Ex-Energy - Transcript

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Chapter 55 - Ex-Energy

Angle on Randoms INC, the subtitle indicates that this is back in the 90s... it literally says “Randoms Tower, 1998”

We cut to a shot of Carl, leaving the Randoms Elite Meeting Room. The others are also preparing to leave

Carl

“Well, goodbye, same time next week? Just kidding, I know!”

Malcom

“Yep, see you then!”

Carl

“Heh...”

Carl exits, goes down the elevator, leaves Malcom’s office, and reaches the lab... he collapses on his desk looking exhausted

Carl

“Guh...”

He glances down at his wallet

Carl

“I guess... desperate times call for desperate measures... just this once...”

He glances at the door, it’s closed. Carl opens his computer, checks his messages, seeing someone asking for “one of those cool blowy uppy things”

Carl

“Alright... sorry Malcom...”

Hard cut, seeing the modern Robert Eager sitting in the exact same position, pull out to reveal he’s overseeing production of the robotic army

Robert watches in silence, as ominous music plays... then Jameson bursts in

Jameson

“Honey, I’m home!”

Robert turns

Jameson

“Y’know, it’s like a funny sitcom catchphrase? Laugh!”

Robert

“No, where were you?”

Jameson

“I thought we swore off toilet humor!”

Robert

“Okay... oh, I get it now”

Jameson

“Yeah! I’m great!”

Robert

“I actually have a job for you, I left some parts at your cave house thing... remember? You stayed there for awhile”

Jameson

“The nights were the hardest”

Robert

“Well anyway, I left some parts over there. Can you grab them? I’m a bit busy overviewing the army production process”

Jameson

“A mission? I’M BEING TRUSTED! YOU CAN COUNT ON ME!”

Robert

“Good”

Wilson bursts in

Wilson

“I’m coming too!”

Robert

“Why?”

Wilson

“Um, because I need to?”

Robert

“Um... fine... leave...”

Wilson

“Come on Jameson”

Jameson

“No I’m leading!”

They both exit, and Robert turns back to the robot army

Intro plays

Angle on the door to Malcom’s office. Sally and Alex enter

Sally

“Hey Mal- OH MY-“

Malcom is standing in front of a massive “conspiracy board,” and he looks tired

Malcom

“Sally, Alex... I... I did it...”

Alex

“This looks healthy...”

Sally

“Malcom! Explain?”

Malcom

“I’ve been calculating where Robert Eager’s hideout is... so we can stop him and Jameson? I think I found it!”

Alex

“Really? Where is it?”

Malcom

“So... hear me out... Oddity INC!”

Alex and Sally glance at each other

Alex

“Jameson’s old company?”

Sally

“Um... how?”

Malcom

“Well, ever since I bought the company nearly three years ago, I haven’t set foot in there... or given it a second thought... so, yeah...”

Sally

“Should we go check it out?”

Malcom

“Absolutely, we‘ll need to get the whole team together!”

Alex

“I’ll call a meeting!”

Hard cut, all the main employees are gathered in the lobby. Malcom standing on top of the front desk

Malcom

“Alright gentlemen, we believe we may have located the base of Ex-Lord”

Everyone gasps

Paul

“Where?”

Malcom

“Oddity INC, Jameson’s old company building, that place”

Quiet murmurs

Malcom

“Tim is checking now”

Cut to Tim, entering Oddity INC. it’s horribly decrepit, cobwebs, cracks, it’s a wreck

Tim (nervously)

“Mmm”

He spots a small hole, sighs, then crawls into it. After crawling for awhile, he arrives at the exit, and sees a massive building, he yells in fear

Tim

“That’s large! Oh lord, that’s bad!”

Cut back to Malcom, and the meeting. Tim bursts in

Tim

“We found it!”

Malcom

“Boom, ladies and gentlemen?”

Shade

“Woo! Good boss, making your kid climb to a potentially deadly location! I dig it”

Malcom

“Don’t love that...”

P-Sauce

“So.... what’s the plan?”

Malcom

“So glad you asked! \*Clears throat,\* listen closely!”

Cut to Jameson and Wilson, heading to the cave

Jameson (singing)

“Walking, walking to a cave! Oh look, what’s that? Is it a bear? It’s gonna kill you! You’re dead, liver wrapped around a tree! You’re dead!”

