-Festive music playing, not quite Christmas-y, but close. As names are said, the "characters" turn around and smile or pose at the camera, dressed in winter gear-
Non-Cheesy, 50's Style Announcer: Live from downtown Station Square, welcome to the 87th Annual Station Square Thanksgiving Parade! Starring DJ:(N)RR Hosts DarkJuno....Millenia......Special Correspondent Mai Shiranui...........with special guests Squall Leonhart....Elena......Princess Zelda.......Krystal........and more...........
-pan to a booth set up in front of the corner of the Train Station, DJ, Millenia, and Mai seated on the top of the steps just in front of the doors. Their backs are to the street, though the can easily see the parade pass by-
...and now, our hosts, DJ, Millenia, and Mai.....
DJ: Heya, and welcome to the 87th Annual Station Square Thanksgiving Day Parade, right here, for the very first time on DJ:(N)RR! Naturally, I'm your usual, slightly chillier, host DJ...albeit with another messed up haircut! -grumble grumble-
Millenia: Aw, come on now DJ....
Mai: Yeah DJ-chan, you'll only have to go through this "Backstreet Boy" look alike hair for another week or so before it grows out!
DJ:..........just do your intros already........
Millenia: Heh, all right! Hey everyone, and naturally I'm Millenia! -adjust headband-
Mai: Konnichiwa!!!!!!!!! I'm Baaaaaaaaack! Teehee, Mai ready to report! Thanks for joining us!
DJ: Indeed, we here at DJ:(N)RR are proud to be part of this yearly tradition here in Station Square starting this year, after the last station that aired this, uh, "mysteriously" went bankrupt -cough-
Millenia: Riiiiiiiight.........if it's any consolation, they're having some Deep Fried Goodness right about now!
Mai: -nervous laugh- Yup!
DJ: Er....anyway, we're about ready to start here, so first we'll give some background info here as you watch some footage we shot here earlier.....you'll have to ignore some of the shots of us in various stages of dress here since it got cold here really quickly........about the 40's now, eh?
Mai: Hai! I even have to wear my jacket now!
Millenia: Heh, and if Mai wears a jacket, you KNOW it's cold!
Mai: Grrr.....well, at least I can explain it...that thing on your head...gah, is it a bandana or a headband!?
Millenia: Hey, I'd like to see YOU pull off this look!
Mai: Gladly! -begins to take off jacket-
DJ: Whoa, whoa! Er, as amusing as this would be Mai, we have to at least TRY and keep this PG rated at least until AFTER the parade starts!
Mai: Bah.....
DJ: ANYWAY, this parade started years ago, back when Station Square was a mere speck on the map. Back then, Santa would come in to the old Train Station north of here, and would drive over to the department store. Soon, the store thought it would be a good promotional piece and had him come down, in costume, to the store, naturally drawn by a Stantler drawn sleigh. Of course, that eventually evolved into the parade after the local high school marching band was added, and it all came from there.
Millenia: And now, we have the largest Thanksgiving Day parade in the worlds! And keep in mind we don't just mean Thanksgiving Day, but all those other Holiday equivalents, like -gag- Granas Day or the Triforce Days in Hyrule!
Mai: Hmmm, I always thought the Triforce Days were like Christmas, with gifts and all that....
DJ: Eh, it's close enough....
-loud bullhorn-
DJ: Whoa! That sound means that it's time for the parade to start!
Mai: Sugoi!
Millenia: Er, what?
DJ: Don't ask -coughmostly sinceireallydontknowcough-....
Mai: Hehehe....we'll be back with the parade, right after this....
-off camera-
Cameraman: And you're off!
DJ: -whew!- This isn't as easy as those jerks last year made it seem!
Mai: Yeah, you're right, but still, this is fun!
Millenia: All right Mai, what about the headband!?
Mai: Oh come on Milly-chan, what kind of fashion statement is that? You're hair isn't long enough to get in your eyes anyway...
Millenia: Well, at least I wore something that'd make sense in this weather!
Mai: Hey, I have the jacket....
Millenia: Over your usual clothes! I mean, I'd think you'd at least wear pants in this weather!
Mai: Please, a ninja must be prepared for anything......call this cold weather training, if you must.......
