The Ultimate Showdown (Superhero Story)

Captain EJ has a special superpower...his incredible voice!

Captain EJ vs. The Knucklers [Episode 10]: In this final showdown, you and Captain EJ face off once and for all against your mighty nemeses.... using any means necessary.

Brace yourself, it’s going to take all you've got to defeat these foes—but what you and Captain EJ have within you, is more than enough.

Discover the true power of your voice with Captain EJ!

Captain EJ - over and out.

Voices by: Captain EJ and Amanda Fobbos

Transcript

Welcome to The Adventures of Captain EJ.

Today,

We will continue our most important mission yet.

You can do anything you set your heart to,

And I know that together we can defeat any foe.

I'm so grateful to have you as my trusted sidekick,

Hero,

And just in time.

In case you missed the last episode,

I'll give you the quick captain's recap,

Now.

The drones kept coming and brought more cloud seeds with them.

The storm grew and grew and continues to grow before our eyes,

Despite our best laid plans.

The Knucklers' wickedness proved relentless,

But much to our surprise,

Their brotherly bond was not nearly as strong.

While we haven't taken down the clouds that hang heavy over the entire Honeybee neighborhood,

The force of good that flows through all of us has taken Thumb from Pinky.

Mr.

Honeybee's mysterious influence over Thumb Knuckler encouraged remorse in him.

With that,

We were able to get Sally Smith before the flood did,

And save her.

Meanwhile,

Rain formed into a river that raged down every road,

And picked up anything it could possibly hold.

Captain EJ had no choice but to use his full vocal strength to move the floodwaters that threatened the command center.

A tidal wave formed as the flood absorbed the booming sound waves of Captain EJ's voice.

It cleared the sky of clouds as it swelled before it crashed all that it collected into the surrounding forest.

The relief was only momentary.

We realized that Pinky,

Too,

Floated right out from under our noses,

Picked up by the very wave that spared us for the moment.

As we watch in anticipation,

The oceanic wave that washes through the neighborhood rolls back in towards us,

All but demanding another miraculous effort.

Thumb stands with us in the command center as an ally,

Ready to give and do what he can to make this right.

It seems that our trust in him was worthwhile.

He wasn't willing to cross the line that Pinky so effortlessly floated right over.

And floating is going to be key in this final showdown.

We mustn't forget,

We know Pinky's endgame,

And that our breath is what allows us to float no matter how high the tide is.

All you have to do is close your eyes,

Get cozy,

And listen to the sound of my voice.

Captain EJ will lead the way.

EJ.

Let's begin.

You are here in the command center,

Which no longer shields you from the pouring rain.

The flooding water has washed all the way up the driveway and splashes around your ankles.

Sally begs to be teleported back to her ranch because she needs to prepare everything for the flood protocol,

Which Dormir has due to its proximity to mountains and the avalanches they accumulate.

Mr.

Honeybee picks up his teleportation remote that's sitting on the workbench beside him and sends Sally Smith off through the ether.

She disappears like she's been zipped into oblivion.

Thumb is astonished.

You forget that he hasn't seen any of the technology you and Captain EJ have at your hip.

This is not the time to enjoy sharing all of that with them,

But maybe that day will come.

Mrs.

Honeybee and Melody Bee take a cue from Sally and head inside to pack up and protect as much as they can inside.

When Mrs.

Honeybee opens the screen door to go inside,

Harold leaps out and into her arms.

Harold,

You are part of the family.

Of course you're coming with us.

Grab your favorite toy,

Just one,

And meet us back here.

What about me?

What should I grab?

Of course,

You too,

Roger.

Grab your favorite charger and anything from your cubby that's irreplaceable.

Roger rolls back into his cubby and comes out with his arms full of buzzing gadgets,

Including Mr.

Honeybee's night vision goggles,

So he's never without them again.

You pick up each of your feet to let the standing water drip off your shoes,

Then step out onto the stool and then the workbench.

Captain EJ,

Mr.

Honeybee,

And Thumbknuckler follow you.

From here,

You watch the wave gather and slowly rise.

Take a slow,

Deep breath in through your nose.

Feel your lungs fill with fresh air.

Remember how this breath will keep you buoyant all on its own.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and reconnect with the power that reignites with each inhale and exhale.

Standing up on the workbench and looking out over the pouring rain,

Thumb breaks the silence with a very strange request.

Captain EJ,

I know this sounds weird,

But can you send me to the forest on another wave like you did with Pinky?

If anyone should go head to head with my brother,

Or used to be my only brother,

It should be me.

It's like we share a mind sometimes.

I'll be able to stop him.

Trust me.

Captain EJ looks at you and Mr.

Honeybee.

You understand what it's like to share a mind with someone you're close to because you know that Captain EJ wants to do it,

Not only because he thinks it's true,

But another tidal wave would buy us that much more time to spare the Honeybee house.

You give him a nod to confirm his choice,

And Captain EJ jumps down to the garage floor with a splash.

That is a strange request,

Thumb,

But I think we can work with that.

Thumb jumps down after Captain EJ,

Positively excited to ride the tidal wave.

You and Mr.

Honeybee hang back and hold on to whatever you can so you don't get carried away along with Thumb.

Captain EJ dashes to the driveway,

And Thumb takes his place in the garage,

Standing in the flood.

Captain EJ pauses for a moment,

Then balls up his fists.

You can again hear his booming voice echo as he takes his biggest possible breath in.

The water reacts instantly to the force of his voice's sound waves and he inhales and fully absorbs it so you can't hear anything.

