2.

"Boy, that girl was just as obnoxious as Wallace-Kami!" Said Heta. 
"You got it Heta!" Sammy said in agreement. 
"Vote for Rai-Chan!" Rai yelled to all the people below her. 
"Raiiiii!!!!" Sammy yelled.

In a great ship thousands of miles above the earth's surface. 
"Fna is getting very angry with all of our losses, Brandii," Wallace-Kami told Brandii.
"What is it that we shall do?" asked Brandii. 
"It's time to go through with plan 94324426800873!" 
"Really?" asked Brandii. 
"Yes, but first we have to get rid of Luna-Megami! Shape shift into our mother Gul Du Kat!" Yelled Wallace-Kami. Brandii did as told. She then started to cry and while she was doing that Wallace-Kami hit the button to send a message to his "DEAR" sister. 
"Hello?" asked Luna-Megami. 
"*sob* Your *sob* father has diiiieeeeddddd!" Said the fake mother, "He said you were his favorite child and he has left you 2 thirds of his fortune. But first you must search the Galaxy and find the Tendo's three!" 
"Yes I knew it! And that pathetic loser Wallace-Kami thought that he was the favorite child!" She laughed for a really long time--so long that Brandii and Wallace-Kami fell asleep. Then when they woke up she was already gone. 
"Whahaha! She is very sad! And to think that she's really the favorite child! Ouch, I broke a nail *sob* why don't you just kill me!"
The ship entered earth and homed in on the position of the three girls and their friends. "You two go and get those anti-Fnaers!" Wallace-Kami called out to two shaded figures. 

"What smells, other then this campaign of Rai's?" asked Sammy Chan. 
There was no time for a reply from Heta for the two of them were knocked out by fertilizer. 
"Vote for Rai-Chan! Hey, what smells?" asked Rai. 
"Nothing--this campaign is all washed up!" Said the voice of a young man. He hit Rai with the tremendous force of soap and water. 
"They were no match for us!" The woman said. 
"Yes, no one is a match for Fertilizer Girl and Shower Boy!" The two laughed. Fg looked kind of like Genma + Shampoo and Sb looked like Shinobu meets Mousse. 
"Hurry!" Yelled Wallace-Kami. The two complied. They gathered up everyone, Heta, Sammy, the washed up Rai, Gadget Boy, and all the rest here on Fna's Island.
When the girls woke up they were chained to the floor with GB, Ryouga, and the Cyclone Squad. All the others where somewhere else. "What to do to want? You evil (good looking) man!" Yelled Rai-chan while blushing. 
"You are all about to witness my true power!" Wallace-Kami told them, "Are the Fna power bombs in place!?" 
"Yes, Lord Wallace-Kami," replied Brandii. 
"What!?" Yelled everyone. 
Then within the next three min. the girls witnessed a sight that was ghastly! The bombs created a enormous Bob Dole that ate the world in two bites. There was nothing there anymore. 
"Wait a minute, I read my script and there is nothing about Bob Dole eating the world. It said in here that the Death Star destroyed it!" Said a woman in a weird outfit. "What, this isn't studio 5?" 
"No, 6!" Answered Wallace-Kami. 
"Sorry, me bad!" And she left. 
"You monster!" Sammy yelled, restarting from where they left off. 
"Papa bear..." Heather cried, "... Your dead!" 
"Yep. Hi honey!" Said the ghost of Heta's dad. 
"Eeeeekk, you're a ghost!" She screamed. 
"Duhh. Boy, what happened to you? You used to be such a smart girl, now you're as dumb as a doornail," he told her. The shock was too much; she fainted. 
"No, now I can never go into office!!" Rai-chan yelled. 
"RAI-CHAN!! The world just blew up!! Don't you care?" 
"Yeah yeah, blew up... I hear you!" She replied. 
"You have two choices: join me or die!!" Wallace-Kami told them. 
"We give up... all hail FNA and Wallace-Kami!" Sammy said sadly. 
"WHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Wallace-Kami laughed.

Act Two: FNA IN SPACE 

"Why did we have to come?" Asked Steven. 
"You two came because if you didn't you'd have screwed up my plans to own the Shake'n'Bake company! No, I mean blow up the world. Yeah, that's it!" He said while looking around like he was up to something. "Helm, set a course for the Shake'n'Bake sector warp 333333333333333333333." Brandii complied. The ship entered warp 3333333333... etc. etc. etc.

Meanwhile, on the quest for the Tendo Three... 
"Yep, this de' is Akane's Kitchen, da best darn eaten in da galaxy!" Said the girl hillbilly with the short hair. 
"When I get my hands on Wallace-Kami... I'LL KILL HIM!!" Luna screamed.

Back again in the Shake'n'Bake sector... 
"Good, it's done!" Wallace-Kami said, all giddy and gay. 
"What's done?" Asked Sammy-chan. 
"New earth! They say it took God seven days to create it. Well, it took Fna only 7 seconds. Welcome to your new home and I am its and your master!"

3 Years Later... 
"Lord Wallace-Kami. What an unexpected surprise!" Rai-chan said. She now worked for him as one of three presidents of New Earth. Their job was to help run the new world. 
"Enough. Your two ex-friends have destroyed one of my cloning facilities! They have also killed Kodachi 8! I should kill my dear sister's Trunks 5! It was all Trunks' fault for killing Kodachi! Anyway, Fna is getting very unhappy! Hurry up and catch those fugitives or you might be out of a JOB, am I understood?" He yelled. 
"Yes my Lord," Rai-chan replied. With that, Wallace-Kami's face vanished from the screen. Soon after two figures entered from a secret passage. "We don't have much time. He's catching on a little and it won't be much longer before those idiots in the Cyclone Squad find you. I have arranged with a friend and fellow freedom fighter to clone you two. The clones will turn themselves in. Wallace-Kami will most likely have them killed, but at least he will believe you're dead, which will make both our jobs easier. Any questions?" Rai asked. 
"Yes, when do Heta and I go?" Asked one of the figures. 
"Soon, very soon. That idiot Wallace-Kami will never figure it out!" Said Rai. 
"Don't underestimate my father! He isn't bright but he's no fool," said the voice of a mysterious stranger...

Rai whirled around in shock. Her two mysterious partners melted back into the shadows. “Who are you?” She demanded of her new visitor.
The figure stepped forward, the dying light of the setting sun flashing across her features. She giggled evilly, and her short blue hair bobbed. She dropped her carefully maintained authoritative tone and said “Ah just flew in from de ayedge of de universe. Think ya could give me a bedda welcome den dayat?”
Rai’s eyes narrowed angrily. “Why, Akane Tendo… what an unexpected and… blood-curdling surprise.” She sat down in her big executive chair. “I thought your father died of cancer of the tear ducts three years ago. And weren’t you taking speech lessons?”
Akane casually seated herself on the edge of Rai’s desk. “Ah use de term ’Father’ very loosely. He’s all y’all’s ‘father’, ain’t he? Creatin’ de world an’ all.” She smirked at Rai with the sugary sweetness Rai had come to know and hate. “And mah monay for de speech lessons was bedda invested in pork-bellays.” She gleefully noted Rai’s shudder. “But Rai-chan, hon, what was all dat about clones?”
Rai considered smashing Akane’s skull with the glass paperweight across her desk. It was too far away. She instead flipped her blonde hair behind one ear. “Business talk, Akane-chan,” she said, drawing out the word “chan” like she was saying the word “manure.” “Pure business. I’ve been trying to professionally restore inexpensive solutions such that we may continue to competently facilitate excellent content while promoting personal employee growth.”
