Off The Deep End Chapter 9-Crushes, Aliens and….Sisters?
I decided to switch over to Japanese names. At some point I'll go back through the previous chapters and fix them as well. Hope this makes for easier reading! Also this will be a filler chapter because I'm trying to bring the others more into the story. I do not own TMM or MMP
Just in case you don't know the names in the original:
Ichigo-Zoey; Kisshu-Dren; Keiichiro-Wesley; Ryou-Elliot; Masaya-Mark, Pie-Sardon; Tart-Tarb; Zakuro-Renee; Mint-Corina; Pudding-Kiki; Lettuce-Bridget
Four days had passed since the strawberry cake incident, and everyone could see how hard Pie was trying to get Lettuce's attention.
Well, everyone but Lettuce that is.
The green haired mew had been absorbed in her own thoughts, thoughts that did, in fact, revolve around Pie. Whether he knew it or not, Pie had more of Lettuce's attention than he could have hoped for. For, unknown to anyone, Lettuce had always admired Pie. When the aliens were still bent on taking over Earth, Lettuce had admired his devotion and perseverance. Now that they were on the same side, she admired his strength and his patience when dealing with his younger siblings.
Speaking of Pie's younger siblings, the two aliens had unfortunately not missed the extra seconds Pie spent hovered over the green haired mew a few days ago. Though they were kind enough to wait until they were alone, the boys teased their brother endlessly.
"Aww Pie and Lettuce sitting in a tree." Tart started but was hushed quickly as Pie appeared behind him, slapping a hand over his mouth. Pie was left empty handed as his brother teleported to the other side of the room they shared over Café Mew Mew.
"We must start working any minute now. Please do not say anything to the girls." He quietly begged his brother. Thankfully the younger alien rolled his eyes and agreed. Once they were both dressed in their uniforms, they teleported down into the kitchen.
"Aahh!" Lettuce yelled in shock when she turned to find the two aliens standing right behind her. "Would you guys please quit doing that?" She said angrily before realizing who it was. When she glanced up at Pie's smirk, she blushed and quickly excused herself from the kitchen.
"Geez could you be any more obvious?" Tart asked as he started to follow her out.
"What do you mean?" Pie was genuinely confused. He hadn't thought he had given anything away. Tart rolled his eyes, something the young alien was getting rather good at, before replying.
"You only smile like that when you're around her." Pie started to retort but Tart had already disappeared into the café. Pie sighed. This was going to be a long day.
The day was rather uneventful, besides Lettuce tripping over her feet every time she made eye contact with Pie. As they each relaxed around one of the tables, sipping a special brew of tea that Keiichiro had made himself, the heard a frantic beeping from the basement. The mews exchanged worried glances, praying it wasn't what they thought.
"Pudding hopes it's not the bad animals again." Pudding fretted over her cup of tea. The aliens looked a little confused at the girls' fear at the beeping sound. Zakuro decided to clue them in.
"The computer in the basement beeps whenever it senses a Chimera animal." Now each of the aliens' faces mirrored the mews'.
"But we're attacking so why is it going off?" Kish's question was answered when Ryou pounded up the stairs.
"There's a chimera animal in the park, not far off from here. We can't tell who's attacking so you'll have to find out when you get there. Hurry! It's Saturday so there's bound to be a lot of people." He quickly explained, his voice urgent. Each of the girls pulled their pendants out. Though they hadn't been used in months, they were never out of reach. A call that they hadn't sounded in a long time filled the room as they began to transform.
"Mew Mew Strawberry!"
"Mew Mew Mint!"
"Mew Mew Zakuro!"
Mew Mew Lettuce!"
Mew Mew Pudding!"
"METAMORPHO-SIS!"
The Mews stood in the middle of the café, transformed and battle ready.
The aliens looked at each other and Tart whined, "Why don't we have a cool pre-battle thing like that?"
Kish smacked the back of his head and answered, "Because we don't have to transform."
They all rushed out of the café, but stopped as they wondered where to go.
"I'm going to say we should go that way." Zakuro pointed to where masses of people were running down the park pathway. Each of the Mews made sure they were holding onto the hand of an alien and closed their eyes as they teleported to the sight. A huge beast was ravaging the park, swinging its nose around frantically. Ichigo grimaced when she realized it was some sort of mutated blood hound. As they appeared, the animal swung it's snout towards them, throwing Ichigo and Kisshu into the trees.
