Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass or Sunrise, if I did we'd have seen a pilot suit that made Kallen look bigger, not smaller….if you don't get it remind your parents to give you the talk.
Lelouch grimaced looking down at the crumpled form of the former governor of area eleven. Lelouch tugged at the scarf around Clovis' neck and placed it within the uniform's pocket, a small smirk on his face seeing it had Clovis' blood on it. He then turned around and began to walk out of the room after retrieving his helmet. Before he reached the door his knees suddenly gave out and he fell to the floor, braced himself with his arms and began relieving his stomach of their contents. After a few moments he straightened up and wiped his mouth off with his sleeve, "I guess…I just don't have the constitution for this yet." He walked towards the door where the man who was obviously a general was guarding the door and keeping the hallway clear was.
"What are you doing here? Get out of this hallway immediately," the man ordered Lelouch, who only smiled, put his helmet back on and responded with a "Of course sir."
Lelouch promptly made his way out of the hallway and towards the exit of the mobile fortress, giving short answers to any questions he was asked about what was going on, none of which ever revealed any real information about the situation. Once he was out of the mobile fortress he quickly made his way towards the nearest exit of the Shinjuku Ghetto leading to the settlement. He began to walk up a dark ramp heading out of the Ghetto, unwilling to remove his disguise until he was sure he was alone and unwatched, then he heard a familiar voice, the voice of the red Glasgow pilot, "What is a solder doing just walking out of the Shinjuku Ghetto by himself?"
Lelouch gave an annoyed "Tch," before turning his head ever so slightly to get a look behind him, quite confident his identity would remain hidden he answered, "Q-One, I expected you would get out unharmed."
"Q-One…you were the voice, why would a…" she began to say before Lelouch cut her off.
"So it is an effective disguise," Lelouch mused, turning to look completely at her, "Then again, I shouldn't be surprised. It was certainly effective enough to get into Prince Clovis' command center."
"What…wait…did you order the…" the woman began to ask before being cut off again by Lelouch.
"Yes I was, I ordered the cease-fire," he said, a cocky tone to his voice, "Would you have preferred I hadn't?"
"No…that's not what I was saying," the woman began to stammer out, Lelouch smiling ever so slightly at the situation at hand.
"What is your name?" he asked.
"…What's yours," the woman demanded in response.
"Hardly important, but if you do require a name…you may call me Zero," Lelouch responded, then crossing his arms he continued, "But I suppose that's not good enough for you is it?"
"Zero…huh?" the woman confirmed, "I'm Karen."
"I suppose that'll be all I can get for now, I'm rather surprised you gave me that much," Lelouch chuckled, then he performed a somewhat elaborate bow before he continued on to say, "Expect me to contact you at another time. I suspect we both have much work to do to get out of here unnoticed." Karen paused for a second, and then nodded her head in agreement; then she ran up the ramp and vanished from sight. Lelouch sighed as he walked up the ramp onto the fairly deserted street above and looked around for a place to remove the uniform. Not finding one he took off his helmet and made his way towards the downtown area of the settlement, avoiding large crowds. Slowly making his way towards a large apartment building, walking in he moved towards the front desk and a worried looking broad shouldered (and stomached) balding male manager…and said, "So the costume works?"
After a few moments the manager started laughing, "Lelouch, that's an absolutely clever disguise you have there. You had me thinking you were a real solder for a second…that would explain the prisoner get-up of your friend. You putting on some kind of play at school?"
"No, she's from a theater company, at least if we're talking about the same person now, green hair right?" Lelouch asked as the manager got out a key and handed it to Lelouch.
"Yep, got here about and hour ago. Your girlfriend?"
"No, nothing like that…a partner in crime you could say," Lelouch answered with a smirk, taking the key and then began heading towards an elevator.
"Awww, and here I thought I finally found out your type," the manager laughed out, "Oh well. I figured you'd be more secretive if it was that sort of thing, but can't blame me for asking."
Lelouch took the elevator up a couple of floors, and as soon as the elevator opened up he began hurrying down the hallway towards a room, using the key and opened the door to the room. "You're late," C.C.'s voice came from the bedroom, "I've been waiting for an hour."
"I know, I heard from the manager," Lelouch said, ripping off his helmet and carrying it with him to the bedroom, seeing C.C. lying back on the bed, arms spread across it, her legs dangling over the side, "Made yourself comfortable I see."
