"On the day that time began, the Heavens were filled with flaming fireballs, a million billion stars, and one very special place." "It was the place where all myths and legends began." "It was the home of heroes and warriors," "Gods and Goddesses, magic and majesty." "It was called Mount Olympus." "Perhaps the greatest legend on Mount Olympus was the one known as Hercules." "Part man, part immortal." "Hercules questioned if he even belonged in the Heavens, or did he belong on the Earth he often watched from up above." "Loved by his all powerful father Zeus, and hated by his jealous and wicked stepmother Hera, Hercules longed to discover what it meant to be mortal." "So begins our tale." "The tale of honor." "It ends tonight." "Hercules!" "Hercules, are you daydreaming again?" "Hercules, answer me, my young student." "Where did we leave off?" "I forget." "You forget?" "You forget, where's your discipline, the discipline of ideas, the discipline of thought!" "And what about the discipline of dreams?" "Hercules, you're a Prince of Olympus destined to be a God." "Why waste your time dreaming about being mortal?" "Old friend, would I not make a better." "God if I spent some time being human?" "No!" "Absolutely not!" "Great Lord Zeus." "I forbid it!" "But father, just for a little while!" "Please!" "No!" "Why so firm, great Zeus?" "Let your son speak from his heart." "Do you want him to leave?" "I want him to go, grow!" "I have heard this speech before and issued my decree." "Our son cannot spend time on Earth." "But father, I'm half mortal half Olympian." "Isn't it time for me to learn more about my human side?" "You have the best tutors in the world." "You've got Socrates and Aristotle." "Yes, and soon Aristophanes will teach you about literature." "And who will teach me how to dance?" "What?" "!" "Dance, I've watch the mortals do it." "It looks really fun." "With mortal joy comes mortal pain and disappointment!" "But father, I wanna learn about being human!" "Nooooo!" "Greetings, Zeus." "Why are you here, Marduk?" "I've come here to remind you that the true home of the Gods is my Babylon, not here." "This pathetic Mount Olympus." "Leave now before a world of pain befalls the great God of Babylon!" "Zeus, I do not fear you." "Your power is equal to mine." "No greater and no poorer." "Let us test your theory." "Grrr!" "Grrrr!" "Mother?" "Yes!" "I command you both to seize the chaos!" "Is this the way for Gods to act?" "!" "Oh, you both deserve one another." "Yes!" "Finally, I'm on my own!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "You won't believe what I just saw!" "I'm here, I'm really here, I made it!" "I made it, father!" "I'm on Earth!" "Yes!" "Great Lord Zeus, it's Hercules." "He's on Earth." "How did my son get to Earth?" "Well you were slightly preoccupied, darling." "Don't blame the child, great Lord." "He has great curiosity." "And his father's sense of adventure." "Did you try to stop him?" "When have I ever been able to stop you from doing anything, eh?" "I want Hercules home this instant!" "You cannot force him to come home." "Not until he is ready." "I can force my subjects to do anything." "I think not, Zeus." "Even the strongest father can have trouble with a wayward son." "My son is not wayward!" "Spare the thunderbolt, spoil the child, eh?" "If you force him to return, you cannot stop him from running away again." "Why would great Marduk be interfering in a family matter?" "The power of Zeus cannot bring the boy home." "Nonsense!" "Would you care to wager?" "Are you two playing games with the world of mortals again?" "I say the boy will be chained to that land for seven days." "And I say the child can endure the visit and return to Mount Olympus in six days!" "Five days, with no extraordinary powers to survive." "Four days and he can survive with no extraordinary powers!" "Three days!" "I said four!" "Very well then, four." "But if young Hercules stays in Burbank longer than four days broken and defeated, then Babylon will become the true home of the Gods." "But if he survives and returns to Mount Olympus, then you shall go back to Babylon vowing never to return to Mount Olympus again!" "My Lords, this is not wise." "Then I accept the contest." "Agreed!" "Bravo, darling, bravo!" "Let the games begin!" "So little Hercules had finally fulfilled his dreams." "Now he could walk among chariots of steel, confused mortals, and the great beasts of the Earth." "Look at the freak show!" "Halloween's over!" "All right, all right, calm down man, relax, it just got away from me, I didn't mean to ruin your day, and hopefully you don't ruin mine." "All right, let me just have my board back, okay?" "Just give me the board, hey, don't bite me, man, I'll bite you back, what's the matter with you?" "Tell me what you want." "I'll get you a great dame, I'll get you a poodle." "Hey, come on, calm down, I just want my board back!" "Hey man, who are you?" "Wow, how did you do that, kid?" "He hasn't done that for me in years!" "Come on, Bubba." "Hey man, that was awesome, how did you do that?" "We talked." "You talk to dogs?" "Don't you?" "No, I don't talk to dogs, I'm not Doctor Do little." "Hey, wait up!" "Come on, hey!" "Yeah man, so what'd you say your