Alright everyone! New chapter time!

First off, Shrill-Tastic has done a fantastic story called "To Hell With Igor, Let's Gattai!". It's incredibly, incredibly manly and is based on Fairly English Story, so you know it's good. You can find the link in my favourites, I highly recommend it.

Greifen, Pokémon were used instead of warmechs. Guns came about from cannons, which were meant to blow large holes in things, but then they got downsized. In my story, guns are only a secondary weapon for if the other guy beat your pokémon, or to give a soldier something to do while his pokémon's kick ass. I can argue that guns exist in the pokémon universe because of that one episode in the anime, but I digress.
I'm still working with this whole idea, so bear with me. And if you're a country that's been fighting off Vikings and the French since the Romans left you, wouldn't you use the local dragons to make war a little easier for you?

And this chapter starts with a flashback, and ends in a battle that I wrote to Brianstorm by the Arctic Monkeys. Hooray!

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The huge doors to the throne room opened, and he guard made his announcement. "I present unto you, Lelouch Vi Britannia, Eleventh prince of Britannia!"

The young boy Lelouch strode down the red carpet in his cape as whispers grew around him.

"I heard Empress Marianne was killed in Britannia's castle."

"A terrorist would have had a hard time getting in there."

"Then, who was behind it?"

"My, my, it's frightening just thinking about it."

"Still, he's doing well, considering that it's his mother that's just been killed."

"However, Lord Lelouch no longer has any chance of seizing the crown."

"His mothers family, the Ashfords, are ruined."

"What about his sister, the princess?"

"I hear she was shot in the legs, and is unable to see."

"They say that part is a psychological illness."

"It doesn't matter. She'll be useless in the political arena anyway."

"My Lord Emperor." Lelouch declared. "My mother is dead."

"What of it?" Asked the bored emperor.

"What of it!?" Lelouch shouted angrily.

"You sought an audience with the Emperor of Britannia simply to tell me that?" The emperor asked, as if he had better things to do. He turned to his aide. "Bring me the next supplicant." He ordered. "I haven't the time to entertain children."

"FATHER!" Lelouch shouted, running forward, guards running forward with their scyther-bladed halberds.

The emperor waved them away. "YES! Your majesty!"

"Why didn't you protect my mother!?" Lelouch shouted in rage. "You're the emperor, aren't you!? You're the most powerful man in this country, are you not!? You should AT LEAST SEE NUNNALLY IN THE HOSPITAL!!"

"I have no need for the weak." The emperor said dismissively.

"W-weak..?" Lelouch gasped.

"That is the nature of the royal family." He explained to his son.

Lelouch looked down, biting his lip in anger, then glared at his father, the emperor. "Then I renounce my title!"

The audience gasped in shock at the child's impudence. Renouncing his claim to the throne? It's madness!

"I've had enough of being your successor!" Lelouch shouted. "And I've had enough of getting caught up in your petty squabbles!"

"You are dead." The Emperor sighed.

"Eh?" Lelouch gasped.

"You have been dead from the moment you were born." The emperor explained. "Who gave you those clothes you wear? Your home? Your food? Even your life! I GAVE THEM ALL TO YOU! YOU HAVE NOT LIVED FOR A SINGLE MOMENT! HOW FOOLISH CAN YOU BE!?"

The emperor stood up from his throne and Lelouch fell back, squealing in fear. "Lelouch." The emperor glared. "A dead man has no rights. You will go to Japan with Nunnally. A prince and a princess should make good bargaining chips."

Lelouch sat on his bed with his head hung low. C.C. was sleeping silently beside him, but he couldn't sleep.

Not with these memories echoing inside his skull.

_\_ "The military are currently surrounding the Saitama Ghetto." _\_ The anchorwoman on the news reported. _\_ "Entry into the area is forbidden by order of the Vicereine Cornelia." _\_

Lelouch stormed into his bedroom just as Jiro the jirachi was helping C.C. place a stamp onto her Pizza Hut loyalty card. "Hm? What's with the scary face?" C.C. asked. "Trying to slow something down?"

_\_ "We've received word that the attack will begin in two hours." _\_ The woman on the news continued. _\_ "Citizens of neighbouring areas are-" _\_

Lelouch turned the TV off. "They're re-creating a situation much like the one in Shinjuku." Lelouch told her, walking towards a briefcase and pulling out some clothing. "In an effort to draw out Zero. They're hoping that if I have any ego at all, I'll rush in and try to kill Cornelia."

