We're reaching the end of this fic. Let's get this done.
But first, an announcement. After months of preparations, my mission papers have finally been completed and have been sent off to Salt Lake City! In six-eight weeks, I'll know where and when I'm going, and when I do, I'll let you all know.
And I do believe that this chapter exceeds Fairly English Story. Very well done to me.
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Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
You have caused me to itch, little Pokérus. Missingno. sighed as war raged below. I feel a little inclined to scratch.
A fist plunged into Lelouch's stomach, forcing him to double over from the impact. Missingno.'s eyes glowed, and an elbow span around and smashed into the boy's temple, hurling him from the air he was standing upon and towards the ground.
Wisdom is but beginning of fear.
Mew twisted around at the crashing noise behind him, and a black hand plunged into his neck and tore out his throat.
He gagged, falling back as 'M slammed an open palm into his face and smashed his skull against the ground.
It would be typical of the followers of Chaos to perpetuate such a hoax, if only to give desperate humans a shadow of hope that could be snatched away.
Darkrai's hand gripped Euphemia's torso. "EUPHIE!" Suzaku screamed as he charged for her, only to be slammed to the ground by the monster's massive hand.
It's like in the great stories, Lelouch; the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened?
Red was pushed into the air by a volley of spikes that burst from O+'s torso.
She rose to her feet, laughing as more spears tore his flesh apart.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.
.4 stopped the world and rose to his feet.
Time continued, and he grabbed the irritating woman by her green hair and pulled her into the air.
She didn't fear him.
Time to correct that.
You and I, Lelouch, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: 'Shut the book now, dad; we don't want to read any more…'
You were always a thinker Lelouch. Missingno. said, grabbing him by the scalp and lifting him from the crater. I know that you say that if a trainer doesn't lead, his pokémon won't follow, but remember that your pokémon are the ones that fight your wars for you.
"It's a trade." Lelouch chuckled. "They want strength. They want direction. We give it to them. They can always say no."
Except when they can't.
"So, you're the voice of Pokémon's justice then?" Lelouch chuckled darkly before vomiting blood. "That's a good one."
I don't remember when you became an idiot hero. Missingno. said. I rather liked you better when you were a dark messiah. A chess master. A terrorist. Why did you stop using fear as a weapon?
"Who says I didn't?"
Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like you do Lelouch. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if you ever, even for one moment, accept it.
Missingno.'s eyes widened and his free hand lashed out and crushed his knuckles. Clever. Using the code of the universe against me. Almost worked too. I'd best get your other hand too.
Lelouch was thrown lightly into the air as Missingno lashed out and broke his other hand. Fire and Lightning. Missingno. said. That's what I don't get. Dark and Psychic suits you so much better.
Lelouch forced himself to his feet, battered and bleeding, and stared at Missingno.
Who are you? Missingno. asked. Here, in the darkness of hell? Who are you really?
Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day.
Not today.
There was silence, apart from the humming song that came from Lelouch's mouth.
You just don't stop, do you? Missingno. asked, tearing the voice box from Lelouch's throat.
Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed.
Some days, nobody dies at all.
Then came the clicking.
Even with your tongue? Missingno. laughed, forcing a hand inside Lelouch's mouth and shouting in pain. BITING NOW LITTLE POKÉRUS? He roared, tearing his hand from the boy's jaw and ramming a fist into his skull.
Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the hero comes to call, Everybody Lives. This is one of those days Lelouch.
Death does not ride with us today.
Missingno.'s arm burst into flames.
He stepped back as the human forced himself to his feet.
You just don't give up, do you? He laughed.
I know that what you're going to do is impossible.
Do it anyway.
The human screamed, and slammed a broken fist into the monster's jaw.
The beast stepped, back, and turned again to face the human with a smile.
The human slammed another fist into his face.
Out of hope, out of duty, out of love.
If nothing else, do it because you're a spiteful bastard.
The human screamed something incoherent, running at his foe.
Missingno. grasped the human's face.
Perhaps I'll take that eye of yours. Missingno. said, pressing his thumb into The human's eye socket. That eye filled with hate.
