The prince had become very impatient. After hours of searching, they still haven't heard the news about the girls and sooner or later the emperor will surely know about this. If his father knows then he will be disinherit his rights to the throne and force to become a commoner like those eleven. Those eleven are scums and annoying creatures, if they were all destroy then he wouldn't have to go all through this trouble in the first place. He feels that his blood boiling in anger and it seems that his guards had sensed his wrath as they all look at other direction. Trying to avoid looking directly at his eyes.

"Hurry up!" He commands. "I'm a busy person! Just kill all of those eleven and find that girl!"

Damn it!

"Dead or alive she must be found!"

"Suzaku . . ." Lelouch moans as Suzaku continues to touches his body. How can he still have the time to act like this in this situation? What if he made a mistake if Suzaku keeps disturbing him? They have been waiting for years for this moment haven't they? Idiot Suzaku.

BAKA!

"10 minutes are up." Suzaku pulls back giving Lelouch his space back. The prince nods his head as he turns to the radio and quickly changes his voice to someone more commanding. Then he leans backward to take a better look on the screen while ignoring Suzaku attempt to seduce him. Now, all he needs to do is place his pawns on the arena before he could start the battle. At first he hesitates when the dead bodies keep flashing in his mind but Suzaku quickly calm him down by wrapping his arms around his slender waist. He needs to keep Lelouch under control if they want to win this war. Suzaku is the sword and Lelouch is the mastermind so they will need each other to win this.

"You can do it Lelouch." Suzaku put the piece of chess in Lelouch hand. "You are our leader, aren't you?"

Lelouch looks down to see the black king rest inside his hand and slowly he nods his head when he feels like he had recovered. "Sorry. I will try not to cause any more trouble Suzaku."

"You're not. If anything happens, I'm here for you."

Then their plan begins.

"Hey! Are you sure about this?" Tamaki asks Ohgi. "This could all be a trap!"

"They have higher advantage then us so there's no need to set a trap." Ohgi replies. He pulls out the radio once again. "At least tell us who we are working for." The others who heard it were wondering the same thing about the mysterious ally.

Lelouch hold the radio closely to his face when her heard the question. He already knows well that revealing himself as a Britannia will only lose their trust especially since he is the 11th prince of the Britannia and the 17th heir to the Imperial throne. Someday he will tell them the truth and that is when they have taken back Japan. If he hadn't die by that time but his death will have to await since Suzaku wouldn't let any harm come his way.

"I can't do that." Lelouch replies. "What if these signals are being intercepted?"

"Uh . . . okay." Ohgi replies.

"Anyway. If we're in schedule Q-1 (Kallen), the enemy will be there in about 23 seconds. There will probably two of them so be prepared to shoot them through the wall." Lelouch orders.

"Are we really doing this?" Tamaki seems hesitant.

"Everyone! Check your weapon." Ohgi orders.

Tamaki could only scream in surprise to see his leader agreeing to this easily. Lelouch on the other hand seems relieve that everything is going according to his plan. With their help, he will surely win against the Britannia and they will make history. He will be the king and as a king he will move them all to checkmate. "I wonder if Clovis skill had gone rusty over the years." He chuckles.

"What will happen if it does?" Suzaku asks.

"Then this battle wouldn't be a challenge." He grips the king piece tightly in his hand. "I want you to witness our victory Suzaku."

"Then I'm glad we got the first class seats."

"We spotted the enemy your highness!"

"Hmm . . . That was easy." Clovis sighs.

"Hurry up and send our men to destroy those eleven immediately!" The old man orders. Unknown to them a group of Japanese were waiting behind the walls with their weapons up. Ohgi was doing his countdown as his thumb ready to press the big red button. If the mystery guy order was right then the enemy will come in a few seconds.

"3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . 0!"

They all start shooting at the wall with all their might and as the mystery guy has predicted they were two knightmare at the other side of the wall. The bullets had hit them directly and exploded causing the two enemy to die immediately.

"Everyone! Follow what the voice say."

Like a machine Lelouch starts giving them order with no hesitation. In his eyes, he is now looking at a small chessboard and the enemies and allies has all become his pawn. As he had said before, as a king he will lead them all to victory. Suzaku smile with satisfaction to see them all winning. Nobody can beat Lelouch in his game even if that person is a Viceroy of Area 11.

This is their rebellion!

"What is going on?" The third prince was standing in shock to see his troops are dying one by one. Such thing has never happen before in his life. What on earth is going on?

