Well, I know a lot of my followers must be thinking what the hell is this and where is Power Rangers Ninjetti chapter 7. Well, Last fall I started my last year of school and started an internship that took up a lot of my time, so I wasn't as in the mood to write. When I was in the mood to write I was really bored, not of the idea but of the character that I was writing the chapter about, Kiba. And If you're wondering why Kiba is one of the main characters when I don't find him that interesting, it's because for the premise of Power Rangers Ninjetti. I really only wanted to use Naruto characters for the roles of the rangers. And when I think blue wolf ninja ranger I can just think of Kiba. So after I had written 11 pages and I still was not done and even bored I decided to do something I wasn't going to originally. I decided to start a new fanfiction. Now I was going to wait until I finished Ninjetti but since I was bored and legitimately couldn't write another chapter of it I decided to switch between the two at my own leisure. Now That that's done let's talk about this fanfiction. Now if you read my future projects lists, you know that this is a time travel fic where Kallen travels back in time to stop Zero Requiem. The time travel story is prevalent in the Code Geass fandom, and I do like them although while I have read some good ones they sometimes have Lelouch go out of character or be too taken off guard, or things are too easy. Now, this doesn't mean I'm superior or anything; it's just something that kinda bugged me. So I've decided to throw my hat into the ring as well with a catch. Now for the first chapter only I'm going to do a first-person style Narration as Kallen talks about her own personal feelings and experiences during the latter half of r2 after she returns to the black knights as well as after the series ended.
'Lelouch' Thought/telepathy
"Kallen" Spoken Dialog
"Jeremiah" Flashback
"Die" Geass

Prologue: Fall of the Red Queen

I always used to hate Suzaku for betraying the Japanese to serve the Britannians. But now I feel that I was wrong. After all one traitor can't hate another for betraying someone can they? My name is Kallen Kozuki Stadtfeld. And I abandoned Zero two times in a row and left him to die to his enemies. Ironic isn't it? I was his most loyal follower, and I left him to die twice in a row. Thinking about it makes me want to laugh at the irony of it all, and to make it all worse, I betrayed him for the same reason both times. The first time was at Kamine Island. This was where I found out about the SAZ Massacre, this was where I learned about geass and were I heard him say that the black knights, the Japanese, even I were all just his pawns. I was shocked, I felt betrayed and used. And so I ran.

For a moment, I forgot everything that a good soldier was supposed to do and left my leader. For a moment, I gave into my own weakness, and instead of acting like a soldier, I instead reacted like a weak woman and ran as far as I could. It wasn't until I began talking to C.C during our year on the run together that I learned the truth about Lelouch. I learned everything there was about Lelouch, and for the first time, I felt like trash, on the one hand, I was still mad because of the possibility of being under his geass. But soon I found that I couldn't stay mad at him for long and how could I?

Knowing that he was responsible for his friend's father dying, accidentally causing his sister's free will to be taken away from her and going on a rampage, having to kill her to stop her, losing his mother in a terrorist attack and having his sister's legs and eyesight taken away all at once? It may not have wholly absolved his sins but even so, I felt like I had to forgive him, he already regretted what he did. I didn't need to make things worse. So I forgave him, and I became even more devoted and loyal to him. He wasn't an angel or saint, he wasn't a demon no matter how hard he tried, he was human, and that's all that mattered. I fought harder than I ever did for Lelouch, I followed him no matter what, and in the end, I fell in love with the man known as Lelouch Lamperouge. And even if we weren't together I was happier than I was in a long time, I was his knight, his queen, his loyal follower, and his friend. But as they say, all good things must come to an end.

The Black Knights Betrayal

I couldn't believe this was happening. I stood in the Ikaruga's warehouse in my red flight suit. I stood in front of Lelouch who was in his zero costume with my arms extended trying to protect him from the leaders of the Black knights all on the gantry above with assault rifles leveled down at us and Akatsuki's with their handguns leveled at us below them on the floor in front of us. They won't listen to reason, they were willing to shoot me to "save me" from a life being a victim of Lelouch's Geass. I went through every option in my head and came up with nothing. And right when I accepted the inevitable Lelouch finally spoke up. And once again he lied. It was a repeat of Kamine Island all over again once again Lelouch was playing the role of the evil mastermind. Once again he was playing the part of the dastardly villain. And once again I felt like my heart was being crushed.

