Don't own the rights to code geass or halo reach... But feel free to tell my how I can, legaly of course.


Turn 3

A well rounded, and funded, school can be a real gold mine. For researchers it's a nexus of both old and new information. To a politician, they're producers of potential voters and great publicity. With soldiers it's a building full of new recruits and supplies. The engineer finds an extensive workshop. A spy, or a Spartan three, see's all of the above.


"So this is the place?" Noble Six said as he passed through the front gate of the Ashford Academy.

"Yep," the AI replied, "it was either this, or raid a military hanger. Schools like this are almost always loaded with useful equipment and supplies."

"And if what you told me is true, it's all state of the art."

While the shuttle had plenty of parts Six could use to repair and upgrade his suit, it lacked the tools and other equipment needed to preform the maintenance on the mojlin armor and other UNSC tech there. The former was actually getting a little overdue for a tune up. Plasma burn, blunt and sharp force impact damage, and an atmospheric reentry would take a tole on any armor. It was a wonder that his suit didn't just seize up on the spot.

"Of course let's not forget your other reason for coming here." Phillips said.

"The pilot of the red mech. What did the other guy call her? Kallen?"

"Affirmative."

"How'd you track her to this school?" Six asked as he navigated through the students with his active camo.

"It wasn't easy." the AI replied switching to a rather pissed off tone. "Software security might be a joke but navigating the network is like moving through mud. I stumbled across some footage of her arriving on campus this morning. I swear this stuff is going to drive me rampant."

Noble Six knew that wasn't true. Phillips actually wanted to search for that girl's face in the network. Digital needle in a hay stack search, any excuse to do anything. He was just ornery because he found he by pure chance.

Phillips was a digital entity in an analog age. He was getting cabin fever without any mainstream networks, or other AIs or people to talk with on a large scale. He'd seen it before. Some experts even said it could even shave a year off its operational life span if not handled quickly.

When Noble Six came back to the ship after the military were called off. He had Phillips explain more about the world they had come to. One of his biggest shocks was the real difference in the calendars.

The date said 2017 but stellar cartography actually put it at 1955. Apperantly the dark ages ended a little early in this reality.

Once he'd learned enough Six went about constructing a com relay system out of anything he could salvage from the shuttle to stay in contact with the it's AI. It took all night but the fact he was at the school and talking with the AI that was still at the underground hide out proved it was working.

Back on the ship Phillips hologram smiled. "It may have been pure chance that she goes to this school, but I'll see if I can accesss the school's data base and pull up her class schedule and home address."

"Good," but Six however wasn't smiling. "But what I really want is the king."

'The man that was moving the pieces.' he thought.

"There are a lot of things I can do to find him. I can tap into every phone line and run the voice sample against…"

"The entire world?" Six said, interrupting him.

"The greater Tokyo area. I'm a smart AI, but I have my limits in this primative network."


In a building just off the main campus. Nicknamed the student council clubhouse by the other students. Lelouch was quickly woken from his attempted nap.

"Wake up Lelouch. I know you were sleeping, your hand stopped moving" shouted Milly Ashford, while bonking the exhausted vice president over the head with a handful of rolled up papers.

"Well you don't have to beat me up over it, do you?" Lelouch retorted. He was lucky they were only doing club budget work. All the school's text books were hard cover.

"Ah, serves you right for ditching me like that" council secretary, Rivalz, said.

"That's right. What was up with you yesterday?" Shirley asked, while giving him a suspicious glance.

Lelouch tried to mask the nervousness he suddenly had. "Oh...Well"

He was so tired from that episode in Shinjuku that he'd put off making up a cover story when he got home.

Thankfully the student council president, Milly, decided to interrupt. Saving Lelouch from the preverbal interrogation light.

"That's enough you guys. Let's not get sidetracked here. If we don't come up with a fix for the club activities budget, there won't be money left for anything at all."

"And if it comes to that point..." Nina started from her spot in the corner at her computer.

"...the equestrian club will be pissed. We don't want them coming in here on horseback" Rivalz finished.

"Rivalz, can't you be a more serious student council member?" Milly commented with a stern look. Not noticing a member of said club was riding past the window behind her.

"You know it would have been nice of you if you would have told us about this mess days ago." Shirley said.

"I would have to say a day later. Then we would have given up." Rivalz said jokingly.

"Good idea, we can still do that!" Lelouch added.

The prez however wouldn't have it.

"GUTS" shouted Milly, and the entire student council cringed at the volume of her voice.

"Are you trying that 'guts' spell again?" Rivalz asked.

"Yup. I want you people to start giving your all into this." She replied with her, ever present, perky attitude. It was her own style of passive aggressiveness.

"I don't think your magic is going to do a whole lot" Lelouch commented.

"Actually it's got me going Madam President" Shirley argued with a smile. She was the energetic type.

"Supple and willing, that's what I like" Milly commented, giving her a sly glance.

"I train hard in the gymnastics club" Shirley agreed, pumping her arm.

"That's not what I was getting at." Milly continued.

"Huh?"

"You're a ten." Milly commented.

"Huh?" Shirley asked. She followed Milly's eyes down to her chest.

"From what I have seen in the girl's bathroom anyway. You've been filling out in all the right places huh" Milly continued, showing one of her 'playful' quirks.

"Uh-oh" Rivalz uttered out, looking at Shirley in a different light.

"What are you talking about, you perv!" Shirley shouted, covering her arms over her chest, feeling like they could suddenly see through her school uniform.

"Oh you're so easy to tease" Milly giggled.

Shirley continued to hold her chest and blush in embarrassment, and a little frustration since the one person she wanted to look at her was staring strait at his papers.

Lelouch took another look around the room. Nearly dying puts a lot of things in perspective, and while he knew everyone in the room. He wanted to remember this moment of… normalcy.

The one who had knocked him on the head with a roll of papers was the student council president, Milly Ashford, was a tall girl with dirty blond hair and a year older than everyone else. She was easily one of the prettiest girls in school. Of course since her family was former nobility it wasn't that big a surprise.

Then there was Shirley Fenette, a member of the gymnastic and swim clubs. She was an achiever, but not so much that it was an annoyance. She was about the same height as Lelouch with orange hair that ran down to her waist. There was something else too, something about her that kept drawing him towards her but he just couldn't place it.

