Much to my honest surprise the poll ended in a tie, between Kallen and C.C., considering I had offered hetero pairings I didn't expect you lot to wanna keep this femslash but hey, to each their own. Since I really didn't want this to turn into a polygamist relationship for Luluka (Thats her fathers thing and the less she emulates him the better off she feels) we're going to play it by ear and have Lulu flirt with both and when the time comes we'll...hell I dunno, flip a coin? Or more likely have another vote, right rambling, moving on.

I know I said there would be flashbacks but I decided against it at least for the time being, I've never been fond of them therefore and thusly have no real experience at it, so enjoy the buildup next chapter is going to be nothing but boom, lots and lots and lots of boom.

Oh, and if someone wants to volunteer to beta this lemme know, my good friend is willing to read over this looking for glaring plot holes like he did for 'Let Me Share the Burden' but he really doesn't have the time to go over it with a fine tooth comb.

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Since Inoue and Tamaki lived in the outskirts of the Tokyo ghettos like the majority of the Black Knights Luluka was well aware that they'd take some time to respond to her summons. Concurrently she'd sent Naoto and Ohgi out with as many of their people as they could muster to strip Argyle's warehouses clean, the Princess in exile couldn't keep the affectionate smirk off her face as Kallen and Suzaku ogled the constantinly updating list of supplies they'd acquired.

"Knightmare sniper rifles, anti-air missile pods, energy fillers, processed sakuradite, more small arms than we can reasonably ever use, hey sis you got your wish spare parts for Sutherlands and Gloucasters as well as a dozen complete Glasgows. Huh they were all configured for the Knightpolice so they're equipped with pistols and knives, never tried those before," Suzaku stated as he stared down at the tablet computer. Kallen leaned back in her chair as she threw her two pence in,

"If we get a hold of Kaguya I'm sure she can pull some strings to have them upgraded into Burais, I know you aren't fond of them but extra armor and cockpit overhauls never hurt," Luluka nodded slowly at the suggestion while she tapped her lips with her index fingers before replying.

"Yes that's an idea considering the new recruits handle them better anyway, they're lighter and more agile than Sutherlands and replacement parts are easy enough to get from Kyōto House," the Princess grimaced as she dropped her head in annoyance as another thought struck her. "Although I'll let you handle the call since Kaguya seems to be intent on trying to get herself betrothed to me," she said the last bit with an eye roll that earned her a snort from her two friends. Honestly as if it hadn't been exasperating enough to deal with the bubbly young heiresses infatuation with Zero as Lelouch, the fact that she was pursuing his female persona was just further proof fate liked to mess with her head. Suzaku twirled a pen between his fingers still reading from the tablet as he glanced over the device to mask his smirk,

"Yeah who'd have guessed my little cousin was willing to swing that way just to be with 'The Great Zero', I mean your proclivities aside she doesn't even know you'd actually consider it," he needled his sister playfully. Kallen snickered at that as the Princess shot them both a withering glare.

"Bloody hell Suzu shes thirteen for crying out loud, and the last thing I want is to attach myself to a fangirl who hasn't even seen me out of my armor! Really it wouldn't be so bad if you'd stop encouraging her," Suzaku shrugged looking anything but apologetic,

"What can I say I need to get my laughs in somehow, plus I know you'd never take her up on it, if Kyōto had even the vaguest ideas that you're less of an idealist freedom fighter and more of a vengeful sociopath well..." Luluka scowled at that as she spun her office chair around stopping when she faced her brother.

"Hey thanks to Kirihara they already know I'm Britannian and female, if they're supporting us now what makes you think they'll back out if they get the entire story?" Kallen gave her friend a disbelieving look as she casually snatched the tablet from Suzaku who shot her a quick glare in return,

"Uh you're a Britannian Princess hell bent on burning your home countries nobility to the ground, unless they get your reasons behind it they'll think you're using them as a means to claim the throne. Which lets be honest here you're going to have to do regardless if we manage to pull this off." Luluka's expression turned sour at that as she deflated a bit,

"Yeah...there's that too," honestly the necessity of hiding her true status as a princess hadn't been a difficult thing to accept, while the Black Knights as a whole were aware that she was a Britannian woman they looked past that since she was a strategic genius and their chief financer. That being said It wouldn't be hard to imagine they'd all likely turn on her in an instant if they knew she was royalty, that little facet was known only to her inner circle, Lelouch had learned his lesson well on that front; don't hide everything from everyone, rather most of it from the majority.

Deciding it best to just change the subject Luluka was saved further argument when the door banged open announcing the arrival of two Black Knights with rather colorful skill sets. Shinichirō Tamaki and Naomi Inoue were two of Lelouch's biggest blunders the first time around, mostly because he'd never bothered assessing what they were actually good at and simply shoved them where he needed them.

