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Chapter 8—
Zero and the rest of the black knights were going over their next battle plan whennn….
"Dammit CC, do you always have to have the last slice of pizza?!" S9 yelled, flailing her arms about as her and CC walked in.
"Well it's not my fault, you just weren't fast enough," CC said in a snooty tone.
S9 whirled around to face her green haired twin. "C squared!" she yelled.
"S to the ninth power!"
"Well, five plus three equals eight!!" S9 yelled back.
"The square root of nine is three!!"
S9 gasped. "Oh no, you did not just say that!"
"You bet I did!" CC yelled at her older twin.
"Oh it is on!" S9 yelled rolling up her sleeves.
And so the random math problem yelling went on for another hour or two. The Black Knights you ask..? Well, they were pretty damn confused.
"One thousand minus five is nine hundred ninety-five!" CC yelled, huffing and puffing.
"Oh yeah…?" S9 said. "Pie."
CC gasped. "You win this round…" and with that, CC went off to go mope.
S9 walked over and sat down next to Dai with a smug look on her face.
"As I was saying," Zero said, and the Black Knights continued their strategizing.
"So, what was that all about?" Dai asked leaning over and whispering to S9.
"Oh, we argue like that a lot. But what CC doesn't realize is," she grinned and leaned closer to Dai, looking around like she was about to tell her a big secret. "I used the wrong pie."
Dai raised her eyebrow.
"I said pie instead of pi," she said smugly. But, to Dai who was not reading this, could not tell the difference between the pies, as they both sounded the same.
"I'm still confused," she said, playing absent mindedly with her silver heart shaped locket.
"Pie is food right?" S9 asked. Dai nodded. "And pi is an infinite number. I said the food pie. So basically, she gave up." She said smiling.
"I still don't get it, but what ever," Dai said leaning back in her chair, still playing with her locket, which was on a very long chain that hung just below her chest.
"What's that?" S9 asked looking over.
"Oh, this? Its just a locket my mother gave me…" Dai said, looking sadly at the silver heart, flipping it open, revealing that it had room for four pictures, instead of two. "I like to keep it with me. It helps me to remember…" she said looking at a family picture, with her, her father, Suzaku and a woman S9 guessed to be her mother. Opposite that picture was a picture of just her mother.
"She was very beautiful," S9 said.
"Huh?"
"You're mother. That's her right?" She said pointing to the small photo of the woman with long wavy black hair.
"Oh, yeah… She died when me and Suzaku were about nine… It was my fault really…" Dai said. From the sound of her voice S9 figured these must be painful memories. But she was just so curious…
"Why do you say that..?"
"Well… when Suzaku and me were born, there were… complications. Suzaku came out fine but… It was twenty-six hours before I came out…"
"Twenty-six hours?! Why didn't the doctors do anything..?"
"Well, my father was being stupid and wanted a 'traditional birthing' thinking that would give him strong male children. So mom had problems getting me out all by herself, and she was always sick and frail after that…. That's one of the reasons my father hated me so much…"
"You don't know that he hated you. Plus it was his fault anyway." S9 said.
"Doesn't him beating me to a bloody pulp and yelling, 'You disgusting creature!' at me prove that he hated me? Plus he kept me, 'the disgrace', a secret from the world. And I know it was pretty much his fault." Dai said.
"Oh…" S9 decided to drop the subject. She hadn't realized Dai had such a complicated background.
The two sat listening in silence as Zero finished explaining the battle plan.
Later…
"Dangit, Lelouch, why didn't I get to go with you guys to Narita! I haven't used my knightmare in a good battle for forever!" Dai complained, flopping down on the couch in Zero's office.
Lelouch sighed, taking off his mask and sitting down at his computer. "We didn't need you there; we were fine with the Guren. It was enough."
"CC said you almost got killed by the white knightmare," Dai said, almost smug, looking at Lelouch from the corner of her eye.
He swiveled his chair away from her. "I had it under control."
"Sure." Dai got up and walked over to the mini-fridge and pulled out a soda. "Hey, Lelouch."
"What..?" he replied, typing stuff into his computer.
"Why'd Shirley all of a sudden stop calling you 'Lulu'?"
The typing stopped.
"We had a fight. I told you already." He continued typing.
Dai stared at the back of his head for a moment, then sighed. "Fine, don't tell me. I'm gunna head home," she said, flinging her bag over her shoulder. But being the klutz she was, the momentum of the bag sent her flipping onto her back. "Ow…"
Lelouch couldn't hide the smile on his face when he spun his chair around again. "Need some help?"
Dai stood up and dusted herself off. "No thank you." She said angrily, clearly embarrassed. "See you at school."
"Yeah, see ya," Once Dai was gone, Lelouch propped his elbow on his desk; his face pained. "That klutzy girl is more observant than I thought…"
The next day: operation save Tohdoh…
"Dai, go in at take out the enemy knightmares on escape route three," Zero said over the com.
"Yes sir!" Dai's knightmare went racing off to the left, where it immediately ran into four enemy knightmares.
"Stop there, filthy Eleven!" one of them said.
"Out of the way, Britannians!" Dai yelled, as her knightmare jumped into the air, flipped, and grabbed two of them by the head. Her knightmares hands lit up and a shiver ran through the enemy knightmares, and all of a sudden they fell to pieces. And before the other two knightmares could react, the same happened to them.
