towerofanimus | 01 : The Sleeping Prince Awakes

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01 : The Sleeping Prince Awakes

Characters: Lelouch vi Britannia and you!
Setting: Dorm Room 3-08 -> Dorm Floor 1-3 and Floor 3!
Format: Whichever works for you!
Summary: A certain person awoke from his "sleep", and decided to find out just what the hell happened to him.

Lelouch vi Britannia was not a man used to waking up after receiving a lethal wound, as he has found upon waking up. This was perfectly understandable considering said wound, which he received before blacking out, was supposed to be lethal enough to kill him.

Delirious as it is, the man in white decided to stumble out out of his room, and to find out just what kind of place he was stuck in. People might find this man wandering around the Dorm Floor trying to get around the place, should they desire to help him in his confusion.

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Thankfully, the elevators was simple enough to operate, and the stairs manageable in his exhausted state. With the information gained from the residents, Lelouch decided to approach this library in order to hopefully find more information on his current situation. Even if there were nothing, it was worth a hopeless shot at the very least until he feels better.

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"What happened?"

The sentence resonated in his head, as he took in Suzaku's surprised countenance. Judging from Suzaku's expression, the other male was as surprised at seeing him in this place, as if not expecting his presence.

He supposed that's fair, considering his surprised face, which immediately disappeared after he processed some more information.

"Zero killed me."

If this person before him is not Suzaku, he would not know the meaning of the sentence. Therefore, even if this is risky, he had to make sure that the man before him is real and not fake.

Suzaku blinked but nodded. "So it worked..." He relaxed a little, if Zero Requiem had succeeded, if Lelouch had found someone else to take on the role of Zero then there was hope for the world yet, it would find peace and it wouldn't matter that both Suzaku and Lelouch were here.

"I am glad, who... CC?" It was the only other person who could be trusted enough to take on that role.

"...There's only one person suitable for that job, Suzaku."

Closing the distance, Lelouch now stood right before Suzaku with an inexplicable expression written on his face as he put his right hand on his shoulder.

"You. You killed me and took on the name of Zero."

Suzaku blinked in confusion. How... He blinked at Lelouch not understanding. Was Lelouch from a different world from him... "How..."

He shook his head, "Lelouch I've been here for eight months, we were fighting, trying to stop FLEIJA, that's the last thing I remember..." It wasn't possible that he could have killed Lelouch, he hadn't been there...

"...That doesn't make any sense, you performed all your tasks, so why on earth would you be here?"

Unknown to Suzaku, Lelouch had stumbled out of his room without even checking his own trunk and knowing literally nothing about this place.

Still, this could be worse. Lelouch thought to himself as his serious demeanor continued to stay in place which should re-assure Suzaku since he's not lyng at all right now.

He had performed all his tasks... then how...

Perhaps Lelouch came from a different world, one very similar to Suzaku's own? Or perhaps it was just another trick of this tower, in any moment Lelouch would start screaming at him, and then try and kill him...

It seemed real though and really... if this tower could bring doubles of people then this...

They had succeeded? "I don't know, but I was brought here eight months ago and they claim the world has ended..."

He noticed the fact he was still wearing the outfit he woke up in, "Your clothes and belongings are here... in the trunk by your bed... Did you see the notes?"

Shock somewhat dealt with Suzaku put his mind to practical things.

"The world... ended?"

And that sentence alone brought Lelouch's coherent thoughts crashing to the floor.

How did it end? Who caused it to end? Did he overlook something far more greater than the power of Geass and Codes? Questions swam around his head at the absurdity of Suzaku's statement. For Lelouch, Suzaku's words are close to the truth as a Knight should not lie to his comrades, much less his own Emperor.

"...How?"

Suzaku shook his head quickly, "We don't know that for sure." He frowned, "Those that brought us here they have claimed that all the worlds have ended, and that they are our saviors."

Suzaku paused, realising that that was something else Lelouch would not know being new. "Our world is not the only one there is. Everyone here are from different worlds, no one has even heard of Britannia as far as I have been able to gather."

