A Code Geass fanfiction

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The Devils Reaper

Prologue

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Revelations 6.1-2

Japanese coast 2010 A.T.B

Two young boys stood by a ruined roadway as the body of Japans Prime Minister burnt on a pyre. One the son of Genbu Kururugi his face a blank mask of desolation. The other The son of Brittania's emperor his eyes burning with anger as he spoke "I swear to you suzaku one day I will obliterate Brittania". The other turned to regard his friend and widened at the tall gaunt figure standing behind him unnoticed. The others face was hidden in shadow as a thick cloth was wrapped over his features and his head covered by a hood. But his shape was wrong. Then both boys realized he was missing his left arm.

The figure ignored them moving closer to the fire until he knelt. The heat from the flames would be unbearable but the figure did nothing but kneel and finger a silver cross dangling from his hand. He whispered prayers in the faint Deutsch of a south African. They barely covered the sound of his weeping. When his prayers were done he turned stood and went over towards Lelouch ignoring Suzaku. He towered over him his cold blue eyes piercing into the young princes violet gaze. Then he turned to another soldier with blue tinged hair who'd come with him and nodded.

Later Lelouch sat in the back of a vehicle with Nunnally he gently stroked her hair as she lay sleeping. He watched Suzaku standing by the fire as the vehicle drove away. He turned his gaze to the front and realized that the one armed man was there in the front passenger seat. He was looking right at him. Then he spoke quietly in English.

"Lelouch Vi Brittania I have watched you, while you have been in this country. I have witnessed your anger your disgust of what brittania has become and it has done. But more I've watched your mind I've seen how you think. Do you truly mean to destroy Brittania no matter how far or how dark that road will be?"

There was no hesitation "Yes."

"Then you will need an executioner." The man turned his head to the driver and spoke again in Japanese to pull over. The soldier obeyed. Then the man's right hand flew out and jabbed a needle into the back of the driver's neck. At the same time the other trooper in the middle seat incapacitated the one next to him. Lelouch watched as the two soldiers were tied up and placed by the roadside. The blue haired soldier took the driver's seat. The one armed man looked back at him "Do not fear little prince you are in the company of dead men now."

Chapter 1

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth

Revelations 6:8

Tokyo Settlement, Area 11 2017 A.T.B

The nobleman smirked as his opponent sweated. "Unless your second arrives in the next five minutes I'm afraid the game will have to continue."

The balding elderly gentleman wiped his brow and then turned as the door opened and a pair of figures walked in. The first was a teenage youth wearing a school uniform thin with black hair a chiseled face, and a pair of brilliant violet eyes. He looked around the room as if the very air bored him. Behind him and holding the door open stood a giant of a man. Easily a foot taller his shoulders seemed to fill the doorway he wore a business suit which failed to conceal the swell of muscles under his shirt. An astute observer would have noticed how his arctic blue eyes were constantly scanning the room or how he moved with a casual grace that belied his large frame. His face was stern with a square jaw and long shoulder length black hair tied back in a ponytail. His skin was Caucasian but the shape of his eyes hinted at an asian parent. He positioned himself behind the boy and continued to allow his eyes to scan the room with his arms crossed.

"You made it." The elderly man exclaimed in a voice of gratitude.

"Our apologies there was traffic. Luthur when would we need to leave in order to make my next class?"

"About ten minutes Lelouch. Hmm" His eyes paused on the board. "Based on the state of play I'd calculate four and a half minutes."

The nobleman scoffed. "My opponent is to be a child?"

Lelouch studied the board "We'll be done in four." And he moved the black king.

Three minutes and twenty two seconds later they left the room with eight thousand dollars in a case and a stunned looking nobleman gazing at the chess board.

Lelouch allowed himself a smile. "Always so conservative big brother."

The giant grinned back "One of us has to be."

Lelouch sat in the sidecar of the motorcycle as Luther pulled them onto the raised motorway. Luther spoke as they turned a corner. "You know I can't decide whether your lack of excitement in chess stems from the quality of opponents or the fact that we aren't using your winnings as our primary source of funds anymore."

Lelouch turned. "Actually I think it's the uncertainty of whether they'll pay. Noblemen are so full of pride they can't imagine not paying their debts. I still remember when it was unclear whether we'd get either our money or our lives at the end."

