Ozu, the show Lilymu's producer, appears from nowhere, along with his toady, Yes-man.
Ozu: MIKEY SIMON!! How did you ruin this scene this time?
Yes-man: Scene spoiled like old fish!!
Mitsuki: um, actually, it was me.
Ozu: You?
Mitsuki: Yeah. Sorry.
Mikey: You screwed it up? How? I've never seen you mess up a take, even when your cell phone accidentally fell into your underwear set on vibrate.
Lily: Yeah, you're the second most professional person here, behind moi of course. What gives?
Mitsuki: W-well, i just...um, i...
Mikey: Waaaiit a minute. I see what's going on here.
Mitsuki: You do?!
Lily, astonished: You do?
Mikey: Yup. I've seen this kind of behavior on anime before.
Lily: We're not really an anime, we just act in one, Baka Blue-and-Red.
Mikey: W'ever! Everyone knows girls in real life act exactly like they do in anime. And this is a classic case of...
Mitsuki cringed. Her crush on Mikey would be revealed.
The studio was suddenly a game show set. Lily looked at her sudden podium in shock.
Gonard: OO! I know, I know!!
Mikey: Gonard.
Gonard: She's trying to confuse the aliens watching her into thinking that on this planet, kissing is evil!
Mikey: Precisely, those fiends!
Lily: Have you two been eating paint chips!?
Gonard, with an orange and green 'milk' mustache: uh....nnnnooo.
He shovels a big handful of colorful flakes of paint into his mouth.
Guano: Gonard, stop that!
Gonard: Hey! I can stop anytime i want to! I rule the paint; it doesn't rule me!
everyone: ???
Mikey: Well, if she's not trying to confuse an overlord of some sort, what could it be?
Lily, eying Mitsuki knowingly: I wonder...
Mitsuki: Eek!
Ozu: In any case, the scene will not be shot if Mitsuki cannot keep a straight face.
Yes-man: DEADPAN CITY!!!
Ozu: All of you, go home. Mitsuki! Be ready to act knocked-out when you come back tomorrow, OR FIND A NEW JOB!!!
Yes-man: OZU SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!!!
Mitsuki: Ok...
The cast entered Lilymu Towers, an apartment skyscraper that held their homes. A brief guitar riff played from somewhere.
Gonard: Hey, Mikey! Wanna come by and check out my new video game? I just got Gore-al Qombat: The Blood-Spillening!
Mikey: The game who's motto is 'if you and your opponent aren't both red splatters, get off your butt and make them that way, you little pansies!'!? Sweet!!
Guano: Shouldn't you two be learning your lines?
Mikey: Why? Blue-hair is the one who can't do it.
Gonard: Hey!
Mikey: I meant her.
Mitsuki: It's Mitsuki. You said it during rehearsal well over five-hundred times. Everytime you did, i shivered a little in my heart!
Mikey: Pff. No, Mitsuki is your character's name? Duh.
Lily: It's her name too, spaz-matic!
Mikey: Your real name is Mitsuki too? Get out!
Mitsuki: Yup.
Mikey: Wow. Man, our writer is la-zy!
Guano: What!? I'm the hardest working animal on Lilymu!
Gonard: Yeah, you work much harder than that skunk in the mail room!
Guano: I...don't think that's an employee.
Gonard: So...you're saying she can't sue for harassment? Sweet!!
Guano: Always see the silver lining, don't you?
Gonard: Mm-hm! It keeps the werewolves at bay...for now. Anyway, wanna come play? It has vi-o-lence!
Mikey: You had me at 'blood-spillening'!
Mitsuki: um...actually, Mikey, i needed to talk to you about something. In private?
Lily: Oh-ho!
Guano: Hubba-hubba.
Mitsuki: You guys, stop it!
Mikey: Yeah! You should both be nicer...
Mitsuki, thinking: He cares!!! Joy...
Mikey: ...to, uh...to...her.
Mitsuki: Mitsuki.
Mikey: Yeah, the girl with the lazy name.
Mitsuki: So, can I talk to you?
Guano, sternly: You need to learn your lines, Mikey!
Gonard, in the same tone Guano used: You need to rip off heads and slurp up guts like fettuccine, Mikey!
Mikey: Geh! This is like one of those choose your own adventure stories just before a choice comes up! |