IN MEMORY OF BILL PAXTON
In the Simulator, I was doing an exercise where I was facing Orochimaru and it was gonna be a powerful one. The Simulator activated and I found myself in the Land of Grass near the Tenchi Bridge.
I then sensed Naruto's energy building because of the 9-Tails Chakra. He was at 1 Tail of chakra.
Me: I better hurry.
I spread my wings and flew over and I landed by Naruto as he was enveloped in the 9-Tails Cloak. Naruto was really enraged.
Me: Calm yourself Naruto. You got to calm down and stay in control so you can face Orochimaru.
Orochimaru then came out and he had his face torn up.
I then flared up my fire aura.
Me: Still just as fucked up as ever Orochimaru. You have toyed with peoples lives for far too long and now you will pay with a one way trip to the Warp.
Orochimaru: I see you still are just as powerful as ever J.D. Knudson.
Me: I'm flattered that you still remember me even after all this time.
Orochimaru: Yes. You always were persistent in your quest for justice.
Me: Comes with the job description.
Orochimaru saw Captain Yamato.
Orochimaru: Now I see.
Orochimaru came up to us as the wind was blowing.
Orochimaru: That's why he was chosen to be your watch dog, yes? Seems some of my experiments came in handy after all. Honestly, the Leaf Village ought to be more grateful to me.
Me: To a fucked up lunatic out to destroy the very village he once called home? I think not.
Orochimaru: (Laughs) I see. But wouldn't you agree, my darling little test subject?
Me: Shut up you shithole.
Kabuto: Test subject? Who exactly is this guy?
Orochimaru put his hand on his face and it began healing itself.
Orochimaru: Years ago, when I still walked amongst the fools of the Hidden Leaf Village, I sought the power of the shinobi, who was not only the ultimate Wood Style Ninjutsu Master, but also the one person who had total control over Tailed Beasts, The First Hokage. (Laughs malevolently) I extracted some DNA samples from the First's remains and conducted an experiment, implanting genetic components into the cells of 60 worthy children. But their bodies violently rejected the treatment. They perished in rapid succession, one after another. Just as I was closing the book on the subject, someone stumbled onto one of my other experiments. I was forced to flee, leaving may laboratory exactly as it was. I thought all the subjects had succumbed. I never dreamd there'd be any survivors.
Me: Hm. Well at least a small portion of it succeeded. Because of you, you resurrected the Wood Style jutsu in Captain Yamato.
Orochimaru: Indeed.
Kabuto: How fascinating. We're looking at the end result of your work all those years ago. You can observe the fruits of your labor.
Orochimaru: There's no question he's intriguing. But I wonder more about Sasuke. He needs to stretch his wings. Maybe we can put his growth to the test by pitting him against J.D. Knudson here.
Me: I'm always up for a challenge and your delusional taunts won't work on me. Especially when dealing with a worthless fucksack like Sasuke. But first I'm going to destroy you Orochimaru.
I then flared up my power even more.
Me: Now you will face my ultimate power!
I then unleashed my full power as a massive vortex of fire exploded out and it shot high into the sky and formed into a massive phoenix of pure fire and a powerful cry was heard from all over. The people of the world of Shinobi felt the massive increase of power that I was emitting. The vortex faded and then I was in my full power Super Angel-Ebonwu-Phoenix 1,000,000 Elemental Moonlight Phoenix and I was ready for action and battle. The level of power and energy I was emitting was unbelievable.
Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Captain Yamato couldn't believe what they were seeing.
Naruto: Whoa! What power!
Sakura Haruno: His power is incredible!
Yamato: Unreal!
Me: (Divine Fiery Voice) This is the power of a god. I'm going to make Orochimaru burn in Seven Hells for his crimes.
I then took off faster than a bolt of lightning and punched him in the chest with incredibly devastating force and the punch went all the way through him and out his back and he belched up a huge amount of blood!
Me: Your crimes against nature are completely unforgivable. You think you have the right to play God and turn all of the people who follow you into a bunch of fucked up mutant barbarian freaks of nature? I don't think so. You are nothing more than a sad and fucked up megalomaniacal fuckpot that has absolutely no respect for the value of human life and the laws of nature at all. You fucking disgust me!
Orochimaru was enraged.
Me: You're now about to see that I can be just as merciless to anyone. Including you. I'm far more powerful than you ever will be and I am now going to make sure that you never get your hands on anyone else. Including the power of the Uchiha.
Orochimaru: A bold statement from a weakling leader!
Me: Hmm. Yes and a "Weakling" was the only kind of person you can handle. I remember that you were there in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams to see if that fuckpot Sasuke was enough for you to handle. But all you've encountered was the source of your downfall. And to think that you would lay claim to all of your followers. You thought that you would bind them to you with the Curse Mark. You had no idea the kind of Evil that Sasuke had. He made even the Masters of Evil quake with fear. He wanted revenge so badly that he would do anything to get it. Even hurt the very village he called home and even the people that lived there. They all feared him. You wanted his body right? But what you really wanted was the Sharingan. But how to get it? Itachi was out of the question. So you came after Sasuke, the fucked up lunatic runt of the clan. Isn't that right? And they say that you are the genius out of the 3 Legendary Sannin. But it turns out you're just another lost soul of the run-of-the-mill ninja. And you know it. You're not even in the same league in the kind of power that I possess. I can destroy the entire universe in the mere blink of a cosmic eye. In fact, next to my kind of power and the power that Sasuke has, genius like yours looks pretty ordinary. The way you covet the power of the Uchiha, the way you fill yourself up with medicines and go leaping from body to body. It's downright fucking disgusting. As the most powerful fighter in the universe, all I see when I look at you is a fucked up miserable fuckweed and a megalomaniacal pedophilic wretch. And on top of that I hate your fucking style you ruthless fuckkicker! What is it that you are hoping to accomplish? Scurrying from one hideout to the next, conducting your pathetic experiments, using up peoples lives one after the other, trying to unlock the mysteries of nature. You toy with peoples lives for the sake of this worthless, fucked up and disgusting, vain and ridiculous cause of yours. YOU FUCKING DISGUST ME!
I headbutt him and kicked him in the face and sent him flying into the air and then I fired a blast of Hakai energy and obliterated him in an instant. Banishing him to the Warp for all eternity. But as a result, his soul was destroyed and his experiments were erased from existence forever.
Me: Enjoy your pain in the Warp. Guys we're not done yet.
Yamato: You killed Orochimaru like he was absolutely nothing!
Sakura Haruno: But how?
Me: Because I am more powerful than I look. Naruto, you need to know this. But it's best if I take you and Sakura into your mind for this.
Sakura Haruno: Okay.
Naruto: All right.
Me: But first.
I formed chakra draining vines and tied up Kabuto with them. They were as strong as Neutronium Metal and indestructible.
Naruto and Sakura held hands and I took them into Naruto's mind. We were in front of the the cage of the 9-Tails.
Me: Now that we're here, you need to know about this.
Sakura Haruno: What's going on?
Me: (Sighs) Naruto has been harboring a lot of big secrets. And there a lot of questions that he needs answered. Minato, Kushina, I know you are both in here so come on out.
In two flashes of light came Minato Namikaze - the 4th Hokage, and Kushina Uzumaki the Hidden Leaf's Crimson Tide.
Naruto and Sakura gasped in shock!
Minato: I'm impressed you knew we were here.
Kushina: Nice one you know.
Me: Now Naruto, let me tell you what went down on the night of your birth and how.
I went over everything that happened from Naruto's Birth and onward. It was a very dark and complicated story.
Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) is a shinobi of Konohagakure's Uzumaki clan. He became the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails on the day of his birth — a fate that caused him to be shunned by most of Konoha throughout his childhood. After joining Team Kakashi, Naruto worked hard to gain the village's acknowledgement all the while chasing his dream to become Hokage. In the following years, through many hardships and ordeals, he became a capable ninja regarded as a hero both by the villagers, and soon after, the rest of the world, becoming known as the Hero of the Hidden Leaf (木ノ葉隠れの英雄, Konohagakure no Eiyū, Literally meaning: Hero of the Hidden Tree Leaves). He soon proved to be one of the main factors in winning the Fourth Shinobi World War, leading him to achieve his dream and become the village's Seventh Hokage (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage, Literally meaning: Seventh Fire Shadow).
Naruto was born on the night of October 10th to Minato Namikaze (the Fourth Hokage) and Kushina Uzumaki (the second jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails). He was named after Naruto Musasabi, the protagonist of Jiraiya's first book, which made the Sannin his godfather. The Third Hokage made special arrangements for Minato to preserve Kushina's seal containing the Nine-Tails while she gave birth to Naruto in a remote location, escorted by midwives and Anbu. A masked man, Tobi, who is really Obito Uchiha, tracked down their location, however, killed the midwives and Anbu, and captured Naruto, forcing Minato to quickly rescue him and teleport him to a safe house.
With Minato gone, Tobi captured Kushina and released the Nine-Tails from her, using it to devastate Konoha. Minato saved Kushina and left Naruto in her care before he went to protect the village, eventually defeating Tobi and freeing the Nine-Tails from Tobi's control. Returning to Naruto and Kushina's location, Minato realised the only way to stop the Nine-Tails was to seal it within Naruto, believing that his son would someday need the fox's power to defeat Tobi when he returned. Since the Nine-Tails' chakra was too immense to be sealed into an infant, Minato sacrificed his soul to split the fox's chakra in half, sealing the Yin half within himself and the Yang half within Naruto. After telling Naruto how much they loved him, Minato and Kushina succumbed to their wounds from protecting their son from the Nine-Tails and passed away.
Orphaned, not having parents or anyone else to provide for him, Naruto received monthly income from the village in order to afford daily necessities. Naruto grew up not knowing who his parents were, receiving only his mother's surname, as Hiruzen wanted to protect Naruto from his father's enemies. Minato's dying wish that Naruto be regarded as a hero was honoured by the very few who could put aside their pain and losses caused by the disaster, while the majority of Konoha, however having no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his birth, openly ostracized and resented Naruto for containing the beast that devastated the village and took many lives; some even viewed Naruto as the Nine-Tails itself. Soon, the Third Hokage forbade anyone from mentioning the Nine-Tails, hoping that the younger generation would not blindly hate Naruto as their parents did. However, Naruto's peers emulated their parents' hatred of him, despite not knowing why. This social isolation caused Naruto to crave acknowledgement, which he would gain by pulling pranks.
On the day of his enrollment in the Ninja Academy - Naruto first met Hinata Hyūga, who was being picked on by three bullies. Despite not knowing her, Naruto immediately came to her defence, but he was outnumbered and knocked unconscious, and the bullies damaged his red scarf. When Naruto awoke, Hinata thanked him for helping her and returned his scarf to him, but he let her keep it. He was unaware that the girl's growing affections for him began from that moment onwards.
In the Academy, Naruto became a student of Iruka Umino, who acted as a surrogate older brother to keep him in line and help him work harder. Naruto also met his class-mate Sasuke Uchiha and tried to befriend him, since he was alone as well. Jealous of Sasuke's skills and popularity, however, he developed a one-sided rivalry in his pursuit to prove himself just as good as, if not better than, Sasuke, wishing that someday, Sasuke would accept him as an equal. Naruto also grew close with the owner of Ramen Ichiraku, Teuchi and his daughter Ayame, being welcomed as their favorite customer.
Failing once again to graduate from the Academy, a disappointed Naruto is advised by one of his instructors, Mizuki, to steal the Scroll of Seals and learn a technique from it in order to graduate. As Naruto struggled to learn the Shadow Clone Technique, Iruka Umino tracked him down and realised that Naruto was tricked by Mizuki into stealing the scroll. Mizuki attacked them and told Naruto about the Nine-Tails sealed within him, claiming that Iruka hated him because of it. When Iruka risked his life to protect Naruto, however, he saw through Mizuki's lies and used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat him, prompting Iruka to happily grant Naruto his graduation from the Academy. Naruto would later befriend Konohamaru Sarutobi, grandson of the Third Hokage, and teach him several perverted or useful techniques.
Naruto was eventually assigned to Team 7, partnered with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno under the leadership of Kakashi Hatake. During their first meeting, Naruto shared his love of ramen, his hobbies, and his dream to become Hokage. To test their qualifications, Kakashi gave the team a bell test, stating that whichever of the three takes one of the two bells on his person will officially become genin. Instead of hiding like Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto tried to take the bells from Kakashi by force, only to be easily defeated, hung upside-down from a tree and tied to a wooden post in an attempt to steal lunch. After Sakura and Sasuke fail as well, Kakashi explains that the goal of the test was to use teamwork, to do together what none of them could do by themselves. He is persuaded to allow them to try again after lunch, but instructs Sasuke and Sakura not to feed Naruto. They feed him anyway, needing him in top-form if they're to work together. Kakashi sees this and, because they care more about the team than listening to his instructions, allows them all to pass.
After a series of uneventful D-rank missions, Naruto is able to secure a C-rank mission for Team 7: escorting Tazuna to the Land of Waves. Soon after leaving Konoha, they are attacked by the Demon Brothers. Naruto is paralysed with fear, forcing Sasuke to step in to disarm them and protect Tazuna until Kakashi can capture them. Tazuna confesses that assassins have been hired to kill him but that he couldn't afford the bodyguard detail he needs. Although the mission is now A-rank in nature - far beyond the skill of genin - Team 7 decides to continue with it. Angered by Sasuke's taunting of him, Naruto cuts his hand to bleed out the poison he received earlier, vowing to never waver again. When they arrive in the Land of Waves and are confronted by Zabuza Momochi, Naruto is overwhelmed by the battle between Kakashi and Zabuza before he is knocked aside by Zabuza's water clone. Remembering his vow, Naruto regained his confidence and teamed up with Sasuke to free Kakashi from Zabuza's Water Prison. In the end, Zabuza is seemingly killed by Haku, allowing Team 7 to escort Tazuna back to his house.
Kakashi finds Zabuza's death suspicious and decides to train the team in case he returns. He has them perform the Tree Climbing Practice to improve their chakra control, which will help them against Zabuza. Naruto becomes frustrated after several failures and asks for advice from Sakura, who herself mastered it from the start. Now rapidly improving, Naruto competes with Sasuke to finish the training, each determined to outdo the other. One day, Naruto encounters Haku (albeit unaware of his true identity) and they each discussed their dreams and desire to protect those precious to them. After Haku leaves, Naruto finishes the training with Sasuke but is left exhausted, so Team 7 leaves him behind the next morning as they resume their escort duties. Naruto awakens and arrives to assist Team 7 in fighting Zabuza and Haku, but, unaware of how Haku's Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals work, he joins Sasuke within the prison.
Naruto cannot break free with his shadow clones and Sasuke cannot melt the ice with his fire. As Haku moves in to kill Naruto, Sasuke uses his body as a shield to protect Naruto and seemingly dies. Enraged by Sasuke's apparent death, Naruto unwittingly accesses the Nine-Tails' chakra for the first time, allowing him to destroy the ice mirrors and defeat Haku, breaking his mask. Realising his opponent was the boy he met before, Naruto calms himself. He is asked by Haku to kill him, since he feels of no further use to Zabuza. Before Naruto can do so, Haku immediately stops him and goes off to save Zabuza from being killed by Kakashi, sacrificing his own life. When Zabuza refuses to appreciate this, Naruto angrily scolds him, stating that Haku gave up his life to save someone precious to him. Touched by his words, Zabuza, using Naruto's kunai, killed Gatō and many of his henchmen before he himself dies. Sasuke soon awakens, and when their injuries heal, Team 7 leaves for home via Tazuna's newly-constructed Great Naruto Bridge.
Team 7 resumes its series of unremarkable missions. For their performance in the Land of Waves, however, Kakashi decides to enter them in the Chūnin Exams taking place in Konoha, which greatly excites Naruto. Because they've only recently graduated from the Academy, the three feel they must give strong showings to prove themselves. When they enter the exam hall, the team is met by Rock Lee, who challenges Sasuke to a fight; Naruto tries to attack Lee in jealousy, but is easily swept aside. The fight is interrupted by Might Guy, after which Naruto notes that the bandages around Lee's arms signify his arduous taijutsu training.
During the exam's first stage, the participating genin are given a written test, the goal of which is to cheat without getting caught. Unaware of this, Naruto struggles to answer the questions, so Hinata Hyūga, who is seated next to him, offers to let him to copy off her paper. Despite the temptation, Naruto declined Hinata's offer, claiming that he isn't the type to cheat and that they might be disqualified if they are caught. Before the tenth question can be given, the genin are presented with the opportunity to forfeit; Naruto refuses to do so, declaring his refusal to give up and his goal to still become Hokage. His determination to face the tenth question despite the potential consequences inspires the rest of the genin to do the same, and so they pass the first stage. It is later noted that he was the only one to hand in a blank sheet, though this did not prevent him from passing.
For the second phase, teams enter the Forest of Death with the objective of obtaining a set of two scrolls, one of which they are given at the start. Naruto becomes separated from his team and is attacked and swallowed by a giant snake. He manages to kill it and regroups with his frightened teammates against Orochimaru. Angered by Sasuke's sudden cowardice and resignation, Naruto engages Orochimaru using the Nine-Tails' chakra, defeats his giant snake, and taunts Sasuke before Orochimaru suppresses the Nine-Tails' chakra, rendering Naruto unconscious. After he awakens, Team 7 continues its search for the second scroll, which they eventually gain by defeating Team Oboro, allowing them to pass the second stage.
In the preliminary matches of the exam, Naruto was pitted against Kiba Inuzuka and his dog, Akamaru. Believing the match to be an easy victory, Kiba and Akamaru overwhelmed Naruto with many high-speed attacks, so Naruto tricks Kiba into knocking Akamaru out of the fight by using the Transformation Technique, shocking all spectators. Naruto then disorients Kiba by farting in his face and defeats him with the Naruto Uzumaki Combo (which he invented from watching Sasuke's Lion Combo). When Neji and Hinata's match begins, Naruto is enraged by Neji's ruthless tirade against Hinata and cheers Hinata on to defeat Neji. Although Hinata is defeated, Naruto wipes up her blood and vows to defeat Neji in the finals.
During the month of training, Naruto first meets Jiraiya (who knocked out Ebisu, Naruto's original teacher) and trains under the Sannin to improve his chakra control. Recognising Naruto as the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, Jiraiya removes the seal Orochimaru had placed on Naruto to ease his control and begins teaching him how to use the Nine-Tails' power by summoning toads. To accelerate Naruto's slow progress, Jiraiya pushes him over a cliff, causing Naruto to enter his subconscious and meet the Nine-Tails. Working past his fear, he bravely demands chakra from it as "rent" for living in his body. The Nine-Tails complies and Naruto summons Gamabunta, though he exhausts himself and ends up in the hospital, where he is visited by Shikamaru Nara. After talking, he and Naruto stop Gaara from killing Rock Lee in the next room and listen to Gaara's story of his childhood, which Naruto finds very similar to his own. Gaara prepares to kill them, but Might Guy intervenes and forces Gaara to retreat. On the day of the finals, Naruto meets Hinata at the Third Training Ground and expresses his doubts about his upcoming match with Neji. Hinata reassures Naruto that he never gave up because he always had the strength to overcome his own failures, admiring him for it. Reinvigorated, Naruto thanks Hinata and tells her even though he first thought she was weird, he now likes her.
Facing Neji in the first match of the finals, Naruto began by creating shadow clones to overwhelm Neji's with sheer numbers. Deeming Naruto a failure who could never defeat a genius like himself, Neji easily defeats Naruto's clones and seals his chakra with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. Determined to prove Neji's ideals about fate wrong, Naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra and, revitalised, clashed with Neji. When the smoke cleared, Neji emerges and Naruto lies defeated. This, however, was only a shadow clone, and the real Naruto burst from the ground beneath Neji, defeating him with an uppercut. Before he is declared the winner, Naruto tells Neji that creating clones was once his shortcoming and that Neji needs to stop believing in inescapable fate. When Sasuke finally arrives for his match with Gaara, Naruto is envious of Sasuke's improvements, but is later put to sleep along with most of the audience, commencing the Konoha Crush.
Sakura wakes up Naruto so they can pursue Sasuke, who was pursuing Gaara himself. They arrive in time for Naruto to kick Gaara away before he can kill Sasuke. Partially transformed into Shukaku, Gaara knocks Sakura unconscious and binds her to a tree, forcing Naruto to battle him, with little success. Naruto relates to Gaara's painful life as a jinchūriki, but he is not willing to let anything to happen to Sakura and Sasuke. Determined to protect his friends, Naruto creates an army of shadow clones to relentlessly batter Gaara, forcing him to fully transform into Shukaku, to which Naruto responds by summoning Gamabunta.
