Here this is. The final chapter of the story. Kinda. This WAS going to be a double post, but Varanus is going through some shit right now. He's fine, but...
Feith, Lyra/Crystal is Krys. She was one of the bridge bunnies of Zero City.
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Sierra woke up to find his hand fondling her breast. "Stop it!" she laughed, playfully batting his hand away. "First thing in the morning and you're already at it?"
"I was just thinking, what would be the best way to start my day, and it just came to me." He told her with a smirk.
She laughed. "Don't you start." She said, turning around to face him, when her knee hit something hard.
And round.
She looked down along the bed, and Lelouch followed her horrified gaze.
There was a pokémon egg in the bed.
The light that was born at the world's end is now in the wind
I can't live just by whitewashing I can't heal just by kindness
What was stolen? In an unchanging world what did I hear? A colourful song
Everything is bright
So to let shattered dreams echo to the edge of tomorrow
Light was born at the world's end; we become one, now in the wind
Lelouch and Sierra knelt on the bed, considering their find.
"We're not human anymore." Lelouch suggested. "Pokémon lay eggs."
"I'd know if I laid an egg." Sierra pointed out.
"Would you?" Lelouch asked. "No one has ever seen a pokémon produce an egg. For all we know a delibird could deliver them in the night."
She rapped her knuckles on his forehead.
"What was that for?" Lelouch asked her, rubbing his head.
"Did those three years fighting Missingno. rob you of what little intellect you had previously?" she asked him. "I'm prepared to leave you if you became an idiot."
"Don't be ridiculous." Lelouch grunted, falling back into the bed.
Crack.
Lelouch shot up.
There as a crack in the egg.
Crack crack.
Crack crack crack.
Crack.
"Roko."
Lelouch stared dumbfounded at the brown alligator pokémon that crawled out of the egg and looked around its surroundings. Eventually it hopped off the side of the bed and walked out of the Secret Base as Sierra fell back onto the bed, laughing.
"Shut up witch." Lelouch grumbled, tucking his face into his knees. "How was I supposed to know it wasn't mine?"
"Hm?" Sierra asked. "I seem to recall you saying something similar to that at one point…"
Lelouch smirked and rolled over on the bed, lying atop of her. "Oh really?" he asked, worming a hand into hers.
Bzt.
Lelouch leant in to kiss her.
Bzt.
They both looked at their intertwined hands.
They were covered in a ball of white and green energy.
BZT.
"Not me!" Lelouch shouted, trying to pull his hand from the orb.
Sierra just grunted, trying to pull her own hand away from the storm.
The light dissipated and their heads were clasped across a solid white sphere that was speckled with green spots.
An egg.
…
"Okay, we just laid an egg." Sierra admitted.
Shirley forced walked out of the hospital and faced the friend that had helped her recover over the past few years.
"You still won't tell me your name." Shirley pointed out.
The woman smiled at Shirley.
"That's not for me to decide." She said, holding a red Cherish Ball. "I'll get a name one day."
Shirley titled her head in confusion, then realised. "It's Lulu, isn't it?"
The woman looked down sadly, then smiled. "We pokémon are like that." She said. "We just can't abandon our master until he dies."
Shirley nodded. "I know he's alive somewhere too."
Chiba and Urabe lifted their glasses in celebration to Toudou's and Chiba's announcement.
Toudou smiled as he downed his glass, Chiba rubbing her swollen belly with a laugh.
Rivalz reached over the table and poked her in the belly, earning Kallen's fist in the back of his head.
Urabe laughed harder, then called the barman to bring them more drinks.
"WE'VE DONE IT!" Bill shouted, pumping his fists in triumph. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have rebuilt the computer!"
Nina shouted for joy, pulling Celio into a kiss before pushing him off and throwing her arms around Lanette and jumping up and down in the air.
Bill laughed as Bebe jumped onto his back, riding him around the lab like a horse.
Jeremiah grinned, glad to have been part of the achievement.
Crack.
Lelouch ran into the base at the noise, Sierra rolling over to watch the egg.
CRACK.
A green pokémon scratched its mess of thick black hair that covered its scalp.
"Mew?" it asked, looking up at its parents.
"He looks just like you." Sierra smirked, picking the mew up into her arms. "Don't you, Alphonse?"
"Mew!"
Long long ago, there was a monster without a heart.
It looked with jealousy at the other monsters, and envied their hearts, and the love the humans had for those monsters with hearts.
"If only I had a heart." the monster thought, "Then I too would be loved like the others."
So the monster came down from the sky, and it set out on a journey to take a heart.
It split into two, in search for a heart.
One half of the monster went far away, to strange lands in order to search for a heart.
