{Cut to the outside of Warnerland in the early morning as tanks are being loaded as soldiers are making their last checkups. Flemming is overseeing them until the Evil Scientist comes to him, but since mostly everyone still knows him as Craig Shaffer, we'll call him that too for now}
Shaffer: I trust our troops are probably ready by now. It's not like they need any extra motivation.
Flemming: I still can't believe after all we planned, after all we went through to prevent further violence, that that's what we're going to bring.
Shaffer: They're the ones that killed Crosby and pretty much killed Fowler, so they pretty much begged for it.
Flemming: And of all the things I can't believe, that's about the number 1 thing. That they actually committed a crime that we said all along that they'd do.
Shaffer: That's right, they came in here and killed him, all the evidence points to it. This proves the rightness of all we've done, we have proven that they are the real enemy, and so we must take out the enemy right away. I want you to play a part in that by helping our charge.
Flemming: Are you sure they wouldn't regard me as a hypocrite by killing people for killing someone I hated?
Shaffer: After today, no one will remember you for that. You are going to be the hero of Warnerland who helped defend our freedom, we will both make that happen. You've cared too much for our freedom to be blamed for anything "hypocritical" now.
Flemming: You're right. Our very freedom is in question as long as they can get to us. If they can get Crosby and Fowler, they can get anyone, and they wouldn't care how innocent their victims are. Although those two victims will be their last.
Shaffer: I knew I could count on you, my friend. You've been too helpful to me to not be. Now let's not waste another moment more, we have lives to save here. By the end of the day we will get that murder Tom to leave office and make his killer followers join him! I do not want to break this promise, now let us go and help me keep my word!!
{The soldiers cheer and head into formation as the rest of them enter their tanks. In a matter of seconds, the tanks are filled and they begin to move to Histeria Village, acompannied by the marching soldiers}
{Back in Histeria Village, the evacuation of the town is under way as troops and cars are escorting citizens out of harm's way. Moppel is reporting on the scene}
Moppel: As word gets out that war could break out on a matter of hours, the rush has begun to evacuate as many people as possible before a possible attack. In the meantime, last minute attempts at peace are being made by some forgotten former residents of the town, the Histeria Historical Counsil. As you know, most of the surviving historical characters of the Evil Scientist's regime broke off from the town to form a historical counsil to prevent more conflict. Now their attempts to broker a deal have begun. Joining us via satellite is Historical Counsil chairman Richard Nixon.
{Richard Nixon appears in one of those made for TV boxes above Moppel}
Nixon: Hello Fred, this would be accused crook is happy to see you. Now if it were under better circumstances...
Moppel: Have enough steps been taken to stop a potential conflict so far?
Nixon: Look, these two places are really starting to hate each other, they've been doing that for a while. And it's our job to stop any battles, and as the counsil leader, I have to come up with most of the ideas. Me, a guy who had to withstand endless insults for letting troops stay in a war for almost 5 years. Me, a guy who was accused of bringing a country down with illegal doings of my own! Me, a guy who has to take the anti crook statements I made to the grave, and then I have to get out of the grave to face them again! And now you're relying on me to prevent a nation destroying war, do I understand you clearly Fred?!
Moppel: Crystal clear sir. So, what's the word?
Nixon: I thought I already hinted that my presence eliminates the 1% chance we had of doing something, weren't you listening? All we can do now is figure out which of these places we should hate more for thinking they can be a superpower over us.
Moppel: How reassuring.
Nixon: Hey, at least when I tell the truth I'm brutally honest, give me that!
{At the Histeria castle, all kinds of acrtivity and preperations to move are happining. The kids and Tom are among this activity}
Froggo: So where's the bomb shelter or whatever place we have to hide for the rest of the day?
Charity: Everyone's trying to organize things well enough so we don't have to hide for long. They're still doing their job, including their new one of getting everyone together to stop the invasion.
Aka: I don't see why we should be that worried anymore. We have the proof that the Scientist is alive and he caused his whole thing, we just tell those soldiers about it and there's no way they'll kill us!
Loud: You know the Scientist, by now he has them so brainwashed that they'll believe that anything we say or show them was set up to save our own skins!
Cho-Cho: But what about Miss Info, she can tell them everything, then she can take them to the lab to prove she's not lying!
Tom: Miss Info! She's still at the hospital, I told her to stay put since I was so busy taking care of this stuff! She can't stay here since it's obvious he knows what she's been telling us! We have to give her special protection until she can take us to the lab!
Tesla: But...every troop and protective unit we have will be needed to stop the Warnerland army, we can't spare...even one.
Tom: But she can end this war before it barely begins, you're telling me we can't spare anyone for that?!
Tesla: I believe that's what...I did.
Tom: I don't buy that! I am getting sick and tired of everyone rejected my ideas no matter how "sickingly moral" they are! Get her here safely now!!
Charity: He's right though, we need everyone we can get. I'll go get her.
Tom: What?
Charity: You don't need us kids to fight for you, so we can make ourselves useful by finding her and protecting her. And if we can't get back here in time, we'll just have to bring her to the lab and find a way to record the proof we need.
Pepper: In front of deadly gun fire?! No way, as a legimate movie and celebrity buff I've snuck into enough war movies to know that's not too cool!
Loud: Well I'm no stranger to that kind of danger!{Pause}I shouldn't have just said I'm going too and left it at that, I know.
Charity: The rest of you can stay here and help Tom, I think us two can do the job ourselves and this way none of you will be hurt.
Aka: Until their bombs and stuff start aiming for this place, we won't be.
Loud: Tom will help you find a safe haven. We may have little time to keep talking about the issue so we should go as quickly as possible.{Pauses as he sees that Tom has left the room}Tom?
{Tom is now in his office looking out the window. It is now almost daybreak and the town is looking perfect. Other than that the office is deserted except for a turned on TV showing their own view of the town. Loud and Charity then enter}
Tom: I wasn't even elected to do this. To look at the town and reflect that I have played a part in making this the last time it'll look this perfect again. They just handpicked me after Crosby resigned here, I was just a mere Senator then. I don't even remember how I got there and how I stayed around when the Scientist came in. Now...here I am. Accused of murder by one country and accused of being inactive and too ultramoral to protect anyone in my own country.
Charity: At least half of that stuff will change once we clear our names.
Tom: As if anyone thinks I can lead us well and long enough to make that happen.{To the kids}Do you honestly think I can stay alive long enough to prove I'm an actual leader?
Loud: It's not like we won't try to make that happen.
Tom: How did this happen? The last adventure we were in was a dramatic showdown sure, but it played out like a fairy tale or something like that. Now we're in a ultra deadly showdown where half this town will be shot down. What kind of plausible turnaround is that?
Loud: I don't know. But we should talk about it later when we get back with Miss Info.
{The rest of the kids enter the office}
Froggo: So, um, are you guys heading out soon?
Charity: We were about to.
Aka: Oh. Well, eh...well, we know there's a shot that, um, the chances of you coming back are 50/50, so....
Loud: This isn't one of those last minute apologies for everything because we may be dead in an hour, right?
Lucky Bob: Found out now!{Starts to tear up}But not a bad thing to say now!
Charity: We'll be back, don't worry. They're probably gonna invade with tanks and they probably won't get to the castle till an hour after they get to town, if they get that far. We have plently of time.
Aka:{Enraged}Crosby thought he had plently of time too and see how that turned out!!
{Aka pauses to go along with the uncomfortable silence that follows. The first one to make a noise is Loud as he sniffs once or twice. Realizing he's thinking that it could be the end soon too, Charity hugs him. Tom them hugs them both, and soon everyone is hugging each other and only the sappy background music is missing. As this happens, we pull back to see the TV and it's pictures of the town- until it suddenly goes to static. The gang hears this and immediatly knows why this happened}
Tom: It's starting.
{Cut to a view of a blown apart building right at the border of town. Then pull back to see the entire army of tanks and soldiers about a few hundred feet away. The tanks then start firing at more buildings in the town. People that have not been evacuated or are trying to leave the town try to run away from the blasts at all directions, but a few get hit and some more are picked up by the soldiers. The tanks continue to fire their blasts as this goes on. But away from the blasts we go to a few buildings not too far away from them. It seems that no one is in there- until a few gun shots are fired from inside that break some windows. Just then an entire battalion of soldiers exit the buildings and stand in a straight line in the middle of the road. The Warnerland soldiers get ready to fire at them}
Flemming:{V.O}Hold your fire! Let them charge! We'll deal with them quickly then!{Cut back to the Histeria troops}
Soldier: Come on men, we'll capture as many of the enemy as possible or make sure they don't live to have that honor!
Soldier 2: I thought Tom ordered us not to kill.
