Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, returning after doing the first ever "Loud's True Love", the guy who looks like Loud's foster dad, the Good Fairy!!!!!
(Soon the Good Fairy flew into view.)
Good Fairy: Hello, it's good to see you all again, I guess. Now then, it's an honor to do what I wanted to do once more, another what if? story. This one is the sequel to "Loud's True Love" where Loud Kidington and Miss Information fell in love with each other, broke up with their loves Charity Bazaar and Mr. Smartypants and got married at the end. And all the while the thought-dead Gene Burrows and a scientist gone fugitive Dr. William Shelton has tried to make their lives miserable. Well, anyway this story takes place in the year 2015 where the events of "24 Days" made by the guy who did the Miss Info/Mr. Smartypants story I represented supposed to take place. But this time, things are different. How? Well, watch or read this to find out! Now then, enjoy what is, of course, a sequel to a great Loud/Miss Info story. And no, I am not a pervert!
(We fade in to an FBI office where Scott Drawford, the FBI director from the last "Loud's True Love" story, is waiting patiently for something. A voice is then heard through the intercom on his desk.)
Voice: Mr. Drawford, the man you wanted is here.
Drawford: Send him in.
(A second later and we now see who the man is: Loud Kiddington 3 years older than we last saw him in "Loud's True Love" but still the same besides the aging thing.)
Loud: Mr. Drawford, good to see you again. (He shakes his hand and sits down)
Drawford: Same as always. So how's training?
Loud: Oh, the usual. I should become an official and no longer be a rookie soon.
Drawford: That's good to hear. I think it's time to tell you why I called you in here. You probably remember the latest case we have on the latest FBI criminal, am I correct?
Loud: Dr. William Shelton, the well-know target and murderer? Who hasn't?
Drawford: A few people will wish they haven't. Now then, as you know, he is one of those scientist gone crazy. He was a prominent member of the scientific community here in Washington, but when his work place decided to build robots, all's that is thrown out the window. He believed that robots should have power over the world along with humans.
Loud: But no one listen because they feared the robots would overthrow us easily?
Drawford: Yep. Let's say that soon, he quit his job, became a thief and murderer and you know the rest. We can't reasoned with him, no one could.
Loud: I kinda figured that.
Drawford: Anyway, he also built robots and each one we've captured wouldn't talked. We didn't have any luck in finding one that could help us...until now.
Loud: Meaning?
Drawford: We got his latest one. And this one is actually willing to talk. This one is different, however, as the robot said Shelton didn't built him, but found him in a dump.
Loud: Anything else?
Drawford: (uneasy) Well, we did find something else about him that I am not sure you should know.
Loud: Whatever it is, it couldn't be as worst as the secret that I found out that I was accused as a child that caused me to yelled in the first place, right?
Drawford: He wanted to talk to two people, one of those two who's file he was looking at on a computer when we captured him...and the same person who is my office right now. And who became a robot many years ago.
Loud: Wait a minute. Are you trying to say...
Drawford: All I want to say is, this is the picture of that robot.
(Drawford shows Loud a picture who causes him to faint. The picture then falls to the ground, and we see what is on the picture: it is a robot, but the face is human, and the face is that of the near bringer of Washington D.C's apocalypse, Dr. Gene Burrows.)
(A few seconds later, Loud woke up. Drawford, who is standing over him, help him.)
Loud: Man. I must have been dreaming. For a minute, I thought Gene has come back. (sees the uneasy look on Drawford's look) Oh man. He did come back didn't he?!
Drawford: Afraid so.
Loud: How?!
Drawford: Well the remains of him must have got thrown in the dump where Shelton found and rebuilt him.
Loud: Are you sure it's him?
Drawford: Well, he did ask us to prove that it's him and we even found Shelton's diary. All those things pointed to the true fact. And before you go on a rant, it's really really him. I don't like to admit it like you do but we found proof. He is alive and well, and in one of our cells.
Loud: (pause) Have you told anyone else yet?
Drawford: And cause a panic? No.
Loud: Good. So he found out that I am a FBI rookie? He must have allowed himself to be captured because he doesn't get captured easily.
Drawford: I noticed. You know his tricks, you know what he can do, you know everything about him. All you got to do is get what we need from Gene outta him and hopefully you could get out of this before he gets to you. (pauses, then speaks again) Oh, and there's one other person he wishes to speak to.
Loud: Well, he may have a problem. He may not know that me and Charity aren't together anymore and that I married my true love.
Drawford: Well, it ain't Charity. He wanted to speak to...the other her.
Loud: Darn it. I was trying to get through life without anymore problems. I am a happily married man with a daughter that just been born. I don't need this.
Drawford: You don't have a choice.
Loud: Do I really have to tell her?
Drawford: Yes. I don't know why he wanted to talk to her since you annoyed him most of all. No offense.
Loud: None taken.
Drawford: You just go off and tell her. I'd talk to Gene later and see if he will changed his mind, though I doubt it. In the meantime, you better watch some funny shows because you'd need them.
(Later, after dinner and Charity went to bed, Loud and Miss Info sits on the couch. Miss Info wants to kiss and hug her husband, but Loud is troubled.)
Miss Info: Loud, is there anything wrong?
Loud: Well, something happened at work today, Melissa.
Miss Info: And that is...
(Before Loud could answered, the phone rings. Miss Info answers it as Loud watches)
Miss Info: Hello?
Voice: Miss Information, is that you?
Miss Info: Well, I am actually Melissa Kiddington now, but if you are a fan of my show, you can called me that if you want.
Voice: I am not. I will see you tomorrow, Miss Info.
Miss Info: What? Wait, I recognized that voice. Gene?!
Voice: (Different now) Not anymore, thank goodness.
Miss Info: Mr. Drawford? What is this?
Drawford: (V.O.) Gene just gave you a message but I guess it's an order now.
Miss Info: Wait, what does he want?
Drawford: (V.O.) For you and your husband to be at the FBI building tomorrow. He'd give you the details since he's probably there by now.
(After nodding, Miss Info hangs up)
Loud: I supposed that is what I wanted to tell you. He's back.
Miss Info: I thought he was dead.
Loud: So did I, Melissa. So did I.
Miss Info: Okay, what now? You aren't yelling anymore and you are now immuned to those accusations that started with him years ago, so you can't give in to what he said.
Loud: True, and I'd have you by my side to keep me from going insane.
Miss Info: Too late.
(Miss Info laughs. Loud looks puzzled at first...but laughs with her when he realizes the joke.)
Loud: (sighs) I am so glad I married you. You know how to make me laugh.
Miss Info: I know. So I guess we should keep ourselves happy before we have to meet Gene again, huh?
Loud: Yes, and I think I know of a way to do that. And since little Charity is nowhere in sight...
(Loud puts his hands on Miss Info's face and kisses her deeply. Miss Info quickly kisses right back and two went to the couch and Miss Info lay back with Loud on top of her. The two kissed each other with the love other they provided. We fade out before we see anything "offensive".)
(Cut to inside a car which Loud is driving. Miss Info is in the seat next to him.)
Loud: You think he's up to something? I mean by warning us about Shelton without telling us anything first?
Miss Info: I wouldn't put it past him, darling. But if it means saving the world from Shelton, so be it.
Loud: I really hope so. Last thing I need is for a repeat of what happened to me.
Miss Info: At least he didn't insult our faults this time. I guess he got tired of them.
Loud: I will try to keep myself under control.
Miss Info: And again, we will be the only ones to deal with this. Charity and the others are busy with their lives so we don't need to bother them.
(Cut to Shelton who just got off the phone with someone)(
Shelton: Good, so far I got the surfer dude coming. Once I get the others, all will come to head. (sighs and looks at a picture of Charity) Ah, my dear Charity. If only you weren't a pawn in this one. Then I'd left you alone. But now, it won't work.
(Cut back to the Kiddington household as Loud is on the phone with his frined Harry)
Loud: I'm glad you aren't brought into this Harry. People forget about you since they were too focused on both me and Charity. Hmmm, then again they'd focused on me and Melissa now.
Harry: (V.O.) Yeah I got it easy. Wish you got the same luck as I do.
Loud: With Melissa by my side, I'd need it. Thanks for the talk, Harry.
Harry: (V.O.) No problem, Loud.
(Loud hangs up just as Miss Info came in)
Miss Info: Warning Harry, I Presume.
Loud: Yep. The only two people besides us Gene wants to get rid of in the past are him and Charity. But the last one is no longer with me and I still don't know why Gene wanted to see only you and me. Frankly, I am not sure warning her is a good idea since she may be busy at the moment. (Looks at Miss Info for a long moment) You know, looking at you made me forget what I was going to say next.
Miss Info: (giggles) Still a little charmer, are ya? Well, maybe a song may cheer you up.
(Miss Info turns on the nearby radio and music begins to play. Miss Info looks at Loud and smiles)
Miss Info: You know, I know it's a custom for a man to do this, but I couldn't resist. (holds out a hand) May I have this dance?
Loud: Why not?
(Loud and Miss Info begins to dance with each other)
Loud: Man, after what's going on lately, this is a good way to forget about it.
Miss Info: Too bad we'd going to remember it tomorrow. But at least that's behind us for now and young Charity is in bed.
Loud: You know, I remember when I first saw you. You were so gorgeous and you were my first love. But since you were older back then, I couldn't make my dream come true. When I got together with Charity, well, I didn't consider her runner-up and I still love her, but in my heart, I truly love you. And thanks to our confession years ago and the accident with one of Mr. Smartypants's inventions, we finally made our dreams come true. I mean look at you. Your gorgeous blonde hair, your beautiful eyes, and your perfect lips. Did you noticed something about me when you met me?
Miss Info: Well back then, I thought you only as a friend but now, I realized...well, you get the idea, I supposed.
Loud: Oh really? Well, maybe you'd get this idea. (Bends Miss Info down backwards and kisses her. After a few seconds of this, he brings her back up)
Miss Info: (Catching her breath) Well, I sure got that idea. And you know what they say about an eye for an eye, so...
(She kisses Loud right back, then after looking at each other, they decide to resumed kissing each other with romance only they could provided. We soon faded out.)
{Fade to the next day, as we see Loud and Miss Info walk confidently together down a hallway of cells. They get to one with a glass casing, and can only see Gene lying on a bed, not looking at either of them and not being able to see them}
Gene:{Pause, without looking}That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore a few days before your wedding.
Loud: You....so, you were alive to see that, huh? I guess I'm not too surprised.
Miss Info: So you...know everything, huh?
Gene:{Still not getting up}I kept myself busy reading and watching your little love affair. I can't say I saw it coming entirely.
Loud: Undermines your little theories about us, doesn't it? You targeted us because you thought we were predictable and did the same things over and over. But here we are, having done something you never expected. I suppose that makes your past self a bit foolish after all.
Gene: Yes...I don't quite know if Charity was as surprised as me, but I can take some guesses.
Loud:{Pause, then laughs}Do you honestly think I didn't come prepared for you to say that? Have you really forgotten that much about me these last few years?
Miss Info: Yeah, we made a habit of resolving our conflicts and troubles well before now, so you can't get us with those anymore. So there.{Smirks}
Loud: That means you just have to talk business with us. So start talking. Where is William Shelton? How is he going to attack us, and the country in general? Do that, and you'll never have to see us again.
Gene:{Pause}Do you really think I stayed alive this long just so I would never talk to you again? Understand this, I'm here because I want to be here.
Miss Info: You wanna be in an ugly old jail cell just for us?
Gene: An ugly old cell I can escape from in 2 seconds, if I want to. I'm just letting the FBI believe they're holding all the cards...but it only appears that way.
Loud: So why not leave now? Why dangle Shelton in front of us, instead of going out to help him?
Gene: William has his uses, but he himself doesn't even know his true destiny. He will when it's all over, and where that leads him is not my concern.
Miss Info: So...you're just using him to get to us? Do you mind explaining how before my head start spinning?
Gene: Still the same befuddled Southerner...all right then, business time. I'm willing to spill my secrets, and whether they help you capture Shelton is up to you.
Loud: And in return...we have to do something for you, right?
Miss Info: Oh, oh, I know! We have to sit and talk to you and tell you stuff about ourselves and what we've been up to, and then you'll give us Shelton, right?
Gene: Ah....someone's actually bothered to learn stuff about how this sort of thing goes.
Miss Info:{Smirks again}See, who's the befud Southerner now?
Loud: Okay then....so we just speak with you and hope, somehow, you actually give us information to stop Shelton before he hurts us and more innocent people? How can we trust you to actually keep your end of the deal?
Gene: You don't trust me, then?
Loud: You tried to kill me for having a loud voice, and her for not being a genius. You tried to kill everyone else I ever loved and take this whole country down with you more than once. So...even if you gave us everything, I still wouldn't trust you even if my life depended on it. And I never will. But this isn't about me or Miss Info, it's about stopping Shelton....and that means we need the most reliable intel to do it. I just don't feel confident you're the best source for that.
Gene: And can you afford to look for other sources now? You may never get a better chance before he strikes, which could be at any time. Listen to me, and you may have a better chance to narrow the time frame down.
{He finally gets up from his bed and faces Loud and Miss Info from his cell}
Gene: If your real concern is stopping William, then you should be willing to take that chance....right, agent Kiddington?
{Loud keeps his gave steady, though not completly steady. Finally, he sighs}
Loud: This deal stays good as long as you tell us how to find Shelton. The minute you violate that agreement, we leave and we'll be the last humans you ever see. Whatever you want out of this....you only get it as long as you tell the truth. I know that's hard for you, but if you went to this much trouble, you can probably at least try to manage. Agreed?
Miss Info: I agree to that...how about you, Gene?
Gene: I'm certain he was asking me...but I accept anyway.
Loud: Good....so, as long as we're here, start talking.
Gene: You're at my beck and call, so I decide when the talking begins. I think this will serve us well for today. Tomorrow you can come by and we'll get things started in full. I do need time to double check if I remember things correctly...
Miss Info: Well, fine, if your memory really needs that much double checking...I guess we can go now, hun.
Loud: I guess so...{They start to go}
Gene: Kiddingtons!{They stop}It was good seeing you again...say hello to the others for me, will you? If I didn't already know their numbers and addresses, I would ask you for them...oh well. Fly back to your peaceful lives while they're still peaceful....fly fly fly....fly fly fly.
{Loud and Miss Info finally walk away as Gene lies back in his bed}
Gene: All too easy....perhaps almost too easy...but I'll take it. It's all in place now...
(We now cut to a home in Washington D.C. In it lives a familiar blonde-haired woman. Of course, in our current timeline, she woulda been married to Loud. But in this one, she is still single but is still a speaker to help people. Charity looks at a scrapbook of her past adventures with the Histerians)
Charity: Those were good times. We used to be inseparable. Until that time when Loud's dad got killed...and when...it happened...
(Charity sighs as she recalls her break-up with Loud a year after what happened. She remembers the night before the wedding and the promise.)
Charity: Well, the good part is that Loud is with the woman he truly loves. And I am happy.
(Charity sighs as she puts the scrapbook away and walks around the room a bit)
Charity: Or am I? Ever since that night, I have been more miserable than ever. I thought I was helping Loud by helping him promise not to reveal about our "incident". (pause) Well, the good part is though that at least some stranger didn't drugged my drink or made me think I am having an affair. (sadly) Like I did with Loud.
(She shook her head and thought of something else: Jeremy)
Charity: I haven't seen Jeremy in years. I wonder if he's still thinking about me. I mean, as a friend. Or...oh, I don't know.
(In Shelton's lab, the villain is still plotting.)
Shelton: Another victim for our plan. Soon we will have them all. I wonder how Gene is doing? Well, soon, very soon, the robots will take what they rightfully deserved: the control of the world! All humans will suffered for their indifference to them.
(He pauses to think about this, then sighs)
Shelton: Well, almost everyone. I still hoped I could still find a way to keep Charity alive, but she is very importantly needed for the plan. (upset) Still...I wish there is another way...(sighs) But there is no other way. I have no choice. (angry) I got to do it! (sighs) Oh Charity...forgive me.
(He gets up and gets ready to put on a disguise and some devices. He plans on making a big blow out for his former employers. And he doesn't want to disappoint them.)
{Cut to later in the day as Loud and Miss Info walk out of FBI headquarters with Drawford}
Drawford: So can we be sure that he'll give us exactly what we need?
Loud: We can at least buy time in case he does know something....but I can't say for sure if he'll give us exactly what we want. Not without a catch somewhere.
Drawford: Then is this something we should really do? He's still out there, and we can't waste that much time!
Miss Info: I feel okay with it, actually. He thinks he's gonna get something outta it because he thinks we're still weak and easy to trick. But we're not like that anymore, he can't get to us. So it might actually be fun to prove him wrong and watch him struggle to trip us up....then he'll have no choice but to actually tell us something!
Drawford: And if he gets mad enough to ruin our investigation? Tell us false intel and make sure we don't grab him?
Loud: We'll do everything we can to make sure he doesn't. You guys can always come up with some backup plans in the meantime, just in case.
Drawford: I suppose so...though everything relys on this right now.{Pause}All right, since he's done with you two, you can head home.
Loud:{Shakes his hand}Thank you sir. We won't rest until we succeed in this for you.
Drawford: Sadly, it's not me that'll suffer if this doesn't work...at least, not only me.
{Cut to later on, as Loud and Miss Info return home}
Loud: So...you really think we can have fun with this, huh?
Miss Info: Heh...well, dealing with him is never fun, not the good kinda fun. But he said it himself, he wanted to be there. He's only doing this cause he thinks he'll ruin us somehow, even I know that. But he's got nothing, and he'll be so mad and upset when he doesn't get anything!
Loud: I suppose...if he has been alive for a long time, and he saw how we got together....then he had any dirt from back then, he would have used it by now.
Miss Info: And he probably knows it, too. When it finally sinks in for him, he won't be able to hide what he knows anymore. Then you step in and save the day again.
Loud: Well, I won't be doing it alone...come to think of it, I've never saved anything alone. I'm only alive and considered a hero by the pro Loud people because you or Charity or Harry or our friends have been there with me.
Miss Info: Yeah, but you're the only one licensed to make the arrests this time.
Loud: Okay, that part's different...{Sighs and sits on the couch}I'd like to have your optimism, and I still have lots of it left from when I was younger. You just...can never feel that optimistic with Gene around. He's always found something to use and some angle no one can think of...he can afford to think he's two steps ahead of people because he usually is.
Miss Info: Only because we weren't old enough to see what steps he was using. Now we're older and wiser, and we can think on some of the levels he can now.
Loud: I hope that's true...but we won't get a better clue until tomorrow, I guess.
Miss Info: Right, so....until then...{Cuddles up to him}
Loud:{Sighs happily and brings her closer}I still cannot get enough of you doing that...
Miss Info: Among other things.
Loud: To think Gene still thinks you're stupid...
{She leans up and kisses Loud on the lips briefly, then cuddles closer and kisses him around his lips. As he does the same with her, we fade back to the cell hallway, as Drawford goes up to Gene's cell}
Drawford: Burrows? Can you hear me?{Pause}Well, you don't really need to answer me, just listen. I don't know what you think you're gonna do here...Loud and Miss Info know you have something planned, they just don't know what. But they know better than to fall for your tricks. You're not gonna get anywhere with them...and we both know you'd try to lure them to their deaths instead with false Shelton information. I want him, but not enough to let you have your fun like that. You're not getting your revenge on my watch.{Pause}I'm calling off the deal. We're gonna get the information out of you our way....through as many legal means of getting info outta robots as possible. Even the controversial ones.
{He waits, but no answer comes from the cell}
Drawford: I see...well, I'll leave you to face that reality.
