Chapter 33
Dark Prince
Helltanz's notes: God damn it its getting cold, makes me want to curl up and sleep nyeh no worries here is another update.
In other news I've started drawing up my after new years update schedule.
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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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Kallen was less inclined now to hate Lelouch, of course he hadn't confessed to being Zero either, so she wasn't his new best friend either. It also would give him an oppurtunity to introduce her and Rakashata earlier.
Cornelia's military crackdown had certainly opened up additional oppurutnities as well as caused problems.
Todoh and the other three members of the four holy swords had not yet been located they had in all likelihood split up and gone to ground a fact, which invariably would complicate things.
Lelouch frowned at his cellphone, he really wished Kaguya wouldn't leave such frequent voice mails, it wasn't like he needed reminding when the meetings were, though her briefings on the positions of the other members of Kyoto was quite useful, knowing who was openly opposing his intentions yes that was helpful.
The Dark Prince surveyed the repairs to the Ghetto they were proceeding as he had planned, even if the Witch of Britannia hadn't approved of the idea, and oddly neither had certain, two specifically, mbembers of the Six Houses of the Kyoto.
It was the later which worried him more given they seemed to be outright opposing his goals, and their was the matter of the Matteis falling into the hands of the terrorists who had been attacking the settlement. There was a high probability it was from those two members which did indicate they were actively subverting his goal. Well he didn't have proof, yet.
His eye hurt specifically his Geass housing one, and the prince wasn't about to risk impairng himself and use pain killers given the recent surge in attacks.
Whatever the case with improvements to living conditions they could hopefully discourage any remaining support for such cowardly attacks.
Lelouch was also confident his two subsequent, those following after their first encounter, meetings with Chiba were yielding progress though from the subtle signs she had had no luck locating the knight of the divine wind, at least not yet. Time was running out in regards to the invasion.
At this point Lelouch however was quite certain Katase was dead, given the situation that had to be the case. This would make securing Todoh's loyalty easier, though the Dark Prince expected Suzaku and the Lieutenant Colonel to end up fighting.
Weapons technology was further along of course he was agaisnt using the pretty much untested systems in full combat, that would more than likely last a few days at the very least.
The Custom Burais had been returned to Rakshata, she had been aparently been working on a more advanced version, with lessons learned from the Guren incorporated, anyway the Type 3F Gekka, they were approximately seventh Generation knightmares, which reminded Lelouch that he had approved the contruction of the MMI 202 to begin after the Kysuhu Invasion mess had been dealt with.
As is it stood the remaining two models would likely remain unbuilt at the very least until spring 404 focucesed on stealth and manueverability while the 505 was more multirole knightmare, equiping systems similar to the Black March that was currently nearing the completion of development for the Edinburghs.
There was still the issue of pilots for the two machines, the prince sighed deciding it was time to retire for the day, he could tolerate so much staring. Philantropy was definetely not his strong suit.
He scowled as the report of trouble filtered in a few moments later, it would seem that the extrmeists didn't like their humanitarian efforts. "Puritans hold the line," If anything this was good oppurtunity to field examine the Mattei and its exact combat abilities in comparison, though more than likely results would not be conclusive.
Lelouch inserted the devicer key into the Edinburgh Command Custom, his machine had underwent some upgrades but nothing extremely signifigant not yet anyway, the main modular upgrade wasn't yet ready.
The Merlin was not totally finished and the Prince intended to keep that particular knightmare under wraps until the invasion.
His machine glowed to life as initial start up finished. The three MSV Particle Shields flashed into existence as the machine emerged from the transport trailer, the particle shields easily absourbing the punishment of enemy fire.
Six Blonde Knives launched out like angry hornets perofating the two attacking machines, that trick probably wouldn't work a second time now that he had used it, the enemy would expect know he had them.
The precence of knightmares didn't reassure Lelouch they hadn't brought heavier equipment along. He surveyed the new Japanese Mass Production machine vissually it was similar to a mix of the Sutherland and the Gloucester at least the main body and the machine's legs, though the arms had blocky shield like plates of armor to help with defense against Melee weapons, the head vissually resembled the Burai though it had two heavy communication anntenae.
