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[Attacks come in as Angel, Aims Tang, Pigsy, and Mo cower in the T.E.A. with Monkey King, who's still meditating.]

Aims: This is not good!?

Angel: I DON'T LIKE THIS!!!

Tang: We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die! The two of us aren't built for the action stuff, Pigsy. We're sidekicks at best and you know it. (Pigsy looks at Monkey King and grabs him.) B-But wait, Pigsy! It's—

Pigsy: "Dangerous to wake someone from a transcendental meditation." I know, I know! But so is whatever is out there! Okay, I have an idea. I've been saving this for a special occasion. Aims, Angel, Tang, I present the Chaos Ultra Ghost Pepper of Doom! It's so hot, you'll get third-degree burns just from looking at it.

Aims: Oh no.

Angel: Wait Pigsy!?

Tang: Uh, are you sure you should be keeping that in your pocket?

Pigsy: Well, if anything's going to wake up Monkey King, it'll be this. Incoming!

[Pigsy shoves the pepper into Monkey King's mouth. Monkey King wakes up in the middle of meditation with the last vision of his companions.]

Monkey King: Stand back, Master! Sun Wukong will handle this demon! (He kicks open the door and hops out, looking around.) Hmm, guess I must have scared it off. (Above, the demon backs off.) Master, it's safe to come out now. You too, Piglet.

Tang: Master?!

Pigsy: Piglet?!

Aims: Aw we don't have a nickname.

Angel: Boo!

Monkey King: Ugh, fine. Zhu Bajie, better?

Pigsy: Uh, what is happening right now?

Tang: Uh, Monkey— Uh, Sun Wukong? Who exactly do you think we are?

Monkey King: What kind of question is that, Master? (He gasps, dropping Mo.) Unless, Master, you've lost your memory! (Pigsy chuckles as Monkey King shakes Tang.) You have to remember who you are! That's Zhu Bajie, the Celestial Swine! This is Sha Wujing of the Flowing Sands River! And you are the Great Monk Tang Sanzang! We're on a journey to deliver sacred texts to the West! I'm your loyal companion, bound to keep you safe from demons who know if they eat you, they'll become immortal! You! Have! To! Re-Mem-Ber!

Tang: (Woozy.) Okay, okay, I remember.

Monkey King: Excellent! (He gasps.) Where's my staff? (Pigsy chuckles again.)

Tang: See Pigsy? I told you, this is exactly why you don't wake someone from a transcendental meditation. We broke the Monkey King! He thinks he is his past self and we're his old companions! If we don't find a way to bring our Monkey King back, we're gonna be stuck with this one.

Monkey King: (He sees a stick.) Ah, my trusty staff!

Angel: Poor Monkey king, I kinda feel bad for him- (Then she saw Monkey king infront of her) Oh! Uh hello...

Aims: Wow!?

[Monkey king stared at Angel for a minu''te until...]

Monkey King: Marry me!

Aims + Pigsy + Tang: SAY WHAT?!

Angel: Wait what?!

Monkey King: I said marry me. I've never seen such a beautiful person in my life!

[Angel blushed as Aims, Tang and Pigsy were speakless]

Angel: W-well thats unexpeted.

Aims: Really enxpeted.

Monkey King: Well I'll let you think.

[Angel gave Monkey king a thumps up before back up to the trio with her face turning red]

Pigsy: So this is just the amnesia rules, right? So we bonk him on his dumb head and boom! Back to normal.

Monkey King: What'd you say, Piglet?

Pigsy: Piglet?! Oh, that's it. (They stare each other down.)

Aims: Ooo heres comes the fight!

Angel: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

Monkey King: Master, just say the word, and this little piggy will be a steamed ham!

Tang: Alright, let's calm down. Let's not get carried away! (Tang screams as he's stolen by the demon.)

Monkey King: The demon! It took our Master!

Aims: TANG?!

Pigsy: We gotta do something!

Monkey King: Exactly! Let's go! (He grabs Mo and Pigsy.)

[Aims, Angel, Pigsy is watching Monkey King scour the lands.]

Pigsy: What does this have to do with getting Tang back?

Monkey King: Hmm.

Pigsy: Is this the same sort of garbage you tell MK instead of talking to him straight?

Monkey King: MK, huh?

Aims: MK. IS. YOUR. SUCCESSOR!

Angel: And is Angie girlfriend.

Monkey King: Successor? Angie? What?

Pigsy: Of course you don't remember the kids. One day, you are gonna grow up to be a terrible mentor!

Monkey King: Hah, Zhu Bajie, can you imagine me teaching someone? Hah!

Pigsy: Can we go find "Master" already?

Monkey King: You know as well as I do that in order to find out what type of demon we're dealing with, we need to talk to the Local Tudi.

Pigsy: The local what now?

Monkey King: Tudi! Tudi, Tudi, Tudi! Tudi, Tudi, Tudi! Tu-di! Tudi! (Pigsy shouts as a small mound appears and he is thrown off. The Local Tudi pops out.) Ah, there you are!

Pigsy: Uh, he lives in a hole?

Monkey King: Oh, great Tudi, a demon has captured our Master and we fear for his safety. So you heard of anything like that? (Tudi describes the Scorpion Queen.) Whoa, interesting, go on. Yes. Okay. (Hours go by and it's the next day.) You don't say. Thank you for your knowledge.

