With Ms.Tarantula hacking into the system and disabling everyone's phones, all the celebrities were lost on trying to figure out what to do. There've been no announcements to evacuate cuz the ceremony had to go on so they all remained seated. Much like Mr.Shark who was making sure of it disguised as Domee Shi. Unfortunately, the celebrities weren't the only ones lost in translation from the blackout. Mr.Piranha was lost in the halls of the Dolby Theatre for failing to scan the area before the big heist. He had to find the power room the security guards were at and prevent them from turning the lights back on. Tarantula was trying to guide him through, but to no avail.
"No!" she said watching him from her laptop on the various security camera footages and speaking through her listening device "Your OTHER left!" Piranha had gone the wrong way.
"I'm trying okay! It's darker than the abyss over here!" said Piranha running back to the right direction and pressing his listening device.
Tarantula continued to give directions "Left" "Right" "Right" "Down the stairs" "Left" "And run straight ahead" as she said those words, she saw from the footage of Piranha running through the theatre in a Birds Eye view form and he looked like a green dot doing so. To make this more interesting for herself, she turned to her smart phone and played some video game noises as watched Piranha move. She chuckled at it.
Piranha was confused by this as he followed her directions "What the halibuts so funny!?"
Tarantula tried to hold back her laughter "Oh nothing"
In the power room, the security guards had struggled with their dimming flashlights losing battery and finding the power box to turn on the lights, but once finally managed, the shined their flashlights to the box.
"Alright boys" said the head security guard "Let's light this candle get the party back on"
The other guards cheered as one of them approached the power box with the other guards all shining their lights on it for more clarity. The one guard, with his own flashlight, opened the box and saw a lever bent downward and all he had to do was just pull it up and all the lights would be back on. He reached for lever, grabbed ahold of it and-
*CREEEEEEEK*
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The security guards stopped what they were doing, especially the one security guard holding onto the lever in the power box to turn the lights back on, and turned to see the door way. They shined their flashlights to it, but to their luck, all of 'em flickered a few times and died out leaving them in pitch black. The door was slightly open with some moonlight shining from it and then it slowly creaked open with more moonlight shining in and once the door was getting wider, there was a silhouette of a small creature with scales wearing suspenders and their head was down. The creature finally opened the door wide open and it freaked with a stop. They still had their hand to the door. The guards were frozen with fear and just blinked a few times at what that mysterious being was. They looked familiar. They were small, scaly, wearing suspenders and they felt a chill down their spines. The creature still stood at the open door with they hand to the door looking down. Then, they jolted their head up and flashed a frighting fanged grin and glowing red eyes.
It was Piranha!
The guards gasped.
"Guess what fish baits!?" said Piranha in a menacing tone. He then narrowed his eyes "It's feeding time"
Ms.Tarantula eagerly watched from her laptop as she grabbed her smart phone and put on a voice over from Mortal Kombat
"Round 1:FIGHT!"
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Piranha leaped into the air and flashed his fanged mouth as he made a growl and targeted the security guard holding onto the power box lever. The guard screamed as Piranha locked his chomps on the guys head. Piranhas jaw covered the guards eyes and thus he (the guard) was running blind flailing his arms about continuing to scream. The guard bumped into another guard knocking them both down and once on the ground, Piranha released his jaws off the guard and jumped onto the next guard. With them, he moved at lightning fast speed as he knocked him down with his tail fin and continued with a few other guards near him as if the whole room was a pinball machine. A few other guards he punched, kicked and knocking two down by slamming their heads in. He couldn't stop, the guards didn't stand a chance.
The sounds of "Ooh's", "Ah's" and "Ee's" were emulating from Tarantulas laptop and she remained stoic watching it as she's seen it all before. To make it interesting, she scrolls on her smart phone and plays "Kung Fu Fighting" to make it as background music for her amusement. Piranha could faintly hear it from his listening device as he jumped on another security guard to attack "What's that noise I hear!?" he asked as he kicked the guard down and jumped the next.
"Oh" said Tarantula faking coyishness "Nothing"
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"Wolf" spoke Tarantula through her listening device "Piranha just took down the whole squad, he's now in control of the power box, in about 5mins, he'll turn them back on, the ceremony will continue and by the time Kimmel's done, the award is ours!"
Wolf was listening through all this on his listening device as he was holding onto Snake while he was still lowering himself down. "Thanks Webs, see you at the"-winks despite knowing she can't see it, but knows she gets the idea "after party" when the shows over" he chuckles and turns off his listening device. Snakes long elastic body stretched out to where he made himself a hook w/ Wolf just sitting on the curved part. He comes to a holt and Wolf looks down to below. He took out his night vision goggles and placed them on. The view from the googles was black, but with bright green outlines showing what he needed to see. He sees that they are behind the big red curtains of the Oscars stage (they closed when the blackout happened so as to preserve privacy) and below is Jimmy Kimmel off to the right sitting in a chair and hunched over with his head buried in his hand and he could hear him faintly groaning from the disaster of his scheme he's unaware of.
Wolf smirked at that and then his eyes turned to the far left where he sees the Oscar statues lined up on a table and makes a silent "Ah ha!". He looks up at Snake and gives him a tug to get his attention. Snake looks down and sees Wolf point to the left (with some moonlight from the hole he sawed, he could see some visibility) where the Oscar statues were and makes a quiet "Ah" as he slowly swings to the far left.