	Akane blinked dully. “Oro?”
	Rai’s smile was blinding. “It’s all very simple. My goal is to authoritatively disseminate interdependent benefits to allow us to enthusiastically revolutionize effective products to exceed customer expectations.”
	The short-haired ‘daughter’ of Wallace-kami went catatonic trying to understand Rai. Rai shoved her off her desk, and gave her an anime-boot out of the room. “Get a medulla oblongata reduction, tomboy!” She shouted after her. 
***
	A few hours later…
	A loud pounding noise reverberated from Rai’s office door. Rai looked up from her monotonous paper work. “Come in?”
	The door was flung open. Two burly security guards stomped in and seized her. Rai sputtered in confusion. Before she could get in any good nutcracker attacks on the guards, another person entered the room. Rai sneered at her in pure hatred.
	“Rai-chan!” Akane beamed at her. “Nice to sey ya agayan!” Her bad southern hillbilly accent burned Rai’s ears.
	“What’s the meaning of this, Tendo??” Rai yelled.
	“Didn’t Ah tell ya? Ah’ve been made anudda presideyent of de world!” Akane giggled happily. Rai frowned. She’d known Kuno was going to be replaced soon, but she didn’t think Wallace-kami would stoop so low as to bring the stupidest Tendo sister into the game. “And as mah first deyutay…” Akane leaned towards the livid Rai. “Ah told Wallace-kami about our littal spah!”
	“Little what?”
	“Spah!!”
	“What?”
	“SPAH!!” Akane shouted. “BAKA!” She pulled out a trademark mallet and slammed it into Rai’s head. The Tendo girl brightened at Rai’s sudden state of unconsciousness. “Tayake her to da holdin ceyell! Wallace-kami-sama wanteyed us ta wait for da ageyents to arrahve and giyive her da once-ovah!”
***
	Rai came to in a dark place. “Ouch.” Her voice echoed. She gingerly stood up, and looked around. She could see stars in one corner of the room. Picking her way towards the small window, she muttered to herself furiously. “I can’t believe it… Akane’s a world president. I’ll have to ask Heta or Sammy if they’ll assassinate her for me…”
	The sound of chuckling from the other end of the room caught Rai’s attention. “Ah could let ya out of dere, iffin ya do a teensay-weensay liddal fayvah for me.”
	“Akane…” Rai snarled, and looked around.
	“Ah’m outside of de room, so don’t go thinkin ya can just come up here an’ bust me upside de head,” the girl’s disembodied voice announced.
	“What do you want, you hamster??” Rai shouted. “You rabbit-sucker?? You wiper of other people’s bottoms??”
	“What did you call me?? Ah can’t believe you just sayaid dat!!”
	“Yah, what’re ya gonna do about it, hick girl?” Rai stuck out her tongue in the direction of Akane’s voice. “Ya gonna tell my mommy??”
	“Ah’m onlay gonna offah ya once, girlay, but Ah’m a thinkin Ah won’t offah ya at all!” Akane warned. 
	“Fine, I’m listening,” Rai called, and began to pace around the room.
	“Ah reallay onlay came here for one ting, an’ dat’s ta reclaim what belongs ta me!”
	“Ranma’s living in South Africa, you baka, go find him there!”
	“Ah’m not talkin about Ranma!!” She screeched. “Ah’m talkin about mah P-Chayan!!”
	Rai froze. “You want P-Chan? Why would you think I’d have something to do with that?!”
	“Ah know one of your freyiends has got hiyim! I want hiyim bayack!” Rai’s captor insisted.
	“No way, sister!! Uh-uh, sugar! Don’t go there, girlfriend!! I’m not telling you where they are!!” Rai screamed.
	There was silence for what seemed like hours. Rai stood pensively, sweat forming down the back of her nice lavender business suit.
	“Theyen I gueyess I cen just go to da ageyents with your litta seycreyet?” Akane purred.
	Rai felt the blood rush out of her face. Agents?? Secret?? “So… so na… you’re bluffing!”
	“Wey’ll see, now, won’t wey?”
	“Akane…” Silence. “Akane!!” Rai sat down on the ground. “Kuso.” She stood back up, and walked over to her small window. “Schiest.” She looked down, and saw a black car pull up next to the building. “No way, if she had called them, they wouldn’t arrive this soon…” She told herself apprehensively. Staring wide eyed, she saw two figures get out, in black sunglasses and trenchcoats. “SCHIEST! She DID call agents!!”
***
	The two figures walked steadfastly into the building, one young man with dark hair and one slightly younger woman with short curly hair. The man walked through the metal detector, which gave a very insistent beep.
	The security guards stopped them. “You guys got any weapons on ya?” One guard asked.
	The man opened his trenchcoat. From his belt hung more automatic assault rifles than most terrorists would consider necessary. “Like these?” He asked. 
His woman partner opened fire.
***
	“I’ve gotta get out of here…” Rai stuttered to herself nervously, pacing back and forth, her purple high heels clicking on the hard floor. There were only two things she feared, and one was agents. Fortunately, Rai was a smart girl, even when she was swimming in her own terror, and thus knew the one flaw that bad guys never realized when they built their jail cells.
“Vents… there have got to be air vents around here…”
***
	The curly-haired woman blew the smoke away from her gun’s barrel. Two recently dead security guards lay at their feet. The sunglassed figures walked into the next room as if nothing had happened. Ten more guards met them, and noted the girl’s deadly AR-33 rifle with shock. They drew their own weapons. The young man pulled two KF-7 Soviets off of his belt and calmly shot into the guards...
***
	Rai felt along the walls, searching for any sign of a vent. She felt air blowing gently on her left hand. She reached up, and found a grating. “Ah, air conditioning!” She punched the grating in. “Yessss…”
***
	The curly-haired one crouched behind a pillar, fired away the last of her AR-33’s ammunition, and tossed it away. “You go on and get her, before the real agents arrive,” she ordered her partner as she cast off her trenchcoat. She pulled another rifle off of her hip and beamed. “I’ll keep these suckers busy!” He nodded in agreement, and started shooting his way towards the elevator. Behind him the woman laughed gleefully as she mowed down two more baddies…
***
	Rai pulled herself out of the vent and up onto the enormous roof. She looked around anxiously. She could try and jump away across the roofs, and wait until it was safe to head for the rebels’ secret lair. The trouble was, she couldn’t remember where it was. It was a secret lair, after all. 
	“Schiest. I guess the best thing I can do right now is transform…” She raised her hand high into the air. “I need the power of the electric bird of DEATH!!” She called to the heavens. A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. A huge shining yellow bird with sharp plumage suddenly appeared behind Rai and folded its wings around her, lending her energy.
	“REM thunderclap Zapdos lightning riot!” Rai shouted. Her power of lightning surrounded her, and after a transformation scene too cool for mere words, her lavender outfit was replaced by her black catsuit, yellow belt, and white gloves. The electric bird disappeared. 
	Rai tapped the yellow oval on her forehead in relief. It’d been a while since she’d transformed to her more powerful state.
	The sound of someone crawling through the air vent next to her brought her mind back to the current situation. “Schiest,” she swore, and ran to the edge of the roof as fast as she could. She saw a busy road far below her. Very very far. An almost overwhelming horror overtook her. The other thing she feared was heights.
Looking back, she saw a young man in sunglasses and a black trenchcoat jump out of the vent. Rai took a deep breath to steady her nerves, assured herself it was an easy leap, and jumped as far as she could. She landed on the roof 20 feet away. That was an otaku jump, she thought to herself, and shakily looked back at the man pursuing her. Only someone with anime powers could perform it. She ran to the far edge of her roof. I might be safe.
