Review Responses
MiloMilkshake: And you shall have bloopers! :D
GAT-X105VividPanzer: I was trying to come up with a reason why Eri would 'make' Maki in the likeness of their adoptive aunt-or even as a human at all-and thought that having her leave something behind for Nozomi would be a nice idea.
AND...ACTION!
Time was running short for the film production. They would either have to push more scenes into a single day of filming or cut several scenes out, and considering the fact that they were trying to keep their spoof true to the actual movie, cutting some scenes out was impossible consideration.
"We're all adults here-" They had dismissed Yukiho and Arisa from continuing helping them in their project so the duo could work on starting their own idol team. "-which means that we are all prepared for the sacrifices that we must make to finish what we started right?" Tsubasa looked eagerly out at her gathered audience. Given that she was standing on a table, they weren't particularly interested in what she had to say but were more worried about whether the table would be able support Tsubasa's weight.
"By sacrifices, do you mean cutting some scenes from the ending of the movie?" Rin asked courageously, not getting the earlier message that there was no way any of them were going to cut a single scene from the movie, not after how much they worked on it so far.
"We're not cutting anything from the script." Tsubasa responded. "We're cutting other things though." The group would not find out until much later what Tsubasa meant by the other things that they would need to cut to create the last part of the movie.
Let's Go Get the Bad Guy! (Maybe)
"I'm really liking this movie so far. I spend most of my lines picking on Nozomi." Niko smirked, flipping through pages of dialogue. Nozomi stuck her tongue out at Niko. She had signed a contract-they all did-that they wouldn't touch each other inappropriately while on set after a few 'incidents'; breaking the rule would be enforced separation from their love interest for the remainder of the filming process.
"I'm not. I've been getting hurt quite a lot…" Maki muttered, holding ice to the bruises that she could reach. Honoka had confessed to causing the injuries though she didn't explain how or why she had done the damage. "Plus…there's a lot of fan service…"
"How else are we going to sell this?!" Tsubasa asked, pointing at Maki dramatically.
"W-We're going to sell this?!" It was the first time any of them besides Niko heard of the plan for their movie afterwards.
Tsubasa looked at them, apparently confused by the partially outraged reactions. "Isn't the publicity good for idols?" Erena wanted nothing more than to get the movie done-she wasn't in the movie anyway-and decided that Tsubasa's confusing way of thinking was not worth any of their limited remaining time.
"Discuss it later. We need to get working, people!" She shouted, clapping her hands together.
Twister
Umi stared at what appeared to be the worst enemy she had hoped she would never see again. Years of childhood trauma and confusion backed up her resentment of the offending object that mocked her with a multitude of color and she hated it so much. Sure, she was a lot less clumsy and even would go as far to call herself graceful, but still. It was an omnimous piece of cloth, no matter how worn down it looked from being used over and over again.
"Umi, stop having a staring contest with the Twister mat and get down already. We're wasting precious time." Niko grumbled. She and Kotori were waiting for Umi to join them on the mat so that Rin could finally get started. This was one of the few scenes that they could afford to cut-it wasn't in the movie anyway-but no one felt like telling Tsubasa that. Umi sat down reluctantly on the cloth, clenching the corner of it with her hands.
"Doesn't this remind you of back then?" Kotori asked, stretching a bit. "Me, you, and Honoka-chan used to play this a lot!" Umi remembered all the times they had played this game, though each ended with either embarrassment or injury, or sometimes even both. She had never won a single game, not even against Honoka-the perpetually clumsy one of the trio.
"Let's get started nya!" Rin said eagerly, flopping down on the couch to figure out the first instruction. "Left hand to yellow!"
The Abandoned Factory/Warehouse
"Hm…this says that Maki is supposed to carry all five of you at the same time but that's impossible for her to do so. We'll change it so that she only has to carry one of you at a time." Erena decided, overriding Tsubasa's slight protests. Maki gave a sigh of relief; she could only imagine how weirdly they would be positioned if she were to attempt carrying five of them at the same time. It was already looking pretty weird when she carried Nozomi on her back. Nozomi was only a bit taller than Maki herself but that height difference made a huge impact on the way Maki could carry Nozomi.