The tide of the water pulls in toward him,

Up the driveway with his breath.

You and Mr.

Honeybee hold on tight and plant your feet steadily on the surface of the workbench to stabilize.

Captain EJ again unleashes his full strength on the water and the clouds in the direction of the forest.

The water from the garage again swells up around him before launching up and over the clouds themselves.

Thumb is pulled from the garage on the crest of the gigantic wave that consumes the clouds and allows the sun to peek through.

The tidal wave and Thumb hurdle toward the outer reaches of the surrounding forest before they both crash into a spot with minimal clouds.

That's another one of their hideouts that Pinky spared from the torrential rain.

Exhausted of his life force,

Captain EJ rests his hands on his knees to catch his breath.

You and Mr.

Honeybee jump down with a splash and run over to him to make sure he's okay.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Hero,

Say your idea.

I have to catch my breath.

You smile because your great minds think just alike and sometimes Captain EJ realizes it before you do.

While he catches his breath,

You explain your idea.

We have three teleportation remotes and hundreds if not thousands of drones.

You astutely suggest that the drones be contained anywhere that can handle a little rain.

Mr.

Honeybee thinks for a moment,

Then rides this wave of inspiration with you two.

Oh,

The greenhouse.

We have one and I've built many for the people around the neighborhood.

Those are the perfect places to store these drones.

The plants will love that much more than the very ground we walk on.

You can certainly use the greenhouses as well as sheds and it would be just fine for extra clouds to collect over the two water parks.

When you think about it,

There are a bunch of great places to stow drones that attract moisture.

But when they are inside a structure,

Their ability to do that will be severely limited and that is what you all can do to fight this for what's right.

The tidal wave's clearing fades back to clouds and flooding as you lead the way to the workbenches through slowly rising water.

The three teleportation remotes are up on the workbench.

Two of them are charging.

When you get to the workbench,

You see the two that are charging but cannot find the third.

Captain,

Do you have the third teleportation remote on you?

No,

I don't.

It's not up there?

Captain E.

J.

Splashes over to you at the workbench and you both feverishly check your pockets and everywhere you can think to look.

It's nowhere to be found.

That's when you realize someone must have taken it.

Thumb!

Thumb must have secretly taken it to his head-on collision with his brother after seeing what it can do.

That's not good.

That's absolutely not good.

That kind of power in the wrong hands,

Well,

We know how that goes.

There's no time to waste.

With your teleportation remotes at your hips where they belong,

You and Captain E.

J.

Call your ENVs with a gesture and hop inside.

Take another slow,

Deep breath as the engine rumbles.

Feel your chest and your vehicle lift.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and fly to the clearings of clouds over the forest hideouts where Pinky and Thumb are facing off.

On your way,

You begin your plan.

With the sunroof of the ENV open,

You put it to autopilot and stand up out of the top.

You point the remote at as many drones as you can focus on at one time.

Captain E.

J.

Is at your back and his ENV doing the same thing.

You both push the button and send those drones to the greenhouse that sits behind the garage.

Mr.

Honeybee cheers through the BattleBuzz helmet.

It worked,

Team.

It worked.

The greenhouse can hold more.

Send more along.

I'll alert everyone so they know their greenhouses stand to save the Honeybee neighborhood as we know it.

You and Captain E.

J.

Continue to send drones to that greenhouse as well as the others nearby.

When you fill those up,

You start on the two big water parks,

Which can each hold significantly more.

When you look back behind you,

There are visibly less clouds.

It's working.

Captain E.

J.

Looks over to you and your ENV and gives you a thumbs up.

Together,

You can overcome any challenge and defeat any foe.

You smile big,

Both inside and out,

As you fly up to where Pinky and Thumb are screaming at each other in treehouses that are hundreds of feet apart.

They're each occupying a forest hideout.

Pinky has spared himself from the overhead clouds but sends several drones to drown out Thumb,

While Thumb teleports some of the fans we set into motion in a circle surrounding Pinky.

Neither one can do much to the other,

But they are both trying their best to get even.

Thumb climbs up on the roof of the treehouse to avoid the quickly rising water and sends drones back over to Pinky,

Who is now being blown ruthlessly by the atmospheric fans and rained on by a small battalion of drones.

Thumb is defeating Pinky just like he said he would,

And we watch as he stands there,

Giving Pinky a taste of his own medicine.

We hover in place over this whole ordeal and watch as the expression on Thumb's face turns from revenge to remorse,

A feeling he's now conscientiously pried from his hardened heart.

We look back momentarily to check on the floodwater that threatens the command center.

The clouds are still sparse and the sun is even trying to peek through.

You can see a single sunbeam shine down on the honeybee house,

Radiating joy and hopefulness down on an otherwise dire situation.

When you look back,

You see that Thumb has let up on the vengeful attack on Pinky,

And Pinky is taking this sliver of an opportunity to continue his wicked scheme in an even more sinister way.

What do you think I mean to you?

I wish you didn't think that about me.

I wish you thought about me when I think about you.

That I am the best brother you have,

And that you will ever have in this whole world.

Thumb pushes the button on the stolen teleportation remote to move the drones and fans over slightly to relieve his brother's torment.

He hangs his head with sadness.

Pinky Knuckler is using Thumb's newfound empathy against him.

How can we save Thumb from his brother and ultimately himself?

You've never used a teleportation remote on a teleportation remote,

But Captain EJ agrees that it's worth a try.

You bring Thumb into your ENV with the push of a button,

And it works.

He squirms and wrestles the teleportation remote away from you as you try to grab it from him.

