Nunnally of the Reboot: Angel of Zero

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Code Geass

Summary: God repays his debts, but that doesn't mean he can't have fun with it! Instead of sending Lelouch back to the beginning, he sends Nunnally back even further into the past, with a few gifts. Ladies and Gentlemen, Numbers and Britannians of all ages, I give you Nunnally Vi Britannia, the Angel of Zero! May Lord Zero have mercy on your souls, for she won't! Pairings undecided, possible Harem.

Beta: Dragon Wizard 91

Regular speak

Thoughts

Demonic or Animalistic speak

Demonic or Animalistic Thoughts

Non-Demonic Higher Beings will change depending on mood

"ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!"

That was the cheer that rang throughout the air, drowning out one girl's cries for her brother not to leave, that he was all she had needed. Nunnally Vi Britannia sat, chained to the float in her prisoner outfit, stained with the blood of her most beloved sibling as she clutched the hand of her brother who, until now, she had believed had become a demon, a monster. And with just one touch of his hand, the truth became clear.

His rebellion, the mask of Zero, Geass, and this...the Zero Requiem…all to make the gentle world, 'Brother...Why? Can't you see? A gentle world...it means nothing if you're not there with me!' She thought in sorrow, unable to speak through her tears and cries. And the chanting that roared over her only served as an all too clear reminder that Suzaku, their friend, had been the one to slay Lelouch in the guise of Zero, the very identity Lelouch had created to start his rebellion.

"Brother...I'd...I'd give anything! Anything just to change this! Anything to have you stay with me!" She pleaded as she buried her head into the bloody chest of his fresh corpse.

"Would you really, Princess Nunnally?" A voice called as the whole of the world went deathly silent. She froze, recognizing that voice. She slowly and shakily lifted her head up to look at Zero, or Suzaku to be exact, standing where he had pierced the heart of the Demon Emperor and let him tumble down from his throne. He was frozen in place, posing dramatically with his sword.

"Behind you," The modified, authoritative voice of Zero called from behind her. She turned sharply, staring wide-eyed as she saw another Zero standing at the other end of the float; except, he wasn't Zero. The cloak and most of the mask were white instead of black and the suit and face-piece of the mask were golden instead of purple while the outlines on the cloak and suit were royal violet instead of yellow. It was only now that Nunnally noticed that the whole crowd, the whole world was frozen, people paused in the middle of cheering or jumping. Even the birds were stuck in the air, unmoved by gravity.

"Who...who are you? What's going on?" She asked, confused and scared at what was going on. Was this some kind of Geass?

"Who am I? A good question. Most humans call me God. Several that believe they understand my nature, including your parents refer to me as the World of C as well," The Zero-like being answered idly as it approached her, walking passed the many restrained prisoners that were 'officially' supposed to be executed.

"The World of C...," Nunnally whispered in shock, having a basic idea of what he was saying, thanks to the memories she had seen through her brother. The collective consciousness of mankind, in the form of a planet, now in a more human shape for some reason, "Why are you here?" She asked warily.

"To pay my respects to the man that, in more than one way, saved me," God answered casually as he stopped a few feet away from the Vi Britannia siblings. "I have seen the rise and fall of more generations than you can imagine, child. Your brother here is the greatest I've seen in ages," He commented fondly as he gazed upon the frozen body of the dead emperor, "The world couldn't have asked for a better Emperor. Pity that he couldn't bear to keep it. He could have done so much more than this," He added on, Nunnally flinching at the implications. "Just like Alexander, I suppose."

"It's all my fault," She whispered to herself.

"Not at all, Nunnally. You are one of the least guilty here," God retorted kindly, not unlike how Lelouch might be.

"Are...are you here to take his soul away?" The sister of the Demon Emperor asked sadly.

The Zero-God chuckled a bit as he strolled forward, "No, and he wouldn't be going to hell even if I was," He promised to her shock as he held out his hand for her to take, "Princess, would you mind taking a walk with me?" He asked, offering his hand for her.

There was a retort in her throat, about how she couldn't use her legs or how she was chained, but it died as she felt compelled to take his gloved hand. To her shock, to her utter amazement, she not only rose to her own two feet with his help, but the chain slipped right off of her- she was sure some of them phased through her, to be honest, "How...?" She whispered, tearing up a bit at finally being able to walk again, something she didn't think she'd ever be able to do. The legs didn't just work; they felt like she had never stopped using them. It was a wonderful feeling, but the death of brother quickly ate away at that brief sense of joy.

"Like I said, I am God. And this isn't the regular world any way," God answered as he waved his arm out dramatically, the cloak billowing for effect as the world melted away to show a strange place. There seemed to be fog or clouds everywhere, with a Greco-Roman shrine of some kind around them, which was also heavily damaged, "No matter how much I don't like your parents, I must admit that of all the ways the World of C has been perceived, your father's is begrudgingly one of my favorites," God commented with a laugh as Nunnally stared up at the planet in the sky that shared a resemblance to Jupiter.

