Season 1 Episode 10
The Egg
Theme Song:
She's cool, she's hot, like the frozen sun
She's young and fast, she's the chosen one
People we're not braggin'
She's the American Dragon
She's gonna stop her enemies with her dragon power
Dragon teeth, dragon tail, burning dragon fire, a real live wire
American Dragon! (Jackie: Dragon up!)
American Dragon!
She's the American Dragon (freestyle with the dragon)
Her skills are getting faster
With Grandpa the master
Her destiny will walk up streets
Show time, baby, for the legacy!
American Dragon!
(Jackie: From the J-A, to the C, to the K-I, to the E! I'm the mack-mommy dragon of the NYC, ya heard?!)
American Dragon!
(Gramps: Jackie! Get back to work!)
American Dragon!
(Jackie: Aww, man!)
One day at Millard Fillmore Junior High, the bells rang as everyone ran out of the building for their weekend, since it was finally Easter weekend. Jackie Long and her friends, Travis Carter and Spuda Spudinski, walked out of school with Jackie tossing around a raw egg. They've been assigned to 'take care' an egg for the weekend as an homework assignment.
"Yo, this is some seriously messed up homework assignment." Travis said.
"For real, what's the point in making us carry around a stupid egg for the weekend?" Jackie agreed as she tossed the egg in the air.
"Stupid?" Spuda snapped as she snatched the egg from her friend. "Sis, don't talk about our baby like that. This is gonna teach all of us to become nurturing caregivers. Hehe." She began drawing a smiling face on the egg with a pencil and hugged it to her cheek. "I think I'm gonna name him Smiley. When he grows up, I want him to be just like me."
"Uh, Spuda...I hate to bust your bubble, baby, but when he grows up, he's gonna be an omelet." Travis said.
As Travis and Spuda fight for the egg, a blue delivery pixie fluttered to Jackie, catching her attention. "Delivery for Jacqueline Long. Sign here." She said in her usual deep voice.
Jackie signed her name and in return the pixie gave her an envelope. The pixie flies away as Jackie ripped the envelope and a smoke projection of her grandfather, Luong Lao Shi, appeared in the air. "Jackie, come to Grandpa's shop." He said urgently. "There is a critical dragon emergency." And with that, his face disappeared.
"I gotta jet, guys." Jackie said to her friends as she pulled out her skateboard and slipped on her helmet. "Do me a favor and watch the egg for me until I get back." And she skated away to her grandfather's shop.
"You're always working!" Spuda exclaimed with a frown. "What about some quality time with our child? You're tearing this family apart!"
"Sorry, guys. The American Dragon has more important things to do than guard an egg."
At Lao Shi's shop, Jackie looked surprised by her grandfather's ironic mission.
"Egg?!" Jackie exclaimed after she arrived at her grandfather's shop, very surprised by his ironic assignment. "You want me to guard an egg?"
"Not just any egg. A griffin egg." Fu said.
"A grif-what?"
"A griffin is a magical creature with a body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle." Lao Shi explained as he pulled out a scroll and shows her a magical projection of a griffin. "It lays an egg only once every thousand years."
"So it's a pretty big deal, and because griffin eggs are so rare, there's a lot of undesirables who'd love to get their hands on one." Fu added.
Lao Shi stowed the scroll up his sleeves and turned to his granddaughter. "Jackie, it is imperative that you guard the egg until it hatches."
"No prob, G." Jackie said confidently. "Yo, where's this griffin at anyway?"
"WHOA!" Jackie exclaimed after Fu took her to the very top of the Empire State Building where the adult griffin was nesting at. Even though Jackie could fly, she did have some problems with unimaginable heights. "That's a long way down!"
"Hey, at least you got wings, kid." Fu said with a chuckle.
The griffin squawked as Jackie walked up to it and she tried to calm it down. "Hey, hey, hey, no worries. The Am-Drag's in the house! Dragon up!" She changed to her dragon form. "Ain't nobody even gonna think about messing with your-" She got cut short when the griffin suddenly got shot with a net and was pinned to the side of the building. "-egg?"
Jackie turned and finds her biggest enemy, the Huntsman, and his apprentice, Huntsboy, riding on a hoverboard as they swooped down and Huntsboy snatched the egg. "The egg is ours." The Huntsman said as they flew away.
Jackie groaned as she facepalmed herself in frustration. Having to take care an egg as a homework assignment is bad enough, but now she has to track down those creeps? She grabbed the net and used her claws to slice the net off and released the griffin.
"Come on, kid. We gotta go get that egg poacher." Fu said before laughing. "Get it? Poached? Egg? With the…" He noticed Jackie giving him a flat look. "Oh, forget it."
