G5 Adventures in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

With Captain Underpants (going undercover as the dastardly and mean Principal Krupp) in charge of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, things were already a lot more enjoyable.

Sure, there was the looming threat of Professor Poopypants and his new partners (Evander, Alterro, Melvin and Jaliya), but at the time, no one seemed to really realize the amount of danger they were in.

The Mane 6 were there to help their new friends keep Captain Underpants out of hot water, and it was pretty rewarding to see the students of the elementary school so happy.

But... little did our heroes know that it was all going to come crashing down on them within a matter of hours.

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Kendra squealed in excitement as she, her sisters and little brother ran down the hallway to the old music and art room for a special announcement. “I can’t believe Pipp is letting us perform one of her songs at the art and music room grand reopening today!”

“I know!” Treena said in excitement. “We’re gonna get to perform for the first time in front of an actual audience!”

“We are so ready for this, guys,” Claudia said. “We just have to wait for the art room to open for us to do our thing!”

They finally arrived at the art room door where the Mane 6, George and Harold were waiting with Captain Underpants, along with a small crowd of kids. “Hey, guys! We’re here!” Heath called. “Sorry we’re late.”

“Actually, you’re just in time,” Sunny giggled as she watched Pipp sign autographs for her Piqua based Pippsqueaks. “Pipp was actually just buying you a little more time by greeting her fans.”

“And now that you’re here,” Harold said, holding up the key to the room, “I hereby declare the Jerome Horwitz music and art program… reinstated!”

And once the door was unlocked, the crowd of kids and other creatures raced inside, overjoyed… even Tommy. “After you, sir!” Izzy said, letting Tommy go inside in front of her. “Just save some artwork inspiration for me!”

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Within the first few minutes of the art and music room being open again, every single student was drawing and painting in the art room, while the Mane 6 (except Pipp, who was helping Kendra and her siblings rehearse for their performance), George and Harold worked on making comics...

...something they've wanted to do freely for quite some time.

It was at that moment that Hitch got another idea for the comic they were working on. “Ooh, what if we…”

“I’m already on it,” Harold said with a smile. “Oh, this is gonna be epic!” George said as he continued to write, causing Misty to laugh as she sorted the pages of the comic book together.

At the same time, Captain Underpants was trying to draw on a piece of paper. “Come on, Captain, draw! Move your hand in the shape of a person! Why does it look like a chicken? This whole visual storytelling thing is hard!”

But that’s when he saw what Harold was drawing with Izzy’s help. “Oh, that’s good.”

“Thanks, captain! Here,” Izzy said as she handed the drawings she had Harold had finished to George. “These need your artistic word-y spirit written all over them!”

“Thanks,” George smiled before taking them. “Hey, sidekicks... why are we doing this again?” Captain Underpants asked curiously. “Oh… well, you see,” Sunny said hesitantly, not really sure what exactly to say, “we're making school fun again. You know… free the children. That sort of thing.”

“Hey, hey! What if we put this panel right here?” George pointed to one of the drawings, causing Zipp to nod. “Great idea!”

“Ah, yes. Of course. Fun. On it!” Captain Underpants said as he left the room, and the second he did, Pipp cleared her throat to get everyone’s attention. “Attention, everyone! It is my great privilege to present to you, for your entertainment… a performance of one of my favorite songs, sung by Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena!”

The kids in the room let out a cheer as Pipp started the music, letting Kendra and her siblings take the stage for the very first time.

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: (Every new day is the best day ever)

Kendra: A brand new day

Claudia: A brand new chance, a brand new way
To be my very best pon-ay

Treena: And live my best life, 'cause there's only one now
Yeah, only one now

Claudia, Heath and Treena: Sometimes it can feel
Like a bit of a circus
That's just fine by me
Because I like it that way

Kendra: A life full of adventure
It just fills me with purpose
It keeps me on my paws and, yeah

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: That’s how it’s gonna stay!

