Copyright 2001 --- Robert Baer Jr. The Space Rovers -- "The Quest --- Part 2" 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 Boomer, Rasputin, Saundra, Alexander, Grunt, Daisy, Abdullah, Bob, Cactus Jake, Marie, Francis, Calypso, Sheena, Bruno, Molly, Deborah, Orchid, Porta, Dot, Luigi, Sophia, Willfong, Lao Zi, Su Li, Sno-wie, Numbia, Hojo, Shamansta, Ultra, Lady, Judy, Felipe, Josephine, Antonie, Tanya, Yuri, Giorgio, Vanni, Carla, Bernadette, Deng, Peng, Greta, Derby and Poncho are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright pending, 1999 - 2000. Kenai is a creation of Patrick Wood. Deon is a creation of Mike Browner. The Space Rovers -- "The Quest -- Part 2" The scene is sick bay. Sheena and Deborah are treating the three Pronates rescued from the astroid belt. As Persia, Grunt, Boomer, Saundra, Whitey and Bob walk towrds sick bay, Persia's last log entry plays in the background. PERSIA (voiceover, background): Captain's log, supplemental. Through the heroic efforts of our fine crew, we were able to escape the trap that Comazar Flaggon had set for us. A Willian freighter nearby rescued their crew and will be taking them to Jurrassia for trial. I sure hope Commander Zeldor is not on the tribunal that hears the case, that stegasaurus temper of his would cause him to stomp the Comazar flat before the trial begins. Going to sick bay now, hoping that our Pronate friends are feeling well enough to answer some questions. This 'Phosolute' legend intrigues me, somehow I am beginning to believe that there's some truth to it. This mythical material may sway the balance of power in this region of space. I feel it is in the best interests of Earth for the Space Rovers to investigate. End entry... PERSIA (sternly): Doctor, how are your patients? ABDULLAH (looks at clipboard); The three Pronates, two male, one female, are still in guarded condition. They were almost dead when we beamed them aboard ship. Lt Willfong insisted on using his healing powers on all three of them a once. He did, and thanks to him, I believe with proper rest and medications, all three will make full recoveries. WHITEY (sternly): That's good news, doctor, where is Lt Willfong now? ABDULLAH (points): Three beds down. He nearly exhausted his own life force with his attempt to help the Pronates. BOB (nods): Are any of them well enough to answer some questions? ABDULLAH (shakes head): They need rest and ... PERSIA (sternly); And these three may hold the key to a galatic mystery that could change the universe! Please doctor, we have to know what they know.... ABDULLAH (nods): Ten minutes, you have ten minutes. Sheena and Deborah will be standing by, make your questions quick. They are awake now. PERSIA (turns to Whitey and Bob): You two come with me, the rest of you wait out here. Persia, Whitey and Bob enter the ward room. Two of the Pronates are asleep, one is just waking up. Sheena and Deborah quickly rush over to his bedside. TU-DAW (opening eyes): Where... where am I? (shouts): QI-LAU!!! FRE-WON!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU???? SHEENA (calmly): Please calm down sir. You and your two fellow crew members are safe. You are on board the Canius Minor. PERSIA (walks over): I'm Captain Persia, we received your distress call and ... TU-DAW (smiles); Captain Persia! You are quite famous on my world! PERSIA (smiles): Yes Tu-daw, you are all recovering from partial exposure to space. Your life support systems were nearly off when we... TU-DAW (surprised): How did you know my name??? (smiles): Oh yeah, you read my mind! PERSIA (nods); Yes, can you tell us the nature of your mission? TU-DAW (sadly): I am under orders of my government not to discuss it with anyone... not even you Captain.. PERSIA (smiles); Look, we're not after the Phosolute, whoever stakes their rightful claim