Dynast was seeing stars. And he didn't approve. Nor did he like it, which with most people is considered the same thing. In fact if the f******* stars didn't stop f******* flashing he would find whoever was the cause of this whole f******* mess and shove the f******* flashing stars up his/her/its self-centred f******* arse. The starts stopped and he hit the ground with a crack. Cleo scratched her head and glanced at L'risia, who had her lips pursed.

'Interesting- language skills.' L'risia commented, and ducked under the flying side kick, instinctively punching him in the stomach. Cleo joined in, slamming him into the wall just because the Dark Lord had really been pissing her off.

On the computer, Lina, Amelia and Zelgadis cheered, in Lina's case, through a mouthful of some by now unidentifiable foodstuff. Kai'ila looked a tiny bit sympathetic and Casper, Xelloss and Filia were holding up scorecards. (in case you're wondering- Gourry's still feeding his face ^_^;;)

'You guys could be a little MORE SYMPATHETIC!' shouted Kai'ila.

'Kai, he's a Dark Lord.'

'Oh yeah. I give it a eight-point five.'

'Are you kidding?! There isn't even a decent crack in the wall!'

L'risia rubbed the back of her head and shrugged at a scared and amused Nene, who by now had some sort of grasp on the situation despite the fact most people would have run away screaming by now. Cleo sighed as her friend continued to argue and pushed Nene away from the computer. Sylia, in the background and possessed of her natural foresight, covered her ears.

'WOULD YOU ALL PLEASE SHUT UP AND QUIT ACTING LIKE CHILDREN? I mean I understand you have the mental age of them BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT! NENE, SYLIA, MACKEY, AND IZZY AND YOLEI ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT- eh Zel? Ash is standing behind you with a pokeball-'

'BOMB-DI-WIND you little nutcase!'

Everyone sweatdropped as Kai'ila laughed hysterically as a certain black-haired brat disappeared rapidly into the sky.

'Uh- who's Ash?' Linna Yamazaki asked politely from behind the computer.

'Another cartoon character- Kai'ila, get off the table. Casper could you just get that bottle off her and Yurika- thanks- OOH! Lollipops!' L'risia yanked off the top of the packet and stuff two in her mouth, eyes closed and looking smug. Cleo snatched the packet off her.

'HEY!'

'Mine!'

'I found them first!'

'Uh- L'risia- what are you doing in the computer?'

L'risia let go on the packet suddenly, sending her friend crashing into the wall.

'Oh hi Val- um- yes. Well. I got transferred and the combined geniuses managed to get Cleo and Dynast here as well.'

'You mean you're in another anime show?'

'Ten out of ten!' L'risia shouted, on a high.

'Broken ankle.'

'I forgot-' L'risia collapsed into a chair. 'Lose Megumi?'

'SSSSSH!' the panicked dragon hissed. Confused face blinked at him and then Gourry shouted,

'HEY! MEGUMI! YOU OUT THERE! Ow! Liiiinaaaaa-'

'You baka! What did you do that for? No one can transfer Val if someone from there is around! Oh wait, L'ri, what would happen to your computer?'

'Well, technically speaking the computers electronic signals just make your transfers from dimension to dimension easily.' Inez said. 'Its possible that we can generate that signature into an alternate frequency-'

'Oro?'

'Eh?'

'I don't get it Zelgadis.'

'I'm not sure I do either.'

'Kai?'

'Do I look like Miss Fresange to you?!'

'Dynast stop moaning.'

'Yes ma'am- HEY'!'

'Don't hit women, Mr Dynast.'

'WOULD YOU ALL JUST SHUT UUUUP!!!' yelled Val and Filia. Everyone did. L'risia let out a low whistle.

'Well thank you, you two, I never did like hearing that much-'

'Not that you used your ears much anyway-'

'Shut UP Xelloss.'

Cleo was getting worked up. 'Uh, Cleo?' Kai'ila said. 'Ooooh dear….I think we'd all better shut up noooow….'

'Yeah that sounds like a g- YAAA-AAAH MEGUMI!'

It would have been funny if it wasn't so tragic. Megumi was on the man in a second, covering him with kisses. Xelloss and Casper turned that wonderful shadow of green you get after putting tree frogs in a blender.

(er. It's a metaphor. I've never put tree frogs in a blender. Really.)

L'risia looked quite ill herself, along with Zelgadis who was green, blue and pink at the same time, quite an achievement, Amelia thought later.

'Isn't that sweeeeet.' She gushed at the current moment. Nene and Washu swapped a glance with Izzy and Yolei. Washu was already taking action, and soon Filia stood by her son, blinking. Val dived behind the blonde woman.

'Help!' he shouted.

'Val, you've got lipstick all over your-hehe- fa-a-a-c-s-sshheeeeeeehehehehehehehe!' Xelloss cackled, and fell off his chair. L'risia, who was watching with her arms folded, sweatdropped.

'Mazoku….'

'I agree with L'ri. Keep your hands off my son, woman!'

