Mortal Kombat: Running Star: Episode 2: That A Ghost

Cast (in order of appearance): Ashrah, Baraka, Blaze, Bo' Rai Cho, Cyrax, Dairou, Darrius, Drahmin, Ermac, Frost

Long story Short: Our Heroes seek a reward for the capture of a ghost.

Bury me deep I am cold and clammy!

BARAKA

IN

A "SCARY" CAR-TOON

{Cut to : }

"That A Ghost"

Presented in Grand Old Sound-O-Vision

Copyright 1937

{Opens to Ashrah with a plate of bones on the table}

Ashrah: We have not eaten in weeks!

BARAKA: Guess what I read in the news-papper today.

Ashrah: I cannot guess!

BARAKA: I read that a ghost.

Ashrah: You read that a ghost what?

BARAKA: I read that a ghost is.

Ashrah: You read that a ghost is what?

BARAKA: I read that a ghost is here in town and there is a 27-cent reward for its capture.

BLAZE: {makes showtune noises}

BARAKA: You said it Blaze. We sure could buy a lot of corn pone with 27 big ones.

{The conversation is being watched in a telescope; pan to the right of the long telescope, where actually no-one is watching, but Bo' Rai Cho stands nearby reading a paper}

BO' RAI CHO: Says here in the newspaper that the encapturement of the new apparition garners a top reward of 26 and 1 pennies!

{Cut to Bo' Rai Cho , Dairou, and Cyrax }

BO' RAI CHO: We could buy the monocle off Rockefeller's very eyeball with that kind of cash!

DAIROU: Raaar!

{ Cyrax moves his nose}

{Danger music. Cut to Baraka , Ashrah and Blaze in front of a spooky house with a gate signed 'Pietimer'}

BARAKA: Let us check out the old Pietimer place.

Ashrah: We should split up.

BARAKA: We can do more damage that way.

{They walk in. Ashrah looks under a cup.}

Ashrah: Under here?

{ Baraka looks at a bookshelf full of ghost books.}

BARAKA: Hmm. Let us see. Maybe it is in here.

{He removes a book labeled 'A Goodtime Story', the only book not related to ghosts or monsters. Opening it, a moth flies out.}

BARAKA: Just a moth. {He tries to eat the moth, but it flies off.} Dernit!

{ Ashrah looks under a plate.}

Ashrah: Under here? {Spiders run out.}

{ Baraka walks past two portraits. The one marked 'Mr. Pietimer' follows him with its eyes.}

BARAKA: That picturemadrawin' looks sur-spicious. {He lifts it bizarre , revealing one one-eyed crow with a label reading " Darrius.'' } It is just one weird one-eyed crow. Ah, phooey.

{Cut to Blaze amidst some barrels, with a cigar and a jug marked 'XXX'. Baraka pops out of a barrel.}

BARAKA: Blaze? Were you going to sneak a nip of hooch?

BLAZE: {makes showtune noises}

{Outside the house again, with the gate behind them.}

BARAKA: Aw, there are no ghosts here. Just a bunch of gross animals. Let us go look somewhere else.

{Cut to 'Cholera Acres Cemetary', then to Bo' Rai Cho and Cyrax in front of Eustice Pietimer's grave (skinflint and junk codger).}

BO' RAI CHO: Listen smoothly, Cyrax! We are certain to catch a ghost once we exhume this grave using my new grave-exhuming invention!

{Cut to Dairou holding a shovel.}

DAIROU: Raaar!

{ Cyrax stands on his hind legs and moves his nose.}

BO' RAI CHO: What? Why, no! Of course, that is not just the Dairou holding a shovel! It is my newest invention! Besides, the Dairou is over there doing some manner of stylish jig!

{Cut to Dairou , who is now doing a stylish jig on an unmarked grave (son of mark grave). Drahmin 's head comes up out of the grave.}

DRAHMIN: {wheezily} would you please keep it down?

{Cut to Baraka , Ashrah , and Blaze in the ' Pumpkin Patch'.}

Ashrah: Baraka, I am s-s-s-s-scared!

BARAKA: Scared of what? Pumpkins? They are just pumpkins.

Ashrah: But I am s-s-s-s-S-scared!

BARAKA: Oh, fine. We will go look in the graveyard.

Ashrah: {smiling} Hooray!

{Cut back to Cholera Acres Cemetary, where they enter, then meet Bo' Rai Cho , Dairou and Cyrax , who have dug up the grave of Eustice Pietimer.}

BO' RAI CHO: You are too late! The reward will be ours! I will be marching around in gold pants in no time!

Ashrah: Where is Frost?

BO' RAI CHO: Behold! The fantastic phantasm!

{ Ermac rises out of the grave, and floats above it.}

BARAKA: That is no ghost. That is just our worst friend Ermac.

ERMAC: We bury ourselves alive on Tuesdays.

BO' RAI CHO: Criminy crickets! Foiled again!

BARAKA: Then where is the real ghost?

{A black cloaked ghost with spindly arms fades in, floating above the tombstones and making a motorcycle-like noise}

BARAKA: {eyes bulging} Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. { His skin falls off, leaving his skeleton}

BO' RAI CHO: Wa-a-a-a-a-a! { His skin also falls off, leaving his skeleton too}

{Cut back to Frost , which fades away, and then to Baraka and Ashrah , who is a skeleton.}

SKELETAL Ashrah: At least we will never go hungry again.

SKELETAL BARAKA: 'Cept for Blaze. {Cut to skeletal Blaze , who is 'eating' a shoe with a soup spoon, with a jug labeled 'XXX' nearby? } He is livin' the high life!

SKELETAL BLAZE: {makes showtune noises}

{Transition accompanied with closing music, to : }

THE END

{Show Bo' Rai Cho 's skeleton in a clothing store, trying to pull up a pair of pants, but they continue to fall down. Dairou 's skeleton is in the background.}

Bo' Rai Cho: Curses! Now I will never find gold pants that fit this tiny waist!

Author : Nicky's

Creation date: 2005-1-4-11-51

Modification date: 2005-1-4-12-31