AKATIE
Act V

[The next day; Fade into a cell with spartan furishings.  Hello Nurse,
her maintainence outfit a bit worse for wear, sits and looks out at
the rising sun.  Brain has found a scrap of paper and is using a 
bit of charcoal to work out something.  He mutters to himself.]

BRAIN: ...Hmm, that functional group would explain why it's 
    affecting Pinky, but what's it purpose....?
NURSE: [turning to Brain] What are you working on?
BRAIN: [without missing a beat, and showing the paper to Nurse,
    which is covered with complex chemical equations]  Well, I was
    able to get a sample of that drug that those...[looking for the
    right word]...other experiments gave to Pinky, and through
    some simple obversations, I was able to determine most of its
    chemical structure.  So I have been trying to figure out what
    this compound actually does.
NURSE: Huh?! You can do that without lab equiment?
BRAIN: [without pause] A unique ability of mine.  Now, see this
    branch? [points to a part of the paper] Its presence makes the
    molecule invisible to biological systems, but would affect 
    any animated being in a bizarre way...
NURSE: [confused (no duh!)] Huh?
BRAIN: It only affect 'toons, like Pinky, myself, or those other 
    experiments.  Strange...why would anyone want to create such
    a compound...

[Suddenly, Hello Nurse stiffens momentarily, then begins to talk in
an echoy voice to Brain.]

NURSE: Think about it, Brain.  You know the reason...
BRAIN: [recognizing the possession of Hello Nurse] It's you again!
    What is happening to Pinky?
NURSE: Well, let me explain-....wait, hold on a second, this is going 
    to take too long...

[Again, Hello Nurse stiffens then falls back into a sitting position.
Dot suddenly appears in the room, and holds out a slip of paper to 
Brain.]

DOT: This possession thing would just take too long!  Here's an IOU
    for the complete story at a later point!
BRAIN: [confused] Huh?  What are you trying to accomplish?
DOT: I'll explain later!  We've got too much work to do before 
    tonight!
BRAIN: Why? What are we going to do tonight? [pause, then suddenly
    realizes his statement] Oh, no...
DOT: [reaching down and rubbing Brain's head] Same thing we do every 
    night, silly! Try to stop Pinky from [does an Evil Grin(TM)] 
    TAKING OVER THE WORLD!

[Brain walks to the nearest wall and begins to bang his head against it.]

DOT: Oh, cheer up Brain!  I'll open the cell door here, and you just make
    sure you get to the stadium by tonight!
BRAIN: [pausing in his head bashing] Why the stadium?!
DOT: I'll tell you about it later.  [turns to Hello Nurse] Oh, by the
    way, we need to borrow Hello Nurse for a while. [reaching out a
    hand to her]
NURSE and BRAIN: Huh?! 
DOT: The power of Akatie is strong in her.  We someone to help distract
    Pinky while we prepare.  [makes contact with Nurse's hand]  See you
    later, Brain! [Dot and Nurse fade out] Make sure you bring a laser!
BRAIN: [shouting] Wait! Come back!

[Suddenly, there is a creak, and the door of the cell swings open slowly.]

BRAIN: [pondering] Well, I'd better get started...

[Brain walks out of the cell.]

[Dissolve to a empty downtown intersection.  Although it looks like its
midday in a shopping district, there is no one on the street.  Panning
down one street reveals a couple of tanks sitting in front of police
barriers.  A large crowd, along with several cars, stand behind the 
barriers, trying to see past the tanks, and chattering among themselves.]

CROWD: Can you see anything?  Why are they blocking off the street?
    (etc. etc.)
    
[Suddenly, there is an explosion from the empty intersection, and the
crowd hushes and turns to watch as the body of a helicopter, spewing
flames and wreckage, bounces a couple times past their view and past 
the intersection, where it apparently explodes and spews more fire
back into the intersection and shatters several of the shop windows.
The crowd stares in awe for a while, then they begin to chatter more
hectically.]

