Story: Tainted Gestalt

Why was life so cruel? That sort of lament probably makes one feel a twinge of sympathy. What has happened to this person to make them feel this way? What terrible things have happened to them? Then you learn the person thinking it is Ataru Moroboshi, and not only do you get those answers but your sympathy diminishes somewhat. Let's be frank. Most of what he gets he has coming.

Right at this particular moment he was sulking up a storm. For once that wasn't his fault! How could he help it if the others all had a wet dream?That was so humiliating, and now Shinobu must really hate his guts. He'd spent the last few minutes trying to work out some way, any way to make it up to her, but long term planning? Not his forte! Which is another piece of the puzzle that was his eternal bad luck.

"This arrangement is getting worse and worse," he moped. "There's no way she'll talk to me after that!" He drummed his fingers on the floor and stared up at the ceiling. "And now they've all gone quiet. That's just -"

"Fantastic."

The break above was caused by a sudden, inexplicable jump in reality. One minute, he was moping in his room. The next he was in a storage closet getting his dick sucked by a really pretty girl with dark pink hair. Needless to say, but Ataru found this to be a major improvement!

"Well hello there!" Ataru said, gently resting his hand on the back of her head. Ooh, that felt great! He relaxed and leaned back, letting her get to work. Let's see here, this high collar and these black clothes... This must be Lelouch's body. Lucky swine!

She pulled herself off his dick and smiled up at him. "I am glad to see you're feeling better," she said. "You were so shy before, Shinji. It's good to see you coming out of your shell."

"Shinji?" Ataru repeated. And the penny drops. Oh! Is that how it was? That cute kid had them all fooled. That innocence was just an act, wasn't it? First chance he gets, and he uses that Geass power to have a little fun, in someone else's body! Oh, drat him! Darn him! Why was it they were all warning <i>him</i> off doing that and let someone else have all the fun! "So, I'm wondering... Do you feel a compulsion to do anything in particular that you wouldn't normally do?"

The girl blinked. "I suppose it is a little strange that I decided to suck your dick out of the blue like that. Then again, you did need help and I simply must help you in any way that I can."

Huh! That worked out better than expected. You see, Ataru was actually more intelligent than some people give him credit. His problem was longer range planning and the fact that his perverted drives tended to skew his thinking somewhat. In this case he had quickly determined that whatever Shinji had commanded, it wasn't just 'suck on this'. If it was, then she'd have kept on doing it, and when she'd stopped she'd have probably started behaving more like her regular self.

So this babe was compelled to "help him" in any way, huh? Interesting... For just this one time Ataru Moroboshi had an actual, honest to goodness long term scheme, plot and plan coming along! And oh boy was it a good one! Hehe! Lelouch might even thank him for this, she was a real babe. Very pretty, got a strong foreign aesthetic and nice fit body.

"Name? Address? Phone number?" he began, his usual standby.

"Kallen Kozuki, though I go by Kallen Stadtfeld while at school. I am currently staying at the Stadtfeld estate, which is situation at 1 Vitalis Street. As for my phone number, please let me enter it into yours."

Huh? His phone number? She was holding up some fancy little gizmo in the palm of her hand. Ataru frowned. "What's that?" he asked.

"My phone," she answered. Wait, really? Oh! Technology really was incredible, wasn't it? Wireless transportable phones! He quickly found Lelouch's, and she entered the number for him while he reluctantly - and surely to the surprise of all that knew him - pulled up his trousers and sat down with the pretty girl who had just been giving him a magnificent, amazing blow job and would probably continue if he asked...

Uh, he suddenly lost thought of his train of thought there. Ah! Of course! His 'plan!' The blowjob could come later! For the time being, he had no idea when Lelouch might come a-knocking back into his own body, so he had to work quickly!

"Kallen," Ataru said firmly. For some reason his body really wanted to do a ridiculous, over the top pose right now. He indulged it. "Something very peculiar has happened to me recently." Alright! How best to phrase this. He considered it carefully before continuing. Kallen waited patiently. "You see, how to put this... This body's name is actually Lelouch."

"Oh," she said. "You have multiple personality disorder?"

"No, not exactly," he answered. "You see, it's more like..." Gosh, this was complicated. "You've heard of parallel universes, right? They show up in fiction all the time. For some reason, eight of us from completely different universes have been pulled into some sort of weird and freaky... What was the word they used... It's a thing where our minds are all connected across multiple universes."


