I do not own Familiar of Zero or the Resistance: Fall of Man series, as well as several themes, including some new stuff.

This is a bit of an AU.

Resistance of Zero

I was running, running away from that hell, from that horrible facility.

Though I knew I was too late, I was already a dead man.

Or at least I was still human, for now.

I had escaped from the conversion facility (one of the few ground based ones left in the world), and was running with all my strength, though no one was following me, and for a rather good reason.

Those monsters, the Chimera, had already injected with a mutagen that would turn me into one of them, into some sort of horrifying monster and freak of nature.

I could already feel the changes beneath my uniform, as my human physiology was being easily overwritten by the mutagen, though the whole process would finish in another seven minutes, and in my hands was a Bullseye Mark III, and on my back was an M5A2 Carbine, along with two Reaper pistols, and also on my hip pocket was a HE .44 Magnum, and though I was still wearing my uniform along with a hood and cloak to protect myself from the cold, I modified the uniform a bit in order to accommodate the cooling units that had been placed on my back, and now fused with my body.

It appears that the Chimera now just put in the implants and wait, knowing full well that once the virus is in, it is already too late, and the implants and cooling system in my body were now a permanent part of me, and I would soon become an assault hybrid as the unit on my back was used by the new assault hybrid soldiers.

As I felt my body twitch, felt as my bones cells and organs began to prepare for the mutation effects, I looked up at the sky.

Originally, in the sky, at nighttime, one would see the beautiful stars glittering gently in the sky, along with the sight of the moon, the celestial body orbiting the Earth, so white and pristine.

Now, no more.

The night sky was enshrouded in a red tinge of a nebula; no stars could be seen at all through the blood red sky, and the only celestial body that could be seen …

…. Was a brutally torn up planet that was in fact so large, that the Earth ended up becoming the planets moon, though a large portion of the planet was gone and the pieces floated in space, which led to many asteroid impac- ARGH!

Now it's starting, no wonder the original method was to make people comatose as the virus went to work, the pain I am feeling feels like several blazing hot saws are tearing away at my body, ripping everything apart.

Then as I try to walk, I notice something in front of me.

A strange green portal with some sort of rune on it appeared on the ground, and I looked at it.

Then I thought for a brief second, and then I finished thinking …

… and dove in.

Not noticing that there was a shower of meteors about to enter orbit, heading for where I had been standing.

Tristian Academy of Magic

The Second year mages were doing the annual familiar summoning for the second year class, and the one up next was the third daughter of the esteemed Valliere family, Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, however to everyone, she was called a Zero because she was incapable of casting even the most basic of spells.

She had enough ,she would succeed and she would get her familiar, an elegant, beautiful and strong familiar.

She stepped up, hearing as others talked behind her back, demeaning her, making her feel like less than she was, especially that Kirche, who would always take whatever time she had to poke fun at her.

It would end now.

Louise started her chant, the chant that would bring her a familiar, one she hoped would be strong and powerful, one that she would be able to show off, she would succeed, she closed her eyes and casted.

'No, you will not," a strange voice said into her mind, "because that is not how things go, one is not given power like that."

She opened her eyes, and saw that the world was faded to a gray color of many shades, everything was frozen, and all the students were completely stuck in place, not a movement anywhere.

Then she saw, something, it was heavily blurred, and black as night, and it looked like a cloudy mass, and at its center was some sort of white light.

"If you want power," the strange mass of energy said in a voice neither masculine nor feminine, "you cannot have it given to you; you must work for it, for that is the human way of doing things."

Louise wanted to protest, to yell at the unknown thing why she should even listen, for she was a noble and no one had the right to say what a noble can and cannot do, for the noble way was the only way.

Except for one small problem …

When she tried speaking, nothing came out, she tried again and again but there were no words, and she tried to feel what happened to her mouth.

It was completely smooth.

Louise's eyes bulged in horror, her mouth was gone completely, and then she looked at the creature and saw it was right in front of her, and she fell backwards.

You have no true power, no human has any true power, even one such as myself holds such no such power, what power we have is gained through countless efforts of trial and error until it is found, I myself having gained my power through uncountable years, observe," it said.

Louise looked as a pole came up from it, which appeared to have been made of a strange glowing metal, and then with a single pulse of energy, the pole became a ring, and then from the ring, three small lines of light shot out, each hitting a person in the crowd, all of whom were the more pompous and arrogant students Louise knew and had pretty much poked the most fun at her, and one time trapped her with the intent of doing … something, something horrible to her, and if not for a teacher, specifically Professor Colbert finding out what was happening, they would have succeeded.

