G5 Adventures in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

The Mane 6 had heard quite a bit of fighting during their time in other worlds and in Equestria, but... what they just heard going on between Kendra's parents, Evander and Avarsi, after finding out that Evander was having an affair with a coworker was... brutal.

The name-calling, the verbal abuse... the claws and fangs being used whenever one got too close.

And the worse thing was... they finally discovered that Evander had been treating his daughters so horribly, just because they were born girls instead of boys.

It almost (almost being the keyword) made the situation of Mr. Krupp making George, Harold and Kendra go to separate classes less horrible than they originally pictured it to be.

For the rest of that weekend, Kendra and her siblings seemed to be walking on eggshells, watching their parents' happy marriage unravel before their very eyes.

Not even sushi could cheer the siblings up, and that was certainly saying something.

But as soon as Monday rolled around, Kendra knew that she would have to help George and Harold and the rest of her new friends get back the Tattle Turtle before Mr. Krupp banished the ponies from the school and sent her and her best friends to separate classes.

But the real question in that moment was... would they succeed in their plans? Or... would they fail horribly and risk an even more horrible fate?

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“Kendra…? Kendra… it’s time to get up, sweetheart. You’ll be late for school.”

Kendra groaned to herself and slowly opened her eyes to see Avarsi standing over her, her eyes gentle and her smile caring. However... Kendra sighed and turned over again. “If you’re here to tell me more about this divorce thing and tell me it’ll be okay, it won’t work. I know it’s not gonna be okay.”

Avarsi sighed as she sat down on her daughter's bed. “I know you’re really upset, sweetie… I am too.”

“At Dad? Or his new girlfriend?” Kendra scoffed from under the covers. “...both, honestly,” Avarsi sighed. “I’m sad because your father lied to me… and what he said about you girls blew me over the edge.”

Kendra sniffled, looking up at her mother with tear-filled eyes. “Why would Dad say that stuff about me and my sisters? Did he… ever love us?”

“I wish I knew what the answer was, but I can’t read your father’s mind,” Avarsi said with a touch of remorse. “Only… Queen Felicia had that power.”

“...the queen of Leopardia before Allura and her twin took over?” Kendra looked confused. “Yes,” Avarsi nodded. “When I was a girl, still living in Leopardia, I saw her once-- she was beautiful, and my mother told me that all winged leopards in the royal family had some sort of power over the mind, along with their other magical powers. The queen used her powers to help our people, but when her husband took over after her death… he used his powers to make us do the most evil things.”

“But so did Allura and Alterro,” Kendra mumbled. “Why didn’t you choose to abandon Leopardia when their dad was still in power?”

“Fear, I suppose. The point is… after Leopardia was disbanded, my family wasn’t sure what to do, and we were scared,” Avarsi continued. “And… even though we’re all scared, hurt and angry about the divorce and separation… it’ll be okay. Trust me when I say that.”

Kendra spared her mother a glance before sighing and sitting up. “Okay… I trust you. Is… is Dad here?”

“No, he had to go to work. He’s going to be by this afternoon with a lawyer to… discuss the divorce,” Avarsi said gently. “But, your pony friends, George and Harold are going to have breakfast together. Won’t that be nice?”

Kendra nodded slightly. “Uh-huh.”

Avarsi chuckled at this. “Now, hurry up and get your fur brushed before you come down for breakfast. You kids have to leave soon, and don’t worry… I’ll call Mr. Krupp and see if we can work something out about this whole separate classes thing.”

“...thanks, Mom,” Kendra smiled, but deep in her heart she knew that whatever happened, she and her friends would have to take matters into their own hands, paws and hooves.

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Immediately after breakfast was over, the leopard siblings, George, Harold and the Mane 6 quickly headed to the school, and once they got there, Kendra told Claudia and Treena to take Heath and head on to their classes in case they got caught, so that way, Kendra’s siblings wouldn’t get into trouble.

Misty knew that her invisibility spell would come in handy once they got past Mr. Krupp and into the office, but as for how to get Krupp away from the office... that was a whole different box of ponycorn.

Hitch had the idea to hide in a large, spacious storage closet as they saw Mr. Krupp (with the Tattle Turtle sitting next to him) copying several pieces of paper which could only be the applications for the science teacher position. As he shut the tray down, the principal was startled to see Edith, the school lunch lady, suddenly appear in front of him with a deep dish in her hands. “Edith!”