Gaara puts himself to sleep to give control of his body to Shukaku, forcing Naruto and Gamabunta to figure out a way to end the jutsu. They do so by transforming into a giant fox (the Nine-Tails in the anime) to restrain Shukaku, allowing Naruto to awaken Gaara with a solid punch to the face. Shukaku's influence disappears, but Gaara regains control and traps Naruto with his sand. Naruto escapes by tapping into the Nine-Tails' chakra, and headbutts Gaara when he is close enough, destroying Shukaku's form. Exhausted from the fight, the two leap at each other for one final exchange, and Naruto punches Gaara, claiming victory.
Naruto and Gaara fall to the ground, unable to move. Slowly crawling towards Gaara, Naruto explained that he also suffered a painful and lonely life, but was later saved by having friends. To that end, he will do anything to protect them, even if it means killing Gaara. Understanding Naruto's true strength, Gaara retreated with Kankurō and Temari with a new outlook on life, while Naruto passes out from exhaustion and is returned to Konoha with Sasuke and a rescued Sakura. A few days later, Team 7 attends the Third Hokage's funeral.
Jiraiya is tasked with finding Tsunade, a candidate for Fifth Hokage, and convinces Naruto to accompany him by promising to teach him a technique stronger than Sasuke's Chidori. Stopping at an inn in Shukuba Town, Naruto was approached by Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha of Akatsuki, who intend to capture the Nine-Tails. When Sasuke shows up and furiously attacks Itachi, Naruto gathers the Nine-Tails' chakra to help Sasuke, but it is absorbed by Kisame's Samehada. Jiraiya soon arrives and drives off Itachi and Kisame, but Sasuke is left mentally and physically damaged by Itachi. Might Guy appears and takes Sasuke back to Konoha, but not before giving Naruto a spare green jumpsuit.
To prepare for the next encounter with Akatsuki, Naruto begins learning the Rasengan, completing two of its three learning steps. Taking a break from training, Naruto and Jiraiya eventually found Tsunade and her assistant Shizune at a restaurant. When Tsunade refuses the offer to become Hokage and insults all who held the title, an angry Naruto challenged her to a fight and attacked her with an incomplete Rasengan, only to be easily defeated. Impressed by his progress, however, Tsunade makes a bet with Naruto: if he can master the Rasengan in a week, he gets the First Hokage's Necklace; if not, she gets his wallet. Naruto agreed and spent the week trying to perfect the Rasengan, but has no success and collapses from exhaustion. Once he recovers, Naruto heads out with Jiraiya and Shizune to stop Tsunade from meeting with Orochimaru.
They arrive to see Tsunade, who never intended to aid Orochimaru, in the midst of battle with Kabuto Yakushi. When Tsunade is incapacitated, Naruto fights Kabuto in her place and eventually defeats him with a perfected Rasengan, which he formed by using a shadow clone. Naruto collapses almost immediately afterwards, his heart muscles torn by Kabuto, but Tsunade successfully manages to heal him, gives him the necklace he wins, and accepts the position of Hokage. After Orochimaru and Kabuto are defeated, Naruto and the others return to Konoha, Tsunade confidently believing Naruto would someday become a great Hokage.
Naruto visits a recovering Sasuke at the hospital, but is immediately challenged to a fight, to which Naruto eventually agrees. The fight escalates quickly, culminating with Naruto using Rasengan and Sasuke using Chidori. Kakashi arrives and deflects their attacks into opposing water towers before they can clash, Naruto unknowingly doing more damage than Sasuke. Distressed by Sasuke's behaviour, Sakura informs Naruto of the cursed seal Sasuke received from Orochimaru, though Naruto assures Sakura that Sasuke would never abandon Konoha for power. Unfortunately, Sasuke does just that and Naruto joins the Sasuke Recovery Team in order to bring him back; he promises a tearful Sakura to do so before he leaves. En route to Sasuke, the team encounters members of the Sound Four, each of which battles a member of the recovery team, while Naruto engages Kimimaro. Overwhelmed by Kimimaro's taijutsu skills, Naruto is saved at the last minute by Rock Lee, who volunteers to fight Kimimaro while Naruto heads after Sasuke.
Naruto finally meets Sasuke at the Valley of the End. His pleas for Sasuke to come back to Konoha and warnings that Orochimaru will take his body fall on deaf ears. Naruto starts attacking him, ready to take him back to Konoha by force if necessary. Undeterred, Sasuke responds by tapping into his cursed seal and landing a series of heavy blows on Naruto. It becomes painfully clear to Naruto that Sasuke is fighting with an intent to kill, so Naruto utilises the Nine-Tails' chakra to overpower Sasuke. Naruto says that Sasuke is like a brother to him and that he will do anything to protect that bond. Sasuke vows to sever that bond, but acknowledges Naruto as an equal by putting on his forehead protector. They continue trading blows, with Naruto eventually manifesting a fox-shaped cloak and Sasuke entering his cursed seal's second level. Naruto clashes his Rasengan with Sasuke's Chidori, and within the dome of resulting energy they trade final blows: Sasuke punches Naruto and Naruto scratches Sasuke's forehead protector.
When the energy dissipates, Naruto lies defeated, but Sasuke spares him and continues his way to Orochimaru, leaving his scratched forehead protector behind. Kakashi and Pakkun arrive late and failing to retrieve Sasuke, leave with Naruto. In the hospital, Naruto once again promises Sakura to bring Sasuke back one day. Soon after, Jiraiya arrived with an offer to train Naruto for preparation against Orochimaru and Akatsuki in three years and to give up on Sasuke, as he is no different from Orochimaru. Naruto accepts Jiraiya's training, but refuses to give up on Sasuke, satisfying Jiraiya.
As in the manga, Naruto later departs with Jiraiya to begin his two and a half years of training, after making a determined gesture at the Fourth Hokage's statue. In the anime, this does not happen until about 3 months later as Jiraiya was occupied with important intel gathering about Akatsuki for Konohagakure. During the waiting period, Tsunade gives Naruto several missions with members of the Konoha 11 to keep him busy.
In the anime, shortly after leaving Konoha, Jiraiya and Naruto discuss the fact that Naruto will need to learn how to counter genjutsu if he hopes to be a match against Sasuke the next time they meet. Naruto practises with Gamariki to dispel genjutsu, but he struggles with it and his chakra keeps hitting Gamariki, who doesn't appreciate it. Naruto follows Jiraiya to the Genjutsu Tree Village to try a different approach, but they discover the village has been taken over by Kandachi. They free the villagers and then attack Kandachi, who Naruto eventually defeats with his newly-created Big Ball Rasengan. As they leave afterwards, Jiraiya is pleased by how similar Naruto is to Minato Namikaze and hugs him, which Naruto is bothered by.
Two years into their training, Naruto's control of the Nine-Tails' chakra has improved significantly. Jiraiya tries to give him more access to the Nine-Tails' power and uses Gerotora to weaken Naruto's Eight Trigrams Sealing Style. Seizing the opportunity, the Nine-Tails mocked Naruto for his inability to save Sasuke, using Naruto's negative emotions to force him to enter a version 2 form with four tails. Not in control of his body, Naruto attacks Jiraiya and nearly kills him before he manages to suppress the Nine-Tails. Naruto has no memory of what happened and Jiraiya doesn't tell him, instead shifting Naruto's training to other pursuits, including keeping his anger in check so that the Nine-Tails won't flare up again.
Naruto and Jiraiya return to Konoha after two-and-a-half years of training, where Naruto becomes surprised by Tsunade's newly-formed statue on Hokage Rock. He greets his old friends afterwards: he gives Kakashi a copy of Icha Icha Tactics as a gift; he catches up with Sakura, whom he has become taller than; he gets back into a competition of Sexy Techniques with Konohamaru Sarutobi, only to be violently reprimanded by Sakura. Kakashi reforms Team 7 with them and gives them another bell test, but unlike last time, taking the bells from him is the real objective. As with last time, Naruto launches a first attack before the test officially begins, but this time it nearly succeeds. Despite their improved abilities, Naruto and Sakura were still unable to get a bell through conventional means, and it was only by Naruto's threat to spoil the latest Icha Icha novel that they distracted Kakashi long enough to take the bells.
While Team 7 tries without success to find a mission to go on that Naruto won't complain about, word reaches Konoha that Akatsuki has kidnapped Gaara, the Kazekage. Team 7 is sent to Sunagakure to assist in rescuing Gaara. On their way to Suna, Naruto explains that Gaara was kidnapped because he is the jinchūriki of the One-Tail, just as Naruto is the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. Upon arrival in Suna, Naruto defends Kakashi from Chiyo's assault when she mistakes him for his father. Team 7 gathers what intel they can on Gaara's kidnappers and leave to go after them; Chiyo volunteers to escort them since they aren't familiar with the country around Suna. Naruto promises a recovering Kankurō to rescue Gaara before they leave.
While en route to an Akatsuki lair, they are confronted by Itachi Uchiha, who traps Naruto in a genjutsu. Sakura and Chiyo release him, allowing Naruto to team up with Kakashi and defeat Itachi with a Big Ball Rasengan. The Itachi is discovered to be an impostor, so they continue to the Akatsuki lair, meeting up with Team Guy, who takes down the barrier over the entrance so that Team 7 can get in. They find Gaara's body finds with his kidnappers, Deidara and Sasori. Deidara flies off with Gaara's body with Naruto and Kakashi in pursuit, leaving Sasori to Chiyo and Sakura. Naruto, enraged, makes repeated failed attempts to rescue Gaara before he is calmed by Kakashi, who uses his new Mangekyō Sharingan to distract Deidara with Kamui. Naruto retrieves Gaara's body, but seeing it drives him over the edge: he furiously attacks Deidara and beats him mercilessly into the ground. Discovering that it was a Clay Clone, Naruto slips into his two-tailed form in rage, but is restored to normal by Kakashi via the Chakra-Suppressing Seal.
Deidara escapes, while Naruto and Kakashi regroup with Sakura, Chiyo, and Team Guy. Sakura attempts to revive Gaara, but the removal of Shukaku has caused him to die. Naruto breaks down in tears and angrily lashes out at Chiyo, saying she had no right to make Gaara not only a jinchūriki, but also lose his life because of it. As atonement and with Naruto's aid, Chiyo sacrifices her life to revive Gaara; as the jutsu nears completion, Chiyo voices her faith in Naruto's ability to save Gaara and to become Hokage. Naruto greets Gaara when he awakens, and a few days later, Teams 7 and Guy attend Chiyo's funeral in Suna. Before returning home, Naruto and Gaara shake hands (Gaara using his sand) as a sign to their close relationship.
During her fight with Sasori, Sakura learned of an opportunity to meet with a spy in Orochimaru's ranks in a few days' time, hoping it will lead them to Sasuke. Kakashi is left bedridden from his fight with Deidara, so Yamato leads Team 7 as his replacement. Replacing Sasuke on the team is Sai, whom Naruto actually encounters earlier and dislikes, declaring him an inferior version of Sasuke. Sai is happy for this distinction and proceeds to degrade Sasuke for defecting from Konoha, forcing Yamato to use his Wood Release to break up their fight. Naruto is constantly exasperated by Sai's lack of empathy and his ridicule of Sasuke, but resolves to work with Sai if it means saving Sasuke.
Yamato disguises himself as Sasori and goes to the Tenchi Bridge to meet the spy while Naruto, Sakura, and Sai hide nearby. The spy, Kabuto Yakushi, begins telling Yamato about Orochimaru's organisation, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Orochimaru, who teams up with Kabuto to fight Yamato, having intended to kill Sasori. Team 7 comes to his aid and Orochimaru, recognising them, taunts Naruto about Sasuke.
Minato, Kushina, Naruto and Sakura gasped in sheer shock and horror about what happened over the course of the last 16 years.
Me: That's everything that happened up to this point.
Minato: So Obito is still alive!?
Me: Yes and he was responsible for unleashing Kurama the 9-Tailed Fox to attack the village against his will.
Kurama: J.D. is right Minato. Obito made me attack the village the village after extracting me from Kushina.
Me: Yeah. And the Civilian Council and Elders only added more fuel to the fire. They are to blame for everything that happened over Naruto's life.
I went over all of their corruption and what happened over the years because of them and it was awful.
Minato: I put too much faith in the village.
Kushina: I knew that Danzō was pure evil! He can't be trusted ever!
Me: No he can't. He will do anything he can to become Hokage, even destroy the entire planet. But yeah. It was all because of the Civilian Council and the Elders. They took too much power from the Hokage and filled everyone's heads with lies. Because of them they filled everyone with hatred over Naruto and they forced them to want nothing more than to kill Naruto and mount his head on a pike. Bunch of fucking assholes.
Sakura then broke down crying and then she hugged Naruto.
Sakura Haruno: (Crying hard) NARUTO! I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO SORRY I WAS SUCH A BITCH TO YOU! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE GOING THROUGH ALL THIS!
Naruto: It's all right Sakura. I have forgiven you long ago.
Sakura Haruno: (Crying hard)
Me: Minato, Kushina, how would you two like to be brought back to life and help set the entire village straight?
Minato: We would like that J.D.
Me: Awesome. But we're on a mission right now. We have one loose end to tie up.
We left Naruto's mind and I snapped my fingers and brought Minato and Kushina back to life.
Kushina: We're back!
Minato: We sure are.
Me: Now we have to make sure that Sasuke Uchiha is brought to justice. Follow me everyone. I know where he is.
We brought Kabuto with us and we went to Orochimaru's hideout which was underneath the ground. Yamato dug and we found a brick wall and Yamato dug through it and we were inside Orochimaru's hideout.
Me: We're in. I sense Sasuke's energy. Lets go.
We went down the hall and in the main room was SASUKE UCHIHA!
Evil Sasuke: I thought I recognized that chakra signal. Its been a while Naruto.
Naruto: Sasuke. It has been a while. You're looking good for a snake's boy toy.
Me: We didn't come to talk Sasuke, we came to fight so we can bring you back to the village to face punishment.
Evil Sasuke: I told you all, I'm not going back.
Me: Oh you don't have a choice.
I flared up my aura and flew at him and slashed his eyes with my sword and he screamed in excruciating pain. Destroying his Sharingan and permanently blinding him. We tied him up and Sakura took his sword and kept it.
Sakura: I don't know what I ever saw in you Sasuke.
Naruto: Now you will pay for your crimes.
Kushina: Hard to imagine that you grew up from that little baby I saw in Mikoto's arms.
Me: Now lets head back.
I used Instant Transmission and we beamed back to the Leaf Village and we arrived at the administration building of the Hokage. In the Hokage's office, Lady Tsunade saw us all there and she was flabbergasted in seeing Minato and Kushina back from the dead and more. We went over everything that happened and more and she was shocked beyond all words and more.
Lady Tsunade: Incredible.
Shizune: Hard to imagine.
Lady Tsunade: Great job everyone. Now we have seen the last of Orochimaru and Sasuke will face trial for his crimes.
Naruto: And mom and dad here will make sure that the council gets straightened out.
Lady Tsunade: Indeed.
Me: Danzō and his cronies will not get away from the law. And Sasuke will be punished accordingly and it's time for him to realize that no matter who you are, where you're from or what clan you are apart of no matter how prestigious it is, that you can't do whatever you want in the village. No exceptions.
Lady Tsunade: Well said J.D.
We got to work on correcting everything and with the help of the Fire Daimyo we brought an end to the corruption of the village and exposed a lot of terrible secrets caused by the Elders and even the Uchiha except for Mikoto and Itachi, and even Danzō and what they were was nothing short of horrible. We then executed the corrupt elders and the Civilian Council. And Sasuke Uchiha was executed and I hakaied them and banished them to the Warp.
I merged the world of Shinobi with our world and I left the Simulator and everyone cheered wildly for me.
Later at the Jupiter Prison, we were there for another awesome rant session with the most hated person in the world: Icky Vicky.
Jessie (Pokemon): Another fun day of ranting at Icky Vicky.
Me: Yep.
Dark Spicer and some of the Masters of Evil were there too.
Anko Mitarashi: (to Dark Spicer) Hey, Dark. I see you brought Shiv, Snake, Electro, Firefly, and Robo Blaze to the rant fest as well.
Dark Spicer: I sure did.
Nico: This is gonna be awesome.
First we went to Man Boy's cell.
Skywarp: Good news, Manboy. You're gonna be getting out soon.
Manboy: Really? Have I even served my full prison sentence yet?
Me: In a way you have. You are also going to be joining the Masters of Evil when you get out.
Manboy: Cool! It'll be good to get back out in the fray again and be one of your frenemies.
Laney: Awesome.
Man Boy: After Vypra eventually gets me out, I'd like to do a rant on Icky Vicky.
Skydive: That can be arranged.
Me: Yeah!
Witchy Simone: I'll do one first.
Me: Ladies first.
Witchy Simone: How gentlemanly.
She went up to Icky Vicky's cell.
Vicky: Well you look like you got something to say to me Squirt!
Witchy Simone: WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?
Witchy Simone fired a wave of magic and it hit Icky Vicky's red hair and set her hair on fire and burned her all over.
Me: Whoa! That was intense.
Prohyas: Yeah Simone hates being called Squirt and she flips out whenever she gets called that.
Me: Whoa.
I pulled out my Taboo Notepad and wrote down "Witchy Simone - Squirt".
Me: There.
Nico: Good.
Dark Spicer: My turn.
Dark Spicer went up to her.
Dark Spicer: Here's your warning: I FUCKED AROUND WITH YOUR EVIL MOTHER!
Everyone: OOOOOOOOOOHHHH!
Nico: SICK BURN!
Anko: My turn.
Anko went up to her.
Anko: YOU ARE SO STUPID AND FUCKING UGLY THAT YOU MAKE OROCHIMARU COWER IN FEAR! I WOULD RATHER BITE OFF HIS HEAD AND THROW IT IN A POOL OF ACID THAN HAVE YOU AS A BABYSITTER!
We cheered for her.
Me: Nice one Anko-sensei.
We later went back to Earth.
Later, the Camera then shows a weather satellite. The picture of the earth turns into a weather map in the radar room of the National Severe Storm Laboratory, or NSSL.
RADIO: At 7:00 a.m. in Oklahoma City, the temperature is 75 degrees. Across the state, skies are partly cloudy, the dryline higher over western Oklahoma. Satellite pictures indicate thunderstorms developing...
Murphy: Bryce, take a look. {Holding a picture to her} Caps are starting to break.
Bryce: All the models are forecasting lifted indexes from minus six to minus ten.
Murphy: You know if these cells keep building like this we could have a record outbreak of tornadoes. {Eats a doughnut.}
Bryce: This is gonna be a long day.
{Energetic bluegrass music starts. Camera on a red Dodge Ram truck bouncing down a dirt road between fields of wheat and an occasional oil drill. A crop duster flies over. Inside is BILL HARDING, and his fiancé, MELISSA.}
Melissa: Um, honey, are you sure she's gonna be here?
Bill: If I know Jo, she's already dragged her entire department into the field. Ah, hell, a day like today, it's to be expected. She forgets everything except her work.
Melissa: You're nervous about seeing her, aren't you?
Bill: Nervous? No. Why, do I look nervous?
Melissa: No. Well, yeah you do, a little.
Bill: I just want to get it over with.
Melissa: But she said she signed the papers, right?
Bill: That's what she said.
Melissa: You don't think so?
Bill: No, I think so. Give me a kiss. {They kiss.}
{Camera over to JO HARDING on top of a blue van, wiring the Doppler radar. With her on her team are: DUSTY, RABBIT, BELTZER, HAYNES, SANDERS, LAURENCE, PREACHER, and JOEY. We hear music in background {Start music ("Talula")}.
We all were with her and her group to help her out.
Me: These storms are building really nicely Jo.
Nico: They sure are.
Beltzer: {Inside Van, tapping on roof} Okay professor, hang on there, I think I fixed it. I've got it. {Jo tries turning on the Doppler radar dish, sparks fly}. Oops.
Jo: {Frustrated} Oh, fuck! This thing is useless!
Beltzer: Sorry, Jo. {Suddenly it works.}
Me: You all right Jo?
Jo: Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Beltzer! {Bangs roof with foot} That's good. Give me a reading!
Beltzer: {Getting out of van} Okay , boss lady, hold your horses. {Goes over to a lap top connected to the Doppler} Which way do you want it, Jo?
Jo: Looks like the dryline has stalled. Give me a sector scan west, northwest, look at mid-levels for rotation and increase the PRF.
Me: The storm is now at about 35 to 45,000 feet high and getting stronger.
Naruto: Looks like we're in for a lot of tornadoes.
Goku: Yeah.
Fu: This is gonna be awesome.
{Camera over to Dusty. He's in his bus, watching music videos along with the weather forecasts, singing the songs, and broadcasting them outside through a speaker on the roof.}
Dusty: {Singing} If I mistreat you girl, sho' don't mean no harm...
{Camera over to Rabbit and Laurence}
Rabbit: All I'm saying is don't fold the maps!
Laurence: I didn't fold the map!
Rabbit: Yeah, well Kansas is a mess, there's a big crease right through Wichita- {Demonstrating} Roll the maps.
Laney: Lay off the guy Rabbit. I can fix it.