DJ: Ladies, calm down, I don’t' want a huge fight on air here......
Millenia: Tch!
Mai: Whatever DJ-chan....
Cameraman: Okay, you're on in 5.......4........3..........2........
-on camera-
DJ: ...........We're back, and here comes the first float! Obviously, seeing as how this IS Thanksgiving, it's going to be the traditional Turkey Float!
-naturally, the COOKED Turkey shaped float comes down the street, people cheering at the smoking float-
Mai: Eh? Usually it's a Turkey wearing a hat....
Millenia: Well, it used to, but starting this year they thought a cooked turkey would be more representative of the holiday....though if you ask me it's a bit....creepy..........
DJ: Well, speaking of Turkeys, it looks like we have a couple of our own on the float!
Mai: Yup, it's our good 'ol Letters Desk readers Foyusa and FPB, the latter in her Sailor FPB mode!
-surely enough, Sailor FPB, equally bundled up as the others, is waving in front of the giant turkey. Foyusa, complete with earmuffs and a red scarf, is sitting on her shoulder, also waving-
DJ: Yeah, well, enough of them....here comes the grand marshal of this year's parade, the intrepid leader of the Star Fox team, Fox McCloud!
Millenia: -whew- screw him, I like that car he's in!
DJ: Ah, now that's a 2003 Bishounenco F.G. Roadster, Special Magical Dreamers Edition! It's in Sephy Silver, with Leonhart Leather colored interior and All wheel Drive!
Mai: Make it in Red and I'll buy one....but I thought Bishounenco made shampoo?
DJ: Well, they do, but their main concern is with cars and stuff....
Millenia: Whatever, supposedly, there are only about 10,000 of this special edition, named after the famous musical group out of Termina Port itself. Fox, of course, made it as Grand Marshall due to his saving the entire Lylat System again, and thereby overshadowing the other heroes and heroines this year...
Mai: Hey, didn't Alex Roivas save the human race?
DJ: True Mai, but Fox saved the Thorntails, Cloudrunners, Lightfoots and another 50 or so races found in the Lylat system, so they gave him the award, though she should be in here somewhere....and hey, with the Grand Marshall comes this year's opening act, from none other then superstar Elena!
Millenia: -tch- why her!?
Mai: Now now Milly-chan, you're not jealous of your former half, are you?
Millenia: Take that back! I'm not jealous, it's just that I'm tired of hearing this and that about the "WONDERFUL" Elena! Bah!
DJ: Well, you have to admit, for an immensely popular singer, she's pretty positive and clean in her songs, and she actually KNOWS how to sing instead of relying on her other "goods...."
Millenia: -grumble grumble- Fine, I'll give her that.......
-mumbles as Elena waves to the crowd and begins to sing as the car travels down-
Mai: Oh! It's our first balloon, Boco the Chocobo!
DJ: That's right Mai, and it's sponsored, naturally, by Choco Bill's, the premiere Chocobo breeders out there! I once bought a Black Chocobo from them back in my Roving Reporter Days....
Mai: You never told us about that.....
DJ: Eh, once the GNE changed the format, I went ahead and donated it to Balamb Garden so they could have a sort of mascot.
Millenia: Uh-huh...well anyway, Choco Bill's is also a big supporter of the parade itself, which is slightly ironic due to Chocobo's looking like Turkeys!
Mai: Uh, they look like Chickens Milly-chan.......
Millenia: Turkeys!
Mai: Chickens!
Millenia: TURKEYS!!!
Mai: CHICKENS!!! Right DJ-chan?
DJ: ...............oh look, another float, and this laboratory themed one has the normally reclusive Bounty Hunter Samus Aran!
-Samus, slightly tired but with a genuine looking weak smile stands by the "lab table," and gives half hearted waves to the crowd in a black jacket with her "S" logo on it-
Millenia: Hmph...anyway, the giant Samus robot we showed you guys a few weeks ago began going out of control last night during testing, so they threw this set together and convinced Sammy here to be on the float....and as you can tell from the cheers, it seems that everyone's appreciative of her bringing in Vincent Valentine last week.
