Worlds Collide
by doink-chan
email: doinkchan@yahoo.com
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Chapter 4: Usako phone home
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A note from the doink:
Thankies for the reviews I've gotten since Chapter 3.2-doinkies really appreciates it! *throws confetti on reviewers* For the curious readers who responded with "Well, where can I find this Saban dub pilot you keep talking about, doinkies?" (or at least something like that), you can find it at http://www.toonamiarsenal.com. Click on the Sailormoon section, and scroll down until you find the Saban pilot. There is also a longer version there with a guy actually introducing it and gushing about how great the dub is, and that makes it even more funny. ^_^
I hope you enjoy this chapter of WC, and stay doinky!
doink-chan
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Chiba Mamoru hung up the phone yet again.
He had a sad look on his face, and his blue eyes looked like they were about to flood over with tears any second now. The reason? Ever since Usagi, his beloved Usagi, had gone to school a few days ago, he had not heard from her since.
Usagi's parents were equally worried about their little odangoed treasure, calling the police and search and rescue. Both of their searches had found nothing-not even a lock from her hair.
The rest of the senshi-Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako-were also very concerned about Usagi and where she was. After all, how could they fight without Sailormoon?
And, indeed, where was Usagi?
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Tsukino Usagi wondered where the blue tunnel would take her this time. She had already fought, or at least tried to fight, with senshi who looked like the senshi she knew, but were completely different personality-wise. Especially in Beverly Hills, where she had been earlier.
To her surprise, the tunnel dumped her into the familiar world of...
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"Home!"
Usagi looked around to make sure that this was, indeed, the Tokyo she knew and loved. She could see the signs in kanji, people calling out to one another in Japanese, and the smell of okonomiyaki, miso soup and ramen mingling together from different restaurants.
At that point, Usagi knew she was home.
Or maybe because she was hungry, but never mind...
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Mamoru wandered the streets of Tokyo looking for Usagi, as he had done all the time these past few days. "Usakoooooooooooooo! Usako, doko desu kaaaaaaa?*" he cried, but the sound was lost in the noise of the crowd and the beeps of several cars in a traffic jam. Not a sign of Usagi anywhere.
But wait...who's that blond girl sitting on a park bench?
Mamoru got closer to the girl, and stared at her...and she had odangos! Could this be Usagi?
"Ano...konnichiwa, Usako. Ogenki desu ka? Daijoubu desu ka?**" Mamoru asked the girl-who-looked-suspiciously-like-Usagi.
"Huh? I don't know what you're saying, Darien! What is that gibberish you're speaking anyway??"
Mamoru could see that the girl was speaking...English. He only knew a little English that he had been taught in the orphanage school, but he certainly wasn't fluent enough to understand what she had said.
Besides, Usagi wasn't very good at speaking English.
But...if she looked like Usagi...and she moved like Usagi...and was dressed like Usagi...
Mamoru took a little time for the English words to float down through the forest of Japanese words in his brain, and then asked:
"Who are you?"
The girl laughed at his accent, and then said, "I'm Serena Tsukino. I fight love and justice as Sailormoon, along with the rest of the Sailor Scouts. I'm 14 years old, and I go to Crossroads Junior High-"
It didn't take much to get Mamoru angry.
Especially if a native English speaker made fun of his accent.
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Usagi finally made it to a telephone booth near Juuban's mall. She thought she would call Mamoru and her parents, and let them know she was OK.
She rummaged through her purse-decorated with bunnies and moons-and finally found a couple hundred-yen coins-enough to make a few quick calls.
She plopped a coin into the coin slot and picked up the phone.
"Hello, Operator? I'd like to make a call to the Tsukino household in Azabu Juuban...no, not Tuskino, Tsukino...Tsu-ki-no..."
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Mamoru's cheeks were red as he prepared to punch Usagi for laughing at his accent.
Then he remembered...Usagi would never do anything like that...
He only knew a few words of what the girl had said, but he summarized it in his head: This girl is Serena Tsukino. She fights evil with the Sailor Scouts...
Wait a minute..."scouts"? And why was Usagi called Serena?
Nobody in his life had ever called the senshi "scouts"...not him, nor Usagi, nor any of the other senshi. He didn't know what "scouts" even meant. Maybe he could ask Minako, she was fluent in English, unlike him...
"Maybe Serena is Usagi's long lost gaijin*** cousin," he thought to himself.
"At least that would explain why they have the same family name..."
He thought he would go to the Tsukino house later and ask them if they knew anything about Serena.
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"Hello, Mama? It's Usagi..."
"My baby!!! Oh Usagi-chan your okaachan**** was so worried about you are you OK are you hurt are you starving to death if you are then I'll fix you up a big bowl of my homemade ramen-"
"MAMA! Stop it! Remember, I'm calling from a PUBLIC phone-"
"Gomen nasai*****...anyway, please come over to our house after you hang up, your father has been sooooooo worried..."
"OK, ja ne******."
"Ja ne."
Click.
One phone call down, another to go...
*To be continued in Chapter 5*
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So, how did you like Chapter 4? doinkies hopes you enjoyed it. Please review on FF.net's review page or send praise, flames, doinks, MST3K eps and miscellany to doinkchan@yahoo.com. *doink-chan*
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Omake: DOINKIES' JAPANESE-TO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
*covering Japanese terms used in this chapter of Worlds Collide*
*Usakooooooooooooooo! Usako, where are you?