Wilson

“Shut up”

Jameson

“Ugh, that’s no way to talk to your superior”

Wilson

“Heh, you ain’t anybody’s superior chief”

Jameson

“But you just called my chief! That implies I’m your superior!”

Wilson

“Alrighty, look dude. You might have yourself tricked, and Ex-Lord tricked, but I know the truth. You’re pathetic, you weren’t a good worker, you’re not even a good villain! You’re literally useless!”

Jameson freezes

Wilson

“But, it doesn’t have to be that way... I’ve been doing this for years, and I’m sure if you allowed me to train you...”

Wilson shrugs

Wilson

“But you probably couldn’t handle it”

Jameson

“I TOTALLY COULD I’M GREAT! LET ME IN!”

Wilson smirks

Wilson

“Well, alright, if ya say so”

Cut into Oddity INC, everyone involved with the plan is gathered

Malcom

“You guys know the plan? Back and forward?”

Shade

“Yup! Can I do my part?”

Malcom

“Yes, and hurry!”

Shade

“Gotcha Malcom!”

Shade shapeshifts into a guy in a jacket and a beanie

Malcom

“So Shade disguises as one of Robert’s thugs, sneaks Paul in, and together they deactivate the security cameras, got it?”

Paul

“Got it!”

Paul drinks a potion, causing him to shrink

Paul

“Let’s do this!”

Shade

“Yep!”

Shade puts Paul in his jacket pocket

Shade

“See ya guys, hope we don’t die!”

They head off, through the tunnel

Tim

“Good luck, don’t die!”

Lily

“Yeah, that would suck...”

Alex

“Yeah... now I’m sad...”

Malcom

“Okay... guh...”

Sally puts her hand on Malcom’s shoulder

Sally

“Hey, we got this! We’re gonna beat him this time... I promise”

Malcom

“Sal, I love you, but don’t make promises you can’t keep... we’ve failed so many times...”

Sally

“But this time he doesn’t see us coming”

Malcom

“How do you know? I-

Sally

“Come with me please... private word...”

They exit the building

Malcom

“Okay, we’re alone”

Sally

“Malcom... what’s with you? You’ve been acting really surly lately, and I’m not sure why...”

Malcom

“I haven’t been-“

Sally

“YOU HAVE! Ever since Capital City, is it about retirement? Or what?”

Malcom

“Sally... I didn’t do-“

Sally

“Malcom, please... tell me... I- \*tears up\* I care about you too much to see you like this”

Malcom opens his mouth, closes it again, then sighs

Malcom

“Sally... I... I killed Braveheart...”

They stand in silence

Malcom

“For everything I’ve done, I have never directly ended a human life, and now? Well... I’m just as bad as Warwick aren’t I? I killed someone! I’m in a position of power, and I killed him! Worse, I didn’t have to, he was willing to give up, but I... I did it anyway...”

Sally looks at him

Malcom

“Please answer, I’ve long since accepted the truth... I’m a bad person, I’ve known that for ye-“

Sally hugs him

Sally

“Malcom... we’ve got this, alright?”

Malcom hugs her back

Malcom

“I trust you”

Cut to the exit of the tunnel, Shade arrives (in disguise). He walks inside confidently

Shade

“See that? Rad”

Paul (tiny)

“Could’ve had a bit more swagger”

Shade

“Oh, I’d love to see you try”

He enters the building, looks around, spots another goon

Shade

“Hello fellow Ex-Lordian servant! Was wondering where the security room was, orders from the boss”

Goon

“Yeah, the new base is pretty confusing. Second floor, third door”

Shade

“Gotcha! Thanks byyyyyye!”

Shade runs off

Shade (whispering)

“Already terrified, don’t mess up”

Paul

“Wouldn’t dream of it”

Cut back to Jameson and Wilson, now in front of a campfire

Wilson

“The secret to being a true tough guy? Heh... well, let me explain”

Jameson

“I’m listening, ears are perked... that’s a thing right?”

Wilson

“Sure... so look, it’s half in the attitude”

Jameson

“It’s-“

Wilson

“Already failed. See, you’re a goofball, okay? A wingnut! A knucklehead mcspazatron”

Jameson

“To the point...”

