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Five elements; The American Mew Mews

Chapter 17: And meanwhile…

Magnolia gasped in pain as a boot connected with the side of her head, flooring her instantly. "How can you animals be so strong compared to us? You're just genetic accidents, and we were created with a purpose! We should be the strongest!"

Mew Terra touched down in the entryway of the enormous mansion, her leather coat billowing around her legs as she recovered from performing such a dangerous kick. ("I have to be careful…these two are not like those weak plants. They are much stronger and better made.")

"I've got her, sister!" Ivy pulled back the string on her bow and launched a single arrow which exploded into a forward spray of thorns.

"No, you don't." Mew Terra snapped up both of her revolvers. "Terra Fox Storm!" Then a wave of bullets blew each and every single thorn out of the air. "Try again, if you dare."

Ivy pulled back her bowstring, and then froze as she felt the cold metal of a barrel press against the back of her neck. "Eeep…"

Mew Terra calmly aimed her other revolver at Magnolia, who was still recovering from the kick she had landed. "Don't move or I pull the trigger and your sister is finished."

Magnolia grimaced and held perfectly still, knowing that this was just a stalemate meant to buy Mew Pyro time. ("Boss, I can't risk Ivy's life on my skill. I just have to hope that Lotus, Petunia, and Jasmine can deal with the other one.")

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Mew Pyro yelped and ducked his head just in time to avoid getting his ears slashed off by the wild swing of Lotus' sword. "You again? Didn't you learn anything from last time?"

"Actually I did!" Lotus sneered and continued to attack madly, trying will all of her effort to impale the boy with her weapon. ("I have to attack him quickly, and I also have to make sure he doesn't have time to think about anything that would cause his power to go up!")

Mew Pyro rolled backwards…and then quickly snatched his tail out of the path of the swinging sword. "Watch it! You don't see me trying to cut off your body parts!" He leapt to his feet and leapt backwards at the same time to avoid the sharp point of the sword that was inches from his face.

"That's because you don't have a sword, now do you?" Lotus stabbed again, and gasped as the end of her sword exploded into flames.

"Sorry…" Mew Pyro leapt into the air over the girl's head, landed a few feet behind her, and kept running. "I have someone I have to get back!"

"Come back here!" Lotus dropped her now melting weapon to the ground and chased after the boy angrily. "Come back here, I said!"

Mew Pyro growled in anger as a dagger shot past his head. Sliding to a stop, he found himself facing a red-haired girl wearing the same green plant dress as the other plant sisters had worn. "And which one are you?"

"Petunia is my name." Holding up her hands, the sister revealed rows of knives made of plant matter. "Now then, let's see how well you deal with two on one."

("There's no time for this!") Mew Pyro cracked his knuckles. "Alright, let's try and end this quickly please!"

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Walt slowly walked into the cavernous arena, his eyes locked on the giant tree in its own private alcove. ("Amazing…it's just so beautiful.") He stuck his hands into his pockets and froze up. "You must be one of the plant sisters. According to what I saw in the lab, you are Jasmine?"

"That I am." A blond-haired woman stepped into sight, standing at the other end of the arena room. In her hands rested a huge-headed scythe made of plant matter. "You aren't one of the Mews though, which makes me wonder who you are exactly. I am ordered to kill any and all intruders that come in here, so therefore you must understand that now I will murder you, human."

"By all means, come and do so." Walt smiled calmly and dropped something at his feet. "If you can catch me, that is!" The smoke bomb he had dropped exploded, spraying his side of the arena with gray smoke that cut off sight.

("He's using the smoke bomb to conceal himself?") Jasmine walked over to the tree and stood underneath it, cradling her scythe in her arms. "You can't actually expect to avoid me, can you? As long as I stand underneath this tree, you won't be able to make it to her. Besides, why is such a little bird important to you?"

"Little bird?" Walt stepped out of the smoke cloud, his hands in his pockets again and his expression ice-cold. "What makes you think I'm after some bird? Actually…" His hand slowly came out of his pocket, holding something in it. "…I'm after a certain girl who is being held captive here."

