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Nearby Kamine Island, 2:01 p.m. The Yorktown arrived with a fleet of airships and Knightmares, to do battle with the Black Knights and Tokyo Mavericks.

Kallen: Got your voice back? Then, I’ll floss my teeth with your vocal cords!
Hawking: As much as I like your threats, Kallen, I honestly have plenty of better things to do, than fight you. I still intend to fight you, but that’s not simply why I’m here.
Tohdoh: You intend to kill us?
Ohgi: I’d like to see you try.
Hawking: If possible, yeah, but knowing you guys, that’s gonna have some difficulty. Nah, I just wanted a front row seat to the downfall of Charles zi Britannia. The last Emperor of Britannia, and the world’s biggest sucker...to himself.
Ohgi: What…? Aren’t you on the Emperor of Ego’s side, to begin with?!
Hawking: (chuckles) I like that nickname, I’m gonna use that.
Kallen: You’re throwing him and Britannia under the bus? Why?
Hawking: Take one goddamn guess. In fact, I’ve got my whiteboard, right here in the bridge! We can talk, while we fight, keeps the brain active, on top of the ham!
Tohdoh: How does your bridge crew even put up with your antics?
Hawking: Simple, Tohdoh! They’re all cyborgs! Not one AI having an existential crisis and butchering their brethren, like the inbred bits of silicon that they are.
Ohgi: (pauses) Okay, just because that word fits, doesn’t mean you can use it, whenever you want.
Hawking: Uh, ya think?

The Confederate Enclave Knightmares and airships began their approach toward the Black Knights and Tokyo Mavericks, engaging in battle, once again.

Inside the Sword of Akasha, Lelouch is shocked at seeing his mother, alive.

Lelouch: What...am I looking at?
Marianne: Your mother, silly! Oh, how I’ve missed you!
Lelouch: I missed you, too, but… Didn’t you get mauled, by a hail of bullets?
Marianne: V.V. did that, yes. It looks like Charles took his Code from him, though.
Lelouch: He’s dead, too, for enormous amounts of grave robbing, creating cyborgs from corpses, mass murder and working with known criminals and terrorists, like that dick, over there.
Charles: I can hear you.
Lelouch: That’s the point.
Marianne: Really? I mean, he was your uncle, but he did betray us. How did he die?
Lelouch: Powerful plastic explosives, up the rectum.
Marianne: Ooh...! That doesn’t sound good, for an old man who was unable to grow up and experience prostate exams.
Lelouch: What about your husband?
Charles: Am I a joke, to you, boy!?
Lelouch: You’re a joke, to everyone.
Charles: Listen, here-!
Marianne: Do behave, Lelouch. We did all this, for you and Nunnally.
Lelouch: (pauses) What? You’re a part of all this?!
Marianne: That’s right! And, now, we’ll all go to the new world, together! As a family! Isn’t that great?
Lelouch: You do realize that there’ll be nobody in this so-called new world, right?
Marianne: Of course, there will be others! (stands next to Charles) There will be you, me, your father, your brothers and sisters, everybody.
Lelouch: That’s a lie, and you know it!
Charles: Allow me to enlighten you, further. Yes, these events began, because my mother was killed. But, do you know of why she was killed? Because, we lived in a time where the succession to rule Britannia was in a constant state of crisis. Assassinations, betrayals, numerous amounts of terrible actions, all brought about by lies. My brother and I, we were outraged by such atrocities, angered by the world and how it was. When our mother died, we swore an oath, promising to create a world without lies.
Marianne: C.C. and I were both on board with this idea, as we had come from similar backgrounds. V.V., however was...a bit on the jealous side.
Lelouch: I heard, from Alistair. V.V. didn’t realize that you shared the same goal, not realizing that teamwork is a thing.
Marianne: ...To the point, yes. But, as I was on the precipice of death, I saw a little girl, Anya Alstreim. My Geass allows me to cross into another person’s mind.
Lelouch: So, how are you here, now? You were actually dead.
Marianne: Well...mostly dead. It seems that Hawking had a trick up his sleeve, behind V.V.’s back.
Charles: I told Hawking about what happened, and he offered to help in ensuring Marianne’s revival. A coffin that not only preserved her body, but also healed it, over time.
Marianne: Over time, I could feel myself coming back to life, but I didn’t want to deactivate my Geass, just yet.
Charles: After everything we went through, my brother lied to me. We had promised to create a world without lies, and he would dare to use the very thing we fought so hard against!
Lelouch: The apple doesn’t fall far, from the tree. It’s also a bit ironic that you’re complaining about that, when you were doing the exact same thing, to the people you rule over.
Charles: I have not lied! Not once! I simply did not tell them, let alone you!
Lelouch: Enough!

The museum faded into dust, as the area changed back to the ruined temple, the DNA-like pillar still moving.

Lelouch: All you’ve done is dig yourself deeper into the shit list of the world. Talk all you want about trying to make the world a better place, for yourselves, but that doesn’t change the fact that you abandoned Nunnally and I, in Japan!
Charles: It was to protect you!
Lelouch: Bullshit!
Marianne: Lelouch! Language!
Lelouch: You ditched your own children in another country...then went to war with it! You don’t get to call that protection!

Back outside, the battle between the Enclave and the Black Knights continued, Hawking in the bridge of the Yorktown writing on a whiteboard, with markers.

