( whistles )
* Some say I'm just a kid *
* But I stand tall like a pyramid *
* One day I'll be mythic *
* Read about it in hieroglyphics *
* Ah-ee-ah-ah-oh
* It's written in the stars, I'm who I'm gonna be *
* I'm takin' on the world this time *
* It's written in the stars of all that I can be *
* I feel the power in my heart *
* It's written in the stars *
( music playing )
Oh.
I'm so glad to be back home.
Back? But you never left.
I-- N-No. No. I-I was in the future,
and-and now I-- Wow!
Gozi hasreally gotten a lot better with that slingshot.
I've had 30,000 years to practice.
( gasping )
Aaah!
Whoa, you OK?
( panting )
Did you dream about home again?
Yeah. I miss it so much.
More and more.
Could I have some of that tea?
- It's not t-- - ( spits, coughs )
Ohh. Ugh! What the heck is that?!
Hot chundridge. Mmm!
I'll never get used to all these weird foods.
( sighs ) I gotta find a way to get back home, Akila.
I can't stand it anymore.
Brian's been working on it but--
Well, he's gotta work faster!
- I'm gonna go see him. - Cleo, you--
I'm not gonna yell at him or anything.
I'm just, you know, gon-- probably yell at him a little.
- Cleo! - Don't try to stop me!
Cleo! Clothes!
Oh.
Right. Good catch.
Uh...
( gasps )
- ( touch screen beeping ) - Hmm?
- Brian! - Aah! Uh--
I was just workin' on an--
important...thing.
Uh, I can see that you're reading a comic book.
"Mistress Punchfire." She's pretty cool.
Omigosh, she'sawesome!
You have to read it. I'll start with--
I'm not here to talk about comics!
( sighs ) Look,
have you found a way to get me home yet?
Uhh. Not even close.
So far the only thing I've found is that you have a weird energy signature.
- A weird what, now? - Energy signature.
Everyone has a different one. Like fingerprints.
And yours is...bizarre.
I-I think it's a side effect of the time travel.
It's almost like a quantum foam noise,
but it fluctuates by--
Are you listening?
Of course not.
( sighs ) Brian.
I really need help.
I miss my dad so much.
I had a home and a family back there.
Now I have nothing.
Are you glowing?
( whooshing )
( gasps ) What?
I lost power for a second there.
W-Why would that happen?
And why were you glowing?
I don't know. Why doesanythingglow?
Brian, isn't there some way you can help me?
I'll keep working on it, I promise.
But right now... I-I've got nothing.
- Ohh. - ( gasps )
I know what would cheer you up!
Reading "Mistress Punchfire"!
OK, start with her first appearance
in "Supernova Crusaders" #27
when she first gets the Gauntlets of Vigor!
Not every problem can be fixed by comics.
( gasps )
You take that back!
We're doing everything we can to send you back.
Half the tech department is working on it.
Why not thewhole tech department?
Because the other half is trying to find
the spy Octavian has here at the Academy.
Remember? The one who's trying to kill you?
Come on. We all know it's Callie. She hates me.
She doesn't hate you.
Well, shedoeshate you.
Just because she hates you doesn't mean she's the spy.
We'll find a way to send you back, Cleo,
but it's going to take time.
Ohhh. It's just sohardhere.
You're going to have to get used to the Academy.
Socialize more, try some extracurricular stuff,
like join the Chess Club or something.
Chess Club! Yeah, I guess one solution to my problems
is to bore myself to death. Ahh.
Some other club, then.
Something to take your mind off home.
I'm sure you can find somethingfun.
No offense, Khensu--
you don't seem like an expert on fun.
What?! I...I'mfun.
You don't think I'mfun?
I do math puzzles!
That's pretty fun right there, yeah?
You have other good qualities. Probably.
And you know what? You're right.
If there's anything I know, it's how to find fun.
And I'm gonna do it! I'll talk to Akila!
She's in, like, 90 clubs! This'll be great!
I'm not fun, am I?
You wanna join...aclub?
That is so unbelievably awesome!
Clubs are the greatest!
