The next day when Warren showed up for work he looked at Corina, walked over and said, "I think if you did a little bit of the work around here, you'd find that time would pass a lot faster than it would if you just sat on your buttox all day sipping tea."

"Well that's your opinion." Corina told him.

Warren shook his head and said, "If only you were a good a waitress as you are a fighter this place would be booming them."

Corina then put her cup down, "What did you say?" she asked.

Warren turned and said, "You heard me, but I'll put it in terms you can better understand…if you were as good a waitress as you are a Mew Mew this place would have a lot more customers."

Corina then stood up and said, "Could you excuse me a moment, I have to talk with Elliot."

"Certainly." Warren replied, when she was out of sight, Warren put his next dirty trick into action.

Renee was serving one of the tables when Elliot came up behind her and said, "You and I need to have a little talk."

"How could you let him know you're a Mew Mew!" Elliot demanded to know.

"I didn't tell him…he…he figured it out all on his own." Renee told him.

"And let me guess, after he figured out you were a Mew Mew, he was able to fit the other four in with it perfectly?" Wesley asked.

"Quite right Wesley," Answered Warren, who was standing behind them, "for one, I did figure it out on my own…after I saw the mark on her stomach, and two…after figuring out she was one of them, figuring that Zoey, Bridgette and the rest of this ditzy crew were tied in with this was a rather large no-brainer."

"Well considering that you now know the truth behind this place, I guess all we can ask you is to keep it a secret." Wesley told him.

"Rest assured I'll keep this secret safe." Warren responded, but there was something in Warren's eyes that Elliot didn't want to trust.

Elliot then showed Warren the lab, "Unbelievable." Was the only word Warren had for it. "So this is where the Mew Project all began?" he asked.

"Well not exactly, my father was the one to start the project, along with the help of an old friend of mine that I don't talk to anymore." Elliot told him.

"Well I guess the old saying proves true, 'The sins of the father, shall be taken out on the son.' Or in your case carried out by." Warren said with a light laugh.

Zoey then came down and said, "Uh, Elliot…there's something I have to give you, so here." She then placed the Metallo Chip in his hand, she then saw Warren, who seemed to have a greedy look in his eyes when he saw the chip. "What's he doing here?" Zoey asked.

"He figured out that the whole café thing was just a front for this, so he's going to be working with us from now on." Wesley told her.

"Yeah…even though we still don't trust him." Elliot added.

"Then why not test my trust by handing me the chip?" Warren asked.

"And why should we do that?" Elliot asked.

"You're the scientific brain of this operation right, so think about it smart boy…entrusting the chip to a complete stranger you've only known for a week-week and a half or so, it'd be the one move in this fight that the enemy wouldn't see coming." Warren told him.

Elliot thought about it for a moment or two, then handed Warren the chip and said, "Keep it hidden, keep it safe."

"Trust in moi." Said Warren as he went back upstairs.

Later that night, Zoey couldn't help but remember feeling some sort of creepy vibe coming off of Warren when she'd seen him in the lab. "It felt almost like he was—like I was staring at—no, couldn't be."

Meanwhile at Renee's place Warren/Htarw handed Sardon the Metallo Chip, "I can't believe you got it back." Sardon said astounded.

"Quiet…the missus is still here in the house and if she hears you it's curtains for me." Warren/Htarw warned him.

"Well what now?" Sardon asked him.

"Just hold on to it for now." Warren/Htarw told him.

"Uh, just my asking General, but Dren and I are starting to wonder if you're trying to form a relationship with this girl?" Sardon asked.

"Warren is trying to form a relationship with the missus of this house, I'm trying to deal a devastating blow to Elliot's little team." Warren/Htarw replied. "Now get going…time's a wasting!"

Later that night Renee was about to go to sleep when she saw a note on her bed, she picked it up, a photo of an abandoned apartment complex fell out. She looked the note over:

Dearest Renee,

It's time…meet me at this location on the west side of the city in 30 minutes, or your little boy-friend Mr. Jackson will suffer a most cruel end.

Sincerely,

You should know who by now.

"What are they talking about, they don't have Warren." She thought to herself in protest.

Suddenly there came a crash from downstairs, "Hey, who the heck are you…don't come another step I'm warning you, YEEEAARGH!" Warren called out.

Renee came downstairs to find Warren gone and the window open, "Now they do."

"Are you sure she'll be here?" Sardon asked.

"Yes, now just do as I told you and I think this'll work out just nicely." Htarw told him, with that Sardon vanished.

Htarw then heard a thud from behind him and saw Renee standing right behind him, "Well, well, well…at first I thought we might've had the wrong place, but I guess not."

"Let Warren go…he doesn't have to be part in this." Renee told Htarw.

Htarw shook his head and said, "Little lady, he became part of this when he first started working at the café."

"Let him go right now…I'm warning you!" Renee growled.

"Demanding will get you nowhere." Htarw retorted in a sing-song kind of voice.

Renee didn't hesitate one minute, but then she thought, "He wants me to fight him…he wants me to attack him because he knows that the others aren't here to back me up."

"What's wrong dear-heart, did you just come to realize the obvious?" Htarw asked, he looked at her facial expression and said, "Oh my, I think you did…you realized you're all alone on this one, if you fight me you won't have your little teammates to back you up…and against me, I doubt you'll last very long. But don't worry doll face, I'll make sure to send you back to Elliot in mostly one piece."

Renee went under her costume transformation and brandished her dagger in front of Htarw, Htarw unsheathed Requiem. Htarw then made the first move by grabbing Renee's wrist, "You know, I just wanted to lure you here so I could do this!"

Suddenly both of them were teleported to an abandoned factory, Htarw then hit a button on the one of the consoles just as Renee tried to strike him, she missed…and then all the machinery started up, the conveyor belts, the robotic arms, and the gears and giant pistons.

