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The Inevitable: Chapter 3 Escaping to the Stars

She collapsed onto the bed, and sighed. She had matured quite a bit over the time spent here, especially after getting a new wardrobe and updating and checking up on her system. No longer did she wear the knee-high cream-colored boots, but now, she wore navy blue boots with white knee-high socks. She navy dress she wore was replaced with one looking similar, but now they were shorts. Her head was also covered in a beret.

Other than that, many tests had been taken on her for a while, like the incident a few days ago. She didn't quite enjoy being tested and updated; she knew it had to be done. That Y-Data was very important, and if it was in the wrong hands, like some of it was already from Albedo, she shivered from the thought, the world could be in some serious trouble, which was one reason why she needed to contact the gang soon.

No word from Shion, Jr., Chaos, even Ziggy for these past few months. Mary couldn't get in contact with them either, for either the phone would be busy, or they just weren't available. She knew life could be really busy, but this was something else.

Rolling over, Momo latched onto the bracelet he gave her. The golden metallic bullet shone lightly in the darkened room. Almost reminiscing the time when Jr. gave her that bracelet for the twentieth time this week, her eyes glanced up at the window nearby. She had been tempted many times to go for the window, and start a little search of her own, but the thought quickly swept out of her mind, as she thought of her mother and Mary.

So another night would pass by again, another eternity to wait through. Figuring that she'd get SOME form of letter, or contact with anyone, just anyone, she didn't care who, but SOMEONE, that hope started to die down with each passing day. She couldn't put her finger on it, but something, felt wrong, or weird.

It was an eerie feeling that maybe something was going to happen. This feeling had been creeping over her after the first week of staying here, and at first, she had simply brushed it off, but now, it had become deep, a feeling that now was etched into her without permission.

Glancing back up at the window, her face turned grim with determination. She knew she couldn't put this off anymore, and she didn't want to risk having anyone here hurt by following her, so she planned her escape. She knew this could be dangerous, but that was the risk she'd just have to take. Too bad she needed a weapon, and right now, she had none.

Taking a piece of paper from the chestnut colored desk, she quickly scribbled:

Mother & Mary,

Don't worry about me, I'm fine, I'm just letting you know that I'll be back soon, hopefully. I've just got to take care of some "unfinished business" and I'll be safe. DON'T WORRY, I'll be FINE, although I know you'll both worry anyway.


Love you both,

MOMO

::knock, knock, knock::

Momo hurriedly folded the piece of paper and slid it under her pillow as Mary came in. "Time for dinner!" Mary exclaimed putting on a big goofy smile. "Okay!" Momo followed her happily as they marched up for dinner.

Dinner was delicious and Momo had really gotten closer, or at least broke the hard shell of distance between her and her mom. Although Juli would never show it, Momo already knew that she really did love her, and that was all she needed.

After dinner was over, Momo helped with the dishes, and climbed into the elevator. It dinged at the same usual place, and she walked to her door, when a door that she hadn't noticed before caught her eye.

She was allowed search some rooms, except the ones that were off-limits, so she looked around, and started forward to open the door. Turning it slowly, it creaked open. Obviously, the door hadn't been used in awhile.

Looking around, she flipped the light switch on, and saw many boxes. Although the room was old and some type of paint was falling off the metal walls, it was still quite lovely. The room was a peach color, and there were butterflies and sunflowers painted across as borders of the room. There was a gently air to this room, and she sat down and stared at the pastel hues of light colors. It was like a beautiful rainbow had been caught in this room.

Closing the door behind her, she peaked into a box nearby. It was a little girl, about her age, with dark brown hair, and forest green eyes. She was clothed in a beautiful white dress, and smiled happily. The girl looked exactly like Juli, and Momo began to wonder if this was her when she was young. Flipping through some more pictures, she began to see Juli in some of them. "So it couldn't be Mother" Momo contemplated. It had to be…

"SAKURA!!!" Momo cried out loud accidentally.

