---

'Where…where am I?'

Kisshu squinted his eyes at the sun in his face. Not soon after, he felt a sharp pain in his back and he shut his eyes. That's when all of the memories of what just happened rushed back to him. He arched his back as he winced again.

"Don't move."

Kisshu blinked against the sun again as he adjusted to the light. He stared behind him at Mika, who looked very intent on her work at his back.

"I said, don't move, idiot." Kish sighed and turned back to his front, resting his chin on his hand. That's when he noticed a few things.

A.) Mika was taking the time to bandage the gash on his back.

B.) It really hurt

C.) His shirt was off.

He turned his head back to her once again, ignoring her grunt of protest.

"Um…Mika? Did you really have to take off my shirt?"

"Yes. Yes I did." she said matter-of-factly, keeping her head lowered, and her tone steady. Kish smirked at her shyness,

"Mika, Mika. You make Ichigo break up with me, causing me to slam into that tree-"

"That was your fault." she said snidely. Kish rolled his eyes and continued,

"Yeah, I guess so. But still, you always cling to me, you kissed me against my will, and here we are, you tending to my injuries with my shirt off."

Mika was cautious to keep her head lowered under her blush, before she muttered,

"Yeah, yeah, don't rub it in." Kish's grin grew wider,

"You really are a strange girl, aren't you?"

---

"Ribbon Zakuro Spear!"

Zakuro took a heavy blow to the chimera animal before her. It keeled over and died out with a growl, releasing the parasite and Angie's spirit. Pudding was the first one to the spirit. She grabbed it and virtually slam-dunked it into Angie's body like an athlete,

"Score, na do da!" Minto shot her a scornful glare,

"Pudding! You could hurt someone with that…irrational behavior of yours!" Pudding, however, was ignoring Minto's scolding and paying more attention to Angie.

"I think this girl's waking up, na do da! We'd better get going, na do da!" Angie, however, was fully conscious enough to say weakly,

"Wait!"

All of them turned to her at the sound of her voice.

"I know who you are, Tokyo Mew Mew." she said. The girls looked at each other with surprise as she continued, "I think I may prove of use to you. I can predict the future." Zakuro eyed her,

"How can we trust what you're saying is true?" Mika said stoutly,

"I know all of your last names. Momomiya, Aizawa, Midorikawa, Fong, and Fujiwara. What is today's date?" They were all too astonished to speak before Lettuce recovered, stuttering hopelessly,

"I-it's Feb-February 5th." Angie nodded,

"I see. So, that means that you've already experienced Taruto trying to collapse the dome's structure and saving Pudding. Am I right when I say that Zakuro already attempted to leave the group for a movie in America?" Zakuro, also with wide eyes, nodded slowly. Pudding was first to speak up after a few moments of silence,

"But how do you know all of this, na do da!" Angie grinned,

"I'm from the future."

---

"Where on earth is Super Ditz?!" Kate whined. Their search party had been traveling for about half an hour now, and still no trace of Ichigo anywhere.

"We've combed through almost the entire area that we received the signal from, except for maybe the west section. That's where we'll be headed."

"Alright…" Liz said wearily. Her legs ached from walking all over Tokyo, and still no sign of Ichigo. She was beginning to lose hope in this whole thing. Ryou pointed to the section of the forest they stood by,

"This should be it. She has to be in here." The rest of the party nodded as they stumbled into the dark forest.

The sky above them was tinted with beautiful shades of orange, pink, and purple, an indicator that the day would soon come to a close. The sun sank farther and farther down the horizon, its glowing mass disappearing from sight.

Soon, it would be dark.

---

Mika gave one final tug on the last of the bandages.

"That should do it." she said. She got up and handed Kish his shirt, which he took and pulled over his exposed chest.

Once he stood, Kish ran his hand through his hair,

"First order of priority would probably be to find where Ichigo ran off to. I'd bet anything she's lost by now; she certainly wasn't running in the right direction when I was pursuing her." Mika nodded,

"Good idea."

"Now," Kish said, looking around him, "Where was I when I fell…?" he looked down at Mika. Mika blinked, and, realizing he was posing the question to her, fidgeted nervously,

"Um…well…I don't exactly know…" Kish sighed and looked all around him, searching for an indicator of disturbed brush or footsteps in the dirt. But he saw none.

"Mika, Mika, Mika…" he muttered, massaging the bridge of his nose. Mika shifted her stance nervously, keeping her head lowered in shame of getting them as lost as Ichigo.

Suddenly they heard voices from their right, deeper into the forest, but getting closer,

"Ichigo! Ichigo, where are you?!"

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

"I don't think that's going to help."

"Shut up, Liz!"

