God's sword Chapter 3, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 3

God's Sword

Helltanz's notes: Right here is chapter three

Try as I might I can't seem to keep Command and Conquer references and ideas from popping up, don't worry Lelouch won't go bald though, getting called the Messiah I can't make any promises.

Yeah okay thing is I wanted a chapter up before May so it's a little rough in my opinion I'll go back later and clean up the chapter and if you have suggestions on how to do that please do.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass understand?

Chapter begin

Britannia's monarch held supreme power in regards to the country. There were of course duties passed off to other government officials. This was Britannia's parliament and it was primarily composed of members of the nobility, especially since the lower house which had previously been composed of the interests of buisness had suffered a down turn in members.

Certain members of the Parliament, the old status quo members in particular, had been purged during Lelouch's reign. This cleared the way for a number of reforms and more than that allowed Cornelia to appoint several of her own choices, one of the benefits of an absolute Monarchy like Britannia.

Destruction of several old and prominent families of the Britannian nobility had opened spots. These families had been obliterated during the opening days of Lelouch's reformation, that had allowed Cornelia to redistribute these holdings as she wished, save those Lelouch had beaten her to.

Even so telling the Parliament that Lelouch was actually alive was going to cause problems. As a method of insuring stability in Britannia Cornelia had had little choice but to be somewhat moderate in her appointees.

True a number of her appointees to the vacated seats were loyal to her but at the same time she had no idea who was in fact already aware that the 99th Emperor was still alive. As an absolute monarchy Cornelia had a great deal of power, but the nobility had already seen under Lelouch what happened when the crown decided to act.

For all the negative publicity he had received throughout the world in the immediate aftermath of his apparent demise his policies were actually rather effective, in fact a number of them were still in use. Still that apparent demise did raise questions, how exactly did one survive being impaled through and through by a sword yet it was clear he was still alive, this was not something that was going to be easy to explain.

"Goodness this absurd," Remarked one of the members, "If this report is correct we may well be looking at the Emperor wielding advanced Knightmare Frames capable of penetrating the homeland's defenses,"

Her Imperial Majesty Empress Cornelia scowled. She had already had that discussion with the Defense Council and the leading minds in Britannia's employ. Lelouch's airship not only was capable of similar stealth maneuvers but it was easily larger than any known airborne carrier, which meant he had access to an extensive technical and industrial base.

It was not inconceivable that Lelouch had in fact infiltrated the military economic complexes of the world, certainly it was highly likely given the fact he had some kind of mind control power. Cornelia wasn't going to even bother to address the issue of Geass. For one the whole thing sounded ludicrous and trying to explain it wouldn't have gone over well, it just wasn't something people were likely to believe.

Judging by the steadily paling facings of the Parliamentary officials as they looked over just what little they did know about the Demon Emperor's forces combined that with what they knew about the European's new seventh generation frame Cornelia doubted that she would have any complaints about the military.

The European's ace had done well against the Knight of Three, machine to machine that was not a good sign.

Knowing Lelouch however it was almost assured that a conventional solution would not work, but with the French they didn't have that particular problem. If it came to a fight with them Britannian would be in a much better position to fight back.

Lelouch however was another matter entirely. The fact was his lift capacity and steaalth meant he could pick and choose his engagements at will a nightmare for any military commander. It was why she hoped to speak with the one man who was probably amongst the people who knew him as a military leader best and that person was Jeremiah Gottwald.

Margrave Jeremiah was amongst the few people in Britannian who were known to have been publicly affiliated with the previous Emperor's military in a high ranking position. In fact there was only one other person who probably knew Lelouch better and she was out of the question.

Nunnally, who was currently finishing her schooling, having regained the use of her legs after extensive physical therapy, was not likely to have been able to predict what Lelouch was planning.

Jeremiah on the other hand had been involved in the actual operations of not only the Black Knights prior to the betrayal of the Ikaruga, but also during the reign of Lelouch as Emperor of Britannia. His understanding of the way Lelouch ran his campaigns would be invaluable.

Out of anyone he would probably be able to alight shed some light on exactly what would be Lelouch's short term goals. Certainly he would be more likely to know than that stupid eleven who was in charge of the Black Knights, Cornelia thought irritably.

Probably the worst thing out of Lelouch returning was that while he didn't have support over any significant portion of the upper crust he did have extremely strong support with the commoners and most the former numbers.

This of course meant Lelouch had a massive pool of potential manpower to draw on and that support also meant countless sources of intelligence or passive support and there was nothing Britannia could do about that with out starting a riot or giving Lelouch even more support.