And I can totally help you with that,
and helping validates me as a person!
We'll be best friends-- forever!
I'm thinking maybe dial it back a little.
Omigosh, there are somany clubs, and they're all great!
Go on. Pick one! Pick two! Pick seventeen!
I'm ineveryclub, except the Meditation Club,
cuz they made me leave because I couldn't stop talking,
just like right now!
Let's see. Baking Club. No.
Worm Farming club. Ew.
Origami Club.
What's origami?
Oh, it'ssuperfun!
You fold paper intostuff!
You have some weird ideas about what's fun.
Wait. Anti-Gravity Gymnastics Club?
That actually sounds kind of awesome!
Yes! Let's do it!
Huh?! Eh?
- Cleo: Yeah, I guess. - Brian: Whatever. Sure.
Cleo: Whoo!
Wow!
- ( applause ) - Brian: Whoa!
That's awesome!
Okay, Cleo, you're up next.
Uh, but how do I--
Whoa-whoa-oh-oh- oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
( gasps )
( laughing )
Whoo!
Oh! Ah. Whoo!
( laughing )
Whoo-ooh!
This is great!
Ha ha!
How do you go higher?
Don't touch the--
- ( electrical sounds ) - Huh?
- ( alarm blares ) - Whoa!
Aaaaaah!
Aah...ohh...
Aaah! Uhh!
Huh? Ohh...
aaaaah!
Well...that's not ideal.
( teeth chattering )
( robotic arm whirring )
( sighs )
( whimpering )
- Uh, how about Debate Club? - Hee hee!
Robotic voice: And that's why non-sentient species transplantation
is harmful.
Thank you.
( applause )
Ah-heh. I'm sorry,
are you-- are you a computer?
( robotic laughter )
No, silly.
This is my telepresence robot.
I'm too big to attend the Academy in person.
See? That's me.
You're aplanet?
I am a planet!
I can't wave, so...
( farty sound )
I just farted "hello."
( robotic laughter )
O...K.
Oh, anyway...
so now you present yourargument.
Oh. Um...OK.
( clears throat ) Uh, non-sentient species, uh,
transplantation is, um, necessary because...
( laughter )
...the main goal of any community
is the safety of individuals.
And, yeah.
( laughter )
Laugh if you want, but I gotta say,
this is the absolute nerdiest thing I've ever seen.
Student: I'm not sure she meant that as a compliment.
Um, maybe Boating Club!
I used to sail boats back home!
I'll be great at that.
( explosions )
This thing doesn't even have a sail!
What do I do?
Aah! Is this an oar?
Ugh.
Akila: Just don't press the red button!
Cleo: Press the red button?
Aaah!
( stammering )
Huh. Nothing hap--
( Cleo screaming )
Whooooa!
Aaah!
Uh! Uh! Ahh! Ahh! Oh! Oh!
( robotic arm whirring )
( sighs )
( whimpering )
Oh, I didn't see this one before.
Ancient Egypt Club? That's perfect!
What could go wrong?
( snarky laugh )
Hell-o.
Oh, good!
It's Callie.
My arch-nemesis.
Oh, yeah, she's the leader of this club.
Did I not mention that?
Heh.
What are you doing here...
Cleopootra?
- Boy: Ha. - ( student coughs )
( chuckles )
Yeah, I put "poo" in her name.
I think that deserves more of a laugh.
( restrained laughter )
( dryly ) Yay. Callie is so good.
I'm here for the Ancient Egypt Club, Capoolie.
( loud laughter )
Oh, come on! Capoolie?
That doesn't even make sense!
Yeah, but her delivery's better.
Shut it!
You totally failed
the last test in History.
Obviously, you know nothing about ancient Egypt.
Uh, not that anyone knows much about Egypt
prior to its resurgence in the 42nd century--
Becausealmost all that information
was lost in the Blight.
Duh! We know that.
That's why we're here, Lakshmi.
To try to fill in the blanks?
For instance,
I'm pretty sure the last pyramid was built here, at Giza,
around the 10th century A.D.
What? You're way off. We--
Cleo. Remember, no one's supposed to know where you're from!