Then the beams hit each of them, and then, they fell apart, their bodies corroding to a dark-black color, becoming darker and shattering more and more until they became nothing but dust, and in that instance …

They were gone, completely and utterly gone.

"They have been erased."

She looked at the creature, now a distance away, and it spoke.

"You shall be partnered with another whose life was of a terror and whose people are fading, and this one would have also disappeared but your power has granted new life, one overwhelmingly better than what would have been, and you both will face hardships beyond anything than what could have been imagined, and whether you succeed or fail, I will not know, just know these statements:

"The border will be opened and closed."

"Old foes will come anew."

"The fate of the many, lie in the hands of the few."

"Good day"

Then the gray faded, Louise shocked beyond anything, the creatures speech having been burned into her mind, then a pulse came from the center of the field, and then the whole ground cratered, but no smoke came in, instead a pulse came from the sky, forming a clear sphere in the crater.

Then it blasted outward, and drove everyone to the ground, Louise herself, who realized her mouth was back, and let out a small yelp, while watching as the smoke cleared.

I had been floating in the blackness, feeling the mutagen still working feeling as my mind started to disappear, replaced by the un-questioning loyalty and killing efficiency of the Chimera, and then one more wave of sheer agony hits me and I believe that is it.

Then I feel some sort of energy build up in me and the pain subsides, and slowly I feel as my mind comes back, and I realize that it was still me, though I still felt very different, very much so, but I realized that I was still human.

Then a light came in front of me and it spoke:

"You have been saved, you still remain human, the one responsible awaits your arrival," said a voice, neither male nor female, "you will be a sort of guard to her, and she will be disbelieving of you, but you will be fighting foes new and old and an adventure that will decide the fate of not only the people of this new world, but those left back in your old world, now go."

With that I slowly got to walking the portal that formed on the other side of the darkness.

I looked at it for a while, then I steeled myself and then I leapt in.

I saw the ground below, at least a mile below me, then waves of light surrounded me and then I felt as I was accelerated to the ground, the sphere hitting the surface releasing a shockwave.

Then it disappears and I stand up.

I see several people around me as I stand up, seeing them mostly dazed, slightly singed, and wearing a uniform that consisted of a long sleeve white shirt, and a cape which had a center clip which had a pentagram on it, and the girls wore rather short skirts and the boys wore long pants, and the stockings ranged from short too long.

Then I took stock of myself and found I was quite different.

I was still human, thank goodness for that, but unfortunately I was quite different.

I was a male, a man back in my world as I battled the Chimera, and the mutagen would have made me something else, with little distinguishing traits of gender, but now.

The shirt I wore clung more to my chest, my limbs were more slender yet still well muscled, my face felt softer and now smoother but with a little rigidity, my hair which was a black (though it appeared to be fading to gray) and used to be short, was now long to below my shoulders, and there was a feeling in my pants, a feeling of something …

… missing.

That pretty much put it all together for me, while the mutagen was stopped from turning me into a monster, it still changed me nonetheless.

I then realize some dust is in my eyes and try fan it away, and then everyone starts to come to, and in front of me, just starting to get up.

Then she is there.

Louise looked to see the one standing in the center of the crater.

It was a young woman, with long dark hair, skin that looked quite pale, was wearing a black hood and cloak, and underneath was a sort of long-sleeve dark green heavy jacket that appeared to be a uniform of some type, as well as long pants of the same color, and the uniform seemed to have been made to be sturdy, though it looked worn from long use, and didn't smell good, likely not, washed, in fact it looked like some sort of military style clothes, and also was a large bag strapped to the familiars back.

"A commoner, my familiar is to be some commoner, that's it, even if some powerful thing told me and also threatened my life there is no way I wil-," then she saw the girl open her eyes.

She had seen many eye colors, heck, her own eye color was quite rare, but she never saw an eye color that was so yellow that it looked like it was gold.

That's what she saw, gold eyes, the color actually shimmering that it almost exactly resembled gold, and the woman had a large and strange looking thing that looked like a gun, only it looked very different than anything else, and on the familiars back, below the cloak is what looks like another rifle and what looked like two strange and bulky pistols and one regular yet still strange pistol on the hip in a holster.

The woman looks straight at me and then she says something, in a soft yet firm voice at that, and then …

… she kneels.

"Thank you for saving me, though it was not a way I saw I am still human, and thus I am indebted to you, so I will be in your service for this time forth," I said, though why I don't know, though it did have truth to it.

I then kneeled before her.

Louise looked at the woman as she kneeled, then decided to just get it over with and prepared the contract servant spell.

