Lion-O the Lord of he Thundercats hasn't always had an easy time when he first took over the reigns of leadership. He knew that he was a boy of 12 years old when he entered a suspension capsule and now he was a man 10 years later. During his trials as leader the spirit of Jaga the Wise would always advise him on matters referring to the Thundercats code of honor. Now he is learning more and more to handle things on his own. But this particular night might be different, he knows that the Planeteers lost the use of their rings thanks to Mumm-Ra and his dark powers. Now he hopes that the spirit of Jaga might be able to help restore their powers. When it was late enough he left his own room and entered the sword chamber.
The sword chamber room is much different than all the other rooms. This room was designed with a special lock known only to the Thundercats, but then they had to change it a little when Mumm-Ra once discovered the lock's key when he was once in disguise.
Ever since that night the Thundercats had always taken precautions so that it would never happen. As Lion-O entered the sword chamber he saw a beam of pure moon light striking down on the Sword Of Omens. The sword and shield were placed on a special pedestal in order to show respect for the Eye Of Thundera that is always embedded with in the sword, the source of the Thundercats' power.
"Jaga, I need your wisdom now more than ever tonight, please come and talk to me." Lion-O said to the empty room.
If this was any other person talking to thin air some people would think he had lost his mind. When the sword first landed in Lion-O's growned up hands, he was granted the power to speak with the previous owner of the sword. Only Lion-O can see and speak to Jaga The Wisest of all the other Thundercats that he was onced called a long time ago.
Suddenly Lion-O heard a voice coming from inside the room. "I am here my friend Lion-O" The voice said as the spirit of Jaga appeared within a blue aurora.
Jaga was still wearing the clothing that we had worn during their last fight with the mutants. He was wearing a type of Viking helmet and a Brest plate not to mention a cape that went down to his feet. He was also wearing the Thunderian bracelets that he once worn as the greatest leader for his people.
"Jaga I need your help with our new friends, The Planeteers." Lion-O paused then started to continue." Mumm-Ra has somehow disabled their elemental rigs and I don't know if Tygra, Panthro and Lynx-O can restore them."
"I have been paying attention to what the Planeteers where saying from beyond the mortal plain." Jaga said then started to continue. "There may be a way to restore their rings at least for a short time until a more permanent way can be found."
"How Jaga? How can their rings be restored?"
"The Eye of Thundera might be able to restore their powers at least for a short time, but we would need the help of the person who gave them their rings in the first place in order to make it permanent."
"If the sword can do it that would make our new friends happy, but they said that they got their power from Gaia, the Spirit of the Earth. Do you know her?"
"I have only heard of legends of this Gaia person, but I will search for her on my end, you Lion-O must try to restore the Planeteers rings."
"I will try Jaga, but what if the Eye of Thundera isn't enough to fully energize them?"
"Hopefully I will have found this Gaia and brought her here with me so she can help us out as well."
"But Jaga you know that only I can see and hear you. How are you going to get this Gaia person to see and hear you?'
Jaga then starts to chuckle a little. "My young lord I have learned many new tricks since I have been in the spirit world. Like the ability to allow others to see and hear me."
"That's incredible Jaga, I never knew that was even possible."
"Its not something that I have worked on before but it might just be what we need given their situation."
"I agree Jaga, I'll have Panthro ,Lynx-O and Tygra try to at least see what they can do on their end."
"Alright Lion-O, but I must warn you of one thing, if you do use the sword to re-energize their rings, then after that the Eye will not be able to it again for some time."
"Why not? Why couldn't the sword be used to re-energize their rings multiple times?"
"The rings are pure elemental powers, the Eye's power would be completely spent and would need time to recharge, so only use it as a last resort." Jaga paused and then continued." Remember Lion-O only as a last resort." Jaga said as he took his cape wrapped it around himself and disappeared.
Lion-O stood there in the sword chamber with moire questions than answers. "I hope you know what you are talking about Jaga." Lion-O said in the dead air of the chamber." We just have to help our friends."
Even though Lion-o thought that the conversation he was having with Jaga was in private, he didn't know that Mumm-Ra was still monitoring everything thanks to his black cauldron. Now the mummy was even more angry than before, he knew that he had to stop the Thundercats before they could restore the Planeteers rings. "Perhaps this might work out in my favor." He started to think while looking in to the pool. "If I could get those miserable Thundercats to re-energize the Planeteer's rings then I can grab the sword and steal all of its powers for myself. This just might out in my favor after all." Then he started to talk aloud. Ancient Spirits Of Evil, is what Jaga said true, can the sword loose its power by re-energizing the Planetteers' rings.?"
Then all four statues came to life with Glowing red eyes. "YES MUMM-RA." They started to say in unison and raising their voices to the highest levels." THE SWORD WOULD LOOSE MOST OF ITS POWERS, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO FORCE THE THUNDERCATS INTO ACTIVATING THE SWORD."
"That will be no problem, those idiots that have returned to the remains of Castle Plun-Dar will serve our purpose quite nicely. HAHAHAHA." Mumm-Ra said as he went back into his sarcophagus to go back to sleep until morning.