Megumi flew out the dojo door. Kenshin blinked. 'Oro? Miss- where did you- Val? Do you know this woman? Why did Megumi just fly out the door? AND WHAT IS MISS L'RISIA DOING ON THAT- screeny-thing?'

'Hi Kenshin!' L'risia said, forcing on brightness. Oh shit. 'It kind of goes like this. Um- Val and I are from an alternate dimension. The device, which you see me on, is a communication device, which makes our passage between worlds easier. Our friends were split up from us when we got stuck in your world but we got some help and when Megumi threw herself on Val um- his- mother got transferred- she's- protective…'

Kenshin blinked. 'Okay….' He said slowly. And fell backwards. Filia and Val kneeled down beside him.

'Good thing Miss Kaoru's out.' Muttered Val. 'He'll be all right. Okay can you get us to that world?' he indicated the window of the BGC world.

'Coming right up. Please keep you arms and legs inside the computer at all times.' Xelloss said cheerfully into a microphone. Cleo rolled her eyes.

L'risia blinked at the computer screen, through at the dojo. 'Well, they've disappeared-'

'Oh dear.'

'That's not a good sound.' L'risia told Washu, raising an eyebrow. 'I don't like that sound. What now?'

'Uh-'

'OW! GEEZ FILIA GET OFF ME!'

'Please excuse Zelgadis, Miss Filia, he's low on caffeine. Thankyou Val.'

L'risia snickered smugly over her hot coffee Mackey had made. Then she noticed something she turned around and said something to Cleo, whose eyes widened, and, with her usual tact, pushed her way to the computer screen and shrieked,

'AMELIA! You aren't calling Zelgadis "Mr" anymore!'

Zelgadis disappeared off screen in a great hurry, leaving a pink cloud of embarrassment behind him. Cleo began to suspect there was something on a different level going on that she didn't know about. She slammed her fist down.

'Dammit! Get them all here! Now! I don't care if you use all the power in Tokyo!'

L'risia and Mackey leaned away from the girl a little bit.

'I think you'd better try, Nene, Sylia.' Mackey said quietly.

'e-he- yeah.' Nene agreed. 'Washu! Izzy, Yolei, Inez, okay everyone here NOW!'

Nene and Mackey dived under a table and waited until the crashes had died away and the dust had cleared from the air.

'We've got to do something about those landings.' Someone muttered.

'Where's Nene and Ma-' L'risia pulled up a corner of a tablecloth. 'Ulp. Uh- hahah- you guys, um- yes. Everyone can, um, see you. The tablecloth- well, you see its-'

'See though.' Val supplied, grinning over her shoulder.

'Yes.'

'WHA-AT?!'

After (cough) recovering (in Xelloss, Casper and Dynast's case, from laughter cramps which had forced them to be bent double for several hours) from the Nene-Mackey completely surprised scene, the Lina-tachi left an EXTREMLEY embarrassed pair of teenagers to be interrogated by one Miss Sylia Stingray, a snickering Priss and a Linna anxious for gossip she'd apparently missed out on. Of course- sicne they were in Tokyo, there were some…issues that had been addressed.

…One was Clothing.

Sylia owns Silky Doll, and for anyone who has seen BGC, you know what this is implying. For those of you that don't- picture Britney Spear's wardrobe. Now cross it with what you picture as being Playboy. Got that? Good. It's like that.

You can stop screaming now.

'I feel so embarrassed. I don't see why Zelgadis and Val got to borrow Mackey's clothes.' Lina grumbled.

'Because they're the shortest and since Mackey's clothes and about ten sizes to big for him, they fit them perfectly. As for the other four we're going to have to find something- yeek!' Kai'ila held down the skirt she'd been forced to wear because it matched her eyes perfectly. It could have been a handkerchief, but when Casper thought about mentioning that, fully meaning it as a compliment, Xelloss who possessed a disturbing ability to read minds now and then ask him how he felt about been a hole in the side of a skyscraper. In the middle of 2040 Tokyo. And in the company of a pissed off priestess who, despite being a a mini mini skirt, would bash him into the ninth hell.

Casper didn't say anything. It was a good survival strategy. Meanwhile L'risia and Cleo had spotted a surf shop.

(er. For all you Americans a surf shop is where most teenagers in Australia buy their clothes from. They're like temples of fashion. Sad, but true. ^_^;)

They disappeared.

'Uh- Cleo? L'risiaaaa? Oh-' Val trailed off and caught the jeans and shirt L'risia threw at him, and dished out other pairs of DECENT clothing to the rest of the group.

'What're these?'

'Clothes.' Cleo told Dynast nastily. 'Find somewhere to- NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F****** STREET!'

'His language use is rubbing off on you, Cleo.'

'Oh shut UP.'

Kai'ila blinked at Zelgadis, Xelloss and Val checking out their new clothes, all in a nice row. L'risia had gone pink and was trying not to stare. Cleo let out a tiny sound that sounded like,

'gik-'

Casper glanced at the red head, and walked in front of her line of vision. Kai'ila keeled over.

