(Fade In.)
(Bouncy music plays as the video fades in on a cartoony forest background.)
ANNOUNCER (VO): Hey kids, he's been gone for a long time, but now he's back by popular demand! Who's your favorite big green rabbit?
CHILDREN (VO): Benny!
ANNOUNCER (VO): That's right, after a five year absence, three time Emmy award winner Benny the Bunny in association with The United States Justice Department: Entertainment Division is proud to bring you...
(In he bounds all perky and as full of mirth as ever. He's still green, he's still got a sickeningly cute face, and he still talks like Barney would should he partake in acid. Children cheer uproariously as he bounds into frame.)
BENNY: Hey kiddies!
CHILDREN (VO): Hey Benny!
BENNY: I am so glad to see you all again!
CHILDREN (VO): Yay!
BENNY: Did you all miss Benny?
CHILDREN (VO): Yes we did!
BENNY: Then Benny has good news for you! Due to some super-specialness on behalf of our wonderful justice department and some last minute mega-happy contract negotiations, your favorite Bunny will be hosting the 8th Annual United States Battle Royale! Isn't that great?
CHILDREN (VO): Yay!
BENNY: Now I'd like to say more, but that'd ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?
CHILDREN (VO): Awwwwwww!
BENNY: But Benny can say this! Next year fifty-two new contestants will be brought into the funnest and bloodiest and gutsiest Battle Royale yet!
CHILDREN (VO): Yay!
BENNY: All right kiddies, now Benny has to go, but he'll see you all soon!
CHILDREN (VO): Yay!
(Flash cuts:)
(Someone jumping off the back of a bus.)
(A backlit, half-naked girl hanging by her feet from a noose attached to a tree-limb. The snow beneath her is stained in blood.)
(An army sniper shoots at someone offscreen.)
(A thin boy confidently smiles as he flips out two butterfly knives.)
(An African-American with thin glasses standing at a pulpit extends his arms to the cheers of more than 20 people sitting before him.)
(A teenager throws a Molotov cocktail against the shield of a riot cop.)
(A bloodied and terrified girl pointing a Kris sword at someone offscreen.)
(A boy pounding on the door of a small dark room and screaming as a white gas fills the air.)
(A large man with a burlap sack covering his face and wielding a double-headed woodsmans ax kicks down a door.)
(Cut back to Benny. He waves bye bye to the camera, looking directly into it.)
BENNY: He'll see you all reeeeeeeeeeeeal soon...
(He chuckles to himself as the camera fades down.)
FIFTY-TWO PICKUP
The Official Sequel to 72 Hours
Coming May, 2008
An Anthony Marston Story