Episode 9: The Episode on the day after the day after Christmas
[Everyone is sitting on the couch, sqeezed up against each other, looking lifeless].
[After a while…]
MIKE: Nope, there's not enough of us to suffocate ourselves.
SERVO: That and the fact me and Crow have no lungs.
JOEL: I think I'm sitting on something…
CROW: Hey! That's my hand, I lost it two weeks ago, give it back!
[The TV suddenly turns on, the words "Power of the Moon: Part 2" scroll across the screen].
MIKE: Ah, crud. Here we go again.
Her eyes slowly opened. Stars shone above her.
CROW: And ducks, and candles. Everything you see when you're knocked out.
She looked around and saw fairly long grassed.
SERVO: Since when is grass a verb?
MIKE: Who knows? Reminds me when I was in college and used to get herbed.
JOEL: Er…?
Nobody was there to care for it.
JOEL: There were people, they just didn't care. I blame the internet.
CROW: I blame Mike.
MIKE: What'd I do?
CROW: You know.
The girl stood up and looked around.
SERVO: And she saw fairly long grass.
The light from the full moon pierced the darkness around her. No buildings, no landmarks, nothing.
SERVO: Except fairly long grass.
She had no idea where she was. Then she realised she didn't know who she was.
MIKE: You're AN-GE-LA!
CROW: You're my sex slave.
MIKE: You're suicida-Wait a second, what did you say?
CROW: Nothing.
All she remembered was the faint image of a boy.
JOEL: That would be Tim.
There was a pool to her right, and the moonlight reflected off it.
SERVO: So no landmark. Except for the pool. And the waterpolo net. Is she in a waterpark?
She walked to the pool and knelt before it. She drank a little
MIKE: And gasped and coughed because of the chlorine in it.
and looked at her reflection. She had brown hair, hanging down to her shoulders, and matching brown eyes.
SERVO: And a huge pimple on her nose.
JOEL: and only one brow.
CROW: And two really big… er, eyes.
And she was naked.
MIKE: …Hello author appeal.
SERVO: What, wasn't this rated G?
CROW: She's thirteen. Sound the alert!
Upon realising this she tried to cover herself up. Then she realised there was no point; nobody was around and she wasn't cold.
MIKE: Still, you might be in a public park or something, with a bus full of nuns right around the corner.
SERVO: Yeah, but that would actually be entertaining…
So she rose and walked away from the pool. She walked for a long time, wondering where she was, how she'd got there, why she was there, and, most importantly, who she was.
MIKE: Why, how, where? Where's Waldo?
After about an hour a group of people appeared over a ridge. Three were male, two were female. All but one of the males wielded weapons. One male and one female weilded a spear each, while the other two had swords. The other, the youngest by far, was a bare-handed boy, looking about fourteen.
SERVO: Gee, I wonder if it's Tim.
CROW: I'm betting all my chips it's Tim
MIKE: Shut up, both of you. We all know it's Tim.
TZIGANE: (off screen) Hell, I'm not even watching with you and I know it's Tim!
JOEL: Aren't we reading…?
All the males wore shorts, short-sleeved shirts and a cloak around their shoulders, all a dark purple.
MIKE: From Hot Topic.
The females had the same, except they wore short skirts. Each of them had a crescent moon on their front.
SERVO: It's a Sailor Moon reboot!
The two looked at each other for a while as if they recognised each other from somewhere. The two women looked to the boy to know what to do, while the two men were looking at the girl as well, but at something else about her.
CROW: They were looking at her boobies.
JOEL: Bunch of perverts.
She then realised she was still naked, and they were staring at her breasts.
MIKE: Now, if she was around 18 or 19, that would be alright, but as she's only 13… all together, please.
All: EW! CALL THE PEDOPHILIA BRIGADE!
She screamed and spun around quickly.
SERVO: So she's mooning them now?
MIKE: That's SO much better.
"Stop staring like that!" ordered the boy. "Celma! Give her your cloak."
MIKE: So Celma will be naked?
JOEL: Let's hope she'll be older.
CROW: Yup, 81.
One of the women approached the girl and removed the cloak from her shoulders. She handed it to the girl and the girl wrapped it around herself. "Thank you," she muttered.
"Narno,
SERVO: Narno, Celma and… Bob.
go back to the castle, get her a uniform and a room," ordered the boy.
MIKE: Why are they taking orders from a young boy?
SERVO: I'm sorry, I think you confuse me with someone who gives a shit.
"Why?" the man with the spear asked. "Who is she?"