Laney fixed his maps for him.
Rabbit: Thanks Laney.
{Bill and Melissa drive up.}
Bill: What do you know, the storm chasers. {Gets out of truck. Dusty, Rabbit, and Sanders run up.}
Rabbit: Hey, I don't believe it!
Joey: Who is that handsome devil!?
Bill: Gentleman.
Dusty: {Goofy, Playful} The Extreme! IT'S THE EXTREME! {Laughs}
Bill: Oh man, don't start that shit! {Also laughs}
Me: Hey Bill! Welcome back man.
Bill: Been a while J.D.
Me: It sure has.
I went over and hugged him.
Nico: How do you know Bill?
Me: I was a tornado chaser with him.
Dusty: Oh manly hand shakin' Zeus. How you doin', man?
Bill: Doin' great, doin' great.
Dusty: {Still laughing} Oh bad!
Bill: Dusty, I'd like you to meet Melissa. {She walks over} Melissa, this is Dusty and this is J.D. Dustman and Firewing's been chasing with us ever since we started. {They shake hands.}
Me: Pleasure to meet you Melissa.
Melissa: Same to you J.D. I have heard so much about you and all of your awesome adventures.
Me: Not surprising.
Bill: Listen man, where's Jo?
Dusty: She's over by Doppler. Broke down again, running out of grant money.
Me: Good thing I have plenty of money for us.
Bill: {To Melissa} Honey, why don't you hang out here for a little while, I'll- I'll be right back.
Melissa: Okay.
{Start music ("Darlin' Pretty")}
Bill: Dusty, why don't you explain to Melissa...why you are the way you are! {They exchange ridiculous faces and laugh.}
Me: Good to have you back Bill.
Bill: I'm not back but thank you.
Dusty: {Dusty takes Melissa's hand.} Come on. Man. Jo's gonna wig when she sees he's back. {Bill walks over to where Jo is, however being stopped by everyone else. Bill's come back!}
Bill: {Hearing Dusty's comment} I'm not back.
Preacher: {Coming up to Bill} The prodigal son returns!
Lola: So he's Bill Harding.
Preacher: That's him.
{Bill walks by. He passes by Joey, who's holding a weather instrument and writing down data on a clipboard. Bill pats his shoulder.}
Bill: Hiya, Joey.
Joey: {Surprised} Hey, Bill.
{Bill walks up to the van. There's a rumble of thunder. Jo is standing on the top.}
Bill: {Looking up at her} Hiya, Jo.
Jo: {Not a bit surprised} Hey, Bill. I'm happy you found us.
Bill: How you doin'?
Jo: {Looks at Bill, then at sky} It's goin' good. You see the sky today?
Bill: Yeah, she's, uh,- she's really talking.
Jo: {Tossing him a cord} Catch. {Bill gives Jo an annoyed look as Jo jumps off the van.} It's the biggest series of storms in 12 years. One lined up right after another. And NSSL says they've never seen anything like it.
Vince: Yeah. Really big series of storms.
Bill: {Not really interested in what Jo is saying} Is that right? So, Jo, about the divorce papers-
Lawrence: Hey, Jo? Come here a second!
Jo: Oops. {She goes over to Lawrence.}
Bill: Oh. Yeah, yeah sure. {Annoyed that Jo's barely listening to him.}
{As Bill walks by, he gets noticed again.}
Beltzer: Hi, Bill.
Haynes: Hey, Bill!
Bill: Hey.
Lawrence: {To Jo, holding a camera} Hey, you know, this thing's acting up again, this thing-
Jo: Focus mount's jammed. There's grass in the auto-focus, did you check this? You have to check it. {Blows grass out.}
Lawrence: I'll check it- you want me to clean it out?
Jo: Not unless you want to sketch the tornadoes. {Going back to lap top.}
Me: And trust me that is hard.
Laurence: Hey, welcome back, Bill.
Bill: I'm not back.
Jo: {Wiring the lap top while talking} So, you want the papers?
Bill: I did drive all the way out here for them.
Jo: They're signed and ready.
Bill: Good, good. Let's see them.
Jo: What, you need 'em right this second?
Bill: Well, It'd be nice.
Jo: What's the urgent urgency, you act like you're getting married-
Bill: I am.
Jo: {Startled. She almost seems upset, but she's good at hiding feelings} Wow.
Bill: Yeah.
Jo: {Going to her truck for papers} Is it Melinda?
Bill: {Correcting} Melissa.
Jo: {To herself} Melissa. {To Bill} Wasn't there a Melinda in there somewhere?
Bill: No, there's only been Melissa since you.
Jo: Boy, not much for browsing, are you? {Grabs the papers out of her glove compartment}
Bill: No, I guess I'm not.
Jo: {Handing him papers} There you go.
Bill: Thank you. {Bill promptly flips through them to make sure they're all signed. We see Jo put her graduation ring over her wedding ring, a symbolical way for her to feel like she's still married.} Whoa, whoa, whoa. You missed a page.
Jo: {Acting surprised} What?
Bill: {Pointing to the last page} Right here.
{She takes the papers, pretending she's never seen this part before. It's obvious she purposely didn't sign the last page, maybe to keep Bill around longer, also keeping the divorce from being final.}
Jo: Where'd this come from?
Me: I'm sorry your marriage didn't work out Bill.
Bill: I know. Thank you J.D.
{She reads the last page, hunched over the hood of the car.}
Bill: What are you doing?
Jo: Can I read it first?
Bill: No! It's the same as it was in December.
Jo: {Lying} I didn't read it in December.
Bill: Christ, would you just sign it so we can get out of here? Please?
{Start music ("Twisted")}
Jo: We? She's here?
Me: Yeah.
Bill: Yes, she's here, she's over with Dusty. Now would you please sign the document?
Jo: {Using the situation to deviate} You left her with Dusty? {Joking} What's the matter with you?
{She leaves the papers on the hood of the car, and walks away.}
Bill: What are you doing?
Jo: I want to meet her.
Bill: No you don't. {Bill runs back to get the papers, frustrated} Christ.
Me: Just let her meet her Bill. No harm comes to that.
{Camera over to Dusty and Melissa. They're sitting under a beach umbrella in folding chairs.}
Dusty: The suck zone- it's the point- basically at which the twister sucks you up, but it's not that technical therefore obviously, but-
Jo: {Walks up to Melissa} Hi. {She's being overly polite} I'm Jo Harding.
Melissa: {Getting up} Oh, hello, nice to meet you. {They shake hands}
Jo: {Sickened by Melissa but once again hiding it} Bill just told me the happy news.
Melissa: Which?
Bill: Us, marriage. {Introducing} Jo, Melissa.
Jo: It's happy news.
Melissa: I guess, uh, it probably seems kind of sudden.
Jo: {Her annoyance surfacing} Seems sudden?
Dusty: Dude, you takin' the vows? That's sweet!
Melissa: Well, we- we just wanted to get it done before Billy started his new job.
Jo: That's right, that's right, right, right, right. Weatherman!
Bill: {Offended} What?
Jo: {Innocently} What?
Bill: Say it.
Jo: I said weatherman, I think it's great.
Bill: How come you had that tone?
Jo: There was no tone if you have a problem being a weatherman.
Bill: {Argumentative} I don't have a problem being a weatherman.
{Then, Melissa's cellular phone rings. She fishes through her purse to get it, then answers.}
Melissa: Excuse me. {Into Phone} Dr. Melissa Reeves here? Uh-huh?
Jo: Just wanted to say hello.
Melissa: {To Jo} Hello.
Jo: Very nice to meet you.
Melissa: {To Phone} Uh-huh. {To Jo} You too. {Melissa makes a signal to Bill if Jo's signed the papers yet.}
Bill: {Loud whisper} What? {Sees her signal} No!
Jo: {Over by Bill's truck} New truck?
Bill: That's right.
Jo: Boy oh boy. New job, new truck, new wife... {Sarcastically} It's like a whole new you!
Bill: Jo...
Me: It's a nice truck though.
Bill: Thank you.
Jo: This is very awkward.
Bill: I know, tell me about it.
Jo: I thought you'd be coming out here alone.
Bill: I wasn't expecting on coming out here at all you said you meet me-
Jo: It's about Dorothy.
Bill: Dorothy? What about her?
Jo: She's here.
Bill: Show me.
{Going to the back of her truck, Jo rips off the burlap cover over Dorothy; a tornado instrument pack. Bill stands in awe.}
Me: (Whistles) Very impressive.
Bill: I can't believe you did it.
Jo: We built four of 'em.
Bill: She work?
{Jo smiles and lowers the tailgate. Bill climbs up and examines the instrument.}
Jo: Thought you'd want to be here for her first time out. It wouldn't be right if you weren't here.
{The whole team is coming over. Start music, ("Melancholy Mechanics")}
Joey: {Laughing}This is gonna be good!
Dusty: {Bringing Melissa over to the truck, referring to Dorothy} How sweet is that? Bill's concept man. Boom! The extreme. Man, it came from his brain.
Bill: I had a hand in it.
Melissa: Wow, it is great.{Pause} What is it?
Bill: It's an instrument pack for studying tornadoes. First one in history.
Jo: {Explaining} It's very exciting. Scientists have been studying tornadoes forever, but still, nobody knows how a tornado works. We have no idea what's going on inside because no one's ever been able to take scientific measurements from inside the funnel. That's what she's gonna do.
Melissa: How?
Jo: We put her up inside a tornado. She opens up, {Demonstrating by opening the lid on Dorothy}and releases hundreds of these sensors {Hands one to her.}that measure all parts of the tornado simultaneously.
Bill: You see, Melissa, it's like this. These sensors go up the funnel, and radio back information about the internal structure, wind velocities, flow, asymmetry. We could learn more in 30 seconds than we have in the past 30 years. Get a profile of a tornado for the first time.
Melissa: And what will that do?
Bill: If we knew how a tornado really worked, we could design an advance warning system.
Melissa: Aren't there already tornado warnings?
Bill: Well the-
Jo: They're not good enough, they're nowhere near good enough. Right now, it's 3 minutes. If we can get this new information, we can increase warning time to 15 minutes.
Me: Yeah warning times are very slim right now and we are trying to extend that time significantly.
Bill: Give people a chance to get to safety. At least that's what these guys are trying to do! {The team yells and cheers. Bill jumps help Jo down.} I can't believe you actually did it.
Jo: Well, we {referring to the team} did it.
Melissa: How do you get it in the tornado?
Bill: Well, you got to get in front of the tornado and put it in the damage path. And then get out again before it picks you up too.
{Melissa has a concerned look}
Dusty: {In Melissa's ear} It's the suck zone!
Melissa: {Startled by Dusty} Ohh.
{In the mean time, Haynes has been on the phone with the weather beaurau.}
Haynes: Excellent! {Hangs up phone, excited, talking fast} Jo, we got major action! The NSSL says the caps are breaking, the tower's going up to 30 miles up the dryline!
Me: Looks like we got some tornadoes about to form.
{Jo looks up at the sky, music soaring in the background. She pauses. Then suddenly focuses, slamming the tailgate.}
Jo: All right, let's go!
Me: Lets roll!
Dusty: All right, we're movin'!
Beltzer: It's fatty time!
{Everyone scrambles to pack everything back in they're trucks.}
Haynes: Jo, we got it!
Beltzer: Rabbit, you're up. Let's go, let's go. Hurry up, we haven't got all day, let's go! {Everyone is throwing stuff into cars}
Beltzer: Joey, Haynes, a little help? {Throws Doppler in the van}
Joey: Yes, sir. Right behind you.
{Dusty is tossing all his beach stuff in his bus, Joey and Haynes give a "mutual fingersnap"}
Joey: {To Haynes} Smooth!
Haynes: {Searching for whatever she hasn't packed) Where is it? There it is!
Rabbit: Common' Dusty, you're always the last one to go!
Haynes: All right, Beltzer. Preacher, follow!
Jo: Laurence, don't forget the camera!
Laurence: I got it, I got it!
Bill:{To Melissa} They can handle this, they know what they're doing. I mean, well, this is what they do, they live for this.
Melissa: Uh-huh.
Beltzer: Dorothy 2 and 3 ready!
Haynes: Dorothy 4 ready!
Melissa: Are you sure you don't want to go along?
Bill: No. Oh, with them you mean?
Melissa: Well, yeah.
Bill: No, they'll be fine.
{All are now in cars. Jo drives in front honking horn as she passes Bill and Melissa}
We fly off.
Melissa: Did she sign the papers?
Bill: Oh, shit!
Melissa: She didn't?
Bill: Common', if we hurry we can still catch them!
{They run to their truck, get it and follow the team.}
Rabbit: HEY BILL! GLAD YOU'RE BACK!
Bill: I'M NOT BACK!
{Music is fast paced. Most conversation is now on CB radio}
Jo: {Into radio} Rabbit!
Rabbit: {Into radio} Yeah, boss?
Jo: {Into radio} Can we do better than the 30?
Rabbit: {Looking at map} No. Not for a while. It's best to stay on it until we pass Rogers creek.
Jo: {Into radio} Copy that.
{Camera to Bill's truck}
Bill: Once we catch up with them, you take the truck and head home. I'll get the papers signed and see you tonight. Okay?
Melissa: No! You know what honey, I find this kind of interesting. I'm gonna tag along!
{Music becomes louder as camera goes into aerial view of all the trucks in Jo's caravan race down the Oklahoma highway. Then we see another caravan. Six black Windstar vans pull up along side Jo's group. It's JONAS MILLER and his crew.}
Bill: Jonas! Son of a bitch!
Melissa: Who is that, honey?
Bill: Jonas Miller. He's a nightcrawler. {He pulls alongside Jonas' window, they both nod their heads, acknowledging each other}We all started out in the same lab, but Jonas went out and got himself some corporate sponsors. He's in it for the money, not the science. He's got a lot of high-tech gadgets, but he's got no instincts. And he doesn't have Dorothy.
{In Jo's truck}
Beltzer: {Over radio} Jo, I think we got fleas!{Referring to Jonas' crew}
Bill: {Over radio} Jo, come back!
Jo: {Into radio} Hey there, you change your mind?
Bill: Yeah, what's Jonas doin' here?
{Jo looks out side view mirror, sees black Windstars}
Jo: {Into radio} I'm not sure. But I bet he's asking himself the same question about you.
Me: Oh shit. Not Jonas Miller.
Nico: You know him?
Me: Unfortunately. He's a rival with Jo and he wants to get into a tornado first.
{Suddenly, a Windstar swerves toward Bill, driving his truck off the road.}
Bill: Oh, shit, hold on! Damn son of a bitch!
{Bill now has a flat tire. Camera to an Auto Repair shop. Bill pulls the flat tire out of the back seat, handing it to AUTO-TECHNICIAN. Dusty walks along the road as a car passes}
Dusty: {to the driver passing by} Hey!
Bill: How long do you think it'll take to fix?
Auto-Tech: Oh, maybe 10 minutes, 15 tops.
Bill: Sounds good.
{We hear Jonas' voice from across the street, with his crew: TONY, EDDIE, FLANDERS, PATTY, CHARLES, DEAN, and JAKE. Apparently, he's got the news reporters around him.}
Jonas: What drives me is the unknown. What if we could predict a tornado's path? How many lives would be spared with the creation of an early warning system? {He pulls out a large weather instrument} And D.O.T. 3 is the answer! The first Digital Orthographic Telemeter. And inside, she holds hundreds of these little sensors. {Holds one up} Which when released into the tornado, will transmit back data on wind speed, pressure, and dew point temperature.
{Bill stares in horrid realization: Jonas has stolen he and Jo's idea! He gets pissed. Jo notices}
Jo: Bill?
Bill: Why didn't you tell me? {He runs toward Jonas}
Jo: Bill, don't-
Me: Uh oh. Come on Nico.
Jonas: {Still going} Which will soon be the center of all study- {Bill grabs Jonas' collar, pushing him against his van} Hey! Hey!
Bill: You stole my design, you son of a bitch! What you think, I wasn't gonna find out about this?
Jonas: Hey, guys, can you get this loser off me?
{Jo's team runs over, pulling Bill away}
Dusty: {To Bill} Back off! Back off! It's not worth it!
Me and Nico grab Bill.
Jonas: {To Bill also} What is the matter with you!?
Bill: You stole my design, you son of a bitch!
Rabbit: Calm down!
Me: Let him go Bill!
Jonas: What the hell you talkin' about?!
Bill: Dorothy! You took her, you damn thief!
Me: Let him go Bill. Let him go.
Jonas: {Smug} Oh I get it. You want to take credit for my design. Is that it?
Bill: {Sincere} You're a liar. She was our idea and you know it.
Jonas: Unrealized idea, unrealized.
Me: Jonas. Now is not the time to be rubbing your achievements in peoples faces.
Jonas: Been a while J.D.
Me: Yeah. You know how busy we have been saving the universe.
Bill: {Going at him again} That ain't worth shit! {Jo runs over, breaking it up}
Jo: Hey, hey, hey, hey! Guys, guys. All my guys, get a grip on yourselves. {Now smug also} We both know he'll never get that thing up in the air.
Beltzer: That's right!
Me: I agree.
Nico: Yeah.
Jonas: Well let me enlighten you people! This baby has satellite comlink. We've got on-board pulse Doppler, we've got NEXRAD real time. Today, we're gonna make history. So stick around. {Jo lifts an eyebrow contemptuously} Cuz' the days of sniffin' the dirt are over.
Rabbit: Better than what you sniff.
Vince: Yeah you sniff raw sewage.
Bill: We'll see who gets their first, pal.
Jonas: {Walking away} Oh, and by the way, I really enjoy your weather reports! {Jonas and his crew laugh. Bill trys to get at him again but me, Nico, Dusty and Bouncer hold him back.}
Bill: You slime! I ain't through with you yet! Come on! Come here! Come on! Come on! Get your hands off me! I'm all right! OK!
{We finally let him go}
Joey: He's a corporate kiss-butt, man!
Nico: What a total suck-up.
Laney: Yeah.
Jo: {To Bill} I'm sorry. I should have told you.
Bill: One day. I'll give you one day. Whether she flies or not I'm gone.
{Melissa runs up}
Melissa: Honey, is everything okay?
Bill: It's okay, everything's fine.
Melissa: Are you sure?
Bill: Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything's okay.
Melissa: Okay.
Bill: Listen, I'm gonna hang out here and get some air. Why don't you get us some cold drinks.
Melissa: Okay, sweetheart.
Bill: Okay.
{Bill looks out at the sky. It's been said storm chasers have a sixth sense, and as Bill sifts a hand full of dirt, he lets nature embody his mind. Camera inside the diner across the street from the Auto repair. Start music ("Virtual Reality")}
Jonas: {To Jo, both standing} You know, Jo, I don't know what the matter is with Bill. I mean, he's wacko, he's crazy! {Jo pretends to be deeply concerned with what Jonas is telling her} You ought to keep a leash on him.
Jo: He's not my problem, he's yours.
Jonas: Oh, by the way, this storm's going to be a lot bigger than we anticipated. I got reports of mesos all the way from Grand County to Logan.
Me: Wow.
Jo: You sharing information with me?
Jonas: No, I was just curious as to which way you were going to head.
Jo: Southeast, I think...to the counter. {She walks over to the counter, sitting down by Melissa.}
Melissa: {To WAITRESS} Two lemonades to go, please.
Jo: Nothing changes.
Melissa: Pardon me?
Jo: He's gonna wait and see what Bill does. {To Waitress} Can I have a coffee to go, please.
Melissa: That man's waiting for Billy? Why?
{Camera back to Bill outside. He picks up a handful of dirt and watches it fall to the ground. Camera inside again to Melissa and Jo. Jo is eating. Music start ("No One Needs To Know")}
Melissa: So you're telling me Billy knows what a storm is thinking?
Jo: Something like that. {Holding out a pack of gum} Gum? {Melissa shakes her head, Jo puts it in her pocket}My Aunt Meg used to call him a human barometer.
Melissa: Well he never really told me about all this.
Jo: If you have to pee you should do it now, 'cuz there's not many places to stop once we get on the road.
Melissa: You're still in love with him, aren't you?
{Pause}
Jo :Check please.
Melissa: Not that I blame you. I just hope this isn't some desperate attempt to keep him in your life.
Jo: {Plopping down a $20} We're together. {Jo gets up, walks away from the counter. Camera on Bill outside. Dusty walks up to him.}
Dusty: Hey, man. What's up?
Bill: Goin' green.
Dusty: Greenage.
Bill: Saddle 'em up.
Dusty: You got it, boss.
{Camera on Jonas with crew.}
Jonas: Charles, give me a sector scan on that cell, keep looking for upflow. Flanders, what are my dew points doing?
Flanders: Dew point's up to 70 sir.
{Camera outside.}
Melissa: Honey, I got you a lemonade-
Bill: We gotta move out. Listen, follow us in the truck, but stay behind Dusty's van, you'll be safe back there. I gotta go with Jo. Okay, let's move out, people! Let's go!
