Back in the temple, Jorge and the others finally made it to where the case was.
"Gentlemen, I give you the Sarcophagus of the Dark Entity" Kantrop presented.
"Well that was a fact worth knowing" remarked Jorge "Now what do we do?"
"You hand it over to us!" someone said from behind.
The trio turned around and saw none other than DuBois' men led by Dick Beaumont.
"Hello pigs!" Dick smirked.
"Dick Beaumont!" Jorge exclaimed "I knew we'd find you here!"
"Correct! And we'll be taking that case with us, if you don't mind" said Dick.
"I don't think so, you're coming with us!" Jorge exclaimed as he put his foot down on a tile, which was really some sort of activation button.
All of a sudden, some caskets opened up and some skeletons with dark purple glows in their eye sockets started approaching the infiltrating people.
"Aye carumba!" Jorge exclaimed "Skeletons!"
"Guys! You take care of the skeletons, I'll protect the case" said Kantrop.
"Got it!" Ivan and Jorge gave a thumbs up.
Jorge and Ivan started defending themselves from the skeletons, while Kantrop used his staff to fight off Dick and his goons from stealing the sarcophagus. Unfortunately, he was outnumbered and the thugs managed to grab the case.
"They're getting away!" Jorge said as he knocked off another skeleton.
Just as our heroes were about to go after the thugs, they realized that they were outnumbered by them.
"Put that does Beaumont!" Kantrop exclaimed "You have no idea how dangerous that thing is! If the entity is released into the world, we could all be doomed!"
"I don't think so, Big Guy" said Dick "My boss wants that case and promised me a handsome fee and there ain't nothing you can do about it! Get them boys!"
The big, surly goons started gaining up on our protagonists with laser cannons, ready to blast them. At the same time, Red and Elton were behind some sort of throne thing.
"What're we gonna do, Elton?" Red whispered to Elton "We have to save them!"
"Indeed" Elton nodded "I already lost my master, Tim. I'm not going to lose my new one. Maybe there's a button on this wall that can help us"
"Then let's check the wall" said Red "But be careful, you have no idea what these other buttons do"
The bird and the aardvark searched through the wall, but couldn't find anything.
"Well there don't seem to be any buttons, so we're gonna have to attack those thugs with everything we got" said Red.
"Got it!" Elton nodded.
Red and Elton went to help their human companions when all of a sudden, Elton stepped on a tile on the floor, which turned out to be an activation button that opened up a trap door that Dick and his goons were standing on and they fell right into it, all the way outside the temple.
"Well that was unexpected" Jorge remarked.
"Thanks Elton, thanks Red" Kantrop pet the animals' heads.
"That was a smooth move, boys" Ivan folded his arms "Only one problem...they had the sarcophagus and if I'm not mistaken, that leads to the outside"
"Then we must get outside before they do! Come on!" Kantrop exclaimed.
Jorge, Ivan, Kantrop, Elton and Red ran out of the temple as fast as they could. Back outside, Gadget, Mantis and Jasper landed right in the temple's entrance.
"Finally, we made it" Gadget said as his copter went back into his head "Come on!"
The trio ran towards the entrance when all of a sudden, they crashed into their friends...literally.
"Gadget!" Jorge exclaimed as he saw his partner.
"Kantrop! Buddy!" Kantrop hugged his best buddy.
"Guys! You're okay" Gadget smiled "Thank goodness ya'll are safe. What happened?"
"We were trying to look for the sarcophagus, but Beaumont and his goons got to it first and now, they're off with it" Ivan explained "We have to go stop them before they realize that the Dark Entity is not a toy!"
"No time" said Gadget "DuBois is going to blow up the island! We've got to stop her!"
"Then there's no time to waste" Ivan proclaimed "We'd better get going!"
"Everybody get onto me" Gadget told his friends.
Ivan, Jorge, Mantis and Kantrop grabbed on Gadget's arms and held on tight. The trio of animals then leaped on as well.
"Go go gadget, power skates!" Gadget exclaimed "Tubro boost!"
And with breakneck speed, our heroes were on their way to the volcano. At that same time, Dick and the goons brought the sarcophagus to DuBois.
"Here you go, Madame DuBois" Dick showed her the sarcophagus.
"Good" DuBois placed her hands on her hips "Now, I can use this thing to harness these so-called ancient powers and become the most powerful being in existence"
"Now about the fine..." Dick rubbed his fingers.
"Zip it, Dick! I'm busy" DuBois said as she turned on her video watch to call Krunk, who was inside the volcano cave "Krunk! Is the bomb ready?"
"Yes, m'lady" Krunk replied "The bomb is in place"
"Good! Now, I can activate the bomb" DuBois said as she pressed a button on her watch, which started the countdown clock on the bomb, which was about 60 seconds.
"AAAHHHH!" Krunk screamed as he ran out of the cave.
While Krunk was running out of the cave, Gadget and the others were still rocketing towards the cave until they finally reached it.
"Gadget! Mira!" Jorge pointed to the cave "We're here!"
"Good, now you can stop" Jorge remarked.
"Okay" said Gadget "Go go gadget brakes!"
Just then, Gadget's skates converted back into shoes and he stopped right in front of the cave, but his friends also flew right off of him and landed right in the ground.
"Guys, this is no time to be taking a nap" Gadget used his extension arms to pull them out of the ground "We have a bomb to stop"
Our heroes ran over to the bomb, where they saw various charges plugged into it and there were 30 seconds on the countdown clock.
"It would seem that one of these charges stops the bomb" said Ivan "We must approach this with as much careful thought and much scientific strategy"
"No time for that! Let's just pull them all out" Gadget said in a panicked tone.
"I hate to say this, but that's just crazy enough to work, Gadget" Ivan remarked.
"SO PULL!" Gadget shouted.
