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Summary: In which an amnesiac Lelouch embarks on a journey to relearn all of Season 1 and find his OTL through a quirky hallucinogenic trip to Wonderland, Code Geass style.

Lelouch's Adventures in Wonderland

Chapter 1

As the wind rushed through his hair, Lelouch laughed at the cries of "Lelouch, come back!" as he sped away from the school (and Ms. Viletta) on a motocycle with Rolo. Really, did she expect him to come back just because he was ordered to? Besides, it was just PE classes. Who needed those? Ok, granted, he was a bit weak at physical activities, but that's why he avoided PE.

...Wait that was faulty reasoning there...

Hm...

Lelouch's brilliant brain continued to rationalize his ditching of class as Rolo chided him. Absentmindedly, Lelouch offered his little brother half his bread, but as the motorcycle swerved dangerously when Rolo tried to take the bread, Lelouch decided to not feed his brother while driving again if he intended to live until graduation. Staring listlessly at some advertisements, Lelouch sardonically pondered the futility of Elevens' struggle against Britannians, even as Rolo pestered him with questions of his future. He scoffed at the powerlessness of those Elevens and especially Zero, the fool who led them on with an impossible dream. The two brothers arrived at Babel Tower, Rolo refusing to leave Lelouch's side. Rolo continued pestering him with questions, but Lelouch casually waved them off as they entered a gambling ground that two young students obviously should not be in. On the elevator up, Lelouch tapped his fingers restlessly against the railing as he ponders how desperately bored he must be to find entertainment at a gambling ring instead of buying some more video games or movies to entertain himself like a normal teenager would.

The elevator doors opened, revealing many affluent Brittanians playing slots, blackjack, roulette, poker, and the like. From an announcement over the PA, Lelouch's attention was drawn to the rink where two Elevens were fighting for the entertainment of the Brittanians. Lelouch waved off Rolo's pleas to leave, stating that this was reality, while he strode through a set of double doors, only to get run into by a magenta haired bunny girl. A mini-debate on the Britannians vs Elevens issue with the bunny girl later, a swarthy blonde haired, black skinned and brown bearded man grabbed her by the "ears" to drag her back to his personal Playboy mansion. Funny how the ears didn't just fall off when he pulled. Perhaps they were superglued on. Lelouch's eyes flashed; he had found an opponent. Coolly opening his suitcase, he challenged the identity challenged noble to a chess match. "Let's determine who's on the 'fit' side with this for now."

The blonde haired, brown bearded man could only wear an expression of utter disbelief and humiliation as Lelouch slowly but surely trapped him into checkmate. What was up with high schoolers these days? Lelouch smirked. "It appears your side wasn't fit enough to survive." He regretted the insult immediately when the weird blonde man ordered his big burly and very much armed guards to arrest him. Today was just not his day.

Suddenly, the building shook, and the bunny girl pulled off her ears and round house kicked the blonde black man, knocking him out. Ok...so that was unexpected...

On the plus side, the guards had released him in favor of the bunny girl, who promptly took them out as well, leaving Lelouch free. Bodyguards are just there for decoration anyways. Just as Lelouch was planning to run out of the building in response to the screams of "Terrorists!", the bunny girl grabbed his hand and led him in the opposite direction. But that meant that he was going the opposite direction as the crowd, and toward the terrorists, which, his brilliant brain reasoned, was a very bad idea. But the bunny girl's grip was too strong, and he was being dragged along unwillingly. Suddenly, Rolo grabbed him and pulled him toward what was hopefully an escape route. At times like these, clingy younger brothers were really useful indeed. However, just when he thought he was safe, Britannian Knightmares attacked, and once again they were under fire. Escaping to what they thought was a safe room, the weak structural foundation chose that one precise moment to give out, casting Lelouch into a dark never-ending abyss.

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When Lelouch finally hit solid ground, miraculously with all his bones and organs intact, he found himself in an endless hallway filled with doors. His mind grappled with the practicality of having such a place in a commercial skyscraper, but reasoned he should be able to find a way out. Looking up, he saw only darkness, and his phone displayed "NO SIGNAL". He noted one extra-small door but paid it no heed as he walked on. This place would be a deathtrap should the rest of the building give out as well. As Lelouch inspected the doors, he found that they were all locked. He sigh in frustration, how was he supposed to get anywhere if he didn't have a key, or something to pick it with? Of all days for him to not have a hairpin, it had to be today. Well, he was a guy so he shouldn't have one anyways...Hm...a lot of faulty reasoning going on today...

