Chapter Five: Jets vs. Sharks
Ashley: *taking back all the cupcakes Kazu stole* Hello faithful reviewers, and people who are just reading this fic but not reviewing for some unknown reason.
Kazu: Hey, I got a social problem!
Rika: We already knew that Kazu...
Kazu: I'm practicing my lines.
Ashley: And, to new reviewers and reviewers who has already reviewed but I'm giving you a cookie anyway, you get a cookie! That's Akino Matoumiken, EvilVidel, Kit Kat, Butterfly-fire, taKAri_RyUki~ruLEz, Midnight Blossom, RukiMakino. Except Digifreak103 because of the same reason as last time. Oh, and Rika1332 gets a cookie for encouraging me to write more. Now for the disclaimer done by Henry!
Henry: Ashley doesn't own West Side Story, the movie OR the play, and she also doesn't own Digimon. She owns her own character, Ashley, but doesn't own Amber, because Amber (Henrylovr07) owns herself. And she's adding a new character, her friend, Katie! Owned by BorderLine.
Ashley: Right. And, an important note: I realized I had Kazu play the part of Action, and my character a.k.a. me, as Anybodys. I was going through a West Side Story script and found something out. You'll find out when I get there. Oh, and I was going to change it, but Amber persuaded me to "Dare to be Honest". URGH! Anyway, on with chapter five!
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It was only three more hours till the play. Rika was sullenly walking down the streets, wandering around until she needed to be at the auditorium.
'I can't believe I actually agreed to play Maria.' Rika was thinking, 'I have all those lines, and I'll probably forget one. And, worst of all, I have to KISS Ryo. Ryo, of all people...'
A bird, who was in the maple tree above Rika, started singing. And Rika recognized the tune. 'Great, now even the birds are against me. "Stop singing I Feel Pretty!" Rika yelled at the birds, and, in fear, they flew away. 'Stupid birds...'
For a few minutes, Rika just stopped and closed her eyes. She couldn't go through with this, it was impossible. She wasn't going to go through with this. Suddenly, she thought of something. If she didn't show up...
'Yeah, and get the whole school to be angry with me. Right...' Rika had no choice. She was going to have to play Maria.
~~T~W~O~~H~O~U~R~S~~L~A~T~E~R~~
Rika walked into the backstage door, to have Isabelle run up to her.
"Rika! I'm so glad you came!" Isabelle squealed, "We need to get you into wardrobe, now!" Isabelle pushed Rika down the hallway and into a room. In there were many racks of clothes, and a make-up counter on the side.
"Here's your dress in the first act, Rika!" Isabelle said, pulling off the rack a white under garment dress. "And then, in the middle of the act, you are forced into this one." Another white dress, with a red sash. "And this - " Isabelle continued to pull dress after dress off the rack. All dresses.
"Um...Isabelle? Do I get to wear anything that's not a dress?" Rika asked.
"Absolutely not. You're the star lady. Star ladies wear dresses."
Rika muttered insanities under her breath. She promised herself that she would go through with this. And she was.
"Okay...um...your hair..." Isabelle said, pondering. "Oh, yes, Ronnie went out and bought a wig."
"I have to wear a wig?" Rika moaned.
"Well, yeah." Isabelle blinked. "Maria has brown hair. You have red."
"Can't you dye it or something?"
"Um, yeah. But you'd have to cut your hair."
Rika sighed. "I'll take the wig."
"Alright..." So, Rika spent the worst half an hour of her life.
~~W~I~T~H~~R~Y~O~~
Ryo checked his watch. "Only a half an hour left," he muttered to himself. He couldn't believe that he was going to be in a play as the leading man, and Rika the star lady. It seemed impossible. It was like a dream.
Looking over the lyrics for his songs, he realized something. 'I wonder if Rika can sing. I never heard her before.' Ryo stood up and started to search for the others.
He went by the rooms and happened to see everyone except Rika in one. Everyone was dressed up, especially Ashley, who was dressed up as a boy.
"Hey, guys," Ryo said, "Nice outfit Ashley. Or should I say Ashton?"
