Disclaimer: We do not own Code Geass… Alright, I stand corrected: This is the shortest disclaimer we've ever had…
Author's Notes- In accordance to the unprecedented snowfall Jordan and I's place has received, and also that it's December, this chapter will have a special theme! Amazing, considering it doesn't snow here that often…
Author's Notes- So I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! Also, consider this our late Christmas Present to you.... If you don't celebrate Christmas: I'm sorry, and hope you had a Happy "Insert Holiday here!" ........ (Smiley Face)
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Early in the morning at the Clubhouse…
Beep! Beep! Beep! (Alarm Clock)
(Jordan reaches her hands out of a pile of covers to chuck the alarm clock at the wall. She slowly sits up.)
Jordan: (Yawns) Man, it's bright outside this morning. (Goes over to the window and moves the curtains. When she looks outside she's suddenly completely awake.) (Gasps) Oh my Suzaku!!
Meanwhile…
Ashleigh: (Curled up in a little ball in her bed)
Jordan: (Suddenly bursts into the room and leaps onto her) Ash!! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Ashleigh: (Jolted awake with her accent) What the bloody hell are you doing!?!
Jordan: Look outside! Go look! Now!
Ashleigh: (Trying to kick her away) No! Just let me bloody sleep!
Jordan: Nope! Sorry! (Drags her out of bed and to the window)
Ashleigh: Remind me to kick your arse when I wake up comp- (When she looks out the window her accent disappears) Holy Suzaku!! When did this happen!?!
Jordan: Last night, obviously! I just text the Pres and she said that classes were canceled!
Ashleigh: Well, since you've already woken me up- what are we waiting for!?
(The two split up to wake everyone else)
Jordan: (Bursts into Lelouch's room and shakes C.C. awake) C.C.! C.C. common!
C.C.: What-?
Jordan: (Drags her out of the room) Common! We're going to make Cheese-Kun sculptures!
C.C.: Uh, okay?
Lelouch: (Woken up from all of the commotion) What just happened?
Meanwhile…
Ashleigh: (Beats on Suzaku's door) Hey, Suzy! Come out here! You'll never believe it!
Suzaku: (Opens the door) (Sleepily) … What is it? Do you know what time it is?
Ashleigh: It's amazing! I know it's December and all, but it's so hot outside the clouds melted!
Suzaku: What!? (Runs downstairs and outside to jump in a giant pile of white powder… Note that he's in his Pjs: A T-shirt and shorts.)
Ashleigh: (Follows him down the stairs and collapses in laughter by the door.)
Jordan: (Runs downstairs) Ash, what did you do!?
Suzaku: (Walks back inside, covered in snow, shivering) That's not funny.
(At this point, Jordan dies laughing too)
Lelouch: (Walking downstairs) You should have known better, Suzaku.
Suzaku: Just shut up and get me something warm!
(At that moment the two turn around to see Jordan and Ashleigh riding a sled down the staircase in full-on snow gear.)
Suzaku: (Running to get out of their way) How did they change that fast!?
Lelouch: (So stunned by this, just stands there and practically gets run over by them.)
C.C.: A good question but better still: Where did they get a sled?
Milly: (Peaks through the door) Lelouch, what are you doing lying on the ground? Get up and go get dressed!
Lelouch: (Going back up the stairs) I'll murder them.
Suzaku: (Looks out the window to see Jordan and Ashleigh hooking up a tube to the back of Rivalz's scooter.) I've got to try this.
(Suzaku and C.C. go upstairs and get dressed too.)
Meanwhile, outside…
Ashleigh: No way am I getting on that tube!
Jordan: Come on Ash! I'm not driving this time and it's snow, not water! It's not like tubing on the lake!
Ashleigh: Yeah well, you know what I always say: "Tubing opens up the gates of hell." And I don't want to risk melting the snow. (Shoves Rivalz aside) I'm driving.
(After C.C., Suzaku, and Lelouch all get downstairs…)
C.C.: Lelouch, why is snow white?
