Episode 3
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The Enemy Within is the third episode in the Rise of the Rookies miniseries that aired on Nicktoons on September 22, 2010. The episode was written by Sean Catherine Derek and directed by Mark Baldo.
Plot
William Furno is piloting a Drop Ship through an asteroid field, and Preston Stormer, Mark Surge, and Natalie Breez are with him. After Stormer and Surge criticizes Furno's flying, he says that he is working on it. Breez announces she has been partnered with an advertising campaign, and Stormer rebukes her. Surge asks about a giant billboard of Stormer in Makuhero City, and Stormer replies that the ad agency duped him and his fellow Heroes and wants to bring the billboard down. Nathaniel Zib calls in, informing the Heroes of an alert at Mekron City.
After arriving there, Furno lands the Drop Ship at the police building. Stormer goes to the building's lobby alone, and meets Drax, the police chief. The chief states the alert was a false alarm, but Stormer, suspicious, activates a Code 13, and the other heroes walk in. Stormer tries to check if Drax is being forced to lie about the alert by asking him why he sounded the Hero Factory alert. Drax explains one of his Floater Enforcer Drones malfunctioned, so there is nothing to worry about. Stormer asks Drax to let him and his fellow Heroes patrol the lobby, but Drax refuses. However, Stormer and his fellow Heroes do it. Drax grows angry and insane, and threatens to attack the Heroes, but Stormer captures Drax. However, Drax commands the FEDs to attack Stormer and the rookies.
The rookies attempt to destroy the FEDs, while Stormer Hero-cuffs Drax. The four Heroes then quickly defeat the FEDs, but Meltdown crashes through a skylight, ambushing the Heroes. After he lands on the floor, he says that he added something extra to his arsenal. Meltdown tries to attack Furno, but infects Stormer with his new kind of radiation instead before Meltdown retreats, having done why he came to the police building. Furno says that he had a clear shot at Meltdown, but as Stormer explains that a rookie could not have handled Meltdown's radiation, his Hero Core begins to hiss because the radiation burned through Stormer's armor, worrying the rookies.
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Stormer and Drax are rushed to Hero Factory, where Zib and Quadal diagnose Stormer's condition, which is that he is infected with nanobots. Zib explains Drax is in Hero Factory's medical wing called the HFICU, but Dunkan Bulk states that Stormer will not listen to the Medi-Bots, so Jimi Stringer says that Zib and Quadal will monitor Stormer's condition. Angrily, Stormer orders Zib to imprison him before the nanobots take hold. Stormer pushes Zib away and then throws Quadal at Bulk, Stringer, and Furno. Bulk, Stringer, and Furno save Quadal. Stormer begins to flee, tailed by the three Heroes. Zib and Quadal shut down the Drop Ships and Hero Pods to prevent Stormer from leaving Makuhero City. The Heroes surround Stormer, but he knocks Bulk away, forcing Furno and Stringer to save Bulk from falling from a great distance. Stringer notes that Stormer knows the Hero Factory building by heart. Stormer quickly escapes Hero Factory.
Stringer, Breez, and Surge use jet-packs to try and find Stormer around Makuhero City, but fail. Zib tells the Heroes that Stormer's built-in tracking chip's signal has been scrambled, as Stormer remembered scrambling the signal. Bulk remembers that Stormer learned this trick when he was tracking down the Hero rookie that went rogue, Von Ness. Zib states that the science team have deciphered a code needed to destroy the nanobots. He also says that he and the others have to find Stormer and realizes an important ingredient for the cure is only found on a moon called Lunar Tratix. Furno tells Bulk that he thinks he knows where Stormer is, and Bulk asks to tag along. However, Furno turns him down because he believes that it is better to track Stormer down alone undetected, and Bulk wishes him well. While Bulk, Stringer, Breez, and Surge go to Lunar Tratix, Furno takes the Furno Bike into the city to find Stormer. Zib cautions Furno over Furno's helmet's microphone about the possibility of Stormer's mind being taken over by the nanobots.
