You know, chapter 13, 14, and 15 were all written on the same day. If it wasn't for the wonders of buffers, minds would be blown.
Also, Pinoy, there are no OC's in this character except for the nameless, unimportant ones. Blue was the girl from FR/LG, and her character was taken from Blue in the Pokémon Special Manga. And of course that's who Grandmaster Red is.
Daughter of the Darkness Flame, that's exactly the fun.
And starting next week, I shall be writing R2. It shall blow minds.
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Lelouch remembered the time when he and Suzaku carried his sister through a field of corpses during the Britannian invasion of Japan. It was a horrific chapter of their young lives, and he remembered the lies he had to tell his sister to stop her from knowing the truth.
How many lies would he have to tell her to make it through the death-ridden field he was creating now?
'I will get through this.' Lelouch thought to himself in his bedroom that night. 'I will succeed…'
He brushed the small bald patch on the side of his head. You couldn't notice it from looking because of his hair, but he felt the scar Silver gave him.
A small price to pay for removing Giovanni and gaining Blue and Silver. They had been more than earning their keep in the Black Knights, Silver rising through the ranks faster than Diethard had, and was rivalling Kallen in battle capabilities.
He was even nice enough to give Lelouch his alakazam back given the first opportunity, which meant that he could use it freely as Zero, since it had been reported as stolen.
His new snag arm had also arrived at one of the Black Knights bases, so Zero was almost ready to ride into battle with his knights after two weeks of absence.
It was all falling into place.
"Hey! Lelouch!"
Lelouch turned to see Suzaku running up to him the next day as they walked into the main school building. "Morning!" Suzaku shouted as he caught up with his friend. "Sorry it's been a while. You should come more you they're gonna hold you back." He joked, before turning serious. "How's your head?"
"Fine." Lelouch told him. "And you're one to talk about skiving school."
"It's my job to skip school." Suzaku countered. "The Order of the Black Knights has been particularly active lately, even if Zero hasn't shown up lately."
"I thought you were a breeder?" Lelouch asked him, keeping up the pretence of not knowing that Suzaku was on the front lines with Lancelot.
"Uh, they're short handed everywhere." Suzaku lied. Badly.
Lelouch groaned. "You should come over for dinner sometime." He invited. "Nunnally misses you… how about today?"
"Tonight would be great." Suzaku nodded. "But, are you sure? You need your rest after—"
Lelouch's pokénav was ringing. "Hold on a second." Lelouch interrupted. "Hello?"
_\_ "LELOUCH!!" _\_ screamed a panicked voice from the other end, making Lelouch have to hold his phone at arms length to stop himself from going deaf. _\_ "THE CHAIRMAN'S GOT ANOTHER MARRIAGE PROPOSAL!!" _\_
"Yeah, she's meeting him today." Lelouch managed, daring to bring the pokénav closer to his head to talk properly.
_\_ "TODAY!?" _\_ Rivalz screamed, making Lelouch thankful that he was hesitant in bringing it closer to his ear. _\_ "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!?" _\_
"Because you would've thrown a tantrum!" Lelouch shouted.
_\_ "I'LL THROW YOU!!" _\_ Rivalz screamed. _\_ "INTO THE MOON!" _\_
"I-it's okay!" Suzaku loudly comforted so Rivalz could hear. "I didn't know either—"
_\_ "DAMMIT SUZAKU, NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR YOUR EMO ADVICE!!" _\_
"E-Emo?" Suzaku gasped.
"He means that you have a tendency to act miserable and help people to cheer yourself up." Lelouch sighed, hanging up on the distraught amputee. "Anyways, dinner tonight?"
"Yeah- Wait, CLASS!" Suzaku shouted as Lelouch ran off.
"I KNOW!" Lelouch shouted. "I'm just going to tell Nunnally the good news! SHE'S GOT FIRST PERIOD FREE!!"
"Nunnally!" Suzaku shouted as he entered the living room. "I've got some good news! Suzaku's…"
He didn't find her. Instead, he found a picture of his sister surrounded by paper fearows.
A picture of his sister bound and gagged to a wooden chair.
Then his pokénav rang. It was Nunnally's number.
He answered it.
_\_ "Brother!" _\_
"Nunnally!" Lelouch shouted into the phone. "Where are you!?"
_\_ "I-I don't know! _\_ Nunnally whimpered. _\_ "He just told me not to move and—" _\_
_\_ "It's me, Lulu~!" _\_
Lelouch recognised that voice. 'It can't be…'
_\_ "You let your guard down, Lelouch." _\_ Mao told him. _\_ "Did you really think I was dead?" _\_
"Mao, wait." Lelouch said, trying to defuse the situation. "C.C. isn't here."
