Nano of the North/Transcript
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Heroes and Girls: PROFESSOR! (The circular lab door, which opens to reveal him in a bathrobe.)
Professor: GIRLS!
(Back and forth between the girls and the Professor. They are heading toward each other.)
Heroes and Girls: PROFESSOR! PROFESSOR!
Professor: GIRLS! GIRLS!
Heroes and Girls: PROFESSOR!
Professor: GIRLS!
Heroes and Girls: PROFESSOR!
Professor: GIRLS! (An empty patch of the hallway. Each side slides into view and stops in turn.)
Heroes and Girls: PROFESSOR!
Professor: GIRLS!
(The girls all talk frantically at once for several seconds, then come out of it by saying...)
Heroes and Girls: And everybody’s panicking, and the city's eroding!
Professor: Yes, I know. And I may know why.
(Snap to black. A yellow circle slides into view and centers itself. A raindrop is seen at the center of it.)
Professor: (from o.c.) This is a raindrop under normal magnification.
(The circle slides away, and another replaces it. Now the drop appears larger, with a small insect-like image within it.)
Professor: (from o.c.) This is at 100x magnification.
(Another slide. Now the entire field is blue, and the creature can be clearly seen. It looks something like a squid, with a transparent outer covering on its body and long claws on the ends of its tentacles.)
Professor: (from o.c.) At a 1,000x magnification.
(Cut to the girls, looking into a microscope in the lab - what we have just seen is their perspective of the specimen.)
Blossom: What is it, Professor?
(The magnified view again. As he continues, it zooms in once more. Now we can see circuitry and electronic components in the creature's body.)
Professor: (from o.c.) What you're looking at is a microscopic robot,
(Quick pan to a blackboard in the lab. Writing on it emphasizes the salient points of his next comments, and he reaches into view with a pointer.)
Professor: (from o.c.) a nanobot,
(Pull back. He stands by the board, and the girls sit at desks before it. He is back in his usual outfit.)
Professor: (from o.c.) "Nano", which in Latin means "small", (Head-on view of the girls. He continues o.c. as Bubbles raises her hand.) and "bot", which, well, is short for "robot".
(Quick pan to a bank of computers and turn down toward their base.)
Professor: (from o.c.) If my calculations are correct, millions of nanobots are raining down on Townsville. It's just possible that these nanobots are stealing carbon from everything in the city, which would explain why buildings are collapsing. (Stop on a console in front of the computers.) We'll know in seconds.
(The console beeps a few times, and a strip of paper emerges from a slot. The Professor reaches into view and tears it off. Cut to him studying it, with the girls hovering nearby.)
Professor: (ominously) Oh, no. (Close-up of the girls.)
Brock: What's wrong?
Blossom: Is it bad, Professor?
Professor: (from o.c.) Worse. (Pan to him, the computer lights shining eerily off his face to signify the severity of what he says next.) They're multiplying.
(Quick pan to another piece of equipment. He reaches into view to press several buttons and pull a handle. Now a pair of long rubber gloves are seen in a yellow-tinted view. They are attached to a wall. This is the type of setup used to allow workers to handle dangerous substances contained in a protective enclosure without directly exposing themselves, such as radioactive materials to avoid radiation exposure. We are presently inside such an enclosure. The gloves stretch out - hands are being put into them from outside - and reach forward to grasp two control levers. Cut to him outside the glove box, with his arms protruding into the gloves. He looks in through a long window, and robotic arms are attached to the inside walls.)
Professor: The experiment is simple.
(As he says this, pan away from him to a floor hatch in the middle of the glove box. It opens and a container is raised into view by a robotic arm.)
Professor: (from o.c.) This container holds a single nanobot (Inside. The Professor and girls are seen, his voice through the window.) in a non-carbon environment.
(Outside again. He tilts his head up, and they do likewise.)