"You cheap beast!" Ashley shouted, acting like she was going to lunge for Ryo. "Sorry, line from play. Couldn't resist."
"Well, you do look like a guy," Takato pointed out.
"I'm SUPPOSED to!" Ashley explained, exasperated, "Anybodys wants to be a Jet. But they won't let her, because she's a girl. So, she dresses up as a boy."
"Hey, aren't you leaving something out?" Kazu said, smirking.
"Ahh...shut up..." Ashley snapped.
"What?" Jeri asked.
"You guys didn't go through the whole script?" Ashley said.
"I just went through my lines," Everyone single person answered.
"Kazu, let this be a warning. If you do ANYTHING, I will hurt you, and badly," Ashley warned.
"Hey, don't worry, baby."
"First offence..."
"Oh, sorry...just practicing..."
"You don't even SAY that in the whole course of the play!" Ashley shouted.
"Umm..." Ashley looked behind her and saw all the others confused.
"You'll see sooner or later..." She explained.
"Um...hello?" A boy came into the room, dressed up like a Puerto Rican, with the short black hair. But his voice sounded like a girl's. Ashley immediately burst into laughter.
"It's not funny, Ashley. You KNOW they couldn't find a boy to play Chino," the person said.
"You mean, you're a girl?!" Kenta asked.
The person took off the wig to reveal longer than shoulder-length brown hair. "Hello. I'm Katie. Nice to meet you."
"So, you're stuck with playing a boy?" Henry said.
"Yep. Surprisingly, nobody wanted the part of Chino. But, I suppose, I do look okay for the part. I did have you guys fooled for a second."
"Yeah, with the wig and make-up and clothes, you look like a boy," Takato said.
"And I," Ashley exclaimed, "look like a girl trying to dress like a boy."
"Exactly."
"But I hate this hat!" Ashley took off her hat, and her blonde hair fell down on her shoulders. "I never could stand wearing a hat. Guess I still can't."
"We better get ready. The play starts in less than a half an hour," Amber said.
~~T~H~E~~P~L~A~Y~!~~
"Places everyone! Places!" Mrs. Tenner was freaking out. "Showtime in 5...4...3...2...1!" The curtain went up.
A group of people, including Kazu, Takato, and Kenta were on the stage, with this boy named Josh standing in front. Suddenly, he started snapping his fingers. Then everybody copied him. They started to "dance" around the stage, snapping their fingers, until the met up with this Puerto Rican guy.
They said nothing, and just pushed him out of way. Then they paraded down the streets again.
Everyone left the stage, except A-Rab, a.k.a. Kenta, came strolling across the stage. Suddenly, some Sharks, the other gang, appeared and started beating A-Rab up.
The other Jets entered the fight, and they all started beating each other up.
A whistle sounded, and an officer and plainclothesman came running up to the fight. "Knock it off! Settle down!" the officer cried, who was Krupke.
"Alright, kill each other! But not on my beat." Schrank, the other man, yelled.
"Why if it isn't Lieutenant Schrank." the actor playing Riff said in an innocent voice.
"Top of the day, Lieutenant Schrank." The Jets said, in a voice similar to Riff's.
"And Officer Krupke!" A guy playing Bernardo said, in the same innocence.
"Top of the day, Officer Krupke." The Sharks said.
"Boy, what you Puerto Ricans have done to this neighborhood. Which one of 'em clobbered ya, A-rab?" Schrank asked Kenta.
Riff spoke up. "As a matter of factuality, sir, we suspicion the job was done by a cop."
"Two cops." Takato said.
"Oh, at least!" Kenta nodded his head.
Krupke, the officer, looked shocked. "Impossible!"
And the next part of the play went on between the conversation between the Jets, Sharks, Krupke, and Schrank. (A/N: I'm lazy...^ ^;;)
Finally Krupke leaves with a "Good-bye, boys."
Takato imitated Krupke, "Good-bye, boys."
"They make a very nice couple," Kenta said.
"You hoodlums don't own the streets," Kazu bitterly exclaimed.