Kish winced and grabbed hold of Mika's wrist,

"It's Ryou and his search party! We've got to get going!" Mika nodded. Kish began to open up a teleporting hole, but it quickly closed on him. He tried once more, it growing a little bigger, but not for long until it was closed again. He gritted his teeth,

"I can't teleport in this weakened state! The best we can do is make a run for it!" Mika looked at him worriedly,

"But you can't run with that huge gash in your chest!"

"I can at least try!" he growled, "Come on, we've got to get going before they catch us; who knows what they'll do to me when they find me and no Ichigo!" Mika nodded,

"Let's get going, then!"

With that, they ran, or maybe I should say stumbled and tripped, farther into the woods, trying to outrun and avoid the search party gaining on them from behind…

---

The mews, minus Ichigo, sat huddled around one of the cafe's white and red tables, staring intently at Angie, who was leaning lazily back in her chair.

"Tell Pudding her future, na no da!" Pudding said, edging up close to Angie. Angie's eyes rolled and nudged Pudding away,

"I don't tell the future like that, Pudding-san. I can see the past also, and I don't really choose what I get to see..." Zakuro squinted her eyes,

"Like premonitions?" A sigh escaped Angie as she leaned even farther back,

"Kind of... Except if I wanted to, in my world, we can watch it over and over again and we can change the language."

Minto stuck her nose high in the air and huffed loudly,

"I don't believe you!" A smug smirk crept its way up Angies face and she stifled a laugh,

"You have every reason not to. But if you want proof, I've got it."

"Show us, na no da!"

Angie rose from her chair and pointed a finger in Minto's direction,

"When you first met Ichigo, your dog Miki turned into a chimera animal and attacked Ichigo and yourself!"

Minto gawked for a second but then regained her posture,

"A-Any passerby could've noticed that!"

Angie took a deep breath,

"I wish I had the first Tokyo Mew Mew DVD." A disc case on it popped into her awaiting hand. She waved it around in the air as she spoke again,

"This, is a documentary-ish show about your lives as Tokyo Mew Mew. You know it as anime. It mainly revolves around Ichigo, but some of the episodes are dedicated to other characters such as yourself. And this. I wish I had the first volume of Tokyo Mew Mew manga." A pink book with Ichigo on it appeared in her other hand. "This is almost the same as the disc, except this is a book in black and white that was drawn by someone from my world, that same person also drew the anime."

She tossed them on the table,

"And these are only the first editions, there are many more to-"

Suddenly the cafe doors were thrust open and in marched a distressed looking Ichigo,

"Where's Masaya?"

---

"This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends!" Kate sang merrily as she skipped through the forest, far ahead of the her group.

"Kate! Your embarrassing me! Stop it!" Liz pleaded.

Kate just stuck her tongue out and continued her skipping,

"Shut up Liz!"

Ryou sighed,

"Why don't you both shut it."

"Anything for my Ryou-kun!"

Re cast a side glance at Ryou,

"Thank you." Ryou chuckled and nodded.

The party stayed quiet for a short while longer until Kate broke into a jog and cried out,

"Lizzy! There's something ahead of us, but I can't quite tell what!"

The rest of them caught up with Kate. Re gasped,

"It's Kisshu and... and Mika! But... Ichigo's not with them..." A worried sigh could be heard from Ryou. Liz began to sprint,

"Oi! Kisshu! Where's Ichigo?!" Kish momentarily turned around,

"Why do you need to know? Shouldn't you be worrying more about your perspiration problem?" Sure enough, Liz discovered she was sweating like a pig.

At hearing Kish say this, Kate ran even faster and said as clearly as she could possibly manage,

"I wouldn't be saying stuff like that to my cousin! Or you just might find yourself hanging up side down hogtied. And there I will sit, picking your armpit hairs out one by one, making sure each pull is more painful than the last, until you scream for mercy like a little girl! And Liz will be taping the WHOLE. THING."

"My pleasure!" Liz hissed. Kish and Mika began to run faster. Re laughed and pointed with an accusing finger,

"No one tell my sister crap like that! I may love you, but when it comes to stuff like this. Ready or not. Here. We. Come."

Mika sweat dropped and remarked snidely,

"You really had to go and make smart remarks, didn't you, Kish?"

---

"So he didn't come here looking for me...? But I checked everywhere else..." Ichigo said, misty-eyed. Angie tried to avoid eye contact with the pink mew,

"As far as we know, he was never here." Ichigo sat down in a chair and reseted her head on the table,

"Is he even looking for me...? No... He hates me... I dumped him for Kish, why would he be looking for me?" Lettuce rested a gentle hand on Ichigo's shoulder,

"Ichigo-san..." Pudding put on an excited smile,

"Then why don't we all go looking for him, na no da?" Ichigo sat up and wiped her red rimmed eyes,

"You guys would really do that for me?" Zakuro chuckled,

"Why wouldn't we? You're our friend, and friends help friends, right?"

All eyes turned to a flustered Minto, waiting for her comment signifying she was joining the group.

