"…Even you are with them in this!" Leon said to Haruka, glaring at her with disappointment…
"That is correct…" Haruka replied. "Now it's your time for you to pay for murdering both of my cousins!"
Haruka lashed out at Leon with her whip, so fast that he could barely dodge it…
"I don't have time for this shit!" Leon said as he transformed his right arm into a cannon and started firing at Haruka, but she was expecting that and had already started to move nimbly to avoid the plasma shots, at the same time fighting back with skillful whip lashes. Soon she was able to tangle Leon's arm cannon with the whip. "Dammit!" Leon yelled. Haruka then pulled the whip hard to bring Leon close and deliver punch to his face, knocking him down…
Meanwhile, at the underground tunnels below Hinata House, Mitsune decided to pay a visit to the cage where Andr was imprisoned…
"It's over, you won!" Andr said, clinging to the bars of the cage. "...You bitches destroyed everyone and everything I could ever care about! I hope that you're fucking happy!"
"Oh? How did you know I set your little bunker on fire with your kitty friends inside?" Mitsune asked with a smirk…
"My bunker's computer was connected wirelessly to the antenna on my robotic ear" Andr explained…
"In my opinion, it serves you right! You created that cursed cyborg that destroyed our dream and the people important to us!" Mitsune replied, hiding anger behind her smile. "But no worries! We still have a way of making our dream work! You may say it's a Plan-B"
"Hah! Yeah, right! Let me guess, you're just going to force that thing that is wearing my ex-lover's face to be my new girlfriend! Not a fucking chance in hell, bitch! So, how about you just kill me and get it the fuck over with? I will not fall for your stupid little plot!" Andr yelled…
"My! You're pretty sagacious!" Mitsune praised Andr…
"Not a hard thing to figure out, really. It was obvious that bitch Naru was molding Shinobu-chan to be just like her, and I happen to be the same type of guy as Keitaro. It didn't take me much to put 2 and 2 together!" Andr said…
"That saves us a lot of explaining" Hinata said as she entered the room, bringing a reluctant Shinobu with her…
Meanwhile, the remaining few dozen Chimera Anima of Naru's army still roamed the city looking for victims, and the Mew Mews were not available to stop them…
"Mercury Aqua Mirage!" Sailor Mercury shouted, summoning a globe of water that then split into several streams that shot toward all of her targets. Each of the affected Chimera Anima were engulfed in large globes of water, then each orb burst, killing the alien parasite inside each of the women and reverting them back permanently to human form and also knocking them out, making them easy to capture…
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Sailor Mars shouted, creating a bow and arrow made of fire and shooting a single arrow at another group of Chimera Anima. The special fire purified and destroyed the alien parasites and rendered their hosts easy to capture as well…
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" Sailor Jupiter shouted, creating a column of swirling leaves that surrounded her before she sent them towards her targets. Again, another large group of Chimera Anima was purified and knocked out by this attack in a single shot…
"Venus Power: Love Crescent Shower!" Sailor Venus shouted, launching a spell that purified the entire area, killing all the remaining alien parasites and knocking out their hosts as well…
Sailor Mercury checked with the blue visor that lowers from her tiara, and saw the last dots on the radar disappear completely after Sailor Venus's attack. "There. Those were the last ones"
"But where's Sailor Moon? She missed out on all the fun!" Sailor Venus said…
"What fun? We just cleaned up after our disciples! That klutz was lucky she didn't have to do this!" Sailor Mars complained…
Elsewhere in the city, Ichigo had already updated Masaya on the whole situation…
"I see… Professor Seta, of all people, was one of the masterminds behind all this… I would have never believed it" Masaya said…
"It's what that Sugu girl said to Retasu before she was killed. After that, Retasu relayed that information to the rest of us" Ichigo replied…
"Ichigo-chan… Can I ask you a favor?" Masaya asked…
"Anything for you, Masaya-kun" Ichigo replied…
"Go back home" Masaya said seriously…
Ichigo was not pleased to hear that. "No! Anything but that!"
"Ichigo-chan, please understand! I don't want to put your life at risk!" Masaya said…
"And let you put your life at risk by fighting that Seta guy? What am I going to do if I lose you?" Ichigo replied, clinging to Masaya and starting to cry…
Masaya gently held Ichigo's head to his chest. "Ichigo-chan…"
"I don't want to hear it!" Ichigo interrupted as she lifted her gaze and looked into Masaya's eyes with determination. "I'm going with you and not even you can make me change my mind! ...The Tokyo Mew Mew have fought so hard… As their leader, I'm the one who has to make sure everyone survives to the end, and that includes you!"