Every day's so bright, every day's full of magic
Every day feels right, every day is a classic
And just when I think it can't get any better
Every new day is the best day ever

Whoa, oh-oh, oh, oh, it's like, it's like
Every new day is the best day ever

The crowd was going crazy as Pipp coached the siblings on their dance moves, and needless to say, the pink pegasus couldn't be prouder.

Kendra: Can't bring me down

Claudia and Treena: Can't stop the vibe I'm bringing round

Heath: To everybody here in town

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: So live your best life, 'cause there's only one now
Yeah, only one now

That's when the siblings gestured for Pipp to get onstage with them and help them sing the last verse of the song.

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: Every day's so bright, every day's full of magic

Pipp: (So bright! Full of magic!)

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: Every day feels right, every day is a classic

Pipp: (Feels right)

Kendra, Heath, Claudia and Treena: And just when I think it can't get any better

Pipp: (Ohhhhhh)

Kendra, Heath, Claudia, Pipp and Treena: Every new day is the best day ever

Whoa, oh-oh, oh, oh, it's like, it's like (Every day's so bright!)
Every new day is the best day ever (Every day is full of magic)
Whoa, oh-oh, oh, oh, it's like, it's like
Every new day is the best day ever!

The entire crowd went wild as the song ended, and the siblings purred and laughed as they celebrated a successful performance…

…and they secretly hoped that there would be more performances to come while Captain Underpants was in charge.

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After a few hours of getting back into the comic swing (and getting Kendra's siblings up to speed on their comic operations), the Mane 6 and their friends noticed that the art room seemed... surprisingly empty, as opposed to what it was a few hours ago. “Where’d everybody go?” Heath looked around in confusion. “Don’t worry, bro-- we can smell for them!” Claudia said. “After all, we do have some of the best noses in the school.”

Treena sniffed the air, but after a few moments, she opened her eyes and tilted her head in confusion. “It smells like… everyone is outside!”

“Huh, that’s strange,” Zipp tilted her head. “Why would everyone be outside when there’s still more things in the art room to enjoy?”

“Let’s go outside and see,” Sunny said, getting up off the floor. “Maybe it’s something that Captain Underpants set up when he left earlier.”

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But when the others went outside to check on things, they were stunned to see an amazing site…

…an entire carnival set up right in the yard, complete with games, rides, food and other fun surprises!

Izzy gasped deeply and ran ahead. “This… is… PARADISE!!! We should totally have a huge carnival in Maretime Bay like this!”

“Yeah, but… I don’t understand!” Misty said, wide eyed in awe. “Where did all of this even come from?”

“I think I have an idea!” Hitch pointed to Captain Underpants nearby, handing out balloons to a little girl. “Hey, CP!”

“Oh, hey, sidekicks. Glad you could join,” Captain Underpants said, letting the girl float away as the group reunited again. “How did you even do this?!” Kendra asked in excitement as they walked. “I thought you said you were looking after the... oh, my goodness!” George shouted in excitement, pointing to a sight nearby. “Is that a Ferris wheel?”

“Well, of course it is! It came with the carnival I ordered,” Captain Underpants said before he put head in the cotton candy machine and pulls his head out covering his face with a lighting star-like cotton candy mask. “This cotton candy makes me feel powerful!”

“Ooh, cotton candy!” Heath jumped up and started taking some of the cotton candy off of Captain Underpants’ face. That’s when Sunny looked around, realizing the other adults were missing all the excitement. “Hey, uh, where are all the teachers?”

“Detention,” Captain Underpants answered, patting Heath on the head. “They have a real attitude problem.”

“Ha ha! Okay, I’ll admit it,” Zipp said with a smile. “This sure beats having Krupp around!”

“Oh, tell me about it,” Pipp agreed with her sister. “Krupp would totally lose his mind if he saw this.”

“Step right up!”

“Huh?” the ponies chorused before screaming upon seeing Captain Underpants sitting right above the dunk tank. “Who'll be the first to dunk the principal?”