{He turns away. Gene's left arm lifts up slightly- and just in, a large spear comes out of it and breaks the glass of the cell into a million pieces. He then jumps out and lands right in front of Drawford, grabs him, and starts firing laser blasts into the roof of the area, bringing much of the ceiling down. He also blows apart many of the bars to the other cells, and before those convicts can get out, electrical shocks shoot from his arms and they hit all of them, eventually bringing them down to the ground}
Gene: Here's my reality....if I wanted to, I could destroy every single person and thing you have in 5 minutes. I could kill you and destroy every piece of interrogation equipment without making an effort. The only reason this organization is STANDING is because I still have use for you...but if you see fit to bother me like this one more time...I may lose that use a split second before you die. And even if you search me and strip all of my weapons from me...there'll still be a few Shelton put in me that you won't find, and that'll be all I need.
Drawford: You're....bluffing...
Gene: How about you ask your cons if I'm a bluffing person? Ask your friends and the survivors of Washington D.C about how often I bluff. Now, for the final time....you will not get in the way of my talks with them, or do anything to stop them from taking place. Otherwise...when William starts his purge of humanity, you will already be eaten by worms by the time he makes his first kill.
{He drops Drawford and then shoots his lasers at the debris lying on the floor, so that Drawford has a way out. Gene then goes to his cell, aims at the pieces of glass on the floor, and has then moved back so that they begin to be pieced back together again and cover the cell wall again}
Gene: I will not see you again unless you have the Kiddingtons with you...if you value the FBI's existance. If you do, then I will let myself stay here and do what they tell me. Are we clear now?{Drawford doesn't answer}Fair enough.{The glass is now back together and is blocking his way out again}You may go now. I need my rest for tomorrow.
Drawford:{Long pause}Turn out his cell lights, please...and bring in some new prison bars for the other cells.
{Drawford finally brings himself to go, as we see the lights go out in Gene's cell and he lies back down as if nothing happened}
(A while later, at the Kiddington household, the doorbell was ringing. Young Charity Kiddington arrives)
Charity K.: I'd get it!
(Charity answers the door and there still Charity)
Charity K.: Hello?
Charity: (puzzled) Uh yes...am I at the right household? Because I am sure I was looking for the house of Loud Kiddington.
Charity K.: This is the place all right, madam.
Charity: But...who are you?
Charity K.: My name is Charity! Loud is my daddy!
Charity: (surprised) Your name is Charity???
Charity K.: Yep! Who are you?
Charity: (smiling) Believe it or not, I am Charity too. Charity Bazaar.
Charity K.: Then...you must be my auntie Charity!
(With a giggle, the young Charity hugged her namesake happily. Loud and Miss Info appeared)
Loud: Charity? I didn't know you were coming.
Charity: I thought I would surprised you. I guess I was away from you for too long. I didn't know you have a daughter you decided to name after me.
Miss Info: Why not? You were a part of Loud's life after all. And who knows what would happened if...
Charity: Please, not in front of the kid.
Charity K.: Come on, tell me! I won't mind!
Loud: Charity, go on and play, okay darling?
(Charity K. lets go of Charity and hugs her father before going off to play. Charity closes the door as she joins the couple in the living room)
Charity: It has been years, hasn't it?
Miss Info: Since my wedding to Loud, of course. I am surprised though. We haven't seen you since that day. What happened? Why did you not see us for that long?
(Loud and Charity looks uneasy)
Charity: (changing the subject) Anyway, how is Loud's new FBI job? I bet it must be doing great.
Loud: Oh, it's great alright...(mumbling) unless you count the obvious.
Charity: Excuse me?
Miss Info: What?
Charity: I heard Loud say 'unless you count the obvious'. What obvious?
Loud: Uh...nothing, Charity. Nothing to be worry about.
Charity: (sighs) Loud, I know you for years. I can tell when you're trying to hide something. Unless it's the affair I didn't know until Jeremy let me in on it. I don't want to be heart broken again. Tell me what you meant by that.
(Loud and Miss Info look at each other in concern.)
Loud: Okay, Charity, I must warned you. This is a shocker.
Charity: Whatever it is, it must be very shocking if you both looked concerned like that.
Miss Info: Here we go: he's back.
Charity: Who's back?
Loud: Charity...it's Gene Burrows.
(Charity looks shocked upon hearing this. She looks like she's about to scream, but managed to restrain herself)
Charity: But...how? I thought....
Miss Info: We thought so too, but Gene's robot parts has been found and rebuilt by Dr. William Shelton.
Charity: I heard of him. I heard about him all over the radio.
Loud: The FBI caught him and he may be what we need to stop Shelton before he strikes again. We're trying to keep it a secret to avoid panic that a terrorist who attacked Washington years ago is back at large.
Charity: I know how you feel.
Loud: He wanted to just see me and Melissa. No one else. I think he must be disappointed because you and I...
Charity: I know, I know.
Miss Info: We are trying our best not to let Gene get to Loud again. We have seen his tricks, we have experiences since that day in Washington, we know how to beat him. Hopefully this confrontation will end up with him being gone for good and Shelton following him.
Charity: So, should I let the others know?
Loud: No. I don't want them involved. Let them live their lives now. We'd, however, let you know what Gene knows.
Miss Info: You want Charity involved?
Loud: Well, Gene probably thinks you and I are the ones alone in this, Melissa, but I bet he didn't expect Charity. With her, we may have a chance if he and/or Shelton tries anything.
Charity: I just hope for one thing: that this doesn't end badly.
Miss Info: Ahem.
(Pause)
Loud: Well, that's done. How about some dinner? Melissa is a great cook.
Miss Info: (blushing) Oh, Loud.
Charity: (smiling) Why not? Help me get to know more about the 'niece' I never knew.
{Cut to later that night at a gathering in a scientific hall. There, we see someone talking to a few scientists- what looks to be Shelton, but looking a lot fatter, and with fake facial hair}
Shelton:{Disguising his voice}But things in California, or Cali as we call it, were so dreary and boring that I had to come here. And your hospitality has made me not regret that for a second.
Scientist: We're glad to hear that, Dr...
Shelton: Bill. Just Dr Bill will do. I must confess, I was a little intimidated to come here...you have had a reputation of not being open to different people and different ideas.
Scientist 2: Now where did you get that idea?
Shelton: Well, that's the main theory of this so called terrorist running around the city. A former co worker of yours, I think, now what was the name they gave him...
Scientist: You're thinking of "Dr" Shelton, sir. I can assure you, he was an abbirition. We had nothing to do with driving him to becoming a terrorist, we just did the sane thing and told him we didn't want to be robot slaves.
Shelton: Considering the track record of humans and all the messes they make...he probably said that robots should be given a chance to rule, and they couldn't do worse than us carbon based people did.
Scientist 2: And we're supposed to have endless needles jammed into us and be used for fuel because of it? I saw those Keanu Reeves movies, and I would rather be dead then and there than be put into one of those things!
Shelton: Ah....so you're just thinking of yourself instead of the good of the world. He could have got endless ammo out of that....
Scientist: Can we stop talking about wackos like Shelton for a minute? How about we get back to you?
Shelton: Well...I actually need to take a bathroom break and get some of my inventions out of my car. Will you excuse me for a moment?
{The other scientists nod and Shelton leaves. He goes down some stairs and goes into a boiler room. When he's all alone, he unzips his coat and reveals he only looks fat because he's strapped all kinds of explosive material to himself. He takes them off and takes them to a machine- then lets his anger go and kicks it several times}
Shelton: Those bigots can't die soon enough!!!{Just then, another man comes in}
Man: Hey, um....I thought they just sent me to check on this stuff, I didn't know I needed backup.
Shelton:{Turns slowly to him}You're one of them, aren't you? One of those "Blame robots first" types who spread anti robot propaganda, as if humans weren't the real terrorists!
Man: I.....am?
Shelton: If not that, then you're one of those brainwashed by the humans and their corporate machines that demonize the real machines! The machines that need to save this world! The machines that will break up the oligarchy of the human dictators, whether your overlords mind or not!!
Man:{Pause}I just check the boilers, man, I don't even have a good TV that can brainwash me.
Shelton: Then it's best you die now before you're too far gone.
Man: Um....you, of all people, are saying I'm too far gone?
Shelton: Wrong answer...
{Shelton closes the door behind the man and shoves him against the wall so his head crashes into it and he goes down. Once he falls flat, Shelton returns to hooking up his explosives}
{Cut back to Loud and Miss Info's house, as she is upstairs alone in her bedroom. She looks around to see if anyone is coming in, then she goes to the phone}
Miss Info: He should still have the same phone number....{Slowly reaches to dial the phone}I can't do it....but he has to know that Gene's here...because...if Gene really has been alive for a long time, even before I got married....what if he knows?
{Cut to a few shots from "Loud's True Love" where Miss Info is drinking with Smartypants- but she doesn't know it's Shelton in disguise. We then see shots of her waking up the next day, and believing she slept with him, then go back to the present}
Miss Info: I told Loud Gene couldn't use anything against us....I just plain forgot my pre marital cheating until right now. Maybe I am as dumb as he says....{Pause}No, there ain't no way Gene could know what I did, even he doesn't know everything....but everytime we think that, he usually does. If he knows, then I gotta warn Smarty that he might be in trouble cause we fooled around...even though we never talked about it since my wedding day, and he never ever ever brought it up with me for some reason. He probably feels too bad about it to think about it....so how can I tell him now?{Another pause}How can I bring back those terrible memories for him when I don't know for sure Gene knows? Oh, I can't ruin our relationship just when we've finally put the past behind us...
{Miss Info waits, then pulls her hands away from the phone}
Miss Info: I can't just ask Gene if he knows, then he'll know if he doesn't know...ooh, maybe I should just tell Loud now so he's prepared if Gene does know. Then he can't use it against him....and....and then he'll be too mad at me to do his job and save the city.{Frowns}Ooh, darn that sick robot for not letting me know that he knows, so I know whether to tell Loud and Smarty what I know, so they know before Gene lets them know!{Pause}Now my head hurts even worse because I remember that I know....
{She lies down on the bed and closes her eyes as Loud comes in}
Loud: Are you that worn out from tonight that you're tired already?
Miss Info:{Pause}Imagine that, huh? Well, if I'm tired, then I should really go to sleep early, then I'll be well rested to show Gene what's what.
Loud: Guess that's a good plan...I'll put our Charity to bed and let you get comfy.{He leaves the room}
Miss Info:{Sighs}Well, maybe I'll get lucky and my cheating will be the one thing Gene doesn't know...even though I've never been lucky dealing with that....thing.
(The next day, Loud and Miss Info has their meeting with Gene. He just finished up explaining a part of his life story)
Gene: Well, it's your turn. I am very fascinated as to what you got to say and all.
Loud: I bet you would. Do you want to know what happened since you were killed, Mr. Berry?
Gene: Excuse me?
Miss Info: Oh, don't act surprised. We know your real name was Slim Berry. You used to have a funny side until you got rid of it in some experiment.
Gene: That is true, I used to be quite a comedian. But I felt that in order to be a scientist, weaknesses like that must be taken care of. And it was your yelling and making false information that reminds me of that.
Miss Info: (puzzled) Make my sister do that?
Loud: Never mind that.
Gene: Indeed. We aren't here to discuss me right now, but rather you. Though I am quite surprised at Miss Info.
Loud: Why's that?
Gene: Look at her. She looks the way she did when she was on that show of yours. I woulda presumed she aged by now. I wonder, how is it she managed to do that?
Loud: Plastic surgery, what else?
Gene: Are you sure about that? Because I know plastic surgery and that doesn't look like it.
Miss Info: Look, just accept the plastic surgery. Whatever the true reason I am like this forever is between me, Loud, Charity, and Mr. Smartypants!
Loud: (alarmed) Melissa!
Gene: Well, true reason, eh? And Mr. Smartypants was involved? Please tell me. You know what would happened if you don't speak up. I promised, whatever happens will not leave this building.
Miss Info: I...I can't!
Loud: May as well. We don't have a choice.
Miss Info: (sighs) Fine. It took place a year after I started my affair with Loud. I was still with Smarty at the time...
{Fade to a year later, the year 2009 in Washington D.C. We then go to some kind of lab where some guy wearing large pants is running around through a large fog of steam. This is Mr. Smartypants}
Mr. Smartypants: Geez, who would have thought an experiment like this would go so wrong?! How the heck am I gonna get her outta there?! {He runs through the steam fog, which is coming out of some kind of chamber that sounds like it's malfunctioning. He then tries to press a few buttons} Come on, come on, one of these has to work! Don't worry Miss Info, you'll be out soon!
[He starts banging on the buttons until one of them opens the door, then Smartypants runs in and runs out with an unseen Miss Info without even looking at her}
Miss Info: {V.O} What happened?
Smartypants: Hit the dirt, that machine is gonna blow!
Miss Info: {V.O} But we're on a floor, there's no dirt to hit or- {Smartypants falls to the floor and puts Miss Info down with him as the machine makes some more nasty noises, and finally blows up. After the smoke clears, Smartypants runs over to observe the heavy damage}
Smartypants: Perfect, I just had to make top of the line machine parts I could never make again! I don't think I'll ever be able to rebuild this thing.
Miss Info: {V.O} Good, that thing wasn't one of your best experiments. It's just a good thing it didn't have any side effects on me before it blew, or I'd be stuck with something nasty, right? {She walks out of the fog and we see Smartypants's shocked look on his face} What?
Smartypants: {Stunned} Oh my God...
{Cut to an apartment building somewhere else in town where Smartypants is working with some more materials}
Miss Info: {V.O and panicked} Okay Smarty, you brought me home quietly so no one would see me, and your brought your equipment here to cure me. So am I gonna be cured yet?!
Smartypants: I don't know, okay?! I told you I made that machine out of very rare parts not even I can rebuild! So quite frankly....I don't think I can make an antidote. I think you're stuck like this....forever.
Miss Info: {V.O} I am? {Sad} Well, I guess I could be more of a freak of nature than I am now, right?
{We now see Miss Info sitting on a bed and we see what exactly she's turned into- her younger self from the original Histeria! show. She looks as young as she did on TV and is back to her same features and figure that she was in on TV too}
Smartypants: There may be worse things, but not many. That experiment was supposed to....well, we know what it was supposed to do but it made this happen instead! It's made you 10 years younger, and from the tests I took of you from here....that's as old as you're gonna get.
Miss Info: What do you mean, I'm in my mid 30's now, how could I stop aging?
Smartypants: Technically you didn't stop aging age wise, but no matter how old you get, you're gonna look like this forever. You'll never age or change from the form you're in right now ever again, from the looks of it you're gonna stay looking like this until the day you die.
Miss Info: Oh. Well, um, I'll never have to worry about wrinkles in my old age, and people always liked me when I looked like this. It shouldn't be that horrible.
Smartypants: I doubt the rest of the universe would agree with you. If word of this got out, I'd be called a monster for doing this to you, even accidentally, and my whole reputation would be ruined! You'd be considered a freak of nature, and I'd never be trusted to do anything in science again!
Miss Info: So we won't tell anyone!
Smartypants: There's no way we could explain this, basically the only way for no one to notice is if you never come outta here! But we always go to lots of public places, so.....so....
Miss Info: So what?
Smartypants: So I guess....we may have to stop going to public places. But they'd wonder why we did since we're a couple and we always go places, so.....so....
Miss Info: So what again?
Smartypants: {Stays in place for a second and then kicks all of his devices around} Godd*mmit, this can't be happening, if there was only another way!
Miss Info: Another way for what, will you speak English for a second, please?
Smartypants: The only way to keep this a secret, to keep you from not being labeled a freak, and to keep me from being ruined.....is to break up with you.
Miss Info: {Pause} Okay, now that you tried to make me laugh, what's your real plan?
Smartypants: {Sad} I wish I had one. The one time I can't think of more than one thing to do, huh? But there's no other way, I can't fix the machine, I can't make an antidote, and if people think we're still together then this'll come out eventually. I....I have to tell them we've broken up. And if I'm gonna really convince them, then.....I can't see you anymore.
Miss Info: {Crushed} No. You're.....wait, I've just become a freak of nature, your words not mine, and you're gonna leave me here alone to deal with this, just like that?!
Smartypants: I told you I wish there was another way, but there isn't! {Pauses, then he starts picking up his parts and putting them away} I'd better go quickly before I get too sad and I wind up changing my mind.
Miss Info: But, but...
Smartypants: You....you have other friends you can confide in that can help you and keep this secret, get them to help you. But I can't. I wish I could, but-
Miss Info: But you can't cause you're worried about what people would think of me. Or you're just worried about own reputation.
Smartypants: {Pause} I'm sorry. {Looks ready to cry} See, I told you I have to leave in a hurry! {He runs out of the house and leaves Miss Info all alone}
Miss Info: Well fine then, leave me be here, I'll find other people to help me! {Pause} Wait a minute, I do have someone to help me. And, and now that Smarty broke up with me, I don't have to lie to him about my other man any more. That actually makes this easier, and, and Loud would be able to help me, especially since he first fell for me when I looked like this! I just hope he's free to come down here!
{Cut to later that night as a car drives up to the apartment. This car belongs to the now year older Loud. We then see him inside the building knocking on a door}
Loud: I got your message and made sure to delete it before Charity heard me! Can I come in? {The door opens and Loud comes in, though he doesn't see anyone inside} Miss Info? Where are you? {The door closes and Loud turns to see Miss Info in the shadows} Uh, hi. I'm here just like you said. Are, um....can I see you?{Miss Info comes out and Loud sees her in her younger form}Whoh.
Miss Info: I wasn't lying to you on the phone, this is what I look like now. And I'm gonna look like this forever with no changes at all. They'll probably have a field day making fun of me when they find out, no wonder Smarty dumped me. {She hangs her head and Loud goes over to hug her}
Loud: No, he dumped you cause he's a coward. I always knew he was shy, but I didn't know he was a coward to leave you. Even though it does make it easier for our, well, affair...but that's no excuse!
Miss Info: Are you sure?
Loud: Look, I've known you for a long time and we've been having an affair in secret for a year. He's know you for a long time and been in public love with you for 10 years. But he didn't have the guts to stand by you when this happened. I'd like to think I do. {He leads Miss Info to sit down on the bed}
Miss Info: Are you sure about that too?
Loud: I've been lying to Charity for a year, to my childhood sweetheart who I'm still seeing! I don't think I could take doing that if I wasn't completely in love with you, and completely ready to do what I had to to help you in times like this. And I am. I'll have to spend more time here helping you and figuring out how to handle your public schedule, but I'll find a way. Because I love you. And with Smartypants gone for good, you have a little more free time for me to help you.
Miss Info: Yeah....I don't have to worry about lying to him ever again now, you only got Charity to worry about!{Sighs}I knew you'd understand. So, you don't mind that I'm never gonna age again?
Loud: Well, if we ever came out in public, they wouldn't see a woman almost twice my age dating me, we'd look like a normal young couple. If we ever came out, that is. And, well, you looked exactly like this when I met you and when I fell for you, so this is a, nostalgic way for you to look. {Laughs} I used to have my little fantasies when I was younger about how gorgeous you were at that time, and I felt a little sorry about how I couldn't kiss you back then when you first looked this way. {Smirks} But I guess I can make up for it now, can't I? And I got a while before I head back to my dorm, so...
{Loud puts his hands on Miss Info's face and kisses her deeply. She quickly kisses back and leans back to lie on the bed, leaving Loud on top of her. They start French kissing for some time and their hands start roaming over each other's bodies- but Loud stops before his hands touch Miss Info at a, well, low position}
Loud: Heh, maybe we'd better slow down a second, I don't wanna make all my fantasies come alive right now. {Chuckles} Even if I did, I'd wake up the whole city by the time we were finished! Plus, well, who knows if I'll get to "test" that theory with you or Charity first?