"Britannia is faced with an unparalleled situation," She began calling the assembled nobility back to order. They had already started to get into their own little conversations about what they should do and that wasn't something that would help the problem. "the present situation is not simply the breach in security regarding the Tristan and the EU, but also the matter of Lelouch vi Britannia's return." Cornelia stated, when she had taken the throne she had had the bulk of the military's loyalty but that was because Lelouch had been supposedly dead with him alive there was no guarantee that some of the armed forces wouldn't revert to Lelouch's command.

Calculating the risk of interrupting the ruler of Britannia was always difficult, but there were always a few people who were brave enough to try if they thought what they had to say was important.

In Charles's day it was a risk, in Lelouch's day few people questioned the Emperor without cause, but generally the young Emperor listened, and with Cornelia it varied with people. "Your majesty even with Suzaku Kurugi's death these new machines are cause for concern. The knights of the round are barely a shadow of their number of which they were during His majesty Emperor Charles's reign. It is simply put we do not have enough skilled pilots to counter his advantage in technology."

Dark looks were shared through out the room. This was by no means a popular topic for discussion. The state of the knights of the round was a sour point for the nobility. Schneziel's defeat at the Damocles had all but sealed the fate of the illustrious group that had existed under Charles, and Lelouch's replacement had left the service following the requiem.

Except for the knight of nine, who was still missing, and the knight of four and knight of three of Charles's era all the knights of the round were confirmed dead.

"Find out what happened to the Damacoles!" Cornelia ordered sharply and suddenly jarring everyone from the glaring contest. They all slowly paled at the implication that she had brought up.

All the world stood upon the abyss. They were at a precipice when most the world had been busy with reconstruction Lelouch had it would seem been able to focus on the issues that Cornelia would have preferred to focus on.

By that of course she meant the military, it had only been recently that more extensive development programs for Knightmare Frames had been approved, ninth generation mass production types were entering service with the major world powers. However it seemed that the Emperor was much further ahead. His machines were larger and clearly more powerful. Size increases had been mandated due to the need for longer activation times in combat situations and to permit longer flight times. Lelouch had apparently already foreseen this.

Cornelia was also concerned about the very real possibility of the Damocles being under the Emperor's control. It was powerful weapon, but if Lelouch had as it seemed found a way to hide it from sight then he could strike at anyone he chose with impunity. The immense station was like the sword of god posed to pierce some one through the heart except this time no one could see the sword.

Damocles was not likely to be something Lelouch would flaunt as Schneziel had done, no in all likelihood Cornelia expected he would move quietly fulfilling his plans with more discreet actions. The UN would panic but perhaps she could gauge just who exactly already knew about the fortress's existence from their reactions.

Except there was the chance Lelouch knew this was a possibility he could well predict what she would do. Britannia was not in a position to face some one of Lelouch's standing in battle, if they did there would riots and open rebellion, and what was possibly worse yet was that the sheer difference in mass production frames might have been sufficient to tip things in Lelouch's favor.

For now all they could do was wait and watch how things played out, but they, neither the United Nations or Britannia could wait for Lelouch to act the Europeans certainly weren't going to wait. The other surviving superpower had been weakened but they were recovering France, as expected, and Germany were even now rapidly reconstituting their strength and their influence on the other western members of the EU. The test of this latest Ace type frame, the orange machine, meant that they had a Knightmare that was superior to the current Knight of the Rounds frames.

Given that Lelouch had been busy, and the capability of his mass production frames more than likely he was likely in the same position, probably with a frame even more advanced than the Orange Machine the Europeans had been testing. This fact also would play apart in any hypothetical conflict between Empire and Emperor, if Lelouch could deploy even a handful of Aces equipped such Knightmares then the Empire would suffer severe losses in whatever battlefield they engaged in.

How advanced these machines were remained to be seen, given the lack of data, but the fact that Lelouch had equipped his larger mass production type frame with a hadron particle rifle and the same flight system as the Lancelot Albion was frightening. There was also the little matter of which the Europeans had equipped a larger version of a Hadron particle rifle to their new ace machine thus raising the possibility this was all some ploy by Lelouch to distract all of them, from whatever his plan was.

It wasn't a particularly pleasant idea to contemplate but the fact was Lelouch could well be using this as a smokescreen, the Europeans could well be, odd as it would be, acting on his orders using bits of his technology while the Emperor was making preparations for his plans, whatever those might have been.