"Go play in the park!"
"Keep off the grass!"
"Get outa the house!"
"Keep off the block!"
"Get outa here!"
"Keep off the world! A gang that down own a street is nuthin'!"
"WE DO OWN IT!" Riff shouted. "Jets, square off! Acemen." Takato, Kazu, and another boy lined up. "Rocketmen." Three others. "Rank-and-file." Sheepishly, Kenta got in line and so did another boy.
"Gee, your ear's got blood on it!" The other boy said to Kenta, shocked.
"I'm a casual, Baby John."
"Them PRs! They branded you!"
"That makes you a Puerto Rican tomato. Cha-cha-cha, señorita?" Takato laughed.
"Cut the frabbajabba." Riff said, "Which one of the Sharks did it?"
Kenta made a face. "Bernardo. 'Cause I heard him say: "Thees ees for stink- bombin' my old man's store.""
"Ouch!"
"You shoulda done worse. Them PRs're the reason my old man's gone bust," Kazu said.
"Who says?"
"My old man says," Kazu explained.
"My old man says his old man woulda gone bust anyway."
"Your old man says that?"
"My old man says them Puerto Ricans is ruinin' free ennaprise," Baby John said.
"And what're we doin' about it?" Kazu asked.
Suddenly, Ashley came running out from offstage, and stopped in front of the Jets.
"Gassin', crabbin'," Ashley shouted.
"You still around?" Kazu said.
"Listen," Ashley snapped, "I was a smash in that fight. Oh, Riff, Riff, I was murder!"
"Come on, Anybodys - " Riff sighed.
"Riff, how about me getting' in the gang now?" Ashley asked.
"How about the gang gettin' in -ahhh, who'd wanta!" Kenta said.
"You cheap beast!" Ashley yelled, lunging for Kenta, but Josh (Riff) stopped her.
"The road, little lady, the road," he said. Ashley stomped off, but before she went, she spat on the ground. "Round out! We fought hard for this territory and it's ours. But with those cops servin' as cover, the PRs can move in right under our noses and take it away. Unless we speed fast and clean 'em up in one all-out fight!"
"A rumble!" Kazu said, excitedly, "Chung! Chung!"
"Cool, Action boy. The Sharks want a place, too, and they are tough. They might ask for bottles of knives or zip guns."
"Zip guys. Gee!" Baby John said.
"I'm not finalizin' and sayin' they will: I'm only sayin' they might and we gotta be prepared. Now what's your mood?" Riff told them.
"I say go, go!!" Kazu said.
"But if they say knives or guns-" Takato started.
"I say let's forget the whole thing." Baby John said, scared.
"What do you say, Riff?"
"I say this turf is small, but it's all we got. I wanna hold it like we always held it: with skin! But if they say switchblades, I'll get a switchblade. I say I want the Jets to be Number One, to sail, to hold the sky!"
"Then rev us off. Voom-va voom!" a guy shouted.
"Chung chung!"
"Cracko, jacko!"
"Riga diga dum!"
"Pam pam!!"
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Kazu: *snores*
Ashley: WAKE UP!
Kazu: *falls off chair* URGH! Sorry, but it's SOOO boring.
Ashley: I know! I almost fell asleep writing it. But when Ryo and Rika make their entrance, it will get much more exciting, promise.
Rika: You can't make me!
Ashley: I'm just gonna skip ahead and say 'REVIEW TO THIS BORING CHAPTER!' So, yeah, review to this boring chapter. Please?
Kazu: Yep, click the button, and review.
Ashley: The next chapter will be coming soon to a PC near you.
Kazu: Politically correct???
Ashley and Rika: NO! PERSONAL COMPUTER!
~~*Choir behind them starts singing*
It's a world wide web, that's entertainment!
The future is now, on the world wide web!
That's entertainment! Let us show you how,
With the world wide web, that's entertainment!
Surf it up, you'll find it out, on the world wide web!
That's entertainment, we're talking entertainment!
Dot com, that's entertainment!~~
Ashley: Um...yeah...choir, ya know. Anyway, review!
