God's sword Chapter 2, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 2

God's Sword

Helltanz's notes: Let the mind fuckery begin mwhwhwhwa.

Oh and I kinda started trailing off into the realm of new machines I'm kinda bad about that. Anyway hopefully this is up to expectations.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass understand?

Chapter begin

Slipping into Japan had actually be quite easy but what was one to expect after all he was the man who made miracles happen. Then again Ogi was greatly outmatched and there was the little issue of the fact he was no doubting expecting Lelouch to be in Britannia of all places.

Really what was the moron thinking that just because he had been seen there that he was going to stick around and provoke any would be assassins or those who would no doubt attempt to capture him.

Todoh and the three deceased members of the four holy swords' graves were located in a cemetery, which housed the memorials for a great number of the war dead. Actually it had been constructed just for that purpose.

Chiba visited quite frequently when she was in the country and she was probably intending to swing by and if not oh well he'd catch her on another pass. It was more that he felt the innate need to be a complete asshole and deprive Ogi of elite pilots, and also due to the fact he needed more aces himself. If Cornelia had anybody worth stealing he'd grab them after he returned to the throne of Britannia presuming such a move was necessary.

Lelouch himself was garbed in traditional Japanese funerary attire, and he looked damn spiffy in it too; meaning girls were swooning. Really was the fact he had grown his hair out, to admittedly absurd length, that big of a change that no one other than his former close associates recognized him. Sure it had been four years this was simply absurd he had ruled the world for goodness sake.

Ah and the lady in question had arrived, she hadn't seemed to mind him at first but after she had gotten closer she'd been able to recognize him, finally someone did. He heard the faint scratching of leather and the click of a gun. "Le-Lelouch,"

He really hoped she didn't twitch and shoot him, yes he was immortal but that didn't mean it wasn't the slightest bit annoying.

The gun kept trained on his center of mass, "Stay were you are," Chiba managed to exclaim.

"Well that's a fine way to greet someone," He complained turning with a faint smile his immortal body would allow him the speed to catch her off guard that wasn't the point of this little reunion. "Why don't you put the gun away there's nothing here that's going to hurt you."

Chiba gritted her teeth in anger, "Do you think I'm stupid we betrayed you do you really we don't think you'd try and take revenge,"
"Don't be silly I forgave you for your silly indiscretion a long time ago, after all Urabe would hardly want me to hold a grudge." Being immortal gave one a great grasp on psychology and considering Lelouch had already been extremely skilled at manipulating others, even without his Geass, this only was enhanced further.

The sole surviving member tightened her grip trying to stop the shaking in her hands, "I what are you talking about! We tried to kill you!" She shouted as slowly moved closer to her.
"I'm immortal do you really think I'd let something so trivial prevent me from respecting the wishes of a dead friend," He remarked with a blasé wave of his hand, of course he was just manipulating her and he hadn't been immortal at the time but she didn't need to know that.

Chiba pulled the gun back as Lelouch moved closer, "What are you talking about why would you forgive us we betrayed you?"
"Do you I need to put it in official terms for you to understand," He asked tilting her chin gently, "very well then," the Emperor smiled, "I Lelouch vi Britannia," He enunciated slowly and carefully, "Do hereby pardon Chiba Nagisa for the crimes of treason and attempted regicide," Lelouch continued, "On the ground of services to the crown rendered by Urabe Kotetsu," He finished.

She blinked, "What?"
"In the official capacity or at least the relative portion of the standard Imperial Pardon so short of you say trying to kill Cornelia or something you can't be tried for any of your previous crimes against the Crown." Lelouch continued on pretending not to notice her growing confusion over what was going on.