	Before her ever widening eyes, she saw her pursuer jump the entire length to her roof, and land with effortless ease, his dark trenchcoat billowing out behind him. 
	“Ack,” she squawked, and backed up even further. Too late she realized she had run out of roof. “Iiiiiiaaa!” She screamed, and tumbled backwards into space…
	Someone grabbed her hand. She stopped falling. Sunglasses dropped past her. Rai watched them plummet down to the sidewalk, where she could just barely see them shatter. She was shaking so badly, she was sure she’d pass out. Trying to focus on something else, she looked up at her savior/pursuer, and blinked a few times. “You…!”
	“Rai-chan…” He started.
	Another face peeked over the roof edge, tentatively clutching an assault rifle. Rai gleefully recognized it. “Sammy-chan!!” 
The curly-haired girl with the big-ass gun grinned at her. “Would you rather have Ryoga dangle you here all night, or shall we head to the secret lair?” . . .

Back in the jailhouse where Rai-chan just escaped from, a mysterious smoke cloud formed. Inside the cloud, two mysterious figures appeared-
"This galaxy we explore
We'll show the way
And then even more
Turn night into day
We're setting the score
Rhiannhon!
Steven!
WE'RE 'THE CYCLONE SQUAD!'
And we're here to stay!"
The smoke cleared and the two members of the Cyclone Squad stood in place looking around. "Hey!" Rhiannhon yelled, looking at the unconscious bodies strewn about on the floor. "Everyone's already been knocked out! What happened here?"
"I don't know, but let's hurry and get to Rai-chan's cell!" Steven hollered.
The two took off down the hall. But when they arrived, the cell was completely deserted.
"WHAT?!?! She's gone!" Rhiannhon was having a fit.
"Do you think Akane got to her first?" Steven was wondering.
"I don't know...but I certainly hope not." Rhiannhon looked worried.
"Oh, if that..that..Akane person did something to her..I'll, I'll..." Steven looked ready to explode.
"What do you have against her anyway?" Rhiannhon looked at him for an answer.
"I, um, well that's to say that I, um...I just think she's a jerk, that's all. Plus, I can't stand her accent, teehee!" Steven put on a frantic shrugging smile. 
Rhiannhon wasn't sure if she believed him or not. He was acting like an idiot, but then, what else was new? "All right - let's leave quickly, then. We have to find Rai-chan, and we'll be in deep trouble if we get caught!" Steven nodded at Rhiannhon's suggestion and the two turned to leave.
"Hold it right there!" Back-up guards suddenly appeared in the doors of the cells. They all had guns and none of them looked very willing to listen to reason. One of them called in his report on his communicator. "We've caught the two suspects that broke in, one male and one female - just as they had reported. They were both caught at cell #69, it looks like the prisoner has already escaped." Another guard gasped as he recognized them, "It's the Cyclone Squad, sir! They're playing both sides!"
"Uh-oh, this doesn't look good." Steven whispered to Rhiannhon. 
'Good deduction,' She thought sarcastically. She was just keeping her eyes on the guards' movements. 
"Oh, no!" Steven gasped as he suddenly realized something. "Armory! When we created the Cyclone Squad personas we completely forgot about what we'd do if we ever got into a fight! We have no way to protect our selves, nor any weapons or skills to fight back with! We're doomed!" Steven looked like he probably was going to need dry pants very soon. 
Rhiannhon just kept her calm and continued watching the guards. "We're not in as much trouble as you think." She whispered back to him. "I happen to have a little surprise up my sleeve." She winked at him and got a sly look on her face. She slowly reached under her jacket, while the guards weren't watching. 
Steven looked horrified. He just knew she was going to get them both killed. He covered his eyes."I can't watch!" A second later he heard something that he couldn't make out, it was too quick and quiet for his ears to register what it was.
"Done!" He heard Rhiannhon's cheery voice.
"Huh?" He looked up to an impressive sight. All of the guards who had been standing a moment before were now lying, unconscious, on the floor. "What the!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Steven just stood there with his mouth hanging open. "How did you?" He pointed to Rhiannhon who was simply standing there brushing off her hands.
"I'll explain later. For now, let's get going. Wallace-kami now knows that we're rouges and we had better high-tail it out of here, fast!" Steven didn't have time to argue, there could be more guards coming any minute, and he didn't know if what she did was a one time thing. The two left as fast as they could go. One thought kept pounding through Steven's head: 'I HAVE to stop Akane!'
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Rai-chan and Sammy were standing around talking. The Cyclone Squad jumped down in front of them and Rai-chan immediately took up a fighting stance. "You!" Rai-chan shouted.
Rhiannhon held up her hands in a surrender position. "No! No! We're not here to fight you! We're on your side! We just came back from trying to rescue you!"
Sammy placed one hand on Rai-chan's shoulder. "It's true, they were the ones who informed us of your lock-up. When they found out about Akane becoming president, they decided to join us!"
Rai-chan looked suspicious. "But why would you two suddenly decide to help us?"
"Wallace - kami destroyed our very reason for becoming the Cyclone Squad! All of those merchandising rights are gone now! And you have no idea how hard it was to come up with these costumes. The names alone took over a month! Then there was the coloring, our entrance, the speeches..." 
Steven stopped her from continuing. 
Rai-chan put her two cents in. "But you two were given cushy government jobs! Why would you turn your backs on that!?" She still didn't believe them.
"Yeah, that was nice." Rhiannhon continued, "Anyway, when Akane was named president, she announced cut backs in the government budgets. She cut our salaries and told us we had to actually work!" Rhiannhon looked like she was about to hit something. "Besides, Steven seems to have something against her. Anyway, that's all over with now. We were found out trying the break you out of jail, so now we're wanted criminals!"
"Serves you right! You two deserve anything you get as far as I'm concerned! You don't even care about anything or anyone but yourselves!" Rai-chan was fed up with them.
"That is not true!" Steven interjected, 'We also care about money!" He turned away from her with the look of a stubborn four-year-old.
Sammy cut in on their behalf. “Despite why they do what they do, they're only wanted criminals because they were trying to save_ you_ from prison. You owe them, and so do we. When they first found us, they could have turned us in, but they never did. That's when we asked them to join us. I think we should trust them."
Rai-chan still didn't want to hear anything about it. "That may be true, but they still helped Wallace-kami in the beginning, remember?!?"
"Actually, they never did anything for him. They never had a chance. They just went with Rhiannhon's twin sister. That just proves how dangerous Wallace-Kami is, and we need all the help we can get to fight him! Besides, at our first meeting, they did say that they might switch to our side, remember?"
Rai-chan was starting to waver. "Okay, you may be right. But I'm keeping my eye on them!"
Rhiannhon took that moment to remind everyone of their currently open position. "Well, now that we've settled that, we had all better get going. Those guards aren't going to stay unconscious forever." The group all nodded in agreement. They agreed that it was better if they all split up. Sammy and Ryouga would take the roofs to go show Rai-chan where the hideout was. Steven and Rhiannhon would stay together as usual and travel though the back alleys. The Cyclone Squad had extra communicators that they had swiped, along with lots of other office supplies they had stolen over the time they worked in their government jobs. Each member of the group got a communicator and switched it to a secure channel. Rai-chan-tachi took the bag of extra communicators for the others, since they would be getting back to the hideout sooner. Then everyone took off.
"Boy, that Rai-chan has quite a temper, doesn't she?" Rhiannhon asked her partner. "I'm not so sure that it's a good idea to work with them. That Rai-chan might turn on us at any moment."
