03x04 - A Piece of the Action

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Okay, there's this really
bad dude named hacker --

Hacker: the hacker, to you!

Whatever.
He wants to take over

The cyberworld
from motherboard.

[ Gasp ]
the three kids
are sucked into cyberspace,

And they use brain power
to help save everybody.

Jackie:
okay, here's the plan.

So they travel
all over and run into all these

Weird creatures...and have all
of these awesome adventures.

It's totally up to them
to save cyberspace.

Can three cool kids and a wacky
bird outsmart the hacker?

Hacker: never!
Matt: there's only one way
to find out!

Tune in
to "cyberchase"!

♪Cyberchase

♪ We're moving, we're b*ating
hacker at this game! ♪

♪ Don't tell that he's trying
to hack the motherboard, ♪

♪ We'll get him every time! ♪

♪ Cosmic worlds, ♪

♪ Freaky places
that we've seen, ♪

♪ We've got the power
of one, two, three, four! ♪

♪ Running in a cyberchase,
we'll meet him face to face, ♪

♪ We'll stick together
all the time! ♪

♪ Adventures in cyberspace, ♪

The chase is on!

♪ Just wait
and c-y-b-e-r-chase! ♪

Roxy:
gee, where is everyone?

Even digit's late.

(Ground shakes and rumbles)

Huh?

What's that?

(Violent rumbling)

Roxy? Irv? Sheldon?

Where are those scritters?

Hey, it's not every day

I have a day off to play,
you know?

(Loud rumble)

Whoa!

Earthquake!

(Violent rumbling)

Yikes!

(Slam)

Delete:
more glowy rocks, buzzy!

(Thump)

Buzz and delete:
digit!

Digit:
lemme go, you two tinheads!

You know who you're
messin' with?!

Lemme go!

You just wait!

Get your metal paws
off of me!

Roxy and scritters:
digit! Hey, didge!

Didget:
hey, what are you guys
doin' here?

Roxy:
we got sucked up with the rocks
and they won't let us go!

Delete:
can't. Boss's orders.

(Prison door whirs open)

(Thump)

(Slam)

Come on, deedee,
let's get those rocks

To the boss and tell him
the nerd-bird's here!

Hey! There's a scritter
on your shoulder!

I know. And I'm gonna
love him and keep him

And call him george!

Sheldon:
the name's sheldon!

(Evil chuckle)

Yes! More magnetite!

(Rocks clatter)

(Machine beeps)

(Lasers zing)

(Whoosh of magnetite)

There's no business
like glow business!

(Giddy laugh)

What's the big deal with this
glowy stuff anyway, boss?

Hacker:
this "stuff",
as you call it,

Is the key to shutting down
motherboard

And ruling cyberspace forever!

I first became aware
of magnetite

When I worked for motherboard.

(Horrified gasps)

(Whir of falling rock)

Golly gee!

That meteor is coming
straight for us!

Motherboard:
that meteor is made
of magnetite!

If it collides with us

It will erase
all of my memory disks!

Really?

I'll never let that happen,
motherboard!

(Beep)

(Boom)

Motherboard:
thank you, hacker.
I'm proud of you.

You're such a big help to me.

Thanks,
motherboard!

Back to work now.

More inventions to invent,

More good deeds to do.

(Teeth ping)

I should have let that
meteorite

Take care of motherboard
back then!

But fate has given
me another chance!

(Whoosh of magnetite)

% Full of magnetite!

Almost half!
Once it reaches %

I will launch this
remarkable rocket at motherboard

And erase her memory disks
forever!

(Evil laugh)

Um, boss?

You got spots
on your face.

I do?

I do! It's your fault!

You robotic ragamuffins!

I told you those scritters
make me itch!

Get it out of here! Now!

Move it!
I need more magnetite!

Buzz:
by the way,
we caught digit!

That supercilious cyber-turkey
is here?

Not to worry, boss,
we got 'em caged up.

