Ranking Up - Transcript

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Chapter 24 - Ranking Up

Establishing shot of Randoms INC, cut inside to see Tim, Alex and Lily in Malcom’s office. Malcom is lecturing them

Malcom

“Why would you NEED two social media accounts?”

Tim

“For comedic purposes!”

Alex

“Plus you don’t want to have different themes mashing together, it’s confusing!

Malcom

“Kid, it’s a social media account”

Lily holds back laughter

Alex

“Okay, yeah, I get it, hardy har har”

Tim

“Ah, I love this family”

Malcom

“Yup, me too”

A shelf behind Malcom opens up revealing a secret elevator

Malcom

“GAH! Today?! IT’S A WEDNESDAY!”

Alex

“What’s going on?”

Malcom

“We usually have meetings on Mondays, unless something really important happens”

Tim

“What happens?!”

Lily

“Malcom, what is this?!”

Malcom

“Kids, and Lily, I think it’s about time I tell you about The Randoms Elite”

Intro plays

The four enter the elevator, which is very spacious. Malcom pushes a button, and the elevator starts moving upwards

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Lily

“Whoa”

Malcom

“The Randoms Elite mainly consist of my closest, most trusted allies... and Ricardio... they have the most power out of anyone in this building”

Tim

“What?! But like... you!”

Malcom

“\*chuckles\* Yeah, well see that’s the genius of it. I’m in a position where getting corrupted wouldn’t be too big a surprise. I gave the Elite the power to end my position, and elect a new C.E.O.”

Alex

“So there like, your evil prevention plan?”

Malcom

“You’re correct sir”

Lily

“That’s pretty clever, my mom mainly just screams at her board members”

Hard cut, Laura is in a boardroom, and she throws a chair at one of the board members

Cut back

Lily

“It doesn’t end well”

Tim

“That’s pretty funny though”

Lily

“Right?”

Malcom

“Hopefully this won’t take too long”

Cut, Shade is preparing a table in the lab, putting plates, napkins and silverware in their places

Shade

“Ah, perfection!”

The doors open, and Paul and Safety Ninja walk in

Safety Ninja

“Whoa”

Paul

“Most impressive”

The entire place is decorated, Shade is standing in front of the table

Shade

“Paul! SN! Yo! My dudes! Umm... I made dinner- ah frick”

He knocked off a jar, a small slimy creature scuttles off

Shade

“That’s wasn’t anything important was it?”

Safety Ninja

“Uh... was it Paul?”

Paul

“No, just an experiment. I was going to burn it later anyway”

Safety Ninja

“Okay cool, what is this about, Shade?”

Shade

“So, I wanted to have a nice dinner with my Bois! And I thought, y’all are cool! Paul’s my best friend, and Safety Ninja is someone I really like, despite him helping with my attempted kidnapping”

Safety Ninja

“We had to bring that up”

Paul chuckles

Shade

“Anyway! FOOD!”

They sit down, pan over the slimy creature enters the vents

Cut to the elevator

Tim

“How long will this be?”

Malcom

“Five minutes”

Tim

“Aaaaaaaaw”

Lily

“Don’t worry about it Tim, we can talk while we wait”

Tim

“Good point”

Alex

“Yep, this is gonna be torture”

Cut the top of the elevator, the slimy creature crawls out of the wall, and starts eating the wires and electrical stuff

Back inside the elevator, the lights start flickering and the elevator freezes

Alex

“Whaaaaat was that?”

Malcom

“That can’t be good”

The creature slithers back into the wall

Tim

“CLAUSTROPHOBIA INTENSIFYING! AAAAAA-“

Alex and Lily slap him

Tim

“My chiseled cheekbones!”

Lily

“Sorry, just calm down dude!”

Tim

“Okay fine... Malcom, how long will we be in here?”

Malcom

“Could be hours, we’ll eat Alex”

Alex

“What?”

Lily

“I always thought he would be the first to die...”

Alex

“How?! I’m the most risk avoidant!”

Malcom

“Doesn’t matter, I’ll get this thing working again”

Tim

“How?”

Malcom

“Its an elevator Tim, I’ve fought monsters, sorcerers, demons. I can handle an elevator!”

