01x17 - Battleground

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♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ♪

♪ Jets into battle, flies faster than light ♪

♪ Flash Gordon ♪

♪ Lord of the jungle the hero who st*lks ♪

♪ The beasts call him brother the ghost who walks ♪

♪ Phantom ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ Master of magic, spells and illusion ♪

♪ Enemies crumble in fear and confusion ♪

♪ Mandrake ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all ♪

♪ Armed with his power, we never will fall ♪

♪ Lothar ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ With our new young heroes, proving their worth ♪

♪ Four become eight, defending the Earth ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

- Superior work, chief gunner.

Emperor Ming will be pleased.

Prepare to--

- Garax, look!

- Fire!

It is useless.

Lasers will not stop them!

- Freeze Rays.

Maximum power!

Move!

- It isn't stopping them!

- Then concentrate your rays on one creature at a time!

- Mission accomplished, my Lord Ming.

The Cave Slugs are aboard and frozen solid.

- Excellent, Garax.

Return immediately to Ice Station Earth.

My plans are proceeding well!

Have the tests been completed, Octon?

- As you ordered, Sire.

Here are the results!

- The Guborian Cave Slug.

It can and does eat anything.

Including metal laser beams even rock.

It pays no attention to other forms of life

as long as it is left alone.

But attack only one,

and the cave slug uses telepathy

to call to others of its kind.

[warbling]

Your Freeze-Ray, sire,

is the only thing that can stop them.

- Magnificent creatures!

Fitting gifts for this miserable world.

Proceed with my plan.

You know the first target!

- Quickly!

Before the ice melts!

- So what do you think, Zuff?

Is Ming, the Merciless in for trouble or what?

[mumbling]

- Where ya off to, Kshin?

- While the guys are fixing Dynac,

Ming's hordes may be swarming through tunnels below,

I'm gonna drive them back.

- All by yourself?

- Sure, Flash!

Probably all kinds of space monsters down there too,

but don't worry!

Me and Zuff will handle 'em.

- Isn't it rather dangerous?

- Lothar, Defenders aren't afraid of a little danger.

- Well, I'm sure you two can handle it,

but let us know if you and Zuffy want any back-up.

- Oh, sure.

Come on, Zuff.

This is it, Zuff, you ready?

- [chattering]

- Take that!

And that!

[grunting]

- You thought you had me, huh?

No one's match for a Defender!

Defenders are never scared, Zuff!

Ah, come on, Zuff!

We see a bad guy and we--

what's that?

[growling, snarling]

[frightened chittering]

[roaring]

- In the caves!

A monster!

It's Awesome, with huge armor!

Three eyes! Four eyes!

And legs!

It was eating rocks!

Heading right for us!

I gotta stop it, quick!

[chattering]

- Thanks, Kshin,

we'll keep an eye out for any monsters!
[ … ]

- Flash, you don't--

You don't believe me?

Lothar?

What was that all about?

A one hundred-foot, three-eyed monster!

- Four eyes!

- Ah, my young assistant's imagination is at work again.

- Nobody believes me, Zuff!

But you saw it, too.

The monster is real.

If Dynac was working, she'd prove it!

[chattering]

- Come on, Zuff, it's up to us!

- Good, good, my pet!

And soon, soon...

- Proof?

They want proof, Zuff?

We'll give 'em proof!

- [chattering]

I'm not even scared!

- [chattering]

- Even though it is very dangerous.

- [chattering]

- Quiet, Zuff!

There it is!

We've got to stop it

before it eats its way right into monitor!

- Well--

Here goes--

'Okay, Monster!

Stop in the name of the Defenders of the Earth!

So!

You want to play rough, do you!

Take this!

- [chattering]

- A Defender never quits!

I just need a bigger rock!

[roaring]

- [screaming]

Ah!

[roaring]

Quick, Zuff, up here!

Oh, Zuffy, I'm sorry for getting you into this.

Zuffy, get down!

We're-- We're trapped!

- This seismograph, more of those strange tremors.

Rick, you get Dynac hooked up yet?

- Yeah!

Dynac give us a reading on those tremors.

- The disturbance is coming from cave branch G,

centered meters from Monitor.

Switching to visual inspection.

- What in the world?

Kshin and Zuffy!

- Red Alert!

There's a hostile intruder in Cave G!

Kshin and Zuffy are in immediate,

repeat immediate danger!

- Kshin!

