Waiting for Setsuna
by DDFA (Mark A Page)
Naoko Takeuchi owns these characters. I sincerely doubt she'd want
to have anything to do with the way I persistently bastardise them.
^_^
Part Eight - The Intelligentia
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Scene: Haruka and Michiru, sitting on a brick wall in an empty park,
somewhere in Tokyo. In the background are the sounds of distant
explosions and various emergency vehicles. There is smoke blowing
across the sky from somewhere in another part of town. Haruka is
staring off into space whilst Michiru is looking up at her with an
air of suggestive mischievousness.
Haruka: She's late.
Michiru: Yes, she's late.
Haruka: Very very late.
Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.
Michiru looks away.
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: We're really not doing much better than that pair at
waiting, are we?
Michiru: We do seem to have reached a form of impasse in our
conversational capacities.
Haruka: One would have expected somewhat more from two stylish
individuals, like ourselves.
Michiru: Oh, most definitely.... We are FAR more interesting
than the pair of feeble-minded cretins we replaced.
Haruka: I couldn't agree with you more.
Michiru: So, what is stopping us from the usual form of witty
repartee that we usually have?
Haruka: Probably a case of afterglow....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: What are you looking at me like that, for?
Michiru: Afterglow?
Haruka: Eheh.... Sorry.... I can't help it with the suggestive
comments, sometimes.
Michiru: Mou.... Haruka....
Haruka: Eheh.
Michiru: Mind you, you could be right.
Haruka: Hmm?
Michiru: With that apparatus we used, I'm just aching all over.
Haruka: Ge!
Michiru: It took such a long time to put together, after it
arrived in the post.
Haruka: Michiru....
Michiru: What?
Haruka: You don't have to go into specifics about what we get up
to in public.
Michiru: Why not? It's public knowledge, anyway.
Haruka: Because there might be some poor, misguided SOS newbie
reading this.... It'll damage them for life.
Michiru: Hmph. I care not for such individuals. They lack
class. And they make up lots of stuff about us....
Haruka: Hmm....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: .....
Michiru: You know, she's probably been and gone.
Haruka: Who?
Michiru: You know. Setsuna.
Haruka: What do you mean?
Michiru: She would have known, beforehand, that she had to be
here, now.
Haruka: Of course she would have.... I told her.
Michiru: No, I mean BEFORE you told her.
Haruka: Oh, right.
Michiru: Yes, she's probably been and gone.... Got sick of
waiting for us to get here.
Haruka: Or she arranged this, behind our backs, all along, like
some devious, Machiavellian plan.
Michiru: She's probably hiding around here, somewhere, having a
good laugh at our expense.
Both look at each other, then peer behind the wall for a moment.
They shrug and turn away.
Haruka: That would just be silly.
Michiru: Yes. Rather paranoid of us.
Haruka: But with Setsuna, you never really know, do you?
Michiru: She MIGHT just do it, to catch us off our guard.
Haruka: She's a sneaky one, I tell you.
Michiru: Setting us up, here, to wait in place of that other pair
might have been her plan, all along.
Haruka: Yes.... Something of vital importance might happen
here, something that will affect the future of Crystal
Tokyo.
Michiru: We might be called upon to use our powers to defeat
another hideous enemy.
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: Do I see smoke over there?
Michiru: Where?
Haruka: Over there.
Michiru: You mean where the plane came down?
Haruka: Oh, that's what it was. I was wondering.
Michiru: Must have been hundreds on that plane.
Haruka: Yeah, lots of bodies.
Michiru: Those poor people.
Haruka: Still, it's better than dropping a space colony on
someone.
Michiru: Ouch.... There goes Sydney again.
Haruka: Some people will consider anything to stop Australia
winning medals in the Commonwealth Games.... Especially
those Canadians.
Michiru: Only if they're from Edmonton.
Haruka: Where?
Michiru: Edmonton.
Haruka: Never heard of it.
Michiru: Nobody's heard of Adelaide, either.
Haruka: All the better, I say.
Michiru: Hmm.... Whatever.
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: .....
Michiru: .....
Haruka: She's late.
Michiru: Yes, she's late.
Haruka: Very very late.
Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.
Haruka: .....
Michiru: Probably off having an illicit affair with Mamoru-
san....
Haruka: MICHIRU!
Michiru: Teehee.
END OF PART 8
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Will Setsuna ever arrive? Is there really a place such as Edmonton,
or is it all a figment of their imaginations? Stay tuned for the
next exciting installment of the enthralling wait by Haruka and
Michiru, in "Waiting for Setsuna", brought to you by coffee.....
The stimulant for a new generation of fanfic writers. ^_^
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Waiting for Setsuna
by DDFA (Mark A Page)
Part Nine - The Decay
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Scene: Haruka and Michiru, sitting on a brick wall in an empty park,
somewhere in Tokyo. In the background are the sounds of distant
explosions and various emergency vehicles. There is smoke blowing
across the sky from somewhere in another part of town. They are
both staring off into space.
Haruka: She's late.
Michiru: Yes, she's late.
Haruka: Very very late.
Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.
Haruka: .....
Michiru: Probably off having an illicit affair with Mamoru-
san....
Haruka: MICHIRU!
Michiru: Teehee.
Godot: Excuse me.
Haruka jumps in surprise at the sudden appearance of an old man.
Haruka: Erk!
Godot: Oh, I'm so terribly sorry.
Haruka: Who the hell are you?
Godot: The name's Godot.... I heard you were waiting for
somebody, and thought I could give you a few pointers on
the art.
Haruka: Eh?
Michiru: On what? The art of waiting?
Godot: No no no.... The art of making people wait.... I often
use it to get back at all those bastards who have held
me up in my life.... Lemme tell you. There was this
pair....
Haruka: Oh KAMI!
Michiru: Somebody! Stop him before he starts reciting an old
story....
Cut Scene: Ami and Makoto are lying on a beach in Hawaii, in the
skimpiest of swimsuits, sunning themselves.
Makoto: You're right, you know.... This is so much better than
Tokyo in the mid winter.
Ami: Told you so.... You should always take my advice when
it comes to holidays. I ALWAYS know what I'm talking
about.
Makoto: Pity nobody else does.
Ami: What was that?
Makoto: Oh, nothing.... Nothing.... I was just contemplating
the sky.
Ami: Yes, it's so blue.
Makoto: Very blue, indeed.
Ami: With the tiniest speckles of clouds.
Makoto: Yes. Yes, they are clouds, aren't they.
Ami: Well, of course they are. I ALWAYS know what I'm
talking about.
Makoto: Yes, yes, yes.... You're the smartarse amongst us all.
Ami: What was THAT?
Ami sits up, scowling at Makoto, who ignores her.
Makoto: You know, I wonder how that pair of lame-ass Outers are
going at waiting in our place?
Ami: Who cares? I'm having a good time.
Ami lies back down.
Ami: Ah.... We should have done this a long time ago.
Makoto: We couldn't.... Our paypacket only increased upon the
signing of our last contract.
Ami: Yeah, you're right about that.
Makoto: Best we could afford, when the show started, was a trip
to a hot springs in the mountains.
Ami: How positively quaint.
Makoto: Not to mention hokey....
Ami: I bet the slavering hoardes of hentais out there would
have given an arm and a leg to see those moments....
Makoto: Yeah, they would have.
Ami: Amusing how I always seemed to come out on top in all
the character polls, too....
Makoto: Stop bragging, you blue-haired bint.
Ami: Number one on the Animage character poll, I was.
Makoto: Gawd, here she goes again.
Ami: I knocked that lame-ass Nausicaa flat! Boring Miyazaki
slag.... Gets a role in ONE movie, and everyone wants
her as their daughter. Well, I showed them.
Makoto: And then you were booted from number one. I hear the
fight is now between a firebrand sorceress and and blue-
haired chick with a stock line.
Ami: .....
Makoto: "Baka", she says.... I really hate it when catchy
little quotes like that become the in thing.
Ami: .....
Makoto: What's wrong with you? You've gone quiet.
Ami: I've just realised....
Makoto: What?
Ami: It's.... It's all over.
Makoto: What ARE you talking about?
Ami: We.... We now only exist in the minds of the dedicated
fans.... Our show is no more....
Makoto: Oh, don't get all moody.... There'll be some great
revival, one day.... Bandai always milks its cash cows
dry, you should know that.
Ami: I.... suppose you're right.
Makoto: Well, I ALWAYS know what I'm talking about.
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: Bitch.
Makoto: Ah ah ah, no claws, thankyou. We're on holiday.
Ami: I'm not so sure this was a good idea, anymore.
Makoto: What is it then? Chopped liver?
Ami: It's.... kinda strange, but I have a strange feeling
this really isn't happening....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: Like.... this is some kind of diversion.... That we're,
in truth, still back in Tokyo, waiting for Minako-chan.
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: Now you've got me going....
Ami: Eh?
Makoto: I'm getting kinda freaked out, here.
Ami: What?
Makoto: I've got the same feeling as you.
Ami: No! Don't say that.... It might be TRUE.
Makoto: But it isn't true, is it? I mean, we're here, on a
beach in Hawaii, aren't we?
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: Well, we ARE, aren't we?
Ami: The sky is so blue.
Makoto: Don't change the subject.
Ami: It looks to me just like the sky in Tokyo....
Makoto: Stop that.... You're scaring me.
Ami: Mako-chan....
Makoto: What?
Ami turns and looks at Makoto.
Ami: I've always wanted to know....
Makoto: What?
Ami: Ever since that episode with Haruka and all that....
Makoto: What? Come on, what?
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: Do you prefer margarine to butter?
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: .....
Makoto: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
END OF PART 9
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Will Minako ever arrive? Are Ami and Makoto on a beach in Hawaii,
or is it all a figment of their imaginations? Stay tuned for the
next exciting installment of the enthralling wait by Ami and Makoto,
in "Waiting for Minako", brought to you by Death. If it's good
enough for Kenny, it's good enough for YOU! ^_^
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