Damn I am on a roll with this idea.

Also, turns out I can access anime videos during my free periods at school, so now we get more depth and detail!

So, yeah. Chapter time.

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So when Lelouch returned home from Suzaku's rescue, he wanted nothing more than to tuck Nunnally in bed and to pass out on the couch.

"Welcome home, Lelouch."

He was not expecting to see his little sister making origami with the green haired girl that took a bullet to the head and gave him the power of Geass three days ago.

"Welcome home, big brother!" Nunnally greeted.

"From the look of you, you've already eaten, right?" The green haired girl asked him, placing a blue paper fearow onto the table.

"I was so worried," Nunnally told her brother, whose brain had detected an error and had to shut down. "I thought you might have been caught up in that whole Zero business. I tried calling you, but it wouldn't connect."

Lelouch didn't say anything. His brain had blue screened pretty badly.

"Brother, C.C. took the trouble to come all the way here." Nunnally pointed out as the green haired girl began folding a new sheet of paper.

"C.C.?" Lelouch asked, his brain finally beginning to reboot.

Nunnally giggled. "You have an awfully interesting friend." She said. "To think she goes by her initials alone!"

"Yeah…" Lelouch managed, his brain now asking for his username and password.

"Is she your girlfriend?" Nunnally asked just as he was logging in.

"We're promised to one another, aren't we?" C.C. asked.

"Eh?" Lelouch asked, his brain now asking if he forgot the password, or left caps lock on.

"Promised?" Nunnally asked as Lelouch rapidly worked on regaining his brain, "You're getting married?"

"No!" Lelouch managed, his brain accepting his password. "No, that's not it. She's just joking."

"I hate jokes." C.C. told him, folding the paper carefully.

"I see…" Nunnally said as Lelouch began walking towards the table. "You're taking things awfully fast… But as they say, 'each to his own'." Lelouch picked up a teacup and held it above the carpet. "I suppose that's just how you operate-"

SMASH

"Ah, C.C., what're you doing?" Lelouch asked, grabbing the green haired girl by the arm. "You're all wet. We'll have to go to the bathroom." He said not-too subtly as he dragged her away from his sister. "I'll have to get you a change of clothes. I'll clean that up Nunnally," Lelouch told his sister as he led C.C. out the door. "Don't move. Oh, and that was a lie back there. A joke even!"

"Who are you?" Lelouch interrogated C.C., pushing her into his bedroom.

"Didn't I say?" She asked. "I'm C.C.."

"That's not what I meant." Lelouch said. "You-"

"Should be dead?" C.C. asked with a smile. Lelouch stared at her, caught off guard, and the mysterious girl's smile deepened into a smirk. "So, do you like the power I gave you?"

"So it was you." Lelouch glared, activating his Geass.

"Unsatisfied?" She asked, slumping onto his bed.

"No, I'm actually very grateful." Lelouch told her. "You've accelerated my plans more than I could have hoped."

"Plans?" C.C. asked.

"My plans to take down the Britannian Empire." Lelouch explained. "I thought that it would be much later in my life that I could achieve that."

"You think you can do it with nothing more than that power?" C.C. asked him, laying back on his bed.

"I intended to, even without it." Lelouch replied.

C.C. turned her head. "As I thought, you're an interesting man."

"So, what're you going to do now?" Lelouch asked her. "The army is after you, isn't it?"

"Only a small part of it." C.C. replied. "I'll be fine with normal protective measures and Jiro."

"Jiro?" Lelouch asked, turning to see a jirachi float up behind him. "Uwah!"

Then he heard the unmistakable sound of clothes hitting the floor. "I'll make do here."

Lelouch turned around. "Hey, you're going to stay here!?"

C.C. was tucked in his bed. "Boys get to sleep on the floor." She said.

"That's not what I meant." Lelouch glared.

"If I get caught, won't you be in trouble too?" C.C. reasoned.

"We'll be in more danger if we stick together." Lelouch responded, getting on his bed and moving over her.

