Trigun Attacks.. Excel Saga an anime-parody by AngelDragon
Wow, I actually got a response from some of my former reviewers.. o.o The shock.. No kidding, I really thought no one would check back on me anymore, but I'm greatly appreciative! Arigato minnasan! The support keeps reminding me to write once in a while.

But anyway, let's see: Standard warnings of general absurdity, language and violence, etc. apply. If I've missed anything, please forgive me as I've not written (typed up) much lately.. And of course, I don't own any of the characters or series I mangle, I just like to play with them a while.

Okay, this is for Dragon Queen, sweetie that she is by still reading ^^ Hope you enjoy this round of weirdness! (and Legato's feeling much better, now that they've adjusted his meds)

Weird Quote of the Day: "In a mad world, only the mad are sane" - Akira Kurosawa (one of my fave live-action Japanese movie directors)

Current Song in my Head: Random radio songs.. with far too many commercials .

Also: Legato needs health insurance.. and Knives just needs help, period ^^
Trigun Attacks... Excel Saga

(Vash, Legato and Knives appear on the 'White Screen of Pain'TM and read a flyer tacked onto a bulletin board. It says 'I, AngelDragon, hereby give my permission to make the 'Trigun Attacks' fanfic into a parody of Excel Saga.' A little chibi dragon is stamped at the end)

Vash: (scratching the back of his head) Anou, what's this for?

Knives: Oh, I get it! It's what our story's gonna be about, right Angel- san?

Author: Yep, you guessed it, Knives-sama. This one's going to be a little different. (scripts happen for everyone)

Legato: (reading through) I've seen this series, Story Mistress. It's very funny. (Vash looks at him w/a raised brow)

Vash: I didn't think you found anything that wasn't weird or twisted funny.

Knives: Then apparently you haven't seen this show, Vashu!

Vash: (flips through script) Wow, this is a weirdo series, isn't it? So who's.. who..? Oh not again! I'm playing this Excel girl? But I don't wanna be a girl!

Author: Come on now, Vash-kun, it's okay! (Vash stalks off to change clothes, comes back) See? She doesn't even wear a dress or anything.

Knives: Ooo, who do I get to be? (reads more) Yosh! Finally I get to play an evil genius!

Legato: Who, Master? Oh, I know now, Ilpalazzo, right? (Knives nods enthusiastically and practically skips off to change) Well then, I play this girl, Hyatt. And unlike some people, I don't have a problem with it.. (Gives Vash a look as he goes to change)

Vash: (pouting) So where's Nick? And the girls?

Author: They went to Vegas for a couple days. Milly wanted to learn to play poker and Nicky and Meryl wanted to catch the shows. But don't worry, this'll still be strange, 'cause I get to play with you boys this time.

(The scenery changes to ACROSS' underground base, Knives and Legato came back in their costumes. A little zipper appears in mid air and unzips into a typical 'black hole', then a rope ladder is thrown out of it and I happen to climb down it)

Author: Konnichi wa, shonen! (All three of 'em facefault) Oh right, I forgot you guys haven't 'seen' me before. (Picture a 5' 4'' girl w/a nearly three foot long chestnut-brown braid, doubly-pierced ears and blue-gray eyes)

Vash: So that's what you look like! Hey, you're kinda short, aren't you?

Author: (folds arms across chest and glares up at him) Hey, so sue me. We can't all be six feet tall and I'm playing Nabeshin, by the way. (Kuroneko comes in in a Menchi-costume, hops up into Vash's arms) And there's Menchi!

Legato: But Story Mistress, Nabeshin has an afro.

Author: Yeah, I know Lego-kun, but I've got the same kind of lethal dandruff. (pulls out a spear from the braid) See? (The bishies sweatdrop)

Knives: Point taken! Wish I could do that! (Vash mutters, 'You would..') So now what happens?

Legato: Master, if I remember right, this is when Ilpalazzo sends Excel and Hyatt on a mission.

Knives: Oh right. Hold on a sec.. (reads on, snickering and grinning) One mission of pointless, city-conquering insanity coming up!

Vash: (petting costumed Kuro) Um, Angel-san, what's with this 'dog'?

Author: Menchi's your emergency food supply 'Excel' and call me 'Ryuten', like 'Nabeshin' but from ' tenshi ryuu', (AngelDragon in Japanese) okay? Just for this little fic trip though.

Vash: (sweatdrops) Ack! I can't eat a kawaii little puppy!

Knives: What if 'she' was carrying around a bag of donuts? ('Menchi' produces a bag of said pastries from behind 'her' back with a 'Myaa!')

