Copyright 1999 -- Robert Baer Jr. Otto & Sam -- "Dog Day Afternoon" 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 and Samantha Maddog are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright 1997-1998. DJ is a creation of Jake Williams, Huntress is a creation of Greywolf Lupous, Alethia is a creation of Kylen Miles.. Otto & Sam -- "Dog Day Afternoon" The scene is Road Rover Headquarters. The alert signal has been activated, Hunter, Colleen, Shag, Blitz, Exile and Alethia have entered their secret luges and are speeding towards the transdogmafier room. DJ and Huntress are already there waiting on them, and are startled by the sudden BOOM they hear as Otto and Samantha teleport to the scene and enter the transdogmafier chambers. The others arrive and change into Cano-Sapiens also. All of them then enter the briefing room where the Master is waiting. MASTER: Rovers, we have received word that General Parvo and Groomer are back in business again HUNTER: Yet another unexpected twist! Bummer! COLLEEN (smiling): You DO have such a way with words, don't you, Huntie-Wuntie? HUNTER (smiling): Hey, I try! MASTER: Our satelite has detected Cano-Mutant activity in the upper region of New Guinea, near Port Moseby. We have not determined the exact location of Parvo's base. OTTO: May I download your current information on this new base? MASTER: By all means, Otto, I hope your internal computer system can help us pinpoint the site. BLITZ (mumbling): Big showoff! HUNTRESS (looking at Blitz): Honey, be nice! OTTO: Data has been processed, exact coordinates found MASTER: Amazing! How did you determine them, Otto? OTTO: Well, using the satelite's lastest findings along with cross-references the current data from the NASA weather satelite along with topograhpical reading from the surface of the island and current readings of animal life forms near Port Moseby and ..... BLITZ (grumbling) : Who cares, Mr Science! MASTER (interrupting): Er..... maybe we can discuss your methods another time, Otto OTTO: Sure, Master, anytime. MASTER: Rovers, go to New Guinea and stop Parvo and Groomer, that is your mission! HUNTER: You can count on us, Master! BLITZ: Hey, why is it always that YOU are the leader, Hunter. Why can't I lead this mission? Give me one good reason why I can't lead! EXILE: Because you're a weird boy! DJ: Because you're not qualified! COLLEEN: Because I don't even know your name! ALETHIA: Because Hunter outranks you! OTTO: There seems to be an abundance of reasons. However, you did ask for only one..... HUNTRESS (defensive): HEY! Stop picking on Blitz! BLITZ (happy): You tell'm, my love! SAMANTHA: Please, everyone, let's not quarrell, we have a job to do! HUNTER: Sam's right! We need to stop Parvo! Let's hit the road, Rovers! They all howl in unison. Otto offers to teleport the group to the exact spot, Hunter decides to fly there in the Cloud Rover instead. While the Rovers are enroute, the scene shifts to Parvo's lair. It is a dimly lit labratory where there's a large Cano-Mutator in the center of it. Groomer is busy sitting at a radar console, there are six Cano-Mutants in the room who are adjusting their weapons and watching various viewing screens all around the room. PARVO (chuckling): This plan of mine can't fail this time, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner! GROOMER: This one has to work, my General, all of our other ones has been disasters PARVO: Not this time, Groomer, because it's SO simple! Tell me, what makes the Road Rovers so strong? GROOMER: Their high-tech weapons? PARVO: Nope, try again GROOMER: Superior leadership? PARVO (angry): NO!!!! I am the genius here! Try again! GROOMER: I give up, my General, what's the answer? PARVO: The fact that they are Cano-Sapiens! It makes sense! If they were still ordinary dogs, they'd be no problem for us! GROOMER (pointing): So that's why you have the Cano-Mutator here, and why you've expanded the holding chamber! But, how will you get the Rovers to step into it? PARVO: How else, Groomer, by deception! That's why my Cano-Mutants have been rampaging the countryside, sooner or later, the Rovers will arrive to try to stop them, and when they do, I'll have them at last! (Cough, cough, cough) Longine! GROOMER (shots a longine into his mouth): Brilliant, my General, this plan can't fail! General, radar has spotted the Cloud Rover heading this way! PARVO: Perfect! And when the Road Rovers are turned back into dogs, we'll put them all to sleep, permanently! Cano-Mutants, take your positions