Chapter 5: Lelouch's Death and Kallen's Grief

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Lelouch's Death and Kallen's Grief

Kallen was still holding Lelouch's body. She regretted not realizing beforehand but figured why Lelouch acted like he did right before he was killed and it bothered Kallen further. She wished that she could speak to him as she had so much more to tell Lelouch and it saddened her that she was not going to be able to anymore. Kallen wasn't the only one grieving, Rolo was grieving as well. He vowed that he would protect Lelouch and he was not able to do what he promised to do. He just stared at the people who shot him and rage was boiling up inside him. Soon, Villetta showed up as well to see and she nodded seeing that Lelouch had indeed died and she sighed of relief.

"Villetta, so you would turn on my big brother like this?" Rolo asked in his head with anger, "I should have killed you; you were a part of this."

F.L.E.I.A. crater, Tokyo Settlement

After Suzaku had calm down, he was still feeling down and started walking and his thoughts were running in his head, "2010 of the imperial calendar, the Holy Britannian Empire invaded Japan in order gain control of its underground Sakuridite resources. My father, Genbu, called for a do or die resistance. To stop him, I…" he trailed off with the memory of him killing his father when he was ten but continued, "it was childish, a tragedy childish impulsive act. I thought to myself 'this will stop the war'. I thought there would be no more needless bloodshed. But I was wrong. The fighting didn't stop." He paused a bit, "All I wanted was to keep people from killing each other." Memories surfaced of being under Lelouch's geass command to live and firing the F.L.E.I.A warhead, "NO, IT WAS GEASS, THE POWER THAT CAN TWIST A MAN'S WILL!" He calmed down as he realized that blaming it on geass alone was just a copout, "In the end, it's just the same, I..." His thoughts were interrupted when he saw Nina.

"I didn't know," Nina said distraught, "I didn't understand that... that it will be this horrible…that so many people would…that I…that it will be a…"

"Massacre," Suzaku interrupted and it shocked Nina to hear the Knight of Seven say it, "it's a big hit Nina, the F.L.E.I.A. warhead has proven itself. Britannia can't lose now."

As Suzaku walked passed her, Nina couldn't help but to be disturbed that Suzaku would congratulate to the casualties it caused.

Back in the Ikaruga

After some time, members of Schneizel's staff arrive to retrieve Lelouch's body. Schneizel directed his subordinates to retrieve Lelouch's body and Ohgi and Todoh volunteered to help them and Schneizel agrees and allows it. They get to Kallen and the dead Lelouch.

"Move out of the way," one the Britannian soldiers said, "We'll be taking the body."

"Stay away," Kallen replied.

This surprised the soldiers as well as Ohgi and Todoh.

"Kallen, what did you say?" Ohgi asked.

"Did you not hear me?" Kallen said with venom holding Lelouch's body tighter, "I said stay away. You will not touch him."

"Kozuki, what's gotten into you?" Todoh asked, "Let go of Zero's body so they can take him away."

"No, stay away."

The other core members of the Black Knights were surprised at Kallen's response and they were confused.

"Kallen, let go of him," Minami said, "it's over."

"Kozuki, there's no point of being sad over the con man's corpse," Chiba said, "let the Britannian soldiers do their jobs."

"You think I'm going to just let it happen?" Kallen replied defiantly.

The Britannian soldiers were getting irritated and they looked at Schneizel.

"Prince Schneizel…" one of the soldiers said.

Schneizel sighed, "Take the body from her now. We don't have time for this."

"Yes, your highness," the Britannian soldiers said as they proceeded to take Lelouch's body away from Kallen.

Kallen resisted and tried to push them away while trying to protect Lelouch's body and she was getting angry as they showed that they were not going to give up.

"Kallen, calm down!" Ohgi said, "There's no point, stop being like this and let go of Lelouch's body."

"Shut up!" Kallen countered, "Just shut up! You wouldn't understand. This is all wrong. We're just going to hand him over to Britannia just like that."

"That's the deal we made!" Ohgi countered back, "Stop being like this. It's over, Zero's dead now and we no longer will be his pawns to his games!"

"We were never his pawns!"

"You can't be serious!" Sugiyama spoke, "You heard what he said, we were just pawns to him."

"He was never to be trusted Kallen," Minami added, "it didn't matter to him if we lived or died."

