I kept the original author's notes, and I think I edited out most of the amateur from this, but really I hope you all enjoy this redo. Ugh, I know I had to have missed something... Why did 2014 Nem suck so bad at editing? Once again, ugh...

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Japanese Countryside, 30 kilometers outside Tokyo August 20 2010 A.T.B.

Kallen was scared, so was her big brother Naota, even though he didn't show it.

Mom and dad had been arguing for awhile now, their car broken down and their phones getting no signal, there were bright flashes and booms in the distance but Naota tried to convince her it was thunder.

Everything had gotten so scary in the past week, they had been on summer holiday visiting some of her mom's family in Nagasaki when things started exploding and dead people filled the streets, Kallen may be sheltered but she knew perfectly well they were at war with...someone.

Maybe that's why mom and dad were fighting, maybe Britannia had finally invaded Japan like Naoto had said they would.

Hopping out of the car in boredom Kallen walked over to a small wooded area a bit away from the road, waving absently to her dad when he said not to go too far, Naoto was sleeping in the back seat so he was no fun to play with...ugh.

Looking through the trees she could have sworn she saw a one armed boy making his way through the brush, she was about to yell if he needed help when she heard her mother scream. Turning around in shock she saw that a Britannian APC had pulled up beside their car and they were trying to grab her mom, they were tearing at her clothes and holding her father to the ground, she rushed out of the woods to help them when she saw one of the men shoot her dad in the head.

As she got closer one of the men had taken her dads wallet out and started swearing loudly.

"FUCK! FUCKING STOP TOUCHING HER!" his companions in the middle of unloosing their pants looked at him in confusion as he continued "You fucking idiots just murdered a Duke! This is Duke Fucking Stadtfeld! You're trying to rape a Duchess!" The other men stared at their manic comrade in horror at this revelation.

The cameras in their helmets recorded everything, while treating the Japs like animals wouldn't even be commented on this...this was execution of a Nobel without trial. As they were trying to figure out what to do Naoto rushed out of the car holding his dads pistol running towards the men blindly firing, the Britannians raised their rifles to shoot when his mom dove in the way to protect him, they were both dead in seconds.

"FUCK!" The first soldier yelled again "Will you idiots stop murdering nobility!?" The other five soldiers once again realizing their idiotic mistake started swearing amongst themselves until one noticed the running form of Kallen falling next to her father.

"Dad?! Daddy?! Daddy wake up!".

The soldiers honestly didn't know what to do at this point, until one of them said, "...the APC stores all the data from our recorders then uploads them at the end of the day...if we...tie up loose ends and blow up the truck no one will know what happened".

This thought seemed to cheer up the other soldiers except for the one still holding Lord Stadtfeld's wallet, "Are you seriously going to murder a little girl to cover your own asses!? I won't allow it!"

The others exchanged looks for a moment then raised their weapons simultaneously and emptied their magazines into their shocked companion.

They turned to the now terrified Kallen who only kept muttering, "No No No No," while grasping her fathers hand.

The new leader of the group sighed, took out a pistol and aimed it at Kallen's head, "Sorry about this kid, survival of the fittest and all."

As he was pulling the trigger a shot rang out and the mans neck ruptured, gurgling blood he fell to the ground with a look of confusion permanently marring his face.

Turning they all saw a bloodied, one armed boy wearing the tattered clothes of a nobleman holding a smoking pistol, he smiled at the shocked troops as he stated, "Only those that are willing to die should be allowed to kill".

Struggling to reload their rifles one of the men let out a strangled yelp as a small figure with long raven black hair jumped on his back slitting his throat with a knife that looked like the one in Ohgi-sensei's collection.

She watched numbly as a Japanese boy rushed towards two more soldiers disemboweling them with a katana, the last panicking soldier had just gotten a new mag in his rifle when a small Brittanian girl stabbed him in the eye with a thin polearm.

'How the hell does a twig like that girl have the strength to do that?' she thought tiredly.

As quickly as it started the conflict was over.

The one armed boy looked to his companions and said, "Suzaku, Nunu, gather their weapons and toss them into the APC, suddenly we have a ride, Luluka look for any documentation in that car, these folks were nobles and it might be useful for later."

The one armed boy turned towards Kallen and offered her his remaining hand, "And who might you be my lady?" she saw cunning and earnestness in his amethyst eyes and quickly decided to reply honestly.

"I'm...I am the Lady Kallen Stadtfeld..."

The boy smiled sadly and said, "I'm Prince Lelouch Vi Britannia. Please don't tell anyone that though, there are a bunch of idiot adults who keep trying to kill me and its getting a bit tedious as time goes on."

