Dark Prince Chapter 38, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 38

Dark Prince

Helltanz's notes: Greetings and how is everyone, its another more or less filler chapter, yes I know its getting like Naruto honestly I need to get off my ass, or rather I need to sit down and type up Kyushu. Please just bear with me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass.

Chapter begin

Hokkaido was thoroughly packed full, at least as far as this base was concerned given the immense flurry of activity.

All the people from 'Zero's group' was here of course, as were the majority of the other members of the Black Knights factions or at least their combat members.

There was also the visual projection of Kirihara, who wasn't here in person but was someone that the dark prince trusted enough and might have some form of useful input given the situation.

Something caught the Dark Prince's attention but he wasn't quite sure what it was he knew that some one wasn't present. Now he knew that Diethard was here as the newsman had been pestering him earlier prior to everyone gathering. Kallen he could see, Ogi was beside her, and the rest of that group was clustered in the same general area of the catwalk.

It couldn't have been the lack of Kaguya's prescence since she hadn't been able to make it to this gathering, and the only member of Kyoto he felt could be trusted and depended upon was represented electronically so that wasn't it.

After a moment of going through the varying older Black Knight officers who were supposed to be in attendance and accounting for them, they were indeed all present he continued to survey the room.

Pytor and Rakshata and both their development teams were likewise also in the room waiting by foreground of the raised platform for their technical briefing.

More people were still filing in, so he continued to discretely look around, he knew that it felt like some one was mising, at last his eyes fell on the green uniforms of Todoh's squad.

He counted them off in his head, one, two, three, four and… the prince allowed himself a mental aha coming to the conclusion the four holy swords were one short to be specific the sole female member Chiba was missing, perhaps she had simply gotten lost that was likely it. Lelouch decided somewhat relieved though indeed not completely he breathed a command into his radio, which he activated with a slight touch, unfortunately they could not really afford to delay so he began reluctantly.

His Black Knights here would find her, of that he was sure, and if not Hokkaido was quite safe she would be fine, and in any case Todoh could brief her on what was said at this little meeting.

Standing the Dark Prince made his way forward his venetian mask in place, he wasn't the only masked one several of the commanders had varying styles of them. There were even those glass visored masks worn by Kallen and the others worn by the equivalent of the non commissioned officers of the Black Knights.

"The Chinese Federation in a short period of time will be launching and Invasion upon the Japanese home island of Kyushu." He began, "Diethard Reid," The prince called out to the blonde Britannian reporter.

The man looked positively gleeful at the recognition from the Black Knights leader, he was a clever Britannian to be sure. After all he was a reporter and he had carefullly probed Kallen and Ogi and even Tamaki, he wasn't fully sure but he suspected that the student that Jeremiah Gottwald had come to him about, Zero and now the also masked leader of the black knights before him were all connected possibly even the very same person, truly a wonderful role the young man played on the world stage.

"You will be in charge of the communication with both the general public and insuring the channels of dialogue remain open with the other members of the coalition to summarize you'll be handling the unit responsible for distributing the information on the changing battlefield," At the present the Black Knights had never really needed any sort of public relations, corporate fronts excluded of course, however the Britannian could easily handle such a task after all this was done.

At this announcement there was only a little stirring mostly by people to get a better look at the man though some of Kallen's group were more surprised.

Diethard nodded confidently, this would the chance to show his talents. "I'm honoured to be entrusted with such a position." He responded.

Lelouch nooded and the screen shifted displaying the geographical map of the Kyushu region of Japan, "On the day of the forces of the Black Knights will be working as a part of a greater whole the Anti Invasion Coalition. This combined force will be comprised not only of us, but of Britannian and forces under the juridiction of Kyoto." His announcement even though it was known that indeed they would be working together with the Britannain military and Kyoto it still caused some chatter, "The main force of troops will be crossing the Inland Sea and land the first stage objective is the securing is the securing of an initial beachhead point in the first fourteen hours stretching from Oita to Kitakyushu it is important we hold the Kanmon straight in the event Fukoka base falls to the Invasion, which is highly likely. The Britannian navy will circle around the island in an attempt in coordination with some of our naval assets to deter additional Chinese reinforcements at the same time they will be deploying airborne knightmares and forces to the Kagoshima prefecture. Obviously since the Britannian Army is lacking in this capability this airborne force will be members of the Thorian regiment who will open the initial way for additional landing troops, as part of our agreement with Viceroy Cornelia for this operation Brigadier Jeremiah Gottwald will have field command." The agreement had basically required him to place a Britannian soldier in charge it had been one of the few conditions Cornelia had put onto him for this. "By the time we've landed we expect the coast of Kyushu facing toward China will be swarming with Chinese Knightmares the specifications of which will be explained shortly. Once our initial land groups have come ashore and the area has been forifitied. Kyoto and Britannian forces will commence their own landings."
"So were going first?" Tamaki blurted out in surprise.

