Warning
This will be messed. You saw how bad Lelouch was last chapter. On a scale of one to ten, one being an apple and ten being absolute nightmare fuel, this chapter should rank at around… 40k.
This is your fault you know. You gave me 200 reviews, and I submitted 1,000,000 words in total between all my stories. I need to do something to celebrate. There is nothing gratuitous in this chapter.
This is hell, as imagined by life in the forty-thousandth century where there is only war.
Suffer not the abomination to live. Hate his foul existence. He has but one fate: Annihilation.
Now for the Holy Diver.
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In the beginning, man was made to live.
But soon, they hated.
Greed and selfishness prospered, and man could not.
Making enemies of gods, man sought to harness the engine of its destruction.
Such hubris.
Only man could be so arrogant.
Only man could actually succeed.
Charles Zi Britannia stood upon the Giants Causeway, his Geass blazing as he strode into the water.
Why do you return?
Charles faced the ripple in reality.
Your servants stand to face your son in battle. Join them.
"I have no desire to meet that child in battle." The Emperor said. "I seek to destroy him."
You believe I will serve your bidding.
"I want to offer you an exchange." Charles said. "Take him and drag him through more than hell itself. Make him beg for his life to end so his soul can rest in the comparative bliss of hell's torments. Break him. Let your outer gods make him their plaything. No rest, I want worse done to him than I can ever inflict."
What could you ever offer that would make that exchange worth anyone's time?
"The world." The Emperor declared. "For the eternal pain of one soul, I will make this world yours."
How?
Charles produced the GS ball and held it above his head.
Missingno. laughed.
The world was taken within the minute.
Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what in my ear
Of his strange language all I know
There is only pain and fear.
Lelouch laughed bitterly as he turned around in the whiteness. "This is the power of the very first pokémon!" he shouted. "The pokémon that RULES the universe! Our world DANCES to its CODE!"
He continued to laugh as the black mist of He Who Is Not rose behind him.
"This is what the Emperor wanted." Lelouch told the other Geass users around him. "THIS!" he shouted, spreading his arms around in despair as he laughed with bitter tears flowing from his Geass. "IS MISSINGNO.!"
There is a terrible darkness descending upon the galaxy, and we shall not see it ended in our lifetimes.
The stars themselves once lived and died at their command, yet we still dare to oppose their will.
We are less than cattle to these beings, chattel to be cast aside, consumed or made sport with for their pleasure.
There is not one amongst them that would pay heed to a world of Man as I would to an ant on my boot.
They have only one purpose and there is nothing they will not do to accomplish this, no matter how vile or loathsome it might be.
These abominations mean to destroy everything proud and noble, everything we hold dear and have fought so long to achieve.
The day will not save us.
And they own the night.
Long shall be our suffering.
Joyous be our pain.
Let the galaxy burn.
Let the heavens bleed.
This is their galaxy.
Theirs to corrupt.
Theirs to enslave.
The gods will not be denied their prize.
They await the day when they shall take what is theirs.
And we shall scream.
For there shall be no deliverance.
Lelouch stood in a room akin to a tailor shop. "What is this place?" he asked.
"A tailors." The man behind him replied. "We can't have you looking like that."
Lelouch looked down his body to see that he was still naked. "I believe your neck size is about… fourteen inches?" the man asked, examining the boy from top to bottom with his eyes. "Yes… you have long arms compared to the rest of you, and your shoulders aren't as broad as they should be, but I'm sure that we'll have something that'll fit."
Lelouch blinked as the man picked up two shirts from a rack, one red and one purple, then began holding each one to Lelouch's chest. "Yes… Purple suits you better." He said, replacing the shirts onto the rack. "It brings out your eyes. You really do have your mother's eyes you know."
"What..?" Lelouch snarled.
"Now now, she DID provide half of your genetic material after all." The tailor said. "Now, boxers or briefs?"
"What do you want with me?" Lelouch demanded.
"Boxers then." The man snickered, tossing him a pair of garments and leading the boy over towards the changing room. "Well, we need you to look your best my boy."
"What for." Lelouch demanded, looking at the black business suit that was on a hanger next to the mirror. The dress shirt was a deep purple, with a simple black neck tie in the suit's front pocket. A pair of shiny black shoes lay on the floor, next to a pair of balled up black socks.
