Pet Tamers, Episode 2

Of course, the last episode ended on a cliffhanger, and we still haven't delivered the necessary First Battle and every pet's beast form, so:

PET TAMERS:

EPISODE 2 - A Team is Formed

SCENE: AN OFFICE. The IMPORTANT CEO sits at his desk, head seated on the back of his hands, staring the papers on his desk.

ENTERS a frowning EMPLOYEE.

IMPORTANT CEO: Ah, Benkley. Do you have any good news to report?

EMPLOYEE NAMED BENKLEY: Sorry, sir, but nobody approves of your plan to demolish Chesterwood Park for another of your skyscrapers.

IMPORTANT CEO: Nobody? Do they not realize that the future of this city depends on my business, and not some silly park?

BENKLEY: The public really likes that park.

IMPORTANT CEO: Bah! (stands up and turns toward the giant picture window) Since when does the public know what's good for them? Benkley, we need that skyscraper built. We need more money, and that skyscraper is going to be the key to that money. I want you to tell my private demolition crew to demolish Chesterwood Park and start laying down that skyscraper. In fact, tell them that they can go ahead and kill anyone still hanging around the park.

BENKLEY: You don't really care about the public, do you?

IMPORTANT CEO: Of course not! I hate people! All I care about is money! How else do I think I got promoted?

BENKLEY: Frankly, sir, I haven't the slightest notion.

IMPORTANT CEO: Money! That's how! Now go, assemble the team, and tell them to be ready by this afternoon!

BENKLEY: ... As you wish, sir.

NEXT SCENE: A large, three-story building with a flagpole and a big grassy lawn out front. That is, the high school.

CUT to the hallway. For some reason, there are only about 10 people in the hallway. Only one of them has their locker open. That person is a GIRL, and on the other side of the locker door is CHRIS.

CHRIS: So, you know, you and I could go out for a bite to eat, see a concert. I've got tickets to the Zingos, if you want to go...

GIRL is not impressed; she shuts her locker and leaves without a word. CHRIS sighs and turns, and is surprised by JASON who is standing right behind.

CHRIS: Hey! What were you doing? Did you put a sign on my back again?

JASON: No, Chris, our rivalry in the past is at an end. We need you to join us. You ran off the other day, without your whistle.

CHRIS: Come on, you don't believe this crap, do you?

JASON: Hey, you can't use that word!

CHRIS: What, 'crap'? This is a high school, isn't it?

JASON: Yes, but you forgot the anti-profanity rules that they suddenly implemented just a few days before Career Day.

CHRIS: 'Crap' isn't profanity!

JASON: Maybe, but slang is also prohibited, so that is very much a prohibited word. By the way...

(turns toward the camera)

'Prohibited' (the word 'prohibited' flashes up onscreen) means "forbidden by law".

CHRIS: You're really creepy when you do that. Like when you do anything.

JASON (pulls out CHRIS's whistle): Here, take your whistle.

CHRIS: I already said, this is nuts. And that scientist was just a crazy old man. Heck, didn't we all mentally label him "OLD MAN"?

JASON: Please, Chris, we need you. Take your whistle.

CHRIS: No, I don't want the magic whistle. Leave me alone.

JASON: But, Chris... (zoom back, slight reverb) We're supposed to be a team.

Apparently, there aren't any bells at this school between classes.

FADE to someone's house. We don't really care whose house, it's just one of the Pet Tamers'. Let's say, MAGGIE's house.

JASON: I tried to talk to CHRIS, but he just brushed me off.

MAGGIE: Me too. "Brushed off"? Who on earth says that?

SHANA: I was going to talk to him during math class, but I never got the chance. He was too busy talking with someone else.

MAGGIE: Too bad we're not allowed to pass notes in class. Then I might have asked him about it.

JASON: Yes, (eyes turn to camera) but we're too good students to fall for such shameful behavior.

SHANA: Does anyone know where he is now? I tried calling him, but his last name had multiple listings and I don't know his parents' first names.

