T.R.: So very sorry for the huge delay...
Mireille: You better be!
T.R.: Shhh! You're not in this chapter!
Kirika: What? She's not?
T.R.: You're not in here either! (points to door) Get out, both of you!
The assassin team took their leave. On the way out, Kirika slapped T.R. with the paper fan.
T.R.: Oww... Ahem, anyways...
MichelleTherese: Since you (possibly among the many) have not seen Noir, I shall give you a crash course!
THE CRASH COURSE INTO NOIR!
It is best put like this: chicks... with guns!
Chloe: And knives!
T.R.: (nods) Exactly!
E.M.C.O.F.F.H.
By: T.R. Fanatic -- One of many authors that doesn't own Excel Saga, Noir or Gundam (any and all Gundam).
Chapter 4: (points) Look Over There! (Runs away)
You, the reader, now makes a one-way trip (because it's expensive for round-trip) back to F City, where we now find Chloe entering the not-so normal town.
"I guess this is the right place..." she said before looking over at the sign: 'Now Arriving in F City! Population: ...Um, 1... 2... 8? Wait, that's not right; Days Without Alien Invasions: 2; Days Without Pocky: 47 (and still hungry)' "...Yup, this is it."
Off in the distance, a strange creature called. "Arf! Arf!"
Chloe shifted her eyes to an alley where a dog, Menchi, stood in the shadows. She walked over to Menchi and asked, "What is it, girl? Did little Timmy get trapped in the well, again?"
"Arf arf bark bark arf..." Menchi replied.
"What?"
"Arf arf bark bark bark arf!"
"Come again?"
"Arf arf-!" Menchi stopped mid-sentence and looked at the blank space underneath them, then slapped her forehead. "Arrr..." She whimpered before pulling out a remote control and pressing a button. "Arf arf bark bark arf?" she asked again while a subtitle appears beneath her that read: "You're the one I hired?"
"...Yes." Chloe replied while pulling out the letter that Menchi wrote. "And your handwriting is horrible!"
"Bark arf!" the dog cursed. (The subtitle read: "(bleep) you!") Her paw slipped, accidentally pressing another button on the remote
"Okay, exactly what the hell was I on when I started writing this?" A voice remarked from the sky.
"A writer's commentary..." Chloe pointed out. "interesting..."
Menchi quickly turned off the commentary and sighed. "Bark bark grrr..." she growled under her breath. (Subtitle: "(un-translatable)") "Arf bark bark arf arf bark arf bark?" she asked. (Translation: "You will kill the target, then?")
"Of course..." the assassin replied. "You had to make me walk forever to get here!" She sighed. "...Hell, I'll show you a flashback..."
The Flashback!
We find Chloe walking through the grapevines at the Manor, departing her home once again... We then find her trudging through the burning sands of a desert... then through a tundra with waist-high snow... then through a bamboo forest where samurai are fighting in the background... then (is it ever going to end?) underwater at the bottom of the ocean... then (finally) making it to F City where she face-faulted the moment she stepped across the city's border.
"I made it!" she cheered as she pulled out a stopwatch, looking at it horror. "Two minutes!" she screamed as she pounded the ground with her fist. "Dammit! Same as last time!"
END FLASHBACK!
"Bark bark arf bark bark arf arf arf!" Menchi yelled. "Arf bark arf arf bark bark-" (Translation: "This is no time for dramatics and sympathy! Either kill Excel now or-")
"So, you've rose from the dead to get your revenge!" a mysterious person interrupted.
Chloe and Menchi looked to the rooftop, in an overly-dramatic manner, to find Nabeshin. While the audience in the studio whooped and cheered for their hero.
"...Nabeshin..." Chloe hissed. "So, you still live. I have not seen the likes of you since Bogeta!"
Menchi's paw slipped again, accidentally turning the commentary back on.
"Wait, those two know each other?" T.R. asked. "Where's that in the script?"
Menchi fumbled with the remote, turning the commentary off.
"What you did back there was unforgivable, and I shall not let you live!" Chloe hissed as began to throw knives at Nabeshin.
Nabeshin swiftly dodged every knife being thrown at him. "You may be the top ninja assassin from Hell," he noted. "but you shall not defeat me!" He dug into his afro and pulled out hundreds of lit cherry bombs...
The battle dragged on as the two combatants covered more ground around the city. Somehow, Nabeshin's reinforcements, a team of Ground Combat Gundams, arrived to overwhelm the enemy. However, Chloe's reinforcements, a massive army of Zakus, appeared to even the score.
And the battle still rages on...
"Ar arf arf bark arf arf bark bark bark?" Menchi cried. (Translation: "Does that mean you're not going to help?")
Chapter 4: (points) Look Over There! (Runs away)
Today's mini-experiment... is at a stalemate. The result will come when the One-Year War is over...
Here's a clip from the next chapter:
SCENE MISSING
(End clip)
Chloe: The scene's missing?
T.R.: (holds back tears) I'm sorry, all right? I'm working on it!
Chloe: (Shows the beloved fork to T.R.)
T.R.: What's that for?
Chloe: It somehow makes you feel better when you stare at it for a while.
T.R.: (stares at the fork... then smiles) ...I guess you're right...