Copyright 1999 --- Robert Baer Jr. Collie Squadron -- "Amos Doggie -- Part 1" 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 Otto, Samantha Maddog, Ben Maddog, Abby Maddog, Vicki Maddog, Molly Maddog, Kyra, Amos Doggie, Hannah, Linda Maddog, Uncle Buford and Roger Maddog are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright 1997-1998. DJ is a creation of Jake Williams, Dervish is a creation of Casey Johnson. Collie Squadron -- "Amos Doggie -- Part 1" The scene opens at Road Rover Headquarters, it's the day that Uncle Buford, Ben, Samantha and Otto make their weekly progress report to the Master. Kyra and the other Maddog 'siblings' wait in the lounge. DJ walks into the lounge for a drink of water, and Molly immediately walks over to him and strikes up a conversation. LINDA (bored): This is SO exciting! ABBY (yawning): At least Molly has someone to talk to, all the other Rovers must be out! VICKI (pointing at Kyra and Roger sitting on a couch together): Looks like our brother has something to do, too! LINDA (sighs): I'd give my eye teeth for a good-looking man to walk through that door right now! Derv walks into the room and waves at DJ and Molly LINDA (brightens): Time for me to call the dentist! ABBY (smiling): WOW, now that's what I call service, Linda! VICKI (slowly gets up): I saw him FIRST!!! All three of the collie ladies run over to where Derv, Molly and DJ were standing, they nearly knocked each other over in the confusion DERV (grinning): Hello ladies! I don't believe that we've been introduced! My name is Derv, pleased to meet you! Linda, Abby and Vicki stand like statues, so nervous that all three can only stutter DERV (laughing): WOW!!! Never knew I had that effect on females! MOLLY (grinning): This is the first time in years I've ever seen those three speechless! DJ (picks up a toolbox): Molly, I'm overhauling the Tank Rover, wanna assist me? MOLLY (smiles): Sure, let's go! DJ and Molly walk out towards the garage area, the remaining three Maddog sisters are still unable to speak to Derv. Meanwhile, in the breifing room..... MASTER (upset): Uncle Buford, I heard there was a fist fight at Collie Squadron Headquarters recently. This kind of behavior is NOT acceptable! BEN (sadly): Don't take it out on him, Master, I'm the blame here. I took Hunter's mother on a tour of my estate, and her children and mine got into a little agrument. MASTER (angry): A little agrument? Hunter knocked Samantha out and DJ got some bruises trying to break it up! SAMANTHA (sadly): Mr Master, sir, it all worked out in the end. Everyone shook hands and apologized...... MASTER (faint smile): This is true, Samantha, and I also heard that Kyra performed well assisting you in treating Hope, I must commend you all for this! UNCLE BUFORD (smiling): I must also commend you for sending me such a knowledgeable assistant! Kyra certainly knows her medical procedures! MASTER (happy): Wonderful! I knew she'd be an excellent addition to your group! OTTO (interrupting): Master, I don't mean to disrupt this meeting, but I'm picking up a distress call from the southern part of the United States. MASTER (turns to his computer console): You're right, Otto! This is yet another strange occurance in that region. (Master pushes PA button on his desk) ATTENTION ALL ROVERS, REPORT TO THE BRIEFING ROOM IMMEDIATELY! Minutes later, all the other Rovers arrive and take their seats. Linda, Vicki and Abby have a shoving match trying to get into the chair next to Derv. MASTER (shouting): ROVERS!! HEEL!!! SIT!!! SETTLE DOWN AND LISTEN!! Recently, there has been a number of unexplained incidents in this region of Louisiana. The lastest report from there is that a huge explosion took place in the center of a huge swampy area 70 miles due north of Baton Rouge. Rovers, investigate, find out who or what is causing all of this. BEN (smiling): And I know just the person we need to help us on this mission, Master! MASTER (surprised): Really? Who? BEN (grinning): We'll need a guide, that bayou country is uncharted and very dangerous, and there's an old friend of mine who lives there LINDA (frowning): Oh NO! Not him! ABBY (frowning): EOW!!!! He's so GROSS! MOLLY (smiling): ALL RIGHT!! I haven't been there since I was a puppy! SAMANTHA (happy): GREAT!!! KYRA (whispering to Otto): What are they talking about? MASTER (puzzled): Who are you