QST.tag [ Do not remove this episode. This episode is needed to introduce Foothill Physics Professor Melvin Pirin, who will be needed later in the show.]
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Benjy lies in his bed, asleep. The Millennium Gameboy Advance is resting on his nightstand. It is powered on, and Yami Benjy is projecting itself above Benjy.
Yami Benjy: Now that I’m awake again, I think the Aluminti were the ones you heard. That’s how they communicate. Telepathically.
Yami Benjy looks down at Benjy.
Yami Benjy: It’s likely they didn’t like Starf either. They like to play the puppet-masters, so it makes sense they would side with you to help defeat him.
Yami Benjy hesitates.
Yami Benjy: Except that unless Starf was really important or powerful, they wouldn’t intervene directly. The fact that they did is somewhat worrisome.
Benjy: You think so?
Yami Benjy: I thought you were asleep…
Benjy: I was…
Benjy is cut off by the sound of Chikorita snoring at the foot of his bed.
Benjy: That comment has frightening implications.
Yami Benjy: True. It would mean this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Benjy: If you’ll excuse me, I have to use the restroom.
With this, Benjy gets up and leaves the room, leaving Yami Benjy alone with Chikorita.
Yami Benjy: So Benjy’s hypothesis is that all the heroes and villains of fantasy and fiction get to have their showdowns in real life. That’s a presumptuous statement by itself, but I have no reason to suspect that it isn’t the case. There’s no evidence that anyone’s world is more real than anyone else’s. Take this into consideration and perhaps it’s no surprise the Aluminti showed up.
Yami Benjy: And if we take it a step further, what if what’s been published so far is just the tip of the iceberg… I’m sorry Benjy, I know you’ve been content just to keep going about your life as if it’s always been this way, but we have to act. We have to make critical decisions based on what little information we have. We need answers.
The sound of a toilet flushing can be heard, and Yami Benjy sighs.
Yami Benjy: We still need our sleep though…
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@QST.Calendar: [ Thursday ]
Benjy sits at his computer in day clothes while Yami Benjy projects himself at Benjy’s side. Chikorita is asleep on Benjy’s desk.
Yami Benjy: So you think this friend of your mother’s will know something?
Benjy clicks on something on the computer screen.
Benjy: Probably not, but he might be able to put me in contact with someone who does.
Yami Benjy: And what makes you think they’ll be willing to give you any of their time.
Benjy: Because I have information.
Chikorita: Chiko!
Yami Benjy: Assuming they trust you.
Benjy: Well, there is that.
Chikorita: Chiko!
Benjy clicks on a link on the screen, then looks down at Chikorita.
Benjy: Chikorita had the answer all along.
Benjy: Important note. Look at Chikorita’s eyes. Their blue.
Yami Benjy: What are you getting at?
Benjy: In the pokémon game Chikorita has red eyes. Also, our friend here barks and meows, which is something I’ve never heard a Chikorita do.
Yami Benjy: And what would that imply?
Benjy strokes Chikorita on his back.
Benjy: That the stories you were mumbling about are close to reality, but they’re not exact. I’m not going to rule out coincidence yet, even if the odds are less than one in… say… Avogadro's constant.
Yami Benjy: I thought you said that one should not be impressed with words like that…
Benjy: I’m not trying to impress you. It’s the only number I know the name of with a value close to…
Yami Benjy: Understood.
Benjy: Anyway, take a look at this.
Yami Benjy peers closer at the screen, along with Chikorita and Pixielite, while Benjy moves the mouse around, clicking on things.
Benjy: At the community college, they’re starting to wear foil hats. You said the Aluminti are the aluminum Illuminati, right?
Yami Benjy: You think their connected?
Benjy: Probably… Aluminum hats are what people who believe in the illuminati wear to prevent their influence. There’s no science behind it, but, since we’re going there anyway.
Yami Benjy: Hoping to find an Aluminti? They’re pretty shy.
Benjy reaches for a poké ball.
Benjy: Ideally I’ll be able to catch one.
Yami Benjy cringes.
Yami Benjy: We’re going to need the ultra ball then. The poké balls won’t work on them.
Benjy: The one that was clogging the gutters you mean?
Yami Benjy: I think that’s it. One more question, how did you find about about these foil hats?
Benjy: My mom asked me about it. As if I would know anything.
Benjy now starts to scroll through the article, looking at various pictures.
