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‫,♪ FIGHT THE CRIMINALS ‫CHASE THE BAD GUYS ♪

‫,♪ SAVE THE WORLD ‫FLY THROUGH THE SKY ♪

‫♪ HALF KID, HALF AMAZING, OK ♪

‫♪ STATIC SHOCK'S ‫WHO YOU'RE FACING ♪

‫,♪ YEAH, ONE ZIP ‫THEN YOU ZAPPED ♪

‫♪ GOOD AGAINST ‫EVIL, GET TRAPPED ♪

‫,♪ LOOK IN MY EYES ‫I'VE GOT THE POWER ♪

‫♪ VILLAINS RUN FROM ‫STATIC SHOWER ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK ♪

‫♪ CRIMINALS GET TWISTED ♪

‫♪ THIS SUPERHERO GIFTED ♪

‫♪ THE BELL RINGS AND ‫I'M BACK IN SCHOOL ♪

‫♪ NOBODY KNOW WHAT I DO, OK ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK ♪

‫♪ ONE ZIP, THEN YOU ZAPPED ♪

‫♪ GOOD AGAINST ‫EVIL, GET TRAPPED ♪

‫,♪ LOOK IN MY EYES ‫I'VE GOT THE POWER ♪

‫♪ VILLAINS RUN FROM ‫STATIC SHOWER ♪

‫♪ CRIMINALS GET TWISTED ♪

‫♪ THIS SUPERHERO GIFTED ♪

‫♪ THE BELL RINGS, AND ‫I'M BACK IN SCHOOL ♪

‫♪ NOBODY KNOW WHAT I DO, OK ♪

‫♪ SUPERHERO STATIC SHOCK! ♪

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‫.HIYA, VIRGIL

‫!UHH... UHH

‫SEE IF YOU CAN FIND ‫.A BIGGER LADDER

‫.NEVER MIND, SHARON. I GOT IT

‫HOW COME EVERY TIME YOU ‫,VOLUNTEER FOR SOMETHING

‫?I END UP DOING THE HARD PART

‫.DON'T BE SUCH A CRYBABY

‫.YOU SHOULD BE HONORED TO HELP

‫.HARDLY, SHARON

‫I AM HONORED TO HAVE ‫.Y O UR ASSISTANCE

‫HEY, DR. ANOYKE. I WAS ABOUT TO ‫.TAKE OFF TO GO DO MY HOMEWORK

‫BEFORE YOU GO, WOULDN'T YOU ‫?LIKE A PEEK AT THE EXHIBIT

‫!Sharon: THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL

‫.AND PRICELESS AS WELL

‫THEY ARE FROM THE RUINS OF ‫.AN ANCIENT ASHANTI PALACE

‫I EXCAVATED IT SOON AFTER YOUR ‫.FAMILY VISITED WEST AFRICA

‫?SO HOW OLD ARE THEY

‫CARBON DATING CAN'T TELL US ‫,WHEN THE PIECES WERE MADE

‫BUT THEY ARE PERHAPS ‫.AS OLD AS 1,000 YEARS

‫[[CELL PHONE RINGS

‫.EXCUSE ME

‫[[RING

‫.THIS IS DR. ANOYKE

‫Man on phone: I HAVE ‫.ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT

‫?DO YOU HAVE THE ITEM

‫.I DO. COME QUICKLY

‫THE SOONER IT IS OUT OF ‫,MY HANDS AND IN YOURS

‫.THE BETTER

‫[[GASPS

‫[[PHONE HANGS UP

‫!SHARON

‫.IT IS LATE. YOU MUST GO, NOW

‫YOU'RE BEING KIND OF ROUGH ‫?THERE, AREN'T YOU, DOC

