Super Starpuff Tennis/script

TITLE CARD - Super Starpuff Tennis (multicolored title card)

(*The star-shaped iris-in shows a full view of the Plasmo residence during the day.*)

* **Helen:** (*from inside*) Children.

(*Inside: the Kids are laying on the floor playing a board game and their parents are standing at the front door.*)

* **Helen:** Your father and I have to run some errands.
* **Dr. Plasmo:** While we’re gone, we want you to do the dishes.

(*Camera swiftly moves over to piles of dirty dishes and a woman screaming sound effect plays. The Kids recoil in disgust at the sight, then turn to their parents.*)

* **Starpuff Kids:** Okay, mom and dad!

(*Dr. Plasmo and Helen leave. Sapphire is the first to stand up.*)

* **Sapphire:** You thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’?

(*She whips out a blue tennis racket and is suddenly standing in a blue starry background.*)

* **Male Voice:** Super Starpuff Tennis! (*Background disappears.*)
* **Sapphire:** Boys versus girls! Whoever loses has to do the dishes!

(*Scarlet and Canary both pull out a red and yellow tennis racket, respectively.*)

* **Scarlet:** I’m in!
* **Canary:** Me too!
* **Sapphire:** We girls are gonna win! (*Cut to Tangelo, Parakeet, and Twilight; they too have out tennis rackets of their respective colors.*)
* **Tangelo:** Boys versus girls, huh?
* **Twilight:** We’ll see about that.
* **Parakeet:** Si!

[Note: ‘Si’ means ‘Yes’ in Spanish.]

(*Camera cuts to the Kids outside in their respective teams at a tennis court. Sapphire has the ball.*)

* **Tangelo:** Bring it on, girls!
* **Sapphire:** Keep your eyes on the ball, *boys*!

(*She spins, turning into a mini blue tornado, and stops to hit the ball over the net.*)

* **Tangelo:** You mean like this?

(*Tangelo hits the ball over the net, and he and Sapphire are rapidly hitting the ball at each other. The other four are quite confused by this. The ball rebounds off a tree, the fence, and hits a gnome, which is sitting on a window sill. It topples off, but Scarlet catches it before it hits the ground.*)

* **Scarlet:** Don’t hit the gnome! He’s priceless!

(*Sapphire hits the ball and it smashes the gnome into bits.*)

* **Canary:** Aw, poor little gnome!
* **Sapphire:** (*sarcastically*) Oh, I’m sorry. (*Hit the ball.*) I thought you said ‘*hit* the gnome’. (*Another hit.*)
* **Twilight:** We boys did the dishes last time. (*Hit.*)
* **Sapphire:** That’s ‘cause you lost!

(*Hit; the ball goes through an open window and hits a fish tank, and rebounds off.*)

* **Tangelo:** Could a loser do *this*?!

(*Tangelo hits the ball. Sapphire — played in slow motion — hits the ball back over the net. It flies through the open window again; this time, it’s headed straight towards a picture frame of Helen with an older female Ghastly — presumably her mother.*)

* **Parakeet:** (*offscreen*) Oh no! Grandma Pearlie!

(*Parakeet flies over to get in front of the picture.*)

* **Parakeet:** Te salvare!

[Note: ‘Te salvare’ means ‘I’ll save you’ in Spanish.]

(*Parakeet gives the ball a good hit. Sapphire tries to block it with her racket; the force pushes her away from the court, through the walls of the house, and outside the house. With that, she slams it upwards.*)

* **Sapphire:** You call that a shot?! Here’s a shot!

(*Sapphire hits the ball; it goes through the wall and ricochets off of various items in the lab before it crashes through the wall and away from the house. Camera cuts to city hall. Mayor Bleak is in his office. While he is doing paperwork, the ball bounces off his hat. He stops and looks up to where his hat should’ve been.*)

* **Mayor Bleak:** Huh? I could’ve sworn I was wearing my hat.

(*Outside: Scarlet and Twilight fly above Starlight Town to catches up to the ball.*)

* **Scarlet:** Just admit it, boys! We girls are too good!

(*Twilight misses the ball. Scarlet hits the ball forward. Camera cuts to all six Kids hovering above Starlight Town.*)

* **Tangelo:** Nuh-uh! Boys are better!

(*Tangelo hits it forward. Cut to the exterior of Castle Harlequin, where Harlequin and Wanderio stood before a large sunflower-like creature with pure red eyes — this is a Daffodark.*)

* **Harlequin:** I suppose you don’t have any spells that can make these things walk around, do you not, Wanderio?
* **Wanderio:** I actually do, sire.

(*He pulls out his wand to cast a spell on the Daffodark. It finches and gasps silently in surprise as it grows slightly larger.*)

* **Harlequin:** Well? I don’t see anything!

(*The tennis ball bounces off the back of the Daffodark’s head, making it angry. It pulls itself off the ground, revealing two roots that function like legs, and growls menacingly at Harlequin and Wanderio. These two recoil in horror before running off to avoid the wrath of the monstrous plant.*)

* **Harlequin:** GERALD, HELP US!

(*Cut to the tennis ball in mid-flight. It eventually goes into space, where Twilight waits for it to smack it back down to Proxima-B. Back down at the Plasmo residence, the rest of the Kids watch it descend as Twilight regroups with his brothers. Behind them, the house is in shambles.*)

* **Sapphire:** Ho-ho, nice shot!
* **Twilight:** It’s all in the wrist.

(*The Kids rapidly hit the ball back and forth over the net.*)

* **Sapphire:** Hold on to your butts!

(*She hits the ball, where it comes to a sudden halt on the boys’ side and bounces onto the ground.*)

* **Scarlet, Canary, Sapphire:** Girls win!

(*They hear the sound of a male clearing his throat. The camera swiftly moves over to show Dr. Plasmo and Helen have returned and, having seen the house being reduced to debris, stare at the Kids with clear indignation on their faces.*)

* **Dr. Plasmo:** Would any of you care to explain? (*Cut to the Kids.*)
* **Parakeet:** (*nervously*) Uhhh, bienvenido de nuevo?

[Note: ‘Bienvenido de nuevo’ means ‘welcome back’ in Spanish.]

End of short.