Grenademan Vs the Zombies Chapter 5

Written by T.C. Ricks

Read by Matt Franklin

Edited by Fiona Skye

Given the organized response against them, Doc and the Circle seek to gain more recruits in the safest way possible...a science fiction convention.

 

 

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[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 65

Fred, Hawkqueen and Inoria grab Grenademan’s Cape. 

GRENADEMAN

YOU DON’T TUG ON GRENADEMAN’S CAPE. YOU DON’T SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE OLD LONE RANGER AND YOU DON’T MESS AROUND WITH MY CAPE. EMPHASIS ON THE CAPE PART. HINT, THAT’S MY CAPE. 

Fred

So what are we supposed to be doing here? 

GRENADEMAN

MY CAPE PLEASE. 

Inoria

Honestly…I have absolutely no idea, but it makes about as much sense as everything else that’s been going on.

GRENADEMAN

YOU ARE GETTING COOKIE CRUMBS ON MY CAPE. WAIT, SORRY, THAT’S FROM DEAD GINGERBREAD MAN.

Inoria grabs Grenademan’s cape. There is a large flash of light and they all vanish.

EXT. REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE - DAY

The four appear inside a rowdy crowd in revolutionary France. A large guillotine sits to one side. No one immediately pays attention to them.

FRENCH PERSON #1

I hear they are up to thirty seven today! 

FRENCH PERSON #2

That’s nothing. Last week they got rid of two hundred and fourteen. 

FRENCH PERSON #1

Let’s get a good front seat. Last time I could see the veins in his neck still pumping. 

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GRENADEMAN

THE SUPERHEROIC WORK IS A GLORIOUS WORK. 

Inoria

Actually, it’s times like this that I really wonder why I get up in the morning.

 

They blow up the last of the gingerbread men. The Candy Queen cries and runs away.

Hawkqueen

This is almost enough to make me give up chocolate…almost. 

FRED

Right. So how do we get out of here? 

Inoria

That’s a very good question. 

Hawkqueen

You’re supposed to be the technical expert. 

Inoria

Look, I don’t have any idea what was done to us, that doesn’t make it easy to replicate. 

FRED

We know it had something to do with Frank’s cape.  

Hawkqueen

It was of the same formula Thorne was looking for.

Inoria

That’s it. It’s just crazy enough that it might work. Quick, everyone grab hold of his cape… 

My live journal has long served as my poetry blog

but it seems to by dying.  I tried posting this there seven times and it wouldn't stick....

Only it turns out they both survived.....

But I was going to post the poem here.

Instead I will post link 1 and link 2

The Fires of Prophesy Part 2

A story of what happens when the ambitious try to meddle in the affairs of True Gods.

 

By T.C. Ricks, Performed by Matt Franklin, Edited by Fiona Skye

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[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 63

Inoria

Well, we eat them, it’s only natural they try and eat us. 

A fight ensues between denizens of candy land and the heroes. The gingerbread men charge them. Grenademan tosses grenades. Inoria shocks them, Hawkqueen cleaves them in two with her talons (retractable), and Chainsaw Fred liberally applies his chainsaw to them.  

GRENADEMAN

FEEL THE WRATH OF MY GRENADES OH FOUL DEMONS OF CANDY! 

FRED

Look, Frank…since there is a remote chance we might not get out of this, seeing as how we’re out numbered by about-well the entire population of Candy Land to four, I wanted to apologize for hitting you. 

GRENADEMAN

NO APOLOGY IS NECESSARY FELLOW SUPER HERO CHAINSAW FRED. WE ARE ALL WARRIORS ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE, SOMETIMES WE MUST SMACK FOR THE FORCES OF

(interrupted)

 

Chainsaw Fred cuts more gingerbread men in half while Grenademan tosses more grenades.

FRED

Look, I realize that there might not be much left of you in there right now, but someday you might come back. I love you, you’re my brother. But this super hero stuff, people that get mixed up in this. Well, I mean, look around, I don’t want this sort of thing happening to my kids. 

Writing Update

So far so good. I'm behind where I wanna be, but I've got three stories complete so far, Skip's story, Making the Demon and Raising Timmy.  Raising Timmy seems to have the most potential of the three but it will require some rewrites.  All of them will.  I'm sitting on em for three months, then I'll do an edit, and then wait for three more before another edit pass and submitting for publiciation (ie rejection) but I'm learning from past improvements and time helps a lot.

