CC Camp Champ
[True Heart hears the campers finishing a race with the Camp Champ being the winner.]
First back. I win! Ha! John, Dawn and Christy are last again. (laughs with other campers)
Christy
So what else is new?
CC Camp Champ
Ha, ha, ha! You three are last at everything.
Christy
And you're always first at everything. So what does that make you?
CC Camp Champ
Camp Champ, that's what. I can run faster, swim better and hike longer than the three of you put together! But big deal—so can every other kid here. (Christy, Dawn and John groan) Let me give you some advice: if you can't keep up, leave. (to his three opponents) Uh...after you do the trash duty. Ha, ha ha!
(others laugh with him as he leaves Christy and company)
Christy
[A few seconds later]
I wish that just once, I could be Camp Champ! I hate being last and I hate being here!
Dawn
So do we, Christy. We can't swim. We can't paddle a boat... He's right. We'll always be last.
J John
And we'll always be doing trash duty.
Dawn
And all the camp laundry.
Christy
Well, not me. Not anymore! (walking away from her fellow campers) I'm going to do something about it!
True Heart Bear (disguised as a hawk from the totem) That's the way, Christy.
Dawn
-going to do?
Christy
I'm going to...run away!
True Heart Bear
Run away?! No!
Great Wishing Star
[Back on Earth, Christy is sitting on a log lost in the woods]
Meanwhile, Christy was lost in the woods and was about to need more help than anyone could've guessed.
Christy
Where are those guys? Maybe they ran away with me. Oh, why can't I be good at anything except shooting marbles [flings a marble that hits a tree, rock, then leaf and lands in Christy's hand] Marble Champ. [catches the leaf] So what? [sighs] If only I could run, or swim, or do something to be the Camp Champ. [Dark Heart looks as a weasel then jumps in a bush causing Christy to gasp] John? Dawn?
DH Dark Heart
[appears as a human boy]
Hey. What do you know? The Camp Champ.
Christy
Me?
DH Dark Heart
Yeah, sure. You are the Camp Champ, ain't you?
Christy
No...I'm not.
DH Dark Heart
Well, you sure could've fooled me.
Christy
Who are you?
DH Dark Heart
Well, I'm from the camp on the other side of the river. Say! You wouldn't want to be the Camp Champ, would ya? I could fix it for you. What do you say?
Christy
Well, I don't know.
DH Dark Heart
There's only one catch, though.
Christy
I knew it was too good to be true.
DH Dark Heart
Not so fast. It's no big deal. Sometime I'll drop by and ask you to return a favour. And you just...do it. No questions asked. What do you say?
Christy
Ah, you can't make me Camp Champ.
Christy
Sure! Okay! You got a deal. Now go ahead and make me Camp Champ.
DH Dark Heart
A favour now...for a favour later. (snaps fingers magically) Done! Do a cartwheel.
Christy
A cartwheel? I can't do a cart—
DH Dark Heart
Just do it!
Christy
[Christy gasps at the demand, but succeeds in doing the cartwheel anyway.]
I did it! I did it! You were telling the truth!
DH Dark Heart
Cartwheels are nothing. Now you can race, swim, paddle...
Christy
I am going to be the Camp Champ!
DH Dark Heart
Just remember: When I come back, you owe me a favour. And I will be back.
DH Dark Heart
[After Christy rescues him from drowning]
You...you saved me. Why?
Christy
Good or bad, you're still a person...or whatever you are.
DH Dark Heart
Huh? If you knew what was good for you, you would've left me.
Christy
That's what you would've done. ..Maybe that's the only difference between us.
[With a magic snap of his fingers, Dark Heart takes Christy to the other side of the lake.]
Dawn
[Christy is throwing stones at the lake when her friends Dawn and John come by.]
Christy?
Christy
(sighs)
John? Dawn? Oh, what are you doing here? Run away before he gets you too!
Dawn
No, Christy. We're staying!
Dawn
We can make things go back to just the way they were before Dark Heart came here.
