I'm trying to get one of these out per day.

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We follow USAGI in the midst of a densely packed crowd. She had trouble seeing through all the people, but it appears she's lost the security guards. But then, out of no-where, a hand grabs her by the sleeve.

GUARD

Hold it!

USAGI tries to pull away, but it's no use. Just before the guard can get a firmer grip around USAGI'S forearm, the sleeve he's holding vanishes, and USAGI (in a new, sleeveless disguise) falls on the floor and scurries past a crowd of people. The guard, after a half-second of shock, chases after her. Pushing his way through the crowd, he accidentally knocks over a mascot in a cute and buly costume (kinda like this:



)

GUARD

(bowing to Mascot)

Sumimasen!

The GUARD helps up the mascot and, after another apologetic bow, runs off. We follow the MASCOT for a moment, and then--

REAL MASCOT

Hey!

The pan to reveal the REAL MASCOT-- the MASCOT we've been following so far is, of course, USAGI.

REAL MASCOT

(accusational)

Where did you get that costume?!

USAGI-MASCOT runs off awkwardly. REAL MASCOT, equally awkwardly, follows USAGI-MASCOT around a corner, but the doppelganger is nowhere to be found. REAL MASCOT walks off. USAGI, hiding against a wall, then emerges, dressed as a Playboy Bunny (yes, I went there, again). USAGI looks down at her outfit.

USAGI

(disgusted)

Oh my God.

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CAPCOM. EUDIAL is still typing commands into her apparatus. After a moment, something comes back online-- it's by no means completely fixed, but it's progress.

EUDIAL

(to KAO LING)

Kao Ling? Kao Ling, do you read?

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Underground Lab, Control Room.

KAO LING

Eudial! Eudial, I can't--

CYPRINE

We're back on Secutiry Comm!

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Main Hall. We see a SECURITY GUARD trying to establish radio communication.

GUARD

Capcom, do you acknowledge, over?

(beat)

Capcom, please respond, ov--

C/P

(over radio)

This is Capcom. We acknowledge. We had a glitch in our comm system, but it's been resolved. Resume pursuit of subject, over.

GUARD

Acknowledged. Over.

The guard walks off frame, revealing USAGI in the background, looking very uncomfortable in her Playboy bunny outfit.

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A medium shot of USAGI. She looks around, waiting for the right moment to change-- and the right disguise to change into. Spotting something she likes, she gives a quick look around (to ensure no-one sees her change) and transforms: she's dressed in a Star Trek uniform (late DS9 era) and painted up to look like a Trill. USAGI stops to admire her snappy new look when--

NEWSLADY

Sugoi!

USAGI turns around abruptly. Somehow, she missed a NEWSLADY making her way through the hall, complete with camera crew! She signals the crew to follow her as she makes her way to USAGI.

NEWSLADY

Hey! Hey, can you do that again?

USAGI

Uh--

(holds up hands)

Wakarimasen!

NEWSLADY

(English, pointing at costume)

Can you do again!

USAGI tries to back off, but the NEWSLADY and her crew follow. This attracts the attention of the same SECURITY GUARD we saw from the beginning of the scene.

NEWSLADY

(English)

You, uh, change dress! Can do, uh, again?

SECURITY

(to NEWSLADY)

Excuse me, Ma'am. Please don't bother the--

USAGI panics and runs off.

GUARD

(suprised at USAGI'S reaction)

Hey, hey! Wait!

The GUARD pursues. We follow USAGI for a couple of seconds as she runs through the aisles, between large display stalls for various shows/games/movies/etc.. After this, she dives into a crowd of people, forcing her way through, much to their irritation. She emerges from the other end crowd disguised as Misato Katsuragi from Evangelion (and yes, that IS another in-joke). Unfortunately, the people she shoved past continue to heckle her, making a smooth escape impossible.

NEWSLADY

(from a distance)

Yes, yes! Like that!

GUARD

What the--?

USAGI runs off.

GUARD

Stop!

USAGI runs down a corner. We follow the GUARD as he pursues. He bumps into a rather frail-looking young woman wearing a red bandanna, apologizes, and then notices a disturbance in another crowd of people, this time in front of a display where actors are taking part in a staged promotional drama. The actors-- a man and a woman-- are engaged in a heated argument (or rather, their characters are). The GUARD pulls out his tazer just as USAGI energies from the crowd, away from the stall, dressed in the same costume as the actress on stage.

GUARD

(pointing tazer)

Hold it!

USAGI freezes.

GUARD

Down on the ground.

USAGI

Okay, don't you think that this is overkill--

GUARD

Now!

On stage, the male actor pulls a prop gun on the actress, and starts acting really mad. USAGI, meanwhile, is frozen in fear.

GUARD

I'm gonna give you 'til the count of three to comply. One!

USAGI

No, no, wait--!

GUARD

Two!

USAGI

Please!

GUARD

Thr--!

ACTOR

DIE!

The actor fires the prop gun (loaded with blanks to make proper BOOM sounds) just as the GUARD is about to count to three. At that moment, blood squibs in the actresses shirt are set off, giving the impression she has been shot. As USAGI had transformed into the actress' clothing, the squibs in HER shirt go off at exactly the same time. Fake blood sprays all over USAGI, the stunned GUARD, and quite a few of the surrounding visitors, who look on with horror.

GUESTS

(first, stunned silence, then--)

Oh my God. . . She's been shot. . . He shot her. . . She's in shock. . . Someone help her!

GUARD

(to GUESTS)

No, no, wait! It was a tazer! It was a taz--

(to USAGI)

Get down.

(raises tazer)

Get down now--!

GUESTS

Somebody stop him!

Panic. Some of the GUESTS rush the GUARD-- most just run away, screaming. USAGI seizes the moment and runs off.

GUARD

(to USAGI)

Stop! Stop!

(to GUESTS)

Get off of me!

The GUARD manages to fight of the people restraining him and pursues USAGI. In all the pandemonium, however, USAGI has vanished. The GUARD passes by a very tall, LARGE MAN dressed as Alphonse Eric (basically he's a giant suit of armor). The GUARD passes by the LARGE MAN. We hold on the LARGE MAN until he himself walks off frame, revealing an identical suit of armor about ten meters further back, standing in the middle of the aisle. It appears as though someone inside is struggling to get out.

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Inside suit of armor. USAGI struggles in vain to try and move the suit of armor, but it's no use. She's far too small for her current disguise-- all it can do it hold up her weight. USAGI then tries to activate the disguise pen.

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The right hand of the suit of armor, holding the DISGUISE PEN. USAGI tries a couple of times to activate the pen, but this too is futile.

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USAGI'S POV. Through the eye slits in the armor, we see a small group of SECURITY GUARDS entering the area, trying to calm things down. After a couple of moments, one of the guards notices the armor. Suspicions aroused, the guard slowly, ominously, makes his way toward the armor.

USAGI

(whispering)

No! No! No! No! No!