"Send them all! Send all the units!"

He thought he will win now since all of his units has now surrounded that one knightmare. The victory should be his but then the knightmare disappear and the ground below suddenly collapse beneath the people. All he could do was just stare dumbfound as he lost hundreds of his soldier in a mere seconds. Who is he fighting against? What kind of person can think of this move and defeat him this easily? The only people who had beaten him before are his elder siblings.

It has to be a coincidence, right? Or luck is just siding with the eleven today.

"Oh . . . it seems you have some kind of trouble your highness." Lloyd laughs when he appears on their screen. "Want me to help?"

Out of desperation the third prince has no choice but to accept. "It seems that I owe my brother a favor."

It was then a new knightmare with the name Lancelot were shown when they lift the curtain off. Lloyd and his assistant Cecile gathers at the back to see the Lancelot activates for the first time. Hopefully the pilot they have chosen has high compability with the knightmare as they have already anticipated from the first test they have. "Are you ready Mr. Tsubasa?" Lloyd shouts.

"As I will ever be." The pilot says before he blasted off.

The victory is obviously theirs but he suddenly feltl like something is not right and shiver. Suzaku gives him a weird look before they heard someone is screaming in the radio. "Has someone actually took a hit on them?" Suzaku leans forward at the voice. It was then he starts having an uneasy feeling as well.

"Ah!"

Another one.

More and more screaming can be heard from the radio and they keep saying that the knightmare is too fast for their eyes to catch up. But what surprise them most was that only one knightmare who's attacking them. Could it be the knightmare that Suzaku intend to steal beforehand? Is has to be very powerful since it has destroyed countless of Britannia most upgrade knightmare. Now it starts to make him curious on who is piloting it.

"What the?" Suzaku suddenly move the knightmare backwards which almost drop Lelouch from his laps.

"Suzaku?"

"Hold on tight!" Suzaku orders when suddenly the building starts falling and Lelouch just realized that they got attacked by a new type of knightmare. It looks like a white knight in a shining armour but instead of being a hero, that thing is their enemy.

"You're the commander aren't you?" The voice asks angrily and Suzaku glares back.

"Even if we do confess what will it bring us?" Suzaku asks back as he turns his knightmare around to get away from this location immediately.

"We have to get out of here!" Lelouch wrap his arms tightly around Suzaku as his eyes focus on the white knightmare. "If I know this situation will make you hold me then I would have done this sort of things sooner." Lelouch knock him at his head for having the time to joke at this moment. All his friend could do was apologized about his attitude before looking back at their new enemy.

The enemy appears before them and attack with its huge sword. Suzaku quickly block it with the two robotic arms but it doesn't stop from them being pushed backwards. The floor beneath them starts to collapse all the way to the ground floor and the three of them could only brace for the impact. A weird tingly can be felt traveling from their toes all the way to their head. Such a weird sensation on a good day.

"Wow!"

The Lancelot quickly takes this chance to push their knightmare to the ground but before it could finish them off, the red Glasgow punches the new knightmare right at Lancelot face. The Lancelot tries to push the Glasgow back to get rid of the obstacle.

"Hey! I'm here to return the favour!" Kallen shouts at them.

"I know. This knightmare wouldn't be enough to fight back." Suzaku cursed as he drive away as fast as he can.

"That pilot is useful." Lelouch spoke after that long silence. He has never been so scared since the Britannia first attacked japan. "She will make a great ally someday."

"As long she didn't die today." His friend agrees.

The Lancelot was too strong for Kallen to fight back because the red Glasgow has reaches its limit, the knightmare pull the wire inside its enemy causing Kallen at her disadvantage. She knows that if she stays longer, the broken Glasgow will destroy her from the inside so she uses the emergency escape to get away.

"This is it for me."

'I can only hope that you survive this.'

"The enemy sure didn't waste time to chase us. If I was in my top shape I would have fight him for real." Suzaku grin causing Lelouch to frown. Once again he smacks Suzaku head and asks him to focus on the road. "You can fight whenever you want Suzaku but right now we must avoid getting caught by the enemy. They thought of us as terrorist and you remember what they will do to us, don't you?"

"I know dear." Suzaku sighs. "I will take your words to my mind."

"Hmm . . ." Lelouch was unconvinced by his words but he let it go for now. Now they have something more important to do. Once again he hold Suzaku tightly as Suzaku turns their knightmare around to shoot at Lancelot but their enemy move like the wind and manage to dodge all of the bullets easily. The way it moves is so elegant and fast. The pilot must be one of the high graduated students from the academy. Suzaku change his focus to the building around them and shoots so the pieces will fall down but their enemy easily dodge all of it again.

