A/N: Well, it's the New and Improved Chibi Files 2.0. After much deliberation, myself and the co-author, Shadow-chan, decided that a revamp was in order. What a fun journey it's been. And this time around, expect:

A plot! (audience gasp) A supervillain! (oooh... ahhhh) It's PERMANENT... not like the OLD Chibi Files! (some of the audience shakes their head in confusion) Shorter Chapters! (George W. Bush gets up and starts the Wave) And more thrills and chills than you can shake a bazooka at! (audience goes wild)

And so, I hope that you will enjoy this fic- Shadow and mine's pride and joy. Now onto the FIC!

It was sunny outside. Or so, the girl sitting at her laptop assumed, as she had not looked towards the window in ages, so determined on her work she was. No one else would have seen anything out of the ordinary in the girl who typed away. No one, except those who knew her.

Those who knew the girl knew that she was far from ordinary. A writer, artist, and inventor all in one; it was no wonder that she'd been given a full scholarship to the university that she attended. However, right now she was not fulfilling any of these previous roles, as she instead did what she enjoyed most:

Searching the net for more information on her favorite anime.

The college girl, Saberpilot, or Saber to her friends, sighed. Nothing new at the moment on the net channels. The same old, same old, truth be told. Her strawberry blonde hair swayed a little as Saberpilot pulled back both of her arms into a stretch.

As she yawned, she felt a set of hands cover her eyes. Raising an eyebrow in confusement, she kept herself calm as usual.

"Guess who?" a feminine voice asked her, a lighthearted chuckle rising from the end of the question.

Saber grinned. "Well... I'd love to say that it was Vash the Stampede, but you know how it is. If it had to be anyone in this universe, I'd guess it was Shadow-chan, Empress of all Evil, Heir to the throne of Darkne-"

The strawberry blonde smirked as she felt the hands lift, and turned to see a familiar dark-brown haired girl standing in front of her, hands on hips. "That's Goddess of Evil, thank you," The girl laughed, then smiled. "So, what is the Saberpilot up to? Hacking again?"

"Hardly," the young woman scoffed. "Just checking the net for more info on my fave shows, as per usual."

"As per usual?" Shadow-chan asked, raising an eyebrow of her own. "Shouldn't you be more concerned with, oh, I don't know... that term paper you have due for Tartski on Friday?"

Saber rolled her blue eyes in answer. "Right. Like I want to type up twenty pages on Huxley's Agnostic Distopia."

"Huxley's Agna whata?" Shadow asked, scratching her head. "Ugh. I don't even want to think about that one. Well, Miss Procrastinator, I came up here to check to see if you'd looked up today's main bitch on AniChat. It's a really grand one today."

"...AniChat?"

"Don't tell me Miss Nethead doesn't know about AniChat."

The blonde looked into her friend's hazel eyes, and sighed. "I don't claim to know everything, skittles-for-brains. Just show it to me already."

"Mind if I-?" She pointed at the girl's laptop.

"I'm not stopping you, am I?"

With that answer, the brown-haired girl took the silver laptop that normally accompanied the strawberry blonde and typed up a web address, ignoring her friend's unspoken complaints, demonstrated by a set of rolled eyes and a stuck-out-tongue.

"Okay. Here we are. Wait, hold on a minute- there's something new here," the college student said, looking puzzled. "AniChat's been... lord and lady- AniChat's been hacked!"

"What? Let me see-" Saber said, pushing her friend out of the way and regaining control of her own precious laptop. She gritted her teeth and ran some basic diagnostics. Seconds later, a pop-up message appeared on the screen. "What the hell...?"

"Read it, java bitch."

"Okay, okay-" Saber leaned forward and started to read aloud. "Anime. The most underappreciated art form ever created."

"So far, I agree, but why go to all this length to hack AniChat to say that? Everyone already knows-"

"Wait. ...form ever created. However, there is one anime that has become unloved in the anime world. It happens to be the beautiful masterpiece known as Pokemon."

Shadow-chan gave Saberpilot a look. "...wait a second. Pokemon? You sure you're reading that right?"

"I didn't stutter, damn it- A new world order should be created around this precious masterpiece, but sadly, it has become misunderstood amidst the many evil animes upon this planet- evils better known by the titles of Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, and all that oppose the basic formula that is the greatness of Pokemon."

