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Two more chapters until the arc finishes. (The 966 arc) And then there's a super short 4 chapter arc that will finish the story.


Mois was still shaken from being kidnapped. And although Giroro was being dragged off to medical bay by the other girls, she stayed behind to talk to Keroro, who was afraid to see Giroro again.

"You can't tell us any reason he took you? What his plan was? What he wanted from you?" Keroro asked.

Mois shook her head. "He just wanted me to join him. He wanted to use me because I'm a super weapon." She neglected to mention the part about how 966 had hit on her, how he had been overly flirtatious. It was embarrassing and she honestly didn't think it was necessary information for anyone to know.

Keroro nodded. "I wonder if we can use you as bait. He lost interest in getting Fuyuki to his side, so he might with you as well... Ahh, this is confusing." He rubbed his head.

Mois sat down, letting him yell and think aloud. But she was lost in her own thoughts. Am... Am I really as evil as 966 said? No. I'm good. But I'm not as good as I'd like to be.

She had believed him, for a second, that she was bad. She hadn't trusted herself to tell her friends her true motivation and values. A web of lies surrounding her entire life had caught up to her, and she didn't know who she was lying to anymore and who she was telling the truth to.

So many disguises. So many different faces she had worn in her life as a spy. Who was she? She knew her name was Mois. She worked for the agency. But the reason her loyalty was so strong was because that was the only truth she was aloud to have.

Truth is, I'm the most sinful creature there is. But I don't want to be. She shouldn't have even believed she was lying to her friends. But she lied to other people she loved. She told people she didn't love Kululu, her boyfriend, saying she was just using him as a cover, that she loved Keroro instead. And they believed her.

Hell, Kululu didn't even know who she really was. She was lying to him the most. He loved her, sure, but he just loved the disguise she had given him. And he was more important to her than that disguise.

So... that's the root of the problem. Why I believed 966 for a moment. I believed I could be lying to Natsumi, Momoka, Koyuki, and even Kululu about how I felt. She couldn't do this anymore.

Keroro continued ranting about how annoyed he was. Koyuki walked in to check on how Mois was doing with her interrogation, watching Keroro and her from the sidelines.

"Keroro." Mois sat up straighter. "Can I ask you something?" I can't do it anymore. And Keroro's nice. Maybe he'll allow me to tell Kululu the truth about us. After all, we could tell Tamama, Fuyuki... Citizens with other connections to people.

"Sure, Mois. Shoot," he said.

"I... I wanted to talk to you about a problem I've been having. With my disguise at school."

"Umm... I'm not your therapist." Keroro shifted awkwardly. "I'm your boss."

"I have a boyfriend, you see," she confessed.

"I heard. It's for your cover, right?" Keroro asked. "Umm... if you're asking for break-up advice, maybe it would be best to talk to Saburo? Or even Aki? Saburo's had fake relationships before for this job..."

"I'm not asking break up advice. You see, Keroro, I um... I really love him." She blushed. "I wanted to request that I tell him the truth about my identity. Please. I know I can trust him. He's the nicest, sweetest person I've ever met. And Natsumi got to tell her brother about the Agency. Hell, Tamama is able to know about it. And now you two are getting all cuddly!" she pointed out. "Let me tell just one person. I need this one anchor to the real world. Please..." she begged desperately. "It's only right."

Keroro just gave her a very sad and pitying look. "I can't, Mois. I can't let you tell him. I'm sorry you really fell in love. Maybe it would be best to transfer you to a new school if things are getting too hard for you."

"Please," Mois begged. "He wouldn't tell anyone. And what would you do if I told him, anyway?"

He sighed and gave her an even more pathetic expression. He stood up. "Legally - and this isn't my choice, mind you - we'd have to silence him if you let it slip." He paused. "And by silence, I mean..." He slid his finger across his throat.

Mois covered her mouth in utter horror. She shook her head over and over again.