"If I sleep outside, I'll be arrested." C.C. pointed out.

"I don't care about you." Lelouch told her. "I just want to ha-"

"And you call yourself a pokémon trainer." C.C. interrupted, rolling over in the sheets. "Such persistence annoys me."

Lelouch realised he wasn't going to win this one, so he moved back and sat on the wooden floor. "You have no sense of urgency… at any rate, how are you still alive?" He asked, arranging her clothes into a pile. "You were shot. And what was that whole contract deal I entered-"

"Goodnight, Lelouch." C.C. told him.

Lelouch glared, then sighed, leaving his bedroom to go look after Nunnally.

He'd be sleeping on the couch tonight.

A few days later, and Zero was more infamous than ever.

Suzaku had been found innocent of everything, while Jeremiah was under suspicion about the accusations of his affiliation with the so called 'Dunsparce' incident.

"So, what was that whole 'Dunsparce' thing, anyway?" C.C. asked him, eating pizza while wearing one of his shirts.

"Yet, you refuse to answer any of my questions…" Lelouch sighed "Dunsparce was just a ruse. It's an obscure enough pokémon to be used for something to be covered up, so it was easy to use it to shake their trust in one another."

C.C. looked at the newspaper articles and magazines' talking about Lelouch's masked alter-ego. "The whole world is looking for you…" She pointed out. "The world is moving at your bidding… Lelouch, is this what you wanted?"

"Nope." Lelouch replied, pulling on his school uniform. "The confusion is just part of the plan." He looked at her. "I will throw the world into a much greater chaos."

"Lelouch, may I have a moment?"

Lelouch looked up from his laptop to see Kallen. "Sure, what do you need?" He asked.

"It's… about that phone call the other day…" Kallen told him, playing the part of the weak girl perfectly.

"Phone call?" He asked. "Oh, you mean in the-"

"Yeah, that one." Kallen nodded, interrupting him before the matter of the shower fiasco could be raised again. "Do you know who it was who called?" She asked. "I'd… like to speak with him again."

"Well, it's a school phone." Lelouch explained, closing his computer. "I really have no way of-"

C.C. was dressed in Lelouch's clothes, dancing around the school gardens.

'Blast.'

"Ah, I thought so…" Kallen said with disappointment, turning away. "Well, I'll see-"

Lelouch stood up and grabbed her face, holding her close to him until C.C. got the message and left.

Unbeknownst to him, Shirley happened to be passing a corridor behind him and saw the two before jumping back and covering her mouth.

"Hey…" Kallen asked Lelouch. "What're you doing?"

"Hm?" Lelouch asked. "I… uh… I honestly have no idea." He confessed.

"Are you some kind of idiot!?" Lelouch shouted at C.C. as he dragged her to the roof. "Don't go out like that!"

"I should be able to walk around the school." C.C. replied dismissively, wandering off. "Don't be such a feebas."

"No." Lelouch snapped. "You'd be considered an intruder here."

"The same would be true wherever I went." C.C. sighed, leaning over the balcony. "Huh? What's up with her?"

"Oh, her?" Lelouch added, walking over beside C.C. "She's still at it?"

"Still?"

"Yeah." Lelouch nodded. "I geassed her to have her order her smeargle make a mark on that wall every day."

"Geass?" C.C. asked him.

"My power." Lelouch explained. "That's what you called it, isn't it?"

C.C. smirked. "Testing how long it lasts?" She asked.

"A trainer has to know the stats of his pokémon, so the same goes for Geass." Lelouch stated. "It has only one PP, so I need to know just what it can do." He sighed. "So far, I know that she's stopped using her pokémon for painting in order to preserve the paint, and she won't let her smeargle to take too much damage in battle so she can make the sign the next day."

"You must be impressed." C.C. said.

