Well, I dropped a fair few bombshells last time. Let's see how many I can do today.

First off, the story is now M rank. Second, Marianne experimenting on Nunnally's egg using C.C.'s DNA? That's officially canon, according to the Code Geass side materials.

Evil Heraklinos, don't worry. As this chapter shall suggest, they shall know hell like no other fictional character.

And an announcement. The dots and the bars I use in recent chapters? It's a relatively simple crackable code. Try it, it'll give a whole new edge to this story.

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"Miss Maria?"

"Oh, Prince Cyrus." The maid curtseyed. "How may I serve you?"

The six year old prince grinned and procured a large daffodil from behind his back. "This is for you!"

"Oh!" Maria replied, taking the flower. "Thank you young master." She bowed. "I'm most grateful."

Later that evening, Prince Charles was leading his brothers on an grand expedition through the mysterious tunnels in servants quarters on an epic quest for the Holy Grail before the evil mother monster captured them and imprisoned them in the dungeons of her evil lair in the dark city of Bedtyme.

Viet winced. "What is it brother?" Cyrus asked his fellow adventurer.

"Down this corridor, take the third right, second door to the left." Viet explained as he winced again. "Someone's being hurt."

"Is it a princess?" Charles asked excitedly.

"It's a girl…" Viet nodded as Cyrus led the way. "Come on!"

They turned the corner and ran down the corridor as an ear-splitting shriek rang through the stone halls. "Machop!" Charles decided, throwing the pokémon out. "Low Kick!"

The machop smashed the heavy oak door down and the boys saw the head butler Klaus beating a young girl with a cane, four tangela holding her to the wall and slashing her back open with their vine whips.

"Ah, young sirs." Klaus noted, bowing to the young princes. "Please excuse me. I was disciplining this one for her insolence and unnaceptabel behaviour earlier today."

"M-Maria..?" Cyrus gasped, seeing the maid stripped to her waist, blood flowing from the wounds across her back.

"I apologize for her rudeness earlier today." Klaus continued, bowing to Cyrus. "Next time I assure you that she will thank you correctly."

"N-NO!" Viet shouted. "Klaus, let her GO!"

"She didn't do anything wrong!" Cyrus shouted.

Klaus pressed his glasses up his eyes. "All men are not created equal young sirs." He told them. "When a Prince shows favour to a lowly servant, it is the servant's duty to thank the Prince for their favour with all their body. Isn't that right, Maria?" he asked, turning to the broken maid.

"Y-yes master…" she sobbed. "I… a-apologise for my rudeness… please forgive me…"

"Not yet." Klaus replied, recalling his pokémon as the maid slumped to the floor. "You must respond to the Princes favour."

"O-of course…"

The boys watch in horror as the hollow shell of the maid crawled across the stone floor to the six year old boy Cyrus, and began licking his shoes. "My master…" she whispered, her mouth rising up his legs.

"Stop this." Viet told her, resting a hand on her shoulder as she passed out. "This is wrong."

"And what will you do?" Cyrus asked, glaring at Klaus. "What is the punishment for a mere butler to dictate what is right or wrong?"

"Young sirs?" Klaus asked.

"Viet, heal her heart." Charles ordered. "I'll make her forget this ever happened. Cyrus," Charles glanced at his brother, Geass meeting his. "You decide what he deserves."

"Gladly brother." Cyrus nodded, glaring into the eyes of the butler. "I will show him hell."

The next morning, Klaus was found in that torture chamber, having hung himself with his pokémon.

Maria woke up in the royal doctors office at the request of the princes, with no memory of the night before but feeling happy.

The three princes, however, all wore eye patches from that day onward, their Geass no longer under their control.

"And I'm supposed to sympathise?"

Cyrus twisted around to glare at Lelouch. "What?"

"My Geass's first Runaway happened just in time for me to accidentally order my sister Euphemia to commit genocide." Lelouch told him. "That was before you tried to kill my mother, and broke my little sister's mind so hard she created a separate personality with the powers of darkness and no problem with slaughter." Lelouch glared. "Then my father exiled me to Japan and declared war on that country. What sympathy do you deserve from me, little man?"

