[MUSIC]
Check out this entity.
Hello, my JDD here.
They landed a man on the moon.
This is like so ancient.
Hey, I'm actually doing it.
Check it out.
So where'd you get that
stuff anyway, in the museum?
Sort of.
I dug through my parents' garage.
What's that?
One of those 3D puzzles
that gives you a headache.
Whatever happened to those things?
Look, look.
This is great.
Got a story about--
Stan!
Not exactly.
My story is about stuff
that's not around anymore.
You see, all this stuff
used to be really popular.
Final records, 8-track tapes.
What's an 8-track tape?
Exactly.
So much stuff disappears so completely
that people barely remember it.
So I was thinking, where do things
go when nobody wants them anymore?
And who sends them there?
And if it's the kind of
place that takes anything,
could it be the kind of
place that takes anyone?
And if you're sent there,
is there any way to get back?
Or will you be stuck there and forgotten,
like yesterday's news?
Submitted for the
approval of the Midnight Society,
I call this story.
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The Tale of Oblivion.
Lock the door.
Quickly.
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We must protect the tools.
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Brother, no.
You're not thinking
the power of the tools
is greater than even he can imagine.
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But it is a cruel fate.
Perhaps, but the tools of oblivion
must not fall into his hands.
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[LAUGHTER]
These cannot be found.
They must hide them in the new world.
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[BARKING]
Max, it's getting up time.
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I hate it when she does that.
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You both have piano lessons at 3.30.
I'll be home at 5.
And I want the house clean.
That means you, Max,
your room's a disaster.
What about Shelly?
My room's already clean.
Start online.
You're right.
Just do it, Max.
You're going to be late for work, Mom.
And you're going to be late for school.
Scooped.
I can't find my art supplies.
Well, where did you put them?
If I knew that, I
wouldn't be looking for them.
Responsibility, Max.
Learn it.
Let's go.
What's your problem?
Just because you're twins doesn't
mean we're joined at the hip.
We're not.
But we eat together.
You're in all my classes.
We walk to school together.
You hang with all my friends.
They're my friends, too.
That's what I mean.
You're like a barnacle.
Get your own life.
[BARKING]
It's OK.
It's OK, Butch.
Don't bite him.
You might get sick.
Hey.
Maybe we can get some art supplies here.
Can't you just borrow some?
No way.
Sharing art supplies is like sharing
someone's toothbrush.
Hello?
A little help, please?
So go is my name.
And help is exactly what I have to offer.
What can I--
what can I help you with?
I know, perhaps a
talisman from a far east
or a doorway that can show the future.
You can find the most
interesting items in my shop.
All you need do is ask.
So ask.
Oh, um, art supplies.
Art supplies.
I need art supplies.
Pencils are over there.
We're going to be late for school.
School?
That's it.
I have the perfect--
the perfect gift for
school, school people, an abacus.
This was once used by
someone a long, long time ago
to measure the speed of heat.
But I need art supplies.
Yes.
So you said--
Hey, what's this?
Ah, you have excellent taste.
That comes all the way from England.
It's very, very special.
It's, um, it's an antique.
It's an antique holder,
an antique holder for--
for art supplies.
There's only one piece of charcoal.
It's not just any piece.
This piece of
charcoal has been passed down
through the centuries.
It has been used by some of the greatest
artists of all time.
Really?
Like who?
Like Picasso and da Vinci and--
did I say Picasso?
Way cool.
It is.
And it can be yours for only $30.
$30?
$10.
I distinctly said $10.
But I'm losing on the deal.
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Hey, who took the apple?
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Now who took the pear?
Can't you wait for lunch?
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Now who took my pencil?
I don't know what happened, OK?
Well, aren't you the least bit curious?
You're the brains of the family.
You figure it out.
Oh, no!
[DOG BARKING]
Chili, wait up!
Why?
I thought I was a barnacle. No, I'm not. Chili, wait up! I thought I was a barnacle.
No, you thought that was a bad thing?
Barnacles are good.
They're our friends.
Yeah, right.
When he comes down, eat him.
Chili!
Ah, the branch!
Chili!
No!
Shoo!
Go away!
There's a bird.
Go chase the bird.
Oh, the squirrel!
Shoo!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
Shoo!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
Shoo!
Butch didn't run in here, did he?
Not unless he was chasing you.
You gonna get that?
Wake up, Mrs. Fitzgerald.
She's here for our lesson.
I don't feel like practicing today.
You can't just bail.
I'm not bailing.
But I'm not practicing either.
Oh, I got two more wrinkles
waiting for you out there.
Sorry.
And what are we doing today?
Let me guess.
Scales.
That's right.
Scales.
I hope you've been practicing.
Is this some kind of a joke?
I don't know.
I mean...
Max!
Where'd the piano go?
Oh, I have no time for games.
Nobody can move a piano that fast.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Stop fooling around.
What happened?
I erased it.
You what?
That sardo guy was right.
This thing is special.
Whatever I draw, I can erase.
I mean, really erase.
Observe.
Shelly's underpants.
Could you be a little bit more juvenile?
Yeah, so?
How'd you do that?
It's mine.
For once.
That's what happened to the fruit in the
classroom, isn't it?