Her face turned blood red as she tried to act calm and annoyed, stuttering over her words,

"Fine! B-But remember this Ichigo-san, I'm o-only in th-this because Zakuro-sama is." Ichigo attempted to stifle a laugh,

"I'll remember."

---

Kish looked back to see how close the other were. They were about ten feet away.

He only looked back for a millisecond, but that millisecond was enough time for him to trip over a large root. He tumbled down, but immediately got back up, wincing and grumbling occasionally.

Mika stopped,

"Kisshu... Are you okay?!" Kish made his aching feet move,

"Yeah, keep going..." Mika nodded and continued.

Kate and the rest of them were only about six feet away, and gaining now. Mika told her legs not to stop, for Kish's sake, to keep going, to act strong for him until-.

Her thoughts grinded to a halt when she saw that the back of Kisshu's shirt was tinted with crimson liquid,

"Kishy-kun! Blood is seeping from the bandages!" Kish didn't even look at her,

"Yeah, I know." Mika hoped he would just glance her way so he could see her pleading eyes,

"Why don't we just stop and let them catch up with us? What's the worst they could do to us?" Kish rolled his eyes,

"Well, Ryou doesn't really have anything against me besides that I dated Ichigo for about three hours. The blonde girls are just angry about my comment directed towards the older one. So those people won't do all that much harm to us. But the red-head. Oh boy. It doesn't matter what I say or do, she will spear me through and gut me like a fish."

Mika's tone became serious,

"I'm not joking around Kisshu. If we keep going at this rate you'll die from blood loss!"

"If we let them catch up I'll die anyway!"

"I'll restrain Kate, just please! Please stop!"

"No! I'm not going to listen to you anymore; you take orders from me, not the other way around. Now keep going or else I'll leave you behind!"

Mika swelled up with anger,

"Oh no you're not!" And with those words, she tackled Kisshu, causing them both to tumble to the ground, falling unconscious.

---

Keichiiro bustled happily around the kitchen, making a cake. He didn't have any specific reason for it, just that today was Sunday and he was bored.

"A rose here... A tad of frosting there... Tada!" He held it up for his own inspection.

"Perfect!" He slid it into the preheated oven and smiled. When Ryou, the girls from the future, and the mew's got back from their little 'adventure', they would laugh about it over a piece of nice, warm, succulent, fluffy-. He heard the cafe doors open, and went to check what was going on. He assumed Ryou and the rest were back,

"Ryou-ku-." He stopped because the person he saw defiantly wasn't Ryou, or the mews, or anyone else he was expecting to share cake with.

It was Masaya.

---

Kish heard voices far off,

"Are they dead?!"

"No."

"I hope Kish is."

"Hey! That was mean!"

"Liz? How many times must I tell you to shut it?"

"Sorry."

To Kish, it was pretty obvious who those voices belonged to; Ryou, the blonde authors, and the red-head psycho author.

He opened his eyes and attempted to sit up, which didn't go so well. Pain crept its way up his back and blood rushed to his head. Kate stood leaned against a tree,

"Don't sit up stupid! You'll bleed to death, and if you die, I want it to be by my actions. And Re, hurry up with that, Kisshu shirtless is disgusting." She shivered.

Kish looked down, and sure enough, his shirt was off once more, and someone was tending to his wounds again, but as Kate pointed out, it wasn't Mika. Just then, he remembered her.

Mika.

"Mika-san! Where's Mika?!"

Ryou nodded his head right. There lay Mika, still unconscious. Liz was leaned over her, attending to the blood draining from a rather large gash on Mika's head. Kish's eyes got wide in horror,

"Why is she... bleeding so much?"

Re shifted her eyes,

"She ended up being on the underside when you both fell, and her head hit that rock." Kish looked to the rock which Re was indicating; it was covered in blood, no doubt Mika's.

"Is she going to die?"

"Not to our knowledge, but she did loose a good chunk of blood..." Kish suddenly turned his head away,

"It's not like I care." Kate looked at Kisshu with a glare that held no sympathy,

"You should. She loves you, and because of that, she saved your dumb. Old. Life. Not something that many of us would do."

"My... life...?" That's when it dawned on him.

Mika had saved his life.

---

Pai was pacing the floors of the green, alien dimension. Taruto sat, transfixed at his actions, wondering on what his companion was thinking.

Pai finally spoke,

"I think the best plan on action would be to call a retreat. These "author" people, or so they call themselves, have too much power for such arrogance. They will eventually destroy the Mews or themselves. Taruto nodded,

"I see what you mean. We'd better get going to find Kisshu, them, huh?" Pai gave a small "mh" of agreement and they both teleported off.

---

Ichigo and the other Mews arrived at the top of the rooftop to find it was completely vacant. Ichigo sighed in disappointment,

"Now what?"