Melissa: Where are we goin'?
{No one answers her. Everyone gets in their trucks again and pull out.}
Bill: {Taking keys out of Jo's mouth (her hands are full)} Thanks, I'll drive.
Me: Looks like we're off.
{Jo hops in passenger side. Camera on Jonas and crew. He notices Jo's group is pulling out.}
Jonas: All right people, lets pack it up, let's go.
{Camera on Dusty in his van, cranking up the music, sucking juice from a straw dangling from the roof.}
Dusty: IT'S THE WONDER OF NATURE, BABY! {Laughs.}WOOOO! WOOOOOOO!
Me: YEAH BABY!
{His music is once again blaring through the speaker on the roof.}
Dusty: {Into radio} HEY YOU GUYS! WOOOHOOOO!
Nico: HARDCORE SONGS DUDE!
Luna: ROCKIN!
Lana: AWESOME!
{Over to Sanders car where we hear the William Tell overture! Camera on Melissa, answering her cellular phone.}
Melissa: Dr. Melissa Reeves here? Oh, oh. Yes, Donald, you've caught me in my car!
{Camera to Beltzer in his van, singing Oklahoma}
Beltzer: {Singing} OKLAHOMA, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, and the wavin' wheat-
Laney: Love this song.
{Camera back to Melissa}
Melissa: Donald, this feeling of inadequacy is normal for you, Julia doesn't resent you. We talked about this before. She did not marry your penis. Oh, okay, she didn't only marry your penis.
{Camera to Beltzer and Haynes singing Oklahoma at the top of their lungs}
Haynes: LAAAAA…
Beltzer: HOOOO…
Haynes: MAAAA…..
Beltzer & Haynes: OKLAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMA! YEEOOWWW!
Lily: YEAH!
{Camera now at Bill and Jo in Jo's truck.}
Jo: So...
Bill: So...
Jo: {Looking out windshield at the sky} Amazing coloring there, isn't it?
Bill: Yeah, look at those mammatas. Bet those tops have got to be spiking at about 40,000.
Me: Wow. This storm is about 55 to 60,000 feet high. But it definitely has a lot of potential for a tornado.
Nico: It sure does.
Jo: That's a good thing.
Bill: That's a very good thing.
Me: Absolutely.
Jo: {Now changing subject} She work at the station, is that where you met her?
Bill: Jo-
Jo: What?
Bill: I don't want to fight.
Jo: I'm not fighting, I'm talking.
Bill: I don't want to fight.
{Pause}
Jo: She's nice.
Bill: HAH!
Jo: Uh-oh, she's not nice?
Bill: I know what you meant.
Jo: You do?
Bill: Yes, so don't, don't do this.
Jo: Okay, I'm making extremely civilized conversation here. You're biting my head off. Jesus.
Bill: Yes. She's very nice. No, she doesn't work at the station she's, uh, she's a therapist.
Jo: {Pause} Oh. {Pause} Yours?
Bill: Christ!
Jo: What?
Bill: You couldn't resist, could you? Come on!
Jo: I'm not saying you need therapy!
Bill: What?
Jo: I'm not-
Bill: WWWWait. I need therapy?
Jo: I didn't say that.
Bill: I need a therapist?
Jo: I didn't say that.
Bill: What could I possibly need a therapist for?
Jo: I don't know.
Bill: You're the doctor, tell me.
Jo: I don't know, um, in ability to finish things?
Bill: Finish things?
Jo: Rushing into things you can't quite commit to-
Bill: Commitment?
Jo: You asked me.
Bill: Look-
Jo: You asked me!
Bill: No, that is bullshit! Look, I may have walked out,
Jo: You asked-
Bill: but at least I showed up in the first place! You never had the slightest idea
Jo: Okay, there's a whole road thing- coming on up here...
Bill: About commitment and what being married means. Like stability, supportiveness, the house and all kinds of neat stuff like that-
{The whole time, Bill hasn't been watching the road and the truck veers to the shoulder of the road, then the grass...}
Jo: Can I drive?
Bill: No.
Jo: Then would you?
{He looks ahead, they're no longer on the road, there's a tractor right in front of them!}
Bill: Whoa!
{He swerves sharply back onto the road}
Bill: {really pissed} Damn.
Jo: Somebody should warn her about your temper.
Bill: Jo, I swear-
Jo: She obviously has no idea what she's getting into-
Bill: Stay the hell out of it.
Jo: You know.
Bill: I know exactly what I'm doing.
Jo: What exactly-
Bill: What am I doing?
{Camera over to Haynes and Joey}
Haynes: I think they're getting better at this.
{Camera back to Jo and Bill}
Jo: You know what? As long as you're happy-
Bill: Thank you! I am happy! I'm a happy person. I'm happy with my life. I'm happy with the way things are going in my life. I happy with...with, with-
Jo: Melissa.
Bill: I know her name! Yes, I'm happy with Melissa. I am!
Jo: Okay. {Mouthing/Whisper} You love me!
Me: All right you two, that's enough. I swear you two act like children.
{Camera over to Beltzer in his van. He sees a tornado coming down on the right. At first sight, it almost looks beautiful.}
Beltzer: Shit, shit. {Into radio} Hey, are you guys gonna wrap this up pretty soon?
Bill: {Into radio, frustrated} What?!
Beltzer: {Into radio} Oh, nothin. I was just wonderin' if we're gonna chase this tornado, or if you just wanna catch the next one.
{Camera over to Jo and Bill. Bill sees tornado}
Bill: Shit!
{Music kicks into a higher gear as the action becomes fast paced} Jo:{Taking microphone}
Jo: Beltzer, is it on the ground?
{Bill floors the gas}
Jo: {To Bill} Easy, easy, easy!
{They all turn a corner.} {Camera goes to Jonas with Eddie, in a Windstar van}
Jonas: {Into radio} We have to bear right. It's on an easterly course.
RADIO: The national weather service has issued a tornado warning in effect until 11:00 am...
{Eddie sees tire tracks where Jo's crew turned the corner}
Eddie: Uh, Dr. Miller?
Jonas: Yes?
Eddie: I think they turned left here.
{Jonas sees marks}
Jonas: Do it.
{Jonas' crew turns left. Camera back with Jo and Bill}
Jo: {Into radio} We're moving to intercept guys, get ready to set up.
Beltzer: You got it!
{As they race along, they can see the tornado ahead. Cars passing the other way honk their horns, letting others know the impending danger.}
Me: Wow. That's a Category 1. Winds probably of 100 to 110 miles per hour.
Jo: Quite a sight. {To Bill} You got to get further ahead of it.
Bill: I know what I'm doing.
Jo: Cut across the field, Bill!
Bill: I know I have to get ahead of it.
Jo: You're gonna have to get into that field!
Bill: Do you want to drive?
Jo: I'm just saying-
Bill: Would you like to drive?!
Jo: Yes, I'd love to!
Rabbit: {In radio} Listen, it's about, 3 miles southeast, let's see what she does!
{Camera on twister. It dances across the land, haunting music in the background.}
Me: Scary seeing a tornado like this again.
Jo: {Eyeing an irrigation ditch, pointing} Go in there, go in there!
Bill: Just wait-
Jo: You're gonna miss it!
Bill: Hold on, hold on! Just hold on a second.
Jo: {Almost taunting} Have you lost your nerve?
Bill: {Smiling slyly} Tighten your seatbelt!
{He grabs her seatbelt toward him, pulling it tighter. The truck swerves into the irrigation ditch. He is still going 80.}
Me: Whoa!
Rabbit: J.D., Jo, Bill, where are you? We lost visual!
{Truck still bounces across the ditch, coming ever closer to the twister. They notice the ditch is becoming deeper, the sides slanting upward. They are unacceptably close.}
Bill: Are we having fun yet?
Jo: Okay, we got to get out of this.
Bill: {Sarcastic} Really?
Beltzer: {Over radio} 2 miles now, picking up speed!
Jo: Bill, sometime this week would be good!
Bill: I'm trying to get out!
Me: It's moving faster guys.
{The sides are now too steep to drive over. They're stuck.}
Jo: Are you mad?
Bill: I'll be mad later, right now I'm trying not to kill us!
Beltzer: Funnel's getting thicker! It's movin' fast, coming toward you Jo!
{The tornado roars as it destroys a barn off to the left.}
Me: WHOA! HOLY SHIT!
Nico: UNBELIEVABLE!
Jo: It's starting to turn!
Bill: Where? I can't see!
Jo: You will.
Beltzer: Jo, you're too close, it's not gonna work. Get outta there!
Bill: {He does see now, it's right behind them} OH Shit! I can't get out, it's too steep! This was a great idea!
{He slams the breaks, they continue however, to skim forward. Ahead is a low lying overpass! The truck slams into it. They jump out, yelling , the wind is so loud}
Jo: SEE, THAT WASN'T SO BAD! COMON', LET'S GET HER OUT! LET'S GO!
Bill: Why can't we spend a normal day together?!
{She goes to unload Dorothy, but they both know that they are within seconds of getting sucked up by the tornado.}
Bill: We're in the damage path, let's go!
{He grabs her, running to get under the overpass.}
Bill: JO, THIS IS CRAZY, COMMON'!
Jo: LET GO!
Bill: THERE'S NO TIME!
Jo: WE CAN STILL DO THIS!
Bill: COMMON'! COMMON'!
{They run under the overpass.}
Bill: FIND SOMETHING TO GRAB HOLD OF!
Jo: I KNOW!
{They hold on to the column holding up the overpass. Bill is over Jo, both are hugging it. Then, Jo slips out of his grip and crawls towards the twister, now only yards away.}
Bill: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Jo: I WANT TO SEE IT!
Bill: COME BACK!
Jo: I WANT TO SEE IT! BILL!
{He pulls her back under the overpass. The truck begins to slide.}
Bill: LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!
I formed a force field over Jo and Bill and it protects them.
{As the twister passes over the overpass, the truck flies into the air and is gone. Then, so is the twister. Camera over to Melissa driving up.}
Melissa: Oh my God.
{Camera back to Jo and Bill. They are climbing out of the dirt road, soaked in mud.}
Bill: It's gone. It's gone.
Jo: Where's my truck?
{Suddenly, Jo's truck slams into the road, narrowly missing Melissa in her truck. She's screaming}
Nico: WHOA!
Jo:{Smiling} There it is.
Bill: Melissa?
{Everyone runs over to Melissa as she gets out of the truck, shaking and hyper ventilating.}
Preacher: Are you okay?
Bill: Melissa!
Nico: Melissa are you all right?
{Everyone runs over, to make sure she's all right.}
Dusty: You just missed the truck! Awesome! IT'S AWESOME! {Laughs}
Bill: Melissa!
Melissa: Oh God, Billy, BILLY!
Bill: You okay?
Melissa: Oh, God, I'm okay...
Bill: You sure?
Nico: Melissa are you alright?
Melissa: Yeah.
Dusty: Bill, she just missed the truck!
Melissa: God, what happened to you?
Me: Boy you guys are filthy.
Bill: Nothin' honey, we're okay, we were perfectly safe!
{Jo walks by, followed by Haynes and Rabbit}
Jo: Gone.
Haynes: Wait a minute-
Jo: It's trashed.
Me: Man this truck is totaled. But maybe there's some stuff we can get out of it.
Rabbit: No, just hang on a minute we'll take a look, I'll know.
Jo: It's gone.
Bill: {To Melissa, hugging her tight} It's over, it's over, it's all over.
Jo: {Like talking to a child} You okay? {Not waiting for response, keeps walking}
Bill: She's okay.
Me: Good.
{Dusty laughs at Jo's car. It's flipped over, the top half, along with Dorothy is smashed.}
Dusty: {Still laughing} Well, there's some good news. It did fly. {Talking to Jo as she breaks a window and pulls her stuff out of the totaled truck.} What was it like?
Jo: {Looking up at Dusty} It was windy.
Dusty: Windy? That's intense-
Jo: All right, move it, Dusty!
Dusty: {Holding hands up} That's intense! That's intense!
Me: It was winds of 100 to 110 miles per hour. Still very intense though.
{Black Windstars roll up.}
Joey: Hey, the auto club's here!
Me: Looks like the party is starting.
Lori: Yeah.
{In Jonas' van.}
Eddie: Maybe we should stop, see if they need some help.
Jonas: They're fine, pay attention to the road.
Me: We're all right Jonas.
Jonas: Good!
{Dusty runs up to Jonas' van, sticking the upper half of is body in the window}
Dusty: Fashionably late again, Jonas? Fashionably late! Gimme a kiss, baby!
Eddie: Get out of here, Get outta here!
{Dusty slides out of the window.}
Dusty: Loser! Loser!
Rabbit: Why don't you find your own twister, buddy!
Dusty: Loser! {Like he's directing traffic} Move on!
Beltzer: Let's go.
Haynes: Don't worry, I'll get 'em cleaned. Common' guys let's get Dorothy 2 ready!
Varie: Right.
{Camera over to Jo, she has her backpack laid onto of her overturned truck.}
Jo: {To Bill, who has his arms around Melissa} You got full coverage on that truck?
Bill: {Smiling, as he knows what she really wants} Liability only.
Jo: {Wiping her face with a towel} Liability only? {Gives them a look that's a cross between "Whatever that means" and "That's a scary thought!"} It's a very pretty truck.
Melissa: Thank you.
{Bill makes a nervous laugh, he knows what she's up to. She wants to use his truck for the chase. Jo looks at him as she throws all her stuff in her backpack.}
Bill: Don't even think about it. {She continues looking at him} No way.
Me: Bill just let her use your truck and when this is all over, I'll give you a new one.
Bill: Thanks J.D.
{Camera then goes to Jo, Bill, and Melissa driving in his truck with the next Dorothy loaded up in the back!}
Dusty: {Over radio} This is the caboose, this is the caboose! I'm waiting for orders, Boss!
{Both Jo and Bill grab for the radio mic. They hesitate, then both grab again.}
Bill: Go ahead.
Jo: It's your truck.
Bill: No, really. You should.
Jo: {Without delay, she picks up the mic.} Dusty, the battle zone should be northeast of 81.
Dusty: Copy that, Jo.
Melissa: Wait a minute. Battle zone? Billy, what're we doing?
Bill: We're going again.
Melissa: Again? But back there you almost got yourself killed!
Bill: No, no. Just a close call.
{Camera on Rabbit}
Rabbit: You're gonna cross 15 on Oklahoma 412. 412.
Jo: Okay, copy that. Haynes, what's on the mesonet?
Haynes: Winds continuing to back, VIL's are at…..uh, 60.
Me: Roger that.
Jo: {Into Radio} Okay guys, let's go get it!
{They keep driving. Jo dramatically leans over to see the speedometer. Goin' 50. She slaps her forehead. That's too slow! Bill rolls his eyes and speeds up. Off in the distance you can see another twister.}
Me: Wow! That storm is about 60 to 65,000 feet and I see the tornado.
Nico: Me too.
{Then over to Jonas' group. Jo's group speeds up so that they're neck and neck.}
Jonas: Mobile lab. Yeah, Tony, Is it me or is the main updraft shifted?
Tony: {Over radio} Upper level winds are veering, sir.
Jonas: Uh huh, this thing might dissipate. Do we have enough time to get in front of it?
{Camera at NSSL}
Bryce: Murphy! Rotation is increasing. Sheer is 90 knots. 50 outbound, 40 inbound.
Murphy: {Into phone to Dean} Yeah, yeah, we see it. We do, we see it. Very pronounced hook.
{Camera in another Windstar van}
Dean: Checking for you now, sir.
Flanders: Dr. Miller. We're getting southeast gusts at 40 miles per hour. Approaching 150 in the funnel.
Bryce: The storm motion is 225 degrees, coming straight out of the southwest.
Jonas: We're in perfect position, let's proceed.
{Camera on Jo, Bill, us and Melissa. They pull alongside Jonas' van}
Eddie: Oh howdy. Got to admire their spirit.
Jo: {sarcastic} There's your pal. {Bill and Jonas glare at each other and keep driving. Suddenly, Bill slams on the breaks.} What're you doin', what're you doin'?!
Bill: {Staring out the windshield} Look at the updraft, the angle! It's gonna shift it's track!
Me: That's a Category 2. We're talking winds at 125 to 150 miles per hour.
Jo: Are you sure?
Bill: Oh yes. It's definitely a sidewinder! It'll move left.
Melissa: Is that bad?
Bill: Wasn't there a road back there?
Jo: {In realization} You're right, go, go, go, GO,GO!
{Bill turns the truck around, driving fast. Then turns right onto a different road and speeds ahead. Melissa's phone rings.}
Melissa: {Answering hastily} Hello?! Donald, now's not a very good time for me, okay? What...all right, put Julie on. Okay.
Me: Wow.
{Camera over to Jonas.}
Jonas: {Looking at Doppler scanning on lap top}Looking good, looking very good. All right, {to Eddie}about 4 miles south, hang a right, let's deploy and we'll be done!
{The tornado starts to shift to the left, just like Bill predicted. Eddie notices.}
Eddie: Uh, Dr. Miller...
Jonas: Shit, shit... It's moving away! God!
Eddie: Look's like they're gonna intercept.
Jonas: {Into radio} Damnit, Tony, I thought you said this thing was gonna stay on the same heading!
{Camera back on Jo, Bill, and Melissa. Melissa responding to phone with "Uh-huhs" and "Yeahs"}
It was raining hard.
Me: We got rain.
Bill: We're close.
Jo: {Into radio} Rabbit, tell me what road we're on, where does this take us?
Melissa: {Into Phone} I know it feels unnatural {Jo listens to Melissa's conversation} but with Donald's motility, you're not gonna have this baby the old-fashioned way. Even if you stand on your head.
{Jo gives Bill a funny look}
Bill: {Explaining} She's a, reproductive therapist.
Jo: {Into Radio} Laurence? Laurence come in, we've got to get ahead of this storm, what's on the satellite?
Melissa: {Into phone} I can't talk to you right now, I'll have to call you back. {Over to Haynes' truck}
Laurence: Twister south, skipping south, shifting to south, we have a, F2, ladies and gentlemen, possibly F3. You with me? It's a very, very large rope on the ground. Very large. Right on the ground.
{Camera on Joey}
Joey: It looks like it's turning, it looks like it's turning. The atmosphere is very unstable! Repeat, unstable!
Lola: Atmosphere is REALLY Unstable.
{Over to Rabbit and Sanders}
Rabbit: This is Rabbit, this is Rabbit, it's at 2:00, it's headed this way!
Lori: It's literally moving Northeast.
Sanders: This is Sanders, this is Sanders! We're driving due east on a country road we've been on for about 6 miles. We've got an F3, 2, sitting on the ground, and she's a beauty! WHOOHOO!
Me: This is getting intense!
Over to Jo, Bill, and Melissa}
Dusty: {Over radio} Jo, it's Barn Burner, it's Barn Burner! It's not gonna hang out long. It's not hanging out long!
Jo: {Into radio} We got it, we got it, we see it!
Me: Roger that.
{It's very dark outside, even though it's afternoon}
THUNDERCLAP!
Lightning struck and thunder crashed all over.
Me: Wow. This storm is intense.
Nico: It's nuts.
Bill: {Into radio} We're getting slammed in here guys, you better hang back.
{The rest of the group slows down a bit, while Bill, Jo, and Melissa drive on. They see the tornado. Jo grabs a camera.}
Jo: This thing loaded?
Bill: Yeah, go for it.
{Jo is about to take a picture of the tornado, when she notices the rain on the window.}
Jo: Rain bands.
Melissa: What?
Jo: Look at the surf coming off those fields.
{Points out window)
Bill: Shit, horizontal rain. Hang on!
{He floors the gas. They approach a bridge going over a large lake. The tornado is hanging over the lake, sucking up water. The three are racing it in their truck.}
Jo: Jesus, Bill, I've never seen it clouded like this.
Bill: I don't think anybody has. But, I- {Concentrating on the road, he breaks off.}
Jo: Bill... we're in the core.
Me: We're under the heart of the storm.
{Suddenly, the twister splits in half. Now there's two!}
Bill: Okay, we've got sisters!
Me: Whoa! I've never seen a tornado split like that.
{Melissa's phone rings}
Melissa: {Rigid} Yes?! Julie I can't talk to you right now!
Jo: We're right under the flanking line.
Bill: I realize that.
Jo: We can't attack this thing from the south, we're gonna get rolled!
Bill: Watch me.
Melissa:{Into Phone} Julie, I know you're upset, you just gotta, breathe, we've both just gotta breathe!
{Suddenly, a cow flies past, in front of them!}
Me: WHOA! HEADS UP!
Jo: Cow.
Melissa: {Into Phone} I gotta go, Julie, we got cows! {Hangs up}
{Cow flies past again.}
Jo: Another cow.
Bill: Actually, I think that was the same one.{Focusing back on what's going on} We've got drunkards here, we've got no path!
Jo: This is not good, get us out of here!
Bill: I'm trying, okay?!
