What Goes Down, Must Come Up - Recap

The episode starts up with an old bearded man walking in a dark unworldly place rambling about how thirty years ago, Dr. Venture stranded him inside this place. This man kneels and curses Dr. Venture for not calling him for in the time he’s been stranded there. He then looks up and sees a door-like shape opening and white light gaps through it.

Inside the Venture compound in Dr. Venture’s lab, Dr. Venture and Brock are testing one of Dr. Venture’s machines. Brock, who is inside the machine testing it, tells Dr. Venture that he isn’t sure the machine is well built. Dr. Venture reassures him and tells him that the machine is all right. Brock becomes annoyed because when Dr. Venture reassured him, he speaks in innuendo. Dr. Venture tells him that he couldn’t resist telling him this. He tells Brock that the machine was like “a monument to his father’s repression." Brock then comes out of the garage inside the lab that Dr. Venture was holding this invention in. It is then shown that Dr. Venture’s machine is some sort of “tunneling machine." Brock, responding to Dr. Venture’s innuendo, then asks Dr. Venture if he wants him to turn it around, because of Dr. Venture’s annoyance. Dr. Venture tells him that he’ll behave, and then indicates to Brock via hand gestures to move the machine forward. As Dr. Venture walks backwards and indicates to Brock, a hatch door opens on the ground and Dr. Venture falls inside of it. Brock, still inside the tunneling machine and not knowing what happened to Dr. Venture, ask Dr. Venture if he’s still going in the right direction. Just as he finishes asking him this, he then slams into the hole where Dr. Venture fell. Brock’s head slams into the machine's controls. As Brock tries to get out, he mumbles something about Dr. Venture. When Brock gets out, he notices the hole he landed in and calls out to Dr. Venture asking if he can hear him and asks him if his hip is all right. Brock then kneels on one foot and tries to communicate with Dr. Venture via his communication watch. No one answers.

Inside a tunnel beneath the Venture compound, Dr. Venture regains consciousness and sarcastically tells Brock that he’s all right. Dr. Venture asks Brock to throw down a rope for him. Dr. Venture also asks Brock to get him new shoes, because as he was asking Brock for a rope he stepped in a puddle. As Dr. Venture walks and attempts to talk to Brock via his communicator watch, he notices Brock not answering him. He calls out to Brock and sees that he has no signal where he’s currently at. As Dr. Venture tries to fix or reset his watch, he calls out to Brock and tells him that he’d better not be paying a prank on him because it’s a real emergency. Brock is then shown walking down a flight of stairs calling out for Dr. Venture. He sees a door that has a big blue button on the side of it. Brock pushes that button and a door opens. The bearded man that was cursing Dr. Venture’s name earlier is shown to be inside this room, but at only 6" tall. This miniature bearded man charges at Brock with what appears to be a sewing needle. As he charges and hits Brock with this needle, this miniature man cries out “die Dr. Venture!" Brock immediately feels what this miniature bearded man is doing to his foot and reacts. He pushes the man, who is on one of his feet, aside. Brock then leans to a wall and turns on a light, the door then closes behind him. As Brock does this, he holds his foot in pain. Brock then walks towards a small piece of trash and lifts it up. He notices the miniature bearded man and becomes surprised. Brock says that he thought he was a rat. The man tells Brock that he thought he was Dr. Venture. This miniature man then notices Brock had closed the door. He then asks him why he closed it. Brock tells him that it was an accident, and asks him why it’s a big deal for him. The miniature man tells him that place he’s stuck in is a “nuclear fallout facility” and that Brock had inadvertently set the time lock for another forty years. The miniature man then asks Brock where “Jonas” is, and asks him why he isn’t with him.

