Scene 9.10 - Call To The Spirits
ANIMATION STYLE 7
EST: INT. The Titan Lair, Zeta, March 7, 7037 (Earth Time)
(The TITANS are seated about a gigantic, round table, conducting a seance. TITAN FOUR is the medium.)
TITAN FOUR
Spirits! Spirits! Voices from the outer world, hear us! There are those who wish to speak with you... Those who wish to know your wisdom...
TITAN THREE
(Toking.) This never works.
TITAN TWO
Quiet!
TITAN FOUR
Spirits, show us your face, lend us your voice, we have gathered to hear you.
(VERNE materializes upon the table -- in scale, a miniscule man.)
TITAN ONE
Hmmmm. This is new.
ALL OTHER TITANS
Hail, Titan!
VERNE
Ka-wha? Who are you people? Where in the hell am I? Have I died?
TITAN FOUR
N-no. Fear not, spirit! We have summoned you to gain your treasured wisdom-
VERNE
(Stands, looks about.) You- all of you, this place... it is familiar to me somehow.
TITAN THREE
Titan Zero, you have left the mysterious land of the living dream to speak with us, please, tell us what you have learned; what you know-
VERNE
Know? Know about what? Where's the Admiral's starcar? How do I know you people? Why are you so... big? How do I know this place? Is this from my childhood?
ALL BUT VERNE
Before that. We are you. You are Titan Zero; at one with The Universe.
VERNE
At one with the- Heavy; did I crash in the race or what?
TITAN FIVE
Tell us, how may the end of the world be prevented? Who is the most able among us to prevent the Renewal from happening?
VERNE
I knew that hit of bathtub acid that I dropped the night of the Academy Induction Ball would eventually come back to haunt me. (Beat.) Why are you all dressed up like the loonies from Alice In Wonderland?
TITAN TWO
Perhaps it is how you perceive us. You know our true form, but your mind might not accept it. (Beat.) How does it end, Zero? Can we prevent a bad ending, somehow?
VERNE
(Sits, confused.) What in Hypatia's Holy House of Heathen Hysterectomies are you all talking about? Surely, this must be a dream or someth-
(He disappears once again.)
TITAN FIVE
Hmmm. There went seventy-two seconds that we'll never get back again.
TITAN SIX
Perhaps we should ask someone else...
TITAN FOUR
Like who?
TITAN SIX
I dunno -- maybe... Jynx.
AD LIB DISAGREEMENT
TITAN SIX (Cont'd)
Give him credit -- He knew a way out that we didn't know before. Maybe he knows something else, too.
TITAN FOUR
If'n you say so... Light up another blunt. (TITAN ONE does.) Spirits! Voices from the Netherworld! Hear us! We call out to Jynx, the ghost with the most -- Jynx, can you hear us? Jynx? We are calling upon the spirit of Jynx to come forth and advise us...
FTB