The Dealer - Transcript

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Chapter 16 - The Dealer

Angle on Randoms

Tim and Alex are inside, Tim is sitting on a desk while Alex is mopping

Tim

“Do you ever think about eternity?”

Alex mops in silence for a moment

Alex

“No”

They hear Malcom

Malcom

“What do you mean robbed?!”

Tim and Alex run over

Alex

“What’s the problem?!”

Malcom isn’t listening, he’s talking to Paul

Malcom

“Who was it?!”

Paul

“Sec-“

Malcom

“Was it Jameson, or Robert, or Laura?!”

Paul

“Jameson hasn’t left Oddity INC for weeks, Robert is currently missing and Laura has been running her company!”

Malcom

“Then it was Warwick! I always knew he’d come for revenge!”

Paul

“Warwick is... in the Mid-Realm still... so... not him...”

Malcom

“Nektis?”

Paul

“You obliterated Nektis...”

Alex

“Who’s Nektis?”

Malcom (dismissively)

“Old foe! WHO WAS IT?!

Paul

“Security footage captured this”

Security footage plays, showing a hooded figure enter, he’s chuckling

Malcom

“Who is that?”

Paul (sadly)

“No clue... he broke in, took some money and then left!”

Malcom

“Ricardio?”

Paul

“I thought so too! It’s not Ricardio...”

Malcom

“How do y-“

Paul

“SCIENCE! Still... they’re an unknown enemy...”

The trio looks worried

Intro plays

Malcom is sitting behind his desk. Tim, Alex, Shade and Paul are in front

Malcom

“Randoms INC is on total lockdown! You four are my top men! Defend it with your life!”

They all salute

Malcom

“Alright! Get going! Find this masked menace and take ‘em down!”

They split

Paul and Alex are one team, Tim and Shade are the other

Malcom pushes a button after they leave and a bunch of security monitors appear

Malcom

“Let’s find this clown!”

With Tim and Shade

Tim’s walking while Shade keeps trying to blend in to the walls

Tim

“You can stop, y’know... it’s not important”

Shade

“It’s very important! What if that shadowy figure attempts to kidnap me, because he’s jealous that I am also a shadowy figure!”

Tim

“Hmm. That makes sense actually!”

Shade

“Right?”

They hear something

Tim

“What was that?!”

Shade

“Uh...”

The lights go black

Tim

“Oh... fun...”

With Malcom

He sees the hooded man walking up chuckling

Malcom

“Gotcha now!”

He activates his security features. Giant guns and such

The Hooded Man looks up

He chuckles

They fire

He dodges, while chuckling

Malcom starts panicking, he presses all the buttons

The hooded man enters the vents

Malcom stops

Malcom

“Well... that’s not good”

With Tim and Shade

The hooded man lands behind them silently, from the vents above

Tim

“I feel a presence...”

??? (Distorted voice)

“No idea why that could be”

Tim jumps around

Tim

“Hooded guy!”

???

“Is that what I’m known as? Such a shame...”

He pulls out a card and hands it to Tim

Shade looks over Tim’s shoulder, reading the card

Tim

“It’s a business card”

Shade (reading aloud)

“Ex-Lord... weapons dealer and professional saboteur?”

Ex-Lord

“Ever wonder where Malcom’s enemies get their elaborate tools? Some invent, most contact me! \*chuckles\*”

Tim

“Soo... why are you here?”

Ex-Lord (sadly)

“I used to spend a lot of time here... (normal) but I’m here for you! Not nostalgia”

Tim

“Me?”

Ex-Lord

“No... him!”

Ex-Lord pulls out a harpoon gun, shoots it at Shade, it expands and tangles up Shade

Shade

“Agh!”

Ex-Lord

\*chuckles\* sorry, Shadow Man is very valuable... he should be enough for me to afford this new batch of weapons ordered by one Jameson Mameson! \*chuckles\*”

Tim

“You’re not getting away with this!”

Ex-Lord

“You have potential Tim! Meet me in central park, tomorrow at 9:00 PM! Then we’ll see what you think of my line of work! \*chuckles\*”

He vanishes

Tim

“Hmm”

Cut and it’s now tomorrow

Everyone is gathered in the cafeteria

Malcom

“We’re gathered here today, to honor Shade... he was a great-“

Tim

“Malcom, he’s not dead”

Malcom

“Cancel this...”

