A/N Hello, I forgot to mention to you guys these past few chapters that this is KallenVIBritannia, I made this secondary account because I had too much stuff going on with my primary and needed to put this somewhere else.

"Where's Lelouch?" Shirley asked from her seat. She was out in the gardens of Ashford academy.

"He went somewhere with Rivalz." Nina answered.

"What, maybe its poker this time?" Milly offered.

"They seem to forget that they're on the student council! They're off gambling for money, Lulu may be smart but he waists his brain on stupid things. If only he would apply himself in school, he'd get high grades!" Shirley bemoaned before popping a cherry tomato into her mouth.

"Aww I wish my darling Lulu would be a serious young man, how adorable is that!" Milly teased.

"Please Madame president..." Shirley prayed this wouldn't go any further...

But this was Milly they where talking about...

Meanwhile with Kallen and Nagata, their truck was being chased by Britannian recon gunships down the highway...

"Perfect! We finally steal this thing and now its all messed up because Tamaki couldn't stick to Naoto's plan, now we've got a problem!" Nagata complained.

Not far away in a large building several floors up, the noble playing a chess match with Lelouch dropped his filer and got up from his seat, hands clamping down on the table as he stared at the board in disbelief, his right eye twitching.

"I love playing against the nobility, when they lose they always pay out of pride. By the way eight minutes thirty two seconds is a new record." Rivalz said as they left the elevator and prepared to exit the building.

"He didn't have much time to move either, and as opponents go the nobles are tepid. They're just over privileged parasites that's all." Lelouch answered.

"Well then why don't you challenge some elevens? They're nothing like us Britannians." When Rivalz said this it might have sounded racist, but he wasn't, and everyone that knew him personally knew this, he was only pointing out how different they where and how it might offer a different kind of game.

Lelouch didn't have the time to answer, as when the automatic door opened, they heard a commotion outside. They both turned to see a large monitor on a building, it showed a skyscraper that seemed to be on fire on one side for a few floors.

"What are they trying to prove by killing innocent people?" Someone asked in disgust outside.

"Those elevens terrify me." A woman commented.

Suddenly the flag of the Holy Britannian Empire filled the screen.

"We apologize for the delay. Now his royal highness, prince Clovis, third prince of Britannia, will address the nation." A feminine voice called out from the monitor. And the image of the flag was replaced with prince Clovis.

"To all my imperial subjects-" He began, causing Lelouch's eyes to narrow and waver slightly. "Including of course the many cooperative elevens who chose to serve the empire of Britannia!"

"We're not elevens, we're Japanese!" Kallen spat at the monitor in the truck.

"Do you not see my pain? My heart was ripped from my chest only to be torn apart! The remnants are filled with rage and sadness. However as ruler of area eleven I will not tolerate terrorism of any kind! Because the battle we fight is a righteous one, a virtuous battle to protect the wellbeing of one and all. Now everyone I would like for you to join me in a moment of silence, in observance for the eight who died in the line of duty." Clovis finished.

"A moment of silence please." The feminine voice from before requested.

"Well aren't ya gonna join in?" Rivalz asked seeing Lelouch walk over to the bike.

"Aren't you?" He asked back

"Heh, its sorta embarrassing."

"And I agree with you, spilling tears over those people wont bring them back to life now will it?" Lelouch asked. 'If that where my case my mother would have came back long ago.' He thought bitterly.

"Dang, that's dark buddy." Rivalz said while taking his seat on the bike and pulling a pair of red goggles over his eyes.

"Its all about self satisfaction. It doesn't matter how hard you try, you cant do it, there's no way you can change the world." He said somberly.

Within the palace of area eleven's viceroy a camera shut off and was pulled away.

"You where magnificent your highness, no one would have guessed you where attending a party while doing that." A rather beautiful blonde haired, blue eyed noble said from the side as he walked down several steps.

"After all the viceroy is the marque actor of area eleven, I need to change costumes quickly." Prince Clovis answered while servants removed several of the small extra segments of clothing that he had to ware for the TV, allowing some weight to be removed from his shoulders.

"My, you're so self confident."

"Its all in the performance, since the media want a charismatic prince I give them one."

