Tokyo Mew Mew Z

Ch. 9: Berry and Ringo are Doctors/Nurses?

About a month has passed, many places are no longer safe for normal people… unless the Mew Mews and their allies are around.

Lately, Ryou and the others have been working their butts off trying to cure species of Dark Green’s mysterious formula and convince them never to take it.

While taking out the trash with Berry Shirayuki and Ringo Akai, Bavaria’s world suddenly went black!

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As she woke up from her sudden coma, to feel an unusual stinging pain on her left hand’s area between her palm and thumb. She opened her eyes to a large purple/green thorn in it! She pulled it out painfully, as she was about to get her lips close to it——

“Don’t even think about it, Bavaria.”

She looks to her side to find Gato, a green-haired Space Elf that was once enemies with Ringo years ago. She asks, “What happened to your glasses? And what do you mean don’t even think about it? Think about what? Escaping or sucking out whatever venom’s in me?” Gato groans and quickly answers, “I’ve gone blind, literally; thanks to me accidentally discovering Dark Green’s secret. What I meant from ‘don’t think about it’, I meant sucking out the poison that was in that thorn you’ve just pulled out.”

Bavaria gasps, “You mean…” she looks at his wrists; Gato is shackled next to her and poisoned the same way! She asks him, “What does this stuff do?” Gato replies, “This poison turns into a disease that spreads out in germs that devour almost any life forms’ DNA. Soon the victims will dissolve into the multiple ingredients that make up its body… as water and dust, until the germs can no longer find any living specimen and die.”

Bavaria realized, “If I were to suck it out and spit it out, the disease might’ve spread faster!” Within the darkness of the room the two elves are in, she saw two angry glowing green eyes… she gulped out “Dark Green?” Dark Green chuckled, “You and your new friends have been giving me quite a headache for a while, now that I know about the existence of the Mew Aqua, the Liquid Mew Aqua, and the Mew Aqua Disks I better eliminate all of you before it’s too late. Now thanks to this virus I gave you, my plan will go into place.”

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Back at the café… the others didn’t notice Bavaria was missing until…

As Kish went to boil some more tea… he noticed that a broom assigned for Bavaria is remaining untouched! Kish growled, “Darn it! Where the heck is Bavaria?” Tart snickers, “Somewhere close to Germany, I guess.” A few of the café workers laughed at that. Kish interrupted, “This is serious! Berry, Ringo. When exactly was she when you two were taking out the trash?”

Berry admits, “I must’ve snuck some ten whole cakes while I was taking out the trash, so I wasn’t paying attention.” Ringo becomes wide-eyed at her, “Where do you pack it all?” then she returns to the subject, “Well I do recall some sort of green flash, but I just assumed that she teleported somewhere to work around here. Is that enough?” Pai curls his finger under his chin, “It’s still too dangerous to do our Space Elven computerized powers of teleportation, as some of you recently called it, Dark Green is now watching them in case we ever stoop to that.”

Ryou shrugs, “Maybe she decided to change sides again.” Keiichiro shrugs, “I don’t think so; she was purified from Dark Green’s influence when the girls used the first Level 1 Mew Aqua Disk at Mint’s failed wedding, along with the rest of the planet.” Masaya deduces, “So it’s probable that she has been kidnapped.”

Masha showed up and tweeted at the nearby computer, which was suddenly displaying a message written in some literature that a human could normally deduce. Kish looked it over, “Oh dear! This is not good.” Lettuce asks, “What’s wrong? Can you read it?” Kish translates, “’Greetings, Mew Mews and allies of the Mew Mews. We have Bavaria and Gato, and we’re releasing them now——‘”

Ringo asks, “Why that jerk?” Ichigo sighs, “Mew War I was like about a decade ago, and I don’t recall anything nice or mean about Gato and now about releasing him along with Bavaria. Go on, Kish, translate for us some more.” Kish read on “‘for where we’re releasing them both, they’re in the park next to your currently new café, right now. Signed, Dark Green Enforcer Cophiaire.’” Pai pushed Kish out of the way, just to notice that there’s more to the message; “’P.S.: as for when they’re going to be there, they’re both there now. But pick them before noon.’”

