::Blarg! Blarg, I say! ::
"The problem with visiting Zone One.." Perro stated, "..is that there is little enforcement upon the law, so I urge you to try and be safe while here."
"Can't do that." Shunsaku replied. "We're not here as tourists."
Later that night, and in a different section of Zone One...
Bob the Cat was cleaning himself after another sucsessful hunt. The rat he caught would surely last him the night. But there was something in the air.. a strange, sickly-sweet scent.. Bob took a glimpse behind him, and saw the most horrifying, deformed creature he had ever and would ever see(n). It stood at least six-ft. tall, platinum crest, and the largest nose known to mankind. (I'm sorry, but I just can't get over that nose!)
Of course, we all knew that it was Duke Crimson, but Bob the Cat didn't, so he freaked and ran away. (Which he did in the movie.) Duke Crimson was, of course, on his way to Laughton's lab. Which is where he arrived!
"Duke Green." Laughton greeted.
"It's Duke Mauve." Duke Mauve greeted back. They both went in as Duke Mauve's body guards stood by the door. Of course, they made the mistake of looking only forward; a figure used this advantage and climbed onto the roof, silently.
Both Laughton and Duke Mauve were looking into a weird container doohickey. Duke Mauve placed his hand onto the container.
"Are you sure she's not finished?" Laughton lightly quivered from Duke Mauve's piercing gaze.
"Y-yes; if I started her up now, she would do the macarana, foam at the mouth, sing the national anthem of Canada, play Twister, and then spontaneously combust. At once!" Duke Mauve returned his attention to the girl-in-a-container-doohickey.
"You're not using real organs, are you?"
"No! Not at all! They're a quick fix- they don't last very long. I made all of her organs myself. She's my masterpiece. I just need to make a few finishing touches and-"
"But I want her to be done noooow!" Duke Mauve whined.
"Just wait, she'll be done within the week!" Upset with not getting his way, Duke Mauve left the lab. Laughton took this oportunity to sit in his comfy chair-plus-a-lot-of-computers and get back to work.
"I'm not letting you go to anyone.." The scientist growled. "No sirree, I'm taking you with me and from Metropolis shall we flee!" He was stopped only by the sound of footsteps entering the lab. Laughton was frozen, as a shiver of cold and adrenaline, afraid that Duke Mauve had returned but- No, no, it was a young man.. "I know you! You're Rock- You follow Duke Mauve!" Rock rocks.
"It's Duke Crimson. And I'm here because protecting my father is one of my many duties." Rock walked to the container and glared at it from behind the sunglasses. "Besides, this gets me away from that Rocku author person. ..Kept on trying to spank me.." Laughton shuddered a bit at the uneeded information and tried to ignore it.
"Father..?" The curious Laughton asked. "What were you talking about? Duke Crimson had only one daughter, and she died-"
"IRUSAE!" Rock snapped. (Which means 'shut up', to let you know.) "I know what you're up to." He backed up two steps and took a steady stance. "There is no way I'm going to let my father's heart be taken by a robot." He drew out his gun and aimed. He then paused. "Wait a minute.. Weren't you supposed to be the one who sets fire to the lab, stealing Tima..?" Laughton shrugged. Rock glanced at the script. "Oh, I see, that was in the manga." He resumed his ready-to-shoot pose.
"N-No!" Laughton exclaimed. "You can't do this- she's the centerpiece to the throne of the Really, Really, Ridiculously Big Tower!"
"She can't be! Father wouldn't do something like that!"
"Then are you going to destroy the girl that the one you call 'father' is waiting for?" Rock hesitated. Finally, he relaxed and let his arms fall. Laughton thought he had succeeded when.. Rock turned towards him. "Wh-What are you doing??" The frightened scientists yelped. But it was all too obvious.
Rock had wasted only one bullet on the evil man who had made this abomination, and then he went towards actually destroying the whole lab itself.
Oh ye gods.. he thought desperately, give me the courage to protect my father from the evil that are robots.. and ice cream. He likes that stuff too much.
