I'm on a roll. I wrote this on Wednesday, but even posting one chapter a day, I'm still gonna post this on Friday. My output rate scares me.

But, more importantly, today is the 30th of April, also known as the day a very awesome person was born.

Yep, it's my birthday, I'll do the hobbit thing and give you all a present! This chapter shall cover the events of TWO EPISODES OF CODE GEASS!

You guys should really review more. If reviews are author fuel, then what the hell would happen if I got lots?

Also, I am aware that in Code Geass, Gurren is spelt with one 'r'. I however, prefer the TTGL spelling, so there.

Also, this story takes three things for granted.

1) Pokémon can learn more than four moves at a time.

2) Having the eighth badge makes all pokémon registered to you obey your every command, except Legendaries, but it does help.

3) Wailord can fly.

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Lelouch, a young outcast prince of Britannia possesses two great powers: one of them is Geass, the absolute ability to compel any person to do whatever he commands. The other is the Black Knights, his military force assemble with the attempt of destroying the Britannian Empire ruled by his father. Veiling his true identity behind a mask and the codename, Zero. Lelouch has made his move to avenge his mother's murder and to create a world in which his younger sister Nunnally can find happiness. What will be the final outcome of these actions? At this point, only celebi can predict...

Lelouch looked over the names of the applicants to join the Black Knights one night as C.C. swan dived into the pool, when one face caught his eye. 'Diethard Ried, a Britannian?' Lelouch smirked. "A rather public man for a spy." He noted. "I guess he's anti-imperialist too."

"How nice." C.C. commented as she floated in the pool. "That there are so many trying to enlist."

"It's been easier than I expected." Lelouch admitted. "The vast majority of Elevens hate Britannia, but cannot justify using terrorism to fight it."

"And so the majority of Elevens support the Order of the Black Knights…" C.C. noted under the open roof.

"Yes, it certainly makes working as a group much easier." Lelouch nodded as the croconaw he was raising paddled past C.C. "Since the citizens refuse to report our activities to the authorities. Team Rocket said that they would send us some pokémon, and our capacity for gathering information is exponentially increasing. These Japanese are quite susceptible to fads, as long as you can give them a cause to rally behind." He noted with a grin.

"So is that why you're playing the champion of justice?" C.C. asked as she climbed out of the water.

"Everyone loves a champion." Lelouch explained.

C.C. giggled. "You certainly don't look like one." She said.

"Don't I?" Lelouch flirted.

There was a burst of light from the pool and a large blue snout poked out of the surface of the water. "Feraligatr!"

Lelouch closed his laptop and strode over to the pool's edge and squatted down to his pokémon. "Did you drop the Everstone you were holding?" He asked, rubbing his pokémon's head is it growled in embarrassed shame. "Honestly…"

"Wow!" One of the new Black Knights shouted as he was awarded his new Earth Badge and some pokémon. "These are amazing!"

"Yeah, and they're for us!" Another recruit shouted.

"Then we're their elite members, right?"

"This is awesome!"

"Ohgi." Zero said, holding out a dive ball to his second-in-command. "You have my condolences for the loss of your blastoise, and I wish to give you a pokémon I raised as an apology for my incompetence as a leader."

"What're you talking about?" Ohgi asked. "You've been a better leader than we could have dreamed of! Besides…" He sighed as he glanced at Kallen. "We've all lost in the battles."

"I know." Zero told him. "The only ones who should kill are those prepared to be killed. That is why I want you to take good care of my feraligatr."

"A-are you serious?" Ohgi asked, taking the pokéball with gratefulness. "Thank you, Zero."

"Zero!" Tamaki shouted, running at him while holding an unfamiliar pokéball. "What's this one?"

The pokéball was red on the top with a thick green line running down the seam, and silver at the bottom. "Don't open it!" Zero ordered snatching it off him. "I'm sure you remember that Legendary Pokémon are extremely hard to handle."

Tamaki looked like he had a few choice words to share, but was distracted when a new recruit ran up to them. "Senpai!" a young girl asked Tamaki with a salute. "What does this tool do?"

