Deanna –What Happens to Dee-Dee, Stays with Dee-Dee

Hours before the sun rose, a figure crept its way back into Niceland. Its eyes darted around, making sure that it hadn't been followed and that no one had noticed them as they made their way into the elevator.

"Darn it, I didn't think I as going to be back THIS late…." The voice said, looking down at her watch.

As the elevator reached the floor the figure stepped out, revealing none other than Nicelander Deanna, the woman out of her usual Nicelander attire and in something much more suited for fighting.

Nicelanders? FIGHTING?

That would be the day!

The woman looked around, unlocking her door and making her way into her apartment, throwing off her clothes and slipping into her pajamas. Thank goodness it was the weekend and she would get a chance to sleep. Without saying so much as another word, Deanna flopped into her bed, turning off the light and going to sleep.

~Several hours later~

"Good morning!" said Gene, walking down the halls as he greeted his neighbors, the others chatting amongst themselves.

The exhausted Deanna put a pillow over her head, trying to drown out the sound of her neighbors but by now, it was impossible. She was already up and she knew there was no way she could go back to sleep now.

"Urgh…." The woman groaned, reaching for her glasses "Might as well wash up!"

The woman lumbered to the bathroom, taking a shower and cleaning up. As she made her way to the kitchen, she looked into her tea jar.

Empty.

"Oh GREAT!" the woman groaned. She knew the only place she could get the tea she wanted was Meg but she also knew as soon as Meg got her into her clutches, there was no return.

What to do? Tea or no tea? Tea or no tea?

TEA.

SHE NEEDED TEA.

There was no use in hiding it now and with a little huff, Deanna made her way to Meg's apartment but she hadn't gone three feet when she heard the woman giggling.

"Why DOOOON! Come here and help me with my newest brew!"

The burgundy Nicelander ducked behind a corner, watching the drama unfold.

Yup, just as she thought! Meg had Don in her clutches and was trying to drag him into her apartment.

"Oof, I feel kinda sorry for the big guy…." Deanna whispered to herself, watching as the sailor clutched onto the door frame with all his strength.

"W-WAIT! I-!"

"PINCH!"

A yelp, a door slamming, Don was gone!

"Welp, looks like Don's trapped." Deanna yawned "I-its too bad…I needed some tea…."

Deanna made her way back to her apartment but as she was just about to turn the key….

"Hello, Dee-Dee! How are you this morning?"

The little Nicelander jumped a bit as she turned and saw Nel approaching her. On any other day, Deanna would have loved to discuss things with her neighbor but now? Now she was much too tired. Nonetheless, she knew it was best to keep up appearances and not be rude.

"Hmm? I'm fine dear!" the woman said with a smile "What's with all the material?"

"My order came in! I can't wait to make a new dress out of this stuff!"

Deanna nodded, turning the knob to her apartment "Well, be sure to tell me when you're done, alright?"

"Wait, I might have some extra material! We could look at some designs together and-!"

"Th-that sounds wonderful dear, but…but I have something to take care of!" the other Nicelander said as she slipped into her apartment, leaving Nel alone in the hall.

"Whew! That was close!"

"Careful with that stuff Ralph! Who knows what could happen if you drop it!"

"Ah, Felix!" Deanna said, "I've been meaning to talk to him!"

The Nicelander opened her door once more but found that she was too late, Felix and Ralph joining Gene in the penthouse a few yards away. Deanna huffed, putting her hands on his hips.

"Wow! I'm a lot slower than I thought!" she said to herself, regretting that she got so little sleep.

"Dee-Dee, are you alright?"

Oh, no. Who was this now?

Deanna turned to see Mary walking up to her, the pink Nicelander looking a tad concerned "I said, are you alright dear?"

"Hmmm? Me? Ooooh, I'm just FIIIINE!" Deanna chortled, trying her best to save face in front of her friend "I'm just a little tired from something I had to do last night!"

Mary raised an eyebrow "Oh? And what would that have involved?"

Deanna knew she had said too much at this point and Mary was starting to get a tad suspicious. She blushed, backing into her apartment "Ah ha….um. OH, look at the time! I must….get to that THING. Which is in my apartment!"

And with that, Deanna slammed the door, nearly avoiding a catastrophe thanks to her own big mouth.

"Aaaah, I gotta watch what I say….who knows what the others are thinking now!"

"Go look for your precious cats or whatever…AW FORGET IT!"

SLAM!

Deanna shook as she felt the jolt of a door slamming next to her. It HAD to be Blake, who else could it be?

She poked her head outside, seeing nothing.

"Okay, maybe I AM goin' a bit nuts for not sle-!"

