Episode 52: The Misunderstanding Plot
It's another day at MegaMan Jr. High.
ElecMan: And that's how Three's Company became a generic term for the episode title. Class dismissed.
MegaMan and the other students walk down the school hall, passing Sigma's office. They overhear a conversation.
Wily: So should we move the couch to the left or right side of the teacher's lounge?
Sigma: I'm getting tired of the couch. I think that tomorrow we should just destroy it, by which I mean the couch.
Wily: I too am no longer able to deal with my intense hatred for the couch. Tomorrow, at 9:05AM, we should just blow up ElecMan's classroom. After having ElecMan and the students leave and moving the couch in, of course.
Sigma: Agreed. We'll destroy it tomorrow.
MegaMan: They'll destroy it tomorrow? That must mean us, it can't mean anything else, they're going to kill us tomorrow!
Bass: I think it means they're romantically involved.
MegaMan: Stop reading… whatever slash fictions for fanfictions are called. It means they're going to kill us!
Roll: PANIC!
Zero: …I'm just going to make sure I'm underneath the couch when they blow it up.
Everyone else runs to the Cliche Tree, but the treehouse has been destroyed, since only using Cliché hangouts once is part of the cliché. They just go to MegaMan's house.
MegaMan: So as we undoubtedly know, Sigma and Wily are going to kill us by blowing up our classroom tomorrow. We need to think of a plan!
Light: Well don't expect me or the police to help, I'm not doing your schoolwork for you!
Light leaves.
Axl: We could just not go to school tomorrow.
MegaMan: Stop trying to be Zero! We need a real plan.
Bass: What if we made explosion proof armor?
MegaMan: That has potential. To the construction paper!
One arts and crafts session later:
MegaMan: I'm not entirely convinced this will protect us. We need an additional plan.
Roll: What if we tried to find the bomb and disarm it?
MegaMan: We can't disarm a bomb, that's ridiculous. I know! We'll get Rush to sniff it out!
Cut to all the kids assembled in the classroom the next day.
Sigma: School, it is very important that you evacuate ElecMan's classroom. Everyone must be out of it by 9:05AM, this is of the utmost importance!
MegaMan: He's making his move! The bomb must reach everywhere except this classroom, stay your ground!
The students remain. Sigma and Wily carry the couch in and set the bomb.
MegaMan: Okay Rush, time to go to work. Find the bomb! I think that giant black ball with a fuse and timer on it might be it. Rush?... Oh no, I forgot Rush! We have no way of finding the bomb!
Everyone runs around panicking.
Wily: Sigma, I think there are still people in the room.
Sigma: Wily, I made an announcement. Just because I stole everyone's dessert during the last fire drill doesn't mean they won't listen.
The bomb is counting down. 3…2…1…
The entire room is filled with an explosion. The couch and every other piece of furniture is incinerated.
MegaMan: Our cardboard armor held, we're okay!
KI: What was that noise? Is someone playing Genesis?
MegaMan: It's okay, we wrapped up our conflict in just one act.
KI: Well, that's good. You don't have much longer anyway, the show is getting canceled at the end of this episode.
Act break.
Act 2:
KI walks away, then for no apparent reason says outloud
KI: Yep, Metal Gear Solid: The Broadway Show is being canceled at the end of this episode. Assuming the students want to see it, they don't have much longer.
Meanwhile, back at MegaMan Jr. High:
MegaMan: The show's being canceled? This can't be happening!
Roll: We didn't even get a Final Five!
MegaMan: Our course of action is clear: we have to convince KI not to cancel this show! I can't lose this job, as a jr. high student I'm the primary breadwinner of my household!
Ceil: But what can we do? KI doesn't change his mind easily. I'd give an example, but he kept rewriting the cutaway joke.
MegaMan: We have to do something so undeniably brilliant that KI just can't cancel us. I suggest an episode about misunderstandings.
Roll: No, we need something more creative, like… well, pretty much anything.
Axl: I've got an idea!
Cut to KI in his skyscraper on top of a hill on top of a mansion.
KI: I don't care what anyone says, I like the order it's built in.
The doorbell rings. KI answers it.
MegaMan: We're going door to door to collect contract signings for… a… SNES related charity! If you care about SNES, can you sign this piece of paper I assure you does nothing but help SNES?
