A/N: Well another chapter and I got to say I am just on fire with this story.

Thanks for the one review, but I am pleased to see the number of favorites and alerts for this story to go up so I'll roll with it.

If any of you are curious about the status of your other stories check out my Code Geass R&D forum, the link is on my profile, where I'll sometimes post updates and chapter samples for the next chapters there as well as hold special polls for said stories while ideas for stories I had are also there.

In this chapter, we see a bit of Nui's continued exploration into Area 51 while we see how Mako just might save the day.

The poll on my profile is still ongoing…

Then we get a little more insight into some of the other characters and see a few surprises in this chapter.

So on with the chapter.


"We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us."

― Charles Darwin


Chapter 9

Karma

Back in the Britannian Homeland, but more specifically deep underground in the deepest and most heavily guarded section of the vast underground city that housed all of Britannia's most sensitive research and development projects. Inside a giant auditorium capable of housing over a thousand people and more with a large stage while the walls were decorated with golden ornate lions and flags with the Holy Britannian Empire's emblem upon them with a glass elevator behind the stage.

The room was packed full of men and women, most of which were scientists, engineers, soldiers, and workers. There was talk among the crowd, but it all began to die down as a bright rainbow light could be seen from within an elevator car that was descending from a floor above the auditorium to the stage itself.

"I ask all of you one question…what is the one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, Charles Darwin proclaimed?" Saihō Harime asked as his voice boomed throughout the packed auditorium.

"Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die!" The gathered crowd answered in unison finishing the quote from Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species.

"Correct for he said one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die," Saihō said as he disembarked the elevator while the bright rainbow light surrounding him did not diminish.

Saihō approached the center of the massive stage ahead of him while standing close to its edge to ensure everyone in the large auditorium saw him. Striking the ground before him with his cane to ensure he had their complete and undivided attention as a resounding echo of the tap of his cane sent through the room.

"For all men are not created equal. Some are born swifter afoot, some with greater beauty. Some are born into poverty, and others are born sick and feeble. Both in birth and in upbringing, in the sheer scope of ability, every human is inherently different!" Saihō proclaimed boldly to the assembled crowd before continuing his speech. "Yes, that is why people discriminate against one another, which is why there is struggle, competition, and the unfaltering march of progress! Inequality is not wrong, equality is!"

"Even countries that have denied this principle have fallen into a sorry state in form or another because of their arrogance and their greed. The European Union is a perfect example of what happens when you make equality a right, but the result is nothing more than rabble politics and leaders chosen by a popularity contest filled with corruption and a sense of preserving themselves and not their country. The Chinese Federation with its equal distribution of wealth. I say what equal distribution because most of its people live in poverty while its true rulers the High Eunuchs leech off their own country for their own comfort." Saihō said to the gathering without hiding the disgust in his voice which was apparent for the two superpowers.

"But not our beloved Britannia for this is a true country and a REAL superpower. We fight, we compete; evolution is continuous! Britannia alone moves forward; advancing steadily into the future. Our unswerving commitment to progress is clear, especially for the dark times ahead for humanity! Yes as many of you have learned humanity's days may be numbered, but I say NAY. All of you here are the finest Britannia has to offer from military engineers, scientists, soldiers of highest caliber and skill have been gathered here. We of Phantom Pain shall be the hope of humanity in its darkest hour, which for Britannia will be our finest hour! As the other countries shiver helplessly in fear, we shall be the ones who will strike back and crush the threat of Life Fibers proving to the entire world that our country is the greatest of all and our might as its citizens and soldiers are without match."

Saihō exclaimed as cheering began to rise from the gathered crowd.

"And then from ashes of the war ahead, we shall shake the foundations of the world as a new world order will rise. One that is led by Britannia who shall lead us towards a new dawn for humanity…and take heart in that YOU shall take part in this as we shall claim our rightful place as the rulers and saviors of humanity! For we will fight on, struggle, compete, plunder, and dominate and in the end, the future shall be ours! All Hail Britannia!"

"ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!" The gathered crowd began chanting almost religiously before Saihō Harime received a standing ovation for his speech as the blonde haired Life-Fiber Hybrid basked in the cheer and acclaim he was receiving.

Once his speech was over a man with a large muscular build, but he had a peg leg while wearing a black and gray camouflage battle dress uniform with a purple bandana with the Britannian Empire's emblem printed upon it. He had dark skin and a mustache with brown eyes and a mustache.

"Lord Harime I am sorry to interrupt, but we have two problems that need your attention."

"What is it, Cunningham?" Saihō inquired to his torture and interrogation specialist Lieutenant Frank Cunningham.

"We just got word that Maiko is acting on her own in trying to get Ryūko Matoi's Kamui," Cunningham reported showing him a live satellite feed of Ryūko and Kallen caught in quicksand while Maiko is about to fight Mako via a small PDA in his hand.

"That greedy, self-serving bitch I knew she was going to try something like this," Saihō said as his eyes narrowed in anger and disgust at the girl who was their spy on the inside of Honnōji Academy.

"I took the liberty of contacting Van Pelt and briefed him on the situation," Cunningham said assuredly to his superior.

"I trust he'll deal with the traitor," Saihō asked even though he knew the answer, but when Cunningham nodded in confirmation, the blonde haired young man smiled. "Good, but we'll use this situation to collect combat data to further our plans. Maiko can also be useful for being a sacrifice to Senketsu."

"And there is one another issue…we have an intruder," Cunningham said as he showed Saihō an image of Nui Harime in front of a species tank containing the corpse of an alien taking a selfie with it. No one knew the alien body wasn't real, but it worked as an excellent lure for intruders provided if they get inside the facility somehow.

"Nui," Saihō said with barely suppressed anger as his eyes burned with rage at the sight of his twin sister. "I should have known she would have sent her here to snoop around."

"Should we sound the alarm?"

