[together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ ♪ That'’s his name ♪ ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ ♪ He'’ll rocket to fame ♪ ♪ When he arrived, he created a buzz ♪ ♪ '’Cause there was no house ♪ ♪ And then there was, he said ♪ - ♪ People of Earth!

You ain'’t seen nothing yet!

♪ ♪ I'’m from Bortron 7, and my name is Jet!

♪ - ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ ♪ That'’s his name ♪ ♪ He looks like us ♪ ♪ But he isn'’t the same ♪ - ♪ I'’m a space tripper and a galaxy crosser ♪ ♪ My parents brought me here in a flying saucer ♪ - ♪ And just to prove it was a fact ♪ ♪ He flew them out to space and back ♪ ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ [spaceship whirring] - ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ [together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!

- ♪ He showed up, and now it'’s a blast ♪ ♪ Looks like the future really got here fast ♪ - ♪ Nice to meet you, human race ♪ ♪ Tell me all about the place ♪ - Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

all: Ready!

Jet!

Go!

- See?

I planted sunflower seeds a week ago, and look at them now!

all: Whoa!

- Pretty cool, Sydney.

- Pretty cool?

Amazingly cool!

I can'’t believe how things grow here on Earth.

I'’ve got to try it too.

- Sure, that'’d be great, Jet.

- Yes!

I'’ve got to make-- I'’m not sure if there'’s a word for it-- an organized space in the dirt where you plant things in rows and they grow... - You mean a garden?

- Ha!

A garden!

What a great Earth word!

[laughs] I'’m going to make a garden, and I'’ve got just the thing.

Come on!

[rustling and clattering] [grunts Where are they?

Nope.

Nope.

A three-day-old lunch bag?

[sniffs] Ugh!

Nope.

[rustling and clattering] Ooh, some pieces of a comet!

Hmm, they must have melted.

[liquid gurgling] Ooh!

Aha!

Found them!

- Found what?

- Bortronian seeds!

I brought these from home, way across the galaxy.

all: Bortronian seeds.

- And you'’re gonna plant them?

In a garden?

- Exactly!

I'’ve grown seeds under my Bortronian sun simulator before, but I want to try to grow them outside, under your amazing yellow Sun!

Can'’t wait to see what happens!

- Do you think a Bortronian seed can even grow in Earth soil?

- I don'’t know, Sydney, and I'’m so excited to find out!

[playful music] Since I don'’t know what'’ll happen, I thought I'’d start my garden small and test it with one seed.

- Good idea!

We should be scientific.

It'’s an experimental garden.

- "Experimental," ooh, good word!

♪ ♪ Okay, I planted the seed.

Sun...check!

I need to bring it some water.

I think there'’s an Earth bucket in the garage.

♪ ♪ - [trills] - I'’ll stay here with Sunspot and guard the seed [water rushing] - [humming] [all gasp] - Look what happened while you guys were gone!

- I can'’t believe it!

This is great!

I'’ve never seen a plant grow this fast anywhere on Bortron 7.

- I don'’t think this happens anywhere on Earth either.

- Yeah, I wonder if you should even water a plant that'’s already grown 2 feet in a minute.

I mean, do you really want to encourage it?

- Well, it makes sense.

It'’s a plant, so it needs water.

- Sean has a good point, Jet.

A plant that grows this fast is really strange.

Maybe you should ask your parents what the deal is.

- Uh, they'’re out running errands in town.

Dad really loves to shop for Earth groceries.

We can ask Face 9000, though.

He'’s in the garage.

Come on!

[mysterious music] - If you watch really close, you can actually see it getting bigger.

- [sniffing] [plant creaking] [squeals] [adventurous musical flourish] - Hiya, Face!

I was wondering why my Bortronian seed just grew into a 2-foot-tall plant in an Earth minute.

- Hmm.

That is unusual.

Is the seed growing under your usual Bortronian sunlight?

- Nope, I planted it outside.

- Oh, outside!

So it must be the light of Earth'’s Sun that'’s making it grow so fast.

- I don'’t get it.

- Yeah, the Sun doesn'’t have that effect on the ordinary Earth plants.

- I believe the problem is that this plant is from Bortron 7 and normally grows under the dim, red light of our red dwarf star Bortron.

Your star that you call the Sun is a yellow dwarf, which gives off a lot more bright, yellow-green light.

Your green Earth plants love it.

[shimmering tone] Therefore, Jet, this stronger yellow-green sunlight seems to be making your plant grow bigger and faster than it ever would on Bortron 7.

- So exactly how much bigger is your plant going to get?

- Have you checked on it lately?

[foreboding music] [all gasp] ♪ ♪ all: Wow!

- That yellow-green light of your Sun really makes plants grow!

- Yeah, but maybe this is too much of a good thing, Jet.

- Yeah, it'’s so tall.

This isn'’t right.

- Look.

It seems to have some sort of head.

Maybe it can think.

We should try and talk to it.

- Come on.

