Post by Nathan on Jul 24, 2004 16:03:16 GMT -6
All My Mehlville
Foundations Trilogy
A Drama Written by Nathan Shepard and
Assisted by Theresa Lochhaas
Episode Three: “The Battle for Paradise”
Narrator: Welcome again to All My Mehlville. Things certainly have gotten strange around here, eh? What’s up with that Shadow person? I mean, c’mon, what is up with him?! And Nathan acting all Hitler-like at the end? But with a title like “Battle for Paradise” this episode will certainly explain everything, even the emu sub plot that the dumb writer seems to have forgotten until just now when he wrote my script.
Scene- Football field
[NDF and PP are assembled, in full Battalion ranks, facing each other]
Tree: Lt. Sherry! Where is the Grand Commander?
Sherry: I don’t know, Supreme Leader Tree... I last saw him in the announcer’s tower talking with the Prep Premier Nicole.
Tree: What?? Why didn’t you tell me? That is very peculiar!!
[Tree uses her teleportation power to zap herself up to the tower]
Nicole: Can’t you see we are having a private conversation?
Tree: Nathan what are you doing here?
[Nathan turns to Tree after seeming to stare deep into her soul and his face melts into Shadow]
Tree: Ah! [She zaps back to the NDF command post]
Sherry: Was it him?
Tree: No, it was the Shadow figure I’ve told you about sis.
Sherry: Did you realize that that was the first time the audience could’ve known we are sisters?
Tree: Hey, I guess you’re right. Hey writer! Explain this!
Narrator: Well, I’m sorry, I just forgot!
Sherry: We’re sorry; it must be hard to write a trilogy of this magnitude.
Narrator: You have no idea, woman.
[Nathan enters football field with a large Battalion of Jocks]
Tree: How did you get them?
Nathan: I just found them in Gym B on my way out. They were neutral until I promised them they could play football after we get off the field.
Emily: That is so stereotypical of their clique! [Laughs]
Nathan: That is our Special Forces Battalion you are laughing at Lt.! I suggest you put your “stereotypes” aside and lead your loner Battalion.
Emily: Yes, Your Excellency.
[NDF scout returns from front lines]
Scout: Excellency, sir, the attack has begun, the Patrol has charged us!
Nathan: [To Tree] Has the return charge order been given?
Tree: The Force has been instructed to charge at the first sign of hostility.
Sherry: There, see? The First Strike Battalion is moving, I’m needed at my Battalion, excuse me Your Excellency.
Nathan: [Suddenly appears in velvet robe and royal crown] You are excused Lt., Tree, would you be so kind as to fetch me my scepter?
Tree: Your what?? Nathan, you are taking this Defense Force Grand Commander thing a bit too far.
Nathan: What do you mean? I only asked for my attack log ledger.
Tree: [Nathan returns to normal clothes in Tree’s eyes] What? ... but ... you just had a robe and crown on! And you asked for a scepter!
Nathan: Um ... no...
Tree: That shadow! He has the power to appear as someone else ... I’ll bet he has something to do with my hallucinations!
[The NDF and PP are in heated combat when suddenly both armies are knocked to their backs by an unseen force emanating from a point that is slowly darkening.]
Nathan: Egad! What is that?
[The dark spot becomes darker until Shadow steps from it]
Tree: You again!!
Nicole: What is the meaning of this!
Nathan: I knew something big was gonna happen...
Shadow: Nathan, Tree, Nicole, lead your armies into this portal, all will be explained on the other side.
[Shadow goes through the portal]
Nathan: [To Tree] I think we should check it out first, we have powers that may be able to protect us.
Tree: I agree, the prospect of explanations is just too good to pass up.
[Nathan and Tree walk through the portal only to be forced back out]
Nathan: But the Shadow told us to go through.
[Sherry and Emily walk up]
Sherry: The Shadow said Nathan, Tree, and Nicole’s armies. I think we have to all go through at once somehow.
Nathan: Very insightful. I will try to convince the Premier.
Nicole: [As she approaches through throngs of confused Preps] No need Grand Commander, no need. This Shadow has helped us both, and hindered us. We must go in it’s home to find it’s weakness and crush it so we may continue here.
Tree: While I don’t agree with your reasons, we still need all of us to enter.
Nicole- Preps! Follow me into the portal, you will not be harmed!
Nathan: Defense Force, follow me!
Scene ends as the combined forces of the Defense Force and the Prep Patrol march through the enlarged portal.
Scene- Shadow Dimension, the NDF and PP are standing in the middle of a large, black landscape with two dim lights above.
Nathan: I can barely see a thing!
