Friday, December 30, 2022

Captain N: Re-Edited Episode 13: Baseball Know-It-Alls!

 On the Baseball world of,Homerun, the N-Team is facing a most awesome challenge:

Mr. Bojack,a Bo Jackson expy,is the team captain of the Videoland All-stars. The scoreboard showed that the home team was the Videoland All-stars and that neither the N Team nor the All-stars had made any home runs yet.  It was the bottom of the first inning. Mr. Bojack stepped up to the home plate and readied his bat.  He wore a dark blue cap that had a red V on the front.  He addressed Captain N, who was the pitcher. 

Mr. Bojack: I know amateur when I see one, and I eat ’im for Lunch!

Kevin "Captain N" Keene was wearing a lighter blue cap that had a red N.

Kevin: Alright. Eat this, slugger!

He tossed a curve ball that made Mr. Bojack nervous.  When he struck the ball, it went flying towards third base.


Simon Belmont, the member of the N Team assigned to home base, stood up.  He was wearing a blue shirt underneath a red T-shirt.  He lifted up his protective mask.  He looked down at his black glove that had four toothlike projections and a red interior.

Simon: This calls for my special, super-deluxe vampire catcher!

It made crunching sounds the two times he closed his hand.  After vaunting, he ran after the flying ball.  Unfortunately, Duke, assigned near third base, also came running for the ball!  Neither was watching where they were going, and Simon and Duke crashed together with a yip from Duke just before the ball landed in Simon’s glove!  The ball landed and rolled across the third base foul line soon before it reached third base.
 Upire: Foul ball; strike 1!

Lying on his chest near third base, Simon reached back and removed his glove from the rear end of his pants.  However, the pants ripped, revealing white underwear with red polka dots!  Fortunately, that did not rip.  Growling, Simon sat up, regarded his glove, and tossed it furiously on the ground.  Duke’s head popped out of the protective pad Simon was wearing and proceeded to lick the vampire hunter’s face once! 

Simon: Yeeuck! (points at the dog) Next time,don't be such a hot dog!

When the ball had returned to him, Kevin tossed it into his glove a few times.  In her royal box seat separated from the rest of the cheering cloud, Princess Lana was standing up and waving a blue banner with a white baseball on it.

Lana: (cheered) Come on, Kevin! You can do it!  Strike him out!

On Metroid, however, Mother Brain was watching the game through her own monitor so that she would not have to put up with commercials.And Again,it's her micro spy bots,who are transmitting the action. 


Mother Brain: “Hee, hee, hee, hee!  It’s almost time to strike You out, Princess Pea-brain!

She looked down to her two minions, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo, who were busy trying to rewire the controls for a warp zone.

Mother Brain: Haven’t you lunk-heads got that warp rewired yet?

Eggplant Wizard: Hoo!  We’re almost done, Big Mama Brain! (holds a green wire) The N Team won’t know what hit ’em!

King Hippo: (holds read wire) Neither will you, melon head, if you touch that green wire to this red one!

But then, he did touch the two wires together, frying himself and the veggie magician!  He screamed.

Mother Brain grabbed the two idiots with electric impulses and lifted them in front of her.

Mother Brain: I don’t know which one of you dim-wits is dimmer:  tweedle-dumb or tweedle-dumber!

She drew them away from each other a little, then thrust them together and let them drop to the ground.

Back on Homerun...

Kevin: Strike three coming at you, Bojack!

Mr. Bojack: Right! In your dreams, junior

Kevin pitched the ball.  This time, however, Bo, hit it high, and Kevin gasped as it flew over his head.  Pit Icarus tried to catch it, but when it hit his glove, it just sent him spinning and continued in its original direction. Pit Icarus cried while spinning downward and drilling into the ground.  The ball hit the high scoreboard, and suddenly the baseball field started to become unstable!

Kevin: Huh?

It turned into a warp, and Kevin, Duke, Mega Man, Pit Icarus, Simon, and Mr. Bojack were sent away!  Game Boy was making a red-alert sound while flashing “Alert” on his screen.

Gameboy: Alert! Alert! Incoming Danger!

Lana: My goodness! What’s happening?

Mother Brain and her two goons appeared in a hologram, Eggplant Wizard to her right, King Hippo to her left.

