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[*****]

What is this feeling…?

Lelouch laid back against the all-white floor – no, that wasn't quite right. It wasn't a floor because there was no floor, no ceiling, and no walls of any kind. The only reason Lelouch thought it was the floor is because he wanted it to be the floor, wanted it to be solid ground; thus, it became solid, like ground. He thought, therefore it became.

My mind is the only thing certified to exist. I've proven I exist. I think, therefore I am. I have proven that I exist. But I can't prove that everything else around me exists. The human body's eyes, nerves, and senses are prone to error all the time, and they can fail us completely. Sure, my surroundings look like white nothingness, and I can say to myself "It looks like white nothingness, and it feels like absolute nothingness, therefore it is" but I can't prove that the color white actually exists, or that I am where I say I am. What I'm seeing isn't necessarily what's actually there. Sure, the color white may actually exist, but I can't prove it. Nobody can prove it. Not me, not Rivalz, not Kallen. Hell, how can I prove that Rivalz and Kallen exist? They could simply be a figment of my imagination; because the mind is the only thing that exists, and the mind is prone to imagination and having dreams, then they could very well be figures produced from my imagination, hallucinations, or dreams. Who's to say we all aren't dreaming right now? Who's to say we aren't all just sleeping the days and nights away right now? Who's to say day and night actually exist? Who's to say TIME exists? Our – or rather, my – concept of time could very well be off the mark. Time may very well not be an endless straight line. What if it's a circle? A triangle? A rectangle? What if there IS no shape, rhyme, or reason to time? What if time is just a human fallacy? What if time is merely an illusion? After all, science can't prove everything, not every little thing. There's so much it hasn't proven yet – are we (or am I) alone in the universe? Does the universe actually exist? What's at the bottom of a black hole? Why can't we (or I) time travel? After all, if time isn't a straight line, then time travel should be easy-peasy.

Shit, SNAP OUT OF IT!

Jerking himself back to relative consciousness and clarity of mind, Lelouch got his bearings and realized he was still in the same blank, endless space.

Is this another dimension? Lelouch looked down at his clothes; much to his surprise, he was still wearing his familiar, regal Ashford Academy uniform, save for his shoes. He still had socks, but no shoes. Lelouch was too puzzled to question such a comparatively trivial concept like "no shoes" and decided to stand. He found that he could move in any direction he wanted, limitlessly. It was like walking through the sky.

Except the sky has no ground. If the sky had a ground, it wouldn't be the sky, it would be the ground. But with this… it doesn't matter if I jump or try to stand on the ceiling here, because there is no ceiling. It would just look like the floor, because everything here is white!

"What is this place?" Lelouch shouted. His voice echoed, interestingly.

An echo! I must be somewhere indoors… no, that can't be it! There is no indoor facility on Earth as enormous and all-encompassing as this!

"Can anybody hear me?!" Lelouch tried again, his voice coarser than before. "At least give me a sign you're listening!"

Lelouch paused.

"…Am I dead?" Lelouch asked, his jaw quivering.

I can't die yet! No! I haven't done what I need to yet! I have to go back!

"AM I DEAD?" Lelouch yelled, turning his terrified voice up a notch. "Just give me a sign! Anything! Don't tell me this is it for me!"

Nothing. Not a word in reply.

Lelouch's insides dropped. I'm dead. And this is the afterlife. In the end, this is it. Just… light. Endless light. And silence. He felt like crying.

"I don't want to die," Lelouch muttered pathetically.

"Then it's a good thing you're not dead."

A voice. Young and female, with an angelic, musical quality to it.

"Who said that?" Lelouch started, shooting straight up. "Are you an angel? God? The Devil?!"

"Who's to say I'm not all of those people? Or that they exist?"

God doesn't exist?! "Are you saying there is no God?!"

"I never claimed that. I also never claimed he existed, either. I am neutral."

"Where am I?!"

"You are within the Realm of Possibility."

"The Realm of Possibility?"

"Yes. Unrestricted freedom."

"But it's all nothingness!"

"Unless you make it not so!"

Lelouch felt completely lost. "How can I do that?"

"Why don't you tell me?"

Lelouch growled. "So I can just be in space?!"

Almost immediately after Lelouch said that, a portal began opening underneath Lelouch. Before he even had time to scream, the portal filled the entire room and suddenly he was surrounded by stars. Billions and billions of stars; this time, Lelouch was floating. There was no floor, no gravity; only billions of miles of endless, constantly-expanding space.

"WHAT THE HELL?!"

Suddenly, someone appeared beside Lelouch. He glanced to his side and was shocked to find a regular-looking girl. She was small, barely five feet, with raven-black hair, big green eyes, and the disposition of someone otherworldly, like a spirit, or maybe a ghost. She seemed to be the master of the material and immaterial, and looked like she was unaffected by being in the vacuum of space.

Wait…

Lelouch grasped his throat. "If we're in space, how can I breathe?!"

"You desire to breathe, yes? If you want to be able to breathe in space, then—"

"I'M NOT JOKING AROUND!"