Once again I felt betrayed, but not because of the words he said but because once again he was pushing me away from him. Once again he was shouldering the weight of the world on his shoulders and refused to let me or anyone help him. Once again he didn't trust me enough to help him get through the tough situations with him. So instead he took the easy way out and sacrificed himself. And then he looked at me with those big expressive violet eyes of his and all I could see was him begging me 'Betray me' 'Betray me' 'Betray me' 'Betray me' 'Betray me' 'Betray me,' over and over again pleading me to leave him to die. And so with a heavy heart, I bowed my head so that no one could see the tears building up in my eyes and told Lelouch goodbye.

I began walking away from him as fast as possible. I had to get away if I wanted to maintain my resolve. I was weak, I was unstable. I knew that at that moment that my resolve was as thin as paper, any word from him would tear down my resolve to obey his order and rush back to protect him no matter the consequences. And then I heard it, like a whisper on the wind that seemed as if it was spoken for all to understand yet it reached my ears alone, "Live, Kallen." And like that what little resolve I had was gone, and so I turned around and began to run back to protect him. But before I could move two steps back to him, the Shinkirou came from above to shield him and carried him away.

And so I watched them go, knowing that after this betrayal Lelouch and I would never be able to fight together like we once did. I could feel the tears that I wanted to shed roll down my cheeks, but I wouldn't let them. I wouldn't allow the traitorous knights to see me cry. Not now, not ever. I could hear Tohdoh and Ohgi giving out orders to pursue the Shinkirou, but I ignored them. As I gazed up at the ones that forced me to betray Lelouch I could feel my blood boil and my face morph into one of pure anger and hate. I felt white-hot hate the likes that I have never felt before for anyone else boil up from within me, and I vowed that one day they would pay. I swear it.

The Battle of Mount Fuji

It's been almost two months since the betrayal of the black knights, and by this point, I felt as if I could be sick at any minute. Here I was standing in formation with the traitorous bastards that caused me to abandon my loyalty to Lelouch once again. And for what? All because some bitch that shot Ohgi said so? They would rather believe the word of our archenemy who we should on no circumstances believe a word from than give our own leader a chance to explain himself? They can't even have the decency to give him a trial. I guess the Japanese never heard the phrase innocent till proven guilty.

I shook with anticipation and restraint as I gripped the controls of the Guren SEITEN. It would be so easy to end this. I could demolish every Knightmare the Black Knights had with ease, but I didn't, and it was killing me. All I wanted was to kill every single one of them. To fry Tohdoh in his black Zangetsu, to Vaporize Ohgi on board the Ikaruga with a max power blast from the radiant wave surger. And to break through the Damocles's blaze luminous shields and rip the damned thing apart with Schneizel in it. But I couldn't. If I destroyed the Ikaruga, then Rakshata would die. If I Destroyed the Damocles then the only family Lelouch had left to care about would die.

And also I had to follow Lelouch's final order for me to live. So I would. But even so, to fight alongside this band of traitors makes me sick to my stomach. They would condemn a man to hell for one sin and worship and praise another with a hundred more. They couldn't even see that Schneizel has and will do far worse things than Lelouch ever will. It was hypocrisy on the highest level. Their stupidity and ignorance, their hubris and hypocrisy, their refusal to see the big picture, it sickened me. After all, Schneizel was the one that would murder ten million people in an instant and not care that they were his own people. He may have said he gave them time to evacuate, but I believe that like I think that he's Jesus reincarnated. And I sure as hell don't think anything that stupid.

It was then that I realized that they were the same as I was at Kamine Island. The foolish racist pride, the blatant hypocrisy, the racist outlook on all Britannians, the gross stupidity, and unwillingness to see the viewpoint of others. It was all the same. Everything that I hated both the Black knights and I had in spades. All the things I only associated with the Britannians we were guilty of as well. I felt sick, I feel more disgusted than I ever have in my life. I hate Schneizel, I hate the Black Knights, and now I hate myself most of all.

Three months after Zero Requiem

It's been three months since Lelouch died and four since the battle of Mount Fuji. After we were all released, I began to do everything in my power to avoid the Black Knights. I destroyed my old cell phones, got new ones, and had all of my numbers changed. On the one hand, it made it so that I didn't have to deal with those morons calling me, but on the other, I nearly missed the viewing of Lelouch's video Will. The display was to a small audience; only me, Nunnally, Suzaku, Jeremiah, Cornelia, and her knight Gilford were there. To Nunnally he left the throne, to Jeremiah he gave a 4-acre orange farm, to Cornelia Lelouch gave her a heartfelt apology for what he did to Euphemia, Lelouch even shed a tear in regret, and to me, Lelouch left something that nearly broke me.

