Radio Play: Metal Bits (Part 2)
Metal Bits (Part 1)
Narrator: (announcer-like) It is a world ruled by Mad Science and Fantasy! Where things happen, usually to other people. This is what most call ‘entertainment’. But occasionally, rarely, they happen to you. Sometimes you get bit by a blood giving-vampire because you were a little down that day, or you get blackmailed because you were in caught in a compromising position by the wrong person, or you give a psychopath the wrong answer and he decides to start poking you with his sword- hard might I add. But sometimes, and I do mean sometimes, good things happen to you. Good things like being rescued by a federal agent who fights zombies, or the guy at the Inn gives you a place to sleep, or sometimes, just maybe, you find yourself in for another exciting episode of the adventures of Agatha Heterodyne,
All: (loud) Girl Genius!
Narrator: In our last installment, the Spark Agatha Heterodyne,
Agatha: Science!
Narrator: the Doctor,
Doctor: Yes?
Narrator: and Eyeshield 21, or more commonly known as Sena Kobayakawa,
Sena: Hii!
Narrator: where examining some mysterious metal,
Sena: That we found in a trash can.
Narrator: with lasers,
Agatha: Because they’re fun and flashy!
Narrator: which accidently knocked them out of perceived reality,
Doctor: It’s rather inconvenient.
Narrator: and they are now questing to find some horrible insect monsters the Doctor spoke of.
Doctor: Because they were responsible last time.
Agatha: (breathing heavily) They aren’t in the first district.
Sena: (breathing heavily) M-maybe they only are where heartless are?
Doctor: I’m more concerned with the reality law that prevents any sort of monster from appearing in the first district.
Agatha: That is the most interesting restriction on reality I’ve ever experienced.
Sena: …What are we going to do if we find a heartless instead?
Doctor: Whatever you two normally do when you find them.
Agatha: That would be killing them for munny.
Doctor: Violence? Why does everything fall to violence?
Sena: (apologetic) Oh- sorry sir!
Person: (monotone) I. Don’t. Care.
Agatha: He heard us!?
Doctor: (uncomposed) W-well he’s not normal.
Agatha: (a bit startled) S-sir, are you okay?
Person: (monotone) I. Am. Nothing.
Sena: (nervously) Wh-what’s g-going on?
Person: (monotone) I. Am. Heartless.
Agatha/Doctor/Sena: Heartless!?
Person: (monotone) Power. For. Hearts. Darkness. For. Hearts.
(ominous steps walk away)
Sena: S-scary!
Agatha: It wasn’t an insect monster.
Doctor: No, it was very perplexing. Maybe we haven’t been thrown out of perceived reality after all. Perhaps we are in a dimensional fold that lays over the normal reality of Traverse Town. This could prove much more difficult to get out of. Though I’m sure you’ll be glad to know, Sena, that there aren’t any insect monsters if that is the case.
Sena: (sigh of relief) Thank goodness…!
Agatha: I want to confirm that was a heartless first!
Doctor: Excellent idea!
Sena: …How?
Agatha: That’s easy! We go and find some people that normally kill heartless and see if they kill anything like that creepy guy!
Sena: Oh.
Doctor: That might get a bit gory.
Agatha: If you trust me I’m the only one that has to watch.
Sena: We should stay together! (small, almost inaudible whimper) Don’t leave me alone!
Doctor: Safety in numbers.
Agatha: Of course. You two can turn away when the kill happens.
Sena: Oh.
Agatha: (slightly offended) I’d be a horrible mad scientist if I couldn’t watch over a minion properly!
Sena: A-ah.
Doctor: Wouldn’t ‘lab assistant’ be a more descriptive title?
Agatha: Oh, no, that’s your job.
Doctor: Mine?
Sena: Yes.
Doctor: Well, alright then. (quietly, slightly offended) Ooo, just what I always wanted to be, I’m so glad I went to school for 200 years….
(sound of people walking)
Agatha: We should go into the third district, more heartless there and all.
Sena: (positive grunt noise thing)
Doctor: Carry on then.
(sound of people walking)
(sound of swinging and metal claning)
Sena: Someone’s fighting!
Agatha: Perfect! Let’s go!
(sound of hurried footsteps)
Shadow Link: (Link-like battle screams) Shaaa!
Doctor: Did Link dye his hair while I was gone?
Agatha: No, that’s Shadow Link. Link’s future self’s shadow incarnate.
Sena: They told me they were twins!
Agatha: Initially they told me that too. They probably tired to simplify it in a way most people could understand.
Doctor: Oh yes, I recall hearing about the boy. Four centuries in Link’s future and the cause of some of his concerns about paradoxes. As well as the fact the lad supposedly died in his world before coming here.
Shadow Link: Kyaaa!
Person: (monotone, lamely) Ow.
Shadow Link: (accented) Die heartless!
(loud thump)
Agatha: So those things are heartless then!
Sena: W-why do the bodies look more real?
Doctor: Sena! Your feet!
(sound of someone bumping into someone else)
Shadow Link: (accented) Are you okay?
Sena: (awed) You can see me?
Narrator: Will those insects ever appear? Why do the heartless look like people? And why can Link’s shadow self actually see them? Find out next time on the next episode of the adventures of Agatha Heterodyne,
All: (loud) Girl Genius!
Metal Bits (Part 3)
Voice Acting Cast (in order of appearance):
Narrator: Linds
Agatha: Shay
Doctor: Meli
Sena: Aim
Person: Dan
Shadow Link: Noel 