refering to? BEN (beaming): My old fishing pal, Amos Doggie! I've known him for a long time, I once represented him in court and we've been good friends ever since! VICKI (frowning): Do we HAVE to do see him? OTTO (smiling): I can always use my scanners and find ... BEN (interrupting): No, Otto, you can't search the bayou country from a satelite or with some sort of gadgetry. Besides, perhaps Amos already knows what's causing all of this, that old swamp dog knows everything that lives in 'his world'. MASTER (standing up): Ben, contact this Amos Doggie, complete your mission, since you are familiar with the territory, you're in charge! BEN (saluting): Yes, sir! I will not let you down! Who's coming with me? SAMANTHA (smiling) I will, DAD!!! MOLLY (jumping up): I wouldn't miss it for the world! OTTO (standing up): I'll go! DJ (standing up): So will I! ROGER (standing up): HOORAY!!! Good old Uncle Amos! KYRA (standing up): I'll go also! VICKI (snorting): I'M NOT GOING!! ABBY (angry): Count me OUT! L:INDA (sticking out tongue): YUCKO!!! DERV (stands up): Sounds like a lot of fun, I'll go with you guys! Abby, Vicki and Linda shout out in unison "WE'RE COMING TOO!" BEN (mummbling to himself): I wonder what changed their minds, oh, to be young again! OTTO: You're in charge, Mr Maddog, where do you want us to transport to? BEN (thinking); We better go to Baton Rouge and use a swamp boat to get to the bayou, Amos doesn't like too many surprises! SAMANTHA: Dad, how are we going to explain the fact that we're Cano-Sapiens? BEN (puzzled): I'll think of something, I always do, don't I? ROGER (smiling): This is true, dad! The Collie Squadron, DJ, and Derv boarded a Sky Rover and flies to Baton Rouge, where they unload the River Rover, a jet powered swamp boat. Ben steers the boat deep into the bayou country, eventually pulling the River Rover near a run-down pole shack sitting on the surface of the swamp. Out of the shack runs a mixed breed dog, white with brown and black spots all over it's body, with it's right front leg missing. He barks viciously at the Rovers, growling louder as Ben walks towards him. BEN (holding hands in the air): Take it easy, old timer, it's me, Ben Maddog! Surely the great Amos Doggie can remember me! AMOS (growling): You may be sounding like my friend, but he not walk on two legs! You be not Ben! BEN (smiling): Amos, I and my children are Road Rovers now, you've heard of them, haven't you? AMOS (growling): Yessir, but you don't be lookin' like any of dos fellows BEN (smiling): Amos, we used to go fishing together a long time ago, I was your attorney, remember what you whispered to me in court that day, you said that the judge looked like a puffed up hairless ape, right? AMOS (smiling): No other living soul would know this! Now, you convinced me! You be the great Ben Maddog, but how is it you look more human than dog? BEN: It's a long story, Amos, we all need your help to ..... AMOS (walking towards the others): Me old nose can recognize ye kiddies! You're Roger, and Molly, and Sam, and Abby, Linda and Vicki, but ......(growling) who be des three strangers? BEN (shouting): It's alright, old timer! That one is Otto, Samantha's wife, and this is Kyra, Roger's girl and that is Derv, and he's dating another one of my daughters, you see, we're all family! KYRA (whipsering to Ben): But I'm not Roger's girlfriend, sir! BEN (whispering to Kyra): I had to tell him that, or he wouldn't help us. ABBY (smiling, grabbing Derv by the arm): Did you here Dad, we're dating! LINDA (growls): He's dating ME! VICKI (pushes Abby): NO, it's ME he wants! DERV (whispering): Ladies, your father is simply attempting to make me acceptable to Amos, nothing more Abby, Linda and Vicki breath a heavy sigh. Out of the shack emerges another dog, she's a full blooded Newfoundland, she barks loudly at the strangers. AMOS (turning towards her): HANNAH!! YOU STOP THAT BARKING!!! It's Ben Maddog and his clan, can you smell, woman? Show manners, apoloigize! Hannah slowly walks up to Ben, gives out a whimper and barks sadly. BEN (smiling): Apology accepted, Hannah! Amos, she just gets more beautiful with age! AMOS (smiling): Dat be right, Ben! I can still recall the day I find her in the woods, her devil of a master tie her to a tree and leave her to die, but me save her, and me marry her, too! Ben, be telling me now what