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(Part 3 opens with the narrator giving a quick recap of what has happened so far)
Narrator: Robot soldiers were invading Earth, and robot duplicates of Garfield’s friends were being manufactured on the planet Sprocket!
Metalla: Yes, I am Zoe. Of COURSE I am Zoe.
Garfield: Everyone around me is NOT out to get me.
Robots: Garfield must be destroyed!
(With the summary over, Part 3 begins over a man’s house at night. He watches the evening news as he eats dinner at his table)
Anchorwoman: And we’re so far unable to confirm reports of robot invaders from outer space who may doom all of mankind.
Man: Ah! Heh. Robot invaders from outer space. The things some people will believe!
Anchorwoman: In vastly more important news, singer Wayne Newton… (The man turns off the TV and sniffs his soup)
Man: (calling upstairs) Oh, Gladys, could you do something about my soup? It’s ice cold! (Gladys steps in, except it’s her robot clone) Hey! Huh? (As a response to the complaint, she shoots lasers from her eyes and blows up the bowl of soup) AAHHH! (The man crawls out of the dining room and hides around the corner. He whips out his phone and talks to it) Zoe, Zoe, you’ve GOT to help me!
Metalla: How may I help you?
Man: Do you know a restaurant nearby that will deliver cream of mushroom soup? Oh, and I think my wife may be a robot invader from outer space. (His wife’s robot walks up to him) AAAHHHH!
Metalla: There are no robot invaders from outer space, but you need to go to the Northwest Valley.
Man: Anything you say, Zoe. (He takes off) Any place on the way where I can get cream of mushroom soup? (The robot turns toward the direction the man was running)
(The scene switches to the valley, where a line of people are being herded into one giant spaceship)
Narrator: And so that man soon joined hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who had been sent to the Northwest Valley by the voice on their smartphones! (A closer shot shows Jon and Liz holding hands, Vito right behind them, along with other people, walking toward their new future) There, the people, starting with Garfield’s closest friends, were herded into spacecrafts that were headed for the planet Sprocket, while robot duplicates, faithful to the rulers of Sprocket, took their places on Earth! (Herman Post’s robot clone delivers a piece of mail–despite it being night time. A Chihuahua growls at him and protects the food bowl, but the robot shoots lasers from its eyes, terrifying the Chihuahua and causing him to whimper and flee) As for Garfield, he was fleeing the robot duplicates of his friends! (Garfield runs down the street as robots chase him, shooting lasers past him)
Robots: Garfield must be destroyed! (They repeat this as they chase after the fat cat)
Garfield: AAAAHHHHH! (He jumps over a laser and does some impressive gymnastics to avoid another) Hoo! Wooo! (A bus pulls up, and Garfield runs into it)
Robots: Garfield must be destroyed! (They stop as Vito’s clone explains what happened to him)
Vito’s Robot: He did this trick to me earlier, I went in the front door while he was going out the back!
Jon’s Robot: We will not fall for that.
Minerva’s Robot: Half of us go in the front and half of us go in the back.
Eddie Gourmand’s Robot: Then he can’t get out. (Other robots shake their heads no, implying that Garfield won’t be able to escape. Before they can get on, he opens a window and flips onto the roof of the bus without being noticed. The robots stick to their plan, half enter the front and the other half, the back, but they soon realize that Garfield isn’t there. By then, the doors have closed and the bus has taken off with the robots still inside)
Garfield: (waving good-bye) So long! Enjoy the ride! Don’t forget to ask for a transfer! I don’t know what’s going on here. Home! I gotta get home! (He zips away)
(Inside the Factory, Master Control has been watching everything, including Garfield running down the street trying to get home)
Master Control: Clever, too clever! As our computer minds determined, that cat is a threat to our plan of world conquest! Alert ALL of our robot invaders on Earth, (He turns to Techno and points at him with his massive claw) the cat is heading home!
Techno: I will alert them, m-m-m-master! (He salutes)
Master Control: We cannot conquer Earth so long as he is free! (He starts singing)
The whole world would be mine,
If it wasn't for that thing in my way, (Garfield stands on top of the world, leaning against the moon. He wiggles his toes as he chuckles and waves)
That fat caaaat! (Master Control stares menacingly at him, shaking in anger)
There must be somebody,
Who would eliminate for me
Every trace of,
THAT CAT'S FACE! (Garfield runs in a circle surrounded by robots before getting caught in Master Control’s claws)
I'd enjoy and employ,
For the one who could destroy (A few robots dispose of some robot waste)
Him, for once, and for ALL! (Another Sprocket person wearing a helmet and red uniform runs off to a few other Sprocket people)
What I'm telling you is so true,
What I must do!
