Chapter 21
Dark Prince
Helltanz's notes: Euphie and Shirley?
Lets see the prior will undoubtedly survive since the outcome of Part 1 will be quite different, Lelouch's survival and identity will come out to the entire world.
Shirley well her death was in R2, which in many cases won't happen as it did in canon, wait till the Mao arc and see what happens then.
As for the Harem: Not every woman in the series will be apart of the harem I know what I'm doing in that regard since well suffice to say I'm quite certain things will work out with my present choices. For example Li will get his subordinate person.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass.
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Chapter begin
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"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."
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The Cardoc's air cushion was functioning efficiently enough that Lelouch didn't need to worry about the ground, weakened as it was from the land slide, would not succumb to the great machines weight, a necessary safety precaution.
The area Cornelia was isolated in was stable so he shouldn't have to worry about the ground collapsing but the MMI 101 wasn't very agile so best to boost that stat as much a possible against some one like her, she did have an unhealthy obsession with using close quarters combat against enemy Knightmares, something the Gloucesters were optimized for.
Further more reports were coming of some monster white Knightmare, which meant that indeed it was highly likely either the Lancelot or the Club, was here at Narita.
"Alright," Lelouch remarked "Guren Mark II move to planned point we'll break through the rest of their line, and take Cornelia." The prince declared.
"Right," Kallen responded.
The Burai pilots joined in voicing their agreement with the plan.
Admittedly not everyone was doing as well. 'That's right move swiftly if can survive this battle you can call yourself a true warrior." He commented unsympathetically about the elevens. The recruits fighting in this battle were not likely other Black Knight recruits they had none of the training that the Hokkaido AG underwent or proper Faction members, but if they survived the battle then yes they would be worth the blackened armor they wore.
The forces interfering with his push to encircle Cornelia were nothing but amateurs, it is fortunate that she deployed the purebloods to defend the settlement, the prince mused Cardoc rose emerged from the trees the two pylon mounted Hadron cannons fired hitting the enemy force on their flank while the other two Hadron cannons fired into the center as the Black Knights fanned out to fire on the remaining members of the squadron. 'this is becoming a nuisance if the JLF recoups any further it could pose a problem, and shortly we'll be facing her royal guard.' The Royal Guard the forty dangerous Sixth generation war machines yes they'd be a bother.
"Zero," Inoue stated over the radio, "Cornelia is under attack from down below," The blue haired woman informed him.
"What's that, which team made the move?" He inquired, hmm did I find some natural talent, that would be nice though I'd need to ship them off to Hokkaido for proper training, he mused.
"Its not our people it looks like the JLF." She responded.
The Dark Prince narrowed his eyes, oh well. 'Some one else understands my intent, this may prove to our advantage, they can hold off her Royal guard, just what we need at the moment.'
He looked down at the Heads up display Surge system ready.
'Well I need to make sure it works for the Cardoc, though hopefully it won't bruise my ribs like with Ector did during its trial run of the system.' The prince mused, 'though why they continue to keep the G 1 in reserve is worrying me greatly.' If Cornelia had some kind of weapon on the G1 in reserve or she had additional forces there would be a great deal of trouble.
"Zero," Tamaki's voice shouted over the radio. "You got that white machine coming straight towards you."
'Damn it.' Thought the teen, he gritted his teeth and gunned the machine. The acceleration sent him back into his seat. 'This was a bad idea, oh well Kallen's already in position time to snag the Witch of Britannia in an iron net.'
The MMI 101 stopped at the edge.
The prince fired his twenty three millimeter linear cannons into the wall the princess was attempting to scale, "Can you hear me Cornelia, this is checkmate" He asked in his Zero voice,
She identified him as such.
"Your reinforcements have failed to arrive in time, so surrendering is your only option." The leader of the Black Knights declared. "So why don't you stop your foolish opposition, you're beaten."
"You're a fool Zero," Cornelia responded, jaunting her lance against the ground, "If I take out this one I am free and clear." She leveled her Gloucester's machine pistol on the Guren Mark II. The princess had other things on her mind, Euphemia, and even Lelouch himself…
Euphemia's safety weighed heavily on her mind. Lelouch too plagued her as well. If Zero succeeded then Lelouch would intervene, and that, that would have consequences more damning than her defeat alone. She had heard the reports of the matter of Zero's troops, and knew that Lelouch's Thorians were just as dangerous if not more so, but the idea of relying on help didn't seem well especially after trying to order Lelouch not to intervene in the affairs of the dealing with the terrorists.
