A/N:

To start off with a special shout out to KnightofHolyLight for your wonderful feedback and your inspiration to keep me writing.

So I said that there would be quicker updates, so I am sorry about this really late one. Well life's gotten in the way, I've gotten hectic loads of work from school but more importantly I write for a blog now, we are all about anime and games etc, we are called Sleeping Geeks and I write anime reviews and rants for it, you can check it out as I write as using the name Alpha Omega.

Any way back on track away from my advertising I have scrapped Chapter one and took the important parts out of there and merged it into chapter 2 where the story kicks off seeing since I feel that many people are put off by the first chapter seeing how I just wrote the anime. So this is technically chapter 3

Anyways on the story!


Lucius sat down in chair in Ashford Academy his mind wondering elsewhere. What kinds of people sell their own children off for titles? It bothered him even more that normally that they would use Numbers for such treatment but instead they used a full blooded Britannian. Why?
That one question burned away at his consciousness since his awakening.

He looked at his left arm completely covered in whatever the hell substance that Code-R used. Both his hands were concealed by thick black gloves. Only his left hand really needed to be concealed but walking around with only one hand gloved would look plain stupid.
Minami the acting deputy commander strolled over to his side. "If you want to make yourself useful I suggest that you do something whether you watch over the students or head into the frontlines. Sitting here won't accomplish you anything.

"I'm completely aware of that." Lucius replied as he eyed the pilot of the Guren without actually looking at the person he was making conversation with. It had been a really long time since he had been out and about. His time on earth had been mostly wasted floating in a test tube with numerous cables attached to him. Some of the cables while shortened were still dangling of him at various points in his body right now.

Minami was rather annoyed at the fact that Britannian wouldn't even look it at him. "Look I can tell that you want to offer your services to the Black Knights in exchange for something. I'm not that stupid."

Lucius knew it was sooner or later till someone of high intelligence would figure it. After all it was plain as day. "Well then how about we settle our terms."

Minami raised an eyebrow. "Settle terms?"

"In return for my services I would like to set a condition." Lucius said.

"Very well, I'd like to hear it." Minami replied. He was curious as to what this man wanted. However if it was absurd he would pass it off.

"I would like an operation conducted against an organization known as Code-R with the intent of uncovering all members."

Minami had no doubt that this request, no it was more of a demand was absurd. "Conducting an entire operation is no doubt costly besides I haven't even heard of Code-R."

"Oh believe me you will be hearing about it very soon." Lucius said with an evil smile plastering his face.

"Even if I could authorize it all authority lies in Zero's hands. There is also the fact we don't even how much you're of use to the Black Knights."

"You're right you have no idea how much of use I am to the Black Knights at the moment. However there is no need for me to intervene into this battle of yours."

Minami bit his lip and questioned the Lancaster. "Why would that be?"

"Because this battle is already won no matter what angle you look at it. The Black Knights' victory here is assured."

"That still doesn't show us your capabilities." Minami said.

Lucius sighed. "My abilities will be all on display in the next battle."

"So you must be talking about Britannian reinforcements."

"I'm glad someone here isn't naïve enough to believe that Japan would be theirs just after this battle. In fact I'll be of use right now." Lucius said. "Pass this information onto Zero. The Britannian Naval Fleet at this time will arrive in approximately 67 hours. However it should also be noted that the Chinese Federation are amassing in the East Sea."

Minami opened in his mouth in horror that the Britannian hadn't passed on information that vital sooner. He knew better than to argue with the man. It was more important that Zero received that information.

Lucius watched the Japanese man walk away to call Zero. So he decided to amuse himself once again with the Guren pilot. Getting up he approached the red head.

Kallen was busy biting her nail as no orders had been giving to her since she had captured Cornelia. She stood by herself while everyone else had their role to play. She was anxious awaiting for Zero's orders. She wanted nothing else to go out there in the border line of life and death so she could crush Japan's enemy.