Holo!Mother Brain: Yours truly is what’s happenin’, now that I’ve warped those N-Twerps inside this Baseball World!

Holo!Eggplant Wizard: Yeah! It’s so dark and nasty down there, they’ll never get out alive!  Na, na na, na, na!

Holo!Mother Brain: Without your precious Captain Nothin',Videoland is mine once again!

She laughed wickedly.

The team was in the cavern-like cellar of Homerun.  In the region where they were now, several balls appeared to be embedded in the walls.

Mr. Bojack: Something tells me we’re not in Kansas anymore, N Team.

Simon: (demands in panic, examins a wall) Who cares about Kansas? Where’s the warp out of here!?

He had lost his face-protecting mask.


Kevin: Take it easy, Simon! First, we have to figure out where here is.

He had lost his baseball cap.

Mr. Bojack: There’s only one place this could be, The cellar, where we lock up all our bad equipment.

Pit Icarus: They look pretty harmless to me,guys.

Kid Icarus hovers near a wall. One of the baseballs in the wall suddenly came alive!

Evil Baseball: Oh, yeah?  Watch this!

Suddenly, several balls started flying out of the walls towards the good guys!

Mr. Bojack: Whoa! I haven’t seen this many foul balls since the Pennant! 

Kevin: I’ll hold ’em off (zaps balls) Everybody make a run for it!

While the others ran off, Bojack prepared his baseball bat.

Mr. Bojack: The only run I’m making is a home run!

He proceeded to whack baseballs along with Kevin. The others arrived at a two-way fork in the road. One to the left went upwards.  The other went downwards and over a wooden bridge suspended with ropes.

Pit Icarus: Which way?

Simon shrugged. Kevin and Bo came running, leaving the foul balls behind.

Mr. Bojack: I know baseball, and it’s one game you always play right. Let's cross the bridge. 

Kevin: Wait, Mr. Bojack,I know video games.  I say we go up to get out.

Duke barked, opting to accompany his master.

Mega Man: I’m with you, Captain N, You’ve gotten us out of some major messes before! 

Simon: Not on Homerun, he hasn’t

He joins Bo and putting his right hand on his left shoulder.

Simon: I’m sticking with the man who knows.

Pit Icarus: For once, Simon's right,This is Mr. Bojack’s world.

Kevin: Well,good luck.

Mr. Bojack: You, too. 

The two groups went their separate ways.

Meanwhile, at the Palace of Power, Mother Brain is about to bring Videoland to its knees.

Eggy: Now that Mother Brain’s gonna queen again, it’s your job play maid, Princess Lowlife,

She and Game Boy were standing in the throne room with Hippo and Eggplant.  Eggy was down on the floor and scrubbing it with a toothbrush.  There was also a bucket of soapy water.

Eggy: See, you go round and round, like this!

Lana was looking for a way to distract the two lackeys, which did not seem too difficult.

Lana: I’m not sure I understand. Could you show me again, Eggplant Wizard?

King Hippo snatched the toothbrush from his companion.

Hippo: Aw, let me show her! (begins scrubbing the floor) You couldn’t scrub your back if it was in front of your face!

Lana turned to Game Boy, to her left, and whispered in one of his audio receptors.

Lana: (quietly) Come on, Game Boy. Now’s our chance to try and reach Kevin!

Gameboy: (quietly) Affirmative!

The word “Okay” showed on Game Boy’s face, and he and Lana slipped away, escaping the notice of Eggy and Hippo.

Hippo lifted the toothbrush to the light.

Hippo: (shouts) Hey! This is my toothbrush, rutabaga-breath!

With his left fist, he smashed Eggplant Wizard’s head down into his body, and several vegetables popped out of his collarbone before his head popped back up.

Eggy: Yeah,well You never use it.

Hippo: I was just gettin’ around to it!

Then, he proceeded to brush his teeth, getting suds all over them!
 Suddenly, they heard the deep voice of their leader.

Mother Brain: I thought I told you cabbage-heads to keep an eye on Princess Puny!

They looked up and saw Mother Brain.

Hippo: Uh, uh. . . we were just teachin’ her how to scrub the floor, like you said!

Mother Brain: (annoyed) Find her, before I scrub the floor with you sponge-heads!

She fried them each with an electrical blast before they ran off to find Lana.
  
