Lelouch scowled. "As soon as I do I'll be soaked to the skin from the snow that's been melting since I took the hit. And crawling into that closet you call a cockpit won't improve that situation at all. I would sooner eject." He didn't mention that the ejection system had been one of the first to go after the float.

Sure he had plenty of energy left in his filler. It was the encroaching water that was the problem.