The next day Warren arrived for work, he came up to Elliot and Wesley and said, "Guys…I just need to tell you something, I found another job…it pays a bit more than this one, but I want you to know I won't tell anyone what's going on here…scouts' honor." Then he saw they were working on something, "Hey…what's that?" Warren asked.
"It's sort of a tracer, a tracking device…we think Htarw may have a base of operations somewhere around the city, we just stick this on him and find out where he goes after every confrontation." Wesley told him.
"Oh, and good luck with the new job." Elliot added.
"Yeah, you two won't be hearing from me anymore…for awhile anyway." Warren replied back.
"Good to find that he's getting out of our hair once and for all." Elliot told Wesley.
Warren then went down to the lab and thought to himself, "They have no idea what I have in store for them…and frankly I couldn't expect less, they think that their team is so indestructible, well…thankfully the General's going to show them how vulnerable they are."
When he came back up he went to work and when he left he looked at the girls and said, "Well, it was nice knowing you bunch…it's been a slice."
When Warren got back to Renee's place he saw the contract was out and a pen as well, "You already signed it, Oh…that's capital, now all I have to do is sign on this line here, and it's all legal. Then tomorrow we go over to the modeling agency and then bassa-boom! Renee Roberts makes a star-studded return!" Warren said signing his name on the contract.
"Wait…that's where my Manager's name goes." Renee warned him.
"I know that…who else do you think would be more suitable for the job?" Warren asked.
"Wait…you mean?" Renee asked, Warren nodded.
"But you don't have the business training for—!" Renee argued.
"Business training, HA! Reading contracts, business deals, setting up transportation and making an appointment book, does that sound like that needs much business training to you?" Warren asked brashly. "I even called up the agency and told them of your little accident, they said they'd give you 3 weeks to recover."
"Thank you." Said Renee.
Warren blushed a bit and said, "I was only looking out for you, and don't worry about the café…I have a letter of resignation ready for you right here." He then took an envelope out of his left side pants pocket and handed it to her, "All you have to do is give me the word and I'll send it out."
"You really plan ahead don't you?" Renee asked.
"When making plans this big for the future, you have to stay one step ahead of the game." Warren told her.
Later that night after dinner Warren took out the trash, he then saw a little cockroach scuttling across the ground away from the trash can, he picked it up and looked at it, "Now here's not a bad idea…hope the Mews are up for one more fight, because tomorrow morning everything they know will change."
The cockroach then disappeared in Warren/Htarw's hand.
"Dren, Tarb…can you hear me?" Htarw asked mentally.
"Loud and clear." Replied Dren.
"I suppose you got the little gift I sent you?" Htarw asked.
"Let me guess, Metallosite time?" Dren asked in response.
"Oh, I'm planning something much bigger than that, or I wouldn't be including our own little florist…it's not only Metallosite time, it's time I show those little Mew Mews what the Metallo Chip can really do."
"What type of Plant Predasite did you have in mind?" Tarb asked.
"Have any that can stun its victims?" Htarw asked.
"Well I was saving one of those for later, but then again that's why you're in command." Said Tarb.
"Yes, and don't you forget it." Warned Htarw.
"Hello…Warren, are you in there?" Asked a voice from in front of him.
He snapped back to reality to see Renee standing right before him, snapping her fingers in front of his face.
"Oh, yeah…sorry, I guess I sort of zoned out." Warren told her.
"Looked like you were more in a trance." Renee pointed out.
"Well, I wasn't." Warren argued.
"Okay, okay…I didn't mean to offend," Renee apologized, then she continued, "anyway…I looked at that letter of resignation you wrote for me, it's okay…but it seems just a little too straight forward to me…you don't mind if I make some changes, do you?"
"No, no, no, not at all…after all I want your soon to be old co-workers to know it was you who sent that letter." Warren told her.
Suddenly Mini-Mew appeared and started saying, "PREDASITE ALERT, PREDASITE ALERT!"
Renee was about to transform when Warren stopped grabbed the hand the pendant was in and said, "Renee, NO…it's too dangerous for you at the moment. I can't…no, I won't let you endanger your life!"