Our heroes started pulling all the wires, but nothing stopped the countdown clock. Elton then saw one particular wire and had a gut feeling that it was the one to pull out and with no further delay, he pulled the wire with all his might and finally, the bomb shut down.
"Elton! You did it!" Mantis exclaimed "You stopped the bomb from blowing up the volcano!"
"Yeah, you are one awesome aardvark" Jorge added.
"See Gadget? We all have talents that can make our team stronger" Ivan folded his arms.
"It was just pure coincidence, Ivan" Gadget retorted "I could've found the charge by myself"
"I hate to break up this argument, but we still have a cursed case to contend with" Jorge pointed out.
"You're right Jorge! Into the jungle!" Gadget proclaimed "Go go gadget copter!"
Gadget's copter came out of his hat and he flew himself and his friends
Meanwhile in the jungle, DuBois and her men were right near their copter with the sarcophagus. Little did they know that someone was right behind a tree, waiting for them to take off.
"Now let's get this back to the lair" she said "I've got big plans for this thing"
Just then, Gadget and his friends landed right in front of DuBois.
"Not so fast, Fiona!" Gadget said as his copter went back into his hat "In the name of all that is good and law-abiding, you're under arrest!"
"Oh really?" DuBois folded her arms.
"Yeah! That thing is going back to where it belongs and you're going back to prison for a long time!" Gadget exclaimed "Go go gadget power skates!"
"Gadget! Wait!" Ivan shouted as he tried to warn Gadget of some potential disaster.
In just the blink of an eye, Gadget's shoes converted into power skates and he started to zoom right towards DuBois and her goons, but unfortunately started to zoom out of control and all around the jungle.
"Whoa!' Gadget shouted as he was skating out of control "Wowsers!"
Japser and Elton grabbed onto Gadget's legs to stop him, but it didn't work at all, the cyborg cop just kept on zooming until finally...he crashed right into DuBois, which caused the sarcophagus to fall right out of her hands, fall onto the ground and break open.
"Oops" Gadget gulped.
Just then, some dark smoke emerged from the case and it flew right into the sky, leaving everybody speechless.
"Quick m'lady! Now's our chance!" said Dick.
DuBois and her goons then fled right into the copter and started flying off at perpetual speed. Just then, the person hiding the behind the tree jumped right from the tree and grabbed onto the copter's right landing skid. Everybody was so panicked by the oncoming dark stuff that they didn't even notice.
"Guys! Mira! The crooks are getting away!" Jorge exclaimed "We've gotta go after them!"
"No time" said Kantrop "We have to get back to the village and tell the rest of the tribe"
"What have I done?" Gadget whispered to himself.
The five went back to the village and wasted no time explaining what had happened to the whole tribe.
"...so you see sir, the past has returned to us and we need to do something about it" Mantis finished explaining.
"And it's all thanks to Inspector Gadget" Ivan glared at the inspector.
"I see" said the chief "Come with me"
Our heroes followed the chief to the shaman's hut, where he gave them some important information.
"When we defeated Zorbad the last time, we used three ancient diamonds to imprison him and counteract his spell" Shaman Miyambo explained "When we defeated him, we hid the diamonds in three different locations. Only by returning them to their original places on the ancient sun-dial, will you save the world"
"That doesn't sound so hard" Gadget remarked.
"Unfortunately, you must do it in time" the shaman continued.
"What do you mean by 'in time'?" asked Ivan.
"See that hole in the sky?" the chief pointed to a swirling, dark purple hole in the sky.
"Yes" our heroes nodded.
"That void looks small right now, but it will keep growing until it sucks out all life as we know it" the shaman explained "That's why you have to find the diamonds before it's too late. One of them is here on Earth and the other two are on a planet that some of our people descended from. We used our magic and their magic to send the diamonds there. You will need to go there to recover the last two diamonds"
"Figures" Ivan rolled his eyes "Nobody would ever suspect to look on another planet"
"Don't worry shaman, we are always on duty!" Gadget saluted.
"Mantis! Kantrop! You two will have to go with them" said the chief "They could use some extra hands"
"Must we?" Mantis folded his arms "That Inspector Gadget guy caused all this"
"Well we have no choice" said Kantrop "After all, it's our duty as members of the tribe to protect this island from any possible dangers"
"Fine" Mantis rolled his eyes "But I'm keeping an eye on that gizmo guy!"
"Here is a map that'll guide you to the diamonds" Shaman Miyambo gave Mantis a map "You'd better get to it!"
"We're on duty, shaman!" Gadget saluted "To the Gadgetmobile everyone!"
Our heroes ran to the Gadgetmobile, who was still waiting by the beach.
"Bout time y'all arrived, I think I'm getting some sand in my grille" the Gadgetmobile remarked.
"Holy cow! Is that car talking?!" Mantis shouted.
"Of course I'm talking, man" said the Gadgetmobile "Hey Gadget! Who are your friends?"
"Well Gadgetmobile, let's just say we're having our work cut out for us" Gadget put it mildly.
Meanwhile, DuBois' copter was still flying back to the mainland. On the left skid, the person who secretly stowed away used his wristwatch to contact someone. The person who appeared on his watch's screen was none other than...Dr. Claw.
"Talon?" Claw asked as he saw who was contacting him.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's Note:
Like Gadget said, our heroes are about to have their work cut out for them. They must save the world from Zorbad and the Dark Entity before it destroys all of humanity by recovering the enchanted diamonds! Together, they will travel to different locations and track down the diamonds before Zorbad finds them first and uses them to wipe out the planet and recreate it in his own glory.
Unfortunately we won't be seeing more on their journey in the next episode because we are going back to Bay City and see how Penny and her friends are doing. Also because the person who escaped is going to be in it. Stay tuned.