Turn XIII: Love is in the air…and I forgot my gas mask.
(Ashford academy)
A weeks latter
Lelouch and Suzaku had just entered the hallways and were looking forward to some nice peace and relaxation.
"Hey Suzaku, whatever training it is you're doing you should cut it back, it's to exhausting even for you, Euphie pushing you to hard" Lelouch said to him.
"Eh…well…I'd like but my personal trainer,…well she feels unwanted if I try to avoid it" Suzaku replied blushing heavily.
"Look, I understand that, but it's too much, why this morning at breakfast when we had soup you fell asleep and almost drowned in your soup bowl!"
"Incredible! You the man who cut down the hordes of China, sliced the Legions of Europe, chased down Kaguya's Taliban wanabe's was about to be D.B.S" Lelouch replied.
"D.B.S? What's that Dragon Ball Super?" Suzaku asked curious.
"No! Death by soup!" Lelouch replied frustrated
"Just what the hell kind of training you do anyway?" Lelouch asked.
"Well…..horse riding" Suzaku hesitantly replied.
"Horse riding! Well she must be one hell of a mare for you to get so exhausted from riding her" Lelouch replied and he knew that horse riding wasn't as easy as it seemed.
"Yes she is…..she likes getting rode, and she can ride me for hours at a time….and she feels lonely when I am not around….." Suzaku said to Lelouch, good thing Lelouch knew that he wasn't talking about a horse
*Click*
The sound of a camera was heard and both look to see Anya dressed in a school uniform.
"Hello…Lelouch-kun, Suzaku-kun" she replied
"Yo, we have been waiting for ya, the two of us are now student's here" Gyno replied coming from a open door with Rivals and Millie behind them.
"Gyno and Anya here!...well at least nothing else is going to ruin me and Suzaku's break" Lelouch thought to himself.
(Government building)
"Massive armies…. leading a country to war I can handle…but this!" Lelouch said as Nunnally just told him about what she unwillingly did.
"Well a lot of girls where asking about you and in accordance with your character brother…" Nunnally said blushing heavily.
"No, that's not my character!" he replied shocked at what his sister told him.
"Nunnally! This schedule!" Lelouch said as he looked over one which Sayoko just gave him.
"Assuming three hours of sleep, I have made appointments with 108 ladies, fourteen of them are and standby. Dates are on a six month wait list…." Sayoko trailed off
The next day…
"Let us go over today's schedule, then…7:00 you will be having a home-made bento.
9:00 you will have a date at the museum
10:30 you will be shopping.
12:00 you will arrive at the government facility airport.
From there you will use the Shinkiro as transport, I have prepared your clothing inside your cockpit.
15:00 you will arrive in Pendragon to hear the report of the other generals and receive data about the empire's armies.
When you return here at Ashford at 21:00 you will be watching a late movie showing
"Then, you have a date at 24:02 in front of the live house.
After that…."
24:04
"He's late!" Shirley said angrily.
And in the shadows like a character out of a Looney Tunes shorts he was sneaking around her.
"Sorry, Shirley. I promise I will make some time for an explanation latter" Lelouch said to himself.
"Playboy *Click*" Anya replied suddenly appearing in front of him.
"What the? How does she do that? Is she Speedy Gonzales or something like that?" he thought to himself.
"Lelouch-senpai!" Gyno said suddenly appearing next to him, which made Lelouch stutter and fall on his butt.
"And here's Foghorn Leghorn" he thought to himself.
"W-What is it?" he asked.
"Take me to the chest places you used to visit. The one where you gamble in the underground society!" Gyno added.
"When I told him you and I used to go and he said he wanted to go" Rivals replied.
"Ah ,Sylvester cat! Still trying to catch Tweedy I see!" Lelouch thought to himself.
"Rivals, you…" Lelouch said in frustration.
Just then Lelouch heard the screams of the various girls he had dates with as they ran towards him.
"G..Give me a break already!" Lelouch said and he ran away from them.
