NARRABUNDAH 1/2
by Urac Sigma with Suzy Styles
Volume II, chapter seven
Project Komoriko
CAST OF CHARACTERS
SIGMATOME RATBAT
How odd, an unusual guy from China
TENDO SUZY
Kawaikune!
TENDO NIKI
Niki- Niki- Niki-chan, as they say
TOBOKI EUAN
The lost virgin
TENDO FIONA
Sings the housework song
KUONJI COLLEEN
Love-letter written on okonomiyaki
TOBOKI CALLUM
Already has a long neck
SIGMATOME NICOLE
Hasn't got a baguette here yet
TENDO BOBBI
Confused young woman
SIGMATOME LEN
Pandas can't sing
KUNOU JARRAH
Kunou-chan is coming round
HAPPOUSAI GRAHAM
Man of donuts
HODJSUKE TIMOTHY
Kunou-sama! Kunou-sama!
HINOMIYA RUTHIE
Her name wouldn't be so bad if I'd read properly when I was
writing I.2
YUKA LOUISE
Yes, that one
RUTHIE'S DINNER PARTNER
TITLE SEQUENCE.
[Opening theme: Little Date (alternate version).
Finishes with a voice-over from Suzy and an
appropriate art-card.]
SUZY [VO]: Project Komoriko!
1. BATHROOM.
[CAPTION: Neribanda, Japan - Saturday 16
September 1995 ]
[CU on Suzy, looking at someone. She is stifling
giggles like nobody's business.]
SUZY: Can I just say something, Ratti?
[ECU on onna-Ratbat's face.]
RATBAT [Unimpressed]: No.
SUZY: That look really isn't you.
[We now see a better view. Ratti has lovely
curly-wurly hair, huge bow, pastel floral dress
that's absolutely impractical, big silly sunhat,
etc, etc. Kurenai Tsubasa wouldn't touch this
crap. It is not Ratbat's style.]
RATBAT: Shut up.
[Enter Nicole.]
NICOLE: Oh, Komoriko-chan - that's lovely! Much better
than those things you usually wear...they so
often make you look as if you have low morals,
or something.
RATBAT: Them? The collar's up here, and they cover my
entire body!
NICOLE: Come on, Komoriko-chan - surely a lady of the
world like you must know that the more you wear,
the more a man will want to take off!
RATBAT: Well...I'll wear a lot less, then!
NICOLE: Oh, Heavens no - then you'll just look like a
slut. Now, let me help you with your make-up...
[Ratbat shoots Suzy a pleading look. Suzy
pretends she can't see it, no doubt punishing
Ratbat for some obscure wrong [or just getting
into credit for the next one]. Take the camera
out the door to see that Niki is watching from
the corridor.]
2. CORRIDOR.
NIKI [VO]: God, I'd better sort myself out soon! That talk
I had with Suzy last Monday didn't achieve
anything...
[Flashback to:]
3. SUZY'S ZONE.
[CAPTION: Neribanda, Japan - Monday 11 September
1995 ]
[Niki is in here already. Suzy is closing the
door on Ratbat-chan. In short, we're doing right
what we should have done at the beginning of
II.6, if someone hadn't decided to go off on a
tangent instead! Here is a recap of the end of
II.5, in fact.]
RATBAT [Through crack]:Ja, I'm a girl!
SUZY: Yeeeahhh - but this is, like, you know, a
sisters-family thing.
RATBAT: I'm all but family. I'm almost a sister.
[Pause.]
SUZY: No! You're almost a wife!
RATBAT: So?
SUZY: Ja...everyone knows you don't talk about stuff
in front of your wife!
[Shuts the door on her.]
SUZY [Self]: If I'm going to keep saying stuff like that, I
should take out an application to become
bisexual.
NIKI: Nani?
[Suzy remembers she's in the room.]
SUZY: Nothing. Now - you said you wanted to talk to
me?
NIKI: It's kinda...it's about...Me and Batti.
[Suzy sits on the bed, Niki at the foot.]