"There's no helping these newbies, huh?" Tamaki sighed. "Alright, let Tamaki-senpai teach you all about it."

"I knew Tamaki would take it this way, but it's odd that Inoue would join in on the festivities." Zero told Kallen as he walked up to her. "Apparently Team Rocket backs many rebel groups."

"Yes," Kallen replied happily. "And we've finally become one of them."

"No, you're wrong Kallen." Zero told her. "This is merely a test."

"I'm just glad we've come far enough to be tested at all." she told him.

"You're so optimistic." Zero sighed, tossing her the pokéball he'd taken from Tamaki.

"What is this..?" she asked, looking at it.

"It's yours, Kallen."

"Mine!?" Kallen shouted, glancing in shock between Zero and the ball with the legendary pokémon within. "But there are so many other talented trainers! Besides…" She protested. "Wouldn't its offensive capabilities be better used in your hands?"

"I have my hands full taming raikou." Zero explained. "You're my top trainer. I've seen the way you treat your pokémon, and Gurren absolutely adores you. For that reason," he pointed at her gently. "I trust that you can make that legendary pokémon truly yours, because you are my ace in the hole when the hyper beams start blasting. Besides, you have a reason to fight." He reminded her.

Kallen set her face with determination. "Yes sir."

"Zero, may I have a moment?" Ohgi asked, walking up holding a sheet of paper. "We've just received some interesting information from a prospective Britannian member."

"Hm?" Zero asked, taking the document from his second-in-command and browsing through it.

"It could be a trap." Ohgi warned. "It would be too dangerous to meet up with him, even to confirm this information, but this dirt he's dug up is too juicy to ignore." He looked to his leader. "What should we do?"

Zero closed the folder. "Let's take a little hike to the Narita mountain range this weekend." He suggested. "I trust the new recruits are capable of using Rock Climb?"

"Thanks to the Earth Badges, yes." Ohgi nodded. "Then…"

Lelouch entered the Block Five hut and unmasked himself as the guards sent out their arcanine and hariyama. "Calm down." He ordered. "You may ignore everything unusual that's about to happen."

"Fine, fine." The first guard sighed, returning his hariyama and sitting back at the table. "It's your move." He told his partner, who returned his arcanine and picked up his hand.

"I'll evolve my rhyhorn." The second guard said, placing the second card atop it the aforementioned one. "Into Blaine's rhydon!"

"Ah, man!" the first guard complained as Lelouch sat down by a window and began to browse the document Ohgi had given him earlier in the week as the two guards focused on their children's card game.

"Cornelia…" He told himself. "The time has come at last… what the hell is she doing!?"

He slammed the folder onto the desk and ran outside, confronting the familliar green-haired witch. "C.C.!" He called. "What're you doing here!?"

She turned to him. "I thought I said that I'd protect you?" She asked.

"Who the hell do you think you are, my mother?"

C.C. turned to gaze at the view. "Lelouch." She asked. "Why are you 'Lelouch'?"

"I don't have time to discuss philosophy." Lelouch told her, sitting on the cliff-ledge.

"You changed your family name to 'Lamperouge', but you kept your given name, 'Lelouch'." She turned to face him. "You simply couldn't let go of your past, could you?"

"But don't you think that 'C.C.' is a little much?" Lelouch countered. "That's not even a person's name."

C.C. glared at him and an icy wind blew, spreading snow through the air until the glare turned into a sad smile. "Lelouch, do you know why snow is white?" She asked him. "Because it's forgotten what colour it once was."

Lelouch sighed, then put his mask back on. "Don't get in my way." He told her, sending out his nidoking and riding it down the mountain to where the Black Knights were preparing their attack.

"Say, are we really going to do this?" Ohgi asked Zero as the other Black Knights worked to bury the speakers.

"We're up against Cornelia, the most formidable military mind in all Britannia." Zero reasoned.

"Then…" Ohgi turned away, lowering his voice. "We should join up with Team Rocket…"

"Now?" Zero asked. "Ohgi, do you not trust me?"

