Battle for My Brother

**"Battle for My Brother"** is the ninth episode in Season 1 of ***The Villains of Valley View***. It first aired on July 22, 2022 to 0.20 million viewers.

## Plot

### Synopsis

Amy feels betrayed when she discovers Jake is meeting up with Starling. While Vic is attempting to fix Colby, an accident causes Colby to shift into an old man.

### Full Plot

The episode begins with Jake in the living room, talking on the phone with Starling one evening as Hartley comes in. After they hang up, Hartley talks to Jake about his phone call with Starling, but they are unbeknownst to the fact that Amy is eavesdropping on their conversation from the stairway. Jake tells Hartley that Starling invited him to come meet up with her on a private date. Hartley is extremely excited for him, and even says she wants to tag along with him just so she can see Starling in person again.

Jake, however, says he wants the meeting between them to be special so he wants to go be with Starling alone, implying he actually wants the date to be sort of romantic and not just as friends meeting up with each other. He then tells Hartley they're gonna meet up somewhere very private and unexpected so no one will suspect anything: a local Valley View junkyard. He explains it's special to him because that's where he actually had his first battle with Starling when he used to be the villain Chaos, and he asks Hartley to cover for him, because he knows his family, especially Amy, will be furious if they found out he was hanging out with and seeing Starling.

Hartley protests that she doesn't want to keep holding secrets from her, but Jake tells Hartley it'll only be temporary until he can figure out how to maybe bridge the large gap between Starling and Amy. Unaware that Amy overheard their entire conversation, they leave and go inside the kitchen together, as Amy steps out into the living room and says to herself, due to her suspicions about Starling, that she's determined to find out if Starling is just using her brother to get close to their family and take advantage of him.

Later that evening, Eva, Jake, and Hartley are eating breakfast for dinner at their kitchen table, (specifically pancakes and fruit) as Jake wonders where Colby is since his shape-shifting powers have been malfunctioning recently. Colby then calls out and reveals himself as he's still stuck in his house fly form (from the previous episode, "The Two Jakes"), and that his tiny insect legs are stuck in his mom's syrup from her pancakes. Amy then comes inside the kitchen and Jake & Hartley asks her if she's okay as she seems tense. She says she's okay and asks them if they're okay and if there's something they should tell her that she doesn't know, and that it would be a good time to tell her and not try to keep secrets since they're best friends and siblings. This makes Hartley and Jake nervous, but Jake lies and says he's going to the mall for a late night shopping spree and just to spend some alone time at some of the stores and the food court.

As he leaves, Vic comes inside the kitchen from their secret basement lair and tells them he thinks he found a way to stop Colby's shape-shifting powers from malfunctioning. Later on, Vic invites Eva and Hartley downstairs to see his new invention that he thinks will be able to turn Colby back into his normal human self and stop his powers from messing up so badly. He then puts house fly Colby inside the machine as he powers it up to see if it works. Once the process stops, Colby actually turns back into his normal human, teenaged boy self. The Madden Family cheers as they're excited to see Colby back to his normal self again. As Colby adjusts back to being a normal human being, Vic tells him he has to still stay in the machine until it finishes rearranging his DNA back into its proper forms. Vic and Eva leave, but Hartley agrees to stay and wait with Colby until the machine is done to keep him company. He then asks her to give him the water bottle his parents put next to the control panel to the machine, but Hartley accidentally spills the water on the console to the control panel, causing it to short out and sending sparks flying along with smoke coming out of it. The machine then turns Colby into a young adult that looks like he's in his early 20's.

Hartley panics as Colby realizes what the machine did to him, but he actually says he's impressed at his Young Adult self and likes how he looks very handsome and attractive with a nice physique. Hartley agrees with him in a slightly flirty way as she takes note of his attractiveness, but then stops herself as she realizes it's still Colby inside of his body, and his body and shape-shifting is now messed up and malfunctioning once again because of the mishap with the machine. She then panics again as she doesn't know what to do with the broken control panel.

As she fidgets with the control panel, the machine activates again, and this time turns Colby into a much older middle aged man in his 40's, as she panics even more. Colby then complains of how he looks old and misses his Young Adult version, prompting Hartley to also complain how she misses his Young Adult version too, and how he looked so cute and dreamy to her and almost starts to get lost in a daydream trance. She then stops herself again as she realizes she's still talking about Colby and says she'll find a way to fix it and turn him back to normal.

