One: The Beginning of The End

One: The Beginning of The End is a 2026 American live-action/2D animated/Hand-drawn animated fantasy adventure drama film directed by Jared Bush and the sequel to One: Faith of my Friends (2024). After the events of the first film, Dark, Jasper, and Misty join on Liam's journey to bring back Light, find The Plane and stop Airy from continuing the competition for good.

Two epilogue series are both released in June 14th 2028.

Film Summary
Set in 1991, two years after the first event, Light’s siblings, Dark, Jasper and Misty, who worry about Light’s disappearance, find out the fateful tragedy of the white feline and have no choice but to team up with Liam, one of Light’s friends, to bring her back and put an end to Airy’s competition show once and for all. But as the journey progresses, a bunch of shocking twists and turns puts the cat siblings on friendship tests with their object companion as they travel through the radio and into topsy turvy universes. Can they figure out what’s going on? Only time will tell.

Plot
After the events of the first film, Backpack and Dark, another farm cat, attempt to hitchhike to get to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where Soda Bottle lives. They’re eventually successful on their (presumably) first one and makes it to a hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the hotel, he inspects the sticky notes once more.

One shows a drawing of what appears to be a smokestack next to a river. Another is a laptop on a table with the word "Silva" next to it. The last one he ponders on is just the number 5.

A montage then plays, where Backpack and Dark continue to hitchhike from vehicle to vehicle, shelter to shelter, state to state, until they finally reaches Bridgeport. They’re dropped off at an apartment complex and enters the building. He goes up an elevator, and finds apartment number 130.

Backpack knocks on the door and stands back, nervous about how Soda Bottle is going to react. A tired and annoyed looking Soda Bottle opens the door, but he's shocked when he quickly realizes who he's looking at, and slams the door shut.

Backpack knocks again, calling for him and stating his own name, while Soda Bottle stands behind his door, shivering.

Backpack talks about the sticky notes and what's on them, and asks if Soda Bottle could help identify the meaning of them. But Soda Bottle remains silent, still leaning back against the door. Backpack explains his motives, wanting to stop Airy's game show and have Soda Bottle’s help.

He doesn't have anywhere else to go since he lost his job and has been gone for so long that he's presumed dead. He at least wants to try to figure out what the notes could mean, even if they end up leading to nothing. However, Soda Bottle still remains silent, and Backpack walks away.

Backpack quickly U-turns back and gets into a frustrated monologue. He goes on about how he and Airy still exist, how long it took for him to get here, how long he was on The Plane, how he wants revenge on Airy, how Airy treated them, how weird the world and the people were on The Plane, how Airy let Light drown, and how Soda Bottle is reacting right now when he was previously there to comfort him.

As his rant goes on, he gets more and more frustrated, his voice getting louder and louder, going on and on until he realizes he's disturbing someone who's passing by. Backpack and Dark walk away with haste and goes down the elevator. As dark is shocked about Light’s death and asks Backpack if he killed her, he starts to cry and sob as it travels down.

10 minutes later, Soda Bottle finally opens the door, peering out to look around. He turns to his left, seeing Backpack and Dark walking towards him, and immediately closes the door once again. Backpack says he'll give him some time to think about it, but knows he's going to have to open the door at some point.

10 hours pass, Backpack and Dark are asleep and leaning against the apartment door. Soda Bottle finally speaks, asking if "she" is still there, referring to Scenty. Backpack awakes and answers yes. He tries to explain what she did in The Plane, but is interrupted when Soda Bottle finally opens the door. The sudden realization causes Backpack to flop back into the doorway.

After Misty’s owner leaves the house, Misty arrives at the apartment and sees Soda Bottle turning on the stove, cracking and pouring two eggs into the pan, and leaving, telling Backpack to stay put and to not let the eggs burn while he gets the mail. Backpack hesitantly agrees and sits on the bed examining the apartment room until Soda Bottle comes back and plops the mail onto the table. He picks it back up and looks through the small stack of envelopes.