But here she was stuck doing nothing while every other person had a job to do. She then heard the clicking of footsteps coming towards her. Kallen turned to look at who decided to approach her. Once she saw the face of the person she spat a curse word and gave the man a dirty look.

Lucius smiled no doubt enjoying himself. "So the pilot of the Guren doesn't how to hold her tongue."

Kallen scowled at Lucius. She couldn't put her finger on it but she hated this Brittanian for some reason. "What do you want?" She spat.

"Oh nothing, I thought I might amuse myself."

The red head wanted nothing more than to punch this arrogant Britannian in the face but she held herself back because he was the one who captured the woman who had shot Ohgi. "Well, why don't you amuse yourself with someone else?"

A smile crept up on the corner of Lucius' mouth. "Well as you can see, there is obviously no else to amuse myself with."

The Ace knew that there was nobody who was free as they were all busy. Some patrols had been cut short for guard duty but here she was instead of standing by herself, she had to deal with this Britannian.

Lucius dropped his humorous and teasing side he loved to use on Kallen even though they had just met. "Tell me, what do you think of Britannia?"

Kallen was taken back and choked on her words. "What do you mean?"

"Like I said what do think of Britannia?"

She pondered of a second and gave her thoughts. "I hate Britannia but I am still confused about it. I actually go to this school when I'm not piloting the Guren."

She was surprised she noticed that Britannian was actually listening intensely. "There are actually some good people in it. Take the Student Council here for example, they don't discriminate if you're Japanese. Still I hate it Britannia, if it isn't the people who are corrupt then it is the people who rule it."

Kallen stopped unable to describe her thoughts any further. Lucius looked straight at her in the eyes. She noticed that his eyes didn't match his age. He looked twenty eight but his eyes looked much, much older. But there was there was this burning glare in it.

"I hate it. I hate Britannia to its core it should burn. The people may not be corrupt but the system must be wiped. Britannia will burn, I assure you that."

Kallen took a step back at and looked at the man in horror. He didn't resemble the one she met just an hour ago. The joking nature had vanished in its place was the burning desire of revenge.

Lucius walked off leaving the woman to think endlessly. He hated the country he was born into. He had been sold off by his own parents for a title and nobility and money. He wandered the hallways and eventually made his way into a room full of Britannians seated on the floor.

Standing in the corners of the room were uninterested Black Knights who had been assigned babysitting duties.

However they were excited when they saw Lucius enter. In one hour, the story of Lucius capturing a woman who had been wanted had spread like wildfire. However everyone still wondered why Minami had ordered for the woman's capture.

It also begged the question where had the Deputy Commander had gone. Still the soldiers gave a crisp salute the moment Lucius entered the room although eyed with suspicion as he was after all a Britannian. Even more than a Britannian he was a Lancaster, hated by the Japanese in particular for the family's brutal mistreatment of Japanese.

Lucius was searching for her, if she was in this academy.

There was no doubt that she was somewhere here as his parents had planned for him and his sister to attend the most prestigious school in Area 11. Ashford Academy, while it did have wacko events students still achieved some of the highest scores in all of the Britannian Empire.

He gazed the room and sighed. She wasn't in this group. Besides this Academy taught more than a thousand students.

Giving up and he decided to return the ball room of the Student Council that the Black Knights were using as their main command area. He turned his back but one of the students broke his silence and called out to Lucius. "What the hell are you doing? You're a Britannian and you're helping out these Elevens."

The two soldiers on duty got up on the walls that were leaning on. They looked at the boy who in return gave them a dirty look. They were itching to hit student now. However they still looked at Lucius with a glint of disgust in their eyes. However Lucius walked up to the boy and the students who were sitting in the way quickly moved.

The Experiment crouched and looked straight at the Britannian boy. "What's your name?"

The boy had blond hair and blue eyes, the typical features of a Britannian accompanied with the all so typical smug look despite his situation. "It would be your superior, Eleven sympathizer." The boy spat.

A smile crept slowly on the smile of the Experiment but his face contorted into anger. Mixed emotions did not look well. He raised his left hand and out slid a long flat thin blade from his wrist where a watch would be if he wore one.

