Heart to Heart/Transcript

The scene starts Tari about to do an anime action.]

Tari: Alright! TAAAAKE THIIIIIIS! [She looks like she was going to punch someone but instead spawns a ducky for Satsuki chan to take.] I hope you like it.

Satsuki: Aw!~ [Hearts appear as she sees the gift as she spins in joy.]

[Tari then scans Satsuki to check the relationship meter.] Tari: Ugh! Please let this be the last one. [She scans again as the relationship meter fills up all the way.] Finally! Why couldn’t Lamar play something less embarrassing?

Kizuna Ai: [Spawns next to Tari] Good job Tari-chan! You have filled your relationship meter with Satsuki-chan! Now is your chance for a Heart to Heart!

[Tari scans with her AI vision as the game says “Heart to Heart!” as Tari opens up a dialogue box.]

Tari: Okay! Dialogue- Dialogue- More dialogue- [She keeps scrolling really fast through the dialogue] Does anyone actually have fun reading all of this? [She then finally gets to the dialogue options.] Ah! Here we go! Let’s see… [She then picks the option to be with someone else.] I’m sorry Satsuki-chan but I’m meant to be with someone else. Huh?

Satsuki: ! [Starts to cry miserably]

Tari: Awwww no no no no no! I’m so sorry for that Satsuki chan!

Satsuki: [“If I can’t have you, then I can at least make you happy. What’s the name of your crush Tari-chan?”]

Tari: Oh! Uh- Well he’s not my crush. H-He’s just Lamar. I-I think you might know him. He’s about this high, green eyes, braids, talks about cars a lot.

Satsuki: Ooh! [Chuckles a lot as she brings up something from her pocket.]

[Tari gets the paper and sure enough she sees Lamar’s profile in the game.]

Tari: Ecchi_Emperor92! How could I forget that one- Thank you sooo much for this Satsuki chan. Ai-chan?

Kizuna Ai: Yes, Tari chan?

Tari: I need you to lead me to this player.

Kizuna Ai: Of course, Tari chan. [Disappears and reappears to show Tari chan the way]

Tari: And once again I am SO sorry it didn’t work out between us. [Tari then walks towards into the classroom door as she checks it out.] Yup! This is Lamar’s room alright. [Ai chan teleports once again] I think I will be alright from here Ai-chan. Thank you so much for all your help.

Kizuna Ai: You’re welcome, Tari-chan! I hope you’ve had a wonderful time playing Pocket Gakusei!

Tari: Yeah! Sure. It was- DIFFERENT.

Kizuna Ai: Bye Bye! [She disappears]

[Tari then walks over as she presses the “Add Friend” button.]

[The theme song plays.]

[The scene cuts to Sofia fixing up Masa’s new arm.]

Sofia: And just about DONE!

[Masa checks out his new arm.]

Lamar: [Nods in approval] LOOKIN’ good man! Just wait till we dress it up a little. You know a new paint job, custom plating, OOH maybe slap some decals on it!

Masa: [Masa gets up.] Let’s just get to business. Sofia, what’s our intel so far?

[Sofia was about to speak as Lamar gets a “Pocket Gakusei!” notification alert.]

Lamar: Sorry! That was me! [Clears throat] Continue.

Sofia: So- Lucks has organized a big show match in ten days to publicize Tari’s promotion to TASCorp’s main lineup.

Masa: Then that should be our target. It’s impossible to safeguard an event that big from every vulnerability. So-

[Another “Pocket Gakusei!” notification alert for Lamar.]

Lamar: M-My game’s probably just updatin’. [Another notification and another as he gets multiple ones.]

Tari: Come on Lamar! Pick up! [Tari was spamming the add friends button a lot.]

Masa: Since Lucks would be distracted hosting the competition we can-……WOULD YOU JUST ANSWER THAT ALREADY?!

Lamar: Alright chill chill! I- I will put it on silent mode. [He then picks up his mobile device as he checks his game.] Huh?!?!

[In game Tari sees the screen of Lamar’s face.]

Tari: Lamar! YES! OH I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU AGAIN! [Silence] Is something wrong?

Lamar: Nah Nah! You just uh- you- you look good!

Tari: Oh! Uh… thanks!

Sofia: Is that Tari? [She comes over as she gasps.] TARIIIIIIII!!!!

Tari: Sofia! Oh! I am so glad to see you guys are okay.

Sofia: Oh Tari! We’re the ones who were worried about you. We were literally just talking about how we’re totally going to mess Lucks up and bust you out of TASCorp and-

[Masa walks towards the screen as the focus is on him and some silence.]