"No, we must stop Akane...and Wallace-Kami, at all costs!" Steven sounded more determined then Rhiannhon had ever heard him. In that moment she almost felt - respect - toward him. But only for a moment.
"All right. We'll do whatever it takes to stop them...to save my sister." Rhiannhon looked forward as they continued to run through the back alleys. Suddenly, a figure stepped out in front of them.
"Did you really think you could deify me so easily?" Wallace-Kami stood there looking at them, menacingly. The two stopped in their tracks. They didn't know what to do. There didn't seem to be anywhere to run. 
"He he, ya'all gottch'er selves caught, din't ya'?" Akane stood beside Wallace-Kami, snickering.
"YOU!" Steven was ready to jump her and tear her skin off.
"Now, now - I don't want you talking in that tone of voice to, my daughter." Wallace-Kami looked down very lovingly at his daughter. 
"That's it!" Rhiannhon reached under her jacket again, "Wallace-Kami, prepare to die!" Rhiannhon produced from underneath her jacket - a small sword with a backwards blade. She screamed with all the power of her lungs, "Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, Ryu Sou Sen!" She leaped faster then the speed of light and attacked Wallace-Kami, hitting all of his vital points, randomly. After a minute, he was badly beaten, but still standing. Rhiannhon was once again standing where she had stood before. Steven had his mouth wide open.
"How are able to do that!?!?!" He asked her. 
"What, that?" She looked at him as if the answer was the most obvious thing in the world. "Oh, my boyfriend used to be the Hitokiri Battousai." She stated mater-of-factly. Steven suddenly felt a lot better about their position.
"But, wait - I thought you had to kill you teacher in order to inherit the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu techniques?" He said, looking at her.
"Oh," She looked confused, "didn't I say he was my EX-boyfriend?"
Wallace-Kami had flame shooting from his eyes. "YOU will PAY for THAT!" He screamed. With a wave of his hand another figure appeared and kneeled before Wallace-Kami.
"Yes, master, do you wish something of me?" It was Brandy.
"I know that the real reason you turned against me was because of your sister. There is nothing you can hide from me! I hear all, I know all!" He laughed maniacally.
"'Dat end we he'rd ya say it befow!" Akane shoot her two cents out. Wallace-Kami sweat-dropped. He grabbed the drop off of his head and hit Akane over the head with it. 
"A-hem," Wallace-Kami cleared his throat. "As I was saying, yes Brandy, there is something you can do for me. Die, please." With that, he clenched his fist together. Brandy grabbed at her throat and collapsed in front of their eyes.
"Brandy!" Rhiannhon screamed. "No!" She ran to her sister's side. She was barely conscious. "Blondie." She looked her in the eyes.
"Rhia.." Brandy couldn't speak. 
"Brandii." 
"I'm sorry I ran away and left you! I just wanted to find my fortune, so I could come back and take care of you. I never thought this would happen to you after I left." She had tears streaming down her face."I, I only..took your...name be-because, I admired y-you...I want-ed to f-find you. I, I'm sorry, I ca-caused so mu-ch...trouble. I, I...love...you, sister."
"I love you, too!" Rhiannhon choked out the words. Then Brandy's eyes closed. Rhiannhon screamed.
Wallace-Kami smiled. Then he felt a sharp pain in his stomach as a fist came in contact with his abdomen. Everyone was stunned to see that Steven, unnoticed, had walked up and punched Wallace-Kami in the stomach. 
"Steven..." the shocked had stopped Rhiannhon's tears. She just stared at him, awed. It was the first time he had ever had the courage to fight someone. His eyes shown with steel determination. He was pissed!
Wallace-Kami held his stomach as he looked up at this little puke that had just dared to punch HIM! "You'll-pay-for-that." Wallace-Kami built up a blast ball between his hands and released it, full blast, point-blank, at Steven. 
"Nooooooo!" Rhiannhon yelled. She looked up at him with cold determination in her eyes. "How could you!" Tears filled her eyes again. "How could you kill your only son!"
"What!?!?" Wallace-Kami looked at her, stunned.
Maniacal laughter was heard coming from all around. It was Luna-Megami. "That's right, brother dear!!" She floated down from a dimensional rift in the sky, until she was standing next to Wallace-Kami. "I said I get revenge on you for the Tendos-three, bit; and I did!" She laughed again.
"WHAT?!?!?" Wallace-kami roared. 
"What revenge is sweeter then this, and I didn't even have to do a thing! You just killed your own son!" She laughed - again!
"But, this is my daughter!" He said, pointing to Akane.
"That's the only thing I _did_ do. I made you think that was your long, lost child. That girl is nothing but a red-neck cook from outside the galaxy!" And, once again, she laughed. 
"NOOOOOOO!!!!!" Wallace-Kami let out another roar. "I WILL get revenge on you! But FIRST..." He turned to look at Rhiannhon. She stood ready, with her sword. She never got the chance to use it. He used the remainder of his energy to throw a shock-blast at her and knock to the ground. She couldn't hear anything but the sound of the blackness consuming her.'I'm sorry - Blondie....' was her last thought.
"Rhannhon...Brandii, wake-up!" A shadowy figure stood before her in the darkness. "It's not your time yet - you must stop Wallace-Kami, it's what you want, isn't it?" The figure stepped forward, it was Sailor Saturn.
"Yes, for my sister's revenge. I want to go back and stop him!" She looked determined.
"Then you must - go back." Saturn opened her hand and a ball of light shot outward, consuming Rhiannhon. She awoke, and looked around. Everyone was gone, but she knew what to do.
Back at the lab, Wallace-Kami was finishing erasing the memory of his minion - Brandy.
"And they thought you were dead. Ha! I'll show them my power. I'll show them all, once I regenerate!" He laughed maniacally.

Heta-chan wiped the moisture from Gadget Boy's cryogenic tank. After Wallace-kami's giant Bob Dole ate the world, she knew that life would be hard from then on, and so decided to freeze Gadget Boy until a time when they needed him once again. 
Now was that time. 
Heta-chan laughed maniacally and punched a few of the glowing buttons on the console. In the dimly-lit room, the cryogenic tank glowed brightly, lighting up even the darkest corner. "Computer, begin the unfreezing process." Heta commanded. 
The computer began phase one. Soon it was time for the second phase. "Phase two . . . warm liquid goo phase beginning." Gadget Boy's cryo tank was filled with a faintly luminescent pink slime. "Phase three, re-animation beginning." The goo drained away and Gadget Boy coughed a few times. 
Heta pushed the button marked 'open.' "Since you're an android, I don't think we'll be needing the other phases," she commented to Gadget Boy, even though he was probably still too out of it to hear her. The front of the tank vanished. Gadget Boy's limp body fell out. Heta frowned. "Whoops. A small oversight." 
His eyes were wide open, but he was non-responsive. Heta opened the panel in his neck and re-connected a few circuits. Gadget Boy looked up at her from the floor. "Hello Heta-chan . . .how long has it been?" 
Heta looked sympathetic. "Three years."
"THREE YEARS!!" He jumped up and suddenly realized that he had no clothes on. However, not being programmed with modesty, he didn't really care. "Why have I been awakened?" 
"Here," Heta threw a flight suit at him, "put this on. I got rid of your futuristic mega-man armor because it's no longer futuristic." He did so as she continued. "I've contacted Sammy and Rai, and they're on their way. It appears that Wallace-Kami is up to something. They talked with Rhiannon and Steve, and they were going off somewhere . . . I didn't quite catch it all. The point is, we may have to leave here rather soon. I'd rather not leave you here. By the way, do you remember where I put Caluna?" 