Morning came and the entire Cat's Lair was still in static after the moments that happened last night after Dinner. Linka was still engaged to be married to Wheeler and Gi wouldn't stop glaring at the engagement ring Linka had on her finger. All of the Thundercats and the Planeteers were up at the crack of dawn ready to try and restore their ring's power. The other guests have decided to leave as well but all promised to return later to see how everything went.
All of the Thundercats and the Planeteers were in the main conference room again to have a well deserved breakfast. Even though they were eating a very delicious meal Gi still couldn't stop looking at Linka's engagement ring.
"Gi are you ever gonna pull your eyes away from that ring." Kwami said as he was looking at her.
"I just can't help it." She replied. "That is the most beautiful ring that I have ever seen."
"Da, I know what you mean Gi. I can't stop looking at it either." Linka answered.
'Wheeler my friend, where did you ever find that ring." Kwami asked not trying to pry.
''Actually he got it from me." Cheetara said.
"Wheeler got this beautiful ring from you Cheerata?" Linka asked as all eyes when on Cheetara.
"Yes, Wheeler asked me if I had something that he could use to ask you that question. I found it in my jewelry box I just had a feeling about it."
"Is that your sixth sense working again Cheetara?" Wilykit asked.
"I guess you could say that Wilykit. Anyway I just knew that this ring that I had would be very special to someone in the near future. I'm glad that I was right.
"Da, you were right Cheetara, thank you." Linka replied trying not to blush.
"Actually you should thank Wheeler Linka. If he hadn't suggested it at first then I wouldn't have found it in the first place.
Linka then turned to face Wheelr. "Thank you Yankee, you have made me the happiest woman ever."
"Linka, babe its like I told you last night when I proposed to you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you no matter where we are." Wheeler said
Linka then responds by giving Wheeler a really passionate kiss right there in front of everybody.
"All right you two, I believe the show is over for now." Panthro said trying to interrupt the love birds.
"Yea, your right Panthro." Wheeler said as he and Linka broke contact.
"Now lets see if Panthro and I can get your rings working." Tygra said. "May we have them please?"
After that all of the Planeteers took of their Planeteer rings and gave them to Tygra.
'All right Panthro, lets get these rings to the lab and see what we can do" Tygra said while he was getting up.
"Sure thing, don't worry guys we'll get them working again." Panthro said as he followed Tygra to the lab.
"Lion-O, do you really think that they will be able to get our rings working again?" Ma-Ti asked looking a little hopeful.
"I'm sure that if anyone can do it then it will be Tygra and Panthro, they're the best." Lion-O said.
"I'd better go with them." Lynx-O said as he got up. "With my enhanced senses I might be able to detect something that the equipment can't."
"Good idea Lynx-O yuo just might be the key to everything." Lion-O said as Lynx-O went to join the others.
"Why don't the rest of you take it easy for the day. I'm sure that you all have lots to talk about." Lion-O said as he got up. "I'm going to the control room to start monitor duty."
"We'll come along with you Lion-O." Wilykay said as Wilykit, Pumyra and Bengali followed him.
"Ok so now that we are alone just the five of us, I just have one question to ask you Linka." Gi said.
"What is it Gi?" Linka responded.
"When is the date for the wedding?"
"GI, GIVE US A LITTLE TIME TO DECIDE ON THAT FIRST OK?!" Linka yelled while the others started to laugh.
It was the crack of dawn and Mumm-Ra knew what he had to do, since he couldn't leave his home in his present condition he decided that an old friend of his could handle this mission. This old friend hasn't been used since all of his other allies in evil were banished away from Third Earth by the Thundercats. Mumm-Ra started to walk over to a small statue next to his sarcophagus, this statue as a medium size bull dog made completely of stone. Mumm-Ra then place his hand above the dogs head.
"Time to wake up my little Ma-Mutt." Mumm-Ra said as the statue's eyes started to glow red. "Your master has need of you again my little painful pooch." Mumm-Ra said again as the statue completely changed into a live dog.
Ma-Mutt was a gray bulldog with only a few teeth showing on the outside of his mouth. He also is wearing a red collar with white spikes on it.
"Ha my little Ma-Mutt I have a job for you my little friend." Mumm-Ra said as he kneeled down and started to whisper in the little dog's ear. After hear his master's command, Ma-Mutt ran off and out of the Pyramid's open entrance, then headed straight for Castle Plun-Dar.
The journey for Ma-Mutt between the Black Pyrmaid and castle Plun-Dar would have taken a long time, but Ma-mutt transformed himself into pure dark energy and zapped its self there in no time. When Ma-Mutt got to the castle he saw Blight, Nukem and Sludge having breakfast together eating something edible at least for breakfast.
"What in the world do you call this stuff Blight?" Sludge asked
"Its what I could find Sludge, just eat it and be done with it." Blight retorted
"That easy for you to say Blight. I don't know what's in it.'
"Quit complaining, anyway we did kill one of those Planet-punks didn't we?"
