Koitsuzi slept in a spare bedroom on the ship that night. Nothing had really happened when Kisshu had teleported them to the ship. Sato had scared her with his extreme amount of energy by teleporting directly in front of her, and Pai and Taruto introduced themselves.
Pai had told Koitsuzi she should go get her stuff set up in the spare bedroom, and they would discuss their plans in the morning when she's had time to adjust to the ship and the idea of joining them.
So, when she woke up the next morning, she was of course confused by the unfamiliar bed and room, until she remembered yesterday's events.
She gets out of bed, stretching with a groan. Koitsuzi leans back a bit until an audible crack comes from her back and then she heads to the door. It takes her a minute to figure out how to open it, but eventually she notices a button and presses it. This causes the door to slide open with a mechanical vwoosh.
She leaves the room, the door sliding closed behind her.
"Great.. How do they get around on this thing?" Koitsuzi mutters to herself, looking up and down the corridor she found herself in.
"Kisshu-Sama?" she calls, listening to her voice echo.
"Pai-Sama? Taruto-Sama? Sato-Sama?" she calls when Kisshu doesn't respond, and then she waits.
Teleportation catches her attention, and she looks down the corridor to see Sato appearing.
"Sato-Sama, thank god. Um... How do I get around..? Kisshu-Sama teleported me to my room last night, and I don't know... How to get around the ship.." Koitsuzi half mumbles the rest of her sentence as she approaches Sato, who looks up at her with a grin.
"Oh, that's all? It's easy, Koi-Chan!" Sato laughs, taking Koitsuzi's hand and pulling her through the halls. He was surprisingly strong for a 10 year old...
At the end of the corridor was a metal door with a more obvious button on it than Koitsuzi's bedroom door had.
Sato presses the button, and a green-ish light comes out above the door and seems to scan them as it moves up and down over their bodies.
The light disappears, and the door slides open.
Sato drags Koitsuzi through the door and into a large open room, that seemed to include the front of the ship as there were two chairs and a large set of what appeared to be controls.
"Wow... This place is huge..."
"Well, duh, it IS a SHIP, Koi-Chan!" Sato giggles, letting go of her hand, and floating up to eye-level.
Koitsuzi sighs, ignoring the urge to do something rude. She kept having to remind herself that even Sato was her superior, and much stronger, and she had to respect him.
"So, where's Pai-sama and the others, Sato-Sama?" Koitsuzi asks, staring into his salmon-colored eyes.
"Oh, they'll be here in a minute! Taru-Kun's just now getting up, and Ki-Chan is trying to get him ready while Pai-Chan goes over his weird data or something like that!" Sato grins as he explains, seeming to be proud of himself for knowing all of this.
"Oh, okay.." Koitsuzi manages a smile, a bit confused by the young alien and his nicknames for people.
Sato stares at her a bit longer before flying over to a big table in the room, he sits down in a chair facing the table and waves Koitsuzi over.
"C'mon, Koi-Chan, have a seat, they're coming!" Sato exclaims, ears twitching.
Koitsuzi obeys and walks over, taking a seat on the couch next to the chair. Just as she sits down, the door behind them slides open and three aliens walk through, grumbling.
"Kisshu, I told you to have everybody awake and in here."
"It's his fault for going back to sleep after I woke him up!"
"You shouldn't have woken me up, Kisshu!"
"Pai told me to wake you up, Taruto, I had no choice."
Koitsuzi looks over at Sato, who is frowning for the first time since Koitsuzi met him.
"Pai-sama, Kisshu-Sama, Taruto-Sama, excuse me for interrupting, and speaking out of turn, but... Perhaps the plan and telling me the reason I'm here is more of a priority than your arguing..?" Koitsuzi stands up, turning to look at them.
They all stop arguing and stare at her, surprised. She bows, mumbling an apology.
"No, you're right. Kisshu, Taruto, go sit down." Pai glances at his brothers before walking over to the table.
He waits until Koitsuzi sits back down and Kisshu and Taruto have sat down, to begin speaking.
"Kawamara Koitsuzi, you're here to join us. As a simple human with no powers, I'm sure you're wondering what use you could be to us. You are compatible with the red fox, and we plan to make our own team of Mew Mews to fight Mew Ichigo and the others. As of right now, you haven't been infused. There's a very simple reason for that. While I have figured out how to scan your DNA to see if you're compatible and if so then with what, I have not figured how to infuse you. I need you to sneak into Cafe Mew Mew for the information. The Mews pose a threat, so we will create Chimera Animas all across the city to keep them distracted, hopefully long enough for you to get the information and get out." Pai explains his plan, eyes on Koitsuzi as he speaks.
"I... Alright. How will I get out, though? Surely it'd be too dangerous to sneak in, loot around the rooms, and risk getting caught with files detailing how to create a human-animal hybrid with the power to save or destroy the world..."