Over the last few years Nagisa's life had not been as pleasant as she had imagined when she dreamed of the world after Britannia had been beaten. Todoh had of course been killed in the final battle. Beyond that in the aftermath of the news release of the Ikaruga betrayal not long afterwards the Zero Requiem had begun to come apart but not before the UN had been stormed by angry dissidents both Britannians and former numbers principle amongst the group had torn apart everything. Lelouch's Geass command had forced Suzaku to struggle against the furious people but in the end the supposed Murderer had been in fact killed by someone who had seen Lelouch quite recently it had all been covered up of course, or at least Suzaku's real cause of death. After all it would have just further weakened the Black Knights.

Overall Chiba had found that the life she had envisioned wasn't what had in reality happened to play out. "You're forgiving me because of Urabe," She managed to remark at last. "I can't accept that!"

"You should give up being a soldier they wouldn't want to throw your life away and that's all you'll be doing if things continue to deteriorate," Lelouch commented ignoring her protest, she'd already let the gun fall away. Nagisa was already ensorcelled by his words, he stepped back and began to walk away.

The sole survivor of the legendary four holy swords unit of the Japanese Liberation Front and later the Black Knights stood up. "I told you I can't accept that Lelouch, I won't simply accept you forgiving us just because of some one else, Ogi intends to kill you everyone knows it."
"Do you think that worries me? Nagisa-chan really one would think you would have more faith than that," Lelouch laughed turning back to face her, "I am immortal let him try his little foolishness, he's an insect Diethard was more of a bother to me," He remarked continuing to laugh. "Let him bother me," The Emperor allowed the words to hand ominously in the air.

She reached out and caught his shoulder, "Le-," The name refused to pass from her lips intact, "Please not everyone in Japan is like please don't take it out on the Japanese Ogi is being a fool. He doesn't speak for everyone,"
"Is that honestly what you believe of me?" He inquired in response crushing his annoyance with practiced ease, "The Black Knights of the United Nations are failures why should I bother tipping my hand?" It was a valid remark, after all as it stood Ogi was drastically damaging the Black Knights ties and draining their resources. He allowed his eyes to meet hers, and was unsurprised when she didn't keep eye contact. "Explain to me for what reason you would believe I would bother lowering my attention to dealing with such a bug?"

Nagisa took a step back, "You're the emperor of Britannia," Curious how she said the instead of an, but it was little matter to him. "I don't know what weapons you have at your command but your still the only person to conquer the world why wouldn't you kill anyone who betrayed you?"

"Ah, so I ask why should I bother to kill them, and you respond by asking why should I bother to allow them to breathe my air? Is that it, ne?" How very amusing he thought suppressing his chuckles. "You don't have anything binding you to his miserable world isn't that right Nagisa-chan?"
In truth she didn't really feel comfortable with the way he kept using that suffix added to her name, it made her feel like a little girl, which was odd considering despite the proven fact of being immortal Lelouch was younger than her. "I don't understand what you mean by that what are you saying?"

"Your friends didn't die just so you could join them why don't you find a purpose and settle down somewhere away from all this constant fighting," He remarked, knowing all to well she'd refuse.

That was exactly what she did, "I refuse, I told you I won't accept. I won't accept you just ignoring the fact we betrayed you on the word of another Britannia prince," Chiba growled.

"Relax, and" Lelouch waved his hand dismissing the objection, "Don't be silly Nagisa-chan Schneziel was always a particular threat hence why I lobotomized him at first opportunity, of course you would have fallen prey to his manipulations."

Again she felt like a child, "Stop it, stop treating us like we need to be… be babied we betrayed you and your forgiving me because of a friend I won't accept your charity," the former member of the four holy swords snapped.

"Oh and what is it you suggest, Nagisa-chan?" Finally he had been wondering how long it would take her to say that.

He wasn't disappointed either. In truth Lelouch begrudged Chiba no serious ill will, Ogi most assuredly he'd kill the cretin at first beneficial opportunity, and Todoh's betrayal had really been quite aggravating but the Black Knights betrayal was something he should have been more careful about. Though it was certainly possibly he was just being an apathetic immortal.