"Are you sure about that Blight, I mean we didn't stay long enough to find out." Nukem added.
"Would you rather stay and fight or leave and plan for the next time."
"I see you point there Blight." Nukem answered.
Then out of nowhere Ma-Mutt jumped down from the roof of the building and started to growl at all three of them.
"Hey Blight what's the deal with that mutt, didn't you feed him already?" Sludge questioned Blight.
"Don't look at me, that's not my dog." She said as the dog started to blow some kind of black fog.
"What is this stuff it sorta feel kinda nice." Sludge said
"Who cares what this stuff is, we have to get it out of here." Blight said as she was heading for the window.
Then all of the fog that Ma-Mutt blew out started to transform into an image of Mumm-Ra in his mummy form.
"Mumm-Ra, what the heck do you want?" Nukem said looking mean.
"You three bunglers have failed me again." the image started to say.
"What are you talking about you stupid mummy. We killed one of those planet pests."
"YOU'VE ALL FAILED. THE THUNDERCATS WERE ABLE TO SAVE HIS LIFE." Mumm-Ra stated very loud.
"Blast those Thundercats, now all five Planeteers are back together."
"Yea but without the means to call Captain Planet we still have them beat." Sludge stated.
"Ah, but there in lies the solution. I want you to attack Cat's Lair and the Thundercats so that the Planeteers can call upon Captain Planet."
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! WHY WOULD WE ALLOW THEM TO CALL CAPTAIN PLANET?!" Blight said very loudly.
"Because my dear if you attack them right now and force Lion-O and his stupid sword to re-energize the planet pests tings then I can come in at take Lion'O's sword away from him and finally destroy them."
"You want us to attack them so that you can steal a stupid sword?" Nukem said "You must be crazy."
"Trust me you stupid morons, if you attack them, right now I guarantee that victory will be ours."
"Well we did agree to help you destroy your enemies, so lets get it over with." Blight said as she started to head for the hangar. "You two morons coming?"
"And just how are we gonna destroy the Thundercats and their home.?" Nukem added.
"Simple I've equipped our vehicles with something I call a toxic missile. Once it impacts something its starts to dissolve it's target into complete nothingness."
"Then lets get going."Sludge stated. "I want to beat those pesky cats before lunchtime."
With that all of the Eco-Villains headed towards and boarded their vehicles. "I hope these things work doc." Nukem said while seeing the toxic missiles equipped to each vehicle."
"Trust me, and if we miss that target, they are programmed to seek and destroy it." Blight stated.
"Then lets get this over with." Sludge said as all three of them took off for Cat's Lair
Inside the Cat's Lair, Tygra and Panthro weren't making heads or tails out of the Planeteers' rings. They just couldn't understand how these little rings could hold so much power.
"Tygra, did you try the alpha scanner yet?" Panthro asked.
"I just did Panthro, and I am still getting a negative reading." Tygra replied. "Whatever these rings are, we just can't figure out a way to get them working again."
"We have to try, after all we promised them that we would."
"I know but I don't think that even Thundercats can make miracles happen like that."
"Lynx-O can you sense anything from these rings?" Panthro asked.
"I am picking up a very small bond from each of these rings but I am unaware of how we can access it." Lynx-O stated looking very confused.
Just then Lion-O entered the lab. "Are you three any closer to figuring out how to re-energize those rings?"
"Not any time soon Lion-O." Panthro stated. "I've just never seen anything like these rings before, they are completely alien to me."
"I was afraid of that." Lion-O said.
"What do you mean my young friend?" Lynx-O asked .
"I was talking to Jaga last light about the Planeteers' situation with their rings."
"And what did Jaga say about them?" Tygra asked.
"That only the one who gave them their rings can completely re-energize them."
"Is there anything else?"
"Yes, he said that the sword can restore the rings but only for a short time."
"Well I'd say that is good news, we should tell them right away."Panthro said.
"Hold up there Panthro, its not as easy as that."
"What do you mean Lion-O?" Lynx-O asked.
"Jaga told me that if I used the sword to re-energize their rings, then the sword would loose all of it's power for a while."
"Did he mention for how long?" Panthro asked.
"No, and that's what he's worried about."
"I can see his point, if we did use the sword to activate their rings then then sword would be vulnerable to anyone taking it." Tygra said
"Exactly Tygra, Jaga said to only use that option if we had no other choice."
"Well lets hope that we don't have to use it." Panthro said.
"I'm in full agreement with you both of you."Lynx-O stated. "Lion-O did Jaga said what he was doing in the mean time?"
"He told me that he was gonna look for this Gaia person. Maybe she has the power tom restore the rings for good.."
After Lion-o had finished the Lair's alarms all started to sound off.
"All Thundercats and Planeteers to the control room at once we have a major problem coming in." Wilykit over the radio.
"We better get moving." Panthro said as he took all of the Planeteers' rings.
"Are you giving them back to the Planeteers?" Lynx-O asked.
"Do you have a better idea, besides we might have no choice in the matter."
"Agreed, now lets head back to the control room and return their rings." Lion-O said as all three Thundercats headed back to the control room.