Syaoran led Portal Girl around in a big circle, hoping with all his might that she would get bored and leave on her own free will. "Not a chance buster, you'd better take me to your hideout now. My finger is itching to pull the trigger and I can't always stop my finger. It has a mind of it's own," Portal Girl said abruptly, startling Syaoran.

Syaoran hung his head in defeat and headed towards the hideout. When they reached the hideout, Portal Girl stared in horror.

'Hikaru!' she thought frantically. "Oh my..." she said out loud. "Psssh, oh jeeze, you took over the hospital? Oh lame is that?! I mean, of all the places, how could you choose the hospital?!?"

Syaoran glared at her. "Well, we were safely hidden in it until you came along.

Portal Girl snorted. "You won't be for long." she said.

Syaoran smiled. "Are you sure?" he asked.

Suddenly, Vash and Knives jumped out at her and tackled her. Portal Girl yelled and waved around her bazooka, but the bishies were able to overcome her with their supreme tallness. They trussed her up and took her into the hospital.

'What have I gotten myself into?!?!' Portal Girl thought dismally.

"Syaoran, go get Q-Bert," Vash said as he tied Portal Girl to a gurney.

Syaoran nodded and walked into the office in the hospital. "Sir, we have caught one of the girls."

"Very good. Let's... punish her for the deeds of her commanders," Q-Bert said lightly.

The two exited the office and walked over to Portal Girl.

"So you ARE their leader!" Portal Girl exclaimed, pointing her index finger at Q-Bert the best she could.

O-Bert smiled. "Indeed I am. Now, we have a few questions to ask you."

"You won't get anything out of me!" Portal Girl spat back at him.

Q-Bert laughed. "I'm not so sure of that."

Portal Girl sighed as sadly as she could. "Just don't untie my hands, please," she said. "When I'm afraid, I have the unfortunate habit of trying to strangle myself."

Q-Bert glanced at Syaoran, alarmed slightly. "Well, alright," he said.

'CURSES! FOILED AGIAN!' Portal Girl thought. "Did I say my hands? I meant my feet. My hands are AWFULLY uncomfortable," she said.

Q-Bert stared at her. "I don't understand you," he said, "But that won't stop me from questioning you." He squatted down in front of her so that they were on an eye-to-eye level. "Where is the super-secret hideout?" he asked.

"Gee!" Hikaru's voice floated in. "Our new secret-super hideout looks an awful lot like the bishies' hideout," she said. "How strange!"

A muffled voice floated down with Hikaru's.

Q-Bert looked up and Hikaru's head was hanging in from a sky light above, and so was Cael's.

"Cael! How could you!?" Q-Bert asked with a shocked look.

Vash looked up as well and saw that the bishie-to-be had a gag in his mouth.

"Um.. sir, I think they are hold him hostage," Vash said.

"I know that!" Q-Bert snapped.

Vash backed up behind Portal Girl and Hikaru slipped through the sky light and landed next to Portal Girl.

"I see you are in a bit of trouble," she said and bent down to untie her.

Portal Girl smiled. "I thought that they had caught you already."

"No.. I got sidetracked when Inu Yasha asked me where I was going so I had to come here via the roof." Hikaru replied.

'Traitors! Everywhere there are traitors!' Q-Bert thought frantically.

Once Portal Girl was free from her bonds she bent down and began to pull something out of her left sock.... it was yet another grenade launcher.

"AHAHAHA!! Q-BERT! YOU ARE NOW A HOSTAGE!!" Portal Girl yelled.

Q-Bert sweatdropped. "Couldn't we just work this out?" he asked.

"No," Portal Girl said.

Several bishies appeared behind Q-Bert, ready to save their leader.

"I have an idea," Hikaru said. "Why don't you do a competition? If you win, you get to capture us and get Cael back. If we win, we get Q-Bert, Cael, and another bishie?" she said.