HIC!

"Gah! What was-?!"

The woman shook her head and returned to her apartment, flopping on the couch in exhaustion.

"M-Maybe if I took a nap, I would feel a lot better…" she yawned, already feeling the pull of sleep coming over her.

"My wallet! My wallet! MY WALLET!" screamed Roy from his apartment.

The woman groaned, her rest interrupted as she heard even more cries from the hall.

"What in the world is going on NOW?" the woman mumbled, sitting up and placing her hands on her hips as she cracked opened the door to her apartment once again. Deanna managed to catch a glimpse of Roy running around his apartment frantically, pulling up everything in order to find his missing piece of property.

"OHNOOHONOHNOOHNO!"

Deanna let out a snort; Roy was always getting his head worried about something. No wonder he was balding!

Wait, his wallet?

Deanna thought back for a moment, retracing her steps of the night before.

"Okay, I know I hung out with the guys until ten…and after that I left so…."

She though back as hard as she could, remembering that Roy had purchased something from one of the markets. She also remembered that he still had his wallet with him during that time.

And as she left….

Wait….

Did that really happen?

"Oh my gosh!" the woman gasped "Maybe that WAS Roy's wallet in front of Street Fighter!"

Deanna put on her shoes and bolted from her apartment, taking off as fast as she could towards the trolley.

"Really Roy? Must we look after you like a CHILD?!"

"So are you up for burgers for lunch?" asked Ken.

"Seriously, Ken? You keep eatin' burgers like that, you're going to end up as big as Honda…" replied Chun-Li, not taking her eyes off of her newspaper.

"Or maybe his thighs will grow to be as big as YOURS…" Honda shot back, a smug grin on his face.

"Really, big guy?" the woman said, pinching the sumo's nose playfully "You guys are nothing more than overgrown kids!"

"Er, were we expecting visitors?" said Cammy, looking out the window as the trolley pulled up into the game, a small figure inside.

"I don't think so…who is it?"

"It's that Nicelander lady. What's her name? Dedra? Dana? Dianna?"

"Deanna?" said Bison, getting out of his seat and heading to the entrance of the game.

As Deanna made her way up the stairs, she was greeted by none other than Bison himself, the huge man over-towering the woman by several feet!

"Surprised, that I'm back so soon?" the woman said in a smug voice, her arms crossed over her chest.

Bison scowled down at the woman but he then threw his head back and laughed, "I didn't know ya missed me THAT much, Dee-Dee!" the man said, bending down and scooping the woman into a hug.

"Don't flatter yourself, big man!" the woman chuckled "I came here because a friend of mine might have lost something near your game!"

"Oh, and what would that be?" Bison asked, putting the Nicelander down.

"A wallet! It's olive green with a little gold seal on with with an R. It belongs to my neighbor Roy."

Bison rubbed his chin before turning back to the others, "Hmmm, have you guys found any wallets around here?"

"Aside from the one GUILE keeps droppin'? No!" Ryu laughed, nudging the now annoyed fighter in the side.

"Well, if anything turns up, we'll let ya know!" Bison said.

"Thanks anyway…" Deanna sighed "Maybe it's around some of the other games. I just want to find this thing fast before Roy drives us all crazy with his panicking."

After saying her goodbyes, Deanna made her way back to Niceland but as she walked across the station, she saw none other than Meg walking out of House of the Dead.

"DARN IT!" the woman said, ducking as fast as she could "If Meg finds out I've been comin' here, I won't hear the end of it!"

Luckily, Deanna missed the other Nicelander by seconds but she knew that it would best if she waited a while after her neighbor returned before taking the trolley back home.

But where to go in the meantime?

"Aw, I'm sure Bison won't find it strange that I come back!" Deanna said with a smile but when Deanna returned to the game, she found that the man was gone!

"What do you mean he's on his way to Niceland?!"

"He found that wallet you were talking about!" smiled Chun-Li "Since you already left, he decided to deliver it himself!"

Oh NO! With Bison coming into the game, Deanna was sure Roy would panic! While the little man was used to being around the likes of Ralph, some of the other LARGER characters were another story. It wasn't too long ago when Roy passed out after being introduced to the Giant Sun characters from Sunshine and Rainbows and HE was a FRIENDLY character!

Deanna rubbed her temples; she had to go back now!

It didn't take long for Deanna to return home but when she got there, Bison was nowhere to be found.

"NOW COME ON!" the woman said "How can I lose sight of something that BIG and RED!"

The woman walked all over the entire game, from the main apartment building all the way to the end of East Niceland but Bison was nowhere to be found. To make matters worse, Deanna was still a little tired and she still wanted tea!