'Excuse me…' Cleo pushed past, dragging L'risia, 'you've just overdosed her. Now-' she slapped both women across the face. Hard.

'Thanks.' L'risia gasped, rubbing her cheek. 'Whooo- major hottie overdose-' she muttered.

Cleo slapped her again.

'Ow! What was that for!'

'Don't SCARE me like that! You never say things like that!'

L'risia shrugged, blushing. 'Uh, call it shock.' She said, and rubbed the back of her head.

'Amelia do you ALWAYS have to have something with pink on it?' Lina asked her friend.

'I guess I just don't notice,' Amelia shrugged.

'Riight. Well,' Dynast said, smoothing down his red t-shirt, 'we're all in the same dimension. How do we get back to the one we belong in?'

'Well- the way we got here was because L'risia someone managed to get so pissed off with Megumi's lovesick shrieking it created enough energy to transfer her.' Cleo said, summoning up common sense and the coherent bits that Washu had explained to her. 'So Nene and Sylia were able to come up with similar energy signatures and managed to transfer all of us by tracing L'ri's energy trace as well as creating the same kind of-'Okay we get the idea.' Lina said.

'Er- we do?' Gourry asked.

'Yes, we do.' Zel told him firmly. 'Look Gourry- here's some money, go buy us something to eat, will you?'

'Sure! Anyone else coming?'

'I will,' Dynast sighed, following the swordsman. 'Just so you don't forget to carry the food all the way here. I have a headache and I don't need Lina screaming right now.'

'I HEARD that.'

'I know you did, Lina dear.'

Lina scowled at Xelloss, who was actually listening to Cleo's explanation with an expression of interest, or as near as he came to interest with his eyes shut and his mouth bent into that almost-permanent smile of his.

'Yes Lina-chan?'

'I'm beginning to think all Dark Lords have a little bit of you in them, fruitcake.'

'Or the other way around.'

'Or the other way around.' The red-head conceded. 'Keep going, Cleo.'

'As I was saying, it means that we have to have someone in the Slayers world first off to be traced, right?'

'Something like that.'

'Who's feeling up to being pissed off?' Casper asked cheerfully.

'No! We can't do that. Well, I mean we can, obviously because it's now pretty obvious that strong emotions create the energy necessary to get- teleported or jumped or whatever you call it, but we don't know where that is. We're all only here because Nene and the others were able to send us.'

'Meaning we'll all get separated again in different worlds and be worse off than when we started.' Kai'ila translated.

'Yes.'

Xelloss rubbed his forehead and took a takeaway box of teriyaki chicken off Gourry, helping himself to chopsticks. He appeared to think about something, then took another box and threw it to Filia.

'Catch, Fi-chan.'

The blonde was too surprised to do anything else. Val opened his mouth to say something but decided against it.

'What have you done to it, namagomi?'

Lina was watching Xelloss's face veeerry carefully, and didn't miss the tiny flinch.

'Absolutely nothing, I just took it off Gourry! Geez!'

Filia frowned but said nothing as the rest of the gang swamped Gourry and Dynast for the food.

'Food, foood, wonderful fooooood!' sang Lina, digging into her sukiyaki.

'Are you ALWAYS hungry Miss Lina?'

'Almost.' Lina grinned. Zelgadis sighed wearily and sat down on the pavement, back against the wall.  After a moment Amelia joined him.

'What do we do now then?' Casper asked Kai'ila, waving his chopsticks. She sighed and paused over sukiyaki.

'Dunno-'

'We'll figure this out.' Val said cheerfully, waving his chopsticks like a baton. L'risia raised an eyebrow and slurped up a noodle.

'You're optimistic.'

'Yes, and you're a pessimist. That's why we get along so well, we balance nicely.' Val told her with a grin, hitting her on the nose with his chopsticks. She rubbed it and glared at him.

'Whatever.'

'Isn't that cute-' Kai'ila began with a grin, but saw the look on L'risia's face as the blue-haired priestess and Val made fairly obvious gestures including Casper.

'I'll shut up now.' Kai'ila said. Casper, who'd missed the whole thing, looked around in bewilderment.

'What? Did I miss something?'

'Never mind, Casper, never mind.'

A/N- hey guys below is something my friends and I have decided is necessary after discovering we have no anime stores. I've had a suspicion but it's pretty much confirmed now.

AUSSSIE ANIME APPEAL

Okay I am aware this is sad and totally insane but I can tell you what else is insane. The lack of ANIME down here. It's shocking, and due to complaints and begging from the few people I know who even know anime exist (thanks to my cousins and myself, I might add, they're all addicted. Apart from my sister. She watches it because she has nothing better to do with her life. Neither do I but that's not the point. She thinks I'm nuts. O.o) I've decided to put up an appeal. If you guys know any anime stores websites or phone numbers or fax numbers (no, I don't care even if they're on MARS) could you put them in your reviews or send them to the appeal at aussie_anime@hotmail.com

Thankyou sooooo much for helping us extend our anime rights. ^_^;

Star-chan & friends