By Elaine

I don't think I can explain
These changes coming over me
I don't know who I am anymore
Can you tell me who you see?
What do I do, how do I
Beat these feelings down
My heads a spinnin', my knees are weak
And my feet can't touch the ground.

So can you help me please
This is something I can't fight
And I don't really know
If I'm handling this right...

I don't think you understand
The urgency of this situation
And I don't think these subtle twists
Were part of the whole equation
Hold me closer, grasp my hand
And we've got it all made
But why the hell can't I do this alone?
Why am I so afraid?

So can you help me please
This is something I can't fight
And I don't really know
If I'm handling this right

Help me please...

Act 2: Rejuvenation

[The setting is at an old old house, better
described as a shack, just a little North of the
Springs. It's situated between two hills, providing
a small shelter against the wind. Inside, a pot of hot
water boils on a small iron stove. One bed is propped
against the west wall of the house, and a small
writing desk is at it's foot. There aren't many other
furnishings, a small wooden closet, a rocking chair
and a few randomly scattered pillows...All give of a
sense of lonesome and quiet poverty. Right now though,
the hut is anything but quiet...]

Blonde Dog: Woof woof!

Guide: AiYAA! I get to you in no time, let us help
pig first, is okay?

Blonde Dog: (growls)

Chun Li: (who has just reverted back to her normal
form, filling out her clothes quite nicely) Oh stop it
Ken, at least you didn't get turned into him...

Brownish Tentacle: (cries as only a tentacle can cry)

Ryu: (who's also reverted. He's a man again) Don't
Worry Charlie. (pats tentacle sympathetically) You'll
be fine.

Pink pig: (rather urgently) BWEEE!

Guide: (hurries over and pours water on her) Okay,
okay...I is changing you... (pink pig turns into a
naked Cammy) I...I...(blushes and turns away)

Cammy: (stretches) Ah! So much better! What the bloody
hell was that anyways?

Sakura: (hands her a spare fuku) I'm guessing you fell
into the Spring of the Drowned Pig or something...

Guide: (still turned around) Yes, yes. Girl fall into
the Zuniichuan. Very sad legend hundreds of years old
where piglet is falling in and drown.

Chun Li: Hmmm...the Akane-chuan, the Nyaanichuan, the
Zuniichuan...(points to blonde dog) And the there's
the Gouniichuan...

Guide: (nods) Yes.

Chun Li: So how exactly did a tentacle fall in and
drown?

Guide: (shrugs) Ten years before, Japanese scientist
cook up strange thing that turn into tentacle. Is
crawling into my house so I beat it and throw it in
spring. No know it was still alive.

Sakura: (makes a face) Eww gross... (pours some hot
water on the tentacle...it turns into Charlie)

Charlie: (still sobbing) Why? Why me? I just HAD to
turn into a tentacle didn't I...

Ken: (wet, slipping into his red Gi and handing a
change of clothes to Charlie) Hey man, if it's any
condolence, you get to star in porno movies... Attack
of the Sex-Starved tentacle!

Charlie: Shut up (frowns as he puts on some clothes)

Chun Li: But is there's a cure to this right? Like...
I won't turn into an Akane every time I touch cold
water right?

Guide: (smiles) Ah yes, you is lucky tourist. My
daughter Plum is very good chemist, yes? She figure
out DNA configuration and make cure. She be back in
a while...but I give you cure now, yes?

Charlie: Yeah! Please! (thinks about becoming a
tentacle again and starts bawling)

Cammy: (whaks him on the head) Oh, don't be such a
bloody bugger! At least you don't turn into a pig.

Ken: (giggles)

Cammy: What?

Ken: Oh nothing...Miss Piggy...

Cammy: shut up, you mutt!

Ken: Pork face!

Cammy: (getting angry) Bone Breath!

Ken: (rising to the challenge) Yeah? Well, I wouldn't
be talking, Snouty.

Cammy: Go to bloody 'ell, Puppy chow!

Ken: Go sniff out mushrooms

Cammy: Go lick yourself

Ken: Go take a mud bath!

Cammy: Go chase cats!

Chun Li: (holds head in hands) My God...I can not
believe this.

Ryu: What are they arguing about?

Sakura: I have no idea...

Charlie: (sniffles) I know, I mean...I'm the one who
turns into a failed Japanese science experiment here...

Guide: (sweat dropping) I...uh...go getting cure...
(inches toward closet and opens it, revealing a bunch
of mini vials, all of which have no labels on it) Uh
oh...

Ryu: (from across the room) Is something the problem?

Guide: (nervously) No...no...I is just getting cure.
Customer wait happily, yes? (thinking) Now...which one
is it? I THINK Plum said third vial to the left, top
shelf...or was it fourth? No...no, it's third...(picks
a purple liquid) Here...I is making tea with this.
(puts it into an empty tea kettle and fills the kettle
with water) Alright, customers drink in no time, yes?

Ken: Curly Tail!

Cammy: Pigs rule, Dogs drool!

Ryu: I'm just wondering, why do we have to take this
potion anyways? Why don't we just dip ourselves into
all the Springs till we find the right one?

Chun Li: Hmmm...good point....

