Dark Prince Kyushu Preview Chapter 2, a code geass fanfic

Chapter 42

Dark Prince

Helltanz's notes: Alright Part two of Kyushu arc, yay wonderful. Hopefully this lives up to expectations.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass.

Chapter begin

Whatever Schneziel's issue was it could be resolved later. The blonde prince was while a good tactician his piloting abilities wer subpar. Lelouch wasn't fully aware of the exact details of what was going on in the Britannian mainland so he wasn't going to immediately recognize one of the newer Knights of the Round, specifically if he hadn't gotten word that they were in the region.

It was a pity that they didn't have a pilot for the Gawain while the seventh generation frame was not only incomplete but horrendously under armed it did posses and integrated float system which was more efficient than the Lancelot detachable one.

Kallen's face appeared, "Lelouch we're all here but what are we going to do?" She inquired from the Gurren's cockpit.

"At the present our forces are doing worse than expected due to unforseeable delays," By which of course he meant Schneziel's stupid trip and that blasted weather front. "We are however stil prepared to engage the enemy. We will continue preparations for pull the civilians out of harms way as well as continue landing operations," Right now the Gurren was enroute from the city itself subject to a heroes welcome by the Japanese people, the same was true of Todoh. The Britinians were lukewarm in most case but that was irrelevant.

Rakshata had added the 'enhancement' pack, which among other things included cannons, to the Gurren, so as to make it a bit effective in battle and Kallen had brought the MVS katana in case she needed it though that was unlikely to be the case in the immediate coming battles. "Now make sure to be careful," The Indian scientist reminded them both.

Kallen gave a resolute nod. "I won't loose, not with the Gurren Nishiki." Lelouch said nothing in response to her statement, he didn't really need too. Right now the two sides both the Chinese and the Anti Invasion Coalition were still getting ready preparations needed to still be made on both sides.

Schneziel's Avalon wasn't far, realtively speaking at least, from the dark prince's position. Cornelia had insisted that the Britannian Navy would handle the southern coast of Kyushu, the Black Knights had deployed accordingly to the coasts nearer to Japan.

"My lord," Remarked the Pole from beside Rakshata, "While we've load the heavy super cavitating torpedoes and we'll be attempting to proceed southward however I'd like permission to deploy the łuczniczka," Archer, "for fire support."

Lelouch sighed Pytor had been busy with the gaining of certain assets within Russia and indeed controlling Korea in all but name, the Black Knights industrial capacity had dramatically increased. Of course due to the current tension most these gains weren't any use for the invasion however Pytor had begun to produce the Wiedzmin en masse for certain elements of the Russian Army and with advancements being made by studying their present applications. He'd also gotten to work starting the refit on certain 'old' prototype designs. In this case the YPI 111 'Archer' only 3 had been produced but with the new refits they'd litterally fly circles around the Chinese, though Pytor had high expectations for the design. "Do it," He ordered, it wouldn't so much effect their plans he'd intended to deploy them anyway possibly as early as tommorow for concentrated precision fire support against the Fukoka base, and see how Sawasaki liked that.

Pytor was interested in putting a variation, one that would likely differ greatly from the prototype, of the 'Archer' into service alongside the Wiedzmin and the other European style machine his design team had been developing. Unfortunately in the case of the latter model it had not yet reached a combat ready prototype. Additionally there were only a handful of Wiedzmin stationed in the whole of Japan, which was unfortunate as well but could not be helped.

Time was counting down and the Dudleys weren't in place totally, in that regards they would be cutting it dangerously close.

He rapidly typed in commands on his Knightmare's keyboard the scene at the docks unfolded. The large bulky machines for the most part were unloaded however evenin tank mode it would be cutting it close. "Todoh whats our status?" Lelouch inquired over a private line.

"We'll be finished in time, you're likely correct however Kyoto does appear to be stalling," the Colonel remarked, "Should we inform Kirihara of this?"
Pursing his lips the dark prince frowned weighing his options, "Its not likely to do much good but yes go ahead,"
"Understood, after this is done I'll head up and join the rest of our deployed forces the wave should be arriving shortly."

That was true enough, Lelouch acceeded mentally as the knight of the divine wind ended the transmision from his Gekka, which along with the four Holy Swords Gekkas, had received the same expansion of equipment as the Gurren.