Nicole: How can we that Shadow in these... shadows?
Tree: Be persistent, I’m sure the path will reveal itself!
[As Tree ends her line the dense shadows lighten to reveal Shadow standing beside a magnificent throne made of diamonds and gold.]
Emily: Oh, the Throne of Far- Rue! We shouldn’t be seeing this at all! It’s only a myth!
Nathan: What is the meaning of this, Shadow!
Shadow: My name is not that of dark things, Shadow is not my name, but my name cannot be spoken here at all.
Nicole: Is that your throne?
Shadow: Oh no, I dare not even touch it for my master will surly destroy me.
Tree: You mean there is a being seemingly more powerful then you?
Shadow: Oh yes, he is immensely more powerful then I. But all four of us equal his power.
Nathan: What are you implying?
Shadow: With your super powers and the two armies, you will be able to help me stop my master from starting a universal cataclysm!
Nicole: Since you gave me my powers why couldn’t you just give everyone powers and give us a huge advantage?
Shadow: I could only give one other being powers. I chose you because, through uncanny guessing skills, I determined that only you could unite the students that Nathan and Tree could have no influence on, the preps.
Nathan: Interesting.... now tell us what... [Nathan breaks of as the Master appears]
Shadow: Master! Please do not destroy me.... [Master raises his hand and Shadow is enveloped in pure light, then millions of rays of light project from his body as Shadow vanishes]
Tree: No!!! For some reason I think Shadow held all the answers to this!!
Nathan: No time for that, we have to fight off the Master.
Nicole: I agree. [To the Prep Patrol] We need to unify! You are now Natopian Defense Enforcers! Take orders from Grand Commander Nathan!
Nathan: Thank you Nicole, [To NDF] attack the Master!!
[The NDF charges the Master who has remained motionless, still with his hand in the air]
Nathan: Tree, Nicole, we need to assist the defense Force!
[Nathan, Tree, and Nicole run up to the Master and begin relentlessly attacking]
Nicole: Now may be a good time for that electro-bomb Nathan!
Tree: I agree! Let’s all use one!! Concentrate on the flashing red dot on his forehead!
Nathan: OK, that’s usually the weak point in video games!
[Three electro-bombs hit the flashing red dot on the Masters forehead at the same time. The Master collapses]
Nathan: Phew that was easy.
Nicole: I don’t like it....
Nathan: Aww.... why are you always complaining? We won!!
[The Master stands up and raises both hands as the entire NDF erupts into pure light]
End of Scene
Scene- Shadow’s Dimension, Master battle field
[Nathan, Nicole, Tree, Sherry and Emily are left alone, standing against the Master]
Nathan: Sherry, Emily, I’m so glad you survived!! And for some reason I am not suspicious at all!
Nicole: I am.
Emily and Sherry: Shut up!
Nicole: Jeeze.
Tree: While you four are conversing the Master is standing just 4 feet away from us.
Nathan: Oh crap.
Tree: What do you want from us?!
Master: I want only the safety of the Queen to be ensured!
Nathan: what queen?
Master: How dare you insult my intelligence!! Hand her to me or you will be destroyed as your army has been!
Tree: We know of no queens though!
Emily: I know a queen.
Sherry: You do? Wow! Who?
Emily: [dramatic pause as she looks each person deeply in the eyes] The Master wants me. I am the Queen it wants. This is Emilyland.
Nathan: HAHA!!! Please, please Emily; we need to be serious here.
[Emily begins to transform into a being similar to the Master but taller and much more regally adorned.]
Queen Emily: I am the Queen of this Land! You will obey me and only me! I will bring back your army only if you swear to lead them under my flag! You will lead them to conquer any world I wish you to.
Nathan: Tree, we must save our soldiers, they are our friends!
Nicole: But we can’t give in to Emily!
Tree: This is the master that Shadow was speaking of.... not the first Master.... I’m sure of the exact hierarchy...
Nathan: This conquering must be the cataclysm Shadow was speaking of.
Nicole: Queen Emily, if you pursue this Universal Conquest, the entire universe could destroy itself!
Emily: I care not for this universe.
Tree: We have no choice, we have to save our friends... bring them back Queen Emily.
End of Scene
Scene- Earth, MHS, football field
Nathan: How did we get back here?
Nicole: Ask the Narrator fellow... he hasn’t done much this episode.
Narrator: There hasn’t been much to do Ms. Nicole; you’ve been standing off against the Defense Force for hours.
Nathan: But, we just returned from the Shadow Dimension, all of us!
Narrator: Whatever.
