The Magic of Care-a-lot – Part Deux

Disclaimer: I do not own: Slayers, Care Bears, Little House on the Prairie, Yugioh, Dragon Quest VIII, etc… on goes the "Where's Waldo?" game of crossovers I always play with my stories! Seriously…no harm intended.

Introduction: The story so far…

"Kate" walked off her ship onto the landing bay of her secret base and sighed tiredly as she headed for her quarters. The business of keeping earth under the radar from psychotic super powerful beings was getting more and more complicated as the humanoid species on that planet tumbled recklessly into "technological advancement". They had found the Stargate finally but fortunately they haven't figured out how to use it. They found the millennium puzzle but it remained blissfully in pieces. The other millennium items were also available now too but they were powerless as long as the puzzle was still in pieces. Thank goodness for small favors!

"I need a vacation," she sighed as she stripped out of the jaffa uniform she'd been wearing for this particular covert op and dumped it in the recycle chute. The year was 1969 and she was currently known as a supermodel named Victoria. She had returned to earth in a hurry a few months back when her observation post on earth's satellite had nearly been discovered by their haphazard first attempt at space travel. After WWII she had thought earth was all but destroyed she had left with intention to never return so it was quite a pleasant surprise to find they hadn't raped, killed or otherwise nuked themselves to oblivion.

So she had taken up her post once again as earth's secret protector since it looked like they would soon be able to do it themselves. Ra was making moves to retake the Tau'ri home world so she had infiltrated Apophasis' fleet to sabotage him and frame Ra. She'd done the same to Ra already and with the war those two were constantly on the brink of she figured it would keep them busy for the next 40 years at least.

"Tea…Earl Grey…Hot," she ordered from her replicator. In a swirl of light a white cup with the steaming liquid materialized on the replicator counter. She took a sip finally allowing herself to relax after spending weeks as a jaffa soldier. She walked out of her bedroom and into her office and sat at her console to check up on events in the patrol zone. This whole "policing the universe" thing was not as glamorous as some thought it was.

"Especially when you're doing it by yourself," she muttered annoyed as she turned on her console but for once the universe was relatively quiet. There was only one alert blinking on her console and it was coming from Carealot. Intrigued she pulled up the file. The last time she had gone on business to Carealot was when Zelgadis Greywords had been diverted there so the spell Rezo half-assed on him to make him a chimera could be fixed. She needed the boy to remain a chimera after all! She had covertly caused Lina to miss-cast a teleportation spell to send Zel to Carealot.

Amelia had been diverted there along with him and the little bonus of having Aoshi and Misao Shinomori present had certainly sped things up! The Care Bears did their thing… Dark Heart did his thing and… boom … the self loathing that impeded Zelgadis from realizing his full potential as a chimera disappeared. Certainly Misao and Aoshi's presence had been an accident but a useful one in the end. One that had made her job much easier... boy how she missed those two…

"Whoa…" she whispered softly as an impossible sight greeted her eyes as she pulled up an image of Carealot with her sensors. Carealot was a place that existed outside of normal time so the fact that it hadn't changed in the 300 years she'd been going to it didn't surprise her. The thing that did surprise her was who was in Carealot. Zelgadis Greywords marched briskly with Funshine Bear at his side towards the Hall of Hearts as the rest of the "family" hurried towards the castle as well.

"This is interesting…" she whispered as she watched her console. Now Zel in Carealot wasn't usually a big deal because he'd been given access to inter-dimensional teleportation powers and had been bringing Amelia there often for some time after his encounters with the evil book spirit and Dark Heart. But to find him there (all dolled up like prince from a fairy tale by the way!) alone…now that was weird! She checked all the circumstances and it didn't look like the situation would require her intervention but sometimes you just never knew so she sat back and watched in case Zelgadis required assistance…

Ok now on with the show!