Mai: Yup yup! Most people seem to be glad that he's now back in confinement, though according to the last poll most people still think he's innocent
DJ: Well, we'll see from the trial....I must say, it's great to see Samus out here at least trying to enjoy herself, especially after such a tough job.
Millenia: Yeah, but now people might get the wrong idea about her , and think she's not all that tough!
DJ: Hmmm, that could be a good thing...she can surprise her next few bounties and beat their asses to the ground,.....not that she already does, and without being well endowed, might I add...
Mai: Nh?
DJ: Well, come on, besides the fact that she's a strong character anyway, I especially respect how she does all of her jobs and such without having gigantic "woohoos" that so many heroines have gotten.....hell, those kinda sorta disappoint me, actually......in fact..
-stops and notices both Mai and Millenia giving him the dreaded "sideways, corner of the eye glare"-
DJ: Er........moving right along, we have another float, this time sponsored by the UBA!
Mai: -snaps out of glare- Oh! ANDY-CHAN!!! OVER HERE!!! -gets up and waves at the float of femmy guys-
Millenia: Uh, as DJ said, this is the usual UBA float, representing a quiet pond surrounded by cherry trees, with their pink blossoms coming down. Tch, frankly, it's all a bit too sappy for me, but whatever.....
DJ: You can see there, besides Mai's main squeeze Andy Bogard, we've got the UBA Chairman himself Sephiroth, as well as some of the other "reasonably okay looking" guys on there. -motions to the girls in the stands drooling/swooning at the sight of the people on the float-
Millenia: Oh, just go and say it DJ...we can call girls hot and we're fine.
DJ: One, none of them are "hot" or "cute" in my eyes, and two, if a guy compliments another one, they think he, um, swings that way.
Mai: Well, we all know of that girlfriend of yours...though she could probably bench any of these guys on the float.....
DJ: Yeah, well, whatever....
Mai: Eh...-sits back down with hearts in her eyes-
DJ: We'll be right back....
-off camera-
Millenia: What was that about well-endowed girls!?
DJ: Hey, I meant nothing bad by it! I mean, Mai here brings a lot of life into the normally depressing Fatal Fury/ King of Fighters stuff, while you...well, you're you!
Mai: Still DJ-chan, don't think you're fooling anyone with your "Goody goody" act....you're a guy no matter what, so we know what you want.,
DJ: Hmmm, is that so? Fine then........
-on camera-
Millenia: And we're back! Look, it's the Station Square High Marching Band, right behind the UBA float.
Mai: Well, you see Milly-chan, it all started off a long time ago, back when the old SS High Principal asked the parade chairman to allow their marching band to accompany Santa from the Train Station to the store. He agreed, and as they say, the rest is history!
DJ: Hmm...Mai, that's MY script...
Mai: Oh! Sorry DJ-chan, I was wondering...
DJ: Same here...it says here to "do that happy bouncing thing in your chair while smiling and giggling"
Millenia: Heh, I'd DEFINITELY pay to see you do that!
DJ: ........
Mai: Tehe, well, here comes another balloon, straight out from the popular Cape Claw's Secret stores, it's a larger then life version of Krystal!
DJ: Nice.....
Millenia: Hey! -slaps DJ out of trance-
DJ: Er, right.....um, anyway, Krystal herself commissioned this float as a thank you to the people who bought stuff from her stores and have made it a success....and frankly, I'll give a resounding "You're welcome!" -leans over railing- Right men?
Guys in crowd: Hell yeah!!!!
Mai: Uh, DJ-chan, she's literally a Fox...
DJ: She's an ANTHRO Fox
Millenia: -rolls eyes-
DJ: Moving along, here we have the SSB float, featuring some of the stars of the SSB!
Mai: Ah! There's Link-chan, Marth-chan......
Millenia: Zelda, Princess Peach, Mario....
DJ: Mr. Game & Watch, and that freak Captain Falcon too. Samus was of course, originally going to be on this float, but opted instead to go on her earlier, solo float....
Millenia: Well, she's never a big part of the SSB anyway, seeing as how she has her bounty hunting duties to attend to...
DJ: That’s the thing...all of them are never there full time, so to speak. I mean, Peach, Zelda, and even Marth have kingdoms to run, Mario has his store, the Captain ahs his races in the F-Zero Circuit, and everything.