He placed the sharp tip on the boy's throat. He was holding it there ever so casually as if he was holding a thread that held life and death. The boy's smug face vanished and was replaced with fear as his life was threatened his all existence.

Lucius laughed a demonic laugh. "You know what I hate about Britannians so much?"

The boy gulped as the tip of the blade drew a small sliver of blood. "You think you're a superior race to everyone else, a god. But in the end you're all just a mortal being of flesh and blood like everyone else."

Lucius pressed further drawing more blood he just stopped and pulled back. He tucked the blade from wherever it had come from.

He stood back up and eyed the boy with a look of pure of disgust. He then asked the student one more time this time hissing menacingly. "What's your name?"

The student gulped in fear causing the small prick to bleed a bit further as it slid seeping down staining the inner white shirt that was underneath the black Academy jacket. "J-Josh Denevay." The boy stuttered in fear. Lucius then moved onto the boy.

Josh Denevay felt an emotion he hadn't felt in all his life. Was he scared? Ridiculous, these lowly Elevens couldn't put a scratch on them because he knew Zero ordered it. But who was this guy? He certainly didn't look the part of a Black Knight. But the man scared him to so much.

Lucius had his fun but it was time to prepare himself, this battle was ending but the next would be starting.

O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O

Lelouch sat in the Gawain his head propped up in his usual thinking position. He was waiting for Orange to launch an attack on him. Slightly below him was C.C bored as usual with a bland expression that plastered her face. "Lelouch you know you can't turn back now. Even if you win here as Minami said Britannian reinforcements are coming, not only that it's the Britannian Pacific Fleet and that's-"

"Commanded by Schneizel , I am well aware of that fact. However there was another piece of useful information. It will be the leverage to start a full scale war against Britannia."

"The Chinese Federation?" C.C asked.

"Indeed they will make excellent pawns." Lelouch said his amethyst eyes glinting. "Although I don't expect them to win they will weaken the Britannian Fleet."

C.C didn't know how far Lelouch intended for his revenge to go but this going beyond the realms of human achievement. But that's right he isn't human, he's her warlock. Well at least that's what C.C thought to herself.

The Gawains sensors suddenly blurted out. On the monitor the incoming Knight Giga Fortress was coming closer at an absurd pace. "Ahhhh." Lelouch breathed. "Welcome to your doom."
C.C rolled her eyes at Lelouch being his usual over dramatic self. She would occasionally get annoyed at him flaring all those dramatics. But it was Lelouch being Lelouch. "C.C up thirty five degrees to the right and then turn us around.

C.C complied with the order moving the Gawain up to avoid the large prototype weapon that came crashing down below in the spot where the Gawain was just a second ago. C.C completed the last order and turned the Gawain a hundred and eighty degrees to have a good look at the giant sphere hovering over the ocean.

C.C looked at it for a second, the orange gleam in the night over the murky grey ocean. Then her view was illuminated by the blaze of red and black where the Hadron Cannons were fired. Pouring down relentlessly Lelouch had his fingers still held on the triggers.

The Hadron Cannons were not actually inflicting damage but it pushed it down crashing into the water.
He then let go of the controls as the beams pierced the water causing water fly everywhere masking their presence.

Lelouch breathed out knowing that his target wasn't dead. He would give Orange a brutal battle to the death. The Gawain gracefully flew up into the sky making distance waiting for its challenger to air superiority.
Lelouch looked down at the ocean and C.C did the same. The water was grey not the rich deep blue that was described. It had always looked grey no matter how many times he looked at it, the churning of the waters, the howling of the wind and the unforgiving waves. Then from there it was!

The orange beast surfaced and burst the through the ocean flying straight towards the Gawain. The conical shaped harkens were fired all though most of them missed by flying off to the side orf C.C skillfully dodging them.

One had managed to latch on and with the repulsion system it pulled the Knight Giga Fortress towards its target.
Jeremiah Gottawald gleamed with joy at the mental image of his incoming target. His insane mind was only able to interpret the thought that Zero should be killed.