He quickly teleports himself back to his treehouse roof and then aims the remote right at you.

You and Captain EJ quickly dash up into a dense cloud so the signal is disrupted.

You then peek out of the cloud,

Trying slyly to teleport Thumb again,

This time back to Command Center so Mr.

Honeybee can bundle him up again.

You might just fold in on this even more vicious brotherly attack.

As you peer through the clouds,

You can hear Thumb shouting back to his brother.

You and Captain EJ cannot hover idly by and let this manipulation continue.

Using the rays of the stolen teleportation remote,

Captain EJ shouts his booming voice down to Thumb to remind him that he is enough just as he is and he doesn't slow anyone down.

Thumb,

No.

You have important things to say and the people who say they love you should listen to them.

Pinky didn't even actually apologize.

He said he wished you didn't feel that way.

Thumb,

You are capable of such good.

Please don't let Pinky overshadow that with his selfishness.

Pinky is trying his best,

Captain EJ.

He doesn't always say it or ever really say it,

But he loves me and thinks I'm the best brother.

I'll only ever get one brother.

Thumb points the teleportation remote at both of your ENVs again and again.

You continually dash the attempts and try to get the remote out of Thumb's hands,

But he's holding it too tightly.

They both come together.

Captain EJ teleports him into his ENV and tries to wrestle the remote away from him,

But Thumb is getting better at using the remote and teleports back to the same treehouse where Pinky is and looks back up to us without aiming the remote at us.

He's my family,

Captain EJ and Hiro.

You're my friends,

But he's my family.

In the blink of an eye,

Thumb attempts to teleport him and his brother somewhere but must have been thinking about the clouds overhead.

They both land in the clouds,

Huddled together.

Midair,

Thumb again attempts to teleport them,

But they land back on the treehouse.

Pinky violently takes the teleportation remote out of Thumb's hands and aims it at us.

We duck into a cloud as cover.

When we peek out again,

Pinky is in the process of teleporting them.

Before Pinky figures out how to use the remote,

Captain EJ makes one last attempt to convince Thumb Knuckler.

Pinky pushes the button and the blue circle sizzles into time and space.

Captain EJ shouts from the sunroof of his ENV.

But Thumb,

Friends are the family you choose.

With that,

They disappear to who knows where.

You look all around from your eagle-eye vantage point and zoom in your scopes.

They landed in a clearing of clouds just below in the forest.

You can see the Knucklers taking cover in an underground bunker that is camouflaged under a pile of leaves to learn how to use this new-to-him piece of technology.

You know where they are,

And you know where Pinky will inevitably put them.

Back at the Knuckler compound,

Which we've learned is actually a flotation device.

You give Mr.

Honeybee the coordinates of the brothers and turn around to head back to the command center to check on everything there.

On the way back,

You don't realize you left your scope zoomed in until you see two microscopic green lights flash as they buzz toward you.

They both zoom beneath the ENV in a straight line to the GPS coordinates you gave Mr.

Honeybee.

I'm sending in two nano-analyzers to track them,

One for each of them.

Neither will see it because it's not visible to the naked eye.

This will allow us to keep an eye and an ear on them.

You look back to see the two distant lights wiggle through the ground and into their underground bunker.

That gives you a rush of confidence that swells further as you and Captain EJ continue to send drones to the empty water parks,

Which are handling the extra water splendidly with its many filters and pools and irrigation systems.

Despite all the clouds,

You and Captain EJ are diverting away from Command Center,

Dormir,

And other highly populated areas in the Honeybee neighborhood.

The sun and the fans are struggling to evaporate the floodwaters,

Which are steadily but surely rising.

As you approach the Honeybee house,

You see your neighbors on their roofs.

Mrs.

Honeybee is up on the roof holding Harold in her arms.

Roger and Melody Bee are with her.

They both wave and smile,

Reassured by your mere presence here that things will be okay.

Mr.

Honeybee has sent out a neighborhood-wide alert for everyone to climb up to their roofs and bring whatever boats they have.

Kind neighbors who have extra kayaks and canoes lend them to others who do not have any.

Some of the kids nearby are out with their inner tube toys,

Assuming,

In their delightful childlike way,

That this is a new game.

Since the surrounding forest has begun to flood as well,

The entire population of woodpeckers and beavers have arrived along with you and Captain EJ.

They have assembled an assembly system that has floating fallen tree logs in through the many rivers and carving them out to be makeshift canoes.

Hover above all of this in your ENV.

You marvel at how an entire world can come together,

Each creature contributing what it can for a greater sense of good.

Take a slow,

Deep breath in through your nose.

Feel your chest and your spirits lift as your heart beats full of love.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and look back to where the knucklers are back above ground,

Scheming.

It reminds you that even one selfish person can throw the balance of goodness off,

But not forever,

And not for long with you and Captain EJ ready to fight for what's right and nothing more.

While Captain EJ begins teleporting the newly made canoes to those in need,

You zoom in your scopes a little more to keep watch over the knucklers.

You look away only to continue sending drones to the water parks until they fill up.

Pinky is still struggling with the teleportation remote,

But he is clutching it firmly in his tiny hands.

The clouds around him are too dense for them to teleport far.

You watch as the brothers disappear into the center of the sizzling blue circle of light,

Then reappear a couple paces ahead of that,

Dropped heavily on the forest floor.

Thumb reaches out to offer to help,

But Pinky slaps his hand away,

Demonstrating that everything he said to Thumb before was self-serving lies.

Thumb stands beside the brother he chose to defend with his head hung low.