Tree: Not even the Narrator knew we were gone? This is really bizarre.
Foundations Trilogy
A Drama Written by Nathan Shepard and
Assisted by Theresa Lochhaas
Episode Three: “The Battle for Paradise”
Narrator: Welcome again to All My Mehlville. Things certainly have gotten strange around here, eh? What’s up with that Shadow person? I mean, c’mon, what is up with him?! And Nathan acting all Hitler-like at the end? But with a title like “Battle for Paradise” this episode will certainly explain everything, even the emu sub plot that the dumb writer seems to have forgotten until just now when he wrote my script.
Scene- Football field
[NDF and PP are assembled, in full Battalion ranks, facing each other]
Tree: Lt. Sherry! Where is the Grand Commander?
Sherry: I don’t know, Supreme Leader Tree... I last saw him in the announcer’s tower talking with the Prep Premier Nicole.
Tree: What?? Why didn’t you tell me? That is very peculiar!!
[Tree uses her teleportation power to zap herself up to the tower]
Nicole: Can’t you see we are having a private conversation?
Tree: Nathan what are you doing here?
[Nathan turns to Tree after seeming to stare deep into her soul and his face melts into Shadow]
Tree: Ah! [She zaps back to the NDF command post]
Sherry: Was it him?
Tree: No, it was the Shadow figure I’ve told you about sis.
Sherry: Did you realize that that was the first time the audience could’ve known we are sisters?
Tree: Hey, I guess you’re right. Hey writer! Explain this!
Narrator: Well, I’m sorry, I just forgot!
Sherry: We’re sorry; it must be hard to write a trilogy of this magnitude.
Narrator: You have no idea, woman.
[Nathan enters football field with a large Battalion of Jocks]
Tree: How did you get them?
Nathan: I just found them in Gym B on my way out. They were neutral until I promised them they could play football after we get off the field.
Emily: That is so stereotypical of their clique! [Laughs]
Nathan: That is our Special Forces Battalion you are laughing at Lt.! I suggest you put your “stereotypes” aside and lead your loner Battalion.
Emily: Yes, Your Excellency.
[NDF scout returns from front lines]
Scout: Excellency, sir, the attack has begun, the Patrol has charged us!
Nathan: [To Tree] Has the return charge order been given?
Tree: The Force has been instructed to charge at the first sign of hostility.
Sherry: There, see? The First Strike Battalion is moving, I’m needed at my Battalion, excuse me Your Excellency.
Nathan: [Suddenly appears in velvet robe and royal crown] You are excused Lt., Tree, would you be so kind as to fetch me my scepter?
Tree: Your what?? Nathan, you are taking this Defense Force Grand Commander thing a bit too far.
Nathan: What do you mean? I only asked for my attack log ledger.
Tree: [Nathan returns to normal clothes in Tree’s eyes] What? ... but ... you just had a robe and crown on! And you asked for a scepter!
Nathan: Um ... no...
Tree: That shadow! He has the power to appear as someone else ... I’ll bet he has something to do with my hallucinations!
[The NDF and PP are in heated combat when suddenly both armies are knocked to their backs by an unseen force emanating from a point that is slowly darkening.]
Nathan: Egad! What is that?
[The dark spot becomes darker until Shadow steps from it]
Tree: You again!!
Nicole: What is the meaning of this!
Nathan: I knew something big was gonna happen...
Shadow: Nathan, Tree, Nicole, lead your armies into this portal, all will be explained on the other side.
[Shadow goes through the portal]
Nathan: [To Tree] I think we should check it out first, we have powers that may be able to protect us.
Tree: I agree, the prospect of explanations is just too good to pass up.
[Nathan and Tree walk through the portal only to be forced back out]
Nathan: But the Shadow told us to go through.
[Sherry and Emily walk up]
Sherry: The Shadow said Nathan, Tree, and Nicole’s armies. I think we have to all go through at once somehow.
Nathan: Very insightful. I will try to convince the Premier.
Nicole: [As she approaches through throngs of confused Preps] No need Grand Commander, no need. This Shadow has helped us both, and hindered us. We must go in it’s home to find it’s weakness and crush it so we may continue here.
Tree: While I don’t agree with your reasons, we still need all of us to enter.
Nicole- Preps! Follow me into the portal, you will not be harmed!
Nathan: Defense Force, follow me!
Scene ends as the combined forces of the Defense Force and the Prep Patrol march through the enlarged portal.
Scene- Shadow Dimension, the NDF and PP are standing in the middle of a large, black landscape with two dim lights above.
Nathan: I can barely see a thing!
Nicole: How can we that Shadow in these... shadows?