**Um, hello Usako...How are you? Are you all right?
***a foreigner
****mommy
*****I'm sorry
******See ya later, goodbye (informal)
by doink-chan
email: doinkchan@yahoo.com
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Chapter 4: Usako phone home
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A note from the doink:
Thankies for the reviews I've gotten since Chapter 3.2-doinkies really appreciates it! *throws confetti on reviewers* For the curious readers who responded with "Well, where can I find this Saban dub pilot you keep talking about, doinkies?" (or at least something like that), you can find it at http://www.toonamiarsenal.com. Click on the Sailormoon section, and scroll down until you find the Saban pilot. There is also a longer version there with a guy actually introducing it and gushing about how great the dub is, and that makes it even more funny. ^_^
I hope you enjoy this chapter of WC, and stay doinky!
doink-chan
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Chiba Mamoru hung up the phone yet again.
He had a sad look on his face, and his blue eyes looked like they were about to flood over with tears any second now. The reason? Ever since Usagi, his beloved Usagi, had gone to school a few days ago, he had not heard from her since.
Usagi's parents were equally worried about their little odangoed treasure, calling the police and search and rescue. Both of their searches had found nothing-not even a lock from her hair.
The rest of the senshi-Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako-were also very concerned about Usagi and where she was. After all, how could they fight without Sailormoon?
And, indeed, where was Usagi?
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Tsukino Usagi wondered where the blue tunnel would take her this time. She had already fought, or at least tried to fight, with senshi who looked like the senshi she knew, but were completely different personality-wise. Especially in Beverly Hills, where she had been earlier.
To her surprise, the tunnel dumped her into the familiar world of...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Home!"
Usagi looked around to make sure that this was, indeed, the Tokyo she knew and loved. She could see the signs in kanji, people calling out to one another in Japanese, and the smell of okonomiyaki, miso soup and ramen mingling together from different restaurants.
At that point, Usagi knew she was home.
Or maybe because she was hungry, but never mind...
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Mamoru wandered the streets of Tokyo looking for Usagi, as he had done all the time these past few days. "Usakoooooooooooooo! Usako, doko desu kaaaaaaa?*" he cried, but the sound was lost in the noise of the crowd and the beeps of several cars in a traffic jam. Not a sign of Usagi anywhere.
But wait...who's that blond girl sitting on a park bench?
Mamoru got closer to the girl, and stared at her...and she had odangos! Could this be Usagi?
"Ano...konnichiwa, Usako. Ogenki desu ka? Daijoubu desu ka?**" Mamoru asked the girl-who-looked-suspiciously-like-Usagi.
"Huh? I don't know what you're saying, Darien! What is that gibberish you're speaking anyway??"
Mamoru could see that the girl was speaking...English. He only knew a little English that he had been taught in the orphanage school, but he certainly wasn't fluent enough to understand what she had said.
Besides, Usagi wasn't very good at speaking English.
But...if she looked like Usagi...and she moved like Usagi...and was dressed like Usagi...
Mamoru took a little time for the English words to float down through the forest of Japanese words in his brain, and then asked:
"Who are you?"
The girl laughed at his accent, and then said, "I'm Serena Tsukino. I fight love and justice as Sailormoon, along with the rest of the Sailor Scouts. I'm 14 years old, and I go to Crossroads Junior High-"
It didn't take much to get Mamoru angry.
Especially if a native English speaker made fun of his accent.
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Usagi finally made it to a telephone booth near Juuban's mall. She thought she would call Mamoru and her parents, and let them know she was OK.
She rummaged through her purse-decorated with bunnies and moons-and finally found a couple hundred-yen coins-enough to make a few quick calls.
She plopped a coin into the coin slot and picked up the phone.
"Hello, Operator? I'd like to make a call to the Tsukino household in Azabu Juuban...no, not Tuskino, Tsukino...Tsu-ki-no..."
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Mamoru's cheeks were red as he prepared to punch Usagi for laughing at his accent.
Then he remembered...Usagi would never do anything like that...
He only knew a few words of what the girl had said, but he summarized it in his head: This girl is Serena Tsukino. She fights evil with the Sailor Scouts...
Wait a minute..."scouts"? And why was Usagi called Serena?
Nobody in his life had ever called the senshi "scouts"...not him, nor Usagi, nor any of the other senshi. He didn't know what "scouts" even meant. Maybe he could ask Minako, she was fluent in English, unlike him...
"Maybe Serena is Usagi's long lost gaijin*** cousin," he thought to himself.
"At least that would explain why they have the same family name..."
He thought he would go to the Tsukino house later and ask them if they knew anything about Serena.
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"Hello, Mama? It's Usagi..."
"My baby!!! Oh Usagi-chan your okaachan**** was so worried about you are you OK are you hurt are you starving to death if you are then I'll fix you up a big bowl of my homemade ramen-"
"MAMA! Stop it! Remember, I'm calling from a PUBLIC phone-"
"Gomen nasai*****...anyway, please come over to our house after you hang up, your father has been sooooooo worried..."
"OK, ja ne******."
"Ja ne."
Click.
One phone call down, another to go...
*To be continued in Chapter 5*
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So, how did you like Chapter 4? doinkies hopes you enjoyed it. Please review on FF.net's review page or send praise, flames, doinks, MST3K eps and miscellany to doinkchan@yahoo.com. *doink-chan*
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Omake: DOINKIES' JAPANESE-TO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
*covering Japanese terms used in this chapter of Worlds Collide*
*Usakooooooooooooooo! Usako, where are you?
**Um, hello Usako...How are you? Are you all right?
***a foreigner
****mommy
*****I'm sorry
******See ya later, goodbye (informal)