It was amazing what a little perspective could do for you. Before, Milly had thought the whole Black Knight thing was interesting, a little exciting, but that ultimately nothing major would come from it and things would settle into a new norm. But combine her memories with Kallen's and you get a little bit of a clearer picture. You get the idea that Britannia maybe does need a bit of a kick in the teeth and that they should maybe do something about it. After all. It's quite one thing to feel bad about the downtrodden. It's quite another to actually have context for those experiences. To lose someone in the struggle, to suffer directly from the cruelty instead of seeing it happen to someone else.
Not to mention that Kallen's memories helped her realise exactly who Zero was by filling in a few blanks. Like that C.C. woman, for instance. My, my, Lelou! How positively naughty. No wonder Kallen wanted to bed him, that was all quite exciting!
The only trouble was, Kallen-Milly was pretty sure that the other Millys wouldn't really understand that. She remembered not getting it. She remembered not understanding it. So, a little touch of lying and manipulation to help things out. No big deal. Kallen did it all the time. All. The. Time.
First things first? Gotta clean up! This didn't take too long, but it did give them a bit of a chance to talk things over before going any further.
"So, how do we want to do this?" Rivalz asked. "Tag Suzaku, use him to get close?"
"Seems like a good plan," Milly replied. "Maybe go for my darling fiance while we're at it. Reinforce my approach and all that."
"It's just a shame," Kallen sighed. "You can only control two people at any given time. Not to mention it seems to need direct eye contact."
"Yep! But once you've got that eye contact, you can just take over whenever you want. Get the right people, find a way to keep an eye on them..."
"Not to mention that it gives access to their memories!" Kallen added. "That way gives you all sorts of advantages. Control, information. You can make the world a much better place, the Milly way!"
"Oh, listen to you two!" Milly giggled, flicking back a stray strand of hair. "Hearing you talk like that is going to set me off again if you're not careful."
"That's assuming that's not our goal in the first place," Rivalz remarked.
Before the conversation could proceed, the three of them noticed Nina starting to move again. Both Kallen and Rivalz stopped cold, relying on memories to try and act the part. For Kallen she had to adopt the meek act, while Rivalz was the jokey boy. Definitely a marked alteration from the girlish body language he'd been displaying just now.
"Millypocalypse!" Nina suddenly yelled, breathing heavily and not in the fun way. More like the "woke up from a nightmare" way. "Ah! Wh-What's going on? Did I faint?"
"Yes, but it's alright," Kallen said, meekly approaching Nina to lean down and look her in the eye. How wonderfully recursive. Pretending to be a girl that was pretending to be sickly. But Milly Ashford was nothing if not an excellent performer. Which is exactly why the very next thing she did was pinch Nina's cheeks because she was so adorably shy. "You probably didn't get enough sleep last night, hun! Get yourself to bed earlier tonight and you'll feel so much more refreshed."
"Ah!" Nina gasped. "I remember now! Something about... About Milly taking over people!"
"Oh, dear Nina, you'd be so much cuter if you didn't have such an overactive imagination," Milly sighed. "Do you really think I could do something amazing like that? Even I'm not that charismatic, and nor am I that sexy!"
"Well, I don't know about the second thing," Rivalz lewdly remarked, even more lewdly checking out Milly's chest. And why not. Those were a perfectly good pair on a perfectly good body. Showed signs of good mental health as well as good taste.
But Kallen wasn't idle while that was going on. She looked Nina dead in the eye, and activated her Geass... To absolutely no effect at all. She'd been thinking about how, if it had worked, then Nina should have blinked her left eye. But no. She just stared right past Kallen at the other two. How crushingly disappointing. She'd been hoping maybe she could have taken over some of the Black Knights this way...
All she could do was turn to Milly and shake her head a little. Hopefully the other her got the message. They needed the original, the best Milly Ashford to improve people personally. It wouldn't work otherwise. So many rules for this thing that she had to learn when all she wanted to do was have some fun with it.
"Rivalz," Milly said. From the way the boy was suddenly shaking his head, it seemed very much like her control over him had been relinquished. "Why don't you head out and find some painkillers? I think it might help Nina feel a little better, don't you?"
