Description: A violent bio-weapon is unleashed on Earth and human beings start dropping like flies. The girls are in a panic, and reach out to the only ones they think can help. It's up to the aliens to save the girls now, but its hard to save humans when you have a target on your head as well.
Rating: T, Violence.
Pairings: Will determine later…wink wink!
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"We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
-Thomas S. Monson
"How long do we have until this thing actually works?"
An impatient alien snapped, tapping his fingers on the desk in front of the large computer screen. A rather petite alien stood by his left side, a reddish orange mohawk topped his head and whipped aside as he yanked his head in the taller aliens direction.
"You're so impatient- it's only been out for 8 hours. With only one point of contact in each of the seven continents; it will take a couple days to fully spread."
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"Hngghh"
A mess of deep cherry colored hair rolled to the side, revealing exhausted brown eyes. A lazy hand reached out and grabbed the vibrating cell phone and clicked the glowing green button to answer the call.
"Hello?"
"Ichigo- Have you- turned on the TV?"
The voice on the other end was rushed and frantic, a groan escaped Ichigo's lips as she stretched in the bed,
"Nah I haven't, I just got up."
The girl on the other side of the phone trembled when she spoke, her voice quivered in genuine fear on the line.
"You need to."
"Okay okay…"
The red head sat up in her bed, yawning as she grabbed the small remote on her nightstand and turned on her television; thinking nothing of it. The news was on the first station she turned to, and it took her a moment to absorb what she was seeing.
Roughly 120 people were now hospitalized with a yet undiscovered illness in Tokyo General Hospital; their symptoms were debilitating. There were even more falling sick across the world. According to the news report, it's an airborne bacterial illness that caused lethargy and the blackening of veins. The disease would cause their skin to become brittle, and their motor functions would slow almost to a halt. The infected would lose their speech capabilities and have no desire to eat or drink, It was like nothing that had been documented before.
Her heart pointed loud in her chest and she broke out in a nervous sweat,
"Lettuce what is this…"
Her words trailed off as she heard a gasp from the aquatic mew on the other end of the line, she was crying. Lettuce fumbled to find words,
"I don't know- What should we do? It's spreading so fast. The first case was apparently around midnight last night, that person is almost a vegetable now. They deteriorate so quickly…I'm..so scared."
Ichigo shook her head, just staring at the television news report. The room suddenly felt cold on her skin, she could hear her own heartbeat thumping in her chest.
"We…"
She trailed off for a moment, trying to collect her thoughts.
"We should go to the cafe and get in touch with Ryou and Keiichiro and see what they think, they'll know more than we do I'm sure. This could be catastrophic depending on how fast it spreads. Can you head there now? I'll call the others."
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The basement door of the cafe swung open quickly, slamming into the wall supporting it. All eyes in the room whipped in that direction, a frantic blue haired girl stormed across the room. She was the last one to arrive,
"What the hell is going on? I thought we finished this alien problem!"
Mint shouted, looking right at Ryou and Keiichiro, her cheeks red from the abrupt outburst. She looked upset, but somewhat angry at the same time. The group shared a uniform expression of dejection and concern, one spoke up to answer her-
"Alien problem? What are you talking about? It's a virus."
Ichigo earned a frustrated stare from the bird mew. Ryou then piped into the conversation,
"Isn't it obvious?"
The entire room hushed and looked in his direction, waiting for him to explain. He was quiet for a few moments and then took a deep breath, he looked exhausted,
"It's clear this is a new disease on Earth, it was most likely a bio-weapon- thanks to the aliens. I doubt it's a human creation, judging by our immune systems natural weakness to it and that it's hitting every single continent at once."
A lean violet haired girl seethed,
"You think they'd do this to us after we gave them the Mew Aqua to save their planet?"
Lettuce wrung her hands together anxiously, staring at the muted computer screen and the images all of the people falling ill. It was breaking her heart to see all the sick people, knowing she couldn't stop it.
