For the first time in days, I am trying to make a Histeria! story that doesn't have the H! cast in it...well, often anyway. This is the result.
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(We Fade In to the city of Long Beach. It's the way it is in the usual Histeria stories. We then go to a car that appears to be going somewhere. It stopped in the parking lot of the Long Beach hospital. A man got out. It is Jon Molsh of "America's Totally Hated." He looked at a paper for a moment, nodded, and headed inside the hospital. Inside, he asked a nurse something. He got what he need from her and headed toward the elevator. To make this short, he arrived at a doctor's office and went inside. The plaque on the door reads, "Dr. George Ress". We go to inside. A doctor is inside, working on something. He looks like a carnicature of George Clooney's character in "ER". He looks up.)
Dr. George Ress: May I help you?
Jon Molsh: Yes, I heard you got information about a man named Dr. Gene Burrows?
George: I am sorry, but I never met the mad man, and I'm glad that I would never will.
(He is about to get back to what he is going when...)
Jon: What about...Slim Berry?
(George stop)
George: Slim...now that's the name I hadn't heard since his family cut ties to our hospital.
Jon: Good.
(Jon satted down in a chair)
Jon: I am doing a document for my show...
George: I know who you are. I seen your show.
Jon: Okay...anyway, this Slim Berry you know of is actually Dr. Gene Burrows.
(George frowned)
George: I thought he looked familiar.
Jon: I am doing a document about his life, but we hadn't got much info. I discovered you knew him and his family.
George: Yes, I do.
Jon: Can you give me information that will help my document some?
George: (sighs) I supposed so. Where shall I begin?
Jon: His birth...
George: Very well. It's the year 1965, in what I recalled the middle of America's most turbulent years. During that whole Joe McCarthy thing I think. Mr. James and Laraine Berry got in the hospital and I was to delivered their baby. Their son Wallace was waiting in the waiting room at the time...
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Okay, robert. This is where you come in. Use your "24 Days" info or anything you can think of if you want, but remember I want Wallace to still had Bruce Willis's voice. (Hey, it work in "Bruno the Kid")
{Fade to the year 1965. Specifically, fade to the interior of the Long Beach Hospital, and even more specifically to the waiting room. There, a nurse comes up to a little 5 year old boy sitting in the room}
Nurse: May I help you, little boy?
Boy: I'm waiting for my big brother or sister. I'm gonna be a big brother.
Nurse: How wonderful, unless you're one of those people destined to be bullied or hurt eventually by a big, would be powerful older sibling. But I'm sure you're not one of them, Mr...
Boy: My name's Wallace. I'm only 5 and 1/2 years old.
Nurse: Good, though for some reason 3 1/2 year olds get more laughs.
{In the door next to Wallace, a younger Dr George Rees appears}
George: Mr Berry, there's someone that wants to meet you.
{Wallace is led inside a delivery room. There, a early 30's women, barely catching her breath, is holding something, or someone, wrapped around a towel. Next to her bed is a proud looking, mid 30's man, who then walks over and picks up Wallace}
Man: Wallace, son, I'd like you to meet my new son, and your new older brother.{He carries him over to the edge of the bed}Show him Laraine, show him little....Slim.
{He says this just as Laraine Berry lifts up the towel to reveal the head of little baby Slim. Wallace is amazed}
Wallace: Baby.
Laraine: Aw, see that James, they already love each other.
{Wallace crawls onto the bed to touch Slim- who responds by beeping his nose hard. Wallace says ouch, and then on cue Slim starts crying}
James:{Over the crying}Well, there's a start!
{Fade to another part of town, a suburbian area where a small home is at the center. This is the Berry home, which is surrounded by the crying of Slim. Laraine is desperatly trying to rock him to sleep as this happens}
Laraine: Rock a bye Slim, rock a bye Slimmy. Go to sleep dear, and spare us our hearing.{Slim then falls asleep. James then comes over}
James: The Communists Laraine, the commies are making their comeback! This thing about something called Vietnam, LBJ says it'll bring the commies back!
Laraine: I'm glad you found something to keep you busy, whereas I had too much on my mind and ears to do the same.
James: I'm sorry, but while we're focusing on the present of raising this few week old guy, we're not thinking about the future, what kind of world will he live in? How would he respond to said world and all that contains it, and how can he make his mark? It won't be good with Commies running it, that's for sure.
Laraine: You may be right, but don't you think we have enough fanatics out their taking care of that worry?
James: Well look at McCarthy, he meant well but he became too much of a fanatic and that hurt everything! I'm not obssessed with this like a stereotyped character would be, I don't spread paranoid worries about commies like some people, I'm just concered. I want my boys to make their best in the world and make a perminent mark, and be in a good enough world to accept their creations and desires.
Laraine: Not everyone accepts desires well though, they may think someone's well meaning intentions are insane and destructive.
James: That's why our boys have to have good enough jobs and interests in life so no one would think that. And I think science and psychology are excellent fields where no one would suspect crazyness. I mean, science creates devices that help people technologically and it helps carve society's way to the future, and psychologists help people emotionally to carve their personal future, there's nothing wrong with that.
Laraine: Isn't it early to choose jobs for 5 year and 3 week old sons?
James: I'm just tossing out ideas in case they ask on what they want to be later on. Always best to be prepared.
{Slim then wakes up and starts crying again}
Laraine: Oh, now you tell me!
James: Heh heh, there's never gonna be a dull moment with this one. Well, Wallace should be due for attention soon, so let's go fix that problem.{They walk off}
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JusSonic, your turn. Oh, and for later on you should handle most of anything that has to do with the aftermath of the experiment, which is when the Slim/Gene connections start and you would be better off writing about it than me. And don't forget I won't be here from the 22'nd to the 29'th to work on this if it's not done.
(We cut to a few years later. Slim is now 5 years old, while his brother Wallace is celebrating his 10th birthday. All his family members are there. Wallace is now opening his presents)
Wallace: (after opening one of them) Wow! A telescope that allows you to look into the stars! Thanks, dad!
James: Your welcome, Wallace.
(While this is happening, Slim is in the background. He is frowning at this. He is voiced once again by Jim Carrey)
Slim: I wanted a telescope, but mommie and daddie says it's too expensive! Geez, I wish I can do as well as he is.
Voice: Well, well, what is this?
(A fat, pudgy man appeared. It is wearing a white t-shirt as well as ripped pants. This guy is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried)
Slim: Uh, nothing, Uncle Richie.
Richie: Ha! I know what it is. Jealous! You know what that makes you? A black sheep, that's what you are!
Slim: I am not!
Richie: Oh sure, I know better. You are jealous because Wallace gets better gifts than you.
(Slim looks mad at this point)
Slim: Oh yeah?! You know what you are! An idiot! You never do things right, and anything try to make up for it don't helped anything!
Richie: Whatever, I am outta here.
(Richie left. Slim sighed. James notices this and walked up to him.)
James: Is there a problem, Slim?
Slim: Richie called me a black sheep, though I don't know why. Maybe because I called him an idiot.
James: You shouldn't do that. I mean judging people because of their flaws. That's something you don't want to do someday.
Slim: But Wallace is doing better and you got him a telescope.
(James paused)
James: Come with me.
(QC to a room in the house. James and Slim came in. James go to a box, opened in, and reached in for something. Slim looks curious)
Slim: What are you doing, daddy?
James: I got something for you.
(James got it out. It is some sort of chemistry set. Slim looks astounded)
Slim: What is it?
James: It is a chemistry set. (Note: I don't know if they have any back then, so bare with me)
(James gives it to Slim. Slim looked at it)
James: You know, me and your mother wants you and your brother Wallace to do better than we do. We want you to get interested in science.
Slim: Science?
James: When you get in a science class, you will understand many things. For now, let me and your mother help you.
(We go back to the present. George is still telling the story.)
George: And plus, James and Laraine Berry shows Slim the wonders of science, hoping someday their son will be a scientist someday. Plus, they want him and Wallace to get along.
Jon: Do they like only Slim or both?
George: Both, I assured you. Then it happened.
Jon: What happened?
George: (sighs) When both Slim and Wallace were 7 and 12 years older, James and Laraine got in a car crash. They would taking to the hospital. Sadly, there is nothing I can for them.
(Flashback to the time of the car crash. Wallace is in the waiting room with Slim, waiting to see what happened with their parents. George, now older, came in with a sad look)
Wallace: What happened? Are they...?