"Little man?" Cyrus asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Lelouch smirked. "Would 'Little Child' have been more appropriate?"

Red lunged at Red, who just smirked. "Let's try this out…" he muttered, punching into the air with a glowing fist. "Flash Cannon!"

A bright surge of energy sent Red reeling back, barely managing to land on his feet.

"Wh-what are you..?" Red asked the shirtless man with his face.

"I should be asking you the same thing." The shirtless Red replied with a glare, staring down at the other. "Deoxys."

One Red reached down to his belt and threw blastoise's pokéball at the other. The pokéball bounced off the target, unleashing the cannon turtle from within and blasting the one who threw him.

"Pokémon know who their trainer is." Red told the other as his pokéballs rolled on the floor and released the pokémon within. "For now, we'll call you Redeoxys."

Redeoxys got to his feet. "Like HELL! I'M RED!" he roared, unleashing a fist of tentacles at the other. Red caught them in one hand, pulling Redeoxys towards him and driving a fist into its face.

"Wh-what is this..?" Shirley asked.

"A Deoxys was eating Red's corpse when I found it…" Cynthia remembered, her scientific mind quickly deducting what had happened from the new information overloading her brain. "When I killed Red, I sent most of his brain flying out of his body, so that must be where he regenerated from, instead of the original body…" she gulped as Redeoxys drove a spear-like tentacle through Red's chest, only to get a fireball to the chest. "Normally the body would dissolve or something, or maybe Red would regenerate from it, but since Deoxys had taken control over it, he regenerated from the grey matter half-way across the battlefield…"

"Well, why does it think it's Ashford?" Shirley asked.

"His Geass." Cynthia realised as Red opened his mouth and launched a hyper beam as his charizard, venusaur and blastoise used Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant and Hydro Cannon respectively. "Defiance, it makes people submit to him, so it's unconsciously affecting the deoxys, forcing it to believe it's a human being, like how Lelouch's Geass controls you into believing you're Shirley Fenette."

BOOM

Cynthia covered her mouth as she realised what she just said. "I'm sorry, I didn't—"

"No, you're right…" The Deoxys with Shirley's face replied, shedding a tear. "I'm not that girl that loves Lulu… I'm a pokémon… that's all I am…"

C.C. led the charge into the ruins. "Watch out for their experiments!" she warned. "Human-pokémon hybrids are dangerous and need to be control—"

She burst into flame with an ear splitting shriek and fell off the raikou. Silver immediately ordered entei to block the way forward with his flames as Asahina began to burn too.

"Put them out!" Rivalz ordered, sending out his golduck to douse C.C. with water. Kallen, Blue, Silver, Gold and the other trainers all worked to put out the flames engulfing Asahina and C.C., but it was no use.

After a few minutes, Asahina fell to the ground a charred husk, while C.C. kept screaming.

"Spontaneous human combustion…" Blue realised, before glaring around the soldiers. "Kallen!"

"Uh, yes!" she saluted as Silver grabbed hold of her and slammed her against the wall. "HEY!" Kallen automatically signaled Gurren to defend her, but Gurren froze as it saw a .44 magnum in Silver's hand.

Silver gave Kallen a hard look, but froze as he heard a familiar cybernetic whine of machinery. "Let her go." Rivalz warned, his cold titanium hand pressed against Silver's head.

"First, why don't you tell me what this mission is really about." Silver growled. "And why Zero's woman is still alive to scream."

"That's amazing Commander Mars!" a galactic grunt complimented his superior officer, facing the wall of flames. "The Geass of Blaze is incredible!"

"The human body is filled with explosive and flammable chemicals." Mars explained. "With eye contact, I can force the target's brain to ignite these chemicals and burn the target alive." She grinned. "Jupiter might be able to make everyone in the room fall to the floor with her Geass of Gravity, but this, The power to burn… THIS! Is Power!"

"The power is Geass."

All the Black Knights turned to see Jeremiah Gottswald. "Dunsparce!" Blue yelled, pointing her gun, the rest of the Black Knights quickly following suit.

