Dark Prince Chapter 17, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 17

Dark Prince

Helltanz's notes: So we're clear Lelouch has every intention of becoming Emperor, lets face it lets him complete his goals.

Which are defeat his father, find who killed his mom, and have Nunnally live in a better world.

Another thing we should all be glad it wasn't some other area Lelouch was exiled to, say one that accepts suicide bombers as an acceptable method of fighting the opposition then his geass would be really frightening in that situation, chortle, Iman Lelouch, anyway strange ideas for stories aside onward.

As for Australia I made it industrialized, since we've seen next to nothing about it in the series other than its apparently neutral and Mao has a house their.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass.

Chapter begin

"The Day was August tenth, of the year two thousand ten of the imperial calendar the Holy Britannian Empire had just declared war up on Japan. Confronted by Britanian's newest weapon the formidable Knight Mare Frame Japan fell to its enemy in less than a month the conquered nation was stripped of its freedom, its rights, its culture, its dignity, and finally even its name was taken away. Eleven the name of Japan and its people was replaced with a mere number."

Lelouch was quite pleased with the progress of the now public Black Knights, and indeed their non public actions, insurrection in Area 18, not that it wasn't going to revolt against the Britannians anyway but now the Black Knights were on the ground floor of the rebellion and were taking control, was proceeding smoothly, White's group was wrecking havoc and spreading the organizations influence quite thoroughly amongst the populous of the region.

Of course if Cornelia would stop bugging him he would have been happier, or that she would stop yelling at Clovis for his ridiculous shenanigans.

As far as Lelouch was concerned his plans were well on their way, with the Black Knights firmly established it would only be a matter of time before he defeated Charles and avenged his mother, and then insured Nunnally had a safe and happy place to live.

Besides for the moment Charles couldn't do anything else seeing as the main Britannian force were still dealing with that off and on war with Europe, and once Lelouch secured the Chinese Federation, or perhaps Russia and Australia well the nobles would not dare attempt to interfere, the Empire did love a hero, but he had to create an ideal world for Nunnally, China and Japan he had decided would be a could place to start.

There was of course restoring the Ashford Family as well, Lelouch was no longer a child if those tepid nobles, since that was who assumed had killed his mother tried anything, well he had heard the Chinese had some very interesting punishment methods.

Speaking of the Ashford Family Millie's mother apparently had not gotten the memo and was still attempting to do it on her own, or maybe it was just pride, the headmaster seemed fine with Lelouch's course of action.

The eleventh prince and Kallen's faction dashed across the roof, as the two corrupt Britannian politicians were making their dirty deals.

The lights went out as planned and were followed up with a burst of machine gun fire to deal with the goons

"You, you're the Black Knights," Stammered one of the so called 'criminal mastermind' behind the drug smuggling as the lights returned.

"Indeed," Zero stated callously as a red dot appeared on the man's forehead.

The stupid Britannian gulped and nearly soiled himself in terror.

"Please don't kill me" he begged pathetically for his life," I can pay you, how much do you want,-"
Lelouch rolled his eyes, disgusting cowards, the Japanese born were likewise disgusted by the man's behavior.

Lelouch was pretending to be asleep people didn't bother him usually if they thought he was asleep so it gave him a chance to think, as if all this nonsense hadn't been drilled into his head as a child by his tutors.

Kallen apparently wasn't used to sleeping in class, and had suitably embarrassed herself as such by shouting the Black Knights in the middle of class; it was stupid.

However at the moment the eleventh prince had more important matters to think about than the fact his subordinate was bad at sleeping in class.

"That's not like you dosing off in class," Shirley remarked concerned about the student council member.

Kallen was embarrassed and mumbled something.

"You could learn a thing or two from Lelouch." Rivalz suggested, as the prince continued to plot. "He's an expert at sleeping in class,"

"Why he could getting away with sleeping in class," stated one of the jocks lewdly, "He is truly a most astounding example of what all men should strive to be,"
Damn you Charles, yes Lelouch blamed his father for ability to attract woman in droves, after all the guy did have one hundred and eight consorts, something that the eleventh prince was sure he could beat if he tried, but that was one thing the master of the Black Knights did not want to beat his father at, he'd just get compared to Charles, not something he wanted.