"What're you talking about?" Ohgi asked, almost angrily. "Of course I do! I asked you to be our leader!"

"Then I only want to hear one thing."

Ohgi almost protested, but he held his tongue. "Yes sir…"

"Look!" someone shouted, pointing into the sky as half a dozen wailord flew overhead.

"And so it begins…" Zero commented as pokémon and their trainers flew out of the ports constructed around the floating whales.

"Y-you're kidding…" Tamaki gasped, turning to his leader. "YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME ZERO! THAT MANY UNITS WILL COMPLETELY SURROUND US!! And our way out…"

"Is already completely cut off." Zero finished. "If we wish to live, we must make our stand here."

"M-make a stand against Britannia?" Inoue gasped.

"YOU'RE ASKING US TO FIGHT THEM HEAD ON!?" Tamaki screeched. "WE'RE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED YOU DUMBASS!!"

"And we're up against Cornelia this time!" Sugiyama pointed out. "Unlike our other targets, she's a force to be reckoned with!"

"Yes." Zero nodded. "It would take a miracle for us to win this one."

"WHAT THE HELL ZERO!" Ohgi shouted, turning around to face his leader.

"Even the messiah had to perform a miracle to prove himself." Zero commented. "Grandmaster Red even obliterated Team Rocket as a single young boy after the war. Thus, we need a miracle as well."

"MIRACLES DON'T COME CHEAP!" Tamaki shouted, reaching for his pokéballs and gun. "YOU REALLY CAN'T LEAD US! I CAN-"

Zero silenced him by sending out raikou, which growled menacingly. Zero then tossed the fast ball to Tamaki. "Our escape is cut off." He said. "Whoever truly believes that they can win- no, even survive this without my leadership is free to kill me here and now."

Lelouch waited for a few seconds while everyone grasped the severity of their situation. "As a member of the Order of the Black Knights, you have two choices." He told them. "Live with me, or DIE WITH ME!"

The assembled Black Knights stared in shock and disbelief at him, but none made any actions against him. With mounting horror, they realized that Zero spoke the truth. Without him, there was no hope of escaping with their lives.

"What's the matter?" Zero asked, stepping down from the ledge. "Will no-one challenge me?"

"Kch." Tamaki grunted, shoving the fast ball into Zero's hand. "Do whatever you want."

"Yeah." Sugiyama nodded sarcastically. "You're the leader."

"Thank you." Lelouch grinned behind the mask. "I appreciate it."

'Not bad Cornelia.' Lelouch thought to himself as he browsed through the document one last time in privacy. "Such logical barbarity. Your strategy's brilliance is what makes it so predictable, and oh-so-easy to find.'

"RIGHT!" Zero declared. "EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE! Black Knights, prepare for battle!"

The knights started psyching themselves up with prayers of "This is it!" and "I'm not gonna die here!", even "We'll give you your miracle!", but the most prominent one was "We've got Zero on our side."

"The Order of the Black Knights will now execute a surprise attack on the Britannian forces!" Zero declared, riding his raikou. "Follow my orders and descend to Point Three simultaneously! The goal of this operation is the capture of the Second Princess of Britannia, CORNELIA!"

"Kallen and her Gurren will open up our route." Zero continued as Kallen climbed onto her scizor's back. Lelouch had bred that scyther for speed, and its new steel armour hadn't slowed it down by some miracle.

Lelouch then guided the raikou to the third power probe. "This is it." He declared as raikou placed a paw on the plate. "NOW!"

Electricity coursed through the plate and into the network of wires, giving power to the sound system buried under the ground with three dozen subwoofers planted in strategic positions, each one playing a variation of the sound used by Team Rocket all those years ago to force magikarp to evolve.

The diglett under the mountain began to home in on each other instinctively, clumping together in confused, bewildered and above all angry groups of three.

The new dugtrio did not like this strange sound, and they made their complaints heard with a hundred Magnitudes.

The whole mountainside shook, and earth and rocks began to fall in exactly the positions Lelouch had calculated.

