NARRABUNDAH 1/2
by Urac Sigma with Suzy Styles
Volume II, chapter two
Amari Takusan no Rekishi
CAST OF CHARACTERS
SIGMATOME RATBAT
SIGMATOME LEN
House guests
TENDO SUZY
TENDO NIKI
TENDO BOBBI
TENDO FIONA
People what really live in the house
KUONJI COL
TOBOKI EUAN
Restaurant-dwellers
TOBOKI CALLUM
I guess he must live in the surgery
HAPPOUSAI GRAHAM
Actually...I'm not really sure where he lives
A
CAFETERIA WORKER
TITLE SEQUENCE.
[Opening theme: Little Date (alternate version).
Finishes with a voice-over from Suzy and an
appropriate art-card.]
SUZY [VO]: Amari Takusan no Rekishi.
1. BACK KITCHEN.
[We pick up right before we left off. Col has
just discovered Ratbat in the kitchen.]
[CAPTION: Neribanda, Japan - Saturday 9
September 1995 ]
RATBAT: Kochan...uh...hi. Are you going to tell me what
the--Aie!!
[Col has launched himself at Ratbat, and the two
are now grappling.]
COL: Nhh...not only...do you soil my family's
honour...but you have the...nerve to play
ignorant!
[Almost gets a punch in.]
RATBAT: I am ignorant! Thoroughly ignorant! Really, I
don't have a clue at all!! [Pause] Glenda, if
Suzy was here now, she'd be having a field day.
[Manages to get a grip on Col. Somehow, though,
his hand has gotten caught up and found
something underneath his shirt.]
RATBAT: Hm? Nan da yo...?
[He suddenly pulls and is jerked backwards. We
can only see his face, but his expression
betrays abject surprise. The two combatants now
off each other, Ratbat is staggering backwards
to the wall.]
RATBAT: aa...
[This time we see. A piece of solid-looking
material (some form of binding) has come away in
his hand (not to mention the fact that his
shirt's been ripped in what will probably end up
becoming a rather unstrategic place). We see
what has become of Col now that this is gone.
His bandolier has come apart, and his shirt has
ripped open to show that (and this is probably
the cause for Ratbat's surprise, even though
you'd think he'd seen enough of these even since
he got to Neribanda) 'he' has a pair of breasts
under there. Col looks aghast at the ripped
shirt. Ratbat staggers right back to knock the
underside of a shelf, which has a jug of water
on it. It falls on him, and yep you guessed it.]
2. HIGH STREET.
[Niki and Suzy have just released each other and
are watching Euan.]
NIKI: Masaka...this yaro is plenty pissed.
[Euan swings and thumps a lamp-post rather hard.
It bends, then slowly creaks down and crashes
with a loud noise.]
EUAN: He...will...pay!!
[Kicks a can so hard that it puts a hole in the
wall across the street.]
EUAN: He has made my life a living hell!!
[Halves a garbage can, scattering trash
everywhere. He looks like he's about to go
another, when a voice speaks.]
VOICE: Look, stop that!
[Euan turns to face the voice, then looks
surprised. Niki and Suzy also turn to see...]
CALLUM: Honestly...can't you ever calm down, ototo-san?
[Suzy and Niki look at each other, then at Euan,
then at Callum, then back at each other.]
NIKI & SUZY: Brother?!
[Euan suddenly looks very sheepish.]
NIKI: Callum...you never told us you had a brother.
CALLUM: Ja...you never told me you had one!
SUZY: We don't!
CALLUM: Well, there's no problem, then!
[Shrugs. Suzy and Niki look back to Euan. He is
starting to seethe again. Callum goes over to
him, addressing the Tendos the whole time.]
CALLUM: I'm really sorry about him. I haven't seen him
in a few years. Come on, Euan...you can tell me
what you've been up to all this time.
[He gently manages to lead him, even though an
imaginary black cloud is forming above Euan's
head. Niki and Suzy look utterly confused.]
3. BACK KITCHEN.
[Col and Ratbat have barely moved since we last
saw them. Ratbat takes her sunglasses off,
blinks, then slowly raises a claw to point at
Col's chest.]
