Here's a short thing I threw together. It's a parody of a soap opera with a VMK theme. Please note that I do not really think that what is in this story is real. This is supposed to be taken lightly. If everyone likes this I might make another, longer one
. The things in parenthesis are stage directions, they are not meant to be read aloud (although some people do, and it ruins the play). Oh, and the song at the end is an excerpt from the West Side Story song "Somewhere."
Here's Episode 1 of "All of My Credits":
(The All of My Credits theme song and title sequence plays, and then fades out. The picture fades back in to reveal Fin, Lion, and Lily sitting at a large table in a house. Papers, calculators, and piles of credits are on the table. There is a knock on the houses front door.)
Lion: Its the tax collector. We cant afford to pay our bills this month, and we cant afford to have our house repossessed.
(Lion puts his hand on Fins)
Lion: Theres only one thing to do. We have to sell our Café.
(Fin jumps up and runs to stage right. She is staring out a window. Camera focuses on Fin. Outside the window, we can clearly see a tree with a cardinal perched on its lowest branch.)
Fin: Lion (She turns to him) We cant! Say it isnt so! (She begins to cry)
(The tax collector pounds on the door)
Lily (soothingly): Fin, we have to. Itll be alright. Well get more credits for a new café
(The door bursts open. The tax collector has ripped it off its hinges with a battering ram. )
Fin (yelling): No! Dont repossess our inventories! Please, there must be another way!
Tax collector: There is.
(The tax collector takes out a red button that says BAN on it and pushes it. Fins body starts to get fuzzy, and then she slowly fades away)
Lion and Lily, in unison (screaming): Fin!
Tax collector: Unfortunately, banning Fin was not enough to cover your debts.
(Once again, the tax collector pushes the button. A giant white glove appears over Lilys head, and squashes her. Nothing remains of Lily except for a few pixels, and Lion picks them up. He holds them up to the sky. Camera goes to an aerial view of the room. )
Lion (screaming): Lily!
(The lights dim, the camera focuses on Lion, and the pixels fade away. There is a short pause.)
(All of the lights go off except for a spotlight left on Lion. The melancholy All of My Credits theme plays, and the spotlight goes out- leaving the room in pitch black darkness. The show goes to a commercial break.)
(The show fades back in and the All of My Credits theme plays as an overture. Fin and Lily are found in a strange place- a reminiscent of the part in SSE when riders go into a globe and look at what is supposed to be streams of videos and IMs. There are also a bunch of other people in the room, mainly criminals who have been banned for criminal activities.)
Lily (calling over to Fin): Fin!
Fin: Lily!
Lily: Whats going to happen to us? Where are we?
Fin: Were in the main circuit board. I think they keep all of the banned people here until
(Fin starts to cry, and points at a criminal. His pixels are flying away, one by one, into nothingness. Another shimmers, starts to fade, and then disappears in a flash of light.)
Lily: You mean were pending for deletion? Who would do such a thing!?!
(Lights and streams of data come together to form what many VMK players would recognize as Yavn. He grins ear to ear with a maniacal look in his virtual eyes.)
Yavn (in a strong, thunderous voice): Aaaah, Lily. How nice of you to join us. Looks like someone couldnt pay her taxes! You shall surely pay for this!
Lily: No! Please no!
Fin: Yavn, dont!
Yavn: You know about your other friends, right?
(VMK_Penguin appears, suspended in mid-air.)
Penguin: Huh? Huh! Im alive!
Yavn: Mr. Penguin called me a tyrant.
(Penguin screams and pixelates into nothingness. VMK_Flight appears.)
Flight: Patchy! Adio! Cardinal! HELP!
Yavn: Mr. Flight liked to goof off too much.
(Yavn claps and a bolt of lightning strikes Flight, and he explodes into a million little pixels. VMK_Bambi appears.)
Bambi: Where am I?
Yavn: Bambi gave bad Customer Service.
Fin: We didnt really like her anyway.
Yavn: Yeah, neither did I.
(Electricity sparks around Bambi, and in a flash of light she disappears. Lion appears.)
Lily: Lion?!? LION!
Yavn: Yes, Mr. Lion wanted me to set you free. Did you honestly think I would ever unban anyone? Do you think we look at those unban appeals anyway?
Lion: Lily Fin
(Aengus suddenly appears and starts rapping)
Aengus: Sorry ladies, but Im taken.
(Aengus disappears)
Fin: Lion I am so sorry.
(Fin kisses Lion. It is a long, mushy kiss.)