Miss Info: No, we don't gotta worry about that yet. But we don't have to stop our first and close to second base action either, at least not yet.
Loud: {Smirks} And Gene dared to call you stupid. {Climbs right back on top of Miss Info and they resume making out again. Flashback ended.}
Loud: And that's what happened.
Gene: So you decided to kept this a secret because of the fear of Mr. Smartypants losing his reputation and Miss Info being labeled a freak, correct?
Miss Info: Well yes.
Gene: How pitiful. The people woulda accepted the truth have you told them and Miss Info and Mr. Smartypants woulda stayed together. Instead, they let one silly paranoidia fear get to them. Loud, you must have waited for the opportunity to be with her at last.
Loud: That's not it! We were keeping our affair a secret! Of course, that is until Charity, my former girlfriend, found out.
Gene: How's that?
Loud: Someone named Jeremy was spying on us. He send her photos of the whole thing. (pause) And you know what else ticked me off, well, used to anyway?
Gene: Do tell.
Loud: Charity have an affair herself with the same guy.
Gene: So you aren't the only one playing the blame game. Have you stay with Charity, perhaps you woulda be with her, and it would be her with you I am talking with.
Miss Info: Okay, enough! We told you what you want to know. Now it's your turn!
Gene: Oh yes, it is, isn't it? Well, pay attention. I do not wish to repeat myself twice.
{Cut to elsewhere in Washington, as in a diner, we see the older Pule and Susanna sitting with an older Lydia Karaoke- and the World's Oldest Woman, who looks exactly the same as ever}
Pule: I just felt that it's a shame we don't get together for stuff besides weddings and action stuff these days. I know Loud's busy with FBI stuff, and Miss Info and Charity have their own things going on, so we didn't bother them....but I called a lot of the others, and they didn't pick up either.
Susanna: They probably have jobs they can't get away from...except perhaps Toast. But then it's strange he didn't answer our calls either.
Lydia: So I took my early vacation to visit you guys and no one else showed up with me? I don't get these things very often, and usually I make sure I don't. It's a full time job just keeping the Saturday morning cartoon lineup PG-13 rated!
World's Oldest Woman: Oh, so that's why you can't find time to let Bill know I'm always nearby when he needs vacas!
Lydia: Well....partly, I suppose.
{Suddenly, Nostradamus comes barging in}
Nostradamus: Quick, shut up and listen to my prediciation of doom, I got one right on the barn, and boy is it burning!
Susanna: You couldn't afford the hotel bills and you need us to cover?
Nostradamus: No, it's something so-
{Just then, a huge explosion is heard that rumbles the ground for a few seconds. Once that goes away, we then see smoke rising from outside the window}
Nostradamus: Okay, who's the big time smart guy who set some big mess up before I could finish saying I prediciated it?! Some terror people just don't have common shutting up courtesy!
{Cut back to the FBI, where agents are scrambling to leave and go to the wreckage. Upstairs in Drawford's office, Drawford is on the phone as Loud and Miss Info are with him}
Drawford: And you've found no survivors so far? So I guess that means there's no trace of the explosives or who did this either?
Loud: We know who did it, sir. Gene told us already!
Drawford:{To Loud}We've had a major attack on our city, I can probably afford to be too flustered to keep track.{On the phone}You call the second there are any leads and anything we can use!{Hangs up}
Miss Info: Gene told us that Shelton was gonna start with getting revenge on everyone that hurt him. He said it would just be the beginning of his major plan to overthrow everything humans hold dear! He told us he was gonna blow those people up, and now he did it!
Loud: Apperantly he told us all that exactly 5 minutes before the bombs went off. He must have know Shelton was doing this today, and deliberatly held back until it was too late! What if he does that again, and next time we can't prevent something worse?!
Drawford: If we had any time to waste, it's over with now.{Pause}We need to speed this up. You're gonna have to go back there, indulge in everything he asks....and do it very very quickly so he can't stall.
Miss Info: Good, that means we can't dwell on what he made me talk about today!
Drawford: You mean...the anti aging experiment.
Miss Info: Yeah, that little old thing!{Sighs}You must think I'm a freak just like he said, huh?
Drawford: I'm your husband's boss....what I think shouldn't really bother you. What any strangers think shouldn't bother you either...at least that thing didn't kill anyone, unlike the thing that did a few minutes ago.
Miss Info: What if Smarty really was willing to tell everyone what happened? If he did, I would have gone through a lot....but we would still be together, and me and Loud wouldn't have acted on our feelings. We'd still be attracted to each other, but we could have hid it better. And maybe we'd be apart right now if this got out from the beginning...
Loud: If a whole lot of things happened differently, we'd never have been together. That's just...one of the best examples.
Drawford: He wants you to think in those what if terms. The more he gets you to think about other things, the more time he can waste while Shelton works to destroy our government. It's all part of his plan...whatever it is.
Loud: Right....he can't get whatever he wants if we just stay focused. So, does that mean we go back down there now?
Drawford: Let's wait a little longer, at least to see if we get any leads out of the rubble. If we find something, we can use it against Gene. If not, you just go back there as is and keep focused. That'll throw him off better than anything, and then maybe he'll be willing to talk about what really matters.
Loud: All right, we'll wait outside until we hear anything else. We'll let you get back to work cleaning this up.
{Drawford nods and gets back on the phone as Loud and Miss Info exit}
Loud: You okay?
Miss Info: I'll be fine...I can always dwell on this when we get home, right?
Loud: I hope you don't get depressed about it anywhere.
Miss Info: Well...I had to indulge him so he could tell us important stuff. Maybe if I said it faster, he would have told us in time to stop the bombing...
Loud: He would have found ways to stall anyway, you know he would. We're not young anymore....at least not on the inside. We can beat his tricks, I know we can.
Miss Info:{Pause}I know we can too....
Loud: And we'll prove it. Now let's get something to eat at the FBI cafeteria, and plan how we're gonna handle him next time.
{Cut to elsewhere in Washington, as we see Shelton in his regular clothes, going back into his hideout. He turns a TV on and it shows the ruins of the building}
Shelton: Perfect. Gene kept the bombs secret from the loud kid just long enough. All's going well for me, and probably for him too back in jail. It's all coming together...the ones who stopped destiny are dead. Now, the ones who allowed it to happen without protest will follow.
{Shelton pauses, then goes off into another room. When he enters it, he picks up a scrapbook on a table. He opens it to reveal every newspaper clipping showing or talking about Charity in what seems like the last several years}
Shelton: I'm that much closer now....our day is coming very soon. How often have you imagined that it would come these last few years? How much have you hope to see my face...or what you still think it looks like? I hope you've been thinking of it more often, it would get you prepared faster...but not too much, I hope. Still need you to be fooled a while longer. Not too long though...today's success ensures the next few parts are gonna go quite smoothly.
{Shelton takes the scrapbook back out and sits in front of the TV, which still shows the ruins}
Shelton: You're here in spirit....so how about if your spirit watches my success with me for a while, together?{Pause}I thought you'd say that.{He holds the scrapbook open in front of him as he watches the TV coverage with it}
(Later, we see Charity sitting on the bench looking at the H! monument. Drawford walks up to her)
Drawford: Hi. Is it all right for someone whose former boyfriend is working for now sit here?
Charity: It's okay. Go ahead and park it.
(Drawford sat down)
Drawford: I take it you know what's happening, right?
Charity: Yes. It scares me that Gene is returning and that he is back to his first two targets the day he went after Loud.
Drawford: I hate to sound ironic but at least you aren't married to Loud when this happens, right?
Charity: (sighs) Unfortunately yes.
Drawford: I see. (pause) BTW, what am I about to say next is going to come to a bit of a shock.
Charity: What is?
Drawford: I have a talk with Gene, discussing how he held back when Shelton is going to attack. He told me that if I were to see you, I have to asked you to come over to the FBI and speak with him.
Charity: (surprised) Me? Why me?
Drawford: (shrugging) I'm guessing it's because you are Loud's former girl and another target, I don't know. He hasn't seen you in a while and wishes to talk to you, that's all.
Charity: I am not sure if I should. After all, it's only Loud and Miss Info he wanted, not me.
Drawford: Charity, we are at war. Not with a country but with a mad man. Every help is needed to take him down. You helped Loud before, now maybe it's time you continue to do so.
Charity: How so?
Drawford: He plans to speak to only Miss Info tomorrow. Then after all, it's you and Loud.
Charity: What?
Drawford: I don't understand either. Maybe it's because you two used to be together, you should help together. Look, just promise you'd at least help us.
Charity: (pauses) Fine. Just as long as it's the only time I do, understand?
Drawford: Even if it concerns Loud's life?
Charity: What I said with Loud, it may hurt Miss Info if or by any chance Gene forced us to bring it up.
Drawford: Which is?
Charity: (sighs) I can't say yet. I will let you know when the time comes.
(The next day at Gene's cell, Miss Info was talking to Gene alone this time.)
Gene: So let's get to the next subject. When were you and Loud decided to get married?
Miss Info: (sighs) 3 years ago. The wedding was the most beautiful one I have ever have.
Gene: Were you ever satisfied at all?
Miss Info: Of course I was. I mean, I loved the guy for crying out loud.
Gene: Yet, the FBI business is a dangerous business. You speak out against stereotypes, I know.
Miss Info: What does that have to do with anything?
Gene: Aren't you concerned about your husband's health? That he may not come back alive again?
Miss Info: No! (pause) Well...at first.
Gene: I see. What happened?
Miss Info: When Mr. Drawford first came to him offering him the job, I was...concerned. I feared him going through this would put him in the public eye and in danger again. I didn't want him to go through with it.
Gene: Let me guess: you have one of this typical arguments, right?
Miss Info: (sighs) Right. We decided to part before our wedding begins. I assured you, I've managed to saw reason before the big day.
Gene: Oh really? Did you go anywhere? Meet any old friends? Remind you that I will find out if you keep anything from me.
Miss Info: Look, I think we should get to what you know about Shelton?
Gene: If you want honesty from me, I expected the same from you. You're hiding something, I know.
Miss Info: I can't say.
Gene: Let me tell you this: after Loud becomes a hero again by stopping Shelton and any doubts about him are washed away, do you think he'll have time to be angry about anything you tell him? You can make that possible now by giving me a reason to tell you some more stuff to lead to that day. What final indignity are you hiding beneath that seemingly well put together mask of calmness?
Miss Info: But...
Gene: I can always ended the conversions right now. And the people will know whom to blame when...
Miss Info: Hold it! (sighs) Fine. I'd tell you. But you must promised me that it will not go out this room.
{Flashback to the night before the wedding, as Miss Info is by herself at the bar, thinking about Loud's new job. Her thoughts is interrupted as she hears a familiar voice.)
Voice: Uh, Miss Info?
(Miss Info turns to see...)
Miss Info: (surprised) Mr. Smartypants?
(Indeed what she sees is her former boyfriend Mr. Smartypants. Or so she thinks, unknown to her, it's actually William Shelton disgused as Mr. Smartypants. He also has a voice changer so he can disguised his voice as well.)
Shelton: (Mr. Smartypants voice) Uh, how good to see you again.
{Later on, the two are talking away}
Miss Info: I should be happy about tomorrow, but now I can't help but be depressed about what might happen after tomorrow!
Shelton:{Still as Smartypants}That's not right at all.
Miss Info: I know, but I told you I can't help it, now I don't know how many anniversarys of tomorrow we're going to have!
Shelton: That's definatly not the right attitude you need at all. I think you need to take your mind off of whatever worries you have right now.
Miss Info: How do you know that's best?
Shelton: I know you almost as much as anyone does, even your future husband, and I also know everything else there is to know. So trust me when I say that you need to have some fun, and you need a drink to calm you down.
Miss Info: I do? But I still need to sort out my thoughts about everything that just happened.
Shelton: And it led you here to be depressed before I came here. So I guess this is working just fine for you.{Miss Info sighs}Come on, I'm not as shy as I was when I left you, so I can have a good time and have one with you. For old times sake.{Quietly}I owe you that much after, you know, your plastic surgery.
Miss Info: Oh yeah, you would feel like that, even though me and Loud have stopped complaining about it.
Shelton: I highly doubt Loud had many complaints.{Laughs a bit and then Miss Info laughs too}That's the spirt! Come on, I'll buy you a few drinks and we can pass the time having fun and chatting away, that's better than depression any day!
Miss Info: Well...why not? For old times sake!
(We cut to Shelton and Miss Info walking out of the bar. Of course, Miss Info is the only looking more than a bit drunk)
Miss Info: Ha ha ha! While I do protested against the uses of alcohol, I didn't know how good it would make me after my fight with Loud. And with you around, I'm sure to get over it. (Shelton laughs with her)
Shelton: (A little bit intoxicated, but not much) Well, uh, it's pretty good, I'say. (Pause) I wondered, what did Loud done to make you miserable? I mean, if he really loves you, he shouldn't have, right?
Miss Info: Do you like secrets? (Cutely but drunkingly) Please, please, oh please??? (Shelton nods) Well, my soon to be husband is going to joined up with the FBI and going to be killed soon after. Well, he isn't going to use a gun, just let someone else do the dirty work, but still, what kind of work for someone who I want to stay out of the public eye? People would treat him like a stereotype who just saved people. Which is why I'm worried about tomorrow. I'm worried it'd be the last happiest moment before he dies? (Cutely) Now what kind a marriage would that be?
Shelton: I know, makes me wonder why I left you to, uh, begin with. Let's forget about it with another drink, shall we? (offers another bottle)
Miss Info: No, no. I got to go back to my hotel room so I won't ruined the whole "not seeing your new husband until the wedding" thing. (nearly fell) Oopsie daisy! Ha ha ha! I guess I ain't so steady, huh? Can you escort me to my hotel? I think I know where it is.
Shelton: Of course. After all, I am still your friend even though you are going to married another guy soon. But maybe you should humor me and have another drink.
Miss Info: Sure, you are my best friend forever. (takes the bottle and drinks it)
Shelton: Good girl.
{We then see shots of Shelton taking her back to her room and lying her down on her bed}
Miss Info:{V.O}I have no memory of what happened ater that....but I knew exactly what I didn't remember the next morning.
{We fade to the next morning in Miss Info's hotel room as she woke up, now back to normal.)
Miss Info: Oh my. What happened? I couldn't remember a thing.
(She turns and gasps. She sees something that looks like someone in a pair of pants.)
Miss Info: Oh no, did I...what have I done and what did I do?! If Smartypants and I...oh no! My wedding's today! I got to go!
{Fade back to the present}
Gene: You cheated on your new love with your old love the night before the wedding....makes sense, I guess.
Miss Info: No it doesn't! I overreacted to Loud's job, then I overreacted worse by betraying him! There, is that what you wanted to know? I'll bet you're gonna be jumping up and down now cause you like me proving your points for ya!
Gene: The point that....you are mentally unbalanced because you are a clueless ditz and a liar?
Miss Info: Yeah, that one!
Gene: I'll admit, it would be fair for me to say "I told you so" If you'd just let me kill you way back then, we wouldn't be having this conversation and you couldn't have made such a mess of your life, now would you?
Miss Info: Mess? But, but....I found love...I found a family...
Gene: With someone who you would have been arrested for loving if you did that a few years earlier. With someone you didn't even love enough to trust his judgement about what he wanted to do with his life.{Pause}You think about your old love every day, don't you? About how much simpler life would be if you just fought harder for him, left Loud with Charity, and actually let yourself age like a normal human being. Might have been better use of your time than using your so called charm, and so called model like body, to cheat and lie to people you so called, love.
{Miss Info just sits there, not being able to respond}
Gene: Aw...this from the same person who said you could handle anything I gave out. Where's the misguided optimism now?
Miss Info:{Pause}Tell me where William Shelton is....right now...or...
Gene: It's not time for that yet. You ask me that question again today, or I will cut off all contact with your people and let Shelton kill millions of people.
Miss Info: You....wait, millions?! He's out for that much blood? How?! I demand you tell me, it's your turn to spill embarassing stuff now!
Gene: No, no....you've offended me by making demands too early. You were doing so well by telling the truth about your sad deceitful life, then you overreacted with threats. I don't feel like giving anything out today.
Miss Info: You're gonna give out something, or I might just come in there and-
Gene: And after I kill you, the first thing I would do is leave proof of our conversation next to your corpse. We'll see how much your husband cries over your body after hearing that.{Turns around}We're done here.
Miss Info: You can't turn away from me! You owe me! I'm here humilating myself and letting you try to ruin my life just so I can help Loud, so I want something in return! You tell them where he is now!
Gene: The more demands you make, the more I'm forgetting to keep my promise of....forgetting about cheating.{Lies back on his bed}Tell Loud and Charity I'll see them tomorrow, and tell Drawford he'll be sending people to their deaths if anyone else comes here today.
{Miss Info finally brings himself to stand}
Miss Info: I don't care what Shelton thinks he's doing...he could never be as much of a monster as you are. When they finally turn you off for good, I want the last thing you ever see to be me, or Loud, or Charity, or Harry, smiling right at you.
(Later at the Washington D.C. airport, Harry has just arrived and got his bags.)
Harry: Well, all I got to do is get on a bus, find a hotel to stay in, and find Loud. Then we could resolved this thing with Gene before he tries anything.
(Harry heads to a bus stop. As he waits for a bus, he hears someone mumbling)
Voice: Excuse me, pardon me, sorry. (Someone came up next to Harry and asked) Excuse me, does this bus goes to a hotel or something?
Harry: Well, it goes to the Watergate, Mr...
Voice: This is going to shock you, but my name...is Mr. Shelton.
(Harry blinks his eyes as he soon see Shelton. Except it isn't William Shelton, but rather his father Danny Shelton, whom we are first introduced to in "Another 24 1/2 Hours".)
The Good Fairy: (V.O.) I know you are all shocked to see him here. For those who read the stories, Danny was killed by his son in "The Life Story of Dr. William Shelton". Of course, since this is an alternative universe story, he is still alive. How is he important? Hey, I'm lucky to even make these kinda voice overs. Even I don't know. Let's find out.
Harry: Wait, you're William Shelton's father, right?
Danny: Sssh! Yes. Yes I am.
Harry: Why is the father of the nation's top terrorist even here in the same place where he himself is terrorizing.
Danny: (sigh) I don't know. I don't know why I decided to come. It's as if my wife is talking to me from beyond the grave.
Harry: Your wife?
Danny: Helen. You knowr how I myself was responsible with that idea with Slim Berry?
Harry: I wasn't there but I heard word of it.
Danny: Well, I talk to him and explains things to it. I think I may have done a bad move because we stop talking to him. (sighs) I supposed I never did understand him, what with his love of robots since Transformers and all.
Harry: I see. You came to the city in hopes to find and talk with him?
Danny: Again, I don't know why. If he know I was here, he would try to killed me. And the people around here would most likely blame me for raising someone like William. It's one of those 'blame the parent for their child's evil deed' thing.
Harry: I can understand that.
Danny: But enough about me. I know you're Harry Norman, those Histerians' friend. I supposed to came to helped them because of Shelton and that some of them are in this city?
Harry: (pause) You could say that.
(The bus arrives and everyone, Harry and Danny included, got on. At the Kiddington household later, Loud and Miss Info are in bed trying to sleep. Miss Info did not sleep as she looks sadly not speaking a word. Loud looks concerned.)
Loud: (thinking) Melissa, my wife. What's wrong with you? You haven't said a word to me ever since your conversion with Gene. What happened? I...I really wish I knew. I also wish I could tell you about my affair with Charity on the night before our wedding.
(He sighs as he tries to get some sleep. The next day at the FBI place, Loud came back with Charity in tow)
Drawford: Geez, Loud. It looks like you didn't get some sleep last night.
