Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:20:06 +1000
To: ffml@fanfic.com
From: Mark Page <ayanami@merlin.net.au>
Subject: [FFML] [Fanfork] [SM] Waiting for Minako 18

Waiting for Minako
by DDFA (Mark A Page)

Part Eighteen - The Dilemma

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Scene: A dim and distant plain, on some unknown and mysterious 
vista.  There is a cloud of dust on the horizon, and a figure can be
seen, running as quickly as she can.  She is dressed in red pants 
and a white shirt with a yellow strip running across her chest, with
a large cape flapping behind her.  She has red-brown hair, and is 
rather short.  She comes to a sudden halt, looking from side to side
with much interest.


Lina:       I'm sure I heard someone mention something about an 
           Inverse Layer....

*straightening collar*  "Ahem, I'd be willing to volunte-@BAP!!"

DDFA:       .....

Mokona:     .....

DDFA:       Jesus, I must be tired....  Now I'm talking to stuffed 
           dolls....

Not only that, but Mokona's getting the best lines....

He plays a round of golf, reads War and Peace, starts a new 
conglomerate, becomes Prime Minister of Australia and retires on a 
huge pension.

Cool.

DDFA:       Nah, that's just silly.

Oh.

Suddenly, the spark of life enters the tender folds of his brain as
the coffee starts to take effect.  Strange thoughts enter his mind,
and he starts to giggle in a strange and inane fashion, his fingers
hitting the keyboard with the manic glee of a piano maestro....

Hmmm... fic writerss and caffeine... I understand their trying to outlaw 
that particular combo....

Meanwhile, on a beach in scary North Queensland, Mercury and Jupiter
have run into a slight problem in their efforts to find 
civilisation, commonly called a river.

Jupiter:    Just think.  You've got all of that water trying to push
           you into the sea as you're swimming across it....  And 
           the sea is deep, dark and scary, and full of sharks and
           giant squids and all kinds of nasty things that want to
           eat you for dinner.

This may be the single most rational statement in this series to date.

Jupiter:    Yes.  There is an orchestra on a raft, floating down the
           river.

Bakas... if you'd just wave the orchestra over, you could have them give 
you a lift across....

Mercury:    Even worse.  We might have fawning fans mob us, calling 
           us Amy and Lita, and they will tear off our fukus as 
           souvenirs and demand the S season be dubbed, complete 
           with a watered-down relationship between Haruka and 
           Michiru because it might give the kiddies bad ideas.

Jupiter:    Kowai!

Mercury:    Then the hentais shall molest us and commit unspeakable
           acts upon our young, pert bodies, and shall sell us into
           slavery.

"I'd like to take this chance to offer my ser--@BAP!!"

Jupiter:    .....

Mercury:    .....

Jupiter:    You sound as if you WANT it to happen.

Mercury:    Everybody's got to have a dream.


Jupiter sighs and picks up Mercury, throwing her into the river.

Cool.  Wet-fuku contest!

Jupiter:    No, actually.  I'd rather take the bridge, just over
           there.  Seeya on the other side.

Hee hee.

END OF PART 18

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Will Minako ever arrive?  Does Minako even exist?  Does DDFA exist, 
or is he a figment of the writer's imagination.

Actually, the longer this fic goes on, the more convinced I am that 
_I'm_ the figment of the author's imagination....

  Will Jupiter get 

across the river before Mercury?  Will Lina ever find the Inverse 
Layer?

"I still would like to--@BAP!!"

"Enough with the damn mallet, already, Skuld!"

  For no answers to these questions, stay tuned for the next 

exciting chapter of the interminable saga of Ami and Makoto in 
"Waiting for Minako".  The non-viable alternative to caffeine.  ^_^

OTOH, it makes for a very good substitute for a head-butt.

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 /    @    \  		DDFA (The Right Dishonourable Mark A Page)
/ / ^   ^ \ \ 		ayanami@merlin.net.au
/</    w    \>\		Chief Propoganda Officer, Keeper of
\/           \/		the Tapes and Co-Founder of the Saitou-chan
\___________/		Appreciation Society - Adelaide Japanese
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Version 1.0 - Damn those Aussies!  Damn them to Hell!

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