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‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫!♪ UH-HUH ♪ STATIC SHOCK

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫!STATIC SHOCK! SHOCK

‫[[SCHOOL BELL RINGS

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE, BE ♪

‫!COME ON

‫.OH! ALMOST HAD IT

‫.HEY! YOU BREAK IT, YOU BUY IT

‫.SORRY, VIRGIL

‫BUT IT STOPPED JUST AS ‫I WAS GONNA GOBBLE UP

‫.THE GOLDEN GLOBE BALL

‫.LET ME TAKE A LOOK

‫MAN. THIS THING'S ‫BEEN PATCHED UP MORE

‫.THAN A TURKEY DAY BALLOON

‫!HEY

‫!YOU DID IT! COOL

‫WHAT CAN I SAY? I ‫.GOT THE MAGIC TOUCH

‫.HEY, POPS

‫BUT THE CENTER WAS ‫.COUNTING ON THAT GRANT

‫,I KNOW TIMES ARE TIGHT ‫.BUT SO'S OUR BUDGET

‫.I UNDERSTAND

‫.GOOD-BYE

‫?WHAT'S GOING ON, SON

‫I'M LEAVING FOR ‫.CAREER DAY, POPS

‫.HAVE A GOOD TIME

‫?UH, ABOUT THAT CALL... YOU OK

‫.DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT

‫.THE CENTER WILL PULL ‫THROUGH .WE ALWAYS DO

‫?YOU SURE

‫'CAUSE IF THE ‫CENTER NEEDS A LOAN

‫.THE LINE FORMS BEHIND ME

‫[[SIGHS

‫?Virgil: ALVA INDUSTRIES

‫IF I KNEW THEY WERE ‫,TAKING US HERE, RICH

‫I WOULD HAVE SIGNED UP FOR ‫.CAREERS IN FAST FOOD SERVICE

‫I HAD ONE OF MY FIRST BIG ‫.THROW DOWNS IN THIS PLACE

‫YEAH. AGAINST THE VERY SAME DUDE ‫.WHOSE NAME'S ON THIS BUILDING

‫?HOW TRIPPY IS THAT

‫,THIS IS LEVEL 7

‫.ADVANCE CYBERNETICS DIVISION

‫ALVA INDUSTRIES ‫SCOURS THE WORLD

‫FOR THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST ‫.YOUNG SCIENTIFIC MINDS