Lelouch: (Without missing a beat) Because it's forgotten what colour it's supposed to be.
C.C.: (Pause) But…
Suzaku: Is that some kind of inside joke?
Lelouch: This is the third time she's asked me that.
C.C: (Pouts, then goes to build a snowman)
Suzaku: Anyway, where did they go on Rivalz's scooter? I wanted to ride on the-
Jordan: (Riding on the tube, hits a jump and flies off of the tube and towards Suzaku) Look out Pretty Green Eyes!!
Suzaku: Holy me! (Tries to scramble out of the way but both he and Jordan go into the snow- making a 'Pouf!' noise.)
Jordan: (Pops out of the snow) That was epic!
Lelouch: Is Suzaku under there somewhere?
Jordan: I dunno, lemme see. (Reaches under the snow) (Pulls up a disoriented and snow-covered Suzaku) Found him!
Suzaku: Hey Lelouch, did you get the license plate number…?
Lelouch: Maybe next time.
Ashleigh: (Rides up on the scooter) Holy Suzaku, Jordan! You decked him!
Jordan: Yeah, maybe we made the snow-ramp too high?
Ashleigh: Nah. So Suzy, you want a ride?
Suzaku: (Leaps up) Do you even have to ask!?
Jordan: Wait! I have an idea to make this better! (Runs off)
(After a while Jordan reappears with the Lancelot.)
Ashleigh: Oh, I get it now. (She starts to hook the tube up to the Lancelot.)
Suzaku: Fine Jordan, just this once… I will allow this.
Milly: Mainly because he really wants to ride it.
Rivalz: Hang on Suzaku, I'm gonna ride with you.
Ashleigh: Uh oh, that means Jordan's driving.
C.C.: What's wrong with that?
Ashleigh: Well, her goal is to throw people off the tube… as violently and as many times as she can.
Lelouch: Yeah, I'm going to enjoy watching this. (Sits in a lawn chair with a cup of hot chocolate.)
Milly: (Pulls a video camera out from her Mallet Space.)
Ashleigh: (Starts to build a penguin out of snow…)
Jordan: (Over the Lancelot's intercom system) You guys ready?
Suzaku & Rivalz: Yes!
Jordan: Hang on!
(Jordan throws it into 2nd gear- so they start off doing about 25 mph)
Suzaku: Aw, I thought it would be more fun than this.
Rivalz: (Thinking) This is a nice, leisurely pace…
Jordan: (Thinking) Okay, now time to make them cry. Hmm… Oh! I remember this button! (She presses the shiny, red hyper-speed button from chapter one.)
Rivalz: OH SHI-
Suzaku: Yeah!!
(The tube flies up into the air, does a full 360 and lands back on the ground.)
(Amazingly, both Rivalz and Suzaku are still hanging on.)
Milly: Did you see that!?! I'm calling Kallen! (Calls Kallen)
Ashleigh: (Looks up from a pile of snow) Maybe I should start building them snow-gravestones.
(Jordan- irritated that it didn't throw at least one of them off- takes a very sharp curve.)
(The tube flips to its side in the air. Suzaku, being the heavier one, weighs it down on his side, causing Rivalz to go flying through the air and into a tree. When he hits the trunk of the tree he's thrown back to the ground on his butt.)
Suzaku: (Dies laughing) (He moves to the center of the tube so he doesn't fall off)
Jordan: (Looks back to just Suzaku on the tube) Yes!! Now time to get serious!
(The Lancelot rushes by the group again. Rivalz is still sitting dazedly by the tree.)
Ashleigh: (Places a headstone made of snow beside Rivalz)
Rivalz: Hey, that's not funny!
Milly: (Makes a snow-angel)
C.C.: (Puts a snow-hat on top of a snow-blob) Finished.
Lelouch: And what is that supposed to be?
C.C.: It's Cheese-Kun. Do you need glasses?
Ashleigh: Probably, but C.C., I think he needs a face.
