Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew (or Mew Mew Power if you'd prefer.)
Note: I'm mostly using English names for convenience with a notable exception. I use Japanese names when they're transformed because I think using the same name for their hero and secret identities is stupid; he's not called Super Clark for a reason.
Chapter one: The return of team Mew Mew.
Zoey was taking a break at the café while reading Mark's latest letter from England.
Dear Zoey,
I am doing well; London is a beautiful city, but not a beautiful as Tokyo was when you were with me. I still study to find ways to protect the environment even though as Deep Blue I almost destroyed all human life. I'm still thankful that you were able to reach me at those crucial moments. Everyday I go Trafalgar Square and wait under the admiral's statue, the locals say that if you wait here long enough someone you know in England will eventually come and meet you. So I come everyday hoping that if you come we'll meet here.
Love, Mark
Zoey looked at the enclosed photo of the obelisk and the statue on top. She imagined meeting Mark under it, the embrace, the kiss…
"Hey Zoey." said Corina. "Think you can get back to work?"
Zoey's temple started pulsing. "Maybe if you actually do some yourself for once I will."
Then a crash was heard. Bridget had collided with Kikki and they both dropped what they were carrying, Renee was busy taking an order so Zoey went to the supply closet. "Break's over."
At the end of the day Elliot called the girls to the lab. "Elliot you said that a new enemy appeared and that's why our powers returned." said Zoey. "So far they haven't showed up, was it a false alarm?"
"You have to understand." said Wesley. "We started detecting the energy of infusers and made an assumption."
"Well I guess that we're done for the day." said Corina.
"But stay on guard girls." said Elliot. "It's only a matter of time before we find ourselves nose to nose with another Predacite."The girls started leaving for the night. "And ladies." They turned back. "We will beat them."
The next day Zoey was doing some shopping in an open air market. "Zoey is that you?" she heard.
She looked around. "Over here!" said another voice. She turned around and saw two girls; one had long blonde hair and red eyes the other had short ginger hair and brown eyes.
"Alice, Janet!" Zoey was elated. Alice Pride was an old friend she first met at nursery school, Janet Stone was her cousin; the three of them were great friends during elementary school.
"Long time, no see." said Alice, the blonde.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well cousin, we were just shopping on our own when Alice and I met each other." said Janet. "We started talking when you walked by and here we all are now."
"Wow the last time we've all been together was elementary school graduation. Where have you been?"
"Okinawa." said Janet. "Oh and Don says hi." Janet was referring to an older brother she had in the military.
"Well I've been going to an all girls school." said Alice. "It's nice but I don't see my boyfriend often enough for my tastes."
"You consider yourself lucky." said Zoey. "My boyfriend is half way around the world right now."
"So what have you been up to?"
"Well I have this part time job at Café Mew Mew."
"Oh I've heard that place is great! We should grab a bite there sometime."
"I feel like something sweet." said Janet.
"Great idea, we can talk there." said Zoey.
As they started walking away Minimew started reacting. "Predacite alert! Predacite alert!"
"Predacite?" asked Janet.
Just then a giant scorpion came in and thrust it's stinger at them.
"Yikes!" Alice said as they barely dodged the sting.
"This way!" said Zoey. She intended to find a safe place to hide Alice and Janet then go to an open area to fight the Predacite. Unfortunately the Predacite was faster then she anticipated and they were soon trapped at an empty part of a large vacant lot. "This is NOT how I wanted to die!" said Janet.
"If any one has a bazooka or something on them now's the time to use it!" said Alice.
"Girls." Zoey said. "Prepare yourselves for the shock of your lives.
"Power Pendant, Mewtamorphosis!"
Alice and Janet were surprised when they saw Zoey turn into Mew Ichigo right before their eyes.
"Zoey?" asked Janet.
"You're Mew Ichigo?" said Alice.
Mew Ichigo turned to the Predacite. "Attacking me and my friends is unforgivable! Mew mew style, mew mew grace, mew mew power in your face!" The scorpion then used the side of it's pincer to knock Ichigo to the side. "Ok, you want to play rough?" She got out her bell.
"Strawberry Bell,full power!"
The attack hit the Predacite with no effect. "Ok, you asked for it!" she got out a wand to use with the bell.
"MewAquaDrop Purify,full power!"
The bell glowed and drops of mew aqua came from the wand, then the Predacite turned jet black and the drops had no effect.
"Mew Aqua doesn't work, isn't there any way to beat this thing?"
