Chapter Ten

A/n: No, I'm not dead. Although it probably seemed like it. I was merely abducted by the Kingdom Hearts fandom, and sort of abandoned my poor TMM for far too long…

Kish: Hmph.

A/n: But anyway…I'm back. This MAY be pretty bad, as I haven't read/watched TMM in months, but here goes anyway!

Kish: And Sofri still doesn't own anything, except Yeffer and the Cheese Planet

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"Um….Yeffer? Yeff? Hey, Yeffer, are you there?" Sardon quietly called.

"Come in, Sardon," the orange haired man beckoned. He stood in front of the blocky stove in what passed for a kitchen in their house, his mop of hair hidden by a massive, floppy white chef's hat. The delectable smell of cheese stew quickly made its way to the taller man's nostrils. "What do you need?"

After taking a few seconds to appreciate the smell of Yeffer's extremely delicious cheese concoction, Sardon—or was it Pie now, wasn't that what the mysterious girls had called him—cleared his throat awkwardly. "Yeffer, listen, this is going to be hard but…"

Hearing the reserve in his new friend's voice, the quiet cheese lover turned around, worry evident in his eyes. "You look like you've seen a ghost, Sardon. Are you okay, Sardon?"

"Well….er….not exactly," Sardon felt extremely awkward. He'd realized that he wasn't a person very good with words, and, according to the data he was mentally gathering based on his current reactions, he was also not good with awkward confrontations. "I…we're not alone."

"Huh?" the fatter man's eyebrows quirked as he asked the question. "What do you mean, Sardon? Of course we're alone."

The purple haired man's awkwardness seemed to vanish at this statement, as he remembered how the young women had claimed they were in a hurry. "No, we're not. There's another space ship. At least, I assume there is. I didn't see it. But there are other people. Three girls. They're really weird, they're human but they are also part animal. They say their names are um…well, I forgot. Anyway, they're from somewhere called Earth and they claim to know me and they claim that my name isn't Sardon, it's Pie, and I need to come with them because someone I used to care about needs help. I don't know why, but I feel like I know them somehow. I have to go with them, Yeffer. They said you could come too, if you wanted….so you didn't have to be alone here anymore."

Yeffer's eyes widened. "I…wow, Sardon, you've got to understand that this is huge for me, Sardon. I've never even considered leaving before, Sardon. I always thought the Cheese Planet would be my home forever. I mean, sure, my sister Jean and her husband Jonas left, but…I never really considered me leaving. But I don't know, Sardon. You've become such a close friend to me, and I don't want to leave you, Sardon."

To the tall man's surprise, his shorter friend launched himself forward and hugged Sardon tightly around the waist. Soft, racking sobs echoed from where Yeffer's face was pressed against his chest.

"Then don't. Come with me. I don't….I don't want to leave you either, Yeffer," the purple eyed amnesiac said awkwardly.

"Then I will go, Sardon. The Cheese Planet became a refuge of peace so many hundreds of years ago, and its legacy will end with me. I am just…I am just happy that it was able to shelter one last person before it was abandoned."

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It didn't take either Yeffer or Sardon long to pack. Sardon had no belongings, save the clothes his friend had given him to replace those torn in the crash. Yeffer brought along several boxes of cheese, several jugs of water, clothes, his favorite pot (in which he always cooked his delicious cheese soups) and the photograph of his beloved Jaylee. When this was done, the pair of men met the three oddly-garbed girls outside of the house.

"Come on, Pie, it's time to go," the green one called Lettuce urged him softly. "We don't have much time."

"I understand you are said, Mr. Yeffer sir, na no da. But you will be happy with us," Pudding reassured the cheese lover.

And so, a tearful Yeffer and an extremely confused Sardon/Pie accompanied the three Mew Mews to a small ship that looked so familiar it gave the amnesiac a strong ache in his chest, which he tried to ignore. As the (now very cramped) tiny spacecraft took off, with Lettuce navigating and Ichigo at the helm, the two friends stood together at the back window and watched the orange and green surface of their beloved planet—which had been a home for one and a shelter for the other—disappear into the blackness of space, never again to be beheld by living eyes.

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A/n: So yeah, it was short, but I had to get back into the groove of writing TMM. Next chapter: Pie Returns to Earth!