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[Screams]
Fred: Now that is one strange-looking
Easter Bunny.
Freddie: It?s called a Moai.
Samantha: And I hope that?s your last
Easter joke.
You?ve gotten us into enough trouble as it is.
Freddie: Besides, the natives here didn?t
even call this place Easter Island.
They called it Rapa Nui.
Putting us these statues was a big part
of their culture.
Fred: Well, I think it?s rocking.
Samantha: Rocking? Oh, Fred.
You are so last century.
What else is it? Cool? Groovy?
Fred: No! It?s rocking and about to fall on us!
[Screams]
Fred: I thought you said the culture was all
about putting up these statues.
Maka Pui: Ancestral spirits of the
Ho Maya, your power on this island
is obliterated.
Spies from the Ho Maya clan! Kill them!
[Freddie screams]
Fred: Yikes!
You?ve come just in time!
Fred: Just in time for what, getting killed?
Kai: I know a way to escape.
This way!
Freddie: Off the cliff?
Fred: How about a way to escape
where we also get to live?
Kai: We need to jump! Now!
[Screams]
[Song] Be careful what you wish for!
Go!
There they go,
three boys surfing on the time continuum.
There they go,
Green mist fills the air,
the book can take them anywhere!
Go!
There they go,
three girls warping time
it's 2105.
There they go,
you can catch a ride
with the Time Warp Trio.
Go!
Traveling through history
with the Time Warp Trio.
Go!
Freddie: You know, I did have high hopes
for the day.
Samantha: Rory, where?s my sweet little
Ribbit?
Freddie: For one thing, I was finally done cat-sitting
Samantha?s so-called cat.
Freddie: Hey! I have to fly by Jodi?s to drop
off the book. Do you want to come along?
Samantha: Sure, and maybe afterward
we can
Freddie: Uh-oh!
Samantha: What?s wrong?
Freddie: The book. Every page has nothing
but these weird symbols.
Samantha: I don?t recognize this script at all.
Freddie, this is unreadable.
What are you going to tell Jodi?
Freddie: I don?t know.
How could this have happened?
Freddie and Samantha: The boys!
Samantha: We better go talk to them.
Freddie: But how can we?
Like you said, the book?s unreadable.
Samantha: I still have Sam?s pocket watch.
Freddie: Oh, yeah!
Not exactly the smoothest of rides.
Samantha: And it doesn?t go forward
anymore.
Freddie: But
Samantha: Look, if we don?t fix the book,
We?re not getting home.
What choice do we have?
Freddie: But
Samantha: Tell Jodi we broke the book?
Okay, Joe?s bedroom. Ichi ne sa!
Now I think it?s definitely broken.
Fred: Whoa! What are you doing here?
Freddie: Trying to figure out how you guys
messed up our book.
Fred: I just came inside to get the
basketball pump. We?re innocent.
Look! I?ll prove it to you.
See? Sorry, girls! You must?ve messed up
your book all by yourselves.
Freddie: Well, it is all there.
Samantha: Okay,
this shows all the languages
the book?s been in
and I think this is a script that?s
now in our book.
Freddie: That?s weird. It says it?s from
Easter Island.
The eighteenth century.
Have you guys gone there recently?
Fred: Yeah! So we could meet
Peter Cottontail.
What?s the big deal?
Look. Here?s a picture of English writing.
Can?t we just press this to change it back?
Oops! I guess not.
[Screams]
Maka Pui: Well, that takes care of Kai
Kumoi. Honga Nui will be pleased to hear the news.
Warrior: Honga Nui?
But he?s the Birdman. No one?s allowed to
talk to him.
Maka Pui: [Laughs] Come on!
Samantha: Freddie, you can open
your eyes now.
Freddie: I really, really hate being high up.
Fred: It beats the alternative.
Kai: Come on! Hurry!
This cave will keep us hidden.
Birdman: Well, has all of the
competition been taken care of?
Maka Pui: Including Kai Kamoi of the
Ho Maya Clan.
Birdman: Oh! What happened to him?
Maka Pui: Well,
let?s just say he dropped out.
