Early Start: The Black Knight

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CUSTOMARY DISCLAIMER: I do not, nor have in any way, ever owned anything to do with the original anime or story which my fan fictions are based off of. These stories are written for the sole purpose of entertainment, and not meant to achieve any profit through selling it. Honestly.

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A.T.B. 2017

Shinjuku ghetto

Zero

"Well now, what a shame," The leader of the soldiers muttered, smirking up at him as he pointed his gun at him. "You look like a Britannian but I am under orders to kill anyone who comes across this little project, so any last words boy." The leader asked in a mocking tone as their guns were suddenly pointed at him.

Lelouch slowly stood and turned towards the soldiers of Clovis' Royal Guard that were led by the arrogant Lieutenant.

"Say," Lelouch began as he looked them in the eyes, both hands at his side. "How should a Britannian that detests his own country live his life?" he asked them calmly.

The Lieutenant then raised his pistol and steadied it at Lelouch. He then asked the Britannian youth, "Are you some kind of radical?" The Lieutenant then appeared to be confused at Lelouch's apparent confidence, in spite of the dire situation that he looked to be in.

"What's wrong?" Lelouch asked them. "Why not shoot? Your opponent is merely a schoolboy." Lelouch stated. "Or have you finally realized, that the only ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed!?" Lelouch activated the Geass in his left eye.

The Lieutenant shook as his confidence melted away at the sight of the majestic young man, only to be replaced by a bone-chilling fear. "What's happening here?" the Lieutenant demanded as he attempted to hide his inner panic and turmoil.

Lelouch dramatically raised and extended his left arm to his side, and then gave them the order. "I," Lelouch paused briefly, "Lelouch Vi Britannia command you. Now, all of you. Die!" He spoke as he used the Geass residing in his left eye to overwrite the will of the soldiers who had cornered him.

"Happily your highness!" the Lieutenant exclaimed. The poor fool then chuckled maniacally as he and the rest of the Royal Guard soldiers under his direct command pressed their Britannian-issue side arms to the base of their skulls. "Fire!" the Lieutenant ordered as he began to pull his own trigger.

Gunshots, muffled by the flesh of their targets, rang out in the abandoned warehouse in the Shinjuku ghetto. Multiple corpses, recently made, fell to the ground, with each body making a "Thump!" as they hit the concrete floor.

Lelouch felt a small trickle of blood land on his cheek as he observed the scene act out.

"Excellent, this speeds up my plans tremendously." Lelouch thought "Now to contact..."

His thoughts were rudely interrupted as the sound of Knightmare land spinners screeched into his ears.

"You there. What happened here?" Villetta's voice came from the Sutherland's speakers.

"I order you to come out!" Lelouch demanded.

"Who the hell are you to order me?" Villetta bit right back at him, anger barely concealed at his actions.

Lelouch put his hands up in order to signal that he meant no harm. Not to the Knightmare, at least. "My name is Alan Spacer," Lelouch said to the woman, "my father's a Duke." Lelouch smiled inwardly as he continued his charade of nobility. Too easy. He then informed her of how he wanted to have the military's protection after she'd confirmed who his was. Here she comes, Lelouch thought as Villetta opened her cockpit block and descended on the wire.

Lelouch then activated his personal power and ordered the dark-skinned woman to give him her Knightmare.

Villetta quickly followed his orders and gave him the Sutherland's key and access code.

Lelouch grinned as he gathered C.C.'s body and placed her behind him in the Sutherland's cockpit. "Might as well give her a proper burial later." Lelouch stated in a somber tone.

"It's so simple." he stated as he familiarized himself with the Sutherland's controls. "Now, it's time to win this." Lelouch spoke as he piloted the stolen Sutherland to its next destination, a grin that the devil would be proud of plastered on his face.

Lotus

Kallen Kozuki was piloting her one-armed Glasgow as best she could in order to survive.

"Damn it!" she screamed. "The difference is just too great." She grimaced in her Glasgow's cockpit. "I can handle just one easily," she thought as her pursuers continued on her trail. "But I can't handle two Sutherlands while I'm in this shape."

She continued to run from the trailing Britannian Sutherlands, relying more on instinct in order to survive than skill.

The screen inside her cockpit which indicated energy-filler status began to loudly beep as it displayed a large "Caution" sign, indicating that she was about to run out of energy. "Just thirty minutes left." Kallen was dismayed when she realized that she was nearly done for.

