[SCENE: A dimly lit room. All that can be seen is a large plush couch, a big screen TV and a VCR. A white envelope sits on the couch.] [The far door opens and Noriko Kobayashi, walks in. Before she can close the door behind her, Shion Nys walks in.] NORIKO: I see, you've decided to try and be on time for once? SHION : I always fullfill my contracts to the letter. [Shion and Noriko sit down on opposite ends of the couch, spending a few moments glaring daggers at each other.] [SCENE: Door opens and two more women walk in. The first is Marta Nys, followed by Ling Ling Li. The two of them get ready to sit down on the couch, but notice the envelope.] LING LING: What's this ? NORIKO: Here let me see that. It's a fan-letter from from Joshua Seames (j_kun@lni.net). He writes: Oh, btw, nice work on "Tales of the Red Knight Saber". I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but never finished it. Later, Josh Seames MARTA: Wonderful... he _was_ going to do it, but now _we_ got stuck with it! LING LING: Hey, at least he liked it! SHION: Well, that's something. Now, why don't we get part two of this disaster over with? MARTA: Shee, why are you always such a grump? LING LING : Showtime! Part 2: MARTA: Electric Bugaloo! The First battle of the Red knightsaber NORIKO : Let this be our *final* battle! Bert was exausted. MARTA: Hmmm... do you suppose this is taking place at the same time Bert realizes he's in love with Priss? SHION: What _are_ you talking about? MARTA: Well... in "Bubblegum Zone" when Bert finally decided he really loves Priss instead of Nene, the two of them don't come up for air for... like... a week at least. SHION: I had to ask... NORIKO: Thank you for that thrilling update Ms. Soap-opera. He had spent the last 3 weeks working around the clock MARTA: Damn! Priss is hard to satisfy! SHION: Marta!!! LING LING: Yeah, and if you believe some of the BGC fans out there, Priss is soft enough for a man, but made for a NORIKO : It's bad enough with Marta around without _you_ getting in on the act. with Dr. Raven building the new hardsuits. Now with this job coming up all of a sudden he thought he should be feeling exited to be getting out and testing his brand LING LING: Double R Self-Insertion. NORIKO : Now isn't that just a bit obscure? MARTA: And lame! spanking MARTA: Who! Who! SHION: You, if you don't shut up. new SHION : Yes...? suit ALL: Boring...! but instead he just felt wasted. MARTA : Oh man, I'm sooo wasted! LING LING : [thunk, thunk thunk] You hear that? That's my skull! By the time he got up to Sylia's living room, he noticed that the other sabers save Sylia herself had already arrived. Priss, of all people noticed his condition with a wyry grin on her face. MARTA : Sure wore you out, didn't I? EVERYONE ELSE: Shut up, Marta! "My, you look like shit." priss observed with a smirk. SHION: Obviously someone recognizes the content of this story. Plopping down lazily on the couch, Bert replied dryly "Why don't you try working around the clock for 3 weeks puting 5 hardsuits together and I'd bet you would be in worse shape than I am. NORIKO: Priss? Work? Hardly. LING LING: Yeah, that would make as much sense as Nabiki getting her hands dirty. MARTA: Or my sister. SHION: Hey! So, where is sylia?" LING LING: Probably on the phone with her agent trying to get out of this fan fic. Linna heard bert enter and walked into the living room. She answered for him "I think she went down to the garage to get Mackie." LING LING : 'Get' Mackie? MARTA: No, no. Pick him up; bring him upstairs for the meeting. NORIKO : Ladies and gentlemen, the "Pulp Fiction" sketch. Turning the conversation to something other Bert's work hours, she went for the latest gossip. "I hear he has a girlfriend." SHION: Consider that it's Marissa he's seeing, I'd change that to 'dominatrix'. Priss snorted lightly at the rumor "yeah right." Bert felt more than mischeivous tonight "jealous?" MARTA: Hey, I'd be jealous too if Mackie stood a better chance of scoring than _me_, if I were Priss. Priss' face betrayed a little shock of being asked such a question "OF MACKIE!? never!" NORIKO: It's good to see someone has some common sense. Bert's grin got much larger "yeah right, I forgot you already have a boyfriend- Leon- " NORIKO: Then again... maybe not. before he could finish it he was cut off by an unidentified flying pillow. MARTA : It was aliens, I seen 'em! Priss' face turned redder than Bert's hair in anger "LEON IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND!!!" LING LING : Hey, Priss want some Prozac? She finshed with a scream. SHION : Don't say it. MARTA: What? You're the screamer. SHION : M-A-R-T-A!!! MARTA : See what I mean? She could hear Linna and Nene giggling in the kitchen LING LING: Hey that isn't right. MARTA: Yeah how's that go? ALL: Nene giggles, Linna jiggles! Them's the rules! MARTA: And I'll watch Linna jiggle anyday! SHION: I give up. but when she turned her around to glare at them they were looking off