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A leader is not moved by his people, but rather moves his people.

The Wisdom of Pollux vi Britannia
Neo Pendragon Press 2055 ATB

It was the day my childhood ended. The day I realized that the boy I loved was a killer. A brilliant wonderful loving killer.

The Diary of Miranda Sforza


Monday, May 23, 2016

VV is on his way to meet with Charles. It is quite unusual for Charles to call VV in for a meeting especially with the events about to take place in Africa. They have been able to find all the thought elevators in the world. Their next objective is to gain control of them. VV wonders if this plan is still the most viable plan. He does have Lelouch and Kallen as a back up. He sees a closeness in them that he once had with Charles. Once in the throne room VV begins to look around for Charles, but he is nowhere to be found. VV hears noise behind the throne and assumes that it is his brother.

"Charles, you are such a child. Late as usual."

Rather than Charles there are three soldiers standing there with weapons, handcuffs, and a net. Luckily VV always comes prepared.

"I see so that is how Charles wants to play."

VV pulls out his trusty automatic rifle and fires away. Not only does he kill his would be assailants, but he does a number to the throne room.

"Bismarck, I know you are back there. Come out and taste some lead."

VV smiles at his wittiness. He never imagined watching all those movies with Rolo would have done some good. Speaking of Rolo there the little bugger is.

"Did you forget that your geass doesn't work on my. I'll squash you like a bug."

VV tosses a few grenades in Rolo's direction and makes his exit. VV escapes through one of the secret tunnels underneath the palace. On the way out he is sure to pick up a few toys because he knows that there will be guards waiting for him outside. On his way out VV wishes that he would have waited a few years before taking the code because it would have been easier to escape. Rather than opening the door VV blasts it with a rocket launcher and tosses some grenades out. Then he comes running out firing like a maniac.

Bismarck grimaces as he sends guards after VV. He figured that the little monster would be ready, but this is too much. At least Rolo is on their side if not the little assassin will have to die.


The twins are outside playing in the garden when they come across a child standing by the wall, a very finely dressed but dirty child.

"Who is you?"

The child turns around and is very heavily armed. The twins ignore the guns and study the child's face.

Pollux lets out a yell, "You is VV."

Castor nods, "Yes VV."

VV looks at the twins.

"How do you know who I am?"

"Brother Lulu."

"Yes Brother Lulu."

"I see so Lelouch told you about me. Did he tell you anything else?"

The twins stay silent but point towards their left eye.

"So you know that much, do you."

One of the twins puts his finger up to his mouth while the other one goes off to the side. When he returns, he goes over to his brother.

"Molo is here."

"Hm Dolo, that might be trouble."

VV can't very well endanger the twins or kill Rolo here. There is only one other solution. VV touches the twins, and they begin to see many different visions. Then one of them takes VV and sits him down.

Rolo turns a corner because he hears voices coming from there. Standing there are the vi Britannia twins, Castor and Pollux.

"Hey Molo. Want to play. "

Ya Dolo come on. Jump over this rock. It's big."

"Watch me climb over it."

VV can't help but laugh inside as one of the twins climbs over him. One of the twins must have a geass that affects vision, and he must have made Rolo believe that VV is a rock.

Rolo's phone rings.

"This is Rolo. I'm at Aries Palace."

"VV wouldn't be there. Check over at the Grove."

"Yes sir."

Rolo turns to face the twins who are still playing on that rock. Rolo is certain that he saw VV coming in this direction. He runs off to search for VV.

Pollux goes off to make sure that Rolo is gone.

"Dolo left."

"Maybe I should have made Molo crazy."

VV nods. The one that calls Rolo, Molo has the vision affecting geass and that one appears to be Castor. The other that calls him Dolo appears to have a geass similar to Rolo and that is Pollux.

"They are searching for you."

The three of them turn around and see Evelyn standing there.

VV grimaces, "How do you know?"

Evelyn lifts a communicator.

VV eyes open wide. "That's an OSI communicator."

The twins lift up the same type of communicator.