[Cut to a shot of the flames, with the haziness of the heat affecting
the view.  A dark shadow appears in the flames, and it resolves into
the form of Pinky, unharmed, walking sternly through the wreckage.]

CROWD: It's a mouse!  The army's scared of a mouse?!  What's going
    on?! (etc. etc.)

[Pinky silently walks over to one of the shattered display windows,
and grabs a small piece of red fabric from a fallen manequin, and
drapes it about himself like a cape.  He then stares down to the 
tanks.]

PINKY: [VERY firmly] NARF!

[Cut to inside the tanks.  The gunner sits looking through a 
viewfinder, while the driver listens to a headset.]

DRIVER: They say to fire at the target!
TARGETER: At that mouse?! HA-ha! What's their problem, can't deal with
    a bit of pest control!
DRIVER: Well, that's what the orders say.
TARGETER: No problem.  It'll be a shame to waste this opportunity...
    [stares intently into the finder, then presses the trigger]
    FIRE!

[Cut back to the POV from the crowd.  They see the tank launch a 
projectile at Pinky and suddenly explode, just a few feet in front
of Pinky.  There is a huge explosion, taking out several of the nearby
buildings, but as the smoke clears, Pinky stands unharmed, a bit
peeved, and stared down in the tanks.]

PINKY: I *really* wish you didn't do that...now I'm going to have to
    do this to you. POIT!

[Pinky stands erect, and begins to gather his will.  The tank that
fired the missile begins to shiver.  Quickly, the hatch on the tank
opens, and the two men inside get out and flee.  Nearly immediately
after that, the tank explodes.  Pinky pauses, then refocuses at the 
other tank, and the same thing happens right after that crew is rescued.
The crowd stands awed]

CROWD PERSON: It's Akatie!

[The mention of Akatie begins to spread throughout the crowd. One
person climbs onto a car roof and points towards Pinky]

NAYSAYER: That's *not* Akatie!  Akatie was a teenage human!  That is
    a lab mouse bent on world domination!

[Another guy climbs onto the car roof, and pushes the other off]

BELIEVER: No, that *is* Akatie!  Akatie has returned!  Akatie has
    returned!

[The crowd chants "Akatie" while the tanks continue to burn.]

[Cut to another part of the city, a well-to-do mansion in the middle
of a corporate sector.  Several armed men rush about on the grounds
as we zoom in on the house.  Inside, we cut to an office/study, where
a couple of aides are helping Thadeous Plotz pack and burn important
papers.]

PLOTZ: Hurry, hurry! Those tanks will be here any minute!  I've got
    to get out of Burbank before nightfall!
AIDE 1: We're working as fast as we can, sir!  But...there's so much
    to burn!
PLOTZ: What is taking so long?!
AIDE 2: It's all these deals with Disney, sir!  Just the shear amount
    of legal documents alone is taking forever!
PLOTZ: [pausing, then returning to his work] Make sure you burn that
    all!  If word got out that I was working with Disney, I'd been
    in deep trouble!

[Suddenly there is an explosion on the grounds.  Plotz risks a 
quick look out the window, and sees that the gates to the mansion have
been blown open, and as he watches, another explosion rocks the house.
He turns quickly back to the aides.]

PLOTZ: Quick!  Take care of the bedroom safe!  I'll finish up here!
AIDES: Yes, sir!  [they quickly depart]
PLOTZ: Ahh, that stupid Mr. Director!  How can he claim control on the
    city like that!  I should've of fired him before all this started!

