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Momo Ayase, Rokuro Serpo and Serpo vs. Imotako and Serpo (Controlled) is a battle that took place in Empty Space inside the maid cafe Moe Moe Kikoho. The Kur orchestrated various ambushes on Okarun, Aira and Jiji, with Momo being attacked last. Upon opening empty space, the humans in the restaurant were replaced with Serpo clones, hacked by the Kur and controlled remotely. Noticing Momo's alliance with an indipendent Serpo named Rokuro and the tides of the battle changing, Imotako jumps in the fight.
Prologue[]
At the end of the school day, Momo leaves Bamora with Okarun, prompting him to accompany her home and tell him not to do anything weird. She then heads off to her part time job at Moe Moe Kikoho, where she works until evening. Unbeknownst to her, in the meantime, Okarun, Aira and Jiji were attacked by the members of the Kur Advance Unit, looking to use their bodies as power cells to accelerate the warp of their main fleet. They are all left in critical conditions and Okarun's is the most severe, although Mr. Mantis Shrimp thankfully rescued them and began taking care of their injuries.
The generated Serpo clones resembling the "This Man" urban legend.
Inside the maid cafe, Momo fulfills the customers' orders, gaining lots of popularity and the clients even get in each others' way just to interact with her, either to ask for coffee, play together at a board game or take a photo. Her colleague however reaches over, reminding her that she usually leaves at nine. Momo notices the time and thanks the girl before rushing to the staff room to change herself, aware that if she doesn't return home soon, Reiko Kashima will find her. She is annoyed by the fact that she has to keep up with her curse for an entire week while she tries to open the door, realizing that it's locked. She calls out to her colleague but as she turns around, she's shocked to see that everybody's faces have changed to an eerie middle aged man, all staring right at her.
Battle[]
The clones overwhelming Momo with their numbers.
The horde of clones wrecks havoc and flips the tables just so they can run towards her, forcing Momo to activate her psychokinesis and send the tables and the attackers on her right flying into the wall. Unexpectedly a group of clones clap their hands, generating a pressure wave that almost made Momo roll back. She stands her ground and repels the psychokinetic attack with her own, however some clones try to avoid the high pressure area by running on the walls. Momo notices the duo and throws her right arm backwards, generating a whip-like effect that makes them crash into the tables below, covering both sides and thus avoiding the attackers flanking her. She doesn't take into consideration flying objects and the clones unleash a storm of cutlery, plates and glasses, hurting her. Momo decides to block the projectiles in the air, although this allows the clones to push their psychokinesis further and overwhelm Momo, catapulting her into the wall. Two customers then sweep in and take her arms, forcing her down on the pavement as the clones maintain their psychokinesis, rendering her unable to activate her abilities. The clones shift their clothing appearance and inform Momo that resistance is futile, remarking that because Earth is overwhelming with powerful individuals like her, they will be able to make a revolutionary suit. Momo screams to be freed, believing that they are working with the Serpo and she won't allow them to get away with what they have done. The clones however state that the information stolen from the Serpo was correct, realizing that Momo's strength of will is astounding and they are barely able to keep her in check, ultimately thanking Bamora for leading them to her.
A hacked Serpo being restored thanks to the irons.
Hearing this shocks Momo, who connects her gut feeling to the comment of Turbo Granny regarding Bamora's suit being powered by human karma. Now powerless, she can't stop a clone from extracting a device to dissect her, pointing it to her temple. Momo can only blame herself for falling to Bamora's trick but before the operation can begin, everybody is flung away without warning. The scarred Serpo who attacked them appears behind her, demanding for the clones to return the device they have stolen. Momo initially considers him an enemy too yet the alien, who will later name himself Rokuro, hands her a iron, requesting her help to sandwich the enemies' faces between two of those objects. The crowd charges at her and left with no choice, she agrees to team up with him, using her powers to send the iron flying into one of the clones along with Rokuro. Incredibly, the clone acquires the iconic Serpo's appearance and follows Rokuro, activating their Six Sensory Organs to throw the enemies away. This confuses Momo so Rokuro explains that the people they are fighting are Serpo clones just like him, although their data was overwritten at the time of birth and thus their form has changed. Momo wonders if her coworker and everybody inside the cafe was a clone too but he reassures that there was simply a poor data transfer when entering Empty Space. The three of them are launched back by the enemy's psychokinesis, frustrating Momo who asks him to shut their clones off, however Rokuro admits that their data was altered and their arsenal stolen by deadly aliens who they had never seen before.
The Serpo and the newborn Serpo fighting each other.
Despite this, she tells him to focus on fighting and she redirects her iron to a hacked clone who tried jumping onto her. Crushed between the two devices, Rokuro now has two clones on his side which grants him the Awesome Zone, generating an incredible amount of pressure that plummets multiple enemies to the ground inside its range, turning them docile. Momo takes this opportunity to sandwich the enemies with the two irons through her psychokinesis, reaching a total of eleven Serpo by her side. Now with both sides equally numbered, an all-out brawl breaks out where flying kicks, punches and telekinetic powers are allowed. Still, Momo's party prevails because of her psychokinesis which she uses to convert more and more clones to their side. Everything changes when Momo spots the eldritch monster Imotako attached to the ceiling, prompting one of her allies to emit a Six Sensory Organ its way. Unexpectedly, the impact forms a crater in the ceiling but the overall attack seemed to phase through it without dealing damage. Suddenly, the creature extrudes its skin forward and stabs the clone on its forehead at a surprising speed, taking control over it and changing its face to match his own. The Imotako clone begins throwing punches at Momo and she narrowly dodges them, understanding that the alien on the ceiling can also convert the Serpo to his side. She's then blown back by a Six Sensory Organ emission and she falls backwards, however two Serpo intervene and smash the enemy's face with the irons, turning him back to their side. This is rendered useless by Imotako, who pierces the duo who rescued the clone and convert them instead, striking the conscious Serpo in the face. Realizing that they are just going back and forth, she dodges the sharp spikes sent her way and hurls a chair to strike Imotako, although this physical attack fails too.
