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Great thanks goes to Karen Mollet for proofreading it and
correcting errors.
Scene: RR headquarters, main room.
Gadget: Monty, your pizza with cheese and mushrooms is
unbelievable!
Dale: Can I have another piece?
Chip: Dale, you will grow fat.
Dale: I ate just one piece!
Gadget: Thanks, Monty. It was SO tasty.
Monty: Good night, Gadget.
Gadget: Good night, boys.
Scene: RR headquarters, main room. Morning sun illumina-
tes room. Enters Chip, notices half-asleep Dale dreamily watc-
hing the TV news. For a change, its animal TV and a pretty lo-
oking squirrel is reading about the most intelligent cockroac-
hes in New York.
Chip: Dale, where's Gadget?
Dale: No. I felt asleep for a while, I didn't see her le-
aving.
Scene: at the foot of the tree. The various technical
trash had been assembled into sleek rocket.
Chip: What is this, Gadget?
Dale is looking at them from the landing pad.
Dale: Wow!
Gadget: This is space-capable ship, Chip. The mole that
lived here left me his hole for the experiments.
Chip (conspicuous): Experiments?
Gadget: Yes. Zipper, can you pull that piece of tube he-
re?
Dale (touching): And for what there is this barrel?
Gadget: It's rocket fuel, Dale. I will start fill-up pro-
cedure right now. Put it here, Zipper. The fire will be star-
ted with this here lighter.
Monty (eyeing the barrel and tube with great suspicions):
Gadget, it has leaks, it may have some cracks in it. See?
Gadget: I don't want to wash rocket with it, Monty! What
what, but you can bet I know what I do when it's a technical
questions.
Monty: As you say, luv, but please be careful?
Dale pulls from pocket a packet with nuts and starts to
eat them. The shells fall down.
Chip: Dale, stop littering! Didn't you eat the breakfast?
Gadget: Ups!
Gadget with lighter in paws stumbles on the one of the
nut shell halves.
Slow scenes follow. Gadget falls, lighters flies from her
hands, and hits Zipper. Fly is thrown away. The lighter lands
top first, and strikes the rock with its flint.
Still-frame. Close up on the small pool of fuel below the
lighter. Spark is falling toward it.
Distant panorama on the park. Into centre of it suddenly
grows a mushroom of explosion.
Scene: under the Ranger tree. It is burnt up severely. In
place where stood rocket now is a big hole in the ground. Pie-
ces of rocket and barrel are scattered all around.
Monty: All safe?
Chip: I am. Monty, how are you?
Monty: Its okay with me, and with Zipper.
Dale: Gadget? You ok?
Chip: Where is she?
Dale (afraid): What if she...
Chip: Don't panic, Dale.
Zipper zums nervously.
Monty: What's with you, pal?
Zipper lands on burnt Gadget's goggles and starts crying.
Dale (sadly): She... died... Chip?
Dale joins Zipper crying.
Monty slowly pulls his aviator's hat off, powerless
twists it in hands and wipes away a tear.
Chip tears away the side of his hat.
All are looking at the Gadget's goggles.
Scene: endless field of snow. Gadget comes to the senses
lying into bed of ice.
Gadget: Gosh, Dale, Chip is right, better not to toss
trash around, or... Dale? Dale, you where? Where am I?
Look on the deep-blue sky with clouds and blinding sun.
Gadget: What is this place?
Gadget stands up and notices a tall figure into black ho-
od nearby.
Gadget: Excuse, do you know, what is this place? I don't
know where I am...
The figure turns to face Gadget. From under the hood at
Gadget looks white skull with empty sockets.
Gadget: Gee willikers! Who are you?
Death: You still don't get it?
Gadget: I think I know, but...I am alive, I... You can't
take me yet!
Death: You sure?
Gadget: But I am here! See, paws, and tail! I see, I he-
ar, I feel! I'm alive!!!
Death: Okay, I will get you a temporal extension, so you
will see for yourself, that I'm right. Go down and ask Your
friends Rescue Rangers, are you alive or not. Then come back.
Gadget: But...
Death: You are awaited here.
Gadget (non-believing): Who...?
Death: Cant you guess?