‫I CAN HANDLE THIS ‫.MYSELF, LITTLE BROTHER

‫COME ON. IF HE WANTS ‫.US TO GO, WE'LL GO

‫BUT YOU COULD BE A LITTLE ‫,MORE POLITE ABOUT IT, DOCTOR

‫!ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL MY WORK

‫.COME ON

‫?LOOKING FOR ME, I PRESSSUME

‫.I AM ONI THE PYTHON

‫SAVE YOURSELF A ‫GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE

‫.AND HAND IT OVER TO ME

‫I DO NOT KNOW WHAT ‫.YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

‫!SSS! AAH

‫Sharon: THE MORE I THINK ‫.ABOUT IT, THE MADDER I GET

‫HE EVEN SHUT THE ‫.DOOR IN MY FACE

‫I'VE NEVER SEEN ‫.HIM ACT THAT WAY

‫SEEMED LIKE HE WAS ‫UPSET ABOUT SOMETHING

‫.OR MAYBE SCARED

‫?YOU'RE TAKING HIS SIDE

‫I'M NOT. I'M JUST ‫SAYING !OH, MAN

‫I LEFT MY BACKPACK ‫.AT THE MUSEUM

‫.DO WHAT YOU WANT

‫I'M NOT GOING BACK THERE

‫.AND GETTING MY HEAD BIT OFF

‫!UHH

‫?WHERE ISSS IT, DOCTOR

‫!UHH

‫[[PANTING

‫!UHH

‫!GIVE IT TO ME

‫.IT IS NO LONGER HERE

‫YOU WILL TELL ME WHERE ‫.YOU HAVE HIDDEN IT

‫!TALK

‫[[GRUNTING

‫Static: TO BE FAIR

‫IT'D BE A LOT EASIER ‫FOR HIM TO TALK

‫.IF YOU'D STOP SQUEEZING HIM

‫!SSSTATIC

‫!SSSURPRISE

‫!AAH

‫SORRY, DOC. I HAD TO ‫GET HIM TO LET YOU GO

‫!OHH! UHH

‫.THIS DOES NOT CONCERN YOU

‫,YOU SET OFF THE SILENT ALARM

‫AND YOU RIPPED OPEN THE DISPLAY ‫.CASE, SNAKES-FOR-BRAINS

‫!UNH... UHH

‫.HE MUST WORK OUT

‫DOESN'T MATTER. WE ‫.GOT HIM OUTNUMBERED

‫.COUNT AGAIN

‫THANKS. UH, YOU ‫.BETTER TAKE HIM

‫.I'M ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS

‫?WHO ISN'T

‫!YAH

‫Static: THAT ‫SHOULD TAKE CARE OF

‫[[ROARS

‫WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE ‫FOR A JUMBO FLYSWATTER

‫.RIGHT ABOUT NOW

‫.THIS IS TAKING TOO LONG

‫.MMOBORO, WE NEED A DISTRACTION

‫!I GOTCHA

‫?DOCTOR? DOCTOR

‫.YOU BETTER CALL AN AMBULANCE

‫.BACKPACK'S ALREADY ON IT

‫[[SIRENS

‫I DON'T GET IT. NEAR ‫,AS THE POLICE CAN TELL

‫.NOTHING WAS STOLEN

‫.MAYBE WE SCARED THEM OFF

‫,[SARCASTIC] YEAH ‫.THEY LOOKED TERRIFIED

‫I AM SORRY, MY FRIEND. I ‫.WAS TOO SLOW TO SAVE YOU

‫BUT PERHAPS THERE IS STILL TIME

‫.TO SAVE THE SPIDER

‫YEAH, I THINK THOSE GUYS ‫.HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA

‫I'M DANGEROUSLY ‫.CLOSE TO CURFEW

‫YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A CURFEW

‫IF YOU HADN'T BLOWN ‫.UP YOUR GARAGE

‫THOSE COMPOUNDS WERE ‫.THEORETICALLY STABLE

‫YOU GO AHEAD. I WANT TO SEE ‫.IF I CAN FIND ANY MORE CLUES

‫.YOU GOT IT

‫I THOUGHT THEY ‫.WOULD NEVER LEAVE

‫?ANSI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

‫I HAVE COME FOR YOUR ‫.ASSISTANCE, YOUNG FRIEND

‫?ANYTHING. HOW CAN I HELP

‫.BREAK INTO THAT MUSEUM

‫UHH

‫.YOU DO NOT HAVE IT. EXPLAIN

‫.THE DOCTOR HASSS HIDDEN IT

‫THEN STATIC ARRIVED, AND ‫.WE WERE FORCED TO RETREAT

‫.YOU FEAR THE WRONG PERSON

‫STATIC'S WRATH IS NOTHING ‫.COMPARED TO MY OWN

‫.WE'RE SORRY, OSEBO

‫!DO NOT APOLOGIZE. FIND IT

‫.AS YOU SAY, OSEBO

‫.WE HAVE EYES EVERYWHERE

‫?OOPS! WHAT IN THE WORLD

‫.IT'S FROM THE EXHIBIT

‫HOW'D I END UP WITH

‫[[KNOCK ON DOOR

‫?SHARON, ARE YOU HOME

‫!YES, DADDY! JUST A MINUTE

‫?HMM

‫SHARON

‫YOU DO REALIZE IT'S YOUR ‫?NIGHT TO DO THE DISHES

‫.UH-HUH

‫WELL, STOP STARING ‫AT YOUR NAILS

‫.AND GO CLEAN UP THE KITCHEN

‫[[SHARON GASPS

‫!TA-DA

‫DON'T WORRY. I ALREADY ‫.SHUT DOWN THE ALARMS

‫THEY DIDN'T WASTE ‫.ANY TIME FIXING THAT

‫I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY ‫.THEY DIDN'T TAKE ANYTHING