"No, she would just slaughter our men, activate the experimental subjects and send them after Nui. Make sure they push her towards the Tropic Disposal area as per our plan of getting rid of her but order Alice into combat as well...I cannot be seen, even through Ragyō likely suspects I am alive at this point." Saihō explained as Cunningham nodded his head before using his PDA to relay Saihō's orders.


Back at Honnōji Academy's front gates Maiko was grinning evilly as the only eyewitness to events was Mako, but fully aware of the fact that she is an idiot and a hopeless fool in every sense of the word. She could kill Mako easily but thought it would be best to draw events out a little in the hopes of luring out the one who had Senketsu. Hence the fighting arena she had prepared along with her trap, although it was a fifty-fifty chance that the person who had taken the Kamui would keep it there was a possibility it may be an attempt to return said Kamui to Ryūko through.

"If you want to save your friends you got to beat me to get this remote," Maiko declared proudly holding up the remote before pocking said device. "But before we get started take a moment to prepare yourself for combat."

Pushing a button on the arena floor Maiko a pair of trapdoors opened causing a pair of tables to rise up. For Maiko, her table had two long pieces of cloth which she wrapped around her hands and wrists before dipping the cloth that covered the top of her hands and her wrists with boiling hot wax. She was mindful not to get any on her skin, right before dipping her hands into a container with broken glass pieces, rusty nails, and sharp razor blades. The hot wax allowed these bits and pieces of each container to stick to Maiko's fist wraps before raising them up and showing them off to Mako with a malicious smirk on her face.

Mako wrapped her hands securely with the cloth covering her knuckles and her hands before looking at her table.

To Kallen and Ryūko's horror and worry it was a small table filled with various toppings you put on ice cream. Mako dipped her wraps in a bucket of caramel before dropping them into a bucket full of M&Ms with other choices being colorful sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, broken up Oreos, Gummi Bears, and broken up butterfingers.

"Uh, what do I do…Sprinkles or Gummi bears," Mako said as she looked worried at this unexpected dilemma causing Ryūko and Kallen to become slacked jawed while Maiko began laughing so far she fell onto her back holding her sides. "I know I'll call Lelouch."

Mako pulled out a pink cell phone which Lelouch had given to her as a present some time ago.

"Hello Mako," Lelouch asked picking up the phone. "How are you, Ryūko and the others doing?"

"We're almost to school, but we ran into a problem," Mako began causally while Maiko was still too busy laughing to notice the phone conversation. "I need to know Sprinkles or Gummi Bears?"

"Huh," Lelouch was a little surprised by the question, but he remembered that this was Mako he was dealing with. "Mako …would you mind telling me what is going on so I can better help with your decision?"

"Well, it's like this after we kinda ditched Suzaku in the One Star Residential District to hijack a One-Star School Bus to get through the minefield." Mako began as Lelouch quietly listened. "Then we went through this crazy chase after Knightmare Frames from the Knightmare Frame Association Club began chasing us which was after getting through all of the people shooting at us and oh I got to use a minigun on top of the bus," Mako explained excitedly as she brought Lelouch up to speed. "Then after flying through the air when our bus was hit by a grenade, we landed in front of the school's main gates. Ryūko and Kallen are caught in a quicksand trap and cannot escape while Maiko from Trap Development threatens that unless I beat her, she'll do something bad to them."

"I see," Lelouch said calmly while taking a moment to process all of this information before saying in a stoic manner, "Mako I need you to listen to me, one after we are done talking put me on speakerphone and place your phone somewhere safe and second remember those rewards I offer you every No-Late Day?"

"Uh-Huh," Mako said happily as her eyes began to sparkle brightly.

"Well if you beat Maiko and save Kallen and Ryūko I'll give you that rare cheese wheel you asked me about."

"REALLY," Mako exclaimed comically and happily with a big smile and cheese wheels in her eyes.

"That's right, and you got to make it on class on time too where it's waiting for you…yes, I can smell that cheese right now," Lelouch said as he was smiling deviously while he brought out a giant cheese wheel from his school bag.

"YAHOO!" Mako cried out bumping her left fist into the air.

"Oh and Mako just use both," Lelouch mentioned off-handily to answer her first question.

"Yes sir," Mako replied with a big smile on her face before putting her phone on speakerphone and placing it in a safe place on top of the quicksand tank containing Kallen and Ryūko. Then she proceeded to do as Lelouch suggested and dip her wrapped hands into the Gummi Bears and sprinkles.

Both Kallen and Ryūko didn't know what Lelouch told Mako, but the brown haired girl looked really motivated and hyped somehow which was somehow reassuring and yet still worrying at the same time. It prompted both women to struggle more desperate to escape.

"Come on and get some, because do you smell what the Mako is cooking?" Mako declared before proceeding to air box while Maiko had recovered from her burst of laughter earlier before glaring at the brown-haired girl with a venomous glare.

"This will be too easy, so let's do this!" Maiko said before laughing manically as she rushed at Mako intending to punch her in the face, but at the last second Mako seemingly vanished into thin air causing Maiko to entirely miss her hitting nothing but air.

"What the hell," Maiko exclaimed in shock as she didn't expect Mako to dodge her like that.

Suddenly Mako punched Maiko in the stomach before delivering a shocking multitude of punches in quick rapid succession. Ryūko and Kallen were watching the whole thing as they couldn't believe Mako was soundly overpowering and kicking Maiko's butt. But as Mako continued to lay down a quick beat down of the young woman a man wearing a black cloak approached the captive women and began working to free them of the quicksand they were being held captive in.

"Be quiet, and I'll get you two out," The man asked who Ryūko saw was wearing a black and white trimmed samurai mask with black lenses over the eyes and a long pale tanned beard sticking out from under the mask.

"Who are you?"

"Keep it down, because that girl is going to need your help in a minute so you'll need this," The masked man said holding up Senketsu in one hand.

"Senketsu," Ryūko said surprised to see her Kamui.

