Scene: Back alleys of Mainframe; close up on poster featuring a cross-eyed Guardian Enzo and the phrase 'Guardian Schmardian'; switches to area of city where a game cube has landed, as citizens flee the immediate area; switches to Princepal Office situation room...
Enzo: (upset) I tried to reach the game in time... I really did!
Dot: We both did!
Enzo: But Megabyte`s troops blocked us at every turn, they wouldn`t let us in, they...
Phong: (interrupts) You know, Megabyte has done this once before... to Bob himself!
Dot: Phong. Please.
System Voice-over: GAME OVER! ...USER WINS!
Enzo: (loudly) Noooooo!
Scene: The nullified sector, after game has left; Binome search in vain through wreckege; Mike! the T.V. shows up with his camera crew...
Mike! the T.V.: (anguished) Oh, the circuitry, the circuitry! Oh, this is terrible, ladies and gentlemen! So many innocent binomes brutally nullified! Where was pur Guardian when we needed him? Why have so many innocents gone...
Hack: (blocks camera) Cut!
Slash: Yeah! It`s a wrap!
Mike! the T.V.: (protesting) Hey! You guys can`t do this! It`s a newsbreaking story! The viewers have a right to know!
Slash: Call it 'voluntary censorship'!
Hack: Yeah! Huh! Or we could make it 'involuntary censorship'!
Slash: Heh heh, if you know what we mean! (the camera signal breaks-up at that point, going to static)
Scene: The Princepal Office, as vid-window signal goes to static...
Dot: I want med-teams into the pit... now! C`mon, move, move, move!
Mouse: (responding to an alarm) Hold them over, sugar! Megabyte`s attacking the nullified sector!
Phong: (referring to radar image) Against a force of that size, we cannot prevail! May the `Net forgive me... raise shields!
Scene: Nullified sector, as Megabyte`s forces arrive; binomes continue to search wreckage, until a large vid-window opens...
Megabyte: (from vid-window) Effective as of now, this sector is under my control. You will surrender your P.I.D.s, and swear loyalty to me... or pay the penalty!
'Picard' Binome: Surrender our P.I.D.s to you? We`re tired of living infear! The line must be drawn here!
Megabyte: Yesss. (to troops) Delete him! (an A.B.C. fires, deleting him... to the shocked horror of Hack and Slash; to bystanders...) As you may have noticed, resistance is futile. Anyone else have a problem with that? (they all offer up their P.I.D.s) Excellent! (laughs)
Scene: The Princepal Office, as a vid-window shows a binome in an alley putting up another anti-Enzo poster...
Dot: Cyrus!
Enzo: What`s he doing, dot?
Dot: Megabyte`s using one of his spies to turn Mainframe against you!
Enzo: (confused) What for?
Mouse: Propaganda! Divide and conquer! It`s a cheap shot... Megabyte to a 'T'!
Phong: (quietly building up) So be it! We must fight fire with fire! We must make Enzo a living icon for the citizens of Mainframe! The user must not win another game! Enzo must be seen as a game hero! A hero who will inspire hope! A light to lead them out of the darkness! A beacon...
Dot: (interrupts) Wait! What you`re suggesting is that Enzo takes on the user... alone?
Enzo: Dot... you gotta `member... I`m a Guardian! And I`ve beenin dozens of games!
Dot: Yeah, with Bob or me along!
AndrAIa: Let me go with him! I`m a gamesprite... a warrior! I...
Dot: (interrupts) No!
Mouse: (interrupts) Look, Dot! You`ve got to face facts! Mainframe needs you here to take care of Megabyte! I`ll look after the little darlins!
Dot: (suprised) You`ll go into the games?
Phong: Wait! Mouse and AndrAIa`s icons are not formatted to reboot! If they enter a game... they will be trapped!
Mouse: I`ve got that one covered, sugar. All I need is a work-station... and that! (points to Enzo`s Guardian icon)
Scene: A work-station ina lab in the Princepal Office; Enzo`s icon held in one arm of an apparatus, AndrAIa`s in the other, slightly apart from each other...
Mouse: (distractedly as she works) Hacked in... downloading... now! (a beam of blue light emerges from back of Enzo`s icon into back of AndrAIa`s... which converts into the black/white icon of Mainframe)
Enzo: (watching change) Cool! (Mouse removes AndrAIa`s changed icon and gives it back to her)
AndrAIa: Thank you, mouse! Does this mean I can reboot like Enzo?
Mouse: I hope so, sweety. Just remember, it`s untested! We`ve got no way of knowin` if they`ll work for either of us!
Enzo: (concearned) Are you sure of this, AndrAIa?
AndrAIa: I`ve never been more sure of anything!
Mouse: Y`know... Megabyte will try to stop us!