Loud: I was worried about my wife. She hasn't spoken a word since her meeting. Did something happened, Scott?
(Drawford remembers the conversion since he overheard the taped conversions. But remembering Gene's promise not to let it be mentioned out of his cell, he said...)
Drawford: I guess it's the pressure. Better get going. He's waiting for the two of you.
Charity: Well, I guess we get to face him together, right Loud?
{Cut back to the cell, as Loud and Charity head for the glass. This time, Gene is sitting on a chair inside as well, with his back turned}
Loud: We're here....you probably knew that already. So, let's get this over with. What do we need to say before you tell us what's going on?
Gene:{Pause}Is the one who "killed me" really there?
Charity: Yes Gene, I'm here...
Gene: The last time I saw you, you crushed me in my own giant spider and left me to die for almost an entire decade. I was quite crushed in another way when I woke up, and found out the spider's destruction did not take you with me.
Charity: I know, I know...so, what am I doing here? You have no reason to hate me anymore, I'm not with Loud now. Isn't your mantra to target anyone close to him, because I'm not that close anymore.
Gene: Yet you can still stand being around him now, after what he's done...
Charity: Yes, we repaired our relationship enough to be friends, and you can't use that to hurt us. So don't even try.
Gene: I won't, I won't....I know all about how you came apart, and so do you. Spilled milk that doesn't serve our purposes.
Loud:{Puzzled}Really? If you're not gonna use that against us, then what do you want to know?
{Gene now gets up and goes towards the two}
Gene: For 16 years, I've hated you because of how different you are from me. Because your voice destroyed my career, and irritated critics around the country with your, let's face it, unpopular show. I don't regret what I did to you and her for one moment. But I am smart and rational enough to admit two mistakes I made.
Charity: Just two? All right, we'll bite...
Gene: One....you would all be living in obscurity if not for me. If I let it go, your show would have died an easy death, you would be remembered as the worst cast of the 1990 WB shows, and Histeria would be reduced to a barely cult show that only showed it's episodes on AOL or something. The first version of it, I mean. All I did was make you all more famous than you ever deserved to be, and for that I am not proud of myself.
Loud: Okay, that's one...
Gene: Two.{To Loud}My research over the last several years turned up some interesting details....William.
Loud:{Pause}You know about Stark?
Gene: Most intimatly. You turned from William Rotmid to Loud Kiddington, in much the same way I turned from Slim Berry to Gene Burrows. It is amazing how our childhoods turned us into the creatures we are today...from normal children to two monsters talking it out with the free world at stake.
Loud: Don't compare me to you that way. You chose to be the way you are, no one forced you. No one passed down any evil traits to you or caused you my kind of trama. I became who I was through abuse and a broken home. You became who you are because you put yourself through your ordeals. You chose to go insane and become so offended by a cartoon that you lost your humanity. Everything that happened to me was stuff I never wanted.
Gene: But without my trama, I would never have attacked you, you wouldn't have defeated me, and you wouldn't have all that you have now. Don't you see? We are bound together through shared pain, trama that turned us into un natural beings, and how our battles formed who we are now. Me the robot and you the law enforcer. Yet without each other, who knows what we would be?
{He now turns to Charity}
Gene: It is because of this shared destiny that we went to war, and you had the chance to fall in love with him as a result. Because of me, you came together. Yet for all our wars and battles that brought you two together, it didn't last after all...but that bond was so strong, I thought it would last forever if I didn't kill you.
Charity: And you just want to tell us that you're shocked?
Gene: No...I want to tell you that I don't believe it's all gone. You killed me to protect it...something like that doesn't just disappear because another "hot blonde" suddenly could look like she's in her mid 20's forever.{Pause}How often have you rekindled that bond?
Loud:{Getting up}We're leaving right now!!
Charity: What?
Gene: All I asked was if you two ever shared a longing for each other again after your breakup? Not one thought or desire that you would still be together, after all you shared? I...just don't buy it.
Charity:{Longer pause}I think we're done here too...
Gene: Leave without answering my question and you condemm the death of this entire country!
Loud: I'm getting a bit tired of that threat, Gene...
Gene: And I'm becoming more curious why you just can't answer the question, William...
Loud: You have nothing to gain by asking us, Slim!!
Gene: That will be for me to decide!
Charity: No....no, this isn't happening, he can't do this...
Gene: I see the strong little girl that killed me is now a whining little worrywart all over again, just from one innocent question.
Loud: I'm taking her away from you so you can't say that again....
Gene:{Pause}If nothing ever really happened between you two, you would have answered me. You're only proving that you're lying.
Loud: Believe whatever you want...{He starts to lead Charity away}
Gene: So since I now know you cheated on "Melissa", I can feel free to tell her!
Charity: What? No!
Gene: At least if you tell me now, I might keep it quiet, and I won't have to make up any juicy details! But if you really want me to embellish the story, I'll just have to live with it!
{Loud and Charity now stop, and start heading for the cell again}
Loud: How do I really know....you won't find a way to tell her anyway?
Gene: You know for a fact I'll tell her if you don't say anything. This way, you have a better chance.
Charity:{Pause}I will not be responsible for breaking them up...
Gene: Then let's hear how you put them in danger to start with.
{Loud and Charity slowly sit back down, then we start to fade back to see Loud and Charity drinking together the day before Loud's wedding day, then we see them kissing, and see them waking up in bed the next morning. They looked at each with a dreamily look in their eyes. Suddenly, they came to their senses and jumps out of their bed screaming.)
Loud: OH NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
Charity: What have you done?! What have I done?!
Loud: Did...did we just sleep together?!
Charity: I'm afraid so.
(Loud and Charity stares at each other, not sure what to say or do.)
Loud:{Jumping up}OH NO, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!! IT'S MY WEDDING DAY AND I-
Charity:{Covers Loud's mouth}Quiet, you want the whole hotel to hear you?
Loud:{Muffled}What do I care what they think right now, I know I'm a traitor!{Charity takes her hand off of Loud}
Charity: You are? But whatever happened only happened because we were drunk, people will understand.
Loud: Melissa won't, she's mad enough at me as it is. Now once this gets out, it'll be the last excuse she needs to dump my sorry butt!{Slaps his forehead}GOD, HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID?!!
{He gets up and paces around the room to rant some more}
Loud: After everything I went through to be with her and love her, after all the heartache I caused you, and after all our plans to have the perfect wedding....it's all gonna end just like that. All because I needed to have a drink and because I came here for some reason I can't even remember!! I'm gonna lose the second love of my life because of that, and then I won't have any of my loves anymore!{Bangs his head on the wall}How could I be so stupid?
Charity:{V.O as she looks at Loud}Wow. He really is spazzing out. But he really is gonna lose Miss Info once this comes out. And then....and then he'll be single. And then people will think we're back together, then we may have to spend more time together to shut them up....then we may really get back together. Oh my God, this could be the reunion I've dreamed about for 4 years, I could finally get Loud back! Just as we always should have been!
Loud:{Keeps repeating himself and sounds sadder and sadder}How could I be so stupid? How could I be so stupid? I lost my love forever now, how could I be so ***king stupid?
{Charity observes Loud looking so sad and down over the likely loss of his financee, and she keeps looking and looking at him until she herself starts to look down. She looks very conflicted for some time- until she frowns and puts her hand on Loud's shoulder}
Charity: No one has to know.
Loud:{Rubs the tears from his eyes}What?
Charity: No one knows about this but us, and no one is going to know. You're going to marry Miss Info today, not tell anyone anything about last night, and live a happely married life forever. And if you don't, it won't be because I said anything. I'll keep this a secret to my grave.
Loud: But...but....
Charity: I'm not yours to correct your buts anymore, I'm Melissa's. You're obviously never going to do anything to betray her again, drunk or not, and she would never do that either. So you two should be happy together, and letting this get out would ruin it. You don't wanna ruin it, do you?
Loud:{Recovering}No. I love her.
Charity: Then show her by getting in that church later today and marrying her, and never doing this stuff again.
Loud:{Getting up}But you-
Charity: Forget me, I'll be fine. I should recover enough to be at the wedding myself, and there won't be any problems between us because there's nothing to worry about....because we were never here. Okay?
Loud: Well...I lived with myself when I betrayed you.
Charity: So go do it again. Consider it my wedding present to you. Now go back home and get yourself ready.
Loud: Are you sure?
Charity: Now I am. Go.{Loud looks uneasily at Charity, and after a second she hugs him, then she hugs him back}
Loud:{Quietly}Thank you.
{Loud breaks off and slowly heads out of the room, then walks away while making sure no one saw him. Charity then closes the door}
Charity: You're welcome....sweet Loud.{Looks close to crying, but she holds it back}Well, he'll be happy soon, just like his wife should be by now.
(At the Watergate Hotel, Harry and Danny has arrived. Harry is at the desk waiting to check in as Danny looks around nervously.)
Danny: He has to be here around here. I just know it.
Harry: Hello, miss? I'd like to rent a room here for a few days.
Woman: That'll be a lot easier for you to do with a few Abe Lincolns, George Washingtons, and Ben Franklins.
Harry: You could have just said money, but I suppose that'd be less creative. Hold on, I have my wallet in one of these pockets.{Gets out a wallet and then promptly drops it}Oops, hold on a minute.
{Harry walks a step over to get the wallet, and winds up running into someone in the process who then falls down}
Harry: Oh, oh I'm terribly sorry, let me help you up.{He takes the man's hand and gets him back up: and it's then we see that the man is Shelton in his usual disguse}
Shelton: Thanks for at least getting me back up, Mr Norman.
Harry: Oh, you know who I am?
Shelton: Duh, of course I do, I even came to this hotel because I heard you were here! You know, you don't get enough credit for what you did all those years back, really, if it wasn't for you those guys would be dead long before that spider attacked here. I came here cause I want to learn from you and be like you and...
Harry:{Interrupts and speaks in a quiet tone}You're William Shelton, aren't you?
(Danny looks stunned as he sees the son he hasn't seen in quite a while. William glares at him with a frown.)
Shelton: Um, I don't know if that's a very nice way to talk to one of your fans.
Harry: Come on, you're on the news every day, your picture is shown ad naseum on TV and the newspapers, you think with it being shown so many times I couldn't see through that makeup? But that bald look is a nice touch though.
Shelton:{Quietly}Can we talk alone for a moment?
Danny: Not unless I come along!
Shelton: (dry) I do not want to speak with you.
Danny: William, this is ridiculous. You got the whole nation wanting to get you. At least for a second, talk with me.
Shelton: (pause) You know what, Dr. Norman? I think I will take him along as well.
(At a stairwell in the hotel, Danny, Harry, and Shelton are talking)
Harry: Well, now that we're here, what do you want to talk about?
Shelton: You must understand where I'm at. You wanted to help the world, and so do I.
Danny: Not by blowing up fellow colleagues!
Shelton: You aren't a scientist, dad, so butt out!
Danny: No! I told you what I got involved in. I think that was a mistake to even tell you.
Shelton: The mistake I have made was being your son! You never understood me and my love for robots! I shoulda killed you when I have the chance but for some strange reason, I decided not to.
Harry: Excuse me?
Danny: Oh, is that supposed to make me feel better? William, your mother died because of our strained father son relationship! She is obviously isn't happy because of what you're doing!
Shelton: You should talk. You once teamed up with Gene's memory and woulda got progress with that so-called robo spider of his!
Danny: Hey, I was doing what I thought was right for my family!
Harry: Excuse me?
Shelton: What?
Harry: You wanted to speak to me but you're turning this into a father son argument.
Shelton: He started it!
Danny: William, you're grown up. Don't act like a kid!
Shelton: (slaps Danny) Don't tell me what to do! I am doing what is right for the world and that is giving the robots their right to rule! It's those dumb bigots' fault they drove me to do this! It's stuff like that is what almost destroyed this country!
Danny: And it's what you...
Shelton: Enough of this! I shoulda just bought Dr. Norman along and keep you out!
Harry: If you came here wanting my help, then you're out of luck. I came to Washington to bring you down.
Shelton: Okay, then it was a mistake to bring smart as me into this, which is why I didn't called in Mr. Smartypants. Now that I think of it, I'm glad I needed only most of...
Danny: Most of what?
Shelton: Never mind! I shouldn't even have bought it up!
Harry: Ahem. I think it's time we get to the part where I take you down.
Shelton: And I'd get to the part when I do this!
{Shelton punches Harry and then tackles him to the ground. He then grabs him onto his feet and carries him to a nearby chair. He makes him sit down on it and then he holds down his wrists. Shelton then pushes the chair in front of the stairs with Harry still in it and throws them both down the stairs. We don't see the actual fall, but it sounds very bad.}
Danny: (shocked) William! What have you done?!
Shelton: (grabs Danny) Never mind that, dad. You wanted a father son relationship? You got it! Let me tell ya. Heads are going to rolled soon!
{Cut back to the cell as Loud and Charity have finished their story}
Gene: I knew it never went away...
Charity: And now you'll brag about it to yourself.
Loud:{Worn out from the story}What does it matter? Promises are no good to him...there's no force in the world that'll keep him from using this against us.
Gene: But you made me promise not to tell...
Loud: Oh, like you just now started to care about your promises!!
Gene: I might come to regret that decision if I don't hear a different tone.
Charity: His tone will be just fine, okay?
Gene:{Pause}I believe you. The deal was I hear your secrets, and I tell you what you need to catch Shelton. I'm in no position to back out it....heck, I'm stuck in here, so I can't see the carnage I would cause by telling the truth. What good does that do me, then?{Pause}I swear that what you have told me will never be discussed outside of this room.
Charity: You promise? A real promise, I mean?
Gene: Not one word leaves this room...
Loud:{Pause}I need something of more good faith. If I'm going to believe you...you need to forfill your end of the deal. Start telling us stuff about Shelton, and then I'll be easier about this.
Gene: I do have something useful...have you considered his father?
Charity: His father? Is he working with him?
Gene: No, and you should know that since you already met him. Remember a mad little man named Daniel who magically reformed before you could pummel him?
Loud: You mean Danny Shelton is....aw, some investigator I am!!
Gene: Trust me, he still wants nothing to do with William's crusade, he's one of the good ones. But William won't make the distinction. He'll find his father and force him to see the fruits of the madness he inherited. Find the father, you get closer to finding his little boy.
Charity: Where can we find him?
Gene: The destruction of William's old club will draw him out of hiding. If he really is one of the good ones still, he'll come to you.
Loud: That's it?
Gene: Oh, one more thing....have you talked to Harry in the last few days?
Loud: Harry?!
{Just then, Drawford is seen rushing into the hall}
Drawford: They're done with you for today! There's a situation they need to see right now...
Charity: Situation about Shelton, our personal lives, or what else?
Gene: Anything you have to say to them, you can say in front of me. That's a last minute part of the deal I just added.
Drawford:{Sighs}Harry Norman was found unconsicious in a stairwell. He's in the hospital now....he's in bad shape.
Loud: WHAT?!! THAT CAN'T BE!!{Pause, then looks over at Gene}Or can it...it was Shelton, wasn't it?!
Charity: You...you knew Shelton was going to attack him?!
Gene: No. But I suspected he would. I knew you'd tell him about me, he'd come rushing down here to help, and eventually Shelton would get him. He probably tried to recruit him to the cause first...so he overreacted when he said no.
Drawford: And there's another thing....I didn't want to mention it till you were done, but Gene mentioned him already. Our security tapes from that building spotted Danny Shelton with Harry before he disappeared. And we haven't been able to find him or get a hold of him since.
Loud:{To Gene}You did it again....you gave us leads only when you knew we couldn't do anything about it!!
Gene: Maybe if your story of forbidden love didn't go on so long, I could have found more time.
Drawford: Don't you use that excuse....this is what you wanted all along, isn't it? To get terrible secrets out of them just so they'd be too distracted to get Shelton!
Gene: I swore to them that nothing anyone said would leave this room. Although since you people are taping and monitoring our conversations, that's technically incorrect. I know for a fact they taped the one I had with his wife yesterday. Yet for all the temptation I had, I did not spill her secret! Doesn't that buy me enough trust?
Charity:{Pause}Her secret?
Loud: You're bluffing...she has no secrets.
Gene: Did she talk to you a lot after she talked to me. Did she?
Loud:{Pause}No....she never said a word.
Drawford: That's enough for you from today. We have to go and see Mr Norman, and find Shelton Sr.
Gene: Fine...just know this. You have me pegged for a liar who never tells the truth. Yet Loud and Charity are the liars for lying about their tryst every day until now. And Miss Information has a few lies of her own that she's told. Yet I'm the one who's been honest this entire time...imagine that. After all this time, I am the most honest one in this room.
Loud: I...I won't listen to this. You're making this up! She's not hiding anything from me!
Gene: Believe what you want...because I tell the truth now, I won't bother to tell you what she did. Only I know, only she knows, and only Mr Drawford knows too. But like I said...I will not say anything about it outside this room. If he cracks, or she cracks, or you find out about what she did on your own, then it is not my concern or my fault. Whatver happens to destroy your marriage, as this secret will do when it gets out...I am not the one responsible.{Pause}Now you may go.
Charity: Come...come on, we might as well go see Harry now.{Loud stays there}Loud?
Loud:{Snaps out of it}Huh? Um, right, right...
Drawford: Don't listen to him, Loud...he's making the whole thing up to distract you. Forget about everything he said and focus on this, because he is a liar and she doesn't have any secrets.{They walk off as Gene watches them go}
{Cut to later on, as Drawford is in his office and dialing the phone}
Miss Info:{V.O}Hello?
Drawford: It's me, Mr Drawford. I have some things to tell you...
Miss Info:{V.O}I just got off the phone with Charity, I know about Harry! I'm already on my way there!
Drawford: It's not just that...Gene didn't tell Loud your....secret from yesterday, but he....made it clear you have one. Loud doesn't know what you did, not one bit...but now he thinks you do have a secret after all. So if he...seems distant and suspicious of you, I wanted you to be prepared.
Miss Info:{Pause}But Gene....didn't tell him the truth?
Drawford: No. But I think he's counting on Loud to be suspicious enough that he'll get it out of you on your own. And if that happens...he'll never be able to focus enough to stop Shelton.
Miss Info: So...he didn't tell him, he's just pointing him in the right direction. Oh...that's too sneaky, even for him...
Drawford: He can't get away from it. I hate to put this on you, really I do...but you have got to make sure Loud doesn't find out what happened. His mental state depends on it, and so may a lot of other things. Even if he gets suspicious, do not confirm he has a reason to be. If you still want to tell him...tell him after we get Shelton, but not before. He cannot know before then.
Miss Info:{Pause}If that's what it takes....if what you say is true, our marriage will be shot eventually. If I just delay it being shot for a few more days...then it means he saves the country.{Pause}I guess I could live with that...{She hangs up}
Drawford:{Sighs}If only that was the only reason why it could die...
(We now cut to Danny Shelton's POV as he is waking up. He finds himself in a laboratory of some kind. He looks around wondering where he is.)
Shelton: (V.O.) Ah, you have awaken.
Danny: William???
(Shelton appears, looking rough up)
Shelton: I figure I mighta hurt you by now. But lucky for you, I managed to show that my progress has work. Gene did it to his brother, I may as well do it to you.
Danny: What do you...(looks at himself) OH MY G**!!! WILLIAM, WHAT DID YOU DO?!
(We now see what happened to Danny. He has now been turned into a half man, half robot, like what happened to Gene's brother Cy-Borg years ago in the regular timeline)
Shelton: Granted, I shoulda made you mindless, but I wanted to see if you can be forced instead of enslaved like those fools did to my poor friends the robots!
Danny: William, why did you do this?! What did you hope to accomplish?!
Shelton: Why?! Because I'm trying to prove a point. Mankind shouldn't have to do this to robots if they knew that some of them gets turned into. That is what I got planned when my new friends arrived.