"Yes, this is…Sakura," A voice said from behind her. Momo whirled around to see her mother's face express emotion, before it became blank again.

"I was looking for you in your room, and then I saw the door and knew you were there when I couldn't find you in your room," Juli explained. Both went quiet. "Time for bed then," Quickly changing the subject, Juli headed for the door, "and, you can keep that picture, if you want." With that, Juli was out in a flash.

Momo stared at the door, holding the picture of Sakura close to her. She looked back at the boxes, when something lying on the floor caught her eye. It was a bow and an arrow. A very high-tech version of a bow and arrow. Momo picked it up, grinning. Now she had her weapon!

Sneaking to the door, she opened it, looked around, and made a mad dash for her door, with her newly found weapon hiding behind her back. Looking at the clock in her room, there were 30 more minutes before the security lock-down. Promptly, she took the picture, paper, pen, a cure-all and some gold, before taking one more glance around her room.

"Let's see," she began. Taking the letter out from under her pillow, she glanced thoughtfully at the folded letter, and set it on her bed. Opening the window into the frigid night air, she climbed up, and then a thought struck her, they hadn't completed extracting the Y-Data from her yet. "Oh well," she thought, "I'll just have to keep it safe myself, in the almost-the-safest-place-in-the-world" She smiled, and tapped the side of her head. Coming down carefully, she shut her window, and proceeded with caution around the side of the building. This place had many floors, which meant, if she fell off from this floor, she'd be dead meat.

The place was guarded on the outside of each floor too. Not to mention that there were at least four guards on each corner, where each staircase was located. There was no way she could get by undetected, and if she tried to fight them, she be sure to get ambushed by all the guards!

Her mind started racing. "what to do, what to do…" It hit her! A guard was making his patrol around his part of the corner. Momo aimed at the guard's head, and shhhhoooooooooouuupp!!! He crumbled to the ground effortlessly.

Nearing him, she found a med kits and some money. Whispering, "I'm sorry" she went on. She never did like to kill anyone, but in this situation, she just had to, there was no other option. Over and over she did this. She gained a good amount of med kits and ether packs.

After 10 floors, she reached the 4th. Each time, the guards were getting harder and harder to surprise. Many times, she'd just be in a normal battle of three guards because they'd call for reinforcements, but she was doing well! She only had to use five med kits this whole time! She couldn't wait to tell Jr.!

Jr. That name made her work harder to get out of here. She jumped down the stairs, battle after battle, corner after corner, guard after guard, and now, she was almost done. It was the first level.

The final level.

She was almost out of here! Her honey colored eyes glowed with excitement. She gave a small smile and walked triumphantly on. She finished off the three guards on each corner. Now, was the last one. She was expecting it to be a guard, just like the others, but to her surprise, and dismay, it was a Basilisk.

"Piece of cake!" Momo thought to herself, and started shooting arrows at it. Unfortunately for her, the Basilisk wasn't any ordinary one, and had 1000 HP! She began shooting it with 134 HP damage, but it kept on boosting, leaving her 2000 amounts of HP to be drained to 1432, not to mention that it cast poison on her.

Momo was now taking hits badly after she had made the Basilisk's HP down quite a bit, and it was near death. Although she was healing herself with her healing powers, it kept wasting turns and she was growing weaker and weaker, while the Basilisk was showing its wrath to no mercy.

She had to win, she just had to! Her HP was now down to 321, and instead of using that turn to heal, she took a chance and hit the Basilisk, causing it to die, but not right before the poison took effect again, draining her HP down to 259.

"Yay!" she whispered and cried out in relief, as she sank to the ground. Using a few ether packs, she cast Life Shot on herself, and felt the cool blue winds recover her body. She got up, stretched, and walked out.

She didn't recognize this place. Momo continued on anyhow, and stood for a minute to watch the stars in the sky.