Ashley: *taking back all the cupcakes Kazu stole* Hello faithful reviewers, and people who are just reading this fic but not reviewing for some unknown reason.
Kazu: Hey, I got a social problem!
Rika: We already knew that Kazu...
Kazu: I'm practicing my lines.
Ashley: And, to new reviewers and reviewers who has already reviewed but I'm giving you a cookie anyway, you get a cookie! That's Akino Matoumiken, EvilVidel, Kit Kat, Butterfly-fire, taKAri_RyUki~ruLEz, Midnight Blossom, RukiMakino. Except Digifreak103 because of the same reason as last time. Oh, and Rika1332 gets a cookie for encouraging me to write more. Now for the disclaimer done by Henry!
Henry: Ashley doesn't own West Side Story, the movie OR the play, and she also doesn't own Digimon. She owns her own character, Ashley, but doesn't own Amber, because Amber (Henrylovr07) owns herself. And she's adding a new character, her friend, Katie! Owned by BorderLine.
Ashley: Right. And, an important note: I realized I had Kazu play the part of Action, and my character a.k.a. me, as Anybodys. I was going through a West Side Story script and found something out. You'll find out when I get there. Oh, and I was going to change it, but Amber persuaded me to "Dare to be Honest". URGH! Anyway, on with chapter five!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was only three more hours till the play. Rika was sullenly walking down the streets, wandering around until she needed to be at the auditorium.
'I can't believe I actually agreed to play Maria.' Rika was thinking, 'I have all those lines, and I'll probably forget one. And, worst of all, I have to KISS Ryo. Ryo, of all people...'
A bird, who was in the maple tree above Rika, started singing. And Rika recognized the tune. 'Great, now even the birds are against me. "Stop singing I Feel Pretty!" Rika yelled at the birds, and, in fear, they flew away. 'Stupid birds...'
For a few minutes, Rika just stopped and closed her eyes. She couldn't go through with this, it was impossible. She wasn't going to go through with this. Suddenly, she thought of something. If she didn't show up...
'Yeah, and get the whole school to be angry with me. Right...' Rika had no choice. She was going to have to play Maria.
~~T~W~O~~H~O~U~R~S~~L~A~T~E~R~~
Rika walked into the backstage door, to have Isabelle run up to her.
"Rika! I'm so glad you came!" Isabelle squealed, "We need to get you into wardrobe, now!" Isabelle pushed Rika down the hallway and into a room. In there were many racks of clothes, and a make-up counter on the side.
"Here's your dress in the first act, Rika!" Isabelle said, pulling off the rack a white under garment dress. "And then, in the middle of the act, you are forced into this one." Another white dress, with a red sash. "And this - " Isabelle continued to pull dress after dress off the rack. All dresses.
"Um...Isabelle? Do I get to wear anything that's not a dress?" Rika asked.
"Absolutely not. You're the star lady. Star ladies wear dresses."
Rika muttered insanities under her breath. She promised herself that she would go through with this. And she was.
"Okay...um...your hair..." Isabelle said, pondering. "Oh, yes, Ronnie went out and bought a wig."
"I have to wear a wig?" Rika moaned.
"Well, yeah." Isabelle blinked. "Maria has brown hair. You have red."
"Can't you dye it or something?"
"Um, yeah. But you'd have to cut your hair."
Rika sighed. "I'll take the wig."
"Alright..." So, Rika spent the worst half an hour of her life.
~~W~I~T~H~~R~Y~O~~
Ryo checked his watch. "Only a half an hour left," he muttered to himself. He couldn't believe that he was going to be in a play as the leading man, and Rika the star lady. It seemed impossible. It was like a dream.
Looking over the lyrics for his songs, he realized something. 'I wonder if Rika can sing. I never heard her before.' Ryo stood up and started to search for the others.
He went by the rooms and happened to see everyone except Rika in one. Everyone was dressed up, especially Ashley, who was dressed up as a boy.
"Hey, guys," Ryo said, "Nice outfit Ashley. Or should I say Ashton?"
