500 Keyz

500 Keyz

May 15, 2011

Hi, guys.

So, my family return home from an errand, but Maggie gets locked in the car. While searching for the spare key, Maggie frees herself, but they discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield. At school, Lisa uses a key and finds a hidden classroom. She shares her discovery with Principal Skinner, but when she brings along the school newspaper, they find a bookshelf. Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers snatch the key from Lisa. She has the key replicated and finds the classroom hidden behind the shoddy bookshelf. She sees a mysterious figure writing "The children are on Bus 23" on the chalkboard.

Meanwhile, Bart causes mayhem with the keys but accidentally does good deeds and gets the key to the city. Mom and Maggie find a key for a wind-up toy that makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them, and they chase it around town. Dad uses a key to get into the Duff brewery with Barney and goes joyriding in the Duff blimp.

To get more information, Lisa and Bart ask Nelson who explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that drove over an ice bridge but never returned. Homer flies them in the blimp to the river where the ice bridge would be. Lisa falls into the water where she sees the submerged Bus 23, and Dad dives in to save her. They find the children are mannequins. Dad and Lisa are saved by the wind-up toy, which knocks over a tree onto which they grab. The mysterious figure is revealed to be Otto, who drove Bus 23 and is relieved not to be responsible for the death of the children.

Bart forces Chalmers and Skinner to explain everything. Years earlier, the school received a grant for improving its classrooms. Skinner cashed the check but left the money in his pants pocket, and his mother destroyed it washing his laundry. Chalmers and Skinner built a fake classroom including rented mannequins and photographed it to keep the government from finding out. However, they could only afford to rent the mannequins and had to return them by 5:00 that afternoon to avoid being charged for an extra day and they didn’t prorate. While Otto was driving the mannequins to the rental office in Bus 23, the ice bridge collapsed and the bus fell into the river. Chalmers and Skinner apologize to Otto for letting him believe he killed the students.

Later, Otto drives his bus across an icy bridge, believing that the real children he is transporting are really mannequins. The bus falls into the river, and the episode ends with the sound of Otto searching for his keys to let the children off the bus to swim to shore.

Meanwhile, as the Honeybees are earning a badge related to making birdhouses, Bessie as usual finishes early and overachieves the goals necessary to earn the badge by creating an incredibly complex birdhouse structure. Mrs. Gibbons asks her to instead use her remaining time to work on several more work-related and training-related tasks, but since Bessie has already completed all of them Mrs. Gibbons sends her home early.

As she rides the town car home, Bessie feels very down about the lack of challenge that the Honeybees afford her due to her overachieving status. She passes by a field where the Gorillas, an ultra masculine all-male scout troop, is training and envies them for their ultra extremeness and commitment to death defying challenges.

To find something to do, Bessie decides to earn her Sock Monkey badge and enlists Ben to help her. While they are working, a Gorilla named Murdock arrives at the door selling energy drinks where his attitude and mentioning of extreme challenges further impresses Bessie. Bessie accepts that she can't join, not only due to her being a girl but also due to a clause in her Honeybee contract preventing her from joining more than one troop, but decides that Ben could join in her place. Murdock decides to give Ben a shot and tells him to show up at tryouts in an hour. Despite Ben's fear of the challenges and lack of any masculinity on his part, he decides to give it a try after Bessie mentions how much she would give to be in his place.

At the tryouts, Ben panics and faints after seeing all of the extremely dangerous obstacles laid out for him, so Bessie takes his hair, puts on his clothes and poses as him to do the tryouts. Due to her ultra-competitive nature, Bessie effortlessly makes it through every challenge and is invited to the next stage of the tryouts.

After Bessie makes it back home, she tells Ben that she passed the tryouts for him, but Ben is still reluctant to join the Gorillas. As a result, Bessie decides to continue posing as Ben to get the excitement that she craves. Ben points out a hole in her plans, as if she's posing as him in the Gorillas, he wonders who will be covering her position in the Honeybees. Bessie decides that Ben should do it, pointing out that it is a slow week and that she'll be finished with the tryouts in no time. She also gives Ben full creative control over her character when he's posing as her and Ben ultimately accepts the task (mainly due to a promise of unlimited use of glitter glue), and the two of them swap both clothes and hair to pose as each other.

