Episode 10: Doomforest

[Coran's Class]
Coran: Ok children we have a special guest today, a woman recruiting young people for an intergalactic choir tour. Now I know that choir tours are totally stupid and lame, but please give her your full attention. [To Queen Merla] Go ahead.
Queen Merla: Uh, thank you Coran. [to class] How are we all doing, today?
[silence]
Queen Merla: I can't hear you! I said how are we all doing?
[Hunk farts]
Coran: Hunk, you say excuse me!
Hunk: Okay
Coran: Go ahead
Queen Merla: Children, we're an intergalactic choir called Getting Gay with Kids. We're gonna do a big tour on Planet Doom to help save the doomforest and you can be a part of it.
Svenny: This is fuckin stupid
[Kids laugh]
Coran: Sven, you speak when you're spoken to!
[Silence]
Coran: Go ahead
Queen Merla: You see, we take kids from all over the galaxy and put them in a choir [Bandor yawns] where they sing and dance to raise awareness about our vanishing doomforest.
Kid: Did you know over ten thousand acres of doomforest are bulldozed every year?
Romelle: That's right and over thirty percent of the Planet Doom's oxygen is made in the doomforest
[Svenny begin's to look like he's in love]
Queen Merla: So who wants to join the fun?
Hunk: What if you don't have any rhythm?
Queen Merla: Excuse me
Hunk: Like my friend Lance. He's a smartass, so he doesn't have any rhythm.
Lance: Shut up, fatass!
Keith: Choirs suck!
Coran: Lance , you watch your language! Hunk, you be nice to people! Keith, you mind your manners! Svenny and Pidge, you two pay attention!
[sighs]
Coran: Go ahead
Queen Merla: Well that's all really. So if anyone is interested in seeing the doomforest and joining our choir, I'll leave information packets up front.
Hunk: Oh, that's good. We need some more toilet paper.
[Kids laugh]
Coran: Alright! That does it!

[Maribella's office]
Maribella: I am tired of seeing you in my office, young man. You get sent here every day, Craig.
Craig: I know.
Maribella: Why can't you behave?
Craig: I don't know.
Maribella: What do you have to say for yourself. [silence] Well I'll tell you what young man, you're gonna be held back a grade if you don't...
[Craig gives Maribella the finger]
Maribella: Did you just flip me off?
Craig: No
Maribella: Yes you did! You just flipped me the bird! Now see, this is exactly what I'm talking about! If you don't shape up, darling, and get your head straight...
[Craig gives Maribella the finger again]
Maribella: There! You just flipped me off again!
Craig: No I didn't.
Maribella: Yes you did! And until you stop flipping people off, you can just go back to the waiting room, darling! Next!
[Craig leaves]
[The scamps enter]
Maribella: Well well well. If it isn't Keith, Lance, Sven, Hunk, and Pidge.
Pidge: Hi Craig
Hunk: Hey, don't flip me off, you sonofabitch!
Maribella: Sit down boys. Now let's see, what did Coran send you in here for.
Maribella [reading a piece of paper]: The boys were being rude while Queen Merla was giving some stupid presentation
Keith: It's just some dumb activist kids choir thing!
Maribella: Young man, Getting Gay with Kids is not dumb, darling! It just so happens that I'm on the board of directors.
Lance: Dude, all those choirs are the same. They don't even really sing. They use prerecorded tapes.
Maribella: Well guess what boys, I think Getting Gay with Kids is just what you need. I'm gonna sign up all five of you.
[the five look surprised]
Keith: What!
Lance: You can't do that!
Pidge: Oh please, anything but that!
Svenny: Whoopee! [silence] I mean Aww.
Maribella: I think this will be very good for you.
Keith: But we don't even care about the doomforest.
Maribella: And that's exactly why you need to go, darling.
[Hunk gets out of his seat and gets on his knees]
Hunk: Please, Maribella, we'll be good, don't send us to that old kid choir, have mercy Maribella

