Yeah… I still have no idea how Lelouch is getting out of this one.
Now, there's a rather decent fight scene in this chapter that I wrote to a song i found on Youtube. I reccomend listening to it during this chapter. Check it out lunardragon2607's channel, and open up the Last Decision (Devil Survivor) extended track.
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_\_ "Is that you brother?" _\_ Lelouch's beloved sister repeated. _\_ "It's me, Nunnally!" _\_
'If your memory didn't recover, then you shouldn't know anything about Nunnally…' Suzaku thought to himself. 'Now, Lelouch, give me an answer…'
'You bastard…' Lelouch thought angrily as Nunnally's voice continued to ask for her brother in his ear. 'I can't lie to Nunnally…
'Why not?' Lelouch thought to himself. 'With all the other lies… I've been lying to her all along, haven't I?
'Come to think of it, with all the lies she's been put through, maybe it's time she realised how false this world is. If I play Suzaku's game and pretend not to know her, then she'll know something's up, and she'll ask questions.
'But, wasn't I trying to achieve a world where Nunnally's innocence could be preserved? A world where she wouldn't learn of the lies and hatred everyone has for each other because there wouldn't be any? Don't I want to preserve her happiness?
'But, if I acknowledge her, then Suzaku will arrest or even kill me, which would end her faith in me and Suzaku, and that bastard of a father won't have any further use for her. With his survival of the fittest bullshit, she'll be disposed of by tomorrow morning.
'So, I should pretend to not to know her, for both our sakes… dammit, why does my eye HURT!'
_\_ "Lelouch?" _\_ Nunnally repeated. _\_ "Big brother, are you there?" _\_
'That's it…' Lelouch realised rubbing his contact out of his eye and whispering "Nunnally…"
He then clutched his face and groaned, "Arrrghhuuughh…" he moaned, tumbling to the side and grabbing the stone banister for support. "Why… Nunnally… Argh… Suzaku…" he asked, turning to him and revealing his Geass. "Wh-what's happening..?"
"You IDIOT!"
Suzaku turned behind him to get punched in the face by Ashford, who rushed to Lelouch and covered his Geass with his hand. "It's okay!" he told his brother as Suzaku got back up. "It's alright brother, you're going to be fine!"
"Ash…" Lelouch groaned, slipping the contact into the cuff of his wrist. "Who's… Nunnally..?"
The younger sibling got with the programme immediately and confronted Suzaku. "You bloody IDIOT!" he shouted. "What the hell do you think you're playing at!" he turned back to his older brother and undid his tie. "Alright, Lellow, I need you to listen to me very carefully." Ashford explained. "There's something wrong with your eye, and it's affecting your memories. I'm not allowed to explain it, but I need you to trust me, okay?"
Lelouch snivelled, then nodded with a groan.
"Alright then." Ash told him. "I need you to close your right eye and let me tie this around it until we can get you home. We can't let anyone else see it or it'll spread to them too."
"W-will it stop..?" Lelouch asked him, playing the role of the terrified student perfectly as the tie was wrapped around his head.
"Hopefully." Ash told him, pulling the knot tight. "Just ignore any of the fake memories your eye's giving you, focus on me, and we'll be fine, alright?" he helped his brother up and glared at Suzaku. "We'll discuss this later." He snarled, leading his brother away.
Suzaku watched them leave, then picked up the pokégear that Lelouch had dropped. "Nunnally, are you still there?"
_\_ "Suzaku?" _\_ Nunnally asked. _\_ "Wh-what happened to Lelouch?" _\_
Suzaku sighed. There was a chance that this would all blow into his face, so now was a good time to come somewhat clean. "We think Lelouch might be Zero."
_\_ "Eeeh?" _\_
"The Emperor erased his memories so he could live happily without hurting more people. However, Zero's come back, so I wanted to know if Lelouch remembered you, because if he did, then that would mean that he was Zero again."
_\_ "Suzaku…" _\_
"However, it seems that he doesn't remember, but talking to you has stirred up his memories, so I may have just created a large problem." He sighed. "I'm sorry for using you like this."
_\_ "How cruel!" _\_ Nunnally shouted at that.
"Eh?"
_\_ "Making a trap like that for brother, that's horrid! Even if he was Zero, no, he can't be Zero, but even so, why would you do something like that!" _\_
"Nunnally." Suzaku replied. "Zero drove Euphie to kill countless Japanese. I want to stop that from happening again, even if I have to do some bad things to do i- Nunnally?" he asked, hearing only the dead tone of Nunnally hanging up. "Nunnally!"
"Alright, so you're gonna wear this eye patch for a couple of days, fake some headaches, pretend that you've had an eye infection, then back to the contact." Ash told him. "Good plan, considering how quickly you came up with it."
"Thank you." Lelouch told him with a smile. "Though, did you know that Nunnally's the new governor of Area Eleven?"
"Wait, what?" Ash asked. "Seriously?"
Lelouch nodded. "She's taking over next week." He explained. "Also, is it true that Knight's of One can ask for their own Area?"
"I took Cambodia." Red shrugged. "Why I kept insisting on taking you there so I could restore your memories and prepare for your second rebellion full time."
"Area thirteen…" Lelouch chuckled to himself. "Of course."
Over the next week, there was a large commotion over the concealed identity of Area Eleven's new Governor and, of course, Zero.
The Black Knights kept somewhat quiet during this time, however.
It was inevitable, really, since many of them had to re-train their new and old pokémon, as well as get back into shape themselves after a year's imprisonment.