"Sorry. I really am," he said. "If it was up to me, things wouldn't be so tough... I'll leave you alone. I should visit Giroro now that he's back, anyway." He pat her shoulder awkwardly and left.

As soon as he left, Mois started crying in strangled gasps of sobs. She couldn't breathe.

In mere seconds, Koyuki was there to hold her, to pat her back comfortingly, having heard everything. "I'm so sorry," she apologized.

"H-he'll die... Keroro said he'd die! Why... Why can't I have happiness? Why won't the Agency let me tell him?"

"They don't let people like us have freedom," Koyuki told her. "I know how you feel. Relationships for us, their tools, are pretty much forbidden. They don't want us to feel anything. You can't blame a single individual, though. It's the institution."

"They saved me, but I'm trapped..." Mois realized.

"Just because they gave us life and took care of us doesn't mean we don't deserve the same freedom as anyone else," said Koyuki. She held the crying girl gently. "I love you. I love Momoka, I love Natsumi. But I know exactly what you're going through. I feel just as trapped as you. Hell, they haven't let me out of here except for one time! I try not to let Natsumi see that it gets me down, but it does. But you - You're in the same situation as me. So I want you to know that I understand."

"How do you deal with it? Knowing you'll be here the rest of your life without making any real connections with the outside?" Mois asked.

Koyuki pat her on the back. "It helps having friends, but it's hard. For a while, I just gave up and let myself be the tool that they wanted me to be, however sickened I was by all their blatant violations of human rights."

"What made that stop?" Mois asked.

"I gained hope. And hope is enough to get you through anything." Koyuki bopped her on the nose. "So you hope, too. Someday things will get better. I promise. Remember, we're tools. So if something happens and this Agency doesn't need us anymore, or it falls... we'll just change hands. That's all we are. And eventually the changing of hands will force us to rise above. We'll get choices eventually and be able to choose what we want." Koyuki smiled at her. "Let me hope for you. I promise that if I gain freedom, I'll let you have it, too."

Mois nodded and let her friend cradle her. They'd known each other longer than the other two girls. Only they understood their violation of freedom.

And it was good to have someone who understood.


Giroro woke up in medical bay. Natsumi was looking over him, waiting for him to wake up. The moment he saw the familiar white walls and the pink pigtails, he groggily spoke.

"...Pururu?" he asked, still halfway drugged.

Natsumi frowned. He had sacrificed his job to save her, yet the first thing he said was somebody else's name? She didn't know why, but that gave her a fair amount of conflicted emotions. A pang of sadness for him that the person he mentioned was dead, and annoyance that he hadn't asked for her.

"No. It's me, Natsumi," she corrected.

Giroro smiled and reached up to stroke her cheek. "So I succeeded. I made the right choice. You're alive."

"I'm not Pururu."

"I know. But I couldn't lose you, Natsumi. I... I don't want you harmed. I don't want you dead. I would forever regret it. You're my arch-nemesis. I told you before, didn't I? The bond that's strongest is enemies not wanting the other one hurt," he told her.

Natsumi leaned into his hand. "That's funny, considering we're not enemies anymore. You betrayed 966, remember? I doubt he'll take you back. He seems like a pretty violent guy. And I'm guessing you don't agree with his views anymore."

"I thought things weren't good-vs-evil. That there were shades of gray. But with 966, things truly are black and white. It... It took me a while to realize that he became corrupt and I couldn't stop him," he apologized.

Natsumi put her finger on Giroro's lips. "Shhh... You're very badly injured. It's going to take a while to fix you up. Don't focus too much on the bad. Just sleep for a bit, 'kay?"

Giroro closed his eyes.

"And thanks for saving me. I know you're saying it's because we're enemies, but I know the truth. The truth is we're friends, right? I mean, you look like you need friends, Mr. My-real-life-is-living-with-only-cats," she teased.

Giroro let out a low laugh before falling asleep again.


