God's sword Chapter 6, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 6

God's Sword

Helltanz's notes: Lelouch is back in this installment of God's Sword, also Kaguya shows up

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass understand?

Chapter begin

Kaguya looked over the most recent intelligence dossier, and assorted reports from the United Nations Black Knights, and really she couldn't say it was good news. Gas it stood German Uboat Carriers were getting extremely active in the Atlantic and the Block II Plato Air Cruisers had also been spotted being far more active than was normal; or reassuring. China's own military was remaining where it was, with the detachment of Leung Tan for the UN Conference already approaching Tokyo Harbor.

Still, Kaguya mused closing the folder with a sigh, it didn't change the fact that now it looked like China's most likely course was to stay out of the coming conflict, or worse side with Lelouch when the time came for lines to be drawn on the map.

Militarily China's lack of support was more of a blow to morale , but the potential loss of a major industrial power like China would be a real blow to the economy.

In any event the Black Knights were currently operating under the assumption that Lelouch would seek to disturb the upcoming conference. A rock shattered a window in the distance and the Supreme Council's chairwoman sighed again, the protests were getting worse here in Japan and the conference hadn't even begun. Ogi had even already tried to upgrade the city's alert status because someone had tried to smuggle a Burai inside the Settlement; not that the outdated frame would have been able to do much to the 20 ton New Day Knightmares employed by the Black Knights these days. Right now the protests had yet to spawn any major incidents though it was probably only a matter of time until something went wrong at home or abroad.
Ogi was concerned that the riots could be used to mask Lelouch's movements, which was admittedly a possibility and was also complaining about Britannia or more specifically the launching of the Albion with regards to security . The defenses were being split into serperate task force groups so one attack, short of the use of FLEIA weapon, couldn't wipe the defenders out. Kaguya sat down and reopened the folder shivering briefly. Lelouch was up to something in India. Right now the country was preparing to hold elections and both major parties, those who represented, each, normally about thirty five percent of the population were deadlocked, but from current polling the conservative party was looking to be more popular, and they stressed remaining uninvolved. Right now India's current administration was relatively moderate but that was better than nothing.

Tokyo's defenses should have been sufficient to deal with the threats posed to it, in theory the UN Army would be able to see any threat arrayed against it in the case of an army and security was stringent enough to protect against most small threats. NO on had ever expected Lelouch to be an issue and never mind for him to have the ability to deploy directly to the surface from orbit. Ogi was keeping his plan close to his chest for the time being, but what he had explained was the Black Knightes were going to maintain stringent patrols over the city and checkpoints beyond the usual would be in place.

Any chance of asking for outside assistance was out, this was just due to the possibility of infiltrators and Ogi was already complaining about Britannia's demands, and the Knight of 4 and her unit. He wasn't the only one complaining about their former occupiers.

The primary representative of the EU had been harassing her secretary about the Albions launch. Unfortunately at the same time Britannia's envoy had shot back that the EU's military testing in Britannia's air space could be construed as an act of war. From there the EU envoy had blamed the Black Knights, and it was to their briefing that Kaguya was about to head over to.

Kaguya admitted she didn't like the Albion or the fact Britannia was building several of them. In fact if anything she saw the air battleships as a step toward further destabilizing the already brittle peace, but at the same time she didn't condone the EU's test of the new Knightmares.

By the time she arrived at the ready room on the thirty second floor of the UN Headquarters Ogi was already up at the podium. Dossiers had been placed in front of each of the seats in the room, most of which were already occupied.

Even though she had grown into a strong young woman Kaguya still inched away from the Knight of 4, who had in truth always scarred her more than al ittle, and the woman already seemed angry.

"We've received confirmation from Britannia," Tamaki announced as he came barging into the room, "Orange is off the grid, likewise is that little tyke bomb the ex knight of six," He stated, "Chances are the big man's going to be making his move soon, as it is chatter us up substantially across the globe." The Original member of the Black Knights moved hastily to one of the computers and brought the main screen up to display the latest situation reports. "Lelouch's operations are way bigger than we were expecting and well," Tamaki paused showing a bit more tact than usual of him, and given the situation it was understandable, as he gestured to the screen, "Each of those highlighted areas indicate major radio traffic over lapped with known areas of Lelouch sympathizers." He informed them explaining the map that had been brought up on the central screen, "South America, this area in particularly is considered a real potential problem as we think from decrypted communiqués not only is there government support," At this the Britannians bristled in annoyance, "But Lelouch has dispatched someone high up to the region," Tamaki collapsed into a chair; they'd been monitoring heavily communication using druid systems and they still were only picking up bits and pieces from communications made, intentionally, on older equipment.