name was again?" "Hercules, from Mount Olympus." "Hercules?" "I ain't never heard of no Hercules." "I heard of Shaniqua, I've heard of Shataya," "I've heard of Richie, I've heard of Marcela, but I ain't never heard of no Hercules, is that what your mom named you?" "Besides that, you said you from." "Mount Olympus, where's that?" "Above Greece." "Above Greece?" "Well look, my name is Curtis." "Everybody calls me Little C, so" "I guess they'll call you Little Herc." "Herc?" "Oh shoot, come on,." "Yo, C, I said I wanted that board!" "Come on, punk, bring it!" "Where are we going?" "Why are we running?" "Where you going, little punk?" "End of the road, little man." "You can't have my board, X!" "Kobe and Shaq can cause us damage, little man, not you." "Stealing is bad!" "What'd you say?" "!" "Stealing is bad!" "Stay out of this, Mighty Mouse!" "Stealing is bad!" "Is he kidding?" "Put this punk away." "Stay there." "Yeah, boy, that's what I'm talking about, hey, I see you behind that box!" "Ooh!" "Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!" "Go for a ride!" "Oooo, this is better than wrestling, you know that?" "I'll be right back." "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, man!" "Time to go!" "Whoa!" "Thank you." "This ain't over, little man!" "Not even close, punk!" "Man, that was awesome, Herc!" "Dang, you're a mess." "I gotta go get you cleaned up, come on." "No no no, just check the file on my computer." "Yeah, all the testimony for Mrs. Foley comes at the end of the deposition, all right?" "Yup, uh huh." "Okay, no, I promise, I'll check the file and I will call you back tomorrow." "Why tomorrow, Tom?" "Because I'm going on a date, that's right." "Nope, I'm hanging up." "I'm saying goodbye." "I'll have a good time, yes, goodbye." "Is that you, honey?" "!" "Yeah, mom!" "All right, I don't have a lot of time tonight, I've got a date, so Chyreese will be over at 11 o'clock to watch you." "I've got a friend, mom!" "Oh good, a sleepover?" "Sure." "All right, but just one night!" "Not a squatter, not another stray!" "No mom." "All right, no dogs, not cats, no goldfish, no homeless people, no runaways!" "No, mom!" "Well?" "How do I look?" "Killer, drop dead killer." "I mean you got the Witney Houston dress with the Janet Jackson hair." "Can you drop a note?" "Nah, I'm just kidding." "Well goodnight, I'll be in in a minute." "Goodnight, mom!" "Goodnight." "Witney Houston, hmm." "What are you doing?" "It's alcohol." "It's gonna sting a little, but it's gonna fix you up." "Okay Curtis, give me some sugar before I leave!" "Don't say anything, please don't say anything." "'Cause she don't let me bring people over, man, you not looking too hot." "Honey?" "Hmm?" "Who is this?" "Oh, it's Hercules, mom." "I told you I brought a friend home." "Your friend's hurt." "By the way, he's half naked." "Yeah, but that's the new style." "Out of the way, up up up, come on, come on." "What about your date?" "He'll wait, and if he won't..." "Okay Hercules, here we go." "Ah!" "Ooh, I'm sorry." "Okay, sorry." "Told you it was gonna burn." "I'm sorry." "Where do you live, Hercules?" "Mount Olympus." "Oh, I know where that street is, it's over by Little Canyon." "Here honey, take this, go get me a band-aid." "You know, I think we should call your mother." "Just let her know what happened." "Call?" "Yes, call." "Call!" "Haven't you ever seen a cell phone before?" "Cell, phone." "A 12 year old boy that doesn't know what a cell phone is." "Maybe he's delirious." "No, he doesn't have a temperature." "I think he's all right." "Hercules, honey, wait, just be still, here we go." "Okay." "Go get that, it's probably Chyreese." "Close your legs, man, ain't nobody wanna see that." "Honey, what's your phone number?" "Phone number?" "Just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?" "Who's the little Conan?" "!" "Somebody Curtis brought home." "Next time bring home a bigger version for me." "Come on, girlfriend, get going, you'll be late!" "Hey, you look nice tonight." "You look better, so get moving, it's time to end your drought." "Hercules, wait here, okay?" "Hey sweetie, go get your friend, okay?" "Okay, ma.- Have him come on out." "Hey, C." "You look fabulous, you ready?" "You know what?" "I better stay." "Just in case the boy is really hurt." "What about your drought?" "My drought?" "Yours is longer." "Tell me about it." "Hey, you know what?" "Mm-mm." "I have an idea." "I have a very good idea, why don't you go?" "Me?" "!" "Yeah, I mean Chyreese, it's a blind date, the man will never know!" "He's here." " He's here." "You gotta..." "No, go ahead, go ahead, how could" "I leave an injured boy alone?" "But Dana..." "No no no, go!" "Really, I'm fine with it." "You don't have to sell me twice, girlfriend!" "All right." "Hey, I owe you big time." "Mom, it was your date, how come you didn't go?" "Your friend's hurt, we have to keep an eye on him." "Don't worry, Curtis, when the right man comes along, I'll probably be looking in the wrong direction." "But right now we have to watch your friend." "Do you have his phone number?" "No, I don't." "I'm serious, I don't!" "Okay, we'll get into it tomorrow." "But right now you guys need to get some rest, there's school in the morning." "School?" "I go to school with Little C?" "Oh really, you go to Fantana?" "I ain't never seen him in Fantana!" "Oh Curtis, go to sleep!" "Go, go, get some rest." "Come on man, you sleeping on the floor." "No, I said the floor, that's my bed!" "This is the floor!" "Now lay down!