User blog:Thomperfan/Pulp Friction (my version)

(It starts at nighttime, in a city. In a warehouse, me, Lincoln and Clyde, dressed up as Ace Savvy, One-Eyed Jack and The Seven of Optimism respectively are hanging over a shark tank with a shark leaping up trying to eat us.)

Wild Card Willy: [laughing evilly]  "Game over, Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack!"

Ace Savvy: "Think again, Wild Card Willy! I've got a few more cards up my sleeve!"

[Ace drops a handful of cards on the ground with his sisters. Just then, a horn blazes and the van comes in with Lori's persona at the wheel]

The High Card: "Alright, girls, let's deal with these losers!"

THE HIGH CARD

[The van opens up revealing the rest of the girls in their Ace Savvy personae]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yay! You guys are here!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wild Card Willy: "Eep!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hides behind one of his henchmen] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Get them!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The girls leap into action with Lily and Lola's personae starting the fight off]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Henchman #1: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to his partner] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You take the baby, I'll take the princess."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Queen of Diamonds: "Excuse you. I am the <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">queen <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE QUEEN OF DIAMONDS

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Queen tosses her diamond tiara and knocks out Henchman #2. Henchman #1 comes charging at them as Lily holds up some stinky diapers]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE DEUCE

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Deuce tosses her diapers that act as stink bombs and nails the other goon. Luna's persona turns up the volume]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Night Club: "Get ready to do the Bad Guy Shuffle!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE NIGHT CLUB

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Night Club blares her guitar at the minions and knocks them into a hole dug up by Lucy's persona]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Eight of Spades: "No aces in this hole."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE EIGHT OF SPADES

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lynn's persona charges via comic panels into the goons with a headbutt]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Strong Suit: "52 Pickup!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE STRONG SUIT

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[One of the goons lands on a pile of other defeated minions with Lisa's persona keeping an accurate count]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Card Counter: "Or more precisely, six." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[smashes another henchman's face with her calculator] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Make that seven."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE C <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">ARD COUNTER

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[As Ace, Jack and I draw closer to the tank, they notice Leni's persona]

<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Eleven of Hearts: "Hey, guys, check out my new outfit. It's perfect for fall weather and springing into action!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[uses the sash on her outfit as a utility rope, swings over the tank and saves us] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ugh, these belts are so 90's! <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[pulls their chains off and sets us free]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE ELEVEN OF HE <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">ARTS

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Thanks, honey. You look beautiful, as always.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Thank you, sweetheart. You look nice too.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[We have a quick smooch. Wild Card Willy makes for the exit]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ace: "Wild Card's getting away!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lana's persona is working on the shark tank]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Royal Flush: "Hey, Willy, go fish!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[loosens the bolt on the pipe]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE ROYAL FLUSH

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The tank comes loose with the water and shark coming out; Wild Card evades it but gets knocked back by a spring-loaded cube set up by Luan's persona]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Joker: "I see your bet and <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">raise <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> you!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[laughs]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE JOKER