"Concerned." Lelouch corrected. "If I were to word a command badly, then I could end someone's life, one way or another. By the looks of things, that girl will never be able to move far from Ashford Academy." He glanced at C.C. "By the way, if you start becoming a nuisance-"

"Will it work on me, I wonder?" C.C. pondered aloud, before leaning back to look at Lelouch upside-down. "Don't worry, we're accomplices here." She told him. "I won't do anything that would negatively affect us."

"To use Geass, one has to look directly into the target's eyes." Lelouch noted back in his room as C.C. dressed back into her white robes. "The refraction resulting from glasses is no problem. Its effective range is 270 metres, and the target retains a gap in their memory both when the order was given and when it was carried out. I believe that this is due to the damage caused by the Geass when it enters the brain. Due to their differing brain structures, Geass has no effect on Pokémon. Since the information is transmitted via light, it is also possible to reflect it, even reflecting it through pokémon attack such as Reflect, or Mirror Coat. However, the Geass cannot be replicated by a pokémon using mirror move or mimic."

"You've managed to discover a lot about your ability in a very short space of time." C.C. complimented, fastening her straps as Lelouch stood up from his chair and walked towards the window.

"My enemy is an empire that encompasses more than a third of the world's population." Lelouch replied, looking out at Sayako and Nunnally in the garden as a skitty bounded up to them and leapt onto Nunnally's lap. "I cannot be too careful."

"Elevens are one thing, but you're up against the Britannian Empire." C.C. told Lelouch as he gazed out the window. "It's far too vast and strong to fight against with nothing more that a party of Pokémon and a single Geass."

Lelouch smiled. "The bigger they are, the more damage low kick does."

His smile vanished quickly though, and he sighed. "Brittania regards the importance of strength above all else. Is it so bad to be weak and innocent?" He asked. "When I was ten years old, the world was a dark place. Hunger, disease, corruption, depravity, discrimination, war and terrorism… the hateful cycle repeats itself again and again."

"The same foolish repetition." He glared. "Someone has to stop the cycle."

"What a nice thought." C.C. commented offhand with a twirl.

"Of course, the one who does should not have to lose everything." Lelouch told her, moving beside his table and toying idly with the chess pieces set up on the board. "I'm not so arrogant. So… I want to at least keep those whom I hold dear. To give them a world without war." He picked up the black king and contemplated it casually.

"Oh?" C.C. asked. "How would you create such a perfect world?"

Lelouch grinned. "That's easy," he told her, knocking the white king over with a flick of the piece in his hand. "If someone wins, the war ends."

"And who would that be?" C.C. asked.

Lelouch almost laughed, placing the black king firmly in the centre of the board. "Another easy question."

The next day, he fell asleep during class, as he often does.

"Hey, Lulu, wake up."

"Buh, wha?" Lelouch asked, swiping Rivalz hand off him as he remembered that he was in a lesson, with a very familiar face standing at the front of the class.

"I'm transferring to Ashford Academy as of today." The new student introduced. "My name is Suzaku Kururugi. It's nice to meet all of you."

Suzaku was the talk of the classroom that afternoon, and not in the good way.

Rumours of him murdering Prince Clovis and being a terrorist were only the nicer ones.

Lelouch made a point to walk past him without giving a second glance, only to tug on his collar as he left the room.

Thankfully, Suzaku still understood the sign language for 'Meet me on the roof.'

"It's been seven years since we've used that sign, hasn't it?" Lelouch asked his friend.

"Yeah…" Suzaku reminisced as he walked over to the balcony beside his friend. "I'm glad to see you're alright."

"Thanks to you." Lelouch smiled, before turning serious. "If you hadn't taken that bullet for me…"

"I was just returning the favour you did me seven years ago." Suzaku replied pleasantly.

Lelouch looked away, almost in shame. "Oh yeah, that girl, the one in the bigass pokéball." Suzaku remembered. "What happened to her?"

"We got separated in the confusion." Lelouch lied, trying to keep all information about C.C. as secret as possible, at least for now. "Don't you know anything about her?"

