As soon as she popped in, they all started cheering. Sendula and Credensa presented her with a tall cake saying "Congratulations, Lizzie!" with more candles on top than she could count. (The words were on the side.) More candles were floating in rows just over the ones actually stuck in the cake.
"Uh, thank you, I'm sure, but what's the occasion?" Lizzie asked.
"I'll give you a clue," Sid chuckled. "There are two hundred and thirty thousand candles on your cake."
"Two hun-- oh! This is a "ten thousand" episode, isn't it?" Lizzie exclaimed. "Damn! I wish D.J. had poofed back with me! She shouldn't be missing this!"
"Yeah, well, she's kind of busy at the moment," I told her, being the one who happened to be responsible for D.J.'s absence, having written the episode this optioned off of. I felt bad about it, but heck, I didn't know we were that close to 230000 at the time...
"Blow out the candles!" Sendula urged. "Make a wish!"
JigSaw chuckled. "The heck with one wish, make six! This is your episode, Lizzie, you get to choose all the new options!"
"Really?" asked Lizzie, delighted. "Okay, stand back, everyone!"
"Why?" asked Hilbert.
"Are you nuts?" Deja Voodoo told him. "Don't you know how Lizzie blows out candles?"
The crowd scattered as Lizzie took a deep breath. A jet of flame shot across the room, enveloping the cake...
There wasn't much left of the cake, I'm afraid. But the candles were definitely extinguished...
"I can fix that," Deja Voodoo said. A wave of his hand, and the cake was back. Kiya Jaeger, who was present along with Zorlond even though I didn't mention it earlier, started slicing pieces for everyone.
"So what are your six wishes, Lizzie?" F-Cup Fitzgerald asked.
"I decided to do one continuation and five restarts," Lizzie answered, directing everyone's attention to the bottom of the episode. There, below them, were:
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