"The west entrance." Her radio buzzed to life with an unfamiliar voice. "Take the tracks to the west entrance."

That definitely wasn't Ohgi or Tamaki, she thought as she continued to run away from her new shadows. "Who are you?" Kallen demanded as she yelled into her radio. "How did you get this code?" she fired off at the new voice.

"That doesn't matter," the voice answered her demands. "If you want to win, then you will trust my instructions." The voice continued to speak to her with a confident tone in his words.

"To win?" she breathed. I don't like it, but I've got no choice, she resigned to herself. I'm done for at this rate unless a miracle happens, so I might as well see if this guy's good on his promises.

Kallen piloted her Glasgow onto the nearest train tracks, spun her land spinners at full speed, and sent her Knightmare west, just like the voice had told her. She noticed that her twin shadows were still following her closely as they trailed her onto the tracks.

"What am I doing next?" she asked her potential savior.

"Since you have followed my suggestion, you're going to be victorious here," the voice assured her. Kallen noticed a freight train on the same tracks she was travelling on, except that the freight was speeding directly at her. "Now jump onto the train!" the voice ordered her.

She immediately followed the order and had her Glasgow jump onto the main car and continued to have her Knightmare hop from car to car as she traversed atop of the train.

Once she'd reached the seventh train car, Kallen turned her Glasgow around in order to see how her Britannian 'friends' had reacted. She witnessed one of the two Sutherlands get hit and destroyed by a pair of Sutherland slash harkens. She immediately spun her land spinners at full speed and charged her Glasgow towards her now lone Sutherland pursuer.

She then saw one of the Britannian Knightmare's land spinners get destroyed as she continued to charge.

The Sutherland's pilot had apparently noticed her, because its manual ejection-seat mechanism activated and the Knightmare's cockpit ignited it's boosters in order to quickly retreat from the fight.

"Thanks for that," she said into her personal communicator to the voice. "But how did you get your hands on a Sutherland?" She then looked towards the building where she'd seen those slash harkens retreat back to, but there was only a crumbling building in her sight. "Where'd he go?" she wondered.

"Kallen!" Ohgi's voice came from her communicator this time. "Who was that on the radio earlier?" he asked her.

"You mean that he contacted you too?" she replied as her friends from the resistance movement came up to her Glasgow.

Ohgi nodded at her inquiry.

His radio then buzzed with static before the voice decided to return to them. "Are you the one who's in charge here?" the voice asked of the group's de facto leader since Naoto died.

"Uh," Ohgi nervously began. "Yeah, I guess." Ohgi appeared to be quite nervous at speaking to Kallen's savior.

"I give you the tools to your victory." The voice deliberately emphasized that word as he responded to Ohgi. "The cargo of that train should be more than enough. If you want to defeat your oppressors here and push them back, then you will follow my orders to the letter."

Kallen's sapphire eyes widened in amazement as she opened the freight train's cargo cars. Before the resistance group were many brand-new top-of-the-line Britannian Knightmares. "You've gotten a hold of this many Sutherlands?" she asked the voice, her voice revealing her wonder at his gifts.

More than enough Sutherlands for her comrades were lined up within each train car. At the final tally, there was twenty Knightmares within the freight train. Each one fully equipped, just like the ones being used to destroy the Shinjuku ghetto she was fighting to protect.

Kallen saw Tamaki drooling at the sight. "Whoever this 'voice' guy is," the red-headed idiot began, "he sure knows how to treat his subordinates."

"Pilot of the Glasgow." The voice was calling to her once more. "Recharge your energy filler. You and your unit will be running decoy. I'll contact you all in ten minutes with my next instructions." The line went silent as the voice finished saying what he'd order them to do next.

Kallen was in complete disbelief at what she'd just witnessed. "Not only did he obtain a Sutherland for himself," she thought, "but this guy has just given the entire resistance movement the means to fight back. Just who is this guy?" Kallen pondered to herself.

Ohgi's voice came from her communicator next. "Kallen," he called. "We need to recharge your energy filler."

Kallen quickly snapped out of her daze after Ohgi had called her. "Roger that," she affirmed. She then moved her Glasgow over to the energy filler recharge station that was so conveniently located at the very rear of the freight train they were borrowing.