Guide: (boiling tea) Ah. Is good idea in theory but
not working in life. You is seeing, Springs are magic
and don't work to normal rules. One can not change
into oneself, so Nyaanichuan for her (points to Cammy)
is useless. It will be doing nothing. Only Springs
that is working on person like her is Springs that are
not original person.

Sakura: So if I was a dog that fell into Ken's Spring,
absolutely nothing will happen to me? (Guide nods)
And if I fell into a boy spring and then fell into a
girl spring, I'd still be a boy. (Guide nods again).
Hmmm...

Ryu: So how is this antidote of yours supposed to help
us?

Guide: (sits down in rocking chair to watch the tea
boil)Well...to tell truth...I don't know. Is daughter
Plum who figure it out.

Chun Li: I see...(teapot starts to whistle) Here, I'll
get it. (Calls to Cammy and Ken) Hey! You two, get
over here! We have a cure!

Cammy: Cure? Bloody Alright!

(Our six Street Fighting friends arrange themselves
in a circle and cups are passed around)

Ryu: I'm supposing that we're supposed to drink this...

Guide: (nods) Is right...

Chun Li: Well...bottom's up! (asks she slips down the
drink, a new figure enters)

Plum: (in Chinese) Daddy! I'm home!

Guide: (rises and gives his daughter a hug) Welcome
back, Plum.

Plum: (Still in Chinese) Daddy, why are all these
people here?

Chun Li: Um...we fell into your accursed Springs and
are now drinking a cure to our ailments.

Plum: Really? Cool! Is it working?

Chun Li: Um...I dunno...I feel...sort of woozy...

Plum: (frowning) Woozy? That's not supposed to happen.
Hmmm (takes out notebook) Nope. Er...dad, which potion
did you take?

Guide: Third potion to the left, top shelf. That is the
one right?

Chun Li: (eyes are becoming unfocused)It...was...a
(yawns) purple color...

Plum: (looks shocked) P-P-purple? (takes out notebook
and flips through it) That's wrong. The only purple
ones I have are the sugar energy mix and...uh...
(flips through some more)...oh no...

Cammy: (rubbing eyes slowly) What's the matter, dear?

Plum: (sweatdropping) Ah...nothing is wrong customer!

Cammy: Then...why...am...I so...(yawn) Sleepy? (drops
to the ground and starts snoring)

Sakura: What's the matter with all of them? Yeep!
(Charlie falls into her lap, sleeping)

Plum: err...(in Chinese) Daddy, I think you fed them
the wrong medicine.

Guide: (also in Chinese) God...what did I feed them
then? They're not going to be comatose forever are
they?

Plum: (Chinese) No, no...but when they wake up they'll
be...

Sakura: Is it just me or is everyone shrinking? Hey
Charlie! Get offa me and take a look at this...(shakes
Charlie. He doesn't wake up but he does roll over onto
his back) Charlie? Um... (she pokes at his face) Why
have you gotten...

Plum: sigh...younger...

Sakura: Look at Charlie! He's grown freckles...

Ryu: (waking up and stretching) Are we cured yet?

Sakura: Hey, you guys... (looks at Ryu) AIYYEEEE~!

(about an hour later, after a multitude of confusions
and such...)

Ken: (sobbing) My manliness has shrunk!

Ryu: Um...

Cammy: My boobs! I worked hard to get these, bloody
hell! And now look athem.

Ken: Hey Cammy, I never knew you were flat chested as
a teen...

Cammy: Grrr...shut up, small d*ck.

Ken: (turns red) IT'S NOT SMALL!! It's just SMALLER!

Cammy: Sure... I thought it was microscopic before, now
it's not even there!

Ken: (roars and charges at Cammy, they start fighting)

Sakura: Well...they're acting their age...

Chun Li: First the Springs and now this? What else can
go wrong.

Guide: So sorry, I is not knowing...

Ryu: (sighs) It's fine...so how old are we, exactly?

Plum: Don't know, around teenage years I think. The
youth formula was still in stages of experiment. I
not perfected it yet...

Chun Li: And how has it not been perfected?

Plum: It will be wearing off in time...don't know how
long a time though...

Chun Li: (frowning) I see. Well, can you get us the
right cure?

Plum: Ah...that I can not do, customer. Judging by the
bases of such potions...feeding you Jusyenko cure may
make you blow up...

Charlie: Wh-what?

Plum: Customer become walking bomb...go bye bye. So
sorry. We must wait for potion to completely exit
system before using next one.

Ryu: When will it...exit our systems?

Plum: (shrugs and looks sheepish) I is not knowing,
all my guinea pigs is running away or die first...

Charlie: D-die?

Chun Li: (groaning) So we're not getting cured anytime
soon...

Plum: (shakes head) So sorry...I label vials next time.

Sakura: What do we do then? These guys can't return
home like this...(points at all the street fighters in
the room)

Chun Li: Yeah, but where will we stay.

Guide: (thinks for a minute) There is one town...is
filled with cursed people like you. It is easier for
I to tracking you down if you in the same town as
them...

Plum: (nods in agreement) Yes, maybe I find cure to
youth formula, then give you and them cure for the
Jusyenko curse.

Charlie: Cure for Jusyenko? (brightens up)

Ryu: Sounds good...so are these people close to here?

Plum: (brightly) Yes, they is only in Japan!

(everyone facefaults)