Chapter 3

In the dark confide space of the Britannian military surveillance room Suzaku Kururugi sat alone, going over the surveillance tapes from the day Lloyd Asplund disappeared. It had been three days since anyone had seen Lloyd or his new Lancelot prototype he was developing, as far as anyone knew Lloyd stayed behind that day to go over the new specs for the Lancelot and simply failed to show up at work the next day or the day after that.

At first some thought that Lloyd had finally took some time off from work but when the bodies of the two securities personal who watched the surveillance cameras that day where found in a closet, Lloyd's disappearance was taken a lot more seriously.

Then what exactly am I still doing here? Suzaku thought to himself leaning back in his chair. He locked himself in the surveillance room hours ago and replayed the night Lloyd was abducted over and over but it just showed the same thing; Lloyd just about to leave the lab when someone had threatened him with a gun, with the lights off they didn't get a very good look at him, and telling him he had no choice but to come with him. The strange thing was after that the second he said it Lloyd seemed to completely obey him by loading the Lancelot in a Knightmare truck carrier and both leaving in it through the loading bay.

Maybe it's a Geass? Thought Suzaku sarcastically but the chance of that where slim at best. Lelouch wiped out the whole Geass order almost three years ago along with their leader VV; it was highly unlikely any Geass user would go undetected for two years. Suzaku was just about to go over the recording again when his mobile vibrated.

"Speak." Suzaku stated as he pressed the answer button.

"Master Zero sorry to disturb you, this is Major Cunnings here at the Pendragon Storage Facility. I don't know how the how it happened but the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads that where being stored here have all been stolen."

"What!" Suzaku shouted standing up and sending the chair behind him toppling to the floor, "All of them? When? How?"

"Where not sure my Lord," Cunnings replied his breathing fast and saying his words in a rush, "One second everything was normal then suddenly everyone at the base lost their hearing, we couldn't hear anything. The intruder must have used this to sneak into the base because there are about ten dead who obviously didn't hear their killer's approach."

"Secure that area now Major I'm coming there myself with another team." Without waiting for a reply Suzaku switched off his phone and turned to the door, quickly putting back on his Zero helmet. This was bad, after Damocles was destroyed they wanted to get rid of the entire remaining F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads but they quickly found out that the only way to destroy an F.L.E.I.J.A. was to detonate it. So they secretly built a base on the remains of Pendragon and stored the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads there hoping that no one would use them again.

But someone wants to,, there where ten F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads left enough to destroy half the world Suzaku thought to himself, but he quickly stopped that thought and sped up. Right now he needed to assemble a team ready to get to Pendragon and he would have to send someone to inform Nunnally about this there was no time to do it himself.

Lloyd's mysterious abduction and the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads stolen, these have got to be connected maybe, but it was enough for him to pick up the pace to the barracks where he would assemble a team to go to Pendragon.

"Ha ha ha," Suzaku chuckled to himself softly, one that lacked any humour, "After two years someone's finally come to challenge the peace you createed Lelouch."

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In silence the young man sat on his throne alone surrounded by numerous computer monitors that where the only source of light in the vast metal room. The plan was going along smoothly, better than even he had anticipated; he thought two years of world wide peace would make the plan easier but he never thought this easy. In just under a week he successfully captured the Scientist and the Witch, both valuable pawns on his chess board if the plan had any hope of going any farther.

Now that we have the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads I can inform Kytes to move on to phrase two soon the young man thought eagerly; if the new Britannian government thought that abduction and theft was the only thing to expect they couldn't be more wrong. The young man slowly stood up from his throne to face a monitor on his right.

"Computer patch me through to Roman." The young man commanded and in seconds it was fulfilled, the screen which was blank suddenly flickered on to a shot of the hanger.

"You called me my Lord?" asked the man on the screen. Roman was a man who had been through many battles in his long life as it showed from the numerous scars that where scattered across his face. He also had short greying hair and was one of the tallest men the young man had ever met.

"Yes, I want you and your team to go to Pendragon immediately, by now Zero would have found out the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads are missing and would be checking it himself," The young man sneered, excitement flooding through him, "And I think it's time we finally made our presence known."

Roman smiled at that, the thought of battle seemed to excite him more than anything else.

"Consider done." He replied and the screen went blank dimming the room in total darkness again and leaving the young man staring at his own reflection in the monitor, at his own eyes which continuously glowed a bright red with the Geass symbol in the centre of both eyes.