both: ♪ If you're a kid
with powers ♪
♪ Then where's
the place to be? ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
♪ If you have super strength ♪
♪ And can lift
a ton or three ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
man: ♪ If your power
lets you fly ♪
- ♪ You're like me,
Lucita Sky ♪
woman: ♪ Like to help out
when there's trouble? ♪
- ♪ Oh, you bet,
I'm Benny Bubbles! ♪
man:
♪ Teleport in no time flat? ♪
- ♪ Sara Snap can,
just like that! ♪
woman: ♪ Use super tools
to save the day? ♪
- ♪ Like AJ Gadgets,
I'm on my way! ♪
both:
♪ How do they save the day? ♪
all: ♪ Well,
the scientific fact is ♪
♪ They use
all kinds of powers ♪
♪ They just need
a little more ♪
man: Practice!
both: ♪ If you're a future
hero, come and you will see ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
[bell rings]
Mr. Sparks:
Hero Elementary,
the perfect place
for freeze training...
[ice crackles]
♪ ♪
[both laughing]
Stretching routines...
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
Mr. Sparks:
And of course, gadget testing.
- Stand back, everyone.
I will now test
my latest gadget,
the size changer.
- Wow!
- Ooh-ooh-ooh!
- Whoa.
- Watch as I make
this apple bigger.
[heroic music]
[machine beeps and whirrs]
[zaps]
- Wh--w-wow!
- Whoa!
- That's amazing, AJ!
- [squeaking]
[squeaking happily]
- Wow, that's one big snack.
- Too big.
I'll make it smaller.
[zaps]
- [squeaks]
AJ: Oops!
I made it too small.
- It's adorable!
- [squeaks]
[chomping]
- I guess I need
a little more practice.
- All great heroes
need practice.
I'll get more apples.
- Hmm, what else
can I make big?
[pondering music]
- How 'bout something
really small?
[gasps]
Like a spider!
- [screams]
- [gasps]
- Oh, no!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [squeaks]
- Whoa, what just happened?
Oof!
- Oh, no.
My size changer made us small.
♪ ♪
- [squeaks]
- Students!
Students?
Wh--where are they?
- [squeaks]
[squeaking explanatorily]
- Ah, maybe they went back
to the classroom.
- [squeaking groan]
♪ ♪
- What are we gonna do?
- We can fix this.
Right, AJ?
- Yes.
We just need to find
the size changer
so we can get back
to normal size.
[all gasping]
[dramatic musical sting]
Uh, finding it could be harder
than I thought.
- Hey, maybe we can use our...
all: Superpowers of Science!
- Let's start by observing.
Look around and see
if there's anything
that can help us.
Come on!
- Hmm.
All I see are tall weeds,
big rocks.
♪ ♪
And a giant ladybug!
[shudders]
- It's okay, AJ.
Ladybugs are super cool.
Look.
It has hidden wings!
- Ah!
- I bet it can see a lot
from up there.
- Hey, if I fly up there
like the ladybug,
maybe I can see
where the size changer is.
- Great idea!
- But you don't like
to fly high.
- Um, it's not too high.
It's just above the grass.
[adventurous music]
Whoa!
♪ ♪
I see it!
Right next to some flowers!
[gulps]
Just above the grass
is a lot higher than I thought.
Whoa!
- Oh, no!
- I got her, I got her!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Oof!
- Gotcha!
- Thanks, Sara.
- Now let's go get
my size changer
so we can make ourselves
big again.
- It's over that way,
but there's a lot of things
between here and there.
- We got this.
After all, who's the crew
who knows what to do?
♪ ♪
all: Sparks' Crew
to the rescue!
♪ ♪
- To our own rescue!
- [laughs]
Let's go.
- [squeaks]
- Students!
Where are you?
- [squeaks]
- Oh, maybe they're playing
hide and seek with me.
[laughs]
Okay, class.
Come out,
come out, wherever you are!
[squeaks exasperatedly]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
This way, team.
[all grunting]
- Whoa!
[cricket chirping]
- Hey, what's that sound?
- It's coming from...
[gasps]
In there.
[chirping gets louder]
It's getting louder.
[chirping continues]
- Ah!
Another kind of insect!
- [laughs]
A cricket!
They're so cool.
Check it out!
They rub their wings together
to make noise.
[cricket chirping]
- Ugh, it's too loud
when we're this small.
Ah.
- At least you can always
tell where they are.
[laughs]
Wow!
Crickets have
powerful legs too.
- [shouting] Whoa!
They can jump really high.
Like you, Benny!
- Oh, hey.
Yeah.
Hup!
Look at me.
Aw, yeah!
I'm a cricket.
[imitates chirping]
[laughs]
Cricket, cricket!
