Dark Prince Chapter 29, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 29

Dark Prince

Helltanz's notes: Welcome, welcome all to the next chapter, these will start getting more unpleasant for the Britannians in coming chapters, terrorism is not a good thing et al. Any way so enjoy this chapter, expect a Kallen scene next chapter maybe, maybe the one after that, her and Lulu need some character interaction. Which will be more giving Lelouch a right bit of a headache.

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 looked over the campus of Ashford accademy from his bedroom window, the mess at Narita concerned him.

No it wasn't the battle, no it was after the battle, in a battle things not going according to expectations was simply common sense.

For Mao to have shown up no that was what worried him, he had already put Cornelia having been put in danger behind him, or so he told himself.

The only thing the Chinese Federation would understand would be a vulgar display of power, if that was what it took to keep them in line until he could take control. Lelouch had no problems doing just that.

Cornelia's pride would be in claiming the victory though at the same time she would dislike claiming the victory when it wasn't her troops doing the fighting. A show of raw force she wouldn't like but it was something she would understand. Merlin and Skidbladnir, the deployment probably couldn't come at a better time.

That was an issue, Skidbladnir would not be finished in time, taking an incomplete weapon into battle a truly incomplete weapon the idea disgusted him, however it was something they had no choice on.

There was, though of not nearly as vitally important, the issues of things here at Ashford Accademy.

Nina seemed to be obsessed with Euphemia, or at least developing an obsession which was kind of creepy. Shirley was absent, though to an extent that could be understood if it was just the issue of her father. Then there was Millie going on and revealing part of his identity. Beyond that the other major shift had been the division of ideology. Support for or against the Black Knights, in other words. Still the biggest issue, after the pending Chinese Invasion, which was still not known to the general populous, was Mao, an enemy with Geass at this stage could be a severe problem.

"Just to clarify, you are my ally?" He questioned CC.

She didn't even bother to look at him, "Where is this coming from?" The green haired witch questioned.

"The man, Mao, he possessed a Geass which allowed him to read the thoughts of those around him," he propped his chin up on his knuckles. "Is that right?"
CC sat up, "Yes, the form the Geass takes varies from person to person." She stated, looking at him. "In Mao's case he can read the mind of anyone within five hundred meters if he concentrates. If he wants he can even penetrate the unconcious mind." The code bearer stated, "He's the ultimate enemy for someone like you he fights using his brain."

Lelouch frowned, five hundred meters, then the best option was to use a sniper to deal with him, antimaterial perhaps even a knightmare micro munitions weapons system, given the situation using the M9 Svir or the XR 10 Svarog, though the later case meant the use of an Edinburgh, obviously since using Cardoc was out of the question, though most certainly the regular Britannian equipment was also an option. He placed a hand on his jaw, he needed more information on Mao, he doubted the other contractor would give up so easily. "Did he have a contract with you as well?"
"Eleven years ago."

Lelouch laughed, this was getting interested the witch was generally no where near this open with him."So he's my senior, is he an enemy then?" Still plotting the places where he could deploy forces to take out Mao.
"Mao is after me, though he may be an enemy he won't try to kill you."

This was something the Dark Prince doubted, a lot,

"Don't give me that look," Stated the Witch,

Lelouch shook his head, "Not in this situation, he is going to be a problem." The Prince looked at her, "What are the conditions of his Geass."
"Mao's Geass is powerful indeed." She stated, "Unlike you he is not restricted to a certain number of uses or direct eye contact."

The Dark Prince scowled, that was a problem, were it not so serious Lelouch that obviously Mao's Geass was compensating for something. After a minute he spoke. "Does it have a weakness?"

"If I had to choose, I'd say the fact that he can't turn his power off. He constantly hears the chatter of the minds that suround him, whether he wants to or not."

Lelouch nodded, then likely it would be as he suspected best to remove Mao via long range. "We've been over this if I continue to use my Geass then I'll become like him, I'll be unable to shut it off."

"The geass power grows as it is used,"

The dark prince slumped back into his chair of all the complications, this one had to crop up now of all times.
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Lelouch surveyed, as Zero, the Black Knights base. It had taken a little bit of work but nothing to serious. No one would notice not with Cornelia so concerned with the pending Chinese invasion as it stood she'd be focusing on keeping up the status quo.

She expected Zero to keep his head down, which was what Lelouch intended to do, any damage to either side could be a problem as it stood the current state of the Black Knights, and the Britannian Military would need to remain at least at the current levels no losses could be afforded.

"How are improvements coming?" He inquired.