KI: I already signed a contract for SNES charity.
MegaMan: …I see. Would you mind if I simply went on to my next trick without leaving, getting a different disguise, and ringing the doorbell again?
KI: Go ahead.
MegaMan: Ahem, did you know that certain shows have spiritual links to each other? This means that if one is canceled, the other will also end. I have extensive evidence…
MegaMan shows KI a printout from Wikipedia with a list of shows that ended in 1999, with arrows drawn between them.
MegaMan: …and you might be interested to know that every single animated comedy you like is connected to MegaMan Jr. High. Therefore, it would be in your best interest to prolong MegaMan Jr. High.
KI: I think the length of time I plan to continue the show now, which I am going to avoid specifically saying, is perfect.
MegaMan: Damn. Okay, this time I'm selling/
KI: What are you talking about? You were just going on about show spiritual links!
MegaMan: You said I could just move on to my next scam.
KI: I said you could that time, don't assume things.
MegaMan: Fine.
MegaMan leaves, and comes back.
KI: How may I help you?
MegaMan: I'm selling tickets to MegaMan Jr. High: The Stage Show. Guaranteed to make you want the series to continue or your money back.
KI: I'll take the tickets if you pay me five dollars.
MegaMan: WHAT? That's not how… fine, here they are. The show is next Friday.
KI: I'll be there. Assuming there's a Dairy Queen in the building.
MegaMan: It's a traditional theatre, it doesn't have any other stores!
KI: Well, you have until Friday.
Act break.
Act 3:
It's the day of the show.
MegaMan: Okay, this is our last chance. If we don't convince KI that the show should keep being made, we'll all be out of a job. But no pressure. And I really mean that, I don't want anyone to give 100, or even 75, percent!
KI arrives.
MegaMan: It took a lot of effort, but we got the Dairy Queen built.
KI: Good, I'll eat there when I have to visit this part of town next September.
KI goes inside. The theatre is crowded.
MegaMan: I wish KI hadn't bought advertising space on Google to tell people you got five dollars if you came to the show. But it doesn't matter, it's time!
The curtain rises. MegaMan and Axl are sitting on a couch, Bass comes in.
Bass: MegaMan, what next-gen systems do you have?
MegaMan: Both! PS3 and 360.
Bass: What about Wii?
MegaMan frowns, and shoots Axl in the head.
Later in the show:
MegaMan and Roll are playing a game on a computer.
Roll: I won again. Looks like it's time to go.
MegaMan: Let's make a copy so we can play it on my brother's computer.
Roll: Okay.
Roll puts the disc in. A rapper with a very severe nervous twitch appears on the screen.
Ranger: Did I hear you right, did I hear you saying, that you're gonna make a copy of the game without/
KI: STOP! I can't take anymore, just summarize what you stole material from in passing!
And so the play goes on to steal material from Rocket Power, Captain Planet, The Proud Family, and other better known horrible things I probably should have used to establish the concept instead of Powerup Comics and Don't Copy That Floppy, which a good portion or readers probably didn't recognize and therefore missed the joke.
KI: That was the worst thing I've ever seen! I should cancel you right now!
MegaMan: We failed!
KI: On the most epic level imaginable. I never thought I would cancel you right before the Metal Gear Solid Broadway Show, which I mentioned vaguely earlier, but it looks like I have to!
MegaMan: Wait, you were referring to an unrelated broadway show when you said we didn't have much time and the show was getting canceled?
KI: Of course! What kind of misunderstanding idiots are you?
MegaMan: Well, I guess everything is okay now.
KI: No it's not, you just made the worst thing ever! You're canceled!
MegaMan: You can't do that!
KI: I can do anything I want! The show's over, you're all canceled and never allowed to do anything like that again!
MegaMan: But…
KI: There's no changing my mind! Your show is over!
KI leaves. Hope you enjoyed the final episode, because that was the last MegaMan Jr. High.
The End
KI: I don't know what he was thinking, why would MegaMan want that awful stage show to continue? I hope he's forgotten about it by the next episode of MegaMan Jr. High.
Yes, that's right, the misunderstanding even applied to the real KI/narrator/guy who's talking when no one's name appears before it.
