The Mechanical voice said, strangely pleasantly, Lelouch thought.
"Alright, Sentry-san!"
Nana said smiling, and plopped into a nearby chair.
Lelouch grinned at her, and sat next to her, while Clovis looked around for a while and then decided to sit next to Lelouch. Lelouch was slightly startled at that, but then decided he didn't really mind it all that much, oddly enough.
Cornelia, in the meanwhile, had sat down next to Clovis, and gotten Charles a seat next to her. Lelouch looked at the two of them talking avidly together, and twitched. Oh, it wasn't like they were even from the same worlds, but...
From the way Clovis was looking at them, he probably felt the same way. Oh, well - He'd try to see if he could talk Sentry into analyzing Cornelia and Charles's DNA, later on. Oh, and why he was doing that, cross-checking that kind of thing with all his new Teammates might be a good idea, too...
"Before we begin the briefing proper, we will first provide information about what is happening in the Timelines that you have left behind. - Will that be acceptable?"
Lelouch twitched, thinking of a thousand things that he would rather prefer his new Teammates not know about him, or not like this, anyway. - However...
"Hell, yeah, it's about time!"
Cornelia cheered, banging her hands on the desk in front of them. Ahh, well...
"Yes? Then we shall proceed. First - Kururugi Nana!"
"Yaay!" Nana cheered happily. Lelouch sighed, and decided to hope for the best.
A large ball of light had materialized before them...
A large collection of walls and buildings. Large Knightmares walking around - with wooden (wooden??) arms and - very large bows and arrows?.
"Oh, look, that's the Setagaya Settlement - It's where I came from!" Nana said happily.
"It's very nice." Lelouch commented, but then stopped dead as the scene focused on two people sitting next to a grassy - vegetable patch.
"You shouldn't be walking around so much, Eupham..."
The green-eyed young woman said, happily, as the young lavender-haired man with a cane leaned against the tree and smiled at her.
"But I was so bored...And...Ahhh..."
"Mmmmmmmmm?"
"Thank you for, ahh, helping me get here, Miss Akemi..."
Lelouch stared, as the two shared a soft kiss. No, wait, what?
A female Suzaku and a male Euphemia???
Lelouch stared, as the scene faded.
"Everybody seems to be alright - I'm so glad..."
"That's good, Nana-chan..." Lelouch mumbled, boggled beyond belief.
A female Suzaku and a male Euphemia?
"Next - Lelouch...Lamprouge."
That slight hesitation in the mechanical tones probably was not just in his mind, Lelouch thought numbly. Oh, well, he'd just have to hope for the best, now...
The scene - Ashford Academy, new and rebuilt and oh so very shiny.
Lelouch looked at it, his expression bittersweet.
And then the scene focused on the people there, watching the fireworks.
"Say - Nunnally? So are you going to be Empress or what?"
Lelouch almost groaned - Oh Rivalz...
"Well, it seems like things are heading in the Constitutional Monarchy direction, so - probably."
Nunnally grinned at him, cute as a button in her pink wheelchair.
"But the Commoners should be getting the vote - Sometime this year, if things go right."
"Hmmm." Rivalz murmured. "So - Well, I suppose I'm too young yet, but..."
"Actually, we're considering making voting age 18 and up, so..."
"Ha ha!" Rivalz grinned. "Ohh...I wouldn't have to wait then, would I now..."
Well alright, things were going more or less according to his plans, or one of them at least, it seemed...
Lelouch took one final look at Nunnally as her image faded, and then turned around.
Clovis was looking at him, thunderstruck.
"That's - Nunnally? Nunnally vi Britannia?"
" - Well, yes."
"But - Oh. - She -"
Clovis murmured, and then gave Lelouch a very strange look.
"She survived..."
Lelouch thought about this. So in this Clovis's world...
Arrrgh. He didn't want to think about it, he really didn't, but -
And that was when Sentry's mechanical voice cut in again. "Next. Clovis la Brittania."
Lelouch looked at him. Not Partridge-Smythe, then?
A dark large building, snow swirling all around it. And several men, warming themselves in front of a fire.
"What the hell - The entire Britannian Empire is practically tearing itself apart, or it would be if it wasn't for the bloody Witch of Brittania, and we can't even take advantage of it properly! Damn that stupid Britannian Princeling..."
"He's dead, you know. No use damning him now - He's either burning in hell or he isn't."
"Well - " One of the men said, softly. "Since I don't believe in this Heaven or Hell business, I'd place my bets on the 'not'. Not that that really matters, anymore..."
"Oh, you'd say that - You'd gone all soft in the head, when it came to that one. - What the fuck is it with the House of Britannia and their charisma, anyway?"
"Charisma?" Lelouch heard Clovis choke.
"What I want to know is just what happened to those rag-tag troops that Clovis gathered. I suppose it's too much to hope that Cornelia li Brittania just killed them all?"
"Oh, no - Most of them ended up on her side, worse luck. Who the fuck would have thought that the clothes-horse could actually kill the Demon, anyway?"
"I did." The man who had talked about Heaven or Hell muttered, and then stood up straight, tears glistening in his eyes.
" - The brat just wouldn't take no for an answer, sometimes."
"Well, alright - Things aren't as bad as I'd feared, it seems..."
Lelouch stared at Clovis. So what the hell had happened in his world, anyway?
Cornelia Gaston was staring at both of them too, with that 'I am thinking furiously!' look in her eyes. Lelouch looked at her, and hummed to himself. Maybe it would be easier to just let Cornelia handle the questions...
(Posted Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:31)
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