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P.S.: This is where it REALLY GETS GOOD
Chapter 5
The limo has dropped off Francine and Muffy, the three kids have arrived at school, and Emily and Marie-Helene are also there. Emily is wearing an orange dress on her first day.)
Emily: D.W.!
D.W.: Hi, Emily.
Arthur: Come on, I'll take you to your class.
D.W.: You can go now. I'll go with Emily and Marie-Helene.
(The bag then thuds on the ground while Arthur and Buster head inside the school. Emily goes over to talk to D.W.)
Emily: Our very first day of kindergarten. Aren't you excited?
D.W.: No. I miss pre-K. It's better than K because it has a "pre" in front of it.
(D.W. grabs the bag, and the bag rattles while she grunts. Emily and D.W. go up the stairs.)
Emily: Well, I think we're going to have a great time. What'd you pack for lunch?
D.W.: My favorite. BLT without the B.
(She grunts and then stops dragging her backpack up the stairs.)
D.W.: (gasps) Wait a minute.
(She quickly looks through her backpack, gasps, and realizes she left her lunch.)
D.W.: (gasps) I forgot my lunch!
Emily: Oh. Well, you can have some of mine. Do you like pate?
D.W.: What's that?
Emily: Liver, but not really.
D.W.: (moaning) Liver. Can this day get any worse?
(The scene changes to the hallway, where the students are looking at the 4th-grade class list.)
P.S.: NOW, HERE'S THE BIG CHANGE AND WHERE THE STORY OFFICIALLY TAKES MY TWIST ON IT. THE GANG IS IN THE SAME CLASS AS BEFORE, AS OPPOSED TO MRS. GRIMSLID TAKING A COUPLE OF MR. RATBURN'S KIDS.
Sue Ellen: I got Mr. Ratburn
Binky: Where am I?
Sue Ellen: Looks like most of us have Mr. Ratburn like last year
(The screen zooms in on Mr. Ratburn's class list to reveal Binky's name in the middle of Jenna and Alex's name.)
Binky: Oh, there I am. Woo-hoo! I got Mr. Ratburn! The third time's the charm.
(He then walks away.)
Sue Ellen: Who else got Mr. Ratburn?
Francine: We do! Yes! Muffy, we both have Mr. Ratburn again. This is going to be so great.
Muffy: Yay, we're in the same class! Not that I ever doubted it. After all, Daddy has contributed so much to this school.
Arthur: 'Scuse me!
Buster: Coming through!
(They look very nervous while they look through the 4th-grade class list.)
Arthur+Buster: Come on, come on.
(When they find the 4th-grade list, they both gasped and looked shocked just for a moment. They stand there paralyzed while everyone else walks away. Buster drops his horseshoe. The boys then take one look at each other, and everything changes. ARTHUR AND BUSTER IN MR. RATBURN'S CLASS AGAIN!)
Buster: YES! ARTHUR, WE GOT THE SAME CLASS TOGETHER!
Francine comes and gives both the boys a group hug.
Francine: All of us are together again!
Arthur: (SIGHS IN RELIEF) Phew, let's get to class before they switch us for being late.
(Arthur walks over to Mr. Ratburn's classroom while Buster follows him. They both walk into the classroom, head to their desks, and see their former classmate Alex at a desk with a Sikh boy looking at cards. Buster takes off his hat, and the Sikh kid introduces himself.)
Samir: I'm Samir.
Buster: (handshakes Samir) Hi.
Samir: Want to see a magic trick?
Buster: Okay.
(Samir moves his cards around a little and shows Buster all the cards.)
Samir: Pick any card. (chuckles) But don't tell me what it is.
(He picks the Jack of Diamonds.)
Samir: Now, put it back in the deck.
(Buster does just that. Samir shuffles them and pulls out the Eight of Hearts.)
Samir: Your card was the eight of hearts.
(He looks happy.)
Buster: No, it was...
Samir: No, no, no, no, no, don't tell me. I'll get it.
(He shuffles the card again.)
Samir: Jack of Diamonds?
Buster: That's right!
Samir: Yes!
Arthur: (happily) Hey, Alex, I guess we're pod-mates.
Alex: (also happily) Yep.
(He then opens his desk and finds a sandwich inside with fungus on it.)
Alex: Ugh. What is this? (He takes out the sandwich.) A science experiment?
Buster: My bad, Alex, I forgot to get rid of that; I'm sorry
Alex: No worries, glad to sit with you guys this year. Samir is also a good kid, so we can all get along.
(Alex pulls out a big blue book.)
Arthur: That's a really big book.
(The camera shows the cover of a book called The Dimension of Darkness: The Multiverse Series: Book 2.)
Arthur: (curious) "The Dimension of Darkness"?
Alex: Yeah, it's book two in the Multiverse Series.
Arthur: (still curious) The Multi-wha?
Alex: (explains it to Arthur) Multiverse. It's a series about these parallel universes.
Arthur: (impressed) Whoa.
Alex: Yeah, it's really good.
(Arthur leans to the side a little bit to see the pages better.)
Alex: (points to two boys) It's about these twin brothers, Caleb and Sam, who are kids, but geniuses and they do this experiment that opens up a portal to another dimension.
Arthur: (impressed) Cool.
Alex: (keeps explaining) They go through the portal, but they wind up in different universes.
(It shows Caleb underwater, surrounded by whales and unfinished buildings.)
Alex: Like in this book, Caleb lands in a world where whales have cities.
Arthur: I like the drawings. They're so detailed.
Alex: (turns the page) Yeah. Check this one out.
(The page reveals Sam in Mirropolis. He is surrounded by a baby, adult, and grandpa version of himself.)
Alex: This is Mirropolis, where every single person on the planet is a different version of yourself but at a different time in your life.
Arthur: (spooked) Ah! Looks kind of scary.
Alex: That one is. Sam's stuck there now. The brothers are always trying to get back to each other, but they keep getting trapped in different places.
(He closes the book and puts it in his desk.)
Arthur: (happy) Wow. I wonder why I've never heard of this series.
Alex: A lot of people haven't. I just found it 'cause I'm a really big reader.
Arthur: (surprised) Oh, me, too.
Alex: I can lend you book one if you want. It's in my locker.
Arthur: Sure.
(He and Alex realize something.)
Arthur: It's weird. You and I have been in the same class for years, but we've never really had a conversation.
Alex: I know.
(The four friends High-Five, signaling a great friendship. Meanwhile, everyone else in the class is the same as before, with two new kids: Kevin Brouder and Cressida Billings-Thorpe. Cressida is sitting with Brain, Binky, and Paul.) Everyone else is the returning class, bringing the total number of students to 15. )
THERE YOU HAVE IT! IT'S THE GOOD NEWS! BUT...WHAT ABOUT D.W.? YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT, AND LET ME WARN YOU, HER TANTRUMS HAVE FINALLY MET THEIR MATCH.
