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WARNING: PARTS OF THIS PAGE ARE STRICTLY CATTYWUMPUS, in honor of my cat, BLACKBERRY.
TIME TERROR
by Sofia
Johnson, Veronica Brice, Lia-Shea Tillett
Lights up on a strange machine
and a full trash bag. ABRIELLE and ELENA
enter, walking home from school.
ABRIELLE
I’m so glad school’s out!
ELENA & ABRIELLE
No More School!
ABRIELLE
Elena! Look at how I’ve arranged my button collection.
ABRIELLE takes out her button
collection and shows it to ELENA.
ELENA
Nice. Hey, isn’t that the button that came off my favorite jacket last year?
ABRIELLE
Well, erm, I just got the same jacket. A birthday gift!
ELENA
Yeah, right.
ABRIELLE
No, seriously. I just found it on the ground. I thought it was pretty so I picked it up.
ELENA
You can have it. Your buttons are nothing compared to my jewelry, anyway.
ABRIELLE
Cool. But I still think my buttons are better.
ELENA
Whatever. Can we change the subject? You know what happened to my
dad this morning? When he went out to get the paper, he ran into
Mr. Meester.
ABRIELLE
You mean that crazy inventor who almost took the roof off our apartment building?
ELENA
Yup. Dad almost got himself electrocuted helping Mr. Meester throw away
this big shiny metallic computer thing. Hello? Abrielle?
ELENA waves her hand in front of
ABRIELLE’s face. ABRIELLE is staring at the
machine.
ABRIELLE
That’s a pretty button.
ELENA
A button? Where? Not that I care.
ABRIELLE
There. On that machine thingy. Next to that trash bag.
ABRIELLE goes toward button on
the machine.
ELENA
Ewww. You’re not going to stick your hands in the trash, are you?
ABRIELLE
Not in the trash. I’m just going to get that button.
ELENA
But the button is attached to that machine. Who knows what will happen if you take it out?
ABRIELLE
Nothing will happen.
(tries to get the button off)
I don’t think this machine works. Why else would it be next to the trash?
ELENA
Why do you want that button anyway? It’s not a clothes button.
ABRIELLE
I want that button because it has an interesting swirl on it. And
I don’t care if it’s not a clothes button. Can you help me get
this button off?
ELENA
You’ll be the laughing stock of the school when everyone hears that you’ve been rummaging through the trash.
ABRIELLE
Well if you don’t help me, that means you’re not being a good friend. Friends help each other.
ELENA
Okay. But you owe me, Abrielle.
ELENA joins ABRIELLE by the
machine. They try to get the
button off with their hands. Then ABRIELLE notices ELENA’s necklace.
ABRIELLE
Hey, Elena. Can I use your necklace?
ELENA
For what?
ABRIELLE pulls the pendant toward
the button.
ELENA
Abrielle! What are you doing?
ABRIELLE
Getting the button.
ABRIELLE pokes at button with the
pendant. The button falls to the ground.
Pendant lights up.
ABRIELLE
Yeah, I got it.
Lights start flashing.
Strange noises. Girls move in dance.
ELENA
Uh oh. Abrielle?
Blackout.
* * *
Scene 2: Air Surfing
Stadium in NYC in 3007. DENISE kneels to one side.
ABRIELLE and ELENA stand next to Time
Machine. Trash bags are gone.
ABRIELLE & ELENA
Where are we?
DENISE
You’re in the air surfing stadium of - who are you?
ELENA
What do you think? We’re two 12–year-old girls!
ABRIELLE
You don’t have to yell.
DENISE
I meant, what are your names.
ABRIELLE
Wow, look at that!
ELENA
Look at what?
ABRIELLE
Those people in the air riding on surfboards!
DENISE
Yeah. Hi. Remember me? I asked you, what are your names?
ELENA
Wow. That was the most radical move ever!
DENISE
Are you humans or robots?
ABRIELLE
Did you see that? He went right between the satellite and that moon rock.
DENISE walks over to them and
pinches them both on their cheeks.
ABRIELLE and ELENA
Ow!
ELENA
What’d you do that for? That hurt.
DENISE
So you really are humans, aren’t you?
ABRIELLE
RESPONSE: NO, WE ARE ROBOTS.
ELENA
Of course we’re humans, you idiot!
ABRIELLE
Yeah. Duh. Just fooling around.
DENISE
Then hi. Welcome. My name is DN15E.
ABRIELLE
What?
DENISE
DN15E.
ELENA
In English please.
DENISE
Since you’re humans, you can just call me Denise.
ELENA
I’m Elena. And this is . . .
ABRIELLE
Abrielle. Where are we anyway?
DENISE
You are at the New York City air surfing stadium.
ELENA
There’s no air surfing stadium in New York City.
DENISE
Of course there is. It was built in 3001.
ABRIELLE
Whoa. You mean we’re not in the year 2005 anymore?
DENISE
This is the year 3007.
ELENA
3007?! Oh my gosh.
ABRIELLE
You’re kidding, right?