Soldier: As if it wasn't more obvious that he has no guts! He could have avoided this by attacking them from the start but no, he had to-{Sees that the other soldiers have started to charge without him}Hey, wait up, I wasn't done yet!
{The soldiers start their charge towards the Warnerland troops, who continue not to move}
Flemming:{V.O}Hold the line!{The Histeria troops get closer}Hold the line, no firing until I say so, make sure what we do plan to fire is ready!{The troops are now 30 feet away from them}Now!!
{The tanks then fire at the charging troops- but they do not fire lasers, they each fire about 100 or so darts at the soldiers. At least one of them hits everyone of the troops, some stop to get them off, while others start attacking the Warnerland troops. But after a while, all of the Histerians start to look tired}
Soldier:{Yawns}What's going on, what's....with...the urge to take a n...nap over h....here?
{Soon every one of the soldiers falls to the ground, all asleep}
Flemming:{V.O}The sleeping drugs worked! Half of you start taking them all into custody, the rest of you head on to the town and attack!!
{Half the tanks do not move forward as the soldiers start picking up the opposing troops and loading them in the tanks. The rest of the tanks start driving into Histeria Village and resuming their bombing of the nearby buildings. Just then another battlion of troops charges out of more buildings, but half the charging tanks shoot darts at them while the others keep bombing everything}
{Cut to the castle as Tom is hearing reports from the men around him}
Man: We've got nothing at all so far, all our troops are being put to sleep before they can fire a gun!
Tesla: Sir, this is indeed the final...excuse to show myself off. My weapons are armed and ready to fire at will.
Tom:{Pause}I suppose the time for morals is indeed over. Very well, send all your weapons out to fire at them, but try to limit the killing as much as you can!
Tesla: Don't worry...people can't praise my genius when they're dead.
{Back on the battlefield, darts and missles continue to be fired at the group of Histeria troops. Away from the action are Loud and Charity, who seem to have just left the castle and are running into town}
Loud: Okay, so where are we supposed to start looking for her again?
Charity: I knew there was something I forgot to ask while I was busy hugging everyone a possible goodbye! You forget the most important things in those times.
Loud: Well she should have enough sense to be far away from the action.
Charity: Thanks, now we certainly have to go there to get her now.
Miss Info:{V.O}Get who?
Charity: Hold on a minute Miss Info, we're trying to figure out how to find you.{Pause}Well, that was the shortest job I ever had.
Miss Info:{Walking in}At least someone didn't have a long wait, they told me to wait at the hospital so troops could come get me after they got everyone else out, but I saw those tanks and, well, Loud was right in saying the limits of my stupidness.
Loud: Good, maybe we can discuss that when we're away from town. Now where's the lab?
Miss Info: I already said it was at that cliff where we killed the Scientist the first time. I don't know why you need me to say again when I could have been out of harm's way.
Charity: We don't know how to get in the lab and where it's doors are exactly, and you're the only one that does!
Miss Info: Oh, right! Well, we'd better start running then, those tanks look a lot closer than they did a second ago.
{Indeed, the tanks are beginning to get closer to the castle, because they pretty much destroyed 80% of the buildings behind it. Many H! soldiers are lying down, but most of them are sleeping cause of the darts. The two kids and adult then run off towards one of the still standing buildings, which is right next to rwo more buildings. And the doors of all those buildings thenn open and what comes out are all kinds of weird weapons and stuff. Unfortunatly I'm not a visual writer, but this stuff is stuff that only a looney like Tesla could come up with. And we now see Tesla in the castle about to give orders in a walkie talkie, and viewing the action from a TV}
Tesla: All right my weapons that can move...and fire by themselves! You are about to give your creator the respect he deserves, a cause certainly worth...the end of your simulated lives for. So I guess all that's left to say is...{The tanks then destroy a few of the weapons}Well, there goes my chance to say my best line of the speech cause they gotta start firing now. Fire!!
{Tesla's weapons make many strange sounds as kind of a prelude to their firing}
Tesla: Yes, yes, YES!! In a matter of seconds they will use the greatest power force in the universe to raise...heck!!
Tom: Greatest power force?
Tesla: Yes, I wanted to give them enough power to not break down...so I worked double time to give them that. As they shall soon see.
{Tesla's weapons make even more noise but they're not firing any lasers at all. Finally one of the weapons does something else- it self destructs. The blast then lays waste to the rest of Tesla's weapons, but none of the tanks get a dent}
Tesla: Oh....
Tom: You had to choose today to be more of an inccorect braggert than usual, didn't you?
Tesla: Well...I was hoping that if those things overloaded that they'd destroy the tanks too. I did think about that possibility.
Tom: Think about this when you're done. YOUR WEAPONS ARE A FLOP, OUR SOLDIERS ARE TOO BUSY BEING IN DREAMLAND OR PERMINANT DREAM LAND TO FIGHT BACK, AND THOSE TANKS ARE ALMOST HERE!!!
Tesla: At least you aren't among those foolish...kids and that stupid adult over there.
{Tom sees that on the TV, Loud, Charity, and Miss Info are still hiding behind that building. Cut to the inside of Flemming's tank, where Shaffer/The Scientist is also in. He looks at a monitor on the tank and he too sees the good guys hiding, then running off away from sight. Shaffer smiles a bit and then goes over to someone else inside}
Shaffer: Load the missles! Tell everyone the darts are no longer needed, they took our lives so we should take theirs! Fire all our weapons at those buildings over there!
{Outside, we see that tank turn to face the three buildings, which we now see are the three buildings from the very beginning of the story. We then see the kids and Miss Info running away from the back of the buildings, but from the tanks P.O.V they're unseen. And then, the exact same scene from the very beginning happens- a ray blast destroys the middle building of the three, then one destroys the building on the left, and finally a blast destroys the one on the right. At that point, we see someone viewing the damage from his binoculars and smiling evily- it's Shaffer, who has popped out of the tank to view the action}
Shaffer:{Quietly}If that wasn't worth the wait, I don't know what is.
{Back in the castle, Tomn is hovering over the TV screen. The flames from the explosions are very high up}
Tom: Come on flames, go down!! Are they okay?
{After a while the flames clear up- and the TV screen shows Loud, Charity, and Miss Info down face first. Outside, Shaffer sees that too from his binoculars}
Shaffer: Men!! You have made a reluctant leader very proud to have the honor if it was one! Now, let us unleash the full power of our justified large arsenal on this Godless land!! Fire all missles at will and have the ground troops destroy what they miss!{Shaffer goes back in the tank where he sees Flemming inside}Max, I've set things up for you, lead us on now.
Flemming: Thank you, old friend. I'll see you in Histeria castle.
Shaffer: Very well, now go out there and make that happen sooner, I'll start to miss you.
{Flemming climbs out of the tank to join the ground troops of Warnerland in front of the tanks}
Flemming: Stay with me to avoid all missle fire, men! Speaking of which...
{The tanks resume their firing as the remaining Histeria troops either stay to fight or run away. Those that stay charge towards the Warnerland troops, and get into brawls with many of them, but the Warnerland troops either shoot them or beat them up. As that goes on, the tanks keep firing and start to move away from the scene. Shaffer comes out of his tank and takes one last look at the scene where the heroes are lying on the ground, then he goes back in. Inside the castle, Tom is sadly viewing the same scene on his own monitor, which then goes to static. As that happens, Tesla tiptoes away along with many other people who leave less quietly}
Man: Mr President, those tanks will be in range of the castle within the next few minutes! We have only one defense left, we can fire our own missles at them to buy some time!{Pause}Come on sir, people are already evacuating here and are probably planning to surrender, we need to make our last stand quick!
Tom: They sealed their own fate.
Man: I know, those kids could have gone a lot sooner, but-
Tom: I was talking about the people that deserve their fate. The time for peace loving is indeed over.{Somber}Fire every missle we have at them, and get everyone to a safe distance.{Starts to walk away}
Man: Where are you going?
Tom: To tell some kids that they may have a short time to morn their friends.
{Speaking of said friends, we go to the scene of the explosions where Loud, Charity, and Miss Info are down- but in only a second, they all get up}
Loud: Everyone okay?
Charity: I've been better, but I know I'm not the only one that can say that.
Miss Info: Say, how come you kept muttering for us to lie down and let the snow cool our faces off anyway?
Loud: Because now they think we're dead and by the time they see they're wrong, we'll be at the lab. Um, the tanks are gone aren't they?
Charity: The smoke's still too think to see.
Loud: Then we'll take the chance that they have the same problem. Let's go.
Miss Info:{Looking at the remains of half the town}I never thought this was how this place would look like the last time I'd see it, I can tell you that.
Charity: Once we find that lab and get that proof, we'll see it again and live to help rebuild it too. Come on, let's go.
