Disclaimer: I do not own or have any part with the anime series, Code Geass.
A/N: Sorry for the delay for this chapter. Here is the second part. This may not be one of my best chapters but I did try to make it work.
Unexpected Followers Part 2
Lelouch was in awe when he was approached by four Knights of the Round. He feared that since they heard from his late father that he was Zero, his plans would be ruined before they even began. But again, he was in awe because they mentioned of having no intention of arresting him.
"Please come with us," the green haired knight requested, "we have much to discuss."
"Why?" Lelouch said, "What makes you think that I would go anywhere with four Knights of the Round?"
The black haired knight rubbed the back of his hair, "Well, I guess you have a point."
"Besides," Lelouch continued, "I've had enough of being led to a false sense of security."
"It's okay," the platinum haired female knight said, "at the least, shall we sit down and talk. The three of us would like to talk of old time."
"No thanks," Lelouch replied, "listen, we don't know what your game is but-"
"Do you remember this?" The green short knight asked as he and the other three performed a certain hand signal performance while the bespectacled female knight pushed her glasses up and sighed.
When Lelouch saw them perform the very difficult hand signal performance, he was silenced as his eyes widened and his mouth was left open.
"Does that ring a bell Lelouch?" The black haired asked.
"Those hands signal performance, I taught those to three kids who would always visit me and my sister at the Aries…Villa…" Lelouch began to trail off and it had finally hit him. He looked at the three knights who were had hope in their eyes for to have Lelouch to finally recognize them. Lelouch started looking at the Knight of Round with a black cloak who had short green hair, violet eyes and had a small muscular build.
"You're Carter Gregan," Lelouch said to the green haired knight.
"That's right," Carter said with a smile.
Lelouch looked over to the next Knight of Round who had a black buzz cut hair, blue eyes, and a muscular build who wore a dark red cloak.
"Jason, you're Jason Mardock," Lelouch said to the black haired knight.
"Yeah, so you finally remember," Jason said with a grin on his face.
Lelouch looked over to the Knight of Round who had long dark platinum hair tied to a ponytail, crimson eyes, and a marigold cloak with a vulopotious figure.
Lelouch blushed, "Sarah, you're Sarah Allerston."
Sarah glomped Lelouch as he said her name, "Yes, you finally remember Lulu!"
"Yeah, this is Sarah all right," Lelouch said in his head smiling, "She hasn't changed a bit."
"Um, excuse me," the bespectacled knight spoke.
Lelouch looked over to her, "I'm sorry but I still don't recognize you."
"That because this the first time we've met."
Lelouch released himself from Sarah and looked over the knight that had long dark green hair, dark gray eyes, glasses, and an average figure that wore a light gray cloak with her Knight of Round uniform.
"I'm the Knight of Eleven, my name is Natalie Einstein," the bespectacled knight introduced herself and bow to Lelouch.
"Einstein?" Lelouch asked in shock, "Would you happen to be related to Nina Einstein?"
Natalie grunted when she heard that name, "My older sister by one year."
"I see…" Lelouch muttered.
"Lelouch, now that you recognize the three of us, shall we go somewhere private?" Carter asked, "We want to know what's been going on with you."
"Though we are Knights of the Round, we had no true loyalty to your father," Jason said, "it may be hard to believe but it's the truth."
"Please Lulu," Sarah pleaded," give us a chance to prove to that to you. Something tells us you went through a lot of terrible ordeals."
Lelouch decided that maybe it would be a good idea to converse with them. He just hope he wasn't mistaken again as he had had enough of being made a fool of.
Lelouch felt content, "I'll take you up on your offer, let's go somewhere private."
"Are you sure my lord?" Jeremiah asked.
"Don't worry Jeremiah," CC assured, "It will be fine."
Jeremiah had a confused look on his face.
"Jeremiah, it's just as CC said," Lelouch said, "besides, I just remember three of them just now." Lelouch was smiling.
"Thank goodness that you remember us Lulu," the platinum haired female knight said with glee.
"Sorry for not recognizing you three right away Sarah," Lelouch said with a smile, "it's good to see you both again as well Carter and Jason."
Carter and Jason nodded.
"You finally recognized us," Carter said, "that's good. Now, how about we go somewhere private, you know, just to catch up."
"Sure," Lelouch answered, "CC, Jeremiah, let's go."
"Uh, sure," Jeremiah uttered, "I hope it will be okay."
They all walked in the city being very cautious. They soon head in to a manor.
"This is my manor," Sarah said.
"I see," Lelouch muttered as the group went inside Sarah's manor.
Jeremiah was still on his guard, wanting to make sure that it wasn't a trap set up by his lord's enemies while CC just relax and let the situation flow. Everyone got comfortable in Sarah's manor and the four Knights of the Round starting explaining about what they been doing. They told Lelouch of their rank as Knights of the Round; Carter as the Knight of Two, Jason as the Knight of Five, and Sarah as the Knight of Eight. They've explained about what they done after Lelouch and Nunnally's mother was supposedly assassinated as in joining the military seven years afterwards, proving their worth and working their way to become Knights of the Round. They also explained that they never stopped trying to figure out the truth of Marianne's 'death' but found themselves being sent off to dangerous assignments.
"I see," Lelouch said, "it sounds like you like you three were on that man's bad side when you were snooping around and he was looking for ways to get rid of you indirectly."
"That right," Carter said, "it never sat well with us that the investigation of your mother's death was just cut off. We've always suspected that there was more going on and it was all just a huge cover up."