"Untrue-" One of the owners of HI-TV said from the left. "Prince Clovis our purpose in life is to assist you in any way we can." He said, trying to flatter the prince.

A blond haired, blue eyed man stood reading a book in a hallway nearby. "His reign is a pathetic sham." He muttered to himself. Suddenly, a portly man briskly walked past him. "Huh, a soldier?"

"Y-your highness!" The man called out, dressed in a military uniform and a monocle, it was general Bartley.

"Gad how boorish of you." Clovis said, not liking the interruption.

"Not another appearance for him..." Dietard Ried groaned. "Hope its not as dreary..."

"You fool!" Clovis berated Bartley.

That caught Ried off guard.

"The police where informed that its medical equipment! That's all. If we scramble the army they'll-"

"Deploy the royal guard! The knightmares as well!"

In a military base, alarms where going off as soldiers and pilots rushed to their stations for deployment.

"Alert one! Alert one! Fourth, seventh, and eighth rapid reaction companies as well as the thirty first air assault team, immediate scramble! Special division nine, standby for deployment!" A man commanded over the intercom while pilots climbed into their purist Sutherlands, closed the cockpits and activated them.

"That first move you made-" Rivalz began speaking to Lelouch in his side car, they where driving down the highway. "why'd you start with the king?"

"If a king does not lead how can he expect his subordinates to follow?"

"What's with that?"

"With what?"

"Do you fantasize about running a major corporation?"

"No way, ambitions like that will ruin your health."

HONK, HONK!

They whipped around to see a massive semi was bearing down on them.

"WAHG! We're gonna die!" Rivalz cried out, trying to get out of the way.

"Gah! You idiots watch where you're going!" Nagata yelled, turning onto a different road to avoid hitting the pedestrians.

"No! Not that way!" Kallen warned, but it was too late, the truck crashed into a wall just inside a tunnel. Dust and debris sent flying on impact.

"Eh, was that our fault?" Rivalz asked in concern.

"I don't think so..." Lelouch commented, getting out of his seat and making his way to the edge so he could see what happened.

"Control, the target has crashed at the VO building construction sight." A recon gunship reported flying high above the accident.

"The military will take over under general Bartley's command." A man on the other end responded.

"Him?

The man in question was sweating bullets. 'We have to retrieve it at all costs... that thing, in the wrong hands...' He couldn't bare to finish the thought.

"What the?" Lelouch murmured to himself, seeing a strange apparition appear above the truck.

"Aw man this sucks, it looks like the power line on the bike got cut..." Rivalz cursed his luck.

"Yeah... hey Rivalz check this out..."

"Hey, over here!" Someone called out, Lelouch looked to see a bunch of people checking out the crash, but no one was moving to help. "Nasty crash..."

"Some sort of accident?"

"Probably a drunk driver."

"Hey maybe someone oughta go help."

Lelouch narrowed his eyes. "All those idiots." He whispered. He threw his helmet into the side car and ran off to find a way down to the crash.

Rivalz noticed this. "Uh, hey wait!" He groaned, knowing Lelouch wouldn't listen and just went back to try to fix the power line.

Kallen and Nagata groaned in their seats, the air bags packed a punch...

Lelouch made his way over to the truck, but when he got there he noticed that any way into the drivers cabin was blocked by debris. "Hey! Are you alright in there!" He called out, genuinely wanting to help them, the morons on top where making fun of him, calling him the student rescue team.

'Simpletons! These people could be hurt and they're just standing there!' He raged inwardly. He saw a ladder attached to the trailer and decided to climb to the top. 'Maybe there's a service hatch I can use...'

"Yeah, yeah I get that its the right thing to do but I wish the guy would stop flaunting his pride and give it a rest for a while." Rivalz complained as he slowly walked is bike down the side of the highway. "Now we're gonna be late to school!" Rivalz did not like detention, their teacher in charge of detention was a real slave driver. "Maybe I'll get off easy if I explain that my bike broke and couldn't find a way back... I mean Milly will probably support me and I'm on the student council, I hope they decide to cut some slack..."

Inside the truck Kallen and Nagata where still recovering.

"Nagata... Nagata, hey are you alright." Kallen called out while stretching her body.

Lelouch finished climbing the ladder and called out to the passengers again. "Can you hear me? Hey are you ok?"