Portal Girl and Q-Bert contemplated this option for a bit, then agreed.

"Now, how about a nice game of... RISK?!" Hikaru said and pulled the whole board game out of her pocket.

Q-Bert sweatdropped. "I'm horrible at that game." he said.

Portal Girl clasped her hands. "World domination," she cackled. "Just my genre!"

"Can I have another bishie to help me?" Q-Bert pleaded.

"I guess," Hikaru said. "As long as I get to help Portal Girl.

Q-Bert agreed, then picked Knives. 'Who better than a psycho maniac who wants to eradicate human kind?' he reasoned.

"Um.. sir, though I wish to eradicate human kind... I am very horrible at this game," Knives explained as he sat next to Q-Bert.

Q-Bert paled. "Can I choose another bishie?" he asked, hoping the girl's would agree.

"No, you already chose a bishie. You may not have choose again," Hikaru said and handed the pieces over to Q-Bert and Knives.

'Nooooooooooo!!!!!! I shall lose at this rate... curses... if only Sakura were here, she would find this war completely idiotic!' he thought.

~ with Sakura and Naoko ~

"I challenge you to a duel!" Yugi Moto exclaimed and pointed a finger at the two bishie captors.

Sakura paled and Naoko laughed.

"Of course you would! Therefore, Sakura will be your duel partner!" Naoko said and shoved Sakura up the steps to the top of the arena.

Sakura paled even more. "I'm gonna kill you Naoko! I don't know how to play duel monsters!"

"Heh...." was all Naoko said in reply to that.

~ back at the preserve ~

"Well... I think it's time to send another person. You, Mooie, it's your turn. Head straight for the hospital," Rika told her.

Mooie saluted and grabbed a huge pack of stuff.

"Do you really need all of that?" Rika asked as she sweatdropped.

Mooie looked at her as if she were insane. "Who wouldn't?"

Mooie proceeded to pull out random pieces of cheese, chocolate, pencils, paper, books, rubber bands, and peanut butter jars to explain the importance of each and every single item.

Rika sweatdropped. "Uhm, Lizzee1? why don't you go?"

Lizzee1 saluted. "Bob and I shall do our best!" she marched out of the preserve and headed to the hospital.

~*~

"HAH!" Portal Girl yelled as she rolled a triple six on the red die. "I WIN!!"

Q-Bert sighed as he rolled two ones. He had only three countries left, and was going to loose those, too. Knives sat, contemplating the board.

"I shall END my turn," Portal Girl said and viewed the twelve countries she had just added to her empire.

Knives suddenly pointed out a random country. "Attack that one," he said. It had only three armies. Q-Bert looked at the five armies he had received at the beginning of his turn and sighed. "Alright," he said.

So Q-Bert attacked and one that country, his spirits just brightened. He attacked again, and again, until he won back 4 of the twelve countries he lost.

Portal Girl grumbled in distaste. "I'll get them back, don't worry about that."

So the game continued and Lizzee1 stuck her head in the door. "Am I interrupting something?"

The bishies that were not playing Risk looked at her and shook their heads no. So Lizzee1 stepped into the room and examined the game.

"Interesting... yay! Portal Girl is winning!" Lizzee1 cried happily. "What's that Bob? You say you see a sadness in the near future? Who's?"

Vash looked at Lizzee1 talking with her carrot and gave her a strange look. Lizzee1 took no notice.

"Wait, what's that again Bob? Someone in this room dislikes you? Who? I shall destroy them. What? Vash?" Lizzee1 looked up to Vash and he paled considerably.

Lizzee1 narrowed her eyes at Vash and then gave into a chase.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Vash wailed as he charged around the room.

"AHAHAHAHA!!" Lizzee1 laughed insanely.

"Your move" Q-Bert said to Portal Girl triumphantly.

"I would go there," Hikaru said.

"OKAY!" Portal Girl replied and proceeded to attack Siam.