"...WHAT THE HELL?"

"And so, I shall create a new world order. All the bishonen of the world, that cause these horrible animes to be loved and fawned over shall be destroyed, and I will make sure that none survive! Their unrelaxing and uncute ways are evil! When all is said and done, I shall rule the world and my tool shall be the best anime in existence - Pokemon!"

"...any more to whacko's hack job here?"

"Not much. Pretty much the same stuff that I read earlier."

"Can you get any data on the hacker on this?"

Saberpilot put on her glasses and pulled her laptop closer to her body. Typing quickly, she found the back gate to the slice, then grinned. "Well, whoever it was, they did a pretty crappy hack job on it. Give me a second- ah! Here we go- well, what do ya know? It's another college student."

"Big whoop."

"Her name's Janie Forka."

"Ouch. With a name like that I'd have to take over the world just to get respect too."

"Shit... I know that name," The blonde said, crossing her arms and thinking. Suddenly, she snapped her fingers. "I know how I know that name too- she was the girl who beat me in the Scholar's Invention Competition."

"She beat you?"

Saber sighed. "Yeah. So she might actually have some bite to back up this bark of hers, sadly."

"Do you think she can even wipe the bishis off of the face of the earth? I mean, brainwashing people with pokemon is one thing, look at the twin with her Rockman.exe; but still. How would she pull this off?"

"She's an evil genius!" Saber insisted. "Like me but with your ultimate evil personality. Shadow, we've got to stop this. If she destroys all the other bishonen just because they're not 'cute' like Pokemon... then what are we going to do?" Saber's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Vash! Shadow, she's going to get Vash!"

"And Alucard might be on that list," Shadow mused, crossing her arms as well. "Saber, we've got to stop this."

The blonde nodded in agreement. "But how? We've got to put a stop to this- so how do we make bishonen cuddly and cute? They're handsome, not cute! That's the whole reason they're bishonen!" The girl placed her laptop down on the ground, and placed a knuckle next to her mouth, nebbing it slightly.

Neither one made a single move as both of the collegiates thought. It was then that a miracle occured, Saber looking up with wonder.

"Shadow- a... a chibi ray."

"A what?"

"Listen- this Janie, she won't hurt things that are cute like Pokemon, right? Well, we'll fight back using cuteness. We'll turn bishonen into chibis- I- I have an idea for an invention- a chibi ray. If we use it, we can make them into cute chibis that Janie won't dare hurting- the entire world would come after her for being hypocritical!"

"The entire world will come after her for forcing them to watch Pokemon," Shadow snorted.

"Shadow!"

"We'll need an excuse to be doing this," Shadow pointed out. "If she can get into their universe to destory them, we need an excuse to get into their worlds to save them. Without letting them know they're being saved, of course, because then they'll wanna fight and people will die, yadda yada yadda... I know! We'll tell them they're all taking themselves too seriously and that we're goddesses who are forcing them to relax by giving them this 'special treatment'." Saber blinked, confused. Shadow-chan waved off the strawberry blonde's confusion, jabbering on.. "No, you're right the goddess part is over doing it a bit. Don't you get what I'm saying, Saber?"

"So you're basically saying that they take themselves too seriously?" Saber looked put-out.

"In a nutshell... yes."

"That's all well and good, but how are we supposed to stop this Janie if she has a head start and we can't even get into their universes? I may be a bit brighter than the average bulb, but even I can't dual-link a universe transporter to a chibi ray!"

"You won't have to," Shadow-chan said, standing up and smiling. "I already have the device"

"Come again?"

"A DGT."

Saberpilot blinked. "A... what?"

"A DGT- A Dimensional Gate Transporter- it'll allow us to travel between universes and get the bishonen we need!"

Saber stood up and shook her head. "Shadow- what you're talking about is crazy- there's absolutely no way you could have made that thing. You can't even program a VCR!"

"I made it a few months ago after that really big test, when my brain fried. Remember that week? Anyways, I've been using it to get up and down the stairs and to classes and stuff. Can we say 'lazy'?"

"Shadow, turning them into chibis is one thing, but..."

"Look, Saber." The brown-haired girl put her hands on the other's shoulders. "If we bring them here, and out of their own universes, it's a guarantee that no matter what happens, good anime bishonen will survive this Janie's reign of terror right?"

