Hero Factory: The Movie

## Hero Factory

**Hero Factory: The Movie** was released on March 8, 2014 is a animated action comedy film directed by the creator of The Awesome Universe, Mark Baldo, Howard E. Baker, Michael D. Black, Jay Oliva and Jorgen Klubien. It is the first of three films released in The Awesome Universe Hero Factory film series, made by The Awesome Universe and distributed by Warner Home Video.

The film takes place after the events of the Playhouse Disney 2005-2010 program Little Einsteins who learn that the program has been canceled. After Leo, June, Quincy and Annie disappear without a trace, it's up to Rocket to find them and remind them of what they really are and on top of all saving the world from a horrific destruction. Together with the robot heroes of the heroic Hero Factory, Little Einsteins get ready for their biggest mission ever.

## Plot

The film starts one night in 2010. Little Einsteins has just returned to Rocket's Garage after the events of Rocket's Firebird Rescue. They discover they've gotten mail from the disney Land's executive and creator, Walt Disney who says their series is canceled. Little Einsteins wonder what to do now, Rocket becomes very concerned about them getting divorced again. Leo comforts him and says he promised they will never get divorced again. (As he said in How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story). Rocket trusts Leo's words and Little Einsteins goes to their houses for the night.

June does her sleeping spin in her room, she looks at a photo from the episode The Blue-Footed Booby Bird Ballet and sighs deeply. Quincy hugging his instrument blanket in his room, he finds his trumpet and puts it by his off the bed. Annie sing a goodnight song to herself in her room, but when she sees the notes from the episode Annie, Get Your Microphone, she start to cry. Leo hears her crying and looks out the window at the Tree Entrance and says that he always wants to be with Rocket and nothing should separate them, before he turns on his baton nightlight.

Meanwhile, Rocket looks at the album with pictures from all their adventures and tells the audience that he had big plans for the series going forward and that he wants him and Little Einsteins to become superheroes and that would lead him to find his true love.

But when he is about to count the planets on his planet mobile, a large explosion appears outside and a bright red light. Rocket get worried of his friends and tries to get out to see what's going on but something is preventing the door from opening. He thumps into the door until it loosens and he gets out. Rocket flies up and finds Leo and Annie's house has become totally destroyed and was on fire. Rocket desperately searches for Leo, Annie and their parents but they have disappeared without a trace. Black smoke shows Rocket that June and Quincy's houses with the same result.

A tear comes out of Rocket's lights and he starts looking for the gang all over the world: (France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, UK, Germany, China, Russia and back to USA). Rocket gives up and has no idea what to do and adds he's alone, all all alone, forever. Until he arrives at a city sign that reads "Welcome to Makuhero City" Rocket flies into the city and looking for a job at the city's defense force Hero Factory.

four years later (after the events of the Hero Factory series), Rocket has befriended the Robot heroes: (Preston Stormer, William Furno, Dunkan Bulk, Jimi Stringer, Mark Surge, Natalie Breez, Nathan Evo, Julius Nex and Daniel Rocka) whom he helps them to improved to on each mission. In his spare time, he looks at the album together with Quadal. Nathaniel Zib appears with news that the Legion of Darkness has once again escaped from prison. The heroes go to the action, Rocket looks for them and and wants to be able to join them for once, but Zib says they need him to make new upgrades to the heroes. Rocket misses his old friends and being out solving missions.  He's about to go to the Assembly Tower to work, but Quadal stops him and shows that he's discovered something on the computer that The Little Einsteins is still alive and gives Rocket analysis where he can find them. Rocket becomes so eager to meet them again that he flies out the front door, creates chaos in the factory in the process that exasperated Zib. Akiyama Makuro comes and says that he has a bad feeling above the factory.

