01x35 - Sword in a Hole

[bunniefuu]

Thundercats!

[♪♪♪]

Thunder, thunder,

thunder,

Thundercats, h*!

[GROWLING]

♪ Thundercats are on the move ♪

♪ Thundercats are loose ♪

♪ Feel the magic Hear the roar ♪

♪ Thundercats are loose ♪

♪ Thunder, thunder,
thunder Thundercats ♪

♪ Thunder, thunder,
thunder Thundercats ♪

♪ Thunder, thunder,
thunder Thundercats ♪

♪ Thunder, thunder,
thunder Thundercats ♪

[ROARS]

Thundercats!

[DISTRESS SIGNAL BEEPING]

[DISTRESS SIGNAL BEEPING]

MAN: Mayday, mayday.

This is space liner
Vertus, two, seven, niner,

Space liner Vertus, mayday.

Mayday, mayday!

Space liner Vertus,
two, seven, niner!

PANTHRO: What is
your position, Vertus?

[DISTORTED] Six
light years past Orion

in the Sea of Stars.

I can't hear you, Vertus.

Give me a damage control report.

Floundering.

A galactic wind shear took
out our port control vane.

We're taking on nitrous gas.

Hurry, before it's too late!

Control to Feliner,
prepare for takeoff.

Standing by.

Course computed and implemented.

Make your final corrections.

Corrections entered.

Are you ready, Thundercats?

Lion-O, h*!

Cheetara, h*!

Snarf... Meow! h*!

Feliner is off!

♪ Thundercats are on the move ♪

♪ Thundercats are loose ♪

[EVIL CACKLING]

I knew those miserable
Thundercats would never be able

to resist an S.O.S.
from outer space.

[CACKLES]

But all they're heading
for is a rendezvous

with extinction,

and I will be rid of the
Sword of Omens forever.

[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]

[SNARF MEOWS]

What causes the turbulence here?

Galactic wind shear.

This is a dangerous area.

Then why would that
space liner try to cross it?

Probably blown off course.

We're getting a
course correction.

Six, four, niner!

That ship is right on
the edge of a black hole.

SNARF: Snarf, snarf.

What in the world
is a black hole?

LION-O: No one
really knows, Snarf.

A void left by a
collapsing star perhaps.

It's like a pocket in space.

And if you fall in,
you just simply vanish.

LION-O: Look! There's our liner.

Right on target.

It's huge!

Can we handle it?

LION-O: Once we
get a laser line aboard,

we can try to tow
it to a repair port.

Hello, the Vertus.

Permission to come aboard.

Can you hear me, Vertus?

This is the Thundercats'
Feliner rescue responding

to your mayday signal.

No answer.

Come on, Snarf.

We better take a look.

I'll monitor you with
a comm. connect.

[WHIMPERS]

[SNARF MEOWS]

Ow!

Ooh! That snarfs!

Sorry, but I thought
you'd prefer that

to dropping down there.

I-it looks so close!

Yes, but it's probably a
dozen light years away.

Come on, Snarf!

We've got a job to do.

Hello!

Hello!

Anyone there?

Entering the liner, Cheetara.

This ship must hold over a
thousand passengers and crew.

Where are they?

Maybe they were
sucked into the black hole!

Someone sent out
that distress signal.

Hey, Snarf.

Look at that.

The coffee's still hot.

[SNIFFS]

Hm.

It's hot all right, but it...

It doesn't... smell... right.

Snarf! Look out!

Snarf!

[♪♪♪]

Come in, Lion-O. Come in.

Do you read me?

[BEEPING]

Aah!

[SNUFFLES]

Huh?

So,

this fuzzy fellow
has come around.

Welcome!

I am Captain Shiner.

Snarf!

Where's Lion-O?

Bring him in.

Lion-O!

It's all right, Snarf.

I'm okay.

But who are they? Snarf, snarf.

Hijackers.

Mercenaries,

if you please.

But what do you want from us?

He has what he wants.