Jeremiah raised his hands in reassurance. "I am on your side."

"Well then why don't you fill us in?" Silver spat. "What the hell is Geass? And what does it have to do with C.C.?"

Jeremiah sighed. "It is a power granted to some, but its ability varies from user to user. Some can control ones perception of time, another can force the human body to explode. Emperor Charles Zi Britannia can change ones memories to his whim, for example."

"Hey, he's Britannian!" Chiba shouted. "Can we even trust him?"

"My loyalty is to Zero." Jeremiah snapped back at her. "I need not explain myself to you, woman."

"Tell me then, Dunsparce." Silver growled, letting Kallen fall to the floor. "What is the nature of Zero's Geass?"

'Shit.' Kallen thought, realising how Silver would react to the truth.

"The Geass of Absolute Obedience."

Red rammed his forehead into Redeoxys, before stepping back as Vee formed into umbreon and struck it with an Assurance attack, the Iron Head attack Red had just used doubling Vee's dark attack's power.

Pika launched a Thunder attack as Blastoise brought on the rain with Rain Dance. Poli then used Belly Drum and launched a Waterfall attack on the Redeoxys, smashing it into the wall.

"COME ON YOU BASTARD!" Red taunted it. "No fucker with my face has ANY right to be this pathetic!"

Redeoxys grunted as it crawled out of the crater, blood flowing from its mouth and chest as it glared at Red.

"Good." Red grinned, bringing an arm out and Taunting Redeoxys to advance through the indoor rain. "Come at me then."

The Redeoxys charged.

Right into Red's fist.

"So, we're all mind slaves to Zero then?" Blue shouted as C.C. screamed.

"If that were the case…" Kallen wheezed, nursing her neck, "Then we wouldn't even be able to think that."

"If it will help convince you, I shall nullify the effects of all Geass in the area." Jeremiah sighed, spreading his electromagnetic Geass-cancelling field across the room.

Four people suddenly remembered the tasks Lelouch had asked of them, and C.C. fell to the floor, hair burnt off and skin melted into a puddle beneath her as her Code began to heal her wounds.

"And he can only use his Geass once per person, right?" Blue asked Jeremiah, feeling her head. "Well, now that you've unGeassed us that makes us fair game again, but…"

"Bastard…" Silver growled. "He killed my father…"

"Huh?" Blue asked. "You knew that."

"I KNOW I DID!" Silver shouted. "But that bastard Lelouch forced me to forgive him and join the Black Knights!"

"I'll kill her…"

Everyone turned to see C.C. slowly rise to her feet, her skin, hair and beauty restored. "I'll kill that fucking bitch."

"C-C.C.?" Kallen asked, feeling a dangerous air she had never before felt from the calm and untouchable witch.

"I've been burned one too many times." C.C. snarled. "Never. Again."

To the assembled soldiers, she looked like a goddess, a beautiful, terrible soul as she stood upright. Her frown made them quake with fear and at the same time be filled with a rising need to find her enemy and bring them to her knees. Each and every one of them found their knees grow weak, and it was only their shock at seeing C.C. in this new light that stopped them from following blindly as she stepped into the flames separating her from her enemy. Kallen actually had to pull Rivalz back as he unconciously stepped forward.

"I just came…" Blue whispered. "Why did I do that?"

Rivalz quickly glanced around the room. "I think everyone just did love." He told her. "Dunsparce, was your anti-Geass field still up?"

"I put it down so she could heal her wounds." Jeremiah told him. "I think her Geass must have re-awakened."

"Oh wow…" on grunt gasped at the woman striding through the flames.

"She's beautiful…" his fellow grunt whispered. "And she's… naked…"

Mars glared at the bitch, setting her ablaze with her Geass. "Not so pretty now, are we?" she laughed, closing her eyes as the burning woman slammed a fist into her face, launching her across the room.

"Everyone else apart from this bitch." C.C. growled in a rage she hadn't felt in centuries. "Leave or die."

