Ichigo felt her entire body convulsing as her stomach gurgled and a bitter taste filled her mouth. She threw her blanket off and sprinted towards the bathroom. She narrowly avoided up chucking in the hallway as she slipped into the bathroom. She pushed her hair back hastily out of the way trying her best to avoid streaking it with last night's dinner. When Ichigo had thought she was finally finished there was one last heave of stomach acid before she could get up again. She wheezed while she flushed the toilet. In her post barf haze Ichigo struggled to stand up and rinse her mouth.

Once she exited the bathroom, Ichigo got a good look at the room she was in. In her pre-throw up haze she hadn't bothered to really take notice of her surroundings before, although she had a feeling that she definitely wasn't at home. Ichigo took a look around the room she was in. It looked like one of the back rooms at the café. She did not know why she was here. Come to think of it, Ichigo couldn't even remember what happened. The last thing she remembered was taking a nice long bath at home. After that she must have gone back to her room. And then…

"Eeeeeeek!"

Ichigo cringed. Kish had been in her room! He had threaten her parents, stole her power pendant, and then chased her down the street! The other Mews had shown up to help her, and Zakura had been able to get her power pendant back so she could transform. Ichigo could still feel the echoes from the intense pain that she felt when she transformed. It had felt like something ripped her out of her body, jumbled her up, and put her back in all wrong. After that, it was all blank until she woke up here.

Ichigo shook the horrible thoughts from her head as she headed toward that room's wardrobe. Inside was a simple, light pink sun dress that was belted in by a thick yellow ribbon. In a small box there was a floppy straw hat, a pair of sandals and-Ichigo blushed-a pair of lacy, pink, strawberry print underwear. Ichigo donned the garments-save the underwear, who knows where that came from- and left her old clothes in the corner of the closet. She admired her reflection. Whoever had picked out this outfit for her had done well. Everything had fit her perfectly. Ichigo warily left the room. She was determined to find her friends and figure out what was going on! Ichigo rounded the corner, and ran into what felt like a brick wall.

"Uhf!" Ichigo landed on her rear end hard.

"Watch where you are going!"

She looked up to see that she had run into Ryo. Ichigo blushed a deep red. He was the only person who could ever have been involved in a collision and not come out looking a little sorry.

"Well it was not like you were watching where you were going either." Ichigo shot back. Ryo gave her a dark look, before he picked himself up and brushed off. Then he held out a hand for Ichigo, but she rebuffed him and turned away to get up herself.

"How did I end up here anyways?"

If she had to talk to Ryo, Ichigo was going to at least find out some answers. Ryo looked at her in shock, like she had just grown two heads. "You mean you don't remember?!"

"Of course I do not! Why else would I ask?" Ichigo was not in a good mood. She felt like her head was about to explode and all she wanted to do was go home and sleep for ten years.

"Tsk." and with that, Ryo started walking away down the hall to their control room. Ichigo ran to catch up with him. She was so confused. This was weird, even for him. What exactly had happened? Ichigo followed Ryo into the room, where the rest of the team was assembled. Everyone turned and stared at Ichigo the minute she walk into the room.

"Wow, let's all stare at Ichigo and not explain what's going on at all." Ichigo commented. They all averted their eyes, except for Zakuro, who no one had ever accused of being tactful.

"Great news, she does not remember anything." Ryo said in a sarcastic tone. Ichigo was really starting to get annoyed with him.

"Can someone please just tell me what is going on!?" Ichigo tried to sound demanding, but all that came out was a bit of a squealing plead.

"You want to know what happened. Fine. I'll tell you." Mint said with anger lacing her voice, "You turned on your team! That's what happened!"

Ichigo felt like someone had slapped her on her face. What? She would never betray the Mews. There had to be a mistake. She would definitely remember doing something that cold hearted. Ichigo was pulled from her inner turmoil by the sound of someone clearing their throat. It was Keiichiro.

"Well, that is only part of what happened. Let me start from the beginning. Do you remember Kish attacking you?" at this, Ichigo nodded her head. She was dumbfounded. "What about getting your pendant back and transforming?"

"I remember all of that. It's what happened after I transformed that I can't recall."

"Well, apparently the Cynclons messed with your pendant while it was in their possession. They managed to alter it so that it not only changes your body, but your mind as well."

"Wait-What?!" Ichigo had to be mishearing him. That could not have happened. It just could not!

"Unfortunately, that is was happened. Now instead of transforming into Mew Ichigo, you transformed into Mew Blackberry, who fights for the Cynclons. You attacked the other Mews on Kish's order." he paused for a minute to let the information sink in.

"Well, can you fix it!?" Ichigo could not believe this. She could not betray her friends, and the entire human race, for their enemy! No way was that going to happen. Again at least. Ryo picked up the story.

"The thing is, we do not know how to reverse it. The Cynclons are much more advanced than we are. It will take us a lot of time to re-engineer their modifications."

At this, Lettuce rushed forward and grabbed Ichigo's hands. "But we will find a way!"

She all but yelled it, trying to convince everyone in the room, including herself. Pudding followed her lead and ran toward Ichigo, hugging her tightly. "Yes! Yes! Yes! We'll save Ichigo!"

Ichigo just hoped that when they did, it would not be too late.

Kish licked his lips as he watch the footage of their latest battle again. His plan had gone perfectly! Ichigo had turned on the Mews, and had kicked their butts. It was amazing how powerful she was when fighting her own. Oh yes, Ichigo was way more powerful than all the other pathetic Mews combined. And now, she will follow every order he gives her. Plus, what the silly humans have yet to realize, is that the more Ichigo uses the pendant, the stronger Mew Blackberry will become. Until Mew Blackberry will completely take over Ichigo's body.

He turned his attention back to the screen. This was his favorite part. Ichigo had just defeated the Mews so horribly, that they all had been changed back to their pathetic human selves. Ichigo had a dark smirk on her face the entire time, too. But the icing on the cake, was that after demolishing her friends, Ichigo flew up to Kish, and kissed him wholeheartedly.

He paused it right at that moment.

Oh yes, Kish was going to enjoy this.