Copyright 2000 --- Robert Baer Jr. Otto & Sam -- "Samantha Runs Away" DISCLAIMER Road Rovers characters, names, situations and the Road Rovers universe are the property of Warner Bros. I, nor this script/story are connected with Warner Bros. in any way, shape or form. This document may not be publicized or reproduced in any way, shape or form. It must remain fully intact and may not be altered in anyway. It is strictly used for not-for-profit entertainment purposes only, and is not intended to infringe on any Copyrights. This story is written by Robert Baer Jr and the characters Otto, Samantha Maddog, The Computer Renegade, Uncle Buford and the Masked Melitta are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright 1997-1998. Marauder is a creation of Jeremy Bass, Huntress is a creation of Greywolf Lupous. Otto & Sam -- "Samantha Runs Away" The scene is the country home of Nathan and Wanna Lovejoy (aka the Computer Renegade and Masked Melitta). A loud BOOM!!! shakes the living room as Otto and Samantha Maddog (in their canine forms) instantly appear. Sam is very upset and her husband tries in vain to calm her down. OTTO (gently): Sam, you're over reacting! That last mission with the Road Rovers wasn't so bad! SAMANTHA (angry): It wasn't that mission, Otto! All you and I ever do anymore is missions! If it's not the Road Rovers, then it's our masters! (in tears): When will there ever be time for just the two of us? OTTO (softly): Samantha, my darling, we DO spend time together! Remember a few weeks ago we when out to the opera with your sisters and .... SAMANTHA (furious): And we got CALLED AWAY, remember? I love my master, but sometimes I think you and I are going too far with all of this 'superhero' business! I'm thinking about quiting it all together! OTTO (shocked): Quit the Road Rovers? Sam, you can't be serious, think of all the friends we've made and all the times we helped .... SAMANTHA (furious): That's my point! That's all we ever do! I sick and tired of it! OTTO (softly): You can't mean that, Samantha! My life was saved to help mankind! Uncle Buford rebuilt me so I could... SAMANTHA (upset): Well, he didn't rebuild me! I'm just an ordinary collie dog! What's wrong with wanting to live an ordinary life? OTTO (sternly): Nothing is wrong with that, but we have an obigation to our masters and to the Road Rovers and .... SAMANTHA (growls fiercely): Obligation! What about your obligation to me as my husband? Are you really so hung up on duty that you'd forget all about me and the life WE wanted to have together? OTTO (shocked): I never said that I wanted to forget about .... SAMANTHA (growls): OTTO, you really don't understand! How could you understand? You're not even a real dog, YOU..... YOU... MACHINE!! With those angry words, Samantha runs into the master bedroom and slams the door hard. OTTO (sternly): Sam! Let me in! We can talk about this! SAMANTHA (angry): I'm through talking to you! Leave me alone! OTTO (sternly): I could easily teleport into that room.... SAMANTHA (growls): You do and I'll bite the parts of your that aren't metal! OTTO (growls): I'm going to sit out here until you open that door! SAMANTHA (growls): You can sit there till the cows come home for all I care! Samantha is so angry, she uses her paws to remove her collar from her neck and then hops onto the bed and jumps out the open window. She's so furious, she runs as fast as she can into the nearby forest, unaware that she and Otto had never been in that part of the woods before. By the time she stopped running due to exhaustion, she was about three miles from the house, and totally lost. She cries herself to sleep beneath of a large oak tree. When she awoke, she was inside the back of a strange looking van with a number of other dogs. Samantha stretchs up to look over the metal divider window, and sees the Cano-Mutants in the driver and passanger seats. Between them is a little girl, blonde dressed in jeans and a yellow shirt. The little girl is crying her eyes out, asking for her mother. SAMANTHA (thinks to herself): Oh NO! I've been captured by Parvo's mutants, and I don't have my collar to