[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.
And we'll always be doing trash duty.
Dawn And all the camp laundry.
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?
Dawn [Trying to run away from camp along with Christy, Dawn and John get lost in the nearby woods.]
I'm sure this is the way, John.
It will probably lead you right back here.
Well, it seems John and Dawn are having problems of their own.
[Dawn heads down the path she pointed to only to come back to John through another path.]
...See what I mean? We're lost! We can't even run away right.
Dawn (sighs)
Yeah, we're the first to get lost and the last at everything else.
This is the path back to camp...if you wanna take it.
Dawn Who are you?
My name is True Heart. I'm a friend. I've come to help you find your way back to camp.
DA Dawn and John
Forget it!
We're not coming back to camp.
Running away from a problem never solved it. You two are just too worried about the things you can't do. Maybe you should think about all the things you can do.
Dawn We can't do anything.
That's not true. For starters, everyone can share their feelings.
Dawn Huh! Nobody wants to share anything with us.
[After Dawn and John arrive in the Kingdom of Caring, before babysitting the orphan Cubs]
John (holding Swift Heart): What's that?
It's our Caring Meter. It lets us know when something is affecting the level of caring on Earth.
This time, it might be...Dark Heart.
Dawn Dark Heart? Who's Dark Heart?
Let's hope you never have to find out!
If it is Dark Heart, it'll take both of us! (kindly) Could you watch over the little Cubs while we're gone?
Dawn (after she and John look at the Cubs): Uh...I think so.
Sure.
Noble Heart Horse (as he and True Heart leave): We know you can do it. Good luck.
[No sooner does he close the door than Swift Heart and the other Cubs start crying.]
Dawn [Christy is throwing stones at the lake when her friends Dawn and John come by.]
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.
You were always good at being our friend.
Dawn And a friend is the most special person in the world.
(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.
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 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.]
[Dark Heart transforms into his human self for the last time, after having frozen Christy with his lightning (as the red cloud).]
Help me, Care Bears.
[Noble Heart steps over to Christy and gets stung after touching her. Some of the Bears nearby gasp.]
You must bring this child back from where I've sent her!
Noble Heart and True Heart (tearfully): We...we can't.
It would take more love and...caring than even we have...all put together.
No! You've...got to do something. What good is all your love...your caring...if it cannot...save this child? If you can't help...who...can?
Dawn We care! We all really care! There have to be other people who care as much as we do—people somewhere...anywhere.
If all of us...and everyone, everywhere, all cared together, it just might be enough to save Christy.
Everyone hold hands, and together, open your hearts, and your ears, and listen real hard for the voice of those who care!
[Everyone starts chanting "We care!] [to the audience]
If you have ever cared, do it now. Help us—tell us you care. Tell your friend next to you that...you care. Tell them how much you care. Tell them again. Say it. Shout it! Help us... (joins in the chanting) We care.
