Interior

The Guardian is the thirty fifth episode of Young Plumbers and the sixth episode of Season 3.

Plot
[The camera shows King Arthur, the Black Knight, and many other Knights having a meeting.]

[Arthur]: Alright people, let's get started...

[Some of the Knights continue to talk.]

[Black Knight]: SILENCE!

[The knights stop and turn to face Arthur and the Black Knight.]

[Arthur]: As you may have heard we've had a recent change in plans. Ra'ol Set, Blitz, and Chemestris are of on Earth fighting the recruits, but we think that the recruits will soon send in a team of recruits to try and steal the piece of the Sword of Rigon that we have been guarding. Our job is to make sure that stays safe.

[He pauses for a moment as some of the Knights begin to talk about it.]

[Knight #1]: We have a piece of the sword of Rigon?

[Knight #2]: I don't even know what that is!

[Arthur]: It matters not! Head into the room next door and prepare for a training mission.]

[The Knights begin to file into the room next door. The Black Knight walks over to the door and stops in front of it. Instead of going through, he closes the door and then turns around.]

[Black Knight]: Hello, Arthur...

[Arthur]: What do you want...?

[Black Knight]: I was just turning around to look in the direction of a noise I heard when I noticed that spot on the wall...

[He points to the wall behind Arthur. Arthur turns around.]

[Arthur]: What spot?

[The Black Knight jumps at Arthur and kicks him to the ground.]

[Arthur]: TREASON!

[Arthur jumps up and grabs his sword. He slashes it as the Black Knight jumps over and then kicks Arthur in the face, knocking off an ID mask, turning Arthur into Nar.]

[Nar]: NO!

[Black Knight]: Nar, what are you doing here?

[Nar]: Who, what...? Water? Rob? Bink? Who are you...?

[Black Knight]: All wrong guesses...

[The Black Knight takes off an ID Mask, revealing him to be Hornbok.]

[Nar]: Hornbok...

[Theme Song]

[Relgo, Paper, Sci, Brian, Toon, and Nick are sitting in the Plumber base around the screen.]

[Relgo]: Only the five of you can know about this mission... Nar contacted us last night and says that he is getting close to finding Hornbok...

[Nick]: Only close...

[Paper]: We agreed that the operation would be to risky to let Nar handle it on his own. Nar is just going to find Hornbok's location and then contact us. He said it would be soon, so we are going now...

[Relgo]: You are to head to Salimore and wait for the signal from Nar. Then you can infiltrate the facility, get Hornbok and make it back here...

[Sci]: Sounds good to me...

[The camera cuts back to the castle on Salimore.]

[Nar]: Thank goodness you're alive...

[Hornbok]: Quiet, or the guards will hear you...

[Nar]: Sorry...

[Hornbok]: No answer me question! What are you doing here?

[Nar]: About a week ago the team was able to separate Arthur from the rest of the group. We beat him and I took his place among the Elite. The real Arthur is down in the dungeons disguised as me...

[Hornbok]: So what is your plan?

[Nar]: It was a two-fold plan... First I would get in and find you, then relay your location to the others so you could be rescued. Meanwhile, I would also look for the piece of the Sword of Rigon, which the Elite took from you on the day they came to the Academy to steal the crystals.

[Hornbok]: Call it off...

[Nar]: Why would we do that?

[Hornbok]: It's better for now if they don't know that I'm the Black Knight. If you tell them I'm dead then they won't come looking for me. They'll be more focused on other things. This was my plan all along...

[Nar]: I understand... If the others know you are alive, they might accidentally blurt it out in front of the Elite or something...

[Hornbok]: Well, you could do that to...

[Nar]: But that's only one person...

[Hornbok]: Whatever, let's go...

[They each put their ID masks back on and walk into the room with all the other Knights. Once inside, they find that the room is empty.]

[Arthur]: WHAT!

[Black Knight]: Where'd they go...

[Arthur]: They might be... Lucifer...

[Black Knight]: What about him...

[Arthur]: Follow me, quick!

[He runs back into the previous room and head through a different door. He runs down a long hallway and eventually enters an open area with Viper and Lotin in it.]

[Arthur]: Lotin, tell me you have seen Lucifer!

[Lotin]: I've seen Lucifer.

[Arthur]: Where is he?

[Lotin]: That's not what you asked...

[Viper]: ...but he's just down the hallway. He walked by with his apprentices a little while ago.]

[Arthur]: Thanks...

[Lotin]: Wait...