_\_ "Why do you think I came now?" _\_ Mao giggled. _\_ "Someone unaffected by my Geass would just get in my way, so I've put that matter onto the backburner. I won't be able to rest until I've taken my revenge from you." _\_
"So you're within 500 metres of me." Lelouch said.
_\_ "That's right." _\_ Mao giggled. _\_ "Wanna look for me~?" _\_
"What are you playing at?" Lelouch demanded.
_\_ "Hide and Seek of course~! Your time limit is five hours." _\_ Mao chuckled. _\_ "This game is just between you and me, so it's all over if you use the police or those knights of yours. I don't want to get shot again. Oh yes," _\_ he added, almost as if he just remembered. _\_ "You're only able to use your pokémon within your own line of sight; it ruins the fun if you don't do all the work~!" _\_
"How the hell are you still alive?" Lelouch growled.
Mao laughed. _\_ "Man, didn't you know just how advanced the medicine in a war-like nation like Britannia is? I mean, you've been stabbed, pulverized into the ground and beaten over the head, but you're always right as rain after a day or two, am I wrong?"" _\_ Mao asked, cackling like a drunken witch. _\_ "Really Lulu, you should've ordered them to kill me, not shoot when you used your Geass~! Your sister's in quite the predicament, thanks to your weak follow-through. Yes, quite a crisis, a pickle indeed~!" _\_
"Well then." Lelouch growled. "Let me tell you what I will do. I will find you. I will save Nunnally. Then I will then tear your twisted head off myself. That! Is what I will do. Now use your twisted mind-reading skills and piss yourself with the thought of me torturing you to death for involving my sister."
Mao clapped, laughing his head off. _\_ "Wonderful, wonderful~! Just remember to keep a cool head so you can get that far!" _\_
He hung up, and Lelouch started running.
Lelouch rammed the door into the student council room that lunchtime, panting, before collapsing onto his knees and vomiting.
"Lelouch!" Kallen shouted as Suzaku ran up to his friend, Nina getting up from her seat. "What happened!?"
"It-it's fine…" Lelouch panted, wiping his face and walking to the table, grabbing the two-litre bottle of fanta, opening it, an downing it all in one go and looking around the room. "I'll see you all later." He said distractedly, walking to the other door with dignity before sprinting once he was in the corridor.
He stopped when his pokénav was called by Nunnally's phone. _\_ "Lulu, if you keep wandering around aimlessly like that, I'll extend the time limit by an hour~!" _\_
He hung up. 'Damn… he can tell how flustered I am…' He took out Mao's picture of Nunnally. 'Come on you idiot, think! If he's within five hundred metres so can hear my thoughts, then he's on the school site, so…'
"Lelouch?" Suzaku asked, coming from the council room.
He tried to hide the photo in his pocket, but his fingers were shaking from running too hard and he dropped the photograph instead. Suzaku snapped it up before Lelouch could retrieve it, and stared at it in shock. "So something did happen to Nunnally…" Suzaku growled after he recollected his thoughts. "Who took her? Was it a Britannian agent?"
"No, it has nothing to do with our lineage." Lelouch told him, picking up the photo from his friend's hands and pocketing it. "He's just a kid who wants a woman to himself."
"Was it that kid from before?" Suzaku asked.
"No, but this guy found me for that guy." Lelouch explained. "Now he's back for revenge. He's done his homework, so we can't tell the army or the police."
"So I can't get Lancelot, because he's at the lab being fed today…" Suzaku sighed. "Nothing for it, we'll have to make do ourselves. But tell me first." He asked. "Is this because of some gambling debt?"
"No." Lelouch snapped.
"Alright." Suzaku nodded. "What do we know?"
"Just the picture and that he's on campus somewhere." Lelouch explained, before realising something. "Wait; there was the sound of rushing water, like a waterfall." he muttered.
"A waterfall… Ah! The sewage system!" Suzaku realised. "I used that to teach my kingdra waterfall!"
'He's underground.' Lelouch realised. "To the lift, NOW!"
"But that's odd." Suzaku pointed out as they sprinted for the lifts. "Normally you'd have figured that out ages ago."
"I'm a little stressed." Lelouch panted, putting his card key into the slot, only for it to be rejected. "Damn."
"What's wrong?" Suzaku asked.
"Bastard's changed the code." Lelouch explained, getting onto his knees. "I'll have to break the locking system."
"You can do that?" Suzaku asked as Lelouch sent his lucario out.
"Rock Smash." Lelouch ordered.
