“Yaaaaargh!”

Shirley’s blood froze at the sound of that scream, and she ran towards it without even thinking. She leaned out of a window and looked down a fire escape, seeing LH standing over Lelouch who was lying on the floor clutching at his leg. His bleeding leg. His bleeding hurt leg!

Schizoid Man blew past her like a blazing tornado, screaming “Ora!” at the top of its lungs as it went. LH noticed the attack from quite a long way off, however, and Lonely Heart was already on its way to intercept. It released projectiles in fast order as LH retreated quickly down the stairs. Shizoid Man batted them away with its fists repeatedly shouting “Ora! Ora! Ora!” as it went, and Shirley gingerly stepped down after it while ignoring the tingling feeling growing both within her knuckles and from the base of her neck.

“Are you alright?” she asked her fellow hero. He was wincing in pain and struggling to get to his feet, but he had already torn a strip from his shirt to use as a makeshift bandage.

“I’ll be fine,” he said through grit teeth. “I can barely feel any pain at all. Ng!” Lulu collapsed into her, and Schizoid Man punched the air in celebration, prompting a nasty scowl from Shirley. “He got down to the ground floor. He must be hiding in the lobby, waiting for us to try to sneak by.”

“You couldn’t change his mind?”

“No,” Lelouch admitted. “He is too afraid. I should have realised. The expression on his Stand’s face represents the despair he feels inside his heart. There isn’t a trace of hope left inside of him. They must have done something terrible to him, traumatised him to the point where he can’t think of refusing them anymore.”

“I see,” Shirley said, and the throbbing on the back of her neck grew more intense. Lelouch pulled himself away and seized the handrail with both hands, and began to limp down the stairs under his own power. “If words won’t work,” she said, the words coming out from a place she wasn’t quite sure of, “Then I’ll have to use my fists to beat some sense into him.”

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 18(b)