Josh Kirby: Time Warrior! Chap. 5: Journey to the Magic Cavern (1996) - full transcript
Time-traveling youth Josh Kirby, scientist Irwin 1138 and teen warrior Azabeth Siege are trying to keep a powerful device called the Nullifier away from evil Dr. Zoetrope. But they've hit a snag, having landed on a planet occupied by a race of mushroom people and seen Azabeth become ill upon eating a poisonous plant. They then search for the antidote, while also avoiding the many potential dangers surrounding them.
(MultiCom jingle)
(explosions booming)
(slow heroic music)
- My name is Josh Kirby.
I was just your
average ninth grader.
My biggest problem was
getting good grades.
And my idea of excitement
was racing my bicycle.
(bell ringing)
Yes!
I never thought time
would catch up with me.
But I couldn't believe that
(train whistle blowing)
hundreds of years from
now, mankind would invent
the nullifier, a device
capable of controlling
or destroying the universe.
- [Alien] Prepare for the storm.
- A scientist, named Irwin
1138 tried to disassemble
and hide the nullifier.
But even he couldn't stop.
- [Irwin] Dr. Zoetrope!
(lasers zapping)
- Give me the nullifier.
- You're too late, Zoetrope.
- It's never too late for me.
(engine roaring)
- Irwin and Zoetrope have
been chasing each other
across the time strip
trying to be the first
to find the nullifier in pieces.
This time, they go in to 1995.
The place, my front yard.
Now, I'm going along for
the ride of all time.
(laser zapping)
(engine roaring)
What's going on?
Where are we?
- I hope you're prepared
to do battle young man.
This will be war through
time and Dr. Zoetrope
will take no prisoners.
(explosions booming)
(dramatic music)
(dinosaur roaring)
- We've got help from a warrior.
- My name is Azabeth Siege.
- Ah, she's amazing.
(metal clanging)
And a magical creature called
Prism to show us the way.
Together, we're on
a quest through time
visiting different
worlds to fight
for the nullifier's pieces.
- I'm obviously in the right
place and the right time.
(lasers zapping)
- Because if Zoetrope ever
assembles the nullifier,
he'll conquer time itself.
I've gotta try and
save the universe.
(heroic action music)
I was just a 14 year old kid
before my adventure began.
But now, I'm Josh
Kirby, time warrior.
(heroic action music)
- [Narrator] On the last
chapter of Josh Kirby,
Time Warrior.
(dramatic music)
(explosions booming)
- Captain, his forces have
had us under constant siege.
(explosions booming)
- You know what I want.
The enslavement of
your entire planet.
(laughing)
- [Azabeth] He's taking the
carrier into his tractor beam.
- [Josh] He's buying it.
- Closer, closer.
(explosions booming)
(screaming)
(screaming)
(men grunting and screaming)
(screaming)
(dramatic music)
(music drowns out speakers)
(electricity zapping)
(screaming)
- Jumping meteors, it's
the fifth component.
- What is that?
(screaming)
- The nullifier
components, they're gone!
- (mumbles)?
These are a delicacy
on my planet.
- Ouch!
- Holy!
- That didn't tickle, you know.
- Irwin?
- Yeah.
- Irwin, uh, what's happening?
- Fascinating.
Fungi.
- [Josh] Yeah, yeah, they look
like they could be fun guys.
- No no, not fun guys, fungi.
I mean, parasitic
bacterial organisms
that thrive mainly on
moisture and nitrogen.
- Yeah, yeah they're mushrooms.
I hate mushrooms, I hate 'em.
Except on pizza.
(mysterious music)
- Oh beloved furry one.
All great and powerful.
You have finally come to
deliver us from the Muncher.
- Irwin, Irwin, why are
they praying to Prism?
- Apparently they must think
Prism is some form of deity.
- Yeah, right, the furry one.
- Yes.
Now be careful with
Prism, mushroom folk.
He's one of a kind.
(chanting)
- Thank you for
delivering the furry one
back to his rightful place.
- Azabeth.
- Don't worry, Josh, she's
probably just a little bit woozy
from the air down
here, that's all.
- Irwin, Irwin, that
mushroom she ate.
- It could be that these fungi
aren't meant for consumption
by carbon-based life forms.
- You mean she's poisoned?
- That could very
well be the case, yes.
- It's not my fault.
She took a bite out of me.
This is too much.
- She won't die, will she?
I mean, she only took one bite.
- Well organisms have
different tolerances
relative to a dose of poison.
The line between
no effect at all
and a lethal dose
can be very thin.
- It's alright.
I'm better now.
- Okay.
Irwin, we've got to
find an antidote.
- Yes but where, how?
- I don't know,
there's gotta be a way!
- It is a tragedy
to happen to such
a loyal disciple
of the furry one.
Our king will know what to do.
Come, come.
(grand music)
(trumpets playing)
(grand music)
- Hello, Porcini.
What is the meaning of
bringing these strange beings
into my royal chamber?
- Lord Truffle.
These are the furry
one's followers.
The signorina, she took
a bite out of one of
your loyal subjects.
Now she's very sick.
I tell them maybe
you know what to do.
- Lord Truffle.
The furry one is most
bummed out at the illness
of his loyal follower.
So could you help her?
- I summon the royal doctor.
(trumpets playing)
(whimsical music)
- Please to say ah.
- I'm not about to let you
stick that evil torture device
in my mouth.
- Azabeth, relax, it's
just a tongue depressor.
- My tongue is depressed
enough, Josh Kirby.
- Azabeth, let him look,
he's just trying to help.
- Ah.
- Ah.
(tutting)
- [Josh] What's wrong?
- Teeth full of cavities.
Must brush more.
(laughing)
- Yeah, yeah that's
really funny.
Look, what's wrong with her?
- Please understand I am
only humble shroom physician.
- Doc, hey doc.
You think you can
take a look at this?
- You took bite?
- Yes.
- Oh no.
Very bad.
Only one antidote.
Must taste from one
shroom's spores, Puffball.
- So where do we find
this Puffball guy?
- Oh, I'm very sorry but
Puffball is no longer with us.
- Puffball's been
snatched by the Muncher.
- Then we'll just have
to snatch him back.
- What manner of
creature is this Muncher?
- Oh, it is a most
horrible, horrible beast.
He traps and eats shrooms
for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner.
Without stop.
- Muncher first appeared
at Dream Cavern.
Was once most beautiful place.
Biggest tourist attraction
of all of Shroom Town.
But now off limits.
- It has turned the
entire shroom economy
into a shambles.
- Now it's called
Nightmare Hollow.
Nobody go there no more.
- But surely it's
just a matter of time
before this monster,
Muncher, do you call him?
Tracks you down here.
- Yeah, that's why we've
gotta find him first.
Look, we'll find Puffball,
get the antidote for Azabeth,
and get rid of this Muncher
thing all at the same time.
- Not a difficult mission
when armed with a 25th century
scientific marvel such
as my power staff.
(beeping)
Blast!
I must have forgotten to
recharge the firing mechanism
before I left the time pod.
- Well please,
you've gotta help us.
You've gotta lead us to
this Nightmare Hollow.
- Oh great furry one.
(squeaking)
Accept my most humble apologies.
I cannot accede to the wishes
of your groveling servants.
The hall to Nightmare Hollow
is sure shroom suicide.
- [Shroom] Yes.
- No one who goes
there, shroom or not,
will ever return alive.
- Look, we're going, with
or without your help,
and the furry one's
coming with us.
- Boy, you forget yourself!
You are talking to the
ruler of all shrooms!
- Hey!
- The audience is over.
We have much more important
business on our agenda.
- What'd you do to Prism?
- I have put the furry
one to sleep for today.
He needs his rest as all
of us below ground do.
Guards!
- [Guards] Yes my lord.
- Take the furry one's
followers to the grotto
for their own protection.
(dramatic music)
- Porcini!
- I'm sorry Josh, you must
do as Lord Truffle says.
Lord, may we not let the
furry one's disciples
go after Puffball?
It could mean the
signorina's life.
- How can you ask that, Porcini?
You know that the Muncher
has seriously decimated
our population.
You also know that I am
cultivating new subjects
in the royal cave
gardens even as we speak.
Our numbers are few.
Are you asking me to risk
antagonizing the Muncher
just when we've
begun to rebuild?
- No, no, that is, I
understand you highness
but you see--
- But, but nothing, Porcini.
The issue is closed.
- Yes lord.
(dramatic music)
- Along with you, don't tarry.
- I must rest, Josh Kirby.
- She's burning up.
- Yeah.
We've gotta get out of here!
- Not the best of occasions
for your time powers
to be in rejuvenation mode.
(bubbling)
- Ah, oh, ha ha.
Ay, ay.
Ah.
- Doctor Shiitake!
- Ay!
- I must ask you for
a very great favor.
- Shiitake will see
if he can grant it.
- The furry one's followers,
they need our help.
Lord Truffle forbids it
but I know he's wrong.
- I agree with you, Porcini.
- You do?
- Have been considering
the same issue myself.
Come to same conclusion as you.
- That's wonderful!
I will lead them to
Nightmare Hollow myself!
- Nightmare Hollow?
- But they must take the
furry one with them too.
- No problem!
Shiitake can get
furry one released
by telling Lord
Truffle furry one needs
full medical examination.
- Ooh, that's terrific.
(laughing)
You get the furry one and
meet me at the grotto.
- Hai!
(exciting music)
- You two are dismissed,
go get us some chow.
- Chow time!
(whimsical music)
- Hey.
- Porcini!
- I come to lead you to
Puffball and Nightmare Hollow.
How's the signorina?
- I'm alright.
- Prism!
Wait, but he's still asleep!
- Yes, I could not wake.
Shroom king sleep spores
especially strong.
- When will he wake up?
- Could happen soon.
Or not so soon.
What will happen, until then
Shiitake would be honored
if you carry furry one
in Shiitake's papoose.
- Yeah.
(coughing)
- This is for you to eat.
- What is it?
- Beet root.
Beet root make you better,
but listen carefully.
Work for 12 yabbadabbas only.
- 12 yabbadabbas?
How are we supposed to
know how long that is?
- When sand runs
out her time is up.
(suspenseful music)
- Is there any way you
can give us a couple more?
- Afraid not.
Beet root ancient, very rare.
If you not find Puffball
before time runs out,
she fall into deep
sleep, never wake up.
- Josh, look.
I know you care deeply
about Azabeth Siege as I do.
Sometimes you've got to
look at the big picture.
There is still the
universe to save.
- What good is the universe
without your friends?
Besides, this Muncher
thing, it eats shrooms.
Probably people.
And I'll bet it eats
nullifier components.
- Point well taken.
Now if the nullifier
components brought us here,
the pieces must be lost
somewhere in this cavern.
- Let us go my friends.
Time is of the essence.
