Scene: Holding cell aboard the Hyperion. Rei is bound and gagged, fitfully awaiting her uncertain fate. The door slides open to admit the Golden Mec and two security guards.
Leonard: I trust you have kept well, your Highness?
Princess Rei: MFFL YUU!
Leonard: I'm sure you'd like that gag off. We have so much to talk about.
Leonard forces his metallic fingers into the folds of the cloth gag and tugs down on it hard. The cloth rips, but not before Rei is slammed face-first into the metal floor.
Leonard: Better?
Princess Rei: reeling and bleeding Me serva, Belua Phantasma -
Leonard quickly stuffs a few fingers into Rei's mouth.
Leonard: I'm glad to see you still have some spirit left, but this is neither the time nor the place.
Princess Rei: GED DEM OUDDA MAH MOU!
Leonard: If you'd rather not discuss the location of Gradius' secret base with me, perhaps you'll talk to my friend.
The door slides open again, admitting a somewhat older dark-haired woman.
Manna: Hi! Leonard here told me you were feeling lonely, and I had some time to kill -
Leonard: roughly stuffing the gag back into Rei's mouth She talked it to death!
The Trinity guards place their hands over their ears and quietly walk out to the safety of the corridor.
Manna: - so I thought I'd come down here and see if maybe I couldn't brighten your day a little. Of course, you know out here in between dimensions we don't have day and night like we do back home, but that's not really the point. How are you? I'm doing great! I just got done with a visit to the gym. Don't you think it's great to get exercise?
Princess Rei: eyes pleading LL AGG! LL AGG!
Leonard: I'll just let you two get acquainted. The Mec steps outside as well.
Manna: There are days when I could just do nothing but lift barbells and go swimming and all that good stuff, but then I've got those days where all I'd rather do is sit around and be lazy. I'm sure you know what I mean. I was just telling my husband that he should get some exercise, what with all the wine he drinks at the bars every night -
Princess Rei starts to cry.
Scene: Outside in the hall.
Trinity 1: I wouldn't want to be in her shoes.
Trinity 2: Do you think subjecting her to the Jabberbox was necessary, sir?
Leonard: That is my decision.
Leonard presses a button on the wall. The door slides back into place, cutting off the sound of Manna's chattering
voice and Rei's muffled frantic shrieks.
Sariel V Humor, Ltd. - Name that cameo!
Copyright May 8, 2001