Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 7 - "Eternity's Mirage"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: An eerily quiet day for Ohtori Academy. The classes are in their regular session and Samantha is busily taking notes during her fifth period Aquatic Science class. Suddenly, the peacefulness is disturbed by an earth-shattering explosion from outside.
Samantha: [falls out of her chair] Ack! What was that?
Sarah: [goes to the window and sees a girl with wavy turquoise hair wearing an Ohtori girl's uniform apparently facing off with Akio] I didn't know Michiru-san attended Ohtori, too!
Samantha: [anime fall] There's no way that could be Michiru-san. She would make a much flashier entrance in her helicopter.
Sarah: Yeah, you're right. Besides, I don't see Haruka-san anywhere.
Samantha: [sniffs the air and makes a face] Blech, what is that?
Sarah: [takes a deep breath] Smells like...burnt white leather?
Scene: The courtyard. A large ring of students and teachers has formed around Akio and the mystery girl. She holds a remote control in one hand.
Akio: I don't know who you are, but Ohtori Gakuen does not tolerate such conduct. I warn you, put down the remote.
Veronica: Not on your life, pal! Not until you tell me what the hell I'm doing here!
Scott: [forces his way through the crowd] Veronica! Are you insane? You just can't go around blowing up Akio-Cars like that!
Veronica: [grins evilly] Oh, I didn't blow them all up...just half of them. Not for long, though...[begins to press the button on the remote detonator]
Samantha: **Damn, suppose I have to do something.** [sneaks up behind Veronica] Hey, check it out! Haruka-san's in the cockpit of Heavy Arms!
Veronica: [loses it] WHAT?! [turns around to look, but when she does, Samantha knocks the control from her hand. It clatters to the ground.]
Samantha: [picks up the remote] Y'know, you really should seek psychiatric help for this.
Veronica: [wide eyed] What'd you do that for?! I was so close!
Samantha: Well, let's see...first, I don't need maniacs like you detonating explosives while I try to study! And secondly...umm...[expression goes blank]
Sarah: [flatly] Looks like somebody lost her train of thought again. Gee, wonder why.
Samantha: [tosses the remote to Akio] Here, you'd better hide this in a safe place. [walks off]
Veronica: [to Scott] Why the hell did she do that?
Scott: Dunno. Knowing her though, "An Akio-Car is a terrible thing to waste."
Akio: Rightly so.
Sarah: Are you still here?
Akio: Well, I am the Chairman, you know.
All: [sweatdrop]
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are discussing the current situation.
A-ko: The Fourth of July! Picnics! Fireflies! But most of all, fireworks!
B-ko: But most of these rockets are duds!
A-ko: Oh brave hero, do you really know what lies behind these sparklers?
A-ko and B-ko: Do you know, do you know, do you really know?
B-ko: Ow, I burned myself!
Scene: The beautiful open air cafeteria. Scott, Samantha, Sarah, Jessica, and Sean sit eating their lunch at one of the larger tables.
Sarah: [to Samantha] Hey, where's Rio?
Samantha: [blinks once, then twice for good measure] You ask me as if I know exactly where she is.
Jessica: [coughs] Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the--
Scott: [frantically] Don't say it! For Kami's sake, don't say it! The fourth wall's already strained enough as it is with us around here. [a cherry red motorcycle goes roaring by several students, nearly running them down]
Sean: Guess we know the answer to that question...let's see, Rio's terrorizing the locals, Josh is dead at the moment...hmm, what about that psycho girlfriend of yours, Scott? I'd feel better if I knew where she was, too.
Scott: [shrugs] Beats me--
Jessica: [whacks him over the head with her cafeteria tray]
Samantha: [to Scott] Haven't you learned to be careful of what you say around here, yet?
Scott: [sweatdrops] Obviously not. Anyway, hell if I know where she is. Besides, she's not my girlfriend, baka.
Josh: [walks by and waves at them] Hey, guys.
Sean: Wait a second, isn't he supposed to be, y'know...DEAD?
Jessica: [sighs] Times like these really make me wish I had a camera.
