*sets buildings on fire*

WELL, I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE UPDATED BY NOW. But as you can see, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. Also, there was going to be a different game for this chapter, but that ALSO DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Honestly, I'm having the worst luck with this story. Hopefully it'll get better because I really REALLY want to get to chapter 20 and what happens after that :(

Just a note: the power strip in the arcade game room is Game Central Station/GCS. The one in the home console room is Game Play Station/GPS. There are two in the computer room, which are Game West Station/GWS and Game East Station/GES. The Codebusters are going to GPS today.

And another random note: why didn't anyone catch me calling Amy from Sonic the Fighters Classic Amy instead of Rosie the Rascal?! It was a HUGE research fail, I apologize deeply, and I'm going back into previous chapters to fix that :/

Disclaimer: I don't own Disney (Sugar Rush), SEGA (Sonic the Fighters), Activision (DJ Hero 2), or Namco (Katamari Damacy)

Skrillex's POV

Skrillex smiled indulgently as Choko and Honey splashed around in the mineral water lake. They had returned from their vacation/team building with the other Codebusting core intact yesterday, and since Mr. Litwak was returning tomorrow, they were enjoying the final day of their free time. Leia and her team were currently investigating glitches in Donkey Kong, the other DJs were cooking up chaos back home, and Skrillex inhaled the crisp, subtle scent of Sugar Rush's sugar free zone.

Queen Van had set up shop a bit down the Splenda sand beach, soaking up the lemon drop sun with Taffyta and Snowanna. The boy racers were drowning each other further out with Pollipop and Sour Apple helping, and various other children were acting like children, making Skrillex grin like and idiot because they were just so foking adorable. Honey stuck her tongue out at him and he shrugged off his long sleeve shirt. Obviously someone needed to teach her to keep her tongue in her mouth, and after she teased him mercilessly about the Judy affair he was more than willing.

Storming the carbonated water, he picked up a shrieking Honey and threw her over his shoulder, yelling back at a hysterical Choko, "Quickly, we must put this woman on trial for witchcraft before she escapes!" Running towards Queen Van, Skrillex was flanked by laughing racers, who were all chanting 'Drown the witch!' as Honey played up her role and snarled that she would all bake them into pies if she got her hands on them.

Queen Van snorted at them, adjusting her sunglasses and sitting primly as Taffyta and Snowanna snickered. "As Presidential Queen of Sugar Rush, I hereby skip the trial and permit you to execute the witch before she turns us all into pies and other assorted sweets. The method...by drowning her in the club soda springs!"

Honey mock-wailed as the racers began an execution march, Choko mock-solemnly offering her the last Ritz cracker rites. The club soda springs bubbled merrily by the lake, and with the boys drum rolling on their knees, Skrillex promptly threw Honey in. She sank in for a moment, then was shot out by a geyser into the lake, and the racers cheered. "The witch is dead!"

"But how do I know if you're not a witch, Sour Apple?!" Marzipanne pointed accusingly, and Skrillex threw the laughing green-haired girl into the geysers, followed by her accuser to make sure. This began a witch hunt with everyone being blasted into the water, Choko dragging Skrillex into the springs with her.

Skrillex resurfaced from the clean, sparkling water, and was surprised when the lingering guilt and emotional weight from Judy didn't surface with him. The kids were splashing around, Honey was giving Choko and Bubblebetty dual piggy back rides, everything was just...right. He smiled, exhaling softly, and looked up at the sun set in the pale mint sky. Even if karma decided to throw danger his way again, he didn't really mind.

Karma came in the form of this little green boy, who rolled up to the lake on a sticky pink ball. He only came up to Choko's shoulders, and Skrillex began to grin; he knew what game the boy was from, and life was about to get the good kind of dangerous. "Welcome to Sugar Rush, Your Highness." The racers perked up and turned towards the boy. "Can we help you?"

"I need your help!" All the girls sighed when the green boy waved his arms, either out of adorableness or attraction, and Honey struggled to keep Choko and Bubblebetty from melting into the water. "My game, Katamari Damacy, is out of control! I know that you're busy and all, but if you could..."

