Tokyo Mew Mew:
A New Disaster
Beep. Beep. Click.
The familiar sounds of the routinely computer scans reached the ears of the red-haired girl as she turned to face the sitting form of the man in front of her.
The blue of his eyes seemed to darken as he spun in his chair to meet her. Looking over him, she noticed that the circles under his eyes were not just from the poor lighting.
"Alert. Alert. Warning. Energy levels risi-"
His arm whipped out and silenced the machine-like voice. "Sorry," He muttered.
A shot of sadness swept through before she could stop it. 'What are you doing to yourself, Shirogane?' She shook her head firmly. She needed to face this situation with a clear mind. Pity was not going to get them anywhere.
She let out a breath. "Tell me honestly. How did it come to be like this? How could you of all people not notice this?"
Blue eyes seemed to fill with guilt before it was wiped away by fiery determination.
"I admit my failure, and I fully intend to pay for it," His eyes rose to meet her and they locked. "But I can not do this alone. Ichigo, I'm asking you as the leader of Tokyo Mew Mew to use your powers one last time."
Ichigo took on a hard expression.
Ever since the attack two and a half years ago she had been plagued by nightmares birthed from the guilt she had been put through as well as every single fight she had to face.
All she wanted was to have a normal life. But…
She observed the man before her.
Willing to fight for what he believed in, willing to stay up each and every damn night just to make sure the city was safe, and the worst flaw of all, willing to sacrifice his own life if he very well had to if it meant that he could save his friends and the people around him.
Her eyes softened.
"No,"
His startled answer made her realize that she had thought out loud.
"What?"
"No, I won't let you do this alone,"
"Ichigo,"
Her expression changed to one of quiet joy. "After all, if it wasn't for you, for this project of yours," she gestured with a sweep of her arm. "I would have never met my friends; never realized the significance of the danger the earth had been in, and would have never saved our world from it." She took a breath. "So yes, I will help you fight," she took a step closer to him. "And I will lend my powers to help you do it," she smiled. "Not to mention the fact that you'd probably die trying without me,"
He let out a wry grin and raked a hand through his hair, successfully making him look like he had stuck his finger in a socket.
She let out a small giggle.
The little light illuminating them was snuffed out in that moment and Ryou let out a curse.
Suddenly the room was flooded with a brilliant, red light.
Ichigo couldn't help but feel a flash of irritation. That light was going to give her a headache if it didn't stop its fanatic frenzy soon.
Ryou spun around in his chair to face the computer. As he looked over them he slammed his fist into the arm of his chair.
With their little moment all but shattered Ichigo moved behind his chair and observed on with wide eyes. "What's happening?"
"Ryou!" They both turned to see Keiichiro, rushing down the stairs and coming into the room, meeting them with frantic eyes.
Distraught laced his voice as he faced his friend. "We've been found out!"
All color drained out of the boy and he whispered in horror. "How?"
Ichigo looked from one man to the other in confusion. "What do you mean?"
Keiichiro's expression changed from alarm to grim as he looked over Ryou's shoulder to face the computer screens. He leaned over and pushed reboot.
"I don't know. I just received a tip from our friend. He sent in the files though my pager,"
"Friend?" Ichigo wondered. "What do you mean? Who found you out?"
"Turns out, the government's been trying to hack into our computers and find a way into our system. The officials are trying to gather what data they can get a hold of to rebuild the Mew Project." He said as he got a chair of his own.
"The government? I thought it was him!"
Keichiro shook his head with a grimace. "He's been with them all along,"
Jaw tightened with anger Ryou turned back to the computer and together they worked, trying to stop the alarm. "And this tip?"
Keichiro paused and gave Ichigo a side-glance. "They are not above kidnapping the girls to be studied,"
Dread clawed its way into her stomach and she let out an angry breath.
"Not only that," Keichiro continued, resuming his work on the computer "They've been trying to find our hideout-"
System down. Alert. System down. Preparing standard scanning. Cannot complete.
"What? No! I programmed you to be the best!"
Zing!
Suddenly the computers shut down.
Extracting data.
Numbers and letters flooded the blank screen and the men cried out in surprise and horror.
Ryou's fingers were frozen, hovering over the board. He turned to his partner who was equally stunned.
"We lost," the brunette whispered.
"What do we do now, Ryou?" Ichigo asked quietly.
The blond seemed to deflate before their eyes, and in a flat voice he said. "We run."
A/N Comment of the day: Sister: "Oh, crap! I broke our glass pan... Give me the vacuum!"
-Sighs- After finally gaining the courage to look through this again I've decided to rewrite my first TMM fic. I was quite horrified by how terribly written it was… I must have been 12 or something XD
Thus I've decided to take this piece up again and do my best to see this to the end. Better written of course :)
Hope you all enjoyed.
'Till next time.