BEHOLD! The prequel to R2! Ending on the final episode of R2, as an added bonus.
Because I'm Niiice.
Deviate Fish, guide is a very loose term. I let the original plot guide me in Time Paradox, and I'll let that speak for itself.
To clarify, yes, the original plot shall be a pleasantly helpful guide in writing this story.
BlahHEAD, I once co-wrote a story that made Sasuke Uchiha likable. I make Suzaku throw fireballs. Not only will I screw him over, but even you will feel bad for him.
WWDW, You still got time if you watch'em faster than I upload... so, about two episodes a day to protect you from the spontaneus double updates.
Karasu, R2 is going to be very, very, very different. The first change- two changes- three changes- you know what? This chapter is short. This chapter is subtle. But a lot of things that happen in this chapter change R2 a LOT.
Don't believe me? Look at the chapter title.
-}+{-
Swords clashed, and the shockwave shattered both blades and sending the weaker Lelouch flying backwards.
Suzaku leapt into the air, kicking Lelouch across the face with a spinning kick.
"ZERO!" Kallen shouted, reaching for Gurren's safari ball as Suzaku straddled atop Lelouch, rolling him onto his back and grabbing Lelouch's hands behind his back.
"I wouldn't," a voice said behind her, a deathly tight grip on her shoulder. She snarled and shrugged it off, rushing to save Lelouch.
Suzaku aimed a fireball at her. "HE'S LELOUCH!" he barked at her, lifting his friend up against the wall. "The man who used the Japanese… And You! Do you want to protect this kind of man!"
Lelouch's eyes, burning with his geass, met Kallen's stricken face, and he mouthed an order to her. One word.
Suzaku then threw Lelouch to the floor as Kallen turned and ran.
Lelouch smirked.
"Zero." Suzaku stated, pointing a broken blade at Lelouch's neck, mewtwo's still battling each other for dominance. "I will bring an end to you."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"
Lelouch sat up to see better but was kicked to the ground by Suzaku as Red walked forward, ignoring the fleeing Kallen. "Look, mate, I see you're angry, but I can't let you kill him." The grandmaster explained to Suzaku, recalling his mewtwo. "Sorry." He shrugged as Lancelot fell forwards, suddenly lacking an opposing force.
"How long have you been there?" Lelouch snarled. "No… WHAT DID YOU DO WITH NUNNALLY!"
"I didn't touch her." Red stated, stepping over Lelouch as he walked over to the stone doors behind him. "But you were right when you said that the one responsible is behind this door. Yield." Red ordered, and the doors opened, revealing a floating platform above a golden sky.
"Bring your prisoner in, Jappo." Red smirked. "Someone I'd like you to meet."
Suzaku slammed Lelouch to the floor as he knelt before the emperor. "Former Eleventh Successor To My Throne, Lelouch Vi Britannia." The emperor declared with a powerful, forceful voice. "It Has Been A While, My Son."
"Why, you—" Lelouch snarled before getting his head slammed into the ground by Suzaku.
"I won't let you use your Geass." Suzaku hissed, before turning to the emperor. "Your highness, I have a request. Please let me join the Empire's most elite twelve knights, the Knights of the Round."
"You Ask As A Reward For Capturing Zero?" the emperor boomed.
"You…" Lelouch growled.
"I told you before." Suzaku told his friend. "I want to change the world from within."
"By selling your friend to get promoted!" Lelouch screamed.
"That's exactly what I'm doing." Suzaku pointed out.
The emperor smirked. "Very Well." He said. "I Admire Your Answer."
"Good thing the position of Knight of Five just opened up." Red pointed out. "You should thank your friend, Suzaku."
"Thank you, Lelouch." Suzaku told him grimly.
"Stop It, My Son." The emperor told Red.
"What! Son!" Lelouch shouted, twisting on the floor to face Red.
"Yes, My Son! The Thirteenth Prince Of Britannia!" Emperor Charles declared as Red removed his cap and bowed to Lelouch, almost sarcastically. "Ashford Vi Britannia! The Second Son Born Of Marianne And I! YOUR BROTHER, LELOUCH!"
"N-no…" Lelouch gasped. "I REMEMBER! YOU DIED!"
"That's what you memory wiped him to believe?" Red- no, Ashford asked the Emperor with a groan. "Man, no imagination whatsoever… ah well." Both his Geass's flared up. "I want you to do something for me."
