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FolieOfMadness and KindaAverage

That's what I would be saying if they had beta'd this chapter, but both of them were a little to busy. When the beta'd copy does come out I will post it up replacing this one.

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Cornelia was not happy, not happy at all. The start of her month was decent enough with victory over the middle east and the creation of area 18, the locals were using very poor imitations of Knightmares, machines that lumbered through and were about 3 Knightmares tall and 6 wide, the behemoths were a scary sight to behold on the battle field, but their size was their undoing, the speed and agility of the Knightmares ran circles around them, on the final battle Sir Guilford Cornelia's knight of honour and General Dalton, lead the assault with the support of the Glaston knights Daltons personal militia, made up of Daltons family of adopted sons. Cornelia had worked her knightmare around the rear and destroyed the last bastion of rebels on her own, and with all the behemoths out in the field getting taken care of by the Galston knights, it was child's play. That was the good part to her month, the bad part was when Cornelia and her entourage went to area 11, first Euphemia caught wind of where her sister was going and opted to leave the homeland for area 11 as well, much to her older sisters' charging. Then when Cornelia finally reaches area 11 she finds out that the local government is either corrupt or stupid, they suggested a welcome party followed by a press release. Cornelia almost executed the man right there, how dare they not look for her brother's killer, it frustrated her so much she barked at the man right there and then

"You dare tell me about a party when the enemy of empire is still free and roaming out there" growled Cornelia in a deadly manner "so I will ask once, and once alone. WHERE IS ZERO?! WHY IS HEAD NOT ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK ALREADY?!" nearly everyone in the proximity flinched all except Cornelia's group, in fact if you looked you could see a smirk or two on some of the Glaston knights' faces

"I-i-I'm sorry your highness, that will be top priority" stuttered the steward

"I also want all footage we have of this zero character, his involvements. Any and all information that could be linked to zero" stated Cornelia as she lowered her very long barrelled pistol

"Yes your highness" was his reply now stronger that the gun was no longer aimed towards his face

"Please step this way your highness, we will set you down in one of the sitting rooms and your information will be brought to you there" bowed a maid, directing the royal with an outstretched arm

"Thank you, be sure it does get to me" was Cornelia's strained but courteous reply

Following the young maid to the sitting room, and reading over and watching all the information that was provided to her, another problem rose up.

"Who is she?" Cornelia asked the steward pointing to a red armoured figure that stood by Zero's side in the bridge heist

"who is who your highness?" was his calm reply, having been drifting in and out of the research the poor man honestly had no clue to what Cornelia desired in the first place

"Don't play coy with me fool, who is this woman by Zero's side? Dalton! Guilford! What do you think about this woman?"

"I think she is a loyal tool for the man" was Guilford's response

"I believe she is his strength, she stands by his side obviously loyal to the man, maybe she is his knight?" was Dalton's

"And you, steward what have your investigations uncovered?" sniped the princess

"Uh … your highness we have not found any remains of either figure before you, they both just disappeared. All we have is the name Lotus and even then we got that information from the eleven" stated the steward

"Bah of course you found nothing of any worth, you're all incompetent fools." Scoffed Cornelia "now that My entourage and I are here, we will track this man, bring him in and finally my brother will be avenged" growled Cornelia towards the screen, watching the freeze frame of both Zero and Lotus, crushing the intelligence report in her hand in obvious anger, Cornelia continued "I will get you Zero, and you will beg for mercy when I do"

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"YYYAAAWWWNN"

"Jeez Lelouch you really stayed up late last night didn't you?" asked Rivalz.

They were currently in class and Lelouch was doing his normal thing, sleeping in class, the teacher Mr Davidson was doing his usual as well with his class room, he was droning on about the greatness of the Britannian empire and putting many other 'areas' all places now under the empire's dominion

"Area 11 in particular, this place we live in is one of the lowest areas for the Britannian Empire, if not for the Sakuadite resources it would have been expunged of all life and left to rot"

"Yeah, Kallen kept me up all night long" exclaimed Lelouch

BANG!

