Just outside the borders of the Atomic Anime Kingdom, swirling purple and blue energy filled the empty air and then dissipated, revealing Crikit and her companions standing where empty air had been before. Er... Actually, there was still empty air beneath their feet, so after a few moments of hovering there with large sweatdrops over their heads, our heroes wailed and crashed to the ground.

"%^&*!" exclaimed PA, "Geez Ryoke, what is the &^%#$ing matter with you? Does your #$%^ing teleportation spell feel the need to test out the gravity of our destination? If that's the case, then I'd say the #$%^ing gravity is working fine here, thank you very much! Hey, what are you - MMF!"

That last bit was because everyone's favorite little cheemunk Kale-chib-ki, having had quite enough of PA's swearing, had uncoiled his four-foot-long spotted tail and stuffed the end of it into PA's mouth. Lost Magi and BGlanders applauded gratefully.

Acid Tenchi, still slightly dazed, rubbed at his eyes with one hand. "Did the teleportation spell work? Are we really back at my kingdom?"

Crikit helped him to stand. "You tell us," she said, "After all, the rest of us have never seen the Atomic Anime Kingdom before!"

Meanwhile, Kale-chib-ki's gentlemanly instincts took over, so he took his tail out of PA's mouth so he could change back into Kale (his human form) in order to help Ryoke to stand. As for the swearing diplomat, he had no choice but to wash his mouth out with soap, because he had to get rid of the taste of wet animal fur.

"It's about time!" Lost Magi said, pointing at PA and laughing. BGlanders joined in the laughter, and the two began to applaud again. Alas, their applause didn't last long... Just as Kale was helping Ryoke to stand, Acid Tenchi let out a startled cry which caused Kale to lose his balance and fall over onto the clapping duo. "$#%^@!!!!!!!!" Lost Magi and BGlanders exclaimed as they hit the ground. This time, it was PA's turn to laugh and applaud... it would have been very sweet revenge, except that PA looked kind of silly with soap bubbles flying out of his mouth as he laughed.

The laughter and applause stopped when Crikit snapped "Quit fooling around!" and bashed several heads in with her giant spatula. The last thing she needed was a circus on her hands when poor Acid Tenchi was obviously upset. She then turned back to Acid Tenchi and asked, "What's the matter? Are we at the wrong place?"

With a trembling finger, Acid Tenchi pointed at a sign several feet in front of them. The first row of words on it said "ATOMIC ANIME KINGDOM".

"So, what's the problem?" asked Ryoke, finally managing to stand up without tripping over anyone, "That means I transported us to the right place, doesn't it?"

That was when she noticed the rest of the words on the sign: THE MOST EXPENSIVE (AND THEREFORE, THE BEST) ANIME THEME PARK EVER! PROPERTY OF ARROWYN ENTERPRISES.

"Wha..." said Kale.

"We're too late! They've destroyed my kingdom!" Acid Tenchi sobbed, "No, it's worse! They've turned it into a way to make more money for their fiendish schemes!"

Crikit, not wanting to miss out on being able to make her own melodramatic speech, held her spatula up high and let out a war cry. "Such greed must not go unpunished!" she declared as lightning flashed dramatically in the background, "We must enter this amusement park and find a way to bring it down from the inside!" She probably would have continued, but the giant spatula she held turned out to be a REALLY good lightning rod. Probably some kind of ironic divine punishment for laughing at what happened to Little Miss Springfield in an episode of The Simpsons.

"Ow... that hurt..." a charred Crikit muttered after the dramatic lightning finally went away. "Hey, wait for me!" she shouted, running after her teammates as they crawled under the fence that surrounded the amusement park.

Once our heroes had safely gotten into the park, they gaped at the sights, sounds, and smells of what could only be described as Otaku Heaven. A very very very expensive Otaku Heaven. Incredibly lifelike animatronic robots of anime characters were everywhere: selling tickets for various rides at inflated prices, selling ramen at inflated prices, selling merchandise at inflated prices... selling, selling, selling... inflated prices, inflated prices, inflated prices... Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice... Whoops, sorry, ignore that last one.

"Aw, man..." Lost Magi said worriedly, "Think of all the horrible things that the bad guys must be able to do with all the money they're making here! What should we do? Any ideas, Kale? Um... Kale?"

Kale was looking through the stacks of Evangelion CDs an animatronic Misato was selling. "Wow, what a great selection!" he exclaimed, impressed.