"Oh? And What Is It?" Charles asked, sounding amused.
"Give Lelouch to me." He beseeched the emperor.
Lelouch gasped as his father smirked. "You Are A Most Impressive Son, Ashford." Charles said. "And Your Brother, The Disgusting Whelp That He Is, Was Capable Of Throwing An Entire Area Into Disarray. Were It Not For His Weakness For That Pathetic Sister Of His, Area Eleven Would Still Be His-"
"DON'T TALK ABOUT NUNNALLY LIKE THAT!" Lelouch bellowed at his father.
"Speaking of my sister…" the thirteenth prince hissed through clenched teeth. "Where is she?" Red asked the emperor angrily. Lelouch glanced back at the knight to see Ashford almost equally as outraged as he himself was.
"I Have Use Of Her." The emperor sneered. "But You May Have This Whelp. Seal His Right Eye." He ordered Suzaku, who complied.
"Lelouch." Charles Di Britannia told his son, both of his Geass's flaring up. "I Will Rewrite Your Memories. About The Fact That You Were Zero, About Marianne, About Nunnally…"
"WHERE DID YOU GET THE GEASS!" Lelouch demanded.
"Forget Everything And Become A Normal Pokémon Trainer With Your Brother." The Emperor ordered.
"STOP!" Lelouch screamed, trying to close his left eye as Suzaku held it open. "YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME AGAIN! MOTHER! EVEN NUNNALLY!"
"Charles Di Britannia Shall Engrave…" the emperor continued as Lelouch screamed. "Your New, False Memories."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!"
Kallen returned to the captured Celadon Mansion to report that Zero had been captured…
A day too late.
The Black Knights had been obliterated by the Britannian army. They had reclaimed their briefly stolen land, slaughtering all but the leaders of the Black Knights, except those who managed to escape.
She then watched as the Emperor held a live video-broadcast and used his Geass on everyone in Kanto, rewriting their memories to accommodate the new memories he had given Lelouch.
His eyes had looked like Lelouch's had been in the cave, burning bright with unnatural power. Was this what Suzaku had been talking about? Geass?
She had enough sense to look away and cover her ears before her memories were taken over too, and she managed to protect all the important memories.
Soldiers raided Ashford academy and any of Lelouch's safe-houses, destroying any evidence to his royal blood, to the Geass, to Zero,
Of Nunnally…
Kallen met up with the escaping Rivalz, who was leading the group of fourteen foot soldiers who managed to escape from the various attacks. Apparently Diethard had taken a load of men with him to China, but not this fifteen.
They would have to survive on their own…
Lelouch Lamperouge returned to school with many of the other refugees a week later, only this time, he stopped by an apartment near the campus after school.
He entered it and placed a duffel bag on his table before heading the fridge and opening some poffins as he let out his pokémon. "Alright everyone." He sighed, setting out his metagross, alakazam, lucario, sandslash, crobat, relicanth. "Enjoy."
He then opened grabbed a plastic microwave meal, stabbed the film lid a couple of times, then bunged it into the microwave.
Lelouch left it to hum as he walked over to the TV, turning on the news.
_\_ "After last week's chaos caused by the terrorists brief takeover of Area Eleven, normal Britannian rule has been restored." _\_ the reported on the TV announced as Lelouch heard a knock on the door, and walked over to answer it. _\_ "Refugees from the destroyed Saffron City are still living in temporary accommodations, but still--" _\_
Lelouch opened the door and was greeted with a bone-shattering high-five. "Hey, Lellow!" Red declared with a huge grin, rucksack over his left shoulder and a pikachu on his right.
"Ash!" Lelouch shouted, his face lighting up instantly. "Come on, how long has it been!"
"Eh, couple of months or something." Ashford replied. "I travel a lot."
"You sure do, Knight of One." Lelouch replied proudly. "How've you been?"
"Eh, the usual. Who cares? I wanna hear about you, brother." Ash replied. "More importantly, how long can I crash at your place for?"
"So long as you like, as long as you don't bring any more girlfriends over." Lelouch joked, muting the news as he led the way into his living room.
"So, three days then?" the younger boy joked. "Nah, seriously. I'm enrolling in the Ashford Academy after the summer break."
Lelouch almost choked on his drink. "Seriously?" he asked his younger brother. "How long for?"