"Monster." Lelouch whispers.

The enemy is getting closer to them but then the voice of a woman screaming nearby caught their attention. It surprises them that their enemy turns around and save that woman instead of catching them.

"He rescue someone in the midst of battle. I guess some Britannia can be a gentleman." Lelouch says feeling under the weather but Suzaku misheard it as affection. He thought that Lelouch has fallen in love with the pilot making him growl in anger. This just make him want to kill everyone on his sight but such sight will just scared Lelouch away so he had to control himself.

"I will give you the victory this time." Suzaku says. "However next time will be different."

Then he pull the emergency exit and get them both out from the battlefield immediately. Lloyd, the scientist who created the Lancelot look strangely at the screen before him while Cecile seems quite proud of the pilot. "He save someone?"

The other scientist who works under him nod. "That's right."

"How strange." Lloyd says amusingly. It isn't every day to see someone like Tsubasa around and he can tell that this year will be interesting as hell.

The woman that Tsubasa just saved just look at him with fearful eyes as she continue to hold her baby. Before he could ask about her condition, the woman starts to scream in fear before she run away as fast as she can. It makes him feel down since he had just save her life but it couldn't be help since normal Japanese citizen will be easily scare to see the Britannia knightmare before them.

"Tsubasa?" Cecile calls him using the video call. "If you're tired then we can call this quits for today."

"I can go on." Tsubasa give his trademark smile. "So you don't have to worry about a thing."

"Be careful of his operational time." The scientist warns. "That boy really makes a great piece of equipment." He never felt this proud as a scientist to create such an amazing thing plus he had found an incredible pilot to use the Lancelot to its full capability. Surely this will make a great weapon for the future.

Unknown to him, nearby Clovis transportation Suzaku and Lelouch had just arrived at the location. Before they could go forward, A Britannia soldier quickly stop them at their spot.

"Halt! Where's your ID?" He asks.

Suzaku laughs while Lelouch smiles when they notices there were only one guard here. "I can't believe that his security is quite low." Suzaku lift his helmet and activate his geass.

"I couldn't expect more from Clovis." Lelouch shakes his head.

"Let us through." Suzaku commands at the Britannia guard.

"Sure." The guard lower his weapon and let them through easily.

"That power is really handy." Lelouch says as he glances at his friend. "If I hadn't been there when you first have it, I wouldn't have believe you."

"We can do whatever we want with this power." Suzaku presses the tip of his fingers on his left eye.

"We?"

"Everything that is mine, is yours." He winks and Lelouch didn't smack him this time but instead he blushes deeply. The prince trust Suzaku with his life so he knows Suzaku won't ever use that power on him but imagining that he can use it on people is kind of scary. If the Geass has no limits then he fears if Suzaku will misuse it someday but he can trust Suzaku, can he? They have been together for a long time so special type of bond has exists between them. If Suzaku ever use that Geass on him, it has to be for a good reason. Right? Those thoughts are scaring him so he quickly pushes it away.

"Time to pay my brother a visit."

Kallen had meet up with Ohgi before they move on to the shelter where they hide the rest of the Japanese. Everyone in there were panicking and screaming since they know that they're going to die today since Clovis had ordered that all eleven has to be wipe out. Most of them were asking where the mysterious guy are and why isn't he helping them anymore. She bites her lips wondering what she should do next. Even Ohgi is stressing out on how to flee his people from here. She could only hope the person who had save them hasn't die yet.

The gate to their shelter was then destroyed and Britannia soldier enter with their tank. The soldiers from inside the tank come out with their weapon and all pointed toward the Japanese.

"So this is where all the eleven are hiding. Prepare to fire!" The leader raises his hand as a signal. The Japanese starts crying louder and begging for mercy but none of them will be shown any sympathy.

Kallen eyes start to tear up. "Big brother!"

No! She can't let things end like this. Her brother death still hasn't been avenge yet! And she still has a mother who is waiting for her inside that house. There are so many things she haven't done yet. Why did they do to deserve this? If only a miracle can happen now and safe them all.

Before they could fire, they suddenly heard the voice of the third prince. "Attention, all forces! Cease fire at Once!"

"Eh? Cease fire?" The Japanese including the Britannia were shocked by the announcement.