[Arthur begins to walk down the hallway but Lotin stops him with his telekinesis.]

[Lotin]: Why do you need to talk with Lucifer...

[Arthur]: He took my troops...

[Lotin]: Very well... Go ahead...

[Arthur and the Black Knight continue to walk down the hallway until they enter a room with Lucifer in it. Rex, Rocket, and Ancy are in the room, too. There is a suitcase on a table they are sitting around.]

[Lucifer]: Yes, Arthur?

[Arthur]: What did you do with my troops?

[Lucifer, without looking at Arthur]: The ones in the training room. I sent them to begin preparations for the next wave.]

[Arthur]: I suspected you had done so...

[Lucifer]: Why? Why did you suspect so... Wouldn't that be Ra'ol's job?

[Arthur]: Under normal circumstances, yes, but these are my Forever Knights. You had expresses interest in training your three best students in the ways of the Knight.

[Lucifer]: Whatever. In case you may be wondering, I sent them to prepare because Ra'ol Set requested I free up space for his forces. With new waves launching about every 7 to 10 days, we're running out of room, you know...

[Arthur]: Whatever. I'm taking my troops on the training exercise...

[Lucifer]: Hold on... I did pick up on the fact that you were worried about the safety of the piece of the Sword of Rigon...

[He reaches for the suitcase and then opens it, revealing the piece of the sword.]

[Arthur]: We still need to train, you know...

[Arthur and the Black Knight leave the room. They look angry.]

[Ancy]: Sir, we had not expressed interest in learning the ways of the Forever Knights...

[Lucifer]: Oh I know...

[He stands up and begins to walk away, but leaves the sword on the table.]

[Rex]: Where are you going?

[Lucifer]: Somewhere important... Please follow...

[Lucifer leads the three villain students down a hallway. The camera cuts to a Plumber's ship arriving on Salimore. Paper, Sci, Brian, Toon, and Nick are on the ship. They are talking to Relgo via a video screen.]

[Relgo]: And now you wait...

[Brian]: For how long...?

[Relgo]: Until Nar contacts you or you get noticed... I have to go do some other stuff. You should be fine on your own...

[The video screen goes black and then disappears.]

[Sci]: And now, we--

[There is a beep on the ship's main communicator. Toon presses a button on it and Arthur's head appears on a holographic screen.]

[Arthur]: I've found Hornbok. We'll be at the rendenvous in 10 minutes, so don't be there to early...

[Paper]: Absolutely...

[The screen disappears. The recruits run out of the ship and run along the outside of a wall surrounding the castle.]

[Toon]: We have to make it to the far left hand side of the castle in 10 minutes...

[Paper]: I'm going ahead...

[Nick]: Don't. We need to stay together...

[Paper]: Why? This isn't a stealth mission...

[Nick]: But it is important and we can't let anyone know we're here...

[Brian]: But we can't be late. This is a one minute period in which Nar, aka Arthur, will be there...

[Sci]: Guys, it's right up ahead. Stop arguing already...

[The recruits stop just near an opening in the wall. Paper looks inside and then fires two arrows at the two guards standing in front of a door. He fires a few more arrows at some patrolling guards and then fires three more at the guards on the roof. The recruits jump into the gap and then run up and get in a line along the wall. After a moment, the door opens. Arthur and Hornbok walk out.]

[Arthur]: Here he is!

[Recruits]: Hornbok!

[Hornbok]: Oh it's good to see you guys again... It's good to be back...

[Paper]: We can handle reunions later. We have to go...

The five recruits take Hornbok and leads him all the way to the ship. The camera cuts to Arthur watching them. He walks inside and then walks up to Rex and Rocket.]

[Rocket]: Success, sir?

[Arthur takes off his mask revealing himself to be Lucifer.]

[Lucifer]: Success indeed. They don't suspect a thing...

[Commercial]

[The camera cuts to the recruits and Hornbok running to the ship. They board the ship but don't take off yet.]

[Hornbok]: Wait, before we go, we have to go back...

[Nick]: Why?

[Hornbok]: My wife... she's down in the dungeons... of the castle...

[Paper]: I'm sorry, Hornbok. Our mission is to get you back to the Plumber's Academy first and return here for other tasks later...

All of the sudden, the ship's main communicator beeps. Toon presses a button on the ship and a holographic screen with Arthur's head appears.]

[Brian]: Yes?

[Arthur]: I've found something big! You have to come quick!

[Hornbok looks at Paper.]

[Paper]: Okay fine... Nick and Sci, you head to the dungeons to get...

