May 10, 2003

"Duke," said the older man who had attacked Ichigo and Zakuro not too long ago. "This Tokyo Mew Mew team is doing a good job of cleaning up the Chimera Animas we hijacked." He and several others gathered in a classroom at Kimohama Girls' Academy.

"Oh, I know," replied the man called Duke, who was around 30 years old and wore a long white robe. Beside him on the floor was a capirote-like white hood/pointed hat. "It's barely been a month since those Cyniclons left Earth, yet Tokyo Mew Mew has killed a majority of our Chimera Animas. They hinder our progress far too much, Royal Highness."

"Say," said the younger man who attacked Ichigo and Zakuro. "Is anybody gonna mention the fact that we nearly got killed trying to attack their leader and their oldest member?"

"True," replied Royal Highness. "Sweet Juliet, Duke, we were not on our A-game that night. I apologize."

"Indeed," Duke replied as he then grabbed his hood/hat and put it back on his head before standing up. "Everyone, we need to destroy Tokyo Mew Mew if we are to succeed."


"C'mon," said Berii as she dragged a male friend around her age around for a date. "It'll be fun, Tasuku!"

"Okay," said her friend, finally agreeing to Berii's demands. "We'll go to that cafe you saw yesterday, then." They had been walking around the Ueno Zoo for most of the day.

When they got to the cafe, Tasuku looked at it and said to Berii, "Well, it certainly looks interesting. The design choices for the outside are unique."

"Ready to go inside?" Berii then tugged him along as they walked inside the cafe.

"Ah!" Tasuku was not expecting to be dragged along literally by Berii. Once the two were inside, they waited at the front for a server.

Ichigo saw them and moved over to serve them. "Hello, and welcome to Cafe Mew Me-" She then stopped dead in her tracks when she looked at Berii. "Say, aren't you that girl I saw several days ago?"

"I recognize you, too," the young blonde replied, startled. "You work here?"

"Well, yeah," Ichigo nervously replied. "Anyways, shall I bring you two to your table?"

About an hour later, the two had finished their meal. With empty plates and cups before them, Tasuku said to Berii, "You made a great choice coming here. That was some very good cake."

"See? I told you it would be fun!" Berii then laughed before getting up. "Excuse me for one moment. I need to use the bathroom."

"No problem," Tasuku replied as Berii walked away.

4 minutes later, Berii walked out of the women's restroom and stared down the hallway to an open door leading to a set of stairs. She said to herself, "Huh, never knew this place had a basement." She pondered to herself as to what she should do. Then, she looked around her before walking towards the stairs. "It's not like I'm hurting anybody," she thought to herself. "Nobody will notice if I take a quick peek."

When she made it down the stairs, she walked right into the cafe laboratory. She was taken aback by the various pieces of equipment and computers in the dark lab.

"No way," she said to herself. "This is so cool." Her eyes beamed with excitement as a smile widened on her face. She then noticed a chamber of some kind in a corner of the room. "What's that?" Aa she walked towards it, she heard footsteps from the stairwell and panicked, immediately running into the chamber and shutting the door, trying to hide. After shutting it, she took a deep breath and said quietly to herself, "I can wait it out. I can wait it out. I can wait it out."

She heard two males talking. One of them said, "So, what do you think of this whole nonsense with Ichigo's pendant, Ryou?"

"It's weird," the other one replied. "Keiichiro, I don't know if it has something to do with the programming or some greater concept beyond even us."

Suddenly, Berii hit something in the chamber, causing a noise and activating some sort of process within the chamber. Ryou and Keiichiro, outside of the chamber, looked to it. Berii said, "Oh crap!"

Ryou said, "There's someone in there?!" Both he and Keiichiro were now deeply scared as the chamber lit up.

Then, as soon as it started, it ended. Keiichiro immediately pried open the chamber door, and in front of him and Ryou was a sleeping Berii. "Don't tell me... don't tell me we gave this girl the rabbit and cat DNA."

"Shit," Ryou said while looking at the chamber data on a nearby computer. "Looks like we did."

Then, Berii came to just as Tasuku managed to find his way to the lab as well. She said, "I... I saw a rabbit and a cat..."

Tasuku said to the three of them, "What happened to Berii?!" He was clearly worried and scared.

"I was...," Berii stumbled as she got up. "I remember not having clothes on or something... I was bathed in this weird light instead... Then these two animals just jumped into my chest and disappeared for no reason. After that, I woke up here."

Keiichiro said to Berii, "What is your name and the name of your friend?"

"My name is Shirayuki Berii," she replied as she wiped her eyes before pointing to Tasuku. "That over there is my best friend, Meguro Tasuku."

Ryou paused. Then, he told both of them, "Please, don't tell anyone else about this."

Berii and Tasuku both said at the same time, "About what?" They then looked at each other and blushed.

"You see," Keiichiro began to explain. "Remember that group called Tokyo Mew Mew that fought those monsters in the city?"

"Oh yeah," Berii replied as she began to realize what was going on. "Wait, you're saying-?"

"Yes," Ryou replied by cutting her off. "We run Tokyo Mew Mew. The girls you see out there is the team themselves. Again, please don't tell anyone else."