"Hey, how are we going to do the out of control Baymax thing?" Maki finally asked as the time came near for her to do so.
"Leave that to me!" Honoka said proudly, whipping out the remote she had been given by Maki's mother the previous night. "I spent a lot of time practicing!" She pushed the power button and Maki's headset changed from green to red.
"Honoka?!" Maki yelped as her body walked of its own accord without any impulse from her brain. She could still think and breathe and move her mouth and her eyes but the rest of her body was out of her control. Honoka's response was to jiggle one of the analog sticks and Maki swung her right arm forward.
"Let's see…" Honoka mumbled. "If I remember correctly…" Honoka nudged the right analog stick forward and pressed down on the 'x' button simultaneously and watched as Maki executed a right hook directed right at Rin. Honoka mashed buttons, trying to stop the attack as she hadn't realized that she was targeting Rin by accident, but remembered too late that all commands were absolute.
"NYA!" Rin squeezed her eyes shut as the fist came near but the attack never made contact. Timidly, the cat-like girl opened her eyes. Maki's right fist quivered in front of her face but the attack did not continue the full way.
"Get out of the way, Rin." Maki pleaded, tired from the effort it took to take control of only her left arm to put a stop to herself. Rin obeyed and Maki released her control of her body again and let the attack finish up.
"I'm so sorry, Rin-chan!" Honoka apologized, bowing her head before the younger teen. Rin shook her head.
"I should have been paying more attention nya. Can I have a turn?" Rin's eyes sparkled excitedly, obviously willing to forgive and forget it she had a chance to play what most of them saw as a real-life video game.
"Sorry, Rin-chan…but Nishikino-san entrusted this to me. It'd be like giving over Maki-chan's life." Honoka's voice had grown serious, and countless possibilities of what could happen if the controller were to fall into the wrong hands played in her mind.
"What if someone else were to wear the headset? Would that work?" Hanayo asked, for once seeming excited about something besides idols.
"No, this headset is specifically made for me so it's attuned to my brain only." Maki said, taking the headset off for the moment. "No one else would be able to wear it and use it the way I can."
"Okay, then I'll carefully monitor Honoka's usage of the controller." Hanayo decided, since she would be off-scene when Honoka would take control of Maki's body. Maki gave her friend a grateful nod. Hanayo would be her insurance that nothing would go wrong. But considering the fact that it was her and Honoka working together to create a scene, there was a high probability that something would go wrong even if they tried hard to prevent it.
Due to the lack of memory space in the behind the scenes camera, some of the footage was deleted.
They did manage to finish the fight scene without much problem though.
When They Finished for the Day
"Wow…I look like a dork…" Eri commented when she saw the finished product that was the culmination of their efforts. It was now 2 AM, and they had started filming at 7 AM of the previous morning, with barely any breaks for food and rest. Umi passed out as soon as her part was done, having refused both coffee and energy drinks, and had been sleeping since around 11 PM. Kotori, Rin, and Niko had opted for a small cup of coffee to keep them going rather than the much more damaging energy drink because they hadn't needed that much extra energy for their part. The caffeine that entered their systems at around 7 PM finally stopped working around 12, though they still slept a bit erratically. Honoka had long since been out, along with Hanayo; both of them slept at normal times because their parts were done by then. Maki, Eri, and Nozomi were the only ones still up with Erena-all four of them under the influence of energy drinks-and they still had a bit of energy coursing through their systems. However, Erena sent them all to try and get some rest, only speculating how many more drinks they would need to go through to finish everything they needed.
Just saying, for anyone that knows KanColle over in the Love Live fandom, I've started writing KanColle too. Go over and read "The STICK". The title is not random, there is a reason for everything.
Also, I'm considering rewriting the ending of Favors. Yeah. I'll probably do it.
That's it. Bye?
