Act 1: The Unseen Visitor

Chapter 1: Arrival of the Demon

Location: Tokyo Settlement, Area 11

Time: 10:55 PM

The moment Lelouch vi Britannia walked through the door to a new life, there was a blinding flash of light as he seemed to enter what appeared to be a nice hotel suite. He looked behind him to see the door to the suite open to the hallway behind. All seemed normal to an average person if they saw from an outside point of view, but from Lelouch's view everything would be far from ordinary.

Lelouch remembered he was to meet someone that the collective subconscious had assigned to guide him in this new universe. Lelouch turned his attention back to the room and found it vacant of anyone with no signs at all. The room itself was rather large with the main colors of the room being white with red pattern scheme. It had two king sized mattresses with an open laptop on the corner desk and a gun on a bed to the far side of the room. The TV seemed to show a rather boring news report about some hurricane hitting south of the Britannian Homeland. Lelouch closed the door behind him and strolled over to the open laptop to get a hint at who his guide will be, but sadly it seemed like a recently bought laptop from the EU without anything special on it.

The room was strangely quiet, and this troubled Lelouch greatly. It seemed that his contact wasn't in the room, or whoever it is must be running late. Lelouch simply sighed at the thought of an incompetent assistant the collective subconscious must have given him. Sadly there was nothing he could do at the current moment, so he resided himself to the news as it played on the TV for information on his new world.

It seemed like few bits of the world is different than his own. Firstly, Australia is now called the Oceanic Republic with its fleet size and coast defenses making the country into a seemingly impregnatable fortress for a continent. Secondly, the EU faces rebellion on their colonies on the African continent making the government spend countless resources to protect their profits. Finally, a war that at some point started between the Middle Eastern Federation and the Chinese Federation was finally concluded with the Middle East losing the following regions from Iran: Golestan, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Semnan. This resulted with Iran struggling to leave the Middle Eastern Federation and join the EU, so far no success has been made.

The clock on the wall kept ticking away, with no sign of the informant nearby. Where is my contact, thought Lelouch to himself as he was getting bored from the many propaganda articles appearing on the screen. He must really be an imbecile to forget to meet with me. When Lelouch was convinced that his contact wasn't going to show, the door to the room slowly pushed open. Lelouch rushed over to the gun on the bed and aimed towards the door to see a small teen with a Pizza Hut box walking in.

The teen in question was Britannian in appearance with sandy brown hair and green eyes, with an estimated age of 15. He seemed to pay no attention to Lelouch as he closed the door behind him and placed his pizza box next to the laptop. Lelouch didn't let his guard down, but in the corner of his mind he felt that the kid was possibly dangerous.

"Has your mother ever told you not to point a gun at people, especially when they bring you food?" said the brown haired teen, as he turned the around the chair by the desk to face Lelouch directly.

Lelouch eyed the teen with amusement saying, "Your the person that the collective subconscious sent to assist me." The teen nodded confirming, but Lelouch still needed information from him. "What is your name?"

The teen simply chuckled at his question, clearly not expecting this question to be asked first. "Aren't you going to ask what's different about this world from your own?"

"I need to know more about you, if I am to trust you." retorted Lelouch.

This caused the teen to start a full on laugh, "This is coming from someone like you! this is a joke isn't it!"

Lelouch gritted his teeth in anger at the clear insult and lift his gun as emphasis. The teen got the gesture and slowly clamed his laughter with his hands raised, and trying to look as innocent as he can.

The teen lazily smiled and answered the question, "You win, my name is Jasper Griswald."

Lelouch clearly didn't like, the newly introduced, Jasper's response. "Where am I?"

"Geez, you make this sound like I abducted you" Said Jasper with a laugh. Lelouch didn't laugh one bit, causing Jasper to lose his laughter and put on a serious face. "You are at the Tokyo High Inn, which is inside of Tokyo Settlement."

"Why were you late to our meeting?"

Jasper rubbed the back of his head nervously "I wanted to try Clovisland before we were to meet. When I noticed I was already late, I thought you would be hungry, so I went to buy us a pizza to eat for dinner."

