====Kallen====​

"Hrm?" said a voice she didn't expect to hear again. "Stop me from what?" He tousled her hair affectionately, something only one person ever dared to do. "Come on, stop messing about."

This room… Those faces! Ohgi was there, and so was Tamaki, Minami, Sugiyama, Yoshida, Inoue, Nagata and -

"Alright everyone, listen up!" her brother Naoto said, rising to his feet in his usual easy confident manner. "We've got a mission to do, and this time we'll really give Prince Clovis a headache he won't soon forget! We're gonna be stealing some experimental poison gas."

“Hello Nunnally,” she said, slipping regrettably into her sickly persona. “What brings you out here?”

“I’m doing Milly a favour,” Nunnally said, picking up a folder she had left lying in her lap. “She was going to do this herself, but I could at least handle something like this and I can be every bit as stubborn as my brother if I have to be. Here, this is yours.”

Kallen took the file and felt her back stiffen considerably. This was her school file. Her transcript all the way from middle school. She eyed Nunnally carefully. There wasn’t much question that she knew. The last person that found out had tried to kill her.

“So,” she said, tucking the file underarm. “My secret’s out. You know that I’m -”

“Half Japanese,” Nunnally said. “It’s alright. Milly said she wouldn’t tell anyone, and I won’t either. Neither of us are the sort to think anything of it, but other people might be different. Also… There was another reason I wanted to meet with you today, if it’s not too much trouble.”

There was no question about where she was. Was this what that Stand had done to her? Sent her back into the past? Kallen reeled. Poison gas? There was only one time they'd ever tried anything like that. Even if this was just an illusion then she could do something, keep her brother safe. All she had to do was object. Make a suggestion for how the plan could go through differently.

"Actually, about this plan," she said.

“That depends on the reason,” Kallen said just a little bit warily. After everything that had happened to her lately, it was the most natural reaction to just about anything anyone could ask of her. It went back to that previous line of thinking. If the supernatural exists, then anything is possible. If anything is possible, then anything could be dangerous and you wouldn’t know it until it was eating you alive. She watched carefully as Nunnally opened her mouth to speak -

"I'm so sorry… The past cannot be changed."

"Of course! I understand!"

- Then closed it almost immediately afterwards, smiled warmly and said something else.

“I wanted to take a look around. Would you like to join me?”

A ring appeared around both of Kallen's eyes and she stopped completely in place. The past cannot be changed. "I think it should work," she said. "Those bastards won't even know what hit them!"

[...]

"Q1," Painted Black said. His voice sounded strained. Not that usual mysterious confidence. Just a voice on the end of the phone, using a tone of voice that seemed to be pleading. "It's up to you now. It would take too long to explain everything, so I'll debrief you in full later on."

"I'll hold you to that," she gruffly replied, electing to withdraw from the damaged Lancelot for now. "What are my instructions?"

"Find the original Stand user," he instructed. "They are in Narita settlement. If they aren't stopped this effect will spread like a plague! Even Zero and Cornelia have already succumbed to its effects, and I won't be able to hold out the next time it hits me. But you can! I've immunized you! Go to the settlement! Find C.C. and find the Stand user! Those are your instructions."

[...]

Until one of them was able to somehow creep inside her cockpit without her noticing, and made direct eye contact with her. Again Kallen found herself stuck within the past. Again, her eyes developed a ring around them, and again she awoke in the cockpit with no recognition of anything she had done in the past. The past cannot be changed.

"You know, that's getting really old."

This was the genius of Lelouch's scheme, though Kallen could not yet truly appreciate it. He had realised that no Stand was capable of fighting this power, and that no Knightmare could harm it. Therefore, the best thing to do was combine them both with the power of kings. The command guaranteed Kallen's immunity to the effect, her skills as a Knightmare pilot allowed her a means to fight them that C.C. lacked, and the fact that she was a Stand user enabled her to see the enemy coming and react accordingly.

And so she did! Cutting through the enemy forces. When their numbers were too high around her, she would make JJF strike the front of her Guren with its back turned to the enemy, blinding them and enabling her to move swiftly forward towards her goal. Even if they did manage to break through and attempt their main source of attack, she was free again in a matter of minutes.

So it seemed as though Painted Black's plan was working. At this rate, nothing could stop her from finding C.C. or from finding the original Stand user and putting an end to this madness. Nothing except...

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 27