At the Skylander academy, the Skylanders came back successful from their mission and brought King Pen to safety. "You did a great job, Skylanders! I was worried Strykore would've been too much of a threat for you..." said Eon. Eruptor admitted "But we couldn't have done it without Kaossandra. Maybe I should apologize to her about not trusting her..." "Oh, that's already nice of you to think that!" He freaked out as he didn't see her sat right next to him.
"So, King Pen, are you alright?" wondered Eon. "Despite my injuries, I am! But Strykore won't end there. He's after the Fist of Arkus. He was helped by Kaos, but also someone else... I couldn't see who it was, nor could I catch his name. But he seemed familiar somehow..." King Pen was a bit worried, but Eon assured it wasn't a big deal. "You should take some time for yourself to rest." He then turned to the team. "Now, we have a new important objective: find Spyro!"
"Yahoo!", yelled a familiar voice, right as a black dragon landed. "Missed me?" His arrival caused a mix of joy and confusion to his old friends. "Spyro!" The dragon was quickly surrounded by them, much to his disgust, but he hid it. Spyro was happy to see them again "Guys... I got them worried... But now..." He had an awful taste in his mouth knowing what's going to happen.
Stealth Elf was the first to address the elephant in the room: "Spyro! It's great to see you, but... Your scales? And you sound a bit different..." The new Spyro already had a fake explanation planned. "Guys, I'll explain you the whole thing! But please, let's go to my room first." Spyro was desperate. A new form of him will manipulate his friends for the sake of evil, something that he fought against since his birth.
At a later time, He concluded the story. "... and I barely managed to save myself..." The group quickly believed it, being mostly blinded by the joy of seeing him again. Eon in particular, given what happened the last time they talked. He assured "Given that you had a hard time back there, you can stay at the academy until you feel ready to go on adventures again". Stealth Elf, however, still had doubts. "So apparently, the situation caused your appearance to change. But there's some stuff I still don't get..." Dark Spyro was quick to change the subject by showing that he bought candies on the way to celebrate their reunion.
The whole time, Spyro tried to yell to warn his friends. "Guys, it's me! Don't listen to him, he's a lyar!". But this ended up being pointless as no one heard him...
Dark Spyro then managed to finally get alone time and started to relax with music. "Man, I thought they would never shut up..." He got a bit annoyed by the style of music and realized something, as he managed to change it with electricity from his horns. "I... can control technology! Being evil keeps getting better!" Dark Spyro started showing his energy to music until Strykore intervened with telepathy, which made him appear as a floating head followed by dark purple fire.
"So, how is it going, Spyro?" Dark Spyro reacts slightly bothered "Strykore! Maybe we should schedule those meetings..." Following an annoyed glance of Strykore, he answered "All is going well. They believed our story and I'm currently free from missions. So I'll be able to get informations to get the map." However, suddenly, Eruptor asked to enter the room, so Dark Spyro had to shorten the conversation. As the fire Skylander entered, he suggested "Hey buddy, I know you're trying to relax and all, but since today is art fair, maybe it'll be good for you to take some fresh air around".
The dragon hesitated as he planned to search for the map "Well, I don't know... I was more thinking of staying here and try to take a nap..." "Are you sure? Most of the academy will be there. I'm sure you missed our friends during your hard time. Even Eon is going to take a visit." That last information convinced the dragon, who suddenly claimed to Eruptor that he felt like it. Spyro tried to reason himself. "Eon will never give such important information to someone! It should be okay..."
Dark Spyro walked around at the fair, but couldn't care less about the art or what the artists had to say. He just wanted to see Eon to try to get informations about Arkus. Jet-Vac, who tried to monitor the students, was simply annoyed to see that most of them wouldn't leave their cellphones from sight. He then noticed that Eon was doing the same thing. Seeing him, the dragon immediately tried to get informations. "Hi, Master Eon! I felt like seeing some art around and I'm kinda interested by Arkeyan art. Do you know something about it? Or the location as a whole?" Eon was however too focused on his phone to talk. "Sorry Spyro, but I have to see how many steps I do today with that brand new app." Dark Spyro was annoyed, but it gave him an idea.
Back to his bedroom, Dark Spyro used his newfound power of telepathy to visit Strykore in the same way as he did earlier. "Ah, Spyro! Any good news about the map?" Dark Spyro answered "Not yet, but I have an idea and you'll love it, Strikes! If I may call you that." Strykore gave an annoyed glare. "Okay, so people are obsessed by their phones. I'll use my new control over technology to brainwash Eon by his favorite app so he tells the truth and give it to me!"
Spyro was shocked. "No! Eon..." while Strykore is pleased by his new ally. "This is a good plan. What do you say, Glumshanks?" Glumshanks was on his phone and didn't bother watching them. "Yes, people sure are obsessed about these things." Strykore concluded "You're a smart one, Spyro! Go ahead!"