Danny: You mentioned 'be forced'. What in blazes do you mean???
Shelton: Well, the idea was that you are to help me less you want me to send you loose on a populated area. Let's see how the humans treat you if you try to go for them for help.
Danny: Is that a threat?
Shelton: More like a promise. But help me and I won't let them do that. I am planning to do the same things to my new friends.
Danny: New friends? I supposed this has something to do with Loud and Charity, right?
Shelton: Yes and no.
Danny: Well, which is it?
Shelton: Trust me, I got something planned for not just Loud and Charity, but Miss Info as well. (sighs) Oh Charity. Why did I have to bring you into this? Whatever Gene is doing, he sure kept it well.
Danny: Wait, what?
Shelton: What what?
Danny: You said Gene. You can possibily mean Gene Burrows!
Shelton: Maybe. Are you willing to cooperate?
Danny: No! Look, I'm sorry for not understanding...
Shelton: It's too late for apologizes now, dad. And don't think you should escape.
Danny: You mean try to escape?
Shelton: No, I mean should. You can escape, I won't stop you but no one can help you, especially what you looked like now. There is too much anti-robotic out there now.
Danny: You are a monster! I am ashamed to even called you my son!
Shelton: Maybe it was a mistake to give you free will. Well, next time when my new friends arrived, they will be like what robots should be, except in my POV.
Danny: William...
Shelton: Enough of this, Daniel! From now on, you aren't my dad, but someone I was related to by accident! You are now one of us...brother.
(Danny looks concerned. Inside of Drawford's office, Scott looks concerned)
Drawford: Gene will most likely forced Loud, Charity, and Miss Info to give up their secrets by now. I just know it. And now it seems that Danny, my former boss, may be in trouble.
FBI agent 1: So what do you intend to do?
Drawford: Throw a monkey wrench in the works somehow. Someway to either distract Gene or disturb him. (pause) And I think I know how though I am not sure if it's a good idea.
FBI agent 2: What is, sir?
Drawford: (sighs) You remember our prisoner in cell #419?
FBI agent 1: The same one we aren't supposed to enter? Yes we do, why?
Drawford: I think it's time Gene gets himself an extra cellmate. Transfer him right now.
FBI agent 2: You sure it's a good idea? Who knows what happened if you bring Gene together with him?
{Cut to a hospital, as Loud and Charity walk inside}
Charity: She's already there?
Loud: That's what she said when she called me a minute ago.
Charity:{Pause}Are we going to question her?
Loud: Absolutly not.{Pause}Not here....not with Harry in such bad shape.
Charity: And after that?
Loud: I don't want to know yet.{They head up the stairs together}What if Gene told her the same thing about us? What if he hinted at our "secret" too, and she just doesn't want to confirm it either?
Charity: Well, we certainly can't bring it up with her, and she probably doesn't wanna bring her suspicions up with us.
Loud: So we just dance around the truth for as long as we can until it comes out?
Charity: At least until you get Shelton, I suppose...
Loud: This is my marriage, if something's wrong with it then who cares about Shelton?!
Charity: That's probably just what he thought you'd say.
Loud:{Pause}Let's just....see what condition Harry's in right now, okay?
{Charity nods and they go into a hallway. Cut to a room where Harry is lying on a bed, with a cast on his left arm and right leg, and there is also a neck brace on him. His eyes are slightly open as Miss Info stands over him}
Miss Info: I feel so guilty right now...
Harry:{Weakly}You...couldn't have stopped it...
Miss Info: Not that....here you are, hurt so badly...and all I can think about is how I'm gonna face Loud when he gets here.
Harry: Why?
Miss Info:{Sighs}I can't bother you with something like that...you're injured and lucky to be alive. The last thing you should think about is my troubles, that I really really deserve.
Harry: I...got injured in the first place....because I'm close to you people. When I helped stop the marathon....and stopped the spider...your concerns became my concerns, forever.
{Before any answer comes, Loud and Charity enter}
Loud: You're alive....
Harry: He didn't push that hard...
Charity:{Kneels down beside him}I heard he just shoved you from a chair....how badly does it still hurt?
Harry: The cast helps me feel a little less....it's still there, though.
Loud: The FBI's probably gonna wanna ask you questions about how you saw him, and what happened to Danny Shelton.
Harry: I....I heard them afterwards. He told his father...heads would roll...then I heard him take him away before I went to sleep.
Charity: So he does have him prisoner. Is that gonna throw a wrench in his plans? Do you think Shelton told Gene he wanted to take his father?
Loud: I guess...we go back tomorrow and ask him.
Miss Info:{Tenatively}Did he...tell you guys this would happen before it did?
Loud:{Uneasy}Yeah....he said he only suspected it, though.
Miss Info:{Pause}I've already had my time with Harry, I'll let you guys be alone with him.
Harry: No, it's okay, I still want you here...
Miss Info: I'll be back soon enough, I just gotta...rest and take this all in for a few minutes. You guys go on and talk...{She leaves the room}
Charity: What was that about?
Harry:{Covering for her}I....don't think it's important right now.
Loud: It's Gene....he already gave her hints, I know it. She either suspects us of our lie, or knows we're on to hers...
Harry: Gene....somehow...I don't think any of you want to talk about him at the moment...
Charity: Pretty smart, even in that condition.
Loud: All I can say is....he could be on the verge of winning again.
Harry: If he's winning....then Shelton will win too, and destroy everything.{Pause}I have the feeling...he's winning because...he guessed that all three of you are hiding damaging secrets. I know....for a fact...Gene's making her confront one. She didn't have to tell me all the details...but I know.
Charity: If you could tell....then Gene was right. She is hiding something....
Loud: And so are we...oh, should we just tell her our lie first, wait for her to confess her lie, wait for her to want to know our lie, or demand she tell us her lie, or what?!{He kicks a wall and then sits down sadly as Harry watches him, then watches Miss Info standing quietly to herself from outside the front door}
Harry:{Quiet}What have you done this time, my former friend?
{Cut to the prison hallway, as Gene is sitting in his cell and reading a book. Just then, he hears something from outside and gets up to the glass- there, he hears even more noises from approaching guards}
Guard: Hey robot guy. You got yourself a cell mate.
Gene: So soon? I didn't expect...
Guard: Huh? Didn't expect what?
Gene: Nothing. Who is it?
Guard: Scott thought you might be lonely when your usual victims ain't visiting ya and all that, so he thought you could use the company. He should be here...right now.
(The door opens as someone, not Loud, gets pushed inside, then the door closes just as it opens. As the guards leave, Gene looks to see who it is. He frowns)
Gene: Oh, you got to be kidding me.
Voice: Hello, who are you?
(We now see who it is: it's Slim Berry, Gene's real name and his memory from the 24 1/2 series. He is the still way he was when he was locked up in "Another 24 1/2 Hours". He is still voiced by Jim Carrey, BTW.)
Gene: (sighs irritably) I supposed this is Drawford's attempt to distract me? Giving me a cell mate who is someone I try to get rid of?
Slim: Oh. Now I know who you are. You're me.
Gene: Except I'm not you. Anymore anyway. You're the comedy side I got rid of through an experiment. You are a pest that is a somewhat a prototype of those I hated.
Slim: Let me guess, me. That's supposed to make me feel better?
Gene: Don't try to amuse me.
Slim: Who said I was? You forget that I was you.
Gene: The right word is was! You are nothing more than a memory, something that shoulda even existed!
Slim: Like a Nobody, eh? Looks like fate has interfered and pit us together. Awkward, huh?
Gene: More like annoying. Am I really this pathetic years ago?
Slim: Maybe. I wonder what our parents woulda said.
Gene: (angrily) What do you mean 'our' parents?
Slim: Well, since I am your memory and all, that's practically makes us brothers.
Gene: No it isn't. I don't need anyone like you getting in the way of my plans. And you have no right bringing my parents up years after their death!
Slim: Your plans with Loud, Charity, and Miss Info? Yeah, I heard one of the guards mentioning it on the way over. Tell me, what do you got in store?
Gene: Nothing I want to say in front of you.
Slim: I know how you feel. You're upset. Here I am, someone who came to life right after mom and dad's accident. You blame our family doctor even though he try his best to help.
Gene: Is 'that' supposed to make me feel better?
Slim: Quite. You know what happened when I was created?
Gene: Don't bother. You were lost for a few days, got adopted, then years later decided to make yourself known to Loud and his friends, got Louis B. Richardson of a gun...
Slim: Watch it. R6 owns the name calling.
Gene: Whoever it is does not concern me. As I was saying, you got this guy to killed your adopted parents, try to killed the Histerian 2 times and got locked up. Have I known you were here...
Slim: Look, let's cut the straight talk. I am you, you are me. Let's team up and deal with Loud and Charity our own way.
Gene: You are out of the loop, are you? Loud and Charity are no longer together. Loud is with Miss Info.
Slim: Oh yeah. His other girlfriend. What are your plans, Mr. Burrows? Heh. Noticed I didn't called you doctor because you got fired and all?
Gene: (dry) Don't remind me. Look, my enemies will soon make the biggest move I am expecting them to do. When they do, I want to see them sweat.
Slim: Mind if I watch with you?
Gene: As long as you shut up and let me do all the talking.
Slim: Well if you aren't going to killed Charity since she...
Gene: I know what you're doing to say and the answer's no. I have another plan for Ms. Bazaar but William Shelton will do all the work.
Slim: Shelton? Now why does that last name ring a bell?
Gene: Obviously because William is Danny's, your last partner, son.
Slim: Oh yes. My traitor. We will make quite a team.
Gene: (annoyed) Please stop that. Now I know why I hated Loud and Miss Info so much in the first place besides the yelling and such. You reminded me of them.
Slim: Thanks a lot.
(Back at the house, the Kiddingtons and Charity came in uneasily. Young Charity was playing in the living room as they came in.)
Loud:{Sits down on a chair}Let's review before we start off....Gene hinted to us that Melissa had a secret that could destroy our marriage. Obviously, Gene hinted the same thing to you regarding me and Charity.
Miss Info:{Pause}Wait, he did? I don't remember that...
Charity: Wait....he didn't tell you we had a secret?
Loud: Then that means...you've been quite all day and last night because of your own secret, not ours!{Pause}Aghh, he did it to us again! He tricked us into revealing we had a secret to begin with!!
Miss Info: Great, first I have to tell him what I did before my wedding, and now he got something awful outta you guys too?!
Loud:{Longer pause}Before...our wedding? All we did was have a fight before then, we didn't even talk again until the next day!
Charity: So that means...you did something in between that time period, and that's what the big secret is!
Loud: I...I always thought it was suspicious that you changed your mind about my job right away that day. Is what happened the reason why you changed your mind? Then why would it be such a horrible secret?!
Miss Info: Because I did naughty things with Smartypants, okay?!
Charity: ......say that again, please?
Miss Info: I saw Smarty after our fight....we got to talking...we drank too much...and we woke up in bed together. We cheated big time on Loud....so big I can't even remember the details of our "cheating"...but it happened, that's for sure.
Charity: Are you seriously telling us you cheated on him the night before the wedding? That exact same night, on that exact same time?!{Miss Info just nods}I...I am at a loss for words...
Miss Info: Because I broke up you two being together only to betray him after I yelled at him?
Charity: Probably that too....but if it really happened on that exact same night...then maybe that cancels out our secret!
Miss Info: What does that mean?
Loud:{Finally speaking}I want to call Smartypants. Did he change his number since the last time I saw him?
Miss Info: I, I don't know, I've barely spoken to him, or done anything else with him, since that day...but why are you asking about that? Aren't you gonna yell at me first?
Loud: I need to hear it from him....if he took advantage of you to have one last fling, even though he's the one that dumped you, then I need to know. I'll get it outta him somehow...where's the number?!
Miss Info: In...in the phone book, same as before.{Loud goes over to a drawer, gets a book out, and looks through it}
Loud: There we go...I'm gonna put this on speaker so he knows this is for real.{He goes to a phone and starts dialing}
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}Hello?
Loud: It's me, Smartypants.
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}Loud? Wow, it's been a while...I heard what happened in D.C. I would have come down myself, but they're advising scientists not to come there after the bombing-
Loud: You're lucky that that's the case....I know everything now.
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}I'm usually someone that knows everything...but I don't know what you're getting at here.
Loud: You slept with Miss Information one last time before I married her...you left her behind to save your reputation, and yet you still wanted her as a last goodbye. You two got drunk the night before the wedding, and you went all the way, I KNOW ALL THE DETAILS NOW!!
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}Are you....on something right now? Me and her...we've never gotten close to being that close again since the breakup!
Miss Info: You don't have to deny it anymore...I know you never ever talked about what happened since then, even in our private talks together. I know you didn't wanna bring it up outta guilt, but it's no use now.
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}Melissa? You...you believe this too?
Loud: Yes, her too...I don't know if she made you do it because she was angry at me, or you manipulated her...but I WANT THE ANSWER, NOW!!!
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}You actually think I was...with her the night before the wedding?! I did nothing of the sort!
Loud: SHE TOLD YOU TO STOP LYING!!
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}I couldn't have done it!! I was with Harry the entire night!
Loud: DON'T YOU BRING HIM INTO THIS, THE MAN IS BARELY ALIVE AND YOU'RE DAMAGING HIS GOOD NAME?!!
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}It's true! We talked about you guys wedding and about our future inventions the entire night! He came over to my lab at 6 PM and he stayed there until about midnight, so how could I do that and be with her at the same time?! Not even I have the smarts to be in two places at once! Which means I was never near her that night, nonetheless....that near her!
Miss Info:{Pause}Harry can vouch for this? But it's impossible...
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}If I did what you said I did, you know Harry would never lie to cover something like that up...although there's nothing to cover up.
Miss Info: But you were there....before I even had a drink, I saw you there, we talked long before I got tipsy! I did not imagine you there, I saw you, pants and all! You were right there, and I saw you sleeping next to me that morning! How could I have made that up?!
{By then, Charity has already gotten out a cell phone and dialed it}
Charity: We can at least test the Harry theory in the meantime...please, if Harry Norman is awake, get me through to his room right now!
{She waits, then we hear Harry's voiceover}
Harry:{V.O}Hello, who is this?
Charity: Harry....what did you do the night before Loud and Miss Info's wedding?
Harry:{V.O, pause}I expected people to ask me questions here...but not that one. What does that have to do with Shelton or Gene or anything else?
Charity: A marriage might be at stake depending on your answer! What did you do that night, and with whom?
Harry:{V.O}I just talked with Mr Smartypants all night about you guys, and about our upcoming inventions. Heh...my head really shouldn't have been healthy enough to remember that.{Charity hangs up}
Charity: It's true, then....Harry would not lie like that.
Miss Info: But he was right there...
Loud: Shouldn't you be happy we proved you wrong?
Miss Info: I'm more confused! If I didn't do anything with Smartypants that night, then who did I drink with and probably get "involved" with?!
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}It must have been an impersinator of me....but I'm just a supporting player in this group, I'm not famous enough for people to act like me. Either it was a very devoted fan....or someone worse.{Pause}What if it was one of our old enemies out to ruin the wedding by doing things with you?
Miss Info: None of our enemies are that sick, or that devoted enough, to do something like that!
Loud:{Pause}Or are they....are.....but if....they could have....{Pause}How could I have been so stupid....
Charity: How could you think you're stupid?
Loud: If Gene was alive to see our wedding....then why wouldn't he do everything in his power to stop it?! If he was alive back then, us being together would make him mad beyond reason!! He hates us both enough to be that way!! So if he saw it happen, then why didn't he just attack us right then and there and kill us before we got married?! Why not come out of hiding for that, of all things?! UNLESS HE SET EVERYTHING UP FROM THE BEGINNING!!
Miss Info: Are you saying....that it was him I was with?!!
Loud: I doubt he would go that far....but if he had someone or something else do it....and even found a way to set up me and Charity's....secret on that same night....then it's high time we found out.{To the phone}Mr Smartypants....please let me apologize to you in full later, but I need to use this phone now.
Mr Smartypants:{V.O}Thank you?{Loud picks up the phone}
Charity: What do you need it for?
Loud: I want Drawford to know we're all coming down there for a late night visit....
(What Loud, Charity, and Miss Info did not know is that listening outside from his car is an old fiend of theirs. William is using one of the devices Gene used in "Loud's True Love" to listen in. He looks concerned. Danny is in the back seat.)
Shelton: They knew. So much for the idea of getting them upset to help make it looked like Loud killed his wife later on.
Danny: The plan was doomed to failure to begin with. I think you could end things now if you just give yourself up.
Shelton: They will have me executed if I do that! I must step things up! I know Loud and Miss Info has a child. I could use that to my advantage.
Danny: What's this?
Shelton: Never you mind that, dad. Gene must know of this. And while Loud and his loves go to the FBI building, I want you there to seize someone for me.
Danny: Me???
Shelton: Do you want to ask for help, Mr. I Am A Robot now?
(Danny said nothing as he hungs his head down. Shelton takes out a remote and clicks a button. Back in Gene's prison cell, Gene looks up as he hears a beeping. He removes what looks like a I-Pod thingie and looks at the message in it. He frowns.)
Gene: They know. We must step things up.
Slim: And how do you intend to do this?
Gene: I didn't think of a Plan B earlier. But thanks to you, I think I got myself one.
Slim: What? (notices Gene coming to him) Uh, other me? What are you doing?
(Gene's compartments opened revealing some surgery devices and a needle)
Gene: Trust me. You won't feel a thing. I know I didn't.
Slim: Wait, wait. Stop! Don't!!!!!!
(Gene covers Slim's mouth muffling his screams. We fade to black before we could see what Gene does to himself (you know what I mean))
{Fade to some time later, as we go back to looking at the hallway. In the cell, we see Gene standing inside, perfectly still. Just then, we hear a door open and we see Loud, Charity, and Miss Info storm towards the cell}
Loud: YOU SET HER UP TO THINK SHE CHEATED, DIDN'T YOU?! YOU PLANNED IT THIS WHOLE TIME!!
Gene: Loud?
Loud: OH, GOING THE SHOCKED ROUTE NOW, EH?! YOU CAN GIVE IT UP NOW, YOU!! WE KNOW EVERYTHING NOW!!
Gene: What do you think you know?
Charity: You sent someone to pose as Smartypants and make Miss Info think he slept with her! You did it to ruin the wedding, and you failed!
Loud: But you figured you could wait a few years, and break us up another way....did you send Shelton to do it?
Gene: Shelton? To sleep with her?
Miss Info: He is your puppet, isn't he? This whole thing....this whole operation has been your idea from the start, right? Shelton's not planning to destroy the country, you are, aren't you?! You made him turn on humans and take the credit, but it's really you who's gonna take over humanity! You've made him do everything from the start, I'll bet! He's not the major guy trying to take over, you are!
Loud: And you set things up so that if we ever came close....you had leverage on us. You were gonna make her think she cheated on me, and make me and Charity think we made a mistake, then use it all these years later to stop us! You probably set up our own mistake somehow too, didn't you?! It wasn't our fault, was it? We were manipulated somehow to be there together and you wanted us to fall into your trap, right? RIGHT?!!
Miss Info:{Pause}Wait, in all this excitement, I never even got to ask what your mistake was...
{Just then, we hear Gene start to laugh}
Loud: What's so funny?!
Gene: Oh man, man, man...what good stuff have I missed?
Charity: Missed? You knew this stuff all along, and you haven't missed us for that long.
{At that very moment, something falls on top of Charity from the cealing and grabs her....something that's-}
Loud: G....GENE?!!
{A second Gene Burrows robot is now seen grabbing Charity, and aiming a laser at the cell}
Gene: Stand back Slim...your job is done.