Jo: Floor it!
{He floors the gas, then realizes that won't work, the truck can't go that fast, he slams on the breaks. The whole time they're all screaming. There are now three tornadoes, swirling around the truck like a carousel.}
Bill: HANG ON!
{The truck begins to slide and spin.}
Bill: Honey, hang on!
{Melissa screams, Jo grabs the roof of the car.. Suddenly, the twisters elevate back into the clouds and are gone. For a second, all look like in shock.
Me: WHOA! That was nuts!
{Then Bill and Jo hop out of the truck excited, leaving Melissa, still frozen with fear. Jo and Bill hug and laugh.}
Jo: God! Was that incredible?!
Bill: Did you see it? It was incredible!
{Jo points up to the clouds where the twisters disappeared.}
Bill: Oh! {Then noticing Melissa climbing out of the truck, scared stiff.} Oh, oh, honey!{Hugs her}
{The team arrives in their trucks, with the music ("Long Way Down")}
Bill: WHOOOOHOOO!
Jo: God! Was that incredible?! Did you see it?
Me: I sure did.
Bill: It was incredible!
{Jo points up to the sky where the twisters were}
Bill: Oh! {Then noticing Melissa climbing out of the truck, scared stiff} Oh, oh, honey! {Hugs her}
{The team arrives in their trucks, with the music, ("Long Way Down")}
Jo: {To Dusty and others coming up} Did you see that?!
Bill: {To Melissa} It's okay, it's okay.
Melissa: {Shaking} No, I'm not okay! This is not okay! {Voice cracking} Okay?
Bill: Aw, Christ... I'm sorry. Honey, I didn't think.
Melissa: {Almost crying} You know when you used to tell me you chased tornadoes? Deep down, I always thought it was a metaphor!
Bill: Shhhh. It's okay.
{Team walks over all talking at once excitedly.}
Beltzer: Three times a lady!
Beltzer: Did you see the inflow jets on these fatties?
{Jo tells them all the epic tale as she climbs up into the back of truck, by Dorothy.}
Jo: Did you see? I was sitting in the middle of it!
Me: We sure were.
{All cheer.}
Laurence: I was thinking, it may not be too bad of an idea, if we just got the hell out of here. 'Cuz that was definitely too many tornadoes back there...
Jo: Are you kidding? This thing's not over, we've only seen the start of it!
Me: Yeah the day's only half over and we're only seeing the start.
Rabbit: Hey, you know what, uh, Jo, somebody couldn't help but notice how close we are to Wakita!
Jo: No!
Sanders: Yeah, and Aunt Meg wouldn't mind a pit stop, right?
Jo: No!
Dusty: Red meat, we crave sustenance!
My stomach growled.
Me: Whoa getting hungry.
Jo: Guys, we are not invading my aunt!
Dusty:{Signing in the ASL alphabet} Food!
All: FOOD! FOOOOD!
Jo: HEY! We are absolutely not going!
Me: Come on Jo we got to eat.
Nico: Yeah I'm starving.
We went to Wakita.
{Humorously, the Camera then goes to Jo's team pulling up in front of Jo's Aunt Meg's house. Her yard is full of wind chimes and sculptures, all ringing beautifully. She is telling a welder how she wants her newest project to look.}
Meg: {to the welder} There's the spot. Just do it. {She looks up, surprised, as she sees Jo and co. walk up.} BILLY!
Bill: MEG! {Leading Melissa} Come on, honey! Meg, how are you?! {Both hug}
Meg: Oh, it is so good to see you!
Bill: Good to see you too.
Meg: Day before yesterday, I was telling Jo, {Dramatically} how much I miss you! {Bill and Dusty laugh at this display} You haven't seen any of my new work! {Seeing Jo} Jo! Oh honey! {Kisses her cheek} Seen some action?
Jo: You should have seen it.
Me: Hello.
Meg: Wow! Team Loud Phoenix Storm! It's an honor to meet you all.
Me: Same here.
Dusty: Meg!
Meg: {Seeing the others} Hey, Boys! {They all hug Meg}
All: {Ad- lib} Give me some of that lovin'!, Steak and eggs!
{Camera to Meg's Kitchen. She's cooking beef and eggs. All around a bunch of tables.}
Rabbit: {Talking between bites of food} You know, in a severe lightning storm you'll want to grab your ankles and stick your butt up in the air.
Haynes: He's right, if you're gonna get hit, it's the safest orifice.
Joey: {Sarcastic} Yeah, I'd like to get hit by lightning once. Ya know, see what it's like.
Me: Trust me Joey, you do not want to get hit by Lightning. You don't even know what hits you until it's too late. Lightning travels at 220,000,000 miles per hour and burns at 50,000˚ Fahrenheit and packs over 1 billion volts of electricity.
Paula: Yeah it happened to me.
Haynes: Wow.
Laurence: {Pouring himself lemonade, tasting it} Hey, this is real lemonade. Hey, Meg, I'm movin' in here!
Me: Her lemonade is really good.
Nicole: It sure is dad.
{Jo walks over with a tray of beef.}
Jo: You guys, look out, make a space. {To Melissa} Look out, look out, look out.
{Jo plops a huge chunk of beef on Melissa's plate. Melissa looks at it, almost disgusted.}
Nicole and the Ripping Friends were having a lot of steaks and beef.
Rabbit: God, Meg, you've got a lot of beef. Where'd you get all this beef?
Meg: Did you see my cows out front?
Rabbit: No.
Meg: Ohhhh! {Makes a gasping face, everyone laughs}
Rabbit: Ohh.
Dusty: Cool. You slaughter your own cows, {Impressed} Meg! Nice.
Me: Nice.
Jared was having some fruit and a salad.
{Jo plops down a bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy. }
Dusty: {To Melissa} Potatoes?
Jo: Better grab some while you can.
Dusty: {To Melissa} Meg's gravy is famous. It's practically a food group.
Me: Boy it sure is.
{Dusty pours a ton of gravy on Melissa's potatoes. She sits there not knowing what to say.}
Bill: Shower's free.
Jo: {Popping open a can of Pepsi} I'm next!
{Bill almost walks into Jo}
Bill: Oops
{Meg offers Bill a plate of food}
Bill: {Longingly} Oh, I want that.
{Guys gathered around the TV Jonas comes on in an interview.}
Jo: How can you watch this garbage? {Walks over to watch}
Bill: Oh, pardon me gentlemen. You guys gotta see this.
Me: Oh shit.
{Cranks up the volume on the TV}
Laurence: Careful, buddy, he'll steel your microphone.
Jonas: {On TV} Well for me, it's the thrill of the hunt. {everyone booing.} Man vs. nature. Having battle with the elements.
Me: Oh shut the fuck up.
Reporter: {On TV} So as a scientist, can you actually predict tornadoes now?
Jonas: {On TV} Well, no, they are very, very unpredictable, as some of my more unfortunate colleagues found out earlier today-
Haynes: {Rolling her eyes} Oh, turn him off.
Jonas: {On TV} But we hope to change all that with a system I have devised.
Dusty: God, he sucks.
Rabbit: {To T.V.} Aw, shut up.
Joey: BOOOO!
Nico: Fuck you!
Rabbit: Turn him off.
Bill: {Turning off TV} What a wiener.
{Start music ("Broken")}
Jo: He really is in love with himself. I thought it was just a summer thing. {Slugs Pepsi}
Me: Me too.
Dusty: He's gonna rue the day. Dude, he's gonna rue the day he came against The Extreme, baby.
Laurence: Here, here.
Me: Tell me about it.
Beltzer: I'm talking immanent rueage. Immanent rueage.
Melissa: I was just wonderin' why do you call Billy "The Extreme"?
Dusty: Cuz' Billy is the extreme. {Everyone except Melissa laughs.}
Preacher: Bill is the most out of control son of a bitch in the game!
Bill: {Looking at Jo} No, I think I came in second.
Me: He's outta control like me.
We laugh.
Lana: And us before he moved to Michigan.
Dusty: Well I've seen The Extreme in high gear.
Jo: You guys need to get some new stories. I'm gonna go clean up.
Nico: Okay.
{She exits upstairs to take a shower.}
Dusty: So we get this one near Dalton-
Bill: Oh, God. {Everyone laughs}
Dusty: We're way too close, and Jo got the bid on it, she's filmin' it, right. And all the sudden, out of nowhere, this shitty looking valiant, comes pulling up, right in the way.
Me: Oh god I remember hearing about that.
Beltzer: She starts yellin'. And this... this loser, stumbles out of the car and he's got like, a bottle of Jack Daniel's in his hand.
Dusty: He's naked-
Rabbit: He's BUTT naked.
Beltzer: Naked.
Bill: NOT naked. {All laugh} I was not naked!
Me: Naked.
Beltzer: He's without apparel.
Bill: Half naked.
Dusty: Naked. So, Jo is yelling at him to get out of the way, right. {All laugh again} He just- He strolls up to the twister, and he says "Have a drink." And he chucks the bottle into the twister, and it never hits the ground!
Nico: Whoa.
Vince: That is crazy.
Jared: No kidding.
Naruto: Yeah.
Preacher: Twister caught it, and sucked it right up.
Me: Oh yeah.
{The whole time Melissa is looking at Bill funny}
Bill: {To Melissa} Honey, this is a tissue of lies. See there was another Bill, an evil Bill- and I killed him! {Everyone laughs and cheers}
We laughed.
Me: Oh that is so funny! Man it's like I'm hanging out with my mom and her friends.
{Camera on Jo in the shower, she listens on, downstairs. Then camera back on downstairs}
Preacher: No, that was a good size twister, what was that, an F3?
Bill: Solid F2.
Me: Category 2.
{Start music ("How").}
Melissa: See now you've lost me again.
Bill: {Explaining} It's the Fujita scale. It measures the intensity of a tornado by how much it "eats".
Melissa: Eats?
Bill: Destroys.
Me: Famous Weather scientist Dr. Ted Fujita is the one who invented the Fujita Scale. He was a famous Japanese Weather Scientist that came up with it.
Melissa: Wow.
Laurence: The little encounter we had back there was a strong F2, F3 maybe.
Beltzer: Bet we see some F4's today.
Haynes: That'd be sweet!
Me: Category 4 would be awesome.
Bill: 4 is good, 4'll re-locate your house fairly officially.
Melissa: Is there an F5? {Everyone suddenly grows silent.} What would that be like?
Preacher: {Reflective} The finger of God.
Me: F5 is the strongest there is. Winds of 250 to 310 miles per hour.
Melissa: None of you have ever seen an F5?
Bill: Just one of us. {Everyone looks up a the ceiling where Jo is, upstairs.}
Melissa: Did you ever see a tornado J.D.?
Me: Yes I have. It was back in 2008 when I lived in Colorado. Category 1. 110 miles per hour. No damage but it was cool. It was a land spout tornado.
I showed her a picture of it and she saw that it was a wicked tornado.
Melissa: Wow.
Lincoln: Me and my family survived a tornado before.
Laney: Yeah we sure did.
Me: I remember that.
Ronnie Anne: But my house didn't.
Varie: Yeah. Ronnie Anne's house was completely destroyed.
Melissa: Oh man.
{Camera on Jo. She's dressed now, putting her necklace on, running her fingers through her hair. Meg walks over.}
Meg: Forget it. Doesn't matter what you do, you'll still be beautiful.
Jo: You're biased.
Meg: Yes, I am.{Pause} Sounds like old times down there.
Jo: Yes, it does.
Meg: {Pause, thinking} He didn't keep his part of the bargain.
Jo: Which part?
Meg: To spend his life pining for you, and die miserable and alone.
Jo: {Sad} That so much to ask?
Meg: I don't know. Bill always went his own way, which was usually the same way you were going.
Jo: Seems like a long time ago.
Meg: Not so long, Jo. He's here, isn't he?
Jo: {Watching the wind sculptures outside} That is so beautiful.
{Camera downstairs on Dusty, listening to the radio.}
RADIO: Well, I think we have a serious weather situation-
Dusty: WE GOT ONE, BABY! F3! A MILE OUTSIDE PARLAINE!
Me: Looks like we got a category 3! Lets move people!
{Fast paced music starting up again, everyone yells at each other to hurry up, and get ready to leave.}
RADIO: ….city of Wakita, this is a storm that has developed in the past 15 minutes. First - Alert Doppler radar shows that this is a very intense storm-
Bill: {Walking down the porch steps, to Melissa} You ride along with Dusty, okay, is that cool?
Melissa: Okay.
Dusty: What's the word from NSSL?
Haynes: Word is big!
Me: Looks like big awesome.
Nico: Lets get it!
Bill: All right, let's go, people!
Jo: {To Rabbit} You know where Jonas is?
Rabbit: Yeah, he's still in Milston, 30 miles from it.
Jo: Let's all get movin'! {To Rabbit again} Can we beat him?
Rabbit: I'm working on it.
Meg: {To Jo} Thanks for stopping by.
Jo: I'm sorry to eat and run.
Meg: It's what you live for.
Bill: {Running past Meg} Bye.
Meg: Good to see you, Bill.
Me: Thank you so much for lunch Meg.
Meg: You're welcome J.D.
Melissa: {To Bill} Honey, I-
Bill: It's okay, it's okay.
{Dusty walking up}
Dusty: Tasty cow, Aunt Meg.
Meg: {Handing Dusty a bag of food} It's for you, Dusty!
Dusty: Thank you, sweetheart. {Hugs Meg, then hugs Melissa}You and me, right?
{Everyone else is getting in their trucks.}
Melissa: {repulsed, but nodding anyway} Yes.
Dusty: Sweet, sweet.
Melissa: {Offering hand} Well, I- it was a pleasure meeting you.
Meg: {Shaking hand} Likewise. You'd better run! {Gently nudging Melissa towards the trucks.}
{Bill and Jo are by Bill's red truck.}
Jo: Keys?
Bill: {Prompting} Please.
{Jo grabs the keys anyway and hops in the truck.}
Bill: {Sarcastic} You're welcome!
{Everyone's in their trucks now, with the motors running}
Jo: {Into Radio} Rabbit?
{Camera to Rabbit}
Rabbit: {Into Radio} Hang on! {Pulls out a road atlas} Uh, let's go right through Wakita, we'll take Myers Road past the fire station, and we'll take 132 to 44 east.
{Camera to Bill}
Bill: {Into Radio} Rabbit, do you know any shortcuts, let us know, we need every second!
{They all fly down the road, camera going into aerial view of the team. }
Bill: Okay, Rabbit, time to impress me!
Rabbit: {Into Radio} Okay, about a mile up there's a little detour we're gonna take, a little walk in the woods!
{They turn onto a winding dirt road, through a thicket. Guitar fades into music ("Humans Being"), a fast paced rock song.}
Bill: {As Jo's driving over a bump, Into radio}Hey, it's bumpy here, folks! {To Jo} Okay, let's get you wired. {He puts a wireless mic. headset on her, clipping the receiver on her shorts.} Oh, excuse me, {He's so close, Jo's enjoying every moment of it.} Okay, you're on!
{Camera to Haynes and Beltzer as their truck soars over the bumps in the road.}
Haynes: WHOOOOOHOOO!
Me: YEAH BABY!
{Camera on Beltzer}
Beltzer: {Into radio} See, kids? An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations!
{Camera on Dusty}
Dusty: {Into Radio} Repo man spends his life getting in to tense situations, BELTZER! WOOO!
Nico: YEAH!
{Camera on Bill and Jo}
Bill: Okay, Rabbit, what have you got?
{Camera over to Rabbit}
Rabbit: Okay, Bill, turn left here toward that farm.
{Camera over to Bill and Jo}
Bill: You sure about that?
{Camera over to Rabbit}
Rabbit: Uh, yeah. Trust me. Rabbit is good, Rabbit is wise.
{Camera on Jo and Bill, both rolling eyes}
Jo: Mother of God...
Bill: Jesus Christ... {Skeptical} This is a field, Rabbit!
Me: Wow.
Rabbit: {Over radio} I know, keep going, beyond it, right through that brush!{No response from Bill}You see that brush right in front of you...
Bill: Yeah, we see the brush, what's beyond that?
{Camera over to Rabbit}
Rabbit: Beyond what?
{Camera over to Bill and Jo}
Jo: Beyond what?!
Bill: {Frustrated} The BRUSH! A brick wall, a bearded lady, what?
Rabbit: Oh, um, it's the highway, it's the highway!
Camera shows they are still driving through a corn field. Camera on Jo.}
Jo: {Throws her sunglasses on the dashboard frustrated, picks up CB mic.} Where's the road Rabbit?!
{Camera to Rabbit and Sanders}
Sanders: Yeah, where's the road, man?
Rabbit: It should be any moment-
Me: LOOK OUT!
{Suddenly, the caravan of cars spew right onto the highway, loud honking, just as Jonas' group passes by!}
Preacher: HELL-O! {Muttering} Shit.
{Over to Jonas, exasperated.}
Jonas: She's insane. {Into radio}You're insane Jo! What are you trying to do, get somebody killed?!
{Camera back to Jo}
Jo: {Pissed off, Into radio} Oh, really Jonas? {Sarcastically} It was so nice of you to stop back there and make sure we were all right! {Yelling as Bill pulls the mike away} IT WAS VERY CONSIDERATE OF YOU,HOW COULD YOU SEE TEN PEOPLE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND NOT STOP?!
Bill: {Trying to shut her up} Okay, okay, okay, okay! Keep the channel clear…..
Jo: {Mumbling to herself} Dirtbag.
Me: Sorry about that Jonas.
{Eerie music fades in as the sky suddenly grows dark. The thunderstorm is looming in the afternoon sky. A tornado should be around somewhere...}
Me: These clouds look mean.
Bill: {Sensing trouble} We're gonna have to get off of this road.
Jo: What? This is no time to guess-
Bill: I'm not guessing. Just make a right turn. Trust me.
Jo: Do you want to drive?
Bill: Just turn!
{Jo turns sharply onto a dirt road, the crew following. Camera over to Jonas' van.}
Eddie: Do we follow?
Jonas: {Glances up} We do not.
{Jonas' team drives on. Camera on Sanders.}
Sanders: {To Rabbit} What's he doin', man?
Rabbit: I dunno. {Pulling out a road map} Find this road, {Sarcastically} it's like, "Bob's Road"!
{Both laugh. Camera to Joey, his lap top beeping}
Joey: We've got a touchdown!
Laurence: We got a touchdown, touchdown, tornado is on the ground.
Me: Tornado on the ground guys!
Haynes: Listen to this! (Hands phone to Beltzer)
Jo: {Into radio} Where is it?
Laurence: {Over radio} Looks like it's coming down route 33!
{Camera to Jo and Bill}
Bill: Jo, we're on 33!
Me: We're on the right track.
Jo:{Into radio} What's the path?
{Camera to Joey}
Joey: It's going about 35 miles an hour.
Nico: That's fast moving.
{Camera on Sanders and Rabbit, listening to radio, looking out windshield.}
Rabbit: Can you see this?
Sanders: I cannot see this. Where is it? Hel-lo?!
Me: I don't see it.
Rabbit: {Into radio, to Joey} Where you guys lookin'?
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Bill: Where, where, where?
Jo: Direction, Rabbit!
{Camera on Rabbit, he's found it}
Rabbit: North, northeast.
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Beltzer: Do you see it?
Haynes: No.
Beltzer: {Looking out at the storm} Do you got any thing up there?
Rabbit: {Over radio} North, northeast, you copy?
Bill: Shit, it's commin' right at us.
Me: I feel it.
Laurence: {Over radio} Actually, she's gone vertical, gone vertical. This sucker's really gainin' strength.
The storm clouds forming looked more ferocious.
Me: These storm clouds look to be 65 to 70,000 feet high.
Nico: Yeah.
Jo: Do you see it?
Vince: I don't see it anywhere.
Bill: Me neither. I can't- {Into radio} Beltzer, we don't have a visual. Repeat, we do not have a visual! Help us out, here!
Jo: Where is it?
Beltzer: {Over radio} Yeah, I got it Billy. It's the best motion I've ever seen! It's like the base of this fatty is about half a mile wide.
Me: Whoa! These storm clouds look mean. The top of this storm has to be 65 to 75,000 feet.
Bill: {Into radio} Rabbit?
{Camera over to Rabbit}
Rabbit: If you're goin' east on 7, it should be commin' right over that hill in a matter of minutes!
{Camera on Joey}
Joey: {Into radio} This is the one, man. I feel it.
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Bill: {Searching the horizon} It's gotta be there.
Jo: Maybe it's stalled.
Bill: No, I think Rabbit's right. It's gonna show it's ugly face right over that hill. Jo, what do you think?
Dusty: {Over radio} You gonna go for it , Jo?
Bill: Jo?
Jo: Time for deployment, guys, let's do it!
Me: Lets get it.
{Camera over to Dusty and Melissa}
Dusty: Oh man, this is the fun part, sweetheart!
{Jo's crew stops to set up, but Bill and Jo keep going. It begins to hail.}
Me: Uh oh.