"Zero!" the mad knight shouted once more to be meet with silence as the blaring sound of the Hadrons Cannons erupted.
"Tch." Jeremiah groaned as he had to abandon this window of opportunity. He swerved off two the side and was forced to recall his conical shaped harken.

Flying straight up ahead he exposed his back to the Gawain.
Lelouch smiled. "Now C.C"

C.C just responded with a nod of the head as she fired the ten slash harkens that made up the ten fingers of the hand. It latched onto the back of the Fortress in a few seconds the Gawain was in physical contact with the Siegfried. The engines still fired healthily as it began to ruin the paint job of the Gawain on the cockpit block. AT such a point blank range even the Spinning Defense System nor the thick armour would be able to save Jeremiah from this blast.

With the wind blaring past the shoulder pads opened with a whir. Then it charged and in that moment it tore right through the Siegfried. The thrusters and right through the cockpit incinerating the systems and circuits that stood in its way.

Then C.C recalled the harkens and hovered gently back up to its position of air superiority. Lelouch watched through the beady, blood red eyes of the Gawain of the falling wreckage with small trailing smoke behind it as it crashed into the ocean.

A shower of water exploded as the large metal object collided and began to sink.
Lelouch smirked with great satisfaction. "Now that's how you take out the trash!" He joked to himself.
C.C without even bothering to say anything took the Gawain back to where it was most needed, the front lines.

O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O

Lucius gave up searching for his sister after he met with such disgust on his first trip around. He sat lazily around on a chair doing nothing observing Kallen since there was no one else around to joke with.
Kallen on the hand felt the piercing gaze of the Britannian. Whether it was mocking, sympathetic or joking she didn't like it one bit. She didn't know how she should feel towards him. Whether he should be treated as an ally or an enemy, the times had been changing rapidly.

If someone told that a rebellion was possible a year ago she would have laughed. Back then her focus was saving as many lives when they were outgunned and outnumbered, not winning.
It took a month for Britannia to invade Japan and now it's going to take Zero less than a year to reclaim.

Still she lazily wandered the Student Council Building going from room until she decided to settle down the Student Council Room.
Inside the Student Council members nervously sat either biting their fingernails or trying to find more info from the laptop.

The door opened and in came in the Experiment. He gazed where Kallen stood then turned his attention to the students who were being held hostage. He was surprised to a young girl, flowing brown hair, with blind eyes sat on a wheel chair. Lucius' face hardened, this wasn't the typical view of an oppressive Britannian.

The crippled girl spoke, she had a soft voice, one that shouldn't be in a war zone. "Is someone there?"
Blindness heightened the other senses of the human body as it was no longer reliant on sight. Nunally could feel the presence of someone she hadn't felt before. Kallen looked at the crippled girl with speaking a word. Before Milly could speak the newcomer spoke. "Yes there is, is there a problem?"

Rivalz face was panicking but he sat next to Nunally who remained calmed and collected. She obviously couldn't see what nationality the man was. That was what troubled Rivalz the most. "Are you Japanese?" the innocent girl asked.

Lucius approached the girl and got on his knees. "No I am not." He answered sternly.
Nunally not sure what to do asked for his hands and the man complied. She ran her own hands of the man's. He was wearing gloves but they had a burning presence about them, hatred was contained in them, in fact she felt it coursing through out his whole body just from his hands.
"Are you Britannian?" She asked.

Lucius not sure what say answered the question. He had never felt such a thing from a Britannian. Most of his experiences with them could really be summed as dominating and oppressive. But this girl was kind and hasn't been stained by reality. She was pure and he was baffled by it.

He simply answered the question posed to him. "That is my nationality, although I am ashamed of it, that is who I am."

"Why do you fight? I can't feel your hands with these gloves of yours on. Would you be kind enough to take it off."
However Lucius made his heart a dead weight. He stood up and said. "You are a pure and innocent lamb, it's best not to touch the hands of a Tyger."