"My name is Louise Francois Le Blanc de la Valliere, Pentagon that rules the five powers, bless this individual and make her my familiar," touching the wand to the woman's forehead, and then Louise says, "c-consider yourself lucky commoner, for someone such as yourself, such acts from a noble would be considered an honor."

She gathered herself together and then after, she grabbed the woman's chin, and kissed the woman on the lips.

What happened next no one could have foreseen.

I realized the girl had kissed me, and as I tried to raise an argument about why she did what she did, I found that heat was coming from my body, and it was getting hotter, but I felt myself start to cool down thanks to the cooling units on my body.

Then as I went through the dulling pain, I noticed that there was a light on the back of my left hand, and then runes appeared, in a language I had never seen, though it did look suspiciously familiar.

Then the light started to run up my arm and then it went to my back and …

AAAAARRRGGGHHH

I suddenly felt an incredible pain rip through me and my eyes are almost squeezed completely shut from the pain and my teeth are clenched hard, but I notice that now there is a glow on my back now.

Louise backed up again as she thought that the familiar ritual was done now that the runes were inscribed, but then her familiar yelled in pain and it looked like there something on the familiars back.

Then a strong gust of wind blew the cape away …

…. Revealing four glowing 'things' jutting from the familiars back, and the things appeared to be made of metal and also had glass, and the glass emitted a glow similar to the woman's eyes, though now the things were blazing white and then the light started to fade a bit as the gold light was suddenly replaced with a blue light, and soon it faded to a dark blue light in the devices on her familiar and they were altered (think the cooling units of the long-legs except they were pointed down and more aerodynamic), and then Louise saw the light start to cover her familiar.

The light then released a single blinding flash which lasted at least ten seconds along with a strong gust of wind, then the light started to fade and the wind died down, and what Louise saw left her shocked and her jaw fully slacked.

Her familiar was still there and still a woman, but now her familiar looked a bit, younger, though not by much, and the clothes were changed and the familiars green patterned jacket was replaced with a dark blue jacket with long sleeves that had a hood, had what appeared to be a gray undershirt that was almost skin tight, and both had special holes in the back to allow the strange metal wings (well, they sort of do look like wings) to fit through, the cloak split at the center and looked like large black blade-like wings pointed straight down(though only roughly in shape and nothing else), and the pants were a sort of blue-gray color and were long and the familiar had boots that were not as rugged as before but looked like they were made more for the purpose of going a long distance, but then she saw her familiar again.

She did a double take so hard something in her neck popped, her familiar's hair had turned from black and now the hair on her familiars scalp was dark silver, and at a middle point on her familiars head was a point where the grey became lighter and the rest of the hair from the line that signaled the center down to a little past the shoulders, was a nice white color, and then her familiars eyes which once were gold, now shone a sort of dark blue color yet still had the same shine as before.

"Well, that was … interesting," said a rather shocked and surprised Professor Colbert, who oversaw the whole ritual, and then he looked at the runes on the woman's hand, "I must say these runes are quite interesting, I have never seen anything quite like them before."

He then straitened up and said, "That concludes the ritual, everyone may return to the dorms with their familiars," he said.

Everyone else was still in shock, they had seen a person changed during a contract, but they quickly snapped out of it, and then said:

"Even with that flashy summoning, you still summoned a commoner, Louise."

"Yeah, you will still be Louise the Zero no matter what."

"Yeah, she'll be a Zero no matter what, right To-, huh, Tom. Where did you go, oh well?"

Louise heard the last one and immediately shuddered, remembering what had happened how the creature had turned them to nothingness and removed her mouth, how it did practically god-like things to her while she could do nothing.

Then she saw as the others levitated away, and were soon gone.

I followed the girl after she told me to follow; now understanding what she was saying and saying I was apparently her familiar, or basically her partner in life, and that I had to listen to her orders and other such things.

At least my pack made it through okay, I had to pick it up from, the ground and found everything inside.

Including 'It'.

The large book I have in the pack, filled with everything about the monsters, the Chimera.

I will never let the book go.

"Okay, now what do I do with you,' she said as she arrived at her room, looking at the silver/white haired girl, "you can understand me at least right.

The girl nodded.

"But I can't understand you."

The girl nodded again.

"Great, just great, hmm, I think there is a spell that I may know," she then started to chant a spell, and then, in my eyes, where the Chimera forcefully inserted a sort of Heads-Up-Display or HUD, and it registered an energy buildup, then the energy reacted as the girl brought the wand down, and I was hit by an explosion, but due to the cybernetic enhancements in my body, and the strengthening of my muscles via Chimeran physiological enhancement.

"Wow that is going to hurt in the morning," said the girl.

"I understood that," said Louise as she stared in awe at her success.