"Wait," Tasuku asked. "If Berii went into that chamber, does that make her a Mew Mew?"

Keiichiro looked at Ryou and told him, "There's a good chance it did, Ryou."

"I see," Ryou said as he thought to himself on what to do. "Say, Berii, try to transform."

"How?" Berii was now very confused. "Is there something I gotta say or so or what?"

Keiichiro then handed her a pendant with markings on it. "Kiss this and say 'Mew Mew Berry, Metamorphosis.' Trust me, me and Ryou are experts." Both he and Ryou then laughed. "No but really, we are experts."

Tasuku asked, "Is this gonna be like one of those magical girl anime transformations where it takes like half a minute and the girl is naked or something for a few seconds?"

Berii blushed as she said, "Be what?!"

Ryou and Keiichiro laughed again. Ryou replied, "To us outsiders, all we'll see is a bright flash lasting for a second. Berii will be the only one who sees herself transform like that. And yes, Berii, based on eyewitness accounts, you may experience a lack of clothing for a split second. Don't worry, though, because like I said, we won't see a thing. Trust me." Ryou then put a hand on her shoulder and told her, "We would never do anything that made you feel uncomfortable, alright? Your safety and well-being will be a top priority of ours, like it is for the rest of the team."

Berii then nodded and said, "Let's do this." She then kissed her pendant and said, "Mew Mew Berry, Metamorphosis!" Sure enough, as Ryou said, all Tasuku, Ryou, and Keiichiro saw was a bright flash of light lasting for a second or two. The light was so bright they all had to avert their eyes and look away.

As it happened, Ichigo was walking down the stairs, saying to Ryou and Keiichiro, "Guys, is everything alright down here?" As Berii's transformation happened, she too averted her eyes and looked away. Once it was over, she ran downstairs and said, "What the hell just happened?!"

As Berii adjusted her eyes, she looked down at herself and noticed her new dress was white. She then felt the top of her head and touched something furry. "Huh?" She then pulled on it and saw that she had the cream-colored ears of a rabbit. "What?! I have rabbit DNA?!" She then felt her back to see if anything was different there. As soon as she felt something coming out of her lower back, she turned around and saw that she also had the tail of a cat as well, which had a small bell at the end. "No way! A tail, too? So that's why there were two animals..."

Ichigo, confused to hell and back, asked Ryou and Keiichiro, "Okay, seriously. What. The hell. Is going on?"

Ryou facepalmed in annoyance and said to himself, "I gotta explain this all over again, I suppose."


May 11, 2003

"Alright," said Ichigo, transformed into her Mew outfit, as she watched Berii, also transformed, in an empty field outside of Tokyo. "How's the new robot treating you? R3000, isn't it?" Beside Ichigo was her ever-loyal robot companion Masha.

Berii turned to her and said, "Oh yeah! I gave him the name Ucha." Ucha then flew over to Ichigo. He appeared to be a strawberry with a small face and small arms and legs, all complete with large white bunny ears and small white wings. "Unlike Masha, they were able to work out bugs in the speech patterns, apparently."

"Hi there," Ucha said to Masha. "I assume your name is Masha, right?"

Masha giggled and told him, "Hello! Hello! Hello!" He then flew around Ucha, getting a better look at him.

Ichigo laughed and said, "I can see already that they'll be good friends." She then turned to the empty field and said as she formed her weapon, "Now, Berii, I'm gonna show you what my most powerful attack is." She then got into position as she held her StrawBell Bell up. Then, she jumped into the sky, trwirled around several times as beams of light flew around her, and aimed her weapon at the field before her as she shouted, "Ribbon Strawberry Surprise!" Suddenly, a powerful beam of light obliterated the field before her, burning away the grass for a good 35 feet in the direction she aimed the StrawBell Bell at.

Berii told her as she stared in amazement, "Woah! That was too cool!" As the small fire set by the attack extinguished itself, Berii thought to herself, "I wonder if my attack will be as powerful..."

"Now," Ichigo told Berii. "Word from Ryou and Keiichiro says that Ucha can turn into some kind of staff. Is that true?" She then wiped the sweat off of her forehead.

"I guess so," Berii said before she turned to Ucha. "Ready?"

"Of course," Ucha replied as he changed form into a long red rod with a red ribbon tied at one end, followed by a red berry-like object mounted at the very end with a white bunny below it.

Berii then took a hold of the rod and said, "You know, I don't actually have a name for this thing yet."

Ichigo then came up with a suggestion, "How about Loveberry Rod? And for an attack, it could be Ribbon Loveberry Check?"

Berii thought to herself for a few seconds. Then, she nodded and said, "Sure, why not?" She then held the rod in the air as she got ready to attack. She then shouted, "Ribbon Loveberry Check!" She then aimed the rod down towards the empty field as a beam of light obliterated the grass in front of her for a good 10 feet around her. After the attack ceased, she shouted, "Oh my God! That was awesome!"

"Nice job," Ichigo replied as she patted Berii on the back. "You'll do fine out there, Berii. Don't worry about it."