Third was council secretary and partner in crime Rivals Cardemonde. There was actually an interesting story behind the blue haired boy's attendance at the academy. Cardemonde was actually his mother's maiden name. Rivalz family was based in the California province; apparently he had a falling out with his father that landed him in area eleven. This information was a secret between the two of them. So secret in fact that not even the Ashford's knew.

And the last member of the council, Nina Einstein. She was without a doubt the smartest girl in the whole school. Even the task of sorting out the whole budget could have been finished minutes after starting by her alone if it wasn't for one small hitch she had developed. Every waking moment of every day that didn't absolutely require her to physically be somewhere else, was spent in front of that computer. Apparently she had stumbled on some sort of elemental equation, and anyone that tried to listen to her explain it would do one of three things: fall asleep, get a really bad head ache, or run from the room screaming.

Several hours later, they managed to leave the Council meeting to go to their class rooms and mingle with their classmates.

"Geez, our President is just a dirty old man on the inside. Sullying the meaning with her filthy mind" Shirley said, commenting on their friend's sense of humor.

"That's Milly for you" Nina said. It was one part of her more 'playful' side.

"Well look on the bright side we got the budget balanced didn't we." Rivalz commented as they walked into their home room class, which was a buzz.

"They used poisoned gas" someone said out loud.

The council members looked around to see several people hovering over different laptops lying around the room. On the screens was a news report running about a terrorist attack in the Shinjuku ghetto.

"Man that's freaky. Shinjuku is only 30 minutes away" a student commented.

"Shinjuku?" Shirley asked Lelouch, since he had called and asked her about it yesterday.

"I heard about it in real time from a friend. That's why I called you yesterday." he said.

"Hey check out the footage of those dead elevens" someone shouted out.

"Ugh don't look at that!" A female student said in disgust.

'This is strange, why would they cover it up?' Lelouch thought before he suddenly bent forward with a hand over his mouth. Like he was about to throw up. The memory of killing his brother was still fresh in his mind, and it was making him sick.

After a short while, Lelouch came out of a lavatory stall, looking slightly better and started to wash up.

'Are they covering up his death to fend off anarchy?' he thought, trying to clear his head and understand where things were going. 'If that's the case, and they finally do announce it...'

Despite how serious things were Lelouch couldn't shake the fact that he shot his brother in cold blood.

"I guess I'm not as tough as I thought I was." he said softly. Lelouch then walked about the hallways alone, his friends had decided to give him some space after his little episode. During this walk he came upon a member of the cafeteria staff. A young woman dressed as a maid, pushing a trolley filled with frosted pastries topped with various glazed fruits. She was an eleven, maybe a year younger than him, if her height was a given factor.

'I should test my powers.' he thought.

"Excuse me."

"Yes?" she asked, completely unaware of what was going to happen next.

Lelouch then focused and felt that same warm prickle he felt when he used it back in Shinjuku.

"Feed that strawberry to me?" he asked.

"Yes. Here you go." the young maid did as Lelouch ask without question, or any other emotion at all.

'Good, she obeyed.' He spotted the hard to catch red glow in her eyes, letting him know he was in total control.

Once the maid had done what he asked the red glow faded and she was back to normal. "Oh! What was I just doing?" she couldn't remember the last minute.

Lelouch then repeated his command.

"Now take that grape and feed it to me."

Instead of obeying, the girl's face suddenly turned beet red. "Why do I have to do that? Please don't tease me." then she did the only thing she could in her position. Go back to the trolley and push it as fast as she could without breaking into a run.

Lelouch was confused. 'It didn't work. Why? What does this mean?'


At that same moment, margrave Jeremiah and his subordinate Villetta Nu were being driven to the military barracks

"That ex-civil servant is such a fool." Jeremiah grumbled.

"So are you referring to Bartley?" Villetta asked. Knowledge of the viceroy's death had almost been kept from them. But through some forgotten link in the chain of command the news was slipped to the margrave.

"The killer has breached our highest level of security twice already. This defunctory inspection is a farce." Bartley and the other senior staff had failed in a very royal way and were looking for an escape. Considering the extent of the damage. "First when the terrorist's stole the gas capsule. Then again when the prince was murdered inside the G1 mobile base."

Villetta knew the time couldn't be better. "Margrave Jeremiah, now that prince Clovis is out of the way we pure bloods can-" the margrave calmly interrupted her with a raised finger.

"Let me make that call. We still need to win everyone over."

"Your right."

"Besides, I'd like a chance to question this survivor you found."


"Seriously? How does a spartan get lost in a hallway." Phillips said as Noble Six passed the same class room for the seventh time.

"The ATLAS map says there's a maintanance elevator to the sub floors right here."

"That's the first floor, you're on the second."

Noble Six sighed before heading for the nearest-

"Kallen it's been ages!"

Six did an immediate 180 at the open classroom before quckly sticking his head into the room and slipping in. There twords the back of the class was a small cluster of girls. In the middle was a 17 year old girl, with blue eyes, straight red hair that cut off an inch above her shoulders, and a rather meek expression on her face.

Her appearance was so contrary to before that for a moment the spartan thought he had the wrong girl, until he heard her speak. "Yeah, I just have to go easy for a little while." She said in a soft voice. "Anyway if I stay at home any longer I'll never catch up."

With all the girls surrounding her like that the spartan couldn't get near her. So Noble six decided to take up a section of wall behind two boys that seemed to have their own interest in the Kallen girl. According to the school listing Phillips had provided they were Lelouch Lamperouge and Rivalz Cardemonde.

"What's up buddy, see something you like." Rivalz asked as he followed his friends gaze to the new and yet familiar girl. "You've got a thing for her, don't ya?" he commented. It sounded like He said it in jest but it was more out of curiosity since Lelouch had never stared at another girl that intensely before.

"Just thinking this is a rare event. She hasn't been here at school since this whole term started." Lelouch replied as the group of girls laughed together.

Rivalz could tell his friend wanted to know more, this was his way of asking.

Rivalz donned his signature smile as he began giving out facts about the girl like he was reading a dossier, instead of reciting it all from memory.

"Kallen Stadtfeld. They say she's sick or something and she barely showed up at school last year either. Still her grades are at the top of the class. And she's a member of the Stadtfeld family, which means she's well-bred and rolling in money. Man you sure know how to pick'em."

