Puffy Stunts/Transcript

Transcript of the 2016 short film Puffy Stunts.

Transcript
(The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi logo appears before cutting to a title card that says: "Puffy Stunts.")

(Fade in to a concert hosted by Puffy AmiYumi, where members Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura are playing the drums and guitar, as the audience cheers for them. They finish a few seconds later.)

Ami Onuki: Thank you, everyone! Be prepared for the upcoming show by Soren & Harden later!

(Ami and Yumi leave the stage. Their manager Kaz Harada was waiting.)

Kaz Harada: Hey, girls! Nice job out there!

Yumi Yoshimura: Thanks, Kaz. It was definitely worth the money.

Kaz Harada: Anyways, what's up with these "Soren & Harden" people?

Ami Onuki & Yumi Yoshimura: Nani?! (What?!)

Ami Onuki: You mean you don't know Soren & Harden?

Kaz Harada: No, I do know who they are. It's just that I don't get the hype around these people.

Yumi Yoshimura: Come on, Kaz. They're some of the bravest-

Ami Onuki: Most hardcore!

Yumi Yoshimura: Daredevils of all time!

Ami Onuki: And they're gonna do it like this! Jumping on loops and passing them over another!

Kaz Harada: I'm pretty sure ballerinas do that too.

(Kaz's phone rings.)

Kaz Harada: Oh! Hold on, girls. I gotta answer this phone call.

(Kaz leaves the shot.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Can you believe this? Us? Sharing the stage with Soren & Harden?

Ami Onuki: I know! I can hardly contain myself!

Kaz Harada: (off-screen) What do you mean they're not coming?

(Swoosh to Kaz.)

Kaz Harada: But they're up in ten minutes!

Ami Onuki: What?

Kaz Harada: Okay. I understand. Goodbye.

(Kaz hangs up.)

Kaz Harada: Well, girls, I have bad news.

Yumi Yoshimura: What?

Kaz Harada: Soren & Harden are not coming.

Ami Onuki & Yumi Yoshimura: What?!

Yumi Yoshimura: What do you mean they're not coming? They're up in, like, ten minutes or so!

Kaz Harada: I know that, but they got caught in a traffic jam just outside of town. We might have to cancel the performance.

Yumi Yoshimura: Come on, Kaz. We've paid a lot of money for this. We've gotta do something.

Kaz Harada: Like what? Everyone's expecting...

(Kaz looks at the poster for Soren & Harden and notice that Ami and Yumi look similar to each other.)

(Ten minutes later...)

Kaz Harada: Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to... Soren & Harden!

(The audience goes silent.)

Audience Member #1: What?!

(It is revealed that "Soren & Harden" are just Ami and Yumi, but with white paint on their clothes, helmets on their heads, and earpieces.)

Audience Member #1: Oh, you gotta be kidding me!

Kaz Harada: Go. Just go!

(Ami and Yumi climb up a wooden tower.)

Audience Member #2: I am so gone! Who else is coming?

(The rest of the crowd murmured.)

Yumi Yoshimura: We're losing them, Ami.

Ami Onuki: Leave that to me.

(Ami jumped into a ring, hanging upside-down.)

Ami Onuki: Oh, boy. I did plant those fireworks for Soren & Harden, but now I'm not sure how I feel now that I take the spotlight.

Yumi Yoshimura: You did what?

(Yumi loses her balance and falls off the platform. Ami catches her.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Aah!

Ami Onuki: Whoa! I gotcha.

Kaz Harada: Okay, that's not a problem, right, fellas? Soren & Harden know what to do!

Audience Member: You stink! Rip-off! This is a rip-off! Wasted my money for nothing!

Yumi Yoshimura: Ami, let go. I'll go around again.

Ami Onuki: But it's really high-up here!

Yumi Yoshimura: Trust me on this.

(Ami decided to let go of Yumi.)

Ami Onuki: Whoa! Whoa! Ahhh!

(Ami falls off the ring, and knocks down the support holding it.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Come on, Ami.

(The audience boo'ed at Ami and Yumi. Ami got up.)

Ami Onuki: Don't worry, guys! We got this!

