open it, well, let me handle that part. All you need to do is find the Lance of Longinus, but be careful, the security is tight." Auron explains.
"And you're sure that when we do find it, it's not gonna be inside a corpse that appears to be crucified, right?" Naoto asks.
"No. I doubt any living creature bothered to go inside." Auron says. "But's that's not all."
"What else?" Guinevere asks.
"You need something to counteract the power inside the Core of Jubileus. As long as the core is active, you won't be able to kill him with the lance, the lance will banish his soul as soon as it hits the Sauron's core." Auron explains. "But knowing the last time that happened, he'll bust out again."
"So how do we destroy it completely?" Lelouch asks.
"I could tell you, but you'll most likely not love the suggestion." Auron said.
"Go ahead." Naoto said.
"Well, his soul is split in half, we already have it, if we were to use it as a weapon, it would destroy X.X completely." Auron said. "But this will come at a cost."
"Ok, what's the catch?" Rai asks.
"Your friend Shiro will die." Auron said as everyone gasped.
"If this is a prank, i'm not laughing." Naoto said.
"Impossible! There's no way that he could have half of X.X's soul!" Xingke exclaimed.
'Shiro-kun is X.X's other half?' Nunnally thought as she looked at Shiro.
"Fine then." Shiro said. "If it's the only way, then let me be the bullet and the trigger that ends this, once and for all."
This had surprised everyone as well.
"Dude, sacrificing yourself for the greater good at the cost of having your friends going to your funeral, or dying right in front of them is not worth it!" Naoto exclaims.
"You already made so many allies, including us, throwing your life away would only bring sadness to all." Todoh said.
"Shiro-kun…." Nunnally said as tears began to run from her eyes.
"There had better be a third way out of this, because if we are supposed to make the most impossible choice ever, I won't stand for it." Cornelia said solemnly.
"That's the two you have, the second however, there is a chance Shiro will come back to this world by the bond you share with him." Auron said as he cleared his throat. "As for the Core, the Vault's tech should help you."
The group goes silent. The group understands now that the final battle could be the day Shiro could die. The only positive thing beside from saving the world would be that all the memories Shiro lost would come back.
The United Army heads for the location of the Vault of Glass. Shiro is inside the Archangel in his quarters. Nunnally enters his quarters.
"Nunna?" Shiro wondered as the girl was sobbing.
"Shiro-kun…. I…. I don't want you to go…." Nunnally said as her sobbing intensified.
The two children hugged each other.
"Please Shiro-kun… don't leave me… I don't want to lose anyone close to me anymore." Nunnally said as she wept tears on the boy's jacket.
"Nunna-chan…." Shiro said comforting the girl.
"I saw it in a vision, you were fading, and you wanted me to smile and….and….." Nunnally said as she could not hold herself anymore and cried.
Shiro comforts the girl, a few minutes later, the girl begins to stop crying and looks up at the boy. Shiro wipes away her tears.
"Don't worry, when this is over, we'll be together, forever." Shiro said.
"Promise?" Nunnally asks.
"Promise." Shiro replies. 'That is if I ever will be able to live up on it.'
The boy thought about all his friends and allies he's met. And he wonders…..
Who will survive?