Whoops, Didn't Mean To Do That

by Dr Megalomania

Updated ... and finished. What if Meilin had been the Cardcaptor...? Clow Reed was a very stupid man, and made many mistakes. Now, Meilin finds out exactly how stupid a man can be!

6. Meilin, Syaotang And The Return Of The S...

Well, hello! And Welcome to My Little World of Weirdness!

I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be!

Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make! Nor do I [thankfully] own the Nelvana theme tune, but I do own the Cardcaptor of the Whoops lyrics to this fic!! And Yue-Bella, and Kero-ette, and Li Syaotang, and Madison Rae and Carl Hodover, and several other characters, but I don't want to spoil the surprise yet!! All other songs I don't own, but I do own the made up lyrics!! Okay, and there are so many things I don't own in this as well, but I can't be bothered to list 'em!!

"Speaking"

*Stress/emphasis*

//Thinking//

~~Flashback~~

#Singing#

Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That . . .

By Dr Megalomania.

[Cue end of Series 1 dramatic music, cue voice over]

"I am Yue-Bella . . . moon guardian of the Whoops cards. I was created by a powerful magician to take care of these stupid cards, but one day, a little girl called Meilin Li accidentally opened the book and scattered the cards . . . it's her job to retrieve them now, and it's my job to make sure she's safe . . . with my sister Keroberos-ette, I'm sure we will succeed . . . but then again . . . Clow Reed was an idiot . . ."

[Cue CC Theme Tune and Manufactured Boy Band™]

What if, Hammer, Bounce, Hole, Swear, Unfinished, Stupid . . .

Cardcaptor of the Whoops,

Expect some unexpected stuff!

Cardcaptor, you gotta be kidding!

Cardcaptor, go track them down!

Cardcaptor . . . dun dun do dodo!

CARDCAPTOR MEILIN?!

~~

It was Valentines' Day . . . 

Clow twiddled his thumbs, as he sat in his study, now . . . he *could* give Yue some roses and smile dopily, and say "I really love you Yue!" . . . or. . . he sat up straight and clicked his fingers, "What if I had a card that. . ."

~~

[Cue Senselessly Dramatic Music]

Part Six: Meilin, Syaotang And The Return Of The Sixties, Baby!

Two months. Two *whole* months . . . Meilin had been the Cardcaptor . . . the same dreams ~~ Syaotang's smile so confident, the lotus petals, Kero-ette grave as she observed the clock tower, Carho and his bell . . . she knew what it meant . . . a final judgement of some sort . . . ~~ the cards ~~ each getting stupider and stupider as she encountered them . . . the last card she and Syaotang had to face was actually called the Lost card. It was so idiotic it went and attacked the wrong city . . . Yue-Bella spent the whole time muttering, "Clow Reed was an idiot . . . a handsome idiot, but an idiot nonetheless . . ." ~~ the people ~~ Syaotang . . . Syaoran's doppelganger, Madison . . . Meilin's doppelganger although Meilin fiercely protested it, Carho . . . was so blindingly obvious it was painful, Yue-Bella . . . moon guardian, and the true form of Yuki-Bella, and Kero-ette . . . sun guardian, and false form of Keroberos-ette . . . Meilin groaned and pulled her head deeper under her pillow, even people she lived with for the last few years, were falling into place, both Nakuru and Syaoran were becoming Touya, and Tomoyo and Sakura were becoming very scary with their filming . . .

Meilin lifted her head briefly just to check they weren't filming her that instant.

Satisfied there were no rolling cameras, she dipped her head and continued her inner grousing. The only person that didn't really seem to change into someone else was Eriol . . . although she did suspect he was just acting out the role Clow had had when Sakura had been collecting the Clow cards. Watching from afar . . . crowing every few hours, "I'm a freaking comedian . . . that was hilarious!!"

As Meilin drifted back to sleep, she was suddenly aware that she wasn't in her own bed anymore . . .

She frowned as she looked at her hand . . . it wasn't hers anymore, it was long and elegant . . . and clutched around a Clow card . . . she blinked slowly, aware that this was some sort of vision . . . before she could turn the card over she heard Yue-Bella's or possibly Yue's voice mutter, "Clow is an idiot . . ." Meilin felt herself raise her head slightly; on the pillow next to her lay a sleeping man. He was giggling childishly in his sleep, and murmured, "I'm a comical genius . . . this is riotous . . ."

"Clow Reed?" Meilin murmured, her . . . or rather Yue/Yue-Bella's eyes widened when something heavy wrapped around her/his/her waist and pulled her back away from Clow . . . there was heavy breathing against her neck . . . "Oh no. . ." Murmured Yue/Yue-Bella. Meilin felt herself turn over, and draw in a single deep breath as she realise she was lying in bed, completely naked, with not only Clow but----

"ARRRRRGH!!!!"

