Sorry about updating in 3 months or so! I was busy… and I had new obsessions doing stuff… I'm so sorry again!

And just to warn you, my writing style might have changed a bit, or a lot, depending on your point of view. So, sorry about that too! ;;

Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew. If I did, there would be more KishXIchigo scenes and no Masaya.

Claimer: I own Sakura, Yumi, Fala, yadda yadda yadda. I had a few instances where people stole my characters. You'd have to have my permission to use them.

Ginger's POV

It's the day I've been fearing. Even though Ryou told me it would be okay, I still can't think about meeting them again. If everything goes wrong, then I'm stuck again, and there might be no way out.

Everyone gathered in Café Mew Mew again, and Ryou was having a talk with Fala and Umeko. Not only did Fala bring Kappuke-kun again, but Umeko brought along Oko and Momoka-san. "This is going to be a nightmare." Ryou muttered. "Three kiddie aliens. Give me a good reason why they should stay." Umeko looked at her two siblings, and answered first. "I'm suppose to be babysitting them, and I'm suppose to attack the base to. I can't refuse one or the other, so I have to do both." Fala grabbed Kappuke-kun's hand and stared at Ryou with soulful eyes. "And Kappuke-kun wanted to come along na no da! He might be useful no da!" Ryou sighed and shook his head, meaning that he doesn't care anymore.

After that argument was settled, Ryou cleared his throat for attention. "Now we can move on to more important issues, Emiko, show us where the alien base is." I stopped doing anything for a moment, and thought about it. From Sakura-san's house, I tried to retrace my steps. It ended up in a location I can go to from here. "Follow me." I whispered.

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I took everyone to an abandoned train station. The lights were off, so Keiichiro handed out flashlights to everyone but Sakura-san and Umeko, who could see in the dark. The station sort of reminded me of the Café before we cleaned it up. Dark, dreary, and strangely familiar.

I waved my flashlight around the place, searching for the entrance of where the aliens were. It's been a long time, and the entrance was well hidden. I wondered if it would take hours to find it.

"Emiko-chan?" A voice asked behind me. I whirled around and punched whoever he was, in case he was one of them.

It was Oko. He fell backwards, and his nose was bleeding dark red blood. He touched his nose, felt the blood, and looked at me in surprise. "Emiko-chan, why did you punch me?"

I gasped and knelt down beside him. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know it was you! Sorry!" Oko sighed wearily. "And besides, no one ever calls me Emiko except my parents and other adults." I continued. The nose stopped bleeding suddenly, and I wiped some blood away. "I always called you Emiko, Emiko-chan. It's a better name then Ginger. And Emiko is your real name, right?" Oko said back.

"Ok, fine. Enough about my name. Why did you sneak up on me?" I asked. Oko stood up with the help of me, and answered. "Because you looked worried. And pale. And etc. Why are you? You have nothing to be afraid of. You're a Mew." I looked at him and stared back at the others. It could be so easy to tell Oko, but something's holding me back. I'll tell him some other time. For now, I tried to turn my attention to something else.

A loud scream, followed by scuffling noises, provided me with the perfect opportunity to distract my mind. Kappuke-kun had probably done something with Fala which she didn't like. I ran over to both of them.

Apparently, Kappuke-kun had put a spider in Fala's hair, for no reason. Fala reacted by screaming, and attacking him. None of them seemed hurt, but they definitely don't seem to like each other as much.

"This isn't the time to be pulling pranks and fighting with each other." Ryou said. "We're supposed to be looking for the aliens' base, and if we don't find it today, we'll have to keep coming back here." Ryou exclaimed loudly. "And none of you want that to happen, right?" Fala stood up and stared at Ryou hard. "It wasn't my fault that Kappuke-kun put a spider in my hair na no da!" She retorted. Ryou glared at her harder. "It was your fault for fighting with him though. So don't blame him when you're partially responsible too."

While Fala and Ryou were bickering about the fight, I drowned the voices out by searching for the base. Although I think it was more on the other side of the station, my memory could be wrong. Maybe I should've told everyone what to look for. We would've probably found it by now if I did that.

Suddenly, a part of the wall with vandalism on it clicked something in my mind. The graffiti was there for a purpose, and not just because someone wanted to put it there. I frantically ran over and started feeling the cracks in the wall.

Sakura and the others must have noticed what I was doing, because they ran over too. "You found the base? About time." murmured Yumi. Sakura pressed her hand against the wall and felt around. "What are you looking for?" She asked. My hand brushed an indent in the crumbly wall. I fingered it for a sec before clutching it and pulling hard.

A section of the wall fell forward into a small pile of rubble. Sakura, Fala, and Yumi were the only ones amazed at what had happened. The rest just stay emotionless.

"But Emiko, that hole is too small for most of us to fit in." Ryou pointed out. "Only you can probably fit in there." To test it out, Sakura knelt down near the entrance. She couldn't get her body through, even if she crawled. "So that leaves out… Sakura, Umeko, Ryou, Keiichiro, and me." Yumi said thoughtfully. "That's more than half of the Mews gone right there." Fala bent down and stuck her head through the hole. She came back out and glanced at Kappuke-kun. "Kappuke-kun can fit though too na no da! And Momoka-san and Oko are smaller-san, so they can come also no da!"

At her name being said, Momoka-san hid behind Umeko and clutched on. She tried to get her little sister off, but she held on tight. "You can leave Momoka out of this. It's just two Mews and two kid aliens." She mumbled. Ryou shook his head and sighed for the fourth time today. "Is there another entrance Emiko? One that everyone can fit through?" I stared at the hole in the wall and looked around. "I can't remember any other. This was a passage I dug myself. To…" I stopped myself from saying too much. They don't need to know that much.