"I knew that we should have never trusted him!" Chiba also added, "He only rescued us just to use us again. The lives he destroyed and ruined with his geass, he had complete disregard of the lives he destroyed with his geass."

"Kallen, listen to what we're telling you. He never gave a damn about any of us," Ohgi said, "he used his geass on us."

"No, he didn't," Kallen said.

"How would you know? Perhaps you're still being affected by his geass now," Ohgi said pointing his finger at Kallen.

"How dare you!" Kallen said in a rage throwing Ohgi off with her reaction, "you used me Ohgi."

"Excuse me?" Ohgi asked in shock and it shocked the others as well.

"You used me to lure Zero here to betray and kill him and I bet you would have had killed me if you felt that I was under the control of geass."

Ohgi frowned, "Kallen…"

"This is getting us nowhere," Schneizel spoke, "take the body now!"

"Yes your highness," one of the soldiers said.

The Britannian soldiers grabbed Lelouch's body and Kallen resisted again only to have Ohgi and Todoh stopping Kallen and holding her as the Britannian soldiers successfully retrieved Lelouch's body. Kallen was livid and viciously knocked both Todoh and Ohgi down on the floor and tried to take back Lelouch's body only to be stopped when guns were pointed at Kallen. The other core members of the Black Knights as well as Kanon and some of the Britannian soldiers were pointing their guns at Kallen.

Meanwhile Rolo was watching what was going to decided to have his revenge and kill everyone in the warehouse and he was about to use his geass when he was suddenly shot two times, on his right arm and one on his left leg and with that Rolo fell on the ground in extreme pain. Rolo and everyone else was shocked and they all looked and saw that Villetta had her gun out with the barrel emanating smoke from the barrel and they saw that she was one who just shot Rolo.

"Chigusa?" Ohgi spoke surprised.

"Lelouch isn't the only one," Villetta said, "Rolo also has geass."

Again, everyone was shocked at the revelation.

Villetta continued, "His geass is different from Lelouch. Rolo's geass allows him to stop time. He can move while everyone is frozen and just now, he was about to use it so that he could kill all of us. I've seen that look he makes."

"Damn you Villetta!" Rolo cursed glaring at the woman.

"Lelouch is dead Rolo which means I'm free from his control," Villetta replied glaring at Rolo.

"Chigusa, how do you know this?" Ohgi asked as he and Todoh got up.

Kallen was glaring at Villetta and gritting her teeth at her, "That bitch…"

"Rolo was also part of the OSI but he betrayed us for Lelouch," Villetta explained, "and I was told about his geass from-"

"From the emperor himself, right?" Schneizel spoke.

Another wave of shock surrounded the warehouse and Villetta nodded.

"That's right, but how did you…?" Villetta spoke.

"No need to worry about how I know but I want to thank you for what you just did, you just saved us," Schneizel said and then turned to his subordinates, "capture this Rolo boy as well!"

"Yes your highness," the Britannian soldiers responded as more soldiers went and they held Rolo and tied him.

The young assassin tried to resist but was not able to do much from the wounds he got when Villetta shot him and he was being bounded and taken away. Schneizel was pleased that both Lelouch's body and the young assassin Rolo were now in his custody. Schneizel had questions for Rolo and he was going to do whatever it took to get answers from him and he was sure that there was something that his father, Emperor Charles zi Britannia, was up to something and it may had something to do with whatever project was concentrating on.

"Black Knights, I appreciate your cooperation in the matter," Schneizel said.

"Yes," Ohgi said, "don't forget what you promised."

"Not to worry, I promised that Japan will be returned to you."

Kallen looked at Ohgi and Schneizel with shocked, "What?"

"Then it's done," Diethard said as he turned off his camera.

Schneizel and his entourage started to leave the Ikaruga with Lelouch's body in tow and Rolo as their captive.

"Ohgi," Kallen spoke.

Ohgi turned to Kallen, "What is it?"

"What were you and Schneizel talking about Japan?"

Ohgi paused for moment before answering, "In exchange of handing Zero to Schneizel, we were promised to have Japan returned to us."

Kallen was shocked and got upset, "You willfully betrayed Zero just to get our country back?"

