AN: Hiya. After some terrible writer's block, I'm back. I'll try to update more often now because I want to finish this story before Mew Mew Power (washes mouth out with soap) premiers.
Chapter 4
Keiichiro looked at Kish puzzled," You really want to help us? Why?"
"It's not just your problem. They took my friends and Ichigo. It's unforgivable!!" Kish answered.
"You just want to win Ichigo-san over, don't you?"
"Uhhhhhh………….LOOK! Do you want my help or not?!!!"
"This is an emergency. I accept your proposal. Come over to the computer and I'll show you all of the information I've gathered so far."
Kish floated over to the computer, and with a lot of Keiichiro's help, he started looking at all of the websites and forums that Ryou had listed earlier.
"Here's the first one," Keiichiro explained," It's called FoxBox. It comes with the preview of the characters and the new theme song. After you're done looking at that, go to Neko-Tokyo. It's a great site with Mew Mew information and has links to other websites. To go to a different website, use the mouse to click on the empty bar on the top of the screen and type the web address then press enter. Do you understand?"
"I think so," Kish answered," Just one more thing."
"What?"
"I heard that the cakes here are pretty good," Kish started asking," Can you make some while I look at these sites?"
Keiichiro just stared at him for a while. Then he shook off the confusion of the situation.
"I guess I can," he answered," Want some tea too?"
"Sure."
Keiichiro turned to leave but Kish grabbed his shirt. Keiichiro turned back around and saw Kish holding one of his daggers. He started at it wide-eyed.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
"Calm down!!" Kish demanded," I'm not going kill you. I'm going to let you borrow it while you're in the kitchen."
"Why?"
"You need protection. If those dubbed freaks try to capture you while you're cooking, use this. I don't want them to abduct you before I get my cake!"
Keiichiro frowned, "Thanks for you concern."
Take a guess where Ryou and Ichigo are. Yep, they are still in there room of solitude. Ichigo's now jumping up and down so high that she hit her head on the ceiling.
"Just go to the bathroom already!!!!" Ryou yelled.
"I told you that I'm not doing it until I'm in another room!!" Ichigo said crouching.
"How about I turn around so I don't see you?"
"NO WAY!!! You'll still hear me do it!!"
Just then the door opened and the same two men that they met came back. They were both carrying a large sack.
The first man grinned," I thought that you two might be lonely so I brought you a couple of your friends to visit."
The second man dumped the bag and Zakuro and Mint came out.
"What gives you the right to thrash me around and treat us like this?" Mint demanded.
"How many times do I have to explain this?" The first man asked," For the last time, we are abducting and replacing you with your dubbed counterparts so we can totally rewrite the show for our American audience!!!!"
"How cruel," Zakuro commented.
"Who asked you?!!"
The men left and shut the door.
Pai and Tart were still in their room and they saw the whole thing.
"Sheesh," Tart started," They've capture two more Mew Mews. At least they didn't get Pudding yet."
"You mean the monkey you have the crush on?" Pai asked.
"NO!!!" Tart yelled," I don't have a crush!"
"Yes you do."
"It's not a crush!!" Tart said," IT'S LOVE!!!!!!!"
Pai gave a ' O.o ' look, "That was unexpected."
They sat, floating in silence for a while.
"I'm hungry," Tart complained.
"I was thinking," Pai stated," We may not be able to teleport out but maybe we can teleport something in. I'll experiment."
Pai stood in the middle of the room and waved his hand.
In the kitchen of Café Mew Mew, Keiichiro finally finished making the cake and tea.
"I'm sure that Kish will love this cake I've made," Keiichiro said to himself," It's another new creation that I've made."
Right when he was about to pick it up the caked disappeared.
"What in world?"
"Hey!!!!!" Kish yelled from the room," Is the caked done yet?"
Keiichiro panicked," Uhhhhh…..Not yet!!! Making a good cake takes time!!!"
After saying that, he got all of the ingredients out and started mixing them as fast as he could.
Back in Pai and Tart's room, Keiichiro's cake appeared and of course Tart was happy.
"You're so smart Pai," Tart said, "Now we won't starve!!!"
Ryou was still on his laptop while Mint and Zakuro were watching.
