CHAPTER 3
BASIC TRAINING
(We see Nikki Bell, aged 20, sitting at a computer screen. A title reads, OCTOBER 2023, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA)
"Bet you didn't think you'd see me here, did you? Well, samurai training takes a lot of forms, not all of them involving bloodshed. The bushido code says, among other things, a samurai must read and study when not involved in combat training..."
(We see a masked figure coming up behind Nikki)
"Now of course, there's no word in the code..."
(Nikki now sees the reflected figure on her screen, about to strike Nikki with a kendo stick. She delivers a reverse headbutt and is quickly out of her chair.)
"...for just how long we have to study."
Nikki and the masked figure square off. The masked attacker swings with her kendo stick, but Nikki blocks it with her chair. She then swings the chair in her best ECW style directly at the masked attacker's head. She connects and the attacker falls.
Nikki retreats - just long enough to pick up her genuine antique Hattori Hanzo samurai sword. The attacker counters with her kendo stick. With one SWOOSH Nikki neatly slices the attacker's stick in half. As the attacker looks at her now half a stick in stupefication, Nikki knocks her down with the butt of her sword. She is about to make the attacker headless when we hear a cry...
"ENOUGH!"
Nikki and the masked woman stop. The masked one gets up.
We see SOPHIE FATALE and ELLE DRIVER enter. Sophie is minus her right arm, and both legs. Elle is whole except for her eyes, both covered by Ray Charles-type sunglasses.
"How'd it look, Sophie?" Elle said.
"Not bad. But Yuki here needs to be a bit more careful." Sophie replied.
The attacker removed her mask to reveal...YUKI YUBARI. Now 31 years old, but not really looking it, she is the sister of the late Gogo Yubari. She had been in jail back in Japan when O-Ren Ishii and her sister had been killed.
"That's right," Nikki says to the audience directly. "I think you already know some of these people. They know Beatrix Kiddo all too well. And now they're helping me to get my revenge." She sits and lights a cigarette. Elle, sniffing, says, "HEY! I thought I told you, Nikki...NO GODDAM TOBACCO in my dojo!"
Nikki shrugged. "She says that a lot. I'm sure you're all wondering how I met up with all these wonderful folks...what happened to me, while I was waiting to get old enough to get my revenge at last, blah, blah, blah..." She took a drag. "Well, wonder no longer."
BASIC TRAINING
(We see Nikki Bell, aged 20, sitting at a computer screen. A title reads, OCTOBER 2023, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA)
"Bet you didn't think you'd see me here, did you? Well, samurai training takes a lot of forms, not all of them involving bloodshed. The bushido code says, among other things, a samurai must read and study when not involved in combat training..."
(We see a masked figure coming up behind Nikki)
"Now of course, there's no word in the code..."
(Nikki now sees the reflected figure on her screen, about to strike Nikki with a kendo stick. She delivers a reverse headbutt and is quickly out of her chair.)
"...for just how long we have to study."
Nikki and the masked figure square off. The masked attacker swings with her kendo stick, but Nikki blocks it with her chair. She then swings the chair in her best ECW style directly at the masked attacker's head. She connects and the attacker falls.
Nikki retreats - just long enough to pick up her genuine antique Hattori Hanzo samurai sword. The attacker counters with her kendo stick. With one SWOOSH Nikki neatly slices the attacker's stick in half. As the attacker looks at her now half a stick in stupefication, Nikki knocks her down with the butt of her sword. She is about to make the attacker headless when we hear a cry...
"ENOUGH!"
Nikki and the masked woman stop. The masked one gets up.
We see SOPHIE FATALE and ELLE DRIVER enter. Sophie is minus her right arm, and both legs. Elle is whole except for her eyes, both covered by Ray Charles-type sunglasses.
"How'd it look, Sophie?" Elle said.
"Not bad. But Yuki here needs to be a bit more careful." Sophie replied.
The attacker removed her mask to reveal...YUKI YUBARI. Now 31 years old, but not really looking it, she is the sister of the late Gogo Yubari. She had been in jail back in Japan when O-Ren Ishii and her sister had been killed.
"That's right," Nikki says to the audience directly. "I think you already know some of these people. They know Beatrix Kiddo all too well. And now they're helping me to get my revenge." She sits and lights a cigarette. Elle, sniffing, says, "HEY! I thought I told you, Nikki...NO GODDAM TOBACCO in my dojo!"
Nikki shrugged. "She says that a lot. I'm sure you're all wondering how I met up with all these wonderful folks...what happened to me, while I was waiting to get old enough to get my revenge at last, blah, blah, blah..." She took a drag. "Well, wonder no longer."