MAGGIE: That's a surprisingly realistic answer.

PETE (not playing on his trademark-infringing handheld): I checked his online status a few minutes ago. It said he was on a date.

MAGGIE: Oh, right. I remember. He was going to Chesterwood Park to meet up with a girl.

JASON: Then we should get over there now. Maybe we can convince him together to join.

MAGGIE: Well, let's go, then.

JASON: Let's bring our pets, too, just too convince him all the more.

MAGGIE: How overly cautious of you. I love it! Let's go.

CUT to Chesterwood Park. Ominous bulldozers are in the background. CHRIS walks in.

CHRIS: Looks like Betty is late. I hope she's not standing me up. I wonder what those bulldozers are doing here.

PAN to the other side of the bulldozers. BENKLEY overlooks them, with a walkie-talkie in one hand.

BENKLEY: You're sure we should bulldoze the park?

CUT to IMPORTANT CEO; this happens each time each speaks.

IMPORTANT CEO: If the bulldozers are ready, then yes! Destroy it!

BENKLEY: But, I don't know... this seems so... prohibited (the word "prohibited" flashes onscreen).

IMPORTANT CEO: I don't care if it is forbidden by law. Do it before the police show up, while we still have the element of surprise. Do it, Benkley, or I will ruin you for the rest of your life!

BENKLEY (sighing and putting down the radio): We'll all go to jail for this. (shouting to the foremen) Start them up!

CUT to CHRIS.

CHRIS: They're all pointed this way. They're not really going to plow through the park, are they?

(bulldozers start up and head straight for CHRIS)

Oh, sh-(a tree suddenly and conveniently falls at this moment) They are going to plow through here!

CHRIS starts running, but suddenly trips for no reason.

CHRIS: Oh, Go-(another tree conveniently falls at this moment) this is so unfair. I hate this f-(another tree falls) place.

JASON: Chris!

CHRIS turns around. JASON, MAGGIE, SHANA, and PETE are running up to him.

CHRIS: Oh, this is such a f-(one more tree) coincidence.

SUDDEN FLASHING COLOR SPINNING BACKGROUND as JASON puts the WHISTLE to his lips.

LOUD RAP MUSIC followed by RANDOM IMAGES of the WHISTLE PRODUCING MUSICAL NOTES, UNTWISTING DNA, NUMBERS, and SCIENTIFIC-LOOKING DIAGRAMS flying around JASON'S DOG as it transforms into a GIANT, FEROCIOUS WOLF.

CHRIS: Wait, wha-... What just happened? Was that some crazy...

LOUD RAP MUSIC as MAGGIE puts the WHISTLE to her lips, more STRANGE IMAGES of the WHISTLE PRODUCING MUSICAL NOTES, DNA, ETC., ETC., as MAGGIE'S CAT LUCY transforms into a GIANT, FEROCIOUS PANTHER.

CHRIS: Uh... what was all that stuff? Was that supposed to explain how the crazy...

CHRIS is not actually supposed to talk during this part, so MORE LOUD RAP MUSIC as PETE puts the WHISTLE to his lips, and more ETC. ETC. happens and PETE's HAMSTER transforms into a GIANT, FEROCIOUS BEAR.

JASON: Go, get 'em, Chaffey!

CHRIS: Odd name...

MAGGIE: Stop the bulldozers, Lucy!

PETE: Save Chris, Baldwin!

CHRIS: How did the hamster turn into a...

CUT to action shots of CHAFFEY, LUCY, and BALDWIN rushing up against the bulldozers, and the terrified operators jumping out and screaming. CHRIS barely avoids getting landed on by BALDWIN.

CHRIS: I don't get it...

MAGGIE: Chris! Are you okay?

CHRIS: I mean, I understand the dog turning into a wolf, and the cat to panther, but a hamster into a bear? Hamsters aren't even related to bears.

JASON: Look, up there!

CUT to BENKLEY running towards a helicopter that was never seen before now.

SHANA (dramatically): Guess it's my turn...