‫WHO KNOWS? MAYBE SOME OF YOU

‫WILL JOIN THE ‫.ALVA TEAM ONE DAY

‫,YOU ARE FREE TO LOOK AROUND

‫BUT PLEASE, DON'T ‫.TOUCH ANYTHING

‫WOW. ALVA MAY BE A ‫,WORLD CLASS JERK

‫BUT, MAN, CHECK ‫.OUT THIS HARDWARE

‫.IT IS IMPRESSIVE

‫TRUE. BUT HOW ‫MUCH YOU WANNA BET

‫THERE ARE MORE CONS ‫?THAN PROS IN THIS PLACE

‫.I REST MY CASE

‫LOOK WHO WE HAVE ‫.HERE, MR. TRAPPER

‫IT'S THAT GRUNT FROM ‫.THE VANMOOR SCHOOL

‫?SO IT IS. VERMIN, RIGHT

‫.VIRGIL

‫.PO-TA-TO, PO-TAH-TO

‫HEY, IT'S THAT OTHER ‫.VANMOOR REJECT

‫WE DUMPED YOUR SCHOOL ‫AFTER YOU LOSERS

‫TRIED TO USE US ‫.TO CATCH STATIC

‫A TEST THAT YOU ‫?FLOPPED, REMBER

‫.ANCIENT HISTORY, LITTLE GIRL

‫MR. TRAPPER AND I HAVE ‫.MOVED UP TO THE BIG LEAGUES

‫.THAT'S RIGHT

‫WE WERE PERSONALLY SELECTED ‫BY THE BIG "A" HIMSELF

‫,TO WORK ON A TOP SECRET ‫.HUSH-HUSH PROJECT

‫SPECS, TRAPPER, MR. ALVA ‫.NEEDS TO SEE YOU

‫SEE? HE DOESN'T MAKE ‫.A MOVE WITHOUT US

‫.NOW

‫:UH, WILD GUESS ‫.THEY'RE NOT IN CHARGE

‫?WHAT'S WRONG, V

‫THE LAST TIME SPECS AND TRAPPER

‫,WORKED ON A HUSH-HUSH PROJECT

‫STATIC ENDED UP WITH A ‫.BULL'S-EYE ON HIS BACK

‫?Richie: HOW'S IT LOOK

‫.SOMEBODY'S WORKING OVERTIME

‫[[GASPS

‫!WHEW

‫?WHAT

‫[[GASPS

‫?IRV? IRV

‫?HUH

‫?WHAT? WHAT

‫.YES, TOM. TV ‫MONITORS .THANK YOU

‫.ROOKIES

‫[[SNORES

‫.Man: CHECKING SEQUENCE ‫.ALL SYSTEMS ON LINE

‫.Woman: CHECKING CALIBRATIONS

‫Man: READY TO ‫.INITIATE SEQUENCE

‫!HOLY SCI-FI

‫?.ALVA JR

‫?WHAT'S GOING ON HERE

‫.STATUS

‫THE DRY RUN APPEARS ‫.SUCCESSFUL, MR. ALVA

‫BUT WE'LL HAVE TO TEST THE ‫.HAIR'S CELLULAR STABILITY

‫IF ALL GOES WELL, FULL-BLOWN RESTORATION ‫,WILL MOVE FORWARD ON SCHEDULE

‫DESPITE A COUPLE ‫.OF LATE COMPONENTS

‫[[GULPS

‫.KEEP ME POSTED

‫.MR. ALVA

‫.MR. ALVA, SIR

‫.WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU

‫DIDN'T YOUR ASSISTANT ‫?GIVE YOU OUR MESSAGES

‫.SHE DID

‫.IT'S ABOUT OUR OWN PROJECT

‫WE'VE BEEN KEEPING ‫,IT UNDER WRAPS

‫BUT WE THINK WE'RE ‫.READY TO SHOW YOU

‫I BROUGHT YOU TWO IN TO ‫ASSIST THE SCIENTISTS

‫.WITH MY SON'S RESTORATION

‫BUT, SIR, THEY'RE ONLY GIVING US ‫.GRUNT WORK TO DO. IT'S BORING

‫I DON'T CARE IF THEY WANT ‫.YOU TO SCREW IN LIGHTBULBS

‫?YOU'LL DO IT. UNDERSTOOD, BOYS

‫.OH-HOO-HOO! DISSED. I LOVE IT

‫HE'S TOO OBSESSED WITH THAT ‫.STONE-FACED BRAT OF HIS

‫HE DOESN'T CARE ‫.ABOUT OUR PROJECT

‫,WELL, THEN, MR. TRAPPER

‫WE'LL JUST HAVE ‫.TO MAKE HIM CARE

‫!MM-MMM

‫THIS SAUSAGE CHEESE ‫.BISCUIT IS THE MOVE

‫WOW. THANK YOU FOR THE ‫.COMPLIMENT, VIRGIL

‫YEAH. YOU DID A GREAT JOB OF HIDING ‫.THE STYROFOAM IT CAME IN, TOO

‫.OOPS. MY BAD

‫SORRY I OVERSLEPT. GOT ‫.IN LATE LAST NIGHT

‫I'M STILL UP TO MY NECK IN THE ‫.CENTER'S FINANCIAL RECORDS

‫?HOW'S IT LOOKING, POPS

‫.NOT GOOD

‫OUR CASH RESERVES ARE ‫.JUST ABOUT AT ROCK BOTTOM

‫IT'S NEVER BEEN ‫.THIS BAD BEFORE

‫.DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME

‫IT'S JUST THAT IT ‫WOULD BE A DARNED SHAME

‫AFTER ALL THESE YEARS TO ‫.SEE THE CENTER CLOSE DOWN

‫SOMETHING'LL COME ‫.THROUGH, DADDY

‫.IT ALWAYS DOES

‫I WAS PRACTICALLY ‫.RAISED AT THIS CENTER

‫.ME, TOO, V

‫I REMEMBER WHEN ‫.THE HOOPS HAD NETS

‫,HERE I AM ,A ‫BIG-TIME SUPERHERO

‫BUT WHEN IT COMES TO KEEPING ‫.THIS PLACE OPEN, I'M POWERLESS

‫WELL, YOU COULD ALWAYS HELP ‫.WITH THE ELECTRIC BILL

‫.HA

‫[WHISTLE FROM ‫[EXPLODING FIREWORKS

‫.THAT'S WEIRD

‫.WHOA. FIREWORKS

‫IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S COMING ‫.FROM DAKOTA STADIUM