Lelouch stared down at the blue sphere that was the earth. The world was boiling with tension and awash with strife, it was all just waiting to burst out of its borders and plunge the planet into war.

To many channels were all to quick to show the war machines of varying nations. On some level it was an assurance of safety, that the military was still there, but on others it was blatant posturing by the rulers.

Chiba was getting acquainted with her new machine, even as he looked down at the world he had briefly ruled over. If it became needed to recruit Jeremiah he would handle that next.

Due to this decision to wait Lelouch had gone ahead and approved the construction of a new Knightmare frame Knight Giga Fortress hybrid for Jeremiah to pilot. While the new war machine of the Europeans showed promise he doubted they had enough time to match his technology.

Europeans in this case were in fact raising quite a fuss over Ogi's outrageous actions of attacking their prototype machine without just cause. While he didn't like taking the cretin's side on a matter the Europeans were really just making a political ruckus to stir up trouble in opposition to the Black Knights of the United Nations.

Even so however the European's had a point the North Atlantic was international waters, Ogi had had no real legal cause to authorize an attack. On the other hand the autonomous nature, if more limited than previously, didn't forbid such actions. It was a gray area plain and simple.

For the moment he'd let them all stir in their anger, it was after all better for him to lie low for the time being. Ogi had had no choice but to brief the United Nations on the fact that he, Lelouch vi Britannia, was alive and possessing advanced military weapons that were superior to present UN technology.

Given time this information would of course spread and sink in further and soon the populous would be become aware. It was only a matter of time before one of the major news companies got a hold of the details and ran with it.

Having such information in mind Lelouch intended to steadily increase the capabilities of those who supported him. Doing so would allow him to significantly increase his possible accessible forces, and of course give his potential enemies, and Cornelia all manner of headaches. Of course over the last four years he had already been working to eliminate certain problems in the world like lack of infrastructure.

In any event for the time being most the populous was in the dark of his immortality after all the UN had kept Geass a secret as well. After his survival became public knowledge they would not likely reveal Geass's existence due to its supernatural natural and the high likelihood that such information would start a panic.

Just in case they did Lelouch had already briefed his subordinates on his possessing aforementioned power in the past years. So there was little chance of a repeat of a betrayal like that which had occurred upon the Ikaruga.

Keeping the attention of the world focused on peace was impossible. Greed would continue to push people further so long as rival nations existed. Even with this in mind the fact was Lelouch was against re conquering the world. Well at least for the time being he'd go that route if it became necessary.

Lelouch vi Britannia turned away from the observation deck, numerous advances had been made in the last half a decade. He was nearly tempted to approve the construction of a new version of the Damocles or rather something expressly built for his purposes rather than Schneziel's tool for holding the world hostage.

The use of Sakuradite and uranium allowed for the creation of stable compact reactors this permitted new vehicles to be designed and higher energy weapon systems, because of the embargo by the UN on nuclear technology Lelouch had a powerful ace.

Making his decision he turned to go inform his subordinates. The look on Cornelia and perhaps what would be even more amusing Ogi's face would be positively priceless since even if they somehow managed to destroy Damocles he could just wipe them all out with another super weapon.

He paused as he took the time to consider whether it would be worth it to recruit his former scientists, Lloyd and Rakshata back into the fold, before deciding such actions for the time being would be far too flashy. Extending invitations to the two would be something Britannia, and the Black Knights would notice. Lloyd worked for the crown anyway once the time came to retake Britannia he'd remain.

Now all that was left was to carefully monitor the Europeans and make sure they didn't jump the gun, while of course making sure Cornelia likewise did not make any foolish mistakes. After all it wouldn't due for her to cause a populist revolt, if that happened he very well have been forced into retaking the throne.

Of course there was the matter of the United Nations General Assembly possibly having a cow when the public found out about his survival. There were of course other issues to concern oneself with.

Perhaps most pressing amongst such issues was the state of the Chinese Federation with the high eunuchs removed from the equation Li had more or less ruled in the Empresses stead until the Ikaruga's betrayal after which the pilot of the Shenhua had continued up until the battle against Damocles.