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Ace, Jack and I beat and tie up Wild Card Willy]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ace: "Willy, why do you always have to play dirty cards?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Willy: "'Cause that's the only way to clean up. So, I guess it's off to jail for me."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[It then shows Willy in a jail cell with a caption reading END in the lower right corner and it was a comic Lincoln, Clyde and I made.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me, Lincoln and Clyde: The end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Liam and Girl Jordan: "Awesome!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rusty: "That was sick. Where'd you get the idea for all those butt-kicking super ladies?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "From my sisters.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yeah. They’re awesome. They've always got our backs. Except for Lola. You never turn your back on Lola."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Liam: "So, if you fellas win the contest, they'll make this here into a real Ace Savvy comic?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "And we'll get to meet the creator, Bill Buck!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[holds out a photo of said creator]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Heavenly voice: " <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bill Buck~... <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Girl Jordan: "Well, I think your comic's totally gonna win."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Liam: "Darn tootin'."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rusty: "Word."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Thanks, guys.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[At that moment, Principal Huggins grabs the comic book from them]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Loud, McBride, Darden, school time is meant for learning, not for doodling degenerate fantasies! This trash belongs to me now!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "But Principal Huggins, you can't take our comic!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Oh, and now you're giving me sass? That's detention! Today! Till 5:00!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "But we have to get to the post office by 4:00. That's the contest deadline."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sarcastically] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, I didn't realize. I'll just give it back to you. NOT!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Detention]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "I've got just the thing to keep those doodling hands of yours busy: cleaning erasers." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gives them the erasers and leaves]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "But we're not criminals. All we did was make a comic. And we're getting it back."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: But how?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln tries to open the door but can't]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Dang it. He locked us in from the outside."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln tries to get out via the window, but Huggins stops him by welding it shut and he starts cleaning the erasers]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Okay, Plan B. We'll sharpen a bunch of pencils and dig our way out."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Just then, the door opens thanks to Lola]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[twirling her tiara] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Or I could just pick the lock." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[puts tiara back on] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Not that your idea wasn't great."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (gasps) Lola!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Lola? Why are you busting us out?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lana appears]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "'Cause we heard about Huggins confiscating your comic book."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "The one starring me as Queen of Diamonds!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "And me as the Royal Flush!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "You think we're gonna let some power-tripping principal take away our chance to get famous?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I hug the twins) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Oh, thank you guys <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">so <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">much! You don’t know how much this means to us!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Sweet! Now we just gotta find a way to sneak into Huggins' office and get our comic back."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Maybe we could use your pencils."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "Forget that." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[brings in janitorial equipment] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Hop on!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[defeated] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I tried, buddy."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[We get into the waste bins with Lana pushing us toward Huggins' office while he's doing his work]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "We gotta find to get Huggins out of his office."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "It's taken care of."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Principal Huggins' secretary Cheryl comes running by]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cheryl: "Principal Huggins! Principal Huggins! We have got a situation in the gym!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[In the gym, Coach Pacowski is being chased by bats summoned by Lucy in the rafters]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[heading for the gym] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm on it!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Cheryl goes to her desk]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Now we have to distract Cheryl."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "It's taken care of."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lisa is at Cheryl's desk]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: "Hello, Cheryl. I took the liberty of assessing the school budget, and encountered numerous instances of wasteful spending."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cheryl: "Oh, that's very cute, sweetie, but I'm sure everything here is in order."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lisa places a ton of files of such spending on Cheryl's desk]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: "Item one: the two dozen fresh cut roses you sent yourself on Secretary's Day. Put on a pot of coffee, sweetie. We're gonna be here a while."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Wow! You guys thought of everything!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[While she has Cheryl distracted, Lincoln, Clyde and I sneak into Huggins' office searching every nook and cranny for our comic]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Come on. Come on. Where is it?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[pointing] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "There!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[We find it in his satchel, but before we can grab it...]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[unaware that Lisa took Cheryl's place] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Problem solved, Cheryl. We got rid of the bats, and Coach is resting comfortably after his rabies shot." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[grabs his coat which Lincoln was hiding under as he grabs his trench coat to hide in] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm headed home for the day." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gets a file from Clyde's arm while he's not looking] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You can let Loud and McBride out of detention at 5:00, but only if the erasers are clean." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[takes his satchel and leaves]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln sees the satchel is gone and gasps]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Oh no! Huggins just took our comic home with him!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Dang it!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "And wors <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">e: we didn't finish cleaning the erasers!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[holds out the erasers]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The kids burst out the door and see Huggins leaving on his golf cart]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: "There goes Huggins! How are we gonna catch up to him?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "It's taken care of."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Vanzilla drives up and we all hop in]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Lincoln, where have you been? The post office closes in 30 minutes!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Change of plans. Principal Huggins has the comic. Follow that golf cart, High Card!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: "Let's rock, dudes!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Luna starts playing some action music and Lori, with determination in her eyes, chases after Principal Huggins]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[singing along] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ooh, girl! / If I could / Ooh, girl! <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[holding a boomerang out the window] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I got eyes on the comic!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[She tosses the boomerang, but Huggins hits a pothole and and the boomerang misses]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Yeesh!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The boomerang instead picks up a raccoon] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[ducks down] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "RACCOON!" <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The raccoon lands in Vanzilla and attacks the Loud kids, Clyde and I for a little turbulence. Principal Huggins comes to a stop at an intersection, sees it's clear and goes. Vanzilla comes to a stop because Scoots is passing the crosswalk and taking a little too long. Lori honks the horn]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "MOVE IT, LADY!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Scoots: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sarcastically] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, am I going too slow for you?" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sets her scooter in slow reverse]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Guys, we're literally losing him!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: "Don't worry. He won't give us the <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">slip <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[grabs Lola's banana and Lana's slingshot and fires the banana ahead of Huggins]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[still singing] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ooh, girl / Doo-doo-doo <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hits the banana peel and loses control] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Whoa!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[As he tries to regain control, the comic falls out of his satchel and Lincoln and Clyde get it back]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Nice one, Luan! <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We hi-five.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[checking his watch] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "We still have five minutes to get it to the post office."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[We get back in Vanzilla]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Let's roll."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: "And rock!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[But before she can get into the music, the van doesn't start]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: "Dudes, I can't play action music if there's no action."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori and Lana check the engine]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "Bad news, guys. We pushed Vanzilla too hard."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln, Clyde and I: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[aghast] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "NOOOOOO!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: "Hey, guys! Check out the new look!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sporting a sash like The Eleven of Hearts']