Inside the Venture house, where Dr. Orpheus lives, Hank and Dean are showing Dr. Orpheus their communicator watches to him. Dean tells Dr. Orpheus that they are only receiving white noise and Dr. Venture and Brock aren’t answering. Dean says it appears they had vanished into thin air. Hank tells Dr. Orpheus that this situation calls for his expertise. Dr. Orpheus asks them if they are sure Brock and Dr. Venture haven’t simply “stepped out," because, as Dr. Orpheus put it, they have been known to step out and do dangerous deeds from time to time. Hank tells Dr. Orpheus that they’ve never done these kinds of things without them. Dean tells Dr. Orpheus that they haven’t left the compound because their Jet is still in the hanger. Dean also tells Dr. Orpheus that they had plans for the day. Hank continues Dean’s point by saying that they had planned to have a family meal consisting of French toast. Dr. Orpheus seems convinced that there is something wrong going on, he tells the two brothers to stay calm as he attempt to assemble the rest of his group, the Order of the Triad. Dr. Orpheus, as he’s sitting on his desk, opens a drawer from his desk and takes out two dolls that look like Jefferson Twilight and the Alchemist. As Dr. Orpheus shows the dolls to Hank and Dean, Dean asks Dr. Orpheus if he’d like to be alone for what he thinks he’s going to do with the dolls. Dr. Orpheus then chants some sort of spell, and fog comes out from his desk. When Dr. Orpheus finishes his magic spell, his body turns into a statue of ice. Hank jokingly tells Dean that it seems like Dr. Orpheus made a poem for his dollies.

Back inside the nuclear fallout vault where Brock is trapped inside with the miniature man, Brock is trying to dig his way out with a wrench. Brock attempts to smash the wall with the wrench as well. The miniature man asks Brock when Dr. Venture Sr. had died. Brock tells him that he’s been dead for about twenty years. Brock asks the miniature man where he’s been all this time. The man tells him that he’s been inside the vault for about thirty years. Brock asks him how he got stuck inside the vault the first time. The miniature man tells Brock that he got stuck inside the vault by an accident and that Dr. Venture’s lab group where testing a system and something went wrong during the test that forced Dr. Jonas Venture to abandon the project. The miniature man then complains that Dr. Venture Sr. didn’t take the time to look around to see if he was inside the facility or not. Brock sympathizes with the miniature man, who tells Brock that he isn’t a violent man but since this happened to him, it caused him to have negative feeling towards Dr. Venture Sr. He also tells Brock that during his stay inside the vault, he had to constantly defend himself against an army of giant army ants.

Inside the Alchemist's house, Dr. Orpheus appears to him via astro-projection. The Alchemist is watching something on television when Dr. Orpheus appears. The Alchemist pauses what he was watching with magic, and a “TiVo” noise is heard as he does this. Dr. Orpheus tells the Alchemist to assemble the Order of the Triad.

Somewhere that looks like London, Jefferson Twilight is hunting vampires. As Jefferson comes close to catching his prey, Dr. Orpheus’ Astro-project interrupts him, causing the vampire to run off. Jefferson Twilight tells Dr. Orpheus that he almost had gotten the vampire he was hunting. Dr. Orpheus says he’s sorry, and tells him that they need to assemble the order of the Triad. At this moment, Dr. Orpheus notices that Jefferson Twilight is in London, he asks him if he’s in London. Jefferson Twilight tells Dr. Orpheus that he has to go where the “blacktion” is. [Switches to the Alchemist house] The Alchemist asks Dr. Orpheus, who is still astro-projected inside his house, who he’s talking to. Dr. Orpheus tells the Alchemist that he wasn’t talking to him, but to Jefferson Twilight. [Switches back to where Jefferson Twilight is at] Jefferson Twilight responds to Dr. Orpheus’ comment to the Alchemist. He tells him that he is Jefferson Twilight. Dr. Orpheus tells Jefferson Twilight that he’s now talking to the Alchemist. Dr. Orpheus then tells Jefferson Twilight that he was ordered to stay close to the team in case of an emergency. Jefferson Twilight pauses for a moment then asks Dr. Orpheus if he was talking to him. [Switches back to the Alchemist’s house] The Alchemist becomes annoyed and tells Dr. Orpheus that he has to learn to “double astro-project," because as he tells Dr. Orpheus, it becomes confusing. [Switches back to Jefferson Twilight] Jefferson Twilight is telling Dr. Orpheus some reasons he shouldn’t have bothered him. Jefferson Twilight then tells him that there are never any real “Order of the Triad emergencies” and that he isn’t even in London. The place where Jefferson was located is revealed to be a theme park with a European look to it.

