Blood: Phew. Chappie 2!

Pie: Lazy.

Blood: (shrug)

Disclaimer: See Chapter One.

Dagger wished she was in Jo-Jo's position. Jo-Jo was sleeping on the couch in the café's basement, recuperating from her near-hypothermia and little ride from Ryou. Dagger, since her arms had thawed out and had gotten a new pair of clothing, was now being viciously attacked by questions from an impatient Mint.

"Aiii! Sit down and I can explain!" Dagger shrieked and hid behind a pillow as Mint advanced again. Reluctantly, the blue-haired Mew Mew sat next to Zakuro and quieted. Dagger sighed and ran a hand through still-damp hair.

"Uhm…I'm not sure HOW to explain, but we fell through the floor in my attic. The next thing we know, we're lying in a fountain and don't know where we are. Then we accidentally run into Kish and Tart and nearly get my soul sucked out. And then our kind buddies Ryou, Ichigo, and Pudding show up."

"Yes!" Mint growled. "We know that part!"

"But how do you know our names?" Lettuce asked quietly, holding a hand to her mouth in worry. Dagger rubbed the back of her neck.

"Uh…eheh…that is a very good question, which I don't think I can explain."

"Why not!" Mint demanded, getting in Dagger's face again.

"'Cause you wouldn't believe me!" Dagger shouted back. Dagger felt a small tap on the back of her head and glanced up. Jo-Jo was staring at them blearily.

"Whoops! Gomen, I didn't mean to wake you up Jo-Jo!"

"S'okay," she mumbled. "I'll get you back later." Dagger flinched. "Anyway, you guys, all the Mew Mews, are an anime where we come from. A TV show. That's why we know who you are." Jo-Jo smiled. "It came as a bit of a shock, but we're cool." Mint blinked.

"I see…"

"YOU MEAN THAT WE'RE JUST A SHOW IN YOUR WORLD!" both Ichigo and Mint shouted. Jo-Jo and Dagger backed up a few feet, sweatdropping.

"Quit terrorizing them," Keiichiro said warmly, coming back into the room carrying a tray. "They've been through a lot tonight and they probably don't want to be put through the Inquisition right now." Mint sat back down reluctantly and Lettuce smiled.

"So, you two came from another world?" she asked, pushing her glasses back up her nose. Dagger nodded.

"Yeah."

"Here." Keiichiro handed the tray to Dagger, who smirked.

"Hey look Jo-Jo," she mumbled. "Noodles." Almost instantly, the noodles were off the plate and in front of Jo-Jo. Dagger shrugged and began to eat the rice.

"Thank you Akasaka-san," Dagger said between mouthfuls.

"Yah! 'Fanks!" Jo-Jo managed. Ryou stared at Jo-Jo.

"Does she normally eat like that?" Jo-Jo's face turned bright red as Dagger shrugged.

"If she's hungry enough." Jo-Jo glared at Dagger.

"That's TWO counts I have to get you back for!"

"Eep!"

Ryou and Keiichiro had taken the chance of Jo-Jo chasing Dagger around the café to discuss what to do with them. It had been a unanimous vote to let them stay at least the night in the one of the café guestrooms. Jo-Jo had taken very well to the room and had curled up on the bed very happily. Dagger, however, was still up. The teen was sitting in the windowsill and staring out at the frosted lawn dazedly.

"It's funny," Dagger murmured to no one. "All my life, I've wanted to get away from my life and become a part of something like this. But…now that I am…I miss it." The girl sighed, lowering her head to her knees.

"Aiii, I'm in pain again."

"Dagger? Are you okay?" Dagger froze.

"D-Did you hear all that!"

"Nah. Are you sure you're okay? You sure you didn't get hurt when Kish dropped you?" Dagger turned back to look at her friend, who was staring at her in concern. Dagger blinked. Jo-Jo had heard the whole thing.

"I'm fine, Jo-Jo," Dagger replied. "I'll go to sleep in a little while."