Suzaku retained a respectful distance from Lelouch during this time, however, as did Villetta.
Still, just because there wasn't threat of being discovered or having to fight battles each night, that wasn't to say that the week wasn't stressful for Lelouch in its own ways.
"WHOA SORRY!" he shouted, running out of the bathroom and slamming the door behind him, the image Misty's naked back in the shower burnt into the retina not under an eye patch. "ASH!" he shouted.
The door behind him opened. "Yeah?" Lelouch's younger brother asked, making him jump.
Ash was also wet and only wearing a towel.
Lelouch palmed his face. "Dammit Ashford…" he sighed, walking away.
"We're having difficulties getting the rest of the Black Knights from China into the Embassy." C.C. replied. "Unfortunately, these teleporting tiles have a short range."
"I see." Lelouch nodded. "That was only to be expected."
"Area Eleven's new governor is going to be Nunnally." C.C. pointed out, cuddling Jiro. "Will you be able to fight your own sister?"
Lelouch stopped dead. "Fight?" he asked. "Against Nunnally?" he laughed bitterly. "I thought you hated jokes."
"You can't exactly ignore the current situation." C.C. reminded her accomplice.
"It's not worth talking about." Lelouch told her. "As it is, Nunnally will just become another political tool."
"Unable to walk, a blind girl…" C.C. sighed. "They'll dispose of her once she's fulfilled her purpose."
"I'm trying to do something to stop that!" Lelouch snapped. "The Black Knights exist for that purpose! Zero exists because of Nunnally!"
"I know that this is your reason to live, but…"
"I will create a world where Nunnally and I can live happily." Lelouch told her. "Ashford too. For that, I Must Destroy BRITANNIA!"
He slammed his knife into the table, taking a deep breath. "This Cyrus… is he in Britannia also?"
"I don't know." C.C. admitted, comforting the spooked Jiro. "But I can tell you that he is your fathers- the Emperor of Britannia's first and closest companion."
"Companion?" Lelouch asked, suddenly questioning his father's orientation.
"Both of them have sworn…" C.C. sighed. "To Kill God."
"Kill… you mean Arceus?" Lelouch asked.
"Arceus is another pokémon; it is not a god." C.C. explained. "Legends name it as the creator of all things, but it still came from mew, just like any other race of pokémon."
Lelouch sat back. "I see. Then what is this, 'god'?"
"I do not know." C.C. told him, before tilting her head. "How long do you intend to wear that thing anyway? Is the lens I crafted for you not satisfactory?"
Lelouch tore the eye patch from his face angrily. "Only a few more days before this 'eye infection' of mine ceases." He told her.
"I see." She sighed. "It suited you somewhat."
"Whatever, witch." Lelouch sighed. "I, on the other hand, miss depth perception."
He began jotting down notes on a pad of paper, then handed it to C.C. "Relay these orders to the others." He told her. "Have them ready in a couple of days."
Two days later, Suzaku led Tucker and Annabel to the Chinese Embassy, only to find the Black Knights had already left.
"Yes, we've just confirmed it." Xingke told him. "I'm just sharing this information with you as a gesture of good will to show that we don't intend to become Britannia's enemies."
"Is Zero with them?" Suzaku snapped.
"It appears so." The Chinese soldier replied. "It appears that they used teleport pads they hid underground. Unfortunately, we cannot trace them because of they were destroyed by the incendiary devices they left behind."
"Dammit…" Suzaku snarled, before realising something. "They're going to Nunnally…"
"That's simply won't do~." Tucker stated with a serious frown.
"We should try to intercept them." Annabel suggested. "Let's go."
"Our goal is to capture the new governor!" Zero declared in the sky atop his lugia as his army of Black Knight followed him towards the wailord ship S.S. Crescent. "No matter what happens, she is not to be harmed UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! UNDERSTAND!"
"YES SIR!" came the resounding replies from his men, riding on their various flying pokémon.
'Whatever Red did that convinced Winona to join our cause with a crate of Feather Badges, I'm thankful.' Lelouch thought gladly to himself. 'HM techniques truly are the key to winning these battles… We need to recruit more gym leaders.'
"AEROBLAST!" Zero ordered as the wailord's maw widened to attack. Lugia's tornado ploughed right through the behemoth's massive hydro-pump, turning the blast into a vast cloud of water vapour.
The whale surrounded itself with a spiral of water which intertwined with a spiral of wind. 'Aqua ring and safeguard.' Lelouch recognised, before grinning. "Launch Ice and Electrical attacks! Create an opening!"
"No…" Drake muttered, watching the screen as the rebels took over the vessel he was in charge of. "No, this will not happen…"
"Sir?" an aide asked as his captain pulled out a syringe filled with blue liquid. "What are you going to do?"
The old captain stabbed the needle into his arm and injected the drug into his veins. Immediately his heart began throbbing as red and green trails bulged up his arm. "I recommend dosing up yerself laddie."
Drake then marched over to the big red button marked "DO NOT PUSH" and pushed it.
It was at this point that Toudou, Chiba, Asahina, Senba and Rivalz landed atop the metal cage holding the base to the Wailord, sending their pokémon to land on after jumping from their aerial mounts. "Be fast, and be devastating. We are the Holy Swords of Japan, the Divine Storm." Toudou declared, his Zangetsu lumbering forward.
"Let's see how you can do, newbie." Asahina smirked at Rivalz on his regirock.
"Gotcha." He smirked, shouting as his stone giant charged forward.
Under the belly of the whale, in a closed off chamber, vials smashed.
And tentacles pulled themselves out.