Lelouch's Edinburgh skidded backwards to avoid the revloving chain blade sword. He flicked a switch releasing the right MVS katar. The High Frequency Blade sheered through the heavier armor. Three and not a scratch how disappointing. Had the prince proceeded to dsiengage the optimized knightmare he would have regretted it as Raikou opened fire.
The leader of the Black Knights cursed if anything would get Cornelia's attention it was probably this.
Green Shields flared into life absorbing the armor piercing shrapnel, he grimaced as one of the leg armor pieces sustained damage. Though it did explain why the limited numbers, the Mattei while newer was really an optimized Sutherland why risk killing your own people so send in less troops and its like shooting fish in a barrel when you have a linear cannon on the scene, "Find it and blow it up." He ordered maintaining his composure. A dozen 553 millimeter missiles ripped through the air towards the 'sniper den'.
Seventy six millimeter Linear cannons were not meant to function as dedicated Close in Weapons Systems.
The Black Knights had been underestimated. "Final sweep confirms all hostiles neutralized,"
He noodded, the damage was superficial thanks to the particle shields the composite armor could be fairly easily replaced in any event.
In the end it would seem the Mattei was simply, regardless of the variant like fighting a slgihtly upgraded Sutherland. Lelouch slouched against the chair as he returned to the transport.
As it was Merlin was almost ready. Once it was deployed it would be able to break veritably any current military encryption, communication's lines would be opened like floodgates.
With it enemy positions and movements could be relayed at real time levels meaning that Allied forces could set up ambushes on a much higher level. This was the pinnacle of electronic warfare.
The army were not the only ones who had been disorganized, and up until the mess at Narita Cornelia had been quite successful in dealing with the more established terrorist groups.
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As it stood there were issues with increasing the security on the rail way system. At the present it was a very low priority. The prince was well aware Britannia didn't have the manpower to police them properly.
He had taken advantage of the stystem for the past two years the addition of his Geass had simply accelerated his timetable of operations.
The Japanese were a proud people but they could be depended upon if the Chinese gained a foot hold and if they received some form of populopus support, it would be possible to withdraw and to fortify Hokaido for Black Knights at least, and from their rearm and prepare for counter offensive.
Britaania could in theory hold the Kanto region saturating the forces present in that region. While Kyoto obviously could hold the Kansai block.
That was with the current disposition of forces how a defensive war would be fought, that factor which could change fairly quickly.
He had met with Chiba previously before he had gone to supervise the Ghetto humanitarian aid. In his his own opinion that had gone quite well there was still the issue with being a britannian but he was certain he had made a good first impression.
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Lelouch's current mask was of a distinct venitian fasion, though the eye were his Geass was held had violent red line across it, and of course as with 'Zero' his also drew remarks.
"Geez you guys like your headgear," Remarked a member of the Osaka group, as he surveyed the prince's appearance.
He inclined his head, "Yes well my own serves another purpose besides looking mysterious," He said in a jestful tone, as the Thorian Edinburghs emerged from their transports. "Attacking directly will cause the hostages to be lost,"
"Yeah," The man admitted, "We also don't know where they are being kept either," The man was obviously troubled by this turn of events, and the probably his pride was hurting a little bit given the situation.
If not for the importance of… The Osaka group had been among those who had been encouraged into further action by Zero's emergence.
Securing their allaince was amust so as to not only set a prescedent, but also to reinforce their numbers, Japanese freely participating independent of Britannia would discourage supporting the sham government that the Chinese High Eunuchs would try and set up in Kyushu.
None the less the Dark Prince disliked the idea of having to meet with the members of the syndicate in order to capture them though given the situation he would have little choice but to arrange the meeting, and then proceed with the plan.
After that part of the plan had been dealt with they could eliminate the whole of them lock and stock, and that would be the end of the matter.
"We'll go ahead and arrange the meeting," Lelouch stated, "Once we have secured the abducted we'll commence extermination of the criminals, until we've set everything up try not to engage the enemy, your Knightmare reserves are currently not in the best of shape,"
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man frowned, "So were supposed to do nothing while these people are
out there breaking the law, and exploiting innocent people."
