|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OFFICE COMPLEX--CUP 24--"WENT NOWHERE" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Office Complex  ||  -------> (Cup SRoc024, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "I don't know if I want to see this, Rippy." "Of course you do! Come on--you're a Primate for crying out loud! Have some backbone in the face of the unreal." "Okay." V said. He did fear Nevrippa. Not that she'd ever threaten him or anyone else in Overwhelm, but it was just the fact that she could utterly cream him in the blink of an eye. Such power, such terror, in the hands of this silly girl. "This is gonna be great! I love the real version of this movie. I can't wait to see how it got changed!" "We're not gonna watch the whole thing, are we?" "No--just the first couple of minutes, so I get an idea of what it's like!" The film studio logo faded in, normal except for a different color scheme. Then it faded to black, and then it faded into a scene of some teenagers in the woods. One boy was skateboarding on some huge rocks, and a girl was kneeling down with a video camera. A fat kid and a nerdy kid were also there. "You can't skate on rocks." the fat kid said. "What do you think I'm doing?" The shot then changed to a close-up of the girl tearing open a brand new videotape and loading it into her camera. "You'll damage your wheels." the nerd said. "I'll damage your face." After this, there were shots of the girl videotaping the cool guy doing all sorts of skating trick on the rocks, with plenty of adolescent repartee. Finally, the guy fell into a stream, and the girl said, "Okay, let's go home and take a look at Mr. Wonderful TV star!" The guy laughed sarcastically from the water. V Sincein shook his head. "Is this that much different from the original?" "Yeah! I mean, they're the same characters, but there was never any scene like this." "It's just--it doesn't seem very strange." "Shh! I wanna hear this!" The four kids entered a nice suburban living room, and the girl set the camera down on the couch and took the tape out. "You have to rewind it?" the cool guy asked. "No, I rewound it in the camera." "Awesome." the cool guy said. The girl turned on the TV, put the video in the VCR, and pressed play. Instantly, the image came up, but it was of the four of them standing together on one of the rocks, arms around each others shoulders, as in a chorus line, happily counting, "eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen..." "What the hell is this?" the cool guy asked. "We didn't do that!" the fat kid commented. The scene zoomed into the face of the nerd watching the tape, and he wore a look a horror. The girl jumped forward and stopped the tape. "Maybe I used an old tape." she said, ejecting the tape to look at it. "I saw you open it up! It was new!" the cool guy said. "I know." the girl said, looking over the tape. "But we never did that!" the fat kid yelled, starting to panic, "I know we never did." The cool guy held his hand up. "Okay! Just relax! There has to be a rational explanation for this." "Put it back in." the nerd said, with icy calmness. "We have to see the whole thing." "Maybe it was the company who made the tape." the fat kid said, starting to cry. "Maybe they did it." "How could they?" the girl said, shaking as she put the tape back in. "That was us!" She looked back at the other three before pressing play. The image came up again, the kids were still counting. Then the scene changed to the four of them climbing up on some kind of net, high up in the trees. The camera was shaking, as if the one holding it were also in the net--but all four of them were on screen. "Now what the hell is this?" the fat kid sobbed, panic rising in his heart. "We never did that!" "Shut up!" the cool guy yelled. "Then the scene changed--it was a police car, pulled over, lights flashing. The camera was shaking, as if the person holding it was trying to get a better position. It seemed as if the camera was taping hidden, from in a bush or something. There were two cops yelling something, and then it zoomed in to the girl, who was down on her knees, her hands handcuffed behind her back. One of the cope then yelled something else, pointed a gun at the girl's head, and pulled the trigger. For a moment, the sight of her head being blown apart was visible, but then the scene in the film shifted to a still-frame of the four kids in the living room, all with looks of shock and horror on their faces. The credits then started, with the scene panning and zooming around the still frame. The theme song was an upbeat, goofy sort of rock song, which contrasted in a very shocking way with the visuals. Nevrippa turned around and looked at V, who had a kind of sickened expression on his face. "See? I told you it would get good." she said. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----