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.
Summary
William Furno is piloting a Drop Ship through an asteroid field, and Preston Stormer, Mark Surge, and Natalie Breez are with him. 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 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 Drax why he sounded the Hero Factory alert. Drax explains one of his Floater Enforcer Drones malfunctioned, so there is nothing to worry about. Stormer asked 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 defeats the FEDs, but Meltdown crashes through a skylight, and 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 retreated. 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.
Stormer and Drax are rushed to Hero Factory, where Zib and Quadal diagnose Stormer's condition, which is that he is infected with nano-bots. Zib explains Drax is in the Medical Wing, but Dunkan Bulk states that Stormer will not listen to the MediBots, so Jimi Stringer says that Zib and Quadal will monitor Stormer's condition. Angrily, Stormer orders Zib to imprison him before the nano-bots take hold. Stormer pushes Zib away and then throws Quadal at Bulk, Stringer, and Furno. 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. Bulk tries to stop Stormer, but Stormer knocks Bulk away, forcing Stringer and Furno to save him 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. Zib states that the science team devises a cure for Stormer, but realizes an important ingredient is on a moon called Lunar Tratix. Furno tells Bulk that he thinks he knows where Stormer is, and Bulk asks to tag along. Furno turns him down because he believes that it is better to track Stormer down alone undetected, and Bulk wishes him well. While the others go to Lunar Tratix, Furno takes the Furno Bike into the city.
At the Lunar Tratix moon, the heroes disembark off the Drop Ship, and encounter a Tratix Reptoid. Breez finds the rare mineral they are looking for, while the others frantically distract the creature. It lunges at Breez, but Surge jumps in front of her. The Reptoid grabs Surge, and prepares to devour him.
Meanwhile, night has fallen in Makuhero City. Stormer is met at a giant billboard of himself by Furno, who tells Stormer that others know his location. They begin to brawl in the sky using jet-packs, Stormer angrily attacking Furno. 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, but Furno reminds him of cowards like Von Ness. Stormer remembers Thresher, and recovers from the nanobots only to slump into unconscious. Furno picks up Stormer and radios to Hero Factory. Stormer is brought back where he and Drax are given the cure. 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 what is more dangerous than them 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.
- The jetpacks in the episode are placed upside down on the Heroes' back rather than the other way around, like in 7179 Bulk & Vapour, 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 7179 and the comic Showdown!
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 Guides/Rise of the Rookies