(George sighs)
George: I'm sorry. But...they are gone.
(Wallace looks crest-fallen. Slim, however, looks angry)
Slim: That can't be! You say you can help them!
George: I try to! But their condition was fatal!
Slim: It's your fault! You kill them!
Wallace: Slim! He was only trying to help!
Slim: I don't cared! I don't want to see this jerk again!
(Wallace holds Slim so he don't go into a rage. QC to present)
George: And that's the last time I ever saw the boys again. Wallace requested that he and Slim be transfered to another doctor.
Jon: Where are they after that?
George: Well, last I heard, they were in the custody of their uncle Richie. Hold on, I got a file here.
(He looks in his desk. He found what he is looking for. He gave the file to Jon.)
Jon: Thank you for your time.
George: Your welcome.
(QC to a house somewhere in Burbank. Jon parked in front of it. He got out, go to the door of the house, and knocked on the door. Uncle Richie, now many years later, answered)
Richie: Yeah, may I help ya?
Jon: I am Jon Molsh of "America's Totally Hated".
Richie: Yeah? And?
Jon: I am looking for information about two boys you got custody of.
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Okay, continue on robert. Don't worry, I will get to the experiment after your part.
Richie: Oh, you're talking about the kid turned robot and mr baa baa black sheep, right?
Jon: My files didn't say you had any other kids that lived here and fit that description. Now, is there anything else about them you remember?
Richie: Oh, why didn't you just ask instead of going all sarcastic like? Okay, here's some solid news for you. William and whatever the other guy calls himself now came to me after James and Laraine, and went through all their schools and activites and normal kids stuff. Um, and I'm sure that's the only time normal's ever been used to describe them, so I'd like credit for that monumental feat.
Jon: Sure, fine, after we finish. That'll happen faster if you tell me what they were like.
Richie: Okay, Mr in a hurry!
Jon: It's Mr Molsh, as a matter of fact, sir.
Richie: Whatever, it's not like whatever you have to say is as important as my news bombshells. William went through his school years succeding in all his ltitle goals of psychatrity, but it was Slim that did the most scene stealing- and most driving me nuts!
{Fade back to the past, about 6-7 years after the accident. Inside Richie's house, Richie is relaxing on one couch, while an older William, who looks like a high school senior, is reading a book}
William: Freud was quite the insighter of the human mind, wasn't he?
Richie: Insighter? The slang words you kids come up with these days never ceases to confuse me.
William: That's the 5'th best reason for being a psychologist, you can explain yourself clearly enough to cure people for the remainder of their natural lives.
Richie: Well, that's sure a different attitude than the usual, freaked out, endlessly partying and muggins and doing craty antics stuff kids are into!
William: Okay, what did Slim do now?
Voice: You mentioned his name, and here he is! Heeerrreee'sss.....Slim!!
{An older looking SLim, now looking like a late middle schooler, runs into the scene looking wacky}
Slim: But I'm not the only one who wants to say hi too, check this out!{Truns around and grabs his, um, posterior and fakes talking out of it like a certian pet detective}Hi there, I'm Slim Berry, pleased to see you, although I can't really see you when this guy turns around unless you walk behind him, or conversly, in front of me!
Richie: That's just grotesque.
Slim: Real-hee-hee-hee-eally? Then let me show you something!{Turns around and then turns backl wearing a green mask}Look at all these crazy facial movements, aren't they at least good for one laugh?
Richie: Maybe if they weren't hidden under that stupid mask I could give you one.
Slim: What?! Ooh, my experiment failed, it was supposed to come alive!!{Steams}Even when I try for laughs I hate it doesn't turn out good, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!!!{Runs upstairs}
Richie:{To William}You're the physcowhatsit, you deal with it. And you do know that if I did, I'd just start answrering the question of what's wrong with him non stop, and you wouldn't like that.
William: That's only the second best reason to go up there, but thanks.
{Fade to Slim's room, which is filled with science stuff, and also has a laughing Slim next to it. William then enters}
William: Slim, um, look I'm trained in this sort of thing, so if you want to talk it would be good for both of us.
Slim: Talk? Talk?! Talk about how I'm a failure like this, you mean!!
William: Well, that was only in the back of my mind, but that's neither here nor there.
Slim: Put it to the front, because it answers everything! You know why I'm like this, don't you?
William: I think you've been too busy experimenting and doing mug filled comedy to let me guess.
Slim: Pain. Masking pain. Our parents left to me the greatest gift of all, science, which gives us the power to think of wonderous things to cure and ail us, and for me, to heal the horrible scars of their deaths. And the best way to take away pain is to practice it's direct opposite, i.e, laughter.
William: Well, I used crying and talking, but we both have different views on handling things, even though we both knew that already.
Slim: Yes, and as much as I hate saying, your view has turned out better. You are on your way to doing what you want, and that's good. Everyone deserves to do what they're good at because it gives someone their nitche and handprint in life. I however, haven't been able to even pour the cement on mine. And it's all because of my stupid, undeniably popular and funny laughter trip!
William: Thanks for the first part, could you repay my thanks by clearing up the second?
Slim: Scientists can't be wild and wacky like I've been acting. They must be serious and have a clear mind or else they'll make mistakes, and those mistakes could cost people jobs and even their lives! But this laughter business is a drug I can't stop taking even after my pain went away!
William: At least it's less harmful that certain other drugs.
Slim: Well, people that take those have no shot at a career, whereas I am ruining mine before it has even begun! I'm about to start high school while you're ending your term there, and while I'm there I must purge myself of this comedy before it's too late!
William: Too late for what?
Slim: Too late before I can't stop being what I hate! And that is a memeber of the stupid, misguided, lying, and annoying people of the world.
William: I think I should step out now since you've been on this rant before.
Slim: 42 times, and you;d better stay for no 43! This world is full of mistakes, mainly because of the people who make them. They are the incompent people, like our brillant former doctor. They distract us, and they make us mess up. They have the ability to make those life costing mistakes I mentioned earlier, and that I wil not stand for! They are the annoying, stupid people, and I am their only hope to save them from themselves.
William: Through tough, insulting "love"?! How many times must I tell you, not all people are bad. There's always good, evil, and the ability to screw thing up in all of us, and if we can't accept that, we make bigger mistakes than they ever could.
Slim: Get that from those Sesame Street reruns, doc? I'd say more, but I'm short on time. My sanity destroying comedy antics must stop before I become the people you defend and then go on to ruin lives instead of saving and helping them! But I've clearly demonstrated I'm going nowhere by myself.
William: Ahem, well I suppose I could lend my help to quicken your trip to greatness.
Slim: No, we're going to be doctors, but in two different fields! I need someone who knows what I know, who can teach what I don't, and who can give me the key, to the path of glory and life long fame.
{Fade back to older Richie and Jon}
Jon: And you still remember vividly him saying all that even though you weren't in the room?
Richie: I do have a great memory, maybe that's something to put on a TV show, heh?
Jon: As if you think I'd have any contact with those rival shows. Besides, William obviously told you everything.
Richie: But I atill get credit for remembering the stuff he said, right? Well if not, what I remember happening next should put me over the top for sure.
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Cue next thing that Richie remembers!
(QC to Slim's 10th year sometimes in the Mid 80's. He is now 16. He is in class in the middle of something)
Richie: (V/O) Well, Slimmy boy has some trouble with that playful side of his. It looks like he will never get rid of it until...
Slim: Blast! I can't concentrate with...this!
Voice: Any problems Slim?
(Slim looked up. It is Dr. Doorhider, his favorite teacher)
Slim: Oh, hey doc. Nothing, really.
Dr. Doorhider: I am your teacher, Slim. I know something is wrong. Now tell me about it is.
Slim: It just...my playful side is meddling in my attempts to be a scientist! There is no way I can be one if I am...an idiot!
(Dr. Doorhider thought for a moment)
Doorhider: Well, there is a way, but I am not sure you should do it.
Slim: What, what is it?!
Doorhider: I know of an experiment that made people serious, just like me. All you had to do is go through it and your playful side will be gone forever.
Slim: Really?!
Doorhider: I am not sure. You might died.
Slim: I am willing to take that chance! I want to be serious!
Richie: (V/O) And so the little black sheep has decided to take the experiment. He told us about it when he got home. There was a problem at first.