"Yes, I thought of that as well. So I made this," Pai pauses and holds up a device, "It loops around your ear and the microphone on it will allow me to hear you from my lab, where I will be. There's a microphone in there that I will speak into, and you will hear me through this. I will come get you when you get what we need."
Pai hands the device to Koitsuzi, who stares at it before putting it on her ear.
"Alright, I'm ready, then." Koitsuzi nods, standing up.
"Alright. I will take you there, and then we shall part ways. Kisshu, I want you to go to the beach and create as many Chimera Animas as you can. Taruto, the forest. Sato, I want you to go all through town putting parasites in things. When you're all finished, teleport back here. Do NOT let the Mew Mews see you." Pai instructs, taking Koitsuzi's hand.
The three aliens nod and they teleport away, as Pai teleports himself and Koitsuzi to Cafe Mew Mew.
"Alright, back up, Kawamara-Chan." Pai instructs, a small glowing blue-ish creature that reminded Koitsuzi of some sort of alien jellyfish appeared in his hands.
Koitsuzi nods and backs up, watching as Pai tosses the alien jellyfish into a squirrel passing by.
It growls and arches its back, as it grows in size right in front of Koitsuzi. As it seems to stop growing, it's front teeth grow into a pair of sharp looking buck teeth, and it's eyes look wild and crazy, it's tail bushy as if it just woke up or something.
The squirrel lets out a screach, and Pai nods at Koitsuzi and teleports away.
The squirrel looks at Koitsuzi and walks away, heading to the park across from the pink cafe, where it starts ripping trees out of the ground and throwing them, picking up humans and doing the same.
As Koitsuzi watches this, five girls dressed in bright colors runs passed her.
"What's going on? Aren't those things like what the aliens created?" Koitsuzi hears the blue one say as she runs by, and that's all she heard.
Koitsuzi takes this moment as the chance to run up to the building. She peers through the windows to see if it was clear to walk in.
"Clear." She whispers to herself, before looking around and slipping inside.
"Pai-Sama, what do I do once I'm inside?" Koitsuzi whispers, looking around the dark room.
She waits for a response, but nothing.
"What do you think's going on, Keiichiro?"
Koitsuzi raises an eyebrow, moving quietly towards the voices. They seemed to be coming from the kitchen.
"I'm not sure, Ryou. The aliens left once they got the Mew Aqua, didn't they?"
"Yes, but those readings... They're exactly like ones we saw when Kisshu sent those Chimera Animas all over the city as a distraction, remember?"
"Yes, I remember, Ryou. Could it be possible they came back?"
"They wanted to heal their planet, they healed it, why would they come back?"
"I don't know, but if that's not it, what could it possibly be?"
"Koitsuzi-Chan? You there?" a voice in her ear causes her to jump. She backs up and heads to the other end of the room, being sure to stay out of the kitchen's line of sight.
"Yes. Some men named Ryou and Keiichiro are in the kitchen talking. Where am I supposed to go once I'm inside?" she whispers into the mic, climbing under a table as she hears movement in the kitchen.
"You need to get to the basement. Pai's dealt with those two before, they aren't much trouble. Ryou can turn into a small grey kitten, but really, that's not much of a threat." Koitsuzi recognizes the voice as Kisshu, which kind of confused her.
"Kisshu-Sama? I thought Pai-Sama was guiding me through this." she whispers, slowly climbing out from under the table, and heading towards the back of the building, being sure to stay close to the floor so that Ryou and Keiichiro couldn't look out the kitchen and see her.
"He's busy with creating Chimera Animas to distract the Mews, he told me to help you until he could get here."
She doesn't say anything, just continues crawling. Once she gets into a hall, she stands up and moves quickly but silently.
"This building is much bigger than it looks, isn't it, Kisshu-Sama?" Koitsuzi asks, her voice barely above a whisper as she reaches a set of stairs leading down.
"Yeah, it is. You found the steps yet?"
"Yeah."
"Good, go down them. Keep an ear out, don't want Ryou or Keiichiro to sneak up on you. Just because they aren't a threat to us, doesn't mean they aren't to you. Don't want them knocking you out or something."
Koitsuzi sighs and heads down the steps, somewhat surprised to find not one set of stairs, but three. She goes down them, listening carefully for the two men upstairs.
She walks into a big room, and lets out a low whistle.
"What?"
"This basement is fucking huge, Kisshu-Sama. How am I going to find ONE set of files in all of this?"
"Hang on, Pai's back."
"Kawamara-Chan, it's Pai. Sorry. Where are you right now?"
"The basement of Cafe Mew Mew. How do you expect me to find ONE set of files in this giant basement, Pai-Sama?" She whispers harshly, walking over to a large file cabinet.
"Sorry, we don't know where it is. From what I know, the notes on how to infuse somebody, should be in a labeled file, so check any filing cabinets you see." Pai instructs as she opens one drawer and rumages through it. There were files named after the people she assumed to be the Mews, but nothing on how to create a Mew.
