Lettuce was on her way to work early in the morning. However, the sky was beginning to darken on the horizon. She noticed this and was glad she had her umbrella with her just in case. Lettuce was humming a tune when all of a sudden she got a call on her phone. "Lettuce this is Ryou the computers here have detected some unusual activity at the beach. I have sent the remaining Mews to search for the missing girls. Can you please check it out before you come to work?" Lettuce sighed knowing Ryou was right to be concerned about what was going on lately.
The rest of the group hadn't heard from any of the missing Mews in a couple of days. She closed her phone and went in the direction of the beach. As she went she noticed the sky was darkening even more. In the distance were flashes of lightning followed by rumbles of thunder. The storm was getting closer to shore. Kisshu was flying above her, concealed by the cloud cover. He waited, patiently, for the right time to attack.
She continued towards the beach area. Lettuce noticed the beach itself and most of the are was deserted. "Hmm… I don't see much going on around here." She tapped a finger to her chin. "I wonder what Ryou meant by activity in this area?" He hadn't been too forthcoming with any details.
She started down towards the beach itself, not actually paying all that much attention to what or rather who was behind her following at a safe distance.
Kisshu earlier that morning had teleported to Ichigos, Mints, and Puddings houses respectively. He went into their rooms and grabbed some items: a book. a butterfly clip, and a small hoola hoop. Perhaps showing these items to Lettuce would convince her that he knew where the others were. Meanwhile, Lettuce was wandering around on the beach, on her cell phone, wondering why the others weren't answering. She was beginning to be concerned. Hm. Not many beachgoers around.
All of a sudden, Kisshu just teleported in front of her floating a little above the ground. Lettuce saw him. "Kisshu-san! W-what are you doing here? Did you bring Pai-san or Taruto?" She was looking around nervously. Kisshu alone was bad enough.
Kisshu looked at her a minute before replying. He levitated closer to the ground, arms crossed, looking downward. He floated down low enough to scuff his feet against the sand, lightly. "Pai and Taruto haven't come with me. They're off planet on a mission of their own. I'm here now because of a...situation on my homeworld. One which is very likely to involve you and the others. It's extremely important; you need to know about this. However, right now, I've something to show you, some items which I am sure you might recognize."
Kisshu then teleported the book and made it float there in front of him. Lettuce saw it and she gasped. She knew it was a text for a book which Ichigo had recently bought to read for a class at school. He levitated it slightly over the beach, then brought the next item: a butterfly hair clip that Mint had used the one day at work to keep her hair up and neat. After that, he teleported in the final item: a hoola hoop which she knew belonged to Pudding. In fact, she was sure of it since Pudding had brought it to work the one day to show off her talent as an amateur circus star. He floated them gently above the ground, just high enough that she couldn't reach them.
Okay, Lettuce thought, just how did he get these things? "Where are my friends? What have you done with them?" But Kisshu just floated there, just out of her reach and said nothing. Lettuce made a grab for the items, but he backpedaled, floating himself and the items just out of her reach. "AH AH AH, not so fast Fishy-chanI I'm not some cartoon super-villian who just can't wait to elaborate his Evil Plan For World Conquest and Domination to the Hero, all the while Laughing with Evil Glee. Your friends are alive and unharmed, but only I know where they are and how I have their items."
He then flew at her and Lettuce barely had time to dodge to the side to avoid him colliding with her. She then grabbed her pendant and Kisshu just waited for her to transform.
Lettuce touched her lips to her Mew Pendant as bubbles danced around her, almost as though she was floating in a pleasantly warm ocean. "Mew Mew Lettuce… Metamorphose!" she declared in a gentle voice as her Mew Pendant began to shimmer with a bright green light.
A green choker with white lace around the edges appeared on her neck, and as she removed her hands from their folded position on her chest, she saw that her tingling Mew Mark was glowing with a bright pink light. She twirled, currents sweeping around her body, noticing that her dull green hair had become a more vibrant green, and had been wrapped up in a long ponytail.
A shower of bubbles surrounded her body, popping with a pleasant sensation against her bare skin and she was unable to stop the gentle smile that graced her face as the bubbles took form around her, creating a pair of tall dark green boots, a dark green garter with white lace on her left leg, a pair of dark green armbands with white lace, and a dark green striped dress that fanned out at her waist like petals.
