"Was he really singing while he was digging my grave?"

This was C.C.'s first thought as Charles's half brain-dead son looked at her with curiosity. When she woke up, she wasn't expecting to be in his present company, or anybody's present company for that matter. Certainly not in the care of the Dimwitted Prince of all people.

Suddenly, he walked up to her. He stopped a few feet in front of her and crouched down a few inches from her face, curiosity taking over his demeanor. C.C. couldn't be help but be a bit surprised, the usual reactions when people see her come back to life for the first time was stepping back away in surprise/fear or indifference, for the very weird ones anyway, not even Clovis was this a-keen to her when she was discovered. Suddenly, the dimwit brought his finger up and poked her right in the nose.

"Uh..." Was all C.C. could say.

The kid brought his finger he poked her with to his chin.

"Hmm...ghost or zombie?...Zombie-Ghost!" He exclaimed after thinking about it.

C.C. just stared at him blankly.

"A witch actually..." C.C. muttered.

"A Witch-Zombie-Ghost!" He exclaimed excitedly.

C.C. just signed.

"Hard to believe this guy is actually related to Charles...yet...something feels familiar about his aura..."

Deciding to ponder more about it later, she started to get up.

"I'm not a ghost or a zombie. I'm immortal." C.C. said patiently.

"Coolio!" Raises his hand for her to shake. "Joseph Du Brit-"

"Yes, I know, you told me. You can call me C.C."

"C.C.? Like Cece?"

"No."

"Cécile?"

"No."

"Cee-Saw?"

"No."

"Seaweed?"

"No!" C.C. now exclaimed with a bit of aggravation in her voice.

"...R2-D2?" The moron innocently asked.

C.C. eye started to twitch, and instead of bothering to answer him, she walked out of the building. Knowing if she stood there any longer, she would end up doing something she just might regret.

"Not even five minutes with him and he's already the most annoying person on the planet." C.C. thought with passion.

C.C. thought she would have grown immune to morons like him, but I guess every century needs to have a someone that'll just eventually start scratching at her skin.

"Hey, where going?" Joseph asked as he followed her.

"I rather not be here when the calvary arrive." C.C. said as she tried to keep a faster pace than him, to no avail as he stay right behind her.

"But brother said stay, place already swept." Joseph tried to argue.

"And I've been on this Earth long enough to know there's always a straggler or two. Besides he told you to stay, as far he's aware, I'm dead." C.C. retorted back.

"Ah..." Was all Joseph said, as if he just figured that out...which he probably did. Then he asked something that may have questioned her own sanity at this point.

"Hey, do immortals poop?"

...

They walked together in silence for some time, C.C. stopped answering his questions after he asked if immortals still pick their noses. It was a fair question, after all, does mucus still form or does it all just go away after picking it dry one last time.

While he still thought it was a better idea to stay where Lelouch asked him to, he didn't like leaving this woman to fend for herself either, she was just captured after all. However seeing that C.C. wasn't in the talking mood, he decided to play some of his music instead.

He took out his Walkman, remember he still had his "Walking Music" in the slot. He pressed the play button.

More bounce

More bounce
More bounce
Much more bounce

Bounce much more
I like to bounce
And I'm gonna make you bounce
Much more bounce

More bounce to the ounce
(Much more bounce)
More bounce to the ounce
(Yeah)

Joseph danced with the beat, moving his hip to the right and his arm to the left, kicking his feet with each step, rocking out to the funky tune that is Zapp. Interestedly enough, C.C. didn't look at him with the usual WTF he got from people when he danced around these type of areas, but more of a puzzlement, as if she sort of expected him to do it.

"You're choosing now to play music and dance?" C.C. asked.

"Why not play music and dance?" Joseph asked back as he continued his dancing. (From C.C. perspective, he actually had some moves on him.)

"So. Gave brother superpowers. How?" Joseph asked still dancing to the beat.

"It's an ability I have. I can give the power of Geass to other people." C.C. said

"Geass? Like the Force? Cool." Joseph asked over his music.

"Not exactly..." C.C. quietly muttered (not wanting to have to explain to this simpleton how Geass works)

"Like Jedi Master. Giving mito-chontros to people." Joseph said with enthusiasm.

"One. It's pronounced Midichlorians. Two. That's not how the Midichlorians work...actually, I'm not sure that was ever really explained in those films."

"Still cool." Joseph replied as he continued dancing. "Why Lelouch?" He couldn't help but wonder.

"I could tell he wanted power. So I gave it to him." C.C. responded with.

Joseph knew what she meant by power. Not superpowers, but a different kind of power. The kind he heard his dad talk about it all time, at least when there was TV around.

"Lelouch? Naaahhh, not like that. Good guy." Joseph reassured.

"You be surprised what kind of ideals people have."

"Ehh, dad is Emperor."

C.C. raised her eyebrows. "Touche..." (From C.C. perspective: "Perhaps he's not as dumb as I thought.)

C.C. decided to stop walking for a moment.

"Can I ask you something?" C.C. asked, as he continued to dance.

"Abso-toda-lutely." He responded as he pushed the stop button on his walkman.