The loss of Li to serve as regent of the Chinese Federation had opened in roads for Lelouch to manipulate within the Federation's territories.

Shenhua's pilot had succumbed soon after that battle, and Lelouch had ascended the throne, and among other things taken up ruling the Chinese Federation. The was fact his policies were more or less still in place as the Empress was still learning the ropes of leadership.

Not many were aware of this of course such a thing would not have gone over well at all even though the Chinese Federation had lost several of its members who had gone on to become separate nations the empress still had a large amount of sway in the region.

The fact that they had joined the United Nations and fought against Britannia had also done much to set the people against him. Even so his contingencies were still in place more than that was those plans so long as the Chinese used them limited their military power as Lelouch had focused on societal and economic changes, among other things improvements to infrastructure and such.

All may not have been going as planned but Lelouch was someone who had prepared for deviations, particularly things that could be carried out in the event of his death, of course such sentimental ideas as what had originally spawned the plans had since dried up and now the immortal sat cynically watching the planet plot to kill their neighbors.

Battles in the current climate were inevitable and to prevent them would require intervention. Lelouch's majority support had during his reign existed particularly in the regions of the Britannian empire's regular citizenry and the former numbers, in the days after most of his hard work had come crashing down support had swelled across several of the United Nations countries.

Current attitudes in Europe and most of the European territories of course still held him as a Britannian in an unfavorable light but that was somewhat to be expected.

The number of knightmares outside should have indicated that something was wrong. Britannia's upgrade program had been carried out in response to the upgrades to military hardware of the Black Knights of the UN. It was an Ego contest little more.

In an actual fight the UNBK would score high kill ratios over Britannia's knightmares, but if it came to that Britannia would win just by sheer numbers. The Britannian ninth generation was smaller than Lelouch's larger current frames though the design of armor did possess certain similarities.

Due to political ramifications the Gawain design family had been effectively abandoned due to the designs strong ties with the previous Emperor. This included the Gareth, and the latter development of the design which had only seen use in the final stages of the previous war. It was unfortunate but a necessary political move to assuage other nations that Britannia's Army would not use the frame.

The move disgusted Cornelia, especially as the move did nothing to stop complaints about the nobility using the former Imperial Guard frames for their own defense. To many of these nobles were suspected Lelouch sympathizers as well, who'd deliberately flaunt the war machines at the UN in grandiose parades glorifying the 99th Emperor.

These machines were of course considered less advanced than Britannia's current, Vincent derived, ninth generation, but still relied on extensive hadron weaponry and possessed a unique stealth aspect.

As a design trend the ninth generation incorporated heavier armor giving it a slightly more bulky appearance. The armor was a high strength composite which had a much lower weight than solid steel and higher tolerances. Despite being inferior to the New Day employed by the Black Knights the A, mass production, model was unlike previous Britannian units more versatile. The B, a model built for squad leadership and above, shared a majority of commonality with regards to parts simplifying logistics.

There was also the matter of armaments in the interest of versatility Britannia had built a variety of equipment for the 9th generation frame to utilize. Amongst these included a variety sized guns, from standard KMF SMGs and Machine Guns to heavier weaponry included a Hadron Rifle Cannon, or heavy Rifle. Melee weapons and shields had also been produced, as had packs to accommodate missile racks.

Cornelia was not having a good week. Even though Britannia had in regards to its infrastructure escaped the war unscathed more or less the Empire had its own problems that it needed to contend with.

Dauntingly high on this list was Lelouch's effects on the empire specifically the issues of the areas and the nobility. In his short reign as emperor Lelouch had managed to all but gain total support from not only the common people but the numbers as well and make an enemy out of a large portion of the nobility.

Even with his stripping the nobility of the long held extra positions the Dark Emperor had supporters amongst the elite of Britannia, and that was without Geass apparently having been involved. This meant of course as Empress Cornelia was having to deal with such peoples along with individuals who supported Charles's policies.