The empathy that lives in you tightens your chest as you feel for Thumb's conundrum,

But you each have to walk your path and right now,

You have the advantage of being adept at using the teleportation remote.

Pinky doesn't know that Thumb is also very good at using it,

But you are certain that won't happen.

Before Pinky can try to teleport himself again,

You swoop in with your laser focus and send Pinky to the flooded-out treehouse where Thumb was.

Thumb looks over in your direction,

But there's no way he can see that far.

Pinky panics and fumbles the remote before he finally gets a good grip and teleports himself back down to the ground with a crash.

Thumb hears it and runs over to his brother to help,

Which Pinky refuses.

You continue to stall the brothers knowing that they are trying to get back to their compound.

If they cannot manage to get there,

They'll quite literally miss the boat and everything they've known until now will float away.

With the brothers sufficiently occupied,

You turn around to help Captain EJ deliver boats to everyone who needs one.

The water is rising steadily and people are preparing themselves to float.

Suddenly,

A smooth wave of water ripples through the flood and picks up many of the neighbors right off their rooftops.

Mr.

Honeybee is now on the roof with Mrs.

Honeybee,

Harold,

Roger,

And Melody Bee.

You look around to see what's caused this sudden shock.

It appears Pinky still hasn't quite figured out how to use the remote on himself,

But wants to have more space to learn.

One by one,

He teleports the fans that were working to evaporate the flood onto either side of a straight path between where he is and where the Nuckler compound waits to float away.

The fans have displaced some of the water which created a ripple of waves that are rolling in a straight line all the way through the Honeybee neighborhood,

Ending around the compound.

The sun above is struggling to peek out from behind the clouds and isn't drying out much.

Instead,

It's beautiful but faint light shines down on the surface of the water creating a shimmer that reminds you of Silver Sally Smith.

You radio in to Mr.

Honeybee to check on Dormir.

I just spoke with Sally on the holophone.

Everything looks stable in Dormir for now.

Some folks in the town needed canoes,

But we got it to them in time.

They're hunkered down on their roofs,

Just like we are.

I'm checking in on the Nano Analyzer now.

Through the Battle Buzz helmet,

You can hear Pinky fighting against Thumblin himself.

This remote cannot be that hard to use.

It must be poorly made,

Or else it'd work better.

I can use it really well,

Pinky.

Let me try.

If you can do it,

Then it must be done.

I can do it.

Watch.

From your ENV,

You can see Pinky try to move himself and his brother,

But again only move a few paces ahead.

The waves he's created with the fans continue to ripple all the way through town after town.

More clouds gather where the fans are now otherwise occupied.

With your focus on the struggling Knucklers,

You sabotage his plan in every way you can think of in an attempt to prevent him from getting to his easy exit from his mess that he created.

You and Captain EJ get in a teleportation war with Pinky as you tug of war over the fans,

Then Thumb and back to the fans,

Trying to move them around the neighborhood to drive things out.

You're careful to dodge out of Pinky's attempts to teleport you to goodness knows where and continue to make his evil life miserable.

Out of the side of your eye,

You see Captain EJ moving around his ENV before opening the sunroof again and pulling himself up on a self-driving vehicle.

He stands up tall and balls his fists to create another tidal wave aimed right at the Knucklers.

Since his voice has farther to travel before the sound waves hit the absorbing waves of the flood,

You cover your ears in anticipation of the ringing sound.

Captain EJ unleashes his full strength at the water.

A flash of light emanates from his mouth and the water reacts wildly at first before it swells into another wave that pulls in around his ENV slowly.

It then launches out toward the forest where Pinky Knuckler is still trying his tiny hand at the teleportation remote.

The wave rushes faster and faster.

You can see Thumb warn Pinky who looks up and then at his brother before the wave crashes down on them.

Captain EJ falls to his knees.

He must have used even more than what he considered his full strength and needs more time to recover.

You instinctively cover him with your ENV and look back to see what came of Pinky and Thumb,

Except you can't see them at all.

The fans are still blowing their path clear,

Even of the tidal waters.

But they are nowhere to be found.

You radio to Mr.

Honeybee to find their GPS coordinates.

Ah,

Checking now.

Oh gosh team,

They're in Dormir,

At the Knuckler compound.

Won't they flood there too?

Why are they doing this to themselves?

That's when you realize you never told Mr.

Honeybee Pinky's endgame.

When you do,

A worried look comes over his face and he covers his mouth with his hand,

In shock.

You look over to Captain EJ who was taking much,

Much longer than usual to recover.

You pull him into your ENV and instruct his ENV to follow yours as you go to one of the spots that are cleared of clouds for Captain EJ to regain his strength.

As you fly,

Captain EJ is sure to tell you how grateful he is to have you by his side.

I cannot overstate the fact that I couldn't do any of this without you,

Hero.

You inspire me to be better every day.

You get to the clearing of clouds and slowly lower the ENV down so Captain EJ can stand on solid ground to stabilize.

You help Captain EJ out and lead him over to a tree that he can lean against.

It's never taken him this long to recover.

Usually he's up and within a moment.

With your hand on his back,

You can feel how hard he's breathing.

He follows your lead as you take a slow,

Deep breath in through your nose.

Feel the coolness of the air coming in through your nose as your chest expands full of fresh air.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and send extra strength and love to your best friend.

He is able to stand up a little more because of it,

But is not hardly able to stand on his own.

He's leaning heavily on you and the tree.

You hold him up steady for as long as he needs,

Knowing that Mr.

Honeybee is keeping an eye and an ear on the Knucklers.

You radio to Mr.

