Code Geass BSC: Stage 9 How it all began

Stage 9: How it all began

Ever since the Brotherhood of Lycans announced their rising; things have changed threw out Area 11. The Death of General Guerrero has forced Los Guerrero's into hiding. Publishers put Commander Knightwolf on the cover of magazines calling him a "Crusader for peace or Lycan Crusader." More Faithmarians came to fight in the Second Crusade, some also come to bring a Christian revival and aid those who suffer from the war. Even Elevens and Britannians decide to take up the sword and the gun to fight in the Second Crusade.

Roberto, Rojas, Marco, and Suzaku were in class together. Class has not started yet and Suzaku was sitting a couple seats away from Roberto while Rojas and Marco were side by side with him. “So your brother is coming tomorrow?" asked Rojas. Roberto digging in his bag glanced at him and shook his head. "Not only is my brother but he bringing his family along with him as well." said Roberto. "I'm telling ya mang because of the Brotherhood's uprising, there has been more Christian missionaries coming to Japan." said Marco. "Then it is a good thing. The Japanese can use more healing." answered Roberto.

Outside Paula was walking on the school courtyard, looking at a map. "Let's see, I'm at the courtyard, so the trailer park should be around." he said to himself. Paula continued to walk around to find what he was looking for. Soon some members of the Students Self Defense Force notice Paula. "What the hell is that Eleven doing here in Ashford Academy?" one member asked. "He's probably looking at his target." said another member, "Call for some more men, and tell them we may have a terrorist."

As Roberto was taking his notes, Rojas fell asleep and Marco looked out the window. Marco saw Paula being surrounded by the Self Defense Force and tapped Roberto's shoulder. Roberto glanced and saw Paula. He woke up Marco. "C'mon Paula is in trouble." said Roberto. Rojas awoke and heard what Roberto is saying. Suzaku looked at Roberto and wondered what was going on. "Mr. Garcia! Care to explain why you are disturbing my class?" said the teacher. "Sorry teach, but our friend is in danger and we have to help him." answered Roberto and he ran out. Marco and Rojas ran behind Roberto. Suzaku became worried and decided to tag along. "MR. KURURUGI COME BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" yelled the teacher.

They surrounded Paula with the intent to hurt him. "What the hell are you doing here eleven?" said the leader. Paula looked at him and tightened his fists. "I'm here to see a friend and for the record I'm Faithmarian man." Paula said. "Eleven or Faithmarian either way I still think you're up to something and we want to know what." Paula looked around; he knew that his words aren’t getting through to the Self Defense Force. "I already told you why I'm here, now please let me through." said Paula. The leader became madder at Paula's remark. "Oh so you think you're better than us." said another member as the close in on Paula. "HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THREW WITH THIS?!" Yelled Roberto. He ran up to them. The Self Defense Force then became afraid of him; knowing of what he is capable of. Marco, Rojas, and Suzaku came too. The leader gritted his teeth and Glanced at Paula. "This isn't over you damn Eleven." he said and walked away. The rest of the Self Defense Force walked away and it was only Roberto, Suzaku, Marco, and Rojas. "You okay Paula?" asked Rojas. "I'm fine." answered Paula.

"C'mon girls, we need to think of a plan for Girls nights." said Milly. Milly and the rest of the girls; except for Shirley were in the council room. "We could try a bowling night." said Kallen. Shirley walked into the room. "Hey guys, did we make any progress for Girls Night?" asked Shirley. Kallen was carrying Arthur in her arms. "We thought about having a slumber party, but Nina thought we should go out for dinner instead." said Kallen. "Well I'm all in for the slumber party." said Shirley. "So we got to pick which one." said Milly. As they were discussing, Roberto, and some of the boys walked in. "Hey Milly." said Roberto. Paula soon walked in. Nina shrieked when she saw him. "E-Eleven." she said. Paula glanced at her and then glanced at the floor. Her legs were shaking, Nina was trembling in fear. Milly and Shirley noticed and were concerned. "Um Nina how about you come outside?" said Milly. Nina shook her head, but continued to stare ghastly at Paula. Milly and Nina walked about of the room.