Rivalz getting the wrong idea was something Lelouch was all too familiar with. "It's not like that." he said.

"Ah you don't have to hide it, a touch too sheltered though if you ask me."

"Wow," Phillips said after hearing the blue haired boy's description, "who do you supose that kid is, the school info broker?"

"Maybe," Six said as he left the classroom to resume hi search, "but that's not going to be much use to us."

"Speak for yourself. Thanks to that kid, I finally have a last name and home address to work with."


By lunch Kallen and her, school, friends were enjoying an outdoor meal, until…

"A bee! A bee!"

"Oh my god Kallen run" another shouted before they all ran away.

Kallen stood up calmly with her lunch and ran behind a bush nearby. Away from the girls and the offending bug.

"I don't get it, why is a bee after me" she whispered. She then swiped at it as it flew past her, killing it in one stroke.

"God I hate this. I'm sick of acting like a freaking invalid" she said, temporally turning into her normal self. Then took a bite of her sandwich.

Noticing someone to her left she turned to find Lelouch standing right next to her cover could be salvaged she immediately slipped back into her alter ego.

"Can...Can I help you with something?" she asked. Trying to play the part of a girl with a weaker constitution.

However the fallen prince was not fooled. Nor did he want to bother with the theatrics of playing along. So he simply activated his power and asked her directly.

"I want answers. Were you the one in the red Glasgow?"

"Yes." she said with the same dead pan tone Lelouch had come to expect from those he used his power on.

"Why? You're a Britannian. Why fight on the eleven's side?"

"I'm Japanese." she answered "Although I'm also half Britannian."

"Half-blood!?" Kallen's response greatly shocked Lelouch. Most people who had even a fraction of a different heritage were treated the same as any non Britannian. Her father must have gone to great lengths to keep her true heritage a secret.

Lelouch continued to question her. Learning more about her and the group she travels with. Until he was confident he had enough information and released his control.

For a brief moment she seemed confused.

"Um...did you want something?"

"No, I got what I wanted here" he said and turned away.

'Geese, what a jerk' she thought, completely oblivious to what had just transpired.

However as Lelouch started to walk away, the thought of a possible lose end came up. "Oh wait, just to be sure. Don't tell anyone about Shinjuku" he told her, geass fully activated once again.

This time however his words seemed to alarm her. "What do you mean about Shinjuku?" she asked timidly. "Why would you say that?"

For a moment Lelouch was shocked. "Go back to class" He said, ordering her with his power again.

"As soon as I get an answer to my question, I will" she replied with a little more force in her voice.

Lelouch was again surprised. Once again his new power had failed him. Only now there could be more dangerous consequences.

On impulse he started to back away.

"Hey Lulu, Kallen!"

The two students looked up to find Shirley waving from the second story window of the school.

"You know it's time to head over to the chem Lab. you'd better get a move on!" Shirley shouted.

"Oh crap, it's my turn to set up for class!" Lelouch shouted then ran away in a panic, before Kallen could stop him.

For the rest of the day when Lelouch wasn't focusing on his studies or committing what Kallen told him to memory Lelouch racked his brain to figure out what had happened. Despite all his intelligence which he was famous for, Lelouch couldn't crack the secrets of his geass. All because of one simple fact, he knew practically nothing about it.


At the end of the day Lelouch came home, he made a promise to someone. As he approached the door to the dining room he heard two people conversing.

"What shall we do? He may be late again this evening."

The first was the maid Sayoko Shinozaki. She was on loan to them from the Ashford family. Over the years Lelouch had learned to put a lot of trust in her.

"I'll wait; he said we'll have dinner together tonight."

The second belonged to the most precious person to Lelouch, his little sister Nunnally.

In the dining room they were doing an old Japanese activity to pass the time.

"There now, this one's finished."

"Oh?" Ms. Sayoko then gently placed the folded paper creation in her hands. "A bird?" she asked after getting a feel for its shape.

"Yes, it's a crane."

"Amazing! The Japanese are so skillful." then she turned to face the door.

"Lady Nunnally?" the maid asked.

Then as if on cue her older brother Lelouch walked through the door and happily said. "I'm home. Sorry I'm so late."

"Hi Lelouch. Welcome home." no matter what kind of day it was Nunnally was always happy to hear her older brother.

"Yes, welcome home my lord." Ms. Sayoko added after standing up to bow.

"No place like it Sayoko, right Nunnally?"

Lelouch took a good long look at his little sister. It had been over seven years since the 'incident.' the terrorist attack that claimed their mother and Nunnally's ability to walk. Her eye sight was quick to follow as the trauma was too much for a seven year old girl to take and her violet eyes would close forever since then. Her light brown hair had grown out over the years, reaching well past her shoulders and down her back.


In a secure bunker deep in the Tokyo settlement, general Bartley was meeting the late prince's secret R&D group. Giving them the bad news.

"As you know the project was a complete failure. There for, this research division is being gutted."

"But sir!" one of the young scientists said, as everyone suddenly looked very scared.

Their operation was black ops, and worse, an unsanctioned one. With the prince dead their protection was gone. Even worse, after all their work they had nothing to show for it. This would most likely mean arrests, if not execution.

"Relax," Bartley said "I've set up a place for you at Narita. Move everything out there. While we have no memory of it, fact is I and the other staff officers left prince Clovis on his own." The whole thing was still a mystery, all he remembered from it was a soldier walking in and then they were all outside the mobile fortress. "I'm going to be called out on the carpet for this."

Everyone gave a slight shudder at that remark. The carpet Bartley had referred to was the long stretch of carpeting that lead right to the foot of the emperor's throne. A place praised by his favored and feared by the despised.

"Understood sir! We'll start prepping immediately." the lead scientist said before the meeting finally ended.

As they all got up and began the business of dismantling their Laboratory, a camera in a wall mounted terminal used for video communications shut off.

"That's another black ops R&D research group for the watch list." Phillips said to himself as he added the project named code R to the government secrets list. "This one gets to be rather high on that list as well. I mean immortal soldiers? Unbelievable."


"Ms. Sayoko was just teaching me about origami. Fold a piece of paper the correct way and you can make birds, bouts, almost anything."

During her recounting of her day Nunnally was getting so excited she started to spill the soup they were having for dinner.