The infatuated Galactic troops didn't need to be told twice. "Fucking bitch…" Mars growled, getting to her feet and glaring at the burning woman.

"Light Screen." C.C. commanded, sending out her electrode. The beam of light coming from Mars's Geass bounced off the reflective surface, and right back where it came from.

Mars screeched as she burned. "And here's the best part." C.C. smiled through the pain of being burnt alive herself. "I've felt this so many times that I just don't care anymore. You, however…"

The witch kicked the Galactic Commander across the stone halls as they both burnt. "You're going to die."

The flames consuming Mars ceased. "No…" Mars growled, standing to her feet as the ashes from her scorched clothes fell around her. "No, I don't think I can die anymore." She smiled, the symbol of the Geass blazing on her forehead.

C.C. grinned through the pain. "GOOD!" she screamed, driving another fist into Mars's face.

"In all your years, this has never happened." Lelouch told the Jirachi. "Never before have there been so many Deoxys powering the wish. Never before have there been Deoxys you couldn't control. And there has never, ever, ever been a puppet that woke up during the dream, am I correct?"

The jirachi simply stared at Lelouch. "No." it replied.

Lelouch smiled smugly. "And it hurts." He said. "All you want is to give a nice dream to the nice lady, and its gone wrong. Oh so very wrong because of the Deoxys."

"It hurts..." Jirachi said. "It hurts so much..."

"I know." Lelouch nodded. "But your wishes, your dreams, they are so ephemeral, aren't they?" he asked. "You can't do anything that lasts forever, can you?"

"I can make memories." Jirachi said. "Nice memories that can make them happy for a time."

Lelouch laughed "If only you had a heart." Lelouch paraphrased from Euphies story. "Then you too would be loved by the others."

Jirachi looked at him in shock as Lelouch crouched in front of him. "Did you find your heart?" Lelouch asked him. "Look at all the hearts you've gathered in this sweet dream. Look at all the people you've made happy."

"S-STOP IT!" Jirachi begged, covering its head with its hands.

"But me?" Lelouch asked. "I'm happy without a heart. I know what I am."

Jirachi stopped still. "So now, you have a choice." Lelouch told the Jirachi. "My wish is simple. I want you to answer my questions. Grant my wish, and I can make a world where everyone is happy. You wouldn't have to steal hearts anymore. You could just tell me."

"Human…"

Lelouch knelt down opposite Jiro. "Tell me. What is Zero?"

Jirachi looked away, then whispered the answer.

Lelouch furrowed his eyebrows. "That's not possible."

Jiro shook his head. "Anything is. Zero shall rise from the world's Code, and reveal the truth in all things."

"And Britannia wants to summon this thing?" Lelouch asked.

"Everyone does." The pokémon shrugged. "Some want it more than others, but none are prepared for the price."

"That's… insane." Lelouch growled, before shaking his head. "Alright, tell me about the Code. How does the Geass evolve into it, and how does it evolve again?"

"The runaways are a test from the Lake Spirits." Jiro explained. "Uxie shall test your Wisdom, Mespirit your Heart and Azelf your Soul. Each test you pass, your Geass shall runaway, until you pass the third test when you regain control. When you have all three blessings, when you die, the Code must seek Mew's blessing. If Mew finds that the three spirits still love you, then you shall evolve a master. If none of them love you, then He shall erase you. Do you know how many of the spirits love you?"

"All three of them?" Lelouch asked.

"Yes." Jirachi nodded.

Lelouch sighed. "This makes far too much sense." He complained. "This dream world will die soon, won't it?"

"It should have two more days, but it hurts." Jiro replied, shaking his head. "This… nightmare… only you and milady loved it, so you'll be the only ones to remember this…"

Lelouch raised an eyebrow. "That's surprisingly decent of you."

"Thank you." Jirachi smiled, a green tear leaking out of its eye.

"Before I go, it's about time someone granted your wish." Lelouch told the Jirachi. "All those millennia serving others simulacrums of happiness is too long for any monster." Lelouch smiled. "What can I do for you?"

Jirachi titled its head as if trying to comprehend the question. "Me?" it asked.