Skrillex stretched, eyes on the shower stations located in giant clear glass bottles along the beach. "Not a problem at all, Your Highness. Just give us a few minutes."

The Prince then was swarmed by some of the racers, oddly shaped head barely visible. Honey laughed as Choko ran out of the water to get changed, and she turned towards Skrillex. "So I guess vacation time is completely over? Shame, I like swimming more than a cat should."

"Her Queenliness did say that they were spending the rest of our break between here and the blue raspberry beach, so we can always come back once we're done." Trekking out of the bubbly waves, he yelled over his shoulder at Queen Van who was flirting it up with the Prince, "We'll be right out, so just keep him company!"

Vanellope looked ready to marry the poor kid on the spot; Skrillex had nothing to worry about.

After they dragged a kiss-stained Prince away from the giggling crowd—thankfully Choko was in the "aww my new baby brother" camp, Skrillex couldn't handle another Megaman—the Codebusters boarded a rather busy train to GPS. The Prince chirped as they landed in his power strip, "My game's in the PS2. I would've asked Mr. Sora to help since we live in the same console, but he's busy in the arcade room today."

"Don't worry Prince-hiko, we'll have your game working before you know it!" Choko smiled, all cleaned up and smelling like soda, and the two kids linked arms and skipped into the PS2. Skrillex shook his head; they were too cute too early in the...he was pretty sure it was still afternoon. Darn non-arcade hours screwing up his sense of time.

Various characters were milling by their save ports in the console, Choko waving to her new Thursday sleepover best friends Namine and Alice. Making a mental note to invite them to Sugar Rush once they were done, Skrillex turned towards the Prince. "So I'm assuming your game disc is the one in the console?"

"Yes, otherwise we'd have even more problems! This way!" The Prince led them into his game hub, the Codebusters shrinking in size to match the teensy world of Katamari. Skrillex turned to view all the stars and planets glittering, and he had to admit that this was a lovely designed game. Honey started giggling as Choko gasped, and Skrillex turned back towards them. They were much...much taller than he remembered...he looked down and shrieked. "I'm ant-sized!"

Now he barely came up to the Prince's knees! His hands were pin pricks even to his perspective, and how the fok was he supposed to save the world if he was literally pocket-sized?! At least Choko was a bit shorter than the Prince now to make up for Honey's freakishly tall high of 8 cm, but why was he shorter than the Sugar Rush girl? Skrillex crossed his arms and pouted; this was so unfair. "Do they even make katamari balls this size?"

"I'll ask the king." The Prince puffed up to his full height of 5 cm, then yelled at the sky in his tiny child voice, "Father, I brought the Codebusters to fix our game!"

The stars and planets disappeared, and in his full glory the King of All Cosmos appeared in front of the four. Crossing his arms and letting his majestic cape drape past the planet, the King spoke, "Ah, we are happy to welcome the Codebusters to our realm. Very happy, most happy." He looked down on them, "And we can see that Honey is of a most impressive stature. Yes, she is much larger than you, inchling prince, you must follow her example." Discs from other dimensions scratched as he continued, "Choko is a bit small, but we expected that. We think that she is very cute, so her size is forgiven...but YOU, Sonny Moore, have no such excuse!"

Skrillex froze as the King continued, "We expected much more of a Codebuster, yet you are smaller than even our puny son! Very disappointing, I will have to cut a katamari in half to suit your pitiful form."

"I AM NOT PITIFUL!" Skrillex waved his fists and raged at the cosmos in a voice that was way too high pitched for his liking, "I AM NOT PUNY, I AM FUN SIZED! And stop being mean to your son, he's the only reason why we're here you JERK FACE!"

The King was unimpressed. "We believe that we may have heard something. Perhaps it was the unbalance of the game screaming out to be resolved. Yes, it's very tragic what's happened to us. But no more talking, now is the time for great action!"

The world grew dark and Skrillex could only grab onto Choko's pinky finger and wait to be brought back down the earth.