I must get rid of that fat cat,
I must get rid of that fat caaaaat! (Master Control's song ends)
Narrator: But, even as Master Control was observing Garfield, someone ELSE was observing Master Control. Not far from the villains’ factory was a junkyard where they dumped pieces of defective, discontinued robots. (Hiding in the bushes is another Sprocket person also wearing a red helmet and uniform, same one from earlier) NO one in Master Control’s camp suspected that below that junkyard was the camp of the Rebels, the last non-robot inhabitants of Sprocket who had NOT been rounded up and put to work in Master Control’s Factory! (The red-clad Sprocket person runs off to his companions. A few of them are dressed similar to him, while the main three–Anja, Bleen, and Glemm–wear something different, yet familiar. Bleen wears a white coat and a tuft of blonde hair, similar to what the Star Wars character Luke Skywalker wore in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Anja dons a white robe and the iconic hairstyle that Princess Leia wore in the aforementioned Star Wars movie, and Glemm has a beard and brown robe similar to old Ben Kenobi, also from Star Wars Episode IV. Just like in Star Wars, this band is also called the Rebels)
Bleen: He’s right, Anja. That cat has a will of its own! No machine can tell him what to do. In fact, no HUMAN can tell him what to do!
Anja: (walking forward) We HAVE to get to him before the robots do. He could inspire our meager forces to overthrow Master Control. I didn't mean instead of you, Bleen. You’re our leader, but this cat Garfield…
Bleen: I know what you mean, Anja, and you’re right.
Glemm: It’s like I always say to young people like you: hope is like asparagus, especially when buttered. (He walks off. Evidently he is not as wise as the character he is spoofing)
Anja: Thank you, Glemm, I think.
Bleen: We need to save that cat from the robots who are after him and recruit him for OUR cause! Come with me.
(The pair run into a cave. Inside is a spaceship, with beams of light illuminating it)
Narrator: The Rebels lived in a secret community with only the technology THEY could control, instead of the other way around.
Anja: A space hopper? How did you-?
Bleen: We “borrowed” (He makes air quotes) it from Master Control’s compound, the same time we planted a camera so we could observe him. (The camera shifts to Anja) I’ll be back with the cat in no time, that is, (and pans to Bleen in the ship) assuming I have enough fuel in this thing.
Anja: You’re using technology. Technology is what ENSLAVED our world!
Bleen: There’s nothing wrong with technology, Anja, (He starts up the space hopper) as long as YOU use IT, and IT doesn’t use YOU. (As the name suggests, the ship starts hopping) Stand back. (It hops out of the cave, causing Anja to spin in place. After the dizziness wears off, she bids Bleen farewell)
Anja: (waving good-bye) See you soon! I hope… (She looks nervous for the Rebels’ leader)
(In space above Sprocket, Bleen bounces across…nothing)
Narrator: Through the galaxy the space hopper hopped, piloted by Bleen, leader of the Resistance!
Navigation system: Set space coordinates to 1-7-Gamma. Left bang at intersection of yellow.
Bleem: Sorry, navigation system, you’re real good, but I know a shortcut: a little thing called a space warp. It cuts a few zillion light-years off the trip! (He bounces toward the space warp–which looks like a hurricane on its side–and enters its eye)
Narrator: On Earth, Garfield still couldn’t understand why all his friends had turned on him! (Garfield runs down the street, frantically looking back and forth for any more robots)
Garfield: Pant I don’t get it. Some of those people, I actually let them eat their own dinners! Gasp! (He stops running and faces the audience) I just wanna go home! (He hears something in front of him)
Nermal: Humming (Garfield squints to see better, only to be met by Nermal)
Garfield: AAAHHHHH! (Nermal approaches Garfield. The kitten holds a mirror and walks delicately on his tiptoes) Oh no, another one found me!
Nermal: Heya, Garfield!
Garfield: Stay away from me! (His reaction causes Nermal to freeze in his tracks)
Nermal: Garfield?
Garfield: I’m not gonna let you destroy me! (He covers his eyes with one paw and extends the other paw in front of him, trembling in fear)
Nermal: Why would I wanna do that, (He steps toward Garfield, who wags his tail behind him. The fat cat steps back, still unsure of the kitten) apart from the fact that you mail me to another time zone every other week? I kinda like ya. (His eyes get big and he blinks a few times)
Garfield: You don’t want to destroy me?