Meilin rolled out of bed, and blinked. She had just seen Clow in her dream . . . or did she? He was giving Yue a gift, but it was a stupid id---

Meilin blinked, since when did her room have pretty psychedelic swirls? "Kero-ette-chan?" The black haired girl stood and walked over to the drawer that held her sun guardian. "Kero-ette?"

The drawer slid open, and Kero-ette floated out slowly, the guardians folded her arms, "Before you say a word . . . you're right, this is a Whoops card." The tiny guardian growled and started to tug at the huge rainbow coloured Afro that was now situated on her small gold head.

Meilin ran into Syaoran's room, "Syaoran!"

"What is this?!" Syaoran pointed down at his feet, he was perched on two-foot high platform boot, "What is this?! It's another one of those stupid cards isn't it?!" He growled, as Wei grooved into the room.

"Hey all you hip cats . . . Let's boogie!"

**RING RING!!**

**DING DONG!! **

The door bell and the 'phone ran at the same time, Meilin ran to the door and called out, "Kero-ette, can you get that?!"

The doorbell started to ring 'Ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive!' as she ran down the corridor. "Coming! Coming!!"

She panted slightly, and opened the door. Touya and Sakura were stood on the step; Sakura had a squirming, Osaka-accented singing bundle in her arms and Touya held Yue tightly. The moon guardian was struggling hard, and they had thrown a blanket over his head. "What's going on?!" Meilin glanced at the two-blanketed guardians with some apprehension.

"We were hoping you could tell us that!" Touya groused as he pushed Yue forward, the moon guardian dug his heels in and refused to budge, "Let me go twist again . . . like I did last summer!" He yelled angrily. "Get off me to San Francisco . . . with a flower in my hair!!"

"Meilin!" Kero-ette flew down the corridor, she glanced at the two Sakura guardians, "Bring them in quick . . . Meilin, that was Eriol . . . he's on his way!"

"What's going on?!"

"I'll tell you as soon as everyone's here!!" Kero turned into her larger form and helped Touya pull Yue in the house.

Syaoran folded his arms and tried not to topple over on his three-foot high platforms as they grew another inch. He glared at Eriol, who had fallen into an unusual silence. "So let me get this straight you created a what?"

A happy love card . . . Eriol scribbled on a notepad.

"And you can't talk to me because?" Syaoran asked loudly, obviously resisting the urge to laugh his head off over Eriol's predicament.

Eriol's eyes narrowed as he opened his mouth and sang perfectly, "#Because you're my sun, my moon . . . and my guiding star! You're my kinda wonderful! Oooooh! That's what you are!#" He pursed his lips together again, and glared at Syaoran, who was laughing his head off. "I get it . . ." the little wolf wiped a tear from his eye, "so Clow tried to create a card that controls love . . .?"

Eriol humpt-ed and nodded, he crossed his bell-bottom trousered legs again and looked over at his former life's former guardians. Yue was glaring death at him, as he did the Saturday night fever dance again. His usual robes had disappeared in favour of the pearly white disco suits of days gone by. Sakura was made up like a flower child, and Tomoyo had a mini skirt and a beehive that could rival any swarm's. Touya had been grooving up and down, thinking and occasionally shouting "#BORN TO BE WILD!!#" He growled and continued his grooving. The only ones who seemed to be enjoying the revival were Yue-Bella and Kero. The pair were synchronized as they join Yue's dance. "#You're my First, my last . . . my everything!#" Keroberos crooned, as he and Yue stepped to the right, Yue-Bella took up then next line. "#And the answers to allll my dreams!#"

Keroberos grinned as he nodded to Syaoran, who brought his foot down on Eriol's, the reincarnation yelped, but with the card active any ranting he had to do was expressed through the happy, happy medium of song, "#Because you're my sun, my moon . . . and my guiding star! You're my kinda wonderful! Oooooh! That's what you are!#"

Kero-ette rolled her eyes, "Yue-Bella loves music . . . and she loves the sixties even more . . . Tomoyo honey, get your camera out . . . this will be the only time you will ever catch her putting her thing down and admitting to enjoying it . . ."

Tomoyo laughed, and pulled up her digital camera, as she focused on Yue's face, "Why doesn't Yue like it?"

"Oh, he does . . ." Kero laughed, "He just doesn't wanna get with it, baby!" Kero, despite having an electric gold and silver afro and sun-shaped sunglasses, jumped up, onto the sofa and started to wiggle next to Spinel who also had a huge Afro, and midnight blue shades. The blue sun guardians growled ominously and threatened to hit Kero with the blocky platform boots he had strapped to his four paws. Kero ignored the threat and sang. "#Weeeeellll. . . everyone heard about the bird. Bird, bird, b-b-bird, 'cos the bird's the word, bird, bird, bird! Bird's the word, bird, bird, bird, bird's the word. . . well, don't you know about the---#" he did a weird little jerk and quickly stuffed a handful pudding down Spinel's throat. "Heh hehe heh!" He leant closer to the sweating guardian, as he said in a deep calypso voice, "Sing wit' me now!"

"Kero-ette, my darling . . . mind if I have this dance?"