Looking up towards the noise, he could see Kallen 2 rows in front of him with her head slammed into the table and her ears the same colour of her fiery red hair, between the two was the stares of their class mates, making the situation thousands of times worse for the new start anti-hero Lotus. So what does the boy with black hair, purple eyes, and symbiote infused leader of an upstart rebellion in disguise do? He laughs of course.

"Bahahahah" Laughed the young man, keeling over his desk holding onto his stomach, the scene before him was just so hilarious.

"Mister Lampourge!" bellowed the teacher, catching everyone's attention and only slightly calming Lelouch's laughs "is there something you would like to share with the class?"

"No sorry mister Davidson, please continue with your lesson, I mean I need to know my country's great heritage don't I?" replied Lelouch, his laughs now effectively stopped

"Well yes the great Britannian empi-" Just as the teacher started up his speech the bell rang indicating the end of classes, all the students picked up and left before Mr Davidson could say otherwise. Just as Lelouch passed the door his got stopped with a fist to the stomach

"Oomph" the wind was knocked out of Lelouch, looking up the man saw a very angry red haired beauty "h-hey" Lelouch offered weakly still claiming his breath

"You! You asshole, you embarrassed me in front of everyone!" yelled Kallen. Reaching down she grabbed the boy around the collar and raised him up off the ground, Lelouch didn't respond except look at the angry Kallen in front of him

"My. My. Kallen you sure are lively today" responded Lelouch with a smirk, reminding her of her cover at the school. This awarded Lelouch with an angry glare before she dropped him, then true to her character started swaying like she has used up all her energy.

"Now that you mention it Lelouch I am feeling a little light headed" she offered meekly like her cover demands her to act.

"Here, let's get you to the infirmary and then get you home okay?" was Lelouch's gentle voice, laced in concern and a look of worry on his face. Being spun into Kallen's double life's character, he to now have to act a lot softer towards the girl and act as the worried boyfriend to the sick girlfriend.

"Th-thank you Lelouch" was her almost scripted reply.

The couple slowly walked through the halls, but instead of the regular infirmary they were heading straight for the manor that Lelouch used as his housing, walking through one of the locked doors, the two of them gave an inaudible sigh and untangled themselves from the supporting hold they were using to 'carry' Kallen to the infirmary. Stopping for a second they both stretched their muscles only really having to use the support hold about 12 times in 3 days; Lelouch's teasing of Kallen and vice versa was not helping matters

"Jeez Kallen you got to remember to stay in character" Scolded Lelouch. As they both started walking down the empty corridor

"Well it would be easier if a certain raven haired boy stopped pestering me" replied Kallen with a glare towards Lelouch, only causing him to do a light chuckle again.

"Okay, okay I get you" surrendered Lelouch with his hands in the air in a gentle manner. "Now Lotus, I need you to get the knights together at the usual spot, I am going to move them to the new headquarters" commanded Lelouch, eyes hardening into the perfect pose of an adept commander.

"Yes Zero" was Kallen's snap reply, she also picking up her battle hardened pose of a knight of justice "Zero, will I need to wear my armour?" asked Kallen.

"Yes Lotus, from now on you are no longer Kallen Kouzuki rebel of the black knights, but Lotus, knight of the Zero's court" smirked Lelouch as he looked at Kallen, her face slowly brighten at the implications of Captaincy.

"Zero's court?" asked Kallen

"essentially they are my personal forces, my eyes and ears in the black knights as well as the spear head of the strongest and most loyal troops in the black knights, hence our court of dancers, you will undergo training to move fluidly with each other on and off the battlefield, and be tasked with my own protection" informed Lelouch before the ultimatum "Do you wish to join my court Lotus or do you wish to stay as Kallen Kouzuki?"

"Yes Lord Zero, Lotus will happy to serve" Stated Kallen the use of third person to clarify her answer and a slight tilt of her head to implicate the quick bow that would be out of place in their current scenery.

