Ex-Cel Dude & Turtle Titan; The Series (Pilot)

[Guitar_Raph]

After the Go Out & Play special, they showed a bumper for station ID. Ex-Cel's playing his electric guitar & then stops to tell the viewers...

EX-CEL: I'm Ex-Cel Dude & you're watching Dizzylodeon!

(End of bumper)

In a concert stadium, we find our guitar superhero singing & playing with Turtle Titan on drums/tympani, with the rest of the band. When the concert ended, fans backstage were wanting to meet them, but the bodyguards had other plans. They headed to their motorcycles outside & zoomed off. Turtle Titan's on his tri-wheeler while Ex-Cel's on the ninja. As Titan drove... he thought...

TT: You're probably wondering why a pair of superheroes like us are rocking a concert stage instead of battling crime & upholding justice? We do that too. But when I met this Mexican, he changed my life.

(Theme song is played)

The two head for their secret lair, where they chill out. Ex-Cel changed into Josh & Turtle Titan did the same as Mikey. Josh decided to hit the hay while Mikey got out his journal. He reads an entry...

MIKEY: I just got back from seeing The Amazing Spider-Man on the big screen when I took the subway home.

Flashback to that moment where Mikey's in a trench coat, riding the subway back home. When he reached his stop @ 67th & Illinois station, he heard jazz guitar music being played. He couldn't believe his eyes that a guy in a superhero outfit is playing.

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Mikey saw him sporting a light blue spandex outfit, playing a 335 brown sunburst electric guitar. He played rhythm chords, tapping his foot to the music, playing soloes once in awhile.

MIKEY: This guy is good!

As passengers came & went, Mikey saw some people watching him & placing some dollar bills in his guitar case. Some jeered him telling him to grow up, get a real job, etc. Mikey went over to him.

MIKEY: That's cool music. You play rock?

Ex-Cel got into a rock guitar solo. As he played, Mikey put a $5 bill in his case.

MIKEY: Cool! My name's Mikey.
EX-CEL: Don't talk to strangers in trenchcoats.
MIKEY: Can you sing?
EX-CEL: Not here. Go to the Java Jam on Open Mike Night. Now let me play.

Mikey walked away as Ex-Cel continued his session @ the station.

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A few nights passed. Mikey's in his trenchcoat attending Open Mike Night @ the Java Jam. He gets some cocoa, since he doesn't like coffee, sits down to watch people perform. When Ex-Cel Dude's up, he played smooth jazz on his electric guitar. Then he started to sing. Mikey couldn't believe that he had a great voice.

Near the end of the number, Mikey heard a noise of crashing windows outside. So he leaves, spots a street gang looting. So he takes off his trenchcoat &...

(Interruption)
"This is the network censor. If Guitar_Raph has anything that's unapproval, he will be banned & Dizzylodeon will be off the air!"

(Now back to the show)
becomes Turtle Titan! He went up to the roof, not to get noticed. But when a couple of members attacked Ex-Cel Dude & took his guitar case away, he sprang into action. Went over to the middle of an alley & out he came driving his tri-wheeler motorcycle. He caught up to them.

TT: I think the pawn shops are closed!
GANG MEMBER: Get him!

Turtle Titan used his ninja skills on them. Just as police sirens came, they scattered, but Titan recoverd the guitar case. He drove back over to the Java Jam to find Ex-Cel on the street lying down.

TT: I thought the streets of our city is safe, increase the peace. Wrong.

So he gets Ex-Cel, puts him back of his bike, with guitar case & they drove off to an unknown garage.

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Over @ the garage, Ex-Cel's lying on the sofa waking up from that blow by that street gang member. He doesn't know where he is, but discovers that he's in a secret lar of sort.

EX-CEL: Where am I?

He looked around & saw a sofa & big screen tv, a tri-wheeled motorcycle, a skateboard ramp, a weight set with bench press, a cool set of drums that had a green finish & the bass drum saying "Turtle Titan", plus two white tympanis on the side of the drum set.

EX-CEL: Man, this is a cool man cave!

Ex-Cel checked out the tympanis, grabbed some mallets & started messing on them As he played, Turtle Titan came from another room & saw him play. He grabbed Ex-Cel's arms.

TT: Messing on my tymps? Thought you played the guitar.
EX-CEL: I play tympani in jazz band as well as the vibes. Are you?
TT: Yeah I am (lets go of his arms),..drumroll. (Ex-Cel plays drumroll) the Super Convincing Turtle Titan!

Ex-Cel stops playing.

EX-CEL: How did I get here?
TT: I rescued you from the bad guys who stole your guitar.
EX-CEL: Man, my 175 electric guitar! Cost me $2,400!

Turtle Titan goes behind the sofa & shows him the guitar case with his 175 guitar.

TT: This yours? Maybe I should play it, since you played my tympani.

Turtle Titan plays guitar chords & sings a terrible song about himself. He grabbed the guitar away from him.

EX-CEL: Thanks for that stupid song.
TT: You know, being a superhero, you should concentrate on fighting crime than playing music. Why the costume with the guitar?

Ex-Cel tells him about his costume giving him super powers to write music. The thing is, if he sings without playing an instrument in public, he gets a migraine & falls down.

TT: You need some superhero training.