"Regardless, you're about to die so it doesn't matter!" Jasmine ran right at Walt, but as she got three feet from him her eyes widened and she stumbled back in confusion. "What…was that?"

"What was what?" Walt slowly approached her, and then walked around her. "Oh, you mean why can't you get near me? It's because of a special chemical I sprayed on myself while I dropped by your boss' lab. It's a powerful chemical that can instantly kill off plant matter just through air contact. More or less, if you get too close you might just dissolve into slime." He removed a little injection gun from his pocket. "You know, I found it surprising that I could understand such complicated notes about genetic structure without having any previous knowledge on the subject."

"Excuse me?" Jasmine slowly turned, sweat building on her face. She couldn't even risk getting near the boy, or else she'd die. "What are you talking about? It has only been ten minutes since your arrival…"

"Right. To think that in seven minutes I figured out what your boss had gotten wrong when he had tried to transform Caitlyn's DNA into something that could be used with a genetic mixture." As he reached the base of the tree, he held out a hand and smiled as a little bright green-colored songbird landed on his finger. "You know, I'm surprised my brother didn't kill you all yet." Then he placed the injection gun against the little bird's back and pulled the trigger. After he heard the hiss of release, he placed the gun back in his pocket and slowly walked towards the door with the little bird still perched on his finger. "Now then, I have things to do. Firstly, I need to make sure that my brother will be alright. Then, we're going to destroy this lab and everything in it, excluding those genetic mixtures."

Jasmine could only step aside and watch as he left, unable to do anything without risking the loss of her life by touching him.

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Mew Sonic roared and tackled the fifteen foot giant in front of him as hard as he could, only to get back-handed into the dirt.

"You're pushing yourself far too hard, little boy." Olson's hand came crashing down and started to grind Mew Sonic into the dirt. "I'll just break you apart, and then it will be over."

"Shut up already!" Mew Sonic screamed as loud as he could, and an explosion of dark gold energy blew Olson's hand off at the wrist. Leaping up into the air, he exploded into action and began to pummel the giant's ribs with extreme prejudice.

"Annoying to a fault!" Olson's un-damage arm snapped up and knocked Mew Sonic away again. "It will take more than that to allow you to defeat this form of me." His stump of a left arm shuddered and a new hand exploded from the top of it. "I don't die easily."

"Neither do I!" Mew Sonic launched an uppercut that carried him right into Olson's chin, which was a very high distance compare to a normal opponent. As such, the attack lost some of its power, and it didn't do much more than make the giant tilt his chin up a little bit. ("Damn it, this guy is a monstrosity!")

"Fool!" Olson's hand shot out and grabbed the boy's extended right arm, squeezing the whole forearm with incredible pressure.

Mew Sonic threw his head back and screamed in pain, still dangling in the air and now unable to do anything but suffer.

"You think that, because you can beat half of my full strength, that you are a match for me?" Olson's other hand shot in and struck Mew Sonic roughly, nearly yanking the boy's arm out of its socket. "You're nothing but a little snot-nosed punk who thinks that you understand how to fight me. This isn't some grander version of a street fight, boy!" His fist slammed in again, and came back with blood-stained knuckles. "It seems like the force of my punches are actually tearing your skin apart. I'm sure that must hurt quite a lot…."

Mew Sonic went limp, his entire body appearing dead because of all the wounds he had suffered.

"Is it over already?" Olson shook the boy around by his trapped right arm, watching how it moved like a rag doll in his grasp. "Come now…you have to be stronger than that…"

Mew Sonic twitched a couple of times, the blood now dripping freely from his wounds. ("I…I lost too much blood. I need time to rest…but that wouldn't help my plan at all…")

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Mew Pyro sighed at the two kneeling and panting plant sisters. "So, will you let me go already? It's not right for me to fight girls…"

"Don't underestimate us!" Lotus leapt to her feet and formed another sword out of thin air. "I'll filet you, cat!"

"Cat?" Mew Pyro smiled and closed his eyes. "I suppose so…and that gives me an idea for a way around both of you." His feet spread apart, and his hands changed into a new fighting stance. "Now then…come."