at other directions. Both with were trying to supress their laughter but before Priss could give more fire to the argument They suddenly heard Sylia scream "ARE YOU MAD!?!" ALL : Ow... LING LING : Mad? You call me mad? You just don't recognize my genius! "what the hell was that!!" Nene said from the kitchen SHION: Sylia's first orgasm. MARTA: I can't believe you said that. NORIKO: Yeah, well Mike can't believe he just wrote that. "It sounded alot like Sylia." Linna observed. NORIKO : Brillant deduction, Linna. "Lets go check it out" he immediately got out of his chair and made his way to the door "I doubt it could be anything important." Linna thought out loud. LING LING : Yeah, Sylia is _always_ screaming at the top of her lungs, she's so over-emotional. "Since when ever have we her scream like that?" Nene reminded them. MARTA : Well, there was the that time last week where Sylia and I... uh... heh... never mind. SHION: We won't. "Well, she's screamed at bert a million times over adjustments to his suit, MARTA: Yeah, but does 'Not so tight!' count? but never THAT loud." Priss added. MARTA < Priss voice>: ...even when I was with her. "Bert's right, we should check it out!" LING LING: Is it just me or do the Knight Sabers all of a sudden sound like the cast of _Scooby Doo_? By this time, Bert is already down one set of stairs. All three girls NORIKO: Please... 'women', they are *all* over 20 by this point. nod in agreement and leave to catch up to bert. By the time they get to the bottom of the stairs they can see from the door that Mackie and Sylia arguing about something. all of their jaws drop ALL: when they see the hardsuit which looks armed to the teeth. "No way in hell am I letting you keep it mackie!" LING LING: But I promise to feed it and take it for walks and it can sleep in _my_ room! "I built it, its mine, and I am keeping it." MARTA: "It's _my_ snake, I trained it, _I'm_ gonna eat it!" NORIKO: Where is _that_ from? MARTA: Guess! crossing his arms over his chest."You, of all people, are not going stop that." SHION : You want the hardsuit? You gotta come through me. "and what do you plan doing with it- becoming another saber- I think not..." LING LING: So, Decartes walks into a bar and the bartender says "Have a beer?" and Decartes says "I think not!" and vanishes. MARTA: Well, that certainly is putting Decartes before de horse. NORIKO & SHION: "Why Not?!? I can fight as good as any other people on the team. NORIKO: Since when? Sitting in the Knightwing pushing buttons doesn't count as fighting. I've been help you create hardsuits since the day you decided to start the knight sabres." Mackie could feel his temper getting the best of him "All I want is the same thing you want: MARTA: You know, taken out of context, and considering how Mackie's mind works, that could be a really interesting line. revenge for what genom did to dad. MAYBE for once you might remember he had two kids..." SHION : He did? Is that why you are always underfoot? In all the time that had passed, It had never entered her mind that Mackie felt this way. The fact that she had dismissed that left her feeling a tad bit of guilty. NORIKO: I'd feel guilty too, considering the grammer content. "I never said..." "You didn't have to. But you won't stand in the middle of what's mine..." At this point Mackie was tired of all this. Stepping into the Hardsuit, he began gearing up. LING LING: Mackie pops the clutch on his hardsuit and tells Sylia to eat his dust! "You aren't going anywhere." Sylia commanded. NORIKO: That's right Mackie, you're grounded! "And who is gonna stop me- you?" Mackie rebuted threateningly while donning the hardsuit's helmet. "Move aside Sis." She was adamant in her descision. "No way in hell am I letting you-" she stopped midsentence by Mackie's particle laser shot to the garage door which destroyed a large portion of it. SHION : Then again... "later sis!" were mackie's last word as his flight system jetted him past his sister and into the Mega-tokyo's sky. MARTA: Up, up and away! "MACKIE- YOU ASS! GET BACK HERE, NOW!" She screamed as he exited the garage but it was too late- he was long gone. In the depths of her growing misery, she asked to herself "why me?" SHION: Hey, better _you_ than _me_! NORIKO: Or me. LING LING: Yeah, I've seen what happens to you two in your universes. While his sister was busy pondering what the hell was he trying to pull off, Mackie was having the time of his life. Flying is the only way to travel he thought- SHION: I'll vouch for that. LING LING: You can fly? SHION: I'm an Otomo-styled psychokinetic aren't I? no wonder Bert always bitched about wanting to test the flight abilities of his hardsuit. Now all he needed to do was wait until a distress signal from AD police came up and help trash some boomers. When he built the hardsuit, he made sure to add many of his own ideas that his sister usually would have disproved of. MARTA: Yeah like certain 'entertainment' attachments. LING