"Don't worry about your egg," Jackie said to the griffin. "I'm all over this."
Jackie bent down and allowed Fu to hop on her back. "Let's fly!" And Jackie hopped from the building and took off after the slayers.
"It's beautiful." Huntsboy said as he examined the glowing griffin egg.
"More importantly, it's valuable." The Huntsman said sinisterly.
"One problem..." Jackie said out loud, catching their attentions.
"What?!" Jackie slammed onto the Huntsman as she glared.
"It's not yours!" Jackie eld up the Huntsman and threw him off his board and he crashed onto the roof of a building as he grunted.
Huntsboy glared under his mask at the dragon and cried out as he tried to swing-kick, but Jackie avoided it as she hopped over him. Jackie tried to grab him, but he flipped over her and then tried to roll under as Jackie jumped over him. As he got to his feet, Jackie swiped her tail at his hand and swiped the egg out of his hand.
"Hey!" He exclaimed.
"Got it! I got it!" Fu exclaimed as he tried to catch the egg, but he narrowly misses it as he hopped off Jackie's back and tried to grab it, but it rolled off the edge. "I don't got it."
"The egg!" Jackie exclaimed.
She grabbed Fu Dog and she dove down at full speed to reach the egg, making Fu's face stretch from the speed she was going. "Oh, so that's how they make egg drop soup, huh?" Fu laughed again. "Get it? Egg? Haha. Drop?"
The egg lands into a bouncy-house castle tower of an Easter carnival as it rolled into the ball pit. Jackie crash landed into the ball pit with a large bounce while everyone froze. Jackie poked out from the balls, making the little kids inside scream at the sight of a real life dragon as they scurried out of the pit.
"Alright, start looking, kid." Fu said. "We gotta get that egg back to its mom before it hatches!"
"Alright, alright, alright, let's see." Jackie said as she began to look around for the egg, but only found a bunch of balls. "Ball...ball...ball...ball...ball…" She ended up throwing them in the back of Fu's head and caught the last one with his mouth. "Ball...egg!"
"An egg? For me?" Huntsboy said at the top of the tower with his staff in his hand. "You shouldn't have, but I'll take it anyway. Hand it over, dragon girl."
"You know, I like a boy who knows what he wants. Too bad you're not getting it. Dive!" Jackie and Fu dove into the balls as Huntsboy also jumped into pit as he shouted.
Jackie and Huntsboy exchange grunted as they fought inside the balls as they waved around from the movements inside. A boy poked his head from the balls as Jackie emerged as well with him on her head. Huntsboy emerged as well and fired his staff at her, making her shout as she got blasted to the net and catapulted to the air with Fu with her.
"Excuse me, sir, but the ball bed is only for children age six and under." An employee said to Huntsboy.
"Can it, pipsqueak!" Huntsboy snapped as he grabbed his collar and shoved him with great might to the cotton candy cart a couple yards away.
Meanwhile, Jackie and Fu landed into an alleyway and ran to hide as Huntsboy tiptoed into the alley in a ready stance as he searched cautiously for the dragon and her talking dog.
"I know you're here, dragon." He said.
He tiptoed past a door where Fu and Jackie, back in her human form, were peeking from. Jackie closed the door quietly and panted in relief that they've lost the slayers for the moment.
"We better hide here for a while." Jackie suggested.
They suddenly heard a man humming marseillaise as they hid behind a box of organic food as Jackie held onto the griffin egg. They were inside a kitchen of a restaurant and saw a chef cooking something on a stove.
"Monsieur, the food critic is here." A man said in a French accent, making the chef surprised.
"No. C'est incroyable." The chef said in the same accent.
"She just ordered the cheese omelet."
"Then I must make the finest omelet du fromage in all of culinary history. Hmm." The chef walked to the fridge and opened it. "I simply will-oh! I'm out of the egg! Sacre bleu!" He closed the door and saw Fu Dog trying to eat some eggs, only being held onto by Jackie, but the chef noticed the girl was holding an egg in her hand. "An egg!" He began speaking French in delight.
"Uh, adios, señor!" Jackie said nervously as he tried to jump onto her, but she ran out of the way jumped onto the dishes cart and began rolling away as the chef continued speaking in French in frustration.
Jackie rolled into the restaurant as she was about to roll over a waiter, making him shout and throw his hand of food dishes in the air as he jumped out of the way. He dumped the food all over the food critic. Jackie rolled out of the building and the carts rolled across the street, but luckily Jackie jumped off as it crashed to a building.
"Run!" Jackie cried as she and Fu ran to a crowd as the chef chased after her.
"Halt, you little-oh!" He said as she continued chasing the girl.
Jackie stopped at the back of the crowd and saw the Easter parade happening down the street. She shoved past people to run into the parade as the chef continued chasing after her.