Luther grinned "They always paid eventually. Although you didn't use to lead with the king as often as you do now."

"If the king does not lead."

"His subordinates will not follow. Though I wonder if you're letting impatience affect your chess playing."

Lelouch allowed himself a brief grin "You know me better then that."

"Even you can allow emotion to affect your actions. At least you confine such instances to games of wait…

He frowned as the minicomputer attached to his radio beeped an alert through the helmets earpiece. "Well it appears there has been a terrorist attack on a nearby office building."

Lelouch turned his gaze towards him "Do we have commercial agents in the area."

Translation were they one of ours?

Luther shook his head. "None that I know of although there could be several clients operating here. Whether they are listed well?"

Translation. Not any authorized. Could be one of the groups we supply. Or not.

"Oh wait it seems that our beloved viceroy is moaning about his internal organs leaving his chest in sadness. He wishes us to observe a moment of silence."

Lelouch snorted "Of course because a full minute of silence is just wasteful." His face turned cold "Mourning the dead changes nothing."

"Well while we're doing that could someone with free hands and a laptop possibly find out if I'm driving us in the direction of a terrorist incident?"

Lelouch pulled out his laptop and attached what appeared to be a perfectly ordinary usb disk to the side. "Okay lets see what's on the local police network." He turned his head to see a large truck bearing right down on them. "Luthur move"

The truck skidded to avoid hitting them and headed along the downramp.

They both started when they saw the truck crash into the section of highway below them.

Luthur turned the cycle around and stopped. Dozens of people were taking photos of the crash with their phones and saying someone should call the police. Luthur snorted with amused contempt and drove the vehicle down towards the crash.

Luthur pushed some wreckage aside and they both clambered up the ladder.

"Hello is anyone in there. We want to…" The vehicle lurched Luthur lost his footing hit Lelouch and the pair of them tumbled into the back of the van.

"Ouch" Lelouch stiffened his back as he crawled off the form of his adopted brother slash bodyguard. "That was uncomfortable"

"Yes it was." Luthur grimaced as he pushed himself up. Steadying his hand as the vehicle accelerated. Luthur cocked his head at a series of sharp sounds penetrated through the walls of the truck. "Live rounds. Get back." He grabbed Lelouch and pulled him into the shadows as the cockpit door opened. As Lelouch was silent he watched as a young red haired woman moved towards a shrouded piece of machinery at the back.

"Can you enter the subway using the asabou route?" she called back to the driver if she turned her head they were caught.

"Kallen why don't we use it here." Her head turned but not enough to see them. "Because that would be a bloodbath." She climbed into the cockpit of the knightmare.

His professional gaze took note of her grace, the muscles in her frame and for a while the curved contours of her rear in that costume. He allowed himself a smile.

Lelouch whispered to him "I've seen her before."

Luthur turned back "Hmm I don't recognize her from my files."

Lelouch narrowed his eyes "School I saw her at school."

Luthur raised his eyebrow slightly before the sound of hydraulics echoed through the truck. The back door of the vehicle opened and as the tarp pulled back they saw her launch a knightmare. "Deploying knightmare from moving civilian vehicle. Clever should make a note of that."

The queen.

Behind the truck the helicopters guns levered to aim at it. However a large blade like object on a thin wire lashed out from a slit in the back of the truck. It smashed through the lead copter cockpit slicing the pilot in two before the return traction yanked the craft out of the sky.

"A A slash harken?" One of the surviving pilots gasped as a red machine emerged from the back of the truck its factsphere opening before its metal hatches closed. The knightmare launched itself onto the asphalt its landspinners cycling in reverse as it swerved to fire again.

"Shit it's a knightmare. The second pilot cried as he tried to maneuver out of his enemies line of sight.

'You know how powerful this thing is right." Swerving the modified Glasgow around the shots the aircraft fired in panic before cutting both copters down with another shot of her harkens.

"You pull back. Let me handle this." A commanding voice issued over the pilot's com as a Knightmare VTOL carrier came up behind them the pilot disengaging from his remote craft and dropping an RPI-13 Sutherland onto the roadway. As it swung from a single slash harken Kallen launched her own only to watch as it was parried by the Sutherlands free harken.

"I don't know where you picked up that old wreck but no Glasgow will ever defeat a Sutherland." Kallen dodged right to avoid the Brittanians rifle fire. "Especially not when piloted by some damned eleven." As the fight continued another knightmare leapt up in front of the truck and the driver immediately pulled left.