"Warren please." Renee complained.
"No—no, no, no…You've barely even recovered from your plight with Htarw, I'm not going to let you go out there and hurt yourself worse…please Renee, all I am asking is that this one time, you let the others handle this." Warren pleaded.
Renee looked ready to argue her way out of this, but then she looked into Warren's eyes and said, "Okay Warren…you win this time, are you going to come in?"
"Yeah." Warren responded.
Once back in his room Warren turned on the radio, he wanted to make Renee believe he was still in his room, "It's SHOWTIME!" Warren/Htarw thought to himself as he slipped the Dark Assailant Gem off from around his neck, he then exited via the window and teleported into the city. "Now…where could those half-wit low lifes I know be?"
He then saw a bunch of colorful flashes of light appeared from his right, "If that's not them…then I don't know what is."
And indeed it was, now if you thought a normal cockroach was bad news…try one metal composed one the size of an tour bus that, with the use of one of it's legs, could but right down into the sewer and bring that water and filth up and spray it at you, then you have what looks like a giant tulip, only it's pollen has the effect to paralyze its victims. Put those together and you have a Predasite/Metallosite duo for which there seems little escape from.
Dren and Tarb were watching from the top of a building as the Mew Mews were getting the tar beat out of them by these creatures, "I hope the General shows up soon, I mean it's fun watching these girls getting beat by a sludge spewing metal insect and a giant tulip, but honestly Dren…seeing your hag getting her fanny kicked is getting real old, real fast."
"Then I suppose we should skip right to the 'Piece of Resistance' then, should we?" Asked Htarw from behind them.
"I guess so…but I don't understand why you made us make two Predasites?" Tarb asked.
"Simple…because Flora and Funna work so well together." Htarw told them.
"Huh?" Tarb asked puzzled.
"What are you getting at?" Dren asked as well.
"Just watch…and I'll show you." Htarw told them.
He then looked down at the metal cockroach and then made sure the Mews could see him, then in a clear commanding voice he shouted, "METALLOSITE…METAL FUSION!"
"Metal Fusion…what's that?" Bridgette thought to herself. "Htarw has got to have a good reason for saying that." Thought Zoey. "Whatever it means sounds just as bad as those two things in front of us." Corina thought to herself.
Just then the metal cockroach latched itself onto the tulip's stem and became a metallic mass of gelatin, the tulip slowly sinking into the mass.
"Hey, what the hell is your metal montstrosity doing to my creature!" Tarb asked, sounding rather irate.
Htarw then turned around and clutched Tarb by the throat, "Just watch and you'll see…but heed this warning, if you ever talk to me like that again I'll make you a cripple Capite?"
"Uh, what does 'capite' mean?" Tarb asked.
"It means 'do you understand'." Htarw told him, squeezing Tarb's throat tighter.
"Okay, I understand, I understand, I capite!" Tarb squeaked, with that Htarw let go.
Meanwhile the metallic gelatin took on a sort of greenish color, it then started to take form of the cockroach again, only this time something was sprouting out of it's back, they all watched as the mass turned into a green metallic cockroach with about half a dozen tulip buds sticking out of its back.
"My word…they merged together." Dren said with some surprise.
Htarw nodded, "A little feature I added into the chip when I—or should I say my weaker half, made it."
"Hey Htarw…what the heck did you do now?" Zoey asked.
Htarw laughed to himself and said, "What you're looking at is a merged Metallosite, a Metallosite that's fused itself to another Predasite…and if you thought its attacks were bad when separate, then wait until you get a whiff of this…go ahead my creation and let it rip!"
Just then the buds on the monsters' back opened up and released a cloud of green smoke, Zoey, Bridgette and Kikki were able to jump out of the way, Corina on the other hand got hit full blast. When it cleared she was lying on the ground, "God, that stuff smells like a garbage dump—wait, I can't get up…uh, Zoey, Bridgette…help, I've fallen and I can't get up."
"Well of course you can't…with both creatures now merged together, so have their attacks…so now you smell the rot, and move you cannot." Htarw told them.
"Well…your creatures power is still not going to make a difference!" Zoey shouted at him.
