Nurse Angel Ishiryoku and the Antimicrobial Girls
 

Season II: The Horrifying Minions of Viridae
Episode 1:  Rabies, the Slavering Lyssavirus of Rhabdoviridae



Narrator:  Since the long-awaited destruction of the evil sorceror Prokaryote, Resada had once more become a beautiful land of plenty and peaceful health.  However, little did the people know that an ancient evil had resurfaced, plotting and biding its time until the very quiet of the countryside lulled the inhabitants into forgetful carelessness...

<opening sequence>

o/'Nurse Angel!  Go Nurse Angel!

Reo, Retro, Myxo, Picorna,
Parvo, Pox, or dread Herpes,
Nurse Angel is there, protecting the weak!

Nurse Angel!  Go Nurse Angel!

Disinfect!  Sterilize!  Purify!
Vac-Cin-Ate!
Quarantine! Depopulate! Educate!
Test-And-Slaughter!

Help Resada bloom again!

Nurse Angel!  Go Nurse Angel!  YEAH!' /o

</opening sequence>


 

Darkly glowing beady eyes stare down at the peaceful village at the base of a hill.  'Mwhahaha' It chuckles softly to itself. 'These puny humans are no match for such a one as I.  Soon the very pets of these mortals, yes, those precious and trusted companion beasts will be twisted into my loyal minions.  Their slavering jaws shall wreak terror and havoc upon this land and It. Shall. All. Be MINE!!!  *MWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!*'

A woodcutter walking by jumps in surprise as a weird cackling fills the air.  Bewildered, he looks around, seeing nothing and no one... except that skunk over there.  At least, it *looked* like a skunk.  But then, skunks don't usually crouch in the middle of clearings in broad daylight.  Not to mention that *normal* skunks don't stare at sleepy little villages with demonically glowing beady eyes while filling the air with maniacal evil cackling.  Shuddering in spite of himself, he hurries on.

Woodcutter(thinking): "Damn, I guess Reiko was right.  I really *shouldn't* have used those wild mushrooms in that stew recipe..."

<fade to black>

<Scene: three junior high school girls in cute blue and gold sailor fuku uniforms walking down a pretty country road.>

JHSG 1:  "Oh look, Mimi!  Such a cute little doggie!  Here, little doggie, c'mon, c'meeere."

JHSG 2:  "Uma, you really shouldn't just walk up to strange animals like that, they might not be friendly.

JHSG 3: "Mimi's right, Uma.  Besides, isn't that dog acting funny?"

<Uma leans over, holding her hand out to the dog.  The dog growls, foamy saliva dripping on to the ground.  Uma backs up.>

Uma: "Oh, it's not a _nice_ doggie at all."

Mimi: "Cynthia, look at all that drool.  I think that this dog is sick."

Cynthia: "Right!  Which means..."

<all together>: "That this is a job for the Antimicrobial Girls!"

Mimi: "Let's transform now!"

<The three girls hold up three little shiny rectangular containers.>

Cynthia: "Sparkling Tetracycline Power, Transform!"

Uma: "Magical Penicillin Power, Transform!"

Mimi: "Glittering Streptomycin Power, Transform!"

<The three pillboxes open, glowing green, pink and blue, respectively.  The light from each box bathes its owner in a super bright flash of light that fades, revealing three girls dressed in Magical Girl sailor fukus rather than the Junior High School Girl sailor fukus that the three remarkably similar-looking girls who were standing there before were wearing previously.

Cynthia:  "Broad Spectrum Tetracycline Antibiotic Flame!"

Mimi: "Soul-Heart Streptomycin Reclamation!"

Uma: "Crystal Beta Lactam Capsule Degeneration!"

<Three streams of bright sparkly power in blue, green and pink slam into the dog with a large explosion of swirly patterned hearts.  The hearts clear slowly, revealing that... absolutely nothing has happened.  The girls stare in shocked horror.  The slavering dog growls again.>

Uma: "Um, guys?  I think we're in trouble..."

Cynthia:  "Quick!  Run!"

Mimi: "NO!!  Don't run, that will just make it chase us!"

Cynthia: "What are we going to do?  Our attacks didn't have any effect at all!"

Mimi: "If we move, that dog might attack.  We need Nurse Angel Ishiryoku's help on this one.  Everybody, hold still and look at the ground.  When the dog moves far enough away, let's join hands and teleport to the clinic."

Dog(thinking): "These must be those puny Antimicrobial Girls that I was warned about.  Bah, they are too weak to get in the way of my mission."

<The dog shakes its head slightly and wanders further down the road, weaving and stumbling as it does so.>

<all together>: "SUPER  PARENTERAL  INJECTION  TELEPORT!!"

<insert teleportation sequence full of lights, sparklies and shimmery hearts>

<POOF!>
 
 
 

<Meanwhile, in the nearby woods…>

Evil Rabid Skunk: "My forces are multiplying rapidly in the salivary glands of my myriad minions.  Foolish villagers, they never noticed my insidious centripetal and centrifugal spread over the past month and now its Too Late!  MWHAHAHHAHAHA!!  All your ectodermal tissues are belong to us!”
 

