A scrappy groundhog must work with humans and forecast lightning strikes to save his home from an eco-supervillain planning to pulp entire national forests with giant, robotic milling snakes. During Jet’s first garden raid, his father is shot by their human neighbor, Mr. Trapper. Jet loses hearing in one ear and escapes alone over the electric fence, which scars his paws but gives him the unique ability to forecast lightning. He vows to avenge his father. Next spring, at the burrow security trials, Jet strives to win Head of Burrow Security so he can lead the groundhog community to war against Trapper, but he finishes second to his brother Sonny when delayed at the course’s Listening Lanes. During Sonny’s victory speech, a logging crew begins cutting down trees nearby. Sonny orders everyone underground, but Jet attacks. He narrowly evades Forrest Cutler, the company owner, but is captured by Heath Waverly, a former top meteorologist, and Dr. Drizzlen, a bionics scientist, who sedates Jet. He awakens at Bio Labs, able to communicate with humans. Dr. Drizzlen has given Jet bionic hearing and his newly-invented TALC—Translated Animal Language Communicator. When asked if he can forecast weather and save humans from natural disasters, Jet initially denies it and makes a mad dash through the gadget-packed lab in order to escape. The Stray-Bot recaptures Jet, however, and he claims he might help humans if they save his community from the loggers threatening his home. Heath and Jet find Cutler at Town Hall proposing the largest pulp and paper mill in the world, which thrills the townspeople. Many of them had lost their jobs when Trapper’s Traps went bankrupt due to Jet and his father’s garden raid which was mysteriously recorded and went viral. After failing to stop the upcoming vote, a dejected Heath keeps his word and lets Jet go free. Jet reunites with his community and warns them of the imminent destruction of their home after the rains pass. When Sonny doesn’t believe him, Jet ventures into the woods and finds Cutler demonstrating his secret, illegal logging plan to plunder national forests with giant, robotic snakes—one grinds trees into pulp and the other drills tunnels to send the pulp to the mill. To make matters worse, Jet is discovered and attacked by the Snake Saw 6000! Will Jet escape to warn his community and new human acquaintances? If he does, will they believe him? And even if they do, how will they be able to stop giant, robotic snakes?