Backpack apologizes for standing in front of his door all night, and Soda Bottle grimaces, replying that that was not the smoothest way he could have gone about it, and adding that he’d only let Backpack in because he had work in 10 minutes and couldn’t be trapped in his room the whole time.

He goes over to check the eggs, which are burnt, and after a reunion between Dark, Jasper and Misty, Misty and Jasper introduces themselves and Misty looks at Backpack, who gives her an nervous grin.

He mutters that he really is a mess, and asks Backpack to remind him why he and Dark are here. In reply Backpack unzips himself just enough to take out the blue sticky notes out and hands them to Soda Bottle. He flips through them in a similar manner as he did the envelopes, and asks Backpack if he’s from San Francisco, to which he says yes.

Then he asks with a faint hint of disbelief if he’d really flew all the way here just for the notes, and Backpack corrects him saying that he didn’t have enough money for a plane, and so he’d hitchhiked instead, and it had taken about a week. Soda Bottle contemplates the notes and says that he recognizes the last name Silva written on one, and flips the sticky note and scribbles their address down on the back, adding that he could go ask him about the laptop drawn on the paper.

Backpack asks if he’s not coming, and Soda Bottle gives him a look as though the answer was extremely obvious. He had work at 7, and the restaurant wasn’t going to manage itself. He is in the middle of instructing Backpack and the three cats about the keys when his phone vibrates and Soda Bottle answers the call.

He seems to be distraught at first, then settles with the cats to tired resignation. Misty asks him about it, and a frustrated Soda Bottle says that the health inspector shut the restaurant down for the week because someone turned off the freezer. Backpack then asks if he still needs to go to work, and Soda Bottle looks at him.

There’s a cut, and the five are seen sitting in the front of Soda Bottle’s car, stuck in a traffic jam. Soda Bottle looks particularly unhappy and the three cats get bored. Backpack begins to address him again, and Soda Bottle angrily interrupts, telling Backpack to not address him as Soda Bottle anymore because "you know I have a name, right?" Backpack then says that he never was told his name. After a pause, Soda Bottle says his name, which is Bryce. Backpack responds with his name, Liam.

They arrive at their destination, a nondescript house with a large sign reading ‘GARAGE SALE’ in front of it. On the driveway are tables holding stacks of clothes, worn toys, and other objects besides. A dark grey spoon is standing in front of the door, smiling. The two exit the car and Liam goes to the tables, while Bryce and Misty approaches the spoon, named Bradley. Bradley greets Bryce, speaking as if they had known each other for quite some time.

Misty asks if he by any chance knew about a laptop, and Liam holds up a laptop from one of the tables, getting their attention. Bradley says that the laptop had served him for a good couple years, but one day it stopped working, not letting him type into the search engines or anything. He offers to lower the price of it from a couple 20s to $15. Liam says that he has no cash when given a questioning glance by Bryce. Bryce pays for it instead.

Back in the apartment room, they open the laptop and boot it up, Liam sitting on a chair and Bryce along with the three cats stand behind him. Liam tries the search engine, which works perfectly normally. After 10 minutes of typing, opening windows and various other laptop related activities, Bryce says that this isn’t getting them anywhere.

Liam tries to negotiate for a few more minutes and Bryce forcefully rejects it. The two start getting into a heated argument about the notes, Airy, ONE, and Wren, Liam asking if he really didn’t care enough to try to stop Airy, and Bryce exclaiming that he didn’t want to throw his comfortable life away for some wild goose chase.

Unnoticed by them, Dark realizes something and the cats try to get the bickering backpack and soda bottle’s attention. Now on the topic of the legitimacy of Wren’s sticky notes. Finally, Misty makes a loud cat screeching noise that causes Liam to fall off of his chair. Dark then explains to the two that Wren also gave her a suitcase that she told him not to open if it was the right time.