"Okay, new plan," said Angie, "I wish we were all at the spot where Masaya is, and we're all done." Minto looked just about ready to slap her,

"Why didn't you say that before?!" Angie shrugged,

"Half because I didn't figure it out until now, and half because I like messing with you guys." Before Ichigo could tear her eyeballs out, or anybody could question her answer, she yelled,

"I wish we were at Masaya's location!"

---

"There. All done." Liz stood back and was surprised by how well she bandaged Mika's head,

"She should wake up pretty soon."

"Will she be in pain?"

She turned around to see Kish, his face pale. She looked down and nodded solemnly,

"Most likely."

"Can you do anything about it?"

"Authors power has it's restrictions."

"I see..."

Just then, Liz heard Re's voice,

"Liz! Come quick! Pai and Taruto are here!" Liz gritted her teeth and mumbled,

"Crap! They're probably here for Kisshu, but he can't move like this! And if they teleport with him, he'll be teetering between life and death!" Liz stood up and ran with Re.

When they got there, Kate and Ryou where talking with the two aliens,

"Mika cares about him! She saved his life! How do you think she'll react if when she wakes up, Kish isn't by her side waiting for her?!" Ryou said, glaring. Taruto returned his angry glare,

"Kisshu doesn't need that girl and she doesn't need him! It's just like mew Ichigo!"

"You're wrong."

All eyes turned to Kisshu, who was barely standing, blood gently dripping from his shirt,

"She needs me there. I may not love her, but I at least need to return her favor." Pai summoned his weapon,

"Whatever your excuse, you're coming with us, Kisshu."

---

Masaya took a delicate sip of the jasmine tea set before him. Setting the small cup down before him, he explained to Akasaka,

"I split from the rest of the group and set off to find Ichigo. After quite a long time combing through the area, I returned here in hopes of finding her." Akasaka nodded,

"I see." he took a sip of his teacup, "I'm pleased to inform you that I thought I heard her come in and leave not too long ago." Masaya stood up from the table abruptly,

"When?! Where was she going?!" Akasaka waved his hands in front of his face,

"I don't know! I only heard her through the kitchen doors." Masaya relaxed a bit in disappointment. Akasaka continued, "I do know, however, that she took the rest of the mews and that girl named "Angie" with her." Masaya nodded,

"That means that they all found their way back here. It must be some kind of meeting base. They're sure to come back soon…"

Akasaka nodded,

"Yes, but it would be frustrating to have to wait for her to come back with so much anxiety. Would you care to see our computer monitors? They will tell you Ichigo's location." Masaya nodded,

"Thank you very much." As Akasaka led him down the stairs, Masaya remarked,

"Thanks for the tea, also. It was wonderful."

---

CRASH!

The entirety of the five Mews and Angie found themselves in a large heap in the middle of the basement of Café Mew Mew. Angie rubbed her head as she got off the top of the pig pile,

"Ouch…geez, that was too specific!" The other Mews climbed off one by one until, at the bottom of the pile, Masaya stood up and dusted himself off.

Ichigo immediately tacked him in a huge hug,

"Masaya! I'm so sorry!" Masaya, slightly dazed, didn't react until Ichigo made to snuggle into his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and rested his cheek on her head delicately,

"It's alright Ichigo. I'm here." Ichigo sniffed,

"I'm so, so sorry about the thing on the rooftop! Shortly after that happened, I saw Kish kissing another girl!" Masaya blinked and held Ichigo back slightly,

"You saw…what?" Ichigo looked down, quietly whispering as though she was ashamed,

"…kissing another girl." Masaya furrowed his brow,

"You're sure about this?" Ichigo nodded. Masaya had a perplexed look on his face,

"That's not like him to run off with another girl after he finally got you…" Ichigo seemed slightly peeved now,

"Well it wasn't like me to respond to him like that! Masaya, I'm so sorry!" She threw herself back into Masaya's arms, and he stroked his hand on her back,

"I forgive you, Ichigo."

"So cute, na do da!" Pudding said in amusement. Sure enough, the rest of the occupants of the basement were staring at them like it was some kind of show.

After a momentary awkward silence, Minto spoke up,

"So where are the other "strange" girls, then?"

Masaya shook his head,

"I didn't see them. Ichigo?" Ichigo scowled,

"Kish was kissing one of them." To avoid any awkwardness, Zakuro cut the silence,

"What did you do after that?"

"I ran as fast as I could. That's how I got lost." Masaya nodded,

"I see. So did you see where the girl went?"

"No," Ichigo said. She thought for a bit before she put on a confused face,

"Actually, Kish was the only one following me, for quite a long while. Then, somewhere along the way, he quit."

Akasaka interrupted,

"Wait, everyone! I just got Kisshu's signal!" They all bustled around the computer screen as they saw a blinking red dot on a map-like layout. Three other dots were in the same area.

