(Author's Note/:

Rizu: "Hey, it's Rizu Neko-chan here! This is the three-quil to the series that I co-write with my awesome cousin, on whos account this story is posted! We've been working on this since FOREVER. Not neccessarily because it's really good, it's just that it's pretty long (longer than expected) and we both had some heavy cases of writer's block."

Keito: "WE had writer's block? Ha! You were too busy working on 'Lights out! Panic at Minto's Mansion' to pay any attention to this poor little fic! Aww, give me a hug, you cute little fic, you! -hugglez-"

Rizu: "-cough- Anyway, this story has a lot of angst-ridden KxI fluff in the beginning, but kind of evens out ship-wise as it goes along."

Keito: "And you actually thought I was converted to KxI! Haha! RxI 4 eva! 3"

Rizu: "This fic also stars two fanfiction OCs that are guesting by request: Mika and Angie! Thanks for signing up for this load of chaos, guys! I hope you find yourselves to be in character! As a side note, sorry, Mika, but you don't exactly 'end up' with Kish by the end..."

Keito: "She's gonna throw a fit, you know..."

Rizu: "Enough rambling! Enjoy, everyone! Oh, yeah, before we forget..."

Keito: "We do not own or claim ownership to Toyko Mew Mew, or any related titles, logos, or characters!"

Rizu: "Commense awesomeness!"

---

"Love you! Bye mom!" Kate said, giving her mom a kiss and climbing out of the car.

She had just arrived at Liz's house, for what she called, 'A super fantastical sleepover'.

Liz was already waiting on the steps.

"Lizaroonie!" Kate shouted, running over to hug her cousin.

They hugged and then sprinted inside.

Once they were inside, Liz's sisters (nicknames here), Re and Fe, tackled Kate.

"KATIE!" They both screamed.

"Hiyaz!" She said in return, prying their claw-like fingernails from her skin.

When they finally let go, Kate whispered in Liz's ear.

"Alright, Liz... time for what we discussed over the phone... get Re."

Liz nodded and as Kate ran up the stairs,(Fe was gone by now) she motioned at Re to come along.

Liz closed the door to the computer room firmly behind them.

"Okay... Re, we, Liz and I, discussed something yesterday before I came and..." Kate began explaining the whole story of the internet add and the white space.

Re listened intently, nodding occasionally. And then at the end, she burst out.

"Ooh! I wanna go! Please?!"

"Yeah... you can go," Kate said.

"If we can get back..." Liz mumbled.

"Huh?" Re questioned.

"Uh re... we kinda don't know how to get back..." Kate said, sending a nasty glare to Liz.

"WHAT DID I DO?!" Liz said, as if she didn't know what she had done.

"YOU CRUSHED HER STUPID SOUL! YOU SOUL CRUSHER!" Kate hissed.

Liz, being the mature person she is, just sighed and let the argument pass.

"Uh... Can I say something?" Re said, cowering back in fear of Kate.

"Sure..." Kate said, her voice still sounding the slightest bit annoyed.

"Uh... You found the add online... so wouldn't that be the first place we'd look to get back?"

Immediately, as if on instinct, Liz hopped on the computer chair, got on the internet, and had a search browser up in three seconds flat.

"Okay... What should we search"? She said, spinning the chair around to look at the other two.

"How about..." Kate said, but Re cut her off.

"Experience anime like never before! Because that's what the add said exactly." Re added emphasis to the word exactly.

"Sure..." Liz's voice trailed of as the search began.

Instantly, millions of links came up.

"Woah..." Liz muttered under her breath, scrolling through the endless pages of ads, "This is impossible, how are we supposed to find it in this mess?"

"We're not." muttered Re darkly. She was getting impatient, not to mention suspicious whether this whole thing was a fake. Kate sighed,

"How about we try yelling it into the sky? That ought to work, it did in the fiction world!"

"Sure, we'll give it a shot." Liz shrugged. They both yelled,

"IF ONLY WE WERE BACK IN THE FICTION WORLD!"

They stopped and looked around. Outside the window, the neighbors gave them strange looks. Somewhere, a dog barked.

"So much for that idea." Liz said. She was getting disappointed. Kate nodded,

"What now?"

Liz sat down and thought. Not surprisingly, she thought some more. Kate and Re looked at each other and shrugged. After a few minutes of thinking, Liz jumped up, nearly scaring the shoes off of the other two,

"I've got it!"

She ran straight to the computer and brought up Word Processor. Clicking the 'New' link, she typed a single line:

Kate, Liz, and Re all were immediately transported to the world of anime.

They all experienced that sucking feeling once more, the wind rushing past their faces, hair whipping across their skin.

"What's happening?!" Re yelled.

"Just wait!" Kate yelled back, her tone of utter joy.

Finally, they all sunk back down, touching onto earth. Looking around, though, they realized they weren't in the blank abyss. Their feet touched a pavement path.

Kate smelled the air and walked down the path a ways. Liz nodded to Re and they both walked after her.

After traveling through a small park Re stopped and the other two looked back. "I know where we are…" She spoke in a small voice, "We're in the Tokyo Mew Mew world."

Kate screeched for joy as Liz's eyes, you know the drill, grew wider.

"Im-a gonna get to see Ryou! Im-a gonna get to see Ryou!" Kate said in a singsong voice, and soon Re joined her, but replaced "Ryou" with "Kisshu".