(Next chapter)

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On the rooftops, Turtle Titan trains Ex-Cel Dude to be a superhero by chasing him on the rooftops. But Ex-Cel stopped short when he saw Titan jump over from one building to another.

EX-CEL: I'm not Superman! I can't leap over a tall building, yet alone apartment complexes.

Titan groaned.

Back home, Titan challenged him to some ninja fighting. But Titan's too quick for Ex-Cel.

TT: Man, don't you know how to do some ninja moves?
EX-CEL: Not into ninja karate.
TT: Man, what a sissy!

Ex-Cel showed off his fighting skills he leaned from boxing.

EX-CEL: Better in boxing. And played football.

Titan fell down on one of his punches.

After that session, Titan asked,

TT: You can't fly, you got your own wheels? The tri-wheeler's mine.
EX-CEL: I got a ninja bike. Thinking about getting another bike.

Mikey gets on the computer to a website he saw called Used Saturday Morning Vehicles.

MIKEY: Check it out. A jet motorcycle/sidecar that can fly & run on land, only $40,000. A 1981 RS model once owned by a rich girl & her boyfriend reporter who drove it.
EX-CEL: Cool! Once I get a record deal, I'll buy that bike.
MIKEY: The drums are just a hobby.
EX-CEL: If we can uphold justice, we can also uphold music. We'd make a great band!
MIKEY: Guitar & drums? No way!
EX-CEL: Way, when we can get a band.

Next chapter.

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Turtle Titan drove Ex-Cel home to where he lives, at his parents garage.

TT: Salazar Garage.
EX-CEL: That's right. My dad works here.

He gets off his tri wheeler & enters his place. Moments later, he comes out driving a sleek white ninja motorcycle! He gets off to shut the garage door & gets back on the bike.

EX-CEL: Race ya!

The two motorcycle superheroes raced each other all over the city. Of course they had to beware of cops as well. Along the way, they spotted some looters who broke into a music shop. They got off their bikes to battle those foes who were stealing band instruments. When the cops got tip of this, they not only grabbed the looters, but them as well for taking the law into their own hands & sporting ridiculous outfits.

When they were placed in jail, the both of them were scared to see the other prisoners held there as well. They made fun of their outfits and as Ex-Cel's about to clobber them, the bailiff came by.

BALIFF: You two, Batman & Turtle Dude, come with me.

He lets them out & they follow him.

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The baliff took them to the commisioner's office where they were told to be seated.

COM: So you two are the next big things to hit, just like Metroplois, Central City & Gotham City. We're the law here, this town doesn't need make believe characters to destroy our good city.
EX-CEL: We were only trying to help.
COM: (Bangs hand on table) SILENCE! Now I remember where I saw you? Illinois & 67th station. Stick to your music.

Then he had a thought.

COM: Is that turtle associated with you?
TT: I'm his drummer.
COM: We could use you in our juvenile program. Go to schools all over the city & do songs about staying drug free, so forth. I could get some cops to back you up. Wait, we had to stop that due to budget cuts.
VOICE: Wait, I got something better.

They spot a red headed kid entering his office.

COM: Who are you?
DANNY: Danny P, owner of that music store. I'm grateful for you two. You can record for me on Ninja Records, I'll hire some musicians to back you up.
TT: Cool! As long as we can fight crime.

The commisioner grumbled & decided to make them honorary deputized officers of the law.

Over @ Ninja Records, they couldn't believe the studio they were gonna record from. Ex-Cel saw a vibraphone & went over to it, grabbed some mallets & started playing a cool solo.

DANNY: I thought Ex-Cel only plays the guitar.
TT: High school jazz band.

So that how Ex-Cel & Turtle Titan became an awesome team as crimefighters & musicians.

The last three minutes of the show featured a video of their concert wher Ex-Cel, Scott & Turtle Titan sing rock.

Over in New York...

(Next chapter)

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Over @ April & Casey's apartment loft, a premiere party's being held. Along with them are the other TMNT, Scott Charles & Dexter, Levar & Johnny; Hunks on Horns. They all finished watching the first episode of the series.

LEO: Could use more action.
DON: I'd give it one season.
RAPH: More like 13 weeks. No one would watch a stupid, campy series like that.
SCOTT: Yeah, glad we're not on the show, except for the final 3 minutes during concert footage.
APRIL: Come on, it wasn't that bad. Dizzylodeon hardly gets bombs.
CASEY: Yeah, can't wait to record CD #4.

Raph left the party tp go up on the roof to gather his thoughts. Casey came up for company.

RAPH: You changed into a sissy, tough guy!

Casey tackles him down.

CASEY: Say that again, punk!

Raph got up & told Casey what he thought.

RAPH: Man, you use to cruise on our bikes together, beat up gangs that did wrong, spar each other! Now you rather give that up to play in a stupid band, sitting down on the organ! Worst of all, you got to sing solo!
CASEY: Ex-Cel's cool! He treats everyone in the band ok. He let me do a song of my own just to dedicate it to April. Playing the organ's fine for now, but there's more I wanna do.
RAPH: Why do you play music?

Baby cries.

CASEY: That's why! To secure Bobby Jones life.

(NOTE: Bobby is April & Casey's son. Bobby would have Greg, then Greg would have Darius & Mark, Mark would have Cody Jones. Simple, isn't it?)

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