(QC to Richie's home. Richie is busy watching TV, while Wallace to talking to Slim)
Wallace: Are you crazy?! What if you died?! You are the only family member I had left!
Slim: What about Richie?
Wallace: Richie is mom's brother. Besides, maybe if you tried to concentrate...
Slim: NO! (growls) I want to do this. I refused to act liked an idiot. Believe it or not, I will do this.
(Wallace sighs)
Wallace: Okay. But I still don't think it is a good idea.
(QC to where the experiment took place. Slim is strapped on a table, with Dr. Doorhider nearby. There are allot of science stuff around.)
Doorhider: Let me know if this hurts.
Slim: Believe me, I wanted this for a long time.
(Dr. Doorhider nodded and began the experiment. To make this short, we cut to a few hours later. Slim woke up.)
Doorhider: Are you better?
Slim: What happened...don't feel playful...and why am I acting like that Shatner guy?!
Doorhider: Relax, the tireness will wore off eventually.
(Doorhider unstrapped Slim. Slim got up.)
Doorhider: Now then, let's began your test.
(They left the room. None of them noticed someone else leaving the room. (Hint, hint) We QC through a few tests. Slim goes through them without some problems. Dr. Doorhider looks amazed)
Richie: (V/O) And for some reasons, the little brat somehow managed to get serious. He told us that when he got home.
(QC to Richie's house. Slim came in. Wallace looks relieved)
Wallace: Phew, I thought you died.
(Slim looks at Wallace, smiling Gene's evil smile)
Slim: And I thought you knew better than to doubt me. But I am glad you didn't try to stop me.
(Slim went to his room. Wallace looks freaked out. QC to present)
Jon: Wallace told you all that?
Richie: Actually, Slim told him some of it. But what the brat did next surprises even us.
(QC to the past again, a week later. It is a Sunday. Richie is hading his breakfast, as well as Wallace. Slim came in.)
Slim: I want a new name.
(Wallace looks startled)
Wallace: Excue me?
Slim: I want a new name.
Richie: And why's that?
Slim: Now that I'm serious, I want a new name! You don't think people will take "Slim Berry" seriously, do you?!
Wallace: Well, I thought...
Slim: Well, you thought wrong! I am going now to the court to had my name changed!
(Slim left. Wallace shook his head)
Wallace: He just never learned.
(QC to the Long Beach court house. Slim is the court room. The judge is on the bench. He looks like Judge Harry Stone from "Night Court".)
Judge Harry Lewis: You realized Mr. Berry, it isn't often we had people changed their names.
Slim: I know, your honor, but I really want to do it.
Harry: (sighs) Very well. What do you want your name changed to?
(Slim thought for a moment)
Slim: (thinking) Let's see. That Gene Wilder guy from "Young Frankenstein" is scary, especially his performance. So I will choose Gene as my first name. But what about my last name? Hmmm, what do most scientists used if they want to get into their foes' minds?
(Slim got something. He spoke up.)
Slim: I got a name, your honor.
Harry: Very well, what is it?
(QC to a few minutes later. The paperwork is done.)
Harry: And so it is probably best not known, since you requested it, that your name will forever be changed to...Gene Burrows.
(Slim, or Gene as we now called him, smiles with his evil smile. QC to the present.)
Jon: Man, I thought that kid was crazy.
Richie: Heh?
Jon: Nothing. Did Slim, or Gene, told you this?
Richie: Nah. The kid told his bro, who later told me. So it's not like it's a secret.
Jon: What happened after that fateful day.
Richie: Well, last I heard, the smartie has managed to do well in his classed and gradulated from the Long Beach High School. Dr. Doorhider retired after that. (Drums his fingers) He moved out. I never saw him again. Last I heard, Gene went to a college that accepted him. He did well there also. Heh, gradulated in his first time there. After that, he went looking for a job that acquires his services.
Jon: You realized there might be problems.
Richie: Yeah, especially for that "smart" guy. There isn't any science organizations that can take him. They could have for all I cared. They thinkg he is a lower ranked genius. Idiots.
Jon: Any further information.
Richie: Try the job he was fired at. The Long Beach Science Organization. They might tell you more.
Jon: Thank you for your time.
Richie: Whatever. Do I still get credit for this?
Jon: Uh, I will think about it.
(QC to outside. Jon left the house and go into his car. He started and he drove off. QC to inside)
Jon: I got more info than I expected. Well, off to the Long Beach Science Organization.
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It's time for your part, robert. Here are some requests I want for the next part.
1.Use some info you used in "24 Days".
2.I liked to see Gene seeing Histeria! for the first time...and hating it.
3.I liked to see his boss.
4.Conversations between Gene and Harry.
And finally, that eventful day as seen in "24 Hours".
But with all that it's gonna be a really long part, do you mind? Oh, and I think we should clear up something in the vocal department. Now that Gene's Gene, shouldn't he be voiced by Gene Hackman now? This is because now he's going to meet Harry, and Harry knows him well by the time 24 Hours takes place, so if it turns out his voice changed to Hackman's just before the marathon, wouldn't he note that during that fateful day and be suspicious? Of course when I wrote that story, it was about 2 years before your role in the saga was created, so I couldn't have anticipated that. So should I just say when he gets to his job that he sounds like Hackman now and his voice has changed since we last saw him, or should he still be voiced by Carrey? I think it should be Hackman to avoid any mistakes in time and logic on Harry's part, since again, he'd say something if his old friend's voice had suddenly changed, but then again, you created the second part of this mess when you introduced Slim number 2, so you have a say.
I am going to want Gene Hackman in this story, so go ahead and used his voice as usual. Plus, his voice probably changed before he came to the Long Beach Science Organization, so go ahead and...well you get the picture. Oh, and I don't mind it being long. This is a story, right? You got all that?
{Fade to the Long Beach science building as seen in the first and third 24 fics. Jon is walking through it until someone comes up to him}
Man: Hello, unless you're a newsman, press guy, or one of those employees of mine I can never remember, please leave.
Jon: There was no need for the last two examples because you hit the first one on the nose. i'm Jon Molsh of "America's Totally Hated", and I assume I'm looking at Walter Konin, head of the Long Beach science department.
Walter: Hey, someone actually knows who I am and what i do other than be the boss to one of the top 5 terrorists in our country's history! So you're pretty okay in my book.
Jon: I hope I still am when I say I want to know about said terrorist's time in here.
Walter: You almost fell off, but you're still on the fence. Just make this quick.
Jon: When did he arrive here?
Wlater: About 1994 or so he came here, all nervous that he finally got somewhere and all that. It was actually kind of ironic and pretty much the only good thing I'd like to remember about him. But when the first guy who greeted him hooked up with him, he wouldn't be so lucky.
{Fade to 1994 in the building, where a now 30 year old Gene, now looking about the same as he did before he stopped being a human, walks inside. He looks a bit nervous until he hears a voice}
Voice: New here, huh?{A younger Harry walks towards Gene, who is now once more voiced by Gene Hackman}
Gene: Yeah, I just got accepted in here. I've been trying to get into scientific jobs for sometime now, but now that I succeeded I have this feeling it'll all be anticlimactic.
Harry: I'm actually surprised we got you, our people here told me you came highly recommended by the schools you were in.
Gene: Tell that to half the country.
Harry: By the way, to change the subject and make this a light first conversation, I've been asked to show you around this operation we have here and help you fit in. And so you don't feel nervous about doing this with a total stranger, let me show you I can be trusted by offering you the rest of my sandwich.
Gene:{Laughing while taking Harry's sandwich}Do all you people here make simple offers in such lengthy ways?
Harry: It's just a talent I have, I guess. Harry Norman.
Gene: I thought you were showing me around, you didn't tell me you'd be calling someone else to help.{Laughs}Just kidding, I know what you meant. Gene Burrows is my name, I'm glad you didn't add that part on or I wouldn't have a joke to use.
{Fade back to the present where the Harry of today is with Walter and Jon}
Walter: Thanks for interupting my side of the story to tell that, Harry.
Jon: I'll say he's welcome for him, since this is something I really want to hear. Harry Norman, Gene's old and final real friend, can you give me in good detail what the last 5 years of Gene's sanity were like?
Harry: Now there's something news reporters have never asked me before.
Jon: I'm not that experienced, so forgive me for that at least.
Harry: All right, forget it, and it'll be easier when my story is finished. The two of us, as I mentioned earlier and was about to get in deeper before my boss interrupted, got to be friends pretty quickly.
