Sylvia's POV

It's been a week, and I'm inside Lelouch's Shinkiro Knightmare Frame.

Why?

Because he sent me on a mission to keep an eye on my sister and her cellmate when they get out of their prison cell. Good thing I'm wearing the armor and Zero costume while I'm piloting the mecha. Next, I saw Momoka outside the base.

Maybe I should talk to her for advice. I just hope she believes me when I told her I wasn't the betrayer that Sister see anymore. I land the Knightmare as I approached her. Of course, I wouldn't forget about putting the mask on.

"Zero, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"I need your advice, Momoka Oginome," I replied. Here I go again saying her full name. It's as if I'm a stranger to her.

"What advice?"

"Before I tell you, I want you to fight me."

"Fight you? Why?"

"Because I feel you are a ninja who can understand your opponent's feelings through fighting," I replied when I pull out an army knife.

"Okay, then," Momoka pulls out a kunai. Then again, she's a ninja maid.

"I want you to defeat me. If you do, then I'll tell you what my problem is and the advice you can give me."

"I understand."

We charge at each other as our weapons clashed. I dodged her slashes and I blocked one with the knife. However, she sends a kick to my chest, throwing me off.

"Congratulations, Zero. It looks like you're improving," she spoke with a smile.

"So I have," I added.

We continue our fight where we exchange blows with our weapons. As I dodged a punch from her, I send a swift kick to her side. I went from behind her, and she jumps up high to dodge my attack and sends a kick from behind. When I tried to get back up, she has her weapon pointed in front of me.

"Well, Momoka, good job in defeating me," I said.

"I practiced," she replied with a smile as she helped me stand up from the ground. "Now, what's the advice you want to seek from me?"

"Before I tell you, I'm going to show you my true face."

"Your true face? As in you're going to unmask yourself?"

"That's right, but before I do so, I want you to keep this to yourself. As in don't tell Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi who I am. I'll just... show her when the right time has come."

"You know, Zero. You speak in riddles when you talk to me and Angelise. Since you're a rebel, I'll agree on your terms," Momoka promised and I can tell that.

"Good," I took off my two masks; Zero and ninja. My true face is shown to her.

"Sylvia..." she looked surprised. "But you're dead. I heard it on the news."

"To keep my brother, Julio, off my track. The betrayer that my sister saw since she returned has died," I answered to her about my 'demise'. "Don't worry, Momoka. I'm not mad at her. Not anymore. I'm working for Lelouch now to destroy the world which my sister believed to be rotten."

"Destroy the world? As in you're the ones who killed people like her teacher from her school and those Mana world leaders?"

"That's right. That's all I could for her at the moment. Lelouch wanted Julio to be spared so my sister could take some anger out of him which I'm going to do the same thing for tonight when he gives me a mission about it."

As she looked into my eyes, she said...

"I believe you. Shall we sit down on the ground?"

I agree on this as we sit on the grassy field of Arzenal.

"Now, what's the advice you need from me, Princess?" Momoka asked with concern. Of course, she believes what I say about I'm not anymore that betrayer from that night.

"I've been trying to make amends with my sister ever since that night. I've been giving her food, bath, and song lyrics, but I feel like those are just minor good deeds. That's not enough," I told her of what my problem is.

"I see..."

"I mean, how can I gain her forgiveness?"

"Sylvia, that's what I'm wondering when I came here in the first place," Momoka told me of what happened after Julio sent her there. "When I came here, Angelise has been cold to me because I kept the secret of being a Norma from her for such a long time. You can say your father and mother told me not to tell her. Also, if I'm not mistaken, she wants nothing to do with her palace life anymore. On to top it off, she told me that she wanted to be called as Ange from now on. However, I still call her by the name she's given when she lived in Misurugi."

"Now I understand what happened between you two in the island," I commented. "Can you continue your story?"

"Like you, I tried to get Angelise to like me again. I tried to look like she's living in the castle again like decorating our room into palace-like, turning her locker into how a princess picks her clothes, and giving her a royal-like meal, but she is not liking it, going so far as to send that duck for her. On that same day, she told me to take a bath with her, and for the first time ever since she found out her species, she started liking me again. She told me to leave Arzenal before tomorrow because I will be killed after that day. Just when I thought I was about to die, she saved my life by buying me with all that money. And that's how I regained her trust."

"Good story," I said with a smile.

"Yeah, good," Momoka smiled as well. "Judging by your situation, I recommend you do a major good deed."

"And what would that be?"

"I think you already know the answer. That's my advice for you."

As I thought about it, I know the answer.

"Helping my sister, that's what I should do," I realized.

"That's right..." she said before we saw DRAGONs are coming on our way. "Well, here's a major good deed you can do. Help Angelise fight against those DRAGONs."

"Thanks, Momoka. Now I know what I should do," I said as I get inside the mecha. "Remember not to tell Sister who's under this mask. I'll handle that."

"Okay."

As I flew away, I took some DRAGONs down with melee moves and cannon. Of course, I haven't forgot about my squad which is my sister's former classmates that are under Lelouch's Geass control. Everything is going so well.

Until I saw something is wrong.

I looked at the portal to see and hear music.

