HI MY LOVELY FELLOW ANIMELOVERS! I am soooo sorry it took me so long to upload this, I was out of town for a week in a terrible place with no internet! GASP! :D Anyways, thanks for all this great reviews, they were really nice and motivating! :D I hope you guys like this, it's getting a bit more cheerful and will continue to get more cheerful as chapters go on. KISSHU IS MY HEROOOO

OH AND I DONT OWN TOKYO MEW MEW YADDA YADDA YADDA (wish I did, its really a shame)

CHAPTER 2: LANDING

"Kisshu! Pai says to come out here quick!"

Taruto's carrying voice startled Kisshu out of his half-asleep state. He'd been slumped against the wall in the room with the Mew Aqua, trying to keep his mind blank. He quickly rose and floated out to the main control room, brushing his hair out of his face. "What is it, Pai?"

"We're about to land," Pai answered, hands moving over the buttons in front of him even faster than before.

Kisshu moved quickly to the front of the room, where there was a window of sorts displaying the space they were traveling through. There, directly ahead of them and growing closer all the time, was Darthmyre. Kisshu's, Pai's, and Taruto's home planet. From this viewpoint, it looked gray and brown and dead, because it was. Once upon a time, it had been as green and bright and inviting as Earth, but that was long before Kisshu's people-the Contraltian's-time. Now, the Contraltians lived underground, with little food and supplies, in constant fear of the terrifying sandstorms and other weather conditions that wracked the planets surface.

Kisshu quickly moved into his position, bumping Taruto out of the chair. Taruto shot him a rude hand gesture but moved away without complaining.

As the neared the planet, Pai warned, "It's about to get rough. We're crossing through the atmospheres."

No sooner had the words left his lips than a jolt shook the ship. Taruto, who had been floating innocently in midair, flipped over and crashed into a wall. Tremors shook through the whole ship, and the cupboards behind the aliens rattled unsteadily. After a few minutes, the ship settled into a steady calm.

Kisshu stared at the landscape that was steadily rushing up towards them and taking shape and form. Craggy, bare cliffs, land devoid almost entirely of anything green, seas of sand that stretched on for miles. Strange emotions rushed through him. In everything he'd been through with Ichigo and Deep Blue and Aoyama, all the pain and hurt and betrayal there, he'd almost forgotten why he and his friends had left Darthmyre in the first place: for the people. And now they'd finally returned, with the Mew Aqua in hand.

The ship was incredibly close to the surface of the planet now, racing over mountains and cliffs and rocks, slowly losing speed as Pai prepared to land the ship. Kisshu saw that Pai was heading for the flat, vast field that lay right outside the main entrance to the underground tunnels the Contraltians colony was living in.

Pressure mounted against the spaceships frame: Kisshu and Pai were pressed back in their chairs by the force of it, and Taruto was flat against the back wall. Pai clenched the steering wheel in both hands, and called, "Hold on!" The field they were aiming for came into view at the second, and with a great bump! Kisshu felt the spaceship touch ground. Now they were racing across the surface of the planet on the spaceship's wheels, and Pai was working to slow the ship to a stop. The ship was slowing-the edge of the field, which ended in a huge wall of rock, was approaching-Taruto was cursing in fear under his breath-

The ship rolled to halt.

There was dead silence in the spaceship for a moment. Kisshu's heart was pounding, both from the excitement of their landing and the realization that they were actually back on their home planet. They had actually gotten the Mew Aqua, they had actually done it!

Taruto drew in a long shaky breath, and then yelled, "We're home!"

Even Pai cracked a smile. He jerked his head towards the window. "Look."

Kisshu and Taruto looked at where he was gesturing: the entrance to the underground tunnels. It was a black hole in the wall of rock in front of them, shielded from the elements by a large rock.

And all around the edge of the big rock, big-eared heads were peeping up, looking around in curiosity, fear, and in some cases, hope.

Their people.

Okay! I hope you guys like it! The next chapter is gonna be VERY interesting...it involves new characters and some new love interests...AS TVLAND SAYS: DON'T TOUCH THAT REMOTE! STAY TUNED! :D