Ogi cursed, Britannia was not just going to let them march into South America to find Lelouch sympathizers. Britannia as it stood was rife with them as it was.

All of a sudden the screen cracked with static as the map began to dissolve, startling everyone in the room. Lelouch stood, rather the screen showed Lelouch standing, "No doubt you've all noticed that things arent' going as to your hopes," He remarked as if nothing at all was the matter. "This is a warning, the United Nations is an ineffectual group of beuracrats unable to maintain peace, and on unable to insure the safety of the masses, do it,"
Everyone blinked frozen in shock at the abrupt imperative from the immortal emperor, and then a few jumped for cover. It was a pointless exercise, the command hadn't been for an attack, and the imagine flickered and was gone.

"He just transmitted the files about a base in West Africa," Tamaki explained, "according to this its been producing the machine parts we've been looking into as of late."
Ogi stared, what was that cocky bastard up to.

Kaguya stared at the blank screen, before she regained her senses, "Get the supreme council together now," She snapped, Lelouch had just handed them a tidy piece of information but there would have to be a price.

"Err… yes mam," responded one of the black knights hastily standing up from his place at the table still shell shocked.

High above them Lelouch smirked as he watched them scramble from the camera feeding live footage to him. The UN might throw itself at the EU facility, and it might not it didn't matter. What did matter is that it would however startle thepm to know he could broadcast signals through their own network. He'd let them know about South Armerica and the MEF, because they couldn't do anything about that, not without playing into his hands.

Back at the UN headquarters Kaguya was furious Lelouch had probably done this to show he could make them dance to his tune whenever he wanted. Instead of sharing information he could have easily used a FLEIA warhead to wipe them out. Lelouch was handing them information while giving a demonstration of power and slapping them all in the face. If he was able to get into their computers then could broadcast a message to the entire world at his leisure.

The supreme councilwoman frowned, she definitely need to talk to Nunnally about her brother being alive not to mention announce it to the world before Lelouch decided to make his move. "Does the EU have an explanation for this?" Much as she wanted to focus on the genius, they couldn't leave this information unattended.

Degaulle wasn't even flustered, "Britannia and the Black Nights left us no choice," He remarked evenly, "Their actions left us no choice but to develop newer more advanced weapons to insure our safety. We had every intention of announcing this." His words were truth, and there was even a hint of smug pride in them.

"Your preparing for a fight," Hissed the Empire's usual envoy to the UN, "No doubt your idea of announcing it would have been during a cowardly sneak attack,"
The Frenchman smiled condescendingly, "Nonsense that technology was developed to prevent aggression from Britannia and the Black Knights, your Albion launch proves your own eagerness for another war. HE was just showing weren't that we aren't just going to roll over."
Kaguya sighed, "That's is enough from both of you," She declared. Four years of running the UN had given her experience in dealing with this lot.

Britannia's representative grumbled something about frogs and made a show of being sullen.

Up until Lelouch had done his broadcast the EU had said suspiciously little one the subject of Lelouch other than to imply to the UN council that Britannia was probably supporting him, if he wasn't already in charge of the Empire.

"Originally I was going to bring up the MEF's armament program and the potential threat of militants attacking ocean going freight, especially given Lelouch's actions and the level of military build up." The leader of the UN Army remarked.

Kaguya shook her head, "That can wait until the supreme council is convened, Ogi," She stated.

"You cannot blame this upon us, Britannia's development of their own next generation KMFs and the Albion is the explanation for all of this, and if not wholly Britannia then the Black Knights are to be blamed for this state."

Cornelia glared at the First Lord, a relic of her father's time on the throne who had only barely survived Lelouch's reign, "You idiot what possessed you to make such a grandiose and overly dramtic speech," She hissed. The only potential benefit of this whole mess was said speech wasn't likely to provoke Lelouch into attacking the Albion or the Navy.

Thankfully Lelouch wasn't the type to respond to such taunts, and male pravado, at least she hoped that was the case considering the Black Knights leader Ogi was furious over the speech and Albion itself, but then he'd always been against any expansion of Britannia's military.

The Charles Camp however showed no signs of toning down their actions, quite the opposite they seemed dead set on continuing to antagonize the rest of the world. Jeremiah and Anya disappearing obviously didn't help matters either. Reports of a possible high ranking officer of Lelouch in South America didn't bode well either.

"But Princess," Her eyes narrowed, "Your Majesty," He corrected himself quickly, "The EU is clearly arming itself for war."

That was admittedly another matter, to say nothing of the EU's response to the report concerning their secret armament program. "That is a matter that will be discussed shortly," She growled in response, "Guildford will be coordinating that matter, your dismissed,"

The Charles Camp noble didn't argue, much as he wanted to Cornelia was infinitely better than inviting the Bloody Prince back to the throne.