[Hornbok]: ...Syla, my wife...

[Paper]: Yeah... Brian, you come with me. We'll met up with Nar and get whatever he has for us... Toon, you stay here with Hornbok. If anyone gets close to the ship, take off and use lightspeed to bring him to Bellwood and then come back...

[Toon]: I though we were told never to touch lightspeed.

[Paper]: This is an extraordinary circumstance... Now let's go...

[Paper, Brian, Nick, and Sci get off the ship. The camera cuts to them entering the castle through the door where they met up with Arthur the first time.]

[Brian]: So, Paper and I will go...

[Sci]: Well I know we have to go this way, so you two go that way...

[Nick]: Agreed...

[Nick and Sci run down a hallway and make it to a staircase.]

[Sci]: Hopefully I remember how to get there...

[They run down the staircase and exit at the bottom. They enter the dungeons, head into the back room, and find Syla.]

[Sci]: Syla! Let's go! We found Hornbok and now we're getting you out, too...

[Syla]: Alright...

[Syla follows Nick and Sci. They make it all the way to the top of the stairs before they get ambushed by a group of Salimorian soldiers.]

[Nick]: This is not good...

[The camera cuts to Paper and Brian. They are walking down the hallway.]

[Brian]: Is it fun being the leader?

[Paper]: I don't have to answer that...

[Brian]: But is it? I mean you get to boss other people around and do practically whatever you want...

[Paper]: Maybe you would... But I take my job seriously. It's not a game, you know that, right?

[Brian]: I know... I've just always wondered what it would be like to be the leader...

[They make it to an open area and find King Arthur standing across from them.]

[Arthur]: Finally, you made it...

[He takes off his ID mask.]

[Nar]: We should be safe for a few moments.. Check this out...

[He walks over to the table where he talked with Lucifer. He picks up a piece of the Sword of Rigon.]

[Nar]: Take this to the Academy. It's the best shot we have at defeating Rigon.

[Paper]: We'll make sure this stays safe. We're still not sure what exactly the role of the sword in the prophecy is... I'll have to ask Sci about that one...

[Brian]: What do you mean?

[Paper]: We're not sure if the Sword of Rigon is Rigon's weapon, or the weapon that must be used to defeat him...

[Nar]: Take it anyway...

[Paper]: We will...

[Nar]: And as for Hornbok, I'm still looking for him...

[There is a long moment of silence.]

[Brian]: What...?

[Paper]: Nar, we met up with you earlier and you gave us Hornbok...

[Nar]: What? No, I never did that!

[Paper]: Then... TOON!

[The camera cuts to the Plumber's ship. Toon and Hornbok are sitting in the ship waiting for the others to return.]

[Hornbok]: You know it's funny... This happened to me once before... When I first joined the Plumbers, I was put in your position... I had to protect an injured Magister while we waited for the order to leave... I remember it very well, actually...

[Toon]: Does this mean that I'm eventually going to be in your position?

[Hornbok]: Who knows?

[They sit for a few more moments.]

[Hornbok]: Well there are Paper and Sci!

[Toon looks around and to look for Paper and Sci.]

[Toon]: Wait a minute...

[Toon looks around and jumps back at the last second to avoid a punch from Hornbok.]

[Toon]: What are you doing?

[Hornbok jumps at Toon and punches him to the ground. Toon jumps up and then blasts fireballs at Hornbok. He avoids and then kicks Toon to the ground. As he gets up, Hornbok roundhouses him to the ground, knocking him out. He picks up Toon's body and then throws him off the ship. On the ship, Hornbok sits down at the controls and a moment later, the ship flies off. Hornbok takes off an ID Mask revealing himself to be Ancy.]

[Ancy]: Plumber's Academy, here I come...

[The camera cuts to Sci, Nick, and Syla. They are fighting their way through the Salimorian soldiers. They get into a clearing and then run away. The soldiers chase them up the staircase and then down the hallway.]

[Sci]: We just have to make it outside and then to the ship...

[They turn down a hallway but find another group of soldier running towards them. They turn around and then turn again and eventually end up in a large room. All the soldiers fill in behind them.]

[Nick]: Now what? There's nowhere left to go...

[At another entrance to the room on the far side, Paper, Brian, and Nar enter the room.]

[Brian]: There you guys are!

[They two groups meet up.]

[Paper]: The Hornbok from earlier... wasn't Hornbok...

[Syla]: So where is he?

[Nar]: Somewhere...

