Just
know that I was listening to Smash Mouth's Astro Lounge, for some reason the
Prince of Egypt soundtrack and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory (best CD on earth) while I wrote this.
Thanks
to Hazel N. Mitchell for letting me use you and your characters Seth and Elia.
PS:
Odrin is my muse
The camera zooms in one Lenalaye
sitting at the desk.
"Hello and we're back with Whose Line is it Anyway!
Remember this is a special episode!
Lots of fun in store!" Drew roles his eyes at this and does a mock
impersonation.
"Yeah. Real
special!" he mimes. A few of them giggle.
"Okay and the first game is…. "Director's Cut"!" she
says and the audience cheers.
"Uh…Lenalaye…ma'am?" Chip raises his hand.
"What?!" she snaps and tenses up. Oh no! I haven't screwed up already! My
career is based on this! Then Odrin appears on her shoulder and
thought-speaks advice. Nevermind! Just snap at him and give him the
holier-than-thou thing. Lenalaye nods.
"There are only four seats. And they're six of us."
"I AM HOLIER THAN THOU!" she shouts.
"What?" Chip frowns.
I GET TO USE THE CAPITAL LETTERS AROUND HERE!
"Ellimist?" Drew asks hopefully.
NO, IT'S SHAQ! DUH! OF COURSE IT'S ME!
"Oh thank god." Drew sighs with relief.
"Don't be so relieved. We didn't give him the
hoe-down for being a smart guy." Colin reminds him.
"I don't care, he'll set these fanfic writers
straight." Wayne says. Ellimist manifests himself and begins blowing kisses.
YEAAAAAAH! He does a dance and shuffles up to
Lenalaye who raises an eyebrow.
"Hey! I thought we sent Drode to go piss you off!"
she says frowning.
YOU CAN'T THROW ME OFF! OKAY! LISTEN TO MY COOL
LITTLE STORY! AHEM: DRODE WAS ALL LIKE IN MY FACE AND STUFF AND I WAS ALL
NONCHALANTE AND THEN HE STARTED BLOWIN UP PLANETS AND I WAS STILL COOL. THEN HE
STEPPED ON MY GERANIUMS. SO I WAS ALL LIKE "YOU CAN'T BE STRUTING ALL OVER MY
FLOWERS MAN! THAT JUST AIN'T COOL!" AND HE KEPT ON DOING IT ANYWAY SO I TOOK
HIM AND I HURLED HIM AND I THINK HE ENDED UP IN THE WAKE OF A SUPERNOVA. AND
THAT'S HOW MY MORNING WENT! Ellimist takes a breath after telling the story.
Everyone just blinks.
"Okay, good for you." Lenalaye says. Ellimist pumps his hands in the air.
"But you're
here to save us right?" Colin asks.
HUH? OH YEAH. He turns to Lenalaye.
YOU! STOP PESTERING MY LITTLE BUDDIES!
"You forget! I have the all mighty laptop!" Lenalaye
presents it.
YOINK! Ellimist snatches it up. Lenalaye sits there,
pouting her lips.
"Waaaaa! Gem! Jade! Do something!" she cries towards
the ceiling. Ellimist dances around in triumph. Then a bolt of lighting strikes
him.
YIPES! He drops the laptop and Lenalaye dives for
it.
"You !@!^%%&^! Fanfic authors! I outta---hey!
Where'd my capitals go?" Ellimist realizes that he's Toomin again. Lenalaye
blows a raspberry at him.
"Wait a minute! I don't understand!"
Brad whines. Toomin rolls his eyes.
"Dude! I was mortal once! You think I
just woke up one day and decided to be a fourth-dimensional being? Names'
Toomin." he looks down at his Ketran self.
"Dammit!"
"Just for that, I'm making you one of
the contestants!" Lenalaye points to a chair.
"Uh…Lenalaye…" Chip raises his hand.
"What?" she rolls her eyes.
"You didn't answer my question.
They're seven of us, and four chairs." Lenalaye swings her gaze back and forth
between the chairs and the cast. Chairs. Cast. Chairs. Cast. Chairs. Cast.
"I suppose you're right. HAZEL!"
Lenalaye yells. The cast looks around wildly. A girl with mousy brown hair
stands up in the audience and comes down to the desk.
