Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 11 - "Roses of Revolution"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: We pick up from where we left off at the end of the previous episode. Scott and Sarah stare in shock at Samantha after receiving the letters from "Ends of the World."
Sarah and Scott: [in unison] YOU?!
Samantha: [sighs] Oh come on, don't act so surprised. You both knew I'd have to duel sooner or later. In my case it's later.
Sarah: Even so, it was a bit of a surprise. I guess now it's *my* turn to ask: What are *you* going to do?
Samantha: Not a damn clue. I suppose I'll just duel her and, as usual, get my butt whooped.
Sarah: [slides the letter back into the envelope] And Utena shall become the one to Revolutionize the World.
Samantha: [nods] Though I should warn her about Anshi...and Akio. The Rose Bride is deadlier than she realizes.
Scott: Leave my Himemiya out of this, she didn't do anything!
Sarah: *MY* Himemiya?
Samantha: How possessive!
Scott: [chibi-mecha Washus pop up behind Scott and start chanting "My Anshi! My Anshi! My Anshi!"] Damn it!
Sarah: [sees Rio coming toward their table] Well, well, we haven't seen you in a while. Busy?
Rio: You could say that. [to Samantha] Samantha-san, could I speak to you for a moment?
Samantha: Uh, why?
Rio: [smiles] I have someone I'd like you to meet...
Samantha: Someone you'd like me to meet...[comes to a realization] Y'know, I think I have a class this period! Silly me, gotta go, bye! [dashes out the library]
Rio: [puzzled] Class? This is still lunch.
Scene: Samantha is walking through the halls of Ohtori, alone for once.
Samantha: **Geez, that was close...**
Akio: [leaning against a wall] Penny for your thoughts?
Samantha: [stops dead in her tracks] Eep! [slowly turns to face him] What do you do, follow me around all day?
Akio: [laughs] Of course not. I don't need to. [a giggle from the shadows is heard]
Samantha: That's pretty low, employing the shadow girls to do your dirty work.
Akio: You're one to talk, "Bara-chan."
Samantha: [changes the subject] Fine. So what do you want then?
Akio: Not a thing. I was just wondering if you'd be interested in going for a drive.
Samantha: [sweatdrops] Look, I know where this conversation is going, so don't bother. I don't need to be brainwashed into fighting Tenjou-san.
Akio: Well that just makes my job a whole lot easier, doesn't it?
Scene: One of the many, nondescript walls of Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are busy gossiping, for perhaps the last time.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
B-ko: Have you heard? There's going to be a duel in the Forest Arena tonight!
A-ko: [as a teacher] Fighting is *not* permitted in Ohtori Academy!
B-ko: But that's okay, nobody ever really gets hurt in these duels anyway!
A-ko: Oh brave hero, do you know what lies behind the petals of the Rose?
Both: Did you know? It may be your downfall!
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The *ahem* Akio-Car. Akio drives while Samantha sits in the passenger seat. The two sit in silence until, surprisingly, Akio speaks up.
Akio: I know you don't care about the Bara no Hanayome or eternity. If not for those, then why are you planning to duel Tenjou Utena?
Samantha: [quietly] It's time I returned home, I have a lot waiting for me there. In order to do that, I have to duel her. [glances at him] You seem to be the all-knowing entity of Ohtori. Why didn't you know that already?
Akio: [smiles] I did. I was just checking to make sure you were being honest.
Samantha: [a bit offended] Of course I'm honest. Why wouldn't I be?
Akio: Don't you mean, when weren't you? I believe you know that...
Samantha: [remains quiet for a moment] So...to the "Ends of the World"?
Akio: Hai.
Scene: The Rose Garden. Anshi is tending to the roses while Utena chats with Miki.
Miki: ...only one more duel?
Utena: Yes, at least that's what Touga told me. But I've learned to be suspicious of what he says now.
Samantha: [enters] That's understandable, though what he told you is indeed true. You ought to be prepared for the next challenge.
Utena: [nods] I would, but they seem to come at such a rapid pace that I can't really find the time.