"Suppi baby . . . we can't dance . . . we're cats."

"And such groovy cats we are . . . come on honey . . . we'll caterwaul instead . . ."

Ruby rolled her eyes as her brother proceeded to flirt shamelessly with Kero's brother. "Might have something to do with the fact he's drunk as a groovy lord . . ." She turned at the calm voice, Yue-Bella smiled, the Whoops guardian blushed slightly, "You wanna like, erm . . . dance?"

Ruby blinked, "Sure."

Eriol rolled his eyes as the strange card began to have the effect it had always had on the guardians, it made them overtly . . . happy. He thought back to when he gave Yue the card as a gift . . .

~~

Clow groaned as he woke up, he giggled slightly. "I'm a comical genius . . . this is riotous . . ."

He opened his eyes just as Yue rolled over, he grinned, the card had worked perfectly . . . he frowned slightly as Yue whispered "oh, no. . ." And then yelled his head off. "ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

"Come on, you two, it can't have been that bad . . ."

Yue and Kero paused in their rabid teeth cleaning long enough to glare at their creator. Yue spat out, and then gargled. He wiped his mouth quickly, "Clow. . . doesn't it bother you that you," Yue pointed his toothbrush at the dark haired magician, ". . . me . . ." he pointed at himself, then quickly whipped the brush at his brother, ". . .and Keroberos . . . woke up naked. . . in bed. . . together?!"

Clow chuckled as he sat on the rim of the bathtub, "But Kero's always naked . . ."

"That's not the point!!"

Kero growled, "I told you two whatever you two do at night is none of my business!!" He threw his head under the water again and came up gasping for air, "But I will not be a part of it!" He glanced at Yue, and started to scrap at his tongue with his paws, "Yuck!"

Yue frowned and folded his arms, "I'd never kiss you willingly . . . it was one of Clow's stupid cards again!!" He glanced at Clow, who was now looking at him with the saddest puppy dog eyes he'd ever seen. "Oh, don't look at me like that . . . your intention was to create a card that would get me in bed with you. . . instead. . . I slept with frigging Keroberos!!" The guardian did a funny little jig, and shuddered violently, "Eewwwww!"

Clow raised an eyebrow, "Hmmm . . . so, basically that's another card due for the scrap heap then?"

Kero and Yue paused again to look at him, and then glanced at each other. They shuddered and went back to their rabid cleaning.

~~

Eriol frowned, and it was such a good idea at the time. He looked at Kero and Yue; the pair were sat in front of each other, smiling dopily at each other. He tried not to snigger as the two started to act out a bad talk show.

"I love you Kero . . ."

"You make me happy Yue," the lion wrapped his paws around his brother, "I love you too. . ."

"Really?" Kero nodded, and Yue beamed, "Awww . . . but you never tell me. . ."

Kero tutted, and balled up his paw, he knocked Yue's jaw gently, "Shucks, kid. . . you're always so icy cold to me. . ."

Touya shuddered, and then rolled up a newspaper. He slapped the back of Eriol's head. "Idiot!"

Yue-Bella joined them briefly, her long white hair free of it's usual braid, "Touya, let me let you in on something . . ." she folded her arms and tilted her head as she spoke dryly, "Clow Reed was an idiot, a prat, a twerp, a grade A moron . . ."

Eriol clicked his fingers and held up his pad of paper, yes, thank you I think you've made your point . . .

"No, trust me I haven't . . . he was a Baka, a twit, a plonker . . . call it what you will, the man was about six picnics short of a ham sandwich . . ."

Somehow the Music card and the Song had gotten free and the guardians had succumbed completely to the mysterious card. While this was all very amusing . . . especially Yue leading the moon guardians in "#It's my party, and I'll cry if I want too!#" . . . and Kero, Spinel and Kero-ette's rapidly growing Afros . . . Meilin began to worry about the rest of the group.

"What will happen to us?" She glanced at Wei who had already passed out due to the nearly heady scent of flower power.

Eriol shrugged, and scribbled hurriedly, I never created a balance card for this one . . .

"A balance card?"

Sakura thought very hard about it, "Like the Light and Dark card?"

Eriol nodded, and motioned her to continue with her thought. She looked around, "Like the Dark card, everything's immerse in this Happy card . . ."

Meilin picked up the trail, "So we need to create some sort of anti-happy card?" She glanced at the guardians, "What happens then?"

"Then everything will be balanced . . ." Sakura clapped, "And then everything will return to normal! Groovy cats!"

Tomoyo blinked, "It's beginning to affect like, everyone, like . . . Meilin baby, you better groove on down and create like, a card to like . . ." the purple haired girl clapped a hand over her mouth and looked at Eriol, who just sighed, and shrugged. He glanced at Syaoran who was now wobbling uncertainly on his five-foot high platforms. The little wolf growled, "I think Meilin *now* would be a good time to get this over and done with . . ."