"Ah great! I'm Road Runner and here are the Coyote and his friends" he said to himself as he ran away from them.
After a few moments of running Lelouch was stopped by someone who shoved him back.
"What the! Who is it? You didn't have to shove me….Shirley" He said as he raised his head to look at her
"Oh no…I'm not Road Runner, I am Penelope Pussycat, and I just bumped into Pepe LE Pew!" Lelouch thought to himself.
"And who will you be meeting with now?" Shirley responded angrily
"You've just graduated from a gambler, to a womanizer…You're so pathetic" Shirley replied as she threaten to start crying.
"Wait let me explain…Ah, right, here as an apology for not explaining myself properly" Lelouch said as he handed her a dress he bought.
"Apology? You're going to use some material item to take care of your kiss and kiss plague which you unleashed upon me!" Shirley angrily yanked the dress from his hand.
"You. Misunderstand! I just wanted to apologies for that little slip!"
"So you regret kissing me that much!" Shirley replied even angrier.
"W..Wait…" Lelouch said as Shirley threatened to start pounding him.
"Look over here!" Millie said from the balcony.
"And here's Bugs Bunny" Lelouch thought to himself.
"I've made my decision on my graduation event. The name's Cupid Day" she added.
"Graduation this time of the year?" Gyno asked curious.
"Well I stayed an extra year, so only know I got enough credits" she replied.
"On that day, all students will be wearing this hat. And if you can grab your target's hat and put it on..Under my executive orders, the two of you will be forced to become a couple!"
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Everyone present said
And after a few moments the girls all looked with devilish eye's at Lelouch.
"W..wait a minute Millie that is going to far! As the eleventh prince and 17th in line for succession and Field Marshall in the army I order you to seize and desists!" Lelouch told her.
"Well it's true that you have all that power, but….since you are a student in the Academy, I have power over you since I am in this school your superior!" She replied and Lelouch much to his horror realized it was true….he then looked around and saw the gazes upon him.
And then the horrible truth fell upon him.
It was like they were saying the following for tomorrow.
Please say you'll be my Valentine,
No other girl is half so fine!
And if you won't, I'll start a fight!
I'll scream, I'll moan,
I'll frown, I'll bite!
I'll growl, I'll hoot!
Don't see it my way?
Then I'll embarrass you dear,
On Valentine's day!
"I'm not Road Runner, nor Penelope Pussycat, I am that one character who always loses, who always is the punch line….Daffy Duck….I AM DAFFY DUCK!" Lelouch screamed in his head.
"I should have known better Bugs Bunny never loses against Daffy Duck" he thought to himself.
The next day….
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your President for the last day Millie Ashford, speaking."
"My graduation event, Cupid's Day, shall begin soon"
"A! you need to be at least two meters away from your target, okay?" She said over the speakers.
Lelouch was surrounded by his class girls and he had his back to a window.
"Lulu, no matter how much of a failure you are as a person….No, exactly because you are a failure as a person, I need to straighten you out!" Shirley thought to herself.
"We all know the rules. You just need to grab your target's hat, put it on, and the two of you will be forced to become a couple. There are no restrictions to the method. You can form teams, use gadgets, everything is okay, then before we begin I must say something…."
"….Whoever grabs Lelouch Lamperouge's, aka Filed Marshall Lelouch vi Britannia's hat from 3-D and brings it to me, I shall increase your club's budget by tenfold!" Millie said over the speakers
"WHAT!" lulu said
"Lulu's?" Shirley added confused.
"P-President.." Rivals said now weeping.
Upon hearing this the entire school students ran to Lelouch's class.
The girls in Lelouch's class started going towards him, when they were stopped when they heard him laughing
"Ha ha ha, Playing dirty tricks with me until the very end will you! Very well Millie, let's play then" he said, he then opened the window and jumped out of it
"Lulu!" Shirley said ah she rushed to view where he had fallen, only to calm down when she saw that some Black Knights with a fireman's trampoline where there to catch him.