"Yes?" Then a guy with spiked blue
hair and silver eyes stands up.
"Yes?" another girl stands up, blonde.
"Yes?" They all blink at the risen
group.
"Take Wayne, Brad and Greg." Lenalaye
orders.
"Where the hell to?" Hazel shrugs.
"I don't give a damn! Just take them
to the lobby or whatever and keep them there. Tie and gag them if you feel like
it." she instructs. They all stare at Hazel.
"Can I bring my entourage?" Hazel asks
and displays her group.
"Sure, why not? Don't let them be a distraction
though…" Hazel grabs Wayne and Seth grabs Greg while Elia yanks Brad. They all
hustle them out into the wings. Lenalaye looks at Ryan, Colin, Chip and Toomin.
"Get to your chairs! We're losing time
here! Get! Get! Get!" she orders as the four hurry to their seats. Lenalaye
turns to Drew.
"Hey Drew! Wanna host again?" she
asks. Drew stares dumbfounded.
"You? You want me to do the show?
Why?"
"Cuz I don't feel like being the host.
It' s too nerve-racking." She shakes her head vigorously . Drew hesitates and
looks at his friends.
"Don't do it man!" Ryan yells.
"Yeah we're your friends!" Chip adds.
Drew looks between them and Lenalaye.
"I'll give you ten billion dollars…."
She offers. Drew looks enticed but he looks back to the guys. They all give
puppy eyes.
"Awww geeze not the eyes…." Drew
groans.
"And a third show…" Lenalaye adds.
Drew lights up.
"Why didn't you say so!" He shoves
Lenalaye out of the desk and immediately takes up the pile of cards.
"Yeah thanx. I better go check on
Hazel there." Lenalaye walks off. Drew smiles and the camera pans the appalled
looks on the guys.
"Hey, you know. It's every man for
himself." Drew says noticing their faces.
"Ahem. As I said, the game we're
supposed to play is 'Director's Cut'." Drew pauses as the audience cheers.
"All right, now if you've never seen
this game, Toomin will be the director who follows what's been written on the
little strips of paper. Colin, Ryan and Chip will act out a movie scene."
Another cheer goes up from the audience.
"Animorphs movie! Yeeehaw!"
"That's so cool!"
"Animorphs! Animorphs!" The audience
hoots at the idea of an Animorphs movie.
"Yeah….right. Anyway the scene is," he
looks at the card hard. "Ah geez not Animorphs again…." the audience screams
and Drew hangs his head.
"Billion dollars….." Momo whispers in
his ears.
"The scene has Colin as Rachel, Chip
as Tobias and Ryan as a Controller. Colin is about to be killed by Ryan in the
famous death scene." A chorus of wails rises from the audience. We can hear a
little weeping.
"For crying out loud! She's just a
book character!" trash rains down on Drew from the audience.
"When you're ready begin!" Drew yells
as he shields himself from the trash. Colin stands in front of Ryan.
"You fight well human." Ryan raises
his hand.
"Nooooooooooooo!" Chip mimes being
behind glass.
"I love you!" Colin calls out to Chip.
Then Ryan's hand falls. Colin collapses.
"You bastard! Awwwww Raaaaaachel!"
Chip falls to his knees and cries.
"Cut, cut, cut!" Toomin storms onto
the set. He kicks Colin.
"Get up!" They all crowd around
Toomin.
"You call that a shot! I wouldn't
throw my grandmother in front of it! Now we need something popular. There's a
big audience with teens. Yes," he pulls something out of his pocket " do it
like a pop icons." He walks away. The three reset themselves,
"You like fight well human." Ryan
says. Chip gets down on his knees.
"Noooooooooooooo." He does in a boy
band tone.
"I love you Tobias baby!" Colin cries out.
"But I never got to show you the shape
of my heart!" Chip places his hands over his heart. Ryan does a little side
step shuffle. He does a macarena like thing with his hands and taps Colin.
"This is like so retarded!" Colin
frowns and carefully falls on the ground.
"No, no, no! Stop everything!" Toomin
interrupts again.
"We can't do this angle at all. It's
too cliché!" he turns to Colin
"And your boobs are too small." He
pulls another slip out of his pocket.
"We need something to appeal to older
audiences. Yes…. I got it! Do it like perky oldsters." He walks away.