- [squeaks]
[cricket chirps]
- [laughing]
- [squeaks]
[squeaks]
[curious music]
[squeaks questioningly]
[all laughing]
- Hoppity hop!
♪ ♪
Benny: I can see the flowers
and the size changer.
We're getting closer!
Sara: Look out!
- Ah!
[thump]
- Oh, no!
Benny!
- I'm okay.
- Uh, what is that?
- Ooh, it's an ant.
- That makes one, two, three
different kinds of insects
that live here.
- Wow!
- How can it lift
something so big?
- Ants are super strong.
- Wow.
Just like you, Sara.
♪ ♪
Lucita: Ooh, where's it going?
We'll need to get across.
- Well, insects have all
different ways of moving
and so do we.
- Yes!
I shall jump across
like a cricket.
- And I will fly across
like a ladybug.
- Me too!
[heroic music]
♪ ♪
- And I'll use my strength
like an ant.
[grunts]
Whoa-oa-oa-ah!
♪ ♪
- Come on, Sparks' Crew!
♪ ♪
- We're almost there.
♪ ♪
Or not.
- Now that is one big puddle.
Benny: Huh.
Looks like a lake to me.
all: Ah!
- What are those?
- Water skippers.
They have special feet
that let them glide on water.
- Wow, Sara.
You really know
a lot about insects.
- Yeah!
That's one,
two, three, four
different kinds of insects
that live here!
[zapping]
- Come on!
[lighthearted music]
- Wha--oh.
Uh, wait!
It's too big
for me to bounce over.
- Uh, thought projecting!
Hmm, maybe you can
use your bubbles
to glide like
the water skippers.
- Yeah! Good idea.
[adventurous music]
Whee!
[laughs]
Ah-ah-ah-ah!
[screaming]
all: [shouting]
Benny: Oof!
all: Whoa!
- [grunts]
I'm okay.
- The size changer has
to be around here somewhere.
all: Hmm...
- Huh?
Oh, wow!
[awestruck music]
Sara: A spider web!
And there's the spider.
See it swinging?
Spiders are great builders.
- Kind of like...
me.
So many insects that live here.
Some that fly...
[wings fluttering]
Some that crawl...
some that make sounds...
[cricket chirping]
And even some
that glide on water!
And they're all so amazing.
[heavy thudding]
[all shout]
- Uh...
[thud]
What's that?
[suspenseful music]
[thudding continues]
♪ ♪
- [squeaks happily]
all: Fur Blur!
- You're huge!
- Yeah, but still adorable.
- Hmm.
[gasps]
Look!
My size changer!
- We found it!
- Let's go!
[groovy music]
♪ ♪
- What's this?
AJ's size changer.
Oh, no!
Students?
Did you shrink?
Where are you?
- Oh.
He's going the wrong way.
- Uh, how do we stop him?
A- Uh, thought projecting!
[thought zapping]
What if we do what crickets do
and make a lot of noise?
They can be really loud.
- Yeah,
and if we're loud enough,
maybe Mr. Sparks
will hear us.
- Let's do this.
[determined music]
[noisy banging]
- ¿Qué?
- He heard us!
Now we just have to get him
to see us.
- [gasps]
[dramatic music]
[heroic music]
♪ ♪
[device beeps]
- Ah!
♪ ♪
Mr. Sparks!
Mr. Sparks!
- Ah!
[dramatic music]
- No!
- [gasps]
Oh, no!
- [squeaks]
♪ ♪
- Whew.
Thanks, Fur Blur.
- [squeaks happily]
- There you all are.
I was beginning to get worried.
I--oh, hold on.
I'll get you
back to normal size.
Let's see.
Uh...
oh, how does this thing work?
[adventurous music]
[machine beeps]
[zaps]
- Whoo-hoo!
Yay!
- Whoo!
- Oh, thank you!
- What a relief!
- [squeaks happily]
- Oh, I'm so glad
you're all okay. [chuckles]
What was it like down there?
- Amazing.
There were ladybugs
and crickets
and ants and water skippers
and spiders!
And they could all do
incredible things.
- And by acting like them,
we found our way back to you.
- Fantástico!
- I wonder what else
we could learn down there.
Maybe we should go back?
all: No!
[all laughing]
Mr. Sparks:
So remember, heroes,
the next time you see
a little critter,
don't bug out.
It may just give you
a big idea.
all: ♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary! ♪
Mr. Sparks: The school day
was just about to start,
and my students were ready
to sharpen up
on their hero skills.
- [squeaks happily]
AJ: Ah!
Just eat the carrot,
not my fingers.
Okay, Fur Blur?
- [squeaks agreeably]
- [laughs]
- Ooh, cool pictures.
Did you take these?
- My abuelita did.
