"Sarge?"
"You see it is all up here," he said tapping his temple, "Of course your body have a lot to do with fighting, your body is just another tool, another weapon in combat, just like your mind"
He paused to let Shogun eat and think,
"All your decisions are in your head, everything," he let it sink in and continued, "A warrior is only as weak as his weakest link and strong his strongest blade, and trust me you will have plenty of time to worry about whats at your disposal, but your mind, it is used in every from of combat, every single one, your entire battle is fought in there, you can always take that with you,"
Shogun nodded, then Webber said,
"You see, the most important part of a warrior is his state-of-mind and his combat mentality, it is not something everyone have, not grunts nor geniuses, you can't be born with it, you have to train it, to sharpen it, and in turn it will sharpen you and your blade," he took a sip from his cup and continued, "Everyone have weaknesses, it is how well you use those to your advantage and cover them up when you can't that matters, and as for strengths, it is nothing it you don't use it well,"
"And what is it that can do that?" Webber asked,
"Your mind sarge,"
"Excellent, how well you tame and control your mind, focus it, and think on every level of the situation can decide a battle, the exercise you beat, it is an exercise of concentration, awareness, situational control and patience, it was not your 'Geass' that beat it, it was you, a tool is only as useful as the user intends for it to be....."
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Shogun knew that he hit exponentially faster targets in his MS before, in training and in combat, and it is all up to him, his mind and his capability to coordinate with all his tools, including his body. Shogun calmed himself and took total control, he pretended that the enemies were just targets, he can't shoot all of them in one shot with his SMG, but he can pick them off one at a time. He marked the fastest and most dangerous ones first, and the others will be collateral and pawns. Shogun jumped toward an enemy to bait him, the man took the bait and charged at him, he was not his target, Shogun used him to switch vectors, Shogun kicked him right in the chest to rebound, the force was powerful enough to kill, it was a risky maneuver in a whole, it assumed that the people will act as he predicted, soon enough after they shuffled positions, everything was in place, he kicked another man to rebound and got a bead and fired a burst into his intended target, he kicked the body at another, rebounded off the wall and then stabbed through the body and his target with his beam katana, and then stabbed it into the ground spinning, two targets came charging at him him as he predicted, they fired their psionic lighting and needles, Shogun jumped out of the wall, kicked off the wall and sliced them coming down. Two targets and 3 collaterals down. It was going well, 4 left. Suddenly fortune changed hands, drastically and unexpectedly...
Their leader, the one he shot two in the chest and one in the head stood up. Shogun froze...the first time he ever froze in combat. The others took the opportunity to bring Shogun down and pin him. The man had no wounds...how can it be? He scanned the man, he can't just like Cera, he didn't exist in his Geass. He took off his gauntlet and showed his right palm to Shogun, he was shocked,
"Recognize this?"
It was a Geass symbol! The same in his eye! Another man walked over to him and took off his helmet, he had Geass in both of his eyes!
"Since this will be your last memories, I will explain, I am a Code user, one that is immortal and grants Geass, Geass have no effect on me, you are not the only one with Geass,"
Shogun then said,
"Did you-"
"No, I did not grant you yours, someone else did,"
He then reflected...could Cera have granted him his Geass? Another part of him then said, No, it is absurd, its impossible. A battle rage in his mind, could it be?
"Now then...Killik, the honor is yours, open the prisoners' left eye and seal his right,"
His Geass eyes were forced shut by the psychics that are literally now on top of him. The Geass user then looked him right in the left eye...
"Killik von Bismark bestows upon you....false memories!"
Shogun shouted,
"NO!!!"
Then he blacked out and remembered no more...