Meanwhile, Liz seemed to be pondering something.

Kate stopped abruptly.

"Liz... why aren't you dancing?" She questioned.

"I want to test out the powers, see if they still work..."

Re stopped dancing and, wanting to be first, screamed into the sky.

"I WISH I HAD RABBIT EARS!"

Kate and Liz shielded their heads, ready for the dust storm, but instead, there was a brilliant flash of light and screeching.

And when the light had faded, and when the screeching ceased, there stood

Re, grinning ear to ear, or should I say, grinning rabbit ear to rabbit ear.

She immediately put her hands up and rubbed them vigorously, signifying her thoughts, that if she released them for even a moment, they would disappear into oblivion.

"Re..." Kate said and sweat dropped.

Liz gingerly put an arm around her sister's shoulders and smiled. "They're real."

Re made a sort of loud sqeeing noise and hugged Liz hard with all her might.

Between short gasps of air, Liz managed a small sentence.

"Uh...*gasp* Re...*gasp* you can...*gasp* stop now."

Re promptly dropped her and turned for Kate.

"No way! Don't even think about it!"

Re nodded, put on a devilish smile, and began running.

"I WISH I HAD THE ABILITIES OF A NINJA!" Kate screamed into the blue abyss above them.

The light and terrible screech returned, and after it all stopped, Kate was gone.

Re was no longer smiling, in fact, it seemed smoke should be erupting from her ears.

"C'mon Liz... We're going wabbit hunting." She grabbed Liz roughly by her arm and dragged her along, into the forest.

Meanwhile, Kate was, in fact, a ways away from the other two.

She was leaping from tree to tree when something in the park below her caught her eye.

Stopping dead, she looked down at what she assumed to be a sleeping girl.

She hopped down and inspected her, shaking her briskly, as to wake her up, but in fact, she was not asleep, but unconscious.

Kate decided that the best thing to do was wait and keep the girl safe from. She gulped hard. Chimera Animas. And to find her cousins, and with that, she picked up the girl bridal style, sighed, and with great effort, began her tree hopping once more.

---

"WHERE COULD SHE HAVE GONE TO?!" Re screamed in exasperation.

"Yeah..." Liz added, "We've looked high and low... and still no Kate".

Just then, Re had an idea.

"Liz! Why don't we just WISH to like, have a tracking device on Katie!?"

"Re, the authors power is nice, but it has some restrictions... one of them, is that you cannot change anything about another person, only yourself."

Re sighed and looked up at the beautiful blue sky high above them.

"Kate... where are you?"

Suddenly, as if answering Re's question, Kate promptly fell out of a tree in front of the two.

"Kate?!" Liz asked, rushing to help her friend.

"Ow..." Kate murmured, shaking her head.

Re noticed the girl first.

She ran forward and held the girl's head in her arms. "Kate... who is this?!"

Kate rubbed her head, which now had a giant bump on the top, and sighed.

"I have no clue... I saw her in the park... I tried to wake her up... nothing... she is out cold."

---

Mika sat in her room, in the oh-so common situation of a fanfiction author.

Bored.

She tapped her fingers noisily against the desk beside her,

"Geez, nothing's coming to me today." Blowing a stray hair out of her face, she let her fingers take control as she typed what first came to her mind:

"I wish I could meet the Tokyo Mew Mew characters in person."

No sooner as the black words appeared on the screen, and she finished with a period, she felt an inner rushing feeling, like her heart was being vacuumed out of her. She flew forward and thought, 'I'm so going to pass out' before she landed on solid ground. Hard.

"Ouch!" despite herself, she landed right on her backside, harder than she would've liked. She groaned and stood up. Blinking her eyes open and adjusting her eyes to the scenery around her, she wondered,

"Where am I?" The trees stood against a blue sky and urban landscape, dotted with cars and people. Between the trees and the street was a small park with a flowing, blue fountain in it. She rubbed her eyes and looked back. Still there. Sighing wearily, she came to the final conclusion that she had better wander around until she woke up from this crazy dream…or whatever it was.

"Let's see…the last thing I remember was wishing I could meet the Tokyo Mew Mew characters, typing it…then I got vacuumed here. But…where's 'here'?" she marched over to the park,

"Someone had better tell me where 'here' is…" she grumbled noisily. Stalking over to the fountain, she looked into the water to see her reflection in the water, a frustrated scowl nonetheless. Turning on one foot, she was about to march off to somewhere else when she froze dead at what was behind her,

"No…freaking…way…"

----

Kate was about to continue what she was saying when she heard screaming. Except…it sounded like…happy screaming?

"What's-" Liz didn't get time to finish before Re and Kate were dashing to the location of the noise, "Eh, forget it."

----

Mika screeched when she saw what was behind her.

Only the cutest, big-eared, flirty alien in all of the anime world.

"Kisshu! No way! I'm your biggest fan!" Kish, who was just about to suck out the soul of the civilian in front of him, shrunk back a bit and raised an eyebrow,

"You're not one of those authors, are you?" she nodded vigorously,

"Yup yup yup! I actually wrote a story where I got everyone in one place so that reviewers would send in ideas to torture Masaya and other characters, you and I were a pairing, and it was really, really, fun!" Kish blinked,

"What was that about torturing Masaya?" Mika giggled,

"Yup! Lots of pushing him off a cliff!" Kish was beginning to like this girl.