Zero and White Witch

"Now all the condition are almost met." Lelouch said as he took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Hello" said the voice on the other side.

"Rai it's me, the plan has been accelerated, how fast can you get Arashi to the Shinjuku ghetto?" Lelouch asked.

"Not long if I take the subway systems, since I am currently at the workshop." The now identified Rai said.

"Good get here as soon as possible and use plan sigma" Lelouch said.

"Roger, I'll be there as soon as possible." Rai said before hanging up.

After Rai hung up Lelouch heard movement behind him and instantly drew a knife that was concealed in his sleeves and turned around quickly. What he saw shocked him. The Green haired girl from before was alive.

"Now it isn't polite to stare." Said the green haired girl.

"Who are you and how are you alive!" Lelouch exclaims. "My name is C.C., and I am immortal." Stated C.C. without emotion.

"I don't have time for this right now, can you keep quiet until this battle is over then we can discuss the power you gave me" Lelouch stated.

"Very well but you owe me a pizza then." C.C. said in a completely serious tone. Surprised by this answer Lelouch then decide to ignore the immortal.

He then flipped on the communicator and began to list out his instructions.

"I'm about to give you your codenames and preliminary objectives for the operations. Are you ready?"

Lotus

Her radio's static brought Kallen back from her thought as it came to life. "I'm about give you your codenames and preliminary objectives for the operations. Are you ready?"

The voice quickly gave every one code-names.

"Wait, what do we call you then?" Asked Kallen.

"Hm, for now you can call me K-1." said K-1

"Right every one you know the plans, P-1 and P-2 move to sector delta-6 to set up an ambush amongst the buildings effectively guarding the rear of R company, N-1 and N-2 will assist will assist R company I want you and P-3 through to P-8 to move down the center you're the main distraction here, the rest of N company will move on flanks of R company able to ambush any attackers from the sides and Q-1 stay with me we will dictate the battle from high ground." said K-1 as he went over the plan.

"Wait wait hold it hold it!" yelled P-5 "There is no IFFs on these things, what if it's a trap." Yelled Tamaki

"The enemy has the total advantage in this war, they have no need to set traps." said Ohgi

"Well said P-1, well move out!" Exclaimed K-1

30 minutes later.

Zero and White Witch

Lelouch estimated that Clovis was beginning to panic now.

A mere thirty minutes, that's all it takes to put you in your place 'brother,' he smirked to himself.

He and C.C. were hiding together in the Sutherland that he'd stolen from Villetta, far away from the battle.

Lelouch looked down at the layout map of the Shinjuku ghetto that his Sutherland had uploaded into it when Villetta had been deployed.

He pressed down on his stolen communicator's receiver. "Q-1, do you have a map of the local area?" he asked her again.

His radio static preceded Kallen's familiar voice. "Yes I have a layout of the old settlement," she answered," but it has no current landmarks."

"It'll do," he assured her.

Lelouch's Sutherland's internal computer console beeped as the desired file arrived for his viewing.

He then opened the file, Lelouch quickly memorized the layout of the ghetto Kallen had provided him.

"Q-1," he began to recite the same orders he'd given them last time. "Take your group and descend below your current position."

"How?" his radio transmitted with the fiery red head's voice.

Lelouch smirked. "Enter the subway station that is one-hundred meters west of your current position. You will then immediately move at full speed back east, remaining underground as you do so."

"Very well," Kallen acknowledged his orders.

"Now Q-1," he told her once more. "Turn your Glasgow around and use your slash harkens to collapse the ceiling twenty meters behind you. After your harkens have retracted, move your Glasgow at full speed away from the area and you and your unit are to join up with P-1 and P-5 as you exit the subway. The appropriate exit is another hundred meters eastward."

"Roger," Kallen confirmed her orders.

"With this Clovis," he said. "I call check."

Lelouch watched with a great amount of pride building up in his chest as he witnessed a few dozen "LOST" icons appear from where Clovis had foolishly sent the bulk of his Knightmare forces because of the floor collapsing from underneath them.

"I can do this, I can win." Lelouch said smirking.

Lotus

Kallen had just arrived at the rendezvous point that K-1 had given her over the radio.

It was only a brief moment before both Ohgi and Tamaki's units arrived at the point as well.

