As the sword started to travel through the air, all of Spidera's children did what they could to try and stop it. As they started to fire their web blasts at it, the sword started to spin faster and faster at a circular motion until it started to create a powerful heat shield that melted away any webbing that was near it into nothingness. As it continued to fly through the air, the sword started to sense its master's presence and adjusted its course towards him. Once the sword found its master, the sword impacted just above the cocoon and then started to cover it with a white burning light that started to destroy all of the webbing that created it freeing its master.
As the last of the webs started to melt away, the hand of its master started to reach out and up above his head drawing the sword out and moving it back in front of his face.
"Spidera, you have gone too far this time and now we will have to stop you from hurting anyone else ever again." Lion-O stated.
"No my friend, you will not stop me or I will kill and destroy my last remaining food source." Spidera thought as she headed towards her last webbed cocoon.
"YOU LEAVE THAT COCOON ALONE BUG-FACE!" Wheeler started to shout.
"You can't stop me from taking my food source away and eating it in peace, so don't make me laugh." Spidera thought as she was almost within range of the last cocoon.
"I'M WARING YOU SPIDERA, LEAVE HER ALONE!" Wheeler again started to shout.
"Spidera, I don't want to harm you but I will to keep her away from you." Lion-O stated.
"You fools, she is mine now and there is nothing that you can do about it." Spidera responded.
"YOU MONSTER! TAKE THIS, FIRE!" Wheeler shouted as a red beam came from out of his ring striking Spidera in one of her eight legs.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH! YOU LITTLE FOOL, NOW YOU WILL WITNESS AS I KILL HER RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES!" Spidera thought as she grabbed the cocoon with one of her other legs and sliced off the webbing covering Linka's face.
As the webbing started to come off from her face, Linka was still out cold as if she is still in some sort of deep sleep. As the last of the webbing came off, Spidera was moving one of it's legs near Linka's head in order to poison or to kill her as she had threatened.
"LEAVE HER ALONE YOU MONSTER, OR I WILL NOT HESITATE TO END YOUR LIFE!" Wheeler yelled as he was then tackled down to the ground by Tygra and Panthro.
"Wheeler you have to calm down and let Lion-O try and save her." Tygra stated as he and Panthro were trying to restrain him.
"Wheeler please trust us and trust in the Eye Of Thundera to save her." Panthro added.
"She is my wife, I love her and I can't loose her!" Wheeler stated as he tried to get back up.
"LION-O, PLEASE TRY TO SAVE LINKA, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG WE CAN KEEP WHEELER PINNED DOWN HERE." Tygra stated as Turmagar also tried to help.
While the others were trying to stop Wheeler, Lion-O was trying his best to save Linka without hurting her in the process.
"Spidera, let her go." Lion-O stated.
"She is mine now and I will kill her if only to feast on her corpse."
"I'm sorry for what I am about to do Spidera. HO!" Lion-O started to yell as the sword transformed from dagger to long sword mode.
"You know that you can not kill me, your sword will not kill a living being." Spidera answered.
"You are right about that Spidera. My sword won't kill you but I can stop you from killing Linka." Lion-O responded as he started to aim the tip of the sword at Linka.
"LION-O, I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE DON'T HARM LINKA! IF YOU DO THEN I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" Wheeler shouted while still trying to get Tygra, Panthro and Turmagar off of him.
"Wheeler you must calm down, Lion-O will save Linka but you have to trust us.." Tygra stated as he continued to hold Wheeler down.
"Guys, I know that you mean well, but this is the woman I love and I will gladly sacrifice my own life to save her if I have to." Wheeler stated as he tried to get his ring hand free.
"Wheeler my friend you must trust the Thundercats." Turmagar started to say. "Their code forbids them from killing anyone."
"Turmagar, Panthro, Tygra, I know you mean well, but I have to try and save my wife." Wheeler stated as he once again tried to get free.
"LION-O, PLEASE HURRY, WHEELER IS STARTING TO SLIP OUT OF OUR HANDS!" Panthro shouted.
"This ends now Spidera. HO!" Lion-o shouted as a beam of white energy shot out from the sword and started to strike the cocoon that Linka was still trapped in.