"Thank you for your assistance, Jeremiah, sorry to have your and the other members of my royal guard squad come here like this" Lelouch told them.
"No problem at all my lord, besides just how much trouble can some girls be?" Jeremiah replied.
Just then they felt the ground tremble slightly and they saw a horde of girls running towards them riding towards them.
"Sir, get out of here, we will take care of them!" Jeremiah replied and he hesitantly went.
Jeremiah and the other had riot gear and shields and they formed a triangle formation, to intercept them.
"Today no Black Knight dies!" Jeremiah said to his men as they braced for impact…..
"AWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the Black Battle cry was heard….
….and they were immediately trampled by the girls.
"Oooooooo…..so this is what happens when the Iron Prince isn't with us" one members of the guards said.
"My Lord….I….die for you" Jeremiah said and he fainted from the trample.
"Come and get me girls!" Gyno said as he was being chased by some female students, he was having the time of his life.
Another part of the Academy…
"Lord Jeremiah and the guards have been disabled!" Suzaku said to Lelouch over the phone.
"They're a bit bruised but they should be alright, send over some medics here" Lelouch replied.
"Should I come over?" Suzaku asked.
"You just stay where you are and help Lloyd with the tuning of the Lancelot's, we will be leaving for a special black ops mission soon and I want those things ready in two days time" Lelouch replied and he closed the phone.
Just then he senesced that somebody was sneaking up behind him, and he quickly turned around and grabbed the hand that tried to snatch his hat.
"Sorry Miah-kun it's a force of habit I picked up on the battle field" she said to the startled girl.
"Ehhhh, I was so close to!" she said and gave him a 'please let me get your hat look'.
"No, means no" he replied to her now dismayed.
He then walked away to his old apartment in Ashford where he switched places with Sayoko who was disguised as Lelouch.
…..
"Huh? Lelouch disappeared?" Millie said from her command booth.
"Yes, according to the gardening club's report.." her subordinate asked.
"This is the rugby club, we have found Lelouch at point KT-01." The captain said
"Alright! Calling all Ashford Academy club members! Encircle the area around the boy's dorm and the courtyard !" Millie said.
"Sir, yes sir!" the replied.
Millie then sat down pleased with herself, and the realization of what she was doing struck her.
""I am fighting Lelouch in strategy and tactics…I am facing off against the Niddhog!" Millie said to herself and if she got his hat, she would be the first to beat him.
Courtyard
"The budget increase belongs to the rugby club!" the captain said as the club charged Sayoko who was disguised as Lelouch.
"Farewell, oh unworthy foes!" Sayoko said as she jumped over them.
"Sayoko, stop saying those weird things!"
"My personality will be suspected!" Lelouch replied.
"Forgive me, it just came out" Sayoko replied.
"And don't go back to the entrance, Millie has concentrated her forces there" Lelouch replied
"Lelouch's movements are weird?" Millie asked.
"Yes sir, I've never seen him move like this! No wonder this guy is a Field Marshall!" one of the club captains replied.
"Looks like he just got serious. Archery club and equestrian club, round about the side of the hall!" Millie ordered.
"Take a detour from the schoolhouse and head for the second gymnasium. In front of you should be enemy forces in the form of the chemistry club" Lelouch ordered Sayoko.
Sayoko ran where she was instructed.
"Fire!" the club captain said as soon as they saw Sayoko.
"Impossible! Damn Lelouch!" the captain said as Sayoko dodged the fireworks and jumped over the chemistry club members.
"She's going way too overboard no matter how you look at it. But Sayoko is a candid person, so giving her orders now is useless… can't be helped, oh well might as well make the best of it" Lelouch said to himself.
"Fantasy seduction club to the front!" Millie ordered throwing in her trump card.
"Lelouch is a boy, too" one member said
"He'll show an opening to us" another member said.
"Female bodies have no power over me!" Sayoko said to the surprised girls as she jumped over them.