Gadget (her face lights up with sudden realisation): No!
No... I don't believe...
Death shakes shoulders, turns and starts walk away.
Gadget: Wait! How can I go back?
Death (waves with the scythe): And for what is that mou-
sehole?
Scene: outside Ranger tree. Transparent ghost of Gadget
climbs out from the molehill and looks around.
Gadget: Wow, from where there came this pit? Where's my
rocket? Ohh, poor tree, all burnt up! Boys, where you are?
Gosh, already an evening! Strange. I must have slept more that
I thought. They all must be at home already.
Main room into Headquarters. It is decorated with black
ribbons and white roses. Enter rangers. All, including Zipper,
are wearing black smoking and white shirts.
Into one corner stands portrait of smiling Gadget, cove-
red up to half with the flowers. On the wall over it is han-
ging burnt Gadget's goggles.
Dale (sadly): She had the biggest heart in the world,
Chip.
Chip: Yes, Dale. She was genius.
Dale (continues): We didn't hold her high enough, while
she lived. We were so guilty...
Monty: She must be happy whenever she is now at the hea-
vens...
Chip: Don't, Monty!
Dale breaks down into crying.
Zipper buzzes at his ear, comforting.
Dale (through tears): She was... an angel...
Gadget bursts into the room.
Gadget: I'm alive, boys! What are you doing, I'm here,
I'm with you!
Rangers are looking at the portrait, their backs turned
toward the doors and Gadget.
Monty: Just yesterday, she praised my pizza...
Chip: Just this morning she was alive, and now... she
isn't anymore...
Dale (self-loathing): And I! I am guilty! If not those
damned nuts and my stomach...
Dale cries.
Gadget (shouts): Hey! What is with you? Turn around, I'm
here! Look at me!
Dale's ears perk up, he listens.
Dale: Did you hear that, Chip?
Chip: What, Dale?
Monty: Chip, I think I too heard something. Sounded like
Gadget's voice...
Gadget: Right, Monty! Can't you turn and look at me at
last?
Dale turns and notices Gadget's halo against the doorway.
Dale: A-a-a! Chiiip!!!
Rangers look at Dale.
Chip: what happened, Dale?
Monty: He self-judged himself too much and went crazy,
poor...
Chip: No, Monty, look at doors!
Rangers involuntarily take a few steps backward.
Chip: Dale, did you see that?
Gadget: Boys, its me! At last, you noticed me! I'm what,
invisible now?
Dale: I think I see Gadget, but is it Gadget?
Monty: You know, Dale, I too see her. Be my guess, we are
having collective hallucinations. When I once was in China...
Dale (screams in horror): Mommy, it's a ghost! It is co-
ming after me!!!
Dale scrambles away. Gadget closes to him.
Gadget: Why are you running, Dale! I'm not a ghost! Look,
I'm alive! Just touch me, Dale!
Dale's paw passes thry Gadget. Dale gasps, then his eyes
roll white and he faints on the spot. Gadget is looking at her
paws.
Gadget: Gosh... It can't be truth, can it?
Gadget starts crying.
Chip: We are sorry, Gadget.
Gadget (wipes away tears): Why, Chip? Thanks Goddess, you
at least are seeing me.
Monty: Okay, lets not make jumping conclusions. We are
Rescue Rangers. Even if you are now a ghost, we still are a
team and we...
Gadget: Thanks, Monty. You right... No!
Chip: What?
Gadget: She is waiting for me!
Chip: Who?
Gadget: Lady Death. She left me away for a little, I
didn't believe that I died... oh!
Death appears into the room. Gadget stops in mid-senten-
ce, looks at her in shock.
Chip: Just tell her something, get a bit more time!
Dale tries to stand up but stuck his head against the
Scythe, Death is holding. His eyes register the object, he is
looking at, and he faints again.
Gadget: I will try...
Death catches Gadget by hand, and they both disappear.
Chip (not noticing Death): We will think about something,
we are Rescue Rangers after all!
Scene: Like before into the heavens. Gadget again is so-
lid.
Gadget: I have an unfinished task on the Earth, only one.
Please, give me a bit more time?