"You cheap beast!" Ashley shouted, acting like she was going to lunge for Ryo. "Sorry, line from play. Couldn't resist."
"Well, you do look like a guy," Takato pointed out.
"I'm SUPPOSED to!" Ashley explained, exasperated, "Anybodys wants to be a Jet. But they won't let her, because she's a girl. So, she dresses up as a boy."
"Hey, aren't you leaving something out?" Kazu said, smirking.
"Ahh...shut up..." Ashley snapped.
"What?" Jeri asked.
"You guys didn't go through the whole script?" Ashley said.
"I just went through my lines," Everyone single person answered.
"Kazu, let this be a warning. If you do ANYTHING, I will hurt you, and badly," Ashley warned.
"Hey, don't worry, baby."
"First offence..."
"Oh, sorry...just practicing..."
"You don't even SAY that in the whole course of the play!" Ashley shouted.
"Umm..." Ashley looked behind her and saw all the others confused.
"You'll see sooner or later..." She explained.
"Um...hello?" A boy came into the room, dressed up like a Puerto Rican, with the short black hair. But his voice sounded like a girl's. Ashley immediately burst into laughter.
"It's not funny, Ashley. You KNOW they couldn't find a boy to play Chino," the person said.
"You mean, you're a girl?!" Kenta asked.
The person took off the wig to reveal longer than shoulder-length brown hair. "Hello. I'm Katie. Nice to meet you."
"So, you're stuck with playing a boy?" Henry said.
"Yep. Surprisingly, nobody wanted the part of Chino. But, I suppose, I do look okay for the part. I did have you guys fooled for a second."
"Yeah, with the wig and make-up and clothes, you look like a boy," Takato said.
"And I," Ashley exclaimed, "look like a girl trying to dress like a boy."
"Exactly."
"But I hate this hat!" Ashley took off her hat, and her blonde hair fell down on her shoulders. "I never could stand wearing a hat. Guess I still can't."
"We better get ready. The play starts in less than a half an hour," Amber said.
~~T~H~E~~P~L~A~Y~!~~
"Places everyone! Places!" Mrs. Tenner was freaking out. "Showtime in 5...4...3...2...1!" The curtain went up.
A group of people, including Kazu, Takato, and Kenta were on the stage, with this boy named Josh standing in front. Suddenly, he started snapping his fingers. Then everybody copied him. They started to "dance" around the stage, snapping their fingers, until the met up with this Puerto Rican guy.
They said nothing, and just pushed him out of way. Then they paraded down the streets again.
Everyone left the stage, except A-Rab, a.k.a. Kenta, came strolling across the stage. Suddenly, some Sharks, the other gang, appeared and started beating A-Rab up.
The other Jets entered the fight, and they all started beating each other up.
A whistle sounded, and an officer and plainclothesman came running up to the fight. "Knock it off! Settle down!" the officer cried, who was Krupke.
"Alright, kill each other! But not on my beat." Schrank, the other man, yelled.
"Why if it isn't Lieutenant Schrank." the actor playing Riff said in an innocent voice.
"Top of the day, Lieutenant Schrank." The Jets said, in a voice similar to Riff's.
"And Officer Krupke!" A guy playing Bernardo said, in the same innocence.
"Top of the day, Officer Krupke." The Sharks said.
"Boy, what you Puerto Ricans have done to this neighborhood. Which one of 'em clobbered ya, A-rab?" Schrank asked Kenta.
Riff spoke up. "As a matter of factuality, sir, we suspicion the job was done by a cop."
"Two cops." Takato said.
"Oh, at least!" Kenta nodded his head.
Krupke, the officer, looked shocked. "Impossible!"
And the next part of the play went on between the conversation between the Jets, Sharks, Krupke, and Schrank. (A/N: I'm lazy...^ ^;;)
Finally Krupke leaves with a "Good-bye, boys."
Takato imitated Krupke, "Good-bye, boys."
"They make a very nice couple," Kenta said.
"You hoodlums don't own the streets," Kazu bitterly exclaimed.
