AN: First submitted fanfiction, yay. I've seen that some people use their first chapter to host character profiles so we can get to know them before jumping in to the story, but I'm not going to do that (I haven't finished them and they've found their home on the TMM fanon wiki anyway). Anyway, criticism accepted and I'm using the canon characters' Japanese names whenever I mention them so yeah. Also, I don't have a set schedule for updates or anything, but I'll write whenever I get the chance.
Obligatory Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew, it is the property of Mia Ikumi and I applaude her for coming up with it.
It has been many years since the Cyniclons made their first assault on Tokyo, Japan in their quest for world domination. Led by the fearless Ichigo Momomiya, the original Mew team managed to make peace with the Cyniclons and eliminate the threat. The Cyniclons returned to their home planet, the Grey Planet, with enough Mu Aqua to save their collapsing ecosystem. The Cyniclon race was saved and in the lifetimes of the original Mews no further alien contact was made with the earth.
Since then however, the Cyniclons have had to endure many hardships. The Grey Planet was invaded by one of their neighbors known as Akar. After a brutal war and a hostile take-over, the Grey Planet fell and became Aam, another extension of the Akarian Empire. In addition to taking over the Grey Planet, the Akarian King Sahura also married the Cyniclon princess Hikari and added their knowledge to his own. After searching through Cyniclon knowledge for anything that might be useful to him, King Sahura found mention of another planet, the Blue Planet.
Seeing that it would make a perfect addition to his Empire, King Sahura ordered the planet to be put under surveillance so that he could learn more about the peoples who inhabited it. After gathering sufficient intelligence, King Sahura was about ready to launch his invasion when he discovered something in the Cyniclon war records that he hadn't noticed before. When his officers returned from observing the planet, King Sahura informed them of an unforeseen obstacle. This "Mew Project" the humans had created was a serious threat and he announced that they would start a similar project of their own before making a move.
The Akarian scientists were then ordered to start the project, but things didn't go as smoothly for them as their King had hoped. After many mistakes though, they finally had a working machine that could create Mews for them. They then started the actual experimental phase; using mostly Cyniclon girls as their test subjects since King Sahura thought his own people were too valuable to risk. They soon realized however, that the project would have more failures than successes. Of the few girls who survived the original experimentation, most either became horribly mutated with no special powers or went completely insane. There were a few successes though, but those girls either went missing or were killed by a group of rebels, both Akarian and Cyniclon, who thought everything being done was a bad idea.
After waiting on the success of his project longer than he was willing, King Sahura decided that he would go ahead with his invasion and add successful experiments to his roster once they were created. He appointed one of his most trusted officers, a young man named Khai, as commander of all his affairs on the Blue Planet and as the one who would lead them to victory in their mission of conquest. King Sahura also chose some of his best and brightest to serve as the initial attack team who would scout the areas he had chosen to attack and also eliminate any Mews the humans still had. After careful consideration, King Sahura decided he would spread out his attack to cover five cities the humans called capitals. Attacking Tokyo, Japan as the Cyniclons had before them- Paris, France- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada- London, England- and Rome, Italy.
When the rebels first learnt of King Sahura's plot to take over the Blue Planet, they knew that the only way its inhabitants would have any chance of survival was if they warned them. Led by a fearless woman known only as Zahra, members of the rebellion were sent to each of the cities that were about to be attacked to give the humans stolen parts of the Mew project to adapt to human DNA and animals from the Blue Planet. After the human scientists were convinced this wasn't some elaborate hoax, they gratefully accepted the stolen project and set about the laborious task of creating a working Mew Laser.
Eventually they did succeed though, and once a number of DNA matches were found, the Mew Lasers were fired changing the lives of average teens into something extraordinary. The first wave of Akarian teams had not yet arrived on the Blue Planet and the scientists held their breath and waited for a sign that their experiments had been a success. Zahra herself stayed on the Blue Planet longer than any others, but only stayed long enough to assure the scientists of the presence of Mews in each city. It was only after she left that the scientists realized they had never once seen her without the black cloak she had worn and wondered if she had done that on purpose.
Our story starts with the awakening of the animal DNA in the Mew girls and the scientists' desperate attempts to find them- Khai preparing the initial attack teams for their assault on the Blue Planet- and the Akarian Mew project advancing faster than ever.