"Knock it off, or I'll knock your block off!" Crikit shouted, bringing her giant spatula down onto Kale's head, "Don't buy anything! All the money goes to the bad guys, remember?"

Kale walked away from the Misato android and muttered an apology, changing back into his cheemunk form as "Misato" forgot about him and sold the CDs to a nearby group of tourists instead.

"Whatever," said Acid Tenchi, rolling his eyes, "Let's just find a way to stop the creeps who ruined my kingdom, okay? How about we check out the rides to look for weaknesses?"

Several minutes later, our heroes were crowded into a small boat moving into a dark tunnel. Not wanting to give the bad guys any of their money, they had sneaked onto this ride without paying. Lost Magi kept glancing nervously over his shoulder, afraid that a guard might have noticed. If they got caught...

"Hey, buddy?" asked BGlanders, tapping his shoulder.

"Gah!!!!" Lost Magi exclaimed, leaping up and frantically swatting at whomever was attacking.

"Whoa bud, it's just me!" BGlanders said quickly, "We sneaked on so quickly that I didn't get to see what kind of ride this was, so I wanted to ask if you knew! And hey, stop attracting attention to us! You're gonna get us caught!"

Since Lost Magi currently didn't have a wall to bang his head against, he just grit his teeth and sat back down. "I think the sign outside called this ride 'Anime Around the World'," he replied.

"Oh, well that doesn't sound too bad," said BGlanders, sighing in relief, "I was afraid that it was going to be a scary roller coaster or something." Several minutes later, he realized that he would have been better off getting his entire digestive tract ripped out through his mouth on every scary roller coaster that had ever been built. Anything but this!

As the boat moved along, animatronic anime characters in the native dress of various different countries waved armfuls of merchandise at our heroes and sang in sickeningly cute voices, "It's a mall world after all, it's a mall world after all...".

"It's a mall world after all..." a kilt-wearing animatronic Vegita sang in a munchkin voice, holding out a tray of green Piccolo cookies.

"It's a mall world after all..." animatronic Sailor Moon dressed as a mountie echoed, practically clunking Lost Magi over the head with a bottle of Magical Girl Brand water.

"It's a mall, mall, world," the animatronic anime characters trilled, shoving overpriced products into our heroes' faces.

As if all that wasn't bad enough, Crikit kept whacking her teammates with her giant spatula, shouting, "Don't buy anything! Don't buy anything!", causing lots of headaches and making the boat rock dangerously. Nauseous, BGlanders leaned over to puke, only to find an animatronic Goldeen trying to sell him a Pokemon barf bag.

"I wanna get off..." Ryoke groaned.

"You can't get off!" PA snapped, irritated, "We have seven more @#$%ing anime series left to go!"

"Just don't buy anything!" Crikit cried passionately, "DON'T BUY ANYTHING!"

"It's a mall world after all..." a gentle voice sang. Crikit paused and turned to look at an animatronic princess Ayeka holding out a bunch of Ayeka plushies.

Several moments later, the boat, filled to near bursting point with purple-haired plushies, exited the tunnel and our heroes got off. "Well... we almost got through without buying anything," Crikit said sheepishly, her arms full of Ayeka plushies, "Sorry guys, it was just one little slip-up..."

"Crik, are those green Piccolo cookie crumbs on your chin?" asked Acid Tenchi, frowning with suspicion.

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From somewhere within a shadowed and sinister fortress, the horrible laughter of the evil being known as Arrowyn erupted, echoing off the walls and startling bats from their resting places. Arrowyn was in his private chambers, enjoying the deliciously foul stench of the rotting lemons he used for decoration in place of houseplants. The putrid perfume brought tears of joy to his eyes, which then dribbled down to the black marble floor and made slight hissing sounds as they left small scars in the polished stone where they landed.

It was hard to believe, but there was a smell that he liked just as much as the olfactory offering of a rotten lemon. Salivating, Arrowyn approached the huge and wrinkly green pile in the center of the room, and took a good long whiff. He let out a happy sigh, his slightly poisonous breath causing the rotting lemons nearby to become even more rotten.

Ah, he just loved the smell of money.

Yes, the idea of converting the Atomic Anime Kingdom into a moneymaking tourist trap was brilliant! It had taken a lot of time and effort for Radhaz to perfect the lifelike androids that were the heart and soul of the operation, but it had all been well worth it. And now, a good thing had become even better... Crikit Smiter and the rest of her team had foolishly tried to infiltrate the place. They were now surrounded by his loyal androids, completely unaware of the danger they had put themselves in.