{Now we go to the top of H! castle where several cannons are being placed on the roofs. Also, medium sized missles are being placed in them. Once they are, they are aimed right at the oncoming tanks which are almost in range of the castle itself}
Man:{Talking in a walkie talkie}All troops back away, I repeat, all troops back away now!
{Back on the battlefield, many of the Histeria troops stop fighting with the Warnerland soldiers and look up at the castle to see why that order was given. They then start to back away}
Flemming: What's going on here?!{Now he looks up and sees the cannons on the castle, and he sees that they have started firing}Back away!!
{Flemming and his troops retreat to the back of the tanks just as the first few missles hit the ground. None of them come close to hitting the tanks though. Back inside Shaffer's tank, he sees the action on a monitor}
Shaffer: Fire our missles at theirs so they can't hit the ground and deterr our troops! Are we in range of the actual castle yet?!
Man: Yes sir, we are now in range to hit the castle. Should we start firing at it now?
{Outside, the tanks start trading firepower at the Histerians missles, and now a few of them actually hit the tanks. They don't blow up, but they're no longer able to move forward. After one more Histerian missle hits a tank, we see Shaffer viewing this action from his monitor and growling}
Shaffer: Show me a view of the castle again!
{The scene on the monitor changes to the castle, and Shaffer notices that to the left of it, some people are exiting the building}
Shaffer: Are our most explosive missle still as of yet unfired?
Man: I don't know sir, I've been a bit too busy to count which ones we got off.
Shaffer: Start firing what ones we have at the cowards out there.
Man: But sir-
Shaffer: Just do it!!
{The tanks continue to trade shots with the cannons until suddenly, the guns of the tanks begin to turn. The people manning the cannons stop firing since this move by the tanks puzzles them- but soon they see what they are aiming for. In haste, they try to reload the cannons at maximum speed, but it's to no avail. Shaffer's tank and a few other tanks fire at the left of the castle where retreating people are, and though some manage to run back inside, the blast hits the rest and wrecks part of the castle as well. The people manning the cannons just stare in shock, which is yet another mistake because now that they're not busy manning cannons, the tanks are free to fire right at them, and they do. The tanks then begin one final all out shooting spree at the castle and the areas around it, and only a few missles by the Histerians are able to be fired at them. Flemming's ground troops stay in back of the tanks the entire time, and when all the cannons are destroyed or disabled, they start to move again}
Flemming: Company....charge!!!
{The tanks finish their attacks on the castle and it ends with them blasting the large front door open. With that, the troops start charging at the now open building and soon enter it. There are some troops inside though who start firing at them, but the Warnerland soldiers outnumber them easily. A quick battle ends with most of the Histerians down or running away}
{The remainder of the Warnerland troops then join their comrades and charge right into the castle itself. They break down what they can and hold guns at any remaining people inside, as a few final sounds of tanks firing are heard. Soon, the troops ara already in control of about half the building. As they finish their work, Shaffer enters himself}
Shaffer: Find and capture anyone left in here. But if you find Tom or any kids, do not kill them, we need them alive to confess their crimes!
{Cut to Tom's office as Tom and the kids are huddle together, but they can still hear the noise and destruction created by the Warnerland troops}
Aka:{Quivering}Well...at least Loud and Char won't be able to miss us that long.
Toast: Do they have MTV in Heaven, dudes?
Froggo:{Snapping at Toast}We don't know, and we don't wanna know but they're not gonna give us a choice in the matter!!
Pepper: Guess you're the wrong one to ask if my favorite dead stars will be there.{Screams}We're gonna-
{Just then a bang on the door to the office is heard}
Flemming:{V.O}Open up murderers!! Open up now and you will be spared, do you hear me murderers?!
Aka:{Quiet}You're one to talk.{Loudly}You're one to talk!!!
{Aka storms over to the door, opens it, and jumps right on Max Flemming like a lion}
Aka: You killed Crosby and you killed our friends, so you would know how to talk to a murderer, wouldn't you?!!
{Flemming struggles with her for a while until the other troops around her grab her, though she tries her darndest to break away. As she does, more troops enter the office and hold the other kids down}
Soldier: We got the kids, sir!
Flemming: Good, now get them ready for interrogation so they can tell us all that Tom planned for us! Speaking of which, I notice he's still standing around, fix that please.
Shaffer:{V.O}No need to worry, just deal with the kids right now.{Shaffer enters the room}I'll handle the other leader around here.
{Flemming nods and has the kids taken away as Aka continues to scream. He then leaves himself, leaving Shaffer and a few troops alone with Tom, who is standing near the window. Tom doesn't even turn to look at Shaffer at all, even as he picks up a gun of his own and aims it at him}
Tom:{Pause}I know who you are.
Shaffer:{Another pause}Do you want them to live long enough to find out?
{Shaffer points at the window where outside, the surviving Histeria civiliens and soldiers are being rounded up for capture by the Warnerland army, and a few tanks are still firing on the city. Tom looks at the scene for a long while, and then he puts his hands up and turns to Shaffer. Shafer stares at him for some time, then he hits Tom on the head with his gun and Tom collaspes}
Shaffer: Tie him down right away and get our interrogation set up.
{Cut to the cliff shown in the beginning of the story and at the end of the original Loud's Wish. It is here where Loud, Charity, and Miss Info have finally arrived}
Loud: All right, we're here. Now we're gonna find out if all the trouble we went through to get Miss Info here paid off. Where's the entrance to the lab?
Miss Info: I don't remember the exact location where I fell through, at that point I had more pressing concerns that that.
Charity: We know you fell through some kind of open door buried in this snow. Does that mean we have to start digging it all up? I doubt we have that much time.
Loud: We'll never find it now!{Starts walking around for a while}I said we'll never find it now!{Walks around some more and starts kicking the snow around him}Weren't the fates listening, I said we'd never find it now, aren't I supposed to be proven wrong right-
{He stops because he has apperantly kicked something hard on the ground and he jumps around for a while. Then he sees that what he's kicked is some kind of doorknob}
Loud: Good, at least those tanks weren't that loud for them not to hear my plea.{He starts digging out some more snow and an entire door is revealed on the ground}Well, I'm guessing he's not dumb enough to leave this thing unlocked after last time, so-{Turns the doorknob and it is locked}Hey, after I said that it was supposed to be unlocked!
Charity:{Searching her pockets}I guess "Shaffer's" troops are having fun with my hairpins right about now since I forgot them.
Miss Info: You didn't tell me I had to bring those kind of things with me either! I thought I was important enough to this whole thing to be told stuff like that.
Loud: Great, now how are we supposed to get in?!
{Loud stomps his foot on the door and he somehow breaks a hold through it with that}
Loud: Ah, the fates come through again.
Charity: Looks more like very hollow wood was more of a factor here.
Loud: I'm not questioning how they do their work, let's just take advantage of it.
{Loud sticks his hand through the hole and opens the door, then he and theothers jump through the door and see that they are right inside the lab we saw in the beginning}
Miss Info: This is it, even I'd remember something this scary.
Charity: Let's move on to remembering some other things then. You said there was a journal and a lotta small robots in here, where are they?
{Charity then walks right into something about her height, and when she backs up she sees that it's a robot. She then inspects further to see that there are several rows of robots right nearby}
Charity: My God. Why didn't Crosby tell us about this place? H emust have know about it from the beginning!
Loud: He wrote that he destroyed the place right after we killed his boss the first time, but he spent the last few moments of his life writing he must have missed a robot.
Miss Info:{Pointing at a particually broken down robot}Oh, I was wondering what was wrong with this one, at least I think I remember that. So, are we supposed to destroy these things or keep them around?
Loud: We'll probably need to keep them around to help prove we didn't make this up, but there has to be more concrete proof.
{Loud and Charity start wandering around some more while Miss Info starts to play around with the buttons on the old robot. Finally the robot is turned on and it starts to roll around}
Miss Info: Uh oh. Um, this thing does look too old to fire any weapons that I might have activated, right? Maybe I can deactivate them at the last minute!
{Miss Info pushes a few more buttons on the robot and it freezes in place. Now it's taking that change to flash some kind of monitor, like in Star Wars. What is shown on the screen are plently of images that seem to be from the past, most of which concern the Evil Scientist of old constructing things around the lab. Finally an image is showing Crosby putitng dynamite all over the lab and then of it blowing up}
Loud: Well, at least we were too busy with the protesters here to make that up, we can use that to defend ourselves.
Charity: Yeah, if this boook doesn't do enough damage that'll help a lot. Look!{Charity gets out a journal}
Miss Info: There's the same book I read before the Scientist showed up! Could you remind me what it said?
Charity: The first entry is from about 2 months after he died the first time.{Quoting from the book}I was a genius. That what I hoped people would get right about me before I died, but now they won't have to say I "was" one anymore. Though it wasn't in the way I expected, I was brought back to life as planned.