"Her name is Luna. She's one of the Other World."
MIKE: Candy land.
JOEL: Disney world.
SERVO: France.
"Your Other World?"
The boy nodded and Narno ran off.
"Who are you?" Luna asked.
"My name is Mon.
We're warriors of the Moon,"
JOEL: Of course, since the moon is just a desolate wasteland, does it need warriors?
the boy said. "We're friends."
"How do I know that?"
MIKE: Because it's convenient to the plot!
Mon sighed and pointed into the distance. "Not far that way is the Monster Kingdom.
SERVO: The monster kingdom? Sounds like a bad RPG.
You either believe us, or go with them without that cloak you're wearing. And I've heard what they do to defenceless, naked girls is not very nice."
SERVO: (As Tim) Believe me, I participated.
CROW: (As Tim) Believe me, I used to be a girl too.
JOEL: How uncharacteristic for something called the MONSTERS kingdom, geez.
"You're threatening me!" Luna shouted.
"No, I'm giving you the facts. I know this is strange for you, but you must trust us. All we want is what's best for you."
CROW: That's what Hinako's uncle used to say to her… before he TOUCHED her!
SERVO: Hinako?
CROW: From this story, part 1? Remember?...
"How do you know what it's like for me?" Luna demanded. "How can you? You're not the one standing half naked in a group of strangers!"
CROW: (As Tim) Fine, we'll all get naked if that's what you want.
SERVO: Crow…
"Because it happened to me," Mon sighed "I was the one who appeared in a strange land, surrounded by strangers, except I had it worse.
CROW: For some reason, they all pointed and laughed.
[SERVO pokes MIKE, who's being awfully still].
Nobody was there to recognise me, so they took me to the castle, naked, and interrogated me. Once they were satisfied I knew nothing they made me a citizen.
SERVO: Of the United State. Zing!
As is normal for people my age, I joined the army.
CROW: So not the US, then. I'm guessing Irak, or Congo.
You should be glad I recognised you, Luna."
Luna looked surprised. The others nodded slowly, confirming the story.
JOEL: I knew we were in "nod and smile" territory.
"You recognised me? How? Who am I?"
"You are Luna. The rest will be revealed later. For now, you have to trust us. Trust me, Luna."
"Sir..." muttered Celma.
Luna turned around and took two steps from the group.
"Should we leave?" asked the other man.
"No." Mon said. So the group waited.
Suddenly an image flashed into Luna's mind. The boy from her memories. The single face.
Mon.
But she could swear there was another name to that face.
SERVO: Yes, it's TIM! We know! You don't have to keep it up. ARGH!
JOEL: You know it's bad when a robot can go "Argh".
But if that face was all she knew, it had to be important. Slowly she turned around again.
"Okay. I'll go,"
CROW: (As Mon) GREAT! Now she'll never find the safety of the monster kingdom! MWA HA HA!
SERVO: (As Luda) What?
CROW: (As Mon) Nothing!
After about an hour they began to arrive at their destination. The group reached a large stone wall, at least ten times Luna's height. At the front was a smaller gate, made of wood and steel. The gate opened as they approached.
"The gate runs using a telepathic password," Mon explained. "This way no intruders can get in without it, nor can they overhear the password."
CROW: Unfortunately, the password was "password".
Luna nodded.
Inside there were farms, growing crops Luna had no idea about. Numerous peasants worked the fields, each of them stealing a look at the girl. But that wasn't what caught Luna's eye.
At first, she thought it was much closer. A huge castle, so big Luna almost dropped her cloak in awe.
CROW: Someone's an exhibitionist on the side.
JOEL: It's an inverted Disney castle from Magic Kingdom. At first you think it's really big, but turns out it's really small and you're just close.
It was impressively large, reaching high into the heavens, almost to the moon.
JOEL: Let's pretend a wizard did it and move on.
It was made of a dark grey stone, or so Luna assumed, with turrets lining the outside in the event of an attack.
"Big, isn't it?" said Mon. "We can also grow food inside there. In the event of an attack, the castle itself is completely self-sufficient. We don't even need these fields."
SERVO: We keep them for decorations, we burn the crops.
Luna nodded slowly, then the gate opened. Mon led the group inside where Narno waited, holding a small pile of clothes, all folded up.
"That's your uniform," said Mon. "You have to wear it all the time."
"All the time?"
"All the time," Mon confirmed.
SERVO: All the time?
CROW: All the time.
SERVO: All time time?
CROW: All the time.
SERVO: All the time?
CROW: All the time.
