Scene 14: Make Sure He Doesn't Leave

Narrator: The Tale of Commodore K'tujHegh.
Father: One day, lad, all this will be yours!
Frodo: What, the photons?
Father: No, not the photons, lad. All that you can see! Stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your Star Empire, lad!
Frodo: But, Mother--
Father: Father, lad, Father.
Frodo: But Father, I don't want any of that.
Father: Listen, lad. I've built this Star Empire up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was nebula. The Federation President said I was daft to build a starbase in a nebula, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the nebula. So, I built a second one. That sank into the nebula. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the nebula. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest starbase in these nebula.
Frodo: But I don't want any of that -- I'd rather--
Father: Rather what?!
Frodo: I'd rather... just... [music] ...sing!
Father: Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here. Now listen lad, in twenty minutes you're getting upgraded to a ship that has better photons.
Frodo: But I don't want those kind of photons.
Father: Listen, Alice...
Frodo: Frodo.
Father: Frodo. .... We live in a bloody nebula. We need all the ships we can get.
Frodo: But I don't like them.
Father: Don't like them?! What's wrong with them? They're beautiful, they're new, they've got huge... to-hit ratios.
Frodo: I know, but I want the photons that I shoot to have... a certain... special... [music] ...something...
Father: Cut that out, cut that out. Look, you're using magic photons, so you'd better get used to the idea. [smack] Guards! Make sure the Prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get 'im.
Cheater #1: Not to leave the room even if you come and get him.
Cheater #2: Hic!
Father: No, no. Until I come and get 'im.

Cheater #2: Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room.
Father: No, no, no. You stay in the room and make sure he doesn't leave.
Cheater #1: And you'll come and get him.
Cheater #2: Hic!
Father: Right.
Cheater #1: We don't need to do anything, apart from just stop him entering the room.
Father: No, no. Leaving the room.
Cheater #1: Leaving the room, yes.
Father: All right?
Cheater #1: Right. Oh, if-if-if, uh, if-if-if, uh, if-if-if we...
Father: Yes, what is it?
Cheater #1: Oh, if-if, oh--
Father: Look, it's quite simple.
Cheater #1: Uh...
Father: You just stay here, and make sure 'e doesn't leave the room. All right?
Cheater #2: Hic!
Father: Right.
Cheater #1: Oh, I remember. Uh, can he leave the room with us?
Father: N- No no no. You just keep him in here, and make sure--
Cheater #1: Oh, yes, we'll keep him in here, obviously. But if he had to leave and we were with him--
Father: No, no, just keep him in here--
Cheater #1: Until you, or anyone else,--
Father: No, not anyone else, just me--
Cheater #1: Just you.
Cheater #2: Hic!
Father: Get back.
Cheater #1: Get back.
Father: Right?
Cheater #1: Right, we'll stay here until you get back.
Father: And, uh, make sure he doesn't leave.
Cheater #1: What?
Father: Make sure 'e doesn't leave.
Cheater #1: The Prince?
Father: Yes, make sure 'e doesn't leave.
Cheater #1: Oh, yes, of course. I thought you meant him. Y'know, it seemed a bit daft, me havin' to guard him when he's a cheater too.
Father: Is that clear?
Cheater #2: Hic!
Cheater #1: Oh, quite clear, no problems.
Father: Right. [starts to leave] Where are you going?
Cheater #1: We're coming with you.
Father: No no, I want you to stay 'ere and make sure 'e doesn't leave.
Cheater #1: Oh, I see. Right.
Frodo: But, Father!
Father: Shut your noise, you! And get that suit on! [music] And no singing!
Cheater #2: Hic!
Father: Oh, go get a glass of water.
[clank]
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