The sun was burning down onto the bright yellow sand of the desert. A seemingly endless landscape with no sign of life. In the middle of it was a shimmering golden tank, rolling across the countless layers of sand, boarded by Sprocket. The Skylander has been travelling on the large island for hours looking for the Golden Queen. According to her tracking device, the villain was supposed to be nearby, yet there was nothing other than sand far and wide. After she passed another sandy hill, Sprocket looked through the periscope of her tank and spotted a blurry object in the distance. She thought that it was a mirage at first, but upon closer inspection, the engineer's mouth formed a wide grin. It was a palace made of pure gold, similar to Golden Queen's original home in the Golden Desert.

The Skylander drove up to the stairs leading to the glorious entrance. In the cool safety of the building's large shadow, Sprocket jumped out of her tank and made it disappear. She observed the giant gate decorated with all kinds of ancient symbols and statues that Sprocket has never seen before. "This is it." The goldling said to herself before putting her goggles on top of her striking red hair and entering the abandoned residence.


The Golden Queen has taken her rightful place on the throne inside the ancient palace. With a greedy smile, she slid her nails across a technological device which, even though it was highly advanced, was eons old. Almost manically she was tapping onto the screen, making a bright sound with each contact. The queen was certain that this would be her key to success, this would finally make her the sole ruler of the Skylands.

Suddenly the goldling heard something in the distance. An echoing explosion, and then another one. The tall woman arose from her chair and summoned two Arkeyan guards. "Go see what's going on there!" The queen yelled and the robots followed her order.

When the guards reached the hall outside of the throne room, Golden Queen could see one of them being destroyed by bullets. Shockingly, the other one had a mine tossed towards him before exploding into pieces. Surprised and enraged, the queen grabbed her staff and prepared to face her enemy.
What she didn't expect is to see Sprocket walk through the entrance leading to the throne room. The queen gave the intruder a bewildered look before pointing her staff at her. "It's you! That foolish Skylander that resisted my powers!"

"Still Sprocket to you." The engineer replied sassily as she gripped her wrench tightly. "You may have tricked us last time, but you can't hide from me!"

"I was never trying to hide." Golden Queen laughed. "I was just biding my time until I found another way to destroy you Skylanders and claim all the gold for myself, and now I finally have!"

As much as Sprocket just wanted to beat the greedy woman down with her wrench, that was not the reason she journeyed here all on her own. "Listen Golden Queen, I didn't come here to fight."

The queen snickered. "For once a smart decision."

Sprocket ignored her comment and went on. "Back on the abandoned island, you weren't able to turn me into a golden statue. From what I've heard, that's never occurred before."

The Golden Queen's confident smile melted into a frown. "Why are you asking me this? I know just as much as you do, it's impossible!" She proceeded to aim a golden ray at Sprocket which once again showed no effect, much to the queen's dismay.

The Skylander observed her hands and sighed with relief when she saw that she wasn't frozen. "I tried to find an explanation, but nothing made sense! Perhaps because of that clone you created I somehow became immune, or maybe even my tech. I just-"

"It doesn't matter!" Golden Queen shouted as her body emitted a bright light, indicating her rage. "I don't need my powers to defeat some dirty engineer!" After a few moments of tension which the two enemies spent staring at each other with spite, the queen put another sinister smile on. "In fact, I will defeat you with your own weapons!"

Upon those words, the ruler grabbed the device which she was holding earlier and pressed a button. Behind her throne, the large stone wall parted in the middle and revealed an entire army of ancient Arkeyan Conquertrons standing tidily in rows, waiting patiently for their moment to conquer, as their name suggests. Sprocket tumbled into a state of shock. "My family just so happened to have made a deal with the Arkeyans eons ago, granting us hundreds of their Conquertrons. Now that I have finally discovered them, I will use them to obliterate you Skylanders once and for all!"

Sprocket was expecting to find an answer to her question when she came here, not that Golden Queen had the power to destroy every island in the Skylands if she desired. "No, this can't be…"

"It certainly can." The goldling kept her shimmering jewel eyes on Sprocket before deciding to unveil another shocking revelation. Only this time it was personal. "I'm sure you're dying to know how I was able to fix and reactivate those machines. That's because I received help from someone you might be familiar with."

Before Sprocket could even begin to wonder who she was talking about, the queen pressed another button which created a hole in the ground near her out of which a figure emerged. The Tech Skylander had to take a close look. She didn't want to believe her eyes at first, but her goggles never lied. "Uncle?"

