01x03 - First Strike

[bunniefuu]

- I'm General Cross.

Where is it?

- Where's my money?

[Snapping his fingers]

Hope you appreciate...

[Moaning in effort]
...how difficult it was

to get this.

- If it was easy,
I wouldn't need you.

Now if you'll excuse me.

- I just gotta ask,

what are you
gonna do with it?

- You really
wanna know?

[Whispering]

Of course, now that
I've told you...

- What? No, no! No!

You don't want to do this!

You're gonna need
me again! No! No!

- I'd like to meet the man

who thinks he can stop me now.

- Wahoo!
♪ Come on, come on ♪

♪ Come on, baby ♪
- Yo! Say cheese!

Oh, that is so going

on my BuddyVerse blog -
just to let you know.

- Gimme that! Jason!
Come here.

Good thing I did pushups first.

Not bad.

♪

[Groaning]
- Mm-hmm.

Uh-huh. Oh yeah! That's right.
If you want a piece of me,

you're gonna have
to deal with Terminus Max!
[Groaning]

Hey!
- Dude, Jason.
You need to chill, okay?

You're getting way too
wound up. You need to focus.

All right? Remember, the way
to win this game is the 3 Cs.

Hey. Cool, Calm and Collected.

- You forgot the 4th C:
C U later, sucker!

- You know what?
Never mind. Okay?

[Game noises]
- Hey, Charlie!

Are you leading some kind of
secret double life or something?

- No. What are you, uh, what are
you talking about?

- I don't know. It's just that
you're never around.

- Oh, me? Never around?

No, I was probably,
probably just studying.

At the library, you know.
Did you know beaver teeth are

so sharp the Native Americans
used them as knife blades?

- Noted.

So, you're not, like,
avoiding me or anything?

- Avoiding you? No. No way.
- Great.

They opened this new Boba tea
place at the mall.

Wanna go tomorrow after school?
- Charlie!

Who's this guy? What's he doing?
Charlie, Charlie!

- Uh, yeah. Tomorrow after
school. Sounds good.
- See ya.

- All right, see ya.

- Jason, why all the commotion?
- Dude, dude.

I made it to the end
of the level.

The end...
- Okay...
- ...of the level.

- All right. That's Master
Cyborg. He's tough.

Okay? So you gotta focus.
Remember the 3 Cs:

Cool, Calm and Collected.
Whatever you do, don't just--
- WHOA!!!

- Or you get wiped out.

- [Woman's voice]: Jason! Could
you come down for a minute?
I need to talk to you.

- Nice.

That's weird. I though Mom
was grocery shopping.

- [Woman's voice]: Oh, she is.
I needed an excuse to get
Jason out of the room.

- That's pretty good.
- Mm-hmm.

Mr. Hall informs me that--
[Clearing his throat]

[Man's voice]: Mr. Hall informs
me that General Cross

just stole a very important--
- Wait, wait, wait.

The General Cross?
One of the seven?

- Yes. Everything in here
arising is real.

Now, as I was saying...

the General has stolen

the brain of one of the world's
deadliest mercenaries,

we believe to put into
something like this.

- Whoa.
- Whoa indeed.

The world's first
cyborg soldier prototype.

Imagine the power he would have
with an army of those.

One alone may be unstoppable.
- Unstoppable?

- Yes.
- How am I supposed to stop him?

- You are Aaron Stone,
are you not?

I have to work on that.

[Moaning in pain]

- You're beautiful!

From now on,
you do what I say.

I see we understand each other.

Perfectly.

[School bell ringing]

♪

- Charlie!
[Laughing in the background]

You gotta work on those
reflexes, bro.

Aw, dream on, dude!

Chase Ravenwood? Pff!

Come on, man!
Not a chance.

Get this, I asked her
out 2 weeks ago.

Tchink! Rejected me.

I mean, she's so far out
of your league that you
don't even have a uniform.

I mean, she doesn't
even know your name.

I mean...
- Hey, Charlie.

- Hm?

Oh, me?

Me, Charlie?

Hi.
- I bet you're sad
you blew me off now, eh?

- Uh, I'm sorry. Have we met?

- It's cool.

Deny what's in the heart.

- Does he go to our school?
- Not until today, no.

- So I saw your
picture on BuddyVerse.
- Oh yeah, my little brother...

- You looked great.
- Oh, well, you know...

