Copyright 2000 -- Robert Baer Jr. The Ocean Rovers -- "Terror on the High Seas" 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 Delran, Cindy, Guardian, Kristina, R.O.S.E. and the Ocean Rovers are creations of Marvik. Radar is a creation of Jessica Hanson. Otto and the Collie Squadron are creations of Robert Baer Jr. 1997-1999. The Ocean Rovers -- "Terror on the High Seas" The scene is the submarine port of Road Rover Headquarters. The Ocean Rovers are preparing their sub for it's next mission. R.O.S.E. is inside doing a complete computer system check, Cindy and Kristina are bringing cartons of supplies onboard while Delran and Guardian are walking the gangplank with Radar, a red Iberian Hound cano-sapien. DELRAN (looks at Radar): So, you're a navigator, right? RADAR (nods): I'm a sea dog from puppyhood! I watched my former master, a merchant marine captain, who would sail the world delivering cargo to and from the West Coast of America. DELRAN (smiles): Well, all of our navigation functions on the Ocean Rover are computerized. There's little guesswork with all of our high tech... RADAR (interrupts): You mean, none of you have ever used a sexant or sailed by the sun or ... DELRAN (smiles): No need for that, the Ocean Rover practically drives itself CINDY (looks over at them): Say, who's the new guy? KRISTINA (smiles): He looks cute! CINDY (nods): I have to agree The two ladies look at each other, drop their cartons and rush over to where the others are standing. KRISTINA (extends hand); Hi, I'm Kristina! Welcome! CINDY (bumps Kristina, extends hand): And I'm Cindy, welcome aboard! RADAR (shakes both their hands): Nice to meet you ladies, I'm Radar and .. CINDY (bubbly): And I'll take you on a tour of the sub! KRISTINA (pushes Cindy); You mean I'll take him on a tour of the sub! Guardian stands between the two girls and shakes his head 'no'. DELRAN (nods); Guardian's right, stop fighting and ... MASTER (over PA system): ALL OCEAN ROVERS REPORT TO THE BRIEFING ROOM IMMEDIATELY DELRAN (sighs): Saved by the bell... (shouts): C'mon Ocean Rovers, let's go! Delran, Guardian, Kristina, Cindy and Radar rush into the briefing room where the Master is waiting. MASTER (pointing to a map): Ocean Rovers, Capt Zachary Storm is back in the smuggling business, he's operating from a secret base somewhere near Easter Island. Your mission is to find his secret base and shut him down! KRISTINA (snickers); A piece of cake! We've done it before, we can do it again! MASTER (sternly): Be careful, Ocean Rovers. Rumor has it that Storm possesses a new secret weapon. DELRAN (nods); We're be careful, Master! C'mon team, let's book it! All of the Ocean Rovers howl in unison, then board the submarine and disembark. Soon they are within a hundred miles of Easter Island. Delran is seated in the 'captain's chair', Guardian, Kristina, Cindy, R.O.S.E. and Radar are seated at consoles. DELRAN (shouts): Cindy, anything on sonar? CINDY (shakes head); The screen is clear, Delran. KRISTINA (upset): We should be picking up something, we're in the middle of a busy shipping lane! DELRAN (nods): You're right, Kris, and we should be picking up Storm's ships R.O.S.E. (electronic voice): Unless Storm has found a way to mask his sonar signature RADAR (nods); The robot's right, Delran, I suggest we use the periscope DELRAN (nods): Good idea, up periscope! The Ocean Rover raises her periscope up to the surface of the water, it is then that Delran makes a startling discovery. DELRAN (excited): Enemy vessel right on top of us! (shouts) GUARDIAN, DIVE!!! On the surface ship Captain Zachary Storm is reading his sonar and detecting the location of the Rover submarine. STORM (points to the sonar scope): There it is! Fire the secret weapon!!! A huge cannon-like device is aimed into the water. Though it sends out no visible 'beam' or 'waves' the effect of the device is soon felt aboard the Ocean Rover. CINDY (shouts): Delran! We're losing power! KRISTINA (pushing buttons): All systems going down, 70% of our internal power is gone? DELRAN (shocked): Gone? (turns to R.O.S.E.): Explanation! R.O.S.E. (electronic voice): Power being ... drained.... externally....... (slows down to a dead stop) DELRAN (shouts): R.O.S.E.!!!!! RADAR (looks at R.O.S.E.'s back panel): All of his energy has been drained.... DELRAN (shouts): Emergency power! CINDY (pushing buttons): Emergency power on, but at this rate of power loss, we'll be at zero power in a few minutes! KRISTINA (turns to Delran): Receiving message from surface ship, audio only DELRAN (nods): Let's here it! STORM (on speakers): Well well Ocean Rovers! Looks like my new energy draining device works perfectly! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have more ships to plunder and treasures to steal. Say hello to Davy Jones's locker for me, doggies! DELRAN (shouts): Can we send out a distress call? KRISTINA (shakes head): Not enough power left... CINDY (panics): We're done for this time! (hugs Guardian): I'm scared! DELRAN (sternly): No need to panic, we'll figure a way out of this mess RADAR (sternly): Delran, we better surface while we still can! We can blow the ballists manually! KRISTINA (upset): But Storm is waiting up there for us! RADAR (sternly): I don't think he'd be sticking around, and besides, if we don't surface, we'll run out of air before we are rescued. We have to take that risk! DELRAN (nods): Radar's right. Guardian, you go to port, Radar, you and I will go to stern and manually open the ballists! Let's hope the momentum will take us all the way to the surface. The mighty Malamute grabs the manual ballist bar while Radar and Delran grab the other one, on the count of three, they pull back, opening the ballists, the sub begins to slowly move upward. CINDY (happy): It's working! KRISTINA (nods): We have to surface soon, we're almost completely out of power! The Ocean Rover finally reaches the surface, Radar opens the hatch and walks out, bringing his backpack with him. The other Rovers soon follow. DELRAN (looks around): You were right, Radar, Storm is no where in sight! KRISTINA (shocked): Neither is any sign of land! CINDY (hugging Guardian, scared): We're lost! In the middle of the ocean! RADAR (sternly): Everyone remain calm, we're not lost! As the others watch him, Radar takes out a sexant and a nautical map out of his backpack. After a few minutes of using the sexant and map, he turns to the others and points. RADAR (pointing): We are approximately one mile away from Easter Island, it's in this direction DELRAN (shocked): Amazing! KRISTINA (skepitcal): Even if you're right, how are we going to get there? Swim? RADAR (looking all around): I have a better idea! We'll sail there! CINDY (shocked): Sail there? KRISTINA (shocked): Say what? Guardian shakes his head 'no' as Delran ponders. DELRAN (sternly); What do you have in mind, Radar? RADAR (points): The extended periscope of this sub will do for a makeshift mast, if we can find materials to go to sew together a sail, then... DELRAN (nods): Then we can let the wind take us to Easter Island! RADAR (nods); And complete our mission! CINDY (happy): We can use all of the bed sheets and pillow cases we have in the bunks! DELRAN (nods): Good idea, Cindy, what else do we have? CINDY (smiles); Well, we have all of the clothes in Kristina's closet! KRISTINA (upset); HEY!! That's my entire wardrobe! DELRAN (surprised): You brought all of your clothes aboard the Ocean Rover? Why? KRISTINA (smiles): Never know when we'll get invited to a formal party after a mission! RADAR (sternly): We're going to need all the light weight fabrics we can get to make this sail! KRISTINA (growls): No one is touching my evening gowns and dresses and .... DELRAN (sternly): Bring them all up here Kristina, that's an order! Guardian, you and Cindy help her, we have to hurry! Within minutes, thanks to the steady hands of Radar and Cindy, a large mast is constructed. Guardian goes into the sub and pushes the periscope up to it's highest position, with the sail firmly tied on top of it. RADAR (points): Guardian, we'll need you at the rudder, you're the only one of us strong enough to move it with your bare hands! Guardian nods and gets into position on the back of the sub. Soon, the wind catches the sail and the submarine slowly begins to move in the direction of Easter Island. KRISTINA (nearly in tears): My ballroom gown! My finest silk dress! Every piece of formalwear I have is in that stupid sail! CINDY (smiles): Look on the bright side, Kris! KRISTINA (turns to Cindy): What's that? CINDY (smiles): You still have those three dozen pairs of shoes! KRISTINA (growls); OH SHUT UP, CINDY!! DELRAN (sternly); You girls quiet down, Guardian has to be able to hear the steering instructions Radar is giving him! CINDY & KRISTINA (lower heads): Yes, sir.. RADAR (shouts): A few more degrees to