[In front of the castle of Lions]
[The Getting Gay with Kids Transport is parked out front]
Nanny: Be safe Lance. Bring me something back from the doomforest.
Queen Merla: Oh no no no. The doomforest is very fragile now since these 4 little scamps and your Princess and fired Mass drivers on it from orbit. We must take only pictures and leave only footprints.
Nanny: Oh, I didn't realize.
Kid on Transport: Did you know that right now bulldozers are tearing down thousands of acres of doomforest everyday.
Hunk [getting on the Transport]: Ah man, this is gonna suck donkey balls
Keith [being dragged by two guards]: Please don't make me go on a choir tour, Coran, please!
Coran: Keith, you should be excited. I would love to see the doomforest. Besides, Nanny and I need some time alone.
Pidge: Well why the hell doesn't Allura have to go?
Nanny: Ha, Yaeh right, like I'm going to send my little baby Princess into the damn doomforest!
Lance: So why the hell do we have to go to the doomforest?
Coran: because you 5 are expendable, Allura is not.
[The guards throws Keith on the Transport]
Keith: No!
Pidge: Up yours Coran!
[The Transport leaves]
[Keith and Lance look out the back window]

[On the Getting Gay with Kids Transport]
Queen Merla: Okay children, that's all of us. We're ready to head to the Drule Empire planet of Doom, a country filled with virgin doomforest.
Hunk [sarcastically]: Whoopee! We're the ones that began the destruction of the doomforest in the first place.
Queen Merla: And you must be Hunk. I've heard about you. You don't respect nature or other cultures.
Hunk: Yeah, pretty much
Queen Merla: Well I'm gonna change the way you think kiddo.
[Svenny sits next to Romelle]
Romelle: My name is Romelle.
Svenny: My name is Svenny
Romelle: Lenny?
Svenny: No, Svenny!
Romelle: Donnie?
Svenny: Svenny!
Romelle: Oh [she picks her nose]
Queen Merla: Now we've got a long trip ahead of us, so let's take the opportunity to learn our choreography.
Hunk: The nightmare begins

[shot of the Transport]
[shot of a map. it shows the Transport going to Arus, through Pollux, across Geo, over the Nova 99 system, down though Planet Doom, and into the capital with a dot indicating the former location of Castle Doom before it disappeared]

[Planet Doom, former capital]
[on the Transport]
Queen Merla: Oh look children, I think we're entering the old capital, which was once the location of Castle Doom.
[all the children look out the window]
Queen Merla: Oh this is so exciting!
Hunk: Oh my God, dude, look how dirty and crappy everything is! We sure did a number on this place Keith.
Keith: You can say that again.
Pidge: Heh heh, we kick ass.
Queen Merla: Hunk, Planet Doom is a third world planet now. These people are much poorer than those in Voltron Park.
Hunk: Well why the hell don't they get jobs
[Hunk yells out the window]
Hunk: Hey why don't you people quit slacking off and get a job. What's wrong with you? Go to college
Queen Merla: Hunk, sit down!
Hunk: Look, you gotta be firm with these people or they just slack off and be poor forever, right Svenny?
[Svenny looks pissed off]
Hunk: Hey, maybe that's it, Svenny, maybe you're a Drule, that's why your family is so poor
Svenny [angrily]: You fuckin asshole!
Romelle [picking her nose]: Your family isn't poor?
Hunk: Whoa dude, look over there! Wow, Drule prostitutes! Hey, look at the prostitutes you guys!
[They all look at the prostitutes]
Prostitute #1: What are ju looking at, man?
Prostitute #2: Yeah, why don't ju take a picture?
Hunk: Okay. [motion like taking a picture] Cliiiccckkk
Queen Merla: Hunk, sit down!