"LINKA! NO!" Wheeler shouted as he saw the beam from the sword strike the cocoon covering the rest of Linka's body.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Spidera started to think. "YOU WOULD KILL AN INNOCENT PERSON TO STOP ME?"
"I am not killing anyone Spidera, just your cocoon." Lion-O stated as the beam from the sword started to get dimmer and dimmer.
As the beam from the sword started to dissipate, the cocoon that Linka was still trapped in started to show signs of being burned. After a moment, the burnt strands started to crumble as the cocoon completely burned away freeing Linka from her prison of webs. Once freed, Linka was still unconscious as her body fell down to the ground right below Spidera's body.
"YOU MAY HAVE FREED HER BUT NOW I WILL KILL HER AND YOUR FRIEND WILL FOREVER BE IN PAIN." Spidera thought as she started to lunge one of her legs towards Linka's unconscious body.
At that moment, another red beam came out from the distance and struck Spidera's leg causing the spider to feel even more pain than before.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Spidera started to think in pain.
"I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE MY WIFE ALONE!" Wheeler shouted as he tried to aim his ring at Spidera's body.
"LION-O, WHAT EVER YOU ARE GOING TO DO, PLEASE HURRY. WE WILL TRY TO HOLD WHEELER BACK A BIT LONGER!" Tygra shouted as they tried to restrain Wheeler and calm him down.
"Its over Spidera. Let us leave. You are hurt and we don't want to hurt you any more." Lion-O stated while Spidera was still in pain.
"I PROMISE YOU THIS THUNDERCAT, YOU MAY LEAVE ALIVE TODAY, BUT I WILL HAVE MY FOOD SOURCES AGAIN AND NEXT TIME I WON'T BE STOPPED." Spidera thought.
"Then lets us go home, there has been enough violence done already." Lion-O stated.
"VERY WELL, LEAVE MY KINGDOM, BUT BE WARNED, NEXT TIME YOU VENTURE INTO MY HOME I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE." Spidera thought as she and her children started to leave the chamber.
Seeing that Spidera and her children had started to leave, Turmagar, Panthro and Tygra all got off of Wheeler and helped him back to his feet.
"Sorry about that my friend, we were just trying to help save you and our friends." Turmagar stated as the group started to run towards Lion-O and Linka.
"Guys, I am more worried about Linka. I need to be with her." Wheeler stated as they all approached Lion-O with Linka still on the floor.
"Lion-O, how's Linka?" Tygra asked as the group reunited with Lion-O and Linka."
"I don't know, she's still out cold." Lion-O stated as he was kneeling next to Linka's head.
"LINKA, BABE, PLEASE BE ALRIGHT!" Wheeler almost shouted as he went down to his knees right by Linka's side.
"Wheeler, we'd better get her back to the lair so that Bengali can check her out." Panthro stated.
"Tygra, why don't you help Wheeler carry Linka while we head back towards the Thundertank." Lion-O stated as he started to get back up.
"NO." Wheeler started to say. "I'll carry her back to the tank. I owe her that much for what she had to endure without me here to try and help her."
"Wheeler, you don't have to prove anything to us or yourself by being so foolhardy. Lets us help." Tygra stated.
"Guys I love her and I would do anything for her just like she did for me." Wheeler responded as he started to pick up Linka and carry her in his arms.
"Lets get back to the tank and get back to the lair while we can." Panthro stated.
"We also have to pick up the Hovercat. I left it outside next to the entrance to Spidera's underground kingdom." Wheeler replied.
"When we get back to the tank, then we will head straight towards the Hovercat and bring them both back to the lair." Tygra stated.
"We better get moving then." Lion-O stated as they all started to head back towards the tank.
As the group started to head back to the tank, Wheeler couldn't stop thinking about how he reacted during the meeting and the fight with Spidera. He felt so much remorse for what he did by letting his feelings for Linka get in the way of his head. He was hoping that after everything that had happened the Thundercats as well as Turmagar could forgive him for his actions. He also started to look at his ring, he was amazed by what he was seeing. Normally the effect that Mumm-Ra did to disable their rings would return after a short while, but now it has been much longer and his ring is still clear and at full power.