"Deeoxyss…"
Lugia screeched and dived headfirst into the massive cloud it and the wailord had created, disappearing from view.
Lelouch then turned to the Zero hidden amongst lugia's feathers behind him. "I trust you can continue here?" he asked.
"Yeah, got it." Silver replied as Zero flew into the fog on his crobat. "Psycho… RETREAT FOR NOW!"
"Deeooxxyss…"
Private Smith looked behind him "Hey, is that…"
The soldier's partner realised what was slithering up the corridor. "Oh shit." He gasped, dropping his gun and scrambling his person for his vaccine.
He dropped it as a sharpened tentacle pierced his throat, then flicked his head off just as Smith rammed his syringe into his own arm.
Smith sat down by the edge of the corridor, whimpering as the effects of the drug took hold over his body, staring in horror as the mass of tentacles devoured his partner's body. "Oh shit… It… Oh no…"
The abominations slithered over to him, as if scrutinizing him, then passed over him like the angel of death faced with rams blood over a door frame. Smith heaved a wretched sigh of relief.
Then they burst open the airlock, and Smith was dragged out into the vast sky, screaming to his death.
Zero strode through the corridors of the S.S. Crescent, searching for his target. 'Nunnally… I'm coming to save you…' he thought as he cut down two soldiers with his katana, his lucario and sandslash supporting him.
"DeeEEEOOOoooxxxxXXyyyySSSss…"
Lelouch leapt back to see two of the abominations facing him, but these ones were different.
They had humanoid bodies, and only four tentacles.
Two coming from its right shoulder, two coming from its right hip. However, its left limbs were remarkably humanoid.
'A newer model…' Lelouch realised, drawing his pokémon back and summoning charizard to incinerate them.
They walked through the flames, uncaring of the dragon's puny flame.
So Lelouch recalled his charizard and did the only sensible thing.
Run like hell.
Rivalz leapt from his regirock and nuked the nearest deoxys as his pokémon beat through another with its sheer strength. "Dammit!" he spat. "They upgraded them already!"
"On the plus side, they don't appear to be that stable." Senba grunted, his registeel launching a Superpower though the mass of demented flesh. "Just kill them before they get chance to realise that they're supposed to be killing you- GAHH!"
"SENBA!" Chiba shouted as the old man was dragged into the mass of flesh. "NOO!"
"STAY BACK!" Toudou ordered, leaping from his regigigas with a katana to slice through the deoxys while his Zangetsu beat them back. "He's gone."
Registeel, though returning to the wild, fought with his dead master's brethren out of respect, firing an ancient-power along the wailord's back as ho-oh flew over them, drowning the abominations in black flames.
Zero rushed down the corridor, opening the door as a green tentacle shot past his neck.
He slammed his armoured arm into it, crushing it into the wall as it dissolved. 'So they still haven't resolved the issue of their half-life…' he realised, sending out his lucario to launch a dark pulse, which obliterated the two decaying pokémon.
'Wait them out, and they're fragile.' Lelouch nodded to himself before entering the room. 'Now, for the important part of this mission…'
Zero strode down the garden towards his sister Nunnally.
"You're Zero… aren't you?" she asked him. "Are you here to kill me? Can you please wait?"
The masked terrorist stopped in silence.
"I think what you're doing is wrong!" Nunnally declared to him.
"Have these things gotten bored or somthing? They're much easier to kill now!" Asahina snarled, his regice blasting the horde with an ice beam that froze and shattered the monsters into pieces.
"Their DNA is unstable." Rivalz explained, forcing his palm through the already melting face of a deoxys. "The longer they remain out of their pokéballs, the weaker their bodies are and the easier they are to kill."
"Isn't that wasteful?" Chiba asked. "Why not return them and heal them?"
"They only cost a thousand pounds each to make, the price falling by the week." Rivalz spat. "Your typical deoxys is cheap, born into pain and kills everything it can in its short half-life."
"Quite an expert, aren't you?" Asahina asked, directing his regice to launch another ice beam
Toudou quickly dodged a thunderbolt as the Dome Superstar Tucker rode in on his latias. "Wonderful darling~!" he shouted, swooping over Annabel's latios as it launched a lustre purge that smashed down registeel. "Suzaku~!" he called over to the knight on the altaria. "Go get your Lancelot and join the show~!"
"This is a battle, Tucker." Suzaku growled, sickened by his allies enjoyment of the bloodshed.
"Britannia is wrong." Zero told Nunnally. "The Emperor thinks that power is everything. Do you agree?" he asked her.
"That…" Nunnally managed, before trailing off.
"Governor Nunnally." Zero sighed. "You have been used."
"Are you talking about the crippled me that will gain everyone's sympathy?" Nunnally asked him. "If so, then you're wrong."
"Hm?"
"This is my wish." Nunnally told him.
"Your wish?" Zero asked the girl in confusion.
"I believe that the world can be changed with gentle ways." She replied. "That's why I wish to continue what Euphie started, to reconstruct the Special Administrative Zone of Japan."
'Reconstruct!' Lelouch thought desperately. 'She can't really be-'
"Zero, will you join me?" Nunnally asked, offering her hand, just like Euphie did once. "You can renew yourself, just like Euphie did."
"Renew?" Zero asked in anger. "Like Euphie?"
"Yes, like I did."
Zero span around to see a blonde woman in glasses and a short ponytail standing behind him with a pokéball in her hand. She was dressed in a dark blue suit, her blouse's top three buttons open, revealing just a hint of cleavage.