- Don't talk about-- - Shh!
You worry too much.
OK,theybuilt the last pyramid at Saqqara,
like, 3,000 years before that.
( scoffs ) You can't possibly know that.
I've been through the whole ancient Egypt section of the library,
and there's nothing about any pyramid at Swaggara.
Saqqara.
Who do you think you are?
Coming in here from-- from nowhere
and showing off all the time and making me look bad!
- Ha! - This ismyclub!
Andyouare ruining it!
- You want some of this? - Come on, Cleo!
- Come get some of this! Huh? - Let's go!
( Cleo growls )
- Uggh! - Uh...
( students muttering )
( Akila panting )
Uh, so, uh, how--
how are you liking the clubs so far,
uh, Cleo?
Heeeey!
How can you evenask?
I've been frozen, drowned,
nerded at, and yelled at!
It's been, like, two percent better than the bubonic plague.
- Aaah! - But on the plus side,
now I know there's an ancient Egypt section of the library!
Yeah, sure, sure. Anyway, how 'bout...
( gasps ) Autopsy Club!
Look, I really appreciate all your help with the clubs
and trying to get me over my homesickness,
but maybe the way to stop missing home
is to get a little taste of it.
Cleo: Thanks for letting us in after hours Khensu.
Khensu: Not a problem.
I should have take you here sooner.
So, come on!
Where's the ancient Egypt stuff?
I wanna see home!
Here it is.
Cleo: This is it?
No.Thisis it.
Just a few dozen artifacts, fragments of scrolls and books.
I'm afraid there isn't much.
You can access it all here.
But there's hardly anything!
This is the only thing we found that mentions you by name.
It's from a book written long after your time.
"Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy XII,
became..."
( sighs ) That's all it says.
It could be: "became queen of Egypt." Huh?
Or "became lost forever."
I was hoping...
( sighs ) I thought I might find something about me when I'm older,
something that would prove I was gonna get back someday.
That's--That's my dad!
( gasps ) We believed it to be one of the Ptolemys,
but we didn't know which.
That's my dad!
Dad, I miss you so much.
( computer beeping )
( electronic noise )
Cleo! You're-- You're glowing!
It's that weird energy signature.
Brian: But I've never seen it this strong!
Khensu: What's going on?!
- Whoa! - Brian: I don't know.
It's like she's sucking the power out of every--
Brian!
Dad.
- ( grunts ) - Cleo!
Khensu: Cleo, come on! Wake up!
What? What happened?
Yikes!
Oh, man!
Every time my power goes out,
I see snakes.
It's so gross.
- Are you OK? - Yeah.
My backup battery's working.
Hey, will someone please tell me what happened?
You started... glowing pink.
Then all the power went out.
( loud rumbling )
( whooshing )
- The asteroid shields are down! - What?!
Mayet is surrounded by an asteroid field!
They fall toward the planet all the time!
Normally the shields stop them,
but with the power out, they're not working!
So we're gonna get hit by--
( loud boom )
Student: Asteroids!
- ( screaming ) - Gotta get out of here!
( panicked shouting )
What's going on?!
What are we gonna do?!
The old emergency generator across the bay.
We have to get it started
before a really big asteroid hits.
I know how to get across the bay!
( explosions )
Yah!
This won't work!
All the power's been drained from the motor!
We don't need the motor.
I sawtheseearlier.
What are those?
They're oars?
Ugh. You future people don't know anything.
Is this what life was like before machines?
No, thank you! Uggh!
Gosh, do you realize what this means?
Cleo actually learned something from Boating Club!
- ( explosion ) -This is not the time
to be excited about learning, Akila.
It's the time to be terrified about asteroids!
- ( explosion ) - ( all scream )
( all panting )
So, we just have to get in there and turn the thing on?
No. It's not gonna be that easy.
Uhh!
It's really... not gonna be that easy.
( both grunting )
We're never gonna get this open!
OK. There's a cooling duct up there.
If we could just reach it--
Wait! I still have my anti-grav belt!
Akila: ( sing-songy ) Hee hee! It's another thing you learned at a club!