(coughing)
(mysterious music)
- I must rest, Josh Kirby.
- No, later Azabeth.
Right now every minute counts.
- Water.
So much water.
- Wait, Azabeth, Azabeth wait!
Where do you see water?
- It's everywhere.
- Oh she's hallucinating, Josh.
Must be a side
effect of the poison.
- Oh, mamma mia, what's
happening to the furry one?
- Oh, even when he's
asleep Prism is sniffing
the nullifier component.
It must be this way.
- Wait, we've got
to save Azabeth!
- Relax.
This won't take long, Josh.
Moisture on the ceiling.
Brr, clammy.
Ah.
Eureka!
Ha ha ha!
One down, five to go.
- You were right, Azabeth.
There was water here.
- Not only that, but this
way, she is a shortcut.
She'll take us to Nightmare
Hollow in half of the time.
- Excellent!
- After you!
- No, after you!
- Gratzi signore.
(singing in Italian)
- Porcini!
You're a shroom of many talents.
- And I sing too.
(laughing)
- The bells are ringing,
they're ringing.
- What'd she say, Josh?
- I don't know,
something about bells.
- Have courage, Josh.
This ordeal is almost over.
(suspenseful music)
- Yeah, yeah I hope so Irwin.
I really hope so.
(mysterious music)
- I don't believe it.
- You don't believe what?
- [Dingdong] Who's out there?
- It's us, I mean
it's me, Porcini.
Mamma mia, little Dingadong!
We thought you were
taken by the Muncher.
- The name is Ding!
(dramatic music)
Your holiness, I'm not
worthy, I'm not worthy.
How come you asleep?
- Dingadong, not now.
You can grovel later.
Right now you must join
me to help the furry one
and his servants
rescue the lost ones.
This girl here, she's sick.
If we don't find your
daddy Puffball soon,
she's gonna get sicker.
Hey, by the way your mama,
she's worried sick about you.
- Yeah, well I know she's
been worried about Dad too
ever since he disappeared.
Maybe if anyone had the
nerve to form a search party,
there might be
some shred of hope!
- Hey Porcini, who's your pal?
- What's it to ya, freak?
- Freak, who you calling freak?
You're the talking mushroom.
(bells ringing)
- Oh oh, Josh, Josh,
this is Dingadong.
Please excuse him.
His papa disappeared in
Nightmare Hollow last week.
His papa is Puffball, the
same mushroom we seek, eh.
- Oh, that lousy Muncher.
I'm gonna turn him
into shroom food
if it's the last thing I do!
- Oh!
You're too young for
a vendetta, Dingadong.
- Think so?
I'm gathering enough
ammunition to get the Muncher
all by myself.
- Very brave, my boy,
but also very foolish.
A well thought out plan is
the best weapon you can have.
- Those are my
plans right there.
That's plan A, that's plan
B, and this is plan C.
- Not bad.
But you may want to discard
some of the heavier stones.
Although they appear
more threatening they can
throw off your aim and in
the end be less effective
than one perfectly
aimed small sharp rock.
- Cool.
I never had that effect
on a female before.
- Now look she's sick.
We've got to find the
Muncher and your father
in, well, in however
many yabbadabbas this is.
- I'll show you the way.
It can get pretty dark up ahead.
And there are millions
of passages leading
every which way.
And my ringing
will come in handy,
and then we can really
kick some Muncher butt.
(exciting music)
- I would be proud to
kick some Muncher butt
alongside you, young Dingdong.
- Yeah, me too pal.
- Ah.
(mysterious music)
(coughs)
- Come on, hold it up.
- I thank you, Josh Kirby, I
just need to catch my breath.
Oh the sky, out of the
sky, look, look out.
- What's wrong with her?
- Azabeth Siege
is hallucinating.
- Sure, but then
they happen for real.
- Yeah that's right.
They're like premonitions.
She head the bells ringing
and then we met Dingdong.
- What does she mean
by out of the sky?
- I don't know, I guess
we keep looking up.
- What is the source of your
ringing, little Dingdong?
- I get it from my dad's
side of the family.
We're bell shrooms.
- Oh.
Are you capable
of controlling it?
- I'm trying to
learn, it's not easy.
I'm only 13.
Older shrooms can make
all kinds of rings
whenever they want to.
- Bell shrooms are most
respected among our people.
They can make a pleasing
music or sound the alarm
when danger threatens.
- I'm alright now, we can go on.
(chirping)
- [Dingdong] Awesome.
- [Irwin] Look, Prism's
on the trail of another
nullifier component.
- He's almost better at it
asleep then he is awake.
Irwin, we don't have much time!
- This won't take long.
- Yeah, that's what
you said last time.
There's nothing here.
- It's impossible.
Prism's coat of many colors--
- Never lies, I know.
But maybe he's malfunctioning.
There's a first
time for everything.
- That's the 11th code of Kang.
- Oh, remember, we gotta
be watching the sky.
(burbling)
- Irwin, are you getting
shorter or am I getting taller?
- No, we're exactly the same.
- Oh, it's quicksand!
Get out!
(ringing)
Everybody stay back,
it's dangerous!
Stay back!
- Quick, take my hand!
Come on, pull!
Hurry, something!
Irwin grab hold of this, quick!
- No, no, it's too
valuable to risk!
(groaning)
- [Josh] Come on!
- Goodbye, Josh,
Azabeth, little Prism.
It's been wonderful knowing you.
- [Josh] No, don't let go!
Don't let go!
(ringing)
Help!
Are you sure we're supposed
to be looking in the sky?
- You have to let
go of his hand.
I'm not strong enough
to pull you both up.
- No, I can't!
Just let go!
- You must!
- No, I won't!
- Josh Kirby, I refuse
to let you die this way!
- Stand back!
- [Josh] Porcini!
- I got it, give me your hand!
(mumbles)
- Irwin, come on, just a
little more, keep it going!
(panting)
(coughing)
- What's that?
- It's another
nullifier component.
It stands to reason.
If all the pieces were strewn
here during the cave in,
then there must be pieces that
are hidden from plain sight.
(laughing)
- How'd you manage
to pull us both out?
- Don't think just because
we're small we're not strong.
- That certainly
was a close call.
- Yeah, I'd say.
- We could have missed finding
this nullifier component.
- Hey Porcini, does the
furry one show any signs
of waking up?
- Afraid not.
He's still in furry
one dreamland.
- Great.
So how old are you anyway, Ding?
- 15.
- Oh yeah?
I'm 14.
- Yeah, you look
tall for your age.
- Maybe here.
Back home I'm kinda average.
So I guess you're pretty
worried about your dad, huh?
- Yeah.
Even though he really
bugs me sometimes.
I told him once I
wished he'd go away.
(sentimental music)
Gee, I really didn't mean it.
- Sure.
We all say things
we're sorry for later.
- Well, my dad can be
a real pain in the cap.
The funny thing is now
I miss him bugging me.
- Yeah, I know what
you mean for sure.
- We should move on, my friends.
(exciting music)
- Josh.
- Whoa!
- Porcini.
(zapping)
(ominous music)
- Where am I?
I'm obviously underground.
Hello, what's this?
Ah, well I'm obviously
in the right place
and the right time.
Yeah.
- Azabeth is different
looking than you.
Do all females of your
kind look like her?
- Not really, but kind of.
She come from, well the
best way I can describe it
is an alternate future.
- Future, you mean another time?
- Yeah.
Azabeth's from a twisted
version of the 33rd century.
Irwin's from what will
hopefully once again
be the 25th century,
and I'm from the strictly
legitimate 20th century.
- How can that happen?
- Well we have pieces
of what is called
the nullifier component.
It's powerful enough to
destroy the universe.
Irwin's been traveling
in a time pod he invented
to try and recover
all the pieces.
And I've been helping him.
- You've been helping
him destroy the universe?
Why?
- Oh no, no.
I've been helping him
keep this other guy,
Dr. Zoetrope, from
getting all the pieces.
See Zoetrope's crazy enough
to want to reassemble
the nullifier and
destroy the world.
Irwin chased one of the
components to my backyard
and I kinda got
stuck helping him.
For a while it was kind
of a race against time.
And through time.
To beat Zoetrope in
getting all the pieces.
And now Zoetrope's got
'em we've still got to get
all the pieces before he can
retrace our steps through
time and restore the natural
order of the time stream.
- [Dingdong] So that's
how you met Azabeth?
- [Josh] Yeah.
We just came from her
own time where she helped
lead her people
in a slave revolt.
- Wow.
- Yeah we've been on
so many adventures.
We rode dinosaurs
in medieval England,
escaped from a giant
mutant kid who had us
trapped as human pets.
- Zowie!
After all you've been through
the Muncher must not
scare you at all!
- No way!
Nothing scares me now.
(buzzing)
Whoa!
Ah!
(ominous music)
- Stingers!
- These sting like bees
back home, only worse!
- We must be near their nest.
There!
- Why are they only
coming after me?
- Stingers sting
the first organism
and then they sting until
that organism is dead.
Then they go after the next one.
- Sting me til I'm dead?
You gotta be kidding me!
(mumbles)
- If we get far enough
away from their nest
they usually leave you alone.
- Usually?
That's just great.
(speaking Italian)
- Oh, that was a close
one for you, Josh Kirby.
- Yeah, you're telling me.
- We should press on, people.
- Azabeth, can you walk?
- Yes.
- Azabeth is right
about looking up.
I wonder what's next?
- The walls.
(mysterious music)
Pictures on the walls.
The story.
The story is true.
- What can she mean?
- Paintings on walls.
- It could mean anything.
- I'm not so sure, mister.
Me, I like to know what's
on the itinerary myself.
- Painting on the wall.
- Hey, the wall is painted!
- Holy moly.
- Fascinating.
- Ooh, it's like the
catacombs beneath
the ancient city of Mushroom.
(ominous music)
- Shroom, shrooms.
What is a shroom?
(growling)
- What does this mean?
- It's like a caveman painting.
Only with UFOs and aliens.
- You can't see the
forest for the trees, boy.
The centerpiece of
this entire painting
is the nullifier device.
- This whole thing has
gotten really weird.
- Dingadong, this is much
bigger than our little
shroom world has
ever seen before.
- Irwin, look.
There's another one over here.
More than one.
Irwin, there's got to be
more than one nullifier.
- Impossible.
- See for yourself!
- Well this painting
appears to be geniune.
Let's time date it.
(beeping)
It dates at 12
million years old.
- But if there's another
nullifier device,
where could it be?
- I don't know.
This whole painting
belongs to an alien culture
that's completely unknown to me.
It has a history no one knows.
- I bet the furry one knows.
- Hey, what do you
mean Dingadong?
- Doesn't anyone but
me notice something
about the furry one
and these little guys?
(magical music)
- Great jumping ions,
I think the little
bell shroom is on to something.