Vash: (hypnotized by the moving bag) Yuummy.. Must.. follow.. puppy..

Author: There he goes again.. Ready 'Ilpalazzo'?

Knives: Oh yeah! (stands in front of Ilpalazzo's chair while Vash and Leggy stand at the base of the platform it's on, I just kinda stand off to the side to wait)

Vash & Legato: Hail Ilpalazzo!

Knives: Glad you two could make it and I see 'Excel' brought the walking bento box.. ('Menchi' sticks 'her' tongue out at him while playing keep- away w/Vash for the donuts) And since ACROSS is on a budget, today's mission will be shown to you through the medium of a pop-up book. (brandishes a huge book from behind his chair and sits down to read. The title is 'My Little-Giant Pop-Up Book Of Hostile Takeovers')

Legato: (telepathically to Vash) I recognize that one! Master used to read it to me when I was little.. Those were happy times.. sighs (Vash & Kuro are stunned and stare at him, Vash replies telepathically, 'You played with pointy things as a child, didn't you?' and Legato nods, smiling)

Knives: (twitchy-browed) Excuse me 'onna' but the supreme leader says it's story time, not 'passing mental notes' time! (clears throat) Now as we know, it's our goal in ACROSS to purge this city of the ignorant spider masses, ne? (true to character, Legato passes out, but I slide him a pillow before he gets a concussion)

Vash: (hugging the struggling 'Menchi' in shock) W - what just happened?! Did he just croak?! Is that blood?!

Knives: Hey 'Hyatt', are you still listening or what?

(Vash bends over to check on the out-cold bishi when he suddenly sits up, making Vash yelp like the girl he's dressed as and jump back from him)

Legato: Of course, 'Ilpalazzo'- sama. Please continue. (wipes mouth like Hyatt does, complete w/squeaky sound effect)

Vash: Don't do that!! You nearly scared the donuts outta me!

Author: Relax 'Excel', he's just in character. Sorta.

Knives: As I was saying, since that spider infestation is the problem, ACROSS is the solution. Now look at the pretty pictures and see what you're supposed to do this time. (holds up the book for us to see; it's a picture of a couple kids w/bowls of cereal standing around a kawaii chibi bunny, one of them looks like he's sharing with the bunny) Do you know who this bunny is?

Vash: (holds up a hand) I know, it's the bunny from the Pranks cereal commercials! (goes 'eep!' when Legato passes out again and leans on him, tries to keep him standing)

Knives: Hai! You've been promoted from toilet cleaner 'Excel', for answering correctly. But look at this. (moves flap on the side of the page and the bowl is taken from the bunny and makes the bunny spout manga-style teary waterfalls. A little dialog balloon is above the thieving child that reads 'Silly usagi, Pranks are for kids!')

Legato: (recovering again) That would be the cereal commercial, 'Ilpalazzo' - sama.

Knives: Exactly! I knew you had more than looks going for you. You'll end up being my second if you keep this up.

Author: (sharpening spear pulled from braid) No comment, it's just too easy..

Vash: (sweatdropping) Oookay.. Anou, what does a cereal commercial have to do with conquering the city? (rope drops from the ceiling by Knives, he goes to pull on it) Not that it matters or anything!! (rope isn't pulled)

Knives: This starving bunny has been mercilessly teased and tortured by those sadistic little spider brats for years, all because he's not one of them! (twitchy-browed and ookami-fanged) 'Pranks are for kids' my ass! I'll prank them!

(We all sweatdrop and stare at Knives, who calmly closes the book and puts it away)

Legato: 'Ilpalazzo' - sama, our mission is to aid the bunny, ne?

Knives: In a way.. These ads are reinforcing the anti-bunny behavior in the ignorant masses, making them believe they're somehow more entitled to having cereal than non-humans. Nobody screws over a bunny when I'm around, dammit! So, your mission is to infiltrate the Pranks cereal company and put the fear of Kami - sama into them with these. 'Ryuten' - san, if you would?

Author: No prob. (Wheels over a metal box w/only a few air holes & a well- locked door to it, pulls a carrot from braid)

Vash: Vegetables? Spears? That's some dandruff girl! But what's in the box?

Author: (puts on a metal gauntlet elbow-length glove) Watch this.

(I lower the carrot through an air hole, sounds of snarling, snapping and hellish growling ensue, box rattles then is quiet. When the remains of the carrot are pulled back up, it's just the greens)

Legato: They're feisty today.

Vash: (sweatdropping) I can tell, but that doesn't answer the question.