RATBAT: Han...nani?
[Col briefly looks down at her (we guess) chest,
then back up again, rather indignantly.]
COL: They're tits! What do you think they are!? You
should know, you've-- [realises]
[She goes over and squeezes one of Ratbat's.]
COL: Why the hell have you got those?
[Ratbat prods one of Col's.]
RATBAT: You can talk.
[They pause, realising who is touching what and
what's exposed and who's looking where.]
COL: Han.
RATBAT: Ano...d'ye think we can call a truce long enough
to agree not to fondle each other's exposed
breasts?
COL: Hai.
[They release their grasps.]
RATBAT: OK...now that you've calmed down a mite...could
ye perhaps tell me why you're chasing me around
Neribanda, trying to kill me with a giant
spatula. And for that matter, why are you
suddenly onna?
COL: What do you mean 'suddenly'? You'd be better to
answer that! How'd you do the sudden dye job?
And for that matter, why...four?
RATBAT: The four part? That's easy, I'm chiropteran,
it's all part of the deal. As for the onna...
[She weighs up telling about the first or the
second curse.]
RATBAT: Ye remember the type of trip my dad and I were
on when I met ye? One of them took us to this
lovely little place called Jusenkyou. Short
version: I fell into a pond that means I get a
female body whenever I get wet. Some nasty curse
'cos a girl drowned in there fifteen hundred-odd
years ago.
[Col nods, taking this in.]
RATBAT: Your go.
COL: I don't know why you're asking me about suddenly
being a girl, when I've been one for sixteen
years...
[She sees Ratbat about to raise her hand.]
COL: [Sigh] I'm sixteen, by the way, all right? The
reason I'm after you is because of the
engagement you ran out on eleven years ago!!
[Aims a spatula at her menacingly.]
RATBAT: Ne? Nani? Donna engagement? The only engagement
I know about is my one my dad and Suzy's mum
gave me to her!
[Col's ire starts to rise again at this point,
so Ratbat moves quickly on.]
RATBAT: A-anyway...back then, I thought ye was a boy!
COL: Nani?! Then?
RATBAT: We were five years old - it's not so easy to
tell at the time!
[Col pauses.]
COL: You honestly don't know what I'm talking about?
RATBAT: Hontoo.
[His eyes narrow.]
RATBAT: I think it's time we found out just what is
going on...and I know who we can ask about
that...come on. Tendo Dojo ni ikimashoo.
[They leave.]
4. DR CALLUM'S OFFICE.
[Enter Euan, shirt off, towelling himself dry.
Callum is weighing up the value of putting a tie
on Hoppy-chan the lab skeleton. He looks up on
Euan's return.]
EUAN: You see?
[Dr Callum shakes his head.]
CALLUM: Masaka...you're right, that isn't good...but can
you really blame Ratbat for all of it?
EUAN: What do you mean, 'for all of it'? It's directly
his fault! Everything is! [Distracted] What are
you doing?
[Dr Callum shows off Hoppy-chan's tie.]
CALLUM: What do you think?
EUAN: Eto...Callum-kun...it's an ornament.
CALLUM: What are you talking about? This is Hoppy-chan!
He's not just a prop - he's almost as good a
dancer as Fiona!
[Interesting note: His glasses fog and then
instantly clear for the small space of time in
which he says 'Fiona'. Euan shakes his head.]
EUAN: I think Fred Astaire there might have taken one
too many steps at random on the mined
dancefloor.
CALLUM: No, actually he touched himself where he
shouldn't when he was little. [Grave face] What
our parents told us was true.
[Euan rolls his eyes, then it's back to the
matter at hand.]
EUAN: Anyway - I can see that Sigmatome's got to you
as well! Just as he's obviously deceiving
that...fiance that that samurai baka was on
about.
CALLUM: Iinazuke? Oh, that would be Tendo Suzy. She was
one of those girls in the street. The one with
the headband.
EUAN: Ee...
EUAN [VO]: She was pretty...