On his way out, Rock could hardly think. Rather, all that was in his mind was fear. Fear of what he had done, fear of if his father would find out, or anyone else for that matter. And his innate fear of pickles. So he ran. Almost into a passer-by, and took a right turn, up some stairs, and out of harm's way.
Of course, those of who seen the movie would know, the passer-by was Atlas. But he didn't do much about the running Rock. Instead, he was curious about what the Marduck had done that made him run like that, when-! The old factory suddenly exploded! Anomonopia! Sooouuund effeeeeeect!
Kenichi, Perro, and Shunsaku were asking random people if they recognized the picture of Laughton they were carrying when people started running around, yelling 'fire'. Curious, they followed the running crowd as robots sped by, on their way to put out the fires. A crowd was gathering, watching the old factory burn down. Atlas, for reasons unknown, had tears in his eyes.
"My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the factory.." He tearfully mumbled. Anyway, the robots were dancing a jig (also for reasons unknown) while they waited for the rest of the system to catch up. Finally, Kenichi, Shunsaku, and Perro arrived. Shunsaku practically doubled over, out of breath, while Perro went to inform the crowd.
"Do not panic. The fire department's robots are on their way. And should you feel the cabin pressure fall, safety masks will drop from the ceiling.."
"Shut up!" An agitated spectator cried, whapping the hat off of Perro, "This is a FIRE, not a stinkin' airplane- and you robots have taken our jobs!!"
"This is no time to be stupid, neanderthal idiots!!" Shunsaku exclaimed. Perro bent over and retrieved his hat.
"My hat.." He whined. Then it was Kenichi and Shunsaku's turn to dance a jig, as they freaked from the giant-cockroach-sized thigamajigs, heading for the jiggy robots. After assembling with both these and the hoses, the jigilicious robots started to put the fires out. (I like Rock and all.. but could someone please tell me how he started an explosion like that with a gun?? Or how did the lab burn, when it was mostly metal..?)
"Atlas, did you see who started this?" The jerk from before asked. Atlas, however, was fixated on the fires. (I decided I'll make him a piro.) "ATLAS??"
"Hmm- oh, sorry, what?"
"Did-you-see-who-star-ted-the-fi-re?!" The jerk repeated.
"Yeah, some Marducky kid." He imeediately shot right in to space again, watching the flames. "Isn't it beautiful...?" Shunsaku become more annoyed than he already was.
"I'm sick of this.." He mumbled. "We've read the script, we know what's going to happen.. why do we have to go line by line like this..?! Kenichi! We're gonna screw the script at this point and leap into the fire!!"
"Now we're talking!" Kenichi happily replied, following his uncle to the flaming laboratory. "I get lines! I get to do something!!" Perro stayed in place, still in dismay that someone had actually hurt his hat. The two ran towards the entrance, and split up.
Shunsaku, as we all know, found Laughton. However, Laughton was kinda.. dying-ish. So, he was too heavy to drag out, but the noble detective tried anyway.
"The.. the notebo.." The wounded scientist mumbled, weakly trying to point at his notebook.
"What is it, Laughton?" Shunsaku asked. Realizing Laughton's condition, the detective tried to guess for him. "The christmas chicken? The voodoo llama? The original manga of this movie?"
"N-...note..boo.."
"The double-A batteries? The remote control? The strawberry-flavored, fat- free, sugar-free lollipop? The birch tree?"
"N-..! Notebo-..!"
"The artificial human Michi who looked for his/her parents, went insane, tried to attack Metropolis, and then melted due to the lack of radiation from the sun?"
"NOTEBOOK!" Laughton finally made out. "Michi was in the manga!!" And he then died. Aww.
Meanwhile, Kenichi was looking for anyone else he may find, found a little naked blue girl wander out of the reckage. Of course, the young man was frightened and confused by the girl's appearace.
"I see aliens!" He whispered to himself, and, without knowing what he was doing, took off his jacked and handed it to her.
Elsewhere, Rock (since he rocks) and the author were eating ice cream and double-checking this document for spelling errors and ways to make it funnier. Which it could really use.