Honey's POV

Honey blinked; she and the others were in the middle of an average Japanese town, their own katamaris waiting to be rolled. "So where is the—"

A giant glitching ball of pixels ripped through from the left, leveling buildings and dragging the game's boundary into the sea. Immediately items fell from the sky to reform the destroyed area, but everyone screamed on principle. Honey could just barely hear Skrillex's baby helium voice squeak out, "What the fok was that?"

The King's head floated down, distant eyes focusing on the farther destruction. "Take as much time as you need to destroy the most evil false katamari balls. And do try to get bigger, you must all strive to make yourselves and your katamaris large and luminous like starts!"

The King floated away and groups of blockily animated children ran for their lives as another false katamari destroyed the school. The Prince wrung his hands, then turned towards the Codebusters. "I think we have to roll up enough stuff so we get bigger than the glitches breaking everything. If we ram them with large enough katamaris, we can break them apart."

"Sounds like a plan!" Honey pressed her hands to her sticky golden ball, and felt giddiness course through her veins as she picked up a thumb tac. Oh, let the games begin... "We should split up to get all the things. Prince, you're the expert here, where should we go?"

"R-Right!" The Prince motioned with his slightly smaller green katamari, "Miss Choko and Mr. Skrillex should go into houses, since those have things small enough for them." He waited for Skrillex to stop raging, then added, "We can start outside, Ms. Honey; I'll head to the beach and you can handle the streets. Just avoid moving things like cars and cats that will knock things off your katamari, and you should be fine!"

Choko cheered and pushed Skrillex down the street towards the open access homes. "We'll try our very hardest, Prince-hiko! Good luck to everyone, dattebane!"

"Have fun! Stay out of the streets!" Honey sighed softly as they rolled away; honestly, she was turning into a big softie, she needed to stop worrying about her totally competent Codebusting friends. Turning towards the Prince, Honey grinned, "On your lead, Your Highness."

"Then here we go!"

They split up, Honey rolling down the street and picking up copious amounts of gum packs, takoyaki balls and erasers. Honestly, this town was in desperate need of a garbage cleaning service; maybe that's why the King sent his son to this particular area? Honey swerved to avoid a too-large horseshoe and engorged herself on ping pong balls and eye drops. Yep, these people needed a littering seminar.

The earth began to shake and Honey was launched into the air as a giant wrecking glitch tore through her street. Shrieking—she did NOT want to get sucked into that beast!—she pinwheeled wildly and landed on a rooftop. She was spared for the moment, and exhaled in relief. That was close.

Then the sky began to rain debris ranging from buttons to people, and Honey shrank. "This is gonna suck..."

Yelling in righteous fear-fury, she stormed off the side of the roof and landed in a playground, picking up a frog and three dandelions for her trouble. She looked up and saw a literal feast pf foods and balls waiting to be absorbed into her katamari, and charged like a hamplanet towards a all-you-can-eat buffet. Her sticky ball growing in size, she span around in a dizzying swirl of colors before regaining her balance, already at 30 cm. Impressive, but not impressive enough; if she was the ideal that the King was pushing on the Prince and Skrillex, then she needed to step up her game.

A dog suddenly came to knock her out of the playground, taking quite a bit of material with him. Honey shook her fists at the mangy mutt—he'll get his, she was coming after him once she was big enough!—but then broke into a devious cat grin. She was in an alleyway of boxes and carts and soda bottles, and at the end of the alley was a debris flow filled with junk small enough for her katamari.

Oh yes, let the games begin.

Choko's POV

Choko giggled as she collected three mice; they squeaked so cutely when she captured them into her katamari, it almost made her feel bad for doing so. The floor of the house's front room was being cleared up nicely, her katamari covered in caramels and buttons and sushi; she was really doing these people a favor, their homes needed a very thorough cleaning!

A muffled squeak from behind made Choko sigh; poor Skrillex-kun was not having a very good time. Even the tiniest of buttons were a challenge for him to acquire, and she constantly worried about smushing her friend. Eying an exit out of the house, she called behind her, "There should be some smaller things left here, Sonny-kun! I'll clear the outside."