Scott: [munches on his sandwich] Well, nobody ever really dies in anime, anyway. They just come back for cheesy cameos or become even more powerful.
Scene: The gate to the Forest Arena at night. Scott stands outside of it waiting for someone.
Veronica: [walks up to him] What are you doing here, Scott?
Scott: Huh? Oh, I was just going to ask you the same thing. I found this note in my locker telling me to come here tonight. [shows her the note]
Veronica: Freaky. I received the same note. Look. [shows him the note] But who sent these to us?
Rio: [appears from the shadows] I believe I can answer that. I have someone I want the two of you to meet.
Veronica: [warily] Who?
Rio: Listen, can't you hear it?
Scott: **I have a really bad feeling of where this is going** Okay, I'll bite. Hear what?
Rio: If your soul hasn't truly given up...then you should be able to hear this sound...running about the Ends of the World. [the low rumble of a car engine can be heard in the distance]
Scott: Damn it! Not even here a week and already I have to go through this!
Veronica: [skeptically] The Ends of the World? Let's see this thing, whatever it is.
Rio: Then, come journey with us to the world which you desire! [a breeze dramatically ruffles Rio's hair as the Akio-Car pulls up beside the three]
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The Akio-Car. *author tries not to double up in laughter* Akio is driving while Scott and Veronica ride in the backseat.
Scott: **Ooh, a certain somebody's head is going to roll as soon as I find her.** What do you want with us? [Akio remains silent] Answer me, damn it!
Veronica: [quietly thinks for a few minutes] But you couldn't be...
Akio: [doesn't turn around] Yes, the Ends of the World I will show to you both. [Akio flips over the windshield and sits on the hood of the car. The Akio-Car drives itself and occupants to "The Ends of the World" presumably.]
Scene: The cafeteria the next afternoon. Utena, Anshi, and Miki sit eating lunch.
Utena: [opens her bento and finds a card addressed to her placed neatly on top] In my lunch now, too?
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena this evening.
Miki: Another challenge from these new Duelists. How many of them could there be?
Utena: I'm not sure, but I guess I don't really have a choice, though.
Anshi: [eating] My, how delicious.
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anthy at the dueling platform. "Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku" plays in the background.
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
My own birth, Absolute birth, Apocalypse
A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
A gold-gilded Shangri-La
Day and night reversing
A time-gilded Lost Paradise
Darkness over Sodom
Darkness ever glowing
Darkness over yonder
Darkness never ending
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalyptic Darkness Apocalypse
mokushi kushimo
himoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
mokushi kushimo
shimoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
Scene: The dueling platform. Utena and Anshi (in full Rose Bride attire) appear in a whirlwind of rose petals. The inverted floating castle above them rotates contently. The entrance to the stairwell separates and the usual Akio-Car silhouette is seen. Scott steps from it wearing a Duelist's uniform with dark red as the main color scheme. Veronica is dressed in a dark teal Rose Bride dress.
Utena: Scott-san? Are you one of them as well?
Scott: For the sake of grasping eternity to continue Project Mirage forever, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [Veronica acts as Scott's Rose Bride and draws the spirit sword from his chest with a yank] Ow, damn it, that hurt! Think you could draw that a little slower next time?
Veronica: Yeah, bite me. Unless you'd like me to replace your spirit sword that is.
Utena: [sweatdrops]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I beseech thee: appear before me.
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World! [Anshi pulls the Sword of Dios from Utena's chest while Akio-Cars pop out from the floor of the Arena and one drives itself around the edge of the platform. A group of several people observe the duel from the Seitokai balcony. "I am an Imaginary Living Body" plays in the background.]
Incandescent darkness and birthed puppets
Are named, anthropoperipherism
Pulling the strings of the world is a single existence
For the others, an imaginary puppet-craft
Subzero darkness and birthed creatures
Correlated, anthropoperipherism
On the natural stage are the units of existence
Comprised of an imaginary creature-craft
Words are born, the encounter, then a hesitation
Knowledge is born, the encounter, then a void
O where am I, when am I
Spell, incantation, mystery, prayer, myself
Stage destiny magic mirror
Sean: [to Sarah] Can I do it, please??
