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“You guys you will never guess what I got!” Yuki cried. She held up a handful of tickets.
“Ooh, tickets to that N*aboo/Critney concert?” Ippin asked hopefully.
“Um, no. They were all sold out. But these are tickets to the holotaping of E.M.!” Yuki squealed.
“Oh, wow, I love that show,” Kirana and Kairiku said at the same time.
“Um, excuse me - what’s E.M.?” Xarae asked.
“It stands for Emergency Medical facility - where they don’t have medical droids but real people!” Kirana exclaimed. “It’s like E.R. on Earth...”
Xarae still looked confused. “Okay... so why is it cool?” she asked.
“Duh! Because some of its stars are so cute! Like Dorge Plooney and Moah Smiley...” Yuki said with stars in her icy-blue eyes.
“And not to mention they might pick some people to be extras!” Kirana cried.
“And more fake blood than you know what to do with-”
“Okay, okay,” Xarae laughed.
“So, I need to find out who wants to go and we’ll go tomorrow!” Yuki said happily.
“Oh yeah, Yuki, I was going to ask - how did you get the tickets?” Ippin wondered.
The ice-blue-haired girl smiled. “I won them!” she exclaimed.
The next day...
Ippin, Yukiko, Kirana, Kairiku, Kumoko, Xarae and Numako headed to the holotaping of E.M. They were very excited on the way there...
“Are we almost there?” Kirana asked for the millionth time.
“No, Kirana, we are not,” Ippin said, her forced-calm voice reminding them of Nom.
Finally they really were there. They stampeded off the ramp, knocking each other over.
“Okay, these tickets say we get to go and meet some of the people first, then they’ll pick who gets to be extras or whatever, and we’re allowed to follow the people around as long as we don’t break anything,” Yuki said. Everyone looked at Kumoko.
“What?” she asked.
“Oh, are you young ladies here for the holotaping of E.M.?” a snooty-looking man asked. They nodded enthusiastically and handed him their tickets.
“Go wait in the main lobby,” he said. “You will be escorted from there.”
“Fun, this is going to be,” Numako said.
Kairiku began to fidget, she was extremely impatient. Her leg bounced up and down until Kumoko put her hand on it to hold it down. “That’s driving me crazy!” she cried. Kairi-chan just laughed.
Just then a door opened, and a woman wearing a business suit walked out. “This way please,” she said in a perky voice, motioning towards the door. The girls scrambled in. Then they screamed.
“It’s really him!!!” Yuki cried, running to Dorge. She practically flung herself into his arms. “Whoa, nobody told me they were raving lunatics!” he joked.
“Look, it’s that guy who plays Dr. Beater Penton!” Kumoko exclaimed.
“Look, there’s Gark Mean - the guy who plays him anyway - and the lady who plays Warrie Ceaver!” Kairiku said, jumping up and down.
“Ooh, and that really cute guy who plays Kuka Lovac - what a hunk!” Ippin sighed.
Meanwhile Xarae was calmly talking to the people, and Numako was eying Moah. Nobody could have ever guessed what she was planning...
Dorge tried to stand up, but Yukiko was on his lap. “Um, could you get off, miss?” the salt-and-pepper haired man asked.
“Oh.” Yuki’s pale skin flushed bright red. “Sorry, Mr. Plooney.”
“Okay, now we’re going to pick people to be in some of the scenes,” the woman who let them in said. They walked around, deciding which of the seven girls to use.
“How about you, you, you, and you,” she said, pointing to Kairiku, Kirana, Ippin and Kumoko.
“Yay!” the chosen girls cried happily. Yuki and Xarae looked kind of bummed, but Numako looked as if she didn’t want to get picked; it would ruin her plans...
“Okay, in this scene you’ve survived a hit-and-run by a speeder. You can barely move, but they say you’re going to be fine. So, you’re really happy. Okay?” a director asked, looking at Kairiku, who was lying in a bed with her arm bandaged and a fake cut on her cheek.
“Okay!” she giggled.
“Action!”
“Oh, Dr. Lovac, I’m so glad I’m going to make it,” Kairiku said, her voice just above a whisper.
“You’re a very lucky young lady,” the black-haired “doctor” said.
“I mean... when I saw that speeder coming I thought I was over. Thank you... for saving my life,” she said dramatically, putting her hand over her forehead and falling into his arms.
By then, the actor playing Dr. Lovac looked about ready to burst into hysterical laughter. “Oh, no... problem...” he said, trying to hold it in. But, unfortunately, he couldn’t.
“HAHAHAHAHAHA!”
“Cut!”
“Um, Miss Shicchi, do you think you could, well, tone it down a bit?” asked the director.“Well, sure, if Mister ‘I’m-so-handsome-and-I-saved-your-life’ over there wasn’t so good-looking, maybe I could.” Kairiku pouted.
“He can’t help that. You’ll just have to... pretend? Have you ever done that?” the director asked.
"Of course I have! Do you think I’m-”
“Um, no fighting, please,” Dorge said from offstage. “I hate it when people fight...”
“Okay,” Kairiku said and continued on with her scene.
Later...
“Shh! Know they can’t,” Numako whispered to Yuki.
“About what?” Yuki asked, confused.
“Make this show more interesting I will,” Numako said with a wink. Then she took something out of her bag - it was a can.
“What is it?” Yuki asked with interest.
“Floor wax.” Numako grinned.
“Oh, you are very bad...”
“Make cute brown-haired doctor fall I will! Funny it will be!” Numako declared.
“I have got to see this,” Yukiko giggled.
“Okay, you two girls are going to be running from that guy-” the director pointed to a deranged-looking man “-and screaming. You go over to that door and bump into Dr. Jarter. Let’s just work on that, okay?” the director said.
“Sure!” Ippin and Kirana said together.
“Action!”
“AAAAHHHHH!” the girls wailed as the man chased them through the hall. Moah stood at the door, waiting off-camera.
Numako giggled and slowly began to spray the floor from her hiding place.
Soon Ippin and Kirana were running up to the brown-haired man. They were almost there when they felt their feet fly out from under them. They sailed into Moah, and they landed in a heap.
“Oops,” Numako whispered.
“Ow,” Kirana groaned, lifting up Moah’s white lab coat so she could see. “You’re kinda... squishing me...” she managed to say.
“Oh!” Moah quickly stood up, causing Kirana and Ippin to fall to the ground.
“Cut!” the director sighed.
“Numako, that was so funny!” Xarae said. “Only you wanted him to fall, right?”
“Yes, but funny it was, anyway!” Numako said happily.
“Remember, you’re not supposed to break anything?” Xarae reminded her.
“Break anything I did not,” Numako insisted.
“You almost broke Dr. Jarter, not to mention our friends,” Xarae pointed out.
“Shh, Kumo-chan’s scene is starting!” Yuki whispered.
“Yeah, I’m dyin’. So what? I got droidmonia. So? I still ain’t gonna confess.” Kumoko, or shall we say Fera, crossed her arms.
“But Fera, if you don’t, an innocent person will go to prison!” Dr. Ceaver said.
“So?” Kumoko asked.
They watched the scene, amazed at how good of an actress Kumoko was.
Finally the day was over. But everyone had a souvenir - Numako had Moah Smiley’s white coat (how she got it nobody knows), Yukiko had a picture of her and Dorge Plooney, Xarae had everyone’s autograph, and for Kairiku, Ippin, Kirana and Kumoko, it was enough of a souvenir to be in the show!
