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Just something I remembered, in response to a question Ryder asked a few days ago. After I return from my mission, I intend to become an author, and I have two stories in the works.
Anyway, in this chapter, I'm trying out a couple of new things.
1) I'm gonna start writing scenes about people other than Lelouch. The last few chapters have been a bit short for my liking, and I intend to rectify that.
2) it's not Code Geass with pokémon anymore. It's now Pokémon with Code Geass.
Now let the battle for Hoenn commence.
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"We do hereby declare the restoration of the independent nation of Japan!"
_\_ "The leader of the group which captured and currently occupies Rustboro city, Sawasaki Atsushi, once served as Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Kururugi Administration." _\_ The news reported. _\_ "He was exiled to the Chinese Union after the war, but has returned, presumably to take advantage of the recent disarray in our armed forces brought about by Zero. The involvement of the Black Knights is still under investigation, but the recent bombing of Evergrande would suggest…" _\_
"We're not involved dammit!" Tamaki barked at the screen in the sub.
"What did the Kyoto group say?" Ohgi asked.
"They didn't." Diethard started before getting cut off by Blue.
"The only thing they've said lately is about digging up some moonstone in mount moon, like that was a surprise." The brunette explained.
"Zero, what're we going to do?" Kallen asked, towelling her hair after their underwater trip to the sub.
Lelouch thought about it, then made his decision. "We are not joining up with Sawasaki." He announced. "His regime is not legitimate, but a puppet government under the Chinese Union's control."
"But they wave the Japanese flag-"
"The flag is nothing but a veil covering their true identity." Zero explained. "There is no future for them. We must ignore this so-called Japan."
"So, you're just saying-"
"That we're going to let Britannia take them out?"
"Zero, forgive me for my rudeness, but I think you should clarify our objective." Diethard suggested.
"Yeah, forget about Sawasaki for now." Ohgi told his leader. "What's our current objective?"
"The creation of the independent nation of Tokyo." Zero announced, setting off many murmurs.
"I-independent?"
"A country?"
"A country of our own?"
"Is he serious?"
"I see…" Diethard said with delight and amazement. "You are simply amazing…"
"Wait a minute!" Ohgi shouted. "Sure, the Order of the Black Knights has grown powerful and everything, but-"
"We're up against a world superpower that controls over a third of the human population." Urabe pointed out.
"Yeah, we can't do that alone!" Tamaki shouted.
"Then let me ask you, who is to defeat Britannia for you!" Zero shouted accusingly. "Do you honestly think that someone will come and help? That our perfect chance will show up? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!" Lelouch bellowed. "Change will never happen if you don't MAKE it happen!"
Lelouch tore his off mask once he was in his private chambers and opened up his computer to check on news on Suzaku. He'd been charged with insubordination for outright refusing the order to hold down Zero while Schneizel's Rayquaza blasted them both into oblivion, instead killing one of the wobbuffet holding him down and ordering mewtwo to move everyone to safety.
He hadn't been punished, however, since Schneizel overruled the court martial, explaining that it was unreasonable to ask such an otherwise loyal soldier with such talent and value for human life to stand there and die, but Suzaku had turned his knighthood in to Euphemia in shame.
"Sorry, Suzaku." Lelouch apologised. "I really, really did not want to do such an under-handed thing."
"And guilt tripping him with his father's death was any better?"
Lelouch spun in his chair to see C.C. lying on his bed, cuddling Jiro while looking at the ceiling with boredom on her face. "How did you gain that knowledge, by the way?"
"Silver handed me Giovanni's personal records of the incident." Lelouch explained with a sigh. "And either way, I have some things I wish to ask you about, witch."
"What like?" C.C. asked with a miserable sigh.
"'In this cave we have lived.'" Lelouch quoted, remembering the slabs he read earlier. "'We owe all to the pokémon. But, we sealed the pokémon away. We feared it. Those with courage, those with hope, open a door. An eternal pokémon awaits.'
"'Our powers were hidden, sealed away by our hearts. The Pokémon opened our eyes, granting us our power again. We sealed our eyes again, unable to control our hearts, lest they be consumed by the powers bestowed upon us.'"
Lelouch glared at the witch who merely yawned at his words. "What of it?" She asked.
"They were written in Braille on ancient stone slabs in the caves on the island I washed up on." Lelouch asked.
"Not one of the languages I ever bothered learning." C.C. admitted, then it clicked. "Doesn't ancient usually mean older than Braille?"
