Sailormoon
SuperS: *Special*
The
Return of Haruka and Michiru!
The Ghostly
Puppet Show
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The
Return of Haruka and Michiru: The Ghostly Puppet Show is a continuation of
Usagi and Chibiusa’s conversation in Crybaby Usagi’s Growth Diary. Usagi was retelling everything that happened
in the Sailormoon anime, up to destroying Pharoah 90 and picking up baby
Hotaru. Usagi and Chibiusa then wonder
how Haruka and Michiru are lately, but then Usagi says, “Well, knowing those
two…” Usagi and Chibiusa look at each
other, and have this weird expression.
An image is conjured up in their minds,
and The Return of Haruka and Michiru: The Ghostly
Puppet Show begins!
The Return of Haruka and
Michiru! The Ghostly Puppet Show
The scene begins in the
darkness, when a match is lit. Two
flames on a double-candleholder appear, and light up the small room. A puppeteer sits with a clown puppet on his
lap, which he calls “Dummy.” The Dummy
complains, “I’m hungry, I’m hungry,” but the puppeteer tells him he must be
patient. The Dummy has not eaten in a
few hundred years, and a stomach growls, but it is the puppeteer’s. The Dummy says that a great feast will take
place soon, and the puppeteer says that it is something to look forward to.
The scene opens with the
view of a great mansion, and the sound of violins playing the Haruka to Michiru music (click to
play midi!) is heard. A yellow
convertible is parked outside the mansion.
A woman whose face is concealed sips a glass of red wine.
The same puppeteer and
puppet are entertaining the guests. He
and the puppet reveal to the audience a mysterious blue bottle, and claim that
the true feelings of everyone in the city is contained within. He tells the story of how everyone was
afraid to open it, but it had to be broken in order to destroy an evil sorcerer. Even the courageous ones who first claimed
the bottle were afraid to open it, he says, and the audience laughs.
Michiru is sitting alone
at a small round table, holding the glass of red wine. The background is light with bubbles and
sparkles when she is revealed. She is
wearing a very buttoned-up outfit. A
waiter begins to refill her wineglass, but Michiru holds up her hand, and he
bows, retreating. Michiru starts
getting up.
The puppeteer continues,
saying that even the most truthful people were afraid that the real truth would
come out, so no one could break the spell.
The audience laughs again.
Michiru walks out the
room. The puppeteer stops and glares at
her. All except for his eyes, the rest
of his face is darkened.
Michiru unlocks the door
and comes into her hotel room. She
hears a nurse/maid talking to someone, telling them that they have been
perspiring a lot.
In the other room, Haruka
is in bed with the nurse/maid attending her.
She is sweating, and looks sick. The nurse tells her that dinner will be brought to her later. Suddenly, Haruka grabs the nurse’s hand, and
she gasps. Haruka says that she hopes
she (the nurse) will bring the dinner to her, and that it is really great to be
taken care of by such a pretty girl like her.
The shines in the maid’s eyes dance, and she looks at Haruka in awe. The background is lightened again, with the
bubbles and sparkles, for both Haruka and the nurse.
Suddenly, a door slams,
and Michiru walks in. She thanks the
nurse (“Arigatou”), and says she will take it over from here. The maid immediately agrees, and walks out
stiffly and quickly.
Haruka says, “You’re back
early…”
Michiru gives her a sly
look, and responds, “You seem to be doing much better.”
Haruka brings the sheet up
close to her face, and says, “Yeah, but I still think I have a fever.” She brings the sheet back down. The she says, “So did you find out anything?”
Michiru gives her a look,
and then says that she senses something evil.
Haruka apologizes for
getting sick at such a time, and says that she is so much trouble for Michiru.
Michiru walks over and
puts a cool towel on Haruka’s forehead.
She says that it is no trouble, as long a she stays quietly in bed.
Haruka scratches her head
and thinks awhile, and then asks what is this feeling that Michiru gets. Haruka says that she doesn’t feel anything
this time.
Michiru says that it feels
different from the Death Busters, but if it is coming from outside the solar
system, it would be much stronger. Ever
since the last eclipse, she started having this strange feeling.
A clown doll sitting on
top of drawers rolls one eye open. The
scene changes to the Dummy’s face.
The Dummy is speaking to
the puppeteer, who has an eye on his forehead (like the Amazon Trio). Everybody in the dining room is slumped
over. A scream is heard, and the nurse who
attended Haruka looks at all the unconscious/dead people in terror.
Michiru is standing on the
balcony of her hotel room, intently looking out at the night ocean. A freakish-looking hand reaches out behind
her, while out-of-tune, killing/knifing music plays. Michiru spins around, and sees that it is the kindly nurse. The nurse gasps, and Michiru apologizes for
frightening her. Michiru asks what she
wanted to tell her, and the nurse says that the breeze is cold this time of
year, and that she should come inside.