The long lost goldling's head turned into every direction before he finally laid eyes on his beloved niece. "Sprocket? What are you doing here!?"

The engineer moved her goggles onto her head as her eyes began to tear up, while her uncle Oscar was rather shocked to see her there. "What a heartwarming reunion." Golden Queen interrupted the moment with another wicked laugh before grabbing the goldling next to her. "Kaos thought that he could get away with kidnapping one of the Skylands' brightest minds, but I taught him better. Your uncle has been my prisoner ever since! My undead minions have always kept watch over him and eventually brought him here. He's working for me, which includes the reanimation of the Arkeyans."

"I had no choice Sprocket! She knew who I was, if I refused her orders, she would have hunted you down!" Oscar desperately explained the twisted situation, hoping that his niece could forgive him for aiding the queen.

"None of this is your fault, uncle." Sprocket didn't care about what he was forced to do, her anger was only directed at Golden Queen. "I'm just glad I finally found you." Through the single tear escaping her eye, Sprocket was able to give her family member a smile.

"Enough of this!" Golden Queen's patience was wearing thin. "Now that my army is set up and ready to attack, I have no use for either of you." She grinned as her eyes slowly went from Sprocket to Oscar. "At least this time you'll get to say goodbye."

Golden Queen raised her hand and charged up another golden blast before she shot it at the engineer, creating a cloud of sparkling dust around him. "No!" Sprocket shouted and stepped forward as she watched the scene in horror. In the moment of the queen's apparent triumph, something that no one expected occurred. The sparkling cloud vanished, and Oscar was perfectly fine!

"What!?" Golden Queen was glowing again as she stared at yet another failed attempt to freeze her victim. She couldn't explain it to herself.

Sprocket's horrified frown soon shifted into a bright smile when she realized that her uncle managed to resist the queen's powers as well.

"It can't be! This is impossible!" Golden Queen's eyes shot between Sprocket and her uncle. What made them immune to her godly powers? Then she remembered something, and the answer struck her like a lightning bolt. "Unless…"

Sprocket stopped her flash of happiness when she spotted the look on the bewildered goldling's face. Did she finally have the answer she was looking for? "Unless what?"

Golden Queen inhaled and stared at Sprocket. She threw her a look of blank shock and disgust. "There were some who were also able to resist my powers, a long time ago." Golden Queen had to take another breath before finally revealing the truth. "While my parents turned into solid gold with a single touch, my siblings were immune to those powers. That's why I had to banish them instead."

Sprocket's eyes went from Golden Queen to her uncle, and it didn't take them long to figure out what that meant. "Wait, does that mean we're your siblings'-"

"Descendants." Golden Queen finished the sentence. "We share the same bloodline." With utter disgust, the queen turned her sight back to Oscar. "And that means you will steal the throne from me, and my precious gold!" She grabbed her relative by the collar of his shirt and tossed him into the pit in front of the platform she was standing on, letting him fall down into the dark depths of the palace.

"Uncle!" Sprocket hurried to the edge of the pit as her uncle's scream still echoed through the room, but Oscar was gone.

"I won't let my family take away what's rightfully mine." Sprocket lifted her head to give the enraged queen a death glare. "You will not defeat me. Ever!"

And with that, Golden Queen slammed her staff onto the rocks beneath her feet which caused the floor underneath Sprocket to split apart and send her falling down the pit as well. The Skylander screamed as she fell deeper and deeper, until there was nothing left but darkness.


It was all black. Nothing to hear and nothing to see. Slowly a voice grew increasingly louder until the words became clear enough to understand. "Sprocket! Sprocket, wake up!" The Tech Skylander came back to her senses and opened her eyes. Her uncle Oscar's worried face above her turned into a relieved smile. "Oh, thank the Ancients you're alright."

Sprocket pushed her upper body up and observed her surroundings. They were sitting in a pit flooded with sand and tall stone walls wherever she turned. Then she looked back at her uncle and lit up with joy. "Uncle!" She threw her arms around him before the man returned a warm embrace. "I thought I'd never see you again."

"Me too kid, me too." The engineers held onto each other for what felt like an eternity before separating with a smile. "Just look at you! You're a grown woman!" Oscar had to comment on his niece's new look. "And I see that you were able to escape the prison you called home." The last time he saw her she still had long hair and wore tight dresses in favor of her mother.

