We return to another previously visited planet--originally, it was Nemon and that's where they mined Nemonium and Zarkon's nephew built a statue in his honor. Now, they call it something different. Silly WEP.
Voltron vs. Voltron
Zarkon is surrounded by fools and idiots. He complains of a problem on the slave planet Yadle. Haggar explains that planet Yadle think's they're now independent, and they're preparing to invite Voltron to celebrate their independence.
On Yadle, a bunch of guys are, um, informed by children that Voltron is coming. Naturally, the blue cat is spying on them. Zarkon is displeased. Lotor promises to destroy them. In Haggar's lab, Haggar and Lotor show Zarkon a darkened window. The window lights up and Zarkon reacts to seeing the evil duplicate of Voltron.
Back on Yadel, a guard leads the two boys--Bobby and some other dude--to the governor. Bobby begs to be allowed to be the one to invite Voltron. The governor gives Bobby some device that allows them to pass through the electric barrier surrounding Yadle.
in the castle of Lions, Pidge is leading the space mice on some travelogue. He's bored to death and falls asleep, so the mice bite him. Then he sees and alien craft approaching as they others enter castle control. It's Bobby from planet Yadle.
Meanwhile, Lotor's faux-Voltron arrives on Yalde with an escort of not quite Doom ships. All of the Yadliens are overjoyed except for Bobby's friend. Voltron and his escort land in the spaceport. The ships open and reveal Doom soldiers. The Yadliens flee. The governor calls for the officer of the guard. Lotor orders the robots to open fire with, um, stun beams. The Yadlien guard returns fire. Bobby's friend runs past some buildings as the guardsmen are cut down--er, stunned. Lotor stands over all stunned Yadliens. The robots kick some over, and gather then into a circle.
Bobby's friend gets into the governor's office and tries to contract Arus. It doesn't work for some reason, so he hides in the massive ductwork surround the entire room. Lotor and Haggar enter the office. He orders the robots to bury the fake Voltron and prepare themselves for a surprise attack.
Bobby's friend emerges from . . . a manhole in the desert and sees the weird escort ships burying the robeast Voltron. Bobby's friend decides to write a message to Voltron in the sand. He starts digging with his hands. These damn millenial kids. They think they can get whatever they want without working for it.
In castle control, Bobby can't contact Yadle control Maybe it's the electrical field. They decide to contact them once they've taken off. So they take off. Why are we always preparing? Then they form Voltron.
Lotor, with his craggy animation model, sees Voltron launch. Bobby's friend has drawn a doom skull in the sand. That skull found its way onto a lot of my notebooks throughout my school days.
Bobby gives Keith the device to neutralize the electric barrier. Keith inserts it into a cassette slot and Voltron clears the way with blue eyebeams. Bobby then goes to the communications panel. Lotor answers, with a little prodding from Haggar. And his animation model is suddenly smooth-faced. Bobby's friend, slacking as usual, has dug an S.O.S. under the skull.
Doom soldiers hide in alleyways as Voltron comes in for a landing. On approach, Keith and Bobby see that piece of crap lazy bastard's S.O.S. (no thanks to him half-assing it) and pretend to land. A smooth-faced Lotor starts to gloat. Lance sees a Doom soldier. Keith nukes 'em with the eyebeams. The Yadliens flee. The Doom soldiers have commandeered Yadle's artillery. They fire on Voltron. For as long as it lasts. Lotor and Haggar run through the explosions, then Haggar summons the robeast look-alike Voltron. The team makes snide comments. They launch foot--er, stingray missiles. The robeast dodges, then takes flight.
Haggar tells Lotor that her Voltron has a thinking monitor that reads every electrical impulse of Voltron's. The shield changes from the Arusian crest to the Doom skull. We see the pilot, and he's badass looking. THey trade attacks, and the real Voltron takes a few hits. And the robeast computer calls the laser magnum "magnum force." Interesting. Voltron fires the stingray missiles again, and then flies onto the other Volts, only to be thrown.
Lotor and Haggar are enjoying the show. Keith forms the blazing sword--and the computer activates the "sword neutralize"--which is basically forming the blazing sword faster and hitting it.
Keith, with Bobby at his side, figures out that the robeast is reading their electrical impulses. He has them cut power. The computer suddenly can't detect them and it starts freaking out. Red and green lions disconnect, and the blazing sword is sent down via the electro-force cross. Keith orders Hunk to disarm him, and Lance obeys by flying up with the blazing sword. The arms reattach and . . . that's the end of faux Voltron.
Lotor and Haggar burst out of the sand in their ships, and Haggar says next time she'll include the lions.
Voltron stands on the same pedestal he knocked the Zarkon statue from the first time they visited Nemon. I mean Jarre. Errr, Yadle. Whatever.
The Planet Jarre Oath
We open directly on the planet Jarre and the uncanny energy field surrounding it. The narrator tells us that the people are rebuilding since their liberation at the hands of Golion. A boy runs out to tell everyone that Amazon has just been liberated by Golion, and that Golion is now coming to Jarre. Jaga sees this, and transmits the image to Daibazaal. Daibazaal vows to never let Golion have Jarre, and asks Sincline what he intends to do. Sincline and Honerva show Daibazaal their fake Golion.
Jarre has just completed building a new base and are planning a celebration. Paul, who claims to know the most about Golion, asks to be the envoy to Altea. The commander gives him a beam emitter that will counteract the uncanny energy of Galra surrounding Jarre.
Suzuishi and the space mice are watching the monitor for signs of Galra, bu apparently they haven't been near Altea for some time. The mice bite him to awaken him from his boredom just as the alarms go off. It's Paul from Jarre.
Meanwhile, the fake Golion and the escorts approach Jarre just as in Voltron. Paul's friend thinks there's something weird about the little ships. Maybe because they're all spikey and mollusc-looking?
The Galra soldiers who fire into the crowd are definitely not using stun weapons. Sincline orders them to open fire after he decries their arrogance at building a base to oppose Galra. The weapons used by the Jarren soldiers look like M-16s with paintball CO2 tanks.
So what exactly are those little hatches leading to ducts in the office? They line the entire length of all the walls. And they have automatic doors. What a strange shortcut to take. "Here, lets animate some easy escape route and hope no 30-something loser blogs about this 30 years later."
Paul is weirdly excited when he reestablishes contact with Jarre (and gets Sincline without realizin it).
Eye-flash is apparently Golion's standard anti-personnel weapon. They use the laser magnum to take out the Jarren artillery. And they definitely make a run through the arsenal when fighting the fake Golion. When the fake emerges, it comes up as if it were face down, but it was buried face up.
Weapons used: Real Golion--Foot missiles, fire tornado (its range is 600 m), cross beam, Jyuoken,
Fake Golion: laser magnum, machinegun pod, eye-flash, foot missiles, Jyuoken (which can apparently form faster than real Golions).
Kogane figures out that the energy of the fake Jyuoken is the same as the real one, which means the enemy must be analyzing them with a computer. Huh?
The beastman piloting the fake Golion is even more arrogant than in Voltron. And I didn't notice this in Voltron, but the red lion actually cuts the fake Jyuoken in half before rojoining Golion and finishing off the fake.
The team, Paul, and Paul's friend stand before a monument to those killed in the war against Galra, and Kogane vows to continue the struggle
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