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: "Leni, this isn't the time to talk about fashion!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Leni takes off the sash and reveals that she's using it to tie Vanzilla to a passing pickup truck to tow them to the post office]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: "I never thought I'd say this, but...good thinking, Leni."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: "I got the idea from Lincoln's coloring book."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Leni, did I ever tell you how much I love you?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Yes, Noey. You say that every day.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (smile) Only because it’s true.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We kiss)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[We arrive at the post office just in time]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to the pickup truck driver] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Thanks for the tow!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[It reveals to have been a pig driving and his farmer in the passenger seat giving a thumbs up]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "Just hurry up and make us famous!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Just before Lincoln can get it in, he trips and drops the comic book. It goes flying and into the a bunch of letters.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: No! How are we ever gonna get it now? <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I’ll do it!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I’m about to go into the mail bag, when suddenly the speakers start playing “Let it go”)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (in horror) No. No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I start panicking and start breathing really heavily.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: Noah, what’s wrong?!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (while breathing) Everyone has a weakness! With some people, it’s broccoli, some people, it’s peanut butter, Mine, is that annoying let it go song!!!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I continue to breath, while my friends look on with concern.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: What we do?!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Don’t worry, I’ll handle this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni goe up to me and cradles me.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Oh, my poor baby. (She kisses me on the forehead.) Don’t worry, I know you can do this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Really? <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Of course. You’re my hero. And I know you can do this. And here’s something to give you your strength back.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: What? <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(She kisses me on the lips, with great passion. After a few seconds she stops.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Good luck, my big, strong hero.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(She kisses me on the cheek. I, finally having the courage to go, dive into the mail basket and retrieve the comic.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I got it you guys! <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We all cheer) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Great Job, Noey. I always knew you could do it. And here’s your reward.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(She grabs me and starts kissing me all over my face. While Lincoln and Clyde run up to the mailing window.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[at the same time as someone else] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "This needs to be mailed by four o'clock!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln turns around and finds out that the other person is Principal Huggins]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln and Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shocked] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "What are <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">you <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> doing here?!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Principal Huggins drops something in his state of surprise]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[pointing at it] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Is that a comic book?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Just then I come up, with smooch marks all over my face. A little bit dizzy) Hey, guys. What’s going on? (I see Principal Huggins comic book and instantly snap out of it) Whoa! I that a comic book?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "A what? No! I mean, shouldn't you boys be in detention?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln picks it up]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "It <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">is <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> a comic book! The Adventures of Ace Savvy and the Principal Valiant by Wilbur T. Huggins."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gasps] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You're entering the Ace Savvy contest?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "And your name is Wilbur?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[pointing the other way] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Look! New commemorative stamps!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[When the boys have their backs turn, Wilbur grabs his comic and runs only to bump into Scoots and pratfall]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "So, that's why you confiscated our comic book and put us in detention: to knock us out of the running!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Well, that’s just <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">sick <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Okay, okay, I did it. But I had to. When I heard how great your comic was, I knew mine wouldn't stand a chance."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "But, sir, why is a comic book contest so important to you? You're a successful school administrator.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yeah. You've even got your own golf cart."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Yes, it's true. I have it all. But it wasn't always this way."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback to Huggins' childhood]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[narrating] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> " <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">When I was your age, I didn't have a lot of friends. But I had Ace. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Young Wilbur: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[reading his comic] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Yeah, get 'em, Ace! Way to deal out some justice!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The other kids playing baseball hit the ball through his comic book and laugh at him]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Batter: "Look at him!