(ESTABLISHING SHOT: The Sky)
(A lone hovercraft zooms past the clouds. It is transporting DRAKKEN and SHEGO)
SHEGO: Okay, when we get to the bank, I want you to keep a lookout.
DRAKKEN: What for?
SHEGO: A hot-dog vendor. I might get hungry during my elaborate break in- what do you think you're going to lookout for?!
DRAKKEN: Sorry. I'm not used to being the lookout. I'm normally the one doing the work.
SHEGO: Well now you get to be the muscle.
DRAKKEN: Me? The muscle?
SHEGO: (Thinks) Okay, here's how it'll work: You tell me if anyone's coming, then I'll drop what I'm doing and take care of them.
DRAKKEN: Excellent.
(The hovercraft zooms on)
(Cut to the LERMAN home)
(Cut to the hallway. FRUGAL LUCRE is wearing a black sweater, black pants, and black shoes and is putting on a black mask)
FRUGAL: Thank goodness for my employee discounts. Otherwise I'd never be able to afford these villainous threads. But that will all change in an hour. In an hour I'll be swimming in cash! I'll be rich! And able to afford all those high-priced gizmos and gadgets! Nothing can stop me now! Nothing!
(FRUGAL heads towards the door)
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Francis!
(FRUGAL stops short)
FRUGAL: Yes, mother?
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Where are you going young man?
FRUGAL: To the movies, mother!
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Not before you wash the dirty dishes!
FRUGAL: (under his breath) Curses.
(FRUGAL trudges to the kitchen)
(Cut to Middleton High School)
(Cut to the hallway. KIM and RON stand at KIM's locker)
RON: I don't know, Kim.
KIM: Look, Ron. Just get it over with. Ask her!
RON: But what if she says no?
KIM: Then you can always say that you tried. Besides, I'm sure if Jill doesn't agree to go out with you, there are plenty of other girls in this high school who would gladly go on a date with you.
(TARA and another girl walk past them)
RON: Okay, I'm going.
(RON walks up to JILL)
RON: Um, Jill.
JILL: (Bright and cheery) Hi, Ron! How are you?
RON: Good. Hey, I see you got over your cold.
JILL: Yeah. It must have just been a twenty-four hour bug.
RON: That's good. I'm glad to see you're better. Um, Jill, I wanted to ask you something...
JILL: Yes?
RON: Would you- um, that is, ugh-
(RON starts to walk away, but runs into KIM, who pushes him back towards JILL)
RON: Um, would you, um, like to go out sometime?
JILL: Sure, I'd love to.
RON: (rejected, having heard what he expected) I thought not. (Beat) Wait- what?
JILL: I'd love to go out sometime.
RON: (ecstatic) Really?!
JILL: Sure. How about some Bueno Nacho after hockey practice?
RON: Great!
JILL: All right. See you later.
(JILL walks off. RON returns to KIM)
KIM: How'd it go, Cassanova?
RON: We're going for nachos after hockey practice.
KIM: See? Was that so hard?
RON: Yes.
(WADE appears on KIM's computer screen)
WADE: Kim! I'm picking up some interesting activity.
KIM: How interesting?
WADE: Drakken's hover craft touched down in Pennsylvania. At the Second National Bank.
KIM: A bank? Isn't that a little, I don't know, uncharacteristic?
WADE: That's what I thought. But I hacked into the bank's security cameras, and it's definitely them.
KIM: Then we're on our way.
RON: Aw, man! Now I have to cancel my snack with Jill.
WADE: I already talked to her and told her.
RON: Really? How?
WADE: Caught her at the payphone. Explained that you had to do the sidekick thing. It's been moved to tomorrow.
RON: Okay. Thanks, I guess.
(WADE disappears from the screen)
RON: I didn't hear a pay phone, did you?
KIM: It doesn't matter. Let's go.
(KIM and RON leave)
(A lone hovercraft zooms past the clouds. It is transporting DRAKKEN and SHEGO)
SHEGO: Okay, when we get to the bank, I want you to keep a lookout.
DRAKKEN: What for?
SHEGO: A hot-dog vendor. I might get hungry during my elaborate break in- what do you think you're going to lookout for?!
DRAKKEN: Sorry. I'm not used to being the lookout. I'm normally the one doing the work.
SHEGO: Well now you get to be the muscle.
DRAKKEN: Me? The muscle?
SHEGO: (Thinks) Okay, here's how it'll work: You tell me if anyone's coming, then I'll drop what I'm doing and take care of them.
DRAKKEN: Excellent.
(The hovercraft zooms on)
(Cut to the LERMAN home)
(Cut to the hallway. FRUGAL LUCRE is wearing a black sweater, black pants, and black shoes and is putting on a black mask)
FRUGAL: Thank goodness for my employee discounts. Otherwise I'd never be able to afford these villainous threads. But that will all change in an hour. In an hour I'll be swimming in cash! I'll be rich! And able to afford all those high-priced gizmos and gadgets! Nothing can stop me now! Nothing!
(FRUGAL heads towards the door)
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Francis!
(FRUGAL stops short)
FRUGAL: Yes, mother?
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Where are you going young man?
FRUGAL: To the movies, mother!
MRS. LERMAN: (OS) Not before you wash the dirty dishes!
FRUGAL: (under his breath) Curses.
(FRUGAL trudges to the kitchen)
(Cut to Middleton High School)
(Cut to the hallway. KIM and RON stand at KIM's locker)
RON: I don't know, Kim.
KIM: Look, Ron. Just get it over with. Ask her!
RON: But what if she says no?
KIM: Then you can always say that you tried. Besides, I'm sure if Jill doesn't agree to go out with you, there are plenty of other girls in this high school who would gladly go on a date with you.
(TARA and another girl walk past them)
RON: Okay, I'm going.
(RON walks up to JILL)
RON: Um, Jill.
JILL: (Bright and cheery) Hi, Ron! How are you?
RON: Good. Hey, I see you got over your cold.
JILL: Yeah. It must have just been a twenty-four hour bug.
RON: That's good. I'm glad to see you're better. Um, Jill, I wanted to ask you something...
JILL: Yes?
RON: Would you- um, that is, ugh-
(RON starts to walk away, but runs into KIM, who pushes him back towards JILL)
RON: Um, would you, um, like to go out sometime?
JILL: Sure, I'd love to.
RON: (rejected, having heard what he expected) I thought not. (Beat) Wait- what?
JILL: I'd love to go out sometime.
RON: (ecstatic) Really?!
JILL: Sure. How about some Bueno Nacho after hockey practice?
RON: Great!
JILL: All right. See you later.
(JILL walks off. RON returns to KIM)
KIM: How'd it go, Cassanova?
RON: We're going for nachos after hockey practice.
KIM: See? Was that so hard?
RON: Yes.
(WADE appears on KIM's computer screen)
WADE: Kim! I'm picking up some interesting activity.
KIM: How interesting?
WADE: Drakken's hover craft touched down in Pennsylvania. At the Second National Bank.
KIM: A bank? Isn't that a little, I don't know, uncharacteristic?
WADE: That's what I thought. But I hacked into the bank's security cameras, and it's definitely them.
KIM: Then we're on our way.
RON: Aw, man! Now I have to cancel my snack with Jill.
WADE: I already talked to her and told her.
RON: Really? How?
WADE: Caught her at the payphone. Explained that you had to do the sidekick thing. It's been moved to tomorrow.
RON: Okay. Thanks, I guess.
(WADE disappears from the screen)
RON: I didn't hear a pay phone, did you?
KIM: It doesn't matter. Let's go.
(KIM and RON leave)