(The scene opens up in a place that looks like California.)

Aya Brea: (locks up her apartment) This looks like another hard day on the job. *sigh* The force isn't going to be same again after what happened those terrible days. Especially at the Chrysler Building.

(A flashback occurs)

(Aya is fighting Eve/Maya in the Chrysler Building. Aya pulls out her gun and shoots at her.)

Maya..... forgive me.

(Aya shoots Eve and kills her.)

(Flashback ends)

(trying not to cry) Yep, those were the most horrible days of my life. (she hears a trash can crashing down on the road) What was that? (pulls out her handgun) Who's there?

(Aya walks down to an alleyway to see a group of animated demons and a strange looking woman.)

Demon 1: Where are we going, Empress?

Zhanla: To a place to find something that our world doesn't have... water.

(A portal opens next to Zhanla and the demons. They all back away as Betty Boop storms out, angrily.)

Betty Boop: Now just wait a minute, Elvira, what the heck do you think you're doing? You know that water can kill the likes of us. We are animated, which mean we were made with ink. One thing of water in our system can kill us.

Oh, shut up, Betty Boob! (she smacks her into a mud puddle) You interfered in my plans for the last time, sweety.

Yeah, well at least I made a TV show and at LEAST I won awards.

Demons: (all talking at once) What shall we do? Shall we kill her? Make her sniff the good acid?

ENOUGH! (they are silent) Come, my children of the night. Let's go get us some.... water.

(Zhanla and the demons walk through another portal.)

Oh my God. Ma'am, are you okay?

(Aya runs to a drenched Betty.)

Thanks, darlin'.

Don't mention it. I'm M.I.S.T. Investigator Aya Brea. And you are....

Betty Boop, Queen of Cartoons since the 1930s. I figured that Zhanla would try to pull something when she heard the real world had real water. I asked our animators what would happen if we could consume real water. They said that we would die.

Who's Zhanla? Was she that woman?

She was to be animated into a movie villain if she made the cut for the auditions. She burned down the set while trying to perform with me. She got what was coming to her. She was erased and was sent to the cartoon world's version of hell. Me, without anyone to play my voice anymore, I got sent to our version of heaven, the most peaceful and beautiful place in our history.

So, it's your job to prevent that devil woman from doing what she is supposed to do? Man, I should help you out. Where did she go? Do you know?

Relax, darlin'. I maybe a spirit, but I'm not God. Judging by the way this looks, she's probably in California. A place that she thinks IS the real California. I can get you there. Every toon that doesn't have a voice has the ability to open portals.

(Betty opens a portal)

I hope you're right about this, Betty.

(They enter the portal to another section of California of the computer world.)

(Meanwhile)

Demon 2: Empress, my sensors are telling me Betty and someone named Aya Brea is heading towards our area.

What? You've got to joking. How did they.....? The portals! I knew the animators shouldn't have equipped us with portal spells when we die. Now the bitch is heading right for us!

Demon 3: Empress, no swearing. You're a toon, remember?

I could give a careless.

Demon 4: Here they come!

(Aya and Betty walk into the scene.)

(with handgun drawn) Freeze! FBI!

You're too late, Betty and Aya. (holds up a paper cut) I've got what I want. I got the giver of life. I have...(Thunder claps) water!

You know what? That's getting pretty ANNOYING! Shut up!

Prepare to die, foolish infidels! (she gulps down the water)

(gasps) Oh-no, we're too late. Stop drinking, Zhanla!

Dammit! She's not listening. The gluttoned bitch.

(laughs) What a refreshment. You all shall bow to me now. I can feel the water surging through my body. I can feel the everlasting power of life and death. I control life and death. I can control my power at it's peak! You are all dead!

(Zhanla zaps Aya with a Zap Cannon attack, sending her flying through oil barrels.)

(covering her cut arm) Ow, where did she come from? Nintendo?

(Zhanla hits Betty with an Icy Wind attack, sending her flying through oil barrels.)

(impersonating Betty) Oh look at me, I'm Betty Boop. I'm a big star, I won stupid awards, my voice died, I got sent to heaven, I think I'm so big and bad. (laughs and goes back to normal voice) Not only is my power at the ultimate level, I can mimic people too. This is exciting. I defeated PSX heroine, Aya Brea, and 1930s, Betty Boop.