"Did...I die of a heart attack or something?" She asked, confused as to why she was here. Wasn't this where the dead went or something? It was confusing, the memories had flashed through her much too quickly for specifics.

The Inversed Zero almost face faulted at that…almost, "No, you're not dead. Besides, I'm pretty sure Lelouch would kill me if I allowed you to die so soon and in such a fashion," He commented, sounding a bit amused. Though, he was serious, that boy would commit deicide over his sister. You didn't need to be all knowing to know that, "You and he are very much alike, really," God commented as Nunnally looked down sadly, "Lelouch may not have realized it, and he probably wouldn't have wanted to, but you're both the same. If given the chance, I'm sure you'd burn the whole world down just to get your brother back," He narrated, watching her idly, "After all, Schneizel could have used the FLEJIA on the capital when Lelouch was still in it. Yet, I know you made sure that wouldn't happen, manipulating him into thinking it would be better to win on a fairer field of battle rather than smiting him without warning. After all, that was the real reason for trying to turn the Damocles into the symbol of hatred that your brother became. You hoped and prayed that if you could make it worse than Lelouch ever was, then his sins would be washed away with the hatred of the world," He paused as Nunnally began shaking half way through the narration.

"Stop it..," She whispered, clenching her fists.

"Which was why he never let it known that you were the one firing the FLEJIA weapons, killing thousands with the press of a button. He couldn't stand to have another beloved sister be stained in the eyes of the world and history with so much blood because of him…not again," God continued, ignoring her words. There was no malice in his words, only calm apathy with a hint of curiosity, "You know it's not going to work right? The Zero Requiem? Your version wouldn't either. People always find reasons to fight, to hate. I'll admit though, it will give the world a breath of fresh air for a while, wiping the slate a bit. But in the end, be it five years or fifty, the world will be at war again. Though, worst case scenario is that all kinds of radicals and the like spring out of the woodwork, ready to pounce on a Britannia led by someone as 'weak and kind as you'. Though, you'd think they'd suspect your darker side, what with you being the only full blooded sister of the Demon Emperor," He paused again, seeing that Nunnally was starting to cry at this point.

"Please stop..." She begged, her voice cracking.

"You know what the worst part is? His real reason for the Requiem. It wasn't for peace, it wasn't for revenge, and it wasn't even for redemption. He was tired and broken. His allies had betrayed him, his friends were dead or gone, and you...you were dead. The center of his world, his drive for fighting, gone. Even after your return to being a princess, he could still fight in your steed to make the world you wanted. After he saved me from your parents, he just couldn't bring himself to care anymore. So, he decided to give it one last go…one last attempt at a miracle. And with that last miracle, he'd leave the world to sort itself out and hope for the best. You turning out to be alive, well, that made him stop and hesitate. If not for Suzaku's desire to see the plan through, I think he might have actually stopped the Zero Requiem. If you had appeared even a day earlier, he would have stopped completely, I'm sure. After all, when you did reveal your continued existence to them, Lelouch had already made his move against the United Federation, leaving him no real way of backing out without still-," God continued, only for Nunnally to snap her head to him with tear filled eyes, glaring into his mask.

"I said STOP!" She yelled, her commanding voice echoing throughout the World of C, "I know it's my fault! If it wasn't for me, Lelouch wouldn't have become Zero! He wouldn't have died! He might not have even been banished if I hadn't been born!" She ranted as she marched up to the Zero-based form of God, not caring who he was or that he was taller than her, "I know he never said it, and I believe he never thought it, but I know I was nothing except a burden to him! And I hate it! I hate that he made a world for me, destroying himself to do it, and I was never there! I could never help him, never comfort him! I know it's my fault that this is how things turned out..," She continued, her voice softening as tears built up again, before she shook her head and glared up at the masked face of God, "But I don't need you to repeat to me everything that I've already spent the last several months thinking about. If you're here to punish me, than just get on with it! Otherwise, send me back so I can at least try and make sure my brother's world lasts as long as possible!" She finished, panting heavily as she let loose several years of sadness and a few years of anger.

There was an eerie silence over the World of C, as if all of reality sat in shock of this girl's blatant disrespect and rant to the one called God. The Inversed Zero chuckled, warmly, and a surprised Nunnally had the impression he was truly happy about something, "Finally, some rage from you," He said contently, patting her on the head gently, "You're going to need it if you take up my offer," He said encouragingly.

"Offer?" She asked, confused and shocked. To be honest, she thought she might have pushed her luck after she realized what she had done, and to whom she had done it.