‫WAY TOO EARLY FOR ‫.THE FOURTH OF JULY

‫AND THE STADIUM'S BEEN ‫.CLOSED FOR MONTHS

‫THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR

‫.DON'T FINISH THAT SENTENCE, V

‫SUPERMAN ALREADY ‫.OWNS THE RIGHTS

‫!HEY

‫MAN. JUST A MINUTE AGO THIS ‫.PLACE WAS ALL THE WAY LIVE

‫?HUH

‫!UNH

‫?SPECS

‫.OH, NO

‫SPECS IS HISTORY. SAY ‫.HELLO TO SPECTRAL

‫I'VE GOT ALL THE COLORS ‫.OF THE RAINBOW, STATIC

‫YOUR AIM'S ICE ‫.COLD, LASER FACE

‫[[YAWNS

‫I WONDER WHEN HE'S GONNA ‫.NOTICE MY ENERGY SHIELD

‫HEY! WHO SAID YOU ‫?WERE DISMISSED

‫!AAH

‫MY LEFT HAND'S SET ON ‫.DECELERATE, STATIC

‫HMM. WHAT DOES ‫?MY RIGHT HAND DO

‫!AAH

‫I CALL MYSELF SPEED TRAP NOW

‫.FOR OBVIOUS REASONS

‫[[GASPS

‫.LET'S TRY FAST AND SLOW

‫EASY AS

‫.3.14, SPEED TRAP

‫.PI. VERY GOOD, MR. SPECTRAL

‫NOTHING LIKE A ‫.LIFE-SIZED LAB RAT

‫SHALL WE INFORM ALVA ABOUT ‫?OUR CATCH OF THE DAY

‫.I'LL GET HIM

‫JUST MAKE SURE THE KILOWATT ‫.KID DOESN'T WAKE UP

‫[[RING

‫?YELLO

‫PUT THAT NO GOOD BROTHER ‫.OF MINE ON THE PHONE

‫AND A GOOD EVENING ‫.TO YOU, SHARON

‫.THIS IS SERIOUS, RICHIE

‫VIRGIL KNOWS HE SHOULD ‫.HAVE BEEN HOME BY NOW

‫.OH, WELL, HE'S IN THE BATHROOM

‫YEAH, MY MOM'S TUNA NOODLE ‫.SURPRISE DOES THAT TO A PERSON

‫,TELL VIRGIL TO GET IT IN GEAR

‫OR HIS DAD'S ABOUT TO ‫.BLOW A SERIOUS GASKET

‫UH

‫?Richie: STATIC? ARE YOU THERE

‫?IT'S ME. STATIC? YOU OK

‫!COME IN, STATIC

‫?WHO'S THAT

‫.SPEED TRAP

‫.HOLD THAT POSE

‫IF YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME

‫,BELIEVE ME, MR. ALVA

‫YOU'LL BE AMAZED ‫.WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE

‫!STATIC

‫HE WOKE UP, BUT I HAVE THE ‫.SITUATION CONTAINED, SIR

‫WE CAPTURED HIM ‫.FOR YOU, MR. ALVA

‫?YOU WHAT

‫YEAH, YOU ALWAYS ‫?WANTED HIM, RIGHT

‫WE FINALLY FIGURED OUT ‫.A WAY TO OVERPOWER HIM

‫!YOU DOLTS! YOU IMBECILES

‫IN ONE HOUR THEY BEGIN ‫,MY SON'S RESTORATION

‫?AND YOU LAY THIS ON ME

‫.UH, WE HAVE A SLIGHT PROBLEM

‫BETTER UPGRADE YOUR ‫.FLUNKIES, ALVA

‫!HE'S GETTING AWAY

‫.WE'LL GET HIM, SIR

‫!WAIT

‫.OH, WRONG DOOR

‫.I'M TARGET PRACTICE AGAIN

‫I'M TOO THROUGH ‫.WITH THIS PLACE

‫[[GROANS

‫.SO CLOSE

‫.UH-OH

‫.IT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN

‫[[BOTH GASP

‫HE HAD NO RIGHT TO ‫.SPEAK TO US LIKE THAT

