Gary saw what was going on and what Stripetail said. Though he decided to stay to help. He reached into a pocket searching for a bit as he then found what he was looking for, "aha, animation mistake." he said, and tossed it at the team bus so it looked like he was already on the bus sitting and looing out the window, like sometimes happens in animation mistakes. He knew of a pysicist wizard type who had studdied how to harness certain things like plot oversights, animation mistakes, ect. Though one could only use such things sparringly.
Then he ran off to a nearby alley. once there he closed his eyes to concentrate, on something he had not reallly done in many decades but he would be immune to dip this way. He was finally able to switch back to his normal human form, that still looked 18.
He then went to grab a family not to far off. "if you all want to live grab onto me and close your eyes."
"why, you a super hero or something?" a kid asked.
"unless you want to see a all white void." he said as he reached into a pocket and the family not having any other idea what to do grabbed into him as he pulled out an odd looking hook thing. "Sprocket hook, it'll take us away from here." he said as he reached up and yanked down, getting pulled out of the film strip as they passed what looked like giant sprockets as if they were leaving a film.
"you mean this is all just some kinda movie we were in?" the father asked.
"no, it's a type of magic, mixed with cartoon logic and physics, made in the 1930's but still works nowadays, if not overused." he said. Once out he then reached back and yanked it forward so the tip flew way ahead and grabbed onto some point way ahead and pulled them along. Once they got closer they could see some sort of palm trees and he pulled them into it.
"Where are we?" the mother asked. Gary sniffed a bit. "Smells like hawaii, not sure which island. Let's go and see shall we." He asked set off towards some buildings he saw a few blocks off.