"He's not asleep now is he?" Kallen asked glanced at Lelouch, as Millie punished the jock, the one would had spoken out first about Lelouch's manliness with a newspaper, who was cowering on the floor.

"I don't know what he does night after night," They ignored the shouts from the other males in the classroom that they had a pretty good idea and that it likely involved some totally gorgeous Major from the military, "But he sleeps through about half of them these days," Rivalz commented.

The EU's offensive along the Al-Alamien border was going to be a problem, the prince thought attempting to ignore the nonsense, it would make Cornelia want to speed up the assimilation of Japan, so she would have to attempt to stop terrorism and drug use, something the black knights would help her with, in Lelouch's own special way of course.

The EU, Schneziel was leading the troops which might turn out to be a problem, as it stood after a year the Black Knights as a whole were expected to have sufficient power to begin action, and that would mean he needed to at least make some show against the EU, perhaps if they moved to attack Area 18, yes that would work fine.

It would also allow him to test the Mass Production series Knight Mares in an actual war and not just Skirmish conditions, presuming the Chinese didn't try something, he might have to do something to discourage them from those kind of ideas, no that might tip his hand.

The Dark Prince frowned, he'd need to make plans in case something fell through.

"Come on Suzaku hold him down," Millie ordered,

Lelouch struggled fruitlessly, "Damn it Suzaku cut it out," He demanded, "Stop it I'm not kidding," The prince shouted,

"Sorry Lelouch but it's the president's orders" the pilot of the Lancelot responded meekly to his childhood friend.

"Yeah like your not enjoying this at all." He retorted as they applied the make up to make him appear more feline.

"Will you hold still?" Shirley asked as Kallen entered the room,

Millie smirked, "Good meowning," The president of the student council greeted waving her uh paw.

"Good morning I guess." She replied "But what is all this?"
"What do you mean? Didn't we tell you its our welcoming party for Arthur," Rivalz responded.

"Sounds like fun," she muttered.

"Well classes are postponed so we might as well have some fun, right?" Asked Millie.

"We set some stuff aside for you to make up for me getting so upset before, take your pick," Shirley said indicating the large selection of cat costumes.

"For me?"

"She doesn't need a costume," Lelouch remarked,

"What?" Kallen responded

"She's already wearing a mask," He commented. "Right,"

"You really are a riot, you ought to be on television," She replied sniffing indignantly like a perfect Britannian, it was rather amusing.

"What do you think miss TV star?" Rivalz asked Shirley,

"Oh I thought she meant Lelouch," Suzaku commented,

"Will you stop joking about that, the whole thing is a huge pain in the but," Shirley stated, "we have been hounded with questions day and night, even in the baths, we haven't been able to leave school grounds in a week,"

Millie looked like she was going to say something but Lelouch managed to slip his bonds and make a dash for the door, before either her or Rivalz could say something.

"Lelouch get back here," Millie shouted, as the dark prince began his escape, "You can't leave the school either," The president decreed, "Romance of the Three kingdoms Lelouch it's the price of friendship," She prattled about.

"That's all well and good," He replied,

Kallen smiled tilting her head at the groups antics, 'Its so fun to think I helped save their lives, ever since we made our big splash at the hotel jacking the Black Knights have taken the world by storm we've become a friend to the weak just as Zero proclaimed we would. Terrorist who involve civilians, an overbearing military, criminal syndicates, corrupt politicians and profiteers, if the law would not punish them then we would,' She thought, 'In the blink of an eye we'd become heroes, support for us has swelled we even have got knight mares for everyone, course none could show that in public because our leader Zero had humiliated the Britanians time and again, he had defeated two of the royal family, and destroyed the pride of the Brittanian Pacific Fleet,'

Kallen had no idea her thoughts would be one day be recorded for posterity,

'There are many in our ranks who wished to know his true identity but if we push to hard I suspect he would vanish, with out him I am fairly certain Japan wouldn't become free again.'