Flashback

A knock was heard at Momo's door on the Durandal. "Yes?" Momo answered, looking up to the door. Jr. sauntered in, taking one of Momo's hands. "Hey, since tomorrow's the last day, uh, you know," Jr. scratched the back of his head thoughtfully as a slow blush started to form on his cheeks. "I, uh, wanted to show you something."

Baby, you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven

Smiling, Momo got up and followed Jr. as he dragged her outside of the ship. Once outside, he picked a spot on top of a hill, and beckoned her to sit down beside him. Pointing westward, he whispered, "There's gonna be a shooting star, I think that's supposed to come any minute,"

And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

Momo followed the place where he was pointing, and asked, "What's a 'shooting star'?"

"It's a star that flies across and when it does, you can make a wish on it," Smiling, she replied, "Will my wish come true?"

"Probably"

"Okay"

Now nothing could change what you mean to me
Oh, there's a lot that I could say
But just hold me now
'Cause our love will light the way

In a matter of seconds, a bright light traveled across, and Momo quickly closed her eyes and wished. "What did you wish for?" Jr. inquired. "I can't tell you, it's a secret." She put a finger to her lips and grinned. "Awwwww" Jr. put on a puppy-dog face while Momo started to giggle.

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven

And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven
Heaven

"You wanna hear a story?" Jr. began.

"Okay" Momo yawned and rested her head on Jr.'s shoulder.

Once open a time, there was a girl with chestnut brown hair, short and in bouncy curls at the ends. Her eyes were an emerald green, and she was always cheerful, and had a will to help others in need.

There was also a guy. He was very tall, had aquamarine colored eyes, handsome, strong, and had blonde hair, errr that kinda thing. The girl and the guy knew each other ever since they were kids in the orphanage. They had a group of friends, and the guy would be mean to them and bully them around, except for that one girl, but when it came to games and stuff, they wouldn't let him in their group.

The girl, of course, always wanted to let him in, but the others wouldn't have it. The girl still made friends with the guy, and they stuck by each other. Then one day, one by one, each kid was adopted. But when they became older, they met again in a fighting school.

Then, the guy did a lot of bad things he wished he didn't do, like trying to kill his friends, but he believed he was doing the right thing because he was protecting the person that took care of him in the orphanage, so he didn't know.

He killed a lot of people for her, and though his friends didn't want to hurt the person that also protected them too, they knew they had too, because she was bad. Later on, they defeated the person that was controlling the guy and the person that took care of them when they were young, and didn't blame the guy for not knowing.

But, the guy still felt guilty for what he did, so he tried to move away. The girl, however, still wanted him to stay, so she convinced him to, and he found out that she still cared about him, even though he tried to kill her, and made a lot of mistakes.

He didn't understand why, but he stayed. Eventually, the two fell in love, and the friends accepted him. The end.

Jr. looked at the sleeping form of Momo, and shook her gently, "Come on, it's not good to sleep here, you could get sick or something." Momo heard the whole story, and absolutely loved it, she was awake, but she couldn't get her eyes to open, and she was really tired.

Now our dreams are coming true
Through the good times and the bad
I'll be standing there by you

Jr. sighed, but stared at Momo's sleeping form, thinking how she slept so innocently, and child-like. He kissed her forehead softly, and took her in his arms, as he carried her back to her room.

And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven, oh

Momo could feel herself being picked-up, and she slightly blushed when Jr. kissed her forehead. Jr. took her to her room, pulled the blankets over her, and wished her goodnight.

Oh
We're in heaven

End Flashback

She whispered out loud, "I wished that I'd be together with you somehow soon, and maybe forever." A lone tear trickled down her cheek as she slowly brushed it away. "Rubedo" she mouthed.

Okays!!! I did make her mature…a lot, but I guess…I know I made MOMO a little OOC, but, heheh?? Now make me happy by clicking this button down there, and telling me what you thought of this chapter!!! Teehee!!! Also, a thank you to all the wonderful reviewers of this fic!!! You're what motivates authors wanna write more!!!!

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