Chapter 9: "I hate you nyo!"

Dejiko awoke to find herself cocooned from her shoulders down in a sturdy rope. Finding herself in such a state, Dejiko, in a mild panic, slowly began to realize what had happened, she had been kidnapped. Normally the cat-eared princess would have just been extremely irritated with whosoever put her in this predicament, but the biggest concern was the well-being of Ky.

She was alone and, for the moment, incapacitated, so she decided to take a moment to examine her current surroundings. It was a familiar little shack which could hardly be called clean at all. The room itself was barren, save for a curtain leading to what she assumed to be a sad excuse for a closet, an old cracked table, and a ladder leading to the surface. The ceiling leaked ground water and the corners of the room were filled with cobwebs and filth. This was the underground base of the Black Gema Gema Gang, hidden under some pipes located in a vacant lot outside of Akihabara.

Having been in similar situations before, Dejiko wasn't the least bit worried about her own well-being and began to plot her escape. Her scheming was put on hold as the creaky hatch to the underground base opened, startling Dejiko, as the members of the remaining Black Gema Gema Gang began to noisily descend into the room in which Dejiko sat.

"Well, would ya look at that. I guess she finally woke up," Coo, the major of the gang announced.

"It would seem that way," replied the general, Rik.

"Yay, now we can finally play with oneechan pyo!" exclaimed Piyoko, the leader of the gang.

Dejiko had very little patience for this bunch in the first place, but having been taken away from her Ky, Dejiko was in no mood to toy with the Black Gema Gema Gang.

"Okay nyo, lets get this over with nyo. What do you want from me this time nyo?" asked a very annoyed Dejiko.

"Oh is that any way to talk to your captors Princess Di Gi Charat?" a confident Rik remarked, "we just wanted to have your company that's all."

"That's right pyo, we just wanted to have some fun with oneechan pyo!" Piyoko chimed in.

"This is getting nowhere nyo..." Dejiko began with an irritated voice, "What did you do with Ky nyo?"

"Oh, she's worried about our dear, dear Lieutenant; our Lieutenant who left and betrayed us to be with someone who he'll never be able to stay with or see again, because we've taken her to get a ransom from planet Di Gi Charat to rebuild our lives on planet Analogue," Rik remarked.

"Kidnap me for ransom nyo?" Dejiko asked in surprise and disgust, "Who would come up with a dumb idea like that nyo?"

"Didn't you know? Didn't he tell you? The Lieutenant General himself came up with this scheme. Your lovely, precious, boyfriend KY SCHWEITZER!"

At this Dejiko almost fell over in shock and disbelief as her heart felt as though it had dropped into her stomach.

"Y-You're lying nyo! H-He… Ky would never think of something like that nyo. H-He loves me nyo…" Dejiko tried to reason to herself.

"Oh, on the contrary, who's idea do you think it was for us to come to Earth in the first place?" Rik confidently began as he circled the princess who had tears welling up in her eyes, "And who do you think thought of kidnapping you for ransom? Who's plan do you think it was for Pyocola-sama to call you 'oneechan' in order for you to let your guard down around her. Yes, all of it, it was all the Lieutenant's idea!"

"It's true pyo! Mommy Ky thought it up all himself and I was so excited because it sounded like a good plan pyo!" Piyoko added.

"Yup, it was all Ky… although I still think my pit idea was better…" Coo added sorely.

"Its true! Its true geba!" chimed the other numerous but fairly useless Black Gema Gema Gang members.

Dejiko could not believe what she was hearing; Ky to whom she had poured her heart out to and who she had told her deepest darkest secrets to had planed her downfall from the beginning. Dejiko couldn't stand to believe this was the truth and became enraged at the entire Black Gema Gema Gang.

"Lying nyo! YOU'RE ALL LYING NYO!" Dejiko cried as her eyes began to glow, "ME KARA BIMMU! ME KARA BIMMU! ME KARA BIMMU!" Dejiko exclaimed as eye beams filled the base causing it to begin to crumble, throwing the Black Gema Gema Gang into a frenzied panic. In the chaos, Dejiko was able to cut the rope that bound her on the edge of a fallen piece of rubble and freed herself; afterwards, she quickly made her way to the exit with tears streaming from her eyes.

Meanwhile…

Ky had wearily made his way back to Gamers in Akihabara to tell Dejiko's friends what had happened. The frantic dentist burst through the front door to Gamers startling employees and customers alike.

"Dejiko…! She…captured by the Black Gema Gema Gang…and…" but before he could finish, Usada, Puchiko and Gema were already on him, grabbing him by the coat ready to throw him out of the store.

"N-No wait! You don't understand! Dejiko is…" Ky pleaded wholeheartedly.

"Don't even try to fool us! We know you took Dejiko and we won't let you anywhere near here until you bring her back!" barked an angry Usada.

"B-But I…" Ky began.

"You should receive a punishment worse than death for tricking Dejiko nyu," Puchiko replied in her usual sharp-tongued manner.

"I-I'd never…" Ky desperately tried to reason.

"We won't hear it gema!" an infuriated gema exclaimed.

With that, the three employees of the Gamers store threw out the pleading dentist as they would a troublesome customer or shoplifter. Afterwards Usada quickly closed and locked the entrance to Gamers, watching as Ky quickly ran back and banged on the door, trying to convince Dejiko's friends of his innocence.

After trying in vain to regain entrance to the Gamers store, Ky eventually gave up and gloomily left the store with his head and shoulders drooping, as his hopes for rescuing Dejiko seemed lost. He continued down the crowded streets of Akihabara as passerby's moved out of his way and looked down upon him.

Ky eventually found himself at a park outside of Akihabara, the same park that he first ran into Dejiko the night of their first date. He wandered around the park for several hours with despair as his walking stick and loneliness as his only companion. The path around the park seemed much longer and emptier than it had been when he walked it with Dejiko. He tried his best to suppress his tears as he reminisced about the time that Dejiko and him had spent together, but alas, his efforts were in vain as tears eventually found his eyes. He sat down at the park bench where Dejiko sat that first night they had spent together with his head drooping. Eventually, a figure caught his eye, and his eyes widened as he had found the last person he had expected to see standing in front of him: Dejiko.

She stood and stared at Ky, with her eyes red from constant crying. Her hair was frizzled and her dress was in great disarray. Ky began to slowly approach her with his arms outstretched towards the shaking princess, but before Ky could get close enough to hug her, Dejiko clenched her fists and screamed.

"I HATE YOU NYO!"

End Chapter 9