"No," Suzaku replied sadly. "Only the group from Silph knew anything…"

"I see…" Lelouch sighed.

"Hey, can I still call you Lelouch?" Suzaku asked.

"My old self is on record as being dead." Lelouch told him. "I'm Lelouch Lamperouge now."

"I see…" Suzaku nodded.

"And what about your court martial?" Lelouch asked. "In fact, what are you even doing here!?"

"I'm surprised to." Suzaku laughed. "I didn't expect to see you here Lelouch. Well, there was someone who ensured that the investigation was done properly." He said. "She said that seventeen year-olds should be in school."

Lelouch smiled. "Speaking of kind women, there's another one who would like to see you."

Suzaku smiled. "I'd like to see Nunnally too."

"But, before we do, can you satisfy my curiosity?" Lelouch asked. "That Zero guy said that whatever was inside that pokéball was yours, and you reacted somewhat… extremely for it to have just been a bluff with no weight."

Suzaku looked down. "I… can't really talk about it… but there's a really powerful Pokémon that no-one can control, but it seems to like me for some reason."

"I see…" Lelouch nodded. "Well, if it's surrounded by Britannians, then you must be a saint in this pokémon's eyes."

"I'm sure that's not it." Suzaku laughed. "But like I said, I really, can't talk about it, sorry Lelouch."

"It's fine, I understand." Lelouch replied with a smile, bringing an arm around his friend's shoulder. "Just let me battle it sometime, please!?"

Suzaku laughed. "Same old Lelouch…" He laughed. "Still got that riolu I gave you?" He asked.

"Now it's the strongest Lucario in the city." Lelouch laughed. "And don't get me started on my charizard and alakazam."

"I'm home brother." Nunnally announced as Sayako pushed her into the dining room.

"Welcome back, Nunnally, Sayako." Lelouch said as he stood up. "I have a present for you today Nunnally."

"Well, I wonder what it could be?" Nunnally asked.

Lelouch smiled and signalled for Sayako to be quiet, then waved Suzaku over. Suzaku walked over silently, looked to Lelouch, then gingerly took Nunnally's hand.

She gasped, and grabbed his hand with both of hers. "This hand… Suzaku!?"

Suzaku smiled. "It's good to see you again, Nunnally."

She held his knuckle to her tear-stained cheeks as she started crying, overjoyed. "I'm so glad you're safe…"

"You can stay the night, won't you Suzaku?" Nunnally asked once it began to get dark.

Lelouch knew better than to wonder how she knew, it was just one of those things. "Suzaku is a student here now." Lelouch explained to her. "So you can see him any time you like."

"Really?" Nunnally asked Suzaku, turning to face him.

"I still have work with the army, so maybe not every day." Suzaku explained.

"You're still in the army then..?" she asked him, her face falling.

"It's fine." He told her. "I was transferred to the breeding corps, so I'm not in much danger."

'Breeding corps?' Lelouch thought, but then it clicked. 'Ah, they want to see why that Mewtwo obeys him…'

Lelouch stood up to get the tea, and Suzaku quickly followed. "Sit down." Lelouch told him with a grin. "Unlike seven years ago, I'm the host here."

Suzaku was surprised, but returned to his seat with a smile. "It seems you've been working on your manners," he said to Lelouch.

Lelouch laughed. "And you on your wit," he retorted, making Suzaku laugh in turn.

"Yeah, yeah." Lelouch groaned, taking the teapot out into the kitchen. "I thought I told you to stay in my room?" he asked quietly, seeing C.C. inside the darkened room.

"That's the Britannian soldier we met in Shinjuku, isn't he?" C.C. asked, feeding her jirachi a banana. "Is he alright?"

"He's fine." Lelouch told her, setting the teapot down. "He's… my friend."

"Come over anytime." Lelouch told Suzaku as he saw him out. "Nunnally will always be glad for you to visit."

"Thank you, but, Lelouch?" Suzaku asked him. "Let's pretend not to know each other at school."

