Chapter 10

Dark Prince

Helltanz's notes: This story will focus on two parts at least as I am currently working under, the first deals with the events of the first season, and then a bit more political issues in the second part.

If you can Figure out what MMI means very good.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass.

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Chapter begin

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Well this was a fine mess I've gotten myself into, Lelouch thought as his back was pushed against the wall of one of the buildings, which made up the Ashford academy campus. Actually he had expected someone to confront him about this situation but he hadn't expected it to be quite so soon.

"Who are you," she demanded, tightening her grip on his collar, "What about that machine you supplied to Margrave Jeremiah," she hissed.

The prince's eyes widened, though not because of her questions, no he was surprised because a couple of other Ashford students had stumbled upon the scene, which was not something he had expected.

"Is that Lelouch," One of the guys from the academy exclaimed gesturing to the prince pinned against the wall of one of the school's building.

The eleventh prince slumped, this was horrible, being interrogated was fine, in comparison to having to deal with the hormone crazed gossip fiends of this school. "I would suggest a retreat, Major Villetta." He whispered into her ear leaning his head forward slightly.

"What?"

Lelouch snatched her arm, "Do you really want to try and explain this situation to a number of rich brats?" he demanded setting off in run.

"Who are you?" She demanded again after they finally lost them,

The prince scowled, "Why are you so hung up on this?" He retorted.

"Don't answer my question with a question," The major snapped irritably, "you're a student,"
His scowl deepened, as his own annoyance flared up. "Don't you dare try and pull rank on me," The prince snapped in between panting.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Villetta queried.

'Where is Jeremiah,' He thought, "Go harass your direct superior of it if its bothering you, leave me alone," The prince complained before setting off again.

The Major looked annoyed and sprinted after him.

'Damn it, work out nuts,' Lelouch complained in his mind trying to maintain, and failing at it, his pace. He had more important things to do than play hide and seek.

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Lelouch slumped into his chair, it had only been his superior knowledge of the way the campus was laid out which had allowed him to escape. "It would appear the other members of the purebloods are getting antsy," He commented lying back, "Kewell seems to be the jealous type," The eleventh prince remarked, amused at the notion as he looked over the latest reports.
"So it would seem your highness, but they did take a beating from the ambush the rebels set up using the bases own anti air defenses to screen the transports, they really should have suspected it."

"Bartley will get demoted," He stated, "she'll want her own staff," the leader of the Black Knights commented, in reference to his half sister. That was just the way she was, Cornelia didn't work well with others from all reports.

The man nodded, "Second Princess Cornelia's transport will be arriving soon," Three remarked announcing her arrival. "I'm concerned about her attitudes, it could impact our work in northern Honshu.

"Hmm," The prince paused, "I don't thing the traditionalists are going to like her way of handling things," Lelouch remarked, "Clovis is far more of a laid back person, he likes all those fancy parties and dinners, and such," He looked over to his ally, "Do you think that girl CC, is indeed like Nemo?"
"Possibly, though that raises a point," The executive replied
Lelouch nodded, "If there are others with Geass." He finished. "I suppose we'll find out won't we as time goes on, but really what can we do?"

"It would appear that's the only way," Three commented, acknowledging that they had no other choice but to wait.

He sighed, "So about the aerial frame?" Lelouch drawled, "How much flight data are we going to need, not a lot of battles are fought in the air," Not with the sophistication and lethality of modern surface to air defenses. "it could give the order a tactical advantage in a fight, but for anything short of the MMI units will mean significant power drain from the units, if the specs are correct, with out an upgrade even the Z 01 will not be capable of extended flight."

Flight capable knightmares were not something that existed in practice, but it was something the Black Knights had been looking into, namely through the use of VTOL packs which could be attacked to units, but this was something that would built to fly for much longer periods of time.

