Me again! Sorry about before, but everything's fine now! Time to get on track!

Note: the following chapter is based from episode 48. If I was Momo, I would be SO happy!

Chapter Ten: Friend or Foe?

Momo was sitting in a tree in a small forest outside Tokyo. For the past while she's been avoiding the mew mews except during fights when she would suddenly appear, but for a short while. She picked a peach from one of the branches and started tossing it into the air. "Things have been a lot easier without them on my back." The peach landed on her face. "OW!" She started rubbing where she got hit. "No wonder I hate big fruit." She climbed a little higher in the tree and stared at the sky from an opening in the leaves. "It's a nice day out, but still kind of chilly." She didn't mind the cold much though. She couldn't stop thinking about being a mew mew though. She was still wondering if she was going to stay one or if she would give it up.

"Momo-chan!" Momo's leopard ears popped up and one moved to the side. When she turned around, she hath been glomped (in my terms)! "Got ya!" Kish tried to get her from behind but instead, the closest he got was the side.

"NYA!" Momo screamed as she fell from the tree. She grabbed a branch above the ground. "Phew, you know I hate it when you do that!" She was sort of giggling to herself inside though.

"Sorry, but I just couldn't help it." Momo and Kish have been spending more time together that usual since Momo doesn't hang around town so much. "I seriously thought I had you this time."

"Don't forget I have sensitive ears." She said crossing her arms and smirking. "So you can't win."

"Oh well." He sat next to her on the branch and hugged her. "It's easier to do it this way anyways." He started stroking her hair and she felt like she was melting in his arms.

"I guess that either way, I'm sort of like a cat like Ichigo is." Her eyes became sad. "Ichigo…"

"You're still thinking about being a mew mew?" Kish asked feeling a little concerned.

"Yea, I'm just not sure what to do is all." She leaned back a little bit and fell backwards. Luckily she was hanging from the branch a little bit before back flipping and landing on her feet. "I mean, like it or not Ichigo's my cousin, but she acts like she's my mother." She looked at the ground. Kish jumped down from the branch and landed next to her.

"You don't work with them anymore, you do things your own way now." He said putting one hand on her shoulder. "Remember, you make your choices. They can't." She smiled a little bit.

"You're right." She leaned against his shoulder and closed her eyes. "You always know what to say, Kish-kun." His face turned red when she called him that. Kish suddenly thought of something.

"Momo-chan." He turned her so she was facing him directly and put both hands on her shoulders. "What if you joined our side?" She was in shock.

"You want ME to join you?" She repeated. "But… I don't…I'm not sure."

"Momo, if you help us, then we'll be able to make things smoother." He started to sound serious. "Don't worry, it'll be alright." He suddenly sounded a little softer. Momo stared into his yellow eyes and felt like she was being hypnotized. She then nodded her head.

"OK." A great big smile appeared on Kish's face. "I'll do it for you." She kissed him on the cheek. "I want this to end as fast as possible." He moved one hand from her shoulder to her cheek.

"It should end soon." He leaned in slightly and kissed her. Momo started to feel warm in her heart, it must be because they really care for each other more than the others knew about. After a short moment, they separated.

"Kish, what you said at Christmas, about how we are more like you than human…" She started looking in different directions as she spoke, "…is that true?"

"Yes." That was the only thing he had to say. She smiled a little more.

"Good." She took the other hand that was still resting on her shoulder and held it in both her hands. Her ears suddenly started twitching and she jerked her whole body around. "What was that?"

"I didn't hear anything." Kish responded. Momo closed her eyes and kept her ears open.

"They're here." And by they, she meant the mew mews.

"I have an idea." She turned back around.

"I'm listening."

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"Ryo! Look here." Keiichiro was monitoring something that seemed to be Mew Aqua. Ryo came over and took a look. "There, you see it?"

"Yea, it's Mew Aqua alright." He saw something else on the screen as well. "Look there." He pointed to a little dot headed for the signal. "Could it be her?"

"It's possible." They both watched her dot get closer and closer. "EVERYONE!" All the mew mews and Masaya gathered around them. "We just got a signal from a Mew Aqua." Everyone's jaw dropped.

"The last Mew Aqua?" Ichigo asked in response.

"That's right. The signal just came up, and Momo is already on her way there to claim it." Everyone jumped back.

"Momo-chan?" Ichigo gasped. "But what would she be doing out here?"

"She must be after the Mew Aqua for some reason." Ryo answered. "And after what happened a while ago, she must be using it for her own gain."

"Then we'll have to act fast." Zakuro said. "We must stop her."

"But, Momo onee-san." Pudding sighed.

"Pudding," Ichigo looked down at her and saw that she didn't want to fight her. "We have to, no matter what." She slowly nodded.

