19, March 1995
Nearly a year after Cucumber got over her fear of lions from the Savannah, she realized they are not as bad as they seem once you get to know about them. Her next assignment is to travel to Japan to get photos of a famous noodle chef "Sato". Cucumber and Pickles lands in Japan and they travel to the nearest phone booth on a tandem bike they rented. Cucumber starts to walk in the phone booth with Pickles waiting next to the booth. Cucumber proceeds to poke the number buttons on the phone to dial Editor Eddie to tell him that they arrived in Japan for photos of Sato.
Editor Eddie: Editor Eddie speaking.
Cucumber: Hi Eddie! We just arrived in Japan. We're getting plenty of great pictures!
Editor Eddie: Good to hear. But not just any pictures, I want you to find that famous noodle restaurant and get a picture of the great noodle chef Sato.
Cucumber: Sato? That's a rather funny name.
Editor Eddie: Excuse me?
Cucumber: That's a rather fancy name. But, you can count on me chief! Gotta go now!
Right as Cucumber hangs up the phone, Pickles saw something strange coming from somewhere. Guess what it was? Flying noodles! they were bursting from somewhere and landing in various places including in roads, parks, and citizens.
Pickles: Woah! Did you see that Cucumber? Flying noodles?
Cucumber: Flying noodles? Impossible!
Pickles: It must be pretty rare for noodles to fall from the sky.
Cucumber: No, It must be coming from.. there! That noodle restaurant Eddie was talking about. Come along!
Cucumber and Pickles approach the noodle restaurant where all the noodles were spraying out. Noodles came spraying from the doors and windows of the restaurant causing citizens and roads to be drenched in noodles. A Japanese lady walked out of the front door sobbing as her restaurant was ruined.
Japanese Lady: Watashi wa nani o shita no... (What have I done...) (Sobbing)
Pickles: Ummm.. Sumimasen ma'am but-
Cucumber: Maybe we can help you.
Japanese Lady: You.. you can?
The lady invites Cucumber & Pickles in the restaurant to see where all the noodles are bursting from. Cucumber peeks into the kitchen and sees a peculiar machine that makes noodles in an explosive way. She tries to think of how she can turn it off but she doesn't see an off switch on that machine. She hollers to the lady about the missing switch.
Cucumber: Where is the off switch????
Japanese Lady: Over here!
The lady hands Cucumber the switch so she can place it on the machine. She places it on the machine and pulls it down to switch it off. Not only the machine turned off, it malfunctioned and broke apart. There won't be any more flying noodles now.
Cucumber: Uhhh.. Oops.
Japanese Lady: Arigato gozaimasu (Thank you very much)
Cucumber: Sorry I broke the machine
Japanese Lady: I'm Suki Yaki, the owner of this noodle restaurant.
Cucumber: Oh? My name is Cucumber, and this is my assistant Pickles. But I'm afraid your noodle machine is malfunctioned and out of order.
Pickles: You can say that again.
Cucumber: We're looking for the famous noodle chef by the name of Chef Sato. Do you know of him?
Suki Yaki: I wish I did.. since he disappeared, I had to buy this awful machine and (Sniff) now my restaurant is.. ruined! (Cries)
Pickles: Damn, that's too bad.
Cucumber: It's horrible. I promised my boss to get photos of Sato and, I can't let him down. We have to find that chef.
Pickles: How?
Cucumber: I know, Do you have a picture of him?
Suki Yaki: Oh, Yes. (Hands Cucumber a picture of Chef Sato)
Cucumber: Uh huh.. He shouldn't be too hard to find but, We'll find him for you, Suki Yaki. (Walks out the front door of the restaurant)
Pickles: But Cucumber, We're photographers, not detectives. Wait!
Cucumber was running to the tandem bike she rented to browse in her bag for binoculars to look for any person wearing a chef's hat. Whilst Cucumber was looking around for anyone wearing a chef's hat, Pickles asked
Pickles: But where do we start looking? It'll be like looking for a noodle in a damn hay stack.
Cucumber: Oh look! I see it! A chef's hat! Hop on!