"The orange is Ryou, the red is Kisshu, the black is Pai, and the brown is Taruto."

"That could be a bad mix, na do da!" Pudding exclaimed. Angie grinned mysteriously,

"Ah, but I have just the plan for stalling the aliens…" with that, she stood back from the crowd, "I wish a chunk of the main road was at Pai, Kisshu's, and Taruto's location!"

---

Kisshu looked from Pai, to Liz and the others, and back to Pai,

"Pai... please..." If not for Kish's wounds, Pai would have slapped him,

"You disgust me. You know where you belong, now snap back to your senses and come with us!" A chuckle could be heard and every eye turned to see none other than a shaking Mika,

"My oh my, Pai, I don't know what you have shoved in your ear. But he said he's not going." Kish gawked and took a small step towards Mika before Pai's thundering voice reached his ears,

"Take one more step towards that human and I'll hold back-"

Suddenly, a huge slab of eight-lane highway smashed into the earth dangerously close to Pai's head, creating a rather large cloud of dust.

Kate picked up Mika,

"I think this is our cue to run! Onward to the cafe!"

Using the cloud of dust as a cover, the party scattered in all directions, calling out names.

"Liz!"

"Ryou-kun!"

"Kisshu!"

Voices rang high and low in the confusion, people running in all different directions. At some point, Kate and Mika found Re running about in the crowd,

"Re, come on, we've got to get out of here!" Re was panicking as she spoke,

"B-but we're not all here!"

"We have to take what we can get and get out!" Kate whispered to Mika, "Wish your injuries were healed!" Mika groaned as the words came out raspy,

"I wish…my injuries…were healed." Instantly a bright light shone out from Mika's injured head and it was healed completely. Mika rubbed her eyes and stood on her feet. She groaned,

"Ugh…I have a terrible headache…"

"Side effect…" Kate muttered. Mika's head shot up when she remembered what she was doing. She dragged Kate behind her as she tried to cut through the thick smoke,

"Come on, we've got to find Kish-kun!" Kate held her back,

"Mika, no, we've got to get out of here, now! Pai or Taruto could kill us in an instant!" Mika still struggled as Kate dragged her back. Mika whirled around and kicked Kate in the shin.

"I said let GO!" she screamed. She dashed out into the cloud as soon as she was freed from Kate's grasp. Kate winced at the pain as she watched her go. She called in after her,

"Mika! Wait!"

Liz was coughing like crazy in the dust cloud, her allergies taking effect as the pollen from the plants were upset on impact by the cement of the road. That, and her throat was stinging terribly. She scanned the land in front of her, trying to pick out any movement. She, however, couldn't see past two feet in front of her.

Out of the dust, she could barely make out a bulky figure approaching in her direction. She was leaning between the decision or fighting whoever it was when the figure became clearer. It was not one person, but two; Ryou carrying Kisshu on his back. Liz gasped,

"Ryou! Kishu!" They both looked up, and looked at each other in a confused sort of way, before Liz stood up,

"I suppose I'm not the better known of the crazy people here. Call me Rizu." Ryou nodded,

"Where are the others? Have you seen them?" Liz shook her head,

"No, I haven't." With that, she began another coughing fit. This lasted for about ten seconds before she recovered,

"Sorry. Come on, we've got to get out of here, fast!"

"You're not going anywhere!"

From behind the three came Taruto gliding through the cloud, weapon in hand. Liz panicked when she realized that she was stuck in quite an undesirable situation.

She would have to battle Taruto.

She really didn't feel quite in the mood to get into any sort of battle. Partly because she knew nothing of combat skills and partly because she loved all of these characters and, being the geek she is, wanted to get their autograph, not fight them.

So she wished for the first thing that came to her mind,

"I wish I was Superwoman!"

In a split second, Liz felt herself being changed rapidly. She grew taller, her hair changed, and she felt more muscles grow in her. Soon enough, she was the exact carbon copy of the famous comic book superhero, Superwoman. She soon regretted her decision, however. For one, she was not used to revealing, skin-tight, spandex clothes. Secondly, turning into a full-grown woman in two seconds isn't too comfortable.

But to change back would be defeating the purpose, so she held out a hand to the befuddled Ryou with a gawking Kish on his back. He took it hesitantly, and Liz lifted them both up high above where Taruto aimed to strike. Kish was clinging to Ryou like a scared little kid in fear of falling like a potato sack. Ryou was gripping Liz…er…I mean, Superwoman's hand like no tomorrow.

"Superwoman" was flying -quite literally- at the speed of light with her new superpowers and soon had the two dropped off at the checkpoint - Café Mew Mew.

"Stay here," she ordered, "I'm going to try and lead Taruto off our trail."

With that, she flew off in one of those comic-book star things that people do when they fly out of eyesight.

