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Ashford Academy, 12:40 p.m. Suzaku sat on a bench, by himself, eating his lunch. For a moment, he looked at his sandwich, as if he did not know what to do with it, before eating it. The rest of the student council, excluding Alistair, watched his behavior, from a distance.

Milly: I don't get it. He wasn't like this, before. And, Kallen said that he went apeshit, only when Alistair showed up?
Lelouch: Yeah. The Lancelot was armed to the teeth in heavy weapons, none of them even used on the Black Knights.
Milly: So, what's he up to?
Lelouch: And, what the hell happened to him, behind our backs?
Rivalz: Hey, Arthur's getting closer!
Lelouch: Oh, shit.

Arthur looked up at Suzaku, for a few seconds, then hissed at him. Suzaku broke his stoic expression to glare at Arthur, and Arthur bit Suzaku's hand, until it started to bleed. With no effort or reaction, Suzaku lifted Arthur, pushed one of the cat's pressure points, and threw him away, Arthur landing on his feet. Arthur hissed at Suzaku one last time, before running off.

Rivalz: What the hell?
Shirley: He's bleeding, and doesn't even acknowledge it. It's like he's not human.
Lelouch: (thinking) Great. More familiarity. Now, I've gotta figure out how they match together.
Milly: (whispering) So, you said that Tohdoh trained him, right? Can Tohdoh do that?
Lelouch: (whispering) No, he can't. (thinking) Wait... Civility was still sticking around, during the attack on Tokyo. They must have replaced Suzaku with... So many options! Enclave officer? Civility cyborg? Either way, that's not Suzaku! Even Arthur can tell! But...what does Arthur see?

Meanwhile, as Arthur ran through a corridor, he accidentally bumped into something metal. He looked up and saw a robotic wolf dog.

Fenrir: Hi, there. You must be Arthur.
Arthur: (meows)
Fenrir: That so? You must have been lonely, this whole time.
Arthur: (meows)
Fenrir: Really? That sucks.

Fenrir picked Arthur up, with her tail, and put him on her back. The moment Arthur found Fenrir's back comfortable, he fell asleep.

Fenrir: So, what was Suzaku like, before? Arthur? Wow. He's actually asleep. Eh, might make a cute image. (walks off)

3 hours later, unknown Britannian base. A group of Knightmares were training when a nearby wall collapsed, from what appeared to be a fighter jet.

Britannian Soldier A: What is that?!
Britannian Soldier B: Is it part of the training!? No matter! Get it!

The jet disabled two Sutherland with its Slash Harkens, and transformed into a Knightmare, its feet touching the ground.

Britannian Soldier B: Oh, shit...
Britannian Soldier A: Gino Weinberg?!
Gino Weinberg: Oh, you didn't know I was coming? Sorry about that.
Britannian Soldier A: No trouble, no trouble!
Gino: If you say so. Man, my neck's still sore...
Suzaku: What is the meaning of this?

As Suzaku walked into the training room, Gino opened the cockpit, exiting his Knightmare, the Tristan.

Gino: Hey, Suzaku!
Suzaku: Weinberg? What are you doing here?
Gino: Isn't it obvious? We're here to back you up!
Suzaku: "We"?
Anya Alstreim: Not much of a fight.

A maroon-colored Knightmare, with heavy armor landed next to Suzaku and Gino.

Suzaku: Alstreim and the Mordred.
Gino: Hey, I wasn't even looking for a fight.
Anya: Can't matter.
Suzaku: What are you two doing here? I thought I was explicit, with my request. Only the Knight of Ten. You were only ordered to bring the Lancelot, nothing more. Leave.
Gino: Come on, Suzaku! We're not gonna leave you in the lurch.
Suzaku: (pulls out knife, enraged) Insubordinate-!

Before Suzaku could lunge the knife at Gino, he stopped and turned around to see a Civility cyborg that did not say anything. Suzaku took the data pad that the cyborg offered, then gave it back.

Suzaku: Fine. Go. (looks at Gino) You lucked out. Luciano can't make it, it seems. Stay out of my way, or face the consequences of betrayal. (walks off)
Gino: Geez. Was he actually gonna stab me?
Anya: It wouldn't surprise me. His records showed no signs of ambition, whatsoever. Now, they're off the charts. Weird, to say the least.
Gino: Hey, didn't you accidentally take pictures of moments when Suzaku killed people that pissed him off?
Anya: Had to delete them. Too much trauma.

Meanwhile, at Ashford Academy, Seth, Alistair and Lelouch sat in the Mavericks control room, talking about Suzaku.

