Disclaimer: I don't own the Samurai Pizza Cats. This has nothing to do with any of my previous stories, this is completely different, as you will soon see.
Speedy was in Good Bird's restaurant, leaning against the counter, waiting for an extra-special pizza to be ready. It wasn't just ANY pizza, it was part of an important thing he had been planning for a while. He nervously held a small daisy in his hand, thinking about the circumstances that lead him here today. Ever since he had discovered that Polly, his life long best friend, was the one he had been deeply in love with the entire time, he had been planning this! He smiled when he thought of her and how much she truly meant to him. He had always cherished her friendship, but God what had taken him so long to finally admit that these feelings he had always carried deep down were MUCH MORE than just feelings you would have for a best friend?! For the longest time that's all he thought it was, and had been too distracted by Lucielle to think it was anything more.
True, there was nothing wrong with Lucielle, nothing at all. She was sweet, kind, and charming. But there was always something…missing. Something just wasn't there between the two of them. He chalked it up to just the few first months of dating…but as the months went by he couldn't shake the emptyness that not even Lucielle's kisses could fill. Something just wasn't there…but now he knew what it was! It was something only Polly had! It was the excitement and adventure that pulsated around her! With Lucielle he had felt comforted and secure….but it wasn't enough! He thought it was, but it wasn't. with Polly he felt so much more. He felt excitement, daring, adventur that seemed to follow everywhere she went. With Lucielle life was simple and peaceful, with Polly it was daring and exciting! Every day was a surprise, and now that he was spending even more time with Polly in the Pizza Restaurant, he had discovered she even made pizza planning exciting! He had noticed new things to admire in her….why had it taken him so long to see them? But now he had…and now that Polly was his one true love he would NEVER let her go!
The Rescue Team had taken early lunches from their restaurants to give Speedy encouragement and to wait with him while the pizza was getting ready. Speedy smiled and bgan to pluck the daisy in his own version of 'she-loves-me'.
"She's gonna marry me!" he said, plucking the first petal off the daisy.
"YEAAA!" They all cheered.
"She won't," he said, picking another petal.
"Awww," they said.
"She will!" Speedy said, picking another petal.
"Yeeeeaaaa!"
"She won't."
"Awww."
"She will!"
"Yeeeeeaaaaaaaa!!"
"She won't."
"Awww."
"Speedy," Carla interrupted him. "The pizza's all ready!"
Sh took it out of the ovn and opened it. It was zesty extra cheese-
perfect! "All it needs is the special topping!" Speedy smiled,
took something out of his pocket, and gav it to Carla, who put it
right in the center. "There…perfect! What a romantic way to
propose!"
"Thanks, Carla! Speaking of proposals…" he
noticed just one petal on the daisy. "where was I?"
"She won't marry you, she…" Spritz said, urging him.
"She will!" He said, plucking the last pedal.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa!!!" they all cheered. Good Bird then picked up the pizza and gav it to Speedy.
"There you are, buddy, all ready to go. I wish you every bit of luck!"
"Good luck! Go get her!!" the Rescue Team called out and Speedy waved and was gone. Carla tugged Good Bird's sleeve.
"Let's follow him and hide. I just HAVE to see Speedy in action!"
"Ya read my mind!" Good Bird said.
A little later Speedy arrived at the Pizza Cat Pizza Parlor. He stopped for a moment and took a deep breath, rehursing to himself one more time what he would say. Finally he opened up the door, causing Francine and Polly to look up.
"Hey, Speedy, bout time you came back," Francine said.
"Oh, Francine, we got ourselves a small problem with th pizza!"
What, what problem?" Francine asked.
"The customers, they said this was the wrong pizza, it wasn't
what they ordered!"
"How could it not be the right order? I
know I put the right pizza in there, pepperoni and mushrooms!" Poly
said,.
"well, open it and see for yourself!" Speedy said, handing the pizza Carla made to Polly. Poly opened it and stared. "Hey..how come a cheese pizza is in here, I know I put a….hey….there's something in here!"
"Huh?" Speedy said, pretending to be surprised.
"Yeah…it's…it's…"she reached in to fish it out. "It's…A SCALDING HOT RING!!!" She dropped it into a nearby pitcher of ice and took it out to clean it. She held it up, gasping. "Oh, Speedy…it's beautiful!"
Speedy took the ring and went behind the counter next to her, taking her other hand. "Polly, that ring is for you. That's to show you once and for all, that I'm done. I'm finished with all the flirting and done with all the girl chasing and staring. I'm not going to stall anymore when I deliver pizzas cause I have no reason to stop anywhere anymore!"
"Could you put that in writing?" Francine asked, recieveing filthy looks from Polly and a lot of the customers…who Speedy and Polly temporarily forgot about.
"Polly, I love you, and I realise now that I've always loved
you! You're the one, Polly, and there will never be anyone else,
ever! It's you, Polly, and it's always been you and will always
be you! You have my heart, and you always will." He got down on one
knee in front of everyone in the restaurant. "Polly Pururun Esther,
you are the most wonderful cat in all of Japan! You can make me the
happiest Samurai in all of Little Tokyo if you would be my wife.
Pollyanna, will you marry me?"
Polly's eyes had filled with
tears at Speedy's heartwarming speech. "Oh, Speedy," she
gasped. "Yes, I will!" Speedy put the ring upon her and stood up,
sharing a passionate kiss as all the customers, sitting in the booths
and lined up to order burst into spontaneous applause. For the longst
time Speedy and Polly kissed deeply, unaware of anything or anyone
else, not even th customers for th longest time.
Meanwhile on Prisoner;s Island Big Cheese and Jerry Atric made their way to the other side of the island. "Are you sure you know what you are doing, Seymour?" Jerry asked. "Dr. Heroshi has gone completely mad, so they all say from being on this island for too long! "
"They may say that, Jerry, but he's also a brilliant doctor
and a fantastic inventor, and his expertise may serve us all very
well!"
"That's only because he's got more than two
functioning brain cells, even if they're not all there, unlike
you!" Jerry said.,
"HEY!!! WHAT was THAT?!?! ARE YOU CALLING ME AN IDIOT?!?! IF IT wasn't for YOU we wouldn't even BE here!! YOU COULDN'T KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!! ARRRRRGH!!" Before Jerry could duck he got covered in soot.
A little later after he calmed down Cheese went to see Dr. Herishi. "Good aftrnoon, Doctor. How is your newest invention?"
"It's just about done," the doctor said. "But remember
your promise. I give it to you and then you build your raft and help
take me OUT of here!"
"Of ourse of course! Now, what do you
call this?"
"The Sleeping Death!" The doctor produced a
green bottle. "You simply put this formula into any dart gun and
shoot it. Once the victem injests it, a feeling of cold and
drowsiness will rin through their veins. Their pulse will cease. No
warmth, no breath, will indicate they live. Of course it will
continue to beat but oh so faintly and silently no doctor's machine
in the world will detect it, breath so faint nothing can deduce it!
The skin will turn cold as ice the muscles go limp. The redness of
lips and cheecks will fade to pale ashen color. Eyelids close as to
signal life's end, each body part, losing its movement, will appear
stiff and stark and cold, like death. In the deathlike coma they
remain for 2 weeks, after which they waken as if from a long sleep."
"Excellent! Excellent!" Cheese said, knowing EXACTLY which group would be his first test victims as soon as they got back to Little Tokyo.
