RESPONSES


Masami Mistress Of Fire
Toli: Hey, Masami! (hugs Masami)

Mani: (hugs Masami) My twin!

Mena: EEEEE! DAMIE-CHAN! (glomps Damion)

Jesselda: (waves at Masami) Hey, Masami.

Toli: I'm so glad you enjoyed, Masami-kun! And thanks again for the doomsday device! I'll have to hide it so Mom doesn't blow it up!

Mena: (nuzzles Damion) Damie-chaaan...

Jesselda: (sweatdrops)

Mani: (giggling maniacally) Yewelcome, Masami-twin-chan!

Toli: Oh! Masami! I have news for you! Mena got an account on FictionPress, and we're going to write a romantic comedy! And guess who it's going to be about?

Mena: (squeezes Damion) Us!

Toli: Yeah, Mena and Damion! They won't be as insane as they are now, but it'll be so fun! I hope when we post it, you go on there and read it!

Mani: Guess what? I get to help with this story more! It's fun!

Toli: Well, we gotta go update, so see ya around!

Mena: Bye, Damie-chan-koi-my-koishii!

Toli: Bye, Masami!

Mani: Bye, Masami-twin!

Jesselda: See you guys later.


Kay-Dee-S
Toli: Glad you liked it!

Mena: Thanks for reviewing!


Shrilanka-San
Toli: Hey, Shri!

Mena: Wow, she was eager to get to the update, huh?

Toli: Mena, you did the same thing last year.

Mena: I did? Oh.

Jesselda: Hey, Shri. Glad you enjoyed so insanely.

Mani: THIS REVIEW RESPONSE LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...YUGI FAN! (throws on purple cape and 'I Love Yugi' shirt)

Toli/Mena: (sweatdrop)

Mani: What?

Toli: Yeah, anyway...yep, Mokuba nude is truly frightening.

Mena: It even scared the people of Braveheartville!

Toli: I still think your Joey is dumber than ours. I mean, sure, our Joey strikes up conversations with no one in particular and slams into random things every chapter, but he doesn't chase after dimes and eat tables like yours.

Mena: O.O She's got Mister Sedative too?

Mani: (sweatdrops)

Toli: Thanks for reviewing, guys!


Toli: Mena, where'd your yami go?

Mena: (holds up Millennium Plate and shakes it) I think she went back inside the Plate.

Toli: Too bad I couldn't join her...


NINE: Sleeping Gas Makes You Sleep

Pegasus paced listlessly in his evil plots room. "I can't let this continue!" he said. His guards, Chemo and Croquet, which he had cloned several times because he was bored, stood at attention. "Not only have I not succeeded in procuring those Ebony Boots from that meddlesome foreigner Tea and her ever-expanding roster of travel buddies, but I have also been defeated using my favorite card three times over, been chased away once, and they made me miss Totally Spies!" He sighed and started pulling his hair. "There's got to be a solution!"

"How 'bout a VCR?" Duke asked from his position on the couch. He had been captured several days ago by Pegasus' men because he had tried to steal the Ebony Boots from the Wicked Witch of 7:00. Now he was practically a houseguest, as Pegasus couldn't convince him to change his name to "Cuke" to fit in with the rest of the army, and he had nothing else to do with him.

"Not about that!" Pegasus yelled at him. Duke raised his arms in a sor-ry-don't-bite-my-head-off gesture and started scarfing down potato chips.

Pegasus looked into his crystal widescreen TV to see where Tea's posse was. "They're almost to Cafeteria City!" he fumed. "If they make it to the Wizard I'll never get those stupid Ebony Boots! I've got to stall them!" He watched as they found the stairs leading to the first floor. "Must think of something," he muttered.

"Hey, what's that?" Duke asked, pointing to something on the screen.

Pegasus glanced at it, and then did a double take. It was a little glass box that read WARNING: DO NOT BREAK GLASS OR SLEEPING GAS WILL FILL STAIRWAY. In smaller print it read conveniently placed for Wicked Maleperson of 11:00's use against any pretty foreigners currently in possession of the Ebony Boots.

"Look! A conveniently placed sleeping gas box!" Pegasus cheered. "All I've got to do is break that glass! And I know just how!"

Meanwhile, Tea and her assortment of weird friends were happily descending the stairs to the first floor. A big neon sign above the exit door read CAFETERIA CITY-STRAIGHT AHEAD!

"Almost there, guys!" Tea cheered.

"Cake!" Joey seconded. The five were halfway down when the green book dropped in front of them.

"Not again," Seto snarled.

The little door opened, and this time Duke stepped out. "Pardon me!" he said, passing them. He reached the glass box and kicked it into pieces. Then he hurriedly hopped back into the little door, and the book closed and zipped away.

Before anyone could raise a question, pretty pink gas filled the hallway. "Ooooh, pretty," Mokuba said.

"Um, right," Tea said. "Let's just go." They kept walking.

"Am I the only one who feels sleepy?" Tea suddenly asked, covering a yawn.

"Hey, I said I was sleepy way back in Chapta Twenty-six," Joey reminded.

"Joey, you're an idiot," the four smarter travelers reminded him.

"Now that you mention it, Tea, I feel the need for a long afternoon nap," Mokuba yawned in Ryou's face. It was a good thing he had passed up the chance to eat any of the fruit on the onion trees he had seen back up on Floor Two.

Ryou suddenly passed out on the stairs. Tea would have raised concern if she didn't slump against the wall. Mokuba sat down and yawned again. Joey wasn't getting sleepy because he didn't have a brain to register the fact that he was supposed to sleep, and coldhearted people like Seto never sleep, so it didn't work on him.