“Oh, is this a bad time?” Edith asked timidly. “I did not mean to interrupt the copying process. I'll go.”

“Yes, go! Please go,” George whispered from the closet, even though Zipp tried to keep him from blowing their cover. “No, no. I'm just finishing up,” Mr. Krupp said nervously, causing the boys to groan. “What brings you around here?”

“I just made this tuna casserole,” Edith said, holding it up to show him, “and I noticed it had your name on it... in jalapeno peppers.”

Mr. Krupp sniffed the entree, slightly intrigued. “Mmm. It smells spicy.”

“Yep. Mmm-hmm,” Edith nodded nervously. “That's cause it's been dry-aged for a week.”

“I don't know what that means, but it sounds very time-consuming.”

“It took a week.”

George watched the interaction between Edith and Mr. Krupp with a look of weirdness and disgust on his face. “Eww! They like each other?”

“Oh, no, George,” Pipp said gravely, recognizing this look from her mother’s interactions with Alphabittle before they got engaged. “I think it's much worse. They like-like each other.”

“What are you talking about?” George asked her, finding the mere thought of what Pipp was suggesting to be rather ridiculous. “Adults don't like-like other adults.”

“Well,” Harold said with a shrug, “you probably haven't seen it at your home since your parents are married. In my studies, like-liking seems to end with marriage.”

“Eh,” Zipp shrugged. “It works for Misty’s dad and our mom, so I can totally see that between Krupp and Edith.”

“Well, I should probably get back to running the school,” Mr. Krupp said, nervously grabbing the Tattle Turtle before beginning to walk backwards toward his office. “You know, it's not gonna run itself.”

“But…” Edith tried to say something, but the door closed before she could get the chance. “Oh, Edith. Get your head out of the clouds!”

Soon, Edith began to leave, giving Kendra the cue to try and sneak over to the office. “Wait, Edith!” Mr. Krupp cried and raced after Edith, causing Izzy to pull Kendra back into the closet. “You never gave me the tuna casserole!”

And once Mr. Krupp was gone, Sunny gasped in realization. “I think he forgot the turtle!” she whispered. “Go go go!”

The group quickly began to sneak over toward the office, but immediately, they retreated back into the closet when they saw the secretary, Ms. Anthrope, heading back into the office after her morning coffee break. “Oh, great…” Kendra sighed. “Now what do we do?”

“Hmm…” Hitch saw a nearby phone next to him and got an idea. “I think it’s time for a little signature prank Sprout and I used to do when we were colts. George, when I give the signal, you say…”

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The phone in the office began to ring a short minute later, causing Ms. Anthrope to answer it, listening to George's disguised voiced coming from the closet. “Hello! If you would like the chance to win one billion dollars, please hold for one of our representatives.”

George then set the phone down as Harold turned on the radio next to it, all of them quietly giggling at how easy that turned out to be as the radio's music began to loop.

And then, with Ms. Anthrope distracted, Misty cast the invisibility spell over the group and they crept toward the office, careful not to make any sudden movements.

And once they were past Ms. Anthrope, Izzy quietly shut the door to the office while Misty undid the spell, making them visible again. “Okay, we don’t have a lot of time before Krupp comes back,” Zipp said quietly, “so we need to spread out and find that turtle. Come on!”

And so, the group began to spread out and search various corners of the room, with Kendra using her nose to sniff around, but ultimately not finding the scent of the turtle. “It’s gotta be in here somewhere.”

“Uh… I don’t know if the turtle is in here,” said Misty after a few moments more of searching, “but… take a look at what I found!”

Misty had opened a drawer in Mr. Krupp’s filing cabinet marked ‘Kendra, George and Harold’, and inside was a bunch of toys, comics and other things, making the ponies gasp with wide eyes. “Whoa…”

“Guys!” Kendra gasped to her friends. “It’s everything Krupp ever confiscated from us!”

“Whoa…” Zipp reached in and took out a whoopie cushion. “Just look at all this stuff!”

George gasped and took the whoopie cushion from Zipp without a second thought. “Oh, dear old whoopee cushion. You will sing once again,” he said, hugging it and letting it deflate. “Oh, my Super Duper Soaking Machine!” Harold said, getting out a very large squirt gun and falling on the ground, just as George took a plastic ring out from one of the corners of the cabinet. “My hypno-ring! I never even got to take it out of the wrapper.”