"In the name of Clovis la Brittania, third prince and royal viceroy of Area 11, do as I ordered and cease fire at once. You shall all cease all destruction of building here! All casualties including Britannia or Eleven, shall be treated as equals."

What is going on?

"In the name of Clovis la Britannia, you shall do as I order you to. Cease fire at one! I shall allow no further fighting!"

Everyone at Shinjuku was speechless by the announcement since they wouldn't expect him to say those words.

They were safe.

For now.

"Are you satisfied now?" Clovis asks as soon the light were turn off as well the communicator to the outside. "What do you want me to do now, singing the national song or just play a game of chess?"

"You have never change." Lelouch says as he take a step forward with gun in his hand. "Don't you remember? You used to play chess with me when we were kids but I have always won."

"Huh?" Colvis raise his eyebrow in confusion.

"Remember? At the Aries Villa?"

"W-who are you?"

Lelouch walks toward the source of light to give Colvis a better look on his face. As expected the man was beyond shock to see the person who supposed to be dead 7 years ago now standing before him. Before him is none other than his half-brother, Lelouch vi Britannia the 11th prince of the royal family and the eldest son of the 5th empress.

"Lelouch?"

"It has been a long time, brother."

"But . . . I thought that you were . . ."

"I'm dead? I have finally return dear brother of mine." Lelouch smile sweetly as he brushes his hair away from his face to give his brother a clear look on his now mature face. He is no longer a naïve boy but a person who willing to fight against his own country and bring down the emperor. He will bring this country to justice and free all of those country who had been taken by the Britannia.

"I came here to change everything."

Suzaku stay silent at the shadow as he looks at the two of them. They were no clear resemblance between them making it easier for him to kill the person if Clovis intended to do anything dangerous to his Lelouch. "He was really unguarded. Such a foolish Britannia prince." He says in disgust.

"I'm so glad Lelouch." Clovis voice calming down and sounding relieved instead. "I thought you have die when the Britannia attacks Japan. It is such a good thing that you're alive and now we can back go back home to our homeland together. I'm sure the others will be excited to see you again Lelouch."

Lelouch feels angry when he heard Clovis mentioning his siblings.

"And let me use as a tool again? No, thank you."

"B-but . . ."

"Remember what happen 7 years ago before I was exiled? My mother was killed because one of the empress, they were jealous because of my mother who used to be a commoner is the closest to father. One of the empress kill her but makes it look like a terrorist work to cover up her track. Because of that my sister were left blind and crippled and we both were thrown away as hostages!" Lelouch shouts in anger. "Because of you guys . . ."

His hand starts shaking.

"Nunnally is dead."

Suzaku finally decides to take step forward to the scene.

"WHO KILL MY MOTHER?" Lelouch asks.

"I don't know!" Clovis starts to get frighten when the gun is nearing his face.

It was then Suzaku pats Lelouch shoulder and lean forward. He throw off his helmet making the prince look directly at his eyes. Suzaku glares at the corrupted prince. "Let me handle this, dear." Then the Geass on Suzaku eye activates so Lelouch looks away for Suzaku to give his order. "Who kill Lelouch mother?"

Clovis froze at his seat and answered. "Schneizel and Cornelia knows." He answers.

"They are involved in this?" Lelouch was shocked to learn that his sister is one of the culprit since he does have respect toward her despite being enemies but now . . . it feels like he couldn't trust them anymore. "That's all you know doesn't it?" Clovis answers with silence to prove Lelouch point so Suzaku release the person from his Geass.

Then Clovis regain his consciousness and starts begging for mercy. "I really don't know Lelouch! We may have different mother but we share the same blood."

"The same blood who had killed many." Lelouch says sadly.

Suzaku take the gun away from Lelouch before pulling Lelouch back into his arms. Even though no words were said, he could feel Lelouch tears and his grip as he tries to control his unsteady heart. Suzaku kisses Lelouch head before focusing back on the blond prince before him. He gives a wicked smile before he pulls the trigger with the gun pointing at the third prince face causing him to gives a horrible and terrified scream. The scream that can hunt many for days. Then he die on that seat with his eyes open.

"You don't have to kill anyone Lelouch, I will be the one who carry this sin within me."

"Thank you Suzaku." Lelouch cries. "Thank you."

"I promise didn't I? I will be here for you until the very end even if the whole world goes against you." Suzaku gives him another kiss on the cheek before carrying him in bridal style. "I will find us a new home now and actually make use of my citizen card. Then we will proceed to our next plan, okay?"