- Okay, so I'm kind of in a
bind, and I was wondering if
maybe you could help me out.

- Yes!
- Oh...
[Uneasy laugh]

Okay, well, wait.
Let me tell you what it is.

After school today,
I need to put up some
Me-For-Homecoming posters.

Me. Can you believe it?

- Yes.
- That's sweet.

Anyway, 2 other people
already turned me down
and I was wondering

if maybe you
could help me.

- Um... uh, yeah.

To-- Yeah, after school.
Totally. I'm voting for you.
I'm gonna help you after school.

I'm not gonna miss that.
- Okay.

- Okay. I gotta go, though.
I'll see ya?

- Yeah, see ya after school.
- After school. All right.

I gotta run.
- Okay.

- Hey, Charlie.
- Hey.

- We still on for Boba tea?
- Uh-huh, yeah.

- Mr. Hall detected a break-in

at a North-Korean
nuclear waste disposal
facility 15 minutes ago.

- Well, what makes them think
it's a giant cyborg?

Okay...

Maybe it is a giant cyborg.

- Oh, sorry.

- It's all clear.
- Hmm...

- Looks like he's gone.

Which is good,
'cause I got plans.

- Ah yes. Chase Ravenwood.

I noticed you talking
to her in the hallway.

Do you like her?
- Stan, she's Chase Ravenwood.

What's not to like?
- Wait.
- What?

- I'm registering some kind of
moving object in our vicinity.

Relatively close by.
- How close?

- Too close.
[Groaning in effort]

[Moaning]

Much too close.

- Hey! Circuit monkey!

Chase is waiting so we're
gonna have to make this
little dance a fast one.

- Have you given any thought to
how you intend to defeat him?

- Fast.
- Well, you
might want to slow down.

- Let's finish this.

[Screaming]

- Hmm...

[Growling]

[Moaning]

- Is this part of your
"fast" plan, Aaron Stone?

- No.
- Excuse me.

Hello. My name is Stan.

I'm a fellow
robotic American.

Look, I know humans.

Humans get on my circuit
too, but when they do,

I simply remind myself of
Asimov's Laws of Robotics.

The bottom line is,

we can't harm humans.

I know these rules may seem--
- Stan!

- ...silly, but they're
actually quite useful.

In fact, your human brain
is the only thing keeping me

from cleaning your
clock right now.

[Panting]

- Stan!

Stan!

Stan!

Stan!

Stan! You okay?

- Yes. Yes,
I'm fine, Aaron Stone.

- Move!

[Electrical buzzing and noises]

And just why exactly are we
bringing back Mr. Hall that
robotic bag of bolts?

- Oh!
- No offense.

- None taken.

I have very little in common
with that cyborg.

- Yeah, you do.
You guys are both--

- I am en android.
There is a difference.

- What I meant was,

I destroyed him.

All right? It's all good.
He's useless.

What does Mr. Hall want to do?
Put him in a trophy case?

- Mr. Hall believes
that his circuitry

may be worth studying.

- Is that gonna take long?

- Not as long as it
took you to defeat him.

- Huh.

You know what?
You're right, Stan.

I lost focus.

I'm sorry.

But Stan, she...

Ah, she is Chase Ravenwood!

- Mm-hmm...

- Oh, man... Oh, by the way,
you think you could swing by

the high school and drop me off
on the way home?

- I understand:

Chase Ravenwood.

[Background chatter]

[Siren in the background]

- It's me.

No, I'm still waiting.

Okay. I'll give him
a few more minutes.

He'll probably show.

- I'm glad to see the campaign's
getting off to a good start.

- Thanks for helping me today.
- Oh, it's not problem.

I mean, if you had to hang up


you would have
been here for hours.

Oh, wow!

- Oh, I'm sorry.
[Moaning in effort]

I so need a second locker!

- You need a whole bank
of lockers, for your, uh,

makeup and your
notebooks and, uh...

Is this a comic book?

- Um...

Uh, okay. So I'm a nerd.

- Wait, that was Lost Fighter!
- Yeah.

I'm embarrassed to say I
have all 104 issues.
- Well, me too!

- Really?
- Yeah! That's great!

You're great.

[Whispering]: Did I just
do that out loud?

- Well, this has been a lot
of fun but I really gotta go.

Thanks again for
all your help today.

You're like my secret
comic book friend.

- Yay.

Awesome.

Secret comic book friend.

All right.

