[Catching his breath]
- Sir, they have the toxin!
[I'm giving chase!] - Be careful.
If that toxin is released in the city,
all is lost.
[And remember, Souljacker is deadly.]
- Aah!
[Fighting yell] I don't want to hurt you.
[Screaming]
[Fighting yells]
[Moaning in pain]
- Gimme your watch!
[You lose, Mr. Hall!]
- Stan.
Dark Owl has been compromised.
There's only one left.
Stan, get me Aaron Stone.
[Music and background chatter]
[Cheering]
- Come on, Charlie!
- Go!!!
- Go, Charlie! - Do it, Charlie!
- Jump, Charlie!
[Buzzer sounding]
- Sir, I found the target.
- ♪ You only get one shot ♪
♪
- GooHello?t, coach.
[Laughing] I was not scared.
You're gonna pay for that, bro. - All right, boys.
Everybody ready for cheeseburgers?
- You know, I'm not- I'm not that hungry.
- No? - No. And I told Bax I'd go to a party with him.
- A party? - Mm-hmm. - Great!
- Yeah, so I'll see you guys at home, later. - Okay, yeah. So, have fun.
- Have fun, you two. - Come on.
- Hey, I don't want to go eat with Mom either.
Gonna play videogames. Ah, you're gonna play Hero Rising!
- Shh! Just do this for me tonight, okay?
And I promise, tomorrow I will show you how to get past
Helix's army of genetically altered snake men.
- All right, deal.
- Good. - [Mom]: Jason, come on!
- Coming, Mom! - Have fun.
Later.
[Dramatic music]
[Sighing] All right!
Yes!
♪
- Seven genetically-enhanced geniuses have forged--
- All right! - ...an evil alliance called the Omega Defiance,
with the sole intent of taking over the world.
The seven will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
They have already begun their insidious takeover
on every continent.
It looks like the end of mankind.
The world is in desperate need of a hero to rise up and save it!
Will that be you?
- Yep. That'd be me.
Aaron Stone.
[Aaron Stone is in the house.]
- [Welcome, Aaron.]
We've been waiting for you to finish this mission.
- [Actually, we've been waiting for you]
so that this mission does not finish us.
- Vesuvius, Lotus,
let's rock and roll!
[Souljacker.]
Ah! No, no, no! You're not gonna get me!
No way! Mm-hmm.
I love these X-5 runners!
Whoo! All right!
Souljacker, can you deal with this?
- [That was amazing, Aaron!]
I want a gauntlet weapon.
- Vesuvius, don't worry, man.
You'll get one. Keep playing.
- I will have grandchildren before I get to that level!
Aaron, we must do something.
The Omega Defiance is getting stronger!
- [They keep on attacking us as soon as we log in!]
I'm running out of invisibility shields! - [I'm sorry, guys.]
'Cause that's just how the game is played.
The Omega Defiance gets stronger the higher the level.
[By the way, I haven't seen you in days, Lotus.]
- Yes, well, because my brother,
who is a cursed placed upon my family...
told my parents I did not do my homework
and they wouldn't let me play Hero Rising for a whole week!
[Screaming and fighting]
- Charlie. We're home.
- Hey, life's calling. Gotta go!
- Hey. - Hey, Mom.
Hi. I just got home too, it's weird.
- Already? - Yeah, it was not much of a party. It was lame.
- You should have come with u--
I think your brother is trying to tell you that, uh,
you left your videogame on.
I cannot believe you didn't go to the party!
- Ma, this is a great game!
I'm telling you. - Maybe it is, but it can't be better than life.
- No, it's not better.
But it's more fun!
- I am super-fun. And look at him.
Your brother is fun! And speaking of fun with your brother,
I need you to take him to the orthodontist tomorrow after school.
Because...
because I have a job interview.
- But Mom, he's 14! Can't he walk himself?
- Well, I'd like to think so, but he didn't make it there
last time, remember? - Right. No braces for me!
I remember when Charlie's got stuck in the rug, though.
[Cynical laugh] - Yeah. That was embarrassing.
- Not as embarrassing as this over here, right?
Oh, my gosh! - [Mom]: Oh!
- That's a great photo, man! - Gimme that.
- You should keep that. - Ugh!
- Later. - See you guys. [Electronic noises]
Oh! - Ah!
- Sorry. The ball just went... You're the girl from next door.
- Emma. And you're Charlie, the guy who peeped in my window.
- No, I wasn't peeping. I just looked over and you were there.
I'm- Uh- Peeping I don't do. I'm a looker.
Uh... Not my looks looker,
but um... I'm just gonna shut up now.
- Good.
- Okay.
- Hey, I heard you missed that big shot.
- It was just one lousy shot!
- Yes, that's it! Lousy.
- Yeah. [Emma laughing]
Look, I know you just moved in and I should have come over sooner,
but honestly, I've just been going through some really rough times.
- Oh, I know. I know.
You lost your dad.
I'm very sorry, Charlie. - It's okay.
- Um, I'm walking home. How 'bout you?
- Sure, yeah. - Oh, good.
- Oh, you know what? Ah! no.
I gotta go pick up my brother, walk him to the orthodontist.
- Okay. Well, that's cute. Um, I'll see you later in my window.
- All right, I'll s-- - Bye.
- See ya. [Background chatter]
Ah! Nice.
Okay.
Perfect.
That's great.
[Truck reverse beeping]
Whoa! [Tires squealing]
I'll give it right back. - Dude!
That's my board, man! - See that?
- That's my board!
- Thanks!
[Action music]
Later.
- Boys, I didn't want to have to do this, but...
I'm turning your dad's home office into a guestroom and I'm renting it out.