Walter: You know, just because you're a famous hero doesn't mean I can't give you orders and reprimand you and stuff.
Harry: Trust me, that was a one time forgetfulness of that fact. Now, may I please continue? All right then.
{Fade back to 1994 as Harry is showing Gene around an office}
Harry: We all get offices and private places to work with after a while, and for me about a year was a while.
Gene: This is pretty nifty stuff. And to think people would rather talk about overhyped trials for sports stars and sports strikes and who wears what in awards shows than witness real meaning in what you people do.
Harry: We don't create a lot of big stuff, we just fix and go over products and come up with ideas to improve them and create our own things. You should fit in since I've read you like being near all this stuff, now you can contribute to it.
Gene: Yes, it's been all I've hoped for.
Harry: You're preaching to the coverted, my friend. To have the chance to shape and create things for future generations to admire and use for their daily lives is the chance to ensure a part of you lives through the ages. That is the greatest honor anyone can hope for.
Gene: And I was just starting to think I would never hear someone I knew say that to me. I think we're going to get along just fine, Harry.
Harry: I think you hit it right on the nose, Gene.
Harry:{Back to the present}For the next 4 years Gene fit in nicely. Well, he wasn't always the most popular person in the world, and he was kind of high strung sometimes, but there weren't as many hints that he'd do what he did than you'd think. Then, well, then came a day that....well, I can't think of any non overused phrases to describe life changing days, so I'll just let the story tell itself.
{Fade back to 1998. Or, as a caption says, Septemeber 12'th, 1998. Gene is working in an office of his own in the morning when Harry comes in}
Harry: Well, I did it. I had to lend my office to Shriners mostly every afternoon and every Saturday morning so they could meet and pay us money to use in our affairs, and I handled it very well.
Gene: You didn't protest and say you had a right to your office?
Harry: It's too early for moral outrages, don't you think? Besides at least I know I can come in here and relax.
Gene: You know a lot of very accurate things, old friend.
Harry: I'm only a few years older than you, so watch it. Besides, I'm in here just in time to watch Kids WB this morning.
Gene: Why would a man of your age and job watch Saturday morning cartoons, I never understood that.
Harry: Even us geniuses need to relax, and the laughter of cartoons provides no better cure. Besides, there's a brand new show from the executive producer of Animanaics and Pinky and the Brain that I want to see. Yikes, 10:30, it's on now!
{Harry turns on a TV nearby and it shows the opening sequence of the first H! show, the Godzilla like sequence with BFB. Gene out of curiosity looks at it}
Father Time:{From the TV}Run for your lives, it's Big Fat Baby on...
Loud: HISTERIA!!!!{Gene cringes}
Gene: What in Tesla's death ray cabinet was that?!
Harry: Shush, I want to hear the inside jokes I'm probably missing!
{Cut to 30 minutes later}
Harry:{Laughing}Hahaha, now that was a funny way to spend an early morning half hour!
Gene: I'm glad one of us thinks so. Now will you explain what the heck I wasted a half hour of my life watching was?!
Harry: It's a educational show with a sketch comedy approach, you saw that. It appears it's going to be full of parody, inside jokes, and accurtae celebrity impressions, and it's something I want to keep watching to see if I'm proven correct on those things!
Gene: So you like gas and potty jokes, and annoying, very one dimensional looking characters? Boy do we have different tastes.
Harry: That's hardly news to me, pal.
Gene: And will you please tell me what the point of that loud kid was other than to destroy the hearing of the good people of TV land?!
Harry: To laugh, of course. The people's reactions and dead pan comments about that joke are good for laughs, and he does say funny things.
Gene: Yell, let's at least be accurate in our descriptions, he yelled. A lot. Too much for my tastes, much much too much.
Harry: Perhaps your tune will change when I watch more of this show in here.{Back to the present}
Walter: Ooh boy Norman, when you're wrong...
Harry: Yes yes, I know. But he tried to keep whatever thoughts he had to himself for a while and I ignored his complaints since I was trying to watch it. And I kept watching it in reruns, in new episodes, in everything. He did finally get his full feelings out once in the early new year 1999 though.
{Cut back to the past in Gene's office as Harry is again laughing at Histeria, specifically at the game show bit in the Terrible Tudors episode}
Harry: Hahahaha, oh, another funny moment from our favorite tourist guide, Miss Information.
Gene:{Quietly}Your favorite maybe, why I still can't figure out.
Harry: You can just try to work instead of making snide comments, you know.
Gene: How? How when the sounds of laughter and inane "comedy" conspire to prevent that?!
Harry: Can we talk later, they're getting to a funny part.
Gene: Yes, the part with the surfer boy getting kicked by a donkey. Why couldn't he kick the other ones while he was at it?
Harry: That was uncalled for.
Gene: Then let me call it!{Turns off the TV}There's only so much stupidity I can take you laughing at from that show before I say enough!
Harry: Okay, maybe it's not likable to everyone, but you don't have to complain about it so much.
Gene: Yes I do, a show that has insulted intellegence, bad jokes, and annoyance all over it deserves a little wrath once in a while! And why would a man of your smarts find so much humor in a loud little boy?
Harry: I already explained to you, and I'm surprised I remembered that.
Gene: I do, and after 4 months it still doesn't make sense! He's not funny, he gets on my nerves when he shows up, and he shows up in every sketch that show has! We get the joke, he's loud, we don't need 200 more examples of it to prove it!
Harry: I don't think it was 200 exactly.
Gene: And what about other characters, like the idiot blonde? You'd think they'd think people would stop laughing at that stereotype, one I always hated!
Harry: Stereotype, well, even stereotypes can be funny.
Gene: Not in my world! That whole show is full of them, the whole world is full of them! Histeria is a prime example of the idiotcy people can think of and churn out for the public! There are too many people out there who are dumb enough to buy this stuff and do other unwise things, and as geniuses, we shouldn't have to accept that! It's our job to create things to enlighten them and help them, and yet you're joining in with them! I won't go down that path, pal, I've come too far. Do you hear me?! I'VE COME TOO FAR TO LET THE WORLD DROWN IN IT'S OWN STUPIDITY NOW!!!
{Gene breathes heavily as Harry look shocked still at his rant. They both do not talk for a long moment}
Gene: I'm sorry. It's not you. The show got created in the first place to make you think these things I oppose, so you're not really to blame.
Harry: I'll take it as the best complement I'll get from you at this time. Maybe we should get back to work now, that'll make you happy at least.
Gene: I'm glad we finally agree on something today.
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JusSonic, this may seem selfish, but I would like to write the next part myself. This is because I still have stuff to cover you asked me to cover that I haven't covered, and I'd like to handle it. I stopped here because I'm getting offline soon and because I don't want to fit the whole long section in one post. So I'll write the next part which will be about Gene's formula, the infamous day it was wrecked, his firing, and him starting his plans for the marathon, unless you object. Alhough I'm sure you'd like extra time to prepare the part after that which will have to have Wallace back at the center of things. Is that when the story should end or should we cover more? I think we could also answer stuff about the origin of Slim no.2 while we're at it to fill time, as a sort of history repeating end part.
Oh, and can you put robert in the part you mentioned? In our good story "Another 24 1/2 Hours", Gene told Wallace he hated that show, so I liked to see one of the old "Don't judged them by their flaws" thing. Can you do that? Thanks.
Walter: Not many hints to his future doings, eh Harry? Sounds like that was a humdinger of a clue.
Harry: None of us had any idea what would happen, and we all thought that once his idea took off, all his anger would be gone.
Jon: Idea?
Harry: Yes, as you may know he came up with an idea for a new product. In fact it was about a week after our fight that he introduced it.
{Cut back to the past as Gene is now addressing a group of people in a meeting room}
Gene: Ladies, gentlemen, and anyone else, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Of course, with all the fat jokes in the world and all the women with 90% of their clothes off on TV, it's pretty clear what beauty they're looking for. Some would say it's what's on the inside that counts, but if people belived that, we wouldn't have the stuff I mentioned earlier. But people may not want to be that impossibly thin either, just medium size, and they're in the minority.
Man: Is there a point we're supposed to be looking for?
Gene: Well look no more, it's here. I am going to create a formula that can read the minds of the people, and then figure out just how thin they want to be. Then in a matter of hours, they shall turn into that image. Think of it, there will be no more use of dangerous diets that have nasty side effects because mine will have none, and if there is, I can fix it easily! Milions will be made, the diet industry will be revolutionized, and everyone comes out a winner in the end.