Tart asks, “Why what happens at noon?” Pai gulps, “It does not say, I presume that they’re both tied up with a detonation device close to them!” Mint looks at the clock and gasps, “We’ve got only five minutes ‘til then!” Pudding snarls out “Let’s clear out the café for now and quickly rescue the prisoners!”

They closed the café and charged for the park, they found the poor captives tied together to a black log-like item with numbers counting down, it’s a bomb! Pai sweat-drops, “Sometimes I hate it when I am proven that I calculated was an affirmative answer.” Tart sighs, “Translation: he hates it when he’s right.”

Bavaria looks up to find the Mew team, she screams, “DON’T COME ANY CLOSER! YOU’LL BE INFECTED!” Lettuce sternly says, “If we don’t get the two of you out of those bindings and that bomb out of the park, we’ll all be history.” Ichigo felt her claws come out as she sliced through the bindings like overly soft butter and Pudding sent the device flying into the sky with single kick!

Bavaria groans out and points to a tree she just touched, “Look what’s happening to this tree that I’ve just touched.” Everyone looked at the tree; it started to grow an unnatural purple mold and is slowly turning to dust! Everyone gasped in this horrible surprise!

In the laboratory underneath the café, Ryou checks over poor Bavaria and Gato. Gato explains, “This disease is caused by germs that dissolves anything alive that they touch but themselves until the victims are dust particles from your periodic table plus water.” Lettuce asks, “That’s definitely not good news.” Meguro nods, “Just like in ‘Night of the Comet’.”

Masha displays on a nearby monitor the history of such a germ that once existed. Pai looks at the information Masha is displaying to them and explains the small inscriptions along the bottom, “‘the germs originate only on a planet called Kaonah. At the dawn of its time, there was a thriving civilization of elves and dwarves. Then out of nowhere, a horrid creature came along and spread out thorns of Life-Dissolver Germs. No cure was ever found. The 26th legion; the lost legion, was decimated by that malevolent scourge after the creature shot just one of its thorns at them and died from it.’”

Some watchers at the monitor looked away as they saw a face on one of the female elves melt right off! Ryou pants, “And now this plague has come to Earth. We must find a cure!”

Keiichiro clutches his gut for some reason, “Damn! Why do I feel like I’m having some internal problem——“ he stopped to realize what’s happening and lifted his hand to check the pad of his left hand’s thumb (purple blotches (signs of the infections)), “My god! Dark Green’s Life-Dissolver Germs!” Ichigo bows in apology to everybody, “I’m sorry, I had no choice; we had to rescue Bavaria and Gato: they’re our friends.”

Kish noticed the same infection signs on his upper arm, Pai looked in the mirror to notice his nose is turning the most horrible purple color, Meguro and Tart exclaimed to each other “dude, you’re turning purple!” Ringo screams, “No! They’re too young due to die!” Mint exclaims, “I’m too rich to dissolve, Lettuce is too smart to dissolve, Pudding is too crazy to dissolve, and Onee-sama is too beautiful to die!” Ichigo asks her friend, “Where does that leave me?” Mint nonchalantly waves, “See you on the other side, girl.” Ichigo says, “I’ve known you for about 13 years and I know that right now that you’re lying to hide the truth.”

Lettuce takes a scope to check her and the other Mews, “That’s odd, the germs are avoiding Ichigo, Mint, me, Pudding, Zakuro, Berry, Ringo, Ryou, Masaya, and Azumi. Even if some touch us, they instantly die.” Gato shakes, “That’s probably because they don’t adapt well against unusual or genetic DNA at all.” Pai looks at the monitor and replies, “You’re right, only chimera life-forms could kill these germs easily.” Mint asks, “Does that mean we have to…” Zakuro nods, “It will be good exercise.”

