The next day, Eon called Team Spyro to his office. "Skylanders, the time is rough. Not only is Strykore on his way to try to destroy the Core of Light, but now, Kaos and the Doom Raiders are also going to cause havoc around the Skylands. This is why we must be more vigilent than ever!" Stealth Elf was quick to talk for her team. "You can count on us, Master Eon! We won't do the same mistake as yesturday!" The other members agreed while Eon added "In order to make sure we don't take any risks, I upgraded my beard sense, and..." His beard started moving, as to tell him something. "No way... It couldn't be..." Eruptor got worried. "What is it?" Eon stayed silent a few seconds before answering. "I have a terrible information... There is a mole at the academy. Someone is secretly working for Strykore!" This information left the group shocked.

Jet-Vac was the first to break the silence. "A mole? How can this be?" Nervously, Dark Spyro adds "Exactly! How?" On his mind, he thought "Like how am I getting out of this...?" Spyro heard and desperatly stayed immobile inside his evil self's mind. "So the time has come... They will find out that I..." He couldn't bring himself to finish the thought.

Eon concludes "Skylanders, I don't mean to make you nervous, but you must act with extreme vigilence." As he leaves the room, Eruptor speaked "I know who the mole is!" Dark Spyro was scared until he continued. "... It's Kaossandra!" The dragon calmed down and added "Probably!" Stealth Elf was quick to defend her "She helped us fight back against Strykore, don't you remember?" "And what if it was just part of their plan? Besides, I saw her trying to do suspicious phone calls to someone."

Again, the elf doesn't buy it "A bad phone signal really isn't an argument. You need evidence!" The fire fighter didn't give up his idea. "I'll get those. I'll use an excuse to be alone with her and I'll make her talk!" Dark Spyro left a relieved sigh in front of everyone else, making him find an excuse "I'm just... relieved that the phone signal is good around here", before laughing nervously.

Spyro, meanwhile, tried to stay positive. "Well, at least, their suspicions are away from me for now... I do feel bad for Kaossandra, but it's not like I could do anything about it..."

While the others were still busy at the office, Dark Spyro flew very quickly to Spyro's bedroom and activated his telepathy. "Strykore!" At the castle, Strykore wasn't plotting and was simply reading a book. He was rather unpleased by the interruption, despite the fact that he does it to his henchman everytime "Spyro. This better be important! Don't you know even a master of darkness needs peace and quiet sometimes?"

"This is important! The Skylanders know there's a mole! What should I do?" Strykore didn't took the matter too seriously. "You'd better not give up your mission!" Dark Spyro took a small confidence to say "I've been thinking. Right now, I can still stab them in the back without them expecting it, and I'll crush them! The Skylands will be better without those creepy group-huggers!" While Strykore was pleased by his motivation, he kept his strict tone "You'd better not blow your cover until you get the map!" Dark Spyro was frustrated, but added "Understood! I'm on it, Master!" before disappearing.

Meanwhile, in Kaos' bedroom, Glumshanks walked around nervously. "Why can't I contact Miss Kaossandra with my cellphone? Maybe the academy has a terrible signal. I'm sure the magic mirror will allow me to contact her, and warn her that Spyro is working for Strykore." Glumshanks activated the mirror, only to be surprised by the fact that Strykore appears on it. "What are you doing? Are you trying to contact someone from the outside?"

Glumshanks almost jumpscared, but kept his cool. "Of course not, Sir! I was just... cleaning around, and I activated the mirror by mistake. My bad!" "Good..." added Strykore. "It would prove useless anyway. I used a magic around the castle to prevent any conversation with the outside!" As he disappears, Glumshanks ironically stated "Well, if this mirror is useless, we may as well throw it away..."

Dark Spyro made yet another attempt to infiltrate the Relic room and stumbled across an odd cube-shaped box. "Ooh, an old toy!" Suddenly, Strykore's voice echoed on his head, which is a reminder from his mind that the time is important. He then tries to activate the passageway with the lullaby, except that the computer declines as it wasn't Eon talking and told him that it was a terrible attempt. "Terrible impression? That's rude!" "Spyro? What are you doing?" Stealth Elf was inside the room, causing the dragon to panic. "Elf!" Luckily, Stealth Elf had other things to worry about. "I'm sure Eruptor is wrong about Kaossandra. I've been thinking about it and I think it's someone else." She starts fixing the black dragon. "Someone who's close to me..." Dark Spyro watched nervously, waiting for her to say it.