"...kay!" Skrillex-kun was battling a swarm of peppermints underneath the stairs, zipping around like a tiny black beetle. Choko forced herself from smiling at that—he wouldn't appreciate her finding humor in his tiny size—and rolled out of the house.

In the far distance she could make out giant balls of pixelated, glitchy doom tearing up the city. Faint screams made her stomach uneasy, but she resolved herself to grow larger. This game was counting on her, and she was certainly due for a growth spurt!

Singing along to the cheerful music, Choko burst into the backyard and devoured a garden that thankfully had many carrots and daikon radishes. The pink of her ball was invisible under her haul, and why was it so fun to roll up random objects? Choko cheered with delight as she ramped into another area, growing larger by the second. She was up to a meter, it was simply fabulous because now—

"AHHHHHHH!"

"O-Oh, sumimasen! I-If you—"

"WHAT'S HAPPENING?"

"P-Please remain calm! I just need—"

"EHUEHUEHUEHUE!"

"Oh, it's pointless! Move it or join in, mina-san, I'm shifting gears!"

Choko plowed through the group of people, legs sporadically kicking out of her katamari as she gained their mass. Surely they were fine; Prince-hiko was a very kind boy, he wouldn't be so twisted as to cause unnecessary pain on innocents such as Precious and Watermelon Boy! Really, she was being very wishy-washy in her sudden doubts! Steeling her resolve, Choko started rolling up a fence; best to have a bit of foundation for her healthy ball.

Catching something in her peripheral, she turned to see Skrillex bounding by her katamari. He was still very tiny, about 10 cm or so, and she ran around her katamari. "Sonny-kun, do you need—" Choko shrieked as a large ox rammed her katamari into Skrillex. He was absorbed into the mess and dear Tobikomi, what if she crushed him, into paste?! "Sonny-kun!"

Her katamari slowly began to spin, and she stepped back. Debris was sucked into its pull as both katamaris grew exponentially, and with a large dizzying push the two now very large sticky balls flew away from each other. Skrillex resurfaced, eyes wide with disbelief, and Choko could just hear him say, "If you put two katamaris together outside of versus mode...their powers combine and go crazy...katamarinception!"

"...eh?"

"Choko! We gotta go find Honey and the Prince! I know how to get rid of the false katamaris faster than Sora's attention span!"

As luck would have it, the cul-de-sac they were in was destroyed by Honey-chan's giant katamari. Her friend was laughing maniacally, screaming about ultimate power or something, and the Prince-hiko was close to follow, invisible behind his behemoth of a ball. Honey-chan grinned down at them, "Did someone say katamari?!"

"Ok, so let's go over the plan one more time. Honey?"

"I charge the Prince and you so we hit at the same time."

"Your Highness?"

"Then I spin wildly to bring in more debris to the katamarinception."

"And Choko?"

"Once you three become bigger than reality should allow, I'll lure in the false katamaris so you guys can destroy them."

"Perfect. Let's do this!"

Choko waved as her three companions took their corners, ready to break the game's programming to save it. Adrenaline and an odd sort of euphoria filled her mind at the thought of such giant katamari action; was this why people loved this game? She certainly had to bring Roll-chan here, the cleaning bot would go absolutely crazy if she could copy the sticky ball's power. Fighting down the urge to giggle, Choko sang along with the background as Skrillex-kun revved his katamari, "Na naa, nanananana na na, na naa na nana naa..."

As flowers and giant mushrooms rained from the sky, they began to roll towards each other. The ground shook, people screamed, and Choko swore she saw the King of All Cosmos mindlessly rambling about bananas in a corner. This was madness, this was worse than the Spartian simulator in the computer room, and Choko loved it.

"Na naa, nanananana na na, na naa na nana naa, KATAMARI DAMACY"

They collided with a shattering crash that threw Choko and her katamari into the air, where she could see the inception of a real 獣 (kemono) of a katamari. A large black ball zipped around the joined surfaces of Honey-chan's and the Prince-hiko's balls, growing large enough to swallow the sky if Skrillex-kun so pleased.

