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Quick Note: By special request, let's have a look at the history of the plant sisters.

Five Elements; The American Mew Mews

Chapter 14: Recollections of a Scarred Past

A beautiful melody echoed throughout the chamber as the little green songbird chirped over and over again throughout the warm static environment it had been stored in. All that was there was a single elm tree, but it was enough.

Magnolia sat next to Ivy, both of them sitting right in front of the glass case of the environment and listening to the voice of the little bird. "You know, perhaps not all humans are so bad."

"Huh?" The little blue-haired girl looked over at her big sister quizzically. "What's that mean? Aren't they just silly little creatures we can do what we wish with? That's what boss says…"

"Of course…but…" Magnolia closed her eyes and sighed. "Never mind, you're far too young for what I'm speaking."

"Hey, I'm really smart for my age!" Ivy hopped to her feet and pointed at her sister. "Now explain what you meant."

Magnolia slowly opened her eyes and looked at her sister sadly. "Where did you pick up that tone of voice?"

Ivy giggled, smiling sweetly. "From Lotus! She taught me all kinds of good things, like how to…"

"I should have known. She always has been an unstable girl." Magnolia stood up and brushed her dress off, still listening to that strangely cheerful song the bird was singing. "It's interesting that such a little creature has the strength to sing for over two hours straight."

"She's sad…but doesn't want to show it." Ivy leaned over the railing that separated them from the enclosed habitat. "She wants someone to rescue her…"

"Stupid, that's not it at all. Or have forgotten she's just an animal now…" Magnolia felt a twinge of pain in her heart. "Ivy…do you remember when you were born?"

"Of course." The little girl turned strangely thoughtful, the look odd on her cute little face. "When I was born, I heard the boss' voice first. He said something silly, and then I met you!" The memory brought her to suddenly glomp onto Magnolia. "It was such a good time for me! There were so many fun things that I got to do!"

"Yes, there was." Magnolia chuckled calmly. "You were a strange little girl. Even when the boss did some rather horrible things, you just giggled and acted like there was nothing wrong at all."

"What horrible things?" Ivy tilted her head to the side. "Do you mean like that one time when the boss got mad at you?"

Magnolia felt her right hand twitch as the memories of that time came to her.

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The doctor sat back in his chair, face covered by shadow as he looked upon his first creation. To his side sat Ivy, looking as obliviously happy as ever. "Tell me something…Magnolia."

The woman continued to kneel. "Yes sir."

"Why did you fail in this mission?" The man sounded infinitely calm and relaxed, as if the fact that he had just lost the perfect batch of research materials meant nothing at all to him.

"I'm sorry sir, there were too many of them. I tried with all my might to get them…but…"

"Extend your hand to me." The man leaned forward slightly.

Magnolia did so without hesitation, and then her eyes widened in pain as she felt his hand grab hers and squeeze hard enough to turn the bones of that hand into powder. Screams of pain tore through her insides, but outwardly she didn't make a single sound.

"I gave you life…and when you told me that you were lonely, I gave you your little sister." The man continued to squeeze what was left of her right hand. "If you ever fail me again, I won't be so merciful as to fix your hand for you."

Ivy just sat there, watching with a confused look on her face. From what she could tell, it just looked like their boss was giving her older sister a handshake.

Finally, the man let go and stood up. "Now come along, and I'll repair that horrible wound you got on your mission."

"T…Thank you very much sir." Magnolia stood up, trying not to pass out from the pain.

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"Yes…when he got…mad at me." Magnolia had never failed a mission after that time, her fear of their boss refusing to allow her to fail. "Our life has been so sheltered. We've only been outside of the compound to do missions. Why is it that the boss doesn't want us to leave otherwise?"

"I don't know." Ivy shrugged and continued to balance atop the railing, walking around the enclosure over and over again. "Maybe he thinks that the humans will do something to us if we stay too close to them for too long?"

("That can't be it…") Magnolia closed her eyes and for some reason she saw the image of that girl, screaming in the tube right before the mixture had been injected into her. ("Why do I feel so bad about your fate? You were a human. You were a plight upon the planet that would belong to us. Why do I feel so sorry for what has happened to you? Is it because I worry what the boy may do when he finds out what had happened to you?")

That couldn't be it either though. She had seen her boss when he actually did fight. There was no way that little child could even hope to scratch someone as powerful as the one who created her. ("He is strong enough to destroy the very stone around him with his energy. The boy will be ripped apart.") Another painful little surge went through her heart. ("Why do I feel anything concerning that boy?")