Castor answers, "Brother Lulu gave them to us so that we can spy on the Quaker Oats Guy."

VV looks confused, "Quaker Oats Guy?"

Pollux does his best imitation of the emperor. VV has to admit that seeing this from this point of view his brother is almost a caricature of himself.

The twins go over to Evelyn and explain to her what is happening. Castor looks at VV.

"You owes us now."

"Owe you?"

"Ya for helping you with Molo."

"What do you want?"

The twin's eyes light up.

"We need help with our cartoon series."

VV feels like laughing. As their older brothers and sisters are setting out to conquer the world, these two want to make cartoons.

"We need money."

VV pulls out a piece of paper and writes an account number on it and a password.

"Here this should cover it."

Evelyn takes the paper and brings out her laptop. After checking VV's information, she nods.

Castor taps VV on the shoulder.

"Now you has to give Evie a magical power."

"Ya its Evie's turn."

VV looks at them. Giving the twins a geass is one thing but giving one to Evelyn will cause problems. Knowing her there is a few directions that her geass may take. What will stop her from starting a coup d'etat tonight?

"Are you gunna do it or do we have to call Rolo?"

The mentioning of Rolo by his correct name gets VV's attention.

"Fine."

VV approaches Evelyn. After Evelyn recovers from gaining her geass she looks around for someone to test it on.

"You three can play with your powers later. I have to find a way to get out of here."

Pollux begins to jumps up and down.

"Take our knightmare."

"Take your what?"

Castor nods his head, "That's good thinking, Pollux. Follow me."

VV follows them as they sneak through the garden. He is not so sure about this because he knows that there are cameras everywhere. For children they are pretty careful. They enter an underground tunnel of sorts and there is a small knightmare. It appears to be an imitation Titan. VV wonders when Lelouch had this built. More importantly when did they have it brought here?

"What is this?"

Evelyn answers as she prepares the knightmare for launch, "It is knightmare frame Titan mini."

"Does the Quaker Oats Guy know about this?"

The twins nod. Evelyn shrugs her shoulders and replies, "Don't worry about it. We'll take care of it. Just blow some stuff up on the way out."

"Won't they ask questions?"

Evelyn grins and then frowns, "We're just little kids. What are we supposed to do when someone points a gun at us?"

For the first time in a very long time VV feels fear. VV takes control of the knightmare. The controls are fairly simple. He makes his way out making sure to fire a few rounds at Marianne's room just in case she is there.

Marianne and the girls rush back to Aries Palace when news of the explosions gets to them. This time all the girls except for Evelyn went out to do wedding stuff. Suzaku is still working with Schniezel. The twins go crying to their knights. Evelyn just stands there teary eyed.

"It was horrible, Nunnally. The little short man pointed his guns at us and made us help him. Then he stole our knightmare."

It is a particularly hard blow for Evelyn since she got the knightmare from Lelouch for her birthday last year.

"When can we go back to big brother Lulu? He would never let some short little midget man into his castle."

The twins nod in agreement. After they calm down a bit everybody sits down for a quiet dinner which Lelouch interrupts with a phone call.

Marianne answers, "Ah Lelouch dear, this is a surprise."

"Mother, what happened? I got a distressing message from Evelyn saying that they were in some sort of trouble."

Marianne frowns. Of all the things Evelyn could have done.

"Dear it was nothing the kids were just frightened about some tests being conducted in a neighboring field. There is nothing to worry about. Oh dear I have to run. Bye."

After being put to sleep Evelyn begins to do some calculations. It would take Lelouch almost twenty hours to reach Pendragon. Even if he came here with Schniezel and Cornelia in Africa things would be difficult. No, Evelyn will have to trust that her brother has a plan. Even with his geass abilities, he is not ready to begin his plan or maybe all of this is part of it. That must be it. Evelyn lies down to go to sleep. The twins are sleeping with their knights. Dalque, Nunnally, and Alice are sleeping with Evelyn. During the night Nunnally comes over to Evelyn's bed and wakes her. Nunnally brings her finger up to her lips signally for Evelyn to stay quiet. She lifts her head as if asking what's up. Evelyn makes a sign by lifting her middle and index fingers on both hands. Nunnally understands and goes back to sleep.


Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Lelouch is on the way to pick up his little siblings and mom from the airport. According to what Nunnally told him Suzaku is staying in Britannia to work with the Lancelot. Lelouch decides to call Luciano to make sure that everything is going according to plan.

"Yes your exalted Luluness, what can I do for you today?"

"Ah Luciano, ever the one for formality. Are you on your way?"

"I'm on my way. I just have to find Weinberg. By the way what did you do to him?"

"Don't worry about Gino. He is just a little confused about his loyalties."

"Fine if you two don't want to talk about your lovers' quarrel. Just don't get me involved."

"Well the knightmares are finished. Your's and Gino's are there and are being prepared for the trip."

"I have a surprise for you unless if Waldstein already told you about it."

Lelouch smiles, "Do you mean the Venus flytrap? I requested her. I figured you could use a little fun."

"You sly dog. We will be there in a few minutes."

"No need to hurry."

Lelouch hangs up the phone and looks over at Ayame who as his assistant goes everywhere with him. Lelouch is amazed that she is able to adapt to the role so quickly. Lelouch wonders what happened in Pendragon. Nunnally and Evelyn's messages were short and concise. He is going to have to find some time to speak with them alone.


Thursday, May 26, 2016

With the twins' birthday party all planned out, Kallen and Milly have no option but to spend time with their mother-in-law. In fact all the girls including Ayame have to hang out with Marianne.

"Your highness, I don't understand why I have to be there. We still have lots of work. "

Lelouch and Ayame have been having this conversation all morning. Lelouch clears his throat.

"I will be fine without you for a day or two. Besides I still have Midori and Villetta."

Lelouch has Ayame on that point. Midori works alongside her sister as Lelouch's assistant/secretary. Lelouch pushes his secretary towards the living room.

"Besides Mother requested you by name."

Ayame doesn't go in without a fight. She pulls Lelouch in, but to no avail. Lelouch manages to sit her down. He smiles at the other girls only Euphie smiles back. Behind him, Lelouch can hear Evelyn, Miranda, and Emily walking and talking. When they reach the room, Evelyn realizes what is going on, but it is too late. Lelouch pushes them in.

"Have fun."

Kallen and Milly don't seem too excited about hanging out with their mother-in-law. Ayame and the Irregulars are even less excited. Everyone has other things that they would rather be doing.

Marianne enters the room smiling, "Okay girls. What should we do first? We have a few days so we shouldn't rush into anything."

Nunnally groans. Lelouch is so going to pay for this. The girls spend the day walking around with Marianne discussing their relationships with her children. Marianne is most interested in hearing what Ayame and Carolina have to say. Milly takes them on a tour through the palace grounds. As they walk Marianne asks them questions.

"So Ayame you are Japanese, is that correct?"

"Yes your highness."

Marianne is surprised at the girl's quickness.

"How did you meet my son?"

"It happened mostly because of circumstance, your highness. My sister Midori worked for one of his highness's companies. His highness noticed her excellent work, and we were introduced. His highness took notice of my skills and asked me to come with him here. That is the story, your highness."

"Along with your older sister and younger brother."

"Yes your highness."

"And your parents?"

"They died a few years ago, your highness."

Marianne looks at the girl. Lelouch couldn't have coached her this well. She was most likely prepared for this moment. She notices that Milly and Carolina are holding back giggles. Marianne turns her head to ask Carolina a question but continues walking forward. This causes her to run into Milly who makes an abrupt stop.

"Excuse me, Milly dear. Why have you stopped?"

Milly points ahead.

"We are not allowed in there because it is Jeremiah's vineyard."

Marianne is surprised, "You aren't allowed in there."

Milly shakes her head, "No, but we are allowed to go into the orchard just down the path."

"Why aren't you allowed in there?"