Perhaps they could convince the former knight of six, they still hadn't found a replacement for yet, to return to the knights of the round, on the other hand Jeremiah would likely disappear as soon as Lelouch sent word.

Jeremiah wiped the sweat from his brow managing the orange plantation here in the homeland was actually a very pleasant retirement. It was true he would have preferred to have been able to do more but Lelouch's plan required that he die or at least appear that he had done so.

Knowledge of just how many of the Emperor's policies had survived the shift into separate national governments was almost nonexistent. If it did become public knowledge then well it would further drive the world into pro and anti camps. The fact was most national leaders had been killed.

Lelouch's survival was already starting to spread, the UN never had been able to keep a secret after all, and of course there were the tabloids which had always implied the Emperor's death was suspicious at best.

Most people had up until this point ignored these conspiracy theories but now that there was concrete proof that they were in point of fact true, well things would probably begin to get heated. The Emperor had already predicted that Cornelia would attempt to contact Jeremiah, and he had informed the man of this ahead of time. It wouldn't be the first time that someone in the government had wanted him to come to the capital.

Naturally his affiliation with the Emperor had earned him both his critics and supporters some had wanted him arrested and others wanted him appointed to a position in the new Britannian government. There were certain elements, cough Ogi cough, who had wanted him arraigned before the UN but the fact was Britannia wasn't going to here of it, of course Ogi had at the time been more concerned with the fact Jeremiah might have actually been a real threat if allowed a position of power.

Of course that wasn't how the rest of the world saw it, and Britannians had in a surprising show of unity backed the Margrave, the common folk because of his association with the former Emperor and the nobility because Jeremiah was one of their own.

Perhaps critical amongst the elements of the UN who had been key in defusing the situation had been Kaguya. Other than Ogi she was the only person who retained any real authority in the Black Knights, unlike him however she had escaped the political fallout veritably unscathed, albeit the Europeans weren't decidedly happy with her appointment as the Supreme Council Chairwoman of the UN.

Jeremiah had no real grudge against the UN supreme council, it was clear that it had been the Black Knights who had betrayed his majesty he would have preferred that Lelouch had merely continued his enlightened rule rather than this Xanatos Gambit which it seemed had failed.

Suzaku's death might well have meant little in Lelouch's plans for the future, time enough had passed to change things, but without the knight of Zero, how people hadn't figured out his Majesty was Zero sooner was beyond him when he had been flaunting it the whole time, he own military duties would likely be increased.

He had no problem with this of course in fact Jeremiah Gottwald looked forward to the increase in duties, hopefully Lelouch would have the Siegfried rebuilt, upgraded the knight giga fortress would know doubt be as dangerous as it ever had been.

At the moment if he were to guess the Emperor was probably making preparations, the world was of divided opinions, the Britannian common people, and the majority of the former numbers as well as parts of Eastern Europe supported his Majesty. Supplying them all if a war broke out would be a logistics nightmare.

Unfortunately it seemed all the Europeans were upgrading all their armies to seventh generation frames, at least publicly, this didn't jive, as it were, with the testing of the machine based off of the Tristan.

When the time came Jeremiah expected that it would be revealed the Europeans were using much more advanced Knightmares in some units than in others. Of course like everyone else on Earth the Europeans Knightmare Development Programs had been stagnated in the immediate aftermath of Lelouch's 'death'.

Clearly the True Emperor had not been effected like the other powers, as proven by the mass production types he had fielded against the European Prototype machine so recently.

The UN, to the Margrave's knowledge, would be unable to make any decisive moves against Lelouch, the problem with bureaucracy, especially as acting against him would cause trouble across the world. Unfortunately the Black Knights would not be so effected and they still remained capable of independent action, not that Jeremiah was worried in fact he hoped they did decide to act against Lelouch once he got his own frame they could act against him and then he could make them pay.

Lelouch was meticulous in his planning, he always had been except when he was driven to act by bursts of strong emotion. He recognized that Cornelia was a capable leader militarily and was competent in the civilian branch of affairs, however she had her flaws and fears.

Those little things that everyone had that he could exploit to his advantage, the things he could use to further his plans. The fact was the vast majority of Britannians, the common people, were unimpressed by the second princess as opposed to their support for the ninety ninth Emperor.
She did have however have a great deal of support amongst the nobility not that that meant much a number of the survivors who leant their support were little more than parasites.