Meilin nodded, and pulled out her key. "Oh key that hides the power of the Whoops . . . like, totally reveal the blunder . . . under our groovy bathly bond . . . I, Li Meilin, like, totally command thee . . . release!!"

Syaotang ran as fast as he could back to his pad. He frowned and shook his head, he meant home. He'd been out training with Madison, when he suddenly felt the happy card strike . . . he ducked and rolled as he avoided another offering of flowers for his hair. It was getting mightily annoying. He hoped Meilin would realise that she couldn't just create an anti-happy card with the What If card . . .

Meilin glanced at her guardians who appeared to be getting tired, they were looking at her as if pained, and had started a new song.

"#Stop! In the name of love. . . before you break my heart!#"

She smiled at them encouragingly, "Don't worry, I'll like, just be a few groovy seconds. . ." she glanced at Eriol who had recently started to frown and had folded his arms. She shrugged, as he seemed to be searching his memory for something. She glanced at Tomoyo and Sakura; both had gone beyond and were now gazing out the balcony cloud watching. Syaoran had been knocked out, when his platforms had suddenly grown, and made him hit his head on the ceiling. The only member of the group that was still reachable was Touya, but he was starting to resemble an airhostess with his elaborate arm waves. Meilin shrugged again, and pulled out the What If card . . .

Syaotang bolted up the stairs, //Meilin, honey . . . if you can hear me . . . baby, please don't try the What If!!//

"#Stop!! In the name of love!! Before you break my heart!!#"

Meilin winced as the guardians started to sing even louder, they had given up on the dance routines, and were now yelling at her. She looked at them, "Don't worry . . . it'll be all over soon . . ."

Yue-Bella shook her head, "#Stop!! In the name of love . . . before you break my heart!#"

Meilin frowned, "Are you trying to tell me to stop?"

The door burst open, "Meilin?!"

"Syaotang?"

"Meilin!" Syaotang ran over to her, panting and with his sword drawn, "Have you cast any spells with the What If?!"

She stepped back slightly, "No I haven't I was jus—"

"Don't!" he grabbed her arms, "don't ever cast a spell with the What If card like that. . . this is a special card. . ."

"You mean like I have to say it's name or something?"

"Sorta. . . it also requires something else. . ."

"Like?"

But Syaotang didn't answer at first, he looked at each of the people gathered, "Someone here holds the yang . . . They hold the key. . ."

"Just like Sakura had the Light card inside of her?" Meilin gasped quietly, "Does that mean I have the anti-happy card in me?"

"Not necessarily. . ." Syaotang glanced at her, his smile suddenly very warm, ". . .can you dance?"

"Pardon me?" Meilin blinked at Syaotang's dreamy comment.

The American boy shook his head, "Sorry . . . I think the Happy card's starting to go to my head . . ." he looked her up and down, "You haven't used the Magic Girl yet. . ."

"No. . . I didn't think it was compulsory . . . is it?"

"Hmmm. . . It might help. . ."

Meilin gasped as the magic flowed away from her, she looked at herself, she recognised the clothing . . .

"The Beatles?" Syaotang's surprised voice made her look up, she blinked the magic girl had given him handsome red uniform, she had the purple, Eriol had green and Syaoran had the blue. "It's one of us four!" Syaotang called out to Meilin, "One of us has the yang . . ."

"How can we tell?"

"I don't know . . ." he moved closer to her, and picked up her hand, "We're gonna need to figure this out for ourselves. . ." as he glanced away, she stared at his profile. He smiled slightly, "Think we can do it?"

"Hai!" She smiled, "We just got to figure out what it was about the Beatles that make the anti-happy card. . ."

"The Beatles split up . . ." Syaoran rubbed his head, as he sat up. He looked up at Meilin, and his gaze fell on her and Syaotang's clasped hands. He growled and leapt to his feet. While he and Syaotang exchanged lightning, Meilin looked around, "what did the Beatles have to do with the anti-happy card? They were always associated with such happy songs. . ."

"I don't think it has to so much what they created. . ."

Meilin gasped as Carho suddenly walked in from the balcony, "Carho-san. . . what--?"

"I'm also the new janitor for your apartment building. . ." he laughed as he dumped his window washing tools on the floor, "There are plenty of janitoring jobs around Tomoeda. . ."

Touya paused long enough to look at Carho, "Let me guess . . . you're Kaho."

"Well, actually it's pronounced Car-hoe, that's uh, your sister's pronunciation . . . but, yeah, basically yes."

"And you just happen to be around whenever a card strikes . . . due to a number of unexplained part time jobs . . ."

"They are explained! I'm a janitor . . . everyone needs a janitor."

Touya folded his arms, and deadpanned. "Uh huh."

Carho shook his head, and turned back to Meilin, "We need to stop this or nothing will ever get done again . . ."

"What do you mean?"

"As I seem to recall the general attitude of the sixties was leave it to The Man. . . Unfortunately this card affects everyone . . . so everyone will call everyone else The Man, and nothing will ever get done again . . ."