Water burst from the earth in mighty geysers, and soil surged down the mountainside like a rampaging tauros, carrying all the geodude, onix, and machop with it.

The pokémon would survive. They go through worse every couple of years.

The Britannian soldiers, however, would not be so fortunate.

The chaos was immense. Pokémon became wild left, right and centre, rushing away from the chaos to avoid getting re-captured by the surviving entrepreneurs.

Landslides were common in Narita thanks to the activity of the pokémon in the mountain, but it had never seen a disaster as devastating as this was. If it wasn't for the defensive wall at the edge of the city built in anticipation for this sort of event, a lot more than a couple of buildings would have been buried under the rubble.

'That was more destructive than I expected.' Lelouch smirked to himself. 'We may have to use it a little more carefully in the future. I should have my physics teacher, no, Nina would be a better teacher. She could even lecture me on chaos theory while she's at it.'

"The initial conditions have been met! Eighty percent of the enemy forces have been wiped out and Cornelia only has a limited number of reinforcements!" Lelouch barked into his communicator. "Find them and destroy them!"

Various units radioed in their affirmative.

'Forcing the troops to make a final stand, and causing a rock slide from higher ground, I never thought such classical tactics could be this effective.'

"ZEROO!!" Jeremiah roared, rising from the shattered earth and charging at him on his orange steelix.

"Oh, you're still in the army?" Zero sneered, dodging around his shiny steel serpent. "Sorry, I don't have the time to deal with you, Dunsparce."

Jeremiah almost choked in rage, "D-DUNSPARCE!?" He managed, his face contorted into one that simply screamed 'Oh you did not just go there!' "DIE!!"

He was blasted unceremoniously aside by a wave of black and golden flame that surged up from all around him. There was a piercing cry from a bird of prey, and a massive phoenix burst out of the trees, the black flames trailing in its wake.

"Nice job, Ho-oh!" called Kallen, riding on the bird's back. "Now, let's let them see just what the Black Knights are capable of!"

With a single beat of it's wings, Kallen's ho-oh sent a whirlwind of black and gold at the stunned Jeremiah and his Steelix, the winds picking them up and blasting them out of the battlefield. Proudly, it shrieked in victory, before swooping forward as Kallen leapt onto her Gurren to stand between Zero and the Britannian soldiers.

"The situation is now clear." Zero announced as the path erupted into Sacred Fire. "All the pieces are in place. All that remains is to put the opponents king into check."

Kallen's Gurren brought a Britannian officer's aggron to the ground with a Low Kick, then she unleashed her ho-oh's Sacred Fire upon the officer, cremating him beautifully.

"LORD KEWEL!!" Villetta screamed as her commander died. With Gurren's speed and ho-oh's attack power, Kallen was almost unstoppable.

"Alright, Gurren, continue to the designated area." Zero ordered her atop his raikou as more knights rode their pokémon and grouped behind him.. "The rest of us will break through and head towards Cornelia."

_\_ "Hai!" _\_ Kallen reported, Gurren sliding down into the forest.

Lelouch let his troops disperse, tracking their progress through his scanner.

Some were losing their resolve, some were injured, some had been wiped out, but most were pressing on. 'Yes move.' Lelouch prayed to himself. 'If you live through this fight, you will truly be warriors! Then…'

Right now, he and the Knights with him were being pinned down by a surge of rock and fire attacks. "Hey, shouldn't we ask Kallen for support?" one Knight asked.

"NO!" Zero shouted. "If she changed position now, then the whole plan fails!"

'Still, this is not an ideal position.' Lelouch admitted to himself. 'Soon we'll be forced to take on the honour guard…'

_\_ "Zero, Cornelia's group is being attacked from behind!" _\_ Kallen reported.

" What?" He asked. "Which group moved on her?"

_\_ "It's not us, I think it's Team Rocket, but their pokémon are huge!" _\_

'So someone saw through my plan…' Lelouch pondered. 'Impressive. In that case, they should be able to take care for the honour guard…'

At this point his sandslash and lucario burst from the ground in the centre of the enemy squad, confusing them and attacking from the inside as Zero led the charge to finish them.

