Sorry for the delay, I've had a few hectic weeks.
So, reviews.
First off, the nun was a dude. Poggg, what counts is what they are reproductively capable of. If that's still both, then there's your answer.
FINALLY! Someone recognises the awesome of the Metapod club OTHER than WWDW!
And I would apologise for the delay, except the only thing I regret is not giving you guys any advance warning. Now for an explanation.
I've been busy working on something else, and when it comes out, you will applaud the fact that I've been missing for weeks. That is all.
Also, Go watch the Highschool of the Dead anime, no matter what you have to do to view it. Lelouch Vi Britannia commands it!
Now, Here Comes The Sun
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The world has begun to move from the miracle Zero has created.
The world shall be born from the actions Zero has shown.
Yes, right now, the world is progressing towards its next stage, accompanied by overflowing desires and fluctuations of emotions.
Zero must continue forward in order to keep this earth spinning.
Because if he stops…
"They're coming…" Tamaki said through the telescope in the Vista Lighthouse at Sunyshore City on the day of the battle. "Holy shit they are coming."
_\_ "How many Tamaki?" _\_ Ohgi asked over the communicator.
"Way too many…" Tamaki replied in a hushed voice as he rotated the telescope left and right. "It's a solid wall of pokémon- SHIT!"
_\_ "What is it Tamaki?" _\_ Ohgi asked urgently.
"They-they've got Palkia on their side…" Tamaki whispered. "A-And Dialga…" He gulped. "I'm counting about a dozen lugia, same amount of ho-oh, thirty of the other birds, they've got a herd of groudon making a path for their army to walk over the ocean on, and a school of kyogre freezing the waves between the land to keep it all together…"
He took a deep breath to control the tremble in his voice. "There are a whole bunch of rayquaza airships above their army." Tamaki continued. "And a shitload of wailord carriers flying with them. They have giant pokémon too." He added. "There's a torterra that must weigh fifty tonnes carrying the biggest cannon I have ever seen."
"And mewtwo." Tamaki added, doing all he could not to piss himself. "They're mass-producing mewtwo's like the Lancelot, with similar armour too…"
Back at the Indigo Plateau, Zero rose to his feet. "You are dead." He told everyone. "You all died the moment Charles Zi Britannia exiled you to Japan, and now you can see the true face of your death."
"Shut it Zero." Suzaku snarled at him. "Can you win this battle, or can't you?"
Lelouch grinned behind the mask. "No." he lied. "I cannot."
He relished the look of fear on everyone's faces. "We are facing an invasion force with strength a hundred fold of that which took Japan by force eight years ago." Zero continued. "We have a nation divided between Britannian nationalist who insist we can beg for mercy, cowards who have tried to flee, elevens who are broken by memories of an unwinnable war, Japanese who have grown fat through a taste of freedom and have forgotten how to lead themselves, and cast off Britannian soldiers facing an enemy they spent their entire lives bowing their heads to." He slammed a fist onto the table. "I am the man of miracles, but as Cornelia will attest from the first time we did battle, I am powerless when forced to work with men who do not trust me. You are all pokémon who have just been traded to a trainer you do not trust, and so I cannot battle with you. No," Zero shook his head, bringing his armoured arm within the folds of his cape. "You cannot battle with a trainer you refuse to trust."
"You dare speak of trust?" Jeremiah asked him. "YOU MURDERED YOUR OWN MOTHER!"
"Twice, but I only intended to do it the second time." Zero told him, turning to face the window. "But you serve only to prove my point. There is only one I can trust to fight alongside me."
"Who?" Cornelia asked him.
Zero drew a katana forged from the dawnstone he had taken from Tucker, slashing the glass window open with one swing. "RYUJIN!" he shouted into the wind, leaping out onto the lugia below. "BECOME THE STORM!"
He rode towards the infinite enemy with a grin as those in the command room leapt out of the window and rode their own pokémon into battle. 'If a trainer does not lead, can he expect his pokémon to fight alongside him?' he thought to himself.
He stood atop the beast as he slowed before the army. "BRITANNIA!" he roared, spreading his arms wide. "OMAE NO AITE WA OE DA! I AM YOUR OPPONENT!"
Zero slashed his blade wide as those that followed him, and more, began to gather behind him. "This world is mine." He said. "I seek not a kingdom, for this planet that gives us life is mine to command. I, Zero, hear the beating of its heart, and I know it. This land shall fight you alongside the people and pokémon that love it. And to fight them, you fight me, the abyss itself."
"So come." Zero sneered, raising his arms as the sea shook. "You shall die if you retreat, and you shall die if you stay. So Come."
Beneath him, two regirock, two regice, two registeel and a regigigas ascended from the rampaging water with their arms folded. Red and Silver had borrowed these pokémon from their owners for this plan, and it was a good one.