As the tryouts continue, Bessie continues to pass every test flawlessly, even overachieving on most of them. She ends up coming across as more of a Gorilla than all of the other true Gorillas there. Meanwhile, Ben posing as Bessie is happy to do tasks without showing off, overachieving, or questioning anything done unethically or not by the book, puzzling Mrs. Gibbons and the rest of the Honeybees.

During a taffy report during the Honeybees weekly meeting, the Gorillas conduct a drill to secure the room. Although Bessie manages to do it flawlessly, she realizes that she is starting to miss being a Honeybee. Before she leaves, she whispers to Ben that it is only a few more days before the plan succeeds and he becomes a Gorilla. At the same time, Portia finds "Ben's" new not-weak side attractive and develops a crush on "him". Bessie and Ben are both disturbed by this and Bessie blows Portia off, but it only heightens her crush.

At a nighttime camping trip with the Gorillas, they remark how much of a dude "Ben" is, and after they leave for some activities in the woods she expresses relief that the tryouts are almost over and that she can soon be a Honeybee again. She then hears Portia laughing in the woods and follows the noise to a similar campout that the Honeybees are having. She becomes shocked to discover that Ben has won over all the Honeybees respect and admiration just being himself (mainly due to his lack of masculinity) and that they have truly accepted him as Bessie better that the real Bessie ever could.

Bessie is then given her final challenge, due to her over-competitive nature and success at completing so many tasks, she is chosen to represent the Gorillas in the Semi-Annual All-Troop Silverware-Free Steak Eating Contest. This creates a major conflict within Bessie as she is supposed to be representing the Honeybees in the same contest. She tries to decline the offer, but Murdock tells her that she'll never be a Gorilla and that it'll be a chance to crush her "sister's" "stupid troop". Bessie reluctantly accepts to not blow her cover.

Later at home, Bessie tells Ben that there is a change of plans and that he has to be Ben again for the contest. Ben refuses to give up being a Honeybee as they accept him for him. Bessie points out that he was just pretending to be her and he's not a Honeybee, but Ben counters by pointing out that she's not a true Honeybee due to her attitude conflicting with what a real Honeybee is.

Bessie is unimpressed by that insult, so Ben threatens to expose her as a Gorilla if she goes through with this, pointing out that if it is found out that she is now a part of two troops she'll be kicked out of both. Bessie doesn't believe he would stoop so low, but he declares "If I can't be a Honeybee, no one can". As he walks out of the room, Bessie becomes shocked at how much being a part of the Honeybees has improved his self confidence.

As Ben walks to the contest, Bessie begs for him to reconsider, offering to do a bunch of menial tasks for him and even offering Happy to eat the steak for him. Ben points out that there is only one "Benjamin Higgenbottom" and points to Bessie before storming off. Murdock then throws Bessie towards the booth to begin the contest and ends up seated next to Ben.

As the countdown begins, Bessie remarks that she can't let Ben eat her T-Bone and picks it up with her mouth. Ben points out that the countdown hadn't even finished yet and bites the other side of it, leading them to fight over it like two dogs. The two of them scuffle and eventually end up backstage wearing their own respective clothes again. As they are swapping their hair back, Portia walks in and realizes the deception and becomes grossed out. She threatens to tell on them, but is silenced by a bigger threat from Ben who points out that if she tells the truth everyone will know that she had a crush on Bessie (this silences her not because she would've had a crush on a girl, but rather because she would've had a crush on a nerd).

Bessie is prepared to rejoin the contest, but Ben decides to quit the Gorillas. Bessie is at first shocked but decides to let Ben do whatever he wants. Ben attempts to resign, but Murdock doesn't recognize him. He tries to point out that he is Ben, but Murdock points out that "Ben" is on stage. It is revealed that Happy continued to pose as Ben to eat the steak and ends up winning the contest. For winning the contest, Happy is accepted as a full Gorilla still posing as Ben.

Murdock then announces that the Gorillas will do some arts and crafts, much to Ben's disappointment as he loves arts and crafts. As the Gorillas carry Happy away, Ben chases after them to try and be a part of it.