Two white antenna, long enough to reach her feet, sprouted from her head, and with a quick bow, Lettuce did a twirl, unable to stop herself from doing a little dance in joy as her body became as light as the bubbles that comprised her outfit, doing a few palmas and stamping her feet, almost feeling ready to break into a flamenco dance.
Standing atop a shell that her powers had created, and surrounded by spectral fish and plant life, almost as though the DNA inside her was remembering the ocean that it came from, she assumed a pose pointing her left leg out behind her placing the back of her left hand on her hip, and pointing behind her with her right arm. Satisfied with her transformation, Lettuce smiled brightly, feeling somewhat proud of her feat as the ocean scene faded away, taking her back to reality. "Well, good grief," said Kisshu, his voice bursting her little bubble of ecstasy. "Took you long enough! What were you waiting for, anyway?" He floated down a bit, still out of reach. "I thought you never were gonna transform."
Lettuce looked at Kisshu a moment then she went after him. Kisshu flew away towards another area of the beach, knowing Lettuce would follow him. She followed him as he floated down towards another part of the beach. Kisshu floated there and waited. Mew Lettuce came to a stop and she saw a chimera there right beside Kisshu. She noticed it was see through. Kisshu then had the chimera attack. The chimera sent some pieces of itself at her. Lettuce started to dodge each piece. Unknown to her a small piece had flown at her neck and seeped into her pendant. Lettuce forgot to call Ryou as she was trying to get information from Kisshu.
Kisshu started to fly at her. He flew at her one way then turned around and flew at her another. Mew Lettuce barely dodged each time he flew at her with his sais out. She knew he was serious about attacking her. what she didn't know was what he had planned for her.
Kisshu wasn't the only one who was attacking her. The chimera was as well, it kept sending pieces of itself at Mew Lettuce. Mew Lettuce used a "Ribbon Lettuce Rush" and water sprayed from her casttennets to try pushing the chimera back or hurting it. The chimera only broke apart but she was surprised when it reformed into two of itself. Some of itself flew at her weapons and knocked them out of her hands. She rolled to the side out of the way then got back up.
She dodged again when some more pieces flew at her. Lettuce was able to get to her feet and run to her dropped weapons. She grabbed them and dodged again when the chimera tried to attack her. Lettuce tried again with another attack the chimera broke apart and pulled itself together again. She tried this a couple more times every time it was able to reform itself into more of itself. Mew lettuce was growing exhausted from battling.
Kisshu kept flying at Mew Lettuce some more and then he flew off in another direction. She caught her breath for a few minutes then went after him. They were near some dunes in a deserted section of the beach.
Lettuce came to a low area in the dunes and she stopped. She saw Kisshu waiting for her floating there. All of a sudden, she noticed the sky got real dark and she heard thunder and saw bright flashes of lightning. The storm was upon them. Rain started to come down in buckets and the wind picked up and almost blew Kisshu out of the air. Kisshu landed and was about to try flying up into the air again when all of a sudden, Lettuce flew right into his arms and he let out a big uff sound. She heard him and she looked up at him and saw him wince some. Lettuce for her part was a bit confused but then she started to giggle a little. She had never known Kisshu to make a sound like that when being hit. It was a rare thing. She noticed he had his hands on her shoulders to steady her. Lettuce kept looking at him curiously. She then noticed he started to look at her as well and she grew warm from the staring. Lettuce didn't understand why though. She thought about it and she noticed she felt somehow safe in his embrace. Kisshu looked at her with compassion and then his face grew into a frown. He dropped his hands and let her go. Kisshu knew he had to finish his mission to help his people out. He leapt back into the air and he just waited for Lettuce to move forward a little. She didn't notice yet but there was a low area right in front of her and she was only looking at Kisshu currently.
