Copyright 2000 -- Robert Baer Jr. Amos Doggie & Hannah -- "Small Visitors" DISCLAIMER Road Rovers characters, names, situations and the Road Rovers universe are the property of Warner Bros. I, nor this script/story are connected with Warner Bros. in any way, shape or form. This document may not be publicized or reproduced in any way, shape or form. It must remain fully intact and may not be altered in anyway. It is strictly used for not-for-profit entertainment purposes only, and is not intended to infringe on any Copyrights. This story is written by Robert Baer Jr and the characters Amos Doggie, Hannah, Hans, Deborah, Molly, Bruno, Marie, Francis, Luigi, Sophia, Lao Zi, Su Li, Greta, Yuri, Tanya, Felipe, Antonie, Josephine, Bernadette, Carla, Giorgio, Vanni, Peng, Deng, Amanda DeSalle, Simon DeSalle, Samantha Maddog and Otto are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright 1998-2000. Amos Doggie & Hannah -- "Small Visitors" The scene is Amos Doggie's home deep in the Louisana swampland. This is a very special day for Amos and Hannah, the Space Rover children have come to visit them. Through a time-travel mishap, these kids 'visited' Amos Doggie over three years ago on the day he first met Hannah. Their kindness and innocent natures changed the then very nasty Amos into a kind and loving canine. Now, since the Canius Minor is on Earth for 'shore leave', they have returned to visit their 'Uncle' Amos and 'Aunt' Hannah once more. While the twelve children (Greta, Yuri, Tanya, Felipe, Antonie, Josephine, Bernadette, Carla, Giorgio, Vanni, Deng and Peng) are playing in the yard, the 'grown-ups' are sitting at a large picnic table sipping iced tea and coffee. There's Hans and Deborah, Marie and Francis, Bruno and Molly, Luigi and Sophia along with Lao Zi and Su Li who have brought their children here today to see Amos and Hannah. DEBORAH (looking all around): This place reminds me of the Florida Everglades, lots of swampland there! LUIGI (nods): Reminds-a me of Venice, only with less-a land and more street! MARIE (points and screams): Sucrablue! How can anyone live among all of these creatures? LAO ZI (turns to Marie): It is because Amos has the uncanny ability to communicate with them. Even experts like Professor Hubert and myself honestly have no idea how he does it! SU LI (smiles): So you are admitting there are some things in life that you DON'T understand, my husband? LAO ZI (defensive): I didn't say that I'd NEVER understand it. In time, I'm sure I'll learn his secret HANS (smiles): Hey, we're here to relax and have fun, right? So let's not get bogged down in scientific discussions, alright? BRUNO (nods): Comrade Hans is right! SOPHIA (points): Look! Here comes Amos and Hannah with the food! FRANCIS (smiles): I love picnics, yes? Hannah is carrying a large tray packed with sandwiches, bowls of macaroni salad and other goodies. Amos is lifting a huge copper kettle with that all-too-familiar aroma coming from it. GRETA (sniffs): Is that what I think it is? YURI (nods): Yep! CARLA (jumps for joy): HOORAY!!! All of the children rush over to where Amos is standing shouting "CRAWDAD BISQUE!" Amos reaches for his ladle and quickly serves up bowl after bowl to all of the Rover children. MOLLY (confused): Crawdad bisque? Is dat like borsh? DEBORAH (stands up): I'll have some! FRANCIS (stands up): We we! Look at how our children are eating it! Soon every grown up is having a bowl of crawdad bisque. Soon, a brown barn owl flies overhead and lands on Amos's shoulder. This scares everyone at the table but Hannah. HANNAH (calmly): Everyone relax! That's just Oliver, one of my husband's bird friends! BRUNO (confused): Birds as friends? SOPHIA (smiles): Why not? He talks to alligators and snakes too, yes? After a quick 'conversation', Oliver flys away. AMOS (turns to Hannah): There be a human woman commin' dis way! From what Oliver say, it be your former master's daughter! HANNAH (smiles): That's great! I'll go out to meet her! Please excuse me, you have to meet Amanda DeSalle She's wonderful! Hannah runs over to the edge of the swamp and lets out a strange whistle. Soon, two huge alligators emerge from the water and allow Hannah to stand on their backs. The Rover children see this and run over for a better look. GRETA (excited): WOW! GIORGIO (happy): Thatsa totally amazing! YURI (confused): How did you do that, Aunt Hannah? BERNADETTE (jumping): Can we come with you, Aunt Hannah? JOSEPHINE (begging): PLEASE???? HANNAH (shakes head): Not this time, children. When I return and after you've eaten, then one of us will take all of you on a gator ride, alright? All of the children cheer at that announcement, and Hannah is soon off to find ****. Meanwhile the other grownup continue eating. AMOS (smiles): I really love sandwiches! You eat