"You mean a gestalt?" Kallen asked.

"Yeah, that's it!" Ataru nodded. "Smart and pretty! You're a great catch. Anyway! It sort of looks like we all have some really weird complications in our lives, and freaky magical effects are sort of... Spreading across all three of us."

"Oh! Is that why you changed into a girl earlier?"

Lelouch, you keep hold of this babe. She's quick on the uptake, pretty as a picture, curvy as an hourglass and could suck the skin off an egg. Lelouch didn't seem the sort to trust anyone, so he probably wouldn't try something like this, but from where Ataru was sitting having an ally fully aware of what was going on seemed like an ideal situation. Of course, the fact that she was nuclear hot certainly didn't dissuade him any either.

Although what he didn't realise quite yet was that there was another redheaded babe with her ear pressed firmly up against the door, and who was about to burst in on the pair of them at any given moment.
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Shinji was staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling. Which was always a little disconcerting, but even more so when you were in the process of having your very first genuinely sexual experience with another human being. Sure, it wasn't in his own body but...

"Where am I?" he wondered aloud. He knew the answer to half of that at least. He'd jumped into the body of one of the others. He was male right now, which meant basically nothing. Mirror. He needed to find a mirror - there! Kind of a dopey looking face. Ataru? Well, that's just wonderful. He might never get used to this. In fact, what would be better? That he got used to it, or that he did not?

Shinji slumped back down onto the floor and hugged his knees. Or rather, hugged Ataru's knees. That girl had been really pretty. And nice! He felt a little happy that he'd met her. If he was honest he'd always had a thing for redheads, something about that vibrant colour made him feel really good. If only he could have talked with her for a little longer.

With nothing else to do, he decided to take a look around. He wasn't so worried about getting lost: He was pretty certain Ataru would come back to his own body sooner or later - hopefully - and work out the way home from there. He would have been happier listening to classical music, but the others didn't really strike him as the type to listen to that sort of thing.

The first thing that surprised him? There weren't that many skyscrapers around. Shinji was a little used to the idea of a city being this big thing with huge towering buildings all across the skyline. This was much smaller in scale. It felt cozier, much nicer around here than it did in Tokyo-3, though it wasn't quite as grand and spectacular as Ashford Academy.

"A world without Second Impact," he mused. What an odd thought. He'd never imagined what it would be like living in such a world, and now here he was in one of seven. If only he could live here instead of there, it would be so much nicer.

And then it started to rain. Of course it did. Yet again, Shinji found himself transformed into a girl. It looked like Ataru lost about a foot and gained some heft in her chest.  He wiped the rain from his eyes and let out a weary sigh. Hot water, that's the ticket.

"...Wh-what in the world?!"

Ah, another pretty girl was talking to him out of nowhere! Shinji turned around. There was a really pretty woman leaning out of breath against a wall. She sneezed violently a couple times in quick succession. "Your aura, it completely changed just now!" the woman sniffed. Shinji stepped back a little. There was something a little unsettling about this woman, regardless of how attractive she was. "Your height changed, and I'm fairly certain you were a boy until a moment ago. Weren't you?"

"Um..." Shinji gulped. "Y-Yeah, that's right. Excuse me, I have somewhere else to be right now."

A firm, feminine hand fell upon his shoulder, and he heard an ominous sound. It fit the mood he was in all of a sudden. Ataru nervously turned around and saw that pretty face smiling at him. "It's your lucky day," she said. "My name is Sakura, and my family specialises in exorcisms. Come with me, and I'll solve all of your problems!"

"I somehow doubt that," Shinji said.

"Oh no, I do insist! The stench of bad luck and magic surrounds you. With my help, you can certainly be rid of it, once and for all!"

1. And while Shinji was dealing with that...
2. Ataru was instigating his plan: Persuading Kallen to help set up a harem for Lelouch!
3. Lelouch was dealing with his newfound infatuation for Kurumu, and Moka's attempts to rescue him.
4. Kyon deals with Naru's Geass induced antics.
5. Keitaro is interrogated by Rei in a rather imaginative way.
6. Ami investigates Usagi (currently possessed by Ranma).
7. Something else