SERVO: Yup, all the time… you should smell the inside of mine!
Luna sighed. "Can I at least have somewhere private to put it all on? I'm getting a bit sick of people staring at me..."
"Of course. Narno?"
Narno nodded and led the way, up ten flights of stairs until they reached a floor with just doors. The hallways were lined with lit torches, illuminating the halls in the absence of the sun. Narno stopped at one. "This room is free."
"Thank you, Narno," Mon dismissed the soldier and Narno left. "Go on, Luna. This will be your room unless you get a decent promotion.
SERVO: sometime in the next ten year.
Now get some sleep. You'll need it."
JOEL: Is it too late to change her mind about going to the Monster Kingdom?
Luna nodded and went inside, closing the door behind her.
As she entered the room she sighed and let her cloak fall to the floor. She didn't care,
JOEL: Confirming she's Angela.
confusion was washing over her.
Who am I?
SERVO: Angela.
JOEL: Soldier number 110345 for the Empire.
CROW: Emperor Palpatine should be along shortly.
she thought to herself. Why was I put here?
SERVO: Plot contrivance.
Am I supposed to be doing something special?
JOEL: Entertain us.
CROW: You're falling miserably, by the way.
SERVO: Is Mike supposed to be bleeding from his ears?
She sighed again and lay at her uniform, taking a good look at it. It was just like the ones the other females had been wearing, but without a cloak.
Luna smiled. This looks like something Hina-chan would wear.
SERVO: Who wants to bet Hinako is going to be a soldier for this freakshow?
Luna froze suddenly. Hina-chan? Who was Hina-chan? And why was it so important?
CROW: All those answers and more, later! If we don't all go and drink the drain cleaner first!
SERVO: Yum! Drain cleaner!
She sighed and quickly put on her uniform. Do I have to sleep in this too? Well, he said I have to wear it all the time...
JOEL: Yes, all the time!
MIKE: All the time!
SERVO: All the time!
All: ALL-THE-TIME!
SERVO: MIKE! You're back!
MIKE: I tried holding my breath until I passed out. Didn't work.
She sighed a final time then climbed into her bed. There was only one blanket but she wasn't cold anyone.
MIKE: It's alright! She's not cold, anyone!
Well, goodnight, I guess, and she was soon asleep.
Angela woke up, then instantly began pressing her hands against her body, checking if she was real. Then she opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a bed, her parents at her side. Not her bed.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"The hospital," said her mother. "Are you alright?"
Angela sat up and saw she was wearing a hospital robe. Then she realised Luna, Mon, the Castle of the Moon... It'd all been a dream.
SERVO: Riiiight… the author expects us to believe that?
MIKE: I mean, really, when is it ever just a dream?
"I'm fine, I just had a weird dream," she said. "What happened? Why am I here?"
"When you were in that old building a beam fell on your head," said her dad.
MIKE: A beam which had "DEUS EX MACHINA" written on it.
"A beam?"
"It was holding up the roof,"
CROW: So the entire ceiling collapsed on you afterward… don't be surprised if you're missing a few things like… arms… legs… well, anything below the neck.
he explain. "Why were you in there anyway? I thought they locked the door and only smokers went in there."
MIKE: …So they locked the door and gave the key to the smokers?
JOEL: Er, did a beam fall on your head too?
Angela opened her mouth to talk, then closed it. She'd followed Tim inside. So was it his fault? Should she get him in trouble?
SERVO: Yeah, why the hell not, he saw you naked.
"Maybe we should let her rest," Angela's mum suggested. "The doctors say that you were lucky but you might have concussion, so they want to keep you here for a bit longer."
Angela nodded and her parents left.
Her dream... It'd felt so real. And yet, it couldn't have been real. Could it have?
MIKE: We know it's real, move on.
She sighed and lay back in her bed. Where was Hinako when she needed her? Angela wondered about her dream, then slowly fell asleep.
JOEL: I figured out the pattern.
SERVO: So did I.
CROW: Yup.
MIKE: Wait, they think she might have a concussion and they're letting her sleep?
"Miss, wake up, please," said a female voice and Luna opened her eyes. There was a maid, a few years younger than she was, standing next to the bed.
MIKE: Whatever happened to child labour laws?
SERVO: Next you'll be seeing doctors in diapers.
CROW: Do not give the author ideas.
MIKE: Or the Canadian government.
Luna sat up with a groan.
"Sorry, I guess I was tired. Who are you?" she asked, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
"My name is Miuwa. Master Mon has instructed me to be your personal servant,"
MIKE: Alright biatch! Now do my washing up!
the maid said.
