Suddenly, the wall closest to the trio of chans crashed down in one big pound. A blue-haired girl in a Chinese outfit stood in the massive hole she�d created, pointing a bonbori menacingly at the heroines. She giggled, "You careless! No care that Shampoo pignap pig-boy?"

The girls dropped into fighting stances. "What do you mean? What do you want with him, Shampoo?" Sammy-chan growled, her voice low and her fists clenched. Her trademark red battle aura was only glowing slightly.

Rai-chan glanced at her friend nervously.

Shampoo�s eyes glinted. "He waiting for you. You follow Shampoo?"

Sammy-chan�s expression shifted. Rai and Heta just helplessly exchanged confused looks.

With an evil little twitter, Shampoo leapt back out the hole she created. The twilight world was showing through.

"Oh my. Nighttime already.." Rai-chan commented in a Kasumi kind of way. Heta-chan had pulled a tricorder out of nowhere (probably tricorderspace) and was examining Sammy�s vital signs. "Her brain is showing an ever-increasing production of dopeamine, Captain," Heta reported in her best Enterprise sickbay doctor voice. There was a pause before she asked "What�s dopeamine?"

Without warning Sam jumped outside after the evil amazon. "Wait.. Sammy!!" Rai-chan and Heta-chan bounded after her. The curly-haired girl seemed to not hear them. She jumped her way after the disappearing amazon, her team mates following close behind.

Shampoo led them through a forest for what seemed forever, until it was truly nighttime and the only illumination they had was from the quarter moon and Sammy-chan�s battle aura. The Chinese she-warrior stopped suddenly, and they all landed on the grounds of a playground in the middle of the wood.

"Now you try find your own way into underground lair!!" Shampoo giggled, delighted with her own evil.

Sammy-chan grabbed the blue-haired one by the collar of her flowered Chinese outfit, her battle aura flaring. Shampoo stopped laughing immediately.

"Where, is, he," Sam growled.

Shampoo�s eyes grew to a freakish size. "He.. he.. you go through rock there!" She pointed wildly at a conspicuous looking boulder on the merry-go-round. Sam released her, and before Shampoo even hit the ground she was running off into the forest to hide from the too-violent angry girl.

"Through the rock, eh?" Rai-chan asked, circling the merry-go-round.

Heta danced around the rock, and sang "Clefairy, clefairy, clefairy�!"

"What are you doing?" Rai asked disgustedly.

Suddenly the rock lifted off of the merry-go-round, revealing a descending staircase into the ground. Heta-chan grinned triumphantly.

"Well� okay!" All three of them flew down the staircase, towards that which had drawn them on this journey. The chamber they entered, was dark, damp, and big. It was lit up by a few ceiling lights, and in the corner was a small cage next to a large and mean looking machine. The three heroines rushed to the cage, and found inside of it�

A dust bunny.

"This is not my P-Chan!!" Sammy-chan cried, turning away from the dust bunny in disgust.

"And who ever said I was *YOURS*?" Someone demanded. The girls whirled around in surprise. Shampoo, Ranma, Kuno, and Kodachi stood in intimidating poses. In front of them was an unfamiliar boy wielding a large umbrella. What was familiar to Heta-chan and Rai-chan, however, was the bandana tied around his head.

(Any other girl in anime would have taken a while to put this together, and some wouldn�t even put it together at all. Rai-chan was smarter than your average anime babe.)

Rai�s face turned dark red. "P-Chan is a GUY??" She asked, completely shocked in a way she couldn�t understand.

"Duh," Heta said to her, although she had never really known either. They all dropped into fighting stances. That is, except for Sammy-chan, who�s eyes were starting to tear up.

"You� you don�t like me??" She asked. Sweat drops formed on Rai and Heta�s heads.

"I�m sure he didn�t mean it, Sammy�" Rai-chan assured her hurriedly.

Heta-chan broke out of her stance and faced Rai in disgust. "Why are you always trying to protect her like that?!" She shouted.

"If you think her battle-aura is bad when she�s angry, you should see what happens when she gets depressed!!" Rai-chan shouted back.

"Shampoo forgot to tell you." The Evil Chinese Girl stepped forward, smiling wickedly. "Ryoga decide he no like any of you. He on our side now!"

"What?? Why??" Sammy-chan asked, desperation creeping into her voice. Rai-chan also looked desperate.

"After too-too naughty girls abandon him as little pig, why he ever like you again?" Shampoo asked smoothly, her evil purple eyes sparking with glee.

Sammy-chan plopped down on the ground and started wailing like Sailor Moon.

"We never abandoned him!!" Heta-chan protested.

"Why would we want to abandon such a cute�" Rai started.

"Enough talk!!" Ryoga yelled. He jumped into the air, wielding the heavy looking umbrella. "Prepare to DIE!!"

"Aaah!!" Heta-chan and Rai-chan leapt in front of the sniffling Sammy, blocking the umbrella in a painful way.

"Cut it out!" Heta shouted at him. "We didn�t do anything to you!!"

"I�m so depressed�" Sammy murmured from behind them. Rai-chan looked at her in fright. Sammy-chan got slowly to her feet.

"No no no, Sammy!!" Rai-chan cried. She and Heta used the last ounce of their strength to shove the umbrella away from them. They ducked under another swipe from the unusual weapon. Their attacker yelled in frustration.

Sam�s aura had double in size. She clenched her fists, and shouted something up to the ceiling. The words were lost in Rai-chan�s terrified yell. A huge pillar of something that can only be called Sammy�s heavy chi rushed up into the air, bursting through the ceiling of the underground lair.

"Get out of here, Heta!!" Rai ordered her teammate, shouting over rushing din of the chi eruption.

"But.. why??"

"Just get as far away from here as you can!!" Rai-chan screamed, pointing at the stairs. "What goes up must come down!!"

Heta didn�t understand what she meant, but she exited quickly. The sound of the chi rush died down. An eerie silence followed. Sam stood where she had been, looking like she�d lost the will to live.

Ranma had seen something exactly like this before. "I�m getting out of here�" His other partners in evil agreed and ran for their lives. Ryoga tried to leave with them, but Rai-chan jumped and managed to throw him to the ground. He could have thrown her off easily, but just milliseconds later, Sam�s huge chi pillar crushed them with a blinding and fatally strong force�

Heta-chan watched in awe as the huge ball of blue bad stuff crashed into the ground, causing a large shockwave. She had levitated to a safe place on a cliff to watch the whole thing, and was seriously worrying for her friends lives. When the explosion died down, she floated down to the crater, and glanced around apprehensively.

Caluna appeared out of nowhere. "Miao," she said sheepishly, and jumped onto Heta�s shoulder. "Caluna!! Are they okay??" Heta asked her cabbit anxiously.