“No!” George, Harold and Kendra cried out, but it was too late-- a kid threw his ball at the target, sending Captain Underpants into the water below and turning him back into Krupp as he surfaced. “I’m drowning!”

“Quick, Zipp!” Sunny cried to her pegasus friend as she turned into her alicorn form. “Let’s get him out of there!”

“On it!” Zipp said and flew over with Sunny to help Principal Krupp out of the tank, and once he was successfully out, Harold snapped his fingers and turned him back into Captain Underpants. “Tra-la-la…”

“All right, that's enough,” Hitch said as he began to push Captain Underpants away. “Recess is over.”

“Aw, come on!” Captain Underpants pouted. “Just one more ride!”

Just then, another kid tripped and spilled his drink on Captain Underpants, turning him back into Principal Krupp. “Hey!” Claudia barked. “Watch it!”

“What is this, a carnival?!” Principal Krupp screeched. “I hate carnivals!”

George was able to snap his fingers and turn Krupp back into Captain Underpants, of course, but unfortunately, the superhero rushed right into the middle of a shooting gallery game. “Oh, this looks fun! How do we play?”

“Kids, hold on a second!” Misty exclaimed. “Yeah!” Izzy shouted as the kids aimed their shooters at Captain Underpants. “Hold your fire!”

However, the kids didn’t listen to reason and fired, spraying the superhero and turning him back into Principal Krupp. “What is happening?!”

“I got it!” Treena snapped her paws, turning Krupp into Captain Underpants again, and the dimwitted superhero was now serving ice cream to a crowd of kids. “Who wants ice cream?!”

“ICE CREAM!!!” the kids cheered and nearly toppled Captain Underpants over to get some ice cream. “What do we do?!” Pipp said, completely in panic. “We can’t keep this up forever!”

“We have to! We'll just take shifts watching him,” George said. “Kendra, George and I will take today, you guys take tonight!”

“Sugar!” Captain Underpants shouted in happiness before pouring a bag full of sugar down onto the children, making them go wild with sugar rush. Even George was finding the temptation hard to resist. “Harold, I really want some sugar.”

Harold nodded at this. “Me too.”

“Guys, no no no,” Kendra shouted as she tried to keep the boys at bay. “You are not gonna go crazy with pure sugar-- I practically forbid it!”

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And of course, what did George and Harold do?

They got hiped up on sugar just for the fun of it.

Zipp sighed to herself, smacking herself in the face with her hoof. “You’ve gotta be kidding me…”

“Well… look on the bright side, Zipp,” Treena said with a nervous grin. “At least things can’t get any worse…?”

However, two seconds after she said that, Heath froze, his eyes widening as he pointed his paw to something not far away. “I think it just got worse…”

“Huh?” Kendra looked over and saw her and her siblings’ mother flying toward the school, causing her to panic. “No… no no no no no no no no no!!! What is Mom doing here?!”

“She must’ve heard us talking about the music and art program starting back and she must wanna do a story for the gazette!” Claudia realized. “What do we do?!”

“Uh… Heath, you better go with Claudia and Treena to distract your mom,” Sunny told the youngest of the leopard siblings. “The rest of us are gonna go after George and Harold!”

“ON IT!!” the others shouted before leaping into action.

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“Hi, Mom!”

Avarsi was driven from her thoughts when she saw three of her four children flying toward her. “Oh, hey, kids! What are you doing out here?”

“We saw you flying this way and we, uh… wanted to show you what the art and music room looks like,” Treena slightly fibbed. “Come on! We’ll take the scenic way… around the school!”

“Yeah!” Claudia agreed. “And we can show you where… everything is!”

“Come on, Mom!” Heath said excitedly. “You’re gonna love it!”

Avarsi had to admit that her kids were acting a bit strange, but after a moment, she shrugged it off and followed her kids back down to the school for their little impromptu tour.

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“We made the wrong choice!” Garold said hyperactively as he and Harold continued their sugar rush, and George had to agree with the statement. “This did not solve anything!”