Ryou took notice of the girls expressions as he spoke, looking directly over to Zakuro,
"If I had to guess, it isn't Kish and his group… it could be a rogue group or something. We need to get in contact with Pai. He probably knows more than we do."
"I think I've got him on link-"
Keiichiro interjected, looking over from the smaller computer screen to the left of the room. The large screen changed from the news channel to the fuzzy image of the violet haired alien, it was a little grainy and his voice seemed static-y as he spoke.
"Evening humans, I'm surprised by your sudden contact."
Ryou stepped out in the middle of the room, the girls stood against the far wall, looking up at the screen as if Pai was going to grace them with all the answers on what to do. The blond manager had a look of disdain as he explained the situation, and it became apparent that Pai had no idea what was going on. He listened intently and showed a very rare look of surprise as he responded to the information,
"I'm not sure who would unleash such a thing on your planet, but you're right; it sounds like a disease from our people. We need to regroup, I will assist you in any way I can. I will send for Kish and Tart to retrieve you, and I will also send word to our leader."
His words brought only a bit of relief, the girls still appeared distraught and discouraged. Keiichiro walked over and stood beside Ryou,
"We are very grateful, this is rapidly becoming one of the worst epidemics that the Earth has seen. We-"
The screen suddenly shook and Pai's head whipped around away from the screen just before cutting out. Lettuce gasped and the girls immediately looked over at their manager. He and Keiichiro were immediately on the computer trying to reconnect contact.
Ichigo furrowed her brow together, a sinking feeling filled her up as she stared at the black screen. What was happening out there?
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A loud clang in the distance and a mechanical groan from the ship caused a lazy green haired alien to sit up off the lounge sofa in the main room. The emergency power lights came on as soon as Kish sat up and glanced around the room, he cursed under his breath at the power break for disturbing his nap and yawned loudly before yelling into the dark.
"Pai! What the hell is going on?!"
He yelled towards the archway on the far wall, leading into a dark hallway. The power was now out on the entire vessel, and only dimly lit red lights lit the ship in main areas. The main room was an octagonal shaped room with two open archways on either side of the room, leading to the two main corridors of their ship.
The center of the room was divided by a short half wall, a 10ft divider in the center of an at least 30ft wide room. It separated between sitting/living area and a dining and kitchen area with pantry racks for food.
The ship was uncomfortably still for a few moments, it sent a chill up Kish's spine. Pai usually kept the ship in tip-top shape, it wasn't like him to let it cut power like this. Something was very wrong. The airways and cooling ducts had shut off, it felt instantly a little warmer in the sealed ship.
Gold eyes scanned the dim room, it felt a lot bigger now that it was fairly dark and he was alone. Goosebumps decorated his pale skin as he looked around the room in silence. His sensitive ears suddenly picked up a sound from the archway behind him, his head slowly turned and looked to see a silhouette in the large entryway. For a second it startled him, but Kish dismissed the thought and huffed, standing up beside the large sofa. He felt somewhat relieved that Pai was there to explain what was happening.
"Pai, What is going on? Why are the lights out? The cooling ducts aren't even working."
His words seemed to fall on deaf ears, and the silhouette didn't move. The relief he felt earlier all but faded away as he realized this alien was not Pai, and was a little too big to be Tart. Kish turned fully toward the figure and felt his heart pick up pace immediately, who was this? He quietly summoned his sai and spoke in a more threatening tone towards it,
"Who are you and what are you doing on our ship?"
The figure rolled its shoulders and then began to walk into the room at a casual but quick pace, summoning a weapon around his hands.
"Long time no see Kish."
As the figure moved out of the shadow, Kish immediately recognized him.
"Jett?"
The blue haired alien shrugged, a cheesy grin on his face as he held up his brass knuckle looking weapons on his hands,
"Surprised your dumb ass remembers me."