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At Lunar Tratix, the heroes disembark off the Drop Ship, and encounter a Tratix Reptoid, which attacks them. Bulk tells Breez to start using her scanning device to look for the mineral, which is the required ingredient, while the others distract the creature. Breez finds the mineral and plans to dig it out from the ground, but the Reptoid notices her and lunges at her, but Surge jumps in front of Breez to save her. The Reptoid grabs Surge, and prepares to devour him.
Meanwhile, night has fallen in Makuhero City. Stormer, who somehow got a jet-pack, is met at a giant billboard of himself by Furno, who also has his own jet-pack. Furno tells Stormer that he let others know his location, they figured out the antidote, and their friends are getting the final ingredient for it right now. Stormer angrily attacks Furno. They begin to brawl in the sky using the jet-packs. They slam each other into buildings, and Stormer slams Furno to his billboard, causing his Dual Fire Shooter to go off, burning the billboard. Stormer prepares to destroy Furno by doing a punch, but Furno reminds him of Von Ness, shocking Stormer. Stormer remembers Thresher, who got thrown off the ground by a green energy blast. Stormer starts to recover from the nanobots. Furno helps him by telling him to say their slogan, "Heroes to the Core". When Stormer says it, he slowly tries to punch Furno, but he misses, only to slump into unconscious. Furno picks up Stormer and radios to Zib that he is bringing Stormer in.
Stormer is brought back, with the other Heroes present and okay, while Drax is given the completed cure, saving him from the nanbots. Quadal gives another dose of the antidote to Stormer. Stormer behaves angrily again, making Zib worriedly think about a possibility where the nanobots may have caused permanent damage. However, Stormer slowly gets cured by the antidote. He thanks his fellow Heroes for saving him, and Furno for destroying the billboard because he hated it. Surge asks Breez how she saved him, and Breez replies that she talked to the Reptoid, a part of her programming, convincing it to cease its attack and dig up the mineral for them while the Reptoid is revealed to be a female. Bulk jokingly asks if the Reptoid or the infected Stormer is more dangerous than the other. Stormer replies that neither is more dangerous, and states that it is the monster who sent Meltdown to try and destroy Stormer.
Meanwhile, in a black hole, an angry Von Nebula remarks that Drax has survived, and Stormer must have as well, revealing that Von Nebula is the one who sent Meltdown to infect Drax and Stormer. He then vows to crush Stormer.
Cast
Trivia
- While Vapor is the only member of Von Nebula's gang who physically did not appear in the television episodes for an unknown reason, his picture appears as a "Wanted" poster in this episode. His prisoner number is 7179, the same as his set number, although the stats used in the poster do not correspond to the stats on box of the set. In the title of the Vapor's set called "Bulk vs. Vapor", as well as media outside of the United States, Vapor's name is spelled as "Vapour." The international spelling also carries over to the wanted poster in the episode.
- Meltdown's picture appears in a "Wanted" poster of him in this episode. His prisoner number is 7148, the same as his set number. However, the stats used in the poster do not correspond to the stats on his set box.
- Meltdown says two expressions when he attacked Stormer and the rookie Heroes in Mekron City's police station. When he crashed down through the skylight, he says "Geromino!", which people yell when they jump from a great height. After he infected Stormer with nanobots, he says "Au revoir", which is French for "goodbye".
- The jetpacks in the episode are placed upside down on the Heroes' back rather than the other way around, like in set 7179, for an unknown reason, probably a mistake. Thus, it is non-canon that the jetpacks have to be placed upside down for them to work.
- All of the Heroes in the episode except Bulk wore jetpacks. However, Bulk wore his in the set and the comic Showdown!.
- Before Daniela Capricorn first appeared in Episode 4: Von Nebula, she has a billboard that is seen in the Furno-Stormer fight. This billboard got damaged by the Heroes during the fight.
- Stormer's flashback about Thresher is a shortened version of the flashback seen in Episode 2: Core Crisis, as it only showed Thresher getting hit by a green bolt of energy shot from a giant drone, despite the drone not having appeared or being mentioned in this episode.
See also
- Gallery:Television Episodes - Episode 3: The Enemy Within
- Comic 3: The Enemy Within - based on the episode's script
- Showdown! - features Vapor
- Saga Guide - Rise of the Rookies
