"Ok, Otaku Force. We've been through a lot, so let's solve these few problems quickly. First, we need to come up with a trigger for Katie," said Anna. "I have an idea!" said Brett, grinning lecherously. "No. And the second problem has to do with Cecil's change in personality." "Do we know what caused it?" asked Deedee. "No. But we DO know that somehow Rosa's chibification has been cured." They all thought for a moment. "And our last dilemma is what to do about Eugene and-" At that moment, the doors busted open. Into the room piled a large group that resembled a SWAT team. "Freeze! This is the ULTRA SUPER HIGHLY-TRAINED AND AMAZING A.E.I.O.U. SECRET TASK FORCE! You are hereby charged with contributing to the transformations of otaku!" The Otaku Force went silent. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PROJECT CHIBIFICATION Realized by the Lady of Brick This part conjured and twisted by Shinikenshi Part 19: The PLOT: Plain, literal, obscure trouble. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * And silent they were as the large squad of the ULTRA SUPER HIGHLY-TRAINED AND AMAZING A.E.I.O.U. SECRET TASK FORCE made their appearance. No wait, they already did that. Well anyway, the ULTRA SUPER HIGHLY-TRAINED AND AMAZING A.E.I.O.U. SECRET TASK FORCE stepped aside to reveal their commanding officer a generic looking person who wore generic green military fatigues and an equally generic green beret with the not so generic emblem of the A.E.I.O.U. on it. Anna stepped before the rest of the Otaku Force to confront the commander. "What is the meaning of this? We were given full authorization from the A.E.I.O.U. to-" "Authorization to conduct studies on chibification but not to insinuate actual chibification." the generic commander replied, cutting Anna off. "High command is not pleased with what has happened and orders that you four be detained and Otaku Force be suspended from operation." The generic commander gave a generic evil grin as his squad of A.E.I.O.U. SECRET TASK FORCE which was ULTRA SUPER HIGHLY-TRAINED AND AMAZING gestured for the four to follow them, bayonetted rifles at the ready, only the rifles were really long tazers, and the bayonetts themselves were remote-controlled recoiling squeaky mallets that could easily hit targets within a hundred yard radius. These guys were trained after all. Something wasn't quite right with the situation to Anna as she, the illustrious leader of the Otaku Force knew very well that the A.E.I.O.U. didn't have such a force before, ignoring the fact that "SECRET" was in their name, and that even then they didn't have the authority to do something like this. She wracked her brain to find some way to get at least one of them out of here and to warn Katie and Frank of the situation when the thought dawned on her...sort of. "Look, I don't know WHO you guys are and I don't care to find out, but if you are here about that bomb that was in the mall, that was probably Anna," Cecil said to the squad as the generic commander just looked at him in confusion. "And what is with those 'guns'? If you guys are a real military outfit, why the heck aren't you carrying rifles or even real guns?" "Uh...Cecil...-" "Look Anna, this is obviously another one of your Japanese cartoon things again, and if it is, I really don't care to be involved, alright?" The generic commander turned back to Anna, still puzzled at Cecil's remarks. "Who exactly is this? And where is the other officer of your group uhh..." he fishes through a list from a folded paper in his pocket. "...Cecil. Why is he not here?" Deedee blinked in confusion, "Umm, but that is Cec- urk!" Deedee urked as Anna shoved her elobow into the girl's stomach, shutting her up. "Cecil is not here, because he is... not." Anna quickly stammered out, not obviously having a bit more sense to say something more useful. Yet the generic commander bought it. "So he is...no matter. My men will round him up just as fast without much trouble. This is going on your record, you realize. Not only has your group conducted unauthorized chibifications, but you have brought in an outsider with no interest in anime. That is a crime normally punishable by forced hours of watching the Macross dub..." The Otaku Force and most of the really long named squad of A.E.I.O.U. eliteness shuddered at the horrors of such a fate. "However, I think launching the outsider back to where he came from with the SUPER DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL DEVICE will suffice." Cecil raised his eyebrow and just stared at the generic commander, "You're going to do -what-?" The...SQUAD ordered the four down the hallway of the Otaku Force complex to the elevator ....or rather, moved the