"Indeed, Nunnally. I'm sorry for pouring salt on your wounds, but I had to be sure you had some wrath in you, that you ARE more than the fragile, pure angel your brother and friends liked to think of you," God explained kindly, "Nunnally Vi Britannia, you said you would do anything to have your brother back. What if I gave you a chance to change everything? To stand by your brother's side, whatever path that might lead to? Would you do that? If it meant helping him in his rebellion against your own family and nation? If you had to stain your hands with as much blood as him, if not more? If you could save him, from the world and himself, would you do as he did and allow yourself to be damned for that choice?" He asked, serious and haunting, "Will you risk everything just to see your brother again and to stay at his side?"

It took Nunnally a few seconds to answer. Not out of hesitation, but out of incomprehension. She didn't know how she could save her brother, now or ever, "...If I could, yes, I would do anything...if it meant helping him, in any way, I would," She answered, taking a deep breathe, "But...I'm weak. For all my father's faults and cruelty, he was right about that," She said sadly

God chuckled, "While I'm sure Lelouch would disagree, I understand what you mean," He said, and Nunnally had the oddest feeling he was smirking at her, "Which is why my offer, my contract, is this: Nunnally Vi Britannia, I will send you back, back to the past, back to the days when everything changed for you. However, I will alter everything about that day, that day you lost your mother. You shall only be injured, not crippled, nor shall you be blinded. That is my gift to you, Nunnally, the tools you were robbed of by your own parents and uncle in their schemes to kill me," He explained, his voice taking on a dramatic tone, but he chuckled, "However, I'm sure you'll also find some skills you never knew you had," He continued.

Nunnally stood there, wide eyed at the offer. A chance...to go back in time? And to keep her legs and eyes? It was almost too good to be true...! "Is there...a catch? A cost?" She asked cautiously.

"There is only one rule, one cost of this contract, Nunnally. You can't trick or force Lelouch into simply living out a normal life, as a commoner or a prince. You may not like it, but the world needs your brother. To be blunt, "I" need him as well, with or without Geass," God explained simply.

Nunnally thought about it before putting on a small, weak smirk, "I'm guessing that's because you just like Zero's outfit and you want people to know who you're dressed as when they die," She accused playfully.

The Zero-God stiffened and almost seemed sheepish at that, "Something like that," He admitted vaguely, resisting the urge to scratch the back of his mask-covered head.

"But, why not send my Brother back instead?" Nunnally asked, confused on that subject more than anything. Why her when the debt was to her brother?

"Because sending your brother back wouldn't be as interesting. All he would have was his knowledge. Admittedly, that would make him incredibly more dangerous for a while. However, if I sent him back, you would still be the crippled angel he so desperately wants to protect. You were his greatest strength and weakness, Nunnally. What I'm really offering you is the chance to be more than that. To be his sword and his shield, his strength. Nunnally, I'm giving this to you because I think it's your turn to protect him," God answered, his words kind and soft the entire time.

"...Very well. I, Nunnally Vi Britannia, shall accept this contract, God, World of C," She said solemnly.

God nodded as he held out his hand, "I knew you would," He said softly as Nunnally reached out and held the hand while the planet hanging in the sky started to glow, "It's funny, Lelouch thought you were like an angel in this lifetime. But the angels have always been depicted as fierce and loyal warriors in service to God, not soft and passive beings that need protection. I suppose this'll be your chance to be a true angel now, Princess," God joked lightly as the world turned white, "But God won't be the one you serve, it will be that Demon Brother of yours," God added on, his voice getting further and further away...

The next thing the would-be empress knew was...nothing. Absolute emptiness. One would think that years as being blind and stuck in a wheelchair would make her familiar with the void she found herself in. The truth couldn't be more the opposite. Nunnally had not been born blind. She had seen how the world looked in her younger years before the death of her mother. While her 'world' at that time consisted mainly of her home, the Aries Villa, that had been enough.

Her other senses had heighted considerable after the lose of her eyesight. With that, she painted canvass in her mind over the years of how things really looked. And with her brother and friends helping her at times, she had a good mental image of everything. It was like a scetch book in her head. Sure, the shades of colors she mentally imagined were probably wrong, but it didn't matter to her. She just liked to make a face to think of for when she talked to Milly and the others. Still, she had always wondered how close her imagination was to the real things.

If she were placed in an unfimilar room for the first time, she would still image the things in it. Smells from the flowers and food, sounds from the wood that creeked almost unnoticible under her chair, how her wheelchair moved differently on varying floors, the taste of whatever was in the air at the time, hinting at water was happening or had happened. Touching anything with her own hands just...made the images more clear, more precise in her mind's eye.