Arrowyn whispered a command in an ancient, dead language. Hidden devices in the room obeyed him, projecting three-dimensional holograms of all the animatronic anime characters from the amusement park.

Arrowyn smiled, then said another command. Most of the holograms disappeared, leaving only the images of the few androids that were fighters. These ones had not been created by Radhaz, but had instead been transported from an alternate dimension's future by Radhaz's space/time machine.

Now, which one of these deadly fighters should he assign to the task of destroying Crikit's team? Arrowyn carefully studied the images of the androids before him. He chuckled when he recognized the one that had successfully gotten Crikit to spend a large amount of money on Ayeka plushies.

"Princess Aeka 14," he said.

"Yes, master?" said the hologram of the Ayeka android.

"You have done very well. I am most pleased," Arrowyn purred, "I have decided to give you the honor of eliminating Crikit's team."

"It shall be done, my master," Princess Aeka 14 said, bowing.

Arrowyn grinned and licked his lips with anticipation. It was a good day to be bad, he decided.

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Back at the amusement park, our heroes were still wandering about, exploring. Acid Tenchi's shoulders slumped as he saw what had become of his kingdom. "This is awful... I can't take it..." he said sadly.

"Now, what kind of #$%^ing attitude is that?" PA demanded. BGlanders shook his head warningly at PA, but the diplomat ignored him and went on, "You want to stop the bad guys, right? Then you gotta be brave, even if it's hard! You gotta say, '#$%^ them! We're gonna kick their %^%#!!!'. Go on, say it!"

"#$%^ them! We're gonna kick their %^%#!!!" Acid Tenchi said.

"Louder!" PA barked, little bubbles of spit flying from his mouth, "#$%^ THEM! WE'RE GONNA KICK THEIR %^%#!!!"

"#$%^ THEM! WE'RE GONNA KICK THEIR %^%#!!!" Acid Tenchi repeated at the top of his lungs.

"You have to do the ^*%ing spitting too!" said PA.

Acid Tenchi began to smile. "#$%^ THEM! WE'RE GONNA KICK THEIR %^%#!!!" he yelled again, this time with the spit bubbles.

"Now that's more %^$&ing like it!" PA said, giving Acid Tenchi a high-five. "#$%^ THEM! WE'RE GONNA KICK THEIR %^%#!!!" they both hollered, shaking their fists at the sky.

"Shake harder," PA instructed. As the two shook their fists at the sky some more, PA shouted, ""#$%^ THEM! WE'RE GONNA KICK THEIR %^%#!!! In fact, if we weren't standing here shaking our fists, we'd be kicking their %^%# right now!"

"Er... Thanks for the pep talk, PA," Crikit said hesitantly, "But you guys have to be careful. That kind of yelling is gonna attract too much attention."

"Um... whose attention?" asked Lost Magi, making a sweeping gesture with his arm.

Crikit looked around and realized what the darkelf was referring to. All the tourists had disappeared! The animatronic anime characters were gone too. "Hey, where did they all go?" she asked worriedly. Had the amusement park closed for the day?

"Look, there's someone!" said Acid Tenchi. He pointed to a snack stand where Ryoke, with Kale-chib-ki perched on her shoulders, was buying cotton candy from an animatronic Ayeka. Acid Tenchi wasn't sure, but it looked like she was the same "Ayeka" who had sold those plushies to Crikit...

Meanwhile, Kale-chib-ki looked up and saw Acid Tenchi pointing at him. "Uh-oh..." he whispered into Ryoke's ear, "I think Crik and the others have spotted us."

"So what?" said Ryoke, shrugging, "If Crik caved and bought stuff, then so can we. I just can't help it, I'm starving!"

Crikit came running up to them just then. "Look, I know I made a mistake, and I'm sorry!" she exclaimed, "But please, don't do it!"

"Sorry... too... hungry..." said Ryoke. She turned around to pay the Ayeka android, only to find that the animatronic princess had flung aside her kimono, revealing a red Kung-Fu outfit that she had been wearing underneath. "Huh? Um, why the wardrobe change?"

The Ayeka android responded by taking a swipe at her.

"Yikes!" Ryoke exclaimed, flinging her arms up to protect her face. Unfortunately, she also ended up flinging the cotton candy that she had been holding. The sticky pink mass sailed straight up into the air, then came down and landed in Ryoke's spiky hair with a soft splat. "Ew... why did you make me do that?" Ryoke protested.

