Code Geass: Nunnally on the Insurrection

Chapter Eighteen: Nemo and the Black Knights Appreciation Day

Nunnally tried her damnedest to talk Milly out of the idea, but the other girl was determined. She wanted Ashford Academy to have a festival, and she had latched onto the Black Knights, the 'heroes' of Area 11, as a theme. So in between her missions and classes Nunnally found herself actually helping organize a event to celebrate her alter ego.

Suzaku, of course, found the whole situation hilarious. The pilot had been saved from a Suzaku Appreciation Day, AND he got to see his best friend squirm. It was the best of both worlds, from his point of view.

"Stop gloating," Nunnally said with a scowl, "it's unbecoming." She adjusted the replica Black Knight costume Milly was making the Student Council wear, it not being quite as comfortable as her usual Nemo outfit.

"I'm not gloating," the smiling Suzaku said, also standing in a replica Knight uniform. He cut quite the dashing figure, actually.

Nunnally just growled as she looked out one of the windows at the campus. Ashford Academy teemed with students taking the day off classes, going between food booths and events set up by clubs to celebrate the Black Knights. As well there was a mix of traditional fair activities from Japan, like goldfish scooping and other games. And everyone was either in replica Knight outfits or in sunglasses that replicated the ones the mysterious Nemo wore.

"This is surreal," Nunnally said, shaking her head.

Suzaku and her walked out of the student council rooms and down the halls, nodding to Knight clad students. Or people wearing Knight themed t-shirts with slogans inspired by things Nemo had supposedly said.

"Do you think Nemo actually said," Suzaku read off one shirt, "Freedom is the right of all living beings?"

"No, someone stole that off a old cartoon," Nunnally answered wryly.

"Nunnally!" a familiar voice called as a young man hurried up the hall to them. Rivalz looked faintly absurd in his Knight uniform, jogging along at a good pace.

"Trouble?" Nunnally asked with a frown.

Rivalz gave her a odd look as he fell into step beside them, "Why would you think that?"

"Experience," Nunnally said dryly as Suzaku snickered.

They walked on together as Rivalz said, "Turn out has been bigger than we expected, though it might be because everyone knows Ashford has good parties."

Suzaku laughed, then noticed both Suzaku and Nunnally were both pretty much deadpan. "Seriously?" he asked.

"We have a reputation, yes," Nunnally admitted. She looked at Rivalz as she asked, "How are the food stands and stuff?"

"Doing brisk business," Rivalz said promptly, "knowing Milly's sort of planning, we'll probably make a profit."

"And... has Milly done her usual thing?" Nunnally had to ask.

Rivalz blushed faintly while Suzaku looked at both of them, curious. "What's her usual thing?" he had to ask.

"Something perverted, illegal or possibly immoral," Nunnally shrugged, "or all of the above." She looked at Rivalz, "Well?"

"The swim club," Rivalz admitted, "they've been talked into hosting a... sort of fashion show. Knowing Milly, it's going to be a bit much."

"I'd better check it out," Nunnally sighed. She looked at Suzaku, "Can you track Kallen down? She's heading up the security volunteers, I think, and could use a break."

"Will do," Suzaku agreed, heading off at a brisk trot.

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Lloyd Asplund was, surprisingly, rather enjoying the whole event. Yes, he had to put up with being bumped by teenagers and deal with the high noise level, but the food and the sights were both good. And he wasn't having to eat his assistant's cooking, which was a added bonus.

"So... why are we doing this again?" Lloyd asked his companion cheerfully as he ate some baked octobus snack.

Cecile Groomy sighed slightly, looking like she was getting a headache. Of course she usually got a headache from dealing with Lloyd, or more accurately got a headache from how much she had to manage him. Not that she wasn't used to it, but it got agrivating at times.

"Lloyd, we want to get access to the Ganymede Knightmare prototype, right?" Cecile asked him patiently.

"Of course," Lloyd agreed, "so?"

Cecile nodded, "So you need to stay on the good side of your future bride, Milly Ashford. And since this is a event she's putting on..."

Lloyd nodded, getting her point. "I need to be seen out here, appreciating what she's doing and so on," he conceded.

"Exactly," Cecile agreed. She smiled as she added, "And I've heard she will have the Ganymede taken out for special events, so we might even see it in action."

"At a fair like this?" Lloyd asked skeptically.

"I've heard of stranger things from the Ashfords," Cecile shrugged, "maybe they'll try to use it to make the world's largest pizza?"

