Suzaku Kururugi, a soldier of Britannia, is shot for refusing an order to execute his friend and accused terrorist, Lelouch Lamperouge. Fortunately, he survives the attempted execution and wakes up in the Empire's research division. It turns out that Suzaku has been selected as the primary test candidate for the Lancelot, a powerful new combat mech that exponentially boosts the user's physical capabilities. Given the opportunity to improve the world, he agrees to become the Lancelot's first pilot. Code Geass: Hankou no Suzaku tracks one young man's desperate fight to protect those closest to him and defeat Britannia's greatest threat to peace: the cunning, self-proclaimed vigilante Zero.