Gene 2: Wow, how nice of you to say that after you turn me into a robot and make me sound like you, you really are a cool me now!
Charity: What....
{The Gene with Charity shoots at the cell and blows it open, leaving a hole in the wall. Before Loud can get them, Gene runs through the hole and leaves with Charity}
Miss Info: What was that?!
Loud: CHARITY!! GENE....IF THAT'S GENE?!!
{FBI men then come into the hall and rush towards the cell, led by Drawford}
Drawford: Secure...that other Gene and go find the other one!
Miss Info: Mr Drawford, who is that other Gene?!
Drawford:{Pause}Slim Berry? What...what happened to you?
Loud: SLIM?!
Gene 2: Gee, way to not see through some kinda camera that he turned me into a robot, broke out of the cell and put it back together before they got here!
Drawford: I...I was so busy after they called me and said they wanted to see Gene...I just forgot to tell them I put Slim there to throw him off,,, and we didn't pay attention.
Loud: And now Gene's out and has Charity because of it?!
Drawford:{To the robot who we now know as Slim}You're telling us everything he told you....if he told you where he's going, what he's doing, and what he's planning, you tell us now. No deals, no games, no tricks, tell us now!!
Slim: Wow, I get my humanity destroyed and I'm the bad guy who gets yelled at.
Loud: You lost that years ago, don't worry. NOW WHERE IS HE TAKING HER?!!
{Cut to outside of the FBI headquarters, as Gene is finishing injecting Charity with a needle. Once she falls asleep, he puts her down and gets the remote out. He dials a couple of buttons on it}
Gene: William?
Shelton:{V.O}What are you doing on this frequency? You told me we couldn't actually talk like this while you were inside?
Gene: And that means I'm out, doesn't it? Our enemies forced my hand...
Shelton:{V.O}And this helps?! They'll know you'll go to wherever I am, and everything will be ruined! Nothing can make that better!
Gene: I have your future queen.
Shelton:{V.O}She's there? With you?
Gene: I needed a hostage, and you wanted her to arrive anyway....now we all have what we want.
Shelton:{V.O}Then it's really happening....but you wait a while to get here first. You're gonna have to lose the FBI's tail, and I need to get ready for when she arrives! Plus we haven't gotten our extra hostage yet.
Gene: We?
Shelton:{V.O}I'll let you know in greater detail when it's done. Just make sure she doesn't get caught, then you can get here.
{We cut to Shelton hanging up on Gene from his van, then we see him looking outside to Loud and Miss Info's house}
Shelton: Come on Danny....get here with their daughter soon. I have final preperations to make now...
Drawford: Look, Slim. We want a straight answer and we want it now. What is Gene up to and where is he?
Slim: Do I looked like I know what I am doing?
Miss Info: Yes. No. Maybe.
Slim: Well, I don't know what my older self is doing. It was Mr. Drawford's idea to keep him company.
Drawford: But didn't you learn anything from him?
Slim: Only that he has a plan B in store which involves Ms. Bazaar being the queen of some sort.
Loud: Wait. Charity, a queen?
Slim: According to Gene anyway. (pause) Eh. You want to know something else?
Miss Info: If it involves preventing Loud from going crazy later on, sure.
Slim: Shelton got himself a secret. I overheard Gene mentioning it before he begin his escape.
Loud: How did you get him to tell ya?
Slim: I don't know. Again do I look like I know what I'm doing?
Drawford: Just give us a straight answer!
Slim: Okay, fine. Know how Loud and Miss Info's affair got exposed in the first place?
Loud: Because someone Charity kissed back years ago told her and show photos?
Slim: And do you know whom it is?
Loud: Someone named Jeremy.
Slim: Well?
Miss Info: Well, what?
Slim: Come on! I figure you of all people woulda figure it out! I've mentioned Shelton! The least you can do is figure out the rest.
(Loud pauses about it, then looks shocked)
Loud: Are you trying to tell me...that Shelton...was Jeremy?
Slim: Congratulations! He can be taught! Man, Gene woulda killed me if he was here. Then again, a monkey wrench got thrown into his plans ever since Mr. Kiddington and Miss Info got together in the first place, but hey, we can't all be winners?
Miss Info: (mad) Let me guess. Shelton disguised himself as Smartypants as well???
Slim: Wow. And I didn't even give you a hint. Good job.
Loud: I knew it. That guy is creepy than usual. I supposed he was at the same hotel Charity and I were at.
Slim: No, just me.
Drawford: You? You were locked all the whole time.
Slim: Not me! The other me!
Drawford: Oh right. Gene. Man, was I stupid.
Slim: (sarcastic) Are you? (normal) Well, if you could put two and two together, you are on step closer.
Loud: But we don't know where in blazes Gene took Charity and why Shelton wants Charity to be his queen!
Slim: Oh come on! I figured you all got it by now! Shelton has the hots for Charity!
Loud and Miss Info: SAY WHAT?!
Slim: Wow. Since when did Miss Info yelled like that?
Miss Info: JUST NOW! NOW TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE GOT THE HOTS FOR HER?!
Slim: I mean he fell in love with her. What? You need a picture? Sure, she seems young for her, but you two proven that is not the case here.
Drawford: I think Charity was born years before Shelton. But now is not the case. Now we know Shelton loves Charity. What does he want her to be the queen of?
{Cut to a bedroom somewhere, as we see Danny Shelton lying down a still sleeping young Charity on a bed. We then see Shelton tiptoe inside}
Shelton: Can we count on her to be asleep for a while longer?
Danny:{Sarcastic}How am I supposed to know, didn't you think of everything?
Shelton:{Leading his father out}I did....and now it's finally about to pay off.{He locks the door behind him once they're out of the room}Now, as much as I want you to meet your future in law, I'm still not out of the woods with your loyalty. So you should nap for a while and not go anywhere but here.
Danny: You've gotta be-{Shelton turns some knobs on Danny, and he shuts down}
Shelton: Be back in a bit, Daniel.
{Shelton then hears the front door open, and goes over to see Gene carrying the older Charity}
Gene: Where do you want her?
Shelton: Other than everywhere....put her on that chair.
{Gene carries Charity over to a chair, then rope comes out of it and ties her down to said chair}
Gene: So what happens now, then?
Shelton: We convert her, and then we finish humanity's dictatorship on the world forever.
Gene:{Pause}Are you really sure you want her to stay alive for that?
Shelton: We are not going through this again...
Gene: Even if you tell her you two met and were together before, she will not concent to being a robot queen. And if something goes wrong, trust me, she will be a formiable fighting foe! The risk is too great to this entire operation.
Shelton: What do you care? You got what you wanted, the chance to break up your enemies relationships. And it seems you even failed at that.
Gene: So far....just so far.
Shelton: Then I figure if you want another chance at that, you should be glad she's still alive so you can finish whatever else you want to do! But it's not my concern anymore...as long as you don't tell on me or do anything to ruin this, I don't care what you want to do. Your official role in my plan is finished.
Gene: Do not assume something is true when it is clearly not....
Shelton: You just go prepare the technology needed to complete the final experiments, okay? I need some time alone....
Gene: You're lucky there's no way I want to see you get close to....that....
{Gene heads off as Shelton kneels down next to Charity}
Shelton: If only you could read my mind and see all the thoughts I've had that revolve around you....well, not all of them, I guess, at least the clean ones. Anyway...{Leans in closer}first, I get this long awaited desire out of the way...
{Shelton closes in and kisses her on her still unmoving lips. When he's done, it's then that she starts to stir and wake up}
Shelton: Like magic....our magic.
Charity:{Quietly}Wha....Gene, is that you? Where...{Opens her eyes}
Shelton: Good evening, dearest.
Charity:{Pause}You....
Shelton: Yes, it's me indeed!
Charity: Shelton....so now we finally meet.
Shelton:{Pause}You could say that to start off.
Charity: Where's Gene? Did he do anything to me while I was out?
Shelton: Forget Gene, let's talk about us for a while.
Charity: You sound like a pervert....maybe that means you were the one that set Miss Info up with a fake Smartypants! You did that to her, didn't you?!
Shelton: I made it look like it, but I never touched her that way, I swear! Those people who think she's hot enough to do that are morons! She has nothing on the better and more angelic blonde lady of Histeria...
Charity: Now you're losing me.
Shelton: No, never again...never, ever again.
Charity: So I'm your hostage? You're gonna use me to make sure Loud and Miss Info and the FBI don't attack you?
Shelton: Well, eventually...at least until you're not held against your will.
Charity: Why would I, because I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE!!
Shelton: Oh, the fiestyness is still there...we'll keep that trait afterwards, but maybe lessen it a little, just in case.
Charity: Stop trying to talk in circles like your robot buddy and tell me what you're gonna do! How are you gonna destroy our government, and what does it have to do with me?!
Shelton: We have plently of time for that. Let's just say for now....the person you love most other than Loud is here right now, and you'll be with that person forever in the greatest way imaginable.{Starts to walk away}And I'm not referring to the little one I have in another room.
Charity: The what?
Shelton: Once you get that, you'll get what I mean with the first part. But I have to go make sure our transformation will be ready when the time comes. We'll talk some more in a bit, I promise.{Holds her face}You're not the only one who will miss that skin of yours....but the world depends on us holding that back, so...{He goes away slowly}
Charity:{Pause}What?! And I thought Gene was cryptic!{Long pause}Wait....the part about the little one isn't that hard to understand after all...more than I can say for that first thing.
Drawford: Well, so much for that idea. Slim doesn't seem to know where Gene and Charity are at.
Loud: What could be worst?
FBI agent: (coming in) Oh hey Kiddington! We got some missing person reports recently. They are of your friends from Histeria. They haven't been seen for a while now. I think Shelton got them. (pause) Okay, that's all. (left)
Miss Info: Why do you say that, sweetie?
Drawford: This is getting worst for the second. Well, at least the good part is that I am not drugged to be someone's slave or anything.
Loud: Why would Shelton kidnapped Froggo, Aka, and the others? They have nothing to do with this!
Drawford: Shelton has been unpredictable, even as a child. Even Danny couldn't understand him at times.
Miss Info: We got to do something. And soon! Oh, Loud. I don't like this.
Loud: (hugging Miss Info) There, there, Melissa. Everything will be all right.
(Back at Shelton's lab, Charity is in a cage. Shelton and Gene are there.)
Charity: Look, you got me, Shelton. At least tell me what you are planning with me and Loud's kid?
Gene: Ironic. In some other universe, that woulda been your kid. Shame we have to bring her into this as well.
Shelton: We plan to use her as a bargaining chip. As for you...you will become someone very important to me.
Charity: What do you mean?
Gene: Do you want me to tell her William, or should I?
Shelton: No, I will. (to Charity) Remember these?
(Shelton throws down a very familiar disguise to Charity.)
Charity: Wait, that looks like the same clothes Jeremy wore when I first met him...there's his hair and things and...
Shelton: (sighs) Charity, I never forget how that kiss of yours landed me in the hospital.
(Charity looks shocked. She remembers Jeremy's voice and compares it to Shelton. She finally put two and two together, much to her disbelief)
Charity: You...you're Jeremy!
Shelton: Correct. I woulda told you before but plans come first. Your kiss really did hurt me, but that's the power of love I supposed.
Charity: I knew it. You found out about Loud and Miss Info's affair and expoded them, knowing it would results in me breaking up with him! You wanted us to be enemies, do you?
Gene: That was my plan, but I didn't expect you both to make up. Oh well.
Shelton: Charity, you must understand me. Ever since that day, I couldn't forget that kiss. I couldn't forget how beautiful you are ever since Gene show me your picture on the computer the other day. I wanted to be with you but felt like it would be impossible...until now.
Charity: Wait...are you telling me...
(Shelton sighs as he leans to Charity in the cage and kissed her. Charity looks shocked but did not refuse it. Shelton pulls back reluctantly)
Shelton: I love you, Charity.
Charity: You do?
Gene: He loves you more than anything. Yada, yada, yada. Geez, how many times I have to go through this?
Shelton: I didn't want you involved in our plan but now that you're here, I'm glad. I am two days from the greatest event ever and I want you by my side when it does. You are going to become my queen.
Charity: Shelton, I know you love me and all but being queen to your madness?
Shelton: Charity, you must understand. Have this some other universe, this wouldn't happened. I need you, Charity. I am desperate without you. Together, we can change the world for the better.
Charity: Even so, I am not sure how you can make me your queen.
Shelton: Oh, you will find out soon enough. I got some old friends you should meet. And I think you know them too.
Charity: What?
(Shelton goes to a door nearby and opens it. We don't know who it is at first but we hear several mechanical noise as some things came in.)
{Fade to later that night, as Loud and Miss Info are driving home}
Miss Info: Even though the FBI didn't see Gene do stuff to Slim....or catch him yet....I'm sure they will soon. At least before Charity turns robot too.
Loud: They set this up from the beginning....everything over the last several years...we're only together because Gene told Shelton to expose our affair. I might have still been with her if not for them...they wanted us to be together just so we'd be vulnerable for this.
Miss Info: They didn't want us to be together from the start...otherwise they wouldn't have set me up like they did that night. And....I guess they tried to set you up somehow too?
Loud: I....I guess so, though I haven't figured out how yet.{Pause}Maybe if we sleep for a while, we'll get good news when we wake up, or something.
{Cut to the two entering the house, then we hear the phone ring}
Loud: I don't know if we should pick up...let's listen to the message first so we know what we're in for.{The answering machine picks up after a while}
Gene:{V.O}I won't stay on long enough for a trace...just know we have your daughter too, and we have plans for her if you find us. Keep your nose outta things for a while longer, and maybe she goes back alive. Your call.{The message ends}
Miss Info: No, no, no, they didn't need to do that!!{She rushes upstairs}Charity?!{She goes into her bedroom to see no one is there}
Loud: They've got everything now....both Charity's, all the advantages, no clues left behind for us to trace...we got nothing.
Miss Info:{Coming back down}Don't say that....he always leaves at least one loose end for us to get.
Loud: He's 15 years older and has a robot brain now, he's probably calculated everything to stop that!{Sits down}Oh God, what if this is it...what if we finally failed?
Miss Info: We start thinking that, and we have failed....right?
Loud: It's all hiting home now....we could really lose everything and fail here. After all the times we beat something back, it's finally come back to us....no one can really succeed all these years without losing out one day, could they? I don't know if we can really beat that trend anymore. Charity....our daughter....this city....this whole country...facing two evil geniuses....it's all too much. Even one more thing added on to this is just way too much.
{Suddenly, the phone rings again, and this time Miss Info rushes to answer it and puts it on speaker mode}
Miss Info: Hello, who is this?!
Gene:{V.O}I'm glad you answered...one more thing I didn't get to. Loud slept with Charity before your wedding, and I had nothing to do with it. We tricked you, but they did it on their own. I wanted to make them confess themselves, but I assume it didn't work. If I don't see you alive again, I at least wanted to get that cleared up before then, in case he was too chicken to tell you....or if he was stupid enough to think he was set up too. Goodbye.
{We cut to Gene hanging up right away}
Gene: There....that should be enough for their little minds to finally snap.
(Back at the Kiddington household, Miss Info looks shocked as she looks at Loud)
Miss Info: Loud...
Loud: Melissa, I know this sounds shocking but Charity and I were drunk at the time! This is another of Gene's delaying tactics kinda like what he obviously did with you!
Miss Info: Well, maybe so, but although I was set up to think I have drunken sex, you and Charity did it without being manipulated! And you two actually did something!
Loud: Melissa, if you just calm down...
Miss Info: How in blazes can I?!
Loud: Right now, our daughter's safely as well as Charity's is in danger! We should save this argument for later when the day is saved!
Miss Info: Maybe we should now since we don't know they took the Charitys!
Loud: If only we have a clue...
Harry: (V.O.) I believe I can answer that.
(The two turned and is surprised to see Harry coming in. He is bandaged up and is using clutches, but otherwise he is fine.)
Loud: Harry? What are you doing here?
Harry: I got out of the hospital. I may still be bandaged and such by I'm okay. Listen, I overheard the whole thing and I know of a way we can find Gene and Shelton.
Miss Info: How?
Harry: Before my attack by Shelton at the Watergate Hotel, I expected he would get to his dad sooner or later. So I placed a special tracer on Danny that is barely visible. It is a special kind of function that functions despise what happened to the person in question.
Loud: Wouldn't Gene and Shelton find out about it?
Harry: That's the beauty part. Why do I called it 'barely visible'? Not even Gene or his new partner can see it. (pause) Listen, I know this is rough for ya but unless you refocus on your goals, Gene will get what he wanted.
Loud: (to Miss Info) I guess so.
Miss Info: (sighs) He's right, Loud.
Harry: (holding up a device) Good. Now that's settled, here's my device that will show the person's location. If we get going now, we could get to where Gene and Shelton is at before they try anything...and stop Gene for good.
Loud: (smirking) Kinda like the old days, huh Harry?
Harry: Yeah. Back when we were fighting Gene by ourselves at his house. Only this time I got a disadvantage.
Miss Info: You think you could take him?
Harry: Luckily, my package from home arrived when I got out of the hospital. It will give us the advantage we need.
Loud: Let's go. I'd called Scott and tell him where's at the moment we get there.
Harry: Ladies first.
Miss Info: (leaving) You are so kind. (glaring at Loud) Unlike some people I know.
(Loud sighs as they take their leave. Back at Shelton's lab, Charity Bazaar is in some kind of tube trapped. She watched as Shelton is about to pulled a switch.)
Charity: William, please! If you love me since you disguised yourself as Jeremy, you wouldn't do this!
Shelton: Charity...I have no choice. Please forgive me.
(Shelton pulled the switch as smoke fills the tube. Charity screams as something is happening.)
{Cut to young Charity starting to wake up in the room she was put in. We see Gene standing over her. Before she opens her eyes, he puts a hand on her mouth, and she is muffled when she starts to scream}
Gene: I do not want to know if you have the same....vocal skills as your father. So quiet down, and we can have a civilized meeting, are we clear?{Pause}Are we clear?!
{She finally nods, then Gene lets go of her mouth}
Charity K: You're a metal man...
Gene: I am much more than that.
Charity K: This isn't my house...
Gene: Very good...maybe what marginal smarts your parents have got passed down to you.
Charity K: Where's Mommy and Daddy?
Gene: I trust we'll see them soon enough.
Charity K: Did you take me away from my house?
Gene: That was another metal man. A rather useless one in the long run.
Charity K: So why did he take me here? Can't I just go home?
Gene: No. I came here to see you because you are the spawn of the people that have ruined countless lives. I came because I want you to know from me that your parents will die very soon. Because I want you to accept that you may very well be going with them....and if it comes, I will be the one that sends your whole family there. No one deserves that honor more than me...and when it comes, I want you to be prepared and know that nothing can stop it.
Charity K: You're not a good metal man...
Gene: I was....until the people that made you got to me. Now their reckoning will come at last...and you're going to see it happen. That's why you're here. Until then, you will stay here, or I can always send you away before they get here, just to throw them off guard. Goodbye until then.
{Gene goes out of the room and locks it before Charity K can rush out of it. We hear her banging on the door, but Gene ignores her and goes to the still shut off form of Danny}
Gene: All right...the next step is seeing if your son's little experiment worked. He is a genius, but has poor choice in women....fortunatly, he won't have to live with it for long.
{We pan to outside of the building, where we see Harry parking his car nearby, with Loud and Miss Info in the backseats}
Harry: There, we should be far away enough to avoid detection. Loud, after you call Scott with the location the tracker shows, we'll go in.
Miss Info: We're gonna go in before the FBI people get there?
Loud: If we're smart enough, we can go in and do enough damage to make the FBI people's jobs easier. We can disable them and them let them finish the job.
Miss Info:{Pause}If you really think that's the smart life choice to make, then.