"Kallen!" Ohgi exclaimed over the communicator channel. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." she replied.

Ohgi yelled over the radio. "We still have our next objective to take care of."

"This is N group!" Kallen's radio transmitted. "We've got a problem here!"

"Yoshida Report!" Ohgi asked using his seldom-used leader voice as he ordered over the radio.

"Yoshida sounds panicked. What's happening over there?" Kallen thought as she leaned in closer to her radio in order to listen closely to her friend.

"We're being wiped out!" Yoshida screamed back over the radio. "Send reinforcements immediately!" Yoshida's voice cracked in and out from the radio as he hysterically screamed for assistance.

"R group, what's your current status?" Ohgi commanded over the radio since Zero hadn't responded to the crisis.

A chill went down Kallen's spine as her radio remained silent. There was no response from Sugiyama's group.

"B group report!" Ohgi continued to yell over the radio.

No response from Inoue either.

"Yoshida, report your situation damn it!" Ohgi began to sound a little frantic over the radio channel.

"It's just one!" Yoshida screamed over the radio. "It's only one-" Kallen's radio began to emit nothing but static as Yoshida's voice cut off.

"Q-1, P-1 are there any other units' left." asked K-1

"None, just our units!" said Ohgi in a panicked voice.

"Damn, Retreat to alpha point an hide behind the buildings there to prepare an ambush, me and my ace in the hole are coming so hide until you see a Sutherland accompanied by a black knightmare with red highlights" said K-1

"Roger that." Shouted Kallen and Ohgi as they moved to point alpha

Tempest

"Lelouch I reached the point you told me to meet you, where are you?" asked Rai

"Right here" said Lelouch as he pulled up in his Sutherland "Now while I wait for the others to arrive, let's trade knightmares. You take this Sutherland back to base so you can outfit and analysis it."

"Right then" said Rai as he got out.

Lotus

"Ok we're here, so where are you" Kallen said

"I am are over here" boomed a voice in a speaker

Kallen, Ohgi and the others turn to see a very advanced knightmare frame. It was a humanoid Knightmare's main body was coved in obsidian black metal plating. Two factspheres in the front of the shoulder joints with obsidian colored spikes coming out of the sides of the shoulder joints. The head had a gold v shaped crest positioned above a silver face plate with two violet luminescent eyes. The rest of the knightmare was covered in maroon detailing with orange highlights.

"What is that?" asked Kallen

"This Q-1 is the Arashi, and it is only the tip of the Iceberg. Now time to set a trap for Britannia's secret weapon."

White Knight and The Tinkerer

"I can win this, with this Lancelot I can finally end all this unnecessary violence." Suzaku said to himself.

A beep went off in the cockpit of the Lancelot.

"It seems that we have managed to get a hold of the enemies units signal." Lloyd said in an excited manner.

"You're not to take any risks; the Lancelot doesn't have an ejection unit." Cecile stated.

"I understand," he replied.

"Lancelot, activating ME boost," he reported.

He rounded a bend and spotted another Sutherland ahead of him. No IFF was being broadcast, so it was a Terrorist. The Sutherland appeared to become aware of him and turned to face him leveling its rifle. He threw Lancelot into an evasive Zigzag avoiding the Sutherland's fire. The gap between them closed quickly. He threw a fist into the Sutherland's face and with one strike removed its head. The cockpit ejected half a second later.

He then moved to move the Lancelot forward.

The Lancelot smashed a Sutherland into a building and sent another falling to the ground as the new knightmare continued to dominate the battle. The remaining Sutherlands continued to fire their assault rifles at it as it appeared between two buildings, but the knightmare handily dodged the bullets, using the two buildings at either side to springboard itself away from the hail of bullets and performed a midair twirl before rushing at one Sutherland and practically clotheslined it to the ground, even as its pilot, Tamaki screamed in fear.

Meanwhile, the Lancelot continued its work as inside the Yggdrasil Drive, everything continued to spin round the cube as the Yggdrasil Resonance even started to accelerate.

"These readings are even higher than predicted," Cecile reported inside the control center of the SRDT as she looked over a monitor on a control panel with pleased Lloyd.

"It's because our pilot is taking his job very seriously," Lloyd commented after he adjusted his glasses, though he was a bit disappointed that Suzaku was not showing off as he wanted to see what his newest invention could do for as long as possible; but the data that was being collected so far was enough for now.