As they started to get closer to the tank, Turmagar started to notice the strange look on Wheeler's face ever since they had left Spidera's main chamber with Linka still in his arms while one of her arms was draped around his neck.
"Is everything all right my friend? You seem to be lost in thought." Turmagar said as the whole team decided to take a break for a while.
"I've been wondering about you myself Wheeler." Tygra started to add. "Is everything all right?"
After a moment, Wheeler decided to rest for a while as well but still holding onto Linka with all his strength. After another moment, he started to answer both Tygra and Turmagar.
"I don't know guys." Wheeler started to say. "I am just so sorry about what had happened back there in the chamber."
"Wheeler, there is no need to be sorry." Lion-O started to say. "We all know how you feel about Linka and would do anything to save her."
"But the way I acted towards everyone and especially to you Lion-O, that was unforgivable."
"Wheeler." Panthro started to say. "We all know that what you said before, was said out of love and anger. You didn't know what was happening with the cocoon and you just acted out."
"Wheeler, I can assure you that I would never harm you or any other member of your team. It goes against our Thundercat Code." Lion-O responded.
"What is this Thundercat Code that you all keep talking about anyway?" Wheeler responded.
"It is our most sacred law." Panthro responded.
"It is what binds the Thundercats together thru everything that we had to endure back home on Thundera and now here on Third Earth." Tygra added.
"For us, breaking that sacred code would be the worst punishment ever. It would mean that all we had been through was for nothing, and that all of our hard work would have been in vain."
"That almost sounds like this very special person that we have back home on Earth." Wheeler replied.
"What sort of person, if you don't mind me asking." Turmagar asked.
"No, its OK Turmagar." Wheeler started to reply. "This special person is a what we call a holy man."
"Holy Man? What is that?" Tygra asked.
"I'm so sorry, of course, you never heard of a holy man before. A holy man is a person who leads a group of other people in what we call preys. When we prey, we try to communicate to the people that had left this world and moved onto the next one." Wheeler stated.
"And how does this holy man come into the picture?" Panthro asked.
"On our home world, the holy man is noted to be the servant of our lord Jesus Christ and supposed to have a direct link to communicate with him whenever the time arrives." Wheeler replied.
"It sounds like you have a spiritual leader of sorts where you come from." Lion-O added.
"In a way I guess you could say that we do." Wheeler started to reply. "Now we better get back to the tank and then the lair."
"I agree with you Wheeler, we still need to make sure that Linka is fine and try to help her wake up." Tygra responded.
"Wheeler my friend, perhaps you can continue your story from before, while we are heading back to the vehicles." Turmagar asked as they all started to get back to their feet, except for Linka, who was still held in Wheeler's arms.
"That sounds like a good idea Turmagar." Panthro responded.
"I also agree with the both of you." Tygra added.
"What story are the three of you talking about?" Lion-O asked with a little excitement in his voice.
"Wheeler was telling us about a celebration that he and his fellow Planeteers went to on their home planet a few years ago.." Tygra replied.
"It is filled with lots of fun and screams." Panthro stated as the others started to laugh a little.
"I think that you meant a night full of fun and frights." Wheeler replied.
"That's the one." Tygra added.
"That sounds interesting. Can you continue the story Wheeler? It is gonna take us a while longer to reach the tank and then to reach the Hovercat." Lion-O stated.
"Sure, and maybe continuing the story might help sleeping beauty here wake up." Wheeler stated as he took a quick look at Linka still out like a light but still in his arms.
As the group started to move out, Turmagar, as well as Tygra and Panthro, started to fill Lion-O in on what had happened so far. They told him about the theme park and about the first haunted house as well as the walking zombies with fake chainsaws that kept trying to scare anyone within their path. As Lion-O was finally caught up to where Wheeler had left off in the story, every one else was waiting to hear what happened next.