Knives: This is what they are, 'Excel'. (holds up a kawaii little gray and white bunny w/yellow eyes) I call him Yukito, isn't he cuddly?

Vash: Yeah, but he's not exactly, um, scary.

Author: I believe Yukito is hungry, don't you agree 'Ilpalazzo' - sama? (takes another carrot over to Knives and his little friend)

Knives: Yes, he never does seem to get full. (holds Yukito up to the carrot; the little guy sniffs at it then opens his mouth wide to reveal huge fangs and teeth and strips the carrot to the greens in seconds, then burps and grins)

Vash: (speechless, 'Menchi' shaking in his arms, protecting the snacks)

Knives: Since I've proved the point of the scary little bunny, you guys should go now and let loose the usagi of war! (Legato pets the bunny while I coax Vash out of his catatonic state by waving a donut under his nose)

(The girly-bishies and I head to the cereal company while Knives lounges in his chair playing a handheld video game called 'Puny Wolf')

Knives: I love this game! (On the little screen you see a chibi Wolfwood and Meryl running from a couple white tigers in flashy collars on a stage, screaming 'Why?!', then a CG of chibi Milly at a poker table saying 'Not again! I'm gonna lose m' shirt now!' She shrugs, puts her cards down and begins to unbutton her shirt) Heh heh.. Her cards aren't the only flush at that table! Naughty, naughty, somebody's been hittin' the sake again!

(Cutting back to the cereal company, we're experiencing technical difficulties: we lost Vash when he went chasing after 'Menchi', complaining he hadn't eaten in days)

Author: Well, looks like it's up to us..

Legato: (coughing) I will do my best to complete the mission.. (zonks out again, I grab him before he gets too close to the lethal bunnies)

Author: Jeez.. Okay then, I'll wing it, you chill here a bit. (picks lock on door to building, wheels box of bunnies inside. Just as I go to unlock the box, a sense of impending disaster makes me turn around..)

Vash: (pursuing Kuroneko who's got the donut bag in his mouth, running inside) Onegaaaiii, come back, donut inu!!

Author: (sweatdropping) Oh. Crap. (dodges just as 'Menchi' leaps over me and the box, evading Vash who crashes into it. The box gets shoved off to crash into the side of a huge vat of cereal, causing the usagi to escape and they run amuck, sending cereal flying as they chow down)

Vash: Um, oops..!

Author: Yes, biig 'oops'!

Legato: (wandering in) Hmm, what fun surprises in the boxes those little ones will be. 'Ilpalazzo' - sama will be happy.

Author, Vash & Kuroneko: (sweatdrop and stare at him)

Vash: Maybe now would be a good time to quit, 'Ryuten' - san?

(Scenery changes back to ACROSS' underground base, we're all back in our 'normal' clothes)

Knives: (playing with Yukito by dangling a little Wolfwood voodoo doll in front of him) Aww.. Is it over already?

Author: Afraid so, Knives - sama. Ja ne, bishonen! It was fun playing with you guys. (they wave bye and I go back up my rope ladder into 'author space', zipping it closed after)

Legato: That was fun, Story Mistress.

Vash: (muttering from behind a donut he scammed from Kuro) Unless you count being teased by a ruthless donut neko..

Author: Glad you enjoyed, Leggy - kun. And you know, it could've been worse, Vash - kun.

Knives: Hey, minna, looky! I taught Yukito a new trick! (waves little Wolf doll over him, Yukito twitches his nose and attacks, then backs off, leaving it in tatters) Good boy! (pats his vicious little head as the bunny burps up a puff of fuzz)

Vash: It's a good thing those dolls don't really work! (is startled when Wolf stalks onscreen, his clothes in shreds, bristling in anger and panting, 'Like - HELL - they - don't! First - tigers - now - THIS?!')

(And so, Vash yet again prevents Nicky from doing something he might not live to regret, Legato and Knives settle in with Yukito to finish reading the big pop-up book and noshing cookies and juice before nap time. And the little black cat carries off his own little Vash voodoo doll with a smug little 'Myaa - yaa..')

#9, 'The Unnatural Usagi Usurpation' Today's experiment.. Almost worked..

~OWARI~

Well, hope this little trip through anime insanity was enjoyed! (Hope you caught all the in-jokes from Excel Saga and a few others..) And thanks again to everyone who keeps on reading, despite my awful lack of timely updates ^^' Since I've been getting an unusual amount of requests for a Kenshin parody, that'll probably be the next one, so stay tuned! Ja, minnasan!