Alistair: Doesn't sound like Suzaku. In the slightest.
Lelouch: I'm thinking that the blonde prick that Kallen saw, back at Kamine, had something to do with this. She said he looked like C.C. A bit, anyway.
Alistair: That just might be V.V.
Seth: So, the two of you have a Geass? Just like the Agents?
Alistair: It's a randomizer.
Seth: Gotcha. So... I'm a bit out of the loop, when it comes to Britannia. Who are these "Knights of the Round"?
Lelouch: Best of the best, when it comes to Knightmare pilots. They work directly for the Emperor of Ego, each of them able to command their own personal army.
Seth: Got a list?
Alistair: Already downloaded to your laptop.

Seth opened his laptop, and opened the folder concerning the members of the Knights of the Round, opening the file corresponding to Lelouch's explanation.

Lelouch: We've only got the ones we know of. Let's start with the top of the mountain. The Knight of One, Bismarck Waldstein.
Seth: Rugged bastard, ain't he? Are those...piercings, on his eyelids?
Lelouch: I don't think he's ever heard of an eyepatch, so he had that eye pierced shut, for some reason. His Knightmare, the Galahad, is about as versatile as the Gawain was. Except, instead of Hadron cannons, it's got a huge sword.
Seth: And, still, the blunt finger Slash Harkens?
Lelouch: Yeah. What he doesn't have in versatility, he makes up with pure ass-kicking.
Seth: Good thing he's not here, or we'd be hosed.
Lelouch: Next, we've got the Knight of Three, Gino Weinberg.
Seth: A...teenager? Doesn't look any older than 17.
Alistair: He's my age? The hell?
Lelouch: If I had to guess, he's some kind of blue blood prodigy. The files don't exactly include background info.
Seth: Still, though, this guy doesn't look entirely...patriotic. He looks like the kind of guy that just goes in, gets the job done, then leaves.
Alistair: No, more of a...laid back kinda guy.
Lelouch: Gino clearly classifies as a speed demon. The Tristan's fast, and it can turn into a jet.
Seth: Wait, so this thing is essentially Starscream?
Lelouch: Yeah. It's got a polearm, too.
Alistair: Next up is this chick, Anya Alstreim.
Seth: She is small. She's 15, and she's that height? Something's not right, here.
Alistair: You're telling me. She's a blue blood, too. Nothing else is known about her, either.
Seth: Says here that she's got some memory issues. She uses the camera on her phone, to make sure she can keep track of those memories. The hell happened?
Alistair: We might find out. But, not before running into the Mordred. This thing's the tankiest Knightmare I've ever seen.
Seth: Unless they hit hard, hits won't mean shit, and she can dish out harder hits.
Alistair: Exactly. Those Hadron cannons could punch a hole in the moon. From here.
Seth: Where is the Emperor of Ego finding all these people?
Alistair: Dunno. But, he dies, this year. I'm tired of waiting.
Lelouch: Same. Next is the Knight of Ten, Luciano Bradley.
Seth: This guy looks like a douchebag. He looks like this asshole I kept running into, during my gang days.
Lelouch: Luciano is...a weird case. He's got this...strange sense of superiority, that I've never seen, before.
Alistair: I officially dubbed it as "god-tier complex".
Seth: God-tier complex?
Alistair: He thinks he's on par with Shao Kahn, or Lu Bu.
Seth: Ahh.
Lelouch: Yeah, that name's gonna stick. Hell, it doesn't really match up with his Knightmare, the Percival.
Seth: (chuckles) It looks so stupid.
Lelouch: Yeah, you know that Blaze Luminous shield the Lancelot's got? Well, it's been weaponized into a drill, with this...stupid thing. This asshole's got a lot of war crimes, under his belt. He's killed a lot of people.
Seth: So, he won't be missed. Simple as that.
Lelouch: Ain't that the truth. Finally, we've got the Knight of Seven, Suzaku Kururugi.
Seth: So far, the Knights of the Round have had mostly teenagers, in their ranks. I'm sensing some issues, here.
Lelouch: There really aren't. The Emperor of Ego's just an asshole.
Seth: So, I get the fact that he's the Prime Minister's kid, and his dad died, and he killed an Enclave general posing as his dad, and then joined Britannia, for some PTSD related reason. But, here's the big question. What's his beef with Alistair?
Alistair: That's what we wanna know.
Lelouch: We already know that the Lancelot is capable of utilizing gatling guns and missile launchers, but those were destroyed, when it engaged the Yoshitsune. The Mavericks scrounged up the wreckage of those weapons and found a symbol that said "Atlas Weapons Manufacturing".
Seth: So, Atlas is in the Knightmare business, now? He must've gotten the funds from V.V. This can only spell trouble. (closes laptop) Whew. That's a lot of info.
Alistair: Yeah. Who knows what's coming, next?
Lelouch: This'll be a long, hard fight.
Seth: It's worth it. For the world.