As the Planeteers started to enter another line queue, with their express passes in hand, all of them could not resist seeing a projection of some sort being shown on a big screen on top of a stage that the performers used for singing and dancing during the night. As they all watched, they saw a man with some sort of a white ragged bag, completely covering the man's face while he started to kill people by surprise. As Gi and Linka started to see this, the boys all started to move down the queue to head towards the house. As the guys started to move out, they all heard the girls let out a slight scream as the girls noticed that the boys were not with them. Once the girls found out that the boys had left them alone and in front of the screen, they were almost ready to do some killing themselves for what the guys had done. The girls then noticed the boys all in the distance as both Linka and Gi started to catch up to them, as they got closer they both saw that the boys were having a little chuckle at the girls expense.
"Very funny guys, very funny." Gi said as she joined the guys and playfully gave a punch to Wheeler, Kwami and Ma-Ti in their chests.
"Da, you boys are very immature." Linka added as she re-joined them as well.
"Calm down babe." Wheeler said as he put his right arm over her left shoulder and neck. "It is all part of the horror night experience."
"Yes, besides we are here to relax and have fun, remember?" Ma-Ti added.
"OK you guys win for now." Gi answered.
"Excellent, now come along my friends. I can't wait to see what surprises are in store for us in the next house." Kwami added.
"And don't forget about the ride happening next after this house guys." Wheeler stated.
"ALL RIGHT!" The others responded.
As the group continued down the express line queue, another line security guard stopped them so that he could scan their express passes to gain entry into the next sound stage which holds the next scary and spooky haunted house. As the group just about reached the entrance, the gang started to hear another set of noises coming from inside the structure. The noises that they heard were of women screaming as well as a few explosions in the distance. The Planeteers knew that all this was not real, but with what they usually go thru from one of their Planeteer missions sometimes put them on edge, not knowing what was going to happen next or who they are going to face off against.
"I am all pumped to see what is in store for us inside this house guys." Gi said with excitement.
"Da Gi, me too." Linka responded with a little caution in her voice.
"Relax Babe and just go with the flow." Wheeler stated as they all started to enter the sound stage.
"Yes Linka, just remember that all this is fake." Kwami added as the started to see what was inside the building.
"Just have some fun Linka and remember this was all Wheeler's idea for us." Ma-Ti added.
"Da, remind me to kill him for this later." Linka responded.
After that remark from Linka, the Planeteers let out a little chuckle as they were completely enveloped inside the sound stage building as well as the haunted house that they were walking through. As the group started to walk through, they were UN-prepared for what they had started to see. As they went from room to room , they saw pieces of dead bodies all over the place as well as figures with raged bags jumping out of nowhere completely scaring groups of people at random. As they entered one room, Linka started to hold onto to Wheeler's right hand with all of her might cause she almost couldn't stand to see what was in the room. What the group saw was a person laying face up on the bed, while another figure was standing right next to him holding his hair in one hand and placing what looked like a giant sword next to his neck in the other. A moment later, they almost saw what looked like blood coming out from the person's neck, but all of that was fake, and the body and the killer reset everything for the next group. As they were starting to finish the house, Linka still was holding onto Wheeler's right hand while Gi, Ma-Ti and Kwami were still having the time of their lives inside the house of horrors. As they started to exit the house, everyone was all in good spirits, but Wheeler still had Linka's hand holding his right hand with no sign of release.
"Um babe, you know that you can let go now. We are out of the house." Wheeler stated.
"Da, I know but I don't want to." Linka responded.
"Is everything OK with you two?" Kwami asked as he and the others saw Linka still holding onto Wheeler's hand.
"I think that maybe Linka and Wheeler are going steady or maybe they are finally a couple." Gi commented.
"Maybe you are right Gi." Ma-Ti started to say. "It looks like Linka doesn't want to leave Wheeler's side."
"Bosha moi, now you two are going to get it." Linka said as she let go of Wheeler's hand and started to chase right after Gi and Ma-Ti.
"Linka would you please stop playing around for now." Kwami said as he caught Linka by the waist and held her fast until Gi and Ma-Ti came back.
"Guys COM 'on, we are supposed to be having fun, not trying to get on each others nerves." Wheeler stated as he approached Linka and the other Planeteers.
"Your right Wheeler." Gi responded. "Sorry for that statement Linka."
"Sasiba, it is ok Gi." Linka responded.