SUZY: And the 'interaction' between the pair of you,
the other night.
NIKI: That's just it, Suzy-chan...there wasn't any
interaction! I thought you said you'd accepted
that.
[Suzy grows slightly stern.]
SUZY: I'm not sure. I saw that look on Ratti's face
that morning. It wasn't one I'd seen there
before...
NIKI: Please. She woke up next to a woman. She most
likely thought she'd scored. We're probably
lucky she didn't die of a seizure, there and
then.
SUZY [Distant]: Nerf.
NIKI: Hontoo ni, Suzy-chan - nothing happened. It
didn't.
SUZY: Then why the big hang-up? Why coming here
talking to me? You're not known for having a big
vocabulary for guilt.
NIKI: Nee! That's not a very nice thing to say!
SUZY: Neither's 'Suzy, I'll only pull the nail out of
your finger if you give me ¥1000'!
NIKI: I was being enterprising!
SUZY: You were being tight! You're the one who stuck
it in there in the first place!
NIKI: That week's Shonen Sunday was just out. Your
call.
SUZY: I still say that you were a sadistic six-year-
old. Anyway, I think we're getting away from the
point. Nothing happened, you said. I mean, it is
Ratbat we're talking about, but...
NIKI: That is it, Suz...nothing happened. It's just
that, well...I know at first I said it as a
joke, just mucking about...but...[mumbles, too
quiet to be heard]
SUZY: What was that?
NIKI: [Big sigh] I said, I kind of wished it had.
SUZY: NANI? You wished...you and Ratbat? You wanted
to...
[Pokes her finger through a circle made with her
other fingers.]
NIKI: Marry him? Her, sorry. Marry her? Iie.
[Suzy glowers at her.]
SUZY: The other thing.
NIKI: Ummm. I see. I know. It doesn't sound right when
I say it, but inside I just seem to think it...!
SUZY: Erk. Not even I think that way about her.
[Niki pretends she hasn't got a clue as to what
Suzy really feels in this department.]
NIKI: Not even you? Uh? Aren't you always saying how
much you despise Ratbat?
SUZY [Caught out]:Shit. OK, Niki. I'm going to tell you this
now, but I'm not going to mention it again, and
it doesn't go outside these four walls, OK?
NIKI [Nodding]: Un.
SUZY: Me and Ratti...well, to be really pressed to
it...I'd say that when it came right down to it,
I...um. I...[big release sigh]...don't
completely loathe her as much as I sometimes
imply.
[Bet you thought she was going to say it, huh?
Not likely. This is a flashback, so we can't do
anything that will cause the universe to come to
a crashing halt.]
NIKI [Big letdown]: Oh.
SUZY: But...hmmnn...I think I can see what you're
saying about you and Batti. I have to admit,
though - I did suspect. It's...I'm finding it
very strange now. I am engaged to her. That
should mean something, even if it was Okaasan
who set it up in the first place. Sometimes I
couldn't give a crap what she does, sometimes if
anyone so much as looks at her, I can't stand
it.
NIKI: So...you do know what I'm talking about, then.
SUZY: Un. Hai. I'm just not sure that I like it.
[End flashback.]
4. CORRIDOR.
NIKI: Ee, smart one. I might have been good and
truthful and everything by telling her, but now
I've got an on-edge sister to add to my
problems. Last time I go for that 'honest' crap.
She might have said she was OK, but I could tell
differently. She didn't even pretend to fondle
my leg afterwards, I had to do it myself. [Back
on track] As for the other - I just refuse to
even admit that I wrote that thing this
morning...
5. NIKI'S LAIR.
[We see the desk, and a sheet of paper lying on
it. The paper translates to:]
Sigmatome Niki
Tendo-Sigmatome Niki
Sigmatome-Tendo Niki
[You know, the sixth-grade thing of writing out
names like you've married the person you fancy.]
6. CORRIDOR.
NIKI [VO]: ...or Tendo Ratbat - why shouldn't I be the name-
dominant partner! [Catches herself] For the
seven zillionth time, Tendo, stop thinking that
way! You don't fancy the girl!!
