For the record: All characters and concepts of Tokyo Mew Mew belong to Mia Ikumi and Reiko Yoshida. All OC's mentioned in this fan fiction are the property of me, Razuiberri Akayama.

Episode 7

Road Trip to the Beach

The Trouble with Five-Hour Traffic

"Neko, neko, neko, neko!" A small red head swayed back and forth in her seat singing her favorite word. Unfortunately the two girls next to her, Caramel and Cinnamon, were doing the same thing filling the car with shrieks and chaos. In the front, Mikan, Tasuke, and Sumomo sat bored out of their minds waiting when they would finally reached the beach.

"Urg…" Sumomo put a towel on to her head and sank lower. They had been driving for almost three minutes and were already ready to go home. What idiot thought of putting those three in the same place? Mikan gave her father an annoyed look and growled.

"Cheer up, Mikan" Tasuke put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down. A blushed formed over her face and she closed her eyes to savor the moment. She was pretty happy that Tasuke decided to come along. It made the whole car trip easier.

Over the trail of the mew's cars, hovered the three aliens, Chocolate, Pepper and Champagne. Chocolate held in his hand a parasite alien, which he continuously tossed up and down. He glanced over to Champagne who was looking at the cars.

"Champagne, why are we waiting? I say we attack now!" Chocolate huffed with impatience. Champagne gave his teammate a cold stare that shut him up instantly.

"Be quiet, you weren't supposed to come anyways" The blonde haired alien turned his attention a couple miles down the road where major traffic was brewing. He smirked.

"Would you shut up!" Sumomo yelled at her little sister. She had endured fifty more minutes of the hyper ones and couldn't take it anymore. Cherry stopped singing and her eyes welled up with tears.

"Meanie!" she wailed and pounded her fists against the back of the seat.

"Everyone, calm down please" Meguro turned his head to the back, "We're stuck in a traffic jam, it may be a couple hours before we start move again," Sumomo once again put a towel over her head to block out the shrieks from Cherry. She gave aloud sigh. Mikan turned to Tasuke to chat.

"A traffic jam? What if we get stranded here?" Mikan rubbed her head in displeasure.

"That would be fun! Maybe there's some nice hills around here, I brought my skateboard!" Tasuke said excitedly. Mikan smiled at her crush and then got an idea.

"Mom, Can we go out there?" Mikan pointed out the window where other people were climbing out of their cars; some even sunbathing. Berri nodded.

"Sure, but be careful"

Sumomo immediately grabbed her sister's hand and dragged her out of the car. Cinnamon, Caramel, Mikan and Tasuke followed. Outside, thousands of cars were lined up like a giant parking lot.

"Hey look a nice hill" Tasuke dragged Mikan towards it leaving Sumomo and the others to go find Peppermint, Pineapple and Cranberry in the other cars. At the tippy top of the hill was a large elm tree. Through it branches, Mikan saw many squirrels shuffling around on the wood.

"You stay here, I'm going to go back to the car and get my skateboard" Tasuke said and turned around to go down the hill. Mikan nodded and watched him go. She sat down under the tree and leaned back, enjoying the shade. Slowly she closed her eyes and relaxed. Before she knew it, Mikan had drifted off to sleep.

"Okay, I brought my skateboard, maybe we can go down together…" Tasuke voice trailed off as he saw Mikan's sleeping figure under the tree. He took a seat next to her. Absentmindly, Mikan's head slowly fell on to Tasuke's shoulder. He smiled and leaned his head on hers.

Suddenly a loud explosion came from a couple yards away. Mikan sat up quickly which caused her to bang her head on Tasuke's. "Sorry" she moaned rubbing her sore spot then turning her head in the direction of the noise.

A giant cockroach rose up from line of cars. It had large red eyes and spikes for its legs.

"What's going on?" Tasuke yelled and the saw the cockroach, "Its one of those alien things" The Kirema Anima slashed a near by cars to bits and pieces. Fearing they could be next; Tasuke grabbed Mikan's hand and pulled her down the hill.

