Nullzilla (episode)

ReBoot Episode
Nullzilla and the Giant Robot
Nullzilla
Episode no.	2.07
Written by	Susan Turner
Story by	Susan Turner
Original Airdate	27 December 1995
Prev.: AndrAIa | Next: Gigabyte
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Episode Synopsis

Mike the TV is still at Hexadecimal's Lair. Hexadecimal seems to be much better. She is gazing into her Looking Glass showing how easy it is to find the Super Computer. Hex says the powerful system bores her and demands Mike to show her something interesting. Mike shows her a movie named 'Bride of Frankennome', and Hex screams she's seen it before, and liked it. She demands something else, so he puts on Wagnerian opera. The primadonna on the screen sings so piercingly high that Scuzzy's dome and Hexadecimal's looking glass shatter, revealing a creature behind the glass. The creature leaps on her and infects her, turning her black. Outside the lair, the nulls go berserk and all rush to protect Hexadecimal, all leaping on her body.

At the Silicon Tor, Hack and Slash are telling Nibbles a story. He suddenly stiffens, looking up. Slash thinks he is paying attention, but then the null leaves. The two bots are sure Megabyte will grill them for this, so they run off after the null, hoping to find him before Megabyte finds out he's missing.

At the Principal Office, Phong is working on a way to turn nulls back into Sprites. His investigations are not progressing. Suddenly, AndrAIa, who is standing nearby chatting with Enzo, freezes and puts her hands over her ears. The nulls in the chamber Dot is working on start going crazy, trying to get out of their prison.

Back in the Lair, Hex is being completely covered by nulls as she screams. Mike the TV and Scuzzy flee the Lair in terror, and run into Hack and Slash. They tell Mike they are looking for a null and if he has seen one. Mike says, "Have I seen one, Have I seen one!?, thats a joke right. Hack, Slash, its your lucky day, you were looking for a single null but how about two million, its Nullzilla." He turns around to reveal a giant null monster.

Bob, Dot, Enzo, and Frisket arrive and question Mike and Scuzzy about Nullzilla. Mike quickly explains how the creature came to be and they all go to the Principal Office.

In the Principal Office, Phong takes everyone to a VidWindow and tells them about the problem and says he has a solution. Phong takes them to his office, where he suits up everyone, except for AndrAIa, in battle costumes. The sprites then get into battle droids, each of these takes after an insect. Bob is a beetle, Dot is a ladybug, Frisket is a bumblebee, Enzo is a grasshopper, and Mike is a pesky gnat.

After a bit of flying around, the sprites form their droids into a giant robot. They fight Nullzilla, but don't gain any ground. In the process they accidentally push Nullzilla into the Eight-Ball Apartments and crush the building. Phong tells them to use the Disrupt-o-matic, they tell him that they don't have anything like that. Phong finds that the matic was left behind in the launch bay and tells them to contain the monster until he can get the matic to them. AndrAIa then gets into the Disrupt-o-matic, which is a giant axe, and flies to them. Using the matic, the sprites are able to rid Hexadecimal of both the nulls and the strange creature that covered her. Hex's energy is depleted, but Bob says she will be all right.

Nibbles returns to Megabyte, who does not question where he was. Megabyte strangely calls Nibbles "father". Then the strange creature that infected Hexadecimal comes to Megabyte and merges with him. Megabyte becomes black with red eyes and gold teeth.

References

• The mention of Nibbles being Megabyte's father is explained in the episode "Cross Nodes"

• The costumes the main cast wear and the giant robot their vehicles form are modeled after the Power Rangers tv show.

• Mike's mention of Alice when telling of Hex's Looking Glass breaking comes from the book "Alice in Wonderland", she gets there by falling through a Looking Glass.

• Transfinite means going beyond or surpassing any finite number, group or magnitude.

• The Destructo-Matic is in a case that says: "IN CASE OF GIANT NULL MONSTER THREATENING CITY - BREAK GLASS".