"Thank you.  NEXT!"

A large line of shadows were gathered along the wall, just outside of 
the well-lighted and decorative rose painted frame.  The next one 
stepped into the light, scratching his head a bit nervously, glancing 
at a note card (or the shadow of one) in his hand.  He cleared his 
throat.

"Sugar!  Spice!  And everything nice!  These were the ingredients 
chosen to make the perfect shoujo anime!  But Student Council Treasurer 
Arisugawa accidentally added another ingredient to the mix... 
surrealism.  But was that really such a good idea?"

"That was very well done.  Didn't you change the wording a bit?"

"Yes, I had adjust it to work better with one narrator... I hope that 
was okay."

"Hmm.  I like it.  You're hired.  But unfortunately, as this is the 
last episode at this current time, we will have to fire you 
immediately."

"Damn."  The shadow scuffed his foot on the floor.  "Does this mean I 
don't get the dental plan?"

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COTM Club Presents

Revolutionary 
Powerpuff 
Girl 
Utena

Part 7 (In a 6 part limited series)

That Which Shines Through Eternity

By Lady Brick

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"Damn, I can't believe we lost to the Revolutionary Powerpuff Girls a 
second time, thereby forever losing the power to bring Revolution to 
the world and being forced to be their stunt doubles," Mikage muttered, 
pulling on his red biker shorts.  "Do these make me look fat?"

"Not at all," cooed Mamiya, sidling up to him, looking very comfortable 
in his Rose Bride dress.  "At least no one was watching."

"No one ever watches us fight.  We might as well not exist."

With a loud pop, Mikage and Mamiya suddenly ceased to exist.

Kozue blinked, rather confused.  "Why did they disappear like that?  
Could it be that MuuChuChuChu really didn't know what he was doing when 
he made us, and we have always been inherently unstable?  But then why 
am I still here?  Perhaps it's because I am not a boy, and therefore am 
exempt from the rules of existence that governed the other two.  Oh 
well, who cares.  Now I can go have lots of promiscuous sex!"  And with 
that, she happily skipped off.

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Over at Pokey Ohtori, the Revolutionary Powerpuff Girls (and boy) were 
enjoying the afternoon inside the cage- err, rose garden.  Anthy was 
watering the roses, Miki was playing a baby grand he had had someone 
bring in, and Utena was doing odd contorted stretching and gymnastics 
for no apparent reason.

"I'm certainly glad we were able to defeat the Black Rose Rowdyruff 
Boys a second time," said Anthy demurely, petting a particularly pretty 
rose, which purred back.

"Well, boys are really easy to beat.  I beat the whole boy's basketball 
team, remember?  Nothing can defeat girl power!"  Utena's arm made a 
cracking sound as she wrapped it around her ribs.

"I'M a boy," muttered Miki.

"You only think you are," said his stopwatch.

Miki blinked, then decided that stopwatches don't talk, and ignored it.

"But Utena-sama, this *is* the last part of this story, unless someone 
writes a sequel.  Doesn't that mean that whatever we face will be our 
toughest battle?  Why, we may even be killed!"

"Nah," said Utena.  "What series ever kills off the heroine."

"If anyone dies, it will be Miki," said the stopwatch.

"Hey, that's not a nice thing to say!"  Miki abruptly hit a wrong note.

"I think you hit a wrong note," said Anthy, as she watered the piano.

"Um, Anthy, why are you watering the piano?"

"It is only a baby grand, correct?  It needs water so it can grow big 
and strong."

"Um, Anthy, pianos don't grow."  He hastily removed his music before it 
could get splattered.

"You only *think* they don't grow.  What do you know?" taunted the 
stopwatch.

"Can anyone else hear that?" Miki asked, shaking the stopwatch 
vigorously.

"You mean the phone ringing?  Well, if you heard it, then why didn't 
you answer it?"  Utena, who had tangled herself into a pretzel, rolled 
over and answered the phone.  "Hello?  Yes Mr. President?  We'll be 
there right away!"  She hung up the phone.  "Can someone untie me?"

"Miki can't even tie his own shoelaces," whispered the stopwatch.

"I don't *have* shoelaces," Miki muttered back.