The cats open up the suitcase and they open up a laptop that has a website, detailing all of the contestants from ONE. Liam clicks through the entries, which have detailed descriptions of all of the contestants from Batch One. Dark also says that there's pages for the other contestants, but they're not as well documented.

Bryce and Jasper notices that the link says "season_two", and when Liam types in "season_one", a whole new page pops up, showing a completely new set of people; "button", "calculatory", "caney", "scarfy", "toothpaste", and "whistle". As Bryce clicks through the entries, Liam is taken aback, realizing that they weren't the first to be taken to ONE, and that Airy had done ONE before.

He then realizes that Calculatory lives in New York City, which isn't that long a drive from Bridgeport. While Bryce is initially skeptical, Liam points out that Calculatory is supposedly homeless, so they can just check all the shelters. This, paired with the fact that it's still early in the morning, convinces Bryce, and the two head off, leaving behind a disappointed Texty.

Liam, Dark, Jasper, Misty and Bryce arrive in New York, and they begin to check various homeless shelters, and after a few tries, they find Calculatory (real name Oscar) in one of them. They approach him, and he initially thinks he's being evicted, before Liam clarifies they just want to ask questions.

As Liam begins to ask vague questions that could remind him of his time on The Plane, it becomes clear that Oscar isn't paying much attention, cracking immature jokes, which some of the cats find funny. Liam snaps at Oscar, and begins asking if he remembers being taken to a place to battle for a wish, to which Oscar remembers competing, along with describing an incompetent Airy, believing that it was a dream.

Liam tries to explain that it was real, but Bryce and Misty stops him. They ask Oscar more questions, including showing him the sticky notes, but Oscar has no clue what they mean. Bryce pretends that they're surveying people about their dreams, thanks Oscar for helping with his "research", hands him $50, and leaves with Liam.

Outside, Liam confronts Bryce about what happened, and Bryce rationalizes, pointing out how Oscar said he had the "dream" around a decade ago, and had a hard time remembering it, suggesting that it would take too long to convince him it was real. As Liam, the three cats, and Bryce drive away, Liam looks at the sticky notes showing numbers, and gasps, supposedly having a revelation.

Liam, Jasper, Misty, Dark and Bryce return to Bridgeport, and arrive back at Bryce's apartment mid-conversation. Liam is insisting that the numbers on some of the sticky notes that Wren gave them have to represent numbers or a channel on a radio station, like the radio he saw Toothpaste flipping through.

Bryce is more hesitant, thinking it might be more of a code, since radio stations never have that many numbers. Liam notes that he couldn't even go back to try the numbers even if he wanted to, since the only way they know that they could visit it would be to die, which neither person is willing to try.

Dark notes that there's rain about to come in, and Liam checks the weather, which tells him that some hard rainstorms will be coming in around the Bridgeport area throughout the middle of the night. Liam then notices that one of the sticky notes has an illustration of a smokestack, pointing the top with rain and a crescent moon in the background.

A hopeful Liam suggests that they could go there and find some clues. Bryce, meanwhile is adamant in his disagreement, pointing out that it's dangerous and illegal. Liam, meanwhile, tries to convince him that this is the right way forward, but Bryce is unmoving, saying that this is too far, and that they can look tomorrow, in which the cats agree.

Bryce also tells Liam that he can only stay at his apartment tonight, then he needs to find his own place to stay. He goes to the bathroom to brush his teeth and Liam glances at the keys on the nightstand. A defeated Liam goes to sleep on the floor, while Bryce sleeps on his bed. Bryce, Dark, and Misty awake in the middle of the night, and notices that Liam and Jasper are both gone, along with the car keys and the laptop.

Connecting the dots, he impatiently exits the apartment and searches for them, with the two cats following him, only to see that his car's been used and mishandled. Angrily, he walks down the street, and sees Liam walking down the street in the pouring rain. In a rage, Bryce pushes Liam down, shouting at him angrily, and trying to prevent him from moving forward.

