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NOTE: The fic's pairings are, in order:

PeytonxSocks, FanboyxKyle, Chum ChumxYo, EugenexConnie, EricxTrevor, HikaruxLala, TomxKaz and SarahxVinnie. You will get Kyle, Connie, Yo, Trevor, Hikaru and Vinnie in later chapters. :P

Chapter Seven:

Circles in the Missouri Sand! Eric Needles vs. Orville Snorkel!

"Sarge, leave the girl alone!" Beetle shouted at Sarge, looking very worried... but more angry, if anything.

Sarge glared at Beetle, his eyes narrowing.

"And what are you going to do about it, Pvt. Bailey? You always crumple when I punch you!"

Beetle, of course, wasn't having it.

"Yeah, and you're bullying a 14 year old alien girl! She's only here to recruit people! She's definitely not here to harm you, nor your masculinity, you flaming sack of poop!"

Sarge was just plain blowing his top now.

"How dare you call me a flaming sack of poop, Pvt. Bailey! You deserve to be pummeled to death for that!"

Lala screamed.

"No! Let him live, please!"

Sarge threw Lala's transformation items aside, as he rushed towards Beetle.

"No! He deserves to die!"

Lala started sobbing.

Suddenly, Eric and Eugene rushed forth, seeing what was going on.

Sarge had already put his large fist around Beetle Bailey's tiny neck.

And Eugene was horrified.

And so was Eric.

"Eugene, he's going to kill him!" Eric shrieked in fear.

"Not if we have anything to approximatively say about it!"

Eugene then stamped his foot, shouting at Sarge.

"Hey! Three-dimensionally shaped and ugly!"

Sarge looked over at Eugene, looking at him up and down.

"Hmnph. You seem like a weakling, whoever you are." He shot at Eugene, causing Eugene to get pushed aside by Eric, who narrowed his eyes, and lowered his eyebrows in anger.

"But you're not fighting him. You're fighting me." Eric answered.

Sarge rolled his eyes, dropping Beetle on the ground, erupting into laughter.

"You? I gotta laugh! I bet you haven't crafted your fat into muscle like I have!"

Eugene stumbled a bit, as Eric snarled.

"What, and you think you can use your size to bully people?" Eric responded, spitting these words at Sarge in a vile, angry tone.

Fanboy and Chum Chum, upon seeing this situation, walked up to the two's sides to guard them.

Eugene, in response to Sarge, pounded a fist on his open hand.

"Yes, and it's notwithstandingly time for justice!"

Eric's glasses shone menacingly, as Fanboy and Chum Chum stood guard by Eric and Eugene's sides.

"Yeah, for Beetle Bailey!"

Sarge got ready, in a battle position, as Eric adjusted his glasses, throwing off his uniform, showing his regular clothes underneath.

[CUE - CIRCLE IN THE SAND - BELINDA CARLISLE]

Eric took no note of the oddly unfitting battle music, as he charged at Sarge.

Sarge charged at Eric in response, trying to take out Eric with a single punch.

Eric dodged, kicking Sarge in an inappropriate area.

Sarge staggered back, clutching the area, wincing in pain, before recovering and trying to rush at Eric again.

Eric stepped aside, causing Sarge to charge into the (just passing by) Tom like a raging bull, as Tom fell down like a bowling pin, and got trampled by him like he was a horse.

Lala rushed over, pulling Tom off the ground, as stars floated over his head.

He wasn't badly injured, per se, just a little shaken up by being trampled by a 350 pound man.

Eric pulled a gun off of a passing by soldier, as he took chase after Sarge.

As Eric rushed past everyone in the camp...

Something strong started beating within his heart.

And then...

An aurora burst forth from him.

He wasn't a Pretty Cure, of course, but something...

Different.

For starters, there was no transformation sequence, but he still had a speech and pose.

"The Aurora of the Milky Squad! Milky Squad... Phoenix Aurora!"

He then looked angrily at Sarge, as the gun had turned into an orange flail, glowing with the colours of an aurora.

Sarge looked at Phoenix Aurora in horror, as he backed up.

"I'm sorry, I won't bully you or anyone else ever again!"

Phoenix Aurora didn't listen.

WHAP!

It seemed like Sarge had been knocked out almost cold by Phoenix Aurora's flail.

And he wasn't done yet.

"Let's go! Aurora Beam!"

He shot a beam of Aurora-coloured magic at Sarge, knocking him out for good.

Beetle couldn't believe his eyes underneath his hat.

And neither could Lala or Tom.

"Y-You're a Precure too, Eric?"

Eric turned back to normal, shaking his head.

"Nah, I think I'm something... different."

He then motioned his head over to Sarge.

"Anyways, what shall we do with him?"

Lala smiled wide, as Tom smiled mischeviously.

"I think we have an idea..." Tom started, chuckling.

Sarge got reported to the United States government, and was arrested, as Camp Swampy got a new drill sergeant.

Sarge was forced to pay reparation to the families of the soldiers he had hurt or killed, and was sentenced to prison for life.

Beetle and Killer, alongside Rocky, Zero, Plato and Cosmo, had joined the Milky Squad, and got in the process of finding a base for the now large group.

And Killer learned to drink his "respect women" juice.

All is well... for now.

END CHAPTER SEVEN

Hikaru Hoshina was bored.

Really, really bored.

The people at school thought she was "too weird", and never hung out with her, so she had had no friends at that moment.

But...

She was walking to school one day, when she had found...

A portal.

A portal to another dimension, in fact.

"Oh, this is glitterific!~" She chirped as she touched it, as the portal's glass-like surface rippled.

She looked around, and then walked through it.

And what she saw, she couldn't comprehend.

END CHAPTER SEVEN... FOR REAL THIS TIME