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THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT

a puppet play in many parts

Season 04, Episode 05

By Thomas Typewriter

(c) 2022 thomas typewriter

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FADE IN TO BLACK

From the bottom center of the screen scrolls up the following text: “04-05”. It continues upward, pausing briefly in the center then exits off the top of the frame.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INT. C-MOUSE’S OFFICE

C-Mouse’s office feels ready to burst. The walls are lined with shelves overflowing with stacks of comic books and graphic novels. The only gap in wall shelves is a door off to the side, with the door covered in a motivational poster of an anthropomorphic comic book dressed in a superhero costume bombastically punching through a tree branch. Printed on the poster is “COMICS COMPLETE COMPLETELY”. Even the floor is covered in stacks of comics and graphic novels. Walkways are visible, snaking through the room, all branching out from an L-shaped desk at the center of the room. The desk in the center of the room is made up of a writing table and drawing table connected at right angles. Currently C-MOUSE sits at the drawing table speaking with K-MOUSE seated at the writing desk.

FADE IN SLOWLY TO A CS OF A STACK OF COMIC BOOKS ON C-MOUSE’S DESK

K-MOUSE
(voice-over) “Okay, so we open in the Space Museum. Then what. Like we know we need to get to the big cosmic problem that draws everyone together.”

C-MOUSE
(voice-over) “The unraveling of space-time?”

K-MOUSE
(voice-over) “Right, but how do we get there? And where is everybody when this happens? Is it right after Beta Dog forms the Cosmic League or have they been around awhile.”

C-MOUSE
(voice-over) “A while. This is like their final story, so they have been around awhile.”

K-MOUSE
(voice-over) “A twilight of the gods scenario. So years then?”

C-MOUSE
(voice-over) “Yup. Years.”

PAN OUT FROM STACK OF COMICS TO MS OF C-MOUSE’S DESK

C-MOUSE sits at his desk, in front of the drawing desk covered with sheets of paper, pens and pencils. He swivels his chair to face K-MOUSE sitting at the writing desk with an open laptop.

K-MOUSE
“Well if that’s the case, what have they been doing all these years? Because, this whole time I assumed it was months later.”

C-MOUSE
“No way. We have a list of over a hundred villains. That is a maniac pace of crime if they have defeated that many villains in a few months. Plus Beta Dog and Sigma Badger are married and have a kid.”

K-MOUSE
“True. I don’t know why I thought it was only a few months into the story. Go on.”

C-MOUSE
“We’ll figure out more of the how once we get the basic plot plotted out.”

K-MOUSE
“Okay. So how does space-time get broken?”

C-MOUSE
“Does it need to be space-time. Couldn’t it be something else like alien invasion. I’d love to draw a bunch of space battles. Maybe those spikey living suits.”

K-MOUSE
“No. It needs to be space-time.”

C-MOUSE
“Well, the only time powered villains are the Anachist and Time Laird.”

K-MOUSE
“Not exactly Time Lairds thing, and he’s not technically a villain anyway. The Anachrist it is.”

C-MOUSE
“He’s kinda klutzy, not exactly a master villain and his schemes usually never work out.”

K-MOUSE
“Right, like what if something he did breaks the space-time continuum. Not a planned thing but a screw-up.”

C-MOUSE
“Okay but how does one break the space-time continuum. It’s an abstract thing.”

K-MOUSE
“Good point.”

They think a moment until a notion occurs to K-Mouse

K-MOUSE
“Let’s work through this. Extend it out. So we need something to break. So how do things break.”

C-MOUSE
“They’re hit.”

K-MOUSE
“Right. Hit…or when something collides with it.”

C-MOUSE
“True. Hitting and collision.”

K-MOUSE
“Isn’t he always stealing things? The Anachrist.”

C-MOUSE
“Okay, I see where you’re going with this. Yes he does.

K-MOUSE
“And what if something he steals breaks the space-time.”

C-MOUSE
“Sure but what would he steal?”

K-MOUSE
“Well his time-doors are only person size…wait…what if he tried to steal something larger than his time-doorway.”

C-MOUSE
“And it collides with the edge of the time-door cracking it, cracking space-time.”

K-MOUSE
“I like it. It totally fits his personality. So what big thing would he try to steal. A pyramid, a tomb, a dinosaur, a train? I’d steal a dinosaur if I could.”

C-MOUSE
“Really. What kind.”

K-MOUSE
“Triceratops.”

C-MOUSE
“Really, a triceratops.”

K-MOUSE
“I like the horns.”

C-MOUSE
“Okay, but back to the story. What if he stole a boat.”

K-MOUSE
“A boat? Those are tiny.”

C-MOUSE
“Not the Titanic.”

K-MOUSE
“Oh… So we do a riff on it striking that iceberg but instead our twist is that this C-Grade super villain tries to steal it but it strikes the edge of his portal, cracking the space-time continuum dooming the universe.”

C-MOUSE
“So he is the cause of the Titanic sinking, and also destroying the universe. The guy no one takes seriously ends up being the most destructive.”

K-MOUSE
“I like it.”

C-MOUSE
“Me too.”

K-MOUSE
“Work up some drawings, and I’ll rough out some plot.”

C-Mouse swivels to face his drawing board and starts to draw. K-Mouse starts to type. After a moment, a phone hidden in the piles of comics on the bookcase next to the desk RINGS knocking over a pile of comics. C-Mouse turns and walks over to the phone. He answers the phone.

C-MOUSE
“C-Mouse here. (pause) Yes. Sure, he’s here. What’s up.”

C-Mouse listens then puts his hand over the phone’s receiver to ask K-Mouse a question.

C-MOUSE
“A-Mouse says Y-Mouse is calling a meeting tonight and she’s going to get some food. What do you want.

K-MOUSE
“Another all-nighter?”

C-MOUSE
“Appears so.”

K-MOUSE
“Are we in trouble?”

C-MOUSE
(into phone) “K wants to know how bad it is?” (listens then talks to K-MOUSE) “She doesn’t know.”

K-MOUSE
“That answers nothing. Where are they going then?”

C-MOUSE
(into phone) “Where are you going?” (listens then talks to K-Mouse) “The Gutenberg Bagel”

K-MOUSE
“Oh, then definitely the Kirby Special.”

C-MOUSE
(into phone) “He’ll have the Kirby and I’ll have the Eisner. Okay. Good. We’ll be there. Bye.”
C-Mouse hangs up the phone. He walks over and sits back down at the drawing table.

C-MOUSE
“Okay, here is what I was thinking.”

PAN OUT

C-Mouse leans over and hands a drawing to K-Mouse

K-MOUSE
“Nice. What else you got?”

C-Mouse shows K-Mouse some more drawings.

FADE OUT