Zuffy! Hold on!

- We're okay, Flash.

But hurry!

- Let's try not to do it any harm.

Maybe we can push the creature back with presser beams.

- What can stop it?

It eats rocks? It eats pressor beams!

- Can you turn it around?

- How 'bout a big shot, Flash?

Maybe bounce the beams off the back wall?

- Gotcha, L.J.!

- Get set! Go!

- Jump!

Kshin, jump!

- You said he was awesome, Kshin!

He's humungous!

- I didn't want to frighten you guys!

- Come on!

- I'm really sorry I didn't believe you, Buddy.

- That's okay, Flash.

- Well?

What're you waiting for?

Come on and give us a hand, Young Defender!

- All right!

- The creature's breaking out!

It's headed for Central City!

- Octon, it is time to place the Slugs all over the Earth!

- Yes, sire!

- My control of earth is about to begin!

[laughing]

- Unit , three blocks north of Central.

The city is under attack!

We need back-up!

A giant creature is eating the whole block!

- We've got to be careful not to make that thing any madder!

- You're right, Son!

Much too risky for the townspeople.

We gotta get it out of the city!

- Perhaps an illusion!

Not this time.

I think it'll take a little more muscle!
[ … ]

- Now you're talkin'!

- There it is!

- Keep her revved up, Rick,

we may need to bail outta here in a hurry!

- Well, here goes nothing.

- Set 'em to stun.

Don't want to hurt the guy, just get his attention!

And fire!

[roaring]

- Go, Defenders.

- [chattering]

- Okay, son, get us outta here!

- You got it!

- Operation almost completed, my Lord Ming!

- Excellent!

Excellent!

- Slug Number One in position in London.

Number Two in position in Washington, D.C.

Number Three in position in Egypt.

- Slow down, Son!

- Don't tell me I lost him!

- Boy, for something that big and ugly,

he sure is slow.

[roaring]

- Look out!

- Everybody! Head for high ground!

- Let me give you a hand, my friends.

[roaring]

- Sire, all the Guborian Cave Slugs are awaiting

your command to attack.

- But, Octon, I will not have to give the command.

The Defenders will do it for me.

Their first attack on that rogue slug

will trigger a telepathic link with slugs

in all the major cities of the world!

[chomping]

- Well, I'm open for any bright ideas!

I think it's time to call out the cavalry!

- Dynac, come in! - Yes, Rick?

- Dynac, what can you dig up on this creature?

- There is no record of the species.

However, my sensors show

that Ming's vessels have placed similar creatures

in or near every major city on Earth.

[roaring]

- Help!

- Kshin!

[screaming]

- Help!

- Kshin!

[roaring]

- [groaning]

- Kshin!

- Wait, Mandrake!

- Quick, L.J., tie this off!

- Right, dad!

- Hurry! Please hurry!

[roaring]

- What, what, what--what happened?

[roaring]

- You almost ended up as a snack for that slug!

- It has begun!

The slugs have formed the telepathic link!

Now they will attack and destroy.

Only when the Earth submits to my control,

only then will I stop them!

- Dynac, we need help!

Find a way to destroy it!

- Wait, Rick!

Let me try a mind-link with the creature.

- Hold it, Dynac!

- I'm too far away.

I must get closer.

- The creature is frightened, Jedda, be careful!

- I will, Father.

It means us no real harm.

- Jedda!

- Creature, we mean you no harm!

Of course I understand!

- It attacked us only because we attacked it.

- It's safe to come down.

I've promised the creature we will not hurt it.

- They have made peace with the creatures?

If they will not provoke the slugs, then I will!

[roaring]

- Look! We're being attacked!

- Everybody, back!

Lothar and I will cover you!

- Please, no! No!

[roaring]

- Phantom, behind you!

- By Jungle Law the Ghost Who Walks

calls forth the power of ten tigers!

- No! No!

Please do not call the others!

And I thought it was mad when it was after us!

- What is it, Dynac?

- In cities all over Earth

the creatures turned on Ming's forces

and destroyed them.
[ … ]

- And that's the end of that!

- Not quite.

Shouldn't we tell it thanks?

All it wants to do is go home.

- I know you have to go home,

but, you know, I used to think being brave

meant not being afraid to fight.

See, but Now, now I know it isn't enough!

You gotta be sure who and what you're fighting about,

you know?

Goodbye. Bye, friend, goodbye?

- He says, goodbye, my friend.