"Come back!" He said before speaking French again. He panted as Jackie ran up to the egg float and hopped on as her dog does as well. The chef panted as he tried to keep up with the float before running out of breath. "Sacre bleu!" Jackie waves at the chef.
"Hey, you're not in an animal costume, and your costume eels, man." A guy in a blue bunny costume said to Jackie before he pointed at Fu. "Don't you ever dry clean that thing, man?"
"Hey, I had a bath just the other month." Fu said, a little offended before glaring. "Why, I oughta…" Fu jumped onto the man and began punching him until the bunny guy shoved him off and onto Jackie, making her drop the egg again.
"The egg!" Jackie exclaimed as she jumped off the float as the egg bounced down some steps, into Central Park as she and Fu chased after it. They both ended up tripping on each other as they roll down the step and into the park. Jackie shook her dizziness off and spotted an egg. "Well, here's the egg." She suddenly noticed it was a different color. "Wait, this is purple." She suddenly realized it was an Easter Egg Hunt in the park as there are eggs all over the place as kids looked around for eggs with their parents. "There are eggs all over the place." Luckily, Jackie managed to spot the griffin egg. "There it is!"
She sprinted towards the egg, until a little girl picked it up. "Lookie, pretty!"
"Hey, little girl, would you mind giving me that egg? Please?"
"No! My egg! Mine! I finded it, doofus!"
Jackie looked offended by how this girl acted. "Didn't your parents raise you better? Yeah, but see, it's really, really important that I-"
"MIIIIINNNNE!" The girl cried as tears leaked from her eyes.
As much as Jackie cared for children and really hated to hurt them, she really had no other choice. She shifted her dragon tail and poked her on her shoulder, making her look away as Jackie snatched the griffin egg out of her hand.
"HEY!" The girl began crying heavily as she ran to her mother. "Mommy! Mommy! The mean girl stolded my egg!"
"That brat stole my little girl's egg." Her mother said, glaring at Jackie.
The crowd began roaring with anger. "Let's get it back!" "Let's get her!" They began throwing eggs at her as she and Fu tried to run away from the adults chasing them.
"Dragon up!" Jackie shifted into her dragon form as she grabbed Fu and flew to the air.
The crowd froze as they halted throwing eggs as they began looking around in confusion. "Where'd she go?" "She was right here?"
Jackie sighed in relief. "That was close. I think that there-"
"Hey, look out!" Fu warned, but too late as Jackie crashed into a peanut butter factory and into a vat of peanut butter.
Jackie and Fu emerge from the peanut butter. "What is this brown stuff?" Fu asked as he sniffed. "Smells kinda funky."
Jackie licked herself as she tasted it. "It tastes like...peanut butter." She said.
The vat suddenly tilted over as Jackie and Fu shout and they slide out with the peanut butter and they move down a conveyor belt. "Oh, man, this sure is turning into one egg-hausting day." Fu laughed at his own egg joke again. "Man, they just keep coming up! With the eggs and the thing-oh, forget it!"
Jackie sighed as she held up the griffin egg. "At least the egg is safe." She spoke too soon as a hand grabbed it from her. "Hey!"
The Huntsman laughed evilly as he held it up with the Huntsboy beside him. "Mine at last!" He said. "And now, dragon, I shall destroy you." He aims his staff at Jackie, but she swung her tail at the platform they were standing on, making to shake roughly as they shouted and he dropped the egg as it landed in a conveyor belt.
"The egg!" Huntsboy exclaimed as they ran down the platform and jumped off as they all run towards the egg.
"After it!"
The griffin is covered in peanut butter, as it becomes covered in colorful decorations like the other eggs for Easter. "Yo, good luck finding that egg now." Jackie said.
"Dragon!" Huntsboy growled as he and his master turn towards her.
"You will pay for this!" The Huntsman said.
Jackie grabbed onto Fu as she flew into pile of colorful Easter eggs and out of sight as the Huntsman and Huntsboy fly around on their hoverboard.
"Find the egg!" The Huntsman said.
Jackie poked her hand out and uses her claw to push a button on their hoverboard, making it fly out of control as the slayers shouted and they crash through the roof. Jackie and Fu burst out of the egg pile, covered in peanut butter.
"I am never eating peanut butter again." Fu said in disgust.
"Oh, yes you are!" Jackie said. "We're gonna have to unwrap every one of these and pick the peanut butter off. It's the only way to find the egg." Jackie uses her claw to unwrap one.
"Are you goofy, Jackie? There's millions of 'em!"
"Then we better get started. Egg number one." Jackie began licking the egg.
"Oh, boy."
