The Mew Duo; Earth and Snow
The two girls, Shukumei and Haruka; the dark haired brunette with purple streaks tumbled into a odd place of white walls and mazes. It was their workout area where they sharpened and honed their skills until the reached perfection.
"What do you think you were doing? Akumi-sama gave you orders to activate her powers, not fight her! I should give a report to her right now about your actions." Shukumei scolded Haruka.
"Relax, I wasn't even taking it seriously! They aren't all that strong, Suuito-senpai even said that unless they get stronger-"
"They will get stronger." Shukumei cut her off, clenching her jaw in an aggravated manner. A glint of anger flashed by in her red-orange eyes. "And you need to take everything seriously. The villain who doesn't take her opponent seriously is going to be the first to go. That's how it works."
"She's right. I can see I've been rubbing off on you in more ways than one, Shukumei." A familiar male voice complied.
Shukumei and Haruka turned their heads to one of the maze entrances, to see Mephisto standing there. His face was teasing to Shukumei, but serious and stiff to Haruka.
"I have news from Suuito-san to spread around to you girls." He then said, slowly walking into the maze hall.
"Is it good or bad news?" Shukumei asked him in a hurry, picking herself up off of the floor.
"It's... Good. Phase one of the Mew power data is nearly finished."
"What's phase one?" Haruka asked.
"Strength in phase one, there's been enough Mews to average it. Before he starts phase two, I'm warning you that a few, not many, new Mews are going to be showing up."
"More Mews? What do you mean?" Shukumei asked him, both ignorant and curious. "Aren't there enough for things to go as they should?"
Mephisto shook his head slightly. "No, things are moving slower than we anticipated. I'm not sure about the details, but keep your guard up. The new Mews are going to come in a small number, but they're anticipated to be much stronger."
"Stronger Mews... I'm guessing that means we need to sharpen ourselves more?" Asked Haruka, scratching the back of her head with slight nervousness.
"Yes, sharpen yourselves and be prepared. This project is going to be moving onto the bullet train very soon..." Mephisto said, an excited grin coming to his face.
Cafe Mew Mew; renovated only half of a year ago and already it had become incredibly lively. The weekly after school meeting was today, just luckily, so all of the Mews were there and ready for the news Nigai had for them. The only two who were missing from the meeting were Destiney and Thirza; who were on their way with the newly born Mew.
"Jeez, where are they? I even got here early just to get this over with." Heina grumbled, leaning against the wall in Nigai lab.
"Be patient, Heina-chan." A girl with violet hair replied to her, scribbling down notes in her notebook.
"How can I be patient? I have to go to practice swimming, if I don't practice I won't have a chance to get gold." Heina snapped back.
"Be nice to Charlotte!" A small girl with blonde hair all tied up in pigtails said.
These two girls were new Litemon Mews who had activated their powers during the winter; Charlotte Watson who had moved to Japan from America when she was young and Henrietta Edwards, a girl who was born in Japan from two British natives. Both of them being non-japanese by blood, they formed a special bond with each other.
"Are we fighting each other?!" Aki asked in shock.
"They are, I'm not involved in it and you shouldn't be either, Aki-chan." Sumiko replied.
"Aside from that, bickering isn't what we should be doing at the moment. Suuito?" A girl with dark brown hair asked as she pulled her tangled bangs away from her face.
The girl with tangled, dark-brown hair was a newly born Emerald Mew Mew; Kyoku Kawa. She was a year younger than the Yami twins, just entering high-school this year.
"Right, it would be wise to wait for the Yami twins, but seeing that they aren't here..." Nigai muttered, clicking around his computer to find the correct information.
The door to the lab slammed open, Thirza rushing in. Partly out of breath with a small amount of sweat on her forehead.
"I'm sorry we're late! I forgot about the meeting and we had a new Mew born!" She yelled.
"A New Mew? Who is it?" Sumiko asked, raising her brow in curiosity.
Thirza cleared her throat, making a dramatic scene as her extraverted personality always did. "Introducing, Mew Tia!"
She threw her arms out dramatically as Tia walked into the door casually, trying to act normal. All of the Mews staring at her, causing her to feel anxious and pressured in the slightly dark room.
"Well, Hi. My name's Tia Yuki, and from what I heard I'm a new member of this Mew project!" She said with some forced excitement in her voice.