~*~

"And I need THIS because whenever a mouse attacks me," Mooie said, holding up a piece of Gruyere cheese, "I can throw it at the mouse and the precious cheese would not be damaged!"

"I ......... see............... " Rika said.

"Do you really?!" Mooie replied happily.

"Uh.. sure....." Rika replied with her fingers crossed behind her back. "Well, um... Ca-chan, your turn, and take Mooie with you."

Ca saluted and grabbed Mooie by the arm, causing her to drop her cheese and dragged her out of the room.

"MY CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!!" Mooie's voice echoed through the preserve.

Rika sweatdropped.

~*~

Portal Girl won Siam and attacked India with her larger army, and again, won. She then proceeded to attach China, and easily won that, next she moved on to Afghanistan, then the Middle East. All that was left for her to capture was Egypt.

"I end my turn," Portal Girl said and smiled.

Q-Bert looked to Knives. "Now what? We only have one country left."

Knives stared at the board. "We have no choice. We must attack."

"But her army is four times as big as ours!" Q-Bert protested.

"We have no other choice! You must attack or forfeit!" Knives exclaimed.

"All right... I attack the Middle East," Q-Bert said sullenly.

Of course... Portal Girl won. Who doubted her?

"Ahem. You shall come with me, Q-Bert, Cael, and we shall see to your torture." Portal Girl said, business-like, and stood up.

"TORTURE?!" Q-Bert said.

"Yesh." Hikaru said. She grabbed Cael while Portal Girl grabbed Q-Bert. "You shall reveal ALL!"

The other bishies watched with dismay as the prizes of the game were removed from the hospital and back to the kitchen.

~*~

"I think that's everyone," Rika said and looked around. The last people had been sent to the hospital, and it was about time for her to go herself. She took one last scan of the knife drawer to make sure she had taken all pointy objects, then headed off to the hospital.

~*~

"Where did everybody go?" Portal Girl asked once she entered the kitchen.

"To the new super secret hideout, I guess," Hikaru said.

"Oh pooh..." Portal Girl pouted. "I guess we'll just have to go back to the hospital to commence with the torturing."

Hikaru nodded and grabbed Cael by the hand.

The two headed back to the hospital where they found the rest of the girls staring in shock at all of the depressed bishies.

"Uh... Rika, we caught Q-Bert...." Hikaru said.

Rika jumped and turned around. "Of course you did! I never doubted you." She laughed heartily.

"We get to torture him now, right?" Portal Girl asked happily.

"Of course!" Rika replied grinning.

With the help of Mooie and Ca-chan, Portal Girl tied Q-Bert to that same gurney that she was tied to. She took his socks off and tied his hands and feet down securely.

"No hiding things in your socks now," Portal Girl said and laughed like a maniac.

"Uh... I hate to burst your bubble, but you were the one who hid things in your socks," Q-Bert said.

"SILENCE!" Portal Girl bellowed. "Lizzee1, the feather."

Lizzee1 handed Portal Girl a feather.

"COMMENCE WITH THE TICKLING!" Rika shouted.

Portal Girl laughed evilly.

Just then, Naoko and Sakura staggered into the hospital.

"I am so beat..." Sakura said.

"HA! You didn't have to fight them all off with a wet noodle," Naoko said.

"Neither did you," Sakura responded.

"........................................................................... .....SO?"

The two girls paused when they saw the scene.

"Why don't we just leave and go get ice cream?" Sakura asked.

"OH YEAH, BABY!" Naoko said.

The two girls staggered back out of the hospital and down to a nearby ice cream parlor.

~*~

"Uh... where were we?" Portal Girl asked.

"You were just about to tickle Q-Bert with the feather," Mooie reminded.

"Oh right!" Portal Girl replied.

She laughed evilly again and proceeded to tickle Q-Bert with the feather.

