Code Geass: GATE

By DearYouFromMe

Summary: The rule of Charles zi Britannia has brought to world to chaos; conquest followed by death. Lelouch vi Britannia struggles with his own helplessness, but finds the drive and the power to fight. Humanity calls for a saviour. Who will answer?

Chapter 1

Lelouch Lamperouge had a good morning. He had woken up to have breakfast with his dearest little sister, Nunnally, and was scheduled to have a chess match with a noble this afternoon. School had passed by fine enough, while it was boring, he was quite used to it. Rivalz had picked him up and driven him to the match, and less than 10 minutes later they had left much richer than they had arrived.

Then things went to shit.

After a narrow brush with death on the highway, Lelouch had made his way to help the people inside the crashed truck. It was frustrating, really, as nobody else had bothered to help at all. Not too long after, he had learned that the near crash on the highway was nothing compared to being (unknowingly) dragged along by terrorists. It got slightly better when he realized his childhood friend, Suzaku, was still alive, only for him to be taken away by that damned Royal Guard. He did say that things went to shit, right?

But it was all for nothing. Clovis's men had killed Suzaku, and brought chaos and violence to the ghetto over a girl. Yet Lelouch knew that there was something special about this mysterious, green haired woman, but he could not place a finger on it just yet. She was attractive, yes, with molten amber eyes that seemed to pierce his soul, unusual yet alluring green hair that flowed to her waist, and a figure that Lelouch's hormones could not quite comprehend just yet. Yet despite all of this, Lelouch knew that Clovis la Britannia would not send a whole military detachment over just one person…there must be something else going on with her.

So here Lelouch was, dragging the girl with him under the abandoned tunnels of the Shinjuku ghetto. Pausing to regain his breath, he growled at her, "Who are you?! Why were you in the capsule?"

She looked up at him with apathetic eyes, containing neither excitement nor fear. "My name is C.C." she said, choosing to avoid the second question.

He merely grunted in return, knowing that she probably wouldn't share anything else for the time being. "Let's just focus on getting out of here alive for now," he said. "I think there should be a tunnel nearby which leads to the surface." The girl, C.C., did not comment, and only stared at him again with those piercing eyes. Lelouch merely took this as a sign of acknowledgement, and tugged her wrist gently as a sign to follow him.

The pair made their way across the abandoned subway tracks, eventually reaching what could have been a subway station. They slowly climbed up the stairs, but before they could reach the top, the sounds of battle were replaced by the screams and wails of human beings. Looking up closely at the roof of the structure, Lelouch could see that the residents of the ghetto had constructed a warehouse overtop the subway entrance. Clever, but not clever enough.

"Please, spare us!" Lelouch heard from above, the sounds of a lone woman and a crying baby ringing across the warehouse. Desperation tinged her voice. "We don't know anything about the terrorists! I swe-!" A gunshot interrupted her, and she fell silent. The baby only wailed louder.

"Stupid Elevens," grunted a new voice from above. Unfortunately, it was one that Lelouch recognized all too well. The Royal Guard. Shit!

The man continued, sounding almost amused despite the loss of life surrounding him. "If they know nothing about the terrorists, they must be even more useless than I thought." The rest of the guards laughed with him, and soon enough, a second gunshot joined the first. The warehouse was silent.

That was, until Lelouch's phone rang. Quickly, he scrambled to reject the call, but it was already too late. Before he even knew it, the Royal Guard rushed over to the staircase and dragged him and C.C. to the main floor of the warehouse before training their guns on them. Lelouch almost stumbled at their rough handling, coming very close to landing in the many pools of blood that were scattered all over the floor. That was even before he spotted the bodies, and bile began to rise in his throat.

"Any last words, schoolboy?" the apparent leader of the Guard sneered at him.

"Go to hell!" Lelouch spat back.

The guard chuckled at him in amusement, before leveling his gun very carefully at the centre of Lelouch's forehead. "You first."

Lelouch could only blink before the man pointed his pistol at his head and began to press the trigger.

"He must not die!"

A gunshot rang out, but Lelouch did not feel any pain. Confused, he opened his eyes and was greeted with the sight of C.C. crumpled down on the floor with a hole in the centre of her forehead. "N-no…"

"Hmph," The Guard leader chuckled dryly. "We were supposed to take her back alive, but this is all right. I'll just tell His Highness that the subject was captured and tortured by terrorists before finally succumbing to their savageness."

"You monster!" Lelouch cried. First Suzaku and now her? When was the bloodshed ever going to end?

The man only shrugged. "I guess I am." He took aim once again.

Lelouch's eyes widened. Was this it? His final moments in an abandoned warehouse, surrounded by bodies and no one but C.C. to see his passing? He didn't want it to end like this, not yet. He hadn't even started what he wanted to do, what he told Suzaku in the tunnel not too long ago. But even that paled in comparison to one thought. Nunnally! I need to stay alive for Nunnally! I must protect her! His eyes squeezed shut.

All of a sudden, something took his hand.

"You don't want it to end here, do you?"

"W-what?" Lelouch cried out in confusion. He was in a white space, all white for as far as his eyes could see. He was alone, all alone in a space of nothingness. The confused teenager searched for the source of the voice, but it was like it came from everywhere.

"You appear to have a reason for living."

He spun around once again but he could not find anyone. Wait…he recognized that voice. "C.C.?! That's impossible!" She was dead, he was sure of it! He saw the blood leaking from the wound in her forehead firsthand, nobody could have survived that.

"If I gave you power, would you carry on? Would you fight?"