Enzo: Hey! A Guardian`s gotta do... what a Guardian`s gotta do! Anyway, Dot`ll think of something... she always does!
Scene: Princepal Office situation room; Dot and Phong go over a plan...
Phong: ...And you really think this will work?
Dot: It`s such a simple plan... how can it fail?
Phong: Well...
Dot: Look, we don`t have time to be fancy. It`ll work... trust me!
Phong: (examining plan again) Hmmm...
Dot: Y`know, Phong... I`ve been thinking... with the ports to the `Net closed and locked, Megabyte can`t even attemp to get to the Supercomputer!
Phong: Correct, my child. I`m afraid Bob has effectively locked us in the cage... with the tiger!
Scene: Interior of A.B.C. on patrol; a vid-window opens with an image of Megabyte...
Viral Commander: Megabyte! Sir! All troops are positioned and ready for the next game! The Guardian shall not pass!
Megabyte: Excellant! But remember, do not harm the boy, just stop him. He`s far more usefull to me alive... for the moment. Make sure his humiliation is total. I want the masses to wallow in his ineffectiveness!
Viral Commander: Understood, Sir! We will not fail you!
Megabyte: For your sake, you had better not! (a game cube begins to drop)
System Voice-over: WARNING! INCOMING GAME! ...WARNING! INCOMING GAME!
Megabyte: Excellant! (chuckles) As if on cue! (closes vid-window)
Viral Tech:(beside Commander) Scanners are picking up two signals leaving the Princepal Office. Report coming in... Visual confirmation! It`s Dot and Enzo!
Viral Commander: Let`s go! All squadrons!
Scene: Sky over Mainframe; 'Dot and Enzo' head to game from Princepal Office, but are stopped and surrounded by A.B.C.s...
Viral Commander`s Voice: Stop! or face deletion! (they stop) Now, put your hands up! (suddenly, a cut-out of Dot and Enzo drops away, revealing the two binomes that were holding it raising their hands fearfully) What the...?
Viral Tech: Sir! I have a lock on another set of sprites! I`ve got another, too! And another!... and another!! Sir! The whole sky is filled with 'Dot and Enzo's!
Scene: The sky full of 'Dot and Enzo's... suddenly three are dropped, revealing Enzo, AndrAIa, and Mouse... who head straight for the game...
AndrAIa: (raised voice) Help! Mouse, I`m losing power! (when Mouse comes to help, AndrAIa pulls the zip-board out from under Mouse`s feet)
Mouse: (after landing on roof; shouts) AndrAIa!
AndrAIa: Sorry, Mouse! (Enzo and AndrAIa enter game just before it lands)
Scene: Interior of game... a dessert highway setting...
Enzo: (looking around, sees AndrAIa) AndrAIa! Where`s Mouse?
AndrAIa: I stopped her getting into the game.
Enzo: But... why?
AndrAIa: Our icons are untested! There`s no need for two of us to bear the risk!
Enzo: But what about you?
AndrAIa: I`m a game-sprite! If trapped, I can survive here! It`s all I knew before I met you, Enzo.
Enzo: But...?
AndrAIa: Better get into character, Guardian! (a rebooted binome approaches)
Enzo: (clears throat) We...
Old Prospector: (interrupts) You`re that young Guardian, aint`cha? (looks closely) Hey... them posters wuz right, you`re just a kid! (spits tobbacco [nasty habit - scribe])
Enzo: (sarcastically to himself) 'A living icon, a light to lead them out of the darkness, a hero'... Thanks, Phong.
Scene: Interior of Silicon Tor, 'Med'-lab...
Herr Doktor: All is ready, Lord Megabyte!
Megabyte: Then proceed.
Herr Doktor: Zrow ze svitch! ('Bunnyslipper vonFrankenbinome does so, causing a large energy ball to be raised, then released, revealing a changed Hexadecimal)
Hexadecimal: (disoriented) Wha, what have you done to me?
Megabyte: You were all but destroyed in an explosion. We had to rebuild you... with some 'minor' modifications!
Hexadecimal: (in a rising voice) Who made me look like THIS? (a frightened Herr Doktor passes blame to Bunnyslipper, who snickers brainlessly) IEEE... like it. (Herr Doktor sighs in relief) Well, thak you, dear brother, but I must be going! B`byee! (as Hex walks away, Megabyte pushes a button ona control pad on his arm, activating a collar around her neck, shocking her unconsious)
Megabyte: Excellent, Herr Doktor! Now I have my 'dear sister`s' power at my command, nothing can stand before me! Mainframe will burn and Megaframe shall rise out of it`s ashes! (laughs evilly, joined by Herr Doktor`s 'mad-scientist' laughter)
Scene: Interior of game...
Prospector: Well, c`mon, 'Guardian'... save us!
Enzo: Uh... Glitch! Game stats!
Prospector: Eh... say, what`s that toy you got there, boy?