Death (agrees, grumbling): You will have three days to
deal with it.
Gadget: Thank you! That will be enough.
Gadget runs toward mousehole.
Death (after her): Don't even think trying to cheat on
me. Many tried that before, but not a single of them ever suc-
ceeded!
Gadget jumps up by these words, looks back, but Death is
already walking away.
Scene: RR Headquarters. All rangers are here, including
ghost of Gadget.
Gadget (feeling down): She gave me three days.
Monty: Don't cry Gadget, we will think about something.
Gadget: But what can we change? (sights)
Dale: Try to forget about that for a time. Tell us, how
to work with your inventions, per chance.
Chip: FatCat robbed the exposit of ancient Egypt cat sta-
tues. We have to get them back to the city museum. We need
your help.
Gadget: I now can walk through the walls...
Gadget stops in mid-sentence, as inside the room appear
Death.
Death: Three days.
Gadget: Oh...
Gadget cries, tears forming in her eyes endlessly.
Death says these two words and disappears, but not fast
enough. Dale jumps toward Gadget, and again hits the Scythe.
He promptly faints again.
Monty: Don't cry, Gadget. Let's make these three days the
best days into your life.
Gadget: Thank you, boys.
Chip: Then... Rangers, go!
Monty: Rangers go!
Chip (to Monty): When we will be over with FatCat, remind
me to write Dale in queue to the psychiatrist...
Scene: Abandoned warehouse near waterfront.
FatCat: How I love the real piece of art!
Mepss (toadying): Especially, if it is worth a real piece
of money, boss?
FatCat: Shut up, Mepss. Did you see someone following
you?
Wart: No, Boss, all was clear.
FatCat: Good. Load it all into this box, we need to hur-
ry. My caviar reserves are near empty. Move, Mole!
FatCat's gang walks away, toward the small boat at the
river.
Gadget: Caviar?
Monty: Did you forget, Gadget? FatCat worships caviar.
Chip: Gourmet that overshadows even Monty and cheese.
Monty: Luckily for me, cheese costs several times less
that caviar.
Dale (grumpy): Luckily for all, EXCEPT you.
Chip: Gadget, watch where he goes.
Gadget: I can, but how I would let you know about that,
if I can't press or push anything?
Dale: Yes, how, Chip?
Chip: Gadget, you had so many inventions created... Maybe
something will help?
Gadget: At the top of tree, into my big workshop, there
is something. It's my last invention.
Scene: Gadget's workshop. In the centre starts the proto-
type of the Wheel-machine (One used in 'Case of the Cola
Cult').
Dale: Monty, what do you think this is?
Monty: Looks like a big wheel. The chairs are soft. Well,
lets see...
Chip: Monty, do you know how to drive this thing?
Monty: I helped Gadget build it. First this lever,
then...
Monty is launched from the chair and lands on pile of bo-
xes in the corner of workshop with loud crash.
Dale: You okay?
Monty (nursing bruised ribs): Near okay. Better you drive
it, Chip. I think, I have enough for today.
Zipper flies to him with piece of ice in paws, and places
it on the bruise on the forehead.
Monty: Oh, thanks Zipper my pal.
Chip: This wheel looks like it can drive up the walls and
over ceilings as well as on the flat ground...
Dale (cries): Thanks to the Gadget genius...
Monty: Dale, stop judging herself.
Chip: Right, there is no time.
Scene: the roof of the building near the cat food factory
"Happy Tom". The statue is visible from here.
Gadget (noticing plaster on Monty's head): What happened,
Monty?
Monty: Nothing, just hit head against the doors.
Gadget: Be careful, Monty.
Monty: I will try, luv.
Chip: What did you find out?
Gadget: Too bad I no more can hold any things in the
paws. FatCat has the collection locked into the casino safe. I
went in and checked, all stolen pieces are there. I also found
out the code, so we will open it and get the kitties away from
FatCat in a jiffy.
Chip: excellent, Gadget. Now all we need is to get us in.
Monty: I know the way.
Scene: Somewhere inside factory. Rangers are overwhelmed
by FatCat's gang.
FatCat: Again those pesky Rangers? Get them, boys!
Chip: Monty, get back to the machine in the cellar!