"I wonder what was that all about, I never seen her so afraid." said Shirley. "I know why she's afraid," said Paula and he sat down, "And she has every right to be afraid of me." Roberto grew concerned for Paula as he took in the things he said. "You need some alone time Paula?" "No I need you guys by my side for this." said Paula. Roberto stood behind him. Paula clutched his fists and looked through the window. "It was during the early years of the occupation, during those times the Japanese were in serious need of humanitarian aid and my uncle now a colonel in Los Lobos Santos; came to provide aid," said Paula, "I hanged with a group of older boys who were zealous; one of them had evil in his eyes. His name was Tanaka Nara. He hated all Britannian and always spoke about how the Japanese should resist and how the Britannians deserve the same treatment they've given to his people." Shirley sat next to Paula to listen closely. "While we were on what we called Patrol, Nina crossed paths with us. When Tanaka saw her, he became angry and said she had to pay. The guys grabbed her. I tried to reason with Tanaka to let her go, but he was filled with anger. They took her into and alley and they," Paula and looked at his fist "and they violated her." Shirley, Kallen and Suzaku were shocked to hear this. "So that is why Paula came to Ashford academy. It might also explain why he came to fight in the Second Crusade as well." Roberto thought in his mind. "Roberto we have to go." said Marco. Roberto shook his head and followed Marco out. "We'll talk more about this Paula. Adios." he said.

Soon Paula was with Shirley, Kallen, and Suzaku. Suzaku put his hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "Look Paula there was nothing you can do." he said. Paula looked at Suzaku and scolded at him. "How would you know? You weren’t there, but I saw the fear in her eyes." he said. Shirley sympathized with Paula and grabbed his hand. "Paula you shouldn't really carry this burden on your shoulders." she said. "Once you seen the same atrocities that you could have prevented, once you seen your own family point guns at innocent people, then you will understand how I feel." said Paula. Kallen walked towards Paula. "What do you mean when your own family points guns at innocent people?" she asked. Paula looked at her with and intense face. "My last name is Kusakabe. I am the nephew of the man who ordered his men to hold your friends hostage at Lake Kawaguchi." he said. Shirley was stunned and looked at him. "Now I remember you, you were at Lake Kawaguchi." said Shirley. "Sheesh I never knew Paula had that weight on his shoulders this whole time." said Marco. "I feel bad for Paula as well, but at least he is talking about it." said Roberto. They walked outside and were greeted by Carlos. "Hey Roberto, I got some stuff for ya." he said and handed him a flash drive. "Toda la información está ahí." said Carlos and Roberto smiled.

Evening time came and the sun was beginning to set. The Boys were at a party being held at the campground. Rivalz, Lelouch, and Suzaku were at the party. "Wow Roberto this is one celebration, what’s the occasion?" asked Rivalz. "We are just celebrating because God has been good to us; all this is in his name, so just keep it clean." said Roberto. Carlos was on the dance floor busting some moves, Rojas was chatting with some other friends, Antonio and Marco were the DJ's, Paula and Ernesto were playing video games and Roberto was just supervising things. "Hey Roberto, why are their only guys here?" asked Suzaku. "Even though it doesn't show, but some of the Britanniana muchachas don't want to be around us Faithmarians. Milly is having a slumber party with the girls and there are practically no Faithmarian chicka's here in Japan. Plus it's a party, we can be wild, but not too wild." answered Roberto

Everyone was enjoying themselves and soon came the pizza delivery man. Roberto saw him and pulled money out of his pocket. He walked towards the delivery guy. "Hey did you order two dozen boxes of pizza?" asked the delivery man. "Ya I did." said Roberto and he grabbed the pizzas and gave the delivery man the money. "Pizza is here muchacho's." said Roberto and he laid down the pizza's on a table. They all gathered around with empty plates in their hands. Roberto grabbed a box and brought it to his friends who were hungry. "Now that’s what we need. Food for our bellies." said Suzaku. "Eat up amigos, the night is young." answered Roberto and he opened the box. Lelouch was the first take a slice and started eating. Rojas, Carlos, Marco came. Paula brought over a box of sodas and Ernesto sat next to Lelouch.

"Looks like everyone here is having a good time." said Ernesto. "It is always a good time," said Carlos, "We are alive in good health, we made some good friends and Roberto met his blonde love interest." Roberto scolded at Carlos after his remark. Rivalz then remembered about Clovisland. "Hey Roberto by any chance do you remember about what happened at Clovisland?" he asked. Roberto looked at him and wondered. "Si. Los Guerrero’s took over and got their butts kicked by Commander Knightwolf." he answered. "Well while we were being held at gunpoint, their leader was looking for you. He even took Milly out of the crowd and Euphemia. I think his name was Diego." said Rivalz "Stop right there. Roberto doesn't have to answer any of these things." said Rojas. "No Rojas. Milly found out about Los Lobos Santos, it's only fair that they should know about this." said Roberto

