Endless Summer Sidekick

# We are Splitsboro kids and we go to Sidekick School

# Learning to be second best while playing by the rules

# Maxum Man is missing Now we rule the school

# Flying, smashing, bashing Stomping, looking super-cool

# I'm a sidekick, sidekick That's the life for me

# Half-sized super zeros with full-sized super dreams

# Sidekick, sidekick What an awesome gig!

-# Just like superheroes

-Just like superzeros

# But only half as big Sidekick! #

3... 2... 1...

SCHOOL BELL RINGS Summer!

Sweet Fraulein of summer, embrace me

with your all-inclusive resort vacation goodies!

Yee-ha! Zippee ki-yay!

All right! Ow!

I got one awesome word. Road t-awesome-rip.

Road trip, dude! It's the Troublemeyers' summer tradition.

A real family road trip? I'd love one of those!

Must be way better than the ones the orphanage had.

ORPHANS: Wheee!

HE SIGHS Good times.

Dude, you should come with us!

No teeth brushin', no shower takin' and nothing but fast food in a bag!

That's your every day...

and I am in!

Ahh, it's just you, me and the open road. You excited, Trevor, my boy?

Can't talk, fighting level 7 zombies.

-I think the road trip is awesome.

-Ha-ha, that's the spirit, Eric.

Wait, who?

Whoa!

Erm, Trevor, when did Eric get here?

Oh, right. Dad, can Eric come on a road trip with us? Thanks, bye.

Ha-ha, well, sure. The more the merrier.

-Ooh, ooh, can I be navigator?

-Oh, no, you're our guest.

You just sit back and relax.

Why don't the two of you start on this year's scrapbook?

Fine.

Welding tank, check. Rivert gun, check. Duct tape, check.

Unlicensed experimental particle accelerator, check.

What kind of scrapbook-ing can you do with this thing?

Argh!

Whoa, nice shooting. I'll scrapbook those holes closed later.

-CAR SCREECHES

-First stop. Be right back.

Erm, aren't we going with him?

-Eh, we got all we need right here.

-We're going to go outside sometime, right?

To a water park or a paintball field? DISTANT RUMBLE AND SIRENS

Or a water paint park or...

DISTANT CRASHING

Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Heh-heh!

What are you going to do with...

Argh!

I spy with my little eye, something that starts with an R.

Dad, this game is so lame...

Is it a rooster? A rutabaga?

A roost-abaga?

CROWING

Nope, it's a reinforced steel beam,

which means it's time to start assembling Project Road Trip.

Whatever.

(This is the best part of the whole vacation!)

All right! Finally, we get to make or do something!

What is it? Also, ow.

Oh, it's awesome.

Every year I get to build the family road trip...thingy.

Sounds cool. Ow!

-Erm, what thingy?

-What are you, a detective?

Road trips aren't about remembering every little detail, you know!

MEXICAN MUSIC

I hope you haven't filled up on fun!

Order whatever you want, I'll be right back.

Welcome to Burrito Frog.

May I take your toad-er? Ribbit.

Gimme three Frogito Supremes with some Jumpy Fries

and a couple of orders of Cinnamon Twisty Slimes.

Erm, Burrito Frog doesn't really, you know, use real frogs, right?

RIBBITS AND HOPPING SOUNDS

Ha-ha-ha! Scrapbook-ing!

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Hey there, buckaroos! Here are a few more thingy supplies.

Is it...a hot dog?

Yes! Got it in two questions. You cheated!

Good old 20 questions, love it! OK, sit tight. I'll be back.

CRACKLING Whoa!

FALLING SOUND Trevor, I'm getting out of here!

But the Troublemeyer road trip rules say we can't ever go outside.

Since when do you obey the rules?

Are you coming?

Ahh, finally, fresh air!

HE SNIFFS

Ew! What's that smell?

TREVOR SNIFFS

It's you, dude.

Heh, forget that. This trip is weird.

Prove it!

OK, what about your dad tiptoeing into that old mine?

-No, that's not weird at all(!)

-Dude, make up your mind!

This trip is either weird or it isn't!

This is spooky and crazy. Finally, something fun to do!

I hope Dad's OK.

I mean, I'm sure he's fine. I know he's fine.

Can we stop talking about this, please?

THEY GASP Master Xox!

EVIL CACKLING

The world's most evil criminal mastermind, here?

But where's your dad? Should we run? Trevor? Trevor!

Huh?

We need to find your dad, fast!

-Hey, boys!

-Master Xox! Down the mine! Go, go, go!

M-M-Master Xox?

You s-saw him?

And didn't see me?

Well, we wouldn't want to get mixed up in that stuff, no siree, Bob!

Seat belts!

TYRES SCREECH

-Whoa!

-Safety first!

Guys, this is for your own good.

So hot... Totally trapped! Must escape!

Build rocket from spare parts! Rocket, Eric, away! Aww...

Say cheesy!

DRILLING

You'll be fine once we finish the thingy, just like last year.

You really think so?

Hmm. Wait a sec...

Hey, er...

EVIL CACKLING

HE GASPS That's it! It's been staring at me all along!

It's so clear now!

Master Xox is...

Making your dad build a weapon! This is diabolical.

It's terrible. We've got to stop him before he's...

-Finished!

-Really?

-After all I just said?

-You were talking?

HE PANTS Mwah, mwah!

What are we doing at the school?

RUMBLING Huh?

HE CACKLES

Xox! What are you doing here?

It's my annual end-of-summer blow stuff up time!

This year, it's the Sidekick Academy.

I wondered why all our road trips ended in an explosion.

That's what I'm saying. You guys keep building death rays for Xox!

It's the only quality time I get to spend with my son.

I mean... Look at my school-destroying laser gun!

No school? Go, Xox, go!

I wish Dad was here to see this. Where'd he go?

This is the end of the road...trip.

Nobody destroys this school except maybe me and Trevor by accident.

Oh, that's sweet. You think you can stop me?

Oopsie, the countdown's started.

Well, you're going to have to un-start it...

Or reverse it... Or, uh, just take this!

FROG RIBBITS

HE SHRIEKS

Ow! My eyes!

You are so annoying, always doing right, always hating evil,

always not flushing the RV toilet!

CRASH

Aargh! It didn't turn off!

It's still going to blow up the school!

Ha-ha, all right!

Where am I?

Why am I stuck under piles of rubble?

-Dad?

-Oh, hello, son.

I got to save you!

If you were blasted into ashes, it would be awful.

Thanks, Trevor.

I mean, who would take me on a road trip next year?

Red wire or blue wire?

Done and done!

Well, at least nobody got hurt.

Ahhh! Finally relaxed.

Perhaps I will be nicer to the kids next year.

Pop quizzes every day!

-You're OK!

-You...saved me.

-Thanks, son!

-Dad, don't touch me!

OK, Eric, hop in. We'll give you a ride back to the Maxum Mansion.

Don't you notice something strange about your dad and Master Xox?

You know, how they're never in the same place at the same time?

Have you ever noticed that Pamplemoose and Vana never whistle?

What does that have to do with anything?

I thought we were playing a game.

Ooh, let's play that on next year's road trip!

Um, yeah, I think I'm going to find something else to do next summer.

FROG CROAKS HE SCREAMS

Scrapbookin'!