EUAN: But isn't she...I mean, her and that other
girl...
CALLUM: Nani? Oh, no - that's her sister.
[Euan looks slightly embarrassed and confused
all at once.]
EUAN: Soodesune. [Ahem] Anyway, I'm off to take my
revenge of Ratbat! And don't you try and stop
me!
CALLUM: Wouldn't dream of it.
EUAN: Good!
[Exit Euan. Callum returns to pottering. After a
moment, Euan returns.]
EUAN: Don't even think of it.
CALLUM: Absolutely. Off you go.
[Leaves. Returns.]
EUAN: I'm telling you, Callum-kun - this isn't
working!!
CALLUM: I never thought it would.
[Euan scowls at him, then leaves again. Another
pause.]
EUAN [Off]: AAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
CALLUM: I love teasing him like that.
5. OUTSIDE TENDO DOJO.
[Col and Ratbat approach. Both look slightly
annoyed. Ratbat, at least, looks focussed. Col
has changed attire slightly. While she is
scarcely unrecognisable, she now more looks like
a girl in boy's clothing than a plain old boy.]
RATBAT: Why do ye spend so much time disguised as an
otoko, anyway?
COL: After you rejected my femininity,
[Ratbat looks like she's about to protest, but
lets it go.]
COL: I didn't want to give anyone else the chance to
reject it again.
RATBAT [Sorry]: Glenda-sama...I guess I must have...
COL: I still don't know how you could forget!
RATBAT: That's the thing! I don't think I have
forgotten! I'm beginning to get the think that I
never knew!
VOICE: A-haa! Pretty ladies!!
RATBAT: Chikusho.
[A dwarf - dressed in black and maroon
[including a leather jacket he appropriated
somehow], with long red and grey hair, glasses
and a goatee beard - leaps down from somewhere
above and gets a bizarre position on Ratbat -
standing on her lower bosoms, and keeping
balance by grabbing her top ones.]
GRAHAM: Ahhh...Ratti-chan! Want to play with Uncle
Graham?
RATBAT: No!
[She whips him off, which painful, as he doesn't
let go at first, meaning they stretch out then
snap back. She tries to throw him aside, but he
ends up grabbing onto Col's midriff.]
COL: Nan da yo?
RATBAT: [Sigh] Kuonji Col - meet my dad's old sensei -
Happousai Graham. Graham, we've got better
things to worry about then you at the moment.
GRAHAM: Really? Like what?
RATBAT: Like another fiance of mine that's turned up out
of nowhere!
GRAHAM: Nani? How am I supposed to train you to be the
heir to the Rejinra school if you can't even
handle a couple of women?
RATBAT: Wakaranai.
[And with that, she knocks him off Col and into
low Earth orbit. Col looks at him go.]
COL: Well, that's him gone.
[Graham suddenly reappears at her feet.]
GRAHAM: Yeah, but I got your bra!
[He holds it up, then zooms away again. Col
realises that this is true, and growls.]
RATBAT: What's ye problem? You yerself said ye dinna
usually wear them.
COL: Hai, but now I'll sag terribly.
RATBAT: Och. Really?
[Looks down Col's top to check, not realising
what she's doing. Col slaps her with a small
spatula.]
COL: You could have taken my word for it.
6. SUZY'S ZONE.
[Did you know that this room has a window that
overlooks the front garden? Well, it didn't,
until now. Ha ha. Suzy looks through this window
at Ratbat and Col below.]
SUZY: What's she doing...after she said...
[Gets angry, and hits her head against the
window, breaking it [the window] a bit. We see
that Niki is also in the room.]
NIKI: Suz...what did I tell you about smashing the
glass with your head?
[Suzy turns back, revealing that she has a cut
on her head.]
SUZY: It's a bloody stupid idea?
NIKI: Mochiron.
SUZY: Nerf.
[She goes and finds a band-aid to put on her
head.]
SUZY: But look at Ratbat down there! She was ogling
that other person's chest...and after she swore
blind that that kind of thing didn't interest
her! Why someone else?