"The president's completely in play mode now" Shirley said as she heard Millie give orders.
"But..what's going on? I though Lulu became a worthless person, and now he's an athletic person…"she added.
"President! If you desire it I, Rivals Cardemonde, will even offer you….my best friend Lelouch." Rivals said, just then a shadow fell over him.
"That's not fair!" he said as he saw the Mordred above him had just entered the game.
"It is" Anya replied over the speakers.
(Government facility)
"Mordred sortied?" Suzaku said to the courier.
"Is it the Slayers? " Guilford asked
"Urgent Notice for all government personal, DEFCON 2, repeat DEFCON 2, all units sortie" the speakers announced to the garrison.
(Ashford Academy)
"I was careless. To think that Anya didn't have any common sense either…Guess it's time for us to switch again. Sayoko move to the study room" Lelouch ordered.
"There?" Anya said as she chased Sayoko.
(Study room)
"This was where Lelouch started acting strange…" Shirley said as she looked around.
"Miss Shirley showing up with such timing?" Sayoko said to herself as she watched Shirley from her hidden position.
Anya using her heat source detector then reached through the window to grab one of the signatures which was Shirley.
"Watch out!" Lelouch said as he grabbed Shirley and they both rolled out of the way of the Mordred's hand.
"What are you doing Anya; people could get hurt like this!" Lelouch angrily said to her.
"Did I do something bad?" Anya calmly asked.
"Yes you did" Lelouch replied.
"I am sorry" she replied.
Meanwhile…
"Hey Lulu…" Shirley asked.
"Why did you reject me at the opera, and why did you kiss me at Lloyd-san's lad?" Shirley asked.
"Cause I am a playboy…just like you said.." Lelouch said at this point deciding that it would be best to put things to rest once and for all.
"That's not true" Shirley replied and chuckled.
"No! That's not true….I am…." Lelouch tried to find the right words.
Shirley upon seeing this only gave a small chuckle as she was the first to see Britannia's number one strategist without a move.
"Say, do you want to do the stuff after the kiss, too?" Shirley asked him
"I'm fine even if it wasn't a genuine kiss"
"No that's wrong!" Lelouch replied.
"Back to the usual Lulu now" Shirley happily told him.
"Eh?" he said.
"Lulu, you haven't been yourself lately" Shirley said to him.
Lelouch led out a breath of defeat knowing that he had finally been beaten, his mask was shattered and once that happened the truth came out.
"The truth is, I am a horrible person… I lie…cheat…steal, and if there's no other choice I kill…that's the kind of life the 'Iron Prince' leads, I was afraid of dragging you into that world, I thought that if I rejected you or acted irresponsible, you'd fall for it and give up.." he replied.
"It's okay, I forgive you. But in exchange I want you to close your eyes" Shirley told him.
Lelouch hesitantly replied.
Shirley placed her palms on Lelouch's face…and after a moment pinched his cheeks.
"You thought I was going to kiss you, didn't you?" Shirley said with a smile and released his cheeks.
"Ah,uhmm….as a probability event…" he tried to defend himself.
"Lulu, you pervert!" Shirley jokingly said.
"No, I!..." Lelouch tried to defend himself, but was cut off by Shirley.
"But someday, I'll make you fall in love with me." Shirley said as she grabbed both hats and exchanged them.
Outside..
"You guys really over reacted, nothing has happened here, commotions like this happen often in this school" Gyno said to the armed forces that were at the Academy's entrance.
"The end result's was kind of obvious" one student said as him and a collective looked at Lelouch's and Shirley.
Skies above the academy.
"What has all this commotion been about?" Guilford asked Suzaku, both men were in their knightmares.
"Sorry, it seems to have just been the President's graduation event" Suzaku replied happy that it was just that.
"Lelouch it seems like you finally got the point" Millie said to them.
"This was why you planned the event?" Shirley asked her.
"I was getting impatient with you guys. Keep wasting time like that and your time as students will be over" Millie replied.
