Valentine: ...and then after they came to I had to let them out of the cage and give them clothes.
Penny: Oh my!
Ash: And she ruined my mink comforter too.

Ash: ...
Penny: !
Valentine: ?

Valentine: Ash, do you have a shrinking ray or something in your lab?
Ash: I do, but she's not patient enough to crawl around with a magnifying glass.
Penny: What the hell was that?!

 

Later on, elsewhere...

Belladonna: Eehehehehehe!

Nightshade: There you are! I told you to keep the cat suit on! What's that you've got there?
Belladonna: Nothin'!
Nightshade: That's MY crowbar! Don't lie, you can't hide it behind your back, it's bigger than you!
Belladonna: Mine!

Nightshade: PUT IT ON!
Belladonna: NOOOOOO!

Penny: ....
Nightshade: Oh. Hello.
Penny: You're making furry midget pornos now?
Nightshade: ....

Nightshade: You'll get out of here and forget what you saw if you know what's good for you.
Penny: You know what? My therapist would say the same thing. I think I will.
Belladonna: Die!
Nightshade: AAAA!

Nightshade: Yeah, that's what you get for messing with your betters. Now keep the damn cat suit on and be a good minion.
Belladonna: Hmph!

Ash: Hello Nightshade.
Nightshade: Oh shit.
Belladonna: *THUD* Ouch!
Ash: I heard you were raping a midget.

Nightshade: Midget? Noooooo... No, why would I be doing that? I was just trying to put a new bell on my kitty here, see?
Belladonna: Woof!
Ash: Your 'cat' just barked.
Nightshade: Um, it was raised by dogs. That's why I needed the crowbar to put the bell on it. So it won't be able to sneak up on Valentine's animals.
Ash: Valentine's animals are all plush toys.
Nightshade: Well, y'know, the kitty doesn't know that.
Belladonna: Woof!

Ash: And why does it have pink hair?
Nightshade: That's not hair. That's a, ah, kitty cape to keep it warm in the cold, cold winter. Nice and warm those long-haired furry capes.

Ash: *sigh* Well so long as it's housebroken. But if it breaks anything, I'm going to blame YOU, got that?
Nightshade: That's fine!

...

hahaha sucker... she has no idea...

 

Ash: Well, I found her. I think she broke into my lab and started screwing around with the duplicator. Fortunately, it looks like she only made a mini. She seems to think she can cover it up by pretending it's a cat.
Penny: That would explain the naked furry midget wrestling.
Ash: Right. As long as she tries to keep it 'a secret', the thing will keep her busy and out of our hair. So we should keep letting her think we're fooled.
Valentine: I don't mind!
Penny: Er... that's fine with me too.

Commentary:
They Live is a 1980s alien invasion movie. Not really horror, it starred Roddy Piper, a wrestler. Of course, they had to have a long fight scene to showcase his skills, and they ended up with one of the most famous brawls in movie history just for being so long, drawn out, and honestly pretty damn realistic for a street fight. South Park parodied it in their episode, "Cripple Fight" The point of the whole fight is Roddy Piper wants the other guy to put on a pair of glasses that will let him see the aliens. Nightshade's fighting with Belladonna to just put on the kitty suit is a tip of the hat to the movie, implying a long drawn out dirty fight that I would have loved to do with 10 or more panels, but almost no one would have gotten it.

Other than that major reference, there are some minor ones involving furries, porn and mexican wrestling. The story starts off with the end of a story that Valentine is telling to her new friend, Penny. What was that story? Pullips steal barbie and other dolls' clothes. Everyone knows that. Nightshade Moon goes a couple of steps further, by then profiting from the drugged naked barbies by shooting porn videos of their altered state romps. In the instance that is being discussed, Nightshade shot the porno in Ash's bedroom, subsequently ruining Ash's expensive mink comfortor, and Valentine, being the sweet girl she is, gave all the dolls clothes before she sent them home. Which would have probably been an amusing pic fic, but considering I had a one-shelf dollhouse at the time, I didn't really have much to work with.

I would have liked to have the whole scene with Nightshade breaking into Ash's lab and creating Belladonna very much, but I had no lab back then to do it in. Maybe one day, in a flashback.

I love how Penny looks so shocked and appalled in this fic, and how everyone else is pretty much to the point where nothing Nightshade can do can really surprise them. Given that all the dolls have the same face, that's pretty good body posing and camera angling! And the strand of hair that's come loose and gives Ash sort of the same look as a mom with three hyperactive children at the end of the day in the last pic.

Belladonna is another name for Deadly Nightshade, one of the most toxic plants in the western hemisphere. Deadly Nightshade produces purple flowers and black berries. Waaay later on when you see Nightshade's bedroom, the themed colors are black and purple.