[Outside the Planet Doom capital building]
[The Transport pulls up]
Queen Merla: Kids, this is the Planet Doom capital building. This is where all the leaders of the Doom Provisional government make their...
Hunk [holding his nose]: Oh my God, it smells like ass out here!
Queen Merla: Alright, that does it! Hunk, you respect others cultures this instant.
Hunk: I wasn't saying anything about their culture, I was just saying there city smells like ass
Romelle: Wow! Seeing a place like this makes you appreciate living on an Alliance world, huh?
Svenny: Uh huh
[Romelle picks her nose]
Queen Merla: You may think that making fun of third world countries is funny but let me... Hunk: I don't think it's funny! This place is overcrowded, smelly, and poor! That's not funny, that sucks!
Queen Merla: Hunk, will you please, PLEASE, keep your mouth shut while we present ourselves to the Planet Doom President.
Hunk: Why?
Queen Merla: Cause I'll buy you some ice cream afterwards if you do.
[Hunk cheers]

[President's office]
Queen Merla: Well, it was a very long trip, but the children are very excited to sing tomorrow
[silence]
Provisional Governor: Que? ("what" in Drule)
Queen Merla: Uh, we're the choir that was sent from the Galaxy Alliance
[silence]
Provisional Governor: Que?
Queen Merla: We're the group singing for the save the doomforest summit tomorrow [silence] Oh dear, where's Maribella? she should have been here by now [to the children] Children, do any of you speak Drule?
[Hunk raises his hand]
Queen Merla: Don't you dare!
[Maribella enters]
Maribella: Sorry I'm late
Queen Merla: Oh, thank goodness you're here, I don't speak any Drule
Maribella: Oh no problem. [starts speaking in Drule to Provisional Governor] Ustedas choir de estados unidos, mmmbien?
Provisional Governor: Oh, oh, save the doomforest.
Queen Merla: Yes!
[Provisional Governor says something in Drule]
Maribella: Uh, he says Pablo here will take you on a doomforest tour
Queen Merla: Oh boy! Mr. Presidente, round up your subjects outside. We have a special gift for you, the gift of song.
[silence]
Provisional Governor: Que?

[Outside the Capitol of Planet Doom]
Queen Merla: Alright children, let's get in our rows quickly so we can begin.
Romelle: Did you remember all the choreography, Lenny?
Svenny: Yeah, I think so
Queen Merla: Hello everybody. This is just a little rehearsal for tomorrow so we may be a little rusty
[chuckle]
[music starts]
[Lance fails to keep with the choreography throughout]
Kids: Doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo wa. There's a place that is magical and full of doom, but now it needs help because it is in pain. Cleaning planet doom is a mighty big chore. We're spreading awareness like never before. Getting Gay with Kids is here. Spread the word and bring you cheer. Let's save the doomforest, what do you say. Being an activist is totally Gay. And someday if we work hard, boys and girls, they'll be nothing but doomforest covering the entire world. Getting Gay with Kids is here. Spread the word and bring you cheer. Getting Gay with Kids is here. Save the doomforest, totally Gay, totally Gay!
[music stops]
[silence]
[crowd leaves]
Queen Merla: Great job, gang! You were really all over the place, Lance.
Lance: Thanks
Pidge: I told you smartass people don't have rhythm!
Lance: Fuck off, Pidge!
Keith: No, dude, I think Pidge might actually be right!
Lance: No, that's a stereotype
Keith: Dude, maybe you really don't have any rhythm!
[closeup of Lance]