port! (points): There! Land Ho!!! DELRAN (nods): You were right, Radar, your sense of direction is unmistakable! RADAR (nods); Why do you think they call me Radar? The Ocean Rover drifts near a small pier, Radar ties it securely to it and the Rovers walk towards the larger peir in the distance. DELRAN (smiles): I'll bet Storm's base is over there somewhere! CINDY (looking around): This area seems to be deserted! KRISTINA (looking around); I don't like this, Delran! DELRAN (smiles); We have the drop on Storm this time, what could go wrong? Suddenly, a trap door in the ground opens up and all of the Rovers fall into it. When they awaken, they find themselves in a huge cave and chained to the walls. As they awaken, Captain Storm walks over to them. STORM (laughs): Well well, it appears that dogs may have more than one live after all! Welcome to my new base! Too bad you won't be alive for much longer! (points at Radar): You, red dog, I've never seen you before... RADAR (growls): The name's Radar, you dorky human! STORM (angry): Silence! (looks at Delran): Y'know, it's really too bad. You and your Ocean Rovers could have been a big help to me! Oh well, you'll be helping us anyway! My troops are out searching for your submarine, you won't be needing it anymore! Storm laughs as he walks away from the Rovers. DELRAN (whispers); Ok guys, time to bust out of here! Guardian nods, pulls on his chains, slowly pulling them apart. Cindy stretches her arms and ankles long enough to slip the iron bracelets off of them. Kristina concertrates, forming her body into stone and bursts her iron restraints in the process. Delran uses his power ring to cut himself and Radar loose. DELRAN (nods): Good job, guys. Now we have to find a way to shut Storm down. Guardian puts his hand on Delran's shoulder and points to the opening of the cave towards the sea. RADAR (nods); Of course! Guardian is telling us that the opening is very narrow! If we can collapse it, Storm along with all his ships will be trapped in here long enough to for the authorities to arrive. CINDY (nods): That's fine, but how will we get word to them without a radio? RADAR (smiles): Leave that to me! Radar finds several wires, a dry battery and some metal strips. He quickly makes it into a crude Morse Code transmitter which he attaches to one of the metal pillars in the cave. RADAR (to himself); If this pillar sticks up out of the ground, it'll act as a crude antennae so I can send a quick message. As Radar is transmitting with his makeshift radio, Delran aims his power ring at the cave roof and fires. Soon. the entire place shakes as a cave in begins. The opening to the sea is now blocked by huge boulders as more boulders fall from the roof. Delran protects himself and the other Rovers with a force field produced by his power ring. DELRAN (straining): We can't keep this up forever.... In an instant, the five Rovers disappear and reappear on the smaller peir. DELRAN (turns around and sees him): Otto! CINDY (happy); You saved us! OTTO (sternly): My assistance would not have been possible without that emergency Morse Code message that was transmitted from this location RADAR (nods): It worked! KRISTINA (looks around): What about Storm and his men? OTTO (sternly): My wife and other members of the Collie Squadron have apprehended the entire group of evil doers. DELRAN (looks at Radar): Well done, Radar! RADAR (smiles): Thanks, but this just goes to show you that sometimes you have to use old fashioned techniques to get the job done! DELRAN (nods): You've convinced me, Radar, when we return to Mission Control, would you teach me and the others in the Ocean Rovers all of your sea faring knowledge? RADAR (nods); I'd be honored to, Delran! OTTO (points to the sub): Unfortunately, in the battle to recapture the Ocean Rover from the villains, your crude sail was virtually destroyed KRISTINA (screams): NO!!! All my fine clothes!!! GONE!!!! CINDY (giggles): It was a noble sacrifice, Kris! KRISTIINA (shakes fist): I'll give you a noble sacrifice, upside your head! DELRAN (smiles): I'm sure the Master will reimburse you for your loss, ok Kris? KRISTINA (nods): Ok... CINDY (laughs): Good thing we didn't need any slingshots! You do have that drawer full of.... KRISTINA (angry): CINDY!!! CINDY (smiles): Just kidding, Kris! DELRAN (shouts): We are the Ocean Rovers! All of the Rovers howl in unison. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------