"I definitely enjoy being in comand," she said, smirking evily at the newbies as the continued ti pilot the simulators.
"Very well handled," came a voice and Kiara turned to see Lelouch in full Zero garb behind her.
"Thanks," she replied smirking.

(I'll be back in a bit, gotta go have dinner!)

"Hey Zerrro-chan!" said Raina, giving him a hug. "Wassup?"

"Hey Zero," Kiara said, smiling but not hugging as she could tell that some of the newbies were watching.
"Do you have time for me to brief you on the upcoming battle?"
"Yes," Kiara replied. "Hey!!" she called to the third seat.
"Yes Ma'am?"
"Keep an eye on them and make sure that they're taking this seriously!" Kiara told her.
"Got it!"
"Let's go then," Kiara turned back to Lelouch and Raina and led them out of the knightmare training area and back to one of the smaller meeting rooms that she'd found a few days ago.

"So we have an awesome Battle Plan?!" said Raina excitedly. "Tell, tell, tell!"
"Sit down first," said Lelouch in a tired voice.

They all sat around a small table and Kiara relaxed back into the dhair adn looked at Lelouch. Now that they were on their won and the door was locked he removed his Zero mask to breathe some fresh air. It must be pretty stuffy in taht thing after all.
"So," Kiara said, crossing her arms. "What do you wanna talk about Lelouch?"
"When we fight I want the Black Knights to take posession of Ashford Academy," Lelouch stated bluntly. "We need to keep Nunally safe."
"And the other council members," Kiara agreed.

"Diethard will take control of the Media centre, and then our forces will charge towards the Government," said Lelouch. "I have also found a way to access the controls to the area on the outskirts of the settlement. Teh ground is designed to purge if there is an earthquake, so if every part of it is purged at once, the enemy formation will collapse."
"Genius!" said Raina. "And what do me 'n Ki-chan do?"

"Right now I am undecided as to whether you should stay as one unit or split into two," he replied. "I would like at least one of you at Ashford to protect Nunally however that may not be feesible and I know that Kallen will be there so she will ensure that no harm comes to the students, she is one herself after all."
"Good point," Kiara replied. "What do you want to do Raina? Do you wanna go to Ashford or stay with Lelouch?"
She herself was undecided. It might be better if at least one of them stayed with Lelouch as back up and one went to Ashford but she wasn't sure.

"I wanna go to Ashford," said Raina. "It's gonna be the Command Base, right? I can be the Student Spy, sine the other students don't know I'm a Black Knight!!!"

"Good idea," Kiara replied. "And you'll hopefully be able to keep them under control so that they don't get hurt and the other Black Knights will know who you are so there's little risk there."
"Good," Lelouch stated. "While you are there I expect you to keep a close eye on Nunally, don't let anything happen to her."
Lelouch looked at Raina intently, making sure that hse understood just how serious and important her task was.
"And while you're at it," Kiara muttered so that Lelouch couldn't hear into Raina's ear. "See if you can maybe get Shirley shot or something."

Raina cracked her knuckles with a grin. "You've got it!!! But be careful, Ki-chan, you know you always get into trouble when I'm not around!"

Kiara raised an eyebrow at her friend.
"Shouldn't that be the other way around?" she asked pleasantly, smirking at her best friend.

*page 100!!! :eager:*

Raina blinked. "What do you mean, Ki-chan? Got no idea what you're on about!"

(Woohoo!!!!!!!! Can't believe how long this thing is! And we're still only on R1!!!!!!)

"Yeah," Kiara said casually. "Of course ya don't Rai."

"Anyway," said Lelouch. "We're making progress on our route to Tokyo and we'll be picking up many recruits along the way. A lot of them will already be trained, but some of them won't. Just keep training them, and we'll arrive in Tokyo in a few days."
"What are you gonna be doing, Lulu?" asked Raina.

"My target is Cornelia," he replied simply. "Capture the queen and the other chess pieces will follow."
"What about Schneizel?" Kiara asked. "If Cornelia's the queen then does that make him the king?"

"Schneizal has left the country," said Lelouch. "Cornelia is in sole command of Tokyo, and Area 11 itself."
"All right," yawned Raina. "You two can talk strategy if you want, but I'm off to train newbies. See ya!"

"Make sure that they don't forget what happened last time they got cocky," Kiara told her. "I don't want anymore...incidents like earlier okay?"
Although she admitted taht the idea of fully grown men trembling in fear of Raina was a very entertaining one it would waste training time that they desperately needed. "And try not to traumatize them too badly."

"Would I?" exclaimed Raina innocently, eyes wide, as she left the room and rejoined the new recrutis training. A few of them had started to chat in her absence but they stopped the instant she came back.

Kiara turned back to Lelouch and the two of them started planning different strategies, differnet ways of attacking until a few plans were completely set.
"This is going to be big," she muttered.
Lelouch nodded his head in agreement. Kiara glanced at the time before standing and stretching.
"Almost time for the recruits to get their lunch break. Wouldn't want them to drop to the ground from exhaustion. THey haven't even seen combat yet."
She said goodbye to Lelouch who was just putting on his Zero mask again and made her way back to the simulators.

"OK, whoever scores the highest on this last test will get a free lunch!!!" called Raina, and the recruits redoubled their efforts to put the simulators through another test angainst virtual Brittanian Knightmares.

"How's it going?" Kiara asked as she walked up to Raina. She glanced at the simulator observation screen they'd been using earlier and her eyebrows went up as she saw the scores improve rapidly from earlier.
"Nice work," she commented. She winced as one of the simulated Knightmares was taken out by enemy slash harkens and the pilot was released from the simulator. "He'll need to improve if he doesn't want taht to happen in real life."

Raina grinned as the recruits all finsihed the final test. The one who'd gotten by far the highest score was a wild-looking young woman not much older than them, with spiky dark green hair and fierce black eyes.
"You get a free lunch!!!" Raina trilled. "And you get to have the honour of eating with me and Ki-chan! Aren't you so happy?"

Kiara rolled her eyes before gesturing for the recruit and Raina to follow her to the canteen area where she quickly picked up some food and made her way to a small table just large enough for the three of them, not wanting any other company as she'd seen Tamaki loitering around here somewhere.
She sat down and pointed to the other two chairs before tucking into her own lunch.

"So what's your name, Recruit?" asked Raina with a smile.
"Kiba Ookami," said the young woman.
"Wow. Strong name..."

"Wolf Fang," Kiara commented. "Seems to suit you when you were piloting that Knightmare in the simulator."
"Thank you Ma'am," the recruit replied.
"What do ya think Raina?" Kiara asked. "Fourth seat?"