Cucumber gets on the tandem bike she rented and Pickles gets on the second seat and starts pedeling to go after the person wearing a chef's hat. As soon as they were getting close to where the chef was, Cucumber was trying to stop the bike so her and Pickles wouldn't crash. But unfortunely, the brakes weren't working properly sending them crashing to a cart causing them to fly off the tandem bike high in the air. After they flew in the air a little bit, they plummeted on something soft at least but bounced off. Cucumber hit her buttocks on concrete and collapsed. Pickles then bounced off something soft but worst of all, he hit his nuts on a road block and lands on the chef.
Cucumber: Uhh Pickles? You gotta get off Chef Sato.
Pickles: You're right, I'm sure he has a-
???: I'm not Chef Sato, I'm Koto, the street sweeper.
Cucumber: My deepest apologies sir. But why are you wearing that chef's hat?
Pickles: Are you a chef too?
Koto: No. I just found it in the street. (Shows the chef's hat)
Cucumber: That seems awfully familiar.. It belongs to Chef Sato.
Cucumber takes a closer look at Chef Sato's hat and looks into it. She then sees a writing in Japanese saying
"Kono bōshi wa Satō san no da!"
Cucumber got confused because she doesn't really know much Japanese. Pickles looked at it and translated for her.
Pickles: It says "This hat goes to Sato!"
Cucumber: That was my guess. And our first clue. Koto, Could you show us the place where you found this? Maybe we'll find another clue there.
Koto: Let's see, I found it over there.
Cucumber, Pickles & Koto walk to a garden also covered in noodles. But it's where Koto found the chef's hat. Cucumber & Pickles are also looking for more clues. Cucumber looks under a rock but nothing was there. Pickles looked in the bushes but nothing was there. Right as Koto was going to sweep up the noodle mess, Cucumber then saw another writing but this time, out of noodles. She ran to Koto to stop him from sweeping as she found another clue. It was a message saying
"Watashi wa jūryō age no bashō no horyo desu."
Cucumber: No! Stop! These noodles make a picture!
Koto: It's not a design, It's a message in Japanese.
Cucumber: What does it say? I wanna know.
Koto: It says I am held prison of the big and strong weighlifter Basho.
Cucumber: That's all? Who the hell said that? We can't solves this mystery until we figure out who the hell wrote this.
Koto: Rest easy, this message was from Chef Sato.
Cucumber: Damn, I could have guessed that.
Pickles: Me too.
Cucumber: Thank you very much Koto. Our second clue. I wonder who that Basho person is.
Pickles: If he's a body builder or a weightlifter, He doesn't sound like someone we wanna fuck with.
Cucumber: (Surprised) Uhhh... oh look! There's a trail of noodles. I think Chef Sato left a trail of noodles. Let's follow it.
Cucumber follows the trail of noodles where it leads to hoping to rescue Chef Sato. Pickles follows along. When they got to a bridge, the trail stopped leaving the two disconcerted.
Cucumber: The trail, it stops there but.. no sign of Chef Sato.
Pickles: Great, a dead end. Now what?
Cucumber: We're not giving up on this one.
Pickles: We best hope not.
In the middle of Cucumber and Pickles figuring out what to do next, They here a noise coming from across the bridge. It was someone slurping on noodles and to their luck, It was Chef Sato's famous noodles he's serving.
Cucumber: What's that noise?
Pickles: What noise? I only hear...
Cucumber & Pickles: Slurping.
Cucumber: And.. I also smell.. Freshly cooked noodles! Do you see what I see?
Pickles: Uhhh flyin' noodles?
Cucumber: That's it! Let's go see!
Yes, it was noodles coming from Chef Sato. But who's eating them? The weighlifter Basho. He's been eating bowls and bowls of noodles and demanding more. After he finished his bowl of noodles, He angerly slams the table demanding more to be made.
Basho: Motto! Motto ramen kudasai!!! (More! More noodles!!!)
Chef Sato: Dekirudakeyauki ryori o shite imasu, Basho san! (I'm cooking as quick as I can, Basho!)