It was… a return to form, for Zero.
After all, the odds were truly impossible. What could they do, in the face of an absolute storm of enemies such as this? They faced down the total, unmatched might of the Brittanian empire, the superpower that controlled over half the world and leeched power from the rest.
Legendary pokemon were gathered there in an unprecedented scale, the soaring embodiments of fire and ice and thunder, the guardians of the sky and sea, the pokemon that had sculpted the world in which they stood. And behind them all were the imposing figures of Dialga and Palkia, Brittania's rumored superweapons. The beasts of time and space, older than reason or comprehension.
What could Lelouch do when the world itself rallied against him? When time, space and all of the infinite universe pressed down on him to dictate his fate?
To Lelouch, it was simple.
He had already solved this problem once, by donning the mask of Zero and pulling the curtains away from the world's hypocrisy.
All he had to do was repeat it.
Become Zero once again.
Become the Void.
Underneath the Regis were the Tanoby Ruins, being lifted from the water by the rising reef of corsola. From the front, the seven ruins seemed to be arranged haphazardly.
From above, however, they formed the corners of a perfect heptagon.
Zero slammed his arm down, and the seven Regis's did the same, awakening the unown within. They seared across the ocean, tearing lines in reality as they travelled from one ruin to another, forming both the first and second heptagram within a heptagon as they travelled.
The gashes in the universe began to glow an ominous black, as bat-like images screamed from them as a dark, even mass rose from them.
"Behold your fears, Britannia." Zero told them as the shadows and the winds span around the beast as it grew to several storeys in height, "Giratina… GIGANTIA!"
The earth shook.
Darkness screamed from the demonic symbol.
It mattered not the origin, for this was the purpose of the seal this day.
The unown gathered into one beast above the ruins.
It stood upon six great legs, each foot standing beside one of the six lesser Regis.
At regigigas' ruin, the beast's neck curved upwards, rising many hundred metres into the air.
The beast was over half a kilometre tall, proud and full of dark wrath. It stood as a mirror to Zero's soul.
It roared as it spread its wings, looking down on the mortals below.
It laughed, looking down at how pathetically small its enemies, Palkia and Dialga, each a mere five metres in height.
Giratina knew it couldn't move from this spot, lest it lose the power the unown granted it.
But it was no matter. For it was the Void, the Observer, the empty soul that awaited beyond this mortal dimension. Even if it could approach, it would not. That was the place of those lesser beings, the pitiful rabble spread out far below.
"GIRATINA!" roared the voice of the King behind it. "OBEY ME!"
The beast roared in submission as Zero pulled a black tube from his robes and flicked out a handle with a trigger, pointing it to the beast as a gun.
Zero fired four burst of light into the beast.
"Protect!" Zero shouted. "Safeguard! Ominous Wind! Ancient Power! Thunder Wave! Double Team!"
The beast considered the techniques it had just been taught by Zero's TM machine, and the strategy the King was proposing.
Zero stared into the eyes of the Void, and smirked. And the Void stared back, and saw an equal.
And so, it roared, splitting into dozens of beasts that acted as a powerful fence around the vast army, spreading the barrier created through the duplicates.
The barrier was made of the combined energies of Protect and Safeguard, with massive chunks of stone floating amongst them. The space within the barrier was filled with a poisonous gas that even steel-types would fall to, and the paralysis would stop any foolish enough to try and break through from escaping.
Zero turned to his men. "Take the non-combatants to the underground shelters!" he roared. "Arm the guards with snipers and activate the pokéblocker surrounding the shelter entrances!"
Zero twirled on Ryujin's back. "EVERYONE ELSE!" He shouted.
Lelouch grinned behind the faceless mask. "Let us make war."
Under the feet of the beast, a squad of thirty men was gathered.
The fully armoured Immortal Regis turned to Lance as he examined the stone wall.
"So, is this operation go?" The Regis asked the Dragon Master.
"That isn't the proper use of the term." Lance corrected him. "But yes, for all intents and purposes, we are go."
The armoured knight nodded, then raised his arm to signal to the other men. "Begin, Lance." he ordered. "We charge at ten."
Lance nodded, firing up his Geass and planting a hand on the wall.
"Eins." The Regis began. "Zwei. Drei. Vier. Funf. Sechs. Sieben. Acht. Nein."
The wall crumpled and the path was clear. "Aus." The Regis finished, swinging his blade forward.
"LORD ZERO!"
Lelouch looked down to see a squad of men charge across the coral right under Giratina's feet, running towards the ocean. "TOUDOU! BRANDON!" he ordered the two men.
They recalled their Regis and flew over to the advance team, then sent out Toudou's regigigas and Brandon's regice, regirock and registeel, riding them down to the ground, crushing ten men immediately, then launched several Superpower attacks to take out the rest.