Man: But won't that insult some people who think thin-ness doesn't matter?
Gene: Why do you think I said the part about how little people believe that? No one really belives that whole inside junk because otherwise all the sexual harassment suits and anti fat and anti ethnic group jokes wouldn't exist. The majority doesn't know about that theory, and this appeals to them. If the inside doesn't work, a little physical touch can't hurt much. Either way, the rewards are great for everyone.
Walter: I suppose you'll need our help in this somewhere.
Gene: Not at all, this will be done all by myself. I only request peace and quiet and whatever equipment I need from anyone. And I request a meeting with the mayor of Long Beach in the middle of Febuary, for that's when I'll be finished. And when he sees it work, he will show the world what wonders this organization has come up with and pavge our way to history.
Walter: You mean your way to history, right?
Gene: What difference does it make, our fame and fortune will increase no matter who takes the credit, yours included Walter.
Walter: Well, that was quite convincing for me.
Harry:{V.O as clips of Gene working are seen}For the next month he worked and worked on his formula, trying to come up with just the right stuff and just the right amount of everything to make it work. It took him until early Febuary to nearly be finished, in fact, he was pretty close on the date of Febuary 6'th, 1999.
Walter: The day the whole big mess started.
Jon: I am well aware of the significance of that date, it's right here in my notes.
Walter: Hmph, you try to help a conversation along and that's the thanks you get.
Harry: This should help better. I was out of town at a convention during those days, but it didn't stop me from being the last person to talk to Gene before it happened.
{Fade to Gene's home on the night of Febuary 6'th. Inside, Gene is on the phone with Harry}
Gene: So I should get there at about 7 to finish up everything for tomorrow's presentation.
Harry: Why finish up there, can't you take the stuff with you to finish at home?
Gene: I'm not going to give my stuff the chance to break. And I shouldn't be concerned about that when I still have calculations to finish.
Harry: All right, you know what you're doing, I guess.
Gene: I've known what I've been doing and what I've wanted to do my whole life, Harry. Tonight the waiting for my moment in the sun will end once and for all.
Harry: Just don't mess anything up and prove yourself wrong, you still have to finish things and present the product to the Mayor before the glory arrives.
Gene: Yes, thanks for ursting my buble for a brief second, but when I'm done it will reappear just as easily.
Harry: I wish I could be there to see it.
Gene: You'll read about it in the news in two days, in fact, you won't be able to escape it, so you'll easily stay in the loop. Well, I suppose the march to that wonderful day must begin now, I have to leave.
Harry: Good bye and good luck, old friend.
Gene: Thank you Harry, for someone with poor taste in entertainment, you're not so bad.
Harry: You've got so much work to do I won't even debate that this time. Heh heh, see you later.
Gene: Same here.{Hangs up the phone}Well, it's time to start the path to glory.
{Now we see a montage of the now infamous events of that night and the events of the next day as Gene's experiment goes wrong as Harry talks}
Harry: But of course we all know what happened next and we still debate over how something so implausible could have happened. It did though, and it spelled disaster for Gene that next day.
Walter: And then I played my role in the whole chain of destruction when he returned to work. He would return for the last time, a fact I made clear in no uncertain terms.
{Cut to the afternoon of Febuary 7'th inside Walter Koning's office. Gene is there and is in shock}
Gene: You're letting me go?!
Walter: You didn't give me a choice, did you? You ruined everything and you've made us a laughing stock in the eyes of the government!
Gene: But I'm not to blame!
Walter: Oh yes, the soon to be old cartoon character distracted me complaint. Could it be that maybe you didn't have the concetration of a real scientist to just ignore it?!
Gene: Have you listened to incessent screaming and idiotic statements for two hours on end?! If not, then I don't see what right you have to not call me a real scientist! Besides, all I need to do is fix my mistake and we'll be back on track.
Walter: You won't do that here. You're fired, pal. I can't take the chance your mistake will damage our credibility, and the longer you're here, the more chance that has of happening since you'll just be known for this the rest of your career.
Gene: Not if I have the chance to fix that!
Walter: Sorry, pack up your things, I have more important things to do than argue with ex employees.
Gene:{Desperate}Please sir. You can't do this to me, you can't destroy me like this after all I've been through!
Walter: After what I've been through today with being yelled at by the Mayor and the government itself, I don't see why not.
Gene: But it wasn't my fault, I say that again because it's true, the most truthful thing I've ever said! You can't destroy my life because of their mistakes!!
Walter: I wouldn't go that far to say I destroyed it.
Gene: I WOULD!!! No one will ever give me a job again after this! And let me tell you, if I have to go down, I won't go down alone, do you hear me?!! You'll regret this, when I give justice out for this horror, you'll all be sorry you gave me up!!! You'll all see!!!!{He storms out}
{Cut back to Gene's house as Gene is now on the phone again}
Gene: They ruined me Wallace. Cartoon characters ruined my life.
{Now we see Wallace, the Wallace from before his accident on the other line}
Wallace: The whole thing sounds like one mixed up accident to me. Can't you just find another job anyway, you're smart enough.
Gene: No, do you think the government would let that happen after how I frightened them today?! My career is over, everything I worked so hard for is over....and someone has to get their comuppance for it. Or a group of people.
Wallace: If you mean those characters, I wouldn't do that. They're just doing their job like you are, they may not be funny, even though I think they are, but that's no reason to blame them for anything.
Gene: I'm not surprised, you and I could never see eye to eye on the truth.
Wallace: Here's some truth, you're letting your judgement of people get you upset again, and you know how it affected you the first time! Don't take the chance that it'll be worse this time!
Gene: It'll be worse, but not for me.{Hangs up}
Wallace: Hello, hello!!{Hangs up}This is obviously not good.
{Back at Gene's house, Gene is now crouched down on the floor and rocking himself back and forth}
Gene: Loud Kiddington. Loud Kiddington. Loud Kiddington and Miss Information. Who would have thought people with puns for names would cause this much pain? Actually, this is good. Yes, this proves what I've said all along. Idiots and annoying people cause the greatest pain. And if people are capable of producing misery this much, well, perhaps they shouldn't be around to cause it.
{Gene gets up and starts pacing}
Gene: But I can't just kill them, I don't want to be fired and be a murderer, I still have ethics. But it's so obvious it's the right thing to do, if only the world could see that!{Pause}Or perhaps they need to be shown that first hand. The world has needed enlightment since it all began, and it's become clear I need to be the next one to give that to them! Even though a lot of people don't like those characters, it's not enough! Everyone must know what they're capable of and know that their punishment must be brutal! If they only went through what I've been through they'd know that!{Another pause}Yes, if only. Perhaps a very heavy dose of tough love is in order for the planet. If all they could see is them and how awful they are for a whole day, they'd listen and know I'm right. And that I'm right is a fact they should know. No matter what it takes.
{Cut to a few days later outside of a metal parts store. Gene then comes out holding several bags of metal}
Gene: Remember, I'll be back for whatever other metal parts you have, so don't get too comfy!
Voice: What are you gonna build with all that metal anyway?!
Gene: Something the world will thank me for later, that's all you need to know until that day comes!
{Gene walks away until he sees Harry walking up to him}
Harry: Gene? Gene! Thank goodness, I've been trying to reach you but your phone hasn't been working, what happened? Are you really fired?
{Gene stares at Harry and then remembers all the scenes of Harry laughing at Histeria. This makes him frown very deeply at him and he then walks away is disgust}
Harry: Gene, where are you going, talk to me! Gene? Gene!! Oh dear.
{Gene walks away until he disappears from Harry's sight. At that we come back to the present}
Harry: And the next time I heard him, it was on TV on that November day.
Jon: Didn't you try to contact him in other ways?
Harry: I tried, but he wouldn't answer, and when I got in his house he was able to hide all the stuff he was building. After a while I thought he would be fine eventually, and that he had the smarts to figure his way out on his own.
Walter: But he had the smarts for something more destructive instead. Hence, the near end of the country and the end of my credibility as a boss of science.
Jon: Perhaps this interview will help get some of that back.
Walter: Well fortunatly the part where I fired him is well known and I've gotten all the blame for that that's possible, so that helps a bit.