AndrAIa: It is a key-tool. Only Guardians have them!
Prospector: (laughs gleefully) We`re saved, then! Saw Bob use his once... it was dynamite!
Enzo: (dispiritedly) Oh. Well, ah... this one`s broken. (brightly) But it can tell us what the game is!
Prospector: (impatiently) Great leapin` lizards, boy! Can`t you just use your eyes? (points behind Enzo) look!
Enzo: Hmmm? (looks behind and sees an extremely animated sign announcing the game`s title; dejected) Oh.
AndrAIa: (sweetly) Guardian?
Enzo: Let`s do it!
Enzo and AndrAIa: Reboot!
AndrAIa: Pixelitious! I`m a biker babe! (looks at Enzo and giggles loudly at his predicament)
Enzo: (as Elmer Fudd-like character) Tewiffic fow you, but wook at me! (AndrAIa can`t stop laughing)
Prospector: (worriedly) Eh... Guardian?
Enzo Fudd:Oh, wight, I`m a Guawdian now, am I?
Prospector: We got company! (from up the road a fast-moving, maniacally laughing dust-cloud approaches, revealing the user`s character - Rocky, the Rabid Raccoon... who laughs, slobbers, and notices AndrAIa... grabs her and gives her a bunch of big, wet kisses - to her dismay)
AndrAIa: Blah! Blech!
Enzo 'Fudd': Unhand her, you wabid wascal, you! (Rocky releases AndrAIa) Wet`s get weady to wumble! (Rocky merely laughs and runs away - VERY fast!)
AndrAIa: (still recovering) He`s too fast! We`ll never catch him!
Enzo 'Fudd': (calmly) Be vewy vewy quiet! I`m hunting waccoons! (fires rifle, but recoil knocks him flying; the bullet ricochets off various items, ending up launching some fireworks, one of which hits a flying buzzard, causing it`s plucked body to fall... landing on Rocky`s head as he saunters along some railroad tracks. He doesn`t see the train that hits him, costing him a life)
Enzo 'Fudd': One wife down, two to go!
Prospector: (not giving an inch) Mmmm... lucky shot.
Enzo 'Fudd': (frustrated) Aw... Come on!
Scene: Princepal Office, the situation room...
Dot: And she stole your zip-board?
Mouse: That`s what I said!
Dot: You`re tellin` me that my little brother is trapped ina game... witha game-sprite?
Phong: With a game-sprite... who loves him!
Dot: (incredulous) What?
Phong: AndrAIa would never do anything to hurt Enzo... or any one of us! You know that Dot.
Dot: Then why...
Phong: (interrupts) Time will tell! We must be ready to get them safely home when they win the game! Megabyte`s forces are already in position to attack! My child, what we need... is a plan!
Dot: (sighs) I think I`m all out of plans, Phong!
Scene: The game; AndrAIa zooms down highway on bike, with Enzo riding behind her and Prospector riding the handle-bars...
Prospector: (looking behind) He`s catchin` up!
Enzo 'Fudd': AndwAIa! Wook out! (Rocky zooms by in a cloud of dust... and emerges riding AndrAIa`s motorcycle alone; AndrAIa, Enzo, and Prospector emerge from dust-cloud in same positions as before, but no m`bike!; they do double-takes and hit ground rolling, landing in a pile)
Prospector: (holding his back, moans) Oh... I`m getting too old for this sorta thing!
AndrAIa: Oh, no! Wook! (shakes head) Uh, I mean look! (points at field where Rocky is at a launch pad)
Enzo 'Fudd': He`s got a wocket! (Rocky laughs insanely at them and pushes the launch button... )
Launch-pad Voice-over: Launch... in... 5... 4... threetwooneblastoff! (it launches and quickly reaches it`s ceiling, turns around, and rapidly descends)
Enzo 'Fudd': (to himself) Uh-oh! I think were in twouble! (to the others) We`ve got to get off this wevel! Wight now!
Prospector: Now, just wait a tad, boy! I1m gonna take my chances here!
Enzo 'Fudd': The wocket will cwash and dewete you!
AndrAIa: Leave him, Enzo! We`ve got to stop the user!
Enzo 'Fudd': I can`t weave him. I`m a Gauwdian! (at this, AndrAIa touches one of her nails to Prospector`s 'neck', knocking him senseless) AndwAIa! Whata ya doing?
AndrAIa: Saving him! You grab his feet! Okay, where are we going?
Enzo 'Fudd': Uhh... we go that way! (points down to level from edge; the rocket hits the ground as they emerge from a tree on the next level... the hard way)
Farmer Binome: Gee, uh... where`d you come from?
Enzo 'Fudd': (tired) It`s a wong stowy!
Farmer`s Wife: He`s that Guardian, ya! Gee, he`s a bit young if you ask me, fer sure!