Samantha: [wanders over to a bush of white roses in full bloom] How lovely the roses are...but you are aware that even the sweetest of roses has its thorns, correct? [Anshi seems to react at this statement]
Utena: I'm not sure I follow you, Samantha-sempai.
Samantha: [snaps a white rose from its branch and hands it to Utena] At the Arena, after classes.
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform.
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. At first, only Samantha steps from the vehicle clad in her blue and gold Duelist's uniform.
Utena: Sempai...? [Akio joins Samantha a moment later and acts as her Rose Bride, withdrawing the spirit sword from her body. Utena is surprised to see him] Akio-san...
Samantha: I want you to know...I have no interest in the Bara no Hanayome, but this is necessary.
Utena: [angry] The duels will never be necessary as long as Himemiya's forced to act as a trophy!
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. Scott, Rio, Sean, Jessica, and Josh watch the duel from their spot on the ground next to the plot hole.]
Nature's light
Mosaic light
Child of daybreak; the angel Lucifer
Apocalyptic light
Michael's light
Child of darkness; androgynous
Fire's light
[Samantha's fighting style mirrors that of former Black Rose Duelist, Sonoda Keiko.]
Heavenly light
Hierarchia of the heavens
Illusory light
Eternal light
Phantasmic deception; capricious birth
Nyx
Erebus
Uranus
Thanatos
Shining bodies, all of them spherical, gynous
just as if born with every miracle, gynous.
The pleasure principle, the Nirvana principle
Death's inevitability, dubbed "the light"
Without having to have lived,
Phenomenon of mobile life
In the cerebral universe
Shape of floating life
Glory, ephemery, hope for eternity!
Incomplete returning to the primitive beginnings.
Male/female, positive/negative are the two of me.
Up/down, left/right are the two of me.
Front/back, Heaven/Earth are the two of me.
Angel and devil are the two of me.
The center is hollow hollow hollow hollow... [as Samantha struggles against Utena, the door to the gondola swings open and Sarah emerges]
Sarah: [shouting] Sami! The plot hole opened by itself, you don't need to duel her!
Samantha: *Now* you tell me?! [runs to the gondola and steps in. It descends quickly. Akio is irate as he chases after the two, while Utena is just plain confused.]
Scene: The area of the plot hole. Sarah and Samantha come running to where everyone is as they prepare to leap in.
Jessica: What if this doesn't work?
Sean: It's the only option we have. We either try our luck here or be stuck in Ohtori forever.
Rio: [thinking] That's not such a bad idea...
All: [sweatdrop]
Sarah: We've gotta go, now! I lost track of Akio after passing the third nondescript wall.
All: [jump in]
Scene: The befuddled group lands with a hard thud on the ground of some unknown place.
Scott: [holding his head] Ow...now where the hell are we?
Samantha: [struggles to move under the mass of unidentified body parts] Say...I recognize this carpet pattern...
Scott: [evil chortle]
Samantha: [utterly elated voice] We're back home!
Sarah: [squints in pain] Wonder Bowl. Terrific. The last place I would have preferred to land in.
Rio: I know you guys have had enough bad news for one day, but look at our clothes. They're still the same as they were in Ohtori, which means there are probably bizarre anime characters running amok in a bowling alley.
Samantha: My mom is gonna be *so* pissed. Not to mention so is Akio when he finds me...
All: [glare at Samantha] This is all your fault!
Samantha: Well, you can't say nothing interesting happens to you now, so bite me.
Preview of Next Episode
Samantha: I should've just stayed in Ohtori, but noooo, I *had* to go back to bowl.
Sean: And *now* look where it's gotten us!
Sarah: Remind me to kill you if we ever get out of *this*.
Samantha: Oh yeah? Just see if you ever get to watch Sailor Stars now.
Rio: I wonder if anyone actually made it out.
Scott: That's right! Maybe my Himemiya's around here somewhere!
Jessica: [whacks him on the back of the head] Baka.
Samantha: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "We're home. Now what?"