"O ho ho ho ho!" the Ayeka android laughed, "What's the matter, Ryoke? Don't you recognize me?"

Ryoke's eyes widened. "It can't be! Princess Aeka 14? But... but... I thought my parents and their friends defeated all the androids!"

Princess Aeka 14 laughed again. "Use your head, Ryoke! If Master Arrowyn was able to kidnap you, why couldn't he take some of the androids from that dimension as well? He knows a good fighter when he sees one... too bad you weren't smart enough to accept the dark power and pledge your loyalty to him, as we did!"

"I'd never betray my parents!" Ryoke snarled, charging at Princess Aeka 14 so fast that Kale-chib-ki fell off her shoulders.

"Too bad," Princess Aeka 14 responded as she grabbed Ryoke with blinding speed and tossed her aside, "What a waste. Luckily, I am certain that Shadow6865 will not be such a disappointment. Master Arrowyn has learned some new techniques that can be... most persuasive."

Upon hearing the name of a fellow AFC member, Crikit leapt in, swinging her giant spatula at the android's head. "Rotten kidnappers! What have you done with Shadow?" But Princess Aeka 14 easily swatted Crikit away, sending her crashing into Ryoke.

"Ow!" said Ryoke, stumbling backwards, "Crik, leave this to me! I'm the only one in this group powerful enough to handle one of these androids!"

"Love to," said Crikit, stumbling forwards, "But I'm stuck! My hair is caught in the stupid cotton candy in your hair!"

"How do you like my recipe?" Princess Aeka 14 laughed.

"WHAT?!" Ryoke yelped, trying unsuccessfully to push Crikit away. Sure enough, she could feel a sharp tugging on her own scalp as she did so. She tried to push again, as Crikit tried to pull away at the same time, but all they succeeded in doing was making their scalps hurt. "Uh-oh..." she and Crikit said at the same time.

"Hang on, I'm coming!" Kale-chib-ki shouted.

"No, it's too dangerous!" said Crikit, "Stay where back, all of you! That's an order!"

"Oh, how touching!" said the android, rushing towards Crikit and Ryoke, "Time to say goodbye, Ryoke!"

"Ya gotta do something, bud!" BGlanders frantically said to Lost Magi, "Ryoke can't fight like that!"

"A little magick, coming right up!" said the darkelf, waving his hands.

There was a bright light, and suddenly Crikit was where Princess Aeka 14 had been, and Princess Aeka 14 was where Crikit had been.

"Oh good, now I have a snarling, homicidal android stuck to me instead," Ryoke deadpanned.

"Er... not quite what I meant to do," Lost Magi said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

"It's okay, just stay someplace safe!" Ryoke shouted, "Don't worry about me, I have superhuman strength!"

"She does?" Acid Tenchi whispered doubtfully to PA.

"Just accept it before the author decides to put us on that %^&$ing boat ride again," PA whispered back.

Princess Aeka 14 was not happy about this newest development. "Get out of my face!" she shouted at Ryoke, punching her hard enough to send her flying. Unfortunately for the android, it wasn't hard enough to break the cotton candy's super-sticky hold, so she was sent flying with her, while Ryoke screamed "OW! My hair!" all the way. The two crashed right through a souvenir stand, reducing it to a messy heap of broken wood and "HELL" T-shirts.

"That hurt! Why don't YOU get out of MY face!" Ryoke exclaimed, punching Princess Aeka 14 back. Princess Aeka 14 was sent flying... and of course, Ryoke was sent flying too. "OW OW OW OW OW!!!!" Ryoke exclaimed, feeling the android's weight pulling on her hair. The two crashed through another souvenir stand, this time creating a messy heap of broken wood and "HFIL" T-shirts. (Evidently, Arrowyn wanted to cover the full range of anime fans.)

"This isn't going to get them anywhere," said Acid Tenchi, watching helplessly as the two warriors continued to fight, each doing as much damage to herself as to her opponent.

Kale-chib-ki transformed back into Kale and wrung his hands. "Isn't there anything we can do?" he asked desperately.

"Too bad Seion isn't here," said BGlanders.

"The Nano-tech cyborgs are never around when you need them, bud," Lost Magi agreed, "However, a certain darkelf who practices magick *is* here, so..."

"Isn't your $#$%ing 'magick' the reason why Ryoke is stuck to that maniac?" asked PA.