He left me a small velvet black box that contained a stunning diamond engagement ring. The ring was a platinum band that was adorned with 8 small diamond studs in two rows of four on each side of a three-karat princess cut colorless diamond. As I held the box, I could feel myself shake as I tried to hold back my tears. On the recording, Lelouch gave me a somber smile and just told me that we would have been very happy together someday. I couldn't take it, and so I broke down letting out all the tears that I held back. I felt someone place a comforting arm around me as I cried and cried into the shoulder of who turned out to be Jeremiah. I wailed into his shoulder for what felt like hours but was only a few minutes. The Will finished shortly after and I looked down at the ring in my hand and placed it on my left ring finger. So I could remember what could have been.

After that, I used all of the money I made as a captain in the Black Knights that I never had time to spend and got an apartment near Ashford and never went to the outer rim of the settlement that bordered on the ghettos. I even bought a motorcycle, so I could avoid the trains and buses that they mostly used. If I needed to go in public for any reason, I wore a dark blue wig and sunglasses to avoid being recognized the few rare times that I did run into Ohgi, Tohdoh, or Tamaki. Thankfully they were all fooled thanks to me acting like a weak invalid. Even though it makes me sick doing that damned act again. I began going back to school as well afterward having to make up for an entire year's' worth of missed work. But it wasn't that hard since I was at the top of the class.

I still have to thank Milly for getting me back into Ashford properly. Although the fact that she dragged me to Villeta and Ohgi's wedding should make us even. After the war Ashford Academy has opened its doors to Japanese citizens which really did make me happy to see small children to high school students finally be able to get an education, they even set up special classes for the older students that weren't able to go to school since before the invasion. The Tokyo settlement and other settlements are still under control of the empire as embassy cities, but in exchange, Britannia has to help the reconstruction effort of the areas and allow the former numbers full rights within the settlements.

Something Nunnally willingly gave in compensation. Although thinking about the new ruler of the Britannian empire only served to remind me of Japan's own new ruler. I still can't believe that the Japanese really voted that idiot Ohgi as the new Prime Minister. He couldn't lead the Ikaruga on his own so what made them think that he could run a country? What was that saying in the Lion King where Scar was talking about the hyenas? Oh, now I remember 'I'm surrounded by idiots.' something I've been saying for almost six months now. And to make matters worse apparently that moron Tamaki actually grew a few brain cells.

I left my house for five minutes to go to the grocery store around the corner, and I bumped into him in the parking lot. Somehow he actually managed to recognize me in my disguise and drug me to some meeting in the embassy with the other members of the Black Knights with the help of Sugiyama and Minami while I was literally kicking and screaming everything from rape, to being kidnapped by rabid goat herders. Which was partly true. I was being abducted. I would rather sleep with the Aflac duck than go anywhere with them.

And after an hour-long drive to the old Viceroy Palace now called the Britannian Embassy building and being drug down the halls we now find ourselves in my current dilemma. They brought me down the halls of the embassy till we got to a room labeled conference. The conference room was large but very well decorated. It had a few marble busts set on white pedestals on dark marble tile floors, hand-painted paintings hanging on the pure white walls, a large round oak table sitting in the middle of the space and an entire back wall composed of windows letting in plenty of afternoon light and granting a beautiful view of the settlement. Around the table in the large conference room sat Xingke and Kaguya at the front of the table, Tohdoh and Chiba to Kaguya's left, and the new Zero Suzaku and Ohgi to Xingke's Right.

I would wonder about what they would say about having their leader be a traitor to the Japanese people, but at the moment I didn't care. Tamaki, Sugiyama, and Minami all sat down in the vacant seats between Chiba and Ohgi leaving the only ones left being between Kaguya and Xingke and between Tamaki and Ohgi. I will be damned if I sit next between those two so I instead sat down next to Kaguya and Xingke and pulled off my wig and glasses. Kaguya didn't seem to mind and gave me a very friendly hello while Xingke only gave a polite nod in my direction. At first, Ohgi looked hurt by the act but got over it quickly as he began to call the meeting to order.