outside as we've planned, do a lot of damage and make sure the Rovers follow you back here! Now, GO! The Cano-Mutants growl and run outside and begin to shoot everything in sight. Some of them run towards the city and begin terrorizing the people there. The Cloud Rover flys towards the disturbance and lands in a vacant lot in town. SHAG: Ruh ruh ruh? HUNTER: No Shag, there isn't time for an in-flight meal, we have to stop those Cano-Mutants! OTTO: Something doesn't seem right, there were no previous sightings of Mutants in the city, and Parvo's lair is located one point seven miles away from this position. BLITZ: Shut up, computer boy! Time to go bite Cano-toochies! EXILE (laughing): Looks like weird boy has a crusade! HUNTER: Ok, Rovers. let's stop'm! The Cano-Mutants run towards the center of the city. Hunter, Huntress and Otto use their blazing speed and stop directly in front of them. HUNTER (shaking his finger at them) Bad Dogs, Bad Dogs! The Cano-Mutants fire a few shots at them and run in the opposite direction, where Colleen, DJ, Alethia, Exile and Samantha are waiting. COLLEEN: Alright, you bloomin' bunch of mongrels! That's enough! The Cano-Mutants fire at them and run down an alley, Samantha turns on her force field and deflects all of their shots. DJ: WOW!! How DO you do that, Sam? SAMANTHA: It's all in my collar, but now we better follow those evil canines! As the others follow them into the alley, the Cano-Mutants quickly climb into a jeep and drives towards all of them! Otto immediately teleports everyone to the other side of the street. HUNTER (surprised): WHOA! WAY COOL!!! DJ (relieved): That was a close call! EXILE (shocked): Comrade Otto, you saved our sausage! I give you big bear hug! SAMANTHA (pointing): They're all getting away! OTTO: Not really, darling! I'm tracking their vehicle in my internal systems, we'll be able to follow them whereever they go! BLITZ (disappointed): I didn't get to fight them! I WANT TO BITE TOOCHIES!!!!! EXILE (gigling): There goes weird boy again! HUNTRESS: You'll get another chance, dear ALETHIA (angry): These Cano-Mutants don't fight with honor, they start trouble, then they flee like scared mice! DJ: That's them, alright! OTTO: I'm projecting the probable course of the escaping Cano-Mutant vehicle, it appears that they are heading towards the coordinates of Parvo's lair HUNTER: Eh... yeah, what he said, Ok, let's hit the road, Rovers! They all howl in unison. The Rovers commandeer a jeep and drive to Parvo's lair. It looks like an old barn from the outside, they hide the jeep in some nearby bushes and decide to sneak in. They open the front door, which squeaks loudly, scaring Blilz and Shag, Blitz grabs Huntress and quakes in fear while Shag jumps into Hunter's arms. HUNTER (puts Shag down): Now, Shag, there's nothing to be afraid of here! Right, Otto? OTTO: Scanning, I detect no abnormal readings, however, I'm no longer detecting the Cano-Mutants, either. Seem to be some sort of electrical jamming signals coming from the floor of this structure. SAMANTHA: THE FLOOR? WE BETTER LEAVE!! THIS SMELLS LIKE A TRAP!!! BLITZ (bragging): So, little miss 'I married a computer' is a scaredy-cat! HA HA HA You are too parinoid, not like me! I know this place is safe! At that moment, a large trap down opens underneath all of them and they all fall into the enlarged Cano-Mutator chamber. PARVO (shouting): QUICKLY GROOMER, TURN IT ON! Groomer turns the Cano-Mutator on, and within seconds, all of them are turned back into their pure canine forms! The machine has no effect on Muzzle, who's still securely strapped to his genry. PARVO: Quckly Groomer, pump in the sleeping gas, we need to knock them out before we can take them out to the shed and give'm the lethal gas! Groomer flips the switch and begins pumping in the sleeping gas. The gas temporarily blocks the view from inside the chamber as Parvo and Groomer begin to laugh. PARVO: That's enough, Groomer! Now, let's both look at our catch! Cano-Mutants, stand by to ..... WHAT???? The gas has cleared, but all of the Road Rovers are gone. PARVO (shocked): This is impossible! How could they all escape! The chamber was sealed, and the trap door is still securely locked! What happened here? OTTO (becoming visible, appearing behind them): We happened, pilgrim! PARVO (looikng around): Who said that? (seeing Otto): It couldn't be you, you mangy looking German Shepard! OTTO: And why not, you oversized furball! PARVO: It can't be! This one can talk, even in his pure canine