The Not So Virtual Reality.

AN: Yo, I'm back with another chapter. It's a rather short one, simply because I divided it in two. Let it be said that it was at firstsupposed to be the first part of Chapter 2, but I developped my story with the times and I'm glad it's like this. I'll take my time with this story.

And, yeah, I'm back to school, so don't be surprised if I don't update for a while.

Have a good read, gentlemen, and don't forget to review if you enjoyed the chapter, or even if you didn't. They're always appreaciated :D


Aries Villa, 1/7/1987, 5AM

At this moment, Bianca Lamperouge was not, strictly speaking, presentable. Her hair were messy, she had bags under her eyes and was wearing an old t-shirt as a pajama. But Bianca didn't care about her appearance right now, she was at home. Lelouch's daughter found her way to the bathroom in the first floor, the one near her parents' bedroom, in order to drink some water.

Bianca opened the door.

She noticed her father, standing in front of the lavabo and staring at the mirror.

Then Bianca saw a weird symbol on her father's right eye.

The same symbol as in her dream.

And then, the only thing she saw was darkness, for a second at least…

Los Angeles, 12/6/2043, 8AM

Sonia Weinberg opened her eyes. She was on her bed, next to her girlfriend Chigusa who was staring at the blonde.

"Have you slept well?" Chigusa asked as she caressed Sonia's cheek.

Sonia smiled. "Of course, I was with you."

Chigusa brought the blonde's head next to hers and planted a kiss on her lips.

Their relationship started seven years ago. At first, it was mostly a game triggered by Chigusa who liked to play with the younger teen, it was nothing serious. They hid it to their family and felt a tremendous amount of adrenaline for that, but the years passed by and the fantasies transformed into true love. They had stopped playing their teenager games and became a real couple and responsible adults.

Many responsibilities were appearing at the same time for Sonia; on this day, she would become a Black Knight, a defender of the weak like her mother, and she'd be able to finally fight against this extremism that threatened her family. The young Ivanov trusted Sonia with sensible information and if she told her father everything she just learned many things could change for the better, or the worse. If the White Knights' plan failed with the arrest of the conspirators, namely Prince William and the leader of the OSI, the enemy could strike. In both cases, war was inevitable…

Chigusa snapped Sonia's dark thoughts as she slipped her hand on her chest, then lower and lower…

Pleasure overcame her concerns for a while.

But then, everything went dark.

For a second.

Sonia found herself somewhere else.


In the other dimension God had created as a reward for the one who saved the World from Charles and Schneizel.

It was a reflex, a simple reflex, that pushed Sonia to scream.

Lelouch turned to see his daughter, his face showing a mixed expression of disbelief and dread.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

Sonia stared at the stranger in front of her. 'What's happening? Where am i?' She wondered worryingly in her mind. "Who… who are you?" She asked weakly, her voice betraying the fear she felt at this moment.

Lelouch gasped. His mind made quickly the link: 'There has to be something with my other Geass.' He thought. 'But if that's the case, then…'

The two pair of violet eyes stared at each other during a short silence full of tension.

Suddenly her thoughts became to be clearer. There was only one explanation for her being suddenly here. 'They know.' Sonia thought quickly. 'The White Knights. They fucking know. They've drugged me, kidnapped me and…'

"What did you do to her?!" She snapped icily while raising her fists, threatening the black-haired stranger in front of her.

Lelouch stared at his daughter in disbelief. "Listen…" He said calmly, but she interrupted him.

"What did you do to Chigusa?!" She screamed hysterically.

But before Lelouch got the time to reply, she hit him hard on the face.

In the first World.

Bianca didn't realize it instantly, but she found herself lying somewhere.

And with someone. Someone who had her hand where she shouldn't have put it.

"WHAT THE HELL!" She screamed in Chigusa's ears, before getting out from the bed with a start.

Chigusa cringed. "Why do you have to shout out loud, for God's sake?" She mumbled.

'What's happening?' Bianca thought with worry. 'Why am I suddenly on bed with a dyke? ... Sorry, a person of different sexual orientation. But still, what the hell?'

She realized she was naked. Bianca hid her chest with her hand. "Don't stare at me, dammit!"

Chigusa blinked. "What's wrong with you suddenly?"

Bianca blinked. "What."

