Sleepless in Splittsboro 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 superzeros with full-sized super dreams

# Sidekick, sidekick What an awesome gig!

# Just like superheroes

# Just like superzeros

-# But only half as big

-Sidekick! #

Eric, great job catching the fireworks bandit.

I think I'll call you

Awesome Eric... son.

Oops, I think I forgot my gloves.

MAXUM MAN GASPS

You are such a disappointment.

Ahhhh!

Oof!

-Rrrgh.

-SPLAT!

Aghhhh...

Welcome to your nightmare.

I am Nocturna and I will be your host.

NOCTURNA CACKLES

WOLF HOWLS

Ahh! Uh...uh...

Another bad dream.

Agh! Not again!

Wait... It's just lemonade.

And then, Nocturna told me

he was going to haunt my nightmares for ever!

I don't want nightmares for ever!

-KITTY SNIFFS

-Oh...

He makes never want to sleep again and I need sleep!

It's good for my pores! My pores, Eric!

SCREAMING

So we're all having nightmares about this nightmare guy?

How is he getting into our dreams?

I don't know. Some kind of tunnel?

Who cares? I think I might have a way to make sure

I never dream of Nocturna, ever again.

BANG! Ow!

# I'm never going to sleep

# Cos I don't want the scary guy to

# Scare me, yeah... #

ERIC SNORES

Eric, have you seen my alarm clock?

Oh, and before you ask, "Why does a computer need an alarm..."

HE SNORTS

-BRRRRING!

-Gah!

Having nightmares?

How can you tell?

I've seen this "trying not to sleep" behaviour before.

And also, I watch you when you sleep.

-What?

-What?

Mmf. Mmm. Mmm.

BREAKS WIND

No, no, no!

Nocturna!

'Nocturna wasn't always scary.

'Years ago, he was a simple sleep scientist,

'working on a way to access dreams.'

Look out below!

Uff!

Agh! Wibbillbah!

Sorry for dropping in like this

and destroying your life's work.

Ha-ha-ha!

Phew. Well, at least the electricity blew out.

I could have been sucked into the dream world for ever

-if I'd gotten another shock like that...

-Ooh!

A lever!

I'm going to pull it.

Agh!

SCIENTIST SCREAMS

Oopsy.

He was sucked into the dream world

and that's when he became "Nocturna".

That very night, he started to appear in Maxum Man's dreams.

And now you will pay for what you did to me, Maxum Man!

NOCTURNA CACKLES

Eject! Eject! What's wrong with this lever?

Here's a list of your chores.

I'm a super, I don't do chores.

And I sure don't give horsey rides to sidekicks.

Wait, when did I start giving horsey rides to sidekicks?

I'm the hero and you're the sidekick now!

SIDEKICK CACKLES

NOCTURNA CACKLES

Enjoy your nightmare,

Maxum Sidekick!

NOCTURNA CACKLES

I'm not a Sidekick!

No, no, no!

Wow. So how did Maxum Man stop him?

He didn't.

Maxum Man gave up sleep.

It's another of his many powers.

Great. Then how am I supposed to stop him?

Ask your friends for help.

Everyone is connected in the dream world.

Really?

Oh, no, no, no. I am just kidding...

-Snap out of it!

-MUTTERS IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

-BLIP

-Come in, Trevor! Trevor?

'No, no, no! Get out of my head!'

Trevor, wake up! You're having a nightmare.

Don't worry, I'm coming.

Heh-heh. I might need that.

Just in case.

TREVOR CRIES

No! No more!

Trevor, wake up!

I am awake. Working on my math homework.

So scary...

-ERIC SIGHS

-Right.

Well, I think I can stop Nocturna and I need your help.

It's nap time!

TREVOR SNORES

Vana, Kitty and I are going to meet in the dream world

and try to confront him.

You've got to wake me if you see any trouble.

-Got it?

-Yup, no problem.

I even have a poker to wake you up with.

No.

No.

Eh. Whatever.

ERIC SNORES GENTLY

-ERIC AND TREVOR:

-Ooh! Oooooh!

So...Trevor will wake you up if you're in trouble?

Yup. Our fate is in Trevor's hands.

Fate is in the what now?

HE GROANS

Maybe I should've come up with a Plan B.

Boo!