Alex

“That sound like the setup for a hilarious running gag”

Malcom looks at Alex, who has no emotion in his face

Malcom

“Eh, that seems likely actually... you each pick a corner and..

Make the most of it”

Alex

“You gotta be kidding me”

Tim

“Hey Lily, let’s take that corner!”

Lily

“Okay”

Alex

“I’ll take this one I guess...”

Malcom crouches down in front of the elevator panel and starts fiddling with it

Malcom

“Hmm... weird...”

Alex

“Having trouble?”

Malcom

“No, I’ve got it!”

Tim

“Hey, permission to use the floor of the elevator as a fort?”

Malcom

“What- I- sure whatever”

Tim peels off part of the elevator floor

Tim

“Hope this is easy to replace!”

He starts leaning it up against the wall

Lily

“This is kinda dumb Tim”

Tim

“Oh I’m well aware”

Lily

“Well, as long as you’re aware!”

She pulls up some floor too

Alex

“This is horrible for the elevator, but you seem fine with that so okay...”

Malcom electrocutes himself

Malcom

“AGH! You will hecking- wait a moment”

He looks up at the hatch at the top of the elevator

Malcom

“Oh hello”

He climbs out

Malcom

“Don’t do anything stupid while I’m gone!”

Tim

“Got it!”

On top of the elevator. Malcom notices where the damage was done.

Malcom

“Hmm...”

Cut back to Shade, Paul and Safety Ninja’s dinner

Shade

“Uh... feel free to eat more, I can’t physically digest food so...”

Paul

“Er, alright”

He eats a French fry

Safety Ninja

“I couldn’t eat another bite if I wanted to, why did you make so much food?”

Shade

“Just wanted to satisfy my two favorite work associates and also Safety Ninja!”

Safety Ninja thinks for a moment

Safety Ninja

“Wait, two favorites AND Safety Ninja? Who’s your other favorite then?”

Shade

“Paul, duh”

Paul (trying time change the subject)

“Hey, let’s get to work eh? I need help in the lab today so... I mean, if you wanna do that...”

Shade

“Okay!”

Safety Ninja

“I’ve got work in the lobby to-“

Paul looks at him with dagger eyes

Safety Ninja

“I mean, lab work sounds really fun...”

Back with Malcom. He jumps in the vents, trying to locate the creature

Inside the elevator, Tim and Lily have built an awesome for out of elevator parts

Tim

“Boom! See this? This is amazing!”

Alex is sitting in the corner

Alex

“Umm...”

Tim

“Alex, that’s kinda sad... PEASENT! HA HA!”

Lily

“Whoa man, that was mean, you sound like my mom...”

Tim

“Oh... whoops... Alex wanna get in here?”

Alex

“No I’m cool”

Tim

“Okay!”

Brief silence

Lily

“He wants in-“

Tim

“Oh absolutely”

Back with Malcom, crawling in the vents

Malcom

“Hmm...”

He arrives at a split, hears noise from one direction so decides to follow it. He bumps into Nick

Malcom

“Nick? What the-“

Nick

“Ah, seems we hit a bit of a pickle, ho ho ho! Uh... just scootch on by, there we go”

They pass each other, and Malcom keeps going. He arrives at an exit, and pops out in his office.

Malcom

“Where are you...”

He hears scuttling in the corner, turns and the creature latches to his face

Malcom

“GACK!”

They struggle for a moment, Malcom eventually pries it off and throws it to the ground. It hisses in retaliation, so Malcom does the obvious thing and steps on it.

Malcom

“Gross... what was I here for again? Oh yeah”

He opens a desk drawer and pulls out a book titled “Fantastic Elevators and How To Fix Them”

Then he clambers back into the vent

With Shade’s dinner

Shade

“So then I said, eat your own skin!”

He laughs infectiously, causing Paul to snicker too.

Safety Ninja

“I don’t... get it at all...”

Paul

“Dude, buzzkill much?”