<On to the clinic>

Nurse Angel: "Antimicrobial Girls, I'm glad you came.  I was just about to call you all as a matter of fact.  We have a new threat to deal with.”

Cynthia: "Does it have to do with why our attacks didn't have any effect at all on that dog?"


<Enter Professor Ology, complete with theme song>

o/'OOO-gah chaka OOO-gah chaka'o/

Professor Ology: "Greetings, Nurse Angel, I got here as soon as I could.  With the information from this case, I hypothesize that we may be dealing with Rabies, a virus of the Lyssavirus family.  As a virus, it is impervious to your standard attacks, so I have developed several new ones for you, as outlined in these notes.  I’ve also created some new gloves for your uniforms that will help prevent you hands from coming in contact with the virus.”

<Professor Ology hands red notebooks and gloves to each of them.>

Mimi: "Professor, exactly what 'ology' are you an ologist of, anyway?"

Prof. O.: "Why, *ALL* of them, of course!  Hrm, if this really is the Bullet-Shaped Bastard, we're going to need some tissue samples to confirm the diagnosis.  Nurse Angel, I'm going to need you and the Antimicrobial Girls to track down that dog again.”

*brrring**brrring*

Nurse Angel: “Hrm, that's the clinic's buzzer.  I'd better go see who it is.”

<Nurse Angel opens the door to find a cute little girl holding a somewhat mauled kitten.>

Nurse Angel: “Well, hello there.  What happened?”

Cute Little Girl: “A mean ole doggie bit my Fluffy-kitty.  Fluffy’s my bestest friend in the whole *world*!  Nurse Angel, Fluffy's going to be ok, right?"

Nurse Angel: “Well, I'm afraid we don't know that yet, but we're going to do the best we can, ok?  Fluffy's going to have to come stay with us for a while though.  Do you know where the mean doggie is now?”

Cute Little Girl: “Last I saw him, he was down by the bus stop.”

<Nurse Angel disappears into the treatment room with the kitten>



<Scene switch to near a school bus stop.  The slavering dog from earlier is sitting by the sign.>

Uma:  “Hey, there’s that dog!”

Mimi:  “Let’s get our samples!”

<The dog morphs into a bullet-shaped somewhat-fuzzy virion>

Dog-Virion:  “Miserable humans!  Your insignificant attacks cannot harm me, Antimicrobial Girls!  Helical Nucleocapsid Cytoplasmic Replicating Storm!”

<A torrent of bullets bud out of the membrane of the Dog-Virion and rain down upon the Antimicrobial Girls.>

Uma:  “Eek!”

Mimi:  “Ouch!”

Cynthia:  “Hey, that hurts!”

Dog-Virion:  “Foolish child, that’s the point!  Negri Body Disso…”

Cynthia:  “I don’t think so, buddy.  Try this one on for size!  Silver Defective Interfering Particle Transmogrification Wave!”

<The dog-virion reels backwards under the argent assault.>

Uma:  “It’s stunned.  Quick, Mimi!  Before it recovers!”
 
<Mimi leaps into the air and twirls around in a blaze of light while a HUUUUGE  postmortem knife appears in her hands.>

Mimi:  “Evil wretch, there can be only one!  Shimmering Righteous Justice Decapitation!”

 <THWACK!!  *thud*>

Cynthia:   “Ewww.  Mii-mii!  You got bloody gore on my skirt again!”

Uma:  “Mimi… you’ve been watching Highlander again, haven’t you.”

Mimi:  “Oopsie, did I say that out loud?  No matter, let’s get this head back to Professor Ology’s lab.

Cynthia:  “It’s kind of funny, isn’t it?  I mean, don’t you usually want to test before you slaughter?”
 

<Scene switch back to clinic>

Professor Ology:  “It is just as I hypothesized.  The Fluorescent Antibody Test came back positive for Rabies.”

Nurse Angel: “This isn’t good.  Professor Ology, be sure to notify the public health authorities.  Mimi, I need you and the other girls to start a vaccination and licensing project for the local animals.  This might not have happened if this village hadn’t gotten lax in its vaccine requirements.

Professor Ology:  “But Resada has never had endemic Rabies.  Which means…”

Nurse Angel: “Right.  Either a carrier animal was accidentally imported or… biological warfare.  Somehow I have a feeling that Viridae has awoken once more.”

Uma:  “Oh no!”

Cynthia and Mimi:  <gasps of horror>

Nurse Angel: "I’m afraid that this is only the beginning of the battle against Viridae.  Never let down your guard and always remember..."

<all together>:  "For Love and Good Health, Call Nurse Angel!!"
 

<closing sequence>

o/~"When darkness closes on every side,
And sickness sends you running,
When microbes make you spew out of every orifice,

Call Nurse Angel!

If Great-grandma's in the hearse,
And Little Jimmy's toes-up to the daisies,
If Bessy-cow's knocking on old death's door,

Call Nurse Angel!"/o

</closing sequence>