[Bangs her head back against the wall a few
times for effect. I've really got to make Niki
start acting normal again soon. Bobbi happens
past, and looks at Niki banging her head.]
BOBBI: ?
NIKI: Umm...I'm smashing my head against the wall to
test the strength of it!
BOBBI: The wall, or your head?
NIKI: Well, neither of them's broken, so I guess it
doesn't matter. Still get the no-claims bonus!
BOBBI: Hai, but we didn't get building insurance on
your head.
[Leaves. Niki glares after her.]
NIKI: Cheap bitch. Anyway...it could be that I don't
fancy the girl. And I think that therein lies my
plan...
[Grins evilly. Nicole looks at her oddly as she
goes past.]
7. BATHROOM.
[Ratbat and Suzy are here.]
RATBAT: Has my mother even mentioned where she's
supposed to be sending us tonight?
SUZY: I think it's the same place we went on
our...[doesn't say 'first date', if ye see what
I mean]
RATBAT: Och, great. I'm there again with another guy.
Much more of this and that geezer at the dessert
counter will start thinking he's got a chance.
SUZY: Hah. [Suddenly wary] He hasn't, has he?
RATBAT: Actually, looking at this crap Okaasan's dressed
me in, he probably won't think anything unless
he's got a thing for seven-year-olds.
SUZY [Trying to scare her, leans in close]:He has.
RATBAT: Dette ike.
[She goes to put her hands in the sink to wipe
the remaining make-up off, but she doesn't see
the indicative steam rising from the water. In
go the hands, and well...in goes the chest as
well, really. He suddenly looks very pained, and
all but doubles over. Suzy pays attention.]
SUZY: Ratti-chan! Daijobu da?
RATBAT: [Squeik!]
SUZY: You're not having anothe-- [realises] no, wait,
you can't be, now I think about it. I got it
backwards again.
[Ratbat hurriedly turns on the cold water, and
Ratbat-chan's back on the scene.]
RATBAT [Relieved]:Och...ohhh, gurl...arrhhh...
[Slumps to a seated position, rubbing her
crotch.]
RATBAT: hhhh...
[Suzy is just bug-eyed.]
SUZY: Are you going to explain what all that was
about?
RATBAT: Och...well...I dinna know if ye noticed or not,
but I usually wear boxer shorts underneath
everything to...
SUZY: ...accommodate your change?
RATBAT: Exactly. But Okaasan wouldnae have any of that,
so she got me some very feminine - and very
tight - pants.
SUZY [Realisation]: Oh.
RATBAT: I'm sure ye can see the disadvantage.
SUZY: You mean...that actually affects you? I thought
you weren't into...that area. I thought it was
all inert.
RATBAT: You're no breast-feeding, but it'd still hurt if
ye got thumped around the chest.
SUZY: Point.
[Ratbat calms down and gets to her feet.]
RATBAT: You're enjoying this, aren't you, ye sadist?
SUZY: What? Nicole sending you on a date with Euan?
Feh, not much. [Ire] Not only has your ex-fiancé
turned up and placed dibs on you, you slept with
my sister, and now you're about to go on a date
with your ex-boyfriend!! [Checks herself]
...it's a good job I don't fancy you, otherwise
I'd really be pissed off!
[Mallets her.]
SUZY: And I'm still upset about my nipple!!
[Stomps out. Pause.]
RATBAT [Crumpled heap]:The one you lost, or the one you've
got left?
8. CORRIDOR.
[Suzy runs practically smack-bang into Nicole.]
NICOLE: Suzy-chan? Did I just hear someone screaming
about their chikubi?
SUZY: ...ee...
NICOLE: I know I'm only a guest, and it's not really my
place to say it, but maybe you should be a bit
more discreet when you're talking about that
sort of thing.
SUZY: Yeah. Um. Well. Er-her. Nipple. Sumimasen.
[She stands aside and lets Nicole past.]