The Devil and the Reaper

Lelouch was about to reply when the vehicle lurched again and he felt his hand brush against the strange metal sphere they were hiding behind. He started as he heard the whisper of a woman's voice. At last you are the one the one I have been .. He turned back "Luthur" then they both fell as the vehicle exacted a sharp turn.

The ambient light coming in through the roof vanished beneath the ceiling of a tunnel.

Lelouch tapped at his phone while Luthur carefully adjusted a number of small innocuous looking objects on the inside of his jacket revealing the concealed pistol in its holster.

"No reception on the mobile we're out of range. Judging by the light and surface we're travelling along the old subway lines. They're heading for an exit somewhere in the ghetto.

Luthur listened to the engine. "This is a Gaur 27 medium hauler going from where we entered there are only three exits in Shinjuku he could use for a vehicle this size. At current speed he should be approaching the first one in seven minutes. He'll have to slow down for the turnoff"

Around the area of Shinjuku a military blockade was dropping tanks and knightmares blocking all access points. Infantry moved in building by building and transport choppers dropped troops onto rooftops. One heading into the central area contained the group of honorary brittanians. Despised by those they served they were often used as expendable assets. Such as right now. The commander of the royal guard spoke over the radio to his 'valued' troops. "The terrorists have seized a chemical weapon move in and secure the area. You may be honorary britanians now but you were once elevens therefore the monkey stench of this place should be familiar to you. Succeed in this mission if you want to keep the right to bear arms."

"Yes Sir."

"Uhh Lelouch. I am afraid we are not slowing down or turning."

With the driver losing conciousness the truck slammed into a break in the surface.

They both clambered to their feet and ran their hands over the container as the side door to the compartment opened. Lelouch looked to the side in time to see a rapidly spinning leg aiming for his head. It never connected. Luthur pushed Lelouch aside and like a dancer moved himself so that the kick aiming for Lelouch instead met both his hands. Rather then stop the attack Luthur flowed with it gripping the leg and spinning with its momentum to swing the attacker around and into the wall of the truck. Only for the attacker to bounce off find his feet and attack again with a sharp blow to the solar plexus. Luthur countered again pushing himself back. His arm seemed to flex unnaturally and suddenly a curved black kukri knife flew out the sleeve of his jacket which he swung at his enemies head. Only for the attacker to lean back in turn so instead of being decapitated the visor was caught by the edge of the blade and the helmet wrenched off the soldiers head. It didn't stop the man from talking. "Chemical weapons are you insane?" But it yanked him far enough to the side that Luthur side stepped pushed his head down and then kneed him straight in the guts. But even as he fell the soldier flung a kick towards Luthur's knee which bounced off like he'd hit a tree.

As Luthur prepared to fall on this foe with his blade the soldier pulled his pistol and they were just half a second from ventilating each other when the soldier gasped out "Lelouch?"

Both of them gasped as the strangers face was revealed. "Suzaku."

But before anyone could express amazement the clamps on the pod began to crack.

Luthur turned in horror as his mind calculated. Depending on compression could reasonably fill the tunnel for seventy to hundred meters. If it is an inhalant then. Suzaku leapt up grabbed Lelouch and forced his helmet gas mask onto his face. Before Luthur picked them both up and flung them out of the van. Gripping the door to close himself in with the toxins. Lelouch turned back to Luthur. "No"

Luthur slammed the door. Lelouch looked back his face contorting waiting for the explosion of poisons to shake the vehicle but nothing happened. The door opened and there stood Luthur carrying a woman slung over his shoulder. "Either the weapon is hallucinogenic or I am carrying a green haired woman in a straight jacket."

A few minutes later and the three of them were untying the lady from her straightjacket.

"So you joined the Brittanian army." Lelouch spoke softly as he unclasped the girls pants legs.

Luthur's face was expressionless as he unhooked her wrists. "Your family must be so proud."

Suzaku's face went cold. "They're not and who are you anyway?"

"I'm his older brother." Suzaku seemed to start at that.

Lelouch removed the mask from the girls face. "So the army sent you to find the container."

"Yes but they didn't say anything about this."

"I must admit this whole situation is extremely odd."

Luthur's eyes narrowed "Did you alert your superiors that you'd found the truck."