[Christy goes away from them, over to the lake's edge.] Christy (turning to Dawn and John): Since I've been Camp Champ, I've never made you do trash duty, or push you in the mud. Well, no one laughs at you anymore when you trip or fall on your face...I won't let 'em! Oh, I can't go back to being a nobody...not now!
Dawn
You were never a nobody, Christy.
J John
You were always good at being our friend.
Dawn
And a friend is the most special person in the world.
Christy
(grunts and gets away from them again)
I made a bargain with him. I had to keep my part of it. Oh, it's too late! The damage has been done!
Dawn
All right. You've paid him back. Now you have to stop him from hurting all the others.
J John
It's time you start thinking of them...of your friends. (giving Christy her marble) You were always the marble champ, Christy, and that you did all by yourself.
Christy
[Christy looks at the marble, and then at her friends.]
Dawn! John! Wait for me!
[She joins the other two campers in order to stop Dark Heart.]
Christy
[Dark Heart the human has imprisoned the Bears and Cousins in his secret chandelier, just as the three campers arrive to stop him.]
What did you do to them?
DH Dark Heart
Well, well, if it isn't the Camp...Champ!
Christy
Where are they, Dark Heart?
DH Dark Heart
The Bears? Their Cousins? Why, I've created my most prized treasure.
[After the villain snaps his fingers, the three campers scream as the chandelier comes towards them.] Dark Heart (laughing): Hah! A chandelier of frozen feelings. Take a look—all of your friends frozen in my crystal...
Christy
NO!
DH Dark Heart
...prison. All that feeling and love's right where it should be—trapped forever!
Christy
You can't do this. I won't let you!
DH Dark Heart
But you made it all possible. Now, like this camp, everything I touch will be drained of goodness...and kindness!
True Heart Bear
You have to deal with us first, Dark Heart!
Noble Heart Horse
The time has come to put an end...to your evil trickery.
DH Dark Heart
Ah. Noble Heart and True Heart. True and Noble to the very end. I'm glad you came, but you see, you're already too late. Now, you shall join the others and leave me to do as I will!
[Dark Heart transforms into the red cloud and laughs] Christy (running to True Heart and Noble Heart): No! Stop.
Noble Heart Horse
Christy! Move out of the way!
DH Dark Heart
Christy, do as he says.
Christy
No. I won't let you do this! Free the others!
DH Dark Heart
We have concluded our bargain. I'm allowing you to leave. Now go!
Christy
I know you don't want to do this!
DH Dark Heart
Leave us, or I'll take back all that I have given you. (seeing Christy refuse to take heed) So be it! (thunder cracks) You are back to the way you were: a loser!
Christy
Okay...so what? I helped you do this. And I'm gonna help stop you!
DH Dark Heart
You saved my life, Christy! Now run and save yourself! Go.......!
DH Dark Heart
[Escaping from the secret cave-turned-outhouse, the Care Bear Family and the campers are finding a new friend in Dark Heart.]
Thank you.
True Heart Bear
Thank you for caring.
DH Dark Heart
But—but...I did care, didn't I? I never really understood why you pulled me out of the river, but I think I do now.
[He hugs Christy, and the Bears and Cousins cheer.] Christy (gasps): Your eyes! (hands over a mirror to Dark Heart) Look!
DH Dark Heart
I'm a boy! A real boy!
True Heart Bear
Your evil left you when you realized how much you really cared.
Dark Heart (dancing with Christy): Whoopee! I'm a boy—I can jump! I can run! I can turn cartwheels!...Whoa!
Christy
[As Dark Heart laughs, the others join him.]
Don't worry. We can learn together.
Grumpy Bear (to the others): Hey, come on!
[The campers, the new Dark Heart, and the other Bears and Cousins come along with him to bathe in the lake.]
B The Boy
[The following evening, the campers and the former Dark Heart (now "The Boy") say good-bye to the Care Bear Family.]
This camp is the greatest place to be. I'm gonna see what I can do about staying here, and helping to make sure that everyone's a Camp Champ.
Christy
Just remember: everybody's already a Champ, because no matter who they are, they're friends.
[Other campers around a campfire laugh happily in the distance. The Boy and his new camper friends walk along and join them.]