Once again, as it so often does, the sun rises over a tiny island, shining in through the windows of the huts found on the land mass quaintly called "Gourrigan's Island". The inhabitants of the huts remain unfazed, contentedly snoring away the morning until-

Voice #1: What do you mean you forgot the carrots Anne? How can we have a party without carrots?

Voice #2 (Anne): I dunno, substitute some of the delicious celery I brought?

Voice #3: Don't bother, she won't settle down till she gets her carrots. Mandy, just go back through the W.S.T. tm and get some.

Voice #1 (Mandy): sniff sniff But...but that would be work, and it's summer vacation, so I can't work.

Voice #3: Tough.

Mandy: WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

As can be imagined, the inhabitants are quick to awaken. Lina, Amelia, and Filia come out of the girl's hut. The guy's hut remains quiet (excluding snores) because, due to several Laws of Life and General Unfairness, males can sleep through just about anything. Three girls are outside on the beach. Several large boxes are scattered around them. One of the girls, a blond (Mandy), sits on the sand crying. Her two companions stand to the side, disgusted looks on their faces. (On further note, one has brown hair, cat ears, and tail. The other has black hair and is dressed in a blue Chinese costume thingy.)

Lina: What the hell is going on? Don't tell me there's another guest writer.

Mandy (finally stops wailing): Writer? Writing? Work!!! Hide!!

Voice #3 (the one with black hair): Ignore her.

Lina & Co.: Don't worry, we intend to.

Mandy: Huh? What's that supposed to mean?

She would continue to complain, except Anne (the one with cat ears and tail) reminds her about the lack of carrots. Mandy goes through a Weird Swirly Thing (W.S.T.) t.m..

Amelia: I'm scared Miss Lina, who are they?

Voice #3: WHO are we? Who are WE?

Filia: Yes, who are you?

Voice #3: No idea, we were hoping you would know.

Anne: Jean, cooperate with the poor people.

Voice #3 (Jean): Darn. Okay, we are J.A.M. from an unknown and unpublished Anime series of the same name. I am Jean, the girl with the long hair is Anne, and the one who just left is Mandy. We are not this week's guest writers, don't worry.

A relieved sigh passes through Lina & co. By now Naga and Sylphiel are up, as well as Zelgadis, Gourrigan, and Xellos. Rezo is still asleep (that lucky guy). Greetings and introductions are once again exchanged. They start on small talk when Mandy returns triumphantly with a large bag of carrots. Behind her follow two girls and two guys. One girl has black hair and carries a mop, the other has brown hair framing a short horn and a purple dragon tail sprouts from behind her. One of the guys (at least he says he's a guy, but none of us except Anne really believe him) has long black hair, cat ears, and tail. The other guy has weird spiky black hair. They are introduced as (in same order as above descriptions) Valerie, Rachel, Hikaru, and Touga.

Zelgadis: If you're not guest writers, what are you doing here?

Valerie: Oh, we're having a party to celebrate summer vacation. Fred said that we could use the island, since the Queen of Swords hasn't paid her rent on it recently. Apparently she's had so many guests writing, she forgot to send in the payment.

Lina: You mean the Queen doesn't own the island?

Jean: No way! She just rents from the Great Goddess Fred, who just happens to be our boss.

Amelia: Wait, if you're not writers, and the Queen hasn't paid her rent so she can't be writing this episode, that means that... No one's writing it!!! We're free!!

There are loud shouts of jubilation.

Rachel: Hey, do want to participate in our celebration of the end of education?

Sylphiel: Sure!

They start setting up the stuff in the large boxes mentioned a while ago. It turns out that the Weirdos (J.A.M. & co.) have brought tables, ice chests, a cd player, and a large assortment of stuff (to say nothing of the carrots which Mandy flatly refuses to share).

Xellos: Hmmm, maybe we should contribute something... Do we have any of that fermented Funky Fruit juice left?

Jean: Sorry, we'd appreciate if you did not put out any alcoholic beverages--we're underage. And Mandy's the world's biggest tattletale.

Mandy: HEY! I'm telling Fred you said that!!!

Anne goes over and strategically places Mandy in a Vulcan Deathgrip, (oog-^_^;;) which was inevitable.

Mandy: CARROT BALL!!!!!!

THOIP!

Lina: "Thoip"?

They glance at Anne, who is now a giant carrot.

Mandy: Yah!! I told you not to mess with me Anne!!! You tore my new orange shirt!!

Jean: Hey Mandy, I thought Fred put you on probation after the last time you turned her into a carrot.

Mandy: Umm, oh yeah, bye now.

She disappears. There are cries of jubilation. Gourrigan glances around.

Gourrigan: Where'd she go?

Anne-the-carrot: Dimension X. Last time she went there she left her sneakers, maybe this time she'll leave her mind.

Hikaru: But she lost that years ago.

Anne-the-carrot: True.

Jean, who has finally spied Zelgadis, jumps at him.

Jean: DIBS!!!

Amelia: Hey!! He's mine!!

Zelgadis: Oh god, here we go again, another crazed fan girl.

Hikaru (who is Jean's second cousin and therefore has some control over her): Jean, keep you're hands to yourself. You're embarrassing us.

Jean reluctantly relinquishes Zelgadis and promptly becomes very pouty.