"Its you... finally I have found my-" A voice that was not his own seemed to say in his head. "What... ah, hey, are you in there?" He called into the service hatch on top. Only for the truck to shift to full gear and blast off down the tunnel, resulting in Lelouch losing his balance and falling into the trailer.

"Wait! Stop I'm in here!" He got knocked over as the truck swerved again "You'd think they would put a ladder on the inside too..." He snarked.

"Stop the vehicle! Surrender now and you'll get the chance to defend yourself in court! Or we will shoot to kill!" To make the point of the voice clear, Lelouch heard machinegun fire tare up concrete.

"What!?" Suddenly Lelouch was knocked off balance once more, his head was about to smash into a bulbous object next to him when someone caught him and held him steady. He turned around to see a knightmare was keeping him from falling over again. The frame was black and gold, and had 2 visors that shined bright yellow.

"Easy kiddo, you're already bruised up." The knightmare said in a motherly tone.

"Thank you, but what's happening here, who are you?"

"Great, just perfect, that's the military, now what do we do!?" Nagata yelled in frustration.

"Have you forgotten? That's what I'm here for." Kallen declared while throwing off her hat and unbuttoning her overcoat, revealing a form fitting crimson and brown outfit that clung to her curves and left little to the imagination. She walked out of the cabin and threw the jacket off, only to see a Britannian student in an Ashford uniform being held steady by Gracchus.

"Um, what, the fuck." 'How did this happen?'

"This one saw the crash and wanted to help, he was concerned for your health, but then you took off and he fell in through the service hatch." Gracchus answered Kallen.

'He is kinda cute...' She admitted silently to herself, the raven black hair, violet eyes, and lean figure, he was a looker. And he obviously thought the same about her when his eyes briefly scanned her body and his cheeks tinged red. 'Alright, I gotta get him outa this mess, he shouldn't have to pay for what we're doing... but how?'

"Kallen, lets use it here, why not!?" Nagata asked.

"Because that would be a blood bath you idiot! We would die and civilians would be caught in it!" She yelled back.

"Ngh... you're right..."

"I've seen you before... you go to Ashford too?"

"Yeah..."

"What's going on here?"

"Clovis made poison gas... we feared they would use it on Civilians in the ghetto's so we stole it and planned to dump it somewhere safe... and you really shouldn't be here." Kallen finished.

"Well I'm here now, and the military is hot on your tail..." Machinegun fire hit the road beside the truck again. "So I guess I'm stuck with you, how can I help?"

"You're taking this so casually..." She muttered.

"I've dealt with far harsher things before." It was at that moment she saw a bit of herself. When she looked into the mirror after Naoto died, there was something about her eyes that changed, you could tell that she had lost someone dear to her... that she had seen death. He had that same look.

"Kallen, you stay with Nagata and the kid, I can handle this."

The knightmare let go of Lelouch and cracked the door open, firing a slash harken through, its black and gold metal spear smashed right into one of the gunships tailing the truck, sending it up in flames.

"What!? A slash harken!?" One of the pilots called out.

The door opened completely, revealing the Gracchus in all her glory, and the anchor was pulled back into the machine.

"A knightmare!"

The Gracchus jumped out into the sunlight, and fired another harken at yet another chopper while still using its land spinners to stay next to the speeding truck.

"The rest of you back off, i'll take this guy!" A voice sounded from a VTOL, it was carrying a purist Sutherland.

"I don't know how you got your hands on that prototype but it doesn't matter, a filthy eleven pilot cannot match a knight of our glorious emperor!" Jeramiah spat, deploying from the gunship and landing on the highway with grace, getting its machinegun ready.

The Sutherland fired a grenade from the launcher and it nearly hit, but Gracchus managed to dodge it just in time. The Gracchus went full speed towards the Sutherland, slamming a fist into its faceplate, it then ripped the battle rifle out of the Sutherland's hand and kicked it off the highway.

"You scum!" Jeramiah roared, using his harkens to reduce the rate of decent.

"We should split up, I'll deal with these guys, you go get rid of the gas!" The Gracchus yelled back at the semi, and prepared to fight more Sutherlands that where deploying from VTOLs.