"I am afraid that to me it's already over" Lelouch replied and this startled the crowd.
"What do you mean Lelouch?" Rivals asked.
Just then Suzaku, landed his Lancelot next to Lelouch, since Lelouch beeped him to come pick him up after the hat exchange.
Suzaku then got out of the Lancelot to meet everybody.
"Well the ceremony is suppose to be a few days from now, but I suppose I can tell you all…..I have been given the rank of Grand Marshall and the command of all the armies of the Empire, with that much work load I am afraid that I simply don't have time for school anymore so I came here a few days ago to enjoy my final tenure here….after this….after this it's 'Over the Hills and far away' for me and Suzaku over here permanently permanent" Lelouch replied and this saddened everyone present.
"You've got to be kidding me, first we lose the president and now Suzaku and Lelouch too, and this place won't be the same without you!" Rivals said dismayed.
"Can't be helped" Millie said and with this she flung her hat in the air and said:
"With this one road ends and another begins!"
"HURAHHHHHHHHHHH!" they all said
(Sometime latter Lelouch's ceremony, Ashford Academy school grounds)
The archbishop of New Canterbury came to Japan to host the ceremony, behind Lelouch Black Squadron his personal bodyguards on the field had formed a walkway, as was tradition.
Behind Black squadron the entire students of Ashford where assembled, TV camera's where broadcasting it to the world
Lelouch kneeled before the archbishop, and he said the traditional prayer.
"May your enemies route before you, may your armies be victorious, and may God bless you and keep you safe on the Field, this man before is now the heir of Wellington , the Third Grand Marshall!" the archbishop said and Lelouch got up.
Lelouch went to his friends and as he got there his brain automatically started playing an old song he was taught at West Point
Here's forty shillings on the drum
For those who'll volunteer to come
To 'list and fight the foe today.
Over the hills and far away.
"Rivals sneaking with you to go gambling was perhaps the most fun I ever had in my life, I promise that we will go again whenever I can make time available" Lelouch said and he hugged him and shook his hand, Rivals was now on the brink of crying.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
"Millie, you made my life here a merry go round, and although at some point it annoyed me to no end, I must say that if I could start over I would happily go through all of your crazy events again" Lelouch said and she hugged her. "
When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe.
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away.
Shirley I have to say there are few women like you…even after finding out I was a prince, you didn't try to please me, you didn't always said I am right, you continued to act as you did normally...and for this I thank you Shirley…I thank you for seeing who I am, and now what I am" Lelouch said to a now very flushed Shirley.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
Lelocu then turned to the student's assembled and said: "I want to thank you all for the times I spent with you for the memories, and I want you all to know that no matter where I go, what I become, I in my heart will always be Vice-President of the Student Council, pupil in class 3-d…I will always be Lelouch Lamperouge of Ashford Academy." He said and they all let out a cheer, well the boys did, the girls cried because he was leaving.
He then turned to Jeremiah, Suzaku, Kewell, Villetta , Odysseus, Kuribayashi ,George and Omar.
The Sarmizegetusa was a few douzen meeter parked from the entrence and they all made their way towards it.
They knew that a great battle was drawing near, and who lived who died was anybodies guess, but for now they marched towards the hsip, towards tomorrom.
If I should fall to rise no more,
As many comrades did before,
Then ask the fifes and drums to play.
Over the hills and far away.
Outside the Academy a crowd had gathered to watch them and cheered as they saw them apraoched the ship.
When Lelouch was about to board it, he stoped turned to the assembled crowd and said:
„The send off you have given me today is perhaps the greatest preasant i have ever receive, and i humbelly thank you from the bootom of my heart" to witch the corwd respodned with even greater cheer.
Then fall in lads behind the drum,
With colours blazing like the sun.
Along the road to come-what may.
Over the hills and far away.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
And so they boarded the ship and it took of..toward the unknown, toward tomorrow, towards the land which was Over the Hills and far away'.
Author's note Read and Review.
Let me know if I should continue.