Croix hated Chariot. She hated everything that she had. The game, the fortune, the Shiny Rod. She felt betrayed when Chariot got the Shiny Rod, but she even felt even more betrayed when she helped her, and she didn't even thank her for her help with her magic shows. Croix went on her own, she thought about making her own Shiny Rod, with negative emotions. But she suddenly thought of something else. She scraped her plans for the Noir Rod. She thought of one name, Akko.
Akko had the Shiny Rod, Croix knew that. She didn't even need to track it's magic to find it. Akko was very...loud when it came to the Shiny Rod. So everyone knew that Akko had this powerful piece of magic, or thought it was a toy. But Croix knew it wasn't. Croix wanted it. But she knew it wouldn't work for her, only for Akko. But how...Croix suddenly came up with a vicious idea. She couldn't steal the Rod from Akko. But she could steal Akko.
Or at least her body and mind.
If she couldn't use the Shiny Rod as Croix Meridies, she would use it as Akko Kagari.
She knew Akko was enrolled in Luna Nova, he just needed to buy her time to capture the young witch student. She spied on Akko as she allied with the magical creatures' union strike. Croix praised Akko to herself for the strong determination, she decided that it would be the best ability that she would have when she took her body. She waited until the strike was calmed down to make her move. She spotted Akko walking to a private spot in the woods, she studied her schedule every day, she mostly went into the woods during her free time to practice her flying. It was the perfect moment to strike.
Croix knocked Akko unconscious and carried her to her lab, when she got there she slapped Akko down and began to scan through her memories.
"You've had quite the adventure Atsuko, but I'm afraid your time is over," Croix says to the unconscious Akko. She ruffled her hair and smirked, "but it's my turn now. I should've gotten the Shiny Rod, me. I know everything about it. I will have the power to change the world."
Croix powered up her machine she knew that it would be very suspicious when her body would be left lying here. So, she has to give it up to get inside of Akko, but that is the price of getting the power of the Shiny Rod. She strapped two mind pallets on her head and some on Akko, she smirks and begins the process. It wasn't that painful, it felt like she was dreaming, but she felt her body disappear in blue light. Akko screams, the process would be painful for her, but Croix didn't care. Croix suddenly blacked out.
When she came to, she looked around, she looked at the empty table next to her, wait, empty table? She commands the bots to unstrap her. She looks around, she is still in her lab, then she looks at her body. Young hands, brown hair, Luna Nova school Uniform, and a Shiny Chariot Trading Card in her pocket. Croix smiled to herself. It worked. She became Akko. The Shiny Rod's power, it would be hers. But she wondered about one thing, would the Shiny Rod think of her as Akko? Or another tortured soul trying to get its power? She would have to worry about that later, she got up from the table and looked in the mirror, she gave off an evil smirk. No one would even notice. She prayed that no one would notice. She looked at a small red glowing flash drive in the computer, this was Akko's mind, it had to be stored somewhere, Croix smirked. She grabbed her wand to place a spell but found out she couldn't. She became confused, she checked the dream fuel spirit in Akko's body, to find out, she didn't have any. Croix shrugged. She began to inject herself with some from her experiments and smiled. She then performed a spell, a burning spell, she doesn't want anyone switching them back.
Croix cleaned up the remains of the destroyed flash drive of Akko's mind, she grabbed Akko's broom and locked up her lab and left. It would be lunchtime.
Croix smirked, "Now, let's see what Luna Nova has in store for me."