But then she realized something didn't stick. Bianca wasn't at a random place. She was Home. Nothing could happen to her. Bianca couldn't be home at one point, then lose consciousness and wake up at a place that definitely wasn't hospital. Unless…

Bianca touched her breasts. There was something wrong with them.

'Oh, they're much bigger.' She realized. Bianca didn't inherit of her mother … prominent chest, which wasn't a big deal for her. 'Option A, I suddenly went to a plastic surgery clinic and Alex threw one of her parties to celebrate the thing, I drank too much and I lost my memories.'

Then she saw a bit of her blonde hair. 'Option B, I suddenly realized that I wanted to be a blonde with big boobs so I went to a plastic surgery clinic AND a hair stylist. Then I went to a party with Alex to celebrate and I tested drugs, which had the effect to clear some of my memories.'

Bianca shook her head. 'No, wait, that's the most stupid scenario ever.'

There had to be a logical reason that put her into this situation. Bianca was at home a moment ago, but found herself in blonde, with big breasts and with a naked lesbian at her side. It was the kind of pervert scenario that…

"Wait a second, I think I understand …" Bianca said slowly. "Naoto. That's it!" She exclaimed. "He pulled a stupid prank on me!"

Chigusa cocked her head in confusion. "What's up with Naoto?"

'He must've put his virtual reality helmet on me while I was sleeping.' Bianca thought. 'It's probably his fantasy to role play as a lesbian bimbo or some shit.'

"The little prick!" Bianca cursed in frustration. "He's going to pay for this, oh yes he will."

Bianca walked to the wardrobe and looked for some clothes. "Even if you're an AI, it's still awkward for me that you stare at me naked." She said casually to the naked 'NPC', a.k.a Chigusa, who was lying in the bed.

The silver haired woman wasn't fully awake, and the absurdity of the situation didn't really help to make her think clear either. "I don't understand a damn thing about what you say." She sighed, as her girlfriend was opening a drawer and checking for a bra. "But this drawer's not yours."

Bianca blinked. "Oh."


Second World

Sonia hit the man, again and again. This stranger didn't retaliate; he just covered his head with his hands to take her hits properly. It was odd, but Sonia didn't care. She was angry, and everything in this man's face screamed at her that he was dangerous, vicious and evil. Or was it anger and fear that clouded her judgment?

Suddenly someone cached her from behind in order to stop Sonia from hitting the man.

"Let me!" Sonia screamed, and then tried to strike with her elbow. But Kallen cached it, and neutralized her daughter.

In two seconds Sonia found herself on the floor, completely immobilized by her opponent, a woman apparently.

"What's wrong with you?" Kallen asked to her daughter. She wasn't really pleased to have been woken up by her daughter hysterical scream at the middle of the night, especially when the same daughter suddenly started to hurt Lelouch for no damn reasons.

Sonia recognized the voice instantly.

She turned her head and saw … her mother.

"Mom?" She asked, speaking in Japanese. "But, how's this possible?"

Kallen stared at her daughter, then at her husband, who was lying on the floor of the bathroom.

"Why the fuck did you attack him, for God's sake?" She asked with the stern tone Sonia knew too well.

Kallen released her grasp and helped her daughter to stand up.

"Are you alright?" Kallen asked to the man with a rather caring tone. It was surprising, for Sonia, to hear her mother speak to a stranger like this.

Kallen helped Lelouch stand up as well. "I'm alright." He said reassuringly, a hand on his ribs. "A couple of bruises, probably. I've known worse."

He found his way to the table and took his contact lenses. "But first…" Lelouch put the contact lenses on his eyes again. Kallen noticed that his right eye had the symbol of Geass.

She narrowed her eyes. "It was active." Kallen stated.

Lelouch nodded. "Yes. It was active."

To say that Sonia didn't understand the situation was an understatement. Why was her mother, supposedly in Tokyo for her work, here in this house with this man? Was he her new companion? Hard to tell, Sonia didn't know if her mother would share her love life with her daughter. After all, Sonia didn't share it either. But her mother was in Tokyo, and Sonia was in Britannia. It didn't made any sense.

"Can anyone explain me what the fuck is going on?"

It wasn't Sonia who spoke; well, she would have asked the exact same question, but she had been overtaken by a newcomer in this bathroom.

He was a young teenager with red hair and blue eyes, who reminded Sonia of her little brother Naoto, even if he was a bit different.