Suzaku looked up. "Well of course I did."

"You idiot." Luthur turned his gaze down the tunnel as several flashlights struck them.

"What are you doing touching what even genuine Britanians should not hold." A detachment of the royal guard stood at the end their weapons leveled at them. With their leader smirking.

Suzaku got up and ran over leaving the Lamplerouge brothers.

"Sir I don't understand they told us."

"Shut up monkey the only way to redeem yourself from this is to kill the terrorists."

"But sir they are not terrorists just civilians who got mixed up in all this."

"Are you questioning me. Did you not swear an oath to Brittania. Open fire this instant." The guardsman thrusting a pistol at Suzaku.

"I know that but I won't do it."

"What?"

Suzaku turned back towards the brothers and Luthur in the midst of calculating the moves necessary to take out the soldiers on the left saw Suzaku's face. It was strangely happy.

"I can't carry out your orders sir." Then the pistol barked and the close range shot penetrated Suzaku's armor and flung him to the ground.

"Now then." The commander never finished his words because then a flashbang grenade went off right in front of them. Followed by the wet pulpy sounds of three of his soldiers heads being shot in quick succession. The commander flung himself down "Return fire return." Before the explosion of the truck silenced him again.

When their eyes recovered they could see a blasted mess of the vehicle. Three of his men were down with half their heads blasted away. Another was slowly suffocating in his own blood as the shots to his jugular gushed crimson liquid. The fifth who had for some reason stumbled towards the blast zone was holding the bleeding stump of his left forearm.

The reaper.

Luthur carried the Brittanians assault rifle in his arms as Lelouch lifted the girl. They were moving along the tunnel with Luthur taking point. Luthur in particular looked much the worse for wear his jacket and shirt was gone. A torn and tattered armor vest covered his chest and back. His hair was completely burnt off. Half his face was a bloodied mess but both eyes still worked. The skin of his left arm and shoulder were torn away. Revealing the black bundles of synthetic muscles. The kukri had been slid back into its compartment in his arm. Even so there was still human blood seeping from several smaller cuts along his body. It was that which prompted him to speak.

"Any discomfort?"

"Minimal my lord. My armor prevented any major damage to my internal organs. My arteries are untouched. All I need are the body's natural painkillers to see me through this one." However comfortable the 'brothers' were with each other in public or private When in the field Luthur always returned to strict military courtesy in which Lelouch was the senior officer. Lelouch grinned Luthur's definition of minimal discomfort was one that would have most people crying.

They passed under a vent through which a faint shaft of light passed from above. Luthur held up his right hand in a signal to stop and cocked his head. Silence reigned for ten seconds. "What do you hear?"

"Gunfire above us. Ahead. Behind. Everywhere. Women screaming." His shoulders tensed. "Children." He drew in a breath. "We must keep moving."

After twenty minutes of movement they approached the exit. Luthur took the lead heading up the stairway he paused and opening one of his pockets he extracted a 20 cm flexible cable with a small camera on the end. He raised it above the level of the stairs. It was the same group of soldiers looking somewhat the worse for wear standing before a pile of corpses, all Japanese. He lowered it and then extended his right hand with his middle finger grasped by his thumb. Enemies. Then he gestured with his thumb back the way they'd come. Head back. All four fingers together made a wavey motion. Slowly. They began inching down the stairs as the enemy commander talked.

"Are you sure the exit came out here?"

"Y-yes sir. It matches with up with the old city maps perfectly."

"Feh. They must have-" At that moment Lelouch's phone rang.

The Crush

In the ladies change rooms of Ashford academy an orange haired girl blinked in annoyance at her cell phone. "Damn that lulu he hung up on me."

The Devil and the Reaper

Lelouch was flung up against the wall while beside him Luthur lay seemingly dead. One of the soldiers had fired a blast that had struck his head. Followed up by multiple shots to the torso. His chest armor had fallen off completely. His left cybernetic arm was also severely damaged barely twitching. His right dangled shattered, barely held together by its mixture of muscle tissue and thin black cables. Blood stained the wall behind him. He did not breathe his eyes half closed.

The room was covered in blood only four of the royal guard remained their commander nursing a sharp cut to his side. The others had all been felled by Luthur's attack as he'd tried to cover Lelouchs retreat. If only one of the guardsman had not been carrying a light machine gun.