“Oooh…” Izzy said in awe as George put the hypno-ring on. “Hypnotic…”

“Wow. Look at this!” Harold said as he pulled several comic books out of the cabinet. “He's got every issue of Captain Underpants we've ever created!”

“Hmm…” Kendra looked at one of the comics with a sudden thought. “Do you think he reads them?”

“I don’t know,” George said with a frown. “I was kinda hoping that we appealed to a slightly cooler demographic.”

Suddenly, the door slammed behind the group, causing them to freeze and turn to see Mr. Krupp standing behind them with a smirk on his face. “Well if it isn’t the Equestrians, Kendra, George Beard and Harold Hutchins,” he said, pulling up a blue chair to put his leg on. “To what do I owe the pleasure? Is it perhaps this?”

That was when the principal showed them the Tattle Turtle strapped to his leg, causing Sunny to gasp and Pipp to gulp. “Oh, no…”

“Nice try,” Mr. Krupp sneered at the group. “Turtle and I have grown quite attached. We're inseparable, actually. I carry him wherever I go. Including the shower!”

Zipp let out a shudder at this. “So gross…”

“Ohh…” Izzy felt her ears pin. “Poor turtle.”

“Mr. Krupp, it isn’t too late to do the right thing,” Sunny said as the ponies stood in front of the principal’s desk. “Sure, Kendra and the boys’ pranks do go a little out of control at times, but they only do these pranks to make everyone at the school happy. And… isn’t happiness worth something to you?”

“Let me tell you something, Miss Starscout-- happiness is a waste of time,” Mr. Krupp told the earth pony mare with a look of disgust on his face from just the mere talk of happiness. “The time we spend being happy and go-lucky is time we could often use to put our students into the REAL world, where they will only face disappointment and heartache.”

That was when Mr. Krupp pulled out a file with three red papers inside. “Oh, well what’s this?” he said, pretending he didn’t know what they were until he brought them out. “Why, it’s the paperwork to separate your little friends forever!”

This caused George, Harold and Kendra to gasp in complete terror. “It’s really incredible-- I can actually see the end of their friendship,” he said, getting out his pen to sign the papers. “And it ends right here on this dotted--”

“No way, Kruppy-Pants!” Izzy interrupted as she boldly lit her horn to try and pull the pen away from him. “You can’t sign the papers if you don’t have the pen!”

Mr. Krupp and Izzy continued to fight over the pen for a few moments before Kendra joined in on the fight, pulling on Izzy’s waist to try and give her more strength.

Eventually, it got to where Harold couldn’t stand the suspense anymore. “George, do something!”

George, unsure of what to do in that moment, climbed up onto the desk as Mr. Krupp managed to push Izzy and Kendra away, regaining control of the pen, before George pointed the hypno-ring directly at the principal. “Put the pen down, Mr. Krupp... or we'll hypnotize you!”

Mr. Krupp immediately stopped what he was doing when he heard this. “What?!”

Even Harold, Kendra and the ponies seemed surprised. “What?!”

“You said do something!” George argued, just as Mr. Krupp found himself glancing at the hypno-ring again. “What is that?”

“Forged from the molten plastic of Shandong, China,” George began, “in the lowest floor of the darkest basement where only toy prizes are made... exists the most powerful item ever to be found in a box of Frosted Sugar Doodles-- the hypno-ring.”

However, Mr. Krupp didn’t seem to be intimidated by the act. “Hypnotize me with that piece of plastic junk? Ha ha ha ha!”

Izzy, on the other hand, seemed very interested in what George was saying. “Does that actually work?”

“Iz, what do you think?!” Pipp whispered harshly. “He got it out of a cereal box!”

“But hey, it’s the only plan we have right now,” said Hitch with a shrug, “so we at least have to try!”

“I’m warning you!” George said to Mr. Krupp. “If you don't do what we say, you're gonna get really sleepy!”

“Oh, will I? I'll get sleepy?” Mr. Krupp asked with a laugh. “With that thing pointing at me?”

But, little did our heroes realize it right away, but the ring was actually working, and Mr. Krupp was starting to get sleepy like George said he would. “I'm not gonna get sleepy from… whew!”

But, wouldn’t you know it? That wasn’t even the strangest thing that went on.