In the cavern underneath Homerun, Mr.Bojack, Pit Icarus, and Simon heard a noise from an unknown source. . . a beeping signal type of noise. As they cautiously cross a rickety bridge.

Pit Icarus: What’s that? hey were

Bojack: I don’t know, and what I don’t know can hurt me.

At the end of the bridge, a couple of nasty flying baseball gloves laughed menacingly at them.  They spat a highly acidic substance on the last plank of the bridge, causing it to melt!  Simon freaked out.

Simon: Let’s make a run for it!

He turned around and tried to run, but his way was block by another glove.

Simon: Ah, on second thought, let’s run away from it!”
 Bo swung his bat at the gloves, trying to hit them, but they quickly evaded each swing.  Pit Icarus shot an arrow at one glove, but it shot a glob of acid at the glove and melted the tip off.  Pit Icarus gasped.

Pit Icarus: I sure hope Captain N is doing better than we are!”

Meanwhile, along the other path, Kevin, Mega Man, and Duke were near the top.

Mega Man: A couple more feet,and we’re home free!

Suddenly, though several fly-balls came along and barred their way.

Kevin: Uh, oh, From the looks of those fly-balls, we’re not getting any free rides in this game!

As the flying balls advanced, Mega Man fired plasma blasts at them.  However, the balls merely swallowed the shots!  Also, they spat fireballs at the trio.  Kevin shot several, but their advance was relentless.

Kevin: Fall back!!! These hotheads don’t know the meaning of fair play!!

Unfortunately, both groups decided to fall back, and they met at the fork at the same time, causing confusion.  Kevin tried to fire another shot at the balls, but Simon bumped into him, causing his shot to go to the ceiling.  Rocks fell from the point of impact and blocked off both paths of the fork entirely, saving them all temporarily but blocking any exit.  The balls and gloves returned to their territories.

Simon: Well (sits on a rock) I guess we got rid of them.

Mega Man: Yeah, and sealed ourselves in!

Mr.Bojack was sitting, and Kevin leaning against the wall to his left.

Bojack: We wouldn’t be sitting on this rock-pile if we’d stuck together.
 Kevin: And whose fault is that, Mr. Know-It-All?

Bojack frowned.  Suddenly, a hologram of Princess Lana appeared!

Kevin: Lana?

Holo!Lana: Ssh, Just listen.  I don’t know how long I can talk.  Mother Brain has taken over the palace!
 
In the Palace of Power, she was standing in front of the large communications computer.

Lana: She’s sealed all the warps out of Homerun, but I’ll get you out of there....somehow!”

Suddenly, a shot from behind hit the screen, cutting off the communication!  Lana gasped and turned around.

Mother Brain: I don't think so, Princess Pinhead!

Lana decides to feign submission.

Lana: It looks like you win, Mother Brain, The Kevin was my last hope.

Secretly, she reached behind with her left hand and pressed a button on the computer’s control panel.

Mother Brain: It’s about time you wised up!

Kevin: We’ve got to get out of here! Lana needs us!”
 Mr. Bojack: We will, Kev, Only this time, let’s use our heads and some teamwork.
 He and Kevin shook hands. Suddenly, Duke started barking happily, as he was hearing something.

Kevin: Atta boy, Duke! You found something!

Duke went to the new rock wall and turned back to his master.  He barked several more times.

Simon: (shrugs) Smart dog you’ve got there, Captain N, He led us exactly nowhere! 

Mega Man stepped over to the same area in the wall.

Mega Man: No, wait!  My sensors are picking up something, too. . . a beeping, coming from. . . there!

He passed his hand over the wall, and they all heard the distinct sound of a warp!

Pit: It’s a warp!”

This made everyone happy.

Kevin: Lana must have found a way to lead us home.

They all stepped through the warp and emerged in an area that looked like a miniature baseball diamond.

Voice: So I have some intruders!

Its owner was someone whose entire body was a baseball card!  However, his human-like features were his head, which was in the center of the card, his arms and hands, and his legs and feet.  He wore a baseball cap.

Baseball Card: I’m the Baseball Card King!

He stood up from his baseball-shaped chair and rubbed his hands together.

Baseball Card King: Those who trespass in my domain will always Strike Out!. 

Kevin: Sorry, pal, Play time is over.  We’re out of here!

He and the others moved to leave.