Masaya hesitated, but there was no way he could say no to Ichigo. "Alright… Let's go put an end to this once and for all!"
Meanwhile, Leon rolled to the side to avoid Haruka's whip and then fired at her with his arm cannon. Haruka skillfully cut Leon's plasma shot in mid-trajectory with the whip…
"Get a load of this!" Leon yelled as he rapid-fired with both arm cannons at once, putting Haruka into a pinch as she had a hard time blocking everything with her whip…
However, Leon was getting an alert from his body's systems that said "Warning: 25% battery left", and soon had to stop blasting because he knew he'd have more battles inside the building. Instead he opted for just charging frontally at Haruka with a scream and trying to get her with melee. With the speed granted by his cybernetics and some persistence he eventually managed to land a punch on Haruka and send her rolling back. However, Haruka stabilized herself and lashed at Leon with her whip, entangling his leg and then pulling to make him fall off. After that, Haruka screamed while pulling Leon hard and getting him off the ground, smashing him against the nearby trees with enough force to break them…
Meanwhile, in the tunnels below the house, Retasu was working out how she'd get out of the locked room she was thrown in by Mitsune. She would not get out without her Mew Pendant, but the hole in which Mitsune threw the pendant was too small for Retasu's head, much less her body to crawl through. Besides, her hands were tied to her back. That only left one option: Retasu took off her right shoe and stuck her foot inside the hole to try to retrieve the pendant with her toes…
That was not an easy task. Retasu's beautiful and dainty foot had to fumble about since she couldn't see exactly where the pendant had landed. This was further complicated by the presence of a turtle (an organic one this time), who got curious about Retasu's foot and started to lick it…
"Mmmmph-hmhmhmhmhm!" the poor bound and gagged green-haired beauty screamed and laughed, startled by the wet tickly surprise. Nevertheless, she had to endure the tickling and persevere until her toes were able to pin the Mew Pendant down, at which point she could pull her beautiful foot out of the hole and drag the pendant back to her…
There was still the problem of the gag covering her mouth, since her lips needed to make contact with the pendant for her to transform. But first, Retasu looked into the hole to see what had tickled her lovely foot. She saw the small turtle inside, which slowly crawled out of the hole and into the room. Retasu decided to turn around, lie on the floor and rotate her head so the knot of the gag was near the turtle's beak. The curious turtle, wanting to find out what that was, started biting the knot. Eventually the gag was undone and her mouth was free. "Thanks a lot, Turtle-san" she politely thanked the animal…
With her lips free, Retasu got on her knees, bent over and kissed the Mew Pendant on the floor, allowing her to transform. "Mew Mew Lettuce! Metamorphose!" she shouted…
She was still tied up, though, but now she could take care of that. "Lettustanets!" she shouted, causing the oyster-shaped castanets to materialize in her tied-up hands. She only needed to be able to move her fingers to release water with high enough pressure to cut the ropes. Now free of the binds and able to stand up, she used another water blast to bust the locked door and escape the room. The shoe she took off earlier was left there in the room, where the turtle promptly grabbed it with its beak and took it away…
It was already past midnight and the streets were empty. Ichigo and Masaya were the only ones walking there, and they could see professor Seta's house in the distance. The man was standing at the entrance as if waiting for them…
"Professor Seta…" Masaya said, glaring seriously at him…
"What are you kids doing out this late in the night?" Seta said calmly and with a smile, the lights of the street causing a reflection on his lens, giving them that effect that made the glasses look all white…
"Professor, we know of your involvement in the recent Chimera Anima attack" Masaya informed him…
"You do? …Well, that's unfortunate" Seta replied…
"Why did you do this? How could you mastermind such a horrible massacre? Do you realize how many people died because of you?" Ichigo yelled at Seta…
"Ever since its humble beginnings, mankind's history was put into motion by war. Many lives were sacrificed, but in the end it was for the greater good of a kingdom or empire. Even in this modern day, that has not changed" Seta replied calmly…
"Just get to the point!" Ichigo yelled impatiently…
"Hinata House is a beacon of hope for all females in Japan, and my disciples Keitaro and Naru were going to be at the front of it. With Naru being the dominating half instead of Keitaro, she would inspire women and girls to start a revolution and invert the gender roles that this country has held so rigidly for so many centuries. Women would rise and history would once more be put in motion, fighting for a fairer world in which the weak gender would have a better chance at a happy life. The kind of fair world I want my wife and daughter to live in" Seta explained…