[Laughs]
Birdman: So I?ll be Birdman once again and
our Tubo Hotu clan will
continue to rule the island.
Then we shall exterminate every other
clan once and for all.
Fred: I think the coast is clear.
Freddie: I?m not getting on that ledge again!
Samantha: But Freddie, you don?t like
caves, either. You?re claustrophobic.
Freddie: I know. I?m having a tough time
right now.
Samantha: Freddie, look! That?s the same
writing that?s in our book.
Kai: This cave is where our
family hides our rongorongo davels.
The Tubo Hotu keep burning all of the
others they can find.
So we keep these as safe as we can.
Samantha: Have you seen a rongorongo
that?s blue with silver squiggles on it?
Freddie: If that other clan has already
burned it,
then we?re trapped forever on the most
remote inhabited island on Earth.
Samantha: Freddie, don?t panic!
Freddie: Why shouldn?t I panic?
Fred: Yeah, but look on the bright side.
You have three hundred years
to finish your homework.
Kai: Excuse me, but you are
Aku Aku Spirits, right? Didn?t you appear
out of green smoke?
You did come here to help us win the
Birdman competition, right?
Fred: Uh, Birdman?
Kai: That?s Birdman?s Island,
Motu Nui.
Any day now, the city terns will flock there
to lay their eggs.
Fred: So?
Kai: So? So that?s when
every body comes here to Orongo and an
athlete from each clan grabs a pora,
scrambles down this eight hundred foot cliff,
swims to the island, avoiding the sharks,
grabs a tern egg, swims back, and hands the
egg to his clan?s warrior chief.
Samantha: Uh, any particular reason
they do this?
Kai: That?s how we choose
a leader! The first warrior chief to be
presented with an egg becomes Birdman and
his clan rules the island.
Fred: I guess you guys have never heard of
touch-screen voting.
Kai: I?ve been training for this
all year but our warrior chief was killed
last week by the Tubo Hotu clan,
and without a warrior to sponsor me,
I can?t race.
We?ve been praying for Aku Aku Spirits
to help us, and when you appeared
in the green smoke
Samantha: We?re not Aku Aku. We?re just
looking for a blue rongorongo, and that
was the weirdest thing I?ve ever said.
Kai: I made this pora myself,
but I guess I won?t be needing it now.
Samantha: Uh, you have to volunteer
to be his sponsor.
Fred: Are you crazy? Didn?t you just hear
what happened to the last sponsor?
Samantha: Because Kai's clan is in trouble
Freddie: And if the Tubo Hotu clan stays in
power,
they?ll wind up destroying the book,
and then we?ll be stuck here forever.
Fred: Okay, okay.
Kai: Yes!
Maka Pui, watch out now!
Samantha: Maka Pui?
Kai: That man who pushed over
the Moai earlier swims for Honga Nui.
They threatened or killed the other
swimmers so no one else could compete.
Warrior Two: Kai?s alive.
How is that possible?
Kai: If Maka knew where I
lived, my uncle and I would be in huge
danger. It?s a really good thing our family
cave is impossible to find. My uncle will
make us yams, and we can rest.
You never know when the terns will come.
Samantha: That?s where you
and your uncle live?
Kai: My uncle?s a priest,
an important member of our clan,
That makes him an enemy of the Tubo Hotu.
I?m coming down uncle, and bringing
friends! We used to live above ground,
but now we?re fugitives. Half of the families
on the island have a secret cave somewhere.
Freddie: Hmm, I think I?ll go last.
Or maybe I?ll just sleep up here.
Fred: Are you sure we?re related?
Samantha: Come on, Freddie! It?s easy.
Fred: Well, if you?re not coming,
can I have your share of yams?
[Birds chirping]
Fred: Kai! I think the terns are here.
Kai: Excellent!
Hurry back to Orango Village.
I need to get a blessing from my uncle,
and then Samantha and I will meet you there.
Well, we?re off!
I?m going to win, uncle. I can feel it.
Samantha: Uh!
Kai: We?re trapped!
Freddie: Um, where?s Kai?
I?m really worried.
The competition?s about to begin.
Fred: If you can call it a competition.