"Right, good luck!" Kallen shouted back.

A Sutherland tried to cut off the truck, but it took an exit ramp, though the Sutherland managed to land some shots into the drivers seat before they went into the tunnels.

When they entered the dark abyss of the old subway system, Kallen and Lelouch weren't sure what to expect, but when the vehicle crashed, Lelouch kept Kallen from falling over, and held himself steady by latching his hand onto the gas container, the other one held her around her waist. When it stopped, he let her go.

"Nagata!" She ran over to the drivers cabin, and pulled the door open. She saw him slumped in the seat, he was still breathing, but out cold for now.

"Damn it Nagata not you too!" She yelled while punching the passenger seat, a solitary tear leaking from her right eye as she slammed her lids shut. Lelouch gently brushed past her, and took note of the situation.

"This is a medical truck right, can you help me find gauze, bandages, disinfectant, and some tweezers?" He asked without looking at her.

She nodded to herself and ran into the back, sifting through the cupboard and finding the mentioned supplies.

"I couldn't get any bandages, apparently they where out of stock." She said, handing him the supplies.

"I'll make due." He set to work, doing his best to remove the bullets and stop the blood flow, he then tore off a strip of cloth from his sleeve and used it as a makeshift bandage, tying it around the abdomen where Nagata was hit and tying it in a knot to retain pressure.

"I'm no professional but he should be stable until we get him some real medical assistance."

Suddenly Kallen had her arms grabbed and restrained behind her back. "What the hell!?" Lelouch turned to see a Britannian trooper was struggling to hold her.

"Surrender terrorists! I will not allow this mindless murder to continue!" The trooper yelled, Kallen forced him off of her and slammed an elbow into his gut before running back over to Lelouch, she didn't have her pistol, but this one didn't look like he was armed.

"Mindless murder!?" Lelouch spat. "If you want to stop murderers then why don't you just destroy Britannia!?" Kallen was shocked to hear this, a Britannian that was a good samaritan was one thing, but someone who outright called for its destruction, right in front of a soldier no less, that took some guts. She found herself liking the raven haired young man, he might be a good choice to join their resistance cell, sure, most of her friends didn't like Britannians, but she was a half blood, and so was Naoto, surely a pureblood wouldn't be that much of a stretch?

She noticed after a few moments of thought that what the young man had said was making the trooper pause in his tracks. Then the unexpected happened, the trooper pulled off his helmet, revealing that he was Japanese.

"Lelouch... Lelouch is that you!?" The young man asked with a smile on his face, the tension in his body leaving.

'Lelouch, huh?' She filed the violet eyed boy's name away for future reference.

"Suzaku?" Lelouch asked attentively, a small smile making its way onto his face.

The young man identified as Suzaku nodded enthusiastically. He then walked up to Lelouch and gave him a bear hug, even picking Lelouch up off of the ground slightly.

"Suzaku... need... air..." He hoarsely whispered.

"Oh, right, sorry!" He let Lelouch down. "Uh... Lelouch... what are you doing here... this stuff was reported stolen by terrorists..." He asked. "Lelouch... are you a-"

"No, I'm not a terrorist, and neither is she, she was already in the subway when the truck crashed, hanging out with friends, she came over to help, as for me I was on the highway when I saw this thing crash for the first time in the settlement, when I tried to help it got moving again and I fell into the service hatch."

'Thanks for the save.' She thought inwardly.

"Right, well I called this in, so you two can get an escort out and the military can handle this thing." Suzaku said, pointing to the container.

"Right... by the way, Kallen right? I'm Lelouch." He offered a hand to Kallen, she shook it. "Nice to meet you Lelouch, thank you for your help." She offered, knowing he would understand her meaning.

The canister suddenly burst open, golden light erupting from the opening. Before Suzaku acted however, there was revealed to be no gas, instead, a single, solitary girl, in a white straight jacket with green hair, her eyes where partially open, revealing a bright gold. But she fell unconscious, and fell to the ground inside the chamber.

"Suzaku... what the hell is going on."

"I have no idea..."

Suddenly, lights snapped on behind the three of them, and they turned around to see the royal guard had arrived, flood lights shining down on them while the soldiers stood with their assault rifles ready.

