The Curse of Crowe Part Two Wizards vs Aliens

A spell that will break Tom Clarke and Benny Sherwood up. Serangaah.

-What's happening?

-It's magic.

Dah!

Landashen...verah...

unchall...dah!

Behold...the Neverwas.

If you break this girl's spell, that's what you'll turn into?

Yes. A fate every wizard dreads.

-Geek!

-Moron!

I thought you might like to see this.

I know school's been getting you down recently, so...

what about the Hampington Academy?

They've got an open day next week.

Oh, boy, this looks amazing!

I can't wait to get out of King's Park.

Well, I can see that, darling. But...why?

What is it, Benny?

Won't you tell me what's wrong?

I don't know, Mum. That's the weird thing.

I just...don't know.

Tom?

Mr James rang last night.

He says you've quit the football team, is that right?

Yeah.

I'm not into it any more.

Morning, Tom. How are you today?

I'm all right.

Ursula, this is killing me. Have you found that Raven girl yet?

Moon and I have been searching nonstop

through the Network of Mirrors

but nobody's seen Gemma or her mother for weeks.

We can't undo the spell if we can't even find them!

I hate seeing Tom like this. It's like, without Benny...

he's losing interest in everything.

Funny thing is...I miss him too.

Little Benny Sherwood.

He wasn't just Tom's friend, he made things better for all of us.

DOOR BELL RINGS

-Oh. Hello, Tricia.

-Michael.

I don't know what's caused this fallout between Benny and Tom

but until they sort it out,

can you tell your son to stop bullying mine?

Hold on. Wait a minute! Tom's not a bully.

I was clever at school. I know all too well what bullying is.

I'm not letting Benny go through the same thing.

Excuse me. Bullying isn't just physical.

From what I've been told,

Benny's been making a fool out of Tom in class.

Oh, really? What did he do, throw an equation at him?

If you're not going to listen,

there's no point discussing it further.

Hey!

All I'm saying is, you don't know what's going on between them.

Then tell me, what is? Come on. Tell me!

What exactly is wrong? Why won't anyone tell me?

I can't.

Well, it won't be a problem for much longer.

I'm moving Benny to a different school

where he can make new friends, proper friends.

Friends who appreciate him.

Get off me, get off!

-Good hunting, brother?

-Excellent hunting!

Snatched from the same quadrant as Tom Clarke, with no opposition!

Without his halfling friend, Tom Clarke is powerless!

Extract the magic!

Excellent work.

I would thank you, wizards...

if I stooped to thanking beasts!

Here, let me help you. Are you all right?

I'm so, so sorry.

And you, halfling, have you considered your next spell?

Perhaps you could render the Nekross invisible,

so that we may steal wizards in their sleep!

Now...

as soon as my father's bile ducts are full,

we will conduct our next council of war.

With you as our prime weapon!

There's nothing we can do.

I bet Tom and Benny would know how to stop them,

but they're beyond help.

I don't know about that.

Mum, that spell that I cast is the strongest.

Nothing can break it.

Nothing magical, maybe. But there's something stronger than magic.

What do you mean?

All we can do is hope, sweetheart.

And if there's one thing I'm certain of,

hope is a very powerful thing.

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings,"

that's from Richard III.

But you mustn't go thinking that Shakespeare is all about poetry.

It's about ordinary, everyday language as well -

your language, words you use all the time.

All of these phrases were first used in Shakespeare's plays...

No, mate. You're getting boring.

Give it a rest, Quinn.

I can hear talking when I should be hearing listening.

Tom Clarke, move over there.

Mrs Veraswamy, I didn't...

"All of a sudden" it's a "foregone conclusion" you're moving!

LAUGHTER

So you may say the language he uses is strange,

but as it turns out, you all speak Shakespeare fluently!

Miss, it smells funny over here, like chemicals and loneliness.

You can't even spell 'loneliness'.

Oh, that sounds like a call to arms. Spell it, Tom.

Easy. L, O, N, E, L, Y...

LAUGHTER

That's enough!

It seems that even the language of today is too much for Mr Clarke.

Get out your Hamlets. We're going on into act four.

You think you're so clever.

Yeah, well, I am, and you're not. It's that simple, Clarkey.

I can hear talking.

I won't be round here much longer, anyway.

The sooner I don't have to see your face, the better.

Yeah, I heard you're going to a new school.

Where is it? Nerdland?

OK, that's it. Clarke Sherwood, detention, this afternoon.

-Miss, it was him!

-It wasn't, it was him!

Well, it seems that you're both...

"in a pickle"! The Tempest, act five, scene one,

which you will write out for me after school, in detention.

Both of you, together!

Tom, are you OK?

Are you crying?

Katie...

I don't know what's going on.

It's like there's something wrong with the world.