Htarw just watched as they defeated it again, "What you let them do that for?" Tarb shouted at him, Htarw gave him a furious look, Tarb put his hands over his mouth and in a muffled voice said, "I'll shut up, I'll shut up, I'll shut up."
Htarw then leapt down from the building and said, "I give you girls credit, for a quick second…I thought my newest creature would do you in."
"Well, I guess that's what happens when a weak General decides to let his weak creations do the work for him." Corina taunted.
"Oh Deep Blue, now they've done it." Dren thought to himself.
"Weak?" Htarw asked, unsheathing Requiem, "I'm sorry…and I need to know I heard right, but did you just call me, weak?"
"What, you have a hearing problem now too?" Corina asked with mock sweetness, "you don't fight us anymore, you stick more to plotting and subterfuge, so we can only assume you're not as powerful as you say…in other words: weak!"
"Weak, hmmm…let's see if I have this straight, let's look at the Mew Mews vs. General Htarw Time-Line and see who's really weak. The first time we confronted each other, I gave all of you and your fifth comrade a serious can of smack-down, then when you five tried to 'talk' some sense into me I did it again. And now the third event is I hospitalized one of your own, one who barely understands her own power. So you think my use of minions and subterfuge means I'm weak? HA, don't make me laugh…I use minions and subterfuge because you're not in my league…not by a long shot."
"Not in your league? HA, if you ask me you've got that backwards." Corina continued to say, Bridgette looked into Htarw's eyes, "Uh, Corina…I'd stop if I were you, I think you're making him angry."
"Oh come on Bridge…what's he going to do?" Asked Corina laughing to herself. She then looked in front of her and saw that Htarw had vanished, "Come on, General…don't leave just yet, don't tell me I hurt your feelings that easily?" Corina asked sounding rather amused.
"Oh I'm still here." Htarw said from behind her, Zoey and Bridgette fell backwards, Kikki just stared in amazement. Corina felt her spine freeze, her blood right now felt as if it would form ice crystals. "Oh what's wrong little birdie, didn't think I could move that fast? If you'd hadn't spent so much of your precious time taunting me, you'd have seen me teleport."
Htarw then heard Corina whimpering with fear, it was a sound he knew and enjoyed all too well and much. He then ran his index fingers and made sort of small circle motions on the sides of her neck and said, "Oh, now you're afraid of me…what, no more taunting left in you my pretty?" Htarw asked, Corina continued to whimper thinking, "God please let this torture end."
Zoey and the others felt literally helpless, it was like all time was standing still.
"You know Dren told me you have a pet, a dog if I'm correct, he turned it into a Predasite…you didn't want Zoey to hurt it, but in the end I guess you have to understand, you always have to hurt the one you love, if you wish to save the World that is." Htarw then chuckled to himself, "But one of the rules in being a hero…especially a super-hero, is never get attached to anyone, even a pet…because one night when you're asleep I may just be in the area and drop by your house. Then once I do that, and I know how clichéd this next line is, but hell I'll say it anyway, 'I'll get you my pretty…and your little dog too!'."
"If you even lay a hand on Mickey, I'll—!" Corina started to protest, turning around to face Htarw, but just then the General delivered a powerful kick to her right side, a kick that sent her flying about one block.
That was the opener the other girls needed, Bridgette attacked with another 'Deep Sea Surge' attack, only this time instead of blocking it and repelling it with 'Crimson Tide'…Htarw just let it strike him head on. When the attack subsided Bridgette saw the attack hadn't even phased him. He just stood there, he then looked at his blade and re-sheathed it saying, "You know, why should I waste my blades' awesome power on a group as unworthy as you."
He then charged forward and gave Bridgette a punch to the gut, Zoey tried to kick him in the back of the head, but he saw her and quickly vanished, leaving poor Bridgette to receive the kick.
"Oh, sorry Bridgette…I was aiming for—!" Zoey started to apologize.
"I know who you were aiming for, I didn't expect him to—ZOEY LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Bridgette warned.
