Transcript for Bucky O'Hare episode 'THE WARRIORS' Script written by George Arthur Bloom Transcribed by Natalie Farrell EXT. PLANET CRYSTAL -A QUARTZ MOUNTAIN- DAY The planet is glasslike, with crystal formations. A work party of beavers pry the quartz loose with crowbars, and they place the glistening substance onto a conveyor belt carrying it into the belly of a behemoth Toad Storage Ship. More beavers handle the transfer. A smaller Troop Ship off to the side. Toadborg, imposing as ever, stands at the base of the ship. TOADBORG: Faster, you mindless mammals! It will soon be too dark to mine these precious crystals! ANOTHER CRYSTAL PEAK as the Righteous Indignation comes into view above it. INT. THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - THE BRIDGE Bucky and Jenny are at the console. Willy is hunched over between them, Bruiser and Blinky are beside Willy. All are looking down. JENNY: Just as we thought - they're gutting Crystal Peak! BUCKY: (Into intercom) Flex your phalanges, Deadeye! We're gonna shock some Toads and save some slaves! INT. CANNON TURRET Deadeye Duck entwines all twenty fingers and cracks his knuckles with a loud CRAAAAACK. He then ignites the cannon with a flip of a switch. DEADEYE: All plugged in, matey! Let's croak 'em! He latches onto the controls with all four hands. SPACE The Righteous Indignation peels away to prepare for attack. ELSEWHERE IN SPACE The Toad Mothership looms large. INT. TOAD MOTHERSHIP - CENTRAL CONTROL Toad Air Marshal stands behind the Toad Techs. Frix and Frax are either side of him. A wall of monitors are visible. TOAD TECH: The Righteous Indignation has entered Sector 14, sir! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Perfect! Prepare ships for launch! Employ the Single Helix Formation! (beat) ...No! Make it the DOUBLE Helix! FRIX: But Air Marshal! The Double Helix is a very dangerous maneuver!! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: So what? It's got... style! I could get the Diamond Medallion for this one!! (beat) ATTACK!!! EXT. TOAD MOTHERSHIP The mouth opens wide and a dozen Double Bubbles come bursting out and veer off. A moment later, another dozen Double Bubbles emerge and veer off in the opposite direction. SPACE - THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION The first dozen Double Bubbles serpentine around the Righteous Indignation and start firing. The Righteous Indignation takes a hit between the Engine Room and the Cannon Turret. CANNON TURRET Deadeye is rocked, and he sees the Double Bubbles buzzing around. DEADEYE: Cap'n, they're playin'... 'Ring Round the Righteous'! He fires the cannons, swinging them from side to side. THE BRIDGE Bucky, Jenny and Bruiser. Jenny frantically fiddles with a switch. JENNY: Engine's not responding, Bucky!! BUCKY: Shift to auxiliary power!!! ENGINEERING Willy sprays the smoking engine with a foam extinguisher, and Blinky waves the smoke away as he speaks into the intercom: BLINKY: Regrettable news, Commander - afterburner on fire!! INT. TOAD MOTHERSHIP - CENTRAL CONTROL Toad Air Marshal watches the battle on the monitors. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Now watch this! Frix and Frax exchange worried looks. FRAX: (Under his breath) Uh-oh... SPACE - FULL SHOT The first wave of Double Bubbles continues to revolve around the Righteous Indignation clockwise. When the second dozen appears and begins to serpentine counter-clockwise around the Righteous Indignation, cannons fire. THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - CANNON TURRET Deadeye fires back at the Double Bubbles. INT. TOAD MOTHERSHIP - CENTRAL CONTROL Toad Air Marshal beams as he watches the battle. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: This maneuver will go down in the history books! SPACE A Double Bubble going clockwise crashes into one going counter- clockwise. The Toads eject as the crafts disintegrate. This sets off a chain reaction of collisions - and the air is filled with the Toads' escape pods! FRIX: I told you it was dangerous! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Shuddap! The Righteous Indignation zooms safely away. EXT. PLANET CRYSTAL - DAY The Righteous Indignation swoops low. Deadeye fires from the Turret, blasting the Toads' antiaircraft guns. The Toads fire back, but two of their three placements are blown up! THE TROOP SHIP The beavers knock down the guards with their crowbars and climb aboard. Toadborg takes over the last antiaircraft gun. TOADBORG: I'll skin your hide, Bucky O'Hare!! He aims the gun at the Righteous Indignation and fires. FULL SHOT The blasts from Toadborg miss. But the return blast from Deadeye doesn't. There is a big explosion near Toadborg. The cyborg's metal body blackened, he waves an iron fist up at Bucky. TOADBORG: You cannot destroy me! THE TROOP SHIP A beaver closes the hatch and the ship takes off. SPACE The Righteous Indignation and the Troop Ship fly side by side. BUCKY: Mission accomplished: station crippled, slaves freed! SPACE - FULL SHOT The Righteous Indignation and the Troop Ship peel off in separate directions. INT. INNER SANCTUM OF PLANET KOMPLEX - DAY Close in on one of the many monitors - the part making up Komplex's mouth as he speaks: KOMPLEX: You are incompetent... Pull back to include the myriad of monitors to create the... mosaic of Komplex, adding to his sinister features bit by bit. KOMPLEX: ...Inefficient... ineffectual... inept... and incapable of carrying out one single mission without some monumental blunder! Toad Air Marshal stands at rigid attention in front of the monitors. His entire body trembles, and sweat rolls. Toadborg, his metal shiny again, is beside him. Frix and Frax are in the background. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Does this mean I don't get the Diamond Medallions??? KOMPLEX: It means... you are no longer my Air Marshal!! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: NO! You can't!! What about all the GOOD times? Like... like when I snuffed out the insurrection on Croakus, or when I led the invasion of... KOMPLEX: ...Toadborg! Relieve him of his medals! TOADBORG: As you command, Komplex... With great relish, Toadborg rips Toad Air Marshal's medals from his uniform one by one. It's almost too much to bear. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Oh... ah... oooh... oh, no, not that one... please... ohhhhhh noooooo... He is heavily in tears... and we can see as all but one medal has been torn from his uniform. KOMPLEX: Stop! TOADBORG: But there's still one left... KOMPLEX: Leave it! Let it be a reminder of what it was like to serve me... Toad Air Marshal goes down on both knees. He is very grateful; it's clear his medals are very important to him. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Oh thank you Komplex! Thank you! Thank you! He shines the remaining medal with his sleeve. TOADBORG: (To KOMPLEX) Have you selected a replacement? KOMPLEX: Anyone would be better than him... (eyes shift) ...even THEM... Frix and Frax look around, wondering who Komplex is talking about. Much to their surprise, they then realize it's them - and they point to themselves. FRIX & FRAX: US??? TOAD AIR MARSHAL: How humiliating! EXT. OF PLANET SLUDGE -A DOWNTOWN STREET- NIGHT Establish. A ghetto lined with pawn shops, grogshops and criminal dens. Rats and weasels hang out in doorways. Sleasosaurs slink in the shadows. Trash is everywhere. We enter a videogames parlor. Multiple Sleazosaurs are playing loud and violent videogames (I wonder if any of them are playing the Bucky O'Hare arcade game?). The Toad Air Marshal is in a corner, on a bench behind a long, wooden table against a wall. The lone medal on his pocket is the only bright spot. Insects crawl up the peeling, graffitized plaster. A shadowy figure, Sly LeZarde, sips a Swampgrass at the other end of the bench. The Air Marshal sips his own green and lumpy drink as he talks the blues. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Seems only yesterday I was in charge of all the Toad troops everywhere... now I'm in charge of... (sigh) nothing... SLY LEZARDE: You think YOU got problems, huh? My name's Sly LeZarde. Back on my planet, if you're going to get anywhere as a Samurai, you've got to conquer another world! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Tosses back another drink) Huh! So what? I've conquered DOZENS of worlds! SLY LEZARDE: Ohhhh... but you haven't conquered Canopus III, land of the 4-armed ducks! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: What's so tough about THAT one (?) RIPPLE-DISSOLVE TO: EXT. HILLTOP ON CANOPUS III (FLASHBACK) Against a blue sky, Kamikaze Kamo and Sly LeZarde do battle. They clash swords, ducking (pun intended!) and jumping the slashes. SLY LEZARDE V/O: ...Kamikaze Kamo, the Ninja Duck! Every time I try to take over his planet, the despicable drake gets in my way! Kamikaze Kamo flips the sword out of Sly's hand, then kicks his feet out from under him and slams his foot on his chest, triumphantly waving his sword. END FLASHBACK - RESUME GAMES PARLOR Sly LeZarde slumps back into his seat. SLY LEZARDE: (sigh) If only I hadn't lost my best scientist... we had a plan to drain the planet dry - he was building Evaporation Satellites! Suddenly, Sly spots an insect crawling up on the wall behind the Air Marshal. With his characteristic cry: SLY LEZARDE: Haiii... Air Marshal ducks as Sly smashes the insect with his sword and slurps the remains from the wall with his tongue. SLY LEZARDE: We... had a little disagreement... and so... I finished him before he finished them - (slight beat/breath) know what I mean? TOAD AIR MARSHAL: So... all you need is one lousy scientist to conquer Canopus III? (eyes gleam with a formulating plan) This could get me my medals back! (To Sly) Okay, here's my offer: I get you one scientist... and we share in the glory! SLY LEZARDE: Okay, but I'm going to be the King, you got it? They shake on it. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Deal!! WILLY DUWITT, SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE Willy is wearing a Space suit and is working with a blow-torch on the outside of the Righteous Indignation. TOAD AIR MARSHAL V/O: ...His name's Willy DuWitt... INSIDE SLY'S HOVERCRAFT - HOVERING IN SPACE Sly is looking through a telescope, and the Air Marshal is seated beside him. The ship is lizard-shaped, with a scaly exterior. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: He's some kind of weird mammal who works for the mangy Bucky O'Hare! SLY LEZARDE: And he can complete my satellites? TOAD AIR MARSHAL: OUR satellites! SLY LEZARDE: Hunh! Don't miss! He sharply turns the steering mechanism, and they bank down. EXT. OF REPAIR DOCK - DAY The Righteous Indignation is in this small, dry dock. Willy is working on the burned area by the engine room, and Deadeye, also in a Space suit, is cleaning the turret windows. Burns and dents are visible from the battle with the Toads. A small, one-passenger cruiser is docked adjacent, and a worker in a grease-stained Space suit does repairs. WILLY: ...Engine took a pretty good hit... gonna be a while before the Righteous Indignation can fly again... DEADEYE: (Cleaning power-burns from turret windows) Them two-bit tadpoles made a mess here too! Can't blast 'em if I can't see 'em! The Hovercraft zooms down from above. Toad Air Marshal and Sly LeZarde are visible from the cockpit. A cable with a claw extends menacingly from the ship. Deadeye sees it coming. DEADEYE: WILLY! LOOK OUT!!!! Before Willy can get out of the way, the claw snatches him and hauls him up. WILLY: DEADEYYYYE...! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Kiss Canopus 'goodbye', Deadeye! Willy is hauled into the Hovercraft and it speeds away. INT. OF DRY DOCK AREA, A FEW MINUTES LATER Bucky, Blinky, Bruiser and Jenny are gathered around a very shocked Deadeye. DEADEYE: Toad Air Marshal wuz with Sly LeZarde, the worst 'a them slimy bunch 'a creepycrawlers! BRUISER: (Is holding a half-eaten banana) H-yeah! Ain't nobody gonna mess wid our little buddy Willy! Let's get 'em - C'MON!!! (Smashes banana) BUCKY: Hold it!! First of all we don't know where they took Willy! Second of all, the Righteous Indignation can't go anywhere yet... DEADEYE: (Points to the one-man cruiser) Ha! I got me an idea! I'll borrow the one-man cruiser an' pay a visit t'an old friend 'a mine! 'E knows Samurai Lizards better'n anyone! EXT. OF CANOPUS III - SUNRISE The countryside is very beautiful, with scenic lakes and lush greens and flowers. On a distant plateau, a figure is silhouetted against the Rising Sun, doing some sort of of slow, ritualistic movement. A closer zoom reveals he is Kamikaze Kamo, doing his morning Tai-Chi discipline. His controlled exercise has the quality of a ballet. It is morning when Deadeye lands the one-man cruiser in a grassy area. He gets out and starts away. Some tall trees have grown together with time, their branches intertwined, forming a sort of arbor under which Deadeye walks. Suddenly, six ribbons fall like rain around him. Red-clad Ninja Ducks slide down the ribbons and surround Deadeye, drawing either swords or bows and arrows. DEADEYE: Arr, easy thar mates! I'm lookin' fer Kamikaze Kamo! Kamikaze Kamo walks past a group of his trainees, who are doing Martial Arts exercises and all clad in red and wielding Nunchuka and Ninja swords. They grunt in unison with each move: TRAINEE NINJAS: Huh! Huh! Huh-huh! Two Ninjas stand on a sand mound... holding Deadeye. He's watching the exhibition. Kamikaze joins him. KAMIKAZE KAMO: Deadeye! DEADEYE: Eeh, Kamo! Deadeye starts toward Kamikaze... but the Ninjas restrain him. KAMIKAZE: Release him! He's my friend! The Ninjas release Deadeye, and he and Kamikaze come together and exchange a special 4-handed handshake: a cross-over of lower to upper hands. DEADEYE: Arrr, matey... ye be a sight fer these ol' eyes! KAMIKAZE: And you to mine, Deadeye! DEADEYE: I'm 'ere 'cuz somethin's come up an' we need yer 'elp! Our ship's mired in dry dock! KAMIKAZE: Come! We talk! Deadeye and Kamikaze walk through the trainee Ninjas... still doing their display of tumbling, thrusts and parries. Deadeye nervously dodges the weapons while Kamikaze walks a straight path. DEADEYE: (Edgy tone) Toad Air Marshal's teamed up with Sly LeZarde 'n' they've snatched me shipmate! (Dodges a trainee Ninja's sword swipe) Ya gotta 'elp me find 'im! Kamikaze -ahem- ducks without looking as one trainee's sword whooshes over his head. KAMIKAZE: Sly LeZarde, eh? I know where to find HIM! We leave now for Saurian, where the Samurai Lizards dwell! The trainees keep on training as Deadeye and Kamikaze walk away. EXT. OF SAURIAN - DAY It's a very stark contrast to Canopus III - nothing but rocks. Grand Canyon and Death Valley rolled into one, with no sign of life. We find a narrow, mile-high rock formation stretching upward. A giant Monolith. This is the Obelus. INT. OF OBELUS LAB - INSIDE THE PEAK The Evaporation Satellite is a round, marble-grained object in two hinged-together halves, it's kinda like an oversized bowling ball. The inside mechanism is visible. Willy is sitting on a stool by a lab table. WILLY: No! I won't do it! SLY LEZARDE: But I gave you my word I'd let you go as soon as you finish the Evaporation Satellites - a Samurai's word is his bond! WILLY: I don't care! I won't do anything to hurt Deadeye's home planet no matter WHAT you do to me! SLY LEZARDE: (Grabs Willy; sticks his ugly face up to his) So... s'pose I were to tell you I planted an explosive device to the hull of the Righteous Indignation... and I can detonate it by pushing THIS? Sly takes a small cylinder from his tunic, and holds his finger above a red button. Willy's eyes widen behind his glasses. WILLY: W... wait! Don't hurt 'em, I'll... do whatever you want! EXT. OF DESOLATE PLATEAU ON PLANET SAURIAN - DAY Kamikaze's two-man craft lands, and he and Deadeye get out. Kamikaze hands Deadeye a packet of black