But Lelouch recognised that face, and he never thought he'd ever see such a stern, professional expression on it.
"Euphie!" he repeated, but this time in shock and sheer disbelief. "Wh-what're you doing here!"
"I honestly didn't believe that you actually could make anyone obey your bidding." Euphie continued, fingering the ball in her hand. "But I can't understand why you'd betray me like that at the last second."
Lelouch couldn't formulate a response. For this to happen…
No, this was impossible…
'HOW DOES SHE KNOW ABOUT THE GEASS!'
Rivalz ran along the steel frame, jumped into the air and kicked off the registeel's clawed arm. Either in retaliation or understanding, it swung its steel limb, rebounding Rivalz into the air who flew towards Tucker with red energy surging from his steel palm.
Tucker smirked and drew one of the six wings from his back; each made from sharpened dawn stone, and swung it into the palm, matching its energy output with his own strength. "Wh-wha..?" Rivalz managed, before getting hit by an axe kick from Tucker, getting sent flying over the deep blue waves below.
"RIVALZ!" Kallen shouted, abandoning her attack on the dying deoxys drones to save him.
Bluebeard just smirked, throwing two balls into the air to summon his golduck and garchomp. Golduck grabbed garchomp, holding it close like a kangaskan cub, before launching a wide stream of water for garchomp to glide on.
Rivalz landed on his pokémon, who worked together to help him fly back up to the battle. "Hoooh, now that's impressive." Tucker smirked, reversing his blade and drawing another. "Let's dance~!"
"Can you keep up?" Rivalz taunted, making a beckoning 'come on' sign with his blazing titanium fist.
Suzaku flew from the S.S. Rayquaza in his Conqueror flight armour alongside his mewtwo, Lancelot. "Lloyd, Zero is inside the ship with Nunnally, but he's also out here fighting on his lugia."
_\_ "The one outside is a dummy, but don't underestimate him." _\_ Cecile replied.
"Understood." Suzaku replied, flying in to battle.
The young girl jumped from her latios and strode towards Toudou, Asahina and Chiba, unafraid of their pokémon as she drew a rifle and tossed two pokéballs into the air.
An alakazam and an entei landed beside her, just as a second entei rushed along and tackled her own.
"Wait, there's two of them!" Asahina shouted in shock as regice blocked a bullet that would have killed his master.
Chiba gave a glance in the sky where the decoy Zero was flying. "Looks like Silver sent his Kerberos to watch our backs." She smirked, reminding herself to thank the kid after the battle.
"All of you." The Salam Maiden demanded, loading another shot into her rifle. "Come at me, don't give me time to rest. Just come and kill me."
She aimed as her alakazam and latios rushed into the fray, and a bullet hit the centre eye of Rivalz's regirock.
Silver turned Zero's lugia around and flew for the approaching White Reaper and Lancelot "Aeroblast!" he ordered, and the dragon launched the pillar of wind.
"I'll draw it off, you neutralize it!" Suzaku ordered. Lancelot wheeled to the side and prepared to form a Shadow Ball while Suzaku dove dead ahead.
'Even if it does obey Zero without question…' Silver thought with a scowl, 'That doesn't mean Lugia is stupid...'
Lugia twisted its head around suddenly to hit Lancelot by surprise, sending it hurtling into the ocean, only for Suzaku to shove a burning hand for Zero's mask.
Silver leant back, curving onto his back and spinning into a kick aimed for Suzaku's torso. He wasn't winded due to his armour, but he was sent back far enough for Silver to pull out a gun and fire some shots at his opponent.
Annabel glanced at Suzaku's battle with Zero in the distance as she rolled under Chiba's suicune. Seeing the wave of water about to drown her in the beast's wake, she took quick stock of her surroundings and spotted a column of ice hurling for her from the left and a shockwave of Ancientpower coming from the right.
More importantly, she spotted the blind-spot two meters beside her where the combined shockwaves of the attacks would completely miss. She stepped smoothly into that space and raised her rifle, letting the rush of the arctic column freeze the water before it hit her, while also absorbing the Ancientpower blast.
Annabel sighed at the lack of challenge before firing a shot at Zero's head.
The bullet hit the crack in Zero's helmet, shattering it instantly and making Silver drop his gun. "Damn!" he shouted, watching the fragments of Zero's mask fall into the ocean.
"A decoy then." The masked Reaper taunted. "I knew it."
Silver snarled, then grinned, tossing the cape into Suzaku's face and swan-diving into the ocean below.
'What's that supposed to achieve?' Suzaku asked himself with a frown.
He was answered as Kallen launched a sacred fire from above and lugia an aeroblast from below, encasing Suzaku in a maelstrom of holy flame.
"Survive that bitch!" Silver laughed, plummeting towards the ocean. His humour faded as Suzaku tore through the bottom of the Aeroblast, slashing lugia in the mouth along the way.
"I MUST LIVE ON!" Suzaku shouted, completely possessed by the Geass as the god of the storms screamed in anger.
"You have got to be joking…" Silver groaned as his own crobat swooped in and carried him away from Suzaku. "Alright, let's get clever then."
Toudou and Rivalz both jumped around Tucker's swirling blades as his venusaur's vines swept around them, eager to grab and ankle to throw into the ocean.
Rivalz managed, to catch one, sending a wave of energy down it as Toudou parried two of Tucker's crystal blades with his katana.
"Hm, now that's skill~." Tucker complimented, before flicking up his foot, carrying a third blade between his bare toes to force Toudou back. "I might actually have to get serious." He chuckled, tossing the blade into the air and catching it between his teeth, slipping his foot back into his purple boot as Toudou nursed his bleeding face. "Om on ren~!"