Now they were counting on her! Choko landed by the slightly less impressive false katamaris, spinning around crazily as she sucked in more sparkling new items. The glitches accepted her challenge, and she ran for her life, wildly crashing over the landscape that she wasn't big enough to flat out crush underneath her. In other situations Choko may have screamed like a little sissy, but wow, since when did being chased by ravenous glitch monsters become euphoric? No wonder Honey-chan was having so much fun!

Choko exhaled sharply; her friends' katamaris were even bigger from the ground perspective. Skrillex-kun came charging forward, and Choko clenched her fists; this was it! "Banzai!"

She was absorbed into his katamari, joined by Honey-chan and the Prince-hiko, and their katamaris grew into the stratosphere. The glitches rammed into their collective sides and Choko swore she could reach up and cup the constellations. The false katamaris couldn't handle their greater magnitude and mass, and exploded below in a shower of debris that was eagerly collected. The earth was absorbed beneath them, and for a pristine moment, they floated beyond the normal reaches of the game.

Gold sparkles flitted by her face, and Choko dimly heard the Prince-hiko whisper, "It's stardust!"

Honey's POV

The King came and threw up a royal rainbow on them to teleport their giant katamari of doom to the results screen. Honey stood proudly with the others as the freakishly giant cosmic lord stated with great gravity, "Eeee-ha! It's floating, but it's not a dream. The entire world in your katamari! So supple, so substantial, we are moved to tears by your offering."

"And the false katamaris have also been moved, straight into nonexistence. We are somewhat disturbed by your actions, but we cannot ignore the magnitude of this hefty katamari! It shall rebuild the earth and cosmos in one final push!" The giant clump of stuff rose into the cosmos, and with a flash of light Honey felt the game internally reset.

The King looked down on them, "I am most impressed by our hardworking Prince, and you even seem in our eyes to have grown just a bit more than usual! We are most happy with this new development, yes we are." The Prince was blushing and so happy, and Honey smiled; she knew that the guy would come around to appreciate the kid.

"And cute young Choko has also been a hard worker! How delightful to see her growth as well, we believe wholeheartedly." Choko was wringing her hands and beaming, and Honey choked down a laugh when the King slyly added, "Perhaps a marriage to our Prince, hmm?" The kids in question squeaked and the King continued, "Perhaps not, as you both still need a little more time."

"Honey has lived up to her height today, we are most impressed! A Royal Present for the vivacious and Amazonian Honey!" A present opened from above and a sparkly new headband landed in Honey's hands. She grinned; this was freaking awesome!

The King crossed his arms, "And we believe that now is the time for cake—"

"WHAT?!" Skrillex was self-destructing, screaming at the lack of respect. Honey had to admit that without him the katamarinception wouldn't have come into being; the King should at least acknowledge his presence, just a little!

"Hmm, we believe that we have heard something. Oh yes, Sonny, you have grown just a bit bigger. You must strive to grow even larger of course, but for now we can tolerate your small expansion." While Skrillex simmered—he was repeating a Jedi mantra to avoid the Dark Side or something—the King waved his arms and Honey couldn't see past the swirling lights. "Yes, it is certainly time for cake! Mother, where is the cake for our Codebusters? We must celebrate the return of our game!"

Honey laughed and grabbed onto her friends, letting the stardust flash past her eyes. For a game that made absolutely no sense and was the stupidest sort of fun, she couldn't imagine anything better than cake at the moment.

Vanellope's POV

Vanellope watched as a giant katamari made of candy canes and gum balls ramped into the air and crashed into the blue raspberry sea. All the candy brats and random friends screamed with rapturous delight as they hit the water, and Ralph grinned, "I gotta get on that once they reform!"

"Get in line pal, everyone in the arcade wants some katamari action." Vanellope was lounging on the Presidential Queen Seat overlooking the chaos, surrounded by sun bathers who were tired out from the adrenaline rushes that come with should-be-lethal fun times. All of her Codebusters, after checking in and patching up the various injuries that they always got, were in the middle of the chaos, and Vanellope smiled.

