The World of C
3 Days after the Demon's death:
"You look bored"
Lelouch's eyes snapped open at that comment. C.C. was lying in his arms on his bed. It took him a moment to register what she was saying.
"Of course I am bored. There is nothing for me to do anymore. When I was Zero, I had to plan an Empire's destruction, then as the demon Emperor, I had to plan the Zero Requem. Now I have nothing to do. Won't I be bored?"
"So last night was nothing to you?"
"Wha-No. No I mean Yes. No... Arghh. Shut up you witch that is not what I was talking about"
C.C. giggled at his predicament. Finally she decided to release his boredom as a return-gift for what he had given her the night before(all wrapped up with ribbons too, his tendency for drama never went away).
She reached out with her finger and touched him on his forehead, right between the brows.
Lelouch felt his eyes closing under her touch. He struggled a bit to keep them open but failed.
-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-
After some time Lelouch's eyes fluttered opened.
Where am I?'
That was the first thing he could think about. He was supposed to be in his room, on his bed. Then the memories of what happened returned to him.
'That witch. I will get her for this'
Looking around, he saw all of his memories inside picture frames. Oddly enough, the pictures in those frames were moving.
'Wait, moving pictures. But it could only mean...'
"I'm in C's World."
Below him was a floor of what appeared to be white marble. He was still wearing his birthday suit. He silently willed himself to appear in his normal clothes. A person's mental projection can be changed as the person wants. All it takes is imagining it in your mind's eye.
He couldn't physically have been in C's World, so he figured his consciousness was transpored there by C.C.
"Lelouch!"
A familiar voice called out from right behind him.
He turned around just in time to see a flash of pink hair before being crushed in a bear hug.
"E-Euphie...?" Lelouch choked out. His sister's voice bringing tears to his eyes as he remembered the SAZ massacre. He still blamed himself for the lives of so many innocent people including his sister Euphy.
"How are you lulu?"
After hearing the voice of Shirley, he wasn't able to control his tears any longer. He started crying before the two women whom he had loved the most but had died due to mistakes he had made. His brain had stopped working and so he did the only thing he could do at the moment. He began to apologize to them.
"Please forgive me Euphy, Shirley. It was my fault you died. If I had given a bit more attention to my surroundings, then you would be alive. Please Forgive me."
Lelouch began to choke towards the end of his apology.
"Brother," Euphemia said in a sympathetic tone, taking a step back to stand right in front of him.
"Please don't blame yourself for what happened to us. You didn't know that your geass had become permanent or that Rolo would kill Shirley. It's not your fault. Please stop crying."
Shirley and Euphy again hugged Lelouch to calm him down. After a few moments, he stopped crying and hugged them back.
"Come on now brother. We have been waiting for you for a long time."
Euphemia took Lelouch's hand and pulled him towards where the picture frames were.
They stopped in front of a frame where all of their happy moments were shown. Nunnally and Euphimia running around in the Aries Villa, Shirley kissing Lelouch, Euphimia putting a crown made of flower on Lelouch's head and so on.
Seeing all this Lelouch began to tear up again. They both proceeded to hug him. After some time, when he calmed down, a thought entered his mind. He stepped away from them and then asked
"Euphy, Shirley Why am I seeing you two? You are both..."
"Dead, right. You are seeing our mental projections of ourselves at the time of our death. This is the speciality of the world of C. You can see anyone you want, it doesn't matter whether they are dead or alive. Only a Geass user or a Code bearer can enter this world."
"I took my father's Code the last time I was here. And I still have my geass. So I qualify on both terms."
Shirley nodded.
"But why am I seeing you both?"
"Our desire to speak with you was so strong that the Collective Unconscious had to agree to let us meet you." A smile full of affection came upon Shirley's lips and she took his hand in both of hers. "Euphemia wanted to see you once again, and I wanted to tell you something before you met God."
Lelouch was shocked.
"Why do I have to meet the Collective Unconscious?"
Shirley took back her hand and returned to stand beside Euphemia again, Lelouch watched them both carefully, not knowing what to expect the reason to be to meet God.
Euphemia was the first to speak again, her voice taking on a dual tone, as if there was another person speaking with her.
"The power of thought is the greatest power mankind possesses. A single idea, when going around in the minds of many at the same time, possesses a power to change reality itself. If 2 people think about the same thing, the power of the ideas increases a thousandfold. For example, everyone in the world was tired of war, so when the Demon Emperor died they all wanted peace. And so war stopped."