Lion and Fin (singing): Theres a place for us,
A time and place for us,
Hold my hand and were halfway there,
Hold my hand and Ill take you there,
Somehow,
Someday,
Somewhere
(They de-materialize into binary code and the numbers float off. The lights black out and the credits roll. The melancholy All of My Credits theme plays.)
END

Here's Episode 1 of "All of My Credits":
(The All of My Credits theme song and title sequence plays, and then fades out. The picture fades back in to reveal Fin, Lion, and Lily sitting at a large table in a house. Papers, calculators, and piles of credits are on the table. There is a knock on the houses front door.)
Lion: Its the tax collector. We cant afford to pay our bills this month, and we cant afford to have our house repossessed.
(Lion puts his hand on Fins)
Lion: Theres only one thing to do. We have to sell our Café.
(Fin jumps up and runs to stage right. She is staring out a window. Camera focuses on Fin. Outside the window, we can clearly see a tree with a cardinal perched on its lowest branch.)
Fin: Lion (She turns to him) We cant! Say it isnt so! (She begins to cry)
(The tax collector pounds on the door)
Lily (soothingly): Fin, we have to. Itll be alright. Well get more credits for a new café
(The door bursts open. The tax collector has ripped it off its hinges with a battering ram. )
Fin (yelling): No! Dont repossess our inventories! Please, there must be another way!
Tax collector: There is.
(The tax collector takes out a red button that says BAN on it and pushes it. Fins body starts to get fuzzy, and then she slowly fades away)
Lion and Lily, in unison (screaming): Fin!
Tax collector: Unfortunately, banning Fin was not enough to cover your debts.
(Once again, the tax collector pushes the button. A giant white glove appears over Lilys head, and squashes her. Nothing remains of Lily except for a few pixels, and Lion picks them up. He holds them up to the sky. Camera goes to an aerial view of the room. )
Lion (screaming): Lily!
(The lights dim, the camera focuses on Lion, and the pixels fade away. There is a short pause.)
(All of the lights go off except for a spotlight left on Lion. The melancholy All of My Credits theme plays, and the spotlight goes out- leaving the room in pitch black darkness. The show goes to a commercial break.)
(The show fades back in and the All of My Credits theme plays as an overture. Fin and Lily are found in a strange place- a reminiscent of the part in SSE when riders go into a globe and look at what is supposed to be streams of videos and IMs. There are also a bunch of other people in the room, mainly criminals who have been banned for criminal activities.)
Lily (calling over to Fin): Fin!
Fin: Lily!
Lily: Whats going to happen to us? Where are we?
Fin: Were in the main circuit board. I think they keep all of the banned people here until
(Fin starts to cry, and points at a criminal. His pixels are flying away, one by one, into nothingness. Another shimmers, starts to fade, and then disappears in a flash of light.)
Lily: You mean were pending for deletion? Who would do such a thing!?!
(Lights and streams of data come together to form what many VMK players would recognize as Yavn. He grins ear to ear with a maniacal look in his virtual eyes.)
Yavn (in a strong, thunderous voice): Aaaah, Lily. How nice of you to join us. Looks like someone couldnt pay her taxes! You shall surely pay for this!
Lily: No! Please no!
Fin: Yavn, dont!
Yavn: You know about your other friends, right?
(VMK_Penguin appears, suspended in mid-air.)
Penguin: Huh? Huh! Im alive!
Yavn: Mr. Penguin called me a tyrant.
(Penguin screams and pixelates into nothingness. VMK_Flight appears.)
Flight: Patchy! Adio! Cardinal! HELP!
Yavn: Mr. Flight liked to goof off too much.
(Yavn claps and a bolt of lightning strikes Flight, and he explodes into a million little pixels. VMK_Bambi appears.)
Bambi: Where am I?
Yavn: Bambi gave bad Customer Service.
Fin: We didnt really like her anyway.
Yavn: Yeah, neither did I.
(Electricity sparks around Bambi, and in a flash of light she disappears. Lion appears.)
Lily: Lion?!? LION!
Yavn: Yes, Mr. Lion wanted me to set you free. Did you honestly think I would ever unban anyone? Do you think we look at those unban appeals anyway?
Lion: Lily Fin
(Aengus suddenly appears and starts rapping)
Aengus: Sorry ladies, but Im taken.
(Aengus disappears)
Fin: Lion I am so sorry.
(Fin kisses Lion. It is a long, mushy kiss.)
Lion and Fin (singing): Theres a place for us,
A time and place for us,
Hold my hand and were halfway there,
Hold my hand and Ill take you there,
Somehow,
Someday,
Somewhere
(They de-materialize into binary code and the numbers float off. The lights black out and the credits roll. The melancholy All of My Credits theme plays.)
END