"Okay." Lelouch weakly replies.

Suzaku cover Lelouch eyes with a cloth knowing that Lelouch will react badly if he sees another corpse before him. If only there's a way to cure him but Lelouch had refused any medical help saying that as long this won't bother their plan then it's okay that he remains the way he is. "I will protect you as your knight."

"But who will protect you?" Lelouch asks.

His hands move up to caress Suzaku cheek and that action alone makes Suzaku feels touch. "I don't need any protection." He replies.

Nothing else matters as long he has Lelouch.

"Oh my god! Is that Kallen!"

Rivalz whistle to see the rich kid has gone back to school. It was rumor that she has some kind of sickness so it's rarely to see her in school and last year she almost didn't show up at all because of her health problem. Not only that, she was beautiful and a shy person so many people have always been attracted to her. They say that she was a good catch for all of the lonely guys.

"What are you looking at?" Shirley asks.

"At the second goddess of high school." Rivalz points to direct Shirley where his attention is.

"Then who's the first?"

"None other than our council president, Milly Ashford." He announces excitedly and Shirley simply smile to see that he still had a crush on their president. He did mentioned that it was love at first sight. Will such thing ever happen to her as well?

"It must be nice to be in love."

Kallen tries to act as weak as possible before this group of girls who always surrounds her every time she's at school. She doesn't even bother to know their name but they have always act cheerful and act very friendly toward her as if they have been together since childhood. Can't they go somewhere else and leave her alone for once? The only reason she's at school was because of the attention terrorist get after the Shinjuku attack and Ohgi had ordered here to come back so she can keep a low profile.

It makes her angry that she can't join them for a while. If her brother was still alive he would rather join Ohgi than being here.

'I will return as soon as possible once I receive my order.'

"Can you give me a free room for the rest of my life?" Suzaku asks the lady at the counter and she gives him a key freely without questioning. Lelouch had to admit using a Geass to get them a new house seems like a good idea and getting a 5 star is a totally different matter. How long has it been since he last stay at a hotel?

"Come on Lelouch!" Suzaku grab his hand happily as they make their way to the elevator. Different from Shinjuku, it was Suzaku who needs to hide his face in public now since the staff will gives a weird look to see an eleven staying with a Britannia at one of the grandest hotel in the area.

"Slow down." Lelouch laughs at Suzaku childish attitude.

It's funny to think of their relationship in the past when they used to fight all the time and always disagree on many things.

"I also make sure we get a king size bed so we can sleep together!"

"I thought we agree on two?" Lelouch curse for letting his guard down. If he had predict this will happen he would have asks for a different room.

"Come on! It's like having our first honeymoon."

"No!" His face redden. "We're not even dating."

"Ah . . . I thought you wouldn't ask." Why did he has to lean his face so close? It's like Suzaku is trying to kiss him on purpose.

Damn. How did his serious Suzaku turn out to become someone like this? The reason they had to stay here instead of Shinjuku was because Shinjuku is too dangerous now and the food is very limited. Their old home had collapsed and the water supply has been cut short so it won't take a long time for them to die. So, instead of staying at a normal home Suzaku brought him to a hotel to stay. Since hotel is more private and people come and go so nobody will remember their face that long. It's better than staying at a neighborhood fill with same people every day.

They had checked the news of Shinjuku and surprisingly they haven't reported about Clovis death which confuses him. Who is it that is trying to keep it as a secret?

"Are you okay Lelouch? If you feel uncomfortable then we could go back to Shinjuku to search the people who had help us."

"Sure but let's take a break first. It has been years since I have last taken a nice bath." Lelouch rubs his head trying to overcome the sudden dizziness. It was then the image of a woman corpse, the woman who Suzaku killed appears in his mind. Quickly he covers his mouth with his hand to stop his vomit from coming out. Suzaku had his on his back and another around his waist to keep him steady. As usual, he had a very worried expression spread across his face.

"Lelouch!"

"I-I'm fine."

Seeing they had attracted a few attention, Suzaku quickly takes Lelouch to their room. "Everything we did is necessary Lelouch. Don't forget what the Britannia had done to us all." He whispers. "What they had done to Nunnally."

That's right.

This is not the time for him to act like a girl in distress. They are people that must be sacrificed to change this world even if they start it small. Even though they are involved with the death of few Britannia but it doesn't mean they will stop at this point. He must work harder and better if he ever wants to make a difference. With the help of Suzaku then everything is possible.