Chapter 1-Karin on Earth

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Karin PoV.

A most peculiar world.

That is what duchess Karin de la Vallerie found herself thinking over and over again.

It has been 3 weeks since that anomaly opened right outside of Tristan's academy of magic. This anomaly was apparently a portal connecting to a another world, a totally different one at that. First came that man, clad in black clothing, escorted by people in green and black uniforms, holding the most peculiar of rifles. At first they spoke total nonsense- literally – no one can understand them. When they realized that they attempted to communicate again, this time in some form of Albionian dialect.

Apparently they came from a totally different real of existence all together and this anomaly, portal, connected the academy with, according to their words, one of the largest cities of their world. But the numbers they spoke of people living there…millions….MILLIONS in a single city! That's impossible! But putting that aside they brough up something even more unbelievable- their world has not and never had any magic! Impossible the idea, the claim-heretical!
But be it as it may, the man in black clothing, apparently an ambassador named Kurosaki from a country called Japan , requested that some form of talks be held so that an agreements can be reached by the two countries whole's soil that anomaly connects. After all, with magic you can never know for sure. That portal can remain open, well, forever!

And now here I am, with Princess Henrieta de Tristain and a few of the other major nobles of Tristania ,standing before the portal looking at the swirling greenish-purple matter that made up the portal. We are to go to "the other side" ,in a city called Tokyo, the capital of the country which is now connected with my homeland.

"So it is as if going through a really tight, ice-covered tunnel?" Asked her majesty meekly. The princess was quite young, barely out of her teen years , and yet here she was, handling this complicated and delicate matter. While she was trying to put up a brave face it was quite obvious she was afraid from going through the portal

"Yes , that is the closest thing I can think of that can describe the sensation of going through, but it is perfectly safe." answered Mr. Kurosaki " Well, we still don't know if your magic will not react in any way to the portal, but it is unlikely."

The princess nodded slowly, still looking uncertain despite the reassurance.

I quietly moved next to her and said:

"We must get going your majesty. They are already expecting us and we are running late. It would not make a good impression to be late for our first meeting with out new…..neighbors."

"Very well then" she responded and gently stepped into the swirling mass, still hesitating if only a little.

As soon as her hand touched ,it she disappeared entirely. Mr. Kurosaki went second, and with a nod to my fellow nobles I followed through. The sensation was exactly as the Terraian* described. But he forgot to mentions that including the squeezing sensation there was a second one, as if someone has tied a rope around your waist and was pulling you forward, and doing so very sharply. It barely lasted 10 seconds before I felt the sun on my face again, and as I looked around I had to restrain myself from gaping.

We were standing on a large square in a city unlike any I have seen. The square was designed like a semi-garden of a sort, with threes and flowers around the edges and a fountain in the middles. Around the park went roads , and on those roads , some form of chariots, in different shapes and sized were moving around but the most interesting was the fact that there were no horses pulling them. These people claim there is no magic in this world and yet how can these…chariots if you can call them that, move with something to pull then. But that was not what stunned me into silence. It was the buildings. So tall were they, it appear as though they were piercing the heavens. They were taller then any tower or castle on our world and yet on the outside, it appears as though they were made from glass. Castles of glass….As I was coming out of my stupor I caught the twinkling eyes of Mr. Kurosaki. He was standing to the side, eyes us with amused if the smirk on his face is anything to go buy. Putting back on my mask of Karin the heavy wind, I send a gold glare in his direction, which was rewarded with a even bigger smirk. He then turned to the princess and began to speak:

"Now then, It would be sunset in less then 3 hours and the meeting will be held tomorrow. We have prepared rooms for you in one of hour hotels. We als-"

"A hotel?" someone from behind me , I believe it was Lord Grandpre, cut him off.

"Think of it as a inn. Hotels have different rankings based on the quality of the services they provide, that ranking going from 1 to 5 stars. For you we have reserved a 5 star hotel. You will feel as if you are back in your estates on Halkegenia." Explained our ambassador-turned guide" Now then, as I was saying we have prepared transportation to the hotel. If you would please follow me."

And with that he started moving to a line of immobile horseless chariots that were on the side of the park. While the chariots to which we were heading were pitch black, next to them were standing white and green painted chariots with blue and red flickering lights on the roof. On the side of it there were some strange characters, appearing as if a child was drawing random lines, and next to them, with halkegian letters was written "Police" whatever that means. I assumed it was some form of escort or law enforcement, because, as soon as we went into the car, as mister Kurosaki referred to the chariots just before we entered them, they started moving parallel to us on the road . It was not 10 minutes later that we were standing before another one of the "castles of glass" as I have come to refer to the tall glass towers that made up most of this city.

We got out of the chari-, cars and stood at what appeared to be the entrance to the tower. Mister Kurosaki came out of the car and offered a hand to the princess, with which he apparently shared a car. As they were coming over to our group he began to speak to her highness.

" Your majesty , I will return tomorrow around 9 to escort you to the meeting . In the meanwhile I trust you will find a way to enjoy your stay here for the night. The personal of the hotel have been instructed that you are not from our world, and as such do not hesitate to ask then any question about matters you do not understand. If that would be all, Your majesty, ladies, gentleman, I wish you the best of night."

