Momoka's POV

"Um... Princess, what was I just..."

I can't believe what I'm doing. Lelouch told me not to tell my princess about the fact that he used his Geass on me to immediately broke me free from her brother's mind control power and as a result, I was just pretending to be under his control. He must have wanted this as a secret to her so that she won't foil his plan without thinking.

"I don't know," Princess Angelise replied.

And it's a good thing so Lelouch's plan can be successful.

Just then, we crossed paths with Julio with him having bought along the humans here.

"You can't escape, Angelise. You're smart. You must have realized," he said smugly. "I can control everyone who uses Mana."

That revelation horrifies my princess.

"That's what I found out from him when I asked him about it and he confirmed it," Lelouch talked to me from the earpiece.

"So long as that maid is with you..." Julio continued.

"Which is why I used my Geass on you, and you're immune from that power, along with the others."

"Others? What are you..." I asked Lelouch.

"You'll see," was he could say.

"I said I don't know!" my princess punched the man who is about to approach her.

"Either Ange is stupid or is in denial. I could say she's both," Lelouch speaks to me about this moment as we continued to the building.

Lelouch's POV

Time to switch frequencies.

"Now, attack!" I commanded.

With this order, the Mana people I recruited within the crowd attacked the crowd. This should slow them down. As I entered the rooftop of the building, I saw Tusk gunning down Julio, and I know this is not the end yet as there he is again.

Just how many Julios can be replaced?

With Ange and Momoka escaping, Tusk and I are going to fight this guy.

"Ah, Lelouch and Tusk, right?" the evil guy said with a smug expression. "You two dare to separate us? Prepare yourselves, maggots."

This should be an interesting fight with him.

"I am Tusk, the son of Villkiss Knight Istvan and Mail Rider Vanessa," Tusk introduced himself to our enemy and charged at him. I'd rather have him make his first move. "As the last of the Ancient People and Ange's Knight..."

He threw a flashbang before stabbing him in the back. I'm impressed.

Of course, this doesn't end him permanently.

Now I make my next move. I shot him in the chest two times before shooting him in the head and he dropped dead. This is called the Mozambique Drill. Although he appeared to us again without any injuries we inflicted him.

Next, Tusk makes his move by throwing a shuriken, but it's a diversion to shoot his wrist with a rope dart.

The question I'm asking myself is, how to kill an enemy that can spawn many versions of himself upon death?

Sylvia's POV

As we followed Marika, we went to where the fight is and she attempts to shoot Chris to save her sister.

"Marika," Rosalie noticed her. "Why are you here?"

"To give you backup!" was her reply.

"I tried to stop her, Rosalie, but she wouldn't listen," I said upon arriving to the place of the battle.

Next thing I saw is that Chris threw her sword to where Marika is and the latter's machine explodes, killing her instantly.

Like everyone who saw that, I'm horrified of seeing what just happened. It makes me sick to my stomach that I'm going to puke from witnessing this horrifying scenario.

The truth is, I never saw much death in my life. Really. That is until the death of my sister's former classmates on two occasions, which I'm fine with it because they deserved it for treating her with cruelty when they found out she's a Norma.

But when it comes to Marika's death, I feel sick just from seeing it.

"Marika. Marika!" I heard Rosalie cried for her. Out of all of us, she mostly didn't took this well.

What happens next is that she started charging at Chris for killing her protege. It's as if she wanted to avenge Marika by killing her murderer.

Before she gets shot down, a beam shot between their direction, and it's from Salamandinay.

"It's Salasala-san!" I heard Vivian calling her that.

"It's Salamandinay, Vivian," the princess corrected her.

"Really, Vivian?" I raised an eyebrow on that. "I can pronounce her full name better than you."

"Chris, wait, dammit!" Rosalie said as we noticed the defected Norma's escape.

She is about to pursue her, but Vivian is in her way.

"Rosalie, calm down," the DRAGON who is in human form stated.

"She's right, Rosalie," I joined in to help our Norma friend calm down. "You wouldn't accomplish anything if you try to go after her for killing Marika. Besides, what would you do next after you get your revenge?"

"Dammit!" Rosalie exclaimed as she pounds something inside her mecha. She got my message after all.

I hope Lelouch is doing everything he can to help Sister escape from our former homeland.

Lelouch's POV

During the fight, while Tusk and Julio exchange blows, I decided to land a head shot to the latter. With them moving too fast, I can't seem to get a perfect shot here.

