04x01 - Return to Thundera! Part I

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NARRATOR: With the Lunataks,
mutants and Mumm-Ra banished...

...the Thundercats return
to New Thundera...

...to rebuild their home planet.

But the ancient spirits of evil
give Mumm-Ra. ..

...one last chance
to destroy the Thundercats.

They tell him that if he sabotages
the planet's Mighty Gyroscope...

...New Thundera will lose its gravity,
and everything will be flung into space.

Stay with us all week
for this special five-part adventure.

LION-O:
So my Third Earth friends...

...our oldest enemies,
the mutants and the Lunataks...

...will spend the rest of their days
on the island prison of Wayoutback.

And the ancient spirits of evil...

...have banished Mumm-Ra,
the ever-living...

...and the miserable Ma-Mutt
to the farthest corner of our universe.

Now the time has come
for the Thundercats to leave Third Earth.

But before we go,
there is one last thing we have to do.

-So, Panthro, if we're going to do it....
-Let's do it!

So much for Mumm-Ra's pyramid.

Now he has no reason
to come back to Third Earth.

No home to which he can return.

Thank you, Lion-0.

No thanks necessary, Ro-Bear-Bill.

We Thundercats
must return to New Thundera...

...to rebuild our homes and our planet.

We'll miss you, Thundercats.

You changed our lives
here on Third Earth.

Will we be able to contact you
if need be, Lion-0?

Of course. We'll be maintaining
guard duty on Third Earth.

Right now, Tygra is on watch
at the Tower of Omens.

And Pumyra is on duty at Cats' Lair.

Tower of Omens.
Pumyra calling Tower of Omens.

Routine systems check. Come back.

Receiving you loud and clear, Pumyra.

The safety of this planet
is now in your hands...

...the League of Third Earth.

Mandora, Willa, Nayda,
Snowman and Snowmeow.

Ro-Bear-Bill, Ro-Bear-Belle.

So wish us luck,
and we'll be on our way.

Thundercats....

ALL:
h*!

Booster to full thrust.

Booster, full thrust.

PANTHRO: Ignition?
CHEETARA: Ignition.

PANTHRO:
Lift off. We're on our way.

Okay, Panthro, set the shortest course
to New Thundera.

PANTHRO:
You got it, Lion-0.

I'd like to stay for the party, guys.

But I have a rendezvous...

...with the Serious Space Crime Squad
on Galaxy 2.

Keep in touch.

MUMM-RA:
Help me.

Help me, ancient spirits of evil.

Restore me to Third Earth...

...and I will follow...

...your every evil command.

[MUMM-RA ROARING]

Ancient spirits of evil,
you have answered my call...

...freed me from my eternal prison.

[MA-MUTT BARKING]

The ancient spirits have given us
new life, Ma-Mutt.

New purpose.

New power to seek out
those wretched Thundercats...

...and destroy them once and for all!

[MUMM-RA LAUGHING]

MUMM-RA:
Say hello to New Thundera, Ma-Mutt.

The Thundercats may think
this will be their new home.

[CHUCKLES]

But we will turn it into our back yard!

[LAUGHS]

[MUMM-RA GROANS]

It appears that I am still weak,
Ma-Mutt.

[PANTING]

Ancient spirits of evil...

...give me the strength, the magic,
the cunning...

...to overpower the Thundercats!

ANCIENT SPIRITS:
We have re-created...

...your pyramid, Mumm-Ra.

Now you are fully prepared...

...to face the Thundercats.

You will have no excuses...

...for failure!

[BARKING]

MUMM-RA:
What is it, Ma-Mutt?

What do you see?

[GROWLS]

Those miserable,
accursed Thundercats.

They're on their way.
We must prepare ourselves, Ma-Mutt.

PANTHRO:
There it is.

New Thundera.

Home. Unh!

Cheetara, what is it?

CHEETARA:
There's danger down there.

Something's wrong. I feel it.

Panthro, find a landing spot
as soon as possible.

Snarf! Look!

CHEETARA:
What are they, Bengali?

BENGALI: They look like giant
Thundercat statues.

Take us down, and we'll investigate.

Prepare for landing.

By Jaga!

Reow. Who could have carved
these things? Snarf, snarf.

BENGALI:
It must have been our ancestors.

Thundercats from the first age.

[MUMM-RA LAUGHS]

The Thundercats have played
into our hands, Ma-Mutt.

Ancient spirits of evil...

...give life to the Stone Giants!

Hm. Strange.

These carvings
are at least 2000 years old.

Yet I can feel a life force
within them.

[ALL GASP]

[GASPS]

LION-O: Thunder, thunder, thunder.
Thundercats!

It's your call, Stone Giant.

[GIANT GROWLING]

h*!

What?

h*!

The sword.
Something has happened to the sword.

The Eye of Thundera is blind.

The sword is powerless.

[GIANTS GROWLING]

[GIANTS GROWLING]

[MUMM-RA LAUGHING]

The Thundercats are being attacked
by their own kind, Ma-Mutt.

ANCIENT SPIRITS:
Enough, Mumm-Ra/!

Your work on New Thundera
is far from finished.

Look into the cauldron, Mumm-Ra...

...and we will show you the key...

...to this planet, New Thundera.

Beneath the Churning Rocks...