Bill: Okay, we got hail.
Jo: {Into radio} Hail. We got hail.
{Camera over to Crew setting up equipment. Dusty sets up a video camera.}
Rabbit: Sanders, pull it over. Anywhere in here. Here's good. That's good. That's good. We got a big one, guys!
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Jo: {Into radio} Upflow, Beltzer, we have upflow, copy?!
Beltzer: {Over radio} Yeah, Jo, I'm checkin' it, I'm checkin' it, she's almost up!
Me: I see rotation.
Jo: Bill, right now, this is it.
Bill: I'll get her ready.
Me: I'll help you Bill.
{Bill slides open the back window, slides through it. The hail is pounding him, hurting him.} OW!
{Camera on Dusty and crew.}
Dusty: Do you see him? Do you see him?!
Beltzer: What?!
Dusty: The red truck going right towards the core!
Beltzer: No!
Melissa: He's not talking about Billy is he?!
{Camera back on Bill, turning on Dorothy.}
Jo: ARE YOU OKAY?! {Slowing down the truck}
Bill: I'M ALRIGHT, KEEP GOING!
{Jo speeds the truck back up. Bill flips a switch, Dorothy's sirens go on. Camera on Jo's crew.}
Dusty: {Watching everything through the video camera} Hey, Belzer, we got a view!
Beltzer: Yeah, I can see it! All right, I got it! THAT'S NO MOON, IT'S A SPACE STATION! WHOOOOOO!
{Camera back on Jo and Bill. Stuff begins to fly past.}
Jo: Debris! We have debris!
Bill: {Getting hit again} Ow! {Trying to get a strap lose} OW! Come on, Come on! {He gets it loose} Okay!
We saw the tornado.
Me: There it is. Category 3! Winds at 150 to 200 miles per hour!
{Camera on Dusty}
Varie: We have a Category 3!
Dusty: They're in the birdcage! Oh my God! Oh my God! Melissa, look at this! Take a peek! You can really feel it with a telephoto lens!
Melissa: No!
Dusty: Oh, common' what's the matter?!
Melissa: You people are all crazy, do you know that?!
Dusty: What?!
Jo: {Over radio} Dusty, are you set up? We're not leaving 'till we get this!
Melissa: {referring to Jo} She's the craziest one of them all!
{Camera on Bill. He's still turning stuff on.}
Bill: Okay, she's almost ready!
Me: Yeah!
Jo: Hold on, we're almost there, we're almost there!
{Suddenly a fishing boat flies past}
Me: HOLY FUCK!
Bill: WHOOOAAAAAA! Stop, this is fine!
Jo: Wait, we got to get closer, just a little closer!
Bill: STOP, JO! {A tricycle rams into the windshield.}
Me: HO!
Jo: {Startled} Okay, that's close enough!
{She stops the truck, causing Bill to slam his head on the roof of the cab.}
Bill: OW, fuck! {They both go to pull Dorothy onto the road, the tornado looms overhead.} Okay, hurry, get the tailgate!
Jo: You got it?!
Bill: Yeah, she's all set, help me get her down! HURRY! LET'S MOVE!
{He tries to unhook Dorothy, down the road, there's an explosion by the funnel base}
Me: SHIT!
Jo: BILL, HURRY!
Bill: {Still trying to get Dorothy out of the truck, unsuccessfully} Damn! We gotta go now, common'!
Jo: WE CAN DO THIS! COMMON', COMMON'!
Bill: IT'S STUCK!
Me: HURRY!
{Suddenly a telephone pole falls on Dorothy, knocking her onto the road, all the sensors spilling everywhere.}
Jo: BILL!
Bill: GET DOWN, LOOK OUT! COMMON' HURRY! {Jo screams as Dorothy falls. Suddenly, the tornado is gone.} Where- Where'd it go? Where is it?!
Me: It went back into the storm.
{Camera to Beltzer}
Beltzer: {Punching buttons on his keyboard.} What's going on?! Aw, aw, I don't believe this! What the hell?!
Sanders: What's the Doppler say?
Beltzer: I, I-
Preacher: The cone is silent.
{We hear thunder}
Beltzer: {Into radio} Jo, Bill, it's over! The thing was stable, and and and then, then it's gone.
{Camera goes back to Jo and Bill on the Highway. We hear the tornado's roar, however, we don't see it.}
Jo: {Staring at the sky} It's backbuilding!
Bill: It's not through yet!{Pause}You're right it's backbuilding! {Referring to tornado} We've got a jumper here!
Me: Looks like it's gonna hit us hard!
Jo: {Into radio} Beltzer, it's backbuilding, we've got to track it!
Beltzer: {Over radio} Yeah, Jo, we know. Data's incomplete, I think you guys should get out of there, You copy?
Me: Roger that!
{Jo bends down, trying to grab sensors}
Jo: Bill, help. Bill, Help me!
Bill: Jo, we should leave!
Jo: No, no ,no. Help me. Help me!
Bill: Forget the sensors! We've got to get out of here now! It's gonna drop!
Jo: Beltzer will see! If it drops, if it's anywhere near us, it will kill us!
Bill: It's not gonna drop anywhere near us, it's gonna drop right on us!
Me: LETS GO!
Jo: Bill, turn this- wait, wait, wait! No, Bill! {He pulls her away into the truck} No, no, no, no, no! Go back!
Bill: Forget it, Jo, forget it!
Jo: Go back, it's not too late! {Bill starts to drive away} Go back!
Bill: Forget it, it's too late!
{Jo jumps out of the car, and bends down to the ground, picking up the sensors. By this time the tornado is gone. We hear slow sad guitar music in the background, with a crescendo of orchestra seconds later.}
Jo: Help me! Help me!
Bill: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Jo: HELP ME!
Bill: Jo, the pack's wasted, it's over!
Jo: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?! WE CAN STILL DO THIS!
Bill: Jesus Christ, listen to yourself, you're obsessed!
Me: Oh boy.
Jo: You've never seen what that thing can do, so don't even talk to me about-
Bill: I just saw it-
Jo: You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you!
Bill: Christ, Jo, is that what you think it did?!
Jo: {To herself, annoyed with Bill} I don't know. {Turns and walks away}
Bill: Jesus, Jo, why can't you just forget it?!
Jo: {Turning back to him} You don't understand, okay? You'll never know.
Me: (Sadly) Jo.
Bill: When's it gonna be enough, huh?! How close do you have to get- {she's still walking away, he grabs her and turns her around}Talk to me! Jo, things go wrong, you can't explain it, you can't predict it! Killing yourself won't bring your dad back. I'm sorry he died, but it was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past and look at what you've got right in front of you!
Jo: What are you saying?
Bill: Me, Jo.
{She looks at him, quietly, however we can still see she is obviously emotionally upset inside. We also see Melissa, upset. The music continues, epic, but sad, as the crew drives off into a beautiful orange sunset. Then the camera comes up on the NSSL again}
Murphy: Hey, Bryce!
Bryce: What?
Murphy: You'd better get over here and take a look at this.
Bryce:{Looking at radar} The gate-the gate velocities are maxed out. If those two cells converge-
Murphy: Inbounds and outbounds have doubled.
{They look at each other worried. Camera to a drive in movie, right after a bolt of lightning flashes across the screen. They are watching Stephen King's "The Shining". Seconds later the music ("Moments Like This") fades into the background. Dusty is watching the Doppler and the weather reports. Camera to Melissa, sitting on the bed of a motel room, part of the drive-in. She's watching the weather also. Start music, ("Love Affair"). Melissa plays with her engagement ring. At this point, she knows that Bill is still in love with Jo, and she wonders if she should even marry him. Camera on Jo, walking up to the snack bar.}
Jo: Excuse me, can I have 8 coffees to go, please?
Employee: Eight?
Jo: Yeah.
{Jo grabs a pen that's sitting on a trey. Taking out the divorce papers, she signs the last page, with a heavy heart. Her day is up. Dorothy never flew. Bill walks up to the counter.}
Bill: Two coffees, please. {To Jo.} Long day.
Jo: Uh-huh.
Me: I'm sorry about Dorothy II not making it Jo.
Jo: I know.
Bill: You know, I've been thinking about the sensors. The way they scattered out there today on the highway. I'm starting to wonder if the funnel will carry them like we thought.
Jo: Too light?
Bill: I don't know, maybe the whole thing's too light.
Me: Hmm. That could be the case.
Jo: What can we do about that?
Bill: I'm not sure.
Me: We'll think of something. But we'll have to wait and see.
{Camera back on Melissa, looking at her ring. The weather report's still on. Suddenly, the screen turns to static. This ominous occurrence lingers like a warning. Camera on Jo and Bill at snack bar.}
Bill: {To employee} Thank you.
{Jo stares at the TV inside the snack bar. It too is gone to static, Jo looks at it, the warning obvious to her. Bill notices as well. Camera back to Melissa in her room. The window curtains billow gently. Melissa turns the TV off, and walks outside, staring at the sky. The wind is softly howling. Suddenly, Jo first, then Bill turns to the north looks up at the sky. You can tell, as stormchasers, they can sense a tornado coming. We hear eerie music in the background. The wind grows louder. There is a low rumble. Camera on Dusty. He is in the van watching the Doppler radar. He suddenly grows very tense.}
Me: Uh oh! Not good!
Dusty: {Scared} Jesus, it's coming. {He jumps out of the van and starts running toward Jo and Bill, screaming} JO! BILL! GUYS! IT'S COMING! IT'S HEADED RIGHT FOR US!
Nico: OH SHIT!
Bill: {Looking around} It's already here. EVERYBODY UNDERGROUND NOW!
{The tornado sirens go off in the background}
Melissa: {Frightened} BILLY!
{Bill grabs Melissa's hand and runs towards the warehouse.}
Bill: Honey! Come on!
Melissa: What's going...what-{Too scared and tired to talk}
{The Rumble is deafening, the winds turned gales blow papers and lighter objects around.}
We saw the Tornado!
Me: Category 4! 200 to 250 miles per hour!
Vince: OH SHIT!
Nico: NOT GOOD!
Sandpit: Maybe I can use my sand to get some of the people to safety!
Me: Go for it Flint! Hurry!
Sandman did so.
Bill: Jo! JO! {Pause} Jo, Common'!
{The whole time, Jo has stood transfixed, staring at the tornado. Suddenly she snaps out of it. She runs to the snack bar, banging on the windows to warn the employees, screaming}
Jo: GET UNDERGROUND, TAKE COVER RIGHT NOW, LET'S GO!
Me: Get outta here guys!
{All run to the warehouse. Everyone is in except Jo}
Dusty: The doors! Close the Doors! Doors! Doors!
{Bill runs out to get Jo}
Dusty: BILL!
{Bill helps one last employee from the snack bar inside.}
Bill: {to Melissa} Get inside. JO, COMMON'!
{Jo, is coming but then sees Laurence, hiding under the steering wheel of his car, and goes back to help him}
Bill: What are you doing, come back!
Jo: {To Laurence} Come on, take my hand.
Laurence: I can't-
Jo: Take my hand!
{Jo and Laurence run to the warehouse.}
Bill: Come on! Hurry! Go! Go! Go! Let's go!
{They get inside. Dusty rolls the door shut.}
Bill: Everybody down in the pit! Get down! Let's go, everybody down! Jo, move, common'!
{Everyone scrambles to the pit in the floor of the warehouse, where they all huddle up in a corner in fetal position. The whole warehouse begins to shake. The windows implode.}
Bill: STAY CALM!
{Suddenly, A high pressure water hose comes loose from it's latch, and flies around.}
Preacher: I got it, I got it! {Grabs hose}Hah hah!
{Suddenly, a hub cap flies through the air and cuts Preacher's forehead. Jo hold's his head to stop the bleeding.}
Preacher: My head!
Jo: You're okay!
Varie got to healing him.
{Everyone seems terrified except Jo and Bill. Melissa is almost in shock. We hear her screaming.}
Bill: IT'LL BE OVER SOON!
Melissa: THIS IS INSANE! THIS IS INSANE! I DON'T LIKE THIS! THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY! I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!
Bill: STAY CALM!
{Melissa continues to scream. A car rams through the ceiling. The neon sign for the drive in theater crashes ontop of the car}
Bill: {To Melissa} It's okay, honey! It'll be okay!
{Suddenly, the winds start to die down, the lights buzz and go out. Camera in Wakita, Meg's house. We see her watching TV and reading a book. She hears her windchimes, grows tense. Like screams, they tell her a tornado is coming. She heads for the stairs. Camera on the now demolished drive in, as a police car pulls up. Dusty sits in his van again, listening to weather reports. Other people walk out of the pit}
Me: What a mess!
Man: Oh, look at the truck, it's trashed!
Bill: {With Melissa, surveying the damage} Holy…..
Nico: Shit! That was intense.
Laney: No kidding.
{Beltzer comes up to Melissa.}
Melissa: Is that what it was like up on that hill?
Beltzer: That? No. We were lucky. Those were just down drafts and microbursts. Tornado just side swept us.
Jo: {To Dusty} Can you tell which way it's headed?
Dusty: It's backing northeast. It's um...It looks to hit Wakita head on.
Me: Oh no!
Jo: {Frantic} I'm goin'. I'm goin', let's go, it's Meg! Let's go!
Dusty: We're going!
{Everyone is yelling things frantically}
Bill: Jo, wait!
Jo: Where's the phone?!
Beltzer: The lines are down, Jo, I already tried.
Jo: We're going.
Bill: Damn it. Hang on, I'll drive.
Rabbit: Hey, Jo, look. We can jump on the 38 exchange and cross highway 132.
Jo: Okay.
{Bill walks over to Melissa}
Bill: Hey, honey, It's Meg. I gotta go.
Melissa: I'm goin' back.
Bill: Good, good, you'll be safe at the motel. I'll see you in the morning.
Melissa: I won't be there.
Bill: What? Why? What are you saying?
Melissa: I'm saying goodbye.
Bill: No-
Melissa: You know, I can't compete with this. I don't even know where to start!
Bill: Wait, don't do this now, please. Please!
Melissa: Sooner or later it would have ended, we both know that.
Bill: Please-
Melissa: The funny thing is, I'm not that upset. What does that mean?
Beltzer: {Running by) We can do it! Come on, let's move!
Bill: I never meant for any of this to happen.
Melissa: I know, Billy, I know. It's okay.
Dusty: Bill, come on!
Melissa: You go ahead. {Motioning to Jo} She needs you. I hope that Aunt Meg's okay.
Bill: What about you?
Melissa: Oh, don't worry about me. I know my way home.
{She walks away, by herself}
Rabbit: We can be in Wakita in about an hour.
Dusty: Bill, common'!
Me: Bill I saw what happened. I'm sorry.
Billy: I know.
{We see them get in their trucks. Camera then goes to Wakita. The "Welcome to Wakita" sign is flapping in the breeze on the ground. Everything is destroyed. We see bonfires in the streets, babies crying, families picking through wreckage. They are too late.}
Bill: Oh my God.
Me: What a mess.
Varie: My god.
Vince: This whole town has been leveled.
Jo: {Sad, almost mad at herself, as if it was all her fault} They had no warning. {Like a mirage into the past, Jo sees her mother and father hugging each other and herself, a little girl. This is a heart ripping, all too familiar situation. They see Meg's house. It's been compacted into one story. Strangely, most of the wind sculptures still stand.} Oh my God.
Me: Oh man! Meg's house is trashed.
{Jo flies out of the truck, towards the house}
Bill: Jo, Wait!
Jo: {Calling into the upstairs window.} Meg?! {Bill runs over.}
Bill: Jo, wait!
{He comes over to where Jo is}
Jo: MEG?!
Bill: Careful, this house could go any second.
Jo: MEG?!
Bill: Jo, take a flashlight!
Me: Careful guys.
{With a flashlight in hand, they step into the house, now a labyrinth of debris.}
Jo: MEG?!
Bill: This house is ready to go. MEG?!
{A dresser topples over as they walk past.}
Bill: Careful.
Jo: Meg?!
Bill: Meg?!
{Suddenly, they hear a dog whimper}
Jo: Shhh! You hear that?
Bill: What?
Jo: I think I hear something.
Bill: Easy does it
{Jo follows the sound. Suddenly they see Meg's dog "Mose" below them.}
Jo: Meg!
Bill: Mose, boy!
Jo: Mose! I think she's down here. Meg? We're here! We're coming down!
{Then, they see Meg. She is trapped under wall framing, her head and chest bleeding.}
Bill: Meg! {To Jo} We gotta get this off of her. {Meg mumbles something} Ready?
Jo: {to Meg} Don't move, don't move. {to Bill}Watch her head, watch her head.
Bill: Go! {They lift the framing off her.} I got it.
Jo: Easy, easy, easy. {to Meg} Are you okay?
Meg: Oh, I'm all right... I'm fine.
{Suddenly the TV slides toward them, however held back by the cord. They all cover their heads, nothing happens...}
Bill: Get down!
Jo: Oh, God…
Bill: We gotta go, hurry! Let's go! {To Meg} Think you can walk?
{...Suddenly the cord snaps and the TV crashes to the floor!}
Bill: Watch out!
{From outside everyone else watches as the house begins to buckle under itself.}
Dusty: MEG! MEG! Meg, Bill! {He runs over to the window where Jo and Bill entered.} Some one take my – Joey, take my watch.
{He scales the wall to the window}
Beltzer: {To Dusty} Go, go! Careful!
Dusty: {About to go in} BILL?!
{Then Jo and Bill come out, carrying Aunt Meg.}
Jo: We're okay, we're coming out!
Bill: Get an ambulance over here!
Dusty: {Helping Meg also} Get an ambulance, Lawrence, Now! Go!
{Lawrence runs to flag down an ambulance. An ambulance comes over, a paramedic hops out, gets a stretcher, they lay Meg on it.}
Joey: {Also helping} All right.
Rabbit: {Helping Meg down} There you go.
Meg: Okay, okay.
Beltzer: {Joking} How 'bout some steak and ham!
{Meg laughs}
Me: Meg thank goodness.
Laney: You're gonna be all right.
Meg: How nice of you all to come over.
{They're all talking to her. Meg is about to be placed in an ambulance. Her dog, "Mose " is still in the collapsed house}
Meg: Bill! Grab Mose for me, I think he's a little shaken up!
Bill: Don't worry I'll get him. {Calling}Mose! {Goes back over towards the house}
Jo: (To paramedic) Is she okay?
Paramedic: We'll probably keep her overnight, just to be safe.
Meg: Overnight? Forget it. I'm all right.
Varie: Actually you're in really rough shape.
Jo: You're going to the hospital.
Meg: Okay, I'll go, but I'm gonna drive myself.
Rabbit: Honey, your car is in a tree around the corner.
Lana: Yeah your car is totaled.
Meg: Ohhh.
Bill: {Calming the dog} It's okay, it's okay.
{Just as Bill comes back with Bows, the house behind him collapses the rest of the way.}
Meg: Ohh!
{Camera over to a TV set in Dusty's van, we see and hear the weather report.
Reporter: "The F4 that hit Wakita has now moved on to the north-east, I've just gotten word in that an even stronger tornado has now started to form 25 miles south of Wakita, but right now the two storm systems are funneling back, the National Weather Service saying that this is highly unusual and they are saying that this tornado could be the strongest F5 Tornado that the state has seen in more than 30 years. Get this folks we're talking winds in excess of 300 miles per hour"
Me: Holy shit!
Nico: Unbelievable.
Laney was cuddling Mose.
Vince: Powerful.
Dusty: {Listening} Oh my God. {Motioning Beltzer over.} Look at this, look at this.
{Meg is sitting in the back of the ambulance wearing a wrist brace, and a bandage around the head. Jo walks over.}
Meg: Hey, what're you doin'?
Jo: I wanna see how you are. {To paramedic} How is she? {To Meg} I was worried about you.
Varie: She's gonna be all right though.
Paramedic: {Answering Jo} All right. {Exit}
Jo: {Examining Meg's wrist} Oh, look at this-
Meg: {Quickly} It's nothing. He says I have a bump on the head, and maybe a broken wrist...
Varie: But the good news is she'll be fine.
Jo: Let me see that. {Looking at wrist again}
Meg: There's nothin' to see, it doesn't even hurt.
Jo: {Quietly} I'm sorry I wasn't there.
Meg: Stop blaming yourself, you got me out of the house. {Tears begin to stream down Jo's face} Jo, it's gotta stop. I didn't have any warning. The sirens went off a few seconds before it hit, I didn't even get down the stairs.
Varie: We know. Jo it's not your fault. We don't even know where they will head.
Nico: Yeah.
{Dusty walks over}
Dusty: Jo. I'm sorry, uh, I was listening to the radio, and, I mean, I don't even know if you wanna know, but I, it's happening, the NSSL's predicted an F5.
Varie: Whoa man.
Meg: Jo, it could of happened to somebody else. You, you go stop it.