The Dark Prince was hardly impressed, but Cornelia had insisted seeing as she wanted his input, oh and she wanted a tour of the Hokaido facility but he was still being quite obstinate about that little request, especially since he didn't want her to see his new specialist mass production types.

Earl Lloyd was showing off the particle technology he had developed, indeed it was impressive, of course by combining the research the Black Knights had done with power technology they had managed to optimize the technology the improvements weren't much but it help to extend operating time, and the efficiency of the technology.

Lelouch watched as they tested a version of the hand carried Electro magnetic shot gun, a weapon which was used by both the MMI Prototype, the Ector, and the MMI 101, as well as could be equipped to the RPI 999, the weapon was like a smaller version of the linear cannon employed by the Japanese Liberation Front at the Hotel, he had remarked they would just as effective as the JLF weapon had been against the Lancelot if they were used against the Edinburgh, he hadn't actually expected Kewell to want proof, or for Jeremiah to test it, the Margrave was fine of course and the other purist looked like an idiot for daring to pose the question in the first place.

The lab coat wearing Britannian recorded the results; after it was finished he went about loudly exclaiming 'Congratulations', as he was required to by order of Viceroy Cornelia, though he didn't seem to be happy about not getting data for his precious Z 01.

"Lelouch," stated the princess,

"I have not had a Close quarter combat version of the Edinburgh designed, because that's what the regular variant is for," He stated,

"That wasn't what I was going to ask," She responded snippily.

Guilford was glaring disapprovingly at the eleventh prince of the Holy Britannian Empire,

"I have an Idea," Clovis announced,

Oh god, thought Lelouch, Clovis don't you dare.

"Lelouch we can't use the Edinburghs cause their elite and expensive prototypes, that's right isn't it," The blonde asked he received a nod in response. "Well you have seventh generation frames as well?"
"Yes four if you count Zero currently gallivanting off with the Cardoc, and Merlin which is under construction, and Mark Nemo currently deployed."
"What's the other one?" Darlton inquired,

"The MMI prototype currently undergoing upgrade," Lelouch answered, "I do have three designs currently haven't been built,"

"I'm not finished," Clovis protested, whiny that he had been interrupted. "Yes Lelouch and I'm sure they're wonderful, but your right the seventh generations only make a difference in the battles they are used in otherwise their useless," He stated, "Thus I propose an upgrade program for the Sutherlands the objective being improved anti knight mare combat abilities," The prince announced, "And Lelouch can include these improvements to the power system and then after this terrorist problem has been dealt with we can use them against the EU,"

The dark prince would have sighed, Clovis's idea was not what he had expected, that was good furthermore it was actually a good one, from an economic stand point, even such upgrades to the Sutherlands would only help so much.

And do next to nothing against the power of the RPI 999 Edinburghs that were actual Edinburghs and not converted Sutherlands.

Lelouch glanced at the painting Clovis had given him, Lelouch had some talent in art, mainly cultivated by the ridiculous idea of making him a renaissance man like the ideal prince was supposed to be but the third prince of the empire outshined even the best with his finest works, the oil painting was of the Aries Villa.

Time had become strained, even Nunnally was noticing his absences as of late.

Sayoko entered the room, "Lord Lelouch lady Nunnally is asleep,"

"Thank you miss Sayoko," The prince responded, "Please convey my apologies for missing dinner," he informed the maid.

"Yes lord Lelouch," she replied dutifully.

Clovis's idea had merit, in deed it could be used to bolster the Black Knights coffers, as well as the Ashford Family after all with the other military contracts he might have to subcontract out once the Ashford Family got back on their feet, but there was only so much he could do with out publicly announcing his survival and that would endanger Nunna to much at the moment to be an acceptable course of action for the eleventh prince.

He needed to secure a position for her, Charles would no doubt seek to use his abilities for his own benefits by controlling Nunnally, there was no way he'd allow his father to do such a thing, or have access to the technology he had procured, he was sure Schneziel likely intended to use his own seventh generation projects in his own bid for the throne of the empire, anyway, but for now Lelouch needed to plan his raid on the refrain warehouse.