- You know there is a shroom
legend about such a thing
like this painting.
All the mushrooms
know the sacred story.
The furry one, he come
here many, many years ago
and he come from far, far away.
They hold in their hands
the secrets of the universe.
And only they know how
to use the secrets.
Hey, it is the furry ones
that keep everything in order!
- In order?
- They make the mushroom
kingdom what it is today.
They keep things going
in the right way.
You know, like
the, um, (mumbles),
the progress of things!
The water, the water,
it comes down to us
from the stream over there
so we grow and the prosper
down here.
Each day we know
there is a next day.
And like that.
Capisce?
- You mean the time continuum.
Don't you see what he's saying?
He's saying that the furry
ones established linear time
on this planet, without which
you would have no progress.
Because in random time
it's impossible to build
tomorrow on today.
- Irwin, are you saying
that Prism is the key
to the secret to the universe?
- No Josh.
Not the key but a key.
This whole picture is
like, like pages in a book.
Look.
On this page you have
the furry ones abducting
the nullifier from
these alien people
and here you have the
boat which has always
been a symbol for the
transfer of knowledge
from one age to the other.
He's bringing the knowledge
to another people.
And here, the furry
ones have hundreds
if not thousands of nullifiers.
While on the last page.
- Yeah, what about
the last page?
- The last page is
being written now, Josh.
- This is sacrilege!
How dare you speak this
way about the furry one!
You hairless ignorant
smoother skins
should be ashamed of yourselves.
- I'm reminded of the
very first code of Kang.
- Yeah, what's that one again?
- Things are not
always as they appear.
- You're right.
(mysterious music)
- On the other side of that
bridge is Nightmare Hollow.
- The nether regions.
- The evil place.
- The epitomal image of
Dante's hellish inferno.
- Yeah so in other words
we gotta watch our butts.
(suspenseful music)
- [Porcini] That's it, that's
it, come on now, that's it.
Hurry up Josh, come on!
- Josh Kirby, run!
- Oh no!
- Come on, keep
climbing, come on!
Don't let go.
Come on, that's it,
you're doing good,
look at us, come on.
That's it Josh, come on.
Come on, boy!
Grab her hand!
Come on.
Pull, pull!
That's it.
Come on everyone!
- Well, that always
looked fun on Nintendo.
- It was too close for comfort.
- I, I agree.
- You don't need to know
what a yabbadabba is
to know that Azabeth
hasn't got much time.
- Look, Prism's sniffing
another nullfier component.
Can't be too far off.
- Neither can the Muncher.
(mysterious music)
- We are in the heart
of Nightmare Hollow now.
This is Muncher
territory for sure.
- What makes you say that?
- I just feel it.
- The second code
of Kang tells us
a warrior must always
trust his instincts.
- When did this Muncher
monster begin to make its
presence felt by
you mushroom people?
- It seems like forever.
You don't measure things
the same like time
when you live so scared.
- Has anyone ever
seen this Muncher?
- No one who came back.
- [Dingdong] I saw it.
- Dingadong, you saw the
Muncher take your daddy?
Oh that's terrible.
- It all happened so fast.
I tried.
But I couldn't do anything.
I kept yelling for
my dad to follow me
but it was like he was
in some sort of trance.
I felt it too.
I was practicing my ringing
when it all came upon us.
That's how come I think I
wasn't taken with the others.
- Hypnosis.
It must use hypnosis
to attract its prey.
- That must be why you
were able to escape.
If you were ringing, your
mind must have been so full
of emotion that it
couldn't be lured
into the Muncher's trap.
- That's right.
You were so busy worrying
about your father
you didn't have time
to do anything else.
- Wow.
So my dad saved me?
- In a manner of speaking, yes.
- But all I did was panic.
And cover myself with moss.
I don't know what
happened after that.
It got real quiet and
then everybody was gone.
- You were very
brave, young Dingdong.
And you couldn't have
done anything except
get munched yourself.
But you behaved as
a warrior and now
you're prepared for the battle.
- Warrior?
I'm no warrior.
All I did was hide and run away.
- He who fights
and flees the fray
lives to fight another day.
- By any chance would
that be a code of Kang?
- Number six.
(mysterious music)
- Whoa, Josh.
You alright?
- Yeah.
I'm fine, I just
tripped on something.
- How big did you
say this Muncher is?
- That's his footprints,
you figure it out.
- Oh no, not a footprint.
I've had quite enough of
monster, giants, and mutants
for one lifetime,
thank you very much.
(suspenseful music)
- Everybody, look at
the furry one's hair!
- Prism?
You've done it again!
- That's right, the
Muncher must have stepped
on one of the
nullifier components.
(chuckling)
- [Irwin] Thank heaven
they're indestructible.
- I just noticed something.
Every time we pick one
of these things up,
something go wrong.
It's like they are
jinxed or booby-trapped.
(pulsing tone)
- Porcini, that's
absolute coincidence.
It's totally unscientific.
There's just no pattern here.
In due time you could
establish a pattern
but twice is mere coincidence.
(buzzing)
What's that noise?
(growling)
(screaming)
Don't look at its eyes!
- Prepare to meet
your maker, Muncher!
- No, Dingdong!
Azabeth, no, no,
Azabeth, not you too.
Azabeth, Azabeth,
no, Azabeth, no!
Azabeth, no!
(shouting)
(hitting)
I know, we gotta
get to its eyes.
It's the only way to
make it powerless!
- Basta, wait a minute, boy!
- Hold back, Joshua!
You'll never reach
up to its face.
(shushing)
(mysterious music)
(groaning)
- You think you're so smart.
Eh, little shrooms?
- Who the heck are you?
- Oh!
(mumbles) Boy you nearly...
You, how did you find me?
- I'll ask the questions.
Game over.
What are you trying
to pull anyway?
Where is everyone, huh?
(shushing)
What have you done with them?
- Shh, I can explain everything.
Okay, take it easy young man.
You see, it's really
quite an amusing thing.
You see it's really
quite amusing.
- Over here, take
a look at this.
- What have we here?
- Oh, ha!
Allow me to introduce myself.
I am Colonel
Beauregard T. Damon.
Colonel Beauregard T. Damon.
Master shop, intergalactic
entrepreneur,
voyager, inventor, and
patron of the arts.
And you are?
- It's ingenious.
This Muncher is actually
an incredibly sophisticated
animatronic puppet?
- Yes, yes!
It's a creation of
my own, in fact.
It's quite effective in
trapping alien species.
- Hang on little Dingadong!
I'm on my way!
- Look.
Those alien species
are our friends.
- Oh.
You see, everybody's fine.
- Who's this guy?
- This is Colonel Damon.
He built this thing.
(rumbling)
- The Muncher isn't a monster,
it's a mechanical puppet.
- Yeah, we figured that out.
- Hey, where's my
dad and the others?
- Yeah, where is everyone?
We're looking for a shroom
called Puffball and we need him
right now.
- Well I will take you to them.
It's not far.
Mind your heads.
(mysterious music)
Won't be long now.
- What are you collecting
these alien species for anyway?
(beeps)
Pets?
Slaves?
- My stars, no,
nothing so primitive.
No, see I feature the natural
wonders of the universe
in my very own
intergalactic circus.
Ha!
- Oh, an intergalactic circus.
- Yes, yeah well it's
my primary venture
into the world of
entertainment, presently.
I travel the cosmos in
my little chuck wagon
collecting various creatures
and bringing them together
under one tent!
- So it's like a freak show!
- Yes!
No, no, no.
Hello, youth.
No see my big top
travels from one planet
to the next, educating.
E-D-U-C-A-T--
- I-N-G.
- I-N-G, right,
educating alien cultures
as to the vast variety, the
possibilities of nature.
Yeah.
- So where are you from?
- Well, well I've planted myself
in every corner of the
universe at one time
or another, but I was born
in the United Federation
of American Colonies.
- You mean the United
States of America.
- What?
The USA?
That's ancient history, son.
What time machine
did you step out of?
Next thing you're gonna tell me
is that you've never heard
of the talking ape era
of the 21st century.
(laughing)
- Oh no, I've heard of that.
- Come come come!
(clapping)
I think you'll find
this quite relieving.
(mysterious music)
(whimsical circus music)
(beeps)
- Oh, daylight!
Oh am I glad to see you.
What are you doing here?
- Center of most worlds
I've been to harbor
an internal sun.
Jules Verne was right.
- Azabeth, are you okay?
(suspenseful music)
No, it can't be too late.
There's still some sand left.
- Every estimate has a
margin of error, Josh.
- Josh, I--
- [Irwin] She's slipping
rather quickly, Josh.
- Where's Puffball?
Where is he?
- He's in there.
- Bring him here, quick!
Hurry!
Azabeth, Azabeth, wake up.
Don't fall asleep,
you'll be okay.
(ringing)
- Pops!
- Hello son.
How are you?
- Azabeth, Azabeth!
We're here, look,
Puffball's right here.
Azabeth, no.
- I'm afraid it's too late.
She's slipped into a
terminal deep sleep
just like Dr. Shiitake
said she might.
- On behalf of all of
the mushrooms, Josh,
I want to say that
we are so sorry
that we are the
cause of your sorrow.
- No.
No, we've got to do something!
Look, you say you're the
smartest man in the universe,
so just do something!
- Sorry Josh, there's some
problems even I can't solve.
If I could alter the
situation, I would.
I'm just a scientist,
not a magician.
I can't perform miracles.
- I don't need a miracle.
All I need is a few minutes!
They were taken from me
and I'm gonna get 'em back.
Just a few minutes.
All I need is a few minutes.
Just five minutes, come on.
(exciting music)
(buzzing)
Five minutes.
- Josh!
Josh, what in the name
of the supreme prefect?
Great jumping ions!
You're summoning up
your own time storm!
Josh, be careful!
- Five minutes.
Five minutes.
- [Porcini] Josh,
Puffball, hurry!
- That tastes terrible.
- It's okay Azabeth, medicine's
supposed to taste bad.
- What are you trying
to do, poison me?
- Just now, I was somehow
able to turn back time.
- What?
No one's ever been able to
create a time storm before
without using a
chronal displacement
device of some sort.
- Yeah, well I did.
I mean, Azabeth was
almost out of time,
I had to do something.
- You did it!
It worked!
- Yeah.
- Stupefying.
(bright music)
- It's humble but it's mine.
(groaning)
- Irwin.
Zoetrope.
- He doesn't seem
to recognize us.
Anything else for that matter.
- (speaking foreign language)
It's me!
Chantarelle!
Speak to me!
What's wrong with you all?
- They cannot hear you.
See they respond to only
me and my instructions.
(ominous music)
I am so glad you've
provided me with
this opportunity to have
you join their ranks.
- What a dirty, rotten--
- Sticks and stones
may break my bones
but names really tick me off.
