Copyright 2001 --- Robert Baer Jr. Amos Doggie & Hannah -- "Tungstun's Funeral" 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, Otto, Samantha Maddog, Starlight, Hannah, Princess, Warrior and the Gila Monster are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright 1999. Misty Maddog is a creation of Bart Walls. Goldfire Wolf is a creation of Patrick Wood. Catman is a creation of John Butler. Alethia is a creation of Kylen Miles. Amos Doggie & Hannah -- "Tungstun's Funeral" The scene is the Arlington Cemetary in Virginia. A huge crowd of Road Rovers and military personnel are dressed in their finest uniforms, a minster speaks for about a half hour. There isn't a dry eye in the crowd as the funeral ceremony ends. Hunter stands over the memorial headstone, the Gila Monster quietly places his 2 x 4 in front of it. "For you, my friend," he mutters as he embraces Princess. Colleen places a bouquet of roses in front of the momument and turns to Hunter. COLLEEN (sadly): Poor bloak, he gave his bloomin' life to save the world, and I hardly knew him! HUNTER (hugging Colleen): I know Colleen, I know. He was a brave and unselfish Road Rover. EXILE (sadly): It's still a bummerski that his body was never found Alethia stands in the distance. Her tears falling, unable to express her feelings with words. Hannah walks over and puts her hand on her shoulder. Before she could speak a word, an image, like a glowing blue mass, briefly appears in front of the two ladies. It looks like Tungstun, calling out. The site causes the two girls to scream outloud, Otto catches Alethia and Amos catches Hannah as they both faint. AMOS (confused): Why to day be actin' like dis, Otto? OTTO (shakes head): Answer... uncertain. Grief and mourning do tend to have different affects on different people. The group of Rovers now move slowly away, returning to their respective vehicles. Starlight, in her equine sapien form, is the last to leave. As she stands sadly in front of the headstone, her mind is racing, remembering the events leading up to this moment.... //////////////////////////////////////// FLASHBACK ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The scene is aboard a stolen nuclear submarine that Captain Storm had seized. Starlight, Alethia, Hunter, Exile, Tungstun, Prairie Mason and Prairie Rose have fought their way to the main control room. STORM (laughing): SO! You mutts think you've won, have you! Well, guess again! If I go down, SO DO YOU!!! STARLIGHT (shouts): According to my system's scan, Captain Storm has set the ship's nuclear reactor to a core meltdown! We have one minute to escape! EXILE (shouts): Bolshoi! We're in deep doggie donuts! Tungstun immediately grabs Storm by the shirt collar. TUNGSTUN (growling): You have five seconds to tell me how to stop this reactor meltdown or I'm going to break you into itty bitty pieces! STORM (laughs): Too late, mutt! It can't be stopped! STARLIGHT (sadly): Confirmed! Automatic shutdown and failsafe systems are offline... there is no way to stop it... HUNTER (shocked): If this thing blows up in shallow waters, half of the United States could be flooded with radiation! COLLEEN (shocked); And a chain reaction could send radiation... even further across the bloomin' world! STORM (laughs); Exactly! And you dogs have a front row seat for the explosion! TUNGSTUN (turns to Hunter): Hunter, I have an idea, it's a long shot, something I've done in space before when I was with the Lost Pack. Get everyone off the sub and let me take it from here! ALETHIA (shocked): Tungstun! What are you talking about? TUNGSTUN (throws Storm down): No time to explain, hurry! Save yourselves in case I am not successful! PRAIRIE MASON (shouts): No, wait! I'll stay with you! PRAIRIE ROSE (nods); So will I! TUNGSTUN (shakes head): No time, gotta move now! Tungstun rushes through a door and is soon out of sight. HUNTER (nods): He's right, let's get out of here! STORM (laughing): My crew already took all the lifeboats! We're all going to die together! STARLIGHT (sternly): Not quite! With a loud BOOM!!!! Starlight, Alethia, Prairie Mason, Prairie Rose, Hunter, Colleen, Exile and Storm now stand on the deck of the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier fifty miles from the submarine. Startled sailors on duty turn their weapons at the group. SAILOR (shouts): Who the devil are you people? HUNTER (hands up): WHOA!! An aircraft carrier! TOO KEWL!!! COLLEEN (hands up): Huntie-Wuntie, now would be a good bloomin' time to indentify ourselves! ALETHIA (hands up): Please don't fire, we can explain our presense here... ANOTHER SAILOR (points); Hold it! That's Hunter, Colleen, Exile... they're Road Rovers! STARLIGHT (points): And that's Captain Zachary Storm, the one who stole the Equinox... ANOTHER SAILOR (shocked): Our missing sub! (motions): Arrest that man! ALETHIA (turns to Starlight): What about Tungstun and the sub? STARLIGHT (nods): I am maintaining a teleportation lock on him.... he has moved into the interior of the sub and is rigging up some sort of strange device.... (shocked): WAIT!!! I've lost him! (shouting): NO!!!!!!!!!! ALETHIA (excited); WHAT!!! WHAT DO YOU DETECT???? STARLIGHT (crying): An explosion....... the sub....... HUNTER (shocked): Oh no! COLLEEN (stunned): Blimey! EXILE (shocked): Bolshoi.... PRAIRIE ROSE (shouting): NO!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!! PRAIRIE MASON (hugging P. Rose): That brave young man.... HUNTER (looks around): But wait, if there was an nuclear explosion, why can't we see or hear it? STARLIGHT (sternly): It appears Tungstun took it to a deep dive before.... but even that doesn't explain... the lack of radiation ... ALETHIA (sadly): Whatever Tungstun was trying to do the save the West Coast, he succeeded.. //////////////////////////////// FLASHBACK ENDS ///////////////////////////////////////// Starlight weeps uncontrolably now, Samantha walks over and hugs her. SAMANTHA (calmly): It's alright, Miss Starlight, ma'am STARLIGHT (shakes head): It is not... if only I had teleported him out of there in time.... The Road Rovers now sadly depart from the cemetary. The scene now shifts to Alethia's quarters at Road Rover Mission Control, at midnight. Asleep in her bed, she sees the same image she and Hannah saw at the funeral, only it if now clearer and audiable. It is Tungstun, standing over her bed. He looks like he's in severe pain, he reaches out, Alethia reaches her hands towards him, but they pass through him like he was a ghost. It was this that awakens her, screaming, out of her sound sleep. ALETHIA (excited, scared); What..what... (relieved): Oh, it's only a dream.... As she is speaking, Amos and Hannah now appear in her quarters. ALETHIA (shocked, pulls covers over herself): AMOS?? HANNAH??? HANNAH (excited, scared): I had to come over, did you have a dream about Tungstun too? ALETHIA (nods): Yes, yes I did. How did you know? AMOS (hands over his eyes): Woman! Why you bring Amos here? Amos not wish to see Alethia in her unmentionables! ALETHIA (laughs): It's alright Amos, I'm wearing a nightgown.... AMOS (relieved): Oh... Amos be not dee peeping Thomas, yes? HANNAH (excited): What can this dream mean? As Hannah is speaking, a glowing figure appears before the three of them. Alethia screams but Amos and Hannah recognize it. HANNAH (points): You're the spirit of the Dora, aren't you? AMOS (waves); Hi dere glowin' goomer! FIGURE (nods): Amos, Hannah, Alethia, there is no time to lose. I had just detected Tungstun's presence, and with your help, he can be rescued... ALETHIA (stunned): Rescued? HANNAH (shocked): What? AMOS (shakes head): Amos understand dis not.... FIGURE (sternly): Allow me to elaborate. What Tungstun did to save this world from the nuclear explosion was to quickly build a dimensional portal.... The portal was completed just as the nuclear core exploded. Using his homemade device to 'fold' space, Tungstun was able to have the portal 'swallow' the submarine before it exploded, that's why you didn't find the sub or Tungstun's body. Tungstun is still in that dimension now, he needs your help and the help of many of your friends to bing him back to THIS world! I am contacting them even as we speak... The scene shifts to a shack in the Florida Everglades where Catman, in his panther form, is curled up asleep on the floor. Suddenly, he awakens to the voice of the keeper. FIGURE (voice in his head); Catman.... we need your help..... please come quickly..... Catman