{Charity keeps talking as the images the robot shows are that of the robot going over to a cemetary and digging up the Scientist's body. The rest of what we see is told to us in the Scientist's voice for Shaffer}
Shaffer: One robot dug up my body and after a few days of work, I was brought back by drugs and electronic experiments. It would have been sooner but someone destroyed the rest of the lab, as I was shocked to see. Later it became obvious why that happened as I read the news of the last few months. So Crosby didn't wanna take any chances that I'd come back to take his cushy new job that is rightfully mine. Well, at least he thinks ahead like me. But I think ahead with more smarts.{Pause}I have rebuilt my lab to full capacity in case this happens again. Now all that remains is to develop weapons to scare the fools that think getting rid of me is so easy. My robots are at work on tanks and other such things as we speak.{Pause}Today's the day. Today is the day that begins the best second coming in 2000 years, only I won't have to go back to being dead afterwards, not ever. Though my spy work all over this area, I've learned that Craig Shaffer, some political guy from another country, is coming to Warnerland to be Crosby's new Chief of Staff. Changing that shouldn't be a problem. My voice already had to be changed during the surgery to bring me back, I can easily have it changed to his. I had my robots spy on him when I wasn't doing it, so that gave me extra time to think of every little detail that makes this plan perfect. My mask is ready, my knowledge of Shaffer and Flemming is perfect, and since Shaffer well, can't fill his position, my opening is ready too.
{The final image we see is of the robot killing Shaffer and buring him, the real Shaffer I mean. With that, the heroes just turn away from the robot in shock}
Charity: My God! If he could do that to someone he never met, what chance do we have?
Loud:{Thinks}We've gotta stay alive to find out! And to do that, someone turn off that robot quick!!
{Loud goes over to the robot and presses more random buttons until he turns off}
Loud: The minute anyone here or there knows we're here, he'll probably self destruct this place to destroy all this proof! He's not that stupid, as much as I wish he was! Maybe if this thing isn't turned on, he can't blow it up! At least it'll buy us some time!
Miss Info: So what do we do?! This is enough to get him, but he can probably make up some excuse to burn it down if we show it to everyone!
Charity: And they'll find out pretty soon that we're not dead too.
Loud: Okay okay, maybe there's more things in here we can find and use to our advantage somehow. There must be something we can download this robot's memory bank to, or maybe we can control them somehow so they don't kill us if they're ordered to!
Miss Info: Then what's with the talking, let the rummaging begin!{She starts to wander around some more as Loud and Charity stay where they are}
Charity: Loud, come on.
Loud: We're gonna have to face him soon, I know it.
Charity: So, we beat him before, we'll find out how to beat him again.
Loud: I never thought I'd have to figure that out in the first place! That man practically made me what I am and basically controlled the first 9 years of my life! I DON'T WANNA FACE HIM AGAIN!!
Charity: Keep it down or he'll make your wish come false a lot faster.
Loud: I'm sorry, but you know what brought that on.{Sighs}I was just starting to enjoy the good life, you know? All the bad times were all gone and now I have to get more battle scars to keep that going. It's isn't fair.
Charity: You'd have to cut his head off to make him remember what that word means.{Laughs}
Loud: I'd like to believe that wasn't just an attempt to hide your own fear.
Charity: Then I won't actually say it out loud. You're right though, I don't know if we are gonna get outta this alive. But just standing here is no help.
Loud: But this may be our last chance for any kind of semi romantic moment, do we have time for that?
Charity: What, where we say the usual "if we get outta this we'll treasure each other more and not worry about what people think about us" stuff? I wouldn't bother with it if it wasn't so true.
Loud:{Kisses Charity}Then I guess that's another reason to get going, we might as well try to make that promise come true.
{Cut to an entirely different room somewhere, where we see a TV showing the takeover of Histeria Village. Moppel is reporting while being led off by soldiers}
Moppel: As of now the rebellious murders of Histeria Village are being led away to camps and prisons for interrogations, though the evil lunatics that are, or were, in charge, are still here to get what's coming to them. Searches are in progress for the cowards that got away before the attacks by our liberators, and they will be found with an iron fit by our leader, Craig Shaffer.{Aside}If you people weren't so bad at writing scripts I'd tell you to go there for a new day job, I'm still wondering if that would be perferable torture to this stuff!
{The TV is turned off and we see that we are in a meeting of many historical characters. This is the Historical Counsil led by Richard Nixon}
Nixon: Well, we've just been proved useless as peacekeepers, so how do make ourselves seem important again? I'd like to hear some thoughts on this.
Alexander the Great: Hold on, which one is the evil country that hid things and killed in the past and which one is the arrogant superpower that thinks they can ignore us and atack anyone they want?
Nixon: Well I'd hardly call Warnerland a superpower, though they seem ready to make themselves one.
Alexander: Well it's those Histerians that killed the other guy's President, so aren't they getting what's coming to them?
Confusius: There was no proof of that, those other guys are making assumptions without any concrete proof! I told them we should have told them to let those inspectors keep working to find proof!
Nixon: We had a resolution ready for that, but they probably would have thought we wouldn't agree to it or something.
Rene Decartes: Why would we, it is an outrage that they would even consider fighting or doing anything that risks the necks of anyone, risking necks is not how the world should work, that's what I think!
Confusius: Are you really thinking that, you've been saying fighting is too risky for so long that you shouldn't even think before you say that!
Decartes: You're right, I'm not even thinking when I say that! I can't think, therefore-{He disappears like in The Know it Alls}
Confusius: Confusius says that never gets old even after the 100'th time. Now, issue 2, what's our next move? Who do we support here?
Charles Dickens: Support the Histerians, it was Warnerland that attacked them first!
Vladimer Lenin: Nein, they are the ones at fault for bringing us to a war! It is a criminal act they have committed! If that German guy was here he'd support me too and we know Decartes does!
Dickens: But Warnerland struck first, why should we wait for them to strike again?
Lenin: Because there's no proof that they will, we need long long LONG inspections that seem like they're wasting time to find it!
Dickens: And what happens then, I don't see anything else happining except another attack by them that calls for action!
Lenin: You're just mad because those other English writers want to vote you out of their writers club!
Dickens: You wanna step outside and say that?!
Lenin: Sure, we're not a legimate organization anymore so this negative P.R wouldn't hurt none!
Nixon: QUIET!!!{They go quiet}Look, let's stick with one debate at a time. Is this invasion of Histeria Village wrong, and if so, should we send help to them?
Lenin: Histeria's getting exactly what they deserve for killing Crosby and taking out Fowler, not to mention all those other terror attacks! They are an arrogant nation that needed to be knocked down a peg!
Dickins: Where's that Spanish guy we can't understand, are all my supporters dropping like flys?!
Nixon: Let's put this hypothetically. If Histeria Village was confirmed to have committed all those attacks, I mean offically confirmed, would we support the Warnerlanders?
Dickens: Of course, but those rumors are not confirmed, and I think they were made up.
Nixon: And if they hadn't committed them, but it was certain that they'd be capable of such an act and they could do it soon, would we support military action?
Lenin: Yes, now you're talking sense!
Nixon: So there's the moral dillema, did they do it, are they capable of doing it, and do they deserve being punished by suspicion? Well....I say no! If they were a cruel, bitter regime that resorted to hiding their leaders behind body doubles, then this would be justified despite possible small legal problems. But all the proof that leads to them could easily be forged, and I just plain don't believe they are capable! If they were, they should be bombed, but if not, it would be wrong. I think it's wrong and I think we should correct such a wrong.
Lenin: Since when did you become such a symbol for peace?
Nixon: I was an elder statesman after events that made me like a crook took place, you pick things like that up after a while. Hopefully I made myself clear enough for you to know we should aid the Histerians.
Lenin: Nein, we would be as bad as the Warnerlanders to raise any force! I demand a resolution be passed first!{Decartes returns}
Decartes: I think so too! Take that, my own famous philosophy!
Nixon: All right, we need about more than half of us to pass a resolution. All those in favor of aiding the Histerians, raise your hands.{More than half of the people do}All opposed?{The rest raise their hands}The resolution is passed.
Decartes: I veto the resolution!
Lenin: Counting me in with that!
Nixon: Fine, maybe we can edit it a bit. All those in favor of giving weapons to the Histerians and letting them use force, raise your hands.{More than half of the people do}All opposed?{The rest raise their hands}The resolution is passed.
Decartes: I veto the resolution!
Lenin: Counting me in with that!
Nixon: Something tells me I'd better get my comfy chair ready.
{Back in the castle, Tom is tied to a chair and being question by Warnerland troops. Shaffer and Flemming are also there}
Soldier: How did you smuggle troops and weapons into our country to destroy it?
