#5 The First Mission And First Snack

[2:00 PM]

[Scenery]

(Coming to the center of the town, the gigantic Tokyo Tower is still standing intact. The land is ravaged by damage done at one point in time by what appears to be explosions. Surrounding the tower are mountains. It almost looks as if the land itself imploded at one point causing several of the higher mountains to come closer to the ground with the other mountains creating a perfect bowl.)

[2:11 PM]

Kimora: (She's seen walking amongst the crowd. Simply quietly enjoying herself noting that here and there a child or two may stop to notice her.) "Gotta say, kids are definitely the sweet ones. They're so innocent before they grow up and realize what the word responsibility really means." (She smiles brightly as she quietly walks around a little farther. After a couple of seconds, she finds herself in front of a gigantic shop that looks like it has sevey assortments of cakes on the front of it.) "Hand out flyers, or snacks. Flyers...or snacks." (She says, talking to herself. She takes a look at the shop menu and realizes that it says, "Free games while you eat! Also, a free meal if you beat the store owner!" She immediately runs inside and calls to Dantzler only to realize Juno has him distracted. Accidentally dropping one of the flyers on the ground outside before entering she bumped into an old man with glasses and a very serious look on his face. He wore robes that almost resembled that of a monk on his travels as he swiftly exited the building.) "Sorry! This! Place! Rocks!! Hands down have to bring Dantzler and Xanne here. Oh, and I see some manga too! This is actually pretty f*cking awesome! It has everything I wanted today! Three of my favorite things for the price of one!~" (The store owner walking over to her stares at her for a moment. Clearing his throat before pointing to her mask and making a hand gesture to signal her to remove it.)

Store Owner: "Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to remove your mask, please. After the last incident we had with a Dheus Ehx Machina employee in here, we can't just let people walk around with them anymore."

Kimora: (Staring at the tall yet burly man asking her to remove her mask. She calmly mumbles under her breath.) "Distortion.." (Then saying aloud.) "Wait...did that just not work?" (Remembering Her mask restricts her powers she silently cursed to herself. )

Store Owner: "Miss, I have a business to run. I don't have time for your games. If you want to play games please stick to the consoles. Outside of that, I'm going to ask you to remove your mask or please exit the store."

Kimora: "Okay, calm down. We can talk about this right? You want to make money, I want to have fun. That's how this business works right? Listen, for reasons I really can't explain to you taking this off isn't possible, and I really don't want to leave!! I just want my books and games!!"

(A young boy of no older than 12 approaches and speaks to the store owner.)

Kid: "Awful sorry there mister. My cousin...she don't mean nothing by it. She's a little touched in the head and needs the mask for safety. There are zombies around you know." (He gives a wink at the Store Owner. As if to pretend Kimora was not truely aware of her surroundings.)

Store Owner: (Giving a small grunt and an annoyed look.) "You're...reaching kid. You're a regular here. This girl has never set foot in this village and you can tell by the dialect she used when she spoke earlier! Now at this point, I don't even want the mask off! I just want her out of my store!"

Kimora: (Clearing her throat, she bows politely and quietly says aloud.) "Su-sumi-masen..." (Japanese meaning, "Sorry, please excuse me.)

[2:17 PM]

(Kimora leaves money on the counter with a displeased look on her face, which appears to be enough for the books and games she came to get, but has yet to retrieve.)

Kimora: "Petit batard...I'll show him touched if I ever see him again... Damnit..my books. Oh well I paid for them so I can just use Distortion later to teleport them to me...provided that works and it doesn't blow up the books." (Grumbling to herself, she begins to walk to a nearby vending machine upon which she notices Dantzler and Juno seemingly heavily engrossed in conversation). (*Note*: "Petit batard," is French for, "Little Bastard.")

Juno: "Uh huh..SO Dantzler, Is this your 1st Time on "Balsheen"? I ask because I saw your "Definition" earlier. The last time our lovely Earth; now renamed Balsheen after the war 6 years ago, saw a "Deidic" was right after our government made the announcement about "Deidra" being found on the exact opposite side of our sun. A mirror Earth with 1 1/2 times our gravity, and just over half the oxygen of what we have today."

Dantzler: (Kimora growling in the background.) "Whoops...might have overdone it a bit back there." (He walks up to the two of them. Scratching the back of his head as he spoke.) "Nevermind all that, I'll explain on the way. What about the job? What's the details?"

Kimora: (Mumbling into the mic in her mask.) "Xanne..I think we have a client, but I may sta-"

Xanne: "Do it and you're never getting a single piece of candy again!"

Kimora: "You win this round. Mr.Pretty is the new deadly..."

Juno: "So...Dantzler...~ (She says flirtaciously, hugging on to his arm as she speaks.) "I need you to kill my father..." (All of them falling silent at the sudden request of assassination.)

Xanne: (Speaking just loud enough to be overheard by everyone involved in the conversation through the mic in Kimora's mask.) "Good to know. And another Parent of the Year Award goes to-!..."

Kimora: "Xanne!!" (Realizing she raised her voice a little she laughed awkwardly and stepped in front of Dantzler. Giving about 3feet between them.) "We accept the mission. Point me to the direction of our snack."

Dantzler: "Snack?"

Juno: So we're just not going to talk about that third voice that came out of her mask?

Kimora: (Kimora repeats herself with confidence in her stance.) "Our snack."

Juno: Okay. I guess not, questions for later. Right now we should get moving. (As she continues speaking she realizes that Dantzler has completely lost track of the conversation they were having and is now focused on Kimora's statement)

Dantzler: "What the hell is a snack to you??"

Kimora: "A problem we can solve by eating it. Never let a meal get cold."

Dantzler: "That's....a wild concept. I'll take it!"

[Covering the walls of the vending machine area are posters of random anime characters; Movie celebrities, TV show critics and a bunch of wanted posters.]

(The three of them are seen walking down to the 7th vending machine. Juno places several coins into the slot and presses 8675*. After a long pause, it scans all three of them and drops a lemonade for Dantzler and Kimora.)

Kimora: (Looking very surprised, she quickly takes the drinks handing Dantzler his and opening hers. She manages drink it in a matter of serval large gulps.) "Ok. I won't kill you after all. This hits the spot!"

Juno: "Ok, let's make something clear. I have no intention of giving him up. Now that we're clear-"

Kimora: "OMG! So you WERE after him!" (The vending machine waits until the crowd has passed and opens into an elevator as they all step in and it closes behind them leaving only the echoing sound of Kimora and Juno arguing)

[End Scene]