The Sword of
Omens! Snarf, snarf!

Why?

As I told you, I am a mercenary.

I did it for the money.

[MUMM-RA CACKLING]

And I paid the money!

One sword

as per our agreement.

Unh!

[MUMM-RA CACKLES]

Without your wretched sword,
Thundercat, you are nothing.

You're wasting your time.

The Sword of Omens
does not work for evil.

I may not be able to use it,

but I can certainly destroy it.

No!

Let the ceremony
of expulsion begin.

Hear me,

Anquat, Anubis, Apopis,

I offer up the Eye of Thundera!

I consign to the deep
this defender of the right,

the just and the weak.

[GROWLS]

Now!

[♪♪♪]

Let's hope we can
pick up the Vertus

at the same position.

CHEETARA: And get there in time.

Stand by to get under way.

Standing by.

I will leave you
now, Captain Shiner.

Uh... I...

I thought you had left.

First I want to be sure
the Thundercat, Lion-O,

is taken care of.

Aye, aye!

I've got him and the fuzzy

chained in the reactor room,

pulling boron rods.

Fine. A good dose
of radio activity will

[CHUCKLING] cool them down.

CHEETARA: This is the location.

PANTHRO: Let's hope
they haven't got under way,

or we may never catch them.

[MEOWS]

We... We won't last


[PANTING] I'm
afraid that's the idea.

CHEETARA: There it is.

PANTHRO: Pull up over the top

and put the Feliner on its back.

Ready?

Ready.

Geronimo!

Engines half speed
of light ahead.

The engines.

They're getting
ready to blast off.

This is your captain.

I would like to welcome two
new Engine Room members.

A lion and a fuzzy dog.

[CHUCKLES]

That little joke will
cost you, clown.

Now, I know where they are.

[SNARF GROANING, WHIMPERING]

Snarf!

This... This heat.

You two!

Get back to work!

We need water!

I'll give you water.

Huh?

How's that?

You two cooled off yet?

[LAUGHS]

What the...?

Panthro!

Are you two all right?

Slightly parboiled.

What's happening here?

Who is their captain?

Shiner! A mercenary.

Mumm-Ra used
him to get the sword.

They have the sword?

Worse. Mumm-Ra
threw it into the black hole.

It's gone for good.

Hm.

How many of these sea
raiders are we up against?

Um. Maybe a dozen.

First we shut this monster down.

Then we deal with them.

SHINER: Full ahead, Engine Room!

What's the matter
with you people?

Wake up down there!

What's going on?

We are in command
of the Vertus, Shiner.

All secure, Panthro.

The rest of the
crew is neutralized,

and Snarf is standing
by the Engine Room.

[PRESSES BUTTON]

Stay on this course, captain.

You're directing me
back to the black hole?

Not back to it.

Into it.

You're mad!

We'll disappear forever!

I have a theory about that.

She's breaking up!

Turn back!

No! Stand by to
enter the black hole!

We're going in!

Panthro, what's happened?

Everyone stay calm.

It should pass quickly.

SHINER: We made it through!

LION-O: But -where are we?

PANTHRO: Inside some
gigantic force field, I suspect.

Look there!

LION-O: Dead spaceships

and old satellites.

PANTHRO: It's like
an astral junkyard!

SHINER: The legendary sea

of lost spaceships.

LION-O: But what caused it?

Look there!

Must be some kind
of super power station.

ROBOTIC VOICE: Now hear this.

Stand by to take our tow beam.

By whose orders?

By the orders of N.E.P.T.U.N.E.

Neptune?

The Navy Engineers' Power
Tower Under Nuclear Energy:

N.E.P.T.U.N.E.

Please bring all your
records, logs and registry.

Step lively.

Greetings,

I am the voice of N.E.P.T.U.N.E.

Sir, I demand to see
your human control.

I am in control here.

You mean, there is no
human force in control here?

Fortunately not, or this plant
would have broken down eons ago.

But what is the purpose
of this huge power station?

Why did you create a black hole?