Tom: I wouldn't know. Ask your President, he knows more about such things than me.
Flemming: You killed our old President because he knew too much, we're not letting you do that to this one.
Tom: Flemming, you're one to talk! You wanted him out long before anyone got the idea to kill him!
Flemming: I wanted him out when the people united to vote him out, not by death! And not by people who threaten my country.
Tom: Please, you've obviously blown up more of it than I ever did. You act all noble and say you love your country, but helping someone like this says you're one giant hypocrite.
Flemming: And what's so wrong with him?
Tom: He's the Evil Scientist, that's what! I know you wouldn't believe me even if I wasn't head of this place, but we've got proof and are getting more as we speak! Or we would if you people hadn't killed the proof!!
Flemming: We killed people who were high up in your conspiracy, nothing more.
Tom: You killed innocent people, and it wasn't the first time! You're no better than the Scientist himself over here.
{Flemming then completly loses it and grabs Tom's chair, then carries it over to the edge of the window and seems ready to throw him over}
Flemming: Don't you EVER link me to that monster again!!! You're the one trying to bring us down to that time again, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WANTS US DEAD!! Well we're not letting it happen, not this time!!!
{Shaffer pulls Flemming away from Tom and then sets Tom back on stable ground}
Shaffer: That's good enough Max, why don't you handle the kids right now?
Flemming: Very well, he corrupted kids so I still have anger left over for that! You're not dragging them and us down with you, you hear me?!! We're not going down that easily, not this time!! You're the victims this time, YOU ARE!!{Flemming is forced out of the room}
Shaffer: Maybe the rest of you should follow his leads. Leave us, I can take it from here.
Soldier: But sir, we can get a confession out of him quicker with our methods
Shaffer: I have my own, and I have more power than you to extort them, so that should be your cue to go. Go!{The rest of the soldiers leave and now Shaffer and Tom are all alone}
Tom: Scientist...
Shaffer: Don't even try your lies. It's too late for that, or for anything else.
Tom: You sweeped my entire room, searched me for any tape recorders, and made sure nothing and no one is watching us right now. We're all alone, you can admit the truth, they won't believe me anyway.
Shaffer: I didn't rise this far to take chances like that.
Tom: No, you did that with trickery and murder.
Shaffer: As if I'm....ha, nice try Tom.{Shaffer walks right up to Tom}
Tom: Bend down "Craig" don't you wanna gloat in my face?
{Shaffer bends down over Tom and Tom moves his hands well enough to grab Shaffer's face, and he tries to pull it off like Crosby did, but he can't}
Tom: Oh, you superglued your mask on, nice touch. No matter, the truth will be revealed somehow!
Shaffer: I truely have given you as much credit as you deserve. I redited you for a fool, and only a fool would keep that kind of positive front up. Let's live in reality for a minute. Confess to your crimes and I can convince them to spare the country.
Tom:{Gruff}You first.
{Shaffer walks back up to Tom and puts his face right in front of his ear}
Shaffer:{Whispers}Who are you to interfere in what was meant to be? I could have come back and chose to relax on a beach somewhere, so why didn't I? Because none of you earned that reprive. I spent too much time having fun running both these places to the ground for you to just destroy my hard work. Crosby should have realized that from the beginning, but obviously he wasn't smart enough, no big news flash for me. You can debate that with him if you want, but if you don't want to, you'll confess and spare yourself. What's your reputation compared to the lives of thousands?
Tom: You'll show them mercy? Like you showed Loud, Charity and Miss Info mercy?!
Shaffer:{Still whispering in Tom's ear}At least you won't be lonely in the next life.
Tom: I'm not going there without you.
Shaffer:{Very low}Then let's bring the kids with us.{Shaffer pushes Tom down to the ground}
{Cut to another room where Flemming is interrogating the other kids}
Flemming: Why are you protecting someone like Tom? All you have to do is tell us how he planned Crosby's murder and Fowler's accident and you'll only be known as second rate war criminals.
Aka: Why are you even talking to us, you're a first rate war criminal far above us second rate ones.
Flemming: Someone stop her from wasting breath again!{One of the soldiers duct tapes Aka's mouth shut}
Froggo: Okay, it's my turn to tell you how you've turned into what you hate.
Flemming: Oh come on, if I keep wasting duct tape like this I'll never get a confession out!{Tapes Froggo's mouth shut}
Cho-Cho: Don't worry, you can fill that out by confessing that you killed Crosby like you killed our friends.
Flemming: Speaking of which, has anyone collected their bodies yet? Go do that now!{A soldier runs off}None of you get the message yet, do you? I will do anything, ANYTHING!! Anything to protect my country. That excuses anything I do to achieve the ends, including showing you first hand just what happens to those that threaten Warnerland. At least you get to say your last goodbye to them before Craig starts the process of starting your own goodbye.
{Back in the Historical Counsil, the squabbling continues}
Decartes: I veto the resolution!
Lenin: Counting me in with that!
Nixon: All right, all right!! All in favor of giving the Histerians 2 toy guns filled with extra cold water, raise your hands!{More than half of the people raise their hands}All opposed, do nothing.{Pause}The resolution is passed.
Decartes: I veto the resolution!
Lenin: Counting me in with that!
Nixon: ENOUGH!!! I've had it!! We really are nothing but an organization that wastes time squabbling over every little thing!
Lenin: But this is too big of an issue to settle in a second! We're trying to figure out who is to blame for a war and how to solve it! We're trying to figure out if such an attack by Warnerland is justifiable, and I say it is!
Decartes: We, those Histerians are being knocked down a peg, the arrogant fools!
Nixon: But the key issue is that they attacked them for killing Crosby, there's no proof in that!
Lenin: They would have killed him and others eventually, why wait for that?{Pause}Wait a minute, I'm starting to get confused. What excuse for war or no war am I supposed to make? There's that one, the one where we need more inspections, the one that we shouldn't kill them to get Tesla's insane weapons...wait a minute, I was for war earlier! None of this makes any sense anymore!
Dickens: This is madness! What's the moral here, and how do we act on it?
Nixon: I guess the moral is that war has a zillion different sides to it, so how can you choose just one of them? It's easy for some people like Shaffer and Tom, but they chose, or one of them chose to ignore them and go on with it.
Dickens: So which side are we taking, out with it!
Nixon: Side with a regime that's suspected of evil, or one that's been attacked and hurt but may be acting too harshly? Why isn't that choice easier than is sounds? It is for me since I wanna help the Histerians, but we obviously can't all take my side. If we really knew everything this wouldn't be happening!
{A knocking is heard coming from the door of the room}
Lenin: I'll get it!{He walks over to the door and opens it}Um....you guys will be glad to know we have something else to complain about now.
{Cut to Flemming's interrogation as now he's taped all the kids mouths shut}
Flemming: I'm awfully glad I taped those things shut when you were unfairly trashing me, because once you see the remains of your friends, well, I already established that you'll be screaming your heads off, so no need to go any further with that.{A soldier comes running in}
Soldier: Sir, sir!! Please don't scream your head off at me after I tell you this!
Flemming: Since I don't know what you're gonna tell me, I promise you nothing.
Soldier: We went to the area where those two kids and that woman were killed, but their bodies were nowhere in sight! There were footprints on the snow nearby too, so either someone moved them or they're still alive!{The kids brighten up and make happy noises, or as much noise as they can}
Flemming:{Sighs}Craig is the guy who "finished them off", so I guess I'll let him do the screaming for me.
{Cut to Tom's office as Shaffer talks to Tom some more}
Shaffer: The longer you take to confess, the more people I'll have to kill to force you into it. I already killed three of your friends, killing 300 should be a snap.
Tom: The Historical Counsil will make sure you don't get the chance, they have to.
Shaffer: Please, don't insult my intellgence by thinking I'd believe that. You know me, you know I'm no dummy, and you know I have no problem with killing everyone here. Don't be selfish in thinking you can protect yourself, you've already lost the country, so there's no need to keep the charade going. Confess and spare everyone's life.
Tom: You'd just kill them anyway privatly! That's another benifit of knowing you, I know all your moves.
{Shaffer pushes Tom onto the floor again and picks his head up, seeming ready to bang it onto the floor again and again}
Shaffer: Then you shouldn't be so surprised to see a white light to the other place in your future.
Flemming:{V.O}Craig, Craig!
Shaffer:{Gets up and gets out a walkie talkie}Max, I'm kinda busy here, what's so important that you had to get me out of hearing a confession?!
Flemming: Those kids and that woman are missing, they may still be alive!
Shaffer:{Seeing Tom light up after hearing that}A little louder, please, our captives outside didn't hear you.
Flemming: Why would we want them to, they don't need to ehar that kind of news?
