Moving Forward Together

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Synopsis
It's the day of the big parade. The group's hard work and effort comes down to this, but is Derek prepared or will he let the air out of everyone's balloon?

Plot
It's the day of the parade and EJ and Derek are in the arcade, playing with a toy truck, Derek shows EJ some tricks and tells him that he's been playing all day, EJ has a go only for the truck to bump into the edge.

Meanwhile, Cali joins the others who are already blowing the balloon up, dressed like a queen which Franklin tells her not to do, he then tells her that they're all the same on the theme with no queen or king. While going through the Johnny gets helium into himself instead of the balloon and Maria gets nervous about the group winning the trophy, Franklin and Izzi tell her not to be which makes her better.

Later, Derek and EJ arrive on time and EJ tells everyone that he and Derek have been at the arcade all day, Franklin tells him that it's completly difficult to prepare yourself when you're easily distracted when something important is planned. Then Izzi asks if the balloon lift her off the ground and he answers the question by showing her that he installed a safety valve on the balloon and if a car would stop it would pull it open with it's bumper, Professor puts Derek in charge of the valve and tells EJ and Izzi to be at the front since they're small. However, Derek worries about his fuel which is nearly empty.

The balloon goes up and everyone attaches a line their bumper. At the parade, 3 cars and a delivery truck jump from one ramp to another, then it's the group's turn and when their picture is shown they hold their heads up high and ignore the laughter. But when Derek's fuel runs out the safety valve is pulled open and the balloon goes down in the middle of the parade.

Later, Derek apologises about what happened, Franklin then explains about not being mentally prepared because he played games all day, he then admits it was a bit embarrassed, and says as long they learn something they move forward and they did together.

Characters
(in order of appearance)
 * Derek
 * EJ
 * Johnny
 * Miles
 * Professor
 * Maria
 * Izzi
 * Franklin
 * Cali

Trivia

 * This episode continues after Picture Perfect and is also the first episode to continue after another episode.