"Well, if you say so. I guess the best plan is for you to lure those two out of their base, so Sakura, Yumi, and Umeko can attack them too. After all, two aliens and Mews aren't going to get rid of them." Ryou resigned. "You probably want to communicate with us when you're inside, so Emiko will be in charge of the headgear." He continued while handing me the headgear. I expected to hear Fala or Kappuke-kun to complain about giving them to me, but they didn't say anything. I putted it on and tested it to see if it was working.

"Testing, testing. Oh, ok. It works." I said into the equipment. Something that Ryou is holding in his hand said the same thing, only fuzzier. He looked at it, and just shrugged his shoulder. "It can't be helped. The receiver was faulty in the first place." After a moment, he turned his gaze at us and scowled. "What are you waiting for! Transform and get to the base!"

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"Why did I ever agree to come with you?" Kappuke-kun muttered. We're deep inside the hole, and I'm guessing that we're almost to the end. Fala, who was behind Kappuke-kun, slapped him on the back. "Don't complain na no da! This is exciting no da!" He muttered something else under his breath, and Fala slapped him again. They were on the verge of another fight, which obviously isn't good in this situation.

"Shut up you two. We're almost to the exit." Oko snapped at both of them. My shoulders relaxed at the fight prevention. At least not everyone here hates each other. I came to a dead end in the tunnel, which was ok for me. I motioned everyone to be quiet and tapped the wall. It crumbed down, leaving an entrance into the base. Everyone crawled through as stealth-like as they can.

Nothing much had changed in their base. It still was the same metallic dull hue since I last been here. Trying to walk silently, I peeked through a room. It still had those huge supercomputers, but something else was in there. Coming closer, it was a machine I'd never seen before, even when I was here. I looked at Oko for answers.

He examined the machine a bit closer, and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know what it is. It looks like it's for transporting items and those must be pretty big to build a machine like this." Which is probably true, because the machine is bigger than me.

"Is everything alright?" a voice sounded in my ear. It wasn't Ryou who was talking, it was Sakura-san.

"Yeah. We're just looking at something." I answered back. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. Did you find them yet?" she asked. I shook my head, even though she couldn't really see me doing that. "No, not yet. But we haven't searched much either." Then I think Sakura said something back, but there was static. The last things she said were "I have to get off now. Ryou said that they might hear me if I talked too much." I heard a clicking sound, and she was gone.

I looked around the rest of the room for a moment, and then realized something. Only Kappuke-kun and Oko was with me. So where's Fala?

"Kappuke-kun, where did Fala go? You were supposed to keep an eye on her!" I said to him. "I don't know where she is now. But Fala's probably wandering around, because you bored her too long." He replied back without looking at me. I ran out of the room and glanced around. She didn't leave any convenient trail to follow, but I wasn't expecting that anyway. I randomly picked a way to go, and followed it, with the two aliens tailing after me.

I was lucky, because a while later, I found her in a room, twirling around in a spinny chair. When she became aware that I was standing in the doorway, Fala got out of it and stood up. "Ginger-san, on of them were really close to that room we were in na no da! When they were leaving, I followed them so I could tell you where he was later na no da!" She also took something out of her pocket and gave it to me. It was a floppy disk sort of thing, except it couldn't be, unless they were resorting to human technology now. I gave it to Oko, and he stared at the thing intensely. "I think I know what this is." He murmured. "Father has this sort of thing with him sometimes. It's like a data file for dialogue recordings they might have." When he stopped gazing at the file, he looked up and saw our confused faces. "Like a record of any kind of talking they want to save. But this file doesn't show images or videos. Just sounds." Oko looked at Fala. "Where did you get this? It couldn't have been lying around." She looked thoughtful for a moment, and answered. "I really did find it lying around na no da. It was on the floor, and it seemed important na no da. So I took it no da."

Kappuke-kun slapped his head, and Oko just looked frustrated. "You know what this means!" Kappuke-kun shouted. "It's a trap! I mean, they wouldn't want to leave their stuff out in the open! And you made all of that noise to, so they knew we were coming!" Fala stared at him innocently. "That's the first time you said something smart no da." She said. I could see Kappuke-kun falling over in Fala's naivety, but he didn't.

A second after that, all hell broke loose.

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Sakura's POV, because I can. P

Ryou's expression while listening to the receiver didn't look so good. I tried asking what was wrong, and he didn't say anything. Finally, he stopped pressing his ear against the receiver and tossed it to the ground. It broke into a thousand pieces.

"Why did this happen! Why this, why now!" He screamed to no one. Yumi, Umeko, and Keiichiro looked up from whatever they were doing. "What's wrong Ryou? Did Ginger-san find them?" I asked feverishly. He glanced at me for a split second and then continued raging. Keiichiro walked over and calmed him down. Ryou sat down on a chair and clutched his face.

"It's more like they found Emiko." He said to answer my question. It took me a minute to figure out what he means. When I did, I ran over to the remains of the receiver, and tried to see if I can still hear anything. Nothing. Yumi came over to comfort me, like Keiichiro did to Ryou. I wasn't in a fit of anger, but she made me feel a little better.

"So what are we going to do now? Just sit here and hope they get through?" Umeko asked. She seemed to be the only one not affected by what happened. Or at least she doesn't show it.

Ryou stopped anguishing and looked up at her. He then stared at the little hole Ginger had made. "All three of you. Transform and tried to make that hole bigger."

I nodded, and so did everyone else. That was probably our only option to save them.

"MEW MEW SAKURA METAMORPHISIS!"

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It's another cliffhanger! Don't you hate it when I do that? Well, it's a lot of fun, to tell you the truth. XD

Next chapter hopefully should be up sooner. So stay tuned!