"Once we get the combat data for the MMI 101 we'll be able to at least make some headway though that unit is meant more for long range combat, hence the six MSV particle shields, and those cannons unfortunately there still is the problem with the erratic fire power." Three responded addressing the issue of the seventh generation frame, "We'll begin working on MVS swords for distribution mass producing them, the Variable Ammunition Repulsion Impact Spitfire on the other hand," He remarked trailing off.
The executive was correct, that weapon was out of the question to mass produce, the particle rifle was simply to advanced at this point to be an efficient investement. Its mechanical complexity was not simply the only thing it really just wasn't that useful compared to mature technology.

While the terrorists loss rate had decreased thanks to RPI 13 Sutherland knightmare frame distribution," The Black Knights could produce their own Sutherland models but that would raise questions, hence why they handed the terrorists the stolen sutherlands, while their own forces used Sutherlands and derivatives produced by the Black Knights. Thus when it came time to explain it Lelouch could point to his own factories as an explanation. "and while some of the terrorists did actually posses military training there were other issues to deal with. The terrorists using knightmares capably might be possible but the VARIS was simply too much of an unknown. There was also the fact of their loyalty still a factor that was indeterminite.

That was also the reason for not using the RPI 999 in so many numbers, well besides production of course, they were simply too powerful just to be given away, besides, he had already said Zero only had limited numbers, of course he had hinted at the 'radical' Black Knight having access to other technology, and the plans. If Zero were to gain a manufacturing base well, he could 'theoretically' produce more Edinburghs for his forces, or so he'd told Clovis.

Well to say nothing of the bother that MMI 101 Cardoc would do to them, especially concerning how the Sutherlands were doing, and how the Edinburghs had fared. This seventh generation and hopefully the MMI 303 Merlin would be even better.

The other three MMI series were merely ideas, blue prints, and that was for now as far as the prince was content to allow them to remain that way.

In time they would probably be produced as would other MMI, such as the 'Lancelot' version, series frames as time went on, but for now they were too costly of an investment to build given the circumstances.

No it would be much more sound to focus on mass production designs, and of course to continue to expand and train new pilots, which was the real issue not having enough machines. Clovis may have been governor of Area 11, but there were some places that other people held power.

The infamous six houses of Kyoto had influence over the terrorists and he and the Black Knights well the island of Hokkaido was the heart of their power within Japan.

Was it odd that he had control of one of the so called 'Home Islands', no not really when one thought about it, Hokkaido had always been sparsely populated at least compared the massive population of Honshu.

After the invasion Britannia had consolidated power and focused on Honshu, where most of the infrastructure and the largest known Sakuradite deposits were.

Lelouch and Nunnally hadn't been the only ones caught up in the confusion of the second pacific war, where Japan had been invaded by Britannia. It was in the aftermath of that war that the beginnings of the Black Knights had first begun to take form.

"Cornelia won't bother with Hokkaido, its quiet there and she's not the type to go snooping just because something is in order. Its the areas north of Tokyo like Fukushima we have to worry about her contesting." The Black Knights hold on Northern parts of Honshu were not absolute.

Three nodded, "Still it would have been better if we could have timed this out." He commented, because hindsight was always 20/20 after all. "Can we contest parts of Honshu with Cornelia."
"No, avoiding conflict is the best choice, if we fight Cornelia she'll want to keep fighting us, because we're strong. Even when we win it won't serve a purpose." It was this fact, and Cornelia's Gloucesters Lelouch wanted to avoid fighting in areas the the Black Knighters were working on long term goals in. "Contact the Red Hills facility in Australia we shouldn't neglect our other objectives either." Japan was important there was no denying that, but the truth was there were other countries in the world the Black Knights had operations in.

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Indeed the Villetta incident had already sprouted rumors, and the green witch was being at best quite the nuisance as well. Lelouch sat on a bench in the courtyard of the campus. Kallen stepped in front of the prince, 'I swear if she asks about that incident,' He grumbled.

"Lelouch," she asked in her 'timid' voice.
The eleventh prince nodded, glancing up at the half Britannian deciding to go ahead and deal with it.

"Do you have a minute?" Kallen inquired.