Rocket goes to Los Angeles, he finds Leo (now 15) who was on his way home from school. Rocket is very happy to see one of his old friends, but to his surprise, Leo no longer remembers him, he tries to escape and Rocket follows him. Along the way, they find June (now 15 years old too), Quincy (now 14 years old) and Annie (now 13 years old) who also don't remember Rocket and join the escape. The escape ends in an alley with dead end. Rocket is sad that the Little Einsteins didn't remember him, he takes out Leo's Baby Mobile and Pulls it up. When the Little Einsteins listen to the song, their memories came back. They board in Rocket and take their first flight after years. The Little Einsteins tells that they discovered a spaceship who shot at their houses, they got out before the husses were completely destroyed and that their parents take them away (that was why Rocket couldn't find them). Rocket tells them about his new job and that the heroes are now out looking for the Legion of Darkness. Leo has their first mission after a long time: finde the Legion of Darkness. Rocket doesn't agree, but they go out on the mission. They use Rocket's Look and Listen Scope to find the Legion of Darkness in a old factory, they sneak in but discover that it's much more difficult than when they did it in their show. They find the leader Black Phantom who talks to with a mysterious person on the computer. The Little Einsteins record the conversation. But they are discovered by the assistant XT4. The Little Einsteins try to escape but they are thwarted by the Legion of Darkness members: Jawblade, Toxic Reapa, Splitface, Thornraxx, Voltix and Speeda Demon. Fortunately, the Robot heroes arrive and fight the villains. Leo decides that the team will help the heroes stop the villains, but their methods disturbs the Robot heroes so the villains manages to escape and set the old factory to self destruction. The heroes and the Little Einsteins get out. Stormer are furious that the Little Einsteins prevented them from capturing the villains. and that they have lost all clues to the villains' plan, Rocket shows them that they have recorded the conversation of the Black Phantom. The heroes and the Little Einsteins bring the recordings back to the Hero Factory.

While the heroes investigate the recordings, Rocket gives his old friends a tour of the factory. Finally, they arrive at a locked room, Rocket tells them that only Mr. Makuro has access to the room. On his way to Mr. Makuro's office, Leo spots a huge spider coming up against them. Rocket catches it and tells that it is an Arachnix Drone not a spider. They take the drone to the office where they meet Mr. Makuro, who says that due to Hero Factory's unsolved missions in recent, is the factory in danger of being shut down. Stormer comes and tells them that they have found out that the person who Black Phantom talking to is Von Nebula, but they didn't get to hear what their plan is. Little Einstein's shows Stormer the drone, Stormer thinks that there are may more of them in the factory, if they can get thanks in all of them they can find out what the bad guys' plan with downloading the drones memories. Rocket and Little Einsteins scour around the factory and find many more drones, meanwhile, Leo becomes aware of something in the back room.

Meanwhile, Von Nebula has found out they have lost contact with every Arachnix Drone in the Hero Factory, so he sends another to complete the plan. That night, Stormer bragged about the Little Einsteins and assumes he's been wrong about them. Rocket is proud of his old friends and thinks that his wish of them becoming superheroes will come true. Thus, someone breaks into the factory.

The next morning, the employees try to find the intruder, but their search is interrupted by the arrival of the Chief Inspector. While Stormer, Bulk and Stringer help Zip and Mr. Makuro explain the situation to the Chief Inspector, the Little Einsteins, Rocket, Furno, Surge and Breez try to find the intruder. Meanwhile, Evo examines the Arachnix Drone's memories and finds out about the plan of the Legion of Darkness, the drones were sent to steal all of the Quaza in the factory. He sends the message to Furno, Surge, Breez, Nex and Rocka who have found all the heroes in the factory (except Alpha 1 Team) have had all their Quazas stolen. Surge panics and wants them to escape the city and start a whole new life, but Furno realizes that Mr. Makuro has access to the room where they have more Quaza and they run to find him.