AndrAIa: (archly) No one is asking you!
Farmer: Oh, gee... uh what happened ta him?
Enzo 'Fudd': We ah... wescued him! Farmer`s Wife: Rescued? Oh, not a lot like Bob, are ya? When Bob rescued ya, ya`d stay conscious, fer sure!
Enzo 'Fudd': Wisten! Where`s Wocky?
Scarecrow Binome: Right there, I think! (points to field, where Rocky`s playing 'wack-a-mole'... and missing)
Rocky: Frustratin`, aint it? (takes off towards root-cellar) Suckers! (enters)
Enzo 'Fudd': Oh, no! He`s goin` down to the bonus wevew[level]! There`s an extra wife[life] coin down there! C`mon, we gotta get there ahead of him! (the binomes are reluctant to follow him; slightly frustrated) Okay, I may not be Bob, and I`m only a widdle sprite, but if we don`t stawt wowking[working] togethew, we`ll all be deweted!
Prospector: (after waking up at this point) Aw, dag-nabbit, the kid`s right!
Farmer`s Wife: Oh, yah! Fer sure!
Scarecrow: Duh!
AndrAIa: What now... Guardian?
Enzo 'Fudd': I got an idea! (they all huddle to discuss the idea)
Scene: The root-cellar; Enzo, AndrAIa, and the Prospector trying to get 'life-coin' from pedestal...
Enzo 'Fudd': (as Prospector groans trying to reach coin) Quick! Here he comes!
Prospector: Got it! Now how in tarnation do we get out of here?
AndrAIa: (as Rocky approaches from behind) Enzo!
Rocky: (to Prospector) Hey, buddy... can ya spare some change? (looks up as cover above is moved and a hose descends) Wha?
Enzo 'Fudd': Quick, gwab hold! (they do) Everyone hang on! (they all get pulled up, leaving Rocky alone below... facing skeletal binomes)
Rocky: (suprised) Hunh? (they surround him as cover is replaced, causing darkness) Uh-oh! (they pounce on him and beat the life out of him)
Enzo 'Fudd': (as everyone cheers) Y`did good, Scawecwow[Scarecrow]!
Prospector: Heh heh! Good work, Guardian! Two lives down, one to go!
Scene: Subway station in game, as Rocky arrives...
Rocky: Low enery... need food!
Rasta-binome Busker: (singing) Raccoon searchin` high `n` low/ For the food to make him go/ If I catch him in my trap/ Gonna make me a raccoon hat! (pulls out machete)
Rocky: WHAAAT? ( takes off as binome laughs; stops as he notices a vending machine) Yum yum! Lotta bad eatin` in a vending machine! (pounds on and rattles machine for freebies; as a binome approaches...) Hunh? (binome 'flashes' him!; Rocky takes off in shock up to street level, where he`s confronted by angry crowd) Whoops! Side exit for me! (heads down alley)
'Punker' Binome: (as he and another binome block the entrance) Well, we did wha Enzo said!
Scene: The alley, as Rocky runs quickely down, but stops very suddenly as his feet get stuck in wet tar; he struggles as a steamroller ridden by Enzo and AndrAIa enters alley from other end...
AndrAIa: Go get `im, Guardian! (Enzo stops machine)
Enzo 'Fudd': You`we[you`re] icon... what if it doesn`t work? (AndrAIa starts the machine forward again in answer; they wear evil grins as they bear down on Rocky)
Rocky: Uh-oh! (points to machine) This is gonna hurt! (gets flattened on front roller, comes around the top holding sign saying 'TOLD YA!')
System Voice-over: GAME OVER! (The binomes all cheer as they emerge from game cube)
Prospector: (now well dressed binome) I`d call that a Guardian! (spits)
Farmer`s Wife: (now sherrif binome) Fer sure!
Farmer: (now in minister`s collar) Aw, good job!
Enzo: (anxious) AndrAIa? AndrAIa??
Scarecrow: (now in gown and mortar-board) Duh! (points behind Enzo)
Well-dressed Binome: (laughs) She`s right behind ya, boy!
Enzo: (as she walks up) AndrAIa! (hugs her, realizes something, pulls back) Y..your icon... it... it worked!
Well dressed Binome: (in shakey voice) Eh, Guardian... we got company! (A.B.C.s fill sky)
Viral Commander: Surrender! Resistance is useless! Anyone attempting to escape will be deleted! (Enzo gets ready to attack, but the Viral Commander sees something that scares him and the A.B.C.s away)
Enzo: Wha... what I do?
AndrAIa: (points) Look! (sky seems to be full of C.P.Units... until they fall away, as cut-outs held by binomes on zip-boards)
Enzo: Dot tricked them twice with the same plan! Megabyte`s going to be 'vewy vewy angewy'! (all laugh at this)