"I think you tossed her in Tank 103. Don't tell me you forgot? Not the great Heta-chan."
"I see that your internal processors have been working on your sarcasm for three years. Yes, I forgot." Heta walked down the row of tanks to number 103. Sure enough, there floated the telepathic cabbit. Heta started off the re-animation process, and soon Caluna was also thrown out onto the floor. 
'Bloody hell . . .' she thought at Heta. 
"Yes, indeed." Heta-chan glanced around at the other tanks. They were all empty. Oh well, she hadn't even been in this room since she put Gadget Boy and Caluna down here three years ago. It was too bad that there weren't any other frozen people that could help them, though. 
In her years seeing the world under Wallace-Kami's wicked rule, Heta had become more and more secluded. She became somewhat of a mad scientist, but she still made Rai-chan and Sammy-chan cool things every once in awhile. 
"Why don't you take Caluna out into town while I wait here for Rai-chan and Sammy-chan? Maybe it'll get you some culture. Find some humans to hang around with, Gadge." There had to be some place on the west side of Neo Tokyo that he could go. "But be sure to be back within the next day or so. Rai, Ryoga and Sammy were pretty far from here when they called, so they'll probably have to hitch hike their way back. That'll give ya some time." Heta gestured to the door. "What do you say to that?" 
"What do I say to it?" 
"Gadge, work with me here. You've got to stop echoing my questions like that. Make some decisions of your own for once." 
He nodded. "Yes, I think I understand." 
Caluna jumped up onto his shoulder. "I'll make sure he doesn't get into any trouble." 
Heta rolled her eyes. "Sure you will. Now go have some fun, while you still can." They left happily. 
God knows I've denied them that for the past three years . . . Heta thought depressingly. She sighed and left the cryogenics lab for the last time, thinking of something else to do to pass the time. Wandering the network of hallways in the chan's secret hideaway, Heta-chan wondered what would become of all of them. Perhaps they would be able to build a new, great world once Wallace-Kami was defeated. Or maybe Fna would just send someone new. Would it ever be over with? She wished that someone would just end all of the pain . . . the suffering of the people under Fna's dark rule was worse now than it had ever been. The odds seemed high, but . . . oh, stupid Heta! This was nonsense! She would fight until the end, until the last spark of life left her eyes and her body was abandoned in eternal sleep. She would rather die than continue to live in the world that Fna built and do nothing about it. She would rather burn in a thousand hells than eat at even one of the fast food restaurants that Fna had created. She would rather . . . but she had decided that already. Yes! Now was the time! Now was the dawning of a new era for all of those super heroines out there with nothing better to do! This . . . . . this was the day for action!!
Or maybe tomorrow. It was getting late, and Heta was pretty tired. She went to her metallic room and dropped down on the uncomfortable bed. Soon she was busy talking in her sleep. 
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
"Heta! Heta, baby, wake up!" 
Huh? Who was it? No one called her Heta baby! "Whaaaaa----" her eyes felt like they were sealed with Elmer's Glue. That stuff worked damn well. Finally, she won the battle and pulled her eyes open. "Wha . . . . who are you??" She sat up in bed and stared in complete shock at the figure before her. "Where'd you get that suit?!" 
'I'm so sorry,' said the voice of Caluna, 'I couldn't stop them, they re-programmed his emotion chip, now he understands absolutely everything! It's amazing! Oh yes, and there's the matter of . . .' Before Caluna could continue, Heta-chan found Gadget Boy's lips planted firmly on her own. She raised up her hand to slap him into the next chapter, but stopped for some reason that she couldn't quite fathom. When he finally backed off, Heta made sure she could still breathe, then began the rant. 
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" 
"A kiss," he winked, "I've always thought you were kinda cute, y'know. Hmmm . . ." he looked thoughtful for a moment. "Tastes like coffee." 
Caluna, staring at the scene from her place on the floor, blinked. When her eyes re-opened after a split second, she noticed that Gadget Boy was now across the room from Heta, with a red hand mark on his face. He appeared to be unconscious. Caluna thought at Heta, 'I never knew an android COULD be knocked out. That was pretty cool.' 
Heta looked more frazzled than even she knew she could. Her hair stuck out all over the place in the typical anime fashion. "Just WHAT were you about to explain?!!!!! TELL ME OR I'LL DO SOMETHING REALLY REALLY CrAzY!!!" 
Caluna actually looked pale, for a cabbit. 'Hold on . . . calm down. You see, we kind of ended up in a casino . . .' 
"You took MY android to a CASINO??!! Ooooohh, you're gonna get it ... ." Heta made a grabbing motion toward the cabbit which she easily dodged. 
'Will you just LISTEN TO ME?!' Caluna's thoughts were nearly deafening. Heta sat back in a stunned state and began to break down the tale Caluna told her. 'We just got back,' she started, 'it's been about fifteen hours. We found you here asleep, and Gadge here insisted on being the one to wake you up . . .' 
"Yeah yeah yeah, just stick to what I DON'T know."
'Well, anyway, we went to this casino. And there were some robotics designers from Microsoft there who could tell Gadget Boy was an android, and they gave him a few tips, plus a few new Windows programs . . . it's still Gadget Boy, he still feels the same. It's just that now he knows exactly how a normal person expresses their feelings . . .' Caluna trailed off. 
Heta-chan nearly had a panic attack. "Do you call what happened just now NORMAL?! Damn, Windows! Do you realize that I'll NEVER be able to get him back the way he was with those programs running around in his circuitry?! NEVER!!!" She said, a little bit more quietly, "never . . . this is all my fault! If I hadn't let you two go out by yourselves . . ." her voice began to tremble. 
Caluna actually sounded concerned. ‘Now . . . none of that . . .hey, stop it, it's okay, I'm sorry . . .’
Heta-chan was sobbing now. "I said it was my fault, didn't I? Why should you be sorry?" She pounded her fists on her bed. "He's gone . .. I can never get him back now. Why did I have to be so stupid? Why couldn't I have . . ." she stopped as she felt a comforting hand on her back. She looked up to see Gadget Boy. 
"I'm sorry if I upset you," he said apologetically, "but I'm still the same Gadge. I just didn't know how to tell you. You made me. How could I not love you?" 
"I . . . I don't know what to say. As far as I know, no one's ever liked me before. I care a lot about you, too, but I thought you would never be able to understand. Why couldn't you have just told me before?" 
"I didn't know what love was before." 
Heta stared at him for a long time. Caluna politely held her tongue in the silence. Finally, Heta-chan smiled slightly and said, "you still haven't told me where you got the suit." 
He pulled a pair of sunglasses out of his pocket. "Don't forget these," he said, and put them on. "I think Caluna called it . . . the five-fingered discount." 
Heta stared down at Caluna with all the fires of damnation burning in her eyes. Caluna just shrugged in a very cabbit-like way. Heta never should have given Gadget Boy that telepathic interface. 
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
When the main door finally beeped, Heta and her two friends came running. Rai-chan stood there with Sammy-chan and Ryoga. 
"It took you long enough!" Exclaimed Heta-chan. "Come on in. Ladies and gentleman . . . welcome back to our underground lair." 
They all smiled. "Heta-chan, it's good to see you again." 
She frowned. "What are you talking about, you haven't been gone for that long!" 
Rai-chan looked away. "Yes . . . well . . . ummm . . ." 
Sammy-chan saved her. "So, what did you do after Ryoga and I left to rescue Rai-chan?"
Heta shifted uncomfortably. "Well, that is, you see . . . I got a little bit bored before I decided to re-animate Caluna and Gadget Boy ..." The two mentioned people waved and gave cheesy grins to their other friends. If a cabbit can wave and grin, that is. "So I made a clone with Sammy's DNA." 