C.C.: (Gets up to find a suitable face)
Meanwhile…
Jordan: (Whips the Lancelot a certain way so the tube goes hurdling towards the snow-ramp)
Suzaku: (Holds on for dear life)
(When Jordan looks back to see if Suzaku's fallen off yet, she sees him riding on the tube, which is now completely sideways, mid-air.)
Jordan: (Starts doing doughnuts) I'm going to throw you off if it's the last thing I do!!
Meanwhile again…
Kallen: (Walks up to the group) What have I missed?
Milly: Well, Rivalz was just thrown into a tree, and Jordan is still trying to throw Suzaku.
Ashleigh: (Still making snow sculptures) He's being very tenacious about it.
C.C.: Quite literally. (Places a few twigs on the Snow-Cheese-Kun)
Kallen: Wow, sorry I missed Rivalz being hurdled into a tree.
Ashleigh: (Examines her snow sculpture) Hmm… Finished!
Lelouch: (Turns around) And what will yours be? Some sort of- (Pause) Is that Suzaku?
Ashleigh: I call it a Snow-zaku, but yes.
Milly: And where is the sculpture of me? I'm more important than Suzaku!
Rivalz: (Perks up) I'll make it Madam Pres! (Salutes and gets to work) You can count on me!
(Meanwhile…)
Jordan: Let's see how you deal with this!
(She turns the Lancelot around in a physics-defying U-Turn so the tube is completely yanked out from under Suzaku. He falls face first into the snow.)
Suzaku: That's not fair!!
Ashleigh: Hey Jordan! We decided to have a snowball fight!
Jordan: (Jumps out of the Lancelot) Whose team am I on?
Milly: Jordan and Suzaku will be on my team.
Lelouch: So I have Kallen and Ashleigh on mine?
Kallen: Wait. What about Rivalz?
Ashleigh: He said something about finishing his statue...
Jordan: Who cares! Now to build our forts!!
(After a while…)
Kallen: Good, good… Lelouch, pat down that wall some more.
Ashleigh: Hmn, I wonder how the other team's fort is looking…
Kallen: Not sure.
Lelouch: Knowing them, it can't be any worse than our four-walled fort.
Kallen: Are you making fun of my plans!?
Lelouch: It doesn't have a ceiling.
Ashleigh: Yeah, well… I'm just gonna go check out the other fort.
(She walks around the other side of the Clubhouse to find a three-story snow castle!)
(Suzaku is standing on the outside patting down the wall.)
Suzaku: (Spots her) Jordan! Ashleigh's here!
Jordan: (On the ramparts) Well hurry and get inside before she hits you with a snowball, smarty!
(Suzaku runs around the castle a good two times before...)
Suzaku: Jordan, didn't I tell you to build a door?!
Jordan: Oh right…Hang on. (She disappears behind the wall.)
(A drawbridge lowers)
Ashleigh: That's it! I'm changing sides!
Suzaku: (Scrambles inside and closes the drawbridge)
Jordan: (Reappears back on the ramparts) No way! You can't change sides now! It's too late!
Ashleigh: Jordan, if you expect me to make you a Cheese-Chan for your birthday, you WILL lower this door.
Jordan: (Dives behind the wall again) Okie dokie!
(The drawbridge lowers)
Meanwhile…
Kallen: Man, she really is taking a while, huh?
Lelouch: Something tells me we've lost a teammate.
Kallen: No, she wouldn't do that… Would she?
Rivalz: (Suddenly pops up) Hey guys! I finished my snow-sculpture of the Pres!
(He shows them what looks like thin, but somehow heavier at the top, snowman wearing a blonde wig.)
Rivalz: Eh? Eh? What do you think?
Lelouch: (Speechless)
Kallen: … Don't quit your day job, Rivalz….
(Suddenly, a huge cannonball-sized snowball hurdles down from the sky. It explodes in a cloud of snow- also destroying Rivalz's "statue".)
Rivalz: (Thrown to the ground) What the heck was that!?!
