It was late evening when General Xingke, Lady Kaguya, and the Empress Tianzi were escorted into the reserved conference room that Kallen had been patiently waiting in, turning to the new arrivals she lifted the half finished bottle of sake in greeting.
"Hello my friends, sorry for the abrupt summons but a lots happened...a whole helluva lot really..." Xingke looked at the young redhead with concern as he spoke with a tentative tone,
"Are...you all right Captain KĊzuki?" Letting out a mirthless chuckle she slid the bottle across the table towards the stoic man,
"Not really, tell me what have the traitors told you already?" This gave the arriving trio pause, glancing between each other there seemed to be a collective agreement as Kaguya stepped forward,
"We've been led to believe that Master Zero has died due to his injuries, and that nominal command of the Black Knights is to be put in Commander Ohgi's control," Kallen busted out laughing at that while shaking her head slowly,
"Of course, look Zero isn't dead, in fact he's probably causing Kami knows what kinds of damage now that he's lost his morality pet..." sighing she pulled her hands through her tousled hair before reaching beneath the table pulling up a second bottle of liquor. Pouring two glasses she stood and brought the drinks before the other two women in the room before returning to her seat, unceremoniously plopping back into the plush chair she lifted her bottle high. The others hesitatingly mirrored her actions as Tianzi spoke up,
"If...if Zero isn't dead what's going? And what do you mean about his morality pet?" Snorting Kallen drawled out,
"To the Exiled Eleventh Prince of the Holy Empire of Britannia, Lelouch vi Britannia, the Man of Miracles, the revolutionary bent on the destruction of his own homeland known best as Zero." The stunned silence from her drinking partners didn't stop Kallen from taking a long pull from her bottle as she turned her wary eyes back to Kaguya, "So...let me tell you about my boyfriends super power and how his asshole brother nearly ruined everything."
Rolo was busying himself behind the bar tossing items into a blender while reading a poorly written recipe that was sitting on the counter, glancing up at his brother who was currently playing darts the younger boy quickly returned to his task as he asked,
"Brother I was wondering, why did you order the bases forces to take the Great Britannia in the name of Schneizel?" Throwing the dart in hand and grinning at the muffled yelp that followed Lelouch reached down for his glass of rum and cola and took a quick drink before responding.
"Simple little brother, hijacking my fathers airship is as close as I'm going to ever get to stealing the old mans car and going joyriding, I'm doing my best to enact my rebellious teenager duties. As for why doing it in Schneizel's name? Pff, easy, I'm trying to discredit him, and now with his odd sexual fixation on the Emperor and farm animals well...hehehe..." Rolo only shook his head in reply as he activated the blender while hoping for the best,
"I see, and why are you using that fat man as a dart board?" Turning back to the officer in question who had a crude series of rings drawn in sharpie across his belly Lelouch shrugged while finishing his drink. Wiping his mouth he giggled while tossing the glass over his shoulder as he threw another dart,
"This is Colonel Fayer, he's the bloke that ordered Suzaku to keep me in place so we could eat a missile barrage and the sole reason said idiot traitor best friend has that 'Live' geass. So in a way he is indirectly responsible for Nunnally's death." Pouring the strawberry daiquiri into a large glass Rolo nodded while humming in approval, smacking his lips in satisfaction the brunette cocked his head to the side while gesturing at the bearded bleeding man,
"Thus the darts?" Lelouch grinned while throwing another said pointy implement,
"Thus the darts little brother." As the music changed Lelouch winced as he began glaring at the officer clubs jukebox, "The hell is that...noise?" Taking another sip from his frozen drink Rolo stepped from behind the bar and approached the jukebox, staring at the screen he turned back to his brother looking confused,
"Err...something called 'Limp Bizkit', whatever that is...it sounds phallic and or sexual in nature really..." Lelouch let out a disgusted noise as he popped a beer open while taking a pull from it,
"We could always ask Milly, she's perverted enough to get the context I suppose," Rolo shivered at that as he used his free arm to hold himself while taking a large gulp of his daiquiri,
"Do so at your own risk brother, you give her ideas she'll probably want to try them on you..." Lelouch blanched at that nearly choking on his beer, coughing said beverage up he turned his frightened gaze to Rolo while quickly shaking his head,
"Quite right, lets leave her out of this, still it is offensive to the ears..." Rolo placed his glass on the table while pulling out a notepad,
"Shall I add them to the list brother?" Lelouch tapped his chin a moment then nodded,
"Yes, after my father but before the guy who invented I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," Rolo nodded as he quickly penciled the now doomed band in and quickly pocketed the notebook when done,
