Cheaters

Cheaters is the Fifteenth episode of Young Plumbers.

Plot


[Sci]: Got to go to my locker… while everyone is at lunch.

[ Sci finds his locker and puts in the combination ]

[Sci]: 8 – 19 – 12

[ At that moment, the locker door opens, and reveals the mysterious room with all the books ]

[Sci]: No one knows that I have a secret room hidden in my locker.

[ He finds the same book he used before, and put his arms on it. Sci cries out in Pain as some of his energy goes into the book. He has his tears cross his face, as his sleeves roll up by themselves. Suddenly, bright red marks appear on his arm, glowing. He puts his arms up from the book, as the book glows. ]

[Sci]: Owww…. That hurt more than last time…. Its slowly getting worse. Soon… someone’s going to find out. I have to figure out a way to release the energy when I’m not here… or else things are going to go bad.



[Ra’ol Set]: Is the fleet getting ready?

[Lotin]: Yes…

[Lucifer]: Good. However… I called this meeting because of another issue. Its about the recruits.

[Figure #1]: You want to get rid of them.

[Lucifer]: Paper is …. The leader, so we obviously must get rid of him, as we have previously tried. Water …. As you know got some information…. Others like Toon, Brian, and Jack have powers that can be used against us. And then… there’s Sci. You see… based on a copy of an ancient galvan book, stolen by Ra’ol Set, and Lotin’s observations of him… it seems Sci is the Child of Darkness foretold in the legendary Procehcy.

[Figure #2]: Can we use him to fit our needs?

[Lotin]: I don’t know. I see your concern though. You believe that Sci will ruin our plans.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Lucifer]: Yes.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 186.75pt;">[Figure #3]: Then we will dispose of them

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 264.0pt;">[Ra’ol Set]: Once we have done that… and complete our plans…. we will truly become the Elite.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 264.0pt;">[Theme Song]

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Water]: Just wonderful.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Aevan]: Can’t we just do some homework and skip it?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Bink]: Sir, how much time do we have?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: What happens if we fail?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Sir… I don’t feel so good….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Rob]: Oh great…..

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Is it a review over everything we’ve learned lately?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Seriously? A test?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Ben]: OH MAN….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Not Good….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Zon]: Oh man… I’m going to fail…. This is why I hate school.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: ENOUGH! Be Quiet, sit down, and just listen for Pete’s sake.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Everyone does what he says ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Slick]: Now… the test will be split into two. The First Half will be in two days. The Second half will be in 4 days.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Relgo]: The First half is the written portion, which will be taken in this classroom. You cheat, you fail.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Kruto]: The first half of the test is worth 40 percent. The second half of the test is worth 60 percent. There is no extra credit. Do you understand me?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Everyone]: Understood.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horbok]: Okay. Class dismissed.

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Water]: Wonderful….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Water…. Do you really hate tests that much?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Water]: Yeah.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Zon]: Well…. Let’s just get studying.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: Yeah.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: History of Wars….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: You know …. This means we can also review everything that’s happened.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ They dicuss the events of the previous episodes, from when they arrived to now ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]:Um…. I forgot one of my textbooks… I’ll be back.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ As Sci is about to exit Paper’s Barrack, Toon speaks up. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: Sci…. is everything alright? Lately you haven’t been… yourself.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci ponders for a moment, then says… ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Yeah.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Sci exits the room ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Bink]: That was werid…..

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: Yeah… it was.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">( Commercial )

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: Take your seats… the test is about to start.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ While Everyone takes their seats… Brian and Jack talk ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian:] You got it?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Yeah… all the answers. I went liquid form and snuck in, then made a few copies.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: SWEET.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Jack gives Brian a copy and they sit down ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: I’m about to pass out the test

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ He passes out the test ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: You have two hours to finish. Begin.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Everyone starts taking the test. As everyone works, Brian and Jack looks at the sheet of answers. Horkbok notices that Jack and Brian are writing their answers really fast. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: May I remind you all that if I find you cheating…. Then you’ll fail this part of the test.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok walks over to Brian’s desk, and grabs the sheet of answers.]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: Brian… you thought you could cheat? You fail. So do you… Jack.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: What? I didn’t do anything.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok walks over to Jack’s Desk. Jack puts his arm on the paper.]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: Lift up your arms.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Why?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: If you have done nothing wrong, then lift up your arms.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Horkbok grabs them both and lifts them, revealing the paper. He takes it and grows angry ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Horkbok]: You lied to me, recruit. You not only fail, but lose 10% on your field exam for lying to a Magister. Both of you… detention is waiting. Now get out of my classroom!