"Besides I enjoy your hand holding mine anyway babe." Wheeler stated while he moved his eyebrows up and down a little.
"Wheeler, you are just crazy." Linka responded.
"Only for you babe, only for you." Wheeler responded.
"Here we go again." Kwami added as the whole group started to laugh.
"All right guys, next stop on our little tour is that ride I promised and then I think we better head over to the Back to the future area and get ready for the bone yard parade." Wheeler stated.
"Your right Wheeler it is already 7:25 in the evening and we have to be there by eight." Kwami stated.
"It looks like this ride that we are coming towards is only a 10 minute wait." Gi stated.
"That's the one guys. Everyone fall in and follow those people." Wheeler stated as the whole group followed the group of people into the ride queue and into another building.
As the Planeteers entered the building, they were all amazed by what they were viewing inside the structure. The inside of the structure made everyone who came inside there believe that they were back to NYC in the year 1976. There was graffiti on the walls and showing posters of old movies that were playing at the time. As they continued, they started to climb up some stairs as if they were starting to get a bird's eye view of their whole surroundings. Once they reached the top, they saw what looks like and old cable car painted all in red and fully equipped with a video monitor system inside the unit.
As the Planeteers entered the ride, the attendant made a brief enactment about the ride after the took their seats and before the ride would begin.
"Hello there and welcome to Kongfrontation, I hope that everyone will enjoy themselves as we go down the streets of NYC and also to warn all of you to watch out for anyone with banana breath." The attendant stated as everyone chuckled a little.
As the ride started to move, Linka decided once again to hold Wheeler's right hand, even though she knows that this is only a motion ride, she still doesn't know what is going to happen. During the ride, everyone saw what looked like debris from buildings and also sparking power lines that looked like they were just ripped out form the power transformers. As the ride continued, they saw a great big animatronic ape in the distance waving its arms and head while making noises. After a few turns within the ride, the sky train was heading right in front of the big ape and everyone could not believe how close they were to it and its constant noises. For a brief moment, as the came by the ape, they all started to detect the smell of what could be called bananas coming from the ape's big mouth. As they went passed the ape, the whole ride started to shake up and down as if something was trying to break to connection between the train and the cables. As the ride came to its close, everyone was told to look up at the monitors and to see themselves being attacked by King Kong himself. Once the ride came to a complete stop, everyone started to leave the ride as well as the Planeteers. The Planeteers were still a little shook up by that ride but they also knew that this was starting to be the most fun that they had ever had in their lives after becoming Planeteers. As they all left the ride, Linka was still holding onto Wheeler's hand as they all walked down a long ramp to see a bunch of people standing in line to get their picture taken while standing inside what looks like a fake King Kong as well as his hand.
As Wheeler continued to tell his story, the group finally arrived back at the location where they had left the Thundertank only to find out that the tank was completely covered in spider webs from top to bottom.
"What has happened to my Thundertank?" Panthro stated.
"It looks like those spiders wanted to make sure that we couldn't call for help or get out of here." Tygra added.
"How long do you suppose it will take to get rid of all of those webs from the tank?" Lion-O asked.
"If we all pitch in then maybe an hour or two." Tygra answered.
"If we use the power from my ring then maybe we can finish faster. We have to get Linka back to the lair as soon as possible." Wheeler stated.
"Wheeler, we don't even know how long your powers will last." Tygra stated.
"We have to try something. We have to get back." Wheeler interjected.
"Wheeler is right my friends, we have to try something." Turmagar replied.
"I agree with you as well Turmagar." Lion-O started to say. "We have to get back to the lair."
"Well if we are gonna do it then lets do it." Panthro stated.
"Turmarga, please look after Linka until we are done." Wheeler said as he handed Linka over to Turmagar.
"I will keep her safe, you have my word on that my friend." Turmagar replied as he took Linka and held her in his arms.
"Lets get to work guys." Lion-O stated as the rest of the group started to remove the webs from the tank.
As Lion-O an the others started to remove the webs covering the Thundertank, everyone is completely unaware that one of Spidera's children is still watching them and waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and get its revenge for what they had done to its mother and its family.