A/N: So people this is chapter 4 and I consider it to be the first chapter I actually write since the past three were mostly from the anime so I hope you like it.

Also I would like to thank all of you for the reviews and follows.

Word guide:

"Speech"

'Thoughts or speech inside speech'

Screaming, shouting, or talking angrily

(scene change)

Stressed out words or sarcastically said words

Disclaimer: code Geass and its characters belong to their rightful owners.

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Chapter4: Preparations

(Guren's Cockpit)

Kallen sat alone into the powered off Guren after listening to the conversation between the boy and Lelouch through the bug and she still couldn't believe what she had heard.

Not only had Lelouch been doing all this to bring a better future to this world but he had also lied to her about what he said back at the Ikaruga incident to save her when he actually loved her.

Kallen was abruptly snapped out of her daze when she felt vibration from the lone device in her pocket. She reached to check the callers ID only to find it the number the boy had used to contact her with earlier that day.

She flipped the phone open and answered the call "Hello"

"So were you listening?" asked the boy from the other side of the line in a serious but quite pleased tone.

"Yes, I now know everything. Thanks to you" replied Kallen

"So what will you do now that you know the truth if you don't mind my asking?"

"Actually I do good bye then, and thanks"

"Anytime dear " said the boy from the other side of the line as the call ended.

'What will I do huh?' thought Kallen as she placed the phone back in her pocket. 'I now know the truth, and it is everything I had hoped for but still it doesn't solve my problems; should I join Lelouch and help him, but then what about the Black Knights, what about Japan?'

Suddenly she heard a growl from her stomach to remind her that she didn't have anything to eat ever since the morning, since Lelouch executed his plan to be precise. With that in mind she decided to have something to eat before any further thinking, after all you can't think well with an empty stomach, right?.

She quickly opened her cockpit hatch and descended to the Ikaruga's hanger. It would seem that the Black Knights have retrieved her and her Guren and her squadron of Akatsukies while she was spying on a certain emperor, no now that she took a closer look it would seem they have withdrawn all their forces deployed in Japan back to the Hanger.

Another growl from her empty stomach snapped her out of her musing and reminded her of her objective. She decided that she would think about it later, launch comes first, or is it dinner already.

After a few seconds of walking she finally reached the cafeteria to find Kento the one on duty. The Japanese blue head was the best cook in the early days of the Black Knights and it would seem that he still retained the job even after joining the inner circle, back then C.C would enslave the poor guy for pizzas, speaking of which she could really use a pizza right now.

She approached the counter "hello"

The young cook turned over to her and his expression suddenly changed to a very joyful and happy one "Kallen, hi there, where have you been all day? Ohgi and Minami turned this ship upside down looking for you"

"Oh yeah? I am sorry I overslept in the Guren cockpit, I was so tired since yesterday because of all the preparations" it wasn't a total lie since she had really been in the Guren's cockpit listening in on a certain someone but that last part they didn't need to know, who knew how the Black Knights would react to the truth. They never really trusted Zero ever since the beginning of the second revolution.

"That aside could you bake me a pizza please? Like the ones you used to bake for C.C, she would never stop talking about how good your pizzas were and I really haven't had anything ever since the morning" asked the Kallen remembering why she was here in the first place.

"Yeah sure"

After five minutes of waiting Kallen's pizza was finally ready Kento placed it and sat on the opposing side of her while she had her meal.

"So what happened while I was gone?" asked Kallen trying to start a conversation and also know what she missed.

The man stayed still and hesitant for a moment before he replied "well there has been a few changes, which was the reason Ohgi and Minami were looking for you actually" said the blue head very nervously.

"Oh, what kind of changes?" asked Kallen curious about what changes would get him to be this nervous.

"I don't think it's my place to tell you"

"Oh….. okay" now she was very curious, what could have happened while she was gone. Seeing that she had finished her pizza she decided to leave and find out for herself but not before thanking the young man for the meal.

She left the cafeteria and made her way to the bridge to find Ohgi before a lone voice called her "Kallen" it was a very cheerful and annoying voice, a voice too familiar and one she had hoped would never hear again save for the battlefield where it would be begging for mercy, it was the Knight that always bothered her during her captivity, it was Gino Wienburg the knight of three.

She turned around to meet the person hoping that she just made a mistake and that it was just some random Black Knight officer but unfortunately luck wasn't on her side today, it was exactly who she thought it was; Gino aboard the Ikaruga? And surprisingly he was with Minami who didn't seem to be escorting him to a prison cell but showing him around!

"Hey there how have you been doing? Haven't seen you for some time now" said the blonde knight too excited and ignorant to the fact that Kallen was barely suppressing a killing urge to strangle him.

"What is he doing here?" all but snarled Kallen at Minami

"Nice to know that you cared so much" said Gino mockingly

"What is he doing here?" asked Kallen again more furiously and ignoring Gino's remark

But before Minami had any chance to answer the blonde did "what, haven't you heard? The Black Knights agreed to join prince Schniezel if he was going to kill Lelouch"

"WHAT!" shouted Kallen in disbelieve

"Yes that's right, since prince Schniezel and Princess Cornelia seem to be opposing Lelouch as they were the ones behind Pendragon city's destruction the Black Knights have decided to join forces with them. Ohgi and I were looking for you earlier to inform you about that" affirmed Minami

"What… but how.. why" stuttered Kallen before storming off to the bridge where she was originally headed, there she would get her answers no doubt.

