Description: After the ordeal in the hospital, the girls regroup and determine their next plan of attack on the aliens ship. The rebels pay them a visit before they can set their plan in motion, and things get ugly.

Rating: T

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Apprehension and fear were painted on Purin's features as she looked up to her love. He stood weakly against the wall by his room doorway, he wore a weary expression through his bandages as he raised his weapon.

The small yoyo began to spin wildly, and sparks began to fly off. Tart then used all his energy to swing the weapon and sent it hurtling towards the grey skinned beast clambering to it's feet in front of him. The monstrosity looked back just as the yoyo spun around it's legs and knocked it to the ground. The throw made Tart wheeze and slowly slide to the floor with his back against the wall. Purin watched in horror as the attacker turned back to the smallest alien. Tart winced because of his injuries as the behemoth lurched over him.

Kish realized that the grey alien was going to attack his cousin and he moved to launch his own attack. As the alien reared back a clawed hand to strike Tart down, a bright purple flash blew passed and ripped a gash into the monsters arm. The green haired alien fell back onto his rear as the beast fell beside him, clenching its arm wildly and roaring in pain. Blood splattered all over the floor of the hospital corridor, and Kish scrambled back away a few feet. His bright yellow eyes shot up the hall towards the source of the flash- Zakuro and Mint.

The wolf mew darted over to Tart and scooped him up into her arms with ease, while Mint flew over to Purin and helped her up. The grey skinned alien then teleported out of sight, and Tart's weapon dropped to the floor. After a few moments, Kish weakly got to his feet, meeting the eyes of the violet haired mew holding his young cousin.

A whole hearted smile appeared on his face at the sight of the rescuers, he breathed a sigh of relief as he spoke to the girls;

"I can honestly say I'm happy to see you guys."

Tart took a few more tense breaths from the sudden stress, and then relaxed in the model's arms and jokingly snapped at his older cousin,

"Lot of help you were, I had to save your ass."

Kish scoffed and grinned at the snarky comment,

"I'm glad your punk ass could get out of bed to do so."

Mint and Purin walked over to join the trio, and the monkey girl ran up to her young love and petted his hair and gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek. She was concerned about him more than anything. Zakuro shifted as she held the little alien in her arms, her eyes went from Tart to Kish's bright amber ones. Her tone was a bit ambiguous, somewhat warm, but still retained it's chill as she spoke.

"We need to get him to the cafe, it's not right putting all these hospital staff in danger needlessly. He will be safer at the cafe anyway because we will all be together. Divided we will fall."

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Once Tart had been settled in his room, Purin was immediately beside him. The blond mew hadn't left his side, she laid in bed next to him and gently curled up to him and dozed off. Tart had been resting a lot now that he was settled in a soft bed, especially after the energy exertion he went through.

Curious gold eyes peered into the room, glad to see the two of them so content despite the oncoming storm. Kish moved to close the door, but a sudden body muscled it's way in front of him and made him flinch. A head of wild red hair moved it's way between his body and the door to peek in as well. The alien fumbled to find words, but the lead mew seemed to find words quicker-

"They're too cute!"

Kish took half a step back from her to create a little distance. He was not even focused on the young couple now, just on this sweet smelling girl that invaded his personal space. With a slow turn of her head those big brown eyes looked up at him in an amused light. He now wore a cheesy grin, feeling a little warmth heat up his heart for an instant. She spoke again,

"I haven't got to catch up with you yet, how have you been?"

"Keeping Pai in line, you know."

A sarcastic expression suddenly lit up her face,

"Somehow I doubt that."

The alien rocked back on his heels and looked to the side briefly, this girl made his stomach flutter whenever she looked at him with those doe eyes. It was nice having her act friendly towards him rather than be fighting and attacking him, being allies really was better. He struggled again to find words, but gathered his thoughts after a few moments;

"What about you Kitty-Cat? Stirring up trouble like usual?"

A slight sneer and lift of his head made her notice he was kidding, she huffed and gave him a playful push.

"Me?! I don't stir up anything!"

"Hey love birds!"

The sudden interruption made them both whip their heads in the direction of the voice; of course it's Ryou. The blond man rolled his eyes at the dumbfounded looks on their faces and continued,

"When you two get done, gather your thoughts, things, whatever- and meet us in my computer room in ten. We got a location."

The red head felt slightly embarrassed that Ryou was calling them love birds, but brushed it off as he strolled off. She sighed in a huff and looked back to the alien, feeling a slight heat in her cheeks because he was looking directly at her. Those bright eyes made her swallow and back up a step,

"We will have to catch up later then I guess."

Kish seemed slightly downhearted at her putting the slight distance between the two of them. She motioned with her head and smiled haphazardly,

"We should go."

The alien shrugged and told her he would get Purin to leave Tart for a moment to come downstairs and hear the plan. Ichigo simply nodded in response and awkwardly made her way down the stairs even though she knew no one was down there yet. Kish was 'moving in' on her once again it seemed and she wasn't sure how to feel about it. The alien was a good person at heart, but after all they had gone through; she wasn't sure what she wanted. She and Masaya had been broken up for more than six months now, but it still felt strange to think about other guys.

The mew rounded the corner into the dark computer room and right into the body of a tall muscular figure. The abrupt bump into the other person made her gasp and stagger backwards, her face lit up in a blush as she blinked a few times and looked up at the person.

"I'm so sorry, that was my fault!"

Her worried eyes met the narrow cold ones of Pai. The oldest alien looked down at her with furrowed eyebrows, it made a chill run up her spine. She felt like she was in trouble and apologized again,

"S-Sorry about that!"