"I don't know who he is Ryūko, but you can trust him. Besides I think Mako is in serious danger, so you better get out and put me on," Senketsu said as the masked man used his good arm to pull Ryūko out who grabbed her Kamui to find a safe spot to change while the masked man worked on getting Kallen out.

Meanwhile, Mako continued dodging and evading all of Maiko's attack who despite believing she was going to have an easy win was becoming increasingly frustrated as Mako was landing more blows on her than she was.

"Hold still you idiot," Maiko shouted as she threw her fist again, but hit nothing but air before Mako grabbed Maiko from behind and performing a belly-to-back suplex on her. Mako quickly followed it up with a body slam.

As Maiko lay on the ground seemingly defeated, Mako threw her arms up into the air and assumed a victory pose.

"Oh yeah I win…yahoo," Mako said jumping up into the air happily, but as she moved away from a fallen Maiko the fallen head of Trap Development slowly rose back up to her feet.

"You stupid bitch…the gloves are off now," Maiko said flipping up the collar of her sailor uniform to reveal three black stars, two on the left and one on the right. "Behold my Three-Star Goku Uniform Trap Master Regalia!"

In a furry of shining stars, Maiko was transformed as her body was covered a tattered blue cloak while her face was painted white with her lips possessing red lipstick before her hair turned blue. A red top hat appeared on her head with three black stars around it while under her robe her body had become encased within a sizeable mechanical sphere holding a number of different compartments for different weapons and limbs. She had two long thin arms with white gloves upon them and brown sleeves of a coat while she hovered off the ground towering over Mako who realized she was out of her league now.

"There is no way in hell you can beat me now!"

"Then time for me to step in," Ryūko said jumping in front of Mako wearing Senketsu having transformed into battle ready configuration holding her signature weapon in front of her.

"WHAT THE HELL," Maiko exclaimed in shock upon seeing not only Ryūko freed of her trap but also wearing Senketsu. "How did you get your Kamui back?"

"It's thanks to me," the masked man said joining Ryūko's side striking a heroic pose with his hands on his hips. Aside from the dark attire that made him look like a mix between a samurai and a ninja he carried a pair of blades, a katana and a wakizashi on his waist while held within special black scabbards connected to one another.

"Ok, who the hell are you," Ryūko demanded as she was understandably put off by the man's posing.

"My name is Mr. Bushido," declared as he drew his two blades. The hilts seemed similar to those of Bakuzan's handle, but the coloring was obviously different especially the blades which were blood red.

"What the hell kinda of dorky name is that," The girl armed with the scissor blade asked.

"The name isn't important, but you surviving and making it to class on time is," Mr. Bushido answered promptly as he directed Ryūko to focus on Maiko.

"I don't care who you are, but you are still going to die no matter what," Maiko shouted with a maniacal look on her face as the plates on her sphere-like lower body opened up revealing four different limbs each one with a deadly weapon. One limb had a scissor-type hand, the second a drill, hammer, and the fourth limb held a large buzz saw. Then from the bottom, a fifth limb appeared with a chain-saw attachment hooked up to the sphere-like lower body.

Attacking head-on Maiko tried to decapitate the duo as Maiko began monologuing.

"Once I have your Kamui I could become a one-star, no a two-star or even one of the Elite Four, but no why stop there when I could steal the throne from Lady Satsuki and maybe even become Viceroy of Area 11 in her place," Maiko announced before laughing maniacally.

"There are several problems with your plan," Mr. Bushido began as he proceeded to list out some of said problems. "One while a Kamui is very powerful it would not be enough to allow you to maintain your position of Viceroy even if by some chance you did manage to steal the throne as you put it without a lot of supporters. Second, the most important issue is that Kamui Senketsu was created with Ryūko Matoi's DNA which means that no one but her can use Senketsu to its full potential while it would reject you."

"WHAT," Maiko exclaimed in shock as that bit of information about Ryūko's Kamui was not shared with her when she last spoke to her *real* superiors.

"How the hell do you know that," Ryūko demanded.

"No time to explain so fight now and ask questions later," Mr. Bushido said before activating his own uniform, which similar to the Three-Star Goku Uniforms underwent its own transformation in a fury of bright stars that sparkled over the masked man.

When the flash of light cleared, the masked man was encased in what could be called a suit of futuristic samurai armor that made him look like a miniature giant robot of some kind. The armor was polished black metallic plating with a thin and streamlined design. The helmet was unique with no eye holes and a single piece visor concealing the face of the wearer and a giant pair of curved horn-like antennas.

"Behold my uniform, Masurao Regalia!" Mr. Bushido declared triumphantly while holding his blades in an offensive posture.

"How the hell did you get your uniform, did the Grand Courtier of the Royal Family make that for you?" Maiko asked as her expression was showing how more angry and unhinged she was becoming.

"No I made this myself with a little help getting the needed materials, which was how I made these blades," Mr. Bushido replied as an angry Maiko began her attack.

Ryūko dodged the buzz saw before ducking to slip under the scissor-shaped claw while Mr. Bushido evaded avoiding the chainsaw appendage before sidestepping the hammer-wielding limb. Even though the Trap Master Regalia seemed formidable, it appeared Maiko didn't have much combat experience with it despite its assortment of weaponry.

Ryūko dodged another attack, but this time it was from the arm equipped with the drill. Using her scissor blade, she cut off the arm literally disarming Maiko of her uniform's drill.

However for each weaponized appendage, they destroyed Maiko was capable of switching it out for another, but even so, she was in a stalemate as her foes were faster and agiler than she was allowing them to land more blows on her than she could on them.

Realizing the situation was turning sour for her Maiko began looking around for some way to tip the scales back into her favor. An idea came to her when she saw Kallen standing with Mako, so with an evil smirk upon her face Maiko's began making a dash towards the students intending to use them as human shields against Ryūko and the masked man, but as Kallen stood defiantly ready to defend Mako a colossal person landed in-between them and Maiko.

