Hearthville Serial: Book 8 Episode 4

Excerpt

There are colorful lights flashing around the night sky.
Seen from the spaceship, below on the ground there are fires
burning. Sirens SCREAMING can be heard on the spaceship.
LEROY BARE attemps to make a call on the radio.

                                             FADE-IN

INT. LEROY'S SPACESHIP - NIGHT

There are colorful lights flashing around the night sky.
Seen from the spaceship, Below on the ground there are fires
burning. Sirens SCREAMING can be heard on the spaceship.
LEROY BARE attempts to make a call on the radio.

                      LEROY BARE
          I can't find a frequency that will
          work.  I need to call my mom and
          let her know my eternity may soon
          be a cage.

BACHUS WILCOX has tears running down his face.  He hugs his
father PROFESSOR WILCOX and his mom MINI WILCOX.

                      BACHUS WILCOX
          I guess on some level I never
          believed in an after life.  I
          thought when I died that would be
          it.  I didn't believe in God or
          hell.

                      MINI WILCOX
          We are all sinners.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          Worse, I fear we are pacifist.

                      LEROY BARE
          I don't understand.  Worse.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          I did not enjoy my sinning.  I wish
          I had sinned with the vigor of a
          soldier going off to war and not a
          remorseful coward filled with
          guilt.  And if Bachus was going to
          suck a man's cock, it is sad that
          he did not enjoy it.

                      MINI WILCOX
          We should repent for our sins and
          not wish we had been better
          sinners.  If we repent, God might
          save us from that hell down below.

There is a loud voice from outside the spaceship. GENERAL
GERALD UPPSON makes demands.

                      GENERAL GERALD UPPSON
          Leroy Bare, land your spaceship and
          we will let you go.  But you must
          surrender the Wilcox family so that
          they can be properly caged.

                      LEROY BARE
          Why does the Witches Council want
          them caged?

                      GENERAL GERALD UPPSON
          I do not ask questions, I just
          follow orders.

                      LEROY BARE
          Whose orders?

                      GENERAL GERALD UPPSON
          The orders from the Witches Council
          were conveyed to me by an assistant
          to Sabian Blackrock.

                      LEROY BARE
          Let me speak to Alice Malokey and
          if she tells me to surrender then I
          will surrender.

                      GENERAL GERALD UPPSON
          Boy, you have no choice.
          Surrender.  Or be caged with the
          Wilcox family.

Leroy Bare puts his spaceship in full throttle mode in attempt
to speed away from the fleet of spaceships commanded by
General Gerald Uppson.  He dodges ships to the left and then
ships to the right. He goes through a bright colorful portal
to exit the metaphysical world and to enter the physical
world.

                      LEROY BARE
          I must reach the ocean.

                      BACHUS WILCOX
          Why?

                      LEROY BARE
          This ship can act as a subarine.
          Most of the space alien fleet that
          operates in the metaphysical world
          can not operate in physical oceans
          but only metaphysical oceans.

                      PROFESSOR WILCOX
          Why is that?

                      LEROY BARE
          Metaphysical oceans require a
          spaceship to contain  an alloy that
          melts in physical oceans.

Leroy Bare types in a code.

                      LEROY BARE
          Let us hope this SOS code reaches
          someone who knows who I am and
          gives a fuck.

INT. BARE MANSION, NAT WILKIN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

BILLY BINGO is sitting on the side of his bed and  looking
at a Book of Magic called the Book of Zeus.  NAT WILKINS
throws his comic book aside and jumps out of bed to look to
see what Billy is reading.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Where on earth did you get that
          book?

                      BILLY BINGO
          Not on physical earth but my home
          in Whitehead and  Bare Town.  It is
          where I spend a good bit of time
          between lives when I am not with
          Iapetus in the Outland's Iapetus.
          It is through that community that I
          am mostly reincarnated.  It is the
          other world home of my mom Maureen
          and father Frank.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Is Whitehead and Bare Town my home
          also?