Tari: Hi Masa.

Masa: Tari.

Tari: Masa? I- I don’t know what to say. I’m sorry about the way we left things back at the arena. I know you have a lot of questions and I’m being honest when I say so do I and I just wanted to-

Masa: It’s okay Tari. We can sort all that out after you’re safe okay?

Tari: …Okay….

Lamar: H-Hey! Wh-What are we doing standing around like this? We’re probably making Tari uncomfortable. Check this out! [He configure some settings on his Meta Runner arm as he scans his face into the game. The door opens in game as Lamar comes in to greet Tari.] Konnichiwa Tari chan! [Spins around fantastically as a splash screen of his screen name and real name appears.]

Tari: Hehe~ You LOOK amazing!

Lamar: Well I better. You know HOW many lootboxes I had to open to get this costume? [Makes a flashy smile. In the real world he talks to Sofia and Masa.] Come on guys! Join in! [Takes out some mobile devices.] Huh. Huuuuh.

Masa: You just have have spares on you at all times?

Lamar: Hey! It’s my calling as a proud otaku to share the joy of anime and waifus with the whole world!

[Masa takes a device as Sofia chuckles as she scans her face in. Masa does the same as well as both enter in the game as well.]

Sofia: Sorry I’m late to class key~ [The splash screen shows that her screen name is GenkiBunny3 as she chuckles.]

[Masa comes in where he has a downer emo splash screen where his username is Masa6.]

Masa: Ugh- This is the kind of uniform my grandfather would have worn.

Tari: Well I think you look great.

Masa: Thanks. Let’s stop wasting time and get down to business. Tari! We are going to get you out during your upcoming show match. So I need to know as much about it as you can tell me.

Tari: Okay here’s what I know.

[The scene cuts to Belle going back to her room as she sighs sitting back in her chair.]

Belle: Ugh- Don’t look at me like that. Coconut Boy will be fine. I did this for you. [She opens up her arm UI as she starts to bring up the file as she contemplates as she then starts to play it.]

[The scene shows some scientists inside the room as Lucks enters the room as well.

Lucks: Sheridan?! ….You coward….Search the lab! I want to know what he was doing here.

Lucks sees something as he sees a scientist recoil back from shock.

Lucks: What is it?

Lucks comes over as he also recoils from shock as well.

Lucks: What has he done to you?….

Lucks starts to growl very furiously as he turns around.

Lucks: GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!

Lucks sighs.

Lucks: Recover what you can. Search the cameras and the footage. Maybe something good can still come of this mess.

Lucks gets on comms.

Lucks: I need a medical team down here. I found what happened to Lucinia.

Belle then pauses the video.]

Belle: ……..He knew… He always KNEW! UGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! He’s been hiding what happened to Lucinia for two years! That lying, manipulative piece of-! You are not going to be tossed to the side like this. I won’t let him. I swear it.

[Belle walks out of the room as the scene cuts to MD-5 in the classroom talking about their plan.]

Sofia: Okay so if I can get into a TASCorp access point at the arena that should give me a backdoor to the firewall. We’ll still need to make a connection with my phone somehow though.

Masa: Hm, Tari. Since you’re the one at TASCorp we need you to get the phone of Belle. Any ideas?

Tari: Well- [She automatically gets taken out of the game as MD-5 gets surprised as Tari wakes up.] Ah Ahhh. What the?

Lamar: Tari! What’s wrong?! Tari?! TAAAAARIIIII!!!

[Belle walks up as she takes Pocket Gakusei away from Tari a bit.]

Tari: Huh? [Belle turns off Pocket Gakusei for a bit.] Belle?! What are you doing here?!

Belle: Shhhhhh! Keep your voice down. I’m just here to talk. I- I don’t think you killed Lucinia.

Tari: Well that’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.

Belle: I KNOW! I KNOW! It’s just- I’ve learned some things recently about Lucinia and just the incident and- Lucks lied. [Tari looks at her funny as Belle sighs.] You don’t understand. Yeah Lucks is a shady guy but he was always good to his Meta Runners. Me, Lucinia, Masa- ugh- Masa! Why didn’t I listen to him?! Oh he is never going to let me hear the end of it.

Tari: Uhhh are you okay?

Belle: Ugh yeah. It’s just really hard for everything you know in life to be turned upside down like that.

Tari: Well I woke up in a lab one day with weird powers and no memory of who I am. So I can kind of sympathize-

[Belle chuckles a bit]

Tari: I am being honest when I say I don’t know what Project Blue is. Or what happened to your friend. I wanna know just as much as you do.

