Code Geass: Opus of the Trinity

Chapter 2

A New Lease on Life

2017 a.t.b.

Lelouch stood, the captain of Clovis' royal aiming a pistol at him.

"I'm back!" he thought. "I feel my Geass! I must have just gotten it… And these guys…So that's what he meant by 'Try to stay alive'."

"I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you to recognize me as your one true lord and master." commanded the newly revived mastermind.

"Yes your majesty!" every member of the Guard sounded off at once

"If this is really happening then Eternum wasn't all talk." Lelouch surmised."I'll consider the implications of that later. Right now I have a timetable to keep... Howeverl, I didn't use these guys to their full potential last time. I think I can afford a few seconds."

He began to cite long list of orders.

"You will obey my orders no matter what they may be, and without question. You will recognize the name Zero as my alias, but you shall never reveal my true identity to anyone, and if you are captured by my enemies you will kill yourselves as quickly as possible. You will leave and forget that you ever saw the girl, Private Kururugi or myself. You shall then continue your duties, but you will create as few eleven casualties as possible while not arousing suspicion. When I send you the message 'Initiate', you will begin your undercover assignment, feeding me any information you can find on the plans of your superiors. You will not speak of this to anyone, including each other. You are now dismissed. Please leave through the back door."

"Yes my lord!"

The Royal Guard left the warehouse leaving Lelouch alone with a 'supposedly' dead C.C.

"You can get up now C.C, I know you're not really dead." Lelouch stated bluntly

"You're very perceptive. But how did you know who I am?" the girl asked as she climbed of the floor.

"As you connected to my mind and I saw into yours." Lelouch lied.

For a moment he almost thought he saw C.C. become shocked, but if she was, she recovered too quickly to tell for sure. "That doesn't explain how you're able to use your Geass so well. It's like you've already used it before."

"Every Geass is different." He said with a straight face.

"I see." She frowned. The girl wasn't satisfied with his answer, but decided to let the subject go for the moment.

Lelouch began to hear the spinning of wheels. "I hear a knightmare coming. Go back to playing dead."

As C.C. dropped back to the ground, a Sutherland burst through the main door of the warehouse.

"She's a few seconds late." The Lelouch thought as he raised his hands. "She must have heard the shots last time and came running. Either way she still seems to be looking for terrorists."

"What's student doing here?" asked a familiar voice.

"It seems I chose a bad day to cut class." He smirked. "My name's Allen Spacer. My father's Duke. My ID is in my breast pocket. Once you've verified my identity I'd like to request your protection."

Lelouch used his Geass as soon as Viletta exited her Sutherland. "Give me your knightmare." He ordered just like last time, but now he had eye contact. "After I hit you in the back of the head, get back to the convoy and faint from exhaustion. When questioned by your superiors, tell them that you saw a suspicious, masked, man enter a building while speaking on a communicator and exited your knightmare to investigate. You went into the building and were knocked to the ground. When you came to, you found your gun and key missing and saw your knightmare head off into the ghetto. Believe this story with all your heart."

"Yes my lord!" The Purist officer shouted. She then tossed him her key and held out her gun, giving him the knightmare's activation code.

Having completed transaction, Lelouch used the soldier's gun to pistol whip her with enough force to cause her to fall on her knees, disorienting her slightly.

Viletta got back up and hobbled away, having apparently sprained her ankle, Lelouch climbed into her Sutherland and shouted to C.C.

"Meet me again tomorrow at Tokyo Tower, 4pm. We'll discuss partnership then."

"What are you going?" the immortal girl asked, half curious half irritated.

"To end this." Lelouch frowned. "I may not have been here to start this fight, but I sure as hell am gonna be here to finish it. Geass will see to that."

As he closed the hatch and booted up the frame, Lelouch had only one thought on his mind.

"This time will be different."

"Just thirty minutes left." Kallen cringed as she checked her fuel gauge.

"The west entrance." Lelouch voiced through her speakers.

Kallen gasped.

"Use the tracks to move to the west entrance." The boy ordered.

"Who's this?!" Kallen demanded. "How do you know this code?!"

"I'm someone like you…" He replied " Someone who's sick of acting. I'll give you my real name in person once this over. For now call me Zero."

"Sick of acting?" She thought "Does that mean this guy knows who I am?"

"If you want to win you're just going to have to trust me."

Hearing the word 'win' took Kallen's attention away from her suspicions.

"To win?"

