(A teal planet with many Pac-faced-shaped regions spins slowly in space.)
Narrator: PacWorld was a peaceful planet...
(Explosions appear across the planet.)
Narrator: Until the Ghost Wars of the last century, when Commander Betrayus led a revolt against our nation.
(A major zoom-in shows police robots fighting against Betrayus' air force. The bots extend their arms towards the planes, taking one out.)
(The scene changes to show the prior events were part of a documentary being shown on a screen in Ms. Globular's class. The documentary quickly shuts off.)
Globular: It was with his ghostly forces from the NetherRealm that Betrayus dealt a devastating blow to the security of PacWorld.
(Ms Globular's students are too preoccupied with their devices to pay attention to the lesson. School bully Skeebo sends a message to his girlfriend Cyli using his watch, which causes her watch to beep loudly. Before Skeebo can send another message, Ms Globular stands beside him.)
Globular: Mr Skeebo? Try to focus a little more on the Ghost Wars and a little less on your love life.
Skeebo: Come on, Ms Globular. No-one believes in ghosts anymore.
Globular: Is that right? Show of hands. How many of you believe in ghosts?
(The students are reluctant to raise their hands.)
Globular: No-one?
(A solitary yellow hand is raised.)
Globular: Ah, one student believes.
(The camera pans down to show the hand belongs to our hero, Pac. He chomps down some purple berries from his dispenser.)
Students: Paccy?
(They all laugh, leaving Pac embarrassed.)
Skeebo: Huh, yeah but he's not a student. He's an overgrown lemon!
Ms. Globular: All right, settle down. Pac, on what do you base your beliefs?
Pac: I've read up on ghosts. The ones from the Nether Realm, they're dangerous and they hate us. They'll creep up on you and take you by surprise.
Skeebo: You mean like that?
Ms. Globular: Quiz tomorrow.
Skeebo: He's heading for the lunch room! Stop him!
Skeebo: You chubby trash can! You wiped out the entire cafeteria! I'm so gonna wail on you.
Spiral: Pick on someone your own size, Skeebs.
Skeebo: This isn't your fight, Spiral.
Spiral: If you have a problem with my roomie, you have a problem with me, now back off.
Skeebo: Alright, alright. But he ate all the food.
Spiral: Not all of it.
Pac Power bomb berries. They're good. Try 'em.
Skeebo: I suppose.
Spiral: See? All better now.
Skeebo: These are awful! Are you trying to poison me?
Pac: Gotta run!
[Pac runs into the maze]
Pac: Next Time, I'm bringing a GPS. And a midnight snack.
Skeebo: Once that lemon lays eyes on us, he'll be making lemonade.
Cylindria: Cut it out, Skeebie. Why scare him?
Skeebo: Hey, he's the one who believes in ghosts. We just want to see how much.
Cylindria: Where are you going?
Spiral: To warn Pacster.
Pac: Dead end? Sure, that's what they wanted you to think. This is properly the way out.
Pac: Ghosts. Some, big lots. Gotta go!
Spiral: Pacster, calm down. What happened?
Pac: I went into that section marked dead end.
Both: Yeah?
Pac: I'm not kidding. Ghosts! Dead GHOSTS!
Spiral: That's what we came to tell you. It's a gag. The ghosts aren't real. It's just Skeebo and his buddies in disguise.
Skeebo: Gotcha ya, Lemonade!
Cylindria: Knock it off, Skeebo. It's over.
Pac: You mean it was all just a prank?
Cylindria: Yep. Just a bad stupid joke.
Pac: So all the ghosts are fake?
Skeebo: That's right, butterball. Ever one knows there ain't no such thing as ghosts, except you.
Pac: Then maybe someone should tell them that there's no such thing as....
[Up in the sky, thousands of ghost fly in the air.]
Pac: GHOSTS!
[Pac runs into the building.]
Red Ghost: Let's grab that chubby guy. He won't be much trouble.
We're coming to you live from Maze High School where a paranormal attack of unprecedented proportions is underway.
Mr. President, we need to get you to a secure location.
Like most PacWorlders, I don't believe in ghosts. But I will like to keep an open mind.
Pac: What am I gonna do? I gotta do something. But what?
Red Ghost: Surrounding would be nice.
Red Ghost: Hey, this one's been reading up on ghosts.
Blue Ghost: Good. So he knows what's about to happen to him.
