The new Little Miss was a very interesting sight. She was jade green and round, and she had a dark green nose, a pair of glasses similar to the ones Mr. Dudeman wears, dark brown hair in a ponytail, a pair of brown sandals, and a hat. It was a red hat with a blue band around it. An interesting color combination, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, when this new Little Miss arrived, I was at the console, but Mr. Fear was there as well. We were both pressing buttons left and right. The result? Mr. Dudeman waved and said shyly, "Uh... hi. You must be new here."

"Yep," said the new Little Miss. "I just moved to Dillydale."

Mr. Fear started to back away from the console as Mr. Dudeman said, "Well, I'm Mr. Dudeman. It's nice to meet you, Miss..."

"Hats," replied the new Little Miss. "Little Miss Hats."

"She must like to wear hats," pointed out Miss Disgust.

"You must like to wear hats," said Mr. Dudeman, saying almost the same thing as Miss Disgust had said! I couldn't help but chuckle a little.

"You bet I do," Miss Hats replied.

"Anyway," asked Mr. Dudeman, "what are you doing here at the lake?"

"I'm on my way to Mr. Wrong and Mr. Right's house to help them prepare for a pool party."

Mr. Right. Didn't he pass by earlier? I grabbed the memory of our encounter with him from the memory shelves and placed it in the recall unit.

"He just passed by earlier," Mr. Dudeman said to Miss Hats. "Funny, he didn't mention you at all. In fact, he didn't mention anything about preparing for the party!"

"You know about the party?" asked Miss Hats as I recalled a memory from Long Term. The memory was bright yellow, like myself, and it featured an invitation to a pool party in honor of Little Miss Princess.

"Of course I know. I've been invited!" explained Mr. Dudeman.

"Really?" asked Miss Hats. "Mr. Right wants me to come to the party, too. But he'll have to okay it with a Miss Princess first."

"Well, I hope Miss Princess approves."

I also hoped Miss Princess would approve. Miss Hats seemed very friendly.

But just at that moment, we heard a PING! from inside Headquarters. A new memory rolled in, and this one was different from all the rest.

"It's a core memory!" Mr. Anger said.

"But it's half yellow, and half pink!" Miss Sadness pointed out.

A pink memory? How was that even possible? The memories before this one were only ever our colors: Yellow for me, blue for Miss Sadness, red for Mr. Anger, green for Miss Disgust, and purple for Mr. Fear. They may have been multiple colors sometimes, but they had never had pink in them before.

"Miss Joy, do something about this!" Mr. Fear exclaimed. "We don't know what this core memory will do to Mr. Dudeman!"

I quickly came up with a plan. I had Miss Sadness lift up the core memory holder as the new memory headed toward it. I grabbed the core memory once it reached the space under the holder.

"Just like in The Movie," I said to myself. "Only this core memory isn't blue."

I was about to tell Miss Sadness to put the holder down when Mr. Fear interrupted my train of thought.

"Miss Joy," he said, "if you're holding the core memory, and Miss Sadness is lifting up the holder, and the rest of us are standing by her and watching..."

"Yes?" I asked, eager to hear his question.

"Then who's at the console?"

I looked toward the console, which was glowing pink. Pink memory after pink memory was filling the shelves. Yet there was no one at the console!

"What does it all mean?" asked Mr. Fear.

A few seconds of silence followed, which I was the first to break.

"I... don't know."

So Mr. Dudeman has pink memories now. This is going to be interesting.

By the way, Miss Joy makes a reference to the events of Inside Out (which she refers to as "The Movie").

Also, Miss Hats is based on someone else I know in real life. The "Write Who You Know" trope is definitely in play for this fic. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up on TV Tropes.)

The pool party Mr. Wrong and Mr. Right were planning in honor of Miss Princess came from another Mr. Men story I came up with where Mr. Wrong and Mr. Right were delivering the invitations. Mr. Right delivered his invitations to the right people (including Mr. Dudeman and his sisters), while Mr. Wrong delivered his invitations to the wrong people. (An invitation meant for Miss Wise, for instance, got delivered to Miss Whoops instead.)

In the next chapter, the emotions will try to find out who created the pink memories.