Meanwhile, at the junkyard, Jake meets up with Starling and they hug as they greet each other. Jake and Starling then hear a rustling noise, until they turn and see Amy at the junkyard, revealing she followed Jake to see where he was *really* going. Jake panics as the three of them stare at each other like a standoff. Amy then tells Jake she overheard his earlier conversation with Hartley, and reveals she's suspicious of Starling trying to take advantage of Jake and get close to him just to turn on him and harm him or their family. Starling doesn't know who Amy is until they tell her that Amy is Jake's sister, and Starling then realizes Amy is actually her old nemesis Havoc's true identity.

Amy and Starling then get into a short but huge fight with their superpowers. Amy uses her sonic powers to blast Starling and send her flying back into a stack of large trash compactor garbage cubes until Jake uses a large piece of metal with his super strength to block Amy from continuing to use her sonic blasts, nearly knocking both Amy and Starling unconscious.

Meanwhile back at the house, Hartley is panicking and pacing back and forth while Middle Aged Colby is sitting on the couch in the living room. Eva and Vic then come back, as Hartley explains what happened to Colby and why he's a middle aged adult because of her messing up Vic's machine. Even worse, Robert and Celia come over, and Celia tells Hartley that she's going on a salsa dancing date with Robert and that she wanted to remind Hartley about it before she left. Just then, she notices Middle Aged Colby sitting on the couch and asks the Madden Family and Hartley who the guy is. She then chides them about having extra tenants living in the house unaccounted for, but Hartley covers for them by saying that Middle Aged Colby is just a plumber coming to help the Maddens. Celia asks why they called for a plumber and asks why they didn't call her as their landlord, to which they tell her Hartley didn't want to disturb her because she knew about her getting ready for her upcoming date with Robert.

Robert then asks Middle Aged Colby why is he wearing casual streetwear clothes and then asks him to let him see his plumbing license. Middle Aged Colby lies and says he left his license back at his shop where he works. Robert then tells the Madden Family and Hartley that there's been a ring of scammers going around pretending to be different utility workers such as plumbers to con people out of their money and steal from them , and that he suspects Middle Aged Colby is one of those scammers and criminals. Celia then steps up and angrily scolds him, as Robert tells them he and Celia may have to stay with the Maddens and cancel their date for the night to make sure Middle Aged Colby is really a legitimate plumber.

Back at the junkyard, Jake finally confesses to Amy that he's been seeing Starling as a friend and has been hanging out with her, trying to take her out on dates, but without trying to rush into a serious relationship. He then tells Amy about the time Starling saved his life when he was dangling from one of the high rise buildings in Centropolis, and how ever since Starling saved his life, he's been trying to reform himself into a better person and be a good guy, and that he's been looking to Starling as his inspiration to do so. Amy becomes furious with Jake and argues that if he's been lying about the whole situation between him and Starling, that she can't trust him anymore, and also asks him if Hartley knew as well. Jake confesses that Hartley  also knew about it, and that that's what she and him were talking about when Amy was eavesdropping on them earlier that evening. He then tries to apologize to Amy, but Amy angrily storms off as she says she can't trust him ever again, even if he is her brother.

Jake tries to run after Amy to continue the conversation, but to no avail as Amy angrily leaves the junkyard and ignores him.

Devastated from the encounter he just had with Amy, Jake goes over to Starling to apologize to her for Amy's behavior. When he tries to ask her for friendly comfort after what just happened, Starling then tells him she doesn't think they should be friends or hang out with each other anymore. Jake tries to tell her that after he just brutally lost his sibling connection and relationship with Amy as his sister, he can't stand to lose her too, but Starling insists that she will not break up his family just because of a friendship or a relationship between the two of them. Starling then flies away and leaves, leaving Jake alone in the junkyard.

