Chapter 5

(Old Friends)

 

 

(Scene opens on a beach. Wing Zero lands. Heero and Ryo get out)

 

Ryo: Why did you take us to an empty beach?

 

Heero: I want to go for a swim.

 

Ryo: ...um...

 

Heero: I'm joking. It's not completely empty.

 

(Heero points to a shabby market stand with Trowa behind it. They walk over)

 

Trowa: Hey guys! Want to buy some seashells?

 

Heero: ...no Trowa, we came to-

 

Trowa: Then how 'bout some balloons?

 

Heero: ...we'll take three. Look Trowa, I figured I'd tell you that the planet is about to explode. It's under attack by Pokemon, and I thought you might like to live. We're going to escape into space. You can come with us if you want, or you could just stay here. I won't force you.

 

Trowa: Hee…ro?

 

Heero: …yyyeah, Heero. We spoke about a year ago, remember? I own the candy shop/deli a few miles up the road?

 

Trowa: We did? Wait…Heero! I remember now. Uh…where are we again?

 

Ryo: This another friend of yours, Heero?

 

Heero: Kind of. He was one of my fellow gundam pilots.

 

Ryo: How is it that all of your friends ended up living on this planet? And that we're all very poor?

 

Heero: Ryo, are you asking me to explain inter-dimensional physics that not even the top scientists of the combined universes can even begin to hypothesize about?

 

Ryo: Uh…yes?

 

Trowa: Hey, did you rebuild your gundam?

 

Heero: No, Dr. J did.

 

Trowa: Aren't those illegal? And isn't Dr. J dead? And what the hell are Pokemon?

 

Heero: Yes, no, and evil little creatures.

 

Trowa: Uh...so does Dr. J have my gundam too?

 

Heero: Probably. So are you coming or not?

 

Trowa: Well, this little stand doesn't seem to be making me much money, so I guess so.

 

(Stand collapses)