"I was hoping you could tell me." Lelouch stated. "Because by the sounds of it, I found the remains of a lost colony of Geass users." C.C.'s eyebrows furrowed together. "What's more, so have Britannia. By the sounds of it, there are ruins like them all over the world, and Britannia's invasions have been targeting them specifically."
"What is your question?" C.C. asked pointedly, not enjoying where this conversation was headed.
"I suppose the first would be if my father has a Geass."
"Who knows?" C.C. sighed, rolling over to face the wall. "I'm not the only one with the power to hand out Geass you know."
"How many others?" Lelouch asked, refusing to let her dodge this question.
Nevertheless, C.C. didn't answer. "Hmph, fine then." Lelouch asked. "Just wave if the number is less than ten."
He glanced as a little arm poked from a gap in the witch's embrace and waved frantically.
Lelouch smiled. "Thank you Jiro." He said, placing the helmet back on his face and headed for the door. "Try not to suffocate him witch."
The Britannian Sky Ship Rayquaza flew across Hoenn, slowed down by the weight of the mobile fortress it was carrying, but still making an impressive speed in the heavy rain.
What was most impressive was the way it dealt with the oncoming lightning and blizzards.
It roared.
They stopped dead and dissolved before the great sky serpent's wrath.
Suzaku and Lancelot then launched into the air, the mewtwo once more burdened by the cumbersome grey armour, but also carrying a red box on its shoulders that siphoned energy into the jetpack that had been added to Suzaku's white and golden armour.
They flew towards Rustboro with great speed, charging towards the Devon corporation that was acting as their military base.
Suzaku's plan was simple. The troops who were fighting to take control over Hoenn were rallying behind Sawasaki Atsushi. If they lose him, then the so-called 'legitimate government' will collapse, and the Chinese Union will be forced to retreat, having lost their reason to be there.
Mewtwo swerved in the air with Suzaku, launching blasts of energy at the Chinese Army's flying pokémon.
Years ago, the Britannian army had experimented with sending pokémon into battle without trainers, and sending the pokémon orders over audio communication devices while their trainers stayed safe within the base.
The system, however, failed miserably, and it was discovered that pokémon will only accept orders from a trainer if the trainer is 'fighting alongside it' in the pokémon's eyes.
If there is no risk for the trainer, then the pokémon will not obey.
That was why the float system jetpack was developed.
It is powered by moonstone, and takes charge from the pokémon connected to it, but until now there were few pokémon that this system could be used effectively with, as most pokémon that could both fly and were strong enough to spare energy to power the system were usually large enough to ride on, such as dragonite, or metagross.
However, since mewtwo was human-sized and hated letting humans climb on its back, it made a perfect test subject for the system's effectiveness in battle.
So far, it was working. The added risk for Suzaku meant that Lancelot was more responsive to his orders, which made up for the minimal loss in power.
If they got the funding, Lloyd could advance this system so it didn't need to be powered by a particular pokémon, but even lent floating capabilities to pokémon as soon as the trainer released them from the pokéball.
Aerial pokémon battles for all pokémon without having to ride them. It would revolutionise warfare as the world knew it.
And, if nothing else, one thing was guaranteed.
It would certainly be interesting to see a diglett's feet.
_\_ "Trainer of the approaching pokémon, are you the son of Kururugi?" _\_ Sawasaki asked over an open channel. _\_ "I see… so you are indeed his child…" _\_
"My father has nothing to do with this." Suzaku broadcasted back as he and Lancelot moved in to land outside the Rusturf tunnel. "I have come simply to end the fighting. I am asking for your surrender."
A wave of pokémon flitted out from the darkness as soldiers rushed to their position. Murkrow swiftly dove in to attack, but were either batted aside by Lancelot or cut down by Suzaku.
_\_ "So you would quash the dream of an independent Japan?"_\_ Sawasaki's voice echoed in his ear.
"No, but these violent methods are not the way for it to come about." Around them, gastly and sableye sent shadowy wave after wave of attack towards them, forcing Suzaku to use the float system to dodge a few times.
_\_ "I see. You're still but a child, bound by your simplistic ideals of justice." _\_
"No, I—"
\_|\_ GRRAARRGGH! _/|_/
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Suzaku twisted around to be backhanded by a huge, red, stone-like paw, launching him into the trees. Fortunately his armour absorbed most of the damage, but as he pushed himself up to see his assailant he felt an acute web of pain shoot across his torso.
Nevertheless, he got a good look at the monster. It was larger than any land-based pokémon he had ever seen, and sun shone through the lightning and rain on its huge, red back. "G-groudon!" Suzaku gasped. "But, then, why is it still raining…"
'They have a kyogre too…' he realised. "LANCELOT!" Suzaku shouted, grunting at the pain of his broken ribs. "USE SOLARBEAM!"