LING: I won't even ask. for instance, he added a voice control to some off the suit's abilities as well as a voice for the computer he added. It also had a number of maps and floorplans loaded on a compact on-line computer. SHION: Great, he has a hardsuit with a built in Powerbook 3400. Also he made sure to build in a radio to recieve info. NORIKO: Excuse me? Don't all the Knight Sabers already have that? It didn't take long before he got what he was looking for. "repeat, all AD police, Boomer rampage on highway #4! Beleived to be 4 BU-12b class boomers! use extreme caution!" SHION: Yeah, try not to get killed quite so fast this time. well, there we are. Time to see if I haven't been wasting my time buiding this thing mackie thought to himself. Back at the apartment, Sylia was in bad shape. They had all returned to the living room following the incident. She couldn't believe that her little brother said what he did. Priss was sulking on the counch silently promising to herself to give Mackie more than a piece of her mind when he got back. NORIKO: Well, she better be careful how much she gives him, since she doesn't have that much to spare. LING LING: My aren't we harsh. "why would he do such a thing? I mean, I've given him money, hell, I even put up with his hentai antics. WHY!" SHION: Because Mackie want's a bigger part in the series? Bert was the first to offer his view on the subject "I think he's going through a phase. MARTA: Well, based on his last scene, I'd guess Phase 12. LING LING: Getting a little obscure, there? It probally comes from you being over protective ever since he well, you remember NORIKO: No. (see Tokyo-babylon part2 for more details. For those who didn't see it, Mackie killed 4 streetpunks with his barehands and a combat knife from one of the punks) NORIKO: Oh, I see. Like that really explains everything. "Actually, sylia, you've always been over protective of mackie." "I AM NOT OVERPROTECTIVE! NORIKO: And you're not over-emotional either, remember? Sylia proclaimed but by the looks on the others they thought other wise. "well, I, umm..." "don't worry, I'm sure he'll come back." Linna chimed in. heavily, sylia finished "I hope so....." Leon was not having one of his better days. Not only did a number of officer were already hurt or dead from these four boomers- NORIKO: Any more grammatical setups like that and my eyes are going to cross. the ol' earthshaker barely scratched them. NORIKO: That's right, real cops use Gravitons. It was hopeless. Only a miracle would save him now... He got two of them. MARTA: The Puma Sisters? Suddenly just as the lead boomer was about to charge into him it was destroyed by a sudden red energy bast from behind him. ALL: Ahhhh, you bastard!!! You killed Kenny!!! He turned around to see a red and black hardsuithardsuit. LING LING: Pizza! Pizza! MARTA: Lame squared. "get your people and get out of here. I have the situation under control." said the mysterious hardsuit. "Thanks!" were the only words that came to Leon's mind as he left. NORIKO: What? Not 'Who the are you'? or 'What are you doing here'? What kind of cop is Leon, anyway? Time to go to work. LING LING: Time to make the doughnuts. Mackie thought as a hard techno song began to blare (I'm all for musik NORIKO: No, there will be _no_ Muzak while reading this. accompaniment in reading. Try getting the Akira-ka.au from venice or some other BGC song- soldier or victory would work nicely). SHION: Or get off your butt and buy the actual soundtrack. I recommend Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal Collection Volume 1. one boomer down three to go. MARTA : On the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. All of them were stupidly charging him MARTA: Oh, they're asking to draw a foul! and He decided to start off with a couple particle laser blasts to the one in lead, who immediately went down. THe second one took the blasts without much damage but it went to the scrap heap when Mackie activated his knuckle bomber. LING LING : Flawless victory. All that was left was number four. NORIKO: Who is Number One? SHION: You are, Number Six. But before he could do anything it was hit by a large beam of pure white energy MARTA : SUPER VEGITA BIG BANG ATTACK! EVERYONE ELSE: Gahh... I think I'm deaf... (note: this is a horizontal beam and is NOT one of those attack satellites). When Mackie turned around he saw a guy, maybe in his early 20s charge the boomer. Before he could get another blast in, the boomer was messily ripped in two by the new commer. He wears his hair in the double bang fashion much like trunks from dragonball z (the 17 year old one) but ALL : T r u n k s... LING LING, NORIKO & SHION: Uhh... not like we uh.. watch that show or anything. MARTA: Speak for yourself! he's got red hair and a medium build edging closer to a lanky build. Mackie couldn't believe what he saw. He just saw a guy just rip a boomer in half! SHION: Big deal, _I_ can do that. LING LING: Yeah, but you're built on 700 points, too. 