Both sat there, dumbfounded, for a few moments. Ryou then put Kish down and they both wandered into the café.

---

"This is crazy, na no da!" Pudding said as the dots on the large screen scattered crazily in different directions.

Angie sweat dropped,

"Maybe this wasn't my best idea ever..."

Minto huffed,

"When did you figure that out, Einstein?"

Just then, Ichigo's pendant began to glow and ring. Zakuro folded her arms,

"Ryou's calling your pendant..."

Ichigo shook the small object and put it up to her ear multiple times, a perplexed expression consumed her facial features,

"Akasaka-saaaaan! How do I answer this thing?!" Akasaka sighed, but forced a polite smile,

"Just talk into it, Ichigo-san." Ichigo yelled into the pendant,

"RYOU! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" Soon a voice came from the pendant,

"I can hear you, baka Strawberry. Open the door."

"What?"

"I said open the door!!" Ichigo blinked for a moment, still not understanding what he meant. After a few seconds she understood. She ran over to the basement door and unlocked it, opening it to Ryou. Ryou nodded,

"Thank you." Ichigo soon saw who he was giving a ride on his back. Kish locked eyes with her, and his face went sober. He tried to put on a sheepish grin, but failed, resulting in a freakish-looking half-smile. Ichigo gritted her teeth,

"Ryou…why is there a leech on your back?" she took a step forward, "Here, let me squish it for you." Ryou frowned,

"Look, for now, we need to declare a truce with him, whether you like it or not. He won't do anything to us while he's like this, and Pai and Taruto are the ones we need to worry about now, not him." Ichigo kept a solid scowl, glaring at Kisshu through narrowed eyes. Kisshu remained in his slightly nervous state before he spoke,

"Um…we seriously need to clear some things up-"

"What is there to clear up?" Ichigo asked icily. Ryou rolled his eyes,

"Look, can you two have your petty little arguments somewhere else? I need to discuss something with Keiichiro-san." Ichigo nodded once, Kisshu nodded also. Ryou walked back into the main room of the café and slid Kisshu into one of the café's chairs. He muttered,

"I'll get your wounds cleaned up after this." Kisshu nodded,

"Thanks." Ichigo slunk into the chair across from him. She glowered at him through her bangs while Ryou went away with his hands behind his head.

After a minute or so of silence, she spoke.

"So?" Kisshu bit his lip, racking his brain for the right words,

"Um…it's a misunderstanding, really. Mika just acted without reason, and I honestly had no involvement."

"Prove it," Ichigo said flatly. Kisshu closed his eyes and sighed, coughing a bit as he did,

"What evidence is there? If you ask Mika, she'll deny that I had no involvement, but that's just because she has an obsession with me." Ichigo rolled her eyes and stood up from the table abruptly,

"I'm leaving." Kisshu reached out his hand and laid it on top of hers. He winced at the pain, but looked her in the eye,

"Sit down, please." Ichigo narrowed her eyes,

"You know what you are? A cockroach. You're so determined to get me that you don't stop being a bug, but I keep squishing you over and over," She turned away from the table, stating, "Did you know that cockroaches can live for three weeks without their head?" On that note, she stomped off to the basement. Kisshu groaned and hung his head,

Well that sucked.

---

Kate wandered around in the dust, she could hear everything, but nothing was in sight,

"Crap! Where is everyone?!" She coughed a little from the dust invading her throat before a loud cry pierced the air,

"FUU RAI SEN!"

Kate knew who had said this, and immediately used her annoying ability to talk at the speed of light,

"I-wish-I-could-dodge-Pai's-attack."

She was immediately transported just a few feet from her previous spot.

Only a fraction on a second later, a large crack sounded as the lightning emitted from Pai's fan hit

the ground were Kate once stood. Kate turned around (calm on the outside abut terrified on the inside) to face a slightly gawking Pai and rolled up her sleeves,

"Make it fast. I have to go save Mika."

Pai regained his stature, clenched his teeth, and narrowed his eyes,

"I won't waste your time."

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Despite being turned into Superwoman, Liz still wasn't pleased with her façade, and had no desire to fight a Tokyo Mew Mew character. Besides, it wasn't like being a super hero meant you had "Super human confidence" in the same package. So Liz, being the logical-thinking dork we all know, came up with a plan.

"I wish I had the ability to confuse people!" she said into the sky. A small whirring sound echoed around her, and she felt her hands tingle a bit. That was enough to convince her that she was given the ability. To say the truth, she didn't know if Superwoman had this ability to begin with; she never watched the show anyways. Superwoman was just the first thing she thought of when she thought of fight scenes.

So, when she saw Taruto flying overhead, she focused her mental ability to him and hoped it worked. She felt kind of stupid, seeing that no special laser beams or supersonic waves came out of her brain, like you see in the movies. She knew it worked, however, when the little alien stopped dead in his tracks, looked left, looked right, then teleported. She smirked to herself and wished that she was back to normal.