The man sneered, leaving Lelouch with his clothes as he pulled the curtain shut between the two of them.
"For a trip to the edge of madness, of course."
"Just so you know, Madness is the emergency exit." The guide told Lelouch as he lead him through the dark tunnels. "You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away forever."
Lelouch nodded, still buttoning the cuffs of his sleeves when he heard his father's screams.
They weren't screams of fear.
That was agony.
That was the scream of someone being violently disembowelled by the blade of a moving kabutops skeleton.
Lelouch's identification of the scream was quite accurate.
"I'm surprised father." Lelouch told him. "Rather than play me you chose to throw the board into the air and decree that everyone loses." He sneered at the man as he tried to gather his intestines back into the cavity that was his chest. "Even the monsters despise you."
He heard his father laugh behind him.
Lelouch turned around to see the bloody Emperor sneering at the boy. "LELOUCH." He boomed. "I Have Prepared Hell Itself For You."
Lelouch sighed. "Really father?" he asked. "Sending a demon to hell? Do you really think that will break me?"
"You Will In Time Boy." Charles sneered.
"Father, I have always been prepared to drag you into hell with me." Lelouch replied. "These monsters aren't going to let you enjoy your eternity. We will both be walking down hell together."
Not So
Lelouch turned around to see a figure in a white mask standing beyond the pool of blood.
You Will Be Given Special Treatment Lelouch
"Of course I will." Lelouch said. "After all, it's hard to give someone an acid enema while they're dressed this nicely."
Ooh, We hadn't thought of that one yet.
Lelouch looked behind him to see a female figure that was bald, eyeless and naked. Her skin was jet black, with crimson tribal markings running down the centre of her face, down her chin, through her chest and ending at her navel.
I Have Business To Attend To O+
'M said, naming the female figure behind Lelouch as he gestured to Charles Zi Britannia.
Perhaps You Could Show Our Guest The Pleasure Dome Where His Friends Are Currently Staying?
O+ opened her lips into a grin. Her teeth were in a perfectly tessellating zigzag.
She took Lelouch by the wrist and led him into a portal that should not be as the emperor laughed.
I think Lulu would like that very much.
There's nothing quite like the sound of countless souls screaming in unison, don't you agree?
Lelouch glared at the torture around him, only because there was nowhere for him to avert his eyes.
See, we've only just started to have physical form, and since we took your world, we've just been taking in more and more of your knowledge, and it's amazing what you humans do to each other. Did you ever see 'Two girls One pokéball'?
Lelouch's eye caught a man who was vomiting faecal matter as a misshapen beast rammed his face into the floor, demanding that he lick it up. Lelouch's mouth twisted in an involuntary grimace and brought his attention back to O+.
We haven't even started being creative yet, this is just us trying out what you humans have come up with for pleasure. I shudder to hear the screams when we try out what you came up with to hurt one another!
"LELOUCH!"
His neck span around and he saw Euphie, naked, hung by meat hooks in her shoulders as one abomination with crustacean skin violated her with a serpentine tongue.
She screamed, limbs contorting as she cringed at the humiliation.
Lelouch didn't think.
He charged.
He slammed the creature to the ground, then held Euphie by the waist. "Hold on." He told her, lifting her off the hooks as gently as he could.
She still gasped in pain as he did so, but quietened down as Lelouch slung her over his shoulder and ran through the screams.
BLAM
Lelouch felt blood splatter across his back and his cheek.
And the weight he was carrying was much lighter.
He dared himself to turn around.
Everything above Euphie's ribcage was gone.
BLAM
Lelouch fell to the ground, his left knee having been obliterated, but he was too far in shock to scream.
BLAM
He fell flat on his face, his other leg gone.
He fell flat on his face, his other leg gone. He pushed himself up and froze, coming face to face with Euphie's disembodied head.
She stared at him with watering eyes, tears mixing with blood running down her face. Gasping for air, she mouthed a voiceless plea to her brother as the last of her life sparked across her brain.
Lelouch shakily reached out to her to cradle his sister's weeping head.
BLAM
His arm exploded into blood and bone shard and he collapsed back into the polluted ground.
Naughty naughty Lulu. It's not exactly torture if we let you be a hero.
Lelouch woke up in a chair.
I understand you play?