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a small table with a key, a cake, and a bottle on it in the middle of the corridor.

He walked over to take a closer look and picked up the key before almost tossing it away in disgust. Judging from the miniature size, it was for unlocking the tiniest of the doors and would likely get him nowhere. He stared at the drink, which was suspiciously labeled "Drink Me." Unwilling to put his life at risk drinking dangerous unidentified substances, Lelouch started to turn away before suddenly being struck by a parching thirst that had him grasping for the bottle and chugging down the contents. In a flash, the world enlargened before him. He mentally sighed. Of course the flash was full of hallucinogens or some such. Though, if that was the case, he shouldn't be capable of rational thinking...oh well. He spotted the cake labeled "Eat Me" on the floor and furrowed his eyebrows. When had that gotten there? He was suddenly very very hungry.

Since he had already ingested an unknown drink, Lelouch figured that it wouldn't hurt too much if he sated his hunger with the cake. Suddenly, the world started shrinking until his head hit the ceiling. Lelouch blinked. Now he understood why those children's stories told him to never eat strange foods; they were filled with drugs.

Abruptly, a poor bird thwacked into his eye, unable to swerve out of the way of a spontaneously growing human. Lelouch felt his eyes tearing up as he was forced to admit that he must have somehow grown larger, seeing as a bird crashed into him. However, he had a bigger problem on his hands, as the corridor started flooding with his tears. Out of the corner of his eye, Lelouch spotted a figure fast approaching. Lo and behold, the bunny girl from before was sprinting towards him, glancing at a watch she had pulled out of nowhere, muttering "I'm late! I must get to the rendevous point or the whole plan will fail."

Surprised by her sudden reappearance but quickly regaining his composure, Lelouch ordered her in his most regal voice to stop and help his escape. She paid no heed to his words and raced on, dropping only a single headband floating in the ever growing puddle of tear water. Lelouch delicately picked it up with his now blown up pinky to return it to her, being the gentleman that he is, only to find that she had already disappeared. Frighteningly enough, the large pool that had formed from his tears was getting closer and closer. He began panicking as he remembered his complete lack of physical prowess and swimming skills. What was a boy genius to do?

Reflexively, Lelouch dropped the headband, and to his relief, the pool stopped advancing. However, as he looked around, Lelouch discovered he was now short to the point where he couldn't reach the key on the table. Only this time, there were no convenient cakes for him to eat. Suddenly, he heard splashing a little way off, and reasoning that perhaps the other person could be of some assistance, Lelouch proceeded to laboriously doggy-paddle his way through the pool of tears. Maybe he shouldn't have skipped all those PE classes and learned how to swim.

As he approached the splashing, Lelouch found that it was a young, green haired girl with glasses struggling to find dry land. Not recognizing her, Lelouch called out, "Excuse me, miss, but do you happen to know the way out of this place?" The girl looked quickly at him, but said nothing. Lelouch tried again, but still got nothing. Perhaps she was deaf. Deciding to test it out, Lelouch decided to say something that he knew would produce a reaction from Elevens and Britannians alike: "The Murder Princess was really brutal wasn't she?"

With that comment the girl's head turned with an audible snap. Her green hair bobbed in the waves and her glasses remained miraculously clear as her expression twisted psychotically. "How dare you? Do you not understand how much she sacrificed? She was a benevolent, peaceful princess. Death to Zero...death to Zero...must create weapon...E=mc^2..." Lelouch immediately regretted talking to the girl. He attempted to gingerly doggy-paddle away, and luckily the psychotic girl didn't seem a much better swimmer than he was. Unfortunately, the crazy woman had latched onto his arm, shrilly sprouting complex physics equations that Lelouch idly realized could lead to a complex bomb of some sort. But he couldn't contemplate this further as he was starting to drown. Clearly, his doggy-paddle was not enough to sustain him and the added weight of the crazy girl. Luckily for him, he spotted shore and headed for it with the last bits of strength his body could muster. Hacking out salty tear water onto the sand, he wrenched the crazy girl off of his arm and stumbled to the side. Looking around, he spotted several other unfortunate people who had also just climbed out of the water.