She reached for the panel and opened the door, she entered the room and it was exactly the same Ohgi and Villeta in at the top with Xingke and Todou where they can monitor and command, Rakshata laying on a couch lazily with her pipe and some other Black Knights operating the Ikaruga.

She approached Ohgi and the two commanders to ask about what she heard.

"Kallen where have you been? We have been looking for you" said Ohgi clearly delighted.

"Yeah so I've heard that aside what is this is about joining forces with prince Schniezel"

"What about it? He is opposing Lelouch and we can no longer act according to the UFN since it is now under the control of Lelouch so we broke off it and joined prince Schniezel"

"So it's true we're joining forces with a Britannian prince now" said a very enraged Kallen.

"Britannia is now Lelouch who we are fighting, if there is a person willing to fight against it we will not decline them, even if they are Britannians" explained Ohgi calmly

"Don't you understand he is doing this to take Lelouch's place, one dictator for another it will be exactly the same" tried to explain Kallen

"We take down Lelouch first and then we worry about Schniezel" said Ohgi

"It will be too late by then, don't you get it he just wants to use us"

"What of it? Wasn't that what Lelouch did too" said Villeta intervening for the first time since they have started their argument

"You stay out of this I am not willing to be used as someone's pawn anymore" 'not that I was before but it helps make a point' thought Kallen.

"We're desperate here Kallen"

"So desperate that you would be willing to let yourselves be used as Schniezel's pets. Can't you see it, the bastard destroyed Pendragon city, a city full of millions of innocent civilians just to prove a point. I mean even if they were just Britannian they are still innocent"

"And he has, we now trust that he truly oppose Lelouch and with someone with his strategic intellect on our side victory is assured"

"And what makes you so sure he won't use that intellect to manipulate you or worse get rid of us when he no longer has any use for us"

"Listen Kallen I have no time to argue with you about this, the decision is final; the Black Knights are to join up with prince Schniezel's forces until we defat Lelouch then we worry about who do we follow, alright" said Ohgi

"So that's it, nothing I say will change your mind, will it?"

"No it won't, now if you will excuse us we have battle strategy meeting to attend to" said Ohgi firmly as he left off with his lover leaving a very disappointed and sad Kallen behind him.

Deciding that there was nothing more she could do in the bridge she stormed off back to her room. 'How can they be so blind? Joining up with that deceptive snake, he will eventually come to bite them in the back once he is done with Lelouch' thought the girl as she reached her room's door.

She reached out for the panel and opened the door once inside she collapsed on her bed out of pure tiredness after all spending all day cooped up in a tiny cockpit not exactly doing anything, still like a statue wasn't good for health.

'What will I do now? The Black Knights turned out to be a bunch of idiots and Lelouch turned out to be the real hero but that doesn't mean I can just betray them, after all we have been through they have become like family to me'.

Kallen was really stuck in a dilemma she would either have to sacrifice her friends, allies and nation for her love and a true but hidden path towards peace or she would stick with all that she valued and sacrifice her love, she would lose either way so she only had to try and limit her loses. Only problem is she didn't know which loss would hurt her more.

(Avalon: Emperor's room)

Lelouch sat alone in the dark corner of the room where the bed was placed thinking. He was thinking about how everything turned out now, the people he's hurt and whose lives were changed permanently because of him and mostly to the worse, loved ones who now loath him. Even the last remaining person who still believed in him, he crushed her feelings and lied to her. He had lost everything, everyone, every reason to fight for but he still had to keep going, keep fighting or else Nunnaly's dream would never be realized or else all the deaths he'd caused up until now would have been for naught.

He knew full well when he came up with the Zero Requiem that it wouldn't be easy but then he had only thought the worst it would go was that they would face greater resistance not that he would have to fight his own sister.

So lost in his thought was he that he didn't notice the door opening and the cake-crazed youngster walk into the room until he heard him speaking.

"You still sulking her emo-boy" said the boy "it isn't healthy you know"

"Dead people don't care about health" replied Lelouch

"You mean that literally or rhetorically"

"Both and every other meaning you can find for that word"

"Jeez you know when I said emo I didn't think you were this bad"

"It doesn't matter"

"Come on, C.C says that the Black Knights are redeploying their forces in Japan to intercept ours again, and they have the Damocles with them it would seem that they have joined forces with your favorite gay brother. We need our commander now, we have no time for you to act like a heartbroken schoolgirl"

"I have no energy to argue with you over these remarks of yours however I will agree with you that I have no time for weakness. Let's go"

"Very well then, let's go. Who knows? Maybe something you didn't expect will happen, something that will help you get over this bad mood"

To that Lelouch merely raised an eyebrow and choose to ignore that and be on his way. He swore to his own, almost half the things that kid said he didn't understand.

(Ikaruga: Kallen's room)

"Captain Kozuki please report to the hanger immediately the Guren is ready and waiting and so is the Zero squadron, it is time for the long awaited battle against the demon emperor" said a general from the many the Black Knights had through the speakers.

While the announcement was being mad Kallen was already dressing up in her pilots uniform and getting ready for battle and she seemed more determined than before.

She had already made up her mind and it was the time to act. She opened the door and left the room heading for the hanger as she was ordered.

To be cotinued

A/N: So people please review and tell me your opinions. Also if any of you has any suggestions for the kid's name pleas P.M them to me or leave theme in the reviews, I already had a name planned out but I am starting to think about changing it.

Yours Sincerely

Lordmd2000