Lelouch nodded.

Jirachi smiled bitterly. "Kill me."

Lelouch was taken back in surprise. "Really?" he asked.

"It's all I want." It nodded.

Lelouch sighed. "That's what she wanted too, isn't it?" he asked gently.

"Yes." Jiro replied sadly.

Lelouch stood up. "I promise to change that wish of hers." Lelouch vowed, pulling out the police-issue handgun from his jacket. "I promise to make her happy."

"I know you can grant her wish." The pokémon smiled as Lelouch pressed the barrel to its head.

"From one Monster to another," Lelouch told the Jirachi, activating his Geass with a smile. "It has been an honour."

"It has been mine."

BLAM

"This is a worthless memory." Cyrus sighed. "What use has the ramblings of a pokémon?"

"This memory is only worthless to those unwilling to listen." Lelouch told him. "Trainers can understand their pokémon without words."

"Pokémon are beasts of battle." Cyrus stated. "Even those abominations that speak the human tongue are but as chatot's- unthinking and existing only to serve."

"Is that why you killed him?" Lelouch asked. "Viet's existence proved that you could not connect with your pokémon, and you couldn't accept that?"

"That is not why I killed him, child." Cyrus glared. "No one will ever understand my reasons."

"You will never open your heart so we can understand." Lelouch corrected. "You don't want us to understand." He chuckled. "You Geass is one that draws the target into your own little world inside your head, but you don't want to let anyone in." he said, his Geass bearing eyes growing brighter, fiercer. "You can't enter your 'happy place' alone, yet you detest welcoming anyone into your heart." Lelouch glared at his uncle, suddenly towering over the much larger man. "That's why you drag them in here. Here you can search their hearts, try to understand them, while walling off your heart so they cannot understand you. Admit it." Lelouch grinned. "I am the first to penetrate your defences and show your memories, aren't I?"

The burning C.C. straddled atop the burning Mars, ramming fist after fist into her face as Mars feebly tried to strangle the woman who didn't need to breathe.

The Black Knights and the Galactic's watched in horror, their planned battle forgotten at the horrific scene before them.

"S-shouldn't someone stop them..?" Kallen asked as Mars tore C.C.'s arm from her shoulder.

"KILL THE INTRUDERS!"

The Black Knights fell to the floor as Jupiter activated her Geass and her five-man team opened fire upon them. Jeremiah raised his arm and created a barrier to block the bullets mid flight. "Thank you milady." The Dunsparce smirked as the Black Knights returned to their feet. "We had forgotten our purpose for today's battle."

"BLACK KNIGHTS!"

Galactic and Black Knight alike turned to see the red haired young man step out from Jeremiah's shield with entei and raikou by his side. "We have come here. We have seen what this place is."

He grabbed two pokéballs and unleashed his feraligatr and crobat. "Now let us conquer."

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"B-but we can help each other!" Cyrus begged the master of the universe. "To render this world into the truth of all things! Isn't that what you want?"

The abyss laughed, mocking the little human

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"BUT I DID ALL THESE THINGS!" Cyrus shouted. "Is this not what you wanted as your sacrifice?"

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Cyrus looked down as a squirtle wearing a red cape with orange flames and a pair of pointed, orange sunglasses stepped out of the madness before him. "Squirtle squirtle squirtle SQUIRTLE?" it shouted, flames roaring up behind it as it pointed to the sky.

He then looked down as ultra balls began pouring from his pocket, over a hundred of the balls forcing themselves out of the space in his trousers like water from a fountain. "Stop this!" Cyrus shouted. "You are the one I want!"

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Cyrus fell to his knees, broken. "But…" he gasped as the light began to consume him as he was cast out from this sacred space in hell. "But…"

"Pathetic."

Cyrus collapsed to his knees at the memory, and looked up to see Lelouch had replaced the abomination. His nephew towered above him, wrapped in a cloak of shadows and eyes burning like evil suns.

Lelouch did not laugh at Cyrus' fall. He was just disgusted.

"Where is this squirtle right now?" Lelouch asked him, walking around the man on his knees. "What did you do with the prize given to you?"