"Er... yes well, now I'm going to try to fix that," said Lost Magi, laughing nervously.

Meanwhile, the fighting had intensified. The two combatants had taken to the air, with Princess Aeka 14 moving so fast that she a furious storm of flying fists. Ryoke was a blur of swirling strikes as well, and becoming faster and blurrier all the time, but every time she or her opponent moved, she could feel the pull on her hair. "Ow ow ow!" Ryoke exclaimed. Then "Owowow!". Then "OW OW OW!". Then "OWOWOW!". And still they kept moving faster! They became one big blur, so that Crikit and the other observers of the fight couldn't tell the two combatants apart. By this point, poor Ryoke was screaming to the point that all the glass in the amusement park's Hall of Mirrors had shattered.

Would you believe that the fighting continued to speed up?

Well, I don't care if you don't believe it, because it *did* speed up!

Princess Aeka 14 and Ryoke were fighting so fast that their observers couldn't even see them anymore. Oh well, at least it wasn't too hard to figure out where they were... When the merry-go-round suddenly seemed to shatter for no reason, it was pretty easy to guess that the super-fast warriors were responsible. Same deal for the spontaneous flattening of the Haunted House... the upside-down cakes in the pastry shop suddenly becoming right-side-up... the soda machines exploding into fine fizzy fountains of fun (this bio was brought to you today by the letter "f")...

Crikit and the others continued to follow the fight (or rather, the destruction that was popping up because of the fight). Their mouths were hanging open at the thought of how ridiculously fast the battling was now. They couldn't even hear Ryoke's screaming anymore, because her voice had gone ultrasonic. However, it was a pretty safe bet that Ryoke had probably given up on yelling "Ow" and was now shouting death threats at the author of this bio. ^_^;;;

"This is... this is..." Kale stammered.

"Stupid?" Acid Tenchi said helpfully.

"I was going to say 'One heck of a weird DragonBall Z parody', but yeah, 'Stupid' works too," said Kale, shrugging.

"Hey bud, hurry up!" BGlanders told Lost Magi, who was currently doing something that looked like a cross between the Macarena and the Hokey-Pokey, "Ryoke will never gain the upper hand like this!"

"Just a few more mystical gestures..." said Lost Magi, doing a headstand and performing the Achy Breaky Heart upside down, "Okay, ready!" Getting back onto his feet, he waved his hand over Crikit's giant spatula, causing it to glow.

"What are you waiting for?" PA said to Kale, "Get a #$%^ing move on!"

"Right!" said Kale, taking Crikit by the waist and flying into the air. "Hey, Ryoke! Hey, Princess Aeka 14!" he shouted.

The two combatants stopped fighting and became visible again, just inches short of Kale's face. "Yes?" they both asked.

Kale sweated nervously. "Er..."

Crikit cleared her throat to get their attention. "We just wanted to do something so that this fight wouldn't go on for twenty bios," she said, swinging her glowing spatula at the cotton candy holding the combatants' hair together. The sticky pink snack shriveled in the light of the glowing spatula, and melted away into nothingness. "Okay, our job is done!" Crikit said to Kale.

"Alright!" Ryoke crowed triumphantly as Crikit and Kale returned to the ground. She then grinned at Princess Aeka 14 and said, "Now that I'm free to fight properly, you'll see what I can really do! You'll regret ever having lifted a finger to help Arrowyn! For I am Ryoke: ally to good, nightmare to y... oof!"

Ryoke tumbled out of the sky as the sinister Ayeka android casually blew on the knuckles of the fist she had just used to cut Ryoke's speech short. "Really, Ryoke!" she laughed, "Did you think I'd let you keep babbling and end up making this fight drag on forever?"

"ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!" Ryoke screamed angrily, suddenly stopping her fall and flying back up to the android. Everyone's jaws dropped to the ground in wonder as the furious Ryoke's hair took on a golden hue and her eyes flashed a blue-green color. "Now you've made me mad!" Ryoke shouted, "It's bad enough that this bio has been so humiliating for me, but now you had to go and ruin my dramatic speech! Well that's it! EAT THIS!"

The rest of our heroes gaped in astonishment as the transformed Ryoke moved so quickly that she became a golden blur, seemingly able to strike Princess Aeka 14 from all sides at once.

"Whoa!" Acid Tenchi exclaimed, struggling to keep his eyes on the golden-haired Ryoke as she continued to kick android butt, "I guess blondes really do have more fun..."