"Is that singing?" I wonder while I saw DRAGONs fleeing. If that wasn't enough, three mechas suddenly appeared, and I think the dark red one by the middle is the one singing. "Does this adventure involves singing now?"

Next thing is that while it's singing, it started to glow in a golden color, not to mention it's about to blast us with two cannons from its shoulder.

"I'm going to file this under the category of 'not good'," I said the line as I realized we're in danger. Good thing I dodged the blast, but not my squad. Only Akiho, Reika and Maki have survived. That means Chiaki, Tomomi, and Kana have died.

Now I understand what Lelouch meant when they're just pawns. They're meant to be sacrificed.

I saw the Villkiss, the Para-mail that my sister mainly controls. The problem is, it's not sister whose piloting it; it was Salia.

What is she doing? Has she gone mad?

"Salia..." I called for her. "Have you gone mad? You know that Sis... Ange is the only one allowed to control that thing!"

Good thing I remember it in my studies.

"I can't take it anymore! All Jill thinks of is Ange, but she's always on her own, being a deserter, and in detention!" the girl exclaimed. "I worked so hard, and I wanted to help Jill, no Alektra!"

Alektra? As in Alektra Maria von Levenherz? She's alive? Jill was that former first princess of the Galia Empire who was thought to have died of an illness in the age of 10?

That's when I'm piecing the puzzle together.

Of course, it was revealed that Alektra was a Norma, and her father was the Galia Emperor who cast her out in Arzenal.

Looks like I'm beginning to think like Lelouch.

"Stop this madness right now, Salia, and give Ange her machine back!" I demand.

"It's my Villkiss!" the purple-haired girl exclaimed.

Just as I thought, she is consumed by jealousy of my sister that she went and tried to disobey orders.

Isn't it ironic? My sister has been disobeying orders, too.

As much as I wanted to tell her about this and find out more about the commander of the island, I can't. I'm keeping my identity a secret. I watched the fight between Salia and DRAGONs, and it looks like the former is losing.

It's obvious the Vilkiss can only respond to my sister.

Just then, I saw her and her new friend, Hilda, are riding by the latter's Para-mail shooting the DRAGONs that are trying to get that jealous pilot.

"Sister..." I muttered to myself.

I saw her trying to talk to Salia in getting her machine back, but it didn't work. I guess brains didn't work, so her specialty, brawn will take over.

"Zero..." Sister talked to me. "Salia, she..."

"I know," I said. "Let's work together."

"And I was thinking the same thing."

Look at this; Sister and I are working together for the first time when she's revealed to be a Norma. Too bad I'm not working together with her as me, but as Zero. The sister she wanted to protect is too far gone because of her betrayal, and replaced by a rebellious masked warrior. We watched to see Salia taking on the person piloting that mecha from the other side, but she is losing.

"Chase her, Hilda," Sister ordered.

"What are you thinking?" her new friend demanded.

"I'll jump over."

Upon hearing those words, Hilda and I are surprised to this.

"Well, that's something you'd do," she said with a smile as if she agreed to this.

"If that's what you want, I'll catch you," I said. If she fell down like how I fell down from the horse we were riding together, I could never forgive myself.

I saw Angelise is holding her new friend tightly and Hilda blushed.

Oh my, are they becoming lesbians?

As soon as my sister drops herself off, I catch her with the palm of my machine.

"Thank you, Zero," she said with a smile.

"You're welcome, Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi," I replied to her compliment and here I go again saying her full name. Then again, I must keep my identity a secret from her until I'm ready to show her. "Now, get your machine back!"

"Right!" she jumps out of my hand and lands on the Villkiss.

To my surprise, she successfully activated it. So Tusk is right; it can only respond to Angelise.

"I'll take Salia, if you don't mind," I grabbed the girl who went and try to pilot the machine on her own. "You'll handle the rest."

Angelise nodded at my request and I fly back to Arzenal to see what punishment Jill can give on this little troublemaker. I think I did two major good deeds for today: help my sister get to her machine and catching Salia.

I hope I could find another major good dead so I can gain her forgiveness.

Ange's POV

As I fought with whoever's controlling the dark red machine, it seems we were equal.

It started singing to activate some power, so why not if I sing, too?

As we sing, I unlocked the same power as our blasts collide. Before I know it, I was in some dimension as I heard some voice talking to me.

"For what reason does a false citizen sing the true Star Song?" it said.

Suddenly, the Para-mail of my opponent opened and it showed a black-haired girl that is dressed in some clothes that are believed to be from ancient history or something. I come out to talk to her.

"And who are you?" I asked her. "What is that song?"

Before I get my answer, I saw various images of us as if we've been in conflict before, but I haven't met her before. Suddenly, some alarm went off.

"The time comes, it seems," she said before going back to her machine.

"W-Wait!" I exclaimed.

"The truth is with Aura," was all she could say before I went back to reality and saw her leaving back to the other side.

Lelouch's POV

I saw the whole thing via the camera I controlled from my aircraft. What an amazing fight this is.

"Lelouch, did you see...?" Suzaku called.

"I know, Suzaku. It looks like we have our queen," I said with a smile because in time, she will join my cause.