Lelouch felt like hitting his head, his 'guide' was literally an imbecile. This teen was supposed to be his backup sent from seemingly a god, and he doesn't realize that work comes before anything. Why of all people, did the collective subconscious give me this fool to work with. Lelouch was going to ask more, until his stomach rumbled as a sign to stop. This was clearly embarrassing, but Lelouch kept his straight face to have his point remain. Sadly, it rumbled again, causing Lelouch to hang his head in annoyance.

Jasper heard Lelouch's stomach rumble and quickly grabbed the pizza box. Jasper then slowly walked over and showed Lelouch the box in hopes of lifting up his spirts. Lelouch simply looked up, only to sigh and dropped his gun to accept a slice from him. This caused Jasper to brighten up a bit and he sat on the bed next to Lelouch. Lelouch didn't take much comfort from his actions, but decided not to be rude.

"Now that your in a better mood, I can finally explain this world for you." Jasper began saying with a joyful tone. "To start off, in the year 2010 a.t.b, Britannia invaded J-"

"I already know Britannia invaded Japan in 2010 a.t.b, tell me something I don't know." Lelouch interrupted.

"Finally, someone who already knows what happened." said Jasper with his hands raised to the sky. Lelouch raised an eyebrow at that comment, but decided to let it slide. Jasper merely shrugged his next words "your half-sister Laila la Britannia was disowned by your father after the invasion of Japan."

This brought news to Lelouch's ear, Clovis's full-blooded sister was no longer a member of the royal family. "What did she do to have the Emperor to disown her from the family?"

Jasper shook his head with clear amusement, "All I heard was that she was upset at you and your sister's proclaimed deaths in Japan. She then privately talked with the Emperor about his incompetence and was so close to stabbing the Emperor in anger, but was restrained. Clovis was said to have calmed the situation down, and convinced the Emperor to allow his sister to live in Area 11 as a simple commoner."

Lelouch felt a moment of laughter, but restrained it when he heard that Laila was willing to stand up for him and his sister. Clearly this world's Laila is different my world's. "How is she doing right now."

"She's doing fine, besides Clovis broke some rules of the agreement when he gave her a small apartment that she doesn't have to pay rent for and checks as her allowance. Although, she has mellowed out more and has become more respectful to the lower classes. Honestly, she is hardly like the last time you saw her on your world."

Lelouch chuckled a bit, "It seems a commoner's life really suits her."

"Also, your sister Nunnally is able to see again, but she still can't walk."

Lelouch felt a bolt of joy in his heart at that comment, but he knew there was some information still held back from him. "Who will be the 'Zero' of this world?"

Jasper opened his mouth, only to close it and think of his next words over in his head. Finally after figuring out his words, he said "The collective subconscious told me not to tell you who this 'Zero' will be."

Lelouch had a face of frustration, which only caused Jasper to be more joyful.

Jasper chuckled for a while, till he resumed his briefing of the world. "The EU is advanced some more in Knightmare technology, along with the Middle Eastern Federation. Britannia is facing a possible economic depression. The Oceanic Republic is a more important nation than it has before. Finally, climate change has frozen the southern most part of Area 1."

Lelouch seem skeptical at the last comment with a raised eyebrow, "Are you serious?"

Jasper started to laugh with a hand in front of his mouth and shaking his head. "No, that last part was a joke."

Lelouch didn't seem amused at the joke, causing Jasper to hang his head down in depression. Lelouch had gotten hardly any information he really needed if he was to truly make a difference in this world. An idea to get more information came into his mind, but this would be breaking the rules of the collective subconscious.

He didn't care, he needed information immediately, "Jasper, would you please look in my direction?"

Jasper didn't give it a second thought as he turned around to see Lelouch removed his hand from his eyes.

"You'll answer all my questions without hesitation." Lelouch commanded.

Jasper seemed to look confused, before he his eyes widen in realizing what Lelouch was trying to do. Geass, the Power of Kings, only few possess it from a contract with a Code Bearer. Jasper was informed before hand that he must always be wary of Lelouch, because he is likely to use it if he didn't get what he wants.