"Three Star Goku Uniform: Shackle Regalia," Gamagōri roared arriving on the scene as he activated his own uniform covering his entire body in a diabolical-looking mummy-like bondage suit. Despite Maiko being shocked at Gamagōri's appearance, she continued her attack slashing away with her blades and weapons from her trap master uniform while her two arms also transformed into a pair of Gatling Guns.

"Maiko Ōgure you are under arrest for conspiracy to overthrow Lady Satsuki surrender now or else," Gamagōri said with a frightening level of calm to his tone, but his eyes hid the level of fury he held towards the traitorous student just waiting to be unleashed.

"How the hell did you find out?" Maiko said as she lost all remaining sense of self-control as she began attacking Gamagōri in a wild frenzy.

"That would be your own fault because Mako didn't hang up the phone so I heard everything, and so did my phone which I used to make a recording of your little declaration of overthrowing Satsuki Kiryūin. From there it was just a matter of asking Mr. Mikisugi to forward a copy of the confession with a little message attached to a certain someone," Lelouch answered as he had a sinister smile on his face. Maiko had made a HUGE mistake in overlooking the fact that Mako did not hang up her phone allowing Lelouch to not only overhear everything but he was in a position to inform the Disciplinary Committee of Maiko's actions and intentions through his homeroom teacher.

"I can believe you would be so stupid about it," Sanageyama said arriving on the scene as well with his hands crossed over his chest. "I mean you made so many classic villain mistakes it's not even funny, so the threat you represent to the academy is just as credible as one of those lame Saturday morning cartoon villains."

"Regardless the fact you even PLANNED to overthrow Lady Satsuki by stealing Matoi's Kamui shall not be overlooked," Gamagōri roared as Maiko continued her attacks causing the mummified Gamagōri's body to begin to bubble and convulse right before beginning to grow in size. "You threatened your fellow students where it is not your place to do so, and you disobeyed orders, but still those crimes pale in comparison to the fact you intended to overthrow Lady Satsuki…which is UNFORGIVABLE!"

Maiko didn't respond, which was likely because she was too enraged and frightened at the same time to care as she continued her assault on the immobile Gamagōri. A satisfied moan escaped Gamagōri's lips as his body grew larger while the continual attack from Maiko left no damage whatsoever.

"Yes…that's right keep punishing me," Gamagōri cried out.

"Oh right I forgot about this," Sanageyama muttered quietly with some reluctance in his voice as he shielded his eyes while trying not to pay attention to Gamagōri with a look of discomfort on his face, "man what a masochist."

"I don't care, but no matter what I will be at the top…yes, I'll be above all of you," Maiko declared frantically as a clear sign she knew she was good as beaten and just couldn't accept her defeat was inevitable.

"Keep going…keep punishing me because the moment I reach my climax the power that has been building inside of me will explode," Gamagōri declared a shiver of pleasure shot through him. His Shackle Regalia had expanded so much it looked ready to explode any second now, which it did moments later causing an explosion of thorn-covered whips to lash out. Most of which was directed at Maiko who suffered the full blunt of Gamagōri's attack as he shouted, "EVERYWHERE!"

The various weapons Maiko's uniform was armed with was destroyed, and her uniform was severely damaged by Gamagōri's retaliation as his armor had adopted a new appearance of a more armored version of his Gamagōri's first form consisting of black armor with orange trim and spikes upon it.

"Three Star Goku Uniform: Scourge Regalia," Gamagōri declared as Maiko was blown back by Gamagōri's destructive counterattack.

"I am not…b…beaten yet," Maiko said struggling to get back up, but her uniform was on the verge of breaking apart.

"Your ass is grass bitch," Ryūko shouted launching an attack on the weakened Maiko as her scissor blade transformed. "Scissor Blade: Decapitation Mode… Sen'i Sōshitsu (Fiber Loss)!"

Slashing Maiko's uniform right down the middle it was wholly shredded apart seconds later as the life fibers composing it were then absorbed into Senketsu. Maiko fell to the ground in her birthday suit; although she recovered quickly, she began trembling in terror as Gamagōri loomed over her.

"Your assistance was unnecessary, but not unwelcomed Matoi," Gamagōri said stoically as he changed back to his regular appearance.

"I wanted to pay that bitch back for that little sand trap stunt," Ryūko answered before transforming back into normal.

"Fine, but I advise you, Mankanshoku, and Stadtfeld report to class immediately because you have five minutes before you are late," Gamagōri warned with his giant arms folded upon his chest.

"Don't worry that cowardly traitor will get hers," Sanageyama said as he approached the fallen and fearful Maiko, but he was looking around for the masked man who was helping Ryūko earlier, but he had likely slipped away in the chaos following Gamagōri's appearance.

Even though it was an excellent opportunity for he and Gamagōri to attack and deal with Ryūko for events from the previous day they had strict orders from their superior to leave Ryūko Matoi be despite having done enough to justify being arrested for attempting to attack Satsuki on Ryūko's first day at the academy. It was apparent to members of the Elite Four that Satsuki Kiryūin had plans in mind for Ryūko Matoi hence why she was being allowed to walk free.

Ryūko, Kallen, and Mako hurried off to class leaving Gamagōri and Sanageyama to deal with Maiko.

"Now for you, we're going to lock you in the Time Out Chamber until Lady Satsuki returns to decide your punishment, but until then I am going to ask the Interrogation Department to keep you company. You are going to tell us where you got that uniform from," Gamagōri said with repressed anger as he wanted to punish Maiko for her treachery against Lady Satsuki and the Academy on the spot.

However, he recognized that Lady Satsuki would wish to her interrogated to learn about who she was working for and how she got that Three Star Uniform when the only ones that should exist are the ones he and other members of the Elite Four were wearing that were made by the Sewing Club.

