I've done two Twiggie-centered episode rewrites, now I think I'll shift my focus and do an Otto/Clio rewrite of an episode! Here's 'ICE QUEENS'!
It's February in Ocean Shores and that means it's time for WINTERFEST! With Winterfest comes time for the Rockets to exact their revenge on the Stick Demons after losing to them the past 2 years. Unfortunately, there's an unexpected surprise...Twister's 13 year old cousin, Clio.
Otto: Dudes, we are NOT losing to the Stick Demons for the 3rd Winterfest in a row!
Reggie: We can win this hockey game! All we need is one thing...
Sam: Collision insurance?
Reggie: NO! That famous Rocket teamwork!
Twister: (thinking) Reggie, you are always one jump ahead of the game. This Winterfest will be all about us...that's if Clio doesn't get in the way.
Otto and Reggie high five, excited for this year's Winterfest...until Clio jumps in.
Clio: ICE HOCKEY? You actually like chasing a little piece of rubber around with a stick?
Sam: Your cousin's asking for it again, Twister.
Reggie: Oh, and I suppose ice dancing's a real sport! ANYONE WITH A TUTU CAN DO IT!
Clio: Well, maybe I could look like a big, dumb hockey player if you knocked out all my teeth!
Reggie: Maybe someone oughta do that!
Twister: Chill out, Reg!
Otto: Come on, Reg! We gotta focus on the big game!
TROUBLE!
Otto: You know Clio and Reggie have been going at it forever. Might as well stay out of it.
Twister: I'm family! I'm not allowed to be out of it! (thinking) Plus, Reggie's my girlfriend.
Sam is left wondering how huge the Stick Demons are. My guess...rhinocerous huge! In no time at all, the Rocket crew...and Clio...reach Winterfest!
Raymundo: Behold! WINTERFEST!
Tito: Man, my toes are cold!
Raymundo: Flip-flops are not for snow, bro.
Team Rocket (and Clio) observe the scenery, to which Clio proclaims that it's 'a Winter fairy-land'. Reggie, of course, doesn't buy it. They all hit the rink - Otto, Sam, Twister and Reggie practicing for their upcoming game with the Stick Demons, while Clio preps for her ice dancing competition. The Rockets' hockey practice goes well...until Clio interferes...AGAIN.
Clio: That was a triple sowcow. The glorious ice spray...was just for effect.
Otto: (thinking) Aw, man...Clio is so cool! Graceful, beautiful...she's HOT! Aw, what am I thinking? She's my best friend's cousin, plus she's 2 years older than me!
Reggie: I'll give you an ice spray!
Reggie attempts to charge at Clio, but Otto and Twister would have none of it.
Twister: (thinking) Charge at my cousin? What is this, a Dodgers game? No girlfriend of mine is gonna try and beat up my family!
Otto: Take five, Reg!
Twister: Yeah, chill!
Clio skates by them with a smug grin on her face.
Clio: Your friend just doesn't appreciate art, Maurice.
Note to Clio...NEVER CALL TWISTER BY HIS REAL NAME!
Sam: Your name is Maurice? EXCELLENT!
Twister: DON'T CALL ME THAT!
Otto: Go get the puck, Maurice!
Twister: GRRRRRRRRR!
MAURICE?
Back at the Ocean Shores Ski Resort, we see Raymundo and Tito gathering supplies for Winterfest...at least Raymundo is, as we see Tito with a block of ice and a chisel.
Raymundo: Ice sculpting just doesn't seem like your bag, bro. I thought you were sand and surf only.
Tito: No way, brudda! Ice sculpture, sand sculpture...I DO 'EM ALL!
Raymundo: Nice shoulder extension on the hammer thing. What'cha makin'?
Tito: Smaller ice block.
Inside the cabin, we see Otto diagramming a play to be used in the Rockets' game against the Stick Demons, with Reggie, Twister and Sam looking on. Reggie says it's a good play, but a little complicated. Otto goes on to say that if they execute it just right, they win and there's no way those Stick Demons can ever rank on them again. This is when Clio jumps in...AGAIN...to show Reggie something she found in one of her fashion magazines.
Clio: Oh, now this is cute! Don't you think this is a smart look for a hockey team? Sporty, yet sophisticated! Reggie?
Twister: (thinking) No! Don't do it, Reggie!
Reggie: Well, Clio...it is a nice outfit, but hockey really isn't about looking cute.
Clio had none of it as she rebuttals with all the 'problems' she has about hockey, even going as far as saying that hockey is NOT a girl's sport. (if that's the case...why is there women's hockey at THE OLYMPICS?)
Reggie: Oh, and spinning around like some wind-up toy is more girlish?
Clio: AUUUUUUUGH!
Reggie: ARRRRRRGH!
Twister: (thinking) I was afraid this might happen...especially if it involved my own girlfriend!
Otto: (thinking) I wonder if Twister was thinking the same thing I was. I so hate it when girls fight.
Hockey practice goes off without a hitch this time for the Rockets. It's when they get back to the cabin that problems ensue.
Otto: Just make peace with her, Reg! All this fighting is messin' up our hockey practice! (thinking) And my chances with her.
Reggie: Do I have to?
Otto: What's the big deal? (thinking) It's not like that if you two don't make up, I'm not gonna get a girlfriend...wait, that's exactly what'll happen.
Reggie: She just bugs me, okay?
Twister: She bugs me, too. It's always 'Your friend Reggie is such a tomboy'. (thinking) Reggie, you may be a tomboy...but you're my tomboy. That's good enough for me.