[in the doomforest]
Tour guide: Now, secondary doomforest we are entering. Notice the canopy of foliage.
Queen Merla: Oh! It's everything I've ever dreamed it would be!
Pidge: God damn, it's hot out here!
[Keith sees a stick]
[they stop walking]
Keith: Ah! Robeast!
Lance: No, dude, that's a branch.
Keith: Oh... Ah! Robeast!
Lance: No, that's the same branch again.
Keith: Oh
Tour guide: The doomforest is very delicate and we must take steps to protect it
Hunk [mockingly]: Yeah yeah yeah, take steps, we're taking them, blah blah blah [silence] We heard this a million times back up in the academy.
Tour guide: Here look! These are squirrel beasts, endangered inhabitants of the doomforest.
Romelle: Wow! Isn't he neat, Lenny?
[she takes a picture of the beast]
[Hunk walks up and hit the beast with a stick]
Hunk: Bad! Bad beast!
Queen Merla: Hunk! What the hell are you doing?
Hunk: I'm asserting myself. It's tough love. Just like my little Kitty. When he's bad, I'll say "that's a bad little Kitty" and I smack him on the head.
Tour guide: And here is a three-toed serpent of death
[Hunk hits the serpent of death with a stick]
Hunk: That's a bad... That's a bad three-toed serpent of death!
Queen Merla: Hunk! For God's sake, knock it off!
[Hunk throws the stick at the serpent of death]
Hunk: Respect my authoritah!
Queen Merla: Well Mr. Pedro, this was a great tour, but I guess we should be heading back, we have a big concert tomorrow, don't we kids?
Some kids: Yeah!
Kid: I wish we could have seen the Yanagapa.
Lance: What's the Yanagapa?
Queen Merla: The Yanagapa are gentle native people that live in the doomforest, but alliance bulldozers are destroying their homes. Soon they will have nowhere to go, so we must stop bulldozing the doomforest so that they can live...
[Hunk covers his eyes]
Hunk: God, here she goes again!
[Keith sees a Robeast]
[Keith screams]
Queen Merla: Keith, what is it?
Keith: Robeast!
[Kids gasp]
Tour guide: Ah, yes, this is what we call a coral Robeast. Notice the red markings. Quite an amazing creature.
[Keith screams and runs away]
Tour guide: What's the matter little boy?
Pidge: He's a little wuss, what's it look like.
Keith [hiding in the bushes]: I'm just scared of Robeasts without my Lion.
Tour guide: Now, now. You must remember, this Robeast is more afraid of you than you are of it.
[the Robeast jumps on him]
Tour guide: Ah!
[he falls to the ground]
Queen Merla: Oh my God!
[the Robeast begins to eat the tour guide]
Hunk: Oh yeah. That Robeast is really scared of us, alright.
[the Robeast continues to eat the tour guide]
Queen Merla: Jesus Christ, is he dead?
[the Robeast finishes eating the tour guide]
Keith: Dude!
Pidge: My educated guess would be yes.
Queen Merla: Oh no! God, no! Now, don't panic children!
[Hunk his the Robeast with a stick]
Hunk: Bad! That's a bad Robeast! Ahhh...
[the Robeast chases after Hunk and he runs from it]

[shot of the doomforest]
[in the doomforest]
Queen Merla: Maybe we came from that way [points one way] No, no, let's try this way [points the other way]
Romelle: Benny, do you think we're gonna be okay?
Svenny: Yeah, everything is fine
Romelle: That's good. Can I tell you something?
Svenny: Okay
Romelle: I think I like you.
Svenny: Really!
Romelle: Yeah. I mean, I think we communicate really well.
Svenny: Oh! That's great!
Romelle: No, it's not good.
Svenny: That's not good?
Romelle: No. See, if I start to like you too much, I'm only gonna get my heart broken, 'cause we like on opposite ends of the country. Once this choir tour is over, we will never see each other again. And that would devastate me! So I can't have any feelings for you, I just can't, Lenny!
[she walks off]
[Svenny grumbles angrily]
Queen Merla: Oh children, the sun is setting. We have to find our way out of here quick!