"And I understood that, and that is going to sting for a while, a long while," said the girl, "well if what I heard is correct, I am to be what you call, a 'familiar', and be your partner, correct."

Louise nodded.

"Well, I guess I can be of assistance, by chance I heard that your name is Louise, but the rest of your name I could not catch," the girl said.

Louise got a dark red blush and said, "How dare yo- I am Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, from the noble house of the Valliere's, how could you a simple commoner, not know of me."

"Well, I believe that the first reason is that I m not from this world," I say to the girl.

"What, what do you mean," she replied back.

"The first is that where I am from, the sky is pretty much completely covered in clouds and is snowing year round, with no end in sight," I said.

"Eternal snow, you must be kidding, anyway I have told you my name, now tell me yours," she said.

I had thought long and hard about that, my original name was Juda Tarrel, and I had an American-Japanese ancestry, and when I was younger my mother said that if I had come out a girl, she said she had a great name for me, and that name was -….

"Sakuya, my name is Sakuya Tarrel, Mistress Valliere," I said.

"Okay Sakuya, I am going to bed now, and your bed is there," Louise said as she pointed at the bed of hay, "and I will have no complaints from yo-."

I had already fallen asleep on the hay by the time she was finished talking, dead asleep and snoring lightly.

Louise's eye was twitching, her familiar no asleep completely.

"This stupid familiar, to fall asleep on her master like that, why I'll," then Louise noticed her familiars face.

Beneath the eyes of her familiar, the skin was on the verge of being black, a sign of great exhaustion.

Louise saw the girl was now in heavy sleep, not even looking like she would get up anytime soon.

Louise finally decided to go to sleep as well and soon she got her clothes off, and got her sleepwear on and soon fell asleep, and dreamed.

Dreams …

Louise felt a shudder, then another, then she heard a whine and a distant sound like thunder.

Then one massive shudder jolted her awake and she looked around.

She was in a sort of cavern on a small bed, and she found herself wearing a sort of uniform similar to what her familiar was wearing before the transformation.

"Tarrel," a voice said, and she turned to see a large, well-built man standing by the door in a uniform of the same type, then he said, "get your ass in gear, we've got Chimera coming in from all directions and need all the help we can get, get to the armory for your weapons."

Then Louise felt herself nod and then looked at a mirror, and saw herself, though a bit taller and with shorter hair, and realized that she had been changed, and she realized she was reliving her familiars memory, as herself.

Then she felt herself put on some rugged boots and soon ran out of the room.

She saw it all, it was an entire underground community, with countless room having been dug out of the walls, crevices, and also into the floors, where ladders were, strange glass spheres that glowed with a warm light all suspended by a sort of long metal wire, and many people, men, women and even young children went to and fro, all going about their business, and she then reached a large room.

There was an intense boom and she cringed a bit from an explosion that erupted in the middle of a large expanse, and then looked to see the rows of people, some in uniforms, others in what looked like regular commoner drabs, though made for the purpose of keeping out the cold, and she saw them with similar strange rifle-like weapons that she saw on her familiar.

She saw as the squeezed a small ring like area where she saw sort of metal pulling device, and then she shuddered as when they pulled, the end of the rifles erupted into a continuous stream of fire.

She had always thought that rifles in her world were a rather useless weapon, for while they could kill at a distance, the worth of magic was far greater as it can be used much more and had far more destructive potential, but those thoughts slowly faded as she saw the weapons fire continuous amounts of bullets into what she saw as target dummies, watching with fascinated horror as the bullets tore into the target, ripping the dummy to shreds in an instant, and all of the dummies had a sort of monster like face drawn onto them, the power of the weapons was fascinating.

"Hey Tarrel, over here"

Louise turned to see a man standing behind what looked like a thick glass window, and behind him were multiple types of weapons, large and small of many varieties, some of which looked very strange and unknown to her.

"Guess what, I finally got the Bullseye fixed, damn Chimeran tech, always difficult to work with, anyway here, give it a try," he said as he laid a strange, and very intricate looking metal rifle in front of her.

She picked it and saw the side and understood the language, and it said 'BULL'S-EYE Mk. III and Louise walked over to a low wall, and then put the butt of the strange weapon on her shoulder, lined up the target and squeezed the trigger.

Instead of the metal bullets fired from the other weapons, countless spheres of red light shot out, and blasted the target into a burnt and unrecognizable pile, then several other targets came up, and she blasted them the same way, the sheer power of the weapon awe inspiring.