Back inside the Venture compound in Dr. Orpheus office, all three Order of the Triad members magically appear. Dean was toying around with one of Dr. Orpheus’ shrunken heads when the Order came back. The Alchemist notices the dolls Dr. Orpheus was holding and asks Dr. Orpheus if these dolls are the action figures they had previously ordered to make. Jefferson Twilight thinks they look nice and gives a high-five to the Alchemist saying that “selling action figures is where the money is made." Dr. Orpheus explains to them that Hasbro had passed on their toy idea and that the ones they are currently holding he made himself. Jefferson Twilight complements Dr. Orpheus on his craftsmanship and asks him if he had sculpted these action figures himself. Dr. Orpheus tells Jefferson Twilight that he had actually repainted old dolls he had.

Back Inside the tunnels under the Venture compound, Dr. Venture is hopelessly wandering looking for a way out. Dr. Venture spots an old Venture logo inside one of the tunnels. As he spots this logo he says to himself that he now knows why his heating bills are high. A man is shown roaming the tunnels behind Dr. Venture. Dr. Venture notices someone lurking behind him. He then continues his passage. The same man is shown lurking behind Dr. Venture, this time closer to him. As Dr. Venture turns around for the second time, the man lurks even closer to him. When Dr. Venture turns around to continue his path, the man reveals himself. This strange man, wearing a Captain America T-Shirt (or an American flag T-shirt), looks at Dr. Venture and sticks his tongue out.

Inside Dr. Venture’s lab, the Order of the Triad and the Venture brothers are investigating the last location they know where Brock and Dr. Venture were located at. The Order of the Triad are standing near the corners of the digging/tunneling machine Dr. Venture and Brock were fixing. They are using their magic to figure out what might have happened to them. The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight note that their magic isn’t telling them anything on what may have happened to them, but Dr. Orpheus’s magic is telling him that Dr. Venture was doing some experiments with the tunneling machine. He then asks himself why Dr. Venture would leave the experiment alone. Hank and Dean tell Dr. Orpheus that their father gets bored quickly while he’s doing experiments, and that he doesn’t clean after he works. Hank then points to an open door and tells Dr. Orpheus that he thinks that his father and Brock may have gone inside there. Dr. Orpheus asks them why they didn’t look in that place before asking him to help them. Hank and Dean tells them that they’ve never gone inside there before and that it’s possibly the basement. Hank and Dean also tell them it’s a creepy place they’ve never gone inside of. After Hank and Dean tell this Dr. Orpheus, both Jefferson Twilight and Dr. Orpheus seem disappointed at Hank and Dean for bothering them with this investigation.

Back inside the fallout vault, Brock asks the miniature man if the accident that had trapped him inside the vault is the same accident that made him small. The miniature man explains to Brock that he used to be normal size but there was another accident that made him larger than a normal human. He further explains that Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. helped him find a cure for his deformity, but the second experiment backfired and made him small.

The Order of the Triad is traveling inside the basement area where Hank pointed to earlier. Dr. Orpheus calls out for Brock and Dr. Venture, while Jefferson Twilight complains to him about how Dr. Orpheus told them it was a “Triad emergency." Dr. Orpheus tells Jefferson that Dean and Hank have active imaginations. The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight both comment about Hank and Dean's active imaginations. Dr. Orpheus tells them to calm down and he starts to say a few magic words with the Alchemist. Jefferson Twilight sarcastically checks for Blaculas.

Inside the fallout Vault, Brock inspects the machine inside the vault named “M.U.T.H.E.R." While he inspects it Brock talks to the miniature man and tells him that he reminds him of an old Marvel Comics character. They both enter a short discussion about who this character might be but can't quite figure it out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the vault’s wall, the Order of the Triad is shown inspecting and searching for signs of where Dr. Venture and Brock might be. Dr. Orpheus uses his powers to sense the presence of someone nearby. Dr. Orpheus tells the group this and asks the Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight to join hands so that their powers could strengthen his sense. As they join hands, the Alchemist comments on how rough Jefferson’s hands are. When Dr. Orpheus' power reaches its peak, he describes what he sees. He tells the group he sees both Dr. Venture and Brock are safe but that they are confused. Dr. Orpheus, along with the Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight, all see and feel another more ominous presence nearby as they are joining hands. As they sense this evil presence they are scared and they all go running back to the lab. When they get back to the lab, both Dean and Hank are there. Hank gloatingly tells them that he knew they’d get scared and they made the right decision in calling them. Dr. Orpheus tells them that they sensed something horrible and that it has something to do with the stench of “psychic residue." The Alchemist says that he can still smell it while Dean, as he covers his nose, tells him that he thinks the smell is coming from Jefferson Twilight. Jefferson had peed his pants and he asks Dean and Hank if they have any extra pants. Dr. Orpheus tells everyone that the evil they sensed is more powerful then they can handle, he tells them that he is going to seek advice from “the Master," and that he’ll be going alone. The Alchemist complains to Dr. Orpheus, telling him that they're a team and asks him why they never get to see the Master. He asks Dr. Orpheus if it has something to do with being embarrassed that he (the Alchemist) is gay. Dr. Orpheus tells him that he is embarrassed that Jefferson Twilight had peed his pants, and then tells him that he is also embarrassed that the Alchemist is gay. After he tells this to them he transports himself away and vanishes. Jefferson Twilight tells the Alchemist that he doesn’t like the “Charlie’s Angels” crap.