"We didn't betray Zero, Kallen, he betrayed us. Besides, it's what we've been fighting for all this time, remember?" Ohgi paused for moment, "Kallen, I don't know close you were with Zero, uh, Lelouch, but you should forget about that rotten trickster. We don't need Zero anymore."

Kallen's eyes were streaming with tears and she was shaking, "To betray him and toss him aside…" Kallen stopped herself.

"Hey, Kozuki," Chiba spoke.

Kallen countered angrily, "Don't talk to me; I don't want to hear anything from any of you."

Kallen turned and just left.

"Kallen, Kallen," Ohgi called, "Kallen, try to understand. Understand that this is for the best."

Kallen simply ignored Ohgi and left leaving everyone else speechless.

"Hey, should we try to talk to her?" Tamaki asked.

"…No, let's let her be for now," Ohgi said, "I'll try to talk to her again later. Todoh, Diethard, we should see Schneizel out."

"Yes," Diethard said.

"Understood," Todoh said.

They all started to scatter and went on where each of them was going.

Lelouch's Room

Kallen entered Lelouch's Room in the Ikaruga and CC saw her.

"Oh, you're back," CC said.

Kallen simply looked at CC as the meek and weak willed girl before she was given geass.

"CC…" Kallen spoke sadly.

CC nervously went to Kallen, "Um, mistress…"

"Mistress?" Kallen shook her head, "please don't call me that. Just Kallen, okay?"

"Um, okay…Kallen. Kallen, where's Master?"

Kallen stiffed and sighed of sadness, "CC, there's something you need to know about Lelouch."

"What is it?" CC asked nervously, "Is something wrong?"

"I'm afraid so. We should sit down."

Kallen and CC sat down on the couch and Kallen told CC what had just happened with Lelouch. CC was shocked to hear that Lelouch had died and that his body was being taken by Schneizel.

"Master…he really is dead?" CC asked saddened to hear that her master has died.

Kallen nodded with sadness, "Yes, I'm sorry CC. We won't be able to see Lelouch again."

CC's eyes started to form tears, "No, no, but why?" CC made an assumption, "It's my fault isn't it? It's because I caused trouble for Master, isn't it?"

Kallen shook her head and held CC, "No, no, CC. You're not at fault. It's not you. You didn't cause his death. Lelouch died because he was betrayed, betrayed by the people we thought we can trust."

CC was crying and Kallen was crying as well. Both women were taking Lelouch's death very hard and Kallen vowed that she would never forgive Ohgi and the others for what they've done and Kallen swore that she would have her revenge on not only Schneizel but Suzaku was well as she felt that Suzaku was to blame as well, part of it was attempting to use refrain on her and firing the F.L.E.I.A. warhead that killed Nunnally. Kallen figured that had Suzaku not fired that weapon, Nunnally would still be alive, Lelouch would not have given up hope, and Lelouch would not have pushed her away just to keep her alive and lose his own life in the process.

"Lelouch…" Kallen spoke in her head, "I swear, I will get back at them for this…you shouldn't have died."

The imperial flagship, Great Britannia

Kamine Island was being examined by the 98th emperor, Charles zi Britannia and his entourage of the survivors of the Geass Order.

"According to the materials left behind by Director VV and our brethren, this location is optimal," one of the Geass members reported.

"It will synchronize with ancient ruins throughout the world," the second member reported.

"With this action, we can make the Sword of Akasha manageable once again," the third member stated.

Charles grinned with approval and amusement with what he was being told, "I never imagined that I would use such an ancient device, its quiet astounding."

In the Mordred

Anya Alstreim, the Knight of Six, was about to take off leaving the Ikaruga when all of a sudden her conscious was once again being taken over. She tried to fight, but it was to no avail. Her eyes were brimming with red from the effect of geass.

"So, you're ready to begin then," Anya said.

Hall of the Ikaruga

Kallen stepped out of Lelouch's room with CC following her.

"Kallen, what are you going to do?" CC asked.

Kallen looked at CC and had a downcast look, "I don't really know but one thing for sure, I can't let this slide. I need to do something."

"Kallen-" CC was about to say something when she and Kallen heard someone calling her.

"CC!" A female voice called.

CC and Kallen were shocked to see Anya rushing towards them with a smile.

"Anya Alstreim, the Knight of Six," Kallen said ready to fight her.

Anya went passed Kallen, surprising the red head and went to CC and the green haired woman herself got scared.