The two exchanged looks "Nah."

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Shirley Fenette adjusted her school swimsuit, the busty schoolgirl wanting to make sure nothing would pop out. This was more important than usual today, because she and her teammates in the swim team were wearing suits a LOT skimpier than they'd normally wear.

The little two piece bikini held in Shirley's assets, but it was a close thing. The other girls on the team were wearing similar vapor wear, including a semi-transparent mesh, a shocking Brazilian type and others. They were DAMN sexy looking, though most of the girls were pretty uncomfortable wearing them.

Sophie Wood smiled tentatively as she asked, "Who's bright idea was a swimsuit fashion show alongside the male enticement club?"

"Milly Ashford's," a very attractive women in the male enticement club noted, wearing some kind of fetish wear.

"Figures," Sophie sighed.

"It could be worse, we could be doing this naked," a third girl noted.

"I'm really sorry I didn't manage to stop her," Shirley admitted with a sigh. "I was so busy with my class's project I didn't realize what Milly planned."

Sophie patted her on the shoulder, "It's fine, I think. We have Kallen and the security people taking everyone's cameras away, so we don't have to worry about photos later."

"Good," Shirley sighed.

Often Shirley was relieved having a understudy like Sophie in the club. She was smart, well organized and took on a lot of the slack for Shirley when student council or classes pulled her away. YES, there was a issue of Sophie being gay, but Shirley was okay with that and most of their teammates were fine too.

"All right everyone," one of the young men working as stage hands called, "first show in a minute. Everyone to your places."

"Right," the dominatrix clad girl called.

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Suzaku ended up tracking down Kallen in about half a hour, meeting up with her in front of a large tent called 'Sensual Swimsuit Show.' He had already ran into Lloyd and Cecile and said hi, as well as greeting several friends in the crowds. He also ran into a few Britannians who didn't like a Eleven with pretentions, but he handled that too.

Kallen was calmly taking a camera away from a boy, who was sqwalking about it. "You know the rules," she told him, "no cameras, or you don't go in."

"You suck," the boy said sullenly.

"Would you like me to handle this?" Suzaku offered, cracking his knuckles as he came up behind the kid. The boy wheeled around and paled visibly on seeing him, exactly as Suzaku planned.

"No, I think he's going to play along, right?" Kallen glared at the boy. He meekly surrendered the camera and walked inside.

"Everything okay?" Suzaku asked smiling at the girl in the Black Knight uniform. It really suited her, surprisingly, and he had to try hard not to take in her curves.

"Not bad," Kallen conceded as she monitored the boys going into the oversized tent, "most of the students are behaving."

"Good, Nunnally wanted to make sure everything was all right," Suzaku noted.

"With my back up here," Kallen gestured to a smaller tent beside the enterance as she asked wryly, "how could we loose?"

Suzaku leaned over to see CC munching on a pizza. "You're interrupting my lunch break," she said dryly, munching on pizza.

He bit back a laugh as Suzaku said, "I'll leave you to it, then."

Kallen gave him a amused look as she asked, "Have you seen Shirley today?"

"No," Suzaku admitted, "it's been so hectic I haven't really had a chance."

Pulling the curtain to the bigger tent aside Kallen smiled, "You should go in to see her, then. I'm sure she'd be glad to see you."

"I really can't..." Suzaku started.

"Go on," Kallen gave him a surprisingly strong shove for a sickly girl and he found himself inside the show.

The thumbing beat of rock music played as girls paraded on a raised platform, and Suzaku felt himself blush as he took in the outfits. The girls weren't nude, Ashord Academy (and especially Milly) couldn't get away with that, but they were getting as close to nude as they could get away with. The girls sauntered by in clingy, nearly see through outfits or skimpy bikinis, and it was taking all of his concentration not to have a nosebleed.

Shirley came out of the back in a teeny tiny bikini, then her eyes widened as she saw him. It was clear she wanted to retreat, but then decided not to. With a graceful, strolling walk she went down the ramp, her eyes on Suzaku.

'Oh hell,' Suzaku actually felt faint as Shirley walked up to him. Then shockingly she stopped, smiling down from the raised platform as she posed.

Waiting just long enough for it to have a impact Shirley murmured, "Like what you see?"

To be continued...

Notes: The 'male enticement club' is in fact a canon group who show up in a episode. Sophie is a canon character, though mostly just seen in the background.