Ayame responds, "His highness has forbidden us to enter into the vineyard because he says that we are too young to be engaging in the drinking of alcohol, your highness."

Marianne is intrigued, "Is that so? Well I'm," she points at herself, "old enough to enter so wait for me here."

Marianne enters the vineyard and walks into the winery. Lelouch is with Villetta, Jeremiah, and Kewell going over his battle plan when he notices that the girls and his mother are walking around the palace grounds. He begins to laugh.

Jeremiah raises his eyebrow, "You highness."

"My mother is going in the vineyard."

"Why?"

"Since the girls are prohibited from entering it, my mother must have assumed that I was hiding something there."

Lelouch notices that they don't even raise an eyebrow. Confident in his subordinates, Lelouch gets back to work.


With everyone otherwise occupied Edward and Isabelle are pretty much on their own for the first time in their lives. Their mother is back in Britannia. Their cousins are out walking around with the other girls and Marianne. Lelouch is having meetings with his military people. Later he would meet with Cassius, Annabel, and of course the two of them. Edward pours his sister some tea. Isabelle fills it up with sugar also a product of their mother being gone. They sit there quietly enjoying the day when they hear someone yelling down the hall.

"Euphie! Milly! Nunna! Hello, is anyone there?"

Edward and Isabelle go to see who it is. As they turn the corner they run into a mass of orange hair. Edward manages to stay on his feet. Instinctively he helps his sister onto her feet. They both notice that Shirley is still on the floor. Isabelle nudges Edward who goes over to help Shirley to her feet.

"Thank you," Shirley gather herself, "your highness."

Isabelle jumps in before her brother can say anything stupid.

"You can just call him Edward. I'm Isabelle. I think that we briefly met at Milly's wedding."

Shirley nods, "I think so."

Isabelle winks at her brother and takes Shirley's hand.

"Come have tea with us."

Shirley comes quietly but keeps looking around.

"Where's is everyone?"

Edwards answers her, "Lelouch is in a meeting. All the girls are with Lady Marianne."

"All the girls?"

Edward and Isabelle nod at the same time. Isabelle offers Shirley some sugar. Shirley nods, and Isabelle begins to add it.

Edward asks, "So you're Euphie's friend?"

Shirley nods her head, "Well I'm friends with everyone. We met at school."

"You met them at school."

Isabelle gets excited, "What it like? You know school."

Shirley is a little confused, "You two have never been to school."

Edward and Isabelle shake their heads.

"So what did you guys do?"

"Tutors."

"Ya tutors."

Shirley begins to laugh.

Isabelle is slightly insulted, but only a little.

"What so funny? All of us had tutors. Schniezel, Cornelia, even Euphie and Lelouch."

Shirley shakes her head, "That's not it. You two remind me of Castor and Pollux, Are you sure you two aren't twins?"

Edward and Isabelle turn to face each other. Shirley laughs once more.

"So what are you two going to do today if everyone is occupied with other things?"

Isabelle tilts her head and twists her mouth.

"I guess we didn't really think about it. We really don't get a lot of free time."

Shirley thinks about it.

"I could show some karate moves that I learned from Suzaku and Nunnally."

They go outside to a garden, and Shirley show them some karate moves. They quickly discover that Shirley isn't as a good a teacher as Suzaku or Nunnally, but they still have fun. In the evening they hear laughter coming from the entrance of the garden. They hear Carolina's voice.

"I swear if I heard Ayame say his or your highness one more time, I would have covered her mouth."

The other girls laugh.

Ayame responds to that comment, "Her highness wanted me to be more formal."

All the girls laugh once again more or less at Marianne's expense. Carolina notices her cousins and Shirley and stops causing everyone to run into her.

Kallen growls, "Caro, why did you stop?"

She points towards her cousins and Shirley who are on the floor in a very tangled manner.

Euphemia notices Shirley and runs towards her.

"Hey Shirley's here."

