Cosmic Camp Catastrophe 
Story by David Villaire
Transcribed by MoKat

Opening scene: Outside shot of Space Command.  Camera zooms in while Space Marshall Vaughn (henceforth noted as SMV) is talking.
SMV: This green planetoid is called...
{Camera switches to an interior shot.  SMV is pointing to a green planetoid on a screen; Ace and Kim are looking at it.]
SMV: Floron.  It's chiefly(?) wilderness area.
ACE: So what's the action?  Something with a little punch, I hope.
SMV: A different kind of punch, Space Ace.  
KIM: Oh, good.
[SMV presses a button and a door opens.  A boy with brown hair, and dressed in a blue & white outfit, steps into the room.] 
SMV: This is my nephew, Hubert.  Your mission: take Hubert and his Junior Space Cadet friends camping on distant Floron.
ACE: Camping?  Junior Space Cadets?  
HUBERT: Hi, Space Ace!
[Hubert shakes Ace's hand and accidentally sets off Ace's blaster.]
Hubert: Oops!
[The blaster beam ricochets off the ceiling and parts Ace's hair.  Ace examines his new "haircut" with the aid of a hand mirror (where the smell did -that- come from??)]
ACE: No way I could handle a bunch of kids.
[SMV hands a bag and a fishing rod to Ace.]
SWV: Bring me back a whopper.
(Is it just me, or does anybody wanna do a facepalm and/or smack Vaughn silly now?)

[Scene shift: a spaceship that looks suspiciously like a yellow bus (with rockets instead of wheels) flies through space toward a certain green planet.  The sounds of kids cheering & cutting up can be heard.]
HUBERT: Oh, boy! This is gonna be some campout!

[Camera switches to an interior shot & shows Ace driving said "bus".  Kimberly is next to him.  A bunch of kids rush up to the front of the "bus".]
HUBERT: Right, Space Ace?
ACE: Right.

[Scene shift: A blue spaceship approaches the green planet.  Interior shot reveals Borf & La Grin.]
BORF: Rich alludium(?) deposits, La Grin, and on Floron.
LA GRIN: With this element, your Infanto Ray will be completed at last.
BORF: *chuckles* And anyone who interferes with us, La Grin, will be dealt with harshly.  Extremely harshly!

[Scene shift: on the surface of Floron. Camera pans left, over a river then over lots of brush.]
RANDOM BOY: Hey!  These tents are neat!
RANDOM GIRL: That's -my- tent pole!
ANOTHER RANDOM BOY: Move over, Hubert!
[Camera zooms in on the Junior Space Cadets' campsite.  Kim can be seen supervising a gilr in blue and a boy in red as they unroll a sleeping bag.  Camera pans right and stops on a borwn-haired girl who is dressed in purple.]
GIRL IN PURPLE: I can't figure this contraption out!
HUBERT: *walks into the shot* Oh!  That's one of those super-neat pop-tents!  Lemmie see!
ACE: *walks into the shot and grabs the tent*  Let camper Ace give you a hand here.  *examines the tent*
HUBERT: *picks up a remote control*  Just push this button...
[Hubert pushes the button and the tent springs to life.  Ace pops is head, then his arms & legs out of the tent flaps.]
GIRL IN PURPLE: *laughs* That's funny!
[Hubert looks on, shocked]
ACE: Well, I said I wanted a mission with punch.

[Scene shift: Ace is on the river's edge, wearing a fishing hat and holding the rod SMV had given him.]
ACE: Come on, space fish...
[Camera: close-up on the rod (in Ace's hand) as it extends.  Ace casts the line into the green water.]
ACE: ...bite for old Ace.
[Something under the surface tugs on the fishing line.]
ACE: Whoa!  I got one!
[Ace transforms into his younger self (at a very bad time ;)]
DEXTER: Whoa-oa-oa!
[Dexter is dragged into the water, in such a way it looks like he's water-skiing.]
DEXTER: I gotta big one up here. I'm gonna need help.
[Dexter runs across the water (?!?).  We see a green fin following him.]
DEXTER: Kimmie!  It's after me!
[An alien fish, which is way bigger than Dexter, grabs Dexter's pants in its teeth. After struggling, Dexter breaks free but looses part of his pants in the process. (is this supposed to be funny??)]
RANDOM KIDS: *approach while laughing*
RANDOM KIDS: (taunting) Chicken, chicken!  Afraid of a fish!
BOY IN BLUE: *waves his fist in the air* Who are -you-, kid?
RANDOM BOY: Where's Space Ace?
DEXTER: Ace? Well, uh...golly, kids...
ALL KIDS (excluding Hubert):  (chanting) We want Space Ace...We want Space Ace...We want Space Ace
KIMBERLY: Now come on, Space Cadets; time for you to go out and gather some firewood.
[The kids begin to leave.]
RANDOM BOY: Where's Space Ace?  
[Dexter and Kim are now alone.  Kim crosses her arms.  Dexter shrugs, then transforms.]
ACE: You know, Kimberly, this is turning out to be a whole lot more than I bargained for.