"That is a really stupid consequence . . ." Meilin sighed and muttered to herself, "Be a magic girl like Sakura, face new and interesting adventures . . ." she shook a fist, "When I meet Clow Reed I'm gonna show him what I think of his stupid cards, stupid man. . ." she folded her arms and looked at the ceiling, "Why me? What did I do? . . .oh yeah, I had to open the stupid book . . . no worse, I came back to Japan . . ."

Syaotang raised an eyebrow, "Uh Meilin . . . the card? We uh, need to . . ."

She waved a hand at him, "Hai, hai. . ." she looked at her guardians, they definitely seemed to be getting tired, even Yue-Bella didn't seem to be enjoying herself anymore. Meilin blinked, even if this Cardcaptor lark wasn't the best gig in the world, she was the only one that could save them now, she nodded, "Okay! I can do this!" She twirled her staff around her purple gloved hand, and grasped it defiantly, "Card . . ." she challenged, "Show yourself!"

"That's not going to work . . ." Syaotang grasped her shoulder, "We need to think about this card . . ."

Meilin growled to herself, "What will happen if we can't---"

But she was cut off as magic began to fill the room again, Meilin screamed, "What's happening?!"

"I don't know!" Syaotang dug his sword into the carpet and grabbed her arm. Pulling her close until the wind had blown over. He stared at her, and she stared back in shock. He had helped her, it was a minor act of protecting her but still . . . she bit her lip quickly and did some math, she was effectively Sakura, he was effectively Syaoran, that meant . . . just maybe he would fall for her, and then Madison was . . . Meilin blinked, no . . . Madison was even more worse than Meilin, there was no way that the whole Whoops card saga would repeat that way . . . he raised a gloved hand and gently pulled a flower out of her hair, "Daijobu?"

Meilin nodded quickly, "Hai!" She smiled at him, "Arigato . . ."

He blinked, blushed and stood up suddenly. "Um, we gotta . . ."

"You're right!" Meilin jumped to her feet, "Let's capture that card!"

"And can you hurry?!" Keroberos-ette panted. Meilin glanced at the guardians; they had stopped dancing, but were now dressing in some strange clothing.

"What the--?"

Yue raised an eyebrow, as he glared down at himself and the others. Yue was dressed in a plain blue set of jeans; he had a white pullover, and a bright orange necktie. Ruby folded her arms, and pouted, she had a long orange pullover, and a brown skirt, which complimented her ankle high orange socks, and thick glasses. "Whupti-freaking-Jinkies-Doo. . ." She turned to look at Yue-Bella, who placed her hands on her hips; she had a purple and green combination. Meilin blinked and looked at the sun guardians, Kero and Kero-ette were glaring at the large black spots that had formed on their backs, and Spinel sun was trying desperately to get out of the floppy green tee-shirt and the bell bottomed brown trousers. He sighed, "What is this?"

Eriol stood and cleared his throat, he waved his hand at the music card, and the light green spirit became hushed. Eriol cleared his throat again, and drew a deep breath. "Ahem . . ." With the finesses of Pavarotti, and less of the tonnage, Eriol began, "#. . .Scooby dooby doo . . . lookin' for you . . . Scooby dooby doo, where are ya?#" He pointed at Kero, "#Scooby . . .#" then at Kero-ette, "#Scrappy dappy too . . . Scooby, something, something else . . .#" Eriol shrugged, then it started to get out of hand, "#Scooby la la la laaa! Shoot me. . . someone shoot me quick. . . la la, la la la laaa. . . come on, solve this problem qu-ick!!#"

Syaoran wiped a fake tear from his eye; he looked speechless as he moved closer to Eriol. "With pleasure . . . Eriol, my friend," he grasped Eriol's shoulders lightly, "I will try not to enjoy putting you out of your misery. . . too much!"

As Syaoran and Touya argued over who got to put Eriol out of his misery, and Yue and the guardians started to try and pull off Carho's face convinced it was a mask, Meilin and Syaotang looked around. As they were looking through the shelves for Beatles paraphernalia, Meilin muttered, "It has to be the person we least suspect it to be. . ."

Syaotang glanced up at her, "What makes you say that?"

Meilin raised an eyebrow, "I've been at this card capturing lark for two months now, it's usually the simplest, dumbest, humiliatingly easy . . ." she blinked as she stared at one of the Beatles last records. It had Ringo, and Paul, and George and John . . . and . . . "Yoko . . ."

Meilin gasped as it came to her, she pointed at herself, "Ringo. . ." she pointed at Syaotang, "George!" She leapt off stool, and ran past Syaoran, "Paul!" She paused in front of Eriol, she shook a finger at him, "John!!" She started to smile slowly, as she realised what it all meant . . .

Syaotang ran into her, "So what?"

"I got it . . ." Meilin smiled at him, and held up her staff, "All right, time for Cardcaptor Meilin!" she giggled slightly, and ran out onto the balcony. It was simple really, the person who held the yang was . . .