Suddenly Zoey turned around only to see a quick metallic flash and then came a blazing pain in her chest as she flew backwards and crashed through a convience store window. Zoey staggered back to her feet and looked at her teammates, "Mews, we have to beat him…attack him all at once and don't let up!" Zoey ordered. "Yay, finally I get to use the new tool Elliot made for me." Cheered Kikki happily, Htarw then saw she had attached one of those power amplifier devices to her tambourine.
"Bring it on girls." Htarw beckoned them, he then saw a 'Deep Sea Surge', 'Tambourine Trench', and 'Strawberry Bell Full Power' attacks heading for him all at once. He didn't even budge an inch as the attacks struck him, Zoey saw all the smoke she thought they might have done it and beaten him. But suddenly all the smoke was blasted away from that area and there stood Htarw, his armor had a light coat of soot, but besides that…he was in perfect condition.
"Was that it? The best you girls had?" He asked in a soft voice.
Zoey was mortified, even a combined strike didn't register any damage.
"This is it, you girls all attacked me at once, one of you even gave her attack power a tiny boost to assure the greatest amount of hurt was laid…but in the end, even that little boost wasn't enough…" Htarw then let the thrall of his own anger register into power and with one mighty swipe blew the Mews on their butts. "Now do you see what you're messing with, you're messing with perfection…you're messing with everything Elliot only wishes he could've created, you're messing with—!"
Just then Htarw felt a blaze of pain in his right arm, he looked and saw a cut had formed on it, it wasn't bleeding much. He then looked behind himself and saw Corina standing up, her bow ready to register another shot. "With someone who talks too much." She growled at him.
Htarw then looked around him and said, "You know I think I've overstayed my welcome, Ta-ta for now."
Zoey then took out the tracer Elliot had made and threw it at Htarw's back, it hooked right on to Htarw's right shoulder as he teleported.
Zoey then took out the tracking device and said, "Now we'll find out where he goes after every battle."
"Let me track him down Zoey?" Asked Kikki.
"Kikki…I don't know." Bridgette started to say.
"Listen, with my acrobatic skills and small size I'd be pretty hard for him to see. I'm the safest chance we've got." Kikki told them.
"Let her go Zoey, she's right…with her acrobatic and balancing skills she would stand a chance of following him." Corina noted.
"Well…okay, just be careful though, and tell us anything you found out when you come back." Zoey told her, and with a quick salute Kikki took off with the tracking device in hand.
About half an hour later she found where the signal had lead her too, "Renee's house…and it's coming from inside, what the heck is he doing here? unless he's back to finish Renee off!" Kikki thought to herself.
She found that the signal was coming from the first floor of the place, east side of the mansion. She looked and there he was, with several cotton balls and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide.
She watched as he treated his wound, then put a white t-shirt on, "But Renee wouldn't let Htarw stay over at her place." She reminded herself.
Suddenly she saw Htarw place a black stone amulet around his neck, and the next moment, there stood not Htarw…but Warren.
"Htarw's Warren…I've got to warn the others." She thought to herself.
Suddenly Warren looked at the window as if he'd heard something, he opened it and asked, "Who's there?"
The hooting of an owl answered his question, Warren gave one more good scanning then closed it behind him.
With a sigh of relief Kikki came out of her hiding spot and made her way for the front gate, she was about to go over when she felt something grip her right shoulder, she was then turned around to face Warren, who had a devious smirk on his face, "Where do you think you're going?" he asked in a grave tone of voice.
"KIKKI…MEW—YEEEEEEEK!" She cried out.
Renee was trying to get some rest when she heard on knock on her room door, she opened it to find Warren looking as if the devil was after him, "Renee…friend—hurt…call 911!" he said.
"Whoa Warren…settle down, now tell me that again, only go slowly." Renee told him.
Warren took a deep breath and said, "Kikki stopped by to tell you that the others were able to defeat the Predasite, then just as she was leaving something came out of the shadows and attacked her, I don't know what it was…but it might've been that General Htarw guy, anyway when I got out there he was gone but she was pretty banged up, I'd call for an ambulance if I were you."
When the ambulance arrived Warren watched them carry Kikki out on a gurney, he then turned away humming 'Another One Bites The Dust'.