"I thought you were dead... how'd you come back...?" Brandon said with his hands still folded and tapping his foot with Sonic's voice still.
"..." Mephiles stood there silent and gripped his hands more.
"I'm waaaaiiiting..." He frowns and waiting for an answer.
Mephiles then turns his body and punches his stomach, sending him into a building. "Hmph!!"
"Ugh!!" Brandon his head first at the building but not taking much damnage into it.
"I'd like to say the same with you." Mephiles said walking over to him slowly. "I should of taken you down years ago..."
"I didn't think of all people you'd come back." Brandon said with a smirk and one eye closed.
"Don't worry, there are more then just you..." Mephiles grabs his neck and begins to choak him. "But I intend to kill you most of all!!"
Brandon closed his eyes and feeling the sharp crystals of hand cut him abit to it was making it much worse for him to breath. "Err..aaahh!!" He trys to brake from his grasp.
'How does Bran Bran know this creature?' Zoey thought, watching the two. All of a sudden, the hedgehog began choaking her cousin, and Brandon's cry snapped Zoey out of her thoughts. "Oh no you don't!" she stated, chraging the hedgehog and summoning her weapon. 'There is no way he's getting rid of Brandon.' "Strawberry Bell, Full Power!" She aimed her attack for the hedgehog's back, hoping to avoid hurting her cousin.
"No wait!!" Brandon shouts trying to stop her before she attacked them but it was soon too late. As soon as she did, Not only Mephiles was attacked, but him also. Both were launched at the building and Brandon slips into too parts. Thats right, Sonic was split from his human body and the Brandon body was on the ground lying there, a souless body.
As for Mephiles, he started to fade under the ground. "When I come back... I'll have more return... I... swear... it..." His last word echos as his vanishes it a purple like dust.
Renee ran towards Mephiles, but by the time she reached him he was purple dust. Meanwhile, Zoey ran towards Brandon and knelt beside him, taking his cold hand in hers.
"I'm...so sorry," was all she could manage to say before her eyes welled with tears.
Corina accompanied Renee, while Kikki and Bridget walked over to Zoey.
"Umm...who's this guy?" Kikki asked as she slightly kicked the blue hedgehog.
"I believe he could have been the one posessing Brandon," Bridget stated.
"Well maybe we should tie him up, and get some answers," Kikki stated, pulling out some rope and donning a detective outfit.
"It won't be that easy," Renee said as she walked over to the group,
Corina alongside her. "After all, if he was posessing this boy, he
had enough power to stop all of our attacks."
"So what do we do?" Corina asked.
"For now, we have to move to a more secure location," Renee replied.
"But, what about the boy?" Bridget asked.
Renee's face gained a somber expression, and she shook her head. This
caused Zoey to release the tears she had so far been able to hold
back.
"C'mon," Renee stated, taking the hedgehog up in her arms and heading
towards the cafe.
She was followed by Bridget and Corina.
"I'll stay with you," Kikki said, transforming back to her normal form.
Zoey did the same, and Kikki silently watched her friend cry.
In Brandon's dead hand appeared a Chaos Emerald but none of them saw it. "..."
Sonic then quickly wakes up seeing them carrying him away but tried to break from them. "No!! Lemme go!! I gotta get back in him!!" He said yelling.
Renee stopped, but didn't let go.
"What are you talking about? And how do we know we can trust you?"
"Am the only thing that keeps him alive!" He shouts out and looks at them all. He then jumps up in the air and gets inside him.
Brandon then widens his eyes and holds his heart. "What happened?! It felt like my heart just stopped!" He pants alot and taking a breather.
Zoey stopped crying once she heard her cousin's voice and hugged him.
"Thank goodness, Bran Bran." She and Kikki had transformed back to normal
before he came to, so they wouldn't have to worry about revealing their
secret identities.
"You may not believe me, but this crystal monster was attacking the
city, and the mews saved you," Kikki stated, pointing to Corina,
Renee, and Bridget. She didn't want to freak him out by telling
him the whole story.