The Happy card smiled at her, it's long rainbow coloured hair streaming around it, "Like . . . far out, Meilin . . ."

"You're the Happy card, aren't you?"

The card pulled down it's rainbow coloured shades, and peered at her over the rim, "I, like, am indeed, like, groovy, you figured it, like, out. . . way to go!"

Meilin clutched her staff and looked around, "But where is everyone?"

"This is, like, out of time, like, for them, it's like. . . frozen, you're like the only one that like knows about like everything. . ."

"Oh. . . so am I right?"

"Like, way like right man. . . you're like. . . way in there. . ." the hippy snorted and pointed at her, "You're in the zone. . ."

"Cool! So where's the other one . . ."

The hippy looking spirit of the card looked around and called out it's counterpart. "Like, you know, come out man!"

The rainbow coloured card turned to face it's materialising brother card. The anti card was headbanging along to the loud metal that issued from it's earphones. Meilin blinked, "A goth?"

The hippy smiled, and waved to it's brother card, "Like. . . chill the tunes man!"

The depressed goth turned slowly to Meilin, "So you're the idiot that let the cards go. . ." he sighed deeply, "I guess you are the one we're destined to be ruled by. . ." he raised a pathetic hand, and swirled a single finger slowly, "Yay us. . ."

As he sighed again, and looked away dully, the hippy smiled, and wrapped his arms around his gothic brother, "Please, like, seal us, like, together!!"

The goth card turned and, eyes widening, colour flowing back into his pasty white cheeks, "oh, for the love of sanity---"

But it was too late, Meilin's magic circle appeared and she drew back her staff. "Return to your mistake's--- matte. . . what's your names?"

"I'm the Happy card!"

The goth pinched the bridge of his nose, "Just call me the Daughter of Darkness. . ."

The happy laughed, "Nah, like. . . his true name is, like, the anti-happy card!"

The anti-happy card shook his head, "Clow Reed was so bored when he created me. . ." he sighed, "someone shoot me. . . or at least slit my wrists. . ."

Meilin blinked at him, "Um. . . no, I think I'll just seal you. . . return to you mistake's confine. . . Happy and Anti-happy cards!"

As the cards appeared, the ghostly voices floated to her, "You are destined to be the mistress. . ." the goth yawned boredly. "Blah blah blah, but. . ."

"But like, the ultimate judgement will, like come from, like, Yue-Bella. . . I mean, like how deep is that man?"

"But we know you know this. . . so here's something to throw you. . ."

"E equals see are squared. . . like, it's completely far out. . . so, like you'll have to, like figure it out for, like, yourself. . ."

"E equals see are squared? What do you mean?"

"Like a boomerang, like a bad penny . . . e will always equal see are squared. . . beware the one who sings, offers you cookies. . . and wears funky t-shirts. . ."

"He's like, not just the decaf. . . he will, like, test you. . . trust yourself."

"But don't worry, I guess we'll be sticking around."

"E equals see are squared. . . what does that mean?" Meilin asked the cards, but no answer came forth, she looked around, she was still stuck in the time. . . thingy. "Oh no! How do I get out of here?!"

A strange tinkering began to sound, and she felt the strange time . . . thingy begin to break . . .

. . .when Meilin opened her eyes, she found herself sprawled just inside her apartment. The strange bell of Carho was still ringing and she heard growls from her guardians. "I did it!" Meilin leapt to her feet. "I sealed the cards!!"

"That's great Meilin but we're kinda in a bind here!"

"Huh?" Meilin blinked as she looked around, Syaoran and Touya were still fighting over who got to kill Eriol, and the guardians were still trying to pull off Carho's face despite the fact he was ringing the bell . . . or maybe it was because of that. Meilin sighed, and turned to look out the---

"ARRRGGGHH!!"

Meilin went crashing to the ground as Tomoyo and Sakura looked from behind their cameras, "Kawaii. . ."

The new Cardcaptor sighed, as a loud crash from behind her probably meant the two roiling groups of guardians, doppelgangers, older brothers, and cousins, and rivals, and well, strange green haired janitors who had recently been on an expensive janitoring class in the Bahamas had got together.

Yue pulled the twentieth flower out of his hair, and looked around, the psychedelic colours were slowly fading away and the need for sunglasses was lessoning, "So how did you figure out it was Tomoyo?"  

"It was the Anti-Happy card . . . who is always happy here . . .?

"I would have said Sakura . . ." Syaoran peeled off the bright blue suit.

"Ah!" Meilin shook her finger at him, "That's what the cards want you to think! The most happy person no matter what is always Tomoyo!"

"How does that figure?"

Meilin laughed, "It doesn't, it doesn't make a word of sense but . . ." she motioned Syaotang to continue the thought.

"But it's the Whoops cards so it makes complete sense!"

"All right! Cardcaptor Meilin!" Kero-ette grinned, "You're really getting it!!"

"Of course!" Meilin put her fists into her hips, "OH HO HO HO HO--- wait . . ." she blinked, and said in a tiny voice, "That sounded just like Madison . . ."

