$94-04-19-10-2-0 [soundStopAll] [charaSet A 11009001 1 "Space Ishtar"] [charaSet B 6018002 1 X] [charaSet C 3028000 1 "Jaguar Warrior_First"] [charaSet D 3028002 1 "Jaguar Warrior_Third"] [charaSet E 2037000 1 Jane] [charaSet F 1098185000 1 "Space Ishtar_Student Uniform"] [charaSet J 5009000 1 Effect] [scene 84000] [fadein black 1.5] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_2 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 1] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Man, you guys haven't changed a bit.[sr]It's just like coming home again☆ [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_2 2.0] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @X Huh? [k] @X Attending Queens was my dream back when I was a little girl growing up in the space boonies, but this isn't what I thought it'd be like at all... [k] @X Are you telling me this is normal around here?[sr]It's not part of some weird festival or something? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 28] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar That's right. Queens' longest held tradition is “might makes right.” You won't last two seconds here with stars in your eyes. [k] @Space Ishtar So I'd hurry and get a hold of yourself if I were you, X. They'll hunt you down in no time if they smell weakness. [k] ?1:Who's hunting us!? ?2:Who's “they”!? ?! @Space Ishtar The students, of course. [k] @Space Ishtar Every girl who comes to Queens has grown up surrounded by power and authority. [k] @Space Ishtar So what do you think happens when you gather every budding tyrant in the universe under one roof? [k] ?1:Atrocities too horrible to describe. ?2:Anguished screams that make hell sound like a nice summer getaway. ?! [charaFace A 1] @Space Ishtar You got it☆ These girls are always looking for something they can use to give themselves a leg up, so watch yourselves, 'kay☆ [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 0.2] [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.4 0.4] [wait fade] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [cameraMove 0.1 -72,0 1.2] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 0] [charaScale B 0.83] [charaFadein B 0.1 128,-98] [wt 0.1] [wipeFilter cinema 0.5 0] [fadein black 0.2] [wait fade] @X (So basically, this is where rich families send daughters who have gotten too wild to control, huh...) [k] @X (I guess that makes it kind of like a shelter for rich girls, only in reverse... I'm glad I don't have to worry about keeping up appearances like that.) [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_7 1.0] [wait fade] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [charaScale B 1.0] [cameraHome 0.1] [wt 1.0] [wipeOff] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Okay, now that you've seen the courtyard, let me show you what the schoolhouse is like. Let's see, class 2-A should be right up those stair[line 2] [k] [messageOff] [charaFace A 7] [charaMove A 0 0.2] [wt 0.05] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [bgm BGM_EVENT_3 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] [charaMove C 0,15 0.1] [charaMoveScale C 1.2 0.2] [se adm15] [effect bit_talk_41] [wt 0.1] @C:Jaguar Warrior [f x-large][messageShake 0.05 5 5 0.4]Haaaaaah!!! [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [effectDestroy] [charaScale C 1.0] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 7] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Crap! Ms. Jaguar!? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_3 1.0] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 1] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] @C:Jaguar Warrior Oh? I thought you were a group of outsiders, but it looks like we have the second-year Red Devil here too. [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.1] [charaFace C 2] @C:Jaguar Warrior Good day, Red Devil! Are you aware that you have a lot of unfinished work to hand in? [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 2] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Ma'am, yes ma'am! [k] ?1:No way! She's standing at attention!? ?! [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 1] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] @D:Jaguar Warrior Heh. At ease, student. You know, you're the only one who hasn't changed a bit since the good old days. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior You never forget your hyena instincts, even as you gracefully soar across the skies like a hawk. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior You were the best student I ever had... Not to mention the one who destroyed the most of the school's facilities... (Eyes welling up with proud tears) [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior So tell me, what are you up to nowadays? It's been, what, ten years since you left the academy? [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 28] [charaFadein A 0.1 0] [charaFace D 1] [charaFadein D 0.1 2] @Space Ishtar Well, I've been, um, contributing to society by apprehending bad actors and receiving appropriate compensation... [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior Ah, a bounty hunter.[sr]Excellent choice of words and cadence. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior No wonder you were valedictorian. You embody our school's motto of “Strong, Proper, Beautiful” better than anyone. [k] ?1:Valedictorian SpIsh! ?2:What was SpIsh like as a student? ?! [charaFace A 3] @Space Ishtar Wh-what do you think you're doing,[sr][%1]!? Don't abbreviate my name like that! It's weird! [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior As I said, she was the best student I ever had.