Both mewtwo and groudon took in the bright sunlight filtering through the storm, charging them faster than they could even in daytime, let alone in at sunset like this.
The two orange beams collided in midair as groudon and mewtwo fought for control, making mewtwo perfect prey for the murkrow and sableye's attacks. Pulses of darkness and swift gouges of beaks peppered Lancelot's armour, some of which managed to draw blood, which distracted the legendary just enough for groudon to get a fire blast in edgeways, knocking mewtwo into the rock face.
"LANCELOT!" Suzaku shouted, running for his pokémon as it stood up with a blast of psychic energy, having taken some clear damage. 'Dammit, the only attack's Lancelot has that are super-effective against ground types like groudon are of the ice type, which'll be useless in this heat!' he thought desperately. "Use focus blast!"
The orb of psychic energy enveloping mewtwo shrunk as he focused power into his paws. Glancing up to lock onto his target, Lancelot punched the orb at the behemoth, the orb of energy swelling in size, obliterating the ground in its path.
Groudon burst through the attack and slammed mewtwo deeper into the rock face, though the several dark types were reduced to ash by mewtwo's blow. _\_ "Give up now Kururugi, and we'll treat you in a manner befitting of your father's son." _\_ Sawasaki pointed out.
"NO!" Suzaku shouted into the mic. "I can't add to my shame by hiding behind my father! Lancelot, recover and use psycho cut!"
_\_ "You're just like him." _\_ Sawasaki chuckled. _\_ "Stubborn to the core. Very well then, we have nothing more to discuss." _\_ The open channel went dead, but was swiftly replaced by a call on a private channel.
_\_ "SUZAKU KURURUGI!" _\_
"Euphie?" Suzaku asked, forgetting everything for a second.
_\_ "I order you to… um… um…" _\_
"Now's not the time." Suzaku told her, shaking his head and charging at groudon with a sword while mewtwo tried to fight its way out of the behemoth's grip.
_\_ "Um… um… I ORDER YOU TO LOVE ME!" _\_ came her voice, loud enough to be heard outside his pokégear headset.
"Yes your highness!" Suzaku shouted without hesitation, slicing through a Chinese soldier before his brain processed what he'd just been ordered to do. "Wait, what!"
Even Lancelot and groudon were distracted by this. _\_ "And in return, I will love you back!" _\_
"Princess Euphemia…" Suzaku gaped, very lucky that there weren't any soldiers around to take advantage of his current distraction.
_\_ "I love your honest face," _\_ Euphemia told him. _\_ "Your kindness, your stubbornness, your clumsiness, even how that meowth of yours always bites you, all of you! So please, DON'T HATE YOURSELF!" _\_
Lancelot took advantage of everyone's confusion and punched a hole into groudon's stomach, sending it flying. Taking a step forward, he launched a set of psychic blasts at the newer soldiers that began swarming the area, giving Suzaku a look that said carry on.
"I see…" Suzaku smiled, talking both to the princess and his pokémon. "I really worried you, didn't I?" he picked up his sword again and swung it through the leg of an oncoming tauros, making it stumble and crash into the rock-face behind them. "You're always so spontaneous, like when I met you, and when you told me you were a princess, and when you sent me to school." He sliced off the leg of a Chinese soldier and charged alongside Lancelot. "And when you made me your knight, always so quick to act…"
_\_ "Yes, I can't help it!" _\_ Euphie agreed. _\_ "My feelings always come on so quickly!" _\_
"But, every time something like that happens, I feel closer to you." Suzaku told her, hacking his way through the city boundaries, Lancelot flying above him, giving him an almost amused look. "Thank you." He looked around at the mass of soldiers surrounding him. "May I make one final request?"
_\_ "Final?" _\_ Her happy tone quickly dried up at his words.
"If something happens to me, don't blame yourself." Suzaku told her as mewtwo landed behind him and they stood, back to back, facing their foes. "Also, in that event, please erase all trace of my existence. I don't want to cause my friends any grief, so tell them I transferred into another school."
There was a roar, and a swath of light burst out of the clouds to illuminate groudon, rising from his injuries.
_\_ "Suzaku… no…" _\_ Euphie whispered, growing horror in her voice.
"Groudon really did a number on Lancelot, and both the float unit and its power filler are smashed to pieces." Suzaku told her. Groudon roared again and charged for them, moving far swifter than a behemoth like that should have been able to.