----

Liz had picked up the girl and was on her way to Re and Kate, when Kate came sprinting back.

"Liz... you'll... never... believe this!" She managed to stammer in between short gasps.

She began tugging at Liz's sleeve, pulling her in the direction from which she came. "Believe what?!" Liz asked nervously.

Kate looked at her impatiently, "Walk faster and you'll see!"

Liz silently obeyed, walking as fast as she possibly could with the girls weight pressing her down.

Kate sighed loudly. "GIVE ME THE GIRL." She said, holding our her arms. Liz gratefully placed her in Kate's arms.

"Now go!" Kate said.

To Liz's surprise, Kate was able to run at normal speed.

Wanting to see what was going on, and NOT wanting to upset Kate, Liz followed.

----

When Liz and Kate got to the park, Kate set the girl down on a bench.

"See what I mean?!"

Re just stood there, staring as Mika flirted with Kisshu.

Liz seemed taken aback,

"Who are you?" Mika momentarily looked up from her Kish-idolization to glance at the other two,

"I should ask the same." Kisshu immediately recognized them, however,

"Hey, it's you two again! And a friend, apparently..." he glanced over at the hyperactive now-bunny-girl that had just arrived, "Do you know this girl here?" he indicated towards Mika, who was still clinging onto his arm.

"I don't think so..." Kate said. The girl replied,

"Well you can call me Mika!"

"Wait a second!" Liz said, "You're that author on ffcn that writes those reviewer-interactive fics, I've read your work!" Mika nodded,

"That's right! Now, where were we Kish..." she said, sending a dreamy look back up at the confused alien. Re immediately bounced in,

"Now who gave you permission to flirt with him! He's mine!" Mika snarled,

"I saw him first!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

Clawing of faces and kicking of shins ensued. Liz sighed and sweatdropped. Kate shook her head. Kish shouted into the cloud of dust and fury rampaging across the park,

"I'm neither of yours, I'm Ichigo's!" They both stopped and looked at each other,

"Find Ichigo." Liz muttered,

"Kish, that was really dumb. Now you've got them jealous." Re was the first to react,

"I wish Ichigo was standing right in front of me!" Immediately a confused-looking Ichigo appeared before her,

"Why am I here all of a sudden? I was just on a date with Masaya when-" she looked around, spotting the all-too-familiar authors standing before her,

"Not you guys again." Kate nodded,

"Tha-a-at's right! And you've got two jealous girls standing before you that want to tear off your limbs because your the only thing separating them and Kish!" Ichigo wrinkled her nose,

"You're kidding me. Go ahead and have him." Mika grinned,

"Hear that, Kisshu-kun?! Ichigo says I can have you!"

"No, she said I can have you!" Re protested. Kish snarled,

"I say neither of you can have me, Ichigo can!" Re let out a snort,

"Well then, where was I...ah yes...I wish I had a huge metal mace!" Immediately a huge, gleaming mace materialized in her hand. Mika blinked,

"How'd you do that?!"

"You try. Just wish for anything." Mika thought for a second,

"I wish I had a long, sharp sword as tall as me!" Her wish was granted instantaneously as a huge sword game into her grasp. She fumbled around with its massive weight before saying,

"I wish it was lighter!" She hauled it off the ground to find it much lighter, to her liking. She grinned,

"Well, this will be fun."

Ichigo shrunk back a bit,

"What exactly are you going to-" she was cut off by Mika, who was charging at her with her new weapon. Ichigo, not being able to dodge the quick attack, screwed her eyes shut and braced for impact when Liz acted for her,

"I wish Ichigo were on the other side of the fountain!" Ichigo was taken from right under the sword's swing to the other side of the park's glistening fountain. She opened one eye to meet a golden one,

"Hey, are you alright, Koneko-chan?" Kish stood inches from her face. Ichigo almost screeched, jumping back five feet,

"Okay, someone get me back to where I was, NOW!" Kish grabbed her hand,

"Gladly." Re charged full speed,

"Oh no you don't!" Liz was getting impatient,

"I wish all weapons in the area were disposed of!" Both of the weapons the girls carried disappeared from their grasps, much to their disappointment.

Kate huffed, "Honestly, i don't see why Kish has all this girl attention. I mean, he's not even cute!"

Mika snarled, "What did you say about Kisshu-kun?! Care to repeat that?!"

Kate snarled back under clenched teeth: "Bite me."

So Mika did.

Kate shrieked and pried Mika off her,

"What was that for?!" Mika smirked,

"You asked me to!"

"I didn't mean literally!"

---

Angie was wandering around a busy street in Tokyo, just waking up from her unconscious state. She easily guessed it was Tokyo judging by the mass amounts of Japanese chatter echoing around her and the peak of Tokyo Tower arching over the horizon. But why exactly she was there, she didn't know.

"Lets see...the last thing I remember was typing out my wish to meet Tokyo Mew Mew, then I felt like I was going to throw up, then I passed out. I think..." she ran her mental timeline over and over in her head, wandering aimlessly through the crowds. However, something bright caught her eye on a side street as she walked past.

"No way! I'd know that bright pink castle anywhere! It's Cafe Mew Mew!" she dashed towards it, full speed, unaware that a certain ninja was following her, dashing across rooftops and jumping from various buildings,

"Oh, great," Kate muttered under her breath, "Of all places..."