(laser firing)
- Porcini!
- What did you do to my dad
you mad, mad circus freak?
(laser firing)
(groaning)
- Don't worry, don't worry.
I'm only interested in
mushrooms for my circus.
Besides, I've only stunned them.
Once I reprogram their minds,
they'll fit right
in with the others.
- You are nothing but
a coward and a phony.
First you hide behind
your mechanical rat
and now you try and hide
behind your blaster.
- Young lady, you are really
beginning to try my patience.
- Colonel, couldn't we come
to some sort of arrangement?
- Hmm.
Well, your furry little
ward there would make
a most excellent attraction.
Never seen a species like him.
Yes, yes, bravo I say!
Bravissimo, bravace, alright!
Hand him over.
- That's impossible.
We haven't finished collecting
all the nullifier components.
But I can fully
appreciate your interest
in my little friend.
Perhaps when he's
fulfilled his function.
- Irwin, you're kidding, right?
- Well, it's a shroom
show this season anyway.
Too late to introduce
a new attraction now.
I can't believe my luck.
This one here make a most
excellent strong man.
Golly gosh, now I will
have a father and son
dinging act.
(mimicking bells ringing)
(curious music)
- Fourth and fifth
nullifier components.
- Into, into the
cage with them, boys!
- I demand that you set these
shrooms free immediately.
You have no right to
keep them in bondage.
I have spent my entire
life fighting this very
kind of slavery on my own
planet and it makes me sick!
(kicks)
- My hand!
You little hussy.
- Set them free, Colonel.
Or I'll zap you into a
state of unconsciousness.
- Oh, pshaw.
- Break the spell, Colonel.
- You shoot me and
your fungal friends
will spend their days
in a state of catatonia.
And you'll never be able
to de-hypnotize them.
- Oh yeah?
I'll think of something.
- Go ahead then.
Shoot.
- Don't say I didn't warn you.
(buzzing)
- Oh darn, I forgot to tell you.
The plasma blaster's
grip is programmed
to respond only to
my hand print, oh!
I've been robbed.
You, ugly!
You, you, you!
Block the exits!
Nobody gets out!
(mysterious music)
(chanting)
- Where's Irwin?
- Return my property,
thieving septuagenarian.
You have no choice
but to surrender, sir.
My troops have you surrounded.
- It's you who have robbed me.
These are the objects I
have risked life and limb
to find and I won't be
waylaid by the likes of you.
- Tough toenails!
Sir, they are mine now
to show to the universe.
- Colonel, if we don't
get all those pieces
there won't be any universe.
- Oh, what's that
supposed to mean?
- I won't return them, Colonel.
- Well, in that case
I guess it's pointless
to argue with you.
- Oh.
I knew at heart you were
a reasonable human being.
- I just have to
shoot you instead.
(intense music)
(laser firing)
- Must make haste.
- [Crowd] No one gets out.
- What about
Dingdong and Porcini?
- We can't just
leave them there.
- Irwin, what do we do?
- Never having been surrounded
by zombie mushrooms before,
I have no idea.
- Oh!
- Pop, it's me, Dingdong!
What are you doing?
These are my friends!
Please, snap out of it!
(chirping)
- It's the furry one!
- [Mushrooms] We pledge our
undying loyalty oh furry one.
- Prism's colors are bringing
them out of hypnosis.
- [Mushrooms] We pledge our
undying loyalty oh furry one.
We pledge our undying
loyalty oh furry one.
We pledge our undying
loyalty oh furry one.
(mystical music)
- We told you the
furry one was great.
- Pops!
(ringing)
- Ding!
Oh my boy!
- Irwin, how could you even
consider trading Prism away?
- Josh, Colonel Damon is a
traveler to distant galaxies.
With him, Prism has
a much better chance
of getting back
to his own planet.
- Well yeah, I never
thought of it that way.
- It's a good thing we now know
what a lowly worm-gutted
villain Colonel Damon really is.
- Ahem.
He can hear you.
Put them back in the cages.
What have you done?
- Your slaver days
are over, Damon.
- My talent.
You've deprogrammed them.
Months of work, ruined.
Okay.
- You torture your
last shroom, paisan.
You're gonna go on
your space rocket
and you're gonna bring
back all the shrooms
you kidnapped.
We go with you to make sure.
- I will return all
your people to you.
Think I wanted to resort to
violence and mind control?
- You're power hungry,
Colonel, it's a disease.
Believe me, I know.
- Okay, okay, so I made some
faulty management decisions.
My entertainment empire
spans the universe.
All I ever wanted to do was
bring the mysteries of nature
to the underprivileged
youngsters of the cosmos.
Was that so wrong?
Mommy!
- It doesn't sound
like such a bad life.
Traveling around the cosmos.
- Hey, how do you know?
You never even
been above ground.
None of us have.
- That's just what I'm saying.
It could be a great adventure.
To explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life,
new civilizations, to
boldly go where no shroom
has gone before.
- It's an exciting life,
that's for certain.
- I'm thinking about going.
- Me too.
- But he will exploit
you, treat you as slaves,
imprison you.
- Yeah.
But they wouldn't be
slaves if they were paid.
- Profit sharing?
Never.
- You must not let this
scoundrel take advantage!
(dramatic music)
If you fail to give the
shrooms a fair deal,
Damon, I will
personally hunt you down
and take their percentage
from your worthless hide.
As the 20th code
of Kang ordains,
blood debts must
be repaid in blood.
- Blood?
- Azabeth, is that really
the 20th code of Kang?
- Of course it is.
- I agree, I agree!
I will negotiate,
just don't hurt me.
- Alright then.
It's settled.
Badabing, badaboom.
- What about Zoetrope?
- Oh yes, Dr. Zoetrope.
He must still be under
the spell of the Muncher.
Lucky for us the Colonel
doesn't know who he is.
- Ah, well Colonel,
what are you planning
on doing with that
big guy over there?
- The rove rover?
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Caught him just
today in the catacombs.
Put up quite a fight,
nearly crunched my Muncher.
Robots are yesterday's news
most places these days.
But trade him to a
robot wrestling team
for Maldorphian red pod.
- A robot wrestling team, huh?
That's pretty cool.
(light music)
- I just wanted to thank
you for helping our people.
And for reuniting
me with my boy.
- And you should be
especially proud of your son,
Mr. Puffball.
We would have been
lost without him.
Young Dingdong is a very
brave and resourceful warrior.
- I can't wait to tell the
kids about the stinger attacks.
The quicksand and
fighting with the Muncher!
And about this beautiful
cool warrior girl
who taught me all about life
and the 21 codes of Kang.
- Whoa, wait a second!
Maybe you should tell
your old man first, huh?
(giggles)
- Maybe when you get older, Pop.
(laughing)
Goodbye, Azabeth Siege.
I don't know if I'll ever
meet anyone like you again.
(grand music)
- And I know I will never
meet another mushroom warrior
as brave as you, young Dingdong.
- I'm no good at
saying goodbyes, so we
just say ciao, okay?
- Ciao.
- Yes indeed, Porcini.
- And you too furry one.
I would be honored if
I could shake your paw.
(chirps)
(exciting music)
I'll never wash this hand again.
(laughing)
(gentle music)
- How do we find
the last components,
and what do we do then?
- Then the universe is
saved and I'll restore you
and Azabeth back to
your respective times.
Return to mine a demigod.
- What if you can't do it?
I mean bring us back, that is.
- Oh don't worry,
I'll find a way.
Or perhaps even you will.
Josh.
When you used your
time warrior powers
to summon up a
one-person time storm.
How did you know
you could do it?
Did you just feel it innately?
- Well at the moment it
was all I wanted to do.
It was like I knew
what had to happen
and I knew I had
to make it happen.
Now look, this may sound crazy,
but I knew I could do it.
I just knew.
I guess when someone really
wants to change something
they find the power
to make it happen.
Of course, that's
not always true.
Some things nobody can change.
I guess that's the way
it's supposed to be.
- Yes, it's very sensible, Josh.
You have a good head
on your shoulders.
- Thanks.
- Goodnight, Josh.
- Goodnight, Irwin.
(gentle snoring)
(sentimental music)
(buzzing)
- No, no, not again!
(dramatic music)
(zapping)
Zoetrope!
- Toss me the
nullifying component.
- No, never!
Whoa!
- Josh, it's too heavy, Josh.
It's weighing you down, Josh.
Toss me the nullifying
component so I can pull you up.
- No, I'd rather see it lost
forever then in your hands!
- Listen to me, Joshua.
If you drop the
nullifying component
you will most certainly
doom the future of all mankind.
You may as well take
a chance with me.
(zaps)
(dramatic music)
(shouts)
- I'm warning you, Dr. Zoetrope.
I've got powers too.
Special, special time warrior
powers that you can't handle.
I can bend time
without a tin suit.
- Then use those powers
to finally see the truth.
Irwin 1138's been
manipulating you all along.
- Your evil lies make me sick!
We both know Irwin's
been trying to save
the universe from you.
- No Joshua.
He's tricked you
into believing that
when it's been he who wants
to destroy the future.
- You're insane!
You've been doing
everything in your power
to try and crush us!
- Is that why I saved
your life just now?
If you still don't believe
me, Josh, go ahead.
Touch your fingers to my
head and time probe my mind.
- What do you mean?
- Pull the past
from out of my mind.
You can do it.
You're a time warrior, Josh.
(suspenseful music)
(zaps)
- I was able to recalibrate
Colonel Damon's blaster
to match my own pawprint.
Are you alright, Josh?
- Yeah, I'm fine, but you
didn't have to shoot him!
- Ah, forget his evil lies.
Trying to turn you
against me is child play
for an evil genius like him.
- Irwin?
Let me probe your time memories.
- Never!
(intense music)
Hand over the final
nullifying component now Josh!
- No.
No not until I know the truth!
- Please, Josh.
After all we've been
through together,
don't force me to blast
you to smithereens!
(warping music)
- [Narrator] On the next chapter
of Josh Kirby Time Warrior!
- He's no one's friend, Josh!
- Quiet, you!
(blasts)
- [Josh] Dr. Zoetrope!
- Hand the final
nullifying component
over to me now.
Before I disintegrate Azabeth!
(zapping)
- Irwin, come back!
- I've won, I've won, I've won!
- Without a time travel
device we're stuck here
in the center of the earth,
powerless to stop him.
- But there must be
something we can do.
A warrior can't just give up.
(laughing maniacally)
- You said it yourself.
I'm a time warrior.
(buzzing)
- It's working!
- I got it!
- I knew you could
do it, Josh Kirby!
What in the name
of Kang is that?
- It's an energy distortion
of the time stream.
A time wave.
- Look out!
(screaming)
- We did it!
This is it!
- I did it!
I'm back!
- We are still in
the 20th century.
But we're six inches tall.