Imotako violently slinging Momo around the cafe.
While still holding off the enemy crowd, Rokuro shouts to Momo that Imotako is positioned in another higher dimension, meaning that their attacks won't collide with him but not the other way around. She realizes how unfair this is but he reassures her that her psychokinetic attacks can interfere with him, saying this as she evades the protrusions which makes more and more Serpo fall under his control. The enemies now start overwhelming their forces so Rokuro asks her to focus on Imotako, otherwise they will be wiped out. Momo extends her power and attempts to grab the alien yet she's mysteriously attracted and crashes onto the ceiling, redirecting her abilities to block the close-ranged spikes trying to stab her. Rokuro states that Imotako cannot be dragged into their dimension and he suggests to attack him directly, to which Momo admits that her power's main feat is to simply grab and move stuff after she's sent flying into a wall and plummets to the floor. Shockingly, one of Imotako's spikes succesfully lands and pierces her left arm, making Momo scream in pain as the protrusion wraps around her and flings her uncontrollably around the room, all the while the alien continues to turn the Serpo to his side. With their forces dwindling, Rokuro begs Momo to hurry despite her condition and she even tries catching Imotako's spike with her hand, in vain. She starts losing consciousness and she thinks about how weak she is and the only reason for her survival is due to Okarun rescuing her everytime. Before blacking out, she recalls Miko forcing her to say the maid motto with conviction to make her coffee tasty, making her remember a concept Seiko taught her when she was little.
Momo killing Imotako with her Moe Moe Tri-Beam.
The "Power of Words" can alter reality and Seiko mentioned that the young Momo's feet were on fire, asking her what they were called. Momo shouted "Kick!" and Seiko ordered to say that while attacking a sandbag, although she barely moved it. Seiko told her that such a weak kick wouldn't launch annoying boys away and instead urged her to tell her what's the most powerful creature in the world. She responded with Nessie so Seiko wrote it on her bat and told her granddaughter to believe it was the real one. She then showcased the power of words by striking the sandbag while shouting Nessie's name, shooting it skyward. Connecting it back to her maid motto, Momo finally makes up a name to unleash a powerful attack with this concept. At the same time, the Serpo are overwhelmed by the Imotako controlled clones through physical attacks and psychokinesis, with Rokuro also being taken down and walked on by the enemy army as they make their way towards Momo. The girl, seemingly cornered, suddenly makes a hand sign with her hands and unleashes a powerful psychokinetic cannon that catapults away the attackers, shocking both Rokuro and Imotako. Rokuro warns her about Imotako and before she can tear her apart with the spikes wrapped around her, Momo charges up a second time and unleashes the devastating Moe Moe Tri-Beam, obliterating the alien despite residing in a higher dimension and ending the battle.
Aftermath[]
Rokuro's body after the intense battle.
The explosion repels everybody with sheer force and Momo crashes hard against the force, deprived of her energies after such an intense psychokinetic release. Looking over, the Imotako clones revert to their original Serpo form, smiling menacingly as they surround the girl laying on the ground. The clones point out that it would be very easy for them to seize her in that state, so Momo bluffs and warns them that she's going to blast them away with her Moe Moe Tri-Beam. The Serpo don't believe her and they walk closer, testing her statement. Without warning, the clones disappear before they can touch her, teleported away by Rokuro who informs her that because they still needed to be updated, they did not understand how frightening Momo's power truly is. Rokuro, left only with his upper body, proclaims that they must make a truce and cooperate to take down their common enemy, relieving her. Momo starts patching up her injuries and asks him if he has a device to instantly cure wounds, though he reiterates that the Kur took everything from them. He also affirms that they do not match up any of the 666 alien species in the galaxy, theorizing that they must have come through the use of a long-range warping technology, a medium which requires a mediating system such as the pyramids, originally made to transport people to planets with advanced, or the Kofun burial mounds in Japan.
Momo and Rokuro hiding in the Kappatsu Club.
Momo wonders if between them there was a girl that fought with a Kaiju exosuit, to which Rokuro sort of confirms. This leads her to fully believe that Bamora is a spy, however this is pushed aside when Rokuro informs her that her friends are probably being attacked and they must hurry to rescue them. Momo rushes to get ready and orders him to close empty space, yet Rokuro insists that she has to take him with her because he must delete the data they stole from his species. She declines the offer since at the end of the day they are still enemies, though she soon realizes that it's too late to return home because Reiko Kashima is still searching for her. She decides to visit the manga cafe Kappatsu Club by wearing Rokuro as a suit due to minors not being allowed to stay overnight.