Pretty much everyone's eyes turned to face the freedom fighter who shrunk under the immense scrutiny. "That is correct Four custom seventh Generation frames will be apart of our opening landing," He stated drawing everyone's attention back to him, "Our forces will be divided into sqaudrons command of the teams crossing the Kanmon straights directly will be Kyoshiro Todoh, coordination of this site landing and overall command of the Kyoto forces which will arrive there will also fall to him."
The four holy swords, or rather those three present seemed to approve of this choice of placin him in command.

Not wasting time Lelouch continued on, "Kaname Ogi of the Istavanians will be handling the coordination of the landing and fortification set up at Oita."

Kallen's group cheered a bit at this announcement.

After it died down the prince resumed his briefing, "Our objective is to isolate the forces that the Chinese land and then press inwards maximizing the effectiveness of our superior quality knightmares and the Britannian airforce as well as utilizing available naval artillery support in the best manner possible." He stated, pausing just long enough to alter the display before he started once again. "Our first advanced weapons group will engage the first wave of chinese forces and attempt to push them back, this force will comprise primarily our seventh limited and custom production frames particularly the Gekkas, Edinburghs outfitted with the Black March system, the Guren Mark II, Cardoc, and finally Merlin. The second AWG will push south and circle around this unit will comprise mixed ranks including Britannian Elite Units, particularly the Glaston Knights and Palatial Guards." He stepped to the side allowing Rakshata and Pytor to ascend to the fore to give the briefing on the technical parts of the operation, including exactly how they would be making landing.

Lelouch was already aware of this portion of the meeting, of course he would be arriving by air if not by float system than by a Black Knight VTOL unit.

When they found they had lacked a suitable pilot for the Lancelot Club Lelouch had made the decision to turn the machine over to the Knightmare Development Branch especially with the development of the Gekkas by Kyoto. Club was well weaker than the original Z 01 Lancelot, beyond that the machine was cheaper. To be frank it was the first step in the direction of building a mass production type seventh generation Knightmare frame based off the Lancelot.

This was not his intention to do, doing something like that would require him to divert assets to a program that while it might likely yield results would also take resources away from other farther along knightmare development programs.

No the reason for the study of the club was to develop and equivalent to the Gekka to be used in the coming battle. Four of the palace guards, which was a tad on the suspicious side in the opinion of the Dark Prince, from the Aries Villa remained besides Jeremiah of course. What was far more surprising was that his mother had ordered the Palce guards to be withdrawn on the night in question.

In any event these four would be using the machines that were to the Lancelot as the Gekka were to the Guren Nishiki. Though based off both the captured information of the special corp, which included the original Lancelot, as well as the Club the new semi production type would be incorporating other improvements. Like the Club it retained the lance style MVS weapon, Jeremiah had expressed some favoritsim in the weapon so it had been retained, though these lances included two slash harkens, it also had the shoulder mounted factspheres as well as the the arm shields and slash harkens on the machine's main body in addition to a third shield emplaced in the torso. Overall the principle difference was the removal of the armor and replacing it with the standard ceramic sakuradite laced type used by the Black Knights on their seventh generation types. There was the necessary places either to facilitate an over shoulder mounted pair of cannons or missiles, in addition to some form of flight pack in this case float systems rather than the originally planned VTOL system.

Of course for the moment there were other issues which were waying on his mind the studying of his Geass was beginning to gravely worry him, it seemed it was continuing to evolve and get stronger.