Well, I gotta go.
I've gotta try and
save the universe.
- My friends are all
gone thanks to you.
- Good riddance.
Prepare to join them!
(blasting)
(exploding)
No!
(exploding)
(exciting music)
(light music)
(MultiCom jingle)
(explosions booming)
(slow heroic music)
- My name is Josh Kirby.
I was just your
average ninth grader.
My biggest problem was
getting good grades.
And my idea of excitement
was racing my bicycle.
(bell ringing)
Yes!
I never thought time
would catch up with me.
But I couldn't believe that
(train whistle blowing)
hundreds of years from
now, mankind would invent
the nullifier, a device
capable of controlling
or destroying the universe.
- [Alien] Prepare for the storm.
- A scientist, named Irwin
1138 tried to disassemble
and hide the nullifier.
But even he couldn't stop.
- [Irwin] Dr. Zoetrope!
(lasers zapping)
- Give me the nullifier.
- You're too late, Zoetrope.
- It's never too late for me.
(engine roaring)
- Irwin and Zoetrope have
been chasing each other
across the time strip
trying to be the first
to find the nullifier in pieces.
This time, they go in to 1995.
The place, my front yard.
Now, I'm going along for
the ride of all time.
(laser zapping)
(engine roaring)
What's going on?
Where are we?
- I hope you're prepared
to do battle young man.
This will be war through
time and Dr. Zoetrope
will take no prisoners.
(explosions booming)
(dramatic music)
(dinosaur roaring)
- We've got help from a warrior.
- My name is Azabeth Siege.
- Ah, she's amazing.
(metal clanging)
And a magical creature called
Prism to show us the way.
Together, we're on
a quest through time
visiting different
worlds to fight
for the nullifier's pieces.
- I'm obviously in the right
place and the right time.
(lasers zapping)
- Because if Zoetrope ever
assembles the nullifier,
he'll conquer time itself.
I've gotta try and
save the universe.
(heroic action music)
I was just a 14 year old kid
before my adventure began.
But now, I'm Josh
Kirby, time warrior.
(heroic action music)
- [Narrator] On the last
chapter of Josh Kirby,
Time Warrior.
(dramatic music)
(explosions booming)
- Captain, his forces have
had us under constant siege.
(explosions booming)
- You know what I want.
The enslavement of
your entire planet.
(laughing)
- [Azabeth] He's taking the
carrier into his tractor beam.
- [Josh] He's buying it.
- Closer, closer.
(explosions booming)
(screaming)
(screaming)
(men grunting and screaming)
(screaming)
(dramatic music)
(music drowns out speakers)
(electricity zapping)
(screaming)
- Jumping meteors, it's
the fifth component.
- What is that?
(screaming)
- The nullifier
components, they're gone!
- (mumbles)?
These are a delicacy
on my planet.
- Ouch!
- Holy!
- That didn't tickle, you know.
- Irwin?
- Yeah.
- Irwin, uh, what's happening?
- Fascinating.
Fungi.
- [Josh] Yeah, yeah, they look
like they could be fun guys.
- No no, not fun guys, fungi.
I mean, parasitic
bacterial organisms
that thrive mainly on
moisture and nitrogen.
- Yeah, yeah they're mushrooms.
I hate mushrooms, I hate 'em.
Except on pizza.
(mysterious music)
- Oh beloved furry one.
All great and powerful.
You have finally come to
deliver us from the Muncher.
- Irwin, Irwin, why are
they praying to Prism?
- Apparently they must think
Prism is some form of deity.
- Yeah, right, the furry one.
- Yes.
Now be careful with
Prism, mushroom folk.
He's one of a kind.
(chanting)
- Thank you for
delivering the furry one
back to his rightful place.
- Azabeth.
- Don't worry, Josh, she's
probably just a little bit woozy
from the air down
here, that's all.
- Irwin, Irwin, that
mushroom she ate.
- It could be that these fungi
aren't meant for consumption
by carbon-based life forms.
- You mean she's poisoned?
- That could very
well be the case, yes.
- It's not my fault.
She took a bite out of me.
This is too much.
- She won't die, will she?
I mean, she only took one bite.
- Well organisms have
different tolerances
relative to a dose of poison.
The line between
no effect at all
and a lethal dose
can be very thin.
- It's alright.
I'm better now.
- Okay.
Irwin, we've got to
find an antidote.
- Yes but where, how?
- I don't know,
there's gotta be a way!
- It is a tragedy
to happen to such
a loyal disciple
of the furry one.
Our king will know what to do.
Come, come.
(grand music)
(trumpets playing)
(grand music)
- Hello, Porcini.
What is the meaning of
bringing these strange beings
into my royal chamber?
- Lord Truffle.
These are the furry
one's followers.
The signorina, she took
a bite out of one of
your loyal subjects.
Now she's very sick.
I tell them maybe
you know what to do.
- Lord Truffle.
The furry one is most
bummed out at the illness
of his loyal follower.
So could you help her?
- I summon the royal doctor.
(trumpets playing)
(whimsical music)
- Please to say ah.
- I'm not about to let you
stick that evil torture device
in my mouth.
- Azabeth, relax, it's
just a tongue depressor.
- My tongue is depressed
enough, Josh Kirby.
- Azabeth, let him look,
he's just trying to help.
- Ah.
- Ah.
(tutting)
- [Josh] What's wrong?
- Teeth full of cavities.
Must brush more.
(laughing)
- Yeah, yeah that's
really funny.
Look, what's wrong with her?
- Please understand I am
only humble shroom physician.
- Doc, hey doc.
You think you can
take a look at this?
- You took bite?
- Yes.
- Oh no.
Very bad.
Only one antidote.
Must taste from one
shroom's spores, Puffball.
- So where do we find
this Puffball guy?
- Oh, I'm very sorry but
Puffball is no longer with us.
- Puffball's been
snatched by the Muncher.
- Then we'll just have
to snatch him back.
- What manner of
creature is this Muncher?
- Oh, it is a most
horrible, horrible beast.
He traps and eats shrooms
for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner.
Without stop.
- Muncher first appeared
at Dream Cavern.
Was once most beautiful place.
Biggest tourist attraction
of all of Shroom Town.
But now off limits.
- It has turned the
entire shroom economy
into a shambles.
- Now it's called
Nightmare Hollow.
Nobody go there no more.
- But surely it's
just a matter of time
before this monster,
Muncher, do you call him?
Tracks you down here.
- Yeah, that's why we've
gotta find him first.
Look, we'll find Puffball,
get the antidote for Azabeth,
and get rid of this Muncher
thing all at the same time.
- Not a difficult mission
when armed with a 25th century
scientific marvel such
as my power staff.
(beeping)
Blast!
I must have forgotten to
recharge the firing mechanism
before I left the time pod.
- Well please,
you've gotta help us.
You've gotta lead us to
this Nightmare Hollow.
- Oh great furry one.
(squeaking)
Accept my most humble apologies.
I cannot accede to the wishes
of your groveling servants.
The hall to Nightmare Hollow
is sure shroom suicide.
- [Shroom] Yes.
- No one who goes
there, shroom or not,
will ever return alive.
- Look, we're going, with
or without your help,
and the furry one's
coming with us.
- Boy, you forget yourself!
You are talking to the
ruler of all shrooms!
- Hey!
- The audience is over.
We have much more important
business on our agenda.
- What'd you do to Prism?
- I have put the furry
one to sleep for today.
He needs his rest as all
of us below ground do.
Guards!
- [Guards] Yes my lord.
- Take the furry one's
followers to the grotto
for their own protection.
(dramatic music)
- Porcini!
- I'm sorry Josh, you must
do as Lord Truffle says.
Lord, may we not let the
furry one's disciples
go after Puffball?
It could mean the
signorina's life.
- How can you ask that, Porcini?
You know that the Muncher
has seriously decimated
our population.
You also know that I am
cultivating new subjects
in the royal cave
gardens even as we speak.
Our numbers are few.
Are you asking me to risk
antagonizing the Muncher
just when we've
begun to rebuild?
- No, no, that is, I
understand you highness
but you see--
- But, but nothing, Porcini.
The issue is closed.
- Yes lord.
(dramatic music)
- Along with you, don't tarry.
- I must rest, Josh Kirby.
- She's burning up.
- Yeah.
We've gotta get out of here!
- Not the best of occasions
for your time powers
to be in rejuvenation mode.
(bubbling)
- Ah, oh, ha ha.
Ay, ay.
Ah.
- Doctor Shiitake!
- Ay!
- I must ask you for
a very great favor.
- Shiitake will see
if he can grant it.
- The furry one's followers,
they need our help.
Lord Truffle forbids it
but I know he's wrong.
- I agree with you, Porcini.
- You do?
- Have been considering
the same issue myself.
Come to same conclusion as you.
- That's wonderful!
I will lead them to
Nightmare Hollow myself!
- Nightmare Hollow?
- But they must take the
furry one with them too.
- No problem!
Shiitake can get
furry one released
by telling Lord
Truffle furry one needs
full medical examination.
- Ooh, that's terrific.
(laughing)
You get the furry one and
meet me at the grotto.
- Hai!
(exciting music)
- You two are dismissed,
go get us some chow.
- Chow time!
(whimsical music)
- Hey.
- Porcini!
- I come to lead you to
Puffball and Nightmare Hollow.
How's the signorina?
- I'm alright.
- Prism!
Wait, but he's still asleep!
- Yes, I could not wake.
Shroom king sleep spores
especially strong.
- When will he wake up?
- Could happen soon.
Or not so soon.
What will happen, until then
Shiitake would be honored
if you carry furry one
in Shiitake's papoose.
- Yeah.
(coughing)
- This is for you to eat.
- What is it?
- Beet root.
Beet root make you better,
but listen carefully.
Work for 12 yabbadabbas only.
- 12 yabbadabbas?
How are we supposed to
know how long that is?
- When sand runs
out her time is up.
(suspenseful music)
- Is there any way you
can give us a couple more?
- Afraid not.
Beet root ancient, very rare.
If you not find Puffball
before time runs out,
she fall into deep
sleep, never wake up.
- Josh, look.
I know you care deeply
about Azabeth Siege as I do.
Sometimes you've got to
look at the big picture.
There is still the
universe to save.
- What good is the universe
without your friends?
Besides, this Muncher
thing, it eats shrooms.
Probably people.
And I'll bet it eats
nullifier components.
- Point well taken.
Now if the nullifier
components brought us here,
the pieces must be lost
somewhere in this cavern.
- Let us go my friends.
Time is of the essence.
(coughing)
(mysterious music)
- I must rest, Josh Kirby.
- No, later Azabeth.
Right now every minute counts.
- Water.
So much water.
- Wait, Azabeth, Azabeth wait!
Where do you see water?
- It's everywhere.