Diethard was doing a good job at the moment of coordinating with the news media as well as keeping everybody appraised of the situation, though the real test would come once enemy Electronic Countermeasures began. Report filtered in the Chinese weren't simply using Gun Rus, while it was unlikly that meant much given it seemed the other machines were the mass production which had proceeded the Gun Ru.

The KMF in question was a quadruped were a bit smaller than Britanian Sutherland, and was actually more mobile, at least in regards to acceleration. The machines in the hands of Sawasaki's forces could be a real bother, while it was a bit more agile it still suffered much the same problems as it successors in regards to accuracy. Though with a competent commander the machines could be a serious problem as could the numerous fourth Generation Gun Rus that were on the field.

"Reports indicate enemy machines on approach… confirming as Chinese Forces," announced a voice, as pictures appeared on the heads up display. "Enemy confirmed as mass production type Gun Ru," Indeed while the machines were Chinese they had been stensiled with the Japanenese flag not that that really mattered. Still there were a lot of the mass production types, more than expected for the first battle.

Pytor frowned, "My prince I must advise you when using the rifle it is only a prototype its energy consumption will be faily high," cautioned the Polish Black Knightscientist over the radio.

"Understood," Responded Lelouch. Prototype or not the weapon prven valuable against the massed formations. He tapped his headset, "Begin operation phase II launch cluster munitions,"

From behind the front lines eight rockets launched soon they arced and began to descend over the approaching chinese machines with an ominious whine and then the cracking began the missiles broke apart and and separate laser guidied muntions began to fall towards the Chinese after about halfway each of these submunitions exploded forming penetrators. Hundreds of bomblets rained down from each of the cluster munitions and perforated the Chinese ranks.

The entire first line of machines pretty much slumped keeling over. Hundreds of the bomblets had successfully hit their targets and eighty six Gun Rus had been destroyed by the surprise attack, of course the weapons wouldn't be nearly as effective against the much higher quality armor of the European's final production type Panzer Hummel.

Smoke from the destroyed vehicles rose up to the cloud covered sky which continued to belt rain down to those below.
Another nine knightmares joined their comrades once the snipers opened up. Pity, he thought, we only had a limited supply of those missiles. The Chinese frames' weapons were inaccurate at range so they had the advantage, the Anti Invasion Coalition that was the one that had the advantage.

Todoh and the four holy swords moved onto the field like the Gurren they had gotten new equipment and it was apparent. Not limited to rifles and new cannons mounted on the machines themselves, but better parts had been installed as well.

Rising up the Knightmares of the AIC, or rather really they were the forces under the command of the Black Knights as it was, began their attack in full. The Chinese seemed to have ran straight into a stone wall.
Edinburghs moved about evasively as Sutherlands and Burais began to advance towards the Gun Rus. As it stood armament were mainly varied between heavier rifles and machine guns. The red form of the Gurren Nishiki blazed across the field. Kallen firing occasionally, probably should have brought a rifle for the Gurren, he thought, oh well they could acquire one after this battle ended and before the next one began.

Merlin's heavy weapons came online, "Die," Lelouch snarled, twin dark red beams of the seventh generations full Hadron cannons ripped into the surviving enemy knightmare frames. It was a good first strike. The Chinese had likely not expected much resistance hence the 'token' knightmare force in comparison to the vast number of armored infrantry vehicles. Still it was a lot of knightmares to deal with, thankfully the quality of the Chinese model also came into play.

Lelouch's seventh generation frame leveled its more standard linear rifle and fired, there was no need for either the VARIS right now or the Prototype Rifle, not when facing this enemy likewise the Hadron blasters would be overkill just right this minute for the same reason.

The first knightmares closed to more typical distances for fighting. Spikes lanced out from the Black Mach equipped Edinburgh as it leapt towards a trio of enemy Chinese autonomous Knightmare frames all of which were skewered.

A Burai sustained a glancing blow from a Gun Ru's grenade Launcher and exploded, in retaliation another Chinese Frame was mauled by machine gun fire.

With both sides rapidly closing the distance between each other the Chinese inaccuracy was becoming less of an issue luckily they were focusing on the more powerful and expensive appearing knightmares.
This was a mistake tactically it was number which would determine this conflict, and the fact was most those advanced frame were too heavily defended to be taken down. One of the Merlin's MSV particle shields absorbed another attack, blonde knights lashed out like striking snakes.