"I see your point," Saberpilot conceded, then blushed. "And it would be kind of nice to have Vash here on hand..." Thoughts of an anime fangirl ran through the blonde's head.

"Then let's get cracking!" Shadow-chan exclaimed, punching the air with her fist. "We've got some bishonen to save!"

"Shadow-chan... for the last time, are you absolutely certain that thing won't zap us into oblivion?" Saber asked her friend. "I do have to get back and do that term paper at some point, and it'd be kind of hard to turn it in if I don't exist! Besides," she added, "I don't trust the fact that it runs on pixie stick dust."

"Hey, one, pixie dust is the fuel of gods. Two, I'm sure it'll work," the brown-haired girl grumbled. "You just make sure that chibi ray of yours doesn't melt the poor bishonen!"

Saberpilot stamped her foot on the ground. "It WILL NOT do that, Shadow - you of all people should know how reliable my inventions are-"

"Then don't question the reliability of mine," the young woman retorted. "Just because I can't even work a cell phone does not mean I'm going to kill us." Saberpilot grumbled, but gave into her friend's request, picking up the chibi ray that she'd finished constructing a few days earlier. A slight prankster grin came upon her lips, and she aimed the ray towards Shadow-chan.

"You shoot that thing, and I'll make sure the DGT zaps you into oblivion," Shadow countered without even looking up.

"You're no fun."

Sighing, Saberpilot put down the ray, and picked up her laptop, engrossing herself into the net once again. She frowned.

"This isn't good. Shadow-chan... it looks like Janie's already on the move- she's moved from only hacking AniChat to spreading her message to AnimeCorp and as well."

"Well, too bad for her, because we're going to be the ones to stop her idiodic plot," Shadow-chan said, standing up and holding out a silver orb that was the size of a small softball. "With your ray and my DGT, we're going to take down that psycho Pokemon otaku."

"So..." the blonde raised an eyebrow. "Where, exactly, are we going first?"

"Hmm... good question," Shadow-chan answered, scratching her head. "I don't really know. I've never navigated into a seperate universe before."

"So we're relying on chance to get us somewhere? As well as HOME?"

"...pretty much."

The blonde shrugged, then winked. "Well then, what are we waiting for- let's go!" She grabbed her chibi-ray and walked over to where her friend was already typing in random numbers. Seconds later, a large black hole seemed to surround them both. Moments afterword, there was no sign that they'd ever been there.

On the other side of the net....

"Question my reign? HA!" Janie Forka laughed with a manic expression on her face. "No one contests this threat- for I am the all-powerful Janie, winner of three years' Scholars' Invention Competitions, and Winner of the Pokemon Otaku Award!"

The redhead's green eyes twinkled as she continued her work, absent mindedly petting a Squirtle plushie as she typed away. When one looked with wider vision, one could see that her entire dorm room was littered with Pokemon merchandise, from the fan on the ceiling to the carpet on the floor.

Suddenly, something caught the college student's attention, and she looked upwards on the computer to see what exactly was chiming for her attention.

"Someone tried to slice my hack. How quaint." She grinned, then typed up a few commands on her desktop, hoping to capture the identity of the person who'd fouled her work. However, when she tried, all she got back was a yellow smiley face and a message:

"Leave Radical Edward alone. It's not her fault your hacking job was so poor that even a delinquent could find out your identity behind it, Janie Forka! ...Have a nice day!"

"WHAT?" The collegiate freshman nearly choaked the Squirtle plush's head off. "Who the HELL thinks that they can slice my hacks like this and remain unpunished?!?!" The girl set to work on a background search-and-destroy java, nebbing a nearby stick of Pocky as she typed furiously.

"Now let's see who's the better hacker, 'Edward', or whatever your real name is," the young woman sneered. However, when she tried to initiate her program, she found that her exploits were in vain.

"You really shouldn't have pressed Edward so much. Now Edward will have to teach you a lesson herself, since her master isn't home!"

"Wha... you mean to say that the computer is an AI? What kind of programmer put this shit together?" Janie blinked, then gulped as she watched her computer's main screen be enveloped by an overly large smiley face, this time with another message:

"Your computer will be unusable for the next twenty four hours. Edward hopes that this will teach you a lesson!" Within seconds, a countdown timer appeared on the screen, and Janie's eyebrow twitched.