"Until I can get you expelled." Red chuckled, leaning forward conspiratorially. "They're gonna be starting a double's league in Cambodia in a couple of years, so I want you to come with me."
"Me?" Lelouch asked. "I'm flattered, shouldn't you ask one of your fellow knights?"
"Weirdo's, the lot of 'em." Ash shrugged. "Besides, do brothers need an excuse to live together?"
"You're going to put me and my pokémon through training from hell, aren't you?" Lelouch groaned.
Red punched him playfully on the arm. "Damn right I am."
"I Dub Thee White Reaper Suzaku Kururugi, Knight Of Five!" Emperor Charles decreed, setting his broadsword aside. "Rise, Knight Of Five!"
"Yes." Suzaku said, rising to his feet. "Your highness."
After an evening of swapping stories, Lelouch gave his brother a guided tour of the school. "Over here is the marker girl." Lelouch guided. "Every day, at the same time, this girl takes her smeargle and makes a mark on this wall. No-one knows why, and she denies flat out that it's here doing it, but she does it all the same."
"Whoa, that's freaky." Ash whistled, not meeting his brother's gaze.
"Hey, Lulu!"
Ash and Lelouch turned around to see a girl with long-ginger hair running up to them. "Where've you been? I've been looking all over for you!" she pouted, handing Lelouch a lunchbox shyly. "Here's your lunch…" she mentioned.
"You're a lifesaver Shirley!" Lelouch told her. "Shirley, this is my brother, Ashford."
"Eh?" she asked. "Like, as in the academy?"
"My mom and the president's mom were friends." Lelouch explained. "That's why I get free tuition. Anyway, Ash is transferring in next month." Lelouch clapped his hands over his head. "Please can you make some lunches for him too? You know I can't cook…"
"I'm actually fairly competent…" Ash explained awkwardly. "I mean, I did spend six months living on top of mount silver…"
"What, as in that psycho place where the wild pokémon eat ursaring?" Shirley laughed as Lelouch covered his brother's mouth.
"Haha, he's just kidding…" Lelouch laughed, dragging him off. "Excuse us…"
"Do you want people to know that you're the Grandmaster!" Lelouch hissed. "Your identity's normally hidden under your hat, so no-one knows your actual face, didn't you come here for some normal school life?"
"Not really." Red smirked. "I told you, I want to get us both kicked out by the end of the year so we can take the Cambodia league together."
"Is that why you released twenty-three rattata into the bakery and fourteen tentacool into the pool?"
"Eh?" Ash asked as Lelouch poured a small pile of shrunken pokéballs of various varieties out of his bag.
"You can't pull that innocent game with me." Lelouch told him. "I know I'm keeping a friendly face in front of everyone else, so I can tell when you are. I'll go through your training at home, but you are going to behave at school, understand?" Lelouch snarled, Geass unconsciously humming in his right eye.
Red grinned. "Alright." He lied to his brother. "I'll be good."
C.C. rode lugia through the ocean after Jeremiah had passed out and fizzled out of existence.
She knew what had happened, and, all in all, the situation could be much worse.
Lelouch had been spayed, so to speak. His memories sealed, no Nunnally, no mother to avenge, no father to kill, Lelouch had no drive, and was a lazy shell of his former self.
Ashford didn't want that. He was determined to fix that.
That was one thing C.C. was thankful for. Lelouch had only forgotten his Geass, he could still access it sometimes, and once they restore his memories, it will be back completely.
And he was still alive.
No, more than that. Red shared his brother's hate of Britannia, even if they had different motives for doing so.
But more than anything, Red wants Lelouch to be strong.
Because Red can only defy Britannia.
Lelouch can destroy it.
C.C. smirked as Jiro began rubbing her shoulders in the bubble protecting them from the abyss, not that any of them needed it. "Thank you." She told her pokémon. "Now let's get to work making that lens."
"Alright Lellow, these are called bokken." Ash explained that weekend, handing Lelouch a curved wooden pole. "They were used as sword training tools back when this place was Japan."
"I thought we were doing pokémon training?" Lelouch asked nervously.
"We are." Red told him. "How do you expect pokémon to follow a human if he isn't prepared to take a few lumps himself? In a battle, a king should always lead, right?"
Lelouch looked down at the weapon, then got into a fencing stance. "Right."