"I think we should head home now," Zoey suggested, getting up and wiping the tears from her eyes. "Are you feeling okay?"
"We'll be heading out now, too," Renee said. "Oh, and the next time
someone tells you to leave a battle scene, you might want to listen"
That said, the three left and only stopped once they were both out of
earshot and out of sight.
"We can't just leave them," Bridget said. "What if the hedgehog comes
back"
Renee was silent for a minute before responding.
"I'll be keeping tabs on him. In the meantime, you and Elliot can
work on finding information on those hedgehogs, their purpose here,
and what they have to do with that kid."
Bridget nodded, and the three went their seperate ways.
"What in hey is that thing?!" He said backing away from it alittle with his eyes widened.
Mephiles was speaking into Tarb's mind so only he could hear him. "Taaarbb!!" He shouts loudly. "I never told you to leave our world! You could be seen!"
Kikki felt like someone was watching her, but when she looked she found no one. Meanwhile, Zoey was trying to figure out how she was going to explain why Mini Mew went up to her, as well as what the little guy meant when he said that Brandon was a mew.
"You're a mew? Really?" Zoey asked Brandon, pretending she didn't know the true identities of the group members. "Do they have them in New York?"
"Have what in New York?" Brandon asked and then his green eyes appeared again and Sonic spoke to them.
"Acttualy that would be me, sweetie." He said smirking and rubbing the back of his head.
Zoey was very confused.
'Aren't I still talking to Brandon?' she wondered, looking her cousin
over. 'Wait...it's those eyes again.'
"Who exactly are you?"
"Sonic's the name am your cousin's soul... or his other half you could call. And you me and Brandon, are related apparently." He said with a grin.
"Who has a hedgehog for a soul?" Kikki asked. "And if you truly are his soul, why does it seem like he's a different person when you take over?"
Kikki wasn't buying it. Zoey, meanwhile, just waited for Sonic's response.
"Thats me, I'm his... exrta boost you could call it." He said and then his eyes fade and back to his normal ones. "Whats going on??"
'How am I going to expain this one?' Zoey thought. "Umm...well-"
"Have you ever felt a need to let out your inner hedgehog?" Kikki interjected.
"Uhhh... what??" He was confused and didn't know what she had ment by that. The Chaos Emerald next to him started glowing slowly and brights up the place, changing him into his Mew Knight's suit. "What the?!" He looks at himself and it was a combination of Blue Knight and Zoey's.
"Does this answer your question?" Sonic spoke out again and then it went back to Brandon.
"So this gem makes you transform?" Zoey asked, looking it over.
'I didn't think anyone could be a mew unless Elliot had a hand in
it,' she thought.
"..." Brandon blushed softly raises his eye brow abit." His middle
finger then had a ring on it. "Huh?" He looks at his ring and blinks
twice."He's now the most handsome mew, right Zoey?" Kikki stated.
It was the first time they would have a guy on their team, other than
Mark.
Zoey noticed that Brandon was blushing and smiled.
'I wonder if he has a girlfriend. If not, I'll make it my mission to
find him one,' Zoey thought.
Kikki, meanwhile, was looking at Brandon's hand.
"Do you think that ring is his weapon?" Kikki asked.
He looks at it and then shrugs. "Beats me..." He shakes his hand seeing if i'd do anything. "Nothing."
"Well, I'm sure the mews will be happy to have you on their team"
Kikki said, "although they don't really have much to do nowadays"
She shrugged and then turned to Zoey.
"Do you think you'll be okay taking him on your own? I have to get
back to work"
Zoey nodded.
"Yeah. Besides, if anything else happens,"Zoey replied. "I'm sure he
can protect himself. After all, he is a mew"
That said, Kikki waved before flipping onto the nearest lampost and
eventually cartwheeling out of sight.
His Blue Ears and Tail pop out and his tail begins to rapidly wag alot while watching her leave. "... wow..."
