Gamer 2.0

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* Place des Vosges.*
Manon: Mommy! I wanna go on the merry-go-round! Pretty please!
Nadja: As many times as you like, sweetheart. It's Sunday!
Manon: Yay!

* Marinette's room.*
Tikki: When were paid holidays instituted in France?
Marinette: Oh, Tikki. Please don't talk about holidays.
Tikki: But it's for your history test tomorrow, Marinette.
Marinette: Uh, okay. First paid holidays. Summer 1936.
Tikki: Good job. Eh... you're drawing on a T-shirt right now.
Marinette: Ah! (groans)
Tikki: Perhaps you should take a little break, Marinette.
Marinette: I can't, Tikki. It's all due tomorrow! Tomorrow! To-morrow!
Tom: (knocks and enters the room) Marinette! Ultimate Mecha Strike tournament time!
Marinette: Video games? It's been so long since I last played video games. No! I can't give in! Dad, with the T-shirts for Kitty Section, the history test, the sketches for Jagged Stone's new poster, I still have 72 hours worth of work left to fit in by tomorrow. And the rest of the week after that's even worse. I don't have a choice. I have to... stop playing.
Tom: Stop playing? But Marinette, playing is like that little pinch of salt in baguettes. It makes life tastier.
Marinette: Dad, I've got so many cakes baking in the oven right now, they're all on the verge of getting burned. No amount of salt is gonna fix this.
Tom: Fine. That's too bad. But remember, watch your apple pie, sweetheart. It's bubbling all over your cinnamon flan. (leaves)

*Dupain-Cheng living room.*
Tom: Oh, why does she have to grow so fast?
Sabine: It's a part of life. (holds controller) So, best of three do the laundry?

*Marinette's room. Tom and Sabine begin playing Ultimate Mecha Strike so loudly that Marinette can hear them.*
Tom: Oh, you've got me! I know your secret! You've been practicing in secret!
Sabine: Triple Cosmic Kick! Bam! Yes, I've got you!
Tom: Oh no!
Tikki: So... paid vacation was instituted to allow workers to...?

*Miss Bustier's class.*
Marinette: (asleep) ...take a break. Play video games. (wakes up) No! (looks for test paper and finds it stuck to her face) Found it! It really was just a dream. I filled it out. For real! (gives the paper to Miss Bustier) Now I just need to finish the last Kitty Section T-shirts, review my English lessons, and color paint.
Max: (from a distance) It's for my new video game.
Marinette: (gasp) Ah, video games. (back to reality) Coloring the poster!
Lila: Oh, I'd love to test your video game, Max, but I promised Prince Ali we'd go on a charity cruise over the Seine on his yacht this afternoon. Sorry.
Max: Kim!
Kim: Yeah?
Max: Interested in playing the best fighting game in the world? 100% created by your best friend!
Marinette: A fighting game... he designed himself! Oh, what's wrong with me?
Kim: I'm sure I'd get the highest score. But I've got swimming practice. Ondine's Waiting for me.
Max: Alix! You up for testing my game? I've included more than 50 characters and you can even loot their equipment.
Marinette:(she heard him) 50! Loot! Ah! No, no, no, no, no...
Alix: No can do. I've got an in-line skate contest coming up. No winning without training.
Max:(he sees Diana and walks towards her) Diana! Are you up for testing my game?
Diana: I wish I could Max but I have fencing in a few minutes and then a photoshoot.

*Locker room.*
Adrien: Sorry, your game sounds amazing, but I've got fencing right now. Then my Chinese lesson, then a photoshoot...

* Art classroom.*
Nathaniel: A fighting game with former akumatized people? What do you say?
Marc: The appointment with the editor is next week and we still have a lot of pages to finish.
Rose: Oh, we'd gladly help you debug the game if it weren't for our costume fitting at Marinette's.
Max: Ah, Marinette! The most skilled gamer in the whole class. We won the Ultimate Mecha Strike inter-school tournament together. Of course she won't say...

* Library.*
Marinette: NO!
Max: But, I haven't said anything yet!
Marinette: And I don't want you to say it. Because then I wouldn't be able to refuse. And I have to resist! I've got too much to do today. A Kitty poster to sew for Jagged Stone. I mean, a Jagged T-shirt for drawing Kitty. I mean, ah! (bangs head on table)
Chloé: What Dupain-Cheng is trying to tell you, using this ridiculously fake excuse of hers, is that she doesn't want to play your dumb, little video game. In fact, no one wants to, because everyone has a much more interesting life than you do. Even Marinette, which is really saying something.
Marinette: No, this isn't a fake excuse at all. I really do have a Jagged Stone poster to knit for Kitty. No! To post a Stone. Uh, to Stone a Jag. Uh... ah! I'm late! (takes off)

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