Oh well.

Deanna slipped back into her apartment, trying to figure out what to do to pass the time before Bison or Roy returned and with the way things were going to collide, she knew they would up EVENTUALLY.

"Might as well start practicing…" she sighed.

The woman then went to her room and got into her work-out clothing, a DVD in her hand.

KICK BAD HEALTH BUTT; THE STREET FIGHTER WAY!

The woman put the disc into the machine, the TV flashing before an image of Cammy appeared on the screen.

"ARE YOU READY TO GET PUMPED?" the fighter said, posing powerfully "THEN GET READY TO FIGHT! STREET FIGHTER STYLE!"

Deanna posed, bending her short little legs as she mirrored the moves on the screen.

"UP KICK! DOWN KICK! A A A! DOWN KICK DOWN KICK! AND NOW SPECIAL MOVE!" Cammy said, kicking her legs into the air.

If only the others knew.

Deanna, the Nicelander who was programmed as a secretary, was taking classes from STREET FIGHTER! While the others knew that Mary would often go to the game to take yoga classes with Dhalsim, Deanna was much too embarrassed to admit that she was doing such high-strung exercise with the fighters.

Why?

Something about Candybug coming back inspired her.

The reason the woman was so sleepy from the previous night was because she had attended a late-night sparing session with some of the other characters in the arcade, testing her skills out on anyone who was hapless enough to face her.

For a Nicelander, Deanna was making great progress.

The woman continued to move, her legs kicking in the air.

"Urgh, what I wouldn't give for longer limbs!" she growled, her tiny nubs of legs held in the air.

The woman then heard a crashing noise on her balcony, gasping in shock as she ran over.

"BLAKE, YOU SON OF A-!"

Norwood.

"HEY! WATCH IT NORY!" Deanna yelled at the man, the red-head almost knocking over her plants. As Deanna looked on, she watched as Norwood and Blake started fighting with each other, both men rolling into Blake's apartment as the fight continued.

"URGH! LET GO CAT FREAK!"

The woman rolled her eyes and went back into her apartment; those boys.

Tired from her work out, Deanna flopped on the couch, wiping her brow.

"Maybe I SHOULD get that tea from Meg…." The woman thought, remembering that her supply was still out.

"OH GOD! THEY'RE GONNA GET ME!" Deanna heard Roy scream, the man running out the hallway.

"Oh, he's back!" the woman panted, a smile on her face. She then moved to her room, quickly throwing off her work-out clothing and freshening up a bit as she walked out the door but as she turned the hall, Roy was nowhere to be seen.

"Gene, come back!" Mary cried, trying to pull Gene back into her apartment.

Deanna peaked from the corner, seeing Gene trying to fix his hair and put on his cardigan, his face as red as a beet "Sorry dear, but I must go!"

The look on Deanna's face was something to behold; she knew that Gene and Mary were engaged but WHAT HAD SHE JUST WALKED IN ON?!

"*HIC!* WHAT IS EVERYONE *HIC! HIC! HIC!* DOIN'?!"

"Wow! It's like someone amped up the drama here!" the woman said as she made her way down the hall, hoping to find Roy along the way. To her displeasure, the little grey Nicelander wasn't in the halls….

But Meg was.

Deanna froze, the look on her face not unlike that of a deer caught in the headlights of a massive truck. Meg grinned from ear to ear as she began to make her way towards her neighbor, her mind already set on what she wanted to blabber on about.

"Oh, Deanna! There you are!"

NOPE!

NOT DEALING WITH IT!

Deanna turned on her heels and walked the other way, much too embarrassed to even think of what to say if Meg started yammering away.

"Dee-Dee? Wait! I just wanted to talk to you and-!"

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

As Deanna ran around the corner she stopped, wondering just where in the world that horrible screaming sound had come from. She looked up as she heard several yells and crashes echoing throughout the building.

And the surprising thing? Ralph was no where to be found!

"Goodness, at this rate, WE'LL wreck the building!" the woman said, adjusting her glasses.

All in all, this felt like another good night to escape to Street Fighter again. At least there wouldn't be as much DRAMA!

As the woman made her way downstairs, she heard another scream followed by the sound of a body landing on the floor! The woman rushed out the door, HORRIFIED to see Meg and Nel talking with someone.

Someone she knew!

And Roy was right there, out like a light, face first on the ground.

"Oh Dee-Dee!" Meg smiled "You have a visitor!"

Deanna looked up, not at all surprised at who she was looking at.

"Do you know how LONG I've been looking for BOTH of you?!"