As Mr. Krupp continued to stare at the hypno-ring, a nearby globe began to spin and float all on its own, with the hypno-ring emanating some sort of strange, supernatural glow on its own.

And then… our heroes slowly began to lift off the floor, somehow caught in the strange occurrence as Mr. Krupp began to get sleepier and sleepier. “What kind of plastic hokum is this?”

“Whoa!!” Kendra yelped as she grabbed onto George and Harold. “What’s happening?!”

“I don’t know!” George said in panic. “Why are we floating?!”

“Hey, don’t look at us!” Pipp said as the Mane 6 tried to hold onto the sturdier objects in the room. “Just keep hanging on!”

The red spiral from the hypno-ring continued to swirl around the room until it began swirling around the school, but only our heroes managed to feel the strange, current effects around them.

As our heroes shrieked and tried to hold on for dear life, Mr. Krupp’s eyes started to turn to red spirals, completely under the hypnosis, which made the red spirals around the school disappear, and caused everything to return to normal, including letting our heroes go back on the ground and letting Mr. Krupp bonk his head on the desk before falling onto his back.

But after everything fell back into place, as if the recent events had never occurred, Zipp was the first to look at her friends, who seemed just as stunned as she was. “W-What was that?!”

“I don’t know,” George shrugged, looking at the hypno-ring. “I honestly didn’t think that would happen.”

Kendra, George and Harold silently approached the hypnotized school principal and Harold waved his hand over his face, but like Sunny figured, nothing happened. But deciding they had a free moment, Harold reached over and took the turtle off of Mr. Krupp’s leg. “Gotcha,” he said gently, putting the turtle in his backpack. “You’re safe now, little turtle.”

And though the turtle was a simple toy with a nanny cam inside, Harold could have sworn that he saw the turtle smiling at him. The ponies, on the other hoof, were trying to figure out what exactly happened so it would be easier to wrap their heads around. Suddenly, Zipp thought of a possible theory, but needed to test it before settling on a decision. “George, can I see your hypno-ring, please?”

George took off the hypno-ring and put it in Zipp’s hoof, and once she had the ring, Zipp put on her visor and did a scan of it, her eyes widening at what she saw inside. “It’s just like I thought-- guys, this ring has trace amounts of Equestrian magic inside!”

“That would explain why Mr. Krupp reacted the way he did after looking at it for so long,” Misty said in thought, “but… what exactly are we supposed to do now? We can’t just leave him like this for people to see, can we?”

However, George already seemed to have an idea, and he and Kendra approached the hypnotized principal before George began speaking again. “When we stomp our hooves or snap our fingers, you will obey our every command.”

“Wait,” Harold paused. “How do you know this?”

“We don’t know,” Kendra answered honestly. “We just say the first thing that comes to our minds with great authority.”

Hitch blinked at this for a moment before humming out of thought. “You know… that actually makes a little sense.”

And once this was out of the way, George turned back to Mr. Krupp again. “You are now a chicken!”

Once George snapped his fingers, the group crowded around, waiting for some kind of response as the red spirals disappeared from Mr. Krupp's eyes. Then... after a brief moment... Mr. Krupp began to cluck and walk around the room, acting like a real-life chicken!

Sunny couldn't help but laugh and smile when she saw this. “It worked!” she exclaimed. “He’s a chicken!”

“Lemme try, lemme try!” Harold said before trying to think of another command. “Uh… you’re a monkey!”

When Harold snapped his fingers, Mr. Krupp immediately began to screech like a monkey, beating his chest and swinging from the ceiling fan as he did so, throwing the materials on his desk all over the place. “Ha ha ha!” Izzy couldn’t help but laugh, finding this hilarious. “Oh, look at him! He's a monkey!”

“Oooh-hoo-hoo, this is so cool!” Pipp said with a little hop to her step. “We can make him do whatever we want!”

“Yeah, but… we need to make sure what whatever we do next,” said Zipp, “we need to plan out carefully-- who knows what could go wrong if we give him a really wild command?”

However, as the ponies were talking amongst themselves, Kendra picked up one of their Captain Underpants comics with her paw, her eyes widening as she suddenly thought of an idea, looking at the comic then at Mr. Krupp, who was still behaving like a monkey. “Guys…” Kendra then whispered to Harold and George. “I think I just got the world’s best idea.”