generic commander and the four to the elevator while the rest of the 12 man SQUAD stood outside of the elevator. The generic commander punched some random numbers of floors on the elevator panel. "Douzo, kochira e." a voice rang out from the elevator as the back of it opened up revealing a rather large room. The group then proceeded to walk through into the dark room. The generic commander then hit a switch on the wall and the roof opened up as the floor began to rise with increasing speed till it reached the very height of the Otaku Force complex with a resounding ping. As the sky opened up before them, the middle of the room was illuminated under the moonlight sky to reveal...the SUPER DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL DEVICE, which was really just a stubby, yet large looking cannon. Deedee blinked again, while rubbing her gut. "Wow, I didn't know we had one of those in the building..." The generic commander stared at the cannon for a moment then snapped his fingers, "Its out of position!" At the signal, a group of short, super-deformed, robot ninjas appeared from out of nowhere, lifted up the cannon then adjusted it so that it pointed toward the nearby city area. They then dropped it with a resounding "plop" and rushed away from where they came from. "What the heck was...hey wait a minute, you are not putting me in there!" Cecil struggled as the...SQUAD loaded him into the cannon. The generic commander then lit the fuse of the cannon and watched as it fired Cecil into the sky. "Now then, if the three of you will follow us back to headquarters." As they were being led away, Deedee nudged Anna and got up close to her so that she could whisper to her. "As much as that looks great, I don't think this is the time to be getting cozy with each other-" Brett chuckled only to receive stares of pure death from both Anna and Deedee. "...nevermind." "Anna, don't you think that if Cecil was cured he would suffer nearly instantaneous death upon landing?" "Well I suppose..." Anna mumbled to Deedee and Brett's utter horror. "You -suppose-?" the two said in unison. "Well, he should be okay, I have this hunch that somehow he wasn't entirely cured..." --- Back at Frank's house, things were as normal as normal could be, if you ignored the fact that Katie was still chibified and hence making things less than normal around his abode. Frank just sighed as he flipped through some channels on his television. The events of the last few days had been grueling. He wasn't yet sure what to make of the situation that and his feelings for Katie. Then again, most of that feeling or thought process was dispelled at that moment. "Frank-kun, I want some cereal but I can't reach the top cabinet shelf." "Oh, wait a sec." Frank got up from his chair and grabbed a bowl from the shelf. Katie "wai-ed" with glee as she poured her milk and cereal and proceeded to eat. "Arigatou Frank-kun!" Katie beamed as she munched away. Frank smiled and walked back to his living room. He shook the thought from his mind, but he couldn't help but think that was seriously having feelings for Katie but that was not the point of the moment. The point was to keep her safe and out of harm's way, and all that other hero stuff. It was a good thing he his chibification was SD Kamen or he wouldn't probably have all that great ability to be hero-like. He just shrugged and continued to watch the news on television, somewhat ignorant of the weather report mentioning something of a flying meteor or object heading in a trajectory of his neighborhood... --- And so, during that duration of time cruising the skies toward his impending meeting with the ground, Cecil's mind began to start moving. "What the @#$% is going on?!" Well, it was moving in a direction no less. As he reached his peak height and began to slowly descend at a nice 45 degree angle toward a residential area in Los Angeles he did begin to think seriously; anyone that was falling toward earth at speeds of no less than 150 miles per hour might consider thinking a good idea. Not to mention that on a standpoint of Newtonian physics, his meeting would be very soon and upcoming. "Okay, okay...this is obviously not cool. Not cool at all! I have to think of something but what?" he mumbled to himself as he just flailed endlessly in the air. Suddenly a small poof of smoke appeared on his left shoulder and Angel Wing Zero Custom appeared as did Devil Master Gundam. "What the...who the heck are you guys?" "Kid..." Angel Wing Zero Custom began before he noticed where they were, "...what the heck are you doing?!" "What does it look like to you, you...little...winged...uhh...talking robot. Okay, that does it, I must be going nuts here. First the bomb, then