Chapter One: Meet Black Hayate!

"Mommy's home, dinner time!" Declared a uniformed woman as she entered her apartment. The blonde woman took off her jacket and tossed it onto one of the hooks on her wall. She walked into the kitchen and pulled out the dog food, shook it a couple times and said "Black Hayate, dinner time!" She bent over and poured the dog food into a bowl on the floor.

With that, a small puppy bounded into the room, happy to see it's mistress. The Black dog wit ha brown belly looked up at the blond and gave it one of those vacant happy puppy faces before proceeding to chow down on it's food. The woman, Riza Hawkeye, smiled and then turned to the fridge to work on her own dinner. She didn't really enjoy grabbing dinner from the mess hall like most of her fellow soldiers, and Roy was too busy to take her out so she decided she'd just have to make dinner herself.

The dog had finished his food and had already slurped up some water from the toilet, so while his mistress went about preparing her own dinner, he bounded off into other parts of the apartment.

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Elsewhere in time and space...

"It took two days, TWO, to fix you up after their little incident, but now I do believe you're ready." Washuu walked back over to the console, which now had several more hole marks made by Mihoshi yet again, was ready to go. She just needed to push one last button, and with a click she crossed her fingers and looked over at the machine. She wishfully gazed at it, knowing any second now another world would appear before her very eyes.

After several minutes passed, she finally realized something was wrong...

She walked over to her machine and started poking around. "I know I replaced half of this with perfectly working parts, and the older parts worked just fine as well. I know I didn't miss a thing, it should be working!" Washuu, in a moment of frustration, gave the machine several swift kicks, which suddenly and surprisingly were followed by a noise.

There was an explosion outside.

Washuu had had it for the day, and swiftly proceeded to the door to go yell at Ayeka and Ryoko, but she never made it to the door... she tripped over a large plug.

"You kidding me, I forgot to plug it in!" Washuu gave the plug a couple of light kicks, and proceeded to life it up and bring it to the outlet. "OH well, even geniuses make mistakes, they say Picasso nearly forgot to split the lips on the Mona Lisa, and Galileo's first telescope involved gunpowder being set off inside of it." Washuu reached the outlet and swiftly shoved the plug into it's socket. And with that came a great roar of wind.

Washuu was pulled back a little, bumping into her console. She swiftly turned around -click- and looked into the portal before her.

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Meanwhile, with the dog...

The smell of Riza's food drifted lightly into the living room, where Black Hayate was sniffing a chair. He lifted up his leg "Black Hayate, NO!" Bang Riza shouted from the kitchen, firing off her gun. Black Hayate put his leg down, and went back to sniffing. He found a scrape of paper, and was playfully batting at it when suddenly, it started moving on it's own. Black Hayate was only momentarily puzzled by it, before he decided it just wanted to play more.

It hopped a little forward, he hopped a little forward. It hopped a little more forward, he hopped with it. It gets sucked into a small blue light in the corner, Black Hayate gets sucked into a small blue light in the corner.

Riza, having finished her dinner, walked into the living room to get Black Hayate and take him for a walk. "Black Hayate, come here, it's time for a walk. Black Hayate, come here." Riza walked further into the room and looked under a chair. "Black Hayate?"

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In an undisclosed dimension attached to the Masaki home...

"Eh, what's this?" Pondered Washuu, squinting to see a small dark spot growing larger and larger. "It looks like something's coming out..." Washuu's suspicions where quickly confirmed.

The scrape of paper hits Washuu in the face...

"ok, looks like something else is-"

Black Hayate hits Washuu in the face.

"AH! What is this thing!" cried Washuu, frantically running around. She flailed left and saw nothing but brown, she flailed right and saw nothing but brown. She didn't know where she was, and suddenly ran right into the portal, falling over it onto the other side. That gave her an idea of where she was.

She turned in the direction she believe was the door, and made a mad dash for it. She didn't make it to the door on both feet.

Washuu had tripped over the cord and unplugged the machine. She and her furry little attacker rolled into the door, popped out in the Masaki sitting room, and proceeded to knock over everyone and everything in the room.

"Wha- what just happened!" Cried a little blue-haired girl in distress, she was stuck under her sister and saw that a couple of the others where laying about the room.

"Bark, bark!" was the first comment she heard on the matter.

Washuu lifted her head and looked at the little furry thing on her chest. "Guys, this is what happened." Washuu lifted her hand and pointed at Black Hayate. On that note, Washuu suddenly felt a warm, wet feeling on her stomach.

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Next time: Masaki house visitor, Cabbits and Doggies!