Belle: Yeah promising to help you figure out your past was the only way I could convince coconut boy to help me look around the server.

Tari: Wait! You know how to get to Theo?!?!

Belle: Well it’s hard but yeah.

Tari: Well that’s GREAT! We can work together then! You let my friends and I focus on transferring Sofia’s phone data out of TASCorp and you can be the one to free Theo!

Belle: [Laughs] You’re kidding right babe? I don’t even know if I can still get to him.

Tari: I’m not leaving without him. I’m sorry but- Either we save Theo or we don’t do this at all.

Belle: We’re trying to take down one of the biggest corporations in Silica City! And you’re going to jeopardize that to save a video game character?! He’s just a computer program! Who CARES what happens to him!

Tari: …..I care.

Belle: [Some silence as Belle just goes with it.] Fine…I’ll bust coconut boy out! Geez!

Tari: Thank you.

Belle: You know I liked you a lot better when you were a pushover.

Tari: Well I like you a lot better when you were not kidnapping me.

Belle: [Chuckles] Yeah well- I’ll try and cut down on that on the future.

[Tari chuckles a bit as Belle hands Tari Pocket Gakusei back to her.]

Belle: Here. Tell Masa I’m in for whatever you guys are planning at the show match.

[Tari nods as MD-5 in the real world are anxious as to what happened to Tari.]

Lamar: I’ll bet Lucks caught Tari and took her game away. That monster’s probably deleting her waifus in front of our very eyes!

Sofia: Let’s not jump to conclusions.

Tari: Hey guys! I’m back!

Lamar: TARI! There you are! We were WORRIED sick about you!

Tari: Really? Oh, sorry guys! I was just talking to Belle.

Lamar, Sofia, and Masa: WHAT?!?!

[They enter in the classroom right now.]

Lamar: Say sike right now!

Tari: It’s fine Lamar. She actually wants help us.

Lamar: NO way! This has got to be a trap! She’s Lucks right hand DRAGON LADY!

Belle: Thats a pretty cool title actually.

Sofia: I say we let her join.

Lamar: Oh come on Sofia! After everything she’s done to us!

Sofia: Belle’s made some mistakes but deep down she’s a good person. Yes she’s angry, impulsive, and kind of catty at times-

Belle: Thanks Sof.

Sofia: But she is also determined and passionate and above all honest. Belle’s not the subtle subterfuge type. She means what she says. I think we can trust her.

Tari: I guess it’s your call Masa.

Masa: No.

Sofia and Tari: WHAT?!

Tari: Masa- I know you two had your history but- but I’m telling you Belle’s changed. Sh-She’s a better person now!

[Belle gets on the screen as she is angry.]

Belle: Hey! Listen you arrogant edgy jerk!

Tari: Oh no.

Belle: I risked a lot to offer you this help! And to be honest it’d be better for me to do it by myself [Masa just sighs] considering your track record, and-! [Masa puts her on mute.]

Masa: Much better. [Sofia looks at him funny.] What? [Tari makes sad noises as the relationship meter goes down with her.] Don’t look at me like that. We wouldn’t even be in this mess right now if it wasn’t for Belle. Yeah I’m glad she doesn’t think I’m CRAZY anymore but I CAN’T trust her! She let me down twice already. I don’t think I can handle a third time…

Tari: [A Heart to Heart prompt appears as she swipes it away.] I know Belle’s hurt you in the past but from what I’ve seen she’s hurting really badly as well. I know what it feels like to be alone and scared but right now I think she just needs a friend. Belle took a chance taking to me today and she did it because she trusts you. Are you gonna let her down?

Masa: [Sighs]

Lamar: [Sighs]

Masa: Fine. She’s in.

Tari: YEEESSS!!! You won’t regret this!

Lamar: That’s what you said about our last plan and look how that turned out.

Sofia: Shhhhhhhh!

[Masa then unmutes Belle or OwOlogist.]

Belle: And another thing! Wait… Have I been on mute this whole time?!

Masa: Alright Belle listen. I’ll let you join but if you are on my team that means you follow my lead and my orders. Understand?

Belle: …Uh- Uhh- [Sighs]Okay. Whatever you say, Captain.

Masa: Alright team listen up! We’ve got little over a week for Tari’s show match. So we’ve got a lot of work to do. The game of Tari’s show match is Hidden Heroes. Lamar and I will enter in as competitors while Sofia gets in to the security system. Meanwhile Tari will enter the main stage with Lucks and Evelyn.

[Belle starts to smile like she has been relieved.]

[Episode End.]