The commander no longer smirking scowled as two of his men held the green haired woman. I should commend you for making it this far. But you are Brittanians so I shouldn't be surprised." His smile was vindictive. "You've cost me some good men. Either way your lives are forfeit." The royal guard lifted their weapons.

"No he must not die." The witch broke free and leapt between the men as bullets pierced her body.

She fell her hand coming to rest on Luther's cybernetic one.

"Well that was unfortunate. I'd have liked to take her alive." Lelouch reached for the hand as the commander prattled on. Is this how it all ends all our plans only to die here not accomplishing anything? Nunnally. A vision of his sister came to his mind. He touched her hand and it grasped his.

Both men were flung into a mental storm.

Hmm interesting I've never connected with two men at the same time before.

What is this?

What the hell?

It seems you have reason to live.

That girl impossible she was shot in the head

So was I if you hadn't noticed.

If you had the strength you could live. This is my contract made between us three: In return for my gifts of power you must grant one wish of mine.

A vision of two planetary objects appeared in their minds

If you two enter this contract you will live as humans but also as completely different existences. Different rules, different providence, different life. The power of kings will make you lonely indeed. If you two are prepared for that then.

They saw a man with his hair like a judges wig standing before a sunset lit sky. "A three way conversion with a ragnarok connection. Unprecedented."

In the mindscape Luthur grinned. I am already separate from my fellow men. Your bargain costs me little witch. Very wellthey intoned as one. We hereby accept the terms of this contract.

Lelouch rose up and looked at the soldiers covering his right eye. "Tell me how should a Brittanian who despises his country live his life."

"Are you some kind of philosopher." The commander gaze drifted from the youth towards the figure who was impossibly getting up and more his arm seemed to be wreathed in blue flame.

"What's wrong afraid to shoot or are you finally learning that the only ones who should kill are those prepared to be killed. I Lelouch Vi Brittania command you all DIE."

His attention being focused on the rising nightmare before him saved the commander. But as soon as his men all shot themselves his gaze turned back to Lelouch in even greater terror. "What are you?"

"He is your better, Dog." The commander barely had time to register the voice behind him before a sweeping kick knocked him to the ground and a steel foot pinned and crushed his wrist into the ground. Above stood a nightmare the man's right eye had become an orb of pure yellow gazing from his ruined face. Blood still flowed from impossible wounds. But the arm. It had changed. Now black synthetic muscle was covered in pulsing veins and blue flame wreathed the entire limb. The fingers had become armored claws of silver. In the open palm sat an inhuman eye with a distorted crane symbol at the pupil focused on him twitching. "And you are done talking." The arm extended forwards and gripped him by the head. Then he began screaming. It went on and on as his limbs shriveled, his skin shrank, his breath stilled and his voice petered off into a pathetic whimpering before finally stopping. Where before there had been a well formed man all that was left was a dehydrated, shriveled corpse that looked to have been buried in the desert for decades. The face frozen in a rictus of agony and terror.

Luthur flung his head back and gave out a howl as the synthetic skin regrew along his arm. His face and hair healed themselves and in minutes he looked like he had not a scratch on him. His eyes twitched as vigor and knowledge flowed into his mind.

He turned and looked at his master with eyes still glowing yellow. They intoned as one "Well then."

Authors note

And so it begins by now it's fairly clear what Luthur and Lelouch roles are. Lelouch is still the leader/strategist/ statesman who comes up with the plans and inspires people. Luthur is the Scientist/ tactician/ Soldier who comes up with the weapons and kills people. He's also incredibly intelligent but his genius is directed more towards science, technology and immediate tactical situations. Like how to kill everyone in the room in utter silence. He's also a few steps above being a functional sociopath but hey nobodies perfect.

Those of you who are readers of the Code Geass Manga variants will recognize the power of THE CURSE that Luthur now possesses. Apparently it is what happens when the contracted receives (Or takes) more power than he is meant to. It's basically an extendable, lifeforce sucking demonic arm. In the manga C.C commented that the person who got it pulled one over on her.

Edit. I have come back to touch up this chapter for some mistakes i made. Also there have been those who reviewing chapter 1 think i made Luthur too powerful as an OC. My only response is read the rest of it. I can't reveal his whole character at once but there are reasons he is henchman to Lelouch and not the reverse.