Nermal: Of course not! I’m not like one of those robot invaders from outer space!
Garfield: What?!
Nermal: (while looking at himself in the mirror) Oh, some silly thing they’re talking about on the news. Hey, listen, gotta go get an award or something. (Garfield opens his mouth to say something, but Nermal takes off) Next week, how about mailing me someplace tropical. I gotta work on my tan! (Garfield pauses to reflect)
Garfield: “Robot invaders from outer space”? (He zooms off for home. He runs up to the door when he hears another familiar sound)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Garfield turns and is met by Odie, who charges up, happy to see the Tubby Tabby)
Garfield: Gasp! Odie! Or at least I THINK you’re Odie! (Odie jumps on Garfield)
Odie: Slurp! Slurp! Slurp! (Odie's tongue tickles the Tubby Tabby)
Garfield: (continuing) I gotta get home and see the news! (He rushes through the front pet door. Odie follows)
Odie: I don’t know. (He runs up the hallway into the living room, where Garfield is intensely watching TV with the remote control between his feet)
Garfield: I told you Jon wouldn’t be here. Quiet! I need to watch this.
Anchorwoman: More reports of robot invaders from outer space, some say they have been crafted to look like people you know- (A robotic arm grabs her and pulls her off-screen) Muffed protests (She is replaced with her robot clone)
Anchorwoman’s Robot: However, the reports of robot invaders from outer space are false. Repeat: false. How ridiculous. Robotic laugh
(By now, Odie is standing next to Garfield, his front paws on the arm of Garfield’s chair, watching the news with the Flabby Tabby)
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: AAAHHHHHHHH!
Anchorwoman’s Robot: In other news… (She turns to her left, then back toward the camera) there is no other news.
Garfield: Odie,
Odie: Uh-huh?
Garfield: (continuing) all my friends, all the people I know, when they were chasing me, that wasn’t THEM chasing me! (He shakes his head)
Odie: Confused mutter
Garfield: No! Those were robot invaders from outer space made to LOOK like people I know!
Odie: (shaking his head) Worried mutters
Garfield: Ah, don’t worry. (He pats Odie’s paw) They’re looking for me downtown. They won’t think to look for me here. (At that moment, a crash can be heard from behind them) Woo! (They turn around. The door bends and it and the wall crashes, revealing Eddie Gourmand’s duplicate as the battering ram and all the other robots behind him. Garfield and Odie stand in the living room)
Odie: Whimpers
Garfield: AAAHHH! (Eddie’s robot bounces forward, all the others follow) Odie, I know what we should do!
Odie: (shaking his head) Confused mutter
Garfield: Yes, a lot of this: AAAAAHHHH! (He turns and runs in circles around the table) AAAAHHH! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! (Odie watches for a second before turning and facing the robot army)
Jon’s Robot: (pointing) Must destroy Garfield.
Odie: Mutter (He tilts his head, still looking confused)
Garfield: AAAHHHHHH! (The robots slowly advance toward the pup) Run Odie! (Odie turns around to face his frightened feline friend) These twins don’t want to play dress-up!
Odie: Uh-oh! (Garfield breaks for the kitchen. Odie heeds the fat cat’s advice and he follows him) Howl!
Robots: Garfield must be destroyed!
(Somehow, Garfield and Odie got behind the robots and run up the stairs)
Garfield: Hiding place! Hiding place!
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! (Once upstairs, they are pursued by Vito) Bark! Bark! (The pooch runs into Jon’s office with Garfield)
Vito’s Robot: Must destroy Garfield. (As he steps forward, the door slams shut in his face, knocking him over) OW!
(Inside the office, Odie–looking quite worried for Garfield–sits on the floor resting his paws on his toes. Garfield, terrified, does what he can to barricade the door)
Garfield: AAAAHHHH! (He braces himself against the door) And I’m usually so happy to see Vito.
Narrator: Trapped in Jon’s office, (Garfield looks around him for something) and with more than a dozen invaders from outer space roaming the house, (Garfield shoves a couch in the way of the door, inadvertently squishing Odie between it and a trunk)
Odie: Yowl!