the cannon and now talking robots." "Oroka mono!!!" Devil Master Gundam yelled as it smacked him upside the head. "Oww...what was that for?" "We warned you in the first place, but this time things are entirely different. Check your left cargo pocket." Finding nothing else he could do seconds away from impact with a house, Cecil reached into his cargo pocket and discovered a suprisingly unscathed super-deformed scale RX-93 Nu Gundam HWS Full Armor version . The surprising part of it all was that all this information was conjured from the depths of his mind. He closed his eyes and suddenly images and voices began to flow through his head. Images of super-deformed robots doing battle danced in his head as were strange voices which sounded distinctly Japanese... "Mieru...watashi no koto mieru!" "Nu-Gundam hasshin!" "Shinsei! Kidou Sentai!! Gundam Renjaa!!" "Ike! Fin fanneru!" "Mieru! Soko!" "Haro. Haro. Amuro, haro." And suddenly it all returned to him. The sensation, the glory, the quality of the SVHS fansubs. As the time ticked away toward his scheduled meeting with the pavement, a final image appeared in his head. That image was none other than the image of super-deformed Sazabi, surrounding by images of Haros, Psycho Haros, and Dice Gundams. And with that typical spark of realization that is seen a lot in the Gundam universe when the newtype pilots make a realization of some sort, Cecil made a realization about 3.4 seconds from impacting that aforementioned house. He opened his eyes again and uttered those powerful words: "Nu-Gundam...hassin!!" and in an amazing display of 32-bit, 1024 by 768 resolution color his body was illuminated with a bright light. To anyone watching this from anywhere in the world, it looked like an early sign of a 4th of July fireworks celebration, but to the careful eye of the otaku, it was something much greater and in full 4x anti-aliasing 100 frames per second as well. As the light disappeared along with much of the sound, it revealed none other than...Sentai Ranger Nu-Gundam Cecil Level One!!! Of course there was still one ever so -slight- problem. "Oh crap...I don't have the ability to fly yet!" Nu-Gundam Cecil realized a little too late as he went straight through the roof of the house we mentioned several sentences ago, plowing at least 6 feet into the ground of the house. --- Before Frank even had the chance to say anything along the lines of "did you hear that noise that sounds like a falling piano" or "is World War III starting?" Cecil made his entrance as mentioned above. Katie just kinda double blinked, like most anime characters would at something so phenomenal, so dangerous and downright random as a falling gundam from the sky. And note, a super-deformed one as well. "...ouch. Nu Gundam...meiyoarutaijin..." Cecil mumbled as he detransformed. Frank tried to drag Cecil out of the crater he dug while Katie...just kinda tugged on his foot trying to help out. The two dragged Cecil to a nearby chair that was not incinerated by the impact. Back in the crater though... "...Touhou... itte." "Omae o korosuuuuuuuuu...medic." Two very dazed and swirly eyed super-deformed gundams were still in the crater as they disappeared in the same poof of smoke they came from. "Uhh, Frank-kun, do you think he's still alive?" "I guess so, judging from the fact that he is still in one piece..." Cecil shook his head groggily and looked around and stopped upon the crater in the middle of Frank's living room. "Ouch...that might explain why I have such a splitting headache...oh, its you guys." "What exactly are you doing here? And why, for whatever reason that might be, did you have to use the roof for an entrance rather than the frontdoor?" Frank muttered as he walked to put out some of the small fires on his rug. "Oh now I remember, I was with Rosa at the mall and we had tried to make a cure to the chibification process-..." Frank and Katie both jumped to attention and stared at Cecil, "there's an actual real cure?!" the both of them yelled in unison. "Ehh...well sort of." "Oh." the two dejectly said in unison, again. Cecil rubbed his head again before he spoke, "Well anyway, we tried a cure but there was this large explosion and somehow I had turned into something far worse than a cured person." Katie had a worried expression on her face. "And that would be?" "I turned into one of those people in those Gap commercials." Katie promptly facefaulted, with a rather large sweatdrop on her head. Frank looked around and then became suspicious. "Something's not right here." Cecil blinked. "Huh? How'd you know? I was just about to get into that." "Well for one, Deedee wasn't here to appear out of nowhere to snap a picture and collect that