Pai's expression softened and he shook his head, stepping aside to let her in the room.

"Not a problem."

The mew smiled sheepishly and looked up at him,

"I didn't know you were down here, you found the location?"

The alien shifted slightly under her glassy eyed gaze, he seemed to hesitate for just a moment.

"Yes. I have pin-pointed the ship that is on Earth. It landed in the forest in one of the national parks just outside the city. I'll share our attack plan when the rest of the group decide to come down."

Ichigo observed as he turned and walked across the room, making her shuffle to walk with him. She liked being able to get him to open up, it seemed like he needed it.

"If you don't mind my asking, what made you want to stick around and help us?"

When he turned to look at her with that usual emotionless face, she felt a twinge of nervousness- maybe it offended him? She breathed with a cheap grin on her face and put her hand on the back of her head to flatten her hair,

"I don't mean to sound ungrateful, I was just curious!"

The corners of his mouth lifted ever so slightly, making her focus on his thin lips. Pai looked down at her for just a moment as he formulated an appropriate response,

"Many factors went into my decision to stay and assist you all. Purin is important to Taruto, and he would die to protect her. That kind of blind dedication earns my respect. And these rebels are from our planet, we may be the only ones who can track them. We have a common enemy, and It'll take all of us to defeat them. "

"Are you this serious all the time? Because it looked like you almost cracked a smile there for a second."

Her sudden off-topic question made him crack a look of confusion. A plethora of thoughts ran through his head as the nosy cat girl gawked up at him. She wasn't really interested in his reasons for why he stayed, she clearly had ulterior motives in her question. The alien searched her face for answers, but all he got was a candy sweet smile from her. It was unclear as to why she cared about his personal reasons for anything, he wasn't used to having someone pry into his business like this. It wasn't offending like he thought it would be, it was, intriguing to say the least.

"I am as serious as need be. It's not my job to be emotional, it's-"

The door swung open so hard it hit the wall and a girl interrupted their conversation by tripping into the room. She barely caught herself before falling on her face, she clambered back up to a standing position and fixed her glasses. A bright red flush lit up her cheeks as she smiled at Pai and Ichigo. A blond man rushed around the corner and grabbed her arm, looking her over to make sure she was intact. Lettuce nodded and flattened the crinkles in her dress and regained her composure.

The group convened in the computer room and Ryou and Pai gave the lay out of the plan. The girls all listened intently, with the exception of Purin, she was far too worried about her boy upstairs. His bones needed time to heal, and he wouldn't be able to fight in this skirmish. The thought of that monster hurting Tart further made the youngest mew bitter and made her want to fight that much harder.

As they got towards the end of the set up plan; a sudden explosion and rumbling of the building made them all cower. It was deafening, the sound of crumbling walls and the roar of heavy winds made a few of them drop to their knees. The whole building shook around them like an earthquake.

Keiichiro grabbed the wolf girl before she toppled over, he turned and sheltered her against the wall with his own body. Purin was knocked onto her rear, but quickly jumped to her feet and sprinted out the door and up the stairs. Ryou yelled after her- but was too late.

Ichigo then charged out after her, the entire group followed suit.

As they ran out into the main floor, there were two aliens standing in the remnants of the main dining room of the cafe. One was wiry and had cream colored hair, his expression was one of cockiness and arrogance. The other alien was incredibly tall, at least seven feet, and had black hair. The taller one had intense burn marks that made the right side of his face look as though it was blown off, and he had a steel looking eye. The scars were scattered about the right side of his body, and his most unsettling feature was his forearms- they were mechanical. They were made of steel and looked animatronic.

Kish whirled passed everyone after the youngest mew and was trying to get to Tart as well. He froze when another alien held the two youngest by their hair at the top of the staircase. Tart was limp and looked unconscious, and Purin was flailing around in his arms and was yelling and writhing to get free.

Ichigo began frantically searching in her pockets for a pendant, but the cream haired alien shouted at her.

"Stop right there! Better wait just a damn minute-"

The group was unsure of who should have their attention. Keiichiro took a brave step forward and put his hands up to show he was not armed,

"If you are the leader of the rebels- Please hear me out. Those two are very young and do not deserve to be thrown into this, please don't hurt them."

The lead alien scoffed and took a step towards him, but Pai brushed passed him and made the alien recoil in fear. It was truly startling to see the alien back away from Pai, Keiichiro stared in disbelief. The gigantic scarred alien stepped in between them, and made Pai look short in comparison. This alien was almost a foot taller than him, and he did not make any threatening gestures; he simply blocked the way to the pale haired alien behind him. Pai seethed and summoned his fan, causing the girls behind him to dig through their pockets and purses for their pendants in case of an attack.

The black haired giant slowly shook his head and seemed to have a somewhat sorrowful expression on his face. Pai glared up at him and spoke bitterly,

"Get out of my way Binx."

The giant seemed to press his lips together for a moment in what looked like hurt, and plead with his eyes at the purple haired alien,

"I have to."

Ryou looked back at the blue haired alien holding the two youngest members of their group hostage. He shook his head- this wasn't good. He spoke up sternly, and got everyone's attention,

"What exactly do you want from us?"

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MewMid: Sorry for any grammar errors!

Wanna see pictures my aliens? I have almost all of them drawn on my deviantart account. I am BladeKat on dA and you can just search "tokyo mew mew cray", or whatever names you wanna see and you'll find my gallery. I have lots of TMM art on there.

R and R!