Luna nodded and stood up. "Thanks, but why do I have to wake up?"
"You have been asleep for a while and Master Mon would like to speak with you."
"Okay, okay," she said. "Is there a shower around?"
"There are some down on the bottom floor, but it is not a good idea to use them, Miss,"
"Why not?"
"The water comes from a nearby stream. It is very cold,"
SERVO: Plus it wets the uniform.
Luna nodded. "Could you please get me a drink?"
"Certainly. What would you like?"
SERVO: Margarita, a little more lime please, more ice too, 1 1/3 once of tequila, not a drop more, I can live without the little umbrella… no, wait, I can't.
"Just water, thanks,"
SERVO: Er, still want the little umbrella?
"Yes Miss," said Miuwa and left the room. Luna noticed that the cloak had been taken away. Then she walked to the small window and pushed aside the wooden 'curtains'.
The moon was still very big, and it had been dark for some.
Luna stayed by the window until Miuwa returned with a jug of water. She poured Luna a glass and handed it to her.
SERVO: WHERE'S MY LITTLE UMBRELLA?
"Thank you. Why do I have to be awake at night? It seems... odd,"
MIKE: But the fact I'm being served by a ten year old seems perfectly normal.
"The Moon's power is greatest at night time," Miuwa explained. "So we do everything then."
JOEL: Who wants to talk about the psychological and physical implications lack of sunshine can have on you?
CROW: You do.
JOEL: Oh, right… well…
Luna nodded and drank the glass of water. Then she passed the glass back to Miuwa and went off to see Mon. She stopped outside the door.
"Miuwa?" she asked.
Miuwa walked up beside her. "Yes Miss?"
"Where's Mon?"
Miuwa held back a laugh
SERVO: You dare laugh at your mistress?! I shall have you hanged!
MIKE: Finally some action.
and walked away. "Please come this way, Miss."
Luna followed the servant girl, passing several people. She quickly noticed that everyone wore almost exactly the same uniforms, except for a few minor differences. Miuwa's skirt was longer than Luna's, covering her knees, and her shirt went down to her wrists. She also wore an apron on her front.
"Why is your uniform different to mine?" Luna inquired.
"Your uniform is designed to keep you cool and mobile in battle, since you are a soldier,"
MIKE: Nothing says soldier like a short skirt.
SERVO: Not unless that's "Sailor Soldier".
Miuwa explained. "My uniform keeps me warm while I work."
Luna nodded, understanding that. "But why don't I have a cloak?"
"You are not yet a soldier, you are still just a recruit," Miuwa explained as they passed a large door, with a gold crescent on it.
SERVO: That means you do everything a soldier do and more, but get a cheaper salary and a smaller room.
"Nice door," Luna muttered.
"That is the Queen's
MIKE: Hinako.
SERVO: Angela's mom.
JOEL: Tim.
personal chambers and throne rooms," Miuwa said. "Very few ever go in there."
"I suppose you haven't," Luna said. Not really a question, but Miuwa spoke anyway.
"I am just a lowly servant girl,"
MIKE: (As Miuwa) It's also part of my job to degrade myself.
she said with a little chuckle. "I would never be permitted to see the Queen."
Luna joined in the laughter.
MIKE: I laugh at your misery!
"So, how did you become a servant girl?"
"Everyone who is older than nine years of age is required to work. If they refuse, they are not paid, and they do not eat,"
MIKE: Ain't that just a fun place to live. Tell me, is it STILL too late for the monster kingdom?
Miuwa explained. "I am not strong enough to enlist as a soldier, and I would like to eat.
SERVO: Yeah, a lot of people have that problem.
So I decided to become a servant."
CROW: (As Miuwa) I applied for sex slave at first, but with my little breast…
Luna nodded. "How long are you going to be my servant? Just while I'm a recruit?"
"No, I will be your servant until either of us die, or you dismiss me," Miuwa said, then stopped at another door and bowing low. "Mon awaits you in here. I will be waiting in your room."
MIKE: So they can afford to give any random recruit a personal servant? That's just…
JOEL: And we delve deeper and deeper and into "a wizard did it" territory as we try to understand the dysfunctional functioning of this bizarre story.
[Everyone stares].
JOEL: What? I've been formulating that phrase since the second page.
"Thank you," Luna said, nodding and entered the room.
Inside Mon sat on a chair facing the door. Facing him was another chair.