"Easy there, you don't have to tell me everything at once. It's not like I'm going anywhere."

"Yea your right, thank you."

"You're very welcome."

"I'm so happy, because last night you scared me a little."

For a moment Lelouch paused. "Did I? Sorry, I just have a lot on my mind that all."

Nunnally knew her brother well enough to catch more meaning to those words than he let on. So she decided to change the subject.

"Hey, they say if you fold a thousand of these cranes your wish will come true. So if there's anything at all that you've been wishing for..."

More than a handful of ideas came to his mind but Lelouch kept them to himself and simply answered "Not really, what about you? Do you wish for anything?"

"I wish the world was a gentler place." Nunnally said after giving it some thought

"When the day finally comes when you can see again it will be."

"Really?"

"I promises." he knew she couldn't see but Lelouch smiled all the same for her sake, but he knew there was more to it. Living in hiding like the were limited their options for the future. It is only thanks to the Ashford family that they were able to live happily like this for the past seven years, but Lelouch knew it couldn't last forever.


"Must you spend the night there? There are cots back on the ship." Phillips asked as Noble Six moved another crate into place, finishing his special duck blind. While he could keep the active camo running all night it was starting to tax his power supply. He'd only been able to keep it running this long by shutting down his shields.

"A tempting offer but the armor still needs a few more tweaks before I can leave." Six said as he tested the crate lid that would act as the door. So far everything was working order. Then came the final touch, a low powered flashbang, UNSC grunts called them party crackers. Primarily used on soft targets or taining exercises, during spartan boot camp his brothers and sisters would rig a collection of them to a trip wire ring as a early warning system.

"Fine, just don't do anything stupid." The AI said before signing out for the night.

"Like forgeting to add land marks and room nubers to the ATLAS's map of the school." Weather the AI heard Six's final coment remained unanswered, not that the spartan cared. After finding Kallen the spartan had spent the rest of he day getting turned around by the fact that he had no way of telling which room was what and where. After bumping into fourteen kids, knocking over seven teachers, walking into two girls bathrooms, and quite sure he stepped on the janitor's foot. He raided a school locker for a student hand book, with a school map in the back.


The next morning was a light blur for Lelouch. He was vaguely aware of his surroundings since he was focused solely on his new source of power." This is the only weapon I have, but I don't even know how to use it."

So far he could still count the number of times he used it on one hand. Yet no number could cover the questions about it. Is it running out? Could it only be temporary? Is it already gone? What are its limits?

Right at that moment his history teacher, moving between class rooms, decided to get him focused on the real world. "Lelouch! Class will be starting any minute you know. Better get a move on."

"Yes sir." at that moment Lelouch decided now was a good a chance as any to find out more.

"Um sir, what are the topics going to be for the essays on your next exam?"


In the Britannian consulate's medical ward, Jeremiah entered the recovery room of the lone survivor of the butchered team.

She was a total mess. The damaged leg had to be amputated since the bones in the knee had resembled a mix of sand and crushed gravel. The broken limb was in a cast as it should be but…

She didn't want to sit still, every time one of the doctors or nurses moved she'd whip around to focus on them, watching them move. Waiting for something unexpected to happen

The margrave could have waited, could have come back after the woman had calmed down, but a great man had been killed and he wanted answers. So Jeremiah calmly asked the woman a simple question. "Soldier what happened out there?"

Yet the margrave's question seemed only to invoke only more fear in her. "I… I don't really know. We were lining up e… el…" she started to say elevens like most Britannian would but she stopped herself, scared again like a child about to be struck for saying a bad word before continuing, "people for execution when we were attacked."

"Who were they? Were they locals? Terrorists? Could you tell what group they were from?"

The soldier could only shake her head no and said "I only remember how many. Just one."

"One? Just one eleven did all this?"

"It was no man. It was… a mon- no, a demon! It was around us, among us. Barely there one second then gone the next. We all unloaded over a dozen clips and…" she got quiet all of a sudden. Jeremiah slowly moved closer. Then she reached out with her good arm grabbed him by his lapels and pulled him in with a strength Jeremiah had never seen before as she shouted. "It Would Not DIE!

"Get a hold of yourself soldier." Jeremiah shouted as he struggled to free himself from her iron grip.

Then her grip suddenly loosened as her eye lost their focus. Her heart monitor followed next as the beats became increasingly erratic, then dangerously, slow.

"She's going into shock!" a nurse shouted as she pushed the margrave away to preform CPR.

Jeremiah had heard about soldiers that narrowly survived a battle. Or been seriously injured and how some had been unhinged by the experience. Had he not read her file before coming here he would not have believed she was a soldier.

The soldier would live, but that would be the last time anyone would ever hear her speak.


Back at school Kallen began her routine of checking in with Ohgi.

"So, how's campus life treating you?" He asked.

"Stifling. I was stuck in history class yesterday. Look maybe I should head back." it wasn't that Kallen didn't like going to school, lately she was just feeling crowded. Like she'd acquired an extra shadow.

Sadly the news Ohgi gave was unsatisfactory. "The army is on high alert right now. Stay there and let things cool off."

"But what about the voice on the radio? Or the thing that destroyed the tank?" she asked.

"Can't go looking for either of them right now. Besides Naoto would be happy to see you back in school. Forget about Shinjuku for now. I'll be in touch."

Kallen calmly put her phone away. "Shinjuku. I guess he's right but..."

Then she suddenly remembered that kid Lelouch saying not to talk about Shinjuku. Why would he say something like that unless he knew more than the others? Plus now that she thought about it there was something in of that tone of his she recognized.

"No, it couldn't have been his voice."


Down under the school Noble six and Phillips had hit the mechanic's jackpot. Just under the school's front lawn was the knightmare hanger. It wasn't really that hard to find since the storage area that Noble six spent the night in was right next door.

"This place is amazing. Some of this equipment can only be found in high level machine shops." Six said looking over the tables and storage racks.

"Or is still in development." Phillips added as he watched through the Spartan's camera. Then something in the background, "what's that over there." Six's eyes wandered for a while, Phillips was starting to think he was going to have to point it out. Then he found it, accross the hanger was a line of machines.

"Are those knightmares?" Six asked as he got close enough to use the tech analyzer which answered with a resounding "Yes."