"Of course, I didn't know how long you were going to be gone," C.C. replied, "Besides I can assume this is where you want me staying."
"Of course not, at least not permanently. It would be suspicious if I intended that…no I'm working on permanent lodgings right now. If I could trust you to keep out of sight I could bring you onto school grounds easily…attending the school would be a difficult task because of tutelage costs and background checks…" Lelouch said, the last half of the sentence more him talking to himself than anything else.
"Why ever would I want to go to school? It's not like I don't know everything they could teach me all ready," C.C. said while sitting up, "It'd be like asking you to go back to preschool."
"Well it would be a most effective strategy to keep you hidden," Lelouch responded.
"A purloined letter," C.C. stated rested her chin on her right elbow which was resting on her right knee, "Effective, but it can horribly blow up in one's face."
"True, but I suspect only a select few know what you look like, even fewer would be looking for you, am I correct?" Lelouch asked with a smirk as he began removing the body armor of the solder's uniform, "And a good bit of chaos is about to erupt thanks to my finishing move in the Ghetto."
"Your finishing move?"
Lelouch removed the scarf from the uniform's pocket, "Killing Clovis La Britannia." He went to a closet and removed a spare school uniform he had stashed away in it, "It is sure to keep Britannia busy and concentrating on other things than finding you for quite some time." Lelouch walked into the bathroom with his spare school uniform, beginning to change into it while out of sight of C.C and out of the solder jumpsuit, and apparently his school uniform which he had been wearing under it.
"So tell me, Lelouch, how is it that you can just afford to permanently rent this room out?" C.C. asked, standing up and began walking towards the bathroom.
"Initially it was gambling on various games, now…lets just say gambling is just a hobby of mine for some extra money," Lelouch chuckled, "And of course to divert attention from myself. No one would ever expect a compulsive gambler, let alone a child, to have his hands in as many things as I do." He turned around having gotten his school pants on, to catch C.C. leaning against the bathroom doorframe watching him, Lelouch stood there for a second before sighing and continuing putting his school uniform on, "Well don't say I didn't try to be decent."
"What sort of things?"
"Enough to make me fairly well off, but not noticeable to the nobles to be viewed as a threat or possible title," Lelouch answered simply, having finished getting dressed.
"You are a member of the Royal Family are you not? Lelouch Vi Britannia,"
"Former member to be more precise, I'm supposed to be dead," Lelouch answered, "Killed during the invasion of Japan.
"And your goal? To regain your position?" C.C. asked, a slight knowing smirk crossing her face.
"No," Lelouch answered simply, wiping the smirk off C.C.'s face, "I have two goals. Destroy Britannia, and find my mother's killer."
"Destroy Britannia? Why would you do that when you could control it?"
"I…have my reasons," Lelouch answered, somewhat reluctantly, "What did you do with the Knightmare? Or that arm you stole from the white machine."
"I hid them both well," C.C. replied, straightening up and walking back into the bedroom.
"Good enough, I'll look into finding a proper place for you to hide, until then feel free to make use of the room," Lelouch said as he walked out as well, but before he left the room altogether he turned to C.C. and asked, "Tell me, would my power…this Geass have any limits?"
"Most likely, the power of the king differs from person to person, the restrictions would naturally differ as well. But you'll learn about them in time,"
"I see…you can't use it can you?" Lelouch asked, getting a look of annoyance from C.C., "That's explains much. I'll tell the manager you'll be staying, that you're from the Britannian homeland, and I'll tell him you're name is Celes Chere. That should help with anything that might come up. Unless of course you made something else up."
"No, that'll be fine," C.C. replied, "Celes Chere…C.C., an interesting choice for you to expand my initials with."
"It's easy to remember," Lelouch answered with a smirk, "So would attending the Ashford Academy be too against your preferences?"
"Why are you so for the idea?"
"Among other things it would make it easy for us to get in touch without looking suspicious, and like I have said, it would make you look less suspicious," Lelouch explained while walking over to the bed. He knelt down and took out a gym bag from it and packed the military uniform and the used school uniform into it, and then stood back up to prepare to leave.
"Where do you get this stuff?" C.C. remarked.
"You'd be surprised how often I've hidden stuff like this, so are you going to answer my question?" Lelouch asked, sticking the scarf he took from Clovis in the bag as well.