SUZY: What is it about that onna that turns my ability
to explain things away into complete crap?
LEN [OOV]: Mrowf.
[Cut to show Len the panda, holding up a sign
that reads 'Believe me. She does it to
everyone.']
SUZY: Oh. I feel a bit better, now.
9. DR CALLUM'S RECEPTION.
[Dr Callum and Colleen are here. They turn
towards one of the inner doors to see Euan,
wearing the full kilt and traditional Scottish
gear, etc.]
EUAN: This.
[Callum and Colleen slowly shake their heads.]
COLLEEN & CALLUM: Iiiiee.
EUAN: Fair enough. [Pause] Nee - what does a Scottish
person put on under their kilt?
COLLEEN: I don't know.
EUAN: Not a single thing. It all functions perfectly.
[Colleen and Callum just blink at him.]
EUAN: I guess it loses something in the translation.
[He leaves the room, then comes back in. He is
now wearing a traditional, fully-formal kimono.]
CALLUM: No...could be a bit much.
[Euan shrugs, leaves, returns. He is now wearing
a very nice ballgown. Colleen and Callum
exchange glances, blush slightly, and go a bit
awkward.]
CALLUM: Um, ototo? Is there something you feel you
[ahem] want to tell us?
EUAN [Dry]: Hai. I'm running out of choices of clothes.
CALLUM: Oh. Right. I see. Err...try the other cupboard.
There might be some stuff in there.
EUAN: Hai.
[Leaves again.]
COLLEEN: Why do you have the ballgown, anyway? A friend
leave it here or something?
CALLUM: Huh? No, it's just a transvestitional sex-
fetish.
COLLEEN: Oh, right.
[All said completely evenly and casually.]
CALLUM: You're OK with this whole Euan and Ratbat thing?
COLLEEN: Fine. Ratbat's already said that he's not
interested in me.
[Callum's face, unseen by her, shows just how
much he believes this.]
COLLEEN: Besides, even if he was, he's got another josei
I'd need to worry about before I got worked up
over every little date his mother sends him on.
[This Callum does believe. Euan now returns,
dressed in a nice dinner-suit, but still (as
always) with his hat.]
COLLEEN: Ah!
CALLUM: Oh, now, that's perfect!
COLLEEN: Hmm. Almost perfect.
EUAN: Now what's wrong?
COLLEEN: The hat needs to go.
[She goes over and pulls his hat off. He is
wearing another, identical hat underneath.]
COLLEEN: Oh.
[She pulls off that hat to reveal another. And
another. And another. Lots of 'em. After a few,
she finds one that has a sprig of holly on it.]
COLLEEN: Huh?
EUAN: Christmas present.
COLLEEN: Right.
[A few hats later.]
COLLEEN: God, just how many of those things are you
wearing?
EUAN: I'm not sure. I know I've got a few.
COLLEEN: Grrr!
[Produces a top hat and wedges it down over the
other.]
COLLEEN: There! Now it's perfect!
[Euan looks at himself in the mirror.]
EUAN: Oh. You're right. Not bad. I still prefer
something black and flowing, though.
CALLUM: Well, I've got another ballgown...
COLLEEN: Will you forget the ballgown?
CALLUM: Sorry.
[Callum goes behind the reception desk and gets
something, which he hands to Euan.]
CALLUM [Too cheerful]: Oh, here, Euan - you might want to
take one of these.
[Euan takes it from him and looks at it. He
reads the packet.]
EUAN: A condom?
COLLEEN: Toboki-sensei!
CALLUM: I told you. Call me Condom. Er, Callum. Anyway,
brother...it's 1995. You're a young man...and -
well, for a while, anyway - she's a young
woman...
[Euan waves it in his face.]
EUAN: You're insane! What on Earth am I supposed to do
with this?
COLLEEN: Well, you know, Euan-san...
EUAN: No. That's just it. I really don't know what to
do with one of these.
[Colleen and Callum look at each other.]
CALLUM & COLLEEN: Errr...