"It's been ages since we were face to face like this," said an excited Anya, "it's me."

CC on the other hand was nervous and a little scared.

Anya could see the result of happened to CC, "CC, don't tell you actually…"

"Hey, what are you doing?" Kallen asked angrily.

As Anya was getting close to CC, CC herself panicked and yelped, "I'm so sorry!"

The surroundings changed to another dimension with portraits depicting CC's memory. CC and Anya walk past each other. Anya stops as CC sits in a chair.

Anya turns to face CC, "What are doing, closing yourself up in here like this? CC…CC…"

CC turned to face Anya, "Hmm, who are you?"

"It me," Anya responded although the form switched to "dead" fifth imperial consort, Marianne vi Britannia, "see."

"It's you," CC responded and got up from her chair, "so you chased me all the way in here…just in case you didn't know Marianne, Lelouch just died."

"Oh, so my son's dead. Oh well, we'll be able to see him again anyway so it really makes no difference," Marianne responded with a shrug.

"Then why did you come here for me?"

"Because so much has changed, I need to know if you're still on my side."

"Huh?"

"CC, why did you seal off your own code just when you had what you wanted? Charles was ready to grant your greatest wish, the wish to die, but you stop him."

"Even I don't know why I did it; actually I'm a little shocked that I did."

Marianne couldn't help but laugh at CC's statement, "Then you have to find the answer in the real world."

CC pondered and considered what Marianne just told her.

Marianne continued, "I've made up my mind and that's all there is to it."

"How typical of you," CC replied.

"Why is that?"

"The one who always comes in and messes around with my life."

"Because I appreciate what you did," Marianne said as the atmosphere changed backed to the Ikaruga and in front of CC was the form of Anya, "at least as far as giving me my geass power."

"And you never fulfilled your contract," CC reminded the Anya-inhabited Marianne.

"If that's what you think, will you come with me now?" Anya asked.

"Yes but wait a minute, there's something I can't leave behind," CC answered.

Anya wondered what it was that her old accomplice was referring to.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Kallen asked shocked at the conversation she was hearing between CC and Anya/Marianne.

Anya and CC looked at Kallen.

CC simply sighed, "Oh well, Kallen, why don't come with us?"

Anya was shocked and looked at CC, "CC, what are you doing?"

"All right, someone start talking," Kallen asked feeling annoyed, "what's going on here? And CC…have you by chance…?"

CC nodded, "Yes, I've regained my memory."

In front of Schneizel's private jet

Schneizel and Kanon were discussing things further with Ohgi, Todoh, and Diethard. Cornelia was also there as well as Villetta as Lelouch's body was being taken in the jet with Rolo, with injuries to his arm and leg. Rolo realized that it was pointless to use his geass since he was severely injured and that he wouldn't be able to move like he would be able to before since Villetta's shots really slowed down his movements. Schneizel finished his discussion with Ohgi, Todoh, and Diethard and he and Kanon headed in the jet. Villetta told Ohgi that he, Todoh, and Diethard could go ahead and that she would catch up with him. Ohgi nodded and they left and Villetta and Cornelia continued with their conversation.

"So, what will you do Villetta?" Cornelia asked, "Stay with the Black Knights?"

Villetta was surprised to hear the 2nd Britannian princess ask her that.

"Neither my brother nor myself plan to punish you. After all, now that things have moved to next level, I'd say we have no authority to act against you. Plus, you just stopped that Rolo boy from trying to kill my brother Schneizel and for that, you have my thanks."

"Well I…" Villetta was trying to find the words to Cornelia's statement and gratitude.

"Heh, I'm probably the last person to say this but noble rank isn't everything," Cornelia said walking to the jet amused that she would say something like that.

Villetta wanted to stop, only to confirm what she meant but gave up on the idea.

In the air, on route to the Flagship Avalon

Schneizel was in the back, looking at Lelouch body.

"All of this could have been avoided if you had listened to me Lelouch," Schneizel said, "this would not have happened to you and it was your own pride that led you to your downfall," Schneizel then smirked, "well, there is no need for you worry now. Nunnally is safe now. I'm taking good care of her; she'll be under my protection for now."

That's it for this chapter. Next chapter: More happenings after Lelouch's death and in the Soul Society, Lelouch meets that woman that Euphie has been staying and starts living with her and Euphie.