"Why?" Lelouch asked, shocked.

"How would you explain being friends with a former Eleven?" Suzaku reasoned. "If we're not careful, it would come to light that you're a prince. Nunnally too…" Suzaku added, looking down. "I don't want to cause either of you any trouble."

Lelouch punched Suzaku in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. "So you're just going to pretend?" he shouted. "Come on, that's not like you… damn!" he swore, nursing his wrist. "Is your gut made of iron or something?"

"Sit ups…" Suzaku grunted, returning to full height. "I recommend them."

"I do fifty a day…" Lelouch pointed out.

"Well, that's the difference between fifty and five hundred!" Suzaku grinned.

"How're your pokémon?" Lelouch stabbed, and Suzaku shut up.

"Hey, thanks for having me over." Suzaku told his friend, turning away to walk down the stairs. "It was fun. I'll see you tomorrow."

He stopped. "What's wrong?" Lelouch asked him, letting his hand drop.

"I'm so happy."

"Eh?"

"I never thought I'd see you again…" Suzaku explained before setting off walking again.

People were silenced as soon as Suzaku walked past them in the hallways, or entered the classroom.

Lelouch saw Suzaku washing paint out of his P.E. kit after talking with Ohgi over the phone about the falling strength of the rest of Team Rocket, and was shocked at the trouble people went to just to torment his friend.

That afternoon, when the dealings with Sableye were sorted, he mused with Nunally on what he could do to help his friend.

Of course, he never suspected that the solution to Suzaku's school problems would come in the form of a meowth wearing Zero's helmet.

"Huwa!?" Lelouch screamed when he saw the cat run past. "HEY! GIVE THAT BACK!"

"Eh, what?" Nunnally asked as her brother ran out of the room.

Lelouch's legs worked almost as hard as his mind. In his haste he'd left all his pokémon back at the house, so he pursued the hell out of that cat and thought of plan after useless plan in vain attempts to capture it.

He had to silence a few people in order to protect his identity too, but his real problems started when Milly Ashford declared a school-wide hunt for a meowth holding something precious to Lelouch Lamperouge. Whoever brought it to her first would get a shiny pidgey from her own collection.

And if that wasn't enough, the winner would get the chance to kiss the student council member of their choice.

Lelouch wasn't that worried about having to kiss some girl, but his main concern was that Rivalz has a motorbike and a huge crush on Milly, Kallen would never let the winner kiss her and would do everything she could to catch the cat with her own pokémon, and she would put two and two together and work out that Lelouch was Zero.

While Shirley was equally prideful and had her fair share of water pokémon, Lelouch could still Geass her so it wasn't so dangerous, but the fact that the student council happened to contain the most attractive men and women in the school meant that whoever wasn't after the shiny pidgey would be after the blasted meowth anyway.

It really, really should not have been able to get more dire for Lelouch.

"Arthur, return!"

The meowth turned into red light and flew into Suzaku's friend ball just as Lelouch ran past him. "SUZAKU!?" He shouted.

"Alright, I got him." Suzaku sighed. "We can get it back for you now-"

"EEEYOINK!!" A blur of blue passed them and the pokeball vanished from Suzaku's hand.

"RIVALZ!!" Lelouch shouted, before running at full pelt after the motor-bike. "Damn…"

He wasn't the only one after Rivalz, however. The riding team, racing on their ponytas and arcanines quickly overtook the running teen, and Lelouch could see other students calling forward their flying pokemon to give chase as well.

Then he saw his chance.

"You there!" He shouted, blocking a member of the flying club. "Give me your aerodactyl."

"Sure thing mate." The student said, disembarking and handing Lelouch a pokéball. He vaulted onto the revived fossil and ordering it to pursue Rivalz.

"HYDRO PUMP!" a familiar female voice called out.

"Eh?" Lelouch managed before getting hurled off the pokémon by a powerful blast of water, only to get caught by an altaria.