Back at the Madden Family house, Middle Aged Colby is struggling to try and fix the faucet and the pipes in the kitchen sink, as Robert and Celia look on, pressuring him to show them if he's a legitimate plumber. Hartley tries to find different ways to get Robert and Celia to leave Colby alone and give him some breathing room as he tries to fix the pipes, but Robert and Celia don't budge. Colby then messes up the pipes under the sink and causes water to spray everywhere as the faucet comes unloose from the sink. Robert then tells Colby he's going to arrest him for being a scammer and a con artist until Middle Aged Colby then suddenly transforms into an elderly man. Old Man Colby then slowly lifts up from underneath the cabinet under the sink and reveals his elderly appearance to the family and to, Hartley, Robert, and Celia. Robert and Celia are confused as to why he now looks like an old, elderly man to which Hartley says Old Man Colby is Middle Aged Colby's father, and that they did a switcheroo when he bent down to crawl into the cabinet under the kitchen sink. Old Man Colby then tells Robert and Celia that he has a legitimate plumbing business that he founded in the 1900's, and that he refuses to tolerate anyone calling his business a sham, or his son a fraud. Robert and Celia then apologize to Old Man Colby and say they respect their elders and that they don't want to make him feel disrespected as they then leave to go on their salsa dancing date. Old Man Colby then begins to actually act like an elderly old man, and starts complaining and being crotchety, as they try to get him to go downstairs to the secret lair in the basement.

Later on, Amy comes back home as Hartley greets her at the door, and Amy then tells Hartley she found out everything about Jake and Starling at the junkyard. She then angrily lambastes Hartley for letting Jake use her to keep secrets from her when they're supposed to be best friends, and then tells Hartley she didn't even want any friends at all, let alone a best friend in the first place. Amy then asks Hartley to leave and says she doesn't want to be friends with her anymore as Hartley tries to apologize and explain herself, but to no avail. Amy runs upstairs as Hartley then tears up and almost starts to cry. Jake also comes inside the house at the same time and tells Hartley that he doesn't think there's any way to resolve the conflict that they've now created with Amy and he also tells her about Starling cutting off their relationship and friendship as well.

Later on that night, Vic and Eva sit on the couch talking to Old Man Colby as they're still trying to figure out how to repair Vic's re-atomizer machine and transform him back into his regular self again.  They then tell Old Man Colby that they want to use him to get senior citizen benefits and discounts to go to the movies at the end of the week and tell him he has to wait until they go to the movies with his senior citizen discount before they turn him back into his normal self again.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Isabella Pappas as Amy Madden/Havoc
* Malachi Barton as Colby Madden/Flashform
* Reed Horstmann as Jake Madden/Chaos
* Kayden Muller-Janssen as Hartley
* James Patrick Stuart as Vic Madden/Kraniac
* Lucy Davis as Eva Madden/Surge

### Recurring Cast

* Patricia Belcher as Celia
* Mariah Iman Wilson as Starling / Judith
* Harrison White as Robert

### Guest Cast

* John Gowans as Old Man Colby
* Jonathan Medina as Middle Aged Colby
* Tony Llinas as Young Adult Colby

## Trivia

* Disney Channel promoted this episode and Unleash the Chaos as a 2-parter.
	+ Disney Channel promoted this episode as part 1 of the 2-parter.
* This episode was shot on March 8, 2022.
* Colby is played by Malachi Barton for a cameo, but then by the older actors due to Malachi possibly still focusing on Under Wraps 2.
* Jake and Starling were revealed to be in contact with each other in this episode, but Starling ends their nascent relationship due to his family's hatred for superheroes.
* Amy cuts off her friendship with Hartley when she realizes she hid the fact, that Jake and Starling were in communication with each other, from her.
* Celia planned to go salsa dancing with Robert.
* Amy learns how to use her sonic powers to fly but doesn't know how to control it.
* The ramifications Starling faces are revealed in A Superhero in Valley View .
* Jake is revealed to be afraid of dogs.
* Colby's aging in this episode is similar to Oliver's in the Mighty Med episode "Growing Pains".
* The sibling betrayal is comparable to ***Stuck in the Middle*** when Ethan befriended Aidan behind his sister's back, when Harley put Aiden on the Dead to Diaz list and Ethan promised never to see him.
* Jonathan Medina later went on to portray "Hypnotico" in the series finale of ***Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion***.

## Videos

Battle for My Brother - The Villains of Valley View - @Disney Channel
## References

1. ↑ https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-friday-7-22-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html
2. ↑ Villains shape shifting and super heroes flyin. Stay tuned for this action packed Disney show. The kids are gonna love this one. #directorslife #villainsofvalleyview #disneychannel