Keroro sat next to Giroro's bed as he recuperated. "So why did he betray 966? Why did he help us?"

"I've been thinking about that." Fuyuki was looking after him, too. "And although I don't really help you guys, I wanted to decipher his actions. Every time he wakes up, it's pretty easy to read. There's no risk of him betraying you guys again."

"Why?" Keroro asked.

"Because he's in love with my sister," Fuyuki shrugged. He was good at seeing other people's relationships, just not his own.

Keroro opened his mouth for a moment in shock. "Nah-uh, Giroro? No way. I grew up with him. He and Natsumi? They're such idiots that..." He thought for a moment. "Oh my god, he totally has fallen for her. She's definitely his type."


When Giroro was finally awake long enough to keep liquids down, Saburo visited him. Others like Natsumi and Keroro were sitting by his side, even Momoka sometimes.

"Do you know who I am?" Saburo asked.

"The pretty boy whose butt I kicked that one time," Giroro recalled.

"Name's Saburo, codename 326." He extended his hand. Giroro shook it. "I came to inquire about 966, since you used to work for him."

"What about him?"

"You have valuable information on him, and we need that. He's the worst threat this Agency has ever faced - and possibly the world, too. He's incredibly strong," said Saburo. "How long did you work for him?"

"Five years," he said. "I was his right-hand man."

"So you probably have loads of information on his plans, his identity, his location. We need that. We'll pay you handsomely, of course. You don't have to work for us if you don't want to. You can go about your merry way."

"I'm not giving information for money. That's the coward's way out. I make money through actual work. Not words. I'm not a sissy," he said.

"Giroro! Tell us about 966!" Natsumi scolded.

He sighed. "You'll be awfully disappointed. I worked with him for five years, but he never gave me extended details on his plans, passcodes... anything like that. He destroyed and created his lairs constantly. I don't even know his real name."

Everybody frowned. So he knew basically nothing.

"But... you worked with him for so long," Momoka pouted. "You must have developed some sort of relationship!"

"Yeah, a personal one," he shrugged. "I liked to consider us friends, but that doesn't really help finding him."

"So... we actually know more about his real life then you do, is what you're saying," Keroro grinned.

Giroro's eyes widened. "You have to tell me. Is he really my father?"

"Wh-what? What, no! Your father is drunk in the Bahamas! Why would he be your father? You know your dad!" said Keroro.

Giroro looked down, sadly. "He likes to tease me a lot."

"He's a high school student at Natsumi's school," Keroro explained.

"A high school student? No... you must mean teacher. He can't be that young. That would mean I've been working for a teenager... Wait, no, he totally gives off the teenage vibe. He's been pranking me constantly and every week has a lecture about his dramatic backstory. He totally is a teen." Giroro sighed. "Can't believe I didn't figure that out myself."

"It explains how he knew Natsumi's name, too," said Keroro.

Natsumi crossed her arms, glaring at Giroro. "Does it, Giroro?"

"Yeah. It does. He said he looked you up, along with your brother and Koyuki. But I never told him any of that. I didn't even know the name of your brother or that Koyuki was Snow's name," he said.

Natsumi was relieved.

Saburo was just confused. "So you don't have any information for us about 966?"

Giroro shook his head.

"Well, then. Time to get to another piece of business." Keroro smiled, "Giroro, you've betrayed 966 to save Natsumi's life. You probably don't have anything else to do, so want to come back to the Agency to work?"

"I hate this place," Giroro hissed. "Saving her life doesn't change that."

"You hate this place because it let Pururu die," said Keroro. "Because your brother, angry about the death of Pururu, started an internal revolution and was electrocuted until he was killed by his chip."

Giroro rubbed the back of his neck. Had they taken out the chip 966 installed in him?

"We took it out," Momoka reassured.

Giroro smiled. "Yeah, that seems pretty accurate. I hate this place a lot."