The world flashed black, inversing the colours for a split second.
Lelouch's blood ran cold.
'No…' he cursed to himself, twisting around as time had stopped. "No, this is not happening."
RRREEELLOOOUUCCHHEEE
Lelouch's eyes widened.
He heard his father laugh.
YOU TRULY ARE A FOOL
WHY SHOULD I PLAY YOUR WAR GAMES WHEN THE POWER OF ZERO WAS IN MY GRASP THIS WHOLE TIME
WHY SHOULD I LOWER MYSELF TO YOUR LEVEL
"No…" Lelouch whispered. "No!" he shouted, shaking his head. "You couldn't stop me! I can stop you."
The world laughed with his fathers voice.
IT IS TOO LATE, BOY
DO YOU KNOW
DO YOU KNOW WHERE ZERO WAS FIRST ENCOUNTERED
Cinnabar Island.
But Lelouch wasn't playing his fathers game.
"WHERE ARE YOU?" he roared. "FACE ME!"
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The world flashed again and the universe began to move as nothing had happened, but as the Britannian army began to force its way through Giratina's barrier, Lelouch looked down at the ocean.
It was black.
No, it was green.
No, it's red.
Gold? Blue? Pink?
What's going on?
Then he saw it.
Everyone fighting was moving either forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, or side to side.
No one was capable of moving diagonally.
Someone noticed.
Panic began to ensue.
Then came the cloud of black, white, green and purple blocks.
They ate the world.
"The language of Zero is simple." Lelouch told C.C. that night in bed. "The purest language in the universe."
"So, why're you so proud of decoding it?" the witch taunted him.
He smirked. "Binary." He said. "Replace the low-pitched sounds with zeroes and the high-pitched ones with ones. It was a code language I tried to develop, but no-one else managed to get their tongues around it." He scowled a second. "Well, Cyrus did."
"Hm?" C.C. asked, pushing herself to face her warlock. "Lelouch, are you being jealous of a little boy you drove to suicide?"
"Just a little underwhelmed at how easy it was." He laughed. "It's almost enough to make me underestimate my father."
Lelouch stood in the whiteness as souls were torn from their bodies as they were consumed.
They screamed.
The screamed so much.
Lelouch almost fell to his knees as Ryujin turned to dust.
He saw Shirley jump up, reaching for him.
He reached for her, but her fingertips blew into the cloud as she got close.
His own clothes were beginning to annihilate themselves- flying like ash in the wind.
While he stood witness.
"LELOUCH!"
The Black Prince turned around to see Suzaku grab him by the throat. "WHAT'S GOING ON?" he shouted. "WHAT'S HAPPENING TO EVERYONE?"
"He won…" Lelouch gasped, completely bare of any mask of any kind to hide behind. "He's summoned True Zero…"
"What… the FUCK ARE YOU SAYING?" Suzaku shouted as Red ran up the whiteness with C.C.
"He wasn't planning this." C.C. told them. "Nor was the Emperor. He aimed for Human Instrumentality."
"Human What?" Suzaku shouted.
"The complete unification of all human souls." She explained. "What's happening now is something only Lelouch understands."
Lelouch sat down in the whiteness.
There were other humans below, all of them naked as each other, none of them understanding anything in the oblivion.
"Suzaku… Red… C.C.…" he looked up at them. "What was the first pokémon?"
"Mew." Red answered. "Everyone knows that."
Lelouch shook his head. "Before that." He said. "Before there was anything."
"Arceus." Suzaku said. "The Creator Pokémon."
Lelouch laughed bitterly as he pushed himself to his feet. "No, that's just what he wants you to think."
He turned around. "This is the power of the very first pokémon!" he shouted. "The pokémon that RULES the universe! Our world DANCES to its CODE!"
A black ghost appeared behind him as he turned around to face the other remaining humans. Blocks of inky darkness, jagged shapes, an indistinct impression of a face, half of a leering, sinister face, like seeing pictures in the clouds.
"This is what the Emperor wanted." Lelouch told them. "THIS!" he shouted, spreading his arms around in despair as he laughed with bitter tears flowing from his Geass. "IS MISSINGNO.!"
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Sorry this chapter was so late. I spent ages trying to do a decent war sequence, then procrastinated and did some other stuff.
Then I re-read the war sequence I wrote for Persona, and I realised why I delayed this.
I was scared of not living up to my potential.
So, I decided, screw it.
I'll let Charles Zi Britannia have played Lelouch. I was gonna do this anyways, just further into the battle, but hey. It's all for story progression, right?
And yes. That's the secret to the secret code. Put it into notepad, mass-replace the ' with zeroes, the | with ones and run it through a Binary-English translator. There's plenty online. Just use Ctrl+H to open the replace option. Trust me, translating those messages will be worth it.
Also, I just did that. Who saw it coming?