Rugrats in Japan: Showdown Arc: Prologue!
Susie, in her samurai uniform, was standing near the crater of the mountain and Mudana was on the other side of the crater far away with her back turned. Susie clenched her teeth in fury. She took a deep breath and then...
"MUDANA" Susie screamed. Her voice echoed across the daycare center.
At Yuurikage's base, Susie's scream of rage was heard by Sanyo, Tafuyumi, and the others.
"That was Susie" Tommy said.
"This is the beginning of her battle" Soyami said.
Angelica looked up at the ceiling, qorrying about Susie.
"Carmichael." Angelica thought sadly.
At the peak of the Mount Fuji area at the other side of the crater, Mudana turned around slowly and faced Susie with evil in her eyes. She walked towards the edge of the crater. Mudana was wearing a purple and white kendo uniform with a sword seethed and attached diagonally to her back. Susie walked to the edge of her side of the crater. Mudana grinned.
"Susie!" Mudana said joyfully. "How are you doing, old pal?"
"We are not pals." Susie shouted. "You kidnapped and hurted my friends and my brother."
"Calm down, you big crybaby." Mudana said. "If they died I would have let you and your other friends claim their bodies."
Susie growled. "You think that would fix anything?" She hissed.
"I'm just trying to be generous." Mudana assured Susie. "Should they have died, I would have given the bodies to you and their loved ones as gifts. I can see it now. Their daddys and mommies cry, their friends swear revenge on me, and I get the highest respect from my daddy, who, as we speak, is probably ruining lives right now and living on top of the world ".
"So that's what this is about?" Susie asked angrily. "You enslave babies and children and you even go so far as to kill them, just to impress your evil daddy and to cause others misery?"
"That and because it's fun." Mudana said.
"BECAUSE IT'S FUN?" Susie screamed with a fire burning in her eyes. "I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A SOCIOPATHIC, HEARTLESS PERSON IN MY WHOLE LIFE."
"Are you afraid to do something about it?" Mudana asked, grinning.
"No." Susie said angrily.
"Besides, I have supporters in my empire." Mudana pointed out. "Four of them are siblings who only care about their own family, two of them are almost as bad as me, one of them could have been a ronin samurai if he hadn't kept his promise to me, and one of them is suffering enough from loss of parents; enough to want to join and even cause as much damage as me. And you know what, I still want the greedy girl the same age as me to join me."
"Leave Angelica out of this." Susie shouted.
"Why should I?" Mudana asked. "Angelica is a bully, too and a hypocritical one at that".
"At least she has a conscience" Susie pointed out.
"All right" Mudana said. "Forget about Angelica. Why don't we talk about Dil and Suji. There is only one reason for you to be here and that's for you to save those babies".
"Let them go." Susie demanded.
"Only if you beat me in a sword-on-sword battle." Mudana said. She looked at a snake whose upper body slithered out of her sleeve "Or in my case, a sword-on-sword and snake battle."
Susie smirked. "I'll cut down your snake armor. That I can promise you." She said.
"We'll see about that." Mudana said. She grinned. "By the way, in case you do cut down my armor, I have an ace in the hole that you can't beat."
"And what might that be?" Susie asked, snarling at Mudana.
Mudana pointed at Susie. "That's for you to find out."
"If I win this battle, you have to tell me where Dil and Suji are." Susie said. "And while you are at it, if I win, you have to end your enslavement and torment of babies and children once and for all."
"Okay! But if I win, Dil and Suji get to be mine, forever, and I get to keep enslaving and tormenting babies" Mudana said, grinning.
"In the name of bushido, the samurai, and my friends, I shall defeat you." Susie declared.
"ZEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Mudana laughed. "Come and try it".
For a long moment, Mudana and Susie just stoid on opposite sides of the crater. Then... they began to charge at each other inside the crater.