DENISE
Of course I’m not. Check my pocket electronic calendar if you want.
(fishes in her pockets)
Now where did I put that thing? Aha. Here we go.
(shows them a calendar)
ELENA
Oh my gosh. She’s right.
ABRIELLE
What sport is this anyway?
DENISE
Oh. It’s air surfing.
ELENA
But what is air surfing?
ABRIELLE
Well apparently that.
ELENA
I know it’s apparently that. But how can they be surfing on air? It’s like mission impossible.
ABRIELLE
Maybe it’s not impossible in the future.
(pause)
But how did we get here from 2005?
ELENA
Actually I was thinking the same thing.
DENISE
You must have gone through a time machine. People are always
going on vacation to different times. Last week my cousin J133Y
went through a time machine to see the age of the dinosaurs.
ABRIELLE
Cool. We’re in the future. We can drive flying cars.
DENISE
You won’t think it’s so cool when both of your parents are robots.
ELENA
Wait. If your parents are robots, then how can you be a human?
DENISE
These crazy scientists took my growing egg out of a human and put it in a robot. That robot is now my mother.
ABRIELLE and ELENA make disgusted
faces.
ABRIELLE
I wish my mother were a robot. Then I could take her battery out
and she couldn’t tell me I had to do my homework before I can go over
to Elena’s.
ELENA
Time machine. You think that machine that you took the button out of is a time machine, Abrielle?
ELENA points to Time Machine.
DENISE
Yep. That’s one of the early Meester Success Time Machines.
ABRIELLE
Meester? Like Mr. Meester? I know that guy.
ELENA
Me too. He’s our crazy neighbor.
DENISE looks at Time Machine.
DENISE
Look! Somebody ripped the button off of it.
ELENA
Nice job, Abrielle.
ABRIELLE
What? I have the button. I can put it back in and everything will be all right.
ELENA
No you don’t. I saw it fall to the ground.
ABRIELLE
Then it must be on the ground.
(looks for the button)
Then again, maybe not.
Beeping sound.
DENISE
Oh, blackout. I have to head for home because my parents want me to rewire them. You guys want to come with me?
ELENA
I’m not really sure. What if someone steals the Time Machine? Then we wouldn’t be able to get back to 2005.
ABRIELLE
Who would want a Time Machine without a button?
ELENA
Denise would.
DENISE
Hey. That wasn’t funny.
ABRIELLE
Besides Denise is only one in the year 3007 that we know.
ELENA
Well okay. But I am NOT rewiring a robot.
Blackout.
* * *
Scene 3: Denise’s front
yard. Empty stage. ABRIELLE, DENISE, ELENA
enter.
ABRIELLE
Boy, rewiring a robot seemed pretty nasty by the looks of it.
DENISE
Believe me, filling a power ball is even harder.
ELENA
So how do you rewire a robot anyway?
DENISE
It depends on how much the robot needs to be rewired. Mom only
needed to have a circuit reconnected but Dad needed a full set of new
wires in his right leg.
ABRIELLE
I’m bored. Why don’t we play air surfing or something?
DENISE
But we don’t have the boards or the obstacles. Why don’t we play
tag or one of those hand games I saw in movies? I’ve always been
dying to play them. But you can’t play them with robots and I’m
the only human on my block.
ELENA
But we always play those games in our time. I’m getting sort of
tired of them. They’re kind of boring. They’re sooooo 2004.
DENISE
I have an idea! We can play freeze tag. And we can actually freeze each other with a freezerator!
ABRIELLE
A freezerator? What’s that?
DENISE
It’s a little hand held device. When you squeeze it, a mix of snow and ice and cold wind shoots out.
ELENA
Cool! Let’s play.
ABRIELLE
Ha ha. Get it? Cool?
DENISE
Here. I have three right in my pocket. So everybody is it.
DENISE gives freezerators to
ABRIELLE and ELENA and keeps one for
herself. Girls play, run around, ad lib. In the end,
DENISE gets frozen looking up.
DENISE
Oh oh. Green clouds. That’s definitely no good.
ELENA
Denise, you’re not allowed to talk. You’re frozen!
DENISE
No, seriously. Green clouds aren’t good. We have to get inside.
ABRIELLE
That’s ridiculous. Clouds aren’t green. They’re white or gray.
DENISE
Not clouds that rain down acid rain.
ELENA
Acid rain?
ABRIELLE
Oh, we have acid rain in 2005. It’s nothing to worry about.
DENISE
No. This is dangerous acid. If it lands on you, it could
burn a hole through you. That’s what happened to my great uncle.
Siren.
DENISE
That’s the siren! We have to get inside now.
DENISE tries to pull ABRIELLE and
ELENA offstage.
ELENA
What about the time machine? Will the acid rain hurt it?
ABRIELLE
That’s what I’m worried about.
DENISE
It will. Early Meester Successes aren’t resistant to acid rain like the time machines we have now.
ELENA
Then we have to go back to 2005 pronto!