dem wit your hands and no one yells at you! BRUNO (rolls eyes): Er.... OK! MARIE (jumps back): AMOS!!! There's something floating in my soup! AMOS (looks down towards Marie): Dat just be duh crawdads! MARIE (startled): THOSE are CRAWDADS? AMOS (nods): Yes ma'am! Either chew'm or swaller dem whole! Real good eatin' I guarantee! MARIE (frowns): I think I'll pass... AMOS (confused): Pass? Well, we be playing touch football later, yes? LAO ZI (whispers to Su Li): This dog obviously lacks intelligence! SU LI (whipsers back): Please, my husband. Do not be so fast to judge him! As she is speaking, Hannah has returned as was helping Amanda with tying her boat to a tree. She is dressed in a white designer blouse and bluejeans. The Rover children all see her and immediately surround her. AMANDA (surprised): WOW! Hannah, are these all your puppies? HANNAH (smiles): No, but they are the puppies of some friends of mine! Please come over and meet them! As Hannah introduces Amanda to all the grown-ups, Amos continues to play with the children, giving them alligator 'rides' in the swamp and introducing them to all of his animal friends. HANNAH (shouts over to Amos): Amos, darling, would you mind watching the children while I take Amanda and the others on a nature walk to the old stone fence? AMOS (shouts back): Sure ting, Hannah, Amos have lots of fun with dee youngens, yes? A half hour later the childern are still playing and enjoying themselves, suddenly Oliver returns and lands on Amos's shoulder once more. AMOS (shocked): Dis be not good news... VANNI (looks up at him): What'sa the matter, Uncle Amos? AMOS (sadly): Dere be three power boats heading dis way, dose tings scare all of my swamp friends and ... As Amos is yet speaking, the three power boats stop in front of their house. Seven men wearing dark suits secure the three boats by tying them to trees. Amos recognizes the one man who is now walking towards him. AMOS (growling): Simon DeSalle! Amos invite you NOT to his picnic! SIMON (angry): Shut up, mutt! Where's my daughter? What have you done with her? AMOS (smiles): Relax, Hannah take her and our other guests on a nature tour up the ... SIMON (interupts, angry): YOU'RE LYING! You have kidnapped her and are holding her hostage! AMOS (shakes head): That be not true, Simon, look around for yourself! SIMON (slaps Amos in the face): Stop lying to me! If you won't give me back my daughter, I'll shoot every one of these dog kids I see! AMOS (turns to children): RUN! GO FIND HANNAH AND .... Simon punches Amos in the face and knocks him out cold. GRETA (runs up to Simon and kicks him in the leg): BAD HUMAN! BAD, BAD HUMAN! SIMON (outraged): GET ALL OF THEM! SHOOT THEM ALL! THEY'RE ONLY STUPID MUTTS! The Rover children run behind a huge tree stomp as the shooting begins. GIORGIO (using his x-ray vision): All of those humans are carrying weapons! They've got them under their jackets! GRETA (looks around): We have to stop these guys, let's use the special abilities we got from our parents to capture them all! (turns to Vanni and Bernadette) Vanni, Bernadette, fly off in that direction and find our parents, FAST! The rest of us will stay here and fight! (turns to Felipe, Antonie and Josephine) You three use your laser eye beams to disable their weapons. FELIPE (nods): We we! We shall do it! JOSEPHINE (nods): We we! ANTONIE (nods): Viva la France! Felipe, Antonie and Josephine first make themselves invisible and then slowly and carefully move around the sides of the forest. Soon, they are firing their eye lasers at the bad guy's guns, melting all of their gun barrels. At this moment, Vanni and Bernadette 'take off' and fly into the forest to find the grown ups. Seeing their gun barrels melted right before their eyes, the angry men begin chasing all of the children. Yuri and Tanya (like their parents Molly and Bruno) make themselves translucent so when the men continuiously try to 'grab them', their hands pass right through them. Carla and Giorgio 'take to the air' and annoy some of the men by grabbing apples out of the nearby trees and throwing them at them. Peng and Deng use their mind power to project illusions of fire breathing dragons which scare some of the men out of their wits. Finally, Simon manages to grab Greta. SIMON (angry): Ok, play time is over! Give me my daughter NOW or this little girl puppy is going to get hurt! Amos has just regained conscienceness and he hears Simon's terrible ultimatum. Bleeding from the mouth, he manages to roll over on the ground and lets out a very strange sounding howl. SIMON (shouts): SHUT THAT OLD MUTT UP! YURI (shouts out): GRETA!!! USE YOUR SONIC VIBRATION POWER! Greta nods as she begins to mimc her dad's sound wave abilities. She makes her body vibrate so fiercely that she slips out of Simon's grasp and runs