                      BILLY BINGO
          Mostly.  You also spend time in the
          Outlands.  Although you are an
          earth witch, you have a home on the
          planet Malokey with a woman who you
          like when you two aren't hating one
          another.

Nat Wilkins grins.  He pats Blly on the back.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Woman?  I don't have a woman.
          Girls think I am gross.

                      BILLY BINGO
          You will grow out of that.  Or they
          will grow out of that.  You are a
          good man and that is important to
          women who are worth having.

                      NAT WILKINS
          So is that book just to learn magic
          or does itself have magic power,
          you know, like that book in the
          movie Hocus Pocus.

                      BILLY BINGO
          It printed on magic paper made from
          dogwood trees like a lot of magic
          and divining  wands.

Billy Bingo stands up from where he had been sitting on the
bed. He walks to the outerwall with the doors to the
balcony.  He snaps his fingers to cause a magic wand to
appear. He then snaps the wand back and forth.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Ech e comb abontu, el vitro cane,
          excel. Magic be true and magic
          blue, I need a portal that is brand
          new. Ech e comb abontu, el vitro
          cane, excel.  It must be a room
          with computers and brains and with
          a rolodex of names of those who I
          can trust.

There is a LOUD BOOMING NOISES.  The house shakes.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Fuck.  Daniel and your mom is going
          to wake up.

INT. BARE MANSION, DANIEL BARE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

DANIEL BARE and NATALINA WILKINS sit straight up in bed.

                      DANIEL BARE
          What was that!

                      NATALINA WILKINS
          I don't know.  I think the sound
          came from the boy's room.

Daniel Bare gets out of bed.  He grabs a robe hanging on a
hat tree at the foot of the bed. He opens the door and sees
his father MAYOR HOLLIS BARE  walking with the beautiful
DEMI DUVO who is a sexy body guard with whom Hollis is
having an affair.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          Go back to bed Daniel.  I am going
          to handle this.

                      DANIEL BARE
          The sound came from Nat's room.
          Billy is visiting Nat.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          I know.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Well. I wasn't sure.  You have been
          preoccupied and I didn't think to
          tell you.

                      DEMI DUVO
          You have a god sleeping in your
          house and you didn't think to tell
          me?

                      DANIEL BARE
          He is the spawn on Iapetus. That
          doesn't...

                      DEMI DUVO
          No.  It does.  He is a god who
          could destroy me in a heart beat.
          Hollis, if I am going to be your
          security guard I should be told
          these things.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          I am sorry.  I guess I should have
          lied and pretended I didn't know
          Billy was here.

                      DEMI DUVO
          You! Devil!

They walk to Nat's room.  They open the door without knowing
what to expect.  They see a giant metaphysical room has been
added off the balcony from Nat's room.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          Wow. I guess this mansion just
          wasn't big enough for Billy.

INT. BARE MANSION, NAT WILKIN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

BILLY BINGO and NAT WILKINS see MAYOR HOLLIS, DEMI DUVO, and
DANIEL BARE enter the bedroom.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Sorry.  I didn't realize the spell
          would rock the house.

                      DANIEL BARE
          It is okay. Is this permanent?

                      BILLY BINGO
          Metaphysical. But yes.  I felt with
          everything that is going on, I
          needed some equipment and then I
          got to thinking that I need a room
          for the equipment.  I will set up a
          portal from my home to this same
          room where it can be accessed from
          either house.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          Sounds like a plan.  It will also
          help you to watch after your mom
          and sister when you are staying
          here and Nat when you aren't
          staying here.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Well. I will look after all of you
          all.  Especially that beautiful
          woman standing there.

                      DEMI DUVO
          I don't know what to say.  I've
          never met a god before.

Nat stares at Billy.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am just a normal boy.

                      NAT WILKINS
          No. You are not.  You just used
          magic to create a giant room.  And
          the kind of room you just created
          does not just require magic.  It
          requires intellect.

                      DANIEL BARE
          So Nat, have you been trying magic.

                      NAT WILKINS
          Some.  I am not very good at it.
          My powers are weak.  And I am
          afraid that I am dumb.

