32 Chp 32 : I Wanna Be The Very Best?
After doing the morning run and exercise, he made scrambled eggs, bacon, and French toast for everyone at the orphanage while humming Ievan Polkka's song.
Laura who just woke up took the orange juice from the fridge and drank it until she spurted it all after she saw that Al was cooking breakfast.
"The heck, Laura! don't spurt those juice, now I need to clean them." Al took the tissues, handed them to Laura, and grabbed a napkin to wipe the stain on the floor.
She pointed her finger to him and accused him, "Who are you and what have you done to my brother! My brother would never cook for us!"
"Laura, you are too mean. Let's just say I'm in a good mood today, scrambled eggs and bacon?" he said while smirking.
She looked at Al warily, took the plate of egg, bacon, and toast then ate it.
"This, this is super fkin delicious!!! How what why!?"
"Words Laura, you know the rules." Laura's face became ugly, took a dollar from her bag, and put it in a jar.
"It's delicious Al! Since when you can cook?" Laura swallowed it all in one bite.
"Company's secret, now finish it and help me prepare for all of them." He smirked.
Thank you Uncle Gordon Ramsay for writing those tons of books. Uncle Roger will be proud of you.
Soon, everybody came to the kitchen with the same action as Laura with the juice and the swear jar.
In the afternoon, Jessica, his assistant came and gave a message from Ari about Spielberg and Zemeckis.
The shooting will begin and Steven invited him to his house to talk, well mostly for playing games, so he brought Toby and Jon.
But somehow the girls also want to come, so the 5 girls accompanied the boys to Steven's house.
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'Knock-knock' Amy heard someone knocked at the door and was surprised to find not only Al, Toby, and Jon but also Laura, Melissa, Annie, Alice, and Drew.
Since the beginning of the year, Spielberg liked to visit the orphanage with her and spent time with them. So they kinda grow on her too.
"Al, you are here." She hugged Al who has grown taller than her.
"Long time no see Amy, sorry to bother you but I brought some company." He presented his army.
Amy laughed and said, "No bother at all Al, I like to see them too, come on girls, I baked some cookies and you can lick the spoon!" She offered the girls and they also cheered and follow her.
Al turned to Toby and Jon and said, "Same as always?" Both of them nodded and searched for Steven.
They meet Steven in his game room playing Pac-Man arcade. Al greeted him and he stopped playing Space Impact in the arcade.
"Well look at that, Al you grew up again since the last time I saw you, sorry I miss your birthday, I went to Paris last month." He said with regret.
"Yeah, Robert had told me, what are you doing anyway?"
"Try to convince someone to direct it, but he also unable to do it because it brings him bad memories. He was afraid he screw it." Steven gave another sigh.
"You try to convince Roman Polański? Man, it's going to be hard, he is one of the survivors of the holocaust right?" He tried to guess it.
Steven smiled at him and said, "Yes, I thought that if nobody in Hollywood is unable to direct it, he must be my only answer. I was wrong, he directly rejects it. He said it brings him a certain trauma and since the sexual case abuse, he somehow lost his touch in filmmaking and need to rest for a long time."
Steven then look at him and said, "Al, let me tell you, you are smart and mature. I won't forgive you if you rap*, abusing mentally or physically, or forcing any girls. I don't want a bright kid like you stuck in that kind of abyss. The film industry should not be tainted like that kind of thing."
Steven hated the thing that tainted this film industry. Too bad his sense of identity was kind of a call for him, he was proud to be Jews and would help his fellow race in hard times as he did with Polański.
Hollywood never lacked controversial people, it transcends race, age, religion, skin, and ethnics. Blame the people, not what they are born with.
"Rest assured Steven, I won't lack women who will chase me in the future and I will treat them like a queen." He made a joke to melt the cold situation.
Spielberg laughed and patter Al's head, "Yes Mr. Brandt, and I will see the day when you have driven out crazy by them."
They played some games to spend time and Steven discuss something with Al.
"Here for you, Happy Birthday kid." He gave a warped gift to Al.
