So...It's been awhile... Sorry about the long wait, but here's the next chapter of Lelouch the Full Power! But before I go in, I want to thank everyone who kept asking for updates. It really did give me the motivation to continue writing this. Well without further ado...
"C.C!" Kallen said running up to her. It had been 4 years since the two had seen each other, not since they fought each other above Mt. Fuji. However, after learning about the truth of the Zero Requiem, she allowed herself to forgive her.
"Jeremiah, get back in the knightmare." CC ordered. "We need to ensure the area is secure, we may have some company soon."
"What do you mean?" Jeremiah asked. "That plan was to ensure no one followed me here. Don't tell me it's failed."
"Trust me, no one followed you, but enemies will be on the way nevertheless." CC explained.
"Where is he?" Suzaku asked, stepping forward.
"So, you finally have it all figured out." CC smirked.
"Of course." Suzaku said, his face completely serious. "The access to the deepest parts of the Black Knights databases, grouping all of us together, the amount of resources procured in such a small amount of time, the amount of preparation. And now you sealed it. Now tell me, where is he?"
"What are you talking about Suzaku?" Kallen asked stepping forward.
"He's on his way. Everything will be explained in time." CC answered, ignoring Kallen completely.
"I need answers now!" Suzaku shouted.
"Well then answers you will receive." a voice responded from behind them. As they all turned around, they saw a man in the Zero suit that Rakshata has been working on. The man quickly reached up to his mask and took it off, revealing the person most of them would never suspect.
"It's been awhile, Suzaku." Lelouch said as he stood in front of the crowd, all but two of them with jaws to the floor, while Suzaku could only ball his fists in anger. Before anyone could stop him, Suzaku charged forward and hit Lelouch straight in the face, making him fall down.
"You're supposed to be dead!" Suzaku shouted as Kallen kept him from doing any further damage. "I killed you with my own hands, why are you still here?"
"Now's not the time for that." Lelouch said.
"Now's the only time for this, we need an explanation." Suzaku said, getting more and more angry after each passing moment.
There arguing was cut short by a loud beeping sound coming from the Arthur. When they all looked up, they could see a number of knightmares flying overhead.
"Jeremiah take them out." Suzaku commanded, only to be cut off by Lelouch.
"No, not yet. They don't know we're here, so alerting them to our position is detrimental." Lelouch explained. "Now come on, we'll talk inside. Jeremiah, stay in the knightmare until the coast is completely clear."
Following Lelouch's instructions, everyone made their way into the small cabin before Lelouch was once again cornered by Suzaku.
"Why are you still here?" Suzaku asked, grabbing him by the collar and slamming his back into the wall. "Why aren't you dead?"
"It seems I still have a purpose in this world." Lelouch grinned, pulling down on his high collar to reveal the sigil of Geass.
"A Code." Suzaku said in awe, letting go of Lelouch and letting him fall back to his feet.
"My fathers." Lelouch explained. "Other than my banishment, it's the best thing he ever gave me."
"Can someone please explain what the hell is going on?!" Kallen shouted now that everyone else had gone silent.
"A Code is another form of Geass, a heightened form if you will." C.C. explained. "A Code can only be given to someone by another Code bearer, in this case, Lelouch's late father."
"Eternal youth, the ability to never die." Suzaku summed up. "And you knew."
With this, Suzaku lifted Lelouch back up off his feet. "You knew you wouldn't die going into it. You lied to me! I cried while your blood stained my clothes! And you have the audacity to just walk back in as if I'll just accept you!?"
"You think I asked for this!?" Lelouch shouted, through with his calm manner. " You think I enjoyed waking up, to find I wasn't dead? My life was done at that moment, but fate is a funny thing."
Grabbing Suzaku's arms, he forced himself to the ground. "Rebellion. That's what I live for now. But of course, if you rebel against the good guys, that makes you the bad guy, right?"
"But if a new evil appears…" Kallen stumbled back, understanding.
"You started this!?" Suzaku said, seemingly filled with undying rage. "You could've live in this peace, but you chose to throw it away in favor of the chaos that birthed you."
"I had no intention, but as I said, fate…" Lelouch started.
"… is a funny thing." Gordon smirked as he stepped out of his knightmare back into the UFN building he was using as his base. "Well, I suppose it is time to let someone know."
With that, Gordon made his way down to the holding chamber. Opening the door, he wasn't surprised to find the girl awake, shocked by her new visitor.
"Hello Nunnally, would you like to hear a story?" Gordon grinned.
"It was about 2 years ago." Lelouch said as he began telling them all his tale.