Masaya asks, “But how is it that Ryou, Azumi, and I are as dangerous to them as you Mew Mews are?” Ryou thinks it over, “Wait! Of course; I was the first to test for the Mew project and even though it was a failure, I was able to survive it.” Black Masha says, “Princess Azumi’s genetically altered body is supremely similar to that of a Mew Mew.” Masaya remembers, “Of course, and at the end of the first Mew War, Ichigo traded a lot of her power to resurrect me after I killed Deep Blue along with me.” Keiichiro nods, “That makes sense, but how are we going to get cured and fast?”

Utamaro wiped his head across his forehead, “Hey… it’s certainly getting hot in here!”

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Outside, a Space Elf agent of Dark Green is sending bright red particle waves of heat from his palms at the café, increasing the temperature around it and inside it!

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Lettuce notices the being outside via security camera, “Heat must be a way to make the Life-Dissolver germs spread faster.” Meguro sighs in tragic depression, “Then remind me not to light a match or to cauterize any of our wounds. It’s also like in ‘Evolution’.”

Berry helps Meguro up, “Ringo and I will tend to the infected, get to work on finding any other antidote or disinfectant aside from the Mew Project’s samples and hurry!” Ichigo nods, “Good. Let’s go!” The uninfected left for the laboratory…

Meguro looks up to Berry, “You’re as strong as you are beautiful, my Berry.” Berry blushed a little, “Please tell me that was the germs getting their way into your brain cells. And get some rest, maybe it will help your strength up until the cure is found.” Meguro’s eyes fell closed, “Can I at have your lap please?” Berry kneeled on the floor and placed Meguro’s head in her lap, “Sure, just don’t go into dying on me.”

Ringo carefully touches Gato’s partially purple hand, he responded by turning his face towards her to speak, “Who is it?” Ringo gulps and speaks with him, “Ringo Akai, Ichigo’s cousin. It’s been years, hasn’t it, Gato?” He closed his sightless eyes and replied, “If only I could see you. Dark Green has stolen my sight when I discovered why he’s doing all this and why.” Ringo asks, “Did you get a good look at him, what does Dark Green like?”

Gato inhales deeply but softly before answering, “He’s not… like my people; he’s not all elf and he’s kidnapped two more humans Ichigo’s age.” Ringo’s eyes welled up with more tears and she pressed her face into Gato’s chest. Gato’s wandering hand, that’s still okay for now, followed to Ringo’s face and felt it all over, in his mind, he could see her face in his mind, he gives a proud smile and says to her, “You’re so beautiful.” Ringo blushes, “Are you okay? Since when did you start taking a liking of me?” Gato just lay there with her, telling her, “Since the war ended.”

Berry smiled at the new couple. She turned to her Meguro, who turned out to be asleep, as she requested. The resting is slowing down the process of the germs’ effects. But will it last them long enough?

Bavaria sighs as she crawls for some hope to save her, “Damn, we’re going to die and the Mew Mews are going to be all alone without us.” Pai sighs, “Maybe Mew Aqua Disks could help us now, or the Liquid Mew Aqua.”

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In the laboratory, where there’s a storage of Mew Aqua of the three types (regular, liquid, and disks)… the girls struggled hard with finding the antidote. It be a waste of Liquid Mew Aqua to just try to cure them, but as soon as Lettuce tripped over a canister of the captured germs that fell to the floor… they went into the air and began to gang up on them; as if they were hoping to overpower the uninfected!

But as soon as some of the germs touched the stored Liquid Mew Aqua, they become small specks of Mew Aqua themselves. Ryou checked the specks thoroughly, “Tremendous! It can save the infected!”

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In a Space Elf spacecraft, one of those under Dark Green’s control asked another “Have you received the visuals yet, Bake?” The other nods, “Yes, Frost.” Bake is a fiery haired male Space Elf and Frost is an icy-blue male Space Elf. By looking at them at first glance, they appear to be brothers.