"And you're rising to the bait like a magikarp to an Old Rod." C.C. noted with interest.

"They've taken the trouble to invite me, after all." Lelouch smiled. "There's also a great deal I'd like to ask Cornelia."

"Which do you think is more important?" C.C. asked. "Destroying Britannia or finding you mother's killer?"

"Those two are one and the same." Lelouch answered. "The royal family fights within itself, in order to decide who is the most worthy to ascend to the throne. No…" Lelouch added, glaring at his memories. "That man makes them fight."

"But that is the strength of the Britannian Empire." C.C. argued wearily. "The strongest of them wins out, and becomes the next emperor."

"Yes." Lelouch nodded. "The weak are cast out and crushed into oblivion. That's just the kind of country Britannia is. The kind of World this is."

"Survival of the fittest is the natural law of nature." C.C. pointed out. "That's why pokémon battle each other: to determine which is the most fit to survive, and to make each other more fit to-"

"Then What About Nunnally!?" Lelouch growled, slamming his briefcase shut. "Am I to abandon her simply because she is weak!? I will never do that!" Lelouch stood to his feet. "I will destroy that world for-"

Click

Lelouch looked at C.C. in shock, seeing the handgun she was aiming for his chest.

"Don't go Lelouch." She told him. "I cannot have you dying before you fulfil our agreement."

"Don't you think that what you're doing is rather counter-productive?" Lelouch asked her.

"I will not kill you." C.C. promised. "I'll simply shoot you in the leg so you can't go anywhere."

"I see." Lelouch smiled. "You can't use the Geass, can you?"

"…"

"I thought not." Lelouch said with a smirk. "If you could do it yourself, you wouldn't have to ask me," He pulled a gun out of his pocket and aimed it at her. "Would you?"

"Do you think I fear guns?" C.C. asked him.

"Of course you do." Lelouch told her, aiming the gun at his own temple, ready to summon his Persona.

C.C. gasped, and Lelouch pressed his advantage. "I was dead until the moment I met you." He told her. "I was a powerless corpse that was pretending to be alive, like a shedinja in his husk of a shell, faking life until the moment it is touched. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was akin to a slow death." His finger tensed on the trigger. "If I have to live as I did back then…"

"Wait!" C.C. shouted, lowering her gun. Lelouch slowly did the same, and C.C. continued. "Certainly, such a life would be meaningless…" She told him sadly.

'It's exactly the same' Lelouch thought to himself as he saw the bloodshed below. 'Britannia hasn't changed.'

A golem used Rock Climb and an officer climbed up to Lelouch. "What unit do you belong to?" He demanded from behind the scanner covering his eyes from Lelouch's Geass. "Give me your name and your ID number."

"My name is Brian Rockwell of the 3rd unit." Lelouch lied as his sneasel rushed out and stole the officer's scanner. "But I want you to sit on your pokémon for twenty seconds and then order your golem to use Explosion."

"Understood." The soldier saluted, sitting on his pokémon patiently as Lelouch legged it, putting the scanner over his eyes and looking over the situation before formulating a plan of action and putting the radio to his mouth.

"My name is Zero." He said in his Zero voice as the rock pokémon exploded, killing its rider in the blast. "You should know of the Shinjuku incident. Obey me, and you will live."

Lelouch watched the two tracking numbers of the two officer trainers blink out on his scanner screen as they were killed. "Now then, shall I draw Cornelia out?" He asked himself. "Or create an opening to get her myself?"

Lelouch noticed a collection of enemy soldiers gathering and turned on his radio. "R-1, R-2, fall back." He ordered. "Draw the enemy towards N-2. B-7, focus your attacks at two-O'clock. P-5, order your pokémon to attack now."

"N-2, attack at three-O'clock." Lelouch continued. "R-4, launch a flamethrower. N-1, start from the left." He smiled. "Alright then, P-3, use Rock Smash to destroy the bridge and cut off their retreat."

_\_ "All units! Fall back!" _\_ Came the order in Lelouch's scanner. _\_ "Repeat! All units to fall back immediately!" _\_

'How spineless.' Lelouch thought to himself. 'Now, if I can sneak into one of the retreating units…' He tapped his eye piece. "I'll be right next to you, Cornelia. The situation is clear."

