Kiara rolled her eyes at her friend's words.
"Somehow," she said dryly. "I doubt you'd manage for half a day." She became serious again and turned back to Zero. "The Knightmare is clearly meant for two people to pilot, something which is very strange, who'll be piloting it with you?" she asked. At least she knew that if there was two people piloting the thing then Lelouch would have some measure of back up.

"C.C." said Lelouch.
"C.C., you mean that girl who knew you were alive on Kaminejima?" asked Ougi, taken aback.
"Yes, she is a dear friend of mine," said Lelouch.

Kiara's frown lessened a bit at hearing that. If C.C. was going with him then hopefully she'd be able to keep him out of too much trouble. She could see that Tamaki was about to make a comment, probably somethign rude knowing him and his annoying habbits. Before he could say anything though Kiara not-so-discretely stomped hard on his foot.

Raina noticed that Tamaki was about to say something. The gears started turning.
"You really like C.C., don't you Tamaki?" she said. She gasped. "That's it! You're in love with her!!!"

Tamaki spluttered for words, both from the hard impact of Kiara's steel toed boot on his foot and from Raina's words.
"That...that's not true!" he practically yelled at the purple haried Black Knight. "Why you-"
"Enough!" Lelouch/Zero ordered harshly. Kiara could've sworn that Lelouch was glaring at Tamaki from under the Zero mask but couldn't tell. Was she imagining it? probably.

"Zero, I'm dne with the Hadron cannon," said Rakshata, coming into the room.
Rana blinked. "Already?"
"It was almost finished already," said Rakshata. "It took almost nothing to complete it."

Kiara smirked, she couldn't wait to see that thing in action. It looked like it'd do a lot of damage.
"Alright," Zero/Lelouch said. "How long before we are ready to engage the enemy?"
"Soon," Todou replied. "Are you sure about engaging them alone Zero?"

"Be ready to send me back-up if I need it," said Lelouch/Zero, turning away and heading towards the bay where the Knightmares were kept. "I'm not suicidal."
"Good Luck, Zero-channnnnn!" Raina trilled, waving at him.

"Try not to get yourself killed!" Kiara called after him, also waving. Raina was given strange looks when she referred to Zero/Lelouch as 'Zero-chan' but they were all pretty much used to her strange behaviour so didn't comment on it although most were giving her very dissapproving looks.
KIiara turned to Kallen and could immediately tell that she wasn't happy about not being able to go as well.

"It's OK, Kallen-chan," said Raina. "We can play cards!!!"

"No strip poker," Kiara stated immediately, smirking at Raina as some of the people around them began to move away. Kiara smirked at them before turning her attention back to Raina and Kallen.

"I don't play strip poker despite what you may think," said Raina. "I play strip Cheat."

Kiara couldn't help laughing at Raina's comment. "Somehow," she managed through her laughter. "That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. C'mon." she said, gesturing to Raina and Kallen. "We can go back to one ofour own rooms to talk or whatever." she glared around at the other people in the room who were not so obviously trying to listen in to their conversation for some unknown reason.

"Yes! Strip Cheat here we come!!!" Raina grabbed hold of Kallen and Kiara, and pulled them down to the rooms.

Kiara fought back a laugh at the dismayed expression on Kallen's face. It was rather comical really. THey reached the area where the rooms were located and Kiara gestured to her own room since it was the closest. They entered and Kiara immediately sat on her bed, pulling off her boots for the moment.

"I hope Zero's all right," said Kallen absent-mindedly.
"I'm sure he's fine," said Raina, jumping on the bed.

"And if he's not," Kiara pointed out. "Then we'll just have to go out and save his ass."

*can we time skip? This is kinda dull*

(Agreed, let's get back to the good stuff!)

Much later, Lelouch and C.C. returned successful. Apparently they and the Lancelot had worked together to destroy the HQ. Raina, still mad at Suzaku, stormed back to her room and refused to come out until they reached land again.

Kiara sighed with annoyance at Raina's behaviour. She wasn't still pissed at Suzaku so she didn't quite get why Raina still was. It'd be different if it was Raina that had been seen. Then again Kiara probably would have done the same thing so she couldn't really say anything.
She was glad to get outta the submarine finally and took a good long breath of fresh air with relief. "Finally," she sighed happily. "A submarine is all well and good but give me the fresh air any day.

"I'd best go to school," said Raina unhappily. "You and Kallen can't come any more, can you?"

"Nope," Kiara replied, not sounding very unhappy at all. She grinned. "Give Suzaku and Shirley hell for me!" she told her friend happily.

"I'll miss you!!!" cried Raina, hugging Kiara tightly. "I'll come back to HQ as soon as school is over!"

"It'll be okay," Kiara replied, patting her back soothingly. "Just remember not to get drunk in the student council room too often okay? I won't be there to make sure you dont' get yourself into TOO much trouble."