[Pac runs out of the room and ended up cornered in the storage room. He screams and something unexpected happened. The ghosts accidently got right into his mouth. On the rooftop, Cylindria and Skeebo watch the chaos until a giant cyclops ghost appeared and grabbed Cylindria.]
Cylindria: Skeebo, Help! My hero.
Spiral: Skeebo, it's got Cylindria! You gotta save her.
Skeebo: Are you out of your mind?!
Spiral: But she's your steady girlfriend.
Skeebo: We just broke up.
Pac: Please, in the name of pac-manity, leave her alone! We don't want any trouble. Just put her down and leave us in peace.
[The Cyclops ghost screamed, dropping Cylindria. Pac catches her. Upon seeing him, the ghosts scream, turning small and blue and fly away.]
Sphero: Did you see what I just saw?
Yes, sir. Those ghosts ran scared.
Spiral: Pac, are you okay?
Pac: Not exactly. Must have been something I ate.
Spiral: Pacster!
Sphero: You know what to do.
Right away, sir.
President Spheros: The ancient ones predicted this could happen one day, but I never believed it.
We interrupt this program to bring you an important message form the netherworld. Boo! Scared ya, didn't I?
Spheros: Betrayus.
Betrayus: Greetings, Pacworlders. It's your mortal enemy, Lord Betrayus, coming to you live so to speak, from the neither realm. Try our hot wings. Spicy. By this point, you've met my ghostly forces, so now that I have your undivided attention here are my demands. Surrender unconditionally, or we destroy Pac World. President Spheros, my dear brother, you have one hour to make my choice. Frankly, I don't care what you choose, For me, it's a win win. Ciao chumps.
We're back? We're live? We now go to the capital where President Spheros will adress the nation.
Spheros: My fellow Pac Worlders, today we have met the enemies and they are disgusting. They're also dead so that'll make them tough to kill, but let me assure you. As long as I am president of Pac World....
Betrayus: Blah blah blah. He does go on doesn't he. My brother is such a bore. Slow down! What are you doing back here? We're supposed to be dismantling Pac World.
We... ran into some trouble.
Betrayus: What kind of trouble?
A yellow one!
Betrayus: Oh please, that's crazy talk. The yellow ones were wiped out years ago. Now go back there and trash the place.
Red Ghost: No dies, Mr. B. You told us there weren't going to be any yellow ones.
Betrayus: What did I just stay, there aren't any! The yellow ones are extinct!
Red Ghost: Wrong wrong! We saw him, he was there. The chubby yellow boy.
Blue Ghost: The ghost grabber, the monster muncher.
Red Ghost :He ate us, dude. Gobble us up.
Orange Ghost: And spat out our eyeballs.
Pink Ghost: Have you ever had your eyeballs spat out? Have you?!
Betrayus: They've lost their mind, right?
[All the Ghosts agree.]
Betrayus: They're wiped out, at least I thought I did. No.. no.. NOOOOOO!!! Will you go back there and you find that yellow one!
But Betrayus...
Betrayus: No buts! Present company accepted. Crack down that yellow one, now! Go!
Spiral: Hey, Cylil. How's Skeebo doing?
Cylindria: Fine. They took him to the emergency room to change his diaper. Pac, thanks for saving me out there. I owe ya.
Pac: Nah, I owe you and everyone else.
Spiral: How did you figure?
Pac: I let the ghosts out. I set off some chain reaction in the maze that released them. This is all my fault.
Spiral: You can't blame yourself.
Cylindria: Yeah. Let's blame Skeebo instead.
Spiral: Good idea!
Pac: The fact is, there's a passageway in there connecting the Neither Realm to Pac World. We need to alert the authorities and fast.
Spiral: Fast enough for you?
Pac: That'll do.
Pac: I didn't do it on purpose. I stumbled into the door and it opened. It was a mistake.
Cylindria: That's right. A mistake. So why don't you take us home and forget the whole thing.
Pac: Guess that would be a no.
Spiral: You think?
Pac: What I think is that I'm in big trouble.
Cylindria: Don't worry Pac. We're behind you all the way, no matter what/
Cylindria: Hey, you got it all wrong! Pac's the one you want, not us!
Spiral: What happened to "We're behind you all the way?"
Cylindria: That was before we were the ones they threw in the poke!
Pac: Mr. President?
Spheros: Thanks for coming my boy.
Pac: It's an honor sir, but why am I here. And what have you done to my friends?
Spheros: No need to worry about your friends. Come over here. I want you to show you something. This my boy, is a Declaration of Independence written centuries ago.
Pac: Wow, the original?