I think Maka Pui is the only one in the race.
Birdman: There.
Looks like another easy swim for you.
Oh. Who are those two strangers over there?
Maka Pui: The boy is Kai Kumoi?s
new sponsor.
Birdman: What? I thought you told me that
Maka Pui: It turns out Kai survived
the cliff jump.
But don?t worry.
I took care of him this time.
Birdman: Oh, good. Then let the Birdman
competition begin!
Fred: Wait! My swimmer hasn?t arrived yet.
Birdman: It appears then that
your clan is disqualified.
Freddie: Fred, what are we going to do?
If Maka Pui wins,
we?ll never get the book back,
and we?ll be hiding in a cave for
the rest of our lives.
Fred: We?ve got to find someone else from
Kai?s clan to take his place.
Freddie: They?re all in hiding.
And besides, who?s crazy enough
to swim past sharks to bring back an egg?
I guess we don?t have a choice.
I?m the swimmer for the Ho Maya clan!
Fred: Are you crazy? It?s an eight hundred
foot cliff. It?s shark infested waters.
Freddie: Thanks for reminding me.
Birdman: Not so fast. A woman has never
swum for the Birdman before.
Freddie: Well, there?s a first time
for everything.
Fred: No way, Freddie. I can?t let you do it.
I?ll go.
Birdman: You?re the sponsor.
You have to stay here.
Freddie: Fred, if we ever want to get off
this island, we don?t have a choice.
Believe me. If I could avoid swimming
in that freezing water, I would.
Fred: Here then. Take this.
It?s my lucky jacket.
I haven?t lost a game of hoops with it yet.
Freddie: Aw! Thanks, great granddad.
Okay, Freddie. You?re doing fine.
There?s nothing to worry about.
These rocks are perfectly safe.
[Screams]
Freddie: Okay!
So lying to myself doesn?t work.
Any other suggestions?
[Laughs]
Freddie: What I wouldn?t give to be in
a nice cozy cave right now.
Samantha: What do we do?
Will we run out of air?
Older Warrior: There?s another exit we
never use.
It?s deep into the cave.
Kai: Yes, and it?s much too narrow
and treacherous for you, uncle.
You too, Samantha.
I?ll go, and then see if I can get
these rocks removed from the top.
Older Warrior: We?ll definitely be here
a little while.
Kai: Even if we do get out,
the competition will be long over.
Honga and Matu will keep the wars going
until the whole island?s wiped out.
Samantha: Don?t worry! Fred and Freddie
will think of something. I hope.
Freddie: Ugh! I?ll never catch him.
Birdman: If I were you, I?d start looking for
a cave to hide in.
Fred: You know what I think?
I think you got crazy living in
that Birdman hut alone for four years.
Birdman: Who says I?m alone?
I?ve got my Birdman Staff, the Sacred Owl.
Fred: Yeah, okay. But it?s just a stick.
It?s not like you talk to it.
Birdman: Just a stick?
Don?t listen to him, pokey!
He?s a bad man.
Fred: You have gone crazy.
Birdman: And when I?m reannointed
Birdman, you?re as good as dead.
Fred: Who says you?re going to be
Birdman again?
Birdman: Oh, of course.
Maka Pui is going to lose to a little girl.
Freddie: Twenty second century technology.
It sure beats swimming!
Uh! An egg! Shoo! Go away!
Okay, Freddie!
You?re not going to be cowered by a tern.
[Scream]
Okay. So now all I have to do is
Uh! I can?t believe it!
Fred: Did she even make it to the island?
Well, at least she?s got my lucky jacket.
Birdman: Ha to your lucky jacket!
Fred: It?s my prized possession.
Freddie: Well, it?s still in Orongo Rongo,
but at least we go it back.
Uh! No!
[Laughing]
Samantha: I?m never making fun
of Freddie again.
This cave is definitely feeling small.
Older Warrior: Hopefully Kai has made it
outside by now.
Samantha: I just wish I had something to do.
I feel so useless.
Hey!
You have a whole stack of rongorongo!
Older Warrior: Of course!
I?m a priest skilled in the art of making them!
Samantha: Hmm.