"Heh, I sure did." Sprocket completely forgot that her uncle doesn't even know of her role as a Skylander yet. It made her feel some kind of sadness. She would've loved to share every little detail with him throughout her journey. "After the grand raid years ago it all went downhill. They couldn't afford the luxurious lifestyle anymore and the town was ruined. Many people left, they practically fled. Even mother saw no reason for me to stay there, so she let me go. Of course, she would have preferred for me to get married to a wealthy lord and become a loyal housewife, but she finally accepts me the way I am and supports my dreams."

Oscar only smiled lightly, but it was a proud smile. "I never thought I'd see the day where she changes for the better."

There were hundreds of things Sprocket wanted to talk about, but she had to focus on what was going on right now. She turned her head around looking for an exit, but they were trapped. "We have to find a way out of here." The Tech Skylander got on her feet and started to move all the golden junk out of the way in hopes of finding something that could help them.

"Sprocket, why did you come here?" Oscar lifted himself up as well and questioned his niece while she inspected a bunch of mechanical pieces. "You know how dangerous the Golden Queen is."

"Well, she's certainly less dangerous to us than anyone else." Sprocket reminded her uncle of the fact that they were related to the queen which made them immune to her powers. "Can you believe that we're members of the royal goldling family?" She stopped her search to give her companion a jarring look. "And I thought being a high-class goldling was bad!"

Oscar giggled. "I'm sure at least your mother will be thrilled to find out."

The two goldlings laughed before they both continued to look for a way out. Besides some objects turned golden like pots, shackles and even some chompies, there wasn't much for the inventors to work with. Suddenly, Sprocket noticed a shimmering light in the corner of her eye and turned her head to see a sparkling red jewel buried in the sand. "Hey, what's that over there?"

The goldlings approached the mysterious object and removed some of the sand around it, just to see that the jewel was attached to some red and golden metal. "Wait, could it be?" Oscar recognized the shape and colors. However, the look on his face indicated that it wasn't a good thing.

"Stand back." Sprocket advised her uncle before she placed a mine into the sand nearby and moved away as it exploded, setting the object underneath partially free. After seeing what it was, the Skylander was in awe. "No way!"

The engineers were looking at the head of an Arkeyan Conquertron. It must have fallen down here eons ago and be forgotten. While her uncle had a bad feeling about this, Sprocket was certain that this was their way out.

"I can fix it! Then we can use it to get out of here!" The Tech Skylander didn't hesitate and used her mechanical skills on the giant robot.

Oscar watched as his eager niece removed some metal plates to get a look at the machinery inside and do everything in her power to reactivate it. As happy as he was to see her living her dreams, he couldn't let her engage with such a deadly weapon. "Sprocket, we should think about this."

"Don't worry uncle, I'll have this rusty robot working in no time!" The engineer proceeded to remove a few bolts with her wrench and fiddle with some cables and gears.

"No Sprocket, listen. I've spent years fixing such machines for the queen, even those Arkeyans recently. If there's anything I found out about them, is that they're programmed to destroy, nothing else." Sprocket slowed her work down while her uncle was explaining his worries, but nevertheless kept going. "We'll find another way out, but please don't activate that thing. Who knows what it will do once it awakes?"

Sprocket stopped typing in codes and reconnecting cables from another open part of the Conquertron. She turned her head to her uncle with a doubtful look. "But I can do this! I'll just reprogram it so it does what we want it to. You have to trust me!"

"I trust you Sprocket but you're meddling with things you don't understand!" Oscar watched in fear as his niece returned to her work on the Arkeyan. "I can't let you do this!"

Sprocket stopped again, only this time she didn't look at her uncle. "You sound just like her." Oscar had a worried look on his face before the goldling turned around with rage. "I'm sick of being told what I can't do!"

Oscar carefully reached out to the angered Skylander. "Sprocket-"

"No, I'm going to fox this!" Filled with new determination, the Skylander got back to work. "Just because every other Arkeyan behaved like that doesn't mean that this one has to be the same!" With an even quicker pace than before, she went on by dismantling the Conquertron and using her wrench and the energy stored in her left glove to get it working again. "I am going to show you that it can break free and it can be different, no matter what anyone says!" Oscar looked up in surprise when his niece suddenly began glowing in an orange hue. "I will prove that I'm not worthless! I can be whoever I want to be, and I can achieve whatever I set my mind to!"