"Naoto, language!" Kallen hissed.

The teenager named Naoto passed his hands on his hair. "Yeah, yeah, sorry mum."

Sonia gaped like a fish. What the fuck was going on? There was no way this boy was her little brother Naoto, but she found some resemblances between him and the stranger Sonia hit earlier. Was it his son? It didn't make any sense, unless her mother had a secret life during this whole time –no, it didn't fit- or perhaps Sonia was just having another dream. Yes, that was more than probable: it was a weird, oddly realistic, but senseless dream. After all, one moment ago she was on her bed…

"But come on Bianca." Naoto moaned while staring at what he thought was his sister. "Could you please make less noise? You just woke up everybody in the house."

Sonia blinked. "What?" This wasn't expected.

Lelouch massaged his bruised chin. "Naoto, for this one I allow you to wake up at any hour you want," he said diplomatically, "If you go back to sleep without asking questions." Lelouch then stared at his daughter, or rather the girl that somehow took her place. "And your sister won't scream again, at least for this night."

Naoto shrugged. He wasn't completely awake either. "It's okay with me."

Then he left, leaving Sonia with a million imaginary question marks above her head. She wasn't in enemy territory, after all, and even if she was in a foreign place, Sonia felt like this place was … some sort of home. It was odd in a dream to feel these kinds of things.

"But it isn't a dream." The man said as if he read in her thoughts, staring at her with his penetrating purple eyes.

Sonia stared at him back, then at her mother who looked at Sonia with an incredulous look.

Then Sonia approached the mirror.

Her reflection didn't belong to her.

She wasn't herself. Literally.

Sonia freaked out. She left the bathroom and walked in a corridor. The house seemed to be luxurious, just like the Britannian villas many nobles owned and built in the Britannian district of Tokyo.

There was someone else on this corridor. It was a white-haired woman walking with crutches.

Sonia recognized her instantly.

"I've heard some screams." She said with a worried tone. "Are you alright?"

Sonia stared at her in disbelief. "Your Majesty!"


Original World.

Bianca had finished putting some clothes: a jean and a skirt; it was rather unpretentious but she didn't really care about her looks for now. She just wanted to be clothed.

"Command Exit Program." Bianca said aloud. "Exit session. Turn off power." She cursed. "Dammit! How do I turn this shit off?!"

Chigusa raised an eyebrow. "How do you turn what off?"

Bianca rolled her eyes. "Why am I even speaking with an AI?" She muttered.

Chigusa was rather annoyed by her girlfriend odd behavior. It was starting to give her headaches. "Why don't you walk outside for a time? You know, to clear your mind a little."

Bianca opened the bedroom's door. "Oh, so it's an open World? Cool."

She headed to the front door and took a black jacket from the coat rack. Then Bianca search through its pocket and found a card.

"Los Angeles Imperial University." Bianca read aloud. "Sonia Weinberg, EST1, 42/43."

She stared at the card's portrait, then at the mirror hooked at the wall.

"So her name's Sonia." Bianca muttered. "Weinberg… I've heard this family name somewhere…"

Bianca put the jacket and went outside of the apartment.


Second Timeline

Kallen and Lelouch were alone in the bathroom. The night had been … eventful, and Kallen didn't exactly know what happened there. For no apparent reason, her daughter screamed, then kicked Lelouch in the face and in the chest.

"Are you alright?" Kallen asked.

Lelouch massaged his chin. "Yes. I'm not worried about myself."

She stared at her husband with a severe look. "Can you tell me what happened?"

Lelouch lowered his eyes. "I'm not sure, but I think I've accidentally cast my second Geass on Bianca."

Kallen frowned, trying to hide that she began to panic. "What do you mean by that?"

Lelouch winced. "It shouldn't happen, because Bianca doesn't exist, you know, out there. But here's what I know: my second Geass have become fully active, and I looked into Bianca's eyes through the mirror. A second later and she started to scream."

Kallen clenched her fists and took a deep breath. "So our daughter is out there?"

Lelouch nodded silently.

"And there is no way to bring her back?" She asked rhetorically.

"I don't know." Lelouch replied. His hands were shaking.

Kallen tried to calm herself. She wanted to grab her husband's collar but it wasn't the best option. Lelouch wasn't responsible for this.

