Star Cat: The Black Hole

**Star Cat: The Black Hole** is a one-hour special of Star Cat. It is based off Disney's 1979 film "The Black Hole"

## Plot

Campanella was approaching the Galactic Railroad station to take a trip by himself when he suddenly spots what he thinks is a small pile of junk in a box. He gets a closer look and is surprised to discover that it's actually a droid that is shut down. Curious, Campanella takes the droid back to his house to fix it. The droid powers up then introduces himself as V.I.N.CENT. The two have a friendly conversation before Campanella invites him to ride the Galactic train.

Excited, V.I.N.CENT joins Campanella on the train journey. The trip goes smoothly, but then the train bumps into something huge. Thankfully, neither Campanella nor V.I.N.CENT sustained any injuries, apart from a couple bruises, and the train suffered little to no damage.

... But it had bumped right into the side of the USS Cygnus, which had gone missing for 20 years.

Campanella and V.I.N.CENT, fascinated by the sheer size of the ship, decided to board it to see what was inside. They are greeted by Dr. Hans Reinhardt, the captain of the Cygnus, and Maximilian, his robot servant. He's also greeted by a old beat up droid named B.O.B. Reinhardt invites Campanella to have dinner with him. Meanwhile, V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B become great friends.

After having dinner, Campanella walks around to explore the ship when B.O.B catches up to him and warns him that Hans is not what he thinks he is. Hans wanted to go inside of a massive black hole instead of seeing it at a distance. He then turned the whole crew of the Cygnus into Humanoids and replaced majority of them with Sentry Robots. He, along with Maximilian waited until it was the right time to go into the black hole.

Horrified, Campanella runs to where he was dropped off, only to find the train wasn't there. Maximilian then sneaks up from behind and captures him.

Meanwhile back on Earth, Sagwa, Francis, Giovanni, and Samantha realize that Campanella hasn't been seen for a long time and start to get worried, so they board the Galactic Train to try and find him. The train takes them to Campanella's location, which is the USS Cygnus. The group had never seen a ship like it before, so they assumed that Campanella was in there.

Once they reach the Cygnus, the group look around the ship while searching for Campanella. Thankfully, they find him just in time before Reinhardt's crew could preform a lobotomy on him. They rescue him, but not before a meteor storm bombards the ship, destroying its port-side anti-gravity forcefield generator and the starboard generator. Without its null-gravity bubble, the Cygnus starts to be torn apart by the black hole.

The group run to find an escape. B.O.B remembers that a smaller ship, known as USS Palomino, was docked on the Cygnus, so the group run to find it. Reinhardt orders Maximilian to prepare the probe ship, but not before he's pinned by falling debris. His lobotomized crew stand motionless as he struggles. Maximilian confronts the others and fatally cripples Old B.O.B. V.I.N.CENT distracts him so the group can run and find USS Palomino. However, before Maximilian could cripple V.I.N.CENT, V.I.N.CENT turns the tables and kills Maximilian by drilling a hole in his chest and sending him flying into the black hole.

V.I.N.CENT finds B.O.B and tells him they have to go. Unfortunately, B.O.B's hover stabilization, main circuit, and both backups are fatally damaged. B.O.B. tells V.I.N.CENT to leave him and that part of him goes with him before letting him know to "Carry on the tradition" and "We're the best" moments before shutting down. Saddened, V.I.N.CENT leaves B.O.B behind and catches up with the others, but not before glancing back at him for the last time.

While the Cygnus is being torn apart by the black hole, the group finds USS Palomino and board it. They lift off, but they discover the controls locked onto a flight path that takes them into the black hole. However, before they could go into the black hole, they abruptly stop, as if they ran into something that is preventing them from going into the black hole. Sagwa decides to peek out one of the ship's windows to see if the ship collided with something.

It was USS Enterprise. It had saved their butts at the last minute by snagging Palomino with a tractor beam. It also had a new anti-gravity force field. This allows V.I.N.CENT to revert the controls back to normal and cancel Reinhardt's route. Once this is done, Palomino and Enterprise flee the black hole. Once make it to a safer distance, the two ships around to watch the Cygnus as what's left of it is pulled into the black hole.

Palomino docks with Enterprise so the group can get to the captain's bridge, Sagwa thanks whoever saved them at the last minute. It was revealed that Luna was controlling Enterprise. Sagwa, Francis, Campanella, Giovanni, Samantha, and V.I.N.CENT all hug her. Luna then shows a mirage of Reinhardt's fate. It was revealed that both he and Maximilian merged together and are standing on a high rock overlooking a burning, hellish landscape – possibly the remains of the Cygnus – populated by robed figures resembling the drones. Reinhardt was never seen or heard from again, and probably never will be.

Once USS Palomino and USS Enterprise return to Earth, The whole Star Cat team was cheering for them. The group get off and wave happily. Luna tells V.I.N.CENT that she has a surprise for him and takes him to the garage. Palomino had been upgraded with weapons and is now part of the Resistance. Best of all, the ship now belongs to V.I.N.CENT. Overjoyed, V.I.N.CENT takes Palomino for a successful test flight as everyone looks on.