When they heard Carolina's voice, Isabelle had the idea of scaring them. She found a nice hiding spot and accounted for Edward's clumsiness, but she didn't account for Shirley's so they all fell to the ground. Kallen and Milly come over to help them get untangled. Carolina just stands there laughing at her cousins.

Isabelle adjusts her clothes, "You know, Caro, you can help."

Carolina laughs, "I could but where is the fun in that. Besides a delicate flower such as myself cannot participate in such tiresome activities."

Ayame snorts.

Carolina playfully glares at her, "I thought you were told to be more formal."

Ayame smiles, "Yes your highness."

"I can see that you still have plenty of energy left."

They all turn to see Lelouch helping Edward to his feet. Evelyn goes over and punches her brother in the stomach. She walks away and is joined by Emily and Miranda.

"Don't go to far Evie. The three of you still need to be fitted with your dresses for tomorrow's party. And don't go ruining your appetite with junk food. The kitchen staff has been working hard on making a special dinner for everyone."

Evelyn stops with her back still to Lelouch.

"Put that tongue back in your mouth before I cut it off. Don't you roll your eyes at me young lady. Don't make me go over there and take care of business."

Evelyn visibly sighs and leads the two younger girls to the living room. Lelouch turns to face the others.

"Does anybody else have a problem?"

Everybody including Marianne who has come out to look for Lelouch shakes their head.

"That's what I thought."

"Your highness."

"Yes Ayame."

She points to her mouth. The twins come out and stand behind Lelouch. It is quite obvious that they were snacking on junk food because their mouths are covered in cheese.

Nunnally gets mad, "Big brother, you little jerk."

Nunnally begins to chase Lelouch around the garden. With Kallen's help she catches him, and she begins to tickle him. Lelouch manages to get his sister off him.

Lelouch clears his throat, "Well I would LOVE to hear all about your day, but I need to get the twins cleaned up so that they can be fitted for their party clothes. So if you'll excuse me."

Lelouch takes the grumpy twins back into the house. Marianne looks over at the girls.

"So is this what you normally do. Play around."

Nunnally answers, "Of course not mother. Sometimes we go out and get candy from strange men," They all look at Nunnally who continues, "As sub-viceroy of Area 10, I decree that everyone get cleaned up for dinner."


"Did you have any trouble getting here?"

"No, Charles isn't as smart as he thinks he is. Besides there is no one at the Kamine Island Thought Elevator."

"At least no one that doesn't work for me."

"Yes, do think it will be safe for me to stay here?"

"Of course. In a few days everyone will be gone with the exception of Euphie and Carolina. I have also asked Sayoko Shinozaki to come and continue training Euphie and certain members of the staff."

"Can she be trusted?"

"She will do for now."

"As you wish. How is Jeremiah?"

"Still adapting to his new additions."

"It shouldn't take him too long."

"No, I guess it shouldn't. I should be off. I still have lots of planning to do."


Friday, May 27, 2016

While the rest of Area 10 is celebrating the twins' fourth birthday, Lelouch is meeting with his most trusted advisors. Slipping away is quite easy since they can always say that they want the twins to be the focus of attention. Evelyn and the five vi Britannia royal knights stay at the celebration. Lelouch will bring them up to speed later.

Lelouch begins, "I have just been informed by Prime Minister Schniezel that last minute peace talks with the European Union have broken down."

Kallen looks over at the map. This is something that was expected. In fact Lelouch has already received his assignment and has begun to mobilize his army. The three Knights of the Round assigned to Lelouch are working with their force down in Area 17. Lelouch begins to detail his plan. In a few days they would attack Madagascar and several islands east of Africa to use as launching points.

Lelouch continues, "Tomorrow we will begin discussing the battle plan. I have already informed the corps and division commanders. We probably need to slip back into the party."

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Odysseus has finished his last meeting before his force moves to their attack positions. They still have a few days before the attack is set to begin. His son, Faramond, has asked everyone to come out. Odysseus wonders why he is not in Area 10 celebrating the twins' birthday

Faramond clears his throat, "Allow me to knightmare frames, Pelleas and Andraste."

Everyone stands there in awe.