It was a line of MR-1 knightmare frames. Acording to Phillips information, the MR-1 was the base modle for the current knighmare frames. It was also the only model allowed to be used by the civilian sector.

Noble Six then noticed a different machine at the end of he line of MR's. This one had a blue paint job with gold trim, extremely gangly arms, and an open air cockpit. "This must be an old prototype of some sorts."

"That's not all," the AI added as he brought several images of it up next to the 3D rendering on the Spartan's HUD. "Its the Ganymede. The only third generation knightmare still up and running."

Images and news articles zipped through the Spartan's vision, quite a few noted its test pilot, knight of 6 Marianne Lamperouge. The spartan however just rolled his eyes as he removed the images from his vision as the articals got to be more about her, the last one he saw was a pointless piece about a promotion to knight of two and marrige to a member of the royal family. However all they had really done was find an obsolete wind up toy. It was then something familiar caught Noble Six's eyes. On the table next to him was a heavy power ratchet head. Within seconds Six was applying it to the mjolnir's chest plate.

"What are you doing?" Phillips asked as the armor from the uper torso fell to the floor.

"Contrary to popular belief it is possible to develop an itch in this armor." But that wasn't why Six had removed that section of his armor, "Also the armor's reactor output has been fluctuating since last night. I need to make sure it doesn't become a problem."


Up above, Lelouch was getting ready to confront his latest problem.

"Hey Lulu you coming along?" Shirley asked as everyone in the classroom began moving on to their after school activities.

"Sorry, maybe some other time." he replied before standing up and walking over to a different group of girls. The red head in the center was his target.

"Hm? What's up?" Kallen asked

"You think you could spare a minute. I need to talk to you" he asked, earning gasps from all the girls in the class.

"Sure" she said before standing up "I was wondering when you were going to ask."

This earned more shocked gasps from the girls, especially Shirley. She watched in shock as Kallen got up and followed him out.

As they walked Kallen noticed they were going to the Student government building. This wasn't unusual since the student council meets there all the time. However the inside was new to her. "I didn't even know this room existed" she commented looking around the vaulted room.

"It's the clubhouse for the student council, they built it as a ballroom for various special occasions." he explained.

"And we won't be disturbed inside here?" she asked as she turned to face him.

"Yes, that is correct" he replied.

That was where fate seemed determined to prove him wrong.

"Here it is" they heard a feminine voice shout from above. The two of them turned to look at the balcony above to see Shirley holding up what looked to be a really tiny computer chip. "This is it right?"

"What a relief you found our lab data" Nina said as she appeared next to her.

"Good my ass is killing me" Rivalz complained as he stretched his back getting up.

Suddenly the down stairs door opened revealing Milly in an apron pushing a trolley full of food out.

"Where you able to find it?" she asked "I finished up on my end, shall we dig in?"

"Oh wow" Rivalz commented looking at the spread.

"Way to go Milly" Shirley said.

"You adore me I know" Milly giggled as She proceeded to put the food on a table.

"Um, what is all of this?" Lelouch asked, as far as he knew the nearest party was going to be at the end of next week.

"Lelouch don't you know, I thought that was why you brought her. We're inducting Kallen into the student council. It was my grandfather's idea." Milly explained.

"The principles?" this was news to Lelouch. Although it wasn't the first time a decision was made and he didn't know about it.

"He thought it best because of her poor health; she would have a harder time with regular club activities." Then she realized they had yet to introduce herself to their new member. "Oh I'm Milly, the president of the council. Pleasure to meet you."

"Oh, thank you, the pleasures all mine" Kallen said, bowing her head gently. As each member introduced themselves she memorized their features.

"I'm Rivalz, the secretary. If there is anything you need help with I'm your man." Kallen had seen him around before. He'd started to get the reputation for being a bookie and information broker.

The next one was the same girl that had called Lelouch from the window the other day.

"Hi I'm Shirley and I'm a member of the swim club. Welcome." Kallen recognized her by the long orange hair that traveled down her back.

The last girl Kallen only knew by reputation as the smartest student in school.

"Um Hi there, my names Nina." she was a small timid girl with thick glasses and dark hair braided into two long pigtails that reached just past her thin shoulders.

"It's a pleasure to meet all of you." Kallen replied.

Then another new person entered followed by the smell of pizza. "Shirley, I'm sorry but do you think you could set this up on the table for me."

Kallen turned to find a young girl in a wheelchair, which she guessed was blind, since her eyes were closed. She had a kind sweet voice.

"Oh sure, thanks Nana." Shirley said as she moved the food to the table.

"Nunnally, what are you doing here?" asked Lelouch.

"This is Lelouch's sister" Milly said, introducing her to Kallen.

"I'm still in middle school group, so I can't be on the council yet" Nunnally explained.

"That's alright, you're an honorary member in our book" Rivalz said.

"Hello there, it's a pleasure to meet you Kallen." Nunnally said welcoming her.

"Thank you. You as well." Kallen replied honestly. She didn't quite understand it, but when Nunnally had entered the room she seemed to bring with her an aura of peace with her.

Suddenly a thump went down on a table. They turned to find Rivalz with a bottle in his hands.

"Right then. Shall we kick this off with a toast" he asked.

"Huh champagne?" Shirley said, more from shock than curiosity.

"Yeah but we're on the student council. We shouldn't" Nina mumbled.

"Aw come-on, loosen up you guys." Rivalz joked as he started pulling on the cork.

"No Way, we're going to get in trouble!" Shirley made a grab for the bottle and ended up having a fight with Rivalz over it.

"What's going on?" Nunnally asked, hearing the sound of the two struggling for control.

"Here Nunnally" Milly said putting a glass of juice in her hand.

"Lelouch heads up!" Rivalz shouted and chucked the bottle in the air. It was then caught by Lelouch on the way down.

Shirley ran towards Lelouch and tried to grab it off him.

"You're not getting away with this either Lulu!"

Unfortunately they lost their balance together and fell over, causing the pressure in the bottle to fire the cork straight at Kallen.

On reflex she swiped it out of the air, but unfortunately she could not stop the sparkling wine that followed it out and drenching her, from head to toe.

A feat that caught everyone by surprise.


In apology Milly and Shirley took Kallen's clothes to the girl's dorm washer while she cleaned up at the club house. While the maid would find some replacement clothes.

