'Oh my god, my own bed.' he thought. He walked into the room and collapsed onto the bed, instantly sleeping. . . for about five seconds.

"Sir, General Valden wishes to debrief you on capturing the enemy."

"HAH! If you will, please tell him to blow it out his ass." The soldier shook his head and walked out. "Sleep. . . finally."

"Sir-"

I cut him off with a glare. "I've been in Britannia under cover all over the place since I was a child, so if you disrupt my first meeting with my personal bed one more time, I will shove your own foot somewhere between your lungs and colon. Clear?"

The covers were then ripped away, throwing Axel off the bed. "How about if I ruin your sleep instead." Valden said sternly. Axel sulked as he sat indian style in his own room.

"Can this not wait. It took about eight hours to get here carrying the guy." Valden was not amused.

"No, we have to discuss everything with your mission." snoozing sounds were heard, irritating Valden further. BAM! Axel's head his the floor while Valden rubbed his wrist. "If your Geass worked in your sleep, you would never wake up." Axel rubbed the sore spot and looked up tired. "If you showed half the enthusiasm you have in combat here, you might make a good commander. Where's your damn pride?"

Axel yawned. "In my work?" They just stared at each other before Valden grabbed the back of Axel's shirt, dragging him.

"That might be the closest you've come to making me laugh." He said, ignoring the stream of curses Axel grumbled while being drug.

(Scene Change)

Valden stood at attention, once more in a good mood. "Greetings, Lord Aldrich." The view screen showed the raven haired leader. "Pleasure seeing you in good health."

"Don't be so formal, Valden. You know our group is past the formalities. Did Axel finish his mission?" Valden slumped a little, checking behind him to see if Axel was still awake.

In the commanding chair of the bridge, Axel sat, still awake, but barely. "Yes. I took the direct approach. They tried a confrontation, and I took him down."

"Oh? Anyone we should be wary of?" Layn Aldrich seemed more than hopeful for an adversary.

"Well, considering the world would want him dead if they discovered he was still alive. . ." Axel started. Layn picked up on it and seemed content.

"Ah, he survived? Well, as things stand, he is of no concern. Better yet." Layn mulls it over. "I want him alive, but don't give him the slightest opportunity to use his Geass."

Valden objects. "Maybe we should just kill him now? Knowing who he is, we should simply crush him to guarantee victory."

Layn, for the first time, shows irritation. "A guaranteed victory? A victory against an adversary who cannot properly defend themselves contains no struggle. It is no victory. It would be a slaughter. If Lelouch is capable of escaping you, then I'll relish the challenge. If not, then you can have your way and be his executioner. For now, he lives." Layn turns away from the paling Valden towards Axel. "And Axel."

Axel jolts awake. "Uh, yeah?"

"Once the current assignment is complete." Layn paused for emphasis. "Go back to tracking C.C."

Axel's eyes went wide. "Uh, Geass doesn't work on her kind. Tracking her will be difficult."

Layn chuckled. "How hard can it be to find a girl with neon green hair? Find her." The screen cut out. Valden and Axel both sighed in annoyance.

(Scene Change)

"Ow. . . What happened?" Suzaku sat up from a bed. He looked around, surprised to be in Lelouch's safe house. He looked around, finding Kallen dead unconscious on another bed. He could swear he could hear murmurs from the door, but his ears were ringing. He clutched his ear as he tried to recall what happened. The last thing he remembered was that Axel guy's fist. . . Suzaku jolted up. "Lelouch!"

He tripped into the floor, causing a good deal of pain. He heard the door open before hearing two voices yell his name. "Suzaku!" They hauled him onto the bed, getting him still. He looked and saw Euphie smiling. "How you feeling?"

Suzaku was still dazed, but tried his best to reply. "Erm, my mouth feels numb, my bones ache, and where is Lelouch?"

Euphie looked away. "You have a lot of bruises and I assume a fracture or two, and Lelouch-"

"Was captured." A voice he recognized cut her off.

Suzaku whipped to him. "Rivalz?" The blue haired man offered a small smile before scratching the back of his head nervously.

"Well, I followed the guy to that warehouse place and saw him pound you three like abused children. I was going to try calling an ambulance or something when the princess here showed up to get you out."

Suzaku sat there. "Great." His fist clenched. "I can't believe we lost Lelouch that easily!" Then he snapped to the true issue. "Wait. . . you know, Rivalz? Everything?"

Rivalz nodded slowly. "Me and the princess-"

"Euphemia." Euphie interjected.

"-Have been going over all of that for about eight hours." Suddenly, a phone started to ring in the room. Suzaku tried to go to his clothes, but Euphie stopped him.

