Tenth one written yet I own nothing but the plot bunny. It occurs shortly after Spoony's "Party Mania" review (chibi Jewel Staite was adorable!).

"I'm fine, Linkara," Spoony grumbled for the tenth time in the past hour. His best friend had managed to rescue him from that weird alternate dimension where there were female versions of them. And his female-self had been blonde. Now that had been weird.

Linkara had 'borrowed' Dr. Insano's stethoscope to listen to Spoony's heart. He instructed the other man, "Breathe in deeply, and out just as deeply."

Rolling his eyes Spoony did so. Then he let out a Tarzan yell which made Linkara jump back, landing on his butt. Scowling he adjusted his hat.

"Stop it, Spoony. Now I have to do it again."

"I'm fine," Spoony whined. "I just want to go blow up stuff on a video game."

"You've been tugged into an alternate dimension and I've just tugged you out of it. A check-up has to be done."

A sulky Spoony sank deeper into the armchair Linkara had plopped him into half an hour before. Getting to his feet Linkara shook his head. "We can play video games after the check-up, I promise."

"Sweet."

Bemused Linkara began his second attempt to listen to Spoony's heart. After a minute he asked, "Does it always beat so loudly?"

"Mostly," Spoony shifted uncomfortably. There was an awkward silence as both worried about the possibility of his heart condition acting up. In order to break it Spoony changed the subject. "So… do I have to be checked for alternate dimension viruses now?"

"Nah, I did that before I brought out of that weird place," Linkara shrugged it off. "I'm just about done; I just need to check your throat. But first you need to have a Popsicle so that I have something to press down your tongue with."

"Can I pick the flavor?" Spoony asked hopefully.

"Sure: grape, strawberry, lemon, or orange?" Linkara asked as he started for the kitchen. Perking up Spoony responded, "Orange, please."

While Linkara was getting the Popsicle Spoony wondered, "Hey, where's Iron Liz?"

"She's off shoe shopping because her old dress shoes are, well, old."

"Ah, cool."

"Here you go," Linkara beamed as he gave Spoony the unwrapped Popsicle. While Spoony slurped up the frozen treat the other man gave him a second look over just in case he had missed anything the first time around. Rubbing the back of his neck Linkara requested, "Could you stop getting into so much trouble?"

"I will when you do," Spoony grinned glibly as he finished off the Popsicle, making Linkara glower mildly at him. Taking the Popsicle stick from his best friend Linkara instructed Spoony to open his mouth wide.

"Aah," went Spoony as Linkara pressed down his tongue with the stick, using a mini flashlight to light up the interior of his mouth. As Linkara intently studied Spoony's mouth for any ailments Iron Liz strolled in from the front hallway, a shopping bag in hand.

"I'm home- and why are you looking into Spoony's mouth?" she asked with puzzled amusement. Sheepishly Linkara looked at his girlfriend from over the top of the armchair. "I had to rescue Spoony from an alternate dimension he got sent to so now I'm giving him a check-up. How did the shoe shopping go?"

"Gah," went Spoony, the Popsicle stick still holding down his tongue. Holding up a bag Iron Liz smiled, "Great. I got a pair of Mary Jane shoes and then some Pokémon cards."

"Nice," Linkara nodded before returning his attention to Spoony. Muttering bemusedly under her breath about the stunts her boyfriend and his best friend got up to, Iron Liz went upstairs to put away her shoes and to call Scarlett in order to get her opinion about this latest mess their boyfriends had gotten themselves into.

Meanwhile Linkara had finished his examination of Spoony and was throwing away the Popsicle stick. Eagerly Spoony questioned, "Now can we play video games?"

"Sure," Linkara exhaled bemusedly. It would seem that Spoony was right as rain even after this wacky misadventure. Eighties Chick had been scary enough and she had been Nineties Kid's counterpart… Linkara didn't want to meet his female counterpart. That gave him pause.

"Hey, Spoony- one last thing?"

"What?" he moped. Dubiously Linkara wondered, "Do you think that my female counterpart would have been named Linkaro?"

"Probably," Spoony laughed. "My counterpart was named Spoonette… although I think Dr. Insano was still Dr. Insano."

"Why am I not surprised?" Linkara made a face.

"Mm," Spoony agreed, surprised and grateful that there existed at least one dimension where he and Dr. Insano weren't the same person. Probably. "Okay, let's go play video games! You got any you want to play?"

"Nah… you can pick," Linkara waved it off as he followed Spoony to the teleporter since Spoony had a far wider range of games and gaming systems than him. Happily the pair went off to play some video games as the check-up was over with.

Okay, time for more quotes from my fantasy novel The Great Forest! (edit- these will be showing up on the elevens of the prompts, so to speak)

Page 66: One of the local DJs told his listeners, "Meteorologists are unsure of where the heck this storm came from, but one thing is for sure- it's not going anywhere anytime soon!"

Page 166: Ron sighed, "You [Bob] forgot your judge's robe at the cleaner's again?"

Page 266: "Nah… she's [Fluffy] off having a tea party with Bridge."