He then took a sip of his soda. "Operation Break Point, I was 15 and patriotic when I first met Diego Vega." Roberto said as he looked back when he was a young Faithmarian marine in Los Lobos Santos. "Roberto, wake up my friend, this mission is a go." said Diego. "Operation Break Point was a mission only given to Los Lobos Santos. Our mission was to assassinate military leaders, Britannian government officials and members of the royal family in hopes of Britannia to crumble. We were sent to kill the third Princess of Britannia; Euphemia." Roberto and Diego crawled through mud and grass. As they crawled, Roberto heard chattering from afar. "Ssssshhhhh" Roberto hand signaled Diego that there was a Britannian patrol up ahead and they both activated their cloaking devices. "Diego and I were like brothers, we had each other’s backs." The patrol passed by them without even seeing them. "Britannians are so stupid. C'mon the palace is just up ahead." said Diego. They crawled over a hill and saw the Royal Palace. Roberto pulled out a digital map. He pressed a button and a visual schematic of the palace showed. "Okay, 'here's how it is going down. I'll take care of the Princess, you set the charges on the security outposts." said Roberto. Diego shook his head and went away. Roberto looked at the window seeing a light turn off.

"Their security was nothing compared to our training, so it was easy for me to infiltrate." Roberto sneaked inside the room where his target was asleep. Silently, he crept closer to her. Pulling out his knife, he looked over her and was shocked to see that his target was a 13 year old girl. "Our intel told us that Princess Euphemia was a leader of a Britannian Special Forces group in her early twenties, but instead our target was a child. I was ready to kill her." Roberto gulped and he covered her mouth. Euphemia woke up in shock and she desperately tried to make Roberto let go. She kicked her legs wildly, she tried screaming, but Roberto had her silenced. She then gave up resisting and looked at Roberto. He saw the fear in Euphemia's eyes and Roberto felt even more reluctant. "Los Lobos Santos trained me to inflict fear in the eyes of my enemies, but what I saw was not the fear of the enemy, but of an innocent child." Raising his knife, Roberto contemplated killing her. Euphemia started resisting again and then she closed her eyes. "As I had my knife raised, I heard God speaking to me. He told me that I am a soldier of Faithmaria, not a monster." Roberto couldn't bring himself to do it, he then lowered his knife. Euphemia opened her eyes and saw what he was doing. Roberto let her go. "I'm sorry." he said to her. Euphemia sat up and felt relieved, but wondered about him. "Let me see your face." she said. Roberto looked threw his darkened lenses of his mask and saw that she was no longer afraid of him.

Roberto took of his mask and revealed his face to Euphemia. She looked into his eyes. "You don't look like those monsters I saw on TV," said Euphemia and she touched his face. "You look human." Roberto blushed. "I have to go." he said. "Diego abort the mission our intel was wrong." Roberto said through his communicator. "Negative we must continue with the mission," answered Diego, "Assassinate the princess." Roberto argued. "I will not kill a 13 year old girl. I'm aborting." said Roberto and he jumped out the window. After hearing his response; Diego became angry and ran towards their rendezvous point. "I decided to let her live, but Diego wanted blood." Making it to their Rendezvous point, other Los Lobos Santos soldiers awaited for them. Coming out of the bushes, Roberto and Diego signaled their comrades who they were. "Has the Third Princess been executed?" one soldier asked. "No, our intel was wrong. Princess Euphemia li Britannia is a little girl, not a military leader." said Roberto. Diego removed his mask revealing his scarred face. "You still should have killed her. She is the enemy." Diego argued. Roberto wanted to know who it was that supplied the information. "Who was it that gave us that bull crap Intel?" he asked. "Diego was the one who supplied." said the soldier. Roberto couldn't believe his ears. "Diego lied in his report and try to have me killed someone who wasn't even involved in the war." He looked back at Diego wanting to know why. "¿Por qué? ¿Por qué probaste a matar a un niña?" Roberto demanded Diego. Diego looked at Roberto and didn't say a word. "ANSWER ME!" demanded Roberto, but Diego said nothing. "I looked into his eyes and I saw anger and bitterness inside of him, just as he walked passed me."