But the other half of the monster found a beautiful young lady, who took the monster lovingly and gave it a name.
She raised the monster like her own child- giving it support, cherishing it, disciplining it when it did wrong, helping it make friends.
The monster was happy.
One day, the monster saw some strange men. They wanted to hurt the young lady.
The monster didn't like that. These men had hearts, and they refused to love the lady like the lady loved the monster.
The monster grew angry, and it took the hearts from the evil men.
The lady screamed.
She screamed in terror at the monster she had raised, beating it with sticks and ordering the monster to leave.
The monster took her heart too.
The monster went out into the village, and its friends turned against it too.
The monster took their hearts too.
Soon, the monster had many hearts, but it was all alone.
One day, it met with the other half of the monster. "Did you find your heart?" the monster that stayed asked. "I found many hearts. Look at all the hearts that I have."
"I did not find a heart." The monster that left said. "But I found something better. I found that I was happy without a heart."
"But you need a heart to be happy." The monster that stayed said. "Happiness comes from the heart."
"Love comes from the heart, but Happiness is in the people around you." The monster that left told it. "I don't need a heart. I have friends, family, pokémon, all these people around me are my heart. Where's your heart?"
The monster that stayed was shocked, and looked down at itself, with the empty hearts it had stolen.
"Give them back to your friends." The monster that left said. "They'll be your heart."
"I'm not sure…" Suzaku suggested. "It's nicer than the old ending, but it doesn't seem as good…"
"Oh, do you want our daughter reading the scary version?" Euphie taunted.
"You mean son?" Suzaku laughed. "It'll build character!"
"I think the world's got enough character." Euphie said. "A painless lesson may be meaningless, but that doesn't mean that our children have to learn them the way we did."
"Yeah." Suzaku said with a sad smile. "You're right."
Cynthia translated the ancient texts using her Geass of Understanding.
It was a huge help, but it was annoying when it acted up in conversation.
Some things you just don't want to know.
Like where your friend got that habit of scratching her ear from.
It was a miracle everyone recovered from that.
Red sprinted across the blue mountain tops with his old rival, Green.
He slowed down.
"What's up?" Green Oak asked him.
Red looked across the world.
"I'm sorry." he said, turning to his friend and bowing deeply. "I'm an asshole, please forgive me."
Green was dumbfounded for a moment, then his face was overcome with an evil grin.
He drove a knee into Red's nose. "OW!" he shouted, standing upright. "What the-"
WHAM!
Green stood over Red as he hit the ground. "Who said I was ever mad?" he asked, offering a hand to help him to his feet. "Idiot."
Brendan fell down on the beach he just created.
The World Eater.
He was going to have to change that name of his.
"Here." May said, handing a cup of tea to him as she sat down beside him. "Tiring job, huh?"
"Yeah." Brendan agreed as a swampert tackled him from behind. "Zuzu!" he shouted, throwing it over him while May laughed.
Mars leant against the wall of the Geass Directorate Academy.
Teaching a bunch of kids was hard. Especially since she wasn't allowed to simply torch them.
A black and orange piglet jumped into her arms.
She smiled.
Squiglet always knew how to cheer her up.
Krys stood atop the mountaintop with her travelling companions, Gold and Wally, looking through her binoculars as Tamaki crawled onto the mountain top, exauhsted.
She smirked as she found her target.
"We've found Victini gentlemen." She announced, letting the binoculars fall to her chest. "Let's move!"
The other two sighed, but followed obediently.
"Wait!" Tamaki groaned, forcing himself to his feet and staggering behind them. "I'm coming"
"PUSH MRS KURURUGI!" The doctor shouted. "COME ON, YOU CAN DO IT!"
Euphie grunted in agony, face contorted through the labour pains as she squeezed the father's fingers.
Suzaku looked helplessly around the situation, feeling as useless as all fathers do in these circumstances.
Misty stood outside Red's house as Cynthia walked up to the porch.
The redhead smiled at the blonde.
"He's gonna have to make a choice sometime." Misty shrugged.
Silver smacked his head against his desk. "I never signed up for this." He said. "I'm not a politician."
"Serves you right for being so good at it." Blue commented, planting a pile of documents onto his desk. "Utopia doesn't come easy."
Silver sighed, rubbing his head into the hardwood.
"Know what?" Silver asked. "I think we're ready for countries again."
"Daddy!"
Lelouch turned around and picked up the dark-haired little boy that just ran into his arms. "What did you do?" Lelouch asked his son. "Because you don't give me hugs unless you're running from mommy."
Alphonse pulled a sad, innocent face that squealed 'Me? What did I do?' as Sierra placed a firm hand on his shoulder.
Lelouch laughed.