Spyro had a pain in his stomach from fear and started to feel tears in his eyes. "Well, this is it... Stealth Elf figured it out. My reputation as a Skylander and trusted friend is over..." He felt better when he heard her laughing. "I got you! What did I say before? To not make stare contests against people who don't have pupils!" She then leaves both Spyros relieved, and Dark Spyro had an idea. "Someone close to her, eh...?"

He decided to make his partners lose time by creating false evidence in their rooms that would make them accuse each other, while he's free to scheme on his side in the meantime. "Now let's let them do their work, and go to mine!" His next stop was Eon office. He was doing his usual nap, so Dark Spyro brought a recording device while he sleeps. "Eon... Please tell me your lullaby." While the process was painfully long due to , he was able to get the whole thing recorded. "I'll go home, edit it, and the map is mine!"

Dark Spyro came home, checking the weird box he found at the Relic room. As he expected it, Stealth Elf, Pop Fizz and Jet-Vac started to accuse each other because of Dark Spyro's "evidence" while he pretends to be shocked. Spyro could just watch in tears "My friends... They're fighting because of me..." But as he knows, it was useless to try to call them to explain, or to stop his dark self.

Taking profit from his old friends fighting, the dragon made what he hoped would be his last visit to the Relic room. He proudly went to the computer and activated his recording of Eon, which activated the passageway. "Alright! Map to Arkus, here I come! And so long this dumb academy!" Spyro couldn't do anything as he saw that he was finally going to help evil succeed. The dragon arrived on the room and was in for a shock. "Oh, my..."

The dragons didn't see anything else than a room dedicated to beards. Spyro reacted by saying "Oh my gosh! I know it's Eon, but still... At least, no map here!" He was happy, but Dark Spyro was freaking out.

"Really? Where's the map? Why are there so many products for beards? THAT'S what this idiotic sorcerer dares to call the biggest treasures of Skylands? Is this a joke?" He started to rage and purple steam came out of his horns as he exited yelling of rage. On his way, however, he flipped the pages of the book from the podium and noticed a page about a box that looked similar. "Is that...?"

He then started to read: "A Wumpan puzzle box is an artefact made to contain valuable objects. And the one located at the Skylander academy contains..." He gasped. "The map to Arkus! So I had it without knowing it! This is amazing! Strikes will be proud of me!" He then tries to open it and break it, but realized it would be hard as his first tries didn't do anything. "Well, I don't have to tell him right now..."

Meanwhile, Eruptor came back to Team Spyro's home with Kaossandra, proud to declare something to them. "Guys, I have great news! Kaossandra isn't a mole, or a spy!" He only heard his friends fighting as an answer. It wasn't until Eon arrived with an embarrassed expression that they calmed down.

"Everyone, I have something important to say. Remember when I said there was a mole in the academy? Turns out... It was an actual mole in one of the buildings, and I chased it. So there was no spy to begin with. Sorry for having you worried for nothing." "Seriously?", said Eruptor and Kaossandra. Stealth Elf, Jet-Vac and Pop Fizz were embarrassed to and apologized right as Dark Spyro came back and heard the news. "What did I miss?".

Eruptor answered to him. "I should've listened to Stealth Elf, because Kaossandra is not a mole. It turns out that she tried to contact Glumshanks at her castle, but that's because he is a mole against Strykore." Jet-Vac concludes "And there was no spy of Strykore at the academy, it was a mole, like, the animal." Dark Spyro tries his best not to be too relieved of the information in front of them, and decides to go outside to try to figure out how to open the box. Meanwhile, Stealth Elf was proud of Eruptor changing his mind.

The elf commented "I got angry for nothing. I guess Strykore's threat makes me nervous, so maybe I should go train to calm myself. You wanna come Eruptor?" The lava monster answered "I'd love to, but Kaossandra and I are rather tired after leading a revolution to fight against a troll dictature." Seeing his friends confused, he adds "That's a long story..." Kaossandra concludes saying "Let's say it'll be our little secret, right Eruptor?" The two giggled and Stealth Elf smiled at seeing Kaossandra accepted by the whole team.

But something still bothered her. "But... if there was no mole to begin with... what was with all this fake evidence...?" Everyone shrugged and as she was going outside to train, she noticed Spyro trying to open the puzzle box. While she trusts her best friend, she couldn't help but wonder if something was up with him.

Meanwhile, Spyro was on the ground of his void. "I got the map and I plan to give it to evil. I'm going against my goal in life, that I had since my birth. And my friends will find out soon enough. I'm an idiot, a dirty traitor..." He was now a pure being of evil, and all of this started to put him into a very deep state of depression "I'm the worst person ever! I shouldn't have come to life! Why can't I just be removed from existence instead of causing the Skylands and my friends trouble?"