SIDEKICKS SCREAM

What do you want from us?

I want your fear.

Each time I scare someone,

I grow in power.

Soon, I'll be able to haunt you in the real world.

You will live in fear for ever!

NOCTURNA ROARS

SIDEKICKS SCREAM

NOCTURNA CACKLES

All right! Maybe I can rig something to help wake us up.

-FZZZT!

-Ah!

Technology turning on me?

Eric? Would you like to go for a walk on the beach?

Would I?

Eric, help!

Hmm. Maybe I should help Kitty instead.

Nah. Ha-ha-ha!

Don't leave me!

Heart...breaking...

Hopes and dreams...

fading...

-NOCTURNA CACKLES

-Noooooo!

VANA SCREAMS

Hey, Vana! Get over here.

Sure thing, boss.

Wait a second, "boss"?

Why am I listening to you?

Because I'm a superhero and you're my sidekick.

Now, iron my cape, lackey.

I'm YOUR sidekick?!

What?

SHE SCREAMS

Yes! The fear, the fear!

Wow, you really don't like ironing.

TREVOR SCREAMS

Huh. This is just like home.

Oh, there you are, son.

Hey, what you say we spend the day together, huh?

Talking, really getting to know each other?

Curse you, Nocturna! You're destroying my life!

Too easy.

Now, hug him.

Hug...him!

Oh, come here, my little Snuggum-wuggums!

Nooooooo!

NOCTURNA CACKLES

ERIC GASPS

I hope you like it here,

because you'll be here...

for ever!

NOCTURNA'S CACKLES ECHO

This isn't so bad.

Hello?

Anyone?

It's so lonely here.

I just wish there was a little more light.

I just want one small light.

BING!

Give me MORE light.

BING! BING! BING!

Of course! It's my dream.

And I can do what I want!

And right now, I want company.

TREVOR WHIMPERS

I brought you guys here.

I figured it out. We can control our dreams!

That's how we'll fight Nocturna.

Please don't say you have a cape for me to iron.

Nocturna is in our minds -

our turf.

But because we're scared, we're not thinking big enough.

What's the opposite of a nightmare?

A day-mare.

A horse... Stallion... Dog!

No, it's a happy dream.

So let's work together, to...

UNEARTHLY WAIL

Dream your happiest dreams!

If we get rid of the fear, we get rid of him!

-ERIC AND TREVOR:

-Oooh! Ooooh!

VOICE OF MAXUM MAN: 'On World's Greatest Person Day,

'we celebrate the only person better at everything than me.'

Oh, I see where this is going.

'And that person is...

'Galacta Lass!'

Thank you, thank you.

And to show my appreciation,

you may now look directly at me and bask in my awesomeness.

Yup, exactly as I thought.

NOCTURNA WHIMPERS

He's weakening!

Your turn, Kitty.

Why don't we just hang out all day, Kitty?

I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing

than just hanging out with you.

BARF!

-GULP!

-Ew.

Too sweet! Too nice!

Ugh, stop!

I can't stand it! Hargh!

Trevor, it's your turn.

Dream your favourite dream.

Oh and uh...

Call the police.

TREVOR SIGHS HAPPILY

This, I was not expecting.

It's actually kind of...nice.

Hey guys, you can't see inside the pouch,

but we're mermaids!

UNICORN WHINNIES

Good day to you, Merman Trevor.

I have your daily lollipop.

No, stop it, stop it!

Stop this happy drivel!

Get me out of here!

He's weak. Now's my chance to finish him off.

Here's your breakfast, Sidekick Numero Uno...

and adopted son.

Yay!

I'm going to give some to Brainy.

Here, boy.

We love you, Eric.

Who wouldn't love you?

No-one, that's who.

What is it with you people?

Why must you be so... happy all the time?

-He's down!

-Yaaah!

-Insomnia attack!

-Oof!

-Narcolepsy smash!

-Oof!

-Restless leg syndrome!

-NOCTURNA SCREAMS

What do we do with him now?

We have to lock him up somewhere,

where he can never power up on fear again.

So what's the happiest place in the universe?

DING!

What?

I'll get out of here one day.

There's got to be a way!

There isn't. Now just eat your lollipop.

TREVOR SNORES

Lolly...

Lollipop.

So we just sit here and watch him?

Yes. And I am recording this.