The two Knights of the Round, Dorothea Ernst and Salacia Ravenguard, accompanying Odysseus walk out from behind the knightmares. Odysseus wonders who built these two knightmares. More importantly why was he not informed about their presence because Faramond obviously knows about them? He looks out towards the border with the North African League. In days the attack will begin. Schniezel and the rest of the diplomatic team are leaving at the moment. Schniezel's attack force is already on its way to the eastern Mediterranean.


"You can't attend the meeting mother."

Lelouch has been saying this all morning.

"Why not? I'm your mother. I don't care if you are a major general or viceroy."

"You cannot attend because you are not part of my command."

Marianne laughs at this comment, "Dear, who do you think I am, a spy?"

"Yes."

With that Lelouch leaves his mother and goes off to his meeting. Marianne would follow him, but she knows that she will only get lost. Marianne decides to continue her search for any secret knightmare hangars. There is also the slim possibility that VV decided to come to Lelouch.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Lelouch is on his flagship, HIMS Excalibur, about fifty miles east of Madagascar. The sun is cresting the horizon behind him. His attack on the island nation and the surrounding islands will begin in a few seconds.

"Ayame, tell the commanders that they may attack as soon as they see fit."

"Yes your highness."

Lelouch hears the artillery going off in the distance. He waits a few moments before going over to the Mordred. He will lead the attack himself. If everything goes according to plan, in a few days the island will fall and Lelouch will be off to South Africa.


Mao has spent some time in southern China just trying to get by. He decides to once again make an attempt to find CC. He decides to make his way down to Area 10. There are rumors that Britannia will soon go to war with the EU, and Lelouch is most likely gone. More importantly the red headed demon is probably gone as well. Mao must be careful because it is possible that they have others in place.


Friday, June 3, 2016

Rolo is still searching for VV. He must find his old master. He must find him for his father. Rolo still remembers their conversation a week ago.

- Rolo is standing before the emperor. It is the first time that he has been here without VV. Rolo is unsure whether this is a good or bad thing. The emperor is looking down at Rolo. His gaze penetrates into the depths of Rolo's soul that is if he had one.

"Rolo, how do you feel about your life?"

"Your majesty, it is what I was chosen to do."

The emperor comes over and puts his arm on Rolo's shoulder.

"But what if you could have something better."

Rolo nods as he continues search. He won't let his father down. Nothing will get in his way.


For over a week the search for VV has continued. Charles contemplates the situation. For Ragnarök to work he needs two codes. Now he doesn't even have one. Bismarck was careless when trying to capture VV. Who would have figured that VV would be so prepared for such an event? Now he is going to have to relay on Lelouch's connections to the various code bearers. It is obvious that the boy has had contact with a code bearer or two. He has demonstrated a number of geass abilities. Charles wonders if some of Lelouch's subordinates have also gained geass

There are other issues beyond that. For some reason the twins found and disabled the cameras out in the garden that day. Even before that day they moved the cameras around creating several blind spots. It is much too late to turn those children over to his side. There is one way, but at this point it may be too risky. They will have to go back to Lelouch that way they can be a burden to him.


Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Suzaku is standing aboard Schniezel's flagship, the HIMS Damocles, north of Alexandria. It took quiet an effort just to reach this point. Early that morning Merlin and Monica led forces that successfully landed at Benghazi and Tripoli respectively. Schniezel has successfully blockaded the Suez Canal keeping the EU from shipping supplies south. If Odysseus does what he is supposed to do the EU will have to ship supplies west over the Atlantic or east through the Middle East Federation. Schniezel and Kannon are standing on the deck speaking with several officers. Suzaku thinks that Schniezel makes a pretty enticing target to anyone that happens to be looking at the ship. Of course that supposes that the enemy has the ability to attack.

"Kururugi, we are boarding."