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Brian and Jack are wandering the halls ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Hey… Remember how Sci’s been acting weird lately?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Yeah. What’s with that?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: You think he might be hiding something from us?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: I don’t know… he’s my friend….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: And he’s mine also. I think we need to open his locker.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Here’s what we’ll do. You’ll get a weapon and we’ll wedge the thing open.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: I got a sword.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Brian reveals a pen that transforms into a sword ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Whoa… where’d you get that?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Took it from Rob.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ They walk a little more and find Sci’s locker. Brian starts attacking the Locker, but not a dent appears on it ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Come on… open up!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Then Jack goes and starts to try to wedge the door open but fails ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: It won’t open.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ In his anger, Jack hits the sword on the door’s lock and then a loud noise is made ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: What was that?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ They step back and look at Sci’s Locker. Suddenly, the locker goes behind the other ones, and slides to the right. They open their mouths in awe as they enter the mysterious room ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: What … in…

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: The…. World?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ They look at hundreds of books stacked up in huge piles in the huge room. There are candles everywhere, lighting up the room. On the walls are strange marks, from different Earth and galatic languages. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Puerum tenebrarum surgit princeps tenebrarum surgere universi movebit terras cadet et doomsday finietur Omnia. This is Latin.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: How do you know?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack:] I studied it.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: What’s it say?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: I’ll try my best. The… child of darkness rises… the ruler of darkness rises…. the universe will shake …. lands will fall and doomsday shall end everything.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Oh man… Sci’s a villain.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack:] He wants to end the universe?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Brian looks at his desk and sees a group of books in a pile with the label TEXTBOOKS. He then sees another book ].

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Jack… take a look at this.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Jack comes over, and sees two books. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Solvens Tenebrae Vestibulum. Releasing the Dark Energy?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Yeah… wait. That’s why Sci always has to leave! Because he has this… Dark Energy he has to release into the book!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Yeah! And look… it’s a Procephy book.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: When Galvan, the Terra Solar System, and the center of the galaxy, a disaster will occur. Civilizations will fall, wars will rise. And a conflict will begin, caused by a child of darkness.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Wait…. Child of Darkness… that was on the wall!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Sci is the Child of Darkness!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: He is evil.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[???]: What are you guys doing here?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">( Commercial )

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: You guys….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Paper… I should ask you the same question.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: I finished my test early…. We still have 15 minutes until everyone is done.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Did you know about this?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Paper stares at them and says … ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Yes.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: You Knew?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: A while ago… before Vulkanus threatened to use the bomb, I was in the hall talking with Sci. Suddenly, he got sick… and told me to go to his locker. He told me the combination, and after he released it… he told me his secret.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: That he is a child of Darkness? That he has all of this?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Yes…. Sadly.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ The Room is silent for a couple of minutes and then Brian speaks up ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: So you and Sci are evil.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Guys…. He isn’t evil. It’s not his fault that he… has this curse on him.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Oh… and the words on the wall don’t point to the fact he’s evil.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: To tell you the truth… I don’t know how or why he has these powers.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: You didn’t answer my question.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: No… I’m not evil.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Suddenly, Sci appears behind them ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Noo…. Paper, you let them in?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Sci! You’re a child of darkness?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: I can’t believe you want to end the world.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Guys… I admit… I am… but I never wanted to. I’m not evil… I don’t want to end the world.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: You’ve been keeping this from us, save for Paper. How do we know if you are lying or not?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Guys…. Please…. Just listen to me.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Suddenly everyone else who was taking the test, Ben, Aevan, Toon, Bink, and all the others appear now that the test is done]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Bink]: What’s that light?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Zon]: What in the world… a secret room?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Sci… I’m sorry… but they broke in…

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Water]: Sci… you better have a good reason to have all of …. This.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Then, Sci starts looking sad and looks at his friends ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: Sci has been keeping secrets from us! He’s a child of darkness… he’s going to destroy the universe by causing Doomsday!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: NOOO….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: He’s been lying about being sick. He comes here to release his “ Dark Energy “.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Everyone listen. I am a child of Darkness. But… I am not going to destroy the universe. I have lied about being sick. I have kept this from you… because if the Magisters found out… my life would end. They’d imprison me or they would even…. Murder me. I also did this… to protect you.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian] :He’s been lying a lot, so how do we know if he’s telling truth or not? Plus, Paper is the only one to know about it.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Only because he was weak!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Everyone is silent, as Sci stands… speechless. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Please… forgive me.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Bink walks to Sci, with a face full of anger ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Bink]: You … are a monster.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Bink suddenly slaps in the face, and Sci takes the blow ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Ow…..

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Bink]: That’s what you deserve.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Suddenly, Toon walks up, and looks sad. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: You lied….

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Toon…

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Toon grows angry then ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: No… you lied to me… your best friend! I thought I knew you…. Guess I didn’t.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: I only did it because…

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: Save it!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Toon then walks away ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Toon]: Let’s go guys…

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Jack]: Yeah…..

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Brian]: I’m going with Toon…. A good, honesty friend.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Everyone walks away, leaving Paper and Sci in the room. Sci falls to his knees. ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: What have I done?

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: It wasn't your fault.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Yes.... it was.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: Sci....

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: Don't you get it? Now they're going to tell the Magisters, and they'll arrest me and execute me!

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Paper]: They wouldn't.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: They would.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[ Silence in the room ]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[Sci]: I'll stay for the rest of the test... and then I'm leaving. I'm going as far away as I can from this place. I should never had been a plumber. Never.

[The camera cuts again to another table. 7 figures are sitting around it.]

[Voice #1]: Good, then tomorrow is last day?

[6 other voices]: Agreed!

[Voice #1]: Then tomorrow is the day we become Elite!

[The End]