If I learn some of the language,
maybe once we find the book,
I can figure out how to get us out of here.
Do you think you can teach me a little?
Older Warrior: It?s normally taboo to teach
foreigners the sacred script,
but if it will help keep tradition alive.
Every other line is upside-down,
so you read one line across
and then you turn it over.
This particular tablet recounts how
our island wasn?t always ravaged
by war and destruction.
Once, the island was covered in trees.
There was wood to build canoes
so men could go out to fish.
The clans lived in peace,
devoting themselves to carving Moai
in honor of their ancestors
but when we cut down all the trees,
food became scarce.
The clans went to war with each other.
Moai were toppled,
and if Maka Pui wins the Birdman again
Kai: Hey!
Samantha: Did you hear that?
I think it was Kai!
Freddie: How am I going to catch up to
Maka now?
We?ll never get out of here!
And what happens if Fred doesn?t get back
to Brooklyn? What happens to me?
I?ll never be born!
Right!
Okay, Maka Pui! At the very least,
I?m gonna make you work for it!
Dear Diary,
Today, Samantha came over,
and I swam through shark-infested waters
with a tern egg on my forehead.
Other than that, nothing much.
What?s going on? Whoa!
A shark?
[Screams]
What in the?
[Screams]
How do I stop this thing?
[Screams]
Maka Pui: What in the?
Fred and Birdman: Ugh!
Freddie: Ugh!
Whoa! Ugh!
Hey!
Maka Pui: Ugh!
Freddie: Let go! Ugh!
Fred: Atta girl!
Samantha: Fred!
Fred: Guys! Where have you been?
Samantha: What?s happening?
Fred: Look!
Freddie: Uh! Oh, ok!
Phew!
Fred: The egg!
Freddie: No!
Birdman: It shall be my pleasure to proclaim
the first act of my new reign.
These four shall die.
Fred, Samantha and Freddie: Ugh!
Fred: Freddie, please tell me you have
another egg in your pocket.
Freddie: Sorry guys!
Believe me.
I?d do anything to take back the last second
of that race.
Samantha: Wait a minute! We can!
Here goes nothing!
Crowd: Ah!
Samantha: Freddie, the egg! The egg!
Fred: I claim this win for the Ho Maya clan,
and if I were you, I?d be shopping around
for a nice cave right about now.
Birdman: Uh!
Samantha: I can?t believe you did it!
Fred: You?re my great granddaughter,
alright!
What?s with this big white splotch
on my jacket?
Older Warrior: Now that you are
the Birdman, the Sacred Owl is yours.
Fred: And if you think that I?m going to start
talking to you, you can just forget it.
Older Warrior: Now before you're taken
to the sacred Birdman house,
you must have your head shaved
and painted red.
Fred: What? I thought Honga just did that
because he was crazy.
Hey! Can?t we just talk this over?
I just got a haircut last week!
Samantha: Okay, we won the competition,
but now what?
Fred?s stuck in a hut for a year,
and we have a diet of starchy tubers
to look forward to until we find the book.
I can?t believe it!
Freddie: Samantha, what are you doing?
Samantha: Reading it, of course.
Freddie: When did you learn rongorongo?
Samantha: Oh, I just picked up a little,
but it looks like if I just press here and here.
Voila! English, English, English!
Freddie: Well, then let?s go home already.
Samantha: Well, what about Fred?
Freddie: Oh yeah! I suppose I can?t leave
my great granddad behind.
Freddie: Did you see the expression
on Kai?s uncle?s face when Fred
gave him the Owl?
Samantha: Yeah, and if he can?t bring
a little peace to that island,
no one can.
Samantha: And there you are,
my little cattie-kins!
Freddie: Yup! I?ll be sorry to see her go.
Hey! It?s pretty nifto that you?re
the only person in the world now
that knows some rongorongo.
Samantha: Yeah! What keeps bugging me is
why the book changed in the first place.
Oh well. Want to go check out the holographium?
We can bring the book to Jodi?s later.
Freddie: What about Ribbit?
Samantha: I'll pick her up on the way back.
She?s fine! She can?t do that much damage.
[Song]