He left the Council Room leaving Kallen to be alone with the Student Council members, seeing since she was a Black Knight and they came guns blazing holding them hostage she also left unable to speak the words she wanted to say to them.

Meanwhile Rivalz just sat there with his head in knackers. "This has to be the worst day of my life." He moaned. "Lelouch is missing, Zero is rebelling, Kallen is Black Knight and now a Britannian is also a part of the Black Knights. Could this day get any worse!?"

Milly just rolled her eyes at her friend as she too was frantic and Nunally sat there unable to comprehend human nature. She could feel it emanating from that man, that same feeling that her brother gave off he when he made when a Britannian did something terrible.

O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O

"Keep firing! Pin those rebels down! All we have to do is last until reinforcements arrive!" Lord Guildford shouted through the speaker as his Knightmare threw another Chaos Mine causing the enemy to abandon their positions and move to take further cover

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He was trying to keep morale up in what was left of Area 11's forces. He didn't who that was in that orange thing but whoever it was he was thankful for managing to take Zero with him ruining their command structure for the time being.

The main force that was defending the Bureau was now left to stay as the last resort as they defended the fortress from its inner walls. After they had hastily retreated from the destruction that the orange thing that had destroyed anything friend or foe alike.

However he and various other Britannian soldiers decided to stay down and fight the Elevens in their battleground. Using the rubble as cover they had managed move the position of units but the formation was still kept tight and the Black Knights had retreated back into the rubble.
At first the Black Knights had tried scaling the fortress walls but were quickly shot down by the turrets that spurred bullets out at the rate that mad man could talk.

But what Guildford noticed now was that the once constant blare of the Hadron Cannons was now silent and that the loud ear piercing launching of those large slash harkens was now quiet.
But that was in the distance here he was focused on the scene on the multitude of Black Knights that now took cover down below.

The Britannians were slowly fighting a losing battle with the only advantage that they had was the turrets which kept the Black Knights pinned down.

So the Britannians instead were given a hard time trying to assault the forces which unlike them had just had they energy fillers refueled. So the Black Knights could just mount a position and wait for the Britannian weapons to simply run out of energy and then advance on the Bureau.
However they only thing that stopped from doing that were the turrets that had been mounted all over the Bureau and sent an endless hail of bullets. However Guildford had to comment that their defence down below was no doubt strong considering that it was made of the Black Knight's elite while Tohdoh was left to command on the field at the very front.

Guildford along with only a few squadron of soldiers who were brave enough had taken to holding the flanking positions of the Bureau while they let the turrets deal the damage to the main force scaling the main wall. The majority of the Britannian force was then left to defend the Bureau from within or on top of the walls raining bullets down alongside the turrets while supporting those down below.

However over all the Britannian numbers were decreasing steadily with as the overwhelming force of the Black Knights even though pinned were still making kills.
Asahina was with Colonel Tohdoh who had immediately given the order not to scale the wall as numerous casualties had amounted as a result of what could be described as either pure bravery or downright insanity. From the far right came a familiar Gekka as it flew thought he hail storm of bullets expertly using manouveaurs and topping it off with a flying slash harken as it landed right in front of the cover that Tohdoh was using.

Quickly the Gekka was pulled forward to the landing position of the harken and quickly took cover behind the rubble.
The Black Knights were pinned down and were forced to fire bullets to suppress the enemy while the majority of them lay in the streets just before the Bureau Tohdoh and his Elite Four stood defiantly on the main field in the open space before the Government Bureau with Tohdoh giving out commands despite being in a dangerous spot.

With Urabe's arrival the Four Holy Swords were whole once again and sat by as the turrets fired a seemingly endless barrage of bullets that whirred over their Knightmares.
Tohdoh looked on his map and saw the number of Britannian forces flickering strong representing the nation they served as the super power that burned this world in a fury flames.

The Black Knights were no doubt superior in numbers and with Urabe now having returned after finishing up the energy filler depository where many soldiers had replenished the fuel source of the Knightmare frame.

