The Impact of a sound Basement

"Bronze Knights, move out. We are going to help our brothers out there. But behold. If any one of you dares to harm Japanese without armament I will show you how cruel I can be."

"Yes, my Lord!"

The Bronze Knights were Seth Sandwhispers elite guard, each one of these knights possessed not only the ability to commandeer the best kinds of Knightmares but also had possession over a bronze-colored Gloucester with booster-systems to enhance their speed as much as to deal far more damage with one blow of their jousting lances. Their sensor units were also fitting to that of their master's Knightmare.

Seth himself used a model much newer than theirs. Its head looked just like that of the Egyptian god Anubis and it was colored in this gods' colors: Gold and Black. The left hand was far bigger than its right hand as every 'finger' of this was a miniature Slash Harken. Cecile told him to send exact reports about its functions to her and Lloyd as this was to be attached onto the secret project of the empire: Knightmare Frame Gawain.

The right hand however held the more devastating weapon, a khopesh-formed blade that fitted to the Egyptian-God-image Seths Knightmare Frames wanted to convey. Obviously it made use of the same system the Bathory's sword had used.

Even though Seth only brought four Knights with him it was enough to defeat the Black Knights wherever they found them. They began using the exact opposite of the tactic Cornelia told them to use and like this they distracted their enemies. Whenever Zero changed his tactic they also did. After thirty minutes the whole Ghetto was under the control of these five Knights. Kallen was, of course, the last one to stay and fight.

"May I assume you are the girl who defeated Lord Jeremiah? Twice even!"

"Correct."

"Wonderful. My name is Seth Sandwhisper, Knight of Five. I was told you are a great fighter."

"I'm honored to hear a Knight of the Round say that to me."

"Well then, would you like to face me? One on one?"

"Fine with me. It'll be fun."

"Fun you say? Oh my. I did not face anyone who found pleasure in struggling in the past four years."

"Then let's enjoy it."

"As you wish, Milady."

Kallen began the fight with a jump attack. She held her lance downwards and tried to crush into Seth. He, however, dodged it, leaving her wide open for his sword slash. He hit her left arm, making her drop the weapon. In that instant Kallen understood that she had no chance. His Knightmare was far too strong. And the pilot only made things worse.

Before she could go on to an all-out attack she heard the releasing command.

"Retreat. Kallen, you too. We can't afford to lose anyone."

"Right." She said, driving away, but not before calling out to the Knight: "Hey! Wait until I get something to catch up with yours."

"It will be a great pleasure for me to brawl with you again then."

In that moment C.C. looked up from her Knightmare.

"This is…?! No… It just can't… he's dead… isn't he?"

"God damn it! What a failure! How could five Knightmares turn the entire battle around?!" Lelouch was in rage. He let himself get distracted by the fact that the enemy had no commander. This would not happen to him again.

"Who was that Knight with the jackal Knightmare anyway?!" Kallen came into Lelouch's room.

"I know who he was, he told me."

"So?"

"Knight of Five, Seth Sandwhisper."

"I see. This explains a lot."

"And? What kind of Knightmare was it? I just saw the head and the ornaments."

"Well, it was quite astounding. It wielded a blade like this super-sharp thing from the pitch-black Knightmare and the fingers of the other hand were Slash Harkens.

"What?"

"Yes, and in his shoulders there were some kinds of energy weapons embedded. Just weak ones, but… that thing was so cool! I just had no chance. Not with a Gloucester anyway. I mean, if Kyoto would send us some Knightmares again…"

"We cannot bet on that."

"I know… Well, Lelouch, what will we do next?"

"I don't know. We have to make sure that our next action won't be disturbed by one of these damned Knights of the Rounds."

"And how will you do that? Would you like to ask them friendly not to appear?"

"Very funny. No, I haven't thought about it myself."

"Well, I'll go to the others. They even began to spread rumors. And there were very unlovely ones among them."

"Like?"

"You'd have sex with me and letting your mask on while doing it because it gives me some kind of flash to fuck Zero."

"Ridiculous. I'd never do that."

"What do you mean?"

"Sex is something born out of love. If one of the two would be to wear a mask it would not make any sense at all. Besides… I don't think you would even like to sleep with me."

"Well… I'll go down before they start saying funny stuff again."

"Bye, Kallen."

Five minutes later C.C. went into Lelouchs room and found a raven-haired prince swallowed by hatred.

"Come on, Lelouch. You can't always win, you know."

"But… we were so close! We beat them and then they had to send this… This bastard!"

He sat on his bed, starring at the wall. C.C. went to him, sat down behind the prince and wrapped her arms around him.

"Calm down."

"I can't. I'll lose the peoples support if we keep losing."

"Oh, just keep silent, boy. You'll never lose my support." Suddenly he shrugged.

"We are really allies, aren't we?"

"Finally you start to understand."

"I think so" he said, laying his hands on her arms.

Back at Ashford C.C. was left alone by Lelouch who ate dinner with Nunnally.

C.C.!

Marianne. You again?

Who else?

What's up?

Did you do it?

Give it a rest already, will you?

What does that mean? You want to do it the slow way? Is he that important to you?

Oh, just shut up. Since when do you care about how well my sex life is?

When? Since I stopped to have a body, of course.

How's that?

It's because I cannot take care of that myself since then.

Again you expected something to happen, right? Nah, I'll just clear all the conditions in these chapters. When it happens, it'll be the only thing in that specific chapter. Besides, Narita will have far more stuff in it then just this something.

The credit for making Marianne a peeping perv and for some of the parts in this goes to Sierra-de-Lafayette.

If you want to know where I stole read her Fanfic. I'd greatly recommend that either way.^^