Liam yells back, saying that he has nothing left to lose: his life was great, and Airy took everything, including Light, from him, and he refuses to miss his chance to stop him and bring back Light. Bryce once again says that he doesn't want a part in this, and that his life is actually improving since his time on The Plane, and accusing Liam of only doing this for himself when Scenty's brought up.

Liam snaps, screaming at Bryce, Dark, Jasper and Misty that he was gone for seven months, and that he's dead to the world, before running off. Bryce and Jasper chase after Liam as they approach the smokestack. A tired Bryce alongside Jasper catch up to Liam, who's already climbing up the fence to the tower. Bryce refuses to hop over, but changes his mind.

As Liam climbs up to the top of the smokestack, Bryce and Jasper follow closely behind, Liam reaches the top, and begins flipping through the sticky notes before being approached by Jasper and Bryce. Liam smiles, and it fades as Bryce pointedly asks for his car keys back. As Liam gives them to him, a bolt of lightning hits the keys directly, electrocuting Jasper, Liam and Bryce as their eyes widen in shock. They die.

A flashback begins with Bryce as a child playing in a playground being watched by another soda bottle named Stella, presumably his older sister. Bryce asks Stella if they can go home yet, Stella replies with a no because of something that their mother is dealing with. They then decide to leave the playground to go get lunch as a young gray fox, presumably Wren, watches them.

The scene changes to a bunch of objects in the Waiting Room, all panicking and shoving each other. One of the objects sees someone whom they call "Jasmine" and start running. All of the other objects do the same thing and run off leaving Bryce, Jasper and Liam startled and confused.

Liam sees Bryce and calls out to him, the latter having a vision of them being in his childhood home and Stella also being there. Liam spots the radio and excitedly tells Bryce about it. Jasper sees Light and their parents and the four reunite. Liam starts adjusting radio to match the note titled "Wren" while Bryce continues staring at Stella in his vision. They eventually get the radio to start after Liam brings its antenna up.

The four are suddenly teleported to a crudely drawn but colorful world, being surrounded by water on multiple pieces of land. One of the islands flips over revealing a small herd of sheep eating. A bear emerges from the water, picks up an island, and crushes Light, Jasper, Bryce and Liam. They then end up back in the Waiting Room.

They then try again after Bryce insists that he checks the notes this time. They are both teleported in an office where Tony gets ridiculed by Boss, they get even more angry when they spot Bryce, Jasper, Light and Liam and they send the five of them to the "Scooping Room" where they are presumably executed off-screen. Tony with them back to the Waiting Room, as Lights welcomes him as a new member of the team, but chases something off-screen and disappears.

A montage plays of Light, Jasper, Liam and Bryce teleporting to numerous universes such as an alien planet where the two are killed by lasers, a 3D world where they are crushed by a giant cube, the human universe where they are pushed into a fire, a universe where Liam is accidentally killed by a king made of just squares and triangles, the vast void of space where they are both killed by the lack of oxygen, and even inside of a computer where a cursor deletes the four of them.

They finally adjust the radio number to match the note perfectly and get teleported to a snow storm-ish universe. Liam brings out a flashlight which gets them to look around and call out to Wren. They eventually find nothing and they start looking for a way out.

Light opens up the laptop and reveals that in the Plane Database, each contestant has a kill code applied to them which can send them back to the Waiting Room. Light then executes the code and they are teleported back, leaving behind the flashlight. The screen shows Wren getting up, revealing the the huge snow lump is actually her asleep with a seizure.

The four are teleported back to the waiting room and Liam is dejected, saying that they died 20 times and learned nothing. Bryce, Jasper and Light try to cheer him up, mentioning that they still have other notes to figure out.

They wonder what “SF” stands for, as it is on one of the notes, and Liam realizes that it stands for “San Francisco”. He, Jasper, Light and Bryce become excited to return back to Earth, and Texty encourages them to go as they are at 10% battery and needs a charger.

