Everyone ready to finish this story off? ;)
Micky: Definitely. ;)
Mike: Yeah.
Peter: I am.
Davy: You 'ave NO idea.
(We open in the Rainbow Room at Micky and Lauren's house. Mike, Micky, and Emma sit on the bandstand with Katie, Robbie, and Little Mick between them. Lauren, Daphne, and Davy have the other kids with them.)
Bob: Hey, gang. Planning Ursula's rescue?
Mike: Yeah. This is really important. We HAVE to get Urse back. If they get her out of the car and out of the crystal, it's game over for us and everyone.
Micky: So we need a little strategy, and perhaps a little subterfuge.
Mike: Yeah. We've gotten lucky every time we've gone to Arizona after one or more of us. The Devils are out for blood this time. We really need to be careful.
Bert: How are you feeling, Davy?
Davy: Bettah now.
Bert: What was going on there for a while? Davy, why didn't you listen to the others when they said they weren't going to hurt you?
Davy: *shrugs* I don't know. I was so confused.
Mike: Information overload, I think.
Davy: Yeah.
Emma: Everyone kept coming at Davy at once, and it scared him. He didn't know who to trust.
Bert: What did it feel like to have your head above the clouds?
Mike: For once, kid, you were taller than EVERYONE.
Davy: I 'ated it. I don't think I'll evah complain about being short again.
Mike: I loved bein' able to fly again.
Emma: And we got to use Rosemarie's flying mechanism for the first time.
Lauren: Which, thankfully, we had.
Bob: Did you girls enjoy your first flight?
Emma: I know I did.
Lauren: I'm kinda torn. I do trust Rosie a lot more than I do airplanes, though.
Emma: Yeah. We know this airplane personally.
Bob: Hey Daph, how did it feel to ride Davy?
*Micky snorts.*
Daphne: *shoots a look at Micky* It was very...interesting.
Davy: *threatens with a pillow* Mick...
Mike: I ain't gonna say nuthin'.
Emma: Oh dear.
Bert: Where's Valerie?
Emma: On the phone. (Frowns) She said she had to call her doctor...
Bert: Is she all right?
Emma: I don't know.
Bert: She has been acting strangely lately.
Mike: I'm worried about her, Peter, and Jordan. Those were threats Pete was makin' at me at the end of the last part.
Micky: Something isn't right about Peter.
Emma: No kidding. Why was he following Davy? How did he know about the laser?
Mike: I swear I saw him blendin' into the shadows at the end there, like some spirit...
Micky: I noticed that, too.
Emma: I think I saw him in the desert, too.
Mike: Mick, Davy, did you see him in the beginning?
*The guys exchange glances.*
Micky: *shrugs* I don't know. Just that shadow they call their new Boss.
Mike: (Thinks) Shadow...
Emma: Wait. Mike said he saw Peter blend into the shadows...
Micky: *eyes widen* Peter's the shadow!
Mike: (His eyes widen, too) I can't believe it.
Davy: Oh no!
Emma: Peter's the "boss."
Lauren: Oh my Lord...
Mike: Why? Why would he suddenly join the devils?
Micky: *shakes his head* Who knows? The devils may have gotten to him somehow.
Emma: He's certainly been alone enough lately. They could have gotten to him at any time.
Mike: But...how can we fight him? He's one of us!
Bert: It wouldn't appear that he IS one of you anymore.
Emma: What about Valerie? What are we going to tell her? I doubt she knows.
Micky: We have to be straight-forward about this. There's no sense in trying to hide it or sugar coating it.
Emma: It's likely she'll find out sooner or later, anyway. I'm surprised Peter's been able to hide it from her as well as he has.
Mike: No WONDER he's been hidin' so much lately. He doesn't want anyone to sense or feel anything wrong with him.
Emma: That's why he acted the way he did at the Club Caprice. He was afraid your wolf senses would uncover his secret.
Mike: How did he become "The Boss?" He was still closing his eyes to use his powers!
Bob: Remember a few months ago, when that magician boosted Mike, Micky, and Davy's powers?
Emma: Do you think Sheila did the same thing for Peter?
Bob: Could even be one of the reasons he did it in the first place. He was the only one of you that hadn't had a boost in his powers.