Mai: Still, it's a nice thing for them to do every week or so.
DJ: Indeed.....now we have the Final Fantasy Main Character Council Float, now reduced to 10 members again.
Millenia; Like us, this is the council's first year in the parade, by a vote of 9 to 1!
Mai: Why's that?
DJ: Obviously, Squall didn't want to be out here, but as you can see, most of them have a significant other with them. I mean, Cecil's got Rosa with him, Squall has Rinoa, and so on....
Mai: Woo! Yuna-chan's gotta be cold!
DJ: You bet she is! -snickers and ogles-
-from out of nowhere, DJ's girlfriend, DL, hops onto the railing, thwaps him on the head with a paper fan, kisses his cheek, and hops back off smiling-
DJ: .....Ow.............
Mai: Keep yourself controlled DJ-chan! Anyway, Terra is, of course, unattached at the moment, as she has yet to find another for her. Still, she remains cheerful and optimistic about it all.
DJ: As she should......we should also note that you can see some of the "lesser" members of the FFMCC Structure on the float, such as Dr. Aki Ross or "Nameless guy from FFL, which is really a SaGa Game."
Mai: Hey, now here's the Brotherhood of Evil Villains!
DJ: Hmm, what gave it away? The evil demonic music?
Millenia: Or the volcano with screams coming out of it?
Mai: Nope, it was the skulls littered across the floor of the parade, of course! The Brotherhood was formed 11 years ago, when Game Villains began to complain about the unfair treatment of themselves at the hands of the League of Heroes. Also, it gives them a place to talk and discuss evil plans, as well as having opened their own public amusement park, Apocaland!
DJ: I was just there last week...pretty fun, especially the Blood Falcon 30 Deaths Racing Coasters.
Millenia: Well, next up we have the closing act before the big guy himself comes in, it's Former Gesthal General Celes Chere, singing with the Hyrule Symphony! The Symphony was put together a few years back by Zelda, as a way of reaching out to the people and giving something back. It was after a communist uprising was put down in Kakariko that let Zelda know that something was wrong with the country and thus, she convinced her father the King to begin giving more back.
Mai: Well, obviously it worked! We'll be back after this!
-off camera-
-DL comes back in-
DJ: Hmph, hello to you too....
DL: Sorry, I couldn't help it. Hey Mai, Millenia!
Mai: DL-sama! -grabs and hugs-
DL: Gah...you're choking me............
Mai: Oh! Sorry!
DJ: Hey...why are you referring to her as sama and me only as chan?
Mai: You're a co-worker DJ-chan, she's not, so there!
DL: That doesn’t make much sense Mai.....
Mai: -shrug-
Millenia: Anyway, what happened there DJ? Did your hormones suddenly start or something?
DJ: Hey, you two said to stop hiding, so hey...
DL: It should be a known fact that DJ here tries his hardest to act "sorta nice," which involves holding back the sicker and more perverted facets of male minds.
DJ: It's not easy, but anything for the ladies.........-grins, but stops at the now triple glare-
DL: -sigh- Well, see ya later! -hops off balcony-
DJ: -whew-
-on camera-
DJ: Hey...is that the sound of hooves coming down the road?
Mai: I think it is! They sound like Stantler...
Millenia: And that means, it's him!
DJ: Yup, take a look kids at home, here's Santa, rounding out this festive parade. Hurry and make those lists! -patiently wait for all the kids to leave the room-
Mai: Now that that's out of the way, this "Santa" is actually noted Pokemon League Elite Five Leader Lance!
Millenia: Bass!?
DJ: Hell no, this is Lance the Dragon Trainer, not some cosmonaut wannabe. Every year, it rotates between the Pokemon League, the Carrington Institute, and SeeD as to who ahs to have someone play Santa....this year, lance was the unfortunate one chosen, but still, it's good for the kiddies....speaking of which, they should be back in the room.....
Mai: Oh, that Santa' sucha kidder, eh guys?
Millenia: Yeah, it's not like he's really a trainer in disguise or anything.....
DJ: Yeah...-cough-.........Well, with Santa there, we have to bid you farewell for this, and from all of us here at DJ:(N)RR, we wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, for whatever country you're in!
All: See Ya!