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Yes Hercules, it is I." "Lord Zeus!" "You defied me and journeyed to the world of mortals without asking." "I'm sorry father, but I had to see for myself." "You realize there are consequences for your actions, my son." "While on Earth, I will alter your powers." "Alter?" "You may use your magical strength three times, but only three times." "Why?" "You wish to stay on Earth?" "Yes!" "If you cannot survive on Earth for four days as a mortal, then you can never return to Mount Olympus." "Never?" "There are dangers to being human." "Learn that quickly, or remain on Earth forever." "Remember this." "If you think you're ready, you can use the sword for ultimate power, but if you lie to the sword, the sword will know and you will be banned from Mount Olympus forever." "Let's go, Herc!" "We gotta get dressed!" "Dressed?" "I am dressed." "Yo yo yo, the players in the house!" "Step as ice 'cause we bad, we hectic, and we cool!" "Yo yo yo, we..." "Shh, man be quiet, you're embarrassing me, you worse than my mother." "I want that exam, Chiquita!" "Hello, X." "I..." "I said I wouldn't take the Stanford Nine for you, okay?" "Who is that girl?" "Oh, that's Riza Vargas." "She's nice, but she's a bit of a bookworm." "She helps me out with my homework." "I want the answers." "You heard the man, Riza!" "We're looking for that scholarship, much a chita, huh?" "Leave her!" "Ha, well if it isn't super freak." "You want more heat from Double X?" "Heat from Double X, man?" "What are you talking about?" "You sure you wanna act a fool?" "You talking to little Hercules, son of Zeus." "What?" "!" "Did you say son of Jesus?" "It's Zeus, stupid!" "Jesus is the janitor!" "You need to get your butt back in that English class, that's what you need." "Shut your mouth, C." "Better watch your butt." "Watch your mouth." "It's cute." "He's a bodyguard, right?" "Is that what he's supposed to be?" "Nah, this ain't no bodyguard, this my brother from another mother." "And you know he got the body to guard us both, don't you think?" "!" "Can't get a pet like that at Quick Mart!" "Oh, what the?" "!" "Mmmhm." "I want those answers, Riza!" "Hey, your forgot your, man!" "Little punk running with your." "Mohawk between your legs." "Should come over there and do you some more." "Thank you, Curtis." "Yeah, it's cool, you know." "Thank you." "Oh, and this is my friend Hercules." "I call him Little Herc." "Hi, Hercules." "Hi." "And this is my sister, Elesia." "Hi, Hercules." "You know, it's cool." "We bad, we cool, we players and all that." "We bad, we cool, we players." "Come on, man." "We gotta report to Coach Nimms." "I'll see y'all later." "Bye." "So I guess Ramon is as good as it gets on the discus, huh?" "Who do we have on the high jumps?" "Peters." "Peters, yeah." "It's too bad the other kids left the school, Coach." "Once upon a time, we had a hot team." "Yeah, once upon a time is a long time ago." "We gotta work with what we've got, at least for this last meet." "Just as long as it's not embarrassing, you know?" "I don't want Fantana's last track meet to humiliate the entire school." "Fantana has one more meet." "School is closing, so it's our last semester." "Last semester?" "Yeah." "Coach Nimms would like to end with a win at the track meet." "It would be our first one in 24 years." "24 years?" "With that team?" "!" "Aw, they're not our best, but they're all we got." "I've seen so much better at The Olympics." "Wait, you were at The Olympics?" "Every one." "Yeah right." "So what, you went to Atlanta?" "You went to Sidney?" "No, Greece, always in Greece." "Oh, so you went to Athens in '04?" "No, it was 478 and 479." "I actually threw the javelin in 480." "That was a good year, I won." "Where you going now?" "Nah man, put that down, you do not know what to do with that." "Don't worry, I'll only use my regular strength." "I gotta see this." "Who threw that?" "I don't know, Coach." "We don't have any new athletes scheduled." "New athlete?" "What new athlete is gonna come to a closing school to be on losing team, hello?" "He's getting into trouble." "Hey son, who said you could throw my discus?" "Your form is weak." "You need to push off more from the waist." "Hey kid, did you just throw that discus?" "Yes." "What's your name, where are you from?" "See, that's where I come in." "This is Hercules." "Hercules?" "Yeah, you know, the Greek guy?" "No." "Yeah man, like the son of Zeus, don't you watch mythology and all that stuff?" "I am the son of Zeus!" "Yo, easy Herc, it's all right for me to say that, but if you go around telling that, they gonna think you crazy, bro." "All right all right all right, it doesn't make any difference what your name is or where you're from," "I mean can you throw anything else like you just threw that discus?" "I do all of the Olympic events." "You do everything?" "He does everything?" "He does everything." "He says he does