...And things just get weirder and weirder, apparently, as Lelouch summed up what he feels about this odd conversation he's having with his supposed-to-be alive friend.

"...What next? That I'm really alive and breathing right now as opposed to being a corpse?"

He knows that this is a morbid statement, but this is just getting too ridiculous even for him.

Suzaku nodded, "It seems so, there are others here who remember dying, or who others remember dying. Death... isn't permanent here. You die you just wake up."

This was a lot of information and really Suzaku should be reporting it properly, but his mind was still reeling from the shock that Lelouch was here, and he seemed to be real, not a trick of the tower.

"...I see."

With that, Lelouch looks down towards his own torso, and touched it with his hand, as if expecting it to go through and into his wound that Zero inflicted him before he found himself in the Tower only to find...

Nothing.

He hasn't checked it thoroughly yet, but if the restoration process this tower used to resuscitate him has no flaw at all, there should be no scars on his person.

Ah. Is this his punishment? To continue to live despite his wish to end his own life?

Suzaku looked down, "It's a lot to take in I know..." Now that the shock of seeing Lelouch was wearing off the reality that Lelouch was here, in this place where horrors were part of every day life. If he was dead... if he remembered dying... why had they brought him here.

"This place isn't safe, our captors often conduct experiments or play games that only hold amusement for them. There are monsters, creatures that shouldn't exist... Not all of those they bring here are safe either..."

He was slowly adjusting back to being a knight, he had been on his own for a long while after all, but a soldiers instincts are not something you ever lose.

"...Experiments?"

He was familiar with the word, having been subjected to the crazy genius that is Lloyd, as well as his numerous encounters with the illogical Ragnarok Connection plan, though, that means that the tower is...

"...This place, is it a scientific facility?"

Suzaku shook his head, "Not exactly... More like a torture facility, none of their experiments seem to have any goals. Sometimes they are games instead. Most end in death, or at least pain. They did experimentation changing people, mixing them with animals, carving their faces off... a friend of mine was mutilated and wrapped in some kind of plastic... They also seem to have some amount of mind control, they forced us to kill those who had been experimented on." His face and eyes showed absolutely no emotion, though he was raging with it. He was reporting now.

"They created replica's of our worlds and the people in them, I witnessed a world where Schneizel had won... We have been forced to take part in rituals that involve demonic creatures. Their latest game was forcing us to play hide and seek, with stuffed bears that moved and being found meant death. Yet they still insist that they saved us."

"..."

...Ah. The more he hears about it, the more he sees the darkness that perpetuates this place. Perhaps it was fitting for him to end up here, for Lelouch vi Britannia to be stuck in yet another situation that is near impossible to survive.

"...I suppose this is a fitting place for me, then."

Suzaku blinked, a fitting place for him... It probably was, for both of them, if the world had ended that they ended up here.

"There are innocents here though, children even."

"Then at the very least, we should ensure that they don't suffer from the same fate as us."

Suzaku nodded, "Though I'm not sure how we will stop it." Lelouch would notice that there was a very clear note of despair in Suzaku's voice. He had been here over half a year and was no closer to learning why they were here, or finding any way out. At least in his efforts to change Britannia he had known who he was fighting. He had had tangible goals.

"Suzaku."

He knows that tone. After all, they've been... comrades? Friends? Enemies? Well, it sure was complicated, but that doesn't stop Lelouch from knowing Suzaku's cues and mood, since he's about as readable as a book during moments of emotional duress.

"I didn't pick you as a knight for your pessimistic nature. You're the Knight of Zero- No.

You're Zero, the man who will change the world."

Suzaku looked at Lelouch and was silent for a long moment. He was calmed by the fact Lelouch was here though, Lelouch was the one who came up with plans. He was his knight, together they had changed their world completely and if Lelouch was to be believed; and Suzaku had no reason to doubt him, they had won. They had created the peaceful world that Nunnally wished to live in.

He brought his hand up in a salute across his chest and nodded, shoving his worry into a corner of his mind.

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01 : The Sleeping Prince Awakes

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