Sakura nodded, "Scary isn't it?"

Meilin looked up at her, "Am I anything like her?" She looked down fearing the answer, Syaotang rested a gently hand on her shoulder, and she looked up at him. He smiled, "No."

Sakura managed to restrain her self from melting into a pool of sappy happiness as she recorded Meilin's blush, Tomoyo sighed happily as she taped Sakura's blushing happiness, and Eriol smiled happily as he deliberately tripped Syaoran up before the little wolf could go rip the Little Tango to pieces for daring to lay a hand on his cousin. The reincarnation winked, as he crouched down, "Ever hear of a cousin-comnpl—"

"Urusei!"

Ruby stepped up onto the roof, where Yue-Bella was sat. The moon guardian-Bella was gazing at the setting sun, long white hair free of it's braid, a rainbow hair band keeping it out of her face. She had a small moon painted on her face, and she was dressed in a short dress and a pair of light purple knee-high boots. Ruby smiled, "How are you?"

"I'm cool . . . you?"

"I'm fine, I just. . ."

Yue-Bella looked up at her fellow moon guardian, "You just what?"

Ruby sighed, "I . . ." she glanced at the sunset, then back at Yue-Bella, "You . . ." she sighed again and sank down beside Yue-Bella, she pressed a soft finger against Yue-Bella's painted moon, " . . . want me to wipe that off?"

Yue-Bella smiled slightly and nodded, she closed her lilac eyes as Ruby concentrated on the blue moon. Once it was off, Ruby sat down beside her, and they stared at the setting sun together. Ruby was just thinking about how she could tell Yue-Bella when the other moon guardian suddenly transformed. Ruby sighed and followed her.

Yuki-Bella blinked as Nakuru finished her transformation. "It's been a weird day, hasn't it?"

Nakuru stared at her, then looked away, "Yuki-Bella, I . . ." she blinked as she felt a slight weight press against her shoulder, she looked back. Yuki-Bella had fallen asleep against her. Nakuru sighed, and pressed her lips against Yuki-Bella's silver locks, and thought, //One day I'll say it aloud. . . I love you . . .//

Just behind them, Touya smiled, he and Yuki were sat on the roof watching the sunset too. Just like Yuki-Bella, Yuki was leant against his shoulder sleeping. Or that's what he thought.

"Touya?"

"Hai?"

"What happened today?"

Touya laughed, "Another of Clow's mistakes struck. . . why?"

"Yue can't sleep. . . I think he's having some sort of nightmare. . . did anything happen with Keroberos?"

Touya snorted, then laughed, then started to guffaw. Internally, Yue put his head under a pillow, he didn't sleep with Kero again . . . did he?!

Syaotang sighed as he walked into his apartment. He looked around; here too the effects of the happy card were wearing away. //Good// he thought, the capture had been superb in his opinion, Meilin had been great. He smiled, as he thought about the girl next door, she was a wonderful Cardcaptor and she was really groovy too. He shook his head and laughed, he really had to stop thinking about---

The door crashed open.

"There was a capture, wasn't there?!" Madison shrieked, "That's why you left me!! You're so mean to me!"

Syaotang sighed, and back away slowly from the irate girl, as she complained loudly, he escaped to his room. He sat on the bed, and looked at the teddy bear Yue-Bella had given him. //Meilin . . .//

**Ring, ring**

He blinked out of his daydream and answered the phone, "'lo?"

"Um. . . Syaotang-kun?"

"Meilin?!"

"Yeah, I just wanted to say thanks for helping me today!"

"It was like, no biggie."

There was a pause as Meilin thought about something, "Uh. . . Syaotang-kun?"

"Hai?"

"Um, about me and Madison. . .?"

"Hey, just cause she's mean to you and tells you that you—"

"No, I mean. . ." she sighed, "When I was around with Sakura. . . I was in Madison's position. . . the, uh, unwanted bit of um, unwantedness. . . I just wanted to ask you to be. . . um, nice to her, 'cause I . . ."

"Meilin. . ." Syaotang, picked up the teddy bear and played with it's ear, "I can't imagine that you were anything like her, and even if there was a remote bit of Madison in you. . ." he sighed, "I'm sure your friends quickly saw that you were actually really. . .. not like Madison. . ."

"That didn't make much sense . . . all I want is that she doesn't get treated like I was . . ."

Syaotang sighed and flopped back on his bed, "Meilin . . . trust me, if Madison was the Cardcaptor and she was having this conversation with me . . . she would be planning to throw you off the building, trust me . . . Madison genuinely doesn't like you . . . just yesterday she was thinking of making a voodoo doll of you . . ."

"Oh. . . um. . . but still, be nice to her anyway. . . and I'll try my hardest to really get her to like me. . ."