Lelouch led his unit to the gorge where Kallen's ho-oh was locked in combat against Cornelia's tyranitar, the rest of their parties battling as well. "It's over, Cornelia!" Lelouch bragged, raikou growling menacingly. "You're already in checkmate."

"ZERO!" Cornelia shouted.

"Yes." Lelouch smirked. "We should celebrate our reunion. First, though, I'd like you to come with us. We have much to discuss."

Cornelia glared at the masked trainer standing atop the cliff. "Your reinforcements will not make it in time." Zero told her. "I win, Cornelia."

"Foolish Zero." Cornelia growled, turning to Kallen who was still riding Gurren the scizor and sending out a camerupt. "If I can just beat that one, then I WIN!"

The scizor easily dodged the cumbersome beast's bursts of fire as Cornelia's tyranitar pushed ho-oh back and rammed the stout spear it held towards Gurren.

The bug type easily deflected the weapon and punched through the behemoth's stone armour, knocking it out as a bullet shot through Cornelia's shoulder blade.

"Coward…" She grunted, gripping her bleeding back. "You'd shoot a trainer from behind in the middle of a pokémon battle!?"

"Oh? So your plan to surround and ambush Team Rocket was not cowardly?" Zero sneered as Cornelia began relaying a message into her communicator. "Or was it honourable when you were the one with the gun?"

She forced herself up and dropped the Pokénav. "An underhanded Eleven like you would never understand. I will fight to the last!" She declared, drawing her cutlass with her one good arm, letting her injured left fall limp to its side. "AS A PRINCESS OF BRITANNIA!!"

"What a boring choice… A patriot and a hypocrite to the end…" Lelouch sighed as Gurren back-handed the princess against the wall, knocking her unconscious just as Kallen was launched into the air by an unseen force. "WHAT!?"

The smoke cleared and Princess Cornelia was being carried fireman style by mewtwo, Gurren standing a safe distance behind, but Kallen being held in the air.

"LANCELOT!" Suzaku shouted from behind his mask, landing in the trench to take Cornelia as ho-oh swooped in and took Kallen from mewtwo's control.

"TAKE THAT THING DOWN!!" Zero shouted as ho-oh swooped in towards mewtwo, who caught its beak in one hand.

Ho-oh then flapped its wings and stone blasted at mewtwo, knocking it back so ho-oh could blast a wave of sacred-fire at it, hitting the genetically modified pokémon head on.

The damage was severe, its power dampening armour buckling and smoldering under the heat. Darting back to gain some distance, mewtwo used Recover to heal his injuries, its burns receding and healing until they were merely shiny welts.

"AGAIN!" Kallen shouted, but ho-oh only coughed up air. "Out of PP already..?"

Lelouch could see where this was going, and it was not in his favor. "This has become a battle of attrition- ALL UNITS, RETREAT!" He ordered. "Kallen, get everyone off this mountain!" Raikou then blasted a thunderbolt at Lancelot and leapt over the cliff in the opposite direction. "COME ON THEN!!"

After a few moments, Suzaku and his armoured mewtwo were pursuing Zero, leaving the Black Knights free to escape. Raikou moved as fast as the lightning it channeled, darting between trees and dodging telekinetic projectiles in an effort to put distance between Zero and his equally fast pursuers.

After a few moments, however, a surge of flying stars made raikou trip and Lelouch went flying, rolling in the dirt as Lancelot and Suzaku stopped by his side, towering over him.

Lelouch spun around and got to his feet, returning his injured raikou and getting ready to fight or run like hell.

"Stop it!" a woman shouted behind Lelouch. "Do not touch this man!"

'C.C.!?' Lelouch realised. "What are you doing?!" He shouted as C.C. stepped forward and touched mewtwo on the face. "You don't know what you're dealing with!"

Mewtwo merely stared at the witch, suddenly intently curious.

"I can't have you dying." C.C. told him, an ominous wind blowing her hair. "Besides, this is worth trying."