everything?" "Weights, hurdles, javelin, sprints, archery, wrestling." "How well can you do everything, can you do everything as well as you just threw that thing?" "I'm the best." "I'm a true Olympian." "Come here, I wanna try something." "Hey Ramon, this is, uh, Hercules, right?" "This is Ramon, he's our javelin man." "Ramon, show Hercules what you can do." "Saw what you did with your pie plate." "What can you do with a javelin, huh?" "I do javelin best." "Woo!" "Beat that, sucker!" "Not bad." "What's the matter?" "I can only use my magical strength three times." "You see?" "Hercules is to interfere with mortals." "One time is risky, two time danger, three time, forget about it." "No, Hercules will not abuse his power." "My son knows better." "Your son is vain." "Like someone else I know." "See that sign?" "Nobody can reach that sign." "The sign?" "A true Olympian can." "Oh my God, what?" "!" "What do we have here?" "!" "That's one." "That's one?" "That was awesome, man!" "I couldn't even hit that if I was three feet away." "Let's see what you can do with this thing." "That's two." "Let's see what you can do with this." "That's three." "I didn't know you played." "Ah, Ms. Simmons." "I don't anymore." "When I was a student here I had this jazz band and I'm just packing up some memories." "How can I help you?" "Well I'm actually here about Curtis." "Last night he came home with a friend who claims to go to Fantana." "What's his name?" "I don't know his last name, but his first name is Hercules." "Hercules?" "For real?" "Yes." "Well I'm not familiar with a student by that name." "Is he with Curtis right now?" "Yeah, I think so." "Okay, Curtis has PE, maybe they're on the field with Coach Nimms, if you'd like I can go speak to him." "Oh that would be wonderful." "Okay, well I'm gonna go back to the office." "One thing, how long will this." ""Hercules" be staying with you?" "I haven't really given it much thought." "Why don't you come by for dinner tonight and we can discuss it." "Yeah, closing the school that's been in the family for 50 years is, well, we've got a lot of work to do." "It might be good to get away from it all." "Just for an evening?" "Bring the piano?" "That is a very nice invitation, but..." "But you're not gonna accept it, are you?" "No." "But thank you, Ms. Simmons." "You're welcome." "Do try to talk to Hercules," "I think he could use your help." "Okay." "By the way, the name's Dana." "All right..." "Dana." "Okay." "Even though he was closing the family school," "Dean Reynolds found a way to attend Dana's dinner." "Maybe it was because of Hercules." "Or maybe it was because of something else." "Socrates drinks too much." "Zeus is always angry with him." "You have a strong fantasy life, don't you, Hercules?" "It's no fantasy, it's true!" "And your old man tricked Atlas into holding the world on his shoulders?" "Old man?" "Your father." "Zeus!" "Yes!" "Atlas isn't smart." "Apollo can trick him!" "You know, all this talk about Mount Olympus is fun, but this is serious now." "Who are you, where are you really from?" "I told you, Mount Olympus!" "Okay, well I'm sure your parents are very worried about you." "Why?" "They see me at the Pool of Dreams." "We may have to talk to Children Services about him." "Don't do that!" "Then they'll take Herc away." "I'll stay here!" "We are only looking out for your best interests." "Your mother must be very worried." "She hates me." "She tried to kill me." "I'm sure you're mistaken." "She put two serpents in my cradle when I was born!" "But I killed both." "Get real, your mama tried to whack you with them snakes?" "You can tell me, I'm your boy, it's Little C, baby!" "My stepmother tried to kill me many times." "I'm sure you're wrong, Hercules." "No!" "I'm not wrong!" "And I'm not leaving!" "Whoa!" "Oh..." "Put him down!" "I'm trying to!" "Just relax, put him down!" "Yeah, put him down!" "Hercules, put him down!" "Ah yes, now you see." "Out of control." "But he's using his own strength." "He's not using any magical power." "Then remove his extraordinary strength." "I can't, Hercules will be vulnerable to all mortals." "He wants to be human, yes?" "In Burbank, there is philosophy better than Socrates." "It says if you can't take heat, get out of kitchen." "So take his powers." "He come back to you very soon, yes?" "The power is gone." "Put him down!" "What's happening to me?" "!" "I've lost my strength!" "Ahh!" "Oh!" "I hope this doesn't affect our relationship, you know, possibly that A." "Whatever class you're in, you fail." "You know, it was cool, Herc, the way you dumped the dean in the pool." "Heh, that was crazy." "But something happened to me, C." "I have no strength left, it's all gone." "Man, I told you, you need to stop worrying about your strength." "You need to just relax." "Let loose a little." "Look, you know who this is?" "No." "This is a Power Ranger." "They're like the biggest action figures and action heroes around." "This is the way that I let loose." "When I'm having a problem, I just play with my Power Rangers." "You kinda remind me of a Power Ranger, you know that?" "It's hard to explain." "We should just go to bed, we got school in the morning." "The new temp teacher's coming downstairs." "Hello, Mr. Potter?" "Mr. Reynolds." "I