Ogi looked up from the report, "The second squad has gotten the hang of it, we should be ready."
"The Burai is comparable to the Sutherland, in overall combat" The Dark Prince stated from behind his smooth mask.

This was true to an extent the Burai was an optimized Glasgow for the most part. The main advantages of the Sutherland was the improved electronics, well actually more of the fact the Burai did not feature much in the way of avionics, and the Sutherland being sturdier. The RPI 13's advances over the Glasgow in mobility were a moot point when comparing it to the Japanese Type 10R Burai.

"I take it Tamaki has gotten the hang of piloting the Edinburgh?" He inquired turning causing his cloak to rustle.

"Oh yeah,"
"The Guren's development team will be meeting with us soon," Zero announced as he began to walk forward, "We should be able to have the Guren Nishiki restored before the Chinese Invasion," The masked leader stated, "The mission to Osaka will continue as planned, we can ill afford having a distraction during that time."

"I understand Zero,"

The masked leader looked over at the half britanian, she seemedd to be recovering from the emotional damage caused by the collateral damage at Narita, hopefully it would not affect her performance.

It was the last thing they needed right now was more needless complications.

Lelouch in his disguise as Zero bowed in return to the terrorist cell leader, it was odd he had to be younger than Kallen or at the very least the same age. It seemed that many of the young population of Area 11 had chosen terrorism as an outlet.

The terrorist cell wasn't particularly large though it possessed more members than Kallen's group had.

Though their base was, unlike their supply of knightmares, rather impressive in that it was built into a subway tunnel intersecting on the rail road lines in fact they could have searched for days and not found it.

In mean time since they had begun cooperation the group had gather additional information on the criminal group.

What it was didn't bode well.

"Your telling me we need some Noble to help us?" Tamaki ranted furiously, "this is never going to work,"
"Zero can't do it," Inoue protested glumly.

'Ah but I could,' mused the Dark Prince slightly amused, "I have a solution to our problem though it is unfortunate the majority of our Order is occupied," He stated grandly before pointing to Kallen, "We do yet have an option."
"You can't mean me," She all but whined, "I'm only half it'll never work," Kallen said shaking her head,

"What about that noble who supplied the pad?" Asked Ogi.

Zero turned, "Currently amongst the deployed forces, besides that also happens to be another faction leader," he confided, "Since Kallen doesn't feel capable there is a long shot," He bowed slightly, all according to plan, destroying preconceptions was an important step in his plans. "Please excuse me while I contact our brethren. We shall recovene in a week, if that is alright?" The masked leader turned with a flourish of his cape.

The dark prince had expected this turn of events as one that was very likely Sayoko should be able to watch over Nunally and besides she'd have support in the event of trouble, though it was unlikley Mao would have the resources to succesffully launch a frontal attack against the Academy.

"Who do you think he'll ask?" Ogi wondered out loud.

"Remember when Zero showed us the Edinburghs for the first time," Kallen whispered still somewhat embarressed.

"That prince,"
"Now way, a Britannian royal would never get involved directly." Inoue shouted,

Tamaki looked indescived for a moment before he spoke, "Guys if Zero trusts him he's gotta be on the level, remember he did give the Cardoc to Zero." The Freedom Fighter remarked, turning to gesture to the large machine's transport,

"Besides if this guy is supposed to be dead he could be using his death to mask his actions." The blue haired woman commented, "But still this isn't some libertine noble, he's a prince."
"Ah," Tamaki interjected thinking to be witty. "But he's our prince, see he's number eleven and he was in japan before Britannia invaded remember what Lord K-"

They clapped their hands over his mouth immediately before he could blow Kirihara's identity.

He scowled, "The Black Knights are working with Kyoto is what I meant, so obviously he can be trusted, remember Kyoto themselves vouched for him," He reminded the others, this was true enough it was going to be a bother to pull off.

Lelouch meanwhile had steeped his fingers in thought, Roland looked at him from the video projection.

"So what now?" Inquired Three as he leaned back.

The Dark Prince frowned, "We proceed as planned, try and find the Chinese Geass user but we need to maintain the time table. Securing additional forces, as well as public support is our primary objective after all."
Even though the Black Knights had become popular, there were those who resented this change in public opinion Britannians to caught up in the old system detested the idea of treating numbers the same as Britannians to the point crimes targeting elevens had spiked dramatically.

It was likely that the Chinese were making this move because of Zero's activity in humiliating the Britannian military. Thus they believed they could take Japan over with only a minimal effort using the sham of a puppet government.

Though this was not to say that these two facts had not been expected, it was still an unpleasant issue they had to deal with, there was also the opposite side to consider Japanese Nationalists who did not want the coexistence.

