Technical Difficulties (A Splatoon Script)

Part 3 - The Truth, Crushes, and Other Things that are Scary

Micki: I can finally live happily ever after with V-senpai! (づ￣ ³￣)づ It'll be amazing! We can finally have love! (Micki makes a kawaii pose. Sparkles appear behind her.)

(Brooke, V, and Pearl stare at Micki like she's crazy.)

Brooke: Where did those sparkles come from? Was that some sort of anime thing?

Pearl: And seriously? "Senpai" is such a weeaboo term! How much anime have you watched?

V: Oh, that's normal for her. And no, Micki, that's never going to happen. I told you, I don't like you in that way! I can't love you like you want! (They glance at each other.)

Micki: Sure you can! Once you're sanitized, you'll have to do anything I say! You'll have to love me! Or else I could get hanahaki disease and DIE! (ˇ✖‸✖) (She mimics dying.)

Pearl: I think you woulda been dead a LONG time ago if hanahaki disease was a real thing, ya weeaboo. (She looks annoyed.)

Micki: * (She's taken aback.)

Micki: Ah! RUDE! URUSAI!!! The weeaboo part is true and I'm PROUD of it, thank you very much, but the other part was just rude! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ V and I WILL fall in love and we WILL get married and we WILL have a happy life together! Even if we both have to be sanitized for that to happen! V will be forced to truly love me! (She's raging like an anime character.)

(She snaps out of her rage.)

Micki: Gomenasai.

Brooke: What did she say?

V: That's Micki-talk for "sorry". (Micki calms down.)

Micki: Anyway... you'll see it'll happen, my little husbando! It'll work, ne?

V: Th-that's not how love works, Micki. And I'm not your husbando. (She walks around him and he goes red with embarrassment.)

Micki: Well, then it'll be the closest thing to love that I can get! And I'm cool with that! And even if it doesn't work, I can always de-sanitize you! I just need those orange vials Octavio was supposed to give us a few months ago!

Brooke: Wait, what? (Micki starts to walk away, but Brooke perks up.)

Micki: Oh, yeah, when Octavio was attacking you all, he made some vials of some orange stuff. I don't know what's in it, but Nicki and I know that it's the cure for being Sanitized! She doesn't want it, but I do! (She turns and shrugs.)

Pearl: Why? You seem to be doing pretty fine for someone who's sanitized.

Micki: Well, for someone who's sanitized, yeah. (They speak.)

Micki: Most of the sanitized don't hold onto their personalities from their normal life. They just become mindless creatures, like your friends right now. Nicki and I have been holding onto our personalities for all this time, but it gets painful, fighting against the sanitation. I want things to go back to how they were before, and I don't have to work hard to stay... well, me! (She talks.)

Micki: And I mean, besides that, this green skin is so ugly! I miss my natural, beautiful skin tone! (She looks down at her hand.)

Micki: If we get the cure, I can finally look normal again! [whispered] And finally be free! (She smiles widely.)

Brooke: The vials! We have them! We could cure everyone! That's what they're for!

V: Really?

Pearl: Oh yeah, I think they were in the apartment building. (They speak to each other.)