"Augh!" Mikan screamed as a piece of rubble came flying towards her. Tasuke jumped in front of her. She braced herself for the pain but it didn't come. She opened her eyes and saw Tasuke lying unconscious on the ground. Great, she gritted her teeth with anger.

"Mikan!" Sumomo called and ran towards her followed by Pineapple and Peppermint, Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, but Tasuke's not, we have to transform!" She informed the group. They nodded.

"Lets go!"

"Mew Mew Orange, metamorphosis!"

"Mew Mew Plum, metamorphosis!"

"Mew Mew Pineapple, metamorphosis!"

"Mew Mew Peppermint, metamorphosis!"

The four girls henshined into their super heroine forms.

"Alright, now that we're hear, lets defeat this thing!" Mikan yelled, "For the sake of the wor-" She was cut off.

"Mew Mew Cranberry, metamorphosis!" A purple-red light surrounded Zakuro's daughter. It finally faded leaving Mew Cranberry in her mother's outfit only more reddish.

"Oneesama, you look amazing!" Peppermint cried in awe at Cranberry's outfit. Mikan smiled.

"Alright another partner!" Mew Plum cheered.

"Nice of you to join us ladies!" Chocolate's voice came from above them followed by two knew partners. "And as a surprise, I brought some friends!" Champagne came up behind him and whacked Chocolate out of the way.

"Stupid," he flashed the mews in front of him a cold glare, "My name is Champagne, unlike Chocolate here, I don't flaunt over the enemy. Wind Current!" Out of his two swords he summoned a cylinder of wind and threw it at the mews. It knocked them on to the ground.

"Hey, I don't flaunt over them!" Chocolate said to Champagne, "Except maybe Sumomo"

Mew Plum made a face of disgust, got up and turned towards Mikan.

"We need to stop that Kirema Anima, let's worry about the aliens later" Mikan and the others ran over to where the cockroach was causing destruction.

"For something that supposed to be small, you're pretty fat!" Mew Peppermint yelled and then wished she didn't. The monster suddenly came charging towards her. She didn't have anytime to summon her weapon.

"Cranberry Boomerang!" Mew Cranberry summoned her weapon to her hand, "Ribbon Cranberry Sonic!" The boomerang sped towards the enemy so fast; it became a blinding violet light. As it reached the Kirema Anima it exploded, knocking it backwards.

"Ribbon Orange Splash!"

"Ribbon Plum Spire!"

"Ribbon Pineapple Split!"

"Ribbon Peppermint Crash!"

The attacks combined and with silver burst of light the cockroach was reduced to its regular size.

"You may have defeated our pet, but not us!" Chocolate smirked, "Fire twist!" With his spear he unleashed a massive jet of fire.

"Shut up! Ribbon Plum Spire!" The spike from Mew Plum's attack rose up and blocked the fire.

"Come on, lets gets out of here" Pepper, who had grown tired of watching his partners being defeated teleported off.

"I'm with Pepper," Chocolate grabbed Champagne's arm and teleported too. Mew Orange watched them go, but then she remembered something.

"Oh no! I forgot Tasuke!" Mew Orange scampered off to where he lay. She bent over him to examine his cuts. Tasuke's eyes opened. Mew Orange smiled. "Good your okay,"

She got up.

"Wait!" Tasuke called as she was about to leave, "Who are you really?" Mew Orange turned back and sighed.

"You'll find out soon enough" She then ran off, jumped behind a car and detransformed. Trying not to make it seem like she was Mew Orange, Mikan carefully took a new route over to Tasuke.

"Oh no, Tasuke are okay?" Mikan helped him up. Tasuke grinned.

"I'm fine, but your not going to believe what happened…" He started to tell her about the orange bunny girl that rescued him as they walked back to the car.

"Bad news, guys" Meguro told the group as everyone got back in to the car, "We're going to have to stay here over night, since the road crew hasn't started to cleanup the rubble yet." Mikan shrugged.

"Oh well, Hey Tasuke you haven't gone down that hill yet" Tasuke picked up his skateboard.

"That's right, come on!" he grabbed her hand once more and dragged her up the hill. Oh well, Mikan thought, Traffic has no meaning as long as I'm with Tasuke!