"No I…uh…I," Maiko said fearfully before without warning she was engulfed in blue flames as the young woman was being burned alive from the inside out. She began screaming in pain as both Sanageyama and Gamagōri jumped back out of instinct and shock at what was happening.

"What the hell," Sanageyama muttered as Maiko was latterly burning before them, but no one could understand what had caused it.

Gamagōri and members of the Disciplinary Committee who had arrived on the scene to assist with Maiko's arrest tried using Fire Extinguishers to put out Maiko and save her life so they could interrogate her, but it wasn't enough as Maiko died moments later as the injuries she suffered were too extreme.

"Damn it there goes our lead on that uniform she had and who made it," Gamagōri cursed as he gestured for a moment of his committee to summon a cleanup crew to take care of the remains of the dead student before them.

"Whoever made her uniform has some serious backing to have been able to rig that girl to burst into flames like that, but I'll ask the Information Committee to review the video footage for anything useful," Sanageyama said as he was going to do what he could to salvage the situation for their leader.

"I'll have the body taken to the morgue to be examined, but in the meantime, I'll double security around the academy and prepare a report for Lady Satsuki," Gamagōri said with the utmost professionalism.

He was disappointed at the situation yet he was hopeful whatever information they could collect and have ready for Satsuki when she returned the duo hoped it would be plenty to work with.


A short time later with two minutes to spare after running for their classroom Ryūko, Kallen and Mako made it just in time as the trio staggered into the classroom. All three were momentarily shocked by the fact that over half of the class was empty with about ten students left, which was not including Lelouch and Suzaku who to the shock of the trio had arrived ahead of them.

"Suzaku how the heck did you get here so quick," Kallen asked as she was apparently surprised to see Suzaku had somehow beat them to homeroom.

"After you three left me behind I used the mind detector Lelouch gave me to travel across the minefield, and I got here ahead of you three because all of that chaos you guys were causing. It made it easier for me to evade the Knightmare Frames patrolling the one-star districts since they were all too busy chasing you," Suzaku replied while he looked at the three with a look of mild annoyance on his face.

"We're so sorry about that," Ryūko said with her hands up defensively. "We didn't realize we left you behind until we got to the front gates."

Suzaku sighed deciding to forgive them, "Well I'll forgive you guys this time, but just be more careful ok."

"HEY LELOUCH," Mako said happily as she was hopping up and down next to the young man's desk. In response, Lelouch pulled out a giant wheel of Roquefort blue cheese that originated from France and was the world's best known Blue Cheese.

"You earned it Mako," Lelouch said handing the wheel over to ever eager Mako.

The girl looked at it with stars in her eyes before ripping off the plastic wrapping and proceeded to devour the whole thing in a matter of seconds. Ryūko with an irritated look approached the side of Lelouch's desk with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Yes Ryūko," Lelouch asked with a kind smile, but he had a bad feeling this might not end well.

"You damn crafty bastard you skipped out on No-Late Day, but," Ryūko said as a part of her wanted to hit Lelouch for chickening out like that, but then her anger died down with a faint smile, "thanks for helping out with Mako, although I am not sure about the part where you called in reinforcements like that."

"It was no problem. I didn't want to see you or Mako get expelled, so I did what I could do to help." Lelouch said with a smile while mentally he was sighing in relief.

I guess that could have ended more poorly than I thought.

"Hey Lelouch I am curious," Suzaku began to inquire with a look of curiosity on his face, "How did you even think to have cheese on hand to motivate Mako with?"

"It began during my first months here when Mako's mother asked me to tutor her daughter to keep her from failing in class as well as…," Lelouch said allowing the sentence to trail off while pointing at a sleeping Mako.

Mako had not only finished off the cheese but was already sleep on her desk with a comically large snot bubble inflating and deflating with each breath.

"I get the feeling you were not very successful the first couple of times," Kallen asked with a deadpan expression.

"No," Lelouch said before sighing as he called that after a few days of trying to get Mako to pay attention and learn something he almost thought about giving up until a gift of cupcakes had arrived for him sent by his sister. "Three days of trying different methods amounted to nothing, but when Nunnally sent me some cupcakes by means of mail delivery Mako's eyes and attention were upon those cupcakes, so I began using food as motivation, especially sweets and cheese. I found that rarer and harder to get foods had much greater appeal."

"So it actually worked," Ryūko asked with an understandably confused expression upon her face.

"Yes oddly enough and soon I used it to motivate her to make it through No-Late Day allowing her to make it to class on time," Lelouch answered shrugging his shoulders.

This caused Kallen, Suzaku and Ryūko to each imagine Mako comically rushing through all of the traps they had faced. Those traps included dodging and skillfully sidestepping the swinging logs trap and hopping over the rolling boulder sent at them including hoping from the head of those crocodiles to get across the swamp pit, then rushing across the minefield absurdly outrunning the explosions.

Suzaku couldn't help but enjoy a light laugh at Lelouch's method of motivating Mako when he was down envisioning how Mako would have possibly had made it through No-Late Day.

"Well I call that unorthodox, but creative problem-solving."


Meanwhile, in the Britannian Homeland inside Area 51, Nui Harime was making her way through a large chamber as she was exploring deeper and deeper into the underground facilities of the vast complex. A pair of armed guards walked by a stack of cardboard boxes on a wide catwalk that went over a chamber where specialized weapons were being mass produced by the hundreds, but after walking by one of the cardboard boxes began moving as a certain someone wearing pink shoes tiptoed away from the guards going in the opposite direction.

On the automated assembly lines below mechanical arms and machines were assembling a new kind of compact assault rifle modeled after a sewing machine, but it a black and sleek appearance with a unique top-mounted magazine for specially made sewing needle ammunition, but it could be used with an ammunition belt alternatively. It possessed a compact bullpup design with an integrated reflex sight and fully ambidextrous controls allowing for easy use and handily while making it easy to carry and use while on the move.