In the ghetto, the terrorist Sutherlands continued to fall as the new knightmare rose into the air with its arms spread wide as its slash harkens recoiled and crisscrossed in front of it as they did so.

Inside the Lancelot's cockpit, Suzaku maintained a serious expression as he held a hand to his wounded side, clearly not having fully recovered from the wound and the intensity of piloting the Lancelot only seemed to make it worse and aggravate the wound even more. However, Suzaku did his best to ignore the pain. He still had a job to do and he was determined to see it through.

"If I can stop all of the knightmares, then this battle is over," he thought, remembering Lelouch and that mysterious girl in the capsule and how he needed to save them.

Suzaku display monitor scanned the area and a red box with the word, "ALERT" in yellow lettering directed his attention towards a plaza and the crosshairs locked onto a red Glasgow standing in the middle of the plaza.

"Huh?" he said before determination flooded his eyes, "So the enemy's main unit is there?"

Suzaku rushed at the Glasgow and clotheslined it. However when he did that the Glasgow exploded almost immediately, damaging the Lancelot's left arm, chest area and its left factsphere.

"Gah" Suzaku cried, "A suicide attack?!"

Suzaku then was shot at by several Sutherlands at the base of a large building.

"Darn it" Suzaku said as he activated the blaze luminous on the Lancelot's arms deflecting the bullets.

His display monitor flashed red with "ALERT" in yellow showing heavy damage to the left blaze luminous. "Shit" Suzaku said as the left blaze luminous deactivated, and he was forced to move the Lancelot

"Suzaku, the Lancelot is showing heavy damage to the left factsphere, and the left blaze luminous has shut down, what's going on." Asked Cecile.

"A Suicide attack damaged them." Suzaku replied while dodging the bullets from the Sutherlands. The Sutherlands suddenly stopped firing, causing Suzaku to tense up as his right factsphere sensed an enemy unit approaching him rapidly from above.

Looking up on the monitor, he noticed a new knightmare high above his machine diving downwards towards him at a quick rate. Suzaku had the Lancelot cross its arms in order to block the blow. The kick however, damaged the Lancelot's right fore-arm and sent the Lancelot sprawling back on the plaza.

Quickly getting up from the street, Suzaku stopped for a moment to catch his breath and observe the enemy knightmare.

It was a very advanced knightmare frame. It was completely black with orange-red highlights and looked like a black knight from old stories.

The Knightmare didn't give Suzaku a chance to recover though, as it quickly charged forward with a punch.

The Knightmare's fist came very close to hitting before the Suzaku made the Lancelot side step and counter with its own punch. However, before the punch could land, the black Knightmare utilized the its elbow to parry the attack and then use its other elbow to strike directly at the Lancelot's chest. Suzaku was very surprised at the skills of the pilot within the black Knightmare.

Cautiously Lancelot shifted its weight to its legs and instead of using its land spinner to take off; it lunged forward at the black Knightmare that stood before it. Skillfully the Knightmare maneuvered out of the way and fired its hip-mounted slash harkens at the Lancelot's land spinners.

Suzaku saw what the knightmare was doing and quickly flipped backwards to avoid being hit. This proved to be a mistake, because the knightmare fired a pair of slash harkens at the Lancelot's land spinners and managed to damage both of them.

"How does he keep predicting what I am going to do?" Suzaku cursed as he made the Lancelot shoot out its slash harkens. The black Knightmare easily dodged it, and when the slash harken retracted the Knightmare grabbed onto it letting itself be pulled in.

At blinding speeds the Knightmare sent a knee at the Lancelot's other undamaged factsphere, destroying it. Suzaku cursed as he was yet again caught off guard, quickly he backed away again to gain distance before firing three slash harkens at her.

It easily dodged these attacks and began to move forward in order to attack.

Suzaku couldn't think of anything to do as the black Knightmare came in closer. Lancelot's specs were higher than other machine's, but aside slash harkens Lancelot had no weapons. Besides Lancelot hadn't come out completely fine from earlier battles and Suzaku could feel his wound beginning to open.