fabric, and keeps another for himself. DEADEYE: Ee! What 'ave we 'ere, matey? KAMIKAZE: Do as I do! Kamikaze expertly unfurls the fabric across the ground behind him, and grips the wooden frame. Deadeye does the same. They move to the edge of the plateau. Deadeye looks down very nervously... the vast, rocky bottom of Saurian is a looooooooooooong way down. KAMIKAZE: Now we fly like the wind! DEADEYE: 'Eyyy... I can tip a tankard with the best 'a 'em... an'... an' blast the eye from a needle - but one thin' I DON'T do is FLY! KAMIKAZE: Ahhh... but to be a Ninja, you must lift yourself to a higher power! He takes off. Deadeye watches and gulps, but... DEADEYE: This one's fer ye, Willy! Deadeye closes his eye, steels his nerve and jumps... but he hangs on for dear life as the wind buffets him into a loop-the-loop ride to the bottom! DEADEYE: WHOOOA... OHH... OHHH... OHHHH! Unlike the nervous Deadeye, Kamikaze flies gracefully through the air, easily manipulating the wooden frame and guiding himself lower and lower. He lands smoothly and quickly gathers up the fabric... and Deadeye tumbles over twice before coming to a tangled stop inside the fabric as he lands. Kamikaze starts to free him... just as several Samurai Lizards land all around them nearby, with their swords drawn: a few feet away, on a rock above Kamikaze Kamo, and on another rock across the way. DEADEYE: (Pokes head out from fabric) He... he... have we r... reached a higher power y... yet, m... matey? But then four more Samurai Lizards appear. They grab Deadeye, pinning his arms before he can draw his weapons. DEADEYE: (Struggling) Arrr! Lemme go ya sneaky salamanders! Two more Samurai Lizards appear on a rock in front of Kamikaze Kamo. SAMURAI LIZARD #1: Surrender... or suffer the wounds of the Samurai! Eight Samurai Lizards position around Kamikaze, while the other four hang onto the struggling Deadeye. DEADEYE: Thar's eight 'a ye an' only one 'a 'im! Let loose 'a me arms so we can 'ave a fair fight! KAMIKAZE: This IS fair, Deadeye! (whirls Nunchuka in air and makes semi-quacking sound, psyching himself up for battle) Qua... qua... qua.... QUACK! With blinding speed, Kamikaze whips the Nunchuka around one of the Lizards' swords - and jerks it out of his hand. Two Samurai Lizards then attack him from behind, but he spin-kicks them and knocks both of them cold. The four Samurai Lizards on the rocks, each holding No-Dachi swords, jump down and swing at Kamikaze. He jumps over one sword, ducks (hee, hee) under another, cuts the third in half with his own sword and kicks the fourth away. Finally he somersaults to safety, coming immediately to his feet. In a blur of action four Samurai Lizards charge him at once, and so using all four arms he disposes of them as follows: flips the first over his back; jabs the second in the stomach with his Nunchuka - sending him flying with a swift kick as he bends over in pain; rams the suction cup at the end of his lower left hand over the third's nose like a plunger, propelling him into the distance like he's shot out of a Pop Gun; and uses the grabbing device at the end of his lower right hand to latch onto the fourth's sword, spinning him like a propeller, then releases him and sends him flying. All in rapid succession, Deadeye slams together the heads of two Samurai Lizards holding him and attempting to take him away, then once freed he steps on one Samurai Lizard's tail and finally draws his blasters, firing them at the Lizards. The twelve Lizards run off, and again Deadeye spins his blasters and fires at them, kicking up dirt and rock. Kamikaze Kamo flings a metal star at one of the fleeing Lizards. The star gets stuck in the Lizard's behind (oh yes it does), so he flips and flops! Deadeye and Kamikaze catch up, and Deadeye pulls the Lizard to his feet. DEADEYE: Where's Willy, ya yella-livered reptile?! WHERE IS 'E?!! No response from the Lizard. KAMIKAZE: (Holds up hand) I have ways of making him talk! EXT. OF PLANET CRYSTAL -QUARTZ MOUNTAIN- DAY Porcupine slaves now mine the mountain, digging and loading. The conveyor belt carries the shiny crystals into a huge Storage Ship. This time, however... Frix and Frax stand by the loading area. They look rather spiffy in their Air Marshal uniforms, complete with medals. It is very clear they love their new-found power! FRAX: We must be bringing back enough crystal to last an eon! FRIX: (An admittedly impressive Toadborg imitation!) Move it you mindless mammals! Komplex is waiting for this precious cargo! (Softer; to Frax) How was I? FRAX: The part about mindless mammals was good, I think we could be even more insulting! (Yells to the slaves) Hey! Get to work you needle- nosed nitwits, before I quarter your quills! (Puffs chest proudly) FRIX: I love this Air Marshal stuff! OBELUS - DAY Deadeye and Kamikaze are climbing the rock formation of the Obelus's exterior, already halfway up. In the lab of the Obelus, there is an assembly line of Satellites, all bar one complete. The last one is hinged open, and Willy is working on the circuitry inside. He makes one final adjustment, and closes the Satellite. WILLY: Done! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (To Sly LeZarde) I told you! He's a GENIUS! SLY LEZARDE: (Motions to some other Lizards by the door) Transfer the Satellites to the ship! The Lizards take some of the Satellites out of the lab. WILLY: (To Sly) Can I go now? SLY LEZARDE: Go??? WILLY: You promised, you gave me your word of honor as a Samurai! SLY LEZARDE: Honor... is for fools! It means nothing to me! (Snaps his claws to another Lizard, indicating to Willy) Take him away! The Lizard grabs onto Willy. As he does so... WILLY: W... wait! What about the explosive on the Righteous Indignation?!?!? SLY LEZARDE: What explosive? TOAD AIR MARSHAL: You mean there ISN'T one? But what about... (points to 'detonator') that... THAT? SLY LEZARDE: (Pulls 'detonator' from his pocket) This? It's nothing more than candy! Have a piece! (Tosses the candy to the Air Marshal) The Air Marshal examines the cylinder then removes the red Life Savor from the top... revealing a yellow one underneath. He pops it into his mouth. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Satisfied) Mmmmmm! Cherry! It's good! Sly LeZarde bursts into slight laughter... then he stops and glares at Willy, hooking his finger toward the exit. SLY LEZARDE: (Snarls; to the Lizard holding Willy) To the caves... The Lizard hauls Willy out of the door. Deadeye and Kamikaze are now at the peak, and they climb onto the plateau from the far side. Kamikaze aims his lower left hand downward, presses a button somewhere inside, and rewinds the length of a rope into his mechanical hand. Deadeye runs his hands along the rocks, looking for a way inside. DEADEYE: Arr, matey! This rock be 'ard as a ton 'a titanium! Can't nuthin' be inside 'ere! A rumble is heard, and the rock surface starts to slide open. Deadeye and Kamikaze jump back to avoid falling into the gap, riding the sliding panels of the mountain as it opens. The opening gradually reveals Sly LeZarde's ship on the launching pad below. Samurai Lizards are visible, loading the Satellites onto the ship. KAMIKAZE: (Calls across the opening to Deadeye) Keep them occupied! I'm going down! DEADEYE: Aye, laddie! I'll distract 'em! He draws his ion pistols and starts blasting, sending the Lizards scurrying for cover and chewing up pieces of rock where they hit. Kamikaze secures the suction cups to his hands, then begins down the inside of the mountain to the launching pad below. The Samurai Lizards take positions behind the rocks on the launching pad and shoot arrows, throw metal stars and blow blow-darts -the very latter through their blowguns, of course- at Deadeye. Deadeye Ducks (pun intended!) into a crevice, the stars, arrows and darts all ping and clank off the rocks around him. He fires back. One of the Lizards spots Kamikaze climbing down the wall from above, and so draws his bow and shoots an arrow at him. Kamikaze sees the arrow coming and snatches it out of mid-air, then hurls it back at the Lizard. The arrow pins the Lizard to the rock by his tunic. A Lizard carries the next-to-last Satellite out of the door. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: It won't be long before I'm Air Marshal again! SLY LEZARDE: And I'm King of Canopus! KAMIKAZE: (Launches himself into the laboratory) YOU will NEVER be King of Canopus! SLY LEZARDE: Kamikaze Kamo! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Slightly nervous) Excuse me... I... uhhh... I'd like to stay but I have a Spaceship to catch... He snatches the last Satellite off the assembly line and charges out of the lab. Kamikaze and Sly circle each other, stop, and draw their No-Dachi swords. SLY LEZARDE: So... we do battle again... Kamikaze puts on a dazzling display with his Nunchuka: over his shoulder, around his neck, between his legs and behind his back. Finally... KAMIKAZE: Our FINAL battle, this time! SLY LEZARDE: (Raises sword) Haiiii... KAMIKAZE: (Raises sword) Qua... qua... QUACK! They bring their swords down, and they clank together. On the launching pad, the Air Marshal emerges from inside with the Satellite. He runs into Sly's ship as the battle rages on around him between the Lizards and Deadeye up above. The Lizards throw a barrage of metal stars at Deadeye, and again Deadeye Ducks (ha, ha) as the stars clank off the rocks near his head. Sly's ship lifts off from the pad and takes off into Space, with the Air Marshal at the controls. Deadeye fires some blasts at the ship as it flies directly overhead, but is unable to stop it. A monitor in the lab shows Sly's ship in Space. Kamikaze and Sly are still doing battle, their swords clanking. SLY LEZARDE: It's too late! Kamikaze swings his blade, but Sly avoids it. SLY LEZARDE: The Satellites are being launched! Kamikaze swipes again, and so Sly jumps over it. Kamikaze surprises him with a spinning kick and sends him sliding across the floor. Sly gets to his feet beside the activator lever. The timer clock is already reading down, and Sly puts his hand on the lever. SLY LEZARDE: In just a few seconds I pull this... and Canopus III will be sucked dry! Kamikaze throws three metal stars at Sly, but Sly blocks them with his wristbands. OUTER SPACE Sly's ship glides over Canopus III. Inside the ship, the Air Marshal is still at the controls. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Laughs) Rain, rain, go away - you'll never come another day! He presses an ejector button... and so one by one the Satellites are launched from the ship. They orbit around Canopus III. OBELUS The timer still counts down, and Kamikaze and Sly are still at it, circling each other. Kamikaze whirls his Nunchuka above his head, and Sly wields a standard-sized Katana and a dagger-like Tanto. KAMIKAZE: Qua... qua... QUACK! He lets fly with the Nunchuka and they wrap around the two blades in Sly's hands, locking them together. Kamikaze pulls them free. He and Sly exchange spinning kicks between somersaults and flips... both giving and taking. They battle across the lab, destroying tables and equipment as they crash into it. SLY LEZARDE: (Picks up his No-Dachi and hurls it at Kamikaze) Haiiiii...! Kamikaze steps aside, catching the sword by the handle as it sails by. He stares at Sly. KAMIKAZE: Prepare to join your ancestors! QUAAAAACK! He charges Sly, bending him backwards over the timer mechanism... which is still counting down. Kamikaze points his No-Dachi at Sly's chest. The lever is positioned by his nose. SLY LEZARDE: Wait! I yield - I won't throw the switch! KAMIKAZE: Why should I trust you?! SLY LEZARDE: On my honor as a Samurai - I swear! (Crosses fingers behind his back) Kamikaze hesitates, then finally: KAMIKAZE: (Hesitant sigh) A Samurai's word is an unbreakable bond! He reluctantly lets Sly back up, and as Sly stands he straightens his tunic. And bad news... the timer counts down to zero!!! SLY LEZARDE: You... won't be sorry... (Beat) Then again... maybe you WILL!! He reaches for the lever and pulls it down. A siren sounds. Kamikaze is livid. KAMIKAZE: YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE SAMURAI CODE OF HONOR!!! He tries to push up the lever, but cannot. SLY LEZARDE: (Shrugs) Look, nobody's perfect - by the way, that switch is irreversible! Sayonara, sucker! Sly runs from the lab. SPACE - FULL SHOT A thousand points of light radiate from the Satellites around Canopus III, with a thousand tiny explosions occurring at the ends of the lights. The end products of the explosions are heatwaves, and they shimmer brightly and proliferate the skies over the beautiful planet. Sly LeZarde's ship maneuvers above the incredible display of fireworks. Toad Air Marshal is still at the ship's controls, the fireworks still visible from the windshield. He feels great, and he leans back in the chair. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Komplex will be so impressed, he'll probably make me GRAND Air Marshal! He leans far too back and flips over, smashing into the bulkhead. EXT. OF CANOPUS - DAY We zoom through the planet's heatwaves to its surface. In the backyard of a bungalow, a blue-feathered, orange-beaked Canopian 4-armed duck is sitting kicked back in a small inflatable tube floating in his swimming pool, and he is reading a newspaper... but he gasps as suddenly the water level drops and he finds himself sinking! The water also recedes toward the Danger Level at a reservoir. CANOPUS III IN SPACE The heatwaves continue to beat down on the beautiful planet. EXT. OF CANOPUS III - THE SKY - DAY The heatwaves shimmer down onto and radiate across a beautiful, lush patch of flowers. As they do, the color drains from the flowers, which dry up then disintegrate into dust. EXT. OF OBELUS LAUNCHING PAD - DAY On the rocky rim, Deadeye continues to blast the Lizards down below. All guns are blazing. DEADEYE: Give up the fight ya larcenous lizards, 'fore I blast ya inta t'morra! One lizard hurls a metal star up at Deadeye, but the canard blasts it out of the air! DEADEYE: (Slightly smug :-)) Arrrrr, they don't call me 'Deadeye' fer nuthin'! He twirls his pistols, then fires off another barrage. His blasts explode around all Lizards remaining on the launch pad, and they run for cover. One of them presses a button and a small rock in the hole opens. One by one, they slither down it. Deadeye leaps down a series of ledges onto the launch pad, then rushes to the opening... but it slams shut just as he gets there and so he hurts his beak on it, but aside from possible slight bruising (no pun intended) thankfully he is unharmed. DEADEYE: (Raises fist) COWARDS!!! KAMIKAZE V/O: DEADEYE! Kamikaze emerges from inside the Obelus, and so Deadeye joins him. KAMIKAZE: (Dejected) The Satellites have been launched - Canopus III is doomed!!! DEADEYE: (Strong-willed) Not yet, it ain't! (Takes out his com-link, then pulls up the aerial and speaks into it) ...Come in, Bucky! It's time fer a little Righteous Indignation! REPAIR DOCK EXTERIOR The Righteous Indignation is still in drydock. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - BRIDGE The glorious Cap'n Bucky is at the console, and he clicks on the radio: BUCKY: What do you need, Deadeye? We're ready to roll! DEADEYE V/O: Then listen careful, Cap'n! Here's what ya gotta do - and ya gotta do it FAST! REPAIR DOCK EXTERIOR The Righteous Indignation blasts out of drydock and into Hyperspace! EXT. OBELUS LAUNCH PAD DEADEYE: (Slams down aerial and puts the com-link away) Any luck findin' Willy? KAMIKAZE: None... DEADEYE: We're wastin' time, matey! Let's start lookin'! They head into the rocks... SPACE The Toad Storage ship can be seen flying above, the Righteous Indignation below. INT. STORAGE SHIP - CENTRAL CONTROL Toads operate the controls, and Frix and Frax are in their command stations. A portion of the floor is glass for easy observation - like a glass-bottom boat. Frix and Frax spot the Righteous Indignation