Outside the Saitama Ghetto, the next day, 02:00 hours local time.

"We've received word that the Yamato Alliance is based here in Saitama." The Commander stated as he looked at his helmet in a mirror that was on a wall that he was staring at. It was a simple helmet that had four green lines running over a faceplate and two conical extensions on the sides (think the helmet worn by the NEVEC soldiers from Lost Planet: Extreme Condition).

"Commander, what are our orders?" one of his soldiers asked.

"We managed to procure the membership list of the Yamato Alliance from an anonymous source three hours ago. Orders are to eliminate the Yamato Alliance members and steal their equipment."

"Understood."

As the soldiers of the rogue Moblie Battalion prepared to destroy the Yamato Alliance, The Commander got inside his Gloucester and booted it up so that he could get ready.

Flashback to October 2008 a.t.b, 09:35 local time.

Clouds were overhead and blocking the sun as rain fell, but one small figure dressed in a dark green raincoat stood in one of the gardens of the Aries Villa. The hood of the raincoat protected his head as he looked over to the horizon.

'Nobody knows how I feel. I must forge my own path and lead my own life. I do not hold any interest in having the Imperial Throne, but I still have the skills and teachings to know how to rule in case 'they' are incapacitated somehow.' the figure thought to itself as it looked on.

The clouds got thicker and booms of thunder were heard, but the figure did not pay any attention to them. He knew that his mother was spending time with his younger sister and that both of them were aware that he always kept an aloof mood whenever he had to interact with his younger sibling, which tended to happen twice a month. This figure always had bigger fish to fry than spending time with his sister, in fact he was hardly ever nearby when she was doing something and only interacted with her voluntarily on her birthday for the past five, nearly six years. He was known as Lelouch vi Britannia.

"Your highness." a guard stated as he saw the figure.

"What is it, Jeremiah? Does Mother wish for me to spend time with Nunnally? I have more important issues to worry about right now." the figure coldly replied.

"It's not that, Prince Lelouch. Your transport to the Chess game with Prince Schneizel will be here in ten more minutes."

Lelouch was silent for a few moments before he said, "Nunnally will turn six years old later this month. I will need to disappear from this villa two days beforehand. I need to remove myself from her life for about fourteen months to erase any chance of the Westermarck effect causing trouble later."

"Your highness, are you sure that the words written by that European Edvard Westermarck are true? I'm sure that when she becomes an adult Princess Nunnally will consider you as a potential marriage partner regardless of what happens."

"Regardless of if the European's words were true or not, I am not taking any chances that his theory could possibly hold true with royalty or not. Edvard Westermarck was an unusual European I will admit, but he had a gift for recognizing things that aren't very obvious to other people like sexual attraction. Princess Cornelia only met with me for the first time a few days after I turned six. She was fifteen at the time and I knew that she had been busy with her duties as the head of the guard unit here at the Aries Villa back then and even now Princess Cornelia is busy keeping the villa secure."

*return to present day, 2017 a.t.b, August 15th, 03:45 local time, Lelouch's room*

Lelouch opened his eyes and though to himself, 'Why the fuck did I wake up right now!? It's not even morning!' before realizing that Rakshata was going to start her term as a physics teacher today. He felt himself holding onto something or someone and remembered that he was holding a sleeping Nunnally, who was firmly clinging to her brother's body.

'That's right, Nunnally had a really bad nightmare early tonight and wanted to sleep with me.' Lelouch thought as he closed his eyes and drifted back to sleep while he still held his sister. At first there was nothing, but then they^ began. . .

*scene shift into Lelouch's mind*

A blood-stained field was in front of Lelouch. There was a mountain of corpses on either side of him and his sister, although seriously injured, was not crippled and was standing next to him. She wielded a bloody Nodachi in her right hand and it was currently buried inside the chest of a dead Britannian Knight. Lelouch held a bloody Katana in both of his hands and the weapon's weight was beginning to set in. Before long, another pair of Britannian Knights who wore helmets that concealed their faces appeared and acting on instinct Lelouch executed a side slash that knocked down one of the knights before he leapt in the air and impaled the knight with his blade while Nunnally literally cut the other knight into pieces with swift movements of her blade.

Removing the helmet from his fallen foe, Lelouch began to feel uneasy as he gazed upon the blood-stained dark purple hair of Cornelia while Nunnally cried out several ladylike sobs as she saw that the other knight was a now-dead Jeremiah Gottwald.

"B. . . Big Sister Cornelia, why?" Lelouch found himself asking.

"That. . . accursed monster. . . Charles killed. . . Euphie. Forgive me. . . Lelouch." Cornelia said before she gave her last breath and died.

Lelouch looked onward and the flames of hatred burned in his eyes as he declared, "I swear this now, Britannia shall burn for this and the nation's people will fall upon my sword!"

*scene shift back into Lelouch's room, five minutes later*

Lelouch opened his eyes and screamed in horror. This woke up Nunnally and although she didn't open her eyes, she felt her brother's body language and knew that something was wrong. "Onii. . . Onii-sama." she said before she gathered her thoughts and asked, "Big Brother, was it a night terror that you just had?"

Lelouch silently cursed himself for waking Nunnally and answered, "Yes, Nunna. I had a night terror just now."

"Just to be on the safe side, how about we sleep with each other for the next three weeks?"

"Agreed." Lelouch said before he and Nunnally slowly went into a dreamless sleep that lasted for until the alarm clock in the room began to blare at 06:30 hours.

^- this was something from Shadow At Midnight's story, 'Code Geass: Lelouch of the Talk Show' so I'm jsut giving him/her credit here.

A/N: This is unfortunately not a full chapter, so this came out sooner than I thought.