CALLUM: Ja, we could show him.
[Out comes the huge spatula, and down goes Dr
Callum.]
CALLUM: Owch.
COLLEEN: No, we couldn't. [To Euan] Come on - we'd better
get going.
EUAN: Nani? 'Uchitachi'?
COLLEEN: I've seen your sense of direction, remember? I'm
going to take you to the restaurant, and I'm not
leaving until I know you're in the right place
to meet Ratbat.
EUAN: [Sigh] Soodesune. Ikimashoo.
[Colleen produces a bracelet with a long, leash-
like affair on it, and closes the end around
Euan's wrist. He groans.]
COLLEEN: All right, then.
[They exit. Dr Callum gets to his feet, rubbing
his head.]
CALLUM: Oh, man...why do I always have such bad luck
with women? [Beat] Oh, yeah - it'd be the
continual sexual overtures.
10. OUTSIDE DR CALLUM'S SURGERY.
[Night now. As Colleen leads Euan out, a being
in the bushes grabs his attention.]
BUSHES: Toboki-san?
EUAN: Hm?
[They emerge - it is Yuka.]
YUKA: Just before you go to that restaurant. There's
something you might want to know about the
morals of the staff...
[Fade.]
11. OUTSIDE TENDO DOJO.
[Niki waits, concealed by the wall. Ratbat-chan
walks out, on her way to the date.]
NIKI [Self]: Ex-cell-ent...now, if Yuka's done her
job...everything's right in place.
[Smiles to herself, before slowly moving on
herself.]
12. PARK.
[We all know this place by now? Good. Kunou and
Graham are here, training again.]
GRAHAM: Now, my boy...repeat to me the most important
lesson we covered into todays Rejinra training.
[Kunou thinks a moment.]
KUNOU: 'Don't step on the castles in the sandpit, or
the kids will absolutely brain you.'
[Graham is about to correct him, then thinks
about it.]
GRAHAM: Good enough. Now--
KUNOU: What dost I see before me?
[Graham sighs, then turns and looks. What Kunou
sees is in the distance, Colleen and Euan
catching up with Ratbat, and Colleen handing
Euan over.]
KUNOU: Why, 'tis another man! Treading in the footsteps
of the blighted Sigmatome and tarnishing the
honour of...which one am I up to?
[Tim slips over to his side.]
TIM: 'Bat-featured Venus' again, sir.
KUNOU: Doomo. ...Tarnishing the honour of the bat-
featured Venus! This cannot be allowed! I shalt
hunt them!
[Raises up his sword, and points forward.]
KUNOU: To battle!
[Walks forcefully off in the direction the
dating people went.]
GRAHAM: Moron. When will he realise that she's Sigmatome
Ratbat? [Pause] Ratbat-chan? [Thrilled] One for
each hand, and two for my feet to stand on! Wait
for me, my student!
[Takes off after him.]
13. RESTAURANT.
[The same restaurant where Ratbat and Suzy went
in I.3. Find Euan and Ratbat sitting at a table.
Euan looks fed up.]
RATBAT: Och, come on...! Ye could at least try to make
small-talk!
EUAN: Hmph. I don't even know why I'm here.
RATBAT: My mother's paying for it. Besides, Suzy told
you to help keep up the deception, and you'll do
anything if ye think it makes Suzy happy.
EUAN: You don't speak of her properly for your fiancé.
RATBAT: I can't speak properly anyway.
EUAN: Feh.
RATBAT: Oh, lighten up! We don't have to be on together.
Just at least look like we're having a casual
conversation.
[Euan relents.]
EUAN: Oh, very well. I suppose [unlike everything else
that happens around here], it's not all your
fault.
[He takes some of his drink. Ratbat notices, and
realises something.]
RATBAT: Nee - what you drinking, man?
EUAN: Wine. The house red.
RATBAT: How'd ye manage that one? You're sixteen.
EUAN: Actually, that was weird. As I was coming here,
someone tipped me off. A quick 5000 yen to the
maitre'd, and as far as he's concerned we're
both twenty-two years old.
