Two cold eyes peered from the shadows, glowing with an almost inhuman 
light.  They narrowed slightly as a girl with somewhat disturbingly 
pink hair staggered down the hall, clutching her head and muttering 
under her breath.  With an animal-like grace, the slight figure 
slipped from shadow to shadow, stalking the unaware girl.

The pink-haired girl, otherwise known as Dee-Dee, having regained 
consciousness and quickly fled the testing room after seeing Brett 
digging through a box of various bondage apparatuses, wandered about 
aimlessly, looking for a nice soothing plushie to hug.  She hoped 
that she wouldn't run into Anna and have to explain why she wasn't 
helping Brett like she was supposed to because Anna could be *really* 
scary, especially when she was mad, which it seemed like she was 
quite often, especially at her, not that she *tried* to make Anna 
mad, it just seemed to happen, and she tried very hard not to, or to 
at least stay out of her way, and why did she feel like someone was 
following her?

Dee-Dee turned around slowly.  She blinked.

"Sorry to be a bother," said Commander Fuzz, "but could you direct me 
to the nearest source of nourishment?  I'm bloody famished."

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Part Eight - And Deeper The Madness Runs
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Rosa waited patiently by the door of the arcade as Katie thoughtfully 
browsed the prize counter.  Frank, still in SD Kamen form, and 
looking rather exhausted after a long night at the arcade, stood 
nearby, buried under a large pile of pink tickets.

"Ooooh!  Kawaii!  I want that one!"  Katie pointed out a large pink 
stuffed bunny that was roughly twice her size.  She seemed unaffected 
by lack of sleep.

The sour-faced woman at the counter took mass of tickets, and, 
ignoring the nice handy ticket-counting machine sitting on the 
counter next to her, began to tear off the tickets one by one.  Half 
an hour later, the trio walked out, headed for Rosa's apartment.  
Well, Rosa walked, Katie bounced, and Frank staggered under the 
weight of a 30 lb. Stuffed pink rabbit.  Unfortunately, none of them 
noticed the rather suspicious-looking lamp on the sidewalk, posing as 
a... lamp.

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"Anna!  Guess what I found!  A talking cat!  Do you think that means 
I'm a magical girl or something?  Wow, that would be sooooo wai!  But 
don't worry, Anna, I wouldn't try to take over the club or anything, 
just because I had magical powers.  In fact, I could like become its 
guardian or something!"

Anna, turning slowly from her computer, calmly waited for Dee-Dee to 
pause for breath.  She looked at the rather starved-looking cat in 
her arms.  She spoke in a very calm voice.  "It talks?"

Dee-Dee nodded and thrust the cat forward.  The cat looked up at 
Anna, saw her sharp gaze, and gave a hesitant meow.

"It talks?" Anna repeated, her gaze, now more of a glare, shifting to 
Dee-Dee.

The shoujo fan swallowed.  "I swear it did, Anna!  It talked!  In 
English!  With a British accent!"

"He, not 'it'..." Commander Fuzz muttered quietly enough that neither 
girl heard.

"What did I tell you about watching the Sailor Moon dub, Dee-Dee?"

"I didn't!"

"Of course you didn't.  Just take that thing and give it some food 
and..."  Anna trailed off as something occurred to her.  "If you are 
here, who is supervising Brett?"

"Um..."  Dee-Dee gave a weak smile.

Anna turned and ran, mutter something about not wanting to deal with 
these thing this early in the morning.

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Rosa's apartment was decorated completely in monochrome.  Katie 
searched high and low for some sign of color, but found none.  She 
asked Rosa about it, who had by this time reverted to her normal 
form.  

"Well, after the A.E.I.O.U. experiment, I couldn't have any pink 
anywhere.  But you would be surprised how pink manages to sneak into 
all sorts of patterns.  Not to mention the problems I had when a red 
sock got mixed in with all my whites.  I just found it easier to get 
rid of all colors together.

Katie looked at the chubby girl's black jeans and gray shirt through 
tear-filled eyes.  "It is bad enough what Otaku Force did to me, with 
all the experiments, but for the A.E.I.O.U. to steal color from the 
life of a young girl... that is a crime I cannot forgive!"  She posed 
dramatically, chubby fist jabbing the air above her head.  Non-SD 
Frank, who had just shoved the large pink bunny in a deep corner out 
of Rosa's way, managed a sweatdrop.

"I'm more concerned about what their plans are now," Rosa said, 
plopping down into a large white chair.  "The A.E.I.O.U. has branches 
all over the country, but nowhere are they more closely allied with 
the local anime club than here.  Mixing otaku and scientist is a very 
dangerous combination, as your existence proves."

