When we last joined the Thundercats, Mumm-Ra: the Ever-Living was consumed by the eruption on Fire Rock Mountain and the Thundercats looked towards a peaceful like on Third Earth. In this episode, Ma-Mutt rescues the weakened Mumm-Ra from the eruption's [remnants]. While recuperating, Mumm-Ra transforms Ma-Mutt into his duplicate to employ the Mutants to release the most fearsome and dreaded of the Thundercats' enemies, the Luna-Taks of Plun-Darr! As early immigrants to Third Earth from Plun-Darr's moons, the six evil Luna-Taks lost their clash for supremacy against Mumm-Ra and wer entombed in the lave pits of Darkside. Snarf overhears Ma-Mutt/Mumm-Ra's orders to the Mutants and is chased, in turn, by the angry Mutants. The sword alerts Lion-O to Snarf's dangerous situation and Lion-O summons the Thundercats. After battling off the Mutants, the Thundercats reutrn to the Lair where Snarf informations them of Mumm-Ra's plan to free the Luna-Taks. The Thundercats decide to build Lynx-O a braille board which will serve as his informational device against the Luna-Taks and Pumyra and Ben-Gali scout for the Mutans in the ThunderClaw and HoverCat. They discover the Mutants on Fire Rock Mountain but, because of the deadly fumes from the Thundranium pits below, cannot pursue them. Upon returning to the Lair, the Thundercats work on a plan to penetrate Darkside, the forbidden territory of evil which is surrounded by the Thundranium pits. While searching in the ThunderTank for an entrance into Darkside, the Thundercats are distracted by a flash of light in the distance. Lion-O uses the sword to location the explosion's source, discovering that the Mutants have succeeded in freeing the Luna-Taks from their lave encasements.

In a time of peace, the Thundercats prepare a feast to introduce the new Thundercats to their friends. In doing so, they show how a sense of community is built on trust and reciprocity among neighbors. But they remind themselves that keeping peace is as difficult as winning it. They also learn that evil is never totally destroyed, as they discover in this episode another representation of evil, the Luna-Taks.

A stable social order is never guarnteed in a community. Achieving and maintaining peace requires vigilance and effort by the group's members. This watchfulness includes guarding against a complacency that believes wrongdoing only happens somewhere else and that it can be overcome permanently. The variations of evil, whether individual or collective, are many. Evil is only successfully held in check by a sustained commitment to the principles society is based on and by working together for the common good. In our individual lives we should stribe always to work in cooperation with others and to live according to these principles.

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