"Why did you save that little girl from being killed? You yourself could have died, and risked Lelouch and I getting caught. Even though he pretty much did that on his own."

Joseph just shrugged.

"Just kid, deserves life. Besides, guys were hidden, no risk." He answered with a toothy grin.

"How do you know those soldiers wouldn't have investigated the place you jumped out of?" C.C. came back with.

Joseph opened his mouth and then realized the holes that C.C. poked in his plan.

"Oh yeeeaahhhh, doy!" Joseph said as he boinked himself on the head, wondering why he didn't think of that.

"You don't really think things through, do you boy?" C.C. asked

Once again, Joseph just shrugged.

"If do something, do it stupid." Joseph proudly said as he made put his hands on hips and puffed out his chest.

C.C. blinked at him.

"You're a very strange individual."

Joseph continued to dopily smile at her. "Thank you."

Suddenly, they both a heard a loud noise coming their way.

"Hide." C.C. said as she ran into a ruined building, Joseph followed behind, though still poked his head out a tiny bit to get a look at what's going on. And what he saw made his eyes widen in amazement.

It was a knightmare, but not just any knightmare, a cool looking knightmare.

Not to say the other nightmares weren't cool looking, but this specific knightmare was super cool looking. It was white colored and had gold trimmings on the sides of its arms and legs, its head was sort of shaped like it had a helmet, armor to be exact. Joseph felt like he was looking at a robotic knight as it was looking around less mechanically and more biologic, sort of like a Transformer. Only one word came out of Joseph's mouth as the giant white robot changed directions and left.

"Badass."

Joseph started jumping on the different levels of the broken building. C.C. watched him with curiosity.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Better look!" He yelled back to her.

He climbed through a hole in the roof, and looked upon the landscape of the Shinjuku Ghetto. It wasn't a pretty sight, but it was always cool to see a city in all its gravitas, no matter how gray or broken it was. He could see the white knightmare taking out other knightmares in the distance, it was so cool!

"Attention all forces, cease fire!" A voice said through an intercom throughout the whole ghetto. Joseph recognized it was Clovis's, he seen him speak a few times on one of those big TVs recently.

"In the name of Clovis la Britannia third imperial Prince and Viceroy of Area 11, you are ordered to cease fire! I repeat, you are ordered ordered to cease fire at once! You will cease in destructions of anymore buildings! All casualties and wounded, whether they are Britannian or Eleven will be treated without prejudice! In my name as the third Britannian prince, I shall not allow any further fighting so cease fire at once!"

Joseph couldn't but wonder. "Was that you Lelouch?"

He jumped back down through the hole of the building to ask C.C.'s opinion about this.

"Hey, think that-"

Joseph wasn't able to ask his question as he discovered that C.C. was now gone.

Confused, he looked around and didn't see her anywhere.

"C.C.?"

He went outside the building and still couldn't find her.

"C.C.! Cee-Saw!...Seaweed?!" Joseph called out to her, trying out the various nicknames he came up with her. Still nothing.

She must have wandered off while he was on top of the building. And just when they were starting to become friends too.

"Ah man...cool woman...oh well."

He figured he see again anyway, after all, she is Lelouch's Jedi Master/Superhero Mentor now, probably will want to watch over him.

"Welp, back to the place Lelouch told me to hide...which issssssss..." Joseph thought as he tried to decipher which way the building was he hid in earlier with C.C.

He realized he had become lost.

"Dang it! All these buildings look the same." Joseph exclaimed in his head. He thought it be best to try and retrace his steps.

...

C.C. watched Joseph leave from afar.

"That boy is just going to drag me down...oh please, like you never found him annoying when he was living with you...Very funny..."

She left in the other direction.

"...Still, something about him seems strange...not the obvious strangeness, more like something inside him, as if..."

...

Later...

"What the hell?!" Lelouch exclaimed as he saw that Joseph was gone from the site he left him at.

"For goodness sake, Joseph! You couldn't follow a simple set of instructions!? Unless..."

Could it be he was captured? Lelouch doubted it, as he's seen his brother's capabilities. Still, even the most swift can stumble.

Lelouch realized he really didn't have time to ponder, as it may cause suspicion if he stayed here too long. So while he didn't want to, he had to leave this area.

"Forgive me Joseph. But now that I have this power, I must push my plans forward. I hope you're safe, where ever you are." Lelouch thought sadly, but also with determination, knowing now he can finally get his revenge on Britannia.

Still, he should come back and look for him the next chance he can get. He had so many questions for him. And one very important than the others.

"If this power requires eye contact, why didn't it affect Joseph? Is it because of his mental capacity? Or does he have some sort connection? I have to ask him what he felt when he was looking at me when I find him again." Lelouch thought as he went his way back to Nunnally.

To Be Continued...

And there's chapter 4. This was fun to write because I got to show more how Joseph would carry a casual conversation, or at least from his point of view, a casual conversation. I also wanted to make sure he wasn't straight out dumb, he's aware of what goes on in the world and what kind of man his father is. More of his morals will be brought out in later chapters. Until then, enjoy and please comment.