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Benjy walks down the side of a busy street holding Chikorita on a leash with a couple of plastic bags attached to it. Chikorita sniffs at some bushes, then QST.camera zooms out as Benjy approaches a traffic light, and pushes the button to cross the street.
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Benjy arrives at the entrance to the community college, still holding Chikorita on his leash, and drops something into the trash can as he passes it.
Yami Benjy: Benjy, are your interview questions ready?
Benjy: We’re going to try being a bit more subtle with this one.
Benjy now proceeds to climb the steps to the community college with Chikorita jumping up the stairs after him. A couple college-age students cast odd glances his way as they descend the steps going the opposite direction.
Benjy climbs another flights of stairs and doesn’t notice as he and Chikorita receive a dirty look from an old lady. Climbing another flight of stairs, a board catches Benjy’s attention.
Benjy: Lets see: today is Saturday, which means.
Benjy examines the sign carefully, and as he does, something that sounds like a firecracker goes off behind him, followed by a loud *BREEP* sound. The BREEPing continues as Yami Benjy looks around wildly. Chikorita cringes every time the noise goes off. The sound of frantic footsteps on the concrete and the sound of doors slamming now starts to reverberate across the campus. Benjy looks around wildly…
Benjy: Yami! We need to get indoors! It’s probably a lockdown!
Yami Benjy: What?
Benjy: There’s probably someone armed on the campus!
Yami Benjy: They wouldn’t do an air raid siren for…
Yami Benjy suddenly looks up at the sky, and the camera follows his train of vision to where a large flock of assorted birds is bearing down on them.
Benjy: Chikorita, return!
Chikorita returns to its ball in a flash of blue light, leaving the leash limp. Benjy however continues to stare at the birds.
Yami Benjy: What are you waiting for? Run!
As if in response to Yami Benjy’s comment, the birds all suddenly start to dive at Benjy.
Yami Benjy: Benjy!
Benjy: Yup–
With a burst of speed, Benjy jumps aside as one of the birds shoots towards him and takes off running up the slope of the college. With a jump, Benjy lands on level ground, and running at full speed, Benjy darts across the empty campus, dodging attacks from pigeons and hummingbirds as he aims for a large building in the distance.
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In Foothill’s library, Benjy sits against a bookshelf, completely out of breath and panting heavily, but uninjured with the exception of a couple tiny scrapes.
Benjy: You should’ve put up a barrier…
Yami Benjy: They don’t hold forever, you know.
Yami Benjy’s consciousness shudders, acknowledging the truth of Benjy’s statement. As Benjy regains his breath, he stands up (using the bookshelf for support) and once at a normal energy level again, starts to walk over towards the window where several college students have gathered around to watch the birds fly around chaotically outside. As Benjy approaches the group, his eyes start glowing slightly with green light, but for the most part this isn’t noticeable.
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A man of around forty to forty-five years old stares down at the group of students from an indoor balcony of sorts. He holds a tablet-PC as he scrolls through some files, then suddenly the tablet shuts off, causing the man to look up.
Man: Curses.
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As the birds zip about outside, the entire room starts to glow green. As Benjy looks around he realizes that the lights are now emitting a green light as opposed to their previous white light. (Benjy can discern this and that its not his eyes glowing because other people are noticing it too) In the background people are asking each other "what is happening."
Man_from_earlier: Shift is happening.
The man from the previous scene is now walking the aisle of reference books. He has put his tablet away and replaced it with a pencil and a pad of paper. He looks around the building.
Man_from_earlier: Benjy, is that you?
Benjy doesn’t seem to hear, so the man starts walking towards him?
Man_from_earlier: Benjy?
Benjy: Mr. Pirin…
Man_from_earlier → Mr. Pirin: Hey, Benjy, it’s been a while.
Mr. Pirin: I wonder what brings him here on a Saturday; that school does a lot of odd things…
Benjy: Yeah, It’s been a while.
Mr. Pirin: If you don’t mind my asking, what brings you here?
Benjy starts to say something, but is immediately cut off, by a couple of college-aged girls rushing towards Professor Pirin.
Girl1: Doctor Pirin, is this the child prodigy you were telling us about in class? The one that–
Benjy’s gaze catches the gaze of the second girl briefly, and the first girl stops talking as Pirin shakes his head.
Mr. Pirin: He’s the son of one of the poli-sci professors.
Pirin looks to Benjy to verify this: Benjy nods.
Girl1: He’s so cute!
Benjy jumps backwards in surprise.