Wilson

“So you’re gonna have to up that intimidation factor, right?”

Jameson

“Sure...”

Wilson

“Mmm?”

Jameson

“I mean... yeah, whatever”

Wilson

“That’s a bit better...”

Cut back to Paul and Shade, they arrive at the security room. Shade enters holding Paul, and puts him onto the control board

Shade

“Do your thing”

Paul

“Ha! You can tell it’s Robert! Amateur hour”

He cracks his knuckles and gets to work as some music starts playing

Cut back to Oddity INC, where everyone is waiting... we zoom into Malcom and get a song.

(Malcom)

“I admit I’m in a bad place-

Kind of a disgrace to the human race,

Wake up every morning in fear-

Wish that my joy could take the wheel and shift gears,

But maybe this whole thing will turn out just fine-

We’re gonna capture Ex-Lord, and be back to normal in no time,

Yet as usual that’s unrealistic thinking-

Going back into a real bad place.

(Sally)

“Malcom that’s enough doubting yourself, if things go wrong, it’s not your fault-

Listen to my words, if you let Braveheart get away we probably wouldn’t be here today,

You’ll be feeling great in no time-

Trust your wife when she says everything will be just fine,

Just keep on smiling and let’s do this

You’re gonna end up in a real good place!”

(Camera pans over to the kids)

(Tim)

“I admit things have been better, not feeling great about my two mentors right now”

(Alex)

“For the first time in awhile things are going fine, but Jameson’s one person to which I refuse to bow”

(Lily)

“I’m healing my relationship with my mother, and that’s pretty cool, like, holy cow!”

(All Five, singing their verses at the same time, all ending with the word “place” in harmony)

Malcom: “I’m kind of in a real bad plaaaaaaaaaace”

Alex: “Finally in a real good plaaaaaaaaaace”

Tim: “I admit I’m not in a real good plaaaaaaaaaace”

Lily: “I really am in a real good plaaaaaaaaaace”

Sally: “Malcom you’ll be in a real good plaaaaaaaaaace”

Hard cut to the security room, Paul finishes up and the cameras all turn off

Paul

“Ah-boo yah!”

Shade

“Woo! Nailed it!”

Shade activates an earpiece

Shade

“Malcom, cameras are down! It’s time for phase 2!”

Malcom

“On it, okay, P-Sauce, Safety Ninja, Anne, Lily. You guys are gonna head through the tunnel, enter the building, and start planting explosives on the factory machines”

P-Sauce

“You mean the- um... the -“

Safety Ninja

“Factory machines?”

Anne

“Factory machines...”

P-Sauce

“There’s gotta be a better name for it”

Lily

“Let it go dude”

P-Sauce (disappointed)

“Okaaaaay...”

Hard cut, they exit through the other side of the tunnel

Safety Ninja

“Oh geez... last time I really saw Jameson, I ratted him out to Malcom and sent him on this dark path...”

Anne

“No blaming yourself! You’re way too hot!”

P-Sauce

“We need to double date sometime”

Lily

“\*loud wheeze\*”

They enter the building sneakily, Shade appears behind them

Shade

“You got the goods?”

Anne

“Yeah, we’re heading to the factory now!”

Shade

“Sweet, and since I’m in disguise-“

Lily

“You’re not”

Shade looks angry, hard cut he’s in disguise again

Shade

“And since I’m in disguise, I can pretend like you’re my prisoners! Y’know, if anyone asks”

P-Sauce

“Good call!”

Safety Ninja

“Potentially unsafe...”

Anne

“If you do it I’ll make you cornbread”

Safety Ninja

“Oh, well if that’s the case-“

Cut to Jameson and Wilson, a quick montage of Jameson training, and failing, as Wilson just glares at him from the shadows

After they’re done, Jameson and Wilson eat lunch

Jameson

“Uh, so what now?”

Wilson

“This”

He pulls out his mechanical hand, and starts charging a laser blast

Jameson

“Whoa what-“

Wilson

“I ain’t gonna sugar coat it. You ruined everything! Ex-Lord was gonna pay me good money, and now that you’re tired out, I’m gonna kill ya! Ex-Lord’ll be in charge again, and I’ll be filthy rich!”