"I think that you should make Tima do that spontaneous-combusting thingy." Rock suggested. "And take out that part about Rocku author trying to.. spank me." He shuddered at the memory.
"Nahh." Chibi Seph replied. "Although, Tima randomly exploding IS a good idea.. But nahh." The author then looked to the audience acknowledging this. "To let you know, my muse has kinda run away on a sudden vacation.. that's why I'm including myself in here. And also to do this." Without warning, Rock was glomped. The Marduck tried his hardest to stay calm.
"At least it's not spanking."
Anyway, back to Kenichi.
Both he and the weird girl, (who had lost her hue and returned to a peach,) were trying to avoid the falling wreckage, when the grate they were unknowingly standing on fell from beneath them, and into the darkness they went.
The next day! (And there was the blimp again!)
Rock quietly approached the worried Duke Crimson. "Duke Crimson.." he began, "Laughton's lab was burned down.." Duke Crimson swiftly turned around.
"It's Duke Cyan, you dolt! And where did you hear this?!" Rock let the insult slide. Duke Cyan WAS his father, even if he didn't act like it anymore.
"I saw it on the startup screen from AOL." He truthfully answered. Duke Cyan's face lost its color, and he slowly faced the windows once more. "Considering there were several international arrest warrants for him, whatever it was he was working on was probably illegal anyway.." Now the Duke was starting to shake in anger. "Why are you upset, father?" Rock poked. "He shouldn't really concern you anyway."
"IRUSAI! GET OUT!!" Rock obeyed, with a smug grin on his face. Now was his chance to make sure that his deed was done. If only his father could understand what it was he was doing for him..
Later, down at the burned old factory...
Perro was still upset about his hat. "My hat.." He whined again. Shunsaku was watching the rescue team searching the remains, when he saw the Marduck from the Really, Really, Ridiculously Big Tower's opening.
"Who is that kid, anyway?" The detective asked his miffed partner.
"That's Rock." Perro reluctantly replied. "He's one of the youngest of the Marduck band, but also one of the most influential; even said to be Duke Gray's right hand man. He also has hoards of fans who seem to love him dearly."
"I thought it was Duke Baise.." Shunsaku mumbled. "Either way, what's the connection from him to Duke.. uh.. Gray?"
"He founded and funds the party. It's hardly discreet- a public secret." The detective grinned.
"A penny saved is a penny earned." He looked to Perro. "An old saying, I know, but I like old sayings."
"I thought it was supposed to be-"
"If God lived on Earth, people would break His windows?"
"A criminal always-"
"Brushes his teeth only at night?"
"Returns to the scene of a crime?"
"Oh yeeeaaaahh!"
"Anyway, I'll send in a search warrant for Kenichi. I am sorry I haven't been of more use to you."
"No no, you've been more than a help- you're like my own personal GPS system! It rocks!" Shunsaku didn't even bother explaining.
Rock was searching the rubble. 'Cause Rock rocks. 'I don't understand..' he thought, 'something should be left of her.. she was supposed to be the most advanced robot made- at least her skeleton should be left behind..' Finally, he found a large hole.
"Oey." He signaled to the nearest workman. (It just happened to be that moustached guy.. you know, the one he shot later? The one that keeps on showing up in Osamu's works?) "Where does this go?" The workman peered down into the dark depths.
"Well, if anyone DID fall into that," he began, "First they would go through the sewers of Zone Two, processed at Zone Three, chopped up at Zone Four, mashed in Zone Five, melted together in Zone Six, then processed, chopped, and mashed again at Zone Seven, and, eventually, get pecked to death by radioactive ostriches in Zone Eight. That is, assuming they lived the processing, chopping, and mashing." Rock paused at the ostriches.
"Do we really have Eight Zones?" The workman hesitated.
"Uh... sure, why not?" He shrugged and shook his head. "Either way, I know the ostriches exist.." The poor man shuddered at the memories. "Uh- Anyway, if anyone DID fall into that, there's no way they could survive it."
