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Title: Chuckit Brothers

Series: Chronicle

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS

PAGE 1


Outside at a fireworks display, a big bonfire burns whilst a crowd watches. Mother is handling out sparklers to her wards

MOTHER: BE CAREFUL JEM HOLD IT IN YOUR GLOVES BY THE STALK


Mother looks around

MOTHER: BILL, PARRY WHERE ARE YOU?


Bill and parry aged 6 are away from the crowd admiring the firework rockets launch pad

BILL: MAGNESIUM TIP WITH SODIUM AND LOW GRADE NITRATE BOOSTER

PARRY: AVERAGE RANGE 100 METRES, IF CORRECTLY ALIGNED, IN THIS CASE 80. BLAST RADIUS 2 FEET


Mother washing up can not find the washing up liquid

MOTHER: NO NOT AGAIN


Mother shouts

MOTHER: BILL, PARRY HAVE YOU SEEN THE WASHING UP[ LIQUID


Bill and Parry aged 12 pump up a bottle rocket made form the washing up liquid bottle and using bicycle pumps to charge it#

BILL: POLYPROPYLENE 5, PERSPEX TIP WITH DISTILLED WATER PRESSURE BOOSTER

PARRY: AVERAGE RANGE 500 METRES, WITH SPECIAL ALIGNMENT 750. WET RADIUS 2 FEET


Mother goes to feed the cat but it is missing

MOTHER: TIDDLES?


Mother shouting

MOTHER: I DON'T CARE IF HE'S AN EQUAL PARTNER HE NEEDS FEEDING BEFORE ORBITING#


A huge rocket being piloted by Tiddles the cat mounted on it with goggles. Bill and Parry aged 15 are very small lighting the fuse

BILL: DESIGN 4, BOOSTER RECIPE XL15 WITH ETCHED THRUSTER RIFLING

PARRY: CAPABLE OF ESCAPE VELOCITY IF CORRECTLY PILOTED, FUR BALL RADIUS 2 FEET


10 
Tiddles parachutes safely back to earth


11 
Loud noise emanate form the family shed where Bill and Parry aged 18 work. Mother is outside as a news reporter

MOTHER: HERE ON A HISTORIC 18TH BIRTHDAY MY SONS BILL AND PARRY RUSH TO USE THEIR NEW FOUND PRIVILEGES


12 
The boys blast off and a huge rocket, Tiddles watches and Mother reports

MOTHER: OF THE WORLDS FIRST INDEPENDENT SPACE EXPLORATION LICENSE

PAGE 2


On the boys flight they pass a space shuttle and a satellite in orbit

BILL: THERE'S BOB A JOB TO BE HAD WASHING THE SHUTTLE'S WINDOWS

PARRY: DON'T FORGET WE PROMISED IVAN TO DROP KICK SPUTNIK INTO A NEW ORBIT


A huge ticker tape parade is being held for the boys in their home village

MOTHER: CHIPPING ONGAR HAS SEEN NOTHING LIKE THIS SINCE MRS WILLIAMS;' PLUM DUFF WON BEST OF PUDDINGS IN THE ROYAL SHOW IN 1974. THAT WAS OF COURSE WAS A TICKER TAPE PARADE NOT A LOTTERY SCRATCH CARD ONE


The boys commute by jet pack to their hugely modern business

MOTHER: THE HEROES WERE NOT TO BE TEMPTED ABROAD AND SET THEIR OWN SILICON VALE IN THEIR HOME VILLAGE.


The boys in the newspaper

MOTHER: THEIR BUSINESS PLAN TAMED SPACE FROM BEING A WILD FRONTIER TO A WEEKEND RETREAT.


Business performance graphs

MOTHER: OUR WORLD WAS HAPPY BEING AT ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE

PAGE 3


A commuter screen saver spurts gibberish

MOTHER: THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL LIFE HARNESS THE WORLD'S COMPUTER POWER IN TITS DOWN CYCLES


A psychic predicts

MOTHER: IT LOOKED LIKE GIBBERISH THEN A LEADING PHYSIC SPOKE

PSYCHIC: THEY'RE COMING


A top secret military base radars screen full of objects

MOTHER: DEEP UNDERGROUND LONG RANGE MILITARY SENSORS CONFIRMED A THREAT TO EARTH'S OPEN HOUSE POLICY


A huge telescope look into the universe

MOTHER: THE VAST MAGNITUDE OF MATERIAL APPROACHING WAS SOON SPOTTED BY CIVILIANS


A large communications centre

Primitive communications could not be established even by using mothballed children hand puppets


A space pilot on a reconmission

MOTHER: THEN AN ASTRONAUT RELAYED THE TERRIBLE NEWS

ASTRONAUT: ITS ALL GARBAGE, OUR RADIO SIGNALS ARE ATTRACTING THE UNIVERSE'S FLY TIPPERS


A man with a placard saving the end of the world is nigh

MOTHER: WE CONSUTLED AN EXPERT

PLACCARD MAN: I TOLD YOU SO


Mother reads a bulletin

MOTHER: I'VE JUST BEEN HANDED AN UPDATE WE HAVE 12 HORS TO LIVE

PAGE 4


In the brothers' office Bill handles a phone call whilst parry plays basket ball using some jet shoes

BILL: YEP WE CAN HANDLE THAT FOR YOU

PARRY: NOTHING LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO SPEED UP BUSINESS


Bill looks a model of the earth which has cloudy area hovering over it of the units they have put into space

BILL: TIME TO SHIFT BROTHER, WE PROMISED SECURED OFF SITE BACKUPS

PARRY: I PREFERRED OUT OF THIS WORLD, TACKINESS ASIDE


The dome on the top of their building open to reveal a launch pad

BILL: GRAB THE CAT


The brothers carry 2 suitcases to the launch pad

PARRY: HAVING BEEN IN SPACE I THINK CAN FIND HIS OWN WAY TO THE LAUNCH

TIDDLES: MIOAW


A rocket takes the brothers and the cat into orbit

TIDDLES: MIOAW MIOAW MIOAW MIOAW MIOAW

BILL: TELL ME HE DIDN'T SAY IT

PARRY: ITS JUST POLITE TO THANK A PLANET FOR PROVIDING DELICIOUS PISCINE LIFE FORMS BEFORE IT IS EXTINGUISHED

PAGE 5


The 3 ride the rocket with brothers on

BILL: LAUNCH THE DATA RETRIEVAL VEHICLE BEFORE THE JUNK ARRIVES

PARRY: DO YOU MEAN CAST THE NET?


The three zoom round collecting the data pods

BILL: ALL PRESENT AND COUNTED FOR

PARRY: I FEEL GUILTY ABOUT CHARGING THE CUSTOMERS FOR DECADES IN ADVANCE NOW


The earth blows up

BILL: THERE SHE BLOWS

PARRY: DO YOU THINK THAT’S HOW IT BECAME MINERAL RICH IN THE FIRST PLACE?


The Boys review the tins

BILL: SO WHAT GREAT DATA HAS SURVIVED TO ENRICH OTHER WORLDS

PARRY: THE RECIPE FOR COLA FOR THE BRAND WE DON'T LIKE, A LIST OF 57 VANITIES, SECRET SAUCE. NO THAT’S DUFF. SHAME I EXPECTED AT LEAST ONE WORK OF LITERATURE. WE'LL WRITE DOWN WHAT WE CAN REMEMBER AS SOON AS WE FIND A PENCIL AND PAPER. OH WOW TIDDLES YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT THE 13 HERBS AND SPICES ARE?

TIDDLES: PURE CLASS

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