Lelouch looks over to Natalie, "What about you Natalie? How do you fit with this as well?"
"Right," Natalie responded, "I'm guessing you never knew that Nina had a sister even though you were one of her classmates at Ashford Academy."
"Yes, she never really talked about herself and her family."
"I figured as much, although, I heard about the way my sister's been acting and that it was her who created the warhead that was used against you and the Black Knights."
Lelouch nodded.
Natalie continued, "Well as for me, well, I was in the Geass Order."
"The Geass Order?" Lelouch asked in shock. This surprised CC and Jeremiah as well.
"Yes, even though I'm a Knight of the Round, not many people knew about my ranking, even among the other Knights of the Round with Bismarck being the exception and my family didn't know what I was doing considering that they cut me out of their lives."
"It must have been hard for you," Jeremiah said.
"Well, it didn't really matter to me. Anyways, my encounter regarding the power of geass was when I stumbled on one of the thought elevators in Area Eighteen or what it used to be called the Middle Eastern Federation and looked over the records from the Office of Secret Intelligence. I did some research on it and trying to figure it out. But soon, I found myself way in over my head and I was caught and taken in lab. It was there that I met VV and he told me a lot of things regarding geass, codes, the thought elevators and the Ragnarok Connection with the plan to kill god."
"I'm surprised," Jeremiah said, "why would VV tell you all these things?"
"Well, the thing is that by the order of Emperor Charles, I was not allowed to leave and was ordered to assist VV and the Geass Order. I don't know exactly why when I thought that they would have killed me for sticking their noses into their business."
"So in other words, you were more of a prisoner than a knight of Britannia," Lelouch said.
"Exactly but that changed when the Geass Order was attacked. After for some time, I got together with Carter, Jason, and Sarah and we discussed the things that was going about Charles's intent and we decided that we wanted to join you and help you defeat your father, at least that's we planned to but…"
"That all changed when we heard of your 'death' as Zero," Jason said.
"I see," Lelouch said.
"So Lulu, could you tell us what has happened?" Sarah asked.
"We have a good idea what happened when you first made your appearance," Carter said, "Could you tell us what happened when you made your return and so on?"
"Right, we'll here's what happened…" Lelouch said.
Lelouch began telling them about the events from his return as Zero all the way up to his confrontation against his parents and his intent to become the next emperor.
"I see, so that's what been going on," Carter said.
"That's right," Lelouch replied.
"Nunnally, she's really gone, isn't she?" Sarah said saddened about hearing Nunnally's fate.
"Yes and it's my fault for letting my anger for Suzaku cloud my judgment."
"But that's understandable that you didn't trust that Kururugi bastard," Natalie spoke immediately, "considering what he has done, you had no reason to believe anything he had to say."
"But still…" Lelouch shook his head, "at any rate, I intend to become emperor."
"Can you tell us why?" Jason asked.
"Yeah, it's just that it's surprising that you would want to become emperor considering you had denounced Britannia in the past," Carter said.
"Yes, but that was before I began to look at the big picture," Lelouch said, "when I confronted my parents at C's World and their intent, I realized that Britannia became the way it is because of my father and his own personally policies. It should have been obvious to me."
Lelouch continued to explain his plan to become the next emperor and what future he had for Britannia. After hearing all of it, the four Knights of the Round looked at each other and nodded.
Sarah spoke, "Lulu, will you please allow us to help you with your goals?"
"Sarah," Lelouch spoke.
"If you truly desire to change Britannia like you said, then we'd like to contribute on making it happen," Carter said.
"What do you say?" Natalie asked, "After all, you're going to go up against those who would refuse you and rebel."
"I'm already aware of that," Lelouch pointed out.
"We know but we're just saying it would help if you had all the support that you can get," Jason said.
"Also, we do know some people who would be willing to support you," Sarah said, "we can also explain things to people and get more followers so that by the time you make your emperor, you won't have too much trouble against your opponents."
"So how about it, Lelouch?" Carter asked being hopeful.
Lelouch thought about as he looked at CC and Jeremiah. Jeremiah was still unsure but he thought about it and seemed like he was willing to go along with it since it was becoming evident that they had no love for the late Emperor Charles or for Marianne for that matter. CC shrugged and nodded at the motion.
"The more help, the better," CC commented.
"Hmm, that is true," Jeremiah commented.
Lelouch thought a little more and then nodded, "All right, if you truly desire to help me, then I would happy to have your assistance."
The four Knights of the Round were very pleased. Jason and Carter knocked fists, Natalie was smiling happily, and Sarah went and gave Lelouch a hug.
"Lelouch, you won't regret this," Natalie said happily.
"Well to start, where can we find people that will help Lelouch?" CC asked.
"Right, we'll take you to them," Carter said.
Sarah released Lelouch and he, Jeremiah, and CC got up.
Lelouch thought about all of what just happened. He never expected to see three friends of his from his time as a prince nor did he expect to meet the sister of one of his classmates from Ashford Academy. On one hand, he hoped he hadn't made a mistake in trusting them, seeing that he had not seen them for years and the fact they are Knights of the Round, on the other hand, they did seem sincere about helping him with his goal. In that case, his rise of becoming the next emperor will make it a little easier for him. For now, he would see where it would take him.
That is it for this chapter. On the next chapter, a month has pass and Lelouch becomes the 99th Emperor of Britannia.