To his left, a woman with shoulder length magenta hair gracefully straightened. She was wearing an army uniform and from the insignias, she must be someone important in the Britannian army. Beside her, a neatly groomed, black haired man who wore glasses asked quietly, "Are you hurt, your highness?"

Lelouch took in the situation instantly before blending in with the other survivors. The regal woman snapped a whip that had suddenly appeared in her hands. "Get in line, soldiers!"

Lelouch found himself reflexively standing at attention at the sound of her martial voice. She inspected them carefully with dissatisfaction and ordered, "Everyone, march!"

Everyone followed orders and started marching forward. When they reached the end of the very small piece of land, several people started breaking stride, wondering if they should stop. "Keep marching!" barked the woman, and startled, everyone snapped back in line and started marching around the island in circles. After a few laps, Lelouch started to get bored and studied the men and women in line. The leader was a Britannian soldier, but not of high rank. Some of the others were looking familiar. There were a few Black Knights in line as well: a bespectacled man with a scar down the right side of his face, and a brown haired man who seemed to be trying to look back at him with...were those sparkles in his eyes? One figure particularly struck out. From what Lelouch could surmise...he was an Eleven attempting messy Elvis Presley hair. Lelouch scoffed inside. Elvis was a legendary Britannian icon, who did that Eleven think he was fooling? However, this Eleven held his gaze squarely. A good man, Lelouch thought to himself, and good lower level commander material. Ah, stop, he chided himself, no use thinking of these people as pawns on my chessboard when I'm just a normal powerless Britannian student.

Behind him, the crazy girl and some more Britannian soldiers marched, quietly and obediently. Lelouch could only sigh and wonder if his hallucination was commenting on his future where he and the rest of the world would be at the Britannian nobility's beck and call, marching and getting nowhere. Irritated, Lelouch started muttering under his breath about how the nobility really weren't better than others. After all, just look at what the Murder Princess did. "Don't call her that!" the green haired girl behind Lelouch screamed.

What an annoying girl, he thought to himself. He somehow instinctively knew her name was Nina. And in fact, the Britannian woman leading them could be none other than the long lost Second Princess Cornelia. Lelouch stopped, puzzled. Why did he know that? Then he stopped and reasoned, Nina was wearing the Ashford uniform, so he must've seen her around campus before. And who didn't know of Cornelia? He nodded to himself. He must be dreaming, and his subconscious simply conjured up some random figures from his memory to haunt him. All this, of course, took place in his mind in a flash. He ignored the Nina girl, but was surprised that he had drawn a response from everyone else as well. Suddently, the brown haired Black Knight jumped out and started yelling, "Of course she's the 'Murder Princess'. How many innocent Japanese people did she kill? We all trusted her! Zero trusted her! And then right after he agrees, she comes out telling everyone to kill the Japanese!"

"SILENCE!" came the voice of Cornelia. "You will not speak of my sister in that manner!"

"Oh yeah! Or else what?" the Black Knight taunted back. Soon, the little island erupted into an argument with everyone shouting at once and quickly degenerated into a fight with fists flying, Nina screaming, and angry words being hurled from all sides. When Cornelia and her knight, Gilbert, pulled out swords and the Black Knights pulled out guns, Lelouch decided that water or not, now was a good time to leave.

End Chapter 1

Author's Note: Lulu is on his quest to regain his identity as Zero. And Y+H are on their quest to regain some sanity from summer break boredom. Hopefully this spells the end of a very long writers block and a tiring year at school. And hurray Code Geass R2 Marathons! Now that I think about it, that one blonde haired black skinned brown bearded guy was really weird... -Y

Finally writing again for fun has been a nice break from the essays and lab reports and the other writing we've had to do for school. We actually came up with this plot over winter break, when there were lots of ads for Alice in Wonderland...I think. Unfortunately, school started, and neither Y nor I had much free time to do any writing...hopefully, we'll actually finish this piece rather quickly. Ohh...and if any of you have suggestions for casting people, feel free to let us know. :D -H