The three affected, however, were all asleep in seconds. Joey wondered what was wrong with them as Seto tried to shake Tea awake. "Hello, this isn't the time to catch forty winks. We need to get going!"

Suddenly the two who were still awake heard a loud SLAM! They looked up and saw Rebecca coming down the stairs, a gas mask over her face and holding what looked like a fuchsia fire extinguisher. She aimed the nozzle and started spraying pink foam all over the place. The whole stairway started smelling like Glade Butterfly Garden (NFM: One of the not-as-great-smelling flavors).

"Gee, I'm so glad I got drenched in perfume," Seto said sarcastically.

"If dat's true, then maybe you need t' get yer head examined," Joey told Seto.

"I'd like to examine your stomach with my fist," Seto growled. Then Tea, who he still had his hands on her shoulders, started waking up. Mokuba and Ryou did the same.

"That was only about two and a half winks!" Mokuba complained.

"You guys better get to Cafeteria City," Rebecca said through her gas mask. "The Wicked Witchdude of 11:00 is getting desperate, and who knows what he'll try next to obtain the Ebony Boots!"

"Yeah, let's go, guys," Tea said.

For once, Rebecca didn't give them a reminder to follow the White Linoleum Road. She just watched them hurry down the stairs. Seto had pulled a scrubbing pad from his briefcase and was trying to scrub Glade Butterfly Garden from his clothes, all while grumbling.

Suddenly, Mokuba, who was behind everyone, tripped over the hem of his straight jacket/dress and fell. He ran into Ryou, who ran into Joey, who ran into Seto, who ran into Tea. They all fell and rolled down the stairs like a bunch of balls. They burst through the doors and kept going.

Then, Joey slammed into a wall. Everyone else fell on him. They laid there in a dazed pile, groaning.

"Hmm," Seto said, "maybe I need to shorten the skirt." He opened his briefcase and pulled out a big pair of scissors. He cut the straightdress up to knee-length and put the scissors away.

"I don't believe that Witchmale!" Tea exclaimed, standing up. "He's never going to let up! We have to hurry and get to-" Suddenly she stopped.

"What is it, Tea?" Ryou asked as the others stood up. "Why did you stop-"

"Hey, why is everyone-" Mokuba started.

"What are you all lookin'-" Joey began.

"Finish your sentences, you pack of idiots!" Seto yelled.

"Talking!"

"Stopping!"

"Corncakes!"

"Cafeteria City," Tea breathed, pointing.

They all turned in the direction of her pointing finger. Two double doors as tall as KaibaCorp in the real world loomed ahead of them. The White Linoleum Road led under them. A huge flashing neon sign above the doors read CAFETERIA CITY.

"We made it!" Mokuba cheered, jumping up and down.

Joey was scratching his head. "I could go fer some corncakes," he said to no one in particular.

"Well, get over it," said a girl with white hair and pink eyes who suddenly appeared next to them. She was wearing a shirt and jeans underneath a white silk apron.

"Who are you?" Tea asked.

"The no one in particular Joey has been talking to throughout this entire story," the girl said.

Joey grabbed her in a hug. "I knew you was real, No One In Particular!" he cried before releasing her.

The girl smoothed her hair. "You can call me Noip. I live in Cafeteria City."

"How do you get in?" Tea asked.

"They usually only let you in if you live here," Noip said. She walked to the double doors and passed right through them. "Don't try that!" she said from the other side.

Tea glanced at the others. "Well," she said, "let's go. We're getting in there, one way or another."


"I don't believe this!" Pegasus wailed. "That stupid Mai sent her stupid minions to ruin my stupid plan!"

"You're right, it was a stupid plan," Duke agreed.

Pegasus glared at him. "That's not what I meant," he said.

"That's what you said," Duke insisted.

"Quiet!" Pegasus roared. "I need to concentrate!" He started pacing, but tripped over one of his pink Funny Bunny slippers that was standing in the middle of the room. Yes, standing. On its toe. "Wait!" Pegasus cried, jumping up. "I know just what! If they're going to see the Wizard, he's going to send them to me!" He rubbed his hands in glee. "To prove their worth. And then I'll be able to get my Ebony Boots from Tea And The Gang! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHA-" He started to cough and reached for his water. While chugging the water, he turned on a CD player. His recorded voice continued laughing for him, right where he had left off. "-HAHAHAHAHAHAH! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!"

END CHAPTER


Toli: Ends on a kind of freaky note, doesn't it?

Jesselda: The whole thing's freaky.

Mena: All in good humor!

Toli: Good insane humor. But then, you're good at that, sister!

Mena: Indeed! (nods) Anyway, come back next time!


Next in Chapter Ten...Well, at least they finally figured it out...

"You were a human boy all this time?" Seto said incredulously.

"He was?" Ryou exclaimed.

"Really?" Joey put in. They all peered at Mokuba, except for Tea and the girl.

Mokuba sighed. "It wasn't painfully obvious to you guys that I was a human?" he said.

Suddenly a tall guy walked by. He had a girl in a fur dress on a leash in front of him. He waved at the girl behind the door. "Hey, Marcia!" he called. "Just taking Spot for a walk!"

"Hi!" Spot said.

Marcia waved back.

"We see pets like that all the time," Seto told Mokuba.

Mokuba stared after the guy and his pet. "Wow," he said, "that was incredibly informative, random, stupid, unexplainable, and disturbing-all at the same time."