Jessica: No way, I want to!
Sarah: [sighs] Oh all right, you can both do it. Yeesh.
Josh: Both do what?
Jessica: [pulls out a scythe from scythe-space apparently and neatly slices off Josh's head] Me happy now.
Sean: [pushes what's left of Josh's body off the balcony and it lands with a satisfying thump] Ditto.
Full moon, mysterious and transmutable, I'm an imaginary living body come to its end
Full moon, mysterious and transmutable, I'm an imaginary living body come to its end
Seeking time, without rest, living on, a speleomorph
Seeking land, legless, armless
Still existing I am, transparent, intangible, a faint sigh...
Hahhahhahha
[Utena disables Scott of his sword. The headlights of all the many Akio-Cars flicker on and join to become one light, stretching up the castle. The spirit of Dios descends and lends his power to Utena who promptly slices off Scott's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Veronica disappears in a shower of light and Scott falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Samantha: [walks up] Utena-san won again, didn't she?
Sarah: Yeah...hey, where were you? I wouldn't think you'd be one to miss a duel.
Samantha: [surprised] Oh, umm...I had some Student Council paperwork to finish up. That's about it.
Scene: The other random balcony overlooking the Forest Arena. Akio and Touga are discussing the events that have transpired.
Touga: Quite frankly I'm surprised that he failed to defeat Tenjou-kun. Wasn't she the one to handle his spirit sword?
Akio: Yes, she was. But it wasn't what it really seemed, to him at least.
Touga: Then how do you propose to--
Akio: [interrupts him] I still have a few tricks up my sleeve yet. [turns to Anshi who is waiting for him] Shall we go?
Anshi: Hai, Onii-sama.
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: What? Now Jessica-san wants to challenge me?
Anshi: My, Utena-sama, I didn't know she was on the Seitokai.
Samantha: That's just it, she isn't.
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Mirror Image."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 7 - "Eternity's Mirage"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: An eerily quiet day for Ohtori Academy. The classes are in their regular session and Samantha is busily taking notes during her fifth period Aquatic Science class. Suddenly, the peacefulness is disturbed by an earth-shattering explosion from outside.
Samantha: [falls out of her chair] Ack! What was that?
Sarah: [goes to the window and sees a girl with wavy turquoise hair wearing an Ohtori girl's uniform apparently facing off with Akio] I didn't know Michiru-san attended Ohtori, too!
Samantha: [anime fall] There's no way that could be Michiru-san. She would make a much flashier entrance in her helicopter.
Sarah: Yeah, you're right. Besides, I don't see Haruka-san anywhere.
Samantha: [sniffs the air and makes a face] Blech, what is that?
Sarah: [takes a deep breath] Smells like...burnt white leather?
Scene: The courtyard. A large ring of students and teachers has formed around Akio and the mystery girl. She holds a remote control in one hand.
Akio: I don't know who you are, but Ohtori Gakuen does not tolerate such conduct. I warn you, put down the remote.
Veronica: Not on your life, pal! Not until you tell me what the hell I'm doing here!
Scott: [forces his way through the crowd] Veronica! Are you insane? You just can't go around blowing up Akio-Cars like that!
Veronica: [grins evilly] Oh, I didn't blow them all up...just half of them. Not for long, though...[begins to press the button on the remote detonator]
Samantha: **Damn, suppose I have to do something.** [sneaks up behind Veronica] Hey, check it out! Haruka-san's in the cockpit of Heavy Arms!
Veronica: [loses it] WHAT?! [turns around to look, but when she does, Samantha knocks the control from her hand. It clatters to the ground.]
Samantha: [picks up the remote] Y'know, you really should seek psychiatric help for this.
Veronica: [wide eyed] What'd you do that for?! I was so close!
Samantha: Well, let's see...first, I don't need maniacs like you detonating explosives while I try to study! And secondly...umm...[expression goes blank]
Sarah: [flatly] Looks like somebody lost her train of thought again. Gee, wonder why.