"So, where is it?" Mint wondered.

"There." Keiichiro pointed to a strange looking mountain.

"That looks scary!" Ichigo yelled out.

"Don't let Momo or the aliens get to the Mew Aqua first so fight hard!" Ryo shouted for encouragement.

"We should be cautious about Momo though, she can use our power against us." Mint added and everyone agreed. Without another word the small group made for the mountain.

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Momo was walking up the mountain casually. "I hope Kish knows what he's doing." She started jumping onto some of the ledges and looked out into the forest and saw the others. "There they are."

"They coming?" Kish same out of nowhere. "Can you see them?"

"Yea." She pointed to the mouth of the mountain path. "They're on they're way to find the Mew Aqua. They took the bait." She smirked.

"Do you want to take Ichigo or should I?" Momo didn't answer for a moment.

"No, I'll take her boyfriend." She grabbed her pendant. "I want him to know my pain." She kissed the pendant and prepared to transform. "MEW MEW PEACH! METAMORPHO-SIS!"

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The others could see the light from Momo's location. "She must be transforming." Zakuro responded. "That means she must be in a fight."

"Or worse." Lettuce added.

"We can't start worrying about her." Ichigo said. "We have to keep moving."

"I'm starting to wonder why the Mew Aqua would be in a place like this." Lettuce said. "Why would it be here?"

"Not sure." Ichigo responded. She suddenly began to wonder. Could it be, the Mew Aqua Momo gave to Kish? After a while, it seemed like they weren't getting too far on the path. "How far away IS the Mew Aqua?"

"It seems pretty far." Mint said. Suddenly the sky became darker. "Wha? Is it going to rain?" Masha popped out of Ichigo's pocket.

"Ichigo! Alien! Alien!"

"They're here!" Pudding screamed. Ichigo began to feel concern. So it is Kish then. The ground started shaking.

"An earthquake?" Lettuce asked.

"The sky!" Zakuro yelled.

"Then that means…" Everyone started to panic as the quaking got stronger.

"Ichigo! We have to hurry!" Zakuro said. Ichigo nodded and reached for her pendant.

"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY!-"

"MEW MEW MINT!-"

"MEW MEW LETTUCE!-"

"MEW MEW PUDDING!-"

"MEW MEWZAKURO!-"

"METAMORPHO-SIS!" All five mew mews transformed. Masaya, of course, became the Blue Knight. The ground started to shake even more and started to break apart.

"LOOK OUT!" Mint screamed. Suddenly the ground started separating everyone. Ichigo in one direction, mint in another, Pudding and Lettuce another way and so on. Ichigo started to fall off her platform.

"Ichigo!" Masaya jumped over to her and helped her before she fell. The ledge broke off and Masaya started falling.

"Aoyama-kun!" Ichigo screamed as she watched him fall into the dark void below.

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"Masaya! Can you hear me?" Masaya was lying face down on a lonely platform. "Good, you're waking up." As he opened his eyes, Momo was knelt down next to him.

"Momo-san?" He asked as he sat up. "What happened?"

"Well, you fell a long way, lets leave it at that." She answered smiling. "You alright?" He nodded.

"I'm fine." Momo smirked a little bit.

"Momo-san?" She stood up.

"I want to destroy you myself." She aimed her fans at him and released a huge tornado and trapped him in a giant sphere. "I told you if you got in my way, I'd destroy you. Remember that?" She quirked one of her eyebrows.

"Why are you doing this?" Masaya tried to break the sphere but failed.

"Why?" Momo repeated. "Wouldn't you like to know?" Kish appeared next to her and placed on hand on her shoulder. "What took ya?"

"No real reason." He said smirking. "By the way, the Mew Aqua…" He took out the Mew Aqua and showed it to Masaya. "I've had it all along."

"So it was a trap!" He yelled.

"Sort of." Momo chimed as she started swaying back and forth. "I gave that to him months ago."

"And here's a bonus: Momo's no longer playing for the humans. She 's helping us now." Kish said almost laughing.

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Ichigo was looking around at the sudden change around her. "Where am I? Aoyama-kun!" She started walking hoping she would find a way out. "Aoyama-kun!" She found a small glowing light and found it was projecting something. It was showing Masaya, Momo, and Kish. "Wha? What's she doing?"

"Soon, you'll understand." The wind creating the sphere gained speed.

"AOYAMA-KUN!" Ichigo screamed hoping he could hear her. Nothing. Aoyama-kun. She started focusing her energy into the light and tried to concentrate.

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Momo kept making the wind gain speed. "Momo-san! Why are you doing this!" Masya repeated. Momo's expression looked a little aggravated.