Cornelia could be manipulated easiest because she had psychological scars not only due to Euphemia's death, but also the death of Darlton, as well as the supposed death of Marianne, and other people she had been close to, as well as Guildford's injuries. With the right prodding she'd have a bit of a blue screen, which would keep her out of his way or perhaps turn here to his side; it would all depend on how things went.

Of course there was always the other plan but Lelouch wasn't terribly keen on showing all his cards at once they, all of them whether it be Britannia, the Traitor Black Knights, the UN or anyone else, would expect Jeremiah would return to his side as soon as Lelouch asked, but he wasn't the only ace.

Chiba was skilled and would also be a powerful psychological weapon against some, certainly no one would be expecting the last of the four Holy Swords to join the side of the Emperor. Chiba be enough to encourage even more of the Japanese people into supporting him. Recruiting her in regards to combat was adding a powerful soldier to his forces and an added bonus as originally it would have been enough to simply convince her to simply abstain from any coming conflict, but this would, her choosing and insisting to fight, be so much more useful.

It would shock the potential enemies that he had but this was only one surprise. Cornelia and the Black Knights were totally unaware of another ace , one they wouldn't expect until she arrived on the battlefield and by that time it would be to late for them to devise a counter measure especially if Kallen elected not to fight again, as he hoped.

Gino had the potential to be a problem, but he could be exploited and manipulated and removing him would be much easier once Lelouch once again occupied Britannia's throne.

"He's not much to worry about," Remarked the woman observing the recorded video of the latest version of the Tristan. "Morganna will be more than sufficient to deal with them all,"
The emperor smirked, Weinberg was of minimal concern even if he were to gain an eleventh generation machine in the near future and Cornelia well she would be even more impotent against this ace of his.

"Bismark and the others were fools to oppose the Empire, your majesty. The knight of three should have died then. I will remedy the problem if it becomes necessary though I am looking forward to seeing Cornelia again," The woman smiled, "hopefully she hasn't gotten soft keeping the throne warm,"

Lelouch chuckled, she was harsh at times that was undeniable after all she was amongst the few people that Cornelia was said to fear, but that was only one facet of her personality. Bismarck's charge, as it had been called by some, or Folly, by others, had cost most of the surviving 'Charles Era' knights of the Round their lives but not all of the knights had betrayed their oaths to the throne and it was something that no one would predict. "Don't be so eager to go rushing off against them, more than likely Ogi will try and flex the UN's muscle in the middle east," he remarked his purple eyes meeting her blue ones.

Ogi was doing what he thought best but the man was ill suited to combat command though he was capable when it came to the logistics and support, but when it came to tactical decisions the man was lost at sea.

"The Middle Eastern Federation will not like his interference, though they'll never bend their knee to Cornelia either," Remarked his secret ace turning to look at the earth that was so far below. "Should he do such they'll side with us and the Europeans will be open from that flank as well,"
When Lelouch returned Eastern Europe would likely against side with him and that would given him more than enough clout to use the UN to pass sanctions against France and Germany the two most powerful members of the EU, and the driving force behind rearmament.

Both were key in the EU's security in the west and the traditional power in the former superpower. When the time came Western Europe's nations would be unified by France and Germany and would lash out, and thus Cassus Belli.

The Black Knights of the UN would oppose Lelouch's agenda no doubt but they'd not side with the Europeans either.
"Still," she remarked, "Their new machines is a concern,"
He nodded his head in agreement, "Yes something I concur with you on, much, much to troublesome to let them live but your not going, not yet," Lelouch didn't intend to give the United Nations or Cornelia.

No when the 'former' Knight of Nine attacked, or counter attacked, as the case might well be, he wanted it to be a surprise wanted her and the troops that she would have under her command to show the world a demonstration of his capability.

One Vision, One Purpose.

"Jeremiah will be arriving at the palace soon," Lelouch remarked wistfully. "by that time no doubt parliament will hav opened their mouths and let something slip."

In truth parliament would end up being a tool to restoring his reign unknowing as some would be of it.

They would spread word of his life and of his power and they would some of them get paranoid and act rashly and in doing so the public would cause trouble in response and Lelouch's elite would be there to encourage them and if it came to open violence well the army would have its dissenters who would support his cause.

More than that however was the Cornelia would have no choice but to acquiesce and if he sent his Ace, one of his Knights of the Round, the one that was beside him at this very moment.

With things as they were the varying powers would not be able to avoid going to war and that was unfortunate. The UN was a failure and incapable of keeping the peace, but it could still be of use.