(A light tower shone right into Ami, blinding her.)

Ami Onuki: Ah! I'm blind! I can't see!

(Ami frantically moves around, but in the process, knocks down a candle off a table, setting the stage on fire.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Ami! Ittai nani?

(The flames reach the wooden tower Yumi is on.)

Yumi Yoshimrua: Ah! Tasukeru! Tasukeru!

(Ami finally regains her vision and sees Yumi on top of the burning tower.)

Ami Onuki: Oh jeez! Shinpaishinaide, Yumi! Watashi ga anata o sukuimasu!

(Ami runs over to the tower while keeping away from the flames.)

Audience Member: Nobody said anything about fire. Oh, I've gotta see this.

(The audience murmurs.)

Yumi Yoshimrua: Help!

Ami Onuki: Yumi! Jump! I'll catch you!

Yumi Yoshimura: No way! I'm not taking any chances!

Ami Onuki: Come on!

(Yumi can't decide in a situation like this, and had one option. Yumi used all her might to jump the large gap between her and the second ring.)

Ami Onuki: Yumi, what are you doing?!

(Yumi catches the ring, just as the wooden tower collapses. The ring's chains, however, are set on fire due to the roof becoming shrouded with fire.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Oh, jeez!

(Yumi jumps into the next ring, just as the last ring falls to the ground and flings a floorboard right into Ami's face.)

Ami Onuki: OW!

(The fire begins to penetrate the roof, and causes it to rain fire particles.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

(The burning particles hit Ami and Yumi's skin, giving them minor burns. They yelp in the process, while the audience gasps in awe. Meanwhile, the fireworks Ami planted are lit up thanks to the particles.)

Yumi Yoshimura: You know what? Forget it.

(Yumi lets go of the ring and falls to the ground. Backstage, Kaz is ashamed of what he was witnessing.)

Kaz Harada: Ā, yokatta...

(The fireworks shot up into the air, horizontally and vertically.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Why would you plant those there, Ami?

Ami Onuki: I thought it'd look nice!

(One of the fireworks pull Yumi by her hair, and she gets flung off, taking Ami with her.)

Ami Onuki: Yumi, stop this thing!

Yumi Yoshimura: I can't!

(The firework pulls the both of them around the stage before it went up front.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Chūi kanki!

(Ami and Yumi notice a cameraman up ahead.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Look out!

Ami Onuki, Yumi Yoshimura & the cameraman: (all scream)

(Ami and Yumi barely avoid the cameraman and get flung up into the air with the firework, flying right over the audience, as they both scream in slow motion, before they land on the stage. The firework explodes in the background. Ami and Yumi got up, covered in scratches, burns, and ash.)

Ami Onuki: Ta da...

(The audience went silent. Ami and Yumi sighed and began walking off the stage. But then, clapping was heard, and soon, the whole audience cheered.)

Audience Member: Yeah! You rock!

(Ami and Yumi smiled, and gave a bow to the audience before they got off the stage.)

Kaz Harada: That was amazing, girls! You saved our butts.

Ami Onuki: Well, it was our last resort.

Kaz Harada: You should be thanking me for this.

Yumi Yoshimura: Yeah, well-

Soren: Well, if it isn't who I think it is.

Ami Onuki & Yumi Yoshimura: Huh?

(To their surprise, Soren & Harden came up from behind.)

Harden: You two did magnificent out there.

Yumi Yoshimura: Wait, I thought you guys couldn't make it?

Soren: Yeah, we were here the whole time; we just made a deal with Kaz to see how you two would react, and surprisingly, that was a fine performance out there.

Ami Onuki: Wait. So...

(Ami and Yumi looked at Kaz, and then at Soren & Harden.)

Yumi Yoshimura: Are you kidding me right now?!

Ami Onuki: So all of that was for nothing?!

Harden: But-

Ami Onuki: No buts!

Yumi Yoshimura: And don't think you're out of the loop, Kaz! You've got a whole lot of explaining to do!

Kaz Harada: I- (sighs)

(Ami and Yumi gave a lot of indistinct words to Kaz and Soren & Harden, as the short ends.)