The Scalpel Is Mightier Than The Sword Scene 11

Dr. Diggory is in her office. She is tinkering with a machine. Nobody else is in sight.

Dr. Diggory: Awaken, my beautiful machine god. I wait to adore thee.

Dr. Willard and Dr. Anna rush in. Dr, Anna is picking her nose with a scalpel.

Dr. Willard: Hey, I gotta talk.

Dr. Diggory: And I don't want to buy whatever you're selling.

Dr. Willard: I'm not trying to sell you something, Diggory! This is important! What are you gonna do next time we run out of money, Diggory? No, I don't want to know. I've spoken to the manager, and.

Dr. Diggory: If he sacks me, I'll go and work with his main business rival. And we'll crush him.

Dr. Willard: No-one's going to sack you, Diggory, we promise. We've called a meeting of the World Medical Council to decide your fate.

Dr. Diggory: WHAAT? The world's most prominent doctors are there!

Dr. Anna: Don't be afraid. I'm coming with you. Nobody messes with Dr. Anna's friends! I'll dissect 'em!

Dr. Anna takes Dr. Diggory by the arm and leads her out of the door. Dr. Willard scratches his head and follows them. In the next scene, we see the World Medical Council. It is a huge building and we can't see it all, but we see the main aisle, which is like a church, and a scary-looking podium with a man in a white coat sitting at it. He is Dr. Algetty, the foremost medic in the world. The lighting is dimmed and the music in the background is from the Chrono Trigger court scene. Dr. Diggory walks in, looking very nervous, Dr. Anna by her side. Dr. Anna is trimming her eyelashes with a scalpel.

Dr. Algetty: Dr. Diggory Dorager, medical technician. Are you aware of why you have been summoned before the council?

Dr. Diggory: Yes, I am.

Dr. Algetty: Why did you do what you did?

Dr. Diggory; The machines. they needed repairing and maintaining. They wanted to be with me. If I couldn't fund them. they might take them away.

Dr. Algetty: You have a close relationship with machines, don't you?

Dr. Diggory: I need them. They keep me alive. They keep everybody alive, really. Think of a clock. I can see you looking at your watch. You'd go mad without your watch, wouldn't you?

Dr. Algetty: You can heal. you can heal people. but you choose to sacrifice everything for your machines. Why?

Dr. Diggory: Nasak.

Dr. Algetty: What did you say?

Dr. Diggory: Nasak. the machines won't make me use Nasak.

Dr. Algetty: Did you just say you know Nasak? The ultimate healing technique? The one that takes away your own life. to resurrect a dead person?

Dr. Anna: The forbidden qualifications.

Dr. Diggory: Asclepius taught me. I'm a true healer. I can't die before he comes back.

Dr. Algetty: Dr. Diggory, Asclepius is dead!

Asclepius: NO I AM NOT!

The doctors gasp. White smoke appears, and a tall old man in white robes walks out, holding a staff with a snake wreathed around it.

Asclepius: Now you are all here together, for the first time in hundreds of years! I have the chance to tell you! You will all listen, or you are not healers! This is not the way to heal, do you understand me?

Dr. Algetty: No, I'm sorry. father.

Asclepius: What you see before you is the future. Human. machine. god. all are working to promote the great thing that is life!

Dr. Diggory: Father, what about . Keitha Bedfrey.

Asclepius: I brought Keitha Bedfrey to you to show you. that I choose when you all die. so you don't forget that death exists, and that it ultimately, it is not up to you. Dr. Diggory. fal medice. fiblira medice. thray! I release you! You no longer know Nasak! NAJ MAHLAY NASAK! But instead, I will show you a new power.

Dr. Diggory: What is it called?

Asclepius raises his hands dramatically.

Asclepius: HINAS!

There is another flash of white light, and Asclepius and Dr. Diggory are gone.

Dr. Anna: Where is she?

Dr. Algetty: She has gone to Asclepius. You will meet her again. Humans do not belong with gods.

Dr. Anna: Where should I look?

Dr. Algetty: For her? Try the Internet. I saw an Internet joke once. It went like this: One shoot-em-up fan was talking to another. He said 'Do you agree with Zero Wing?' and the other said.

Dr. Anna: Tell me!

Dr. Algetty: The other said 'No, sorry, I'm Contra!'.

End of scene.

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