Authors: Ashley Rogers
RANDY
Maybe but now I’m feeling a lot of pressure to perform. Also… Cyborg!
ANGE
I’m still human, I’m still the person you fell in love with.
RANDY
That’s not the point.
ANGE
If it helps, you won’t get electrocuted by my vagina.
RANDY
Sooooo not the concern I had… It’s a valid concern, I guess, but you’re
not
Ange.
ANGE
Yes I am.
RANDY
But you’re
not
!
ANGE
Randy. I don’t know what I can do to show you I am still Ange. What I do know is that you and I could share the most intimate gift two people can share… Hope.
She kisses him.
ANGE (cont.)
Safety
Another kiss
We can give the world life. You and I… what do you say? Come with me… if you want humanity to live.
She leans in to kiss him again, it seems like he’s into it, PAUL shoots up.
PAUL
Oooouuuucccchhhh!
RANDY
AH!
ANGE
Sorry sorry, calm down, he’s good, he should be working for us now, isn’t that right Paul?
PAUL
Whooo yes ma’am, reporting for duty!
ANGE
Side effect. He’s going to be very chipper… I guess.
PAUL
That’s right ma’am My optimism’s at an all time high now thanks to your rooting around in the old cyber cerebellum!
RANDY pulls a blanket over his head
ANGE
Randy, Randy what’re you-
RANDY
I’m going to sleep.
ANGE
No you’re not.
RANDY
Yes I am I’m going to sleep.
ANGE
You’re being ridiculous.
RANDY
No I’m not. I’m going to sleep and when I wake up Paul is going to speak normal, you’re not going to be a cyborg, and my magical baby juice will continue to be flushed down the toilet. Or a sock.
ANGE goes to pull the blanket off, RANDY whimpers. This repeats. PAUL gently tugs, it gives way, RANDY is pouting. PAUL leans in.
PAUL
Hey bud- What’s say we turn that frown upside down?
RANDY starts crying.
ANGE
Randy… I can see you need to get used to this. I don’t want to force you into anything you don’t want to do…
Door bell rings.
ANGE
Now that the Coalition for Natural Existence isn’t a problem-
Door bell rings.
-we can take our time… You’ll see I’m still me.
Doorbell, PAUL opens the door and an older woman with a ridiculous, futuristic rifle appears.
RANDY
Professor Plumb!?
PAUL
Oh hello there Professor, can I hang up your gun?!
PLUMB cocks the gun, pulls the trigger, and a noise is heard. ANGE and PAUL fall to the ground.
RANDY
Wha-hu-I-WHAT?!
PLUMB
Randall!
RANDY
You killed them!
PLUMB
Kill? Kill who- the Robots- No no this is a sonic electromagnetic pulse.
RANDY
He’s a robot but she’s a cyb- What the hell
is
that?!
PLUMB
What?
RANDY
The rifle!
PLUMB
Sonic EMP Randall, like I said, do try to keep up.
RANDY
You’re from the future too.
PLUMB
Good, good I’m very glad I don’t need to explain it to you. Saves me a lot of time. Be a dear and search them for weapons while they're still out of commission-
RANDY
What the hell is going on?
PLUMB
Ugh, thought it was obvious. We’re searching them for weapons.
RANDY puts his head in his hands and yells.
PLUMB (cont.)
You search that one and I’ll explain. As you’ve guessed I am from the fuuuutttuuuuurrrreeee! My superiors got the exact time wrong when they sent me back- see time travel is a wretchedly… unplannable… thing. Really really hard to predict. When I finally reached the time period you existed in you were two years old. It would have been weird and, well, physically impossible for you to get me pregnant, here, look at a picture of me when I first got here! Meeeooowwww right? I tried to stay a part of your life without, you know, hiding in the bushes, I’d give you little nudges in the right directions. That’s why I have such a stupid name, had to think quick, Professor Plumb was the first name that popped into my head. By the way you did
not
get the hint to go to the college I was working at. It’s really hard to get a job as a professor at any college let alone quitting and finding a whole
new
job at a completely different one- point is I have had to live my life for eighteen years in the past, you know now, and well here we are! Now do you prefer top or bottom?
RANDY
Top- Bot-
PLUMB
Yeah we need to bang!
RANDY
NO! Nonononononono!
PLUMB
Thanks don’t worry about hurting my feelings or anything- if you had met me twenty years ago I mean you saw the picture! Why do you think I’ve focused the entire semester on Nabokov's Lolita, I was trying to get you hot and bothered! Now we need to do this before those two wake-
RANDY
Ange said-
PLUMB
Ange, Ange, Ange- Oh! The lady robot?
RANDY
Cyborg and yes, my girlfriend said that
she
was the mother of-
PLUMB
Let me guess sheeee said that sheeee’s going to the mother of your child, the mother of Glorious Leader didn’t she?
RANDY
Yeah I-
PLUMB
Sure, sure, she’s been lying to you.
RANDY
That’s not… untrue but-
PLUMB
Of course she would say that, she’s a bounty hunter for a private collector.
RANDY
I can’t deal with this.
He puts the blanket back over his head.
PLUMB
She’s a collector sent to get your man jelly, put it in a collection vessel in her… well her hoo ha, and get it for her private collector. What’s that for?
RANDY
Going to sleep… When I wake up I won’t be in a world where someone wants to put my man jelly on display.
PLUMB
Uuuugggghhhh stop being such a sad sack. Do you not see how awesome this is? How many people can say “My sperm is Revolutionary.” There’s lots of money in holding the key to stopping or starting a revolution. Yeeeep. Aren’t you glad you didn’t get all hormonal teen and spread it around to just anybody? She’d get it, collect it, she’d give it to the person who hired her. Then she’d probably kill you once she got it. Reeeeeal black widow that one… or maybe more of a praying mantis situation right there.
ANGE
Hmmuh
PLUMB
She’s waking up, we should probably bang now-
ANGE
Ugh you-
PLUMB
Let’s do this!
PLUMB begins to undress.
RANDY
No! I don’t want to have sex with you!
PLUMB
Look at the picture of me right before I shifted through time! Suuuuuper hot right!?
ANGE
You… I’ll kill you.
PLUMB lifts rifle. ANGE stops.
PLUMB
You’re just gonna stay right there.
ANGE stands over PAUL’s body.
RANDY
Stop stop stop!
ANGE
Randy I don’t know what she told you-
RANDY
Are you working for a private collector?
ANGE
I would never lie to you Randy. I love you. When this is over you and I will be together forever.
RANDY
That is super intense!
ANGE
I know the future I’m from the future-
PLUMB
So am I, and so do I.
ANGE
She’s lying!
PLUMB
You’re
lying!
RANDY
I’m the only one that wasn’t there! I don’t know who to believe!
ANGE
Randy, just give me my gun and we-
PLUMB
Nooooope no no, not a good idea, don’t do that.
ANGE
Randy I promise I will not kill you. I would never kill you.
RANDY
No? No I suppose you won’t. Could you just… Say that again.
ANGE
Um, OK. I would never kill you.
RANDY
So you won’t kill me, what about him?
ANGE
I don’t know what that EMP did to his circuits.
PLUMB
Sure blame it on me.
ANGE
Very good chance what I did to him is reversed. So
he
may try and kill you.
RANDY
There it is.
ANGE
I don’t
want
him to kill you. I don’t know-
RANDY
But he will… if you let him.
PAUL
Rebooting. Rebooting.
ANGE
I don’t know what his original programming was.
RANDY
His original programming wouldn’t allow him-
ANGE