can't tell you how glad I am to be here." "I've been looking forward to this moment for years." "Maybe even centuries." "I'll be happy to teach here at Fontana." "As long as you need me." "As long as any student..." "Needs me." "Welcome." "I don't know, for you, hurdles?" "Shot put?" "Discus." "Discus, discus, hurdles, javelin, maybe you should, if you've been doing broad jump, maybe he should do..." "Well, you must be Mr. Potter?" "Arnold, please, Coach." "Yeah, yeah, I'm Coach Nimms, this is my assistant Coach Harr." "Coach Harr." " Hi." "So Kevin told us you were gonna help with the squad?" "What do you think?" "Jeez, I think you could take over for the 82nd Airborne." "Don't write that down!" "Too late, Coach." "Yeah, well here we are." "This is the squad right here, we're..." "Maybe you could get started, take over right now, give them some warm up exercises, put them through the paces, what do you say, guys?" "Coach Potter?" "New Coach, and I got a special student I'd like to coach." "Special?" "Yeah, this kid's off the grid, he's awesome." "He's gonna knock everybody's socks off this weekend." "Maybe I could help you out with your new athlete." "No no no no, I got this one covered, you only get to coach a kid like this one in a lifetime if you know what I mean." "Okay, understood." "All right, so listen up guys, make it official." "This is new Coach Potter!" "He's gonna bark 'em, you're gonna obey 'em, we're gonna be right over here." "Coach, there he is now." "All right ladies, let's get a move on!" "We're gonna run, we're gonna sweat!" "You listen to me, I am the alpha," "I am the omega, I am the beginning, and I am the end!" "Everything I say, you do!" "You will not fail!" "Line up!" "Now you people need to listen to everything that I say if you wanna stand a chance of being this coach's new superstar." "So now we're gonna do some wind sprints." "Take your positions." "I said take your positions!" "On your mark!" "So this is the long jump, the record of Fontana for this jump is what, 11 feet, five inches?" "Thing you can break that record, Hercules, you wanna give it a shot?" "Of course he can!" "Try this event, wait for my whistle." "All right, come on, man." "You just gotta run into it and just jump." "How am I supposed to do it?" "I have no strength!" "Man, I ain't Doctor Phil, just jump over the dirt!" "Now hurry up!" "Dig deep or something like that." "Oof!" "God dang it!" "Jeez, you okay, son?" "Yo Herc, I said jump over the dirt pile, not plant your face in the dirt pile!" "Now you make me look bad!" "Yeah, I think so." "This isn't good." "Yeah." "You maybe sorter missed on the takeoff part, huh?" "It's cool, Herc, everybody got a bad event." "Yeah, Curtis knows about bad events." "Why you gotta shut me out like that, Coach?" "I'll get better." "You wanna try it again?" "Yes." "Give it another shot?" "Maybe better?" "Okay." "Okay, good." "Don't give up." "Help him out, Curtis." "We better get an A in PE for this." "This is looking like more than a bad event." "Much more." "Maybe it's just a bad day." "Oof!" "Ahh!" "Bad week." "Oof!" "Bad millennium." "Hey, Marduk!" "Marduk, I don't understand your plan." "Hera, my plans..." "Are the same as yours." "Keep Hercules trapped here forever." "It's amazing, these mortals have invented invisible fire." "All right all right, he's hurt, it's, now what?" "Who are you people?" "This is not Halloween." "Get out of my..." "How do you keep him here?" "By playing games with mortal athletes?" "My reading of young Hercules is that he'll try to compete with them." "For pride, for honor." "And without his strength, he'll be forced to go to the sword." "And, if he uses his sword before his time, he'll be banished from Mount Olympus forever!" "Exactly, and Zeus will be forced to abandon him here." "In Burbank." "And my two children, they will become the next Princes of Mount Olympus." "But Babylon will reign supreme in all the Heavens." "Okay okay, agreed." "Hey Herc, what's up?" "You having a problem, you wanna talk about it?" "I tried baseball." "My strength is gone." "I have nothing left." "Nothing." "It's gone." "What do you mean gone, you mean poof, like magic?" "Yeah, like magic." "Come on, strength isn't magic, strength is hard work and sweat." "My strength always came easy." "Yeah, well maybe when you're up on Mount Olympus, but down here on Earth for us humans, strength is about sweat." "I mean sometimes it comes in pill form, sometimes powdered form, but ha, just kidding, that stuff's illegal now." "You wanna know something else?" "About strength?" "What?" "Strength comes from knowing what you want, knowing what's in your heart." "My heart?" "Yeah." "Having the determination." "Going for it and never quitting, never giving up until you get it." "Like I mean, you know absolutely that you wanna play in our Olympics, that you wanna run with us?" "Yes, I wanna be in the school Olympics." "To run for the school." "You absolutely know that in your heart, right?" "Yes!" "Then guess what, that's your strength." "That's all you need." "That's my strength?" "That's your strength, you just keep working on it." "Yes, sir." " Come on, don't quit." "Get back in the game." "Attaboy." "Play