Did it ever occur to you
if digit is here,

Those analytical adolescents
can't be far behind?

I'll handle it.

(Whir of door)

(Slam)

(Beeping)

Jackie:
according to mother b,

This is the last place
she had any contact with digit.

Matt:
hey! Check out this rock.

It's glowing!

(Taps foot on door)

Inez:
a door!

It won't budge!

Keep trying!
Maybe didge is down there!

(Thump)

Jackie:
hey, what is that?

(Machine beeps)

Mother b! We found a door
in the ground but it's locked!

We need to get it open!

Use power crystals!

Most orange is most power.

Find one with the most orange!

Where do we find them?

Rocky tower,
inside basketball geode.

(Static crackles)

What's a geode?

A nodule of stone
having a cavity lined

With crystals or minerals.

Hey, you asked.

Matt:
okay, can't be that many
basketball-sized

Hollow rocks around here.

Look for a rocky tower.

C'mon!

Jackie:
there it is!
That's the geode!

Inez:
but it's so high up!

Matt:
leave it to the mattster!

Jackie:
careful!

Matt:
(groans with effort)

(Crash)

Jackie:
the power crystals!

Inez:
motherboard said,
"the one with the most orange

Has the most power."
Remember?

We have to find the one
with the most orange.

Jackie:
so which one is that?

Matt:
hmmm, these seem to have a lot.

This one has orange
stripes out of a total of .

Inez:
hey!

That sounds like a fraction.

It might be a clue.

Over .

And this one has
out of .

That's way more
than out of .

Aha!

This one only has orange
stripes out of .

I'd say out of
is the most.

Let's use this one!

Jackie:
hold on!

We don't know that for sure.
We didn't compare my fraction.

But how can we do that?

Out of
and out of

Are easy to compare

Because they each have
equal parts.

But four fifths
is another kind of fraction.

Well, what if we divided each
of my stripes in half?

Then we'd have stripes
like the others right?

Okay, but how many
would be orange?

Let's do it
and find out!

Looks like stripes
are orange now.

So out of
is the same amount

As out of !

Cool! We can write
out of

As out of !

And out of
is definitely more

Than out of !

Matt:
bigger fraction, more orange,
more power!

This one should open the door.

Inez and jackie:
wait!

(Machine beeps)

Kids:
(shout loudly)

(Boom)

Delete:
I am not putting george back!

I told you,
the name's sheldon!

You heard the boss,
the scritters make him itch!

Now put sheldon back

And let's see if we can
find those kids!

Kids:
(shout loudly)

(Pushes buzzer)

(Prison door whirs open)

(Crash)

(Door slams shut)

Hacker:
yes, oh, yes!

% Full!

Only % more to go
then blast off!

Buzz:
boss! Boss!

We captured
the kids!

Yeah, just like
you asked!

(Claps) splendid!

Now bring me some
more magnetite

So we can launch this baby!

(Evil laugh)

Inez:
what's going on down here?

Hacker's grinding up these
glowing rocks called magnetite

And once he gets enough
he's gonna use it

To erase motherboard's memory
forever!

Whoa!

How much is enough?

Sheldon:
I heard hacker say his rocket
is something furcentful.

Furcentful?
What's a furcentful?

Dunno.

Who cares what
a furcentful is?!

We gotta get out of here
and stop hacker!

Didge, can't you drill us out?

Sorry.
I don't do stalactites.

Wait!
There's a way out!

Matt:
we can't get through there,
we're too big!

Roxy:
whoa!

We're not.
And we're good jumpers, too.

Jackie:
okay, here's the plan.

We lift one of you up
through that hole

Then you jump from the cage
to that orange button...

And we're outta here!

But what if we miss?

We're too small to reach
the button from the ground.

We're running
out of time!

We've got to get up there
on the first try.

Who's the best jumper?

Ashley, sheldon
and uh, irv!

These are our best jumpers.