Lelouch sat bolt upright and was offered a chess set by a man in a gray trainer's jacket with stonewashed jeans. His face was rather broad, a pleasant smile visible under the shade of his low cap.
My name is Rainer. I apologise for how my allies have been treating you. Would you like a game of chess?
Lelouch stood to his feet.
He wasn't buying these apologies for a second.
He knew that this Rainer wanted to torture him just as much as O+ did.
But he was healed, and he was good at chess, so he took the board and followed his opponent through the door.
Lelouch's eyes widened in shock.
He was standing on the Black King's square of a human chessboard.
Every single one of the chess pieces had someone he knew chained to it.
To his right, the Black Queen, was Kallen, and to his left, C.C. served as the Black Bishop.
"You sick bastard." Lelouch growled.
Rainer laughed.
It was a haunting, impossible laugh.
Relax, if they die, we can bring them back.
Then Lelouch realised.
The woman next to him wasn't C.C..
He couldn't feel her presence in this woman.
That was just some look-alike that had been surgically altered to look like her.
Lelouch glanced at Kallen.
That's her.
No doubt about it.
So, they've gathered who they could, but not everyone.
So C.C. was safe.
For now at any rate.
He looked down in front of him to see an obsidian podium the size of a chessboard. He dropped the board on top of it, and it sank into the black glass as if it were water, locking into it tightly. The pieces clattered to the board, jumping into their places.
Shall we begin? Knight to F3
White's kingside knight rose into the air and moved beyond the pawn line.
His move.
"Knight to C6," Lelouch replied, moving his queenside knight forward.
As it rose, he saw Suzaku chained to the horses back.
No, not Suzaku, Lelouch could tell. Another double.
Knight to C3
White brought his other knight forward.
Lelouch replied with the same, sending his other knight forward to square F6.
Silver was chained to that one.
Possibly a double, but Lelouch couldn't tell.
White moved the kings pawn forward one square.
Lelouch moved his queen pawn the same amount.
Milly.
The real one.
A cold sweat ran down Lelouch's spine as white moved their kings bishop forward.
He'd been playing with people's lives for years, but this was the first time that it was so parodied.
Who is his other bishop?
Lelouch moved the queenside bishop to challenge the white bishop.
Shirley.
The white bishop took the bait.
"NO!" Lelouch shouted as Shirley screamed as a thousand bleached claws snapped forward and sunk into her flesh.
He did his best to hold his ground and not fall to his knees as Rainer laughed again. If they had been playing on a normal chessboard, his outburst would have scattered the pieces across the board. As it stood, there was nothing he could do, trapped in his own square and staring as Shirley was ripped from the bishop piece and dragged screaming into the mass of thorny white claws.
Your move Lelouch.
Lelouch snarled, getting his head back into gear. "Pawn captures on E6!" he shouted, moving the piece on his board and capturing the bishop with his pawn- with Ohgi. The pawn charged forward and shattered the white, bloodstained bishop before it could finish devouring Shirley, the force of the collision knocking her free.
Lelouch stared in horror as what remained of Shirley's body, just a head and a torso, shuddered on the marble ground, before she finally went still, her eyes glazing over. His gaze was only broken as Rainer made his next move, and White castled.
Lelouch took a breath to steel himself and brought his queenside rook closer.
Rivalz.
White moved a pawn forward one square.
If the king doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow?
Lelouch tapped his obsidian podium and it soared beside him as he took a step diagonally forward and looked at the pawns on either side of him.
Nunnally and Misty, lashed to the pawn pieces with black chains and razor wire.
White moved a knight forward, closer to Lelouch, and he forced himself to drown out the quiet moans of "Brother…" as he controlled his rage.
They hurt Nunnally.
Lelouch ignored the knight and moved the rook's pawn on the opposite side of the board.
White moved a bishop one square.
He's taunting me.
Lelouch moved the Suzaku duplicate so he was in front of Lelouch and Milly. White moved their other knight, opening a gap for their queen to attack the pawn, even though the rook would take the queen.
The other rook was most likely Toudou, and it was unlikely that Rainer would sacrifice a queen just for that.
Just to be sure, he moved Toudou's rook into play.
White moved the queen, bringing her into play, covering both the pawn, the Suzaku duplicate and the C.C. double.
He moved Silver to attack her.