sweatdrop." Cecil then facefaults. "That and there must have been a reason for you to...uhh...fall from the sky like that." Cecil took a look at the "hole" in the roof he made. "Eh heheh...well, mention it to Otaku Force HQ and we might be able to help you with fixing that. Anyways," Cecil began to act serious. "The situation is that the A.E.I.O.U. have detained the others for being responsible for chibifications of otaku..." "Well that seems kind of obvious being that most of the others got the recipe off of your club's website..." Katie responded at which Cecil began to chuckle nervously. "Yeah well...come on, everyone has a website right?" "..." "...ehhh, well anyways, the A.E.I.O.U. are probably going to want to find you and the others who have been chibified so I would highly suggest you guys stay low for a while. In fact, it would be best if you two moved to different territory for the A.E.I.O.U. might already have-" Before Cecil could ramble anymore, bright lights surrounded Frank's house. The three stayed silent as a loud voice resonated throughout the place. "This is the OTHER AMAZING TASKFORCE OF THE A.E.I.O.U.! We have you surrounded and will proceed to tazor you and mallet you to submission if you put up any resistance whatsoever. So come out with your hands up, and all that other stuff!" "Okay, this is bad." Suddenly Cecil came up with an idea, an idea so calculated, so evil, so...workable that it might actually work. "I will distract them with my Nu-Gundam powers while you two hightail it to... Orange County." "Orange County?" Katie asked. "Yeah, OC is known to be probably the most boring and bland place in most of southern California. Chances the A.E.I.O.U. won't find you guys there since everything and everybody looks so similar and...bland." "Err...wouldn't that make it easier for them to find us since we aren't exactly bland like everyone else?" Cecil paused for a moment. "Well...naw. Just trust me on this. Nu-Gundam hasshin!" And with that Cecil changed back into sentai form. He armed himself with his riot baton. "I will have one of my contacts get in touch with you guys there so don't worry." The squad of the OATAEIOU stood there for several minutes without much of a response despite their commander acting very might and amazing by issuing and ultimatum. Obviously that didn't do anything. The squad readied themselves with their squeaky mallet tazers when a white and black blur burst through the front door and promptly smacked down 3 of the OATAEIOU squad. The rest backed away as the faced off the menacing...Nu-Gundam sentai ranger! "Sir! Its one of those chibified ones!" one of the squad troops yelled to the commanding officer, who very much like the generic command of that other squad that was amazing but also secret. "Capture it now! And get the others while you can!" Of course that squad member should have used something else to describe Cecil, but that was all too late as Cecil began to glow with a red firey aura. "For the last time...I REFUSE to use or HEAR the word chibi! Its super-deformed to you guys!!" and with that a voice from out of nowhere suddenly said: "Cecil has learned Hot Blood (45 SP)." And with that, Cecil began slicing and dicing, or rather swatting and...swatting some more as he laid the smackdown on the squad. Numbers popped up on his head as he beat more and more down and the sounds of levelling up were heard. While he was at it, Frank and Katie quickly drove out and away toward bland land...err...OC. "The others are getting away! After them!" the commander yelled before two of the OATAEIOU assault vehicles were ripped to shreds by a rather mean looking barrage of beam blasts coming from Cecil. He laughed maniacally as he aimed his weapon at ready. "I don't think so...soko!" --- Back at A.I.E.O.U. headquarters, The detained Otaku Force were led into a bare room. The door then immediately shut and locked behind them, and then the lights went out, leaving them in darkness. "Man, to think of the number of scenarios that would go well with this darkness..." "Brett, for the last time will you get your mind out of the gutter you pervert!" Deedee slapped him over the head, or well tried to anyway in the pitch dark and only managed to fall into Brett's arms. "Well that's not too bad either." he grinned. Brett didn't miss the punch to the head though. "I can't believe him!" Deedee muttered to herself, obviously not realizing she was blushing. "Are you two done with your antics yet?" a voice rang out from out of nowhere. "Who's there?" Anna replied in response as suddenly several lights were...lit up to reveal...the words "Sound Only" on several unseen objects surrounding the group. "We have been watching your activity lately and are not pleased with what has transpired with the situation of the chibification." "We set a directive for your group to handle the well-being of chibification cases but unfortunately, you have chosen to only make the situation worse by distributing the formula on your homepage." "That and..." the third voice suddenly paused. "...that and...err, why aren't the lights on?" There was a double clap and the room was lit again to reveal...