(She laughs as she and the demons vanish through another portal.)

Betty, I thought you said that water could kill them if a toon consumes it into their system.

That's what I thought. Were the animators wrong?

Betty, you're not wrong. I bet we can Zhanla wrong.

???: And you can.

Who's there?

(The two look around. A bright flash of white light shines through the night sky. Aya and Betty cover their faces.)

Who...... are you?

(appearing) I am Kinara, the guardian. Aya Brea, Betty Boop, I see you have arrived. You wish to know how to defeat Zhanla, correct? The answer is simple, water.

But we tried water, ma'am. She got stronger and nearly killed Aya.

No no no. Not inside the system, but outside the system. Pull a wicked witch of the west on her. A toon can consume water within their system, but outside it can make it drip away its structure. If you kill Zhanla with water, then the demons she control will have no intention of getting water.

Is that all?

Yes. As soon as you kill her, return to me to hear more about your journey.

What? Oh, alright.

(At a parade site)

Is my float ready to go?

Demons: Yes, ma'am, all set, ma'am.

Good. Prepare it. We'll need to show every evil toon that water is not hazardous. The animators thought they were fallable, but now we'll prove them wrong.

("Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec" from Final Fantasy VIII plays as Zhanla rides into the street in her demon-like float.)

(In the crowd)

We've got no time to lose, Betty. We strike now, or she'll destroy our world. Do you got the water?

Uh-huh, darling. It's all here. (holds out a water bottle and squirt gun) Is this enough?

It'll do. Come on, let's go.

(The two women run off into the street, stopping the parade.)

What are you waiting for? Run them over!

Demon: I can't, Empress, the float is programmed to stop if a pestrian gets in the way.

Fine then. Come on up, Aya, Betty.

(The two women board the float. "Premonition" from FFVIII plays as Zhanla stands up from her throne.)

...Aya... Aya......Aya...... Aya, Aya, Aya! Curse you, Aya. Swarming like a locust across generations. You disgust me. The world was on the brink of that ever-elusive 'compression'. Insolent fools! Your vain crusade ends here, Aya. The price for your meddling is death beyond death. I shall send you to a dimension beyond your imagining. There, I will reign, and you will be my slave for eternity. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Stand back, Betty, I'll fight her off. (shoots a bullet at Zhanla) Head for cover.

Okay, but be careful.

(Aya and Zhanla continue to fight, using bullets and spells like Zap Cannon and Icy Wind. Aya uses her Liberation spell. It turns her into an angel, and starts punching and kicking away at Zhanla, taking over 9999 HP out of her each hit.)

Ouch, that hurt. Where did you learn that?

(gasping for air) I learned it from my mitochondria, and my game, Parasite Eve. Betty now! Get the water!

Water? (laughs) It'll only make me stronger.

(Betty comes out with a squirt gun, and she's dressed like Rambo.)

Ever seen "Rambo: First Blood"?

(Betty shoots Zhanla with water. Smoke starts to fly out of her and her skin is bubbling and sizzling.)

(screams) What? (she gets hit by another water blast) AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! What's happening to me? (She looks down at her feet. She looks like dripping paint now.) NO! I'm melting! Melting! Oh what a world!

(Zhanla melts away)

Demons: Oh my God, they killed the empress. Water does kill us. Retreat! Retreat!

(The demons run into a portal to hell.)

(Outside a museum)

Thank you, Aya. I knew you'd do a good job in helping me.

Wait, Betty, you're job's not done yet. You and Aya have to find the Castle of Toran and locate Drake. Him and his friends need your help against the Black Wargreymon. Go, quickly.

Let's go, Betty.

I'll open a portal for you.

(A portal opens and the two women run through it. Kinara laughs and turns into a cloaked person.)

(Back at the parade site)

(The cloaked figure walks over to the remains of Zhanla. He puts his hand over her and she is fully rejuvenated.)

Who are you?

Cloak: Someone who needs your help, Zhanla. You need to find Zophar and Black Wargreymon to destroy Ghaleon and Toran Castle. Go now, and make my children of evil be reborn.

(What's going on here? Who is this cloaked person? I don't like this at all. Find out next time.)

Coming up soon: The War mini-series