The Last Contestant – Season 2, Episode 1
Title: “Who the Hell Are You?”
[INT. HAPPY TOWN – MORNING – RUDY’S HOUSE]
(Rudy wakes up with bedhead and black rings under her eyes. There’s a textbook about “Dimensional Neurology and Tectonic Engineering” under her pillow.)
RUDY (V.O.): “Ever feel like your own brain’s a little too full? Like it might explode and build a cathedral at the same time? Same.”
(She sits up, scribbles something in her notebook labeled “DON’T LET THEM IN”, and walks to the kitchen. There’s a fully operational satellite rig next to her fridge.)
RUDY (to herself): “Okay, scan complete. Dreams stable. No evidence of parallel mind-sharing. Good…”
(She opens the fridge. The milk is sentient and sighs in relief when she doesn’t drink it.)
[EXT. HAPPY TOWN – AFTERNOON]
(The crew—Princess, Quibble, Carrie, Zora, Wade, Stix—are all hanging out. The sky’s a mix of bright yellow and ominous violet clouds.)
QUIBBLE: “Anyone notice how Rudy’s been extra… genius-y lately?”
STIX (deadpan): “She built a quantum piano that plays reverse time.”
ZORA: “I kinda liked the jazz that aged us backward… one of her best inventions yet!”
CARRIE: “It made my eyelashes grow inside out. So no.”
(A new girl walks up, cheerful, charming, eerily similar to Rudy… except with sleeker hair and slightly glassy eyes.)
NEW GIRL: “Hi guys! I’m… Ruby! Totally new here! Teehee~”
(Everyone turns to her, confused. Even the birds in the background stop mid-flight.)
PRINCESS (tilting head): “…That’s not suspicious at all.”
[INT. RUDY’S WORKSHOP – LATER]
(Rudy stares at a screen flashing with warnings: “PSYCHIC IMPRINT DETECTED.” She clenches her jaw.)
RUDY: “No. No no no. She’s me. Or almost me…”
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(She flips through holograms of her DNA (deoxyribonucleic), comparing it to the new girl’s. Identical.)
RUDY (muttering): “She’s a clone. But not just any clone. One that was made to replace me…”
[MONTAGE – DAYS PASS]
Ruby slowly charms each member of the group.
Princess starts acting more “normal.” Carrie becomes eerily docile.
Quibble starts laughing less, eyes glazed.
Wade smiles. That alone is terrifying.
(Rudy watches from the shadows, plotting. Her chalkboard reads: “CLONE PROTOCOL ENGAGED. BUILD THE DAMN MECH.”)
[INT. WORKSHOP – DAY 9]
(Rudy assembles a mountain-sized mech, piece by piece, using junk, alien parts, and theoretical materials. She welds with plasma sword. Her face is calm.)
RUDY (to herself): “You wanna be me? Try lifting 54,000 kilograms of trauma, science, and spite.”
[EXT. PLAINS OUTSIDE HAPPY TOWN – WEEK LATER]
(Ruby reveals her own mech. Sleek. Deadly. Slightly shinier than Rudy’s. She smirks.)
RUBY: “You’re obsolete.”
RUDY: “I’m the prototype and the blueprint. Let’s dance, bitch.”
[MASSIVE METAL CLASH]
The two titans collide. Fists shatter valleys. Energy beams slice clouds. Weeks pass. The sun circles them three times. Towns are reduced to flat jokes.
CARRIE (hypnotized, standing in crater): “Pretty fireworks…”
[INT. RUDY’S MECH – FINAL NIGHT]
(She’s bleeding, tired, but smiling.)
RUDY (V.O.): “She’s cracking. Clones can’t dream. She’s running on copied ambition…”
RUBY (panting in her own cockpit): “You… you’re supposed to be gone!”
RUDY: “And you’re supposed to be less annoying!!”
(Rudy slams her fists into the earth, creating a shockwave. Ruby flies back. Rudy stands, using her future vision and seeing that Ruby will fire a beam that can break down her biology)
RUDY (screaming): “PK—TELEKINETIC—WAVVVEEE!!!”
(The energy is unreal. Ruby is launched into the cosmos, screaming like a glitching modem.)
[EXT. EARTH – THE QUIET AFTERMATH]
(Happy Town is fine. Everything else is rubble.)
(Rudy sits in her mech, bruised, her hair frazzled. The others run to her. Rudy then hops out of the mech at a great height despite being heavily injured with a broken arm)
QUIBBLE (hugging her mech’s ankle): “You’re… you again!”
CARRIE (tearful): “Can we blow up someone next?”
PRINCESS (muttering): “I liked her better than you. Just a little.”
RUDY: “Next time someone makes a clone of me… at least give it a better name. That girl could’ve destroyed the planet, or worse.. the Sun.”
STIX: “Has no one noticed Princess got taller..?”
ZORA: “Oh yeah, in MANY ways.. hehe..”
WADE: “WAAAHHH!!! I’m sorry for doubting you, Rudy!!”
[FINAL SHOT – OUTER SPACE]
(Ruby floats, unconscious. A distant red eye watches her.)
MYSTERIOUS VOICE (V.O.): “Subject failed. Time for Phase 2.”
END OF EPISODE 1
Season 2 has begun. And it’s already pissed off the cosmos.
Fun Fact:
Even IF Rudy managed to die, fate would just say no to that. This applies to… someone else, a certain, TIME GOD.