Kallen: To the shelter! (Dives into the fort, then looks at Lelouch, who just stands there.) What are you doing?!
Lelouch: (Points up) There's no ceiling.
Meanwhile…
Milly: (Piling snow together to make the snow-cannonballs)
Suzaku: (Loading the snow-cannonballs into a snow-cannon)
Jordan: (Firing the snow-cannon)
Ashleigh: I WILL figure out how this is even possible! I will! But for right now, we should just go with it.
Jordan: Hey, that's what I'm doing.
(On the other side…)
Lelouch: What the hell are they using, a cannon?!
Kallen: Just keep throwing! I'll be back in a minute! (Runs off)
(A minute later...)
(Kallen shows up with the Guren.)
Lelouch: Now that's plenty power.
(Kallen picks up a snowball with the Guren and fires.)(Giant snowball falls!!)
Ashleigh: No Fair!
Jordan: Yeah! We should be able to use the Lancelot!
Milly: Stop whining and keep firing! (Yelling from her throne made of ice)
Suzaku: When did she have time to make that?
Jordan: Pretty Green Eyes look out!
(A snowball suddenly comes roaring in through the open window and slams right into the side of Suzaku's face.)
Suzaku: Oww…!!
Jordan: You okay, Pretty Green Eyes?
Ashleigh: Jordan, if he can take riding on the tube with you driving like a maniac, he can take anything.
Suzaku: That's it. Now it's personal.
(A few moments later)
Suzaku: (Rides up in the Lancelot) Alright! You two! (Points at Jordan and Ashleigh) Start stuffing snow into the Hadron Cannon!!
Jordan: (Salutes and gets to work) Hai-Hai, Pretty Green Eyes!
Ashleigh: But wouldn't the Hadron Cannon… melt… the snow when you fire?
Suzaku: (Pause) We have a cannon made out of snow. A freaking CANNON. Made out of SNOW. Do you really need to ask?!
Ashleigh: Yeah, you're right. (Gathers the snow)
(Meanwhile…)
Kallen: (Busy creating giant snowballs and throwing them over the Clubhouse in the Guren)
Rivalz: (Cowering)
Lelouch: (Just sitting there)
Kallen: (Throws another snowball) You know, Lelouch, you could help a little!
Lelouch: You seem to have a good handle on it.
Kallen: (Mutters something and makes another snowball- accidentally scooping up Rivalz and packing him into the projectile.)
Lelouch: Ah, Kallen- (Kallen tosses the snowball) … Oh, forget it.
(On the other side….)
Ashleigh: Hey… do you guys hear something?
Milly: No I- (Looks up) Incoming Rivalz in a snowball!
(They all look out the window to see a giant snowball with little blue hairs and two feet hanging out of it.)
(Unfortunately, Kallen's aim wasn't the best, so the snowball slams right into the wall, next to the window.)
Jordan: Whew, at least he didn't hit any of us.
Suzaku: Poor Rivalz. He keeps getting hurt today.
Milly: Maybe we should let him in. He'll be safe in here.
Ashleigh: (Grabs some rope) Time to capture the enemy!
(On the other side….)
Kallen: Hey Lelouch, where did Rivalz go?
Lelouch: Oh, you crammed him into one of the last snowballs you threw.
Kallen: What!?
Lelouch: Yeah, sent him right to the other side. (Makes a swooping motion with his arm)
Milly: (With a loudspeaker) Attention Kallen and Lelouch: We have captured your teammate! Give up now and you may have him back alive!
Suzaku: Alive?
Jordan: Does that mean we're gonna kill him if they don't give up?
Ashleigh: I think that might be a little harsh… even for Rivalz.
Rivalz: (Explaining his sculpture to Milly) … and it was so realistic, Pres. You would've loved it. But a snowball…
Milly: (Pats Rivalz's shoulder) I know Rival, I know.
Rivalz: So guys… when are you going to untie me?
Ashleigh: Eh, probably never.