None of the others had used their Geass like he had his and now using it so frequently was beginning to have its effects the power was muttating. Current hypothesises indicated more than likely it would begin to effect more than it did already whether that meant it would effect changes to the subconcious or what was still unknown.

Time was nearly out the Chinese Federation was moving around in the area of their control nearest Japan, in any other circumstances it would have been overlooked as normal drills but they new better.

Kyushu had also begun to get slightly out of hand, so far it was mainaly limited to isolated terrorist attacks probably the point was to make Britannia think the attacks were uncoordinated and served no purpose other than being senseless acts of violence.

Cornelia was annoyed, Clovis was anxious and well Euphemia, of course, was absent from the get together.

Lelouch watched as the last of the machines were laid out. More than ever coordination was a neccesity between the groups with influence in Japan. As it stood Clovis would handle the defense of the Tokyo settlement. The pink princess would also rather obviously be remaining there, here, as well.

However the fact was Tokyo and the settlements would be sparsely defended to say the least as forces went the Britanian regions of inhabitation would be defended by only a handful of tanks, knightmares and the exist defense emplacements.

"So then Lelouch is the 'Love Boat' ready to sail?" Clovis asked, wiggling his eye brows suggestively in an attempt to lighten the mood.

Cornelia, not appreciating the attempt, swatted him on the back of the head causing the blonde to wince.

Sighing at the antics he replied. "Skidbladnir can sail final instalation of availiable weapons was completed earlier." The dark prince responsded his annoyance better hidden than Cornelia at least. "Were the situation different I would be against deploying the vessel however its not impossible to deploy the ship."

As it stood the Skidbladnir was not complete the engines which had been installed were were only three of the planned five meaning the ship wouldn't run nearly as smoothly as it would have. That meant the MSV shields would not be nearly as powerful and the warships Hadron cannons would have to wait longer in between firing. Luckily the hover and cattipillar drive would however work fine of course that wasn't an enormous relief not when what they really would need would be the firepower.

Though with the final test of the birminhams and Clovis assuring both he and Cornelia that the Siegfried was ready as well they should be able to deal with enemy ground forces well enough. Clovis's knight giga fortress would be well shielded enough to with stand the anti air defenses, the Birminhams well they would have to be more careful even if they did posses MSV shields.

A screen flashed on displaying another blonde royal, seeing this from the corner of his eye Lelouch scowled. The man on the screen was none other than the second prince of the Holy Britannian Empire Schneziel el Britannia, and among other things the patron of the Lancelot's creator.

What a bothersome complication, he though before the prime minister of the nation spoke up.

Lelouch would have cursed, this was not good, it took most of his restraint not to shoot out the camera, already his hand was straying to his pistol.

"Cornelia, Clovis how wonderful seeing you well, I thought I would come and pay a visit," The data must have finished loading. "My goodness Lelouch, so the rumours are true you are alive. That is wonderful." He remarked

The Dark Prince stepped forward, "That must explain the trouble on the western front your gossipping instead of crushing the Europeans African Front," Lelouch grimaced and responded.

"Ah you wond me dear brother," Schneziel smiled broadly. "So then I would guess that would make you responsible for those other seventh generation frames."
He doubted highly that it was a guess the most obvious hole in his security was the special corp of which the Lancelot development team was.

Lelouch would take vidnictive pleasure in showing that unit inquestion up. "My project and Rakshata Chawla's design, and I'll be telling the Earl of Pudding to keep his mouth shut from now on,"
"Is that so," Schneziel nodded emphatically. "Three sets of seventh generations frames what an interesting turn of events," He didn't seem to disturbed by the idea, "Why don't we all meet on Kamine Island for a reunion."

Frowning he spoke up, "I'm not going," Lelouch remarked firmly after Schneziel's façade had vanished from the screen. "This would be a waste of time we have an invasion to prepare for –" His lapel pin crackled with static.

"Prince Lelouch," stated a familiar voice on the other end. "Princess Euphemia is approaching the stairs," Reported Jeremiah.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: OI there you go and so you know my spell check is on the fritz so I know my manual checking probably missed something so sorry about any errors. Yes I know that its short, and yes I know it wasn't Kyushu Forty One that's what I'm shooting for, just for the moment deal with it.

Though I am severely dreading typing up Kyushu.