On a monitor, they watch some of the ‘traitors’ in the café suffer from the infection of the Life-Dissolver germs. Ringo and Berry are all alone, tending to them all. Frost smiles evilly, “How charitable.” Bake frowns, “Too bad that the germs aren’t effective to the Mews. But as soon as there’s no food supply on Earth, they’ll die on Earth of starvation. And perhaps their animal instincts will take them over and they will eat each other until one of them dies of famine.”

On the monitor, Tart grimly said, “Someone better take us to a deserted barren uninhabited wasteland, so no one else will suffer our fate. I never thought the end would come like this.”

Bake sighed with delight, “Too bad Mew Ichigo’s now-Mew friends have to go before they do, and we will reclaim our world again. Well, rust in peace, fellow enemies.”

But, from the monitor’s vision, a sudden white glow chased the germs away and reduced the purple off the infected! Bake and Frost shrieked in unison, “HUH?”

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Back on Earth, Ichigo showed up, “We’ve done it! Liquid Mew Aqua is the only cure!” Ryou mentions, “But we’ve got work to do; those last remaining germs are going to learn to evolve into a more vicious life form outside!” Ringo shouts, “Then what are we waiting for?” Berry follows, “Let’s clean their clock!”

“Mew Mew Raspberry! Metamorphosis!” Berry curls up nude, with her injection mark glowing from the inner left thigh! She flips her long hair back. She then stretches out and twirls. Her sock-like slippers come on next with ribbons wrapping around her, the ribbons then form a double-layered skirt (with the second layer popping out later) and folding inwards, with puffy upper-arm bands, a very pale pink garter with a red ribbon bow on it, and dress top. Big twin bows pop up from the sides of the skirt. The gloves (and Berry makes the cutest little pawing motions with her hands)! She bends over and a white short tail pops from underneath her skirt, a red bow with a golden bell appears onto her tail, and her white bunny ears form! A rose quartz heart charm on a pink bow forms on her right hand’s wrist. She then twirls around a band of light and pulls it to her neck to form her red choker with white fluff instead of frills at her throat with her medallion, and she ends in this cute kitty/bunny combo pose.

“Mew Mew Apple! Metamorphosis!” Ringo twirls around nude, with her injection mark glowing from the front left shoulder! She flips her hair back. She then stretches out and slides along the ground. White stockings appear onto her legs until they reached her thighs and red dancing shoes come on next with ribbons wrapping around her, the ribbons then form a double-layered flower-like petal red skirt (with white puffy panties popping out from underneath), with puffy red upper-arm bands, and dress top. The long white gloves appeared onto her hands to between her shoulders and elbows! A red ribbon-like barrette appeared on the left side of her hair as apple earrings appear in a flash beneath her ears! Upon the skirt in the back, two large wing-like flaps popped out. She then twirls around a band of light and pulls it to her neck to form her fluffy choker at her throat with her medallion.

Kish arrives, “I’m cured by the Liquid Mew Aqua, fully healthy, and ready for action!” The space elf allies morph to Super-Elf mode! Gato observes this, “Amazing!” Mew Ringo asks, “Is your eyesight cured?” Gato nods, “Yes, but it’s better than ever!” Super-Tart said, “If we can do it, you can do it too!”

“Super Cat! Metamorphosis!” Gato kneels down to his knees as if he was a lion. He then leaps forward, lion style pouncing, and his hair exploded into a huge mane. His mane of hair turned a pale green and really wild. A liger of red light pounced at him until it became a tattoo-like mark on his right shoulder down to his expanded chest!

Mew Ringo asks, “You did say I look beautiful?” Super Gato said, “I did and I was serious.” As he followed the others, “Oh god, what a Mew-woman!” Mew Ringo charges for the fleeing germs, with a loving grin to Super Gato, “You’re not so bad yourself.”

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The Life-Dissolver Germs collected from all locations it was manifested, multiplied by the trillions, and piled up and merged into one massive specimen in the middle of the city! It was still germ-like and violet-colored as a regular germ under a microscope. Pedestrians and other life forms that drew close to it only caused it to extent slime-like tentacles to try to ensnare them, luckily nobody and no poor soul was touched by it!