But now? In this blackness? She felt nothing. She saw nothing, with her mind or her eyes. It was as if she had been robbed of all her senses. A situation that would make her truly dead in her own mind. For how is one alive if they can't interact with the world, or ever sense or see the world in any state? She wasn't sure, but she thought she was crying at that thought. Was this her fate? To be so cruelly offered an impossible chance and than sentenced to this hell?

"Nunnally..." Her name was whispered by a familar voice, so broken, so distraught, that it nearly broke her heart to hear it. Yet, it also made her smile in joy. It was him, Lelouch, her brother! She whispered his name, or she thought she did, as she tried to force herself to follow his voice, to be where ever he was. She didn't know if it was working. Then she felt it, a hand upon her own, holding it gently.

"Nunnally, please wake up...I can't lose you too," A ten year old Lelouch begged lightly to the form of his seven year old sister, leaning his head onto the hospital bed. He hadn't left her bedside in two days...two days since the 'terrorist attack' in their home, resulting in Nunnally being injured and forced to watch their mother ontop of her. A horrible experience, Lelouch knew. She hadn't woken up yet and Lelouch had this unnatural worry in his gut that she might never wake up. After all, the doctors had said she wasn't in a coma. Still, after losing his mother, the thought of losing his sister was an unbariblly soul crushing prospect.

"...Big Brother?" Nunnally asked, her voiced strained and shocked. Lelouch snapped his head up to look into the violet eyes of his sister. Their eyes never broke contact as their just stared at each other for the longest time,as if each was trying to make sure the other was truly real and not a figment of their imagination. Than, all at once, they were embracing each other tearfully, Nunnaly's small arms around Lelouch's neck while his were wrapped tightly around her chest. Neither knew who hugged first, and netiher cared in the slightest over such an unimmportant fact.

After a few moments, the two pulled back and dried their eyes. However, Lelouch looked confused as he saw Nunnally smile at him, so filled with joy and...was that hope in her eyes? Then, a horrible thought struck him. Nunnally...had she forgotten what happened? Or simply thought it was a horrible nightmare? His looks sadden, ever so slightly, as he steeled himself to tell his sister the horrible news.

"Brother?" She asked worriedly, seeing his sorrowful expression. Why was-? 'Oh, that's right. Mother just died for him,' She remembered sadly.

"Nunnally...mother is dead," He said, in a strange mixture of blunt gentleness that only someone like Lelouch could pull off.

Nunnally realized she could either feign shock and horror, or..."I know," She said, her smile now tainted with sadness as Lelouch looked just a bit confused.

"Than...why are you smiling?" He couldn't help but ask, wondering what she could find joyous in this dark hour.

"I'm sorry, Lelouch, it's just..." She started as her tears built up again, for every word she was about to say was the truth, "I thought I lost you too!" She declared before pulling him into a hug, this time, her arms clinging around his chest as he looked down in shock, "I thought...I thought I lost everything. You, mother, Euphemia, everyone!" She continued, crying into his chest, just as she had wanted to for months now,, in her former life anyway, "I can't lose you, Brother!" She declared as he held her, letting her cry as much as she needed.

To Lelouch, he assumed she had had a bad dream that was caused by the shock and fear of losing their mother. Still, the desperation in her voice was clear, even to a-admittedly intelligent- child such as himself. Nunnally need him, now more than ever, "It's okay, Nunnally," He assured softly as he brushed his hand through her hair, "No matter what happens, you'll never lose me," He promised, his eyes taking on a steely look in his eyes, one he inherited from his father, that Nunnally didn't see.

And what he didn't see was the same in Nunnally's eyes, 'You're right, Brother. I won't lose you. And I'll make sure you never have to protect me again, not like how you did last time. The world may need you, God may need you, but none may take you away,' She swore to herself, 'I'll die before I let you go again…It's my turn to protect you.'

End of Chapter

There we go, my first chapter of my first Code Geass fic. I hope you all enjoyed this. I have seen MANY CG fics where Lelouch is sent back, sometimes with others and sometimes other people being sent back without him. However, I thought this might be an interesting approach, to send Nunnally back alone with minimal information.

Here, Nunnally is being sent back with her eyes and legs. How this will change things, people can only guess. However, keep in mind she doesn't know everything- Lelouch's life literally flash before her eyes. So, she does NOT have his autobiography in her head. So, in reality, all God, or Inversed Zero as I like to call him, is giving Nunnally a chance to be at Lelouch's side and play with the big kid rather being the one everyone is trying to protect.

IMPORTANT: in regards to pairing and if this will be incest…I don't know. To be blunt, I don't care if it does or doesn't end up like that. It's very possible. Hell, a Lelouch/Harem is possible. But that's not my real focus here. My focus is Nunnally's personality change/growth and the changes to the timeline as a result.

Normally, I'd leave you all with several 'Questions to Ponder' but there aren't really to be asked yet that aren't too obvious.