Beetleborgs

Drew, Jo and Roland are hanging out at Zoom Comics reading the latest BeetleBorgs comics when local bullies Van and Trip dare them to go into the old abandoned Hillhurst House. They accept and when Jo bumps into an old pipe organ, a "phasm" named Flabber emerges. As a reward for rescuing him from the organ, he grants them each one wish - and they all wish to become BeetleBorgs.

When Flabber grants the kids their wish to become BeetleBorgs, he also accidentally unleashes the comic book villains too! Vexor, Lord of the Magnavors - who include Jara, Noxic and Typhus - take up residence in a nearby crypt. Drew, Jo and Roland's new mission is to use their powers and secret BeetleBorg identities to stop the Magnavors from taking over the Earth.

Trip and Van learn that everyone knows they were too scared to go into the Hillhurst House, so they have a wrecking crew tear it down. Flabber sees the wreckers and enlists the house monsters to help protect the house. When Jara summons Magnavor jet fighters from the comic book to attack Hillhurst, the kids transform and use their vehicles for the first time to ward off the attack. Now the bad guys know that the kids are the BeetleBorgs.

The kids rush off to warn Flabber that Dr. Buster Zapper is going to the Hillhurst House with his phasm blaster while Jara, Noxic and Typhus summon Terror Bear from the comic book. Fortunately, the kids transform in time to send him back into the comic book. Meanwhile, Dr. Zapper fires a triple charge at Flabber and misses, but the blast awakens the house monsters who scare Dr. Zapper, Van and Trip out of the house.

Flabber is sick, and when Drew, Jo and Roland go to check on him, they discover that his handkerchief is a treasure map. Deciding now to work as a team, Drew, Jo, and Roland, together with the house monsters, manage to locate the treasure chest, only to be disappointed that it only contains slime. When everyone else learns about the treasure things get really crazy.

Wolfgang Smith bursts into Zoom Comics and upsets everyone. The Magnavors lure him back to the tomb where Vexor asks him to help get rid of the BeetleBorgs and the Hillhurst residents. But when they go to the house, they are surprised to see Wolfgang Smith saving the mansion and the BeetleBorgs! The house monsters feel sorry for Wolfgang, who has no other place to go, and tell him he can move into the Hillhurst House if he behaves.

As Christmas Day approaches, Flabber recruits the house monsters to decorate the Hillhurst House for the holidays. When Flabber discovers that Christmas gifts and trees are being stolen all over town by the Magnavors, the BeetleBorgs find them leaving a house with bags full of gifts. The superheroes return the presents to the residents and even give Jara, Noxic and Typhus each a stocking filled with gifts.

A film crew decides to use the Hillhurst House for a shoot and Flabber is thrilled. When the film director discovers Graxxis (an escapee from an issue of the comic book) in the house, he assumes he's an actor and begins to order him around. Suddenly there are Magnavor Jets flying overhead and the kids are forced to transform and do battle. Later, Drew uses his civilian powers to confiscate the film since the kids are worried that their secret transformations may have been caught on tape.

Roland is having trouble performing his magic tricks, so Flabber agrees to lend him a book of magic words. When Roland loses the book, Trip and Van find it and accidentally conjure up a Magnavor who steals the book from them. Roland had made Jo invisible earlier and doesn't know how to restore her. Jo decides to use her haunting appearance to scare the Magnavors, get the book back, send the monsters back to the comics and, finally, to get visible again.

Vexor pulls a charm from the comic book that will make whoever sees it the slave of the person wearing it. He plans to send it to the BeetleBorgs to make them fight amongst themselves and close the portal to the comic book. Unfortunately, Nano goes to the Hillhurst House, finds the amulet, puts it on and suddenly all the house monsters to want to be her slave. A peeved Vexor sends Lottapus to Charterville to retrieve the amulet and meanwhile, Flabber warns the kids to get the amulet from Nano and destroy it.

Nano's train is destined for destruction, but the BeetleBorgs must first chase GargantuRat who wants to kidnap Heather into the comic book. The BeetleBorgs catch up with the giant rodent and are able to prevent the train from derailing. Last but not least, the superheroes rush back to free their friend Heather.

When Fire Kat is pulled out of the comic by the Magnavors, he is far less ferocious than they hoped, so they decide to give him some lessons. Now a fire-breathing cat monster, the BeetleBorgs must stop him before he causes some serious damage and send him back where he belongs - in the comic books.