Shaffer: I was being sarcastic, you dimblub!!!
Flemming: Well there's that screaming I promised everyone.
Shaffer: Find them now Flemming, they're the key advisors of Tom and they can shed light on his evil activites that I just got him to confess to!
Flemming: You got him to confess?
Tom: You got me to what?!
Shaffer: That's right, he confessed to everything, so now we can take him away and ignore his pleas that I'm lying, since scum like him deserve to be ignored and placed in our special camps.
Flemming: You said it Craig, we'll take him away right now.
Shaffer: First our main priority is those three, I want them found right now!!{Turns off the walkie talkie and sees Tom smirking}What's so funny?!{Pause}You know where they are, don't you?!
Tom: So should you.
{Shaffer exits the room and then thinks for a second until he gets it}
Shaffer: The lab.
{Shaffer then digs into the pocket and pulls out a remote control, with the trademark red button in the middle. He puts his hand over it then looks to see if anyone's watching, and no one is}
Shaffer: To killing foes a second time, only this time by self destructing secret labs I should have destroyed long ago if I wasn't so busy.
{Shaffer pushes the button and smiles, then he gets out his walkie talkie again and changes the freequency so he can talk to someone else}
Shaffer: Sargent, I know you're staioned a few hundred miles from he cliffs, did anything big hapen there recently?
Voice: No sir, we haven't got one inserrection fron our hostages yet.
Shaffer: What? No explosions, no big kabooms, no booms booms, nothing?!
Voice: No, why? We were supposed to start with those until after we got them in camps-{Shaffer them throws down the walkie talkie to the floor}
Shaffer: How could they have overidden the self destruct mode in my lab?! Wait a minute, it was about 3 or 4 hours since I "Killed" them, so if they're still alive they've been in there long enough to....figure out everything.
{Shaffer is visably shocked for a few seconds until he snaps into action and picks up his walkie talkie while running away}
Shaffer: All units, all units, we have a code red! I have discovered the location of a laberatory below the cliffs that has framed us for weapopns and other propaganda and lies! Three very dangerous war criminals are in there and we must take them out now!! All units heads for the cliffs right now!!!
{Back in the lab, Loud, Charity and Miss Info are still wandering around}
Loud: Okay, we searched around and figured out how everything works, we made the robots work, we sent our package to the Counsil, and we got rid of the self destruct mode. Not bad for a few hours work.
Miss Info: How did y'all figure out all that in only a few hours, I thought he wasn't that stupid to leave clues behind like that.
Charity: We've worked with technology like this before when Tesla forced us to help with his inventions, and we know how the Scientist's mind works, so it wasn't as hard as you'd think. So it shouldn't be hard figuring out what to do now, right?
Loud: Well, our package is doing it's two duties right now, I guess we just have to wait for the results to come in.
Miss Info: But the Scientist probably knows we're not dead and he probably knows we're in here too, so shouldn't we wait somewhere else where it's less likely the entire Warnerland army will get us?
Charity:{Pause}Of all the times for her to get a good idea, or point out something we really shouldn't have missed.
Loud: Well, I guess we wasted enough of a head start already, let's try to use up the rest by getting out now.
{Loud goes over to the hole they fell through earlier and climbs on top of some machines nearby. He then jumps and lands on the above ground, then he gets up to see a missle coming right for him. He then dives back into the lab just as the missle lands to the above ground and blows up. Some debris comes down on the ground in the lab, but none of it hits the kids}
Charity: Boy, do we know how to waste head starts.
{Above ground, we see every tank in the Warnerland army driving towards the cliffs, followed by Flemming and most of the other troops. The tanks and soldiers finally stop in front of the hole, then Shaffer comes out of a tank and gets out a bullhorn to talk through}
Shaffer: War criminals! We know you're down there, and we know what you have built to fool us all, come out now and let us destroy that lab of lies peacefully.
Loud:{V.O from the lab}YOU WOULD KNOW IF IT'S A LAB OF LIES, ALL RIGHT!!!
Shaffer: There's no need for those false accusations, I already figured out you built that lab to make it look like I did some very bad things and make it look like you could lie about me well. But we all know your tricks, so come out and we'll let you live to tell everyone you failed at them!
Loud:{V.O}THAT SHOULD BE THE LEAST OF YOUR CONCERNS RIGHT NOW, SCIENTIST!!!
Flemming:{To Shaffer}Give me that horn!{Fleming grabs the bullhorn and talks into it}What was that you just said?!
Loud: CRAIG SHAFFER IS THE EVIL SCIENTIST, AND WE HAVE ALL THE PROOF OF THAT RIGHT HERE!!
Flemming: You Histerians love to sink really really low to save your own necks, don't you?
Charity: Flemming, you don't have to be so blind! You already betrayed your vision of a peaceful Warnerland by destroying half of it via terrorism, you've already sunk too low to have a shot at redemption!
Flemming: If those lies were true, at least I'd be alive to have that slim shot! Troops, get in there and open fire, these criminals are uncooperative and must be shot to send a message to any other rebellious captives!! Don't just stand there, get in and destroy those people and things embodying lies!!
{The soldiers prepare to move until they hear something from above. They look up and see that a few things are starting to fly towards them, and those few things are helicopters. Jumping out of them are more troops and soldiers who surround the Warnerland army. The Warnerlanders then notice that the helicopters have a logo reading that they are from the Historical Counsil, and several counsil members are piloting the planes}
Nixon:{From his helicopter}Attention, Warnerlanders, your invasion of Histeria Village has been judged as illegal and in violation of several resolutions! Therefore, we order you to leave at once!
Shaffer:{Heading for a tank}What?! But they violated resolutions first and we already have one from long ago that says we can attack those that kill our leaders!
Nixon: You should have had a second one pass then before you moved ahead with the war stuff, but that's the least wrong thing you've done! So we order you to-
{Just then one of the tanks fires on Nixon's helicopter and hits the back of it. The plane then starts to go down and Nxion jumps out of it before it crashes to the ground. He then sees that the tank that fired on him was Shaffer's}
Shaffer: They have been tricked by Histerian lies! They want to destroy our country and reform it for their needs while stating that they want to liberate us! If you stand for Warnerlandian freedom, you will fire at them at will while capturing the kids! Charge!!
{Some of the tanks start to fire on the Historical Counsil troops, and once those troops respond, soon the other Warnerland soldiers fire, and an all out war battle begins. The tanks are trading missle fire with the helicopters and the soldiers are firing at each other or trying to fight hand to hand. While at this is happining, Shaffer sneaks away and heads for the hole, signaling Flemming and another group of soldiers to come with him. Back in the lab, the kids and Miss Info can hear all the carnage and debris is starting to come down because of it. They then go over to hide behind some of the robots}
Shaffer:{V.O}Tell everyone to keep firing and shooting while we're away! Keep them busy until our "reinforcements" get here!
{We now see Shaffer, Flemming, and some other troops jumping through the hole and into the lab. Explosions are still heard above ground as Shaffer wanders through his lab and trashes a few things in it while trying to find our heroes. About 50 feet away from the troops are the robots where our heroes are hiding behind. Loud seems to be shaking since the man who's pratically his creator is so nearby when he's supposed to be dead. so Charity starts whispering to him as Shaffer gets closer and the explosions get louder}
Charity: Do you remember that night at the Presidential Ball, Loud? The one where we first got together, not the one when he started bombing places. I remember that you were hanging around and joking with the guys, when you weren't looking at me with the more adorable look of being worried and dizzy at the same time. I was pretty curious why you were looking at me that way, I though I had something in my ear.{A large explosion is heard}But then I was thinking, where have I seen those looks before, and I remembered. I was making them at you for the longest time after we killed him the first time.{Shaffer continues to trash things nearby}I felt kinda relived after that, you know why? I was worried that I was doing something wrong by thinking of you that way since we agreed to be friends, but that night I saw that you felt the same way about me that I did about you. That friends vow was a really stupid way to delay the inevitable, since we were, well, meant to be. Why else would I have gone to all that trouble for you when the Wishing Star came? And no matter what, I'll be glad to go to all that trouble again no matter what some madman who refuses to die does. Because I love you.{Loud is noticably feeling better}
Shaffer:{V.O}Thank you. Thank you for letting me in on this special moment, I feel so less uneasy about making that your last.
{Shaffer is now seen right in front of the robots, and he pushes them away to reveal the three Histerians}
Shaffer: There they are, men! Seize them!
{The Histerians run off in a hurry as the troops start firing at them. They then split up to find them}
Flemming: I want them taken alive, we need to get their confessions heard by all!
Shaffer: Or at the least, it'll prove they're the biggest liers of all time!
{More noises are heard in the background, but they're not explosions this time}
Flemming: What's that supposed to be?