Girl1: You’re going to see your mommy at work! That’s so sweet!
The first girl starts to reach out to do something to Benjy, but the second girl holds her back. Pirin giggles nervously.
Mr. Pirin: What brings you here?
Benjy: Just bit of research.
Both girls stare at Benjy.
Girl2: Research on what?
Benjy: Um…
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Benjy and Pirin walk through the side section of the library.
Mr. Pirin: That’s some story.
Benjy: Hm.
Mr. Pirin: And what do you think is the probability of fiction coming to life?
Benjy: Zero. If it exists, then it’s not fiction.
Mr. Pirin: That’s–
Benjy: I know what you meant.
Mr. Pirin: Personally, I believe it has to do with Earth’s magnetic field. Every few million years the magnetic poles shift, and when they do they go into a period of instability.
Benjy: And it hasn’t happened in quite a while.
Mr. Pirin: Yeah, but somehow I don’t think that’s all there is to it. These Aluminti-things: what do they look like?
Benjy sits down on the floor.
Benjy: Giant floating silvery rectangular pyramid. One eye towards the top on one side and no visible mouth. About five feet high and four feet wide.
Pirin now pulls out a dollar bill.
Mr. Pirin: Sort of like the pyramid on the dollar?
Benjy: Somewhat. Smaller eye, and a little bit more narrow…
Mr. Pirin: Interesting. How’s that random number generation program?
Benjy: Coming along.
Benjy now starts to stand up as he talks.
Benjy: There were times when the average was above values the program shouldn’t be able to generate. Your magnetic poles explanation would make sense then.
Mr. Pirin: Values above 128?
Benjy is now standing.
Benjy: M-hm.
Mr. Pirin: We’ll there’s some kind of unusual electromagnetic radiation going…
Pirin suddenly cuts himself off.
Benjy: Huh?
Mr. Pirin: Shh–look. Is that what you were talking about?
Benjy tries to look where Pirin is pointing, and after a couple tries, Benjy sees what Pirin is trying to show him. The camera synchronizes with Benjy’s vision for this part as Pirin points out a single Aluminti staring down at them from outside the library window. Suddenly, with a flash of blue light, Chikorita emerges from its ball. Through all of this, the Aluminti stares at them, then turns 90º rapidly and slowly floats away.
Mr. Pirin: And there it goes, plain as day.
Benjy: What do you think?
Mr. Pirin: I’m not a biologist or astrobiologist, so I don’t know. But if it lived on this planet all along, it might have suddenly become active from the electromagnetic radiation.
Benjy: From the poles flipping?
Mr. Pirin: I haven’t been able to prove that yet… But it looks strikingly like the pyramid on the dollar. Maybe it had something to do with the pyramids in Egypt as well.
The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly in response to Pirin.
Yami Benjy: And the hats.
Catching the light emitted from the MGBA out of the corner of his eye, Pirin makes a mental note of the phenomenon.
Mr. Pirin: ?
Yami Benjy: The foil hats… Shaped like a pyramid that many of the students here are wearing.
Mr. Pirin: You read the news report too, then. I haven’t really seen many foil hats around though.
At this point the doors to the wing of the library open and the two girls from earlier enter, along with a third college-aged girl who runs straight for Yami Benjy.
Girl3: Ohmigawd you’re so cute!
Suddenly panicked, Yami Benjy takes off through the rows of bookshelves while the third girl tries to chase after him, but winds up quickly loosing Yami Benjy in the rows of books. The Millennium Gameboy Advance deactivates with a small pulse of light.
Benjy: Why did they have to bring their friend?
Yami Benjy: I hope that’s a rhetorical question because I definitely don’t have an answer.
As Benjy catches his breath, a clunking sound reverberates through the wing of the library, followed by a scream. Benjy gulps, and quickly sneaks toward the area where the sound came from.
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A college-aged boy lies on the floor surrounded by Pirin and the three girls. Pirin checks the boy for a pulse, as Benjy peeks around the bookshelf. A couple feet from the boy’s head lies a foil hat in the shape of the Aluminti.
Mr. Pirin: And out like a light.
Girl2: Is he alive?
Mr. Pirin: He’s definitely got a pulse, so yes. Ladies, I–
Pirin is cut off by the third girl, now wearing the foil hat.
Girl3: Ninety. Ninety. Ninety. Ninety. Ninety.
Mr. Pirin: What are you–?
Girl3: Ninety. Ninety. Ninety.
