"Get rid of you"? What did Destiney do that made Sumiko so fed up with her? Did she hear a rumour or was a lie spread about her? She chuckled nervously, standing a position that showed she was fearful. Sumiko seemed serious about this; it showed in the tone of her voice and expression.

"Wh-what? You... Y-you're k-kidding, r-right?

"Well... Maybe, but You're a Mew, right?" Sumiko question.

"H-how d-did y-you know I-I'm a..."

Destiney stood there for a moment, allowing a near silence to fill in. The only noises were those of passing buses and Sumiko's heavy breathing. Destiney couldn't understand what Sumiko meant. She had her intentions set on being a guardian of this city against the evil that threatened it. So why did Sumiko seem so worked up over the exact opposite?

"S-sumiko-chan..." Destiney said, trying to begin a sentence.

"Don't call me that. Don't call me Sumiko-chan... I don't want to be called that right now. Just tell me... Are you a Mew? And are you actually on the villains' side?"

"O-on the v-villains' side?! I-I h-haven't e-even m-met the enemy f-face to face! Wh-why would I be h-helping them?!"

"Don't talk like that... You should know!"

Sumiko's eyes were now noticeably welling up with tears, it was easy to tell that she was upset and confused. She slowly got up close to Destiney, as if she were losing her patience. Destiney was now starting to tense up from her usual nervousness, laughing nervously she spoke up.

"S-sumiko-chan... I-I'm being honest." Destiney said.

"Come on Yami-san... Don't do this, I need to know... So just simply answer me, I'm losing patience." Sumiko replied.

"B-but...! I-I'm t-telling the truth! S-sumiko-chan..."

"Yami-san... Please... Just tell me... You're my friend, right?"

There was a sudden thought to Sumiko's mind, it wasn't exactly the most rational however she decided to bring light to it.

"I know... I'll fight the answer out of you..." Sumiko said to Destiney.

"Wh-what?! S-sumiko, I-I'm not g-going to f-fight!"

"Then answer me!"

"I-I d-don't know! R-really!"

And with that Destiney felt a strike as Sumiko's foot land on her right hip. It was a basic attack, but nonetheless it hurt her. Her voice let out a small yelp of pain and she stumbled backwards. Sumiko frowned; she didn't want it to come to this and she knew Destiney didn't want it either.

"Destiney, I'm sorry... But please... Just tell me." Sumiko said, her voice sounded like it would break.

"I.. I-I can't... B-because I d-don't know what you m-mean..."

"... Then I'll have to fight the truth out of you, I guess..."

"S-sumiko-chan... Wh-why, p-please t-tell me wh-why..." Destiney pleaded.

"I... I"

Destiney's mouth opened to speak however not a single noise came out as she had become speechless as what was meeting her eyes. A spot on Sumiko's body had begun to glow a hot pink color; her earlobe. An odd place on someone's body to see glowing, however a change in skin color was occurring on it. It appear to be turning yellow, in the shape of a cowbell. The question sudden hit Destiney like a brick; is this a Mew Mark taking form on her ear? Is Sumiko really the very thing that she thought to be wrong?

Once the Mew Mark was in full view, Sumiko was surrounded by an extremely luminous light. It was the same light Destiney had seen on Thirza and Aki's transformations and experienced in her own, this indeed clarified that Sumiko was a Mew. The light had eventually died down and standing in front of Destiney was Sumiko, however Sumiko was wearing a hot pink Mew uniform with yellow trim. Her eyes had become a golden color and her hair was now entirely pink.

"S-s-sumiko... Y-you're a...!"

"What, how... How did I...?!" Sumiko looked at her newfound transformation frantically, realizing that she herself was a Mew.

Her panic quickly came to an end as an idea sprung into her mind; why not see if Destiney will answer if she can win a battle with her?

"You're a Mew too, Yami-san... Why don't we fight it out in our Mew forms?..." Sumiko suggested.

"B-but... F-fight a-another M-mew?! Why?! W-we're n-not chimeras..."

"Yami-san... I'm going to find out. I need to... I can't just. I can't just let this go. I can't."