Jon: So I guess now that's everything that's left to be known before it happened. Well, thank you gentlemen, I believe my work is done here.
Harry: Come by anytime, some of my co-workers have begun to miss all the press we got after the incidents anyway.
Jon: Well, we are a fickle bunch. But I'll think about that after my editing for the story gets finished, so goodbye.
{Jon walks out of the building and goes towards his car outside}
Voice: You want the story?
Jon: What? Heh, must be a product of my underused imagination.
Voice: No imagining is needed, you want the big story, I've got it.
Jon: Now my imagination couldn't have produced that. Who's there?
Voice: Only the main surviving co-star of your research. Harry does come close to that I admit, but the key difference between me and him...
{A figure, in fact a metal figure comes out of the darkness, a figure we know as....}
Cy-Borg: Well, the difference is now pretty obvious to you.
Jon: Cy-Borg?! The mysterious robot that stopped the second Slim and his own giant robot?
Cy-Borg: You do know your history, but not enough of it since I have to tell you this big bit of news. I'm the only one that had any contact with my brother during his 8 months of planning, and it's prized information I'm willing to share with you now. So get comfy, this'll take a while.
Jon: Um, I'd rather not sit on the dirty ground if you don't mind.
Cy-Borg: It doesn't matter, when I'm done you'll wish there was a pillow on that ground you could fall on.
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JusSonic, you may now in all likelyhood wrap this up.
Cy-Borg: (V/O) Now, if you didn't know by now, I am Dr. Wallace Berry, AKA Slim/Gene's brother.
Jon: (V/O) Yes, I heard info about you from your doctor and your Uncle Richie.
Cy-Borg: (V/O) Did you? Of course, you must have. Now then. When I heard about my brother's recent firing, I called a few times while trying to convince him it wasn't Loud and Miss Info's faults. It was November when I decided to visit him, so I can try to comfort him. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a mistake...
(We now go to Wallace now going into Sli...I mean, Gene's house. He looked around. For the next few scenes, this will be a talking flashback. Note: I decided to use words from my "Another 24 1/2 Hours" story, so hope you guys don't mind)
Wallace: Slim? Are you home?
(He decided to check upstairs. He found the laboratory on the floor where it was in "24 Hours". Inside, anything as it is in "24 Hours" as well. Wallace notices something.)
Wallace: Hmm....what's this?
(He picked up what appeared to be plans of something. Wallace checked it...and looked on in shock. Just then...)
Voice: Looking for something, brother?
(Wallace dropped the paper and quickly turned around. Gene, the one we now know and hated, is there.)
Wallace: Slim!
Gene: Wallace, I told you to call me Gene now!
Wallace: What is the meaning of this?!
Gene: Why, what do you mean?
Wallace: I discovered that you plan on interrupting the TVs around the world, make a marathon that involves the two characters you hated, Loud Kiddington and Miss Information, and you are planning on getting the public to kill them!
Gene: It is their fault I lost my job! You must realize that!
Wallace: I told you now to judge people because of their flaws! And now that I discovered what you are going to do, I have no choice but to inform the police!
(He tries to run out, but Gene blocked him...and knocked him out with a heavy object nearby. A few minutes later. Wallace wakes up. We don't know where he is now at. His voice appeared to be strange.)
Wallace: Where...where am I?
Gene: (V/O) Good, you are awake.
(Gene appeared in Wallace's view)
Gene: Like your new look, Wallace?
Wallace: What are you...WHAT THE HECK?!
(He looked down at himself. He is now what he looks like today...a cyborg. A cyborg that is scrapped down on a table somewhere in Gene's house)
Wallace: What had you done?!
Gene: Well, I don't want you to stopped my plans...especially the ones I want to work! So I decided to use you for...an experiment.
Wallace: What are you talking about?!
Gene: I needed someway to destroy the ones who ruined my life just in case the marathon failed. So I wanted to see if this formula worked unlike the one that failed. And it did.
(He pauses and continued speaking)
Gene: This formula turned a human being into a robot. Of course, it isn't perfect yet. So instead it turned you into a cyborg. But when I get the needs to perfect my formula, I will turn into a robot when or if I died.
Wallace: Your plan will never worked, Slim!
Gene: My name is Gene! Slim died when he took the experiment! And now, I will have to lock you up forever.
(He pressed a button. We hear a rumble. Before we know it, the table Wallace is on lowers into the floor. Wallace is now in the floor. QC to Wallace's POV. Gene looks into the hole.)
Gene: Farewell, Wallace. Say hello to mommy and daddy for me...when your life support gives out anyway.
(He disappears. The hole closes turning everything pitch dark. End flashback.)
Jon: Your brother tries to kill you?
Cy-Borg: Yep.
Jon: Let me guess, you escaped thanks to your robot body, right?
Cy-Borg: Actually.
Jon: Looks like attempted murder of his brother is one of his crimes, I guess. Now then, I really need to know even more information. And fortunately, there's one group I can talk to for that.
(QC to the Warner Bros. studio. Guess where he is at? We go to where Jon is at now.)
Jon: I hoped I am not wasing your time.
Voice: Nad. Not really, dude.
Jon: Good, I got some questions for you.
(We now see that the group he is talking to is...the Histerians themselves)
WOW: Well, get on to what you are going to asked.
Jon: Very well. I wish to know what happened on the day of the marathon and the infamous attack on Washington.
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I know I say I wasn't going to put the Histerians in this story, but this is a life story, so why not? You can continue on from here, robert.
Aka: Hold on, we've told our battles to reporters time and time again, although not as much lately but we did it a lot right after we fought in those two days. So shouldn't he already know about everything he did, everyone else does.
Jon: Yes, but now I have the entire history of Gene and it's despicable, watching his horrors after watching what he did earlier will really make him hated.
Loud: Okay, it all started on November 11'th, 1999. We were having a meeting inside the studio when the marathon started.
{Fade to that day. Various TV's all over the world as their programs are being interrupted by static. Back at the meeting room, everyone's attention is on the TV. Then, the static clears up and now we see Gene}
Gene: Good afternoon, world. We interrupt these programs of entertainment and joy to bring you something completely different, a revelation. Recently I made a discovery about a show, particularly two characters in that show, that I want the whole world to know about. For the next 24 hours, you will be witness to programming that may drive you nuts, but also teach you what I have learned, and what must be done about it. Enjoy. Wait a minute, this isn't enjoyable, so ignore that last statement. Just watch this, and I'll be back in 24 hours.
Loud:{V.O}Sammy thought the marathon would be a good thing, but I immediatly figured out something was wrong.
Sammy: Um, as I recall it took you two or so hours to make that theory public, and I had good reasons backing myself up, especially since none of us could have possibly known what he was really up to!
Loud: Fortunatly we did figure it out though.
Miss Info: Well I guess now we get to the part where I walked with Loud to find Gene, since he knocked out all our other ways to get there. But he did leave us a nice cell phone to deliver his not so nice insults at us.
{Cut to the first phone conversation between Gene and the two heroes in 24 Hours}
Loud: FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!
Gene: Because I hate you, but that's not the main reason, it just heavily contributed to it. I hate your yelling all the time Loud, especially since that's what you're doing 99% of the time, and you're quite obnoxious because of that. And I hate Miss Information's stupidity, her remarks are so idiotic it makes me very angry.
Miss Info: And for that you're running a marathon? Why?
Gene: Because I want the whole world to realize how horrible you are and make you pay for it. But that's not the main reason either. You took away something that meant the world to me, and for that you're going to suffer.
Miss Info: Through taking over every TV in the world?
Gene: Yes, I know it may be an evil thing, but if it will make everyone know what I know, I'm willing to do anything.
Loud: But what will this accomplish, what do you want?!
Gene: What do I want? Oh, what I want is very simple. I want you to pay the price for being so annoying and one dimensional. I want you to suffer a crime equal to the crime you committed to me. I want to share my knowledge of what I've learned with the entire world, and help me and everyone else do something about it. And I want you to feel the wrath of an angry world which will not be as forgiving as I am after they've experienced the horror you've brought them.
Miss Info:{V.O}And in his eyes, horror meant being attacked by giant snakes, walking prison bars, spiders, and learning he sent mechnical spiders after our remaining friends.
Sammy: Remaining friends who did almost stop the whole thing with Harry's help mind you. And he knew it too, he only sent live spiders after those two but he sent powerful, robot spiders after us, he was worried all right.