Its design also featured a means of switching out the sewing needle rounds for different kinds of bullets for different combat situations.

Using her cardboard box disguise, Nui continued down the corridors until reaching a large empty room which looks like some kind of hub for transporting goods and supplies to different parts of the base or at least one of many different centers as it included canes and ceiling mounted railings for lifting and carrying cargo containers.

Once inside the chamber the doors closed behind her locking with even the passageways from which materials and cargo containers are moved were suddenly sealed shut by heavy blast doors. Realizing the jig was up, and the people of the base were on to her Nui discarded her cardboard box disguise.

A couple seconds later two dozen men wearing unique body armor that Nui had never seen before with some evident Japanese influence upon it such as components of its armor being similar to samurai armor combined with elements of European armor as well. For footwear, they wore combat boots with shin guards made of hardened life-fibers. Next, they wore specially designed loose fitting pants with interweaved armor plates that provided decent production but it wouldn't restrict the wearer's movements similar to Kikko kobakama worn by samurai. They wore supply belts that carried a small side arm and pouches and holders for grenades which varied among the soldiers.

Their armor that covered their torso seemed more standard with full metal breastplates of inter-connected plates of metal while they wore armored gauntlets over a full body suit of black fabric complete with black armored helmets with a gas mask and red lenses on it.

The doors behind Nui reopened allowing a dozen more to pour into the room. Their weapons were mixed among them, but those closes to the blonde haired girl were armed with a pair of swords with blue blades that were similar to the blade Satsuki herself uses while the rest of them were armed with compact specialized assault rifles Nui had seen being assembled in the previous room.

"Your outfits look really funny," Nui commented cutely before putting her right index finger to her chin, "Maybe you should have considered brighter colors?"

"Gun her down," One of the Phantom Troopers before unloading clips of specialized alloy-based acupuncture needles that were shaped like sewing needles designed to use against Life Fibers.

Nui began dodging them if in an impressive, if not comical in a way, display of agility and reflexes before using her parasol coupled with the other half of a scissor blade she drew out from the top of her dress. Using both weapons, Nui was deflecting all of the bullets being shot at her while possessing a seemingly bored expression on her face.

"Oh this can't be all you poor grunts are capable of," Nui said while pouting cutely.

"Grenades," One of the troopers shouted as a bunch of lemons were thrown at Nui who looked at them confused.

"Did someone forget," Nui was beginning to say as the lemons impacted her parasol and scissor blade causing them to burst into flames while the other lemons the troopers threw hit the ground erupting into fireballs setting the area where Nui was standing on fire. "Oh that's hot…too hot, but…what a nice lemony smell through."

The weaponized lemons had destructive capabilities similar to small napalm bombs.

Despite having not seen it, Nui Harime had, through unseen means, had narrowly escaped the flames fleeing to another part of the platform where the two dozen soldiers were converging upon her.

"Weird, but kinda neat grenades you guys got," Nui said clapping her hands together with childish glee.

"It's an invention I thought about when was thinking about that old saying, when life gives you lemons you make lemonade," Saihō Harime said speaking to Nui through a PDA system in the room, but his voice was being electronically disguised with deeper and more menacing tone. "So I thought don't make lemonade when you can just make life take the lemons back!"

"Oh yes," Nui said while nodding her head happily.

"I mean instead get mad!" Saihō exclaimed proudly causing Nui to agree with him eagerly. "I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?"

"Yeah, take the lemons!"

"Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give ME lemons!" Saihō announced dramatically. "Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!"

"Oh, I like you," Nui chirped while holding her hands together.

"So I got my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that'll burn your house down and you!" Saihō declared as his soldiers were ready to shoot at Nui some more while others were ready to hurl more weaponized lemons at Nui.

"Burn it down! Burning people…he says what we're all thinking," Nui said before revealing she had a handful of said weaponized lemons, as she had managed to take a couple as the troopers had thrown some at her before they detonated, before hurling them at the enemy soldiers.

The soldiers scrambled while some got hit by the lemons covering four of them in flames as Nui began her counterattack. The three soldiers caught in her attack recovered after dropping onto the ground and rolling to put themselves out.

"Oh goodie it's my turn now," Nui announced happily as she raised her partially burnt parasol before opening it. "Mon-Mignon Prêt-à-Porter," The pigtailed blonde hair girl announced as small paper scraps dropped out of her opened parasol before transforming into two dozen clones of Nui Harime.

"Two dozen against Two dozen so let's go," Nui shouted gleefully before holding up the purple scissor blade as her clones rushed the twenty-four soldiers as a dozen were firing their guns at the horde of clones rushing them while the nine soldiers armed with swords engaged the clones ahead on as a vicious fight broke out.

One of the troopers was the first to fall right after cutting down two of Nui's clones, but the real Nui moved behind the soldiers firing their guns trying to mow down the numerous clones and give their sword-wielding allies a better chance against the clones until Nui Harime proceeded to decapitate them with the purple scissor blade. But the Grand Courtier's enemies were not so easy to cut down as Nui found out as the armor plating their suits had were made of material similar to the Scissor Blade she wielded. However, Nui quickly changed targets towards the joints of her foes where she suspected correctly where the armor would be its weakest.

Some of them turned around to shoot at Nui, but the girl comically and effortlessly dodged the bullets until one of her clones managing to steal a weaponized lemon from one of their foes hit Nui's attacker with said lemon setting them ablaze. Even though their armor affords them excellent protection from such attacks, the flames covering their bodies disrupted their attacks allowing Nui to attack them cutting them down.

Nui was briefly forced on the defensively as more of her clones were being defeated which frustrated and angered the girl until she conjured up more clones with the intent of summoning enough to overwhelm her enemies and end the battle. Even so, the soldiers did not fall easily taking out some clones before the sheer number of clones overwhelmed them, which surprised the blonde haired girl as she wasn't accustomed to running into such difficulties.