---

Meanwhile, Liz was still at the fountain, dealing with the others.

On her left stood the ferocious Re and Mika, and on her right stood Ichigo and her green haired 'friend'.

By now Ichigo's ears and tail had popped out.

"Nyaaaaaaaaaaa!" She squealed, trying desperately to cover them. Kish decided that he was going to help, so he hugged her from behind to attempt to conceal the long black tail. Of course, this just resulted in an even more distressed and squirming Ichigo.

"Get off me, Kish!" she protested, trying to wriggle out of his grasp.

"No." he replied smugly. Mika and Re were both not too pleased,

"Yeah, get off her Kish!" Re said stubbornly. Mika nodded stoutly,

"Can't you see she doesn't like you? Give up on her and pick one of us, we'll worship you as much as you'd like!" Kish shot them a nasty glare,

"Why would I do that when I have Koneko-chan right here in my arms?" Ichigo hissed like a cat,

"Reluctantly, might I add. Now get your hands off me!"

Re sighed, (A/N: there is A LOT of sighing in this fic ^_^") "He-llo-o? Did you even hear what she said? WE..." She pointed at herself and then at Mika. "Will WORSHIP you." Her finger moved to Kish. "AND..." Mika began.

It seemed like the pair would never stop, and a headache was on the verge of entering Liz's mind. Kish played with one of Ichigo's velvety black cat ears dreamily,

"You know, you really shouldn't try to hide your ears and tail. I think they're cute, like you." Mika growled,

"Hey, your supposed to be saying that to ME!" Kish rolled his eyes,

"Come on, Ichigo, we're going somewhere in private."

"No you're not." came another voice. Easily distinguishable at the other end of the park was a man in a blue costume and long blonde hair. You guessed it, the Blue Knight.

"Blue Knight!" Ichigo yelled. This is bad. she thought, This must look really bad. Liz bit her lip. This is getting interesting. Kish smirked,

"As I expected. Intruding as always. Well, you're too late this time!"

Without another word. Kish and Ichigo both disappeared from sight with a ripple of air around them. The Blue Knight looked around shook his head,

"Where'd they go?" He then spotted the three girls,

"Who are you?" Mika stepped forward,

"We're people who obviously have power over you. That's all you need to know, Masaya, tree-hugging geek!" The Blue Knight blinked,

"One: What power? Two: How did you know my name? Three: How do you know I'm Masaya? Not even Ichigo knows that yet!" Liz thought for a moment,

Hold on, he hasn't told Ichigo yet, but he knows she's a mew, judging by the fact that he didn't seem to surprised when she was abducted by Kish. So that means this is taking place sometime before episode 45.

"What's today's date?" Liz spoke up.

"February 5th. Why do you need to know?" Masaya replied, having de-transformed. Liz called Re and Mika into a huddle,

"That means we're somewhere around episode 44 or 45. The season finale hasn't happened, and Ichigo still doesn't know Masaya's the Blue Knight. If we work quick enough, we may be able to mess with the plot a bit and stop the dreaded episode 45 from happening." They both nodded in agreement. The writers must have been in a drunken rage when they wrote that terrifying episode, "But first we need to find the two lovebirds."

She was about to say something else when she heard a faint cry from her left. "...lizzy lizzy lizzy!..."

Kate was charging at full speed.

"Kate?! But I thought... Weren't you..."

Kate stopped directly in front of her cousin. "Yeah, you thought... I thought too... I THOUGHT THE GIRL HAD COMMON SENSE!"

"What do you mean"?

Mika and Re were intently listening, as Masaya stared from a few feet, dumbfounded.

"Three words... Cafe, Mew Mew."

Re piped up, "What about it?"

"Yeah, what about it"? Mika blurted.

Liz turned to Kate, "Your not serious, are you?"

"Yeah, I am. And to inform you two... how can I explain this... um..." Liz stepped in,

"You guys saw that girl that Kate set down on that bench earlier, right?"

Re's head proceeded to bob up and down while Mika mumbled,

"Uh huh... and?"

"Well, she WAS unconscious, and now she's gone. And the worst part of it is that Kate here, has spotted her at the cafe, and that is reeeeaaaly bad..."

It was now Masaya's turn to ask a question,

"How so?"

Mika took over,

"Haven't you noticed?!"

"Noticed what?"

"WE, Me, Liz, Kate, and Re..." Each person raised a hand when Mika called their name, "Are not from your time, and plus, you guys are in an anime and manga series, WE, are not. WE are from America. WE live in an alternate dimension. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD'VE NOTICED BY NOW?! ARE YOU REALLY THAT DENSE?!"

Masaya seemed slightly taken aback by her statement.

Liz rubbed her forehead, walked over to Masaya, and put one hand firmly on his shoulder.

Kate and Re and Mika and had on their, 'what the heck is she doing?' faces, and Masaya had one very close to that.

Liz made eye contact with him and said in a flat voice,

"I never thought I'd be saying this... but Masaya... we need your help." Masaya was getting kind of used to being called names and insulted by now.

---

"KISH! LET GO!" Ichigo screeched, digging her nails into the hand that gripped her arm.

"Now why would I do that?" Kisshu asked with a smug smile.

The two where now on the exact opposite side of town, and Kish was holding on to Ichigo and refusing to release her.