Having Urabe meant that the Black Knights had one more superior fighter in this Battle for Japan.
"So you ready to catch some Britannian dogs?" Urabe said challenging Asahina.
Asahina smiled in his Knightmare frame. "I bet I can rack up more dogs than you"

Asahina cracked his knuckles and then grabbed the control sticks. "Really because the score so far has been 44 while you only have 32 while you've been away."

Their little competition was cut short by a crackle on the radio. "Enough with the games!"
It was the stern and powerful voice of Kyoshiro Tohdoh.
"Yes Colonel" The two of them replied on instinct.
"What are our options?" Tohdoh asked his two friends.

Urabe was the first to respond. "We can take the risk and assault the one from Narita who you battled with Tohdoh or we can make means to rejoin the main force."
"Right but the only problem with that is our main force is pinned down by those turrets but we can still make a stand. However it's those turrets that are posing the main threat, we can do anything with those in the way."

A thought had sprung to Asahina as he wiped his round rimmed glasses on his uniform in a pitiful attempt to clean them. "Colonel, how do you feel about me going on a suicide run?"
Tohdoh on the other side of the radio was intrigued. "What do you have in mind?"

After a few hours of a seemingly endless hail of bullets that the turrets brought they eventually ran out of bullets and would have had to be reloaded.
The battlefield was then engulfed in silence since majority of shots that had been fired all came from the likes of the turrets that were attached to the Bureau and had popped out.

The eerie silence of the battlefield was accompanied by the croaking the wind but for the Black Knights these precious seconds were to be the deciding factor of this battle. Win or lose.
Immediately from behind the cover of buildings Asahina sprung accelerating at full force approaching the dominating wall that stood before him.

With a quick burst of the slash harken firing piercing the upper section of the wall. With that leverage he propelled the knightmare frame up launching into the air as he recalled the harken.
As he was above the scaled wall Asahina in that split moment looked at the large scale tower that stood as the symbol of Britannia's superiority over Japan that even at the height he was at over the wall still stood high up.

Then he fired the harken once more gripping the top of the tower making it seem like he was hanging off the tower like he was once a harness.
Sitting tense in his pilot seat as he performed death defying stunts which didn't help seeing since the Britannians that were defending the Bureau within had seen him and began firing at him.

The Black Knight knew that this would happen but he couldn't help but curse at them for making his job harder than it already was. This was no doubt an experience he would never forget and one that would be branded into the legacy of the Black Knights.

Asahina with almost squeamish glee assaulted the turrets hanging from the peak of the tower. Slashing and hacking at them as he used the mass of his knightmare frame to move fast. There was no need for a full three-sixty assault of the tower considering the tower where the turrets were located only occupied the three sides with a majority being located on the front.
From his hanging post Asahina quickly eliminated the turrets on the complementary sides leaving on the front as damaged his last assault area left.

Swinging like a pendulum in the course of a few more seconds he had slaughtered the turrets with his chainsaw blade as he let go the harken rearing it up in the air as it came back down into the Knightmare's breast plate.
As gravity worked its magic and he fell his timing was right seeing since none of the turrets had been reloaded. From his angle of descent he would have landed back over the wall where the Black Knights resided.

Many of them watched this action that simply defied physics while Kyoshiro Tohdoh sat rigid in his seat acutely aware of his surroundings other than the fact he was fixated on his subordinate that had performed a feat like no other.
He breathed a sigh of relief until he looked at the bottom of the tower that was above the wall that everyone could see.

There was still one turret left and Asahina was facing the tower. It was like some Hollywood action movie played in slow motion. The left arm of the Gekka was slowing being pushed to face down towards the turret. All it would take once the push of one button and the Britannians last line of defence would be over.

But a battle doesn't always go according to plan. In that instant the limp turret snapped back up in an instant with its sight set on Asahina. It would kill the Elite Four before he could fire a shot. "Fuck!" Asahina cursed his fate. Is this how it was going to end? With his goal just within reach. All the blood, sweat and tears would all got o waster, how many men did he watch perish at the hands of Brittanians?