They try the radio again, and they return to San Francisco first try, with Light and Jasper as alive cats again. They purchase a charger from a convenience store and there Liam sees his old co-worker, Owen, who drops his bag in shock and starts up a conversation with him, saying that everyone thought that he was dead.

During the conversation, Bryce walks away and gives no indication that he knows Liam. Liam lies about what happened, saying that he got a job in Australia and decided to fly back to check up on things. Owen asks why the office or police never mentioned it, and when Liam asks why, Owen says that they investigated and came to the conclusion that he died.

Jasper and Light soon join in and start lying, saying his flight purchases were on record, and implying they didn't check those. The argument isn't very convincing, but Owen doesn't dig for details. Owen gives Liam his new number, and the two part, planning to hang out soon.

A cut to a table in a small restaurant. Liam, Jasper, Light and Bryce talk between each other, Bryce thanking him for making him help Liam find Airy even though he “bugged the ever-living crap” out of him, and Liam jokingly asking Bryce if he’ll try to ditch him now that they’re back on earth.

Light tells the two that they alongside the other contestants are great friends and she wouldn’t be brought back if it weren’t for them. She thens sings a cover of “Count on Me” by Bruno Mars as a montage of heartwarming, sad and random moments from the Disney and Pixar library is shown.

They are interrupted by a waiter who gives them their waters. Bryce holds his cup up in a toast to ONE and the contestants, promising to save them. When they are done, Liam leads Bryce and the two cats to a place where they can go back to the waiting room in secrecy, which is the back alley where Liam first looked at the notes.

Liam says that nobody else came there when he was there, and the pear who took out the trash last time appears and takes out the trash again. Liam adds that the pear only did that once, and then the pear comes back to close the lid of the dumpster.

Finally left alone, they prepare to go back to the waiting room. Light counts down and Bryce suddenly disappears early. Liam shouts his name in panic and disappears too as he and the two cats are sent to the waiting room.

Meanwhile, Scenty sits in the shed, uneasy, until Airy calls everyone over for the elimination. Airline Food is eliminated and Tray suggests that someone check on Moldy, which is met with a chorus of “not it.” Whippy Creamy fails to notice the question and tries to get out of checking on her, which is unsuccessful and he reluctantly goes to check on Moldy, Subway Seat coming with him in an attempt to cheer him up.

Tray, Atom, Fluffy and Scenty wonder how the eliminated contestants are doing, with the camera showing a flash of their situations. They are not happy, with Contact Lens being forgotten on the floor to Circle annoyed at the incessant clapping that ended off Battle For Circle to Folder dying from two oddly animated humanoids smashing the computer it inhabited for fun. Tray lastly mentions Backpack, and Scenty gives a short response that seems eager to change the subject.

The camera cuts to Whippy Creamy, Amber and Subway Seat walking toward Moldy’s usual seat beside the pool, Whippy Creamy wondering out loud why they continue to check on her. Subway scratches in another mark on the pool while Whippy Creamy checks in on Moldy. He starts with a nonchalant greeting until he stops. Subway Seat looks over and is similarly shocked.

They run back to the small group, announcing that Moldy is dead. The group rushes over and Scenty goes ahead and checks first. She comes back, saying with annoyance that she is not there. Whippy Creamy insists that she was right there when he saw her and they all come look.

The only indicators that Moldy was there are some crumbs of mold and a damp spot. Scenty yells for Airy to tell them where Moldy is, only for Airy to reply that he doesn’t know. He respawns her and Moldy suddenly reappears, reaching out for something or someone. Airy comments that apparently whatever happened reverted her condition back to how it was when she was taken to The Plane.

The screen fades to everyone gathered around Moldy. She asks why everyone is still in the competition, and follows up with asking if given the choice, would they stay in The Plane, and what would they wish for. Whippy Creamy remarks that Moldy hasn’t wanted to talk to anyone in months, so why start now. She brushes off the question and the second batch contestants think about what they would wish for, which are mundane things like sunglasses and pants.

