Foxy's Family: Facing Your Fears

## **About**

Foxy's Family: Facing Your Fears is the 49th episode in Sunstriker's series, "Foxy's Family" and follows up from the Foxy's Family short, "A Father's Day Message."

## **Synopsis**

In this episode of Foxy's Family, the family builds a huge swimming pool in their backyard! However, Fang is a afraid of a couple things: Swimming and a certain new friend that joins the fun! However, with help from his two new sea monster best friends, Luca and Alberto, Fang learns how to overcome his fears! =D

## **Plot**

As construction on the pool is made, the kids discuss their excitement about the pool while Fang pretends to be excited, as he is afraid of swimming. Foxy and Mangle tell the kids that the pool will finish construction in about two weeks, and then they decide to go out and eat pizza.

A two week time gap goes by, and the family looks upon the pool with amazement. Fang then confesses his fear of swimming, after Todd mocks him for it. Mangle consoles Fang and tells him that Jenny is brining new friends who happen to be expert swimmers. Jenny then arrives via flight, and tells the family that "they" will arrive soon. Immediately after she says that, a horn is honked, and the new friends are revealed to be Luca, Alberto, and Giulia from the Pixar movie, "Luca." They all introduce themselves to each other, which leads to Todd and Alberto referencing a scene from the movie "Luca" where Alberto exclaims something in Italian to Luca and tells him it's "a human thing," to which Luca asks what that meant while Alberto ignores him. Alberto also shows Fang the vespa, and tells him that it can take anyone anywhere across the world (which is obviously false).

They all gaze upon the pool once again, and as Todd asks what the pool next to the big one is, Mangle responds by saying that it's a hot tub, where people sit in, but not swim in. Foxy tells Jenny that either she or any of the "Luca" kids need to supervise the Slystone kids if they ever wanted to go to the deep end, to avoid any risk of drowning. Before they go in the pool, Luca and Alberto reveal that they are sea monsters by jumping into the pool themselves. Foxina spots that a dragon is headed to their direction. The dragon is revealed to be Sisu from the Disney movie, "Raya and the Last Dragon." Upon introducing herself, the kids introduce themselves to her too, but Fang is too scared of her to say anything and violently shakes in fear. As an excuse to leave, Fang says that he needs to "go to the bathroom real quick," and speeds off.

When everyone (except Fang) enter the water, they then encourage Fang to do the same. Due to his intense case of aquaphobia. He then imagines the water having Sunstriker's face, and the face tells him that he will make the water dangerous, causing Fang to stay out of the water. When Luca asks him if everything's okay, Fang lies and tells him that the water is too cold for him. When he confesses that something is wrong, he doesn't want to tell him and Alberto what the reasoning is, as he's afraid they'll laugh at him for it. When they tell him that they won't make fun of him, he then confesses his fear to them, to which they help him learn how to swim. When Fang accepts their help, he enters the pool by going down the stairs. He suddenly trips, but Luca grabs him, and Fang doesn't want to be let go. They start off the lesson by grabbing onto the wall of the pool and kicking their legs, to help Fang understand the concept of propelling his body via his legs in the water. They then transition into going in the middle of the pool, where Luca encourages Fang, who was being held by Alberto, to tell them a story on how he got his aquaphobia. While Fang was thinking of a story to tell, Luca winks at Alberto, and Alberto (understanding what Luca was saying) lets go of Fang. Fang, oblivious to it, finally thinks of the time where he got his fear. It was referenced in a previous Foxy's Family episode, "Foxy's Family: Hooked on Fishing" where Fang fell out of the boat and into the water. Due to his inability to swim at that time, he thought he could never touch water again because of that. When Alberto tells Fang that he's been floating ever since he was telling his story, Fang briefly panics, only to be comforted by Luca. Fang starts to relax and moves his feet around in the water.

One week goes by, and Fang has finally got the hang of swimming. He then asks if Giulia always knew that Luca and Alberto were sea monster. She then said that she only found out when she splashed a cup of water on Luca's hands, and another time (although not specifically mentioned in the episode due to its drama) when Alberto purposefully revealed himself to Giulia to be a sea monster so that he and Luca wouldn't be separated, only for it to backfire. After the monologue, they tell Fang that the final challenge is to go down the water slide that was installed with the pool.

Fang gets scared as he looks at the slide from the top. Luca tells Fang that he's got a "Bruno" in his head (a metaphor for his worried conscience). They again reference another scene from "Luca" where Alberto tells Luca about "Bruno," only this time, Luca is telling Fang this. They then go down the slide together, and laugh as they exit to the pool. Sisu then shows up (scaring Fang) and tells them that she's been watching them the entire time. Fang quickly swims to Luca because of Sisu. Sisu is confused by this, and Luca asks Fang if something's wrong. Fang doesn't want to say it because he's afraid it will anger Sisu, but she reassures him that she won't get upset. He then nervously tells her that he's had an intense fear of dragons. This is another reference to a Foxy's Family episode called "Foxy's Family 2." In the flashback, it's revealed that when he met Toothless, he scared him to death and what caused him to fear dragons. He tells the story from what Foxy told him, as he was too young to remember the events that occured. He apologizes to Sisu for avoiding her for the entire week, and Sisu admits that her feelings were hurt, but understood his motivations. They then hug (although Fang reluctantly agrees to do so). Everyone plays catch together and Fang excitedly tells about his experience in the pool to Foxy and Mangle. They all agree to go out for dinner again, and everyone does the iconic squeak face, before the screen fades to black.