Was it his turn now?
The resounding sound of his heart drumming resonated throughout his head. It was in that instant he accepted his fate and closed his eyes.

In that moment a familiar loud blare was heard by all and the turret was engulfed in thick, hazardous black and red streams. As time sped back up he fell down back to earth softening his blow by firing his harken at the wall.

The end result was like a yoyo that when it reached the end of its length instantly stopping, snapping with a loud crack as Asahina lowered himself down as the battlefield stopped for a moment.

All was dead silent before his might. The Gawain had made its return to the battlefield hovering over like a menace. The legs together while the arms spread out together like an eagle and its demonic red eyes glinting the fire of the night. The Hadron Cannons were still open fresh from reigning terror down.

Lelouch in the cockpit knew victory was at hand and he no doubt impressed by the skills of Asahina. That kind of stunt was something he would have expected from Kallen but never in his right mind would he have thought that the disciplined Four Houly Swords could ever be that outrageous.

Not matter what the risk was the deed had been done and had been done incredibly with only a partially damaged Knightmare frame considering that he had been the focus of the Brittannians fire and made it out alive.
Still he was impressed no doubt and Lelouch thought he better give someone a reward for that kind of victory.

However there was once last task left at hand to be clear. Picking up the radio Lelouch made a quick call to Diethard Reid. "It will be your time to shine. Has everything been arranged?"
The enthusiastic boom came from the Britannian. "Indeed she came just you had planned. All that's left is your signal to go."
"Approved." Lelouch said. "You will know when to carry out your order considering your knowledge of dramatic flair."
The Britannian laughed. "Very well then, it's in your hands now."
Smiling Lelouch said. "As it always has been."
Ending the call Lelouch prepared the one last key to his victory. He changed his radio frequency so that his voice could be heard on all and that Diethard could strike pure terror into the hearts of others for him.

It seemed an eternity as Britannians and Japanese alike gazed, fixated at the Gawain waiting for it would do next. The first thing that Zero said was something that they didn't expect. "All Black Knights ceasefire."

Mutters chattered across the radio as the Japanese pondered at why their leader would be withdrawing at the most crucial moment when victory was right in their hands.

"And to your my Britannians I will have your unconditional surrender. You are surrounded and your last line of defence has been crippled. You're just an open wound waiting to be struck. However if you surrender I will personally guarantee your humane treatment. I am not barbaric like you people are. However if you do not surrender…" This was the climax and Lelouch grinned contorting his face that resembled something of a demon's.

This was queue for Diethard to use his Omega Line. Despite being cut off internationally the Black Knights had control over national stations.
So Zero broadcasted something had never been seen before. Royalty defeated at the hands of the enemy. Cornelia Li Brittania lay on her knees. Her arms tied behind her back. Also she had been treated humanely as her injuries had been treated.

But that didn't matter. She had fallen from grace, The Chief General of the Imperial Army. A figure that had won many successful campaigns had lost against the likes of weekend warriors commanded by a masked lunatic.
This image was broadcasted all over Japan. For the Britannians this was outrage to desecrate a royal like that. But for the Japanese this a victory like no other.

Lelouch couldn't help but give a small laugh at imagining the reactions of Britannians alike.
"Princess Cornelia Li Britannia, Second Princess of the Holy Britannian Empire, the Goddess of Victory and the Chief General of the Imperial Army has been defeated at my hands." Lelouch paused allowing for the dramatic effect.

"I assure you that if you do not surrender within the next sixty seconds her live execution will imminent."


A/N: I didn't spell the word Tiger wrong, I referenced a particular piece of Literature.
So how was it?
I feel that it was the best chapter I've written so far, in fact that's how I feel after I finish writing a chapter in general.

Also note that in the next one or two chapters the Black Rebellion will be over.

Anyways R&R while I do have a plan to where this story is going any ideas will be greatly appreciated with a shout out for your idea.