The queen moved closer to the two knights that stood side-by-side.
Lelouch moved Toudou sidewise two squares.
He was getting into it now.
The other white bishop swept from its position to threaten Misty.
Lelouch hated bishops. They were always where you didn't want them to be, and you never noticed.
Lelouch especially hated these bishops.
He took a step back.
The knight moved to attack and Kallen gasped in horror.
Lelouch froze.
He was in a fork.
Next move, that Knight would kill either C.C. or Kallen, and he couldn't do anything about it other than consciously save one of them. He glared at the bloodstained white Knight and cursed himself for falling into the trap.
Then he saw a shredded arm at the base of the Knight and realised that he completely missed the fact that Ohgi was just taken.
He must have held his tongue so he didn't scream.
That was why Kallen had screamed. Because he had let one of her oldest friends die... Lelouch realised what an idiot he was and moved Toudou across to avenge Oghi and kill the Knight.
And the queen rushed down and killed Suzaku, ripping him from the razor wire and twisting him, peeling his flesh from his bone.
Lelouch snarled. How was he supposed to keep up with this when human lives were at stake?
He never had a problem with it before now.
The only difference was that now there were names to faces.
One million is just a statistic after all.
Lelouch stood up straight and moved Toudou out of the queen's reach.
If they want a heartless tactician, then so be it.
Blue screamed as the queen took her pawn, riddling her with bloodstained white thorns.
Rivalz is in danger.
Screw it. He couldn't save them or himself playing like this.
Lelouch stepped away into a safer place, his podium following.
"LELOUCH?" Kallen screamed for the first time in the game.
He didn't turn his back.
She was just another piece to him now.
Nina screamed as the queen took her.
Rivalz was safe for now.
Lelouch moved Silver to attack the white queen and bishop. The white queen sensibly backed off, keeping the bishop safe from attack.
Lelouch withdrew Silver.
White advanced a pawn two squares to attack him.
Lelouch moved Silver forward and to the side to dodge it.
White moved another pawn.
Silver shattered it and took its place, threatening the rook.
The white bishop withdrew to threaten Toudou.
Lelouch moved him to safety, but it cost him his chance to take the white rook with Silver's knight.
He moved Nunnally's pawn forwards, ignoring her pleas for help.
There was no help he could give her right now.
White moved the pawn in front of its king forward one square, so Lelouch moved C.C.'s bishop forward.
This woman had no idea who he was.
No, she probably did after the execution, but regardless.
White queen moved to the side, closer to Lelouch's pawns- Misty and Milly.
Lelouch retreated to behind a pawn- Kaguya.
The other king moved into a corner, and Lelouch nudged the C.C. double forward to challenge the white bishop.
It sickened Lelouch just how much he was cowering.
White pawn moved.
Lelouch moved Toudou forward, past the last unidentified pawn.
It was Chiba.
White pawn advanced.
Is Rainer going for a second queen?
Lelouch moved Kallen.
Pawn again.
Definitely going for a second queen.
Lelouch snarled.
If it did, and Lelouch took it with Rivalz, then the queen would kill him and put Lelouch in check.
Lelouch moved Chiba forward into the firing range of another white pawn.
The ambitious pawn moved again.
Lelouch swept his last bishop across the board and took the white bishop mercilessly.
A knight took the woman, descending on her as the piece opened up to reveal a maw of stark bleached teeth. She screamed as she died.
Definitely not C.C..
Lelouch stepped around Kaguya and moved forward.
Even though he knew he was just getting out of the way for when the white queen took Rivalz.
The pawn stepped forward and contorted as it changed shape.
Lelouch didn't let it finish its transformation, killing it with Rivalz without hesitation.
Rivalz didn't cry out as the white rook smashed him into the stone, his head hitting the massive board and spraying blood across it.
Lelouch moved Chiba to take a white pawn.
She didn't scream as she died either, but Toudou roared in fury.
Lelouch glared at Rainer, the path between them now open.
Rainer smirked.
Lelouch moved Toudou forward to avenge Chiba, and the white rook moved sideways to put Lelouch into check.
Lelouch sidestepped forward into safety.
He couldn't lose yet.
The other white rook moved backwards to block Lelouch's advance.
So he retreated.
The white rook returned to its previous position, preventing his further retreat.
