Now broken free from the chains of Tofura's illusion, Samantha lifted her right hand up as she looked at Notch questionably. "Is he being controlled by someone?" she thought to herself. Right before Tofura was about to take over her mind, she heard quiet whispers, but didn't have any time to make the words said out. She sighed, holding her head high to the sky once again. Her peaceful moment was cut short by Notch, who charged at her yet again with his black sword. She held her right arm, covered with ice, to the sword, shifting her eyes to look another direction so she didn't fall under Tofura's control again. "I CAN DO THIS!" she continued, engulfing her entire body with ice. "I have to get colder like I did in the Land Of Trila! I have to unlock new heights!" She transformed back into the Ice Titan and watched Notch's infinite attacks, which were slowly penetrating her ice but not doing any critical damage towards it. "Beyond the power of the Ice Titan!" she exclaimed. Her cold fist swiftly hit Notch's face, sending him flying across the grasslands of ART at a fast pace. "It's like hypnosis, but with sound!" she thought, looking back at him as he pushed off of the hill and flew across the sky with his sword. "I'll snap him out of it completely with just one shot!" she screamed, holding out her left fist.
As soon as he drew his sword right towards Samantha once again, she swiftly punched him on the head, causing him to fling right into the ground. "Sub-Zero," she said.
Volume 12, Chapter 8 - The Plan
Tofura screamed loudly, the pain from Notch's body rubbing off on her. "Something's going on!" she informed the other five LUO generals, who bolted out of their seats to Tofura's side. "What happened, Tofura!?" Itsura screamed urgently, looking into her ocean blue eyes. "Whenever I take over someone's body, their pain can transmit from my victim to me, and if they endure too much pain, I lose control of the victim fast."
Zima, alongside Yahir and Presley, watched silently as the pain within her body settled in rapidly. "We have to get Vinnie away from this island as soon as possible, and I'm not going to watch us fail!"
Presley sighed, slowly patting Tofura on the head. "We don't have to get Vinnie now. Our main goal is to take full advantage of Notch and Princess Layla so we can take over Nahata fully." Tofura nodded, resting her power and giving Notch and Layla free will once again. "If you fall under my control fully, you lose your memory for 5 hours. Let's hope we can find and take Notch back in that time frame."
Everyone in the room except Princess Layla nodded in agreement. "We'll hold off on Vinnie for now," they all agreed.
Back at the lab, Samantha, completely uninjured but mentally drained, dragged Notch's unconscious body into the lab, dropping it right before Vinnie. "We have to tie him up, I'll tell you everything later," she said out of the blue. Gerald looked at Samantha worryingly, carrying her back to the couch and sitting her down slowly. "Looks like they're making a move before the meeting, " Gerald inferred with the context clues Samantha had given. Vinnie quickly rushed out of one of the many rooms in the lab with a rope, tying him against a pole that helped support the roof above the lab. "After he wakes up, we'll give him the choice to leave or to stay. If he goes back to his colleagues, I'll attach a radio to him to listen into their future plans."
Gerald plopped back onto the couch beside Kevin and Samantha. He looked at Natalie, who had just walked downstairs and saw the unconscious Notch on the ground right next to Vinnie. "I've studied a power like that before," she interrupted the conversation. "I believe one of them has the power to control radio waves and create different pitches of sound that can cause a human to stop thinking. The only weakness for that would be attempting to take control of someone who has uncontrollable passion."
Everyone in the room glanced at Kevin.
"Why the hell are you guys looking at me!?"
"So passion can counter the power of mind control," Samantha thought. "My domain wasn't the only reason I was able to tap out of the illusion, but the need to get stronger also contributed to it!"
"There's five more of them, one you all have encountered before, right?"
Michael nodded his head to Natalie's question. "Back when we were escaping Hamila, we had encountered Itsura, who tried to go after Kevin for some reason. As long as he thinks Kevin isn't here, we'll be perfectly fine in our mission."
The sun was now setting over the horizon, and 17 hours remained until the meeting that would reveal everything between Dreamalia and LUO.