- Oh she's hallucinating, Josh.
Must be a side
effect of the poison.
- Oh, mamma mia, what's
happening to the furry one?
- Oh, even when he's
asleep Prism is sniffing
the nullifier component.
It must be this way.
- Wait, we've got
to save Azabeth!
- Relax.
This won't take long, Josh.
Moisture on the ceiling.
Brr, clammy.
Ah.
Eureka!
Ha ha ha!
One down, five to go.
- You were right, Azabeth.
There was water here.
- Not only that, but this
way, she is a shortcut.
She'll take us to Nightmare
Hollow in half of the time.
- Excellent!
- After you!
- No, after you!
- Gratzi signore.
(singing in Italian)
- Porcini!
You're a shroom of many talents.
- And I sing too.
(laughing)
- The bells are ringing,
they're ringing.
- What'd she say, Josh?
- I don't know,
something about bells.
- Have courage, Josh.
This ordeal is almost over.
(suspenseful music)
- Yeah, yeah I hope so Irwin.
I really hope so.
(mysterious music)
- I don't believe it.
- You don't believe what?
- [Dingdong] Who's out there?
- It's us, I mean
it's me, Porcini.
Mamma mia, little Dingadong!
We thought you were
taken by the Muncher.
- The name is Ding!
(dramatic music)
Your holiness, I'm not
worthy, I'm not worthy.
How come you asleep?
- Dingadong, not now.
You can grovel later.
Right now you must join
me to help the furry one
and his servants
rescue the lost ones.
This girl here, she's sick.
If we don't find your
daddy Puffball soon,
she's gonna get sicker.
Hey, by the way your mama,
she's worried sick about you.
- Yeah, well I know she's
been worried about Dad too
ever since he disappeared.
Maybe if anyone had the
nerve to form a search party,
there might be
some shred of hope!
- Hey Porcini, who's your pal?
- What's it to ya, freak?
- Freak, who you calling freak?
You're the talking mushroom.
(bells ringing)
- Oh oh, Josh, Josh,
this is Dingadong.
Please excuse him.
His papa disappeared in
Nightmare Hollow last week.
His papa is Puffball, the
same mushroom we seek, eh.
- Oh, that lousy Muncher.
I'm gonna turn him
into shroom food
if it's the last thing I do!
- Oh!
You're too young for
a vendetta, Dingadong.
- Think so?
I'm gathering enough
ammunition to get the Muncher
all by myself.
- Very brave, my boy,
but also very foolish.
A well thought out plan is
the best weapon you can have.
- Those are my
plans right there.
That's plan A, that's plan
B, and this is plan C.
- Not bad.
But you may want to discard
some of the heavier stones.
Although they appear
more threatening they can
throw off your aim and in
the end be less effective
than one perfectly
aimed small sharp rock.
- Cool.
I never had that effect
on a female before.
- Now look she's sick.
We've got to find the
Muncher and your father
in, well, in however
many yabbadabbas this is.
- I'll show you the way.
It can get pretty dark up ahead.
And there are millions
of passages leading
every which way.
And my ringing
will come in handy,
and then we can really
kick some Muncher butt.
(exciting music)
- I would be proud to
kick some Muncher butt
alongside you, young Dingdong.
- Yeah, me too pal.
- Ah.
(mysterious music)
(coughs)
- Come on, hold it up.
- I thank you, Josh Kirby, I
just need to catch my breath.
Oh the sky, out of the
sky, look, look out.
- What's wrong with her?
- Azabeth Siege
is hallucinating.
- Sure, but then
they happen for real.
- Yeah that's right.
They're like premonitions.
She head the bells ringing
and then we met Dingdong.
- What does she mean
by out of the sky?
- I don't know, I guess
we keep looking up.
- What is the source of your
ringing, little Dingdong?
- I get it from my dad's
side of the family.
We're bell shrooms.
- Oh.
Are you capable
of controlling it?
- I'm trying to
learn, it's not easy.
I'm only 13.
Older shrooms can make
all kinds of rings
whenever they want to.
- Bell shrooms are most
respected among our people.
They can make a pleasing
music or sound the alarm
when danger threatens.
- I'm alright now, we can go on.
(chirping)
- [Dingdong] Awesome.
- [Irwin] Look, Prism's
on the trail of another
nullifier component.
- He's almost better at it
asleep then he is awake.
Irwin, we don't have much time!
- This won't take long.
- Yeah, that's what
you said last time.
There's nothing here.
- It's impossible.
Prism's coat of many colors--
- Never lies, I know.
But maybe he's malfunctioning.
There's a first
time for everything.
- That's the 11th code of Kang.
- Oh, remember, we gotta
be watching the sky.
(burbling)
- Irwin, are you getting
shorter or am I getting taller?
- No, we're exactly the same.
- Oh, it's quicksand!
Get out!
(ringing)
Everybody stay back,
it's dangerous!
Stay back!
- Quick, take my hand!
Come on, pull!
Hurry, something!
Irwin grab hold of this, quick!
- No, no, it's too
valuable to risk!
(groaning)
- [Josh] Come on!
- Goodbye, Josh,
Azabeth, little Prism.
It's been wonderful knowing you.
- [Josh] No, don't let go!
Don't let go!
(ringing)
Help!
Are you sure we're supposed
to be looking in the sky?
- You have to let
go of his hand.
I'm not strong enough
to pull you both up.
- No, I can't!
Just let go!
- You must!
- No, I won't!
- Josh Kirby, I refuse
to let you die this way!
- Stand back!
- [Josh] Porcini!
- I got it, give me your hand!
(mumbles)
- Irwin, come on, just a
little more, keep it going!
(panting)
(coughing)
- What's that?
- It's another
nullifier component.
It stands to reason.
If all the pieces were strewn
here during the cave in,
then there must be pieces that
are hidden from plain sight.
(laughing)
- How'd you manage
to pull us both out?
- Don't think just because
we're small we're not strong.
- That certainly
was a close call.
- Yeah, I'd say.
- We could have missed finding
this nullifier component.
- Hey Porcini, does the
furry one show any signs
of waking up?
- Afraid not.
He's still in furry
one dreamland.
- Great.
So how old are you anyway, Ding?
- 15.
- Oh yeah?
I'm 14.
- Yeah, you look
tall for your age.
- Maybe here.
Back home I'm kinda average.
So I guess you're pretty
worried about your dad, huh?
- Yeah.
Even though he really
bugs me sometimes.
I told him once I
wished he'd go away.
(sentimental music)
Gee, I really didn't mean it.
- Sure.
We all say things
we're sorry for later.
- Well, my dad can be
a real pain in the cap.
The funny thing is now
I miss him bugging me.
- Yeah, I know what
you mean for sure.
- We should move on, my friends.
(exciting music)
- Josh.
- Whoa!
- Porcini.
(zapping)
(ominous music)
- Where am I?
I'm obviously underground.
Hello, what's this?
Ah, well I'm obviously
in the right place
and the right time.
Yeah.
- Azabeth is different
looking than you.
Do all females of your
kind look like her?
- Not really, but kind of.
She come from, well the
best way I can describe it
is an alternate future.
- Future, you mean another time?
- Yeah.
Azabeth's from a twisted
version of the 33rd century.
Irwin's from what will
hopefully once again
be the 25th century,
and I'm from the strictly
legitimate 20th century.
- How can that happen?
- Well we have pieces
of what is called
the nullifier component.
It's powerful enough to
destroy the universe.
Irwin's been traveling
in a time pod he invented
to try and recover
all the pieces.
And I've been helping him.
- You've been helping
him destroy the universe?
Why?
- Oh no, no.
I've been helping him
keep this other guy,
Dr. Zoetrope, from
getting all the pieces.
See Zoetrope's crazy enough
to want to reassemble
the nullifier and
destroy the world.
Irwin chased one of the
components to my backyard
and I kinda got
stuck helping him.
For a while it was kind
of a race against time.
And through time.
To beat Zoetrope in
getting all the pieces.
And now Zoetrope's got
'em we've still got to get
all the pieces before he can
retrace our steps through
time and restore the natural
order of the time stream.
- [Dingdong] So that's
how you met Azabeth?
- [Josh] Yeah.
We just came from her
own time where she helped
lead her people
in a slave revolt.
- Wow.
- Yeah we've been on
so many adventures.
We rode dinosaurs
in medieval England,
escaped from a giant
mutant kid who had us
trapped as human pets.
- Zowie!
After all you've been through
the Muncher must not
scare you at all!
- No way!
Nothing scares me now.
(buzzing)
Whoa!
Ah!
(ominous music)
- Stingers!
- These sting like bees
back home, only worse!
- We must be near their nest.
There!
- Why are they only
coming after me?
- Stingers sting
the first organism
and then they sting until
that organism is dead.
Then they go after the next one.
- Sting me til I'm dead?
You gotta be kidding me!
(mumbles)
- If we get far enough
away from their nest
they usually leave you alone.
- Usually?
That's just great.
(speaking Italian)
- Oh, that was a close
one for you, Josh Kirby.
- Yeah, you're telling me.
- We should press on, people.
- Azabeth, can you walk?
- Yes.
- Azabeth is right
about looking up.
I wonder what's next?
- The walls.
(mysterious music)
Pictures on the walls.
The story.
The story is true.
- What can she mean?
- Paintings on walls.
- It could mean anything.
- I'm not so sure, mister.
Me, I like to know what's
on the itinerary myself.
- Painting on the wall.
- Hey, the wall is painted!
- Holy moly.
- Fascinating.
- Ooh, it's like the
catacombs beneath
the ancient city of Mushroom.
(ominous music)
- Shroom, shrooms.
What is a shroom?
(growling)
- What does this mean?
- It's like a caveman painting.
Only with UFOs and aliens.
- You can't see the
forest for the trees, boy.
The centerpiece of
this entire painting
is the nullifier device.
- This whole thing has
gotten really weird.
- Dingadong, this is much
bigger than our little
shroom world has
ever seen before.
- Irwin, look.
There's another one over here.
More than one.
Irwin, there's got to be
more than one nullifier.
- Impossible.
- See for yourself!
- Well this painting
appears to be geniune.
Let's time date it.
(beeping)
It dates at 12
million years old.
- But if there's another
nullifier device,
where could it be?
- I don't know.
This whole painting
belongs to an alien culture
that's completely unknown to me.
It has a history no one knows.
- I bet the furry one knows.
- Hey, what do you
mean Dingadong?
- Doesn't anyone but
me notice something
about the furry one
and these little guys?
(magical music)
- Great jumping ions,
I think the little
bell shroom is on to something.
- You know there is a shroom
legend about such a thing
like this painting.
All the mushrooms
know the sacred story.
The furry one, he come
here many, many years ago
and he come from far, far away.
They hold in their hands
the secrets of the universe.
And only they know how
to use the secrets.