[Suddenly, there is a noise by the door.  Plotz turns to see 
Dr. Scatchnsniff, standing in the tattered remains of the outfit
he wore yesterday]

DR. S: Sir!  Zey're all gone!  Even Hello Nurse!
PLOTZ: [terrified] Doctor!  I told you never to come here!  You'll connect
    me to those covert operations!
DR. S: I'm zorry, but I didn't know where else go...ze entire city is
    in choaz.  Rumors of a lab mouse with psyhic powers rampaging over
    the city!  Oh, boy, zose people are crazy!
PLOTZ: Ahh, err, [suddenly gets an idea] well, you can help me!
DR. S: How?
PLOTZ: Just stand over [looks at the ceiling, and then directs the
    Doctor to the appropriate spot] here and watch for anything 
    trouble outside.
DR. S: [does as Plotz asks] Ok, but I don't zee how zis will h-

[Plotz his a button on his desk, and a sandbag drops out of the ceiling
and knocks the Doctor cold.]

PLOTZ: Sorry, Doctor, I can't have you following me at this point!

[Plotz quickly closes the breifcase filled with money and bonds, and 
leaves the room in a hurry.]

[Cut to a long bridge over a river.  Roughly in the middle of the bridge, 
a large roadblock made up of tanks, police cars, several troops, and a HUGE
laser, sits.  On one side, Pinky begins to cross onto the bridge. 
Behind him, a massive crowd has gathered.  The zealot from the night
on the pedistrian bridge is near the front, calling for people to
repent and prepare for the coming of Akatie.]

[Pinky gets about 1/4 mile over the bridge before one of the 
officiers in the roadblock calls out to him]

OFFICER: [through a megaphone] Pinky!  I highly recommend that you 
    stop your approach, or else we are going to use serious fire
    power on you.
PINKY: [loud enough to be heard] "Serious fire power"?! Ha-hahahaha! NARF!
    Your puny lasers can't stop me.  [he continues to walk forward]
OFFICIER: Don't say we didn't warn you...[to the men maning the laser]
    On my mark...FIRE!

[The laser quickly builds up and emits a big beam of energy towards 
Pinky, but he easily throws up a shield to disperse the shot.  He looks
down and notcies that the bridge is made of several 'plates', interlocked.
One of those connections lies nearby.  With a bit of forcing of his will,
he presses down on the connection, which causes the plate in front of
him to dip down.  However, as this happens, the other plates on
the bridge begin to lift, as the interlocking connections are gone.
The military and police, as well as the crowd on the bridge behind him, 
slip off from the sloping plates and into the water.  Although
the equipment is lost, the people resurface and begin swimming for 
shore.  Pinky looks over the side of the bridge]

PINKY: [apolgetically but giddy] Oh! ZORT! Sorry about that!

[Cut to a TV screen, showing the destruction of the bridge.  As we 
pull out from the screen, we see that we are back in ACME Labs.  Billie,
although sitting on a pencil in front of the screen and apparently
watching the show, is *still* working on her nails.]

NEWSCASTER: ...And this is the scene at the Olympic Bridge not moments
    ago, as the mouse continues to rampage his way to the Olympic
    stadium...
BILLIE: [recognizing the picture of Pinky on the screen] Pinky?!
    PINKY! [she quickly ditches the file] I've got to get to the 
    stadium and see if I can help!

[Billie runs out of the Labs]

[Cut to near the ruined bridge.  Crowds of people are slowly walking
towards other bridges, some with scared looks on their faces, others
with eager ones.  Brain, on his bike, rides up and watches the crowd.]

BRAIN: What's happening here?!
PERSON 1: I think there's some big concert going on over by the Olympic
    Stadium, with free seats!
PERSON 2: No, you've got it all wrong.  There's a big free-for-all
    bar-b-que in the stadium!
KID: [looking *very* much like Randy Beamen's Friend] I heard there 
    was a giant chicken in the stadium!

[At this point, the surrounding crowds begins to laugh.  The kid 
looks around, a bit forelorned.  Brain is annoyed.]

BRAIN: Don't tell me; no one knows what's going on...
PERSON 3: [with a radio] Hey, wait!  Here's a bit of news! [he turns 
    up the volume so everyone around can here]
ANNOUNCER: [v.o] ...-way from the stadium.  I repeat, the Army has
    ordered that you please stay away from the stadium.  Apparently,
    accoriding to the Army press release, it is about to have a small
    problem with rodent control...
BRAIN: [shocked at the news, but not surprised] Oh, Pinky!  [he revs
    up the bike and zooms off over the bridge.]
    