"That mission was the last time I ever saw Vega. Can't say I'm surprised he joined Los Guerrero's." said Roberto. "Wow Roberto I never knew." said Rivalz. "After the war ended, Britannian guerrillas attacked our camp. We thought Diego was killed in a grenade explosion. Guess he's still out there plotting God knows what." said Rojas. "But wait Roberto, Diego had Euphemia dragged in front of everyone. What is she to you?" asked Suzaku. "Euphemia and I are close friends now." Roberto answering Suzaku's question. As they were talking; Shirley was looking out the second story window from the girl’s dormitory. "Looks like the boys are having a good time." she said. "Boys will be boys." said Milly. They girls were having a slumber party and they all were in their sleeping apparel. Kallen grabbed a slice of pizza and took a bite. Nina was on her computer typing. "Alright girls type to pick a game to play." said Milly. Everyone gathered into a circle. Milly pulled out a coin and showed it to the group. "If it's heads we play truth or dare, but if it's tails we have a pillow fight." Milly flipped the coin. Spinning in the air, it landed on the floor. It was heads. "Truth or Dare it is then." said Shirley. They circled around an empty soda bottle. "I'll go first." said Kallen and she spin the bottle. As it spun around; they anxiously waited to see who would be the one. It began to slow down. "Oh please don't pick me." Shirley thought to herself, "Knowing Milly she is going to make me talk about Lelouch." soon the bottle stopped and it pointed at Milly.

"Oh My." she said. Shirley was relieved, Kallen smiled at Milly, and Nina giggled a little. "Alright Ms. President, Truth or dare?" Kallen smirked. Milly pondered on what to choose. She smirked; enjoying the game already. "I think I'll pick truth." said Milly. "How did you and Roberto really meet?" asked Kallen. Milly was stunned a little; she didn't want to get into any details. "We met at a party when we were children alright." she said. "Milly you have to tell us more about it." Kallen demanded. Milly felt a bit nervous as the girls were pressuring her to talk. "Okay okay I'll talk I'll talk." Milly was succumbing to the pressure. Everyone closed in to hear the story. "I was a little girl at a formal party, I first met Roberto there." Milly recalling memories of when she was a little girl.

"I was playing with the other kids, but Roberto wasn't." Playing tag with the other kids, she was running around, excited. "Come around guys. We have to start all over." said the big kid. Milly was wearing a pink dress; she had longer hair in a ponytail. She was closer to the big kid. "This time we are going to play hide and seek and Milly's it." he said. "Yay I'm it I'm it." Milly said happily. "Alright count to ten and no peeking." the big kid demanded. "I was it, so I had looked for everyone." Milly finished counting and started looking for the other kids. She ran into to woods, hoping to find some of the other kids. She looked and looked, but it seemed that there was no one in the woods. "I decided to try and look in the woods, but I couldn't find anyone.” "Maybe they all hid in Mr. and Mrs. Wallis house." she said to himself. As she walked away, she heard someone crying. Milly looked around, wondering who it was. "I heard what sounded like a little boy crying, so I went to investigate." The young Milly look as she drew closer, the crying grew louder. She stumbled upon a small lake. Milly gazed at the waters and then she heard the crying again. She looked and saw a little boy, wearing a white tuxedo, sitting down covering his head, crying. "That was the first time I ever saw Roberto." Milly walked towards him as he cried. "Why are you crying?" asked Milly. The little boy looked at her with his teary eyes. It showed that he was not human. He had a black, furry tail, but he kept his ears covered. "No one wants to play with me." He answered. Milly felt sorry for him, she felt like she had to do something.

Milly smiled and said to him "I'll play with you." The little boy looked at her, seeing her smile, he blushed. "Apparently when G.E.L's are born, they are born in their anthro forms and it takes years for them to learn how to turn to their human forms. You should've seen how cute he looked with those wolf ears and his tail." He took his hands off his head revealed his wolf ears. Milly marveled at them. "Hahaha doggie ears." she said and she tugged at them. "The little boy grabbed her hands. “Stopped that they're not dog ears, they're wolf." He said. She giggled. "My name is Milly Ashford, what’s your name?" she asked. He felt nervous; he tried to speak, but stuttered. "My-my name is Roberto Garcia." he said. Milly was happy to here and she grabbed his hands. "C'mon Roberto lets go find the others." she said as she tugged. Roberto wiped away the tears in his eyes and ran with her.

"Roberto's mom and my parents met each other that day as well. So we were able to stay in touch with each other until the Second Holy War." said Milly. The girls were pleased to hear her story. Closing to midnight, everyone was leaving the party. "Alright guys see ya later." Roberto said to his friends. He went inside his trailer and took out his laptop and pulled a flash drive that Carlos gave him. Plugging it in the USB jack, he looked through files of new recruits and information on terrorist group. As he searched he pulled up a file on Diego Vega. "He is up to something, but what?" Roberto thought to himself