The first two girls now turn to their friend.
Girl2: Maria, what are you doing?!
Girl3 → Maria: That’s what the voices are saying. Ninety. Ninety. Ninety. Over and over and over again!
Mr. Pirin: Let me see that?
Maria: No! It’s mine! Mine! Ninety-nine!
Benjy, Pirin, and the two girls stare at Maria in confusion.
Girl1: If you’re trying to be funny…
Pirin now suddenly makes a grab for the hat, but Maria pulls away, causing him to fall to the floor.
Girl2: I don’t think so.
Groaning, Pirin now begins to get to his feet, just as a plunk reverberates on the window. As everyone looks over to see what caused it, they discover a bald eagle swinging a chair at the window pane. Both of the original girls gasp, and The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly around Benjy’s neck.
Yami Benjy: I’ll take care of this! Pixielite!
With a flash of blue light, Pixielite emerges from it’s ball. Along with Chikorita, it stares at the eagle trying to break through the glass by swinging the folding chair.
Mr. Pirin: It’s going to have to do more than that. This glass is bulletproof.
Suddenly, as if in response to Pirin, the eagle backs up preparing to charge.
Mr. Pirin: And I spoke too soon.
Taking a running charge, the eagle charges the glass, and bursts through with a cinematic animation. Immediately, it lets out a battle cry and charges right for Pirin. Pirin quickly takes note of this and plucks a book from the shelf, chucking it straight at the eagle. The book sails smoothly through the air and strikes the eagle in the side of the head.
Yami Benjy: Pixielite, thunder-wave! Chikorita, razor leaf!
Both animon fire their attacks at a wave of crows that charge into the building after the hole that the eagle opened, and are met with a barrage of electrically charged leaves. These two sides rage at each other, then suddenly stop in mid-air, as if frozen glowing with blue light. Suddenly the book that Pirin threw shoots backwards onto the shelf.
Girl1: What’s going on?
Yami Benjy: Aluminti, the new world order Trigamon. They communicate telepathically with others of their kind. They are said to congregate in secret locations to use their psychic abilities to control world events.
Mr. Pirin: Wait, now you tell us?
Suddenly, the birds are pulled out of the library with an unseen force and the window un-shatters itself. QST.camera scans the library, and then the campus to reveal that Aluminti are doing this everywhere. As Maria stares, the second girl snatches the foil hat off of her head, causing Maria to fall to the ground unconscious, where the second girl quickly checks her for a pulse.
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Benjy and Pirin stand by the window on the other side of the library’s wing. Aluminti zip through the sky outside, but for now the birds seem somewhat pacified. The foil hat is lying on the table.
Mr. Pirin: There’s no reason why telepathy couldn’t be possible. The Aluminti using telepathy is probably no different from radio waves, which could have shorted out the computer system.
Pixielite lands on the arm of a nearby chair.
Mr. Pirin: But you’re correct that the Aluminti seem to be trying to solve the problem… How did you come to that?
Yami Benjy: I don’t know. It just came to me upon seeing them up close.
Mr. Pirin: Could your device be picking up their signal…?
The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly again, and then glows faintly as Yami Benjy projects an image of itself. Pirin looks between the two.
Mr. Pirin: Wait…
Benjy: It’s an AI, that comes from this thing.
Benjy picks up the MGBA and shows it to Pirin, who pulls out a pair of glasses and puts them on, opening the MGBA to further examine it.
Mr. Pirin: Where’d you get it?
Benjy: –
Yami Benjy: He discovered me inside the case of what I’m told was a Powermac G3. And as you probably guessed, I’m the one who knows about the Aluminti.
Mr. Pirin: And you can take control of anyone who wears your pendant.
Yami Benjy: Maybe. If they let me, I can guide their movements.
Pirin now turns to Benjy.
Mr. Pirin: Wait a minute. I remember now. This is the thing that your mother told me about. This is probably a bio-computer.
Benjy and Yami Benjy glance at each other, curious.
Mr. Pirin: It’s nothing like I’ve ever seen before. But I was told you had no memory. How come you know so much about–
Yami Benjy: It came to me when I saw the creature.
Mr. Pirin: So the visual jogged your memory. Benjy, it’s really starting to sound like that’s some kind of bio-computer. But then how did…
Pirin trails off, looking at the sky, and immediately, Benjy’s eyes start glowing with green light, the same green that the electric lights are emitting.