"The saddest part of it all is that you've done such a horrible thing for the good of your loved ones… Just like me when I was trying to destroy humanity five years ago…" Masaya said with sadness in his eyes…
"Ah, yes… I remember that alien invasion. You must have been the aliens' leader. What's your name again? Deep Blue, I think?" Seta said with a little smile…
Masaya started manifesting an aura of blue ki again. "I am not Deep Blue!" he declared before he unexpectedly transformed. His hair turned golden, his ears grew huge (like the aliens' ears) and he regained his blue outfit and sword…
"The Blue Knight!" Ichigo said with surprise, blushing as she hadn't seen Masaya like that in years. "I thought you had lost your powers…"
"Me too. They woke up again during my fight with Motoko-neesan" the Blue Knight replied…
"So… Have anything to say in man's defense?" Seta asked…
"Not much… I know this world is full of selfish people but so was the aliens' world, Deep Blue being a selfish man himself… However, killing everybody means also killing the good men who do treat their wives with respect!" the Blue Knight answered…
"That's right! Masaya-kun has always been nice to me! I have literally nothing to complain about him! Rather than a world where woman dominates man, I'd prefer living in a world where Masaya-kun and I can be equals!" Ichigo said…
"I agree with Ichigo-chan!" the Blue Knight said…
"A young couple that agree with each other so sincerely? What a rare sight… Not even my beloved wife and I had a relationship this sweet… It's almost sickening! You don't even appear to be real people! Couples in real life fight all the time and are always disagreeing on everything! That's the charm of it! The effort put into the relationship and the hard-earned heart of the other person! That's what makes the marriage into a grand victory!" Seta said…
"I'm sorry, but I can't accept your idea of a world where one gender always has to dominate the other" the Blue Knight said as he got into battle stance…
"We're going to stop you!" Ichigo said, taking her Mew Pendant. "Mew Mew Ichigo! Metamorphose!" she shouted, kissing the pendant and doing her whole transformation before going into fighting stance as well…
"What a classic scenario! Once again, history is put into motion by the clash of two very different ideals!" Seta said before he adjusted his glasses and went into fighting stance too. "Whoever wins gets to write history as he sees fit… But who is it going to be?"
"What are you waiting for, Shinobu? Hurry up and smack that pervert on the head! Just like last time!" Mitsune said. The door of the cage was opened, Shinobu was inside, forced to face Andr, a frying pan forced into her hand. Andr stared at Shinobu coldly, without saying a word…
"…No" Shinobu replied…
"C'mon! Think of what Naru would do! You gonna let that pervert touch your boob?" Mitsune said…
"This is not right!" Shinobu said as she turned to look at Mitsune…
"Of course it is right! You're a weak, dainty woman and he's a strong, tough man! There's nothing wrong with you hitting him with all your strength! It's not going to hurt him!" Mitsune insisted…
Shinobu turned around fully. "That is not love!" she screamed…
"Heh! What's this? Afraid to do what you fucking did to me before, bitch? Come on, let's try and kill me this time!" Andr yelled at Shinobu, putting his hands out, dropping any chance for a defense…
"See? He wants you to do it!" Mitsune said. "Showing obsessive hate for somebody… There's no more obvious indicator of love than that! You show him constant hate in order to hide your love for him! Hate is love! Isn't that what Naru taught you?"
"No!" Shinobu screamed as she threw away the frying pan, leaving her with no method to attack Andr with. "If you love your significant other, you don't need to keep him in check! You love him, therefore you trust him!" she quoted what Retasu told her…
"Trust a man? Seriously?" Mitsune said, scoffing at what Shinobu was saying…
"The man you love is not your enemy! When you love someone, you comfort and protect him! Love is to make the other person happy and expect nothing in exchange!" Shinobu shouted…
"Who put that into your head? Was it the girl with the lettuce hair? The one I recently captured?" Mitsune said, shocking Shinobu. "She ain't coming to help. I'll dispose of her once we've dealt with the cyborg boy"
"You stay the hell away from her!" Andr replied in rage, grabbing ahold of Shinobu by the neck, almost lifting her off the ground and out of one of her shoes. "Hurt me! Kill me! Do whatever you fucking want to me! But leave Retasu-chan out of this! You hurt the woman my friend loves and I will make sure to kill the both of you with my own bare hands!"
"Mitsune-chan, stop him! If he kills Shinobu-chan, our plans will get ruined!" Hinata screamed…
Mitsune promptly kicked Andr in the gut, forcing him to let go of Shinobu and leaving both of them squirming in pain on the floor…
"You kids leave me no choice…" Mitsune said, searching in her pocket and taking out a small jar with a Parasite Alien inside it…