Britannia under Cornleia was divided and there were those who desired the restoration of the Empire's previous territories something which would put them at odds with the thUN, and especially Ogi.

The western members of the EU, France and Germany's national socialist parties were becoming increasing militant in particular.

Lelouch vi Britannia, and the True Black Knights were waiting in the shadows, watching and making moves not one of the powers could see. The new European machine and the double hadron rifle was certainly a threat. At least against older machines, the two barrels could fire separately of one another allowing one to charge while they other could be fired, in addition to both being able to be fired at the same time in a single blast. "Their real new mass production type also raises potential problems for older conventional frames,"

This was a statement of the obvious but one that bared repeating in all likelihood they would be dangerous against machines like the Tetsujin, a machine that would likely be in use by a large portion of the forces who would rally to Lelouch when the time came.

While the production capacity of the Damocles and other installations was impressive there were limits to what was currently under the Emperor's direct control and those limits prevented him from equipping all with weapons like the AKN 08 Eon. "The UN will be convening shortly by that those gibbering housewives will have everyone aware of my survival," Lelouch remarked.

It was possible that the meeting would have increased security not that that would stop him if chose to act. It would be easy to repeat the last UN meeting he had attended and snatch the delegates. Of course that would have served little purpose, though the UN's Black Knights probably assumed he might try something like that last meeting.

Cornelia would no doubt suspect he had Damocles eventually, perhaps she already had, but the UN wasn't likely to be someone she would share that information with, not immediately with anyway.

With the world wide embargo on nuclear tech and space flight Damocles and the other facilities were untouchable and if they, anyone, attacked his sympathizers there would be riots all across the globe and would likely prompt a war.

War was coming one way or another, the United Nations, the EU, or Britannia, one of them would be the spark that ignited the conflict to come, and someone was pulling the strings behind the scenes in Europe.

Hopefully whoever was behind the cabal in Europe wasn't involved with Geass. If Geass became involved in this conflict Lelouch would not be pleased.

He wished to avoid an incident like with an out of control Geass user. Such a person would be a threat to everyone. Additionally his own research into Geass had been limited and there was no known way to select a Geass for a person.

Research into Code had been slightly more fruitful, not terribly so but it had generated some positive benefits.

No doubt those same benefits were what Clovis's Code R project had been attempting to gain all those years ago. For just half a decade ago it seemed to have been so long ago, and so much had changed in that brief span of time:

Charles was dead, or something.

His mother, who had in fact been alive, and CC were missing still and had been since his supposed Death.

Kallen was in college now, and was expected to become a duchess eventually, once her father did eventually pass on.

Nunnally was in high school, no longer wheel chair bound, and now under the constant protection of the Britannian Royal Guard.

The United Nations was not the grand organization for peace that it had been intended as and the Black Knights of the United Nations were a rapid reaction force rather than peacekeepers. Their numbers were a fraction of what they had been, due to the reformation of individual national militaries.

As to him here he stood on the Damocles's observation deck. Here he was immortal and in the cold dark of space miles above the earth. "Noneette I want you to take command of the Verdandi, Hermes, and Nyneve insure that your squadron are ready."
It wasn't likely but it was possible that Ogi or the Europeans would act sooner than initially thought and Lelouch wanted to be prepared.

The Nyneve was already the 'former' Knight of 9's defacto ship anyway, it and two of its sibling ships would be sufficient to fight off most threats. Their shields, their weapons, like their power plant, nuclear, were all far superior in capability to anything the rest of the world had.

The three vessels were of the same class as his Eowyn, the vessel which had taken him down to Britannia so recently. "Make sure nothing happens to Britannia while it remains under Cornelia's governance, I'd prefer not to have to reassert my control so soon,"

Nonette's efficiency as both tactician and as a pilot were almost frightening even to him, and her capabilities were superior to Cornelia's. With her new Ace Frame, the Morgana, she wasn't even comparable to Cornelia's Knights of the Round that was simply how outclassed Claudio and Gino would be by the terrifying woman and a machine three generations ahead of what they had.

After all Lelouch had had the time and resources and technology to develop freely new weapons or at least more efficient applications of existing technology.

Hadron weapons were one example of common application and refinement. The particle weapons were powerful and with nuclear power could be used indefinitely as previously Hadron weapons had been limited by two factors power and control.

Nonette with command of 11th and 12th generation mass produced Knightmare frames would terrify Cornelia if it came to a fight, and more than that such a display of force would discourage any further aggression in the event of an attack on Britannia, or any of Lelouch's interests for that matter.