"It's no use, both of you," the Clovis-lookalike said smugly.

"No, it isn't, demon of Heiselberg, resident of a nondeterministic world!" Tusk explained with a smile. "But if we can slow you down, even just a little..."

"Oh?" Julio dropped his sword to the ground. "So you two monkeys have grown a little smarter."

"The difference is, I'm a genius," I said calmly.

"Yeah, I already know that about you, Lelouch, but you two are still just monkeys after all."

After he said this, he shot himself in the head with his own gun.

"Shit!" Tusk exclaimed.

"I know, right?" I muttered.

Suddenly, the alarm in my walkie-talkie went off. I knew Julio would do exactly what I think of, so I got to talk to Momoka.

Momoka's POV

Just as the princess and I are about to escape with the sunset coming up...

"Momoka, this is Lelouch," I heard our friend calling me from the earpiece. "Try looking at yourself in the mirror."

I looked at my own reflection through a small hand mirror, and I saw my eyes were once again in mind control form.

"Lelouch, my eyes changed again," I told him in a whisper so Princess Angelise won't hear our conversation.

"I knew it. Exactly as I predicted," he said. "Can you feel what the Clovis-lookalike expects you to do at the moment?"

"Yes, I feel it," I replied.

"Good. He doesn't know I control this situation. When I said, 'now', you do exactly what he expects you to do."

"Okay."

"Momoka, it's the ocean," Princess Angelise looks happy to escape.

"Now!" Lelouch gives me the signal.

Then I grabbed her right wrist to stop her escape because this is what Julio wants me to do under his control. He doesn't know that I was just pretending to do this.

I'm sorry I have to stop your escape, princess. If I didn't do what your brother wanted me to do, then he'll know I'm not under his control, and Lelouch's plan is ruined.

The princess looked at me, and she is horrified of what she saw with my eyes before turning to the ground below.

Now she knows I was under his mind control, but she doesn't know I was just pretending.

"If I'm not mistaken, Ange saw you, but she doesn't know you're still in control of yourself even if your eyes changed," Lelouch spoke. "Is Julio nearby?"

I looked at the ground below, and I saw him drinking tea and looking overconfident with his ability. Too bad he doesn't know what our friend has planned at the moment.

"Yes, he is," I replied in a whisper.

"Good. Just keep him in your sight and wait for further instructions when I go there," Lelouch spoke.

"Got it."

After we landed on that spot...

"Angelise... my sister..." Julio approached my princess. "You're beautiful when you're angry, too."

I saw Lelouch is hiding from behind him and sends me a message in a form of a paper airplane. I caught it fast enough not to let them see this. I opened the paper to read it.

'When I said 'Momoka, now!', you will stab that Clovis-lookalike with the sword you have in your hand.'

I nodded with him in agreement to this move.

"Why do you reject me so much?" Julio asked her sister before teleporting behind her. "Is it that man?"

Just then, he holds her arms from behind so that she won't escape. I saw Tusk is coming this way.

"Let go of Ange," the boy said with determination to free her.

I can feel what Julio wants me to do with him, and I turned to Lelouch because I feel conflicted on this. The answer I got is, 'improvise' as written from paper by the latter.

So I improvise.

Sorry, Tusk, but I can't reveal my true self yet until Lelouch gives me the signal.

"Momoka!" he exclaimed as I knock down his dart rope gun and knife. Next thing I know is that I can cut him faster than how fast I am.

Just what did Julio do to my body?

"I've increased her physical ability to the limit of her body's capacities," he got the answer to my question. "Behold, the end of a foolish man."

"Stop, please," my princess is calling for me. "Stop, Momoka!"

"It's useless. She can't go against her creator's commands."

I heard Julio said those words about me, and it looks like he's getting overconfident with his power which is going to be his weakness when Lelouch gives me the signal.

Lelouch's POV

With that Clovis-lookalike being overconfident with his power, it's time to execute my attack on him.

"Is that so?" I revealed myself to him with a smirk and sarcastic clapping.

"Lelouch... what are you doing here?" Ange asked me.

"Making my move," I replied to her before facing her brother. "So this is the power of mind control over Mana users you've told me from the other day."

"Yes, it is," was the latter's reply. "Do you like it?"

"No, I don't like it. In fact, there is a flaw in it," I responded smugly.

"What? That's impossible! Look at her!" he is taken aback from what I said about my doubts in his power and points out to Momoka, who is just pretending to do what he wants under his control, as an example. "She's under my control, and doing what I want her to do!"