"Is something the matter, sister?" Ivy leaned in, her face already inches from Magnolia's.

"No, I'm just thinking." Magnolia smiled and touched foreheads with her little sister. "You're the only person I can talk to who can cheer me up when I feel down or confused. Lotus is simply focused on improving her fighting skills, Petunia is too busy being the boss' lap-dog, and Jasmine…" She felt tingles run up her spine at the mention of the middle sister. ("Something about her is just wrong. She's too calm, as if she is hiding some horrible secret.")

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The doctor sat back in his lab chair, watching the computer screens in front of him as image after image of genetic monsters fighting each other flickered across the screens. ("My line of work is such an interesting one…") He crossed his arms and smiled in amusement. ("The life of a man such as myself will never get boring…getting to play god never is boring at all.")

Then an image of Mew Sonic appeared on the screen. "And you are one of the reasons why, Grant. Honestly, your creation was never in my equations, and because of you I had to make drastic changes to my plans." His fist pounded into the tabletop, tearing a huge hunk of the wood away. "You were such an annoyance…but now…I see that you might just be the best thing to ever happen to me. I can do a lot with a being of your potential under my control. All I have to do is bring out the real strength you have, not the pitiful modicum that allows you to fight battle after battle without exhausting your energy supply at all."

He had spent too many years of life working towards creating a strong genetic creation without having to tolerate this boy's stupid actions. ("He has all the power necessary to utterly destroy Magnolia and the others, yet every time he fights any of my creations they nearly beat him.")

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Magnolia stood up and stretched her legs out. "What do you think, Ivy? Can we defeat those three who are coming here?"

"Of course! As long as we work together it won't be a problem!" The little girl hopped back up onto the railing and formed her bow out of thin air. "If all else fails, we'll just take them out from a distance with my bow."

Magnolia wished that she could have her little sister's confidence, but she knew better than to think the Mew Mews weak. ("Their power is derived from their desire to protect something, so when the boy finds out about what happened to the girl, if boss' theory is right, then his power will skyrocket to heights that are far above our own.")

An image of her boss standing tall flashed in her mind, and she shivered up and down in fear at that single memory. She had only seen him when he was fighting once, and she never wanted to see it again. He fought in a way that reminded her of what she had seen Mew Sonic do to Mew Pyro, but his method was much more controlled and twenty times more vicious. ("That boy won't win against the boss.")

Ivy noticed that her sister had gotten all quiet again. "What's the matter with you, sister? Are you worried about me and what'll happen when we fight those intruders?"

Magnolia shook her head. ("No…I fear for the boy. I can't help it, I fear for his life. The boss will kill him…there is no doubt in my mind. It would take all five of them to even get close to his level of power.") "Ivy, do you think that the boss plans to deal with the intruders himself?"

"If it comes to it, but I hope not. Wherever he fights always get so messy after he is done. Why does he have to make the people he fights explode like that?" The little girl seemed as impenetrable as ever emotionally.

Magnolia shivered again. "Because he enjoys fighting…and killing."

Alarms suddenly sprang to life, and Magnolia grimaced. "They're here already? How could they have found of so swiftly?"

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A pair of Basilisk Type I bio-monsters roared and charged right at Mew Sonic, who stood at the very edge of the estate that separated the public land from that owned by the man he intended to defeat.

Lotus had taken them to a place far off from the city limits by almost an hour by car. By superhuman feet it had taken them about that amount of time too, but it didn't matter to any of them. To rescue Caitlyn they would run to the ends of the earth and back.

One of the Basilisks threw a huge fist at Mew Sonic, but he stepped aside. "Bang."

Mew Terra, who had been standing behind the boy, lifted both of her revolvers at once and fired, sending the creature stumbling back. "You want this one or…"

"Come on out, Sonic Jammer!" Mew Sonic slammed the butt of the instrument down onto the headless body of one of the monsters, and then he kicked it right into the other one. "Ribbon Sonic Dissonance!" Slamming his hands across the strings, he barely flinched at the explosion of sonic energy that cratered the ground around him and instantly evaporated the two monsters. "Alright, let's go already!"

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The doctor chuckled again. "It's amazing that you can suddenly use your finishing technique like that, but shouldn't you preserve your energy for me?"

"Doctor, the Behemoth Type II is ready." Jasmine appeared out of the shadows behind the man.

