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A/N: Code Geass's timeline is very short. The entirety of "Lelouch of the Rebellion" takes place within 2 months and R2 takes around 4 months. I'm extending the timeline to make events happen a little slower.

Krakatoa
Chapter 2

-VB-

Landing on top of the decrepit warehouse that the truck crashed into, I arrived just in time to see the Britannian officer pulling his gun up to shoot Suzaku.

I… let it happen because this was the start of it all. If Lelouch didn’t get his Geass right now, then who knew what would happen to canon.

I watched as Lelouch himself was about to be gunned down, only for C.C. to intervene.

And then it happened.

I closed my eyes, but still sensing the world through my psychic power and my other four senses, as Lelouch rose up, laughing.

He ordered all of the soldiers to kill themselves and laughed.

From the angle I was looking at, he really did look like a megalomaniac like his opponents would call him as. What I also saw was the relief and renewed life in his laughter. They remained subtle underneath his bloodthirsty joy, but I could hear it.

And this was when I chose to drop down.

"Ho~?"

Yes, I was starting off my introduction with a deep brass utterance in clothes that had been wet with piss but no longer since a mere minute ago. Thank you, alchemy!

Lelouch froze in his batshit insane laugh and saw me.

"I command you, kill yourself!"

Nothing happened, because my eyes were closed. I decided to toss him a bone before he broke down in panic.

"So it needs direct eye contact to work! I see, I see!" I hummed in faux-interest. "So what will you do now, Lelouch vi Britannia??

"W-Who are you?" the exiled prince demanded with gritted teeth.

"I am … a nobody!" I replied theatrically, spreading my arms wide open, and then brought the arms back. With the same inward moment, I used my psychic power to raise all of the dead soldiers. "Or maybe I'm someone like you."

Actually, if I keep talking like this, wasn't there a chance that I became an archival or something?

That's no good.

I walked up to one of the dead soldiers and wrapped my arms around his shoulders.

"Maybe I want to add you to my collection?"

I didn't buy any necromantic powers. This was just me bluffing by mimicking movement with subtle pushes and pulls that I was manually making with the bodies.

But this was enough to make Lelouch backpedal in horror.

I laughed. "I kid, I kid!" God, this was so much fun! Getting reactions out of him was entertaining.

I let the bodies drop, and still using my psychic powers like a sonar, I took a step forward and over the bodies of the dead soldiers.

"Still, wow, to think that you are still alive. Who would have thought?" I hummed again as if I wasn't being threatening, even if unintentionally, by mentioning that tidbit. "Oh. Wait. Ashford Academy uniform. The Ashfords are keeping you safe. Oh, this is going to be such a great blackmail~!"

It was one way to get my hands on Milly for one night stand, and then she would be mine.

Would she go for it, though? She might.

.. yeah, having power already had me doing things I wouldn't normally do. Was this the true me? A barbaric sadist using otherworldly power to get his dick wet?

Well, I'm pathetic, but at least my dick will be wet and warm.

"... what do you want?" Lelouch hissed.

"It's obvious what you're going to do. Britannia killed your sister. No older brother with power like yours and the blood of your father wouldn't act."

He twitched in anger at being reminded again of his lineage.

"Let's make a deal. I'm not going to get in your way. Not really."

"You… aren't?"

"I have no interest in seeing a single global power dominating the world! That's boring!" I really didn't want a fascistic social Darwinism pushing monarchy to rule the world. That would be bad for me. "So instead… I'll help you."

"You're going to help? What do you gain from this?"

"Didn't I say that already?"

"No, I don't believe you."

…Oh. Well, I was being truthful. I shrugged. "Oh well, then. I guess I won't then," I said as I backed off. I paused before dramatically looking down at the "body" on the ground. "Oh, look. Your friend is alive."

Lelouch immediately went down to check on Suzaku. He realized once he was on his knees that he turned his back on me. When he whirled around to look, I just waved back.

He hesitated, but I intentionally positioned myself on the opposite side from Suzaku. He turned only after a moment and applied basic first aid.

And then there was the rolling sound of a knightmare approaching.

Lelouch looked up and saw a knightmare. He glanced at me … and saw me pretending to be a scared and useless adult.

"What happened here?!"

I recognized that voice.

I just realized that I could use this chance to nab my first waifu. Someone I would have honestly no compunction about inducing into my harem.

Because as much as Villetta Nu was a beloved character, she was a racist soldier taking part in gunning down unarmed civilians in a ghetto.

I watched with my fake stammer as Lelouch convinced Villetta to help him, which he does by pretending to be a son of a Duke. The promotion-hungry knightess(?) stepped out of her Sutherland Knightmare to check his status, and when she got on eye level with him, Lelouch used his geass to command her to give him her knightmare.

Lelouch glanced me, unsure of what I would do or act.

"Do as you said and stay out of my way," he rudely demanded before getting in the Sutherland, and off he went to make his destiny!

However, this left me with the dead bodies and Villetta Nu, who woke up from Lelouch's geass. I quickly did a clap alchemy to make myself a blank white mask without any hole. I could see with my psychic power, so what use were eye holes?

Villetta looked around in shock … and watched as I dropped my sniveling act.

"What…? Where did that student go? Where is my knightmare?!"

I grinned and lied, because I wanted to test something. "Oh? You don't remember? I killed the kid and flung him and his knightmare away." I waved my hand and the bodies stood back up, twisting their heads unnaturally to look at her.

She became green with sickness at the sight and stared at me in horror.

I dropped the bodies, and they dropped back down.

"And I think a murderous bitch like you deserve an asskicking."

She flinched but got ready to fight.

And I rushed forward.

Unfortunately for her, I knew how to fight even before I got my powers, and combined with them, she was slower and weaker than me.

I let her try out her kicks and punches. I dodged them leisurely.

And then gut-punched her hard enough to make her drop to the ground clutching her stomach.

"Weak," I hummed before walking over to Suzaku and dragged him over to her. She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. "I'll let you go if you take your injured comrade back to base. You wouldn't be worth keeping alive if a murderous bitch like you also abandons your comrade."

I watched as she weakly slung his shoulder over hers before walking away while hunching forward, still in pain.

But I felt it.

Despite the fact that I was absolutely horrible to her in this encounter, I felt something connect her to me. It was like one of my powers was telling me that I already used it on her, so it highlighted her for me to recognize that fact.

Huh. Sweet.

"Lady-Killer" worked despite how horrible I had been to Villetta by punching her and threatening her life. If I could go that far, then what was the least that constituted as defeating someone?

She wasn't "captured" or anything. She was just now more susceptible to my approach. Combined with Pushover I bought, I might actually get away with asking her out and getting into her bed on the same day.

Hmm. Something to test and think about later.

For now, I intended to wait until the current disaster came to an end. I might as well have Kallen and her terrorist cell located in the mean time.