cruising beneath the Storage Ship. FRIX: Do you see what I see? FRAX: Hee... it's the Righteous Indignation! Frix and Frax stand on either side of the observation glass, the Righteous Indignation visible beneath them. FRIX: We have a chance to do what Air Marshal never did - destroy Bucky O'Hare! FRAX: But this is just a STORAGE TANKER! We don't have any weapons! FRIX: We ARE a weapon; we're ten times bigger than the dinky ship down there! They don't even know we're up here! (To the crew) Prepare for vertical deceleration! SPACE The Storage Ship maneuvers to a position and speed directly above the Righteous Indignation. INT. STORAGE SHIP - CENTRAL CONTROL Frix and Frax still stand on either side of the observation glass, and the Righteous Indignation is still beneath them. A Toad crewmember turns to face them from the console: TOAD CREWMEMBER: Ready for vertical deceleration, sir!! FRAX: (Filled with doubt) Remember... the Double Helix? FRIX: Relax, Frax! This is nothing like the Double Helix! (To the crewmember) DECELERATE!!! SPACE The Storage Ship plummets down, dead on target... INT. THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - THE BRIDGE As always, Bucky and Jenny are at the bridge. All of a sudden the ship begins to shake. Lights flash and a warning siren blares on and off. BUCKY: (Notices the Toad Storage Ship on the monitor) Toads! Evasive action! SPACE The Righteous Indignation shifts out of the way just in time as the Toad Storage Ship plunges right past them... then collides with an asteroid and explodes. The air is filled with Toads in their escape pods, and the rock crystals pour from the hold and float off in Space. Frix and Frax are visible in one escape pod, and we see some crystals float past them. FRAX: Look! Look at all those precious crystals! Gone! How are we ever gonna explain it to Komplex??? FRIX: We won't tell him... The pod floats away as they continue arguing... FRAX: But what about the ship? How do we explain THAT?!?!? ELSEWHERE IN SPACE The Righteous Indignation closes in on Canopus III... around which the Satellites are visible. JENNY: Canopus III dead ahead! BUCKY: And so are those Evaporation Satellites! (into intercom) They're all yours, Bruiser! THE MASER TURRET Bruiser grabs on to Deadeye's cannons. BRUISER: Huh... yeah! I'll blasticate 'em... erasedicate 'em... and if dat ain't enough... I'll extirpatate 'em!!! Bruiser fires the cannons. SPACE The cannon blast heads for the first Satellite... but stops short and is deflected off harmlessly when an invisible forcefield stops it. Bruiser makes more blasts... only with the same effect. INT. THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - BRIDGE Bucky and Jenny, as always, are at their posts. JENNY: They're protected by... some kind of forcefield!! What are we going to do??? BUCKY: (Solemn) That's a very good question... INT. THE OBELUS - HOLLOW CENTER SECTION Deadeye and Kamikaze make their way along a narrow rock path winding along the interior walls. Stalactites hang down, and stalagmites shoot up. The rocks are strangely covered. The cavern looks like Carlsbad Caverns. DEADEYE: (Calling) WILLY! WILLY, WHERE'RE YE?? WILLY (offscreen): DEADEYE! Willy is imprisoned behind stalagmite bars fronting a slightly elevated cave in the rocks. Deadeye and Kamikaze rush up, and Deadeye pulls his blaster. DEADEYE: Stand aside, laddie! Willy presses himself against the far side of the cave as Deadeye fires. The stalagmite bars explode, fragments of rock flying everywhere, and Willy jumps down to join Deadeye and Kamikaze. WILLY: We have to get back to the lab! DEADEYE: Too late, laddie - the Satellites've already been launched! KAMIKAZE: And activated! WILLY: But I've a way to DEactivate them! Come on! Willy hurries away, and Deadeye and Kamikaze follow him. INT. THE OBELUS LAB Deadeye, Kamikaze and Willy rush inside, and Willy goes to the lab table. He pulls a small device from under the table. WILLY: I built a self-destruct mechanism in every Satellite! All I've got to do is activate the detonator... He goes to the monitors, which show the Satellites up in Space. He pushes the button on the device - obviously, this is the detonator. SPACE - THE SATELLITES Each Satellite explodes one by one! THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - THE BRIDGE Bucky, Jenny and Blinky watch the fireworks. BUCKY: I don't know how or why, but... Deadeye's voice crackles over the radio. DEADEYE V/O: Bucky! It's Deadeye! How's the view up thar? BUCKY: (Into radio) A sight to behold, Deadeye! Deadeye then laughs over the radio. INT. THE LIZARD SPACE SHIP Toad Air Marshal watches the explosions out of the window... and is not too happy about it. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Hysterical) My plans are ruined, my triumphant return is trashed! AHHHHHHHH...! SPACE The Lizard Ship flies out of control into the distance... THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - THE BRIDGE Bucky, Jenny and Blinky watch as drops of water appear on the noble frigate's windshield. Jenny points at it: JENNY: Look! BLINKY: Precipitation. THE MASER TURRET Rain comes down all around Bruiser. BRUISER: Dat ain't precipatashun - dat's rain! SPACE The Righteous Indignation banks away through the rain. EXT. CANOPUS III - DAY The rainstorm pours down on the surface. The lake begins to fill up, and the ducks swim in it. DUCKS: Water! We're saved! At the swimming pool around the back of the bungalow, the duck on the inner tube rises with the water level. He's still reading his newspaper, and hasn't missed a beat. The rain falls on the flowerpatch, too. The flowers blossom, and the colors return. EXT. OBELUS - DAY The sound of a single Japanese war drum is heard as a new section of the rocky monolith slides open, revealing Sly LeZarde's personal Hovercraft as seen earlier. A Lizard, using a wooden club, rhythmically pounds the huge drum hanging from ropes between two posts. Sly, wearing his Royal robe, exits a mountain chamber accompanied by an entourage of Lizards. He steps up to his Hovercraft, then turns to make a farewell speech, holding up a wooden fan with a long handle (a Gumbai Uchiwa). The drum stops. SLY LEZARDE: The ducks are weak! To Canopus... where I shall be King! Up a rocky ledge directly above Sly, Kamikaze -with Deadeye and Willy standing beside him- whirls a black net above his head and whips it downward. The net settles over Sly, and Deadeye, Willy and Kamikaze haul him upward. Sly kicks and swings his arms to get free, and the other Lizards look up helplessly. KAMIKAZE: You'll go to Canopus, all right... as my prisoner! Deadeye and Kamikaze pull Sly onto the Ledge when... SAMURAI COMMANDER HIJIRI (offscreen): (booming voice) NO! An army of Lizards, led by their Commander -let's call him 'Hijiri'- in his full regalia, appear behind them and with their swords drawn, all ready to attack. They are a formidable force. HIJIRI: No duck may touch a Samurai and live! Kamikaze turns to confront Hijiri, and Sly peers out between the netting. KAMIKAZE: But he is not a true Samurai, Supreme Commander! A Samurai keeps his word of honor... HIJIRI: ...What you say is true... KAMIKAZE: ...But he is not a true Samurai! Sly LeZarde broke his vow to me... Willy steps up, very bravely. WILLY: ...AND to ME! Thinking he is saved, Sly works his way out of the net. HIJIRI: Is this as they say, Sly LeZarde? SLY LEZARDE: Of course, I had to - it was the only way to conquer Canopus! HIJIRI: (Solemnly) NOTHING is as sacred as a Samurai's honor - and for violating it you MUST be PUNISHED! (Points his sword toward the net) TAKE HIM!! The Lizards pick up the net and carry Sly away. He squirms inside, his arms and legs poking through the netting. SLY LEZARDE: No! Please! I'd rather be the DUCK'S prisoner! Nooo...! The Lizards take him kicking and screaming behind the rocks. HIJIRI: As for the rest of you... you are free to go - BUT... if EVER you set foot on my planet again... you have my word... we WILL do... BATTLE! He turns sharply and leads his troops back behind the rocks. WILLY: I have a feeling he'll keep his word... KAMIKAZE: I guarantee it! The Righteous Indignation can be heard above, so the three of them look up. DEADEYE: It's Bucky! The Righteous Indignation circles low over Obelus. Bucky's voice crackles over Deadeye's radio: BUCKY V/O: Satellites destroyed - Canopus III is wet and wild! We're comin' down! The very famous Deadeye moment! The camera zooms in on Deadeye's face, and his upper body, his tailfeathers and all four arms can still be seen, as he speaks into the radio: DEADEYE: (Into radio) Aye, Cap'n - an' not a second too soon!!! The Righteous Indignation sets down on the launching pad. Deadeye, Kamikaze and Willy start toward her. EXT. TOAD PLANET - NIGHT Establish. INT. KOMPLEX - CORRIDOR TO INNER SANCTUM The Toad Air Marshal, depressed and bedraggled, walks alone along the corridor, and rehearses a speech for Komplex. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: I've returned to Komplex to ask for your forgiveness - no, to BEG for your forgiveness... and to allow me another opportunity to serve... you! I'll even start as a lowly Storm Toad! (Quickly) - I take that back! NOT a Storm Toad - anything BUT a Storm Toad! He stops at the door to the Inner Sanctum, and takes a deep breath. TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Okay... even a Storm Toad... He goes inside. INT. INNER SANCTUM Large monitors make up the walls of the Inner Sanctum, and there is one lone monitor hanging from the middle of the ceiling. The Air Marshal enters, and approaches the lone one. A spotlight falls on him as Komplex's face appears on the monitors. KOMPLEX: You requested an audience? TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Losing his nerve) I... uh... yes, I uh... (clears throat) I uh wanted to uh... KOMPLEX: ...Never mind - I'm reassigning you to the rank of Air Marshal! TOAD AIR MARSHAL: (Delighted) You are??? KOMPLEX: Your first assignment is to return to the planet Crystal... acquire another supply of crystalline... TOAD AIR MARSHAL: Sir, if you don't mind my asking... what happened to Frix and Frax? KOMPLEX: They're waiting for you... The entire monitors fuzz. EXT. PLANET CRYSTAL - DAY There are huge mounds of glistening rock crystal. Two tiny figures lost in the vastness. A closer look reveals they are Frix and Frax, stripped of their Air Marshal uniforms and medals. Sweat-stained and exhausted, they work with crowbars on the pile. FRAX: I told you Komplex would ask about the ship! FRIX: Shut up and keep digging... The episode ends as the camera zooms out from Frix and Frax...