"Ok, now that everyone is here. I guess we should get started. It's been three months since the death of the Demon Emperor Lelouch as well as the appearance of the new Zero. With the war over it's time for us to begin the reorganizing of our forces." Ohgi said to my ever displeasure. Meetings like this always take forever, and I have grocery shopping to do dammit! And so there I sat for three hours as they went through every single detail of the reorganization which for the most part all amounted to things being more or less the same before they betrayed Lelouch with the exception that now both Xingke and Tohdoh have more strategical and tactical authority. I sat there in the admittingly comfortable office chair bored and miserable until they finally got to my part in the chain of command.

"Lastly Kallen will retain her position as head of the special forces team Squad Zero as well as Zero's personal bodyguard." I felt it. Hearing those words made something inside me break. For Five and a half months I've had to bottle up my feelings. For over five months I've had to ignore every impulse and logical part of my brain that told me what I was doing was wrong. I've done everything I could to follow Lelouch's final orders to me. So I've taken my hate, my love, my anger, and all of my sorrow and placed them behind a dam that I swore would never break.

But now that dam has ruptured, and every feeling I placed behind it was seeping through in flood. My anger at their betrayal, disgust at their hubris, their hypocrisy, and racist attitudes, my revulsion at their stupidity, and my disgust with the woman named Kallen Kozuki. All I wanted was to protect Lelouch, and that was taken from me. My job and role as his protector and knight were all I had left. My brother was dead, my mother was practically a vegetable, a shell of her former self, sentenced to 20 years in jail for having Refrain, being his protector was all I had left. But then Suzaku stole it from me. Knight of Zero, Zero's knight, the meaning was plain as day.

That was my title, and he took it from me and reveled in it, waving it in my face! When we fought over the Damocles, I didn't care about stopping Lelouch at the moment. What I wanted, really truly wanted, was to show Suzaku that I was the one that earned that title. But In the end, it no longer mattered. He took my position and ruined the name Zero's knight. That bastard did the one thing Zero's knight should never do and killed Lelouch! He helped him and supported his best friend, HIS BEST FRIEND, commit suicide!

I know that they planned this, we all did, there's no way that they wouldn't it has Lelouch's fingerprints all over it. Suzaku wanted nothing more than to kill zero for his own revenge. If given a chance he would do anything possible to make sure that he was able to kill Lelouch no matter what, even if that meant reminding an obviously depressed and emotionally unstable man of their plan to him. He took the title of Knight of Zero and trampled on it, spat on it, and tossed it out like yesterday's trash. And now he was handing it back to me after he rung it for all its worth as if it were useless garbage!

I wouldn't stand for it! Not anymore! Kallen Kozuki may have put up with that shit, but I won't any longer! I must have been seething with rage since before I noticed both Xingke and Kaguya slowly scooted away from me in their chairs. They must have known that Mount Stadtfeld was about to erupt, and erupt it did. "If you think, that I'm going to protect that traitorous son of a bitch, you have another thing coming to you Kaname!" I growled the words out as though they were poison, spitting Ohgi's first name out like a bad taste in my mouth.

All around the room everyone was looking at me with shock even Suzaku behind his mask looked shocked. Ohgi was flabbergasted. I never talked back to my superiors, and especially not him. But before Ohgi could recollect himself, Tohdoh intervened. "Kozuki, that's no way to speak to your commanding officers, especially not a government official such as the prime minister." Tohdoh's voice was hard and stern. He was very furious at my blatant insubordination, but I didn't care. All I heard was that name. That awful, damned NAME!

And so, I lifted my head and looked the experienced general of the Black Knights in the eye and gave him the most horrifying look ever. My eyes were wide and glazed over with rage, my pupils were dilated, and my face was marred with more hate than I have shown any of my enemies. "Don't ever call me by that name!" I spoke in a voice conveying my disgust and hatred of that name. By this point, everyone that wasn't shocked before was now. No one talked back to Kyoshiro Tohdoh and lived. "My name is Kallen Stadtfeld. I'm half Britannian. And my loyalty is to the former 99th emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire, Emperor Lelouch VI Britannia. Not to you traitorous knights!" I said to them now earning gasps of shock and disgust before turning my head and pointing to the masked "hero" of the world.