"What are you doing?" Mint asked.
"I'm looking up more information on Mew Mew Power. This time I'm looking for the president of the 4Kids company. I found it!!!"
Ichigo stopped her potty dance.
"What?" She asked.
"He just found a profile of the president of 4Kids," Zakuro answered.
"His name is Alfred Kahn," Ryou read," He was also responsible for the dubs of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh along with most cartoons from FoxBox and Kids WB."
"No wonder why our versions are so much better," Ichigo remarked.
"He's evil," Ryou growled and started gritting his teeth,"………KAHN!!!!!!!!!!"
"Shirogane," Zakuro stated," This isn't Star Trek. (AN: Sorry if you guys to get that joke)
But it was too late. Ryou's rage was so great that he smashed his laptop.
"Look what you did!!!" Ichigo screamed," You lost our only connection to the outside world!!!!"
"Does it look like I care!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!" Ryou yelled.
Ichigo got so mad that she went up to Ryou and punched him in the head. Then he passed out. Mint and Zakuro just stared at her.
"Being in a small room like this too long brings out the craziness in people," Ichigo said cheerfully," Now I can finally go to the bathroom without any boys watching me."
Pai and Tart were still eating the cake and were now watching Ichigo and the others. Tart saw Ichigo grabbing her skirt.
"What is she doing?" Tart asked.
Pai stayed silent.
Then they saw Ichigo take off her skirt. Pai immediately grabbed Tart and covered his eyes.
"WHAT!!" Tart yelled," What are you doing?"
"Don't look," Pai commanded," She's going to the bathroom."
"Ewwwww!!!!"
Ichigo finished and put her skirt back on. She felt so relieved.
"You don't know how long I was waiting to do that," she said.
"I guess you were holding it for a while." Zakuro replied.
"Yep," Ichigo answered," I've been holding it ever since I got here."
"That was almost two days ago!!!" Mint stated," I didn't know that anybody could do that. Now you can't use that excuse to get yourself out of work, now that I know you can hold it until closing time."
"MINT!!!!" Ichigo shouted.
Ryou then got up and looked at Ichigo. The bump on his head made him see double-vision so it looked like he was seeing two Ichigos.
"KAHN CREATION MUST DIE!!!!!" he shouted.
He jumped at one of the Ichigos he saw. Fortunately for Ichigo, he leaped at the illusion and passed out on the ground.
"There's a side of Shirogane that I've never seen before," Ichigo said in amazement.
Keiichiro finished making the replacement cake and was putting the last rose icing on it when Kish starts stomping into the room. Keiichiro dropped the icing bag in surprise.
"I know it doesn't take this long to make a cake!!" Kish said," What in the name of crap is going on!?!"
"I'm sorry," Keiichiro explained," I finished a cake but then it disappeared and…"
"How can a cake disappear?" Kish asked.
"I don't know!!! But I'm finished with this one. Please forgive me!!!!"
"I'm in a good mood so I guess so."
They started eating. Kish beamed on the first bite.
"This is great!!" Kish said," I can see why everyone comes here. How did you get to be so good at cooking?"
"I went to school," Keiichiro answered," I always had an interest in culinary art so I always took them as elective classes. Then I started experimenting on my own. I even won a few contests too."
"I'm not surprised," Kish remarked," How is it that you know that blond dude?"
"I've known him for a long time. I was an assistant of his father, who discovered one of your ancient cities. I was 16 at the time and Ryou was 10. I took Ryou to apply to go to a University one night and on our way back we saw the house in flames and we saw that it was caused by a Chimera Animal. His parents were killed that night. I took care of him and became his guardian from then on."
Kish quietly listened to the story.
"Gosh. I didn't know that he had it so hard," Kish thought," He's always smiling and stuff. It must have been tough looking after a kid when you just a kid yourself. What am I thinking? I can't go soft now. Once this is over, everything will be back to the way it was and we'll be enemies."
Just then they heard footsteps coming into the kitchen. They saw that it was Elliot, Zoey, Korina, and Renee.
"I knew that you were acting weird so I called the girls over," Elliot replied.
"Akasaka," Kish stated," Looks like the jig is up!!"
MadaMada Tsuzuku (To Be Continued……..)