"Anyone else.." Rock mumbled.
"The problem with visiting Zone One.." Perro stated, "..is that there is little enforcement upon the law, so I urge you to try and be safe while here."
"Can't do that." Shunsaku replied. "We're not here as tourists."
Later that night, and in a different section of Zone One...
Bob the Cat was cleaning himself after another sucsessful hunt. The rat he caught would surely last him the night. But there was something in the air.. a strange, sickly-sweet scent.. Bob took a glimpse behind him, and saw the most horrifying, deformed creature he had ever and would ever see(n). It stood at least six-ft. tall, platinum crest, and the largest nose known to mankind. (I'm sorry, but I just can't get over that nose!)
Of course, we all knew that it was Duke Crimson, but Bob the Cat didn't, so he freaked and ran away. (Which he did in the movie.) Duke Crimson was, of course, on his way to Laughton's lab. Which is where he arrived!
"Duke Green." Laughton greeted.
"It's Duke Mauve." Duke Mauve greeted back. They both went in as Duke Mauve's body guards stood by the door. Of course, they made the mistake of looking only forward; a figure used this advantage and climbed onto the roof, silently.
Both Laughton and Duke Mauve were looking into a weird container doohickey. Duke Mauve placed his hand onto the container.
"Are you sure she's not finished?" Laughton lightly quivered from Duke Mauve's piercing gaze.
"Y-yes; if I started her up now, she would do the macarana, foam at the mouth, sing the national anthem of Canada, play Twister, and then spontaneously combust. At once!" Duke Mauve returned his attention to the girl-in-a-container-doohickey.
"You're not using real organs, are you?"
"No! Not at all! They're a quick fix- they don't last very long. I made all of her organs myself. She's my masterpiece. I just need to make a few finishing touches and-"
"But I want her to be done noooow!" Duke Mauve whined.
"Just wait, she'll be done within the week!" Upset with not getting his way, Duke Mauve left the lab. Laughton took this oportunity to sit in his comfy chair-plus-a-lot-of-computers and get back to work.
"I'm not letting you go to anyone.." The scientist growled. "No sirree, I'm taking you with me and from Metropolis shall we flee!" He was stopped only by the sound of footsteps entering the lab. Laughton was frozen, as a shiver of cold and adrenaline, afraid that Duke Mauve had returned but- No, no, it was a young man.. "I know you! You're Rock- You follow Duke Mauve!" Rock rocks.
"It's Duke Crimson. And I'm here because protecting my father is one of my many duties." Rock walked to the container and glared at it from behind the sunglasses. "Besides, this gets me away from that Rocku author person. ..Kept on trying to spank me.." Laughton shuddered a bit at the uneeded information and tried to ignore it.
"Father..?" The curious Laughton asked. "What were you talking about? Duke Crimson had only one daughter, and she died-"
"IRUSAE!" Rock snapped. (Which means 'shut up', to let you know.) "I know what you're up to." He backed up two steps and took a steady stance. "There is no way I'm going to let my father's heart be taken by a robot." He drew out his gun and aimed. He then paused. "Wait a minute.. Weren't you supposed to be the one who sets fire to the lab, stealing Tima..?" Laughton shrugged. Rock glanced at the script. "Oh, I see, that was in the manga." He resumed his ready-to-shoot pose.
"N-No!" Laughton exclaimed. "You can't do this- she's the centerpiece to the throne of the Really, Really, Ridiculously Big Tower!"
"She can't be! Father wouldn't do something like that!"
"Then are you going to destroy the girl that the one you call 'father' is waiting for?" Rock hesitated. Finally, he relaxed and let his arms fall. Laughton thought he had succeeded when.. Rock turned towards him. "Wh-What are you doing??" The frightened scientists yelped. But it was all too obvious.
Rock had wasted only one bullet on the evil man who had made this abomination, and then he went towards actually destroying the whole lab itself.
Oh ye gods.. he thought desperately, give me the courage to protect my father from the evil that are robots.. and ice cream. He likes that stuff too much.