RATBAT: Oh. Hey, let me try some.
[Euan hands his glass over.]
EUAN: OK. Careful, though. I don't know what you're
like with the drink...
RATBAT: Och, how much can a few sips set me back?
[Drinks.]
14. INSERT.
[FULL-SCREEN CAPTION: Half a glass later.]
15. RESTAURANT.
[The same shot of the table, only now Ratbat is
half-slumped on it, and looks very intoxicated.
Euan is covering his face with a hand.]
RATBAT [Drunk]: ...and, den I sez... 'Lizzen, dude-chan...I
don' care [hic] whose food it wosh. Ye
cannanananot have it back now. 'Sides, real
Amazons cut stuff off...'
EUAN [Self]: So much for reconciliation...I should have just
taken the simple route of inventing a time
machine and stopping him from ever being
conceived.
[Ratbat thumps his head.]
RATBAT: Hey! You're not lizzenin'!!
[We see them from a small distance off, in
another part of the restaurant. Ruthie-sensei,
still a 'child', but dressed for a night out, is
here, watching them.]
RUTHIE: Hey...! Is that Sigmatome Ratbat?
RUTHIE'S DINNER PARTNER: I don't know. I can't even see
from here.
[He's out of view, so you can't see who he is
anyway.]
RUTHIE: It is. And she's drinking while underage!
[She spins her coin, and catches it in the
position.]
DINNER PARTNER: Oh, please, not now...
RUTHIE: She's being a delinquent, and she has to be
dealt with!
[She gets up from her chair, and prepares
herself, facing Ratbat and Euan. She draws the
circle in the air.]
RUTHIE: Happo...
[Across the room, Euan (and to a lesser extent,
Ratbat) notices.]
EUAN: Nan da?
RATBAT: Ber?
RUTHIE: ...go en...
EUAN: I don't know what this is, but it doesn't look
good.
RUTHIE: ...satsu!
[At the very instant, or possibly the one before
(magic of television) that she says the last
word, however, the window smashes open, and
Kunou leaps in, sword wobbling furiously, Graham
right behind him.]
KUNOU: Ponîteru no onna!
GRAHAM: Pretty lady...!
[Then, zap, they're caught by the power of
Hinomiya Ruthie, having blocked her view. The
light builds right up, and when it fades, Graham
and Kunou lie weakened on the floor, the table
has upended, and Ruth is in her 'adult' shape.]
EUAN [Self]: This fight just looks too strange for me. [To
Ratbat] Come on!
[He grabs the half-aware Ratbat (who is covered
in food debris), and takes her out the broken
window. Ruth calmly flicks her hair back and
returns to dinner, satisfied that the
delinquency has stopped, by whichever method.
The restaurant staff do nothing about her -
either unbelieving of what happened, or not
willing to risk it. Dissolve.]
16. STREET OF KOCHAN'S.
[Only we can't see that yet. We fade in to an
empty street, and eventually Euan walks into
shot. He has the unconscious, and dirty, Ratbat
on his back. Literally a piggy-back, I guess.]
EUAN [VO]: At least now she's asleep, she's stopped trying
to sing.
[He looks back at her, over his shoulder.]
EUAN [VO]: Sometimes, I see her - him - like this, and I
can almost forget what he put me through...then,
sometimes I can't...
[His expression starts to get angry, then he
remembers he started on a positive thought. He
redirects his mind to practical matters.]
EUAN [VO]: Well, it still ended though. More to the point,
if she's asleep - now how can she get me back to
Callum-kun's surgery? Trust me to get lost again
straight after I move out of...
[He looks about, then sees...]
EUAN: ...Kochan's!
EUAN [VO]: Colleen's probably still got the room I was
using set up! That'll do for one more night!
[Hoisting Ratbat up again, he goes towards the
okonomiyaki-ya. Dissolve.]
17. OUTSIDE TENDO DOJO.
[An establishing shot. It's now the next
morning. Play Morning.]