‫BUT THEY DID... A GOLDEN ‫.SPIDER WITH INCREDIBLE POWERS

‫IN FACT, IT IS THE ‫.SOURCE OF MY POWERS

‫[[HEART MONITOR BEEPING

‫[[BUZZING

‫[[RING

‫?WHERE IS HE

‫.WE NEED TO TALK

‫?HUH

‫YOU'VE BEEN NEGLECTING ‫.YOUR CHORES FOR DAYS

‫MAYBE THE VOLUNTEER WORK AT ‫.THE MUSEUM IS TOO MUCH FOR YOU

‫.N-NO, DADDY. THAT'S NOT IT

‫I-I JUST DON'T HAVE ‫.TIME RIGHT NOW

‫?WHY NOT

‫.I... CAN'T REALLY EXPLAIN

‫THEN I CAN'T REALLY ‫.LET YOU OFF THE HOOK

‫DISHES

‫.NOW

‫!HELLO

‫HMM

‫♪ YEAH, HEY ♪

‫♪ I'M TIRED OF THEM ‫SAME OLD BEATS ♪

‫♪ YEAH, ME, TOO ♪

‫♪ AND THEM SAME OLD RHYMES ♪

‫♪ UH-HUH, WHAT YOU GOT? ♪

‫♪ WITH THAT SAME OLD SOUND ♪

‫♪ JUST ONE TIME ♪

‫♪ COME ON, BABY ♪

‫♪ I'M GONNA SHOW ‫YOU HOW IT'S DONE ♪

‫FOR MY NEXT TRICK

‫♪ HOW IT'S SUPPOSED ‫TO BE DONE, COME ON ♪

‫♪ HEY, YO, I GOT THE BEST ♪

‫.MUCH BETTER

‫,♪ THE CATCHIEST PHRASES ‫SLANGS AND LANGUAGE... ♪

‫♪ JUST ONE TIME, ONE TIME ♪

‫♪ I'LL SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE ♪

‫[[DING DONG

‫,OH, SHARON. UH ‫.VIRGIL'S NOT HERE

‫I'M NOT LOOKING FOR ‫.VIRGIL, NERD BOY

‫.I'M LOOKING FOR YOU

‫.I HAVE FOUND THE GOLD SPIDER

‫[[GROWLS

‫?THAT'S FROM THE MUSEUM

‫.Sharon: MUST BE

‫.BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS

‫THESE ARE ALL BOOKS ‫.I BOUGHT IN AFRICA

‫THERE'S LOTS OF STUFF ABOUT ‫,ASHANTI GOLD IN THERE

‫.BUT NOTHING ABOUT SPIDERS

‫.AND THAT'S WHERE I COME IN

‫.RIGHT. SO GET ON THE ‫COMPUTER .SEARCH THE ENGINE

‫CRUNCH THE NUMB... SHARON

‫?YEAH

‫.I FOUND IT

‫.REALLY? YEAH. LISTEN TO THIS

‫THIS STORY BELONGS ‫,TO KWAKU ANANSI

‫.AS DO ALL STORIES

‫[[SCREECH

‫ONCE THERE WAS A VERY CLEVER ‫,SPIDER NAMED KWAKU ANSI

‫WHO WISHED TO HAVE THE ‫.POWER OF STORYTELLING

‫THE SKY KING, WHO ‫,OWNED ALL THINGS

‫.MADE A BARGAIN WITH KWAKU

‫,"BRING ME 3 EVILDOERS ‫AND IN RETURN

‫".I WILL GIVE YOU THAT POWER"

‫SO BRAVE KWAKU SET OUT TO BRING ‫.THE SKY KING WHAT HE ASKED FOR

‫KWAKU TRICKED MMOBORO ‫THE STINGING HORNET

‫.INTO A GOURD

‫KWAKU TRICKED ONINI ‫,THE BULLYING PYTHON

‫.AND TIED HIM TO A STICK

‫KWAKU TRICKED OSEBO ‫,THE GREEDY LEOPARD

‫.WHO FELL INTO A PIT

‫[[ROARS

‫.THE SKY KING WAS PLEASED

‫HE GRANTED THE ‫.SPIDER HIS REQUEST

‫AND WITH THE POWER ‫OF STORYTELLING

‫.CAME THE POWER OF ILLUSION

‫?IS THE GOLD SPIDER KWAKU

‫NO. KWAKU MADE THE GOLD ‫,SPIDER TO HOLD HIS POWERS

‫,AND, IN EACH GENERATION ‫PASSED THOSE POWERS

‫.FROM ONE HERO TO THE NEXT

‫BUT THE ORIGINAL SPIDER HAD ‫,BEEN LOST FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS

‫UNTIL DR. ANOYKE FOUND ‫.IT IN THE ASHANTI RUINS

‫?WHAT HAPPENS IF OSEBO GETS IT

‫HE COULD DRAIN MY POWERS ‫.BACK INTO THE SPIDER

‫BUT WORSE, HE WOULD HAVE ‫.POWERS EQUAL TO MINE

‫WELL, YOU OBVIOUSLY ‫,STILL HAVE YOUR POWERS

‫.SO MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE IT

‫?THEN WHERE WOULD IT BE

‫.ONE WAY TO FIND OUT

‫!AAH

‫.TOLD YOU IT WORKS

‫.I CAN MAKE ANYTHING WITH IT

‫!UH, I BELIEVE ‫YOU !MAKE IT STOP

‫LAST THING I NEED IS HAVING ‫TO EXPLAIN TO MY FOLKS

‫HOW THE LLAMA POO ‫.GOT IN MY ROOM

‫.I JUST REALIZED HOW I GOT THIS

‫DR. ANOYKE MUST HAVE ‫SLIPPED IT INTO MY JACKET

‫WHEN HE KICKED ME ‫.OUT OF THE MUSEUM

‫?BUT WHY

‫WE COULD CALL HIM AT ‫.THE HOSPITAL AND ASK

‫WHY WOULD HE BE ‫?AT THE HOSPITAL

‫UH

‫!AAH! AAH! AAH! UHH

‫YOU CAN ASK HIM YOURSELF ‫!WHEN YOU JOIN HIM THERE

‫NOW THE LLAMA ‫.DOESN'T SEEM SO BAD

‫!STAY BACK

‫RRR

‫!AAH! YAAH! RICHIE

‫.UHH! WHOA, OHH

‫AND I USED TO WANT ‫.TO BE A FIREMAN

‫[[CLANG

‫.GIVE ME THE SPIDER, GIRL

‫?HOW 'BOUT I GIVE YOU THIS

‫CLEVER. YOU HAVE DISCOVERED ‫.THE SPIDER'S POWER

‫.THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN

‫OR PERHAPS YOU DO NOT FULLY ‫.UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU HOLD

‫THE SPIDER ONLY GRANTS ‫.YOU THE POWER OF ILLUSION

‫[[GASPS

‫!YOU DO NOT DESERVE ‫IT !GIVE IT TO ME

‫[[GRUNTING

‫WHERE? I DO NOT HAVE ‫!TIME FOR YOUR GAMES

‫!AAH! PUT ME DOWN! LET ME GO

‫!PUT ME DOWN! HEY! HELP

‫.AW, COME ON

‫THE DOCTOR'S GONNA ‫.BE UNDER GUARD

‫HOPE WE CAN CONVINCE THE ‫.POLICE TO LET US TALK TO HIM

‫.FOLLOW MY LEAD

‫HEH! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW ‫.HAPPY YOU JUST MADE MY POPS

‫?WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER

‫ONCE AGAIN, WHAT'S ‫?THE DIAGNOSIS

‫UH, EHH, "THE DISEASE ‫PRESENTS ITSELF AS A," UM

‫.MITOCHONDRIAL CONFLAGRATION

‫?GOOD. COURSE OF TREATMENT

‫WELL, FIRST WE'LL ‫CHECK THE STATUS

‫OF THE PATIENT'S ‫,HEALTH INSURANCE

‫.THEN INTIMATE SOMETHING

‫.INTERNS

‫.DR. ANOYKE

‫?IT'S YOU, ANSI

‫?ARE YOU GONNA BE OK

‫.YES, THANKS TO YOU

‫AND THE SPIDER ?DO YOU HAVE IT

‫.NO, BUT IT IS SAFE

‫I HID IT IN MY ‫.ASSISTANT'S POCKET

‫?YOUR ASSISTANT

‫.UH-OH

‫[[BEEP

‫.Cell phone: STATIC, IT'S GEAR

‫.I GOT SOME BAD NEWS

‫?Static: WHAT NOW

‫YOUR SISTER'S BEEN ‫.SNATCHED BY A TIGER GUY

‫OSEBO! HE'S NOT A ‫.TIGER, HE'S A LEOPARD

‫?THEN WHY DOES HE HAVE STRIPES

‫LEOPARDS DON'T HAVE

‫.FOCUS, GEAR

‫RIGHT. I TAGGED ‫.HIM WITH A TRACER

‫.YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FOLLOW

‫.WE'RE ON OUR WAY

‫I, TOO, HAVE OFTEN ‫.WONDERED ABOUT THE STRIPES

‫IF YOU DO NOT GIVE ‫,ME THE SPIDER

‫I PROMISE YOU THAT THE ‫.CONSEQUENCES WILL BE DIRE

‫WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, KIDNAP ‫?ME AND PUT ME IN A CAGE

