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The scene opens up. Unusually the camera seems to be floating under water itself, an oddly colored blue liquid all around it. Fish swim by the camera; fish of all shapes, colors and sizes. An orange fish with gray spots almost touches the camera lens, averting itself with agility to dodge just moments before collision. Another fish, this one much larger and with particularly visible gills on its white surface, swims into view from below the camera, and the camera tracks in, following the fish through the water before its attention is diverted by a dark black fish with yellow spots and large whiskers. And the camera pans out.
It becomes now apparent that the focus was a close up of a fish tank, seven foot high and over twelve foot wide, filled from top to bottom with a deep blue water in which the variations of underwater creatures swam. This tank is one of many; beside it is another, slightly smaller and filled with different shaped fish; these ones seems slightly bigger, and are living alongside a submerged tortoise. Another tank, just footsteps away, contains various types of eel; electric eel, as a small sign emblazoned on the tank reads.
The camera pans out further to show a small area in which the tanks of water surround. The floor is a polished white marble, with two pillars of the same material reaching up to touch the ceiling. The ceiling itself is painted to mirror the surroundings below; various fish and aquamarine creatures adorn it, although unlike those in the tanks, these have been given expressions; most smiling. There is a shark on the ceiling painting, its jaws displayed in a gleaming row of knife-like blades, a vicious look in its blood red eyes.
The camera drops from the image, jerking suddenly as a grinning face is thrust into view. Sunshades strangely hide the eyes that belong to the face, the eerie lighting of the aquarium room reflecting off them and leaving small images of fish tanks in their lenses. The face also has long blonde hair, drawn back behind the head into a ponytail, and a small, barely kept goatee of similar colored hair. The man�s lips are curled madly into a grin, his teeth gleaming white.
The man, just inches from the camera, is ICWF�s The Jackrabbit.
THE JACKRABBIT: �Hey-a Raaaaabbit Fans! Guess what? It�s so exciting!!! I�m in an aqua�aqua� uhh� oh dang� I�m in this place with fishes! And guess what!?! Mistah Odjie even paid for my ticket to get in!! Are you excited? I�m excited! I get to see all the fishes!!�
The Jackrabbit turns now away from the camera and begins to skip across the aquarium, passing most of the fish tanks without even bothering to look in them. The camera follows him at a fairly quick pace, having to eventually catch up with him when he stops. He is stood beside a large open tank, peering in. The tank has beside it a pool of water, but a small amount of land. It on this land that various turtles and tortoises can be seen, most of which are either in their shells or barely moving. Of course, there is more chance of Trent Steel being a nice guy than there is of The Jackrabbit knowing the difference between a turtle and a tortoise, but that really isn�t the point here.
THE JACKRABBIT: �Look! Tortles! See thing is� with them, they always goes in their shells. Dunno why, I spose they�re scared of me, or summat. They really shouldn�t be cos everybody knows that rabbits don�t eat tortles. Nu-uh, nope, they don�t. But I �spose, if a rabbit was to get really hungry� and a tortle was the only thing on the menu� the rabbit might gobble him up� but prolly not. A shark, though�. Hmm hm hm hm hmmm hmm�
Sniggering, The Jackrabbit begins to skip off, away from the turtles and tortoises. He gets a fair few odd looks from the visitors in the aquarium, but he seems not to notice even one of them. He comes now to a tank of eels, not electric ones however, each one slivering its way across the bottom of the tank and through the weeds and plantation in the tank. It takes The Jackrabbit a moment to spot the eels, but when he does he gasps.
THE JACKRABBIT: �Oooooh! Those things are funny looking� like little moving ropes.� He looks to the name on the tank�s label. �Eels� hm nu-uh, no rabbit would eat an eel. They look disgusting!� Tipping back his head, he begins to laugh for a few moments. Funny! I said disgusting, and I thought of that Freeze guy. DeMarko Freeze, I means. Arghahaha! And I thought about how I beat him up at Inferno the other week� remember that, �Rabbit Fans. Those other guys, Kali Killer and that other dude were all like �yeah, it only takes one guy, ho ho ho!� and then Freezey runs down and, ohmigosh! Your friendly neighborhood Jackrabbit is there and ba-bam! Freezey is falling all over the place and thens I saved Mistah Odjie from them nasties! Argahahahhaha! Shoulda seen the look of Freezey�s face, was hilarious. Made me laugh. Lotsa things make me laugh, but that was just sooooo funny! But hold your horses and don�t let them trot away whilst dragging you behind� did that once, was not fun�. Cos Freezey is calling me things last I heard. He says The Jackrabbit� that�s me!� is a roadblock. HAHAHAH!! And he says The Jackrabbit� that�s me, too!� is the savior of humanity! ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAA!� His hysterical laughter stops almost as suddenly as it began. �Hm� I�ve always wanted to be a superhero! Hmm�. JackrabbitMan to the rescueeeeee!!!�
And right there in the middle of an aquarium, stood in front of a tank of underwater-eels, The Jackrabbit puts his left arm out in front of him and envisions himself flying, a cape flapping in the breeze at his back. He begins to hum the Superman theme particularly loudly to himself, and this turns even more heads than anything else he has done or said yet. Again, The Jackrabbit though seems oblivious to this fact. He begins to move now, still in his odd little fantasy until he reaches the outdoor complex of the center. There he stops, his eyes widening in awe at the sight to meet his eyes. There is a wire fence guarding a pen, and in this pen an aquarium attendant is feeding a small group of penguins. This, seemingly, intrigues The Jackrabbit, as he stands with his fist gripping the fence and his eyes transfixed.