Everyone groaned at the joke, except for Kale, who murmured thoughtfully to himself, "What are you, Ryoke?"

Finally, Ryoke threw the android into the ground with such force that the earth shook. The android didn't get up.

"Yay!" everyone cheered, as Ryoke landed gracefully nearby and let her spiky hair change back to its usual cyan color.

"Ryoke, that was great!" said Crikit.

"#%^$ing beautiful!" PA added, gesturing to all the wreckage that only a few minutes ago had been a huge amusement park, "We even managed to stop the bad guys' %^&ing moneymaking scheme!"

Meanwhile, BGlanders was looking carefully at Princess Aeka 14's neck.

"Can you reprogram her, bud?" Lost Magi asked.

BGlanders nodded. "Here's your problem," he declared, flicking a switch on the back of the android's neck so that it pointed to the word GOOD, "Someone set this thing to 'EVIL'."

"Random Simpsons Quote!" everyone said automatically.

Princess Aeka 14 groaned and sat up slowly.

"Are you okay?" Kale asked the android.

"I'm alright, just embarrassed," she replied, "Sorry about that whole trying to kill you thing..."

"Er... no problem," everyone said, sweatdropping.

"Wait a minute," Acid Tenchi said to the android, "You said something about the AFC member Shadow6865 being kidnapped. Where is he? And what happened to my kingdom's subjects?"

"I... I'm sorry, I can't remember," she said, bowing her head sadly, "I think part of my memory was damaged by the fall..."

"It's okay," Crikit said gently, helping her to stand, "If it's alright with you, we could really use your help in the battles to come. We were too late to save the Atomic Anime Kingdom, but we have to help Bob and the rest of our friends to defend the RFFC Kingdom before it suffers a similar fate."

"You bought the plushies from me..." Princess Aeka 14 said slowly, smiling, "Please give me a name, and I will help you. I don't deserve to have the same name as the great Princess Ayeka."

"Okay, how about Iwa?" Crikit suggested. The android nodded her approval.

"What kind of name is Iwa?" Kale asked, curious.

"I don't know, but it's the name of this bio," said Crikit.

Everyone shrugged and headed off in the general direction of the RFFC Kingdom, absently humming a cheery tune. Iwa thought of pointing out to her new friends that they were humming "It's a mall world after all...", but decided not to spoil their fun. Everyone knows that the less you want a tune to be stuck in your head, the longer it'll be stuck there. And so, she hummed along as well, a smile spreading across her gentle features.

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Inside his sinister fortress, Arrowyn scowled at this latest development. "Curses!" he spat. Not only had he lost his moneymaking tourist attraction, but one of his best warriors was now helping the enemy! Deciding that he needed to look at something that would make him feel better, he entered Radhaz's lab to check on his future hentai army.

One wall of the lab was lined with large transparent tubes. Inside each tube was a person who had been taken prisoner during the conquering of the Atomic Anime Kingdom, except for one tube that held Shadow6865. From Radhaz's newest invention, ecchi radiation was slowly being pumped into each of the tubes. Arrowyn smiled another one of his wicked smiles. Soon his hentai army would be ready, and he would send them out to conquer every kingdom and spread bad lemons everywhere!

Laughing out loud at how delicious the idea was, Arrowyn looked over at the spare tubes that currently didn't hold any prisoners. One of them was reserved for Princess Ayeka herself... just in case planting that lemon in the AFC Kingdom didn't work. "Imagine, she preferred Tenchi over me!" he thought aloud, "But she will be mine. Oh yes, she will be mine! Oh, the lovely things I'll have her do with the whips and chains I've collected... and all while she's wearing nothing but this." He cackled and held up a pair of black panties so small that it could have been mistaken for a spaghetti strand.

"Master, please, I'm still here!" Radhaz exclaimed, turning green.

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In a dimension that reflected one possible future for our story, Literary Pluto woke up from her nap and yawned. Trying to save the other dimension from suffering the same fate as hers was tiring work! Getting up, she reached out to the other dimension with her senses to see what she had missed while sleeping.

Focusing on Crikit Smiter's group, Literary Pluto was astonished to see that one of the androids from her dimension was travelling with them. "I thought all the androids had been defeated," Literary Pluto said to herself, cursing her semi-competence for the hundredth time that day. That's when she noticed that the android was walking beside a spiky-haired girl who looked very familiar.

"What the?!" Literary Pluto exclaimed. She fell over in surprise and ended up getting the Time Staff tangled in her hair again. "D'oh!"