And my pencil?
You erased Butch?
You can't just erase
things you don't like!
Yes, I can.
And if you don't stay out of my face...
You'll be next.
I'm telling Mom.
You are so busted.
I'm not telling Mom anything.
Watch me.
Put the phone down.
What are you gonna do?
Erase me?
Maybe.
E-ar-it.
Hi, Mom. This is Shelly.
We have a problem here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're fine.
But Max is.
Max is.
Shelly, Shelly, honey.
Shelly.
Shelly, honey.
Shelly.
Mom!
Hi. Uh, no.
No problems here.
I don't know what she meant.
Um...
You wanna talk to her.
Uh, hold on.
Shelly?
She had to go.
Uh, nature calls, you know.
I gotta run. Bye.
What did I do?
Mr. Sardo?
Mr. Sardo!
It's Sardo!
No, mister.
Accent on the dough.
Look.
That stuff you sold me
made my sister disappear.
And that's a problem because?
Because she's gone.
I don't know where she is.
And it's all my fault.
Is that enough of a problem for you?
I don't give you water refund because I
don't give the refunds.
I don't want a refund.
I want my sister back.
Well, of course you do.
Of course you do.
Well, it's, uh, it's
quite simple, really.
Uh, in order for you to, uh,
in order for you to get her back,
you must, um, you
must, uh, first find her.
And in order for you to find her,
you must follow her.
And go where she went.
Follow her.
Mmm.
You're right.
I am.
I am!
Thanks, Mr. Sardo.
Sardo! Sardo!
I've got to get out of this business.
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She's here.
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To be or not to be?
That is the question.
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Uh, excuse me?
Go away.
This is my region.
OK.
But where are we?
We're in oblivion.
And if you're here, you've been erased
like everything else.
[LAUGHS]
All this stuff has been erased?
[LAUGHS]
What's this?
There's nothing.
[GUNSHOTS]
This...
does not move, does not breathe.
Garbage.
Who are you?
I'm Kronos the Conqueror.
And when I escape from
this dungeon of rubbish,
all shall know my name and
once again feel my wrath.
Bam.
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Where is you?
No one.
I erased myself.
Don't try for with me, boy.
Why would anyone erase themselves?
Did you find my sister?
Then you must possess
the tools of oblivion.
The what?
No, I just have a stick of
charcoal and an old eraser.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Tools.
I have waited for them for centuries.
Give them to me.
Why?
You want to get out of here?
Only I know the way.
Well, why don't you just tell me and then
we'll get out together?
Give me the tools.
Don't make me crush you, boy.
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[GROANS]
Your dinner think that
would work, did you, boy?
[LAUGHS]
We have closed for 20th century.
We are not immune.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We'll be there finally, ston.
[GROANS]
The war score and seven years ago,
our forefathers founded this country.
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[GROANS]
Now what?
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[GROANS]
Ew!
I did what you said.
I followed my sister
here and now I got stuck.
Where's here?
Oblivion.
That's where everything goes when it's
been erased with this.
Really?
How interesting.
You sold this to me.
Now you're going to get us out.
I can assure you, I have no idea--
[GROANS]
What is that?
Bad guy.
[GROANS]
Max!
Max, over here!
Chili?
I'm sorry.
I didn't know this was going to happen.
Just get me out of here or I'll--
[GROANS]
That smelly guy put me in here.
Sooner or later, all things
in Oblivion ends up in there.
To make more room.
[SCREAMS]
Max!
Just let her go.
The girl with two arms.
Give him what he wants.
OK.
Just give me the key first.
You know, I'm not in the apartment.
It's her.
I'll stop talking now.
You are in no position to bargain.
All right.
Here.
[LAUGHS]
I'm giving the key.
Go get it.
[SCREAMS]
I just got out.
That's Sato.
No, Mr. Talbot.
You have no idea the power of the tools.
Create.
Destroy.
Now they're mine.
It's hopeless.
It's useless.
At last, I'll return to my time and
finish what I started.
They create and destroy.
[GUNSHOT]
[LAUGHS]
What are you doing?
I'm going to erase oblivion.
No.
Then I erase oblivion.
I'm going to erase oblivion.
[SCREAMS]
What happened?
It worked.
I erased oblivion.
Why didn't we get erased?
Because I didn't erase us.
But then where are we?
We're nowhere.
But not for long.
Do you want the honors?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I don't suppose you could draw an
addition to my house.
I never thought I'd be
happy to see this mess.
Tell me that was all a tree.
Mom.
Mothers never like me.
Where'd the piano go?
That's what I called you about.
It was totally out of tune.
So--
So I took it to the shop to get it tuned.
In fact, I really
should be going there now.
Goodbye.
The house is a mess.
What have you kids been doing?
Um, nothing.
Just playing with the dog.
So Max had the power
to create and destroy.
And it all came from a
simple piece of charcoal
and a tiny piece of rubber.
The end.
This is awesome.
Wow, that's really great.
What are you doing with that?
No, it's not very good.
I thought I just--
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What do we do? It's just a stone. I'm not a kid. It's just a story.
But I'll take care of it if you guys help
me carry this stuff back.
Sure.