SPINNING IMAGES, RAP MUSIC, YADA YADA, the bird becomes a GIANT FALCON.

SHANA: To the helicopter, Chee! Hurry!

The falcon CHEE races to the helicopter.

BENKLEY: Please, don't attack! That bird could get caught in the helicopter blades!

SHANA: Watch out for the blades, Chee!

BENKLEY: Oh, well... okay, then.

CHEE dodges the helicopter and enters the helicopter's cockpit.

BENKLEY: Hey! Get away! Shoo! Don't make me use the pepper spray! Get out of here!

As BENKLEY fights off CHEE, our attention turns to CHRIS and JASON leading the other three team members.

JASON: Chris, we cannot fight without you.

CHRIS: You look like you're doing fine without me.

JASON: We need to work together as a team if we want to stop them. Join us. (holding out Chris's whistle and lizard)

CHRIS: Oh, fine. If it will shut you up... (takes both)

CLOSE-UP of JASON.

JASON: I think we have all learned an important lesson today; that we cannot do separately what we can only do as a team; that though we are small on our own, we can accomplish great things through the power of...

CHRIS: All right, all right, don't get snooty about it!

CHRIS blows his whistle. AWESOME TRANSFORMATION of CHRIS'S LIZARD into GIANT 5-STORY DINOSAUR.

Everyone except CHRIS: Whoa!

SHANA: That's amazing!

PETE: You've got the best one!

CHRIS: Yeah, yeah, go squish the enemies and stuff, lizard thing.

CHRIS'S DINOSAUR squashes the bulldozers. The helicopter flies around the DINOSAUR'S head. The DINOSAUR takes notice and reaches out with its hand.

BENKLEY: This is my cue to bail ship.

BENKLEY leaps off the helicopter with a parachute, landing on his boss's skyscraper. The DINOSAUR rears its head and lunges for the skyscraper.

JASON: That building is the enemy's headquarters! Tell your lizard to destroy it!

CHRIS: Um... this is probably illegal, but...

CHRIS'S DINOSAUR'S GIANT FOOT destroys the front entrance of the building anyway.

INSIDE the building...

CEO: What is happening?

BENKLEY: They've hired Godzilla to kill us.

CEO: Don't worry, Benkley! I have a plan!

CUT to OUTSIDE the building, where CHRIS'S DINOSAUR delivers a final kick to the building and reduces it to rubble.

JASON: We did it! Chesterwood Park is saved!

CHRIS (surveying the destroyed machinery and buildings): This was probably overkill.

JASON: Let's return our pets to their natural form!

DENOUEMENT SEQUENCE: Everyone's pets, lined up in a row, magically shift back to their normal form. No music. No flashy background. This is actually pretty boring.

JASON: Hey! Chaffey!

MAGGIE: That was awesome, Lucy!

SHANA: You rocked, Chee!

CHRIS: Um... I can't find mine...

PETE: (holding up both the hamster and the lizard) Right here.

CHRIS: (taking the hamster) Thank you.

PETE: Hey! Give him back!

OLD MAN: (appearing from nowhere) Great work, Pet Savers! I knew you could do it. All you needed was teamwork, cooperation, and friendship to save the day.

JASON: (staring at camera) Yes, we would never have gotten as far as we have with cooperation and teamwork, and certainly not without friendship.

OLD MAN: But this is just the beginning, Pet Savers, of our long work of saving the planet.

CHRIS: Crazy old man. Yeah right.

CUT to above the wreckage. A cloud of smoke hovers over the rubble. A figure suddenly breaks through the cloud.

CEO: How clever I was to store a jetpack in my office!

BENKLEY: I'm glad you gave it a carrying capacity of two.

CEO: Come on, Benkley. This skyscraper means nothing. We have bigger schemes to crack. More plans for the future. This is not the end; it is just the beginning.

(as the CEO steers himself and BENKLEY into the sunset)BENKLEY: Bravo on your optimism, sir. We're probably on "America's Most Wanted" by now.

THE END... ?