Honeybee,

Who is now floating in a new boat with Mrs.

Honeybee,

Harold,

And Melody Bee.

No movement from the Knucklers.

As far as I can see,

They're frantically running around the compound,

Talking about some kind of protocol.

Pinky won't let some get a word in,

And he's mumbling to himself.

I'll update you if I get anything else.

Oh,

And you'll see that we're now floating in style,

Team.

Don't worry about us.

Roger can change his shape,

And he decided we were all stressed.

Very stressed out.

So he morphed into a miniature cruise ship.

We've even got a couple of neighbors on board.

I think there's a jacuzzi downstairs.

Oh,

And there's a downstairs.

We're sailing to Dormir and making sure everyone is okay along the way.

We'll pick up any stragglers we find.

Now that you know that the Honeybee neighbors have come together to make the best out of a less-than-stellar situation,

You can focus again on Captain EJ,

Who is now resting his eyes against a tree trunk.

A loud thunderclap above gets your attention and wakes Captain EJ up from his power nap.

Captain EJ struggles to his feet on the soggy forest floor,

Concerned that Pinky has sent out a new fleet of drones.

You radio into Mr.

Honeybee again.

Hero,

From what I can see,

That's not Pinky at all.

He's gathering clouds around Dormir,

Even moving away from the house.

I think he's trying to get the water level high enough to sail his knuckler compound away.

Uh-oh.

That means this is a real storm.

Are you two okay over there?

You and Captain EJ look up through the trees to the once-clear sky as all-natural rain plummets down on your helmets.

You both quickly shield yourselves from the grey clouds,

And that sudden movement makes Captain EJ wobble a bit.

He grabs your shoulder to help steady himself,

And he turns to you with a serious look on his face.

For once in your life,

You cannot tell what he's thinking.

But his worried eyes worry you.

Struggling to stand up,

He puts both arms on your shoulders to hold himself up.

He utters a few words.

I cannot do it alone.

Instinctively,

You and Captain EJ put your heads together to figure this out.

At that very moment,

A bolt of lightning strikes down on your combined mind.

Both of your helmets light up with an electricity that pulses through your whole body.

Time slows down.

Then speeds back up,

And you feel like you can see everything at once,

Then nothing at all.

When you come back to your senses,

All you can hear is Mr.

Honeybee shouting through the Battle Bus helmet.

Hero,

Do you copy?

Captain EJ,

Do you copy?

What was that?

Now both of you are stumbling across the flooding forest,

Struggling to get your bearings.

You both grab hold of the same tree trunk and stand up straight.

Quite suddenly,

Strength rushes back to both of you.

Standing on your own two feet,

You ball up your fists and shout all your accumulated frustrations out at the clouds above.

Your throat rumbles along with the ground,

And Captain EJ's eyes widen.

A flash of light emanates from your shout and zaps the clouds above.

The natural clouds instantly evaporate into thin air.

Captain EJ is taken aback by what he just saw,

And when you realize what you just did,

Your great minds once again think alike.

Hero,

Do you know what this means?

You have Captain EJ's powers too now.

Just as the Battle Bus helmet allows you to think in the uninhibited way that he thinks,

Now you have the power of his voice.

Just then,

Mr.

Honeybee radios in again.

Captain,

Hero,

The knucklers are on the move.

I repeat,

The knuckler compound is floating away.

Roger is moving as fast as he can in this storm,

But we're not equipped to stop them.

You and Captain EJ run back to the EMVs at full speed with full strength.

Now he doesn't have to do this alone.

Two voices will be enough to neutralize a force of evil.

In your EMV,

Take another slow,

Deep breath in through your nose.

Feel your chest,

Your spirit,

And your vehicle lift.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and use the same cleared pathway that the knucklers used to travel to their floating compound.

You zoom right over Mrs.

And Mr.

Honeybee,

Harold and Melody Bee who are in the top deck of the miniature cruise ship Roger has morphed into.

His big smile shines from the front of the ship.

He's so happy to have helped.

They all wave as you two fly by straight to the knuckler compound,

Which is now dislodged from the ground and floating out into an endless flood of their own creation.

The real storm isn't helping matters much.

You quietly hover up to the knucklers floating through Dormir on their compound.

Pinky catches a glimpse of you and Captain EJ as you maneuver out in front of them to stop them with a tidal wave.

Hero,

We can create another tidal wave.

That'll just float them out further.

You look over from Captain EJ just as Pinky aims the teleportation remote right at both of you.

In the blink of an eye,

He teleports your ENVs right out from under you and together you plunge into the floodwaters that have lifted up this gargantuan compound.

Without concern for what the knucklers are doing,

You and Captain EJ swim until you can put your hands on the castle-like walls of this house-turned-lab-turned-floatation device and use all of your physical strength to push it back into place.

Neither you nor Captain EJ are sure if you can actually do it,

But it's enough for you both to believe you can in this moment.

With your feet on the grassy ground of Dormir,

You feel like you're walking along the ocean floor.

You push the knuckler compound back into its spot step by step.

Right foot.

Left foot.

Right foot.

Left foot.

In what feels like open water,

Pinky and Thumb don't even realize they're going backwards.

Slowly but surely,

You and Captain EJ come up for air and go immediately back under to keep pushing.

When you get the compound back to where it sits,

You can feel it click into place.

Pinky felt it too.

He runs up to the wall to look down and growls when he sees what you two have managed to do.

Full of rage and an inflated sense of power,

Pinky again points the teleportation remote at you and Captain EJ.

At once,

You duck back under the deep water where the teleportation ray cannot properly move you.