Kish seethed and displayed that he, too, was armed. Before he could speak again, the intruder rushed forward and delivered a couple jabbing punches. With his Sai, Kish blocked the quick strikes with ease and delivered a knee strike to Jett's abdomen. It earned just a snarl and the alien continued attacking Kish. He grabbed the sword wielding alien's shirt with his left hand and got one good right hook into Kish's jaw and throttled him onto the coffee table.
Jett reached back and as his brass knuckles began to glow, he thrust down to strike the downed alien on the side of the head. Kish rolled to the side and off the table and onto the thin rug on his back, his opponent cracked the wooden coffee table beside him and cursed at him.
Kish hissed angrily at Jett as he dove down on top of him and began a hand to hand fight.
"What are you doing here?!"
A yelp escaped Kish's throat as a punch struck him in the nose, causing immediate bleeding. He responded by burying the sai in his right hand into Jett's thigh a few inches. A shriek followed- and the messy haired alien recoiled and stumbled around the sofa and grabbed wildly onto the half wall for support as blood poured out of the wound. The alien on the floor took the opportunity to stand up and regain his composure from the struggle, keeping his eyes locked on the enemy as he spat angrily at him.
"Answer me dammit."
"Don't worry about it, you'll find out soon enough."
Jett's left hand was clasped over the puncture in his thigh, he was clearly pondering his chances. He then stood up straight and took a deep breath as he clenched his fists, causing the brass knuckles to glow white. Before Kish could take a defensive stance, the opponent shouted-
"Kuki-Suiryoku!" (a/n: Air - Thrust)
Jett punched with his right hand and a sharp gust of air made a hollow sound as it struck Kish's chest like it had been a solid object like a hammer, knocking the wind out of him as he flew back into the steel wall behind him. Gasping followed as he slunk to the floor with his back on the wall, trying to catch his breath.
The attacker winced and grabbed at his bleeding thigh once more. Blood soaked the lower half of his floor length gray robe. He locked eyes with his distressed victim,
"Advice for future events, stay out of it."
The blue haired alien suddenly teleported out of sight, leaving Kish to catch his breath. It didn't make sense, he didn't understand the goal of the spontaneous attack; nor what was just said. He hadn't even seen Jett in a few years.
A teleporting warp made him stiffen up and rise back to his feet as another figure appeared in the room, this time it was a familiar face- Tart. The young alien looked rough, like he had also been in a fight.
"Did you get attacked too?!"
Kish huffed, taking note of the black eye and bleeding lip of his young counterpart. A small hand rubbed the blood off his own lip as Tart looked up and responded,
"No shit. Adube just showed up and attacked me while I was in my room. He didn't say anything to me, just yanked me off my bed and began beating the piss out of me."
"Adube? Jett showed up in here, walked right in from the hallway like it was nothing, and did the same thing- only he told me to stay out of future events or something. I don't get it."
The lights suddenly whirred back on and the air shafts kicked on, cool air immediately billowed down onto the exhausted duo. As they took a second to relax, their third counterpart teleported into the room, and was visibly surprised by what he saw.
"What happened to you two?"
Pai strode across the room and observed their bloodied appearances as Tart explained,
"Jett and Adube showed up and just started fighting with us! Where the hell were you!?"
"I received contact from the mews, their planet is going through an epidemic."
Kish tilted his head and stared at the purple haired alien as the youngest alien continued to defiantly pipe up,
"So?"
The eldest breathed out slowly and spoke in a low tone,
"An epidemic that was clearly caused by our species…and they're dropping like flies due to the disease. They need us."
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MewMid: This is the first TMM story I've gotten seriously into in a long while… I have been itching to write since I couldn't for the last 6 months due to my police academy, and now I may be hooked on this. I've graduated, so I have a bit of time now. I have a whole outline set up, and I'm going to just focus on this one story before getting back to my other ones.
R and R! Tips, Ideas, Good, Bad…anything is welcome.