Captain Pickles: The Adventure Begins! (SuperMalechi's Version)

Captain Pickles: The Adventure Begins! is a Custom traditional animated Barney Direct-to-Video Movie that was released in July 6, 1997. This acts like a pilot to "Captain Pickles the TV Series" that aired two months later. When the movie is later edited to three episodes in the "Captain Pickles the TV Series", the "School Classroom" opening sequence is edited out, as well as the ending sequence with the "I Love You" song.

Plot
In the school classroom, Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Riff, Scooter McNutty, Miss Etta Kette, Carlos, Ashley, Alissa, Kim, Jason and Michael watch a VHS copy of the film Captain Pickles: The Adventure Begins.

BJ as Captain Pickles and his partner Spaceman Warp are on a mission to find three missing Little Green Men (L.G.M.), a noosphere-dwelling race who are the scientists of Pickle Command's Universe Protection Unit. They discover the lost L.G.M. in a hidden outpost belonging to King Bowser Koopa as Evil Employer Bowser (Harvey Alikin), directly underneath an enormous monster that has "crater vipers" for fingers. Bowser prepares to torture the L.G.M. when Captain Pickles and Yoshi infiltrate the base and confront Bowser, and a battle breaks out with Bowser's henchmen while Bowser escapes. Bowser starts the self-destruct sequence, leaving Captain Pickles and Warp with 60 seconds to escape before the hideout explodes. During the battle, Bowser is pinned under the wreckage and forces Captain Pickles to flee the base as it explodes. Ashamed at this, Captain Pickles refuses to take a replacement partner. Captain Pickles is given a Pickle Command recruit, actually Princess Baby Bop, who Commander Herbert (Adam Carolla) trains, as his new partner. With the power to make herself intangible, Baby Bop is nearly invulnerable, but Captain Pickles reiterates his refusal to expose any more partners to danger, despite Herbett's forceful assertion that Captain Pickles is not to work alone. Captain Pickles later rescues a shy janitor named Booster (Stephen Furst) from being fired.

In Bowser's fortress, Bowser's workers create a new second-in-command called Agent Z, who is flesh and blood but has a robotic arm that can transform into a variety of weapons. Bowser learns of a huge orb on the L.G.M. homeworld called the Uni-Mind, which is responsible for the telepathic link between the creatures. Zurg sends assault forces to capture it.

Meanwhile, the L.G.M. have built a robot soldier called XR (Larry Miller and Neil Flynn) who can be rebuilt after almost any battle damage. XR's mind is a blank slate; therefore he can learn from Captain Pickles, to whom he is offered as a partner. The L.G.M. discover their planet has been invaded by Zurg to get the Uni-Mind. When Captain Pickles and XR set off to defend the L.G.M. planet from invasion, XR mimics Captain Pickles' actions. Captain Pickles and XR are confronted by Agent Z, whom they pursue to a rooftop. Agent Z destroys XR and the Uni-Mind is stolen by Bowser. Unable to think clearly, the L.G.M. rebuild XR, but the new version has a mind of his own.

Commander Herbert decides to launch a full-scale assault on Planet Z while the rebuilt XR suggests a timeshare on the universe with Zurg. The L.G.M. leave XR with Booster. Baby Bop says that a solo ranger could go to stop Bowser with the prototype Alpha-One. Herbert dismisses the plan and decides to launch the full-scale assault at World Z.

Bowser, when his technicians fail to do so, suborns the Uni-Mind so that he can use it to control the minds of others. Bowser's people thereafter begin making a "Mega-Ray" that will use the corrupted Uni-Mind to bend entire populations of people to Bowser's will.

Baby Bop and Captain Pickles each attempt to steal the Alpha-One prototype spacecraft; Baby Bop, using her powers of psychokinesis, wins the face-off and leaves with the ship. Meanwhile, XR gives Booster a "VIP tour" at Captain Pickles' craft and goes inside it. Captain Pickles pursues her in his own craft, not realizing that Booster and XR are inside it, having entered it to play make-believe. Eventually, Captain Pickles catches Baby Bop and stores Alpha-One in his spaceship's cargo bay. At this time Booster and XR are also discovered.