"And especially not to you! SUZAKU KURURUGI!" At this everyone in the room was silent. Suzaku's eyes were bulging out of his skull at having been outed. "I'm sick of you people. I don't care about the Black Knights. I don't care about Zero. I DON'T CARE ABOUT JAPAN! I HATE YOU! Except for Kaguya and Xingke, I hate all of you! You, stupid imbeciles, were so concerned with your own desires that you were willing to help a genocidal madman willing to kill billions of people just to get the world he desired. You people are so ruled by your own RACIST pride that you were willing to believe anyone that gave you a sympathetic word. You, people, were willing to MURDER THEIR OWN LEADER IN COLD BLOOD WITHOUT EVEN GIVING HIM A CHANCE TO DEFEND HIMSELF, AND ME ALONG WITH THEM! People like you make me SICK! That's why I'm going to do something I should have done 5 months ago, I QUIT!" I yelled out. Shouting every single thing I have wanted to say since the day they betrayed Lelouch.

I began to storm out of the room until I felt someone grab me by my left hand stopping me from getting the hell away from these bastards. Without looking at the person that interrupted me or giving them time to try and convince me otherwise, I threw my right fist back in a vicious right hook that broke Ohgi's nose and threw him back into the large oak table and onto the floor. Blood dripped from his nose and off my clenched fist on to the black marble tile floors. I looked down at Ohgi with all the anger and hate I had as I gave him a final warning. "Keep your damn hands off of me! And if you come near me again I promise you, I'll kill you!" After that, I stormed out of the conference room as fast as I could. I ran out of the embassy building and hailed a cab to take me back to my apartment. Once I got there, I threw him fifty pounds and stormed up to my apartment.

I threw the door open not caring who heard me although thankfully my mother seemed to be gone, probably at the doctors getting her annual treatment for her use of refrain. I stomped into my room and took out a box from my closet and began to dump everything that connected me to the black knights into it. All of my photos from my days as a rebel and the few from my days in the Black Knights were all thrown into the box. I even took my copy of Ohgi's and Villetta's wedding picture and cut both Ohgis' and the rest of the Black Knights out of the picture with three quick cuts with my scissors before tapping the photo back together and marking both Sugiyama and Minami's faces out with a sharpie.

I ripped my uniforms from my closet along with my pilot suits and my red headband and threw them in the box. I threw everything I had that connected me to the Black Knights away except for one thing, the Guren's key. I looked down at the red and white feather shaped flash drive used to activate the now scraped Guren Seiten. On the one hand, it was the first significant thing given to me by Lelouch with the second being my ring, on the other, it was the machine used by that bitch Kallen Kozuki. The Knightmare that she used to abandon Lelouch on Kamine Island and the one she used to try and kill him during the battle of Mount Fuji. It was her signature machine, a symbol of everything both good and horrible about the ignorant Japanese woman. And to top it off, I couldn't remember a single good thing piloting the Guren did.

All I could remember were my failures, my defeats to the Lancelot, my capture by Xingke, letting the Lancelot fire the first FLEIJA, unable to stop Lelouch's rise as the demon emperor. I may have been able to fight the Lancelot but I was never able to beat it, and I never had any victory that made any sort of impact on the tide of battle. In the end, all of my accomplishments were the insignificant failures of a woman who couldn't protect anyone. I can't keep it. Just looking at it makes me feel like my heart's going to break. So I ripped the drive off my neck as if it was going to set me on fire and tossed it into the box with the rest of the trash. I looked around my room looking for anything that could remotely remind me of the Black Knights when I looked into my mirror, and once again I saw her.

I saw Kallen Kozuki staring me in the face. I felt sick and disgusted, I felt angry beyond belief. It was because of her that my mother is a recovering drug addict! It was because of her that the black rebellion failed! IT WAS BECAUSE OF HER THAT LELOUCH WAS DEAD! I can't stand looking at this ugly hairstyle. I was so close to cutting it all off so I wouldn't have to see it ever again, but I decided not to. I needed to calm down. Otherwise, I might make a mistake I'll regret as she did. So instead I grabbed a brush and a comb off my dresser and began to straighten my hair into my Britannian style.

I watched as Kallen Kozuki disappeared with each stroke of my brush and felt a small bit of relief flow through me. I grabbed the box and walked out of my room into the kitchen where I grabbed a box of matches and went out back to the immense empty dumpster and threw the box inside. I took a match from the box of matches and struck it against the box lighting the small flame. I threw the lit match into the dumpster watching the box and everything in it burn to ashes.