"Close the door," he said. Luna did so. "Now, let's get started. Catch," he threw a small item at Luna. Luna didn't expect it and dropped the item.
"Be careful with that!" Mon shouted.
MIKE: (As Mon) It's a bomb!
SERVO: (As Lunda) Why did you threw it?
MIKE: (As Mon) To look cool!
"You're the idiot who threw it at me!" Luna objected, retrieving the item.
Mon stood up. "I'll forgive you for that this time, but if you should speak to me like that again, you will be severely disciplined. The first rule you must learn here is that I am in charge. You are not."
MIKE: Who else is annoyed by this character and wishes him to die a slow, painful death?
[Everyone raise their hands]
JOEL: If you have to TELL someone you're in charge, that means you're not fit to be.
Luna was listening to him, but the whole time they were looking at the item. It was a small gold pendant, shaped yet again as a crescent moon. It hung from a black string."
"Put it on and never, under any circumstances, take it off,"
MIKE: Like your uniform.
SERVO: All the time?
CROW: Let's not do that again.
Luna hung the crescent from her neck.
"Take it off," he said and Luna took it off.
"Weren't you listening to me?" Mon shouted. "Never take it off, even if the Queen herself orders you to!"
Luna put it back on, blushing. She quickly decided Mon had a temper.
SERVO: Luna/Angela decides a lot of things, doesn't she?
CROW: If she can just "decide" things like that, why can't she just decide that he DOESN't have a temper?
"Take it off," he said. Luna didn't move.
MIKE: (As Mon) I'm in charge! You must obey me! I'm going to get you whipped for that!
Mon smiled at her. "Very good," he said and pulled a pendant identical to hers from his own top.
"These are magical pendants," Mon began.
SERVO: Say:"Moon prism power make-up". Please.
"Wait," Luna interrupted. "I don't care what these are. All I want to know is where I am, and what's going on here."
Mon sat down and motioned to the chair opposite him. Luna sat in it.
"Did you dream last day?" Mon asked. Luna nodded.
"What happened in that dream?"
Luna didn't have to think much. Her dream was still clear and vivid in her mind, as if she had really been there. "I was a girl named Angela. I was living in some sort of strange world, in a hospital. I'd been injured by a beam falling on my head."
"That sounds right," Mon said. "You will dream again tonight. When you do, you are to ring Tim. Tell him what you've experienced. Don't leave anything out. Trust me on this."
MIKE: (As Mon) I have a something shocking to tell you… I'm TIM!
SERVO: No shit, Sherlock.
JOEL: Could've been worse, Mon could've been called Mit, or miT
"Why should I trust you? You abduct me, then start ordering me around. You haven't done much to earn my trust.
Mon rose and walked to a window. "Two nights ago my patrol and I encountered a powerful monster, a Draconian. Two of us died. The remainder is what rescued you today."
"I don't understand,"
"You will," Mon said and sat back in his seat. "There are two yous, just as there are two of me. There is you, and the other is a girl named Angela. The other me is a boy named..."
"Tim," Luna interjected.
All: SHOCK! GASP! SURPRISE!
Mon nodded. "That's right. In what we call the Other World, you, Angela are an ordinary school child, as is Tim.
SERVO: Of course, "normal" is all relative.
Here, in what Tim calls the Dream World, we are soldiers. We fight for the Moon Kingdom
SERVO: Ruled by Queen Serenity, we are at war with the Dark Kingdom…
and we are one of the superpowers of this world. Currently our only true rivals are the Monster Kingdoms. However, a lot of our energy comes from our ally, the pacifist Sun Kingdom."
JOEL: Sounds like the USA-Irak-Canada relationship. I leave it up to you to guess which one is which?
[A loud thud is heard from across the room].
TZIGANE: Ouch! Joel, the fourth wall! The fourth wall!
Luna nodded. "How powerful are the Monsters?"
"Very powerful. They outnumber us and have powerful creatures. However we have magic and training, as well as our werewolves," Mon smiled.
"Werewolves?"
MIKE: (As Mon) Okay, cats, happy now?
"Werewolves. Some of our soldiers turn into powerful wolves at night. They are very powerful like this,"
SERVO: The word "powerful" has been said 5 times in the last 5 sentences.
Mon smiled more. "We also have our secret weapon."
"And that is?"
"Us, Luna. Look at how young I am and I am one of the greatest soldiers in our army. If you are anything like me, and you are, you will be great," Mon then stood and returned to the window. "They didn't trust me. They feared me. But I am a veteran of more battles than most of them. They grew to respect me because I am great and you will be too, Luna."
