Ashford Academy Student Council Clubhouse, Lelouch's room, the next day, 06:00 hours local time.
C.C. woke up to find that a large amount of something was keeping her eyes from opening and guessed that someone was sitting on her face. Shifting her hands, C.C. tried to grab whatever was preventing her from opening her eyes but the immortal woman had her own hands grabbed by something as whatever was keeping her eyes closed got off. Opening her eyes immediately, C.C. did not feel surprised to see that Marrybell was completely naked and grabbing the immortal girl's arms. Lelouch was also in the room, but he was busy on his personal computer and he was already dressed.
Lelouch saw something come up on his computer screen and then said, "This is quite surprising. Apparently, Rakshata Chawla will be working here as a Physics teacher starting tomorrow. Of course, today Cecile Croomy is working here as a nurse. Lloyd is content with just working on his precious Lancelot for some reason, probably because Rakshata will be here. School will be starting soon, so you'll need to get dressed Marrybell."
"What about me?" C.C. asked.
"It's up to you whether you want to enroll into Ashford Academy as a student or not. Honestly, you can pass yourself off as a student so that you can keep an eye on me since you look like you're around seventeen years old."
Two hours later, Lelouch noticed a large student punch through a brick wall like it was nothing while on his way to a class and said, "Hey there."
"Hello. Me Gren, who are you?" the student replied.
"Lelouch Lamperouge."
"Gren not smart, Gren smash things. Gren now go to class."
After classes were over for the day, Lelouch was back on his computer and noticed a data report on what was going on. Apparently Villetta Nu was placed on guard duty at the Viceroy's Palace until the new Viceroy arrived as punishment for giving up Suzaku Kururugi even though the Purists now had the container that C.C. used to be held inside of before the Kozuki Resistance stole her from Clovis's forces. Lelouch then heard a window break as a cat screamed.
"I need to figure out what the hell is going on right now." Lelouch said as his computer powered down and he left to figure out what was going on. He quickly reached a faculty-only area, but as he was part of the Student Council the faculty members present did not mind that he was here in a restricted area. While trying to figure out where the unfortunate cat was, he heard soft sobbing from a door. Checking the door, Lelouch realized that he was staring at the closed doorway to Cecile's office. Steeling his nerves, the former prince stepped inside as the sobbing paused.
There was an unlabeled bottle of alcoholic beverage sitting on a table and Cecile herself was drinking directly from another bottle that, unlike the first one, was labeled VODKA while sitting in an office chair. About two seconds later, she was done drinking and put the bottle down in the recycling bin near her chair before continuing to sob for about a minute.
"Um, is something wrong Ms. Cecile?" Lelouch asked.
Cecile stopped crying when she heard Lelouch and asked, "Who is it. . . hic?"
"It's Lelouch Lamperouge. Is there something wrong?"
Cecile sniffed and let loose a couple of ladylike sobs before saying, "I'm just remembering sh-shomething that happened in the past."
"Before you speak any further, how about you rest for a bit? You're not feeling well right now."
Cecile nodded in agreement and went over to the nurse's office to lie down for about an hour. After she was done resting, she went back to her office and Lelouch asked her, "You feeling alright?"
Cecile nodded in agreement and then Lelouch asked, "What happened to you?"
"Before I joined the Camelot research team here in Area Eleven, I was one of Prince Clovis's female companions. Sometimes he slept with one of them and one night, I had to sleep with him. However, Clovis did more than just sleep with me." Cecile said before crying for a couple of seconds and when she was done she continued, "That pompous ass of a prince raped me and took my virginity! He used protection to ensure that I wasn't impregnated, but I still hate him for doing such a vile thing to me, of all people!"
Lelouch barely suppressed an urge to shout and said, "Well then, you should be aware that I am actually Zero and that I now know that I did more than just kill a man who would slaughter thousands just to keep something important from escaping him. Until now, I never knew that Clovis had raped you and I can emphasize since a couple of years ago I almost had to watch my younger sister be raped by someone."