‫TREATING US LIKE ‫.WE'RE COMMON GRUNTS

‫I'VE NEVER SEEN ‫.HIM SO RAGED OUT

‫?AND FOR WHO? SONNY BOY

‫HE NEVER LIKED HIS KID ‫.IN THE FIRST PLACE

‫WE WERE MORE LIKE SONS TO HIM

‫.THAN THAT BLOCK OF CEMENT

‫WELL, IF ALVA ‫THINKS THIS IS OVER

‫HEY, WHAT'S WITH ‫?THE RENT-A-COPS

‫.YOU'RE TRESPASSING

‫.EXCUSE ME. WE LIVE HERE

‫.NOT ANYMORE. ALVA'S ORDERS

‫!BUT OUR STUFF'S IN THERE

‫!BACK OFF

‫!AAH

‫EVERYTHING ON THE PREMISES IS ‫.THE PROPERTY OF ALVA INDUSTRIES

‫HE'S THROWING US ‫.OUT ON THE STREET

‫I'D SAY THIS ‫.DESERVES A RESPONSE

‫?DON'T YOU, MR. TRAPPER

‫FORTUNATELY, ALL THE ‫,COMPONENTS CAN BE REPLACED

‫BUT THE TECH CREW SAYS ‫IT'LL TAKE 3 TO 4 MONTHS

‫BEFORE THEY GET THE ‫.SCANNER BACK ON LINE

‫I'LL TELL THEM TO ‫.SPEED IT UP, SIR

‫[[EXPLOSION

‫?WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE

‫.SPECS AND TRAPPER, SIR

‫.THEY OVERPOWERED US

‫.MY SON. GONE

‫?WILD NIGHT, HUH

‫YEAH. AND IT GOT ‫.WILDER WHEN I GOT HOME

‫MAN. MY POPS CHEWED ‫,ME OUT SO BAD

‫THERE'S STILL CHUNKS OF ‫.VIRGIL STUCK IN HIS TEETH

‫?JUST FOR BEING LATE

‫THAT'S AN EVERYDAY ‫.THING FOR YOU

‫YEAH. BUT THE COMMUNITY CENTER'S ‫.GOT HIM STRESSED BIG TIME

‫AND GOOD OLD VIRGIL ‫.MAKES A NICE FALL GUY

‫?WHAT ABOUT ALVA

‫LET ALVA HANDLE ‫.HIS OWN BUSINESS

‫BESIDES, I GOT ‫.BIGGER FISH TO FRY

‫LIKE GETTING IN SOME FACE TIME ‫.WITH HE WHO PAYS ALLOWANCE

‫!GET INTO POSITION. GO! GO

‫.NO SIGN OF ANYONE YET, SIR

‫.MOVE IN

‫!SIR, IT'S AN AMBUSH

‫!EVERYBODY, BACK! BACK

‫.COULD'VE JUST GONE HOME

‫BUT, NO. I HAD TO PATROL ‫.A LITTLE BIT LONGER

‫.WORTHLESS

‫.ALVA

‫WE KEEP BUMPING ‫,HEADS LIKE THIS

‫.WE'RE GONNA NEED HELMETS

‫.THEY'RE NOT HERE

‫THIS WHOLE THING ‫.WAS A SMOKESCREEN

‫?WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

‫.SPECS AND TRAPPER

‫.THEY SENT ME AN EMAIL

‫I HAD IT TRACED ‫.TO THIS LOCATION

‫.THEY KIDNAPPED MY SON

‫.THEY'VE HAD PRACTICE

‫I NEVER TOLD THEM ‫.TO GO AFTER YOU

‫.THEY ACTED ON THEIR OWN

‫I SWEAR I HAD NOTHING ‫.TO DO WITH IT

‫.SURE YOU DIDN'T, PINOCCHIO

‫.THOSE TWISTED LITTLE CRETINS

‫.THEY WANT ME TO TRANSFER ‫FUNDS .AN IMPOSSIBLE AMOUNT

‫?WHAT'S THE MATTER

‫NOT ENOUGH IN PETTY ‫?CASH, MONEYBAGS

‫.I ONLY HAVE AN HOUR LEFT ‫.YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME

‫.I DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING

‫.I'LL PAY YOU. NAME YOUR PRICE

‫.I'M NOT FOR SALE

‫YOU KNOW WHAT SPECS AND ‫.TRAPPER ARE CAPABLE OF

‫THEY'LL TURN MY ‫.BOY INTO RUBBLE

‫.PLEASE

‫[[SIGHS

‫.THE VANMOOR SCHOOL

‫I THOUGHT AFTER THEY ‫,CLOSED THIS PLACE DOWN

‫.I'D NEVER HAVE TO SEE IT AGAIN

‫WHERE ELSE WOULD THOSE TWO HIDE ‫?OUT BUT AT THEIR ALMA MATER

‫.I DON'T KNOW ‫.LOOKS PRETTY DEAD

‫.SOMETHING'S GOING DOWN

‫.THIS PLACE IS JUICED ‫UP .I CAN FEEL IT

‫I THINK WE'VE FOUND TWEEDLE ‫.DUMB AND TWEEDLE DUMBER

‫CAREFUL, BRO. MAYBE THEY ‫.KNOW YOU'RE THERE, TOO

‫YOU COULD BE ‫.WALKING INTO A TRAP

‫.OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD, ‫RICH .STATIC OUT

‫!UH! WHOA! OH! AH! AAH

‫BET THAT'S NOT ‫.THEIR ONLY SURPRISE

‫.CLASS DISMISSED

‫THIS BEAM'S GOT YOUR ‫.NAME ON IT, STATIC

‫NO THANKS, GOGGLES. KEEP ‫.YOUR LASERS TO YOURSELF

‫.OUT OF JUICE

‫HOPE THERE'S SOMETHING I CAN ‫.USE TO RECHARGE IN THERE

‫.THERE HE IS

‫.OH, MAN

‫?IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS

‫!AAH

‫.CHILL OUT, SPARKY

‫.NICE SHOT, MR. SPECTRAL

‫.NOW WE HAVE 2 FROZEN FREAKS

‫HEY, ISN'T ALVA'S ‫?TIME ALMOST UP

‫ACTUALLY, HE'S GOT ‫.5 MORE SECONDS

‫,3

‫,2

‫.1

‫MAYBE ALVA'S JUST ‫.A LITTLE LATE

‫.HE'S NEVER LATE WITH ANYTHING

‫OBVIOUSLY, HE DOESN'T ‫.CARE ABOUT HIS BRAT

‫AND IF HE DOESN'T ‫.CARE, NEITHER DO I

‫I THINK IT'S TIME WE ‫.LEAVE, MR. SPEED TRAP

‫.THE ICE AGE IS OVER

‫I'M GETTING TIRED ‫.OF THIS LITTLE GAME

‫.THAT MAKES TWO OF US

‫?10 SECONDS

‫MAN, THESE GUYS ‫.ARE NOT PLAYING

‫.YES

‫UH, I WOULDN'T ‫.MOVE IF I WERE YOU

‫!AAH

‫.SPEED TRAP, HE'S GETTING AWAY

‫.UH, WE'VE GOT OTHER PROBLEMS

‫.HOLD IT STEADY

‫!WELL, DUH

‫.YOU'RE SAFE, STONY

‫GOTTA GO BACK FOR ‫.THE TECHNO TWINS

‫.IT'S GONE OFF

‫!I CAN'T CONTAIN IT

‫!AAH

‫TALK ABOUT GOING OUT WITH ‫.A BANG AND A WHIMPER

‫THE 2 YOUNG GENIUSES ‫HAVE BEEN CHARGED

‫WITH KIDNAPPING EDWIN ALVA ‫.JR., AND SUBSEQUENT EXTORTION

‫.THEY WILL BE TRIED AS ADULTS

‫,IN RELATED NEWS

‫ALVA SR. HAS MADE A ‫$10 MILLION ENDOWMENT

‫TO THE FREEMAN ‫,COMMUNITY CENTER

‫SAVING IT FROM ‫.IMMINENT CLOSURE

‫I WONDER WHO GAVE ‫?HIM THAT IDEA

‫.AW, DADDY. THAT'S FANTASTIC

‫WHEN I SAW ALL THE ‫ZEROES ON THAT CHECK

‫YOU COULD HAVE KNOCKED ‫.ME OVER WITH A FEATHER

‫THAT ALVA IS THE BEST THING

‫TO HAPPEN TO THIS CITY SINCE

‫.SINCE STATIC

‫.I HEARD THAT

‫.CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE ‫BY WARNER BROS TV ANIMATION

‫.AND THE U.S ‫DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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