Everyone leaves

Malcom (annoyed)

“You didn’t think to tell me this before I arranged a funeral?”

Tim

“Not my brightest move!”

Malcom

“So what, what do you want?”

Tim

“Ex-Lord, the bad guy, he said to meet him in Central Park, tonight!”

Malcom

“Well, let’s prepare!”

Tim

“No, he made it clear that I was the one he wanted, so I’ll be going!”

Malcom

“Well... okay... I don’t feel comfortable leaving you with a dangerous weapons dealer though... hmm...”

Cut to that night, in Central Park

Tim walks out into the park

Cut to Malcom’s security room

Malcom

“Nice work on these hidden cameras Paul, let’s see how this goes...”

Back to Tim

He keeps walking, eyes darting back and forward

Ex-Lord

“Hello Timothy!”

He’s here

Tim

“Ex-Lord! Geez, where’s Shade?”

Ex-Lord

“We’ll get to that, \*chuckles\*, follow me. I have a task for you first...”

Tim looks suspiciously

He activates an earpiece

Tim

“Follow or don’t follow? Malcom? Malcom?”

Ex-Lord

“\*chuckles\* don’t even try, I hacked into your earpiece’s connection. I can’t have us followed”

Tim

“So, where’re we going?”

Ex-Lord

“\*chuckles\* down here...”

Tim looks down at a pothole

Tim

“Is that really necessary?”

Ex-Lord

“You want Shadow Man, do you not?”

Tim

“Um... well, y’see-“

Ex-Lord jumps down

Tim (to himself)

“He wants me in the sewer, guess I’m going in the sewer...”

Tim lands in the sewer tunnels

Tim

“Ex-Lord?”

Ex-Lord is walking off chuckling

Tim

“Yikes!”

He follows

Tim enters a laboratory

Tim

“What the- Shade!”

Shade is in a cage on the ceiling

Shade

“Oh hey Tim! I guess this is my life now! Heh”

Tim

“I’ll get you down from there!”

Ex-Lord gets in front of him

Ex-Lord

“Uh. Uh. Uh. We had an agreement...”

Tim

“Oh right... what kinda crazy thing do you want anyway?”

Ex-Lord

“There’s a deadly creature in these sewers, interfering with my work... I want to dispose of it! Bring me the creature and you get Shade”

Tim

“Okay... will do...”

Tim walks off, into the tunnel

Tim walks through the sewers

Tim

“Hello? Creature?”

A swoosh

Tim

“Agh! What was that?!”

The creature reveals itself

It’s a duck

Tim

“What...”

The duck looks up

And it starts singing

Duck

“🎶What have we here? It is a human person. He seems to be average height. I wonder why he’s here with me now, he gave me quite the fright🎶”

Tim

“You scared me! Not the other way around! What are you? Malcom never said anything about singing animals...”

Duck

“🎶how interesting, he seems to know Malcom. I heard he’s big and strong! A savior of all worlds, a hero who will always live on!🎶”

Tim

“Live on?”

Duck

“🎶let me explain! I’m talking about memories, even when he dies he will exist. Just in the minds of others, even when things are dimmest!🎶”

Tim

“Can you see the future or something?”

The duck opens its mouth, shuts it and then says sings

Duck

“🎶yes🎶”

Tim

“Okay... sooo... some creepy guy wants you, so c’mon!”

Duck

“🎶Ex-Lord is bad! He wants to use my powers for his selfish gain! How could you even consider bringing me such pain?🎶”

Tim

“No! It’s not like that!”

Duck

“🎶Clearly it is. I thought we could be friends, but clearly I was very... quite wrong. You are an awful man who I think should die in a dark hole🎶”

Tim

“That didn’t even rhyme! You’re coming with me!”

Duck

“🎶no!🎶”

Tim grabs the duck and walks with her

Tim

“Hopefully, once I give you to Ex-Lord, he’ll stop breaking into Randoms”

Duck

“🎶you are so dumb. I am all-knowing, that’s clearly why he wants me now. He’ll use my info, to make a plan on how to bring Randoms down!🎶”

Tim freezes

Tim

“What?!”

Duck

“🎶I-“

Tim

“No more singing!”