SMASH
"I do it all the time." He told his friend, prying the lift door open with the help of his lucario and donning some leather gloves from his pocket. Grabbing one of the cords, he recalled his pokémon and judged the distance down the dark elevator shaft with a critical eye. "I'll fix the door later. Let's go!"
"You've done this to sneak out before, haven't you?" Suzaku asked, wrapping some cloth around his wrists and grabbing the other side of the wires.
"Yeah." Lelouch nodded, getting ready to slide down. "Once in a while."
The lifts were at the bottom of the shaft, so they slid through the emergency escape and hit the Doors Open button, each one taking refuge behind one side of the door. "How's it look?" Lelouch asked as Suzaku's mime jr made a reflective barrier to act as a mirror.
"Not good." Suzaku answered. "He's got five ninjask guarding the area, and they're moving insanely fast."
'How the hell did he get that many in such a short time? They must be wild…' Lelouch snarled to himself, before reaching for his charizard.
"No." Suzaku stopped him. "They're aimed at the door. The second you send it out, it'll get torn to pieces."
"Then we can't get out of here." Lelouch snarled as Suzaku returned his pokémon. "We'll have to disable them somehow and HEY!!"
Suzaku charged into the corridor, running in an erratic zigzag pattern and kicking one of the insects with a flying spinning kick. Lelouch ran forward and sent out his charizard, dowsing the corridor with flames as the other ninjask charged for Suzaku. "YOU RECKLESS IDIOT!!" Lelouch shouted as the flames died, insects twitching in its wake.
Suzaku patted some flames from his singed jacket's shoulder. "Let's go." He said, otherwise fine. "Nunnally's waiting."
"NUNNALLY!" The two boys shouted, charging along the metal path to Nunnally, who was tied to a chair under an enormous Electrode dangling from the ceiling from a large metal cord.
"Brother?" Nunnally asked. "And Suzaku!?"
"HOLD ON!" Lelouch shouted, before getting pulled back by Suzaku.
"Just look at that first." Suzaku warned, pointing at the Electrode. Its eyes were angry spirals. "It's taken a berserk gene; it could go off at any second."
_\_ "That's right, Lulu~!" _\_ Mao jeered on the pokénav's hands free. _\_ "I'll allow Kurugi, since he came here of his own accord, but you best get to work~!" _\_
'DAMN!!' Lelouch thought desperately as Mao hung up as quickly as he called. 'And the new snag arm's getting delivered tonight…'
"Don't worry Nunnally." Suzaku told her. "We'll deal with the Electrode. It'll be alright, there's nothing Lelouch and I can't do when we work together."
"Y-yeah." Nunnally smiled.
Meanwhile, Lelouch did what he did best, and began to think. "If we touch that, it'll use explosion." Lelouch told Suzaku. "If we send out a pokémon, it'll think it's in a battle and use explosion. Berserk Gene's are evil."
Suzaku nodded in agreement. "I know. They were developed from mewtwo's developing cells a few years ago." Suzaku explained. "I thought we'd gotten rid of all of them, but if we get too close, like to get to Nunnally, it'll assume we're going to attack and blow itself up anyway."
"An electrode of that size…" Lelouch pondered. "Electrodes don't normally get that big. How huge would that thing's explosion be?"
"Five hundred and fifty-six metres and a half." Suzaku explained.
"Eh?" Lelouch asked. "Why so specific?"
"We breed pokémon, so I know." Suzaku insisted. "So the guy is outside this range."
'So Mao can't use his Geass on me right now, so he's probably got a camera in here…' Lelouch thought, scanning the room for it. 'He's tempting me, and wants to watch me agonise this decision.'
"Can you think of a way to stop it?" Suzaku asked.
"In theory." Lelouch replied. "If we can make it faint without making it panic any further, so without any pokémon or sudden movements and in one hit, then it will return to normal." Lelouch laughed bitterly. "But that'd be impossible."
"I can do it."
"What!? What could you possibly-" Lelouch was cut off by the determined look on the brown-haired youth's face.
"Listen to me." Suzaku told his friend. "You can use this information to find this guy. I'm a soldier. You do your job and I'll do mine. Trust. Me."
Lelouch did.
'Mao should be watching from somewhere he can observe Nunnally in private, and he's gone back to the school.' Lelouch plotted to himself. 'Crazy fool. I told Suzaku not to move, but I really have no options. If I kill him, then the effects of the pokéball should disappear and the electrode should become wild and become free from the Berserk Gene.'