Pigsy + Angel: What'd he say?

Monkey King: The demon we seek is... in that castle! (He points to a castle that has been in their view the whole time.)

Aims: Finding that out took all night?!

Monkey King: No, of course not! This guy's just awesome! So many great stories! (Tudi waves goodbye.)

[Monkey King crashes in through the wall with Angel, Aims, Pigsy and Mo.]

Monkey King: Unhand my Master, you evil demon! I am Sun Wukong and the monk is under my protection!

Scorpion Queen: Protection from what? A beautiful queen?

Pigsy: Look, lady, we are not gonna let you eat my friend!

Scorpion Queen: I would never!

Monkey King: Oh, really? Then why all the illusions?! (He uses his powers to remove the illusions.)

Scorpion Queen: Fine. Fine! I'm a demon, okay?! You happy?! I just wanted to be a beautiful queen but ugh, "I'm a demon." (Tang tries to sneak away but Scorpion Queen picks him up with her tail.)

Angel: Uh oh.

Tang: Uh, uh, hey, just so we're clear. Eating me won't make you immortal.

Monkey King: Of course it will! He's the Great Monk Tang Sanzang!

Tang: Ignore him. It's the pepper talking.

Scorpion Queen: For the last time, I don't want to eat anyone!

Tang: Oh, so can we just... go?

Scorpion Queen: What? No, you can't just go. You have to stay forever!

Monkey King: Don't worry, Master! Here comes Monkey King! (He stick breaks.) No, my staff. (He fights with Scorpion Queen.)

Aims: Monkey mad.

Angel: Yep.

Pigsy: Tang, did she hurt you? Lock you up?!

Tang: Well...

Pigsy: She kept giving you noodles so you wouldn't leave, huh?

Tang: You should really get the recipe. (He appears before Monkey King and Scorpion Queen.) Wait! I get that you're alone, but lying about who you are, forcing people to be your companions is not the answer.

Scorpion Queen: I've been here by myself for so long. I heard Monkey King talk about you being his companions. Well, that's all I ever wanted: Friendship.

Tang: You can't steal friendship. It's something that's earned.

Monkey King: He's right. The three of us are friends because we choose to be.

Pigsy: Whoa, whoa, whoa, we're friends?

Aims: Eh, maybe.

Monkey King: Of course we are! Everyone needs friends! Can you imagine what I'd be like without friends? I'd probably turn into a really manipulative jerk or something. (He laughs.)

Tang: Anyway, you'll find someone that wants to stay with you in this... lovely home... forever.

'Scorpion Queen: Yeah, yeah, but where am I gonna find someone like that?

Pigsy: Ooh hoho, I just had the best idea.

[Outside, Aims, Tang and Pigsy watch Monkey King find his staff as Angel was watching him.]

Tang: We can't leave him like this. I think he's getting worse!

Monkey King: (He finds another stick.) Oh, here's my staff! (The tip of it breaks.)

Pigsy: I don't know, I'm starting to like him.

Tang + Aims: (They sees a big rock.) Amnesia rules. I'm gonna find something to bonk him on the head! (They dashes off.)

Angel: Well, they gonna do something.

Pigsy: Don't just— (He sighs but sees Tang's book that he dropped. He opens it to the page of the Pilgrims.)

Monkey King: Hmm, you know, they really got your face just right. Super on model! (He takes the book himself and looks through it.)

Pigsy: Yeah... so hey, uh, listen. I guess I just wanted to say before you turn back to... Maybe you ain't so bad for the kid after all. Just do me a favor huh? Keep 'im safe, alright? When we get the three Rings of Samadhi.

Monkey King: Four Rings.

Pigsy: Four?! You never mentioned four?!

Angel: Uh Wukong?

Monkey King: Yeah?

Angel: So why did you say you want me to marry you?

Monkey King: Well, your beautiful, pretty and cute and I just wanna~ (Then Monkey King kissed Angel and Pigsy mouth dropped as Angel face became red and he pulled away) Kiss you.

[Angel face was cherry red then she and Pigsy screams as the rock crushes Monkey King.]

Tang + Aims: Did it work?!

Pigsy: Tang! What are you doing?!

Tang: What? You're the one who said to hit him in the head.

Pigsy: Yeah, but I didn't say kill him!

Angel: H-he kissed me...

Pigsy and Tang: Huh? (They watch Monkey King break out of the rock. He stretches and coughs out streams of flames.)

Monkey King: Hey, what-why is my mouth so hot? (Tang hugs him, crying.) Hey, why are you hugging me?

Tang: Oh, it worked! You got your memories back! Pigsy gave you a pepper. I-I told him not to and I thought you were...

[They drive off east to find the others. Pigsy recalls what he said to Monkey King.]

Past Pigsy: Just do me a favor, huh? Keep 'im safe, alright? When we get the three Rings of Samadhi.

Past Monkey King: Four Rings.

Past Pigsy: (He pulls down the rear-view mirror to look at Monkey King.) Four?! You never mentioned four— (He sees Monkey King look back at him, he puts it up again.)

Pigsy: Huh, four.

Tang: Huh? What was that, Pigsy?

Pigsy: Oh, uh, nothing.

[Monkey King looks at the page of the Pilgrims before closing the book and saw Angel sleeping so he sighed and put Angel on his lap and caresses her cheek as Aims chuckled.]

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