'Cornelia.' Lelouch thought to himself as he slipped the scanner into his pocket and joined the retreating units. 'You will lose this one.' He smirked to himself. 'Even with the Geass, it would be far too difficult to penetrate this many layers of security. I'll have to make a way for myself, like with Clovis.'

Then his phone started ringing, and he checked it surreptitiously. 'The student council room?' He asked. 'I thought our cat festival wasn't until tomorrow… My umbreon costume's still being cleaned…'

Then the other end hung up. 'Hm?' Lelouch thought to himself, pocketing the phone in confusion. 'Well, whatever.'

He then looked around as the black armoured trainers rode in on their rhydon's. 'You must be desperate, Cornelia.' Lelouch thought. 'To mobilise your group to salvage the situation.'

He activated the hands-free on his radio and lowered his head. "This is Zero." He whispered, thankful for the stampeding pokémon almost drowning out his voice. "N-1, activate the tracker in the Britannian uniform you stole and act like a Britannian soldier."

_\_ "Understood." _\_

'He'll be the bait.' Lelouch thought with a smirk, glancing down at the scanner he held low, only to raise an eyebrow as N-1 was killed by three trainers. 'They didn't bother trying to confirm his identity?' Lelouch asked himself.

'Then…' Lelouch activated his radio again. "N-2" He whispered. "Activate your tracker and retreat towards the pokémon centre. R-1 and R-2, lie in wait and ambush the oncoming enemy."

Lelouch glanced down again and glared as the Britannian units spread out. 'They're not taking the bait?' He asked internally. 'Bugger.' "R-1, R-2, you've been made!" Lelouch hissed, breaking out of the ranks of the retreated soldiers. "Retreat immediately!"

Lelouch kept walking, glancing down to see the Japanese units under his command flee before they were surrounded. "P-2, N-3, encircle the enemy from the rear." He ordered. He would be more specific, but he didn't know the pokémon of his subordinates or his enemies.

Wait, yes he did. "Focus on using water and grass attacks. They are riding rhydons." He ordered.

Silence.

"What's the matter?" He asked. "Respond! P-2! N-3!" They weren't there. "Damn! B-1, B-5, you'll have to go!"

They were all surrendering. All begging for a mercy that Cornelia would never give them.

"P-6, P-8!" Lelouch begged. "What happened!?"

Because the one thing that woman despised more than terrorists.

Cowards.

Lelouch grunted. "P-7! Give cover for N-4!"

_\_ "This is B-7! I've found the other prey!" _\_ The rebel reported. _\_ "I'll take him out first!"

"NO!" Lelouch shouted, not bothering to disguise his voice. "He's a decoy! Follow my orders B-7!"

_\_ "What're you talking about?" _\_ The power-hungry rebel hissed. _\_ "I gotta take him out now!" _\_

"Get back!" Lelouch shouted. "He'll just come at you from above with a Sky Attack! Listen to my-"

He was dead.

'Idiot…' Lelouch thought to himself, before activating his radio again. "B-8, what is your situation?"

_\_ "Situation?" _\_ The rebel shouted in panic. _\_ "I'm- AARGGH!!" _\_

"B-8!" Lelouch shouted, before remembering himself. "Whoever's left, sound off in P-numbers."

PING

Lelouch looked up as the announcement rang. _\_ "Mission complete. All units, enter formation four." _\_

'They won?' Lelouch thought angrily. 'So easily!? This couldn't even be called a battle… This organisation was far too dissimilar…'

_\_ "ALL SOLDIERS!" _\_ Cornelia's voice blared from the speakers. _\_ "Remove your helmets and Show your faces!" _\_

The world turned black for Lelouch, who was overcome with rage. 'Cornelia!!'

_\_ "I repeat, All soldiers remove your helmets and show your faces!"

'What will I do?' Lelouch thought with all the brain power he had. 'Even without Zero's mask, my identity will be revealed. I cannot allow that. I'll have to use the Geass- no, that doesn't work without a direct line of sight. I can make one of the other soldiers confess- no, there's too many and I'll be caught before I can do it. Will it be possible? What if I tell them I'm Zero?'

'No, that's no good.' Lelouch decided. 'I'll have to risk everything in a full-frontal attack, no, that's impossible. Against Cornelia's trainer soldier's that'd be suicide.'

'So that's Cornelia… What can I do..?'

"Perhaps you could use my assistance, my accomplice?"

Lelouch turned around to see Zero. He almost had a heart attack, but Zero removed his mask and turned out to be C.C. "Why are you here?" Lelouch asked her.