...you will find the Great Beneath.

All that keeps the planet
of New Thundera together...

...is the force of the Mighty Gyroscope...

...which hangs in the Great Beneath.

It is the gyroscope...

...which maintains
New Thundera's gravity.

Sabotage the gyroscope...

...and New Thundera
will gradually lose its gravity.

Everything on the planet
will be flung into space.

The gyroscope in the Great Beneath...

...is controlled by Jagara.

This ancient
Thundercat sorceress alone...

...is the keeper of the gyroscope.

Then I must find a way
to eliminate Jagara.

ANCIENT SPIRITS:
Exactly, Mumm-Ra.

Control the gyroscope...

...and you will be able to decide...

...who remains on this planet...

...and who will be flung...

...into the depths of space.

[ANCIENT SPIRITS LAUGHING]

[GRUNTING]

[GROWLING]

Stop! Stop, Thundercats!

As we all know, the Sword of Omens
cannot harm the innocent.

Which means that Stone Giant
is not an evil force.

[GIANTS GROWLING]

Too bad nobody bothered
to tell him that.

LION-O:
Wait, Stone Giant!

We are your friends.
We are Thundercats.

Right. Friends.

We are all Thundercats.

I have good vibrations
about this Valley of Stone Giants.

It feels like home.

This is where we should
build our new lair.

We'll get right on it, Lion-O.

Snarfer and I will summon
the other snarfs to help us.

Yes, sir.

MUMM-RA:
Control over Jagara...

...is control over the New Thundera.

But how do I get control over her?

Jaga! Ha! That's it!

She will listen to Jaga...

...the wisest of all the Thundercats.

Ha-ha-ha.
I'll appear as Jaga...

...and put her under my evil spell.

Ancient spirits of evil...

...transform this decayed form...

...to Mumm-Ra, the ever-living!

[ROARING]

And now...

...give me the form of Jaga the wise!

Heh. Jagara will never be able to resist
the advice of Jaga the wise.

Ha, ha. Especially if she thinks
I have their Book of Omens.

No one will ever know
that this is a fake.

[LAUGHING]

[SNARFS GRUNTING]

Where do you want
this wretched stuff?

-Over there!
-Over there!

Well, make up your minds.
Which is it?

-Over there!
-Over there!

Oh. Never mind.

MUMM-RA:
So this is the Great Beneath.

JAGARA:
Who enters the Great Beneath?

MUMM-RA [AS JAGA]:
It is I, Jaga the wise.

I am honored, Jaga.

It has been a long time, Jagara.

It has indeed.
What brings you to the Great Beneath?

I come to warn you
of false Thundercats...

...enemies disguised
as our noblest people.

False Thundercats?

The Book of Omens warns
of these false Thundercats...

...whose mission is to destroy
the real Thundercats.

As you know, the true Thundercats
are based on Third Earth...

...fighting to free it from the evil ways
of Mumm-Ra, the ever-living!

But these false Thundercats,
even now...

...are building a false Cats' Lair
in the Valley of Stone Giants.

They must be expelled
from New Thundera.

They must be destroyed.

False Thundercats must be destroyed.

MUMM-RA:
What are you doing?

JAGARA:
The gyroscope...

...controls New Thundera's gravity.

I am adjusting this regulator
to alter the gyroscope's effect.

That, in turn, will change the gravity
in the Valley of Stone Giants...

...and the false Thundercats' lair...

...will be flung clear off
the face of New Thundera.

PANTHRO: What was that?
LION-O: Some kind of earth tremor.

JAGARA: The false Thundercats
will be destroyed for all time.

You are a true friend, Jagara.

[SCREAMS]

LION-O:
I've got you, Cheetara. Hang on!

CHEETARA: Yeah, but who's got you?
PANTHRO: I have!

[SNARFS WHIMPERING]

[CHEETARA GRUNTS]

CHEETARA:
What do we do now?

We put our trust
in the Eye of Thundera.

Thunder, thunder, thunder.
Thundercats, h*!

[MUMM-RA GRUNTS]

MUMM-RA [NORMAL VOICE]:
What--? What--? Uh....

I must escape before that wretched
Cats' Head attacks me.

But perhaps I have not lost yet.

Without the regulator,
the gyroscope will run out of control...

...and New Thundera will lose its gravity.

The whole planet
will come apart at its seams.

The Thundercats and their home
will perish!

[LAUGHING]

[GASPS]

The gyroscope. It's out of phase.

Someone has taken the regulator.

In just two hours,
New Thundera will fall apart.

There must be something I can do.

These repairs won't last long.

But they might give me time
to figure out what's happening here.

Reow! It seems to have
calmed down a bit.

PANTHRO: I get the feeling
we're in for a rough ride...

...up here on New Thundera.

And I get the feeling
that whatever's happening...

...it"'s not a natural phenomenon.

I'm sure you're right,
and I'm sure there'll be more.

You mean someone's working against us?

That's what we have to find out.

NARRATOR: /n the next episode of
“Return to Thundera”...

...the Thundercats search
for Thunderian refugees.

But Mumm-Ra releases
Grune the destroyer to ambush them.

Go there. Seek your revenge.

Go there and...

...destroy them!

NARRATOR:
Will the Thundercats defeat Grune...

...and restore New Thundera's gravity?