morphs into his panter-sapien form and teleports to where the others are. The scene now shifts to the country home of Nathan and Wanna Lovejoy, where we find Otto and Samantha Maddog, in their canine forms, asleep beside each other on the living room floor. Out in the backyard, there is a stable where Starlight, in her pure horse form, rests. Otto and Starlight are awakened at the same time, as if by magic. They telepathically communicate with each other. OTTO (tele): Starlight... are you functional? STARLIGHT (tele): Yes Otto, I am.... I have a new file in my database! OTTO (tele): I too have a new file... processing.... STARLIGHT (tele): We are needed immediately! OTTO (tele): You are correct, Starlight.... Otto and Starlight immediately teleport away. The scene now switches to the Maddog Mansion, to Misty's room where the young collie-sapien lies sleeping in her four poster bed. She has a dream which is similar to the one Alethia and Hannah had which wakes her up. MISTY (scared, shaking): Oh my..... what a scary dream! (sees a glowing figure): WHO ... WHO ARE YOU? FIGURE (in front of Misty's bed): Misty Maddog, don't be afraid. Your friends need your help, please, use your collar to come to us... hurry! Misty hops out of bed, puts on her collar and instantly teleports away. Now, Catman, Otto, Starlight, Misty, Alethia, Amos and Hannah are all together in a room at Mission Control. Starlight has used her magic to morph herself and Otto into 'sapien' forms. FIGURE (in front of the group): We must act quickly if we are to save Tungstun's life. Alethia, I can feel his life force fading, can you feel it? ALETHIA (closing her eyes): Yes! I can, I can really sense his presence. FIGURE (nods): Stay focused on him, your thoughts will serve as a beckon for Tungstun to follow back into this world. (turns to Starlight and Otto): You two will open the doorway into the dimension Tungstun is in now. I have already given you the coordinates in your data files. STARLIGHT (concerned): It will require much energy to keep this 'doorway' open. OTTO (nods): And we may have difficultly maintaining the doorway as well FIGURE (sternly): That's where Hannah and Amos come in. Once the portal is opened, you must help keep it open with your magic until we retrieve Tungstun. AMOS (nods): Amos can do dis! HANNAH (nods): We understand.. MISTY (shouts): HEY! What do I get to do? FIGURE (looks at her): Misty Maddog, your job is the most important of all! You will have to enter the portal, find Tungstun and bring him back into this world! MISTY (scared): Me?? FIGURE (nods): Catman will tie a rope around your waist, he will be holding the other end so you can't get lost and so you can find the exit again. Are you willing to do this? MISTY (confused): How can I find him? FIGURE (sternly): You have highly developed mental powers, like those of Alethia and other Rovers. You will be able to sense his presence and find him. MISTY (nods): Alright, I'll do it! Anything to save Tungstun! FIGURE (sternly): Alright, this operation will take split second timing, obey my orders immediately and without question and we will succeed. Catman, Misty, get your rope ready. Otto, Starlight, begin to open the portal. Otto and Starlight nod as they close their eyes and concentrate. Within a minute, a glowing portal appears on the wall in front of them. FIGURE (sternly): Now Misty, focus your mind on Tungstun as you enter the portal. Catman, keep a firm hold on that rope and focus on Misty's thoughts! You will act as her guide. Amos, Hannah, stand by to use your magic on the portal. Alethia, keep your mind focused on Tungstun. Misty cautiously enters the portal, inside of this 'dimension,' it looks like a splattering of moving colors all around. Misty is at first frightened but then her determination takes over and she continues to walk and look for Tungstun. CATMAN (tele to Misty): Misty, what do you see? MISTY (tele to Catman): It's so wierd... it all looks so ... wait a minute... huge object up ahead.... looks like... the submarine! CATMAN (tele to Misty): The sub? Are you sure? MISTY (tele to Catman): Positive, it has her markings on it and ... something big just above the bow of the ship.... (excited): IT'S HIM!!! I