On his way out, Rock could hardly think. Rather, all that was in his mind was fear. Fear of what he had done, fear of if his father would find out, or anyone else for that matter. And his innate fear of pickles. So he ran. Almost into a passer-by, and took a right turn, up some stairs, and out of harm's way.
Of course, those of who seen the movie would know, the passer-by was Atlas. But he didn't do much about the running Rock. Instead, he was curious about what the Marduck had done that made him run like that, when-! The old factory suddenly exploded! Anomonopia! Sooouuund effeeeeeect!
Kenichi, Perro, and Shunsaku were asking random people if they recognized the picture of Laughton they were carrying when people started running around, yelling 'fire'. Curious, they followed the running crowd as robots sped by, on their way to put out the fires. A crowd was gathering, watching the old factory burn down. Atlas, for reasons unknown, had tears in his eyes.
"My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the factory.." He tearfully mumbled. Anyway, the robots were dancing a jig (also for reasons unknown) while they waited for the rest of the system to catch up. Finally, Kenichi, Shunsaku, and Perro arrived. Shunsaku practically doubled over, out of breath, while Perro went to inform the crowd.
"Do not panic. The fire department's robots are on their way. And should you feel the cabin pressure fall, safety masks will drop from the ceiling.."
"Shut up!" An agitated spectator cried, whapping the hat off of Perro, "This is a FIRE, not a stinkin' airplane- and you robots have taken our jobs!!"
"This is no time to be stupid, neanderthal idiots!!" Shunsaku exclaimed. Perro bent over and retrieved his hat.
"My hat.." He whined. Then it was Kenichi and Shunsaku's turn to dance a jig, as they freaked from the giant-cockroach-sized thigamajigs, heading for the jiggy robots. After assembling with both these and the hoses, the jigilicious robots started to put the fires out. (I like Rock and all.. but could someone please tell me how he started an explosion like that with a gun?? Or how did the lab burn, when it was mostly metal..?)
"Atlas, did you see who started this?" The jerk from before asked. Atlas, however, was fixated on the fires. (I decided I'll make him a piro.) "ATLAS??"
"Hmm- oh, sorry, what?"
"Did-you-see-who-star-ted-the-fi-re?!" The jerk repeated.
"Yeah, some Marducky kid." He imeediately shot right in to space again, watching the flames. "Isn't it beautiful...?" Shunsaku become more annoyed than he already was.
"I'm sick of this.." He mumbled. "We've read the script, we know what's going to happen.. why do we have to go line by line like this..?! Kenichi! We're gonna screw the script at this point and leap into the fire!!"
"Now we're talking!" Kenichi happily replied, following his uncle to the flaming laboratory. "I get lines! I get to do something!!" Perro stayed in place, still in dismay that someone had actually hurt his hat. The two ran towards the entrance, and split up.
Shunsaku, as we all know, found Laughton. However, Laughton was kinda.. dying-ish. So, he was too heavy to drag out, but the noble detective tried anyway.
"The.. the notebo.." The wounded scientist mumbled, weakly trying to point at his notebook.
"What is it, Laughton?" Shunsaku asked. Realizing Laughton's condition, the detective tried to guess for him. "The christmas chicken? The voodoo llama? The original manga of this movie?"
"N-...note..boo.."
"The double-A batteries? The remote control? The strawberry-flavored, fat- free, sugar-free lollipop? The birch tree?"
"N-..! Notebo-..!"
"The artificial human Michi who looked for his/her parents, went insane, tried to attack Metropolis, and then melted due to the lack of radiation from the sun?"
"NOTEBOOK!" Laughton finally made out. "Michi was in the manga!!" And he then died. Aww.
Meanwhile, Kenichi was looking for anyone else he may find, found a little naked blue girl wander out of the reckage. Of course, the young man was frightened and confused by the girl's appearace.
"I see aliens!" He whispered to himself, and, without knowing what he was doing, took off his jacked and handed it to her.
Elsewhere, Rock (since he rocks) and the author were eating ice cream and double-checking this document for spelling errors and ways to make it funnier. Which it could really use.