MIKE: (As Mon) I also have the ego the size of the empire state building, but that's another story.
CROW: Let's see. Marty Sam, Tim, Mon… notice a pattern?
"I can't, Mon," Luna objected.
"Do you think it's coincidence that brought you here?" Mon turned back to Luna. "It isn't. You have magical energies, I can feel it."
"But I'm just a girl!" Luna pleaded.
CROW: (As Luna) I don't want to be a soldier! I want to be a sex slave!
SERVO(As Luna): I'm just a normal girl, but I'm also… The pretty soldier Sailor Moon!
Mona clutched his pendant tightly in his fist.
All: *laugh*
JOEL: And a new character is introduced out of nowhere.
"I want to show you something," he said, then closed his eyes.
All: Oh-Oh…
CROW: Let me go fetch the NC-17 warning…
"I call upon the power of the Moon!"
SERVO: MAKE-UP!
Mon's pendant began to glow from inside his hand and ribbons of light flew from it
SERVO: Urgh, I don't wanna see Mon in a dress.
, wrapping around his legs and his hands, moulding into a shape.
SERVO: Oh my god, he IS turning into Sailor moon!
When the light faded he wore gloves with steel knuckles and hard boots on.
SERVO: And a short skirt.
"It's light, but incredibly strong. I have slain many Monsters with this, with my magic, and with the power of the Moon," Mon showed off his new outfit.
Luna laughed. "It's got to be a trick."
"You want proof?" Mon asked. "Grab your pendant and say 'I call upon the power of the Moon."
Luna sighed, but did so.
"I call upon the power of the Moon!" she declared and her pendant began to glow too. The light ribbons shot out from it, as they had from Mon's, but they didn't wrap around her body. Instead they wrapped around a shapeless figure in the air, forming a great white light until a sword appeared.
The hand was gold with three crescents, one at the end of the hand and two on either side of the hilt. The blade had two curved edges and was as long as Luna's arm.
The sword floated in the air for a few seconds, waiting for Luna to grab it. When she didn't, Luna's pendant stopped glowing and the sword fell to the ground with a clatter.
"You were supposed to grab it, you know," Mon said.
SERVO: (As Mon) Next, we'll be working on poses, and if we have time, speeches.
MIKE: Could you leave us place a few lines, please?
SERVO: Who's the resident anime buff here?
MIKE: Until I uploaded you with the databanks, me!
Luna's face turned a deep shade of red as she crouched to retrieve the sword.
"Do you still believe this is a trick?" Mon asked.
MIKE: Hey, if they can pull quarters out of your ear.
Luna shook her head. "I don't know what to believe."
Mon put his hand on Luna's shoulder. "You've done enough today. I know this must be hard to take in, but you have to trust me. Go look around the castle now. Take Miuwa with you, she knows her way. Oh, and, hide the pendant and never take it off."
MIKE: Like your uniform.
SERVO: So does she hide it or keep it?
CROW: Maybe she's supposed to go hide with it?
JOEL: A little while later…
CROW: (As Mon) Damn, that's the third one to die of thirst because she's been hiding with her pendant in the closet for a month…
Luna nodded and began to leave once more before stopping.
"Umm... Which way is it to my room again?" Luna asked and Mon facefaulted.
MIKE: Wait, what did he do?
SERVO: He… made a face fault… it's a humorous device used in anime in which characters who have heard stupid things just fall on their face, their limbs flailing or twisted above them.
MIKE: So… he used an anime device… in a literary work.
SERVO: Yeah…
MIKE: Ok, I've reached my limit. I'll gladly take on My Immortal again.
[MIKE gets up and pushes the TV off the table it stood on. The TV falls to the floor with a noticeable sound of glass breaking].
MIKE: There!
[Suddenly, a Star Trek alarm begins the blarein the apartment, while the lights flash a violent red].
TZIGANE: ALERT! ALERT! The Reception Device has been compromised. Procceding to initiative 17-B.
JOEL: Mike, I feel like you shouldn't have done that…
SERVO: I knew you'd be the death of me, Mike Nelson!
CROW: And of me too!
[Tzigane approaches the boys menacingly, as they retreat into a corner of the apartment].
JOEL: Ah… down girl?
TZIGANE: ALERT! ALERT! Proceeding with initiative 17-B.
[A large beam canon emerges from Tzigane's mouth, aiming at MIKE, JOEL and the bots].
TZIGANE: (With Dr. Erhardt's voice) Any last words?
TO BE CONTINUED!