Samantha: [tosses the remote to Akio] Here, you'd better hide this in a safe place. [walks off]
Veronica: [to Scott] Why the hell did she do that?
Scott: Dunno. Knowing her though, "An Akio-Car is a terrible thing to waste."
Akio: Rightly so.
Sarah: Are you still here?
Akio: Well, I am the Chairman, you know.
All: [sweatdrop]
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are discussing the current situation.
A-ko: The Fourth of July! Picnics! Fireflies! But most of all, fireworks!
B-ko: But most of these rockets are duds!
A-ko: Oh brave hero, do you really know what lies behind these sparklers?
A-ko and B-ko: Do you know, do you know, do you really know?
B-ko: Ow, I burned myself!
Scene: The beautiful open air cafeteria. Scott, Samantha, Sarah, Jessica, and Sean sit eating their lunch at one of the larger tables.
Sarah: [to Samantha] Hey, where's Rio?
Samantha: [blinks once, then twice for good measure] You ask me as if I know exactly where she is.
Jessica: [coughs] Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the--
Scott: [frantically] Don't say it! For Kami's sake, don't say it! The fourth wall's already strained enough as it is with us around here. [a cherry red motorcycle goes roaring by several students, nearly running them down]
Sean: Guess we know the answer to that question...let's see, Rio's terrorizing the locals, Josh is dead at the moment...hmm, what about that psycho girlfriend of yours, Scott? I'd feel better if I knew where she was, too.
Scott: [shrugs] Beats me--
Jessica: [whacks him over the head with her cafeteria tray]
Samantha: [to Scott] Haven't you learned to be careful of what you say around here, yet?
Scott: [sweatdrops] Obviously not. Anyway, hell if I know where she is. Besides, she's not my girlfriend, baka.
Josh: [walks by and waves at them] Hey, guys.
Sean: Wait a second, isn't he supposed to be, y'know...DEAD?
Jessica: [sighs] Times like these really make me wish I had a camera.
Scott: [munches on his sandwich] Well, nobody ever really dies in anime, anyway. They just come back for cheesy cameos or become even more powerful.
Scene: The gate to the Forest Arena at night. Scott stands outside of it waiting for someone.
Veronica: [walks up to him] What are you doing here, Scott?
Scott: Huh? Oh, I was just going to ask you the same thing. I found this note in my locker telling me to come here tonight. [shows her the note]
Veronica: Freaky. I received the same note. Look. [shows him the note] But who sent these to us?
Rio: [appears from the shadows] I believe I can answer that. I have someone I want the two of you to meet.
Veronica: [warily] Who?
Rio: Listen, can't you hear it?
Scott: **I have a really bad feeling of where this is going** Okay, I'll bite. Hear what?
Rio: If your soul hasn't truly given up...then you should be able to hear this sound...running about the Ends of the World. [the low rumble of a car engine can be heard in the distance]
Scott: Damn it! Not even here a week and already I have to go through this!
Veronica: [skeptically] The Ends of the World? Let's see this thing, whatever it is.
Rio: Then, come journey with us to the world which you desire! [a breeze dramatically ruffles Rio's hair as the Akio-Car pulls up beside the three]
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The Akio-Car. *author tries not to double up in laughter* Akio is driving while Scott and Veronica ride in the backseat.
Scott: **Ooh, a certain somebody's head is going to roll as soon as I find her.** What do you want with us? [Akio remains silent] Answer me, damn it!
Veronica: [quietly thinks for a few minutes] But you couldn't be...
Akio: [doesn't turn around] Yes, the Ends of the World I will show to you both. [Akio flips over the windshield and sits on the hood of the car. The Akio-Car drives itself and occupants to "The Ends of the World" presumably.]
Scene: The cafeteria the next afternoon. Utena, Anshi, and Miki sit eating lunch.
Utena: [opens her bento and finds a card addressed to her placed neatly on top] In my lunch now, too?
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena this evening.
Miki: Another challenge from these new Duelists. How many of them could there be?
