Welcome back to Dragons Plus Phoenix. Last time, Spyro and Cynder finally introduced their team to MacGyver and his team. After a few handshakes and how-do-you-dos, the group made to start their investigation. Riley and Ember will start to work on the computer recovered from the scene, while the rest start their exploration in to the Assassin's headquarters to see what they can find. So what are they going find? Read on to discover...

(Our story opens up deep in Spyro and Cynder's headquarters, in probably the messiest computer room you've ever seen, where Ember is showing Riley around her setup as MacGyver and company watch on)

Riley: Pretty interesting setup you've got here, Ember.

Ember: Thanks. Hardware's all custom, my own design. Built for efficiency. Shelley here can run anything.

Riley: Shelley?

Ember: My nickname for the system. Derived from Mary Shelley, since I sort of Frankensteined the system together from a bunch of old gaming rigs at first.

Riley: Wait, this is built from gaming PCs?

Ember: The initial version was. This is Shelley Version 5. The name stuck.

Riley: (Spying several sandwich bags and other various wrappers) I take it you're a compulsive snacker?

Ember: Oh, please excuse the mess, just had visitors in here not too long ago. They must've forgotten to clean up after themselves.

Riley: Visitors?

Ember: A couple of girls arrested for cybercrimes that I've been working on reforming.

Riley: (Now curious) Really?

Ember: Got the idea after hearing about you getting recruited by Phoenix while they were DXS.

Riley: Huh. That's... pretty cool actually.

Ember: (Realizes she's off track) Oh, forgive me, I got off track. Let me pull up the laptop.

(With that, Ember digs through the wrappers and wires and pulls out a pretty brickish laptop)

Riley: Wait, this is the laptop?

Ember: Yep. Pretty old school, I know. Just about to get started on dismantling it to independently boot the hard drive when you guys showed up. Good timing too. Hooking hard drives up for that sort of process is not my strong suit.

Riley: I'll give you a hand then.

MacGyver: While you two are doing that, the rest of us will head to the Assassin's headquarters to see if we can figure out what the dark forces are up to.

Riley: Give us a call if you need us.

MacGyver: (To Spyro and Cynder) So, where're we headed?

Spyro: You'll see.

(With that, we transition to somewhere deeper into the swamp, where Spyro, Cynder, MacGyver, Jack, Flame, and Hunter are walking towards their destination)

DRAGON TEMPLE SWAMPLAND - PARADISE FOR PESTS AND TERRORISTS ALIKE, APPARENTLY

Jack: (Swatting a mosquito) What is it with these evil masterminds and choosing the depths of swamps as their bases?

Cynder: One word: Seclusion.

MacGyver: Still pretty risky, given how close this place is to your base.

Spyro: The Assassin was overconfident in his skills of avoiding detection. Though a little bit of credit was warranted. We'd only had him in our custody for a day by the time he killed himself.

Hunter: The cabin he was using should be right up ahead.

(And just like that, we're confronted with a ramshackle cabin that looks like it's barely being held together from the outside)

Jack: Anybody else getting some serious Unabomber vibes from this place?

Flame: I was thinking the exact same thing when we found this place. I was half expecting to find a manifesto in there.

MacGyver: We still might find one, if it's on his computer.

Cynder: As much as I'm liking this little chat, we really should get in there and figure out what's going on.

MacGyver: Agreed. Let's get to it.

(Now focused on the mission, the sextet opens the door the cabin, and enters cautiously, finding papers plastered all over the walls and scattered junk all over the place, but notably a series of vials against the back wall)

Jack: (Spying a dust imprint where the laptop used to be) You guys gave this place a going over already?

Hunter: When we initially found it, yes. But we figured letting a fresh set of eyes look at it was a good first step in the investigation.

MacGyver: That's exactly what I would've done. Let's get searching.

(With that, the group starts searching the room, examining every inch of the admittedly small cabin)

Jack: Doesn't look like there's room to hide much of anything in here.

MacGyver: (Checking the floors) That's what's got me thinking...

(As he makes his statement, MacGyver spots exactly what he was looking for, an out of place rug, and he pulls it back, revealing a trap door)

MacGyver: That there's probably more to this place.

Flame: A secret passage! He must've thought he was so clever hiding that.

(Just like that, Flame is about to reach down and open the trap door, but MacGyver stops him)

MacGyver: Hold up. Something seems off.

Flame: What seems off?

MacGyver: Look at the rim of the trap door.

(At this point we look at the trap door and see it's lined with some sort of gray putty.)

MacGyver: Plastic explosive. (Looks at the vial) If I had to guess, it's hooked up to that vial as some sort of chemical trigger. Anyone tries to open this door, the entire place goes up.

Jack: So how do we get down there?

MacGyver: Got to disable the chemical trigger somehow. (Examines the mixture in the chemical trigger) My guess, probably an acidic formula. Needs air from somewhere... (Sees a tube running from the vial) Got it.

(With that, MacGyver starts rummaging around through the cabin, and eventually discovers a fridge in the mess, which he opens, revealing a carton of low fat milk, which he takes. After grabbing the milk, MacGyver continues rummaging through everything and discovers amongst the mess a bottle of oven cleaner, which he estimates is half full, but takes it with him anyways.)

Hunter: What's he up to?

Jack: Doing what he does best. Finding a solution.

(While Jack was talking, we see MacGyver has grabbed a bucket and a pastry syringe. With that, MacGyver takes apart the syringe and mixes the milk and oven cleaner inside it before sealing the pastry syringe back up. With his formula in hand, Mac locates the air supply for the vial and injects his mixture through it into the vial, causing the liquid to become cloudy. Once the pastry syringe is empty and the mixture inside the vial thoroughly clouded, MacGyver rejoins the group)

MacGyver: That should have neutralized the chemical trigger.

Jack: Only one way to test that.

(With no regard for personal safety it seems, Jack opens the trap door, finding the trigger for the explosives has in fact been disarmed.)

Flame: Whoa. That was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Jack: Trust me, that's a pretty low tech Mac hack.

Hunter: So what's down there?

MacGyver: (Pulling out his phone and turning on the flashlight) Looks like a tunnel.

Spyro: Only one thing to do in that case.

Cynder: Onward and downward.

MacGyver: My thoughts exactly.

(And as the group descends down the trap door, our tale ends for today)

And that looks like a good place to wrap up for today. And there we have our first MacGyverism of the story folks! Yes, I did take this one directly from the original series, but I needed an idea of what I was doing. So, what awaits our heroes down the pit? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!