“There you both are!” Misty said as the Mane 6 and Kendra ran over. “We were getting worried when we couldn’t find you!”

“Wait a minute…” Hitch looked around cautiously. “Where’s Captain Underpants?!”

“Hey, sidekicks!” Captain Underpants called from a very high plank, right above a very tiny pool, and began to bounce on it. “Check this out! GERONIMO!!!”

Then, to the horror of the nine friends, he jumped. “NO!!”

“Sunny, what do we do?!” Pipp screeched. “He’s diving too fast to catch him!”

“We can’t catch him… but I know what can!” Sunny said, getting an idea after seeing a nearby trampoline. “Izzy, get that pool of water out of the way! Hitch, move that trampoline in the pool’s place!”

“On it!” Izzy and Hitch shouted and immediately did as they were told. And once Hitch got the trampoline in the right position, Captain Underpants bounced off of it and landed on a bus. “Field trip, anyone?!”

“No no no no no!!” Kendra shrieked as the bus began to drive toward a ramp, which was soon lit ablaze by five rings of fire.

“Nothing's more fun than fire!” Captain Underpants said just before his toupee was lit up in flames. “Except being on…”

“NOW!!” Zipp shouted, and Harold and George activated a hose and sprayed the superhero with it, unfortunately turning him back to Principal Krupp as the bus continued to go up the ramp. “...FIRE!!!”

Principal Krupp slammed his foot on the brake, stopping the bus and causing it to start going backwards again. “What is happening?!”

Then, as he went by, George and Harold snapped their fingers, turning Principal Krupp into Captain Underpants again. “Tra-la-laaa!!”

But unfortunately, the bus hit the Ferris wheel, breaking it loose and causing Captain Underpants to laugh and start running on top of it, causing George, Harold and Kendra to groan out loud. “Hurry!” Misty cried as the ponies led the way. “The Ferris wheel is heading for the school!”

However, as the group sped after the Ferris wheel, Captain Underpants was now doing cartwheels on top of the Ferris wheel. “Now, this is how you run a school!”

And despite Izzy and Misty’s best efforts to slow the Ferris wheel down and turn it around, the Ferris wheel hit the school building and Captain Underpants put on a parachute. “FREE THE CHILDREN!!” he said as he suddenly leapt off the Ferris wheel and activated the parachute.

And if you think things couldn’t get any worse… they did.

Suddenly, the clouds above them began to rumble, and lightning shot down from the sky before it began to rain, causing Pipp to yelp and cover her mane with her front hooves. “My mane!”

“W-Wait a minute…” Kendra paused the conversation. “If it’s raining, doesn’t that mean…?”

But before she could finish the question, a droplet of rain landed on Captain Underpants’ head, turning him back into Principal Krupp, who looked around to see the giant carnival in one giant disaster area. “What the…? How did this…?”

The playground was a mess, with kids fast asleep from being worn out from sugar rush and one kid rolling on a hot dog wheel. Principal Krupp shook his head in disbelief. “I don’t understand!”

“Quick!” Harold said to the ponies with a desperate look. “Get out of here! Hide!”

“What? No way!” Zipp argued. “We’re not gonna leave you guys alone to his fury! You’ll be split apart!”

“You guys would get the worst of it, believe me,” George said with a fierce look. “Now just… hide and we’ll join you as fast as we can!”

The ponies didn’t wanna leave their new friends behind, but ultimately realizing they didn’t have much of a choice in the matter, they broke into a gallop and ran behind the school building so they could see what was going on.

At the same time, the little girl who Captain Underpants gave balloons to was still floating away, right past Principal Krupp. “HELP!!!”

“What the…?” Principal Krupp muttered before he saw Kendra, George and Harold in the midst of the mess and landed down in front of them, more steamed than ever. “You…”

George tried to snap his fingers to turn Principal Krupp into Captain Underpants again, but it was not working because of the rain. “You three…” Principal Krupp said, continuing to keep his rage under control as he looked down on Kendra and her friends. “Your friendship... is... no... more.”