The later however was appearing to be isolated incidents, easily enough hopefully taken care of problems once the Chinese Federation had been dealt with. At least that was the Dark Prince's hope.

Katase was either dead or was deep very deep in hiding as no mention at all of him had cropped up, and that kind of unknown was worrying.

There was also the issue of the Mattei, Lelouch got the distinct feeling two of the members of Kyoto didn't like him very much, and they apparently also were at odds with Kaguya.

The Sutherland based machines featured more firepower and heavier armor, not that much of a difference but in comparison they would make better support weapons if it came to a fire fight, the thing was the group which had gotten more than a quarter of the number of the new machines was radical was an understatement.

They wouldn't support the Black Knights, and he doubted they would collaborate well during the invasion.

The movement amongst the Chinese Navy was also concerning though would need quite a bit of transport space to move an entire Knightmare Battalion not to mention the regular troops they would be bringing across during their invasion of Kyushu.

Lelouch watched with a bit of pleasant glee, Mao if he had indeed read his mind would probably try and attack his weakest spot, which was obviously Nunnally.

He frowned, unless having read his mind he knew that Ashford Academy was extremely defensible in which case his next target was not as clear.

It shouldn't matter for today that Sayoko took a day off, Jeremiah was here and as was the fact other security personnel were in close proximity to the school.

He tapped his finger on the console, reports from the EU were trickling in apparently the push on the African front were worrying them enough to possibly develop a new weapons platform if a second front opened along Area 18 with new machines it could be a severe problem.

The Panzer Hummel was an almost sniper –esque gun platform. While it didn't posses the fact sphere sensors it did have pretty sophisticated electronics equipment, equal if not outright superior to the targeting on regular Sutherlands.

Of course in close range combat the thing was a piece of shit, stable yes, but it, with the exception of the two token slash harkens, had no melee weapons, and no way of equipping them.

A flaw which had been corrected on the Wiedźmin.

Exactly, thought Lelouch, and there in was the problem it was a noticeable flaw, of course the EU main line of thinking considered such close range combat barbaric.

Course the Chinese had a similar problem at the moment, course that was more because they solved their problems by smothering their enemies with troops than any ideological issue, it wasn't worth the expense in other words.

The Dark Prince sipped his tea, it all depended on how quickly the Europeans could develop a new, or more advanced version, though there was already at least one possible upgrade to the Panzer Hummel which wouldn't be the hard to implement, all it would involve is slight modification and replacing the arm linear cannons with a higher caliber gun, since as to Lelouch's knowledge the was no progress on the EU's attempt at any substantial Directed Energy Weapon beyond basic chemical lasers, which were useless, well not useless but there about in an actual combat situation. The only other option was an upgrade to the legs of the Panzer Hummel in an attempt to increase its mobility, or perhaps including missiles.

Though for the moment the matter wasn't the principle problem no the Chinese were the key issue.

Suzaku had apparently made friends with Euphemia, Lelouch knew this, because Cornelia didn't approve and of course was pleased to be the first to vent this on Lelouch at the earliest possible convenience.

The Dark Prince straightened his jacket another boring day at school lay ahead of him he hummed a generally Britannian patriotic tune drawing the stares of the Witch of Britannia and Sayoko who were in the living room

Lelouch straightened his jacket and slung his briefcase over his shoulder. "I'll be going Nunnally," He stated kissing his sister on the forehead,

"Have a good day at school."

The concerns of military technology would plague him today even if they were playing second fiddle since he was heading off to class.

Cornelia reached for his shoulder as he opened the door, he stepped outside ducking behind a pillar.

"Lelouch-"
He turned on his heel, "I have no intention of standing and watching from the sidelines Cornelia, Merlin is my machine I will be the one piloting it in the battle for Kyushu." The prince stated, "You won't discourage me from fighting, Clovis should be more than capable of keeping the flank safe."
"There is no reason for you to-"
Again he interjected, "To what Cornelia, not fight. There is every reason for me to fight do you really think the Chinese will stop with just Kyushu? Honestly I'm not a child if you don't go in their with everything you need this will turn into another Narita, is that what you have a problem with,"
"What are you implying?"
"Do you not want me to help because your worried?" He questioned, "I'm not Euphemia I am neither innocent nor do I lack the ability to fight, so this whole conversation is pointless."
She glared chastisingly at him. "That isn't a reason to fight this battle,"
"But it is," He went silent as the current Viceroy pulled him into a hug.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: For all you ninja maid fans scene with her as well will show up in a few chapters.

Yeah, yeah so I ended on a more emotional note.

So anyone have comments, suggestions.