[All of the sudden, Lucifer walks into the room with Rex and Rocket.]

[Lucifer]: Hello recruits...

[Sci]: Lucifer!

[Lucifer]: I hope you enjoyed your stay at the Salimorian Castle, but I'm afraid you'll have to be staying a little longer...

[He presses a button on a device and shows Ancy's face on a screen. He is in the Plumber's ship flying towards the Plumber's Academy.]

[Ancy]: Hello...

[Nar]: Guys, I think we've been outdone...

[Commercial]

[Lucifer]: Of course you have. Evil always wins...

[Brian]: But how?

[Lucifer]: One, I knew you would come to get Hornbok, but obviously you wouldn't risk either letting the Earth get destroyed or much of your team captured, so I predicted that it would be a stealth mission, better yet an infiltration mission because you also wanted the piece of the Sword of Rigon... I decided to help you...

[Paper]: I see where this is going...

[Lucifer]: I told Arthur to let himself get captured by the recruits. Little did I know that you were also planning to take Arthur, too... Once Arthur had been taken, I knew that he would search for Hornbok and eventually you would arrive. I knew you would arrive early, so I decided to fake myself as Arthur...

[Ancy]: Meanwhile, I faked myself as Hornbok...

[Lucifer]: And there, Ancy was inside the Plumbers and I knew exactly what the recruits were doing.

[Nar]: But the thing is, it didn't work. We have the piece of the Sword of Rigon...

[Ancy]: Ah yes, but I have the Academy...

[Brian]: NO!

[Lucifer]: You also don't have Hornbok...

[Sci]: So are you letting us leave or not...

[Lucifer]: How would you leave even if I let you... You see I was at least three steps ahead the whole time...

[Paper]: But even you know we're not going down without a fight...

[Lucifer]: You have 6 rebels. I have myself, my two apprentices, and an army. You can't hope to win...

[Paper]: I've passed the test of hope, and if there's one thing I learned from it, it's that hope can only bring you down...

[The recruits and Syla charge at Lucifer, Rex, and Rocket as the army begins to attack them, too. Sci jumps at Rex and tackles him to the ground. He forms smack hands and then punches Sci into two soldiers who then throw him at the wall. Brian turns into a gorilla and throws Rex into the wall. Four soldiers fire blasters at Brian and then knock him into the wall. Sci creates a wave of Earth and knocks most of the soldiers against the wall. A few escape and charge at Sci but Paper shoots at exploding arrow knocking them away. He then shoots a flaming arrow and creates a flame wall between them and the villains.]

[Sci]: Let's go!

[The recruits begin to run in the other direction but they find the three villains and a few soldiers in front of them. Each of the soldiers grabs a recruits and holds them in place. One soldiers holds Syla, too.]

[Brian]: What do you want with us?

[Ancy]: He only wants to let us witness the destruction of the Plumber's Academy.

[The camera zooms in on the screen with Ancy's face on it and then cuts to the ship landing at the Plumber's Academy. Ancy gets off carrying a large device.]

[He heads inside the Academy and then walks across the lobby and down the hallway. A few students notice him.]

[Student]: Who are you?

[Ancy]: This is a bomb! You're about to die!

[A few students back away and then turn around and run. Ancy turns his legs into bicycle wheels and then zooms down the hallway and then bounces up the stairs. He continues down the hallway until he makes it to right outside the Magister's office. He shifts his legs back and then places the bomb down.]

[Ancy]: That should do it!

[He turns his legs back into bicycle wheels and then zooms all the way back to the lobby. He gets stopped by a few students.]

[Student]: You're not getting past us!

[Ancy turns his hands into sword and then slashes through the student's blasters. He walks right past them.]

[Ancy]: Remind me again what you said you weren't going to let me do...

[He boards the ship and then sits down. He takes a device out of his pocket and then presses the plunger. He turns a camera around to face the academy. The ship takes off as the camera cuts to the recruits at Salimore watching the bomb engulf the Academy through the camera on the ship. The camera cuts to Ancy.]

[Ancy]: And now to Earth... Where the it will be destroyed completely within hours...

[He puts on an ID Mask and turns into Hornbok. The camera cuts back to Salimore.]

[Paper]: Let us go! You've already done enough damage.

[Lucifer]: Maybe I have... but I'm not done...

[Before he can say the next word, the Black Knight crashes into him and knocks him into the wall. He takes out Rex and Rocket and then jumps at the recruits and frees them.]

[Sci]: You betrayed the Elite?

[Black Knight]: I'd prefer if we talked in private...