Monty: Too late.
FatCat: You are right, rat. Mepps, Wart, put them into
the chains and then introduce to the best room into my new ja-
il, while I think of what to do with them.
Chip: You won't be able to get us talk, FatCat!
Monty: We will beat you even if we are only four!
Chip: Monty!
FatCat (feigning friendly interest): What do I hear? Fo-
ur? What then happened, your fly became a frog-food? O, no, no
so luck, here you are! Mole, fetch my golden flyswatter, we
will correct this sadly mistake!
Monty: Zipper, go to Dale! Tell... mmm...
FatCat: Stuff his mouth shut, idiots! (Into theatrical
sourness) Oh, so it means, that your beautiful mouse became
the dinner for someone else, not my wondrous self. How sad.
But it's all for the better! Lock them away!
Scene: on the roof overlooking the casino. Ranger plane
is here, into it sits Dale and Gadget.
Dale: What do I do now, Gadget? Chip and Monty are priso-
ners, I alone couldn't deal with the whole gang.
Gadget: We are two, Dale.
Dale: Yes, but two days are already passed, Gadget.
Gadget: I know, Dale. However, I'm a Rescue ranger, and I
will put a criminal where it belongs, even if it is my last
day on this world!
Scene: Inside casino. Through the corner steps ghost of
Gadget.
Dale: What did you find, Gadget?"
Gadget: Mepss and Mole are guarding the doors.
Dale: But Chip and Monty?
Gadget: Holding fine. Monty broke his chains and get Chip
free too. All they need is a key to the doors - it is locked
from outside. Mepss has the keys on his belt.
Dale: I need distract them?
Gadget: No. I will scare them, but you and Zipper will
grab the keys. Zipper, you will turn the keys in lock.
Zipper nods energetically.
Gadget: Then lets start.
Scene: Locked doors, with big rusty hanging lock on them.
The 'guards' are openly bored.
Around the corner into far end of corridor appears gad-
get. She is four times as big as usually, and has something
white for a poncho.
Mole (terrified): Me-me-me-mepsss... Do you see that?
Mepss (not looking): What I need see, idiot?
Mole (points with a shaking finger): There... at the end
of this dark corridor...
Mepss turns, and his mouths hangs open.
Mepss: That's... that's ...
Mole: It's a ghost, right, Mepss?
Gadget (howling): I have come after your souls, you croo-
ked criminals... U-u-u-u-u!
Mepss (panicking): A-a-a! It's a ghost!
Both guards: Run!
Guards ruin away, dropping the keys, the sticks for figh-
ting - anything that is slowing them down.
Gadget: Dale, get the keys here.
Dale: You did it excellent, Gadget. Even I was terrified!
Chip (listening at the doors from other side): Why I
don't wonder?
Gadget: I can be even bigger, the size of a building.
Dale: Okay, I put them in. Zipper, your turn!
Zipper turns the key. Lock falls open, and Chip and Monty
push doors open.
Chip: Gadget, Dale, we heard it all!
Gadget: Chip, I have little time left, we need hurry.
Scene: Outside the casino. FatCat's gang is placed into
wandering animal's handler's cage. Rescue Rangers are watching
this sitting on the roof of cat food factory.
Monty: Well, the cat figurines went back to the museum,
and FatCat at last got what he deserved.
Gadget (sadly): and I have to go the Heavens.
Chip: Gadget, can't you talk Death to let you stay on the
earth? Even in the state, you are now?
Gadget: Afraid, it won't happen. She is impossible to
cheat. I know that. I don't know how, but I know that. Here
she comes.
Dale (looks around): Where? I don't see?
Dale jumps up, only to again hit his head against the De-
ath's Scythe.
Chip: O, lord almighty, again!
Dale (brushes his bruised nose): Its all okay, Chip.
Monty: But, Gadget, I too don't see anything.
Gadget (seriously): Its because you are alive, but I am
dead.
Death: Your time has run out.
Gadget: Its time to say farewells...
Gadget cries.
Chip (trying to slap her on shoulder): Gadget, we worked
well together. Without you, we won't became the Rangers...
Dale: It was so good to be with you...
