♪ Gotta get up gotta go get up ♪
♪ Here we go here we go hip ♪
♪ Here we go ♪
♪ Hey hey hey get up ♪
♪ Gotta go get up ♪
thud
zap
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪
♪ I put a shock to your system ♪
♪ Static Shock ♪
Can't you speed this up, Frieda?
I mean how long does it take to suck up the ambiance
of the track team, anyway.
My strength as a reporter, is getting the story.
No matter how long it takes.
Oh, come on, yo, your strength is being the only kid
willing to stay after school for journalism club.
Humph!
- Hey, Derek! Good job. - That's awesome.
Oh! Like mercury racing against turtles.
You're drooling all over my knapsack, Frieda.
What's Derek Barnett got that I don't have.
Let's make a list.
Looks, height, all-state in track and field.
Shall I quit while you're behind?
I thought we were tight, Rich.
We are, V! Just keeping it real.
- 'Derek!' - Hi.
He's coming this way! Maybe I can get an exclusive.
Just chill, Lois Lane!
Uh!
- What's up, Virgil? - Uh, hey, Derek.
- What's going on? - Can you do a solid for me?
- Me? - Him?
My math and science grades are a little shaky.
Coach said get a tutor or I'm off the team.
You're the man with the brain! Can you help me?
Awesome! Uh, sure. We can do the tutoring thing.
Cool! Check you later, then.
Derek, just one question!
Derek, slow down!
Do you know what hanging with Derek "D.B." Barnett's
gonna do to my rep?
Uh, start it?
Jeez, Sharon ! A little privacy, please.
Just getting some fruit, baby bro.
I apologize for my sister sucking up
all the good air around you, D!
- Ow! - Happy studying, Derek.
Trade ya your sweat socks for my sister.
Now, let's hit that algebra book.
Oh, great! All those Xs and Ys.
- It's alphabet soup to me. - Don't sweat it, DB.
Just think of algebra as something
you'll never use as an adult.
That'll take the edge off learning it now.
Heh heh.. Unh! Oh, not now.
- What's wrong? - Uhh!
Unh! Been getting these cramps lately.
Must be a special athlete's thing.
Too much exercise or something.
Yeah, I guess I...I gotta jet, Virgil.
I, um, promised my mother I'd stop at a store for her.
Well, what about algebra?
We'll get to it tomorrow, okay?
Don't mind me, boys.
Just getting some H20.
No problem, Mr. Hawkins.
I'm leaving. I can feel those A's already.
They'll put a smile on my mom's face again. Thanks, V.
Proud of you for helping Derek, son.
Pops, when you're touched by genius
you've gotta share the gift.
Besides, thanks to him, I'm finally meeting cheerleaders.
Ugh! Oh, no! Not again!
Whew!
If I can just get home.
- Argh! - Hey, kid, are you okay?
It's a bang baby!
Wait!
Wha-what's happening to me?
Jeez!
Aah!
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪
♪ Hey hey hey hey hey ♪
It's great! It's called the butter diet.
Sorry, ladies!
zap
meow
sniff sniff sniff
meow
Gotta get help!
Help is here.
Huh? Ah!
What?
You're lucky I was in the hood.
Who are you?
I'm a collector of metahumans like you.
No.
You've really gone mental now, Richie.
What am I going to do with this wrinkly piece of foil?
Toss it in the air and give it some juice, bro.
Hello!
Yeah! It's Mylar, dude.
Stuff's stronger than reinforced steel.
I call it... the static saucer!
I call it my slick new ride!
And just in time for patrol, too.
Man, you the man!
Just doing my job.
So, Derek didn't show up for tutoring again, huh?
Yeah! No one at school's seen him in days.
Not even his track buddies.
- Dude's gone completely AWOL. - What do you think?
Don't know what to think, Rich.
But I'll keep an electric eye out for him.
No crime in sight!
Guess they know that when Static's in the house
bad guys better step off.
Unh! Aah!
Am I seeing things or did I just get jacked
by a girl with feathers?
Aw, man!
My gear smells like Chinese takeout!
- 'Hey, electric boy!' - Whoa!
Nice leap, super shocker
or whatever your name is.
Can we play again, huh?
Huh, can we?
That's what you get for dissing me. Aah!
Ooh!
Nowhere to run, bay-bee!
Nowhere to hide!
So holding hands and singing Kumbaya is out, huh?
Relax, hero we just wanted to get your attention.
Aah!
Who turned off the lights!? Whoa!
What was that ride? The Twilight zone express?
Man! Talk about your last stop.
'It serves our needs quite well.'
Call me Ebon, master of shadow and darkness.
- Not very modest, are you? - No time for modesty, hero.
I believe you've met my partners?
Talon.
We've already bumped into each other.
She's our little turtledove.
Then there's Shiv.
Hey! Aah!
Dang! My aim is off today.
Not the only thing that's off.
Shiv makes light-energy weapons, the sharper the better.
And this is our latest recruit, a powerhouse of ionic energy.
D-struct, he's a little shy at first, but he warms up.
Don't I know it?
So, you bring me down here for a meet and greet?
- More like a proposition. - Oh, really?
Join us. We're a new breed, the metabreed.
Good for you!
But I think I'm out of your species.