On any other day Kallen may have been squealing with delight to meet royalty but surrounded by the blood of her family she could only nod. Pulling herself to her feet Lelouch lead her to the now dead soldiers truck.

"We're heading to Tokyo to call in a favor with an old friend, I think it would be in your best interest to come with us," as she was about to respond she let out a scream as a Glasgow came barreling out of the trees towards them.

It came to a halt and the pilot bailed out bellowing, "My Lord! What has happened here!? I told you I would return with supplies soon!"

Lelouch waved his concern off in a tired manner, "Relax Jerry we found another group of marauders and they were about to kill this young lady after they did in her Lord father."

The pilot, this Jeremiah looked around in disgust noticing the bullet riddled soldiers before focusing on a body separate from the others.

"What about him?" Kallen spoke up surprising both knight and prince as she worried the hem of her blouse before continuing on.

"He...he tried to stop them, they wanted to kill me and destroy their vehicle...to hide what they did...and he tried to stop... He tried to stop them from killing me!" Just like that, everything that had happened hit her and she broke down sobbing.

Escorting Kallen to the APC Lelouch murmured to Jeremiah, "Take his tags and leave him in the car with the family, leave the rest to rot."

The man nodded in understanding and went to work, Lelouch entered the vehicle to see his family tearing into a stack of MRE's like a pack of angry wolves.

Grabbing a candy bar he offered it to Kallen and sat down next to her holding her tight as she sobbed to herself, Lelouch feeling like a bit of a prat not having anything to comfort her with other than food.

The family all exchanged glances then nodded, they would let her into the group, she had suffered as much if not more then they, and the family would protect her.

Luluka glanced up at Suzaku and asked, "Wait...I'm at twelve how about you Suzaku?"

The boy grinned and said, "Thirteen purple eyes."

The girl muttered, "bugger" and went back to eating.

Kallen looked up in confusion and the small girl with the spear said, "They keep score on how many soldiers they've taken out, it would be funny if it wasn't so morbid".

The black haired girl who she realized must be the prince's twin snorted and sardonically asked, "And how many are you at dear Nunnally?"

The small girl shrugged, "Six, you guys wouldn't let me help until we ran into that pair of psychos shooting up the suburbs."

"Yes well...we were trying to keep your hands clean, sadly the Britannian military didn't want to cooperate in that regard," Lelouch replied as he let out a sad sigh for lost innocence.

Gathering her bravery she asked, "How...how do you guys fight so well? How are you able to take on grown adults?"

Luluka spoke up, "Same reason Lou over there isn't dead, we have Royalty Grade implants and nanotech, stronger faster smarter, blah blah blah. All it means right now is we're bloody hard to assassinate which honestly is all I care about right now".

'Ah' she thought 'Daddy had been talking about that, some rumor that the high courts coveted the most advanced bio-engineering or the like, it never really matter to me though'.

She watched as Lord Jeremiah entered the APC which earned a raised eyebrow from Lelouch.

The knight sighed apologetically "Sorry my lord the Glasgow's energy filler is empty, nothing to be done for it."

Shrugging Lelouch said, "Its fine, this thing should have enough juice to get us to the Tokyo city limits at least, if you wouldn't mind I believe I need some sleep."

Jeremiah nodded and soon took the driver's seat and started the APC setting the heavy machine in motion.

Kallen felt her head fall to Lelouch shoulder as her eyelids grew heavy, eventually whispering out, "Mom, Dad, Naoto, I'll always love you and miss you...but for now...I need to survive"

With that she passed out leaving an understanding Lelouch staring at her still form.

"You'll be fine, I promise that," he whispered.

Author Note: So now the team is complete! I kinda felt bad killing off her whole family but for where I wanted her in the story she had to be on her own and have a reason to stay at Ashford long term. I'm honestly not sure if I did it well, I kinda found the whole "Pulling the APC over to rape the eleven woman for no reason" thing was kind of cliche but I really couldn't find an effective way to kill the family off otherwise, so if anyone knows of someone who has done something similar but better please point me to their story I'd love to compare notes so to speak.

If anyone is wondering about Nunnally killing I need to point out that she is the daughter of Marianne the Flash and freaking Charles Zi Britannia.

The reason she was so innocent was because she was sheltered, now she is exposed and has to embrace the dark side a bit. Annnd I get the cop out that she's got cybernetics enhancing her strength so she can use a naginata, hooray for contrived plot points! Anyway until next time kiddos leave a review I'd love to hear what you all think!