When Heather sees a beautiful necklace on evil sorceress Queen Magna in the latest comic, Drew decides to get it for her on her birthday. When he asks Flabber to zap him into the comic book, both of them get sucked into the book and when the kids see what's happened, they jump in to rescue them. Though Drew wasn't able to give Heather the necklace she wanted for her birthday, he gives her a handmade necklace which she declares is her favorite.

Jara, Noxic and Typhus create a beautiful monster named Monsterella to charm the residents of Hillhurst into revealing the comic book mystery. Posing as Hillhurst's new housekeeper, she is snooping around when she gets a message from Vexor to return to the Crypt. What she doesn' t know is that it was just Flabber doing an impression of Vexor. The monster confesses she never wanted to be a spy and says her good-byes before the Magnavors find her.

Jo drinks some "bad" soda and turns into "Mr. Hyde." She overturns tables and destroys the restaurant then bursts into Zoom Comics and causes a disturbance. At Hillhurst, Jo spills some "bad" soda near the Ghoulam statue, and he begins to grow! Flabber creates an antidote for Jo and she joins the BeetleBorgs gang to overpower Ghoulam, give him the antidote and place him back on his pedestal before any harm is done.

After Nano and Aaron tell the kids the legend of the "Hunchback of Hillhurst," they run into a slightly forgetful hunchback named Quincy Modo, former fullback for the local college football team. When Jara, Noxic and Typhus hear about this "monster," they recruit him for their team and begin to terrorize the city. But the BeetleBorgs show up to spoil their fun, Quincy regains his memory and goes back to college - and the Hillhurst gang develops football fever.

Drew and Jo's cousin, Oliver, calls himself the biggest BeetleBorg fan ever and wants to grow up to be one of them. When Oliver wears his BeetleBorg costume out to play, the Magnavors mistake him for a real BeetleBorg and take him hostage. The three real BeetleBorgs appear to rescue Oliver, who returns to Zoom Comics to tell the kids all about how he saved the BeetleBorgs.

As Nano is about to make a deposit at the Charterville Bank, two bank robbers take her money and run. Drew, Jo and Roland track the robbers to the Hillhurst House where Flabber and the house monsters confront the robbers and stage their own trial with the house monsters as the jury and Flabber as the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney. Just as Judge Flabber declares them "guilty as charged," the robbers run - right into the police waiting outside.

Nano meets a famous rock band who is in Charterville to make a record. When Trip suggests they rehearse at Hillhurst, the house monsters give chase and the band takes shelter in the Stone Tunnel. The band later hears the house monsters playing their instruments, realize it's the sound they've been looking for and with Flabber's help they recover their equipment and record a hit album.

The kids go to Comi-Con, the world' s best comic-book convention, but realize Aaron, who has their tickets, is gone! Posing as BeetleBorgs, they finally get in and run into Jara, Noxic and Typhus. The kids head for the BeetleBorgs booth, where comic book creator Art Fortunes is making an appearance, when the terrible trio grabs Fortunes and runs. When the kids transform into BeetleBorgs and defeat the monsters, Fortunes is amazed to see his comic book come to life.

When Drew, Jo and Roland show up at Hillhurst on Halloween as trick-or-treaters, Frankenbeans is so intrigued with the notion that he sneaks out to explore. Jara, Noxic and Typhus kidnap him and send Flabber a ransom note demanding the BeetleBorgs' Beetle Bonders in exchange for the house monster. The kids find Frankenbeans and return him to Hillhurst - his Halloween adventure having been full of more tricks than treats.

While Drew and Jo are experimenting with his new plant, they realize it can talk! Meanwhile, the Magnavors send the Plant Monster from one of the comic books to Hillhurst in search of it's little sister - Drew's plant. The kids transform into BeetleBorgs and send the shady character back into the comic book. When Drew returns to town to retrieve his pet plant, the gang decides that it is better off back in the comic book and sends it home.

Soon after Dr. Von Frankenbeans arrives at Hillhurst, he begins bossing Flabber and the other house monsters around. While they are thinking about how to get rid of him without upsetting Frankenbeans, they discover that the doctor plans to use all of them in his medical experiments. When he comes face-to-face with Cyber-Serpent, the doctor helps the BeetleBorgs send the monster back to the comics and bids Hillhurst good-bye with no harm done.

The Magnavors attack two aliens who try to communicate with them, thinking they are Earthlings, and when the aliens counterattack, the terrible trio runs scared. Hoping to gather some research on Earthlings, the aliens disguise themselves and go to Hillhurst. When the terrible trio arrives shortly thereafter, the aliens take them and the house monsters hostage. The BeetleBorgs restore peace and the aliens depart, saying that Earthlings are too weird for their study!