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He watched from behind a tree, and He was pleased.  By giving the boy's 
stopwatch the ability to talk, He was sure he would be able to turn the 
Powerpuff member to his side, and thus could manipulate him into 
opening the door that which would bring Revolution to the world.  He 
pushed back his gorgeously full lavender hair, smirking.  Oh yes, He 
would manipulate the boy, in every sense of the word.  He swung that 
way.  He swung *every* way.

But for now, He would have to wait.  The plans were set in motion, and 
He was fine with that for the moment.

In fact, things were going to well that now He could go have lots of 
promiscuous sex.  With that, He strode off, his red, frilly, yet still 
very masculine outfit fading into the shadows, his black boots tapping 
out a path for those who dared to follow.

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"Thanks for getting here so fast, girls," Touga said smoothly as the 
trio landed on the balcony (they had once again forsook the elevator.)  
He absently stroked the hair of the perky blue-haired girl who was 
sitting in his lap.  "This is my new... personal assistant, Kozue."

Utena blinked.  "But she was one of-"

"Everyone deserves a chance for redemption," the President said, 
cutting her off.  "Anyway, I just received this tape that you must 
see."

"Good thing it's not a note, because Miki is too stupid to read," 
murmured the stopwatch.

"Hey!"

"Hey is for horses Miki, and don't interrupt."

"But you weren't talking!"

"But I was *thinking*."  He tapped his red-haired head.  "Juri, please 
play the tape."

Juri, who had presumably been there though whole time, despite not 
being mentioned, hit the button to play the tape.  The face of a 
familiar monkey-mouse and his translator filled the screen.  The green 
haired one held up a note card and began to read.

"To save time, and because the joke is getting old, I have told my 
translator what to say beforehand, and he will say it to you now, while 
I say nothing, because I have already said what he will now say.  I, 
MuuChuuChuuChuu, am the greatest archenemy of the Revolutionary 
Powerpuff Girls, and the most handsome, and the most powerful, and the 
smartest.  Some other villain will not upstage me, because I was here 
first, and He is new.  I was here first, and He was not.  Therefore, I 
have come up with a plan that is better than He's plan, though I do not 
know what He's plan is."

"They should have checked the grammar before taping this," remarked 
Utena.

The picture abruptly switched to that of a rather familiar looking girl 
wearing yellow.  The trio recognized her as Sovereignty-Association 
Powerpuff Princess Nanami whom they had defeated in an episode that had 
been cut due to underage drinking scenes.  Nanami was opening a box 
with a silver seal on it.  She reached in, and pulled out what appeared 
to be a rather ugly cowbell on a choker necklace.  A crudely crayoned 
tag was hanging from it reading "$1,000,000,0000 etc."  Her eyes 
glowing, she put it on, and in a scene of incredible pyrotechnics and 
animation that the author will not bother describing occurred, and girl 
became large, ugly cow monster.

"My goodness, she looks just like my cow who also happens to be named 
Nanami.  Except my cow is not nearly as large and bloodthirsty," Anthy 
observed.

The scene switched back to Saionji and MuuChuChuChu, the later of which 
was grinning in an evil manner.  "Yes, I have turned Sovereignty-
Association Powerpuff Princess Nanami into an even more fearsome giant 
cow monster that shall rampage and pillage and other similar such 
actions of destruction.  Yes I, MuuChuChuChu, have created a monster 
that not even you Revolutionary Powerpuff Girls can stop.  It is 
unstoppable, and I have created it, so I win, because you shall lose to 
my creation.  And that is all I have to say, accept goodbye, farewell, 
and so long, for you shall soon be dead at my hand.  Ha ha ha."

The tape went to static.  The trio looked at each other.  "This is 
bad," said Utena.  "Very bad.  This might be the end for us."

"Don't wet your pants, Miki," advised the stopwatch.  The boy growled 
and clicked the button.  Instead of numbers, the word "baka" streamed 
across the LCD over and over.  He shoved it into his pocket.

"Well, good luck girls.  I would come and aid you, but my assistant is 
still in the middle of her... training."

"And I get to help," added Juri helpfully.

"Thanks Mr. President, but we can handle this on our own."  The three 
took to the air in dazzling streaks of color.  

"You sound worried, Utena-sama.  Is everything alright?"

Utena sighed as she flew.  "I am worried, Anthy.  I don't know if we 
can beat this.  To tell you the truth, I am afraid.  Afraid for us all.  
And afraid for the world if we don't stop this monster..."