She felt herself slowly shrinking, and regaining her old clothes. She sighed with relief. Spandex got old after a while, and a pair of blue jeans never felt so good.

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"How long is he going to sit there like that?" Minto whispered harshly over her teacup to the other mews, who were all trying not to stare at the sulking Kisshu a few tables away from their own. He had been sitting there for hours now, supposedly 'thinking about his actions', and it was now closing time at the cafe.

Lettuce put on a small smile and rested her hand timidly on Ichigo's shoulder,

"Maybe you should go talk to him... just so he'll feel a bit better."

Angie scrunched her nose,

"He doesn't need to feel better! He needs to think about what he's done to Ichigo and everyone else involved in this chaotic mess!"

Ichigo made no attempt to hush her voice,

"I agree with Angie; he deserves every bit of physical and mental pain that have been inflicted on him so far. And besides, Masaya is my boyfriend" She clung tightly to Masaya's arm and he let her lean her head into his chest.

Kish just hung his head lower and shifted in his chair before teleporting.

Ichigo stood up and put on a half smile,

"I'm going home! See you all later!" Ryou suddenly burst through the basement doors, and, Ichigo, pulling Masaya with her, made a dash for the door. She stopped when Ryou's voice pointed out that he was obviously not happy,

"You're not going anywhere Baka-Strawberry! You still have floors and tables to clean!" Ichigo turned bright red and balled her fists up,

"I HATE you Shirogane-san!"

Ryou smirked and tossed a soggy washcloth onto one of the tables,

"I know."

---

Mika and Re ambled around in the thick brush of the forest, trying to recognize the scenery. Mika glanced around trees and watched the dirt path, hoping to find some kind of indication of where she was. Re trailed along beside her, whimpering complaints every so often.

They had both become lost in the battle, and Mika, having a hard headache and slightly confused, wandered away from the group. Re found her, and went after her, but that only got them more lost.

"Now, do I remember this tree from anywhere…" Mika mumbled, feeling the bark of it absent-mindedly. She shook her head and turned back to the front, quite discouraged.

Suddenly, as she took a step forward, she heard a crack. She looked down and observed a circular-shaped piece of metal. She picked up a shard and examined it closely. Turning it over, she saw a bright array of colors, and the logo for the Tokyo Mew Mew anime.

Remembering her summoning of the DVDs, she thought to herself,

The magical powers those girls keep telling me about should work for going places…

Re curiously tipped her head to the side,

"What is it?"

Mika straightened up and said, aloud,

"I wish I was where Kish-kun is!"

Re smacked her head at her own idiocy of not remembering she had superpowers, and repeated Mika's words,

"I wish I was where Kish-kun is!"

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Kate squinted her eyes against the swirling dust which had erupted from the piece of highway,

"This is not good. Not good at all. I can't see anything, especially Pai. I need to find a way-" Her thoughts were instantly interrupted by the purple alien once more,

"FUU RAI SEN!"

Kate did a quick back flip and barely dodged the bolt as a sudden idea popped into her head,

"I wish all this stupid dust was gone, no weapons within a thirty-foot radius existed, and any living beings besides me within that radius were trapped in concrete blocks!" And just as she had wished, that all happened. Pai's voice appeared to echo through the concrete container,

"Infernal human..." Kate just chuckled, placed her elbow on the now 'Pai block', and put on her best 'evil genius' face,

"SUPER GENIUS ALIEN MY BUTT!"

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"Got any fours?"

"No. Go fish."

Angie sighed and drew a card from the fish pond. Lettuce flipped through her cards hastily. She glanced from Pudding, to Minto, and back to Pudding.

"Minto-san, do you have any kings?" she asked.

"No, I don't. Go fish." Minto said, smirking in satisfaction. Lettuce put her hand out over the pile and tried to decide which card to pick up.

Suddenly, from the other side of the café, the front door blew open, and, standing in the doorway, was a very triumphant-looking Liz.

"I'M HERE!" she proudly declared, striking a superhero pose. Little anime sweat drops ran down the side of everyone's faces. Liz quickly righted herself, though, and stepped inside the overly-girly café, closing the doors behind her. Minto discreetly muttered,

"Freak…" from behind her cards, before turning to Pudding, "You have any nines?"

"Nuh-uh, na do da. Go fish, na do da!" Minto sighed and drew from the pile.

Liz observed the mellow mood in the café before deciding that a performing a dramatic entrance wasn't the best thing she's ever done. She walked over to the Go Fish table and drew up a seat.

"Anyone seen Kate?" she casually asked. Lettuce shook her head,

"No. Shirogane-san has been trying to locate hers and Mika-san's position for a while now. No results have turned up." Liz groaned,

"I can only imagine what kind of crap Kate has got herself into this time…"

No sooner had she spoken that the doors of the café burst open dramatically…again.