As Suzaku quickly backed off, the Knightmare fired its shoulder slash Harkins at the Lancelot. Suzaku dodged to the left while backing up however the slash harken wasn't aimed at him, but behind him causing enough damage to the road for the Lancelot to stumble a bit. As the Lancelot lost its balance the knightmare shot forward with even more speed than before. It appeared before the Lancelot with one arm reared back for a final attack. Suzaku thinking quickly, brought up the arms of his knightmare blocking the fist but sending the Lancelot onto the ground, the fall finally breaking the land spinners. The black knightmare did not emerge unscathed, its hand destroyed and its arm shattered.

Suzaku looked up to see the knightmare releasing a large amount of black smoke. Then a series of explosions went off behind Suzaku. "What the!" Suzaku yelled as he saw with the Lancelot's remaining factsphere, the building behind him fall directly on top of him.

Zero and Lotus and The Teacher

"He won, he actually won!" Kallen exclaimed excitedly.

"Yeah, he proved to be a genius traction, a highly skilled Knightmare pilot, and that he has access to high end resources." Ohgi said to himself while thinking back to the plan the voice thought out before the fight.

Five minutes earlier

"While that is a nice Knightmare, how do you plan to stop that monster that is decimating our Knightmares?" Kallen asked, part in frustration and part in curiosity.

"Easy we set a trap for him, Q-1 get out of your knightmare and take one of the other members Sutherland, that member will double up with one of the other people still in knightmares." The voice said.

"Ok, but why do I need to get out of my knightmare?" Kallen asked in frustration.

"Because we are going to turn your Glasgow in to a remote mine, so when the secret weapon comes to attack it, I detonate it in his face. Then I will engage him in battle and destroy his knightmare. If necessary I have planted bombs on that dilapidated building so that it will collapse onto a certain spot, smashing the special Unit." explained the voice.

"Alright you heard him, let's get this trap set up." Ohgi yelled to everyone.

Present Time

"Well here he comes now." Kallen said in an excited tone.

"Now that that is over with, it is time to move on to the final stage of my plan." the voice said.

"What do we do now?" Asked Ohgi

"For now have all the other remaining members of your group return to your base, while you, Q-1, and I finish this battle." Responded the voice on the radio.

"Alright do what he said, but do you have a codename we can call you by?" Asked Ohgi

"Hm, for now simply call me Zero" answered Zero.

"Zero, as in nothing?" asked Kallen.

"Yes, but we have to hurry to point delta in order to complete my plan" Zero said. "Once we get there I am going to need you two to guard my knightmare while I sneak into the Britannian Command center and force a ceasefire." Zero explained as they went.

"What, but that is suicide." Kallen exclaimed worried for the person going out of their way to help them.

"Don't worry I am a master at stealth, espionage, and assassination. With that, and the fact that I stole the Uniform off of one of the soldiers I killed earlier to prepare for this." Zero said with confidence.

"All right, I may not like it but good luck we will make sure no one touches the Arashi while you're gone." Ohgi said

"Good I knew I could count on you two" Zero said as he jumped out of the cockpit and took off running very fast toward the G-1 base.

The Idiot

Tamaki ran into a corner, then turned around to see several Britannian soldiers pointing their guns at a large group of Japanese people.

"Ready, aim, f..." the man in charge started to say before being cut off.

"Attention all forces, cease fire at once." Clovis' voice boomed

"I Clovis, Third Prince of Britannia and Royal Viceroy of Area Eleven hereby command you," the voice of Clovis continued to boom from the Command Centre's PA speakers, "All forces are ordered to cease fire at once. You will also cease destruction of any buildings or property. All casualties, whether Britannian or Eleven will be treated equally and without prejudice. In the name of Clovis la Britannia, you're hereby ordered, cease fire at once. I shall allow no further fighting."

Everyone in the ghetto were all confused regardless of whether they were Britannians or Japanese and they all had the same thought on their minds. What was going on and why did Prince Clovis order a ceasefire? The Japanese were not complaining though. It had saved their lives, though Tamaki was feeling rather infuriated as he guessed that whoever it was that contacted them must have had something to do with it and he had just had credit stolen from him. Still, he did not complain as it did save his life, no matter how much it infuriated him.

"Huh, that voice managed to pull it off, I knew he could do it." Yelled Tamaki to the other resistance members who were forced to eject and were now in there hideout along with many Japanese civilians.

Lotus and The Teacher

"He managed to do it. How did he get past security?" Kallen said from where she and Ohgi were guarding their mysterious leader's Knightmare.