Tree: Be persistent, I’m sure the path will reveal itself!
[As Tree ends her line the dense shadows lighten to reveal Shadow standing beside a magnificent throne made of diamonds and gold.]
Emily: Oh, the Throne of Far- Rue! We shouldn’t be seeing this at all! It’s only a myth!
Nathan: What is the meaning of this, Shadow!
Shadow: My name is not that of dark things, Shadow is not my name, but my name cannot be spoken here at all.
Nicole: Is that your throne?
Shadow: Oh no, I dare not even touch it for my master will surly destroy me.
Tree: You mean there is a being seemingly more powerful then you?
Shadow: Oh yes, he is immensely more powerful then I. But all four of us equal his power.
Nathan: What are you implying?
Shadow: With your super powers and the two armies, you will be able to help me stop my master from starting a universal cataclysm!
Nicole: Since you gave me my powers why couldn’t you just give everyone powers and give us a huge advantage?
Shadow: I could only give one other being powers. I chose you because, through uncanny guessing skills, I determined that only you could unite the students that Nathan and Tree could have no influence on, the preps.
Nathan: Interesting.... now tell us what... [Nathan breaks of as the Master appears]
Shadow: Master! Please do not destroy me.... [Master raises his hand and Shadow is enveloped in pure light, then millions of rays of light project from his body as Shadow vanishes]
Tree: No!!! For some reason I think Shadow held all the answers to this!!
Nathan: No time for that, we have to fight off the Master.
Nicole: I agree. [To the Prep Patrol] We need to unify! You are now Natopian Defense Enforcers! Take orders from Grand Commander Nathan!
Nathan: Thank you Nicole, [To NDF] attack the Master!!
[The NDF charges the Master who has remained motionless, still with his hand in the air]
Nathan: Tree, Nicole, we need to assist the defense Force!
[Nathan, Tree, and Nicole run up to the Master and begin relentlessly attacking]
Nicole: Now may be a good time for that electro-bomb Nathan!
Tree: I agree! Let’s all use one!! Concentrate on the flashing red dot on his forehead!
Nathan: OK, that’s usually the weak point in video games!
[Three electro-bombs hit the flashing red dot on the Masters forehead at the same time. The Master collapses]
Nathan: Phew that was easy.
Nicole: I don’t like it....
Nathan: Aww.... why are you always complaining? We won!!
[The Master stands up and raises both hands as the entire NDF erupts into pure light]
End of Scene
Scene- Shadow’s Dimension, Master battle field
[Nathan, Nicole, Tree, Sherry and Emily are left alone, standing against the Master]
Nathan: Sherry, Emily, I’m so glad you survived!! And for some reason I am not suspicious at all!
Nicole: I am.
Emily and Sherry: Shut up!
Nicole: Jeeze.
Tree: While you four are conversing the Master is standing just 4 feet away from us.
Nathan: Oh crap.
Tree: What do you want from us?!
Master: I want only the safety of the Queen to be ensured!
Nathan: what queen?
Master: How dare you insult my intelligence!! Hand her to me or you will be destroyed as your army has been!
Tree: We know of no queens though!
Emily: I know a queen.
Sherry: You do? Wow! Who?
Emily: [dramatic pause as she looks each person deeply in the eyes] The Master wants me. I am the Queen it wants. This is Emilyland.
Nathan: HAHA!!! Please, please Emily; we need to be serious here.
[Emily begins to transform into a being similar to the Master but taller and much more regally adorned.]
Queen Emily: I am the Queen of this Land! You will obey me and only me! I will bring back your army only if you swear to lead them under my flag! You will lead them to conquer any world I wish you to.
Nathan: Tree, we must save our soldiers, they are our friends!
Nicole: But we can’t give in to Emily!
Tree: This is the master that Shadow was speaking of.... not the first Master.... I’m sure of the exact hierarchy...
Nathan: This conquering must be the cataclysm Shadow was speaking of.
Nicole: Queen Emily, if you pursue this Universal Conquest, the entire universe could destroy itself!
Emily: I care not for this universe.
Tree: We have no choice, we have to save our friends... bring them back Queen Emily.
End of Scene
Scene- Earth, MHS, football field
Nathan: How did we get back here?
Nicole: Ask the Narrator fellow... he hasn’t done much this episode.
Narrator: There hasn’t been much to do Ms. Nicole; you’ve been standing off against the Defense Force for hours.
Nathan: But, we just returned from the Shadow Dimension, all of us!
Narrator: Whatever.
Tree: Not even the Narrator knew we were gone? This is really bizarre.