                      BILLY BINGO
          He has been trying to use magic to
          build a sports car.  He is getting
          there.

                      DEMI DUVO
          You could create the sports car for
          him.

                      BILLY BINGO
          No.  He wants to create it himself.
          I respect that.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Dad, should I be alarmed.  I am
          trying to help raise two boys who
          are more powerful than me.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          Maybe you should start taking
          lessons with Nat.  Billy seems to
          know how to unlock powers that have
          been locked by the witches council,
          if you catch my drift.

                      DANIEL BARE
          Can you teach me?  Would you teach
          me.  I know you and Victor do not
          particularly like me.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Sure, I will teach you.  I trust
          you and that is more important than
          liking. Of course we have to be
          careful with the Witches Council.
          We can't let them find out. If they
          were to find out and put a new lock
          in place, we would have to find a
          new work around and that might not
          be easy.  In other words, I can't
          stop them from locking the powers.
          I can just find a way to undo the
          locking.  And it takes work to make
          the powers stronger.  To begin with
          the magic  will always be weaker
          than if they had not been locked.

                      DEMI DUVO
          Amazing.  With Billy's help we
          might just stand a chance against
          the Space Alien Witches.

                      BILLY BINGO
          We haven't so far.  And that is
          with Victor, Caleous, Iapetus and
          others.

INT. BARE MANSION, BILLY'S SPACE LAB - NIGHT

BILLY BINGO, NAT WILKINS, DANIEL BARE, DEMI DUVO, and MAYOR
HOLLIS BARE are looking Billy's space lab over.

                      DEMI DUVO
          Billy.  What is this with the light
          blinking red and green and making a
          humming noise.

Billy walks over to where she is standing.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Is an artifact in the spell that
          dates back to the Pluto Viso Wars.
          It is to detect any SOS signals
          from friendly spaceships.  I am not
          sure if any spaceships are even
          still equipped with the signal.

Mayor Hollis Bare walks over to the panel and he flips a
switch and turns a knob.

                      MAYOR HOLLIS BARE
          Our family spaceships still contain
          an SOS panel.  This is a stress
          call.  Is there a way I can put the
          spacehip on a monitor.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Let me think.  Gosh.  I am rusty.
          There is a code.  Let me type it
          in.

Billy Bingo types in the code and an image of LEROY BARE
pops up on the screen.

                      LEROY BARE
          Thank God. You are Billy Bingo,
          right?

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am here with Daniel Bare and
          Hollis Bare.  What is wrong?

                      LEROY BARE
          I was going to Whitehead and
          Baretown to take the newly deceased
          Wilcox family there.  I am trying
          to stop them from being caged.  But
          when I got to Whitehead and
          Baretown, I discovered that it has
          been destroyed and the souls there
          caged.  What has happened there is
          awful.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Fuck.  I can't go up against these
          assholes by myself.  We've got to
          get Iapetus and Victor freed.

                      LEROY BARE
          There are spaceships after me.
          General Gerald Uppson says that he
          is taking orders from Sabian
          Blackrock.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Are spaceships that are after you
          metaphysical spaceships or physical
          spaceships?

                      LEROY BARE
          I am pretty sure that  most them
          were made mainly for the
          metaphysical world.  I am heading
          to the ocean in the physical world.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Good. I am going to give you the
          coordinates to go to Rango.

                      LEROY BARE
          I have never heard of that place
          before.

                      BILLY BINGO
          It is where sharks go when they
          die.  Most people are terrified to
          enter there but the coordinates
          will take you to a safe place.

                      LEROY BARE
          Okay.  I got the coordinates.
          Billy. Thank you.

                      BILLY BINGO
          We are in this war against evil
          together.

                      LEROY BARE
          I guess.  But you should know, I am
          basically a coward.

                      BILLY BINGO
          No.  I have known you in past
          lives.  You were always there when
          I needed you.

                      LEROY BARE
          I wish I could remember.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I suspect being able to remember is
          key to winning this war.  We have
          got to figure a way to end this
          mass amnesia.