The Mew Team arrives to stop the giant germ! Super Kish growls to the innocent civilians, “Good people, if you value your lives; get away from this area! This battle is going to be dangerous as this germ is contagious!” Mew Mint smiles, “That was good.” Super Kish said, “Now’s not the right time, girl!”

A heat blast from somewhere struck the giant germ, making it even bigger! They look to see Bake and Frost, floating in the sky and glowering down on the heroes of Earth. Frost said to them, “Try all you want to our unique friend down there, your attempts will be in vain.” Super Gato roars at them, “Says you; we’ll hack it to pieces and crystallize it so it wouldn’t use its cell division ability sooner or later!” Mew Ringo nods, “Yeah, and blast it away before it gets to you too!”

“Parasite Aliens, do your worst!” Together, Bake and Frost mass-produced a whole horde of Parasite Aliens and they infused into a single gigantic dragon-like serpentine Parasite Animal! The creature merged with the germ and within a few moments… a new creature awakened; a massive violet-colored jellyfish-like Super-Chimera Animal!

Mew Ichigo ordered, “Everyone, attack now!” Everyone nods and attacks——

Mew Zakuro held up her right hand and shouted, “Zakuro Cross Whip!” Her purple stick that unfolds into a cross with a golden horizontal stick, along with some rose red tassels on some of the handle, appeared into her hand! Mew Zakuro created a ribbon spiral of lavender-colored energy around her and shouted, “Ribbon Zakuro Pure!” launching a devastating energy whiplash; tying up the chimera in one place!

Super Pai calls out “Stormy Fan!” His tacky-looking red fan appears in his hand and he shouts out “Crystal Wind-Piercing Fan!” He unleashed a blast of powerful winds onto his targets!

Super Bavaria called out “Emerald Bow and Arrow!” Her emerald-encrusted weapon and a green arrow appear in her hands, she instantly readies her weapon. “Crystal Emerald Shooting Star Flash!” She fired the bow and the glowing arrow hit the germ’s base, holding it down!

Super Kish called out “Supreme Dragon Sword!” His twin sai appears in his hands and merged in a flash to form an elegant long-sword with draconic designs along the hit. “Crystal Quiche Dragon Comet Echo!” He swung his sword down on the sealed creature and the blade releases a flaming shockwave the germ, making its power only weakened: totally the opposite of what heat was originally doing earlier!

Mew Mint calls out, “Mint Arrow!” Then above her that later floated down and into her hands was a blue ball of light that turned into her blue collapsible archery bow with the red Mew gem! Mew Mint’s small bow converted into a large bow, “Ribbon Mint Echo!” A glowing sky-blue arrowhead appeared at the base of the bow, she launched it at her target: the Super-Chimera Animal’s base, holding it down!

Mew Lettuce lifts her hands and calls out, “Lettuce Castanets!” The green castanets with red ribbons formed in her hands. Mew Lettuce played her tools like a pro in a dancing spiral and shouted, “Ribbon Lettuce Flash!” She launched huge streams of water energized with power from her hands. The energized water attack washed them up so they wouldn’t struggle any longer!

Super Tart followed “Metal Clam and Sword of Thunder!” His red-colored child’s toy and weapon of marital bond with Mew Pudding appeared in his hands! Super-Tart spun in a circular motion and shouted, “Crystal Tart Mandra Gora Shockwaves!” Green vines made up of energy flowed from Tart’s body and each one’s end produced a set of jaws that set out orange-colored energy shockwaves at his target!

Mew Pudding leaped into the air, “Pudding Ring!” Two spinning rings of light appeared beneath her in midair, they merged together and she caught them as she landed. The light vanished and formed into a circular ring-like golden tambourine with golden bells and a ruby Mew gem with a smaller darker orange-brown ring with a small bell. Then the smaller one launched out in a spinning flight, her free hand caught with ease! Mew Pudding shook them around and flips forward at her target, “Ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno!” The background changed into the likeness of the Chinese mountain landscape, she created a trench, flowing through the trench was a golden river of light! The target of her attack got enclosed in a golden orange Jell-O blob-like barrier!

