Starship Act 1 Part 8

When Bug is taken by the Imperial Weiner-Bug Guards to appear before the great and terrible Over-Queen, he's put on trial for his life! Will Bug's actions in the Hatchery buy him a one-way ticket to being dead?! When Bug's desire to be a Starship Ranger gets him in over his antennae, who will help him? Who indeed...

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Closed Caption:

BUG: Wait! *sigh*
RED Bug: Hey! Are you Bug?
BUG: Yeah, hi! Who are you?
BLUE Bug: Heh heh heh heh heh
RED: You're coming with us.
BUG: Ok. Wait, why?
RED: The Overqueen demands your presence.
BUG: What?
RED: Get in here.
BLUE: Put 'er there, pal. Heh heh heh.
BUG: Wait, what would the Overqueen want with me? Maybe you've got the wrong Bug.
RED: Shh, quiet. You can't escape the long arm of the claw.
BLUE: Heh heh heh heh. Good one, my friend.
BUGS: KILL KILL KILL
CALLER: NEVER in my six long days of lfe
have I seen something so egregious,
so outrageous, so downright treasonous
as the behavior of this small bug earlier today.
BUGS: *angry buzzing*
What do you have to say in your defense, Bug?
BUG: Well, I didn't do it!
Wait, what didn't I do?
CALLER: Don't feign innocence.
Earlier today, our great hive suffered a severe attack from a group of barbarous aliens
And is it not true that you, Bug, you were seen
helping one of these hideous creatures escape from a hive hatchery?
Don't deny it!
BUG: Yes, it's true!
*buzzing*
I helped her escape.
But I swear, never in a million years did I think I'd be caught and yelled at for it!
You gotta believe me!
CALLER: We don't have to believe anything but the facts.
Bring forth the witness!
BUG: Buggette?
CALLER: Yes now, state your name for the honorable Overqueen.
BUGGETTE: Buggette Bugington, Sir.
CALLER: Yes Miss Bugington, and tell the court exactly what it is that you saw.
BUGGETTE: Well. I was on my way to give Bug a present that I made from my own filth
when I saw him making noises and googly eyes at that alien!
And that really steamed me, because I've always had a secret thing for Bug
And I hope to one day wear his pin--
CALLER: Yes yes that's quite enough out of you.
Now Bug! Perhaps you'd like to explain these unexplainable actions, hmm?
What were you discussing with that beast?
How to best destroy the hive?
The location of the Overqueen!?
What did they offer you, hmm?
A chance to become a-- what were you on about earlier this morning?
Oh yes. A starship ranger?
Ladies and germs
I think it's clear that this small bug is a threat to our very civilization!
I say we do the entire hive a favor and squash him
before he has a chance to orchestrate another attack with his hu-man allies.
*buzzing in agreement*
OVERQUEEN: Very well! Squash him.
BUGS: Squash him, squash him
ROACH: Nooooo! No!
OVERQUEEN: Shnookums? Sit down!
ROACH: No. I won't sit down.
Bug, well, he's my best friend.
I've known him ever since we gestated in the same mammal when we were larva.
But, you see, my pupa membrane ruptured and I almost died.
But Bug let me into his.
He's the most caring, compassionate bug I've ever met.
He wouldn't do anything to endanger anybody.
He didn't know the humans were evil.
BUG: Oh, they're not.
ROACH: Shut up!
So please, don't kill him.
Because... if you squash him, you're gonna have to squash me too!
CALLER: Very well--
OVERQUEEN: SILENCE!
*munching*
Yum yum.
ROACH! You're really putting me on the spot here.
Alright, fine. He will not be squashed.
But know this. My mercy is extended but once.
Bug, you are never to make any contact whatsoever with these ha-moons.
BUG: Wh- No!
OVERQUEEN: Furthermore, you are never to leave the walls of this hive again.
And no more singing or dancing.
BUG: What!?
*buzzing*
OVERQUEEN: You're an egg-planter of the hive, Bug.
It's time you started acting like one.
The Overqueen has over-spoken!
*buzzing*
BUGGETTE: Hey Bug?
BUG: What do you want?
BUGGETTE: I wanted to say I'm really sorry.
I didn't know you'd get chewed out like that.
Maybe it's for the best though.
Hey... you know what might make you feel better?
If you come over to my nest
And I could tear off your head and let my larva devour your body?
BUG: No, Buggette!
You are never going to tear off my head
I don't want your larva to devour my body
And I don't want you!
*puking noises*
BUGGETTE: Oh, now you've gone and made me cry.
*crying*
ROACH: Well...
that's not gonna help your chances with Buggette.
BUG: Ugh, I don't care.
ROACH: Bug, buddy, listen
I know you're not gonna wanna hear this, but
you were wrong
What were you thinking, helping one of those humans escape?
BUG: Roach, I had to!
ROACH: But... why?
BUG: Because, I...
I love her.
*buzzing and cackling*
VEETO: Well, would you get a load of the little lovebug.
BUG: Yeah sure, just kick me while I'm down why don't ya?
VEETO: Uh, yeah, don't mind if we do. Come on boys!
VEETO: Hey, what the hell!
NEATO: Yeah, we're kicking your ass!
VEETO: Why ain't you getting upset or nothing?
BUG: Well maybe it's because I have nothing left to live for.
ROACH: Oh, sure you do, Bug! Those eggs aren't gonna plant themselves!
BUG: The universe gave me the one thing I could ever love
And the Overqueen just... took it away.
VEETO: Ohhh
NEATO: I see
VEETO: Well why don't you take it back?
BUG: But, the Overqueen, it's--
NEATO: Oh, you always do what queen-y tells you to do?
VEETO: See that's your problem, Bug.
Besides being a spineless little maggot, you ain't got no guts.
NEATO: Yeah, take it from us bloodsuckers
Nobody wants to give you what you want.
VEETO: You've gotta take it!
BUG: Wait!
Are you guys saying that I don't have to do what the Overqueen tells me to do?
VEETO: Uh oh! I think we just blew his mind, boys!
*cackling*
NEATO: You know who you oughta meet?
Pincer.
VEETO: Oh yeah. Pincer would love this guy, wouldn't he Sweetheart?
SWEETHEART: Perhaps.
BUG: What, Pincer? Pincer, who's that?
I've never heard of anyone in the hive named Pincer.
VEETO: That's cause Pincer don't live in the hive.
NEATO: Mm hmm. He lives outside the hive, deep in a hole in the ground.
BUG: He's got his own hole? Fan-cy.
VEETO: Heh heh. Yeah, Pincer don't take orders from nobody.
Especially the Overqueen.
NEATO: You know what job the Overqueen gave Pincer?
Nourishment.
VEETO: And he said 'Nourishment? I don't think so!'
So he split and left the hive forever.
BUG: Wow.
VEETO: So, buggy boy, if you ain't getting what you want here
why don't you come with us?
NEATO: Yeahhh. We'll take you to Pincer.
ROACH: Bug Bug Bug Bug stop!
Are you crazy?
If you leave the hive now, you can never come back.
VEETO: Don't listen to him, he's cozy with the Overqueen.
BUG: Roach,
I can't keep planting eggs for the rest of my life.
I gotta do what I gotta do.
NEATO: So buzz off!
SWEETHEART: Bleghleghleghleghlegh
VEETO: Heh heh heh heh, come on Bug.
NEATO: Heh heh heh heh heh
ROACH: Ohh, rats!