Cool! We'd better test 'em!

Matt:
didge, make a scorecard.

A check for a hit
and a zero for a miss.

Jackie:
okay guys,
jump as many times as you can

In one minute.

At the end,
we'll compare your scores.

Inez:
pretend our hands
are the orange button.

Ready... Jump!

(Boing)

(Slap)

Come on, sheldon,

Jump!

(Boing)

(Slap)
way to go, shelly!

(Boing)

(Boing)

(Loud pounding of drill)

Buzz:
cut the tears, deedee,
and get that magnetite loaded!

B- b- but I miss sheldon,
buzzy.

I, I miss him
(sobs) so!

(Clank)
(electricity crackles)

Buzz:
oh forget the scritters
and stop blubbering!

What's a scritter?

Buzz:
well, those little furry
things.

Excuse me, who are you?

Buzz:
oh no!

The magnetite erased
your memory.

(Giggles) I guess that stuff
really works.

What was I all
sad about, buzzy?

Inez:
okay, sheldon had hits
out of tries.

Ashley,
out of ,

And irv had hits
out of tries.

Matt:
fractions again!

The one with the largest
fraction

Is the best jumper.

Let's compare 'em and go!

Digit:
whoa, whoa, whoa!

The fractions
are all different!

How can we possibly
compare them?

It's okay, didge.

We can compare
these fractions

If we find a way to make
the bottom numbers,

The denominators,
match.

Too bad sheldon
didn't make more jumps.

That's it, didge!

What if sheldon did make
more jumps,

Like twice as many?

Digit:
then he would have
twice as many hits?

Out of tries?

Matt:
you've got it, didge!

Over is the same
as over .

Digit:
okay, now I can compare
sheldon and ashley,

But what about poor irv?

He jumped times.

Don't we need a denominator

That will let us compare
his score too?

Jackie:
yeah! We need a denominator
that works for all the scores.

Well. How about ?

There's two groups of in
and...

Rats, it won't work for !

Two twenties are
not .

Digit:
guys, we're losing time here.

How about ?
That's a nice round number!

Inez:
didge, I think you did it.

Sheldon had tries, right?

Time is !

So if he tried times

He would have had
hits out of .

Matt:
and ashley had tries.

Times is also .

And times is .

Jackie:
times is .
So irv's score is times ,

Or out of .

Digit:
comparin' these fractions
is a walk in the park now!

Sheldon is obviously
the best jumper

With hits per tries!

Um guys, you know what
just hit me?

These are all percents -
parts of .

Remind me,
what are percents?

They're fractions
that are parts of .

Percent means per .

Jackie:
over is percent.

And this percent sign
tells you it's parts of .

Over is the same
as percent.

Digit:
so over is the same
as percent?

Matt:
you got it!

Perc- percent?!
(Chuckles)

That's what I heard hacker say,
not fur-scent!

Hacker's rocket
was percent full!

Oh no!

He's sure to have
more magnetite by now

And when he gets
to percent

It's all over
for motherboard!

Sheldon, you're up!

(Boing)

Inez:
he's out!

(Boing)

Matt:
he jumps...

He scores!

Kids and scritters:
yay!

Roxy:
follow me!

Hacker:
going up!

, , Percent full!

Yes! Three fourths
of what I need!

(Scratches and moans)

That's odd,
there's no scritters in here.

Why am I itching?

(Moans and groans)

Delete:
boss, boss!
The kids escaped!

What?!

And those scritters too!

Hacker:
you and buzz better
find those kids

Or it's the scrap heap
for you both!

(Door slams)

Sheldon:
that's hacker's control room!

Inez:
we have to get in there!

We need something
to dig with.

(Rumble of engine)

Something like that!

Buzz:
(evil chortle)

Digit:
run!

Jackie:
you've gotta be kidding!

A dead end!

(Drill whirs loudly)

Kids and scritters:
(scared yell)

Inez:
oh what do we do?!
What do we do?!