"Hey Bran Bran," Zoey said, turning to see her cousin excited as he
watched Kikki leave.
'Wait...he doesn't...' "You like her, don't you?" she asked, nudging
him slightly.
"I really don't know what to do..." He said rubbing the back of his head. "How do I get someone like that??"
Zoey thought about it for a second.
'I'm not sure if Kikki's ready for someone else, after what happened
with Tarb...but I think living without love is a waste'
"You've got a lot to learn, Bran Bran. How about I start teaching you
on the way home?"
"Well, alright... wait, whos Tarb?" He said walking back home with her.
THE NEXT DAY
He wakes up earily and walks to Zoey's room, seeing if she was awake yet for work at the Cafe. "Zoey?"
"Zoey, its almost 9:40 your gonna miss work at Cafe Mew Mew." He tried to call her and see if she would respond.
"What?" Zoey cried, jumping out of bed. "Not good, not good! Elliot's going to kill me." She quickly got changed and finished getting ready for work. "Thanks Brandon. You can come visit later if you want," she called on her way out.
"Alright." He follows her at the same pase she was at, hoping for the samething she wanted, not to be late.
Zoey then ran to the cafe, eventually sneaking in the back. 'Hopefully, Elliot doesn't notice,' she thought, heading to the front of the cafe to take orders.
Meanwhile, Kikki was dropping her siblings off at daycare.
He then stops in his tracks, seeing Kikki dropping her siblings off at the daycare. "..." He forgot what he was doing and stood there, watching her.
Kikki waved goodbye to her siblings and did a back flip before
turning towards the cafe. She hadn't been expecting anyone to be
there, though, and ended up running right into Brandon, accidentally
knocking him over.
"Huh?" Kikki looked down to see what she had run into, and realized
it not a
what but a who. "Oh, I'm so sorry," she cried, getting up. "Are you okay?"
Brandon was abit dazed but got up after she did and rubs his head. "Am fine Kikki." That was a pretty nice move there, before you crashed into me. He puts his hands behind his back and said what camed from the heart. "... How you doing?"
"Thanks," Kikki said, smiling and taking a bow after receiving the
compliment. "I'm doing fine, by the way"
She began walking towards the cafe when she stopped and turned back
to Brandon.
"Would you like to walk with me? I could to more of my acrobatics, if
you'd like."
"I'd l--... Okay." He said with a smile on his face and begins to walk with her inside the cafe.
Kikki returned his smile and entered the cafe.
"So," she whispered, "have you spoken to the mews, yet?"
"Not really." His tail only pops out and she didn't nodice, while it was wagging slowly.
"Well, you should. Like I said before, I'm sure they'd be happy to have you," Kikki replied with a wink.
"Hey Kikki," Zoey called, balancing a few plates, "I could use some help."
"Oh, right away Zoey"
Kikki did a backflip and landed just before the kitchen doors.
"I'll be back soon, Brandon. I just have to change into my uniform
first"
With that she disappeared into the back of the cafe.
Meanwhile, Zoey stood behind her cousin. "I don't think it's a good idea to let the customers see your tail, Bran Bran," she whispered.
He looks behind him and then blushes deeply, covering it with his shirt abit shocked. 'Not again...' He thought.
He then whispers to Zoey. "Will you stop calling me BranBran, its embarrasing when am near Kikki... that was just for kicks." He said blushed still.
Soon, a man entered the cafe. He was a punk rocker type, and looks around the area. He looks at Brandon. "Nice tail, where'd you come from," he asked.
He then hides behind Zoey and blushing deeply. "Its fake!"
Jarred eyed Brandon for a while, then starts to leave. "Weirdo," he said.
"Wait, don't leave," Zoey said, adressing the boy. "This cafe has the best desserts in town. I couldn't possibly let you regret not tasting them."
At that moment, both Kikki and Renee came out of the back, dressed in
full uniform. 'Oh, but I have a lot of tables right now,' Zoey thought.
