01x12 - Sundown

[bunniefuu]

- Aah!

Aah!

Unh-aah!

Wuhh!

- Raaah!
- Aah!

[Zooming]

- Unh

- [Grunting]

- [Grunting]

[Electricity whirring]

[Booming]

[Buzzing]

- Uhh!

Maybe we need a better plan.

Tell our new boss.

- Ferro lad to command.
Maneuver has failed.
Please advise.

- [Stammering]

- Come on, bouncing boy,
we need new orders.

- I know, okay, brainiac 5,
pull back and, uh,

Flank the empress
from the right.

[Beeping]

Wait!

I mean left!

- [Growling]

- [Gasps]
[zapping]

[Grunting]

- Brainy!

Unh! Aah!

- Brainiac 5, saturn girl,
terminated.

- [Gasps]

Okay, uh, triplicate girl,

Uh, disable
the safety protocols

And hit the empress
with short range ion beams.

[Beeping]

- Safety protocols disabled.

Searching for target.

- [Grunts]

[Axe whistles]

- Gee!

All: aah!

- Triplicate girl terminated.

[Computer chiming]

- Targeting systems down.

The ships laser cannons
are getting ready to fire.

Lighting, ferro, look out!

[Beeping]

- Lightning lad,
ferro lad terminated.

[Grunting]

- Superman,
you're our last hope.

You've gotta take down
the empress before...

- [Grunting]

[Energy wobbling]

[Screaming]

- Superman, terminated.

- Superman?

Lightning lad...

Saturn girl?

[Theme music]

- Activating emergency
force field.

- Aah!

[Gasps]

- Training scenario
failed.

Holographic simulation...

Terminated.

- So are you guys sure
you want me to be in charge?

- Alright, let's
take a quick break
and try another sim.

- This time with me
and phantom girl on the team.

- Okay, seriously?
There's only so many times

A girl can face her
simulated doom in one day.

- Hey, when I was in command,

It took me 9 sims
before I got it right.

- Yeah...

Ever think that's why you're
not in command anymore?

- Remind me, how many times
did it take you to master
the daxom sim?

- Go on, how many?

- Well, i... 11.

- See, bouncing boy,
even these 2 have...

Bouncing boy?

[Hatches thudding]

- Stupid, stupid,
stupid, ugh.

- Wanna talk about it?
- No.

- Didn't think you
could just walk away
from me, did ya?

- [Sighs]

I can't do this job.

I'll never be a leader.

- You didn't have trouble
calling the shots

On our last mission.

- Nobody was watching me
on our last mission.

Now everyone has...
Expectations.

- Hey...you're gonna
be great.

We just need
to run the program
a few more times.

- Brainiac 5 to command.

We've just intercepted
a priority one distress call.

Your first mission
as leader begins now.

- So much for the simulator.

[Beeping]

- The signal
came from this moon...

Cheyenne delta.

- I thought
the cheyenne system
was uninhabited.

- It is...

Which makes it
the perfect location for this.

- The fenton arms depot.

- Max security
storage for the many
dangerous weapons

Left over
from the great crisis.

- Whoa, brainy,
is that...

- Cheyenne prime,
a red dwarf.

- Don't you think that's
a problem?

I don't have powers
under a red sun.

- True, but this time
we're prepared.

This battle suit is coated
with a high-density,

Nano-polymer
specially designed

To shield you
from the red sun's rays.

Think of it like sunscreen.

But with laser cannons.

- Works for me.

- Authorized personnel only.

Access denied.

- It's okay,
we're here to help.

- Authorized personnel only.

Access denied.

- Brainy, you speak robot.

Do something.

- Authorized personnel only.

Access...granted.

It's a category 9
containment failure.

One of the devices
stored here

Has been reactivated.

And according to the guards,
it's now on the move.

Automatic barricades
for each level
have been activated.

We've reached level 4.
We're locked in.

And so is the device.

- What exactly
are we dealing with here?

- Classified.
Not even the guards know.

- Right, okay, let's see.

Perimeter sweep,
zarzak maneuver,

Infinite grid,
oh, just split up and look.

[Ring buzzing]

[Whirring]

- Huh?

[Clanging]

[Beeping]

[Bangs and whooshes]
- huh?

It's broken through...

Into level 3.

- Cosmic boy,
it's heading towards you.

- Rah, unh!

[Grunts]

I'm putting up barricades
to slow it down.

[Thudding and crashing]

- It's in level 2.

I have a visual.

[Blasting]

Aah!

- It's reached level one.

Bouncing boy, be ready!

[Thuds]
- whoa.

Hey, ugly!

Follow the bouncing ball!

[Whirring]

- No...
[Charges up]

It can't be...

Listen to me very carefully.

This thing cannot
escape into space.

- You heard him...
Take it down.

[Screaming]

[Grunting]

[Whirring]

[Groaning]

- What was that thing?

- The most devastating weapon
this galaxy's ever seen.

That was a sun-eater.

[Whirring]

- The sun-eater's core
is heavily shielded

And the gas cloud
around it is lethal.

It's heading straight
for cheyenne prime...

The red sun.

- Please tell me
sun-eater is
just a catchy name.

- I'm afraid not.

The device is capable
of devouring an entire star.

- It does that
and any planet
in orbit would just...

- Drift off to a frozen doom.