away. Before he and the other men can pursue them, they find themselves surrounded by angry alligators. A huge flock of barn owls swoop down on them and begin pecking them violently. As the men swing their arms and scream in pain, several water moccassins emerge from the swamp and quickly wrap themselves around their legs, causing them all to fall to the ground. When they see Simon and all of his men lying on the ground, the Rover children rush over to Amos and help him to get back on his feet. The old swamp dog is furious. AMOS (growling loudly): SO! YOU HUMANS INVADE MY SWAMP AND THREATEN CHILDREN! MAYBE OLD AMOS LET HIS FRIENDS STOP ALL OF YOU FOR GOOD! Amos gives out a short howl, and the huge water moccassins wrapped around all of the bad guys begin to constrict themselves harder as the alligators move in closer and closer towards them. Sophia (who is carrying Hannah in her arms), Vanni and Bernadette 'land' just in time to hear the screams of Simon LeSalle and his men. SOPHIA (shouting): AMOS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AMOS (angry): Deez people threatened all of duh kids and even grabbed Greta! Amos make dem suffer! HANNAH (shouting): AMOS! THAT'S ENOUGH! YOU'RE GOING TO HURT THEM BADLY! AMOS (evil grin): Dat be my intention! HANNAH (shakes head): But this isn't right, Amos! Call off the snakes and gators, do it for me, please? Amos turns and looks into Hannah's beautiful blue eyes and lowers his head in sadness. He lets out another strange howl, which causes both the water moccassins and alligators to 'retreat.' When Amanda and the other Space Rovers return, Deborah instinctively grabs her medical kit and begins to examine Simon and the other humans. Amanda rushes over to her father's side. AMANDA (crying): Why did you follow me? Why did you threaten Greta and the other children? SIMON (rolls to his side): Because I thought they had kidnapped you! And who cares about they mutant dogs anyway. A dog is a dog, they're all a dime a dozen! You're safe now, that's all that matters. AMANDA (upset): How can you say that? Hannah and her friends are MY friends too! Dad, I love you very much, but I disagree with you! SIMON (defensive): But look at what your 'friends' have done to me and my associates... AMANDA (picks up gun off the ground): Because all of you came here and tried to kill them! How do you explain all of these guns on the ground? SIMON (changes tone): This was all a misunderstanding! I'm SO sorry for the actions of myself and my associates. AMANDA (stands up, angry): Just stop it, will you? You came here intending to shoot my canine friends all along! I can't believe that you, my own father, would act and think like this! Amanda bursts into tears, Hannah gives her a warm hug. MOLLY (furious): Misunderstanding? MISUNDERSTANDING!!! Look at all of these bullet holes! Amos, you should've let dose reptiles FINISH THE JOB! Molly grabs a loose board from the scattered picnic table and walks towards Simon, Bruno rushes to stop her. BRUNO (calm voice): Molly, it's over. The evil humans have been stopped! Heel! Settle down! MOLLY (growling): Dat madman tried to kill the children! I'll knock some sense into him! BRUNO (holding Molly): Stop it, Molly! We can't let our anger control our actions! The other Rover parents nod in agreement with Bruno. Even Deborah nods as she continues to give first aid to the humans. When she tries to help Simon, he pushes her away. SIMON (furious): Stay away from me, mutt! DEBORAH (sternly): You have several deep bruises, let me treat you for ... As Deborah is yet speaking, Simon swings his arm up and slaps her in the mouth with all of his might. Hans runs over to punch him but is stopped by Luigi and Lao Zi, who have to hold him back. HANS (growling): Let me go! He slapped my wife! I want to pound his ugly face in! Bruno has trouble restraining Molly, she struggles so hard that Sophia and Marie have to help hold her back. Deborah runs over to her husband's side, holding a cold compress to her jaw. HANS (worried): Are you alright, honey? DEBORAH (holds icepack to jaw): I'll be fine, Mr DeSalle needs medical attention. AMOS (growling): He be needin' a rubber room in duh pyscho ward! AMANDA (horrified): DADDY!! HOW COULD YOU? DEBORAH WAS TRYING TO HELP YOU! SIMON (struggles to his feet): I don't need any help from any filthy female flea trap! C'mon boys, let's get outta here! Simon LeSalle and his men slowly walk over to their motorboats. Amos sees this and lets out another strange howl. In seconds, their motorboats are surrounded by allgators. Before he or his men can reach them, the alligators have managed to capsize and sink all three boats. AMOS (growls): You be going nowhere! Not until duh police arrive! SIMON (laughs): No one is going to arrest me! The great Simon DeSalle! I