"Very well, I suppose I can put up with it," C.C. answered as Lelouch smiled, "We'll talk about a background tomorrow. You will have to hack into the government computers."
"I know, and yes, we'll talk about who you are tomorrow. I'll be back around five P.M. tomorrow," Lelouch replied as he left the room, walking towards the elevator, taking back down to the lobby, a smirk on his face the entire way. When he reached the lobby he motioned for the manager to come over, as soon as the manager complied Lelouch said, "In case she forgot to mention it her name is Celes Chere, she'll be staying here a few days while she finds her own place, she just moved here from the mainland. Can I trust you'll make sure she's all right?"
"Of course my boy, you pay us good money to keep that room open, least we could do is help a friend of yours," the manager replied.
"Thanks, but I will say this, she's the loner type, so she'll probably appreciate her privacy," Lelouch continued, "I'll transfer more funds to the account so make sure she eats as well. Have a good day." And with that Lelouch walked out with his gym bag, and made his way to a large, and very expensive looking collection of buildings, just as a very loud bell rang, "Now this is a good day," Lelouch chuckled as he walked onto the grounds of the place, "School let out just as I got back."
Lelouch made his way over to a large building, set off to the side of the largest building, "Le-Louch!" came a harsh female voice from behind him.
"Ah Shirley," Lelouch said turning around to see a orange-red head in a female uniform walking over to him, "I didn't miss anything did I?"
"Where were you? Rivalz came back on his own and…"
"I fell into that truck that did the hit-and-run, it took me a while to get back after I managed to get out of it," Lelouch answered while shrugging his shoulder, "Took me longer because I decided to get a change of clothes before coming back, my other uniform was torn up pretty badly. I'm sorry, did I make you worry Shirley"
"So that's what's in the bag," Shirley answered, and then shook her head, "No, I guess not. You're not the type to get yourself in trouble." She then made a grab for the bag Lelouch was hiding his solder uniform in, "I'll fix it for you okay? Consider it my apology for yelling at you."
Lelouch pivoted slightly to keep it from Shirley's hands, "Don't worry about it Shirley. I was planning on throwing it away after," Lelouch said, Shirley getting a pouty look on her face.
"Come on Lulu, I'll fix it up for you," Shirley, a little bit more insistent this time, then she got a suspicious look on her face, "You were gambling weren't you? And you don't want anybody to know about it."
"Now that's silly, I'm not exactly secretive about gambling am I?" Lelouch said scratching the back of his head, "And it's not like I'd do anything dangerous right?"
"Come on Lulu, I just want to be nice and make my behavior up to you," Shirley tried pleading, Lelouch toying with the idea of using Geass on her to make her leave, but decided he didn't want to use it on his friends.
"Fine, but you have to let me wash it first," Lelouch conceded, and as he said that last part brought up his hand and raised his index finger, the typically 'okay but I have a condition' pose.
"Okay. Are you going to go see Nunnally?" Shirley asked, "She was worried about you when you didn't show up for lunch today."
"Of course, but thanks for reminded me," Lelouch said as he turned around to run off, waving behind him at Shirley.
Lelouch walked into a grand two story entry hall, with a grand staircase in front of him leading to a wing on either side of the building. Lelouch took a turn to the right, staying on the first and walked towards a room in the right wing of the building. Opening the door he called out, "Good afternoon, Nunnally, Sayako-san."
And I think I'll end it right here for now. Let you wonder if I kept his relationship with his sister the same or not….yes I am evil, why thank you for noticing. Well this chapter was pretty hard to write, not sure if I did it too well, oh well, I was branching into entirely new territory the entire way. Well I don't really have time to give it another goal, bloody college essays. Well now its time for me to give you those darling little questions to help you get ideas for what to put in a review.
1) What do you think of the story thus far? Especially this chapter that consisted of mostly new material?
2) My older readers, back from my Zelda fanfiction, would know this, but I'll ask you, my new readers from the Code Geass section. Do you think I kept the relationship between Lelouch and Nunnally the same? If not, what do you think I did?
3) What kinds of things do you think Lelouch was referring to when he was talking about where he was getting his money with C.C?
And that's all of them. Now push that review button or you might find a tall green haired man with an orange-complex….wait I mean inferiority-complex, under your desk. Ciao for now.
Tis has been a chapter from your unfriendly neighborhood LunaticChaos