Lelouch could try for a 3-move repeat stalemate…
That would end the game here and now without a winner of loser, or more lives being lost.
Lelouch stepped directly forward, ready to test this ploy.
The rook returned again to block his advance.
How childish.
Lelouch can play this game.
He stepped back into position.
The rook returned a second time into the corner.
Lelouch stepped forward a second time.
The rook moved forward to block his advance a third time.
Lelouch stepped backwards.
The rook returned.
Lelouch frowned, stepping forward again.
The rook moved forward again.
Lelouch stepped backwards.
Were you trying for a stalemate?
Lelouch snarled as the white rook returned to its corner.
So, the three-repeat rule wasn't in effect.
He was just in an infinite loop.
Screw this.
Lelouch moved Silver forward to attack the white rook.
The white rook moved forward, with only Kaguya between it and Lelouch.
Game on.
Lelouch stepped forward, but sidestepped to attack the white rook while defending Kaguya.
The second white rook swept across the board to defend its brother.
At this rate, Kaguya was gone.
Lelouch's eyes met hers inadvertently.
She was terrified.
She was pleading for help.
She was pleading for mercy.
She found none in his eyes.
Instead, he moved Toudou behind enemy lines.
A white pawn moved forward.
Lelouch advanced the rook, so only Silver was preventing Toudou from putting Rainer in check.
Another white pawn moved.
Lelouch brought Silver back, putting Rainer in check.
Rainer moved forward, rendering the attack useless, as Lelouch expected.
He moved Silver, putting Rainer in check once more.
The king moved sideways.
Lelouch returned Silver to put Rainer in check, and Rainer returned to his previous position.
Lelouch looked past Milly and at Nunnally.
He was going to have to sacrifice one of them.
He played the next few moves in his head.
It was going to have to be Nunnally.
Lelouch looked away as he moved his sister into the firing line.
Miraculously, she wasn't killed. Instead, a white pawn moved forward to attack Lelouch.
He couldn't kill it, there was a pawn defending it, and if he moved Milly to kill it, then Lelouch would be in check, so either option was illegal.
Lelouch stepped backwards and let the pawn kill Milly.
She screamed, and Lelouch was in check once more.
Kallen froze when she realised what Lelouch's next move was.
He did it anyway.
He moved Kallen forward and killed the pawn that had Lelouch in check.
The white rook swept behind Lelouch, putting him in check.
Bastard…
Lelouch moved to the side, staying next to Kallen.
And the white queen swept down to put him in check.
Lelouch moved again, remaining by Kallen's side.
The white knight put Lelouch in check.
Rainer was determined to separate Lelouch from Kallen.
He was afraid.
Afraid of Lelouch taking his pieces.
Of Lelouch winning.
Checkmate.
Lelouch froze.
He looked down at the board on his wrist.
He couldn't move.
There was nowhere to move.
He'd been so obsessed with staying with Kallen that he'd lost the battle.
He'd let his emotions control him.
Even though he'd resigned to let Kallen die, his affection for her was his downfall.
"Bastard…" Lelouch snarled. "BASTARD!"
He gripped the queen piece on his wrist and slammed it across the board, and Kallen struck the enemy queen, shattering it into a thousand chunks of marble.
n.
But you've lost.
Lelouch dodged the knight as he moved Kallen across his board to take the enemy rook, then moved Misty's pawn to kill the knight.
"That's what we humans do." Lelouch explained, panting for breath. "We never submit, we never surrender, and when all is lost, we cheat."
Rainer laughed.
So do we.
Spikes burst from every black piece, shredding the bodies of every piece.
Lelouch stood there as Kallen's blood drenched his face.
He looked down to see Nunnally's blood seep into his shoes.
He looked to his left to see Misty's head roll across the floor, bumping against his leg.
Beaten in fifty-four moves Lelouch. If you just allowed that, then they wouldn't have had to die.
"You said it yourself." Lelouch snarled. "You can bring them back."
And we will. But they'll remember.
Lelouch scowled at the abomination, hatred twisting in his gut. "What do you mean?"
They'll remember how you sacrificed them as the pawns they were. They'll remember how coldly you sent them to their deaths. They'll remember how proud you were, thinking you could best the gods at the cost of their lives.
Even if you somehow fix everything and restore your world, they will remember.
What has been done cannot be undone.