"No idea, but this proves what this guy is capable of, we should try and make him our leader." Ohgi said.

"No way, Ohgi you are our leader!" Kallen said indignantly.

"Kallen, he just accomplished the first real victory against Britannia since the miracle of Itsukushima, he is much more qualified to lead than me." Ohgi explained.

"Fine we will ask him when he gets back." Kallen reluctantly agreed.

Zero and The Painter

At the G-1 Base, Clovis calmly asks "Are you satisfied."

"Very, well done." Lelouch said.

"And what shall we do now, sing a few lively ballads. Or perhaps a lively game of chess." Clovis mocked.

"Chess, I was under the impression that we just finished playing. You really are an atrocious player, even after seven years you still can't beat me in a single match." Lelouch said.

"Who, who are you?!" Clovis asked angrily.

"Very, well. I'll show you," Lelouch stated as he walked into the light.

Upon seeing his face, Clovis' eyes widened in pure shock and disbelief at just who it was that was standing there.

"Lelouch vi Britannia, son of the late Consort Marianne and 98th Emperor Charles Zi Britannia, former Eleventh Prince and seventeenth in line of succession." Lelouch said as he brandished a gun and walked in front of Clovis' throne and dropped into a kneeling position.

"I have returned Your Highness," Lelouch said while rising, "And I've come back to change everything."

"I'm overjoyed that you're alive. They said you died when Japan was brought into the fold. What a blessing to have to back. We should depart for the homeland immediately."

"So I can be used as that man's diplomatic puppet?" Lelouch replied in a disgusted tone as his glare on royal intensified, causing him to tremble, "It seems you've forgotten why we were used as tools in the first place."

Clovis' eyes widened in realization.

"That's right," Lelouch went on with a dangerously and menacingly calm look in his eyes, "It's because Lady Marianne, my mother was killed. Lady Marianne held the title Knight of Honor and was also the Knight of Six during her time in the Knights of the Round, but was a commoner by birth," Lelouch stated.

"I didn't have anything to do with that." Clovis said desperately.

"Then tell me everything you know about my mother's death and about the project involving that green haired girl!" Lelouch said as he activated his Geass.

For a brief moment, Clovis felt a strange sensation enter his right eye before his expression became emotionless and he relaxed.

"My brother, Second Prince Schneizel and Second Princess Cornelia; they can tell you more about your mother's death" Clovis said in an emotionless tone.

"Wha…? Cornelia… she was at the heart of this?" Lelouch said in absolute disbelief, "No way. Cornelia respected and looked up to Lady Marianne. There's no way she could have been in on her assassination. I can believe Schneizel, but Cornelia… that's impossible."

Clovis then closed his mouth and remained unresponsive.

"What about the experiments involving the green haired girl?" Lelouch asked with a sigh.

"She was the focus of project Code R. She is an immortal being with strange powers, which Code R sought to replicate. When we were not making progress, we used her as a test subject for both cybernetic enhancement and a neural interfacing system. Though there were many fatal errors, we have completed both of the projects, so she was being moved to the new lab under the Narita Mountains where all the research is being kept." Clovis droned.

"What codes are necessary to access this area," Lelouch commanded, "and can this information be accessed remotely?"

"The password is time begets machines. The base door code is 3748. My ring contains a code that allows me to access any information in area 11 without it being traced." Clovis Droned.

Lelouch then took his eyes off Clovis who only let out a surprised gasp as he wondered what had just happened.

"I swear it wasn't me," he said in a panicked tone and he pressed his back up against the throne and brought himself forward and brought his hands up in front of himself in a defensive gesture, "I had nothing to do with it."

"I believe you." Lelouch said as he pointed his gun at Clovis. "However..."

"You can't!" Clovis begged him. "You and I may have different mothers but you and I are still blood!"

"Sorry, you are too involved in Project-R and this genocide of the Japanese people." Lelouch stated with pity as he aimed his gun at Clovis' face "You should have stayed with painting." And Clovis died with a bullet in his head and shock on his face.

Lelouch stared down at the corpse for a moment before eyeing the black diamond ring on Clovis' finger and took it.

"Such a small inconspicuous device, containing a program that is capable of accessing all of the information in Area 11, such a useful little treasonous device." Lelouch stated before beginning to laugh madly.

Authors note

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