Jo-Jo regarded her friend carefully before rolling over and closing her eyes. Dagger wasn't telling her something again. Jo-Jo liked to believe that they were close enough that Dagger could tell her anything. Maybe she was going through one of those phases where she had to weather things out on her own.

"Dagger?"

"Hm?"

"I, uhm, want to say something."

"Yes?" Jo-Jo sat up again.

"Look, I KNOW you aren't fine. What's up? You know you can tell me." Dagger turned back to gaze at her friend with sad eyes.

"I…" Dagger stiffened. "Aiii! Something's not right." She slid from the sill to her feet and Jo-Jo slipped from the bed to the cold floor. Instantly, the floor erupted in bright light and both girls instinctively covered their eyes. Jo-Jo peeked from the shield and caught a glimpse of a shimmery, bright blue room. Dagger was standing next to her, her eyebrow cocked.

"What the heck…" she mumbled. Jo-Jo blinked a few times as a part of the blurred landscape started to move. In fact, two things were flying right at them. The yellow blur passed right through Jo-Jo's heart and a black blur shot right through Dagger's neck.

"Ahh!"

"What the!" Both girls stood still for a moment before collapsing onto the floor, the room back the way it should be.

Ryou knocked on the door to Jo-Jo's and Dagger's room. It was already seven and neither had been seen downstairs yet.

"Hey? You two alive in there?" Receiving no response, the blond man pushed the door open. Both girls were lying sprawled on the ground, and it looked like neither had been in the bed all night. Ryou walked into the room and looked around. Neither girl showed signs of moving, but there was no sign of an attack. Ryou grasped Jo-Jo's shoulder and shook her lightly.

"Hey, you asleep?" There was a small groan in response and Ryou helped Jo-Jo into a sitting position.

"Oh…my head hurts so badly," Jo-Jo grumbled. "Ah...what happened last night?" Jo-Jo jerked into a straight position hurriedly.

"OH! The blurs! They—"Jo-Jo quickly turned around and peeked down her shirt. An odd marking was right where her heart was positioned. "AH!" Ryou blinked and walked over to Jo-Jo.

"Hey, what's the matter?" Jo-Jo bit her bottom lip.

"Ahh…I don't know! A yellow blur just entered my body last night!" Ryou frowned.

"What? And there's a mark?" Jo-Jo nodded. Ryou's frown deepened.

"Maybe you two have just been fused with animal DNA, just like the Mew Mews." The girl blinked.

"You mean that…" she started quietly, "that we're Mew Mews?" Ryou paused, but nodded soon after. Jo-Jo smiled, throwing Ryou offbeat.

"Awesome! This is gonna be great! Wait until Dagger hears this!"

"I heard." Dagger pushed herself up from the floor. "But, pray tell, how am I supposed to hide this!" She tilted her head to the side and jerked her finger at the mark on her neck. Ryou rubbed his temples.

"Can we find out what creatures you are first?" Dagger stood there fuming for a moment before nodded.

"Alright." Dagger walked out of the room briskly. Jo-Jo frowned.

"Hm…I don't think she likes you that much. Maybe because you make her see sense?" she commented. Ryou shrugged.

"To each her own." Jo-Jo smiled and started to walk towards the door. Just outside the door, Jo-Jo tripped. She closed her eyes, waiting for the smash of the floor. Instead, Jo-Jo was caught in warm arms. She looked up to see Ryou smiling down at her.

"Try to watch your step." Jo-Jo blushed.

"I-I'm a bit clumsy," she murmured in explain. Ryou smiled again, leaning close to her ear.

"Can't be that bad," he whispered. Jo-Jo gulped. If this was going where she thought it was…

"WAAAAAAAHHH!" There was a very loud crash and a few shouts from downstairs.

"Aiii! Gomen nasai, Akasaka-san! I'll help you clean that up! I am soooo sorry!" Jo-Jo sighed as Ryou righted her and ran down the steps.

"Dagger!" she shouted down the stairs, running down after the blond. "What did you do now!"

Dagger was standing in the computer room of the café, waiting for the test results. She had no idea what she had disturbed upstairs by running into Keiichiro, but it had to have been good because Jo-Jo had given her a good whack for it.