[sr]It was like she already had everything she needed. [k] [messageOff] [wipeout rollFlashRight 1.0 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_7 1.0] [wait wipe] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [scene 64200] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_sepia01] [wipein circleIn 1.0 1.0] [wait wipe] [bgm BGM_EVENT_49 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.4 1] [wt 0.4] @C:Jaguar Warrior Good day, young lady cadets, and welcome to Queens! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Now listen up! You don't speak to me unless you preface it with “Ma'am, yes ma'am!” Is that clear!? [k] @All [charaTalk A] Ma'am, yes ma'am! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior You there! What's your name!? [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk F] [charaFace F 2] [charaFadein F 0.1 0] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.1 2] @F:Ishtar Ma'am, yes ma'am! It's Ishtar, ma'am! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior That's what I like to hear! Are you ex-military? You're not? Really? And you still responded like that? Oh well! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior So, Ishtar, huh. That's a great name![sr]Tell me, cadet, are you a demon!? [k] [charaFace F 5] @F:Ishtar No ma'am, I'm not![sr](Translation: Don't talk to me, bitch!) [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Then are you a nightmare!? [k] @F:Ishtar No ma'am, I'm not![sr](Translation: Are you shitting me with this!?) [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Do you have a problem with anything I said!? [k] @F:Ishtar Not at all, ma'am![sr](Translation: You're damn right I do, bitch!) [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Perfect![sr]Your sheer wildness is making me downright giddy! [k] [charaFadeout F 0.1] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] @C:Jaguar Warrior Okay everyone, I want you all to follow Ishtar's example! Just don't take the rebellious spirit stuff too far! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Ishtar! From now on, I'm going to call you “Red Devil”! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior Pretty good name, right!? Do you like it!? [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk F] [charaFace F 2] [charaFadein F 0.1 1] @F:Ishtar Yes, ma'am! I think I'll go by that when I take a wrong turn and start leaving a path of destruction in my wake! [k] [charaFadeout F 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] @C:Jaguar Warrior Excellent! I can feel the responsibility for the entire Servantverse's future resting on my shoulders! [k] @C:Jaguar Warrior All right, Red Devil, drop and give me a thousand![sr]I'm going to whip that evil nature of yours into shape! [k] [messageOff] [wipeout circleIn 1.0 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_49 1.0] [wait wipe] [effectStop bit_sepia01] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [scene 84000] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 1] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] [wt 1.0] [wipein rollFlashRight 1.0 1.0] [wait wipe] ?1:...Is this what all schools for proper young ladies are like? ?2:That sounds more like boot camp than boarding school... ?! [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.1] @D:Jaguar Warrior ...Between you and Blue Wrestler's academy turf war, and the way you both dominated the Cosmic Renaissance intergalactic martial arts dance competition, you two pretty much ruled this school. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior Ahh, those really were the good old days... [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 3] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @X Now I get it. You're always making these daring moves because you grew up following the school's motto. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 0] [charaFace D 1] [charaFadein D 0.1 2] @Space Ishtar So where's Astraea? Since we get to choose when we graduate ourselves, I'm guessing she's still here at the academy? [k] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_7 1.0] [charaFace D 4] @D:Jaguar Warrior I'm afraid not. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior Blue Wrestler left of her own accord too, after the new dean came and changed things. It was right after you left. [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_70 0.1] [charaFace A 28] @Space Ishtar The new dean... What changed, exactly? I did notice those girls that attacked us had some pretty unpleasant things to say. [k] [charaFace D 0] @D:Jaguar Warrior For some reason, everyone wants[sr]to change their class to Saber now. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior They even say anyone who's not a Saber can't be a proper young lady. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior The students who objected to that trend were all taken away to summer school for “special guidance,” and none of them have returned. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior [charaFace D 1]I guess their summer will never end.[sr]Kind of romantic, really. [k] [charaFace A 7] @Space Ishtar ! [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 5] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @X That's horrible! What about their parents?[sr]Didn't they freak out about this!? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 5] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] @D:Jaguar Warrior Of course they did. But for some reason, they never went public with their grievances, and in time, they were forgotten. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior Then the new dean started pressuring all the teachers from the old guard to retire. Now, I'm the only one left who taught here when you attended. [k] [charaFace D 4] @D:Jaguar Warrior All this silence has got everyone so suspicious of one another that you can cut the tension with a laser knife. At this point, it feels more like a cemetery than a school. [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 28] [charaFadein A 0.1 0] [charaFace D 4] [charaFadein D 0.1 2] @Space Ishtar ...Is there anything I can do, Ms. Jaguar? [k] [charaFace D 0] @D:Jaguar Warrior Would you look into the new dean and his faculty for me? There's something...inhuman about them. [k] @Space Ishtar All right. I don't have a lot of time to spare,[sr]but I'll do what I can. [k] @Space Ishtar Come on, guys, let's head back.[sr]Good to see you again, Ms. Jaguar. [k] @D:Jaguar Warrior Good day, Red Devil.[sr]Be careful out there. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.2] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_70 1.2] [wait fade] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [scene 44500] [wt 0.7] [fadein black 1.2] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.1] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 1] [charaFadein E 0.1 1] @Jane Hey hey! Welcome back guys![sr]I'm all done looking the Maanna over! [k] [charaFace E 5] @Jane I'll be blunt: it looks like it's[sr]gonna take a long time to fix. [k] @Jane Like, the engine's all shot to pieces, so we're gonna have to get a new one, right? Then we've gotta swap it in and hook it up to everything, right? [k] @Jane And that's not even getting into the long overdue firmware updates, which are gonna take some time too. [k] [charaFace E 9] @Jane All told, I think it's gonna take me and Ishtarin at least four days to get it all done. [k] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_7 1.0] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 28] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Yeah? That works out nicely.[sr]We actually ran into a little incident ourselves. [k] @Space Ishtar While we were visiting Queens... [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [wait fade] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 6] [charaFadein E 0.1 0] [charaPut A 2] [wt 0.5] [fadein black 1.0] [wt 0.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_90 0.1] [wait fade] @Jane Whoa! I had no idea all that was going[sr]on with your old school right now! [k] @Space Ishtar It's got to be either a kidnapping or Servant trafficking. And on top of that[line 2] [k] ?1:Space Shinkageryu Saber Badges are involved too. ?2:Space Shinkageryu's clearly behind it. ?! @Space Ishtar Right. I can't stand that they've somehow managed to sink their claws this deep into the Servantverse. [k] @Space Ishtar Ms. Jaguar didn't come out and say it, but it's a safe bet that either the whole school is bugged, or the faculty's got spies reporting back to them. [k] [charaFace E 5] @Jane That's awful![sr]Okay, so what's this new dean like? [k] [charaFace A 29] @Space Ishtar I wish I could tell you, but I don't even know where to find him. Hell, I couldn't even tell you where his office is. [k] @Space Ishtar I mean, I'm sure it's somewhere on campus...but the moment we set foot in there, fake Sabers are gonna be all over us. [k] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_90 1.0] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 1] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @X Hmm. Sounds like this is where I come in. [k] @X I've been keeping this a secret so far,[sr]but stealth missions are actually my specialty. [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_7 0.1] ?1:I already knew that. ?! [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 28] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Same. [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 0] [charaFadein E 0.1 1] @Jane Same! [k] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 2] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @X I see. Well, I'm glad to know you're all so understanding! Though I have to say, I'm also a little hurt! [k] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_7 1.0] [charaFace B 1] @X Oh well, I guess it just goes to[sr]show what good friends we are. [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_62 0.1] @X At any rate, I'm not going to sit back and twiddle my thumbs while your alma mater is in trouble, Ishtar.[sr]Don't worry, I'll find the dean's office for you. [k] @X You two just focus on fixing[sr]up the Maanna in the meantime. [k] @X Oh, and if you don't have anything else to do right now,[sr][%1], I'd be grateful for your assistance. [k] @X If you could cause a distraction on campus that gets everyone's attention, that would make my life a whole lot easier! [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Space Ishtar Hear that, Jane? Looks like we're set then.[sr]Thanks, X. That'll be a big help. [k] [charaFace A 1] @Space Ishtar And thank you for helping her out with[sr]her investigation, [%1]. [k] @Space Ishtar Now Jane and I can focus on fixing[sr]the Maanna up like new again! [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_62 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]