Micky: I don't like this.
Mike: Me either, Mick. I'm really wishin' we'd kept better tabs on Peter. We could have helped him, even after he quit.
Micky: Man, we should've known better.
(Valerie practically floats in at this point. She's smiling and rubbing her stomach.)
Valerie: I have to get a hold of Peter...
Emma: Oh shit.
Lauren: Oh, don't tell me...
Valerie: (She sits down next to Lauren and Leah) I'm two months pregnant.
Mike: Oh god...
Emma: Oh no...
*Micky slaps his forehead.*
Valerie: (Looks around and sees the horrified looks on everyone's faces) What's wrong?
Emma: Val... (Looks at the others) How can we tell her?
Micky: *sighs* I'll tell her.
Valerie: Tell me what? Mick?
Micky: *takes a deep breath* The devils new "Boss"...is Peter.
Valerie: What?!
Micky: Peter knew about what happened to Davy. Add that up with other weird things we've 'thought' we've recognized the past few months. It's Peter. *sighs* But I wish it wasn't.
Valerie: (Sighs sadly) I...I think I knew. I think I've known for a long time that Peter had been corrupted, but I didn't want to admit it. I wanted to believe that he was still MY Peter.
Mike: I'm havin' a hard time with it myself, Val.
Emma: (She looks at Davy) Dave, you saw him. He went after you. Did anything seem unusual about him?
Davy: 'E was acting like our Petah, but it seemed put on, as though 'e wanted to lure me.
Mike: Probably to corrupt you, too.
Valerie: Oh Peter...
Davy: *nods* Yeah.
Valerie: We have to help him! I want to bring him home. I want him to be my Peter again. We have to show him how much we love him!
Micky: Anyone have an idea how to get to him without getting us corrupted in the process?
Mike: That's somethin' else we're gonna have to plan.
Bert: What was your favorite part of this story?
Mike: Gettin' in the plane and savin' Dave.
Micky: Shrinking Davy back down to normal.
Davy: Being shrunk back to normal.
Valerie: Flying Rosemarie. We really need to find another excuse to get her in flight mode.
Emma: Beating up Sheila in Davy's hair.
Lauren: I'm not sure. Sorry.
Bob: Where did you ladies come up with this idea, anyway?
Emma: (Grins) An episode of the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV show. April O'Neal's best friend Irma is laser-blasted to three times her size and inadvertently wrecks havoc. (Grins at the others) Davy, you didn't get the munchies too bad while you were Godzilla sized, did you?
Davy: No, I was too freaked out the 'ole time.
Emma: Actually, the idea of a 50-foot-something running around Malibu Beach goes back even further than my catching the Irma episode last year. We were originally going to do a short story about Micky accidentally turning one of his sisters' or the kids' pets into a giant, but it kept getting put on the wayside and was dropped all together when we ended the warm-up stories.
Micky: This, thankfully, did not end up being my fault.
Emma: That was one of things that was dropped with the original idea. We've picked on you enough.
Micky: Thank you.
Lauren: But that doesn't mean you're completely out of the line of fire.
Micky: Damn.
Emma: We knew we were going to be on vacation when we wrote this story, so we wanted to keep it light so we could concentrate on other things... (looks at Micky) like Micky Dolenz concerts.
Micky: *grins* Yeah?
Emma: We're going to see the real Micky Dolenz in concert in a few days. It's on our minds these days.
Lauren: What minds?
Mike: Yeah, what minds?
Emma: You're just jealous. We're not going to see YOU onstage.
Mike: I wouldn't play onstage anyway.
Lauren: That's right. The real you never leaves his ranch.
Mike: I...he...we like it there!
Lauren: Yeeeeaaaah...
Emma: Ok, before we get into the whole reality-fantasy thing, we're going to cut to the skit.
Mike: Right. Davy, you've more than earned the right to finish this one off.
Davy: Thanks, mates. 'Ope everyone out there 'ad a great Labor Day! And remembah to be careful wot you wish for!
*We fade out on everyone waving at the camera.*
(Cut to "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" over the credits and scenes from the "production." We end with a shot of everyone climbing all over Davy in the desert under the words "A Raybert Production." )