THE JACKRABBIT: �Geewiz! It�s the evil do-badder, The Penguin! Come to thwart JackrabbitMan�s goodygoody attempts to save humanity from evil Mr. Freeze! Mwhahahahaha! Waving his fists around, The Jackrabbit grins broadly, doing battle with evil penguins in his mind. Wondering through the aquarium, he tosses an imaginary penguin onto his shoulder and gives it a Last Laugh, sitting his ass down painfully on the concrete floor. Wincing and groaning, The Jackrabbit slowly stands up, rubbing his sore ass and opening his eyes�
THE JACKRABBIT: �Sharks!!�
Sure enough, right before him he sees the shark tank. Had he been any other person, he would have wondered how he could have missed it, but instead he just grins and moves towards the tank, double the height of him, and over ten times as wide. The enormous creatures, two of them, pass him by, passing him not even a glance. They have been fed today; only hours ago. The Jackrabbit stares at them for a long while, examining their every feature.
THE JACKRABBIT: �That�s why I came here, see! I wanted to see sharks so I knows what I am up against at Inferno! See, last week I gots a girlie to fight� and I beat her easily. So now Odjie knows girlies can�t beat me, so he puts me up with animals. I�m hoping next week I can wrestle with a man. I used to wrestle men all the time in GWO and I won lots of times too. Did you know I was the Wealthy Commoner Champion there! It�s true! I got the belt at home to prove it!
But this shark thing I�m fighting at Inferno is just funny. I mean, come on �Rabbit Fans, what kind of a wrestler names themselves like an animal? That�s just stupid. Week one; The Jackrabbit beats up Freezey and then beats some girlie. Week Two; The Jackrabbit pins Sharky. Week Three; Err�. Wait, I dunno what�s happening on Week Three yet cos it hasn�t actually happened yet. But it will, I promise! And when it does! Hahaha! See, way The Jackrabbit sees it, that�s me by the way, I sees it that Sharky is just a waste of thinking time. These sharks �ere, all they do is swim and swim and swim and they isn�t really scary. A rabbit wouldn�t eat a tortle or an eel or a penguin, oh no!, but a rabbit would and could eat a shark! And at Inferno, The Jackrabbit will be a jackrabbit and Sharky will be a shark� clever thinking, �Rabbit Fans. Sharky is just some really big guy who puts people through things� well The Jackrabbit has been put through lots of things. I hits my head all the time, see?� In demonstration, he hits his head on the shark tank a couple of times, making it a sore red, and attracting the attention of one of the sharks. �Well the harder they� no, the bigger they are the bigger they fall� or something� wait� yes. That�s right, Sharky is gonna fall. Why why why? Why?! Because The Jackrabbit always gets the Last Laugh!�
He begins to laugh now, his eyes still fixed on the large tank containing the two sharks. A grin crosses his lips and he turns quickly back to the camera.
�And to prove my point, �Rabbit Fans, Your Friendly Neighborhood Jackrabbit will now go ahead and pin a sharky.�
He begins to laugh to himself, and puts both hands to the top of the tank, using the muscles in his arms to pull himself up, slowly scaling the side of the tank in desperate attempt to get inside. One foot goes up, and another. He peers into the tank, staring down through the water at the sharks. Taking a deep breath, The Jackrabbit prepares himself to dive in when suddenly an aquarium security guard, who had seemingly been watching him because of his strange superhero antics earlier, tugs him down. The Jackrabbit struggles with the security guard to get back up the side of the tank, but the guard drags him back.
SECURITY GUARD: �Come on, let�s get you out of here, can�t have you doing things like that.�
The Jackrabbit makes struggled protests about pinning sharks and getting the Last Laugh, but the guard takes him towards the entrance as another of his workmates come to give him a hand. The camera does not need to see this though; fade to white.
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