~*~

Sakura and Naoko both sat down on a bench with their ice cream and were eating happily when they both looked at each other with wide eyes. The quickly dropped their ice cream... well, Sakura dropped her ice cream and Naoko grabbed, and both ran back to the preserve and back into the hospital.

Insane laughter and just plain laughter filled the entire hall as the girls burst through the door.

"What's going on here?" Sakura demanded.

Portal Girl and the other girls looked at Sakura and Naoko.

"We're torturing him," Natsumi said.

"Why?" Naoko asked as she took another bite of her ice cream and handed Sakura's back to her.

"It's all part of the secret PLAN!" Hikaru said.

"Hikaru-chan! I thought you were above all of this?"

"Can I try?" Naoko asked.

"NO!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Sakura said. "We don't torture!!

Portal Girl pouted. "Fine," she said. "How do you expect to get information out of them?"

"ASK them!" Sakura said. She looked at Q-Bert. "What is this secret plan of yours?" she asked.

"To capture you all and tie you up while we ran the preserve for a day!!" Q- Bert sobbed.

Portal Girl brandished her feather at him. "WE DON'T BELEIVE YOU!"

"That IS awfully weird," Naoko said thoughtfully.

"Yeah..." Sakura said slowly. "Well, don't actually HURT him," she said and walked out of the room.

"IT'S MY TURN NEXT!" Naoko bellowed.

"All right!" Ca-chan called after her. "We'll call you when Portal Girl's done."

Portal Girl immediately dropped the feather. "Sakura! Naoko! Did you catch Joey?!"

Sakura and Naoko both froze in their tracks.

"What do we tell her?" Sakura whispered.

"The only thing we can," Naoko replied softly.

"But... she'll be angry," Sakura added.

"There's nothing we can do about that," Naoko retorted.

"But she might torture US," Sakura said turning to look at Naoko.

"Good point..." Naoko said imagining Portal Girl dipping the two into a tub of ice cream. "Though, that wouldn't be so bad," she mumbled to herself.

"She wouldn't dip us in ice cream. That's not a torture to you," Sakura snapped as if reading Naoko's mind.

Naoko sweatdropped. She turned to Portal Girl after taking a step backward. "Well, you see," she said.

They took another step back. "Yugi was there...." Sakura continued.

"And you know how good he is at cards," Naoko said. They took another step back.

"And, well, I had to duel him," Sakura said. They bolted out the door.

Portal Girl sighed. "I guess he wasn't caught. Looks like I will just have to take out my sorrow on you!" she turned to Q-Bert.

"Help me?" Q-Bert said.

~*~

"THAT was close," Naoko said.

"Yeah," Sakura said. She paused for a minute to lean against the wall. "We are going to have to catch him soon, or we will be fried - "

"In a vat of ice cream," Naoko finished for Sakura.

"That doesn't make sense," Sakura said.

"Doesn't it?" Naoko said airily. "Well, I'm off to go hide in a cupboard. You can save the bishies if you want." She walked off down the hall.

Sakura considered her options. She reasoned that Q-Bert had been tortured enough, but Portal Girl was in there. She sighed and reasoned that the right thing to do was to save Q-Bert. She headed back to the hospital and sneaked silently into the room.

"Tell us your true intent!" Portal Girl demanded.

"I already told you!" Q-Bert sobbed again. "To capture you all and tie you up while we ran the preserve for a day"

"AND I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU!" Portal Girl shouted back.

The other bishies took a few steps back and so did the girls.

"Think Sakura, what are you going to do??!!?!?!?!?!? Wait! I know!" Sakura thought to herself.

Hikaru looked to Sakura with pleading eyes. "Stop this." she mouthed.

Sakura nodded and took a deep breath. "OH MY GOD! LOOK IT'S JOEY!" Sakura shouted and pointed out the window.

Portal Girl quickly turned and ran to the window. "Where!?"

Sakura ran over to the gurney and started pushing it, picking up speed to where it was the gurney pulling her rather than her pushing it and she jumped on.