[Cut to the confusion on the city street.  Most of the vehicles are
abandoned, and hordes of people walk slowly towards the stadium.
In a back alley, Thadeous Plotz tries to lug a suitcase overflowing
with money, bonds, and other valuables through the alley, but it 
is obviously too heavy for him.  He stops to catch his breath, but
from behind a dark shadow falls on him.  He looks up in time to 
see the soaked form of Dr. Scatchnsniff]

PLOTZ: [shocked] AHHH! I thought I left you back at the mansion!
DR. S: [angry] You did, and I got a nasty bruise on my head from it!
    [points out the huge bump on his noggin]

[Scatchnsniff walks forward, a bit threatening.  Plotz drops the 
suitcase, which falls open, releasing a vortex of bills and bonds
into the alley.]

PLOTZ: [scared] Wha-...what do you want from me?!
DR. S: I'm trying to save you!  Something's about to happen in 
    zis city, and I don't want to be around when it comes down!
PLOTZ: Oh, is that all?
DR. S: Well, zere's zat, and the fact zat you owe me five years
    of back pay!
PLOTZ: AIE!  [and goes and faints]
DR. S: Oh, boy! [reaches down and grabs Plotz, pauses, grabs several
    wads of money from the suitcase, and then walks out of the alley
    with Plotz in arms.]
    
[Cut to near the stadium, to a low, circular building about 1/4 mile
in diameter.  A large array of tanks, trucks, jeeps and troops are 
parked in front, watching the distant horizon.  Well in the back,
Mr. Director stands, binoculars up and watching.  He continues to 
scan the horizon, then hands the goggles to a soldier and walks into
a nearby van.  Inside, the scientist runs up, holding sheets and
sheets of printout.]

SCIENTIST: Would you look at this?!  His power is beyond anything we've
    even imagined!  Maybe it wasn't an accident that the Warners gave
    him that medicine, and that-...

[While the scientist has been talking, Mr. Director stare beyond him
to a small alcove that is glowing brightly.  The scientist turns and
follows his stare]

SCIENTIST: Wha-...what are you staring at?

[Mr. Director approaches and pushes the scientist out of his way.
He turns and looks in the alcove: the machine from before is displaying
a wonderful multicolored pattern, shaped almost like the top portions
of a half-sphere.  A second, slightly smaller dome dances radiently as
well inside the first.]

MR. D: [Lewis mode] HOIL! What is it, with the colors and the lights?!
SCIENTIST: [as if seeing something for the first time] Oh, no...there's
    a second pattern developing....[adjusts some dials and controls]
    No, it can't be!
MR. D: [back to normal] What is it!?
SCIENTIST: That second mental pattern...it must be Akatie!
MR. D: But...but, she's dead!
SCIENTIST: I just don't know.  I just don't know...

[Suddenly there is a large explosion outside.  Everyone in the van
runs out and sees the fire and smoke from a nearby explosion, and
as they watch, another truck erupts into flame.  Mr. Director reaches
back into the van, grabs a megaphone, and shouts into it.]

MR. D: HOIL! Everyone, pull back!

[There is a mass exodus as the trucks and tanks back away, allowing an 
open path to the containment building.  As soon as this opens,
Pinky begins to walk down it, a grim look of confidence on his face.
As he passes the van, Mr. Director speaks up]

MR. D: Pinky!  You must stop this! We can h-...

[Pinky wills Mr. Director flying into the back of the van, and stares
down the rest of the group as they try to approach.  Pinky continues
to the building.

Mr. Director peels himself from the van, and wobbles around for a bit,
but gets to his senses quickly.  Once again, he uses the megaphone]

MR. D: PULL OUT! HOIL, JUST PULL OUT!

