Starship Act 1 Part 10

The Starship Rangers have been stranded on Bug-World by the murderous Mega-Girl, and tensions run high as hope runs out. When things look bleak, who will rescue our heroes from the jaws of death (not to mention the jaws of a giant spider)?! It's time to say "No" to the Status Quo as Act 1 comes to a climactic finish!

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"Status Quo" Lyrics (by Darren Criss):
BUG: It starts with not questioning the answers
And giving up before you've begun
It locks all the doors, increases the pressure, and in a flash
Your time is up before it's done

And you won't know
How it can feel
To feel at all

So I say
No to status quo
Who wants to be like the rest
And deny the best that I'm meant for?

I will show
The status quo
Who cares about normal?
I'll never conform- I will be content to resent the status quo...

Roach enters and the two friends share a scene.

ROACH: Bug! Wait! You can't go with them. You may have a human body now, but where you belong is down here with the hive!
BUG: I don't know if it is, Roach. You get to live your dream everyday with the Overqueen. It's time for me to live mine. Up there with the Starship Rangers.
ROACH: But... What if I miss you, Bug?
BUG: If you miss me... Just look up... that's where I'll be... (Bug heads off for the pod, singing again)

BUG: I'll kick down the walls around me
They don't know how strong I am
I'm not defined by boundaries
They could never understand
I'm so much more...

... Than status quo
Forget about being
Another pipe dreamer
Stuck on the bottom floor

And I know
It's time to go
So maybe I've gotten everything
That I wanted but I think that
I might have made it so
When I said no no no
To status quo...

Bug enters the drop-pod, which begins its ascent into space; Surrounded by his new crew and a sea of stars, Bug reprises his famous song...

BUG: I am a starship ranger
I'm gonna do everything I can
To always be a starship ranger
It's everything, everything, I AM!!!

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Closed Caption:

KRAYONDER: Oh, Jesus, lord! This can't be happening, man!
What are we supposed to do now, man?
This is like... game over, man. Game over!
I'm talking goodbye, buddy
Hasta luego, dude
Konichiwa, Daniel-san. We're finished. It's over.
SPECS: Goddammit, Krayonder. Shut the hell up!
TAZ: Seriously, shut up! Your screaming will wake up the bugs.
TOOTSIE: Just kill him.
UP: Whoa, whoa, whoa, eveybody! Just calm down!
I can tell that we're all a little bit tightly wound.
But if we express ourselves through 'I feel' statements--
TAZ: AHHHHHHHOHH
You want to know how I feel?
UP: Well, of course I do, Taz
TAZ: I feel like...
cutting open your belly and filling it with jelly.
*gasps*
UP: Taz, is something bothering you?
UP: Ooh! Ow! My mug!
That hurt.
TAZ: I know it hurt! It hurt because you are soft now.
You are so soft, you couldn't even handle leaving a robot behind!
And now WE are all dead!
UP: Taz, please stop.
Now, my feelings are hurt, too.
TAZ: You want me to stop?
Hit me back.
UP: Ooh, ah!
TAZ: HIT! ME BACK!
You... You are a sad, spayed little puppy.
And the old Up, the Up that made me what I am,
he would have never let this happen.
And now, I see...
I see that Up, he did die in that robot war,
and I will never get him back.
*ripping sound*
UP: Oooh
My mustache! You ripped it off.
You ripped off my mustache.
TAZ: I am in charge of this mission, now.
So, everybody who wants to live, you come with me.
TOOTSIE: I'm sorry, Sir. She's got the mustache, now.
*kissing noise* I love you.
UP: I love you, too, Tootsie.
I love you, too.
Everybody, wait up! Everybody, wait!
We gotta stick together!
*splat*
TAZ: What the--?
KRAYONDER: It's a web, man!
SPECS: We appear to be stuck.
UP: Well...
At least we stuck together.
*everyone groans*
*creature hissing*
TAZ: Feliz navidad!
KRAYONDER: It's a-- It's a spider!
It's really over, man!
TOOTSIE: Oh, God, if you could find it in your zombie heart to let us live,
I'd give you my brains, dude.
BUG: Mister Spider, stop!
SPIDER: Oh, what? Who's sneaking up on me?
BUG: It's me, Bug!
Say, uh, these things are my friends. Do you think you could, you know, stop eating them?
SPIDER: *gasp* Your friends? Well, why didn't they say so?
nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble
HUMANS: *screaming*
UP: It didn't eat us! It let us go!
KRAYONDER: We're saved! Thank Dead God, man!
I thought I was gonna die a virgin.
SPECS: Me, too.
TOOTSIE: Me, too!
TAZ: Me, too!
UP: Yeah, me, too.
KRAYONDER: But wait, who saved us?
BUG: It was me!
*grunting*
A Starship Ranger!
TAZ: Hey!
Who is that?
There's not supposed to be any other personas down here.
UP: We'll worry about that later.
Right now, I just want to shake this boy's hand.
Oh, god! Oh, thank you for saving us!
Wow! You look like the kinda guy who knows how to deal with these damn bugs!
What's your name, Private?
BUG: Bug, sir!
UP: Bug... well, that's a fine name!
Tell me, Bug, what are you doing here?
BUG: I'm here to get the job done.
UP: Well, so am I!
Geez, Bug. You just stared down a gigantic spider.
In my book, that makes you a tough son of a bitch.
BUG: Thank you, sir. I am a tough bitch.
UP: You sure are, Bug!
Say, Bug, where'd you even come from, boy?
SPECS: Fascinating!
Bug, did you realize that your uniform is a different make and model
than the uniforms currently in circulation?
Why in fact, judging by the chest plating right there,
the stitching on the microfibers,
this uniform would have been in circulation approximately 18 years ago.
UP: Specs, are you suggesting that Bug...
could be a survivor from a starship that crashed
here on this planet 18 years ago?
KRAYONDER: And Bug is the only survivor
TOOTSIE: And he grew up on this planet all alone
TAZ: Killing bugs to survive
UP: Living each hellish day one at a time
KRAYONDER: Getting nothing but bug muff?
UP: Is that what you're suggesting, Specs?
SPECS: Yes! That is precisely what I'm suggesting!
ALL: WOAH
TAZ: Bug! You hard, ese. You flame.
BUG: Yes, yes. Good. Cool.
Well, now that we're all friends, I have to take you guys someplace, to meet somebody.
He lives in a hole not very far from here, it's just past one of those flying machines you guys use.
You know, the one that February came down in.
UP: Bug, what the hell did you just say?
TAZ: No duh! That stupid-ass scientist!
She came down in a drop pod, like us.
SPECS: We could use the pod to return to the starship.
KRAYONDER: And then we're home free, man!
UP: Come on, everybody, let's go!
Well, come on, Bug! You're coming with us.
Are you ready to find out what it truly means to be wearing this here uniform?
BUG: Yes, I am.
UP: Good, because it's time to go back.
Back to our starship. Up there.
In space!
*music*
BUG: It starts with not questioning the answers
And giving up before you've begun
It locks all the doors, increases the pressure
And in a flash your time is up before it's done
And you won't know
How it can feel
To feel at all
So I say no to status quo
Who wants to be like the rest and deny the best that I'm meant for?
I will show the status quo
Who cares about normal? I'll never conform
I will be content to resent the status quo...
ROACH: BUG!
Wait! You can't go with them.
You may have a human body now,
but where you belong is back here with the hive.
BUG: Oh, Roach, I don't know. I mean, you get to live out your dream everyday with the Overqueen.
Now, it's time for me to live mine. Up there with the Starship Rangers.
ROACH: But... What if I miss you, Bug?
BUG: Well, if you miss me...
Just look up
And that's where I'll be.
I kick down the walls around me
They don't know how strong I am
I'm not defined by boundaries
They could never understand
I'm so much more...
Than status quo
Forget about being another pipe dreamer
Stuck on the bottom floor
And I know it's time to go
So maybe I've gotten everything that I wanted,
but I think that I might have made it so
When I said no no no
To status quo...
I am a Starship Ranger
I'm gonna do everything I can
To always be a Starship Ranger
It's everything
It's everything
I AM