Meanwhile, Leo goes to the back room to find out what he saw in there. He finds a Hero Craft and a memory makes him realize that it was a Hero Craft as destroyed their houses. Leo begins to believe that Hero Factory has done it and starts to be afraid for the heroes. He believes that the robots that had lost their Quaza are human corpses. He meets Rocket and thinks he has become dangerouss, Rocket follows Leo all the way to the exit where the Chief Inspector, Mr. Makuro, Zip, Stormer, Bulk and Stringer are. The rest of the Little Einsteins and the Rookies arrive and find Leo terrified of Rocket. Leo throws a rock and smashes one of Rocket's lights (to everyone's shock)). Leo tells everything that had happened and forces June, Quincy and Annie to stay away and they run away from the factory. The Chief Inspector believes that the Hero Factory is out of control and believes that this is why the Legion of Darkness is still at large and closing the factory forever. Unable to do anything about it, Mr. Makuro accepts the decision. All Robot Heroes are angry at Rocket for destroying everything they have done and now Makuhero City is doomed for all criminal activity without the possibility of getting help, everyone leaves  Rocket and the Hero Factory.

Rocket go sadly into the factory to retrieve his things, then he (his former archenemy) discovers Big Jet who has a big sack. Rocket catches him and finds out that it was Big Jet who has stolen all the Quazas. Big Jet explains that after the events of the episode Show and Tell, Disney said they didn't need him any more, he hoped they would take him back, but after the series was cancelled, he became unemployed. Until Von Nebula,  offered him a new job if he managed to steal all the Quazas from the Hero Factory. Since they are both in the same boat, Rocket persuades Big Jet that together they can find a new job, but since the Quaza is dangerously in the wrong hands, they go to hide it somewhere. Von Nebula has seen it all in his new repair Black Hole Orb Staff and makes new plan to get thanks in the Quaza. Meanwhile, the Little Einsteins have made their way to the outskirts of town. June thinks Leo overreacted a bit, but Leo instisters that he was right about. But the others explain a miracle has happened, They found Rocket again after several years and he had the coolest job in the world. Leo regrets what he did. Then the Legion of Darkness appeared and takes them to the Von Nebula's airship "The Black Hold". There they meet Von Nebula and he explained that he was once a robot hero under the name Von Ness and was part of the Alpha 1 Team. But after he left Stormer and his leader Thresher. To put Hero Factory in a bad light, he destroyed the houses of the Little Einsteins. Von Nebula contacts Rocket and Big Jet and tells them that if they want to see Little Einstein's again, they must hand over the Quaza.

Rocket rushes to save his friends, but Big Jet chimes that they dont can't just sneak in The Black Hold because it's heavily guarded. But Rocket refuses to lose his friends again and leaves with Big Jet to The Black Hold. They find a way into the airship, they sneak in and avoid Von Nebula's minion-robots. Rocket gets an idea how to save the Little Einsteins. They call on Von Nebula who shows up with Little Einstein's and Black Phantom. They hand over the sack that the Quazas are in. Big Jet grabs Little Einstein's wiht his claws and fly away with them and Rocket.

Von Nebula opens the bag, but there are only toys, snacks, art supplies, pirate hats and instruments in it. He sounds the alarm and sends all his forces after Rocket and Big Jet. A great chase starts in the airship. They find a hiding place. There, Leo Rocket apologizes and that he was wrong about him and the Hero Factory. Rocket forgives him and Annie ask why they couldn't go into Rocket Interior, Rocket says he's put all the Quazas in there to make it safe. They were about to escape, but Little Einstein tells them that while they were trapped, the whites got Von Nebula's plan for him to use the Quazas to create his own robot army similar to Hero Factory's heros to attack Makuhero City. It will give Hero Factory a bad reputation and no one will trust the heroes anymore.

Black Phantom, the Legion of Darkness and minion-robots find them and order the group to surrender. Rocket, Leo, and June come forward and say they have the Quazas. They are being chased by the bad guys. Then Big Jet flies with Quincy and Annie to the compjuter room. But the Black Phantom sees them and chases them to the compjuter room. Big Jet closes the dore sends a message to the heroes. Somewhere outside the city, Quadal gets the message and shows it to the heroes, but they refuse to help because of what Rocket and the Little Einsteins had done to them. But Quadal persuaded them that Rocket has done a lot for them and that no one has had a better friend than him and he's no liar about his friends.