Snake grabs onto a wall with his teeth and lowers his body down to the statues where Wolf still holds on and examines the table. He sees through his goggles the labels:Best Supporting Actor/Actress, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director, etc, then he finds the award, Best Animated Feature Film! Wolf carefully picks it up with his paws and admires it for a moment as he also gives it a hug. Oh how he was proud to have an Oscar to know his movie was good. He tugs up at Snake to signal to release and Snake brings up Wolf to a high enough length, gently lets go of the wall and lightly swings back a few times. He finally comes to a stop.
"Nice job Snakes!" whispered Wolf as he held up the Oscar in view of Snake "Check it out" he lightly moves the award in his paws.
Snakes eyes sparkled "Oh" he said softly "It's beautiful!" he sheds a signal tear. At last their "well deserved" award was in their paws.
"Yeah now let's huff and puff and blow this joint!" whispered Wolf as he put the award in his coat pocket and Snake moved himself upward. A perfect heist for the perfect evening for the perfect award for the perfect-
"Wait!" said Snake quietly as he came to a sudden stop.
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Wolf was confused. "What!?" he whispered looking up at Snake. This wasn't part of his plan.
"I was just thinking" whispered Snake "All those awards" gestures with his head toward the Oscar statue table "Are right there and I feel that maybe we're more deserving of those as much as the one we got!"
Wolf couldn't believe it. Snake was acting like a spoiled brat in a candy store. This was ridiculous! "This is ridiculous!" said Wolf "Why do we need all those other awards!? We are just here to get "Best Animated Feature Film"! What other awards do we need!?"
"Uh," said Snake sarcastically "Best Animated Short?"
"Why!?"
"Hello! Are you forgetting our ruby heist!? That was awesome! We deserve that too!"
"And then what else!?" Wolf wanted to know what other awards were necessary.
"Best Adapted Screenplay!"
"Why do we deserve that!?"
"Our movie was based off a lesser known children's book and I think that's exceptional!"
"What do we deserve next!? Best Costume Design!?"
"Weeeeeeell" Snake thinks about that for a moment and smirks "I did look pretty snazzy in that unicorn outfit"
"No!" said Wolf. He was not having this. This all too much for him "No! NO! I am not going through with this! I can't carry all those awards with me!"
"I'LL SWALLOW THEM ALL!"
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"SNAKES!" Wolf whispered that as quietly as he could, but his tone was full on frustration "You're letting your greed get to you and I know you're upset that we weren't nominated for squat in this annual event, but that doesn't mean you should let it cloud your judgement and just stick with the one award that matters!" Wolf fiercely looked sharp at Snake. Even with his night vision googles on, he still looked intimidating.
Snake was silent and looked mournful. Wolf was right, he let his negative emotions get to him on not having their movie recognized as a work of art and made him into a selfish old prick. The other awards mean nothing to him so as long as he had the one award that was most important. "You're right Wolf, why did I let this get to me? I should've just stuck with one award"
Wolf saw that Snake was serious and changed his tone to a more gentler one "I'm proud of ya Snake, glad you see that those other awards aren't worth it and that we just need one"
"Right, we just need one……."
Wolf made a nod as he went "Mmhmm"
"……….The award for Best Picture!"
"WHAT!?!"
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"I feel that that's the one award we're well deserving of!" Snakes whispered that pretty loud "After what I said, it all adds up! The animated movie, the animated short, the adapted screenplay and our first scene together that made Dreamworks history, it all lead me to realize that with all that, we should have Best Picture!"
Wolf growled up at Snake. He couldn't believe he still didn't get it through his head that what he was thinking was wrong.
"Quick!" Snake gestured to the Oscar statues table "I'll swing you over to the table and you drop that Oscar and pick up the Best Picture award!"
Wolfs eyes turned red "I'LL GRAB SOMETHING ALRIGHT!" Wolf viciously grabbed Snake and shook him violently. Snake was making horrifying gasping noises trying to find oxygen, but to no avail, his eyes were going cross as Wolf growled bearing his sharp teeth.
The lights were suddenly back on and the audience gasped and murmured at the miracle of the event. Jimmy Kimmel jerked up from his head buried in his hand and sees that the show is back on. He picks himself back from the chair and the audience applauds as the curtains go up and he sees Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt walking back on stage again. Relived everything is back on track, he smiles and applauds with the audience.
Shark was concerned when the power was back on and frantically looked around to see what happened. The crowd was still clapping as he looked to the stage and gasped with his irises shrinking in shock.
Dwayne motioned with his hands to settle down the audience with an embarrassed smile and they stopped sitting themselves down comfortably. After a moment Dwayne made jazz hands and said, "Surprise!". The crowd, minus Shark who was frozen in shock, laughed.
Emily spoke next "Ladies and gentleman, we apologize for the technical difficulties that have unexpectedly occurred, but none the matter, all is well and the show must go-" she stopped when her speech was sounding like it was being blocked by a strange noise.
She and Dwayne turned around and looked up with both their eyes widening. The audience looks their way and they too were shocked as they gasped at the sight. What was shown was a sight they never could believe…….A gray wolf angrily strangling a snake that he himself was carrying and them gasping for air and nearly passed out. This is what Shark was stunned in silence about!
When it looked like Snake was out, Wolf looked out and stopped murderously shaking Snake. Oh God! Was he busted. There he was, dangling from the sawed open roof by a snake, who was now passed out, his paws gripped on Snakes throat and not only was he caught by the celebrities, but by millions of people at home watching. His nigh vision goggles fell off from shaking Snake to much and made a quiet click noise as it hit the ground.
He laughed nervously, "Hi?"