"Milady," Guildford began, "Was that wise the supporters of Emperor Charles ideals are not going to like my presence,"
She knew this would have repercussions as well but it was a calculated risk, especially since letting the Charles Camp run rampant without any chastising would be much more dangerous. Albion's launch hadn't worsened relations inside of Britannia but other actions by the Charles Camp had. Right now she needed to reassure the commoners and Lelouch's noble supporters she was in fact in control.

Aforementioned groups at present were far from convinced of that, and given the events in South America it would only be a matter of time before Charles Camp members began to die there. For now things had not gotten that bad, but parliament had devolved into a shouting match. Lelouch's supporters amongst the house of lords was for the most part apparent, and the commoners knew well who their 'friends' at court were.

"Rochester's gathering today attracted too many people civlilians and military alike," She murmured, "and any act against him will throw up rebellions across the homeland."

Guildford didn't looked pleased at the bitter tone in his Empress's voice, "Indeed my lady, the young duke is a charismatic speaker and is obviously a firm supporter of Lelouch vi Britannia."
The young man was just that, and worse he'd been a student at Ashford and been appointed during Lelouch's reign. Lelouch had abolished the old corrupt nobility replacing them to a limited extent with more qualified members, which was ad because as young as he was the teen was quite prodigious and more than that well liked by the commoners. If he died like Marianne it wouldn't be a thing even if he was a blue blood. The duke of Rochester wasn't the only one clearly supported Lelouch's reforms either but he was one of the leaders. Those nobles were only a small group however but they were well know.

Worse arguably was a lot of industry was under the control of both camps and this industry had been vital during the reconstruction period leading to overflowing coffers for all involved.

The military wasn't exempt from the internal strife that existed in the empire and there were reports cropping up of increasing tensions on the campus's across the empire, but worse the military academies weren't exempt.

Cornelia turned to those Knights of the Round who were present, and made her decisions on what to do. Dorothea was the best choice for a leader in the field, especially seeing as Nonette had been MIA following Lelouch's ascension. Gino was still showing signs of mental trauma following whatever it was Lelouch had done, and that was worrying, especially since what little they knew about Geass indicated that wasn't Lelouch's power, which in turn indicated and reminded them of just how little they did know about the subject.

Of course even amongst those with Geass Lelouch was now an oddity, as he possessed both Geass and Code, leading to a 'mutation' or 'evolution' in his power.

Claudio while skilled both as a pilot and strategist simply wasn't experienced enough to handle these matters, and besides… Cornelia didn't wish to contemplate sending him against the likes of Jeremiah. If it came to a fight between Lelouch and the current regime of Britannia things didn't look well and she knew it.

Still he was a knight of the round as to was Gino and theyh both knew what was expected of them and they were ready and willing to serve.

Cornelia had already begun taking steps to ready the military.

Over the next few months the rest of the Albion-class vessels which had already been laid down would come into service with Britannia's fleet. In the mean time the fleet was preparing for the obviously inevitable conflict.

The Logres-class Heavy Cruisers were still formidable a match for the EU's Plato block II in any event. Cornelia was thankful Lelouch had left the 'advanced' Logres to Britannia as it stood the former Imperial Guard vessels were superior to most other vessels and its shield setup was the basis for the Albion's own particle shields. The Caerleon were still useful in support roles and backing up other warships though to truly change the course they'd need improvements and better weapons.

Britannia's fleet remained the most powerful in the world and that did a great deal to reassure Cornelia even if the EU and UN were still dangerous adversaries. The new preparations would at least keep the empire from conceivably being caught blind by a surprise attack as it increased the alert levels. Of course by increasing readiness it would no doubt draw flak from the international community especially given the recent Albion debacle but there wasn't much choice especially given the EU's new machine and their representative's response, and more specifically his lack of anger, that Lelouch had pointed it out. Never mind the ships had to go through one of the regions where Lelouch's support was enormous which raised a massive amount of suspicion.

Hopefully the increased readiness would discourage the EU from launching an attack and for the time being the UN were to busy focusing on Lelouch and the upcoming summit.

Cornelia had her concerns and for the most part they were all quite valid, as it stood the world was beginning to come to a boil. Each nation had their own internal and external issues and these problems brought the world ever closer to war.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: Yeah things have been strained, yeah lets use that word, so its affecting my writing hence the bit of disjointedness. As for the delay yeah similar issues, and getting used to a new computer.

In any event as of this chapter (yay me) I have officially logged over one million words on ff dot net at present.