The Mission Begins (Series TV Movie Premiere)

The Mission Begins is the Series TV Movie Premiere of BOLT: The TV Series. The episode premiered on Disney+ and On Demand on December 25, 2020 and it will

### Writer

Ted ElliotDan Fogelman

Osnat Shurer

### Director

Gary TrousdaleNathan Treno

Chris Williams

premiere on Disney Channel (and WTMV-21) on January 21, 2021. It does not really count as a episode, thus why it is going to air in January.

Summary

Bolt wakes up one night to find Penny, his trusted owner, missing. It is up to him, alongside Mittens and Rhino to get out of the house and start the LONG mission of saving their owner!

Plot

**Watching another episode/Sleeping**

The episode starts with Bolt and his friends watching a new episode of his former show, in which they say the plot is boring. Bolt then wonders if all this will be reality. Mittens then says that won’t because it is a TV show. Rhino agrees, and Bolt agrees as well. In the episode, Penny is seen being gagged by Dr. Calico, with Calico telling her to “KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT”. His guardians are surrounding him. Then, “Bolt” (the real dog’s name is Spark) superbarks. Penny cheers in relief, as “Bolt” takes the ropes off of her, and they run to safety, and the director applauded the episode, as when Bolt is watching it, He turns it off as soon as the end credits end, and sleeps in the living room while Penny sleeps in her room.

**The Plan/On the way**

Dr. Calico makes a real plan with his boss while the cast members are asleep, and tiptoes to the door, then the door opens, (they allow him to leave at night) which allows Calico to escape to his base, and announce his plan to take Penny and make the realities of that episode REAL. His minions get to work on a plan to take Penny, and his cats are saying that is the ultimate revenge. Dr. Calico agrees, and then he realized that animals can talk. Penny also realized that as well. Dr. Calico then flys off in his jet.

**Taken hostage/Not even knowing**

Calico’s jet then lands, and his minions grab the rope and tape, and tells his cats to be quiet. The minions quietly walk to her house and slowly open the door. After opening the door to the house, then make sure the dog is not watching, and the minions make a thumbs up. They also find out that her parents are gone for the night, so this is PERFECT timing. They sneak into Penny’s room, and then the minions gag her using the rope and tape. Calico then flys over to the house with his helicopter. He then attaches the hook and lowers it down as the minions put on a harness quietly. They then raise her up. A hour later, Penny realized that she is flying in the air and screams, after she finds out that she is not near her home anymore.

**The pets wake up to terror/Time to become heroes... AGAIN!**

The next morning, Penny’s mom and dad freaks out to find that there daughter is missing. Mittens then says that this episode might be playing a role with the whole “reality” term. Bolt then thinks it is time for them to be heroes again for the first time since he retired. Mittens says if she can join the heroes team, and Bolt says yes. Penny’s dad says he knows how to electrocute Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino. Then, one by one, each pet has their DNA and body scanned, as the marks of Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino are shocked on them. As for Mittens, her mark is a cat head. Then, the heroes set off to find their owner.

**Penny is trapped/Calico sends helicopters to attack the animals**

Back at Calico’s base, his minions are saying that the REAL plan worked, with Dr. Calico saying that they can not be fooled by being on a TV show with a lame director who makes up stuff. His cat (The Siamese one) then alerts him that a enemy is coming on the radar, and he is not gonna like it. No sooner had Calico turned on his computer, he opens the radar and finds that Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino are headed straight for the Jungle. Dr. Calico rages and proceeds to fly everyone, including Penny, away on a airplane. This leads to the pets going on a high-speed chase using their speed ability after Mittens says that the airplane (which is Calico’s secondary base) is headed for town. With no time to lose, the animals try to speed up with the helicopter.

**The Chase goes on/The Lasers are beamed**

Even though a lot of motorcycles are on the copter, WAY before Calico flew off, he sent a lot of motorcycles and mini-copters to distract Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino. Rhino immediately spots five of them. He uses his laser eyes on them alongside Bolt and Mittens, with Mittens saying she was never that powerful before. Unfortunately, the plan fails. Mittens continued to use her laser eyes on them for one minute before they passed out. Mittens then speeds up with the others. Much to Dr. Calicos disgust, he throws a disc, in which Bolt grabs and jumps across the highway, which is referenced to a old episode he watched. He puts it on a mini-copter as it explodes into bits and pieces, and the person driving was killed.

**The News is reporting/What the mom and dad think**

The News then reports on the heroes fighting them, and with Penny’s family dealing with the loss of their missing daughter, saying they miss her. The camera zooms in on another motorcycle, as Mittens Super Meows it. The mom and dad express to the criminal that there will be some real stuff to deal with, right here, right now. They also say that they have animals of their own that will save their daughter. The news reporter then signs off the news. Rhino proceeds to stare at one of the minions. They continue with the speed chase.

**The Sun is setting/Bolt’s plan**

As the sun sets, Dr. Calico lands his jet at the soundstage, as everyone had went home. He went back to his home, and went to sleep, as Bolt came up with a plan to break open the door to the helicopter, if they find it. Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino start their search. They get their dinner in Alaska, because they are tired and exhausted. They needed a well-needed break. They toke a nap for a hour, before continuing their mission to save Penny.