Katie blinked.  "Huh?"

"Well, there had been all sorts of bad reactions from people who 
overdosed on anime before, but I was the first person that ever had 
something as drastic as a Chibification occur to them.  An exploding 
bathtub of various anime-related items given an extreme electrical 
charge.  Frank had a similar experience when drunk, but my friend 
Karmen had told him all about the experiment."  Frank growled at the 
name, and Rosa ignored him.  "Now we have at least one person who has 
followed your example, Katie, perhaps more.  The missing link is you, 
Katie.  How did you know how to perform the experiment?"

"I, um, just... did?"

Rosa snorted, her eyes flashing impatiently.  "Very unlikely.  Do you 
think that the A.E.I.O.U. would really let all the work they had done 
just go down the drain?  They would want to keep working on a cure, 
and what better way then to get some girl to put herself into a full 
chibification?"

"Ano, how did they do that?  All I did was watch too much anime."

"What anime?"

"Fushigi Yuugi..."  Katie's eyes turned into little pink hearts.

Rosa barely managed to conceal a cringe.  "And where did you get the 
tapes?"

"From Anna."

"Ha!  Do you see now?"

Katie stared at Rosa for about seven minutes, her face locked in an 
incredibly cute contortion of concentration.  Rosa watched patiently.  
Frank, bored, went and got himself some white cheddar popcorn.

Suddenly, Katie's face lit up.  "I get it!  Anna put some sort of 
brainwashing thing on the tape to MAKE me throw everything in the tub 
and make it explode!"

Rosa nodded, pleased.  Frank just sighed and shoved more popcorn in 
his mouth.

Little billows of steam puffed out of Katie's head, which was turning 
incredibly red.  "That's a horrible thing to do to someone!  I 
thought she was my friend!  And she probably was laughing at me the 
whole time!  She probably thought is was FUNNY that this happened to 
me!"  Katie clenched one tiny fist in anger, a pink aura beginning 
grow around her.  "Well you know what?  I'll show her!  I'll KILL 
her!"

Rosa and Frank both blinked.

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"I'm going to kill the next idiot who comes in here transformed into 
some... Damnit!"  Anna slammed her hand down on Cecil's desk, 
upsetting his favorite gundum that he had spent over an hour setting 
up in the perfect aesthetic position.  "I can't BELIEVE we were 
stupid enough to keep that message up for so long.  Are you sure no 
one can access the information about Katie's... accident?"  She 
glanced at the once-more male Josh, who was trying to pull the 
remains of a towel out of his spiky hair.  Brett had wisely gone into 
hiding as soon as Anna had arrived to find Josh-chan wearing only a 
ball gag and olive oil.

"Yeah, I wiped it all out.  And I saved the IP addresses of everyone 
who read at the message, just in case.  Though I doubt anyone else 
was stupid enough to try it out."

Anna gave him a look that clearly said 'Please remember the type of 
people we are speaking of.'  Then she sighed.  "I'm going to go find 
Brett and Dee-Dee.  I think we need to discuss what to do with these 
people.  God knows if we find a cure... we were close with Rosa, but 
her case wasn't severe as these latest ones."  Anna stood, pausing 
briefly at the door.  "Keep an eye on him, please."

Cecil blinked and looked at the large figure across the room.  He 
still had a few shreds of pink towel entangled in his hair spikes.

"So," Josh said brightly.  "What do you think of the Cell Saga so 
far?"

"I don't watch Dragonball Z," Cecil replied quietly.  Had Josh not 
been so large and muscley, he might have admitted how watching DBZ 
was, in his opinion, the most effective form of mental torture ever 
created, but wisely kept that thought to himself.

Josh looked somewhat bewildered.  "You don't watch DBZ?  But I 
thought you liked anime."

"Yes, I like anime," Cecil said patiently.  "I am an officer of Otaku 
Force."

"Then what do you watch?"

"Well, I like Gundam Wing a lot."

"Is that that show on after DBZ with the big robots that look like 
Power Ranger Zords?"

Cecil stopped trying to converse with Josh after that.

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"Um, Katie, I think this might be a bad idea," Frank said, somewhat 
frantically as he held onto the pin-wheeling super deformed girl."

"Leggo!" Katie bellowed.  Frank had caught up with her by the 
elevators and had picked her up by the back of her shirt, much to her 
anger.  "I have to go kill Anna!"