"Die!" Lotus came charging in, while Petunia formed more knives and waited for her opportunity to throw them and tear the boy apart.

Mew Pyro suddenly slammed his fist into the carpet-covered floor and roared. "Inferno Punch!" The ground underneath him exploded and launched him high into the air. While he was hanging up in the air, he felt the approach of the knives and knew that his timing had to be perfectly correct or else he would be skewered.

Petunia gasped in amazement as Mew Pyro twisted in mid-air, avoiding each and every single knife. "That can't be possible…no one is that agile when they're falling in the air!"

"Apparently I am!" Mew Pyro vaulted right off of the girl's head and landed much farther down the corridor. "On that note, thanks for reminding me of something." His silver-furred tail flicked back and forth gently a couple of times. "I never had great grace, but thanks to your boss and his little gift I have cat genetics in me, meaning that I have their acute sense of balance." Turning to face them both, he smiled and winked. "Gotta go!" Then he turned and ran so fast they could have sworn that he left behind a dust trail.

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Mew Terra suddenly slammed the butt of her revolver into Ivy's neck, knocking the girl unconscious in one strike. At the same time, she disappeared right before Magnolia's whip struck the space she had been standing in.

"Ivy!" Magnolia ran to her sister's side, eyes wide in fear. "How dare you, insolent fox!"

"Shut up." Mew Terra appeared right in front of the pink-haired woman. "If you hate me for it, then let's finish this."

"Die!" Magnolia's whip launched up, but right before it could strike Mew Terra knocked it away with the barrel of one of her revolvers. ("What? How could she possibly do that?")

"You don't fully understand what you are fighting, do you?" Mew Terra twirled both revolvers on her index fingers while she spoke. "I'm different than those other two in that I'm not some brute force of strength. There's nothing impressive in that."

Magnolia's whip suddenly snaked forward and tied both barrels of the revolvers together. The owner of said whip let go of it and charged in, punching Mew Terra in the face as hard as she could. "Thanks for letting me know you can't fight!" Screaming in anger at the thought of someone daring to hurt her cute little sister, she pounded away at Mew Terra in a way that could only be done by someone who was either enraged or who was Roger. "I'll beat you up so badly you won't be able to use any of your fancy tricks!"

Mew Terra was unresponsive as she was pounded away at. Then she was sent stumbling back as an uppercut struck her chin and knocked her hat from her head, revealing her full head of brown hair and her fox ears.

Seeing her opportunity to end this, Magnolia immediately was in front of Mew Terra again. "I've got you now!"

Mew Terra was suddenly moving, and in a matter of two seconds she had Magnolia trapped in a full nelson so firm that the plant sister couldn't even move a single inch.

Magnolia struggled and grunted, trying to get free. "What kind of cheap move is this?"

"Cheap move?" Mew Terra spoke calmly, apparently not affected by the scratched and scrapes on her face and body. "I didn't want to have to do this, considering I dislike using these fighting methods….but in your case I'll make an exception!"

Suddenly Magnolia was moving, but she was still grappled to Mew Terra. The fox-eared girl moved with strength that she didn't appear to have, forcing Magnolia into a set-up for one of her favorite wrestling moves. "German Suplex!" The entire room shook as Magnolia's head slammed into the carpet.

Magnolia gasped out in pain, and her eyes clouded over as the force of the blow to her skull knocked her unconscious instantly.

Mew Terra stood up and retrieved her weapons, holstering both of them just in time to see Mew Pyro and Walt come running back towards the entrance of the mansion. "So you finished it up? Where's the girl?" She noticed what Walt had perched on his finger. "And what's with the bird?"

"Never mind." Walt gritted his teeth. "These weaklings have wasted too much of our time, we have to go make sure Roger is alright!"

Mew Pyro nodded and Mew Terra sighed.

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"Is it done already?" Olson shook the unmoving Mew Sonic by his arm a few more times, watching the rag doll movements with what was now annoyance in his eyes. "Is this it? If so, then let me bury you straight in hell!" His other hand dropped around Mew Sonic's head and began to squeeze roughly. "This time you won't revive, unless of course you can somehow live without a head."

