Super Speed

**Super Speed** is the ninety-eight (eighth episode) of the season seven of The New Adventures of The Animals.

## Synopsis

Dark Eric tells his friends that he will find some way to permanently separate the band from The Animals. Meanwhile, Eric, in a library, reads one of his books, Super Speed, a superhero who appears in both books and comics. Dark John asks Dark Eric what his life would be like if he had super powers, Dark Eric tells his friend that he would dominate the world if he had powers, as he would dominate the world and kill The Animals with ease. However, Dark John and Dark Hilton see a possible portal and a red London scenery, because upon arriving in the futuristic dimension of London, each one of the Dark Animals temporarily gains powers and temporarily becomes supervillains, they face Super Speed (who is actually John Steel playing the superhero), and try to kill him, but are unable to hit him, although he had a chance. Super Speed flies away asking for help, he summons Eric and The Animals who in turn are frustrated to find each other, as well as still being upset with each other because of the Girly Girls. Super Speed asks them not to waste time and that they can help the superhero, to stop the Dark Animals who have temporary powers and who will use their temporary powers for evil, Super Speed gives a temporary cover with temporary powers to The Animals to at least stop the evil actions of the Dark Animals.When confronting The Animals, Dark Eric says that he and his friends are invincible, suggesting that they are stronger than The Animals and adds that The Animals' temporary powers are useless. Then, Eric hits Dark Eric, causing him to become furious and try to kill him, but Dark Hilton intervenes and tries to bring justice, trying to kill The Animals with his snake-like abilities. Dark Hilton manages to catch Hilton and tries to kill Hilton by suffocating, but he is hit by Super Speed and this manages to make the evil Valentine lose his ''temporary powers'' and thus return to normal. When the other Dark Animals were prepared to attack and avenge Dark Hilton, because he lost his temporary powers thanks to Super Speed, The Animals and Super Speed also released their powers on the Dark Animals, thus causing all members of the Dark Animals to lose their powers. powers and Super Speed send the Dark Animals back to the normal dimension, Dark Eric swears his hatred for superheroes.

The Animals and Super Speed go to the park and the hero thanks the musicians for helping to defeat the Dark Animals (who in the future plan to implement their future evil plan, which could come to fruition any day, which is to rule the world) and they stay happy to help Speed and Speed leaves.

However, it is revealed that John was the superhero Super Speed and replaced the real Super-Speed, meaning that he was recruited by the real one, but that the real one became ill and asked John to replace him.

However, John is seen by Dark Chas and Dark Hilton who discover that John is Super Speed and plan to use this information to further sour the friendship of The Animals (who are currently fighting).

## Characters

### The Animals

* Alan Price
* Chas Chandler
* Hilton Valentine
* Eric Burdon
* John Steel

### The Dark Animals

* Dark Alan
* Dark Chas
* Dark Eric
* Dark Hilton
* Dark John

## Trivia

* This episode marks the appearance of Super Speed.
* Despite being played by John, Super Speed was his first superhero alter-ego.