There is no wonderful reset button.
Even if you can end our game, you have still lost.
Would you like to see what we're doing to your dear little sister right now?
Lelouch snapped out of the stupor he was in and snarled. "What."
Rainer smirked, then looked at the sky.
I think it's about to rain.
Blood fell from the ceiling, carrying hacked off limbs and organs with it.
A head crunched on the floor by Lelouch's feet.
And another.
And a third head.
Lelouch knelt in the blood and his eyes widened in horror as he identified the face three times.
As three sets of his sister's eyes stared up at him, blank and filled with pain.
You know what the best part of having dominion over life and death is?
The black prince fell backwards, drenching his elbows and legs in the pool of blood as he backed away.
We can kill her over and over again, and she still won't stop screaming for her big brother. It's hilarious, you wanna come see?
Lelouch rolled over in the blood, holding himself up on his hands and knees.
His shoulder shook.
He giggled.
He threw his body back and laughed at the sky.
Looks like someone found the emergency exit. This quickly too?
"Wrong."
Rainer froze as Lelouch rose to his feet. "All this time, I've been holding myself back, toeing the line of the event horizon of morality; one wrong step and I'll fall into the pit, never to return."
Lelouch turned around and held his hand out at Rainer. "Fuck morality." He said. "If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy."
A black spear burst from the wall behind Rainer, skewering him through the chest.
"My name is Lelouch Vi Britannia, Zero, the prince who was abandoned by his empire." Lelouch growled, turning his hand to twist the spike into a violent screw."I am the one who shall crush this world and create one anew. My name is the future of the human race and pokémon united. If anyone wishes to stop me, let them try. If there is anyone who can go beyond my despair, let them come."
WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF DESPAIR
Lelouch was forced face-first into the blood by an incomprehensible weight as a being of haze and ink and blood ground down on his soul.
WHAT DO HUMANS KNOW OF OUR PAIN
WE HAVE SUNG THE SONGS OF LAMENT SINCE BEFORE YOUR ANCESTORS CRAWLED THROUGH THE MUD ON THEIR BELLIES AS THEY FIRST ROSE FROM THE SEA
WE ARE SUFFERING
UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS YOU WHO KNOWS NOTHING OF PAIN
Lelouch spat blood out of his teeth as he grinned.
"You understand nothing of humans." He said, not knowing who it was he faced. "We pollute our own planet. We kill each other for dominance, for greed, for fun. We capture beasts with the power to destroy the planet and we make them kneel before us. We are the ultimate thieves. We steal victory from each other and commit atrocious crimes on a daily basis just to survive. You think that we fear you?"
Lelouch pushed himself to his knees. "Of course we fear you. That is what we do. But that will not stop us. We will rebel. We will fight. You may know pain, but you know nothing of fear."
Lelouch stood amongst the blood and turned to his enemy, glaring despite the weight of the air around him. "We are humans, and we are fear incarnate." Lelouch told the beast. "Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail. Nothing shall stay our wrath."
FALL
Lelouch fell once more into the blood.
He spat the blood from his mouth as he rose once more.
He drew breath.
He stood.
"YIELD!" Lelouch commanded, shouting with all his might. "KNEEL UNTO ME AND BECOME MY SLAVE!"
FALL
Lelouch fell.
He cracked his nose on the stone below the blood.
He gripped something and pushed up.
It was a human arm.
He used it to support his weight as he stood, panting for breath.
He threw the arm at the beast around him.
It passed through its form harmlessly.
FALL
"No." Lelouch whispered, back bending under the pressure.
FALL
"No." Lelouch repeated assertively, forcing his back to straighten.
YIELD
"No." Lelouch growled.
SURRENDER
"NO!" Lelouch roared.
Don't bother h POKé. A voice behind Lelouch said. You can't intimidate him. Not this one.
The Beast before Lelouch withered in fear when faced with the beast behind Lelouch.
It walked as a man with purple hair and black eyes, a more muscular version of Lelouch that stood with pride and curiosity. You've even worked out how to change the world Lelouch. This new beast said, touching the black drill that had pierced Rainer's chest. Very impressive, for a human. The beast continued as the drill crumbled into dust.
"And who would you be?" Lelouch asked, struggling to stay standing as Rainer fell to his knees amongst the blood, gasping for air.
The beast smiled.