The battle dragged on for twenty minutes until the last soldier fell after Nui sliced his head off, but after his body fell to the ground, the girl proceeded to examine his armor taking a closer look at it.

"Oh I see, so the clothing worn under the armor is similar to the one-star uniforms Satsuki is making, so that's why they were stronger than ordinary humans," Nui said with childish glee at this discovering.

"Well of course," Saihō Harime's electronically disguised voice said in annoyance, "Did you think I would throw such cannon fodder at you without giving them some combat edge against you?"

"Probably," Nui replied before adding, "but I judging by that tone you were not expecting them to win were you?"

"Of course it saves me the trouble of keeping my promise to return them to their homelands if they had been successful in killing you. Those poor idiots were experimental test subjects consisting mostly of POWs I received from the EU who were unfortunate enough to be shipped off to me while being deemed too dangerous to risk being returned to the EU." Saihō explained with a sadistic smile on his face as he had been provided prisoners for his experiments into Life Fibers which included death row prisoners and POWs whose disappearances could be covered up easily.

"Wow you must be really something to have the Emperor give you so many fun things to do," Nui complimented.

"That and more, but why don't I show you what I have been working on," Saihō explained as the heavy armored doors opened and this time a single fifteen-year-old girl entered the room.

She had long blonde hair tied into a pair of pig-tails that hung over her shoulders with a fair skin complexion and red eyes. She used pink ribbons for her pig-tails while wearing what looked to be the standard addition No-Star Uniform of Honnōji Academy, but it had a white and pink color scheme.

"Meet Warrant Officer Alice formerly from the Britannian Special Honorary Foreign Legion," Saihō began kindly as Alice glared emotionlessly at Nui.

"She doesn't look like much," Nui pouted.

"And her Kamui which she named Sanketsu (Suffocate)," Saihō finished as Alice raised her right hand and upon it was a pink fingerless glove similar to the Seki Tekkō to pull the pin found along the wrist.

In a flash of stars and light, Alice transformed as she activated her Kamui before Alice was clad in the active form which was similar to Senketsu as far as the thigh-high boots, the skirt and the armor around the upper torso were like. Instead of the expanded shoulder armor Ryūko's Kamui had the shoulder armor was similar to that of Junketsu. Its armor was primary pink with white trim, and the eyes of the Kamui were yellow with orange irises.

"Oh, I really love the pink on your Kamui," Nui commented with her peppy voice before adopting a slightly more serious expression while waving her right index finger back and forth, "but don't you know for a human to make a Kamui is a serious taboo?"

"That is among the purposes of our experiments here in Area 51, which is we conduct experiments on Kamui and then put through experimenting testing and combat trials. I am taking the concept and ideas of a Kamui well beyond that even Ragyō had ever dared to consider," Saihō Harime explained as O'Malley whom he sent to Area 11 was one such experiment. Alice was part of another experimented related to O'Malley testing Kamui under various combat conditions and how their wearers affect those conditions to test which condition is superior.

"Does that mean you know Lady Ragyō," Nui asked innocently, but she was suspecting whoever was running this place knew a lot more about Life Fibers and Kamui than she had thought.

"Yes you could say that, but I cannot answer any more of your questions," Saihō replied before taking a deep breath. "Alice, kick her ass and then throw her into the disposal rocket."

"Yes sir," Alice replied stoically before rushing at Nui while picking up two swords that lay on the ground that had been left by the killed troopers.

With a fierce battle cry, Alice boldly engaged in head to head combat against Nui Harime as the impact from their blades meeting one another set off a shockwave of power that sent the corpses of the dead soldiers flying.

Even inside his private office and chambers, Saihō Harime could feel the room shake as a result of the shockwave those two were unleashing as their battle began. Todd and Cunningham were apparently concerned about the level of damage the fight could inflict upon the underground base, but Saihō remained unconcerned as he continued watching the battle through the monitors with a big smile on his face.


Later that evening back in Area 11 a pair of businessmen were overlooking a worker operating a forklift he was using to off lord a large truck filled with food supplies and clothing. The truck's cargo was meant for a special welfare distribution center, but it was diverted to a warehouse located along the Tokyo Bay docks where the two men observing the unloading were a discussion about where the shipment was going.

"I know it's for welfare, but why waste it on the Elevens?" A Britannian Businessman with a bald head and wearing a gray suit with a light blue tie and had brown eyes said talking to another businessman wearing a tan business suit with a red tie and possessing brown hair while standing taller than the bald businessman.

"That's why I'm selling it to you, my friend." The taller of the two businessmen answered before adding, "The Eleven population could use a little thinning out if you ask me."

"Your payment will be transferred to your wife's account, but aren't you worried about the Viceroy?"

"Lady Satsuki is more of the warrior type and quite a heartless one to boot who should have been born a Britannian, even so, this sort of thing doesn't interest her all that much." The brown haired businessman answered unaware of the danger outside.

For the last five minutes, a group of people has been surrounding the warehouse

Lelouch as Zero was ready on the roof of the building while at the main entrance after swiftly taking out the guards were Kallen and others wearing their Knight Uniforms, but Kallen was the only one among them wearing one of Naoto's Three-Rank Uniforms.

The standard one-rank uniforms were hip and straightforward as Ohgi put it consisting of dress uniform-style top with gray trimming which could be customized to use a skirt, regular pants or shorts depending on the style of the intended wearer. In Kallen's case, her uniform used the shorts and uniform set coupled with thigh-high black boots and a matching headband matching well with her red hair she had spiked up.

"Are you ready Kallen?" Ohgi inquired as he stood by the door with Inoue, Tamaki and the others.

"Ready…Three-Star Knight Uniform: Kishin Regalia," Kallen said as a sparkle of light enveloped her while Lelouch at that moment smashed through the ceiling skylight.

Readying his swords, Lelouch attacked cleaving the forklift engine in two. The engine exploded before Lelouch proceeded to attack the lightly armed guards who were terrified by the masked being attacking them uncertain if he was human or some kind of monster.