Shaffer: How would I know, I've never been in here before, the Histerians are the experts!{To himself}That does sound a bit too familar though.
{Shaffer and Flemming continue to look around until something jumps out in front of them- one of the robots}
Flemming: What the?!
Shaffer: My ro.....I mean, my word, what are they doing controlling a robot?
{More noise is heard behind them, and Shaffer and Flemming turn to see that all of the robots in the room have been activated, and they're coming for the troops}
Shaffer: How is this possible?!! They couldn't have learned to do this that fast!!
Loud:{V.O}YOU LEFT ENOUGH CLUES FOR US TO FIGURE IT OUT "CRAIG" NOW STAND STILL AND ENJOY!!!
{The robots starts to jump all over Shaffer and Flemming's troops. They are able to shoot down a few of them with their guns, but there are too many for them to get them all}
Shaffer:{To himself}I knew I didn't need that many robots to revive myself!{Loudly}Hold them off until I find them and our reinforcements arrive!
Flemming:{Pushing away robots}No need for you to go to that trouble!
{Flemming gets away from the robotic mob and runs off to find his human foes}
Flemming: Histerians!!! The more time you're wasting with us the more time your friends are taking to die, not that you have enough heart to care! You all just love to play the acting game, don't you? You act all high and mighty in public, saying that nothing is your fault, while in reality you're nothing but traitors and cheats! Lying and toying with the public's feelings is just one great game to you! Well, not anymore. I'm acting as the whistleblower to this game. Your season is over. And furthermore-
{He is interrupted because prety much every robot in the robot army jumps all over Flemming and holds him down to the ground. At that point the three Histerians come out of the shadows holding various remotes}
Charity: If we let you go, do you promise to not be such an incredible hypocrite?
Flemming: I'm....through talking to you. Them, on the other hand.{Shaffer and the rest of the troops are now free and they point their guns at them}
Miss Info: I knew we shouldn't have used so many of those robots to make him stop talking about himself!
Shaffer: Shouldn't have, but did. Now come on!{Talks in his walkie talkie}Are they here yet?!{Pause}Excellent, we'll be right there.{To the Histerians}We brought some guests to welcome you back to the surface. I think you'll recognize them. Whether they stay around long enough for you to chat with them is up to you.
Charity: Did you hurt Tom and our friends before you brought them here, Scientist?!
Shaffer: Smart girl. As wrong as she can be, she picks up on things real quick. You know how to pick em Loud, I'll give you that. You know how to pick em, I know how to make em feel sorry they ever got close to you and this whole gang of murderers. Perhaps a few up close beatings of your gang and the other war criminals we have up there will get that through to you better than I can. We'll just have to wait and see.
{Loud then reaches into his pocket, which we see contains another remote}
Loud: Why wait any longer than we have to though?{He pushes a button on this remote}
Voice: Self destruct mode reactivated. Self destruction in 1 minute.
{Shaffer is noticably shocked and so are the troops, and they're shocked long enough for the Histerians to get away and start climbing their way to the surface}
Shaffer: Stop them!
{That is harder to do however because the robots and machines start exploding in front of them. Some soldiers are knocked down from the blast, but Flemming attempts to help them up. Shaffer however, has his eyes on the Histerians, but Charity and Miss Info have already reached the surface. Loud is about to as well until Shaffer pulls him down to the ground}
Shaffer:{Low}You're brave but stupid Kiddington. Even if I let you live, you've lost all your precious proof.
Loud: Did I?
{Loud pushes Shaffer and he stumbles all over the floor until he's in front of his main console- which explodes right in front of him. He is thrown back a peg and parts of him are on fire as another result. With that, everyone makes haste to leave as more of the lab goes up in flames. Shaffer rolls all over the ground to put out his fires, and when he does, Flemming grabs him without looking at him}
Flemming: Come on, we both have to stay alive to finish them off!
{Flemming drags Shaffer as he climbs to the hole and makes it to the surface. We then see the armies of Warnerland and the Historical Counsil, as well as captivites Tom, the other kids, and some H! citizens, scrambling since they hear the rumbling below. The rumbling finally climaxes as the lab finally blows completly to bits, and the fires explode through the ground, knocking Flemming and Shaffer down really hard. The three Histerians are also knocked to the ground during their running away. After a few seconds, the flames above ground begin to fade away....}
{...but now even more noise is heard that sounds like cracks being made. At the edge of the cliffs, we see some parts of the cliff fall down to the river below. Soon, larger parts of the edge of the cliff begin to fall down, and it's clear that the entire cliff is gonna go down. And indeed that's what it starts to do, and the 5 people lying on it are clearly in trouble of falling with it. The three Histerians see this and start running as the ground just behind them starts collapsing, but the two Warnerlanders are still unconsious. But the Warnerland soldiers run over to lift them up before the ground below them collapses. However, they two stumble to the ground and drop Flemming and Shaffer. Still, all the damage is finished anyway, the entire cliff is gone. It takes the giant crowd around a destroyed cliff and several tanks a few moments to recover}
Nixon: Well....so that's the kind of war action those protesters couldn't wait to bug me about.
Warnerland soldier: The loud kid did it! He destroyed his own lab to kill our President again! Take them all in and lock them up!
Nixon: You'll do no such thing until you realize you're following the orders of an illegitimate President!
Tom: Yeah, maybe now that the truth has been said by a more well respected President you'll be open to it!
Soldier: He's as much of a sleaze as Tom, why should we trust him?!
Nixon: Have one hotel room trashed and you're labeled for life. I suppose you're gonna tell me that the journal we got a few hours ago written by the President of Warnerland, the Evil Scientist, is a lie.
Soldier: Well duh. Can we start firing tanks again soon?
Nixon: At least hear us out! A few hours ago some kind of robot came over and sent us a journal that was proven to be written by the Evil Scientist himself, and it proved that this robot and the other robots in this lab revived the Scientist so he could kill the real Craig Shaffer and impersinate him to start a war! It proved he had Max Flemming bomb all those buildings in Warnerland, and that he had Crosby killed himself! That's why we came here, to stop your war games long enough to prove you were all tricked!
Soldier: Then where is this so called robot?
Nixon: He left right after he showed us the journal and his video clips of the revival and various deaths the Scientist committed. Histerians, could you explain that one?
Charity: Once we figured out how he worked, we made him bring that stuff to you and had him perform another task before he came here.{And on cue, the people in the back start to gasp as that old, broken down robot appears for all to see}
Dickens:{Pulling out the Scientist's journal}Well, since I was in support all along to do this, I deserve to read this, plus my soothing voice can soften the blow of awful truth. Could you reactivate those videos for us while I do that?
Loud: Sure, why not?
{Dickens starts reading through the same passages we heard before as we again see video clips of the revival of the Evil Scientist from the robot. Everyone's eyes are on this scene so they don't see that Shaffer is starting to get up. As the clips and words wrap up, Shaffer starts to walk to the shocked crowd with his head down}
Dickens: We also found out that at a time likely before his capture, Tom sent us a journal previously belonging to Crosby. Once we stopped arguing long enough to notice, we tested to make sure Crosby wrote it, and he did. His blood is all over it for extra proof.
{Dickens reads the part of Crosby's journal we heard before as the video clips keep playing, one of which is the death of the real Craig Shaffer. We then go far away, about a few hundred feet from the back of the ground, as we see a pair of feet walking to the crowd. Also walking to the crowd is the fake Craig Shaffer, slowly making his way to it with his head still down and scars from his burns beginning to show}
Dickens: Shaffer is the Evil Scientist. One robot obviously survived. Tell everyone before they're killed.
{He then turns around to finally notice "Shaffer" who now finallys raises his head- a head which has a mask over it nearly burned off. You see, the fire from earlier reaches his head and burned off a big part of the mask he wore to look like Shaffer, the part of the mask that was the face especially. Half of his hair is burned off although it was fake hair, and though the face is covered with soot and scars, everyone who sees him now sees him for who he really is- the Evil Scientist. As everyone turns around, from the back of the group the pair of feet start to navigate around everyone}
{Back in front of the group, everyone is still too stunned to talk or move because they're still staring at the man 99% of the crowd thought was Craig Shaffer, but instead is the great would be mass murderer they've had the misfortune to know. The Evil Scientist has no reaction to his lie being discovered though}
Tom: Well, that's it. That's who you were killing each other and destroying each other's country for the whole time.
Sammy: All right, I win the office pool! I said he'd come back to life eventually, that's how these things always work in films! Pay up Chatterson!
Chit: Aw geez, and I thought I was gonna be tortured enough by these army guys!
Scientist:{Just loud enough to be heard, and he's still talking in his new voice he's used throughout the story}Take our old and new prisoners back to custody.{No one moves}Your President has given an order, take the prisoners of war away.