Hey, it is the furry ones
that keep everything in order!
- In order?
- They make the mushroom
kingdom what it is today.
They keep things going
in the right way.
You know, like
the, um, (mumbles),
the progress of things!
The water, the water,
it comes down to us
from the stream over there
so we grow and the prosper
down here.
Each day we know
there is a next day.
And like that.
Capisce?
- You mean the time continuum.
Don't you see what he's saying?
He's saying that the furry
ones established linear time
on this planet, without which
you would have no progress.
Because in random time
it's impossible to build
tomorrow on today.
- Irwin, are you saying
that Prism is the key
to the secret to the universe?
- No Josh.
Not the key but a key.
This whole picture is
like, like pages in a book.
Look.
On this page you have
the furry ones abducting
the nullifier from
these alien people
and here you have the
boat which has always
been a symbol for the
transfer of knowledge
from one age to the other.
He's bringing the knowledge
to another people.
And here, the furry
ones have hundreds
if not thousands of nullifiers.
While on the last page.
- Yeah, what about
the last page?
- The last page is
being written now, Josh.
- This is sacrilege!
How dare you speak this
way about the furry one!
You hairless ignorant
smoother skins
should be ashamed of yourselves.
- I'm reminded of the
very first code of Kang.
- Yeah, what's that one again?
- Things are not
always as they appear.
- You're right.
(mysterious music)
- On the other side of that
bridge is Nightmare Hollow.
- The nether regions.
- The evil place.
- The epitomal image of
Dante's hellish inferno.
- Yeah so in other words
we gotta watch our butts.
(suspenseful music)
- [Porcini] That's it, that's
it, come on now, that's it.
Hurry up Josh, come on!
- Josh Kirby, run!
- Oh no!
- Come on, keep
climbing, come on!
Don't let go.
Come on, that's it,
you're doing good,
look at us, come on.
That's it Josh, come on.
Come on, boy!
Grab her hand!
Come on.
Pull, pull!
That's it.
Come on everyone!
- Well, that always
looked fun on Nintendo.
- It was too close for comfort.
- I, I agree.
- You don't need to know
what a yabbadabba is
to know that Azabeth
hasn't got much time.
- Look, Prism's sniffing
another nullfier component.
Can't be too far off.
- Neither can the Muncher.
(mysterious music)
- We are in the heart
of Nightmare Hollow now.
This is Muncher
territory for sure.
- What makes you say that?
- I just feel it.
- The second code
of Kang tells us
a warrior must always
trust his instincts.
- When did this Muncher
monster begin to make its
presence felt by
you mushroom people?
- It seems like forever.
You don't measure things
the same like time
when you live so scared.
- Has anyone ever
seen this Muncher?
- No one who came back.
- [Dingdong] I saw it.
- Dingadong, you saw the
Muncher take your daddy?
Oh that's terrible.
- It all happened so fast.
I tried.
But I couldn't do anything.
I kept yelling for
my dad to follow me
but it was like he was
in some sort of trance.
I felt it too.
I was practicing my ringing
when it all came upon us.
That's how come I think I
wasn't taken with the others.
- Hypnosis.
It must use hypnosis
to attract its prey.
- That must be why you
were able to escape.
If you were ringing, your
mind must have been so full
of emotion that it
couldn't be lured
into the Muncher's trap.
- That's right.
You were so busy worrying
about your father
you didn't have time
to do anything else.
- Wow.
So my dad saved me?
- In a manner of speaking, yes.
- But all I did was panic.
And cover myself with moss.
I don't know what
happened after that.
It got real quiet and
then everybody was gone.
- You were very
brave, young Dingdong.
And you couldn't have
done anything except
get munched yourself.
But you behaved as
a warrior and now
you're prepared for the battle.
- Warrior?
I'm no warrior.
All I did was hide and run away.
- He who fights
and flees the fray
lives to fight another day.
- By any chance would
that be a code of Kang?
- Number six.
(mysterious music)
- Whoa, Josh.
You alright?
- Yeah.
I'm fine, I just
tripped on something.
- How big did you
say this Muncher is?
- That's his footprints,
you figure it out.
- Oh no, not a footprint.
I've had quite enough of
monster, giants, and mutants
for one lifetime,
thank you very much.
(suspenseful music)
- Everybody, look at
the furry one's hair!
- Prism?
You've done it again!
- That's right, the
Muncher must have stepped
on one of the
nullifier components.
(chuckling)
- [Irwin] Thank heaven
they're indestructible.
- I just noticed something.
Every time we pick one
of these things up,
something go wrong.
It's like they are
jinxed or booby-trapped.
(pulsing tone)
- Porcini, that's
absolute coincidence.
It's totally unscientific.
There's just no pattern here.
In due time you could
establish a pattern
but twice is mere coincidence.
(buzzing)
What's that noise?
(growling)
(screaming)
Don't look at its eyes!
- Prepare to meet
your maker, Muncher!
- No, Dingdong!
Azabeth, no, no,
Azabeth, not you too.
Azabeth, Azabeth,
no, Azabeth, no!
Azabeth, no!
(shouting)
(hitting)
I know, we gotta
get to its eyes.
It's the only way to
make it powerless!
- Basta, wait a minute, boy!
- Hold back, Joshua!
You'll never reach
up to its face.
(shushing)
(mysterious music)
(groaning)
- You think you're so smart.
Eh, little shrooms?
- Who the heck are you?
- Oh!
(mumbles) Boy you nearly...
You, how did you find me?
- I'll ask the questions.
Game over.
What are you trying
to pull anyway?
Where is everyone, huh?
(shushing)
What have you done with them?
- Shh, I can explain everything.
Okay, take it easy young man.
You see, it's really
quite an amusing thing.
You see it's really
quite amusing.
- Over here, take
a look at this.
- What have we here?
- Oh, ha!
Allow me to introduce myself.
I am Colonel
Beauregard T. Damon.
Colonel Beauregard T. Damon.
Master shop, intergalactic
entrepreneur,
voyager, inventor, and
patron of the arts.
And you are?
- It's ingenious.
This Muncher is actually
an incredibly sophisticated
animatronic puppet?
- Yes, yes!
It's a creation of
my own, in fact.
It's quite effective in
trapping alien species.
- Hang on little Dingadong!
I'm on my way!
- Look.
Those alien species
are our friends.
- Oh.
You see, everybody's fine.
- Who's this guy?
- This is Colonel Damon.
He built this thing.
(rumbling)
- The Muncher isn't a monster,
it's a mechanical puppet.
- Yeah, we figured that out.
- Hey, where's my
dad and the others?
- Yeah, where is everyone?
We're looking for a shroom
called Puffball and we need him
right now.
- Well I will take you to them.
It's not far.
Mind your heads.
(mysterious music)
Won't be long now.
- What are you collecting
these alien species for anyway?
(beeps)
Pets?
Slaves?
- My stars, no,
nothing so primitive.
No, see I feature the natural
wonders of the universe
in my very own
intergalactic circus.
Ha!
- Oh, an intergalactic circus.
- Yes, yeah well it's
my primary venture
into the world of
entertainment, presently.
I travel the cosmos in
my little chuck wagon
collecting various creatures
and bringing them together
under one tent!
- So it's like a freak show!
- Yes!
No, no, no.
Hello, youth.
No see my big top
travels from one planet
to the next, educating.
E-D-U-C-A-T--
- I-N-G.
- I-N-G, right,
educating alien cultures
as to the vast variety, the
possibilities of nature.
Yeah.
- So where are you from?
- Well, well I've planted myself
in every corner of the
universe at one time
or another, but I was born
in the United Federation
of American Colonies.
- You mean the United
States of America.
- What?
The USA?
That's ancient history, son.
What time machine
did you step out of?
Next thing you're gonna tell me
is that you've never heard
of the talking ape era
of the 21st century.
(laughing)
- Oh no, I've heard of that.
- Come come come!
(clapping)
I think you'll find
this quite relieving.
(mysterious music)
(whimsical circus music)
(beeps)
- Oh, daylight!
Oh am I glad to see you.
What are you doing here?
- Center of most worlds
I've been to harbor
an internal sun.
Jules Verne was right.
- Azabeth, are you okay?
(suspenseful music)
No, it can't be too late.
There's still some sand left.
- Every estimate has a
margin of error, Josh.
- Josh, I--
- [Irwin] She's slipping
rather quickly, Josh.
- Where's Puffball?
Where is he?
- He's in there.
- Bring him here, quick!
Hurry!
Azabeth, Azabeth, wake up.
Don't fall asleep,
you'll be okay.
(ringing)
- Pops!
- Hello son.
How are you?
- Azabeth, Azabeth!
We're here, look,
Puffball's right here.
Azabeth, no.
- I'm afraid it's too late.
She's slipped into a
terminal deep sleep
just like Dr. Shiitake
said she might.
- On behalf of all of
the mushrooms, Josh,
I want to say that
we are so sorry
that we are the
cause of your sorrow.
- No.
No, we've got to do something!
Look, you say you're the
smartest man in the universe,
so just do something!
- Sorry Josh, there's some
problems even I can't solve.
If I could alter the
situation, I would.
I'm just a scientist,
not a magician.
I can't perform miracles.
- I don't need a miracle.
All I need is a few minutes!
They were taken from me
and I'm gonna get 'em back.
Just a few minutes.
All I need is a few minutes.
Just five minutes, come on.
(exciting music)
(buzzing)
Five minutes.
- Josh!
Josh, what in the name
of the supreme prefect?
Great jumping ions!
You're summoning up
your own time storm!
Josh, be careful!
- Five minutes.
Five minutes.
- [Porcini] Josh,
Puffball, hurry!
- That tastes terrible.
- It's okay Azabeth, medicine's
supposed to taste bad.
- What are you trying
to do, poison me?
- Just now, I was somehow
able to turn back time.
- What?
No one's ever been able to
create a time storm before
without using a
chronal displacement
device of some sort.
- Yeah, well I did.
I mean, Azabeth was
almost out of time,
I had to do something.
- You did it!
It worked!
- Yeah.
- Stupefying.
(bright music)
- It's humble but it's mine.
(groaning)
- Irwin.
Zoetrope.
- He doesn't seem
to recognize us.
Anything else for that matter.
- (speaking foreign language)
It's me!
Chantarelle!
Speak to me!
What's wrong with you all?
- They cannot hear you.
See they respond to only
me and my instructions.
(ominous music)
I am so glad you've
provided me with
this opportunity to have
you join their ranks.
- What a dirty, rotten--
- Sticks and stones
may break my bones
but names really tick me off.
(laser firing)
- Porcini!
- What did you do to my dad
you mad, mad circus freak?
(laser firing)
(groaning)
- Don't worry, don't worry.
I'm only interested in
mushrooms for my circus.
Besides, I've only stunned them.