The two corrupt businessmen tried to flee, but their exit was blocked when the doors were slashed to pieces causing the doors to crumble as Kallen blocked the path of the fleeing men. Clad in her Kishin Regalia, the young woman wore a red single piece suit that covered her torso leaving her arms and part of her legs exposed to allow maximum mobility while the rest of her legs and arm were clad in blood red segmented armor. Her outfit came with claw-like hands and heeled boots while her shoulders and head were encased in a helmet-like mask with a black visor giving the appearance of some kind of knight with a pair of small horns on top. Sticking out from her back and her hands were long ribbons with small daggers attached to them that floated and moved according to Kallen's will.

"You greedy, corrupt bastards aren't going anywhere," Kallen declared before drawing a small fork-knife with her right hand.

The rest of the Black Knights dealt with the rest of the guards easily leaving the two terrified men at Zero's mercy.

Lelouch was smiling beneath his mask while thinking, I am just getting warmed up.


Around the same time at a small airport on the outskirts of Osaka, a small private jet was landing at a deserted runaway. After landing it pulled into a hanger where two men in black suits were waiting while around a man who was at least over a hundred years old with long thin white hair and a beard with blue eyes sitting in a wheelchair.

He wore an old forest camouflaged battle dress uniform with polished black boots.

After the private jet came to a complete stop inside the hanger, O'Malley disembarked the aircraft after the doors were opened and the stairs were unfolded allowing him to walk off.

"Its mighty kind of you to meet me, Van Pelt," O'Malley spoke with a surprisingly among of friendliness towards the old man.

"Welcome to Area 11 O'Malley," Van Pelt said returning the greeting.

"Word is there was a bit of trouble at the academy with a traitor I was told you had to torch her before she could spill the beans," The black trench coat wearing assassin inquired.

"Yes, that idiot Maiko tried to steal Ryūko Matoi's Kamui. Thankfully he anticipated she would pull such a stupid move which is why he had made her Three-Star Uniform weak in terms of defense allowing anything above a two star to take it down once they get a good shot in," Van Pelt explained before pulling out a small black PDA unit from inside the shirt pocket of his uniform.

"Little Satsuki must be pretty pissed about now I guess," O'Malley mused before adding with a cruel smile, "I guess she'll be pretty mad once they get a load of me."

"Indeed and I have a selection of weapons ready for you to pick from for your mission."

"Right then head to Honnōji Academy to lie in wait for my target."


A/N: Well that is the end, and the plot is thickening with the appearance of another masked man, who isn't another OC but a character from Kill la Kill and Code Geass. I gave him the name Mr. Bushido as both a nod to the Gundam series he is from and one way to create a hint for his identity as well as a few other clues I put here and there.

Maiko was armed with a Three-Star Uniform herself this time, one provided by Saihō Harime, but it wasn't designed to take a lot of punishment because Saihō and his fellows suspected Maiko would attempt to betray them. And yes her Trap Master uniform was based upon the card of the same name from the Yu-gi-oh trading card series. Since he expected trouble from her, it was made to be the weakest of all of the Three-Star uniforms met.

Kallen's uniform I thought Kishin Regalia sounded like a good name to me, so given Kallen's style of combat which is high-speed close quarters combat so her uniform reflects this made more for quick attacks with some surprises while the armor was made in such a way that it wouldn't hinder mobility and the like. I tried to think of a good and streamlined design for it, so I hope it works. Now for those of you wondering why I didn't make it like the Guren, well the answer is quite simple she'll still be getting said machine later in the story, so I didn't want to confuse anyone.

And how will Nui's trip through Area 51 will end, although she took out the experimental test subjects she is now fighting Alice, yes the same Alice from Nightmare of Nunnally who is wearing a Kamui named Sanketsu which bears some similarities to Senketsu but it is similar to some degree to Junketsu in terms of shoulders.

Even with all of the anti-life fiber weapons, Kamui and uniforms being produced by Britannia, but if anyone thought that puts Ragyō at a disadvantage then you guys are wrong…as next chapter will reveal…I will say no more about it.

Not all of the Knights of the Round and Saihō's experimental test subjects wear Kamui, but there are a couple out there like O'Malley and Alice and even Bismarck. Alice and O'Malley are part of the same expecting testing a specific condition of how much more effective in combat…*spoiler omitted* well I am not going to reveal it and save it for next chapter.

O'Malley I was inspired to do his character based on Sundowner from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and I was also influenced by the abridged movie of Super Android 13 as well to make him different, but yet clearly very dangerous…no offense was intended with his character and personality. But the name O'Malley is another hint at his personality type too.

And yes the lemon napalm bombs were inspired from the series you thought they were if that quote from a specific AI wasn't enough of a giveaway. It was meant to show how eccentric Saihō was as a scientist and how willing he is to weaponize Ryūko's favorite fruit, which is actually part of the reason he weaponized lemons is to make them into weapons to use against Ryūko later.

Then there is Mako and her fighting scenes, considering how formidable Mako becomes when adequately motivated if her time as Fight Club President isn't proof enough I thought there was no reason Lelouch wouldn't have found a way to motivate her when Mako's mother hearing the boy her daughter sits next to in class could tutor her. Although he did find out about that method of motivating her by accident, it worked.

However even though there were some comedic elements in this chapter (which I am trying to keep with some of the zany and funny bits of Kill la Kill), but don't forget I got some dark stuff planned ahead at some point. The fact I killed off Maiko should be a reminder and a warning that I might off characters as the story progresses, but ONLY if their deaths will further the story in the right ways.

Before you ask…no, there will be Zero Requiem in this story.

And no I won't be killing Euphy and Shirley only because when I say I am going to off characters, people assume those two as the ones who typically get killed.

So anyway I'll probably have the next chapter out soon, and I eagerly look forward to your feedback and reviews. They are very helpful.