Ichigo let out a loud hiss and ripped her wrist from his grasp,

"Because I hate you!" Kish took a small step back.

"You... Hate... Me? Do you really koneko-chan?" Tears began to bite at his eyes, but he kept them back, as always.

Ichigo didn't really know the answer herself. She looked down, it was the only thing she could do to stop Kish's blank stare from burning right through her heart.

"I... uh..."

---

"Got it?" Liz finished. She had just explained their whole situation to Masaya.

"So you need me to go in there and get the girl out so she doesn't use the 'Authors Power' the wrong way and run amok. Got it."

"Good, now for the future of the earth, GET HER OUT OF THERE!"

And with that she gave him a shove toward the building, because the other three refused to touch him.

When inside the building, the first one to notice him was Minto, who was enjoying her afternoon tea.

"If you're looking for Ichigo, she's not here." She said, before taking a sip from her cup.

"I know that." He replied. "But have you seen a very excited girl with an American shirt on?"

Minto took another sip,

"Mhm..."

"Where did she go?"

"Hm... Why would you need to know?"

"I'll explain later, just please tell me."

"Fine, she's..."

Before Minto could finish, Pudding popped in.

"Why is Aoyama-kun here? Pudding thinks he's looking for Ichigo. Is Pudding right?"

Masaya smiled kindly at Pudding, "No, I'm..."

"Then who is Aoyama-kun looking for?" She said, one eyebrow going up.

Minto cleared her throat,

"As I was saying, she's..."

"Aoyama-kun is looking for another girl? Wait until Pudding tells Ichigo!" She said before rushing off.

Masaya was about to go after her when Minto intruded.

"AHEM."

He turned back to face her.

"She's in the kitchen last I saw her."

"Arigato." He said, and walked rather quickly, to the kitchen, only to collide with Lettuce, spattering cake and tea everywhere.

"Gomennasai!" She said quickly, standing up and wiping her outfit off before bowing many times. She looked as if she were about to cry, as she picked up the remains of the food.

Masaya, being the ladies man he is, helped her. Picking up a piece of smashed cake he smiled and told her it was his fault.

Lettuce looked down, blushed, picked up the last bit of cake, and scurried away.

Masaya entered the kitchen, relieved at what he saw.

---

"WHAT. IS. TAKING. HIM. SO. LONG?!" Mika shouted angrily, pacing back and forth.

When no one replied, she stopped and glanced at the others, who were all under a tree. Re was sleeping, and Liz and Kate were playing the 'I'm going to the Wonderful Anime Kingdom and I'm bringing...' game. None the less, Mika was being utterly and completely ignored.

Re rolled over lazily as Kate spoke.

"I'm going to the Wonderful Anime Kingdom and I'm bringing... Amu, Buyo, a catgirl, D.N. Angel, egg roll, fujisaki, a goron, a hanyou, Ikuto, Jayken, Kukai, Lettuce and... Minto. Your turn Liz." She said, closed her eyes, and lay flat on her back.

"DOES ANYONE CARE THAT HE'S BEEN IN THERE FOR 30 MINUTES?!" Flames forming in her eyes as she said this.

Kate peered at Mika with one half open eye, "No."

Mika let out a low growl, "FINE! I'M GOING IN TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN!"

As she was stomping closer to the cafe, she heard Kate snicker, "Looks like a certain somebody likes our tree-hugging accomplice."

"Yeah yeah... whatever... back to our game. I'm going to the Wonderful Anime Kingdom and I'm bringing..."

---

In a flash, Kish grabbed her chin in his hand, and turned her face to his so their lips were only inches apart before repeating himself,

"Do you really hate me koneko-chan?" Ichigo was breathing rapidly, his breaths felt warm on her face.

Kish's face was now soft with hints of sorrow and regret in his eyes. He looked so unhappy now that Ichigo also had to hold back a river tears.

"I..." But before she could finish, Kisshu had pulled her into a kiss, and she was... actually enjoying it.

It seemed like hours before Ichigo had to pull away for air. Kisshu now had his smug smile back,

"Do you still hate me, koneko-chan?"

Ichigo shook her head,

"It's just all wrong. My conscious says this is wrong. I shouldn't be here."

"Ichigo, you don't have to feel bad, I'm here for you."

She lowered her head and reached into her pocket with one hand, pulling out her pendant,

"Deep down, I don't hate you. But right now...I know I should be fighting you." She screwed her eyes shut and hesitantly brought her pendant to her lips, crying out in a choked voice,

"Mew Mew Strawberry! Metamorphosis!"

----

Masaya walked into the kitchen of Café Mew Mew to see a slightly twitching Keiichiro trying to attend to a pestering Angie. She was currently asking him if she could have more cake, while Keiichiro tried to tell her that she had already had three.

"Um, miss?" Masaya asked politely. Angie looked up briefly as Masaya continued, "Miss, your other friends are outside waiting for you?"

"Other friends? No one I know lives in Tokyo."

"Well they also speak English and they would like to see you about something." Angie screwed up her nose,

"I don't want to go. I don't know those people." Masaya sighed,

"Please, miss, could you-"

"I said no." With that, Angie stomped out the back door. Masaya ran after her,

"No, wait, hold on-" he looked around the back lawn. No Angie.

Coming around to the front of the shop, he was bombarded with questions,

"What took you?"

"Where is she?!"