"Hey Renee. Can you show this boy to a table? Thanks."
Zoey then went to wait on other tables, while Renee picked up some
menus and sighed. "Follow me." With that she led Jarred to his table,
leaving Kikki to seat Brandon.
"Hey, do you have to leave or do you want to stay for a while?" kikki asked. "If you stay, though, you'll have to order something."
"Sure why not.." He smiles and takes his wallet out to be ready.
Jarred looked at Renee. "Sis, why are you working here? I thought you were doing good being a model and movie star," jarred said.
"I am," Renee replied. "My agent said this would help me increase my fan base, though, so here I am." It wasn't exactly the truth, but it would work. "Well, do you know what you want?"
"Well, I'll have the strawberry shortcake and a cup of your best coffee. All this air travel's making me tired," Jarred said.
"You'll get used to it," Renee said, taking back the menu. "Your order will be done shortly." With that she left for the kitchen, having Zoey make the coffee. After all, Jarred was expecting it to taste good. After a few minutes she brought it back out and placed the coffee and cake on Jarred's table.
Meanwhile, Kikki took Brandon to his seat. "Tell me when you're ready to order."
"Thats okay, I know what I'd like." He said smiling softly and told her the order. "I'd like just a Bannah Split."
"Banana split, huh? Sounds good to me," Kikki stated, heading to the back to get his order.
"Hmm.." Brandon waits for his order and smiles softly, watching her
go get the order for him. 'Shes just got that speical charm to it.
but I don't know what it is.' He thought to himself.
Kikki came out shortly, spinning the dish while doing flips through the air. After a few seconds she landed in front of his table and placed the banana split in front of Brandon. "Enjoy," Kikki said with a smile.
"Thanks, Renee," jarred said smiling as his sister left. he started eating.
MINUTES LATER
Jarred walked out of the cafe and walking the streets after having paid for the meal. "Man, my big sis has gotten good with her two jobs. I wasn't useful to that band," he said to himself as he walked to the hotel room he was staying in.
I'm guessing Renee for Jarred and Kikki and Brandon for the next
Her brother seemed like he was feeling a little down, so Renee decided to follow him and see if she coud help. She went up to his hotel room door and knocked. "Jarred?"
Jarred opened the door to see renee. "Oh, hey," he said.
"So, what are you up to?" Renee asked. "It can't be much fun if you're cooped up in this hotel room."
"I know, but I don't have the money to afford a real house, not now since that band I was in for years went rock bottom," he said.
"Well, you're welcome to live with me if you'd like," Renee replied. "Sorry about your band, by the way."
"It's okay," jarred said, coming out of the room with his stuff.
"Is there anything you feel like doing?" Renee asked.
"Maybe you can give me a tour of the city later. man, I've been gone for so long, who knows what i've missed," he said with a sigh.
"Not much, really," Renee replied. "It's actually been kind of quiet around here."
All of a sudden screams were heard inside the cafe. There were flocks of cystalized falcons flying everywhere inside the Cafe and attacking some people, and also damnaging the tables and destroying the food.
Renee turns her head hearing that sound of scream and terror and so did Jarred. "What was that?" Renee asked.
MINUTES LATER, AT THE CAFE
"Wh... what are those creatures," Jarred said as he pulled out a katana and starts slashing at the falcons.
The falcons sqreeched in terror and vanished into dust with each attack by his katana slices through them like paper. And their were many more to go.
Renee had transformed before following Jarred into the cafe, and began to attack the falcons with her whip.
Meanwhile, Kikki knew she couldn't transform in front of the customers, so she used a combination of silverware and acrobatics instead, hoping that it would have the desired effect.
At the same time, Zoey got a weird feeling, almost as if someone was around, someone she once knew, and they were watching. Even so, she couldn't see anyone. 'Oh well,' she thought.
Dren saw Jarred come in the cafe. The human boy looked at the alien wierdly.
...But they were in for a big suprise...