Make them earn every drop of human blood they spill. For every scream they steal from us, cover the sounds with their pain.
Make them understand why humans took the world and they didn't.
The human rammed two thumbs into Missingno.'s neck, jabbing at the jugular veins.
Lelouch, you know I don't breathe. The monster laughed as he popped the human's left eye from its socket. Why would there by blood in my veins?
Even if you're trapped by a cycle of pain and punishment, the path you carved will lead the way.
If even the infinite universe will turn against you, push fate aside with your own hands.
Black blood spurted through the human's fingers.
WHAT? The beast screeched as an impossible sensation shot through his neck.
After a split second of horror, her realised it was pain he was feeling. HOW?
The human slammed his forehead into Missingno's, bringing him to the ground.
Reach another level with each breath. Evolve beyond the person you were a moment ago. Become stronger with each step.
Because you are human. It's what we are.
The human stood over Missingno., his back blocking the light from the black sun, casting a white shadow over the demon.
Blue lights appeared around the human, and he glared at the monster with his one remaining eye as he stepped on his chest.
A Geass flared.
You have walked through valleys of sin and oceans of night. You have looked demons and traitors in their eyes. You have heard the whispers of dark things that wanted your soul.
And never once have you encountered anything that has struck the fear into you that an error would feel if it ever truly understood the resolve of the Human Race.
The humans mouth moved, but no sound came from his bleeding lips.
He raised his hands, and two bloodied objects flew into them.
He placed his tongue and his voicebox back into place.
Because defiance endures. Defiance was always here. Before man was, defiance waited for him.
The ultimate act awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
The human slammed a bloodied fist into the monster's throat.
Missingno. coughed up black blood, and the human drove another vicious fist into the beast's head.
The human screamed, kneeling down and ramming a hand that burnt with white light.
His love, his anger, and all of his sorrow burnt in that light.
So, I'm going to tell you what you told me, Lelouch.
The world shook.
Pokémon, human, and error stopped still and looked at the sky.
There stood Missingno. and a bleeding human.
His flesh was torn. His bones broken. His breathing heavy.
Yet he still stood.
Missingno. Raised its head, and the human rammed another fist into it.
The demon retaliated, and the human took the blow and returned it with even more fury.
The demon stabbed a hand through the human's chest, and blood rained from the wound.
The human grabbed the arm in his side, and snapped it with a primal scream.
A scream of defiance.
A scream that would not stop.
A scream that would never stop.
A scream that would never die.
A scream of anger.
A scream of a human.
O+'s head flew from her shoulders.
"WE ARE MANKIND!" Red roared, clutching his wounds as his pokémon stood with him. "AND WE ARE POKÉMON! WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE SILENCE! WE ARE A PROUD 'YES!' IN A WORLD THAT DEMANDS A 'NO!'!"
"WE WILL NOT SUBMIT!" Red screamed with his brother, preaching the words he could not, words that echoed throughout the blood drenched, desolate world and to the hearts of all, giving hope to the light and fear to the dark. "WE ARE WAR INCARNATE! WHEN THE ENEMY CAME AND TOOK OUR WORLD, OUR FREEDOM, OUR PRIDE, WE WERE WAITING FOR IT WITH THE ANGER AND HATE OF SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF WAR ON OUR BACKS! BECAUSE WE ARE! THEY! SHALL NOT!"
"THIS IS THE DAWN OF OUR NEW WORLD" he shouted, blood mixing with the tears as the golden sun rose to consume the black noonday. "HUMANS! POKÉMON!"
LIVE! ON!
Missingno. chuckled.
You did it. He said, staggering as war was waged below. You took hell from the demons and made it your own. You stole light from the darkness, and brought hope to the hopeless. You've won.
A bloody knuckle slammed into the demon's face, the bare bone exposed to the polluted air as the human gulped it down like the precious fuel it was.
What's wrong Lelouch? Missingno. chuckled, clutching his bleeding chin. I'm giving up. You win. I'll walk away.
The human staggered forward, raising another fist.
Lelouch isn't there anymore, is he? Missingno. asked.