"Got it!" Keiichiro announced, spinning his chair around. "Okay…Jo-Jo is a Macleays Grass Yellow Butterfly, and Dagger is Fruit Bat." Dagger blinked.

"Okay, lemme get this straight," she said patiently. "Jo-Jo's a bug, and I'm a bat?"

"Yes."

"Okay, cool." Ryou glanced at Jo-Jo appreciatively, but sent Dagger a skeptical look.

"So, you two are Mew Mews?" Ichigo poked her head into the lab.

"Ichigo! What are you doing here?" Keiichiro asked happily.

"I came to pick up Dagger and Jo-Jo," the pink-haired girl replied, confused. "They're supposed to come with me to school today." Almost instantly, a pair of black bat ears and bat wings popped from Dagger's body.

"WHAT! School?"

Kish watched from a tree as Ichigo, Dagger, and Jo-Jo walked from the café. Dagger was sporting a sour look and a pair of bat ears, wings, and claws. Kish cocked an eyebrow. So this Dagger was a Mew Mew? He looked critically at Jo-Jo. She was wearing that same locket that the Mews wore whenever they transformed. Dagger was twirling hers in agitation on a cord. Pie teleported next to him.

"So those are the two that were in the park last night?" he inquired. Kish nodded.

"Yeah." Both fell silent as the trio walked from the café's yard.

"Should we fight them now before they get an advantage?" Pie asked. Kish shook his head.

"Nah. I wanna see what happens. The tallest one, Jo-Jo, is the one that's okay with everything. That Dagger, however, seems to be agitated easily."

"Are you saying that maybe she could be used to our advantage?" Kish nodded again, smirking.

"Yep. If we play our cards right, it might just work." The two aliens teleported away from Café Mew Mew.

Jo-Jo smoothed the skirt of her uniform as Dagger argued afresh with the woman in charge. Dagger, being Dagger, had insisted on a boy's uniform because she hated skirts. The woman had insisted she wear a girl's uniform otherwise a lot of girls would come in looking for pants. To add to it, the woman had insisted that Dagger remove the studded collar she had donned, courtesy of a quick stop at a pet shop on the way to school. Ichigo decided it was time to intervene.

"Excuse me, Miss Moto," she interjected, which was wise since Dagger was almost at the point of ear/wing/claw generation. "Dagger here has a small problem with skirts."

"Oh really?" Miss Moto said in an annoyed tone. "I have to give her a skirt unless there is a specific medical problem." Ichigo leaned closer.

"See, Dagger has pubic herpes." Dagger's ear twitched suddenly and her face burned a deep wine as Ichigo continued. "And she has to wear boxers so as not to upset her sores. So, she needs pants because of the boxers." Miss Moto, why clearly didn't care to hear that, handed a pair of boy uniforms to Dagger and directed her to the bathroom.

"But take off that collar!" she ordered.

"I can't," Dagger growled.

"Why not?"

"Because she has a hickey!" Jo-Jo chirped in, causing Dagger's face to turn, if possible, a deeper wine. The woman blushed.

"Oh, I see." Dagger left the room angrily. Once in the bathroom, the furious girl turned to chew them out.

"I have herpes and a hickey?" she demanded, slamming the stall door closed and starting to change.

"Well," Jo-Jo said slowly. "You kinda do have a hickey…"

"And you may have herpes," Ichigo said sensibly. "I wouldn't know."

"I don't," Dagger snarled, slamming the door open again and washing her hands off in the sink. "And I cannot believe you just told that woman that!" Jo-Jo sweatdropped.

"Ah, don't sweat it," she said happily. "At least the rest of the school day will be better." Dagger gave Jo-Jo an incredulous look.

"Jo-Jo," she said in a shocked tone, "school is NEVER good. It will NEVER be better!" And Dagger's grim prediction turned out to be true. Dagger had another fight with the gym teacher about uniforms and won out with the combined excuses of a very large scar around her neck and a few very long ones on her legs, and the boa constrictor in science class decided that Jo-Jo was the biggest mouse it had ever seen. The pair stumbled out of math class, where they had gotten a busload of homework already.