Sammy gave Heta a frightened look. "Huh?" 
"It's the same as you, except . . . one eighth your size." A shadow appeared behind Heta and soon came forward to be revealed as a small version of Sammy. It was rather cute, actually.
Sammy-chan scrutinized it. "I think I'll call her Mini-Chi." 
The clone stepped forward. "Nice to meet you. I like that name . ..." it jumped up and hung from Sammy-chan's hand, trying to shake it. 
She picked it up. "You're kinda cute." 
Heta-chan covered her ears and started crooning, "bad words, bad words . . ." 
‘She's still not quite over the shock yet.’ Caluna tried to explain. 
"The shock of . . . what?" Wondered Ryoga. 
Heta-chan shook herself out of it. Gadget Boy walked over and hung his arm around her shoulders. "We're an item." He stated. He was rewarded with a blinding uppercut that sent him into the ceiling. 
"When you put it that way it sounds like it doesn't mean anything at all!" Heta fumed.
Ryoga shrugged nonchalantly. "Not that it means anything to me. I mean, your eyes are such an ugly blue . . ." Soon he joined Gadget Boy with his head stuck in the ceiling. 
Rai-chan and Sammy-chan both tried to pull him back down. "Don't do that!" They both said at the same time. "What kind of friend are you, anyway?" 
Gadget Boy answered, his voice muffled by the ceiling. "The kind that is blinded by her love for me, of course!" 
"Keep that up and it won't matter how much I care!" Heta griped as she pulled him out of the ceiling by his stolen shoes. 
As soon as the two guys were safely on the ground once more, Rai-chan suggested, "shouldn't we get going?" 
"Where?" Asked Heta. 
"I guess we should first go find Rhiannon and Steve . . . maybe make a plan with them, even though I still don't trust them as much," suggested Sammy. 
Mini-Chi asked, "who are Rhiannon and Steve?" 
Sammy-chan smiled fondly at the little clone. "I'll explain on the way. Would you like a piggy back ride?" In answer, Mini-Chi climbed on her back. 
Rai-chan and Ryoga started after Sammy as she walked out the door. Heta-chan glanced at Gadget Boy once, turned up her nose, and followed after. 
Caluna sent a private thought to Gadget Boy, 'don't worry, she's just playing hard to get. I'm sure that she really does love you, though. You've gotta stop making stupid jokes if you want her to show it!' 
He grinned. 'But it's so fun! Fun . . . I love it! You know, I haven't had the chance to use a sense of humor until now! Just let me have some fun for a while. She knows that I love her. She knows I'm just kidding.' 
'Whatever you say.' Caluna ran forward and jumped onto Heta-chan's shoulder. 
They went on walking for some time when Rai-chan started taking some readings of their surroundings. They were going through the tunnels underneath the city of Neo Tokyo where no one lived, since it was so dark and boring. 
They all heard Rai-chan gasp. The entire group stopped. "What is it?" Asked Mini-Chi from Sammy-chan's back. 
Rai-chan sweated with fear. "I don't know . . . but it's ten feet tall, it has an exoskeleton, and . . . . ." 
"And?" Prompted Heta-chan. 
Rai-chan's green eyes met Heta-chan's blue ones. "And it's coming right toward us."

Rai-chan took up her fighting stance, suddenly energized and ready to battle. The lumbering insectoid came nearer, but she refused to budge. Seeing their leader’s bravery, Heta and Sammy followed suit, both of them secretly thinking Rai had lost her mind. 
The enormous bug was only meters away; shaking the ground with it’s every footstep. “There’s only one thing we can do…” Rai-chan uttered. She looked up at the creature’s face, mandibles slashing in the air. Like water, her courage rushed out of her, turning her skin white. 
“… RUN!!!” 
Sweat drops formed as there once brave and fearless leader began running like a chicken. Soon the others were on her tail, also giving into their fear. 
“Whahaaahaaahaaahaaa” an evil laughter echoed in the tunnel. A slender form draped by a cloak appeared out of thin air. Surrounding her were a half dozen men, with heavy muscles that would make even Arnold Schwarzenegger jealous. Dropping the hood to the cape, Luna-Megami shook out her pigtails. “So I see you’ve met one of my little pets. They’ve all been so lonely down here by themselves.” Luna said in an intimidating voice. 
Two more insectoids staggered out of the shadows, their eyes a blazing red. The rebels pressed their backs together; covering one another as the bugs encircled them. 
“How’d you know we’d be here?” Sammy shouted, her battle aura beginning to glow. 
“Yeah how’d you know?” a miniature version of the chan yelled. She came to stand next to her double, coming up only to her knee. 
“And what are you going to do about it, short stuff,” Luna Megami commented. “Actually, Trunks came up with this idea. With my dear brother’s evil grasp on the upper world, you would have never been able to travel undetected. It was clearly logical that you would use the tunnels that lie below the surface.” 
Rai stared up at the Megami with a fierce scowl on her face. She could feel the electricity building up in her body. “You’re never going to get away with this,” Rai mumbled under her breath. 
“What makes you so sure, you lighting rod.” 
“Because the good guys always win.” 
The evil woman let out another evil cackle. She stopped abruptly, lowering her eyes at the rebels, “Don’t make me laugh! You’re the ones who are about to be Verpine munchies.” The men that surrounded her broke out into laughter as well. 
“Let’s go Luna,” a purple haired man who stood behind her urged. “There’s nothing else we can do. We’ll leave these rebel scum to the Verpine.” He was strikingly handsome, the girls noticed. As if she were reading their minds, Luna leaned up against him placing her head on his shoulder. 
“You were always mindful of my emotions Trunks.” Luna purred softly. She turned back at the group that was being circled by the Verpine insects. “See you in hell, you rebel scum.” The Megami and her henchmen dissipated into thin air. 
At this point Sammy’s chi had reached unbelievable rates. Mini Chi tried to mimic her larger self but instead looked constipated. Sammy yelled at the top of her lungs as she released all her energy at one of the bugs. The chi blast hit the creature head on, striking it in the abdomen. The Verpine stumbled. Its exoskeleton absorbed the energy and it quickly rejoined its brothers. Sammy gawked at the events occurring. 
“This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening,” Rai repeated over and over. 
Heta gave her a disappointed look. “Our brave and fearless leader huh!” Heta exclaimed. Without any warning, laser shot out from one of the bug’s eyes, coming straight at the center of the group. “SCATTER!!!” Everyone went running, hurling themselves away from ground zero. Shrapnel and chunks of concrete rained down on them. 
“Our best plan would be to split up and take them on separately.” Rai pulled herself off the ground. Sprinting over to one of their adversaries, she tried electrocuting it, but again to no avail. 
Ryoga joined her, bring out his big ass umbrella. “You look like you could use a little help,” he said smugly.
Over at a different Verpine, Heta chan was about to put the moves on the enormous bug when Gadget Boy stepped in front of her. 
“Gadge?” 
“Don’t worry about this Heta baby. I deal with it. GO GO GADGET JETS!” His feet altered into little rockets and he began to swarm around the Verpine’s head. “ GO GO GADGET BUG SPRAY!” He yelled. Magically, a can of bug spray materialized into his hand. He hovered in front of the beast eyes and sprayed it. The Verpine threw its head up in pain letting out a high pitch screech before it keeled over. 
At yet another Verpine, Sammy and Mini Chi struggled to subdue it. MiniChi had clung to its insect leg, sinking her fangs into the exoskeleton. Black liquid goo seeped through the teeth marks. “HIT IT HERE!!! HERE!!!” The midget clone hollered to Sammy. 