"Where's Mika?" Masaya blinked,

"Who's Mika?"

"She went in after you! Didn't you see her?"

"No, I didn't. But something tells me we should go after Ichigo. Now. I can feel it."

---

Mika stomped into Café Mew Mew in rage,

"Where. Is. He?!" she yelled. Minto glared at her over her teacup,

"Masaya? He's in the kitchen." Mika nodded stoutly,

"Hmph. Thank you." she plodded over to the kitchen. Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. Threw open the doors. Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. All she saw was Keiichiro, who looked less than concentrative at the moment.

"Where is Masaya?" she asked, trying to sound as sweet as possible.

"He just left through the back door."

"Thank you, sir." she said, sugar-coating her words. If you listened to her for too long, you'd get a cavity. With that, she marched out the back door.

----

"For the future of the Earth, I'll be of service, ~Nya!" Ichigo finished off her catchphrase. Her face was stone solid, blatantly showing that she was pushing back any emotion at all costs.

"Ichigo, I'm not going to fight you!" Kish exclaimed. Ichigo kept the solid face and summoned her weapon,

"Strawberry Bell!" Kish made no move to summon his weapons, or get out of her range of attack. She hesitated for a moment, seeing his face staring at her imploringly to stop. Stop now. The small bell on her weapon tinkled lightly as she held it up in front of her,

"I'm sorry, Kisshu, but this is your fault. You brought this on yourself." She gripped her weapon tightly and began to power it up, "RIBBON STRAWBERRY -"

"I WISH ICHIGO'S WEAPON WAS GONE!"

The strawberry bell disappeared from sight as Liz and Masaya landed on top of the building.

"That was a close one!" Liz said rather loudly as she shifted her eyes, "If I hadn't done something, Ichigo surely would have killed Kish!" she eyed Ichigo with a bizarre look that said, 'What the hey do you think you're doing'. However, Masaya was the next one to interfere, stepping in front of Liz,

"Come on, Ichigo, you almost had him, but you had better let me take care of him, I can finish him quicker if that is what you wish." Liz raised her eyebrows. That didn't go according to plan. She smirked as another idea came to her,

"I wish all of the space-time continuum was frozen except for me!" Instantly everything around her froze solid, no one even blinked around her. She casually paced around the building, searching her scenery intently. Kish was frozen looking on to the Blue Knight, hatred frozen, gleaming in his eyes. Ichigo was frozen looking at the Blue Knight with pure terror and fear in her eyes, sorrow and regret etched in her features. The Blue Knight had a determined, solid look on his face that simply screamed, 'The whole world couldn't stop me now'. He gripped his sword in front of him, posed to attack. Liz grinned impishly. She took a firm grip on the handle of the Blue Knight's sword and pulled hard. It came out smoothly with applied force, and Liz took a few steps back to steady herself. She swung the sword around a couple times,

"Woah, this thing is as light as air. No wonder he always wins in hand-to-hand combat." after a few more creative swings, she walked over to where Kish was standing. After a few adjustments to his arm and hand, Liz fitted the sword inside his hand comfortably, and adjusted his arm to a defensive position. Looking on at her work with complete satisfaction, she turned to the other two, the Blue Knight and Ichigo.

"There are a lot of evil things I could do to them right now…" she muttered mischievously, smirking as she ran through a mental list, "…but I think we're going to have to settle for a safe one…" she walked over to Ichigo, and, attempting a fireman's carry, lifted her by her leg and arm. Surprisingly, she was also, like the sword, as light as air.

"Geez, everything must be like that here," she said, carrying Ichigo over to the other side of the building, "Then I wonder how much the sword actually weighs…" she set Ichigo down on the pavement next to Kish. She smirked, saying in a sing-song voice,

"Time for ad-just-ing!"

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Mika stormed out of the back door to Café Mew Mew,

"Masaya you-" she looked around. No Masaya. The two girls waiting, though, instantly grabbed her by the arm and dragged her after them,

"Come on, we've got to go!" Mika growled,

"Go where?!"

"To go save Ichigo!" Kate instantly realized this was the WRONG thing to say. Mika yanked away from the other two,

"No WAY am I going to save that b-"

"But Kish is there too, he might be in trouble as well, we don't know!" Kate blurted out. Mika blinked. Sighing, she blew a hair out of her face,

"Al-right. But only if Kish-kun is there."

"'Kay, now, let's get going!"

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Meanwhile, no one was aware that a highly-curious Angie was snooping around Tokyo, completely unaware she was separated from the rest of the group. The long streets and tall buildings posed quite a hazard for easily getting lost. This didn't occur to Angie as she wandered aimlessly now, wondering how to make her way back. Then, suddenly, her eyes spotted a park off to the side of a street. She decided that would be the best place to go, since busy streets weren't the safest places in the city.

Little did she know that two aliens' eyes also spied the park, and picked it out as the perfect spot for a chimera anima attack…

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Ichigo blinked open her eyes slowly.

"That's funny," she thought as she adjusted her eyes to the light, "Just now I thought I-" her train of thought stopped dead in its tracks and head-on crashed right into her senses.

For one, the Blue Knight seemed to be doing some kind of advanced yoga position. He had his leg behind his head, his other leg crossed under him, his arm steadying himself from the back, and his other hand occupying his nose. Ichigo wanted to laugh until she choked or scream.