When Choko's team came back victorious with the King, Queen, and Prince of All Cosmos—Vanellope needed the recipe for their cake, there was just so much glorious cake!—Skrillex mentioned wanting to invite Choko's friends to the All-Day Vacation Finale Bash. There was just so much cake to go around after all, so Vanellope also invited the other Codebusters once they returned from Donkey Kong. Then Sora got the good idea to bring friends, and obviously the party needed more music so all of Skrillex's friends came, and suddenly Sugar Rush was the epicenter of yet another gigantic event.

Everyone from Kingdom Hearts to TRON was at the butterscotch sanded beach, and Vanellope got to work on her meet n' greeting skills. She secured a trade alliance with the Candy Craze racers for more pixy stick power ups, she and Ralph played chicken with the guys from Team Fortress 2, and she finally met that Megaman that had Choko's coding all up in a twist; Vanellope couldn't tease Choko anymore because the blue bastard was too freaking attractive to ignore.

The lemon yellow sun illuminated Sora helping the Prince and his cousins assembling another katamari, Ralph leaving to join the chaos. Farther out in the sea Bob and the King were surfing giant blue raspberry waves generated by the Wind Waker cast, and closer to the shore Leia and her cute brother were helping the Fix-Its create a...sandopolis was a better word than mere "castle".

Set up on a stage surrounded by partying candy people and various arcade jumpers, Skrillex and deadmau5 were making wonderful music. Vanellope recognized her fanfare getting thrown around and approved heartily, making a note to ask them for an official Sugar Rush remix soundtrack. The Queen and the other Vanellopes from the home console room were shooting the breeze on a reinforced beach swing that had a perfect view of Honey chasing after a group of shrieking Toads. Vanellope laughed; they should've known better than to steal her beach towel, especially when its was a gift from her boyfriend!

Someone had parked a recognizer and it was being used as a base for jumping into the sea. Vanellope spotted Choko and Roll pushing Mee Mee in, surrounded by other laughing girls from Choko's Thursday sleepovers. Then Megaman and Protoman threw all of them in, jumping after in a twisted version of princess saving; that started a war between the throwers and jumpers, and Vanellope set down her smoothie; she needed on this action.

They were all laughing and having the time of their lives, and the ruler of Sugar Rush couldn't help but be infected with laughter when she hit the water at the same time as Ralph falling off the katamari and soaking her in the resulting splash.

The party would last for another few hours before they all went off to their own games to prepare for the end of their vacation. But even though they were returning to work, Vanellope had no doubt that the fun times would never truly come to and end.

Mr. Litwak's POV

Stan Litwak smiled as his nephew flopped onto his ratty old sofa, made boneless by jet lag. After the wedding to George and his lovely Meg, catching up with his kooky relatives out east and making sure that Toby and his group of friends stayed out of trouble, Stan was pretty tired too. But then again, he didn't make his living jetting from arcade to game expo like Toby did, so he had room to rib at his nephew. "What's the matter son, did your lady friends tire you out?"

"As if he could keep up with us." Toby's three friends laughed as they brought their luggage to the spare room, the shortest girl taking time to toe off her shoes at the door. Her name was Miyoko Tobigawa-Martinez, the wonderful young lady the one who supplied Stan with all the newest Nintendo and Tobikomi games, and she added with a wave in Toby's direction, "He's a useless baby who doesn't got this. Tiffany got this more than he does, and she goes to bed at nine."

"Leave my sister out of this, Misha." Toby's voice was muffled by the pillow, his glasses skewing off his face. "Just pick out a movie, any movie without Nick Cage in it."

"Without the True God? That's blasphemy, Toby!" Adia Horne, the young lady who drew caricatures of George and Meg at the wedding, came in to sit on Toby's back, laughing when he finally got off his lazy side and gave her room on the sofa. "I don't know how he's related to you Mr. Stan, surely some of your coolness should've rubbed off on him by now."