Scenty dodges the question and instead Moldy talks about what she would wish for. She says that at first she wanted to get enough money to get rid of her mold, but now she didn’t trust herself to spend it properly. She redirects the focus back onto Scenty, asking if she still wants to go home. She tries to avoid the question, Moldy reminding her of houses, friends, family. Scenty starts to cry at the mention of real names, Tray recalling from the first film that hers was Amelia.

She gets up to leave but Airy interrupts, apologizing for the fact that it’s been over an hour. He says to make things more interesting he’s going to let someone rejoin the game, and without any further explanation counts down. Soda Bottle appears, still smiling from his conversation with Liam. The screen goes black-and-white as Scenty yells his name and runs toward him.

The trio teleport in The Waiting Room, three of them confused and worried over Bryce's sudden disappearance, Liam checks the Plane Database to find out that Bryce has been sent back into the Plane, they then finally decide to stop Airy to which Liam adjusts the radio and gets teleported into a dark forest.

He then gets frightened by a shadow figure which makes him tell Light to get them out, the latter doing so by executing the kill command. It is later revealed that Airy, in his physical form, has came to check what happened.

As Liam is teleported back, he sees Toothpaste. Liam, Jasper and Light walk up to Toothpaste and asks him if he's trying to get home to which he doesn't respond.

Liam shows Toothpaste his notes and asks him if he knows where San Francisco is to which Toothpaste responds in French for the first time in a while. While Jasper is utterly confused, Light then teaches the latter on how to go back to earth, Toothpaste tearfully thanks the white cat before he disappears.

Encouraged, Liam and the cats decide to go back to the forest, he adjusts the radio and teleports back to the forest, now in daytime. The trio explore the landmarks nearby which consists of a log cabin and a campsite. They then come across a bunch of vines covering a cave, Liam walks inside only to see Airy sitting nearby a computer and couple of floating miniature planets.

The latter then says "Hi" in a monotone voice. Light tries to say hi, but is be cut off by Liam who pushes Airy onto the ground in a fit of rage and tells him to end the competition and to send everyone back. Airy however won't because of him not finished with eliminating everyone.

After Light tells Liam to stop, saying that she thought they were gonna talk things out and that she trusts Airy, Liam then decides to break the computer but stops after learning that if he did break the computer, Airy won't be able to send the contestants back.

Liam then decides to control the computer himself, to which he struggles to do so. Airy says that he doesn't blame him, since it took him a while to learn how to control the computer. Annoyed, Liam asks why he started ONE, Airy says that he simply likes to, this makes Liam call him out for "killing people for his own enjoyment" and "stabbing animals with giant stakes" while Light, concerned, tries to settle the mood here.

Airy thought it would be fun to which Liam sarcastically says that he's glad that he's having fun and asks about the viewers Airy mentioned back in episode one, Airy reveals that he has been eliminating the contestants himself and that there were no viewers to begin with. Light finally understands and understands what Wren’s message meant. This makes Liam more annoyed as Airy leaves the cave while the two cats following him.

Liam manages to catch up with Airy and the two and tells him to set everyone out of the competition, Airy replies with a simple no. As Airy is getting something from behind the cabin, Liam heads inside the cabin to privately talk with the cat duo. The white cat gets mad at Liam for trying to kill him due to Airy being the only one who knows how to control the computer.

Airy later comes by to let him know that he's going to get reeds which gets Liam, Jasper and Light to follow him. During the walk to the waterfall, Liam asks questions to Airy on the way, Airy claims to be the only one inhabiting the area, and that the place around him allows him to create the small miniature planets back at the cave.

They later arrive at the waterfall where they both cross a log to the other side. Airy says that he's collecting reeds for bedding. He later sees Liam holding a piece for the cassette player he gained from the first film.