"Find a solution." Kallen said. "Find a solution or else…"

Lelouch closed his eyes. "Or else we'll never see her again."

Then, Kallen embraced him. "I know you'll find a solution. I believe in you and I know it isn't your fault."

Lelouch smiled. "Yes. I'll find a solution. I promise you."

Kallen tapped her husband's shoulders. "At least Bianca isn't in a dangerous place."

"She's probably in our guest's body." Lelouch guessed. "My bet is she's the other you's daughter."


To say that Sonia Weinberg was surprised was an understatement. Nunnally vi Britannia, the 100th Britannian Empress was standing right in front of her, wearing a gown and walking with the help of crutches.

"Your Majesty!" She exclaimed in disbelief.

The Empress widened her eyes.

"It has been long since anyone called me by this title." Nunnally admitted. "But you believe I'm the Empress, am I right?"

Sonia nodded. That was probably the only thing that made sense since she had entered in this odd place.

"Yes." Sonia said. The Empress didn't seem satisfied about this answer. She seemed … sad about it, as if she didn't want Sonia to be here.

"Tell me, what is your name?" Nunnally asked.

"Sonia Weinberg." She replied.

Nunnally smiled. "Sonia, that's a nice name. How old are you?"

"Twenty-one." Sonia replied.

"You must be Kallen and Gino's daughter then." Nunnally guessed. "And you have many, many questions in your head right now."

Sonia nodded again. "Do you know the answers, your Majesty?"

"Please, you can call me Nunnally." She said. "And yes, I know some of the answers."

Then Nunnally called the elevator that was next to her. "Why don't we talk about it in the living room?"

After they descended to the ground floor, Sonia helped the former Empress to sit in an armchair.

"Thank you." Nunnally said politely while Sonia sat on the couch.

"So, can you tell me where we are?" She asked suddenly.

"The easy answer is that you're in Aries Villa." Nunnally answered. "It is the place where I lived with my mother when I was still a child.

"But isn't Aries Villa near Pendragon?" She asked awkwardly. "Pendragon has been bombed during the last war, so…"

"That's right." Nunnally said. "But here, this event didn't happen."

Sonia raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

Nunnally stared at her niece, or rather at the person that controlled the body of her niece right now. "It's hard to believe, but this is the truth: We live in a World where the events happened differently."

Sonia rubbed her temples; or rather, Bianca's temples. She didn't completely understand what the Empress was implying, but…

"Who am I?" Sonia asked. "I mean, I've seen myself in the mirror, and…"

Nunnally smiled. "You're supposed to be my niece Bianca."

Sonia coughed. "Your niece, but…"

"That's right." Nunnally continued. "My niece. The daughter of Kallen and my brother Lelouch."

Lelouch. Lelouch vi Britannia.

Sonia put her hands in her head.

"Lelouch." She whispered.

So this stranger, the person she hit … it was him, Lelouch… The Demon Emperor, the tyrant, the heartless ruler of the World who was responsible for so many cruelties that …

"…Didn't happen in this timeline." Someone finished her thoughts in her stead.

Sonia stared at Lelouch vi Britannia, and her mother Kallen, who just arrived in the room.

"You!" She spat. "You were alive during all this time!"

Lelouch averted his gaze.

"Stop this, Sonia." Nunnally ordered. "He's not who you think you are. My brother is a nice person; he's married and has two children."

"I understand your anger." Lelouch continued calmly. "But you have nothing to fear."

Sonia stared at the adults in disbelief. It was a joke, it had to be a stupid joke, and yet…

"How should I believe you? How should I trust you?" Sonia shouted.

"Because you're my daughter." Kallen retorted in Japanese.

She widened her eyes. "You're … You're…"

Kallen sat down on the couch. "I'm not the one who raised you, but it was another me. Your mother is the exact same person as I; it's just that she lost her memories of a certain period of her life."

Sonia calmed down a little. "But what is this place? How come it is possible that…"

"We're living in a special dimension." Lelouch explained. "It's like an alternate version of Earth, in fact." He noticed the skeptical look the dimension traveler gave to him. "And, yes, it is possible, supernatural things does exist in this World, trust me."

"So, in this World, I've married Lelouch." Kallen continued. "And I think it was Gino on the original one."

Sonia nodded. "That's right. Are they other changes like that?"