Apparently Naomi had worked as a teacher at the same highschool Ohgi taught at, her background in chemistry had made her an asset to Luluka's earlier acts of terrorism and the blue haired woman had yet to fail coming up with delightfully innovative methods of destruction. Tamaki had been the shocker, while he'd been an absolutely horrid pilot and administrator despite his desire to be a bureaucrat it ended up he was a skilled tinkerer and was mechanically inclined thanks to working in his dads machine shop most of his teenage years.

While they didn't really like each other that much ("Goddamnit Tamaki" was the blue haired woman's personal mantra after all) they managed to weave together creative forms of property damage that would have Lelouch nodding in approval. The grin that spread across the Princess's face at the pairs entrance caused Suzaku and Kallen to exchange concerned looks while simultaneously exciting the new arrivals, Zero wanted boom, and everyone loved boom.

After outlining what she wanted from her resident mad bombers and the time frame she had to work with Luluka exited the office to make her daily sojourn through the academy above to play up her innocent schoolgirl act; if there was one thing the aristocracy had taught Lelouch it was that appearances meant everything and it was best to present ones self as harmless. Before she could reach the lifts she noticed Sayoko standing to the side gesturing towards the Princess, smiling fondly at the protective assassin she quickly followed her into a small office. Closing the door behind her Sayoko gave Luluka a brief bow and a smile,

"Your Highness, Jeremiah would like a word with you if you would be willing to wait a few moments?" Nodding as she fell into one of the offices uncomfortable folding chairs usually reserved for screening new recruits Luluka kicked her legs up on the desk making sure to cross them in a ladylike fashion. That had been one of Lelouch's earlier blunders in this new life, outside of the new social queues was the obvious attempts at modesty and decorum, eventually she'd given up on it largely and just emulated Cornelia, it made life easier for all those involved.

"Sure thing Sayoko, you can take a seat if you want I sincerely doubt anyone is going to take a shot at me in here," the faux maid persona slipped a bit as the Japanese woman's gaze hardened and the skin around her eyes tightened.

"When you are most at ease is when you should be most on guard Your Highness," her tone was mildly reproachful and Luluka couldn't but help smiling sheepishly feeling as if she'd just been chided as a child. She paused at that thought, taking into account Sayoko's skill set and mothering nature towards her charge that comparison was probably more apt then not; before she could really delve into the thoughts of parental proxies the door opposite from the one she entered opened slowly.

Jeremiah Gottwald entered the office with a confidant spring to his step, her Knight of Honor was wearing a pair of black slacks and a tucked in white dress shirt that was offset by the heavy black combat boots that clicked on the tiled floor. Stopping before Luluka he threw his right hand to his heart and bowed lightly.

"Hail Your Highness, I wish to discuss some of which I discovered from Argyle," Luluka resisted the urge to roll her eyes as she huffed and hopped out of her seat, walking forward she gave the knight a hug and a light smack on his head earning herself a chagrined smile from the bluenette.

"Jerry for the crying out loud how many times have I told you to ditch the formalities? Anyway whats up I take it there is more to your discoveries than military hardware?" Smirking a bit and silently feeling a bit smug being sworn to such an endearing Princess he quickly nodded while pulling a file off the desk and handing it to the violet eyed young woman.

"Just about every day Your Highness, and yes I did, as you no doubt will recall when you first recruited me upon my transfer to Area Eleven you gave me a blanket order to keep an eye out for odd medical equipment purchases. MRI machines, genetic analyzers, cryostorage units, so on and so forth." Perking up and now very interested Luluka nodded quickly while urging him to continue with a wave of her hand, "Well, it would appear that Prince Clovis has been using third parties to purchase high end machines typically reserved for gene sequencing and computers that the Camelot corps would consider excessively over powered. Argyle being the paranoid man he was had the proxy followed and noted the facilities location, he had it saved on his phone along with all the warehouses we're currently plundering."

Luluka's grin took over her entire face as she charged Jeremiah and jumped into the startled knights arms, grunting he grabbed onto her as she wrapped her arms around his neck as she kissed his forhead before letting him go dropping to her feet. Turning away from the blushing knight she began cackling to herself as she walked towards Sayoko,

"Hehehe...Jerry, you and Sayoko get the rest of the week off, when you're not playing your part at the palace I want you two to go enjoy yourselves, as soon as you're done I want you to look through our knights dossiers and find those that are best suited for infiltrating a hardened facility and exfiltrating with precious cargo, I gotta go walk this off I'll talk to you later, and good work my knight!" With that she walked through the door slamming it behind her, the bemused ninja turned to her slightly confused boyfriend as she quipped,

"I do believe the Mistress is pleased with out efforts, do you not?" Snorting while slicking his hair back the tall man offered his arm to Sayoko while jerking his head towards the door he'd exited,

"Indeed, well then lets drag Argyle to the river and put a round in his head, we'll catch up on our sleep and tonight I'll take you out to that Italian restaurant you like and we'll even hit the ballet if we can get tickets," smirking Sayoko took his arm and let him lead her onward,

"My hero."