And this is how the women known as Kallen Kozuki died. Killed in a blaze of golden orange and yellow flames. For as much as I hate her, it's weird losing a large part of my Identity. For years Kallen Stadtfeld was nothing more than a weak invalid that did nothing but bow to the expectations of others while Kallen Kozuki was the rebel that stood up for her beliefs. In the end, maybe they weren't so different after all. Maybe there was no difference, and it was all merely an excuse I made to claim that I wasn't part Britannian? I honestly don't know. And maybe it doesn't matter. I'm me. That's all there is to it. And so once the fire died down having nothing left to burn after reducing the remnants of Kallen Kozuki to ash I turned and began to walk back to my apartment to continue my life as Kallen Stadtfeld. Those were the last peaceful days that I remember.

Two Years Later

Not long after I left the Black Knights, I graduated from Ashford as Valedictorian. And up till then, I had been living on all my unspent paychecks that I thank God that I cashed in all at once before I quit or else I would have been in serious trouble. But after I graduated, I found my resources beginning to dwindle. I would have contacted my father for help but after all the things that I did during the first Black Rebellion my father ended up losing his nobility, and I've been too scared to call him. So instead I pulled some strings with Jeremiah and Gino, and they managed to get me in contact with Nunnally.

I asked her if she could get me a job in the Britannian Military and she was very shocked not surprisingly. I knew from the silence that she wanted to ask why, but with Nunnally being the kind-hearted girl she was she didn't. I'm not surprised after all I was for the longest time one of Britannia's enemies, and a wanted criminal to the empire before my charges dropped after Zero Requiem. But after a very thick five-minute silence Nunnally replied that she could. From her tone, I knew that while she was still curious as to why I wanted to join the Imperial military, but she was happy that she could see an old friend from Ashford and I was the same. So after Nunnally promised to arrange for me somewhere to stay in the capital of New Pendragon, I sold my apartment and moved both my mother and me to the homeland.

After arriving with all of me and my mother's things I was greeted by both the royal guard and Suzaku escorting the young 100th empress of the empire. I set my stuff down and walked up to the petite 15-year-old and hugged her. While the guards did seem concerned to see the former Red Queen of the Black Knights hugging their ruler they didn't dare interfere. Nunnally returned the hug and gave me a sizeable happy smile that I honestly missed as she led my mom and me to her limousine. After Suzaku wheeled Nunnally into the vehicle, my mother and I got in, and the driver began to pull off from the airport to our next destination.

Once inside Nunnally looked like she wanted to ask me why I was joining the empire but I just told her we could talk as much as she wished to in private which seemed to appease her. When we pulled up, we found ourselves at the palace to my shock. As we got out, the royal guard began to take both me and my mother's bags. Nunnally then started to tell me about my new job. Nunnally was going to make me the Knight of Zero and the new commander of the Glinda Knights. I was shocked and flabbergasted. At most I expected a captain's position of a small Knightmare unit, but instead, she made me one of the Empire's top Knights. She said that with my skills I was more than qualified for the position.

And as a bonus, Camelot was under my full control. That was a neat bonus since it meant that I had first dibs on any of Lloyd's projects. It was almost like Déjà vu. Once again I was the leader of an elite Special Forces unit. Once again I was the ace of a grand leader. And once again I was going to work with an eccentric and brilliant scientist.

On the one hand, it felt weird to once again be in such a similar position, but it felt comforting at the same time. Nunnally gave me and my mom a two room suite near her room. As a part of my new job, I was also supposed to be her bodyguard.

And so, for the next month, I was publicly knighted and fitted for my knight of the round uniform. Before the fitting, I was introduced to the standard Knight of Zero suit, and I turned it down in an instant and was instead fitted with a standard Knight of the round uniform with a custom black and gold cape with a red velvet lining. I have no clue why Suzaku would where such an ugly thing. I took swordsmanship lessons in both medieval and renaissance swordsmanship and was given a beautiful hand and a half sword with a golden guard, a polished silver blade and pommel, a black grip, and a black sheath with gold fittings on the mouth and end of the sheath.

I also began training with my new team. I was very annoyed that all of the knightmares were all painted an ugly bright crimson red. So as quickly as I could, I had them all repainted navy blue. The less I have to remember the Guren the better. Not long after that everything changed. In the time after becoming Empress Nunnally did a swift and vast demilitarization of the empire. While it freed up money and resources to use in the rebuilding of the former areas it left us open to an attack. In multiple of Britannia's embassy cities, large-scale attacks were made by the local people to take over the cities. The destruction was horrifying, property was destroyed, men and children were killed, and women were raped.

