Theater Help Wanted!

By: M.M.

Difficulty: **

Oh, the bugamity! I finally found such a talented bee actress...but my ensemble cast's fallen sick!

Please, won't a team of at least 3 bugs help me salvage this play from the clutches of disaster!?

(I pay well.)

Ant Kingdom, Theater

[Spy Chubee]

Vi: Woah, Chubee's an actress!?

Kabbu: It seems she holds many talents, aside from eating!

Leif: If she's as good at acting as she's eating, this should be good.

Vi: Hey, Chubee!

Chubee: Vi, you're going to participate?

Kabbu: Miss Chubee, you're the actress mentioned in the post?

Leif: A fierce eater, and also a talented performer…

Chubee: It's nothing! You'll all do great! We just have to rehearse!

Leif: No audition?

Chubee: M.M.'s a bit desperate…

Kabbu: We can start as soon as you are ready.

Vi: Let's do it!

Chubee: W-Wait Vi, you've gotta be careful.

Chubee: V-VI! WATCH OUT!!!

Chubee: ..........

Chubee: Sigh. W-Well, I think we're ready.

Chubee: People are coming in, I believe in you!

Leif: Hopefully that won't be misplaced faith…

Kabbu: Let us do our best. This play carries a lot of people's efforts!

Vi: And we're actually getting paid. Let's do this!

Chubee: Ya ready to go?

Textbox: Yes

No

[No]

Chubee: Audience's getting impatient. Don't take too long!

[Yes]

Narration: Once upon a time, there laid a kingdom in a desert with an immense oasis.

Narration: Travelers from all over the world wished to visit. For its clear water and its beautiful ruler.

Narration: The princess would greet all who came with smiles and hospitality.

Narration: It was so, how an evil prince fell in love...

Chubee: I cannot leave my people. They are my pride, my joy!

Burglar: Oh, how I wished for thee to make this easy.

Burglar: You have left me no choice!

Chubee: No... Stop, stop!

Leif: Halt, you fiend! You will sully the princess no longer!

Vi: Yeah! Uh, give her back!

(minibubble) Kabbu: (She forgot her lines...!)

Kabbu: W-We will stop you!

Burglar: Minions! Get rid of these pests. We have places to be.

Chubee: H-Help me! Somebody save me!

Vi: Alright, let's kick their butt!

(minibubble) Kabbu: Sigh...

Leif: You freakish beasts, you dare stand between us and the princess!?

Leif: You chose poorly. Prepare yourself!

[After winning first battle]

Leif: Curses! That villain escaped with the princess.

Kabbu: Whatever shall we do now? How will we face the people!?

Vi: We will get her back! After them!

Narration: The unlikely heroes left their loved homeland behind, with the princess in their heart.

Narration: The journey was long, and the desert unforgiving...

Kabbu: Water... Oh gods, guide us to water...

Leif: Do not complain! Our suffering is slim, compared to what the princess faces.

Vi: Ugh, I bet she's getting treated real nice.

(minibubble) Offstage: (V-Vi! What are you doing?!)

Kabbu: Oh, bandits! We are in such trouble!

Leif: Out of our way, scoundrels. We have no time for thee.

Vi: Yeah! Or face my beemerang! I mean, blade!

Thief: Nyehehe. You shouldn't have come to the desert…

Bandit: ...In such expensive clothes!

Leif: Your greed knows no end... Prepare yourself!

Narration: Stifling heat and frigid nights were no match for the knights' spirit. They reached the prince's lair with fire in their eyes.

Narration: And now, it was time to take back what they had lost...

Chubee: Let me go already, you monster!

Burglar: Even with all my riches, with the grandeur of my land…

Burglar: You would still reject me!?

Kabbu: Oh, the evil prince. He is so scary and imposing!

Vi: Hey! Give the princess back!

Leif: You will pay for your crimes!

Chubee: My knights! You've come to my aid!

Burglar: Why... Why must fate work against me?

Burglar: Very well. I shall end thee, and take all I want by force!

[After winning third battle]

Burglar: No...I can still fight!

Burglar: I will show you my true power!

Leif: No... We are too drained from the fight!

Kabbu: Is this the end for us...?

Vi: Hey, I can still fight!

Burglar: AAAAAAAAAAAA-

Chubee: That is for kidnapping me, you cruel tyrant!

Crowd: WOOOOO!

Chubee: Oh, my knights...I thank you for all you have done.

Chubee: In the name of my mother, the Queen...I grant you the highest honors.

Chubee: To stay by my side as right-hand bugs, as we restore our kingdom.

Leif: It was all for you, Princess.

Chubee: Heheh. I knew I could count on ya! It went great!

Leif: It went way better than great.

Kabbu: I didn't really like my role, but I managed.

Vi: It was super easy. Now, for payment…

Chubee: It's a bit weird to be paying Team Snakemouth! Heheheh...

Vi: Nyehehehe. Thanks, Chubee.

Chubee: Honestly, a lot of people are asking for an encore.

Chubee: Guess I'll stay till they're bored!

[lose battle]

Audience: Huh?

Audience: What?

Audience: Wait...

Audience: Uhh...

Audience: Mommy!

Audience: Wah...

Chubee: N-No! It's...ruined...

Chubee: …

Kabbu: We... we're sorry.

Chubee: ...I made up some excuse with the owner…

Chubee: They'll let us try again tomorrow, thankfully.

Vi: C-Chubee…

Chubee: Let's rehearse again, okay? We can do it!

Chubee: (...I hope... )