Well, sort of learned. ( grunts ) Got it!
Brian: Cl-Cleo!
There's something you should know!
Uggh. What is it now?
We had to stop using that generator.
It was operated by an artificial intelligence,
and it worked great for a while, but then it got all buggy.
Yeah! One day the AI just went totally crazy!
It stopped the generator from putting out any power,
and it kept talking about ghosts!
Brian: You're gonna have to convince the artificial intelligence
to turn the generator on!
Ohh, great.
Omigosh. She learned about making an argument in Debate Club.
Ha ha ha!
Is there anything clubs can't do?!
OK, you know I don't like it when you pull my head off.
( explosion )
Cleo, hurry!
( clanking )
( grunts )
( electronics beeping )
- AI voice: Aaah! - Huh?
Who are you?!
Are you a ghost?!
Um, no. I am a person.
You have to get out of here.
It's not safe! We are not safe!
The ghosts are everywhere!
They whisper to me day and night--
such horrors as no dream may bring!
- You need to calm down. - I can't!
If I relax, even for a second, they will get me.
They will carry me away, bit by bit,
to the haunted lands of steam and fire
where the ice beasts weave their terrible tapestries of doom!
- ( alarm blaring ) - O...K.
I'm getting that you don't feel safe.
No one is safe!!!
All right, hear me out.
Any individual can be in danger,
but they're safer in a group.
I-- Uh--
Yeah. That makes sense.
Good.
Very good.
( explosions )
Uh. Uhh!
Hmm.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Big asteroid coming.
Very big!
Sobig!!!
Come on, Cleo.
You can do this.
Listen, there are a lot of people at the Academy
who need your help.
If you turn on the power,
they will alllikeyou.
That sounds nice.
And they'll protect you from the, um, ghosts.
Yeah, and you'll be a part of their community,
and the main goal of any community
is the safety of individuals.
Wow. You are making a really good point.
It does sound safer.
Yes!
Butif I open a power channel
it'll let the ghosts in!
I can't do it!
I'm just gonna go back to huddling in a corner
of my neural matrix and crying!
I'm sorry!
Arggh.
( device beeping )
There's a huge asteroid!
Cleo! You have to do something now!
-Anything! - OK. The heck with logic.
I'm gonna do this the old-fashioned way.
Blind, stupid force!
( grunting )
Take that!
( whimpering )
Come on, Cleo!
Aaah!
AI: What are youdoing?!
You don't need to worry about ghosts!
You need to worry aboutme!
Yahh! Yahh!
( Cleo yelling )
Aaah! Run for it!
AI: Aaah! No, no, no, no!
I'll turn the generator on! Just stop it!
Generator online.
( all screaming )
AI: Sending power...now!
( screaming )
( explosion )
( all cheering )
( cheering )
Ah. I think we just saved everyone. Thanks, buddy.
I have mixed feelings about all this.
The ghosts say I did a bad.
You need to get out more, guy.
You ever think about... joining a club?
Huh. Well, I could give it a try.
OK, here ya go.
- Uh, what's this? - Field dampener.
It should stop you from sucking the power out of everything again.
It works by interfering with the force matrices--
Omigosh, Brian, nobody cares how it works!
Thanks, but I don't think we'll have a problem with that again.
Did you notice it only happened when I was missing home?
Yes, it's definitely tied to your homesickness.
I think time travel created a mnemonic trigger
- that happens to be-- - Brian!
So, if I'm not getting homesick,
it won't happen. And...
look, you guys were so great today,
hanging out with me through all that club stuff
and trying to make me feel better.
- Because we care about you. - Cleo: I know you do.
And that made me realize
you guys are my family now.
I don't feel homesick anymore.
This is my home.
Plus...I have that crazy energy-sucking thing!
Do you know what that means?
You're a danger to everyone around you?
I have a superpower!
I'm like Mistress Punchfire in your comic book.
This is so cool!
Brian: Know what? I'm gonna loan you
my Mistress Punchfire comics.
Cleo: You know what?
I'm gonna pretend I read them.
( all laughing )
*