"This…is stupid!" Dagger growled. "We finally get free of our world and we have to put up with this crap!" Jo-Jo nodded.

"Let's face it," she muttered. "God's just not merciful enough to remove school from our lives." Dagger groaned as she caught sight of Kouji. Kouji was the only boy in school so far who had decided that a girl in a boy's uniform was a great new toy to break.

"Hey newbie!" Dagger sighed as she lowered her backpack to the floor.

"Yes?"

"Get over here!" Dagger turned to glare at him.

"Maybe I don't want to!" she shouted at him. Jo-Jo blinked. Dagger was going to reach her limit today. But now…the ears were going to be a problem. Kouji's eye twitched and he started forward.

"Shouldn't have done that," he growled, cracking his knuckles. Dagger smirked and let her body relax.

"I doubt that," she muttered. Kouji sent a punch at her and Dagger jumped to the side, coming back for a low kick into a private area. Kouji went down with a gasp and Dagger went and collected her backpack. Dagger sighed and began to rub her temples.

"Jo-Jo," she started slowly, "I think I'm gonna have to cut school today." Jo-Jo stared at her.

"Why? What's up?"

"I'm gonna grow bat ears any second that's why," Dagger replied, keeping her voice calm. "That and I am incredibly bored." Jo-Jo smirked.

"Have you ever done it before?" Jo-Jo asked, walking with Dagger towards the front door.

"Nah. But it can't be too hard, right?"

"Hey you kids!"

"Run!"

Dagger situated herself on a park bench with a sigh. After the whole school fiasco in which about seven janitors were running after them, Jo-Jo had said she was going back to Café Mew Mew. Dagger had let her go on alone, and instead let herself drift to the park. As if coincidence, she was sitting next to the fountain they had fallen into last night. Dagger closed her eyes and leaned back against the bench, letting her breath leave in a drawn out sigh. A rustling noise came from the bushes and Dagger opened an eye lazily. When it didn't move again, Dagger closed her eye. It was probably just a squirrel. There was another rustling, this time over her head. Dagger's eyes shot open and jerked her head forward. It was only then that Dagger found out that someone was standing in front of her.

Jo-Jo looked around the café curiously, looking for Keiichiro and Ryou.

"Hello?" she asked, looking around. Keiichiro poked his head out from the kitchen.

"Eh? What are you doing back already?" Jo-Jo rubbed her neck.

"Dagger and I skipped. She was getting stressed out."

"No one saw right?" Jo-Jo looked up and saw Ryou coming from downstairs.

"Ah! Uh…no, no! No one saw anything." Ryou sighed and ran his fingers through his bangs.

"Ah…Dagger is probably going to be the most difficult Mew Mew to monitor." Jo-Jo cocked her head.

"Eh? Why?"

"I don't know how to say it without being rude to Dagger-san," Keiichiro said sadly.

"But she's a bit wild," Ryou said bluntly. "She's unpredictable and unstable."

"We're afraid she may run away and the wrong people will find her."

"But Ichigo always runs away," Jo-Jo protested. Ryou sighed again.

"Yes, she does. But she's predictable. She's too softhearted and she comes back to say sorry. Your friend…we don't know her yet. She's new to us." Jo-Jo kept her eyes on the floor. It was true. No matter how much she wanted to defend Dagger's honor, the girl was hotheaded and had been acting a bit strangely ever since they had come.

"I…I guess you're right," Jo-Jo conceded. "She does seem a bit different." Ryou smiled.

"But if you stay with us," Ryou started, "then we'll be able to predict what will happen. You are the one who knows here best." Jo-Jo gave a shy smile.

"Uh…thanks," she muttered.

"Ryou!" Keiichiro shouted. "There's a bunch of Chimera Animas in the park!"

Blood: R&R please! Oh, and a few shoutouts!

Rosakara: Yes. I did it. And I updated. You're a better writer than I am.

pink-rose-bud: Well, I'm not really crossing over Instant Teen that much. I'm just stealing Asuma for Danae. Sowwy, but I like I.T. too!