[nighttime]
[a thunderstorm is raging]
[in the doomforest]
Queen Merla: Okay, Okay! Everything is just fine kids. Now, it is important that we all stick together. Is everybody still here?
Kid: I'm not.
Queen Merla: Who's not?
Kid: Me.
Romelle: Benny, will you hold my hand. [Svenny holds her hand] I don't wanna get emotionally attached, though.
Keith: Oh my God, dude! I just saw Cossack!
Queen Merla: No, you didn't just see Cossack, Keith!
[lightning archs over head and you see a shot of the kids with Cossack sitting in with the group]

[Save the doomforest stage]
Provisional Governor: Bueno, bueno
[subtitles]
Provisional Governor: Put the rainbow next to picture of the dying sea turtles.
[Maribella enters]
Maribella: Buenos dias el se¤or presidente, mmmbien.
[subtitle "Hello, Provisional Governor"]
[subtitles]
Provisional Governor: Oh hello. is everything going okay?
Maribella: Uh fine, fine.
Maribella: You, uh, haven't seen the choir have you?
Provisional Governor: WHAT...
Maribella: Well they never came back to the hotel last night...
Provisional Governor: You've got to be kidding...
Provisional Governor: I have over a hundred thousand people coming to this event!!!
Provisional Governor: Are you telling me...
Provisional Governor: I have no darling little kids to sing to them?!
Maribella: I am sure they'll get... here.
Maribella: No problem. Forget I said anything.

[doomforest]
Keith: Dude, we're totally lost. We're gonna die out here!
Romelle: We are?!
Queen Merla: Don't worry Romelle, we're gonna find our way out of the doomforest and make it back to the concert in time. We just need to respect our mother doomforest and she will respect us.
Lance: Ummm. Queen Merla. You have a bug on your back.
Queen Merla: Really? Could you brush it off?
[Shows a gigantic insect clinging to her backpack]
[the insect roars]
Lance: Uh, No.
[Queen Merla starts jumping around]
Merla: Oh my God! Get it off me! For the love of God! Get it off me! Oh my God!
[she runs off screaming]
[she comes back]
Queen Merla [calmly]: Okay children, we must understand that the insects of the doomforest help the delicate balance of life here.
[insect roars]
Queen Merla: Oh my God!
[runs off screaming]
Pidge: The doomforest sucks, we should have used that 1,000MT Neutron bomb when we had the chance! I wanna go home damnit!
Romelle: Me too!

[shot of the doomforest]
[all the kids groaning]
[in the doomforest]
Queen Merla: Shhh! Children, Okay! Let's try to listen to what the doomforest tells us, and if we use our ears, she can tell us so many things...
[Lance bumps into a soldier]
Lance: Ahh... There's a dude here!
Queen Merla: Ah thank goodness! Hello sir! We are lost! Can you help us?
[silence]
Soldier: Que?
Hunk: Let me try. Let me try. [to soldier] We are from Arus, Air-us. We are lost and very hungry. Neccesito burrito...
Keith: I don't wanna burrito I wanna taco. Supreme
Hunk: Y taco...
Lance: I want two tostados in mild sauce.
Hunk: Two tostados in... en charida.
Queen Merla: Boys! Please! Not every Drule person eats tacos and burritos, that's a stereotype.
[soldier motions them to follow]
Queen Merla: Children, he wants us to follow him. Oh, thank goodness! I think this ordeal is over!