"I-I..."

Destiney thought to herself for a moment, Sumiko seemed as if she had her sights set on finding out the truth about the Mews and that would mean the truth about herself as well. While she didn't want to have to fight Sumiko, it seemed it would be the only choice. That was the only conclusion to this now, from Destiney's perspective.

"I-I'll fight you... S-suu~ito-chan..." Destiney said.

"Alright. Just... Make sure you don't hold back..."

Sumiko let out a faint smile, trying to reassure she didn't want it to come to this as much as Destiney did.

"F-fine..."

Taking a deep breath in and looking at Sumiko, it was easy to tell now she was determined to stop her. The Mew Mark on her leg was the beginning point of the luminous bright light that consumed her body as she screamed out the words that activated her transformation.

"E-emerald... D-DNA... Switch!"

The light was just as overwhelming as Sumiko's and was quickly gone in a loud, short lived burst. Her hair flowing gently, along with her skirt, Destiney had now transformed into Mew Destiney. She was prepared to fight Sumiko. They took their stances, and as if some sort of whistle had gone off, they had at each other.

As it went on, it was easy to tell where their own strengths and weaknesses were. Sumiko's Mew attack did decent damage, however she was easily able to do damage with her fists and feet. Destiney was the opposite: her arms and legs couldn't do anything at all but block and bruise. However since that was her weak point, her strong point was an energy based attack.

"Yami-san... You really are strong with with your energy attack... I wish I had potential in that area. At least... At least I can attack with my hands and feet." Sumiko said, preparing to thrust an attack.

"Wh-what d-do you mean?! I-I'm not..."

Her eyes dilating accompanied a short, sharp gasp of air. Following was a shrill shriek of pain as she was thrown back into a bus stop and as she was thrown at it she went through it and broke the glass, showing the sheer amount of force Sumiko had in her. After finally stopping, Destiney lay on the side on her side, her hands over her stomach. That was one of her greater weak points Sumiko had hit, and with that amount of force it was undeterminable whether she would get back onto her feet or stay down. Sumiko, realizing that may have been the fateful move that decided the winner, couldn't help but almost feel pitiful of Destiney. Destiney didn't have the strongest, most flexible body and was easily injured.

"Yami-san... Are you alright...?" Sumiko asked, a tone of concern in her voice.

"I-I'm... A-ack... I-I'm fine..." Destiney replied, a slight strain in her voice.

"Do you give up, or will you continue to fight?"

"... I'll c-continue t-to f-fight... B-because..."

Sumiko was taken back, Destiney did seem to be able to get up; but just barely. She seemed to be staggering as she slowly pushed herself to her knees, and then slowly to her feet. This generally did not seem like a good sign to Sumiko, however given that Destiney seemed to have something to say she kept her mouth shut about it. The gem on her wrist lit up brightly with luminescent energy.

"Because... Y-you w-want the t-truth, r-right? You w-want to kn-know whether wh-what y-you were t-told was true o-or not?" Destiney asked.

"That's... That's right, I don't want it Yami-san... I need it." Sumiko replied,

"S-suu~ito-san... I-I c-can't..."

"Stop... You can't tell me anything yet." Her mouth curled up into a small, competitive smile. "We still haven't finished the fight yet..."

"Oh... A-alright... If th-that's what y-you want. Th-then I-I'll h-hit you... W-with everything I've g-got."

"Yami-san... Heh... Then let's go, and settle this now?"

Destiney stood there for a moment, allowing a brief silence to set in before she smiled in a bittersweet way at Sumiko, knowing what she had to do now. Sumiko wanted this to be over as much as Destiney, and so they both had the same thought on their minds: deliver one final blow to determine the winner.

"A-alright... L-let's do th-this, S-suu~ito-san..."

Now entirely standing straight up, Destiney's entire body was glowing bright with energy. Her hair flew up quickly as the entire glow drained down into her weapon, and she could slowly feel fatigue come upon her. Ignoring it, she prepared to strike. Sumiko also prepared herself as she was going to try and throw her attack back at Destiney's. Both of them took a stance to attack with, the faint hum of energy racing around and in their weapons slowly growing louder.