Jo: {Crying, talking so soft, she can hardly be heard} I don't know how.
Meg: Well, I think you do. You've been chasing these things since you were a little kid. It's what you do. Go. Do it.
Varie: Yeah Jo.
We got everyone together and the Ambulance pulled away.
Me: This is crazy.
But then the Masters of Evil appeared. The Springfield Mafia, Xaldin and the Rich Texan appeared.
Me: Springfield Mafia, Xaldin and the Rich Texan.
Louie: Man what happened here?
Me: Category 4 tornado destroyed this whole town. It's like what happened to Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Legs: Man that's awful.
Nico: It was.
Fat Tony: Thank you so much for taking care of Lorenzo.
Maria: It was no problem. He didn't deserve to be controlled by Sartorius like that.
Legs: (to Sora Takenouchi) Please don't make the usual insult involving me. I'm not ready for that yet.
Sora Takenouchi: I wasn't going to.
Jungle Fury Jarrod: Anyway, are you guys here to help rescue everyone?
Xaldin: Of course. I can use my winds to calm the twister down.
Me: I don't think a tornado works that way Xaldin.
Nico: Yeah but we're helping everyone out as much as we can. We saved Jo's aunt from her house before it collapsed.
Fat Tony: Is she all right?
Me: Minor injuries but she'll be fine.
Laney: I'm watching her dog for her.
Louie: Aww.
Fat Tony: But that's good she'll be all right.
Me: Yeah. We've already seen 4 tornadoes from Category 1 to 4. Intense. But this whole town has been leveled. Oklahoma is calling this the worst tornado outbreak it's seen in over 30 years. Now we have a Category 5 tornado building just to the south of here.
Louie: That's intense!
Rich Texan: How strong is it?
Me: Over 300 miles per hour. The most powerful Category 5 tornado in over 30 years they said.
Nico: Wow.
Lincoln: Intense.
Fat Tony: We'll help you guys help the people out before we fight.
Me: Thank you.
We went all over the town that was destroyed and helped out a lot of people and cleared the debris around their houses and more.
I then sensed a strong power.
Me: Uh oh. Strong power coming.
Rich Texan: Now we can have our usual battles.
Frightwig: And the best part? Captain Ginyu never showed up!
Eddy: I guess he was such a pussy that he ran scared of us.
Captain Ginyu: (glare at Eddy) So. A pussy, am I?!
Eddy: (nervously) Um... I was just joking about that!
We turned and we saw the leader of the Ginyu Force! CAPTAIN GINYU!
Captain Ginyu is the leader of Frieza's's elite mercenary group, the Ginyu Special Forces, the secondary antagonist of the Namek Saga and the Frieza Saga and the main antagonist of the Captain Ginyu Saga. He has the ability to switch bodies with an opponent. He was the strongest of the Ginyu Force (with a power level of 120,000), and, until Goku's power level reached 180,000 from his training in 100 times gravity, he was the fourth strongest fighter in the universe who was after Frieza, Cooler and their father King Cold. But in Dragon Ball Super's Resurrection F Saga, he served as a supporting antagonist before finally dying at the hands of Vegeta.
In the Japanese version, he was voiced by Hideyuki Hori (DBZ) and Katsuyuki Konishi (DBZ Kai). While in the English version, he was voiced by Richard Newman (DBZ, Ocean Group), Dale D. Kelly (DBZ, FUNimation), the late Brice Armstrong (DBZ, remastered), Richard Epcar (Bang Zoom!) and R. Bruce Elliot (DBZ Kai).
The Ginyu Force was called over to Namek by Frieza to take Vegeta's Dragon Balls back from him. After doing a speical dance for Frieza and supplying him with scouters, they go to confront Vegeta and the others. The Ginyu Force arrived at the site where Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan had all seven Dragon Balls. After securing all the Dragon Balls, Ginyu initially decided to fight Vegeta and leave Recoome, Burter, Jeice, and Guldo to do rock-paper-scissors to decide who gets to fight Gohan and Krillin, but after receiving arguments from them, he decided to take the Dragon Balls to Frieza while the others decided who could fight Vegeta. He then leaves as the others begin to fight.
When Ginyu took the Dragon Balls to Frieza, he attempted to summon the eternal dragon, but he didn' know the password, so he was unable to it, and so Frieza left Ginyu to guard the Dragon Balls while he went off to get the password from Guru. By doing to pass the time, Ginyu had Frieza's henchmen try out for the Ginyu Force. He killed one of them, Captain Strong, for being a captain like him, as he believed that he should be the only captain. Then he killed another one for touching a Dragon Ball, which he had forbidden them to do, and then he knocked out the rest of them because they lacked enough style to be on the Ginyu Force.
Confronting Goku
After Goku defeated Recoome and Burter, Jeice ran off to get Ginyu, who was very angry at him for running away and he nearly fired him. Then Ginyu and Jeice arrived at the battlefield where Ginyu fought Goku. Then he appeared to have a bit of an advantage, until Goku powered up to his full power level, which was 60,000 above Ginyu's. There was nothing Ginyu could do to defeat Goku, so he switched bodies with him, and he injured himself before doing the body swap tecnique.
Confronting Gohan, Krillin and Vegeta
However, to his disappointment, when he was fighting Krillin and Gohan, he discovered that he couldn't use his mind and body together, he couldn't use his full power. After killing Jeice, Vegeta beaten up Ginyu, who was tired of Goku's body and then he attempted to switch bodies with Vegeta. Then Goku jumped in front of him, and then they were switched back to normal. Then Ginyu let Vegeta beat him up for a while, and then he attempted to take his body again, but then Goku threw a frog in front of him, and then it caused Ginyu to switch bodies with it. Then Vegeta considered to finish him off, but Goku pointed out that Ginyu was no longer a threat, and the former relented, deciding that forcing Ginyu to live the rest of his life as a frog was a more satisfying punishment than death.
As a Frog
Unable to talk and give the change command, Ginyu remained a frog, at one point he was being chased and kissed by a female frog. However, he was able to switch bodies one more time during the Freeza Saga when he tricked Bulma into putting a universal translator on him, allowing him to steal her body and leave her trapped in Ginyu's old frog body. Then he took the translator off her and then he arrived at the battlefield in Bulma's body, and then he was able to sense energy auras. Then he pretended to be Bulma as he watched the battle, but soon he ended up blowing his cover. Then he attacked Krillin, but he was unable to inflict any damage, so he tried to switch bodies with Piccolo. However, Gohan stopped him by throwing Bulma (in Ginyu's old frog body) in front of him, and it returned Bulma to her own body, while Ginyu became a frog again. Then both Ginyu and Bulma were blown away by the force of the battle when Freeza attacked Goku.
Then he was sent to Earth along with everyone else on Namek when Dende summoned the eternal dragon Porunga and wished for everyone except Goku and Freeza to go to Earth. From here, he became the leader of the fish pond at Capsule Corp.
Ginyu's appearance was very short in the Cell Games Saga, when Gohan blew out the candles on his cake and then he ended up trashing the cake, then Ginyu was seen in front of Goku's house with tears in his eyes. And his final appearance was in the Great Saiyaman Saga when Sharpner was trying to unmask Gohan (Great Saiyaman) and then he jumped down toward him, but missed because at the last second Gohan bent down and picked up Ginyu.
And then Ginyu was finally killed either by Super Buu's Genocide Attack during the Fusion Saga (which destroyed it most of Earth's remaining inhabitants) or when Kid Buu blew up the earth at the beginning of the Kid Buu Saga. This was Ginyu's final appearance in Dragon Ball Z. But he was later seen in Hell in Dragon Ball GT, and was happy to be reunited with his original body.
Dragon Ball Super
Then Ginyu returns in Dragon Ball Super as a frog. As he witnessed the revival of Frieza with Tagoma and Sorbet putting the remains of Frieza in a container. And a few months later, he snuck onto Jaco's spaceship to get onto the battlefield. Then he approached Tagoma while he laid down after a blow from Gotenks. Then he was able to trick him into switching bodies by writing 'Change' in the dirt. It is also unknown why he got brought back to live after they wished to bring the non-evil people back. One could assume that Shrenon thought that since Ginyu was a frog, he had no moral agency. That and as shown before, he didn't cause any trouble while stuck.
Then he ends up attacking the Z-Fighters, with Gohan easily beating him in two blows. then Gohan spared him, which it caused Frieza to try to kill Gohan with his Death Beam Barrage. As Ginyu tried to defend Frieza, Goku and Vegeta showed up and then Ginyu showed some hatred towards Goku and Vegeta for him being trapped in a body of a frog for so many years and then he attempted to attack them out of vengeance. But is then Vegeta killed him immediately with a Ki Blast, and it put an end to Captain Ginyu and his body-switching ways for good.
Powers and Abilities
As most villains in the Dragon Ball series, Ginyu can fly, use telekinesis, generate multiple ki Blasts, and he possesses superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. His most unique ability was his Body Change. He used that ability to switch bodies for what opponent he goes up against. Aside from his super abilities, Ginyu seemed to be knowledgeable of tactics, both martial and military as he instructed his men in attack styles and then he organized the siege of planets for Freiza. While he and his men were played for comic effect in the saga, Ginyu himself actually seemed to be a source of moral. Then the entire Ginyu force, Captain Ginyu included, seemed to be really skilled at raising spirits and in-fact, each of their boosts or their team-mate's spirits with a variety of poses and cheers. The poses Ginyu does with and for his men weren't just for theatrics sake, but it was a practical form of moral enforcement. He is also ruthless enough to ensure that his men fear him despite treating them well.
Me: So you are Captain Ginyu. Master Goku told me all about you and how you have caused him a lot of trouble when you switched bodies with him.
Captain Ginyu: That's right. So you are the famous J.D. Knudson of Team Loud Phoenix Storm.
Me: That's right.
Vegeta: That's too bad Ginyu, because I liked you better when you were croaking.
Ginyu: You Saiyan's can treat it like a big joke, but for me it was years of agony! Out of all the bodies, you trapped me in a frog!
Me: Frog?
I then saw a Namekian Frog come up.
Me: Huh?
I picked it up.
Me: Is this the little guy?
Ginyu: Yeah that's him! I was taken to this planet somehow while still inside him.
Piccolo: It was the Dragonballs.
Nico: What do you mean Piccolo?
Piccolo: On Namek, when Frieza's attack was about to rip the planet apart. Dende asked their dragon to transport everyone except Goku and Frieza to Earth to avoid casualties.
Krillin: And Ginyu came too!? So he has been here this whole time!?
Nico: It would appear so.
Bulma: I HATE THAT FROG!
Varie: I guess you have a bad history with that frog Bulma.
Bulma: I don't want to talk about it.
Me: Let me guess, he switched bodies with you when you were separated from everyone else on Namek.
Bulma: That's right! How did you know that?
Me: I could tell from your reaction Bulma that he did that to you.
Ginyu: That is a good memory on her though.
Me: True.
?: I agree.
Another figure came out and it was BLAZE HEATNIX!
Blaze Heatnix: Blaze Heatnix at your service! (jumps up and spits fireballs at Fire Man)
I absorbed the fireballs.
Me: You look really awesome as a phoenix. One of my favorite creatures. Also this town has seen a lot more destruction than anyone. So lets not fight here.
Xaldin: Good idea. I have just the planet.
Me: We'll be right back Jo.
Jo: Okay.
Xaldin snapped his fingers and we were on a really awesome planet. We were on the barren wasteland planet PEPTOS XI!
Peptos XI was the former home planet of the Gourmands.
From space, Peptos XI was a pink planet, with different shades of pink in different areas.
Peptos XI was once one of the most vibrant planets in the entire universe. Its rich crops, abundant wildlife and diverse spice trade made it the best fed world in the sector. However, when the Gourmands made Peptos XI their home, Peptos XI became a world of dust and gravel.
Peptos XI was the 11th planet in the Peptos system, and due to the Gourmands' unnatural eating habits, the 11th home planet of their species became a big wasteland because of them.
In Tummy Trouble, Peptos XI was eaten by the Gourmands when Queen Voratia Rumbletum issued Plan Omega. Knowing the Incurseans can't take their planet when there is nothing to take, the Gourmands devoured it and left for a new home on one of the other 63 planets in the Peptos System.
Me: Whoa! What is this planet?
Xaldin: It's the Home planet of the Gourmand's, Upchuck's species, Peptos XI.
Me: Whoa! So this is Peptos XI.
Varie: Wow. It's a barren wasteland.
Riley: I was expecting Peptos XI to be more of a lush planet full of life. Not a barren wasteland.
Ben: It was once full of life until all the Gourmand's ate everything here and turned it into this.
Lana: Wow.
Nico: I'm not surprised. With all the food that the Gourmand's eat, it was turned into this.
Shanan: Yeah.
Me: Anyway it's perfect for our battle.
Troy: Since we just saved a lot of people, I know the perfect team to use.
Megaforce Rangers: Legendary Ranger Mode: Lightspeed Rescue!
The Megaforce Rangers turned into the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers.
Me: Lets get them!
We powered up and went at them.
Battle 1: Springfield Mafia
Sora Takenouchi, Sandpit and Gargoyle were facing the Springfield Mafia.
Sora Takenouchi: This is gonna be an awesome and fiery battle.
Legs: It sure will be.
Louie: Yeah.
Fat Tony: Lets dance.
Sandpit: Gladly.
Gargoyle: Lets rock!
The Springfield Mafia called out their Pokemon and they went at the mafia and punched and blasted them all over the place and knocked them down and out.
Sora Takenouchi: Yeah!
Battle 2: Xaldin
Beast Boy, Jarrod and Camille were facing Xaldin.
Beast Boy: Lori is not showing as much hatred towards you as she did before.
Xaldin: I'm glad.
Jarrod: Shall we dance?
Xaldin: Lets.
Camille: Bring it on.
Xaldin called out his Pokemon and they went at him and Jarrod and Camille blasted him all over the place and Beast Boy turned into a hummingbird and flew into the air and then he turned into a brachiosaurus and crashed down onto Xaldin and his Pokemon and crushed them.
Beast Boy: Now that is a Primal Victory.
Battle 3: Rich Texan
Becky, Bleez and Frightwig were facing the Rich Texan.
Becky: This is gonna be an interesting fight.
Rich Texan: It sure is.
Bleez: Lets dance.
Frightwig: Lets do it!
Becky formed a rifle out of cactus and Bleez formed a red energy pistol and Frightwig had her hair ready. Rich Texan had his Pokemon ready and they went at him and blasted him with cactus and energy and smashed him all over and more and knocked him and his Pokemon out.
Becky: That is a prickly victory! (Rimshot)
Battle 4: Blaze Heatnix
Nico and the Megaforce Rangers were facing Blaze Heatnix.
Nico: Your wings would be perfect for a friend of ours at school.
Blaze Heatnix: Then come and get them.
Nico: With pleasure.
Nico and the Megaforce Rangers blasted Blaze Heatnix all over with incredible power and blew him to pieces. All that was left of him were his wings.
Nico: Thanks for your wings.
Troy Burrows: Super Mega Rangers, that's a Super Mega Win.
Nico took the wings.
Battle 5: Captain Ginyu
We regrouped and we were facing Captain Ginyu.
Me: You know I heard when Master Goku faced you the last time he showed you his full power.
Captain Ginyu: Yes he did. He had a power level of 180,000 when I faced him.
Me: That's impressive. But I on the other hand have ascended to new heights. Lets see if your scouter can measure this. Get ready for a show. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The clouds and life of Peptos XI glowed and then the planet glowed and so did everything in the galaxy and then I flared up my aura of fire and power and my energy was building fast!
Captain Ginyu's scouter was measuring it fast.
Nico formed a Power Counter Magic Ring and it showed my power.
Nico: WHOA! Already at 550 Decillion!? How is that possible!?
The skies of Peptos XI darkened and lightning was striking all over the place.
Varie: WHOA! Look at his power now!
Nico: WHOA! 716 QUINDECILLION!? UNREAL!
Laney: WHOA! THAT'S INSANE!
Ginyu's scouter exploded!
Varie: I can't believe he has that much power!
The ground of the planet shook violently.
My power was still rising fast!
Nico: WHOA! 193 SEPTENDECILLION! UNBELIEVABLE!
Massive blasts of wind blew the lands all over the place.
Nico: WHOA! This is incredible!
Lola: How is his power still rising so fast!?
Nico: WHOA! 827 VIGINTILLION!? UNBELIEVABLY STRONG!
Lana: UNREAL!
Me: This is just for starters. Watch this.
I flared up my power to the incredible maximum and I transformed into my Super Angel-Ebonwu-Phoenix 1,000,000 Elemental Moonlight Phoenix!
Nico: WHOA! J.D.'s power at his full power is at... WHAT THE FUCK!? 918 GOOGOL?! INCONCEIVABLE!
Vince: WHOA! J.D. your power is incredible!
Ginyu: 918 GOOGOL!? What kind of number is that!?
Me: (Divine Fiery Voice) That's 918 followed by 100 zeroes.
Nico: Yeah.
Captain Ginyu really shit bricks all over the place!
Me: The rest of the Ginyu Force didn't stand a chance against me at this kind of power. Now lets see how you like it.
We went at him and transformed and powered up and I punched him in the face and kicked him in the stomach. I fired a powerful energy blast and it slammed into Ginyu and exploded!
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Nico punched Captain Ginyu in the face and kicked him in the back of the head and Gohan and Krillin kicked and punched him all over the place with incredible fury and ferocity. Nom, H'earring, and Faash pulverized and blasted him all over.
Goku: I still haven't forgotten how you took my body! (Cups hands to side) KAAAA! MEEEEE! HAAAAA! MEEEEE! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
He fired a Kamehameha Wave and it slammed into Ginyu and exploded with incredible power!
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I punched him in the face and kicked him in the stomach and kicked him in the back of the head and Gohan fired an energy blast and it slammed into Ginyu's stomach and exploded all over.
Me: Now for our techniques!
Naruto: Lets get him! WIND STYLE SAGE ART: SOLAR SYSTEM MEGA RASENSHURIKEN!
Naruto formed a Rasenshuriken and it had a bunch of smaller Rasenshuriken orbiting around it and the amount of power it had is incredible! He threw it at Ginyu and it slammed into him and exploded with incredible power!
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The explosion was incredibly powerful and it shook much of Peptos XI to the bring.
Goku: Try this on! LIGHTNING STYLE NINJA ART: THUNDERSTORM KAMEHAMEHA!
Goku fired a massive Kamehameha Wave made of pure lightning.
Sasuke: LIGHTNING STYLE SAGE ART: HEAVEN'S THUNDER CHIDORI SHOT!
Saskue fired a massive blast of lightning.
Lincoln: LIGHTNING STYLE NINJA ART: SATURNIAN THUNDER BOLT!
Lincoln fired a massive blast of Saturn Lightning.
Riley: And this one! NATURE STYLE NINJA ART: GAIA SPEAR STRIKE!
Riley formed a spear of leaves and threw it.
Hercules Weather: Try this one on! ATLAS STYLE NINJA ART: TITANIC METEOR HURL!
Hercules lifted a huge chunk of rock and threw it at Ginyu.
Me: WOLF FIRE STYLE NINJA ART: FIRESTORM OF LUPUS THE WOLF!
The Constellation of Lupus the Wolf appeared behind me in the background and I fired a massive wave of blue fire.
Nico: FIRESTORM STYLE NINJA ART: INFERNO KAMEHAMEHA!
Nico fired a Kamehameha Wave made of pure fire.
Hunter: (German Accent) Try this one on. GERMANY STYLE NINJA ART: GERMANY KAMEHAMEHA!
Hunter fired a black, red and yellow Kamehameha wave.
Vince: CRYSTAL STYLE NINJA ART: PRISMATIC KAMEHAMEHA RAINBOW!
Vince fired a Rainbow Kamehameha Wave from a crystal that appeared in the palms of his hands.
Vegeta: And this one! HURRICANE STYLE NINJA ART: ANDREW KAMEHAMEHA BLAST!
Vegeta fired a massive Kamehameha Wave made of pure wind.
The blasts all hit Ginyu and exploded with incredible power!
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Captain Ginyu was badly wounded.
Me: Now for some Magisword Combos.
Vambre: (British Accent) Time for some action!
Carol: Yeah!
Announcer: FROG MISSILE AND ATOMIC RAY BLASTER MAGISWORDS!
They had said Magiswords ready.
Vambre and Carol: SUPER TEAMWORK COMBO: ATOMIC FROG MISSILE STORM!
They fired a massive barrage of atomic frogs.
Prohyas: This is gonna be good!
Lisa Loud: Affirmative.
Announcer: HOT OIL AND RADIATOR MAGISWORDS!
Prohyas and Lisa Loud: SUPER TEAMWORK COMBO: SCALDING OIL TSUNAMI!
They fired a huge wave of super hot scalding oil.
Witchy Simone: This is gonna be awesome.
Lincoln: Lets do it!
Announcer: FLAMETHROWER MAGISWORD!