Harry: All right then....we go in.
{Cut to inside as Shelton exits his room and goes to Gene}
Shelton: It....is accomplished.
Gene: You did it without any making out or anything?
Shelton: That will come later...and I have such reason to celebrate. My God, the vision of beauty she is now...
Gene: Stop talking along those lines or else.
Shelton: There is no more or elses! It's all done! I've gotten everything I wanted!{Goes to his father}I outdid you, Daniel! I did what you could not! I am, for all intensive purposes, officially the savior of the planet now! No thanks to your cowardice!
{He shoves Danny's body to the ground and laughs- and with that shove, the small tracker that Harry talked about falls from the inside of Danny's chest and onto the ground}
Gene: (picking up tracer) Hmmm...it looks like a tracer of some kind. It's still working.
Shelton: Dr. Norman...he musta have put it on my dad back at the hotel! He is resourceful than I thought!
Gene: I think we better crush this before our enemies find us.
Shelton: No. It's time I give my new friends a practice round. Whoever followed the tracer here, won't live to regret following it.
(A bit later, Loud, Miss Info, and some kind of robot came in.)
Miss Info: You think you could use that thing okay, Harry?
Robot: (Harry's voice) Until I recovered, I have to make due. Besides, this will provide you with some help until the FBI arrives.
Loud: Melissa, remember our goal here.
Miss Info: I know, I know. (pause, then sighs) Loud, my love?
Loud: Yeah?
Miss Info: If we have never have got that far, what do you supposed woulda happened?
Loud: Well, we coulda stay friends and we woulda stayed with Mr. Smartypants and Charity. Events woulda happened differently, I guess.
Miss Info: I just don't want us to break up over a silly thing. I loved you so much for something like that to happened.
Loud: I love you too, but now's not the right time for that. (a metal hand grabs him by the shoulder) Speaking of which, I'm glad to see you cut to the chase, Gene. Feeling lucky?
Miss Info: (scared) Loud? I don't think that's Gene!
Loud: What? (turns) AHHH!
{He screamed because the thing holding him is not Gene, but another robot. In fact, the face of the robot is very familar}
Loud: Pepper?! What kind of a sick joke is this?!
Shelton: (V.O.) Oh come on, she's nothing special. Everyone, come out so we can show him how right I am!
{Suddenly more robots come into view, 9 of them to be exact. As we take a closer look, we see all of them have the faces of the H! characters that came into Shelton's lab 3 days ago}
Miss Info: (shocked) Froggo? Aka? Toast? Cho-Cho? Lucky Bob? Bill? Sammy? Chit? Oh my gosh! What happened to you???
Shelton: (V.O.) This is the start of the grand experiment I got planned. Granted, I was planning to wait until later to begin it, but you three gave me the idea to start a little demonstration first.
Loud: Shelton, is Gene with you?
Toast: Quiet, dude! You aren't in position to make questions!
Miss Info: Toast wouldn't say something like that! What did you do to him?!
Shelton: (V.O.) Taking away free will. Now they know how robots feel when they are forced to do when they have no free will of their own.
Loud: That's it? This is your plan?! You and Gene try to take away everything I have just to make robots out of people?!
Lucky Bob: But you created the motive all by yourself, they both did nothing but reveal a bunch of lies you told each other. Heh, it feels good to say something smart.
Robot: (paused) Uh, no offense, but that won't work. It woulda.
Cho-Cho: So much for being smart.
Aka: I think it's time to show you three what happens when you disobey a direct order.
Miss Info: Like we want to obey a creep like Gene!
Shelton: (V.O.) I think my robot friends can keep you company in the meantime.
Loud: Where is Charity?! Where is my daughter?!
Shelton: (V.O.) For your sakes, you better be wanting your daughter! Charity is mine, do you hear me?! ALL MINE!!!
Sammy: Hey, only loud boy here do all the yelling.
Shelton: (V.O.) Just make sure none of them even get a chance to find our friends.
Robot: Not good. Not good at all.
Chit: You got that right. (robot hands turns into axe) I got a question for you: do you want your robot turns into junk or do you want to see it in person?
(Back with Shelton, he smiles as he looks at the monitors showing where Loud, Miss Info, and Harry's robot is at. He hears someone approaching.)
Shelton: My dear. I was hoping you would come.
Charity: (V.O.) I wouldn't miss it, William. It will take me a while to get used to this new body, but looks doesn't matter when I have you.
Shelton: (turning) How did I ever find a beauty like you?
(We now see Charity. She is now a robot, smiling at Shelton seductively)
Charity: You looked cuter than your Jeremy disguise years ago.
Shelton: Now this is what I called a free-will woman. Come here...
(Shelton and Charity kissed deeply, though it looks strange for a man to be kissing a robot. Shelton pulled away with a smile)
Shelton: Now let's watch as your former boyfriend and your former friends finally get theirs, shall we?
{Cut back to the robot version of the Histerians advancing on the two humans and one robot}
Miss Info: We can't attack our own friends...can we?
Loud: If we could, I don't think we have the firepower to beat them all.
Miss Info: Well....maybe they don't have all that fire yet! Maybe Shelton forgot to give it to them!
Lucky Bob: Here's....fire!{Fire shoots out of his arms and barely misses them}
{Froggo then jumps up and down like a frog and lands on top of Loud and Miss Info/ Toast then comes over and takes a surfboard out- one that has all kinds of knives sticking out}
Toast: I don't wanna wait for you to say something I care about, you are history!
{Cut to Harry, who's in the car holding the remote controls for his robot}
Harry: Think, think! What can defeat them and not destroy them?!{Pause}Perhaps...
{Back inside, Toast is ready to make the death blow}
Pepper: Finish them, Toasty!
Harry:{V.O}Do you want to destroy them before Scooby Doo shows up? Don't you want to drag him away to see him?
Pepper: Nice try, that blind worship was taken out of me!
Harry:{V.O}I don't think it was entirely....a part of you still wants to see Scooby Doo, and George Jetson, and Ally McBeal, and Elmer Fudd, and Jackie Chan, and all those other famous people who aren't as famous as they were when you were on TV! But you still wanna see them, and they're out there right now, waiting to sign anything and everything!
Sammy: Anything and....everything?
Harry:{V.O}Those two things in order.
Pepper:{Pause}Toasty, what are we waiting for?! I got dibs on Elmer!
Toast: Wha?{Pepper drags Toast away}
Sammy: Hey hey hey, that guy still has a contract with my old studio, he signs for me! But if Daffy needs to renew, you can have him, but until then!{He goes off}
Shelton:{V.O}What is this?! I took the humanity out of them!
Harry:{V.O}But not their zaniness! Froggo, I saw a quart of gun powder and a box of baking soda right outside this place! Don't you wanna make something with that before you kill us? You know you want to...
Froggo: Well...I would probably get it done faster now that I'm a robot.
Harry:{V.O}Then prove it, and we'll be right here when you get back to see the results!
Froggo:{Gets off Loud and Miss Info}You're gonna be so wowed, I know it!{Hops off}
Shelton:{V.O}Get back here and kill them!!
Harry:{V.O}Cho Cho, Bob, would you rather do that or accept my generous offer to buy whatever goods you have on the market? I have deep enough pockets to put you above average for the quarter...
Lucky Bob: Quarters not enough, we need dollars or no deal now!
Cho-Cho: Well....our sales options are probably limited as robots now. If you have enough to get us through, we could have something.
Harry:{V.O}Wait outside and we'll make the arrangements after I'm done here.
Lucky Bob: Fire now if you don't!{Goes off with Cho Cho}
Aka: Enough, you ain't breaking through to me! Not till your remains leave all kinds of messes!
Bill: Yeah, and I have no weaknesses other than fear of old ladies to distract me, and you don't have any of those on you!
Chit: And since you've already made your deals with Cho Cho and Mr Lucky, I got no reason to not wreck you up!{They advance}
Loud: Well...three against three is a bit of a fairer fight.
Bill: Who said we were fighting that fair?
{All of their arms turn into swords and they swing them around. Loud and Miss Info duck out of the way for a while, but then Aka's hands turn back to normal, and she dives and grabs the two by a leg and shoves them down. Harry's robot rushes towards them, but Bill and Chit's sword arms hit the robots sides, and it goes down as well}
Shelton:{V.O}Much better....finish it quickly!
Loud: Guys, you can't do this...
Shelton:{V.O}I said quickly, no distractions!!
Aka: You heard the man, let's do some chopping already!
Harry:{V.O}No distractions...but there is one that qualifies...
{The robotic eyes of Harry's robot then fall out of the eye sockets, and then grow legs and run towards the robots}
Chit: Ew, running eyes! Gross, gross, gross!!
Bill: We never even went that far on TV!
Aka: Ooh, that's just not right!
{The eyes then go next to Chit and Bill's legs, and wind up zapping them with an overload of electricity while they're distracted/creeped out. After a while, they are deactivated and fall down}
Miss Info: Harry, did you kill them?
Harry:{V.O}I gave them enough to turn them off, they'll be okay in the long run.
Aka: Can't say the same for you, though!{She kicks the robot eyes away before they do anything to her}
Loud: That's not too fortunate...{Aka is able to hit them both in the midsection with one blow, knocking them down again}
Shelton:{V.O}I repeat my last order, kill them now!
Miss Info:{Coughs}Don't do it...you have a choice...
Aka: Not according to the king and queen, I don't!
Loud: Harry, get one of your tricks out here, now!!
Harry:{V.O}I don't think I have to now...
{Before anyone can ask about that, Drawford comes out of the shadows and plunges a large tazer on Aka's back, shocking her until she is turned off as well}
Miss Info: Mr Drawford?!
Drawford: I was hoping Gene would give me an excuse to use this on him the whole time he was captured....but better late than never to use it here. Now then...
Voice: William Shelton, the FBI has the building surrounded! You have very little time to surrender and give up all your hostages quietly!
Harry:{V.O, as the robot gets up}That will make some difference...but they can still get out anyway. We still need to keep going and stop them right here.
Loud: If we get close enough, can you use that on Gene like you wanted, sir?
Drawford: We have to free everyone first before then.
Miss Info: Then that's what we're doing now.{They go off}
(Back in Shelton's lab, the villain in question got frustrated and pushed down a lot of stuff off a desk.)
Shelton: I don't believe this! My plan I have plotted for years now is suddenly being flushed down the tubes! My Histerian bots have been defeated! (pause) Well, lucky for me, they still have two robots, besides Gene to deal with.
Charity: How do you suppose that would happen, robot tiger?
Shelton: Heh, robot tiger. Now that's something. (pause) Okay, I think it's time I get my bargaining chip out. Charity, go get your former love's kid.
Charity: Shouldn't you send Gene to do it?
Shelton: No! Knowing him, he would try to killed him before bringing her dead body here. I want to let my enemies know I mean business. Come on, don't you want to do this for your King of the Robots?
Charity: (giggling) I guess I can do that.
Shelton: Perfect.
(In the room Charity K. is locked in, the door opened up surprising the child. Gene came in.)
Charity K.: What do you want, evil metal man?
Gene: Simple. I want you to leave and find your parents now.
Charity K.: What?
Gene: Do so now or I'd changed my mind and killed you! Either way, I will win.
Charity K.: But...why would you want to help me? Don't you work with that...
Gene: Look, kid, I am this close to changing my mind. Now almost you want to see the same situation your parents went through years ago, I suggested you leave in the count of 1...2...3...
(Charity K., scared, runs out of the room. Gene stops counting and grins. He closes the door and then begins to wait.)
Gene: She is going to come here. Now let's see if William will be less insubordinated when I get what he loves the most besides the robots...
{Cut to Loud, Miss Info, Drawford, and Harry's robot[now with eyes again] continue to walk through the building}
Drawford: No resistance since those robots....perhaps he's getting ready to give up.
Harry:{V.O}Are your men ready in the extremely likely case that's not the case?
Drawford: They know that if we don't come out with the culprits in 15 minutes, they can storm in and take this whole place down. We have to get as much done as we can by then.
Loud: You know they have my daughter and Charity....they'll use young Charity as a human shield for their getaway, probably. And they probably have the other Charity hooked up to some nasty device that'll disfigure her in case we don't do what they say...
Charity K:{V.O}What does disfigure mean?
Loud: Well, it basically means she'll look a lot uglier, but that's not the....the....wait, I'm missing something here.
Drawford: Look!
Charity K:{Running into view}Mom! Dad! Another metal person! Someone I don't know!
Miss Info:{Hugs her}You're here....you're actually here and we didn't have to fight anyone to get you back.{Pause}Wait, did they turn you into something? Is this a trick?
Charity K: No, nothing happened! Another robot set me free!
Harry:{V.O}Another robot...could Danny have rebeled against his son?
Loud: Either that or it's Gene, and that couldn't be it!
Charity K: That's what he said he was!
Drawford:{Pause}Burrows is giving her to us? What possible explanation is there for that?
Charity K: So it's bad that I'm here?
Loud: Not at all, sweetheart....it just means there's more going on here than we know about. If Gene let you go, he has a trap brewing...
Drawford: Is that slightly suspicious as well?
{They rush over and see Danny's still turned off body}
Miss Info: Is he just turned off or dead?
Harry:{V.O}I see the tracker on the floor....they must have turned him off in anger.
Loud: Should we leave him alone? He's probably still under their control.
Drawford: Maybe you could try to repair him while we go for Shelton and Gene. If you can fix him fast enough, you two could come in for a surprise attack while we distract them.
Harry:{V.O}I'll get this thing to do it's best....with the limited time we have. If that's the plan, then you guys should get going.
Miss Info:{To Charity K}You stay here and let Uncle Harry's...robot friend look after you. We don't want that other bad man who captured you to know you're gone yet.
Charity K: Will you be back soon?
Loud: Very very soon, and then we'll head home. Every single one of us.{Loud, Miss Info, and Drawford start to go as Harry's robot starts to look over Danny}
{Cut to Charity walking to Charity K's room and opening the door}
Charity: We're ready for you, my human nie-
{She's cut off as Gene jumps out and grabs her by the neck. He twists her head back a bit and then throws her into the room}
Gene: Relax....enjoy what moments are left for you.
{Cut back to Shelton as he paces around a bit}
Shelton: What's taking my bethrothed so long? We're running out of time!
Loud:{V.O}SHELTON!! WHERE ARE YOU?!!
Shelton: They're almost here....where's my love with the kid, we need that to finish off this plan!{Pause}And where in blazes is Gene, for that matter?!
Gene: (V.O.) You want the both of us, William? You got it.
(Shelton turned and is shocked to see Charity in one of Gene's hands.)
Shelton: Gene? What is this? What are you doing?!
Gene: Silence! I am in control now, William. And if you want Charity to live, you do know what I asked.
Shelton: Hey, I found you in that dump, remember? I shoulda at least be in charge!
Gene: Oh, you are not in charge and never are. You see, you almost woulda told on me or do something else that could endangered my plans. So for the first and only time...I drugged you.
Shelton: (shocked) What?!
Gene: Of course, I did it so you won't tell. But everything else you did from then on is because I hint at it. Let's say, I provided the matches, you lit the fire!
Shelton: But Gene...I thought...
Gene: We woulda done this plan without problems. But then Loud has to go and fall for Miss Info and you have to go and fall for that brat Charity. Had things went the other way, we wouldn't be having this confrontation now.
Shelton: Please, let Charity go.
Gene: Do what I asked and your queen will not come to any harm.
(Shelton hesitates a bit, then he sighs)
Shelton: Gene, what do you want me to do?
Gene: Kill Loud and his family of course. You know what must be done. You wanted to help robots take their rightful place, you got to lead by example!
Shelton: Fine...but Charity must not be harmed.
Gene: I think I can arranged that. Now get going.
(Shelton nods as he heads to his lab. Gene smiles at Charity who is glaring at him.)
Gene: Nice to have your free will back, eh?
Charity: You're a monster, Gene. I don't know how you managed to get it back.
Gene: You forget, Charity. I was a scientist and over time, I can completed what is the possible.
Charity: You had been manipulating William this whole time. And don't get me that excuse!
Gene: You liked him, do you?
(Charity pause, then sighs)
Charity: More than that.
Gene: (groaning) This is what happened when I let William near you. Well, our old friends should get here eventually. And Shelton will have a surprise for them when he does. Now sit here!
(Gene puts Charity in a chair and pushes a button. Straps appeared over Charity's arms and legs, trapping her)
Gene: Don't try to escape. That chair is made to resist even a robot's strengths. All except me, that is. I made it.
Charity: (angry) Typical, Gene. Very typical.
Gene: Let's see you still think that when you see your new beloved make waste to your old love and his family, shall we?
{Cut to Loud, Miss Info, and Drawford continuing to walk through the building, then they get to Shelton's headquarters}
Drawford: Ex doctor William Shelton! You are under arrest! Go quietly before this goes too far! You're almost out of leverage here!
Loud: Come out now and tell us where Gene and Charity are!
Shelton:{V.O}You get the first part, but that's it...{Shelton enters}
Miss Info: So you're the guy I thought I went too far with all those years ago...
Shelton: Don't flatter yourself...
Drawford:{Pointing a gun at him}You're going to surrender before my people barge in. Whatever dream you have is over!
Shelton: No Mr Drawford, it begins now.
Loud: It's three against one for now, we can all easily out fight you!
Miss Info: Unless you have any more robots.{Pause}Which you don't, I can only assume and pray for.
Shelton: No...you actually have me there, I am all alone in this one. How could little old me do anything without any robot friends or technology? Guess I have to give in...
{Shelton then puts his hand on the front of Drawford's gun, which catches him by surprise for a second- which is all Shelton needs to take the gun and hit him across the face with it. Loud quickly jumps on him before Shelton can react, and they wrestle for the gun. Miss Info goes over to the two, swings her leg and is able to kick Shelton in the back to seperate them}
Miss Info: I was aiming for the front of you, but that'll do!
{Loud gets on his feet first and tackles Shelton back down to the ground}
Loud: You're done! You're never gonna have Charity as your wife now, another sick fantasy of yours that'll never come true!
Shelton: Don't....you mention her....you betrayer of her trust, you!!
{Shelton grabs Loud by the neck and lifts him up, then when Miss Info comes to get him, Shelton grabs her by her neck, and bangs their heads together to knock them out. When they go down, Shelton picks up the gun again and points it at Drawford just as he starts to get back up}
Shelton: You will witness what I do for love...
{Cut back to Charity trying to get out of the chair. Gene has gone to a monitor and turned on the screen, which now shows Shelton with the heroes}
Gene: It appears you really do inspire him after all.
Charity: Why aren't you there yourself?! This is what you wanted after all, why don't you call and tell him you want to finish them?! Why should he get to do it?!
Gene: Because I only care that they're dead....how it happens is irrelvent now.
Charity: Is it?! He's just your puppet, so why should the puppet do what you've wanted to do for 15 years?! Why can't you just go there, and do it yourself after all the trouble you put into it?! Take full credit for it and don't let him steal your dream!
{Gene is deep into thought for a while, then he gets out a walkie talkie}
Gene: Shelton, come in. We need to talk.
Shelton:{V.O}I did what you asked and it's almost done, now is she free yet?!
Charity:{Calling out quickly}No I'm not, William! And if you kill them, then I will never love you! Do it and I will bring you down and we will never ever ever be together, you hear me?! You try to take away my free will again, and I will hurt you before you succeed! You know that before you-
Gene:{Turns off the walkie}You.....you tricked me so you'd have the chance to put doubt into him!!
Charity: And I don't think you're very confident it'll fail. Now you either have to trust him, or go do it yourself and leave me alone.
Gene: As if you think you'll escape if I leave you alone?!
Charity: Do you have time to figure out the logic?