"You don't know what it's like to grow up alone." She began. "All my life I was never able to make friends, because my parents always had me locked up in the house. I was never able to leave!" Her eyes seemed a little bigger because they were filling with tears. "Kish was my first and only friend! They took him from me. They will neer forget what I did to make them remember their wrong."

"You didn't-" Masaya couldn't finish.

"I didn't' kill them." She responded. "I could have, but didn't. I ran away to look for him. When I came here and finally found him, everyone told me I couldn't see him, unless I was to fight him." A tear started down her face. "I can't take this anymore!" She aimed her fans at him and prepared another attack. A strange light came from nowhere. "WHAT THE?!" Ichigo began to emerge from it. "ICHGIO!"

"Aoyama-kun! Are you alright?" She yelled before reaching the platform.

"Ichigo." Masaya was able to say before the sphere disappeared and dropped him. Kish came at her and knocked her backwards and pinned her to the ground.

"I won't hesitate in destroying you Ichigo." Her eyes grew fearful. "you should have seen this coming." His dragon swords appeared in both his hands and here aimed straight at Ichigo.

"KISH!" Momo screamed as Masaya started glowing as he returned tot eh form of the Blue Knight. He turned around and noticed what was happening.

"Get away from Ichigo!" He screamed as he came at him. They started to fight.

"Aoyama-kun!" Ichigo couldn't do anything but watch as they fought.

"Too bad." Momo said. "I was hoping this would end quietly."

"YOU!" Ichigo pointed at Momo. "You did this!"

"Guilty." She said smiling.

"Strawberry bell!" Ichigo grabbed her bell and prepared to attack.

"Go ahead!" Momo shouted. "You know I can send it back at you!" Ichigo knew this and lowered her bell. "You see Ichigo, against me, you can't win. You know that." Masaya started resonating a strange blue light. Momo turned her attention to Masaya and became a little bit scared. Is that like me? When...

"RIBBON STRAWBERRY SURPRISE!" Her thoughts were broken when Ichigo sent an attack at her. Momo got hit head on and was sent backwards. She hit her head on a rock as she flew backwards and was knocked out. Kish saw what Ichigo did.

"MOMO-CHAN!" He broke his concentration and was forced backwards. More of the blue light surrounded Masaya. Kish made his way over to Momo and started shaking her slightly. "Momo, wake up!" She started to open her eyes.

"That hurt!" She yelled rubbing her head. Masaya began releasing a massive amount of energy and the sky started changing. "What's going on?" The other four mews arrived.

"We have to put up a sheild!" Zakuro yelled and the mew emws got into position and were surrounded by a colorful light (only thing I thought of).

"Momo, it's dangerous here. Come on." Kish picked her up and they disappeared. When the energy disappeared, the only ones still there were the mew mews and Masaya.

"That was incredible!" Pudding remarked.

"What on Earth just happened?" Mint wondered.

"Ichigo?" Everyone turned and noticed Ichigo wasn't in their group.

"Aoyama-kun! Aoyama-kun!" Ichigo was at Masaya's side. He seemed to be knocked out by the blast. He started to wake up. "Aoyama-kun, I'm so relieved." He tried to sit up.

"Ichigo, what happened to me?" He asked.

"It's alrigth now. Can you stand?" Ichigo helped Masaya to his feet.

"I'm relieved. Everyone's safe." Lettuce said running over to Ichigo and Masaya. Everyone stared into the giant crater created from the explosion. Pudding just realized Momo wasn't with them.

"Where's Momo onee-san?" She asked looking around. Ichigo wore a sad face.

"Momo is..." She turned to everyone and sighed. "...Momo is now on the alien's side." Everyone gasped.

"You're kidding!" Mint yelled out.

"But I never thought Momo-san would ever do that!" Lettuce said.

"I don't know why she changed, but she's not working with the enemy. She can't be trusted, EVER!" Ichigo said. Pudding looked down at her feet.

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Momo stared into the crater. "He made THAT?" She was too impressed. "That's just scary!" She suddenly received a mild shock from behind and fell to the ground. Pai was behind it.

"You didn't even try to stop that mew mew?" He questioned. Kish glared at him.

"I don't need to!" He knelt down and checked to see if she was still conscious. "She's not fighting us anymore." Pai wasn't buying this.

"I'm sure it's a lie."

"It's not!" He yelled back. The pupils in his eyes were narrower than before. Momo touched his hand (so she's still conscious).

"It's OK." She said smiling. "He doesn't trust me since he doesn't know."

"That's right. You're on our side now." Kish helped Momo to her feet. "Well, now he knows."

"I guess you're right." She looked at the crater again.

"So it's him then." Kish said.

"Who?" Momo asked.

"The Blue Knight." He replied. "He's our savior."

And she's finished another one! kicks a soccer ball into a goal YEA! confetti falls everywhere I know, that was random. I'll see ya later. BYE BYE!