Father Time: But not worried enough to stop us.
Sammy: Well it's the thought and parnaoid fear that counts, right?
Loud: Anyhoo, we finally got there and he told us, well, everything history has told you about.
{Fade to the scene where Loud and Miss Info are captured by Gene}
Loud: If you wanted to kill us, why couldn't you do it the normal way, why a marathon? And how would a marathon destroy us?
Gene: Why it's all very simple. If I did it the normal way, I would probably be caught, be labeled a fugitive and taken to jail, besides I can't bring myself to kill someone, not even you. But if I convince the world that it's a good thing to kill you, and it is, then I would be labeled a hero instead of a convict.
Miss Info:{Confused}So, you're asking for the world's permission to get rid of us?
Gene: No, you, you...blast I'm running out of insults here, um...witless sponge, yes that's it. I'm not going to kill you, but everyone else will. Once the marathon ends, I will convince everyone that the only way to avenge the last 24 hours is to wipe you off the face of the earth, and that shouldn't be hard. I'm just disappointed that the people need a marathon to realize what must be done. And I'm sad that I needed to have my life ruined to realize the same.
Loud: EXCUSE ME FOR STATING THE OBVIOUS REASONS FOR YOUR SAYING THIS STUFF, BUT ARE YOU SAYING WE DESERVE TO DIE?!
Gene: Of course. We live in a pleasant, entertaining world, and it doesn't deserve to be tarnished by having unpleasant, degrading, sanity trying people like you in it. You are annoying, one dimensional, loud, idiotic, with no redeeming qualities, and any you have can't possibly make up for your many bad ones, why should you live? The world will be better off without non funny characters like you.
Loud:{Low}Are you trying to intimidate us and make us believe that what you say is true? WELL IF YOU ARE IT WON'T WORK! WE'RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK WE ARE, AND WE CAN DEFEAT YOU AND RISE AGAINST YOUR SLANDEROUS REMARKS BECAUSE WE'RE BETTER PEOPLE THAN YOU!!{Miss Info smiles}
Gene: Sigh, Loud you may not realize it, but this is a serious hostage situation, not a comedy club. So don't try to make me laugh with that better person hogwash. Whoops, too late.{He chuckles}
Loud: We showed him though by escaping with Harry helping again, and helping defeat the angry mob Gene had formed. Still we almost weren't so lucky facing Gene himself. He got Miss Info, and he almost got me and Harry, well, almost.
{Cut to the story's climactic scene on the rooftop. Gene is hanging onto the flagpole and looks at a running Harry}
Gene: HARRY!!!!
Loud: HEY GENE! LEAVE HARRY ALONE, IT'S ME THAT YOU WANT! YOU KNOW YOU WANT ME DEAD FIRST!!
Gene:{Extremely cold}Prepare to suffer a fate of indescribable pain.{Normal}Otherwise known as being shot, you can choose your pick of description.
{He fires at Loud and once again narrowly misses. Loud runs back and forth from left to right as Gene continues to fire. He keeps on missing but he's getting closer. However he's getting angrier as Loud continues to avoid him, and he fires quicker and with more rage, until a clicking sound is heard; he is now out of bullets. He looks and sees the police now pointing guns at him, and the Histerians looking at him with vengeful intent on their faces. Now realizing all is lost, Gene screams in anguish}
Timpowicz: Okay Gene, are you ready to come down now?
Gene: NO!{Low}It's not over. You fools haven't won anything. Right now all you've earned is a rest until the inevitable! THIS ISN'T OVER YET!
Voice:{V.O.}Oh no?
{We now see Harry standing above Gene. He then jumps off the house and he is about to fall on the pole}
Gene: Okay, maybe now it's over.
{Harry lands on the pole, knocking Gene from his hold, and they fall. At that exact second, a window is broken and Nikola Tesla comes out with many pieces of equipment}
Tesla: Hahahaha! At last, with all these devices I will finally be able to build a successful death ray! Sure it is wrong to steal this from him, but at least now I won't have to resort to one of those embarrassing death ray yard sales.
{Just then, Gene falls to the ground, though we don't see it. Before Tesla can comprehend this, something falls on him. We now see Harry, alive and apparently well, sitting on Tesla, who is lying on the ground}
Harry: I'm, I'm alive? I'M ALIVE! Hahahaha! I thought I was going to die, now they're okay and I'm alive! Oh thank you Mr{he then sees who it is}AAHH! Oh, it's you Mr Tesla, thank you for standing there so I could fall on you!{Fade back to the present}
Jon: So there's the marathon covered. Hmm, you know I never understood why Gene sent all those traps after you when you were headed for his house. Apperantly he wanted you there so the mob could kill you, so why'd he try to stop you?
Charity: Why does he do anything? Answer, very bad predicitions and planning. But it wasn't bad enough that he couldn't escape later though.
Mr Smarypants: And certainly not bad enough for him not to trick me into giving him the stuff he needed to build his robot spider and luring everyone else to Washington for their doom, oh no siree!
Miss Info: All right, deep breath, think happy thoughts now.
Lydia: I think I can guess what PG-13 pushing thoughts those are where you're the star.
Smartypants: For someone who crusades against bad thoughts, you have several yourself.
Jon: Um, that day in Washington, can we make that the conversation's subject please?
Charity: Okay, well as everyone knows he built a giant spider and used it to take over the United States. His first address as the ruler was one that we couldn't help but pay attention to.
{Fade to Gene's TV speech in "Another 24 Hours"}
Gene: As you all know, I am the man who earlier aired the infamous 24 hour marathon in an attempt to kill it's two "stars" Loud Kiddington and Miss Information. And I must make it clear that I still want to do so. But I also want you to finally realize what good it would do, that's why I did this. Like before, their annoyance brought about horrible consequences, it drove me to air the marathon, and they caused you all to go crazy from it. Now, they have drove me to terrorize our nation's capital and take over the country. So, what I want is the same thing I asked for last time, I want you all to kill them.
Harry: Nostalgic, isn't he?
Sammy: And completely sick and repetitive, he tried this before, why would it work now?
Gene: I have come here to make you all a deal. I want to form an army, an army of citizens, formed by the residents of Washington D.C. And it has one purpose, to find Loud and Miss Info, as well as someone else that stopped me previously, Dr Harry Norman. Here's a picture.{He pulls out a picture of Harry}Because he helped them, he is a target, and he must be killed too. What I want is for this army to find those three, capture them, bring them to the White House, and then I will kill them. If that is accomplished, I will turn back control of the country back to Clinton and company, and leave peacefully. You'll never be bothered by me again and I will do no more damage, I will turn everything back to normal in an instant if you do that. But, if you don't, I will keep my job...and I will turn the country into a communist society, as well as singlehandedly turn the country into the living embodiment of our darkest nightmares, people enslaved, cities ravaged, everyone suffering, you get the idea.
Charity: He got his army quick, and a new friend, by the name of Vincent Morre.
Jon: Yes, the Peter Lorre lookalike who was distracted by you guys just like Gene was, and he hated you forever. Together they chased you all around the city from what I know and from what the damages to the city as told to me by my notes say.
Froggo: If your notes can tell you all that stuff, why are you asking us about everything?
Loud: Don't worry, he's gonna get some really good stuff now. Although he didn't personally hurt us in this account, the fear of him caused greater pain than anything he ever did physically. The fear he'd kill Charity if I let anyone know I loved her.
Charity: But Vincent found that out for him and he responded by taking me to the White House for a "visit"
{Cut to the scene in the White House where Charity is Gene's prisoner}
Charity: He was someone who needed support and I couldn't let him believe that what you say is true. I can't let someone I care for continue to live the tortured life you've put him in. Especially when I don't think even you believe what you say is the truth!
Gene:{Shocked}What?! You think that I don't...how DARE you say such an untrue and wrong thing, that's Miss Info's job!
Charity: You don't believe a word that comes out of your mouth. You only say those things so the people can't blame you for the horror you've caused, and because you want to make Loud and Miss Info miserable You say that all the things you've done is their fault..
Gene:{Interrupting}Because it is!! You must admit I wouldn't have done this if they hadn't cost me my job.
Charity: NO! You say you're doing this for the world's own good, but that, and everything else, is a lie, and you know it! Because it's all an attempt to distract the people from the truth, so they won't view you as the evil sick maniac you are, and mainly you say all those things about them because you're so obsessed with making them miserable!