The prince pretended to think about it for a moment, "Mmh," He responded, "What is it?"

Kallen paused, "About that phone call the other day?"
"Phone call?" The teen responded, closing his notebook computer, she was after all already suspicious of him there was no sense in having the report concerning the RPI 999 Edinburgh, specifically its performance during the attack, out in the open for her to see.

"Yeah you know the one when you and I were in the bathroom," she replied turning her head out of embarrassment.

He nodded, "Uh huh," The prince remarked absentmindedly in response.

"Can you find out the caller id was? I'd like to contact that person again." The half Britannian half eleven young lady inquired.

Lelouch contemplated the situation no sense in lying, "It was a school phone," The prince replied, which was true. "So I am not sure so-" he trailed off seeing a certain green haired witch twirling about under a tree in the courtyard. "probably somebody in the student body."

"Makes sense I suppose," She responded turning her head

'That girl,' He clenched his fist in annoyance,

"Is there something wrong" she exclaimed the last part in surprise as the eleventh prince reached up keep her face from turning.

Kallen blushed and the green haired witch walked away, "Excuse me what are you doing?" She asked, the inquiry slightly muffled by his hands on her cheeks.

"What indeed?" Lelouch responded, unknown that Shirley was getting completely the wrong impression from the scene.

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Lelouch dragged the green haired witch along by the arm, "Are you insane you can't go walking around," He protested angrily. "You were the one concerned about safety," The prince snapped.

"Don't act strict with me," CC remarked snippily, walking over to the edge of the roof. "I never leave the school ground so it's fine."

"Its not fine," The prince responded sternly. "You can't do as you like here, you don't belong," He snapped.

"I don't belong anywhere," She responded in just as blasé tone as she ever used. "Hmm, what's with her?" The green haired witch inquired.

He glanced at the girl carving on the wall. "Oh is she doing it again today?" He inquired

"Again?" CC queried.

"She's going to be marking the wall like that every day because I used my Geass on her to make her do it," The teenage prince stated,

"Geass?"

"The name of the power you gave me." He replied "That's what I heard when we first made contact,"

She nodded, "Your testing how long it lasts,"
"I need to know the specs of my weapon, don't I?" The eleventh prince of the Empire commented, "So behave or I'll try it on you,"

"Would it work on me?" The green haired witch murmured,

"Hmm," Lelouch glanced at her, "What was that?"

She leaned back, "Oh relax, you and I are in this together, I won't do anything to endanger us or our unique partnership," CC commented,

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If this was an indication of what things would like, being Zero and maintaining his 'normal' life would have been hard enough add in Jeremiah and Clovis and soon to be the possibility of Euphemia and Cornelia added to the fray this did not look well, he wondered if we would collapse from exhaustion. Clovis was busy trying to reconstitute his royal guard on top of all the other political nonsense they had to deal with.

Hence as he rounded the corner, though it wasn't just his fault well... The two people collided head on, resulting in slight tussle and a very compromising position.

Lelouch mentally grumbled something about his back before realizing his lips and some one else's were touching, second of all there was a knee way to close to the 'family jewels', add in to the fact that he had face full of purple hair.

"Oomph,"

Fate would have it that Clovis of all people, though Lelouch would admit it might have been worse if it had been Millie, who stumbled upon the seen.

"Cornelia," The third prince exclaimed scandalized, the two separated with all possible haste.
"This is not what it appears," She protested sternly, the second princess rounded on Lelouch, "It can't be," the woman exclaimed, she flushed realizing what just happened, embarrassment quickly turned to anger which was directed at the two of them though more for not letting her know that the Eleventh Prince was alive.

Clovis only exasperated the situation further, stupid blonde brother. "So you weren't having some kind of secret tryst?" Inquired the third prince of the Empire curiously and a little too eager.

"Please tell me that's not a reporter running away with a camera his hands," Lelouch muttered momentarily diverting attention as the three watched as someone ran away, 'This is not how I wanted first contact to go with Cornelia.' However the momentary calm wouldn't last, if it could be called that.

