The next morning Zoey woke up for school, besides the few accidental cat-naps during class she was okay.

"Something feels different…out of place somehow, but wha—?"

Suddenly she felt a hand touch her shoulder, she jumped and turned around. "Whoa Zoey!"

Zoey faced Mark, "Oops, sorry Mark…you surprised me is all." She said rather embarrassed.

"Zoey…" said Mark, "if you're free tonight, I'd like to take you out on a date later tonight."

"Sure…uh, see you later…I guess." Said Zoey.

As school was letting out Dren, Sardon, and General Htarw watched from the roof.

"So what's the game plan?" Dren asked Htarw.

Htarw said, "First rule of combat Dren…know your enemy as you know yourself, learn your enemies go and do, compare them to yourself and when they appear to be at their most vulnerable…strike!" He then glared at Dren and said, "I thought one of my soldiers would remember something that simplistic?"

"Oh, of course I remember…I'm just weary of your ways, that's all." Dren said nervously.

"Then remember these, my plans may seem a bit crazy, may make me look like I've gone mad…but there's always a reason behind my madness, a subtle way-point to a goal I look to achieve." Htarw told him, "Here's what I want you to do, tonight I want you to follow her and see where she goes and with whom she travels with…it is with this, that I hope to find chink in there armor. Right now I believe the key to bringing them down may be in their leader."

"Zoey!" Dren said surprised.

"Zoey…that's her name, quite a beautiful name at that…but Dren, with this you've already went against one of my lessons, never learn your enemy's name, it breeds familiarity, and familiarity in return breeds contempt, contempt breeds a flaw, and that flaw will eventually breed failure." Htarw told him, "Is that clear?"

"Yes sir." Dren said with a bit of a growl.

"Now let me ask you, what is her name again?" Htarw asked.

Now Dren had known the General well enough to know that if he said her name again he'd be deep in dutch with General Htarw, so he shrugged and said, "I don't know sir, she's the enemy and that's all I know."

"Good, now let's go…this place is starting to get dull." The General said, and with that all three of them disappeared.

Later that night after Zoey got back from work and prepared for her date with Mark, that's when it hit again…that feeling that something was out of place. "Oh come off it Zoey…you're about to go on a date with Mark."

Just then Zoey heard a rustling noise come from outside. "Predasite Alert, Predasite Alert!" Mini-Mew started shouting.

"Oh no, not now!" Zoey thought to herself.

"By the window, Predasite Approaching!" Mini-Mew told her.

Zoey looked out the window…silence, nothing but the sound of the wind.

"Zoey dear, there's someone down here to see you." Zoey's mother called.

Zoey went downstairs to see Mark awaiting her, "Ready?" he asked.

Both of them left, all the while Htarw, up-rooted flower in his hand, watched them from the roof of Zoey's house, and with that he disappeared.

The date was a simple walk in the park, nothing too special…Zoey looked around and could've sworn someone was watching her. "Zoey…are you all right?" Mark asked.

"Oh, yeah…it's just, I think someone's watching us." She told him.

Suddenly Zoey saw something move out of the corner of her eye, before she could see what a giant green tentacle shot out of the bushes and struck her and Mark, knocking her to the ground and Mark out cold.

Zoey looked up to see a giant mutated flower, "Oh, great…just when things were going okay, there had to be a huge mutant flower!"

"Hello kitty cat, sorry…it's just Tarb's plant Predasites can be so unpredictable at times." Said Dren with a hint of humor in his voice.

Zoey looked at the creature, "Okay…Mark's out cold, so right now would not be a bad time for me to transform."

"Mewdamorphoses." Zoey says as her pendent glows and she goes through the costume change. After that she jumps into the air and comes back down to kick the creature but the creature uses one of it's roots and pushes her out of the way.

Then the plant started eminating some sort of gurgling noise, she jumps out of the way just as the plant spits up a giant, red-colored loogey that starts dissolving the side-walk, "Okay…it's a giant, acid-spitting, mutant flower." Zoey thought to herself before she said, "I'm going to need back-up. Mini-Mew…go find the others, tell them to come to the park."

Mini-Mew flies off only to return sometime later with the other four, Dren saw this and thought, "Here's trouble."

Kikki was able to drive the monster deeper into the ground with her attack, Bridgette quickly soaked the surrounding area with a tidal surge to make sure the creature couldn't move around too much, Corina aimed an arrow shot at the 'stem/neck' of the creature, Renee used her dagger to finish cutting the head off, and Zoey with her Strawberry Bell severed the infuser from the plant. Which Mini-Mew ate before it had a chance to escape.

"So Dren, want to stick around and find out what we're going to do to you?" Zoey asked angrily.

Just then Dren heard Htarw say telepathically, "Negative Dren, do not engage them solo…just deliver my message to them and then return to base."

"You don't have to tell me twice." He replies back. He then looks at Zoey and says, "Sorry my pet…but will have to deal with this some other time, my orders are to give you this then leave." Dren then pulled a letter out of his shirt and dropped it, then vanished before she could say anything.

"Okay…does anyone find that strange?" Bridgette asked.

"What do you mean?" Corina asked.

"I mean Dren said he had orders to do all this." Bridgette responded.

"Well let's read the note and see what it says." Renee suggested.

Zoey picked up the note, it read:

Dear Mew-Mews,

Just got done watching your fight,

But now it's time for your real plight,

I've learned what I can from you,

Now it's time to see if your skills hold true,

Tomorrow night I want you to go,

To where the last of you defeated Great Crow,

Be there at 7, sharp, don't be late,

Or that place, and an area of several blocks will suffer a most cruel fate.

Sincerely,

You'll just be dying to know

Bridgette looked at the letter and said, "Best show to Elliot and Wesley when go to work tomorrow."

With that the others departed, Zoey returned to her true form just as Mark was waking up, "Zoey…what happened?" he asked, still a bit groggy.

"Some big, plant thing attacked us…it knocked both of us out." Zoey told him, all the while thinking, "I hope he believes that."

Meanwhile General Htarw looks at his three recruits and says, "Now the time of my debut has been set into motion, thanks to your help…soon these girls won't know what hit them, and if I know their minds well enough now…which I should, they'll show, and then they'll see what true power looks like."

"Yeah, but you wasted one of my infusers doing it." complained Tarb.

"Yes, but from a defeat I shall snatch victory." Htarw told them.

Oh, and lest I forget, and if you don't believe me, check out a b s o l u t e a n i m e. c o m and m m p u . s m u n c e n s o r e d . c o m:

Zoey -Ichigo

Corina - Minto

Bridget - Retasu

Kikki - Pudding

Renee - Zakuro

Mark - Masaya

Elliot - Ryou

Wesley - Keiichiro

Dren - Kisshu

Sardon- Pai/Pie (whichever way it's spelt)

Tarb-Tart/Taurto (Again, however the hell it's spelt)

Deep Blue-Deep Blue

General Htarw is a character I made for this, but if he was in the magna, his Japanese name would be General Chao.