"Oh, also, tell Lloyd, Ms. Cecil, and Prince Schneizel thanks…" Suzaku laughed, tensing up to prepare for his last stand. "I'm conceited until the end, aren't I?" he asked, glancing back at the mewtwo.
It made an approving sound with a smirk behind its broken helmet.
Sunlight began to focus around the red behemoth as it drew in the energy for another colossal Solarbeam.
_\_ "NO! Suzaku! Don't die! LIVE!" _\_
Those words hit a switch in Suzaku's mind. 'What the..?'
Groudon let lose the blast and Lancelot raised its arms to defend his master. However, something possessed Suzaku, and he stepped in front of the mewtwo, raising his hand against the oncoming rush of light. The Solarbeam crashed onto them, but was held back by a glowing, translucent wall that absorbed the attack completely and, when the groudon grew weary from pressing the attack, sent the blast reeling back at it with double the force.
Groudon screeched in pain as it was consumed by its own beam of light while the soldiers around them stared at the sight with hanging jaws. The red behemoth gave a croaking cry, before collapsing from the damage. Lancelot gave his master a look that seemed to say you were holding something like that back?
Suzaku snapped out of his trance and looked down at his hands. "Was that… Mirror Coat?" The click of guns brought him back to the present, where he realised that the soldiers around them that hadn't been caught in the blast still had them in their sights. "I can't… I can't die here…" Suzaku whispered to himself, staring down the barrels of the guns.
A powerful white blast of spiraling wind surged through the sky, crushing the surrounding soldiers and their pokémon. Everyone still alive looked up to see the magnificent white form of Lugia, with C.C. and Zero riding on its back.
"That white-head has no grasp of subtlety does he?" C.C. asked.
"Yes, but it seems that his brutality was part of a larger plan, this time." Zero agreed. "He rushes in and causes chaos in their headquarters, and even if he fails, it'll make Cornelia's job a lot easier. That is how Schneizel fights."
Two pidgeot rose up beside them. "Get out of my way, you two." Zero ordered, and they were coated in a pink glow and thrown to the ground by lugia's psychic power.
The white beast landed in the crater of ash and Zero disembarked with C.C. "Can you both still move?" he asked, offering a Full Restore and an Elixir to Suzaku.
"So it is you, Zero." Suzaku snarled, ignoring the offered gifts. "What are you planning now?"
"Sawasaki's actions are subverting everything both you and I have fought for. I, for one, am going to destroy their base." Zero explained. "How about you?"
Suzaku stared at Zero, then smirked, snatching the gifts. "I'm afraid I can't allow that." He told the masked man, turning to heal his pokémon. "Because Lancelot and I will destroy it first."
"While we're arguing, that witch has sped off with my raikou." Lelouch groaned, watching C.C. ride towards the building before rushing back onto his lugia.
_\_ "ZERO!" _\_ Sawasaki shouted over the loudspeaker as Suzaku climbed atop his altaria and flew after C.C. alongside Lancelot and Zero on his lugia. _\_ I THOUGHT YOU WERE AN ALLY OF JAPAN!" _\_
"We of the Black Knights oppose all who use unnecessary violence!" Zero shouted in response as lugia launched hydro pumps and ancient powers left, right, and centre, sending entire units of soldiers into disarray.
_\_ "Needless? THIS IS FOR JAPAN!" _\_
"Mr. Sawasaki, if you are indeed working for the good of Japan, then why did you flee to the Chinese Union!"" Suzaku shouted as altaria cast safeguard on the team and Lancelot threw a rhydon into steelix. "You should've stayed and defended the country you claim to love!"
_\_ "YOU DAMNED BABY!" _\_ Sawasaki shouted as Lancelot punched a large hole in the wall of the Devon head office for Suzaku and lugia to break through.
Lelouch and Suzaku were working together to obliterate a common enemy.
This was because the Black Knight's goal wasn't victory. It was to show that they were involved in this fight to defend Japan from invaders.
Of course, it won't be public knowledge, but rumours would spread.
This fight would make the Black Knight's message spread across the entire world.
So when lugia blasted the Chinese Union's kyogre out of the water and mewtwo floated the jeep carrying Sawasaki and the Chinese representative, everyone watching them knew that nothing could stop those two when they joined forces.