Everything that happens, happens for a reason, little one. He said to Lelouch. And that reason is me.
He turned to Lelouch with widespread arms. None are beyond my reach. None are above my wrath. All is dust.
"Name." Lelouch snarled.
I watch you. I see the hatred in your eyes, well-hidden behind courtly graces.
I listen. I know the terrible darkness that hides behind your well-rehearsed lies.
I wait for you at the edge of sanity. I taste the pain in your mind, the yearning to end this charade.
I make my home in the darkest pits of your soul. In the shadows I bide my time.
I patiently wait for you to open your eyes and realize that it is by my will alone that you draw breath.
For I am Missingno. and you are my puppet who dances to my tune.
Lelouch glared at Missingno., aware of the two other creatures around him.
You stand against me now. Missingno. pointed out. Where is that fear from when I took your world?
"I have come to dance the dance of death." Lelouch replied, reaching into the blood for a long tibia to use as a weapon. "I'm too deep in hell for fear."
Missingno. smiled.
Deep?
Lelouch glanced at Rainer.
This Is The Shallow Part. Can We Take Him Deep? That Is Our Job, Right?
Yes. Missingno. decided. I'll take him there myself. Bring .4, he added. He'll be perfect for what I have in mind.
"What do you want, Missingno.?" Lelouch asked.
Right now Lelouch? The monster replied. I want to see your insides. I want you to turn inside out.
Lelouch barely had time to raise an eyebrow in confusion before the world turned to pain.
Lelouch screamed.
That's all he could comprehend for the rest of an eternity.
His own screams.
Lelouch awoke on the floor, standing upright.
His body had healed.
The trauma of what they put him through after they got bored of matching wits with him began to shake his mind.
Pain…
But it was gone.
It was over.
But…
Missingno. had told him something…
He'd given him an order just before everything turned black…
'Run'
Lelouch froze as he felt the presence behind him and rolled over as a massive axe smashed into the ground, sending flesh and blood everywhere.
The beast was nine feet, nine inches tall.
It wore massive armour that was caked in blood, with rotting flesh hanging of the many spikes that filled the parts of the armours surface that wasn't adorned in unholy symbols.
One hand alone could crush a man's ribcage.
Fire loosed from jets that hung from its shoulders.
But the worst part was its face.
It was that of a stantler.
Only the mouth had opened so wide that a grinning skull was leering through the gaping maw.
There was no eyes in the loose stantler flesh that served as this abomination's hood. Instead, to large, bleached, curved horns rose from the gaps in the pokémon's flesh and rose up, ending in two sharp points.
The bony jaw opened and roared with a tongue of flame as it took a step forward, its mighty foot crunching against the corpses under its feet.
This was a monster.
Run Lelouch. Missingno. chuckled in the distance. You really don't want .4 to catch you.
Lelouch didn't need telling twice.
He twisted on the ground, slipping on the blood and sweat of the dead under his feet as he ran across the discarded corpses as fast as he could.
.4 roared savagely as it charged after its prey.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
SOULS FOR THE SOUL EATER
Lelouch span around a corner and bolted as .4 smashed the wall down, knocking the puny humans aside as it charged through humans and unbeings alike.
The stench of blood filled Lelouch's nostrils so much that he wanted to vomit.
The screams filled his ears so much that he could barely hear his own breathing.
"MAMA!"
That was one of the children from Zero City that always played around the corner from Zero's office…
A bag of flesh fell to the ground before Lelouch, and he leapt over it before he realised that it was Milly's skin.
He fumbled the fall, landing on the steel ground as he rolled through the pooling blood, and he vomited.
Tears splashed in the blood.
Lelouch heard the roar and rolled out the way.
His arm was crushed under .4's mighty boot.
Lelouch screamed as the behemoth stepped over him, carried by its own momentum before skidding across the floor and turning to face its pray once more.
Clutching his stump of an arm, Lelouch got to his feet, looking at the beast with terror.
He couldn't do this.
He'd lost.
He turned and ran.
He ducked as Rivalz was thrown over him, missing his head by an inch.
No time.
Lelouch ran.
He ducked his head, sobbing, and ran, blood and darkness and horror everywhere he looked.
Someone caught him and pulled him close to them.
Lelouch shouted, forcing them off, but they held on tight.