[Sci]: Understood...

[He creates a circular hollow column of earth surrounding the recruits, Syla, and the Black Knight. It goes all the way up to the ceiling. The Black Knight takes off an ID Mask, revealing himself to be Hornbok.]

[Nick]: Hornbok?

[Brian]: Okay now I'm really confused...

[Hornbok]: I was always the Black Knight. Nar knew...

[Nar]: I did. We originally made a deal not to reveal so that you wouldn't be worried about rescuing Hornbok and you would be more focused on other things like the Sword and the Invasion.

[Hornbok]: But I decided to change that. We've been outdone by the Elite...

[Paper]: So can we just go home?

[Hornbok]: I wish it were that simple... I'm afraid I have to stay...

[Syla]: NO! Why can't you come back to Earth... Our daughter...

[Hornbok]: We need to stay up to the minute with the Elite's plans.

[Paper]: No Hornbok... We need to cut our losses here. If you stay, we may never be able to rescue you. The Academy may be lost, and we need to make sure that we still have one place to go to... Ancy is on his way to the Earth right now, and if we don't go to stop him then we might as well call ourselves done for...

[Hornbok stands and thinks for a moment.]

[Hornbok]: Fine... We can use the Plumber's badge teleportation override...

[Syla]: The what?

[Hornbok]: Plumber's badges can only the owners of the badges to teleport if they are combined with at least two other badges.]

[Hornbok, Paper, and Sci take out their badges. They link them, grab hands with Brian, Nick, and Syla, and then teleport away. Lucifer kicks down the wall but finds nothing there. The camera cuts to the heroes picking up Toon and then teleporting again, this time to Earth. The camera shows Hornbok, Syla, and the recruits teleporting into the base in Bellwood. The Magisters, Ben Tennyson, and Ester are standing around the central pod.]

[Ester]: Dad...?

[She runs over to Hornbok.]

[Ester]: Dad!

[She hugs him and then steps back.]

[Ester]: Are you okay?

[Hornbok]: Yes, I'm fine...

[Syla]: It's been a long time since I've seen you, Ester. You've grown up a lot...

[Ben Tennyson walks over as the recruits walk over to the other Magisters.]

[Nar]: Our mission was a... I don't even know...

[Paper takes out the piece of the Sword of Rigon and tosses it to Relgo.]

[Paper]: There's your sword piece...

[Relgo]: And Hornbok is back, too, so how could it not be a success?

[Sci]: Lucifer knew... He told Arthur to let himself be captured and then faked himself being Arthur and gave us a fake Hornbok. That Hornbok, who was really Ancy, one of Lucifer's students, stole our ship and then went to the Plumber's Academy and destroyed it.

[Kruto]: The Academy... is destroyed?

[Brian]: Yes...

[Relgo]: While this is bad, you did the right thing and came back before things got any worse...

[Ivada]: But what about all the people inside...

[Slick]: There weren't that many people there when I left last night. Hopefully the few people who were there got out safely...

[Relgo]: And if they didn't, it's truly a shame...

[Paper]: We can track the sword, right?

[Ben Tennyson, walking back over]: I can give Gwen a call. She can probably track it...

[Brian]: Now what was this about not knowing what the sword's role in the prophecy was...

[Sci]: The sword we are collecting is the Sword wielded by Rigon himself, however, we need to collect the sword in order to destroy it for good once we find the Sword of the Child, the only sword that can destroy Rigon's sword and seal away Rigon.

[Relgo]: We'll make sure we find both...

[Hornbok, Syla, and Ester walk back over.]

[Hornbok]: Because the Elite may have destroyed our base, but they have not destroyed our family...

[The camera cuts to Salimore. Lucifer, Rex, and Rocket enter the dungeons and head over to a cell with Nar in it. They open the cell and take off an ID Mask, turning Nar into King Arthur. Lucifer takes a syringe and injects something into Arthur, making him wake up.]

[Arthur]: AGH! What happened?

[Lucifer]: We were successfully in destroying the Academy, however the recruits got away with both Hornbok and the Sword piece...

[Arthur]: Lotin's going to kill us...

[Lotin, entering]: No, he's not...

[Lucifer]: Lotin...

[Lotin]: Actually, I'm very surprised in both of you for planning this out so carefully... They may have the Sword and Hornbok, but we still have the upper hand... I'm still making the final preparations for Operation Separation, but until then, the Sentinels will attack again… and this time, they will not be able to stop them. It's time to prepare The Grid.

[The End]