He asks Liam for the cassette player but he refuses to do so until he sets everyone free from the competition. Airy reluctantly agrees as Liam gives him the cassette player and the four leave the pond.

As they are crossing the log to return back, Liam accidentally trips and nearly falls to the waterfall. Airy manages to catch him as Liam dangles above the falls, unfortunately his zipper suddenly opens making all the items inside him falls out.

Shocked, Liam lets go from Airy to retrieve the items from the bottom of the waterfall, however Liam is unsuccessful. Light manages to get him out, with both of them alive, and comforts him as he sobs when he gets out of the water.

Time passes as it is now nighttime and the four are sitting by the campsite where he asks him more questions. It is also revealed that Airy once originated from earth, and that the radio back from the Waiting Room took him here where he spends a decade living at the forest. Most of the time he's been setting up preparations for ONE and listening to his cassette player.

Airy also explains that during the first season of ONE, after Calculator was eliminated he planned for the next challenge to be a rock throwing competition, however he accidentally crushed the plane with a stone and since he didn't have the knowledge to bring people back at the time he ended the competition, he then spend years making sure the next season would be better and silently boasts that he's doing a good job.

As Light feels sorry for Airy, Liam decides to go back inside the cabin as Airy reminds him that he's made a small bed for him. Jasper tells Light that this journey is slowly starting to become a lost cause. After the conversation, Light tells Liam that Airy is a good person.

However, she slowly realizes that he and the contestants were just bullying a lonely person all along. After Light gives him a long rant speech of how toxic he and the others are and ends her friendship with him, she leaves the cabin, before calling him a mentally deranged harasser. Liam closes the laptop in fear and guilt.

After a sad montage of Light roaming the universe and recounting memories, she sees Airy putting out the fire and setting up the next competition for ONE. He seems happy for what he has done so far and pets Light, which she enjoys.

Meanwhile, the contestants forcefully pulling the Plug out of The Plane. Airy quickly plugs it back into the computer, and the contestants are teleported back to the contest area, while the remaining animals disappear.

Liam and Jasper wakes up in after Airy tells Liam he's going to get wood, while Light follows, as she ignores her former friend. Liam enters the cave to find The Plane with the contestants as well as the computer open to a "Season Three'", revealing that Airy was planning another season after sending everyone back.

Liam becomes enraged when seeing Owen on the computer and goes to where Airy is collecting wood and attempts to kill him and Light tries to stop him, giving him another rant speech. Although due to Liam's declining health and sanity, he manages to break his own leg instead and falls unconscious.

Airy carries Liam back to the cabin and makes a cast for him, as well as crutches. While Airy, Jasper and Light are coming back from the woods onto the river's bridge during the rain, he slips and falls, causing his death. Wren shows up after a brief moment of Light grieving.

She explains that she brought the animals back due to a teleportation device only affecting animals. When Jasper reminds Light about saving the contestants, Light decides to just go back home with him and Wren, saying that “they don’t need each other anyway”.

The three animals finally go back to their universe and Wren confess that, despite the pressure, she did like her gift, before going her separate ways. The two cats reunite with their other two siblings.

After Light explains what happened to Dark and Misty, the three siblings are proud of Light for learning one lesson: not everyone can be your friend. Jasper and Misty say goodbye to Light and Dark before they head back to their homes while the other two head back to theirs. Liam wakes up and plays the tape recorder, which plays a montage of songs.

The first montage (“For all we know” by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway) a flashback is shown of Airy's life. From his birth all the way to his first death, being that he died in a car collision alongside what presumes is to be Wren’s parents.

Airy is shown waking up in The Waiting Room, and after fiddling with the radio, he is transported to his universe. After discovering the computer and his new ability to make planets, Airy transports Button as the first contestant of Season 1.

The second montage (A cover of the Pearl Jam song "Around The Bend") shows the animals returning to their normal lives while it shows the pets return to their homes and embrace their owners, and Light and Dark finally reunite with Abigail and Farmer John.