Super Gato lunges in, ‘claws’ extended, and shouts out “Crystal Savage Iron Claw!” His nails turned into glowing claws and he slashed the secured target, weakening it once more!

Mew Ringo calls out, “Apple Sticks!” Her earrings glow brightly, shoot out small beams of their light, the light forms into twin maraca forms, she snatches them with her hands and they changed into her red apple-shaped maraca-like weapons! Mew Ringo’s Apple Sticks rattled several times, and glowed brightly! She smiled, placed the Sticks’ jewels in front of her choker medallion, together a bright light of force and power was formed! Red sparkling lights formed around her as she danced a little! Another bright light shone overhead of her! She caught it with her maracas… and she shouted, “Ribbon Apple Pop!” She kneeled to the ground, presented her shining Bell at her opponent, and unleashed a great array of rainbow-colored stars, bubbles, and rays at her target!

Mew Berry calls out, “Raspberry Wand!” Her tail bell rings and glows brightly, shoots out a small beam of it, it forms into a staff-like form, she snatches it with her left hand and it changed into her red-and-white wand with bunny head-like crests! Mew Berry’s Raspberry Wand flashed several times, and glowed brightly! She smiled, placed the Wand’s crests in front of her bracelet jewel, on top of her choker medallion, together a bright light of force and power was formed! Golden-pink sparkling lights formed around her as she twirled like a top several times, arms and tail extended! Another bright light shone overhead of her! She caught it with her wand (her right leg is bending in pose)… and she shouted, “Ribbon Raspberry Check!” She kneeled to the ground, presented her shining Bell at her opponent, and unleashed a great array of rainbow-colored stars, bubbles, and rays at her target!

Blue Knight comes along pulls out a silvery hilt and shouts out “Blue Sword!” He readies to slash against his target, even though he’s a great distance away, and shouts out “Blue Comet Blade!” he slashes away and unleashes a blue shockwave onto the target!

Mew Ichigo calls out, “Strawberry Bell!” Her tail bell rings and glows brightly, shoots out a small beam of it, it forms into a heart-shaped form, she snatches it with her left hand and it changed into her pink heart-shaped tool! Mew Ichigo’s Strawberry Bell ringed several times, and glowed brightly! She smiled, placed the Bell’s jewel in front of her bracelet jewel, on top of her choker medallion, together a bright light of force and power was formed! Pink sparkling lights formed around her as she twirled like a top several times, arms and tail extended! Another bright light shone overhead of her! She caught it with her bell (her left leg is bending in pose)… and she shouted, “Ribbon Strawberry Check!” She kneeled to the ground, presented her shining Bell at her opponent, and unleashed a great array of rainbow-colored stars, bubbles, and rays at her target!

Finally the germ is minimized down to a mere cloud of dying parasites!

Mew Ichigo tosses a small container to Mew Ringo, “Take the honors, people are going to get infected!” Mew Ringo catches it, “Right away, Cuz!”

Super Gato lunges at Bake and Frost, who don’t do anything but say “Oh please.” But as they were about to (try to) blow Super Gato away, their energy blasts are not working as if they were all in their imagination and they fell towards the ground, screaming “OH F!”

Mew Ringo let out a splash of Liquid Mew Aqua, which filled the sky with sparkling bubbles of light, therefore finally eliminating the germs once and for all!

The Space Elf agents of Dark Green are now captured and added to those recent ones.

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Within the darkness of another Space Elven spacecraft, a pair of glowing green eyes frowned followed by a deep, distorted, masculine, demonic voice speaking “So those two have failed as well. No matter, my next two creations will be perfect compared to anything anybody else thought of.”

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Watching the beautiful sunset together… the Mew Crew sighed in victory over their latest battle.

Super Kish sighs, “Well, we’ve all finally seen the last of the Life-Dissolver Germs.” Mew Mint nods, “And just before teatime too.” Everyone laughed!

TO BE CONTINUED…