"R-Ripping..." Destiney began, slowing bringing herself to strike.

"Slamming..." Sumiko slowly recited, spinning her weapon in her hands.

"Moonshine!"

"Earth!"

The two attacks went at each other in full force, creating an enormous light that consumed the entire area. It was unknown what had happened, and questions remained unanswered. Who had won? Who had lost? Did one of them die? Or perhaps both had...?

All of the questions were soon answered as Heina and Thirza arrived on the battlefield moments later. The energy seem to have taken its toll, and Destiney and Sumiko were rather hard to find. They both spotted them; Thirza found Destiney on her hands and knees and Heina had found Sumiko lying unconscious in the middle of the street. Thirza ran up to Destiney in both concern for her health and relief that at least she was alive.

"Dessie! Are you... Are you alright?! Did you get hurt?!" Thirza asked, her voice sounded worried.

Destiney did nothing but look up at Thirza and right afterwards, possibly in the blink of an eye, she was out like a light. She lifted up Destiney's body, which was unsurprisingly light as always and she held her sister close.

"Heina... Is she alright over there? I think Destiney..." Her voice had deep concern in it. Both Destiney and Sumiko seemed to be suffering from fatigue and injury.

"Eh... I don't know. She looks like she got hit pretty hard... And the kid over there does too..." Heina replied, she sounded strangely serious for once.

"I think we should call Nigai... And an Ambulance too..." Thirza suggested.

"Yeah... That's probably for the best." Heina replied as she checked over Sumiko's body.

Several hours later, it was confirmed that they both had no overwhelmingly serious injuries and had made it out alive from the fight. However the both of them still needed to recover their own energy and strength that was used up. Returning home, Sumiko slowly trudged up stairs to the upper floor and slouched on the rather old couch in Nigai's house. No sooner than she had done that, Nigai walked in the door and shut it quietly behind him to make sure he did not show that he was angered.

"Sumiko, I need to speak with you." Nigai said, the tone in his voice implied it was not good. Although to Sumiko normally those certain words meant nothing good anyhow.

"Please, not now. I'm thinking..." Sumiko replied, a groan in her voice as she spoke.

"No, Sumiko. I'm not going to respect that right now, I need to talk about your little battle."

"... What do you want to talk about it?" She replied hesitantly.

"I know what happened, Sumiko. I know that you fought Destiney to try and find out the truth and I'm a little disappointed that you didn't try to settle things peacefully. Why did you start that fight?"

"Because... I thought that, since she's a Mew too... And she said she didn't know. So I thought maybe if I won a fight with her... She would tell me the truth. "

"Sumiko, that was not a wise move and you should have thought about it more. That was a lie, the Mews are here to stop them! Not team up with them in secrecy!" The tone in Nigai's voice was now harsher, more angry.

"How do you know?! You probably don't know anything about the Mews!" She fought him back, feeling slowly provoked to anger.

"I'm the one who's in control of the infusion gun Sumiko! I started the Mew Project!" He yelled at her, creating a sudden silence.

Sumiko looked at him, wide eyed like he had suddenly pointed a gun at her head. She was shocked, her own uncle had started the Mew project. He Infused her, Destiney, Heina, everyone. Yelling at him as if he had not known about what she had come to believe was like her preaching about an already blown conspiracy.

"I... I... I'm..." She tried to speak, but the correct words just wouldn't come out.

"You're what?" Nigai asked, his voice showing frustration.

"I'm... I'm going to my room!" She yelled, unable to truly say anything else.

Without any time for Nigai to oppose her, she was off the couch and in her designated bedroom. Quickly locking the door, she walked over to her bed and sat down, just allowing gravity to push her into it. The grief and guilt slowly set in; everything she had done was meaningless violence.

"I... Don't think... I can face anyone, now. I'm sorry... Destiney-chan. I'm... Such an idiot..."