"You- bitch! Bastard- whatever the hell you are!" A set of emerald eyes turned to slits as the young woman tried desperately to untrap her computer, trying in vain to restart or shut down her desktop. Finally, she gave up, slouching back in her computer chair.

Janie snorted, then held up her Squirtle plush."Well... this just means that we'll have to up the plans by a few days, doesn't it?" She glanced back at the poster that showed an overly-beefed up Ash Ketchum and sighed.

"Soon, my darling. Sooner than they think, the world of Anime shall be ours! HA!" With that, the young woman pulled out a dark orb from her jacket that was hanging on the chair she was sitting on. She smiled, then kissed the orb.

"And you're going to help me, aren't you, my little Pokeball?"

"I don't know, Ryo-Ohki," a turquoise-haired young girl said to a brown haired creature beside her. "Tenchi said that these carrots weren't ready yet, and if you eat them before they're not ripe, they'll make you sick."

"Ah, let her eat 'em. Maybe it'll teach her to listen to people for once," Another blue-haired female said, this one bearing yellow eyes. The little creature sneezed in response to this thought.

"No, seriously. You eat way too many carrots, and you know what- you'll become a fat starship who can't fly anywhere faster than the speed of light!"

The little creature flattened its ears against its head, and whimpered. The younger girl picked up the creature and looked at the older woman.

"Don't say that- you'll scare her! Poor Ryo-Ohki is just hungry, aren't you?" the girl said, petting it softly. "And you're one to talk, Ryoko- you're always stealing food from the kitchen while I'm working!"

The woman named Ryoko grinned. "Yes, but at least I make sure that I don't make myself fat, like certain spaceships I know," she winked, then teleported to the ground, down from the tree perch she'd been sitting on. She smiled slightly, then, and turned her head slightly to the right.

"Do you hear something, Tsusami?"

"Huh?" the blue-haired girl blinked, then turned the way the woman'd been looking, seeing another female headed their way. "Oh, it's Ayeka. Hi, Ayeka!" the girl waved, smiling. Ryoko seemed put-out.

"Yes. Just call her over, why don't you?"

"What?" the younger woman asked, blinking.

"Nevermind, Tsusami. Just keep Ryo-Ohki out of trouble while I go cause some."

The purple-haired woman known as Ayeka then came upon them, in earshot of Ryoko's last words. "Cause trouble? Ha! I believe that it is your true name, Ryoko, and not merely an action when in relation to you." She paused as the blue-haired woman grew agitated, then looked down at the young girl. "Tsusami, what are you doing out here? I thought you were going to start working on those sushi rolls-"

The blue-haired girl smiled. "I was, but I thought playing out in the garden might be more fun for right now. Right, Ryo-Ohki?"

"And why are you out here, Miss Smarty pants?" Ryoko asked Ayeka, peeved.

"Oh? Me? I was looking for Lord Tenchi!" the woman laughed off behind a hand. Her eyes then turned to slits. "And what were you doing out here, you harlet?"

"Me?" Ryoko grinned, cat-like. She pushed back a lock of her light blue hair. "Oh, I was just keeping Tsusami company until Tenchi came looking for me."

"You ruffian! Whatever makes you think that Lord Tenchi would come looking for a... a... prostitute like you?"

"A prostitute? Wow, Ayeka, I didn't know you were so... so..." the woman grinned, her canines shining, "knowing of your own trade."

"Why you-"

Suddenly, the two halted, mid-fight, when Tsusami pointed up towards the sky, the little brown Ryo-Ohki snuggling into her arms. "Hey- look!"

"What the hell-?" Ryoko started, staring at a large black dot that seemed to be growing into a sort of hole. She blinked, then gritted her teeth, noticing that the hole was about to expel something. "Hit the deck!"

"What?" Ayeka asked, oblivious.

WUMPH! The two collegiates, Saberpilot and Shadow-chan, landed hard, both of their breaths taken away from the forced landing. When the dust settled they both sat up and blinked in confusion.

"Doesn't that thing have brakes?" Saber moaned, rubbing her forehead.

"I don't know why you're complaining," Shadow replied. "I landed on something soft."

"Some people just have all the luck..."

"Get. Off. Me!!"

Shadow-chan looked around, confused. "Saber, did you hear something?" She looked around again, then caught sight of a little furball with long ears.