"Toudou-san?"
Tucker stopped.
Toudou stopped.
Rivalz stopped.
Everyone standing atop the falling wailord stopped.
"Are you there Toudou-san?" the disembodied voice repeated. "Can you hear me Toudou-san?"
"S-Senba..?" Toudou asked, recognising the voice. "I-I thought you died!"
"That's right Toudou-san." Senba's gruff voice continued. "I did die Toudou-san. They tore me to pieces and consumed my flesh as I screamed, Toudou-san."
"But… if you died…" Chiba asked.
"Then how are you speaking now..?" Tucker asked, dropping the blade from his lips as he was somewhat spooked by the sudden lack of wind for a ship half a mile in the air. And the disembodied voice. But mostly the lack of wind.
"I'm with them now Toudou-san." Senba continued. "I'm with Deoxys now Toudou-san."
"Wh-WHAT!" Rivalz shouted, the immediate expert on deoxys. "What're you talking about!"
"They tore out my vocal chords and probed my mind, Toudou-san." The voice answered. "Now they're using me as their mouthpiece to speak with you, Toudou-san."
"THEY'RE JUST POKÉMON!" Asahina shouted. "NOT EVEN THAT! JUST FOOT SOLDIERS! COOKED UP IN A LAB TO KILL FOR A FEW MINUTES BEFORE DYING!"
"You're wrong, Toudou-san." Senba's voice replied to Asahina. "The Deoxys are so much more than that, Toudou-san. They wanted you to know that, Toudou-san. Before they did this, Toudou-san."
"D-did what..?" Toudou managed in sheer shock.
"This, Toudou-san."
"Captain Drake!" a lieutenant shouted. "Something's wrong with the wailord!"
"DEAL WITH IT!" he shouted, returning his focus to the monitor. "Damned Knights, why did they stop?"
Then the green tentacles tore through the command room, obliterating anyone inside.
The garden shook, and Nunnally almost fell out of her wheelchair. "Ah!" she gasped, holding on tight. Euphie steadied herself, glancing around in slight panic.
Lelouch, however, was still too far in shock to comprehend what was happening.
The wailord yawned.
That's what it looked like at first.
Except a yawn only opens the mouth so far.
It doesn't peel the flesh back as a mass of tentacles crawls out of the owner's throat, exposing its massive blue head to the world and pushing itself to freedom, like an ancient, extinct jellyfish surging through the ocean.
The hollow carcass of the wailord hung limply from the S.S. Crescent for just a moment, before tearing through its restraints and falling into the ocean below.
The S.S. Crescent had a herd of mantine to help ease the load from the wailord, but without the main whale, all they could do was slow down the ships' descent to the ocean below. Worse, the weight of the colossal deoxys put further strain on them as it latched onto the ship and crawled atop, its hundreds of tentacles lashing out the air.
Had the wailord still been more than skin, it would have caused a tidal wave that would have drowned much of Kanto and Johto. As it happens, it floated atop the water like a horrific, deflated balloon, leaking blood into the ocean from the bits that the deoxys hadn't licked clean.
And Deoxys descended with those atop the falling S.S. Crescent.
"This is what they wanted you to see, Toudou-san." The Deoxys said with Senba's voice to no-one in particular. "Does it frighten you, Toudou-san?"
Lelouch snapped back into reality as the ship began to fall. "What?" he shouted, rushing over to the door and opening it.
The corridor was filled with soldier's corpses, each one with a mass of tentacles growing out of their mouths. There was a horrible snapping sound as their mouths were stretched too far for their ligaments to hold, ripping their jaws clean off.
"Euphie?" Nunnally asked as the other girl gasped in horror. "Wh-what is it?"
"The ship is sinking." Lelouch lied, jogging over to Nunnally and carrying her onto her back. "I'll help you and Euphemia out of here, and then she'll fly you both to the mainland, understand me?"
"Wh-what about everyone else?" Nunnally asked.
"They're fighting my men." Lelouch lied, leading Euphemia through the corridors before the tentacles realised that someone was there. "But nobody's hurt, yet. Just cover your ears and hold on."
His pokenav began buzzing in his ear and automatically connected. An emergency call.
_\_ "Zero, things are really turning to shit out here!"_\_ Silver shouted. _\_"I'm dodging Reaper, but there's a massive Deoxys, it ATE the damn wailord-"_\_
"Execute Failsafe Tempest." Lelouch ordered without a shred of hesitation.
_\_"What?"_\_
"The ETA of the Abyss is ten minutes. When it arrives, we execute Failsafe Tempest." Lelouch repeated. Euphie gave him a worried look.
_\_ "Guh, damn appropriate too. We'll hold out until then."_\_ Silver said, disconnecting.
Lelouch and Euphie continued to run, Nunally on his back keeping her ears trained for any noises. There was lots of crashing sounds from the ship sinking, but what made her fearful was the lack of people nearby. Surely there would be soldiers nearby, why hadn't they…
"DEEeeoooxxxyyyyssss…"
"What was that?" Euphie asked.
"Nothing." Lelouch lied. "Just keep moving."
"Sir?" a young man's voice asked as a mass of tentacles crawled out of one corpses throat. The head of the body made a sickening crack and deflated like a grotesque balloon, blood spurting from the soldier's frozen open eyes. "Sir, can you hear me sir?"
Zero gritted his teeth, and handed his sister over to his half-sister, who could surprisingly take her weight. "Can your pokémon fly?" he asked her.