She commenced her attack, Kallen easily evaded the shots, and used the radiation surger to destroy Cornelia's lance which was thrust in the half Britannian's direction while the two women exchanged, much to Lelouch's amusement, insulting banter.
The blonde knives from the MMI 101 Cardoc sliced through the customized Gloucester's arm and destroyed the limb and the Knightmare machine pistol.
"Coward attacking from behind." She spat
Did she really expect him to get a rise out of him from such a petty insult, "Really and your own attack methods don't show acts of cowardice." He responded, "I find that amusing,"
Her little speech was of course about protecting Euphie,
Don't tell me she brought Euphemia out to this hell hole? Is that why the G1 base hasn't been sent in? The prince paused.
"As an Imperial Princess I'll fight to the last!" She declared accelerating towards the Guren Mark II.
Really no need to be so dramatic. Lelouch sighed, his fingered the controls and fired another tenth of his seventy millimeter rockets. The rocket smashed her Gloucester's leg. She's so predictable, He humphed in response, "That's enough," He spat, quite certain the Knightmare was now crippled, the ground rattled and shook.
"ZERO!" Roared a voice as the Club slammed into the Cardoc's shields and the Lancelot came out to face Kallen.
'Blasted piece of junk machine,' the prince snarled under his breadth evading the lance of the Lancelot knock off.
The Burais fired on the machine, in a needless attempt to relieve Cardoc's defenses.
"Filthy Elevens," Kewell spat swinging the MVS lance, as he blocked with the MSV shield on his other arm.
'He doesn't have a VARIS,' Lelouch realized seeing the machine pistol. "Mark II destroy that unit immediately," The prince ordered concerning the Z 01 Lancelot. "it's interfered with us enough, I'll handle its friend" The purist had already taken, though the pilot had ejected, out one of his Burais, he'd need to deal with the Club himself like he said.
"Right," Kallen responded charging the Lancelot.
Lelouch was too busy to watch the fight as his Burais were proving bothersomely useless against the acrobatic knock off frame.
"Ogi," He snapped, "Withdraw." The prince ordered over the radio.
"But Zero?" The man started
"Don't question me," The teen rebuked harshly, "As it is you'll only slow me down get out of here and help the others." The Hadrons glowed and collapsed the ground behind the bastard, the Lancelot Club, frame as it leapt out of the way.
Cornelia fired her slash Harkens from behind,
My attack was cowardly then, blond knives shot out and spilt the lesser rocket anchors and sent the Gloucester back in to the dir. She'd better stay down this time or I will be cross, he mused.
Kewell came flying down with the MVS Lance, Lelouch cursed and deactivated the hover system causing the purist to think twice as the Cardoc's full six MSV shields glowed into baleful life around the prince's machine.
Cardoc's massive arm sent the lankier machine careening away. 'There is no way this guy is an eleven,' thought Kewell, racist bastard, as he regained his balance.
"Hah with my Knightmares I can defeat the best Charles can offer, I'll win." Lelouch remarked to himself, as he prepared to press his advantage, finish the enemy seventh generation frame and seize Cornelia, of course 'Lelouch' would have to rescue her almost immediately afterward, good thing 'His Forces' were standing by on high speed rails.
Kallen in the meantime went off the cliff,
"Damn it, Ogi you and the rest help Kallen, destroy the Lancelot if possible," He ordered as he pumped the Club's own MSV shields with twenty three millimeter cannon rounds, and seventy millimeter rockets, from his hip and shoulder launchers, the shields would fail according to specs after sixty seconds of continuous assault by high explosive or AP weapons, preferably the prior.
"Zero we have a problem the Guren Mark II's hand is wrecked we're going to need to fix it." The Japanese man announced.
This did not please the Dark Prince, not at all. "Signal our retreat then, all Black Knights are to move to their planned escape points I'll deal with this unit." He snarled, Cornelia's reinforcements were on their way now, "This battle has become one of attrition, retreat." The prince ordered before forcing the Club back further.
The two units sped up, Kewell using his land speeders to zig zag so the prince couldn't use his Hadron Cannons to rip him a new one.
Two Burais moved away from the Guren and zoomed up towards the Cardoc.
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Two against one, that looked how it would be given the Lancelot would likely be sent to pursue him. Lelouch thought as he fingered the firing controls.
The Club had defeated the two Burai escorts who had elected to follow him, both ejected safely, far to quickly and with minimal effort for the prince to be pleased the battle seemed to be turning against him.
Even so the Z 01 Lancelot had likely suffered some injuries at the hands of the Guren Mark II, which would be useful.