"The Collective Unconscious, just as the name suggests, is a collection of the unconscious part of the mind of every living being." Shirley continued for her, in a similar dual tone, "So every person possesses a part of 'God' inside them. This gives them the power to alter reality if many people agree to the same fact. God made up of infinite minds, with each mind having infinite ideas, so we never think the same thing at the same time, rendering us essentially powerless."
Lelouch's head was spinning with the implication of everything that was being revealed to him. It would mean that if most of the world thinks the same thing at the same time, then that thing can be converted to reality. It would mean that everything is possible everyone just need to think about it.
'It would mean that there were more ways to get a peaceful world for Nunnally where both of us could live...'
He forced himself to focus on what he was being told as Euphemia spoke again.
"Due to this limitation, the number of times we have been able to alter reality can be counted on one hand. One of them was when Emperor Charles Zi Britannia was trying to start Ragnarok. The World of C was a chaos and couldn't decide what to do. But then you came and asked us 'Don't stop the march of time'. Your Geass forced Us to think only about saving ourselves from destruction and, for the first time in many centuries, we were able to agree on one thing and that was that father needed to die."
Shirley gestured calmly to Lelouch. She then began to speak again, reverting to her usual voice.
"Everyone in the world owes you a debt for what you did Lelouch. You can even say that God owes you his life." The corner of his lips turned upwards at this.
"So now, god wants to give you a choice too"
Lelouch couldn't help but ask
"Choice to do what?"
Instead of answering, Shirley cupped his face and said, "I do not know Lelouch, but I want to tell you this before you go. I love you Lelouch. I have always loved you and no matter what you do, I will always continue to do so."
Lelouch smiled lovingly at Shirley. He then proceeded to capture her lips in a passionate kiss. After a few moments, when they came back up for air, he said
"I love you too Shirley. If things had gone differently than they had, then i would have asked you to become my wife and you would not have to die." He said sadly.
"Go on now Lelouch. It is bad manners to keep god waiting", she said while giggling.
Then his surroundings changed once again. This time he was standing on the sword of Akasha. In front of his was the Collective Unconscious.
"Lelouch vi Britannia, the first person in the world to have both, the Code and Geass.The Collective Unconscious has agreed that you deserve to know about the power you unknowingly gained. The power you call Code Geass.Any Geass a person possesses, has a few limitations which prevent it from being all powerful. However, a person with both the Geass and an activated code, can forego most of these limitation. In your case you no longer need to make eye contact, just looking at the person,you can activate your Geass. Also, now you can use your Geass as many times as you want on a person."
"Wait, it would mean that all the limitations on my Geass have been removed." He forced himself out of his thoughts about how he could use it to his benefit as 'God' continued.
"And you can also take it back in time with you as a gift for saving humankind from the future your parents were forcing upon them."
"Wait, what do you mean take it back in time with me?"
As I had explained earlier, If the whole world wishes for a thing, it becomes the reality. Right now, the whole world is wishing that the 'Demon Emperor' was never born. To make that true, You have 2 choices. Either erase your existance completely from this world, or send your consciousness back in time with all your memories and the Code Geass.
And if you go back to before your father died, then the powers of your Code would be limited as the same code would be shared by 2 souls. It won't stop your aging until you take the other part of the code from whoever has it. And even then, you won't be able to stop aging until you become as old as you are right now.Also, the code won't prevent another's geass from taking hold of you, but you would be able to break free of it should you want to to so. You won't be able to die but you wont have accelerated healing too. You will always heal back to normal form but it would heal at the pace of a normal human's. The only drawback is that you wont be able to use your Geass without taking the other part of the code from it's bearer. And I can also tell you this, you will be able to take or give codes from other bearers to anyone you want until you take the code feom your contractor.
"Wait, so you mean to say thatthere are more code bearers?"
"Yes Lelouch vi Britannia, there are 20 Code Bearers around the whole world. They can be found by going to their connected thought elevator. It can also give you the location of the next elevator.
So decide whether you want to go back in time, or be erased from existance completely.The choice is yours Lelouch Vi Britannia."
Lelouch considered it for a moment. The ability to go in the past. He would be able to save everyone he cared about. He could see the plan forming in his head. Of how he could make everything right. But it all depended on one factor:
"Which time would I be sent back to?"