"Y-yes." Euphemia replied, sobbing slightly.
"Then run." Lelouch ordered. "Run, don't look back and whatever you do, don't let Nunnally get hurt, understand!"
"L-Lelouch?" Nunnally asked. "I- It is you, isn't it?"
Zero removed his mask and smiled at his sister. "I need you to pretend that you don't know about me for a while, alright?" he asked, stroking her blind face. "Euphie will keep you safe. Just remember that I love you." His eyes met Euphie's terrified ones. "I love you both."
He replaced the mask and faced the now upright deoxys. "GO!" he shouted.
Euphie ran, carrying the screaming Nunnally as Zero drew a blade, sending out his metagross to face the psychic blast of the oncoming deoxys.
Lelouch had bet that the steel and psychic hybrid's powerful defenses would have been able to withstand the deoxys' powerful abilities, and it had.
Right until it had used Night Shade, stunning metagross long enough for it to be hit by a Zap Cannon at point-blank range. As the steel behemoth collapsed into the ground, the deoxys looked past it into Lelouch's eyes.
"They won't make it, sir." It told him. "The deoxys that holds me is nothing to the one outside, sir."
"Then I'll have to kill you both." Zero snarled, charging at the monster as metagross rose up behind it like a nightmarish machine.
Suzaku stopped mid-way though charging a fireball to throw at Silver to look at the abomination floating above. "Wh-what is that..?"
The command Lelouch had given Suzaku all that time ago still held power. He had to live on.
But Suzaku refused to run.
"I need you to get everything the Black Knights have got and help me fight that thing." Suzaku commanded, possessed by the Geass. "I don't care what I have to pay to get you to do this, but I need your help or that thing will kill us all."
And Silver believed him.
He opened his pokégear. "ALL UNITS!" he shouted into it. "FAILSAFE TEMPEST IS GO IN T- MINUS EIGHT MINUTES! KILL THAT THING!"
"This is Suzaku Kururugi, Knight of Five." Suzaku declared on an open channel. "The Deoxys has become self-aware and hostile. I am ordering its termination, effective immediately - all surviving men, women and pokémon in the immediate area are hereby pressganged into the Britannian army for the duration of that monster's existence, understand?"
_\_ "Is that your last decision, Toudou-san?" _\_ a gruff voice in his pokégear replied. _\_ "The Deoxys would find it more fun if you ran, Toudou-san. Would you please reconsider, Toudou-san?" _\_
"I agree with Suzaku." Tucker told Toudou, readying his blades. "Whatever that thing is, it wants us all dead. We should work together."
"Just a minute!" Toudou shouted. "Senba's still inside that thing!"
"Sorry, Toudou-san." The Deoxys replied. "I died a while ago. The Deoxys is just using my voice and memories to speak with you, Toudou-san."
"It's just using Senba's corpse…" Asahina growled, fists shaking in anger. "For his honour, Toudou-san."
"Don't say that." Rivalz asked him. "Please just don't say that."
"I agree, Toudou-san." Deoxys added. "It is mildly frightening for them when you mimic Deoxys's way of speech, Toudou-san."
Toudou grunted. "Zangetsu." He ordered, leaping aboard his regigigas. "Let's destroy it."
"Just promise me that you'll entertain Deoxys, Toudou-san."
Hearing the mental order, Alakazam teleported itself and its master away from the deoxys to give them some breathing room. "So, that is what you truly are." Zero said to the abomination before him, panting for breath. "A parrot using a dead man's tongue and memories to speak."
"You could say that, sir." The creature replied, slithering towards Lelouch. "Of course, I can still think, even though I am a part of Deoxys, sir."
"And what do you think now?" Lelouch asked, probing the dead man.
"I think that you're going to die, sir." The young man's voice replied. "I think that all you can do is run or hide, but either way Deoxys will kill you, sir."
"YOU'RE WRONG!" Lelouch shouted. "We Can FIGHT! WE CAN LIVE!"
"I highly doubt that, sir."
"I know we can." Lelouch smirked. "Because you said it yourself, didn't you? You can still think!"
"That's right sir." Deoxys replied. "My brain is inside of Deoxys, sir. But you cannot fight it sir. It's just too powerful sir."
"Never underestimate the power of the human spirit, spawn." Zero commanded, opening the slot on his mask for his Geass and glaring at Deoxys. "DIE!"
"Yes sir." The deoxys replied. "Right away sir."
The deoxys stood still in confusion for a moment, then tore its chest open and latched onto a large black organ, ripping it out and discarding a mass of grey matter and some other human body parts, before lashing out and grabbing another corpse's head with its tentacles, consuming its head with its tentacles until only a bloody hole where its oesophagus once was remained.
"How did you do that Captain?" a different voice asked. "How did you make Willie die, even though he was dead, Captain?"
Silver landed atop the falling S.S. Crescent and whistled his entei over to him as Lancelot rushed past him with an orb of pure chaos in its hands.
The deoxys batted the perfect pokémon aside with a red appendage, which Chiba and her suicune rushed along, spreading ice along it as she fired her gun into the monster.
It blasted her into the sky with a psychic attack, only for Annabel to catch her on her latios and drop her back onto the falling ship as she drew her rifle and began firing shots at the monster.
A green tendril lashed out to stab her, but Tucker flew up, slicing it in half with his blades and jumping from his latios onto the amputated limb, stabbing two blades into the flesh under his feet and dragging them along as he ran.