- But Mom, you can't! - That's totally unfair.
- Mom. - I'm sorry. We need the money.
So, how'd it go at the orthodontist?
- Good. Charlie never showed,
so I went by myself.
Told you I was responsible.
Can I have a monkey now? - No.
Charlie? - I was going to, Mom.
All right? I was on my way- I was on my way to go meet him.
Right? And... - And what? I want the truth
or you're...
doing all the dishes.
- I was chased by sort of a...
like a deranged spy.
- Spy?
Ah! I think Mom was right.
Way too many videogames.
- ♪ One, two, three, go ♪
- ♪ Bully bully! Bully bully! ♪
- ♪ One, two, three, go ♪
- Okay? - Yes. Good. - Oh. Sorry man. My hand shaked.
♪ One, two, three, go - Bully bully! Bully bully! ♪
- I want to introduce the toxin
with the most impact to the most amount of people.
Souljacker, I need you
to find me a rocket launcher.
- Not a problem.
And this?
- I thought it wise to run a small test trial of the toxin.
- But Dr. Necros,
these are your own men.
- Yes.
Yes, they were.
- Girl: [Why are just standing there watching, Aaron?]
[You're the best player in the game! Please, help me!]
- Okay. Listen.
Wait until Souljacker swings his sticks,
all right, and then move in.
[Just remember, move fast.]
[Got that Dr. Mom? Aah!]
That wasn't fast.
[Girl screaming in frustration]
Hey, Emma! You all right?
- No. I just took some bonehead's advice
and got my avatar demolished!
I'm way fast! If I ever get my hands on him, I'll...
- Wait, you're--
You play videogames?
- Yes. - Me too.
[Laughing]
- [Mom]: Charlie, take out the trash!
- I gotta go.
- Okay, bye!
- Bonehead?
- Aaron Stone? [Startled scream]
- You're the guy who chased me! Look man, I know karate!
All right, I'll... I'll hit you with this!
- I'm not here to harm you.
- Then why did you chase me this afternoon?
- Because you ran. We must do that again sometime. It was fun.
- You're really strange. - No, I'm Stan.
I work for T. Abner Hall. We need to go to Austria.
- Austria? Hmm, okay.
It's- It's midnight and I gotta go to school tomorrow. I'm really sorry.
- Oh, you'll be home in plenty of time.
- What is that?
- The J-960 supersonic jet.
The Black Arrow. The latest design from Hall Industries.
The "J" stands for "jet" and "960"
for "miles per minute."
- Oh dude, if you think that I'm getting in that, you are out of your mind!
[Screaming]
- Buckle up. - What?!
- Or will be sucked out through the air grid and torn into one 1,299,000 pieces.
- Yeah, right. - I'm serious.
[Screaming]
- Wait.
Nothing happened. - On the contrary, Mr. Stone.
We are not 872 miles from departure.
- What?! - Nine-hundred-- [Screaming]
- Welcome, Mr. Stone.
I am T. Abner Hall.
- Okay, there are laws against this, all right? And both of--
Wait, Hall?
As in Hall Industries? The creator of Hero Rising?
I love that game.
- Thank you.
A few years ago,
I asked 7 of the world's greatest minds to gather together
with the sole purpose of bettering mankind.
- Oh yeah. Yeah.
The seven, they genetically altered themselves,
became the Omega Defiance and they're taking over the world.
Blah blah blah, you know. I know the story of Hero Rising.
It's just a game.
- Ever read the billboards?
"It's not just a game."
Well, it's not.
It was a horrible mistake,
and now you have to stop them.
[Laughing] - This is...
And my mom said that I played too many videogames!
Look, what you're saying is impossible!
- As is my jet.
As is Stan.
- Okay. I'm gonna give you the jet, but Stan here--
Stan is just a guy.
[Mr. Hall chuckling]
- S-T-A-N.
Sentient Tactical Assisting Neo-human.
Stan is an android.
[Laughing] - Yeah, right.
- Sometimes when I'm like this, my neck tends to whistle in the wind.
- Uh, your... your head's on backwards.
- Hmm? Oh, my bad.
- I created Hero Rising
to find the best player in the world.
Your thought processes and athletic abilities are exceptional.
The Omega Defiance will not stop
until they take control of mankind
by any means.
They are the disease,
Aaron Stone.
You...
you are the cure.
- Okay.
You're asking a kid in boxer shorts
to save the world.
- Yes, I am.
If you refuse...
we are all doomed.
- Mr. Hall...
I want to go home now.
- Very well. - Okay.
- Think about it.
There's not much time.
orning, Mom.
- Hey! The sign blew over.
- Mom, do you think you can drive Jason to school today?
- Yeah, sure.
- Cool.
Ma? Everything's gonna be okay, isn't it?
- Of course it is, Charlie.
- Okay. Good.
All right, I should get going.
- Okay. Love you, Charlie.
Bye, baby.
- Good morning, Mr. Stone.
Mr. Hall needs your answer. Will you help us?
- Tell Mr. Hall that I thought about it, okay,
and the answer is no, Stan.
Look, I'm not Aaron Stone, okay?
It's just my avatar.
- Of course you're Aaron Stone. Why else would Mr. Hall want you to save the world?
- Stan, I can't, okay? I've got- I've got school.
My family. - All the more reason to help.
As we speak, a horrible crime is about to take place that will change the face of the world,
including your school and your family. - My family?
But no! No, no, no! What am I thinking?!
Stan, I'm not Aaron Stone, okay?
- I've triple- checked our files.
You are the only Aaron Stone. You leave me no choice.
- No choice? What are- What are you gonna do?