Kendra slowly lifted the comic for George and Harold to see, causing them to gasp in realization and giggle alongside their flying leopard friend, but causing Sunny to frown. “Uh-oh… why do I suddenly have a bad feeling about this?”

However, Kendra and the boys completely ignored Sunny's worry before they stepped closer to the hypnotized principal to give him another command. “You're now the greatest superhero of all time, the amazing Captain Underpants!!”

George snapped his fingers again, which caused Mr. Krupp to quickly start removing his clothing, got a curtain down from the nearby window and threw off his toupee, which caused the Mane 6 to scream and duck for cover. The toupee hit the button on the fan, turning it on and causing a breeze to blow through the room. After a moment, the group looked up, and their eyes widened as comic book pages flew about…

…right before Captain Underpants officially made his first appearance. “Tra-la-laaaaaa!!!”

The Mane 6 and their new friends lightly gasped, unsure of what they were seeing or what to make of it. “Captain Underpants?” Misty asked softly as they stood up. “Is that really you?”

“Let's see. Underpants… check,” Captain Underpants said after checking his underwear. “Captain, also check. I'm pretty sure I'm Captain Underpants.”

Now, normally, the Mane 6 would be stunned beyond measure and then try to figure out a solution for their problem. But this time… they couldn't help but laugh alongside their new friends, finding this whole situation with the terrible principal hilarious. “Are you seeing this?!” Hitch said as he burst out in laughter. “It worked!”

“Which must make all of you,” Captain Underpants continued, “my trusty sidekicks!”

“Sidekicks?!” Kendra, George and Harold said at once before they began to laugh again, just as Captain Underpants heroically glanced out of the window. “Fear not-- this planet is safe under my watchful eye.”

Izzy could barely contain herself by this point. “This is hilarious!”

“I know, right?!” Pipp said with a laugh. “So worth all the terror Krupp put us through!”

“Let's see what's afoot.”

Suddenly, the group heard the crashing of glass, and stopped laughing immediately to discover that Captain Underpants had run right through the office window! “Wait!” Harold cried. “No!”

The group rushed to the window to see Captain Underpants slowly recovering from his fall, surprisingly not injured in any other way. “Well, that was invigorating.”

“C-Come on, guys!” Sunny said rather desperately as Captain Underpants began to run toward the street. “We gotta stop him!”

George turned to look at her in confusion. “Why?”

Just then, Captain Underpants got hit by a car without noticing, causing the Mane 6 to cringe before Captain Underpants stood up again. “Ha-ha!”

“Out of the road, bozo!” the driver of the car said angrily. “Why, thank you, vehicle person!” Captain Underpants said before he leapt behind a fence, only for cat yowls to fill the air, sounding as if Captain Underpants was being attacked. “Ow!”

Suddenly, Kendra could see Sunny’s point. “Yep,” she responded fearfully. “We should probably go get him.”

“Come on! We can try and catch up to him if we go out the window!” Zipp cried. And while the ponies and leapt out of the window and landed on their four hooves, George, Kendra and Harold leapt from the window to the flagpole, sliding down it before rejoining their friends and setting off after Captain Underpants again. “Captain Underpants!” Izzy cried out. “Wait!”

Needless to say, our heroes would have to work fast in order to corral Captain Underpants and bring him back to the school before he got into any worse trouble.

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Unaware that the group were chasing after him, Captain Underpants swiftly made it into the city where he came upon a peculiar sight-- a mime performing for people near the park. “What is this? Poor soul. You're trapped in some sort of invisible box-like prison!” Captain Underpants said, virtually concerned as the mime pretended to cry and not speak all at once. “What's that? I can't hear you! But I see your tears.”

Luckily, the others arrived on the scene just in time, and Pipp honestly tried to keep herself from giggling as she looked at her older sister. “Is it okay that I’m kinda loving this?”

Zipp shrugged at this, not sure what to say exactly. “Yes and no.”

“But,” George added with a smile, “mostly yes!”

“Fear not,” Captain Underpants reassured the mime. “I will set you free!”

Suddenly, Captain Underpants punched the mime in the face, causing the group to groan and wince as the mine suddenly glared at Captain Underpants. “What is wrong with you?!”

“Oh, that's better. I can hear you now,” Captain Underpants smiled just before the group came over. “Sorry, so sorry,” Kendra said with a timid look. “Really, really sorry.”