"Terra Fox Storm!" An explosion of bullets slammed into the giant's back and forced him to stop his slow torture of Mew Sonic for the time being.

"So, you've come back. I take that to mean that my pitiful creations were all defeated?" Olson slowly stomped around just in time to take an Inferno Punch right between the eyes.

Mew Pyro roared and continued to pound away at the monster's face, though if he had been paying attention he would have noticed his strikes weren't having any effect at all on Olson.

Finally, the giant grew tired of letting himself be hit, and he punched Mew Pyro in the side of his head with his free hand, the blow like a car collision in that while it kept going, Mew Pyro was sent spiraling skywards like a doll. "Annoying little insects." He looked down at Mew Terra and then at Walt. "You must be the boy's brother. I learned a lot about you during my research."

"Then I'm at a disadvantage compared to you." Walt kept Mew Terra's jacket over his hands, trying to keep the little bird quiet. ("Don't give yourself away or else this psychopath might decide to use you as a weapon against my brother.")

"All of you are, but honestly the one with the smallest disadvantage would have to be you. With your IQ of about 200, you're an incredible genius. It makes me wonder why you waste your potential with likes of these fools." Olson slapped Mew Pyro away again like a normal human would shoo away a fly.

"It's got nothing to do with intelligence." Walt placed the coat on the ground. "Now get up, Roger! Kick this guy's sorry…"

"He can't hear you." Olson nudged the boy's head with a finger, and it slumped in the direction of the push. "He's out cold."

"Roger!" Walt clenched his teeth. "Wake up! Caitlyn needs you!" When no response came, he hid his fear masterfully. ("If he won't respond to something like that…")

Mew Pyro slowly stood up, his entire body in pain from the strong blows he had taken. ("That monster is so powerful…how did Grant not get destroyed by it in battle?")

"It's over now." Olson's hand wrapped around Mew Sonic's head again and squeezed roughly. "I'll squeeze until he pops like an overripe fruit."

"Roger…" Walt knew that screaming wouldn't help, and if he lost his cool here then they were screwed.

"He's not as strong as I am, fight me!" Mew Terra snapped up her revolver, aiming right at the monster's right eye. "I promise I'll beat you."

"You don't know what you are challenging, stupid girl. This boy has an incredible amount of power within him, and he is too stupid to bring it out." Olson tightened his grip. "Now he dies…"

"No!" Mew Pyro jump-kicked the back of Olson's head, but nothing happened. ("This mustn't happen! Grant is my rival, and I'll be the one to finish him off!")

An explosion of green light flooded the area around them, blinding everyone.

("What's this?") Olson gritted his teeth as a blast of energy slammed into his wrist and blew his hand off. Dropping Mew Sonic to the ground, he turned to face the source of the green light. "Who are you, and where did you come from?"

As the light cleared, a surprised gasp came from both Mew Terra and Mew Pyro, while Walt just smiled to himself. Caitlyn, wearing a light green set of clothing that resembled a singer's dress if it was meant for battle, stood with Mew Terra's coat over one shoulder. In her other hand rested a shimmering green microphone. "I won't let you hurt Roger anymore! I, Mew Aero, will not forgive you for what you have done to him already!"

"You…" Olson's stump shuddered and a new hand formed from it. "How could you have possibly…"

Walt chuckled. "After looking over your notes I quickly figured out what you had done wrong when you were working on her genetics. After about a minute of lab work, I figured out how to make a mixture to correct your mistake. After that, it was just a matter of time."

("He what?") Olson couldn't believe it. ("His intelligence is inhuman…how could someone with no background in genetics make something like that in just a minute?") "It doesn't matter, I'll crush the little child underneath my feet like the rest of you."

Mew Aero, Mew Pyro, and Mew Terra all smiled at once. "We'll see…"

From his resting place on the ground, the unconscious Mew Sonic smiled ever so slightly as well.

To be continued…

And so the fourth member of the Mews has emerged. With Mew Aero's help, will Mew Terra and Mew Pyro be able to finish the job that Mew Sonic couldn't, or will his help be needed once again before this night is done?