"Good, release it and make sure it knows to go after Mew Sonic first. I want to see how far the boy can push his energy before it gives out." The doctor tapped a button on his coat pocket. "Magnolia, bring the bird to the arena room. I need it somewhere where it cannot escape, but the boy will see it when I wish him to."

"As you wish, sir. But do you think he can defeat the Behemoth Type II? Didn't you say that its strength was somewhere in the C- class?"

"That's none of your concern at all." The man turned and walked towards the arena area. "I want all of you on hand in case I need you, though I doubt that will be the case. The boy is strong, but when he faces me he'll find himself more than slightly outclassed." Then the door in front of him slid open and he was gone.

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Walt continued to hang onto Mew Pyro for all he was worth, feeling like he was stuck to the roof of a car. "Jeez, do we have to go so fast?"

"In this case, yes we do. If you didn't want to come, you should have said so before." The silver-haired boy flicked his ears a couple of times and whistled sharply. "Something is running alongside us on the other forest trail. From the sounds it's making, I'll assume it isn't a natural creature." He would have just attacked it, but he was carrying Walt with him and he wouldn't risk the life of his rival's older brother.

An earth-shaking roar literally forced them all to stop, lest they lose their balance and crash at near car speeds into something.

A giant form launched into the air above them, roughly the size of a man. While they all scattered, it crashed down onto the trail and suddenly grew in size until it was as big as a car. It looked something like a Basilisk, but its body was bright red and the muscles it had were much larger than the original's. Opening its chest cavity, the monster swelled up in size once more, muscles exploding to sizes impossible to achieve by anything of the animal kingdom.

"Big, but stupid." Mew Sonic held up his Sonic Jammer. "Ribbon…"

The creature snapped one arm around and back-handed the boy's whole body, sending him crashing through three trees until he came to a stop indented into the fourth.

Mew Terra snapped up her revolvers and aimed right for the creature's chest cavity. "You won't get me that easily!" She face-fell as the creature suddenly turned and leapt through the brush in the direction of where Mew Sonic had gone. "What's it doing? Why is it just going after him?"

"His target must be Grant." Mew Pyro motioned to Walt. "Get off please. Mew Terra, shall we remind the creature that we're not to be underestimated?"

"Of course." The teenage girl smiled confidently and aimed both of her guns at the creature's back. "Fox Terra Storm!"

The Behemoth roared in pain as bullet holes exploded out of its chest and legs. It continued to stomp towards the unmoving Mew Sonic though, unaffected by the damage it had just taken.

Mew Pyro literally dropped right in front of it, hanging in mid-air with his fists glowing like embers from a fire. "Your opponents are right here! Inferno Punch Rapid-fire!" Then he was slamming burning blow after blow into the creature's body, but no matter how hard he tried it didn't seem to leave anything more than slight burn marks across the giant monster's chest.

The Behemoth roared again and slapped him out of its way, continuing towards its pre-programmed target. That target was more important to it than all other possible things it could. It wanted to taste his blood so badly…to chew his bones.

Mew Sonic slowly stood up, eyes calm. "Caitlyn is waiting for me in your master's little home…so I hope you'll excuse me if I make this quick!" Then his right fist started to glow with a golden aura. "I'll end it with this! Chaos Barrage!" Then his fist seemed to blur, and the Behemoth roared in confused pain as dozens of little indents in its flesh appeared all over its front. "Damn, stubborn beast…"

Mew Pyro landed next to his rival. "Go, save Caitlyn. We'll join you shortly."

"Fine, but don't you dare die." Mew Sonic turned and ran towards the general direction of the house. He would find it soon enough, and then he would decapitate the man behind all of this.

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The doctor stood in the dark arena, feeling the air around him shift as he adjusted to the feel of the room. Slowly but surely he made mental notes of the shape of the circular walls, just in case he had to fight with the lighting completely off. "Is everything in position Ivy?"

"Yes sir!" The little girl leapt down to the ground from the high perch she had been at and ran up to him. "So now what do we do, boss?"

The man chuckled again and patted his creation on the head. "We sit back and wait for the boy to arrive. The whole facility is set up to offer him only one way to go, and that way is straight to me." Soon he would meet Mew Sonic face to face, and he looked forward to that meeting far more than he knew he should have.

To be continued…

And so Mew Sonic has gone ahead, alone. What is the source of the doctor's confidence in his strength? And what does he want Roger for anyway?