"Good, I know you won't disappoint me Lotus, remember bring the rest of them all in, I need to discuss a rearrangement of personal, you promotion will also be made public." Stated Lelouch "Now go and inform the others we will meet again in an hour"

"Yes Zero" was Kallen's answer as the started to pick up the pace to pass Lelouch and reach the Knights without attracting too much attention.

'Yes Kallen' thought Lelouch 'you will make a perfect queen of court, we just have mould you a little' That thought left Lelouch with one of his signature danger smirks all the way to the meeting with the knights.

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Lelouch and Kallen were sitting on the longue of their new headquarters waiting for the rest of the black knights to enter their new mobile command truck, one of many Lelouch 'acquired' from the nobles, this one though was the most outfitted and currently the only one in service, Lelouch was planning to use the remaining trucks for on field commands and sleeper agents and while the Black knights almost had enough numbers, they were all centralized in Tokyo and were not very motivated in the cause, most only saw it as an opportunity to fight Britannians, he was going to change that.

Kallen was sitting next to her new charge and friend Lelouch, now being a knight of Zeros court it was her duty to protect him, and such protect her own identity as to not leave any clues back to Zero, he had informed her on her being his eyes and ears in the Black knights and that's exactly how she was going to act, she would be Lelouch's loyal knight and fight for his cause, because to her he was the successor of Naoto's dream, her older brother was a man like Lelouch, smart, cunning and with a plan, sadly he could only run a militia were Lelouch so far was about to run an army, they could only get better and better with his skills, the thought made Kallen smile behind her imposing mask, she couldn't wait to see how the other ex-resistance members would see her now. Kallen was a little upset that she could no longer be on personal grounds with anyone but other members of Zero's court, it didn't help that she was currently the only member, but it was understandable and she was informed that there would be more coming into their folds, depending on skill and loyalty to Zero.

The door opened shortly after the figures of red and black were set in the most imposing yet relaxed position, the ex-resistance members moved inside the truck rather slowly at first but once the first few members, like Ohgi and Tamaki were through the door people eased up on their suspicions and entered more fluidly.

"Greetings" opened Zero's synthetic voice "how does the new command centre meet your expectations?" he asked again, though from the looks on their faces he could see they all rather liked it and were shocked that Zero had so much reach.

"H-How did you attain this place Zero?" asked Ohgi, as always asking the questions people are too afraid of.

"Who cares it has a flat screen TV, look at this thing it's huge!" yelled Tamaki, as always saying the things people aren't stupid enough say

"I asked for it" was Zero's simple answer, still staring forward, or at least he looked like he was staring forward

"You asked?" was the question stated by many in almost perfect synchronization

"Yes I asked, and no there are no strings attached he just gave it to me, to explain this better is that I have many a debts a lot of nobles owe me, the one I asked was quite happy to buy this for me as a way to get out of his debt which was actually substantially larger than the cost of this vehicle so in exchange he has giving me all the details and documents and officially he knows nothing and unofficially all he knows is that he bought it" explained Zero "Now please investigate the place, there is a second story to the vehicle" and with that a lot of the members saw the stairs and brightened, some almost ran to get up the stairs first, they looked like 4 year olds in a new house, wanting to investigate it

Ohgi returned with just the thing Zero wanted him to find "Ah Zero what are these, are these uniforms?" asked the man

"Yes they are, I believe it is time for us to stand out from the populace, did you know your civilian clothes are painting a target on the back of every Japanese citizen in japan?" everyone stiffened at Zero's comment; they knew it was true and were feeling rather guilty for it. Zero continued "With the use of these uniforms you will stand out as a symbol of hope and take the burden you have placed on the rest of the populace, you will become known around japan and eventually the world, you will all be known as knights of justice"