He kicked the door open to the chapel at the top of the campus, and there the bastard was waiting for him. "Welcome, my thieving friend~!" Mao applauded, sending out a garchomp and a ludicolo. "No weapons, no plan, and the bomb is still in place~!" he laughed. "You're not using any outside resources, even that friend of yours~! What's the matter, Lulu?"
"There is no need to replay this conversation." Lelouch snarled, sending out a metagross and a charizard.
Charizard rushed for the ludicolo with an Aerial Ace, but was immediately leeched by a tangle of parasitic seeds. While the dragon was distracted by the spreading net of sproutlings, it began to rain inside the chapel. "Let's settle this the way you love best then." Mao laughed as the mad duck used Toxic on the fire dragon. Charizard stumbled, pale and sickened from the toxin.
"The rainseeder strategy." Lelouch snarled as ludicolo began to use giga drain. "No wonder C.C. left you; you're boring and unimaginative, no fun at all."
"I won't rise to your provocation." Mao sneered as his garchomp launched a Dark Pulse at metagross, causing it to crash into the wooden floor while charizard howled in pain as ludicolo drained more health from it.
Lelouch glared. "Ninjask!" He shouted, tossing a fast ball into the air. "RAGE!"
"Oh? Was that one of the wild ones I put downstairs~?" Mao sang while clapping. "You're not the kind of person who can empty his mind." He taunted as metagross was sent reeling into the wall by another dark pulse and charizard continued being tortured by the dancing duck. "You criticise all your strategies carefully, and you criticise all those criticisms, and so on. That's the kind of man you are. As feral as pokémon training may have taught you to act, you can't change your nature."
Mao laughed. "No matter how much you try to think, my victory is assured."
"ZARD!!" Charizard roared as it fainted, and Lelouch returned it, sending out a sandslash, lucario and his alakazam.
"Impressive!" Mao applauded. "You sent out three pokémon and are thinking of three strategies for each one to try and confuse me!" he giggled. "But if I focus my Geass on you alone, then I can shift the truth from the subterfuge."
The garchomp smashed its forearms down into the ground, crushing the digging sandslash and ludicolo danced around lucario's bullet-like punch, seeding alakazam and intoxicating it, repeating the strategy from before. "Aaah, your last plan failed miserably~!" Mao sighed. "Your sister is in mortal peril because you underestimated me~!" he applauded as his garchomp snapped up alakazam in its powerful jaws, crunching the psychic pokémon's bones.
"What shall I do?" Mao asked, doing an impression of Lelouch as both of his pokémon ganged up on lucario, batting it between themselves as if they were playing catch, before garchomp got bored and belched a ball of flame, blasting Lelouch's pokémon across the room. "I'm out of plans! My sister's gonna die because I couldn't beat this man!" He grinned, clapping as he dropped the façade. "What're you gonna do?" He asked. "You're all out of pokémon! You've run out of hope! You don't even have a back-up plan! Are you going to beg?"
Then Lelouch's mind turned blank; only one thing running through it.
"NINJASK!" He shouted. "BATON PASS!"
Earlier, Lelouch sat down infront of a mirror, somewhere out of Mao's range. "Forget that Suzaku is going to save Nunnally and ignore the knife hidden in your belt ." Lelouch ordered his reflection. "Send out a ninjask as the third pokémon in a double battle against Mao, have it use Rage, then forget about it completely until all of your other pokémon have fainted. Then, when all hope seems lost, remember the ninjask and the knife and order the ninjask to use baton pass."
See, the ninjask was pre-prepared to use only swords dance and double team over and over again while staying out of sight. Since Mao was spending so much concentration reading Lelouch's mind, he would forget about this pokémon just as quickly as Lelouch would.
It didn't matter that the ninjask wasn't taking damage to increase its attack thanks to Rage; swords dance was doing that more than enough. With its Speed Boost ability, its speed rose by the second, and with double team, so did its evasion.
When it used Baton Pass, there were no other pokémon on Lelouch's team to switch to, so it did the next best thing.
It passed those massive stat boosts onto Lelouch just as he remembered the weapon he was hiding.
And then the Rage took over.
"RRAARRRGHH!!" Lelouch roared, pulling out the blade and charging for Mao.
He stabbed deep into the ludicolo's eye, vaulting over its corpse and kicking the garchomp's face with an aerial kick that could rival Suzaku's. He swung a knife into the garchomp's arm, stabbing it and then charging again for Mao, who yelped and drew a pistol, pointing it at Lelouch.
Unfortunately, guns only beat knives when used at a minimum of eleven feet from the target.
Lelouch was five feet away from Mao.
Lelouch leant to the side, dodging the bullet as it passed by his arm harmlessly, and rammed the blade into the madman's chest. Mao screamed as the knife sunk between his ribs, and Lelouch bit into his shoulder to prevent him from running away.