Regigigas, despite taking a while to get moving, was quite nimble once it had warmed up, so it was more than capable of leaping into the air and planting a heavy superman punch onto the beast. Tentacles rose to strap it down but Toudou's keen strikes of his katana reduced them to ribbons before they even had a chance.
Asahina, on regice, kept a distance, focusing on freezing and shattering deoxys's wild limbs, but they kept regenerating at a rate he could barely keep up with.
Kallen flew along ho-oh, before leaping onto her scizor to ride deoxys's tracks as ho-oh burned its back. Gurren hissed at the rising tentacles and brought its red claws to bear, cutting at them with such fury that after mere moments it went from gouges to bloody hacks that split the limbs into meaty chunks
Lugia flew without a master, but fought bravely and wildly in an attempt to help. Not daring to attempt an Aeroblast with its allies so close, it began to work in tandem to registeel and regirock, who drew out the beasts with Ancientpower blasts while the beast of storms dove in to savage it with Sky Attacks.
Rivalz was too busy to focus on regirock right now, instead fighting melee with his garchomp. His arm was the perfect weapon against Deoxys, the lightest graze turning its flesh into pudding. He knew that if he could just get close enough to that giant, blue face, then he could obliterate the eldritch behemoth with a single blow.
"It's so pathetic, Toudou-san." Deoxys sighed with Senba's voice. "You actually think that it's possible to kill me, Toudou-san."
Above the monstrosity, the sky shook.
"Draco…" a voice from within a swirling mass of blue flame growled. "MEETEEEOOOOORRRRRGGHHH!
Lelouch snarled at his opponent. It was fast, it was nimble and it wasn't tired like he and his pokémon were.
Yes, this monster had picked off his pokémon, one by one, and now Lelouch was forced to rely on his own strength. Even if he had used Geass, Lelouch doubted it would have slowed the abomination down. It's not like there were any shortage of corpses around.
"Do you understand why Deoxys cannot be beaten, Captain?" Deoxys asked. "It's just too strong, you can't win Captain."
Lelouch glanced at the clock behind Deoxys from behind his mask. 'Only two more minutes until my victory…'
"How long do you think you've been fighting, Captain?" the Deoxys asked. "Did you forget that this ship was falling towards the ocean, Captain?"
Lelouch hadn't.
"You'll die from the impact long before Deoxys begins to decay, Captain."
Lelouch allowed himself a smirk before running down the corridor, the deoxys giving chase.
The huge monster coiled itself up in its tentacles to shield itself from the bombardment of blue flames from the sky. "NOW!" Silver shouted, giving Rivalz the signal to launch his garchomp through the air, carrying him right to the centre of the beast.
His fist burst into flames as if he was gripping a miniature sun as he melted through Deoxys's limbs, and through its face, and its head, burning a way right through the monster.
Rivalz turned back to his allies and temporary allies with a huge grin, which faded into horror as Deoxys unfurled itself.
"Deoxys wishes to apologize, Toudou-san." Senba's voice explained monotonously. "An attack like that will not harm a creature of this size, Toudou-san."
Then it began to rain.
"LUGIA!" Zero shouted, swan diving from the falling wreckage as the water came down. "TEMPEST!"
Lugia swooped down for his master, roaring at the water as the heavens burst.
As Lelouch was caught safely by Lugia's telekinesis, he smirked, seeing the waves grew violent.
Water was coming from below, and water was coming from above.
Lugia roared again, and the winds grew.
Another beast roared, and lightning flashed in the sky.
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The beast of the ocean burst from the sea, roaring with rage alongside the beast of the storm.
Their fury combined created a perfect storm.
"This doesn't change a thing, Toudou-san." Deoxys stated calmly above the wind. "You will still die here, Toudou-san."
At this point, Kallen, Toudou, Asahina, Silver, Rivalz and Chiba all smiled, recalling their pokémon and running over to the edge of the falling base and dived over the edge.
"HEY!" Tucker shouted. "You're just going to leave us here with this thing!"
"I'd advise you to run, Suzaku Kururugi." Zero declared atop lugia's head as it ascended in the rain. "You have done all that you could. There is someone awaiting you in the Indigo Plateau."
"LANCELOT!" Suzaku shouted, rushing to grab Annabel and Tucker as they recalled their pokémon. "GET US OUT OF HERE!"
Once they teleported, Zero laughed.
"How do you intend to fight Deoxys alone, Toudou-san?" the Deoxys asked. "You couldn't even kill its weaker sibling below, Toudou-san."
"I lacked the necessary storm." Zero declared, backing up to the edge of the whirlwind surrounding them as Kallen and her Ho-oh soared around the tempest. "But now…LUGIA!" he declared, his pokémon swooping around to face the wall of wind. "HYDRO PUMP!"
And at the opposite end of the maelstrom, Kallen's ho-oh rose to match its sibling. "Naoto…" whispered Kallen, before her eyes grew hard. "It's time to teach this bastard what death really means! FIRE BLAST!"
Burning flames and freezing water surged around each other in a spiral, both heat and cold fighting each other for dominance over the other as the whirling winds blended the irreconcilable elements.
Faster the winds spun, dragging over each other.
The friction created energy.
The spiral created an electromagnet.
The storm created lightning.
The rain made sure it hit its target.
"NOW!" Zero declared as sore burns became visible on what was left of Deoxys through the smoke. "FINISH IT!"
Lugia and ho-oh together dived into the maelstrom.
Once they arrived, Suzaku couldn't remember a thing, and he realised that he had retreated under the influence of the Geass.
"Dammit!" he shouted. "Lancelot, take us back!"
The mewtwo refused, instead opening a hologram of what was happening.