"What happened?"
"It was an incident about three years ago. I was living with my younger sister Nunnally in a hotel that was somewhere in Osaka for the duration of the entire week that Clovis was hosting his 'Art Week' at Ashford Academy. One day while in Osaka, about half of the Yamato Alliance including a former leader of theirs seized control of the hotel and took everyone hostage, my sister and I included. The leader of the Yamatos back then was a nasty son of a bitch by the name Atsuro Nagatacho and he told me that he would force me to watch him rape Nunnally before killing me. Orange Sword killed him before Atsuro had the chance to follow through with his threat though. I need to leave soon, so later I might be able to anonymously release what happened to you to the press."
After leaving Cecile's office, Lelouch heard Oldrin shout, "FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK SHIT!"and went over to the entrance of the Clubhouse. Once there, he saw that Oldrin was not pleased and he asked, "What is it this time?"
"I just found out that the new Area Eleven Viceroy is Oiaguro Zevon, and his sub-Viceroy is Cornelia li Britannia! Now that he's coming here, we'll need a plan to assassinate him before he can even consider sending an assassination team here to Ashford!" Oldrin stated.
"That's going to be quite difficult. Anyways, how did you think I did last night?"
"You did quite well. Maybe I should just strip naked and dance in front of you."
Lelouch could not help but blush when he heard that and Oldrin laughed for a few seconds before she said, "Just kidding, Lelouch. Millicent would blackmail me with secret footage if I actually did that. I do wonder what Damson is though."
"Oh, that. That was referring to Private Walter Damson, an infamous former Britannian foot soldier. He raped and killed a dozen Britannian women in a single night two years ago, and two of his victims were young women who had not even left high school! Clovis's administration had a very difficult time covering that up since it would make the military look bad if Damson's atrocity had gone public and to top it all off Clovis actually knew what Damson was doing and encouraged him to go through with it! That's why Clovis's name would have gone through the mud if Damson was released to the public. As a result of the cover-up, the public believe that a three-man cell from Nerima raped and killed Damson's victims and as far as I know, Walter Damson 'disappeared' after raping and killing his twelfth victim."
Meanwhile near the Shinjuku Ghetto, Euphemia was wondering what she could do to help the Japanese when she heard an explosion come from the ghetto.
"Oh dear, I wonder what's going on." Euphemia said as she went towards the ghetto. Inside, Villetta cursed as she went around a corner and took cover behind a dumpster. A Purist saw that she was hiding behind it and said, "Come on out, Villetta! Your ass is mine!"
"You're not using that shit on me, Samuel!" Villetta shouted.
"Give it up! You're surrounded by four of us!"
Villetta looked around and saw that she was indeed surrounded by four Purists. Thankfully Jeremiah and Kewell were not among them, but Villetta knew that something was going on. She heard that Zero was spotted here half an hour ago, but when she arrived it turned out that it was all a trap.
"Thanks to what happened with Zero, our reputation has gone down the shitters! We're gonna get rid of you before Viceroy Oiaguro arrives so that we can see him with our reputation intact!" Samuel shouted.
"You guys are fucking idiots if you think that you can kill my subordinate and get away with it!" Jeremiah shouted before one of the Purists surrounding Villetta dropped dead. Villetta saw that her superior was wielding a sub-machine gun that had a smoking barrel in one hand, a riot shield in the other hand, and had an assault rifle on his back.
"So Jeremiah, you sided with the traitor? We'll just kill you as well!" Samuel said before he too dropped dead and then Villetta saw Kewell was wielding an assault rifle and that its barrel was smoking.
"Kewell too? What the fuck!? I thought that you wanted to lead the Purists!" one of the remaining ones shouted.
"How about you shut the hell up, Simon!? I don't want to position if it means killing Villetta and discrediting Jeremiah." Kewell stated.
One of the remaining Purists opted to blow himself up with a grenade and did so while the other one put his weapon down and said, "I surrender."