'NO ONE, NOT EVEN WITH A HARDSUIT CAN DO THAT! MARTA: Whoa, chill Mackie. Take some Prozac of something. who the hell was this guy?' NORIKO: I would guess the gratuitous self-insertion has finally arrived? were some of the thoughts raging through mackie's mind at the moment. MARTA: Funny, I thought it was hormones. "So you're one of THE knightsabers, huh. not bad, you scragged those BU-12s pretty good." LING LING : But still. Your kung fu is is not good enough. Prepare to die. Today. Mackie still couldn't believe what he saw "who the hell are you! sometime of super boomer?!" ALL: Look up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane! No, it's Superboomer! The mystery man seemed amused by that. "The name is Kyrin Branford." NORIKO: I'll take self-insertion in "Tales of the Red Knightsaber" for 100 Alex. in the distance the sound of aproaching police sirens became clear SHION: Typical AD Police, too little, too late. "you better MARTA : "You better, you better, you bet!" scram before the rest of the police show. Thanks for helping us out. Just for the record, I'm an esper, not a boomer." SHION & NORIKO: Ooohhh, I'm _sooo_ impressed... NOT! Mackie couldn't beleive what happened to him tonight. He scrapped three boomers and watched a Boomer get ripped in half! MARTA: There was blood and everything, it was cool! wait til sis hears about this. SHION : Sis, sis! Guess what *I* did! THen it all hit him what he said and Mackie very guilty about what he said. Hopefully she wouldn't be too upset with him. By the time he got home, it was 9 o'clock. LING LING: And on a *school* night, too! He imagined that they still went on their job but Mackie was suprised to find Sylia sleeping on the couch. MARTA: Big fight with Priss, Sylia dear? Obviously, he had screwed MARTA: Ahhh... I'll pass on that. SHION: Very good little sister, you're learning. up big time and what he said truely hurt her. He felt as if he would die right there of guilt. He took off the helmet and got out of the hardsuit (leaving it in his bedroom until he could fix the garage door- hopefully none of the neighbors saw him fly out from it. He took of the rest of his clothes and went off to slumber land. LING LING: More like Mackie-chan in Hentai Land. MARTA: Oh, you read that one too? Elsewhere in Megatokyo in the Genom tower, Quincy couldn't beleive what he was hearing. LING LING: That's okay, I can't believe we're reading this. "a SIXTH KNIGHTSABER!! 5 was bad enough, but six. are you SURE it was a sixth!... NORIKO : I would like to point out that if the author is incorporating Bert from "Bubblegum Zone" then we can presume he is incorporating some of the "Bubblegum Zone" plot lines. This means that by this point there would be at least 7 Knight Sabers; Linna, Nene, Priss, Sylia, Bert, Anri and Sylvia. LING LING: I thought you didn't waste your time reading this stuff? NORIKO : I... uh... don't... I had just...uh... heard about it. MARTA: Riiiight! "We are positive. the hardsuit's color scheme, construction, and weapons were all totally different from the other 5 that we have encountered." at this point the executive took a nervous pause before continueing. "There is also is the problem with the esper." LING LING: His head exploded. SHION & NORIKO : Very funny. "Branford?" the name rolled of quincy's tounge MARTA: Fell on the floor and ended up under the couch. full of disdain "He has become more than a nuicance. What's the count this month." MARTA : Five! LING LING : Three, sir. The chairmen asked. The executive asked reluctantly "er...are you sure want to hear it, sir?" "spit it out." Quincy demanded. MARTA: SHION : Are you sure we're related? "With the one he trashed tonight, 23 altogether for this month alone." LING LING: Two more and he gets an extra life. Even though the CEO remained quiet after the revelation, the executive could see the rage kept inside within quincy's cold blue eyes. It was several moments before quincy continued. "This is a very grave threat to our company's interest. We will have to make sure that we discover a way to exterminate that threat. SHION: There will be no one to stop us, this time! You are dismissed." MARTA : Yeah! We're outta here! SHION: Not so fast... NORIKO: I'm afraid Marta is right, that's the end of the tape. LING LING: All right! Only one more part to go! MARTA: And they're getting shorter too! SHION: But not any better. Shion Nys & Marta Nys (c) 1997 Michael Surbrook Noriko Kobayashi created by Jeff Mueller, used with permission. Ling Ling Li Copyright (c) 1987-97 by Yuzo Takada. This version was used without permission. MSTed by Michael Surbrook susano@otd.com.net Visit Surbrook's Stuff! A Hero System/Champions source (especially for anime and manga material) at http://www.otd.com/~susano/index.html Leon was not having one of his better days. Not only did a number of officer were already hurt or dead from these four boomers- the ol' earthshaker barely scratched them.