Promethean Science (Part2)
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Seth sees the corpse begin to glitter and glow. Electricity surges through it, illuminating it.
VEGAS
He's alive...HE'S ALIVE!!
The corpse on their desk shakes as it slowly sits up. Behind them, OTTO AUTORO looks a little scared of the moving corpses. But Anna Delgado shimmies and dances, imitating it.
ANNA DELGADO
YEAH! That's that Harlem Shake, baby!
KEVIN
Naw! They poppin' that popcorn!
CHARLES
(laughs)
Them corpses move better than you, Anna!
All around the classroom, the same thing is occurring, and the dead begin to rise...or at least sit up. The music, as if magically inspired, gets louder, and Beetle Bangz drops that beat to the dead, beginning to rise.
BEETLE BANGZ (V.O.)
Awwww, YEAH! That's that buttery baby!
POP-POP-Poppin fresh!
Pop that booty, pop that chest!
Sugar baby, bustin' out!
Hot and Ready! POPPING NOW!
A hard jolt causes all the electrified bodies to quiver hard as they sit up completely, looking almost alive.
CUT TO: Vegas watches Mort wide-eyed and entranced.
CUT TO: Mort's electrified face. His mouth and eyes open as if he's about to speak.
But after the rising begins, it stops suddenly.
Mort lowers his arms and starts lying back down. Then the juice is cut off completely, and he slams back down, dead as ever.
Vegas grabs the corpse by his shirt and shakes him, angrily speaking in German.
VEGAS
Nein!! Nein!!
Vegas releases Mort, disappointed, and hangs his head as if defeated.
SETH
What did you expect, Vegas? Raising the dead is forbidden in the school. Obviously, they aren't going to let us do it in class!
Vegas slams his hands down on the desk and glares at Seth.
VEGAS
I am going to do this! I don't care what school rules get broken.
SETH
What's gotten into you, Bro?
VEGAS
Chris, that's what. He told me if I don't help him raise Portia from the dead, he's gonna kick my ass!
SETH
But Diaz is gonna kick your ass if you do!
Vegas flips his long blonde hair back and unleashes a blood-curdling laugh. He was in mad scientist mode, playing up the role for all it was worth.
VEGAS
Screw, Diaz! I am going to try...a SPELL!
CUT TO: Vegas and Seth are leaning over Mort's body.
CUT TO: The corpse is waxy-looking and pale but intact.
CUT TO: Seth and Vegas, still leaning over Mort, look at each other.
Seth shakes his head.
SETH
(Matches Vegas' German accent with his own)
...This is not good Idea.
VEGAS
( German accent)
This is VERY good idea!
Meanwhile, Charles and Kevin were having a full-on dance battle with Anna and Otto.
CHARLES
(still to the tune of the "Pop that Popcorn")
Massive lack of booty, baby! Horrendous failure, sweety!
Anna marches over to the mean boys and spin kicks at Charles' leg, making him crash to the floor.
Anna and Otto slap five.
ANNA
Bippity, Boppity! Bust yo ass, properly!
Meanwhile, Professor Allens was at the front of the class next to a large blackboard with a drawing of a dissected corpse. None the wiser, he drones on with his lecture about the inner workings of the human body.
Vegas pulls out the spell book and starts searching for the right spell.
VEGAS
Level with me, Seth. Why is Eddie at the Demon Hunters school talkin' 'bout he hates white people now?
SETH
Why are you asking me?
VEGAS
Because you and Chris know something. You've been keeping something from me for a while. I feel like I am the only one of the 4 of us who's in the dark.
SETH
I don't know what you're talking about, baby bro. Eddie is just mourning the loss of his sister. That's all. And...you know. He started getting into those online radical groups that say all white people are evil.
Vegas stops flipping pages, finding the one he needs.
VEGAS
No, there's more to it than that. Eddie has known us for years. He wouldn't just drop us like that because some 'imaginative' people online said all white people are born with horns or whatever whacky thing.
Seth scratches his elbow and shrugs.
SETH
What? You weren't born with horns?
Vegas shakes his head and looks down at the spell book, ignoring him again. He starts chanting the spell, trying to pronounce the strange words he finds on the paper.
VEGAS
Banana-Rama, Hoobastank, Veruca Salt, Kajagoogoo!!!
Seth takes his fingers and puts them up to the sides of his head, remembering his cute little horns.
SETH
Mama used to call me her little cow-cow.
SETH (CONT'D)
But then my dad had my horns surgically removed because he said those horns were evidence of some kinda evil pact he made with the devil or something.
He stops talking and notices the look Vegas is giving him.
SETH
You're judging me!
VEGAS
No... I'm contemplating you, Seth.
Seth thinks about this for a moment as Vegas continues chanting his spell.
SETH
Contemplating? I'm pretty sure that's the same thing but...yeah...it makes me sound all important and s**t. Contemplate me, hoe!
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