Cucumber: Come on Pickles. (Grabs his hand)
Pickles: Cucumber! No! This is not a good idea! He'll tear me apart (Almost crying)
After Cucumber and Pickles approached Basho, Basho notices the two. He then mistaken them as tourists and speaks of their language which is English. He then says in a stubborn tone.
Basho: Tourists? Who are you?
Cucumber: I'm Cucumber, The travel photographer.
Pickles: And I'm Pickles, her assistant.
Chef Sato: And I'm Chef Sato.
Pickles: Ah! We were looking for you Sato!
Cucumber: And you must be Basho I assume?
Basho: Umm.. Piss off! (Flips the table and does a sumo stomp to try and intimidate the two photographers)
Pickles: Ah! (Hides behind Cucumber and grabs the camera flash to get a photo of Basho to district him)
Basho: Ah! (Slips on the noodles and falls to the ground but can't get up from the fall)
Cucumber: Oooo! That's gotta leave an ass mark!
Pickles: (Runs to Chef Sato and unties the rope tied to the 100 lbs weight dumbell Basho placed)
Chef Sato: Arigato! (Thank you!)
Pickles: Uhhh.. Douitashimashite! (You're welcome!)
Chef Sato: (Chuckles) Thank you for coming to my rescue! How did you find me?
Pickles: Uhhh.. We used our noodle,
Cucumber: And solved your clues. And as for you Basho, We're reporting you to the police for holding the famous noodle chef hostage!
Basho: Uhhh.. Gomen Nasai.. (Sorry..)
Cucumber: What did you say?
Pickles: He said he's sorry.
Cucumber: Thanks for the help Pickles. Anywho, are you really sorry Basho?
Basho: Yes, I mean Basho no harm. I just want to eat his delicious noodles a lot.
Pickles: Then why don't you eat them at his restaurant instead of holding him like a damn prisoner?
Basho: Well, Because Miss Suki Yaki won't let me eat there no more, I'm banned there for eating too loudly.
Cucumber: She's right about that.
Chef Sato: Maybe you can keep it down a notch? That'll make Suki Yaki happy.
Pickles: Alright big guy, Lemme help ya. (Puts his hand out to help him up and he grabs his hand firmly popping Pickles' knuckles) Oooo ahhh.. Careful with your grip dude.. But, I kinda needed that poppin'.
Chef Sato: Thank you Cucumber, And thank you Pickles.
Cucumber: All in a day's work, Sato.
After Basho redeemed himself as regretted what he did to Chef Sato, Chef Sato unbanned Basho after he made an agreement to eat quietly. Chef Sato is found safe and sound back into the restaurant leaving Suki Yaki impressed to see him back in action at the restaurant. Chef Sato is now making hand made noodles in the restaurant rather than that retched machine that shoots out noodles a ton. Suki Yaki had never been pleased to have her restaurant back to normal. Basho did his best to eat noodles quietly but, He's making progress. Cucumber sets up her camera to get a photo of Chef Sato and Suki Yaki together. But Basho wanted to be in the photo after he redeemed himself and Cucumber said it was okay. She then snapped the photo of them together and it was time for Cucumber & Pickles to leave Japan. Cucumber comes back to Editor Eddie's office and hands him the pictures her and Pickles took of Suki Yaki, Chef Sato and Basho. Editor Eddie was impressed with the photos.
Editor Eddie: Great pictures, Cucumber. I'm impressed with the work you have done. Especially your partner. Are you two getting along?
Cucumber: Yeah, Yeah.
Editor Eddie: Terrific. You two are excused.
Cucumber: Thanks Editor Eddie.
Cucumber & Pickles leaves Editor Eddie's office with grins on their faces after they were pleased to hear Editor Eddie's compliment. Pickles then tells Cucumber something.
Pickles: Cucumber?
Cucumber: Yes?
Pickles: I wanna say I'm sorry if I offended you at our trip?
Cucumber: How did you offend me?
Pickles: Well, when we were talking about Basho. I uhhh.. Uhhh..
Cucumber: Threw an F bomb? Well, I wasn't offended, I was just surprised to hear my assistant have such mouth. But, apology accepted. But don't say it around Editor Eddie. Deal? (Puts her hand out)
Pickles: Deal. (Shakes Cucumber's hand)
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