ball!" "You gotta relax, chill your stuff, man." "With all these people?" "Yeah, but first you gotta let people know you on top, that you on your A game." "If some girl comes up to you and says hey handsome, what's your name, where you from, what you supposed to say?" "I'm Hercules, and I'm the Princes of Mount Olympus." "No no no, man, that's all wrong!" "It's got no style, no attitude." "Look, ask me." "Hey handsome, who are you, where you from?" "Well I'm Little C, and I'm from" "Burbank, LA, what's up, baby?" "That's Riza, she's here?" "Yeah." "She ill?" "No man, she's dancing." "Don't they dance in Greece?" "Yeah, but not on Mount Olympus." "My father doesn't permit it." "I mean your daddy's not here, feel the music!" "Show me what you got." "Oppa!" "Oppa!" "Yo, you can't be doing that up in here, man!" "Remember me?" "Yes." "Remember me?" "I'm Little Hercules from Mount Olympus." "I'm a player, what's up?" "You're funny." "No, I'm Hercules." "You wanna dance, Hercules?" "Um, well, I believe..." "Me?" "All right, I got it." "That's where Coach Harr came in, he's got this idea to have this little tune up event." "Keep everybody interested, you know, so we're gonna have one squad facing another squad where we got Ramon," "XX, Z-Boy, amongst others and..." "And the other team?" "That's it, that's the whole squad." "Hey Riza, how about a good cheer?" "Ra, Ra." "Dana." "Are you all right?" "I don't know, I'm not sure." "I want you to take a look at something." "I thought it was a little disturbing." "Are you seriously saying that he's really Hercules from Mount Olympus?" "I'm not crazy, Kevin." "I'm just saying clearly this boy has memorized a lot of facts." "Maybe it's a childhood obsession like dinosaurs." "Okay, fine Kevin, but what childhood, where is he from?" "Well did you talk to Children Services?" "Yes, of course, and the police and the Missing Persons Division and every hospital in the city." "If he's missing, nobody knows it." "Nobody?" "Nothing." "I mean our little Hercules may not belong to Mount Olympus, but he doesn't belong to anybody here on Earth either." "And then there's this sword and shield." "Sword and shield..." "I found a sword and shield in my house." "Now according to this book, Hercules is only half mortal." "But there's a legend on the sword and if Hercules holds the sword and repeats the legend, then he becomes immortal and lives on Mount Olympus forever." "Dana, that's a myth." "Was his strength a myth?" "We can't ignore this, Kevin." "I saw the legend on the sword." "The sword and the shield, that's real." "He's a 12 year old boy." "Dana." "I would like to see the sword." "Okay." "Well look at you, closing your own locker now, first you going from the toilet bowls, then you go to baseball and now you running up the track team." "This is the team?" "The whole team?" "Where you think you're going, little man?" "What are you doing here, X?" "I came to check out the competition." "We quit the school, like everyone else, we're gonna run the big meet." "Against your team." "You ready to party, C?" "Party?" "We're gonna compete, super freak." "Welcome to the showdown." "Got any more news for us?" "You got everything, little man." "Man, shut up!" "Hey!" "Gonna do me some hurt, super freak?" "Mr. Potter says you got nothing left!" "No strength, no power, nothing." "Watch yourself." "And stay away from my private tutor." "See you boys tomorrow." "Yeah, you better leave," "I was just about to get up." "You okay?" "What the?" "!" "Father." "What are you doing here?" "How do you feel, Hercules?" "I feel pain." "For the very first time." "Do you like being mortal?" "No, it hurts." "But why did you take my strength away?" "So you could learn the cost of being human." "Now you can come with me back to Mount Olympus." "I promised Coach I'd play the games." "I gave my word!" "We are from Olympus, we can indulge our whims." "Making a promise is not a whim, father." "You can get hurt in these games." "You have no great strength any longer." "I gave Coach my word!" "Yes, but remember this." "If you're not back in one day, you can never return." "Sorry about the thing with XX, man." "You know." "You all right?" "Yes, you?" "Yeah, I'm cool, he barely touched me." "Caught me with that little sissy punch." "Here it is." "Whoa." "You're right." "That is Greek writing." "Do you know what it says?" "I accept my true destiny." "No, I embrace my true destiny." "According to the legend, Hercules holds the sword and repeats it three times." "And then what?" "He embraces his destiny, he becomes a permant resident of Mount Olympus." "Am I crazy, Kevin?" "Does any of this make any sense?" "No to both of the above." "We have to verify the authenticity of this," "I've got a friend who does carbon dating." "I've got his number in my phone." "And the phone's in the car." "Just wait her a minute." "Hercules is a good boy, and he's the first real friend that Curtis has had." "They're both good boys." "So then protect them both." "From what?" "I don't know." "Don't worry." "Okay." "Mr. Reynolds!" "Mr. Potter." "What are you doing here?" "I came for the sword." "What sword?" "The sword you now have in your possession." "Why do you want it?" "It's time for Hercules to make