"I'll get it." She went to his belongings and pulled a phone out. "Yes?" . . . She looked to Suzaku. "The Black Knights have located the second fleet just outside Japanese territory." Back to the phone. "I'll pass the message. Thank you." Not two seconds after getting off the phone, it rang again. This time, a more royal theme playing.

"Give it to me." Suzaku commanded. She complied as he didn't really sound like it was a choice. He opened the phone. "Zero, here." . . .

(scene change)

The door opened letting the red headed man into the room as he leaned onto the nearest wall, sliding down to sit against it. The brown haired prisoner eyed him warily as he sat on a make shift bed in a restraint jacket. "Any reason you came here?" Lelouch asked.

Axel grumbled. "I came here to get peace and quiet. Don't you go and get chatty now, too."

Axel shut his eyes. "Don't you worry if I were to attack you?" Lelouch asked.

"Nope." Axel didn't even open his eyes to answer.

"What does your Geass do?"

No response this time. Silence filled the room for a full minute, so Lelouch continued. "You kept activating and reactivating it every time you had to switch who you were facing. Why?"

Axel smirked, opening his left blue Geass Canceler eye. "Why don't you try and make me answer? Oh wait, you blew your one shot." He shut his eye again. "Now, goodnight."

Lelouch waited a moment. He started to whisper as he put a few pieces together. "Your job is to hunt Geass users WHILE being one of seven generals." Axel's eye opened as he started to listen. "Your Geass Canceler is a given to help you deal with us, and whenever we used a weapon on you, you only defended with your right arm." Axel smiled. He didn't think there was time to be that observant during the scuffle they had. "Your Geass can focus on one thing." The smile faded. "And when focused, you perfectly countered every move the subject of you Geass tried." Lelouch looked at Axel again. "Bismark's Geass was able to let him see a few seconds into the future, allowing him to perfectly interpret his opponent's moves. Is that your ability?" Axel sighed.

"No. No two Geass abilities can't coexist and be the same. I've had mine almost all my life, and this Bismark is someone who died a couple months ago, if I'm not mistaken. We could not possibly have the same ability."

Lelouch nodded. "A form of mind reading? An off-shoot of how Mao's ability worked? You were capable of using it on people you didn't have direct vision of, so you don't require eye contact."

Axel stood up and made for the door. "As entertaining as this is, I'm gonna go somewhere else to sleep. Maybe the cargo hold. . ."

"You used it to get out of there, didn't you?" Axel stopped. Lelouch continued, glaring at Axel's back. "We picked that location to make it next to impossible for you or anyone following to make it out without one of us to guide you. The only explanation is that your Geass led you out. How?"

Axel tilted his head, wondering something. "The Power of Kings, isn't it?" Lelouch blinked after hearing that.

"What?"

"Your Geass is the Power of Kings, the ability to command anyone to do any action. The name of a given power can be quite telling of its nature. You could say that mine is the Power of True Sight." He turned and locked eyes with Lelouch. "My Geass focuses on a single goal, then shows me the exact pattern, movements, and actions I need to do in order to accomplish the goal I have in mind." Axel closed his eyes, waiting for Lelouch to catch on.

"To accomplish a goal. . ." Lelouch narrowed his vision. "It showed you to follow Kallen, since your goal was to reach me." Axel nodded. "You switched between whoever was attacking you, so it would tell you exactly how to block, parry, or counter everything perfectly. Only moves that your Geass doesn't focus on can reach you." He said, remembered how Axel was started as Lelouch almost shot his temple point blank until the orange Geass flared. "That's why you're their hunter. You face Geass users one on one, shut down their Geass abilities, then use yours to tell you how to win."

Axel smiled wide. "I don't even know how I'm gonna win sometimes until my Geass shows me that part."

Lelouch smiles and looks down. "Thanks. Now, I know exactly how to beat you."

Axel doesn't even respond, but smiles. This could be interesting. But now for bed.

Author's note: Valden's personality is one of your traditional warrior style generals. Like say, Ramba Ral from Gundam or Shipmaster from Halo. He's enjoys combat and challenges, but dislikes doing things the hard way when something easier can be done. Also a little bit of Sarge from Red vs Blue with his Sarge-Grif relationship with Axel.

Axel is based off of me. Lazy as hell, but when it comes to a job that he can truly enjoy, he turns game face and enjoys it a little too much. He can easily turn on decisions if, after his initial decision, he thinks too much and finds the other option just a more fun way of doing things. Probably the least devoted to any cause, and more devoted to just pleasing everyone with the bare minimum so he can relax.

Layn's full personality is yet to be shown, but for what's here so far, you can just associate him with Light from Death Note. Otherwise, that is to be shown. His Geass ability is already determined, along with most of the generals, and I can't wait to start writing them :)