And with that he turned and went back into the black chariot….err…car. As the car left we turned to the entrance to find people clad in what appear to be this…hotel's uniform, consisting of black suit, similar to the one mister Kurosaki wore, but instead of white shirt it had a purple shirt and that strange object that hang from his neck was missing.

A man stepped forth and in heavily accented Albionian he said:

" Good evening, I will be your butler for the night so if you would please follow me to your rooms we so that we might get you settled." He gave a small bow to us all and a larger to for her majesty alone.

After we went inside the tower, we entered this strange box that apparently was called an elevator or lift and it's usage was to go between floors without using the stairs. While skeptical at first, we all went inside the box, and a sliding door close behind us. On a panel behind us digits started changing, going from one all the way to 35, where it stopped and the sliding door opened. At the end of the hallway, through the window I can indeed see that we have risen up , and if the digits meant floors, by 34 floors. After each one of us were led to the rooms by a servent, I requested the man, which was the same as the one that spoke to us on the ground level, to stay and answer a few of my questions about all that has happened today.

I understood a lot of things from our lengthy talk. To begin with the cars were indeed not moved by magic but by something called an engine, those strange cars that drove parallel to us were police cars, and policeman were law enforcement people who maintain the order in the cities, and that finally the really tall buildings were called skyscrapers, a rather fitting name if you ask me. After that I began to question him about the different items in the room. If I was to spend the night here I was going to spend it comfortably. Apparently those spherical objects on the ceiling were called lights and they provided light at night by hitting that button on the side of the wall. After I asked him about the strange black box sitting on nearby commode , he offered to show me how it works, for it would have been easier then trying to explain. It was called a television, or TV for short, and it's purpose was to show images captured by something called a camera. He took a strange object in hand with many buttons on it and pressed a red one in the corner and the TV lighten up. It showed a hill, and on this hill strange objects that resembled boxes with cannons were lined up against other boxes with cannons. They were moving , shifting positions, each group trying to outsmart the other. While those on the hill were a variety of dark colors the one on the lower ground were all painted like dessert sand. It was easy to determine which were the commanders by the flag flowing next to the tank, as my helper quickly explains. These tanks, were apparently war machines, but now they were used for sport, something called Panzerfahren.

"And when a tank is hit, if the hit is determined to be deadly if they were using combat rounds, a white flag will automatically be raised and the tank will become immobile. The current objective is to take out the flag tank." As he finished explaining I saw another tank, while dyed the same as the one at the base of the hill, was apparently allied with the ones at the peak, because as soon it was spotted among the lines of the yellow tanks, they all turned and the cannons tried to take aim at it. The insured confusion was used by the commander at the top because as soon as the sand-colored ones started turning, the ones at the top came out of their tranches and opened fire. I saw what my helper meant by a white flag will pop out, for 5 seconds after the firing started 1 tank was already out.

Then the tanks at the peak formed into a column and charged strait down, apparently trying to leave their unfavorable position at the top, where they were surrounded. As they passed and began moving away from the enemy lines, they raised a white smokescreen , covering their retreat. Whoever their commander is, he was smart. As the column moved away from the still disordered sand-painted tanks, a part on the top of the flag tank opened, and a person, apparently the commander, came out to inspect the situation. But when I looked upon the commander I could not believe my eyes.

Here in this world…after two years since she went missing. The one person I though death ,no matter how much I hoped for her to be still alive. I stood, stunned , staring at the face of a girl with pinkish-red eyes and strawberry pink hair.

My baby girl.

My Louise.

Now guys this is the first chapter of Zero Commander. Incase my bad spelling and grammar didn't point it out yet I am not native English speaker, and to top it all this is my first fanfiction ever. Actually it is my first attempt to write something at all.

Now on to the story. I had this idea for some time. The story takes place 2 years after the original timelines of Zero no Tsukaima, but all those things like Albion rebellion and all that after have not yet taken place. I am moving them into the future so that I may use them if I decide ever to return the story back to Halkegenia. The characters are the age they are supposed to be 2 years after the original timeline. In GuP it is the time of the final battle. It is important to point out that I have not read any of the manga or light novels for any of the two animes and all my knowledge is based on the animes.

Incase you didn't figure it out yet I am replacing Miho with Louise. Miho is still in the gank with her crew, she is just commanding another tank, for which i have put up a poll.

*-I called mister Kurosaki Terrarian. It is quite simple really. It gives a way to make difference between people from both words and it is not entirely made up. After all the latin name of Earth is Terra and I though it would be lame to call one Halkigenians and the others…well…Earthlings?

Finally I have no idea where to take the story. I had the idea for the beginning but beyond that I have no idea. I might end it in sort of drama way with mother daughter reuniting and returning to Halkegia or I could perhaps have Louise and the whole tank gang going to Louise's home world with the tanks and all. As I said I have no idea what to do. Karin and Louise are definitely going to reunite but beyond that I don't know. I might put up a poll on my page for that or you can simply leave me some ideas in the reviews.

Any reviews, excluding flames, will be greatly appreciated. If I made any mistakes in the sense of canons of the two universes or if I made Karin a little too much out of character please point it out.