Previously on the Aquabats! Supershow!: Several of the clips are not from last time- the best is the lonely cactus out in the snow.
Somewhere…at a local neighborhood supermarket
(Shrieking people flee a grocery store)
MCBC: Alright Aquabats, I know there’s a lot of delicious food in here. Let’s not lose focus.
Jimmy: The creature was last seen in the produce section.
Ricky: Mm…fresh veggies.
MCBC: Ricky, don’t lose focus! (As an afterthought) Someone remind me to pick up some milk on the way out.
(They walk casually past an aisle with a giant bug devouring groceries. A second later, they all stop and backtrack.)
Crash: Do you think that’s the monster?
(It hears them and screeches. They duck behind some groceries out of its line of sight.)
MCBC: Yes Crash I think it is.
Jimmy: That’s a giant flea beetle. They used to eat the tomatoes in my mother’s garden. Something must have mutated it.
(The others laugh)
Eaglebones: Did you say mother? You don’t have a mother robot!
Jimmy: Actually-
MCBC: Eaglebones, flush him this way. Ricky, grab nets from aisle five. Jimmy, get your finger missiles ready.
Jimmy: Commander, the manager asked us to remove the creature but to do it without making a mess. Captain Turnip’s Grocery Island prides itself on its cleanliness.
Ricky and Crash: (singing) At Captain Turnip’s Grocery Island, we pride ourselves on cleanliness!
MCBC: Yeah I’ve seen those commercials. Let’s go! Ok Eaglebones is in position. Here we go!
(Eaglebones drives the monster at them. They attack and throw nets as the monster throws them around. Crash jumps on its back.)
Eaglebones: Move Crash!
(Crash is thrown clear and Eaglebones lasers the monster until it collapses. MCBC and Crash get a kick and a punch in as it falls.)
Ricky: We did it!
MCBC: Cleanup on aisle nine!
Grocer: (entering) What is this look at this mess! Don’t you know Captain Turnip’s Grocery Island prides itself on our cleanliness?! You destroyed the store!!
MCBC: Maybe. But we did get rid of that giant mutant beetle. Heh?
Grocer: Get out. You are no longer welcome in Captain Turnip’s Grocery Island.
(Walking out of the store.)
MCBC: I never liked that store anyway.
Crash: Yeah it’s way too clean.
Ricky: Wow where did that thing come from?
MCBC: Good question Ricky. Jimmy, figure it out!
Jimmy: I’ve located the DNA signature of the beetle’s tracks.
MCBC: Where do they lead?
Jimmy: Just outside of the town of Plainville to a local farming community. But that means they would lead back- home! (Jimmy looks pained and begins to run in the direction indicated by the tracks.)
Eaglebones: Jimmy wait!
MCBC: It’s too dangerous! Aquabats, to the battletram.
(Jimmy runs down the road while the battletram follows slowly.)
Eaglebones: Why don’t we just pick Jimmy up and drive him the rest of the way?
MCBC: Because Eaglebones, sometimes people and robots just need to run. (Learning and growing riff plays quietly in the background)
(They arrive at a farm with a giant apple sitting beside the barn. A pair of skeletons lie on the ground, smoke rising around them.)
Jimmy: Mother-!
Eaglebones: Mother?
Jimmy: I didn’t make it in time to save them!
Ricky: Maybe you shouldn’t’ave run the whole way. (pause) Just saying.
Jimmy’s Mom: James? Are my eyes playing tricks on me?
Jimmy: Mother! (They run to each other and embrace) I thought a giant bug roasted you!
Mom: A- a giant, a giant bug? No, fiddlesticks! No that’s just your father burning skeletons from his lab. He’s got so many! Oh- Ralph!
(Jimmy’s dad comes out of the barn with a pitchfork. He tosses another skeleton on the pile.)
Jimmy’s dad: Well well well. Mr too good for his own family has come home.
Jimmy: Hello father.
MCBC: (Inserting himself awkwardly) You must be Jimmy’s parents. We’re the Aquabats. We’re Jimmy’s friends. We play in a band together you know- rock and roll?
Mom: You’re very loud! Yes it’s wonderful to meet you. Won’t you stay and have lunch with us? I just baked a fresh apple pie.
MCBC: We love pie. Ok!
Mom: Ok. This way.
MCBC: Do you like boogie down productions?
Mom: You betcha.
MCBC: Yeah, they’re great.
(At lunch)
Eaglebones: So you’re really Jimmy’s parents?
Mom: Yes Dear.
Crash: Are you robots?
Dad: No we’re not robots. Are you dumb as a sack of apples?
Mom: Oh!
Dad: I’m a scientist and I built James to be a farmer.
Ricky: You built Jimmy?
Jimmy: Yes my father built me.
Ricky: Get out of the city!