[military camp]
Keith: This doesn't look very safe.
Lance: Yeah, I think we should get the hell out of here.
Queen Merla: Now kids, let's be a bit more open minded. I read all about this in Universe Today, this is a people's army, they're fighting the fascist policies of their fascist government.
[they walk over to a table where a Chief and two doom soldiers are]
Queen Merla: Oh, hello! Do you speak English?
Army Commander: Who are you?
Queen Merla: Oh wonderful! We were lost and it is a such a great coincidence we found you! You see, we're here to protest the government sanction raping of your doomforest. [silence] We are fighters just like you! Could you help us get back to the capital? [silence] Um, I know! Perhaps you would like a gift. I have only one gift to give. The gift of song.
[kids moan]
[music starts]
Kids: Doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo wa. There's a place that is magical and full of doom...
Queen Merla: Lance, for the love of God, do the right choreography.
Kids: Cleaning planet doom is a mighty big chore. We're spreading awareness like never before.
Queen Merla: Oh, Lance! Please!
Kids: Getting Gay with Kids is here...
[music stops]
Army Commander: Enough!
Queen Merla: Well, we hope our gift of song has warmed your hearts.
Army Commander: We're not getting Gay with any kids, okay!
Queen Merla: Uh, yeah. So, do you have a phone we could use?
Army Commander: Yes, we have a phone. It's right over there, next to the twelve person jacuzzi.
[Army Commander laughs]
[all the doom soldiers laugh]
Army Commander: Now, get out of here before we kill you.
Queen Merla: Is it because of the little smartass boy's choreography?
Lance: Hey!
Army Commander: You white Arussians make me sick! You waste food, oil, and everything else, because you are so rich. And then you tell the rest of the world to save the doomforest because you like it's pretty flowers.
[Earth Force soldiers storm the camp and start shooting at the doom soldiers putting the choir in a crossfire]
[kids scream]
Army Commander: Rapido, rapido!
[Svenny jumps in front of Romelle]
Queen Merla: Run! Children! Run!
[the choir leaves with gunshots still firing at them]

[Save the doomforest stage]
[Maribella and Provisional Governor are speaking Drule with subtitles]
Provisional Governor: Where the hell is our choir?
Provisional Governor: The show is supposed to start soon!
Maribella: Don't worry, Provisional Governor, they'll be here. This is too important for Queen Merla to miss.

[doomforest, alongside a river]
Queen Merla: Hello! Anybody?! Help!
Minmei: Wow! Look at the pretty flower!
Queen Merla: Oh, no, no, no, Minmei that fragile flower is very delicate, okay.
[the flower grabs and swallows Minmei]
[Minmei screams]
[Keith and Lance look at eachother]
Lance: Shouldn't we say something?
Keith: For Minmei? Are you out of your mind? Not unless Harmony Gold starts paying us.
[Queen Merla screams and tries to pull Minmei out]
Romelle [crying]: Boo hoo hoo! I wanna go home! I hate the doomforest!
[Svenny comes over to her and puts his arm around her]
Svenny: mmrmmph mmrmmph mmrmmph
Romelle: Oh, Lenny, hold me! [she pulls away] No, I can't get attached. [pauses] [she move back toward Svenny] Oh, but I do like you.
Svenny: And I luv you baby...
Romelle: Oh, but you're only going to leave me. [she pulls away and leaves]
Svenny: Ah! God damn it! How many times do I have to tell you, I luv you? Ve have been together since the vucking pit of skullz!

[press box by the Save the doomforest stage]
Announcer #1: We're here live in the old capital, Planet Doom, where hundreds of rich Arussians and other members of the Alliance have gathered for the Save the doomforest Summit. Everyone is here so they can feel good about themselves and act like they aren't the ones responsible for the doomforest's peril.
Announcer #2: That's right, Bob, and of course the main attraction today is the darling kids choir, Getting Gay with Kids, all of whom must be backstage preparing at this very moment.

[in the doomforest]
Queen Merla: Oh, there's just no end to this place! I think maybe we're going in circles. [she looks at her watch] Oh! Dear God! The summit starts in an hour! I'm gonna lose my job.
[insect on her back roars]
[she screams and runs around]
Hunk: This is bullcrap! I am not following this stupid hippie around anymore!
[Hunk walks off]
Queen Merla: Hunk, where are you going?
Hunk: I'm going this way.
Queen Merla: Young man, I am the adult here, and I say you go this way
[Hunk stops]
Hunk: Look, you can stay over myah, [points one way] but I'm going over myah [points the other way].
Queen Merla: Young man, I have had it!
Hunk: No no no no no no! You myah [points one way], me myah [points the other way]. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Queen Merla: Good! You deserve to die, you little bastard! [pause] Hunk, we have to stay together!