"GYAH!" she shouted, jumping to her feet, dropping the DGT in the process. "Keep it away!" She waved her hands towards the little creature, trying hard to keep it from getting near her.

"AWWW! It's so cute," Saberpilot cooed, getting a close up look at the brown fuzzball. She reached out with a hand and scratched the back of its ears. "Why on earth would you be afraid of this little thing?"

"I'm allergic to rabbits," Shadow-chan responded with an irritable look. All of a sudden two people, both with bluish hair, stepped forward. One wore her hair in pigtails, while the other wore her's spikey.

"I told you to watch out," the spikey haired woman said gleefully to something on the ground. Shadow looked down to see a purple haired woman lying on the ground twitching underneath her. She then looked at Shadow. "My thanks to you." Then her voice took on a serious tone, and she pointed at the young woman with brown hair. "Now, who are you?"

"Um..."

"What's going on here?" a new, high feminine voice demanded.

Shadow and Saber turned to see a short pink haired woman step out of the house. There were a few precious seconds of silence, then:

"WASHU! Oh my god, it's-it's really you!" Saber squeeled, running over to the woman and bowing before her. "I can't believe I'm standing in front of the universe's most brilliant scientist! Shadow-SHADOW, it's Washu!"

"Yes... er... it's Washu," Shadow replied, flushing with embarrassment at the scene her friend was making. "Grand. I've saddled myself with an idiot..."

"Ah, a fan!" Washu grinned. "No pictures, please. And who might you be?"

"I'm Saberpilot. Perhaps you've heard of me?"

"I've heard a little," Washu answered and Saber glowed with pride, slinging her chibi ray over her shoulder... where it accidently fired.

"Oops," Saber mumbled, blushing.

"Hey, at least we know it works," Shadow grinned, now staring down at a cute little three foot tall Ryoko.

Washu walked over to look at Ryoko and pinched the chibi's cheeks, cooing, "Oh aren't you just adorable?!" Then she noticed the silver orb lying on the ground where Shadow had dropped it. "O-ho, what's this?" She picked it up and examined it, Saber joining her. "Very nice. Did you create this?" Washu asked the strawberry blonde.

"Uh-uh. She did," Saber replied, pointing at Shadow.

"A-ha," Washu nodded, grinning at Shadow. "So you were the one behind the disturbance. Do you have any idea how much touble you caused the Galactic Police?"

"A great deal, I would hope," Shadow-chan remarked.

"Turn me back! Turn me back now!" Ryoko was screaming... in a very squeaky and high-pitched voice. She smacked Shadow in the knee. "I said TURN ME BACK!"

"I didn't do it- SHE did," Shadow growled, shoving the chibi-Ryoko away and pointing at Saber.

"She couldn't have done it!" Ryoko snapped, sizing up Saber and deeming her "too innocent" to do such a thing. The girl reminded her too much of innocent Tsusami, who was helping Ayeka out of her hole in the ground. "It was you! Now turn me back, you wench!"

"You watch your mouth, young lady!" Shadow warned, slipping into babysitting mode. "I'll wash your mouth out with soap otherwise!"

"You... you... you..." Ryoko steamed. She grabbed Shadow by the arm and with all of her demon strength, tossed the girl into the nearby creek.

"Waaahhhh! It's cold! IT'S COLD!" Shadow shouted as she splashed about, trying to get her footing. But she kept slipping and landing back in the water. Ryoko rolled on the ground, howling with laughter at the sight. Tsusami, after making sure Ayeka was alright, ran over and helped the now-drenched Shadow out of the creek.

"Ryoko, how could you?" Tsusami demanded. "That was really mean! Now Miss..."

"Sh-Shadow," came the mumbled answer, Shadow-chan's teeth chattering.

"Now Miss Shadow is all soaked!"

"That was the point," chibi-Ryoko squeaked. Ayeka, who had just heard the chibi space-pirate speak, burst into high pitched giggles. Needless to say, Ryoko was not happy with this response. "Oh just shut it, you!"

Ayeka just laughed harder.

"Come on, let's get you inside and dried off," Tsusami said to Shadow. Washu and Saber were discussing the effects of the chibi ray, completely oblivious to Shadow's fall. Their only sign of life was their glancing at Ryoko every now and then. They, unlike Ryoko, were not at all put out by moving inside.

