The Anime Wars
Chapter One: Rain and Betrayal
By Jason McClaskey
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As the darkness fades, a forest appears, rather dark because of a big
storm front which is approaching. However, it feels like peering through
a hidden camera, because the image quality is so grainy. All that can
be heard is someone breathing laboriously. Suddenly, the image shakes,
and begins moving towards a nearby building, in a clearing.
As the camera goes inside, several people draw their weapons, only to
put them back, hesitantly.
"Were you followed?" A woman with long, red hair, and sitting behind
a semi-solid keyboard asks.
From somewhere out of view, a male voice responds. "No, Washuu-chan.
Of course not. Besides, why'd anyone follow me?" Several of the others
look out of the windows, cautious. Another red-head, this time with
a pigtail, looks back at him. "Because, stupid, they might be on to-mff"
Yet another girl, but with purple hair, puts a hand on the pigtailed
girl's mouth. "Quiet! They might hear you!"
Washuu clears her throat to get their attention. "Alright already!
Besides, this all doesn't matter. Soon enough, the entire FFML will
be chased away by all of that SPAM, leaving US, the rightful writers
of our destinies, in control! Mwahahahahahaaaa!!!" She begins
cackling maniacally, as lightning streaks across the sky outside.
The male voice speaks out again. "B-b-but, miss Washuu, are you sure
that no one suspects us?" She quickly stops cackling, and looks at him
as though he were delusional. "Of course not! It's not as though any
of them believe in their own fallacies..."
"Besides, I have already sent Kiyone and Mihoshi out in mecha to
defeat those who might think otherwise!" All turn to see a young man,
carrying a small cabbit. The pig-tailed girl slaps her forehead. "Are
you sure putting that airhead in a mecha was the best way, Tenchi?"
Washuu emits a small gasp, and everyone crowds around her computer
to see what has happened. Outside, it has begun to downpour. "What?!
It looks like Andrew Petalik knows!" Washuu turns towards Tenchi.
"I thought you said you dispatched those two to silence these people!"
Tenchi staggers back a bit under her screaming and finger-pointing.
"Wwwwell, yes I did, but they might not have-" She pulls out a
rather large mallet from subspace, and flattens him into the ground.
She throws the thing back into the hole where it came from, and looks
back at her screen.
During this, the man with the hidden camera has been edging back
towards the doorway, mostly unnoticed.
"Huh?" Looking up, Washuu notices that the man is walking away.
"And just where do you think you're going?" The pig-tailed girl
runs over and restrains him. "Uh, n-nowhere!"
A flash of realization dawns on her face, as she checks the FFML
once more. "You're working for THEM, aren't you!? You traitor!"
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Meanwhile, inside a small shack in the middle of the same forest,
two figures are crouched around a small computer. "It looks like our
agent's been found out, huh, Motoko?"
Grabbing her gear and turning towards the doorway, Motoko replies,
"Looks that way. C'mon, we've gotta bail him out."
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"Honestly, Ms. Washuu, I don't know anything about this!" The
person with the camera begins screaming for some unknown reason.
The camera is now looking at an odd angle, and mostly at the window.
"Heheheh. Don't worry, this won't hurt... MUCH!" Washuu begins
chuckling again, and the sounds of sharp implements is heard. "Wait!"
The pig-tailed girl brushes by the camera, showing that Nurse Washuu
is holding several pointy blades. "Let me deal with him first, Washuu.
I want to pay them all back for those horrendous lemons!"
Washuu puts the blades back on the table. "Of course, Ranko. Just
make sure he's alive enough to feel his death..." The man begins to
scream, until a dull booming is heard from outside the building.
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To be continued...
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Jason McClaskey
RyoSoft
af776@acorn.net
'Upon the sea eternal doth time float forever...'