to it can have it. What we want to do is solve this mystery so no more space vessels and lives will be lost searching for it! TU-DAW (shocked): You're reading my mind again.... now you know everything we do.... PERSIA (calmly): We can help each other. (points to bag): The artifact in your knapsack. With your permission, we will help you interpret the ancient writing on it. TU-DAW (smiles, nods); Yes! I nor my comrades have been able to understand the writing. Agreed Captain, we will work together! PERSIA (nods); And since your vessel was destroyed, we will take you with us as we search! TU-DAW (smiles): The legends about you and your crew are true! You do help those in need! The scene now shifts to Daisy and Flash's lab, one hour later. Bob, Whitey, Daisy, Flash, Tu-daw, Qi-lau and Fre-won examine the artifact using a nuclear microscope which displays on the front view screen. BOB (points): Look! There! This language resembles ancient Jurrassian! TU-DAW (excited): Can you tell us what it means? BOB (sternly): It seems like a fragment, in human terms, a puzzle piece to a much bigger puzzle. WHITEY (turns to Daisy and Flash): Ladies, have you determined the mineral composition of the fragment? FLASH (nods): We sure enough have, sugar! DAISY (types): The fragment is almost 100% solid benzite! QI-LAU (shocked): Benzite? FRE-WON (nods): Pure Benzite! BOB (sternly); If memory serves, there is an inhabitable planet made up of almost pure Benzite... Usla Seven. TU-DAW (nods): Yes! Usla Seven in the Hubquardy system! It has a breathable atmosphere, but it's mines have been closed down for decades, no one lives there now... WHITEY (sternly); If this is, indeed, a puzzle piece, then the puzzle must be on Usla Seven! DAISY (excited): WOW!! I'll tell the Captain! BOB (nods): I have interpreted the writings... it's a strange warning.... FLASH (shocked): Warning? BOB (nods): Yes, it says.. 'Return this key... by one not grown... a great treasure..... you will own....." WHITEY (shakes head): That makes no sense, your interpretation must be flawed.. FLASH (typing): I'll analyze it with the lab's computer to confirm that! WHITEY (nods): You do that, Flash. Now, the rest of us should join the Captain on the bridge... Soon, Whitey, Bob, Tu-daw, Qi-lau and Fre-won are on the bridge. Whitey and Bob take their stations, the others sit in front of Grunt's station. PERSIA (sternly): Boomer, estimated time to Usla Seven.... BOOMER (sternly): At present course and speed, five minutes... WHITEY (sternly): Four point nine seven minutes, Captain... SAUNDRA (looks at monitor): Captain, picking up faint signal just out of sensor range....... oh, it's gone now.. ALEXANDER (sternly): Identify it, Saundra! SAUNDRA (typing, looking): Unable... not enough data... BOOMER (smiles); Could be a sensor echo... ALEXANDER (turns to Persia): Could be trouble, Captain! PERSIA (nods): Could be, old man. Sound yellow alert! BOOMER (sternly): Three minutes to Usla Seven..... BRUNO (turns to Persia): It's Daisy calling from the lab! PERSIA (nods); On front screen.. DAISY (on screen): Captain! Good ol' Bob was right about the writin' on the artifact! The computer confirms that it says, "Return this key....by one not grown.... a great treasure.... you shall own....." PERSIA (nods): Thank you Daisy, good work! Stand by, Persia out.... WHITEY (sadly): Odd message.... SAUNDRA (confused): What can it mean? CACTUS JAKE (shouts); Youngin's!!! WHITEY (smirks): I beg your pardon.... CACTUS JAKE (nods); Youngin's!! Kids! One not grown! Don't you get it? WHITEY (shakes head); Ridiculous! PERSIA (sternly); No... it's not that far fetched.... BOB (sternly); Return this key..... Our original theory about a puzzle may be right! BOOMER (sternly): We are in the Hubquardy system.. PERSIA (sternly); Take up out of warp, proceed to Usla