The Baseball Card King laughed.

B.C.K.: That’s a foul thing to say, you're not going anywhere! Play Ball!!

Several nasty wooden baseball bats came along, hissing, and they barred the N Team’s way.  They had feet on the ends of their handles, arms on either side, mouths, red baseball hats, and nasty attitudes.

B.C.K.: I'm gonna bat a thousand with you intruders!

Mr. Bojack: Guess it’s game time whether we like it or not,Let’s make it a no-hitter!

The bats flew after the N Team.

Simon cried, as he tried to avoid one bat.  He pulled out a cymbal and guarded his face.  The bat ran into it and disintegrated to video-dust. One came after Bojack, but he whacked it in two with his own trusty bat.  One came after Mega Man, but Duke pounced on it.  Turning around, Mega Man noted one sneaking up on Duke, and he turned his right hand into a saw blade and reduced this second bat to shavings, burying himself and Duke.

Two came after Kid Icarus, but with flight maneuvers, he caused them to get tangled up in each other.  Two came racing towards Kevin from either side, trying to sandwich him, but he pressed Up on his Power Pad to jump above them, and they rammed together.  He got out his Zapper and fried each of them before he landed.  These bats were reduced to shavings, as well.

The group reassembled.

Kevin: Well, I hate to win and run, but Lana’s signal is coming from the end of the end of the baseball field.

The group ran to the end of the field, where the signal rang loud and clear from within a chasm.  They stopped short of falling in.

Kevin: There’s a warp down there. I just know it!”

Simon: Are you kidding? We can’t jump into empty space on what you know!

Simon: I know this is our only chance of making it home!

They heard the Baseball Card King laughing behind them.  When they looked, they saw a legion of evil baseball bats behind him!

B.C.K.: (laughs) Time for some extra innings!

The bats hissed, making an ominous noise.

Mr. Bojack knew Kevin was right about this.  Also, he did not want to face all those bats.

Bojack: Let’s go for it

Everyone jumped in, Simon the last.

Simon: (cried) It’s not openiiiiiiiiiiiiing!

But the warp did open, and everyone in the group entered it safely. In the Palace of Power, King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard had Mother Brain blindfolded and were guiding her to the throne room.

Hippo: Now, don’t look, my main brain

Eggy: Yeah!  It’s a big surprise.

They stopped, and he lifted the blindfold.

When she saw the surprise, Mother Brain was delighted. It was a huge sponge cake with a gold crown on top!

Eggy: It’s my special sponge cake recipe!

Mother Brain grabbed the crown with electrical impulses and put it on top of her jar, and she smiled. Mother Brain was so happy that tears came to her eyes.

Mother Brain: Ooh, I’m all misty-eyed!  Really, boys, you shouldn’t have.
 Eggy and Hippo took this the wrong way.

Eggy and Hippo: We shouldn’t have? (points) It was her idea!

Lana was leaning against the wall with Game Boy.

Mother Brain: It was? (to Lana) Why?”

Lana: You’ll see, Right about. . . now.”

The same signaling noise sounded that had led Kevin and the others to the warp on Homerun. A warp opened above the sponge cake, and the N Team fell onto the soft cake! The Warp suddenly changed color. The confection spread to Mother Brain and her lackeys. Suddenly,the villains are forced up through the warp..not back to Homerun....but to The Dead Zone.

The Dead Zone was pitch black. Mother Brain and her lackeys could be heard screaming. The screaming stops as the "destroy blip" sound is heard.

Back at the Palace of Power,the heroes are watching the Dead Zone via the Moniter.

Kevin: What happened?

Lana: When I programmed the warp,I made it so that it would reroute itself to the Dead Zone.

Kevin: Genius,Princess!

The N-Team cheered.

Kevin: Looks like the war is over,Mother Brain's destroyed!

Mr. Bojack: Great game,Captain N! Great game!    

Mr. Bojack and Kevin slapped a high five.
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Notes: You are probably wondering about a few things. This Episode was the ONLY episode that features Mother Brain and her minions. I changed the ending,because the original ending was a stupid end to Mother Brain and her Minions.

Also,each episode of Season 3 was made shorter because NBC wanted to cut their SatAM animation budget. It was also the reason why the art direction got a major downgrade.

Anyway,the Adventure's not over yet,4 more to go!

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