Sarah: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott: [acts as translator] The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 11 - "Roses of Revolution"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: We pick up from where we left off at the end of the previous episode. Scott and Sarah stare in shock at Samantha after receiving the letters from "Ends of the World."
Sarah and Scott: [in unison] YOU?!
Samantha: [sighs] Oh come on, don't act so surprised. You both knew I'd have to duel sooner or later. In my case it's later.
Sarah: Even so, it was a bit of a surprise. I guess now it's *my* turn to ask: What are *you* going to do?
Samantha: Not a damn clue. I suppose I'll just duel her and, as usual, get my butt whooped.
Sarah: [slides the letter back into the envelope] And Utena shall become the one to Revolutionize the World.
Samantha: [nods] Though I should warn her about Anshi...and Akio. The Rose Bride is deadlier than she realizes.
Scott: Leave my Himemiya out of this, she didn't do anything!
Sarah: *MY* Himemiya?
Samantha: How possessive!
Scott: [chibi-mecha Washus pop up behind Scott and start chanting "My Anshi! My Anshi! My Anshi!"] Damn it!
Sarah: [sees Rio coming toward their table] Well, well, we haven't seen you in a while. Busy?
Rio: You could say that. [to Samantha] Samantha-san, could I speak to you for a moment?
Samantha: Uh, why?
Rio: [smiles] I have someone I'd like you to meet...
Samantha: Someone you'd like me to meet...[comes to a realization] Y'know, I think I have a class this period! Silly me, gotta go, bye! [dashes out the library]
Rio: [puzzled] Class? This is still lunch.
Scene: Samantha is walking through the halls of Ohtori, alone for once.
Samantha: **Geez, that was close...**
Akio: [leaning against a wall] Penny for your thoughts?
Samantha: [stops dead in her tracks] Eep! [slowly turns to face him] What do you do, follow me around all day?
Akio: [laughs] Of course not. I don't need to. [a giggle from the shadows is heard]
Samantha: That's pretty low, employing the shadow girls to do your dirty work.
Akio: You're one to talk, "Bara-chan."
Samantha: [changes the subject] Fine. So what do you want then?
Akio: Not a thing. I was just wondering if you'd be interested in going for a drive.
Samantha: [sweatdrops] Look, I know where this conversation is going, so don't bother. I don't need to be brainwashed into fighting Tenjou-san.
Akio: Well that just makes my job a whole lot easier, doesn't it?
Scene: One of the many, nondescript walls of Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are busy gossiping, for perhaps the last time.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
B-ko: Have you heard? There's going to be a duel in the Forest Arena tonight!
A-ko: [as a teacher] Fighting is *not* permitted in Ohtori Academy!
B-ko: But that's okay, nobody ever really gets hurt in these duels anyway!
A-ko: Oh brave hero, do you know what lies behind the petals of the Rose?
Both: Did you know? It may be your downfall!
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The *ahem* Akio-Car. Akio drives while Samantha sits in the passenger seat. The two sit in silence until, surprisingly, Akio speaks up.
Akio: I know you don't care about the Bara no Hanayome or eternity. If not for those, then why are you planning to duel Tenjou Utena?
Samantha: [quietly] It's time I returned home, I have a lot waiting for me there. In order to do that, I have to duel her. [glances at him] You seem to be the all-knowing entity of Ohtori. Why didn't you know that already?
Akio: [smiles] I did. I was just checking to make sure you were being honest.
Samantha: [a bit offended] Of course I'm honest. Why wouldn't I be?
Akio: Don't you mean, when weren't you? I believe you know that...
Samantha: [remains quiet for a moment] So...to the "Ends of the World"?
Akio: Hai.
Scene: The Rose Garden. Anshi is tending to the roses while Utena chats with Miki.
Miki: ...only one more duel?
Utena: Yes, at least that's what Touga told me. But I've learned to be suspicious of what he says now.
Samantha: [enters] That's understandable, though what he told you is indeed true. You ought to be prepared for the next challenge.
Utena: [nods] I would, but they seem to come at such a rapid pace that I can't really find the time.