Bowser's Mega-Ray subverts several planets in quick succession such as Rizone and Batheous. He then turns it on Pickle Command, enjoying the irony of watching his greatest enemies become his mouthpieces. Captain Pickles, not too happy about this, is about to fire Booster, but the red alert rings. Captain Pickles, Baby Bop, Booster, and XR see the Mega-Ray's beam strike Star Command, and enter it to discover its effects. This scene sequence features a reprise of Captain Pickles' famous line "Captain Pickles to Pickle Command: Come in, Pickle Command!", which he uses to contact their communications receiving center.

When they discover that all of the heroes have been suborned by Bowser, they flee in Captain Pickles' Pickle Cruiser. Bowser sends his victims to destroy them, using Pickle Command's entire arsenal. When one of his men plant a bomb on the Star Cruiser, they use Alpha-One to escape, just as Captain Pickles' craft explodes and Bowser leaves laughing.

Booster accidentally sits on the water landing button. The "crystallic fusion" stopped, the airbags went off, and the siren went off. In a slightly humorous manner, they land on Bowser's home planet, narrowly escaping the defensive "seeker drones". They crash-land the Alpha-One, which is mistaken by Brain Pod #13 for a weather balloon after one of the Hornets notices it crashing. There, Captain Pickles insists on finishing the mission, alone. When they start to argue over who gets a nose-ring, Captain Pickles orders them to leave him. Captain Pickles fights Agent Z and arrests him, only to reveal he is Warp Darkmatter. Taking advantage of Buzz's momentary confusion at this, Warp renders him unconscious and delivers him to Bowser.

Yoshi tells Captain Pickles that he was working for Bowser for years as a Double Agent. When Bowser mocks Captain Pickles by playing the dramatic video of Captain Pickles' funeral oration for Yoshi, Captain Pickles responds by dictating his "final log entry". Bowser and Warp watch in amusement at Captain Pickles' apparently futile adherence to official procedure, but Baby Bop, Booster and XR hear Captain Pickles' surrender and his final entry (which includes a coded plea for help) and return to World Z to help him.

Bowser is not going to destroy Captain Pickles, but use the mind-control ray to turn Captain Pickles into a copy of himself. XR and Booster arrive just in time to rescue him as the Mega-Ray fires. Booster and Baby Bop destroy Agent Z's mechanical arm after Booster lands on Warp. Buzz and Zurg face each other; Bowser thinks he has won, but Captain Pickles and his three friends surround Zurg and pronounce him under arrest; but Bowser escapes through a distraction when the brain pods shoot the Mega-Ray at "the Workd of Heroes and Orphans".

Bowser flees, triumphantly declaring that if Captain Pickles goes to any world, he can hear his voice mocking Captain Pickles. Booster and XR, under orders from Captain Pickles, capture Warp and leap from Bowser's now-exploding tower. Baby Bop uses her "ghosting" power to take Captain Pickles to the core of the Uni-Mind. In moments the Uni-Mind is restored to normal, freeing the suborned peoples and leaving Bowser himself momentarily helpless. The unity of the L.G.M. is restored and Warp is arrested.

Captain Pickles, having at last admitted that he cannot work alone, creating a new team called "Team Pickles" with XR, Baby Bop and Booster (all newly decorated with Pickles Command's highest commendation). They fly to the sky and shout "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!". The screen then pans back to the school classroom. And Barney tells his friends that the movie is fun. And they sing the "I Love You" song. And Barney and his friends say "goodbye" to the viewer(s). And the screen cuts to black and the end credits start.

At the school classroom

 * Barney
 * Baby Bop
 * BJ
 * Riff
 * Carlos
 * Michael
 * Jason
 * Ashley
 * Alissa
 * Kim
 * Scooter McNutty
 * Miss Etta Kette

In the film

 * BJ as Captain Pickles
 * Princess Baby Bop
 * Spaceman Warp
 * XL
 * Booster
 * King Bowser Koopa
 * Little Green Men