The One with More Friends
Scene opens with Joey waking up in his apartment.
Joey walks out of his room to find a teenager sleeping on the couch.
Joey: Whoa!
Kid: What?
Joey: Get out! You don't live here.
Kid: But it's me, Mr. Trib, Johnny, your daughter's boyfriend. You said I could crash here last night.
Joey: I don't have a daughter. Get out!
The Johnny rushes out.
A girl rushes out from Chandler's old room.
Joey: Not another one!
Girl: What are you talking about? It's me, Trisha, your daughter.
Joey: What?
Opening Theme(Opening theme includes not the usual gang, but everyone's kids instead only 20 years older.)
Scene opens at Joey's apartment. Trisha is comforting Joey, who's in shock.
Joey: Who's your mother?
Trisha: Don't you remember? Nicole. She died in after an explosion right after she had me.
Joey: So I'm really your dad?
Trisha: Well not really. You should know this story. Anyway, when she died, the state took custody of me and discovered that my father had died. You chose to adopt me. Here we are now.
Joey starts hyperventilating.
Trisha: Dad, are you alright?
Joey passes out.
Scene closes and opens at Central Perk. Emma, Jack, Erika, Monica, Chandler, and Ross are all sitting around.(all the adults and kids look 20 years older)
Joey walks in.
Joey screams when he sees Emma, Jack, and Erika.
Ross: What's wrong Joe?
Joey: I've just had a weird day so far.
Monica: Yeah, Trisha called and said you might need to see us today, so we drove out here.
Joey: So where's Rach?
Ross: Oh, she's in France for a fashion expo. She's starting to design her 50th line of clothing for her company.
Joey: Oh, I'm sorry things didn't work out.
Ross: What are you talking about? We're married.
Ross holds up his finger with the ring on it.
Ross: She owns her own company here in the city. We have a huge house near Mon and Chans.
Joey: That's great.
Emma: So, Uncle Joey, what do you want to do today?
Joey: I don't know, go to a game at the Garden, I guess.
Everyone laughs.
Monica: Wait, are you serious?
Joey nods.
Chandler: I thought I was the funny one.
Joey: What do you mean?
Jack: Man, don't you remember? About four years back they made the Garden into a storage unit for the HoverDome.
Joey: What?
Erika: Man, you are out of it. The hovering dome over the Empire State Building. That's where the concerts and games are being held now.
Ross: Joey, you know all this stuff. You may still not know much, but you do keep up with current events like how the coffee shop is being turned into a hoverboard rental shop.
Joey gasps.
Ross: You really don't seem to feel good.
Joey: I just feel like I just got 20 years older.
Scene closes and opens at Phoebe's apartment. Phoebe is talking to her son Roland.
Roland: Come on, Mom! I'm nineteen! I can go to a concert by myself.
Phoebe: NO! You know your father told you you couldn't go.
Roland: Dad's not here right now, mom. You got the divorce two months ago, get over it!
Phoebe begins to sob.
Roland: Mom, I didn't mean to upset you.
Phoebe: It's okay, it's just it's been hard these past couple of months especially with you away at college.
Joey walks in.
Roland: I have to go, mom, I'm late for class.
Phoebe: Bye.
Roland's image disappears into a disc on the floor.
Joey: Ahhh!
Phoebe: What?
Joey: Who was that, and how did he get in that disc?
Phoebe: You've known Roland all his life, and you even own a projector disc. Are you okay?
Joey: Yeah…So how are you?
Phoebe: Well I'm doing okay even though the divorce papers final copy arrived today.
Joey: You and Mike got a divorce?
Phoebe: Yeah, Joey, we've been having trouble for five years.
Joey: I need a pizza…we still have that too, right?
Phoebe: Duh,…are you sure you're okay?
Joey: I just really need food.
Phoebe dials her phone and orders a pepperoni pizza.
Thirty minutes later.
The pizza guy swipes Phoebe's debit card on a card scanner.
Phoebe takes a tiny bag.
Phoebe removes a pizza the size of a quarter.
Joey: What?!
Phoebe: Keep your pants on, I'm just going to put it in the hydrator.
Phoebe inserts the pizza into a microwave type machine.
The machine beeps and phoebe takes out a full size pizza.
Joey: Yes!
Joey runs to the pizza.