"LELOUCH!" Suzaku shouted, running up to him. "Are you alright!"

"I'm fine." Suzaku managed, returning the fainted aerodactyl. "But I need to get that ball back before Rivalz, or anyone else opens it."

BOOM

A shockwave rippled out around the school, knocking over all the pursuing pokemon in the distance. Lelouch looked over to the right to see a gray lizard… thing charge forward, the friend ball clutched in its paw. "Thank you Lancelot." Suzaku told the pokémon, reaching out for the ball. "But, shouldn't you be back in the lab?"

The pokémon just looked at Suzaku, and handed the pokéball to Lelouch. Lelouch stared in mute shock at this bizarre turn of events before the creature jerked its paw, sending him flying onto the roof. "HEY! LANCELOT!" Suzaku shouted

Lelouch silently muttered his thanks, opening the pokéball in private and retrieving the mask before the pokemon could react, folding it up and placing it inside his school uniform before recalling the pesky meowth.

"I oughta…" Lelouch growled as Suzaku floated up to the rooftop with the pokémon. "Now what the hell is that thing?" Lelouch asked Suzaku.

"This…" Suzaku hesitated, before sighing. "This is the pokémon I'm not allowed to tell you about, mewtwo." Suzaku explained.

"Thank you very much Lancelot." Lelouch said, being very, very grateful to the pokémon and handing the pokéball to Suzaku. "I retrieved what your pokémon stole from me."

"I'm guessing it's not for me to know huh?" Suzaku laughed, recalling the mewtwo into his master ball as Shirley and Kallen ran up the steps.

"No, it's not." Lelouch laughed, turning to the two girls. "It's fine, Suzaku's got the cat."

"What!?" Shirley shouted. "I have to kiss him!?"

Kallen flinched at the thought as Suzaku just said "Eh?"

Lelouch sighed. "Student council president said that you can kiss any member of the student council you want if you hand the cat over to her." He explained. "Also, a shiny pidgey."

"Ah, okay." Suzaku nodded, pocketing the pokéball. "Sounds like exactly the kind of person I don't want to give Arthur to… why are you bottomless?" He asked, suddenly noticing Shirley was wearing a swimming costume and a school blazer, but nothing else.

"And thus everyone's lips are safe." Lelouch laughed, swinging an arm around his friend's neck and turning him around. "Now run."

"Eh?" He asked as Lelouch ran like hell for the other staircase down from the roof as Shirley unleashed her empoleon's wrath.

Suzaku was then welcomed into the school student council with open arms from all but Nina, who didn't complain loud enough to be noticed by anyone.

People stopped actively bullying Suzaku, not that he was bothered by it, but people still stopped their conversations when the Elevener walked past.

But Lelouch was more than satisfied. There were four people in this school who accepted Suzaku other than his sister and himself. That was enough.

And in the end, all was well, and Lelouch was almost satisfied until the school gathered in memorial of the late Prince Clovis, and he was reminded of who he was against.

_\_ "All men… are NOT created equal!" _\_ Emperor Charles of Britannia bellowed on the screen. _\_ "Some are born smarter, or more beautiful, or with parents of greater status. Some, by contrast, are born weak of body or mind, or with few, if any, talents. All men are different!"
_\_ "Yes, the very existence of man is discriminatory! That's why there is war, violence and unrest. Inequality is not evil. Equality is! What became of the EU, who claimed that all are equal? It is in constant conflict because its tenets go against human nature! The Middle Eastern Federation, which harbours similar sentiments, is constantly mired with sloth's!"
_\_ "But our Britannia is not like them! We put an end to wars and evolve with every conquest! Britannia alone looks forward and moves forward to a better future! The death of my son Clovis is yet more proof that our empire is evolving. Fight! For the future rests in the hands of its ruler! ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!!!" _\_

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Yeah, I'll leave it there. It's a good place to end it.

So, who's looking forward to the next chapter? I sure am.

And Damn, three chapters in two days? I am on a roll!