You both are able to escape the slowed zap and swim around to the other side of the now stationary house.

Pinky runs around the perimeter of the rooftop lab trying to find both of you.

Little does he know that wherever he teleported your ENVs to,

They will return to both of you with a single gesture.

You both stick your hands out of the water to do that.

Your ENVs activate submarine mode and plunge into the water to rescue both of you.

Using the turbo engines of submarine mode,

You and Captain EJ launch out of the water and into the sky.

From there,

You throw open the sunroofs,

Put the ENVs on autopilot and pull yourselves up onto the roof of the vehicles.

Take a slow,

Deep breath in through your nose and strengthen each and every one of your muscles.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and send your booming voice to the clouds that surround the Nuckler compound before Pinky can even realize what happened.

The clouds instantly evaporate and once again the sun peeks through the natural and the manufactured clouds.

You duck back into your ENVs and take recovery time in a nearby cloud that's still reigning over another part of Dormir.

You'll be protected from Pinky here.

You fly into the grey cloud and hover there while you catch your breath and regain your strength.

You cannot see Captain EJ through the dense cloud and your connection to the Battle Bus helmet is full of static because the signal is weak.

You'll need to come out of it to connect with Captain EJ and Mr.

Honeybee.

You meet Captain EJ around the opposite side of the cloud you're taking cover behind.

The Nucklers cannot see you here.

You radio into Mr.

Honeybee for a nano-analyzer update.

The signal is a bit weak.

I'm getting some static.

But it seems that Pinky is wanting to move something.

Move them all?

Hero,

We have no choice.

We're going to have a confrontation.

Stick to what we do best.

You know exactly what that means.

Once you've fully recovered,

Captain EJ leads the way out from behind the cloud and up to the Nuckler compound.

Pinky doesn't see you as you two approach because he is focused off in the distance.

When you look over to see what he's looking at,

Every single remaining drone is firing right towards you and Captain EJ.

You launch your ENVs higher into the sky and just barely miss the onslaught of drones flying together and meeting over the Nuckler compound.

Team,

Now I can hear him.

Pinky wants to escape Dormir.

He's initiated an emergency protocol again and is localizing the storm to the compound to try to float away again.

Suddenly,

A gust of wind picks up your ENVs unexpectedly and slams them into a nearby cloud,

Momentarily obstructing your view.

When you regain control and maneuver back out of the cloud cover,

You can see that Pinky and Thumb have aimed all the atmospheric fans at the Nuckler compound to carry all the clouds to one spot.

Like a slow-moving creature that comes alive in the sky,

The clouds inch toward the Nuckler compound.

In the distance,

You can see the sun shining down on the Honeybee neighborhood.

In time,

That alone will dry up the floods,

But for now,

The flood is concentrated around this one spot in Dormir so the Nuckler brothers can get away with their wicked schemes,

Literally.

You and Captain EJ have one last chance,

And you know one thing you haven't tried.

You get as close as you can to the Nucklers still standing triumphantly on their rooftop laboratory,

Where their reign of terror began.

Through the wind and the pouring rain,

Pinky sees you and Captain EJ and tries to point the teleportation remote at you,

But the wind is so strong his tiny arm cannot fight the force.

You then point the teleportation remote at Pinky with one thing in mind.

You want him out of this world.

Take another slow,

Deep breath in through your nose and imagine sending Pinky Nuckler straight to outer space.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth and push the button on the remote.

The same blue flash you've come to expect creates a sizzling circle of light that cuts into time and space.

With a push of a button,

You immediately remove Pinky Nuckler from the equation.

Thumb cowers,

Having none of the evil stamina of Pinky and conflicted between people who he called his friends and his family,

The last of which has just disappeared.

You breathe a little sigh of relief before Pinky Nuckler reappears on the rooftop.

He managed to get himself back and quickly.

At this point,

Knowing you can now teleport him,

He focuses on the clouds,

Also knowing that they can block you from removing him at will.

He switches remotes to the ones that controls the drones and blankets himself with silver-filled drones that attract an alarming amount of wind,

Rain,

And flood.

The house once again picks up and the rooftop is completely blocked from view.

You and Captain EJ have no choice but to use more than your full strength for one last-ditch effort.

Mr.

Honeybee can sense that you two are planning something big and chimes in supportively.

One day,

I want to be able to know what you two are thinking.

But no matter what I know,

You two are going to fight for what's right.

That's what we do.

That's right,

Mr.

Honeybee.

Turn back to the Honeybee house.

Things might get a bit untenable over here.

Let's turn this ship around.

I like my things tenable.

The most tenable.

Roger zips himself as a ship around and heads back to your part of the Honeybee neighborhood.

Then you and Captain EJ get to work.

Hero,

You take one side and I'll take the other.

You hover your ENV around the opposite side of the now-floating Nuckelar compound as Captain EJ.

You two have the compound flanked on either side.

Now,

When you use your fullest strength,

It'll be in opposing directions and will cause conflicting waves that will spin the Nuckelar compound around in circles.

You open the sunroof to crawl out into the pouring rain once again for the strongest use of your powers thus far.

You and Captain EJ struggle to stand upright on your ENVs,

But with focus,

You were able to plant your feet into the roof like it's made of solid ground and not floating above a man-made flood.

You both ball up your fists and take your slowest,

Deepest breath that you can in through your nose.

Feel the space you open up within your chest,

Then slowly but powerfully breathe all the way out through your mouth.

Now that you are imbued with the sonic waves,

Your ears have adjusted and they no longer ring.