Jordan: Yeah, that sounds about right.
Suzaku: It's taking them a while to respond isn't it?
Kallen: (Over her loudspeaker) Uh… you guys remember that Rivalz isn't our teammate, right?
Milly: (Pause) (Loudspeaker) So, whose team is he on?
Kallen: (Loudspeaker!) No one's… he just… wasn't on a team…
Rivalz: Yeah, I was working on my sculpture of Madame President.
Milly and her team: (Pause)
(Meanwhile, with the other team…)
Lelouch: Good thing you threw Rivalz then, instead of me.
Kallen: Yeah well… If you start helping a little more then maybe I won't have to.
(A giant snowball suddenly comes hurdling towards the two. They take cover.)
Kallen: We ruined their negotiations so they attack!?
Lelouch: Seems like it.
(When the snow settles…)
Rivalz: (Pops out of the snow-rubble) Hey guys! How's it goin'?
Kallen: Damn, they sent him back.
Lelouch: Now what?
(Suddenly they hear a faint whistling sound…)
(It gets louder….)
Lelouch: What is that?
(It gets even louder... Then: Boom!!)
(The other team threw a snowball so huge it took down two of the fort's walls.)
Kallen: What the hell!?
Lelouch: (Says something from under the snow he's buried in.)
Kallen: What?
Lelouch: (Pops out of the snow) Kill them. All of them. Now!
Kallen: Lelouch. They knocked down two of our walls! We only had four!
Lelouch: … Call the Black Knights!
Kallen: Well alright... (Dials Ohgi) Ohgi, it's Kallen. Zero has a mission for you... Yes, I know there's about eight inches of snow... Okay then. Forget it. (Hangs up)
Lelouch: Well?
Kallen: Ohgi says there's too much snow. No one can move.
Lelouch: Damn, I never get used to surrendering.
Kallen: Here, this should help. (Hands him a small white flag.)
Lelouch: (Examines it) You carry these around with you?
Kallen: (Pulls a giant white flag from her Mallet-Space- that she just recently discovered.) Just in case. You have to be prepared, you know!
(Meanwhile…)
Suzaku: (Jumps up and down) Look! They're waving a white flag! We won!
Jordan: (Acts like she's waving a flag) Basa-basa! Basa-basa!
Milly: Alright! Time to go reap the spoils of war!
(Everyone leaves the castle and runs to the other side of the Clubhouse. They find the remnants of the enemy fort deserted.)
Suzaku: (Lifts up a slab of snow) Where'd they go?
Jordan: Oh, no! Not again! Lulu's used his powers of disappearing to take Kallen with him!
Ashleigh: Don't forget Rivalz.
Jordan: Who?
Milly: Ha! That's nothing! We found out about his hiding place about four chapters ago, didn't we?
Suzaku: (Points) To the Clubhouse!
Milly: Hey, that's my line!
(Everyone runs inside. No one's around.)
Jordan: What?! But this is where he goes when he disappears!
Ashleigh: Well, it is a bit obvious, don't you think?
Milly: (Nods) Too obvious…
Suzaku: (Points) Back outside!
Jordan: Yeah right! Too cold out there. Jordan need food first.
(She walks to the kitchen. Lelouch, Rivalz, Kallen, and Nunnally are sitting at the table with hot cocoa. Jordan doesn't notice.)
Nunnally: Hello there.
Jordan: (Waves) Hi Nunnally!
Nunnally: Would you like some cocoa?
Jordan: Sure! (She sits down with them and takes a sip of her cocoa before….) Holy! What are you guys doing here!?
Kallen: Took a while for you to notice.
Ashleigh: (Suddenly standing in the doorway) Well, when Jordan gets hungry the only thing on her mind is food.
Jordan: (Nods) This is chapter twenty-five. Surely we've established this by now?
C.C.: I'm surprised that with how much she eats she's not three hundred pounds by now.
Ashleigh: You're one to talk. It's from all the dancing she does.
