(The story begin with River sitting down by the creek. He takes a deep breath.)
River:Oh, look. A squirrel.
(He sees a brown squirrel up on a branch. A butterfly flies over to give it an acorn, and the squirrel gnaws on it. It then bends over to the ground to drink some water provided by a fish in the creek. The squirrel then stretches out and starts taking a nap. Birds fly over it with a leaf in their beaks and they place it on the squirrel.)
River:I admire you, Mr. Squirrel. You're in perfect harmony with nature. I am also one with nature. In fact, I wrote a poem about being one with nature. Ahem.(Places a blade of grass over his eyes)A brow of grass,(Places moss on head)and hair of moss. Puddles are my dipping sauce.(Runs across the creek)A petal, a wing, an arm or two, presenting a hug from me to you!(Prepares to hug the bush, but gets prickled by a thorn)Oh!(Bees stings him)Oooh!(Wind picks up and a branch hits him. He runs away from the bush while holding his head. He falls into the creek, where snapping turtles start biting him.)Oh why, nature?WHYYYYYYYYY?!
(Cut to Marco's computer. A dude is shown surfing at the beach.)
Announcer:Surfers love riding the waves, but they also love having fun.
(Cut to a surfer on the shore at night)
Surfer #1:Ahahaha, brah. You see Duke in that last wave, brah?
Duke:Brah, I tried to pull out, brah.
Surfer #3:Dude, brah. You were just so deep in that barrel, I was like, "Brah!"
(The three surfers watching this. Marco laughs while Star is eating chips.)
Marco:Is that really how they talk?
Star:Haha, yeah. "Brah. Hey, brah. Sup, brah. Brah-brah-brah-brah-brah."
Marco:Haha, yeah. What a bunch of losers.(Star gobbles up the chip crumbs)Star, did you just eat the last of the chips?
Star:Relax, Marco. It was just crumbs.
Marco:Yeah,but you ate the last of the chips before you ate the last of the crumbs. When am I supposed to get my chip on?(River walks in, crying from earlier)Woah, River, what's wrong?
River:Oh, I'm just having a bad day with nature, I suppose. You mind if I sit here with you guys for a while?
Marco:Of course not.
Star:Yeah, take a loadoff.
(River sits down on Marco bed . Cut back to the surfing show.)
Surfer #4:Catching your first wave, it's just like, "Ahh"! I mean, I don't wanna sound like I'm bragging or whatever, but I really just feel sorry for dudes who can't ride waves. Cause you just pop up on that board, and you're just in it.(Starts riding a surfboard with seagulls around him)Just totally one with nature.
River:Oh, boy!(Starts clapping)That's what I have to do to be one with nature:surfing!(Cut to the Mewi Beach. River holds up a book.)"Peachy Perry's 3 P's to Surfing Perfect".(Opens book)The 3 P's are:(Watches a surfer)paddling, pivoting, popping up! Seems easy enough.(Starts paddling on his board)Paddling.(Sand goes on dudes and dudettes)Pivoting! Popping..(Tries to gets up but fails. Three surfers come over to him.)
Hurl:Haha. Gramps can't even get up on his board.
River:Salutations, fellows. (finally gets back up) My name is River.
(The surfers laugh)
Hurl:What kind of stupid name is that?
River:What's your name?
Hurl:Hurl Hurlbutt. And these are my associates, Murl and Burl.
Murl:Hey, we should call this guy Mondo Cabezo.
Burl:Hey, Mondo Cabezo, can I rub your head for good luck?
(He and River laugh)
Hurl:Hey, Mondo! I think I can see your family on the water!
(Points to the round buoys. He and his friends laugh.)
River:I am as mother nature made me, sir.
Hurl:Mother nature gave you the worst body for surfingever, brah!
River:(Holds up book) Peachy says anybody can catch a wave with enough practice.
Hurl:Uh, yeah. Peachy'sdead. (Snickers)
(The three surfers laugh at River when they notice the other surfers going to catch a big wave)
Hurl:Primo surf.(The four grab their boards)Whoo! Yeah!(Noticing River)Ugh, get outta here, Mondo! You're gonna harsh our ride!
River:No!(Groans as the waves splash him)Paddle! Pivot!(Turns away from the wave)Pop up!