Stan let the three argue it out as he went into the kitchen to make popcorn. His lazy cat meowed and strolled off into Adia's lap, and he could hear the three making plans for tomorrow. They were jetting out to the next place in need of their "expertise", but were coming over to the arcade before hours so they could indulge in their favorites. Toby loved Fix-It Felix, Misha was a pro at Hero's Duty, Adia favored anything with fighters, and their friend was the biggest fan of—

" R, jump into your racing cart is SUGAR RUSH! SUGAR RUSH!"

"Really princess, is that necessary?" Misha snorted as she tapped away on her iGadget thingamabob, "I get that you wrote the last two stories to those games DeeDee, but aren't you supposed to be a Jedi Princess?"

"If I'm a princess, I get whatever kind of phone alarms I want." Deidre Chamberlain, the young lady who educated Stan on everything from Star Wars to Princess Peach over the past week, came in and threw pillows at her friends. "And the princess demands that we watch a movie that has at least mediocre dialogue, you guys don't want to hear me whining the entire time, do you?"

While they argued between Disney movies and 80s classics, Stan leaned on the counter top and sighed contentedly. They were doing more at 20 than Stan did, yet they were still the little brats that tore up his arcade like years before. Pouring the popcorn into a bowl, he wedged himself between Toby, currently slap fighting DeeDee, and the armrest, his cat nuzzling his leg.

Their vacation time may have been over, but they were certainly lucky enough to have jobs and lives that were just as fun.

-hiko: literally the male version of hime, so it means prince. There are better honorifics in both cases, but since Choko is using the more fictional appropriate -hime, it makes sense for her to use -hiko.

dattebane: just an expression of enthusiasm. This was used by the outgoing Uzumaki Kushina in Naruto, and since Choko is becoming more and more open and out of her shell, it seemed appropriate. Fun fact: Choko is secretly mortified whenever she says this, because it's "unbecoming to a proper lady" or something along those lines.

獣 (kemono): beast

Most of this was an excuse plot to make fun of Skrillex's height and make my friend cry. Also Katamari Damacy IS an excuse game: rolling around and making giant sticky katamari balls to eventually swallow the earth and make stars in the sky? Either they got high and stole one of my crazier bedtime stories or this is a work of ART.

The glitch was that a couple of katamaris glitched out and started destroying the game area. The game would try and compensate by mass dumping material into the places the glitch tore up, but that ended up making things worse. Once the false katamaris were destroyed however, the glitch was broken. No big drama, no insane twist ending, just getting rid of the glitch. Be disappointed.

Oh, and Toby's friends? Yep, those are me and two others from real life, with fake names and exaggerated jobs.

Miyoko "Misha" Tobigawa-Martinez: The daughter and heir of Tobikomi president Matsuo Tobigawa, Misha was raised in both her father's gaming world and her mother's low key life in America. She met DeeDee in high school, Adia through Dee and Toby through her father scouting for talent. Showing promise as the future Tobikomi leader, she's the one who funds Toby's travels.

In real life, she's my best friend and keeps me writing even when I don't want to.

Adia Horne: An artist since the age of five, Adia sent in fan art of Mario to Nintendo and got to work on Super Mario Sunshine as a result. One of the youngest acclaimed video game art designers, she met DeeDee when they both went to work on Sugar Rush: Candy Craze, and got sucked into Toby's crack pot team with mock reluctance.

In real life, she's reindeerhorns from tumblr who made artwork for me and she is a total babe for doing so.

Deidre "DeeDee" Chamberlain: DeeDee began writing at the age of two, publishing stories at the age of ten, and had producers from all sorts of media hounding for her once she started high school. Meeting Misha and becoming best friends, she was sent to Tobikomi to work on Sugar Rush: Candy Craze and met Adia, forming a trio of awesome video game ladies. When Toby started making games for Tobikomi, three became four and she hasn't looked back since.

In real life this is me, and I want to be like DeeDee (insert Batman Beyond reference) when I grow up lol

I'M FINALLY DONE WITH CHAPTER 19.

NOW I GET TO DO CHAPTER 20.

AND BELIEVE ME, YOU'RE GONNA LIKE CHAPTER 20.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and forgive me for being a horrible updater. I've lost nearly all inspiration for writing in general, but I refuse to abandon this story!