Jordan: Which I need to practice... Milly is there a pond anywhere around here?
Milly: No, but we do have the outdoor pool…
Jordan: Perfect! Everyone get some skates! We're going ice-skating!
Suzaku: (Jumps up) Alright!
Ashleigh: Should we trust him attaching blades to his feet? What with that dangerous spin-kick of his?
Lelouch: Probably not.
C.C.: You just don't want to go because you can't skate.
Kallen: Oh, we're definitely going now!
Rivalz: B-but I can't ice-skate… Why don't you just go without me?
Milly: Okay then!
(They all grab some skates from… somewhere and head out to the pool- that is now iced over.)
(Of course everyone gets out on the ice except for Lelouch.)
Jordan: (Does a bunch of twirls and other spinny stuff) What's the matter Lulu?
Lelouch: It's nothing.
Suzaku: (Spinning in circles) Common, Lelouch. It's not that difficult.
C.C.: (Doing figure-eights) It probably is for him.
Suzaku: And you have all of us to teach you if you don't know how.
Kallen: Yeah, get on the ice. I want to see you fall and bust your-
Suzaku: (Cuts her off) Don't say that, then he'll never try.
Ashleigh: I dunno... I'm with Kallen on this one. I'd love to see that.
Milly: Me three!
Lelouch: (Sighs) (Casually skates across the pool to the other side) I said it was nothing. As you can see, I can skate perfectly fine.
Suzaku: Then what's the problem?
Lelouch: (Thinks for a moment, then skates straight over to Suzaku and shoves him- knocking him off of his feet.)
Suzaku: (Falls towards the side of the pool where the ice is a slightly different colour…. And falls right through it.)
Jordan: … Oh.
Everyone: (Gets off of the ice as fast as possible)
Suzaku: (Splashes back to the surface) Hey! Isn't anyone g-going t-to help me!?
Later… At the Clubhouse…
(Everyone's sitting in the main room in front of a roaring fire.)
Suzaku: (Sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace, wrapped up in five blankets and shivering.)
Milly: (Walks in with a steaming mug) Here's some cocoa for you, Suzaku.
Suzaku: Th-th-thanks… M-Madam… P-Pr-President.
Kallen: (On the couch with Suzaku) I still don't see why you couldn't have just told him.
Milly: Really, Lelouch. What were you thinking?
Lelouch: (Shrugs) Who knows?
Suzaku: S-seriously! I could've d-died!
Jordan: (Waves her hand at him) Nah! You're God, remember?
Ashleigh: And even I've got to give Lulu kudos for acting on such a brutal, spur-of-the-moment impulse.
Jordan: Besides, it wasn't that bad.
Suzaku: You had to f-fish me out w-with a g-g-garden hose attached to R-R-Rivalz's s-sc-scooter!
Ashleigh: We couldn't find a life preserver! What can ya do?
Nunnally: Well, at least you're alright now.
Suzaku: I g-guess. Achoo! (Sneeze, obviously) Dammit, now I've got a cold. Thanks a bunch, Lelouch.
Lelouch: No problem.
Ashleigh: Hmn… I do believe I've found a setup for the next chapter, Jordan!
Jordan: Leave that for later. This one's too long! End it now.
Owari!!
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Author's Notes- Sure, sure. I know this is terribly late and everything, but what can you expect? It's the Holidays! And as Jordan said, consider this a belated present from the two of us. By the way, we came up with the snow-castle bit whilst taking a break from Christmas Shopping at Chik-Fil-A!
But anyway, as a subtle, subtle reference to my recent Hetalia obsession- that's spread to Jordan, among others- in this chapter she says, "Basa-basa!" which is Japanese onomatopoeia for, "Flap-flap." A.k.a.: The sound of waving a flag!
Author's Notes- Yeah.... Not much to say here... Have a Happy New Year! See you in 2010! Let's see if I can catch Ash falling again this New Year's Party!
Hahaha don't count on it,
-Destiny
Next Chapter: You just saw it!