I do to help you? BEN (pointing to the east): There's been some very strange things happening in the bayou lately, haven't there? AMOS (smiling): That be true, Ben! Been a few loud kabooms here, one happened a few hours ago. Many weird things be happening here, aweful looking two legged monsters be roaming around the swamp, too! KYRA (interrupting): What do they look like, sir? AMOS (shaking Kyra's hand): You have good manners, you make Roger very good wife someday, yes? ROGER (talking to himself): I like the way Amos thinks! AMOS (walking on the dock): Des look like humans, with gator heads! KYRA (shocked): Sounds like Crockodile men, Parvo's been hard at work on this deal! BEN: Amos, we have to stop this madman from succeeding. Will you please guide us, show us the way to his base? AMOS (shaking his head): It do no good to go der, some sort of magic wall of some kind, no one can get through, no even me! OTTO (smiling): Force fields! That figures! BEN (falling on one knee): Amos, please help us. All of us are here to put an end to all of these illegal activities! All of us have special abilities to fight evil men like Parvo with, will you help us, old friend? AMOS: Well, you be the only one next to Hannah that I truly trust, OK, I help you! Let's git on this fancy boat of yours, long trip ahead, yes? BEN (smiling): Thank you, my friend! AMOS (grinning): Hey, when we git back, we have gumbo! Hannah still is the best cook in all of bayou country! BEN (happy): Of course, I look forward to it! ABBY (mumbles under her breath): I'd rather eat an old shoe MOLLY (whispers): Stop that, Abby, let's be polite here, OK? The Rovers board the Swamp Rover, with Ben and Amos sitting in the front. DJ fires up the engines and the boat speeds off. Amos points with his nose and barks out directions, DJ steers the craft flawlessly KYRA (talking to Roger): By the way, how did Amos lose his leg? ROGER (sadly): When he was young, he had a fight with a gator, and the gator won... KYRA (frowning): Oh my......... SAMANTHA (smiling): It's alright, Kyra, he's a survivor! Legends say he can even talk to the other swamp creatures! LINDA (laughing): Yeah, he's the Tarzan of the bayou! Whoopie! VICKI (laughing): Who'd want to be the king of this jungle? MOLLY (angry): Stop saying things like that! Amos is a sweet, kind old dog! ABBY (frowning): Bet we'll have crawdad soup when we get back! LINDA, VICKI and ABBY (together): YUCK!!!!!!! DERV (smiling): Real Cajun cooking! Sounds great to me! LINDA (smiling): Yeah, that's what I meant! YUMMY!! ABBY (smiling): Gotta love authetic home cooking! VICKI (grinning): Can't wait for dinner! DJ (whipsering to Otto): It's getting DEEP in here! OTTO (whispering to DJ): Glad I married the CORRECT Maddog sister! SAMANTHA (overhearing): Why, thank you, dear! (kisses Otto) BEN (yelling back towards the others): We're getting close to the force field! Otto, we need you to study it, see if there's a way to get through it OTTO (standing up): First, I'll activate my invisibility shield on all of us so we're not discovered Using his built in circuitry, Otto makes the Swamp Rover 'disappear' in a flash OTTO (looking straight ahead): Analysis complete, the force field encompasses the entire base. Can not be penetrated from the air, impossible to go under it. SAMANTHA (looking at Otto): Honey, why not use your sonic disruptor? OTTO (sadly): Won't work, this force field is very different from any I have encountered before. DERV: Then what can we do? OTTO (whispering): We better stay quiet, DJ, shut off the engines quickly, two swamp craft are approaching our position from the southeast! ABBY (panics) We're gonna get caught! Those green mutants will get us! SAMANTHA (whispering): Hush Abby! Keep still, or we'll be captured for sure! The two swamp crafts move slowly towards their positon, one of them comes very close to the invisible Swamp Rover. The Alligator mutants manning it stare right at the Rovers, as if they could see them plainly. Abby, Vicki and Linda are shaking, they all try to hug Derv at the same time. Samantha holds Otto, DJ, Ben, Amos and Molly slowly duck down. Kyra is frightened and holds Roger tightly. It is a tense moment when one of the 'soldiers' points directly towards Ben. Have they been discovered? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- to be continued............