Waiting for Minako
by DDFA (Mark A Page)

Part Sixteen - The Unknown

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Scene: Ami and Makoto, in skimpy swimsuits, wandering a beach at
dawn, looking bedraggled and tired.


Makoto: Where are we, again?

Ami: Why do you ask?

Makoto: I've forgotten....


A sheep flies overhead.


Sheep: Baaaaaaaa.

Ami: New Zealand?


There is a gunshot, and the sheep falls to the ground.


Ami: Nope. Still looks like Queensland.

Makoto: Bummer.

Ami: The poor sheep.

Makoto: I was really hoping this wasn't real.

Ami: What kind of person could shoot an innocent sheep?

Makoto: I really want to be back in Tokyo....

Ami: It never hurt anyone.

Makoto: ....Waiting by that wall.

Ami: Even if it was a violent psychomaniac, what the hell
could a sheep do?

Makoto: Waiting for.... I can't remember who we were waiting
for....

Ami: The person who shot that sheep is an animal!

Makoto: Perhaps we weren't really waiting for anyone.... We
were just wasting our time....

Ami: No, that's an insult to animals.

Makoto: Wasting precious seconds of our lives.

Ami: The person who shot that sheep was a monster!

Makoto: Whatever life it is we were living.

Ami: That's an insult, even to monsters.

Makoto: I want to go home.

Ami: Monsters would never shoot sheep.

Makoto: Even though there is nobody waiting for me, there.

Ami: They'd just eat them, whole.

Makoto: Even though I live alone.

Ami: Lets face it, a monster has to live, too.

Makoto: I don't like living alone.

Ami: Funny we haven't bumped into any monsters, lately.

Makoto: But I'd prefer it to this! This is hell.

Ami: No, this is Queensland.

Makoto: Same difference.

Ami: Quite a few people would disagree with you, there.

Makoto: I don't think so, somehow.

Ami: Ah look! The sun's coming up.


Ami points at the horizon, and Makoto turns, just as the sun peeps
its head over the ocean. They watch it for several minutes, but are
interrupted by a hillbilly with a gun.


Hillbilly: Damn sun! Always risin' every day. We don't like
strange suns round 'ere.


The hillbilly aims his gun at the sun and sends off a volley of
shots. Ami and Makoto look daggers at him.


Ami: Mercury Planet Power, Make Up!

Makoto: Jupiter Planet Power, Make Up!


Insert two overlong henshin sequences here. The hillbilly stops and
watches as they change into Sailormercury and Sailorjupiter.


Mercury: For killing innocent sheep....

Jupiter: And for trying to stop the sun rising....

Both: We shall punish you!


The hillbilly starts to laugh out loud as they both pose, then
clutches his chest and falls to the ground, dead. Mercury and
Jupiter glance at each other, momentarily.


Jupiter: ....And theres more where that came from!

Mercury: I think he suffered a severe Myocardial Infarction.

Jupiter: I hope that was as painful as it sounds.

Mercury: Do you get the feeling he didn't take us entirely
seriously?

Jupiter: Yes. Serves him right.

Mercury: Hmm.... Well, now we can use Sailor Teleport to get
us off this beach and back home.

Jupiter: Why didn't we think of that, before?

Mercury: I think it had something to do with us eating too many
jellybeans.

Jupiter: Don't remind me....


Jupiter clutches her stomach as it gurgles. Mercury shakes her
head, sadly.


Mercury: I did tell you not to eat so many.

Jupiter: Uhhh.... If I see another jellybean, I think I'm gonna
throw up....

Mercury: *sigh* I wonder how things are in Tokyo at the moment..


Meanwhile, due to a remarkable coincidence upon the writer's part,
in Tokyo, by the wall, Haruka and Michiru are sleeping soundly.
Haruka's eyes begin to flutter and she smacks her lips. Staring
blearily around at her surroundings, she nudges Michiru in the side.


Haruka: Michiru....

Michiru: ZZZzzzZZzzzZZZzzzzz....

Haruka: Michiru, wake up....

Michiru: ZZZZzzzZZZzzzz... hmm, what *snort* eh eh what's up?


Michiru sits up, looking at Haruka with sleepy eyes.


Haruka: Its morning. Almost.

Michiru: Looks dark to me.

Haruka: Whoops.... Forgot about the time difference between
here and Queensland.

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: There is almost no time difference between here and
Queensland.

Haruka: Shh.... Don't tell everybody that. It spoils the
mood.

Michiru: What mood?

Haruka: They finally get a scene where you and I wake up
together.

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: Baka. Go back to sleep.

Haruka: Yes, mistress.

Michiru: And don't call me mistress.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: Call me Queen.


Meanwhile, at the Hikawa shrine, Rei is playing with peoples' minds.


Rei: And this is the daddy brain, and this is the mummy
brain, and this is the baby brain, and they all lived in
a big house, together, in the middle of the woods....


Back in Queensland, on the beach.


Mercury: .....

Jupiter: .....

Mercury: .....

Jupiter: .....

Mercury: .....

Jupiter: .....

Mercury: You know something?

Jupiter: What?

Mercury: Maybe we should give up this idea about returning to
Tokyo....

Jupiter: .....

Mercury: .....

Jupiter: You might be right, there.... It's not looking a very
exciting prospect.

Mercury: .....

Jupiter: .....

Mercury: I wonder if there's any work about for tasters in a
jellybean factory....


Meanwhile, in Hades, at the local restaurant, Usagi is sitting,
arrow still stuck in her head, looking very upset at the slightly
foppish, demonic waiter.


Usagi: What do you mean, you only have black jellybeans on the
menu?

Waiter: Well, this is hell....

Usagi: No it's not, it's Hades.

Waiter: Same difference.

Usagi: Well, I want something other than a bowl of black
jellybeans!

Waiter: Well, you can always eat at the golden arches across the
street....

Usagi: .....

Waiter: .....

Usagi: .....

Waiter: .....

Usagi: .....

Waiter: .....

Usagi: .....

Waiter: .....

Usagi: Do they come with soy sauce?


END OF PART 16

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Will Minako ever arrive? Does Minako even exist? Are Ami and
Makoto on a beach in scary north Queensland? Are Haruka and Michiru
really the source of SOS's unfounded allegations about their
relationship? Does Rei really play with the minds of others? Is
she to blame for Ami and Makoto's predicament? Does Hades really
have the Golden Arches? For no answers to these questions, stay
tuned for the next exciting chapter of the interminable saga of Ami
and Makoto in "McWaiting for McMinako" (tm). ^_^
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