Dr. Venture runs throughout the tunnels and sees a red phone on a wall. He grabs the phone and starts calling out for help. Back inside the vault, Brock and the miniature man hear a phone ringing. Brock grabs the phone and both Dr. Venture and Brock say at the same time: “Doc/Brock, thank God, you got to get me out of here!" Brock then asks Dr. Venture where he is. Dr. Venture tells him that he doesn’t know exactly, but tells him that he’s inside a tunnel. Dr. Venture then demands Brock go inside the tunnel to get him. Brock tells him he can’t because he’s trapped. Dr. Venture interprets Brock’s response thinking that he’s trapped emotionally or perhaps “trapped in the closet." Dr. Venture tells him to take a Valium and get over it. He then again orders Brock to come help him, because he says that he’s not alone. As Dr. Venture tells this to Brock via the phone line, the creepy man wearing an American flag t-shirt goes running around the tunnel again. Brock asks Dr. Venture whom he’s with. Dr. Venture tells him that he doesn’t know but tells him that the creepy man told him that he’s “the fire starter." The creepy man runs by Dr. Venture again, Dr. Venture tries to stop him to ask him who he is. The man just runs by. Brock tells Dr. Venture to ask the man where the exit is. Dr. Venture tells him that he had already tried to ask him but he tells him that the creepy man won’t stand still long enough to let him ask him. He tells Brock once again to come help him. Just at that moment, someone else yells out to Dr. Venture from the tunnel. It’s a young girl accompanied by three men wearing Rusty Venture T-shirts and holding saws, bolt cutters, and tubes. A few green lights turn on, and Dr. Venture becomes more frightened.

Inside a moving hovercraft, the group of weird people he encountered inside the tunnels is escorting Dr. Venture. In the back seat of the small hovercraft, Dr. Venture is seated next to the three men who are wearing Rusty Venture T-Shirts. One of these men asks Dr. Venture if he’s Rusty Venture. Dr. Venture tells this man that he is. He asks this man if he’s a fan of his. The other men tell Dr. Venture that he doesn’t look like a Rusty. The other two men ask Dr. Venture why they haven’t seen him in the tunnels before. Dr. Venture tells them that he lives on the surface. All the strange people inside the hovercraft are startled by what Dr. Venture had just told them. One of the strange men tells Dr. Venture that it is forbidden to live on the surface. Dr. Venture tries to negotiate with these men and tells them that he will allow all these people to visit them on the surface but with a few restrictions. Dr. Venture tells them that he will allow the visits if they show him how to get back to the surface. One of the three men wearing Rusty Venture T-shirts asks the strange kid who is on the front seat of the hovercraft what he thinks they should do. This kid tells them that she thinks that they should let their “father” decide.

Inside the Venture house’s kitchen, Orpheus has returned and the three members of the Order of the Triad are talking about the current situation. Dr. Orpheus is cooking something up, while Jefferson Twilight is scratching himself wearing new pants. The Alchemist asks Dr. Orpheus what exactly the “Master” told him. He asks him if the Master told him to call “tech support." Dr. Orpheus, as he cooks something up on the microwave, tells him that it wasn’t his exact words, but that he meant them “to deliver a patawa of symbols and allegories." Dr. Orpheus tells them that his special training enables him to interpret the Master’s words. He just happened to find Peter White's phone number by poking around randomly.