Just because the gas didn't mess up your face
doesn't mean you're not a freak like us! Argh!
Up there, they call us creatures, monsters.
They force us to go underground.
But it's all to the good, we've been biding our time, bonding.
Take D-struct here. Up there, he was an outcast.
But with us, he's found a home? Right, Derek.
- Derek! - So, what about my offer, hero?
Uh, thanks, but I don't play well with others.
You think you're better than us!
Temper, Talon.
He needs time to think about it.
Whoa!
- Ah! - I warn you, Static.
If you're not down with us, you go right to the top of our list.
See ya soon.
Even Ripley wouldn't believe this.
I'm telling you, Rich, that Ebon guy
called D-struct "Derek". And Derek was AWOL again today.
Coincidence? Please!
- Yes? - Mrs. Barnett?
I'm Virgil and this is Richie.
- We're from Derek's school. - Have you seen Derek?
- Do you know where he is? - You don't know?
Derek hasn't been home for four days.
We've been arguing lately about his grades.
Maybe I was too hard on him. He stormed off.
Mrs. Barnett, he wouldn't run away 'cause of that.
I'm sure of it. He was working with me on his grades.
- Then why would he leave? - I wish I knew.
Please, if you see my son tell him to come home.
There! I got the city grid on the screen.
Okay. Now to access the list of Dakota subway stations.
Don't forget to plug-in the letters "M-I."
Yeah, yeah. Uh-oh! 30 entries?
Aw, man. "M-I" could mean anything.
We need more info, V.
Get up, Shiv! Time to move.
Oh, just five more minutes, mommy! Oh!
Get up! I won't ask again!
You're tense, Ebon. Somebody needs a hug.
Or maybe not.
Hey, where's D-struct?
Why torture yourself, D-struct?
You should accept your gift.
Up there, all you were good for was running around a track.
And even that they were gonna take away from you.
But after tonight you'll show them your true power.
We all will. Let's go.
Looks like you had a good weekend.
Real good, heh, I'll be glad when all this cash
is under lock and key.
What the..
Davis, it's me.
- Yeah? - Two guys. Bang babies
It's our coming out party, D-struct. You're up. Do it!
boom
Ah! Ooh! Ugh!
Pow!
zap
2-11 in progress, Dakota sports shop!
'Request backup! Request backup!'
10-4!
Ow!
See, D-struct? Easier than a jog around the track.
Now, you know that money doesn't belong to you.
- Argh! - Not so fast, beaky!
Claw your way out of that!
Sosa dreams of being this good!
Ripping off sporting good stores?
What kind of athlete are you, Barnett?
- How'd you.. - I know it's you, Derek.
Don't go out like this, man.
He's out to get you! Ice this sucker! Now!
Aah!
zap
Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa! Aah!
Huh! Wonder if Tarzan has days like this.
Whoa! I'm rolling in the Benjamin's!
Care for a swim?
Grr! You play around too much.
Loosen up!
- Buy yourself a manicure! - Ugh!
Don't wanna join in, D-struct?
A shame. You have the most to celebrate.
That shot took Static out permanently. Good job.
So what do I tell his mother?
I found your son, Mrs. Barnett.
Bad news is, he's living in a tunnel with a bunch of freaks.
Good news is, he's his own night-light.
I got something!
I cross-referenced all abandoned
subway stations with "M-I" in the title with demolition dates.
There's only one station with no date.
The old milestone street station.
I better get going.
Time Derek and I had a talk metahuman to metahuman.
What are you going to say to him?
What can you say to him?
Gonna improvise.
Whew! This place needs like a gallon of air freshener!
Derek!
- You? But I thought I-- - You thought wrong, D.
I got more lives than Madonna has hairstyles.
No, I...I can't.
You don't belong down here.
People miss you, man.
Your friends...your mother.
Look at me. I'm a freak!
My moms don't need to deal with this!
Just because Ebon wants you to think
that way doesn't mean you have to.
To your moms, you're always gonna be Derek.
No matter what you look like. Don't do this to her.
She thinks you left 'cause of her.
Hey! Argh! Umh!
You are working my last nerve, hero.
Ha!
Ionize him!
Past time I did the right thing!
Unh! Unh!
zap
They have the advantage down here. We need to jet, D!
- Come on! - Right behind you!
All aboard!
Yes!
Get 'em!
Static express, y'all.
Next stop, anywhere but the last one.
You're a weak! You don't have what it takes to be one of us.
Hey, turkey girl! This car's full!
Unh!
Whoa! Huh?
Peekaboo!
My turn.
boom
Wild! Ugh!
You two have been a major disappointment to me!
For that, I'm sending you both on a one-way trip to oblivion.
Cover your eyes!
zap
Unh! Argh!
I knew he'd see the light some day.
Man, are they happy to see each other again or what?
Sure beats being stuck with shadow man and his sideshow!
'Yeah, and Derek volunteering himself to be a guinea pig'
for Big Bang Research, that takes real guts.
After what he's been through
DB's got guts to spare.
- Well, time to head home. - Amen!
But the subway's out okay?
♪ Gotta get up gotta go get up ♪
♪ Here we go here we go hip ♪
♪ Hey hey ♪
♪ Hey hey hey ♪
♪ I put a shock to your system ♪
♪ Static Shock ♪