form! SAMANTHA (becoming visible, appearing beside Otto): So can I, Mr Bad Guy, sir! GROOMER (pointing): Look! There's a Collie standing next to Muzzle's genry! SAMANTHA: That's right evil lady, and now it's time to muzzle all of you! Samantha uses her teeth to bite the straps of Muzzle's genry loose, Muzzle jumps up and attacks all the Cano-Mutants, Parvo and Groomer. The loud sounds of screaming and of items crashing fill the room. OTTO (looking at Samantha): Quickly, take all of the others back the Road Rover Headquarters, get them transdogmafied and return, OK? SAMANTHA (smiling): Will do, honey! Samantha gathers all of the others around her and with a loud BOOM! they all disappear, returning a minute later as Cano-Sapiens again. HUNTER (watching Muzzle tackle the bad guys): Whoa, Muzzle, save some for us! BLITZ (turning away): I think I'm going to be sick! COLLEEN (turning away): Ewwwwww, GROSS!!!! SAMANTHA (turning away): May I be excused, Mr Hunter, sir? EXILE (startled): Bolshoi! I didn't know Muzzle could do that! HUNTRESS (looking at Exile): Didn't think the human body could bend like that, did you? DJ (laughing): That what I call a full body limbo! OTTO: I have an idea! Gotta wait until Muzzle's finished. A few minutes later, Muzzle is lying on his back, smiling and all the bad guys are motionless on the ground. OTTO: Now, let's see if this Cano-Mutator is still functioning correctly. Otto teleports the six Cano-Mutants into the chamber, Alethia pushes the start button and within seconds, all of the Cano-Mutants are changed back into normal dogs. COLLEEN (petting two of them on the head): Blimey! These Cano-Mutants are quite gentle when they're in their original state! HUNTRESS (petting one): And I'll bet all of these poor creatures were stolen from their masters, probably taken from the city! OTTO: I'll summon the local authorites! PARVO (looking up off the floor at the Rovers): I don't understand, all of you were pure canines again, how was it that that German Shepard and that Collie could still talk? You were all helpless as mutts! GROOMER (barely moving): It's just not possible! We had all of you in that chamber! There was no way of escape! OTTO: Wanna bet, ma'am? PARVO (looking dumbfounded): And why does that one sound like John Wayne? OTTO: And what's wrong with John Wayne? No more wise cracks about the Duke, Muzzle's not the only one here with sharp teeth! PARVO (grabbing a lead pipe off the floor and throwing it at Otto): Here, catch Johnny! Otto jumps and catches the pipe in mid air in his mouth, he slowly closes his mouth, snapping the pipe in two. OTTO (growling): Now, do you wanna keep acting cute? I can always do that to all of your limbs, if I wanted to! PARVO (shaking in fear): No No, I'm fine, I'll just stay right here...... EXILE: WOW!! Otto, how did you do that? BLITZ: I could really bite toochies if I had your jaws! OTTO: All part of my bionic enhancements SAMANTHA: Honey, don't you want to zap yourself back to Headquarters and become a Cano-Sapien again? OTTO: As soon as the police arrive, we'll all return there, right Hunter? HUNTER: That's right, to the Power of the Pack! They all howl in unison. One hour later and the Road Rovers are back at Mission Control. MASTER: Good job, Rovers, you're good, good dogs! Parvo and Groomer are in jail, and all of the former Cano-Mutants have been returned to their owners. Otto, Samantha, I must say that my earlier hunches about you were right, you've both proven yourselves to be very valuable members of my team! OTTO: Thank you, Master, Sam and I will always be ready to assist you! SAMANTHA: That's right, Mr Master, sir. DJ: We'd all been goners if it wasn't for Otto and Sam! ALETHIA: I concur, you two are true heroes, indeed! HUNTRESS: Excellent work, don't you think so, Blitzy? BLITZ (smirking): OK, I admit that Otto and Sam did help us a teenie - tiny bit today, but I knew it was a trap all along! But none of you would listen to me! If I were the leader, I'd show you how brave and fearless I am! (looks straight ahead and sees a huge shadow on the wall): Auk, Unneemal! It's a monster! RUN!!! OTTO (laughing): I don't think that's a monster, Blitz, take a closer look! The shadow on the wall lengthens, it's Shag pushing a serving cart with lots of food on it towards the others. SHAG: Ruh Ruh Ruh, ruh ruh! HUNTER: Right Shag, dinner is served! SAMANTHA (chuckling): Is this 'monster' Foodzilla, Blitz, sir? Everyone laughs outloud. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------