Inside, Tsusami and Ayeka had taken Shadow's wet clothing and had given her a robe to wear until it was dry. Tsusami had also fixed up a cup of hot lemon tea, which Shadow had accepted gratefully. Washu and Saber had moved onto other topics and finally had arrived at the subject of Janie's evil plot to take over the world.

"So she's going to brainwash the world by forcing everyone to watch Pokemon?" Washu inquired.

"That's right," Saber confirmed.

"Talk about devious," Washu mused. "So she intends to destroy all of the bishonen in the universe, and you plan to stop her by kidnapping them and turning them into chibis, like Ryoko here."

"We figure she won't destroy anything that even resembles "cute" and "cuddly"," Shadow explained. "And speaking of Ryoko, as soon as I get my clothes back I'll show you why I'm the evil half of this pairing." She glared daggers at Ryoko, but... the space pirate didn't look concerned in the least.

"Why do you have to wait until your clothes are done?" Ryoko taunted. "I'll take you on right now."

Shadow looked down at her robe and flushed.

"Ahh, so that's the way it is," Ryoko said slyly. "I see, I see. A bit of a prude... aren't you?" The blue-haired chibi winked.

"Why you-" Shadow-chan stood up, ready to rip the chibi a new one.

Ryoko, however, was quicker and had stolen the robe tie. "You can have this back when you change me back!" And with that, the chibi space pirate disappeared.

"What the-What's-?" Saber turned from her conversation with Washu to notice a very red-faced Shadow-chan holding her robes closed for dear life. The strawberry blonde blinked and dropped her jaw slightly. "Uh- Shadow, what-?"

"FIND THAT FREAKING-"

Suddenly, a brown-haired teenager walked into the room, his one eye closed in a pained expression. "Hey, guys, what's with all the noise-" He then noticed the barely-clothed Shadow and his eyes grew large.

"Um... explanation-?"

A few seconds later, a small blue-haired chibi pulled at his leg, holding a familiar robe tie. "Well, Tenchi, what do you think? Is she prettier than me?"

Ryoko didn't expect the trail of nose-blood and the large body that fell on her. It certainly made it hard for her to get up.

"Lord Tenchi- Lord Tenchi, wake up! We're all so worried," a voice called out from the boy's darkness. He blinked awake, and noticed that a pair of dark ruby eyes were set upon him, surrounded by violet bangs.

"Oh, thank goodness! I was beginning to think you'd never awaken, Lord Tenchi!"

"And what would you have cared about it? He only fainted, for God's sake," a squeaky, unseen voice responded to Ayeka's voiced thoughts.

"Shut up, you puny idiot!" Another unknown voice said. "Thank God for Washu's Quick-dryer. Otherwise he might have fainted again, you little-"

"Shut up, you idiot- you're the reason I'm this SHORT!"

"That was Saber, not me again, you scarlet harl-"

"SHUT UP!"

"Ughhh... can you be quiet, please," the male said, blinking his eyes as he tried to focus on staying concious. He sat up and held his head with a free hand. "Wha-what's going on?"

"About time you woke up," the familiar pink-haired Washu said, hand on hip. "We need to talk to you. We've just gotten some news from these two-" she pointed at the brown and blonde-haired Shadow-chan and Saberpilot, "that says you might need protection- and not just from some anti-Jurian Forces."

"What? Who-?"

"Shadow-chan and Saberpilot, at your service," the brown-haired person answered, holding out a hand, which Tenchi took in his own and shook rather haphazardy. "We came to this universe because we're trying to stop an evil genius who is trying to destroy anime as we know it."

"A-anime?" Tenchi blinked.

"Exnay on the nime-aay," Saberpilot nudged the newly-dried-and-dressed Shadow, smiling at Tenchi. She bowed, and giggled. Washu held up a hand to her face to cover up her own amusement.

"Ah-hem. What my friend meant to say is that we're here to protect very handsome men from certain doom," Saber said, her voice now serious. "Someone- her name being Janie Forka, has decreed that she is going to destroy all handsome men within all different universes. Which puts you-" Saber points at Tenchi, "at risk."

"Oh my! Is Lord Tenchi at risk?"

"There is... a slight risk," Shadow-chan said, taking up Saber's reigns and looking at the strawberry blonde. She didn't want to anger the girls present.