[Scene shift: The boy in blue, the girl in purple, and Hubert are walking back to camp with firewood.  Hubert stops to pick up a stick.  Camera switches to a piar of Groots that are wearing minier's hats; one is carrying a pickaxe and the other has a shovel.  Hubert hears them appraoching, so he hides in a bush.  After the Groots pass by, Hubert leaves the bush and follows them to a mine.]
HUBERT: Wow.  
[Camera pans left, showing carts being loaded onto Borf's blue spaceship.]
HUBERT: I better tell space Ace about this!
[Hubert runs into Borf (literally!)]
BORF: Mu-wah-haha!  *picks up Hubert by the back of his shirt*  Well, a little visitor!
HUBERT: *swings at Borf with his fist, but keeps hitting only air* You'd better let me go you big, blue meanie!   Or my uncle, Space Marshall Vaughn, will make you sorry!
BORF: Ha, ha, ha!  So, Space Marshall Vaughn's your uncle, ey?  I'll just keep you here with me.
HUBERT: Hey! Put me down!
[Borf walks to the right, back toward his ship, carrying Hubert effortlessly.]
BORF: I will...after you tell me who you came with.

[Scene shift: back at the campsite; night.  Ace, Kim, and the rest of the kids are sitting around a campfire.  We see a pair of Groots, held on a leash by La Grinn, approach bushes nearby.]
LA GRIN: (softly) Commander Borf.  Space Ace and Officer Kimberly are in attendance.
BORF: (via radio) Avoid Space Ace and his partner for now.
[Camera switches to Borf, who is sitting in a chair.]
BORF: Capture the kids!  Bring them to me!
[Borf leaves his chair and approaches Hubert.]
BORF: Your uncle will soon surrender Earth headquarters to -me-!
[Hubert tries to run, but Borf grabs him and holds him up in the air.]
BORF: -If- he wants you safe return! 
[Borf dangles Hubert over a pair of Patrol Pups, which snap at the boy.]
[Camera fades to black.]
[END OF ACT 1]

[ACT II BEGINS]
[Scene opens at the campsite.]
ACE: Hubert probably just hung a right instead of a left; he'll be back.
KIM: This might be serious, Space Ace.  We'll split up into two parties and find him.
ACE: We'll find ol' Hughbie in no time.  Let's make tracks, Cadets!
[They leave the campsite. The boy in red, the girl in pink, and one of the boys in blue follow Kim.  The girl in purple, the girl in blue, and the other boy in blue follow Ace.]
[Scene shift: somewhere in the brush, sometime later.  The girl in purple walks toward  a boy in blue.]
BOY IN BLUE: Shh!  I heard something.
[The "something" in question turns out to be some Groots, which quickly capture them.]
BOY & GIRL: Yikes!
[In another part of the woods, Kimberly stops & looks.]
KIMBERLY: I thought I heard something. 
[The Boy in Red and the Girl in Pink keep walking, right toward a pair of camoflaged Groots which grab them.]
BOY & GIRL: Whoa!
[In yet another part of the woods, Ace peeks between the leave of a weird bush.]
ACE: Hughbie!  Are you hiding on ol' Ace? 
[Camera pans left and stops on one of the boys in blue.  A Groot pops up, out of a hollow tree stump, and grabs the boy.]
BOY IN BLUE: (muffled) Help! Heeeeelp! Help!
[The Groot slips past Ace, who had his back turned.  Ace gets out of the bush and stands up.]
ACE: Somebody say something? *turns around* Hey!  Don't get lost over there!
[Camera pans to the girl in blue, who is walking toward a rather obvious snare trap.]
ACE: Hey!  Watch out for the (?) foliage!
[Ace jumps onto the branch]
ACE: Groots!
BOY IN BLUE: (muffled, from inside the bag) Help!
[The Groots runs away with the boy in the bag; Ace follows and draws his blaster.]
ACE: I'll just remove your path, Groot snoop(?)
[Ace shoots the branches.]
ACE: Your fur is frazzled now, Grootie!
[Ace leaps at the Groot, but transforms into his younger self in mid-air.]
DEXTER: *groans* Ugh!
KIM:  Dexter, get down here this instant!
[Dexter jumps down.  Miberly catches him, but staggers backwards. Both end up on a log; Dexter is sitting on her lap.]
KIM: Dexter, this is no time to be climbing trees!  Now -my- kids are missing.  Where are yours?
DEXTER: Kimmie...gee whiz.  This is serious; groots all over the place.
KIM: Groots?  Where? 
DEXTER: (gestures with his thumb) Up there.  Maybe.
KIM: *looks* Borf's mining ship.  Our space bus.  They've taken our kids.  
[Kimberly tosses Dexter off of her lap.]
KIM: Hurry!  We've no time to lose!

[Scene change: the entrance to the mine.  We see Kimberly & Dexter running.]
KIM: Maybe this old hovercycle will work.
[Kimberly & Dexter, now dressed in spacesuits, walk out and get on the hovercycle in question.  The hovercycle launches with a shower of sparks and questionable cloud of smoke.]
KIM: Hang on!

