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2015 a.t.b., interstate road, Utah. Alistair was driving to a hideout that was the farthest away from Salt Lake City and Hawking, when Florida groaned and sat up in the back of Alistair's car.

Florida: Wha-? Who the hell...?
Alistair (Age 14): So, you're Agent Florida. I'm Alistair.
Florida: Wait...(groans) Alistair Wake? Did you just save me? (notices others) Wow. Can't believe North's still alive.
Alistair: There are stimpaks, back there. He's gonna need them.
Florida: I can't believe you found a whole stockpile of stimpaks. (injects a stimpak into North)
Alistair: Actually, I've been making those stimpaks.
Florida: Damn! A medical professional! And I thought you took on a bunch of mook AIs. (injects another stimpak into North)
Alistair: I already killed two Metas, back at Zion.
Florida: (injects third stimpak into North) Hold the phone... You took out the freaking Legion? You are god damn insane, kid. I mean, you had help, but still, that's a feat.
Alistair: You're not that much different. You're still alive, even after having your spine destroyed.
Florida: (exclaims) He shot me in the spine!? Dammit! (looks at Ensign Nichols) Oh, yeah, this guy's got a heart condition. He's gonna need this. (injects stimpak into Nichols)
Ensign Nichols: (gasps, sits up) How am I alive?!
Alistair: You are very lucky, Nichols.
Ensign Nichols: Alistair?! You saved my ass?!
Florida: So, how'd that "shoot Hawking" thing go?
Ensign Nichols: Pretty good distraction, huh?
Alistair: Well, since the gang's incomplete, I suspect that South is still out there?
Florida: Yeah. And a very big and burly android. His name's Bautista.
Alistair: Bautista...
Florida: He's hurt, bad. Plus, Mercer's still out there and Hawking has North's AI, Eta.
Epsilon: (appears) He took Eta?!
Florida: Epsilon?! How are you here!?
Epsilon: I'm in his prosthetic arm.
Florida: Cybernetic prosthetic, huh?
Alistair: Had these for 8 years.
Florida: 8 years? If it was that long ago, then... Britannia.
Ensign Nichols: They took an arm and a leg from him, including his parents.
Alistair: I'm guessing that the Medical Corps keeps sneaking into where I'm sleeping, and adjust the prosthetics, while I'm asleep. They're pretty damn quiet, for doing something so fast.
Florida: And this car...! It's like the freakin' Batmobile!
Alistair: Pretty much.
Florida: Anyway, I hear you found a method to kill Mercer.
Alistair: You know of any terraforming tech?
Florida: Yeah. But, it's at Fort Helios.
Alistair: So, break in, get the tech, destroy the abomination. Sounds simple.
Florida: Simple, but extremely difficult. Civility's top dogs are stationed there, as well as the most elite Enclave soldiers. Besides... You don't know the half of what that...thing is.
Alistair: I'll find out.

2017 a.t.b., Ashford Academy, Lamperouge residence. Lelouch was sitting on the couch, in is room, while C.C. was sitting on his bed.

C.C.: Do you regret it? That your friend's father was caught up in all this?
Lelouch: Shut up.
C.C.: You killed plenty of people, already. All of the people you killed had families, lovers, friends. I'd actually thought that you were prepared.
Lelouch: Do you even get it? It was never my intention for the landslide to go into the city. There was nothing I could do to stop it.
C.C.: Then, what's with the hesitation? Don't tell me you're shaken? Solely from a kiss?
Lelouch: (angrily) Drop it. Now.
C.C.: Beyond all the posturing and speeches, you're just a spoiled little brat with a swollen head and a big, fat mouth.
Lelouch: I said, drop it.
C.C.: It's Alistair, too, isn't it? His past has gotten you so worked up. You should care more about yourself, rather than someone else's past.

Lelouch got up from the couch and punched C.C. on the nose, causing it to bleed.

Lelouch: Maybe it's because my past is connected to Alistair's! I've met Hawking, and he's an asshole! He was an asshole to me, to Nunnally, to my mom, to Euphemia! That bastard shouldn't even live! (walks towards door, then stops) Here's a lesson for you: don't piss off a guy who's already pissed off. (leaves room)
C.C.: (groans in pain) I think he broke something. (realizes the entirety of the conversation) Wow. I sounded like an ass.

Lelouch went into the bathroom and started taking a shower, to relieve his senses and emotions.

Lelouch: (while pounding wall) Shit! Shit! Shit! God! Dammit!

While in the shower, Lelouch began to remember all that he had heard, when his fight with Britannia began.

