After discovering that the horrific Luna-Taks: Luna, Amok, Aluro, Red-Eye, Chilla and Tug-Mug are free, Lion-O, Cheetara and Snarf return to the Lair to inform the other Thundercats. Ma-Mutt transforms into Mumm-Ra and descends upon the Luna-Taks preaching that they must work with him to destroy the Thundercats. Lion-O calls a council meeting at the Lair to plan a way into Darkside in pursuit of the Luna-Taks. Absent from the meeting, Panthro, Pumyra and Ben-Gali are off to the Thundrillium mines to replenish their low supplies. They discover the Thundrillium missing from the mine site and are attacked by a pack of Brutemen. Panthro success in calming them down, discovering them chained and enslaved in the mine. Ben-Gali frees the Brutemen with his pick-hammer and the Thundercats return to the Lair where we learn from several Bolkins and Wollos that there have been abductions in their villages. At the Luna-Taks' mobile heardquarters, Skytomb, we find these kidnapped villagers enslaved. Lion-O, in the HoverCat, and the ThunderKittens, on their spaceboards, scout the area near Fire Rock Mountain and find the Luna-Taks and Mutants with the village slaves. Lion-O battles Tug-Mug and then summons the other Thundercats with the Sword. But before Thundercat help arrives, Tug-Mug steals the Sword and break it in two. Panthro, Tygra and Lynx-O arrive in the new ThunderStrike, and, outnumbered, Tug-Mug and the Mutants retreat. At Skytomb, the Mutants and Luna-Taks bicker over who is more powerful, during which a Wollo and a Bolkin slave succeed in escaping. As Ben-Gali forges the broken Sword of Omens together, Panthro, Cheetara and Pumyra arrive with the escaped Wollo and Bolkin, who tell the Thundercats of the Mutants/Luna-Taks activities and of a way into Darkside through the Forest of Mists. Aboard the ThunderStrike, with Lynx-O as navigator, the Thundercats arrive at Darkside. The Wollo and Bolkin direct the Thundercats toward Skytomb's location only to discover charred ground in its place. With Skytomb mobile, the una-Taks are free to terrorize all of Third Earth.

Mumm-Ra, the Mutants, and the Luna-Taks form an alliance based on evil to counter the good deeds of the Thundercats. They seek to create anarchy by destroying the social community of the Thundercats and Third Earth residents.

In response, the Thundercats and their friends ban together. Many of their individual talents and attributes are evident in this episode: Panthro's technical expertise, Ben-Gali's skill as a blacksmith, Lynx-O's heightened use of senses other that sight, the ThunderKittens' cunning, Lion-O's steadfast leadership, and the Wollos' and Bolkins' knowledge of legends and folk tales. Yet in acting alone each is vulnerable to the formidable powers of the evil allies. The added strength of the Thundercats and friends giving them a significant advantage over their enemies is their sense of teamwork and willingness to work together. Acting together makes them stronger than when acting individually.

As Cheetara reminds Snarf, the individual Thundercats cannot sit back and only rely on the others when faced with danger. Each must take action. In our lives, when we or friends encounter danger or misfortune, we bear an individual responsibility to act. But the acting need not be done alone. As members of a community, if each takes action we act together in a group. We bring our individual talents together with others'. In doing so, we form a strong communal force which is stronger and more effective than any of its individual members.

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