"Huh?" Rivalz said. "Uh... Okay, sure thing! Back before you know it."
Nina really didn't stand a chance after that. All it took was for Kallen to force the shy girl's head so that she was making contact with Milly the second Rivalz left the room, and her body language went through a drastic and immediate change. The normally reserved, normally quiet and slightly scared of the world Nina Einstein flipped her switch from hesitant introvert to sultry extravert. Kallen moved in for the kiss immediately and found it easily met.
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You know, it did Milly's heart a world of good watching two of her best friends swap spit. Especially those two. She'd always felt that Nina would make a more sultry, sexy beast if she let down her hair a bit and here was the proof. All it took was a bit of self confidence to transform a plain-looking girl into a bombshell. And Kallen? Poor girl really needed a bit of action. Being half Eleven and taking time off school so often couldn't be all that good for her social life.
"Unfortunately," Milly said, interrupting the two from their fun. "We probably don't have the time for another threesome before Rivalz gets back."
"Mmmm, what a shame," Nina said with an unexpected steaminess in her eyes when she pulled away from Kallen. "Turns out Nina's stuck further and deeper in the closet than that collection of toys we got when we were in that egg whisk stage. She's been having all sorts of naughty dreams. About you two, Shirley, and especially Princess Euphemia... If we're going after her, I say we give Nina first dibs. It might break her out of that shell she's trapped herself in."
"You know, at this point we might as well get the rest of the council under our influence first," Kallen observed. "You can't tell me you wouldn't like the chance to get a chance at laying any of those three, right?"
"Suzaku the fitness freak," Milly said. "Shirley, an easy ten. And dear sweet Lelou, who needs to get laid so he'd be a little less serious. Yep. That sounds pretty good to me!"
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When confronted with the constant antics of Milly Ashford, you either got used to it or... No, you pretty much just got used to it. So when Shirley found herself wandering into the council room and found their dirty-old-man-like president alongside Kallen and Nina wearing some sexy catsuits, well, she wasn't exactly happy. But it wasn't like she could really do anything about it either.
"What's this in aide of?" she asked in a rather tentative manner. "Another festival?"
"A party, actually," Kallen said, adjusting her ears. "I still can't believe you persuaded me into this."
"What can I say?" Milly shrugged. "I'm very persuasive when I have to be."
"No complaints or disagreements here!" Rivalz said, adopting his usual accomplice-like role. Not only in helping Milly's antics along in a transparent attempt at getting into her panties, but also in helping Lelou sneak out of school to gamble. Oh, that boy was going to get one of them in trouble one of these days with his assistance. "Man, I never knew Nina had such a nice figure to her."
She whapped him on the arm for that one. Nina was probably dying from humiliation as it was even without comments like that. Though Shirley could at least admit that her friend did look a bit prettier today than normal. Something about her seemed a little bit different somehow?
"Never mind that!" Shirley said. "A party? This is the first I'm hearing about it. What party is this?"
"You know, I don't remember hearing anything about this either," Rivalz said to Kallen's butt. Another whap to the arm. "Am I invited too?"
"Nope, sorry!" Milly said. "This is just for us girls. Call it a fun little experiment. Of course, you're invited if you want to come, Shirley."
"Parading around in those outfits all night for your personal amusement?" she asked, flopping down into a seat in as indignant a manner as she could manage. "Thanks, but no thanks! I think I'll pass."
But little did she realise that this was only the start of Milly's plan. Step one for now was getting Shirley under the influence of Milly's Geass. Step two, use her to get to Lelouch. Although what Milly didn't realise was that Kallen had her own plan extending beyond even that. With Lelouch under her control, they could go after Suzaku as well, and from there seize gradual control over the Black Knights and the local Britannian authority step by step, target by target.
Just like Kallen had promised her mother in hospital. Working to make a better world for everyone. Just the way Milly Ashford would….
- Meanwhile, Lelouch is becoming increasingly suspicious and observes from afar.
- Turns out Shirley's coming to this party no matter what.
- The student council meeting proceeds with the girls all wearing sexy catgirl suits. In spite of Shirley's protests.
- Something else
Very very nice, nice to get more explanation on how the power works and it's very fun reading about Milly in all the different people.
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