Meanwhile, Rocket, Leo, and June have been captured and brought to Von Nebula, he tears open Rocket's door and takes all the Quazas and uses his Black Hole Orb Staff to spree it to his robot army. Since Leo, June, and Rocket witness his plan, he tries to suck them into his staff. Then the Alpha 1 Team shows up and rescues them. A great battle between the heros and the villains was underway. As Stormer battles Von Nebula, the rest of the Alpha 1 Team and the Rookies battles the Legion of Darkness and the robot army, but they were too many. Rocket, Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Big Jet help them fight the bad guys and get the Quazas back. But then the Black Phantom showed up and fired his Anti-Quaza at Rocket to destroy him. Rocket holt on disbanding, but then the Llittle Einsteins start doing Pat pat pat (as they did in every episode before they blast off). Big Jet, Furno, Surge, Breez and Rocka do the same and it gives Rocket enough power to use his music power to reflect The Anti-Quaza towards Von Nebula. The Anti-Quaza is reflected and destroys the power core of the Black Hold that crashed down at the harbor. the airship sinking, the Robot heroes getting the Little Einsteins out in safety. Rocket and Big Jet try to get all the Quazas back, but then Von Nebula (who had returned to his original form after the Anti-Quaza) shows up and attacks Rocket, trying to destroy him and bring all Quaza into the sea. Big Jet intervenes and gets Rocket out of The Black Hold before sinking all the way into the sea and taking Von Nebula/Von Ness with it.

He put Rocket on the pier, but he is completely destroyed and lifeless. He is taken to Hero Factory where Zib and Quadal try to fix him. Little Einsteins is eagerly waiting and soon Zib comes out with news. a moment it seems, the repair failed, but it turned out that they have both fixed and given Rocket upgrades. Rocket comes out good as new and shows that he's got weapons, extra rockets and much more. Mr. Makuro is grateful that Rocket and Big Jet saved the Quazas, the Little Einsteins and the city. But the Hero Factory is still shut down. But, Leo explains to the Chief Inspector that it was all a misunderstanding and makes him open the Hero Factory again. After proving that the heroes have captured the Legion of Darkness and defeat the leader which was behind all the chaos in recent years. Leo welcomes Rocket home and says they will never get divorced again. (Since the Little Einsteins will stay in the factory).
Soon after, a supervillain the Underminer arrives and threatens the city. Little Einstein's, Rocket, Big Jet and Robot heroes go into action. with Furno saying "here we go again!".

## Voice cast

### talking characters

* Leo .... Harrison Chad
* June .... Erica Huang
* Quincy .... Aiden Pompey
* Annie .... Natalia Wojcik
* Von Nebula/Von Ness/ Black Phantom .... Mark Hamill
* Preston Stormer .... John Schneider
* William Furno .... Eric Christian Olsen
* Natalie Breez .... Jean Louisa Kelly
* Dunkan Bulk .... Christopher B. Duncan
* Jimi Stringer .... Stephen Stanton
* Mark Surge .... Bryton James
* Nathan Evo/Daniel Rocka .... Tom Kenny
* Julius Nex .... Jason Canning
* Nathaniel Zib .... Henry Winkler
* Akiyama Makuro .... Malcolm McDowell
* Jawblade .... Steve Wilcox
* Toxic Reapa .... Nick Jameson
* Splitface .... Maurice LaMarche
* Voltix .... Rick D. Wasserman
* Speeda Demon .... Charlie Adler
* XT4 .... Andy Nyman
* the Chief Inspector .... Kevin Michael Richardson

### no talking characters

* Rocket
* Quadal
* Big Jet
* Thornraxx