Plants don'’t think.

We should get big clippers and snip it.

- [gasps] Snip it?

No!

- We should talk to it!

- No, we should snip it!

[plant shrieks] [creaking and scraping] [shattering] [dramatic music] - [gasps] Sean!

[plant boinging] [screech] - Maybe the plant heard that you were going to snip it.

- How would I know it understands English?

- Hey!

Giant plant!

Come back!

You'’re supposed to be my experimental Earth garden!

- We better go catch it!

- Okay, bye!

Good luck catching the million-foot-high plant!

- Following a giant plant'’s footprints with my Earth friends-- this is so fun!

- Jet, this is serious.

We can'’t let anyone in Boxwood Terrace see a giant, runaway Bortronian plant!

- Why not?

- Because you'’d have way too much explaining to do, and then your secret alien identity will be out!

- Ah, right, I keep forgetting that.

[upbeat music] [electronic alarm and chime] Oh, hey, that'’s Dad.

Hey, Daddy-o!

What'’s shaking?

- Jet, you haven'’t seen a giant Bortronian houseplant running through the neighborhood, have you?

- No, I haven'’t.

Have you?

Ooh!

I mean, where is it?

- We just saw it run past the supermarket as we were coming out!

- Oh, I almost dropped my Swiss chard!

- Okay, I can explain.

I tried to use Bortronian seeds to plant a "garden."

- Ooh-ooh, you mean an organized space in the dirt where you plant things in rows and they grow?

- Exactly.

- Garden.

[laughs] What a hilarious Earth word!

[all laughing] - Um, you guys, we have to catch that plant before everybody in Boxwood Terrace sees it!

- Sydney'’s right, Jet.

As visiting Bortronian travel writers, we are guests on the planet and are not supposed to interfere with the Earth environment.

- And letting a Bortronian plant run loose is definitely interfering!

- Okay, Mom and Dad, I promise that Sydney and Sean and I will catch it and bring it home.

[plant boinging] [screaming and horns honking] - This way!

Come on!

♪ ♪ [engine revving and tires squealing] [plant boinging] all: There it is!

- Easy, you guys.

Don'’t scare it.

- Hey, giant plant!

Come to papa!

[whimsical music] ♪ ♪ [screeching] [plant boinging] [screeching] ♪ ♪ [all grunt] - Ow!

[footsteps tapping] ♪ ♪ - Okay, that didn'’t go so hot.

- Sure it did!

We'’ve had a really fun day so far!

We grew a giant plant, got a lot of running in-- - Jet, focus!

We'’ve got to catch that plant, remember?

- Oh!

Yeah, right, right.

- Let'’s be scientific about this.

Start by asking a question.

Why did the plant run away?

- Because...it had grown too big for its pot?

- Yes!

So maybe it'’s looking for some deep enough soil to grow in!

- Exactly!

Good scientific thinking, Sydney!

Now, where would the deepest soil be?

- Wherever the biggest things grow?

- Yeah!

Like big trees!

To the woods!

There'’s not a moment to lose!

I'’ve always wanted to say that.

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ - Let'’s do it!

[all panting] - [gasps] There it is!

- We'’re gaining on it!

We'’re gonna catch it!

- Ha!

Excelsior!

[plant boinging] - Good.

We'’ve got it cornered now!

- [gasps and shrieks] Wait!

Sunspot!

- [squeaks and trills] - It'’s got Sunspot!

♪ ♪ - If we could just get the plant back inside my garage, I can put it under my Grow Light, set it to shrink... [plant shrieking and chittering] And shrink it down to normal size again!

- [trilling] [upbeat music] [trills] [creaking] [plant neighing] - [gasps] - Wow!

♪ ♪ I guess that driving runaway plants is another one of Sunspot'’s many skills!

[ding] [plant boinging] - Oh, good.

Here they come.

- Oh, we'’re ready, Jet!

Look!

We bought the biggest tools used in an Earth garden we can find.

- Mom!

Dad!

Don'’t frighten the plant!

Just let Sunspot drive it into the garage!

- Really?

Why?

- I'’ll explain later.

Meanwhile, we have a giant plant to shrink!

[lamp whirring] There.

I set it to shrink.

Here you go, Sunspot.

Hold it over the plant.

Do your stuff, Bortronian sunlight!

- Smart thinking, Jet.

- Thanks.

I just hope it works.

- Is it-- is it shrinking?

- I think it is!

- Now that'’s a proper-sized Bortronian plant.

- How you doing, buddy?

Are you okay being a houseplant?

[all sighing] Well done, Sunspot!

- [chitters] [purring] - Wow!

What a relief!

- Yeah, we got the plant back safely, and no one found out Jet'’s secret alien identity!

- See?

I told you.

It'’s all under control, and nothing bad happened!

- Guess what!

I just planted the rest of Jet'’s seeds in my brand-new garden!

[footsteps thudding] [all screaming] - ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪ [together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!

[upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

[together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!