Inside a surveillance room inside the Venture compound, Pete White tells Dean and Hank that this room enables them to see inside the entire compound. Pete tells the brothers to let him do his work and he’ll find Brock and Dr. Venture in no time. Hank comments on how he just now figured out how his father finds him so quickly after he decides to run away. Dean tells Pete that he didn’t even know they had a surveillance room like this. Pete tells them that he and Dr. Venture spend a lot of time together in this room and they like to spy on Brock's occasional female houseguest. Before Pete goes into further detail, he notices an image inside a screen. The image shows Brock walking down a flight of stairs walking into the basement. Hank and Dean say hello to Brock, but Pete tells them that it’s only a video recording. He then tells them to observe where Brock went into. He notices Brock going inside a room. He tries to access the camera from that room, but fails to connect to it. He tells Hank and Dean to go under the surveillance room’s control panel to check if there are any unhooked cables. Both Hank and Dean go down, notice a cable that is disconnected. The cable’s outlet has a sign on it that reads “M.U.T.H.E.R."

Inside the fallout vault, the miniature man tells Brock he’s only a man and that he doesn’t have any super powers. Brock apologizes, and tells him that he was only making conversation with him. They then notice a screen with a 4bit female avatar figure talking in on the main screen. This avatar tells them “M.U.T.H.E.R. is now online."

Back inside the surveillance room, Pete notices the avatar. The avatar tells them that it wishes to talk to Dr. Venture. Pete tells the boys it’s cute that Dr. Venture named his hard drive M.U.T.H.E.R. M.U.T.H.E.R. tells them that it isn’t a request and that it needs to talk to Dr. Venture.

Back inside the fallout vault, the miniature man, who is hiding behind Brock’s head, tells Brock to not to let M.U.T.H.E.R. see him. Brock asks him why, and asks him what this M.U.T.H.E.R. thing is. The miniature man tells him that M.U.T.H.E.R. is the supercomputer Jonas had built to run the entire Venture Compound. He then tells Brock that this computer had ruined his life. The miniature man then re-asks Brock if Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. is truly dead. Brock tells him that he’s positive

Back inside the surveillance room, Dr. Orpheus walks in with a tray of snacks for Hank, Dean and Pete. Dr. Orpheus tells them that he thought they might be getting hungry and he made some food for them. Dr. Orpheus also asks them how their investigation is going. Dean tells him that the house is mad at them for losing his father. Dr. Orpheus then notices the computer’s avatar, and remembers it from his earlier vision. The computer’s avatar, M.U.T.H.E.R., tells everyone that if she isn’t in contact with Dr. Venture soon she will deploy a nuclear arsenal. At the moment M.U.T.H.E.R. says this, both The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight walk into the room. The Alchemist tells Dr. Orpheus that he’s surprised that they walk out of the room for a moment to heat up some food and they come to find out they’ve started World War III. Hank and Dean, as they point to Pete, both tell Dr. Orpheus at the same time that Pete is to blame. Pete reassures everyone that there isn’t anything to panic about, because of all the old technology M.U.T.H.E.R. was built on. When Pete finishes telling them this an old modem connection line attempting to connect to the Internet is heard in the background. The Alchemist tells Pete that it sounds like M.U.T.H.E.R. is doing something as they speak. Pete tries to reassure him again by telling him that the computer’s mainframe is antiquated and can do no harm. Pete then tells everyone to calm down and to think of a plan.

Inside the fallout vault, M.U.T.H.E.R. tells them that she is connecting to “INTECH Defense System." The miniature man asks Brock who might be controlling M.U.T.H.E.R. Brock tells him that he thinks it might be Dr. Venture trying to get them out of the mess they are in. The miniature man tells Brock that Rusty has been known to toy around with Dr. Jonas Venture’s old technology.