Later that day, In a village near the Mohenjo-daro ruins, a Bey tournament is commencing. Contestants battle their way to get to the top and Ryuga, who is on his own search for the Legendary Bladers, enters. He battles and blows the competition away. In the semi-finals he fiercely defeats his opponent. Ryuga is searching for the Star Fragment but despite this, he does not wait for the finals and abruptly leaves. Suddenly, a mysterious figure stops him in his path and reveals himself to be Kenta. Ryuga questions who Kenta is and Kenta topples over explaining that he is one of Gingka's friends. Kenta wants Ryuga to help Gingka and Co. on their quest to find the Legendary Bladers. Ryuga does not comprehend and attempts to leave. Kenta claims to be a Legendary Blader, and challenges Ryuga to a battle, which he loses. Ryuga was angry at being lied to, and left. Kenta refuses to allow this to happen and follows him on a trackless path to convince him to help Gingka and Co. They travel through mountains, jungles and other dangerous roads as Kenta attempts to convince Ryuga. The two meet a tiger in the jungle. Kenta gets frightened and attempts to climb a tree but fails while Ryuga just scares the tiger away with his stature. Kenta then proceeds to follow Ryuga. Meanwhile, Gingka and Co. are training their hardest. Benkei throws trees at Kyoya in which he uses Fang Leone to destroy them, Gingka trains hard when launching Cosmic Pegasus with Madoka while Yuki does some research on the Legendary Bladers. Day turns into night when Ryuga and Kenta camp for the night. Ryuga eats a fruit and sleeps while Kenta, who is hungry, is deciding on whether to eat one of Ryuga's fruit. He attempts to launch his Bey to obtain it but Ryuga wakes up to defend his fruit and launches Kenta back; he then goes back to sleep. Kenta dreams of him and Ryuga arriving at Gingka and Co. where Ryuga has agreed to help and Gingka and Co. throw Kenta up in the air in happiness. Later, a dust storm commences as Kenta is having difficulty convincing Ryuga. It starts to rain as Kenta lies down on the floor. When he wakes up, he finds Ryuga waiting for him and follows him. The two make camp again as Ryuga eats a fish on a stick. Kenta still hasn't eaten and is desperate as Ryuga gives one to him. Kenta then eats it as Ryuga tells him to go away after eating. Kenta begins to cry and begs him to help Gingka and the others, and that he will never give up. L-Drago's beast rises up behind Ryuga, but Kenta says that although he is weaker than the tiger in the jungle, he will not be scared away. After a while, Ryuga tells him to keep challenging him, even if the other is sleeping or eating, until he can get him to be serious.

Having heard from Christopher Aonuma that he saw a boy who resembled her younger brother named Ewan Amano, Nene Amano is eager to search for Ewan with Mikey Kudo and Christopher searching for him too. However, the Fusion Fighters find Ewan on a bridge and see him with the Bagra Army's Damemon. Shoutmon recognizes Damemon when the Digimon assumes his Tuwarmon form. Ewan and Tuwarmon take their leave with Nene chasing after her younger brother as the bridge is destroyed with Sparrowmon following Nene. The other Fusion Fighters find a way to the other side. Tuwarmon unseals his subordinate named Doumon to help Ewan by catching Nene in an illusion of Tokyo. After Nene is captured, Nene remembers how she and Ewan ended up being sucked into the Digital World. Ewan explains that he is willingly helping Axeknightmon. Ewan believes he is only playing a game with no fatal consequences as he orders Tuwarmon to delete Nene. Mervamon is revealed to have been in Nene's Fusion Loader and saves Nene. MetalGreymon manages to dispel the illusion. However, matters get worst when Axeknightmon arrives with the newly demoted Laylamon. After Ewan uses Laylamon in a forced DigiFusion with Blastmon and his Vilemon, the battle begins with Doumon using his illusion to disorient the Fusion Fighters until he is destroyed by Mervamon using her Olympia Kai after Wisemon and Hi-VisionMonitamon were DigiFused into it. Tuwarmon is DigiFused onto Axeknightmon by Ewan for Axeknightmon to become MusoKnightmon to deliver the deathblow. OmniShoutmon and ZeekGreymon charge at MusoKnightmon. OmniShoutmon and ZeekGreymon grab his cannons with the clash causing a big bang. After MusoKnightmon and Ewan depart, the fight is revealed to hone Ewan's skills. Nene makes up her mind to open Ewan's eyes to the truth. Nene wants Ewan to join the Fusion Fighters.