"But Zero we are just a resist-"interjected Ohgi only to be interrupted by Zero

"Ohgi what did I say about how useless your resistance is, I made my point quite clear to all that was present" stated Zero, sweeping his arm over them all except Lotus, Zero made his point clearer as he continued "All of you have accomplished nothing, your resistance is little more than a bloody fly to the goliath known as Britannia, you are one of many little tiny problems that Britannia doesn't see bothersome enough to remove, fight with me and I will change us, you will no longer be that fly I will make us, slowly we will become bigger and bigger, until we will become the giants worst enemy, I will make us into David and his sling, and with our one stone" grouping his arms out gesturing to all again, in a more friendly manner "we will take down goliath until his whole way of life is nothing but ashes, so which of you are proud Japanese that would fight with me for justice and who of you will become the cowards out there that hides behinds innocents!?" finished Lelouch, everyone was in shock at such accusations from the masked vigilante, some of the rebels were plain livid at the thought of being called cowards, others paled of the perspective they were provided, Britannia hasn't been trying to remove them, they were just dealt with for leisure so what would happen when they truly kicked the beehive of the Britannian military. Besides all the looks Lelouch received he was happy to see not one of the members leave.

"I will fight" stated the red figure next to him, now standing Kallen stood like a pillar of confidence, a beacon in a dangerous storm with her statement a lot of the people's faces lost their distraught and angry looks, replaced by what Lelouch wanted all along from his knights of justice. Determination.

"I will fight" addressed Ohgi with one of the uniforms from the box he was holding, sitting over his shoulders

"As will I" stated Izumi, she walked up to Ohgi who was still standing on the stairs and received a shirt from Ohgi with a thank you, before donning it over her shoulders.

After the first three conformations the rest acted upon it exactly how they walked through the door of the vehicle, not willing to take the first step but willing to follow. 'That is fine for now but I need to weed out all who could lead´ thought Lelouch but quickly brushed it off to continue with his opening "I thank you all for fighting with me, as you all know we are growing larger and such I have created new positions and I believe they should be to all of your likings" stated Lelouch as he slapped a large set of clipped documents "Ohgi I will leave this matter to you, I wish to hold a few words with a knight of my court"

"What position are you talking about?" asked Ohgi over his shoulder; still busy emptying the box of uniforms to the able knights

"Read the documents provided it will become clear" stated Lelouch as he continued up the stairs with a bemused Kallen following in her own iconic red armour.

Entering Zero's new private quarters and locking the doors behind them, he could barely hold the chuckle as he could hear Tamaki yell out 'Lotus is part of Zeros court?!', turning around he stared straight at Kallen still masked and armour, reaching up he removed his own mask and undid his cape, so he was only in his thick and sturdy but flexible armour "You can unveil yourself here Kallen, this place can only be monitored by myself"

With the slight encouragement Kallen removed her own helmet and smiled at Lelouch, she knew he was the right person to be the successor for Naoto and that speech just confirmed it, Naoto always hated hiding amongst the innocent but he didn't have the resources to properly recognize himself and his militia

Smiling Lelouch just looked up at Kallen, who had a rather bright smile on her beautiful face. Lelouch just started a quiet chuckle

"Did I do well?" he asked with amusement, he was taking the smile as a good sign

"Naoto would be proud!" was her reply, she was excited and happy at the prospect of a successor in a dream only she seemed to care about anymore

"Naoto?" asked Lelouch he had no idea who or what she was on about.

"My older brother passed away leading the group of men below us, he was quiet smart and cunning like yourself, but he didn't have your resources, I reckon you two would have hit it off well" stated Kallen as she sat next to Lelouch, relaxing and leaning her head on his shoulder he gave no outward signs of caring so she thought it would be okay, she continued her story though "That is why I follow you Lelouch, I believe you are able to make his dream a reality"

"Then I hope I can reach your expectations" said Lelouch as he reach over and just brushed her hair a little with his armoured hand

"I am sure you will"

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Yay another chapter out, sorry about the everything with the times to wait and irregularity's and stuffs. On another topic, as you all saw the Zero squadron has a new name and as you can guess will play a bigger role in this story, so I need OCs from you, my readers, all I really need would be name, age, sex, and origins, I am fine with Britannians or even Australians, it will just make a nice challenge to try and integrate them into the story.

Anyways thanks for reading, please please review with what I am doing wrong and what I can improve, I won't rip off your hands for your ideas so please bring them in.

K, bye :D