Jameson

“Oh... okay”

He jumps out of the way, narrowly avoiding Wilson’s blast

Jameson runs through the woods

Wilson

“You can’t hide forever!”

Jameson takes out his scepter, and glares into it

Jameson

“Help me mysterious voice!”

It makes a pulsing noise

Jameson

“Oh, that’s good”

Jameson stops, turns, and blasts at Wilson, who blocks with the mechanical hand, but it still hurts him

Wilson

“So, it’s a fair fight? Great, wouldn’t have it any other way!”

Jameson

“I made a mistake...”

Cut back to the factory, the gang is planting explosives on the mechanisms

Safety Ninja

“This is gonna end horribly...”

Anne

“Well with that attitude, sure”

Lily

“We’ve almost got all the explosives down, we’re really doing this!”

Shade

“Woo!”

???

“Great job guys, knew we could do it!”

P-Sauce

“Thanks Ex-Lord! I can always count- HOLY-“

Ex-Lord is there

Ex-Lord

“Greetings! Remove them...”

Some goons run out and grab them all

Ex-Lord

“Oh this is just perfect, you brainiacs really didn’t see it coming? \*chuckles,\* I’m embarrassed”

Lily

“Malcom’ll save us!”

Ex-Lord

“Oh miss Boyer, trust me... I’m counting on it...”

He walks off smugly, as Lily looks horrified

P-Sauce

“Whoa... that felt like something someone would say right before the endgame... oh wait, we’re that close to the end? Oh... oh wow...”

Cut to Malcom, in Oddity INC

Malcom

“Something’s wrong... Shade hasn’t sent any messages for a few minutes now...”

Sally

“I’m sure it’s fine”

Malcom

“No, I knew it, I’m going in!”

Sally

“I am too!”

Alex

“Us too!”

Tim

“We are?”

Alex

“Yes!”

Tim

“Oh alright! WOO!”

Malcom

“Okay guys, let’s do this...”

They run into the tunnel, run through the tunnel, run out of the tunnel, run into the new base

Malcom

“SHOW YOURSELF EX-LORD!”

Ex-Lord

“You good?”

Malcom turns, looking furious

Ex-Lord

“Heh, bit dramatic?”

Malcom

“Not at all... Carl Franklin...”

Ex-Lord suddenly looks shocked

Ex-Lord

“You- you know about that? But, I- how did you-“

Malcom

“I figured it out”

Alex

“We helped!”

Malcom

“Now I’d like you to answer one question”

Ex-Lord

“What?”

Malcom looks furious, and then... breaks down, drooping

Malcom (in tears)

“Why... why did you do this? Why are you so determined to kill me? I thought we were friends!”

Alex looks heartbroken, Tim looks shocked, and Sally is trying to keep it in

Ex-Lord sighs

Ex-Lord

“You didn’t make things easy y’know... you weren’t paying enough to make ends meet... I had to quit, but in an attempt to spare your feelings... I didn’t tell you...”

Malcom

“Three years ago... you tried to poison me...”

Ex-Lord

“I admit I resorted to science to try and clear my conscience, the results weren’t kind on my mental health...”

Malcom

“So you tried to kill me?!”

Ex-Lord

“I wasn’t myself... entirely... it just increased my resentment...”

Malcom snaps his fingers

Malcom

“You’re a traitor... A TRAITOR!”

Ex-Lord

“It’s... it’s true...”

Malcom

“You’re scum! SCUM!”

Ex-Lord

“Whoa, bit much don’t you think?”

Malcom snaps his fingers, the Blade of Anubis soars in through the window, he corners Ex-Lord

Ex-Lord

“Wait, let’s not, let’s think about it”

Malcom

“I KILLED BRAVEHEART! AND WHAT YOU’VE DONE IS FAR, FAR WORSE!”

Ex-Lord trips and falls onto the ground

Ex-Lord

“Thats... that’s true...”

Malcom

“You’re time is up... you deserve this... YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING!”

Now the kids look terrified, as well as Sally, and Ex-Lord...

Malcom prepares to slash... but stops... we cut back, revealing Sally hugging him

Malcom stiffens, dropping the sword, and collapsing on his knees

Malcom (blankly)

“I... I didn’t want... I-“

Sally (whispering)

“I know... I know...”