a choice." "The sword, hand it to me." "I can't do that." "The sword!" "Now!" "Mortals are no match for me." "Am I a match for you?" "Grrr!" "Ahhhh!" "Look around you, Zeus." "You know where you are?" "You're in my playground now." "Behold, the great Babylon!" "If the arena has changed, Marduk..." "So will the outcome." "You have a prediction, Zeus?" "Yes." "What is it?" "Pain!" "No swords this time, Marduk!" "No thunder, no fire!" "Today we use new weapons." "What weapons?" "These!" "Raaaah!" "Ahhh!" "Well, is the Lord of Olympus enjoying his visit to Babylon?" "Zeus, there is no victory for you." "You're in my world now." "It's closer to your doom." "Then I embrace my destiny, and now it's time for you to embrace yours!" "Ahhhh!" "There is no doom here." "And there will be no victor." "We have no choice." "We must permit our wager to decide our fate." "Agreed." "Did that just happen?" "I will take the sword now." "That..." "That was incredible." "The sword?" "You really are Zeus, aren't you?" "The mortal woman believes her eyes." "What do you want with the sword?" "I will return it to Mount Olympus." "Hercules must not answer the sword about his destiny." "Not until he is truly ready." "But shouldn't we let Hercules decide when that time is?" "No, I will decide." "The sword, now!" "Maybe we should leave it up to the boy." "I said I want the sword!" "And I say no." "You would challenge me?" "Not without reservations, great Zeus, but yes." "Kevin, be careful." "You have great courage for a mortal." "Well we both want what's best for you son." "Then make sure he returns to Olympus when the contest is done." "Myth, huh?" "Fantana, Fantana, Fantana, Fantana!" "Woooo!" "Welcome to all students and families." "Fantana's annual Olympic track meet is ready to commence!" "Two of the best students in the division will be in competition." "Fantana!" "And Dawson Valley." "A third school was going to participate, but they have not shown up, so they will default." "And firstly, a special guest will signal our commencement." "A huge welcome, please, for one of the world's most popular DJs, El Cucuy!" "Hey, how are you, thank you very much!" "And now, let the games begin!" "Uh oh, it looks like a lot of Fantana athletes are for Dawson's Valley." "Guess they quit school like almost everyone else." "Now it's time for the traditional handshake." "Come on!" "Let's do it!" "Looks like there's some bad blood today." "This is the big meet, this is what we've been working for, you're over that nervous stuff, that sometimes yes sometimes no stuff." ", Kid." "And you know it's not about magic, you gotta play with your heart, right?" "Get on out there and play your heart out, just play your heart out." "Come on, Herc, you can do this, man." "Come on." "Okay." "Go out there and show them Mount Olympus is in the house!" "Ready Fontana?" "11 feet, thee inches." "We have a new leader." "All right, hey, way to go!" "Yeah, go Herc!" "Dawson Valley, ready?" "11 feet, four inches." "Winner, Dawson Valley." "That was close, Coach." "All right, guys, let's go, let's play the game, play the game, keep your chin up!" "Yeah, it's cool, man." "I mean you lost one event." "You could beat that dude any day, don't worry about it, okay?" "Here you go, Herc." "You'll get him next time." "Oppa!" "Mother?" "Woo!" "What's the matter, Herc?" "Nothing." "Hey, where are you going?" "I'll be back." "What's wrong?" "I don't know, something doesn't seem right." "Darling, my son!" "You are having trouble, yes?" "Take your sword." "Embrace your true destiny!" "Yes, mother." "Yes." "No!" "Hercules, don't!" "Don't do it for a game." "Who you are?" "What are you doing here?" "Trying to stop you." "One mother to another." "You stop me?" "I don't think so." "One mother to another." "Okay." "This ain't over yet." "No!" "I'll do this." "I embrace my true destiny!" "What destiny do you embrace, Hercules?" "A mortal or a human?" "A mortal or immortal?" "What is in your heart, Hercules?" "What do you want to be?" "Mortal." "I wanna be mortal!" "So Hercules returned to the games determined to use everything in his heart and do the best he could." "He won several events, and the final event was archery." "Oh that's not right." "Wooo!" "Yeah!" "It's okay, Coach." "Aw man, dang it." "You think you could beat that?" "I'll try." "Yes!" "What?" "!" "Yes!" "All right, you did it, Herc!" "Freak!" "Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!" "And the winner of this great Olympic championship, Fontana!" "Uh oh, uh, hold on, there seems to be a new problem." "What seems to be the problem here?" "Sorry we're late." "We're the other school, the other team." "But you've..." "You've defaulted, sir." "No, we're here." "This is Kintaro, and we would love a one on one challenge against" "Hercules from the Fontana school." "But we can't do that, sir." "Yes we can!" "Of course we can, it'll be our pleasure and our duty." "Ladies and gentlemen, the missing team has arrived!" "Whoa, I've just been informed that the Babylon school has challenged the Fontana school to a one on one, winner-take-all marathon race between their star Kintaro and Fantana star Hercules." "How you gonna do that, ref, we won fair and