"A you darn whipper snapper! I'm gonna
cane your hide raw!" Ryan rants.
"But that's my honey muffin!" Chip
complains.
"You ole koot! You just try and get
me!" Colin mimes walking in a walker. Ryan mimes swiping the walker away.
"Ah! Ah aww darn there goes my hip
again…" Colin says as he falls on the ground.
"I love you Rachel deary!" Colin says
from the ground.
"Stop. Okay start over!" Toomin again.
"That was horrible! We can't do that!
It's demeaning to old people. No….we need to be funny! Everyone loves a
comedy!" he pulls a paper out.
"Do it like a Monty Python sketch." He
walks away. Ryan goes and kills Colin.
"Nooooooo! Ya bastard! You killed my
girlfriend!" Chip says.
"Piss off!" Ryan turns and says.
"I'm not dead yet!" Colin calls from
the ground.
"She was just standing right there and
you killed her!" Chip complains.
"I'm feeling better! I could go for a
walk…" Colin says and tries to get up. Ryan does a funny walk and kicks Colin
back down.
"And now for something completely
different." Chip steps up and says. Colin stands up and Ryan kills him again.
"Ya bastard! You killed my
girlfriend!" Chip says.
"Piss off!" Ryan yells.
"Wait a minute! Didn't we already do
this?" Colin asks and tries to stand up. Ryan funny walks and prepares to hit
him down again when,
"Oh stop it! Cut!" Toomin comes in.
" That just cheapens the scene."
Toomin rubs his chin and thinks. He pulls another piece of paper out.
"We need to do something everyone
knows. That everyone can recognize. Do it like one of those real TV shows." He
walks away.
"It's a battle to the death on an
isolated ship. We're down to Ryan the polar bear Controller and psycho babe,
Rachel. Who will win in this horrific blood-bath?" Chip steps up and says. Ryan and Colin circle each other. Ryan
beats Colin and he falls down.
"Looks like Ryan the polar bear
Controller is the winner!" Chip says. He goes to Colin on the ground.
"How did you feel about that final
round Rachel?" he asks.
"They were all against me! It was a
freakin conspiracy!" he then turns to Ryan.
"I want you to know that if you were
dying on the side of the road that I wouldn't even roll my window down to spit
at you!" Colin says viscously.
"Okay! Cut! We just can't do this
either! They're too many reality shows out there anyway. Hmmmmmm….." Toomin
slips out another piece of paper.
"Tell you what, do it like a high school play." he walks away.
"Dude, you're hot!" Ryan says and
Colin smiles and flirts.
"Oh! Ah….now is the time to die
hunan." Ryan says in a monotone voice.
"Human!" Chip whispers.
"What?"
"Human!"
"Oh!" he looks back at Colin who's
playing with his imaginary hair.
"Heehehehee!" Colin giggles as Ryan
smiles.
"Oh! Um….I LOVE YOU!" Colin says
explosively and dives at Chip. He tries to kiss him.
"Ewwwww!" Chip shoves him away. Ryan
has begun to wander off.
"Ah………" Chip trails off and scratches
his head. He pulls out an imaginary script. Colin drifts off towards Ryan. Ryan
spots the camera and goes right up to it. He begins to make faces and Colin
comes up behind him. He tries to get Ryan's attention as he goofs off. Chip
still flips through the script. He lays his finger as if he has found the
correct passage. He smooshes himself as if behind a pane of glass.
"Nooooooooooo!" he whines. Camera goes
back to Ryan and Colin who are pretending to make out.
"Controller!" Chip shouts.
"Waaaaaaa!" Ryan says distracted. Chip
holds up the script and points. Ryan leaves Colin behind and takes a hard look
at it.
"Cool!" He then turns to Colin who
pretends to be chewing and braiding his
hair.
"Raaaaaaaaaa!" Ryan hurtles himself
towards Colin. He does a WWF style body-slam.
"Yeaaaaaaaah!" He gets up and pumps
his hands. Chip and he exchange a high-five. The camera focuses on Colin's
inanimate body. Ryan and Chip then do a chest bump.
Bzzzzzzzzzz!
The buzzer sounds and the four go back to their chairs.
"Okay it's time for a commercial but
we'll be back!" Drew says and the camera pic fades out to the audience cheers.
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Hehehee! More on the way! Review
please!!!