Lelouch already knew the answer. Of course he would! He would take up arms, fight against the cruel man known as the Emperor, he would avenge his mother, and care for his sister. Of course he would.

The space began to change and slowly morphed in to something new. Blue strands flowed endlessly and sparked together like nerves. Glowing, circuit-like lines traversed through this new land, but Lelouch saw something new. Jupiter…and something else. Something that he could not yet comprehend.

"I propose a deal. In exchange for this power you must agree to make my one wish come true."

Jupiter.

"Accept this contract and you accept its conditions: while living in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other."

Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter.

"A different providence, a different time, a different life.

The power of the king will condemn you to a life of solitude."

Jupiter. Gate. Code. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Code. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Code. Code. Jupiter. Jupiter. Gate. Jupiter. Gate. Gate. Gate. Jupiter. Jupiter. Code. Jupiter. Jupiter. Code. Gate. Code. Jupiter. Jupiter. Gate. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter. Geass. Jupiter.

"Are you prepared for this?"

Yes.

"Yes! I accept this contract!" Lelouch vi Britannia yelled as he threw his arm to the side.

His head…hurt. Hurt didn't even begin to describe it. It throbbed in agony, like a thousand needles had found their way to his scalp and pierced it at the same time. He was in pain. "Ugh…"

"…-ook, he's coming to!" he heard laughter. "The brave schoolboy is back!"

"Urgh…" Lelouch moaned in pain as he slowly dragged himself off the floor. How did I get here? He began to stand slowly, only to be greeted with the sight of the guards once again, howling at some joke that he must not have heard. His head wasn't hurting as much anymore, but his left eye throbbed for no apparent reason. He covered it out of reflex.

"Looks like you learned how to stand up again!" laughed the main guard. "You just collapsed out of nowhere screaming in pain!" They all chuckled with him.

But Lelouch no longer felt intimidated. He no longer felt powerless. Instead, he was confident, almost arrogant. "Say, how should a Britannian who hates his country live his life?"

The guards paused for a second, before resuming their laughter once again. "So you're going to get philosophical on us, schoolboy? Are you some kind of radical?" The lead guard mocked him.

Lelouch only smiled back. It was a dangerous smile, one that promised destruction and pain. The guards, seeing this expression, were wise enough to quiet down and back up ever so slowly. They sensed a dangerous aura around the boy. "What's wrong?" Lelouch returned their mocking. "Aren't you going to shoot? I'm just a harmless schoolboy." He took one step forward. And another. "Or have you realized that the people who kill for the sake of killing…"

"Are the ones who deserve to die."

Lelouch leapt forward, his left eye flaring with power.

Black metal sprang forth out of nowhere and began to form its way onto Lelouch's arms and legs. They meshed together, tightening and hardening, before forming dark ebony pieces of armor that protected his limbs and chest. Meanwhile, a dark and deep violet fabric wrapped its way around his torso, but Lelouch could tell that its protective properties were unmatched. A darker, yet similar fabric began unraveling from the back of the suit, taking shape of a malignant and foreboding cape. Lastly, the same metals from before pooled around his head and took the shape of a mask, before a purple piece of glass-like material formed an oval at the front. All of this took place in the span of a second.

Confused and now afraid, the Royal Guard panicked and attempted to flee. However, they barely got the chance to scream as Lelouch's cape formed whips that flung themselves at the poor men, impaling all of them but the leader. He tried to scream, but before he even got the chance, one of the whips wrapped around his head and mouth.

"Mmph!" he muffled in fear. The bodies of his comrades hit the ground ungraciously behind him.

A dark chuckle came from what was once Lelouch Lamperouge. "That's right. How does it feel to be powerless?"

The man only struggled harder.

"There's no use trying to get to you, is there?" the teen asked rhetorically. "Goodbye now." With a bit of willpower directed to the suit, the whip tightened its grip until the man stopped moving completely. Lelouch dropped the man to the ground without care.

He looked around him, at the death and carnage that he had partially caused. Lelouch stared at the dead bodies of the Guard, the once powerful men who had submit their lives to him. Now he was no longer powerless! Now he would never have to run in fear!

"I can do anything with this incredible power…and it's all mine! Well then…" Lelouch vi Britannia's smirk promised only pain.

Classified Information: Top Secret

[REDACTED] File #2

Through the use of imagery technology, we have determined that Subject [REDACTED]'s brain development is quite different from a normal human's. Our research suggests that a newfound brain lobe is present between the frontal and parietal lobes of Subject [REDACTED], at what can be thought of as the central (in terms of area) portion of the brain. Our researches have dubbed this lobe as GATE, for a variety of reasons.

We believe that GATE enables a human being to be in possession of characteristics far beyond a normal humans. For example, Subject [REDACTED] is in possession of [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED], to name a few. Our theory is further developed when no other human on record is in possession of a GATE lobe. However, further information is required, and will be detailed in further files.

Best regards,

[REDACTED].

Author's Note:

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new project! I've been waiting to get this one out for a long while now, and here it is. I hope you guys enjoy it, because I know that I certainly am. However, this is still a learning experience for me, so I hope you guys bear with me for a bit, as I know it may be a bit rough at first. Please, if you have any questions, be sure to PM me and I'll do my best to respond in a timely manner. This is basically going to be CG with some kickass powers, so look forward to it!

Next, I'll be writing some more requests for The Human Element, so look forward to that if that's your type of thing. I think I'll be alternating between this project and THE, just to let you guys know. And oh, lastly, the title on this is a working title, so it may change in the future!

Hope you guys all enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you guys soon.

-DYFM