See?
That's my grandmother.
She's a great photographer.
- What a beautiful place.
Lucita:
It's our favorite spot.
Mr. Sparks: Your abuelita
is such a good photographer,
I can almost hear the water
in this stream.
- [laughs]
[alarm dinging]
- The Sparkinator!
Benny: Oh, no!
That woman's bag is in the wate!
- [gasps]
That's Abuelita!
She needs help!
- All right.
Who's the crew
who knows what to do?
[heroic music]
all: Sparks' Crew
to the rescue!
♪ ♪
[zaps]
♪ ♪
[zaps]
- There she is.
Abuelita!
♪ ♪
- Lucita!
My camera bag!
- Don't worry, Abuelita.
We'll get it.
Come on, team!
♪ ♪
- Got it!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
[grunts with effort]
Oof!
Ooh!
- Bubble up!
♪ ♪
- Awesome.
- Thanks, Sara!
Here you go.
- Gracias mi amor.
[smooching]
Oh, I am so glad you came.
Ay, and brought friends.
[zaps]
- The Sparks' Crew is always
willing to help, ma'am.
- If I was younger, I would
have gone after it myself.
[sighs]
I used to fly,
but I'm a bit
out of practice now.
- [gasps]
Wait.
Is this our favorite spot?
- Sí.
- But it's all covered
in water!
What happened?
- Last time we were here,
this was a fast-moving stream,
remember?
[curious music]
AJ: Now it's more like a pond.
- At least we still have
our favorite bench.
- Ah, yes.
Our bench with a view...
both: And room for two.
- We always sit here together.
- But, if the water
keeps getting higher,
we might not be able
to sit here anymore.
- Team,
we have to save the stream
and get it back
to the way it was.
- Yes!
Wait.
How?
- I'm not sure,
but maybe we
can figure it out using our...
all: Superpowers of Science!
Let's start by investigating.
We need to find out
what's making the water
come up so high.
- And what turned a narrow
stream into this wide pond.
- Hmm.
I know!
Why don't we look around
and observe?
You know,
see what we can notice?
- Good idea.
- And I will take some photos
of the great stream rescue.
- Great.
Let's go team!
[heroic music]
[camera shutter clicking]
♪ ♪
[zaps]
♪ ♪
- Huh?
Sara, I noticed something!
[zaps]
- Oh.
- There are lots of trees
on the ground here.
- I wonder how
they all fell down.
[curious music]
- Hmm.
They were chewed.
- Chewed?
How do you know?
- Thought projecting.
When Fur Blur eats a carrot,
she chews it
until it kind of looks kind of
like the shape of these trees.
- Oh, yeah.
I can see the bite marks.
So something chewed
on these trees
until they fell down?
- And chewed
the branches off too.
- So where did
all the branches go?
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
Hey, look what I noticed!
♪ ♪
- The stream is blocked.
- You're right!
The water can't get through.
[device beeps]
Team, we found
a bunch of branches
piled up in the water.
- Branches?
We're on our way!
[zaps]
[zaps]
- See?
Those branches
are blocking the stream,
and the water
has nowhere to go.
So it spreads out
and gets higher and higher.
- [gasps]
Oh, no!
I see a fuzzy animal
in trouble.
It's surrounded by water!
- Hmm.
Ay!
It's a beaver!
[camera shutter clicks]
- It must be stuck out there
on that pile of branches!
[zaps]
- More branches?
- We must rescue it!
- Okay, new plan.
First we'll save the beaver.
Then we save the stream.
- Fear not, my furry friend.
Help is on the way!
- I got this.
[zaps]
I'll just make a bridge
with this log.
[grunting]
- Whoa!
- Wah!
- Whoa!
- Wah-ah!
Ah!
Oof!
[dramatic music]
[quirky music]
Oops.
- [gasps]
Look, it's swimming!
Benny: Huh, I guess it didn't
need rescuing after all.
[camera shutter clicks]
- It's a good little swimmer.
[slow music]
Sara: It's not too speedy
on land though.
Benny: Hey, are you observing
what I'm observing?
- That beaver
is chewing a tree.
So it must've been beavers that
chewed down all those trees.
- But why?
- Look!
More beavers!
They're using the branches
to block up the stream.
- And look!
That beaver's adding
a branch to that pile.
- That one's got
a funny-looking branch.
Abuelita: That's not a branch.
[gasps]
That's my camera stand!
- Oh!
New plan!
First we save the camera stand.
Then we save the stream.
- I'll get it.
[heroic music]
♪ ♪
[grunting]
♪ ♪
Ah!
Ooh!
[grunts, sighs]
Here you go.
- Ay, gracias.
- So why do beavers pile up
the branches like that?
- We need more information.