Working on two more stories that I just started. I'm trying to do them both at the same time, and I'm mainly trying to write more during the day and night to get myself ready for NaNoWrMo and..failing miserably.  I'm mainly writing at night and weekends, which just won't do for....you know, that name is a pain to write, let's call it Death Month, shall we? Anyway, I'm gonna start notes on characters and plot outline here likely in April.

Podcast is chugging along nicely.  I sometimes have 10 people listening to it. I think my voice actor has some fans :D He is good at reading for GMVZ.  I'm getting a mike delivered this week but will likely resume reading sometime in April.

Finally, since I have a goal to write 3 scripts this year and Tossing Grenade Vs Windmills is going to run out in April or may, I'll need SOMETHING to replace it for the blog....Unfood will last a while, but I do  plan on doing another short film some time next year, and I'll likely start with the strongest of the three scripts I write this year.

[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 62

Hawkqueen

Make it stop! Make the evil stop! 

GRENADEMAN

EVIL?! THERE IS EVIL ABOUT? 

CANDY QUEEN

No, there is no evil about, but please, come sit and join us for a lovely meal. 

CHAINSAW FRED

There is something defiantly just wrong here. It doesn’t feel good. 

Inoria

I know. Besides being insipid-it just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up-I mean the way they’re looking at us-it’s almost as if they were… 

CANDY CHORUS

Hungry! Hungry Hungry Hungry for some human flesh

Tastes so good with ketchup and a good potato mesh

Gobble up the heroes and throw them in the stew

Creeping up to fill our bellies we’ll all eat you! 

Chainsaw Fred starts his chainsaw.

CHAINSAW FRED

That’s what I thought.

Inoria

You know it makes sense in a morbid sort of way… 

Hawkqueen

What? 

Grenademan Vs Zombies Chapter 4 Part 2

Jarvi gets to work destroying the world.

Written by T.C. Ricks

Performed by Matt Franklin

Edited by Fiona Skye

Available on Amazon

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[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 61

Inoria

It looks like we’ve come through some sort of dimensional rift….we’re in (interrupted) 

Hawkqueen

We’re in-where the hell are we? 

CANDY QUEEN

Why, you are in Candy Land!  

CANDY CHORUS

We welcome you to Candy Land,

Candy Land, Candy Land

We’re so happy that you’re here in Candy Land, We Want to Happy Dance With Joy 

CHAINSAW FRED

I almost wish we HAD been killed back there.  

Inoria

Insipidity is getting rather tangible isn’t it? 

GRENADEMAN

GREETINGS DENIZENS OF CANDY LAND! I, GRENADEMAN AM HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE FORCES OF EVIL! 

CANDY QUEEN

But, but there is no evil in Candy Land. Only happy lovely candy. 

CANDY CHORUS

Happy Lovely Candy on a Sunshine Day

Lovely Groovy Gumdrops and some Liquorish Hay

Have a lumpy dumpy blip bop time

We all wish you could stay and play! 

[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 60

DOC SHADOWS

It could send you anywhere in time or space, rather than simply scatter your atoms across the cosmos. If I wasn’t so practical, I’d almost envy you your trip.  

Hawkqueen

Trip? 

Fred

TRIP?! I can’t go anywhere I’ve got a family to think of. 

DOC SHADOWS

I’m afraid it’s a bit late for that now. But at least you’re not dead. of course, one could argue that death has its merits. Indeed, one could defiantly argue that.

The device activates and they vanish.

EXT. CANDY LAND - DAY 

A grassy field, a sun lit day, the CANDY QUEEN sits upon her lovely throne in Candy Land with dancing candy canes and ginger bread men happily making merry all about the throne. They are singing. 

Gingerbread Men Candy Canes and Queen

(Insipid music) 

We are happy in Candy Land, Candy Land, Candy Land

Life is ever wonderful and Grand in Candy Land

It makes us Happy, Dance and Stand

To Live in Happy Candy Land

Lalala, heeheehee, Lololo, FweeFweeFwee

Dancing All the happy Day, we sing now and laugh and play. 

Grenademan, Chainsaw Fred, Inoria and Hawkqueen Appear. 

The Fires of Prophesy Part 1

A story of what happens when the ambitious try to meddle in the affairs of True Gods.