Something wrong with me.

Look, you've been acting weird for a very long time.

In fact, ever since I've known you.

But...

-I've only seen you this unhappy since...

-Since what?

Don't you remember? Really?

Remember what?

He's your best friend.

But we need Tom on the team, so can't you have a word with him?

I know you're just mucking about.

Mucking about in what way?

Look, Benzatron,

don't make me spell it out. I'm just trying to help you,

as a mate.

Mates? How are we mates?

When did we become mates?

I haven't got any friends. I'm Benny No-Mates, that's who I am,

and that's what everyone calls me. I haven't got anyone, not you,

not Katie, not...

I'm all on my own, and I like it like that.

Do you hear me? I like it. I like it!

Mistress!

The ancient Mappa Mundi will be showing no sign

of Ravens across the world.

I'll be fearing you'll be right.

They must be taken by the yellowing Nekross hand!

Oh, Moon.

Oh, Mistress! What of it?

When I was a little girl,

I was too odd to make friends. Spent a lot of time on my own.

Mixing potions, pottering about, singing to myself.

And then I met you.

And you've always been there for me, ever since.

My best friend.

Indeed. Thanking you too.

But how will this be affecting the Ravens - what'll we be doing?

I'm going to wait.

That's what I'm doing, Moon.

I'm waiting.

What for?

The greatest power in the universe.

This is all your fault.

Well, if it gets you into trouble, good, I'm glad, OK?

It's my fault. Great(!) Happy now?

Don't you ever wonder - "Why have I got no mates?

"Is it because I'm so boring?"

Don't you wonder, "Why have I got so many friends?

"Is it because I'm so ordinary?"

Ordinary! Yeah, right!

There are things about me you could never know, Benny Boy.

Yeah? Like what?

-You wouldn't believe it.

-Then show me.

-And I could.

-Then do it.

-You wish.

-Show me, you coward!

Never mind.

Well, whatever you're hiding, it must be finger-clicking good.

I'm telling you, Sherwood... the things you can't see!

They're happening all around you, all the time.

-And you, you're blind.

-Like what?

Brilliant things.

Amazing things.

Magical things.

What does that mean?

It doesn't matter.

You wouldn't understand.

I've seen you in physics and chemistry,

acting like you can explain away the whole world with your test tubes.

Yeah? Well, science has got all the answers.

It's better than magic, any day.

What?

What did you just say?

I just said...science is real

compared to magic.

Who mentioned magic?

You did. You just said "magic".

-No, I said "magical".

-Well, why did you say it then?

Magic is a load of old Hogwarts.

"Magic is a load of old Hogwarts."

What was that?

Like someone stepped over my grave.

I'm getting out.

You're weird, Sherwood.

The sooner you get to your posh new school,

-with your posh new friends, the better.

-Yeah?

And I'll be happy there.

I won't be Benny No-Mates any more.

Cos do you know what?

This school's got hundreds and hundreds of pupils, and I walk

around that yard all day long, surrounded by all of them, and...

..I'm so lonely, every day.

I know.

How could you ever know?

Because I'm lonely too.

Still, I'm going to change now.

New school! No more walking about like I'm some sort of alien.

There's no such thing!

"There's no such thing as aliens!

"There's no such thing as aliens!"

What did you say that for?

I didn't!

You said there's no such thing. No such thing as what?

Tom? No such thing as what?

-There's no such thing as what?

-Aliens!

What are you doing to my head?

-You saw them too?

-Just stop it, just stop it!

But how could you see them?

-How?

-Leave me alone!

Benny!

"Benny!" "Benny!" "Benny!" "Benny!"...

Tom?

"Tom", "Tom", "Tom", "Tom", "Tom"...

'We wizards spend all our time...'

with objects of mystical power.

'And the scientists. They have atoms and lasers and gunpowder.'

All the shiny, glittering things they think rule the world.

'But we're wrong. The scientists are wrong,

'and the wizards are wrong. And do you know why?'

Because all those powerful things are nothing.

'Nothing but dust.'

But friendship?

That's stronger than the sun.

You're a wizard.

You're my friend.

Goodbye, Moon.

Great Mistress! No! No! No!

Someone did this to us.

It's magic, I can feel it.

Come on, we've got to get to the chamber!

What was that?

There, brother! The enchantment is failing!

Get the wizards! Now!

Great Mistress! The imps, they will be remembering!

Good!

And even if it curses Tom,

better that he's not alone.

They've broken the spell!

Then Tom Clarke and Benjamin Sherwood are reunited!

Raise shields to maximum! The wizards could be planning to attack!

You have failed us.

And now we shall extract your magic!

-Gran!

-Mrs Crowe!

Goodbye, Tom. Benny. Friends again! As it should be.

I love you.

No!

Moon, what happened to her?