She paused. "I have a forcefield around you. I wouldn't let you die, of course. It'll protect you from the lack of oxygen. And the cold."

"Who are you?! Why am I here?"

"My name is Princess Kaguya."

"Who?"

"I have a kingdom on the Moon."

"Ayo, nigga, ain't that some shit."

Kaguya looked off at the distance. "Look at Earth."

"Why, are you-?"

Lelouch's breath caught in his throat. He was transfixed. In what Lelouch could only presume what sped-up time, he saw an enormous wave of fire consume the Earth one by one. No, fire wasn't correct term – a wave of red and black. A pure storm of destructive color swallowing the Earth, covering it like a gigantic, fiery blanket.

He laughed. Wildly. He laughed hard, until he felt he couldn't laugh anymore. And that was when he remembered everything.

I am Zero!

Kallen! Foige ihnen! Mach weiter so!

I feel like I am disappearing.

Don't stop time! Keep it progressing! Can you hear me, God?!

I will destroy the world and rebuild it anew!

Are you from a noble family?

A torn sail!

It's just a matter of time before, before, and though I hate to rewind-

Stop Odysseus' air fleet before it gets here!

Milly Ashford, will you marry me?

Dude, what if time is like a circle?

I've been ruling over this world for sixty years, don't nag me, woman!

Submit to me, world!

Let me feel you again.

Nah, dude, try another position.

Rolling around at the speed of sound!

Rivalz, stop drinking.

My name is Lelouch vi Britannia!

Lelouch blinked.

That's right.

"I AM LELOUCH VI BRITANNIA!"

Kaguya chuckled to herself. "So I can finally meet you face-to-face. Lelouch vi Britannia. Emperor. Revolutionary. Politician. Chef. Musician. Scientist. Doctor. Business magnate. Artist. Technician. Adventurer. Killer of Gods. You've done quite a lot over the course of these timelines."

"Why yes, it is I. Do you like what you see? How does it feel to be in the presence of a true being? A man of epic proportions?"

"Do you?" Kaguya countered.

Emperor-Revolutionary-Politician-Chef-Musician-Scientist-Doctor-Businessman-Aritst-Technician-Adventure-GodKiller Lelouch, the Immortal, simply laughed. "Of course I do, you insignificant loli! I am all that matters in this godforsaken universe. My mind can crush a man's resolve with a single thought, and bring one to tears with a single glance!" he thundered.

"You've certainly seen and experienced a lot during your lifetime(s)," Kaguya confessed, turning her attention to Earth in its final moments. "That was your handiwork."

"Yes, yes, I'm well-aware. The World of C, The Sword of Akasha, Ragnarok, my retarded parents, et cetera et al, ad nauseum."

"Are you content with this? You once strived to make the world a better place."

"I had no intention of bringing peace to this sewer! Maybe, just maybe, in my first life, I had a vague modicum of sympathy, idealism, and altruism, a desire to change the world for the better and free people from the cold, iron grip of Britannia, but that was in the past! Peace is an illusion and the Earth is a cesspool! I had to make it a sphere of dust floating in the convoluted mist that is the universe. I do not pity these worthless buffoons! Not now, and certainly not beforehand."

"But what is the past, present, or future now? Due to your actions, time will officially cease to have any meaning - seconds, minutes, days, even hours? All of those are empty, meaningless terms, effective immediately. Humans valued time due to how little of it they had - you did too... once, Lelouch. How does it feel to look down from up high, from astronomical heights? Does it make you feel like a God? How does it feel to be the only man alive? The only shred of evidence the human race ever existed to begin with?"

Lelouch roared a mighty laugh. "Oh, Kaguya, the rush is something indescribable! Knowing that billions are dead upon your hands gives me a level of satisfaction lesser men can only dream of obtaining!"

"And yet, nobody will be around to appreciate you, to marvel at you, to loathe you, to envy you. Absolutely nobody will thank you for your deed - not I, not the Gods, not the cosmic powers of the Universe. You will be truly alone… no, you are, already. You will spend the rest of your natural life utterly alone, left to drift amongst the Universe."

"Don't you see?!" Lelouch said, gesturing wildly. "Nothing I create is to please anyone but myself. The World of C was all I needed to corrupt these filthy, disillusioned beings and bring them their knees! Mere child's play!"

"Did you desire the world's destruction because it was corrupt, or because it hurt you?"

"I did what was right. You all experienced what devastation that wretched place can produce, so why try to save it?!"

Five people suddenly appeared behind Kaguya, forming an ominous-looking circle atop Kaguya. Lelouch scoffed.

"Oh right. The Swiss Roll Brigade!"

"You did what was right?" Sonic the Hedgehog spat, looking repulsed. "Right for who? All of humankind? Or for your own fragile ego?"

"You could not possibly have known what was best for humanity, the difference between right and wrong, the duality between good and evil. You never understood anything," Bill Gates stated, folding his arms atop his floating chair.

"You failed in your original goal, and lashed out at the world because of it," Jack Black hoarsely whispered.