"What she means to say," Washu grinned, saving the girl from an argument that was already brewing in Ayeka and Ryoko's heads, "is that Tenchi is pretty safe in this dimension, thanks to everyone who's here. Plus, Tenchi can take care of himself pretty well. However," Washu's face became serious, "it's not the same in all dimensions. There are some handsome young men who are very much at risk."

"How terrible!" Tsusami exclaimed, putting her hands to her cheeks.

"Wait a second," A new voice said, coming from the hallway. "If Tenchi's not in grave danger, then why did you come here in the first place?"

"Well, I-"

"Kiyone! When did you get back?" Tsusami asked the Space Force woman. The older shook her head and placed it in her hands.

"Just now. We had to deal with some disturbances in the dimensional continuum." It then dawned on the Space Force woman that Shadow and Saberpilot both were completely unfamiliar to her.

"And- who are you two, for that matter?"

"Saberpilot and Shadow-chan," the strawberry blonde said, exasperated by now with the situation.

"Okay, so back to my question. If Tenchi's not in danger, then why did you come here in the first place?"

"Would you believe that were weren't... that we didn't know exactly where we were going to end up?" Shadow-chan supplied, sweatdropping heavily. "We... um... were kind of hoping we'd end up in a dimension that needed some actual protection."

"And Lord Tenchi doesn't?" Ayeka stood up and huffed at the brown-haired college student.

"Well, I-"

"Tenchi doesn't need any protection, remember? If I recall correctly, he protects YOU, Ayeka," Washu pointed out to the violet-haired female. "And these girls were at least kind enough to warn us about this threat before it came knocking on our door." Washu nodded towards the college students.

"Besides, they sort of remind me of me when I was younger. Now the least I think we can do is help them in this little mission of theirs."

"AFTER they put me back to full-size," Ryoko butted in. Shadow-chan gave the chibi space pirate a loathing glance.

"IF we do is more like it. You're a pain in the-"

"Enough you two!" Kiyone stepped in, seperating the college student and the space pirate. Which is when she noticed Ryoko's predicament. Trying to hide her laughter she asked, "Ryoko... what happened to you?"

"That...that wench did this to me!"

"You know, Ryoko," Shadow called over Kiyone's shoulder, "I think we're gonna leave you this way, just to teach you some manners!"

"You wouldn't!" Ryoko threatened.

"Here girls, I already set your coordinates," Washu smiled, handing Shadow the DGT. "Come back and visit, okay? Bye."

"Bye," they both replied, grinning as the DGT's black portal swallowed them up then faded away into nothing.

All of the others stood there and stared in shock. Kiyone was the first one to groan. "Oh man, not another ton of paper work..."

"You are so lazy! How can you just lie around when everyone on this godforsaken planet is after yor 60 billion double-dollar reward?!"

The angry shouts echoed across the desert plain, ignored by the people being shouted at. Two men sat on a blanket, munching on some sweets, while a third person, a tall brown haired woman, was rumaging through some packs. The person who was shouting, a shorter black haired woman, glared daggers at one of the men, a very tall blonde with emerald green eyes wearing a long red coat. She was just about to start a shouting match when she noticed that the blonde was looking over her head, at the sky, with a confused expression on his face.

"Vash, what is it?" the black haired woman asked, irritated that he was paying absolutely no attention to her.

"I don't-"

"WAHHHHHHH!" Two people were dropped out of a large black hole, landing where the group was sitting.

"Meryl, where- are you all right?" Vash asked, waiting for the dust to settle. He blinked, searching for the dark-haired woman.

"Hey, Shadow- you all right? Guess what? I landed on something soft this time! How about you?"

Shadow coughed as the dust and sand around her settled, groaning as she pried herself off of something that was not at all soft. "I think I hit something made of metal," she complained, rubbing her back in pain.

"My punisher!" The black-haired man present nearly ripped the girl off of the metal object, trying to inspect his beloved possession.

"Um... hello," the brown haired woman greeted merrily to the newly-arrived college students, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they had just fallen out of the sky. "I'm Millie, and this is Mr. Wolfwood." She gestured to a man leaning over a large now dented cross, grumbling to himself. "And that's Mr. Vash and, um... where's Meryl?"

"Get- off- of- ME!"

Saber went flying through the air thanks to the black-haired woman, knocking Vash over in the process. Meryl, uncaring of the blonde's 'demise', stood up, brushing herself off. "Honestly, if it's not one thing, it's another! Who are you and what do you think you're doing?!?"