Kaguya Sumeragi was not having a pleasant week. Ogi had again increased security though this time it seemed there was a rather valid reason.

Lelouch was alive, which meant things that had over the last few years started to cool off would suddenly become major issues again. If he reclaimed the throne of Britannia the fact was he would have majority, by population, and there were many nations who would support him.

Japan would probably be amongst the worst of places to be, Lelouch had been Zero and if his return became public knowledge the cult like following of him could well spread to open rioting against the Black Knights.

The United Nations was set to hold a full meeting of its member nations this week on the issue, and the fact was they didn't really have that much to go on. Much of their information on the Emperor's forces was speculation.

What little they did know was just that very little. They were aware that he had a warship, which was immense but was also capable of an unheard of level of cloaking, in addition to carrying an unknown number of Knightmare frames of unknown capability.

Not surprising it seemed Lelouch had ignored the UN mandates forbidding space flight technology, presumably seeing as there were only so many places one could hide a ship that was more than kilometer in length, even if it could disappear from sight.

The Europeans were another issue as well they had been steadily rearming this past year, not that Britannia hadn't been doing the same. However Britannia hadn't tested out a brand new Ace Knightmare Frame, which they had developed in total secrecy. Doing so was not going to endear them to any of the other members of the UN, not that it seemed the Europeans were inclined to care.

As usual there a million other issues, which were cropping up as well, the Black Knights were amongst these issues. While Ogi meant well in all likelihood he was probably playing right into Lelouch's hands by trying anything rash.

In addition to concerns about Ogi and the Europeans there was concern over Britannia's soon to be launched new class of Airborne Battleship. While not nearly as impressive as the vessel under Lelouch's command it would still be more powerful than any craft under the command of anyone else. That fact would worry people, Ogi amongst them, he still didn't like Britannia as a whole.

Japan's loss of its Sakuradite mines at Mount Fuji had been a major blow to the economy. The Settlement at Tokyo had also taken a lot of damage, even excluding the damage done through the use of FREYA.

With the crippling of the Sakuradite mines Japan's former source of income had been put out of commission and the destruction of infrastructure had been a serious impediment to reconstruction.

Of course most of the industrialized world was little better off due to the war. Most was not all however the exception, more or less, had been Britannia who had survived with most of its infrastructure intact.

It, the Empire, was thus in the best economic position and Cornelia and the Britannian nobility knew it. Britannia was thus in a position to make deals that were extremely beneficial to it in the long run, and people wondered why Ogi didn't like Britannian.

Lelouch had started several infrastructure development projects in the former Areas, and Kaguya had no doubt the majority of those areas remember that support when the 99th Emperor returned.

Ogi recognized the fact Lelouch had support and that many of those countries were upgrading their militaries. Unfortunately while the Black Knights did have an edge in technology in comparison to the non superpowers they wouldn't be able to fight a prolonged conflict.

Worse still if Lelouch became involved chances were the ninth generation mass production frames in use by the UN military would be grossly inadequate against the Emperor's personal forces.

Kaguya sighed hopefully she could dissuade both sides from fighting, if not Lelouch might be able to amass enough support in the UN to do as he pleased even without taking direct control of Britannia.

Right now the world was to fragile , if there was even a small incident peace could shatter and there would be a war between somebody.

The UN wouldn't be able to cover up Lelouch's existence for long, so as far as Kaguya was concerned, it would be wiser to address the matter on their own terms rather than it coming out on its own.

It was only a matter of time until Lelouch made a public appearance, and if the UN didn't' address the issue on its own terms chances were he would be able to use it to his advantage even more. At least if the UN did make the announcement on its own sometime soon they might be able to minimize the fallout occurring. Regardless there was going to be fallout from this.

Unfortunately if they did make the announcement OgiIn this case well apparently some one had, from the money trail it appeared to be originating from the EU, gotten a hold of the original Tristan Development Program among other files. So it thus appeared there would be a transforming Knightmare frame that could well join the fray soon enough actually the Black Knights had even noticed the development of the machine or more precisely the armament programs of what were the remains of the EU.

would no doubt make a statement on behalf of the UN's Black Knights, and that could spark a new round of arguments between the pro and anti Lelouch groups.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: Not quite sure how I'm going to portray Nonette since she doesn't speak at all in the anime, but apparently she scares Cornelia, /F/ucking sunrise.

Anywho those of you reading Magic Perhaps the next chapter should be up relatively shortly, after which I probably update Dark Prince.