Michiru says that it is okay, and turns back to the ocean.
All of a sudden, the nurse
is choking Michiru, and laughing insanely.
She has an eye on her forehead.
Suddenly, a sound like a gunshot is heard, and the nurse falls to the
floor. Michiru coughs, then sees the
eye.
Haruka is heard screaming
form inside.
Michiru transforms, “Neptune
Planet Power, make-up!” (Outer Transformation music. Click to play midi.)
(Music continues.) Haruka is being choked and restrained by
purple vine/tentacle things. She is
attached to the wall, with this indigo stuff around her. She slips her transforming stick out from
her sleeve, but then the Outer transformation music stops. Her vision blurrs, and she drops her
transformation stick on the floor with a clink. “Damn!” she says.
The Dummy opens its
mechanical mouth, and something that looks like energy flows from Haruka into it. “Wait!” a voice shouts.
The Outer Battle music (click to hear midi)
starts, and they see Sailor Neptune at the doorway to the balcony. She makes a speech, telling them to let go
of Haruka. The Dummy comments that the
maid screwed up, and the master says that she wasn’t very useful.
Sailor Neptune tells them
to let go of Haruka, but they refuse.
She says that she will fight them, then. The music stops.
The puppetmaster tells her
to wait and listen to him first. He
shows her the mysterious blue bottle, which is called the Spirit Sealing
Bottle, and asks if she knew what would happen if it was broken. “What happens? What happens?” the Dummy shouts.
The puppeteer explains that all the shadows of the world will attack
their owners. “That’s scary!” the Dummy
cries, and spins its head around.
Sailor Neptune imagines
the scenario, all the black shadows choking their owners.
She says that he does not
have any proof that the story is true, but then the puppeteer says that she has
no proof he is lying. “I wonder which
it is?” the Dummy repeats.
“It must be a tough choice
to make for a heroine,” the puppeteer laughs.
“Please stay put while I take her energy. A bit of movement may cause the bottle to break.”
The Deep Submerge Sequence
begins, and the bottle is shattered at the end. The puppeteer and puppet fall to the ground.
They look up at Sailor
Neptune. The Outer Battle music continues again, and
Sailor Neptune asks, “Now, have the shadows started to run rampant?”
The puppeteer looks at her
incredulously. “Why? How did you know I was lying?”
“Oh, it wasn’t true?”
Neptune asks with a smile.
The things restraining
Haruka disappear, and she falls down safely onto the bed.
The puppeteer stares at
her. “You did it just to save her?” he
asks in disbelief. “What kind of
heroine are you?”
“Oh, maybe you
misunderstand,” Sailor Neptune replies, “A world without Haruka is hardly worth
saving.”
The puppeteer is
astonished. “It can’t be…”
Haruka rises up. “Like hell you treated me well…” she says.
“Uranus Planet Power!” The Outer Battle music continues.
After the puppeteer sees
that Haruka is a Sailor Scout, he backs up, crawling, in fear. The music stops.
“I’d like to return the
favour,” Sailor Uranus says.
“Don’t be fooled,” Sailor
Neptune says to her. She tells her that
the real enemy is the puppet.
The puppet shakes in fear,
and starts sweating profusely.
“I see… The puppet master
was the real puppet,” Sailor Uranus says.
Scary music (for the enemy) begins.
The puppet continues to
sweat.
Sailor Uranus asks what
she and Neptune should do. The puppet’s
eyes grow large, and Sailor Uranus cracks her knuckles.
The scary music stops, and
the Dummy runs away.
“World Shaking!”
The puppet is squished
against the closet with the orange ball of light, and says, “What did I return
for… I did nothing for the Dead Moon…”
The ceramic Dummy then explodes.
The eye on the puppet
master, who had been watching, disappears.
“Where am I? What is this room?”
he babbles in confusion.
The eye disappears from
the fallen nurse.
The guests in the dining
room awaken and murmur to themselves.
The Safe music plays. Haruka’s car is on the grass, in front of the
ocean, and Haruka and Michiru are standing beside it.
Michiru asks how Haruka is
feeling.
Haruka says that she feels
good after using all that energy.
Michiru then asks what
Haruka has in her hand. Haruka tells
her that it is a piece of the puppet, and shows her the piece of broken ceramic
with an eye on it. “Could this be a new
enemy?” Haruka asks.
“Don’t worry, they’ll take
care of the world…” Michiru replies.
“You’re right,” Haruka
says, “they’ll take care of it…”
You see a light, sparkly picture
of the Inner Senshi, Super Sailor Moon and Chibimoon, and Tuxedo Mask/Kamen.
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