Unbeknownst to her she didn't see the slimy tentacles slowly appear out of the ground. Lettuce was still watching Kisshu just float there. She didn't feel how the tentacles slowly but surely wrapped around her ankles and started to tighten and pull on her. Lettuce was still distracted by Kisshu. All of a sudden she felt herself stumble forward. What she didn't realize was that there were tentacles wrapped around her ankles pulling her forward and at the same time the sand she stumbled into caused her to start sinking. Lettuce had actually been lured into a trap. Her legs started to sink into the sand as the tentacles kept pulling her. She started trying to lift her feet but the slime tentacles were too strong. Every time she tried to lift one foot. It only lifted up a little. She tried the other same result. The tentacles were securely wrapped around her ankles. Lettuce kept being pulled into the ground. What she didn't know was that down where her feet were trapped below the sand some slime started to bubble up. It oozed up and continued as she sank into the ground. Lettuce was tugging at her legs and feet. "UNGH UNGH UNGH, what is this why can't I break my feet free of the sand and tentacles? I am stuck and sinking into mud and slime." the slime was sticky as well and it continued to move up her boots to her knees even though she had sunk to her knees. What she didn't know was this slime had started to change her boots. The chimera appeared out of thin air before her. It sent some slime towards her. Some more slime started flying towards her arms pinning them to her waist. Lettuce struggled to move and she couldn't.
Lettuce tried to dodge but she couldn't with her feet immobilized under the sand as they were. The slime parts flew at her hands and formed wrist style gloves. The gloves were a dark green as well. It covered her arms and legs from the knee up and elbow up. It started to thin out. It seeped into her dress and underclothes. The slime that had bubbled up underground covered her boots up to the top. It made changes to them. They became flat soft soled no heeled dark green ninja boots with lacing going from the bottom to the top with pom poms and tied in a bow at the top of the knee. The insides of her boots became fur lined and it went from the sole to the knee. The outside also gained fur. The gloves also had the fur and any uniques accents that Kisshus chimera had made. Meanwhile more slime started to encase her feet and legs again below the ground. Lettuce continued to struggle but she couldn't get free as the slime was holding her in place.
Lettuce continued to struggle but it was to no avail. She eventually passed out from exhaustion.
Early the next day she woke up to find herself somewhere else. Lettuce was in a bed sleeping. She pulled back the covers and found to her consternation She was still in her Mew outfit but with the new changes. Lettuce was wondering where she was and who had brought her there.
Kisshu and the other Mew girls were on board his ship talking in low voices. He had heard some rustling from his room. He went to see if his new guest had awoke from her slumber. Lettuce was looking around and saw she was on board some kind of ship. She knew she couldn't be at the beach anymore. What surprised her were some pictures of Pai and Taruto on the small walls of the room. Lettuce guess that this must be Kisshus ship as it had only a certain color scheme for the bed. It was a light emerald. Kisshu came in and he saw her looking at the pictures. He had a small smile on his face at that. He coughed to get her attention. She turned and looked at him. Lettuce was wondering what was going on. "Kisshu San why am I here and where are the others? I am concerned about them…"
Kisshu looked at her. He turned his head and from the open doorway appeared the missing Mews. The three girls came in and two of them sat down in some chairs. The third sat on the side of the bed. Mew Pudding was excited to see her Oni Chan as she called her again. Mew Ichigo was sitting on the bed. She turned towards Lettuce and put a hand on her new gloved hand. "Lettuce Kisshu needs to talk to all of us. He explained some of what has been going on whilst he has been away. It seems pretty serious. He told us that he is afraid for everyone's safety now. Apparently a new enemy has arisen and started an invasion of the solar system."
Ichigo turned to look up at Kisshu. He had a sad smile on his face. "Konecko Chan is right. My dear Fishy chan. I had to go out to face the fleet alone. The other troops were on standby as the council was worried about what might happen if they lost all of their best warriors. I escaped after a heated confrontation and somehow made my way here."
Lettuce looked at Kisshu and noticed he had a sad look on his face. "KIsshu San can I ask what the reason for bringing me here was?"
"Of course my dear Lettuce Chan. I brought you here. I need your help to fix this ship. I also need your help as well as the other mews. There is a real battle waging right now in space for my planet. I am not sure if my people could defeat the enemy currently." She sat up and pulled back the covers. Lettuce stood up and walked towards Kisshu. He heard her approach. Kisshu turned his face to meet hers. Lettuce looked into his eyes and saw the truth in them.
"Kisshu I would be glad to help you. I think working together would make it harder for the ones attacking your planet to succeed. I hope though your brothers are ok as well."
Kisshu looked at Lettuce and he nodded his head in agreement. "I hope they're Ok and will be able to remain that way until I can get back with help."
