Hastings Raiders 2115.

World Wide Facebook Premiere. First time ever getting my play read. Play performed at the Hastings High School as part of Hastings Black Dirt Theatre. Hastings, Minnesota. From Saturday March 28, 2015.

Hastings Raiders 2115.

A Play written by: Mikos Milan Mitchell
Scene: Downtown Hastings, Minnesota.
Jaycee Park . March 2015.

{Lights up, Savannah is standing center stage, still. Miguel walks on stage, snapping Savannah out of her trance like state}

Savanah: (Sees Miguel) You there, what year is it?
Miguel: It's 2015. It has been for months. What a strange question.
(beat as they stare at each other)
Um... have you seen the mayor? I want to discuss an idea on expanding General Sieben Avenue into a freeway but he says it would cost so much to widen it to a freeway.
Paula: [enters] (overhears the conversation) What about the Hastings Lock and Dam? Does it need to be widening as well?
Molly: The problem is that it would cost money and resources. Plus all of that construction will only add to the Global Warming problem.
Paula: This is where it gets tricky?
Miguel calls the mayor on his Smartphone.
Miguel: Hello Mayor. Hello. Yes mayor. Downtown Hastings is warmer than the Lock and Dam. The temperature downtown has risen by 0.5 degrees Celsius in the last decade.
Molly: We do not need any more global warming nor the green house effect.
Savanah: In the year 2115, Hastings will be different. The city will grow to 3 times its current size. I can see Miesville and Vermilion as its neighborhood. In the year 2115, Dakota County Seat will be inside of the new expanded Hastings High School. Ground will break down on Red Wing Boulevard to become Raiders University.

My Smartphone is a time machine. The secret to a secure future is a rock steady past. I've seen and lived the future- or the potential future, and I'm here to make sure it DOES NOT happen. The reason I time travel is to save this world from catastrophe.

Molly: (Not sure if she believes Savannah) I knew it. I knew we were digging ourselves in with all of the electronics we use, 24/7. Speaking of electronics, how are we managing all of that power? If we continue to grow, our resource consumption much be growing too...

Savannah: Power is very unreliable. There are frequent whole world wide outages- the world might come to an end... or even explode!

Paula: I had no idea. (Pause) Hey, I've heard time itself is not linear nor cyclical. It this how time travel is possible?
Savannah: Time is Time. It can go forward or backwards or all over the place. Time itself is mystery or the unknown. It just happens. We are not even sure how we manage to control it fully. These portals make it all possible.
Molly: I want to blame technology for the issues we will encounter, but I know its not techonoloys fault- we are the consumers that use and demand them...
Savannah: Time and portals will replace smartphones, tablets, laptops, and Google Glasses
Paula: I think I get it... She raises her voice as she is concerned about the future. I want to save this city from the non-sense and abusive technology.

(Miguel enters back into the room)

Molly: Savanna has seen the future- or the potential future, and she is a time travel and we need to save this world from catastrophe.

Miguel: I have spoken to the mayor. I think that he is a time traveler too?? He got this odd look and then pulled out his phone and then disappeared.
Savannah: Ah, then it is as we have suspected. We knew we had a rogue time traveler. We even suspected he was the cause of current state of my present- your future. The time signatures for 2100s have been reading wrong ever since they knew how to check time signatures- this must be your mayors doing. We MUST stop him.

Miguel: How do you propose we do that? We are not time travelers!

Savannah: I know this. But I can give you a lift. Grab a hold of my jacket!

(Miguel and others grab Savannah's coat while she pulls out her transporter. With a few quick keystrokes, they get transported to the future. (lights dim slightly) )
(Immediately the group returns to its same spot, looking more haggard and frazzled).

Miguel: Whoa
Paula: Whoa
Molly: Whoa
(Savanah looks at them like they are children)
Miguel: That was insane! That was Hastings??? IN 2115??? The population is over 600,000. The entire landscape doesn't even look like Hastings anymore. Skyscrapers? Blimps?
Molly: The Raiders Mascot is still the Raiders. Blue and Yellow.
Savannah: Nevermind that. Where is that so-called mayor?
Paula: I see him. He is on the bridge. I think he is going to jump!
Molly: He must know we are on to him- but why would he jump. Why doesn't he teleport?
Savannah: He's not jumping to end it all, he is TRYING to teleport- his device must be low on quantum energy and he has to slingshot himself forward.
Miguel: Gravity slingshot? Like how they got the space shuttle around the moon during the Apollo missions?
Savannah: Yes, exactly like that. Except for nothing like that... why am I wasting time explaining..
(She starts running off towards off stage, to the bridge/mayor)
Paula: Wait! He's jumping. Its too late!
Molly: Hey! He didn't disappear. He... he hit the water. He's swimming towards shore! Lets get him!
Miguel: I think we're covered- the police just showed up. They are waiting for him on the shore. I think he is no longer our problem...
(All stare off stage watching the mayor being arrested)
Miguel: But, how did they know to arrest him?
Savannah: Oh, this thing... (holds up the transporter). It also works as a phone.
Paula: Savanna, you saved us... or saved you? I guess? Either way, thank you. We now know what to do next time this happens.
Savannah: Next time? There won't be no next time. Have a great day.
(Pushes a button on her teleporter and...)

BLACKOUT