Mr. Pirin: That doesn’t look good.
Yami Benjy returns to the MGBA as something appears to be going on in the sky. Benjy stares up into the sky curiously. Suddenly, the upper windows shatter and both Benjy and Pirin dive under a nearby table to avoid a shower of glass.
Mr. Pirin: Benjy! Look in the sky!
About one hundred to three hundred feet off of the ground, the sky seems to be bending, in some strange direction, emitting faint purple light.
Benjy: What’s that?
Mr. Pirin: It’s not possible…
Benjy remains silent, recalling his animon as quickly as he can.
Mr. Pirin: It looks like a bend in space–but that’s impossible.
Next to the library, an Aluminti rushes through the air towards the ground.
Yami Benjy: They’re trying to take cover!
Benjy starts to curl up, but a pulse of light from his eyes leaves him dazed.
Mr. Pirin: I’ve got to see this!
The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly again, as Pirin bolts out from under the table and runs towards the library exit.
Yami Benjy: Professor!
Pirin doesn’t reply as he rushes outside the building. Yami Benjy starts to run after Pirin, but suddenly Benjy’s eyes emit a huge flash of light, temporarily blinding him. At the same time or fractions of a second afterward, a plunking and a loud whistling is heard, as if air is being sucked from the atmosphere.
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As Pirin runs out side, disposable camera in hand, the disruption starts heating up and emitting more light. This goes on for a few seconds, then suddenly, something on a distant hill explodes sending shockwaves which pick up dust from the hillside and spreads it like a blanket to the point where Pirin has to turn away so not to have dust blow into his eyes. As the vortex starts to disappear, snow starts to fall in a very bizarre area, leaving trails across the campus, and dumping a lot of snow from thin air right onto one of the nearby buildings.
This seems to be it for the strange things disappearing and appearing from nowhere.
Pirin: Benjy! Benjy! Quickly come look at this!
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Benjy and Pirin stare at the lump of snow dumped on the building in front of them.
Pirin: Benjy, that snow, is from another dimension!
Benjy: You sure?
Pirin: The fabric of space was just ripped open right in front of our very eyes!
Benjy: But how do you know that it wasn’t just from somewhere on Earth?
As Benjy and Pirin stare, a very confused Snover pops it’s head out of the snow.
Pirin: That’s a pokémon, is it not?
Yami Benjy now projects himself.
Yami Benjy: Snover, the frosted tree pokémon. It lives on snowy mountains. Typically having little contact with humans, it’s very inquisitive. They gather around footsteps they find on snowy mountains.
Pirin: And the thing around your neck, Benjy, is most likely some kind of magical pokédex.
Benjy: Magical?
Pirin: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Benjy, what we just saw is a dissertation waiting to be written!
Benjy looks around to see that he and Pirin aren’t the only ones interested in the things that the spacequake has dropped onto the world.
Pirin: And now, I will use this discarded poké ball I found to actually catch that pokémon!
As bystanders gather, Pirin is shown to be computing the arc that the poké ball will take in his head.
Pirin: Lets see if this works!
Pirin hurls the ball at Snover, striking the pokémon upside the head. The ball opens, and Snover disappears inside, then falls to the ground, where the ball stops wiggling and clicks. Immediately, this is met with applause.
Pirin: Two planets, the space that they occupy, already warped, touches in just the right way to knock a few pokémon into the real world.
Voice: That seems pretty traumatic without you catching it, don’t you think?
Pirin looks around, curiously, to see where the voice came from, but can’t find anyone. However, by the look on other people’s faces, they heard it to.
Pirin: Who said that?
Pirin looks around, as do the other people, searching for where the voice came from. QST.camera zooms out just a little bit to show a green parrot looking down at everyone from the roof of a nearby building. Suddenly a megaphone screeches.
???: Now standby for drama!
???: And possibly trauma!
???: To protect every species from devastation
???: To inform, an entire, civilization
???: To renounce the horror of your so-called love!
???: We’ll stop you from even harming a bug!
John: It’s John!
Doe: Doe!
Upon saying these lines, John and Doe are revealed in the dust.
Doe: PETA is here, saving the night!
John: Surrender, or flee in terror and fright!
Polly: Polly! That’s right!
Polly: Now can I haz a cracker?
John quickly tosses a cracker to Polly.
Pirin: And what exactly does PETA want?
The Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly around Benjy’s neck, and Yami Benjy stares John and Doe down.
