01x11 - The Mind Warriors, Part 1

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- ♪ Defenders of the Earth, Defenders ♪

♪ Out of the sky ♪

♪ His rockets ignite ♪

♪ Jets into battle, flying 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 ♪

[eerie music]

[seagulls cawing]

- Maybe we lost it.

- No way, Jedda,

that creep's down there somewhere.

[low growl]

- I get the feeling we're being watched!

[thundering metallic roar]

- Look out!

[all scream]

- Oh no! Its chow time, folks.

And we're the main course.

[snarling]

- I really scared you guys, didn't I?

- Yeah, you did a good job, Kshin.

Come on down.

- Kshin's got more of an imagination

than I thought.

- That's for sure! - [growling]

- Rick, this new invention of yours.

It's great.

- How does it work?

- It's a thought transference cap, Jedda.

As long as it's hooked

to the battle simulation computer

you can create anything you can imagine.

- Defender alert! Alert!

- I didn't create that!

- Come on, guys.

[alarm blaring]

- A deadly alien warhead, known as a Doomsday Device,

capable of destroying every living thing on Earth,

but leaving the planet intact

is on a collision course with Earth.

- Is it one of Ming's weapons? - Negative.

It's a warhead left over from a w*r

fought in another galaxy seven billion years ago.

- That's older than the Earth itself.

Surely it no longer works.

- Unfortunately the vacuum of space

has preserved the weapon perfectly.

- When and where will it land?

- Zero degrees latitude,

sixty degrees longitude,

deep within the Amazon rain forest.

- Then let's go. - Wait, Son.

I want all of you to stay here

and find a way to disarm that baby

once we've recovered it.

- I only hope Ming hasn't discovered it yet.

- This alien doomsday warhead fits in

perfectly with my plans.

Garax, bring the weapon to my new asteroid base.

- At once, my emperor.

- Sire, sensors indicate a defender ship on route

to the doomsday weapon landing site

in the Amazon rain forest.

- So, my enemies wish to make a game of it, do they?

- Prepare to launch the fleet immediately.

With my new Battle Simulation Override,

I will be able to take complete control

of the Defenders' Simulation Room

and their minds.

And with the Doomsday weapon

the Earth will finally be mine.

- When Dad and the others get back with the warhead,

disarming it will be a cinch.

- Think you're ready for another one

of my 'Mind Warrior' challenges?

- All right. - Let's go for it.

- Yeah.

- If you can get through this one,

fighting Ming will be easy.

[chirps]

Okay, guys, this is gonna be real scary,

you ready? - Let'er rip, Kshin!

- What's so scary about this?

- Yeah, it looks like one of those cartoons
[ … ]

Kshin's always watching.

[soft growl]

- What's that?

[rumbling]

- Oh, no, look.

- Dinosaurs.

How are we going to fight dinosaurs?

[dinosaurs growling]

I've got three good ideas,

run, run, and run.

- Timber!

- I think it's time for a little karate lesson.

Hi-yah!

- Hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey!

- Way to go, LJ.

- Oh yeah?

You guys just wait till you see what I think up for you next.

- The Doomsday warhead should be just ahead.

- I only hope we've reached it before Ming.

- Look. There, in the clearing.

- Dynak was right again.

It appears we've beaten Ming's forces

to the warhead.

- You may have spoken too soon.

That's a Ming scout ship dead ahead.

We've got to stop it before it gets back

to the main fleet.

He's trying to lose us in this storm.

- I'd say we've been expected.

- [sigh] When it rains, it pours!

- There is no escape

from the molecular disrupter beam.

Fire!

- Uh!

I can't hold her.

Prepare to bail out.

The emergency doors are jammed.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- The emergency doors are jammed.

- Leave that door to me!

[hissing]

- That warhead might as well be in Ice Station Earth,

we'll never be able to cut through this jungle.

- You don't fight the jungle, Flash,

you become one with it.

- I believe this is what we're after.

- Good work, Phantom.

But how do we get it back to Monitor without a ship?

- You don't! - Garax!

- I hereby claim this weapon in the name of Ming,

the Merciless!

- That's what you think.

- The Defenders are on ice.

Load the doomsday warhead.

- I grow impatient, Octon,

when can I take control

of the Battle Simulations within Monitor?

- Soon, my lord. Soon.

- Once I have control of the Battle Simulation Room,

I can destroy the minds of my enemies like--

That.

- You've got some imagination, Kshin.

- Boy, I wish we could do this all day.

- [chirping] All day.

- I'm just glad Ming doesn't have your imagination, Kshin.

- As soon as you're rested up,

I've got a great new simulation in mind.

- Something to do with ice.

- And while we're in here,

Ming's robots are getting away with the doomsday warhead.

- No little wall of ice is going to hold me.

[ice cracking slightly]

[grunts]

- Save your strength, old friend.

This is Mongo ice.

- How can we free ourselves?

- Observe.

- We must leave immediately.

