A/N: I want to say I didn't make this story alone, I made it with the help of my good friend, Mew. She did all the Code Geass characters, and I did all of the Shugo Chara characters. Speaking of which, neither of us own Code Geass or Shugo Chara.

What… he'd never expected death to feel so terrible. The sword that went through his flesh, tearing through the membranes and muscles under his ribs, burning and releasing a blossom of crimson. He gasped, taking a staggering step forward and leaning against his childhood friend, his murderer, his successor; Suzaku Kururugi. He couldn't hear the words that escaped his mouth, even though he'd planned his parting message to the one behind the mask.
Slowly, with the rest of his strength, he raised his hand, still dripping with the dark blood. Another spasm of pain ripped through his abdomen as 'Zero' pulled the weapon out of his body. The shock sent him taking a few steps, before he plummeted down the ramp, away from his throne.
A pair of lavender eyes met his, and he let out a small cry. And his last moment of life was hearing his sister's antagonized scream. Lelouch Vi Brittania was dead. Yet the gods wouldn't
be so kind as that; no, for using the power of the kings, he would have to be punished.
In another plane of existence, a bolt of lightning hit the earth from the sky, just a ways away from Seiyo Academy. As the lightning struck the ground, many by standing students screamed in fear, for the strike was incredibly close.
"What was that?"
"Where'd it come from?"
Many scared voices rang out through the school. As Amu Hinamori walked down the hall, she suddenly heard these screams, unaware of the past events. "Amu-chan!"
Both of her classroom friends, Wakana and Manami, came running up to her screaming. "Did you see that?" Manami shrieked.
"See what?" Amu questioned. "Only that huge bolt of lightning!" Wakana exclaimed.
"Lightning?" Amu said shocked, "But it's totally sunny out, I just saw it."
Wincing slightly, Lelouch opened his eyes before letting out a small cry of pain; the sunlight was much brighter, and he bit his lip. Why was he still breathing? Had the Zero Requiem... not worked?
"Damn," He muttered, slowly regaining composure. He looked down, and blinked. What...? He was in his old Ashford Academy outfit, and not a speck of blood was on it.
"Amu!"
"Amu-chi!" Two voices called from down the hall.
"Rima, Yaya," Amu said, "Do you know what happened?"
"There was supposed to be this big scary bolt of lightning!" Yaya whined.
"We should check it out," Rima said casually.
"Right," Amu immediately said. Running outside, the three of them walked down the stairs to the front entrance.
The sound of footsteps heading his way made Lelouch glance over, still slightly shocked at his surroundings
"What?" Amu said, stopping to a halt, "A boy?"
"Amu-chan!" Amu glanced over to see Tadase and Nagihiko running towards them. Both of them skidded to a stop when they saw the boy as well.
"His uniform is quite different, he must be from a different school," Tadase said.
'What the...' These people... Lelouch blinked as he realized his contacts had fallen out. He covered his eyes with a pale hand, and asked in a slightly hoarse voice, "Where am I?"
"You're at Seiyo Academy," Tadase said, "And why are you covering your eyes?"
He bit his lip slightly, and responded quickly, "I have a rather serious eye condition with hypersensitivity towards light. My protective contacts fell out, so it hurts to look."
"Oh, how terrible," Amu said, "Is there anyway you can get new contacts?"
"Any kind would be fine, but I'd prefer purple," Lelouch mused. "That was my natural eye color."
"I'm sure my optometrist can help," Tadase said, "He should be able to get you some."
"Thank you..." Lelouch trailed off, not knowing the person's gender. Since he wasn't looking, he was going by hearing, and even then, this boy had an admittedly feminine voice.
"Hotori-kun," Nagihiko said, "School is in session, we can't leave now."
"School...?" Lelouch seemed slightly surprised. "...What country are we in?"
"We're in Japan," Rima calmly said, "What could you mean by asking about school?"
'Area 11,' Lelouch thought to himself. Perhaps... did the Zero Requiem work, or was
this just... some highly illogical hallucination? A very vivid one. "Nothing," He responded.
"But if you had some sunglasses or something, that'd be fine as well. I can get contacts later."
"I have some in my backpack!" Yaya said, "I always have to carry them around!" "Can you get them,
Yaya?" Amu asked. "Of course!" And with that, Yaya was running to the building, and no sooner came out again. "You can use these!" Yaya said, holding a pair of pink-rimmed sunglasses.
Without noticing the color, Lelouch put them on, blinking and hoping they wouldn't be
able to notice the sigil in his eyes, or the more that subtle red glow. "Thanks," He murmured.
"If you don't mind, we must be off to class," Tadase said, "We can meet you after school.
Until then, you can wait in the Royal Garden."
"Sure," Lelouch dipped his head slightly before blinking. "Err, where is that?"
"If you go past the building on the right side, there should be a large glass
building behind," Amu said, pointing the way, "That's the Royal Garden."
"Okay, thank you," Lelouch smiled in thanks, before heading where she'd gestured.
Sure enough, a large greenhouse appeared. Sighing as he opened the door and slipped in,
Lelouch took off the glasses before recoiling slightly. They were... pink? He sighed, before
heading over to the fountain to check his reflection. As expected, his once violet gaze was red
with the birdlike sign of Geass.
"Sir, we're here," Tadase said, entering the Garden door with the others.
Blinking rapidly, moving his hair back, and pulling the sunglasses back on, Lelouch turned, a false smile on his drastically paled face, "Oh, hello."
"School is finished, so we can go now," Amu said, "By the way, I don't think we caught your name."
"..." Lelouch didn't know how to respond. It was obvious that things were much different here, especially since these elevens were so friendly, despite his obvious Britannian lineage. "My name? Lelouch Lamperouge."
"Well then, Lelouch, shall we go to get your contacts now?" Tadase asked.