Htarw then took off his helmet, Renee saw those eyes of his and swore she'd seen them somewhere before, evil would be the keyword, but there was also something creepy, if not lecherous within them.

"My dear girl, why won't you take me up on my offer?" Htarw asked again.

"Simple, I already have friends…and for another, I don't join groups." Renee told him.

"My dear, you could not be more simple minded, think of the Cyniclons not as a group, but as an organization…" Htarw told her, stepping up to her right side, "an organization dedicated to setting the Earth on a much safer, if not cleaner path. And all you have to do to join this great organization and sample all its technological benefits…is renounce your pathetic teammates."

"Sorry but that's not happening." Renee told him.

"Do you not remember our insightful little chat?" Htarw asked her.

"I do," Renee told him, "but I realized…" she then pointed her dagger at him, "that stooping to your level isn't the way I should face such a scenario, the only way I'm going to make it through that is by staying true to myself, and my friends."

"Then I guess, since you still won't budge like the stubborn boulder you are, you leave me no choice but to show you the error of your ways." Htarw told her before charging at her, bringing Requiem back for a slashing attack, Renee ducked under the blade and tried to strike Htarw in the back of the head, but Htarw dodged this attack and quickly elbowed Renee in the chest.

"You're not much of a challenge, you know that?" Htarw asked.

"Maybe I don't have to be to beat you!" Renee argued. She then tried to sweep kick Htarw, but Htarw jumped over it and leapt on to one of the moving conveyor belts, Renee took off after him into the darkness.

She then looked around, it was hard to see anything without any light, suddenly everything came to a grinding halt, except for the heavy breathing noise that seemed to be coming from all around her. "Forget it child, you cannot trust your eyes, and you cannot trust your ears…I could be anywhere,"

She then felt something grip her shoulder, "even right behind you."

Renee then turned around to attack, only to find nothing standing behind her, "Come out of hiding Htarw…you coward!"

"You're afraid…you're afraid because you don't know where I am, well then if you want your fear to diminish, here…I'll make it less creepy for you then."

Suddenly all the machinery started up again, Renee stepped back out into the main area of the factory, she saw Htarw for a second, then one of the robotic arms passed between them and he vanished right in front of her.

She looked around, then closed her eyes, "I have to remain calm, try to block out the machinery to hear him and quicken my reaction time."

Suddenly she could hear something, heavy breathing…Darth Vader almost in origin, coming from her left.

She then brought her dagger up and struck Requiem, Htarw looked at her with a bit of surprise, "Good…my dear, you're learning much quicker than I had first perceived."

"Learning! What do you mean?" Renee asked sternly.

"You mean you still don't see it? Well maybe not right now…but know I have big plans, my dear." Htarw told her, "and they involve you in a big way, just this I'll tell you…even Elliot didn't know all the undesired side affects infusing human and animal DNA would raise, not like I did…that's why I destroyed his father's precious proto-type. I wasn't trying to sabotage his father, but warn him."

"What do you mean?" Renee demanded to know, trying to attack Htarw again.

"You're holding your dagger too loosely, you could easily loose grip of it…like this!" Htarw pointed out, he then kicked her away from him, she instantly lost grip of her dagger and fell to the floor, she tried to reach for it…but Htarw beat her to the punch and picked it up, he looked it over and said, "You know, I don't know what the hell I was on when I made this."

Suddenly he gave the handle of it a simple squeeze and immediately the blade of the dagger extended to the length of a long sword blade.

"How'd you do that?" Renee asked.

"This?" Htarw asked in faux surprise, "Oh, it's just a little ability I programmed into your dagger when I made it, I call it a 'Pleasure Change', because with just a simple squeeze of the handle, I can switch it between this and it's normal dagger state as I please. Elliot didn't know that…but I did, and now that you do it's time I gave you a taste of your own medicine." Htarw then struck Renee with her dagger's own special ability, then hit her with Requiem's FINAL JUDGEMENT attack, Renee tried to stand up, her clothes looked as if they would fall apart from one more attack. "Now let me show you what these weapons can do together! Purple Dagger…Requiem…DEUS X SLASH!"

Htarw then formed a giant X of red light with both of them and sent it flying at Renee, Renee did the best she could to brace for the impact but in the end the attack was so powerful it sent her hurtling through a wall to the outside, Htarw followed the bits of tattered clothing and debris to where she laid. Htarw looked down at her and thought, "I don't understand how something so fragile, so strong willed, can in the end turn out so insignificant…I should end her suffering right NOW!" He dropped her dagger and brought Requiem up to deal the final blow, but then he looked back down at her and said, "Yet, I do have a purpose for her, and finishing her off right here would just not be sporting."

Elliot was about to head to his room for the night when he heard a tapping on the front door, "We're closed for the night…please come back tomorrow!" Said Elliot, but the tapping became louder, "I said GO HOME!" Elliot ordered, finally the tapping came to a full fledged knock. "Okay, Okay…Jesus Christ, I'm coming!"

Elliot opened the door, he looked out and was about to close the door when he looked to the ground and found the battle beaten Renee, "OH DEAR GOD!"

He then saw something taped to the right side of Renee's face, he took it off, it was a quarter. Elliot quickly rushed inside, Htarw reappeared from out of the shadows and said to her as she laid there, "Sorry to hit and run, doll-face…but I can't have him see me and think I've gone soft, but before I leave…I'll give you a little incentive for your effort."

Htarw then propped Renee up in his arms and give her a kiss (though it was hard to tell if it was on the cheek or lips considering he blocked the area with his hand), he then looked at her and said, "See you soon…dear heart." He then heard Elliot coming back so his carefully set her back down and disappeared into the night, it was 10 minutes later that the ambulance arrived to take her to the hospital.