Tears began to run down Sumiko's face as she shut the blinds, turned off the lights, and bitterly cried herself to sleep. Nigai could hear weeping from behind the door as he stood by it, the look of concern for her coming over his face. He pulled a touch phone out of his pocket and quickly dialed a number. The tone that signalled it connected came on and shortly afterwards a young, male voice answered.

"What is this discussion concerning, Nigai-san?" He answered.

"Meet me at my lab in two days, early. We need to talk." Nigai replied, sound stern as ever.

"Dude, why in two days?"

"Because I have something that needs taken care of tomorrow..."

"Okay then, suit yourself. Until then..."

The call ended and Nigai put his phone back. He felt worried for Sumiko, it was urgent everything was taken care of quickly. However... How exactly was he going to achieve this?

The passing night had slowly broken out into dawn, which was when Nigai had begun the day by arguing with Sumiko to get up and prepare for her school day. After what seemed like a day's worth of it, Sumiko finally agreed to go just to get him off of her back. For her however there was the issue of seeing Destiney. After what had happened she remained upset. She slowly moved her feet, hoping that maybe if she walked slowly enough she wouldn't have to see Destiney or her sisters and perhaps she would even be able to miss school by arriving at such a late time.

However unfortunately even with the pace she was at, the school slowly appeared to her. As she stepped foot on the school grounds, bells began ringing which signalled the beginning of class. Sumiko slowly and silently made her way in, taking her seat in the back of the classroom. Upon entering she earned an unpleasant glare from the teacher, who then continued his lecture.

The day slowly dragged on, it seemed like she would be stuck in that school forever. During their lunch break, Sumiko refused to eat and rather she went to the back of the school where she just sat there and watched other students playfully fool around with each other.

"Yo, Suu-ito?" A voice said.

This voice was all too familiar, Sumiko cringed with fear to look up and see exactly who she thought it was. It was none other than Heina, who had a rare serious expression on her face.

"Um... Yeah?" Sumiko responded, it was easy to tell that she was being hesitant.

"I want to talk t'you for a second."

"About what?"

"About your dead cat!" Heina said, obvious sarcasm in her voice. "About last night kid."

"Er... Yeah?"

"I wanted to say that you're very lucky that you and Destiney both made it out alive, and that... She's upset that she had t'do that you know... Did you want to pick a fight with her?"

"Well, I... I just wanted to know something!" Sumiko said, trying to defend herself.

"So you just went a started a fight with her, huh?" Heina said, the tone in her voice told Sumiko that she wasn't buying it.

"Yeah... So?"

Sumiko looked away from Heina, she felt like she was being interrogated. Heina kneeled down and grabbed Sumiko to make eye contact with her.

"I just want you t'know that you need to make up with her, or else! Got it?!"

"I got it! But... You know you aren't really that scary when you put it like that, right?" Sumiko implied, waiting for Heina's reaction.

"Ha! I'm not trying! Now go make up with her or you're facing Righty and Lefty, punk!" Heina teased her.

Sumiko immediately made a dash, screaming that she would as she disappeared behind the school. Heina's red eyes watched her until she was in sight no more and then she relaxed where Sumiko was.

"If this doesn't go well then I guess me and Thirza-chan are going to lock Suu-ito-san and Destiney-chan in a closet... Maybe I should have done that first..." She shrugged, enjoying the relaxation she was getting from the last few minutes of the lunch period. "Eh, oh well."

The school day seemed to drag on even slower then before, Sumiko was almost falling asleep at her desk. Just as she was about to doze off, the sound of the final bells ringing blared and she was well awake. She waited until the rest of the students had left the classroom, and then slowly walked out herself. Walking through the hallways, her shoes quietly squeaked as students slowly abandoned them for the day.

Slowly she opened the final door, letting rays of sunshine pour down on her. Sumiko narrowed her eyes, trying to become used to the sudden change in lighting. As she walked down several steps, gripping to a handrail in order to keep her balance she heard several girls. It was familiar voices, those of Thirza, Destiney, and Heina. Her eyes scanned the area to see Thirza and Heina trying to keep Destiney on hold from going home.

"C'mon Dessie... Just stay here for a few more minutes, okay?" Thirza pleaded.