[We see now that at some point Fiona
materialised in the room, and is putting clothes
away.]
FIONA: Ja, Suzy-chan...she's probably seen yours so
often now that they're boring to her.
[Doesn't break innocence. Doesn't break
composure. Scary, isn't she? Suzy glares at her
a moment, then cups her own breasts self-
consciously.]
SUZY [Sulk]: Nerf. What's wrong with them?
[Niki is instantly sliding up her.]
NIKI [Play-sexy]: Well, I know I certainly haven't seen any
better...
[At that point, something catches her eye, and
she holds out her collar, looking down her own
top.]
NIKI: Then again...
[She comes off Suzy. She pauses. She then
wanders from the room.]
NIKI [Self]: Wow, these are great...
[Suzy looks slightly confused. She turns to
Fiona.]
SUZY: Oneechan...just how much do you know?
[Fiona smiles sweetly.]
FIONA: Ja...I know that if you and Ratbat were to ever
make it to...marital arts...[pause]...I'd much
rather be her than you!
[Smiles again and exits. Suzy's eyes have opened
really wide, and her entire expression reads 'I
don't think any of that just happened'. Without
moving otherwise, she pitches forward on her
face.]
7. BOTTOM OF STAIRWELL.
[The angry Ratbat and Col appear here. It seems
they've worked out that if there's a cock-up, it
probably lies with one man...]
COL & RATBAT:SIGMATOME LENMA!!!!
8. LEN'S BIT.
[Len [human] is here, and flinches at hearing
the noise from down below.]
LEN: Uh-oh.
[He grabs one of those always-available buckets
of water, and tips it on himself. Hey, panda
time! He pretends to be asleep, then Col and
Ratbat burst in.]
RATBAT: You've got talkin' to do!
[Len holds up a sign: 'Talking? Don't be silly,
son - pandas can't talk.']
COL: Huh?
RATBAT: Och, ye're no gettin' out that way...
[Len spins the sign around: 'Get out? Get out
and eat bamboo? What a splendid idea!']
[Ratbat sighs, and produces a kettle.]
RATBAT: I thought this might happen. He fell into a pool
of his own, y'see.
[Changes Len back, just as he's trying to get
another sign ready. As a human, he gives up and
throws the sign away.]
LEN: Chikusho. All right, what d'you want? And who
are you?
[Thinks for a moment. Realises.]
LEN: Ah, crap.
[He looks towards the door, then decides against
it when Col holds her big spatula over his
head.]
COL: Now, Ojisan...perhaps you'd like to tell me why
you and this ama ran out on me eleven years
ago...
RATBAT: ...not to mention why I don't remember doing it!
LEN: [Sigh] OK - it was when I took Ratbat out on one
of his first trips...
[Flashback to:]
9. ROAD.
[Well, yes...a road.]
[CAPTION: Near Hakodate, Japan - Thursday 23
August 1984 ]
[...and wandering into shot we see Len [pretty
much exactly the same as he is now], and Ratbat.
At five years of age, Ratbat is wearing a gi
that is a couple of sizes too large, his hair is
all over the place, and his sunglasses are way
too big for his head.]
LEN [VO]: Obviously, all that walking would make us hungry
a lot. Luckily for us, we often ran into this
guy with an okonomiyaki yatai.
[The two come across this. Len buys an
okonomiyaki for himself and one for Young
Ratbat, who wanders off happily.]
LEN [VO]: After a while, it became obvious that this guy
had a kid - a daughter - around Ratbat's age.
You, Kuonji Colleen.
[Young Colleen steps out from behind the yatai,
her father enthusiastically talking to Len. The
following scenes are all of Ratbat and Col
having a great time, chasing each other around
and doing all sorts of fun kid stuff. The young
Col, we might add, hasn't got glasses yet, but
otherwise looks like a five-year-old version of
what we know now. And yes, she could be mistaken
for a boy.]
RATBAT [VO]: Och... 'Col' wa 'Colleen' no tanshukukei desuwa!
COL [VO]:Ja, what did you think it was?