Then a target appeared and the man said to use the weapons 'Alt' fire, and then Louise felt her arm move along the Bull's-eye and hit a button near the bottom of the gun, then a line of energy was connected to the target, the line starting from beneath the barrel of the gun and ending at the target, and the she turned the weapon completely away from the target, the line curving as she turned, and then she fired, the spheres following the line all the way to the target, striking it until it fell apart, and the thing fell apart.

"Allright, now let's see your skills with the Magnum," and he gave Louise a pistol type gun from the rack, and Louise then aimed at the head of a dummy, and fired, the round was a regular yet large bullet, but it was glowing, the bullet was glowing, and when Louise fired the other bullets, she found they glowed as well, and the dummy had eight glowing bullets inside of its body.

"Try the 'Alt' button, and watch the fireworks," the weapons maintainer said.

Louise saw a button on the gun, and then she pressed the said button.

The lights from the bullets flashed very briefly, and then the dummy …

…. EXPLODED!

Louise felt a shudder go straight her at the power the weapon had, and then she was called by a person in a uniform, and told her that they were going out to check a Chimeran patrol that was going to come through the town.

Louise entered a tunnel, ran down the whole thin, following the person in front of her, carrying a more sleek and streamlined version of the rifles she saw the others carrying, except the weapon didn't have the larger gun barrel beneath it.

They finally got to the top, and then moved to a window, and Louise looked at the site.

Then and there, she realized why, why her familiar did not speak more about where she was from.

She saw through the window of the decrepit and aging building, what is, or was, a town, buildings that looked like they were home to many small businesses and services, places that appeared to have once been eateries that served the hungry masses, buildings that looked like they served as homes for common families, and streets of grey going to and fro, where it appeared strange, metal, self-powered carriages called 'car's would go to and fro, taking people where they needed to go, and she also saw what would amount to a play area for young children, almost seeing in her familiars memories the happy faces of children as the frolicked and played and had fun, while their parents would watch as their children enjoyed their gentle lives, growing up in happiness and safety for years to come.

Now, no more …

Louise now gazed upon the crumbling and decaying ruins of the once nice town, many buildings were either starting to fall apart or were already crumbling, many bore the scars of battle, with many buildings looking like they had been practically blown apart, were completely destroyed, or were collapsed into the craters they now were, the streets were no either cracked from the weeds sprouting through the cracks, or were completely torn open from what appeared to be an intense battle, the cars were now only burnt out husks, many now laying completely in pieces everywhere, and the play area, was now rusted over and in many stages of complete decay.

The sky itself, Louise could only see a dark grey, with some openings that only revealed a lighter grey color, making it a true scene of dreariness and sadness.

"Everyone get down, their coming," said one of the people in the building.

Louise was soon below the windowsill, and was looking over the edge of the frame.

Then she heard the marching of multiple individuals, and also something big was with them as well.

She stayed, looking over, and then saw one of them come into view.

Her blood turned to pure ice as she saw it, the monster.

It was a bipedal creature, with large jagged teeth in its very large mouth, skin that looked pale to the point that it should be on a corpse, and it had strange devices on its back as well, similar to her familiar, though nowhere near as elegant, being more block-like in structure, had some armor on it and wore dark black long pants off a rugged make, as well as boots to match it, and its eyes, its four eyes glowed a piercing gold as the creature watched, and Louise saw its weapon, and immediately looked from the weapon the creature carried to her own.

They were the exact same.

Then the creature moved off and others of the same type followed behind, then Louise saw what was making the large rumbling steps.

A large, four legged, insect-like, metal creature that appeared to be some type of very terrifying golem walked by, the large head darting to and fro, looking for an enemy to kill.

Then it stopped, and Louise's heart was thumping so heard she herself could not believe she wasn't having a heart attack.

Then she saw a metal, box-like structure come up on one side of the metal spider, and then from the metal box, four strange rods burning with fire lanced out at a building across the way, and when they hit …

… the whole building was blown to pieces in an instant, the blast turning a two story building of bricks and mortar into a small heap of dust, ash and debris in an instant.

Louise saw this, saw the world her familiar came from; her familiar had to live in this world, in a world where her familiar had to hide from these creatures, these monsters, these ….

CHIMERA

Louise's mind went to black, and she went into an actual sleep, having seen her familiar world, a world no controlled by monsters, monsters using powerful weapons of types beyond anything she could ever imagine.

She had always thought her life was worse, that being unable to do magic, and bringing dishonor to her family made her more miserable than anyone alive.

What she saw in her dreams of her familiar silenced those thoughts, and the words of the powerful creature now started to make sense to her.

Tomorrow, she would ask her familiar about her home more, about what her home was really like, but mostly, she would as about 'them', she would ask …

… about the Chimera.