- Excuse me, old man,

we'd like to borrow your spaceship,

ah, if you don't mind.

- Defenders. Attack!

- With pleasure.

- Leave them to me.

By jungle law the ghost who walks

calls forth the power of ten tigers.

- And now to turn up the heat a bit.

- Come on. Let's get this bird in the air

before these ice robots change their minds.

- What?

You not only allowed

the Defenders to steal my ship

but you handed them the Doomsday warhead as well.

- Yes, Sire. I, I mean--

No, Sire. I, I, I, I mean--

- Fool!

Now there is only one way for me to retrieve the warhead.

The next time those Defenders
[ … ]

use their Battle Simulation Room,

it will be the end of them.

- C'mon, guys.

This one's gonna be the best simulation of all.

- Okay, okay, Kshin.

But this is the last one for today.

- Yeah. We're bushed.

- Wow!

Zuffy, this is gonna be awesome.

[alarm blaring]

- That's the attack siren.

- Alert. Alert.

Defender alert,

alert, alert!

A Ming warship is approaching Monitor.

Alert!

- Battle stations.

- Dynak, open the visual channel.

- The Ming ship will be within range

in exactly one minute.

- Don't worry, we'll blow 'em back to Mongo!

- Blast these Mongo radios.

- There's no way to contact Monitor.

- I'm afraid they'll contact us

with a laser blast.

- There's no way that creep will escape us now.

On the count of three, fire.

One,

two,

three,

fire!

- Hold on tight.

This is gonna be close.

- We missed.

But this time I'll blast it for sure.

- No, LJ. Wait.

I know that style of flying anywhere,

that's my father.

Dynak, open the landing bay.

Dad's home.

- If this one b*mb could destroy the whole world,

how come it didn't blow up

when it landed on Earth?

- It requires a special detonation code

before it will explode.

- Just like it needs a special computer program to disarm it.

It'll take Dynak hours to work out the defusing code.

- I know what we can do.

- Please, Kshin, we've had enough.

- Enough of what, Jedda?

- My special battle simulations.

They're really scary.

Maybe too scary.

- They're really scary, huh? - Ha, ha.

Let's see how good of an imagination

you've really got, Kshin.

- All right.

- [chattering]

- Is the battle simulation override device ready, Octon?

- Yes, Sire.

Everything is in order.

When the Defenders activate their simulation room,

then you will have complete control of their minds.

- Now, Octon,

turn it on, now.

It is working, Octon, it is working.

In a matter of moments

the Defenders will be destroyed.

- Well, so far it's a piece of cake.

- Okay, Kshin, pull out all the stops.

- Just watch what I have imagined for you now.

[animals howling, hooting]

[eerie music]

[bats shrieking]

- I guess we're supposed to go in.

[doors creaking]

- We must stop telling that boy ghost stories.

- Ah, anybody home?

- Don't all answer at once.

- [growling]

[cackling laughter]

- [chuckling] This is better than any horror movie

I ever saw.

- If you can hear me, Kshin,

this is some really heavy action

you're dishin' out.

- I agree, Defender!

What diabolically delightful things

that lad can imagine.

But they are nothing compared

with what I have in store for you.

More power, Octon.

It is time I gave Kshin a hand.

- [evil laughter]

- Hey, c'mon, Kshin, t-t-take it easy.

- The Simulation Computer, it won't obey me.

It's gone crazy.

Zuffy, we've gotta warn them.

- Kshin. Wait.

[woman howling]
[ … ]

- Everything seems so real.

- Help. Help.

- That sounds like Kshin.

We've got to get rid of these pests.

Creatures of darkness hate the light.

- Go away.

Leave me alone.

This is scary.

Why don't they go away?

- Fear not my boy.

The best way to fight illusion is with illusion.

- Kshin's right.

Why haven't those illusions vanished?

- I don't know,

the Simulation Computer,

it won't obey me.

- We'll have to fight our way out.

- Rick, we've got to do something.

- The machine's got a mind of its own.

It won't shut off.

We'll have to wreck it.

- What are we waiting for?

- Octon, increase the Simulation Override.

Full power!

- But, Sire! It cannot take more power.

- Do as I command.

- Very well, Sire.

- Yes! Yes!

[woman howling]

- I see a light up ahead.

Hurry.

[creepy laughter]

- We did it!

- It looks like we'll be

without a Battle Simulation Room

for a while, guys. - That's okay.

- [chattering]

- I think my imagination needs a rest anyway.

- [chuckles softly]

- I fail to understand your good humor.

The Defenders have escaped your trap, Sire!

- Octon, you have sensors but you do not see.

Once the Defenders have rebuilt their Battle Simulation Room,

I will capture Kshin.

With the imagination of that little menace,

coupled to my override device,

I will create real warriors

to steal the warhead back

and destroy the Defenders.

Come, Octon.

We have work to do.

And a planet to conquer.

[evil laughter]

[theme music playing]