The three knights watched in awe as the beast of the storm and the bird of the morning flew in perfect harmony through the wind and rain, working almost as surgeons, to dissect, incinerate, obliterate the abomination that the three knights could not.
"Those two, right there." Red commented from behind them. "They are true trainers. They don't care that what they're facing is impossible to defeat. They smash through any obstacle in their way and grasp victory with their own hands. That is how a true trainer is."
"I'd almost forgotten…" Tucker gasped, before smiling. "Well, it's only natural for one as fantastic as myself to forget what it means to truly fight for an impossible victory."
"We have grown slothful." Annabel nodded. "This will not happen again."
Suzaku's eyes remained glued to the image. "Zero…" he snarled.
In the end, there was nothing left. No trace was left behind to mark it as ever having existed. The flames had burnt the flesh to ash, the water had diluted the blood and sickly fluids, and the wind had scattered whatever scant remains afterwards to the corners of the ocean.
In death, at least, the unearthly aberration had become part of the natural cycle of things. Perhaps this was a kindness.
'Britannia wanted to create the world's strongest pokémon.' Lelouch mused to himself afterwards. 'They almost succeeded.'
There was a celebration party inside the Black Knight's new vessel, the Abyss.
It was a submarine built to be carried by their new Kyogre, capable of serving as a fuly fledged base with barracks and recreational facilities as a bonus. "A gift from Princess Tianzi for my husband~!" Kaguya shouted with glee, jumping for Zero. "Oh, I've missed you my love!"
"Please excuse me." Zero apologized, brushing her aside and walking past his cheering army. "I need some time alone."
Suzaku sighed as he collapsed onto his bed inside his dark quarters on the Indigo Plateau.
Nunally was safe, but still refusing to speak to him. He didn't blame her, but with the worries plaguing his mind, about Deoxys, about Lelouch, about his Geass order…
Needless to say it had been a more than stressful day.
And he couldn't even talk to anyone about it. He was used to keeping his silence, but at that moment he felt like he needed to talk more than he ever did before.
"Euphie…" Suzaku sighed to himself.
"Yes?" came a soft voice.
Suzaku sat up with a start to gape in shock at the blonde woman sitting at his desk. "Ah, who- wha?"
Then he recognised her. It couldn't be her, it wasn't possible it was her, but it was.
"Euphie!"
She stood up and walked over to him. "I'm sorry it took me so long." She apologised, kneeling on his bed beside him. Suzaku opened his mouth to speak, but before his confused and addled brain could come up with a response, she was already kissing him.
And at that moment he realised he didn't need to talk at all.
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So, deviation enough for you, Deviate Fish?
So, yeah. At first, I just mixed Deoxys with zombies and the Biomeat-US. Now, however, I've also mixed in the Weeping Angels, quite possibly the scariest fictional creature ever.
I mean, come on, the angels can only move if you can't see it, but if you can see it, then you can't kill it. Anything that holds the image of an angel becomes an angel, including video recordings and photographs, and if you look one in the eyes for too long, the image in your retinas becomes an angel and it's inside your mind.
Also, you can't blink.
But yeah, brother. Change the rules, keep the personality, just give it a super deoxys army to work with, brother. I am evil, brother.
Of course, it could be worse, brother.
Deoxys could have taken Nunnally too, brother.
SHUDDER
Man, that was creepy. I do think I may have just spawned one of the creepiest creatures in fiction here.
Also, Varanus would like to apologise for giving me the idea of mass-producing Deoxys, then telling me to add in all the extra stuff to this chapter, including the fightscenes and Deoxys, which wasn't going to originally happen.
I sent him a draft of the chapter, which ended after Deoxys's birth from wailord, and he immediately cursed his decision.
I, on the other hand, regret nothing. A few nightmares is nothing for the price of some reviews.
Mind you, it scares me just writing these bad boys now.
So, yeah. Who likes this chapter? I like this chapter!
And for those of you who don't know, there was a Doctor Who reference was when Deoxys started speaking with Senba's voice.
Varanus: No, no, it's cool, I'll give the apology myself. As I recall, my suggestion went something like this:
"I had an idea about the Vincents- how about they be deoxys' who are only partially developed/synthethised? Real Deal Deoxys would be much stronger, a monster rivaling even mewtwo.
Hah! You could call the low-grade versions of deoxys "KNIGHTMARE-forme"!"
Oops. My bad? And it got worse. Somehow it's lead from mutant drones that are frighteningly good at killing, ala FMA Clone Army, to this.
A being which seeks out other life to sustain it's own. Harvesting genetic material by devouring it's victim's brain tissue and stem, plus stealing voiceboxes to allow their STILL CONSCIOUS hosts to speak.
Oh, and they're psychic. Remember, psychic pokémon in this story fight by creating mental bonds with their trainers. Now imagine a mental bond with Deoxys. Yeah, it works by having the Deoxys scoop out your brain and preserving it inside its meteorite organ. Any volunteers?
Of course, looking back on it, I have to agree with SamJaz. I really don't regret suggesting that little thing, especially after seeing how awesome they've evolved. Did we freak you guys out? Just a heads up, it gets worse. Hope you all enjoy the show.
Oh, sure, tell them that. Scare them all away why don't you? Sheesh. And I better get some reviews over this. I worked hard on this chapter, and I need to know whether it's paying off or not. Now, as it happens, my laptops crapped out on me, again, so after this week, I'll be updating on a M/W/F schedule. Don't complain, you get this for free.
Also, Review! They are my fuel to create your nightmares!