"What did you say Clovis," She demanded irately rounding back on the two princes, after all at this point it'd be impossible to catch the photographer.

The prince scowled, he was also annoyed at Clovis but there were more pressing issues at the moment, "Run," Suggested Lelouch nervously.
"Good idea," Agreed the blonde.

"Get back here," Cornelia barked, to no avail as the two set off at breakneck speed, well at least as fast as a pair of not very physically fit royals could run.

'This is not funny,' Lelouch thought irritably. 'I really don't like this turn of events, and I don't like running.' He complained mentally.

"What did I say that set her off?" Clovis asked.

Lelouch sent him a look that seemed to ask if he was insane. "You asked if she was having an affair with me," The eleventh prince snapped. "and yes I'm aware of how you tend to spend you free time," He interjected, "that doesn't mean the rest of us do the same."

The third prince nodded, "She's mad what do we do?"
"Run and don't get caught," Lelouch responded in a sharpish response, geez this was not how he wanted to spend his day, and besides he still had mechanical tests to run.

"What about Euphie?" The blond prince suggested.

"Yeah and have to deal with two irate women." He retorted, "Do you remember how close those two are?"

"Why would she be mad, we haven't done anything," Protested Clovis.

He scowled, was Clovis really this dense when it came to women, with the way he chatted them up. "Not the way they'll see it," The eleventh prince replied.

"When did you learn so much about women, Lelouch?"

"Your just sheltered, keep running."

"I am not sheltered," he complained, panting heavily.

"Do know why she's so mad at you, besides the fact you thought we were having a tryst?" Lelouch queried.

"Why?"
"Because you're a rather notorious womanizer and flirt," The eleventh prince commented.

"I am not,"

"Just because Father and Odysseus do the same thing does not mean it makes you any less of one," Lelouch responded breathing heavily. The response wasnt entirely fair to Clovis, as Lelouch had the same reputation, but Clovis's reputation did have more than a shred of truth to it.

"She's coming," The two set off again. "Maybe we should take refuge with the purist faction?" He suggested.

"Better idea," Lelouch grunted in response, "ask them to run interference we can lay low until she cools down," the Eleventh prince recommend in stead.
"Brilliant," Exclaimed the blonde prince as they continued to run. "How is she catching up to us?" He asked looking over his shoulder.

Indeed the Witch of Britannia was catching up to the two princes much to their chagrin.

"When was the last time you had any significant physical activity?" Lelouch questioned his brother, really hoping he didn't' count sex, gods he didn't want to know about his brother's sex life any more than the tabloids, and gossip rags went on about it. "I don't do much either," he admitted. "We are both severely out of shape, lets hope she doesn't decide to cheat and use her Gloucester Knights,"

"Don't you have knights?"
He scowled "Not all clumped in the same region, I do intelligence gathering not pure military actions," He retorted, which itself wasn't entirely true. "Find Jeremiah he can get us out of this mess,"

"To the purist faction," Clovis declared dramatically.

The eleventh prince shook his head, all this drama was becoming way too prevalent for his daily life. "Clovis turn," He shouted,

The two princes side stepped Darlton who looked thoroughly confused at the scene, especially the irate Cornelia who was chasing after the two 'boys'.

"Mi lady what's going on?" He asked in a confused tone as the second princess rushed by and continued to charge after the two fleeing princes.

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Chapter conclusion

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Helltanz's notes: so some minor humor, because I apparently make things to serious, and because frankly I think its more than likely Clovis was a bit of a womanizer, and more than likely so is Charles to an extent.

As for Suzaku will pretend he meets Euphemia and he gets sent to Ashford, whether I right that may or may not happen.

For the other three Seventh Generation frames, I have the ideas for them, and at least one of them, Li will get that one, the prototype (Cardoc) I don't know off hand what will happen, I'm adverse to blowing it up anytime before the equivalent of the season one finale, which will be significantly different, in a sense.

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