You shout with all your might straight into the Nuckelar compound from the opposite side as Captain EJ.

Two brilliant flashes of light shooting in the same direction combine into one fantastic glowing orb that grows as it holds steady over the Nuckelar compound.

The last thing your eyes see is this ball of light explode into splashes of water that spin the Nuckelars and their compound into a dizzying whirlpool that stirs the clouds away and sufficiently disrupts the solar and lunar-powered drones somehow.

You slump down onto the steering wheel of your ENV which hovers you safely in place.

You feel weightless,

Like you are floating in outer space.

Did Pinky teleport you into outer space?

Your whole body feels like it's made of nothing but water.

You don't feel like you can move but also don't want to.

You sink deeper and deeper into this moment,

Whatever and wherever it is.

You attempt to radio into Mr.

Honeybee and you can hear him responding to you but it feels like he's far away and getting further.

A quietness permeates your whole existence.

You feel like you can stop thinking for the moment and all the thoughts,

All worries and everything will be still.

Sunlight pours into the face shield of the Battle Bus helmet.

Take another slow,

Deep breath in through your nose.

Reconnect with your body to ground yourself back in this world.

Then slowly breathe all the way out through your mouth.

You are hovering just above the Nuclear Compound.

When you come back to your senses you sit up,

Hovering directly across from Captain EJ who has sat up at the exact same time.

Now you can hear Mr.

Honeybee loud and clear.

Captain,

Hero,

Do you copy?

What happened?

Everything cut out.

All I got was static from your devices and the nano-analyzers.

You're not exactly sure what happened.

You sit up and situate yourself back at the dashboard of your EMV and look out the windshield.

Suddenly you see a small plane that has somehow landed on the rooftop lab.

Pinky and Thumb Nuclear are standing at what seems like perfect attention in front of two other people who just stepped out of the tiny plane.

You look closer and remember their faces from the website that listed all the charities they help.

It's Doctor and Dr.

Nuclear.

They're back in Dormir.

Suddenly a great cheer echoes against the few clouds that hang in the sky.

You and Captain EJ roll down the window to look out over it.

There is a crowd of townspeople gathered around the Nuclear compound cheering for you and Captain EJ.

You've saved them not once,

Not twice,

But three times from the Nuclears.

And now,

With the Dr.

Nuclears back,

Order can be restored in Dormir.

You look back over to the elder Nuclears who are scolding their sons.

Watching Pinky and Thumb get in trouble makes them look like children.

It also makes you forget how much harm and destruction they've caused not only in their hometown,

But also neighborhood-wide.

Pinky and Thumb cower under the wagging finger of their parents,

Knowing that life as they knew it is about to change forever.

When Doctor and Dr.

Nuclear turn around,

Their entire demeanor changes.

They walk over to the side of the compound that you were hovering over and Captain EJ joins you.

They wave you down,

Inviting you to land on the rooftop.

Together,

You slowly hover down onto the tile laboratory and land your EMVs.

The doctors circle the vehicles to admire this extremely high-tech piece of machinery.

Once you both step out,

They clamor to shake your hands,

And when that's not good enough,

They lean in for a big,

Squeezing hug.

The town of Dormir says,

Ah,

In unison,

And you laugh,

Waiting nervously to see what the elder Nuclears will say to you.

You struggle thinking of where to even begin,

But they stop you before you say anything.

You don't have to explain anything.

We finally got all of the transmissions from Sally.

We hurried home as soon as we could and changed our plans when our reckless sons initiated our emergency flood protocol.

From behind them,

Pinky doesn't hesitate to turn on his once-beloved brother.

Mom,

It was Thumb.

I tried to stop him.

What?

What are you talking about,

Pinky?

I literally almost defeated you.

No,

You didn't.

That was just dumb luck.

Emphasis on dumb.

I should have betrayed you more when I had the chance.

Boys,

That's enough.

No one wants to hear anything else from you.

I need to know what your names are.

Dr.

And Dr.

Nuclear,

My name is Captain EJ,

And this is my best friend Honeybee Hero.

Hero for short.

It is so wonderful to meet you.

I have to say,

I've never seen what I saw here today.

Have you,

Hon?

No,

I haven't.

But I want to see more.

Do you two know the power that you have?

Like,

Really know?

You and Captain EJ look at each other and realize you don't really know exactly what your powers are,

Just what they do.

By now,

The crowd around Dormir has thinned out.

Everyone,

Including Mrs.

And Mr.

Honeybee,

Melody Bee,

Roger,

And Harold are back home drying out their houses with atmospheric fans the Elder Nuclears let everyone borrow.

With the multi-channel teleportation remote that has been the center of so much strife,

You deliver a fan to each home in the Honeybee neighborhood with the click of a button.

The Dr.

Nuclears are astonished with all that they've seen.

They know that you and Captain EJ are rare and extremely gifted,

But they want to run a simple experiment to see the extent of your powers.

They politely ask if you're willing to be a part of it,

And you both agree.

One of them picks up a half-empty drone that fell to the floor when you and Captain EJ used your full strength.

Do you know what it takes to disrupt a solar-powered battery drone like this?

These are built with so much precision that no solar event recorded on Earth so far can destroy them.

You two managed to take down our whole fleet.

Please allow us to apologize,

Dr.

Nuclear.

No,

No,

Please.

No apologies necessary.

You're about to change the course of human history,

Captain EJ and Hero.

You did nothing wrong.

You and Captain EJ are taken aback by what they're saying and are somewhat confused about your powers.

While Pinky and Thumb stand nervously in the corner,

The Dr.