Seven at one quarter light speed.. BOOMER (nods); Aye Captain! WHITEY (sternly): Usla Seven, a former mining planet with two moons. PERSIA (sternly); Scan the planet's surface for any unusual readings, a foreign energy signature perhaps.. CACTUS JAKE (looks at monitor): Hey! Something's hidin' behind that second moon! GRUNT (pushing buttons); GRRRRRR!! GROWL!!!!!!!!!!!! PERSIA (shocked): Battle Stations? (calmly); Grunt, I wouldn't jump to conclusions.... As Persia is speaking, the Canius Minor shakes with a fury. PERSIA (shocked); What was that? WHITEY (looking at monitor): Two torpedoes fired at us! CACTUS JAKE (nods): It's a good thing Grunt raised our force fields! (points): LOOK!!! It's the Lost Pack's ship! I told y'all there was something hiding.... PERSIA (interrupts): Avasive maneuvers! BRUNO (shocked) We are being hailed! It's Ultra! PERSIA (sternly); On screen.. Now on the front viewer is the evil beagle leader of the Lost Pack Ultra. Beside him are the cocker spaniel Judy and Great Dane Lady. ULTRA (smiles); Captain Persia! Long time, no see! PERSIA (angry); What do you what, Ultra? ULTRA (smiles): I wanted to thank you for leading us to the Phosolute! ALEXANDER (furious): You scalliwag!!! How could you possibly know about.... ULTRA (laughs): There's no secrets from the Lost Pack, you old coot! Now, stay out of our way! We're going to land on the surface, follow us and we'll blast you our of the sky! WHITEY (excited): The Lost Pack's ship is desending towards the planet... PERSIA (angry); We can't let them get there first! Grunt, aim phasers, target their engines and .... Before Persia can finish the order, the Lost Pack's ship instantly vanishes. ALEXANDER (shocked): What??? CACTUS JAKE (stunned): They plumb disappeared!!!!! PERSIA (sternly); I want an explanation! Do they have invisibility technology? WHITEY (shakes head); Doubtful, the original Space Rover vessel was not equipped with that. BOB (looks at monitor): There was a temporal field that formed just as the ship dropped to 30,000 miles of the surface. It swallowed up the ship and then vanished. BOOMER (shocked): That's too scary... maybe we better turn back... TU-DAW (shakes head); NO!!! We have come this far.... PERSIA (nods): I agree. Let's try a little something.... Whitey, launch a science probe towards the surface of Usla Seven. Let's see if it's swallowed up too! WHITEY (nods); Aye Captain! The probe is launched. Just as Persia predicted, it too instantly vanishes... BOB (looks at monitor): Same thing Captain! The temporal field formed and swallowed up the probe at the 30,000 mile mark. ALEXANDER (confused): What can it mean? PERSIA (nods): What if the ancient writings are correct? What if the one who presents the key must be a child, one not fully grown? CACTUS JAKE (smiles): Are you saying we need to send our youngin's in a shuttle to the surface? BOB (stands up): I can go! ALEXANDER (shocked): You? PERSIA (nods): That's right! In Jurrassian years, you are only six years old..... not an adult! GRUNT (nods); GRRRRRRRRRRRRR GROWL!!!!! PERSIA (shakes head): Normally, I would agree Grunt, but all of your security officers are full grown. (smiles): Alright Lt Commander Bob! Report to shuttlebay D in five minutes, take the Dogstar down to the surface. BOB (happy): I won't let you down, Captain! The scene switches to the classroom of the Space Rover kids. It is recess and Felipe suddenly makes himself visible in the room. DENG (shocked): Felipe? Where have you been? FELIPE (whispers): Please, listen to me! I made myself invisible and went up to the bridge! BERNADETTE (smirks): Biga deal! FELIPE (whispers): It IS a big deal! Only children can go to the planet surface! PENG (stunned): The surface of Usla Seven? FELIPE (nods); We we! Bob is going alone.... GRETA (whispers): We can't let him do that... VANNI (nods): Thatsa right! Bob may needa help! FELIPE (whispers): Bob is leaving in the DogStar in a few minutes.. DEON (nods): You bloaks get ready! I've got a plan! Deon walks up to Kenai, who is busy erasing the chalkboard. DEON (smiles): Miss Kenai? Would you play hide and seek with us? KENAI (smiles): Sure! Sounds like fun! DEON (nods): Crickey! Alright, you stand in the corner and count to twenty, then come look for us, ok? KENAI (giggles): Ok! Kenai turns to the corner and begins counting... KENAI (giggles): one....two...three... DEON (whispers): Quick Felipe, Josephine, Antonie! Make us all invisible, then we'll make a run for the DogStar! Felipe, Josephine and Antonie concentrate, and makes all of the kids invisible. Minutes later at shuttlebay D, Bob is ready to step inside the DogStar but hears the sounds of little feet all around him. BOB (confused): Huh? (looks all around): Oh well, guess I'm just hearing things.... Bob steps inside the shuttle and closes the hatch. He sits in the pilot's seat and takes off. The scene switches back to the bridge where the crew is carefully monitoring the DogStar's flight. PERSIA (sternly): Grunt, keep a tractor beam lock on the DogStar, at the first sign of a temporal field, grab the DogStar and pull Bob back to the ship! GRUNT (nods): GRRRRRRRRRRRR GROWL!!! WHITEY (looks at monitor); DogStar is reaching 50,000 miles of the surface.... 45,000..... 40,000..... PERSIA (sternly); All hands stand by..... BRUNO (nods): Bob is reporting all systems are go! WHITEY (looks at monitor): 35,000... approaching 30,000 mile mark....now! PERSIA (shouts): REPORT!!! CACTUS JAKE (looks at monitor): No anomiles! Bob was right! There he goes! TU-DAW (excited); He made it! QI-LAU (excited): The Jurrassian made it through! WHITEY (looks at monitor): 25,000....20,000...... PERSIA (shouts): Patch me in to the DogStar! (shouts): Bob! Where are you going to land? BOB (on speakers): I'm picking up a strong foriegn energy signature on the southern continent, in a mountainous region near their magnetic south pole. PERSIA (nods): Sounds like our best bet, stay in contact with us.... BRUNO (shocked): Urgent message from Kenai, Captain! PERSIA (sternly): Tell her to report it to Calypso... BRUNO (shocked); Ma'am! The children are missing! PERSIA (turns, shocked); WHAT????? BRUNO (nods): Kenai reports that none of the children came to class after recess, she searched the entire lower deck and .... BOOMER (typing): Let's see if the computer can locate them..... WHITEY (shocked): I'm detecting thirteen collar signals aboard the DogStar... PERSIA (shocked); OH NO!! They went with Bob to the surface! BRUNO (growls); Wait till Tanya and Yuri return! They vill get a spankin' they'll never forget! ALEXANDER (sternly); Tell Bob to return... WHITEY (looks at monitor): The DogStar has already landed... PERSIA (turns to Bruno): Bruno, contact Bob, advice him of the situation... BRUNO (angry): It's no goodski! Radio interference coming from the surface of the planet... PERSIA (sternly): That means.... Bob doesn't know the children are with him.... Bob exits the shuttlecraft and enters a large cave opening. He looks around, holding his portable scanner close to him. BOB (points): There! The fragment piece will fit perfectly in that place! When Bob places the fragment in the wall, suddenly the ground shakes and a huge hidden panel on the opposite wall opens. In walks a huge, violet colored giant, standing on two legs with four arms. He has three eyes on his rather ragged looking face. He turns and spots Bob and smiles. GIANT (loudly): SO!!! YOUNG ONE!!! YOU COME FOR THE SECRET!!!!! (laughs): YOU HAVE TO GET BY ME FIRST!!!! BOB (shocked, scared): Like Hunter would say, I would not have predicted THIS!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- to be continued......