Betraying My People Chapter 4:

Planning and Attacking

They found Pai still in the kitchen, eating his pancakes. "These are really good," he said.

"I'm glad you think so," Ichigo said. "I found Kisshu and Taruto, so did you want to start planning now?"

"Yes," Pai said. "Can you tell me more about the other Mews?"

"I don't know if they found the other two, but I found two Mews," Ichigo said. "There were supposed to be five of us. The two I found were Mew Mint and Mew Lettuce. Mew Mint is half bird, and Mew Lettuce is half Finless Porpoise. Mew Mint is very snobby and I personally think she's overconfident. Mew Lettuce is the exact opposite. She's extremely shy and not at all confident. And she hates fighting. She'll do it, but she thinks that we shouldn't be fighting in the first place."

"Interesting," Pai said. "Do you think it'll be easier to take Mew Lettuce down than it would be to take down Mew Mint?"

"Most likely," Ichigo said. "But if they found the other two Mews, I don't think it'll be easy. I don't know who they are, much less anything about them."

"We'll just have to take things as they come then," Pai said. "Is there anything else you know about the Mew Project?"

"Aside from the fact that the creator is an evil murderer, not much," Ichigo said. "The other Mews' weapons are designed specifically to work on Cyniclons and Chimera Animas. And they have a little fluffy pink robot that eats the Chimera Parasites." She sighed. "That was the only thing I liked about being a Mew- having the little robot. I named it Masha," Ichigo said.

"Do you think that robot would have information on the Mew Project?" Pai asked.

"Possibly," Ichigo said. "Ryou's the one who programmed it, so I would think that Masha would have at least some information on the Mew Project. What are you thinking?"

"We could get the robot, get the information out of it, and then reprogram it to think that the Mews are the enemy," Pai said. "It's got a sensor, right?"

"Yeah," Ichigo said. "Ryou originally built it to sense when one of you was nearby. If you changed the sensor, Masha could tell us when the Mews are nearby."

"Not a bad idea," Kisshu said. "Okay, let's go capture that robot."

The others nodded, and Ichigo transformed. Then Kisshu took her hand, and teleported to a park, followed by Pai and Taruto.

Pai spotted a bird, and sent a Chimera Parasite at it, turning it into a large, clawed, crow-like thing.

Not even fifteen minutes later, the other Mews showed up- with two new members. One was a small blonde child with reddish brown monkey ears and tail, and the other was a purple-haired older girl with wolf ears and tail. Mint and Lettuce stopped dead when they saw Ichigo. "ICHIGO!?" they shouted.

"Yep, what about me?" Ichigo said.

"Where have you been? And why are you with the aliens?" Mint asked.

"Why do you THINK I'm with the aliens?" Ichigo shouted. "I would never work for Ryou after what he did. So I joined the aliens, because their cause isn't just about themselves, it's about their entire race. Ryou only cares about himself, didn't you notice?"

"Um… what did Ryou do?" the blonde child asked. "He told us the aliens brainwashed you and killed your parents."

"I guess I shouldn't be surprised he told you all a bunch of lies," Ichigo said. "The aliens didn't brainwash me; I joined them after Ryou murdered my parents and tried to brainwash me into thinking that I liked working for him. I will never work for a murderer like him, and if you're smart, you won't either. If any of you decide to quit, keep a close eye on your family."

The other Mews looked shocked. "Shirogane-san wouldn't do that," Lettuce said finally.

"Look, I know you've got a crush on the guy, but if he didn't do it, then who did?" Ichigo asked. "It wasn't Kisshu or his brothers. And the last thing I heard before Ryou knocked me out was, "Say goodbye to your past." Then I woke up in the basement of Café Mew Mew, and found out that Ryou had tried to brainwash me. If he didn't kill my parents, he would have no need to brainwash me."

"We have to talk to Ryou," the purple-haired girl said.

"You're not going anywhere until you hand over your parasite-eating robot," Pai said. "Chimera Anima, ATTACK!"

The Chimera crow dived at the Mews as Ichigo jumped out of the way. Ichigo noticed Masha floating over by a tree, and snuck over as the Chimera crow continued to attack the Mews. She reached Masha, and quickly grabbed him. Masha squeaked in protest as Ichigo ran back to Kisshu and said, "Kisshu, I got Masha!"

"Good job," Kisshu said, then called, "Pai! Taruto! Ichigo got the robot, let's go!" He grabbed Ichigo's hand and teleported.

I know, another short chapter, but to keep the action going, I need breaks. Review plz!