"H-how the hell did she do that..?!" one of them yelled, climbing from the ruins of his machine.
"How?" Dai said. "My knightmare is equipped with a special type of Radiant Wave Surger, only made to melt the bolts in your knightmares. Different metals, melt at different temperatures." And with that, she sped off down to the end of the exit, destroying six more knightmares.
"Zero, I'm all done down here," she said.
"Good. We've finished up here. Meet us at—damnit, he comes out of no where!" Zero said.
"What is it?"
"Dai, hurry up and get down here, that white knightmare showed up and we need you to help pin him down," he said.
"Sir!" Dai raced off at full speed. But, even at full speed, she wouldn't get there for eight minutes, and when you're going almost one hundred mph, that's a long way. "Damnit, why does this place have to be so fricken big!" Finally she rounded the corner. But what she saw made her stop.
The white knightmare was there, with the top of the cockpit sliced off, revealing the pilot.
"Suzaku…"
Suddenly another enemy knightmare came from behind her, shooting her knightmare in the hand, snapping Dai out of her daze.
"Shit!" She flung around and sliced the enemy knightmare in two with the giant sword that was fastened to her knightmares back. "You don't ever touch my knightmare, jackass!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Yeah. She was pissed.
"Dai! Hurry up, we're leaving!" Zero yelled over the com system.
"R-right, coming!" she stopped and glanced at her brother one more time. "Guess we both kept secrets from each other." Then she raced off to follow the rest of the Black Knights.
The next day Dai was in a sort of shock. She didn't utter a word, and didn't really even acknowledge the existence of the people around her. Finding out about Suzaku being the white knightmare's pilot had her deep in thought. Or, in absolutely no thought at all.
She flopped down next to Zero on the couch as he was talking with Diethard and Tohdoh. She didn't really hear what they were saying, but three words broke through to her mind.
First word; Suzaku.
Second word; Kururugi.
Third word; Assassinate.
Dai's fist came down so hard on the coffee table that it broke in half, sending splinters in every direction.
"You wanna say that again, Diethard?!" she yelled at the TV man.
"Dai, calm down," Zero said. But she didn't hear him.
Diethard smirked. "Miss Kururugi, please don't confuse personal issues with military one—" he stopped short as a gun was put to his head.
"Dai!" Tohdoh yelled.
"Talk about killing my brother again… And I'll kill you myself." Her eyes were so full of hatred that even Retard was scared. She flipped the gun around once then stuck it back on her belt as she marched off.
Zero sighed. Diethard gulped.
A while later Zero walked into his office to find Dai asleep on his couch. He took off his mask and set it quietly on the desk, as he walked over to her. She grumbled a little, rolling onto her back. It was then Lelouch noticed dried tears on her cheeks. He sighed and kneeled down next to her. "Don't worry... I wont let them kill Suzaku," he whispered.
He stood up and turned around when her voice startled him.
"Promise..?" she slurred out.
Lelouch looked back to see she was still half asleep. That was odd… her eyes seemed discolored… maybe that was because her eyes were half closed.
He smiled. "Promise."
"Liar…" she murmured before her eyes closed completely, and her breathing evened out.
Lelouch laughed a little. "Yeah, guess I am."
Next day at school…
"You now, there's something I've been wondering," Eve said during lunch, chewing on some licorice. "Why does your sister keep her hair so long?"
Suzaku sipped at his soda. "I'm not sure exactly why, but I think it has to do with our mom."
"Your mom?"
"Yeah, her hair was that long too. I think it makes Dai feel closer to her. I know it makes her look like our mom," Suzaku said sipping more soda.
Eve thought back to the small picture in Dai's locket. "Now that I think about it you're right."
"You've seen our mom?"
"Yeah, Dai showed me the pictures in her locket," she said chewing on another piece of licorice.
"Oh. Ye—" before he could finish both his and Eve's pagers went off.
(yes, they still use pagers).
They both jumped up and ran down to…to…to where ever the heck Lloyd and Cecile work.
"Lloyd what's wrong?" Suzaku said.
"The Black Knights," the psycho—I—I mean, intelligent man said.
At the sight of the battle…
"Uuuhh… Zero? Do I really have to be in this fight?" Dai asked sitting inside of a knightmare that was not her own.
"Well you complained about not being able to fight at Narita."
"Yes, but that was when I had MY knightmare!" she yelled. "I don't know if I can operate this—"
"It's the same basic system. Now, everyone, move out!" he said, speeding off with the rest of the knightmares.
Dai looked down at all the buttons. "Sure…basic my a—AHHH!!" she screamed as the knightmare lurched forward.
After a few hours, Dai had managed to stay out of the fight as she figured out how to work the knightmare. Her actual knightmare was damaged, therefore, unusable. So she was stuck with this one.
"Dammit, why does this have to be so different from my knightmare?!" she yelled in frustration.
"Dai, its time to go," Zero said as his and Kallen's knightmares pulled up.
"Y-yes sir."
But before anyone could react, an enemy knightmare came from the trees behind her, stabbing his lance through her knightmares stomach.
"Die, Eleven!" he yelled, just before Zero shot him with his gun (on the knightmare, not a hand gun).
"Dai, pull the eject lever!" Zero yelled.
"I cant!" she screamed.
"Why not?! If you don't your knightmare will ex—" but the warning came to late, and Dai's knightmare was engulfed in flames…