Foremost however on the list of major headaches was the UN or more specifically the idiot eleven Ogi and the Black Knights remnant. It was simply that stupid eleven was getting far to uppity it was this whole affair now violating Britannia air space, even so the fact the Lelouch was alive would wreak hell on everything.

Given by the reports he hadn't been lax either and the fact he had landed with out her knowing in Britannia implicated that there were those in the Empire collaborating with the supposedly dead ruler. The French had even go so far as to try and imply that she was purposely covering for him, which was absurd.

Her royal majesty Empress Cornelia li Britannia turned her head, the stupid frogs were merely stalling of course but that was irrelevant.

It was merely a method of redirecting attention away from their military programs of course but it didn't make it any less bothersome. Right now Britannia was at a cross roads soon enough the nobility would learn of Lelouch's return, those who weren't already aware of the information, and from there word would spread.

Judging the situations present in a battle was different than predicting what another person would do the Empress would admit to being unable to predict what her brother might be planning to do, however there were people she might be able to glean insight from. "Get me Jeremiah Gottwald, and former knight of six Anya Alstreim," Cornelia ordered to the new Knight of nine.

Knight of nine Claudio S. Darlton bowed obediently, "It will be done your majesty," He responded dutifully.

Lone survivor of the Glaston Knights Claudio had been elevated to the elite knights of the round though his ability didn't measure up to the former knight of nine. Though she was loath to admit it Cornelia expected he'd be beaten against certain pilots who would possibly choose to side with Lelouch.

Many things had remained the same, or at least tried to, over the last few years but slowly there were changes becoming apparent, while peace had appeared to be settling it were a false peace and one that would be shattered if something went wrong.

Now Lelouch had appeared to be alive and it really couldn't have come at a worse time as far as Cornelia was concerned. Even worse was the fact he appeared to have an unknown disposition of forces. There was no information on what exactly was at his disposal and just what kind of resources he had ready for his plans.

Over the coming days there was little doubt that the news that Lelouch was alive would begin to spread from person to person and that would cause all manner of havoc. It was to prevent such havoc Cornelia wanted to consult Jeremiah. Who was of course Britannia's expert in all things Lelouch, and veritably a living saint amongst the common people of the empire and the former numbers.

Production of such large Knightmare frames meant Lelouch had to have a well developed base at the very least several if anyone besides Suzaku Kururugi, or that green haired woman would know it would have to be Jeremiah if for nothing more than in the event of an emergency.

Quite worrying well described those frames, up until this point Lelouch's supporters had for the most part been peaceful and even then the most they had access to were usually older frames with the exception of certain nations were involved. The tech base behind such advanced weapons would drastically tip the balance of a conflict, especially if there were more of those stealth airships.

Right now Britannia had only just now begun finishing the construction of their new class of flying battleship, the Albion, and according to reports from the observers assigned to the Black Knights Lelouch's unknown ship dwarfed it considerably.

Since the advent of Knightmares frames more than two decades previously the humanoid autonomous armored knight had become common place to the point of criminals using older models to commit crimes.

The aftermath of Lelouch's rule had but military spending on the backburner at least in for the time being but distrust in the Black Knights had caused armed forces for individual nations to be revived. At the present those who claimed to support Lelouch's goals and ideals were fragmented and scattered across the world and had no standard set of equipment.

Unfortunately with as advanced as Lelouch's stealth technology appeared to be that all could change since the UN was ineffective at policing borders as it was.

Very likely was it for the United Nations to be unable to determine an effective manner of dealing with this situation. The nations would in all likelihood squabble and bicker unable to decide what was the proper course of action instead of presenting a united and prepared front to Lelouch and whatever his plans were.

What they should do and what was possible however were two different things the fact of the matter was the Europeans were going to cause trouble no matter what it just happened to be that now Lelouch had shown up as well.