Narrator: (continuing) the cat tried desperately to think of a way out of this predicament! (Garfield looks around, and notices Odie’s arm, leg, and ears poking out from behind the couch)
Odie: Moan…
Vito’s Robot: Let me in! I must destroy you! (He pounds on the door. On the other side, Garfield paces in circles, now with the lights on. Odie watches from above, sitting on a chair, still looking worried)
Garfield: How do you stop a robot? Wait a minute! (He stops pacing and faces the audience) How do I know for sure these ARE robots? (He notices something he used in Part 1) Magnets attract metal! (On Jon’s desk is the magnet. He grabs it) Chuckle (Right at that moment, the robots have busted the door open, causing Garfield and Odie to turn and face the metallic horde)
Vito’s Robot: Snarl!
Garfield: Let’s see if you’re metal, Vito. (He points the magnet at Vito’s clone)
Vito’s Robot: Grunts (It strains against the magnet’s pull, but eventually makes contact with the magnet. Instantly the robot short-circuits and falls apart, its head bouncing on a spring)
Garfield: Yep. Metal. (A slight boinging can be heard. Garfield and Odie look up and see Eddie’s robot bouncing toward them)
Eddie Gourmand’s Robot: I must destroy Garfield. I must destroy Garfield. I must… (It gets too close and Garfield hits it with his magnet. The robot’s head spazzes out and eventually breaks, steam comes out of its ears and its tongue hangs out of his head. After defeating another robot, Garfield holds the magnet up to his mouth and blows across it, much like the victor in a shootout does to a smoking gun. Odie pants next to him)
Garfield: Chuckle (All of this has not gone unnoticed by the big bad)
Master Control: What is the meaning of this?! (He angrily turns to Techno) How can he do that?!
Techno: (looking sheepish) It’s a design flaw in our d-d-d-design.
Master Control: WHAT?! (Techno leaps in fear)
Techno: A design flaw. The engineers told you about it. (The Rebels back on Sprocket watch as Techno continues explaining the situation to his boss) Any contact with m-m-magnetism, (the camera shifts to the Rebel crew) however minor, shorts out our entire systems. (Inside the factory...) That’s why you b-b-banned all magnets from the p-p-p-planet. (In the Rebel clan, Anja looks focused, like she has an idea swirling in her head)
(Inside the factory, Master Control adjusts his plans)
Master Control: Ah, yes, now I remember. I hereby ban that CAT as well! Monitor his whereabouts every moment! If he comes anywhere NEAR this galaxy, use the full force of our army to ELIMINATE him, or I will eliminate YOU! (He points at Techno before returning to his egg form)
Techno: (while saluting with trembling legs) Yes, sir!
(Back on Earth, Garfield had defeated all the robots, among them are clones of Jon, Liz, Mrs. Cauldron, and Aunt Ivy, among others. All of their heads bounce on a spring connected to their neck)
Narrator: At that moment, Garfield’s whereabouts were still at home on the planet Earth, but that was about to change!
Garfield: So what do we do with all these? Trade ‘em in for a new microwave?
Odie: Uh-huh.
Garfield: I stopped the robots with this magnet,
Odie: Wow!
Garfield: (continuing) the one I used earlier to borrow Jon’s voice recorder! Do you remember that? (The not-so-smart pup tries to remember)
Odie: Uh…uh-uh. (He shakes his hollow head no and begins panting)
Garfield: Well, I don't blame ya. This is one of those REALLY really long episodes. (Thinking that he’s safe, he and Odie head downstairs)
Narrator: Garfield believed he was out of danger for now (Behind the pets, Bleen pokes his head out from behind a piece of furniture) and that there were only questions to be answered. (The pets walk through the living room. Bleen walks down the stairs and ducks to avoid being seen)
Garfield: Where are the real Jon, Liz, and Vito, and all the rest? Is the earth really being invaded?
Odie: I don’t know. (Bleen continues spying behind them)
(In the kitchen, the cat and dog duo discuss with each other)
Narrator: Vital questions, burning questions, questions of TOWERING importance!
Garfield: (after opening the refrigerator) And the most important question: (He searches the refrigerator shelves) did Jon leave any leftover meatloaf? I’m starving.
(Later, Garfield and Odie watch TV on Garfield’s chair. The puppy dog pants and the fat cat has found some sandwiches and eats one as the narrator narrates)
Narrator: No! Most important, who was the mysterious visitor who is about to plunge our hero into a new and more dangerous existence? These questions, including the one about the meatloaf…
Garfield: (while eating a sandwich) We found some. Thank you. (Above them, Bleem looks down at the cat and dog from behind the chair)
Narrator: These questions will be answered in our next riveting chapter…
Garfield: Ahem, when you’re not too busy narrating, could you pass me some ketchup? (He holds his hand out waiting for the condiment, but there is no time for that! Part 3 has come to an end)
TO BE CONTINUED…