Series 9 - The Road Less Traveled
By Gauntlet (Shadowman)
Princess: *humph* You're no fun.
(Princess smirks and tosses both ice creams down to the ground.)
Kid: HEY!
Another kid: It's in my hair!
Princess: HAH!
(Princess flies into the window of the Ivory Tower's topmost floor.)
Crorq: Glad you could make it.
(Crorq tosses a chicken wing into his maw and noisily eats it.)
Princess: (shudders)
Crorq: SHAKEMAN!
(Shakeman dashes towards his boss, shaking and trembling.)
Shakeman: Y-y-y-y-y-YES!?
Crorq: I desire ... a curry shake.
Shakeman: Wh .... what kind of curry?
Crorq: WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT!?
Shakeman: (jumps) AHH! All of them! Of course! I'll be right back!
(Shakeman dashes off.)
Crorq: Honestly.
Trio: Where are Tar and Holzenbein!? They should be here! Where are they?
(The Council stares blankly at Trio.)
Crorq: I have an entire robot police force to keep track of. Humans and Lion Men are beyond my purview.
Ra Moon: My duites are enough to drain me for weeks. When much is expected much time must be given.
Ra Thor: SO WISE!
Princess: And I couldn't care less.
Trio: NO! This is unacceptable! They were supposed to be here. This is my council! They will not defy my will! Officer!
(An officer bot runs in.)
Officer bot: Yes, sir?
Trio: TAKE ME TO TAR AND MR. HOLZENBEIN!
(Just then, Shakeman runs back into the room breathlessly carrying a large shake.)
Shakeman: One curry shake for you, sir!
(Crorq gabs it and tosses it right back in Shakeman's face.)
Crorq: I don't want it anymore.
Shakeman: But ... why!?
(The Galactic Council barge into Holt's room to see why they didn't attend the meeting. They find a disturbing scene.)
...
Trio: Wh ... wha ...
Crorq: BY MY MAAAAAGNIFICENCE WHAT WERE THEY DOING!?
Ra Moon: (While being carried by RaThor) It appears they were engaged in some sort of ... base promiscuous behavior.
(Crorq looks at his half-eaten bucket of poutine that he had gotten in the meantime, then back at the scene. Unbelievably it appears the scene has caused him to doubt whether he still wants to eat.)
Ra Thor: COVER YOUR EYES, MY MASTER!
Ra Moon: I am all eye, Ra Thor. It's too late. This may yet haunt my dreams.
Trio: I ... I don't even know what I'm looking at. Crorq?
Crorq: It ... fails to compute. Even MY mind cannot fathom this scene.
Trio: Princess, you are organic. Explain ... this...
Princess: ...
Princess: ...
Princess: ...
Crorq, RaMoon, RaThor, Trio: ...
Princess: AH HAH HAH HAH! Oh, God! Oh, God! Tar was always so stuck up and he .... he winds up like this! I can't ... I can't stop laughing!
(Princess doubles over, in tears over the display before her while the robots look on in disbelief.)
Ra Moon: Organics. Is it any wonder I put myself to sleep when they were the only sentient beings around?
Ra Thor: ONE WONDERS NOT, GLORIOUS MASTER!
Crorq: (shrugs and begins eating his poutine again.) Agreed.
Trio: This is unacceptable! Those fools have lessened our number because they could not control their .... bizarre ... whatever this is supposed to be!! To retain our legitimacy I must seek out replacements.
Crorq: And yet, power is best held in the hand of the few, eh, Trio?
Trio: Hm. Quite.
Princess: (Still laughing uncontrollably.)
Trio: We'll have to have this cleaned up.
Crorq: I have already sent out for - ah, but here he is now. Shakeman!
(Shakeman flinches as Crorq raises a hand in greeting.)
Shakeman: AH! Ah, y-y-y-y-y-yes?
Crorq: Clean up that room for me will you? Oh, and I'll want that pulled pork shake as soon as you're done.
Shakeman: Y-y-y-y-yes! Right away!
Crorq: Good man! Wouldn't want a repeat of the last time you failed me, eh?
Shakeman: NO! No I wouldn't!
(The Council members leave, Princess barely able to walk.)
Shakeman: Hey! That wasn't so bad ...
(Shakeman looks into the room.)
Shakeman: OH, GOD WHY!?