Oscar had to take some steps back and cover his eyes while Sprocket was fully engulfed in a bright light and began to transform. The light ceased, and Sprocket reappeared with a new look. Her armor has changed from the royal blues to golden orange colors with gears around her wrists and an improved gas bottle on her back. Her wrench gained a striped pattern and golden bolts at the end, making it even more efficient than before. Her golden skin was now a shimmering platinum and she sported goggles with a dashed pattern on them.

While Oscar still had to process his niece's unexpected transformation, she didn't even bother to look at herself and instead went on with fixing the Arkeyan. Suddenly, as she was using her new wrench and powered up glove, the robot finally moved. Sprocket took that as a sign and directed the energy source on her glove at the machine. It unleashed a white beam of energy that surged through the bolts and gears of the Conquertron. The entire ground was trembling. The goldlings observed as the Arkeyan rose from the sand and stood in front of them in all its glory, breaking some pieces of the pit in the process. Sprocket wasn't done however. Changing the beam from a white to an orange color, the Arkeyan began to transform as well. The red metal parts changed their shapes and turned into blue colors instead, only keeping the head red. The entire body was shifting and turning, resulting in an entirely new kind of Arkeyan, one that Sprocket created.

When she was done, the Tech Skylander turned around to face her uncle with a smile until she realized that she has changed as well. Before she could take a proper look at herself, the goldling glowed once more and returned to her regular appearance. "What was that?"

"I'm not sure." Oscar approached his niece while keeping his eyes on the brand new Arkeyan in front of them and putting his arm around its owner. "But whatever it was, it's gonna get us out of here."


Golden Queen was reveling in her triumph. With pride and newfound greed, she looked over her army of Arkeyan Conquertrons. "Today, the Skylands will fall under my power at last!" She let out a manic laugh that echoed throughout the entire palace as the lifeless machines stood there, obediently waiting for an order.

That moment was interrupted by an earthquake which grew stronger with each second. Golden Queen turned around with fury as Sprocket's Arkeyan burst through the ground in front of her throne. Using the jet engines it possessed on its feet, the Skylander was able to reach new heights and cause more destruction than ever before. "It's over Golden Queen, give up or we will make you!"

The goldling queen was glowing in a radiant light. "Never! I will not be defeated by some peasants! I will have all the gold in the Skylands!"

Golden Queen ran towards her army of Arkeyans, when suddenly an energy blast was shot from behind her and blew up dozens of the robots. The queen watched in horror as Sprocket destroyed one row after the other, causing the palace to crumble down as well. All until there was nothing left that the Golden Queen could use.

"I tried to warn you, maybe now you'll finally know when you've lost." Even though the villainess has done terrible things and was too far gone to be redeemed, Sprocket and Oscar decided to spare her and instead leave the palace.

As the goldlings were about to exit, Golden Queen used the arm of one of the destroyed Conquertrons and turned it into liquid gold. She coated her right arm with it, making it grow drastically. After the modified Arkeyan blasted a hole through the ceiling and was about to fly off, Golden Queen used her enlarged arm to grab its leg. She dug her razor-sharp nails into the metal and attempted to drag the Skylander and her uncle down, but they wouldn't let her win that easily. Sprocket pointed the robot's arm at the queen and used a laser to cut her enormous arm off. As the goldling shrieked in pain and grabbed what was left of her limb, she gave the Skylander one last spiteful glare before they left through the ceiling and made the entire palace collapse.

Once outside, the Arkeyan turned around so that the engineers could take a look at the ruins. No sign of the Golden Queen nor her Conquertrons, she was finally defeated.

"She had it coming." Oscar commented and gave his niece a smile, reassuring her that she did what had to be done.

"We can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved." Sprocket added and sighed.

As they were observing the ruins, both goldlings noticed a strange light in the distance. Sprocket decided to get closer and what they saw left them speechless. It was a brown orb in the midst of the ruins, yet it wasn't buried underneath the debris. Instead the rocks nearby were orbiting it. Neither of them knew what that was, but they knew that they couldn't just leave it there. Sprocket extended the Arkeyan's arm and grabbed the mystical object. She enclosed it inside a containment capsule and stored it safely. After taking another look at the destroyed building, the goldlings finally left.

Moments after their departure, another bright light shined through the debris. Suddenly Golden Queen's shortened arm emerged out of the rocks. Using her ancient powers, she was able to regrow the rest of her arm and smash her hand onto a broken stone. She then pulled her upper body out. Her crown has fallen off her head and strands of her straight golden hair covered part of her face. Never before has she been this furious. "This is not over, Sprocket!"