Suzaku nods at the other knightmare pilot. Unlike them he is piloting something vastly superior to what the enemy will have. Of course the enemy has nothing to counter the newer model Ios and Gloucesters. Suzaku gathers from the reports that have been coming in even the new EU knightmares are no match for what Britannia has. Suzaku boards the Lancelot and prepares for launch. Schniezel is taking a huge risk allowing Suzaku to pilot the knightmare. Suzaku will make sure that he does not let him down.


Lelouch is on the move once more. His attack on Madagascar was successful. There was no need to take the entire island. After two days of fighting, Lelouch offered quite generous peace terms. Madagascar is allow to three Britannian bases on its territory and allow Britannia to control the surrounding island nations Britannia (Lelouch) will buy half of the vanilla produced in Madagascar. Also he will open several factories on the island and hire only natives. In light of the fact that Lelouch could have just bombed them into submission, his peace terms are quite generous. Edward is on his way to complete the peace negotiations. Lelouch is moving south along the African coast. He has no choice but to send raiding parties to terrorize the natives. He makes a few calls to prepare for the next part of his plan.


Friday, June 10, 2016

"Are you sure it is wise to send the subject out so soon?"

"Don't worry. His hate and anger will be enough to fuel him."

"Too bad we couldn't secure a finer specimen."


Lelouch is aboard an aircraft carrier just south of Cape Town. He knows that he was sent down here to be a diversion to the main attack along the coast. At the moment Cornelia's land forces are bogged down north of Dodoma. She needs something to distract the forces of the Southern African Union.

A few days ago Darlton led a daring strike through Kenya. Guilford led his forces over to the west side of Lake Victoria to great success. While to the north Schniezel and Odysseus are having moderate success. Their task is mostly to keep the EU from reinforcing Africa. Guinevere is being sent to western central Africa. She is at the mouth of the Congo River. Lelouch took Zanzibar, Madagascar, and several Indian Ocean islands, but Cornelia has been unable to take advantage of those moves. Lelouch is to take the south while Cornelia and Guinevere march down the sides. Once that is done Britannia will begin to exploit those areas before pushing north through Africa and into Europe.

Lelouch looks at the progress reports. Cornelia's strategy is too straightforward. She believes that the easiest and quickest way to defeat an enemy is to bludgeon them with everything she has. Of course Cornelia only uses knightmare with infantry and some light armor for the purposes of support. Lelouch continues to look at the map.

"Colonel Nu, have the units reached their destination?"

Villetta looks at her reports.

"Almost your highness. The units heading towards Luanda are still on their way."

"Very well. We can begin the attack. Inform the commanders of the Luanda units that they may attack once they are in place."

Villetta nods and heads out of the room.

"Q1, have them prepare the knightmares. The time has come."

"Yes your highness,"

Lelouch is left alone on the bridge of the carrier with a small crew manning the electronics. Lelouch looks down at his messages. He gets a very interesting one from Lloyd. Lelouch smiles and activates his communicator.

"Order zeta zeta, chūmon roku roku, sáu mươi sáu thứ tự, einde sestig."

This is it, the end of the beginning. Despite having seen combat many times and having lead an invasion, this is Lelouch's first real test. All the previous time he was against inferior opponents. This time it is the real deal. Everything will begin or end here. In his mind it is already his finest moment. This is the moment that it truly begins, the rise of the Black Prince.


Author's note: I was always going to have the kids get geass. I just hadn't made up my mind whether they would get it from VV or Lelouch. After I decided to have Lelouch become VV's backup plan, I also decided not to have VV kill Marianne. I have something so much better for her. So I decided to have Charles turn on VV. After all he doesn't need VV running around for the plan to succeed. He only needs to secure another code. I always found it amusing that Charles and VV wanted to end all lies and spent the majority of the time lying to each other. Castor's geass allows him to affect other's senses. Pollux's geass is exactly like Rolo's. Evelyn's geass is exactly like Lelouch's first because what else would a little girl want.

Charles turned Rolo in the same manner that Lelouch did in the anime and then he geassed him into believing that he is his father. The most important thing to remember is the Lelouch does not lie to his inner circle and tells them everything (two wives, two sisters, two brothers). His other subordinates know what they need to know.