"Are you ok?" she asked Q-Bert.

Q-Bert stared at her with thankful eyes and nodded.

Sakura quickly untied him and the two held onto the gurney as it sped through the preserve.

Sakura couldn't resist. "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" she cried as teh gurney was swept through the hallway.

They came to a stop near the entrance. Sakura quickly undid the bishie and he got off the gurney, a bit dizzy.

"Where do we go now?" Q-Bert asked her.

"Uhm... TO THE GYM!!" Sakura cried and the two raced off.

~*~

"Well, that was no fun!" Portal Girl said. "She took my torturee!" She turned to the other bishies. "Anyone else want to be tortured?"

All of the bishies shook their heads or dissented loudly.

"Fine." Portal Girl said, a bit put-out. "I'll just go greet people."

~*~

"Man... it sure is cramped in here," Naoko said. She sighed. "I guess I will get out now... I mean, being stifled in ice cream isn't TOO bad. I'll just eat my way out of it!"

She stepped out of the cupboard and looked around. No one was in the kitchen, so she stepped outside and looked around.

Sakura ran straight into her and skidded into the wall.

"OW!" Naoko howled and rubbed her arm, the point of impact.

"What are you doing here?" Sakura asked her.

"Trying to find a more comfortable place to hide," Naoko said. "What about yOU?" she cried as Sakura grabbed her hand and rushed her off to the gym.

Q-Bert was at their heels when they skidded to a stop in the gym.

"We'll be safe in here, for a while at least," Sakura said as she caught her breath.

Naoko rubbed her arm again. "If I get a bruise from that, you're going to pay for it."

Sakura sweatdropped.

"Thanks for saving me Sakura-san," Q-Bert said.

Sakura beamed at him. "No problem. I couldn't leave a bishie in there to be tortured."

Q-Bert's spirits fell. He had thought that she saved him because she liked him.

Sakura sat down on the floor Indian-style with one graceful movement and sighed.

"Is there anything to do in here?" Naoko asked.

They three looked around. The entire gym was barren. The pool was gone, as were the stands and the all of the party supplies. It looked rather dreadful empty.

"We need to spiff this place up. What say you Naoko?" Sakura asked.

Naoko nodded enthusiastically. "We need a 'Spiff up the Gym' day. We should talk about this with Natsumi."

"Right, but we can do that later," Sakura replied.

Q-Bert paled. "I think I hear someone coming!" he said frantically.

Sakura and Naoko paused and looked at each other. "Where should we hide?" Sakura asked.

They looked around the room, but the only hiding spot was an equipment room.

"I guess we should go in there," Naoko said and pointed out her hiding spot.

The other two nodded and they raced to the room and rushed in just in time.

"Man!" Portal Girl said. "This would be a great hiding spot!"

"We got here first!" Vash whined.

The three hide-ees looked at each other.

"No, we got here together," Portal Girl said. "And, since I have the bazooka, I get the room."

"I'm cuter!" Vash challenged.

"No, I am!" Portal Girl responded.

"This is getting....weird" Naoko said.

"You're one to talk," Sakura responded. Naoko poked her.

"We can settle this one way only," Portal Girl said. "Rock, paper, scissors."

"Agreed," Vash said.

It was silent for a few second.

"AWW! Best two out of three!" Vash whined.

"Nope! I won!" Portal Girl said.

"What do you say we blow this popsicle stand?" Naoko asked.

"I agree totally," Q-Bert said.

The three burst out of the closet and started to run towards the door. Unfortunately for them, Portal Girl had quick reflexes, so she apprehended the bishie capitan, and Vash had long arms, so he was able to catch the captors.

".......... What should we do with them?" Portal Girl asked.

"Tie them up and hang them by their feet?" Vash suggested.

"Sounds good to me," Portal Girl said.

The two dragged off Q-Bert, Sakura, and Naoko.