Take Turns Writing: "The Hippie and his Shotgun"
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Friday, April 30, 2004 05:24
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That was when Ebo spotted the Hippie. The Hippie was down a very skinny alley, next to a dumpster... and he had Teela! But she wasn't struggling.
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Instead they seemed to be talking together. Ebo listened hard and made out part of what was being said.
"....you haven't told her yet?" asked Teela.
"Shes just a kid," responded the Hippie.
"Yeah, but she's your....." At that point Ebo's arm slipped and she pressed the car horn. The noise made Teela and the Hippie jump. They stare in a guilty fashion at Ebo.
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"I'm your cousin?" Ebo said after they had sat down on some left over peach crates. "And you didn't tell me because I was a kid? I'm a young woman! I can handle it!"
"But yet you're reacting way too much right now." the Hippie replied.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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"Sorry, you're not my cousin. It's a lot more complicated than that," the Hippie said gravely.
He reached behind his back and pulled out a photo album. He slowly handed it to Ebo. She gasped in surprise as she saw hundreds of photographs of herself. But she didn't remember being in a lot of these places. And in every picture she appeared to be the same age.
"These are not photos of you, Ebo." The Hippie said. These are pictures of all my other robots."
Ebo stared in horror and whispered, "I'm a robot?"
"Yes," answered the Hippie. He continued, "Your memory has been erased. You think you are Ebonezer, but you are actually my robot slave. Sorry to break it to you. It sucks, I know."
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Robo-Ebo exploded (figurativly). "Why does it suck for you?! I'm the robot slave here! Not you!"
"Shh, my dear." Teela said. She thought to her self: That explains why she's still alive. "Ebo, honey, so far you really haven't obeyd him that much. There could be hope." Teela gave a half-smile.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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Ebo gasped, "Thats why i have distant memories of a guy nammed Jeremy, and," She gasped again, "Teela! Thats why i feel like i know you from before!"
"Huh?" the hippie grunted, "I'm missing something here."
Teela siged, "Yes I think you are. But thats ok, somehow I get the idea that nobody understands her."
"Don't you understand her?"
Teela shook her head, "Not so much."
"Hey! I have an idea!" Ebo shouted, "We should go to the beach and have a snowball fight!" She started skipping off down the road.
"That," Teela said, standing up, "Don't even ask me to explain that."
Teela and the Hippie started trudging down the road after Ebo.
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"Ebo, remind me again why a beach would have snow." Teela tol Ebo.
"You see, the beach sees the universe as a collection of ones and zeros." Ebo replied.
"Okay. Now remind me what ones and zeros have to do with the beach. And weren't we going to find Tash first?"
"Binary, Teela, binary."
"No offense, but I'm not a robot."
"Jeez."
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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Suddenly Ebo's foot caught on a crack in yhe road and she fell to the ground.
"Look a penny!" she shouted, picking it up, "and its so shinny." She held it out and arms lenght and started at honest Abe's head for a while, moving her head around to look at it from differnt angles, "Everywhere i go...his eyes follow me..."
The hippie snatched the penny away and threw it down the road, "Will you stop bei-"
He was inturepted by the incredible loud sound of the sky falling.
A few minutes later the three of them stood among bits and pices of sky and looked at where the sky used to be. They saw large letters written across the ex-sky, "Free fish tuesdays!"
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"CUT!" the director yelled. "Everyone take five!"
The people on stage smiled and hugged and headed towards the water cooler.
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Behind the Scenes:
"These roles get weirder and weirder. Wonder what'll happen next."
"Yeah. Will Yossarain show up?"
"Ah, he might. I'm not clairvoyant. But I'll try."
The director yells: "Five's up! Back on set!"
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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