Frank held her up so he could look her in the face.  "Listen to me 
Katie.  Rosa has seen one too many episodes of the X-Files, if you 
know what I mean."

Katie stopped struggling.  "You mean she is not a true otaku?  She 
prefers American entertainment?"

Frank facefaulted.  "No, I mean she has a tendency to see 
conspiracies everywhere.  And I know she still has a grudge against 
the A.E.I.O.U. and Otaku Force."

"So you mean I wasn't brainwashed?  I don't have to kill Anna?"

"No Katie, you don't have to kill anyone.  And I think you should 
keep away from Metal Slug for a while."

"M'kay," said Katie.  She suddenly realized how close her face was to 
Frank's.  She blushed slightly, her oversized eyes staring into his.  
He blinked, a flush spreading over his face as well.  Slowly, his arm 
moved, binging her closer to him.  Their eyes closed, as their lips 
met-

"How sweet," came a mocking voice.

Frank whirled around, accidentally dropping Katie.  Stepping out of 
the elevator was a large green figure and several lamps.

"Sorry you two, but Katie here is going to be MY Dark Queen."

Katie eeped.

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Brett sat in his own office, scanning the many pictures he had taken 
of Josh-chan to upload to his website.  It was amazing how gullible 
the transformed otaku had been, but then again, many of these 
hardcore DBZ otaku weren't too smart.  Brett hadn't been too 
surprised when Josh admitted that a friend had lent the Ranma tape to 
him, and he hadn't actually watched it yet.

Flipping through the pictures, one caught his attention in 
particular.  Setting the rest down, he looked at this picture for a 
long while, shaking his head slightly.  His eyes looked a bit softer 
than usual.  He wondered if there was still a little bit of bishounen 
in him, even though he had tried so hard to eradicate.  Staring for a 
little longer, he sighed and set the picture of the sleeping Dee-Dee 
by his monitor and resumed scanning.

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"And I'm sure Anna won't say a THING to Brett about what he did to 
Josh-chan," Dee-Dee pouted as she opened the third can of tuna for 
Commander Fuzz.  He devoured in about two seconds.  "Just because 
he's a BISHOUNEN.  And rich."

"You're blathering on about him even worse then Eugene," scoffed 
Commander Fuzz and he daintily licked a bit of tuna from his 
whiskers.  "And looks what that stupid git did to himself."

Dee-Dee dropped the can opener.  "You talked.  I KNEW you talked!  
Why didn't you talk for Anna?"

The cat rolled his eyes.  "I am not here to perform for you stupid 
humans, especially not when I'm bloody starved."  He flicked his tail 
irritably.  "And I've seen what your kind thinks of talking cats... 
expect them to have magical trinkets and give advice and fall in love 
with astronomers.  Absolute rubbish, I say."

Dee-Dee's eyes lit up.  "You like Sailor Moon?"

Before Commander Fuzz could reply, the door to the small kitchen flew 
open and Anna walked in.  "We are having an officer's meeting," she 
told Dee-Dee.  "And put that thing outside.  It probably has fleas."

"I *do not* have fleas," Commander Fuzz said frostily.

Anna stared at the cat.  He looked right back at her, calmly washing 
a paw.  Finally, the Otaku Force leader turned to Dee-Dee.  "Did that 
cat just talk?"

"Yes, I did, and my hearing is quite fine as well, so, if you will, 
please address further questions to me.  And for future reference, my 
name is Commander Fuzz the Third, and not 'it', 'that thing', or 'the 
talking magical happy cat.'"

"Would you like a star candy?"  Dee-Dee asked.  Anna elbowed her.

"How, may I ask, is it that you can talk?" Anna asked politely.

"Well, when my own, Eugene, turned himself into a large and ugly 
creature, he accidentally gave me the ability to speak.  Probably the 
only thing the boy has ever done right in his life."

"See?  The Akira Syndrome," Dee-Dee muttered ominously.

"So you know all about Eugene, then."  There was a gleam in Anna's 
eye.

"Of course I do.  Even if I am a cat, I still much smarter then that 
blithering idiot."  Fuzz ceased grooming in order to fume more 
effectively.  "How dare he throw me out of his house like that.  He 
will be sorry."

Anna smiled.  "Perhaps we can help each other out."

Commander Fuzz looked up at the girl.  Here finally seemed to be a 
human who knew what they were doing.  "Yes, perhaps we can."

Dee-Dee watched the exchange between the two, pouting slightly.  "Are 
you SURE you don't want a star candy?"

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No time, no prereaders, very very sorry -_-;  Now onto WoF and SC.  
Sigh.  

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