Sammy conjured enough energy up to strike the Verpine’s weak spot. The chi struck the wound, turning it into a pulp. 
Mini Chi approached Sammy, charred from head to foot and her hair sticking up in the typical anime fashion. “It would have been nice if you’d waited until I was out of the way!” Mini jumped up, slapping Sammy in the back of the head. 
“Rai, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!” Ryoga yelled. More Verpine eye lasers shot out at the leader of the rebels. With a nimble swiftness, she dodged the bolts with a series of somersaults and leaps. She landed in a crater, her back turned on the battle. 
“LOOK OUT!!!” Rai heard Ryoga scream. She turned around, finding Ryoga standing in front of her, taking a blast that was meant for her. He screamed out in agony, before collapsing to the ground. 
“Ryoga, no,” Rai whispered as she kneeled down beside him. She placed his head on her knees, brushing his bangs from his eyes. “Why? Why did you do that?” She mumbled trying to hold back the tears. 
He managed a simple smile, before lifting his hand up to her face. “I couldn’t let someone with such beautiful green eyes get hurt, now could I.” Moaning he brought his hand down to rest on his chest, saving as much of his energy as possible. 
Rai stood up, startled at what he had said. She stepped back, letting the vision of seeing her friend in pain set in. Clenching her fist, the Chan turned to the Verpine who found the scene somewhat amusing. “You damn bug. You try to attack us and you hurt my friend. I’ll never forgive you,” she brought her hate filled eyes up to the Verpine. “NEVER!!!” She said in an unusually calm voice. 
She dropped into a fighting stance, bringing her hands above her head. “Mighty Zapdos, mystical bird of electricity. I beg you to lend me your powers in defeating the ones that mean to destroy my friends.” Out of nowhere a pillar of electricity enveloped Rai-chan. In a very Sailor Moon-ish way, she twirled around until she couldn’t take it anymore. A bird of pure electricity pounded down on the bug, frying through its exoskeleton. 
“We got some Crispy Critters!” Gadget Boy cheered on from the sidelines. Near by Heta placed her head in her hand in an embarrassed manner. 
With all of Rai’s energy drained, she too collapsed, sprawling out only feet away from Ryoga. 
Heta rushed to her aid. “Wow! That was amazing I’ve never seen anything like that. I mean, a normal human wouldn’t be able to stand that much electricity. Your metabolism must have sped up to an incredible rate,” Heta chattered at speeds Rai never thought a human could reach. Heta reached into her belt, pulling out a handful of capsules. “Here, take this,” she placed one of the neon pills in Rai’s mouth. “It’ll make you feel better.” 
Rai choked it down, leaving a gross taste in her mouth. “What was that?” 
“Edible Bacta. My own mixture. You like?” 
Rai scrunched up her nose at her friend. Heta gave out a little giggle as she went to assist Ryoga. 
“Do you think he’ll be O.K.?” Questioned Sammy who sat next to the unconscious boy. The look on her face was one of concern, which was mimicked by Mini Chi. 
“He’ll be just fine, once I give him one of these,” Heta said proudly as she raised one of the capsules in the air. She shoved it into Ryoga’s mouth, forcing him to swallow it. 
His eyes opened wide. “All right! Who made me eat garbage again?” He grew to an enormous size, like most anime characters when they’re angry. 
Sammy threw her arms around the young man’s neck. “Yeah!!! You’re o.k.” She said gleefully. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Rai-chan dusting herself off. 
“We better get going. Once Luna-Megami finds out we fried her little pets, she’s going to be extremely pissed.” 
Everyone gave her a nod of approval before setting off to complete the task at hand.

“Hey, Rai-chan,” Sammy said suddenly as they continued their way down the underground tunnels.
“Yeah Sam?”
“What are we supposed to be doing again?”
The entire group froze in their tracks. “Um..” A large sweatdrop appeared on Rai’s head. “We’re.. uh..” She stopped, annoyed and ready to change the subject. “Whose idea WAS it to come down here, anyways?”
All eyes turned to Heta. “What??” She demanded. “Because I’ve got the scientific brains of this group, you automatically assume any wild and semi-logical idea is mine?”
“No,” Rai sighed. “Because you’ve got the *scattered* brains of this group, we automatically assume any wild and semi-logical idea is yours.”
“WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?”
“Hmm, I WONDER…”
“Now now, girls,” Gadget Boy started,  trying to nudge his way between them.
“BUTT OUT!” Heta and Rai screamed.
The android backed away quickly.
“Hey, guys..” Mini-Chi piped up.
“I’m SO sorry!” Heta snapped, disregarding the little clone. “Not ALL of us can be wise and all-knowing leaders like YOU, Rai-*chan*!”
“And rightfully so, you half-witted crackwhore! You’d have killed us years ago on Real Earth!”
“Why exactly are they fighting now?” A confused Ryoga asked. 
Sammy shrugged. “I dunno. Go with it.”
“Oh, *I’M* a crackwhore? You’re the one who thinks you can win guys over by pleading with them not to destroy your family members!”
“Guys..” Mini-Chi tried again.
“Hm, and you don’t?” Rai googled her eyes and raised her voice an octave. “’Oh PLEASE, Link, don’t kill my step-brothers!’”
“What an UNCANNY impression..”
“GUYS!!” Mini-Chi screamed. Everyone halted instantly and swiveled their heads towards the small one. She pointed to a small patch of light. “I see an exit.”
 The group blinked. “Oh..” Rai and Heta smiled at each other. “No hard feelings!” 
Mini-Chi led the rebels out of the tunnels, and into the dawning morning.
“Hey..” Gadget Boy nudged Heta. “Who’s Link?”
“Uh..” Heta smiled and flushed pink. “I’ll tell you later.”
Rai stayed behind at the tunnel entrance, gazing at the world around her. Cat fights with her fellow rebels had increased in frequency. It wasn’t that they didn’t get along anymore, it was just that the last years, and the last few days especially, had been extremely taxing to her. The once cool, calm, and laid-back Rai-chan had become more of an uptight, cautious.. well, crackwhore. Pretending to be a loyal follower of Wallace-kami for three years, and being a president of the world to top it off, had almost been more than she could bear. Watching New Earth deteriorate around her and knowing that part of it had been under her hand left a nasty mark on her conscience, even if she had been spying for the other side. It was almost relaxing to be a full-time rebel again. As soon as she killed Wallace-Kami they’d all take a vacation, until the next kami showed up. And she knew that one would. Working under Wallace-Kami had taught her much about Fna that she did not know, and the one thing she remembered the most was that the number of kamis leading up to Fna was a depressingly large one. She sighed and pushed a strand of blond hair behind her ear, letting her eyes settle on the sunrise. No matter what the cost, she would destroy Fna. No amount of kamis could stop her.
“Ne, Rai-chan,” Sammy called. Rai broke out of her reverie, looking up at the rebels. “Are you comin with us?”
Rai grinned, and trotted to catch up with her friends. “Sorry, I was just thinking..”
o_O
Luna-Megami poured herself another shot.
“I don’t believe it.”
“Sorry, m’dear..” Trunks put his hand on her shoulder. She shoved it off, staring at the announcement in front of her. *To all kamis.. one kami lost.. replacement being sent.. effective immediately..* 
“I just.. I can’t believe it.” Her head made a solid thunk as it hit the table, her unbound orange hair floating down around her. “I thought that they... they”
“A devastating loss, truly. Listen, love, not to sound callous or anything, but.. I always thought you and your brother were never very.. close.”