The fist went through the demon's skull.
Darkness fell.
And blazing light stood proud.
In the beginning, there was chaos and pain in a dead land under a red sky and a black sun.
Then mew came and opened the door in the world. Pokémon spilled out, and saved the humans from the monsters.
Then Reshiram and Zekrom tore the sky, and the sky became blue.
Then there was a war, a great war, with humans and pokémon fighting against the monsters.
Good prevailed over evil, and darkness fell. Light cleansed the world.
And there was love.
After so much fear and pain, love and friendship helped heal the wounds.
The humans and their pokémon stood proud in the world they had won.
Friends and families found each other.
Mother and child.
Lover and lover.
Father with family.
There was relief.
There was joy.
There was love.
"Love without pain is meaningless." Sierra said, looking over the scene. "Adam fell that men might be, and men are, that they might have joy."
"Yeah." Red nodded, sitting next to her and watching the sky. "What do you think happened to Lellow?"
"I don't know." The witch said. "I'll tell you when I find out."
Red looked at her, then smiled.
"Thanks Auntie." He said, standing upright. "All lives touch other lives to create something new and alive…"
"Hm?" Sierra asked, turning to face him.
"Nothing." Red sighed, offering a hand to help her up. "Go find him." he told her. "Everyone else is."
C.C. took the hand with a smile. "Thank you." She said, pulling him into a hug. "Don't wait for me."
"Once we get everything working, we've got a pizza with your name on it." Red joked as a lugia descended next to them. "That's Ryujin, isn't it?" he asked as the witch boarded her mount.
Sierra smiled as the mighty beast rose into the air and blasted through the sky towards the setting sun.
Kyogre and Groudon raised the lands and filled the seas.
Rayquaza reigned over them, and made the wind blow, cleansing the stagnant air.
Regigigas lead Regirock, Regice, and Registeel in the creation of mountains and valleys. The flat world took shape.
Shaymin danced across the land, and grass grew where he stepped.
Suicune, Raikou and Entei ran across the land. Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres flew through the sky, and weather returned.
Humans worked with Pokémon, and together they built a world from the nothing left behind by pain.
Red stood with the other Geass users and Codes from the destroyed world and faced the multitude as he explained the nature of the Geass.
How it was a test created by Mew, how it had brought so much pain to the world, yet how it saved them.
He explained the nature of each Geass, especially his brother's.
How it forced people to do evil, even when he desired not that end.
How it could even make one such as Euphemia commit horrific acts of Genocide.
How he had to Geass himself just to save the human race.
Lelouch was not remembered as a messiah, but nor was he despised as a monster.
He was a hero that wanted to make the world a better place.
And because of him, Eschaton had ushered forth a world of light and hope instead of pain.
Once the land was replenished, man built.
They didn't abuse the fresh world they had built.
Man built cities amongst nature. No longer was it man's needless dominance over the world.
This was a compromise. An agreement between two parties, man and pokémon.
Red stood in his office, watching the people and the pokémon work below.
At this point, everything was shared, and there was no ill between the people.
It wasn't utopia, but it was close.
For now.
Red knew humans better than to trust in communism.
But the love of money was the root of many evils.
He had to trust that people would love each other more that trade.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity closer to the heart
Philosophers and ploughmen, each must know his part
To sow a new mentality closer to the heart
You can be the captain, I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny. Closer to the heart
Suzaku carried his wife over the threshold of their new home that day.
Red got drunk for the first time in a long time.
Many laughed. A few cried.
It was a good day.
It had been three years since their new beginning.
It was a very good day.
A man staggered across the grassy wasteland.
While the legendaries had cleansed this hell, humanity had yet to expand this far.
This was a world far larger than the mere 510,072,000 kilometre planet that had been snatched from them, and they hadn't even been finished exploring the last one in its entirety.
There was room for far more than a mere six billion humans and countless pokémon in this new world.
The man stumbled into the arms of a woman.
"Sierra..?" the man asked.
"It's okay Lelouch." She said with a smile. "You did it."
The man chuckled, and then he slept.
It was a good day.
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