The next shot hit Lelouch's chest, breaking a rib, and Mao stumbled away, but Lelouch was far too past sanity to care about trivial things such as bullet wounds.
There was only one thing on his mind.
KILL
Mao screamed, firing his bullets blindly as Lelouch slowly walked towards him, only stopping when one bullet hit Mao's shoulder on the ricochet.
One bullet hit Mao's shoulder on the ricochet, so he tossed the gun aside with a yelp and sent out his xatu. "T-TELEPORT!!" He screamed, as Lelouch grabbed his throat. Joining the teleportation, they were both taken to a roadside outside the school.
This had the unexpected consequence of ridding Lelouch of all his stat boosts and his Rage, and he fell to the ground, grunting from the shock of feeling the pain of his bullet wound.
"Haha?" Mao laughed madly, sensing the tides had turned. "Haha! HAHA!! I WIN!!" He shouted, tugging the knife from his chest and stabbing it into Lelouch's shoulder. "SEE THAT!" He cackled as the boy screamed. "I WIN!!" Mao shouted as he kicked Lelouch in the ribs. "SEE THAT C.C.!? I! WIN!!"
Then he heard another voice in his head.
A loud one. Getting louder.
And closer.
Fast.
'I'MA COMIN ATCHA LIKE A HORNY ONIX INNA HEAAAATT!!!'
It was the last thing that went through Mao's mind.
The last thing that went through Mao's head was a titanium bicep moving at a hundred-and-fifty miles per hour.
"Hey, you okay?" a familiar voice asked Lelouch.
He groaned and sat up , realising he was in his hospital bed again. "Man, you've been busy while I've been gone." Said the familiar voice. Lelouch turned to the speaker and found a man with short, almost shaven blue hair and a mass of dark stubble around his grinning jaw.
"R-Rivalz..?" Lelouch asked in disbelief.
"What, it's been three weeks and you've already forgotten this handsome face?" Rivalz laughed. "Mind you, this beard of mine does make me look kinda rugged, whatcha think?"
"I think it makes you look like a prat." Lelouch sighed, looking over his bandaged torso. "Britannian medicine, sure is amazing, huh?"
"Yeah, the police just want to talk to you about the guy stabbing you in the middle of the road and you can go." Rivalz grinned.
"MAO!" Lelouch shouted, sitting bolt upright. "Where is he!?"
"Easy, easy!" Rivalz said, trying to calm his friend down. "He's not gonna bother you any more, I can promise you that."
"I thought that too, but he survived sixty bullet wounds before," Lelouch pointed out.
"Well, I don't think doctors can heal decapitation just yet." Rivalz said with an awkward grin.
Then the memories started flooding in. "I'm remembering this correctly, right?" Lelouch said slowly, giving Rivalz a strange look. "You tore his head off at the jaw as you sped past us on your motorbike?"
"I- I was only trying to clothesline him, I swear! I just sort of forgot this arm is made of titanium now, that's all!" Rivalz shouted defensively. "It was a much safer idea in retrospect, but I am So glad I did it on that guy instead of you!"
Lelouch paled from the mental image. "You're not the only one." He managed.
"Hey, just so you know, Kallen returned all of your pokémon and caught a wild garchomp for you while she was at it." Rivalz said. "And Suzaku managed to take out that electrode and save Nunnally, he just called to ask about you."
Lelouch laughed. "Thanks Rivalz." He told him. "I'll fill you in on everything later, but for now that garchomp is yours. It's the least I owe you."
"Sweet!" Rivalz grinned. "Man, just one more badass scar and Milly is all mine!" He declared.
"That's what this whole new look was about?" Lelouch asked with bemusement.
"Hey, I got claws and everything!" Rivalz bragged, bringing a fist to his face. "Check it out-OW!"
"You alright!?" Lelouch asked, leaning forward to check his friend's injury.
"Yeah, just nicked my chin…" the blue haired boy grunted, bringing the two three-foot blades protruding from his arm away from his face. "Best keep these inside for now, huh?"
Lelouch laughed. "Alright." He sighed. "Now where are these coppers?"
Lelouch got home around nine O'clock that night, and after several painful hugs from Suzaku and Nunnally, they had a dinner together.
They deserved it; after all they had been through that day.
Of course, it was the only rest that Lelouch would get for some time, because soon, Zero would return to the front lines of his war.
The world was a stage.
The audience was calling for their leading man.
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Pokémon is for kiddies! YAY!
Yeah, I love how I brought Rivalz back. Best dynamic entry ever.