Chapter 4
Lelouch and Jeremiah faced each other in Lelouch's office, both wore serious faces.
"So what is this about the Damocles not being destroyed Jeremiah?" asked Lelouch.
"Sire please watch this video of the "destruction of the Damocles," said Jeremiah. They turned to screen on the wall were a video began to play. It was from the perspective of what was no doubt a Vincent, it was fighting an Akatsuki in close combat. The Akatsuki brought up its machine gun and attempted blast the Vincent's head off only for the Vincent to use its MVS lance to lop of the offending arm. The arm fell away the gun fire bullets around randomly, the Britannian pilot then rammed his lance into the shoulder off the offending knightmare keeping its arm from moving. The Vincent's machine gun then came into view and the Akatsuki's chest and cockpit were peppered with bullets, after which the Britannian shoved away the dead frame removing his lance.
"FLEIJA launch," came over the Vincent's communication link. The view on the screen turned slightly up to see the Damocles and what appeared to be a rocket heading straight for it. FLEIJA and Eliminator collided and the spherical implosion began the sphere working its way out from its origin and up the Damocles. Then the pink light became blue and the FLEIJA exploded put ward, the view then began to shake and spin, probably from the shock wave hitting the camera. When the spinning stopped the view turned back to where the FLEIJA had gone off there was no sign of the Damocles.
"Did you see what happened to the Damocles before the blue light?" asked Jeremiah. Rewinding the footage and pausing it just before the FLEIJA blast obscured the fortress. Lelouch looked closely at the picture and said, "the Damocles looks, distorted."
"Exactly sir," said Jeremiah "know watch." The video began to play again only in slow motion, as the blue sphere was starting to swallow the floating fortress, the Damocles seemed to become even more distorted till only a blur remained. Then, nothing. With wide eyes Lelouch said, "it disappeared."
"Yes my lord, though I doubt it is in operational fitness. But that begs the question how did it get off the battlefield, and where is it now? Schematics captured from the Toromo Agency show a unknown element used in the construction of the power plant. Our scientist theorize that the unstable FLEIJA reacted with the element and caused this phenomena to happen."
Lelouch rested his elbows on his desk and folded his hands in front of his face humming in thought. "Show restraint on releasing this information, say that it is possible that some of the people on board the Damocles escaped. Set up protocols that should the Damocles, or any of the people aboard, ever be found and the people aboard be alive they are to be captured. Kill only if absolutely necessary, would if needed, stunning is fine, but capture is priority."
"Yes my lord," said Jeremiah. "There is also the information we have retrieved from some of Schniezel's forces we captured, Cornelia apparently attempted to stop Schniezel's plot. She was however wounded and stopped she was then imprisoned aboard, both of these pieces of information could send shock waves through across the world."
"You may release the information on Cornelia, showing that she attempted to stop genocide should help win over some of her former supporters."
"Yes my lord," said Jeremiah as he got up and left.
Tokyo, Japan- Black Knight Council Meeting
"We are all in agreement," said Tamaki. "Japan's situation is dire, so we'll announce our request and intentions tomorrow."
"Sir what about Sugiyama and Minami?" asked a council member. "They have been against us from the start no doubt they'll attempt something to stop this decision tomorrow."
Another member spoke up, "and we know they have been contact with the UFN. Our intelligence division has also reported that an entire UFN corps has disappeared from the mainland, the UFN might be backing the dissidents, therefore there might be a connection here."
"Then increase our defenses hear in Tokyo!" screamed Tamaki. "But do it quietly, and pray my buddy gets here in time."