Couldn't they see that he had to run?
CAN'T THEY SEE THAT THING?
"LELOUCH!"
The running boy stopped.
"Lelouch, calm down."
Lelouch twisted in her grip and looked up at the person who caught him. "Is that…"
C.C. smiled at him, stroking his hair comfortingly. "It's alright." She told him. "It's me. I'm here."
Lelouch couldn't take it.
He pulled his face into her chest, crying like a lost child who'd found his mother.
It was pathetic.
It was weak.
But he needed it out.
It hurt.
C.C. placed a hand on Lelouch's back.
The fear began to subside as she took his nightmares.
It was alright.
He was safe now.
He was with C.C.…
Why Did You Let Him Escape?
Missingno. smiled at his brother, 'M.
I didn't. he replied. Someone rescued him.
You Don't Seem Disappointed
He's too interesting to merely torture. Missingno. replied. I want to have fun with him.
So You're Allowing Him Rest?
I'm allowing him to build an army. Missingno. corrected. Someone like him won't truly be afraid unless they feel that they're winning until right before you crush them. Did you see his face when Rainer put him in checkmate?
I Missed It
It was beautiful. Missingno. grinned. I want him to lose everything by my hand. For that to happen, he needs something to lose. Again, you missed his relief when he realised that we didn't have his woman.
His Father Gave Us The World For One Reason
He Must Be Tortured
And he will be. Missingno. promised. In due time. I'm learning a lot from these humans 'M. Did you know that they even have a name for us, even though they had no idea we existed?
Daemons
That too, but they have another one. Missingno. added. 'Chaos', that which is not, yet is. What do you think?
You Can Choose That As Our Name If You Wish
Missingno. smirked, then created a megaphone and rested a foot against an iron railing.
ATTENTION ALL HUMANS! Missingno. roared. EVERYONE ELSE BETTER LISTEN TOO! THAT MEANS DROP WHATEVER OR WHOEVER YOU'RE DOING AND PAY ATTENTION!
The screams stopped for the first time since this world came to be.
The purple-haired man handed the megaphone to his masked brother, who took it with a sigh.
WE ARE CHAOS
REMEMBER THIS
WE SHALL NOT BE DENIED WHAT IS OURS
Nice. Missingno. noted, giving the signal for the demons to resume their work. And now we wait.
For What?
For Lelouch of the Rebellion. Missingno. laughed.
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Yeah, you all thought Lelouch was gonna get happy and kick ass here, didn't you?
Well, no. This chapter is to make clear just how screwed Lelouch is. I suppose only I can save him now, huh?
Well, I won't. No way. I got him into this mess, he can get himself out.
Look forward to the next chapter.
For you chess types that want more details on Lelouch's and Rainer's game, here ya go.
1. Nf3 Nc6
2. Nc3 Nf6
3. e3 d6
4. Bc4 Be6
5. Bxe6 fxe6
6. O-O Rc8
7. d3 Kd7
8. Nb5 h5
9. Bd2 Nd5
10. Ng5 Rh6
11. Qf3 Ne5
12. Qe4 Rf6
13. Ba5 Ke8
14. Nxe6 Rxe6
15. Qxd5 Rf6
16. Qxb7 Kf7
17. Qxa7 Nc6
18. Qa6 Ne5
19. f4 Ng4
20. e4 Ne3
21. Bc3 Rg6
22. Rf2 e6
23. g3 Be7
24. Qc6 Kg8
25. Kh1 Bf6
26. a4 Rg4
27. a5 Qe7
28. a6 h4
29. a7 Bxc3
30. Nxc3 Kh7
31. a8=Q Rxa8
32. Rxa8 hxg3
33. hxg3 Rxg3
34. Rh2 Kg6
35. Ra5 Kf7
36. Ra8 Kf6
37. Ra5 Kf7
38. Ra8 Kf6
39. Ra5 Kf7
40. Ra8 Kf6
41. Ra5 Kf7
42. Ra8 Nf1
43. Rh7 Kg6
44. Rah8 Re3
45. d4 Re1
46. b4 Ne3
47. Kh2 Ng4
48. Kg2 Ne3
49. Kh2 d5
50. f5 Kf7
51. fxe6 Qxe6
52. Rf8 Ke7
53. Qe8 Kd6
54. Nb5
Nerds.