'This is why I hate Britannians.' Kallen thought as she scrubbed the sticky substance from her body.

Truth be told it wasn't just one thing she didn't like about Britannians, there was a list, and an underage Britannian student bring alcohol to school was her latest addition.

A knock at the door then pulled her from her personal gripping.

"It's Lelouch, I brought you a change of clothes." he said through the door.

"You can come in. I've drawn the curtain already." she replied.

"Uh, sorry about all this. I know they can be a little over the top." he said as he walked in.

"That's okay, nothing wrong with cutting lose every once in a while."

"These're some of my cloths, hope that's okay." Lelouch said as he placed them in the basket next to the curtain.

"It's alright." Kallen assured him, honestly not that concerned, as she'd worn her brother's old clothes on more than one occasion while out with Ohgi and the others durring her extra long sick leaves. However something was off, "That was fast. You went all the way to the boy's dorm?"

"Actually, I live here." Lelouch said, causing her to pause in silent shock. "It'd be pretty hard for my sister to live off in the dorms. The principle of the school lets us stay here as a favor."

"I see."

"Anyway..." Lelouch got up to leave.

"Hey wait!" she called out, pausing the teen in his steps again. Extending her hand past the curtain "Can you hand me that pouch over there?" pointing to it on the counter.

"Sure." The pouch was a small pink purse the size of a cell phone. Too small to hold anything important, or dangerous to the unsuspecting eye.

However as soon as his hand passed the curtain Kallen grabbed his wrist with enough force to knock the pink item from Lelouch's hand. "You really are a live wire aren't you." he said, her hold was uncharacteristic of a sickly person, She must mean business.

"Were you the one in Shinjuku?" she said almost gritting her teeth.

By the sound of Kallen's voice she was restraining herself from beating the answers from him. She had made the connection just as he feared but he was not about to admit anything just yet.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Don't play dumb!" she growled, "You brought up Shinjuku the other day, why?"

"Why do you ask?" he said, sounding as confused as ever. "Is there something wrong with Shinjuku?"

"Don't answer my question with another question! Yes or no, that's all I want to hear out of you." Kallen's thumb pressed a hidden switch under the fabric that revealed that the pouch held a switch blade inside. Perhaps she needed to provide a better incentive for him to start talking.

Then the phone on the wall next to the shower started to ring. Kallen had every intention of ignoring it.

"If I don't answer it, someone will come. That okay." The teen informed her, looking into her eyes to show his sincerity, even as he reached back with his free hand, bringing the wall phone to his ear "Hello? Ashford Academy Student Council…" he frowned "No, this is…oh…"

Kallen frowned, only to blink as Lelouch held the phone to her through the curtain "It's for you." The violet eyed teen informed her, "He says he knows you."

Kallen took the phone from him, a list of people who knew how to reach her here passing through her mind as she spoke the greeting. "Hello?"

"Glad you're still alive Q1." a familiar voice answered.

A quick gasp escaped the half breed's lips. It was the voice from Shinjuku

'Was I wrong?' she quickly looked back at Lelouch to make sure it was actually him.

"1600 hours the day after tomorrow. The observation deck at Tokyo tower, come alone."

Kallen had almost missed those instructions but she missed the click of the caller hanging up. So she tried to get more information. "Who are you? How did you arrange that Cease-fire order?" her response was silence.

"Don't hang up!" she shouted, but it was already too late.

"Did you say cease fire? Sounds like you keep dangerous company." Lelouch said as she had let go of his hand.

"Um... that was... Uh..." if her cover hadn't been blow it was now.

"Let me guess. You're talking about a game? Something on line?"

Or maybe not.

"Yea you got me. Cuse I've been shut up in my house so long..." while she sounded calm, the young terrorist was struggling to hide the relief in her voice.

"That's what I was warning you about, when I brought up Shinjuku before. Seriously, some guys will try to show you some footage and its pretty dam grim." Lelouch then turned his head. "By the way," doing his best to face away from her. "You know I can see you, right?"

Kallen blinked, then gazing down to find that she'd pulled the curtain back a little TOO far with the phone cord. Even standing with her back to Lelouch, she was standing in plain sight, completely naked.

She screamed in embarrassment and pulled the curtain closed again, then curled up into a ball.

"Um, I won't tell anyone. Later." Lelouch said, leaving as quickly and politely as he could.

When he was gone Kallen Finally admitted it. "I was wrong."

Once Lelouch left the shower room and given the severely embarrassed girl her privacy. He moved two rooms over to where Sayoko was standing, holding a phone in one hand, a hand held audio player in the other, and a blank look on her face and a red glow in her eyes.

He'd been extremely lucky when Milly offered to let Kallen use the shower while she and Shirley wash her uniform. While they were busy Lelouch then ambushed the maid and used his power to make her play a recording at a set time. He'd been really lucky with the timing, another minute and he felt that Kallen just might have gutted him.

Once Lelouch retrieved the recorder and phone and left, the red glow left Sayoko's eyes, leaving her wondering what was going on.


Back in the Tokyo CSI labs in a section reserved for military investigations. Margrave Jeremiah Gottwald entered the medical investigation suit for an update about the dead soldier's autopsy.

"So what can you tell me about what happened to these people?"

"Very little I'm afraid. These bodies here have injuries that have only been found in shrapnel blasts." the ME said leading Jeremiah over to several tables "But instead of sharpened bits of broken metal I found these lead pellets. I have no idea what kind of weapon could do that. The closest I can come to for the blast battern is a blunder bus, but those have been out of use for centuries. However the cause of death for the others gets even weirder.

"Take the bloody Swiss cheese over on these tables for example. Their bodies may have been pierced with these metal spikes," the ME handed Jeremiah one of the sharpened metal shafts. "But each entry wound is also a third degree burn. Those spikes were white hot when they hit these people."

Jeremiah was unnerved by this brutal cause of death. The pain the soldiers must have experienced as they were hit. "What kind of metal are they made of?"

The coroner didn't have an answer for him. "The guys at the lab haven't figured it out. At first they thought it was steel. Yet the material is both too light and too hard. They're thinking it might be a composite metal of some sort."

This troubled the margrave greatly. None of these kills could made by terrorists, and the list of other groups, and nations, which could have done it, was quickly vanishing. Then he noticed several more bodies.

"What about these three?"