Gene: Lies, _they're_ all lies! I'm doing this because I want the world to come to the same conclusion about them that I have!
Charity: And that's why you're so sick, because you believe things about them that aren't there. You don't know them, all you know about them is what you want to know, if you knew them like I did, you wouldn't have done this, you just came to your conclusions from watching us on TV, and those clips do not judge the kind of people we really are.
Gene: All right then, fine. Let's say you're right, I can try to accept the fact that Loud and the others are nice people, I'm not a one-dimensional character that refuses to try to see that, those kind of villains are more overbearing than menacing. But does that give then an excuse to do what they did to me? That's why, good people or not, they're going to destroy democracy in this country if they don't stop breathing before 4:00, there's no other way to settle this.
Jon: He was right on that part though, judging by the bloody battle that happened.
Toast: He left out the part about him dying and then coming back as a narly, scary robot though, news dude!
{Cut to that scene as Nathan, one of Gene's soldiers, is near Gene's dead body}
Nathan: Good bye, and good riddance, you murderer.{Just then, Gene eyes incredibly open wide. Nathan backs up in total shock and fear. Gene then slowly gets up. He then walks towards the wall and even more surprisingly, climbs up slowly up the wall all by himself}
Nathan: He's, he's alive, it can't be! And how's he able to climb like that?
Pepper:{Gasps}Ohmigawds, look at his foot!{We see Gene's hurt left foot, there is a lot of red on it, and we see the red is beginning to change color. His right hand, also covered in red, is beginning to change it's color too}
Smartypants: What's going on, not even I can figure out why this is happening, and for that matter, what's happening.{He then looks at Gene's foot again and gasps in terror}Oh, oh my goodness, it can't be, it can't be!
Nathan: What can't be?{He looks up}Gasp, he's a, a, a...look out you guys up there!!
{On the roof, our heroes are shocked and puzzled at what's going on. Just then Gene's head rises above the ledge, his left hand is holding on to it. But when he raises his right hand, the sight is uncomprehendable and terrifiying....the hand is now mechanical. It's now complete solid steel and his fingers are also no longer human but scaly and robotic. He jumps onto the roof and the sight is even more terrifying, most of his left leg is now metal, and any other part in which he was bleeding from the fall is metal too}
Harry: No, this can't be what it looks like, but it is! You're a, a, a robot!
Loud:{Very nervous}Okay, okay I know the trick, this must be a robot, but this can't be Gene itself, he probably got away and sent this thing to finish us. Okay Gene, we got the trick, where are you?
Gene: I am Gene. This is a part of my final experiment. You see, when I was at Smartypants's lab, I tried to think of some ways that I could come back to try again to kill you if I died. So, I created a machine that combined all the parts of a human with all the power of a robot.
Miss Info: So you were a robot all along?
Gene: No, the machine would only work after I died. When I died in human form, the affects of the machine would take over and release my robot form, so I would come back to life as an all powerful robot. I gave up my humanity for the one thing I loved most, science, and now with it, I will take away the things I hate most, you four. Thanks for killing me and giving me this power to succeed this time, by the way.
Loud: No, no, it can't be, it can't be not over, not after such jubilation from your supposed death!
Gene: Oh don't worry, it'll be over soon enough, but this time in my favor.{Cut back to the present}
Jon: Okay then, we're finally at the end.
Pepper: It was almost the end for everybody though, AH HA! That was made pretty clear when they found out he wanted to nuke Washington, and his wife too!
Loud: And as much as I try, I can't forget how he had to be stopped.
Charity: You? I'm the one that almost died fighting him, but I trapped him and found a way to escape before I had him blow up anyway.
{Cut to the end of the final battle scene. Gene is trapped and Charity is in the lone chair of an escape pod. Gene's head goes towards the glass window and tries to charge through with no luck}
Gene: You can't escape in time, it won't get you out right away, you have to go through tubes until it reaches the end of the spider and then it leaves!
Charity: It could be worse, I could be stuck in manacles and about to be destroyed. Good bye forever, Gene.
{She presses the "Eject" button on the chair. She then waves good bye tauntingly and the pod lifts to the roof and is seen going out through a white tube, there are three others next to it. Inside the other room, the others are getting into their pods and they press their separate "Eject" buttons simultaneously and lift out into the tubes. We go back and see Gene watching Charity's pod go with disdain}
Gene: Bah, well the missile will take care of her and get her eventually. Gasp, and it would get the spider too of course. I've got to get free of these manacles to escape the destruction!
{His head goes back into it's sockets and he resumes trying to get free. However, he then hears a creaking sound. He turns to the left console and sees the final screw is about to fall off the plate. He turns and sees the other console is about to be disconnected too. Gene then realizes what's about to happen}
Gene: Clever little girl.{The screws then finally fall off and, with the rope attached on top, the consoles swing downward....right at Gene, both are about to hit him at once}Well, those will hardly be considered famous last words.
{Through Gene's P.O.V we see the left console coming at him, then the sight goes to static and then the static fades away. We pan backwards and officially see the consoles hit Gene, and the evil scientist explodes}
Charity:{V.O}And although his hand flew out and took the air out of my pod which almost killed me, he died, I survived, and that's how we're here to tell you this and he's not.{Back to the present}
Jon: That does cover just about everything from the attacks. Heh, it is ironic, he tried to end you and all he did was help bring his arch enemy love and happiness by her and others defending Loud from his attacks. I'm glad he's not alive anymore to get that cosmic joke.
Loud: But I am, and I'm reminded everyday about how funny it is with all my joy.
Jon: That's not the best comeback line I've heard today, but I'll print it.
Charity: It's probably the last one since now you have all the details of his life and everything you need for your story. Unless you're still looking to find out anything else.
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Is there anything more Molsh wants to know, Jus?[Heh, this shapes up to be the quickest story we've done by far, doesn't it?]
Jon: I guess I covered everything...one more thing though.
Cho-Cho: Yes?
Jon: If Gene Burrows, AKA Slim Berry is now dead...who is imprisoned just now?
Charity: Nothing more than his memory which was created by the experiment.
Jon: Memory?
Sammy: It is like a clone but never age.
Jon: Ah. Well, I guess I got all the info I need. Sorry to remind you of those infamous events.
Mr. Smartypants: Ah, we are used to it by now.
Lucky Bob: Yes now! Hiyo!
(QC to outside the studio. It is now nighttime. Jon is heading towards his car. He got in, started it, and drove off. Inside, he is thinking of what he learned.)
Jon: (thinking) Hmmm...What do I do with the info now? Should I released it? Maybe, but I will had to wait until my show is successful enough before I do anything. Still, I wonder if there is anything else I had missed.
(QC to outside again as the car drove off. We then QC back to the past again, this time to the Mid 80s inside a adoption agency. A lady is leading a couple to their foster child. They are...)
Bob Parkinson: I hope we get a good child.
Julie Parkinson: I am sure we did.
(THey go into a room they were headed to. A boy is sitting in a chair reading something. He looks up.)
Lady: Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson, here is the boy you will be looking after. His name is...what is your name again, little boy?
(The boy speaks up...)
Boy: Berry. Slim Berry.
(We Fade Out, as we hear a combination of both Gene and Slim's evil laughter.)
The End...or is it?!
Cast list
Gene Hackman: Dr. Gene Burrows
Jim Carrey: Slim Berry/Gene Burrows
George Clooney: Dr. George Rees
Bruce Willis: Cy-Borg/Dr. Wallace Berry
Gilbert Gottfried: Uncle Richie
Tom Kane: Dr. Doorhider
Harry Anderson: Judge Harry Lewis
Geoffrey Rush: Dr. Harry Norman
Cody Ruegger: Loud Kiddington
Nathan Ruegger: Froggo
Laraine Newman: Laraine Berry, Charity Bazaar, Miss Information
Cree Summer: Aka Pella
Jeff Glenn Bennett: Lucky Bob, Nikola Tesla
Tress MacNeille: Cho-Cho, Toast, Pepper Mills, World's Oldest Woman
Frank Welker: Walter Konin, Father Time
James Wickline: James Berry
Billy West: Jon Molsh
Rob Paulsen: Mr. Smartypants, Sammy Melman, Bob Parkinson
Nora Dunn: Lydia Karaoke, Julie Parkinson
Maurice LaMarche: Nathan
One of our best team-ups ever! Hope I got you with that last part. What do you guys think of this story?