At this point technology has been bumped up a year. We also got an actual sixth generation of knightmares, the Moons/Ios series. We also got the seventh generation a year early, the Caerleon/Bors series. With the Gloucester, Titan Mk III, and Callisto Mk III somewhere in between. Things will continue at a reasonable pace. There will be no energy wings within a year as it will take time to develop the technology. Since war will be a constant from here on out, Cecile, Rakshata, Lloyd, etc will have to deal with those needs first before they begin to make any outlandish creations.

Some informational stuff.

Lelouch-Mordred
Kallen-Guinevere
Milly-Morgause
Anya-Chrysalis
Jeremiah-Lucan
Kewell-Callisto Mk III
Villetta-Titan Mk III
Irregulars-GX-01 Alpha

One: Bismarck Waldstein, Galahad.
Two: Merlin Suzerain, Gawain, S
Three: Conrad Keyshavrin, Io, G
Four: Dorothea Ernst, Pelleas, O
Five: Salacia Ravenguard, Andraste, O
Six: Nonette Enngream, Epona, C
Seven: Thorin Odinus, Io, G
Eight: Luciano Bradley, Vlad, L
Nine: Monica Kruszewski, Andarta, S
Ten: Aphrodite Venitus, Pellinore, L
Eleven: Amadeus Doedilus, Gloucester, C

Twelve: Gino Weinberg, Tristan L

Character ages at this point in the story. They are in order of importance in the story so far. Colonel Madd and General Bartley are probably in their fifties, but their near the bottom overall anyways. Charles and VV are in their early sixties, I believe. While they are the general movers of action, there overall importance isn't going to be that much.

Lelouch vi Britannia 16, Jeremiah Gottwald 27, Kewell Soresi 25, Schniezel el Britannia 26, Suzaku Kururugi 15, Gino Weinberg 15, Castor and Pollux vi Britannia 4, Lloyd Asplund 29, Naoto Kouzuki 26,Edward vu Britannia 17, Deithard Reid 31, Luciano Bradley 21, Odysseus eu Britannia 32, Jinta Futaba 7, Colonel Kusakabe 39, Ichiro Futaba 23, Bismarck Waldstein 39, Merlin Suzerain 35, Clovis la Britannia 24, Gilbert GP Guilford 27, Kannon Maldini 28, Maximus va Britannia 24, Cassius ru Britannia 23, Kyoshiro Tohdoh 37, Ryoga Senba 39, Kosetsu Urabe 30, Asahina Shogo 29, Conrad Keyshavrin 31, Thorin Odinus 27, Amadeus Doedilus 25, Octavius ka Britannia 20, Theseus ju Britannia 19, Luther ti Britannia 17, Li Xingke 22, Kaname Ohgi 26, Shinichiro Tamaki 24, Hong Gu 34

Marianne vi Britannia 37, Kallen Stadtfeld 16, Milly Ashford 17, Nunnally vi Britannia 12, Evelyn vi Britannia 5, Euphemia li Britannia 15, Anya Alstriem 14,Villetta Nu 25, Cecile Croomy 24, Ayame Futaba 16, Lucretia 16, Sancia 17, Alice 12, Dalque 15, Rakshata Chawla 28, Zhou Xianglin 18, Cornelia li Britannia 27, Nonette Enngream 29, Sora Cummins 14, Nina Einstein 16, Isabelle vu Britannia 14, Shirley Fennette 16, Nagisa Chiba 28, Kaguya Sumeragi 13, Marika Soresi 16, Liliana Vergamon 16, Sayoko Shinozaki 24, Dorothea Ernst 31, Salacia Ravenguard 19, Monica Kruszewski 20, Aphrodite Venitus 21, Mariel Labie 18, Guinevere su Britannia 30, Annabel pe Britannia 15, Karine le Britannia 14, Victoria ka Britannia 14, Gwendolyn ti Britannia 13, Regina ha Britannia 13, Selene ge Britannia 13, Tianzi (Jiang Lihua) 11,