In any case it was still only a matter of time before this got out to the public and that would mean she would need to make a statement to the public of Britannia so they didn't get the wrong impression, after all it wouldn't do for any more riots to break out between supporters of the previous emperors.

The emperor stared at the plans of the orbital installation. The Damocles had been built to be to much like a palace and while self sufficient it lacked the facilities to be a truly impenetrable fortress, even after a few years of extensive modifications.

All things considered he should have started work on something like this sooner however such actions had been out of the question. The resources for this kind of project had been he would admit better spent in helping develop infrastructure in other parts of the planet down below them.

Between the advent of mass production Knightmares and the present time a number of things had changed. The Akatsuki the favored machines of the Japanese for the mass production seventh generation had not received much use outside the Black Knights and later the reformed Japanese Armed Forces.

In the wake of Britannian world supremacy in the aftermath of the Damocles disaster Britannian style Knightmares had become more commonplace across the world especially in later generations.

Commonly most modern Knightmares of the generations after the seventh were noticeable for featuring factsphere open cameras and other features which were previously strictly found on Britannian based frames.

The most common Knightmare was in fact an evolution of the Burai, which eschewed the motorbike style cockpit of the seventh generation Akatsuki. The unit did however incorporate other features from other machines that had preceded it.

Designated the Tetsujin the machine's prototype had been of lower quality than it competitor the Akatsuki of which had been developed by Rakshata based off of the four holy sword's Gekka Knightmare frames. The machine had a great deal of favorability in that its production model could be widely modified thus leading to the untold number of customizations to the machine.

Even with the advancements in Knightmare technology and the fact the autonomous humanoid armored knights had become so wide spread float systems were by and large extremely limited so air power still remained with few exceptions in the hands of traditional aircraft.

For this reason most national militaries surpassed the capacity of the Black Knights that belonged to the United Nations in air power due to the fact that aforementioned organization was based primarily around the usage of groups of Knightmare frames in their combat deployments.

Given that most politicians already distrusted the Black Knights under Ogi and the man's general incompetence as a battlefield commander did nothing to increase the prestige of an organization that had been so famous prior to the public revelation of the betrayal that had occurred aboard the Ikaruga. Suffice to say the Black Knights were a minor concern at best. The fact was in all likelihood the UN would be unable to make a decisive decision that would be able to affect his plans negatively.

Even so the New Day employed by the Black Knights was clear on one point that made it better than most general use frames. The Black Knight's main unit incorporated standard an energy shield system. This coupled with the trend of increasing composite armor on all ninth generation frames meant the New Day was a machine that could take a thorough beating against other wise similar level machines. In addition the Machine's melee capacity scored well.

He paused raising his hand end the large Berber's report, "The base at Tripoli you said there was an unusually high amount of cargo heading for ports in the western EU that had military applications,"

"Indeed the components are primarily electronics but we have been as of yet unable to locate the exact origin of them they match no known factory model that is available to the public," Answered the man. "One of our techs reported the components looked to be the same kind as used in targeting cameras and similar equipment, but the EU generally produces such things not imports them."
Just as expected someone had done what Schneziel had done. The EU were researching their new tech outside of their readily watched areas just as Schneziel had done by placing his research laboratories in Cambodia. Given that the world had been at peace for the last half decade there had been no way for an enemy to stumble upon the labs during an invasion. "The other parts you've noticed coming through the last six months they more general machine parts I take it?"

"Correct Knightmare parts but they were just parts moreover there was at the time we did not think it necessary to examine them in depth," Lelouch flipped through a series of papers the varying parts by themselves looked to be nothing special and all coming from different locations prior to arriving at the harbor and all being shipped on different vessels and different ports as well as by different companies, the amount of materials however was inconsistent with an Ace frame, these were parts for some kind of new mass production type machine, "The fact spheres and other equipment did not visibly belong to any current or previous model but it wasn't suspicious at the time."
Lelouch outlined each name of the companies responsible for a piece of the shipping it was not surprising for the Europeans to do something like this, to be moving from behind the scenes though it still appeared that Geass was not involved which was a relief. He set his pen aside, "Alright Kassim release the design ahead of schedule, and have your pilots start getting comfortable using their new machines, the EU is probably further ahead than originally expected." The emperor sighed, "Release the day of the next UN general assembly meeting no doubt one will be called soon enough in regards to Ogi's latest colossal blunder."