{Gene looks at the screen, then back at Charity}
Gene: Who says I need to leave you alone to go over there? And who says....you have to be there the way you are now?
(Back in the battle, Loud and Miss Info got slammed down by Shelton who glares at them. Drawford points his gun at Shelton's back.)
Drawford: Give up or I'd shoot you.
Shelton: (not even turning around) Never.
(Drawford pulls the trigger and fires. He hits Shelton in the back, but to his surprise, Shelton didn't fall or show pain. He then turned and pulled the bullet out from his back. We see that it is now metal instead of skin. He then throws the bullet at Drawford who dodges it)
Drawford: William, you...
Shelton: Turned myself into a robot, yes. If I wanted to give robots powers, I need to lead by example. So those tubes I used on Loud's friends and Charity has got a visit from me.
Loud: Wait...you used on my friends and whom?!
Shelton: Charity.
Miss Info: Charity is a robot?!
Shelton: Didn't you get it?! I wanted a Queen for the robot when the time comes! Is that so wrong to want?
Drawford: Not when it involves with what you're doing!
Shelton: I don't know why I'm bother talking with you. You may be the FBI director but you're still someone who used to work with Danny.
(Shelton's arms stretch out at Drawford and hits him knocking him backwards. He turns his arms into swords and confronts Loud and Miss Info)
Gene:{V.O}I've changed my mind. You're going to let me finish them.
Shelton: No! If I'm going to be a good ruler, I have to be willing to kill for it! And I'm gonna do that right now, I'm gonna prove I can sacrifice and do anything to take my birthright!
Gene:{V.O}It looks like you used that robot machine on yourself...that's enough sacrifice for one night.
Shelton: Back off, Gene! They're mine, and I don't care what Charity told me! I'll just turn off her free will again and that'll be the end of her objections!
Gene:{V.O}Assuming she can be manipulated like that.
Shelton: Of course she can, that's the main feature on her robot body!
Gene:{V.O}Was it now?
Shelton: What's with the was in that-
{We then see Charity being thrown into the room from the shadows, landing on the ground and looking barely awake. Shelton rushes over to her....and sees there is no robot skin on her anymore. It all looks human now}
Shelton: What happened?! She's....she's not shiny anymore!
Gene:{Coming into view}Your robot machine was quite easy to reverse, as it turns out.
Shelton: You...you made her human again?!
Loud: Obviously a kind act that's anything but kind with him!
Gene: You I'll deal with later!{Back to Shelton}I'll only let you change her back if you let me destroy them.
Shelton: No! If you're that desperate to kill them, how do I know you just won't kill her too?! I need this, and I need her to be the way she was meant to be! You change her back now!
Gene: Not until I'm done here. You move an inch to take her out of here, and I blast the both of you. Do anything to stop me, and I blast her first.
Shelton: You can't kill me....you need me.
Gene: I needed you to become such a so called threat that when the FBI captured me, I could use you to make them say whatever I wanted. Now it's over.
Shelton: But the kingdom I'm building for your kind!
Gene: Do you really I care about those other metal freaks?! I could care less if you rule over us or not! All I care about is about to be finished in the next few minutes....one move from you and her only delays it, and results in you dying before the empire is finished. Let me do this, and you can exterminate every race in the world, for all I care.
Shelton:{Pause}And if I do, I get to turn her back and resume creating the empire?
Gene: Whatever you want after that is not my concern.
Shelton:{Pause, as he cradles Charity in his arms}Do it already...
{Gene turns and sees Loud and Miss Info have actually used the time the robots were chatting away to get close to escape, with Loud dragging Drawford with him. But Gene stretches out his arms and grabs the two, dragging them back into the room}
Gene: Now then....why don't we officially get started?
{Cut to outside the building, as we see Harry still working the controls of his robot while the FBI officers are still surrounding the building}
Officer: That's it, we gave them enough time! We're going in!
Harry: Wait, not yet! If you storm that building, they'll use the chaos to get away, and we may never get this close to stopping them again!
Officer: If we delay any longer, the director and his friends might die, if they haven't already!
Harry: Just a few more minutes....at least until I'm done making my repairs. If we fail, then you can go in.
Officer: What repairs?
{Cut back to where Harry's robot is, still working on Danny's robot body with Charity K watching}
Charity: Is he gonna wake up now?
Harry:{V.O}In about a few more seconds, if I restructured his wiring enough....
{The robot continues to fiddle around, then all of a sudden, Danny's eyes reopen again}
Harry: (V.O.) It's okay, Mr. Shelton. You are among friends.
Danny: Dr. Norman? Is that you? Did William turned you into a robot with or without free will?
Charity K.: Huh?
Harry: (V.O.) Hold on. What do you mean with or without free will? Are you saying you have free will all this time?
Danny: (sighs) Yes. I was the first to be like this, the prototype. And worst, I have to helped William because he knows I can go out in public like this.
Harry: (V.O.) I see. Look, he's battling Loud, Miss Info, and Drawford right now. If we get there now, we could be able to stop him once and for all.
Danny: Why bother? Shelton is unstoppable. There is no reasoning with him!
Charity K.: Please, Mr. Robot? My mommy and daddy are up there. I don't want them to get hurt. Please? Please?
Danny: (groaning) Come on...
(Charity K. gave him the cute eyes treatment)
Danny: Ohhhhhh....I guess I can't refuse cute eyes like those.
Harry: (V.O.) Good! Then let's go! Time is wasting!
{Cut back to Gene hovering over Loud, Miss Info, and Drawford}
Gene: Before the death blow comes-
Miss Info: You're not making us hate each other before you kill us.
Gene: I wasn't finished yet! Now you stay quiet, you don't have any room to make demands and stupid statements!
Loud: You don't think we know what you're doing? You want to use our impending death to remind us of our relationship problems, and make us truly miserable before you do us in. Or you're going to reveal one final thing about your big plan that'll make us feel worse. Well, we're not going for it!
Gene: You'll go for whatever I want!
Miss Info: Nuh uh....do we have problems? Yeppers. Did you cause them to come out? Yeah, you won on that round. Will we still be in trouble if we live? Who knows? But no matter what I feel, I'm not giving you the satisfaction of finding out. You haven't earned that right to get an extra edge like that.
Gene: The next words that come out of you will be completly different, or...
Loud: Or what?! You won, but you didn't completly destroy our relationships! That's what you wanted most of all, but you only wounded them...you didn't completly destroy them. So just stop your stupid mind games and talking before you start them!!
Shelton: But if he does that, he'll just kill you a lot faster.
Gene:{Long pause}So be it....the quick and mindless death it is.
Charity: Wait! Kill me first!
Loud/Shelton: What?!!
Charity: That's how you can hurt them the most before killing them! Let them see me die!
Miss Info: No, you still have a chance, don't say that!
Charity: If I live, it'll be as queen of the robots, and I will not let myself be subject to that slavery. I'll take death before that, and if it gives them a little longer to live, then I'll take it.
Shelton: You're not going to die, so stop with that! You're going to see them die, then go back in the robot transformation thing!
Charity: No I won't. I will not be the queen of a genocidal robot. I will not destroy humanity with you, or condone someone who's just a puppet for that thing.{Points to Gene}
Shelton: You would....rather die than rule the country with me?
Charity: It's not even a choice for me. If things were different....maybe. But you want to murder millions and work with the man who's killing my friends, so it can never be.
Shelton: They....they destroyed your life! They broke your heart! You should not be defending them over me!
Charity: Maybe not...but they never killed to get what they loved the most...unlike some people.{Pause}Go on Gene, you know you want to start with me.
Shelton: No he won't, our deal was he'd let you live!
{Gene responds by taking Charity away from Shelton's grasp}
Gene: Goodbye, once and never future Mrs Kiddington...
Charity:{Looks at Shelton, who doesn't move, then she sighs}Then...goodbye it is.
Shelton: No!!
Loud: NOO-{Miss Info looks next to her, then covers Loud's mouth}
Gene: What was that for?!
{He turns and sees Drawford is now up, and with his taser. He shocks Gene with it for a few seconds and he lets Charity go, but then Gene takes the taser and crushes it with his hand, then smacks Drawford back down}
Gene: No...more....DELAYS!!
{But just then, two robot figures rush into the room and tackle Gene down}
Gene: Get off me....Shelton Sr?
Shelton: Danny?
Danny:{Holding Gene down with Harry's robot}I'll deal with you later...
Harry:{V.O}You're done Gene. It's now 6 against 2, and two of us can match your technology! Do you surrender?!
Gene: You know that's never an option for me, old friend.{Loud, Miss Info, Charity, and Drawford come up to him, as Shelton just watches them}Let's end it now.
(Gene angrily knocks the robots down. Then his hands opened up to to reveal some electric thingies.)
Gene: See? I got my own tazers!
(He then shoots out a lots of lightning, shocking his enemies, knocking them all to the ground.)
Harry: (V.O.) D**n. Well, at least I am not my robot right now.
Gene: I can still find and track you down, Harry! Your death will not be inevitable!
(He continues to shock his enemies with lightning, making them worst some more.)
Charity: (gasping) William...help...
(Shelton hesitates at first.)
Gene: You know what this reminds me? The end scene of Star Wars Episode VI, except no Vader to save you this time. Maybe I could killed you first, Charity Bazaar. Shame, really. You woulda made a better Mrs. Kiddington than a pathetic Mrs. Shelton!
(Shelton looks shocked as he hears this. He gave a deep robotic frown. Gene then proceeds to shock his enemies some more.)
Miss Info: (to Loud) Loud...
Loud: Melissa...
Loud and Miss Info: I love you.
Gene: Then prepare to take your love to the grave, every last one of you!
(Suddenly he looks alarmed as two swords pops through him. He turns and sees that Shelton has stabbed right him.)
Shelton: (angrily) Never, Gene. Never again.
Gene: You pathetic traitor!
(Gene shoots lasers at Shelton through his eyes knocking him back. Before Shelton could recover, Gene charged forward and stabbed him right through the center. Shelton gasps a bit, then suddenly he dove right into his former ally and pulls out some wires. Some sparks are seen. Gene sees this and realized something)
Gene: (groans) Oh no.
(Suddenly Gene exploded sending his robot parts flying. They ended up on the floor, function or not function at all. Gene's head rolls on the floor a bit before it stops.)
Gene: I have been near myself for too long...
Charity: (getting up) William...
Shelton: (groaning) Charity...
(Shelton stumbled on a railing nearby and fell over to it. Charity gasped in horror as she runs over to the railing. She looks down and is relief to see that Shelton is on the floor below, safe and okay, for now.)
Miss Info: Gene's head's over there, you can leave the rest behind all over there...
Officer: Okay, that's one down. And the other one?
Charity:{Pause}He's down there, he needs attention quick.
Loud: Actually, before you take him anywhere...get him well enough so he can tell you how to work his robot changer. He'll need to be returned to normal, and so will his father.
Danny: Actually, it's not all that complicated, I could have us back to normal in a few minutes.
Loud: All right, then let him do that.
Drawford: We will...but even though he saved us, he has to pay the penalty later. A full prison sentence awaits him for all the murders and damage he did.
Charity:{Pause}Of course....
Drawford: Take the head into custody and make sure all of that is done.
{Loud and Miss Info start to head out, and then Charity K runs over to them}
Charity K: Mommy, Daddy! Is it over now?
Loud: I think so....I think it's finally over now.
Miss Info: After all these years...
Charity K: Years? But this all happened in one night...right?
Loud:{Chuckles a bit}It's a long story....but we need our rest first, and that's not a suitable bedtime tale. Let's go home.
Drawford: You're not going to make the official arrests? This was your case, after all.
Loud:{Pause}First and last, sir. I'll clear that up tomorrow....just let us rest up first.
{Miss Info looks a bit surprised as Loud leads his family away}
Drawford: Well...until then, let's clean up and tie up some loose ends here!{Goes to Gene's head}Gene Burrows...I officially place you under arrest.
Gene: Get them back here...tell them they're not leaving me here to face your judgement!
Drawford: You have no more leverage on them...they're free now.
Gene: They're not free....they can't be! They need me, they owe their lives to me! I made them famous by not killing them, and they can't just end it this anticlimactically!{The officers pick up his head and take him away, as Charity just watches him}You know what I mean, Bazaar!! This is how they repay me, by leaving me a mere head to these freaks?! How dare they do this to me!! I made them!
{Cut to the Kiddingtons leaving Shelton's building for good}
Gene:{V.O}Without me, what would they have?!! Nothing! NOTHING!!!!
{Fade to a regular prison cell, where a now human Shelton is sitting in. A now human again Danny is there with him}
Danny: Do you miss being metal?
Shelton:{Pause}Do you?
Danny: Not one bit, but the question wasn't about me.
Shelton:{Pause}There are days when I do...it's been a month, there's bound to be days like that starting out. Slim helped a little bit in the first few days after he turned back into a human....but then he got so annoying, as I hear he always is. At least they saw fit to give him his own cell again after a while.
Danny: But you're committed to seeing this through anyway?
Shelton: What difference does it make...sure, I saved some people at the last minute, but I'm still gonna be here forever. Nothing's gonna change that.
Danny: Some things could change about it, though.
Shelton: Name a few.
Danny: Well....your dad seeing you do the exact same thing that saved his life. I literally saw myself in you that night, and how I sacrificed a sick dream for something better.
Shelton: What's my better thing? What's gonna keep me from remembering robots are still our superiors?
Danny: Maybe your next visitor can explain it.{Calls out}He's ready for her!
Shelton: Her?{Pause}But she hasn't been here since I arrived.
Danny: She just needed time to figure out what to say. Now I think she has something.
Shelton: Is it....good?
Danny: You judge for yourself, son.
Shelton: You....called me son and sounded like you meant it.
Danny: Well, that's what you are, right?
Shelton: I...I guess....
Danny:{Smiles and pats her back}I'll be by tomorrow and we'll expand on that, okay?
Shelton: I....suppose we can do that. I'll be right here, obviously.
Danny: And so will I, son.
{A guard unlocks the cell and Danny leaves, then Charity comes in}
Shelton: So...my father says there's something you had to tell me.
Charity: It took me a month to settle and come up with....though I don't have to say a lot of words.{Sits down next to him}It's not the words that were trouble....it was figuring out if I really wanted to say them. I asked for advice from so many people...even those you turned into robots for a week. They weren't that thrilled with my thoughts, but a few other friends of mine helped them come around.
Shelton: I...I can now almost imagine how that went.
Charity: But first, I want one question answered. Why did you stop Gene?
Shelton: You know the answer better than anyone.
Charity: I want to hear it out loud before you hear my statement.
Shelton: Then I'll say it faster....I love you and if it was possible, I would be with you forever. The human you....metal or not, you're still the best woman in the world. You almost redeem humanity by yourself...
Charity: Well...when you put it that way.
{Charity leans in and kisses him deeply on the lips for several seconds, then pulls away}
Charity: That wasn't what I wanted to say...that was just my official thank you for saving our lives.
Shelton: And, and, and.....and what you wanted to say?
Charity: I loved you back then, and because you saved us, I love you now. If you don't let that act of goodness be a one time thing, then I'll love you a lot longer than that.{Pause}That's basically it.
Shelton:{Almost near tears}So....so you're blackmailing me to be good with your love?
Charity: I wouldn't say it like that...
Shelton: Well....it's a deal...
{He goes over and hugs her, almost breaking down as he does so}
Shelton: I don't care about the rest of the world enslaving anything anymore....
Charity: I know...I know....
{We fade from this scene to a chamber in prison. There, we see an audience watching as Gene Burrows's head is being hooked up to electrodes. Drawford is presiding the ceremony}
Drawford: Gene Burrows, you have been sentenced to death by a very speedy jury that was not your peers, simply because they're human and have a soul. Your long history of death, destruction, insanity, and chaos ends today. May God have mercy on your souls. Do you have any last words before your sentence is carried out?
{Gene looks into the audience, and sees Harry there}
Gene: Harry....where are they?{Harry does not answer}Why aren't they here with you to see me go? They have to be here.
Drawford: If you're referring to Loud and his family, I don't discuss the daily activities of retired FBI agents. As such, I don't care what they're doing right now.
Gene: But...but I have enough power over them that they need to see me go! They need to face their demon one last time!
Drawford: Apperantly not. As I said, may God have mercy on you, despite your lack of it.
Gene:{Looking at Harry again}Harry, my old friend....you're hiding them somewhere to fool me! I know you! You show them to me now! You make them see me so I can leave my mark on them in death!
{Harry doesn't answer and just looks at him blankly}
Drawford: 5 seconds...4....3...
Gene: I know they're too weak to resist...
Drawford: 2...
Gene: Where are they?!
Drawford: 1...0
Gene: WHERE ARE THEY?!!
{As he finishes his yell, Drawford flips a switch. We then cut to a playground, where Charity K is playing around in. On a bench, we see Loud and Miss Info watching her}
Voice:{Singing}In a perfect world
One we've never known
We would never need to face the world alone
Loud:{Kissing Miss Info on the cheek}I love you...
Miss Info:{Giggles}Loud, you already apologized enough...you don't wanna do that kinda apologizing with her so close by, do you?
Loud: I find it hard to care....I almost never got the chance to do it ever again, now I don't care where or when I get this chance.
Voice:{Singing}They can have the world
We'll create our own
I may not be brave or strong or smart
But somewhere in my secret heart
Miss Info: I shouldn't be too surprised...somehow, I knew that you and Charity loved each other so much, you would have to share that love at least one more time sooner or later.
Loud: We did....one final time. As in final final. But you and me have a lot more times left.
Voice:{Singing}I know
Love will find a way
Anywhere I go
I'm home
If you are there beside me
Miss Info: We do....that we surely do.
Voice:{Singing as they kiss}Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
Loud:{Breaking off}You know...I don't need to go back on the job search after we're done here. I could take a day off for...other things.
Miss Info: Well...I know those other things will make me not mind so much.
Charity K:{Calling out}What other things, Mommy?
Miss Info: Um, n-nothing hun, just go back to swinging on those monkey bars, k?
{The two parents breathe a sigh of relief, then chuckle a bit as we pull away}
Voice:{Singing}I was so afraid
Now I realize
Love is never wrong
And so it never dies
There's a perfect world
Shining in your eyes
And if only they could feel it too
The happiness I feel with you
{We cut to Charity walking down a hall, then stopping in front of a door. Through the window, we see Shelton walking into some kind of group therapy group}
Shelton: Hello...I'm William Shelton, and I'm a recovering maniac.
Voice:{Singing}They'd know
Love will find a way
Anywhere we go
We're home
If we are there together
{As the session starts, Shelton looks on at Charity as she watches him}
Voice: Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
I know love will find a way
{As we see them smile together and hear the last line, we cut back to see some guards walking past Charity, carrying the remains of Gene's head. Charity doesn't even notice it}
Cast list
Gene Hackman: Gene Burrows
Edward Norton: Loud Kiddington
Laraine Newman: Melissa Information Kiddington, Charity Bazaar
Scott Glenn: Scott Drawford
Geoffrey Rush: Harry Norman
Jim Cummings: Dr. William Shelton
Danny DeVito: Danny Shelton
Jim Carrey: Slim Berry/Gene Burrows
Kath Soucie: Charity Kiddington
Rob Paulsen: Mr. Smartypants, Sammy Melman
John Goodman: Pule Houser
Hynden Walch: Susanna Susquahanna
Nora Dunn: Lydia Karaoke
Tress MacNeille: Toast, Pepper Mills, Cho-Cho, World's Oldest Woman
Paul Rugg: Nostradamus
Jeff Glen Bennett: Lucky Bob
Cree Summer: Aka Pella
Billy West: Chit Chatterson
Lance Henriksen: Froggo
James Wickline: Bill Straitman
Special guest appearance by:
Tom Ruegger: The Good Fairy