Hawking: Honestly speaking, sending your kids to a foreign country you know nothing about, then going to war with it, isn’t honestly a move I would have used.
Darlton: (Tenkai punches through the cockpits of two Knightmares) Says the man who turned his own bastard son, the one he chose to bond with, into a cybernetic force of destruction.
Hawking: Yeah. ‘Cause I chose to. Sue me.
Tohdoh: (Zangetsu cuts through Sutherland REVO with Brake Sword) Hypocrisy aside, you’ve cut off ties with the Emperor of Ego. Why?
Hawking: Obviously, because he’s a nihilist. He ain’t got a good view of humanity, and wants to wipe it out, like the whiny little bitch that he is, inside.
Kallen: Now that I remember... In all those dimensions that you saw, was there ever one where this Ragnarok Connection thing ever happened? (Guren shoots Vincent with its revolver)
Hawking: (laughs) Hell, no! That’s exactly how stupid it was! It was doomed to failure, from its very conception! Think about it! If the Ragnarok Connection even has a name, and was thought of, that means that the guys who thought it up pussed out. Why? Because, there would no longer be a future, if it happened. Time, feeling, emotions, the sense of self, perception, everything would be reduced to naught. If that shit ever worked, I’d have seen some bleak whiteness, for a while. Which is boring and depressing, at the same time.
Ohgi: Make all the points you want, we’re still going to kill you, for all that you’ve done. (Burai shoots down two Gloucesters)
Hawking: Hey, I wouldn’t have it, any other way.

Back inside the Sword of Akasha, Lelouch is further angered and disgusted by the actions and motivations of his former parents.

Lelouch: All this time, you’ve caused nothing but suffering, because of some petty revenge!?
Charles: The Ragnarok Connection is everything, except petty!
Marianne: Don’t you see, Lelouch? When our plan reaches fruition, there won’t be any more suffering. There will be no more masks to hide who people really are, and everyone will be who they’re supposed to be.
Lelouch: “Supposed”? You two...really don’t get it, do you? You don’t understand what normalcy even is.
Charles: What is normalcy, but another lie, created by humanity? There is no normal, in this world.
Lelouch: Guess my words are wasted, on you. How about you guys? What do you think, about these two?

As the dust settled, Lelouch turned around to see Suzaku, C.C. and Alistair entering the dimension.

Alistair: I’ll admit, I was definitely off. Charles is more deluded than I gave him credit for.
Charles: Again, with you, Wake... Let’s try making you obey, again-
Alistair: Oh, I guess you didn’t do too much of your homework, Emperor of Ego. When you take up a Code, you sacrifice your original Geass power. Well, in the immortality case, anyway.
Charles: ...Oh. There goes that advantage. I could go on about you, Wake, but I’d rather save my breath.
Alistair: No, no, by all means! Tell me what you think about me, the guy that’s taken your plan and used it as a toilet.
Charles: Other than taking America away from Hawking, which is another angering matter, entirely… You saw fit to set your sights on the country that ruled yours, before you were ever even born. You had the nerve, the audacity, to fight against the Holy Empire of Britannia, and brand yourself a criminal, a terrorist. Is this how you show your gratitude, American? Where is the respect Britannia deserves, for ruling your country?
Alistair: Went down the crapper, the moment you committed yourself to fascism, like the criminal empire that you are.
Charles: Again, with the audacity! You, who killed innocent people!
Alistair: Pretty sure known criminals and soldiers of your so-called country don’t count as innocent civilians.
Charles: You created massacre after massacre!
Alistair: Says the guy that’s okay with genocide, all over the globe.
Charles: You betrayed the law!
Alistair: And, there it is! There is where your petty fetish lies! LAW! That’s precisely what makes your military terrorists, to begin with! Place countries under martial law, just so you can control them, because you don’t think they’re running it, correctly! Am I wrong, so far!?
Charles: Very! Simply calling Britannia’s military a terrorist organization is wholeheartedly incorrect. They are a force of justice-
Alistair: Tell me, what’s the definition of terrorism?
Charles: Simple. The act of resisting against the rule of Britannia.
Alistair: Not the Britannian definition, the universal definition.
Charles: There is only one definition of terrorism.
Alistair: (chuckles) Terrorism is the utilization of fear, in order to gain results. And...what does your military do, when it takes over a country, slaughters hundreds, thousands of people?
Charles: Creates peace.
Alistair: Creates terror, fear. Therefore, Britannia is a country willing to do whatever it takes, to be the only country, in existence.
C.C.: You can’t win this, Charles. Our contract is over, you’re outnumbered, and you’ve managed to piss off everyone in the whole world, with your egotistical nonsense. It’s over.
Suzaku: I like that, that’s really good.
Charles: Really, now? You do realize that you’re here, right?
C.C.: Change the scenery, already.
Charles: As you wish.

Charles aimed the Geass symbol on his right hand at C.C., and it glowed, along with the symbol on C.C.’s forehead, and the scenery within the Sword of Akasha shattered, revealing an immense technological dome, with a view of what appeared to be Venus, as the dark pillar extended towards it. Outside, an earthquake occured, and a strange aurora filled the sky above Kamine Island.

Kallen: What the hell?!
Hawking: Ah, don’t worry, it’ll fade, in a cool minute.