Tim and Alex are both just watching, then they look at Ex-Lord, making sure he doesn’t scamper

Cut back to Jameson and Wilson, the fight is leveling the forest, finally Wilson gets the high ground

Jameson

“Oh dear”

Wilson charges up a bigger blast

Wilson

“Sayonara Jameson”

Jameson

“ANY ADVICE?!”

He lifts his scepter, which hums softly

Jameson

“You sure?”

Wilson is about to fire

The scepter drags Jameson’s arm into position

Jameson

“Whoa...”

It blasts Wilson, knocking him down...

The scepter hums again

Jameson

“Well... here we go...”

Wilson is lying under a tree

Wilson

“Gah, ow... uh, LET ME OUT!”

Jameson stands over him

Wilson

“You! Help me!”

Jameson

“Sorry...”

He lifts the scepter above Wilson’s head, and prepares to fire

Wilson simply gasps, and we cut back to Malcom

He and Sally finally break apart

Malcom

“I’m sorry you all had to see that... I admit... my mental state hasn’t been the best recently...”

Sally

“We can help you through it!”

Alex

“We’re a family, we got your back”

Tim

“Yeah!”

Malcom

“Thanks guys... (at Ex-Lord) as for you-”

Ex-Lord is just staring up

Malcom

“Free the others...”

Ex-Lord

“Yes, yes of course!”

He scampers away

Malcom

“You’re right Sally... he’s not worth it”

Sally

“Still, if we could-“

Malcom

“Of course, but-“

Sally

“Yeah...”

Tim and Alex both hug Malcom, who grunts in surprise

Malcom

“Okay people, for reals, the hugging is not a permanent thing”

Suddenly, they hear the sound of frantic beeping, and all suddenly look shocked

Alex

“He didn’t...”

Malcom

“He did...”

They run outside, just in time to see Ex-Lord escaping via helicopter

Malcom

“YOU COWARD!”

Ex-Lord

“Should’ve killed me! I’ve come this close to freedom Malcom! YOU AREN’T STOPPING ME!”

Malcom

“THAT LITTLE-“

Shade appears, he was disguised as a bush

Shade

“Malcom, Lily, P-Sauce, Anne and Safety Ninja are still in there!”

Paul

“Yes!”

Malcom

“Gah! You three stay put, I’ll be back!”

He runs into the building

Tim and Sally

“Malcom!”

Alex

“Oh lord!”

Malcom runs through the building, arrives in the factory room to see the four employees tied up

Safety Ninja

“Boss!”

P-Sauce

“Help us dude!”

Malcom snaps his fingers, grabs the sword, slides the ropes

Malcom

“Hurry up!”

They all run out, barely making it, as the building explodes behind them... mirroring exactly what happened when Carl faked his death, but this time... Malcom started in a bad place and ended up succeeding in his rescue, and improving his mental health in the process

Malcom

“You guys okay?”

They all mutter in agreement, except Lily

Malcom

“Lily, are you oka-“

Lily hugs him

Lily

“Thanks dad...”

Malcom looks touched at this, then quickly regains himself

Malcom

“Again, hugs are a today thing...”

Tim

“Robert got away!”

Malcom

“I know... but we got rid of his factory, his raid is gonna look pretty pathetic without everything that was in there... I’m feeling confident kids... we got this...”

Sally

“I’m making dinner... for everyone, let’s go!”

They cheer, and begin making their way off

Cut to Ex-Lord, in the helicopter, his phone rings and he answers it to reveal its Jameson who called him

Jameson

“Hey Exy!”

Ex-Lord

“Hey, how’d it go?”

Jameson

“Uh, fine... okay no, me and Wilson got in a little tussle, but we’re fine now! How about you?”

Ex-Lord

“Not much better, the factory is destroyed... luckily, it’s not hopeless... we still have our spy”

Jameson

“Ugh! Safety Ninja better not screw up!”

Ex-Lord

“Uh, it’s Ricardio...”

Jameson

“Oh right... well she better not mess up!”

Ex-Lord

“Literally a man...”

Jameson

“Oh okay, I lov-“

Ex-Lord hangs up, and looks out the window... seeming a bit... maybe... almost... remorseful...

Jameson looks down at the Eye of Agoro... and it cracks, causing Jameson’s eyes to go wide

Jameson

“Oh dear...”

THE END