"Stinking monkey, being an honorary Britannian will not excuse you." The guard captain sneered.

"But sir! I was told this was poison gas!"

"How dare you question orders!?"

"This is bad..." Lelouch said under his breath to Kallen, who silently nodded in agreement.

"However in observance of your outstanding military achievements I'm going to be lenient, private Kururugi take this and execute the terrorists." The guard captain ordered, presenting Suzaku a service pistol.

"But they aren't terrorists! They're civilians that got caught up in all of this!" He defended Kallen and Lelouch.

"Insubordinate little- that's an order! Did you not swear your loyalty and your life to Britannia!?"

"Well yes but... but... I cant..."

"What?" The captain drawled out in anger and confusion.

"I wont do it sir, I wont shoot civilians." He declared, turning to look at Lelouch and Kallen. "I cant follow your order sir..."

"Hmph, very well."

BANG

Suzaku flinched as the bullet went through his armor and hit his watch, it broke through, and punctured his skin, tarring through a bit of muscle, it wouldn't kill him, but the sheer shock and pain of a bullet hitting him knocked him out cold.

"Suzaku!" Lelouch yelled. Kallen was horrified, the poor guy didn't want to kill unarmed civilians and the guard shot him for it!

"Well then kids, it looks like today was a bad day to cut class. Collect the girl, after you've secured her, kill the students."

"Yes, my lord!" They responded.

Nagata woke up a bit, feeling his wounds, someone had treated him, and he was glad for it, but he couldn't move like this, he was a burden, Kallen was gone so far as he knew, so that meant he alone would be sacrificed...

"Death to Britannia... long live... Japan!" He pressed the detonator Button. The cockpit went up in flames, and exploded. Lelouch grabbed the green haired girl, and urged Kallen to follow, in the smoke and confusion they found a small maintenance tunnel and escaped through it, leaving the royal guard in a pile of dust and ash.

"You lost it! And you call yourselves the royal guard!?" Bartley yelled at the guard captain using his comm system on the G-1"

"Forgive me my lord, the blast was mainly directed upwards but the-"

"Why the hell do you think I only told you about this!?"

"Apologize my lord, we will continue the investigation!"

"The plan has moved to the second stage." Clovis said from his miniature throne in the G-1 command center.

"Your highness?" Bartley asked.

"If word of her gets out I'll be disinherited, tell them back home we are carrying out a planned urban renewal here..." He stood from his seat. "As Clovis, third prince of the empire I command you, destroy Shinjuku ghetto, leave none alive!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Sutherlands launched from the G-1, gunships flying overhead, tanks and apc's rolling forward carrying troopers and weapons. The G-1 itself began to ruble forward... war was coming to Shinjuku.

A Sutherland burst through a wall with graffiti on it, and began butchering civilians...

Teams of kill squads went throughout the ghetto, killing the civilians, building by building, room by room, one at a time...

"The enemy is garbage that couldn't even hope to become honorary Britannians, wipe out every last one of them!" Bartley yelled over the speakers.

"Naturally..." Jeramiah said, his Sutherland went through some minor repairs after making his way back to the G-1, that unit packed a punch, that much he would admit.

'I hate what we have become, forgive me Marianne for what I will do this day, but these people murdered Lelouch and Nunnally... I shall avenge them!' The margrave thought.

"Supervisor Jeramiah, general Bartley has requested that you take command of area two's-"

"Bartley has staff officers! I haven't had this much fun on the front lines in ages!"

Lelouch set the green haired woman down and caught his breath, trying to make sense of the situation, Kallen did the same, leaning against the wall and taking deep breaths, they had been running for a while now.

"What the hell are you!? This is all your fault isn't it!?" He yelled at the green haired girl. Kallen gave him an admonishing look.

"Hey, stop, its not her fault, she was just a prisoner, she didn't do anything."

"I know... your right, sorry... Suzaku was my friend before the war, and now he's dead and I was looking for an outlet..."

"Its ok... I lost a friend too, Nagata, the driver."

He gave a small nod in acknowledgement. "My condolences..."

"I'm sorry about your friend too."

They waited there in silence, before deciding to get moving again.

Lelouch made his way to the stairs, crawling up the concrete stairwell and checking out the area. The other two followed close behind.