RATBAT [VO]: I dunno...I mean, it's not like it's a common
Japanese name...
COL [VO]:You can talk.
RATBAT [VO]: Obviously ye've nae heard me try.
LEN [VO]: [Ahem!]
COL & RATBAT [VO]: Gomen.
LEN [VO]: He said that he could see how well Col and
Ratbat were getting on, and that even though she
was only five, she knew she wanted to marry him.
At first I said no, then the guy offered me the
yatai for a dowry. And because I was hungry, but
had no money...
[His hand gropes unsuccessfully in his pocket.]
LEN [VO]: ...I accepted.
[Mix to where Young Ratbat is. Len comes over.]
LEN [VO]: Only later I realised what I'd done, so I
decided that I had to ask Ratbat. Frankly, I was
stuck. I asked him which he liked better -
Col or okonomiyaki.
RATBAT [VO, dry]: Truly abstract thought - only Sigmatome Len
can do this.
LEN [VO, ignoring her]:And, of course, 'cause he didn't know
how Col felt, not to mention bein' only
five, he said...
YOUNG RATBAT [Mouth full]: Ukyounmiyagi!
LEN [VO]: So I nicked the yatai anyway, and that was that.
[End flashback.]
10. LEN'S BIT.
[Len gets up to go.]
LEN: And there you go. All perfectly logical, and all
Ratbat's fault. Now, sumima--
[Ratbat grabs his leg.]
RATBAT: Not so hayai...
LEN: What? Hadn't you better stay here with your jo--
[realises] Aa.
RATBAT: Ye wanna know something? Now that you've
mentioned it...I can remember that conversation.
I think you might be bending the truth just a
mite...
[Flashback to:]
11. ROAD.
[Len talking to Young Ratbat, just as he was
above.]
LEN: Well, son? What do you like better - nice,
sweet, delicious okonomiyaki...or...[evil]
Kuonji Col - demonic creature from the pits of
HELL! Slayer of innocents and small children!!!
Bringer of ALL DOOM!!!!
[Screams maniacally. Young Ratbat looks scared
out his mind.]
YOUNG RATBAT [Small]: Igglenimayaki? [Pause] I think I just
had an accident.
12. LEN'S BIT.
[Len suddenly looks really guilty.]
LEN: Of course...it could have gone like that...
[While Ratbat snaps, tears start to roll down
Col's cheeks.]
RATBAT: Och, nice...is that all I am to you? A
chiropteran MasterCard? What did you plan to do
about Te--
[Col escapes a sob, and Ratbat notices her
crying.]
RATBAT: Kochan?
COL [Through tears]: Ratchan...I...this...
[She fully starts to cry, and runs from the
room. Ratbat debates whether to follow her, and
turns to Len...who now isn't there, if you get
my drift. She looks to the window.]
RATBAT: Baka-sama.
[She is about to get up and leave when she
notices what Len was doing already.]
RATBAT [VO]: Hmm...a postcard to Haha...[sarcastic]...always
just so insistent that she comes to visit,
inn'e?
RATBAT: [Sigh]
RATBAT [VO]: I wonder where Kochan's got to...?
[She gets up and leaves.]
13. BATHROOM.
[Col is leaning against the closed door,
crying.]
COL [VO]:I'm so stupid...why did I have to stay obsessed
with him for eleven fucking years? Can I really
have thought that he'd just let himself get
beaten into the ground, and then he'd come back
to me? Why am I that dumb? I should've just got
over him...maybe I would have fallen in love
again... Maybe I mightn't have got rid of
Charlotte so quickly... But now...he's got this
Suzy girl. And he probably loves her more than
someone who's been out of his life since 1984!
Fuck!
[She slams her hand against the door several
times.]
COL: Fuck fuck fuck fuck! I hate love!
[Bursts into tears again.]
14. CORRIDOR.
[Ratbat-kun, alerted by the noise, starts to
head towards the bathroom. However...]
EUAN [OOV]: RATBAAATTT!!!!!
[Ratbat rolls his eyes, and heads for the
stairs.]