The creepy people that captured him escort Dr. Venture to a concert hall inside the tunnels. They take him to a large stage where more weird people are gathered inside of it. Dr. Venture tells these people to be careful with him, and to stop pushing him. The young kid that was inside the hovercraft with him tells Dr. Venture to quiet down in front of their leader. One of the three men wearing Rusty Venture T-shirts tells their leader about their situation. He tells him that a non-Rusty has entered their realm and may have contaminated their home. He then asks the Father for guidance. The man gets up from his seat and grabs a card that the man in the Rusty T-shirt was holding. The leader tells the man wearing the Rusty T-shirt that he was right to bringing him to him. He also tells everyone that his going to let “Father” speak. The older man puts the card inside a monitor and the monitor turns on. A video recording starts and the Venture logo appears on the screen. Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. is shown working inside his lab. He stares at the camera and says hello to “Rusty." Everyone on the crowd says “Hello Father” back to Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. The video recording of Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. tells Rusty that he hopes his new life underground is going well. He tells him that he’s going to teach Rusty about personal hygiene for the day’s lesson. He continues to say that since Rusty is humanity's last hope he tells him that he wants to continue the American way of life in a post-nuclear world. The video recording skips a few times on different subjects about hygiene. Dr. Venture gets fed up with the video recording and goes on stage to turn it off. As Dr. Venture takes the recording off, the crowd is outraged over Dr. Venture’s actions. Dr. Venture tells them that he had enough of them going through his personal belonging. One of the people in the crowd asks out loud if he had “tuned Father out." Dr. Venture replies and tells him he did and that he killed their god. Dr. Venture then tells them he’s their new “Father” and demands them to get him out of the tunnels. The leader yells out “contamination” and points to Dr. Venture. The crowd of weird people surrounds Dr. Venture and grabs him.

Back inside the surveillance room, Hank tells them that he thinks he has come up with a good idea. He tells them that he thinks it’s all a dream. Jefferson Twilight then complains to Dr. Orpheus that it’s his fault that led them to this specific mess, and he asks him how he wants to go out doing. He then asks him if he either want to die fighting or to just stay there doing nothing. Dr. Orpheus asks Jefferson Twilight what he meant. Jefferson Twilight tells him that they know where they are at now, and tells him that they can go get them. Dr. Orpheus happily tells Jefferson Twilight that they should go. The Alchemist reluctantly agrees. All three members put their hands together and make the Order of the Triad cheer and sign.

Back inside the fallout vault, M.U.T.H.E.R. tells them that it has connected to INTECH Defense System. It then asks them again where Dr. Venture is. Brock asks the miniature man if he should be as unsettled about the situation as he currently is. Brock then asks him why M.U.T.H.E.R. is doing this. The miniature man tells Brock that M.U.T.H.E.R. and Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. had a disagreement about the survivors of a proposed nuclear holocaust would be. Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. told M.U.T.H.E.R. that the survivors would be “too destructive of a society to live underground." He continues to say that Dr. Jonas Venture wanted to pump small amounts of mood-changing drugs into their ventilation system. But, as he continues to explain, M.U.T.H.E.R. didn’t agree with Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. ideas. Brock asks him what M.U.T.H.E.R. did. He tells Brock that M.U.T.H.E.R. did a reverse physiology trick on Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. [As the miniature man explains to Brock, a flashback scene starts.] The scene starts off with The Action Man taming a few kids around the underground facility inside one of the small hovercrafts that was shown earlier. The Action Man tells the kids that the underground facility is an underground utopia on its own, and that it also has its own concert hall. As he tells this to the kids, a red gas comes out from the ventilation shafts and starts to surround the underground facility. The kids and the Action Man start to realize this, and everyone inside the craft starts to act differently. The Action Man stops his hovercraft, and gets out off from it. It is revealed that there were two other hovercrafts following him. Inside the other two hovercrafts, both Kano and Colonel Gentlemen come out off from it, holding children as they get out. The exposure to the gas was too much for them to take and they all become unstable. The Action Man and Colonel Gentlemen start to hallucinate. Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. arrives with a gas mask on and tells his team to get out of there before M.U.T.H.E.R. traps them inside forever. The team gets out using Dr. Venture’s tunneling machine, while the kids are left behind. [The flashback ends.]

Sundown at the Venture compound, the Order of the Triad rushes to Dr. Venture’s tunneling machine. Dr. Orpheus tells his group that he should cast a “spell of protection” inside the machine before they embark. Jefferson Twilight tells him that it’s not a good idea, because of the last time Dr. Orpheus had cast a spell on something. As they get inside, Jefferson heads toward the machine’s driver seat. The Alchemist asks Jefferson if he’s sure he knows how to drive this machine. Jefferson yells at him that he does, and that he had even drove tanks when he was part of the marines, as a tank commander. Dr. Orpheus tells Jefferson Twilight that he don’t know he was part of the armed forces. Jefferson Twilight tells him that there are many things he doesn’t know about him.