FOUND HIM!!! CATMAN (tele to Catman): Great! Is he alive? MISTY (tele to Catman): I'll say he is! He's struggling... like he's trapped or something... CATMAN (tele to Catman): Trapped?? Misty, get out of there! Before she can move, three blob-like creatures wrap her in a jello-like structure. MISTY (struggling): HEY!! LET ME GO!!!! BLOB #1 (high-pitched voice): Another outsider has invaded our space! BLOB #2 (high-pitched voice): You are our prisoner now! MISTY (struggles): But we want to leave your dimension, that's why I'm here! BLOB #3 (looks at rope): And we will do away with this also! MISTY (shouts): NO!!! (sternly looks at the three of them): YOU RELEASE ME AND TUNGSTUN NOW!!!! At first, the blobs look at themselves, then back at Misty BLOB #1 (in a trance); WE OBEY!!!! Misty and Tungstun are immediately free. Tungstun is now unconscience, Misty takes the floating Tungstun by the hand and rushes towards the exit. MISTY (tele to Catman, excited): I have him Catman! Pull us in! CATMAN (tele to Misty): Ok, hold on to him tightly! OTTO (shouts): Hurry.... energy levels .... below..... STARLIGHT (shouts): Running out.... of.....energy..... HANNAH (eyes closed): Hurry! We can't hold this open much longer.... Catman is pulling the rop in as fast as he can, now the three blobs have recovered and are now pursuing Misty and Tungstun. MISTY (screaming): HELP!!! THEY'RE AFTER US!!!!! FIGURE (sternly): Hurry Catman! The second he pulls Misty and Tungstun through the portal, shut it down! TUNGSTUN (muttering, barely speaking): Alethia...... Alethia..... I can...... sense..... your......presence......... ALETHIA (shocked): Tungstun? (smiles): It's you! Don't worry, we're getting you out of there... Catman pulls Tungstun and Misty through the portal in one last mighty jerk. The portal instantly disappears as Otto, Starlight, Amos and Hannah pass out on the floor. FIGURE (sternly): Catman! Cast a statis spell on Tungstun! He must be reintroduced to this dimension gradually! Alethia, stay with him, keep him calm. ALETHIA (nods): Understood... Catman casts a statis spell on Tungstun, enveloping him in a green aura. CATMAN (looks around): What about Otto and the others? FIGURE (sternly): Amos and Hannah will recover with rest, Otto and Starlight require immediate electrical energy to live.. Catman forms two thunderbolts in his hands and throws them at Otto and Starlight. The bolts are absorbed, causing both Otto and Starlight to stand to their feet. OTTO (turns to Catman): Thank you! I needed that! FIGURE (sternly): Maintain the spell, Catman.... only a few minutes more.. ALETHIA (tele to Tungstun): Hang in there, Tungstun.... The minutes pass by, Catman releases the spell, Tungstun slowly opens his eyes. TUNGSTUN (smiles): Alethia.... you....... came for me? ALETHIA (smiles): We all worked together to bring you back! Alethia hugs Tungstun tightly. The scene switches to the dining room area, one hour later. Tungstun is seated at a table with Alethia, Otto, Starlight, Catman, Misty, Amos, Hannah, Hunter and the Master. MASTER (happy): Amazing! You shifted that entire nuclear submarine to a dimension where radiation doesn't exist? That was brilliant! TUNGSTUN (shocked): Really? I'm not used to people calling me smart.. ALETHIA (smiles): You saved millions of lives! Prairie Mason and Prairie Rose rush into the room and immediately hug Tungstun. PRAIRIE MASON (hugging): You're back! PRAIRIE ROSE (hugging): You brave young man! MISTY (happy): Wait till the other Rovers find out! HANNAH (nods); This calls for a party! AMOS (nods): Amos make party now! Before anyone can stop him, Amos waves his arms. Instantly, everyone is wearing pointed party hats, the room is decorated with balloons and streamers and a huge white cake appears in the center of the table. AMOS (happy); Lookie looke! Amos dood it! HANNAH (upset); AMOS!!!! These are BIRTHDAY decorations! The cake says, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TUNGSTUN on it! TUNGSTUN (smiling widely): Close enough! MASTER (nods): Tungstun, you are a good, good dog! Tungstun and Alethia share another hug. ALETHIA (happy): Welcome back, Tungstun! All of the Rovers howl in unison. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------