Nigai raised his brow at her and then clapped his hands together once; spinning back towards his computer. "This is exciting, if my calculations are correct, this finishes a small unit. Sumiko!"
Sumiko jumped up from her spot on the floor. "Yes uncle?!" She asked with an excited voice.
"From the unit plans here, it say that Tia is your designated partner." Nigai replied, pointing to the screen under the unit files.
There were three completely visible unit files; Emerald Mew Mew, Litemon Mew Mew, and Mew Duo. Behind the Litemon Mew Mew's file, almost seemingly hidden, was a different file. It read; "UNK W MEW", as if the words were all blocked out by the Litemon Mews file. Heina peered her eyes and tried to read it, her suspicions rising against Nigai.
"U... N... K..." Heina said in her loudest voice possible, deliberately trying to get everyone to notice.
"That's nothing of your concern, Heina-chan." Nigai said in a hurry, keeping himself calm as he closed out of the mysterious file.
"I'm watching you old man..." Heina grumbled.
"Heina, have some respect for our elders, please." Charlotte said, pressing her palm against her forehead.
"But that's no fun!" Aki added in, huffing.
"No wonder Kohi is always in trouble." Eimi muttered quietly, leaning against the wall.
"Girls! Let's all calm down and listen to the old man." Thirza yelled, grinning.
Nigai grumbled to himself and cursed under his breath, clicking around his computer for different information.
"Alright, so this week there hasn't been a sufficient amount of activity."
"And that's supposed to mean?" Heina jumped in.
"It's supposed to mean that I haven't had much data to work with. But I can say that I've been working with the data on your powers, and Heina-san's recent flaming sensations." Said Nigai.
"There isn't anything wrong with me, is there?" Heina asked him, now feeling worried. "I haven't been able to fight much because of it and I've had the itch to get back into the battle."
"Although further investigation is going to required, it may be proof that your powers are starting to evolve, Heina-san."
"Evolve? What the heck does that mean?" Thirza asked, now curious.
"Hey, Nigai Onii-chan." Aki jumped in, a little antsy. "I've started to get the burning too, does that mean my powers are beginning to evolve?"
"You are too? Hmm... It could be occurring at random... I'll need to take note of that." Nigai murmured. "Yes, it's possible all of you are going to evolve eventually. Aki-chan, Heina-san, I'll need you two to stick around for some questioning. And possible examination..."
"Got it." Heina confirmed. "Just don't use me as a guinea pig."
Destiney sat in the back of the room against the door, having been nearly silent the entire time. Her head was shaken with the idea of their powers evolving; was it a good thing, or was it a bad thing? She couldn't tell how, but a gut feeling told her that it seemed dangerous. Destiney very deeply wanted to say how she felt, but something, an unknown force, kept her from saying it.
"I'm guessing you're just as confused as me, right?" Tia asked, sitting down next to Destiney.
"A-A Little bit... Something d-doesn't seem right about th-this." She replied quietly, a little sheepishly.
"It seems pretty cool, I know I'm far off from evolving though. I just transformed after all." Tia said.
Destiney nodded slightly, trying to agree with Tia. It was hard though, something that held an enormous 'Danger' sign over it for her held interest and excitement for her new comrade. She knew she probably wasn't the only one thinking that it was a suspicious idea, but she just couldn't tell.
"Yuki-san, why don't you and Sumiko take care of the evening patrol tonight? The rest of the girls can do their job here and Heina-san and Aki-chan can do their testing." Nigai shouted from across the room.
"Right, come on Yuki-san!" Sumiko chirped, taking Tia and running out the door without a second thought.
"Ah! I'll talk to you later, I need to run apparently!" Tia shouted to Destiney, her voice fading away as the door slammed shut.
"Ehe... B-bye..." Destiney said weakly, soaking in the sudden leave of those two.
"Hm... Destiney, I want you to do patrol opposite of those two. Watch them and see what happens." Nigai said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"H-huh? Why?" Destiney questioned.
"Incase those two idiots screw up is all, I can already see something happening..." Nigai replied, turning his computer and opening up a blank file. He named the file; "MEW EVOLUTION DATA".
"Isn't this fun?" Sumiko asked Tia sarcastically.
The two Mews, transformed and clad in their respective bright colors, were sitting on the rooftops of Tokyo and surveying the activity. Another way either one of them would have written it as; they were watching nothing.
"Uh, I guess. Nothing's going on really, why do we have to do a patrol?"