Gadget (through tears): I will miss you too.
Monty: Don't cry, luv. Something tells me, we will meet
again.
Dale is crying openly, and from Zipper's eyes stream out
two waterfalls.
Death (sweet, calming voice): Say good bye to your fri-
ends, we have to go.
Gadget: Thank you, boys. Thanks to you, I lived a beauti-
ful life. I won't regret anything from it, well, maybe only
that I so rarely did kiss you, while I was alive, but...
Dale lies on stomach, crying. Around him forms a pool of
tears.
Gadget: But... I don't want to die!!!
Death: It's your time. It just ran out.
Gadget: Boys... (voice is drowned in tears) No, let go of
me! You won't take me! I will...
Death (calming voice): Come. You will meet your friends -
in their time.
Gadget: No! I won't go! I don't want to! You can't take
me! Let me go! Let me go! LET ME GO!!!
Death: Come.
Gadget: NO-OO-OOO!!!
Death takes hold on Gadget's paw and pulls her away. Gad-
get puts up a terrific catfight...
It suddenly gets all misty, like looking over the fire,
and then it straightens up to the Gadget's room in the headqu-
arters.
Gadget is tossing on the bed madly, Chip is trying to wa-
ke her up.
Chip: Gadget! What's with you?
Gadget (pushing him away): No! No! Go away! No! I won't
die!
Chip: Gadget, what are you saying!
Gadget (awakens and notices all rangers present in her
bedroom): A? Ah, friends, did you all die too so fast?
Collective facefault. Rangers look at her with completely
lost expressions.
Chip (comforting): Gadget, calm down. It was just a nigh-
tmare. You awakened us all with your cries.
Gadget: Nightmare?
Dale (same voice as Chip): You are dreaming...
Gadget (unsure): Dreaming? Dreaming... (her voice streng-
thens) Dreaming. Okay, I'm dreaming. But what about the FatCat
and the stolen collection of Egypt cat figurines?
Chip: It's six in the morning, Gadget.
Monty: Gadget luv, I too have dreams like that sometimes.
It's been just a bad dream.
Gadget: Just a dream...
Gadget sits up on the edge of her bed. Straightens her
paws, looks at them, wriggles fingers. Touches the bedsheets,
herself.
Gadget: Chip, can I touch you?
Chip: Sure, but... Gadget, do you feel well?
Gadget touches Chip's paw with the ends of her fingers,
and starts smiling. She with a shout jumps from the bed and
starts hugging and kissing first Chip, and while Chip comes
back to his senses after such a shock, she hugs and kisses Da-
le, whom in turn oo-hes and becomes deep purple.
Gadget (beaming happiness): Gosh, so no one died and we
all are alive! How beautiful is the life! How good is to be
alive! How beautiful are you all!
Gadget notices the sunrise in the windows.
Gadget (awed): What a beautiful sunrise!
Monty turns finger at his temples. Zipper nods slowly.
Chip: Gadget, I don't think, its okay with you. Gadget?
Gadget is bouncing around the room, pottery and instru-
ments are falling from their places, but she doesn't notice.
Monty (whispering): Chip, looks like our Gadget had to-
tally lost her marbles.
Gadget (with a whooping hanging on Monty's neck): Monty,
I'm SO happy!!!
Chip closes his face with paws.
Gadget kisses Monty on a cheek and bursts into laughing.
Scene iris out on her happy face.
Translator's notes.
1. I found, that Lawainee's method of describing the
things with long descriptions works quite fine. ;-) Due lack
of some words into my vocabularies, I had to use that tricks a
few times.
2. I need rephrase the Dale judging himself. 'Judging'
isn't exactly what the author meant, 'holding herself guilty'
is closer. This appears several times over the story.
Oh, the line that went "Monty: He self-judged himself too
much and went crazy, poor..."
Perhaps "He blamed himself too much and went crazy, po-
or..." or "He felt so guilty and went crazy, poor..." would
work?
3. This translation I feel is the weakest of ones made by
me from Vlad's stories, because I cant match the emotions of
the original. Just forgive me, and if You ever learn Russian,
read the original. I really suggest you to do so.
[nods]
Something just defy translation :(
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