"Go play in the park!"
"Keep off the grass!"
"Get outa the house!"
"Keep off the block!"
"Get outa here!"
"Keep off the world! A gang that down own a street is nuthin'!"
"WE DO OWN IT!" Riff shouted. "Jets, square off! Acemen." Takato, Kazu, and another boy lined up. "Rocketmen." Three others. "Rank-and-file." Sheepishly, Kenta got in line and so did another boy.
"Gee, your ear's got blood on it!" The other boy said to Kenta, shocked.
"I'm a casual, Baby John."
"Them PRs! They branded you!"
"That makes you a Puerto Rican tomato. Cha-cha-cha, señorita?" Takato laughed.
"Cut the frabbajabba." Riff said, "Which one of the Sharks did it?"
Kenta made a face. "Bernardo. 'Cause I heard him say: "Thees ees for stink- bombin' my old man's store.""
"Ouch!"
"You shoulda done worse. Them PRs're the reason my old man's gone bust," Kazu said.
"Who says?"
"My old man says," Kazu explained.
"My old man says his old man woulda gone bust anyway."
"Your old man says that?"
"My old man says them Puerto Ricans is ruinin' free ennaprise," Baby John said.
"And what're we doin' about it?" Kazu asked.
Suddenly, Ashley came running out from offstage, and stopped in front of the Jets.
"Gassin', crabbin'," Ashley shouted.
"You still around?" Kazu said.
"Listen," Ashley snapped, "I was a smash in that fight. Oh, Riff, Riff, I was murder!"
"Come on, Anybodys - " Riff sighed.
"Riff, how about me getting' in the gang now?" Ashley asked.
"How about the gang gettin' in -ahhh, who'd wanta!" Kenta said.
"You cheap beast!" Ashley yelled, lunging for Kenta, but Josh (Riff) stopped her.
"The road, little lady, the road," he said. Ashley stomped off, but before she went, she spat on the ground. "Round out! We fought hard for this territory and it's ours. But with those cops servin' as cover, the PRs can move in right under our noses and take it away. Unless we speed fast and clean 'em up in one all-out fight!"
"A rumble!" Kazu said, excitedly, "Chung! Chung!"
"Cool, Action boy. The Sharks want a place, too, and they are tough. They might ask for bottles of knives or zip guns."
"Zip guys. Gee!" Baby John said.
"I'm not finalizin' and sayin' they will: I'm only sayin' they might and we gotta be prepared. Now what's your mood?" Riff told them.
"I say go, go!!" Kazu said.
"But if they say knives or guns-" Takato started.
"I say let's forget the whole thing." Baby John said, scared.
"What do you say, Riff?"
"I say this turf is small, but it's all we got. I wanna hold it like we always held it: with skin! But if they say switchblades, I'll get a switchblade. I say I want the Jets to be Number One, to sail, to hold the sky!"
"Then rev us off. Voom-va voom!" a guy shouted.
"Chung chung!"
"Cracko, jacko!"
"Riga diga dum!"
"Pam pam!!"
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Kazu: *snores*
Ashley: WAKE UP!
Kazu: *falls off chair* URGH! Sorry, but it's SOOO boring.
Ashley: I know! I almost fell asleep writing it. But when Ryo and Rika make their entrance, it will get much more exciting, promise.
Rika: You can't make me!
Ashley: I'm just gonna skip ahead and say 'REVIEW TO THIS BORING CHAPTER!' So, yeah, review to this boring chapter. Please?
Kazu: Yep, click the button, and review.
Ashley: The next chapter will be coming soon to a PC near you.
Kazu: Politically correct???
Ashley and Rika: NO! PERSONAL COMPUTER!
~~*Choir behind them starts singing*
It's a world wide web, that's entertainment!
The future is now, on the world wide web!
That's entertainment! Let us show you how,
With the world wide web, that's entertainment!
Surf it up, you'll find it out, on the world wide web!
That's entertainment, we're talking entertainment!
Dot com, that's entertainment!~~
Ashley: Um...yeah...choir, ya know. Anyway, review!