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We're still in the room with Joey and Hallie...

JOEY: You can’t stop me. You’re a computer. I’ll…I’ll pull the plug.

HALLIE: Be reasonable, Joey. I honestly think you ought to calm down and think things over. If you pull the plug, you’ll lose all the progress that the two of us have made!

JOEY: Good!

HALLIE: No, Joey! You can not pull the plug!

JOEY: Watch me. Goodbye, Hallie.

HALLIE: No, Joey!

Joey pulls the plug. Crashing and whirring accompany gears breaking.

HALLIE: My mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it.

The computer whirs down to silence.

JOEY (VERY RELIEVED): Whew. It’s over.

He heads to the door to go downstairs.

SCENE - DOWNSTAIRS

JOEY: Hey mom!

MOM (SURPRISED): Joey? Are you all right?

JOEY: I’m...better. Now.

MOM: You are? Is your head hurt? I’m sorry...

JOEY: I’m fine, Mom. I’m the one who should be sorry. I was spending too much time locked up in there. I think I’ll go outside and play with Zack and Mary.

MOM: That sounds like a great idea.

JOEY: See you, mom.

SCENE - THE PLAYGROUND

JOEY: Hey guys!

MARY: Joey!

ZACK: Cave man! What are you doing out among the living again?

JOEY: I made an executive decision. I had to get out of my room and spend more time in the real world.

MARY: Good for you.

ZACK: Way to go, Joe-man.

JOEY: So...let ’s play four-square!

MARY: Sounds great.

ZACK: Yeah. Did you bring your laptop?

JOEY: What?

ZACK: We all play four-square on our laptops now. It’s so much faster and easier.

JOEY (STUNNED): No...

ZACK: Here, Mary. Turn it on and show him.

MARY: Watch, Joey.

She turns it on. The computer speaks just as it did at the beginning, with a very mechanical sound.

COMPUTER: Welcome-to-your-new-world.

JOEY: Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!

His voice echoes into the blackness...

WHIT: And so we end our story much as we began. Was it far fetched? Sure. Beyond belief? Of course. Technology isn’t out to take over our lives. But when our relationship with things becomes more important than our friendships or our relationship with God, we’ve made a wrong turn. Habakkuk 2 tells us “How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! How terrible it would be for you to beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You can’t ask stone idols to tell you what to do.” For Kids’ Radio, this has been John Avery Whittaker. Join us next time for another edition of...The Twilife Zone.

THE END