Nuclears explain that the power contained within your voices is something they've never seen before.

That's when the doctors explain that you and Captain EJ contain the first-ever non-solar form of light.

The sound waves they issue from your voice are so powerful and so dense that they actually create a form of light that is as powerful as the sun,

But not the sun.

And all of that lightness,

All of that miracle,

Is within you.

The doctors go on to explain the science of sound creating light and energy,

And you completely tune out,

Sinking deeper into your heart in awe of what you just heard.

When you snap back,

The Dr.

Nuclears are asking if you will show them what you can do with your voices once more.

You agree.

They restart a couple of their drones and walk over to Pinky to yank the drone remote out of his hand.

When they see he has another remote that he was trying to hide,

You let them know that he stole that.

They return it to you without question.

You sneak it back into your pocket,

But really teleport it back to Mr.

Honeybee,

Who was so happy to have his teleportation remote back.

Suddenly,

Mr.

Honeybee appears on the rooftop with his holophone and a special shimmering guest.

Him and Silver Sally Smith arrive just in time to see you participate in the experiment.

The Dr.

Nuclears are worried that both of these people just appeared on their rooftop lap,

But they are in such a state of shock that they decide to ask later.

Focusing on the matter at hand,

They each create a little rain cloud over you and Captain EJ.

At once,

Not using your full strength,

But something proportional to this little cloud,

You and Captain EJ send sound waves up to the clouds.

With so much practice,

You can now hit your target very well,

And you're not even exhausted after.

The zap of lightning flashes before it completely evaporates the cloud.

The doctors look at each other,

Trying to register their shock for the other one.

Before they say another word to you,

They lead their sons over by the shoulders to stand in front of you,

Captain EJ,

Mr.

Honeybee,

And Sally Smith,

Who has taken the liberty of completely updating the Dr.

Nuclears about what their sons did to everyone.

Pinky and Thumb try to look away,

Ashamed at all they did.

You can begin by apologizing,

But that certainly won't be the end of it for you two.

Thumb is the first to make eye contact.

He has big,

Heavy tears of remorse in his eyes.

You can see how horrible he feels and how conflicted he still is about you being his only two friends still.

I apologize for pushing you into the furnace,

Sally,

From the bottom of my heart.

And to all of you,

I'm so,

So sorry.

I will do whatever I can to make it up to you.

I hope one day we can be friends again,

Hero and Captain EJ.

But I understand if not.

Hey.

Sorry.

What was that?

We couldn't hear you give a way better apology than that.

I apologize for kidnapping you,

Mr.

Honeybee and Sally.

I apologize for flooding the Honeybee neighborhood.

It feels good to get even a forced apology from Pinky,

And you can feel how sincere Thumb is,

Though.

He will need to prove it over and over again before you could ever consider trusting him again.

The Dr.

Knucklers have an important question for you and Captain EJ,

And you don't know if you're ready for it,

But you welcome their question with open arms because you're always ready to help.

Will you two,

And Mr.

Honeybee,

Of course,

Consider working with us?

Do you have any idea what a second and third son could offer to our world?

Our minds are racing right now,

But we know that you two have something truly miraculous to offer the world.

Please consider helping us.

I would be honored to work with you all.

You have been such an incredible team.

You all look at each other and nod your heads approvingly,

But before you can say anything,

The Dr.

Knucklers are already going over the long list of experiments they want to do and the ideas they have.

Much of what they say mushes together into an alphabet soup of science jargon,

But one thing in particular stands out.

You will get your own lab space,

Should you need it.

Your lab comes stocked with two lab assistants.

Pinky and Thumb will be at your beck and call,

Ready to do whatever you want them to.

They have a lot of work ahead of them fixing what they broke while we were gone.

Please,

Let us promise you that they will never do anything like this to you or Dormir ever again.

They have lost our trust,

Too.

The Dr.

Knucklers hurriedly rush around the rooftop lab,

Planning out where they will move everything to make room.

The process of restoring power to the compound will be long,

But that kind of construction project will be the perfect opportunity to build your new lab space right up here on the roof.

The Knuckler Brothers are now stripped of any and all trust,

Power,

Or influence they had over their world.

They will need to start from the ground up,

But you and Captain EJ?

It doesn't even seem like the sky's the limit for you two.

As you follow the Dr.

Knucklers around the lab,

They excitedly tell you all of their plans for how you will help not only them,

But the whole world of people in need,

Which is bigger than you can ever imagine.

As you walk along the machines,

You brush your hands along the cool metal,

Thinking back on where the mission started and where it ended.

You've grown into your power so much on this mission,

And this is just the first.

Captain EJ looks at you and smiles,

Knowing that your great minds are thinking of what kind of pranks this new lab space opens up to you.

Mr.

Honeybee sees the look you're giving each other and once again feels left out.

See?

That right there.

You two are doing it again.

What are you thinking?

Tell me.

Are you going to prank me?

You have to be nice to me for at least a week.

I was kidnapped.

You and Captain EJ laugh a little laugh to yourself,

Just to keep Mr.

Honeybee on edge.

Then you're brought back to the crux of this mission,

Like you are after every mission.

What did you learn?

How are you a better you now?

As the Dr.

Knuckler said,

Your voice,

In and of itself,

Contains a miraculous power,

An inextinguishable light.

You wield this power with each utterance and every word you choose to speak.

All that you put out into this world is but a ripple in our hyper-interconnected globe.

But as you've seen,

A tidal wave starts from a single ripple,

For better or worse.

You must use your voice for relentless good,

Hero.

Until next time,

Captain EJ,

Over and out.