"I got her!" Lelouch smiled at the thought of having Kallen back under his command; however, this did not mean he had tricked her. His train of thought continued."I can't really say that was a lie though. I am sick of acting. Whether it's acting like a savior, a tyrant, or an arrogant bastard who just doesn't care, I'm sick of it all. It's going to be different this time around. I'm going to stop the lying. Especially to myself!"

"Okay. What am I supposed to do now?" Kallen asked.

"Since you trusted me you're going to win." The voice called Zero told her. "Jump onto the train."

"Gotcha!" she acknowledged.

Her Glasgow leapt over the first car and continued, impeding the pursuers it had just picked up.

As one of them stopped the train and ordered the other to follow Kallen, Zero destroyed the latter with the slash harkens of his Sutherland.

The lead pursuer shouted through his speakers. "What's your name and your unit?! We're after the one-armed Glasgow…"

Zero's rifle shot his head module apart and forced the soldier to eject.

Kallen drove her knightmare up to meet him.

"You saved me." she praised. "But how did you get hold of a Sutherland?"

"I borrowed it from a soldier foolish enough to leave their frame. They must have seen me sneaking around and went to investigate. I knocked her unconscious."

"Her?" the rebel pilot was a little surprised to hear the soldier was a woman.

"Yeah. These military scum seem to discriminate race but not gender." Zero remarked

"Kallen! What the heck's going on?!"

Ohgi and the other members of the resistance had arrived.

"This guy in the Sutherland just took out my tail!" Kallen explained.

Ohgi stared at the Britannian knightmare.

"Are you the one who sent the message earlier?" he asked.

"Huh?" The girl in the older frame was confused by Ohgi's question.

"Yes I am." Zero replied. "The contents of that train are my gift to you, but if you want to win this, you'll need to follow my commands."

As the resistance cell gathered and claimed the knightmares inside the train, Ohgi became curious about Zero.

"Just who are you?" he asked "Are you with the JLF?"

"Sadly no." Zero admitted "Until now I've been putting my focus on funding, not making allies. Although, I'd be glad if you accepted me as one of yours after we end this."

"I'll keep that in mind." Ohgi laughed as he powered up his new Sutherland "By the way how did you know about this shipment?"

"I intercepted a call for extra firepower." The mysterious voice explained. "This shipment is it."

"That must have been the request for reinforcements from earlier." The rebel leader inferred.

"Hey!" Tamaki yelled. "Are you certain about this whole thing. What if this is a trap?"

"The other side has total advantage in this war." Ohgi answered "They don't need to set any traps."

"Correct." Zero added. "Which is why they'll never expect a plan like mine."

Lelouch had directed the rebels almost exactly as before. The only deviations were in the spacing of each group. He had to make sure as many knightmares as possible were able to survive this skirmish.

"This is B group, reporting enemy presence."

"It's happening again.

"Status."

"Everyone ejected but they took out four units in nothing flat!

"Enemy numbers?"

"Just one. I think it's a new model. I've never seen anything like i-AAAGH!"

"The bullets are bouncing right off!"

"W-what do we do?! Ishid-AAAGH

"Time to go. I may be sticking to the script to keep things predictable, but that doesn't mean I won't change things up when I need to."

"All units retreat!" Zero shouted through the radio. "We've got an unknown prototype coming at us fast!"

"What?!" Kallen questioned "Why. It's one unit!"

"One unit that took out seven of ours." the voice corrected. "On top of that it reflects our ammo. We need to switch priorities to evacuation and conservation of knightmares."

Ohgi came in on his end. "I hate to say this, but I agree with Zero."

Zero continued to relay orders. "Evacuate the civilians through the subway tunnels! Hide the knightmares. You can find them again later. Anybody who encounters the prototype is to cover those who can escape. You need to move before the rest of the remaining enemy units get their heads together and cut you off!"

Lelouch took a deep breath and changed his tone. "You guys did good today. Tactical retreats aren't really my thing, but we've enough for me to be able to finish this and then some. Do your best to stay alive. I hope to be able to work with you again in the future. Zero out."

As the commander-to-be sped off to complete the final phase of his plan, he couldn't help but think. "This was actually better than last time, from a strategic point of view."

G-1

…All casualties, be they Britannian or Eleven, shall be treated equally and without prejudice. In the name of Clovis La Britannia, cease fire at once. I shall allow no further fighting!"

The lights switched off.

"Are you satisfied?"

"I suppose.

"And what shall we do now? Sing a few lively ballads? Or perhaps a nice game of chess?"

"You really do talk too much."

BANG!

Not my best work, I know. But it seemed like empty filler to add in everything that was the same. This chapter is important however. It gives a glimpse into Lelouch's true mindset.