"B-but... I h-have homework t-to d-do. Wh-what do I n-need to st-stay h-here for?" Destiney replied to Thirza, her voice sounded tired.

"You um... We..." Thirza tried to make up a reason for them keeping her there, but there was no luck.

Right before Thirza gave up, she saw Sumiko who was merely standing there and watching them. Exchanging an expression with Heina, then both backed off from Destiney in hope that Sumiko would take this opportunity now.

"Y'know what kid? Alright, you're free to move about." Heina said, slowly walking away from Destiney with Thirza following.

"Yeah, we'll seeya at home!" Thirza added, beginning to race Heina.

"See- Hey! Get back here! You little..."

"Wh-what... Wh-what was th-that a-about?..." Destiney asked herself.

Destiney slowly began her walk back home, when she heard a familiar voice call her out. Stopping in her tracks, she turned around to see Sumiko standing there. There was a dead silence between the two for a moment, and the only noise around to fill it was remaining students running off to catch of a subway or begin their walk home.

"S... Suu-ito-san..."

"Yami... No, Destiney-chan... Can I, um... Can I talk to you?" Sumiko said, she began to feel nervousness well up in her.

"I-I guess..." Destiney replied, her voice made it sound as if she actually did not want to.

"Destiney-chan, I guess I should start with how... Unthoughtful it was to have started a fight last night, huh?"

Remaining silent, Destiney merely nodded. She didn't want to have to remember last night, having to fight another Mew. While it may have been the right decision to defend herself, she knew that the fight in the first place was not.

"Well, I... I wanted to tell you that Uncle told me that he was the one who started the Mew project, so I guess it's confirmed that what I was told was wrong. But, the fight last night. I... I really got into trying to ferret things out, so I guess I got carried away. I don't just want to let things go by like this though, can you forgive me and give me the chance to make it up to you?"

"I-I... I a-also th-think... I'm p-part of the b-blame." Destiney implied.

"Eh? How are you?" Sumiko asked, her curiosity heightened.

"I sh-should h-have j-just told you... I-instead of b-being so st-stupid and n-naive. I d-didn't say a-anything th-that I sh-should have..."

"Destiney... You have absolutely nothing to be blamed for. It was all my fault, and I shouldn't have even listened to that guy from the beginning. So please... Just, forgive me?"

Destiney just stood there, unsettling silence setting in. Sumiko felt uneasy, was she going to forgive her or say that she couldn't? The corners of Destiney's mouth curled into a small smile.

"Y-yes, I-I forgive you, S-Sumiko-chan."

"Th.. Thank you, Destiney-chan!"

Sumiko ran up to her quickly and tightly hugged, just about everything seemed to be fixed; aside from bruising and cuts.

"Oh... And by the way, your older sister is really weird." Sumiko said, trying to see if she could get Destiney to laugh.

She did indeed get her too, but then it quickly stopped as Destiney's train of thought went off in another direction.

"B-but... You st-still h-have to m-make it u-up, S-sumiko-chan..."

"Hmm... Well then! Why don't I take you out and get you something really nice?" Sumiko said, her voice sounding much more pleasant.

"Ehehe... A-alright! J-just... P-please don't g-go overboard..."

"We'll see!"

Sumiko released Destiney and winked at her. Destiney seemed to have blushed a bit, the offer seemed to be too much to give to someone like her. Before she knew it, Sumiko had grabbed her hand and taken off with her in tow.

Changing the scene, Nigai quietly walked up the stairs in Cafe Mew Mew the following day. Opening a door, her entered the the Lab where a male with black hair and bright red eyes was sitting in Nigai's chair with a girl sitting on the arm of it. Unfortunately for the two, Nigai went and interrupted them.

"Ahem?" He simply said, catching their attention quickly.

"Ah... So you finally decided to come in here, Nigai-san?" The male replied, looking over at Nigai.

He was unamused, shutting the door behind him, Nigai folded his arms and began to speak.

"I need to speak with you about what you had done the other day, Mephisto-san."

End of Chapter.