The Predacite roared at it thrust it's stinger at Alice and Janet. "Ahhh!"
Mew Ichigo grabbed them at the last second and dove out of the way.
"Are you two ok?" she then saw that marks appeared on their bodies. Alice had a pink heart with rabbit ears on top and cat whiskers to the sides on her check and Janet had a swimming penguin on her ankle. "You, you're both Mew Mews!"
"We're Mew Mews?" said Janet.
Minimew spat out a pair of pendants. "Use them, it's our only chance!"
"Power Pendant, Mewtamorphosis!"
Alice gained white rabbit ears on top of her head and a small white cat-like tail; she also had a whitish pink outfit similar to Ichigo's. Janet had a red outfit that spread in the back at the bottom to look like flippers and included a bow in her hair.
"I can tell." said Alice. "I am Mew Berii!"
"And I'm Mew Ringo!" said Janet.
The Predacite then extended its pincers and tried to cut them in half.
"Use your weapons!" said Mew Ichigo. "Just say the first thing that comes to your minds."
Mew Ringo got a pair of Maracas.
"Melee Maracas!" She shook them around. "Avalance Crash!"
A pile of snow fell on the Predacite.
Mew Berii got a staff with ribbons and a bell on top.
"Aura Staff!" she twirled it around. "Light Spread!"
Beams of white light hit the Predacite, but it just shook the attacks off.
"Nothing seems to hurt it!" said Mew Berri.
"Zoey, Ichigo…" Mew Ichigo heard. The voice sounded just like her.
"What?"
"The creature that has taken over this animal has been corrupted with dark poison. To purify it you must reach into your soul and use the light within all living things."
"Light within my soul?"
"As it was before, it is now; but the outcome is still uncertain…" Mew Ichigo reached within herself and her bell started to glow brightly. It morphed to include another bell at the bottom of the heart.
"Soul Strawberry Bell,full power!"
The attack caused the infuser to leave the scorpion. The infuser was a jet black color but just before Minimew collected it; it changed to its normal blue color as it released a black drop that evaporated as it hit the ground.
"Hey are you ok!" said Mew Zakuro as she came with the other members of Team Mew Mew.
"Fine." said Mew Ichigo. "Now I like you all to meet the newest members of our team Mew Berii and Mew Ringo."
"Nice to meet you." said Mew Berii.
"I think we better head back to the café." said Mew Minto.
Mew Retasu picked up the scorpion by the tail. "We better get this little guy to a new home."
"I got it." said Mew Purin as she got a jar with holes on the lid to carry the arachnid.
As they left they didn't notice a woman speaking into a gem on her wrist. "Phase one is complete, awaiting the commencement of phase two…"
Back at the café Elliot ran a scan on the new Mew Mews. "Hmm, Janet has been infused with the DNA of the Humboldt Penguin."
"I didn't look that much like a penguin." said Janet.
"I'm sure that it will be more apparent in your abilities."
"What about me?" asked Alice.
"You are a little more unusual, the DNA you've been infused with is a combination of the Pygmy Rabbit and the Manul Wildcat."
"Does that make her twice the Mew the rest of us are?" asked Bridget.
"I don't know about that, but judging from that how strong that Predacite was we'll need all the help we can get."
"Speaking of which, what's with the new bell?" asked Kikki.
"I'm not sure." said Zoey. "I heard a voice in my head that sounded just like me, it told me to use the light of my soul to beat it and it just happened after that."
"This is all very strange." said Corina. "What say we call it a day?"
"Fine, but I want Alice and Janet to start work here tomorrow." said Elliot.
"Ok, oh and Elliot." said Zoey. "Since you had to get some more help I'm glad you brought in some old friends of mine." They all left then.
Elliot typed something on his computer and a list of five names and animal species appeared. "Something wrong?" said Wesley.
"I didn't want to alarm the girls right now, but I didn't use the DNA infuser since we infused Zoey and the others."
"Then how did Alice and Janet get infused?"
"Someone had to have done it; the only explanation is that someone is copying the Mew Project."
"What should we do?"
"I think we should keep this a secret until we have a better idea on who it is."
Meanwhile in a hidden laboratory a shadowed figure in a lab coat was observing data as it passed over a screen. "Time to commence phase two." He held up a beaker with a black liquid in it. "Soon we will make a new world, a better world."
Notes: The Pygmy Rabbit is a smaller endangered species of rabbit found in Washington State; the Manul or Pallas cat is an endangered wildcat native to Afghanistan and western and central China.