They even broke into and conquered one of the strongest fortresses in Hoenn with absolute ease…
_\_ "The sudden attack on the Hoenn Region by the Anti-Government terrorist organisation was thwarted by Vicereine Cornelia's blitzkrieg attack, resulting in the capture of Sawasaki Atsushi and four other members of the former Japanese government, as well as more than half of the participating Chinese Union forces." _\_ the anchorwoman on the news reported the next day. _\_ "The Chinese Union's government maintains that the unsanctioned attack was initiated by General Tsao, who has been returned into their custody in accordance of the Treaty of Tibet." _\_
"Reporting for duty, your majesty." Suzaku told Princes Euphemia as he bowed.
"Welcome home, Suzaku." Euphie welcomed him, just as the awkward moment hit.
Euphemia smiled shyly. "Um..!" they both said at the same time, causing the princess to burst into a fit of giggles, which Suzaku reciprocated.
"Suzaku, I know now…" Euphemia told him. "That I don't want to be involved with such tricky matters such as justice or national policy." She looked down at the flowers beneath their feet. "I just want to see those I love smiling and happy…"
She offered Suzaku the Euphemia Badge that he'd returned to her the day before. "Will you help me in that regard?" She asked him.
He hesitated, then took the Badge from her. "Yes, your highness." Suzaku replied, fixing it to his uniform with pride.
Suzaku got a call on his pokégear on his way back to the student dorms from an anonymous number. "Hello?" He asked.
_\_ "You owe me a favour for helping you back in Rustboro." _\_ Zero's voice told him from the other end.
Suzaku glared. "I thought we were helping each other for a common goal!"
_\_ "I gave you some restorative items, did I not?" _\_ Zero pointed out. _\_ "Besides, this is a simple request." _\_
Suzaku sighed. "What is it?" he asked.
_\_ "You haven't delivered your official report of what happened on the island yet, have you?" _\_ Zero asked. _\_ "I humbly request that you leave Kallen's name out of it." _\_
"Why should I lie to my government for a terrorist?" the restored knight snarled.
_\_ "Euphemia gave you the opportunity for a soldier like yourself to attend school." _\_ Zero pointed out. _\_ "I was hoping that you would return the favour. Do not worry, when a Black Knight removes their uniform they return to being a normal citizen; the school will be a strict cease-fire zone." _\_
Suzaku gritted his teeth. He really had no place or reason to refuse this, except… "I've already told some people." Suzaku admitted.
_\_ "If your concern is with Prince Schneizel, or Princess Euphemia, then rest assured that I've had my contacts speak with the prince, and the princess would not object to a girl being able to receive a proper education, would she?" _\_
Suzaku sighed. "Very well." He conceded. "If I am not asked directly on the matter, I will not bring it up, but that is all."
_\_ "Thank you, my ally." _\_
"WE ARE NOT ALLIES!" Suzaku shouted into the pokégear as Zero hung up. He almost threw it into the floor, but took a deep breath and thought better of it.
On the other end of the call, Lelouch was laughing his head off. "Ah, Suzaku…" he sighed, before turning to Kallen. "There should be no problem for you then, once we dock in Vermillion."
"Thank goodness…" Rivalz sighed with relief. "Isn't that great, Kallen?"
"Uh, yeah…" Kallen nodded without any enthusiasm.
"Perhaps you wished to carry on working for the Black Knights full time?" Lelouch asked her probingly.
"Well, yeah actually." Kallen admitted. "School just seems… unimportant now."
"Kallen." Lelouch told her. "The reason I lead this double life is because the Order of the Black Knights lives on a very, very fine line between dominance and oblivion." He explained. "One wrong move or a single stroke of bad luck at a bad time, and everything we've worked for will be destroyed."
She glared at what he was suggesting. "So you're doing this so you can abandon ship when things turn bad and return to your cushy life?" she snarled.
"Not at all." Lelouch countered. "I am doing this so if things go bad, if the worst does happen, I can wait and recover." He explained. "It's like using Rest in battle: I go to sleep for a few minutes when things are bad and wake up shortly after in peak condition."
"Ah, I get it." Rivalz nodded, moving his fist into his metal palm. "So if you screw up, you can just live like Lelouch for a while until things die down, and BAM!" he shouted, spreading his arms wide, accidentally back-handing the redhead. "Zero's back again, right and sorry Kallen…" He apologised, which the redhead ignored in favour of a swift strike to his kidneys.
"So, just another pragmatic back-up plan?" Kallen asked, nursing her cheek while Rivalz clutched his side.
"That's exactly it." Lelouch nodded, ignoring the scuffle. "This way, we get at least one chance at a rematch, and I want you to be available to me if things go south. Which they won't!" Lelouch insisted. "Just saying. If it does happen. Not when. If." He repeated.
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Hehe, If. Silly Lelouch.
Varanus: You think he'd have learned by now.