We'll Find Each Other

Barney embraces Ron.

**We'll Find Each Other** or **Saved In The Cloud** is the 15th scene in *Ron's Gone Wrong*. After infiltrating the Bubble headquarters, Barney is now inside the cloud and resolves to find Ron. It is the emotional climax of the film, as Barney finds the courage not only to search for Ron in the darkness, but boy who has only ever known loneliness being able to trust their friendship will pull them through.

## Summary

### "Are you even here?"

Barney, now in the depths of the cloud, confusedly wanders around a large, dark server room shouting out for Ron, uncertain if there's any way to find him. "Are you even here?" he trembles. He finds a command station and begins typing at the panel. First his name, "Barney Pudowski" — Bubble has no information on him. Then "7th Grade" — still nothing. Then "Nonsuch Middle School", which unexpectedly returns four "monitors": remote views of Savannah, Rich, Ava, and Noah from their B-bots.

As commanded by Andrew, a voice calls out across the server room: "POWERING DOWN!". The shimmering towers of blinkenlights progressively shut-off, and the low hum of the power supply slams into silence. Total darkness.

### "Find me"

Barney flicks on a novelty flashlight (Graham's windmill-hat first seen in Crushing It) and hides underneath the panel, frightened. He accepts it as game over: "Oh Ron, I'll never find you... and you'll never find me". He then wonders, "Find me? Find me." and then confronts his biggest fear: the dark. He flicks off the flashlight.

The soundtrack "We'll Find Each Other" picks up. As if magic, a faint distant glow casts Barney's face. The novelization explains: "*Ron. The dark. He knew.*" As foreshadowed earlier in the film, Ron lights up because he can sense Barney is scared. It's gesture larger than any algorithm could conceive of; Ron is there for Barney even in the loneliest place in the world, because he's a *friend*.

Barney heads towards the glow high above and climbs towards a tower to retrieve Ron, finding him encased in a hard drive with an integrated display that produces his smile, which he takes to the command station to load into Ron's body.

### "Brave in the dark"

Here the film reaches its emotional climax. As Barney tearfully holds onto Ron, Marc remotely inspects Ron with a live debugger and realises Ron never had his friendship algorithm, but something entirely organic all-together: Barney's code. He dreamily utters, “It’s beautiful… like… alive”.

Ron updates his final card: “Doesn’t like the dark” becomes “Brave in the dark”. Barney is not afraid anymore.

### "We got to get out here!"

Barney giggles for the sheer joy of it. The film's running gag on electricity-versus-rocks concludes with a clever comment to Ron: "They turned you into electricity and put you inside of a rock!" In the manic joy of the two reuniting, the bot breaks off and turns his attention to the four remote monitors. "They're not having fun".

Savannah is in her bedroom still getting grief over being poop girl; Rich is over at the park failing to get any views on his prank livestream; Noah is playing a rhythm game, topping the score leaderboard with an empty expression on his face; Ava stages a picture where a circle of shoes is photograph to appear as if she and others are going out for a party. They're all lonely.

Savannah is basking in the misery, getting comments such as "it takes real guts to turn yourself into poop".Rich is getting zero views on his livestream. Apparently he also has a website, "prankyouverymuch.org".Ava stages a picture, pretending to have friends.Noah appears to play a rhythm game toping the leaderboard.
### "They need an upgrade to a Ron"

Barney is confused by what he's seeing, "I thought I was the lonely one." This is a culmination of everything that was hinted throughout the film: Rich actually had no audience; Ava was pushed apart from Savannah; and Savannah is secretly lonely and has little life outside her B-bot. Barney says, "they need an upgrade to a Ron." Ron agrees, "please connect me to the Bubble network!"

Could this be for real? Despite the comic hopelessness of Ron being unable to connect to the Bubble network from the beginning, they are literally, physically, in it now. Barney believes. There could be no better opportunity.

*End of scene*
## Production

This scene was subject of a color study by Aurélien Predal.

"The cloud" as a whole was subject to detailed concept art.

## References

1. ↑ Novelization, p. 143
2. ↑ Referring to Ron having been stored on flash memory