"Then do you really think its safe to not help us? Aren't you worried about what's going to happen to Natsumi, who you seem to have affection for?" Keroro grinned sinisterly.

Giroro gritted his teeth. "Just as manipulative as you previously were, huh, Keroro?"

"I'm a leader. Sometimes leaders have to do drastic things to get results," he said. "You wouldn't be a full agent, of course. I've arranged it so if you rejoin, you don't have to follow the Heads' orders, you'd be following mine. The era of our team is done. You'd solely be More Peach Summer Snow's bodyguard to assure us that the same thing doesn't happen to their team that happened to ours. You'd protect Natsumi like you want to."

"And you're good at bodyguard work, right?" Momoka pointed out.

Giroro thought for a moment. It did seem like a good deal. He'd probably end up doing it anyway and he did like getting paid for work. "Fine," he agreed gruffly. "But I still don't like this place. It has so many flaws!"

Keroro snickered and got a briefcase out. He pulled out a little badge and name tag with Giroro's name on it, along with his codename "Skull." It had a small skull emblem.

"You've kept it all this time?" Giroro tried to sound tough, but he was a little touched.

"I was waiting for you to come home," Keroro told him. "I've missed you and Zeroro, for... a long time now."

"Stop getting sappy on me," Giroro told him. "If you're going to cry - "

Keroro started crying and threw himself on Giroro in a hug.

"I was going to say, do it somewhere else. You're always like this," Giroro smiled, blushing a bit.

Natsumi hadn't seen this side of either of them. But it was nice to see friends reunite. She smiled.

After about 10 minutes of Keroro blubbering on Giroro, Giroro pushed him off. "I'll protect More Peach Summer Snow. But you guys are really going to need to do something about your security."

"Oh, you mean about how 966 easily broke in?" asked Momoka.

Giroro nodded. "Even if you change the passcodes to this place, it wouldn't do much good."

"Why not?" Keroro asked.

"You have a mole - a traitor," Giroro said simply. Everyone looked shocked. "Oops. Did I forget to mention that? My bad."

"That... That could have been very important information to tell us when you said you knew nothing about 966's plans!" Saburo scolded.

"A mole? Wh-what do you mean, Giroro?" Natsumi asked.

"An informant about the secrets of the Agency - your passcodes, plans. Someone's been betraying you and meeting with 966 in secret," Giroro answered.

Natsumi's eyes widened. That sort of mole? No way could their agency have one. Everybody loved the agency. They were the good guys. Who was so evil that they would betray them?

"Well? Who is it?" Momoka asked, the only one not gawking.

"I don't know. 966 wouldn't tell me. And I never met with them,"he confessed. "I don't take well to moles. It's not honorable."

Natsumi nodded. She had to agree.


Nobody knew who the mole was. They were all looking into it in their own way, but Keroro made it a point that they shouldn't talk to each other about it besides making everybody know that there was a mole.

"If we start pointing fingers, we'll just start some sort of civil war amongst each other and start fighting. So right now it's not best to suspect anyone. Especially your friends," he advised.

Natsumi wanted to agree with him, but she started looking into it alone. It wasn't like she had much time.

She usually did it at home, away from prying eyes with Fuyuki. Fuyuki didn't have the clearance level to get information on the Agency, so he was definitely exempt from being a suspect. Even if he was a lot more observant than her.

"So it's definitely not you, right?" asked Fuyuki. "And Keroro's, like the second most loyal to the Agency, after you. He pretty much controls your office. So it can't be him, either."

Natsumi nodded. She hated to say it, but the only one really exempt from her scrutiny was Keroro, who she didn't really like. And Giroro, who had previously been her enemy. And Tamama, who had been attacked by 966.

"I'll make a list of everyone's possible motives in the office while you're away at work," Fuyuki offered.

"Thanks." She saw the little light blinking under her desk. Another 966 attack.