Scene closes and opens at the HoverDome. Joey, Ross, and Chandler are sitting in the bleachers watching a hover hockey game and eating dome shaped pretzels.
Ross: Okay now, Joe?
Joey: Yeah. This game is really good. We should come here again soon.
Chandler: Yeah, we come here all the time. What's with you today?
Joey: Okay, I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm from the future.
A long pause.
Ross and Chandler burst out laughing.
Ross: You almost had us there for a minute.
Chandler: We haven't had time machines for a year and a half.
Joey: Why?
Ross: You remember. That one professor's machine got caught in time and he was brought back dead. No one knows what happened to him.
A person comes on the hover dome intercom.
Person: We are sorry for any inconvenience, but we have just been informed that there is a person from the future in our midst.
Ross and Chandler both look at Joey.
Joey's picture comes on the big screen.
People start yelling "get him"!.
Joey begins to run.
Scene closes and opens at Joey's apartment. Joey rushes in.
Trisha is watching the television. A news cast about Joey being from the future is playing.
Trisha shrieks at Joey, still in shock.
Trisha: So this whole time, the reason you couldn't remember anything was because you were from the future?
Joey:…Yeah…
Trisha: We've got to get you back home.
Joey: What?
Trisha: If the Time Police finds you, they'll dissect you and study you for clues on how you got here.
Joey: That is not a good thing.
Trisha: Come on!
Joey and Trisha exit.
Scene closes and a montage of clips of the duo running around Manhattan are played. They finally arrive at Trisha's old high school.
Trisha: Come on. When this building was condemned, they forgot to clean out the time machine room.
The two rush through the building. When they finally arrive at the TM room, they find the Time Police waiting for them. They grab Trisha.
Trisha: Daddy!
TP officer: Okay, son, I know this is all weird, but it'll all be over soon.
An officer grabs Joey and straps him to a table.
TP officer picks up a scalpel.
TP officer: Don't worry, this'll only hurt a lot!
The officers laugh maniacally.
Joey screams and wakes up. He's covered in sweat.
Monica rushes in.
Joey: Thank god! Monica! Where are the Time Police?
Monica: What?
Joey: I was just in the Time machine room…
Joey examines the room.
Joey: What year is it?
Monica: 2006.
Joey sighs a relief.
Monica: Anyway, Rachel's engaged to-
Previously on Friends
Scene opens at the planetarium. Rachel walks through the door.
Ross is holding Emma. Emma is holding a lily. The room is filled with lily petals.
Rachel: Oh…
Emma: Mommy!
Emma squirms out of Ross' arms and rushes to Rachel.
Rachel picks up Emma.
Ross hits a button on a remote and "The Way You Look Tonight" starts to play.
Ross: Surprise.
Rachel: Oh…
Ross: I wanted to do this before you left for Paris. Listen, I know that you love your job, but I love you too. I can't live without you. I really want you to be my bride, not only to stay, but so we can have a real family. If you say yes, I promise that it will not end like my other marriages. If you agree, this will absolutely be my last wedding.
Rachel: Ross, I-
Ross: I will love you 'til the end of time.
Ross gets down on one knee.
Ross: Rachel Green, will you marry me?
A long pause.
Rachel: Ross, there's something I have to tell you…
Ross: Yeah?
Rachel:…Yes!
Ross and Rachel hug.
Emma: Me too!
Ross: Of course you too, honey.
They all continue to hug.
Ross: Does this mean you won't be going to Paris?
Rachel: No, honey, I'm staying right here. I gave Mark my notice an hour ago.
Ross: What?
Rachel: Mark also proposed to me…
Ross begins to cry.
Rachel: It's okay!
Ross begins to laugh.
Ross: YES! I WON!
Ross starts to do a victory dance.
Rachel: There went that mood.
Ross stops.
Ross: I'm sorry, it's just all this time, I felt in competition with Mark and-
Rachel cuts him off with a kiss.
Rachel: Ross, I'm here to stay now.
They continue to kiss. Emma looks away.
Scene fades to black.
Executive Producer: Capitolpress
Co-Producer: Boris Yelstin
Author's Note: If you notice that I said it was '06, but that would be the approx. time since season 11 was an immediate pick up. I hope you guys liked the turnout! See you the 8th for "The One with the Bounty Hunter".
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