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Chapter 5 - Just because you have an acronym for your evil organization doesn’t mean you should use it.

[Enter: BUMS - THE BUREAU OF UNDERWORLD MUSCLE SOLDIERS. Wild goons in brightly colored business suits, carrying katanas and grenade launchers.]

[GOON #1]

For the glory of the Boss! Terminate the judge!

[GOON #2]

He hasn't paid the Boss back!

[JUDGE]

ANYTHING BUT MY DVD'S!

[GORO pulls out his giant mochi hammer from under the table]

Stinkin' yakuza bums won't be interrupting my monumental court case! Get behind me!

[BOKKI, pulling bamboo sword from his waist]

Why do I have to fight? I don't have cool stuff like Bankai or Nen…

[SOBA, still focused on GORO's hammer]

How did he enter with that hammer? How did we not notice it earlier?

[Fight breaks out. Bystanders flee. Goro, Bokki, and Soba battle through waves of thugs. Grenades fly and swords clash.]

[CUT TO: CENTER OF THE COURTROOM]

[The elite squad descends—BUMS' SQUAD X. At the helm: YŌGURA TOSHI. An old mountain of a man in a silver suit, covered in yakuza tattoos, his eyes glowing with malice.]

[YŌGURA]

Mochizuki Goro… heh heh heh… It's been quite some time.

[GORO, cracks knuckles]

HA! Who are you exactly? Can't say I remember your face, geezer.

[They clash. Yōgura flips in the air, grabbing Goro. Goro breaks out.]

[BOKKI, fighting henchmen]

Are you seeing this?! That guy's like a mix of Zangief and Vega in a stuffy suit!

[SOBA, getting strangled by a thug]

Please stop narrating and help me!

[Yōgura charges up a flying axe kick. Soba breaks out of the thugs' hold.]

[GORO]

SOBA! COME HERE AND START SMACKING THE GROUND!

[SOBA]

What?

[GORO]

JUST COME HERE AND START SMACKING THE GROUND!

[Soba runs over smacking the ground, Goro starts pounding the ground with his hammer after every two smacks. The ground starts softening and becomes sticky like mochi]

[SOBA]

W- what?! You're turning the ground into mochi?!

[GORO, chuckles]

I did say I was a legendary mochi maker didn't I?

[The ground under the hammer becomes mochi. Goro pulls the ground up with his hammer and smacks Yōgura flying, the mochi-like ground hardening when it hits Yōgura] 

[Silence. Then… wild applause.]

[The judge climbs out from under his desk, dusting himself off.]

[JUDGE]

Mochizuki Goro… you saved my life. Which means… I'll let you off the hook.

[GORO poses triumphantly]

Just doing what's best, you know! HA HA!

[JUDGE]

Well, you aren't entirely off the hook. This is more like a catch and release. I'll be having you pay their hospital bills and work under your son's employment for one year. That's final.

[GORO]

But my mochi shop is back in [BLANK] city!

[BOKKI]

I have to boss this dork around?!

[SOBA, to Bokki, adjusting his glasses]

Do my injuries even matter to you, your honor? 

Or am I just a background character?

[BOKKI]

No, no. You're in. We need a straight man anyways.

[SOBA]

Straight man? Hey wait! Are you saying I'm not funny?!

[GORO extends hand to both of them] 

Well boys, now that we're stuck together, let's have fun!

[BOKKI]

Don't push it, Old Geezer.

[GORO]

I'M YOUR FATHER, YOUNG MAN!

[JUDGE, grumbling, picking up his dvds]

Case dismissed. All of you leave, I have business to do.

[The trio walks out of the courthouse, bruised but alive.]

[GORO]

So what now, my friends. I know a great ramen shop we could go to.

[BOKKI and SOBA glare at him.]

[BOKKI AND SOBA uppercut GORO shoryuken style.]

WE STILL DON'T FORGIVE YOUUUU!

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