"Sorry Giroro, you're still injured and we don't really trust you enough to attack 966, him being an old friend of yours," said Keroro. "So it's a More Peach Summer Snow's mission only. He's probably a hologram again - let's be real - so the mission's only to save the citizens he's terrorizing."

Natsumi nodded. Pretty simple orders - don't antagonize 966, save people. That was right up her ally.

She could do this.


966 was definitely a hologram. And he was testing his mind control invention.

"Hmm... Ku, ku, ku. Not a far reach; loses power... so I can't have my mind-controlled zombies just yet," he spoke to himself.

Natsumi's team parachuted down to face him.

"Ah, back to die again?" 966 laughed.

"We're here to stop you!" said Natsumi. "Remember, guys - take out the antennae to free the citizens!"

966 just shrugged as his mind controlled citizens faced Natsumi. "Kill the leader. The pink-haired one."

Natsumi knocked some citizens away from her as Momoka, Koyuki, and Mois fought around her.

"Hey, More. What color do you think the fireworks should be when I invade the planet?" 966 asked casually.

"Umm... I'm not sure why you're asking me," she told him.

"Well, because you'll be there with me, obviously! Ku, ku, ku. Good help is hard to find, after Giroro's betrayal, but I know you have the right qualities," he teased.

Mois shook her head. "I told you, I'm not joining you!"

"Maybe you're already with me. In your heart. Ku ku ku," 966 teased again. Mois stuck out her tongue at him.

Wait... On his side... thought Natsumi. He HAS shown an interest in bringing Mois to his side... It can't just be a ploy because she's already there, can it? Could... Could Mois be the mole? Her eyes widened. It all made sense now.

Mois was the mole. She had to be.


It was Momoka who destroyed the antennae successfully, saving the day. Everybody's heads weren't fully in the game.

Natsumi was brought back home, still kind of shaken up by the realization. She plopped down on her bed near Fuyuki, who was working at his desk.

"I know the mole," she told him.

"Really? Because I wrote out the most suspicious people," he said. "And only two have the highest." He handed her the sheet.

"Yeah... I agree about Mois," Natsumi nodded.

"She's so nice. But she specializes in deception and disguises," he explained. "Also, 966 has become quite... interested in her, oddly enough."

"Why's Momoka at 0% suspicion?" Natsumi asked.

"She's too kind," he said, "but she also has nothing to gain. She already has so much power. Besides, she's my friend... I trust her. It can't be her. She could have backed him publicly, if it was. She'd just change the laws so it wouldn't be illegal for her to help him. And from what I've heard of 966's goals, he hates the kind of person Momoka is."

Natsumi giggled a bit. Fuyuki was just biased. Koyuki was also pretty low, probably because she was her best friend and she knew her better than that.

Surprisingly, the highest wasn't really Mois. It was Saburo. "Wh-what? Why Saburo?"

"Sis... if anyone's the mole, it's Saburo." Fuyuki leaned in and dropped to a whisper. "Listen, he's been the one working on the 966 case the longest. He has the most interest invested in him. And he's a good agent. Isn't it weird he hasn't found anything yet? He went to another country to find his lair and it was just a booby-trap. Saburo's loyalties benefit himself most of all. He knows the most about 966. He's smart, clever, and could be conniving. He's used you to lure out 966, after all, asking you on a date solely so he could be there when 966 came out. And when 966 attacked, he did nothing."

Natsumi's eyes widened. He was right. He was completely right. But it really couldn't be Saburo, could it?


Saburo or Mois? Which would be worse?

966 was evil. But Mois was one of her best friends. What would she do if Mois was working with 966?

She would put us in direct danger. I can't trust her, Natsumi decided.

"Natsumi! Want to eat lunch together?" Mois asked at school. She had made Natsumi a cute little lunch, as always.

"Ummm... I have something to do... over there," Natsumi lied, pointing to a patch of grass. "So I can't eat with you! Sorry."