Just the mere mention of the word 'tomboy' set Reggie off. She couldn't believe someone would say that about her!
Otto: Come on, Rocket Girl! FOCUS! Do it for the team! (thinking) And for me.
Twister noticed something off about Otto. It was like he was in another time zone. Concerned, he walked over and talked to Otto.
Twister: Yo, Otto-man. What's the deal? It's like you're in another zone.
Otto: Twist, can I tell you something here?
Twister: Sure thing, bro! What's up?
Otto: I don't know how or why...but I think I'm in love with Clio.
Twister: Dude, that is so messed up!
Otto: I know, I said the same thing when you and Reggie hooked up...But I trust you, Twist. Think back to the day we tried to turn the Stimpleton's pool into a skateboard rink and put yourself in my shoes. Wouldn't you rather have Clio be with someone you trust?
Twister: I guess you're right, Otto. I'd much rather have Clio hook up with you than with some no good scoundrel.
Otto: Good man, Twist. I assure you that Clio's in good hands with me.
Sam: Uh, guys...you might want to see this.
Otto and Twister run over to Reggie and Clio's location, where Clio and Reggie have just bet that they could play each other's sports.
Raymundo: Winterfest...always gets me stoked!
We flash back to the 1970s, when Ray Rocket was a professional skiier, on the level of Olympians like Lindsay Vonn. Unfortunately, the ramp was moved 6 feet from the practice run and Ray ran right into the lake.
At the hockey rink, Otto had just tied the game at 2 with his goal, helped along by an assist from his future girlfriend, Clio Rodriguez.
Otto: (thinking) Man, that Clio...who would've thought that she could be this awesome? Oh, that's right...I DID!
Otto rallies his troops together, needing just one more goal to win the game. The Stick Demons win the draw, but Twister trips up his man, allowing Otto to take the puck. However, he's sandwiched between 2 Stick Demons. His only choice, pass the puck to 'Reggie' (really Clio in disguise). She unleashes her shot, snapping it by the keeper to win the game for the Rockets, 3-2 is the final.
Raymundo: I think my little girl is getting better...
Tito: Taller, too.
Raymundo: WAIT A SECOND! You're not Reggie!
Her helmet is removed to reveal...
Otto: CLIO?! Where's Reggie?
Where else? The Ice Dancing Championships, of course! Reggie has nailed every jump in her routine so far...not bad for a tomboy.
Otto: Her ice dancing is cool! Tell anyone I said that and you're history!
Twister: (thinking) The ever vigilant eye of Otto Rocket. I know that look on his face...that's his serious look. I know I can't say it now...but Reggie's ice dancing is spectacular. She's awesome!
Sam: This is her last jump. If she nails this...
Well...she nailed it! The championship is hers!
Clio: Nice pirouette...for a tomboy.
Reggie: Mean slapshot...Little Miss Tutu.
Unfortunately, Clio got disqualified from the competition because she wasn't really skating...but that's not slowing her down one bit! She's even thinking about taking the hockey player off the top of the trophy and making it into a pendant! Tito, on the other hand, decided to enter the ice sculpture competition with 'Remembering the Humiliation of Winterfests Past'...which won him the medal!
Tito: I owe it all to you, brudda!
Raymundo: Sheesh.
As for the Rocket crew...
Otto: Uh, Clio...I've got something to tell you.
Clio: What is it, Otto?
Otto: Throughout this whole Winterfest...I just wasn't myself. I now know the reason why.
Clio: Why's that?
Otto: It's you, Clio. I think I'm in love with you.
Clio: You're...in love with me?
Otto: I know, it's crazy.
Clio: No, Otto...I think it's pretty sweet. You're a very awesome guy, Otto and...I love you, Otto Rocket.
Otto: I love you too, Clio Rodriguez.
Otto and Clio then share a deep, passionate kiss, almost to the disdain of Twister...until Reggie snaps him out of it by kissing him. Otto then comes up with a Rocket-sized plan of his own.
Otto: Hey, Twist...what say you and Reggie and me and Clio have ourselves a little double date?
Twister: Double date?
Otto: Yeah, a double date! We just hang out with our girls, do whatever we want...as long as it's 'age appropriate'...Reggie's words, not mine.
Reggie: Oh, thanks a lot, Rocket Boy! I'm only trying to stop you guys from doing something you'll regret later on!
Twister: We know, Reggie.
Otto: So...you guys up for it?
Reggie: You know it!
Twister: I'm in, Otto-man!
Clio: Now that's what I call taking initiative!
Otto: Twist, let's let our girls pick where we go.
Twister nods in agreement while the girls get devious grins on their faces. Otto and Twister know this look...it's their serious look. Not good.
Otto: Run for it?
Twister: My thoughts exactly!
Team Rocket (Again...NOT THAT TEAM ROCKET!) jumps back into Ray's Mercury Cougar and speed back to the pier with Otto, Clio, Twister and Reggie eagerly awaiting their double date.
Voices:
Otto - Joseph Ashton
Reggie - Shayna Fox
Sam - Gary LeRoi Gray
Twister - Gilbert Leal
Raymundo - Johnny Kassir
Tito - Ray Bumatai
Clio - Jamie Maria Cronin
'Rocket Power' created by:
Arlene Klasky
Gabor Csupo
In memory of Ray Bumatai (1952-2005) and Jim Duffy (1937-2012)
Well, another 'Rocket Power' couple hooks up and the Stick Demons fall...plus there's some humiliation along the way. Which episode do you want me to do next? Please read and review!