It may have taken Sierra three years to get to where Lelouch was, but he wasn't minding the fact that it was taking longer to get to everyone else.
Especially since his beloved was pregnant.
Red oversaw the dividing of the map.
They weren't creating nations to conquer, far from it.
There was just too much for a single government to handle.
"I'll take command of Shuenn." Cornelia said.
Lucy nodded, then drew a new territory on the borders of Shuenn.
"We'll call this area Cydonia." Schneizel decided. "Nunnally, do you want to lead this area?"
The blonde girl blinked and nodded. "I would be honoured." She said, looking over the area that she would be responsible for.
Kallen collapsed onto her bed.
"Long day?" Rivalz asked, toothbrush in his mouth.
"We're dividing the world into multiple nations while doing all we can to avoid war a few decades from now." Kallen sighed. "What do you expect."
"Why I left the government and got into construction." Rivalz laughed. "Not as glorious, but a damn sight less stressful."
"Sign me up." Kallen sighed, before sitting up. "Hell, why am I even complaining? We won, right? Equality for all."
"Price of freedom was pretty steep." Rivalz commented. "It's been a good six years since then."
Kallen pulled her knees into her chest. "Don't start." She said. "I've gone a week without a nightmare about it."
"Three days for me." Rivalz sighed. "Still, it's an improvement, right?"
Milly gulped the water down like it was the elixir of life.
"We're on air in five minutes miss Ashford." The stage-hand told her.
She nodded, shooing him away as she rehearsed all the new territories on the script in her hand.
Lloyd danced around the lab, singing in joy and embracing Rakshata in delight as their experiment came to life
Genosect, the Paleozic pokémon, stepped forward, analysing the world.
Their creation lived.
Nunnally walked around her new office in the northern land of Cydonia.
This was her land.
Her property.
"Are we ready my queen?" Redeoxys asked her, taking the form of the legendary hero, Zero,
"Not yet." Nemo told him. "Soon."
"Daddy!" Alphonse shouted, running to the water's edge where his father was fishing for dinner. "There's something I gotta tell you! One!"
Lelouch smiled. "Alright then." He said. "What is it?"
"There's a friend here two talk to you!"
A friend?
Lelouch stood and turned around.
Then he stepped back.
"Here he is daddy!" Alphonse shouted happily. "I brought him for you, three!"
"Alphonse." Lelouch said as calmly as he could. "Step away from him, now."
"What four daddy?" Al asked.
"That man's not a friend." Lelouch said, keeping himself for lunging at the visitor's throat for his son's sake. "Just step away from him and come to daddy."
That's not very nice.
"Let him go." Lelouch snarled as he noticed the hand gripping his son's shoulder tightly.
No, I think I'll hold onto him for now.
"You're hurting me!" Alphonse shouted, pulling away from the stranger. "Let me go, five!"
Lelouch cottoned on. "Alphonse, why are you counting?" he asked his son, fearing the worst.
"What're you talking about daddy? Six!"
"What did you do to him?" Lelouch snarled.
Me? I'm just playing with his mind.
"Daddy! Seven!"
"Why?" Lelouch demanded.
To scare him.
"DADDY!" Alphonse shouted, pulling at the man's grip. "EIGHT!"
"Why?" Lelouch reiterated as the world distorted around his fists.
Because it's funny. Missingno. smirked. You won't believe what happens when he reaches ten.
"DADDY!" Alphonse screamed, tears in his eyes. "NINE!"
"STOP THIS NOW!"
"Ten." Alphonse whispered.
Lelouch woke up, panting for air.
He looked at Sierra, sleeping beside him.
He got out of the bed and checked on his son.
Alphonse was fine.
There was nothing wrong.
It was just a nightmare...
All was right with the world.
Just a few more weeks of travelling, and they'd be with civilisation again. A few days after that, and they'd be reunited with friends and family with a new child in the family.
And if that is the ending that you desire, then it can be the ending if you want it to be. All you have to do is review the story, compliment the author on the happy ending, and close the page and go read something else. With all due respect, you are perfectly free to walk away with a smile on your face.
You did not write this. You aren't required to know Lelouch's fate, what happens to the world, and how the story ends. You're free to have a happy, fulfilling, heartwarming ending where everyone lives happily ever after, good triumphs over evil, and Lelouch takes Suzaku and Red for a round of drinks to celebrate. You don't have to be sad at the end of this.
Alternatively, you could learn what happens when the mew named Alphonse counts to ten. I hope for your sake, however, that you choose to walk away.
For those of you who either cannot take a hint, or were overcome by a maddening desire for truth, I am sorry.
I am so, so, sorry.
Varanus: This is the end, guys, and whichever way it ends for you, remember that you were the one who chose it.