The former areas for years were denied their revenge against the oppressive empire. But now they had their opportunity, and they took it. The worst area hit was Tokyo. The embassy building was blown sky high while Suzaku was meeting with members of the Black Knights and Ashford was reduced to a crater. The entire settlement was collapsed on itself as the foundation under it was ripped from under it. I was frozen in my spot. I felt my blood run cold. All I could think about was Rivalz, Milly, Sayoko, and Nina. I was hoping and praying that they were alright, that against all the odds that they were safe. My prayers went unanswered. The news camera showed Sayoko's severed right arm next to some rubble of the school her dress poking from underneath. I saw Rivalz's head severed from his neck and lay on the ground. I saw both Milly and Nina laying on the ground covered in blood, dirt, and semen their eyes lifeless as they lay on the ground dead and naked.

I couldn't take it. I broke down and cried hysterically. Every person I loved was dead. My friends were dead. My brother was dead. My mother was practically a vegetable and needed others to care for her sometimes. Even the man that I loved was dead. Behind me, Cecile who was watching the news with me kneeled down next to me and wrapped her arms around me in a hug as I cried for what felt like hours. The next day an entire fleet from the United States of China arrived at the Pendragon coast along with Xingke and Kaguya in the Da Longdan supercarrier. With Suzaku gone I now took over his responsibilities and so I escorted Nunnally to the docks to meet the both of the UFN leaders to hear what they wanted to talk about.

They said that the UFN along with the Black Knights has split into two separate factions, the Liberals and the Radicals. For months now the Black Knights have been torn on whether or not to make a strike against the weakened Britannians, arguing that the Britannians needed to pay for what they did to the world. Empress Tianzi, Princess Kaguya, and the other Chinese representatives, as well as the ones in from northeastern Africa, were entirely against the idea, while the Europia Union, the Middle East, Japan, and Northwestern and southern Africa were calling for the UFN to take advantage of the Empire's weakened state.

At first, they were dead even until India seceded from China and became an independent state siding with the Japanese. And to make matters worse, the radicle faction of the Chinese party performed a coup against the young empress Jiang Lihua. While Xingke managed to save her and escape along with the visiting Kaguya, they lost over 60% of their forces, only maintaining their air forces. I asked about Rakshata, but they said she went into hiding with her team two months ago, most likely for not siding with the Maharaja.

And so in the next few weeks once again we were at war. While having Xingke on our side helped in the governing of our forces along with Cornelia, Britannia was too weak to fight another war in its demilitarized state. And to make matters worse with Suzaku dead Schneizel was free to do as he pleased since the geass only worked while "Zero" was alive. We lost so much in this war. After the first year, we lost the South American continent and a lot of our sakuradite reserves with it. Afterward, we began to lose both of the coastlines along with the gulf. To escape, we slipped out with both empresses to our base on Shikine that we thankfully were able to defend. All though for how long I don't know.

As I walked down the paved concrete road, I began to head back to my quarters when I saw two figures standing in the darkness. One was tall and masculine while the other was shorter and much more feminine. The male figure easily toward over me by at least 17 cm, I was 175 cm now at the age of 20, and the feminine one looked around seven cm smaller than me. I placed my right hand on my sword unsheathing it and taking a fighting stance at the two figures. "Who are you? Identify yourselves." I yelled out at them into the darkness with a stern voice. Then I heard them laughing, it was almost like they were chucking it was so low, but it was clear that they found my hostility funny.

"Tell me, Kallen, do you like the way the world has turned out?" The voice was obviously the female's, it was soft and smooth and almost purred with regality. I was shocked that this person knew my name but stopped as I heard her heels walk toward me and my eyes widened as I saw her come into the light. "Because if you don't, I can help you. All you have to do is help me in exchange. So what do you say?" I saw the woman smile her familiar cat-like smile as her lime green hair blew in the cold winter breeze.

Well, that's the end of the prologue. Now before you say anything, no Kallen's hate for the Black knights won't carry over to the past versions. It won't completely go away, but she won't hate them. Although I don't know about Tohdoh and Chiba. She won't hate anyone that was in her old resistance group. Although I might have her try to prevent Ohgi and Villetta from becoming an item. Now I'm going to write both of these chapters back to back. So go ahead and read the next chapter.