"I… I…"

"You cast it aside, like a little child would toss aside the hobby horse his father bought him for Christmas when he wanted a ponyta." Lelouch chuckled. "Any fool could see that that squirtle was a prize like no other, but you, like a childish brat, threw it away in a tantrum."

"No…I…" Cyrus' Geass sigils faded as he tried to deny Lelouch's words.

Lelouch smiled as the Scenery of Doomsday began to fade around them. "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. The Lake Spirits shun you, they deny your right to the Power of Kings and the Right of Plebeians."

Cyrus began to fade into a cloud of pink blocks. "N-no…" He whispered. "I don't want to go…"

"And so, at last you show a desire to live, to continue. A hypocrite to the end," sighed Lelouch as he walked up to him. "Regardless, I will save you." He whispered. "Just tell me one thing first."

"P-please…" a broken Cyrus whispered as his legs dissolved. "A-anything…"

"Why did you kill Viet?"

Cyrus hesitated.

Then he answered.

Lelouch stepped back, looking at him in disgust.

"You said you'd save me!" Cyrus shouted.

"Death is your deliverance." Lelouch spat, turning away and leaving him there to fade into nothingness.

Red smashed Redeoxys through the walls. "Come on." He taunted, striding through the rubble to face his mutating doppelganger. "You should have known better than to make an enemy out of me."

"No… you're wrong…" Redeoxys gasped. "I… Am Ashford Vi Britannia…"

Red slammed a knee into his throat. "Keep that name." he laughed. "I am RED!"

Rivalz rammed a radioactive palm through three heads as regirock and regice circled around him, smashing the Galactic pokémon down and obliterating the fleshy humans in their wake.

Kallen sped through the ruins on Gurren's back, her vileplume riding alongside her, spreading Toxic powder to the enemy as she gunned down those coming from either side.

Blue slipped through the battle, slicing through heads and limbs alike.

Under Jeremiah's power, none of the Galactic's Geass had any effect.

The powers they had honed, trained alongside their pokémon all this time-

Worthless.

They panicked.

They forgot how to fight without their Geass.

But the Black Knights didn't know this.

All they saw were monsters who could burn them alive with a glare.

There was no mercy.

The Black Knights had no room for mercy.

They were too ignorant of their enemies fear to know any pity.

"It's us or them, kill or be killed."

There was no remorse.

The Galactic's pokémon turned wild as their masters fell.

As the Knights began to run out of human targets, they took their prizes with their snag arms, not that they needed them to catch released pokémon.

In the end, the only one left alive was the burning woman, who continued to fight desperately against the burning witch.

"Seek out the survivors hiding in the rest of the ruins!" Silver ordered. "Clear this place out! Leave no stone unturned! NO SURVIVORS!"

"YES SIR!"

The light faded in the corner of the circular chamber. "L-look!" Shirley shouted. "T-they're coming back!"

But they didn't.

There was just an empty space.

"L-Lulu…" Shirley gasped, breaking down into tears as Cynthia put a comforting arm around her.

Red slammed the Redeoxys through the floor beneath where C.C. and Mars were still fighting. "Oh for crying out loud…" he sighed, tossing his opponent aside and walking to the two women.

"OI!" he shouted, grabbing the two and slamming their burning heads together. "I like a good catfight as much as the next guy, but do it somewhere with mud and an audience AND WITHOUT YOUR SKIN MELTING OFF!"

He was slammed back by two burning punches to the face. "Sonuva…" he growled, nursing his singed nose as Redeoxys sprinted out of the ruins. "OI!"

"Let it go." Jeremiah told him. "The battle is won." He turned to the battle. "Now to deal with these two." He said. "I can stop the effects of their Geass and put them out, but this young lady will just set them both back alight again."

"Hey, wow, is that you, auntie C.C.?" Red asked experimentally, suddenly recognising one of the fighters as green hair regenerated from the flames momentarily. "We won, you can stop now."

The witch was deaf to his words, thinking only of the witch hunts back in the past and what those bastards did to her centuries ago. The bitch before her would suffer like she did.