{None of the Warnerland troops move, until they move to untie their prisoners and then move away to signal that they are free. Many of them run away, while Tom and the kids stay to run to Loud and Charity and hugh them. The crowd's attention is now focused on this as the Scientist starts to move for a nearby tank and he starts climbing on it. He then sees that the old broken down robot is nearby too, and he notices the Scientist's actions, until the Scientist pulls out another gun and fires at the robot, destroying it instantly. He then prepares to jump into the tank- until he is shot right in the chest and falls to the ground. This entire turn of events grabs the attention of everyone and they look to see where the shot came from. Soon, the mystery man who had just arrived on the scene comes into view, wearing a hat to cover his face. The Scientist then gets up to see him, and is then shot again. He manages not to fall down this time, but he nearly does again when the man takes his hat off to reveal who he really is.....Crosby}
Loud: Ah, the robot's other task of reviving someone good worked perfectly.
{The newly revived ex-President walks towards the new dying President, who walks slowly towards him as his life literally slips away for a second time. The Scientist stops right in front of his former assistant, and falls into his arms, though he backs away one second later and lets him fall again. With his last effort, he then gets up again}
Scientist:{Very weak}Well done...old friend. Well done....indeed.
{And with his final effort of life, he pulls out one final gun and shoots Crosby twice right below the neck. They then exchange one final look, for Crosby it's one of shock and for the Scientist, it is a very brief look of final victory. Finally they both fall to the ground. For the Scientist, he does this for the last time because he is finally dead, while Crosby seems moments away from joining him}
Tom: Crosby!!!
{Tom, Miss Info and the kids rush to Crosby's side as the hundreds of people around him don't even move}
Tom: Crosby!! Don't go saying hello and goodbye to us in 5 seconds flat!!
Aka: Yeah, you still gotta get that Flemming guy for taping my mouth shut, and you can get em for taping the others if you want!
{In another on cue moment, we see Flemming running in the scene}
Flemming: Okay Histerians, it's time to surrender!
Crosby:{Weak}I'd know that demanding voice anywhere, even when I'm on the verge of going back to my friends up above.
{Flemming stops in place when he sees Crosby, and stammers for a bit}
Tom: Max, you may not like what else we have to show you to explain this. Maybe Craig can show you better than I can.{Tom points to the body of the Scientist, which has it's head in the snow}
Flemming: Craig! What have you done?!
{Flemming runs over to the body and turns it around to see the man who's regime he protested endlessly to not let come back. Flemming can only sit there, staring in space until Tom hands him the two journals turned to the incriminating pages that prove what really happened. Flemming glaces at them although he doesn't move an inch. Finally, the realization that he helped the very man who drove him to all his protesting sinks in. He then notices the Scientist's gun, and picks it up to hold to his own head}
Crosby: No!! I want him alive, hold him down, that's my final order!!
{The troops grab Flemming before he can kill himself}
Flemming: NO!! Let me go or give me that gun, I can't stay here!! You can't let me live with this, you said you were good!! Good people don't let the bad ones live with this news!!
Crosby: This one....will long enough to let you stop being bad.{Coughs violently}Take his away.{Flemming is dragged away as he literally kicks and screams. In the meantime, Crosby fades away even more}
Tom: Hold on Crosby, please!
Froggo: Why should he, we can just rebuild that robot and bring him back again even if he dies. For all he did the Scientist did find the cause for immortality.
Crosby: And...I will unfind it. My next final order is for you not to revive me. I want that robot burned to pieces so no one like the Scientist can ever return, and I want his body burned too. And I...want you to get Dan back in action to get my country back on track. Even though the war is over, you guys aren't...gonna become buddies like that, that may never happen. I'm...tired of trying to change that. Time to...give someone else a chance that can actually match the...efforts of the great non dictators here.{Points to the Histerians}At least...this time I can say...goodbye......
{Crosby at long last finally dies for the second and last time. Once again, no one is able to move because they're too moved and shocked. Pan back to see the entire scene of carnage and bodies on the destroyed cliff, and we can also see the smoke from the burned up town of Histeria Village as well until we fade to black}
{Fade back to the front of the currently in reconstruction Histeria castle, which has a large crowd in front of it. A caption reads "6 Months Later" Moppel is reporting the action}
Moppel: 6 months ago, this was the first of many centers of a battle that almost led to full scale war. Now, after a second burial of President Crosby, the burning of the Evil Scientist's body, the recovery of current Warnerland President Fowler, and a very slow but steady process for peace between citizens of these two countries, we are here. Here is where Warnerland President Fowler and President Tom will deliver a joint statement to both lands for a long term peace plan, which is finally starting to gain momentum in both Congresses and the Historical Counsil. Who knew that place was that useful? Anyway, the statement is today, but the kids who advise President Tom could not be reached for comment to give us a preview. Get tricked by the Scientist to reveal a secret news worthy love affair and apperantly they shun you for life, that's fair.
{Cut to some kind of cemetary, where at the center, there is a large statue of Crosby that's supposed to serve as the tombstone. The kids are standing right in front of it}
Pepper: Are we done mourning yet, I thought there was some kind of statue of limitations to being bummed out, especially since he wanted peace and in death he's finally starting to make that happen. It was his acrifice that finally got some sense into everyone and despite some brawls between the citizens here, the time of true peace is starting to get closer and closer. And everything he did to help us prove what happened, followed by his finally finishing the worst megalomaniac of all time, got us this far to a peacefule world at long last.{Pause as she sees the shocked reactions of everyone for her unusually well thoughtout statement}What, you were all gonna say those things in about 1 second, I wanted to try that stuff out for once! It's not as fun as saying AH HA HA!!!, but people seem to like this more.
Toast: People that are boring probably.
Aka: Okay, that was good enough.{Pause}So is there some kinda of final life lesson from this we have to say now or what?
Charity: The one where me and Loud learned to get out more in public before stuff like war breaks out, that's the one I think we focused on less so far.{A faint cheer is heard}
Froggo: I guess Dan and Tom's speech is getting started.
Loud: We'll hear it about 500 times on TV later on. But now I guess we should take advantage of the few seconds we have where we don't hear about it. Charity, the grand opening of entertainment stores around town awaits.
{Cut to the ledge of H! castle as Tesla is handling the introductions. Miss Info and a few other people are standing around him}
Tesla: Ladies....gentlemen....today...I consider myself....the luckiest man....to gain recognition and acclaim as a introducer of politicians, since the backlash for my weapons stuff says you're not a fan of my science related popularity attempts. Well, nuts to you then, you can have your...political leaders now!{Tom and a now all better Dan Fowler come out}
Tom: Well, with the last bit of scares out of this story, let's go for the uplifting stuff now. Although we don't have much of that left untouched so far.
Fowler: I'll give it a try then. Citizens, I am a latecomer to these recent events, and a relative supporting character in the overall scope of things. So what can I say? We have made strides to piece together the remains of peace that a madman all but wrecked a mere 6 months ago.
{Cut to some kind of jail cell where an imprisoned Max Flemming is watching TV}
Fowler: People have based most of their hate on mistrust, the past, and lies, and that isn't always easy to fix. But we are trying.{Someone comes up to Flemming}
Man: Mr Flemming, today's recovering terrorists meeting is about to begin.
Flemming: I know, I know.{Gets up slowly. Cut back to Fowler on the ledge}
Fowler: All else we've needed to say has been said already. Saying we're going to change is easier than actually doing it. We've transformed from a fairy tale situation to actual real life here, and we shall adjust likewise.{Cut to an overhead view of the kids going off to have their fun as we hear Fowler wrapping up}There's no more lunatics hovering over us. Soon there will be no more threats of misunderstandings and differences destroying us for him. All it takes is cooperation. So...let's get to work.{We hear the cheers of the crowd as we keep seeing the kids having fun}
THE END
CAST
Ben Kingsley: Craig Shaffer/The Evil Scientist
William Dafoe: Max Flemming
Frank Welker: Crosby/Fred Moppel/various soldiers
Tom Ruegger: Tom
Cody Ruegger: Loud Kiddington
Laraine Newman: Charity Bazaar/Miss Info
John Rhys-Davies: Dan Fowler
Cree Summer: Aka Pella
Nathan Ruegger: Froggo
Tress MacNeille: Toast/Pepper/Cho-Cho/Florence Nightengale/WOW
Jeff Bennett: Nikola Tesla/Richard Nixon/Lucky Bob/Alexander the Great
Maurice LaMarche: Charles Dickens/Barry Ding/John/various soldiers
Rob Paulsen: Sammy Melman/Rene DeCartes/Vladimer Lenin/terrorist inspector/various soldiers
Billy West: Chit Chatterson/Confusius/various soldiers
Nora Dunn: Lydia Karaoke
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