Ash smiled. "Not how you hold it." He pointed out, knocking it out of his brother's hands with ease. "Tighter, with both hands, legs wide. That's it." Red smiled as his brother got into the correct stance. "Now, Hit me."
Lelouch ran towards his brother and got hit in the ribs by his bokken, knocking him to the ground. "You're a thinker Lelouch." Red told him. "Use that head of yours and fight me."
He got to his feet, wincing, then got ready to fight again, this time analysing the situation and predicting his brother's movements before attacking.
"One all." Red smiled. "Good, good, again!"
And so, time passed…
Nine months, even.
But at this time, he was ready.
He didn't know it yet, but he was ready.
For the second Black Rebellion.
Lelouch Lamperouge, the boy who once struck fear into all of Britannia, was walking down the corridor of school.
"Lelouch."
"Ah, sorry!" he apologised, turning to his P.E. teacher, Villetta Nu.
"You're quite annoying." She told him. "I won't let you get away any-HEY!"
Lelouch was already legging it down the corridor.
"Hey, about that battle-" a green-haired boy began.
"Sorry Drew!" Lelouch shouted hurriedly as he ran. "Next time!"
"Hold it Lelouch!" his teacher shouted, sprinting after him.
"Go vice-president!" Lelouch's fan-club cheered, watching him go.
"Yeah, yeah." He sighed, twisting into a darkened science lab.
Villetta blocked the exit. "Your loss was made apparent when you challenged a P.E. teacher to a battle of fitness." She told him.
"Don't you think you're over exaggerating?" Lelouch asked him. "It's just a make-up lesson."
"Then come to class like you should." She told him.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with my physical capabilities." Lelouch told her, twiddling a conical flask on its stand. "After all, my brother puts me through hell and back every morning and evening just so I can wrestle a machoke to the ground."
"Don't get funny with me, boy." Villetta sneered as Lelouch poured the mixture into another one, creating life.
"Grimaaahh!"
Villetta instinctively flinched from the toxic sludge as Lelouch vaulted the table and ran right past her. "Hey, get back here!" she shouted, kicking the grimer in the face and chasing after him.
"Go for it, slave boy!" Milly cheered from above as Lelouch slid down the banister rails, tossing him a RageCandyBar.
"Ah, thank you!" Lelouch replied, tearing the packaging open with his teeth and continuing his escape.
"And you call yourself the student council president!" Villetta shouted at her.
"Sorry!" Milly lied. "I just…"
Villetta grunted, and ran for the window, jumping out. "LELOUCH!" she shouted, leaping for the boy, landing on his back as he ran under the window.
She smiled with the satisfaction of capturing her prey.
"That wasn't very nice," the boy under her asked, twisting around and removing his wig. "Miss."
"Rolo..?" she asked in shock, before standing up and looking at Lelouch and Ashford jump onto their crobat and pidgeot and fly out of the school.
"Thanks mate!" Ashford shouted, tossing the RageCandyBar down to Rolo as he flew. "I owe you one!"
Villetta scowled at Rolo, who just shrugged, munching on the candy.
"Honestly, that woman…" Lelouch groaned, flying through the sky. "Can't she at least give me my freedom once school's out?"
"What freedom?" Ash asked. "And it's your fault for skiving so much."
"Hey, I need to sleep sometime." He pointed out.
'It's been almost a year since the Black Rebellion that Zero started was crushed.' Lelouch thought to himself. 'I was in Viridian getting my badge at the time so I wasn't too caught up in it, but everyone back at the academy was taken hostage while I was gone.
'Area Eleven has settled down as well. Back during the incident, rumours were breeding like magikarp. I even considered just leaving with Ash at one point…'
"Did you submit your future course inquiry thingy?" Ash asked his brother, pulling him out of his thoughts. "Villetta was pretty pissed about it."
"Ah." Lelouch smirked.
"Are you going to college?"
"I haven't decided ye-"
"WRONG ANSWER!" Ash shouted, ramming his pidgeot into crobat playfully.
"Well, I am pretty tired of being a student." Lelouch recovered. "But the thought of being used by someone else is just…"
"So become a professional trainer!" Ash shouted. "Come on, I'll take you under my wing, we'll rock the world!"
"You're still at that, huh?" Lelouch smiled. "But you have a point. Otherwise, I'd just be pieced into the hierarchy made by adults."