Most likely the United Nations would be so busy gathering they wouldn't notice the release of the advanced Knightmare frame until after the meeting was all said and done and besides Ogi already distrusted the Middle East Federation unless he deployed an ace unit to whatever action he might launch against them the new machines working in tandem with the older Tetsujins would completely obliterate the Black Knights' ninth generation mass production Knightmares if Ogi showed his usual level of inability in battle, even if he didn't the Black Knights had minimal experience in the environment of the Middle East, and besides there would be support nearby.

No Ogi was of minimal concern whatever he did rashly in the coming days would only play against him, and if he did nothing it still would matter little as far as Lelouch was concerned the UN was a minimally useful tool to use to suppress and curb the apparent militarist ambitions of the European Union.

Of course his primary plan, if it could be called that, was predicting that the EU would likely attempt something ambitious in the confusion that would soon come about and from there he could subtly direct the UN to prove itself a thorn in the European's side while he prepared to eliminate the cause of the problem directly.

Perhaps it would not be necessary to reclaim the Britannian throne perhaps it would it all depended on exactly what conditions were cleared, so in that regard Lelouch was ready as well.

The headquarters of the Black Knights was located in the Tokyo settlement though the area surrounding the headquarters no longer resembled what it had during its tenure under Britannian rule. The entire facility was well defended with multiple defensive emplacements as well as landing areas for various small and large craft.

At the present moment the Ikaruga and two of its sisters were berthed at the headquarters for the United Nations Black Knights, with other ships in the air. "What do you mean Kallen didn't come back with you?" Demanded Ogi more surprised then actually angry. The last few days while hectic had not been enough to make him throw a tantrum.

Britannia's older watchdog exhaled in an exasperated manner, "It would seem she has elected to continue her schooling, as expected of a Stadtfeld really, not a particularly large surprise given," His junior partner nudged him in the ribs discreetly. "Ah yes she elected to continue her schooling,"

"Crap that means we don't have a pilot for the Gurren, tell me we got a hold of one of the other old pilots what about Chiba?" Tamaki questioned with a tint of hope.

Declining to give voice to the issue Kento shook his head, he'd tried to call Chiba earlier in the day but all he had gotten was her voice mail. It could be she just didn't want anything to do with them but still it didn't bode well.

European ambition was one thing but how were they supposed to face Lelouch without the whole of the Black Knights, especially if his forces were strong as they were feared to be. Ogi didn't doubt if Lelouch made a move he might very well take the UN representatives hostage again, or possibly worse seize control, presuming that he actually had to take control, of Britannia which would of course give him an entire army to work with if he didn't have one already. "We'll need to increase security for the upcoming meeting of the United Nations,"

"For real?" Tamaki inquired in surprise, "But we've already done that twice already how much more security can we add?"

Giving a strained nod Ogi answered, "We need to take all available safety precautions also it looks like the Middle East Federation is building up weapons as well,"

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: Chiba got it this turn, Cornelia's turn in my opinion is even crueler but some might dispute that.

Tetsujin I think means Iron Man, giant robot iron man, what it was the best I could come up with at the time, don't look at me like that. If you guys want to help me with names go right ahead.

I'm tempted to fuck over Ogi and Villetta's marriage but I thinking against it. Don't get me wrong the bastard is someone I really don't like but I'm not going to go out of my way to bash, he'll get what's coming to him if he pisses of Lelouch but really the idiot will more than likely just stumble around and make an nuisance of himself.