C.C. and I were constantly traveling. I couldn't risk it. Everyone had the face of the demon king etched into their memories. It was only a matter of time before someone finally spent enough time to notice. C.C. was handling most of the talking to people, so my interaction with people was null and void. Imagine, a man who had gotten used to commanding armies, the world even, forced to keep his lips sealed.
About 2 years ago, C.C. and I were traveling through Europe. As C.C. was asking for directions, my eyes were wandering, when I saw a man being held up against a wall in a dark alleyway.
"Well, where are they?" the thug snarled.
"I'll have the plans done by the end of the week, I promise." the man on the wall stuttered.
"You were supposed to have them done by last week, you don't get to make excuses." The thug said as he punched the man in the gut.
"Knightmare blueprints are a difficult thing to design. If everything isn't precise enough, then the results would be catastrophic." the man tried to explain, but the thug would have nothing of it.
"We'll manage." the thug said as he pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the chest.
The man immediately collapsed to the ground, as the thug went through the man's coat and pulled out a set of keys, before running off.
I knew I couldn't just sit there idly anymore, so I ran over to the injured man to help, knowing what I had to do.
I was crouched over, about to cough up a lung, blood coming out of my mouth with every exhale. At the rate I was going, I would die from blood loss sooner than later. Just as I was about to give up on any hope of living, I heard a voice from behind me; I'm sure I could remember from somewhere.
"You don't want it to end here, do you?" the voice said.
"What?" I said while looking for the source. Suddenly I wish I hadn't, for I had greeted the devil himself. Standing right in front of me was your brother, Lelouch vi Britannia, the demon king himself. I was mixed between awe and confusion.
I forced myself to remember the words said to me that day as I went to one knee to bring the man to his feet.
"If I grant you power, could you go on? I propose a deal—in exchange for this power, you must agree to make my one wish come true." I said. "Accept this contract, and you accept its conditions. While living in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other: a different providence, a different time, a different life. The Power of the King will condemn you to a life of solitude. Are you prepared for this?"
The light was fading from the man's eyes, but when made contact with the man's hand, I could hear a resounding yes come from him.
Smirking to myself, I gave him a gift, the gift of Geass.
It was as if a volcano had erupted from within me, I suddenly felt filled with power. The pain from my wound was still there in full, but it seemed numbed from this sudden flow of energy.
I was suddenly aware of the demon king standing up and cupping his hands around his mouth, presumably shouting something. But I couldn't make it out. It was the last thing I saw before the world went black around me.
When I had woken up, I was on my back in the hospital. When I tried to sit up, I felt a massive pain in my side. Lifting my shirt, I noticed the bandages that were wrapped around my entire chest. As I was examining myself, the door opened and the doctor walked in.
As soon as he saw I was awake, he turned around and pressed a small button next to the door.
"You're lucky that those two people found you when they did. If you had lost any more blood, well, you probably wouldn't have woken up." the doctor chuckled.
"How long has been?" I asked.
"It's been a little more than a day. You've actually recovered quite quickly surprisingly." the doctor explained. "Though we'll have to keep you here for awhile as a precaution. Opening a wound like that would cause internal bleeding, and we don't know if anyone else will be there this time."
"But I need to get out of here now, I need to check on my home." I said as I struggled to my feet.
"No, you can't just leave like that!" The doctor shouted as he rushed to me and tried to force me back into bed.
"Get off!" I shouted back at him, and as soon as our eyes made contact with each other, he was frozen, making shoving him off of me much easier.
When I pushed him off of me, his frozen body fell to the ground, not moving position at all, as if he was stone. Despite my confusion, I took that chance for what it was worth and fled the hospital.
"How do we know he'll come here?" C.C. asked. "Why are we even doing this, anyway?"
"This is his apartment, of course he'll come." I answered. "And I'm sick of sitting idly. I changed the world's shell, but crime still lasts at the base level. So I'll make this world free of it."
Before C.C. could say another word, the door creaked opened, and we both heard a gasp from the entrance.
"No. No no no no!" the man said as he walked into the apartment. Just walking in from the doorway, the destruction of the entire apartment was apparent. Glass was shattered, cabinets and tables flipped to their sides, the broken locks on all the doors.
As the man was walking through the scene, I decided to speak up. "Really bad thieves." With this remark, his head jolted to where C.C. and I were sitting. "They didn't even take anything valuable."
For a long time, the man didn't say anything, content with staring at us, his mouth open wide.
"Gordon Saxum. It's going to be a pleasure doing business with you." I grinned as I threw his wallet to him.
"How are you…" Gordon managed to sputter.