Later on the day, Dark Spyro went to Eon's office, making sure he's alone, to approach Eon's phone and use his control. Once he shot the blast, he stated to himself in a sinister tone "See you very soon, Eon...", only to discover that the sorcerer was right behind him, causing both Spyros to yell of fear. But he didn't notice what he was up to. "Spyro, it's good to see you! I really want to apologize again, I shouldn't have hidden the truth about your ancestors. It put us all in a hard situation." The dragon was nervous, but focused on getting the plan working. "Oh, it's really not a big deal. By the way, I'm impressed by your physique. How many steps did you take today?" "Well, I can answer that right now if you wanna know..."
Dark Spyro whispered "Yes, yes, yes!" to himself, while Spyro yelled for nothing. "No! Master Eon, don't do this!" Thankfully for Spyro, Eon notices something. "Oh, I need to save some storage. Oh well, so long, step counter." The black dragon quickly intervened for his plan. "Wait? Are you sure you wanna go back to counting yourself? Is it 2014?" "Well, I wish I could keep it, but I don't wanna lose my other apps, especially the one that gives you a long beard." Eon deleted the app alongside the brainwashing spell, so Spyro is relieved. "That was close..." Unfortunately, his dark side doesn't give up.
On his computer, Dark Spyro sees that Eon's favorite band, the Beardles, released a new music video. He then sends him the video by mail alongside the brainwashing and went out to check the results as soon as it was sent. When he goes out, however, he realized that his group of friends were having a fight. Jet-Vac was being criticized for his boring classes, Eruptor for his temper, Pop Fizz for his insanity and Stealth Elf for causing people to freak out because of her constant teleportations.
Seeing this caused the dragon his mails on his phone, having an awful doubt. "Wait... I didn't send it to Eon... I sent it to... the Team Spyro group?" Spyro was horrified as well. "No! What have I done to my friends...?"
Dark Spyro then met with Eon, who realizes what's going on. The dragon initially wanted to avoid the subject. "Master Eon, did you hear that the Beardles have released a new music video?" "Spyro... As much as I'd love to watch that, there's more important stuff right now. Your friends seem to have gone crazy with telling the truth, which leads to this fight. We can't let them like that. Do you have any idea of the reason?" Spyro felt very personal guilt despite not being in control of himself. "It's my fault, Master Eon... I'm nothing but a dirty traitor..."
"I'm gonna be honest... I don't know!", told Dark Spyro. "So about that music video..." "Spyro, please! You must help solve the situation. Try to talk to them!" "Okay, then..." He moved up, knowing he wouldn't get Eon to be brainwashed until it was done, and got between his pals. "Guys, please calm down!". Eruptor was annoyed "Oh, look who's here. I'm not surprised, you're always thinking you can control everything."
Spyro took it hard, but he had to endure for the sake of his friends. "So, what else do you have to say?" Dark Spyro quickly regretted as his previous friends gave him more and more critiques about his attitude, to the point where he couldn't handle it. Energy started to charge, and as he yelled "Stop it!", a powerful forcefield of electricity surrounded him and pushed his four friends away.
Dark Spyro catched his breath while Spyro was worried about what just happened. The electricity did little harm to them, but had the effect of cancelling the brainwashing effect. Pop Fizz woke up "Wait! What's going on?" Jet-Vac got his conciousness back as well. "I don't know. I felt an urge to tell the truth." Stealth Elf added "Me too! It happened after I watched that music video." Eon was relieved. "I don't know what happened, I'm glad you're all fine, now! Well... My phone was broken by the shock, but your well-being is more important." Dark Spyro was annoyed about that, but he just wanted to relax after that stress. Spyro was disgusted on the inside. "Guys... I'm so sorry that happened..."
In the evening, Eon asked to see Spyro at his office. "Spyro, I'd like to thank you for what you did today. I have a feeling Strykore was behind it..." The dark Spyro faked anger "I'll make sure he'll pay for this!" Eon continued "I have to say, what happened with Malefor really changed you, besides your appearance." Spyro gulped until he continued. "It made you more heroic. You stood up to save your friends despite your injuries." Dark Spyro, again, quickly changed the subject again. "Oh, you don't have to worry, I can deal with that. By the way. I managed to fix your phone. And it has the new music video. Wanna see?"
Unfortunately for him, Eon reveals something. "Well, actually, I think Jet-Vac has a point about how much people get carried away by those things, and I think I made the mistake by focusing too much on those apps. So I got a classic wired phone back. Sometimes, it's good to not rely so much on recent technology!" Dark Spyro did his best to hide his annoyed face at the fact that his plan was ruined.
Spyro, being very nervous, was temporarily relieved. "Well, there goes that plan! The map is safe from evil for now, but... I can't be lucky forever... And this failure won't erase the awful thing I did to my partners..." Thinking about it got him to tears...