- Oh, I have a book
about wildlife.
It's back on the bench.
Vámonos.
♪ ♪
Okay.
Hmm.
Ba, ba, ba.
Ay!
This says beavers
chew down trees
and use the branches
to block the water.
Lucita: Then they use other
branches to build their homes.
Benny:
So that's a beaver's home?
- Maybe my Scope-a-Tron
can help me see inside.
[curious music]
[device beeps]
[machine beeps]
It is a home!
There are beavers
living in there.
♪ ♪
Sara: And they have
secret underwater tunnels.
AJ: Beavers are
incredible engineers.
- But why would
they build their home
in the middle of the water?
- Maybe it's to keep them safe.
- From what?
- [gasps]
From things like that!
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
A fox!
New plan!
- Save the beaver?
- Right.
Let's go!
[zaps]
Get outta here, fox!
- Shoo!
- Get out! Go!
- Shoo, fox!
- Shoo!
- Bubble up!
Aw, I guess one bubble
wasn't enough!
- Go, go!
- Shoo, fox!
- Outta here!
- Shoo!
- Let's try more!
[heroic music]
[laughs]
Yeah!
[awkward music]
[groans]
[zaps]
- Shoo, shoo!
Leave that beaver alone!
Aw.
[zaps]
[camera shutter clicks]
[water sloshes]
- Oh?
Oh, no.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [groans]
- Oh, no!
- No, no, no, no.
♪ ♪
Benny: Oh, phew!
That beaver
warned the other one
by slapping its tail
on the water.
[curious music]
♪ ♪
[machine beeps]
- Now they're safe
inside their home.
Abuelita: Lucita!
Help me!
- Abuelita!
- Oh, dear.
[suspenseful music]
- Come on.
Let's get you out of here.
- How?
- Do you think you could fly?
- Oh, I haven't used
those powers in a long time.
I'm not sure I can fly.
- We'll do it together.
- Okay, okay.
- Here we go!
- [gasps] Ooh.
Ooh, I--oh!
[grunting]
Oh, uh...
oh, dear.
[triumphant music]
Oh! [laughs]
I'm doing it!
[laughs]
I'm doing it!
I've still got it!
[laughs]
Wow!
- Hey, she's flying!
- Oh! Ay!
This is wonderful.
[laughing]
- Nice!
- Whoo-hoo!
- [laughs]
Way to go!
- [laughs triumphantly]
Gracias, mi amor.
Ay.
Those beavers made
some big changes to this place.
Lucita: Yes.
The beavers need this pond
to live in and to stay safe.
I guess sometimes being a hero
means...
[chuckles]
Doing nothing.
- Sometimes, but you didn't
exactly do nothing.
You saved my camera bag
and my camera stand,
and you helped me fly again.
[zaps]
- That was pretty awesome.
- You know,
there is one small change
we could make to this place.
- Oh?
What's that?
- [whispers unintelligibly]
- I'm on it.
[zaps]
[zaps]
- Oh, very good!
- See?
We can still have
our bench with a view...
both: And room for two.
- Or maybe even more?
- Sí.
Everyone squeeze in!
I'll show you the pictures
I took of my little heroes.
Benny: Ooh!
[fun music]
Sara: Aw.
AJ: [laughs]
Mr. Sparks: So even though
the beavers changed
a lot about the area,
what will never change is how
proud I am of my students.
And that's
a picture-perfect ending.
all: ♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
- Time to learn
How to Hero!
Hey, you!
Yes, that means you.
Let's go hero,
using your Superpowers
of Science.
Today's superpower is...
The power to explain.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ What happened? ♪
♪ You found a mystery ♪
♪ What happened? ♪
♪ What clues do you see? ♪
♪ Can you figure out a way ♪
♪ To use your evidence
to explain? ♪
♪ What happened? ♪
♪ Use what you know ♪
♪ What happened? ♪
♪ Why do you think so? ♪
♪ Yeah, you could
save the day ♪
♪ Save the day
when you explain ♪
♪ When you explain ♪
♪ Tell others what you found ♪
♪ So you can figure out ♪
♪ How to save the day ♪
♪ What happened? ♪
♪ You found my evidence ♪
♪ What happened? ♪
♪ You can try again ♪
♪ You're a hero
when you say ♪
♪ You can really explain ♪
♪ When you explain ♪
♪ Tell others what you found
so you can figure out ♪
♪ How to save the day ♪
♪ Can you explain? ♪
- ♪ Can you explain? ♪
- ♪ Can you explain? ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
04x01 - Bugging Out/Eager Beavers
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Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap and Benny Bubbles work with their teacher, Mr. Sparks, to help people and solve problems.
Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap and Benny Bubbles work with their teacher, Mr. Sparks, to help people and solve problems.