The plan to attack the Refrain warehouse in the settlement was set up so in the mean time Lelouch was insuring the other half of the Black Knights were ready for the other plans.

Though originally inspired by the Bamides, and sharing its rather dull color scheme at the moment, the two seating RAI 01 Dudley was certainly more humanoid than Area 18 frame, its legs, which supported its oddly shaped body, each had talons used for gripped over a pair of treaded land spinners, the four land spinners were for when the machine switched to 'tank mode' which gave it a better firing position and faster acceleration.

The Knight Mare's armaments pair of double cannons on it shoulders and back, several sets of small machine guns mainly to deter infantry and a set of missile launchers, but most impressive about it was the inclusion of a Hadron Cannon mounted in the oblong central body, the inclusion of such a weapon did significantly increase the price per frame, but Lelouch felt it was worth it, the Hadron Cannon would fit it well to living up to its siege role, already four were complete. There was also the arms which could allow the use of hand held weapons.

The next Knight Mare was the aquatic frame, which they would be showing off to the Navy, this was the RMI 18 Eastbourne it was light blue its armament comprised of four forward torpedo launchers and two rear torpedo launchers, as well as two missile launchers, of the 553 mm form. Its arms were some what large as they incorporated turbines but possessed a set of close quarter MVS claw weapons which could be used to mix it up with the enemy, carve through a ships hull or to climb and of course a pair of slash harkens which had miniature turbines, that feature would probably be removed from the final navy one's slash harkens.

Built along similar lines as the Dudley it transformed given the situation, it was amphibious it was unlike the larger Dudley with its limited armament, though it did carry a forty seven millimeter rifle which was stored in the water proof compartment, its was limited by ammunition only carrying three reloads for its onboard weapons, though it was exceptionally faster than the Portman and benefited from the battery technology advancements, and it was resistant due to EM technology to sonar detection and other forms of detection, and boasted higher abilities in detecting the Enemy due to such technology.

The last machine for mass production was the Tiger an evolution of the Chinese non human frame, it was fairly easy to mass produce being simpler than other machines in a way. The machine stood up right on a pair of clawed legs, that were longer than the Gun Ru, they were also skinnier, the machine was faster and had a single heavy weapon hard points on its back, and another two for seventy millimeter rocket pods, its cockpit was a forward protrusion out of a neck making it appear indeed to be animal like, underneath the cock pit was an anti infantry machine gun, unlike its predecessor it had proper arms of which mounted slash harkens another set of which were on the top of the unit. The machine would be equipped with a pair of hand carried machine guns and there was work for a short heat sword.

Though indeed superior to the Gun Ru by several levels the Tiger was quality wise only about on par with upgraded Sutherlands or so it would seem to indicate as far as tests went, though it certainly was faster and more agile than the Sutherland.

General Cao was quite impressed by them.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: Right any way the black knights are working for the public good in the forefront while the other black knights go about prepping to carry out Lelouch's true plans.

Additionally I went a head and got some of the new knight mares of the mass produced type out of the way their both specialist types, Dudley, or the Ugly SOB as someone decided to call it, being heavy fire/ artillery, and Eastbourne being naval Knight Mare.

General Cao will employ the Tiger, should I choose to go about Lelouch killing the Eunuchs via infighting, a Coup in other words, in China.

The three frames are all mass production types with the Tiger being the easiest to produce, and the other two as I said being specialist frames, whether they'll get the 'works' added to them for use by the Black Knights I haven't decided about yet.

In general Combat however the RPI 999 Edinburgh still remains uncontested in single combat against mass production types, if at nearly four times the cost of a Sutherland, besides the Edinburgh is to Lelouch as the Gloucester is to Cornelia, its an Elite Knight Mare Frame indicative of the master's best foot troops.

Cornelia will also get the Glaston Knights to area eleven and have them receive upgrades and outfitting of heavier weaponry, those missile pods, and MVS lances.