"You dare call this failing?! I am starting everything anew! Nothing but myself remains of what belittled, destroyed, hated, and eradicated all that had meaning in one's own petty life. I know more than you will ever even conceive. I. Am. God."

"You cannot create something from nothing," Waka Flocka Flame said. "You had opportunity. Potential. Hope. A promising future. And you threw it all away for your own selfish desires. Your manipulative, evil tendencies and desires did not help fix the world's belittling, destructive, hateful, eradicative problems; you enhanced them. Augmented them. Like a fool. Like a child."

"Can none of you see that this was my only option?! Giving and giving to these ingrates until I was blue in the face, and what do they do? They whine, they cry, they moan about all that isn't satisfactory. I cannot please these beings, do you hear me? This world doesn't have the capacity to grasp or understand the power of a mind like mine, so I had to destroy it!"

Triangle-shaped monoliths appeared behind Lelouch. He recognized them as the Illuminati.

"Perhaps, in time, the world would have come to embrace a mind like yours," Illuminati 01 said, his voice distorted by a synthesizer.

"Now we will never know, because that world is in the process of ceasing to be," Illuminati 04 summed up, his voice altered in much the same way.

"And as for your "giving", you never freely gave to others. You used your God-given gifts to pursue your own devilish agenda," Illuminati 03 said.

"Always scheming, always manipulating others behind the shadows, letting others do the dirty work for you while you assume the façade of a benevolent hero of the masses. That's the real you, the one you don't show to others."

"Yeah, well, you're gay," Lelouch responded, fairly.

Having let them speak their peace, Kaguya faced Lelouch. "Do you know how many 'Earths' exist in the multiverse, both observable and unobservable?"

"62,284,523,196,522,717, 995,422,922,727,752,433,961,225,994,352,284,523,196,571,657,791,521,592, 192,954,221,592,175,243,396,122,599,435,291,541,293,739,852,734,657,229," Lelouch said, simply. "Of course I know. Why do you ask?"

"On every single one of those planets, there is a Lelouch vi Britannia."

"Of course," Lelouch said, groaning. "I can grasp all intricacies of the world I used to know. Not to mention, I'm a master of time and space. One of the added bonuses of Geass'ing God."

"In each and every one of these worlds, Lelouch vi Britannia brings them to ruin. It's your destiny. All of your actions were set into motion the moment the Big Bang happened a shit-ton of years ago."

Lelouch pulled out a gun.

"No! You can't—" Kaguya began. She was silenced by a bullet.

"This bullet was enhanced with Refrain, which has been known to kill even angels like yourself," Lelouch said. Sonic, Bill Gates, Waka Flocka Flame, Jack Black, and the Illuminati members all stared at Kaguya's corpse. Lelouch then proceeded to fire a bullet (in outer space) and gestured the gun towards all of them, waving it listlessly in his hand.

"I am GOD now! I demand nudity!"

"Do you want me to turn on the Jupiter Looper?" Jack Black asked, bowing on one knee.

"Shut your ass and turn on the TV. I need to see Sesame Street."

Jack Black did as Lelouch ordered.

"Hahaha," Lelouch laughed. "It's funny because he's subservient."

"You can't just order us around!" Bill Gates proclaimed, before Waka Flocka Flame pointed a steel-satin pistol at him.

"Shut your pie-hole before I fill it full of stuffing," Waka Flocka Flame threatened, smirking.

"Ryan, no! He didn't know any better," Sonic argued, using his spin dash on Waka Flocka's gun.

"I don't give a damn, Andrew!" Waka Flocka Flame (Ryan) spat, putting up his jewelry-bedecked fists. "He fucking ratted us out back in Monaco!"

"So that was you," Lelouch snarled. "And I bet you didn't even rig the Formula One runways with shaving cream like I specifically asked you to. Am I right?"

"Look, wait, I have all of Suzaku's conversations on recordings," Bill Gates muttered nervously, adjusting his ties. "All I need to do is send it back to the lab and filter it through the computer!"

"Yeah, and while you do that, Suzaku's already halfway to the Chinese Federation. You couldn't even gat him in the confines of your own house, when you invited him over for dinner!"

"I CAN SHOW YOU MY MACARONI AND CHEESE SUPREME RECIPE! THE ONE FROM THAT DANISH MAGAZINE!" Bill Gates pleaded.

Lelouch glared at him. "I wrote that article."

Fear and shock crossed over Bill; Sonic killed him, much to his regret.

"He was a good man," Sonic (Andrew) proclaimed.

"He never went to college," Lelouch muttered. "Now, send me back to Earth! The world must be prepared for Zero's return."

"On it, boss," Ryan said. "WAKA FLOCKA BEAM!"

[*****]

ASHFORD ACADEMY – PRESENT TIME

"THURSDAY!"

Lelouch suddenly sat up and tossed his chair to the side, sweat forming in a film around his neck. He realized he wasn't alone in the room.

Where am I?

He looked around. Oh. Classroom. Right. It's time for Zero's return.

Lelouch laughed maniacally, humping his desk.

"Lelouch Lamperouge, please stop laughing maniacally. Everyone, turn to Page 32 in your first aid manuals."

"I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!"