"Didn't I tell you?" She replied, flicking her hair back. "I can't have you dying."

"Had my men been the same, I would have won!" Lelouch argued.

"You're a sore loser." C.C. noted, turning around. "Part of your power is to make such things possible."

"Then make them I shall." Lelouch told her. "I'll make them superior to Britannia! My army… My Trainers, My Pokémon, My Country!"

And a plan formed. "Give me the mask, cape and snag-arm." Lelouch told C.C. "And thank you."

"Hm?" She asked as Lelouch took the helmet from her and replaced his soldier's one for that. "What for?" She unclipped the cape and handed it to him.

"For allowing me to regain my victory." Zero told her, clipping on his cape and attaching his snag-arm over his Britannian armour. "Hm, I don't dislike the feel to this…"

"ZERO!" One soldier shouted as Lelouch turned around and activated his Geass.

"Give me a Flying pokémon and leave." Zero ordered the man.

"Yes sir." The soldier saluted, sending out a crobat and tossing the pokéball to Zero. "Take good care of him."

Zero gripped the ball in his snag arm and returned the crobat. "Oh, I will."

"CORNELIA!"

The Britannian unit saw Zero standing atop a crobat posing in the sky. He then tucked his cape to his side tight and leapt head-first from the flying bat pokémon, hurtling himself towards the ground like a comet.

He then dropped a pokéball and flipped in the sky, spreading his cape to slow his descent, though not enough in itself to save his life, it made it easier for him to land on his stolen metagross and catch the ball on the bounce as the pokémon span in the air towards the command centre of Cornelia's mobile base.

Everyone except Cornelia and a scarred man flinched from the glass as the window shattered as the steel arms broke through, Lelouch drawing a sword and slashing at his sister, who blocked with her own cutlass.

"Zero…" Cornelia grunted.

"My dear Cornelia." Lelouch smirked under his mask. "Congratulations on your performance on the battle so far."

"WAIT FOR MY ORDER!" Cornelia shouted at her underlings as she pushed Zero away from her, getting to her feet. "And I assume you now desire to take my life and assume that'd make it your victory?" She asked Zero.

"The battle today was undoubtedly your victory." Zero announced, spreading his arms wide as he stepped off the metagross. "But my pride as a trainer will not let it lie like this."

"You really are an egotistical fool." Cornelia smirked, raising her sword. "KILL HIM!"

"Y-YOUR HIGHNESS!!"

Cornelia looked around the room to see her men trapped behind walls of stone. "This is between you and me, Princess Cornelia." Zero announced, waving his sword at her as his metagross and sandslash, both knowing Rock Tomb, returned to his side.

She glared, but was internally smiling at this masked man's audacity as she sent out her tyranitar and her walrein. "GO!" She shouted as sand began streaming around the room. "Tyranitar, Crunch! Walrein, HYDROPUMP!"

"FOOL!" Zero shouted as a stream of sand shot at Cornelia's face, followed by Zero's blade. She barely managed to defend herself as a meteor-like punch rammed into the walrein beside her, followed by a spinning, spiky ball of death using Rollout.

Zero swung his blade again and was parried by Cornelia, turning him around and slashing, forcing the masked man into the corner.

Zero lowered his head and rammed Cornelia down the stairs, right into the thick of the sandstorm. "S-1!" He shouted. "Take care of E-2!"

Cornelia squinted to protect her eyes from the flying sand, then shouted "TYRANITAR! USE ICE BEAM!"

She dodged back as Zero slashed at her, parrying his next blow and countering with a thrust of her own, which Zero dodged around and lunged for her as tyranitar groaned in pain as it passed out, the sandstorm beginning to subside.

"W-WHAT!?" Cornelia shouted as the sand began to clear, Zero jumping back onto her throne as it became visible that his sandslash was standing atop her fallen walrein and that Zero had ordered metagross to take on tyranitar, where its steel element would have the advantage against tyranitar's Ice Beam and rock defences.

"Looks like this is my win, dear princess." Zero taunted, returning his pokémon and running towards a side window where his new crobat was waiting for him. "Farewell!"

Cornelia fell to her knees as her subordinates finally broke loose of the stone barricades. "I… lost..?"

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This is what happens when I listen to Arctic Monkeys in a morning.

There may be another chapter later today, but most likely it will be ready tomorrow.

Until then, enjoy!