Doe: Hey twerpling. You were a real pain in the butt to track down, so don’t you go running away again!
Pirin: What do you guys want?
John: That pokémon is not from around here! The poor thing is probably scared out of it’s wits, and you just audacity to catch it when it’s guard was down!
Doe *starts to* lecture Pirin about his capture of the Snover, how it’s probably shaken and out of sorts and the last thing it needs is Pirin capturing it, but Pirin cuts her off.
Pirin: It’s a pokémon you realize… It’s in a poké ball now.
Doe: You’re entrapping it.
Pirin: You don’t have to be a rocket surgeon to realize that poké balls are made specifically for pokémon, right? You’d be out of your mind to release it into the wild on this planet.
Doe: You’re out of your mind confining it to such a small space!
John: You’re going to give it up, this instant!
Yami Benjy: Really now…
Pirin: Benjy… Don’t get involved.
Yami Benjy: I know how these two operate. Please.
The crowd now clears as Yami Benjy faces John and Doe. In a split-second, they both jump off the roof. Yami Benjy sends out Pixielite and Chikorita to intercept them. Pixielite zaps John repeatedly while he tries to catch it, while Chikorita attacks Doe with magical leaf. Doe jumps around until she realizes that she can’t dodge the leaves, and simply takes the damage. The leaves cut into her pants, and her top, letting her underwear show ever-so-slightly (which is enough for some people in the audience to get bloody noses).
Following razor leaf, Yami Benjy has Chikorita tackle Doe, (Pixielite is handling John by itself); but Doe jumps aside with amazing agility and lands a powerful kick on Chikorita sending it flying into Pirin’s head. With this she jumps towards Yami Benjy and pulls out a a small handgun, pointing it at Yami Benjy.
Unfortunately for Doe, Chikorita is not knocked out (and Pirin isn’t badly hurt either) and Chikorita slashes her with a flurry of razor leaves, prompting Doe to change her target to Pirin and Chikorita. Paralyzed from Pixielite’s thunder wave, John smiles slightly, and with difficulty.
Doe: Now hand over every last one of your pokémon! On the count of five.
Someone suddenly runs towards Doe, but Polly swoops down to intervene. This confrontation only lasts three seconds (Doe gets to the number two) before John, Doe, and Polly are suddenly yanked into the air by an unseen force, and their bodies are glowing blue. This same blue force instantly confiscates Doe’s handgun.
Below PETA, the crowd gathers as PETA is examined by four Aluminti, all facing them as PETA starts to squirm as John tries to draw his own gun. The Aluminti sense this and start slinging PETA around in a giant loop in the air (about 20 feet in diameter) while everyone on the ground watches dumbfounded. Now curious, Pirin pulls out a piece of the foil hat from earlier and holds it up to his mouth like a microphone.
Pirin: Hey guys, I think that’s enough!
All four Aluminti suddenly turn their attention to Pirin, and thus let PETA go shooting into the air.
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As PETA flies through the air, Polly tries to flap his wings to change direction, but they are going to fast.
Doe: This is unexpected.
John: I feel like I’m on a rocket ship headed straight for the moon.
Doe: You know, that might actually be our destination.
John & Doe: AAAAAAAAH!!!
John and Doe suddenly grab each other.
John & Doe: We’re blasting off for real!
Polly: That’s right!
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The crowd gasps as PETA shoots into the sky. Pirin catches the Aluminti zipping away out of the corner of his eye, and the Millennium Gameboy Advance shines brightly.
Yami Benjy: You know, this reminds me of something I saw on TV once.
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In Benjy’s kitchen, Benjy’s mom gets off the phone.
Benjy’s mom: I don’t believe it. He things the bugs in the science project are from electromagnetic radiation from a parallel universe.
Benjy’s mom: Benjy! How much did you pay him to say that?
QST.camera now moves into Benjy’s room where Benjy is sitting at his computer, scrolling through images, on some news site.
Benjy: I didn’t pay him anything, mom!
Benjy: Wow, the <insert name of sponsoring company> by the highway was just flat out demolished…
Yami Benjy: He thinks I’m from another dimension?
Benjy: That’s just his hypothesis. It hasn’t been proven yet.
Benjy now takes off the MGBA, and then lies down on his bed. Yami Benjy projects himself from the MBGA.
Yami Benjy: Then we’ll have to find the truth on our own.
Benjy: Eventually, but not tonight.
With this, Benjy turns out the light.
…///To Be Continued///…