'The Elevens lost.' Lelouch thought to himself, his gaze passing a news broadcast of a mass-execution of Elevens. 'They held onto power for just five hours before the Britannian forces came and wiped them out. They had no power. If those Black Knights hadn't risen up, then things wouldn't be so bad for the others right now.'
'Well, after what they did to Saffron, they deserve it.' Lelouch glared. 'Zero. You truly were an idiot. No matter what you do, this world won't change…'
"Here we are." Ash told Lelouch as they landed in the outskirts of olivine city.
Outside the Trainer Tower.
"Alright, you know what to do." Red told him, handing him the briefcase full of money.
"Go in, kick ass, come out with twice as much." Lelouch smirked, walking towards the building. "This'll be fun."
The two boys went inside and entered the lift to the twenty-third floor.
The place was like a casino- a place where trainers just relaxed and challenged each other to battles in the upper floors.
Only those who had at least eight badges were even welcomed in here.
Hell, you needed to be a competent trainer just to work behind the bar.
"Alright." Lelouch smirked, browsing the room. "Let's see who looks like fu-"
"Ah, I'm sorry!" shouted the red-head in a pink playboy buneary costume who just bumped into him, spilling cocktails over his school jacket. "Forgive me!"
"No, it's all right." Lelouch told her as she began rubbing his clothes with a cloth in terrified obedience.
"I am an Eleven." She told him, not looking at his face. "You are a Britannian student."
"Then, all the more." Lelouch told her, kneeling down to her level. "I don't like brandishing power without status."
"But, people with no power must bear it with patience." The girl told him with a shy smile. "Even if it's towards the wrong people."
"Don't push your values onto me!" Lelouch snapped with a mix of anger and sadness.
"Please forgive me." She replied, covertly flicking a tiny electronic device out with her fingers for him to take.
A rough hand grabbed her by the hair before she could plant it and dragged her up, making her drop the device. "Let me take a look at your face." The man told her, squatting for a better look. After a second of leering, his eyes wandered downwards. "Hmm… nice merchandise…" he smirked, looking at his mates who had gathered three more girls.
"I'm happy that your buneary scouting today has resulted in so many fine prizes, sir!" a grovelling butler grinned.
"I- I'm not merchandise!" the redhead protested.
"Yes you are." The man grabbing her growled. "People do not win have no rights."
"So, that follows that the ones who do win have rights over those who lose?" Lelouch asked.
"Dude, he's from the mafia." Ash hissed, but Lelouch waved him aside.
"So, if I battle you and win, then I get all the girls you've acquired so far?" the older boy asked the tattooed man.
"Oh?" the man chuckled. "And what will you do when you lose?"
Lelouch slammed the briefcase onto a table and flipped it open, revealing the money inside. "I think that this should cover it." He sneered.
The man sneered. "Kid, you don't know who you're dealing with."
"I think I do, Crusher Wake."
"Oh?" Wake laughed. "You challenge me knowing who I am?"
"You'd make a decent opponent for by debut." Lelouch smirked. "Shall we go?"
Wake grinned. "Very well." He laughed, calling a lift down. "But since this isn't a gym battle, I'll go all out and crush you, kid."
Five minutes later, Lelouch returned alone. "Release the girls." He declared to Wake's cronies. "No sick games for you lot tonight."
The girls could hardly believe the luck, but gasped happily and returned to work.
Outside of Trainer Tower, Wake would have just had them all killed.
Inside the tower, however, victory is everything.
Wake stormed out of the elevator, glaring furiously at Lelouch, unable to do anything. The teen merely grinned, relishing his victory over the arrogant Leader.
Then the tower shook. "Terrorists!" somebody screamed.
The red-head pulled the ears off her costume and punched the goon holding her, before jumping into the air and kicking him in the face, shattering his jaw. Pulling a shrunken safari ball from her cleavage, she unleashed her scizor, which sped across the room and took out two more of Wake's men.
"Come on!" she shouted, grabbing Lelouch's wrist as people ran screaming. "This way!"
"H-hey!" Lelouch protested as the roof was torn down.
Regirock and raikou burst into the room, roaring with rage as the remnants of the Black Knights stormed the tower, unleashing their pokémon and gunning down any that tried to stop them.
'What..?' Lelouch gasped. 'What is happening… WHAT IS HAPPENING!'