15. FRONT GARDEN.
[Euan is here, looking pissed off. The Tendos
stand by. Fiona has a tray of drinks. Euan turns
to them.]
EUAN: Ratbat-kun wa doko da?!
BOBBI: Eto...inside, I imagine.
FIONA: Would you like some tea?
EUAN: Arigatoo.
[He takes a cup, swigs it down, then glares back
at the house. Ratbat soon emerges.]
RATBAT: Och, so you made it, did ye? Did your sense of
direction get better at last?
EUAN: Urusai! [Pause] If you must know, I ended up
here while I was looking for the toilet in my
brother's clinic. But I meant to come here
eventually anyway. [Pause] Matte kuru.
[He whispers something to Fiona. The two briefly
go into the house. After a moment, there is a
flushing sound, then they emerge.]
EUAN: Gomen...it had to be done.
[Everyone face-faults.]
EUAN: Now, Sigmatome! I don't know how you drove back
Kuonji-san, but I won't be dealt with that
easily!
RATBAT: Before we get started, you wouldn't just want to
fill me in on just what your beef is, would ye?
EUAN: My 'beef'? My 'gyûniku'?! You've made my life a
living Hell, and you wonder what my beef is?
RATBAT: Han...aye.
EUAN: Care to cast your mind back about a year or
so...?
RATBAT: [Sigh] I seem to be casting my mind back a lot
today. I'm beginning to know how an angler
feels.
[Flashback to:]
16. SCHOOL CAFETERIA.
[CAPTION: Hakodate, Japan - Monday 25 July 1994
]
[A lot of students are here, crowded around a
counter. It's evidently lunch-time.]
EUAN [VO]: Junior high. From what I've heard, probably one
of the few times in your life you've gone to
school on a regular basis. Please don't try to
tell me that you've forgotten what used to
happen every lunchtime.
RATBAT [VO]: Iie.
[The cafeteria worker holds up a piece of pan
bread.]
CAFETERIA: Oi! Listen up, minasan! This is the last piece
of pan there is. Whoever catches it, it's
theirs!
[He throws it into the air. Euan is amongst the
kids below. [At this stage he is wearing a
school uniform, but still his hat.] He looks
up.]
EUAN: Mine!
[He leaps for it [Takahashi gravity-physics],
but just as he is nearing it, Ratbat-kun [also
wearing a school uniform, but with his various
bits of jewellery], jumps out of nowhere and
grabs it. He lands and starts to eat. Euan looks
annoyed.]
EUAN: This went on day...after day...after day.
[Shot after shot of similar things happening. In
short, Euan's been really unlucky in the pan
stakes. Towards the end, as Euan starts to look
more angry, Ratbat actually starts to looks
slightly upset. In the last one, we see that
Ratbat is actually holding out half of the pan
to Euan's retreating back.]
[End flashback.]
17. FRONT GARDEN.
[Everyone looks slightly dumbfounded [including
Len, who arrived in the meantime]. Oh, Niki
isn't - she's sitting there with popcorn.]
SUZY: So - all this temper-temper's about...bread?
[Euan looks over at her.]
EUAN [VO]: God, she is kirei...
EUAN: It's not just about pan. I'd probably find it
somewhere in my heart to forgive just that. It's
the...ordeal I've been through ever since you
stood me up for our....fight!
[Now Ratbat looks really confused.]
RATBAT: Tatakai? Gomen...I really don't remember.
EUAN: Sure you don't. I might have been a bit late--
[Ratbat holds up a hand.]
RATBAT: How late?
EUAN [Quietly]: Seven days. [Aloud] And then what do I
hear? You've gone to China on a training trip!
RATBAT: Och, so that was then...but I still dinna know
about this fight!
SUZY [Accusingly]:Just like you didn't know about your other
fiance?
RATBAT: Han...kinda.
EUAN: Don't play stupid, Sigmatome! I sent you this
letter of challenge!
[Whips a letter out from beneath his hat. He
realises. He's got it. Ratbat hasn't.]
EUAN: Aarrggghhh!!