Spheros: None other. It says here. one day a teen will roll onto the scene. This Yellow one, a courageous son, will hold the key to our destiny. And that yellow one is you.
Pac: Me?
Spheros: Nevertheless, you young Packer, the chosen one, the future of our civilization depends on you.
Pac: Then we are in deep back guano.
Cylindria: What's your favorite color? Where did you find those glasses? Give me gum!
Spiral: I got the jailhouse blues, Low down fail house blues.
Spheros: Tell me about this plant of yours.
Pac: It's from my parents. It's the only thing they left me when they... I didn't know them very well.
Spheres: I did.
Pac: You did? You knew my mom and dad? Wow!
President Spheros: You're parents left you a legacy far beyond this one tiny fruit plant. They were the last of their kind, except for you of course. For centuries, the yellow ones ruled our civilization, spreading peace and brotherhood. Then one day, Commander Betrayus let a violent revolt that devastated the planet. Ultimately, Betrayus and his forces were defeated. Along with his minions, he was stripped from his corporeal body and the spirits were sentenced in the neither realm for eternity. But now the ghosts have broken free.
Pac: Thanks to me.
Sphero: Get over it. Betrayus intends to conquer us. He thinks well over no resistance, but he's wrong, for you are the last of the yellow ones and you will save our civilization.
Pac: Sorry. Got hungry. So how do I do the hole saving civilization thing?
Sphero: It's all in the ghost fighting powers of the berries.
Pac: These? I never knew they gave me powers. I just knew they made me hungry.
Spheros: But they do give you powers. Extraordinary powers.
Pac: Maybe. But it's a pretty small tree. No way there's enough berries to defeat all the ghosts in the Neither World.
[Spheroes shows Pac a giant tree.]
Pac: I stand corrected.
Spheros: This is Pac World's Tree of Life, the very soul of our existence. If any misfortune were to befall it, our planet would perish, allowing Betrayus to turn us into a ghost world. We can't let that happen.
Pac: Mm. So many different berries.
Spheros: Well, it seems we have company. couldn't handle a couple of kids.
Pac: It's about time you guys got here. I can't see the whole planet on my own, you know.
Cylindria: See you guys. And don't forget to say hello to the wife and be sure to tell her about that skin cream I mentioned. It rules.
Spiral: So what did we miss?
Cylindria: What's with the mondo tree?
Pac: It's only the key to our very survival. See those berries? They've got serious juice.
Spheros: I believe you mean powers.
Pac: Whatever.
Spheros: As I was saying, we're not sure what powers come with each berry, but we do know they all give you the ability to defeat ghosts.
Pac: How?
Spheros: You must eat them.
Pac: Eat the berries? I can do that!
Spheros: Yes. Then you eat the ghosts.
Pac: Oh no! No way! Been there done that! No thank you.
Spheros: But to defeat them, you must eat them. You have to eat the ghosts.
Mr. President, ghost swarm heading this way!
Spheros: There's more I need to tell you about your parents! You can do it, son! We're all counting on you!
Pac: Cylil, Spiral, go with the President. I'll protect the tree.
Cylindria: Right.
Spiral: Gotcha ya.
Pac: Uh oh. I'm gonna see a gastroenterologist after this.
Pac: Talk about heartburn.
President Spheros: This is not looking good.
Spiral: You can say that again!
Pac: Hey, I know you guys!
[Pac started to chase after the ghosts into Sphero's office and finds them under the desk.]
Blinky: No please! Don't eat us and spit out our eyeballs! Not again!
Clyde: Besides, we taste awful.
Pac: That's true.
Inky: Yeah, especially Pinky.
Pinky: Hey, do not!
Inky: Do too!
Pinky: Do not!
Pac: Enough! Let's get this over with.
Blinky: Can't we work something out?
Pac: What do you mean?
Blinky: You know, make a deal, between us.
Inky: You know, you scratch our back and we scratch yours.
Pac: Well, all right. But I don't want anymore trouble at any of you. Got it.
Pinky: By the way, I happened to know that I taste delicious.
Pac: Looks like we beat them back this time!
Guard: Not so much.
Guard: The Tree of Life. It's.... It's gone!
[Pac gasps. They head over and saw that the ghosts had stolen the Tree of Life.]
Pac: It's over. We've lost.
Betrayus: The Tree is mine. and that mean's it's lights out for Pac World! No ifs, ands and buts, the present company, exactly. Hey, but a cherry in my drink?! Now where was I? Oh yeah.