Charles: Yes! That is why people discriminate against one another!
Suzaku: Any ends gained through those means aren't worth anything.
Clovis la Britannia: You can't do this! We may have different mothers, but we're still blood!
Suzaku: It's nothing more than self-satisfying gratification.
Shirley: Then... Then, why did he kill my father?
Lelouch: (pounds wall once more) Dammit!
Nunnally: I wish the world was a gentler place.
Alistair: Gotta make life better, even if it costs us our own lives.
Nunnally: It was because of that awful, awful man, Samuel Hawking!
Hawking: Walking away, just like that? How disgraceful to an evil legacy.
Alistair: I've seen a hell much worse than this.
Kirihara: But, there is no such path.
Zero: Then, I'll make one.
Tokyo Mavericks: We are the Tokyo Mavericks!

Lelouch turned off the water in the shower, dried off, put his clothes back on and exited the bathroom. Immediately, he saw Alistair walking down the stairs.

Lelouch: Alistair!
Alistair: Hey, Lelouch. Sorry, gotta run somewhere. I'll catch you later.
Lelouch: Wait!
Alistair: What's up?
Lelouch: I, uh... I appreciate you taking care of Nunnally. You're her hero, you know.
Alistair: That's sweet of her.
Lelouch: She told me of your exploits. And...your scars.
Alistair: She told you, huh?
Lelouch: Yeah. I'm... I'm sorry. About your parents, your country...everything.
Alistair: It wasn't your fault, Lelouch.
Lelouch: I know. It was Samuel Hawking's.
Alistair: How do you know that name?
Lelouch: A secret for a secret. My former name is Lelouch vi Britannia.
Alistair: Lelouch vi Britannia?
Lelouch: My father... Rather, my former father, happens to be the Emperor of Ego, Charles zi Britannia.
Alistair: A former prince and princess of an anarchic empire, denying their heritage and living a better life. Is that why you blame yourself?
Lelouch: Yes. I've met Hawking, and he's the most evil son of a bitch on the planet.
Alistair: It's a feat to even survive a chat with Hawking. At least it's a weight off your shoulders.
Lelouch: What do you mean?
Alistair: I killed Hawking, already.
Lelouch: You... You did?
Alistair: Yeah. His Mephisto ran out, at the worst time, and I put the bullets in him, myself.
Lelouch: Thank you. You not only did me a favor, you did the world a favor.
Alistair: You're damn right. See ya.

Alistair left the clubhouse, leaving Lelouch alone. Lelouch pulled out his phone and began calling Ohgi.

Lelouch: Ohgi, it's Zero. You wanted to talk to me?

20 minutes later, near Shirley's house, Alistair found Villetta's car, and saw Shirley exiting the vehicle. Alistair approached the car, opened the door and sat down in the passenger seat. Villetta was none the wiser about who entered her car.

Villetta: You don't have to worry, Shirley. You're doing the right thing.
Alistair: I believe the correct sentence is: "Good afternoon."
Villetta: (looks at Alistair) Who the hell are you?!
Alistair: That shouldn't be that hard to figure out, Villetta. We've met, before.
Villetta: I don't know who you are, but you just entered the wrong car!
Alistair: Doubtful. (notices binder with a picture of Lelouch on the front, takes binder)
Villetta: Put that back!
Alistair: This is a picture of my friend, Lelouch. This was in Shirley's wallet. Why do you have this picture?
Villetta: I'm under an investigation to find Zero.
Alistair: Mm-hmm. (takes picture off binder) This is not yours. (pockets photo, takes plug-in cigarette lighter) Never would've thought you had these, too. (rolls car window down) However...(opens binder) You've been messing with my friends. (places lighter on paper in binder, igniting the binder)
Villetta: No!
Alistair: (throws burning binder out the window, rolls car window back up)
Villetta: Do you have any idea what you've done!?
Alistair: Something good, that's for sure. You were stalking my school, and it was really creepy. So, I'm guessing that you're a predator.
Villetta: I'm under an investigation! You just burned the evidence!
Alistair: Call it whatever you like...pedophile.
Villetta: What?! No! No, no, no! It's not like that!
Alistair: You still haven't figured it out, have you? (draws black Desert Eagle, aims it at Villetta) I'm the boss-man that's been kicking your ass.
Villetta: You?! You're the Mavericks' ace pilot?! It was your fault that Jeremiah turned on us!
Alistair: Jeremiah grew a heart, dumbass. (holsters Desert Eagle) Now, if it's one thing that you don't do, it's mess with my friends. (opens door and exits vehicle) If I ever see you messing with Shirley or Lelouch, again, I'll personally kick your sorry, tan ass.

Alistair slammed the car door shut, and stepped on the ashes of Villetta's "evidence". Villetta pulled down the visor on her side of the car and looked into the mirror.