[Scene change: back at Borf's ship, exterior shot.  Camera pans to the front of the ship, then switches to an interior shot.]
BORF: So, you brat kids refuse to settle down, eh?  
[All the kids boo, shout, and throw things at the big blue alien.  Borf shields his face with his arms & hands.]
BORF: Quiet!  La Grin, put them under glass.
[The orange robot pulls a lever.  A glass dome drops on the kids, silencing them.]
BORF: Our conquest of Earth can wait another moment, La Grin...
[Borf turns to a monitor, which shows Kimberly & Dexters closing in on the ship.]
BORF: ...while we welcome a few more prisomers aboard. *presses a button* 
COMPUTER VOICE: Oncoming enemies!  All Buzzers alert!  Buzzers alert!  Buzzers alert!
[Camera switches to an exterior shot, where we see Borf's Buzzers flying around to intercept the hovercycle.  The Buzzers open fire on Kim & Dexter.]
DEXTER: Maybe we should try another way, Kimmie, before those buzzers come back.
KIM: Too late for that, Dex!
DEXTER: (sarcastic) Oh, that's just great.
DEXTER: We've got to do...
[Dexter transforms]
ACE: ...something.  See ya around; I've got work to do.
[Ace jumps off of the hovercycle and onto a passing Buzzer.]
[Ace's communicator goes off; Ace pulls it out and we see Marshall Vaugh's face on its tiny, round display.]
SMV: Vaugh here.  Everything still ship-shape, Space Ace?
ACE: All's peaceful.  *salutes*  Hubert's in good hands.
SMV: Excellent.  Over and out.
ACE: I think this is your ticket out of here, buzzer bozo!
[Ace presses a button on the outside of the Buzzer; its canopy opens. The pilot tumbles out with a scream.  Ace climbs inside the Buzzer.  Kimberly hops aboard the Buzzer.  Scene shift: Kim & Ace, inside the Buzzer.  Ace fires the stolen buzzer's guns.  Borf sees the hijacked buzzer shoot at another buzzer.]
BORF: So, Space Ace is back to true form, eh?  
[Borf watches as Ace & Kim hop out of the buzzer, which has presumably docked inside Borf's ship.]
BORF: Well, we'll welcome those fools aboard to another kind of battleground.  
[Borf pulls a lever. The camera switches to a shot of Ace & Kimberly running.]
ACE: Looks like Borf's fun and games room.
BORF: Not quite, space fools!  Have fun.
[Ace & Kim run through an obstacle course full of deadly machines.]
ACE: Just like Borf; playing games again.
[A flying robot approaches and shoots the platform out from under them.  Ace & Kim land on another deadly machine.  Ace's communicator goes off again.]
ACE: (answering his comm) Space Ace.
[We see Vaughn on the display...again -.-]
SMV: Did Hubert bring his warm sweater with him?
ACE: Not to wrry, Space Marshall.  Over and out.
[Ace & Kim leap off of the deadly machine, narrowly avoiding being ground into the ceiling.]
[Scene shift: Borf's control panel, where he is watching all the action.]
BORF: *laughs wickedly*  I do believe my Super Screw(?) has gotten rid of Space Ace and Officer Kimberly for good.
[A crash is heard off-screen.  Borf turns and stares.]
BORF: Wha-at?!?
[Borf and La Grin both duck & cover as Ace's "ride" narrowly misses their heads.]
ACE: Borf, old buddy, let's have our Junior Cadets...
BORF: *interupts* La Grin!  Patrol Pups!  Put them in chains!
KIM: Space Ace!  There are the kids!
[Ace & Kim back up to the glass dome.]
ACE: (to the pups) Fellas, I really think our kids would rather be outside camping and -jumping- about.
[Ace gets the jump on them...literally.]
ACE: Nothing like being -laid- back.
{WTF?  Another (failed) attempt at being funny there?}
BORF: La Grin!  Stop him!
[Ace pulls a lever, which lifts the glass dome.  La Grin's shot disintegrates said lever seconds later.]
{Okay, -how- did Ace know which lever to pull??}
KIM: Go(?), kids!  Follow Space Ace!
BORF: You'll not escape me!
[The yelling kids rush past Borf, spinning him around like a top.]
BORF: Whoa!
[The kids press random buttons as they run past the control panel.]
[Ace gestures toward a doorway; everybody else run through it.]
BORF: Pups!  Grab Space Ace!
[Borf is spun around again as the Patrol Pups rush past him.  Ace runs through the doorway and shuts the door.  Patrol Pups run into the door.]
{Yeah, good help is hard to find ;) }

[Camera switches to an exterior shot, where we see Borf's ship doing weird things.]
HUBERT: Boy, I'm glad we got off that scary ride.
[Camera switches to the front of the Space Bus]
ACE: Yeah.  Lucky ol' Borf; he gets to ride it out to his heart's content. 
[Final shot on Borf's ship leaving the area.  Fade to Black.]

***End of Transcript***