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[End flashback]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Those comics meant the world to me. I wanted to win the contest so I could meet Bill Buck and thank him for getting me through a lonely childhood. But I went too far. I'm sorry, boys. You deserve to win, not me. As Ace Savvy would say, deal me out." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[takes his comic and leaves forlornly. Lincoln and Clyde have concerned looks on their faces, while I have tears in my eyes.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (tearful) Th-th-that is s-s-so s-sad! (I burst into tears)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Wow. I guess there's more to Huggins than meets the eye."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Yeah. And his story just gave me an idea."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Principal Huggins hops in his golf cart for home]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln, Clyde and I: "Principal Huggins, wait!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "Oh, yes. Of course. You'll need my administrator ID to report me to the school board."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "No. We're not reporting anyone. Clyde, Noah and I get it. Ace has gotten us through some tough times, too."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Yeah. Like when Lori first got together with Bobby. It was a rainy Tuesday. I wore suede shoes. That was a mistake."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: "I think he gets the idea, Clyde." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to Principal Huggins] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "And we're not mad, because you just gave us a much better ending for our comic."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "I did?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "You did." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[checks his watch] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "But we gotta hurry. We only have a minute."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: "I think I can buy you a few minutes."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Back in the post office, Wilbur walks up toward the the mailing window where the lady there pulls the curtain down]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lee: "I'm sorry, sir. We're closing." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Wilbur pulls it back up] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ooh."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[smoothly] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Hello, Mrs..." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[reads name tag] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "...Lee, is it? I believe your son Wyatt attends my school. How would he like a little..." <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[nudges eyebrows] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "...extra recess? Maybe a get-out-of-gym pass?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[He holds up the pass and Lee likes where he's going; he gives the thumbs up, giving us time to change the ending to their comic]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Return to the comic with the new ending]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: "Willy, why do you always have to play dirty cards?" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[takes off his handkerchief]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Willy: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[downtrodden] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm not an evil guy. I was just dealt a bad hand. As a lonely kid, the only game I knew was Solitaire. So, I guess it's off to jail for me."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ace: "I have a better idea."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Cut to a heist having been pulled by Scoots' Ace Savvy villain persona]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jack: "The Old Maid's making off with the jackpot!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Old Maid: "You'll never catch me, Savvy!" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[laughs]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ace: "Oh, I wouldn't be so sure, 'cause we've got a new card to play."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Willy appears by Ace, Jack and I]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Willy: "Time to deal out some justice!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">WILD CARD WIL <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">LY

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The comic stops with Buck Bill reading it in his studio]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bill: "I love the ending! Especially when we learn Wild Card was a lonely kid. I read a lot of entries with great action sequences, but none with this kind of heart."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "It was inspired by our principal here.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yeah, he really wanted to meet you."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Principal Huggins: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[speechless] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Sir, it is an honor. I just never-ah, this is the best day of my-" <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[passes out from the excitement]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The 3 of us just shrug it off; enter Lincoln's sisters] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "Hey, what did you think of the Queen of Diamonds? Wasn't she your favorite part? Here! Let me show you some of my ideas for an action figure and a bed sheet set." <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The rest of the kids gather around Bill and talk to him about the comic]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bill: "Whoa! This is kind of a... <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">full house <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(It then turns into a drawing revealing it was a comic that I made.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: And we asked questions about Buck Bill all day long. The end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(It reveals that I was reading the comic, to Lincoln, his sisters and Clyde. They all cheer.) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: That was a great story, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: If I had a heart it would be so happy right now.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: Yeah, comic books aren’t usually my thing, but that was amazing! <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Great job, Noey!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Thanks guys, I’m hungry. You guys wanna go to the Burpin Burger?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(My friends all clamour in agreement. We walk out together and head to Burpin Burger)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE END <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">