Villetta: I am 26 years old. I have had this dark skin tone, ever since I was born. (pauses) How the hell does he know that I tan?! Well, my evidence has gone up in flames. Literally. All I have left are these rumors about Narita. I've got nothing left to go on. (opens theory binder) Wait, a testimony from Princess Cornelia? "I was looking at the landslide, and it was slowing down. Next thing I know, this God-awful sound picks up, and it just hurt the ears of everybody that could hear it. What I didn't know was that it killed one guy, in a Sutherland." Damn. "When the sound stopped, the landslide picked back up." Wait, the landslide just speeds up, out of nowhere? So, it wasn't Zero's plan to... Shit. "No one in this country has this kind of technology. The only abominable people that could create such bullshit would be Civility Enforcement, LLC, which has taken over the United States of America, alongside Malefactor Extraordinaire, Samuel Hawking." Civility, huh? So, if they made the tech, why is it here? Who would blame the Black Knights? Speaking of which...(pulls out phone, dials number)
Shirley: (over phone) Hello?
Villetta: Shirley, I might have screwed up.

Later, at Port Yokosuka, Zero and the Black Knights were meeting in a warehouse, hiding from the Britannian forces that occupied the harbor.

Oghi: Zero, this may be a request from Kyoto, but I think we can handle it. Besides, the Japan Liberation Front would rather join us, rather than flee to foreign soil.
Zero: You're absolutely right, we can handle it.
Diethard: (clears throat)
Zero: Pretty sure we got your initiation out of the way, Diethard.
Diethard: Wait, I'm in? It can't be that simple.
Zero: You'd be surprised at how simple some things are, nowadays.
Diethard: Son of a bitch! I'm keeping the turtleneck.
Zero: Fine by me. So, Cornelia's going to send in the submariner units to take out Katase?
Diethard: Yes, and the network is going to broadcast a special report on it.
Zero: I don't know if Tohdoh will make it. So, the situation is in our hands. We can't let the liquid Sakuradite on that ship explode.
Ohgi: So, we can help General Katase escape!?
Zero: We can try to get him on our side, if we can.
Ohgi: That's a great plan, Zero.
Zero: Prepare, now. We've got asses to kick.
Kallen: Uh, Zero...?
Zero: I have something that I need to do. If you have something to ask me, find me, later. Okay?
Kallen: Right.

Meanwhile, near the Japan Liberation Front's ship, Alistair was about to walk onto the ship, in his Mavericks outfit, when he saw someone swimming underneath the waters. He immediately suspected foul play and trouble, and found General Katase.

General Tatewaki Katase: You! You're with the Tokyo Mavericks!
Alistair: 'Sup, Katase?
General Katase: What are you doing here? Where's Tohdoh!?
Alistair: Don't know any Tohdoh, but you guys need to get the hell off this ship. Crap's about to hit the fan.
General Katase: It already has. We can't leave, now.
Alistair: Trust me, I'm not gonna have you die.
General Katase: We're...not going to die?

When night fell, Lelouch was panting from the swimming, as well as the stress from the situation that he recently realized.

Lelouch: (thinking) Dammit. I couldn't defuse the bomb. I can't let this happen, again! Lives are at stake, god dammit!

Lelouch looked over and saw a silhouette at the doorway of the warehouse.

Lelouch: (out loud) Who's there!?
Kallen: It's me!
Lelouch: Kallen? (sighs) Thank God, it's you.
Kallen: I'm sorry. I'll be going!
Lelouch: You wanted to talk to me, right? So, what's up?
Kallen: I thought... I thought we were doing something right. I thought our goal was justice. Is... Is what we're all doing here going to change everything, for the better!?
Lelouch: Like I said, at Narita: "I'm no messiah. I'm no chosen one. I'm only human, as are all of you." There are errors even I can't solve. The only people that deserve death are immoral scum. Britannian soldiers that are beyond redemption, the Primebloods, the Renegades... They won't stop. They're trying to be the next Samuel Hawking. We can't let that happen. We will do what's right, no matter what. We will make life better, even if it costs us our lives.
Kallen: You're right. Thank you, Zero.
Lelouch: I know what happened in America, Kallen. And I want karma. For the 50,000 defenseless people that died, 10 years ago.
Kallen: Then, we'll have it. (thinking) Alistair... I'll make them pay. I promise.
Lelouch: Now, I have a question, for you.
Kallen: (out loud) Alright.
Lelouch: Let's say you lived in America, and you were friends with the nicest boy you could ever come across. His parents die, two of his limbs are taken from him, and, for the stupidest, immoral reasons, every girl he tries to ask out, denies him love and leaves him in a puddle of his own blood. Would you love him?
Kallen: I... I...
Lelouch: Would you love him? Yes or no?
Kallen: I'll go, now! (runs off)
Lelouch: Kallen! Why? It's not that hard. Just...hug him, or something. Intimacy's a kindness, god dammit.