 

By T.C. Ricks, Performed by Matt Franklin, Edited by Fiona Skye

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[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 59

Hawkqueen

God bless you. Maybe you aren’t entirely evil after all. 

DOC SHADOWS

I would have done that as a public service if I had the blackest of hearts. Now, you don’t have much time, seconds in fact. You need to take the acid vial that FRED Noble is using on his wrist chain as we speak.

Fred

Didn’t think there was much point in hiding my thoughts from a telepath. Wasn’t going to volunteer the information either.

Fred breaks free of his chain. 

Inoria

Fred Noble? What-Not that I’m not glad for the help, but I thought you hated anything and everything that had to do with super heroes. 

DOC SHADOWS

You’ll find that there is a great deal about the Noble brothers that you might not ordinarily suspect. Right now, however, I’d place Frank’s cape between yourselves and that rather nasty looking grayish crystal on the far side of the room. 

Inoria

And what will that do. 

DOC SHADOWS

It could send you anywhere in time or space, rather than simply scatter your atoms across the cosmos. If I wasn’t so practical, I’d almost envy you your trip.  

[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 58

Inoria

Come again? 

DOC SHADOWS

What you see with your eyes is but a mental projection into your minds, while Thorne foolishly believes that I am not present or capable of knowing what he is doing. 

Hawkqueen

And the reason you want to do this is because…? 

DOC SHADOWS

Because as much as I dislike what must be done, I’m determined to do it. That doesn’t mean I want to see you all killed. 

Inoria

Fair enough. So you’re going to help us to escape? 

DOC SHADOWS

Not exactly. I’m going to help you to live. I can’t afford to have you attempt to alter my plans. 

GRENADEMAN

THE PLANS OF EVIL SHALL NEVER TRIUMPH! 

INORIA HAWkqueen DOC SHADOWS

(together)

Shut UP! 

GRENADEMAN

NOTHING CAN SILENCE THE MIGH-gurk 

DOC SHADOWS

I have temporarily disabled the portion of his brain that allows speech. 

Grenademan Vs the Zombies on Amazon

All five parts of the novel are now available on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=t.c.+ricks

I had tried the preorder thing but it didn't work too well.  I'll be working on the print version later this year, and you can listen to it bit by bit in the podcast.

General update on my writing efforts tomorrow.

Grenademan Vs the Zombies - Chapter 4 Part 1

Jarvi has a conversation with Chaos about getting an upgrade.

Written by T. C. Ricks

Performed by Matt Franklin

Edited by Fiona Skye

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[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 57

Hawkqueen

I agree. Any ideas? 

Inoria

Can you contact the birds? 

Hawkqueen

No, they’re out of my range for some reason. Hmm, no they seemed to be tied up for some reason. 

Doc Shadows comes back into the room. 

DOC SHADOWS

That would be prudent wouldn’t it? I’ve worked with enough animal empaths to know how dangerous letting them run around can be. 

Hawkqueen

It really is you isn’t it? You’re not dead. 

DOC SHADOWS

Not for lack of trying I assure you. 

Inoria

You were supposed to be one of the good guys. 

DOC SHADOWS

I am. After a manner of speaking. 

Inoria

That’s some manner of speaking.

DOC SHADOWS

In this case, the manner of speaking is directly into your mind.  

Inoria

Come again? 

[Script] Tossing Grenades At Windmills - Page 56

Hawkqueen

I remember that. People just kept saying that magic word for days…made him turn into something random every time 

J.R.R. Thorne

The difference between Hopscotch and me, is that I am not some costumed gimp. I am the real deal, and I will be making each and every one of you writhe in agony before I’m done with you. 

Hawkqueen

I fail to see the difference between a costumed moron and a moron who just lives the lifestyle. 

J.R.R. Thorne

The difference is considerable my dear. Considerable. 

GRENADEMAN

AHA! SO YOU REVEAL THE FACT THAT YOU ARE PART OF THE FORCES OF EVIL! WE SHALL DEFEAT YOU! 

J.R.R. Thorne

And how will you do that while you’re tied up? 

GRENADEMAN

I SHALL DEFEAT YOU WITH MY MIGHTY AURA OF GOOD AND PURITY. 

J.R.R. Thorne

I..see…right then.

Thorne leaves.

Inoria

At least he made him stop revealing his plan.