"Ah," the medical examiner had almost forgotten them. "That there's the last bunch. These two were cut open with a knife, but I've never seen one that can cut through a helmet like that."

The doctor handed the margrave the mentioned helmet that had a line cut through the top. If the cut was just a few inches longer, that helmet could have been split in two.

"This is the one that really scares me, because the closest case I've ever seen was in a movie."

At first Jeremiah couldn't see what he was referring to. The body was opened up for all to see, then the coroner closed up the Y incision in the corps' chest and the margrave took an involuntary step back. There was a half foot hole in that man's upper torso.

"Someone actually reached into this guy's chest and pulled out his heart."

Despite all the carnage he had seen in his life and service to the crown the margrave was starting to feel, sick. Weapons that could rip through body armor like butter. An invisible soldier that could not be touched and able crush bone into powder. What could it be, and where could it be hiding?

The coroner then walked over to one final table with a sheet covering the body on it. "We haven't gotten to this one yet. However preliminary analysis shows two hooks like blades were run into his back, and then forcibly yanked out. Taking out a good chunk of the kid's back and spine with it."

Margrave Jeremiah decided to leave until new information could be found and give his stumach a chance to settle. As he stopped at the door before it opened the doctor said something that would greatly bother him. "I've been around the block a few times seen a lot of things. Yet in over fifteen years of cutting, pulling, and identifying things from corpses, I've never seen anything like this."


Once Kallen had finish her shower an Lelouch was sworn to secrecy about what happened during it. He started to tell her what to expect from being in the student council.

"The council doesn't require much actual work I guess. Beyond the occasional paperwork, we'll sometimes plan school events."

"So you mean like the culture festival?"

"Yup, like that, along with the cross dressers ball, the absolute silence party and swimsuit day." Lelouch continued.

Kallen just gave him a funny look. "What's up with that?"

"Blame our president" Lelouch replied with a grin as they reentered the ball room. "You'll be spending a lot of time with her. I hope you're ready."

However the room's spirit was hardly joyous.

"Lelouch it's awful" Nunnally shouted.

"What is?"

The rest of the student council were in front of the large television in the room. Milly was the first to answer.

"Prince Clovis has been found dead."

"They're saying he was killed." Rivalz added.

Kallen and Lelouch looked shocked. Only thing was, her shock was real.

"We now go live to Margrave Jeremiah" the announcer said before the picture changed to a stage filled with Britannian soldiers wearing the mark of the pure bloods on their sleeves.

The margrave was standing behind a podium in the center. Giving his speech.

"Prince Clovis has been taken from us. He fought for peace and justice against all of the elevens. He died a martyr. We must all bury our sorrow and carry on his will."

Deep in the school's knightmare hanger Noble Six came to a halt. "Martyr, him? There's an excuse to kill someone if I ever heard one."

"We interrupt this broadcast to bring breaking news. The man suspected as the murderer has been captured. According to the report the suspect is an honorary Britannian."

"Private Suzaku Kururugi, a former eleven and honorary Britannian. I repeat Suzaku Kururugi arrested for murder." the news caster reported.


Down in the knighmare hanger Phillips was showing the spartan the same news report.

"Isn't that the kid you found in Shinjuku?" Phillips asked.

The kids face was smuged, brused, and Six was sure he could see a line of blood from his mouth. "Yea that's him all right."

"Not for a minute. His apprehension happened too quick, if his capture happen a few days from now... maybe, but him? No.."

"And what makes you so sure?" Phillips asked as the boy Suzaku got smacked again on screan.

I've... been present for my share of interrogations. I've seen people put away for stuff they didn't do, mostly because I was the one who did it. You don't forget the look in their eyes as they're taken away, and I see that now with him. Plus for the obvious reason he's a private, that boy's probably never been in the same garason as the viceroy."

While Noble Six began reattaching his chest plate and reactor pack, Phillips hit the spartan with a curve ball. "Did you have anything to do with it? I did lose contact with you."

"No!" Six said as he tightened the last bolt on his armor. "Now let's find that pilot from Shinjuku."


A half hour latter Milly decided to take a bath back at girl's dormitory, and invited the other girls in the student council to join her.

"Sorry about earlier. We tried to throw a great welcome party for you but it never really went anywhere." Milly said to Kallen as they all relaxed in the tub.

"Oh yeah? I didn't see anything wrong." not that she really wanted a party anyway.

"After the news about prince Clovis being assassinated nobody feel much like partying."

"Well I guess it's alright, b-but why invite everyone for a bath, and why ask me to come along? I was just in the shower after all."

The bath in question was actually more like a two foot deep full-sized swimming pool, ringed with a hanging garden supported by dozens of ten foot pillars.

"Oh this is just a sort of informal gathering. A little meet and greet.

In. The. Flesh. Sort of speak. Besides if you had gone home wearing Lelouch's cloths there's at least one person who'd be very worried about it." Milly then turned to the one girl that was starting to fidget as she talked about the vice president. "Right, Shirley?"

"Madam President why are you bringing that up?" the subject of her feelings for him was always a touchy subject "Although when I think about it Lulu did act kind of weird when the news broke, like his mind was somewhere else."

"Well nana was listening too."

"Oh I thought that was kind of strange. It's really obvious how he treats his sister so differently than the way he treats me."

"He loves his little sister more than anything. That must make it hard for certain people, huh?"

Those that knew the student council president well enough realized that Lelouch was almost oblivious to any girl other than his sister. However Milly's words were meant to convey a different message about someone else in the bath.

"Why are you looking at me when you say that?" Shirley asked, her face turning red once again.

"With that killer body. You're such eye candy Shirley; it should just hit him in the face. bu-bu-boing! Shouldn't it?"

Every time Milly smiled, Shirley felt like a piece of meat being eyed by a ravenous wolf.

Something that made the self-conscious girl feel even more exposed. "Could you not look at me like that?"

"Aw come on, it's no big deal."

"Yes it is. Anyway you're the girl with the well-built proportions aren't you?"

"Oh am I?" Milly said standing up, giving everyone an unobscured view of her body.

"Um maybe you should just sit back down." Nina said, slightly embarrassed by the sight.

"Yes..." Shirley added.

"Exactly..." Kallen then focused on the computer girl as if she just appeared. "Wait is that you Nina? You seem so different without your glasses."