DENISE
But then you’ll leave. I don’t want you guys to leave. You’re the best friends I ever had.
ABRIELLE
But the machine is broken anyway.
ELENA
Denise. You know all about technology and mechanics. You can help us fix it.
DENISE
I need more time to think.
ELENA
We don’t have time!
ABRIELLE
Maybe we can move the time machine to shelter.
ELENA
Let’s go get the time machine! Hurry!
Girls run off. Blackout.
* * *
Scene 4: deserted Air
Surfing Stadium. Time Machine on stage.
ABRIELLE and ELENA run on stage. DENISE
follows and stays off to the side.
ELENA
Oh good. No one stole the time machine.
ABRIELLE
Come on! Let’s move it over there to the concession stand.
ELENA and ABRIELLE pick up the
Time Machine. A piece falls off.
ABRIELLE
Oops.
ELENA
Be careful. If you break it, we’ll never get back.
ELENA and ABRIELLE move machine
very carefully.
ELENA
This is hopeless. We’re never going to make it to shelter in
time. Pretty soon we’re going to be Swiss cheese! I don’t
even like Swiss cheese!
ABRIELLE
You’re right. We’re not going to make it in time if you don’t stop whining.
ABRIELLE and ELENA keep arguing
as they take little baby steps, carrying the
machine.
DENISE
(speaking her thoughts)
I have no idea what to do. I mean, I want to help them because
that’s what being a good friend is about. But I don’t want them
to leave. They came closer to me than my own parents. I’d
be lost in loneliness again. But it’s dangerous for them to
stay. Maybe I could help them. But they’ll have to promise
me that they’ll come back and visit.
ELENA
Did I just see a drop of rain?
ABRIELLE
Yeah I think so.
ELENA
I told you we were doomed! And it’s all your fault,
Abrielle. You’re the one who took the button out of the Time
Machine!
ABRIELLE
What? I just like buttons.
ELENA
You’re mad about buttons!
ABRIELLE
You’re ten times as mad about jewelry!
DENISE
Guys! Would you just shut up for a second? I have something to tell you.
ELENA
What? That we’re doomed? I found that out ten bajillion years ago.
ABRIELLE
Ten bajillion isn’t a number.
DENISE
No. I’ve decided to help you fix the Time Machine. If you promise me you’ll come back and visit.
ELENA
Of course we’ll come back and visit.
ABRIELLE
Just visit? Denise, you can come back to 2005 with me.
ELENA
Oh, yeah. What am I supposed to do? Perish in the acid rain?
ABRIELLE
Yeah.
(gives ABRIELLE a look)
Us.
DENISE
Really?
ELENA
Sure. Your parents won’t miss you. They’re robots. Hel-lo, robots don’t have feelings.
DENISE
Awesome. Abrielle, give me a metal button. Elena, give me that pendant.
ABRIELLE and ELENA
What for?
DENISE
You’ll see.
ABRIELLE gives DENISE a
button. ELENA gives DENISE the pendant. DENISE
puts button and pendant in the hole where the
other button used to be.
DENISE
Just a little more. There. Hold my hand, guys.
GIRLS all hold hands. Then
pendant flashes and lights flash. Blackout.
* * *
Scene 5: New York City
street. 2005. Time Machine, full trash bag, and
button.
ABRIELLE
It worked!
ELENA
We made it back!
DENISE
Wow! 2005 looks awesome!
ELENA
It is. Denise, you can come live in my apartment.
ABRIELLE
No, you can live with me, Denise.
ELENA
No me.
ABRIELLE
No me.
ELENA
No me.
ABRIELLE
No me.
DENISE
Now I can actually live a life.
ABRIELLE
Look! There’s the button!
ABRIELLE picks up button.
ELENA
Here we go again.
Blackout.
THE END
An Amethyst's Life
It's like being in jail,
Being an amethyst.
Take from me.
I'm an amethyst,
As you can see.
People sell me for 5 bucks.
I'd rather 500.
I'm a royal crystal.
I land in museums --
That part I admire.
But it's 1 million years rolled into a day.
I can't bust out.
I'm also frozen.
What is this world coming to?
On the other hand,
I like being sparkly.
I'm a Super Secret Agent
I'm a super secret agent,
Spying on the world.
I stare at birds flying.
Why do they fly?
I do not know why.
They can just walk.
I catch a snake sticking out its tongue.
Why are snakes able to smell
With their tongues?
I do not know why.
Do they really smell with their tongues?
I notice the plants.
Why do plants munch the sun
And not foods that we swallow?
I do not know why.
I'm a super secret agent,
Spying on my family.
Why are moms girls?
I do not know why.
Why are dads boys?
I do not know why.
I'm a super secret agent.
I have an imcomplete mission.
I do not know why.
What Do You Do?
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
If you dream to be friends with someone
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
If your friends despise that someone
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
It's a world with no candles.
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
You're the shadow of two people.
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
You're stuck on a seat with thorns.
You have no pain-deadening fluid.
Can you get out of the seat?
What do you do,
What do you do,
What do you do?
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