Duck

“I can’t help it”

Tim

“You didn’t sing just now!”

Duck

“I didn’t? 🎶I didn’t?🎶”

Tim

“You’re becoming my least favorite person! But you’re too important to be given to Ex-Lord... you also can’t stay in this sewer... hmm... I have an idea”

Tim walks back into Ex-lord’s lab

He is hiding the duck inside his jackets, it looks like he‘s a hunchback

Ex-Lord

“At long last \*chuckle\* you’re back! Did you get it?”

Tim

“Uh... the thing is, I’m horribly allergic to the sewers, lots of nasty stuff y’know, I think I’ll be leaving now!”

Ex-Lord

“\*chuckles\* the funny thing is, it wasn’t an option...”

Tim

“Eh- what?!”

Ex-Lord

“\*chuckles\* you think I would miss the duck? It’s obvious”

Tim (painfully obvious)

“Whaaaaaat Duuuuuuuck?”

Ex-Lord swoops over, grabs the duck, goes back to his spot

Tim

“I-“

Ex-Lord

“No need Tim, you did well! Once I crush Randoms, you will be spared \*chuckles\*”

Tim

“C-crush Randoms?!”

Ex-Lord

“\*laughs much louder\* you’re a fool! Too trusting! Now that I have what I want, (starts tossing the duck in the air and catching it again) I’ll be going! Ciao!”

Ex-Lord starts walking to the exits

Tim

“I can’t let you do that! They’re my family! I’ll fight to the death to protect them”

Ex-Lord’s creepy smile wavers for the first time

Ex-Lord (breathing heavily)

“That won’t do Tim, won’t do at all... fight to the death you say? That can be arranged!”

Ex-Lord rushes him

He pulls out a dagger

Tim

“You have a knife?!”

Ex-Lord

“Like it? Heh!“

They clash

The duck is thrown around

Duck

“🎶this hurts!🎶”

Ex-Lord swipes at Tim with the dagger, Tim ducks quickly

Ex-Lord (still fighting, smile back in place)

“Impressive performance! I’m very impressed! But you could be better!”

Ex-Lord fights with ferocity

Tim

“You’re easily the scariest villain I’ve ever fought!”

Ex-Lord pins him to the wall

Ex-Lord

“I try. \*chuckles\* any last words?

???

“Nope!”

Ex-Lord

“What?!”

He turns, Malcom, Paul and Alex are here

Shade

“Yaaaay! I’m saved!”

Ex-Lord

“I- uh... grr...”

Malcom snaps, bringing his flying sword

Alex pulls out a bat

Paul grabs a ray gun from his pocket

All are looking at Ex-Lord

Ex-Lord

“My friends, this is all a big misunderstanding! I’m just taking this duck, that’s all! You don’t want it!”

Tim

“The Duck is a Psychic”

Malcom

“I’ll be taking that!”

Ex-Lord

“No! It’s mine!”

Ex-Lord grabs the duck

Malcom finally wrestles it from him

Malcom

“Any last words before I knock that dumb hood off your head?”

Ex-Lord starts slow clapping

Ex-Lord

“\*chuckles\* you think I’m done? Well, you’re a bigger fool than you look! I’ll continue to be an asset to all of your greatest enemies, give them weapons, help them with funding, but that’s all temporary... just know, your past will always come back to haunt you...”

He starts crawling up the walls like a bug

Ex-Lord

“See ya soon!”

He chuckles as he exits

Paul

“What a creep”

Alex

“Yup! Let’s go home now!”

Tim

“Yeah, that was slightly traumatic!”

Malcom

“It can’t be...”

Tim

“You alright?”

Enter Malcom flashback

We see Porta, in a noir style. It’s raining, suddenly Malcom and two other silhouettes appear. There’s an explosion, then two of the silhouettes run back

End of flashback

Alex

“Malcom?”

Malcom

“Huh? Oh yeah.. I’m just wondering where we should put this duck thingy”

They leave

Shade is still caged

Shade

“Uh... guys?”

Cut. Ex-Lord is walking on top of buildings, chuckling like a creep

He sneaks through the vents of one building and lands on the ground behind a large chair

Ex-Lord

“Ah yes, another villain who requires my assistance... \*chuckles\* how may I serve, Jameson Mameson?”

The chair swivels to reveal Jameson

The end