[in some dense foliage]
Hunk: God damn stupid hippie activist! I should be home, nestled in the couch with my little Kitty right now, watching Sailor Moon cartoons and...
[Hunk comes to a clearing where many bulldozers are working]
Hunk: Yes! I knew it! I'm saved!

[doomforest]
Keith: Hey, maybe Hunk was right.
Lance: Yeah, it happened once before.
Queen Merla: No, the spirit of Doom has told me to go this way.

[clearing with bulldozers]
Hunk: Mister, you gotta help me, I'm starvin' to death!
Construction worker: What are you doing here, little boy?
Hunk: I was with my class, and we got all lost in the doomforest, and I need some food, I'm fading fast!
Construction worker: Lost in the doomforest? Oh my Lord! Where are all the others?
Hunk: Food! I have to have food!
[Hunk falls to the ground]
Construction worker: Oh my God! Get this child some food quick!
Hunk: Chicken wings.
Construction worker: Chicken wings!
Hunk: Medium spicy.

[Save the doomforest stage]
[a large crowd is there]
Crowd: Start the show! Start the show! Start the show!
[Maribella and the Provisional Governor are speaking Drule]
[subtitles]
Provisional Governor: The activists are getting anxious.
Provisional Governor: They will start throwing things soon.
Maribella: I'm sure the choir will be here.
Maribella: We just need a little more time.
Provisional Governor: Well, I will try and amuse them with my Polluxian jokes.
Maribella: Mmmbien.
[Provisional Governor walks over to a microphone]
[subtitles]
Provisional Governor: How many Polluxians does it take to eat a burrito?
[silence]
Provisional Governor: Two
[he laughs]
[silence]
Provisional Governor: How many Polluxians does it take to fly to Panama?
[Zarkon's command ship lands]
Zarkon: Ugh! You damn weakling! This is how you do it!
[In drule]
Zarkon: How many Provisional Governors does it take to fudge over MY planet?
[Silence]
Zarkon: One!
[Zarkon pulls out his blaster and kills the Provisional Governor]
[Crowd cheers]
Crowd: Zarkon! Zarkon! Zarkon!
Zarkon: The second coming of the Doom Empire is at hand! Mwhaa ha ha ha ha!
[Crowd cheers]
Crowd: Viva la Doom!

[doomforest]
Queen Merla: Oh God, this is a nightmare! We're never gonna make the festival!
Keith: Hey look over there! Isn't that smoke?
[shot of smoke rising from the trees]
Queen Merla: Let's go, quickly!

[Yanagapa camp]
Lance: Hey, it's a fire. That means there must be people.
[Bushes rustling]
[a bunch of platypus-like people come out of the bushes]
Queen Merla: Children! It's the Yanagapa! [to the Yanagapas] Do not be afraid. We are not here to tear down your doomforest.
Yanagapa #1: Dontillyae
Yanagapa #2: Dontillyae
Queen Merla: Look how they live in peace with all living things, gentle, noble...
[Yanagapas raise their spears]
Queen Merla: Run for you lives, children!
Keith: Holy crap!
[Yanagapas throw spears at the kids]
[they run with the Yangapas chasing after them with spears]
Yangapas: Dontillyae, dontillyae, dontillyae...
Keith: Jesus Christ!
Queen Merla: Run! Run! Run!
[the bug on the Queen Merla's back roars]
[Queen Merla screams]
[bug comes off her back]
[Romelle trips]
Romelle: Ahhhh! Lenny!
[Svenny comes back to get her]
[they run into quicksand]
Lance: What the hell?
Keith: We're sinking!
Queen Merla: It's quicksand
Yanagapas: Dontillyae, dontillyae, dontillyae....

Did the scamps survive? Find out by going on to PART 2