Safety Ninja

“I’m just saying what’s the point of-“

Shade stretches out his arm and pats Safety Ninja on the head

Safety Ninja

“I’m so uncomfortable right now-“

Shade

“Ssssshhh, little baby boy... don’t worry, I’m here for you”

Paul

“Well... I’m uncomfortable now too”

Shade

“If you aren’t having a good time, you’re free to leave”

Safety Ninja

“No it’s not that it’s just that- yes I wanna leave”

Paul

“Ugh”

Safety Ninja

“Sorry, Shade you’re a nice person... but... you’re lawless... I need my rules, and you don’t seem to abide by any... not even physics \*he nudges the arm off him\* anyway, thanks for inviting me, but I’m gonna fold”

He gets up and walks off, waving on the way out

Paul

“Well look who handled that all maturely”

Shade

“Well, what’s the point in drama?”

Paul

“Nah man, you’re spitting facts! Now let’s finish this food, shapeshift yourself to have a digestive system!”

Shade

“Okay! \*pauses for like seven seconds\* done!”

Malcom bursts in

Malcom

“Paul, I need your help! Shade can come too”

Shade

“INCLUSION!”

Back with Tim, Alex and Lily

Tim

“Hey Alex, like our fort?”

Alex

“No, you tore apart an extremely expensive elevator”

Lily

“Malcom could... probably... yeah no this was stupid”

Tim

“What?! You too?! Wait... no you’re right... let’s fix it”

Malcom hops back in, with Paul and Shade

Malcom

“Fix”

Paul

“Yup got it”

He starts repairing it super quickly

Shade elbows Tim

Shade

“That’s my best friend”

Paul

“That’ll do it, we’re gonna... stay here... I’m not crawling through those vents again”

Hard cut, the elevator doors open, onto a big meeting table. Five people are sitting there, we recognize Tucker and Ricardio. The other three include a fairy, a mysterious person with stick figure limbs, and a woman.

Ricardio

“Well look who decided to show up, thirty minutes late!”

Malcom

“Had a bug with the elevator, literal bug”

Tucker and the stick limb man chuckle

Ricardio

“Shut it Tucker, you’re the one who- wait why are they here?”

He indicates Tim, Alex, Lily, Paul and Shade

The woman waves at them. Ricardio elbows her, then shakes his head, she leans back grumpily

Stick limb man

“They’ll have to wait in the elevator. We’re talking about things that don’t concern them”

Malcom

“Oh yeah of course... go wait in the elevator”

Tim

“But-“

Malcom

“Do it”

They all go in the elevator, Paul shuts the door

Malcom takes a seat

Malcom

“So?”

Ricardio looks at the stick limb man

Ricardio

“Codemaster Jessie, care to explain?”

Jessie

“It’s just Jessie, also very well. Tucker informed me that someone is attempting to activate the Eye of Agoro remotely”

Malcom

“What? The eye that was in Warwick’s scepter?”

Jessie

“That’s the one”

Malcom

“Ok... What does the Eye of Agoro do and why should I be worried about it?”

Jessie

“That’s Tucker’s territory”

Tucker

“Yes. The Eye of Agoro is one of the oldest and most deadly sorcerer relics... crafted by my student Travis, also known as the Blood Drainer. When he betrayed me, he made it as an alternate way to tell the future, as he wasn’t born with the gift”

Jessie chuckles

Tucker

“It backfired, showing him horrific images. The thing had dark energy of the likes no one had ever seen before... so he hid it... then once Warwick lost his powers and required alternate means, he crafted his scepter, using the Eye as a power source, using its dark energy for his own purposes...”

Jessie

“If left unchecked, this could be disastrous”

Malcom

“Got it... \*sigh\* I’ll see what I can do... I’ll be going now, bye Sally”

He turns and walks off, Sally smiles after him

Ricardio

“Oh yeah, makes sense. You don’t say a word the whole meeting, yet you get a goodbye? Of course... Codemaster Jessie!”

Jessie

“It’s just Jessie. What?”

Ricardio

“Help Tucker keep an eye on the Eye...”

Jessie

“I was gonna do that anyway, I don’t trust Tucker with jack-squat. Also, I better look at the future and whatnot, see how this Eye situation could turn out”

Ricardio

“Good, Tiny Turret, keep tailing the sorcerer generals”

The fairy nods with a squeaky grunt

Ricardio

“And Sally, keep on with your... uh, thing with Ex-Lord...”

Before Sally can respond, Ricardio keeps talking

Ricardio

“Okay, we’re done, meeting adjourned”

THE END