"Oh, really?" I asked calmly. My attack on him is about to begin. "When I said these two words, there's a flaw in your power."

The countdown begins.

3...

2...

1...

"Momoka, now!" I gave her the command.

Upon hearing the signal, she went charging to where Julio is. Of course I grabbed a hold of Ange and pulled her out of the way before she stabs him on the chest with his own sword.

My surprise attack is successful.

"How is this possible?" Julio is surprised about the moment.

"Because I'm never under your control when you tried to use your power on me," Momoka responded as she dispelled his power, turning her eyes back to normal.

"Momoka..." Ange said in astonishment about her maid.

"Surprised, Ange?" I asked her. "I think you are, and so do you, Julio."

"How did you manage to free her?" her older brother asked me.

"Here's your answer," I showed him my Geass.

"So you used your Geass on her."

"Two points for Julio. What else?"

"You knew he can control those who use Mana, so you placed a Geass command on Momoka as a precaution," Ange answered.

"Good one, Ange. You're on the bonus round," I smiled at her.

"With your Geass, you have her pretending to be my brother's control until you gave her the signal to attack."

"Bingo! Now you know, Ange!"

"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Ange demanded.

"Because I don't want you spoiling it. If you know, then you'll just blurt it out without even thinking. Also, this is a surprise attack, so it won't be a surprise anymore if you know it before my attack is executed," I answered.

"Oh, right..." she realized.

Tusk touched his left cheek to see no blood. In fact, his entire body is fine.

"What the..." he asked with curiosity.

"I never planned on hurting you physically, Tusk," Momoka explained. "I only hurt you mentally. In fact, I used a technique called Illusion to inflict wounds, but no real damage. Of course I have to cast this on the people nearby so Julio won't suspect I'm pretending to be under his control."

"So that's what it was," Julio is taken aback by the result. "I can't believe I fell for it."

"Momoka, let go of stabbing him. I'll handle the next move," I ordered and she followed it as she dropped the weapon to the ground before I turned to the Clovis-lookalike. "Now, Lelouch vi Britannia commands you... die!"

With those words, Julio is under my Geass command and got a hold of his sword from the ground, and stabbed himself with it.

"Great, Lelouch!" Ange said with sarcasm. "How will you kill my brother if you wasted your Geass at this moment?"

"Don't worry, Ange," I replied calmly. "If Julio can spawn again and again after his deaths, then that means I can use it again since his other selves are from other dimensions."

"Oh..."

"Now, let's go home."

Just as we are to go to the Aurora, Momoka is shot down from behind. By Julio, no less.

"My, my, I'm impressed," the villain said with a smile. "To think, a homunculus rejected me."

"Homunculus, huh?" I turned to him calmly. "That's what you think of her, along with the humans who use Mana? I think it makes sense now. Norma... normal... they're people that can't use Mana, but they're humans."

"When did you get this smart?" the Clovis-lookalike asked with disdain.

"Just having thought about this in pure coincidence," I replied smugly.

"Why, you...!"

Just as he is about to shoot me, Momoka defended me by blocking the bullet with her two fingers before sending it back to him.

"Lelouch, Tusk, take care of the princess," she instructed.

In fact, she has Julio's sword on her hands and try to stab him. He tried to dodge, but she uses the Light of Mana to be fast enough to stab him. Next, she used Mana to send the car on their direction, hitting them both and sending them falling to the building below as an explosion occurred.

"Momoka... Momoka..." Ange looked like she's going to cry. "Momoka!"

Tusk and I try to hold her down as there's nothing we can do about this. Momoka made her choice to sacrifice herself to save her princess.

"How could you..." Ange blames her brother for her maid's death. "Momoka..."

Good thing I managed to use the handcuffs on her to prevent her from interfering before Tusk sets the coordinates for where his vehicle will land.

"You're going to live on," Tusk told her. "I'll be back by your side, I promise."

"No," she said in worry. "No, Tusk."

Then he kissed her and gives him the necklace that, if I'm not mistaken, Ange gave him as an apology for an argument or something before the vehicle takes off with her.

"Lelouch, get out of here," Tusk told me of what to do and I followed it.

In fact, I left the building so I can get to the Aurora with my Knightmare Frame found.

It's a bittersweet outcome, but I can tell Momoka and Tusk have survived.

Author's Note: Yeah, about the last sentence, Lelouch can deduct of their survival.