“No, we never were,” Luna admitted. “But I’m not just thinking about Wallace.” The megami made a cross in spite of herself.
“Then what’s the matter?”
“The verpines those rebel crackwhores fried cost a ton of dough.”
Trunks facefaulted. “What about this new kami they’re sending.. they say anything about him?”
“Nope, nothing.” Luna crumpled the message up and shoved it in her half-empty shot glass. “Just some.. other.. freak..” Down her head went on the table again; this time choked, drunk, and all-around pathetic sounding sobs issued from it.
Trunks frowned gently over the scene. He hadn’t known her to be like this since Wallace’s psyduck had chewed up her Slayers tapes.. and that had been a *long* time ago. But he knew how to read his Luna like a book, and he knew what was really troubling her about her brother’s sudden death and replacement..
“I think they should have transferred *you* to New Earth.”
Luna’s sobbing abated, and she looked up at her purple-haired lover with watery eyes. “R-really?”
He nodded and wrapped his arms around her.
Luna-Megami sniffed and leaned back against him, wiping the tears off her cheeks. “Stupid rebels..” She hiccuped. “I could take care of em all myself.. no stupid world presidents or anything..” Trunks nodded again, gently pushing a few wisps of red-orange hair away from her face. An evil gleam came into her glazed eyes, and she caught his hand in hers. “Y’know what? I’m drunk, and in need of emotional support and comfort..”
The same gleam came to Trunks’ eyes. “Really?”
She giggled, and stood up, heading for the stairs to her bedroom. “I’m going to go up to my room, and put on my tight little green outfit..”
“Oooh, I like that one.” Trunks grinned lecherously and leaned against the table.
“And when I come back down here, you and I..”
Trunks nearly fell over from the excitement.
“..Are going to hunt down those rebel bastards and make them pay for mashing my verpines!”
Trunks did fall over, but not from excitement.
o_O
	“Hmm.. this sunrise is really romantic,” she murmured, smiling at him warmly. 
	“Yeah, it is.” He grinned and kicked his feet over the edge of the building.
	“It’s the perfect thing for two people alone to share…”
	“Two people, in love…”
	“Kinda makes me wish I wasn’t stuck here with YOU!” Sammy cried suddenly, sticking out her tongue at her companion.
	“Oh, ha ha. It is to laugh.” Gadget Boy stuck out his own tongue.
	“Hey!!” Heta called from the other side of the roof. “Stop hitting on my robot!!”
	“Oh, go back to Link!” Sam shouted back.
	*So then, we DO remember what we’re supposed to be doing,* Caluna asked, trotting along next to a pacing Rai.
	“Yeah,” Rai said shortly, staring at the roof beneath her. The communicator Rhiannon and Steven had given her hadn’t issued so much as a peep.. they’d said they’d call her when they reached a safe place, didn’t they?
	The noise of hustle and bustle was slowly building as another new day began. Ordinary people were waking up to their ordinary lives. Ordinary lives lived in hardship and slavery, but their ordinary lives nonetheless. Rai looked out over the edge of the roof, her fear of heights momentarily overpowered by her curiosity at what the “little people” did. A large area around the KamiCorp building where she had once worked was clearly being blocked off. Maybe those Cyclone Dorks really did succeed in bumping off Akane last night. That was a dreadful shame. Rai had wanted to be there.
	The sudden sound of whirring blades erupted in Rai’s ears, and she stumbled back from the edge in shock, her trenchcoat billowing in every cumbersome direction. A black helicopter raised up above the roof level, pointing its nose at the small cluster of rebels. “You there,” a voice announced over a megaphone, “report to your Work Centers immediately or come with us quietly.” 
	The rebels, android, and cabbit stared wide-eyed at the copter. Where had that thing come from?
	“Report to your Work Centers immediately or come with us quietly!” The megaphone’s voice insisted. Someone in the copter pulled out a large weapon and aimed it threateningly at the group.
	“Kyaaaaa!” Sammy screeched, and threw a ki bolt at the helicopter. It erupted into flames instantly, and spiraled into the building. The group leapt away to avoid the explosion, just barely making it to a neighboring roof.
	“Sammy!!” Rai hissed.
	“I’m sorry,” she whimpered. “I don’t like it when guns are pointed at me..”
	“S’aright Sammy-chan,” Mini-Chi reassured her, hugging her leg.
	“This is bad publicity,” Heta reminded them.
	“Dammit, we’d better head back to the tunnels..” Rai jumped quickly to another roof, trying to find an easy way down. A scream from behind cause her to whirl around in mid jump. The rest of her team was trapped on the previous roof, under a large green energy dome. “What the hell..” Rai muttered.
	Psychotic laughter reached her ears. Rai about-faced. “Well well, Rai-chan..” Luna-Megami appeared in front of her, looking unusually bellicose. “Where are your rebel friends NOW?”
	Rai wasted no introduction. “Hirameku!” She screamed, thrusting her hands forward. A blinding flash of lightning cracked from her palms to Luna’s unsuspecting form. The goddess hissed slightly as the electricity passed over her, and soon was laughing again. “What’s the matter, Rai? Is that it?”
	“Hyoushin!” Heta shouted from behind her, throwing a ball of energy at the ground. Their prison shook violently, but held.
	“C’mon, Rai,” Luna urged, not moving from her position. “I’ll give ya two more shots. If ya beat me, your friends go free!”
	Rai grit her teeth. No use spending energy on the wimpy attacks. “Hiraishin!!” She yelled, stretching her arms to the sky. A bolt of electricity erupted from the cloudless sky and struck Rai, the energy spreading out in a large radius around her. The energy easily overtook Luna’s unprotected figure, but did not overcome her. 
	“Maruyake!” Sammy tried. A wave of red fire covered the inside of their prison. The fire momentarily burned a few large holes in the field, but it soon reformed itself and appeared to be unchanged.
	Luna-Megami cackled, not one hair on her head singed. “One more try, my friend!”
	The blond-haired leader bit her lip. At this rate, she’d run out of energy in just a few more attacks. Why wasn’t anything working on that damn woman?? Rai made a split second decision, and gathered what was left of her energy. Better go out with a bang. 
A really big bang.
	Rai pulled electric energy around her, concentrating hard. “Jin.. kou.. rai..” In three swift moves, she stretched the energy into the rough shape of a lightning bolt. This she pointed at Luna, malice glowing in her eyes and reflecting off her weapon.
	“What’re you gonna do, poke my eye out?” Luna-Megami demanded, pretending to be unfazed by the whole unnerving ritual.
	Rai wasn’t finished yet. She raised the bolt above her head, whispering a silent prayer for luck. The last of her energy swirled around her makeshift sword, making it look as though Rai was holding something of pure energy. The girl closed her eyes.
	Luna-Megami’s mouth hung open, and she allowed herself one pathetic “nani?”
	“Ban.. RAI!!”
	Rai brought the sword down hard into the cement and forced the energy out of it. A deafening rumble filled both fighters’ ears. The energy cracked deep into the ground, and rushed straight for Luna, who could only stare in awe. The roof crumbled beneath them. A huge, paralyzing wave of electricity crackled over Luna-Megami, who screamed in both pain and surprise. She finally collapsed in the small crater she’d unwillingly created, breathing shallowly, her body still electrified.
	“I..” Rai panted, leaning against her sword. “I did it.” She gave a tiny grin, almost too exhausted to even breathe.
	“RAI-CHAN!!” Someone screamed. “BEHIND YOU!”
	Rai didn’t have time to look. A black, burning energy slammed into her, knocking her well into unconsciousness. Her last sight was that of a cloaked man she had never seen before, whose head seemed to be on fire…