"Easy for YOU to say, Pai-Sama. There's at least three filing cabinets in here, all on different ends of the room, not to mention the stacks of papers on top of them. I'm not exactly the tallest person, you know." Koitsuzi mutters, closing the drawer and opening the second. Files labeled "Aliens and Chimera Animas" but again, nothing on how to create a Mew.
"Check as many of the filing cabinets as you can. If you don't find anything in the first cabinet, let me know and I'll come help."
Opening the third drawer proves just as pointless as the first two, with files labeled "Saint Rose Crusaders" but nothing for what she was looking for.
She growls in frustration and kneels down, opening the last drawer. Files labeled, "Mew Mews", "Compatible?", and "Possible?"
"I found three sets of files labeled 'mew mews', 'compatible', and 'possible'." Koitsuzi tells Pai of her discovery, and pulls the files out of the drawer, quietly closing the drawers she'd left open.
"Make sure there's nothing in the other two filing cabinets, please. I don't want to miss anything."
Koitsuzi groans but moves quickly to the filing cabinet near a large control panel with several monitors in front of it.
She sets the files down beside it and opens the first drawer.
"How to get the DNA", "pendents", and "side effects?"
Koitsuzi pulls the three files out and sets them carefully on top of the other three. She closes the drawer, and opens the second.
"Weapons" and "Mew Aqua"
She grabs them as well.
The third drawer is empty, as is the fourth.
She pickes up her pile of files and rushes over to the filing cabinet on the far left. She could have sworn she can hear footsteps on the stairs.
She opens the first drawer, eyes scanning over the file labels. "Powers", "Transformation?", "animal characteristics in human form".
She grabs the three files, closing the drawer as quickly and quietly as possible.
"I have three drawers left, but I'm pretty damn sure I hear footsteps on the steps, Pai-Sama," Koitsuzi whispers, opening the second drawer; nothing useful, "Two."
"Check the last two."
Koitsuzi opens the third, pushing the second drawer in a bit so she can see the files. Her eyes scan over the labels, they were all about some strange robot.
"What's the robot named Masha?"
"Not important. Check the last one."
Koitsuzi obeys, "Formulas", "Injections", "TOP SECRET"
Koitsuzi grabs the three files and darts into a corner that can't be seen from the doorway, hearing footsteps approach the room.
"Pai-Sama, got the files, and I'm pretty sure somebody's coming into the room. Please, get me out of here!" Koitsuzi whispers, adrenaline coursing through her veins, causing her voice to sound somewhat panicky and rushed.
The air ripples in front of her and a hand reaches through and pulls her in. She finds herself back at the ship, looking up at Pai, who calmly lets go of her.
"Here, Pai-Sama." Koitsuzi hands him the stack of files, her body shaking from the sudden adrenaline rush.
"Thank you, Kawamara-Chan."
"N-No problem, Pai-Sama. Wow... The adrenaline rush from that is AMAZING!" Koitsuzi grins, looking at her hands and watching them tremble in awe.
Kisshu, Taruto, and Sato teleport into the room, smiling from ear to ear.
"Man, Koneko-Chan hasn't changed a bit. I think I actually heard her blame me for the chimeras she was fighting, and they weren't even mine, they were Sato's!" Kisshu points his thumb at Sato.
"Pudding looked at the plant chimeras and shouted 'taru-taru' and looked around for me," Taruto laughs, high-fiving Sato, "But really, the best was their reaction to Sato's chimeras."
"You should have been there, Koi-Chan! Ichi-chan saw one of my chimeras and yelled for Ki-Chan to come out of hiding! And Le-Chan and Za-Chan thought Pai-Chan was behind the water chimera animas I created, but Mi-Chan said they were too attached to the aliens and that they needed to focus, but while she was getting onto the other Mews, one of my water chimeras soaked her wings, and she couldn't fly the whole time!" Sato speaks rapidly, talking about the events as if they were the single-most greatest thing to ever happen to him.
Pai walked out of the room, leaving Kisshu, Taruto, and Koitsuzi to listen to Sato's rambling.
He kept talking and talking, although sometimes Koitsuzi found it hard to understand him, but she found it was nice to just listen to somebody talk about something so passionately, and Taruto and Kisshu clearly enjoyed hearing the story retold.
"and then, my water chimera was like RAAAA and it TOTALLY threw Za-Chan into a building with a blast of water, and Mi-Chan's arrows kept getting lost inside the water chimera, and Ichi-Chan was being chased by a big dog chimera Ki-Chan created, and Le-Chan was fighting one of Taru-Kun's big tree chimeras and Pudding-Chan was fighting this big beetle chimera Pai-Chan created, but the other chimeras we created were surrounding them and then Ichi-Chan got mad so she used this cool attack that wiped out the chimera animas around her and it was SOOO COOL, you should have seen it Koi-Chan, she was like 'Strawberry CHECK' and this pink dome of light swept around her and the chimera animas reverted to their original forms and this pink fluffy looking thing came and ate the parasites so they couldn't create any more chimera animas AND IT WAS SOOO COOL!"