Lelouch shrugged. "There are many, many changes. But I'm sure you'd like to hear how you've come into that place, am I right?"

Sonia nodded again.

Lelouch sighed. "You see, I posses some kind of supernatural power that give me the possibility to switch people's consciences if they do exist in the two realities." He removed the contact lens on his right eye and showed her his Geass. Lelouch hoped that it would bring his daughter back, but he was disappointed as he realized it did nothing. "I just have to stare at one person with this power activated, and if she exists in the original World, their personalities will be switched. But I can only do it once."

Sonia observed Lelouch's weird eye. "I get the point, but why me? I'm not myself right now."

Lelouch frowned. "I know. It's weird, and it's the first time this abnormality occurs. I accidentally stared at my daughter while my power, my Geass, was activated and this switch occurred. I'm not even able to deactivate it either. And now you're here, even though you don't exist in this World."

"And your daughter, Bianca isn't it?" She asked. Sonia had no choice to take this man's –Lelouch's- explanations as reality. As weird as it was, the prospect of being at some kind of home was way more reassuring than being kidnapped by weird people who messed with her head and gave her those images that made no sense at all.

Kallen nodded. "Yes, her name's Bianca."

'It's just me being paranoid, then.' Sonia thought. 'There is a chance these things might be real.'

"Bianca." Sonia continued. "If you're right, then Bianca is the one controlling my body right now."


Original Timeline

A blonde young woman was walking on the streets of Los Angeles, persuaded that she was in a virtual reality game. Her name was Bianca Lamperouge, even if everything –her ID, her fingerprints and her DNA- proved otherwise.

'So.' Bianca thought while staring at a municipal wide screen, showing the newest information of the city. 'We're in a virtual representation of Los Angeles.'

Bianca walked on the avenue and arrived at the entrance of the university. Some students and teachers entered the campus.

"Los Angeles Imperial University." She read aloud. "Holy Britannian Empire."

She remembered the university card she found on her jacket. 'Weird, the game says that we're still in Britannia.'

Bianca headed to the entrance. She put out the university card and pressed it on the captor so the door would open. It didn't work.

After five attempts, the guard next to the door approached Bianca. "Do you have any problem?"

Bianca didn't especially want to enter the university, but since she found the card in her jacked she guessed that she'd have to enter it, like some kind of quest or anything.

"My card doesn't work." Bianca said simply while giving it to the guard.

He stared at the card and gave her back. "Your card is from last year." He explained.

Bianca stared at the card again. "Really? Because it's written '42/43', so it's the rightful year."

'Yeah, because if we refer to the Britannian calendar, we're in 2042.' Bianca thought. 'I should stick with the game logics.'

The guard shook his head. "Are you sure you're a student? The school year has ended in July 2043. We're in December now."

Bianca widened her eyes. 'What? It doesn't make any sense. Oh well, it's no big deal but still…'

"I can give you a visitor badge if you want…" The guard began.

She shook her head. "No, that's alright." Then Bianca left the university.

'What's wrong with me?' She wondered in her thoughts. 'I'm in a game and the first reflex I have is going to college. I know I just ended yesterday, but still…'

She walked again on the avenue, continuing to observe the environment. Bianca noticed the imposing building in the horizon, something that didn't exist in the real life Los Angeles.

'Well, this game is quite impressive.' Bianca thought with a grin. 'It's highly realistic for a simple porn virtual reality game …'

Bianca gulped. "It's too realistic."

There was something terribly wrong with this. It had been half an hour and Bianca hadn't been able to see one thing that proved that she was in a game. Her five senses were working perfectly, it was a first in the virtual reality gaming. The level of technology required to create a perfect reality was too huge to even exist yet: in clear, Bianca would've heard of this, especially when her little brother Naoto was a fan of the new technologies, and would have gloated to no end if he ever get these kinds of things.

Now, Bianca started to become worried. What was this place? She recognized some of the places in Los Angeles, since she had visited the city many times before, but many things were different.

The giant screen posed in the building in front of her stopped showing ads. What caught Bianca's eye was that it was now showing a certain flag that only existed in the history books.

The Britannian Flag.

"Now her Majesty Nunnally vi Britannia, 100th Empress of the Holy Britannian Empire, will address the nation."

Bianca widened her eyes. "What the hell?"


AN: Yeah, what the hell indeed.