"Hey Saber, this one acts like my twin," Shadow grinned, pointing at the black-haired woman. "Saber? Uh... help here?" She looked around for her friend and found her, the blonde still lying where she'd been tossed... on top of Vash. "Oh boy..."

The two were looking at each other, both of them starting to blush. Saber's vocal chords seemed to be stuck, as she continued the action, not seeming to notice the world around her.

"Hey you- you with the brown hair- I asked you a question!"

"Huh?" Shadow-chan blinked, then realized that the woman named Meryl was talking to her. "Oh. Yeah. Sorry about that- I'm Shadow-chan and that thing lying on the red coat is Saber. Saber, get up!"

The blonde ignored her, still staring at Vash. The brown-haired collegiate sighed, then yelled louder. "HEY, STUPID GENIUS!"

"Huh? What?" Saber squeaked shyly. "Oh, um... yeah." She rolled over and climbed to her feet, not looking Vash directly in the eye as she did so.

"All right, so you're Shadow-chan," Meryl pointed at the brown-haired teen, "and Saber," Meryl reiterated, now pointing at the blonde. "What the HELL are you doing here? And why did you have to fall on top of me like that?!?" She complained to Saberpilot, who looked very scared at this point of the raven-haired woman.

"We're here," Shadow began, then paused. "On second thought, I don't think I'll tell you. You remind me too much of my twin. Saber, do your thing."

"Yes Ma'am," Saber grinned, pulling out her chibi ray and aiming it squarely at the red-jacketed man.

"W-what are you going to do with that?" Vash inquired slowly.

"This, Vash-kun." She fired the ray gun, and grinned. When the dust cleared, everyone saw a chibi Vash the Stampede, cutely blinking at this sequence of events. Everyone except for Saberpilot looked stunned. Even Wolfwood looked agahst.

Shadow-chan grinned and pointed at the black-garbed priest. "Now you, Wolfie-chan!"

"I don't think-" The priest started, but his arguments went unheard.

Saberpilot fired and a shrunken Wolfwood was suddenly revealed after a few seconds. Both Shadow and Saber quickly scooped up the chibi bishis before the two could run away. Thinking quickly, Shadow-chan pressed the coordinates set by Washu as their home into her DGT. A black hole suddenly appeared in the sky.

"We'll explain some other time," Shadow promised, winking at the jaw-dropped Meryl and Millie. "Toodles." And with that they vanished, leaving Millie and Meryl staring at each other in shock.

"Where did they...?"

"I don't know, Millie- I don't know."

Shadow and Saber, along with chibi Vash and Wolfwood, were deposited unceremoniously into Shadow's dorm room, where they had originally started. Saber landed on a heap of blankets, while Shadow unfortunately landed on the chibis, who protested via waving arms and legs. They continued to twitch after she rolled over and climbed to her knees.

"Who has all the luck?" Shadow asked sarcastically. "First that metal thing, then two little chibis and a hard floor. I think I broke something..."

"Whine, whine, sulk," Saber grinned. "We have our first set of chibi bishis! And it's... it's VASH!" She squealed and picked the chibi Stampede up from the floor into a big hug, which the blonde didn't seem to mind at all.

"Don't even think about it," Wolfwood warned Shadow, pointing at the girl as he made his way into a standing position. "I am not going to be pulled into a hu-" Shadow-chan grabbed him, placed him in a headlock and gave him a big noogie.

"AHHH! No- STOP! I demand that you stop! This is not how you treat a priest! Let go!" Grinning, Shadow let go of the chibi priest and he quickly scuttled under the bed.

"Aww, now I'll never find him," Shadow sighed, grinning. "But, oh, is this going to be amusing."

"Indeed," Saber agreed, happily huggling her chibi gunner gently. The blonde smiled, then tweaked Vash's nose gently. "Two down, and a thousand more to go."

"A thousand?" Vash asked, blinking obliviously. He still hadn't figured out exactly why, how, or where he was, and he stared at Saber with large blue eyes.

"That's right, Vash, a thousand more."

"...Oh, God," Wolfwood was heard to mutter underneath the bed, understanding if Vash didn't. "What have we gotten ourselves into?"

(more to come... we promise. If Astroboy doesn't kidnap us first)