"D-dad..?" Suzaku gasped, falling to his knees as mewtwo turned in interest. "It- it can't be! Y-you're dead! NO!" He screamed, clutching his head. "I DIDN'T MEAN IT! I… I!!!"

"Oi, what're you doing to him?" Lelouch asked C.C., stepping forward cautiously. "You're not giving the pokémon a Geass are you?"

"Don't be absurd, that'd be impossible." C.C. groaned. "And shouldn't you be more concerned for your friend?"

"Don't worry." She said before Lelouch could say anything. "I'm just showing him a shocking image through this pokémon's psychic connection to him, though I don't know what he's seeing." She turned to Lelouch. "Anyway, get out of here." She ordered him. "Now's your chance."

"What about you?"

"I can't move yet, just go!"

"Not a chance." Lelouch told her, reaching out and grabbing her shoulder. "I will not be indebted to you-"

C.C. gasped. "NO!" She screamed. "NOT NOW!"

It was too late. Lelouch was bombarded of images, seemingly from a time long gone. 'What is this..?' He asked, seeing a mob attack stone house. 'It's not like before…'

The scene changed, and Lelouch saw a nun with the mark of a Geass on her forehead, and then the gates to a Japanese shrine. 'W-what is this!?'

'N-no!' came C.C.'s voice in his head as he saw her bathing naked in a river, nursing a deep scar under her left breast. 'STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!!'

But he couldn't. He just saw more and more, of wars, of torture, of children crying and soldiers dying. 'Stop it…' C.C. begged. 'Why… I'm… so open…'

Lelouch saw more; his mother, Suzaku's father, a blue haired scientist looking into a large glass tube. 'I HAD TO DO IT!!!' Suzaku screamed.

Then they saw each other.

Only for a second, but Lelouch saw Suzaku and Suzaku saw Lelouch.

Then the screams came, blocking out everything else except the shadows limping along the great canvas of white.

And Suzaku screamed.

Lelouch gritted his teeth and pulled his arm away from C.C., then turning around to grab her arm again and take it away from mewtwo. Suzaku fell to the ground screaming and mewtwo suddenly snapped. A ripple of power burst from the pokemon, ripping the remains of it's dampening armour from it's grey skin. Lancelot roared, a bizarre warbling cry, blasting psychic energy everywhere as it rose into the air.

Lelouch caught his first glimpse of it's face. Oddly tranquil, he couldn't help but muse how strange it looked. Its bottom jaw was so thin, unnaturally so…

Then the world began to explode around them and he was snapped from his thoughts. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Lelouch shouted in the chaos.

"NEVER MIND THAT JUST RU-"

C.C. stumbled as blast of raw energy forced Lelouch and her back. "C.C.!!" Lelouch shouted, rolling out from under her to see her ribcage exposed, daggers of stone piercing her organs. Without question, Lelouch knew it was a fatal injury.

"Just… run…" She choked, slumping over.

Filled with shock and fury, Lelouch tore of his helmet and stood up. "STOOOOP!" He roared.

Suzaku kept screaming, but mewtwo just looked at Lelouch with murder in its eyes. An orb of faintly visible green energy had formed around it, electricity cracking across the boundaries of the sphere.

"He doesn't want this." Lelouch told mewtwo, refusing to back down from the beast.. "If you have any respect for that human, stop this wanton destruction and HELP SUZAKU DAMMIT!"

Mewtwo glanced down at the whimpering Suzaku, then back at Lelouch. "He's strong." Lelouch continued. "And he will continue to be strong if you just allow this lapse of his and help him!"

The wind and thunder died down as Mewtwo descended. It picked Suzaku up and threw him onto its shoulder before shooting Lelouch a look that said you had better be right, human.

Lelouch let out a sigh of relief as mewtwo left, then replaced his mask and returned his attention to C.C.'s body.

The fact that she was alive and breathing wasn't what shocked him the most.

It was the fact that her skin was already sealing.

'I don't believe this woman is even human.' Lelouch thought, picking her up gingerly and calling metagross out to carry them to shelter.