"Do
think," He chastised "what happens then they do extort
'protection' they'll take it out on those do not have the
capability to defend themselves." Lelouch took a step back from the
group, "Can you at every moment insure the protection and safety of
your citizens guard from any reprisal that may come, for now we must
wait."
In any case soon Rakshata would be fixing up the Guren's radiation arm and thus they would be able to have the machine in peak fighting capacity. This would allow them to have something to counter the Lancelot if Suzaku involved himself because according to him the Black Knights were self serving egotistical vigilantes who should have if they wanted to change the system should do it from the inside.
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"Lelouch," The red greeted rushing up beside him.
The dark prince smiled genially in return, "You want to know more about the preparations, for Osaka or perhaps the Chinese Invasion of Kyushu, or perhaps the new equipment we've been developing." The elevator opened, "We'll be operating with mixed ranks during the Kyushu of Invasion, that means Britannia's Military will that be a problem?"
"I can handle that," The Half Britannian stated after a moment "given the situation, its not something that will be a problem."
He nodded as he pressed the down button and the elevator began its descent. "Good, we can ill afford to have to worry about that given the fact we will be out numbered by quite a bit. Three factions of this order will be participating, in any event don't shoot at anything that isn't a Gun Ru and there shouldn't be any friendly fire incidents. Hopefully everyone can abide by that."
She crossed her arms annoyed. "That won't happen." Kallen protested, she was trying to act like his revelation wasn't such a big deal.
"As you say," The teen stated, "and that may be the case, I have a meeting with Kaguya later that should let us coordinate better with Kyoto." The door of the elevator opened with a melodic ping.
Built a year and a half earlier the base was a large intersection of the underground network of which the Japanese terrorists used to move about in, a technique that the Order of the Black Knights had adopted for their own benefit. The hub had been expanded to accommodate a large number of Knightmare elevators that lead to the surface among other things.
"This
is amazing,"
The Dark Prince nodded, "You would be surprised
what one can get away with," He remarked stepping out.
Rakshata greeted them a quarter of the way with her own unique method, as typical referring to herself as the Guren's mother. The introduction went well enough at least in the eleventh Prince's opinion.
Kallen may have been slightly startled at first by the creator of the Guren, among the other Knightmares used by Kyoto, and the other forces of rebellion in Japan.
At
least this was going as planned as it stood Russia was having
problems with its middle class. Their protests were around the issues
of the disparity with the lower class, the current Tsar had a habit
of splurging on things.
If things got out of hand to soon Charles
would uses it as an opportunity to 'justify' the invasion of
Russia. This would take a number of things off the table, most of all
it would worry the EU. More than that this would keep Russia out the
ongoing conflict, no that wasn't correct it would bring Russia into
line with Britannia.
The Empire would remove the trouble causing elements there by preventing any further uprising, if this happened Lelouch would have to accelerate his plan. Meaning the elimination of both the rowdy intelligentsia as well as the present Tsar.
Russia's Tsar and his brother in law the Holy Emperor of Britannia were known to have an enmity these days; dating back to Emblem of Blood prior to Charles ascension when both had been young men. This dislike hadn't extended to conflict mainly remaining a personal dislike but cooperation had all but ground to a halt during the Oriental Incident some seven years prior.
This would likely prove to be Lelouch's next thing on his agenda once the Invasion of Kyushu was resolved.
Yes, he decided placing a hand on the computer upon which displayed was a killing machine and its weapons, he would once things were handled deal with the Russian issue his uncle was not fit to lead in this era, perhaps the man's brother but that was not how succession had played out it mattered little.
Nikolai was incompetent and a greed driven pig, so much like a certain French king. Like all proper Britannians Lelouch had been taught to absolutely hate the French and that included the extreme avarice of their monarchy which had led to their down fall for their slighting of the Britannian Empire's predecessors the English Empire.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: Yoh anyway obviously this will not be like R2 the EU war will be a focused part if all goes to plan.
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