(River is dragged deeper into the wave and ends up knocking the three surfers off of their boards. River is washed ashore, and Hurl and his friends are standing over him, glaring. River nervously smiles and waves before screaming and running to Carmenita, flying off as all the surfers drive him away from the beach. Cut to butterfly castle.)
(River arrives at Star room)
Star:Uh, how'd surfing work out for you, Dad?
River:Hideous! Not only did I not become one with nature, but I made surfer enemies.
Marco:Maybe it's better if you just forgot the whole surfing thing.
Star:Yeah. Try sticking to corn and fanciness. Your comfort zone. I mean, look at me! I've never left my comfort zone, and I'm doing great!
Marco:Plus, those jerk surfers basically proved they're not one with nature if they ran you off the beach.
River:(Shakes his head and puts on his crown)Oh, Marco. I don't mean to offend your reasoning, but surfers are most certainly one with nature. The fine people who live inside the computer do not lie.
Marco:Uhh, no offense taken, but maybe you can at least take a break from the other surfers for a while, until you get the hang of it.
Star:Yeah, Why don't you just build a beach here at Mewi?
River:Oooh, Star, that's brilliant!(Claps hands)And you and Marco can import dolphins for atmosphere!
Mordecai:Ok...(Scratches his chin)... or maybe just a wave machine for the lake?
(Cut to the Mewi lake front, where the Wavy Train has been called.)
Wavy Train Guy:Wave on!
(He cranks the newly added wave machine up, causing the waves to build. River begins paddling.)
River:(laughing) Watch, this everyone!
(He turns the board around as he draws into the wave.)
Marco:You think this is gonna work?
(River starts to pop up, but is too late as he is tumbling over the wave. He splashes in. He swims back over to his board and waves to the guys. When he tries to hop back on, he struggles around.)
Star:Lookin' good, Dad! (to Marco) Yeah, this is never gonna work.
(River has faced away from the wave again. He goes over the wave and drowns underneath, where he get sucked into a pipe. This blocks the water from the machine.)
Marco:Uh-oh.
(We cut to River in his and Moon room with Dr. Jelly Goodwell and Queen Moon with Star and Marco.)
Dr. Jelly Goodwell:So you were saying River was surfing out on Mewi lake.?
Moon:Yes. He, uh, wanted to be one with nature or something, I don't know.
Dr. Jelly Goodwell:Well, we can't have that.
(He walks over to River' x-ray.)
Dr. Jelly Goodwell (continued):Just look at tis x-ray. Jumping to a standing position, too much strain on the feeble spine. River, I have to recommend that you stay on land.
River:But...but I'll never become one with nature on land!
Dr. Jelly Goodwell:Let me put this in terms you'll understand.
(SHe pulls out a lollipop from his pocket.)
Dr. Jelly Goodwell (continued):This is your body. And this is your body on surfing.
(SHe cracks the lollipop.)
Dr. Jelly Goodwell (continued):Any questions?
River:Well, I thank you for your medical opinion, Dr. Jelly, but I intend to keep chasing said waves until I chase one down and then ride it!
(Clock trainsition)
Dr. Jelly Goodwell:But I'm trusting you two to keep him off that board come morning.
Marco:Don't worry, we'll stay up all night and guard the door.
Star:Yeah, he'll never make it past our security team.
(Star and Marco place chairs on either side of the door and sit on them with their arms folded.)
Star: There is no way my dad gonna pass us.
(A split second later, they fall asleep. We cut back to the Mewi lake, where River has somehow escaped outside to try surfing again. When he pivots from the wave, he sees Hurl Hurlbutt coming through.)
Hurl:Alright! Whoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo! Ahahaha!
(The other two surfer friends are there with him.)
Hurl (continued):You were right about the sweet break at this place, brah.
(River stumbles over the wave like before. He rides back around the wave and the surfers.)
Hurl (continued):No chop no sharks...(spots River) Ahh! How'd Mondo Cabezo find out about our wave, brah?
(River gets back on his board.)
River:This is my wave.
(Cut back to the castle. Marco wakes up from sleeping. He notices Star drooling and screams. Star wakes up.)
Star:What?
(They get up.)
Marco:We fell asleep?!
(Marco opens the door to the butterfly' room.)