She chose the latter when she processed what kind of situation she herself was in. Her arms were tightly wrapped around, to her dismay, Kish's waist, and his arm was gripping her tightly. In addition, Kish's arm was outstretched in front of him, holding the Blue Knight's sword.

Slowly the Blue Knight came to next, and nearly keeled over in pain. He clenched his teeth and tried to wriggle out of his position, but no luck.

Kish also came to straight away. After blinking a couple times, he looked over to Ichigo, who was giving him the huge kitty eyes only a kitty herself could give. He grinned a cocky grin and pulled her closer. Also finding the sword in his hand, he swung it around a few times expertly to test it's lightweight material. Satisfied, he gave a quick nod and released Ichigo, taking a few steps toward the struggling Blue Knight. Ichigo, however, was not about to stand for it,

"Don't!" she yelled, grabbing his arm, "Don't hurt him, please!" Kish looked back at her, tears forming in her already large eyes. He closed his eyes and opened them slowly,

"If that's truly what you want."

He dropped the sword on the hard pavement, clattering echoing off the concrete rooftop.

The Blue Knight just finished his tricky task of getting unstuck. Walking over to where Kish stood, he proceeded to pick up the sword. Pointing its sharp tip at Kish's neck, he spoke warmly,

"Ichigo, I won't let him hurt you. I'll protect you." Ichigo just gripped onto the back of Kish's shirt tighter as she spoke with a wavering voice,

"P-protect me…from…what?"

"From him," Masaya said, drawing a thin line of scarlet blood along Kish's neck, "Now, come over here before he hurts you." Ichigo whimpered a bit,

"No." the Blue Knight looked at her strangely,

"Ichigo, are you alright? Did he do something to you? Is he threatening you or bribing you?" Ichigo shook her head,

"He did do something. He showed me all the love in the world." The Blue Knight's sword dug deeper into Kish's neck, drawing even more blood. Kish winced a bit, shutting his eyes, but made no move or expression otherwise.

"You know something. What did you do?" He said calmly to Kish. Kish smirked a bit under his obvious expression of pain,

"Ichigo already told you, what more do you need? Besides, even if I did tell you something, would you really take it as the truth from me?"

"So you ARE hiding something!" he said, gradually moving his sword away from Kish's neck, "What aren't you telling me?"

"It's more of a question of what you aren't telling Ichigo." Kish said, caressing his neck, "…Amoyama." Ichigo let out a short gasp,

"…Blue Knight, is it true?" she spoke quietly from behind Kish. The Blue Knight hesitated before nodding,

"Yes. It's the truth." With that, he detransformed into Masaya, right before Ichigo's eyes. She shrunk back, covering her eyes,

"No, that can't be true…but…how could it be more obvious?" she shook her head, "I-I just don't know…" Tears started to fall from between her fingers, choked sobs from behind her hands. Kish turned from Masaya and pulled Ichigo into an embrace, caressing her back smoothly in comfort.

"Ichigo," Masaya said, "Why are you crying?" She whimpered briefly before saying,

"I can't believe you've been lying to me this whole time. I told you my secret months ago…but you were still keeping secrets from me…"

Meanwhile, Liz was hiding amidst her invisibility she had conjured up, and cheered to herself that she had steered the plot away from the highly-disturbing episode 45. Not only that, but Ichigo was running, crying, into Kish's arms! The only thing that could make this better was if…

Liz grinned and whispered,

"I wish I had a video camera!" A handheld camcorder appeared in her hand instantaneously. She flicked the switch on and muffled the noise of it starting up with her palm. She fiddled with the controls a bit to get a hang of them, then pressed the record button.

"This thing has terrible zoom…" she muttered to herself quietly as she focused on the scene on the rooftop, "I'm so evil for not doing anything, but this is too good to miss."

"Ichigo, I really didn't mean to hurt you, really-"

"Like I'd believe that!" Ichigo yelled, spinning around to stare him in the eye, "What excuse did you have for keeping secrets?! Tell me one reason why! I mean, at least I had some kind of reason to keep my identity a secret from you, but what about you?! Am I not trustworthy? Is that it?!" Masaya took a step back,

"Ichigo I-" Ichigo interrupted him with a piercing scream, fresh, sparkling tears falling from her eyes rapidly,

"You what?! You hurt me, that's what! And now it's my turn!" Slamming down her foot, she turned from Masaya and, in one swift movement, took a firm grip on Kish's collar and locked lips with him. Masaya, wide-eyed, took a staggering step back while Kish relaxed his position, wrapping his arms around Ichigo's waist.

After what seemed like forever, Ichigo gently released Kish from the kiss and turned to face Masaya,

"There! Do you see now?! We. Are. THROUGH!" Masaya lowered his head,

"Ichigo, I really hope you can see reason. Your emotions are clouding your common sense. Think about who is the logical choice, the alien stalker or your caring boyfriend."

"This is my choice." Ichigo said, clinging onto Kish's shirt, "You have no right to interfere."

"That's right, Masaya, you don't."

Liz emerged from her invisibility, stepping out in front of all of them, "Masaya, you are the one who needs to see common sense in letting Ichigo make her own choices. That's what you want, right? For Ichigo to be happy?" Masaya paused and shook his head,

"Not if it kills her, I won't." Ichigo gasped lightly and Kish spoke for the first time in a while,

"Honestly, you'll go at any length to not trust me, won't you?"

