All right everybody, since Minami Akurei has decided to hold my Mulan 2 DVD hostage until this is up, I guess I have no choice but to write more! So here goes…..
Old Man Wong is walking around the barn with a sword around his waist, patrolling for intruders.
Lee steps out of the bushes, her hair up in a topknot now, rather than a bun.
She walks over to Old Man Wong.
OMW: What are you doing here? Who are you?
Lee: I'm, uh, here to apply for a job.
OMW: What sort of a job?
Lee: Oh, you know, patrolling the perimeter, keeping intruders away, that sort of thing.
He looks Lee over, suspiciously, then smiles.
OMW: Well, you look like a nice, honest boy.
Lee: Well, I…
OMW: And I hate honest people!
Lee: Oh! No no! You see, I may LOOK honest on the outside, but on the inside, I'm really quite deceptive!
He looks her over again.
OMW: I don't know…
Lee: Oh please! I need this job! I have eight sisters at home, and they're all terribly ugly!
OMW: Terribly ugly you say?
Lee: They're hideous! No man would ever want to marry them!
Old Man Wong ponders for a minute.
OMW: Oh, all right.
Lee smiles.
OMW: Here, you'll need this to fend off intruders.
He hands her a sword.
Cut to in the bushes, where Lee stepped out from before.
Ling:(Quietly, to himself) What? But that's my grandfather's sword! Why that old….
Back to Lee.
She ties the sword around her waist.
Lee: Thank you sir.
OMW: I'm going inside to take a nap; you stay here and watch the barn.
Lee: Yes, sir!
She punches her hands together, as a salute.
Old Man Wong turns his back to her.
Lee waves her hand around slightly in great pain.
He turns back.
Lee quickly stands as she was before.
He turns around again.
Lee looks at her hand the same way as before.
Old Man Wong turns AGAIN.
Lee snaps back to attention.
He turns around again.
Lee grabs her wrist and gasps quietly, yet comically, in pain.
Old Man Wong turns to face her once more.
Lee puts her hands back together.
Lee: I'm gonna' go check out the other side of the barn now.
Old Man Wong goes into his small, rundown house across from the barn.
Lee runs around the back of the barn to Chien Po and Shuai.
She shows her hand to Chien Po.
Lee: I think I broke my hand!
He looks it over.
Meanwhile, Shuai, beside him, signals the others, by waving two fans around.
E Liu and Yao, in the bushes beside the barn, see her signal.
E Liu holds her fingers to her lips and whistles twice, like a bird.
We cut to Ling in the bushes near the front of the barn.
He nods, then proceeds to run into the barn.
He runs to the back of the barn, and begins to open the large door.
Chien Po motions for Lee and Shuai to go.
They run into the bushes with Yao and E Liu.
The large barn door opens with a loud CREEEAAAAK.
Old Man Wong's house door bursts open.
OMW: WHO IS IN MY BARN!
Ling: Uh oh.
He grabs the cart and tries to pull it out, but it is tied to the wall.
OMW: INTRUDERS!
Old Man Wong runs toward the barn, brandishing one of his many stolen swords.
Ling attempts to untie the cart, but it is no use.
Old Man Wong is about 4 metres away from Ling.
Lee: Ling! Get out of there!
Ling keeps trying to untie the cart, in vain.
Yao sees Lee's sword, and he pulls it out of the scabbard.
Yao tosses the sword to Ling.
Yao: Ling! Catch!
Ling manages to catch the sword.
He cuts the rope holding the cart and pulls it out of the barn, narrowly escaping Old Man Wong's blade.
Chien Po grabs the cart and pulls it, while Ling runs alongside now.
The girls jump in the cart as it whizzes past.
Shuai almost falls out, but Yao pushes her back in before jumping in himself.
Old Man Wong continues to pursue them.
Chien Po: Hold on!
He pulls the cart through the brush and onto the road.
Old Man Wong follows right behind them.
Ling, still running along with the cart, trips on a rock and nearly falls.
Lee quickly grabs his hand and pulls him into the cart.
He lands on top of her, and their eyes lock for a moment.
Some would call it a 'cosmic' moment, but Lee snaps out of it, and kicks Ling off of her.
OMW: Come back here with my cart!
E Liu: How do you get rid of this guy!
Lee looks up ahead, and sees a fork in the road.
Lee: Shuai! Gimme your map!
Shuai digs through her bag and pulls out a map.
Lee grabs it and looks at it for a second.
Lee: Ah-ha!
E Liu and Shuai: Another plan?
Lee: You got it! Chien Po! Take the fork on the left!
Chien Po: Okay!
Yao: But what about him? (Old Man Wong)
Lee: Leave that to me.
She jumps off the cart and runs back a bit, so she is about 3 metres away from Old Man Wong.
Ling: What is she doing!
Shuai: Putting herself in reckless danger, what does it look like?
Lee:(To OMW) Hey, remember me?
OMW: You're that boy I hired! You let them get the cart!
Lee: So why're you chasin' them? You should be chasin' me!
OMW: You're right!
He runs towards Lee, who takes the right path, only seconds after the others have taken the one on the left.
Cut to the others.
Chien Po sees a cliff up ahead, and quickly turns to the left and continues running.
Ling looks down on the cliff below them to see Lee running away from Old Man Wong.
Ling: Lee!
She looks up.
Lee: Toss me the cooking board!
E Liu searches through her bag and pulls out and flat, wooden cooking board.
She hands it to Ling, and he tosses it to Lee.
Lee:(To self) Here goes nothin'.
She jumps into the river below her, and uses the cooking board like a flutter board.
Lee: Whoo! I'm a genius!
Old Man Wong shouts at her from the cliff.
OMW: You're fired!
Lee laughs, and then swims down river to where the cliff joins it.
Old Man Wong, realizing his defeat, stomps back home.
The others greet Lee at the water's edge.
E Liu: I'd say that was one of your less brilliant plans.
Shuai: Frankly, I'm disappointed Lee.
A pause.
The girls, including Lee, burst out laughing.
The boys stare at them for a moment.
Chien Po: I don't get it.
Yao: Me either.
Ling: Must be a girl thing.
The laughter stops.
Lee walks over to Ling.
We zoom out to the top of the forest.
Off screen, we hear a thud
Ling:(Off screen) OW!
We cut back to our group, to see Ling with a brand-new black eye.
Lee looks at him, as if awaiting an explanation.
Ling: Yeah, I know, I know. The 'g-word'.
Lee: Good boy.
She pats his head like a dog, and then walks down the path.
Shuai and E Liu follow behind her.
Chien Po grabs the cart and follows them.
Ling and Yao stand there for a minute.
Yao: (blows raspberry) Girls.
Lee looks back at him with 'the Death Stare'.
Ling moves away from Yao.
Yao: What? What!
Fade to black.
Yao:(Off screen) OW!
There, happy? I made it longer.
Please R+ R, and no, I don't mean ' Rest and Relax'.