Interstellar Misconceptions

What do Cats and Mei Hatsume Have in Common? Chaos!

"Okay Mei, you left without telling mom anything, what did you bring?" Izuku asks.

"Come on Zuzu! I'll give you a tour of my baby!" She says, dragging Izuku along. A'zawa, not trusting her, follows them both with Hi'ashi not far behind.

The first room of the ship is just a regular cockpit. Well, as regular as it can be when it was made by Mei. To put it simply, it probably;y wouldn't pass a safety check. It was made out of trash and had hazards everywhere.

"A'zawa, Hi'ashi, be careful Mei's stuff can be a bit..." he trailed off realizing he didn't know their word for explosions, if they even had one.

"A bit what, kit?" A'zawa asks, clearly on edge. Izuku, in response, mimics the noise of an explosion and makes an explosive gesture with his hands. At this Hi'ashi clicks.

"Do you mean an ohzvycsyx?" Hi'ashi asks, making a sound similar to explosions on earth, just a bit different.

Izuku nods, and Hi'ashi somehow makes an even higher-pitched click. A'zawa managed to look even warier of his surroundings than before. Mei, just confused at their language, leads them to the next room. It was a mix of a bedroom and a studio/lab. The two aliens looked in awe at the tech but were still wary due to Izuku's earlier warning.

"Zuzu, do you wanna hear about the babies I made when I was on my way here?" She asks, excitedly.

"Maybe later Mei, you're giving us a tour right now."

"Ah, right! Let's continue!"

The next room we enter shocks the three of us, each for different reasons. It's basically a giant greenhouse. Plants of all different shapes and sizes fill the room. Fruits, veggies, beans, nuts. Everything you could need for a healthy diet was growing in here. And quite a few things for an unhealthy diet.

"Mei, you have a whole garden? How did you manage this?!"

"With my babies of course! I made a baby that could shrink and grow stuff a few years ago, so I just shrunk a bunch of potted plants and brought them with me! I grow them when I'm ready to harvest them," She says, obviously proud of her work. "Do ya want a pineapple Zu? I grew a bunch for you, they're nice and ripe!"

"I would love some pineapple, I haven't eaten since I was taken," Izuku smiles at her.

"What do you mean you haven't eaten!? You were taken a week ago and you haven't eaten! Why?" Mei exclaims, concerned.

"The food they served in the ship that took me only had metallic slop. It smelt like old blood."

"Oh, that explains it! I'll make you a meal then!" Mei happily skips off to pick food to prepare for her brother.

Hi'ashi and A'zawa are still processing the sight ahead of them. Hi'ashi is confused by the greenery, it had a similar coloring to the plants on his planet, but it still looks completely different. A'zawa could smell that there was something slightly off in the room, but couldn't place exactly what. That was until Mei started preparing Izuku's pineapple, and its acidic smell hit him full force.

"Zuzu Your food's ready! I made you edamame, peas, strawberries, and pineapple!"

"Thanks, Mei," Izuku says, grabbing a piece of pineapple.

"Kit don't eat that," A'zawa says.

"Why, it's just pineapple?"

"Just what? Nevermind, it doesn't matter. That food is dangerous, it's highly kmsnsm."

In response to A'zawa's worry, Izuku just pops the fruit into his mouth and savors its delicious flavor. A'zawa, still worried, is now confused as to why his kit isn't crying out in pain from the acid he was eating. The only species that could eat food that acidic and survive were Sacidgu. It was now clear to the two aliens that not only were Dankuth just as smart as Tordions, as strong as Enthkaru, and have the element resistance of an electric Taruelment. They were also just as acid-resistant as Sacidgu, if not more. This made the aliens question just how deadly Izuku's home planet is if he had developed all these traits just to be able to survive on it.

After Izuku finished his meal Mei led them to the next room. It was significantly smaller than the previous rooms, but what stood out about it was what was in it.

"Little Listener, why do you have a Caneote kit and an Exemsuku-Chi pup?"

"What are you talking about? This is a cat and a dog?" Izuku asks.

"Cat? Isn't that what Mei called me earlier? What does it mean?" A'zawa asks.

"A cat is a small creature that we have on Earth, my planet. We keep them as pets. We make them family. Same with dogs," Izuku tells them.

The kitten then starts climbing A'zawa and he freezes. The little furball wastes no time climbing to the top of the Caneote's and proceeds to pass out between the alien's ears.

"Hey Zu, can you tell him that her name is Chikai? Imma get started on that translator!"

"Sure Mei, let me know if you need any help."

"Will do!" And with that Mei retreats to her lab to start building. Izuku leads the aliens off of the ship, to ensure they don't get caught in the bad end of Mei's creations.

"A'zawa that cat's name is Chikai," Izuku tells him. "You need to be careful with her, she is not fully grown. She's just a kit."

"I can tell, she is so small. So light. She needs to eat more."

Hi'ashi is very amused at the scene in front of him. Izuku is clearly confused by his mate's sudden personality shift but Hi'ashi knows exactly what it is. See, Caneotes are one of the few species that the more familial and parenting instincts go to the males. Despite this cat being a creature from the Dankuth's home planet, it is still close enough to a Caneote kit that A'zawa's parental instincts are kicking in. It was a pretty funny sight. At that moment Hi'ashi decided that he wanted to keep the Dankuths.