The next day when the girls arrived for work Elliot and Wesley met them, "So what's the story behind you and Htarw?" Renee asked.
Elliot looked down at the ground first, then back up at them and said, "First, I want you to understand that even though I tell you this story, the person you face right now is a shadow of the person I once knew, a hollow shell…whatever bond of friendship we had has been shattered over the last seven years."
"So…come on Elliot, what's the scoop?" Corina asked.
"Girls, give him time," Wesley told them, he then looked at Elliot who seemed to be a little discouraged and said, "this is an emotional scar for him that hasn't entirely healed, opening it up for him is going to be easier said than done for him."
"No Wesley…if I don't tell them now, then they'll have no idea who they're up against here." Elliot told Wesley.
Elliot then took a deep breath and said, "Okay…first thing's first, his name wasn't Htarw—I mean it's not the one he introduced himself to me with, his name, his human name…was Walter Jon Nixon, he was a middle class kid, but he had a lot of rich relatives so he had one impressive bank account I'll give him that."
"Elliot here and Walter used to be best friends, the truth was who couldn't be around Walter and not learn to like him, heck even Elliot's father liked him." Wesley told them.
"In a few short months we became very close friends, heck…a few people would've probably mistook us for brothers, but it wasn't to last." Elliot told them.
Meanwhile Htarw met with Deep Blue, "Master, I now know that my old 'friend' Elliot Grant lives…this makes this, by far, the most challenging battlefield I've ever fought upon." Htarw said mentally to Deep Blue.
"True General, but remember that Elliot is your past…that he is the one who became the success while you lived in his shadow." Deep Blue told him.
"I remember quite well…in fact, that is the one thing of my past that I've chosen never to forget, the one fact remains, that one little fact that made me who I am today, and that one little fact is that Elliot Grant and his father ruined my life!" Htarw told both Deep Blue and himself.
"Walt found out about the Mew Project didn't he?" Bridgette asked. Elliot nodded.
"Well I wouldn't say found out as much as stumbled upon, he'd forgotten his jacket at my place when he found the lab, and learned of what my father was doing…it was then and there that my father clued him in on the project and told him that if he wanted to help on it, he could…a choice seven years later I now look upon as a mistake." Elliot told them.
"Elliot pretended to be your friend so he could use you to help his father with his work, but soon you realized that if the Grant family succeeded in this experiment, so the night before you decided to do something about it." said Deep Blue.
"Yes…the only way to stop him from getting credit off my aiding him was through sabotage." Htarw admitted.
"We were just about to reach a break-through when it happened; we'd almost had our first successful proto-type when the entire system crashed, destroying the proto-type and setting my father back four years." Elliot told them. "And truth was I'd never suspected Walter of doing it, never…had he just seemed so innocent, too innocent to do such a thing."
"Did your father ever suspect Walter of sabotaging the project proto-type?" Zoey asked.
"No…no he didn't, to him, he felt that he'd just made a miscalculation somewhere in his formula…it wasn't until before he died that he made that realization that Walter had betrayed him, that he had betrayed both of us…but somewhere in my mind I'd always known before that." Elliot told them.
"It was imperative then that Elliot and I keep a close eye on Walter, to make sure nothing would go wrong again…then about two weeks before he disappeared he started telling us he was hearing voices, voices inside his head." Wesley told the girls.
"When you first made contact with me Htarw, you were afraid." Deep Blue mentioned.
"Yes master, I didn't know what to believe what was going on, or didn't know what was happening to me…then you appeared in my dream and showed me the truth, the true nature of humans and instructed me on what to do next." Htarw explained.
"Walter was pretty much the mind behind the Mew Mews, I mean it was our research, but he designed most of the attacks and weaponry, Corina, Renee, your weapons are based on the designs of Walter Jon Nixon." Elliot told them, "Kikki, your 'Tamborine Trench' attack was invented by him as well. In a way he created your very fighting styles and techniques, as well as various counters…just in-case your powers ever fell into the wrong hands like the Cyniclon."