A wicked girl - she'll have been stealing

a drop of the Mistress's blood, to be cursing the Line of Crowe!

So she's become what exactly?

A Neverwas!

And Thomas will be cast out! Woe! Oh, woe!

That's enough with the woe!

-Where is this girl now?

-On the metally skyship!

Oh, no, no, no!

Think, Benny! We have to reach this girl.

We can't board the Zarantulus because it's shielded against magic,

so what do we do?

Blood.

They've got a drop of your gran's blood, yeah?

Like her genetic signature!

Oh, Benny, technockery will be confusing me!

Look - this place, the chamber...

You told me, it follows the Line of Crowe.

When you move house, it moves with you.

It follows the genetic signature of the family,

it literally follows your blood!

And right now, there's a drop of Crowe blood...

..on board the spaceship!

-We follow the blood!

-We move the chamber door to the Zarantulus!

But the Zarantulus is shielded!

The Chamber exists in a different dimension.

We can go under the shields.

Follow the bloodline and materialize on board.

What do you think, Moon? Can you do it?

The Mistress Crowe will be Randal Moon's friend

and he'll be doing anything to save her!

We will be unshoring the earthly shackles of the Chamber of Crowe!

What's he doing?

No idea!

Randal Moon will be a-wheeling!

Loyal Moon!

Faithful Moon!

How did we ever forget living like this?!

What the...?

Chamber of Crowe, hearken to me,

follow the blood that was stole from thee!

What?!

WHAT?!

It's working! We're moving! The chamber is moving

I will be saving the Mistress Crowe! I will! I will! I will!

By Bashtor's beetley beard,

Randal Moon will be a-steering us to victory!

Oh, boy!

With my final breath, I curse you, monsters.

I curse you in the name of all humanity!

Curses are tasty!

We will devour them!

And all of your magic!

Every last drop!

Shields at maximum!

Extract the magic!

What trick is this?

We are being attacked by magic!

LOUD BANGS

I've recalibrated their generator to give the Nekross

-one heck of a headache!

-Science and magic!

We did it!

By all the stars, Tom Clarke!

And his best mate, the Sonic Boom Boy!

AARRGHHH!

My ears!

My precious ears!

-Get the blood, Tom!

-We've got it, we've got it!

Next time you try to split us up, remember how badly you lost!

Nooooo!

Randal Moon will be getting us home!

Randal Moon will be saving the Mistress!

Be a-throwing it, Tom Clarke! Quicksticks!

The blood will be a-bringing the Mistress back.

Oh, great Mistress, be restored! Please!

Please, please.

HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM

My beautiful boys!

Lexi! This has been a disaster!

I hold you responsible!

And Varg!

Time and time again, you let me down!

How many more times must I be humiliated?

I'm sorry.

I was so scared, I was desperate.

I don't care what you do to me. I deserve it!

Good, because Randal Moon will be having a few ideas about that!

Excuse me, if you don't mind, just back off a minute, goblin.

Hobgoblin! Hob! Hob! Hob!

Look...

Gemma knows what she did was very wrong.

-But she did it to save me.

-Yeah, by almost destroying us.

Well, yes.

Yes, exactly. And in my opinion, I think she's very clever.

Yeah, OK. You're a strong wizard, Gemma.

But next time, use it against the Nekross, yeah?

I will. I promise.

-< Open up! Open up!

-DISTANT BANGING

(Thank you.)

Now, Tom, dear, would you let your father in?

I think he'd be rather excited to see you.

Both of you.

Jathro to Control. Jathro to Control.

Jathro. Does all proceed well?

It does, my lady.

Day by day, we draw closer to the glorious event.

Until then, the King must know nothing.

You hear me, Jathro?

Nothing at all!

So Mum says your dad's invited them round for dinner.

Trouble is, what if your gran's cooking?

We're doomed! All-out war!

Oh, and by the way, I can spell "loneliness"!

-Gran said it was the bloodline mashing up my head.

-Yeah?

Spell "onomatopoeia" then.

-Don't push it.

-Ah, that's more like it.

Two daft idiots, sticking together. It's like the old days.

Yeah, well, I suppose I should say thanks, Quinn.

Yeah. And thanks, Katie.

What for?

Oh, don't make us say it.

For helping us. We needed friends and there you were.

Oh, you are so soft!

Benny Benzardino, you are soft, soft, soft.

-Yeah, that was a bit soft.

-That was made of soft.

Yeah, OK, it's soft but it's true. So...thank you.

-And shut up!

-BELL RINGS

Last one to the lockers buys pizza Friday night!

Come on!

There's something taking people, Benny.

-'Floor 13.'

-But there isn't a 13th floor!

None of them ever comes back.

It's a Neverway.

Take me there or they will be obliterated!

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