"Why do you want the not butter guy dead anyway?" Lelouch glanced up from his new position behind the bar as he glared at nothing in particular,
"Because I most certainly CAN believe it's not butter and I will not be told otherwise," Rolo saw no holes in his big brothers logic so he dropped the subject and turned back to his drink, after a few minutes he realized his glass was empty and went to make another. After the blender was done wirring Rolo asked something that had been on his mind for most of the evening,
"Brother, if you weren't you know...completely and utterly inebriated what would you be doing right now?" Lelouch plopped onto a bar stool and stared at the ceiling a moment in contemplation,
"I'd...probably be on an angst ridden rampage hell bent on sealing my father and myself in the World of C as penance for all the blood I've shed...now...well I'm kinda enjoying myself. I suppose we should do something to stop him, do you know why he'd be heading out to this specific thought elevator anyway?" Rolo sipped his second drink slowly before responding, after some careful thought he felt he had an answer,
"Honestly no, but I wonder why he even took an air fleet out here considering all the elevator entrances are interconnected...seems kind of like a plot hole to me...regardless though if his plan involved V.V., which it most likely did, it can't be good for the rest of us." Lelouch hmm'd at that thinking of the best way to incapacitate an immortal, Clovis figured it out so it couldn't be that hard but he really didn't have time or resources, suddenly perking up Lelouch turned to Fayer while asking,
"Stooge Monkey, does this island have landscaping equipment to keep back the surrounding forests?" Fayer nodded quickly in return,
"Yes Your Awesomeness, we have a variety of tools in the maintenance sheds," Lelouch grinned to Rolo as he hopped off his stool,
"I have an idea, but first," dumping a large pitcher of water on the floor Lelouch tossed some ice into it while popping open a full bottle of Kentucky bourbon and dumping it in, topping it off with some cola he frantically looked around in a near panic before speaking again. "Little brother do you see an alcohol induction apparatus around here?" Rolo looked at his brother nonplussed before something clicked in his buzzed mind, shuffling through a drawer he pulled out a pink crazy straw while handing it to the now elated Lelouch,
"Do you mean a straw big brother?" Giggling Lelouch dropped it into the pitcher while hefting up his rather large drink,
"Correct Rolo, never underestimate the power of the booze straw, now Colonel, lead on!"
"And that's about it," Kallen finished, at this point both Kaguya and Tianzi had their glasses topped off twice and Xingke had finished off his half bottle, the trio looked at each other then turned back to Kallen,
"Supposing we believe all this," Xingke began slowly, "Why would-" to everyone's surprise the Tianzi spoke up over her friend a look of consternation on her porcelain face,
"What I don't understand is if Zero...rather Lelouch had this power and the others thought he used it on them, how did they not see the logical fallacy that if he ordered them to follow him they could not have turned on him?" Kallen stared at the diminutive Empress a moment before she let out several snorted giggles, before she could respond her mobile began ringing. Staring down at the caller ID Kallen's eyes widened as she quickly whispered,
"It's Lelouch, on video call what should I do?" Kaguya, who was obviously not as far along on the drinking as the redhead took the phone and plugged it into the central terminal, what greeted them when the call was picked up was a bit of a surprise.
"Hello hello! I see you have most of the smart people in one room, good on you Red I knew I could count on you!" Kallen blushed at that while stammering out,
"I...well I wanted to help," Lelouch grinned causing all three women to turn pink cheeked and look away,
"And of course you did so marvelously! Look what it comes down to is my immortal asshole father is probably up to some sort of shenanigans so Rolo and I are going to go put a stop to it right quick since we really don't have anything better to do at the moment. So I was-" Kaguya cut in there before the drunk man could continue,
"What do you mean immortal?" Lelouch frowned at the interruption but gave her the courtesy of a response regardless,
"Long story made short in order to get a Geass power you have to form a contract with an immortal code bearer, my creepy midget uncle had his code taken by the Emperor so when I used my Geass on him to shoot himself it worked...and activated his code. So now he can't die, but I have a solution!" There was a revving noise in the background as Lelouch panned the camera to face Rolo who was holding a thrumming chainsaw in his hands staring at it fondly,
"It's been a long time since I've dismembered a corpse, ah...Venice..." Chuckling lightly Lelouch turned the camera back towards himself as he quickly continued with,
"Don't forget the trash bags little brother! Anyway, after this someones gonna have to take over the Empire and since I have nothing going on I figured why not take the reigns and turn that backwards group of noble pricks on their heads. So! A good Emperor needs a better Empress at his side, after I wack my dad and throw his giblets into a concrete mixer, Kallen would you consider marrying me?"