Once I reprogram their minds,
they'll fit right
in with the others.
- You are nothing but
a coward and a phony.
First you hide behind
your mechanical rat
and now you try and hide
behind your blaster.
- Young lady, you are really
beginning to try my patience.
- Colonel, couldn't we come
to some sort of arrangement?
- Hmm.
Well, your furry little
ward there would make
a most excellent attraction.
Never seen a species like him.
Yes, yes, bravo I say!
Bravissimo, bravace, alright!
Hand him over.
- That's impossible.
We haven't finished collecting
all the nullifier components.
But I can fully
appreciate your interest
in my little friend.
Perhaps when he's
fulfilled his function.
- Irwin, you're kidding, right?
- Well, it's a shroom
show this season anyway.
Too late to introduce
a new attraction now.
I can't believe my luck.
This one here make a most
excellent strong man.
Golly gosh, now I will
have a father and son
dinging act.
(mimicking bells ringing)
(curious music)
- Fourth and fifth
nullifier components.
- Into, into the
cage with them, boys!
- I demand that you set these
shrooms free immediately.
You have no right to
keep them in bondage.
I have spent my entire
life fighting this very
kind of slavery on my own
planet and it makes me sick!
(kicks)
- My hand!
You little hussy.
- Set them free, Colonel.
Or I'll zap you into a
state of unconsciousness.
- Oh, pshaw.
- Break the spell, Colonel.
- You shoot me and
your fungal friends
will spend their days
in a state of catatonia.
And you'll never be able
to de-hypnotize them.
- Oh yeah?
I'll think of something.
- Go ahead then.
Shoot.
- Don't say I didn't warn you.
(buzzing)
- Oh darn, I forgot to tell you.
The plasma blaster's
grip is programmed
to respond only to
my hand print, oh!
I've been robbed.
You, ugly!
You, you, you!
Block the exits!
Nobody gets out!
(mysterious music)
(chanting)
- Where's Irwin?
- Return my property,
thieving septuagenarian.
You have no choice
but to surrender, sir.
My troops have you surrounded.
- It's you who have robbed me.
These are the objects I
have risked life and limb
to find and I won't be
waylaid by the likes of you.
- Tough toenails!
Sir, they are mine now
to show to the universe.
- Colonel, if we don't
get all those pieces
there won't be any universe.
- Oh, what's that
supposed to mean?
- I won't return them, Colonel.
- Well, in that case
I guess it's pointless
to argue with you.
- Oh.
I knew at heart you were
a reasonable human being.
- I just have to
shoot you instead.
(intense music)
(laser firing)
- Must make haste.
- [Crowd] No one gets out.
- What about
Dingdong and Porcini?
- We can't just
leave them there.
- Irwin, what do we do?
- Never having been surrounded
by zombie mushrooms before,
I have no idea.
- Oh!
- Pop, it's me, Dingdong!
What are you doing?
These are my friends!
Please, snap out of it!
(chirping)
- It's the furry one!
- [Mushrooms] We pledge our
undying loyalty oh furry one.
- Prism's colors are bringing
them out of hypnosis.
- [Mushrooms] We pledge our
undying loyalty oh furry one.
We pledge our undying
loyalty oh furry one.
We pledge our undying
loyalty oh furry one.
(mystical music)
- We told you the
furry one was great.
- Pops!
(ringing)
- Ding!
Oh my boy!
- Irwin, how could you even
consider trading Prism away?
- Josh, Colonel Damon is a
traveler to distant galaxies.
With him, Prism has
a much better chance
of getting back
to his own planet.
- Well yeah, I never
thought of it that way.
- It's a good thing we now know
what a lowly worm-gutted
villain Colonel Damon really is.
- Ahem.
He can hear you.
Put them back in the cages.
What have you done?
- Your slaver days
are over, Damon.
- My talent.
You've deprogrammed them.
Months of work, ruined.
Okay.
- You torture your
last shroom, paisan.
You're gonna go on
your space rocket
and you're gonna bring
back all the shrooms
you kidnapped.
We go with you to make sure.
- I will return all
your people to you.
Think I wanted to resort to
violence and mind control?
- You're power hungry,
Colonel, it's a disease.
Believe me, I know.
- Okay, okay, so I made some
faulty management decisions.
My entertainment empire
spans the universe.
All I ever wanted to do was
bring the mysteries of nature
to the underprivileged
youngsters of the cosmos.
Was that so wrong?
Mommy!
- It doesn't sound
like such a bad life.
Traveling around the cosmos.
- Hey, how do you know?
You never even
been above ground.
None of us have.
- That's just what I'm saying.
It could be a great adventure.
To explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life,
new civilizations, to
boldly go where no shroom
has gone before.
- It's an exciting life,
that's for certain.
- I'm thinking about going.
- Me too.
- But he will exploit
you, treat you as slaves,
imprison you.
- Yeah.
But they wouldn't be
slaves if they were paid.
- Profit sharing?
Never.
- You must not let this
scoundrel take advantage!
(dramatic music)
If you fail to give the
shrooms a fair deal,
Damon, I will
personally hunt you down
and take their percentage
from your worthless hide.
As the 20th code
of Kang ordains,
blood debts must
be repaid in blood.
- Blood?
- Azabeth, is that really
the 20th code of Kang?
- Of course it is.
- I agree, I agree!
I will negotiate,
just don't hurt me.
- Alright then.
It's settled.
Badabing, badaboom.
- What about Zoetrope?
- Oh yes, Dr. Zoetrope.
He must still be under
the spell of the Muncher.
Lucky for us the Colonel
doesn't know who he is.
- Ah, well Colonel,
what are you planning
on doing with that
big guy over there?
- The rove rover?
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Caught him just
today in the catacombs.
Put up quite a fight,
nearly crunched my Muncher.
Robots are yesterday's news
most places these days.
But trade him to a
robot wrestling team
for Maldorphian red pod.
- A robot wrestling team, huh?
That's pretty cool.
(light music)
- I just wanted to thank
you for helping our people.
And for reuniting
me with my boy.
- And you should be
especially proud of your son,
Mr. Puffball.
We would have been
lost without him.
Young Dingdong is a very
brave and resourceful warrior.
- I can't wait to tell the
kids about the stinger attacks.
The quicksand and
fighting with the Muncher!
And about this beautiful
cool warrior girl
who taught me all about life
and the 21 codes of Kang.
- Whoa, wait a second!
Maybe you should tell
your old man first, huh?
(giggles)
- Maybe when you get older, Pop.
(laughing)
Goodbye, Azabeth Siege.
I don't know if I'll ever
meet anyone like you again.
(grand music)
- And I know I will never
meet another mushroom warrior
as brave as you, young Dingdong.
- I'm no good at
saying goodbyes, so we
just say ciao, okay?
- Ciao.
- Yes indeed, Porcini.
- And you too furry one.
I would be honored if
I could shake your paw.
(chirps)
(exciting music)
I'll never wash this hand again.
(laughing)
(gentle music)
- How do we find
the last components,
and what do we do then?
- Then the universe is
saved and I'll restore you
and Azabeth back to
your respective times.
Return to mine a demigod.
- What if you can't do it?
I mean bring us back, that is.
- Oh don't worry,
I'll find a way.
Or perhaps even you will.
Josh.
When you used your
time warrior powers
to summon up a
one-person time storm.
How did you know
you could do it?
Did you just feel it innately?
- Well at the moment it
was all I wanted to do.
It was like I knew
what had to happen
and I knew I had
to make it happen.
Now look, this may sound crazy,
but I knew I could do it.
I just knew.
I guess when someone really
wants to change something
they find the power
to make it happen.
Of course, that's
not always true.
Some things nobody can change.
I guess that's the way
it's supposed to be.
- Yes, it's very sensible, Josh.
You have a good head
on your shoulders.
- Thanks.
- Goodnight, Josh.
- Goodnight, Irwin.
(gentle snoring)
(sentimental music)
(buzzing)
- No, no, not again!
(dramatic music)
(zapping)
Zoetrope!
- Toss me the
nullifying component.
- No, never!
Whoa!
- Josh, it's too heavy, Josh.
It's weighing you down, Josh.
Toss me the nullifying
component so I can pull you up.
- No, I'd rather see it lost
forever then in your hands!
- Listen to me, Joshua.
If you drop the
nullifying component
you will most certainly
doom the future of all mankind.
You may as well take
a chance with me.
(zaps)
(dramatic music)
(shouts)
- I'm warning you, Dr. Zoetrope.
I've got powers too.
Special, special time warrior
powers that you can't handle.
I can bend time
without a tin suit.
- Then use those powers
to finally see the truth.
Irwin 1138's been
manipulating you all along.
- Your evil lies make me sick!
We both know Irwin's
been trying to save
the universe from you.
- No Joshua.
He's tricked you
into believing that
when it's been he who wants
to destroy the future.
- You're insane!
You've been doing
everything in your power
to try and crush us!
- Is that why I saved
your life just now?
If you still don't believe
me, Josh, go ahead.
Touch your fingers to my
head and time probe my mind.
- What do you mean?
- Pull the past
from out of my mind.
You can do it.
You're a time warrior, Josh.
(suspenseful music)
(zaps)
- I was able to recalibrate
Colonel Damon's blaster
to match my own pawprint.
Are you alright, Josh?
- Yeah, I'm fine, but you
didn't have to shoot him!
- Ah, forget his evil lies.
Trying to turn you
against me is child play
for an evil genius like him.
- Irwin?
Let me probe your time memories.
- Never!
(intense music)
Hand over the final
nullifying component now Josh!
- No.
No not until I know the truth!
- Please, Josh.
After all we've been
through together,
don't force me to blast
you to smithereens!
(warping music)
- [Narrator] On the next chapter
of Josh Kirby Time Warrior!
- He's no one's friend, Josh!
- Quiet, you!
(blasts)
- [Josh] Dr. Zoetrope!
- Hand the final
nullifying component
over to me now.
Before I disintegrate Azabeth!
(zapping)
- Irwin, come back!
- I've won, I've won, I've won!
- Without a time travel
device we're stuck here
in the center of the earth,
powerless to stop him.
- But there must be
something we can do.
A warrior can't just give up.
(laughing maniacally)
- You said it yourself.
I'm a time warrior.
(buzzing)
- It's working!
- I got it!
- I knew you could
do it, Josh Kirby!
What in the name
of Kang is that?
- It's an energy distortion
of the time stream.
A time wave.
- Look out!
(screaming)
- We did it!
This is it!
- I did it!
I'm back!
- We are still in
the 20th century.
But we're six inches tall.
Well, I gotta go.
I've gotta try and
save the universe.
- My friends are all
gone thanks to you.
- Good riddance.
Prepare to join them!
(blasting)
(exploding)
No!
(exploding)
(exciting music)
(light music)
(MultiCom jingle)