E8: War Ablaze

Code Geass is a 2015 live action movie based on the Code Geass anime.

Plot
The film starts with a young 17 year old student named Lelouch vi Britannia and his friend, Rivalz Cardemonde, entering a room where a chess match is apparently over. Lelouch faces off against an nobleman of Britannia who laughs at Lelouch when he claims he can defeat him and end the match in at least under 8 minutes. Lelouch starts and smiles, first moving the King, shocking the nobleman. The next scene then cuts to Lelouch and Rivalz leaving with the defeated nobleman left in shock, claiming it feels good fairly taking money from someone of nobility and claims that they are just "unprivileged insects". At the Ashford Academy, Milly Ashford, Nina Einstein and Shirley Fenette are discussing Lelouch's gambling habits, with Shirley highly disapproving it. Milly teases Shirley over her affection for him.

The two friends then leave the area on Rivalz' bike but Lelouch manages to get trapped in a truck occupied by Japanese terrorists. The terrorists have stolen a capsule and the Viceroy of Area 11, Clovis la Britannia, makes his "heart-breaking" speech which turns out to be an act, which he boasts to the other noblemen gathered where he transmitted it from. He is however surprised by pressing news and bursts, under the vigilant eyes of Diethard Ried. Bartley Asprius suddenly appears to inform Clovis of a serious matter. Clovis orders all Knightmare Frame pilots to recover the stolen capsule which is now in the hands of terrorists. Following the command, Jeremiah Gottwald and Villetta Nu enter their Knightmares to go after them.

As Lelouch notices the truck his trapped within is being followed by the Britannian Military, Kallen Kozuki uses the Glasgow Knightmare Frame to defend the truck from incoming Knightmares, managing to destroy them. However, Jeremiah appears in his Sutherland and easily outmatches Kallen and her Knightmare. Nagata Chiba tells Kallen for them to split up as they both can not be killed. Villetta appears and injures Nagata while Kallen ejects her from her Glasgow's arm in order to escape from Jeremiah. Meanwhile, Earl Lloyd Asplund is seen with Bartley who deduces the military's mission is to track down the terrorists back to their hideout and eliminate them, and also offers his help. Cecile Croomy questions Bartley on what the terrorists have stolen, so Bartley tells them it is just poisonous gas.

Honorary Britannians are sent to retrieve the capsule and Nagata, who is gravely injured from the earlier attack from Villetta, runs into a ditch which stops the truck from moving. Suzaku Kururugi, who is among the Honorary Britannians, finds the truck and confronts Lelouch, who he believes is a terrorist. Suzaku recongizes Lelouch and reveals himself to him. Nagata opens the capsule, to which Suzaku quickly puts his own gas mask over Lelouch's face. The capsule opens, instead of lethal gas as Suzaku expected, a bound and gagged C.C. appears. Before they can get answers, a group of Clovis's Royal Guard arrive and tell him not to question his briefing, and to execute the "terrorist" which is Lelouch. When he refuses to follow orders to kill him, the superior Royal Guard shot him in the back. Nagata in his dying moments blows up the truck, giving Lelouch and C.C. an opportunity to escape. Clovis, believing that they have eluded them, orders the massacre of the entire Shinjuku Ghetto. Just as the two seem to have evaded detection, Lelouch's phone rings with Rivalz calling, giving his position away. As the Royal Guard are about to kill him, C.C. jumps in front of the flying bullet and is shot in the forehead. Lelouch thinks of his impending death, his last thoughts being of Nunnally, desperate to live. C.C. then grabs Lelouch's hand, who proposes a contract which would allow him to survive and endow him with the power of a King. He accepts and stands up with an entirely different attitude, then uses his new-found power to force the soldiers into committing suicide, which they seem to do with delight, shooting themselves in the heads with their own handguns. Their blood spills onto Lelouch's face, he smiles and notes his life is a lie.

Lelouch then thinks of how Britannia invaded Japan and conquered it. The Britannian forces used their newly created Knightmare Frames to easily defeat Japenese military forces and the Prime Minister of Japan apparently committed suicide, allowing Britannia to take over the nation. Renaming it "Area 11" and stripping the people of their rights, with Britannians now superior and in control.