Suddenly, from the base of the building came a call,

"It's super-ninja and bunny girl to the rescue!" Liz put her head in her hand and shook her head slowly,

"Uh boy."

Dramatically flying up over the rooftop came Mika, Kate, and Re. Mika had on this 'what was that for an entrance?' kind of look while Re and Kate had this overly-pleased grin plastered on their faces. After surveying the scene Mika noted,

"What'd we miss?" Liz sighed and shoved the camcorder in her face,

"This." The whole video of the scene was being played back as Re and Kate arched over Mika's shoulder. Kish raised an eyebrow,

"Hey, wait a minute…isn't that one of those Earth recording devices?" Ichigo noted,

"A…camcorder?" Liz grinned sheepishly,

"Er…well…about that-"

"Ew! Yuck! They kissed! Why does she even support this ship?!" Kate made a disgusted face as she watched the video. Liz looked from behind her to the not-so-happy-looking Tokyo Mew Mew characters, biting her lip. Not good.

"Don't tell me you have the entire thing on your camcorder…" Ichigo said from between clenched teeth. Liz stuttered nervously, taking a few steps back,

"Um…well…" Ichigo advanced forward, taking one step at a time towards Liz, who was backing up to the edge of the building.

Click! The camcorder snapped shut as Kate, Re, and Mika finished the video. Kate whispered something to Re before she flew off the side of the building. Mika and she then advanced toward Liz, Kate speaking first,

"Did you record all of this? Do you take pleasure in invading other people's privacy?! Especially when it involves Kisshu and Ichigo?!" Kish was now backing up Ichigo, the four of them all crowding Liz. She stumbled as she hit the railing at the edge of the rooftop. Looking nervously behind her, she cried in desperation,

"I wish I could teleport!" Instantly the request was granted as a ripple of air flew around her, and she disappeared. Ichigo growled,

"When I get my hands on her I am going to-"

"This can't be good." Kish interrupted. The rest of the group looked to him,

"What is it, Kishy-kun?" Mika said. Kish twitched a bit at the nickname before saying,

"By the looks of it, she used the same method of teleporting as we aliens do, and if that's the case…"

"What happens?" Kate asked nervously.

"Teleporting involves moving through a vacuum between time and space to end up in a different place (A.N./Rhyme not intended). If I'm correct, humans need air, so she should be unconscious by now…"

"All the better to tear open her-"

"Ichigo, shut up." Mika hissed, "We've heard enough of your annoying voice already."

"Why do you even care, Ichigo?!" Kate said, raising her eyebrows, "You should be overjoyed she caught your brake-up on tape! Unless..."

"Unless you still love Masaya!" Mika pointed out, edging closer to Ichigo with an ever-so-mischevious smile on her face, "Do you?"

"O-of course not!" Ichigo defended.

"Do you Ichigo?" Kate inquired, tilting her head slightly, "Do. You. Love. Masaya?"

Kish put his face down to Kate's level,

"She said no, and she means it."

"Whatever, oh, and don't get your face that close to mine." Kate said, and brought her hand sharply to his face.

Mika and Ichigo both stared at Kate,

"HOW DARE YOU SLAP HIM!" Mika screeched.

Kate tilted her head in the direction of the now red-faced alien, and said as if she were pointing out something obvious, "He deserved it."

Ichigo was NOT happy, "Say one more word and I'll rip your-"

Masaya chimed in,

"Alright, we need to split up. We'll find her faster that way."

Ichigo gave him a nasty glare and hugged Kish's arm tightly,

"I'm with Kisshu-kun!"

Kate crossed her arms, "OVER MY DEAD BODY! Mika, your with the perv, Masaya, your on your own, and Ichigo, your with me."

Mika did a victory dance, Kish looked peeved, Ichigo was angry, and Masaya was just confused as normal.

"No, I'm not going unless I can be with Kish!" Ichigo stated.

"Oh yes you are." Kate said and then muttered to herself, "I wish Ichigo and I were on the other side of town!"

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Angie walked around the park, surveying her location curiously. Her feet stopped when she heard a swooshing noise. She turned to look between some trees to see Taruto and Pai, completing the fusion of a giant Tiger-like chimera animal. It's claws were a foot long each, and it's teeth stood out like razors. It's fur was a blazing orange with pitch black stripes across it. Angie stood dead still. Not. Good.

Hold on a second, she thought, I may be able to use this to my advantage.

"Taruto! Pai!" she called out from a safe distance. The two aliens turned their heads sharply upon hearing their names. Pai was the first to speak up,

"Who are you and how do you know our names?" Angie smirked,

"My name is Angie. Let's just say I've met you before."

"When have I seen-" Taruto began before receiving a sharp blow to the back of his head, courtesy of Pai. Angie cleared her throat and continued,

"I think I may be of use to you." she said, "Watch this. I wish I could fly!" Moments after she spoke, she took off from the ground and soared about 20 feet from the ground, did a couple twirls, then touched back down. Pai blinked,

"How exactly do you do that?" Angie shrugged,

"I just found out I could a few minutes ago." Tart raised an eyebrow,

"So…?"

"So I think I can help you with your attacks. After all, I can wish for anything." Pai furrowed his brow,

"Okay then, wish all of the Mews and aliens were right here, now."

"Certainly."

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