"Oh quite fine. Not scarred in the least." I said patting where the sword stabbed me through on that eventful day. "Unlike you. That stab's probably going to leave quite the mark when it heals."
"Le… Lelouch vi Britannia!" Gordon sputtered. I expected him to slowly back out of the small apartment but instead, he quickly went to one knee and bowed. "You… you've returned."
I was clearly turned back by this.
"Your era can reign again! Just because that scoundrel Zero slayed you once doesn't mean you can't rebuild!" Gordon blurted out.
This was unbelievable. I still had supporters, even after my death? Even after all the horrible things I had done to the world? The thought of it almost made me sick to my stomach.
"My group had been preparing to start a new rebellion!" Gordon explained. "Once we had control of the government, we were going to conquer the world in your name!"
"The same group that almost had you killed this morning? The same group that threw you aside as if you were nothing?' I asked him angrily, which caused him to hold his head in shame. "If you're thrown out like that, you don't just sit there idly. You pick yourself up and tear down what threw you out. And that's exactly what you'll do."
My king, my ruler, the man who had driven my whole life for the past 2 years, was finally here, in my time of need.
"Now, here's the plan. I need you to draw up a quick blueprint of the building they occupy." Lelouch said. "We'll use that to plot out the best point of infiltration, and head straight towards the knightmares. On the way, we'll probably run into a large amount of them. That's where you come in."
"Me?" I asked. "What could I do? I'm weak, they'll stop us in an instant if we need to rely on me."
"Well, of course, we're going to use your geass." Lelouch answered, leaving me more confused than before.
"Your geass." the woman interjected. "It's a power that manifests in different people in different ways. So we have no way of knowing what it is for you. But you should have stumbled upon it yourself at this point."
"It normally affects either the user or the person you're using it on's nervous system. It could go anywhere from controlling people's minds to erasing memories." Lelouch explained.
Suddenly, my mind flashed back to the hospital, where the doctor's body went stiff in my arms.
"Would paralysis be an option?" I asked.
Lelouch and the woman exchanged a look, before the woman spoke up. "I've never seen literal paralysis, but that doesn't make it impossible."
"Rolo had something similar, but it was stopping time, not the person literally." Lelouch put forth.
"Well, we'll have to assume that that's what it is for now." the woman said.
"Finish up those blueprints, then call us back so we can finalize the plan." Lelouch said as he and the woman walked into the other room.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" C.C. said as we walked out of the room. "It couldn't have been worse luck that we found someone like him when we decide to get re-involved with the world."
"Either way, we're in far too deep right now to just turn back." I explained, looking around for where I placed my cloak. "This may actually be beneficial. If we're able to destroy terrorist groups like this, then the world won't go back to how it was."
"I hope you're right." C.C. sighed as Gordon called us back into the main room.
"Ok, so where are the main guard patrols?" I asked as I viewed the blueprints.
They usually have guards patrolling here, here, and there." Gordon said as he labeled 3 points on the map. "Then there are these 5 when we get in."
"And where are the knightmares?" I added.
"Knightmare. We've only been able to get one of them, despite our best efforts." Gordon explained.
"That could prove either very good, or very costly." C.C. warned.
"I know, if they get to the frame before us, they win. If we do, we win." I sighed.
"So this is basically a race?" Gordon asked.
"Exactly. But we have the advantage." I explained. "They won't know we're coming, so as long as we disable all of the patrols before they can start the alarm, then this will go perfectly."
"Ok. The knightmare is located right here, in the basement." Gordon explained. "Down there, there isn't any devoted security system, and only one irregular patrol."
"Ok. So we'll infiltrate from this point here. We want to have to run into as little guard patrols as possible." I said pointing to the blueprints. "From there we'll head north along the building to the east entrance. From there, It's a straight shot to the stairs, and the knightmare isn't too far either."
"What are we taking with us?" Gordon asked.
"If you can think of anything you'll need, then go grab it now." I explained. "We leave at sunset."
As Lelouch and the woman left the apartment, I quickly made my way into my room, and began shuffling around behind my dresser. Of course, gone. Those plans, the ones I had spent the last few months working on for its grand unveiling.
They just came in and stole them. How did they even find them? I made sure to hide them perfectly.
But if they got a hold of those plans, then this could mean trouble.
"Gordon!" Lelouch's voice sounded from outside the apartment. "Time to go!"
This wasn't a time to worry about that. It was time for my revenge.
Well I feel as if that's a pretty good place to end it for now. The flashback, in case you hadn't noticed, is constantly flipping between first person Lelouch and First person Gordon, as they're both telling the story. Well, tell me what you thought of this, even after such a long break. Until next time!