square, man!" "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!" "We won this thing fair and square, we're the winners!" "Fair and square!" "After 24 years we will, what are you doing?" "!" "I'm sorry, but if you do not accept this challenge, your team defaults and Babylon wins." "I don't know why I said that, but there you have it." "I don't know why you said it either because it's crazy, you're crazy!" "You can't be right, you're wrong!" "That's wrong, W-R-O-N-G, it's wrong, it's wrong, it doesn't make any sense..." "But I can live with it!" "Where's my hat?" "You dropped it, Coach." "Hey, you hungry?" "I am hungry." "What do you want, shall we get something?" "Yeah, let's get something to eat, let's get some ribs or something." "Ribs at a track meet?" "Well they're greasy, but they're good." "I like them." "Well..." "What are you doing, Marduk?" "I'm playing the game, Zeus!" "Kintaro's just a boy, just like Hercules." "Kintaro is a God of Babylon!" "He can uproot trees with one hand and move mountains!" "Hercules is almost an immortal." "He can do the same if he chooses to accept this destiny." "But Hercules has already decided." "The boy is young." "He can change his mind." "What's going on here?" "And when did Mr. Potter go to another school?" "I'll do this." "All right." "Yes, yes." "Ah ha, Hercules, you come back to see me?" "To take your sword?" "To embrace your true destiny?" "Eh?" "The son of Zeus has already spoken." "You wish to be mortal." "I heard you." "Yes, father, it's what in my heart." "But not if it costs you Olympus." "But are you prepared to live a short life of pain and disappointment?" "Yes." "But why, my son?" "What do you have as a mortal that you don't have as the Prince of Olympus?" "Friends." "Then go out there and face Kintaro." "Alone." "So where do you think you're going?" "To finish the games." "Heh, we'll just have to see about that." "Whoa!" "Not this time!" "Take a ride, Marduk!" "Hercules, put me down, put me down!" "Ahhhh!" "Having vanquished Marduk, little Hercules was now prepared to step out on the track and face his greatest rival Kintaro." "For the first time in a billion years, the Heavens would be witnessed to a contest between a God of Babylon and a young boy of Mount Olympus." "A boy who wanted to be mortal." "Go Hercules, woo!" "Run, run!" "Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" "He's passing you, you idiot!" "Run faster!" "Come on,!" "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" "You see, you keep that up!" "That's how the Olympians do it, baby!" "Kintaro, run faster!" "Keep it up, come on, come on!" "Come on!" "Man." "Come on." "The pride of Babylon, run, run!" "Run faster, run faster!" "Huh?" "Oh my God!" "Holy mackerel, look at this guy, he's going one way and then he's going the other." "With the speed of the wind and the rain!" "Go, Hercules, go!" "Zeus!" "Hercules has decided with his heart." "He was honest, and so am I." "My son may live as a mortal, but he will be the strongest mortal the world has ever known!" "Look at the speed, this is amazing, it's a blur!" "Yes yes yes yes yes, that's what I'm talking about!" "Look at this!" "Look at this, coming in!" "And Hercules wins!" "Yeah boy, that's what I'm talking about!" "Hey, nice race, Hercules." "We should do it again sometime." "I think we will." "Ahhh!" "So Herc, what are you gonna do now?" "Where are you gonna stay?" "Yeah." "You know, you guys are awesome, but I wanna go to Mount Olympus with my family." "We get it." "Nah man, you better come back so we could really kick it!" "Can you handle it?" "Can I handle it?" "!" "Man, I'm the one that showed you all the ropes, what' the matter with you?" "You guys take care of him." "Don't let him get into trouble, okay?" "I won't." "Yeah, we can't make any promises." "Hey, great race, very fast, very fast, you did good." "Oh Curtis, I am so proud of you honey, I'm so proud, give mommy a kiss." "One more kiss." "Gimme one more kiss." "Come on, mom!" "I'll take one more kiss!" "Oh Zeus, another subtle entrance." "I guess I'm ready to go home, father." "Only for a short time." "Olympus is for the Gods, not puny mortals." "From here on, you'll be spending most of your time on Earth, in Greece." "See you around, Herc." "We'll miss you." "We really will." "Relax, guys." "I'll be back, I promise." "Come back anytime." "I've been watching you in this Burbank." "I missed you, son." "I missed you too, big dog." "You think he'll be back?" "Yeah, of course he'll be back." "In the meantime, I'm gonna take your mother for a romantic dinner." "That's pretty nice, man, 'cause I'm kinda hungry too." "Me too!" "Starving." "What I meant was I'm going to take all of you to a romantic dinner." "That's better." "So kind." "Hey, McDonalds is good too!" "Come on." "I've listened to your mortals, visited their world." "I only have one question for you." "What's that?" "Who's your daddy?" "!" "And the immortals continue to play their games in the Heavens, dwelling among the stars as the Gods of Mount Olympus." "But not Hercules." "He went on to many great adventures, choosing to live his life on Earth as a human." "Some say he even went back to a place called Burbank." "But, well, as everyone knows, that's another story."