A few hours later, Jackie and Fu were already full to the top, but they still had no luck finding the griffin egg as all they found were peanut butter eggs.
"Egg number eight thousand and thirty-two." Jackie groaned as she licked it, but it was again peanut butter. "Peanut butter again."
Fu groans. "Too much...peanut butter."
Jackie reached for another one. "Eight thousand thirty-three." She licked it, and then cringed in disgust. "The griffin egg!"
"Hip...hip...hooray." Fu collapsed from eating too much. Jackie ran to the nearest empty box as she vomited inside and she kept going on like that until her stomach was back to its original size.
"Okay, that's just not ladylike." Jackie groaned as she rubbed her stomach before becoming serious again. "We better get back to the nest." Jackie grabbed onto her fat dog as she flew away. "To the Empire State Building!" Jackie flew as fast as she could, but was moving slowly from Fu's weight. "How much longer-HEY!"
The Huntsman and Huntsboy returned as they fired an energy beam, making her freeze, in their hoverboard as the evil man snatchesd the egg from them again.
"At last, the griffin egg that will-" The Huntsman said, until he shouted when Fu Dog bites his bum, making him release the egg as it dropped to the board.
"This time I got it, this time I got it, this time…" Fu said as he tried to reach it again, but it plummeted to the ground again. "I don't got it."
Jackie and Fu dove down to chase the egg.
Meanwhile, Travis and Spuda exit Lomardo's Pizza after having a little lunch.
"Do you think Smiley's safe in my backpack?" Spuda asked. "Maybe we should invest in a baby stroller." Unaware to her, the griffin egg lands onto her backpack as it ook Smiley the egg's place as it dropped to the ground and squashed.
"Ok, now you're just blabbering." Travis said as they walked down the sidewalk.
"No! The egg!" Jackie cried as she hovered over the squashed egg.
"We're too late, kid." Fu said despairingly. "It's sunnyside up." Jackie closed her eyes in shame.
"The egg is scrambled, master." Huntsboy said to his master.
"Disappointing, back to the Huntslair." He said as they took off.
"Oh, it's all my fault." Jackie said miserably as she shifted to her human form.
"Oh, he never even got a chance to get out of his shell." Fu said as tears leaked from his eyes. "The poor-hey!" He suddenly noticed the shell's appearance. "That's no magical griffin egg!"
Jackie picked up a piece that had a smiley face on it. "It's Smiley!"
"Smiley? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, for one, it means I'm gonna flunk home economics this semester. But more importantly, we gotta find Spuda and Travis."
In the skate park, Travis and Spuda were skateboarding on a ramp as they tossed the griffin egg to each other every time they reach the very bottom.
"Toss Smiley over here, I want to show him a trick." Spuda said as Travis tossed her the egg and she stopped at the top of the ramp. She tossed the gg to the air and rode down the ramp.
Fu and Jackie arrived just in time. "Travis! Spuda! No!" She cried as she ran into the park but trips to the ground. The egg was about to squash to the ground, but then Jackie stretched out her dragon tongue out and it landed perfectly on as she wrapped it around and she dragged it to her. She sighed in relief that it was finally safe.
"Oh, sure. Now you want to take an interest in our family." Spuda said as she frowned at her dragon friend and Travis shook his head at her stupidity.
Later that night, after a long day of flying around Manhattan for a rare magical egg from dragon slayers, chefs, and spoiled little kids in an Easter Egg Hunt, Jackie and Fu returned to the top of the Empire State Building and returned the griffin her egg.
"Here it is, safe and sound." Jackie said as she placed the egg back on its nest.
The griffin squawked in appreciation as it flapped its wings around. "And just in time, kid. Check out the egg." The egg began shaking. "You're about to witness one of the miracles of the magical world."
The egg hatched as a baby griffin squawked softly as it stretched out from the rest of the shell. "You know what, Fu. Being the American Dragon is a rough job, but it's times like this that make it all worth-" The mother griffin suddenly swallowed her own baby and belches, making Jackie's jaw drop in complete bewilderment. "Hey-no-what the-wha-the griffin just ate the-but-but I thought we-" She suddenly became dizzy with confusion. "Yo, that's gotta be the most messed up thing I've ever seen in my life."
"Relax, kid. The griffin baby's fine." Fu said as he walked to the griffin. "It just has to live inside the mother's digestive track for a week or two after it hatches. Then, the mom throws it back up. Ain't it beautiful?"
"I think...I'm gonna hurl." Jackie began gagging in disgust as she and Fu walked away from the griffin.
"Well, time to make our eggs-it. Mission egg-complished. That's all, yolks." Fu began laughing at his egg puns.
"Uh, Fu, about those egg puns, never again, huh?"
"Sheesh, sue a dog for having a little fun."