...

Interestingly though, nothing seemed to happen as the two began to awkwardly stare at each other in confusion.

"Uh, I think you … might have messed up whatever you were ... intending to do." Jasper said as he turned his head away.

While Jasper was trying to calmly avoiding eye contact, Lelouch was wondering why Jasper wasn't under his Geass. They seemed to be quiet thinking to themselves on their first interaction, coming out with different results. For Lelouch, he knew he has to make Jasper trust in him more if he wants to be told more about this world. On the other hand, Jasper was thinking that he should have asked the collective subconscious for a better assignment with a more laidback person to work with.

Either way, both Lelouch and Jasper are supposed to work together in this world without any issues, but unfortunately they now distrust each other greatly.

"Well … I'm going to get ready for the night, so I'll sleep on the bed closes to the door." Jasper said to get out of this awkward conversation.

Lelouch simply nodded, but asked one more question "Since this is a new world with different versions of people, who is my counterpart for this world?"

Jasper simply chuckled at that question as he was head towards the, now empty, pizza box to throw it away. "I think it would be rather fun if you were to figure it out on your own."

Lelouch knew he couldn't pry anymore information out of him for today, so he turned in for the night ready for next morning's plan.

Location: Ashford Academy, Area 11

Time: 7:34 AM

A young girl was having trouble sleeping, it seemed she was suffering from a terrible nightmare. It wouldn't surprise many people if they knew her full story, but for now she's struggling to rest peacefully. The girl was of around 14 years of age, had sandy brown hair and violet eyes. Most people wouldn't believe it if you had told anyone her name, after all she is suppose to be dead. Her name is Nunnally vi Britannia, but most people only know her as Nunnally Lamperouge.

She continued shaking in her sleep of an image played out in her head. It showed the a young, raven haired, teen that she has never seen before as he was stabbed by a masked man in front of a life audience. The teen's body tumbled down a steep incline of his platform with a trail of blood behind him. When he reached the bottom, she saw herself in chains crying on this boy's body. The teens last words were the only noise she heard in this seen.

She kept repeating his words and voice over and over in her head, "Yes, I have...destroyed the world...and created...a...new?"

For some reason, this only made her cry more with physical tears pouring down on her face. She can still see the teens face clearly, as he seemed to be pleased with himself.

Eventually a knock came at the door, causing Nunnally to wake up with a shock. The door opened to reveal her trustworthy maid, Sayoko Shinozaki.

Sayoko was a 24 year old Japanese woman with a kind heart to the vi Britannia siblings. Sayoko has brown hair with light brown eye in her usual maid outfit.

"Are you alright, Lady Nunnally?" asked Sayoko, noticing the shanked Nunnally. She had heard Nunnally speaking in her sleep, when she was making breakfast for her young masters.

"It...was just a bad dream...I should be fine." said Nunnally, as she tried to calm her breathing.

"Would it be okay is you want to talk about it?" Said Sayoko with concern.

"No, it should be fine."

"If you ever want to talk about it privately, just ask." Nunnally nodded her head in appreciation for Sayoko's effort. "Well, it's time to get ready for school now, let me help you."

"Thank you, Sayoko." replied Nunnally with a small smile.

Sadly, nothing seemed to clear her mind as it constantly strayed back to the dream she had. Nothing seemed to catch her attention as the raven haired teen from her dream could never leave her mind. Who was he, and why is his face keep appearing over and over in my mind. Little does she know, the person from her dream was soon to appear some day.

"I wish the world was a gentle place." - Nunnally vi Britannia

Author's notes: I truly wish to inform you more of this land and it's new characters, but in the length of this chapter coming to quite a long one, I felt it was best to end here. I also like the few reviews I have seen, and I'll see what reviews I will be able to put into the world effectively. I promise that in possibly two or three more chapters are needed to explain and help situate Lelouch to be ready when action will be introduced, but if I can speed it up then I will. Also, if you wish for more description then I'll try to add more.