Professor: If you look at the Magno-Monitor,
(Cut to behind them, the camera tilted up slightly. What they are looking at is a viewscreen, with the squid-like nanobot in view and motionless. Above it is the message "NANO-1"; below, "1000x.")
Professor: notice the nanobot does nothing. But when I add carbon…
(Inside, the top of the container is unscrewed by one arm. We see Professor Utonium manipulating the levers intently, concentrating as hard as he can to ensure things run smoothly with his experiment and nothing goes wrong. A second arm now moves into position, holding a small dark cube. He presses the button on one lever, and the cube is dropped in, and the lid replaced. Back to the view screen. Now the nanobot moves out of view. A moment later, two of them march across, and the top readout changes to "NANO-2." Next, a dense swarm of them makes its way into view, the number increasing rapidly and skyrocketing to keep track of the count.)
(Back to inside the glove box. Now the cube appears to melt down as did the buildings, indicating that the nanobots are feeding on it and consuming it.)
Ash Ketchum: Hey, look at that.
Blossom: (from outside) It's dissolving. (The group again, outside.)
Professor: My hypothesis is correct. (The viewscreen again. He continues o.c.) At the rate, these nanobots are multiplying, (Close-up of him.) they will soon destroy civilization as we know it.
(Dramatic tune to signify his concern. The sound of the girls taking off and crashing through the ceiling draws his attention shortly thereafter. He calls after them.)
Professor: GIRLS! (Outside on the front step. He throws open the door.) GIRLS, COME BACK! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!
(Long overhead shot of the house. The girls are flying away, ready for action.)
Professor: (echoing) GIRLS!
Pooh Bear: Girls, wait!
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Professor Utonium: Girls! (covers his eyes) Oh my goodness!
Heroes: Nyah!!! (covers their eyes)
Blossom: We failed, you guys.
Bubbles: And our clothes melted.
Pikachu: Pika Pika.
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Professor Utonium: (quietly) Yes, Blossom, we can.
Brock: (quietly) Listen to us, girls. You're too small to fly over to Townsville.
Misty: (quietly) And it'll take forever for you to get there with you so tiny.
Ash Ketchum: (quietly) So, the best bet is that we're gonna have to take you there ourselves.
Pooh Bear: (quietly) But we'll need to find a safe way to transport you.
Blossom: (loudly) Okay! But you got to hurry, guys!
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Ash Ketchum: Uh, Professor, problem....
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Pooh Bear: Everyone, this way!
Piglet: Right this way! Move along, everybody!
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Brock: Whoa, sorry!
Misty: Excuse us! Pardon us!
Ash Ketchum: Excuse us!
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Misty: (gasps) Hey, guys.....!
Heroes: WHOA!!!!
Piglet: Oh d-d-dear!
Pooh Bear: What is that?!
Ash Ketchum: Did the nanobots just meta morph into a mega ultra-robot?!
Professor Utonium: Not just a mega ultra-robot, kids. But a 6-inch tall monobot.
Rabbit: It's huge!
Tigger: It's almost the size of a toy!
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Heroes: (gasp in horror)
Piglet: The girls are in trouble!
Ash Ketchum: Quickly! Grab some sticks! It's time to squish that little machine like a bug!
(Our heroes grab some sticks and smashed the Mega Nanobot into millions of pieces.)
Misty: Die Mega Nanobot! Die!
Piglet: Pick on someone your own size, you nano bully!
Tigger: Take that!
Eeyore: And that!
Rabbit: Take this!
Pooh Bear: And that too!
Brock: And some of this as well!
Ash Ketchum: Take that!
Pikachu: Chuu!!! Pika! (uses Iron Tail on the Mega Nanobot)
(They continue smashing it with their sticks and Professor Utonium finishes it by stepping on it with his foot.)
Professor Utonium: (war cry)
Pooh Bear: Hooray! We saved the girls and the entire town!
Misty: Great job, everyone! And you too, Professor.
Brock: And look! The cloud's disappearing!