[Muffled music]

- Hey, Charlie!

How was your day?

- Ah, you know, just,
uh, did some stuff,

went to school,

hung out with Chase...

[Loving sigh]

[Imitating his sigh]
I gotta stop doing that.

Can you believe
she likes comic books?

- Yeah. Lots of pictures.

"Hey, what did you do
this afternoon, Emma?"

"Why, nothing, actually."
"Nothing?"

"Well, the truth is, I made
plans to go get Boba tea

with a friend of mine,
but he stood me up."

- Oh no.
- Oh yes.

- Emma, I'm really sorry.
Can you give me another chance?

How about tomorrow,
you and me,

a movie - a comedy at 5 o'clock?

- And?
- And I'm paying?

- You have no idea!

[Video game music and sounds]
- On yeah!

Kick it, baby! Love it! Love it!

Let's go in!
- All right, man.

Chase, focus, okay?
- I'm focused! I'm cool!

I'm cool! I'm ready this time!
Let's kick some cyborg butt!

Master Cyborg has fled!

Dude, we rock!
Stone Man and Big T rule!

- Big T?

- Yeah, you know, Terminus
Max. I mean, come on.

Big T, that's me.

- Yeah, right.
- Oh, dude! Look at that!

The split and left
this gold statue behind!

I can trade it in for
a weapons upgrade, right?

Mine! Mine! Mine!
- Jas, I wouldn't touch that--
- Why not? It's cool.

Oh-oh.
[expl*si*n]

What the heck was that?!
- A classic Trojan horse, man--
- What's a Trojan horse?

- It's when you defeat an enemy
and they leave something
behind as a trophy...

And you take it,
thinking it's harmless.

Oh no.

Stan! Stan!
- Yes, Charlie?

[Electronic noises]

- Stan!

Me and Jas were playing Hero
Rising, and that cyborg that you

dropped off in Hall's office...
- Yes?

- It's a Trojan horse.

Mr. Hall's in danger.

- We need to go.
- Wait, you're
forgetting something.

- Hmm?

Oh, that. Come on.

Come on.

[Suspense music]

- You can go now.

- Yes, Mr. Hall.

[Suspense music]

- You called me?
- Hey!

Didn't anyone ever
teach you manners?

- Come this way, sir.
I'll shield you.

- Mr. Hall, are you all right?

[Moaning and groaning]

I gotta give you prompts.

All right, you took it to me
last time but I wasn't focused.

I was a little distracted.
I mean, she only wants to be
secret comic book friends.

Can you believe that?!
Now, now I'm calm,

cool, collected.

Back at ya!

That was fun.

I'm sorry you had to split.

- The Omega Defiance failed
at their attempt to get me,

yet succeeded
in locating me.

From now on,

I must always
be on the move,

never remaining in the
same place for too long.

I owe my life to you,
Aaron Stone.

How did you know?

- Classic Trojan horse scenario.

You put it in the
Hero Rising game.

I just recognized it.

- Stan.

Not you.

[Whispering in his ear]

- Yes, sir.

- What did he say to you?

- Oh, it's not important.

Nice job, Aaron Stone.

- Yeah. Yeah, thanks.

I owe it all to the 3 Cs:

Cool, Calm, and...

Emma.

[Background chatter]

- Hey, Charlie!

- What?
- Hey!

- So, um, I'm thinking about
going to Neverending Comics
after school. You want to go?

- You know what?
I can't. I'm sorry.

I'm gonna be spending the
afternoon groveling
for forgiveness.

Some other time?

- Yeah, sure.
- All right.

Go ahead.

- Go ahead and what?
- Just destroy me.

Get it over with.
- Hmm... That would be too easy.

- Look, I'm really,
really sorry.

I know I let you down
again yesterday, but I
promise, I had a really,

really good reason
this time.

- I'm listening.

- I can't tell you.
- Of course you can't.

- Emma, how can I
make it up to you?

- Well, let's see.

First, we can go
get a Boba drink.

Then we can go see a
movie - a comedy, right?
You're paying, remember?

And don't think I'm going
to skimp on theater food
just because I'm a girl!

- Let me see the cyborg's
last transmission.

- This time, I'm calm,

cool, collected.

- Again.

- This time, I'm calm,

cool, collected.

- Again.

- This time, I'm calm,

cool, collected.

- Again.

- This time, I'm calm,

cool, collected.

- Finally a worthy opponent!