(PROTECTO approaches them)
PROTECTO: Hey, Dogboy. This your team?
CATCHICK: Aren’t you a little young to be at a party like this?
PROTECTO: There is no age limit to being a hero. There is no sign saying
you must be this tall to have justice.
you must be this tall to have justice.
SMASH: Come on, kid. Go home. It’s past your bedtime. We’ll get someone to walk you home.
(MEZMERO, a Darth Vader looking badguy, and some other villains enter)
PROTECTO: I can take care of myself. I’m a real hero. I save people. I don’t need help.
SMASH: That’s a bad attitude, kid. Even heroes need help sometimes.
That’s why we have a team. You shouldn’t go it alone.
That’s why we have a team. You shouldn’t go it alone.
MEZMERO: Don’t listen to them, child. They have an ignorant view of the world.
Keep looking out for number one.
Keep looking out for number one.
(MEZMERO walks past them)
CATCHICK: Who invited the villains?
(DESTRUCTO goes up to them)
DESTRUCTO: I did.
SMASH: What?
SHADE: Are you mad?
DESTRUCTO: Dogboy really wants to help me and I really believe someone here can help me.
The villains have been trying to recruit me too. So I thought if you were all here tonight,
then that increases my chances of finding the right mentor to help me on my hero journey.
The villains have been trying to recruit me too. So I thought if you were all here tonight,
then that increases my chances of finding the right mentor to help me on my hero journey.
CATCHICK: But villains aren’t heroes.
DESTRUCTO: But aren’t they like the rest of you? They have something special about
them that makes them different. That makes them better than regular people.
them that makes them different. That makes them better than regular people.
SHADE: If you dance with the devil, then you’ll get burned.
DESTRUCTO: Are you saying the rest of you are angels?
CATCHICK: You argue like a villain.
(DESTRUCTO ignores her and walks away to greet villains)
DOGBOY: Look, if we are the better mentors, then he’ll take the path of good.
SHADE: We can’t leave this to chance. If he takes the path of evil, he could be a formidable enemy.
(More villains walk in as the JESTER and the PRINCESS OF HEARTS enter)
SMASH: How many villains did he invite?
CATCHICK: Not the Jester… AND the Princess of Hearts?
SMASH: Their jokes make me want to hit something.
JESTER: Knock knock.
PRINCESS: Who’s there?
JESTER: Life.
PRINCESS: Life who?
JESTER: Life of the party!
(PRINCESS laughs and that makes JESTER laugh and they go off to mingle)
SHADE: This is going to be a long night.
(PROTECTO enters with BLANKIE BOY and TANTRUM GIRL)
SMASH: Wait a minute. What’s going on here?
PROTECTO: This is my team.
BLANKIE: I’m Blankie Boy!
(Snaps DOGBOY with blanket)
DOGBOY: Hey!
PROTECTO: He can snap it.
(BLANKIE snaps DOGBOY again)
DOGBOY: Stop that.
(BLANKIE goes behind DOGBOY)
PROTECTO: And do an over the head sneak attack.
(BLANKIE throws blanket over DOGBOY’s head)
DOGBOY: Who turned out the lights?
PROTECTO: And that brings us to Tantrum girl.
(PROTECTO takes her lollipop)
TANTRUM: Give that back.
(PROTECTO points to DOGBOY)
PROTECTO: He took it.
TANTRUM: Give it back!
(TANTRUM attacks DOGBOY and he falls down)
PROTECTO: Look! I found your lolli!
(TANTRUM stops and gets her lollipop from PROTECTO and calms down)
SMASH: Quite a team you got there.
PROTECTO: See, we can hold our own. Point us to the pizza.
(SMASH points and they go. CATCHICK helps DOGBOY up)
CATCHICK: I take it you didn’t invite them to the party.
DOGBOY: No.
CATCHICK: I’m not sure if they’re heroes or villains.
DOGBOY: That seems to be the theme of the evening.
CATCHICK: I hope this doesn’t backfire on us.