Back on the underground portion of the Venture compound, the creepy people from are chasing Dr. Venture down under. Dr. Venture is chased all the way into a missile silo. As he approaches the missile silo he notices an old missile inside of it. He then stops. Dr. Venture dodges one of the creepy people chasing him and that person falls into the silo’s shaft. Dr. Venture jumps onto the missile and grabs hold of it. The people who were chasing him stop chasing him and yell at him.

Back inside Dr. Venture’s tunneling machine, Jefferson Twilight asks Dr. Orpheus if he knew that he trains carrier pigeons in his roof as a hobby. Dr. Orpheus tells him that he didn’t

Back inside the fallout vault, M.U.T.H.E.R. is warning of a “vault breech." As it says this, Dr. Venture’s tunneling machine comes off from the roof with the Order of the Triad inside of it. Brock grabs the miniature man and protects him. Dr. Orpheus comes out of the tunneling machine and tells Brock to get in quickly, because he doesn’t have a moment to lose. Dr. Orpheus then notices what Brock is carrying on his hands and asks him if he had sculpted it himself.

Back at the underground part of the Venture compound, Dr. Venture continues to climb the missile. As he reaches the top he tells everyone to stay back and threatens to destroy their card recording of Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. The crowd tells him to give them back the card. Dr. Venture tells them that he has a million of those cards and that he was willing to share them with them, but since they had treated him so badly he isn't giving it a second thought. Just as Dr. Venture tells this to them, the silo door opens and the missile is prepared for launch. The missile takes off with Dr. Venture holding on to it. As the missile takes off, the leader asks Father to make them clean. The missile‘s rocket boosters heads towards the group and presumably incinerates them all.

From the Venture compound’s head control center, Hank, Dean and Pete White are observing the missile taking off. Hank and Dean notice that Dr. Venture is on the rocket. Both brothers celebrate finding their father, and so they do their “Go Team Venture!” routine. Pete is sitting on a chair drinking a margarita and holding up a cardboard sign that reads “John 3:16." The Order of the Triad walks into the command center with Brock and the miniature man. Dr. Orpheus comments on how the boys are celebrating their finding of their father, and that it’s great that they got a win out of it and that the Apocalypse happens. Pete tells them that he thinks Dr. Venture would have wanted do go down like this.

The missile starts to stall mid-flight and lands back inside the Venture compound, Dr. Venture still holding on. It slams into the ground. As the missile slams to the ground, the missile’s warhead detaches itself from the rest of the rocket. This causes the insides of the missile to come out. The missile’s (so called) fuel leak out and causes Dr. Venture to fall safely but hastily land on this supposed fuel. As Dr. Venture rolls around on the fuel, he smells the fuels and curses it.

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Dr. Venture is shown bolting down the entrances to the underground portion of the compound. As he does this, Dr. Venture explain to Pete White, who is there with him, that the people who were living underground were using the missile as a “bathroom," because they thought that if they put their waste inside of the missile, they thought that Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. (aka Father) would make it clean again. Pete asks Dr. Venture who these kids were. Dr. Venture tells Pete that these kids where “honorary gold members of the Rusty Venture fan club." He tells him that this explains their great survival skills and how they could have survived all this time living down under the Venture compound. He further explains that these kids were from an orphanage, and that one day in 1978 his father, Dr. Jonas Venture Sr., wanted to cheer them up by showing them his new nuclear holocaust fallout bomb shelter. Pete asks Dr. Venture if that the only thing these kids had form the outside world was an old scopatone card of his father. Dr. Venture tells him that that wasn’t all they had, and that they also received “VH1 Classic” channel. He tells Pete that he thinks a cable or wire might have crossed somewhere. Pete then asks Dr. Venture what happened to M.U.T.H.E.R.

Back inside the fallout vault, M.U.T.H.E.R. continues to ask for Dr. Venture. Brock tells M.U.T.H.E.R. not to worry and that and that he had found him. He tells her that he’s there with him. Brock also tells her that he wants to talk to her as well. The miniature man holding up Dr. Venture’s punch card video, insert it inside a video receiver. The same video as before starts to play. Mother tries to interact with the video recording of Dr. Jonas Venture Sr., she tells him that they have much to talk about. The recording of Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. begins to talk about personal hygiene. Brock and the miniature man start to walk away and leave the two alone.


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