"Who created that?"The pink Mew asked as she picked herself up.
"I'm not sure. I don't think Deep Blue would be powerful enough if he is Hosting Masaya." They dove out of the way as the creature's tail knocked over the row of trees.
"Mint Echo!" They heard before seeing a blue arrow lodge itself into the monster dog's paw. It let out a pitiful roar and then promptly sat down to lick its wound.
"What kind of chimera animal is this? It doesn't seem to be fighting us, just looking for something." Lettuce asked, skirting the giant wagging tail. The team gathered in front of the chimera, watching it warily as they talked.
"What could it be looking for?" Tart asked, secretly wondering if the dog liked to be scratched. Tart had always been a nature lover and giant dogs needed some love too.
"Not what, but who little Tart. And that who, is you." They turned to see a red headed boy floating behind them. The aliens all grinned when they saw him; Tart even flew up to tackle him to the ground.
"Who is that and why does he sound like a Dr. Seuss knock off?" Mint asked, an arrow already aimed at his chest. Kish pushed her weapon down before introducing the new comer.
"This is Toge. He's one of our best friends back home." He pulled the boy into a quick hug, smiling happily at him.
"Well I'm glad you get to see your friend and all but why exactly is he here and why did he bring his pet with him?" Ichigo was still gripping her Strawberry Bell, not sure whether she trusted this new 'friend' or not.
"Oh he's quite harmless I assure you. I've never been very good at creating chimera animals and the only reason I created this one was to find you three." He waved nonchalantly at the giant puppy who was now looking for someone to play with. Before anyone could stop her, Pudding was happily bouncing up the side of the puppy to sit on its head. Its large paw slapped the ground in pleasure as she scratched behind its ear.
"Can we keep it? Pudding would take very good care of him!" the monkey mew begged. The others glared at Toge, knowing how hard it would be to pry Pudding away from the pet. Toge laughed and waved his hand towards the dog again. With a poof, the dog and the parasite separated, leaving Pudding about ten feet up in the air. She flopped to the ground with a thud and was instantly pounced on by the puppy. Masha opened his mouth a ingested the jellyfish like creature before happily purring and returning to Ichigo.
"Why have you come to earth?" Pie returned the conversation to Toge. The red head looked to be between Kish and Tart's age though he had a wiry and sneaky look about him. His light colored skin was smattered with freckles and a wide grin stretched his face. The grin faltered slightly when Pie asked about his reasons but quickly settled back in place.
"Well it seems you three are the leaders of a band of rebels. A few days ago, some of the Elders told everyone that Deep Blue wasn't dead. They said you were traitors to your people and had attempted to kill Deep Blue so you could take over." Everyone stared at the boy in horror, their fears of their old enemy coming true. "They told everyone that Deep Blue wanted revenge. You are to be captured and taken back to our planet. Anyone caught associating with you will be put to death." He shrugged as though it was no big deal.
"Why did you come here then?" Kish asked, hoping the boy hadn't been foolish enough to put himself at risk. However, Kish had known Toge for a long time and knew that he most likely had.
"You didn't think I was going to let you have all the fun? Plus I needed to warn you before…" He was cut off by the appearance of two identical girls. They looked older than Kish but slightly smaller than him. Each girl had silver-blue hair, with wide electric blue eyes. One girl wore dark colored shorts underneath a flowy red shirt. The other wore longer pants with an orange crop top. Identical swords were strapped to their backs and they let out giggles as they approached the group. Pie's normally emotionless voice was hard with slightly veiled anger. "Why are you here?"
The Mews lifter their weapons, misunderstanding Pie's fury.
"Oh please." One of them rolled her eyes. "You don't really think we would hurt our own brothers?"
I know this is written a little differently than all of my previous chapters but that's because I wanted to make sure I included all of the mews and aliens. I've been mainly focusing on Ichigo and Kish up until last chapter and in order for me to make this story any longer I need to expand my characters. I hope changing to the Japanese names didn't throw you off too much! Please tell me if you like me writing with the Japanese names better that the English dub names. Please review/favorite/follow and let me know if you like it!
*Toge means thorn. I thought it was fitting because I see him as a slightly annoying and mischievous kid (thus why he's a ginger ;p )
** Also I will be adding a few more aliens to the story so if you'd like to send me some names I'd really appreciate it.