[He buries his face in his hands.]
RATBAT: Dinna tell me you forgot to send it.
EUAN: I meant to...
RATBAT: Besides...I think you're leaving a few important
bits out, Euie-chan.
EUAN: What mean you?
[Ratbat looks around.]
RATBAT: With me.
[He exits the garden. Euan follows. Soon after,
everyone drifts away, except for Niki and Suzy,
who go up to one wall to listen.]
18. AROUND CORNER.
[Ratbat is reading the letter.]
RATBAT: Feh. Fight. This might be for a one-on-one, but
you know as well as I do that this was no
tatakai!
EUAN: It might as well have been, for how I felt after
you didn't show up! Do you know that I followed
you all the way to China! Did you know that?
[Ratbat tries to add things up. It's starting
make sense.]
RATBAT: China...? Did...did you follow me to Juse--
EUAN: Enough! Like it wasn't bad enough you stealing
my lunch all semester anyway!
[Now Ratbat looks hurt.]
RATBAT: I told ye what that was! I was trying to get
your attention! I couldn't just ask you out just
like that! I didn't know if you had some kind of
reputation to damage!
19. FRONT GARDEN.
[Against the wall, Suzy and Niki look at each
other.]
20. AROUND CORNER.
EUAN: Then how do you explain that fitting in with
supposedly being asexual? Or is that just so
people will let their guard down?
RATBAT: I...I was - I am. It was...I had an adolescent
schoolg-- kid-type crush, yes? I know that we
were never serious about it...and that I still
never developed those...other feelings... But
Glendammit - we had fun, remember? Why are you
just blocking it out?
EUAN: That was...I don't anymore...with boys. It was
like...a phase. I just--
RATBAT: Just what? Why the hot temper? Come on - we had
fun...and I still like you...
21. FRONT GARDEN.
[Suzy suddenly gets to her feet.]
SUZY: Bloody hell, she's fucking half of Japan!!
[Storms off toward the gate.]
22. AROUND CORNER.
[Euan snaps.]
EUAN: Enough! You sacrificed any right to my
friendship or affection when you wronged me like
that! Prepare for your doom! Bakusai-ten-ketsu!
[He aims another one of those punches at the
ground, but Ratbat has already jumped clear of
it [he learns, this one].]
EUAN: Fun! All right...try this!
[He whips off his hat [revealing that he has
another underneath - a bit like Ryouga and his
bandannas in Ranma 1/2, which I've heard bears a
passing resemblance to this show], and throws it
at Ratbat, Oddjob-style. Ratbat dodges, but
still cops a passing blow to the shoulder. He
notices a graze.]
RATBAT: Cruk...what the hell are those things?
[Euan snarls, and throws another few hats.
Ratbat completely dodges this time, but the hats
flick the wall, knocking bits out of it.]
RATBAT: Euie-kun - this won't help anyone!
EUAN: It'll make me feel better!
[Slow motion: Euan pulls off another hat and
throws. It heads straight for Ratbat. Suzy comes
around the corner behind Ratbat, so he doesn't
see her. Ratbat ducks out of the way of the
hat.]
SUZY [JPO]: Ratbat--!
[The hat strikes Suzy around the chest. Cut
straight to normal speed, and on Ratbat.]
RATBAT [Alarm]: Suzy...!!!
END CREDITS.
[With the alternative version of Equal Romance.]
Tendo Suzy
SUZY STYLES
Sigmatome Ratbat
URAC SIGMA
Tendo Niki
NIKI O'BRIEN
Toboki Euan
EUAN BOWEN
Kuonji Col
COLLEEN HICK
Tendo Bobbi
ROBYN SCHOLES
Toboki Callum
CALLUM BOWEN
Happousai Graham
GRAHAM HENSTOCK
Cafeteria worker
ETHAN PHILLIPS
written by
URAC SIGMA
with
SUZY STYLES
creation and development
URAC SIGMA
SUZY STYLES
EUAN BOWEN
LEILA FETTER
with apologies to
TAKAHASHI RUMIKO
(amongst others)
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