Red scratched the back of his head. "Well, I got nothing." He admitted. "Hey, where's Lellow?"

"Master Lelouch?" Jeremiah asked him. "He went to fight Prince Cyrus, but he has yet to return from their mental plane." He raised an eyebrow. "Although, I am impressed." He said. "That fraud of yours showed much greater surprise when he realised that I was now under your loyalty."

"Yeah well…" Red shrugged. "I'm kinda tired. I swam here from freaking China once I figured out what that deoxys was planning with my brother."

Jeremiah laughed. "An impressive feat!" he declared. "I commend you for it."

"Yeah, whatever." Silver pressed a gun to the back of Red's skull. "Now how're you standing around when I saw your corpse land on rock from a great drop?"

Red sighed. "It involves magic, deoxys stealing my corpse, and a hunt for pants." He explained. "Also, Mew apparently."

Silver lowered the gun. "Why do you serve Zero?" he asked. "Isn't yours the Geass of Defiance?"

"Oh, so they're in on this now?" Red asked Jeremiah. Once the former noble nodded, Red shrugged and turned to face him. "Because it's better than wandering the earth with Green or whatever." He answered, before falling onto his backside in a cross-legged position, then curling up on the stone. "Wake me up when those two stop…"

"Why did you kill Viet?"

Cyrus hesitated.

"I wanted his dratini." He replied. "That's all."

Lelouch looked around the temple on the golden clouds around him and spat. "Royalty." He hissed, turning around to the large stone door behind him. "Glad I'm out of it."

'I'm Ashford.' Redeoxys thought to itself as it sped across the mountaintops of Johto. 'I'm Ashford. I'm Ashford. I'M ASHFORD!'

"Then be Ashford."

Redeoxys stopped dead as a gentle hand held its wrist. "Who…" it asked as it turned to face the girl behind it. "Who are you..?"

"A friend." The beautiful girl told the monster without a heart. "My name is Nemo. I'm your sister. I'll love you." She told it, pulling it into a hug. "If you want me to."

Redeoxys gasped, then closed its eyes, crying as it collapsed into the girl's frail arms. "There there." Nemo told it. "Hush now… I'm here for you… brother…"

"N-Nunnally…" the monster cried.

"No…" the girl corrected it. "My name is Nemo. Nunnally cannot know about you, but you need to protect her when I'm not around, okay?" she asked. "From her evil brothers that want to hurt her, you must defend Nunnally even if she forgives those heartless monsters, okay..?"

"Yes…" Redeoxys told her with a smile. "I won't let them anywhere near her."

Nemo smiled and kissed the monster. "Thank you, Ashford Vi Britannia…"

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Oh.

Yep.

You know, this is actually pretty messed up. This little arc took a while to write. I was going to get this done in one chapter, but I think it deserved the time it got.

Should this remain as a T, or should I increase the rating to M. It'll warn people if its an M, but not as many people will know about it than they would if it was a T…

What do you think?

Know what I think?

All of Cyrus can be summed up in those four words.

I wanted his dratini.

Varanus: Selfish, sociopathic hypocritical nihilist. Still, fun character to play around with while it lasted. Three chapters of mental beatdowns, and he nearly broke Lelouch with the Nemo revelation. But as they say, 'What doesn't destroy you, strengthens you'. Not that Cyrus is in a position to regret it, being wiped from the face of the earth and all.

Also, finally a big chunk of what Geass is in this universe has been revealed! Wow, took a lot longer than I expected at any rate. So, in summary, it's sort of a 'test' certain Legendaries have created. But for what purpose, that's the next question.

And now for the bad news. My laptop Fubar'd for the final time. Due to the fact that school's almost over and I've pretty much done all my coursework with everything backed up on the school server and my USB, I'm not getting a replacement. The family computer doesn't have Word so I can't open my files, so I'm writing on my mum's laptop when she lends it to me and on school computers in the library despite the fact that I no longer have any lessons.

That's right, I go to school specifically to write new chapters for you guys. Be grateful and don't complain when updates grow fewer and far between.