Utena: I'm not sure, but I guess I don't really have a choice, though.
Anshi: [eating] My, how delicious.
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anthy at the dueling platform. "Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku" plays in the background.
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
My own birth, Absolute birth, Apocalypse
A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
A gold-gilded Shangri-La
Day and night reversing
A time-gilded Lost Paradise
Darkness over Sodom
Darkness ever glowing
Darkness over yonder
Darkness never ending
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalyptic Darkness Apocalypse
mokushi kushimo
himoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
mokushi kushimo
shimoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
Scene: The dueling platform. Utena and Anshi (in full Rose Bride attire) appear in a whirlwind of rose petals. The inverted floating castle above them rotates contently. The entrance to the stairwell separates and the usual Akio-Car silhouette is seen. Scott steps from it wearing a Duelist's uniform with dark red as the main color scheme. Veronica is dressed in a dark teal Rose Bride dress.
Utena: Scott-san? Are you one of them as well?
Scott: For the sake of grasping eternity to continue Project Mirage forever, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [Veronica acts as Scott's Rose Bride and draws the spirit sword from his chest with a yank] Ow, damn it, that hurt! Think you could draw that a little slower next time?
Veronica: Yeah, bite me. Unless you'd like me to replace your spirit sword that is.
Utena: [sweatdrops]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I beseech thee: appear before me.
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World! [Anshi pulls the Sword of Dios from Utena's chest while Akio-Cars pop out from the floor of the Arena and one drives itself around the edge of the platform. A group of several people observe the duel from the Seitokai balcony. "I am an Imaginary Living Body" plays in the background.]
Incandescent darkness and birthed puppets
Are named, anthropoperipherism
Pulling the strings of the world is a single existence
For the others, an imaginary puppet-craft
Subzero darkness and birthed creatures
Correlated, anthropoperipherism
On the natural stage are the units of existence
Comprised of an imaginary creature-craft
Words are born, the encounter, then a hesitation
Knowledge is born, the encounter, then a void
O where am I, when am I
Spell, incantation, mystery, prayer, myself
Stage destiny magic mirror
Sean: [to Sarah] Can I do it, please??
Jessica: No way, I want to!
Sarah: [sighs] Oh all right, you can both do it. Yeesh.
Josh: Both do what?
Jessica: [pulls out a scythe from scythe-space apparently and neatly slices off Josh's head] Me happy now.
Sean: [pushes what's left of Josh's body off the balcony and it lands with a satisfying thump] Ditto.
Full moon, mysterious and transmutable, I'm an imaginary living body come to its end
Full moon, mysterious and transmutable, I'm an imaginary living body come to its end
Seeking time, without rest, living on, a speleomorph
Seeking land, legless, armless
Still existing I am, transparent, intangible, a faint sigh...
Hahhahhahha
[Utena disables Scott of his sword. The headlights of all the many Akio-Cars flicker on and join to become one light, stretching up the castle. The spirit of Dios descends and lends his power to Utena who promptly slices off Scott's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Veronica disappears in a shower of light and Scott falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Samantha: [walks up] Utena-san won again, didn't she?
Sarah: Yeah...hey, where were you? I wouldn't think you'd be one to miss a duel.
Samantha: [surprised] Oh, umm...I had some Student Council paperwork to finish up. That's about it.
Scene: The other random balcony overlooking the Forest Arena. Akio and Touga are discussing the events that have transpired.
Touga: Quite frankly I'm surprised that he failed to defeat Tenjou-kun. Wasn't she the one to handle his spirit sword?
Akio: Yes, she was. But it wasn't what it really seemed, to him at least.
Touga: Then how do you propose to--
Akio: [interrupts him] I still have a few tricks up my sleeve yet. [turns to Anshi who is waiting for him] Shall we go?
Anshi: Hai, Onii-sama.
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: What? Now Jessica-san wants to challenge me?
Anshi: My, Utena-sama, I didn't know she was on the Seitokai.
Samantha: That's just it, she isn't.
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Mirror Image."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com