(Evil chuckle)

Matt:
hey, what's this?

Whatever it is turn it!

Matt:
this way!

(Rock wall crumbles)

(Drill loses power)

Buzz:
drats! I'm powerless!

Deedee! I need more power!

Deedee? Where are ya?

Roxy:
phew! That was a close one.

Matt:
bet this thing could
get us through to hacker!

Inez:
but I heard buzz say
it's out of power!

Jackie:
great! Now we'll never get into
hacker's control center

And if we can't get in there
we can't stop hacker.

And if we can't stop hacker

He'll erase motherboard's
memory with the magnetite!

Cyberspace is doomed!
Doomed, I tell you!

(Over dramatic sob)
doomed!

And the award for best
dramatic outburst of the day

Goes to... Jackie!

Matt!

Inez:
look what I found!

This thing gets
its power

From the same
power crystals

We used to open the door
to get down here!

It says here,
that to power this car,

We need a crystal
that contains

Between and percent
orange power stripes.

I knew these things
would come in handy.

According to this...

Less than percent
and it's a no go.

More than percent
and the motor burns out!

Inez:
it's gotta land somewhere
between and percent

To get going
and to get us outta here!

Buzz:
oh, that would be very nice,

Wouldn't it,
deedee?

Get 'em!

Nowhere to hide now!

Yeah, and nowhere
to run either!

(Loud screech)

Now!

(Whir of vacuum)

Buzz and delete:
(shout)

Digit:
feel free to stick around
for a while, boys.

Buzz and delete:
help! Get us outta here!

Digit:
time to power up!

Matt:
wait!

Remember what
the sign said?

The crystal has to be
between percent

Percent orange
or it won't work.

You're right.
We gotta find out what percent

Of these crystals is orange!

Let's do what
we did before -

Count the stripes
to get the fraction

Of each crystal
that's orange.

Yeah, then we can turn
the fraction into a percentage

Like we did
with the scores.

Jackie:
this one is one half orange.

Inez:
this one is three fifths

And the last one
is three fourths.

Roxy:
now we gotta turn those
fractions into fur-scents,

I mean per-cents.
Right?

Yep, parts of a hundred.

The first is easy.

One half is the same
as over

Or percent.

Matt:
and over is the same
as how many out of ?

Let's see...

Three over five is over .

And six over ten
is over

Or percent.

Digit:
the last one is over ,
which is uh...

What part of ?

Inez:
well, times is .

And times is .

So that's over ,

Which is the same
as percent!

Percents really help

When you have to compare
different fractions.

They sure do!
And only one of these crystals

Is between and percent
orange -

The percenter!

(Machine whirs to life)

Fire it up, didge!

(Beep)

Jackie:
hacker, here we come!

Hacker:
percent full!

And I've got the final
one percent right here!

(Loud bang)

(Door crumbles)

Kids and scritters:
stop!

Sorry kiddies,
too late!

(Rocket top clangs shut)

Matt:
we gotta stop it!

Hacker:
say goodnight,
motherboard!

(Evil laugh)

Kids and scritters:
(shout loudly)

(Whoosh)

Put'em on, quick!

Hacker:
what a day!

Disabling motherboard
and getting rid of those kids

All in one fell swoop!

That's a win-win for me, boys!

(More red spots pop up)

Buzz:
hey boss,

You got more
red spots!

(Horrified gasp)

Did you bring a scritter
on board?

No boss, no scritters,
just some magnetite souvenirs.

We're almost to motherboard
control central!

Inez:
what do we do, matt?

Uh... I don't know.

Digit:
I do!

Hang on!

(Rocket zooms)

Inez:
you forgot your magnetite,
hacker!

Hacker:
ah, maybe I'm not allergic
to those scritters after all.

Maybe I'm allergic to...

Buzz and delete:
magnetite!

Hacker:
ugh, ahh!
Get this stuff outta here!