[Again, there is a mass rush of vehicles as small seismic rumble 
begins to shake up the area. As soon as most of the trucks are free, 
we see the containment building shake, and then dip into the ground.  
The building sinks, taking some of the nearby pavement with it, and 
large clouds of smoke rise up. The rumbling continues, and soon a dark 
shape can be seen rising from the choas.  It is the actual containment 
chamber, clouds of evaporating gases rising from it.  Several flexible 
pipes wave in the air, spewing coolents and gases around the area.  
Finally the shaking and movements stop, and the clouds dissapates, 
revealing Pinky standing on top of the device, a swift wind billowing 
his 'cape', and a extremely *powerful* look on his face.

From a distance, the van pulls up close to the edge of the destruction.
Mr. Director gets out of the door, megaphone in hand]

MR. D: Pinky,  you shouldn't continue!  There is nothing there of any
    interest for you!
PINKY: [sternly] ZORT!  I don't think so!  

[Pinky reaches down and gets his hands on sides of a small crack on
top of the device.  Using his will, his forces the entire structure 
open, which immediately falls apart like an eggshell.  Pinky floats
down into the structure, then immediately floats back up
with a dozen or so glass cylinders, mentally carried by Pinky.
He settles down on a relatively flat area of the mess, and sets
the cylinders down around him.  There is too much condensation on
the outside of the vessels to see what is inside them.  Pinky settles
down and begins to examine them, scatching his head]

MR. D: [v.o., as through a megaphone] I told you, Akatie is just a 
    myth.  There is nothing left of Akatie except what you see in
    from of you!
    
[As if prompted, Pinky mentally lifts one of the cylinders and brings it
closer to him.  The condsenation is disappearing, and we can see inside
the vessel, revealing a complete spinal cord.  Pinky is nearly surprised
but quickly recovers...]

PINKY: POIT!  Wha...?
MR. D: That's all that's left of Akatie. Just a few of her organs.  The
    power is gone, dissapated.  There is nothing more to see here!
PINKY: [in thought for a moment, then suddenly angrily] No!  There is
    power here!  I feel it!
    
[Suddenly, there is faint glow around Pinky and the surrounding area.
Small pebbles and derbis begin to float off the ground.  A look
of recognization crosses Pinky's face, and he flies out of the area as 
it explodes.  Pinky lands a short distance away, and looks around.
He eyes suddenly lock on to something.

Cut to Pinky's POV.   Zoom to see Hello Nurse, possessed, her outfit
nearly falling off (but still concealing the appropriate parts quite
well, you silly fanboys!).  She stares Pinky down, and seems to focus
her will as Pinky has done.  Once again, light surrounds Pinky and 
he zips off before another explosion occurs.]

PINKY: [landing, posed to move again] Oh, so you want to play, eh?
    NARF!

[Pinky uses his will to lift a large rock, and throws it at Hello Nurse.
She gets hit with the rock, which carries her quite a distance.  It
finally lands in the ground, but Hello Nurse gets out from it, a bit
bruised but not seriously hurt.  She wobbles for a bit, but suddenly
flies up, and zooms in onto Pinky.]

[Cut to away from the pile of rubble, from Mr. Director's point of 
view.  As he watches, we see several explosions coming from the pile,
and the two figures of Pinky and Hello Nurse zip around it at random.]

MR. D: Can anyone see what's happening?! Who's the second one?!
SOLDIER: No idea, sir!

[Suddenly, there is a larger explosion from the mess.  A streak flies
out from it and crashes about 1/4 mile from the pile.  The fighting
quiets, and everyone turns to look at Pinky, standing proudly
on top of the pile.  He notes everyone's attention]

PINKY: [very big, very echoy, and with LOTS of confidence] NARF!

[Mass pandomonium erupts; soldiers, on-lookers, and whatnot go running
about, mainly *away* from the mess.  Mr. Director looks on, and 
tries to maintain peace, but with no luck.  He groans, and returns
back inside the van.  Fade out with music.]