The third montage (“When I can’t sleep” by Pascal Pinon) shows Liam finding Airy's top, without remorse. Back at the plane, Amelia is seen crying and clinging to Bryce, who wears a melancholy expression. Charlotte and Subway Seat also appear sad, while Tray and Whippy Creamy appear without their faces and limbs.

Liam opens the laptop to find it without battery. He closes it and sits in front of the empty campfire pit before entering the cave and sitting down at the computer. He puts his hand to his head, indicating he still doesn't know how to use it at all.

In the fourth montage (“Come along with Me” from Adventure Time) shows a montage of the former animal contestants living their lives and it shows them with their own families.

Light, one of the animals, makes a small grave for Airy, burying the small shard she brought with her and then adding flowers to the grave. Then Light moves with a now teenaged Abigail to an apartment in New York City and Light finally lets go of the times she thought the contestants were her friends.

After that, she falls in love with a male bengal cat named “Milo” and the two have a litter of six kittens, and Light names the sixth kitten (the runt) after Airy.

In the last scene (as “You are my Sunshine” by Jasmin Thompson plays) Light, after telling her family, who she and her family rest nearby the small grave, about the story of her experience of the plane and the journey that brought her into learning her lesson, has a conversation about how much she misses the only friend that she trusted.

Milo tells her that he and her parents will always be in her heart no matter what. Light looks at the sky and says that she’ll miss never forget her friend and family before resting with her family.

Airy wakes up in The Waiting Room, and for him it appears as The Plane. Liam looks towards (but not directly at) the camera as the show quickly fades to black as the credits roll.

In a post credit scene, a now grown Airy II and her mouse companion/best friend, Squint, arrive at a location as Squint holds an invitation for an object show.

As they looks at the door, Airy II says “Do it”, telling Squint to open the door. He does so and a huge bright light shines. The duo look directly at the camera as they look at what’s behind the door as Squint says "Oh yeah" while Airy II smiles, ending the post credit scene.

Live Action

 * Frank Welker as Farmer John, Abigail’s uncle and the owner of Sparky. He only appears in the end of the film
 * Ariana Greenblatt as Abigail, John’s niece and the owner of Light and Dark. She only appears in the end of the film, as well as her teenage self.
 * Elle Fanning as teen Abigail.

Animated
The object cast voice themselves


 * Haley Tju as Light, a white farm cat and sister of Dark, Jasper and Misty.
 * Chris Pratt as Dark, a black farm cat and the brother of Light, Jasper and Misty.
 * David Schwimmer as Jasper, a tuxedo cat and the brother of Light, Dark and Misty.
 * Tara Strong as Misty, a bicolor cat and the sister of Light, Dark and Jasper.
 * Erica Luttrell as Wren, a gray fox that knows about the past, present, and future. She can also predict the future through sleeps and seizures.
 * Anna Kendrick as Fluffy, a honey glider.
 * Awkwafina as Amber, a golden retriever.
 * Guy Pearce as Rocket, a wallaby.
 * Ian Jones-Quartey as Gerald, a badger.
 * Will Arnett as Milo, a male bengal cat and Light’s love interest.
 * Isabella Abiera as Airy II, one of Light and Milo’s kittens.
 * Mary Lambert as teen Airy II.
 * William Salyers as Squint, a mouse and Airy II’s companion/best friend.

Tagline

 * “They’re back!” - Teaser poster, Main poster
 * “From the meat-giants that brought you Finding Dory, Encanto and Soul” - Main poster
 * “Remember this friendly face?” - Light’s poster
 * ”Meet the siblings” - Dark, Jasper and Misty’s poster
 * ”Don’t worry, he doesn’t cause bad luck” - Dark’s poster
 * ”Almost looks Figaro if he’s a grown cat” - Jasper’s poster
 * ”Light’s only sister” - Misty’s poster
 * ”What did you expect?” - Airy’s poster