"I want my sunglasses back now!" Yaya whined.
"All right, but may I inquire your names?" Lelouch smiled slightly at the girl's childish behavior.
"I'm Tadase Hotori, King's chair of the Guardians," he said lightly. "My name is Nagihiko Fujisaki,
Jack's chair of the Guardians," Nagihiko said.

"Rima Mashiro, Queen's chair," the petite girl stated bluntly.

"I'm Yaya Yuki, and I'm the Ace chair!" Yaya said with a wink.

"It's Amu Hinamori, Joker's chair, nice to meet'cha," Amu said in her signature "cool and spicy" tone.
"Ah, well, I'm pleased to meet all of you," Lelouch responded. "Shall we g-" He paused slightly as
a faint flickering of some sort of... pixie-like being appeared and vanished. Quickly dismissing it
as a trick of the light, he continued, just a split-second from his last word, "-o now?"
"Yes, let's" Tadase said. After coming out of the doctor, Tadase presented Lelouch his new
contacts. "Please, try them," Tadase said, holding the case in front of Lelouch.
Closing his eyes and handing the glasses to Yaya with a thank you, Lelouch turned, gracefully
placing them over his eyes with a practiced motion, "Thank you very much,"
"Ah, so we finally see your eyes," Nagihiko remarked

"Where do you intend to go now?" Tadase asked, "You seemed a bit confused this afternoon."
"..." Where was he going to go? Lelouch looked slightly panic-stricken, before he slid the mask of indifference back onto his features, "Don't worry, I'll figure something out."

'Even if I have to Geass someone to do it,' He added silently.
"Well, no matter where you go, be safe," Tadase said.

"It was nice to meet you, Lulu," Amu said.
Blushing in the remembrance of the name from his innocent school days, Lelouch nodded and
turned to leave, "Thank you."

***

After several labor-intensive uses of Geass, Lelouch managed to make his way into an apartment
without any costs, and no one to question him being here. It was rather difficult, but he'd convinced the landlord he was his long lost nephew,
Checking his map once more in annoyance, Lelouch decided that this alternate universe was the most annoying one when it came to the supermarket. He'd attempted to Geass someone, before realizing that it'd be idiotic for something so trivial, so he simply placed his contact in and asked for a map. That was stupid. Now he was wandering around some park, cursing profanities.
"Ikuto!" A shouting voice came from the center of a park.
Looking over with a slightly confused stare, Lelouch vaguely recognized the voice. If he recalled
correctly, it was the girl named Amu. He folded the map and placed it in his brown jacket, which he'd 'borrowed' from a local store. After all, he was Zero, man of miracles.
"Yo," a tall, blue haired boy said to Amu.

"Ikuto, what are you doing here? I couldn't even hear you coming!" Amu said in shock, while holding an ice cream.
Lelouch turned the corner to allow himself to be visible, all the while burying his face in the map to avoid suspicion. Although it was more than obvious Amu liked the boy, with the swoon in her tone…
"I was here first you know," Ikuto said, a sly smirk on his face.