Once they were in the cave, Lelouch stripped her and wrapped her up in Zero's cloak, using her torn dress as a pillow. 'Her vital signs are just like any human's…' he noted, brushing her forehead. 'I'll have to analyse the blood sample I took later on.'

C.C. rolled over in her sleep and whispered something. 'What?' Lelouch thought, moving his head closer so he could hear her as a drop of water fell from a stalactite and into the pool of water.

The cave was quiet, quiet enough to hear a drop of water fall from a stalactite into the pool of water.

It was quiet enough to hear her whisper a name.

"You finally called my name…" C.C. managed.

"What?" Lelouch asked, sitting back against the rock. "Honestly…" He sighed, tossing the tissue with C.C.'s blood on it into the water.

"I cleaned your wounds and removed the shrapnel." Lelouch told C.C. as she began to sit up.

"No need." She said, holding Zero's cloak close to her body.

"So it would seem."

"You didn't have to save me." C.C. pointed out. "Why are you so unnecessarily proud?"

"Because I'm a trainer." Lelouch sighed, before chuckling. "Well, either way, today I learnt something interesting, Cera."

C.C. gasped, then glared at Lelouch. "You shouldn't have been eavesdropping." She told him.

"It's a nice name." Lelouch smirked, turning away. "I can't fathom why you'd choose C.C. over a human name like that."

"Don't be ridiculous." C.C. said shamefully. "Nothing about me is human. After all, I… I…" Lelouch glanced at her from the corner of her eye. "I forgot everything… All of it." She sounded as if she was about to burst into tears. "I can't have a name…" She touched the scar under her breast. "No name… no name…"

Dri-drop.

Lelouch turned around, averting his gaze. "Well, now is as good a time as any." He told her. "Yes, you saved me back there. And many times previously, not to mention giving me the Geass." He admitted. "So… I won't say this twice."

Lelouch turned around to face the water so she couldn't see his face. "Thank you."

"…That's the first time… anyone's ever thanked me for anything…" C.C. told him, bursting into tears. "Well then… would you mind returning the favour..?"

Lelouch turned around slightly. "Call me again…" She pleaded with tears in her eyes. "Like you did before…"

"Oh, your name?" Lelouch asked, turning fully.

"Just once." C.C. asked. "Kindly and gently, like my lover would."

Lelouch sighed. "Very well."

He walked over to her and knelt down beside her, embracing her gently as he rested his head on her shoulder. "Cera…"

He then let go and looked at her. "How was that?"

C.C. laughed. "Horrible." She told him. "Your pronunciation was off, you sound nothing like my lover, and you call that an embrace?"

Lelouch sighed, standing up. "You're such a sandshrew." He told her.

"Of course I am." C.C. told him. "After all, I am C.C.."

A few minutes later, Kallen ran into the cave, with C.C. wearing Zero's dress shirt under her white dress to preserve her modesty. "ZERO! Thank arceus, we thought you might have-" Kallen exclaimed, before seeing C.C. "Who are you!?"

"Don't worry, Kallen. She is a… dear friend of mine." Zero told her, before glancing at C.C., a thought occurring to him. "C.C., I do not know why white snow is white, but I do find such white snow to be beautiful." He turned to her fully. "I don't dislike it at all."

"I see…" C.C. said with a mildly surprised face.

"Well then." Zero declared from behind is mask, swishing his cloak around and walking towards Kallen. "Let us be on our way."

Kallen and C.C. paused to glance at each other with evaluative eyes before they followed him out of the cave, so they weren't visible from the outside when Rivalz grabbed Zero by the shoulder.

"LULU!" He shouted, collapsing onto Zero's chest with a bloody stump where his right arm should have been . "Help me… PLEASE!!"

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You know what? I'll leave it there for the weekend. Because I can.

I will, however, give an explanation next chapter. If I get enough people shouting WTF!?

Yeah. Replacing Knightmares with pokémon had a lot of unforeseen consequences.

Such as Rivalz knowing knowing that Zero is Lelouch. What.

So, Happy Birthday to me!