- The sun-eater was created
during the great crisis

By an interdimensional species
known as the controllers.

They hoped it would
frighten people enough

To stop the fighting.

- A weapon to end all wars.

- It was only used twice.

After that, the device
was too dangerous

To be destroyed
or dismantled.

The controllers had no way
to get rid of it.

- So the best
they could do

Was to lock it away
in fenton.

- Let's get to the part
about how we stop it.

- Right now the sun-eater
is running on reserve power,

Which means
it's slightly vulnerable,

But we'll
have to work fast.

- Let me guess...

It's solar powered?

- So the closer it comes
to the red sun,

The stronger it gets.

And if it devours
that sun,

It will reach full power

And become
virtually unstoppable.

- Strike force to command...

We're in position
and awaiting your orders.

- Okay, bouncy, stay calm.
No big deal.

It's just all
your friend's lives

And the fate of the entire
star system in your hands.

All units, attack!

- I've got a shot
at the core.

I'm taking it.

Ahhh!

- Weapon systems are down.

- Then we'll take the shot.

Trips, increase throttle to max.

- Major system failure
in the primary light drive.

We just lost propulsion!

- What?! How?

- I've got a lock.

- Ah!

- Ah!

- Search for the core.
With a full power blast,

It should be able
to knock it out.

- Got it. I'm going in.

- Ahhh!

- Superman, stop.
You'll be exposed to the cloud!

- Ahhh!

- Uhh!

[Moaning]

- The sun-eater is accelerating.

At this rate,
it'll reach cheyenne prime
in less than 30 minutes.

- It'll take at least that long

To get the light drive
back online.

- Until his powers can be
recharged in the light
of the yellow sun,

Superman won't be
at full strength.

- Alright, listen up.

B5, ferro lad, phantom girl,
start brainstorming a way
to bring this thing down.

Everyone else, I want
this boat flying again
in 15 minutes.

I don't care if it's held
together with chewing gum.

You have your orders, now go!

- Bouncy, don't we need
to figure out

Why the light drive failed

Before we go after
the sun-eater?

Who's working on that?

- Bouncing boy, ferro lad
has an idea we should discuss.

Don't worry, superman.

We'll be ready
for the sun-eater's
countermeasures next time.

- Superman, I need you
to replace a fried converter
on deck 2.

- They didn't teach
light drive repair
in auto shop.

- Did they teach you
how to use a screwdriver?

- Let's see...

A little to the left, and...

- Ah. There.
That wasn't so hard.

- Who's there?

Huh?

Ugh!

[Grunting]

- Who are you working for?

Thanks for the save.

- Don't thank me.
I didn't listen to you.

He did.

- Thought about what you said
back there,

So I ran a full-dimensional scan

And found something
cloaked on the ship.

Always used to drive me crazy
when the guy in charge
wouldn't listen.

- You don't think
the sun-eater sent
this thing over, do you?

- No. But I have
a pretty good idea who did.

- Light drive's back online.

We'll intercept
the sun-eater in 6 minutes.

That's right, we rock.

- So, we're dealing
with one of the controllers.

- They're the ones who locked
the sun-eater up.

Why would one of them
want to reactivate it?

- Unknown. The controller's
motivations have always been
somewhat...extreme.

- I think we're a little
beyond extreme.


And closing.

- I've reconfigured
the main transmitter

To generate
an interference field.

Nothing this controller sends
to protect the sun-eater

Will sneak up on us again.

- We have visual contact.

- Zoom out.

Way out.

- So. He got bigger.

- Battle stations.

- You're not a bad pilot,
superman. Keep it up.

- I may not know light drives,
but I know how to fly.

- Star boy, colossal boy
and sun boy are in position.

- Alright, you two,
give me an eclipse.

- By connecting my circuitry
to your neurons,

We can transmit
your thought paths

To the sun-eater's
cybernetic mind.

This may feel...weird.

Both: commencing thought-cast.

- Keep it up! It thinks
the sun's disappeared.

Sun boy, now!

- It worked. The sun-eater's
changing course towards sun boy.

Good job, everyone.

Beta team, take out
those robots.

We're in position.
Phantom girl, you're up.

- Locator beacon, activate.

Aim for me,
and you'll hit the core.

- Ferro lad, are you ready?

- Hit me.

Magnetic field is stable.

- Are you sure you can
handle this?

- Do we have a choice?
- Do it!

- I can channel
both of your powers

Into one blast that could
take this thing out.

- He's fully charged.

- Then fire at will.

- [Groaning]

- Too much energy!
He's losing it!

- No! I can... Ahh!

- He missed.
Repeat, the shot missed.

- Phantom girl,
get out of there!

The sun-eater's on the moon.
Legionnaires, fall back.

I repeat, fall back!

- Ahhh!

- The sun-eater's back
on its original course,

Heading for cheyenne prime.

- It's all my fault.

- The readings
are off the chart.

[Machine beeping]

Cheyenne prime is...gone.

[Machine flatlining]

[All groaning]

- Is everybody okay?

- I've got vitals
on everyone.

We're fine.
The ship's another story.

- Brainy, give me status
on the sun-eater.

- Fully charged,
and 6 light years away.

- Get everyone on the ship,
we're going after it.

- Bouncing boy,
the sun-eater set a new course.

Earth.

[Theme music]