Before he fully decended into panic, he felt a calming presence in the back of his mind, similar to how his metagross and alakazam communicated, but far stronger. Turning, he looked up to see a brilliant silver pokémon lightly descend before him, towering above him.
Lelouch stared at it in awe. "You are…"
"LUUUUGIA!" It screeched, flapping its arms wide before lowering itself to Lelouch.
As if it was kneeling.
And Lelouch couldn't understand why he was so certain it was kneeling to him.
Suddenly bullets began to rip through the air, snapping Lelouch away from his thoughts.
"COME ON!" Red shouted, grabbing his brother and dragging him away from the girl as Britannian soldiers burst into the place and started killing everyone in sight, Britannians and Elevens alike.
The lugia created a force field to protect Lelouch and Ashford, and Red dragged the shocked Lelouch away.
Kallen rushed into an alleyway, grabbed a jacket from a corpse, and pulled the shrunken rainbow ball from between her chest, returning her beloved Gurren.
She needed something with a little more firepower now.
"ASH!" Lelouch shouted, running into a room and closing the heavy door just as his brother leapt in through the gap.
'What's going on..?' Lelouch asked, trying to catch his breath. 'Why did that pokémon protect me..?'
"Got a plan Lellow?" Ash asked.
"Thinking of one." Lelouch replied, glancing around to get a bearing on his surroundings. It seemed their temporary sanctuary was a zone of the tower still under construction. "Okay, let's see… We can definitely escape from this alive, the question is just how..?"
"THERE HE IS!" a voice yelled from one of the upper tiers, and gunfire rained down on them.
Lelouch instinctively pushed his brother back as a bullet from above hit his shoulder, forcing him off the ledge. "LELLOW!" Red shouted, reaching out for him, their fingers brushing as Lelouch fell.
Lelouch sent out his crobat to save him, but the bat took several bullets to the wings, only managing to get Lelouch to the bottom of the tower's frame before fainting.
"ASH!" Lelouch shouted, returning his pokémon. "GET OUT WITHOUT ME! I'LL MEET YOU BACK HOME!"
He didn't hear a reply, and his pokénav had no signal.
So he gritted his teeth and ran for the stairs, clutching his bleeding shoulder.
Soon enough, Lelouch found the trail of bodies.
Elevens, Britannians, all dead regardless.
One of the girls he'd saved earlier was dead, clutching a bloodstained photograph of Zero.
"They're still clinging onto him…" Lelouch gasped, before turning around and vomit at the sight. Before he totally spilled his guts out, however, he felt that same calming consciousness at the edge of his mind, easing his fear and revulsion.
"Lelouch."
He twisted around to see a girl in a white suit and long green hair standing atop the lugia from before. She was… too familiar… "We've come for you." She told him. "Lelouch. I am your ally. Your enemy is Britannia."
Lelouch gasped in confusion as the girl glared. "You made a pact with me, did you not?" she asked him. "We are accomplices."
"Pact?" Lelouch asked, getting up and wiping his mouth. "Accomplices?"
"Only I know who you truly are." She told him.
"Who I… truly am..?" Her words meant something, he knew in his soul, and before he realised it, Lelouch had began walking towards the girl and her mount tentatively as she reached out her hand.
TOUN
The girl began to fall, blood seeping from her chest. "L-Lelouch…" she gasped.
"HEY!" he shouted, catching her as she fell. "DON'T DIE ON ME!"
Then he noticed the twelve soldiers and their pokémon.
One was holding a smoking gun.
"The… Britannian army..?" Lelouch gasped as four of the soldiers walked into the corpses with their magmar and began torching the bodies. "Wait, what're you—"
"AAAAGGHH!" a woman and her child screamed, doused in magmar's flames.
"STOP IT!" Lelouch screamed. "THEY'RE STILL ALIVE!"
DAKKA
Not anymore they weren't.
"Thank you for your role in all this." The officer in charge told the horrified teenager. "Lelouch Lamperouge."
The Lugia roared, but was unable to move as it was trapped in a pentagram of five wobbuffet. Glowing threads linked their hearts to the silver guardian, and it knew better than to attack while it was trapped by a Destiny Bond.
"Role..?" Lelouch asked angrily. "What're you talking about!"
"We've been watching you all this time." The officer boasted, pulling out a notebook. "6:59, wake up. 7:09, feed pokémon. 7:12, watch news and have breakfast with brother. No opinion on the content of the news, but complain about how your pokémon eat better than you. 8:45, go to school. Skip homeroom and first period to sleep on the roof. Period two, physics…"
"That's… my schedule for today…" Lelouch gasped, utterly freaked out.