"I think that you should make Tima do that spontaneous-combusting thingy." Rock suggested. "And take out that part about Rocku author trying to.. spank me." He shuddered at the memory.
"Nahh." Chibi Seph replied. "Although, Tima randomly exploding IS a good idea.. But nahh." The author then looked to the audience acknowledging this. "To let you know, my muse has kinda run away on a sudden vacation.. that's why I'm including myself in here. And also to do this." Without warning, Rock was glomped. The Marduck tried his hardest to stay calm.
"At least it's not spanking."
Anyway, back to Kenichi.
Both he and the weird girl, (who had lost her hue and returned to a peach,) were trying to avoid the falling wreckage, when the grate they were unknowingly standing on fell from beneath them, and into the darkness they went.
The next day! (And there was the blimp again!)
Rock quietly approached the worried Duke Crimson. "Duke Crimson.." he began, "Laughton's lab was burned down.." Duke Crimson swiftly turned around.
"It's Duke Cyan, you dolt! And where did you hear this?!" Rock let the insult slide. Duke Cyan WAS his father, even if he didn't act like it anymore.
"I saw it on the startup screen from AOL." He truthfully answered. Duke Cyan's face lost its color, and he slowly faced the windows once more. "Considering there were several international arrest warrants for him, whatever it was he was working on was probably illegal anyway.." Now the Duke was starting to shake in anger. "Why are you upset, father?" Rock poked. "He shouldn't really concern you anyway."
"IRUSAI! GET OUT!!" Rock obeyed, with a smug grin on his face. Now was his chance to make sure that his deed was done. If only his father could understand what it was he was doing for him..
Later, down at the burned old factory...
Perro was still upset about his hat. "My hat.." He whined again. Shunsaku was watching the rescue team searching the remains, when he saw the Marduck from the Really, Really, Ridiculously Big Tower's opening.
"Who is that kid, anyway?" The detective asked his miffed partner.
"That's Rock." Perro reluctantly replied. "He's one of the youngest of the Marduck band, but also one of the most influential; even said to be Duke Gray's right hand man. He also has hoards of fans who seem to love him dearly."
"I thought it was Duke Baise.." Shunsaku mumbled. "Either way, what's the connection from him to Duke.. uh.. Gray?"
"He founded and funds the party. It's hardly discreet- a public secret." The detective grinned.
"A penny saved is a penny earned." He looked to Perro. "An old saying, I know, but I like old sayings."
"I thought it was supposed to be-"
"If God lived on Earth, people would break His windows?"
"A criminal always-"
"Brushes his teeth only at night?"
"Returns to the scene of a crime?"
"Oh yeeeaaaahh!"
"Anyway, I'll send in a search warrant for Kenichi. I am sorry I haven't been of more use to you."
"No no, you've been more than a help- you're like my own personal GPS system! It rocks!" Shunsaku didn't even bother explaining.
Rock was searching the rubble. 'Cause Rock rocks. 'I don't understand..' he thought, 'something should be left of her.. she was supposed to be the most advanced robot made- at least her skeleton should be left behind..' Finally, he found a large hole.
"Oey." He signaled to the nearest workman. (It just happened to be that moustached guy.. you know, the one he shot later? The one that keeps on showing up in Osamu's works?) "Where does this go?" The workman peered down into the dark depths.
"Well, if anyone DID fall into that," he began, "First they would go through the sewers of Zone Two, processed at Zone Three, chopped up at Zone Four, mashed in Zone Five, melted together in Zone Six, then processed, chopped, and mashed again at Zone Seven, and, eventually, get pecked to death by radioactive ostriches in Zone Eight. That is, assuming they lived the processing, chopping, and mashing." Rock paused at the ostriches.
"Do we really have Eight Zones?" The workman hesitated.
"Uh... sure, why not?" He shrugged and shook his head. "Either way, I know the ostriches exist.." The poor man shuddered at the memories. "Uh- Anyway, if anyone DID fall into that, there's no way they could survive it."
"Anyone else.." Rock mumbled.