"You don't have to Steven, but thank you anyway." He received the gift and observe it, then turn back to Steven and said, "Can I open it here?"
"Go ahead Al, it's yours now." He assured Al.
He slowly tore the present and he was speechless seeing it.
"No way, Steven!? Are you sure? Wow, this is the best gift I have ever get." He touched it slowly and looked at Steven with a teary eye.
"It's for you now Al, although you already have the better ones, you always said that you admire it like it was somehow an origin of a superhero in those comics," Steven said amusedly.
"Because IT IS. Are you sure about giving this to me?" He asked with doubt.
"Of course, now my dreams have been shared with you and now we must strive to make something worth remembering." he patted his shoulder.
"You've already done it with <E.T.>." He said with black lines coming from his face.
What Al got was Steven Spielberg's first movie camera, Bolex B8 8mm. In the future, this camera will be donated to the American Jews museum.
But since it passed to Al now, he also will find another successor in the future who was worthy to wield this Mjolnir.
Since then, far in the future, one director of each generation who writes his name in history has been passed this 8mm video camera by their mentor.
Al approached Steven and hugged him tightly, "Thank you, Steven, you are the best Godfather ever."
"Slow down, champ, I got another surprise to you. I heard an interesting gossip from Robert." He smiled evilly.
Al knew it and becomes irritated, "Oh that slimy guy, I'll beat him up!!" He said jokingly and rose his hand to a fist.
Steven laughed and said, "Really kid, wait for me to turn 50? Anyway, your role model has invited me to have dinner in his house with his family tomorrow, currently, he has some business in the USA. Are you interested to come with me?"
"Are you implying what I'm thinking right now Steven?" He smiled.
"Yep," Steven confirmed.
"YESS!! I'm going to meet Stanley Kubrick, woohoo." He jumped and cheered after heard this news.
Then, Amy's voice was heard from the dining room calling the boys. They were having dinner and ice cream as desserts.
"Oh, I almost forget, wait a minute Steven." Al brought up the bag and taking out a brown manila envelope.
The kids who are still eating their ice creams got curious about what their brother going to make again.
Then Al taking out the drawing in that envelope and distributed them to everyone, he also prepared the drawings for Alice with some relief and contour so she can touch them.
"Oh my God Al, it's so cute, is it a mouse or cat? It's all yellow with red cheeks." Amy and the other girls were fascinated by these drawings.
"Mouse, an electric mouse by borrowing Japanese manga styles, I call it Pikachu."
Spielberg also saw a Charmander drawing, and show it to all.
"Is it their transformation? I see this fire reptile and then this dragon has the same color."
"Yes, he is evolving from this little guy, Charmander to Charmeleon and finally to Charizard."
"Fascinating, is this will be your new book?"
Al smiled widely and tell Steven, "Wrong answer, this will be our game, Steven."
"What!? Games? But I don't think it could be created into games." Steven imagined every possibility of how this drawing could become like today's mainstream games.
"Wrong again Steven, this is one of the failures of the Atari, they made the console games the same as the arcade, only one-time play only, get a high score, and then there it is, happy to beat it." He explained it to everyone.
Steven made an interesting face and made Al explain it further.
"My plan with my game department, Alfheim Game will be independent in the future, change its name, and buy the divisions that Atari going to sell because of their current loss."
He continued, "And this game will be my backbone, I call it Pocket Monsters, shortly Pokémon. There will be about 151 Pokémon in this region I created and we can catch them, level it up, and have competition with some NPCs. I made it so to let these console gamers feel that they own something from the games, not just playing to get high scores."
"And I'm going to release it in the form of the handled game with a 16-bit processor, the player can trade their Pokémon and battle with another player by just bringing LAN cable. So Steven, are you interested? I can let you invest but I must have absolute control in it."
After Al said this, silence appeared. Steven was amazed at his Godson's vision. Al was right, the console game he planned was going to make a revolutionary era of gaming.
Steven then laughed loudly, maybe they are going to bring the game era one step further.
To Be Continued.....