“Okay, listen, captain,” Sunny said, trying to act like she was playing along as the group began to guide Captain Underpants away. “I get you wanna help people, but maybe try to not PUNCH people, cause…”

Suddenly, Captain Underpants froze upon hearing something. “Hold it!”

That’s when Captain Underpants raced over to an old woman trying to get her cat down from a nearby tree. “Here, let me help,” he offered, and instead of getting the cat down, he merely tossed the woman into the nearby tree, causing her to yell out before the hypnotized superhero saluted to her. “You're welcome, madam!”

“You know,” said Harold as he and George tried to pull Captain Underpants away, “we should probably get you back to the school before anything else…”

“Halt!” Captain Underpants shouted, trying to stop the group, except for Sunny and Zipp, who were helping the woman and her cat down. “Do you sense that?”

George glanced around weirdly. “No…?”

“Well, of course you don't. You're not a superhero like me. Come, sidekicks!” Captain Underpants shouted before running inside a building with a revolving door. “Evil lurks within!”

“Oh no…!!” Hitch groaned. “Quick, guys! After him!”

The group quickly entered the building through the revolving door, getting slightly dizzy in the process, but then discovered that Captain Underpants was gone, much to George's bewilderment. “Where’d he go now?!”

“Oh no… no no no no no no no no no!!” Kendra yelped in panic. “Guys, this is where my mom works!”

“You mean… this is the Piqua Gazette?” Izzy looked around with a hum of thought. “I thought it would be bigger.”

“Izzy, focus! My mom isn’t here today,” Kendra said, “but if one of my mom’s coworkers recognize me, we could all be in for it!”

“Then we need to find Captain Underpants quick!” Misty said determinedly. “I mean… where in the world could one guy go so quickly?”

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“To the skyyyyyyyy!!!”

Captain Underpants was riding in an elevator that overlooked the entire city the higher it went, with two people, a man and a woman, riding with him. The woman was desperately pushing a button to stop at the next floor, and once the elevator stopped, she and the man got off while Captain Underpants continued to ride the elevator upward.

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“Sunny, we’ve looked everywhere,” Zipp panted as the group left the Piqua Gazette building, “but there’s no sign of Captain Underpants anywhere!”

Harold groaned, slightly dizzy as George flopped on his back. “You'd think a guy like him would be easy to find.”

“Found him!” George spotted Captain Underpants on the roof of a nearby building, looking at something not far away. “Stand down, you giant ape monster!”

“Giant ape monster?” Sunny looked confused. “What is he…?”

“Look!” Misty gasped and pointed at the gigantic ape balloon, which Captain Underpants was getting ready to run, jump over and attack. “Your days of terrifying this town,” said the dimwitted superhero, “are over!”

“Mr. Krupp! I mean, Captain Underpants!” Harold shouted to try and get the superhero's attention. “You can’t actually fly!”

However, Captain Underpants seemed to pay her no mind as he began to run across the top of the Piqua Gazette. “Now I take to the sky... like an ostrich!”

With that, Captain Underpants leapt right onto the giant gorilla balloon and began attacking it, just as the ropes began to snap. “I gotcha!” he kept shouting, even hitting the side of the building next door as he seemed to fight the pretend gorilla.

Pipp let out a shriek. “We have to do something!”

“But even when there are four flyers,” Sunny pointed out with worry, “we’d never be strong enough to lift a giant gorilla balloon back to solid ground!”

That’s when George suddenly spotted a crane not too far away, a sudden thought coming to mind. “I’ve got an idea!”

They immediately ran over toward the nearby crane, trying to act natural as the worker of the crane began to leave. “Morning.”

“Morning,” said the worker before he walked around the corner. “Quick, everyone onboard the crane!” Kendra whispered desperately. “We don’t have long before those ropes snap!”

George, Kendra and Harold quickly got inside the cab with the Mane 6 climbing around on the outside, but when they finally got a good look at the panel in front of them, Harold’s eyes widened as to how many buttons there were. “Oh, that is a lot of buttons.”

“Well, start pushing something! Anything!” Hitch cried out in desperation. “DO SOMETHING!!”

And so, Kendra, George and Harold began to push as many buttons as they could to try and get the crane hook to grab Captain Underpants, all while Captain Underpants and the gorilla continued to 'fight'. “Take that! Ah, cheap shot! Ow! Right in the kisser!”