"I'M HERE!" cried an over-exuberant Kate standing in the doorway. Liz grinned and rushed over to her cousin, exchanging a warm tackle-hug with her.

"Keito-san!" Liz said, "Where were you?!"

"Trying to fight off Pai! He should be sulking in his warm little concrete box as we speak…" Kate said with a grin.

Somewhere, off in his little box of misery, Pai sneezed.

Liz began to laugh hysterically at the thought of Pai stuck in a little concrete box. Kate joined in…mostly because laughing is contagious like that.

Liz wiped the tears from her eyes and said between giggles,

"W-we'd better get home pretty soon; I think I'm going insane…" Kate nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I think so too. I've had enough of this crazy fiction world…and I think it's had enough of us."

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Kisshu sat on the rooftop of the café, curled up in the futile position. He was currently angst-ing over why Ichigo doesn't like him, a common hobby of his. No matter what perspective he looked at it, he just couldn't see how he could win Ichigo over. So here he sat in his little ball of misery.

Suddenly, he was interrupted by a small buzzing noise above his head, which gradually grew to a shriek, which became a scream. He only scrambled out of the way a moment before two screaming girls tumbled out of a portal in the sky, landing with a thump on the rooftop.

"Where'd you come from?" he asked with mild interest. He was quite used to the strange and the unnatural by now, so he was relatively unfazed. Mika straightened up and dusted herself off, not bothering to help Re to her rabbit-ish feet.

"Sorry 'bout that, Kish-kun!" she chirped, grinning broadly, "We were just on our way over to you and I guess we had a wrong landing!"

"I'll say!" said Re, "I think I broke my tail!"

"Is that even possible?" Mika said dryly, "I thought it was a piece of fluff…"

"I guess it isn't then," replied Re, "because I definitely felt something crack in there!"

"Er…" Kish interrupted, not quite sure how to respond to the situation.

Mika's eyes averted back to him.

"We need to get you medical help," she said frankly.

She said aloud, "I wish I had magical healing powers!" Instantly, her wish was granted, and she felt a pulsing warmth through her body. In the next second, it faded off. She knelt down next to Kisshu and pressed a hand to his chest. Kisshu's skin glowed a bright blue before it faded off. He blinked twice and said,

"Wow…I can't feel it anymore…why didn't you think of that before?" Mika shrugged,

"I dunno. Come on, let's go." She led Kisshu and a rather unhappy Re to the café. She threw open the double doors, and, striking a funny pose, yelled, "I'M HERE!"

Minto muttered, "De ja vu," scornfully before plucking a card out of her hand.

"Mika!" Liz and Kate both yelled. Mika grinned,

"That's my name! Don't wear it out!" Kisshu and Re both walked in from around her, and both Kate and Liz tackled Re in an instant. Re was happy to get the attention, and soon forgot all about her scornfulness towards Mika. "You're not dead!" Kate said beaming. Re rolled her eyes and smiled all the more,

"No way, genius! What made you think that?!

Suddenly, a sharp jab from Liz spat Re back into reality. Realty being that all eyes were upon her cousin and herself.

Everything seemed to stand still, excluding Kate who was still sprawled on her back, laughing, unaware of anything else. The silence, and the fact that all attention had to turned to her, was a familiar scenario for Re. Her solution? Stare helplessly back, as a deer in headlights.

Kate, after calming down, came back to planet earth. She looked around, and then broke the awkward silence with an abrupt question,

"Lizzy, you think it's time?"

Liz sighed happily,

"Most definitely."

Red hair flying, Kate stood and pointed a finger towards the sky,

"Alrighty then! Back to our world!"

Mika reeled back,

"B-But why...?"

Apparently Angie had caught on by now, and stood from her chair,

"We don't belong here, and all we do is cause trouble, right?" Many nods came her way.

Kate, Re (who came back from stunned state), Liz, and Angie move to Mika. Liz proceeded to give out directions on how to get back,

"Okay... We gotta stand in a circle," They did so.

"And grasp each other's hands," Done.

"And now, I speak the words of return. I wish," Everything began to fade as goodbyes passed from the Americans to the Japanese,

"Goodbye everyone I like! Not including Kisshu!"

"Bye Kisshu-kun! I love you!"

"Sayonara, peeps!"

"Uh... Bye!"

Liz continued as the Mews and Aliens flashed smiles and waved hands,

"I wish that we were all back to our rightful places in our rightful world."

Suddenly, the Tokyo Mew Mew world was gone and they were all floating in a white, windy, space. Gusts ripped at their clasped hands until they came apart and everyone was swept away in different directions.

Then, very suddenly, everything was still. And everyone sat in their 3-D world, staring at their computer screen.

No one said anything, but one same thing crossed all their minds,

"It's finally over. We're back."

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