Star:Marco, there's no way he got past us. Plus his left his dimension scissors next to the win-
(It's revealed that River used the dimension scissors to escape while the portal is still open. Star and Marco scream at this, scream at each other, and run out. Back on the lake, Hurl and the surfers are harassing River, surfing around him.)
Hurl:Get off our wave, Mondo!
(River falls off his board, his head in the bottom.) The magic high commission are at the scene with Star and Marco.)
Moon:What's going on?
Star:Dad is in trouble!
Moon:To the lake boats!
(They run to get them while the surfers keep surfing at River.)
River (continued):Hey! Get away from him!
(Star, Marco and The magic high commission are rowing the boats towards the surfers.)
Hurl:Brace, brahs!
(The surfers get knocked off their boards and bashed on their heads with oars. The magic high commission cheer as they swim off to land.)
Murl:Hurl! We gotta call for reinforcements!
Hurl:Let us perform the ancient call of the surfers.
(The three surfers grab bongos from their van.)
Hurl (continued):(laughs gleefully) Wipeout.
(They play the call on their bongos, and Murl then points a signal in the sky. Random vehicles with dudes and dudettes in them, along with a band arrive at mewi lake. They get out of their vehicles, hop on their boards and get in. Two surfers get into the lae windsurfing. Omnitraxus Prime begins fighting them.)
Omnitraxus Prime:There's too many of 'em!
(Star, Marco and The magic high commission start getting trampled by the surfers, and knocked into the water. River follows the surfers as they approach the wave.)
The Magic High Commission:River, no!
Hurl:Time to crank this baby up to 11.
(Hurls cranks the wave machine up, causing the wave to rise up and push all the surfers, except River, offboard.)
River:Pivot, pop- ooh!
Moon:We gotta help River!
(The magic high commission swim off to stop the 3 surfers, while River is hanging onto his board for dear life, whimpering.)
Hurl:Mondo?! Get him off there.
(Murl and Burl surf off to River.)
River:River... up...
(The two surfers begin to try and knock River off his board, while Hurl is laughing.)
Marco:Hey!
Moon:Hand it over!
(Hurl immediately cranks the machine "Gnarly to the MAX" when Marco punches him in the face, causing him to drop the control and fall off, crushing it in the process. This in turn causes the wave machine to explode, knocking the magic high commission away. The wave gathers up all the water and rises up, and Murl and Burl fall off. The water shoots up into the sky, and comes back down, emerging as an ultimate wave, River being the only surfer on it. The wave rushes towards Star, Marco, the magic high commission and the surfers. The dudes and dudettes run for their lives.)
Murl:The ultimate wave!
(He and Burl proceed to ride it, but Hurl stops them.)
Hurl:No brahs, it's suicide to ride that wave. LetMondohave this one.
(River screams and desperately holds on.)
Marco:River! If you wipe out, you'll die!
(Star, Marco, The magic high commission and the 3 surfers run off screaming as the wave draws in even closer.)
River:River up, River! Ride the wave, River! But, but I'm so afraid! Afraid of those rufians, afraid of my body failing, but mostly I'm...I'm afraid of you, nature! Why have you been so mean to me? Well, whether you like it or not, I'm gonna ride this wave!
(River finally pops up on his surfboard and laughs joyfully. Star, Marco and The magic high commission cheer him on. He continues to dance and laugh.)
River:Finally! I'm one with nature!
(He begins to glow.)
Hurl:No way!
(As River continues to surf on the ultimate wave, he is joined by a flock of seagulls. A sun shines over the wave, a rainbow appearing. A shadowy figure is seen in the wave, revealing itself under River to be a humpback whale.)
Humpback Whale:(speaking through subtitles) River...You have passed the test. You are one with nature once more.
River:Let's never fight again! Ooh!
(The whale shoots water out of its spout, sending River really high, spinning while surfing. Four dolphins rise out of the wave. Hurl and his friends are standing on the van watching the nature scene.)
Hurl:Man, this was a bust. Let's go get some fish tacos.
(Before they can leave, however, the four dolphins crush them. Star, Marco and The magic high commission are stunned at what they are seeing.)
Marco:Do you think he'll ever be back?
Moon:He's with nature now, Marco. He's with nature.
(He wipes tears from his eyes. RIVER continues to laugh as he surfs off through the Mewi with the seagulls, while unknowingly leaving it wrecked.)
(The End)