"You two stay here, stay quiet and be careful." They nodded.

He poked his head out, only to hear machinegun fire, he saw a mass of bodies, and an civilian begin gunned down, he flinched away.

"Report." The guard captain asked a squad of guard soldiers, the ones who killed the civilians.

"We've found only elevens here sir."

"You're sure of it, the tunnel exits here?"

"Yes sir."

He grit his teeth in annoyance.

"Search the area, they cant have gone far."

A child began to cry in the corner, and the guards shot her too. Lelouch pulled back, covering his mouth, he felt like he would vomit any second now... Kallen put a hand on his shoulder, attempting to offer some sort of comfort, the look of horror etched into his face nearly broke her.

That's when his phone began to ring...

He tried to silence it before they noticed but it was too late. The royal guard pulled them out, threw them against the wall, and restrained C.C.

"Well, would you look at that. What an appropriate place for terrorists to meet their end, you did well, but that is to be expected, you are Britannians after all. Any last words?"

"You're scum." Lelouch spat, and Kallen growled at them.

The guard captain leveled his pistol at Lelouch in response.

C.C. broke away as he began to pull the trigger. "He mustn't die!" The bullet hit her in the forehead, and she fell to the ground, dead.

"You shot her!"

"Hmph, our orders where to bring her in alive if possible , oh well, doesn't matter now. We'll tell our superiors we found a terrorist hideout and killed them all, sadly, they tortured the girl to death before we got there. What do you think?"

"I cant believe it... I'm about to die, first Suzaku, then this girl, now me and Kallen... my life will be over before I could do a single thing with it... gone in a heartbeat... Nunnally..." He cried out weakly.

Kallen didn't know what else to do but interlock her fingers with his, Britannian or not, he was a nice person, and nobody deserved to die alone. "Look, I know we just met, but I'm glad that I've met you Lelouch, I'm sorry you got dragged into this mess." She offered.

Suddenly the arm of the dead girl shot out, her hand clasping theirs. Their world went white, their bodies became silhouettes, and the girl in front of them appeared.

"You don't want it to end here... do you?" She called out to them.

"What?" Kallen asked... 'This is surreal...' "That girl." Lelouch answered for her. "That's impossible." Kallen said.

"You both seem to have reasons for living, if I granted you power, could you go on?"

"How?" Lelouch asked.

"I offer you both a contract, if you promise to fulfil my one wish, then I shall grant you power unlike any other, accept and you may be condemned to lives of solitude by the power of the king and queen you will live in a different providence, a different time, a different life, but you will have the ability to change the world... time is short... I require an answer."

Kallen and Lelouch shared a look, and silently nodded to each other.

As one they shouted. "Yes, we hereby accept the terms of your contract!"

The world flashed with a flurry of color, and a pair of gears locked in place.

In the real world, Lelouch and Kallen stood up, grins etched on their faces.

"Say, how should a Britannian that detests his own country live his life?" Lelouch asked while covering his left eye.

"Hmm, what are you, some kind of radical?" The guard captain asked, leveling the pistol at Lelouch once more.

They where caught off by his nonchalance as he continued to speak. "What's wrong, why not shoot, your opponents are just school kids, or have you finally realized the only ones who should kill are the ones who are prepared to be killed." Lelouch finished, removing his hand from his eye, a crimson winged V flashed into existence within his pupil.

The guards who saw this became afraid, seeing something so unnatural. "What is this, what's happening here!?"

"I Lelouch VI Britannia command you, now all of you, DIE." The geass in his eyes flared, and the V flapped like a bird as the energy was sent into their minds, they only knew to do one thing, obey their prince, and he demanded their deaths. Their eyes became red rimmed.

The guard stepped back, and they all pointed their guns at their temples.

"Happily your highness! Ready, Fire!"

They all shot themselves, blood spewing from the mass suicide, some blood landed on Lelouch's cheek.

Kallen looked down at the bodies in disgust, and Lelouch's grin turned absolutely evil.

"My life for the past seven years, lies... all of it... I was sick of it... sick of a world that wouldn't change, but now this power, its ours... well then..."

A/N There ya go, the Shinjuku incident, next we have the battle and the aftermath. Review!