Samantha: [wanders over to a bush of white roses in full bloom] How lovely the roses are...but you are aware that even the sweetest of roses has its thorns, correct? [Anshi seems to react at this statement]
Utena: I'm not sure I follow you, Samantha-sempai.
Samantha: [snaps a white rose from its branch and hands it to Utena] At the Arena, after classes.
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform.
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. At first, only Samantha steps from the vehicle clad in her blue and gold Duelist's uniform.
Utena: Sempai...? [Akio joins Samantha a moment later and acts as her Rose Bride, withdrawing the spirit sword from her body. Utena is surprised to see him] Akio-san...
Samantha: I want you to know...I have no interest in the Bara no Hanayome, but this is necessary.
Utena: [angry] The duels will never be necessary as long as Himemiya's forced to act as a trophy!
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. Scott, Rio, Sean, Jessica, and Josh watch the duel from their spot on the ground next to the plot hole.]
Nature's light
Mosaic light
Child of daybreak; the angel Lucifer
Apocalyptic light
Michael's light
Child of darkness; androgynous
Fire's light
[Samantha's fighting style mirrors that of former Black Rose Duelist, Sonoda Keiko.]
Heavenly light
Hierarchia of the heavens
Illusory light
Eternal light
Phantasmic deception; capricious birth
Nyx
Erebus
Uranus
Thanatos
Shining bodies, all of them spherical, gynous
just as if born with every miracle, gynous.
The pleasure principle, the Nirvana principle
Death's inevitability, dubbed "the light"
Without having to have lived,
Phenomenon of mobile life
In the cerebral universe
Shape of floating life
Glory, ephemery, hope for eternity!
Incomplete returning to the primitive beginnings.
Male/female, positive/negative are the two of me.
Up/down, left/right are the two of me.
Front/back, Heaven/Earth are the two of me.
Angel and devil are the two of me.
The center is hollow hollow hollow hollow... [as Samantha struggles against Utena, the door to the gondola swings open and Sarah emerges]
Sarah: [shouting] Sami! The plot hole opened by itself, you don't need to duel her!
Samantha: *Now* you tell me?! [runs to the gondola and steps in. It descends quickly. Akio is irate as he chases after the two, while Utena is just plain confused.]
Scene: The area of the plot hole. Sarah and Samantha come running to where everyone is as they prepare to leap in.
Jessica: What if this doesn't work?
Sean: It's the only option we have. We either try our luck here or be stuck in Ohtori forever.
Rio: [thinking] That's not such a bad idea...
All: [sweatdrop]
Sarah: We've gotta go, now! I lost track of Akio after passing the third nondescript wall.
All: [jump in]
Scene: The befuddled group lands with a hard thud on the ground of some unknown place.
Scott: [holding his head] Ow...now where the hell are we?
Samantha: [struggles to move under the mass of unidentified body parts] Say...I recognize this carpet pattern...
Scott: [evil chortle]
Samantha: [utterly elated voice] We're back home!
Sarah: [squints in pain] Wonder Bowl. Terrific. The last place I would have preferred to land in.
Rio: I know you guys have had enough bad news for one day, but look at our clothes. They're still the same as they were in Ohtori, which means there are probably bizarre anime characters running amok in a bowling alley.
Samantha: My mom is gonna be *so* pissed. Not to mention so is Akio when he finds me...
All: [glare at Samantha] This is all your fault!
Samantha: Well, you can't say nothing interesting happens to you now, so bite me.
Preview of Next Episode
Samantha: I should've just stayed in Ohtori, but noooo, I *had* to go back to bowl.
Sean: And *now* look where it's gotten us!
Sarah: Remind me to kill you if we ever get out of *this*.
Samantha: Oh yeah? Just see if you ever get to watch Sailor Stars now.
Rio: I wonder if anyone actually made it out.
Scott: That's right! Maybe my Himemiya's around here somewhere!
Jessica: [whacks him on the back of the head] Baka.
Samantha: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "We're home. Now what?"
Sarah: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott: [acts as translator] The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com