A few seconds went by, then Amu said, "No one asked you, Yoru," talking to the side of Ikuto.
Slightly surprised at the sudden, almost schizophrenic words, Lelouch looked up, the sigil of Geass begging to be released. For a second, he could see a small blue cat hovering next to the boy, looking suspiciously similar, before he turned, and almost ran into a certain green-haired witch.
"C.C?" Lelouch blinked in surprise at the woman, and her amber gaze bore into his.
"Looks like the gods don't like you," She commented. You got thrown into another dimension
instead of dying. Now you'll never see Nunnally or Rolo again."
Biting his lip, he glared at her, cursing the day he'd met the stubborn witch. Suddenly, a light made him look over. A light started to emanate from where Amu was standing with the boy, surrounding her. Once the shine let down, Amu was standing in a completely different outfit; a cut top, short pink skirt, visor, leg warmers, and a fairly long ribbon tied to her neck. "Chara-nari: Amulet Heart!" Amu shouted.
"What the hell?" Lelouch barely kept his voice quiet, and he turned to C.C, who was
busy retying the ribbon that kept her hair in a ridiculously long braid. "Witch, do you
know what that was?"
"I'm not from this dimension, same as you," C.C responded nonchalantly, though not
meeting his eyes. "Maybe you should Geass them and find out."
"That's out of the question," He looked irritated at her answer. Such a foolish Geass? No way he'd do that.
"I'm not ready to hang out, Ikuto," Amu said in a stern voice."Ah, it's looking like a battle," Ikuto said, his smirk growing larger.
"...Should we do something?" C.C asked, looking mildly interested as she hugged
Cheese-kun, making it squeak. Obviously a limited edition squeaky toy version...
Lelouch shook his head, "I don't want to have to waste Geass on them now."
While Amu was about to attack, something caught her attention from the corner of
her eye; it was Lelouch. "Lulu?" Amu asked, running over to Lelouch, "It's nice
to see you again, are the contacts working?"
"See, girls call you Lulu even in this wo-" C.C was cut off as Lelouch's
hand swiftly cut her off."Er... what are you doing in that outfit?" He asked, looking strained. It felt so… wrong to look at a young girl with such a revealing outfit.
"Oh, right," Amu said, slightly blushing. Her clothes suddenly reappeared, the ones she was wearing before the light covered her.
C.C looked mildly amused, and her gaze turned towards the air just above Amu's hair. She cocked her head in curiosity, and asked Lelouch, "Do people usually have pixies that fly by their heads in this w-country?"
"What?" Lelouch blinked in confusion, though glad she'd stopped from saying world.
"Pixies?" Amu seemed slightly confused, then looked to her companions above her head, "You mean Shugo Chara?"
"Shugo... chara," As soon as the words exited his mouth, it was like a switch had been turned on. Three multicolored 'shugo chara' were around Amu's head, and the little blue cat was by the boy's.
"Cheese-kun's cuter," C.C seemed to pout slightly at the contestant to her beloved's cuteness.
"You see," Amu started, "All people have an egg in their heart, portraying
their would-be-self. Sometimes a Chara's egg comes out, and then, a second 'you' pops out. That's what a shugo chara is."
"Interesting," Lelouch murmured slightly, and then winced as a sharp pain hit his forehead. He closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead with his hand. C.C looked over worriedly, and muttered under her breath,
"Damn mortals and their mortality.."
"So, Lulu, your friend, and even you must have a sparkling heart,"
Amu said, "Because only those with shugo chara, or those with strong hearts, may see shugo chara."
'Sparkling hearts, huh?' Lelouch thought to himself, smiling at the irony. He'd murdered his brother, shot his sister for doing something he'd forced her to do, destroyed his friends' trust, and taken the role as the most hated man of Britannian-no, the world's history. Meanwhile, C.C was simply wondering if she had a heart that still beat.
"I can feel it," the yellow chara of Amu's said, floating towards Lelouch and his friend, "I can feel the radiance shining in both of you. Though you may feel like your heart is black, it's glittering brightly, but you may not know in what way though."
"That's right, Ran sees it too!" the pink chara exclaimed.

"Your shugo chara must be coming soon," the blue chara commented.

"Please just wait and see desu~," the green chara cooed.
C.C cocked her eyebrow inquisitively, "Does that mean I'll get a coffin as a chara?"
She asked, looking slightly interested.
"Who knows," Amu said, "Your would-be-self is a lot different then you may think."
A gentle smile then added light to her face.
"Damn it," Her eyes blazed with disappointment. "I thought I wouldn't have to ask Lulu to Geass
someone into giving me-mmph!"
"C.C," Lelouch practically hissed, the redness in his eyes flashing in anger behind his contacts.
"Well, I suppose I'll leave you two," Amu said, bowing slightly, "I'd hate to bother you anymore." Amu then started to walk away from the park, her charas following her at her head.
"Nice going, witch," Lelouch muttered. "Be glad she didn't hear that, or I'd convince
someone to kill you repeatedly."
"You wouldn't do that," C.C responded confidently. "Now let's go find some Pizza Hut."