Witchy Simone had an awesome Magisword that looked like a powerful flamethrower blaster.
Announcer: RAINCLOUD MAGISWORD!
Simone and Lincoln: SUPER TEAMWORK COMBO: PYROCUMULOUS INFERNO STORM!
They fired waves of fire and lightning and it formed into a flaming storm cloud and burned and electrocuted Ginyu all over.
Me: Time for some Combo power.
Skywarp: With pleasure!
Jessie (Pokemon): Lets do it!
Skywarp used Earth Cyber Planet Key and Jessie used the Pokemon Cyber Planet Key and they enhanced Skywarp's missiles and Jessie's Pokemon's powers 100-fold.
Skydive and Anko used the Earth Cyber Planet Key and they enhanced Skydive's Nega Gun and Anko's snake powers 100-fold.
Skywarp and Jessie (Pokemon): VIPER MISSILE BARRAGE!
Jessie and her Seviper fired blasts of poison and Skywarp fired a number of missiles.
Skydive and Anko Mitarashi: FIRESNAKE INFERNO NEGAVENOM!
Skydive fired a Nega Blast and Anko fired a barrage of snakes made of fire.
Devon Daniels and Carter Grayson: RED CHEETAH FIRESTORM!
Ravi Shaw and Chad Lee: BLUE GORILLA MAELSTROM!
Nate Silva and Joel Rawlings: GOLD MANTIS HURRICANE!
Zoey Reeves and Kelsey Winslow: YELLOW JACKRABBIT EARTHQUAKE!
Steel and Dana Mitchell: SILVER SCARAB THUNDERSTRIKE!
Orion and Ryan Mitchell: TITANIUM SMASHING BLAST!
The Rangers fired blasts of energy and elemental energy.
Lori and Warnado: TORNADO WINDSTORM BLAST!
Leni and Lightning Rod: GRAVITY LIGHTNING MEGABLAST!
Luna and Sonic Boom: SONIC MAELSTROM BLAST!
Luan and Whirlwind: RAINBOW PRISMATIC BOMBSHOWER!
Lynn and Swarm: VOLCANIC SWARM BLAST!
Lincoln and Jet Vac: THUNDERSTORM HURRICANE BLAST!
Linka and Boom Jet: THUNDERSTORM AIR STRIKE BLAST!
Liberty and Free Ranger: MAGIC THUNDERSTORM STRIKE!
Lyra and Pop Thorn: FIRESTORM THORNSTRIKE BLAST!
Lee and Scratch: LIGHTNING RUBY LASERSTRIKE!
Lucy Loud and Blades: DARKNESS BLADESTORM BLAST!
Laney and Thunderbolt: BRAMBLE THUNDERSTORM SHOWER!
Lana and Gusto: SUBZERO WINDSTORM BOOMERANG BARRAGE!
Lola and Fling Kong: FIRESTORM MONKEY MEGABLAST!
Lisa Loud and Stormblade: TECHNO WINDFEATHER BARRAGE!
Lily and Air Strike: MAELSTROM FALCON BLAST!
Me and Wild Storm: WOLF THUNDERSTORM BLAST!
Nico and Bad Juju: KARMA VOODOO MEGABLAST!
Vince and Dreamcatcher: CRYSTAL DREAMSTORM BLAST!
We fired blasts of wind and lightning and elemental blasts and the blasts all slammed into Captain Ginyu and exploded with incredible power!
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Me: Now to finish this freak once and for all.
Goku: He will pay for taking my body.
Vegeta: At least if he had stayed on his Lily Pad he wouldn't have to die.
Goku, Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan: FINAL SHINE KAMEHAMEHA!
They fired blasts of Kamehameha Wave and Final Shine blasts and they slammed into Ginyu and obliterated him in an instant in a huge explosion.
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Me: Good riddance.
We powered down.
Nico: Yep.
We went back to Earth and the Masters of Evil came.
Rich Texan: Before you say anything, we had nothing to do with Ginyu.
Krillin: We know. I don't think you guys have any of Goku's enemies in your ranks.
Xaldin: Of course not. But we do plan to have 120 members by 2021.
William: Good to know. It's probably gonna be twice as big as the Legion of Doom once was.
Fat Tony: You think we'll get medals for saving those people today.
Maria: You can count on it.
Legs: That's nice to hear.
The Masters of Evil teleport out.
Me: Now lets get back to work.
We went over to Jo.
Me: Sorry about that guys. Usual fights.
Bill: No worries.
{Jo is standing facing the house, staring at Meg's wind sculpture. Haynes notices, slapping Joey on the arm and pointing. Bill walks over to her.}
Bill: You all right? {No response} I thought you'd go to the hospital with Meg. {She is still standing there, staring} Jo? What is it? {Pause} What is it?
{The sound of wind chimes fills the air, as if a memory, or a thought}
Jo: I know how to make Dorothy fly.
We looked at the wind sculpture.
{Bill looks at the wind sculpture for a second}
Bill: {Knowing what Jo's idea is} Of course. Of Course!
Me: Looks like we're going to give the sensors wings.
Jo: {To crew} All right, I need every aluminum can you can find!
Bill: We need cutters and duct tape! Haynes, Beltzer, I want to get the last Dorothy's on the back of my truck, and I want them both on there right now!
Dusty: We're gone!
Me: Lets do it!
{Music drums loud and fast as Camera goes into aerial view of Jo's crew and us skimming across a bridge in front of an Oklahoma sunrise. Camera then goes to half the crew in the back of Beltzer's van, cutting pin-wheel fans out of aluminum cans and screwing them onto the sensors. Camera then goes to the outside. Cars going the other direction honk their horns as an F5 twister spins in the distance.}
Me: There it is. Category 5! Winds at 250 to 318 miles per hour!
Nico: It's massive!
Vince: HUGE!
Jo: {Over radio} Dusty, you ready for us?
Dusty: Yeah, yeah, we're good! {Affirming with everyone else in the van} We're good? We're good? Very good!
Bill: Let's go, come on!
{They stop the caravan on the highway.}
Jo: You get 'em done?
Bill: I think so.
{Haynes, Beltzer, Rabbit, and everyone else pulls out boxes of sensors, now with the fans attached. Box, after box, they dump them back into Dorothy 3 and Dorothy 4.}
Me: Awesome.
Dusty: Beautiful!
Bill: {Closes the lids on the Dorothys.} Okay, okay!
Beltzer: Great job, guys, just be ready to record. Be careful, all right?
Jo: Don't follow us close.
Me: We'll be careful.
Joey: All right, you got it, boss.
Rabbit: Okay!
Joey: We're back in business!
{They all hop back into their trucks. Music triumphant and hopeful.}
Dusty: Come on, let's go!
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Jo: Half a mile more?
Bill: That's sounds right. I figure we'll put it right in the middle of the road.
Me: Wow. It's massive.
Jo: Unless you think somebody'll hit it.
Bill: Nobody'll be there.
{The F5 tornado approaches the road that Jo and Bill are on. They're in Bill's truck, Bill is driving. The roar of the tornado is deafening. Bill stops the car, and Jo and Bill get out. The tornado is on the road, directly in front of them. Bill goes around and he and Jo take Dorothy #3 out of the back of the truck.}
Bill: Hurry! Let's go, common'!
Me: Okay!
{It's sirens are on, We put it out in the road for the tornado to take.}
Bill: Okay, that's good!
Jo: You got it?
Bill: Let's go!
Me: Right!
{They get back in the truck, Jo grabs the CB radio}
Jo: {Into radio} Dusty, you in position?
Dusty: {Over radio} Yeah, we're prime, ready for contact!
Me: Copy that!
{They turn around and get a good distance away, watching}
Jo: This is it.
Bill: It's gonna work.
Me: Lets hope.
Jo: {Into radio} Just another minute, Dusty!
Dusty: {Over radio} We're ready for it!
{They watch hopeful, Jo gets out the video camera. Dorothy rolls back and forth across the road.}
Jo: Common', common' TAKE HER!
Bill: It's too light-
Jo: NO IT'S NOT!
Me: Here we go.
{Dorothy rolls across the road and back again}
Bill: We're losing it!
Jo: No we're not! She can still fly!
{Suddenly an uprooted tree tips Dorothy over, and the tornado decides to change direction...towards Jo and Bill.}
Bill: GET IN!
Me: HURRY!
Jo: Let's go!
Bill: My God!
{They try to drive away, but the car gets stuck on the uprooted tree in the middle of the road.}
Jo: Oh my God...
Me: Holy shit!
{Following dialogue delivered one after another}
Bill: {About the car} Common'!
Jo: Get us off this thing!
Bill: Comon'!
Jo: Bill, punch it! {the gas pedal} BILL! Let's go! Right now! Hurry!
{Bill still floorin the gas, trying to get the truck off the tree.}
Jo: What is that?!
{Pause.}
Bill: What is that?
{They both see something metallic flying around in the tornado.}
Me: It's a fuel tank truck!
Jo: Bill, hurry! HURRY! HURRY!
{still unsure, but whatever it is, it's huge}
Bill: This is not good!
{Suddenly they see what it is. It is a tank truck! Bill floors it again, no success.}
Jo: HURRY!
{Bill throws his whole body weight onto the gas pedal...}
Bill: Hold On!
{...Suddenly the car snaps forward as it's nudged by the tank truck coming right at them!}
Jo: LET'S GO!
{Suddenly the tank truck falls to the ground right in front of them, exploding.}
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A massive fiery explosion burned the road all over.
{They drive right through it and I absorb the fire. Jo holds on to the roof, almost scared. (Well wonders never cease!)}
Another explosion happened.
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Bill: {To no one in particular} Son of a bitch!
Dusty: {Over radio} Jo, Bill, You all right?! Fact, can you guys hear me? You okay?
Jo: {Into radio} We're okay.
Dusty: Jo, Bill, did you see that explosion?
Jo: {Humorlessly} We saw it.
Me: We live for explosions.
Rabbit: {Over radio} This monster is still moving northeast on 80, you copy?
Me: Copy that.
Bill: This is it. Last one.
Jo: Last time.
{Camera to Jonas' crew. With the direction they are headed, they look like they will reach the tornado first.}
Flanders: {Into radio} Mobile Lab to Mobile 1, ground speed still increasing, {Camera on the F5}, the base must be at least a mile wide, we can't see it anymore! What is your location?
Jonas: {Into radio} We're right along side her. She's beautiful. We're getting ready to play, so pull back and prepare to monitor.
{Camera on Jo and Bill. They are looking over in the direction of Jonas' crew.}
Bill: They have to be there somewhere.
Me: I see them.
{Camera on Jonas}
Jonas: Okay, path is stable, copy that? Men, this is it! This is the one! Stay sharp back there!
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Bill: They have position. They could make it.
Me: Wow.
Jo: Not unless they anchor the pack. {Into radio} Jonas? This is Jo. Can you hear me?
Jonas: {Over radio} Not now, Harding.
Jo: {Into radio} Jonas, listen to me. The pack is too light, the twister will toss it before it reaches the core, you have to anchor it.
Me: She's right Jonas.
{Camera to Jonas}
Jonas: {Into radio} Oh, sharing valuable information, Jo? {Flatly} Okay I'll consider that, thank you.
{Camera to Jo}
Jo: {Into radio} Jonas, listen to me! Don't be a- {Bill looks at her} What? Do you see them?
Bill: {Into radio} Jonas, what's your position?
Jonas: {Over radio} Oh, howdy, Bill. We are heading northeast running parallel and about to pull ahead of it on the left, why?
Bill: {Into radio} Hang back a minute, we've got a pretty good view from back here. She could shift her track, and if she does, she's gonna come right at you! Do you copy?
{Camera to Jonas}
Eddie: Maybe we should do what he says. He'd never put us in harm's way.
Jonas: When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. Keep your mouth shut, put your foot on the gas, and stay on this heading.
Dean: {Over radio} It's unbelievable!
Jonas: {Into radio} What is it, what's wrong?
Dean: {Over radio} The base is so, huge! It must be at least, a mile wide! Do you copy that, Dr. Miller?
{Camera on Jo and Bill}
Bill: {Into radio} Jonas, listen to me. This is not a game!
{Camera on Jonas}
Jonas: Get off this frequency, Bill! {He switches off the radio}
{Camera on Jo and Bill. They watch the tornado}
Jo: She's shifting.
Me: Oh shit!
Bill: Oh my God. {Into radio} Jonas, I'm telling you…. Eddie, I know you can hear me! Turn around now! Get out of there!
{Just as Jo says, the tornado shifts direction and spins over Jonas' crew. Jo and Bill watch as the black Windstars fly through the air. Camera on Jonas. He's in his car screaming}
Eddie & Jonas: LOOK OUT!
I snapped my fingers and then beamed both Eddie and Jonas into the back of Bill's truck just as the truck was sucked up into the air and exploded when it crashed into the ground.
Jonas: What the?
Bill: Jonas!? Thank god.
Eddie: Thanks J.D.
Me: Anytime.
Jo: We tried. There's nothing we could do.
Bill: Yes there is.
Me: There still is hope.
Beltzer: {Over radio} Bill, Jo, ground speed is increasing. Get ahead of it as fast as you can or she's gonna bury ya!
{Jo, Bill, Jonas and Eddie are still in the truck, going down a highway, now chasing the F5 twister. Debris starts flying past the truck.}
Jo: Debris! DUSTY, WE HAVE DEBRIS!
Bill: DEBRIS?!
Me: INCOMING!
{The debris consists of cars, tractors, road signs. It's falling everywhere. Jo directs Bill as it all falls around them.}
Jo: RIGHT!
{Bill swerves right.}
Jo: LEFT!
{Bill swerves left.}
Jo: RIGHT!
{Bill swerves right.}
Jo: LEFT!
{Bill swerves left.}
Jo: {A tire crosses the windshield} DUCK!
Me: HIT THE DECK!
Bill: What now?
Jo: {Out of breath} I have no idea.
Beltzer: {Over radio} Bill, Jo, you still with us?
{Suddenly a house comes rolling along and stops on the road.}
Jo: Oh my God.
Me: OH SHIT!
Bill: {Referring to house} I think we're goin' in!
Jo: {Holding onto roof} AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
{They plunge through the house in their car.}
Bill: {After they've popped back out} Maybe we should get off of this road.
Jo: I think you may be right.
Me: Agreed.
Dusty: Jo, Bill, you all right?
Jo: Yes. You guys set up?
Dusty: Jo, we're set. Goin' in?
Jo: We're goin' in.
Me: First lets get these two back with their group.
I snapped my fingers and teleported Jonas and Eddie to their group.
Bill: You ready?
Jo: I'm on it.
Bill: Be careful.
Me: Here we go.
{Exciting music in background. She opens the back window of the truck and crawls through. Dorothy #4 is loaded up in the back, Jo switches it on and crawls back inside.}
Jo: She's up.
Bill: Okay.
Me: Roger that.
{Camera over to Dusty and crew. Jo and Bill have turned, and are now driving through a cornfield.}
Sanders: Where are they? I can't see 'em!
Haynes: Doppler tracking is great. Wind speed's still increasing.
Beltzer: I've never seen anything like this.
Varie: Unbelievable.
Dusty: They're gonna punch the core.
{Camera back on Jo and Bill. They are driving in the cornfield and I was flying above them right towards the tornado.}
Me: Oh my god!
Jo: You ready?
Bill: Yeah. Let me just set the cruise control. {He does} Okay we're good.
Jo: On three?
Bill: On three. Go.
{They open the doors and stand, the truck is still going 50.}
Bill: Ready?
Jo: Ready!
Bill: One...Two...Three!
{They jump out of the truck, roll to the ground, get up, I stopped and I was flying above them and we then watch the truck continue into the twister.}
Jo: {Following truck with her hand} Go. Go. Go! GO! GOOOO!
{As the truck and Dorothy are lifted up into the twister, and the sensors fly up into the air, we hear the haunting sound of the windchimes. Celebrative music as Jo and Bill hug.}
Jo: Yes!
Bill: YES!
Me: BINGO!
{Camera over to Dusty's crew}
Dusty: Dorothy's flying'! Baby, she's flying'!
{All ad-lib, "Yes", "It's Working'", etc.}
Joey: We're going to be very popular!
Nico: WOW! AWESOME!
Varie: Wow!
Beltzer: {Looking at Doppler radar and all the data coming in from the sensors.} It's Christmas Time! Look at that!
Haynes: I'm already getting readings!
{Everyone suddenly grows quiet}
Haynes: You guys, it's about to shift northeast.
Nico: Uh oh.
Dusty: {Into radio, but of course, they're not there} BILL, JO, YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE, YOU COPY?!
{Camera over to Jo and Bill. As the twister comes toward them, rows of corn fly up into the air}
Bill: Oh no! RUN!
Me: LETS GET OUTTA HERE!
I flew back to everyone.
{Both break off in a dash through the cornfield. They approach a farm with a barn.}
Bill: The barn, common'! Look out!
{They run up alongside a picket fence. All the boards are plucked up one by one right behind them. Suddenly, Jo sees an opening in the fence to crawl through.}
Jo: BILL, HERE, HERE!
Bill: COME ON, HURRY! {They climb through} TO THE BARN!
{They run to the barn. Fence boards slam and stick in the barn walls. They get inside. Sickles, knives, and saws hang from the ceiling.}
Bill: Stay down!
Jo: My God, who are these people?!
Bill: I don't think so! Common'! Let's get out quick! {They run out of the barn, then duck as the roof of the barn flies over their heads.} Oh my God! Common''! Run for it!
{They yell to each other but most of it can't be heard over the wind. They continue to run until they get to pumphouse.}
Bill: {the door to the pumphouse won't open}COME ON! {He finally opens it}JO, GET IN!1
{As Jo goes inside, a piece of a roof flies past her. She screams. They go inside. The well is a "U" shaped pipe coming up out of the ground.}
Bill: Here! These pipes go down at least 30 feet. We anchor to 'em, we might have a chance!
Jo: {Grabs rawhide straps} Bill!
{She hands them to him but they break.}
Bill: No good. {Sees more} This one! Common', get in! {Grabs it, ties it first around them, then loops it on to the pipes.}Hold on!
{Suddenly the walls and roof are lifted away and only Jo, Bill, and the pipes remain.}
Bill: HANG ON!
{The tornado looms overhead, Jo and Bill are lifted up in the air, however still attached to the pipes. They look up. They are looking at the inside of the tornado! Angelic music fills the air, and Jo is awe struck. They stare up at a light at the top of the twister. Lightning circles around the light. The music crescendos, then resolves as the clouds, the lightning, and the twister blow away. We see a family come up out of a storm cellar, horses galloping away, then the camera goes back to Jo and Bill, sitting under the pipes.}
Jo: You all right?
Bill: {He nods} Wow, look at that. It didn't take the house.
{Hard rock music ("Humans Being") fades in as Dusty's crew approaches.}
Jo: We did it.
Bill: Yeah, we did. Dorothy really flew.
Jo: It was a good idea.
Bill: Yeah, well I...
Jo: {In realization} We've got so much to do.
Bill: Yeah.
Jo: I've got to get grant approvals for a new warning system, we need a bigger lab, you've got to do an analysis of all that data...
Bill: I do?
Jo: Yeah, we've got to generate models out of all this data, and I need to run the lab-
Bill: Oh, no, no ,no. You're doing the analysis, I'm running the lab.
Jo: You're running the lab? I don't think so!
Bill: I'm running the lab! G- Do you always have to do things the hard way?
{Dusty's crew walks over}
Haynes: You got it guys, the sensors worked! The computers went crazy, we've got data coming out of our ears!
Me: Wow!
Nico: They sure did. It was incredible. But thank god you two are okay.
Varie: Yeah.
Laney: But that was so awesome!
Naruto: It sure was.
{All laugh}
Beltzer: Biggest twister ever recorded!
Dusty: Awesome, man!
Nico: It sure was.
Lana: This was incredible!
Sanders: Hey, Jo, Bill, check out that sky! {The sky is clear}
Jo: You know what, I think we've seen enough!
{Jo and Bill kiss}
Goku: (To the viewers) This was an intense weather adventure. Be careful when you see weather of any kind in your area.
Me: You said it Master Goku.
We later went back home and got new warning systems in place and more. We also set up a charity fund for rebuilding Wakita. Jonas and Eddie decided to quit the tornado chasing business.
THE END
Another awesome fanfiction complete.
Twister from 1996 was an awesome movie and it was so awesome how that movie played out! Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton did a great job in that movie and this chapter was made as a tribute to Bill Paxton. He died of a stroke after he underwent aortic aneurysm repair surgery and it was sad that he died. But he starred in so many movies and they were awesome!
R.I.P. Bill Paxton - May 17th, 1955 to February 25th, 2017.
This was an awesome and epic weather chapter. NicoChan11 gave me the ideas for this. Thanks man. Next up is an awesome show called Viva Piñata and we're going to get rid of the piñatas pest problem: Professor Pester and make him pay for his crimes.
See you all tomorrow.