"It was Uncle's idea, he said it would keep the city safer and if any new Mews were born we could rush to the scene."
"Alright, It makes sense." Tia shrugged.
Sumiko stood up and stretched herself, when something in the Tokyo Bay caught her eye. It seemed like a commotion, people that were no larger to her eye than gnats were running away from the port. And something about the size of a cicada to her was causing damage; a Chimera.
"Alright, we've got work to do Yuki-san. You ready to fly?" Sumiko asked, preparing herself.
"Wait, I can fly now?" Tia asked her, standing up in a hurry.
"Um, No, but we need to jump across rooftops to make it to the bay. Just try to keep yourself hidden, Uncle says the Mews don't need attention on them." Sumiko said. It was fun for her to have a new mew to teach, and she knew how it felt too, being the new girl in this game.
"Got it, I'll race you there!" Tia yelled, taking off and plummeting down towards the earth until she hit the top of a cement roof. She ran off quickly, much to Sumiko's surprise.
"Hey, jerk!" Sumiko laughed, taking off after her new comrade.
The two ran across rooftops and jumped above alleys, making themselves known only to those who caught a shimmer or a glimpse of them. The Tokyo Bay become more detailed as they neared; the damages being done seemed more drastic. The Bay wasn't often a hot spot for the enemy to use for attack; which was a surprise. With all of the activity going on there and the animals in the water, you would figure it would be one of their biggest priorities.
Once they reached the last building on their road of rooftops, they stopped. Sumiko closed her eyes and focused, looking full of power as two bell-adorned nunchucks fell into her fair skinned hands.
"So, did you manifest your powers yet?" Sumiko asked, preparing herself.
"Um, no. Is that a bad thing?" Tia said, going along with Sumiko's motions and forcing herself into a battle stance.
"Er, well, neutral. Let me give you a hint; focus and you'll get them. The words will come to you." Sumiko advised, then leaping off of the building and jumping right into battle.
Tia nodded seriously, it was time for her first real fight with a monster; just like she had heard about on television. Heroic girls appearing at the scene of an attack; and now she was one of them.
Sumiko, the wise teacher to Tia's naive student has gone right into the heat she had mentally prepared herself for. The Chimera was the result of an alien parasite infecting an Octopus; giving the girls a large and gross, many tentacled monster to battle.
It whipped it's tentacles at Sumiko, trying to drill through her soft flesh. But in her own defense, Sumiko whipped right back at it with a volley of coordinated kicks. The two of them fought; Sumiko as serious as she could be against the mindless and mad beast.
Tia stormed into the fight along with Sumiko with as much intensity as she could muster, distracting the beast as it's lashing arms whipped both the Mews and boats around. The tentacles drilled and hammered into the earth and port surrounding it, causing destruction wherever it chose to serve it to.
"Yuki-san, we need to hurry and finish this! Focus on your weapon!" Sumiko shouted, bringing hers back into her own hands. She lunged into the air with as much grace as a frog, not caring about her appearance as she spun and lashed her arms out. "Slamming Earth!" She cried, her nunchucks whipping out rocks that had been constructed from her own powers.
The bulky boulders smashed against the monsters soft and squishy outer layer, prying in further to crush against whatever was underneath it. It was fazed, but rebounded quickly to Sumiko's and Tia' amazement. These monsters just continued to evolve just as the Mews would. They were relentless.
Angered by it's injury, the monster threw it's tentacles out in a reckless manner. Sumiko dodged just by a hair, leaping away and tumbling on the ground. Tia however; was right in the monsters path. She was frozen with fear, screaming for help from her partner as she braced herself
A beam of bright blue light came to her rescue; slicing the tentacle apart and rendering it useless. The monster let out a skull rattling screech as red blood oozed out of the other half.
The sound of a soft and uncoordinated landing ringed softly in their ears; of course it would only be Destiney, the cat who never landed on her feet quite right.
"Destiney-chan!" Sumiko whipped around, a sour tone in her voice. "Thank you for saving Yuki-san, I guess, but I had the situation under control."
Destiney stood there for a moment, giving Sumiko a tired look of disbelief. She was rattled, having been watching the two fight from above with deep anxiety that they would end up in a fatal spot like they just nearly had. "Tia-chan, c-can you tr-try to summon your p-powers?"