own this county! SU LI (coming out of the house): I've contacted Rover Headquarters and .... A loud BOOM!!!! shakes the ground as Otto, Samantha Maddog, and a half dozen FBI agents appear before them. Two of the agents search the grounds as the others walk over to where Simon and his men are standing. AGENT (sternly): Simon DeSalle, I hereby place you and your associates under arrest for attempted murder and attempted kidnapping! SIMON (sarcasticly): My attorney will have me out on the street instantly! AGENT (shakes head): I don't think so, Mr DeSalle. These charges against you also fall under federal hate crime laws as well as Louisiana state animal cruelity laws. You and your men could be looking at some serious hard time in prison for this incident! SIMON (defiantly): We'll see! (looks over at Amanda): Amanda, darling, tell these fine law enforcement officers the truth, that it was these dogs that viciously attacked me! Tell them, honey, tell them! AMANDA (crying, shakes head): I won't lie for you, father! You are getting what you deserve for this! Amanda turns away and cries, Hannah once more consoles her with a warm embrace. As all of the bad guys are handcuffed and read their Maranda rights, Simon turns to his daughter and shout out in anger. SIMON (furious): YOU LOVE THOSE MANGY MUTTS MORE THAN ME!!!! AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, I'M DISOWNING YOU!!! LET YOUR DOGGIE FRIENDS TAKE CARE OF YOU!!! DO YOU HEAR ME? AGENT (interrupts): That's enough out of you, Mr DeSalle (turns to Otto): Otto, will you return us to FBI Headquarters? OTTO (nods): As you wish, sir! Let me know when you're finished here. AGENT (turns to the others): I'll need sworn statements from each of you concerning what transpired here this afternoon. Otto, I'll leave that task to you, OK? OTTO (nods): I am well aware of all FBI procedures and paperwork requirements. I will see to it that this is done! AGENT (smiles): Thank you, Otto, you and your wife saved my life a few months ago during that drug raid in St Louis. Call on me and my department anytime! We'll see to it that these people will face trial for their crimes! (turns to his agents): Gather up all the evidence and then stand beside me so Otto can teleport us back to headquarters! SAMANTHA (nods): Thank you, Agent Hernandez, sir! AGENT (smiles): My pleasure, ma'am! (looks around): We're ready now, Otto! OTTO (sternly): Coordinates are set. Activating internal circuitry... With a loud BOOM!!!! All of the FBI agents and their prisoners were gone. Amanda is still crying in Hannah's embrace, the other Rovers surround her. AMANDA (looks up): Everyone.... I am so sorry..... my father had no right to .... HANNAH (softly): It's alright, Amanda. No one hear blames you for your father's actions. MOLLY (nods): Da, comrade Hannah speaks the truth! (puts her hand on Amanda's shoulder) You are not bad human! LUIGI (nods): Molly, she'sa right! Whata can we do to helpa you? HANNAH (sadly): Amanda, we have a guest room, you can stay with Amos and me as long as you like! Maybe someday you and your dad will be reconciled. AMANDA (smiles): Thank you, Hannah! I was going to go to college in the fall anyway at Georgia State. (wipes tears from her eyes): All of my money is in trust funds, even my father can't touch it! SAMANTHA (timidly): Miss DeSalle, ma'am, my father and sisters are all very good lawyers! I know they'd be willing to help you fight to legally keep your trust fund money! His estate is near Atlanta, you could stay there when you attend school! OTTO (sternly): My wife and I are willing to teleport all of your belongings here, if you are going to be staying with Amos and Hannah. AMANDA (slight smile): You two would be willing to do all of this for me? You don't even know me ... OTTO (interrupts): That is incorrect. You are Amanda Sue DeSalle, born on September 17, 1981. You are five foot, four inches tall with blue eyes.. Social Security number .... AMANDA (shakes head): No, no, I did't mean like that. SAMANTHA (smiles): I know what you mean, Miss Amanda, ma'am, but all of us Road Rovers are here to help all humans! AMOS (smiles): Dat be right! Hannah and me be more dan happy to have you as our houseguest! Hannah make dee best pancakes and I make you plenty of crawdad bisque! Finest in duh county, I guarantee! HANNAH (smiles): So, what do you say, Amanda? AMANDA (in tears): Thank you, Hannah, I accept! AMOS (nods): Be glad to hear dat! OTTO (smiles): We can begin the retrieval of your personal items at any time, ma'am. AMANDA (happy): Thank you, thank you all for your kindness! HANNAH (smiles): Hey, we're dogs! They don't call us Man's best friends for nothing! All of the Rovers and Rover children howl in unison. -----------------------------------------------------------------------