Slime Spree 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! #

Hi there, kids. Welcome to Sidekick lesson number 491 -

Caring For Super Pets.

Meet Maxum Mutt.

As you know, every Superhero needs a Super Pet,

and to keep them healthy and happy means giving them a balanced diet...

GROWL

SIDEKICK SCREAMS

..daily exercise...

GROWL

-HE COUGHS

-Huh?

DOG CHUCKLES

And most importantly, every Super Pet needs love.

Give your pet affection, and it will be returned,

in spades!

-Ah!

-For your weekend assignment,

you are each to care for a new pet.

WHOMP WHOMP

THEY GASP

You vill be graded on how vell you take care of it,

and how alive it is, when returned.

I hope it's potty-trained.

I do not pick up things with plastic bags.

Well, I don't care what it is.

We never had pets at the orphanage.

Well, except for Fluffy.

Come on, Fluffy. Grab the string!

Grab it!

I bet I'll love a non-brick pet even more.

HISS

PURRING, GURGLING

THEY SIGH

POOT POOT POOT

Alien spores?

Gross...

and awesome!

-HE CHUCKLES

-Look, mine likes me.

You must care for your new pet as you would your Super.

And by that, I mean not putting them in your mouth and eating them -

Troublemeyer.

HURK

The spores must be returned Monday,

to be shipped back to their home planet.

If zey are not returned on time,

their mummies vill come and destroy the Earth!

Class dismissed.

-CHAIRS SCRAPE

-Wait!

There is one more teeny tiny rule.

You must absolutely...positively not feed your spore

any junk food...

or the consequences will be dire.

THEY GASP

Have a nice weekend.

Aww, do you miss your mommy?

That's OK. I'll be your mommy.

-GIRLS GIGGLE

-Er, daddy. Daddy!

You need a name.

Something cool. Something bold, like "Rex".

No! Er...

Thunder Something!

-What do you think?

-HIDEOUS BELCH

We'll think of something classy.

GURGLE

Think I'm starting to fall for you,

you disgusting, limbless, non-carbon-based goo-vomiting alien spore.

And I'm going to take such good care of you.

GURGLE

Aw. Hee.

-SHE CHUCKLES

-Oh, no, you don't, little Eric!

Trust me, this is going to look great.

You could use a little colour, besides green.

SCHLURP

Ohh...eugh.

GURGLE

Whoa! You can't eat that!

Trevor, be careful.

You know they aren't supposed to eat junk food.

Look, it's not my rule.

Stop looking at me like that.

Now, Maxum Man said pets need exercise.

So...

who wants the ball?

Go get it! Get the ball!

Oh! Oh! Ball, ball!

No, bad Trevor, bad Trevor!

What a great day.

Can't believe the weekend is over.

It's almost time for you to go back to your mommy.

Since it's our last night together,

is there anything special you want to do?

-Augh, Trevor is such a slob! There's junk food everywhere.

-GURGLE.

Ah-ah, sorry buddy. You can't have these.

Junk food is not good for you. No, it's not.

Oh, I am going to miss you.

VOOSH SQUEALS

Herr Needles. Your spore?

Which needs handing in, so the Earth will not be destroyed

by ze alien mothers coming back to pick up their babies?

Here it is, in perfect shape!

PFFFZZZ

SHUDDER

BOOM

So, Needles. Did you have a fun time with the alien spores?

They really are quite lovely, aren't they? How did you...

Agh! Stop asking me all these questions!

I mean...hey, I hear Maxum Man calling me.

Got to go!

Hmm.

SQUEAL SPLUD

-Boo!

-Wah!

My Something Strange Sensor is sensing something strange.

What are you being up to now, Eric?

Up to? Er, nothing at all.

And on a completed unrelated topic,

isn't it time for your hard drive backup?

-Actually, my...

-BLOOP

Better safe than sorry, right?

I'll be offline for a few hours,

and incapable of checking up on anything secret you may be doing...

Hmm. Hey, little...

big...buddy?!

Give me that.

Where'd you get this stuff?

GURGLE

H-h-hey, Trevor, what's up?

Don't "H-h-hey, Trevor, what's up" me!

You're acting really weird.

If I only knew what you were hiding... SQUELCH

I'll crack this nut... SQUELCH

OK, you know I'm onto you... SQUELCH

Great, and all this falling isn't helping me figure it out, either.

Huh-ho! Eugh. SQUELCH

THUNDEROUS BELCH

Of course!

I bet your pet will know what you're hiding.

Trevor, it's my pet! That's what I'm hiding.

And I just love him too much to give him back.

-You got to help me keep him!

-HE CRIES

Keeping an alien spore, way past when we were supposed to,

at the possible peril of the entire planet?

Count me in, bro.

We just have to keep junk food away from him.

He's getting huge.

Ruuurf.

Gah!

HIGH-PITCHED WAIL

GROWL

CHOMP MUNCH

You were supposed to watch him for one minute,

while I went to the bathroom.

I was watching. It was awesome.

BELCH

Ugh. Never mind.

No matter how big or destructive he gets, I can never let him go.

He and I are a team.

I love him!

BOOM

Huh. He's gone, isn't he?

WATCH RINGS

Eric, did you by chance happen to keep your spore,

after you were supposed to hand it in?

No. Yes. Maybe. Why?

Oh, no reason.

It's just that the alien's mother is on her way to Earth

to get her baby back.

Oh, and also to destroy us!

But he's my pet!

I'll just catch him and hide him from her.

Vana? Kitty?

I'm going to need a big hole.

TZAPT.

OK, hole's done.

Now how do we get that big gross spore in it?

With Maxum Man's hologram projector, I can create any image I want.

We-he-hell...that's not what I wanted to show...

anyone.

And...moving on.

Oh, just in time, here he comes!

GURGLE

He's in the hole. Now what?

I never thought that far ahead.

RUMBLE

No, she can't take him away!

He loves me, and if he could speak and not just burp,

he would tell me.

Right, boy?

ROAR

GURGLY WAIL

Oh. I can't pretend any more.

You really miss your mom, don't you?

ROAR

OK, I'll send you back.

I know what it's like to be away from your mom,

and I can't do that to you.

But if she comes down here to get him, the city will be destroyed!

Then we'll fly him up to meet her,

with the Maxum Rocket.

She's all powered up and ready to go.

He's a little heavy, so I added some extra power.

A little dynamite, plutonium, fizzy rock candies...

you know, the usual.

Just say the word.

-Huh.

-It's for the best, Eric.

No! I can't, I can't let him go,

I love him!

He'll be OK. We don't need the planet, right?

Nooo! Hrrrk...

We have to.

It's the only way to save the Earth

from horrible, terrible and total destruction.

And besides...

I like pressing buttons.

BLIP

I can't look.

Sorry, dude. It was for the best.

And get a load of the pretty colours!

Go, Slimy! Oh, woo!

It really was the right thing to do.

I know, Kitty. I was just being selfish.

Who was I, to keep him away from his mother?

From rejoining his only family?

Something that I never had.

I'm an orphan, you know.

I know, I know.

I'm just happy that I could make this great personal sacrifice,

and send him safely on his way home to mom.

Come on, everybody. Let's go eat some junk food.

Hm. It's raining.

Too much dynamite, you think?

Shh!

I wonder if I'll ever see him again?

Never know, buddy. You never know.

THEY BELCH