"I can try..." She said, squeezing her eyes tight. She could imagine the outline; two perfectly identical snowflakes. But they just couldn't manifest when she wanted them to; she couldn't get their name. Her eyelids glowed orange with anger, and she groaned in exasperation. "It won't come to me."
"Come on Yuki-san, try." Sumiko said, putting on hand on Tia's shoulder.
"I'll try, but I can guarantee it'll work this time." Tia replied, shutting her eyelids once more. With Sumiko's hand on her, she was able to relax. Her eyes and palms began to glow orange once more, and one object began to manifest itself in both hands. "S... Snowflake... Snowflake Slashers!" She yelled, the two objects becoming whole in her hands.
"Y-you did it." Destiney said with glee, then turning to Sumiko.
"Let's all attack together and try to finish it off, it should be a piece of cake." Sumiko said with a cocky grin.
Tia and Destiney nodded in agreement, the three of them leaping into the air and spreading out three ways. Tia was rattled, nervous, what if she would mess up and miss? Or maybe her weapon would work, but it wouldn't leave any effect on the raging beast. The sound of Sumiko's voice woke her up from her trance.
"Slamming Earth!" She yelled, snapping out her wrists and whipping rocks at the monster.
"R-Ripping Moonshine!" Destiney followed, pointing her index finger to somehow direct the manifested ray of pure energy.
Tia gulped down hesitation and grinned, she knew she could do this. Words came to her mind like motivation to an artist. "Frost Bite!" She yelled, throwing the pair of snowflakes at the monster.
The rocks crushed it, the energy disintegrated it, and the snowflakes cut through it's squishy octopus flesh all at once. It's screech could split ones skull, and it dispersed, leaving nothing but damage and dented boats.
"Wow... I can't believe I just did that!" Tia said to herself in amazement, landing on one of the rooftops nearby.
Sumiko ran up to her and gave her a tight hug, excited for her new partner. "You did it! And you having throwing stars to match my nunchucks! We're like ninjas!" She squealed like an obsessive teenage girl.
Destiney landed nearby the two, but stayed back. She was going to leave the two alone now; although it seemed promising that she could become good friends with Tia, Sumiko needed time to spend getting to know her partner more. A good friendship could blossom between Tia and Sumiko, the first completed unit out of the three created.
"Research is complete, and everything is set to go." A male said, typing information rapidly into his computer. "The slight alterations to the genes has been proceeded with safely."
"Good, we're ready to see what the fruit of this project can bring."
"Our plans having been going as expected, but this should speed them up greatly." The male replied, turning around in his chair. Although his face was shadowed, it was familiar.
"And the dynamics should be interesting, they may even be able to bring out the current Mews full potential. Then we may get ahead, rather than behind."
The door to the lab opened, shedding light in on the scientists. Their faces were exposed; a female who looked not of this planet and Nigai were preparing to set off the injection gun. Mephisto walked into the room, pleased with the progress.
"Are we ready for this, my comrades?" Mephisto asked them.
"Yes, these four should have higher energy outputs." Nigai replied.
"Perfect, I've warned my girls of them. Whenever you're ready, I believe we should give Akumi-sama the honor of setting off the gun."
"Thank you, Yami-san." She said, smiling. She picked up the trigger, gently circling it with her thumb. "The Unknown Mew unit infuses now; may they advance us greatly." She said with pleasure, pressing down on the trigger. The room shook with an earthquake and became blindingly bright with red light from the gun.
A ceiling fan trembled as the ground shook violently in the house, little bits and crumbles on paster from the ceiling fell to the floor as the powerful earthquake stopped. A chair pushed itself away from the table; or so, a hand pushed it away. The hand of a girl, a woman, a female of college age.
She was pale, nearly white skinned. Her finger nails seemed to have been just bitten from fear, as pale violet nail polish was chipped and torn. Her hair was long and platinum blonde, and she was clothed in mostly black clothing. She stood up from underneath the table, pushing the chair back in and pressing her palm against her forehead.
" An Earthquake... I need to find out if Zeraku and my siblings are alri-" Her voice cut itself off with a sudden groan, weakness fell upon her body.
She fell to the floor in an instant, collapsing. Not from fear, not from fatigue; but for a different reason. A reason she could not tell.
Her phone began buzzing off the hook from on top of the table; messages from only a few but intensely concerned people. Little did they know she would not be answering anytime soon.
But when she would answer, she would no longer be the same woman that she was before she fell to the ground.
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