get me out of this mess! That poor little girl, what does she have to do with all of this? Is she lost, like I was? I better not speak outloud, if Parvo figures out who I really am, I'll be in a lot of danger! As the van drives closer and closer to it's destination, Otto is getting very impatient. OTTO (shouts): Samantha! Come out here at once! (growls): This has gone far enough! With a loud BOOM!!! he instantly teleports into the room, only to discover her collar lying on the floor and the open window. OTTO (frantic): OH NO!!!! (he runs to the open window and calls out): SAMANTHA!!! SAMANTHA!!! WHERE ARE YOU??? Meanwhile, the van pulls into an old abandoned gas station. As the rusty garage door closes, another door within the garage area opens, and the van drives down the underground ramp into Parvo's newest base. There to greet the van are General Parvo and the Groomer. PARVO (coughing): My Cano-Mutant friends! Let's see what new recruits you've brought us today! GROOMER (looking through the front glass): Look, my General, they brought a little girl with them! PARVO (angry): WHAT!!! ONE OF THE MUTANTS (sadly): She said she was lost in the woods for three days, could we help her find her parents? PARVO (growls): WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU TWO MORONS!!! She's seen our underground base! That makes her a security risk! Groomer, YOU know what to do with her! GROOMER (nods, grabs her arm): Yes, my general! I'll fix her good! PARVO (nods): Very well (walks around to the back of the van): Now, open the doors! I want to meet my new Cano-Mutant recruits! The other mutant opens the doors, to reveal a bulldog, two black labradors, a german shepard mix and Samantha. Parvo stares at Samantha for a moment. PARVO (points): Say, you look very familiar, collie! Where have I seen you before? SAMANTHA (shouts): ATTACK, MY FRIENDS, SIC'EM!! The other four dogs immediately tackle Parvo, who falls to the floor with a loud thud! PARVO (shouting): STOP THAT COLLIE!! Samantha runs past the two bewlidered Cano-Mutants, who are soon in hot pursuit. Samantha runs up the car ramp and outside, just to watch the Groomer launch a homemade wooden raft in the nearby river. GROOMER (laughs): You see, little girl, you've going on a one way trip down the rapids! That way, they won't find your body anywhere near our new base! Bye bye now! Samantha, running at full stride, watches in horror as she sees the little girl is tied to the small raft, and floating downstream. Samantha runs past the Groomer, who barely notices her, until the two pursuing Cano-Mutants collide with her, sending all three into the nearby muddy riverbank. GROOMER (angry): Good help is SO hard to find nowadays! Samantha continues to run along the riverbank, following the helpless little girl on that rickety homemade raft. The little girl keeps screaming for help as the current drags the raft closer and closer to the rapids. SAMANTHA (still running at full stride, thinking to herself): I have to stop that raft, but how can I do it without my collar! Wait, that huge rotten tree up ahead gives an idea! I've got to hit it just right or that little girl will drown! Samantha runs with all her might towards a tall skinny looking rotting tree that was leading out towards the river. She jumps and rams the tree with all her might, causing the tree to break at the bottom and fall out into the river. The tall tree is long enough to reach the other side, and it's low enough in the water that it catches the homemade raft on top of it. Samantha, after leaping on the tree, falls onto the raft herself, the force of ramming the tree has knocked her out. The rotten tree holds, the raft moves no further downstream. The little girl, who was screaming at the top of her lungs for help, sees the unconscience collie on the raft beside her, and realizes that this dog has just saved her life. Soon, the little girl hears someone calling in the distance. "SAMANTHA!!! SAMANTHA!!!!" The excited little girl calls back, shouting louder than ever. In an instant, Otto (in Cano-Sapien mode), Hunter and Huntress arrives on the screen. OTTO (shouts): Little girl, don't move, I'll get you both to safety! With a loud BOOM!!!! the little girl and Samantha are teleported from the raft to the riverbank besides them. OTTO (reachs down to touch Sam): SAM! SAM!! (looks at the top of her head): She's bleeding! Hunter, may I take her to Mission Control immediately? HUNTER (nods): You bet! Sis and I can handle things from here! With a loud BOOM!!!! Otto and Samantha vanish. The scene is Road Rover Mission Control, three hours later. Samantha is in a medical ward hospital bed as Marauder talks to Otto. MARAUDER (looks at chart): Your wife has sustained a mild concussion. She'll have to stay here a few days for observation, you can never tell how well a head wound will heal OTTO (sadly): Doctor, may I see her now? MARAUDER (nods): Ok, Otto, she's been sedated, and we had to transdogmafy her in order to treat her properly. She may fall asleep on you, my friend! OTTO (smiles): Thank you, Doctor Marauder! Otto slowly walks over to his wife's bedside, the top of her head is wrapped in white, gauze bandages. OTTO (holds her hand): Darling, how are you feeling? SAMANTHA (faintly): Like I've been hit with a bus! OTTO (smiles): Sam, honey, I love you! SAMANTHA (faintly): The little girl! What happened .... OTTO (smiles): Your little 'tree' stunt succeeded in stopping the raft, and saving the little girl's life! SAMANTHA (faintly): I wish I could meet her again.... she... OTTO (smiles): Your wish is my command! Otto turns and a few seconds later, a lot BOOM!!!!! shakes the ward room as three humans appear before them. It's the little girl, with her parents. Otto quickly explains the situation and the little girl runs toward Samantha. LITTLE GIRL (hugs her neck): You saved my life, doggie! Thank you! Samantha and the little girl cry as they embrace, her parents watch the scene and smile. LITTLE GIRL'S FATHER (smiles): You Road Rovers truly are good, good dogs! OTTO (smiles): We try our best, sir! LITTLE GIRL'S MOM (hugs Otto): Thank you for finding our daughter! She'd been missing for three days! OTTO (points): My wife Samantha deserves all the credit! If she hadn't ran into the woods, we would have never found your daughter. LITTLE GIRL (still crying): You are the most wonderful dog in the whole world! SAMANTHA (crying also): Thank you, little girl LITTLE GIRL (slight smile): My name is Megan, what's yours? SAMANTHA (smiles): I'm Samantha Maddog! MEGAN (smiles): Will you come and visit me? SAMANTHA (nods): Of course I will, as soon as I've recovered from my injuries! MEGAN'S DAD (motions): Come along, Megan, we have to go now! MEGAN (walk towards her parents, turns and waves): Bye, Bye, Samantha! SAMANTHA (waves back): Goodbye, Megan! With a loud BOOM!!!! The three humans vanish. OTTO (smiles): Now, what was that you were saying about quitting the Road Rovers? SAMANTHA (defensive): Quitting? ME? No way! We do a lot of good in this world and .... OTTO (wide grin): And we can help! SAMANTHA (sadly): When I was in the back of Parvo's van and saw that innocent little girl, I rediscovered the reason why you and I became superheroes in the first place. I knew you were a super dog when I married you, I knew what to expect. Otto, about what I said earlier about you not being real ... OTTO (smiles): That conversation has already been erased from my memory files! SAMANTHA (crying): Oh Otto! I LOVE YOU!! Samantha sits up in bed and hugs Otto. Marauder, Huntress and Hunter watch the scene from afar. HUNTER (smiles): I always love a happy ending! HUNTRESS (smiles): Me too, brother! MARAUDER (nods): They make a fine couple! Just like Hunter and Colleen, and Huntress and Blitz! HUNTER (nods): I think you may be onto something there! HUNTRESS (nods): I agree! Maybe like you and Linda Maddog! MARAUDER (shocked): Me? And her? You must be joking! HUNTER (singing): Marauder and Linda, sitting in a tree! HUNTRESS (singing): 'K'..'I'..'S'..'S'..'I'..'N'..'G'! MARAUDER (turns away): You guys, stop teasing me like that! Hunter and Huntress continue to 'pick on' Marauder till the closing credits roll. -----------------------------------------------------------------