(large breath) the HEAD COUNCIL of the A.E.I.O.U. in the COMMAND ROOM OF DEATH at the Mysterious and Elusive A.E.I.O.U. headquarters. Despite the fact that the lights were on, the figures were still shrouded in darkness, hence all could be seen were several tall black chairs that said "Sound Only" on them. "I can't see myself." one of the voices...err, HEAD COUNCIL members of the A.E.I.O.U. said. "Nevermind that! Onto the important stuff!" another voice said. That voice cleared his throat and turned...well, spoke in the direction of the three Otaku Force officers. "You three are charged with not only aiding in chibification of innocent otaku but also with 'normal-fying' otakus which is deemed as nearly a bad thing as chibification! We had high hopes for your group but I see that I was wrong. To the CHAMBER of EVIL with them! "Wait! How can you charge us with such crimes?" Anna angrily retorted. "We were helping the chibified to regain their normality, as appointed in the DIRECTIVE. There was no way we could have been trying to aid in-" The main voice cut her off, "then -why- exactly was the formula put up on your website?" There was a long pause as the three tried to come up with a justifiable answer when Deedee simply stated... "Doesn't everyone have a website though?" A wind blew through the room despite no windows being there or the air conditioning being on. "...uhh sure. Well anyways, we are suspending your positions for the time being until we can clear this mess up." said the main voice that said...most of the stuff in the above dialogue with the voices. "Until then....to the CHAMBER of EVIL!!! And for them... use the Evangelion dubs on them....hahahaha!" And with that, the three were led away by that secret and amazing squad again to listen to the horrors of a badly voiced Shinji and company. The lights then turned off in the room only to be illuminated by the "Sound Only" signs again. "Uhh guys...the lights went out again." "Well -whose- fault was it to NOT pay for last months electricity bill?" "Come on...that Sorceress Stabber Orphen VCD set was worth it..." "...ugh, stop cutting into our funds like that!" The main voice was starting to get annoyed that a red popping nerve could actually be seen with the illuminated signs. That more or less quieted the group. "Anyways, we of the HIGH COUNCIL must act quickly on this opportunity. With the Otaku Force detained in the CHAMBER of EVIL, we should be able to proceed with our plans. But first...we must round up the rest of the chibified..." Then the lighted signs went out too. "...who's got a flashlight?" --- To be continued blurb: What will happen now? What is the HIGH COUNCIL of the A.E.I.O.U. planning? Will Cecil be able to fend off the OATAEIOU with his sentai powers despite having less than 10 minutes of battery power before he needs to hightail it to the nearest Radio Shack for more AA batteries? Will Eugene get more of THE SAUCE? Where in the world did Rosa go? Will Josh-chan go super-saiyajin and challenge Eugene again, probably in OC where the open spaces and why streets would warrant massive DBZ-like property damage? And will the A.E.I.O.U. ever pay their electricity bills on time? Will Frank and Katie get to Orange County to meet Cecil's contact despite trying to plow through rush hour traffic on the 5 Freeway? That and much more in the next exciting episode of Dragon Ball...err....Project Chibification! Just add water and stir occasionally. Author blurb: Well that concludes my second contribution to Improfanfic and lets hope its better than the first. Lets just say that 4 on the AP English Literature test back in HS obviously didn't mean anything... ^^; Mad cheesy poof props to the almighty Illyria for giving me an extension to clean up my part despite of course not having internet access on the weekend to get more pre- readers...ugh. That was dumb of me. Also thank to Kenji for proofing the part. I feel there's probably more errors here than he found, but what he checked was plenty good. Super chibi squeaky mallet props to Lady Brick for coming up with something so funny, so interesting and soooo evil. PC rocks no doubt about it. :D ------------------------ -Shinikenshi "Shi to the ni to the kenshi." "Shi, ni......to death. Now -thats- deep."