'Geuss its time to stop playing around,' The shoulder Pylons on the MMI 101 Cardoc opened up, the prince had no reason to hold back he'd unleash the full power of all four Hadron cannons and simply obliterate the suroundings.
"Whats that?" Kewell wondered, before bellowing over the speakers, "Hah stop hiding behind the weapon of a spoiled prince and fight me like a man come out here and face me! Face Me!" the Pilot of the Lancelot Club brazenly announced as the cockpit opened.
'He's challenging me,' Lelouch sneered haugtily and accepted,
"Ha so you do have some honor," The purist declared gripping his pistol, he attempted to bring it up.
The Dark Prince was faster, "Die you stupid dog," Lelouch sent a bullet into Kewell's skull without a second of hesitation the corpse slipped from the Lancelot Club seat the man's side arm still uselessly held in his hand by his side. 'That worked well. Now I don't have to worry about damaging the machine when I capture it."
The Lancelot came barreling out of the trees.
"Damn," Cursed Lelouch grabbing the control yoke of the MMI 101 Cardoc.
"Kewell" Suzaku moaned in despair, always one to care when some bought the farm, not that Lelouch heard him, as the Lancelot raised the VARIS rifle.
Damaged by the Guren Indeed the lower left arm of the machine was completely destroyed by the radiation surger's discharge. That was something he'd have to congratulate Kallen for doing that much at least.
The dark prince scowled and re armed the hadrons, now in theory the the calibrations to the MMI's particle shields should be able to block a VARIS attack even one set for anti knightmare combat, however the dark prince was loathe to trust his life to a untested theory, it might have been a different story if he had been secure behind the Cardoc's armor.
CC chose now to make her appearance.
"Stop now," She declared, "Don't even think about hurting him." The gray witch hissed to the Lancelot.
'What is she doing?' The prince thought as she placed her hand on the white knighmare, the one that was still operational. He voiced his question, "What, what are you doing, are you challenging a Knightmare?"
"It's a problem if you die," the green haired woman responded to the prince
She and I are going to have a very stern conversation after this, if she wasn't in the way I could use the combination of Hadron cannons to blow that stupid machine up, and destroyed this thorn and whatever Brittanian Cornelia subbed in for Suzaku.
"It will be in direct contact but It'll be worth a try,"
'What is she blabbing on about,' Lelouch wondered setting the Cardoc to auto pilot as well as locking the Club against the Cardoc. "Hey are you using Geass on him? He questioned.
"I'm just feeding him some shock images," She responded as the Dark Prince walked towards her. "I can't tell what he's seeing though," The gray witch remarked, "Anyway you've got time to get away now.
"What about you?" The masked teen inquired.
"I can't move yet you go first," CC remarked turning her head slightly in his direction, she was trembling as it was.
"Don't be foolish I can't keep owing you favors," He replied, clapping a hand on her shoulder. The prince's eyes widedened as images were transmitted into his mind.
"NO NOT NOW!" The green haired woman shouted her head turning abrubtly towards him. She shudered
'What this is different,' He thought as images of a European church flashed in his mind, CC appeared some where in Japan, somewhere he knew.
"Stop it," She grunted, "Stay out of my mind."
Screams filled his head, black and white images.
"Stop it," The gray witch whimpered. "Why now?"
Her eyes closed, as she continued to shake.
"Your unveiling me," The green haired immortal collapsed clutching her breast.
More images flashed, and the Lancelot suddenly began to move… more than that the Seventh Generation frame began to shoot erratically.
"Whats happening to him?" He demanded.
"Idiot get away now." She hissed a piece of shrapnel from the shooting hit CC in the chest, Cardoc's program activated and fired its cannon sending the Lancelot carreening down the mountain side.
The heavy seventh generation frame rumbled alongside Lelouch. "Time to pull back," He remarked bitterely, a taste like ash in his mouth, but maybe that was just the dirt, his contengencies were in place after all.
He swept his factspheres across the visible field of battlefield as he hefted CC into the cockpit of the Cardoc carefully, the Black Knights were steadily retreating and safely, the JLF forces had regrouped and were engaging the Britannians... it would seem however Cornelia had been rescued though ah it meant the JLF hadn't succeeded with his own plan.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: Apparently Cardoc's popularity is quite impressive.
As for mastery over English my strong point is history not my birth language, even so I speak American English, not the Queen's or Australian, so I would expect there to be some errors spotted by those speakers, but to get to the point if you, any reader, spot something I blatantly mess up on do me a favor and tell me, thanks.
As for Canon following shortly the Kyoto house will meet, and during it and Mao I'll start including filler chapters.
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