Syaotang blinked, Meilin didn't get it . . . Madison actually hated her, and here Meilin was, trying to stick up for the annoying straight out of the eighties fashion mistake, shoulder padded (which by the way should have been enough for her to be dragged out into the streets and shot) leotard wearing, heavy blue mascara, with bright green highlights in her one sided purple ponytailed hair, girl who wanted Meilin not exactly dead, but not in a position where she couldn't play table tennis easily. Syaotang closed his eyes as he imagined a world without Madison, he sighed . . . if only there was another way . . . another way of getting rid of her . . . he sat up, "Okay Meilin . . . I'll . . . try . . ."

"Arigato!" He blushed as he imagined her smile on the other end, "Oh . . . and thank you for today . . ."

"I said it was no biggie!"

"It was! Without you I might of made a silly mistake . . . thank you!"

"No biggie . . . um, see you tomorrow?"

"Sure, bai, bai!"

"'bye. . ." He put the phone down, and sighed. Meilin was doing something to him . . . he stepped out on to his balcony and sighed some more. Syaotang closed his eyes, and as she had done nearly everyday, Meilin's face came swimming into his mind . . .

"Syaotang . . ." her voice called sweetly, he smiled, her voice was nothing like Madison's shrill call, "Syaotang . . . Syaooootannng?"

Gripping the railing tightly, Syaotang sighed and said aloud, "What is this feeling in my heart . . . this feeling that makes my stomach do such things . . .?"

"Syaotang . . . maybe it's something you ate!!" Syaotang frowned, that didn't sound wistfully romantic at all, "Syaotang! Over here!"

He gasped as Meilin waved to him from her balcony, she grinned, "I've been calling you for ages." She picked up his sword, "Here you forgot this!"

He caught the ancient blade easily, and smiled at her, "Thank you!" He blushed; Meilin had changed out of her costume, and was wearing something light and frilly, and typically Meilin. Her black hair cascaded down her back, as she lean over the balcony, "The sunset's nice isn't it. . .?"

He nodded, not quite trusting his voice. She smiled, "I have something else for you . . ." she pulled out a card. "The Anti-Happy card wants to go to you . . . it was half your capture . . . and it *really* doesn't want to stay with it's other half."

The card floated over, and the pair watched the sunset from their balconies . . . Syaotang sighed, as he glanced at Meilin once more. "Meilin?"

She smiled at him, "Hai?"

"I . . . you . . ." he looked at the sunset, "We're still rivals . . . for the cards, I mean . . . just 'cause I helped you this once—"

"Doesn't mean you'll help me again?" Meilin finished, she nodded confidently, "Don't worry, I'm the Cardcaptor of the Whoops, I *can* do it by myself . . . but we'd get it done quicker if we did it with team work . . ."

Syaotang didn't answer, he knew he was supposed to hate this rival Cardcaptor but . . . he looked at her profile, from her sharp, defiant nose, to her sincere red eyes, her long silky black hair to her confident smile . . .

Maybe . . . just maybe . . .

//Koishiteru? // he thought, // I'm in love . . .?//

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And now it's time for Leave it to Kero-ette   

Kero-ette: Shiku, shiku, shiku . . . oh no. . . This is the end . . . the end . . . [pulls out large handkerchief] the end of the first series . . . yes, it's true . . . the first series is all over . . . shiku, shiku . . . [Doesn't notice Suppi edging way on to screen, with flowers behind his back]

Suppi: There, there.

Kero-ette: ARRRGHH!! Oh, Spinel Sun you scared me! Are those flowers for me?

Spinel: Hai!

Kero-ette: [blushes] Arigato . . . well, now you've given me the energy to make this last series 1 Leave To Me the best there was!

[Presses face against screen] Keep it going! Kero-ette-chan check!!

Today was a weird but important lesson in the sixties! Meilin's Magic Girl card extended to her cousin and Eriol, and. . . sigh, that weird yank! Have you noticed the strange looks he's been giving our leading girl Meilin? I hope he's not falling in love!! Sigh, it's a day of love for everyone . . . just look at my sis and that Ruby Moon . . . and me and my darling Spinel Sun! Also today Meilin captured the Happy and the Anti-happy cards . . . but what's this?! She gave one that weird yank?! No way, Meilin! You're too kind to him!! Well, at least we didn't hear much from that weird yank's girlfriend Madison . . .

[Sits in big red chair] So how was it? Did it fill you groovy cats, and dolls with loving flower power?! Feel like going for a sit down in protest of the war, man?! Hell no! We won't go! Well, please R&R and come back for the next Series of Whoops, Didn't Mean To Do That!

[Waves] Hon Na!!

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Preview

Meilin: Tomoyo-chan, your performance is on today! I can't wait! Yamazaki-kun? What's Chiharu up to? Eh? Why's Syaoran so mad at Syaotang?! And what's Eriol's guardians trying to tell my guardians?! Why can't anyone finish a sentence without being interrup---

Meilin, Yamazaki and the Interru---

Next time on 'Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That!' Come with me, Cardcaptor Meilin!

Relea---

[Cue senselessly dramatic ending music!]