(Story sequence)
Jimmy: Many years ago, as a young robot. My father is a brilliant scientist. He created me to help with chores around the apple farm. I spent every day picking apples. Cleaning apples. Coring apples. But I had bigger dreams. And I had to get out. So one day I told my mother I was leaving for the big city to finally do what I really wanted to do: to fight crime while playing the saxophone, in the park, on horseback! When I actually got there I realized things weren’t so easy. It was tough. I had to work nights as a dishwasher. One day I saw a wanted ad for a band seeking a robot who could play the saxophone. Perfect! Practice was going great until some ruffians broke in the tried to take our money. We laughed because we didn’t have any money. But that just made them more upset. So I launched a thousand finger missiles at them. And man, did that scare them away. And from that moment on, we decided to fight crime together- as a band.
Jimmy: And, we called ourselves the Aquabats.
The others: Yeah!
Mom: I always wondered what happened.
Dad: He never bothered to call us- He was too busy being a rock star.
Jimmy: You always tried to make me something I didn’t want to be.
Dad: I only wanted you to become a great man!
Jimmy: No. You wanted me stuck here working as one of your farm tools!
Mom: Who is ready for some apple pie?
(Crash stands MCBC seats him again)
MCBC: Well that’s quite an enormous apple you’ve got out there Mr Goodman.
Dad: Yeah, genetically altered, right off our own tree. After James left I couldn’t manage the work on the farm all by myself. So I invented a way to enlarge fruit, big enough to feed a whole town! Easier than having to harvest an entire orchard all by myself.
Jimmy: Would you drop it already? I’m not a farmer I never will be! When will you accept me for what I am? (He leaves)
Crash: Touchy.
Mom: You have driven our son away once before Ralph Goodman and I will be darned if I’m gonna let you do it again. Oh!
Ricky: Awkward.
Outside by the barn
Mom: James your pa doesn’t mean to hurt you. He loves you very much.
Jimmy: Well if that’s true he sure has a funny way of showing it.
Mom: I wanna show you something. Come with me. Come on. (They go into the lab in the barn)
Jimmy: I know Dad has a lot of skeletons.
Mom: No, not that James.
Jimmy: You mean this cartoon?
Mom: It’s a cartoon?
Bat Cartoon:
Tennis attacks!
Mom: No, not that either. This. (She points to a wall of articles about the Aquabats exploits)
Jimmy: I’m deeply moved.
Mom: We’re so proud of everything you’ve done to save the world. He’s so proud.
(Inside the house)
MCBC: Mr Goodman!
Dad: Aw, you don’t have to yell, I can hear you!
MCBC: Oh… Well. Did you happen to see any large bugs around here lately.
Dad: Bugs?
(The ground begins to shake. We see those inside and outside the house reacting to it. Then a giant worm pops out of the large apple near the barn and swallows Jimmy’s mom, taking her underground. Everyone else rushes outside.)
Jimmy: Mother!
Dad: MARTHAAAA!!
(The worm pops up behind them and they run willy nilly in panic. Ricky climbs a ladder. Bones jumps into a truck bed. Crash and MCBC make for the battletram.
MCBC: What was that thing?
Jimmy: There must have been a worm in that apple you enlarged.
Dad: Thus enlarging and mutating the worm as well.
(Ricky steps down tentatively. The worm appears again to threaten him.)
Ricky: Commander come pick me up!
MCBC: Hang tight Ricky. (He revs the engine intending to start the battletram, but this attracts the worm)
Jimmy: Commander- turn off the engine.
Dad: Quick let’s distract it.
(They beat on the barn creating noise. The worm forces them to the barn’s second level.)
Dad: We got to save your mother son. Without her I got nothing.
Jimmy: No dad you’ll always have me.
Friends! The worm must register seismic activity, which is how it knows where we all are.
Crash: Seisma-whaty?
Jimmy: It can feel our vibrations. We don’t have much time. We have to lure the worm out of the ground with loud noises.
MCBC: Like loud music!
Jimmy: Exactly. Let’s just hope my mother’s still alive!
Faux-Mercial: Dirt clod!!!
Jimmy: Aquabats, my father’s activating the subsonic woofer that’ll send seismic waves into the ground, forcing the creature to the surface.
MCBC: And then we can blow it up!
Jimmy: No Commander, my mother’s in there.
MCBC: Oh yeah. Your mom.
Jimmy: You’ve gotta play music to keep the creature from going under again. That’s when I open the worm and get my momma out. Aquabats are you ready?
All: Ready!
Eaglebones: It’s going under. Aquabats hit it!
(They sing a song -Open the worm. Dad readies a shotgun but Jimmy stops him)
Jimmy: No dad we can’t risk hurting Mother. Keep playing Aquabats. Mother!!
(Jimmy calculates where she should be a uses a laser to split the worm.)
Jimmy: Mother! Mother are you alright?
Mom: Oh James!
Dad: Martha!!
Mom: Oh James that worm done had me!
Dad: Martha! James, you did it son. You saved your mother. You are the man I always hoped you’d be.
MCBC: Sometimes it takes cutting open a giant disgusting slimy worm to bring a family close together. (Learning and growing) Now Aquabats, let’s go.
Dad: Go Jimmy. Do what you were made to do. Go save the world!
(The battletram drives away, dragging an amp that accidentally never got put away)