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"Anyone else want another burger?" Saionji sighed, straightening his 
frilly yellow apron.

"Chu," replied MuuChuChuChu, who had doffed his turban and evil outfit 
for a tie and earring.  Anthy gave him a friendly pat on the head, and 
continued eating her shaved ice.

"These are really good," exclaimed Utena.  "I had no idea that you 
could barbecue so well."

"Well, I need something to fall back on besides translator for evil 
animal genius," the kendoist replied.  "Are you sure you don't want 
one, Nanami?"

"No thanks," the snotty girl replied, shivering.  "I can't but think 
that that could be me up there."

"Well, it is Nanami, really," Anthy replied.  "She ran dry of milk, and 
I really had nothing else to do with her.  I hope she didn't mind too 
much."   

"I'd like another, please," replied Miki, blatantly ignoring Mr. 
President and his "assistant" as he walked by. 

"I'd be careful, you need to keep an eye on your girlish figure," the 
stopwatch advised.

Miki stopped dead in his tracks.  He turned and ripped the stopwatch 
from his pocket.  "Why are you being so *mean* to me!?!?!?" he shouted 
at it.  "I never did anything to you!  I *loved* you!  And all you do 
is insult me.  I'm not stupid!  I'm not scared of everything!  I'm not 
a weakling!  And most of all, I AM NOT A GIRL!"

Utena, Anthy, MuuChuChuChu, Saionji, Nanami, Touga, Kozue, and Juri all 
watched in shock as Miki hurled the stopwatch across the balcony.  The 
same large group of people saw a dark hand reach out and grab it.

"I knew the only way you would every part with this is if you believed 
that it had turned against you," He mused, spinning the stopwatch 
between his sinuous figures.  "And now it is mine, as is that which 
will bring Revolution to the world."

"It is He!" Saionji gasped.

"You mean him," Utena corrected.  "What is with you people and improper 
pronoun usage?"

"No, that is his name."

"He is a name?  Maybe a really *stupid* one..."

"No, his name is Akio.  He's my brother.  Remember, you met him when we 
visited his large, phallic-shaped tower, Utena-sama."

Utena turned to the purpled-haired girl.  "Are you somehow related to 
every villain in this series?"

"I think you mean her," said Shiori, pointing to Anthy.

Akio cleared his throat, regaining everyone's attention.  He pointed 
the stopwatch at the castle overhead, which had conveniently been 
relocated to over the Student Council balcony, pushed a button...

And the sound of a garage door opener could be heard.

Everyone facefaulted.

Something clanged against the roof and tumbled out, falling towards the 
crowd below.  Everyone strained to see what it was.

"Is it a miracle?" asked Juri.

"Is it something eternal?" asked Saionji.

"It's not my brother," said Nanami, squinting.

"Is it my shining thing?" asked Miki.

"Is it naked pictures of Utena?" asked Touga.

"It is all of those things.  Well, most of them."  He held out his 
hand, and a light bulb landed within.

Everyone blinked.  Everyone sweatdropped.

"All of this... this all was for... a *light bulb*?" Utena asked, 
forehead vein throbbing.

"Not just any light bulb, my dear," he replied in his oh-so-orgasmic 
voice.  "This is an extended-use light bulb.  It will stay lit for over 
one hundred years.

"That's almost an eternity," said Saionji.

"It's like a miracle," said Juri.

"And it's shiny!" exclaimed Miki.

Touga just looked sad, and felt up Shiori to make himself feel a bit 
better.

"But what are you going to do with it?" Utena asked, suspicious.

"I hadn't really thought about it.  I'm more interested in getting back 
to all the promiscuous sex around here."  Akio shrugged, showing off 
his broad expanse of chest to great advantage.

"Well, the light is burned out in our room, Utena-sama, we could use it 
there."  Anthy accepted the light bulb and stuck it in her apron pocket 
for later use.

"Great!  Let's get back to the party!" cheered Utena.

"Yeah!" said the stopwatch.  "And Miki is gay!"

And lo, there was much partying, and eating, and drinking, as well as 
lots of promiscuous sex, which mainly involved surreal photography and 
discussions of leftovers.

And once again, Ohtori was saved, thanks to the Revolutionary Powerpuff 
Girls!

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