‫,I DO ENJOY YOUR SPIRIT

‫BUT MY PATIENCE ‫.IS WEARING THIN

‫!MMOBORO

‫?HAVE YOU EVER BEEN STUNG

‫.J-JUST BY OLD BOYFRIENDS

‫!AAH! UHH! UHH! OHH

‫!HERE! HOPE IT GIVES YOU A RASH

‫YOU'LL FORGIVE ME ‫IF INSTEAD I USE IT

‫.TO DESTROY MY GREATEST ENEMY

‫.WHOA! SO YOU'RE THE SPIDER GUY

‫I EXPECTED YOU TO ‫.SWING IN ON A WEB

‫.I GET THAT A LOT

‫?WHERE ARE THEY

‫.INSIDE

‫.MAN, IT'S AWFULLY QUIET

‫?SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE

‫.PRETTY SURE

‫.VERY GOOD, ANANSI

‫.I EXPECTED NO LESS FROM YOU

‫.RETURN THE SPIDER ‫.IT BELONGS TO ME

‫THERE IS AN ‫:AMERICAN EXPRESSION

‫.FINDERS KEEPERS

‫.TAKE CARE OF THE OTHERS

‫.OSEBO IS MINE

‫.OVER HERE

‫.THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

‫WERE YOU SILENT, I MIGHT ‫.NEVER HAVE FOUND YOU

‫,[GRUNTING] HEY, STATIC

‫HOW ABOUT YOU TAKE ‫?THE SNAKE GUY

‫[[HISSING

‫.NEVER MIND! FALSE ALARM

‫?COME ON! IS THAT ALL YOU GOT

‫I'M A HUMAN BUG ‫.ZAPPER OVER HERE

‫!WHOA

‫PERHAPS THIS WILL PROVE ‫.MORE OF A CHALLENGE

‫!AAH! AAH! AAH

‫!AAH

‫.HOLD THAT POSE

‫!NYUH

‫.GOOD JOB

‫!WAH! AAH

‫!UHH

‫.OH, MAN

‫THE ILLUSIONS ARE MORE ‫?DIFFICULT NOW, AREN'T THEY

‫PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE I ‫HAVE BEEN USING THE SPIDER

‫.TO DRAIN YOUR POWER

‫[[GRUNTS

‫.I CAN STILL FIGHT

‫UNH! UHH

‫!HYUH... UNH

‫!RRRAH

‫!OHH

‫.YOU ARE WEAK

‫I AM STRONG ENOUGH ‫.FOR ONE FINAL TRICK

‫?HUH

‫.HERE, KITTY, KITTY

‫!HYAH! UHH! UHH

‫!RAAAAHR

‫.TALK ABOUT YOUR STATIC CLING

‫YOU KNOW, I HEAR FABRIC ‫.SOFTENER'S REAL GOOD FOR THAT

‫[[GROWLS

‫.TSH. TRY TO HELP SOME PEOPLE

‫[[GROANS

‫.I THINK THIS BELONGS TO YOU

‫.YES

‫,AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD

‫.IT WILL ALWAYS REMAIN WITH ME

‫I AM FOREVER IN YOUR ‫.DEBT, DEAR LADY

‫.HEH HEH. IT'S OK

‫.THIS WAS REALLY EXCITING

‫.I ACTUALLY HAD A GOOD TIME

‫?EXCEPT... YES

‫I CAN'T HELP THINKING ‫.I'M FORGETTING SOMETHING

‫.OH, DON'T WORRY, MA'AM ‫THE BOY WHO WAS WITH YOU

‫WHEN YOU WERE ‫.ATTACKED IS JUST FINE

‫.I SAW TO THAT

‫THANKS, BUT I DON'T ‫.THINK THAT WAS IT

‫[[CELL PHONE RINGS

‫?HELLO

‫?Cell phone: SHARON ‫.THIS IS YOUR FATHER

‫.HEH HEH. GUESS WHERE I AM

‫I'M IN THE KITCHEN, LOOKING ‫.AT THE DIRTY DISHES

‫THE DISHES YOU'RE ‫GONNA BE WASHING

‫!EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT MONTH

‫.OH, YEAH. NOW I REMEMBER

‫.HEH

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