"But I guess he should've made a counter for himself in-case he ever fell into the wrong hands." Wesley added.
Elliot then took out a small wooden box, inside was a photo of a younger Elliot and Wesley, then the girls saw the third person in the photo, "That's him isn't it?" Bridgette asked.
"This was taken seven years ago, four days prior to his disappearance." Elliot told them.
"Well what happened…with the voices, I mean?" Renee asked.
"He said they were getting closer, louder to him…they kept saying something about 'making contact with the Prodigy'. Little did we realize who the Prodigy would soon be." Wesley told them.
"You were our shining bit of hope in the universe Htarw, our Prodigy of Destiny…when you finally made contact with us we learned of your planets' resources and other things." Deep Blue told Htarw.
"Yes now that I look back at it, you and the others…Sardon, Dren, and the other one…what's-his-face." Htarw told him.
"You mean Tarb, we raised you and respected you in a way that no human, no person in this galaxy could care for you." Deep Blue told him.
"Yes…and now that I look upon human nature, I now see…I now see," Htarw thought to himself then he whispered, "That Elliot and Wesley never cared about me, nobody…not even my human family cared about me, humans our heartless creatures that only care about themselves, you…Deep Blue, you and the Cyniclon were the only ones who cared about me, raised me to my full potential, to be all that I could be."
"Yes Htarw, cast away your past, Walter is no more…a mere phantom of a shattered boys' past, you are the testament to my will, and the zenith of my perfection…in every aspect you are a part of me, as intercantly bound as any agent of mine, I am very pleased with what you've done in your past conquests—and as long as you carry out my work, I'll continue to remain pleased. But now I command you to lay my enemies to waste, pick up the Zweihander which is your right, hold up the blade which is your destiny and tell me my Prodigy what it is you've been sent here to do."
Htarw did not hesitate in removing Requiem from it's scabbard and holding it up in the air said, "I have been sent to guide the Cyniclon armies in the divine conquest of Earth!"
"Yes." Deep Blue said with a hint of dark joy in his voice.
"I have been sent to smash it's defenses with the Infusers and Predasite possibilities I see before my eyes!" Htarw added.
"Yes." Deep Blue said again.
"To uphold the glory my name has brought you, and the terror it sets into those hearts that know me not!" Htarw added.
"Yes, my Prodigy of Destiny, yes!" Deep Blue said anxiously.
"To destroy all those that stand in our path, to wipe all defenses that oppose us from the face of the planet!"
"Yes, my Prodigy…preach to me, tell me your sermon, tell this world your sermon!" Deep Blue shouted at him.
Htarw then looked up at his sword, a dark aurora incased it and him, "FROM THIS DAY FORTH, I SET TO BREAK ALL DEFENSES…AND FROM THIS MOMENT ON I SHALL NOT BE STOPPED UNTIL ANYONE WHO STANDS IN MY WAY ARE NEVER MORE!" Htarw cried out in a clear voice.
"YES!" cried Deep Blue in response, wickedly laughing to himself.
That night when the girls departed from the café they all looked at each other, they now knew who they really faced, "Well…I hate to say it girls, but we have one hell of a battle on our hands." Renee told them.
"Yeah, but we've taken on some pretty tough stuff so far." Pointed out Kikki.
"Didn't you hear what Elliot and Wesley told us, this guy made our weapons, our attacks…and he knows where to find the flaws in them." Corina pointed out.
"He made some of the weapons and attacks, plus Elliot and Wesley said they wouldn't stop until they found a way to help us defeat him." Zoey told them.
Suddenly Elliot appeared outside and said, "Get going…your going to have to be here for early shifts tomorrow."
Wesley then came out just as the girls departed.
"Wesley, get a pot of coffee and some late night suppers going, it's going to be a long night for you and me." Elliot told him.