A/N: I felt that chapter 3 was too choppy originally. To handle this, I've split the swapping perspectives from chapter 3 into two different chapters. This chapter will focus on Ryou and the aliens in their quest to find out what in all hell is going on.

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While the girls were at school, Ryou held a meeting in the basement of the cafe. "After we took down Deep Blue and Ichigo and Masaya used the Mew Aqua to purify your home planet, were there any Cyniclons who still felt that an invasion of earth was necessary?" He asked.

Pie shook his head. "No, the vast majority were so happy to have our planet fixed and liveable, the thought of taking over the earth seemed like a poorly written joke. Even the eldest of our society had never actually lived on earth, the idea of leaving our planet now after it had been rejuvenated seemed insane."

"With that earth ambassador idea Ichigo had, some of them have been interested in getting to learn about humans and earth. Occasionally they'll make trips here and blend in. But there's nothing sinister about it." Tart added.

"There's been talk of starting up an exchange program for school aged Cyniclons to try studying here for a bit, but as Tart says, I haven't seen a single visitor that seems hostile." Keiichiro concurred.

"Another thing to note is that our planet still has a relatively small population and we've never seen those girls before. It's not that we know every single person on our planet by name, but we should have been able to recognize them on sight…" Pie murmured.

"The Mouse, Shoga, did mention that they were created by someone. Maybe they're not entirely Cyniclon to begin with?" Keiichiro offered.

"I suppose it is possible that someone could have created a sort of Cyniclon-human-mew hybrid using the remaining parapara we left behind…" Pie mumbled. "An interesting concept…"

"You guys had trouble with some other group of people down here right? They were controlling the parapara for a time as well?" Kish asked. "Seems like we might want to try looking at them."

Keiichiro and Ryou looked at each other. "The Saint Rose Crusaders did give up easily…almost too easily, is it possible that this was simply a part of their plan?"

Ryou scrubbed a hand through his hair and clenched his fist. "It couldn't hurt to look into. Keiichiro, where was their last known location?"

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Duke was having a nice day, just sitting at their kitchen table having some tea when the door flung open. When they looked up to see what the disturbance was they noticed Happy Child being held up by the seat of his pants in the hands of Ryou Shirogane. "I hope you have a good reason for disturbing me."

"You want to explain the two hybrid mews running around making use of the parapara?" Ryou asked, looking thoroughly unamused.

Duke took a sip of their tea before looking up again, "I'm not sure I know what you're talking about." Happy Child took the opportunity to teleport out of Ryou's grasp and hide behind Duke. "Yea so there!" He shouted, sticking out his tongue.

"Fascinating because my research shows that you were the one experimenting on dead human fetuses and what Cyniclon DNA there was in the remaining parapara." Pie said as he floated into the building behind Ryou.

"Well yes we were, but once the pure love of Mew Berry and Tasuku Meguro made us see the light we swiftly shut down all research. The only remaining test subjects should be in cryosleep…unless." Duke slowly turned in their chair to take one more look at Happy Child. "Care to explain?"

Happy Child looked around the room at the 3 angry people staring back at him. "Well for starters I didn't mean to set them loose."

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Held by the seat of his pants again, Happy Child found himself being taken down into the lab beneath their residence. When they reached the area where the Hybrid Mews had been kept, they found their tanks utterly shattered.

"Well, these tanks had been designed with the express purpose of making sure no Cyniclonian portals could be formed or used, the cryo sleep was intended to prevent them from even transforming." Duke frowned as they picked up a piece of the shattered remains. "The glass was supposed to be bulletproof, but I suppose that's not properly built to withstand the energy of a Mew Mew's attack or psychic powers."

Ryou stood with his arms folded as Pie began to take a look at some of the glass himself. "I thought you had only been planning to reshape the world into your own utopia. Why on earth would you need your own hybrid mews for that?"

With a clap of Duke's hands the other three Saint Rose Crusaders appeared. "Originally it had been a bit of a fascination. The Mews showed up at every turn, continuing to foil our well thought out plans. As we researched further, we thought perhaps it might be a helpful technique in taking them down and installing our own sort of planet wide protection force."

Duke took a step over towards the computer having formerly been used to monitor the hybrids' vitals. "Project Hime, official name Mew Oribu and Project Miko, official name Mew Shoga. They were never supposed to see the light of day."

Royal Highness stared down at Happy Child. "You just couldn't leave well enough alone, could you?" He frowned.

"We weren't doing anything with 'em. We didn't even know if they were really alive. I just didn't see the point of leaving them here without even really checking." Happy Child pouted.

"They had heartbeats dipshit, that should tell you enough." Blue Bayou said as he smacked Happy Child on the back of the head. "How did this even happen?"

"Well that's even worse!" Happy Child argued. "I just, I was just thinking about how we all got abandoned and shipped off to that boarding school. Sure we got no say in the matter but at least we got to have lives! And we all met each other! But we abandon our plans and we just…leave them here? Asleep, forever? That's not fair!"

"You knew when we worked on them that they were made to be the perfect killing machines. Cyniclon DNA, the ability to become mews, and human DNA specifically chosen for the possibility of them having similar psychic abilities to us? There's no way them coming out of those tubes was ever going to work out well." Sweet Juliet said, scolding but also trying to soothe the youngest member.

Happy Child pouted. "Well I'm not sure how much of that psychic ability they have, but the Cat seemed to know we'd abandoned our plans for them months ago, and it didn't take long for her and the Mouse to high tail it out of here."

"So you didn't just stop at human-cyniclon mew hybrids, you made psychic human-cyniclon mew hybrids?" Ryou felt like he was going to pass out. "And you have no idea where they are now?"

Duke continued to search through the computer. "There should be a tracking device embedded in their skin. Insurance in case they ever got lost." They mumbled. "Give me your phone, I can put the tracker on there for you."

Ryou sighed but did as was requested of him. Pie continued to survey the destruction of the area. "So ultimately what would their goal have been? Besides total destruction of the Mews?"

"Total destruction and replacement of the mews. As I said, we created them to be our own form of protection in our new utopia. Though they seem to have abandoned us, just as we had abandoned them, I'm sure their primary focus is to destroy Tokyo Mew Mew and replace them in some way. Though I'm not sure protection of the Earth is their main concern." Duke replied.

"Hm…that's bad…" They mumbled.

"What's bad?" Ryou demanded.

"Well according to the tracking device, it would seem they are currently in the vicinity of Berry's school, given that all of the Mews transferred there, I'd say they're about to have some unwelcome company."

Ryou quickly grabbed his phone back from Duke, the tracker having been safely installed. Not wanting to deal with the possibility of no one picking up the phone, he elected to communicate with them directly through Masha and Ucha.

Ichigo's voice came through the receiver. "Ryou? We're at school-"

"You're not alone!" Ryou yelled. That was all he could get out before a crash was heard in the background. "Shit!"

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I know chapter 3 is a lot shorter now with the fact that I only focused on Ryou during it, but I think it flows much nicer without the constant changing of perspective between him and Ringo. I also got to draw out the scene with the Saint Rose Crusaders a bit more, which was nice. I probably won't be including them again, I like to think the 5 of them just want to live quiet peaceful lives now, but I'm glad they could still be relevant.

I called Mew Oribu project Hime as another throwback to her original name. I'm not sure if anyone caught why I called Mew Shoga Project Miko, but in Powerpuff Girls Z Princess/Himeko's older sister is named Miko. I thought it would be a cute little reference to a different magical girl series!