"Call it a day-care log." The officer bragged, closing the book. "For the bait."
"Bait?"
"Or perhaps you would call it a trap." The officer shrugged. "A trap to lure out that witch, C.C."
"WAIT!" Lelouch shouted desperately, clutching the dead girl. "WHAT'RE YOU TALKING ABOUT!"
"I am a Baron." The officer sneered. "I have no intention to talk to bait any longer. Now is the time for your execution. There are no longer any witnesses."
"Execution..?" Lelouch managed. 'Is this… my end? Will I die without knowing anything?'
"No…" Lelouch growled. "Not a chance!" 'If only I had power… power to get through this… POWER TO GO AGAINST THIS WORLD!'
Then he felt someone grip his arm.
He looked down, and the girl he thought was a corpse reached up and kissed him.
~ 'Do you want power?' ~ her voice asked him. ~ 'If you want power, you already possess it. It's merely trapped inside a pokéball you never thought to open. Remember… who you really are… Reclaim the power of the king…' ~
BREAK THIS WORLD OF LIES AND CLAIM WHAT IS YOURS
"Before you execute me, answer me this question." Lelouch asked the guards, standing up amongst the flames while keep his head low.
"That woman's still alive!" the baron shouted, seeing C.C. stand next to Lelouch. "Impossible, we shot her through the heart!"
"If powerlessness is a sin," Lelouch asked, stepping forward as C.C. stepped back to grant him some space. "Then is power Justice? Is revenge a sin? Is friendship enough for Justice?"
"There is neither sin nor justice." The Baron smirked. "All that remains for the bait is the truth known as death."
"I see." Lelouch nodded, stopping in his stride. "Then, all of you shall leave behind that truth. Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you," he raised a hand and swung it to his side. "All Of You! DIE!"
"YES! YOUR! HIGHNESS!"
DAKKADAKKADAKKA
From that day on, I was never satisfied in my heart.
The fabricated life that didn't make any sense.
The time that slipped by.
A life of a mareep given false memories.
However, the truth unconsciously beckoned me…
"YES!" Lelouch shouted as the bodies of his enemies burnt, their pokémon running wild and his lugia roaring in triumph. "It is not I who was wrong! IT WAS THE WORLD!"
Ho-oh burst through the roof, Kallen leaping from its neck with three other Black Knights and kneeling in reverence. "The world shall change." Lelouch stated.
"We've been waiting for you." Rivalz stated behind his disheveled hair and blue beard as he knelt amongst the burning bodies.
"Lord Zero. Please, give us your orders." Urabe said, head low.
"Very well!" Lelouch stated. "For I am Zero! The destroyer of worlds! The creator of new worlds! Let this rotten world BURN! I shall serve as the SCION OF THE NEW DAWN!"
"YES!" His knights shouted. "LORD! ZERO!"
"KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND!" Emperor Charles Di Britannia declared to the eleven men and women knelt before his throne. "ZERO HAS BEEN REBORN! WHO SHALL KILL HIM!"
"Let it be I, your highness." Suzaku said as he stepped forward. "Knight of Five, your White Reaper."
-}+{-
YES! THIS! IS! WHAT I WRITE!
Man, for a minute there, I bet you didn't think that this chapter would hold any epic, did you?
Just so you know, in the first draft, Rivalz had dreadlocks, but Varanus said that it was too epic. Or something, I couldn't really hear him over the sound of how EPIC I AM!
Varanus: Yeah, yeah, keep talking. Dreadlocks take a lot of time and effort to maintain, I'm told. Disheveled rebel look is just as epic, especially considering he'd spent the past nine months surviving solely on pure, weapons-grade badass (seriously, that's what his arm runs with).
He's too busy kicking ass and escaping capture by the skin of his teeth to care about haircuts!
Still would've been cool... I'm not talking about tight braid dreads here, I mean big thick Bob Marley dreads. Ah well.
Also, I foreshadowed Lelouch having a brother. Remember chapter 17? When Lelouch mentioned that he once had a brother?
I like to give characters long lost siblings apparently. Now, if Fairly English Story, that was just some added niceness that helped out later on, but in this one, it'll be integral to the new plot.