A semi autonomous system directed, tied into the Druid systems, the network blonde knives were cabable of targetting autonomously enemy troops with minimal distraction to the pilot eventually the hope was they hoped to include further weapons on the wired rocket anchors but that would later on. Similar autonomous fire control systems had been previously mounted in conjuction with CIWS intercept systems.

He fired into another Gun Ru, they'd caught the enemy by surprise but the results of this battle were not liekly to be repeated. No they'd have to assume that the Chinese would learn from this.

In any case so long as the storm continued as it was, meaning the hurricane strength winds battering the island and the severe lightning, they'd be without air support so they needed to hold till the storm passed. This lack of air cover meant Britannia was without something they were used to when they were facing another full military.

Not that that was particularly effecting the performance of the Black Knights who didn't typically have air support even when they were fighting on their own terms. So if former cabinet minister Sawasaki expected to exploit the weather he'd be in a bind. It was true that the lack of air cover impaired the Anti Invasion Coalitions ability to counter attack but it wouldn't hamper them severly. Still those more traditional aircraft would have made intercepting the Chinese transports much easier.

Black Knight KMFs focused their fire on the remaining Chinese Knightmare frames. It was Lelouch's intent to bring utterly overwhelming force against the Chinese early on and totally shatter any momentum that the invaders may have started to build up, and prevented them from gathering any additional momentum. Once that task was done they would grind the Chinese to dust.

Squad level groups had already begun to move into formation and start their attack against the remaining Chinese Frames. The Invasion force was larger than expected at least according to current intelligence reports, and that was not something that boded well for the estimates for expected casualties.

The Chinese fourth Generation mass production type Gun Ru primary armament varied but the typical production model usually was armed either with a Knightmare scale grenade launcher or a standard cannon, both of which were fairly inaccurate and neither were terribly dangerous in regards to penetration power against heavier armor. This was actually a great boon for the Black Knights the Edinburgh block II and above was produced in factories to a specific set of specifications.

Amongst these was the fact the cockpit was actually totally covered by the main body's armor from all direction. The armor of the Knightmare was also of substantially higher grade than other Knightmares most especially the predecessor the Sutherland. Other newer Black Knight production frames shared this grade of armor making the odds of them surviving combat much higher.

Simply put the newer Black Knight frames while much more expensive were simply too well armored to have said armor be penetrated by the armaments carried by the standard weapons on the Gun Ru.

Unfortunately such exquisite protection did not apply to other Coalition Knightmare forces like the older Sutherlands or Burais, or even Block I Edinburghs, which were in fact converted Sutherlands, amongst other machines. Though the Block I Edinburghs still possessed an MSV particle shield and better armor overall than the others, but again this came at a substantially higher cost per unit.

Lelouch cored another enemy Knightmare with his regular rifle, even with the disproportionate number of infantry vehicles the Chinese still actually had them outnumbered on the battlefield. Though it wasn't as bad as it could have been and the numbers weren't high enough for the usual wave tactics. In addition more Black Knight forces were en route from the landing sites even as the fighting was continuing.

If the Chinese weren't aware of Schneziel's presence at the moment, they would likely find out shortly. Hopefully that would get the High Eunuchs to pull the plug on the attempt at expansion. Schneziel was Britannia's Prime Minister and Cornelia was one of the more famous military commanders going up against both of them hopefully the fear factor would be enough. He really didn't want to consider the repercussions if his own existence on the battlefield became public.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: To remind for future chapter Lelouch acquired the data for both the Z 01 Lancelot and the Gawain projects, and began making his own models, and then he also at Narita acquired the Club allowing him to develop his own semi mass production type based off the machine. Thus Lelouch will be rolling out his own version of the Lancelot in the future probably around chapter 50, or at least show it off.

Yes its shorter, but it was either post it as is or uh a longer wait. Also attempted to insert some level of realism in regards to the fighting at least in regards to armor as well as show the flaw the Chinese have in tactics and strategy.

To use a real world example a 37mm World War II anti tank gun wouldn't penetrate the armor of even an early Leopard MBT this is simply the progression of technology. In real life there is no health bar and that was what I was trying to portray.

Anyway if you haven't already I advise everyone to check out my other Code Geass fic that's now up, this story will still get more updates mainly because I've gotten more work done, but yeah tell me what you think.