If she's really the mole... I need to start distancing myself before I get hurt. If it comes down to a fight with Mois I wouldn't be able to do anything against her. But she... She'd be able to if she truly didn't care about me. She could hurt Momoka, or Koyuki. I need to see her true motives. What's under all her disguises.

Mois gave her the saddest expression. "O-okay... I guess I'll go eat lunch with Kululu. Ummm... Natsumi, can I talk to you maybe later about Kululu? You said you'd always be there for me if I needed to talk about my boy troubles."

She wants to break up with him, probably, so the Agency won't use him as bait when she betrays them. "He's a jerk. Dump him. My easy advice." Still, Kululu wasn't the nicest of guys, so she didn't feel much pity for him. She stood up coldly. "Actually, there's something I wanted to talk to you about."

"What?" asked Mois.

"Giroro says we have a mole in the agency selling information to 966."

"Makes sense how he was able to kidnap me so easily," Mois shrugged. And how he keeps texting me to join him. This is so weird. I think I'm being stalked by a super-villain! She neglected to tell anyone about him texting her. She kept trying to track down the signal, but he was using the cell phones of all the citizens he had brainwashed. Apparently he had stolen all their phones, and then he would destroy them when she started hacking.

Natsumi frowned. Mois wasn't surprised in the least bit. "Any idea who it is?"

"I think I agree with Keroro. We shouldn't just go around wildly guessing and suspecting each other. Friendship is the most important thing. And I don't want to doubt any of my friends. I remember when my loyalties wavered - when I thought I was evil, you were there for me. So I want to be there for you," Mois smiled.

"So you don't think it could be any of us? Come on, just between us who do you think it is?" Natsumi asked.

Mois paused. "Saburo. He's been working on the 966 case for years. It would be believable he found him and started working with him." She broke her oath to not suspect anyone. It wasn't like she liked Saburo much anyway, especially with how little he cared about Natsumi.

I wonder... could there be TWO moles? In spy movies, there's only ever one, but maybe he's trying to be smart by being not cliché... Natsumi realized.

She nodded, taking Mois's opinion.


No matter how much Natsumi looked at Saburo, those fluffy blushy feelings wouldn't appear again. To her, he was no longer the coolest spy in the world. Her admiration for him was slowly waning. And her suspicion was rising. She wasn't so biased that her crush wasn't able to be scrutinized.

If he's the mole, it doesn't matter how pretty he is. I will fight him. Nobody betrays the agency like that, she thought.

"Hey, Natsumi," Saburo smiled. Natsumi didn't seem as friendly as normal toward him. "Ah, you're kind of acting distant to me, too."

She frowned. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"966 might have told Giroro we had a mole to spread discourse, you know. He might have predicted Giroro would betray him eventually for us. I'm still looking into the identity of the mole, but for some reason, everybody except Keroro suspects me. Keroro doesn't suspect anyone." Saburo sighed. "They've all shut me out from mission meetings, secrets... all sorts of things."

Natsumi rolled her eyes. She didn't feel pity for him. If he was the mole, this was the right choice.

"Natsumi. You have to believe me. I'm not the mole," he insisted. "If I was giving information to 966, he wouldn't have kidnapped Mois - "

"- because you care about her?" Natsumi asked, trying not to let the sound of her heart breaking show.

"No. Because I have information he doesn't have on why kidnapping her is a bad idea," he said simply. "It was a stupid choice, especially since she has a tracking device inside her."

Natsumi frowned. That was such a cold way of seeing things. If he was the mole, 966 would have acted smarter.

Of course, Saburo would probably betray the agency, she realized.

He probably WAS the mole. And she had no emotions for him if he was.

I'm done with him. He might be competent, but anyone whose morals aren't for saving people isn't worth my time, Natsumi thought.

No matter how much Saburo tried to defend himself, she and everyone else knew that he was the mole.

They had him figured out.


Natsumi's relationships are damaged with both Saburo and Mois.

Who do you think is the mole?

Please review.