To clear the
spaceways of derelicts,

burned-out satellites

and other dangerous
space hazards.

Who built these towers?

Venusian public works.

But Venus has been a burned-out
planet for thousands of years.

N.E.P.T.U.N.E.,

we are here to
retrieve a lost sword.

May we proceed with its search?

No.

All property entering
the station is claimed

by salvage right.

What?!

Then instruct us
in the procedure

to return home.

There is no return.

Follow the arrows to
the old space sailors' rest.

Wait a minute!

No use resisting.

You can't reason
with a computer!

Watch it!

Watch it!

I demand officers' quarters!

CHEETARA: Vertus
entered the black hole

at 0800.

Lion-O, Panthro and
Snarf were aboard.

All communications are dead.

Come home, Cheetara.

No one ever returns
from a black hole.

No!

But you're almost out of fuel!

I have to stay!

Snarf, snarf, let's
get out of here!

Easier said than done.

That's solid titanium.

If I could get into the
central power station,

I think I could rig
it to let us escape.

How?

Well, we were pulled into here

by a positive magnetic force.

If I reversed that force,
it would push us out.

All very well, Panthro,
but we're still stuck in here.

[MEOWS]

Yes, that's true.

Jaga!

The Eye of Thundera
is with you, Lion-O,

the source of the
Thundercats' power.

But I cannot summon it, Jaga.

Shiner has sealed the Eye.

It sleeps, Jaga, and
I cannot awaken it.

Your young friend
talks to himself?

Jaga!

Sealed or not,

the Eye sleeps
only until needed.

No! Don't leave us, Jaga!

The Eye sleeps
only until needed.

Thunder,

thunder,

thunder,

Thundercats, h*!

[GROWLING]

Unh!

Snarf, snarf!

You did it!

Sword of Omens, come to my hand.

Fantastic!

Okay, Panthro, let's go.

h*!

♪ Feel the magic Hear the roar ♪

♪ Thundercats are loose ♪

Lion-O, these doors!

h*!

I'll crosswire the transformers.

Go aboard the Vertus,
and get her steam up!

When those magnets reverse,

watch out!

Aah!

Alarm!

Alert!

Aah!

Steam up and stand by
to get under way instantly.

Come on, Panthro!

Come on!

We'll never make it.

I know it! I know it!

Look!

PANTHRO: Shove off!

Shove off!

SHINER: Reverse
half a light year!

Hang on.

Those magnets
are going to reverse.

Unh! Ooh!

Aah!

Jump! She's going down!

[GROANING]

Come with us, captain.

It's no use.

I'm in command.

I order you to jump!

Come on, Shiner.

You don't have to
go down with the ship.

Oh, yes, I do.

Lion-O!

Yes, Snarf?

There's a star moving
toward us at a good clip.

It couldn't be a star, Snarf.

He's right.

It's traveling too
fast to be a star.

LION-O: That means it's...

I never expected
to see you again.

I made one last pass
before my fuel ran out.

It was a near thing.

Without Captain
Shiner's spacemanship,

we'd never have made it
through the Sea of Lost Ships.

That's true.

But in order to get that far,

Panthro had to
rewire those magnets.

Who else had the
electrical know-how for that?

Ha! But in the first place,

Lion-O had to bring
the sword back!

And I couldn't have
done it without Jaga.

It sounds to me as
though it took the teamwork

of all of you to see it through.

That's right.

And if it hadn't been
for my cheerful optimism,

we would have given
up without a fight.

If that's optimism, I'd
hate to see you depressed.

I'm sorry Captain Shiner
went down with the ship.

He was on the wrong side,
but he was a brave man.

PANTHRO: Don't be too sure

he didn't survive.

He was a remarkable
space seaman.

CHEETARA: But surely,

if the Vertus was as
badly damaged as you say,

it was hopeless.

SNARF: Yes, but what could he do

to save her?

LION-O: You never know

with a man like Shiner.

♪ Thunder, thunder,
thunder Thundercats ♪

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