**A tragic loss/Thinking what could happen to a angel**

Back at Penny’s Home, her mom and dad are seen coming to her room, shoving through her tin, looking for pictures of her, as they believe that she is about to meet her fate and die before the very own eyes of the guardians who cared and loved for her since birth. They pick up one picture of her hugging Bolt at her 4th Birthday Party. They get another picture of her playing at the playground with her kid friends from Kindergarten. The last picture is a poster from the TV series that her star dog was in, and her mom says that she might meet her fate. They hug all three pictures and sob. They then go to sleep.

**Ending up in Alabama/The Love of Bolt’s Life is found**

As the crew ends up in Alabama, they continue the search for the motorcycles and jets, with Rhino and Mittens taking care of them, as well as Bolt. After defeating it, Keesha goes to Bolt, and Bolt then nuzzles her. Bolt then tells Keesha if she wants to join them, as she says yes. Mittens and Rhino are then introduced to Keesha, and then they go off to their next state.

**Finding Keesha’s former animal shelter/rescuing all the dogs**

Bolt agrees that they stay in Alabama for a while since Keesha told him to go to her old animal shelter. Mittens then spots it, and they sneak in the shelter. The animal shelter lady then yells that this better not be a prank. They are quietly told to make no sound but just tiptoes as instructed by Keesha. Bolt then gets on hind legs and opens the door with his paws. Rhino then rolls around and releases every dog in the animal shelter, which causes them to lick his glass ball. The lady then goes after them, and Bolt laser beams them. They run off as they hop into a RV with someone already driving it. The man gives them treats, and off they go.

**Barking at the Moon/Every state is beautiful**

Barking at the Moon plays while every dog goes to each state, which shows them playing at a dog park, and doing other stuff. After the song ends, they go to sleep. When they do wake up, they end up in Nevada. Keesha can not believe she is seeing how pretty Las Vegas really is. They all get off the RV and thank the man for the ride. Bolt realized that they are not that far from his old soundstage. Everyone huddled up to hear Bolt’s plan to stop Dr. Calico and his minions, and to save Penny. However, the 3 pigeons showed up again to dance. Mittens told them to lead them to Bolt’s old soundstage, and the pigeons started leading every animal to the soundstage.

**Dr. Calico’s plan/Penny freaks out**

Back with Dr. Calico, he told his minions that his radar got busted, and tells them that they do not need to worry about the dog. However, he has a plan on his sleeve, and shows it to Penny, telling his cats to do the honors. They say ‘yes sir‘ and reveal Penny’s worst nightmare; being killed in lava by Calico himself! Dr. Calico says that the dog and his new friends are not here anymore, and that in a hour, he will pull the switch, and watch Penny getting down to her death in lava. Dr. Calico then tells Penny to enjoy her final hour alive. He ungags her. Penny proceeds to look at them closing the door, and cries.

**Amber alert still in effect/her parents are upset**

Meanwhile with Penny’s parents, they can not believe that the love of their life, their child, went missing. They proceeded to put posters on trees around the neighborhood they lived in, saying ‘Please help us find our daughter, Penny. Donations are also welcome to our case. Thanks.’ They got a lot of money that would help out for donations. Everyone put in a bucket. They brought cash, sometimes one hundred dollar bills, coins, dimes, and other types of money. Penny’s mom and dad counted, saying they have enough money, which is a thousand dollars. But they look at the money and cry as well.

**Breaking in the soundstage/rescuing Penny**

Bolt finally finds it, thanks the pigeons, and tells everyone to sneak through the vent, (Him, Mittens, and Rhino) while the dogs can open the door and distract him. All the dogs run to the door and open it, scaring Calico as the dogs bark on top of him. Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino then sneak through the vent. Once Bolt opens the other side of the vent. Rhino then bangs them outta there with his glass ball, knocking a lot of Calico’s minions. Penny is then freed, thanks to Mittens snatching the rope off. Penny then tells Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino to zoom-zoom to the other side of the studio. They all zoom-zoom, and then, she tells Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino to speak. They all speak, making Calico and his minions fly away.

**Penny is found/They all go to Penny’s house to celebrate**

Once they are done, Penny opens up her scooter, and rides, while they speed up with her, once she was home, the amber alert ended, and her parents were rejoicing with happiness. As a result, they invited all of her friends for a party to welcome Penny back to her home. Everyone was invited. Music played, games were on the point, and so much more. Dr. Calico is shocked to learn that Penny is gone, and he says that he will capture Penny and her dog someday, and punishes his minions by cleaning his building. The minions sigh and get to work cleaning his building, each room, no questions asked. The episodes ends with Bolt playing with his new girlfriend, then it zooms into his tattoo mark, showing us the end credits.

Trivia

•The episode will be a hour long.

•Some territories call this “BOLT 2: The Mission Begins”.

•This episodes marks the debut of Bolt’s crush, Keesha, who is a mix breed of a German Shepherd, and a Husky.

•This episode also marks the return of John Travolta, Susie Essmans, Mark Walton, and Miley Cyrus.

•Some scores from the original film returned.

•Some scenes from the original film were reused or edited.

•This is the only episode of BOLT: The TV Series to be released in 2020.

Transcript

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