Amelia: Have you ever heard of fangirls who are able to control their sexual drive when put around the bishounen that live on this island? They can't possibly be guest writers--Miss Lina, I'M SCARED!!

Amelia starts to bawl.

Lina: Gods and minor deities, she's right! What are you people?

Weirdos: Weird.

Mandy has reappeared when no one was looking and is engaged in a conversation with Gourrigan on Freudian concepts.

Mandy: ...face it man, the guy was nuts.

Gourrigan: Actually he displayed a vast amount of intelligence and was at the head of the psychological studies of his time.

Mandy: Gourrigan, he was the person who invented psychology, of course he lead the entire field!

Anne, who has applied her carrot-ball antidote, and Sylphiel watch them.

Sylphiel: Oh dear, aren't you going to try to hurt her for turning you into a carrot earlier?

Anne: Naw, once you get Mandy started on a conversation involving sex, Freud, or volcanoes, there's no use in trying to stop her.

Mandy: If it's true that all life is driven by procreation then what about animals that reproduce asexually?

Lina (who has joined in): Ahh, but notice that creatures that reproduce asexually are also lower life forms.

Mandy: I reproduce asexually and I'M not a lower life form...

Anne: See?

Meanwhile, Amelia is getting bored. Zelgadis has disappeared to who-knows-where and she has no one to glomp properly, which she must do soon if she wants to stay in practice. Spotting what seems to be an unattached guy, she glomps him.

Unattached Guy: Ummm, what's going on?

Amelia: I'm glomping you, I need to stay in practice for Zelgadis.

Unattached Guy: Is that good?

Amelia: I think so. Say, who are you? I didn't see you come with that other group.

Unattached Guy: Oh, I'm the ROTC guy who eats lunch with them. Sometimes I tag along with them. My name's Chris.

Mandy: No it's not!! His name is Tinky Winky, the world's first openly gay Teletubby!

Jean & Anne: We're right behind ya Tink!

Chris: That. Is. So. Old.

Chris and Amelia wander off, discussing their mutual dislike for the purple Teletubby.

Lina: I told you she still wasn't over the Sailor Tinky Winky thing.

Filia walks up to Rachel.

Filia: Excuse me, but is that by any chance a dragon tail?

Rachel: Huh? This? Oh, yah, I picked it up at Wal-Mart. They were on sale. I'm trying to get a new one, the sticky stuff doesn't work on it any more.

Filia: ...

Jean: She's just teasing you. Everyone knows that Wal-Mart doesn't sell dragon tails, Pic-'N'-Save does.

Rachel: You caught me, the horn's from Wal-Mart.

Jean: I thought that the horn was from Thrifty.

Rachel: Naw, they got taken over by Rite-Aid and you just can't trust the merchandise anymore.

Filia nods in understanding.

Filia: Personally, I buy my tails at Target, they have a much wider selection and the sticky stuff lasts longer.

Rachel: I'll have to remember that the next time I get a new tail.

Mandy, Gourrigan, and Lina have been watching the entire time.

Mandy: Did you understand any of that?

Lina: Went right over my head.

Gourrigan: I think I understood...

Mandy wanders up behind Xellos, who is busy doing something to the punch.

Mandy: You wouldn't by any chance be spiking the punch Mr. Trickster Priest?

Xellos: That's a secret.

Mandy: No it's not. You've got a bottle labeled 'Fermented Funky Fruit Juice' that you're pouring into the punch.

She points to said bottle, then looks back at him. A wide grin spreads over her face and Xellos starts to become just a little nervous.

Mandy: Say, you wouldn't be Xellos Metallium by any chance, would you?

Xellos: Uhh...

Mandy: Your boss told the Great Goddess Fred your secret. She told me.

Mandy turns to face everyone else.

Mandy: HEY!! I KNOW XELLOS' SECRET, IT'S-

She slumps to the ground as the Vulcan Deathgrip is used on her for the second time that day. (ooog O_o) Everyone cheers and Jean glances at her watch.

Jean: Darn, we've gotta go. Our parent's are going to start wondering where we are any moment now.

A W.S.T. tm appears and Jean drags Mandy through it. All of the other weirdos go through, except for Anne. She looks around.

Anne: Has anyone seen Chris?

Lina: For that matter, where's Amelia?

They look at each other.

Anne: I don't even want to know. Send him back to us when you find him. Ciao!

She hops through the W.S.T. tm.

Naga: They left a recipe that tells how to ferment coconut milk to create a really good tequila-like substitute!

All gather 'round to check out said recipe.

Lina: "Take one coconut..."

Xellos: "Crack open, leave milk out in the sun for five hours-"

Gourrigan: "-after adding one Target Guarantee Imitation Dragon Tail."

They all look around for Filia, who has (smartly) disappeared. They all wander off, trying to find her.

Sylphiel, who wouldn't think of joining in on such activities, picks up the recipe.

Sylphiel: "If fixed properly there should be no noticeable hangover."

She goes off to find Filia.

Rezo walks out of the guy's hut, having finally gotten up.

Rezo: Has anyone seen my rubber ducky? I want to take a bath. Hello? Anyone?

Crickets chirp, strange sounds emerge from Martina and Zangulus' hut.

(They've been in there all day, haven't they?)