18. SUZY'S ZONE.
[Suzy wakes up, yawns, sits up in bed. She looks
around a bit.]
SUZY: Where's B-chan?
19. CORRIDOR.
[Nicole, already out of bed, walks past Ratbat's
room, and sees the door open. She notices the
bed, which hasn't been slept in.]
NICOLE: Where's Komoriko-chan?
20. BOBBI'S PLACE.
[We haven't seen Bobbi's room before, but all
we're seeing now is her waking up in the bed.
She opens her eyes and panics slightly.]
BOBBI: Where's my stuffed fish?
[She searches around in the bed until she
produces a plush fish toy.]
BOBBI: Ahh.
[Curls up with the fish and goes back to sleep.]
21. EUAN'S ROOM AT KOCHAN'S.
[Start on the floor, where we trail Euan's
jacket, shirt, and then various bits of Ratbat's
clothing to the bed. The door hasn't been closed
properly by whoever left through it last. On the
bed, we see Ratbat-chan. Her clothes are more
than slightly dishevelled, and a some
significant (not to mention a few that aren't so
significant) items are missing. More to the
point, though: She has the covers pulled back,
and we can see that there is blood on the
sheets. She has obviously put it together, for
her face registers big alarm. She is totally
aghast, almost not daring to move.]
RATBAT [Quietly]: Ma...sa...ka...
[Dissolve. We're doing a lot of that this week.]
22. LIVING ROOM.
[Fade in to find Suzy looking under the sofa.]
SUZY [Calls]:B-chan...! You under there? [Beat] You're not,
are you?
[She straightens up.]
SUZY [Self]: Now, if I was a small ginger pig who had been
adopted by an otaku a short while before, and
then I'd decided to go missing, where would I
be? [Pause] Fuck, the fridge, I dunno.
[Ratbat-chan slowly enters. She's put a lot of
things back on, but she doesn't look to be in
much better emotional condition than last scene.
Suzy only half-sees her.]
SUZY: Oh. Hey, Ratti.
[Ratbat drops down and hugs her. Suzy, sensing
the genuine emotion behind the hug, returns it
in kind. They separate, and Suzy takes Ratbat's
condition in.]
SUZY: Fuck, Ratti-chan...what's wrong?
RATBAT: Och, Suzy-kun...I think I've just done something
very unRatbat, and very silly indeed...
[Suzy is about to ask the next question, when
Niki bounces in. She's cheery, back to her pre-
I've-got-a-crush-on-Ratbat self (thank
Glenda!).]
NIKI: Ohayo, you two! Batti-chan, Suzy-chan... Oh.
This looks like it might be one of those two-
people moments, so I'll leave you alone and
listen from the next from. Mata nee!
[Bounces out again. Ratbat's expression is
partially taken over by befuddlement, as is
Suzy's.]
SUZY: Now I'm really confused. She's not acting scared
of me.
RATBAT: She's no acting awkward of me.
[Ratbat's emotions start to return, which Suzy
notices, unconsciously applying the other's hair-
stroking move to her.]
SUZY [VO]: Fushigi nee... Niki's cured, Ratti's made herself
distraught... [Sigh] Questions? Yes. Answers?
No.
END CREDITS.
[With the alternate Equal Romance.]
Sigmatome Ratbat
URAC SIGMA
Tendo Suzy
SUZY STYLES
Tendo Niki
NIKI O'BRIEN
Toboki Euan
EUAN BOWEN
Sigmatome Nicole
NICOLE WYLIE
Kuonji Colleen
COLLEEN HICK
Toboki Callum
CALLUM BOWEN
Ruthie-sensei
RUTH CRABB
Tendo Bobbi
ROBYN SCHOLES
Happousai Graham
GRAHAM HENSTOCK
Yuka Louise
LOUISE DOUGLAS-MAJOR
Gosunkugi Sam
SAM SMITH
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)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1778/bundahalf.html
(c) Recycadelic Cacti MCMXCVII