Kendra, George and Harold looked at each other in total fear before their eyes trailed onto the ground.

For once… Principal Krupp was right.

With the rain keeping him wet, there was no choice.

The Mane 6 watched from behind the school as Avarsi, Claudia, Treena and Heath came outside to see the chaos unfold, and Avarsi stood there, slack-jawed at what was going on. “I… what is all this? Why do Kendra and the boys look so unhappy?” she asked before turning to her remaining children. “Kids…? Is there… something I need to know?”

“...there is, Mom,” Treena said. “Something we should have told you from the beginning. Once school lets out… we’ll tell you everything, we promise.”

Avarsi nodded and decided to hold her children to that as the rain continued to pour... a dastardly reminder that the friendship between George, Kendra and Harold...

...was being shattered forever.

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“You see… Kendra told us that when she, the boys and the Equestrians snuck into Krupp’s office to get the Tattle Turtle,” Treena said a few hours after the incident, once the leopard family had arrived at home with the Mane 6, “Krupp found them and threatened to sign the papers to tear them apart.”

“George used the hypno-ring out of fear and it ended up working due to the magic inside it,” Claudia added. “Our friends and Kendra turnin’ Krupp into Captain Underpants was only meant to be a prank, they never meant for it to go so far at first. But… when they realized this was the only way to keep them together…”

“...they didn’t have any other choice,” Heath said softly, and Avarsi looked over at the staircase, the last place she had seenKendra and her friends before they retreated upstairs. “Please, don’t be mad at her, Mom,” Treena said pleadingly. “They were desperate to stay together, and the ponies knew Kendra needed a distraction from the divorce.”

“We know we should have told you, but Kendra was so scared you would be angry at her,” Claudia added. “So… we played along.”

“We’re sorry, Mom,” Heath said softly. “We just… wanted to make our friends happy.”

Avarsi was silent for a little while longer, trying to take all of this information in. She had to admit, she hadn’t expected this to happen, especially not the hypnosis part. And she knew that Kendra and her friends meant well… and she especially knew what it was like to not want someone you loved to be angry with them, especially in the middle of a very tough situation.

Kendra and her friends just wanted things to go back to normal... but they all knew that after the divorce was finalized and after what happened at the school today... normal would be a distant memory.

But then... after a few moments… Kendra came downstairs, her eyes red from crying, and the Mane 6 followed behind her. “Please, Mom, don’t blame them,” Kendra sobbed. “It was all my idea… it was only supposed to be a stupid prank, that’s all! I… I just wanted something to make me happy, and… a-and then…”

“I know, I know…” Avarsi said, nuzzling her daughter. “Kendra, it’s okay. I do wish you had told me the truth, but… I understand why.”

“...you’re not mad at her?” Zipp asked in surprise. “Wow. You took that a lot better than I imagined you to.”

“Oh, of course I’m not angry. How could I be?” Avarsi said gently. “The principal’s cruelty has gone on for far too long, and… to be honest, if Krupp were to behave more like Captain Underpants, the school would be a much better place. On another paw... I'm not happy about the divorce either, my darlings. In fact, I'm dreading it. Along with the fact that your father and Jaliya haven't been seen in a few days--”

“Wait, hold on,” Claudia stopped her mother right there. “Dad’s missing?”

“I asked him to meet with me in town to sign the divorce papers, and he never showed up… he wasn’t even at work when I stopped there,” Avarsi sighed. “I figured he was just skimping out on his parental responsibilities, but… this feels… way worse than that.”

“...don’t worry,” Sunny said to Avarsi, trying to be comforting. “Since we’ve been… banned from the school, we can go around town and look for him tomorrow.”

“Thank you, Sunny,” Avarsi said gratefully before nuzzling her children. “Don’t worry, kids… things are going to be just fine for us.”

“...I hope you’re right, Mom,” Kendra sniffled miserably as she looked out at the stormy sky. “I hope you’re right.”