This was quite true. Without the glasses and her hair let free from the braids she normally wore, the little computer girl was practically transformed. From a book worm into a butterfly.

Milly couldn't help but point this out to anyone new that had the chance to see her like that. "Doesn't she? I've been telling her to get contacts since forever. You little cutie."

Nina's face turned even redder. "Millie cut it out."

"Since forever?" Kallen was shocked, just how long they have known each other.

"We grew up together. My grandfather work for a company owned by Millie's grandfather." Nina said, fidgeting under Kallen's curiosity.

"They Developed knightmares." Milly explained.

"Ashford?" then it all finally clicked for Kallen. "Wait you mean the ones that developed the Ganymede and Ioh series?"

Since becoming a knightmare pilot Kallen had become fascinated by the machines and began looking into their history.

"Wow you really know a lot about it. Those models were canceled at the prototype stage."

Kallen realized she might have let something slip that Milly had picked up on.

"Uh, I must of read about them somewhere." that was true. "That's really all I know about them." that was mostly true.

"Well anyway, they never made it into production. The research cost kept growing and growing until the company went bankrupt."

"I'm sorry Millie, it was all my grandfather's fault." Nina said timidly acting like it was a big deal.

"I keep telling you that's not true, grandfather went broke because he was too extravagent." Milly said trying to keep the recored strait.

"Extravagent?" Kallen asked.

"He'd throw wild partys that would last for days, they were legendary. No mater what it was always party time." the prez let out a Sigh " well at least his party conections payed off later. thats how he came over to this contry and became princable of this school."

"Wow you sure inherated his love of partys huh madam president?"

"I guess so. You can only be this care free when your students ya know?" Milly then suddenly seemed to remember something. "Oh Kallen! are you free the day after tomarrow, after school?"

"The day after tomarrow? I'm not sure, oh no I can't."

Kallen remembered that the other half of her life had an apointment then.

"Oh going out?"

"Well at four pm I'm going to Tokyo towe- a-choo." that was all she wanted anyone there to know about her plans.

"Well... okay, we can just do it now! I want to get your mesurments."

"Huh!" Kallen got nervous at that request.

"We make Costumes all the time for special events don't you know."

Kallen did not like where this was going.

"Uh You don't mean like... cosplay do you?"

"Bingo!" Milly said with a smile.

"No thanks." she flatly denied, but Milly wasn't a girl who takes no for an answer.

"Oh don't be shy it's just us girls here after all. So, Shirley."

"Sorry Kallen," The orange haired teen apologised right before locking Kallen's arms in a full Nelson, "I got her pinned."

'I don't need to see this.' Noble Six thought as he balanced on his perch just above the high schoolers.

'And yet, I know quite a few guys who would kill for this.'

He still wasn't quite sure how he had been hearded into the comunal bath area. All he wanted was to plant a nanobug on the red head Kallen. However the locker room's design didn't allow him anywhere to move out of the way and let them through. Not without one of them bumping right into him.

As Noble Six continued to balance on his perch he started to notice a crunching sound under his feet. He then realized the stone ledge he was standing on had finally started to give way under his wheight.

'Oh crud.'

And finally it did. For five seconds he felt the weight of the world as he began plumiting towards the water.

The second he hit the water Six jumped for all he was worth.

The incident would go down in school history as a piece of masonry braking off the bath's uper wall and leaving a dent in the bath floor in the shape of a oversized boot print.

It would go down in history as One in a long list of weird things that would plague the school for the months to come.


Later that night Lelouch's mind was in a tailspin about the accusations against Suzaku.

In the dinning room he paced like mad.

"Shouldn't I be happy at this news?" he said out loud since no one was there to hear him now. "Suzaku is still alive. But why is he being arrested in my place?" He wouldn't admit it but it made perfict sence, infact he expected the remaining heads of state to pull something like this. But Lelouch had not factored his friend being in the middle of it. Now there was only one thing he could think of. "I have to save him, I don't care what it takes."

"How interasting."

The ex prince quickly stopped and turned around. At the opened door to the patio he saw the same green haired girl that had come from the fake gas capsule. Alive and breathing.

"How's the power I gave you? Do you like it?" she said.

Lelouch was struggling for words. "You... I thought... You were dead!"

And she should be, she took a bullet to the head!

"My lord." The maid Sayoko said, causing the shift from bad to worse as she entered the dinning room from the hall.

"AH, " Lelouch quickly did a double take at the maid's sudden entrance. Because the second he took his eyes off the girl she disapeared. "Yes Sayoko what is it?"

"Lady Nunnally is still upset by the broadcast cocerning the viceroy and... she has... asked... for... you."

The maid's eyes scanned the room, slowly, methodically, for a whole minute she stairs at the girl's hidding spot. Then she just smiled, turned around, and left.

It unnerved the boy just a little that Sayoko's smile mattched mischievous one Milly gave perfictly. However he didn't have to worry too much, unlike the gossip queen Milly, Sayoko loved to keep secrets.

After the near miss with the maid Sayoko entering the dinning room Lelouch stashed the strange girl in his room. Once Nunnally was asleep he wanted answers.

"Now who are you!? I thought you died that day."

"Who knows? You can just call me C.C." she said in a impassive tone, something that seemed to throw the prince off.

Leleouch couldn't get this girl. No name, just letters. "what is this power that you gave me!?"

"I thought that you were seeking power. Did you not need it?"

"Yes." Lelouch said showing some gratatude in his voice.

"Then what's the problem? I'm tired. I'm going to sleep." she immediately slipped out of her strait jacket and under the covers of his bed. Much to the boy's disapproval.

"Hey! Aren't you wanted by the Britannian forces? I don't want you staying here! And don't sleep on my bed!"

However loud his complaints were, she continued to do as she pleased. "You can take care of one girl, can't you? Good night, Lelouch."

'She's planning to stay here?' then the second she rolled over he realized, "She's asleep already..."

Lelouch finnaly gave into his exaustion and decided to find a place on the couch in his room. He had a lot to think about now and little time to act. Sleep would be needed if anything would be done to fix it.


So, I feel like I went all over the place with this chapter. Altough this one could be my longest one yet.

So far my reviewers haven't been too negative in their comments, at least none of the new ones.

One other note, more time will start pass between chapter posts.