Luluka tried to keep the manic grin off her face and succeeded to a certain extent, but she couldn't keep the mad spark from her violet eyes, it'd taken six years, a massive amount of resources, and an innumerable amount of dead Brits, but she'd finally gotten a lead on what she needed most to succeed in her plans. Entering the lift she took a deep breath as she waited for the door to close, after hitting the up button and felt the jolt of the lifts movement she finally let her mirth boil over,

"HAHAHAHA! I found you! I finally found you witch! Now...now it's time for the games to truly begin..."

August 22, 2016

Foundation Day was quite possibly the closest thing to a 'Holy Day' that the Holy Empire of Britannia ever actually endorsed, the part of Luluka that was truly proud of her heritage before her father had mucked everything up held it in the some reverence as her countrymen and for good reason. The Empire of France led by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had somehow managed to assassinate Admiral Nelson shortly before the decisive Battle of Trafalgar leaving an inexperienced second in charge leading to Great Britain's greatest and most costly navel defeat in her grand history. The bloody French invaded the Empire Proper less than a week after the defeat of her Majesties Navy...than...than everything went to hell.

The invasion force split into three prongs, the southern most army invaded Canterbury and the northernmost hit Newcastle, the central force landed just south of Hull, that army marched inland and soon besieged York; the defenders held fast but the French had no issues burning the city to the ground and slaughtering every man woman and child loyal to Queen and Country. Canterbury fell in short order and soon began the march towards London as the French navy fought its way up the River Thames, all that can be said in Britain's favor was that London did not fall quietly into the night; her Royal Majesties surviving naval forces chocked the water of their falling Empires capital with the blood and bloated bodies of the invaders and held the line allowing as many civilians to escape as possible.

It was not enough, it was never enough, soon after the capital fell to the torch and Queen Elizabeth was spirited off to Edinburgh roving parties of Napoleon's grand army burned their way across England, Wales, Scotland, and soon Ireland. Cornered the deposed Queen signed the "Treaty" of Edinburgh, and those that had survived the genocide perpetuated by the French fled to the colonies across the sea, Napoleon feeling himself a benevolent dictator allowed the survivors to flee to languish in their dishonored defeat, he would not live long enough to realize his folly. It is not wise to so insult the British and expect them to accept what had befallen them, hundreds of ships brought the broken remnants of the once grand Empire to the shores of the Americas bellowing songs of vengeance for the honored fallen.

Upon her death bed the Queen declared her long time friend and lover Ricardo Von Britannia her successor and once her funeral was over with the enraged Knight declared himself the First Emperor of Britannia on August 22, 1867 and so began the birth of the greatest Imperium the race of man had ever witnessed.

"Too bad it all culminated in my bastard father," Luluka reflected in a tired tone, truly when she looked at her nations roots she couldn't but help feel an attachment and a vile sense of satisfaction at the conquest and chaos Britannia had sown in the name of vengeance, a dark scream against the world at large. If Charles had actually wanted to avenge the fallen, if he'd honestly wished to retake the mother isles Lelouch and his more feminine incarnation would have followed him to the gates of hell itself for the chance to reclaim what was rightfully theirs. That was not the case though, no her father wanted to "Kill God" and nothing more, what a self serving idiotic desire, as if one arrogant man and his lackeys could possibly take down the collective unconsciousness of mankind. Grinning evilly she slid the heavy helmet over her head and clasped it against her armored suits hermetic seals.

Letting her cape flow behind her she approached her custom Gloucester, the dark violet and silver machine crouched low as its white and black trimmed cape draped over its shoulders covering the hip holstered pistols and wrist mounted slash harkens; grabbing the ascension winch she rode it up to the cockpit and soon strapped herself in. Booting the machine up Luluka grabbed an autorifle and slapped it to the frames rear mag lock, scooping up a large golden lance in the Gloucester's right hand and another rifle in its left she popped her factsphere open scanning the red and orange machine to her left and the white and gold to her right smirking darkly,

"Kali, Suzu, ready to make some noise?" The snickering from her wingmen was all the confirmation she needed, "Operation is go, it's time for the Royal family to be reminded what the net result of their precious Darwinism is..."

If you want to know what the new Zero armor resembles do a google search for "The Lady Revan by Zolapaulse" and the first link should be their deviantart page; last time Lelouch was shooting for mocking the aristocracy, Luluka is more than content to just scare the shit out of them.

As an aside I'm trying to put a mild emphasis on the fact that Lulu isn't quite all there, not that Lelouch was the poster child for mental stability or anything so I hope you guys enjoy it.