Villetta looked to the right and saw the lone Purist put his rifle down and with Jeremiah nearby she began to approach when he suddenly picked up his weapon and shouted, "Suckers! All hail Britannia!" and fired.
Villetta saw her life flash before her eyes and thought, 'Is. . . is this how I'm going to die!?' as closed her eyes before she heard the sound of bullets hitting metal. She opened them and saw that a pink-haired girl was in front of her. Jeremiah was in front of the pink-haired girl and had his riot shield in front while he faced towards the Purist.
"You just made a major mistake here, Corporal Lohmeyer! If I wasn't here, how would you be able to explain to Sub-Viceroy Cornelia why her sister was dead!?" Jeremiah shouted before unloading his sub-machine gun's clip into the remaining Purist and killing him.
The pink-haired girl took off her hat and shouted, "I, Princess Euphemia li Britannia, command everyone here to stand down!"
Jeremiah and Kewell immediately put their weapons down and kneeled on one knee. Villetta saw a couple of Purists step out from a corner and do the same before she put her sub-machine gun down and kneeled.
I wasn planning on ending this chapter with an Omake, but I decided, 'Nah, how about some foreshadowing for the sequel of this story?' Hope you enjoy this teaser.
Teaser: Welcome to fucking R2
Ashford Academy academic wing, science classroom, August 3rd, 11:45 local time.
Rolo Lancaster checked his watch and to his disappointment someone did not come into the classroom. The PA then sounded as it turned on and stated, "Rolo Lancaster, you are needed in the library."
Rolo immediately began to pack up and a few seconds later he was on his way to the library. Once there, he was approached by an OSI agent disguised as a faculty member and asked, "Status report, Haliburton."
"There have been no changes in Marry Lancaster's behaviour and habits. She has not regained her memories as of yet. I am fully aware of what must happen should she regain her memories." Rolo answered. Nobody else was in the library right now and anti-recording measures were in place to prevent eavesdropping.
"Continue to act as her younger brother until Graduation Day unless she regains her memories, Rolo Haliburton. Your real sister Alice has business with Viceroy Calares at the moment."
"Understood." Rolo said emotionlessly before leaving the library and heading back to class. Once they were over for the day, he noticed someone talking to Marry while he walked back to the Student Council clubhouse and thought that a boy was hitting on her before Rolo realized that it was just Miya Hillmick, the new President of the Student Council, talking with her about a group date on the upcoming weekend. After the Black Civil War ended five months ago, Ruben Ashford had been discovered dead in his office when a Spec-Ops team stormed Ashford Academy a week after the conflict ended in favor of neither the Black Knights, the Britannian forces that sided with them, or the Britannian troops that supported an extremist segment of the Purists. An autopsy wasn't able to perfectly answer how he died, only that a heart attack was the most likely cause of death since there were no injuries anywhere on Ruben K. Ashford. The Black Knights were still at large and both Cornelia li Britannia and her sister Euphemia were considered traitors since they sided with the Black Knights during the civil war. Then again, the Britannian faction that sided with the Blacks Knights were also all traitors.
After the civil war started, most of the old members of the Ashford Academy Student Council went into hiding. The records stated that the political climate at the time was too hostile for students Lelouch Lamperouge and his sister Nunnally, Shirley Fenette, Rivalz Cardemonde, Millicent 'Milly' Ashford, Oldrin Zevon, and Kallen Stadtfelt in addition to physics teacher Rakshata Chawla and nurse Cecile Croomy. Out of the original members, only Marry Lancaster was still around when Miya Hillmick decided to become President. After Miya was President, she made Marry her Vice-President and inducted Sophie Wood as the new treasurer. Rolo was made the new secretary for some unexplained reason. Nina had been arrested during the conflict when she attempted to and failed to detonate a homemade Sakuradite-enhanced nuclear bomb.
This was all information stored in an OSI database that was kept in a secret location underneath the campus grounds and Rolo knew that Zero was still at-large in Area Eleven.