But as Captain Underpants tried to lay a hit on the gorilla again, the final rope snapped, much to the group's horror. “NO!!”

George and Harold moved a switch to make the hook grab the balloon, but they only managed to tear off a piece of Captain Underpants’ cape. Luckily, the balloon managed to hit the ground in one piece, causing Captain Underpants to wave at them. “Oh, hi, guys.”

But before anything else could be said, the balloon began to bounce away with Captain Underpants still on it. “What?! No!” Kendra yowled. “Hurry, guys!” Zipp cried. “Follow that gorilla!”

And so, Harold started the crane up and steered it so it could follow the bouncing gorilla balloon from behind, but Captain Underpants thought that the gorilla balloon was fighting against him. “Oh, you put up a good fight!”

“Whoo-hoo!!” Izzy cheered as the crane sped through the streets of town. “You are so good at operating a crane, Harold!”

“I know!” Harold said as the rest of the Mane 6 hung on for dear life. “It's really not that hard!”

“Not that hard?!” Hitch screeched. “At your age, you shouldn’t be driving anything!!”

“Just keep trying to snag the balloon, Harold!” Sunny shouted. “Once we’re close enough, we’ll grab Captain Underpants!”

“Rest assured, citizens of this marvelous metropolis!!” Captain Underpants shouted to the unsuspecting citizens as he continued to bounce on the balloon through the city, unaware that the group was trying to catch him. “I will rid you of this menace any moment now!”

“Come on…” Harold muttered as he tried to grab the balloon again. “Oh, come on, come on, come on…”

But at that moment, the crane hook made impact against the balloon, popping it and causing Kendra and the other ponies to shriek. But as the only pony who knew what to do, Sunny let her alicorn form begin to take shape. “I am all three pony kinds, wrapped up into one! My cutie mark comes to life with hope, bright as the sun!”

And once Sunny got done speaking, she zipped off, just as the crane began to spin wildly out of control, leaving the other ponies hanging on for dear life.

As for Sunny, she caught Captain Underpants on her back, internally relieved. “I gotcha!” she reassured, but then realized Captain Underpants was much heavier than she expected. “Oh brother… WHOA!!!”

Lucky for Sunny, she and Captain Underpants managed to fall right on top of some bank robbers robbing the nearby bank, knocking them out and ruining their plans. “Let that be a lesson to evildoers everywhere,” Captain Underpants said as he got off of Sunny’s back as a police officer arrived. “Never underestimate the power of underwear!”

The police officer looked at Captain Underpants, bewildered. “Who the heck are you?”

Sunny chuckled nervously as she stood up. “Would you believe he’s actually a fanmade comic book character…?”

But before she could try and explain herself, the crane carrying her screaming friends spun into the nearby parking spot behind the police car, eventually stopping and allowing the Mane 6 to try to compose themselves. “We’re… we’re alive!” Hitch said thankfully. “We’re actually alive!”

“I know, right?” Kendra said as she, Harold and George hopped out of the crane cab. “I can't believe we found a spot!”

“Oh, goodness. Grandpa, you did it again,” George said, trying to seem like this was natural as he and Harold grabbed Captain Underpants by the hands. “He's a sleepwalker,” Harold added, looking at the police officer. “Come on, Pap-Pap, let's get you back into bed.”

“But what about all the other evil villains?” Captain Underpants asked quizzically. “Uh, forget the evil villains for now,” Misty said worriedly as they continued walking. “There aren’t anymore villains around here.”

But little did our heroes know that there WERE more villains lurking nearby, and dangerous ones at that.

Alterro had met up with a man who called himself Professor P the day before, and together, the two hatched a plan to get Alterro's revenge on the ponies, as well as Alterro promising to help Professor P with his plan... although Alterro wasn't sure what that was.

After the Mane 6 and their friends led Captain Underpants away, Alterro pointed to one of the posters that had been hung up about the science teacher position. “Here-- this is where I saw that idiot Krupp earlier this morning.”

“A science teacher?” Professor P hummed in thought as he ripped the poster from the telephone pole, a sinister grin forming onto his face. “The perfect cover for our plans of universal domination!”

Alterro and this Professor P character each let out cackles of pure, unbridled evil, ready to put their plan into action as quickly as possible… and this time, no pathetic little ponies or any other kind of heroes were going to stand in their way.