Disappearing in a flash of light was both a genuine escape and a parlor trick. Tesni had already tasted the Reflection of the Moon's power to commute between reflective surfaces, and amidst the glass paned metropolis of London that in and of itself was enough to rapidly move without difficulty. But to escape the walled academy required a surface of their own already in place, far from the reach of pesky monkeys. 

Tsubasa stood atop a disc of shimmering silver, the UFO gliding with ease along the london sky on a rare sunny day. She cast a look back at Merrywell, seeing where she stood through the myriad holes Dynasty Queen had made, though the spectacle of a striken Merrywell was eclipsed by the monstrous fire she saw at her mall hideout. [color=C71585]"What a shame. I had been enjoying that art supply store."[/color]

The Light of the Moon perked it's head up, reaching into her sleeve and pulling free several tubes of oil pants she waved like a child presenting their haul of candybars. Her peers tittered, soft sounds of amusement filtering through the air while Tsubasa felt her tense muscles relax and settle in to enjoy a tranquil ride over the horizon before looking for a new hideout.

Her pleasant stop at the shop comes to a violent end when a large explosion is heard above. Below Tsubasa a smoldering hole appeared in her flying saucer, which was beginning to teeter off and drift into a building.

A crafted howitzer had fired from below, launching mortar and destroying any plans of a tranquil ride. A large tank crawled across the road like a beetle with rapid speed, large headlights glaring down the villainous Magical Girl as there was one force she had not yet been able to elude or outwit.

[color=silver]"Ze American is here!"[/color] Valeria hissed, on the top of her tank as she aimed down her golden revolver towards the girl. [color=silver]"By order of the Academy, I'm taking you in! Dead or alive, it's going to end here for me or you!"[/color]

Valeria knew how to make an introduction. She had spotted Tsubasa just as she had left Merrywell, her saucer not the easiest thing to hide as it trailed through the sky. The emboldened magical gunslinger armed with the protective spell Ozma had given to her took it upon herself to challenge the villain alone. The least she could do for the students she was not able to protect.

She'd kick herself for fighting for the Academy, but she'd tell herself she's doing it for Ozma.

The four passengers jolted upwards and the Attendants clung to each other, pantomiming desperate prayer as they felt the saucer teeter down to the earth with increasing speed. Given Roma's lacadasical reaction to sudden artillery fire they weren't begrudged their theater and she peered down at a Magical Teacher who seemed just as destructive as Dynasty Queen. [color=C71585]"At least she admits it."[/color]

[color=C71585]"You three can enjoy a rest while I deal with this. Consider this your vacation."[/color] The Celestial Rabbit gave them a nod before stepping off the side of the plummeting craft as it hobbled on towards the Thames. In free fall, a streak of color robes flapping in the breeze as she angled towards the tank and the revolver toting Magical Girl, her fan snapping out to the side and opening. The fin caught the wind and began to spin, accelerating into a drill that came crashing down till the precise moment she snapped the fan closed and choped down directly onto the barrel of Val's tank. 

[color=C71585]"As the only teacher who has deigned to try and stop me, I accept this challenge."[/color]

All the while as Tsubasa approached down to confront the teacher she is being fired on by a machine gun placement on the rim of the tank's hatch. Her fan turned drill saw cracked off the end of the gun but Valeria had plenty of explosives toys to bring to bear against her dangerous opponent.

Several bursts of shotgun fire launched off to the magical girl's chest as the German refused to hold back. Her arms working themselves up a hot steam as she simply salvages metal from the tank to be compressed into guns and ammo. Explosive shells cast forward and Valeria jumped off the hull to continue her pursuit.

[color=silver]"This is for all the girls you've terrorized!"[/color] Another shot. [color=silver]"This one is for calling me an American!"[/color] She'd empty the magazine and discharge the last canister.

The ceaseless firing in the truest American spirit was a hinderance that had the Eel's tense, body moving constantly as she tracked the trajectories of of the many barrels and found even with presience there was precious little to be done with so many vectors and further spreads of shotgun pellets. The racket of shot pinging off her splayed fan was defeaning, guarding her head while her body felt tenderized beneath her robes. 

[color=C71585]"I may have terrorized them but I've killed far fewer then you lot ever shall." [/color]The rabbit let her gifts fall upon Val, and unlike Dynasty Queen there are ample opening that did not due well when being blocked with golden obstructions. Jamming barrels and sticking pins in the exposed joints of Val's limbs, Tsubasa chose to endure the pummeling till she knew the guns would draw silent and rush in to introduce her fan to Val's face.

Valeria doesn't go unscathed. She'd take Tsubasa's cheeky assault and even as her weapon fell from a jammed left arm, she wouldn't stop using her own body as a weapon. Jettisoning forward with rocket powered boots she'd slam into Tsubasa, a free right arm crushing her fan with powerful metal hands that shred the fabric. There is no need for guns where rocket powered fists that pummel into the Light of the Moon.

[color=silver]"Enough tricks and bullshit!"[/color] Valeria said, face to face with the villain. [color=silver]"I've not killed a single girl! I've held myself back! I know full damn well what magical girls can be capable of and what myself as a German is capable of! I'll never stoop to that low, I'll never force violence upon others or make them do something against their will! I'm not a psycho like you are!"[/color]

With that said, the girl attempted to pin the witch against the pavement. All the while her tank still rolling forward on its treads without a pilot and threatening to crush them both underneath...

[color=silver]"You surrender now. I'm not budging. We'll go together, I'll make sure of it..."[/color] The girl snarled in a bitter tongue, prepared to go as far as needed to fullfill her promise.

Tackled to the pavement in the most brutish of fashions, Tsubasa considered the resolve of the girl astride her and didn't find it wanting. The rain of gold obstructions ceased and hear ears quirked curiously as she settled beneath the teacher. 

[color=C71585]"Hmm, perhaps you are one of the better ones. Though abandoning your duties just to kill little old me may say otherwise, I will assume you are incensed by my slanderous remarks to your nationality."[/color] The rabbit deflated, admiting defeat with grace and far too much ease. But it wasn't like Val knew what she had kept up her robe and she saw no great loss in yielding one worth at least a modicum of respect. 

[color=C71585]"I yield, Krieger."[/color]

Valeria stared down her prey. The fire in her eyes and that inflamed her heart still burning, demanding for a bloody catharsis. Reason finally cooled her off, and with her remaining arm she'd have the tank dissassembled and returned to her living grimoire before it could crush the pair. Quick metal cuffs are latched around Tsubasa's wrists and ankles to prevent an immediate escape. She'd force the villain to her feet while shaking out the golden bits in her arm to restore its functionality.

[color=silver]"Yeah and maybe there's something still good inside of that wicked heart of yours. We'll find out about both of us won't we?"[/color]

Valeria would make sure none of her attendants interferred as she kept a weapon trained on the villain's back, forcing her to march back into the tank to be returned to the academy she had just ransacked.