Dude, Where's My Condor?

"Dude, Where's My Condor" is the twenty-sixth episode of Storm Hawks.
==Description==
On a whim, the Storm Hawks trade in the Condor. But by the time they realize their mistake, their beloved ship as a new owner: a frightening gangster known as The Colonel! Aerrow and the Hawks have got to get it back! But they’d better hurry - the Condor will never survive what the Colonel has planned!
==Plot==
As the Condor was chasing a small platoon of Cyclonians, Stork tries to activate the Condor's high speed impeller, which resulted in failure, placing the airship into a complete halt. Stork goes into a massive breakdown, ranting all about the defects on board the Condor. With a blackout soon after, Stork could not vent out any longer, and requested that he goes to his "happy place": Wearing a trance helmet to put him to sleep. While Stork was on his slumber, the rest of the Storm Hawks head to the Wayside for repairs, but were distracted by a brand new cruiser (Model: SSL 550). Ultimately with the help of Finn they traded off the Condor for the new cruiser.
While checking out the new features on board their new home (as compared to the Condor), they received a signal on incoming Talons. They tried to test out the new cruiser against the Talons, but their success was short-lived when the controls start breaking down, bringing the Storm Hawks to a halt once again. A desperate Radarr takes off the trance helmet from Stork, who wakes up to overhear what Finn had done to the Condor, beating the latter up in frustration. However seeing the remaining Talons launching a counter attack, Stork makes a quick fix on the controls, takes down the rest of the Talons, before venting his anger on Finn once again. As an attempt to console Stork, Finn decided to get back the Condor for him, but realized that it had been forcefully sold to an unknown buyer. And that buyer turned out to be the Colonel.
Using the Condor's timepulse code, the Storm Hawks tracked down its location, and discovers that their original home had gone through a makeover. Seeing the Storm Hawks from a distance the Colonel invites the heroes to a party on board the Condor. Instead, Aerrow makes a bet with the Colonel to get their Condor back if their new cruiser wins a speed race. Unfortunately for him, the Condor's high speed impeller worked as intended this time, resulting in the Storm Hawks losing the bet, along their new cruiser, and end up working as the Colonel's servants. The Colonel revealed that he had acquired the Condor to realize his life-long dream of breaking the airspeed record, claiming to have restored the Condor to its original state, equipped with a Velocity Crystal array. He then orders the Storm Hawks to dock the cruiser on his palace by nightfall, before leaving with the Condor to try break the record by himself. However the Storm Hawks were still stowed on board the Condor, in an attempt to sabotage the Colonel's plan, only to be caught after an accident in the kitchen. As the Colonel demanded an explanation, Aerrow claimed that they want to see the Colonel make history, to which he accepts.
With the Colonel's command, the Condor goes into dangerously high speeds. Its hull was subjected to strain, breaking piece by piece. The Colonel finds that the Condor could not be slowed down, and as more systems began to overload and fail, he decided to do nothing to fix the damages, much to the anger of Stork. Stork now takes over the controls of the Condor to try slow it down. With a large part of the Condor's bulkhead broken, the Colonel decided to abandon ship, but was taunted by the Storm Hawks for going against the tradition of "The captain always goes down with his ship". Fearing for his life, the Colonel relinquishes his role as the captain and passes the hat to Stork, before leaving the Condor.
In an attempt to put the Condor into a complete halt, Stork identifies three tasks for the rest of the team: Junko to deploy the landing gear to increase drag, Aerrow and Radarr to deploy safety chutes (or speedbrakes) by loosening the release knobs from outside the Condor, Piper and Finn to disable the fiery Velocity crystal array. The tasks were completed with success, and the Condor was finally stationary. Stork also sees that the Condor had broken the airspeed record and was glad to have his airship back.
In the aftermath, the Storm Hawks finds some improvements to the Condor. As for Stork, he pointed out a flashing warning light that had been bothering him from the start, then proceed to press the button. It resulted in the Condor deploying its speedbrakes, much to the annoyance of the Storm Hawks.
==Appearances==
===Characters===
*Aerrow
*Colonel
*Piper
*Finn
*Junko
*Stork
*Radarr
===Crystals===
*Engine Crystal
===Squadrons===
*Storm Hawks
==Quotes==
Aerrow: Stork, I'm sure we can patch up the Impeller.
Stork: It's already been patched! A thousand times! Just like everything else on this flying death trap. The emergency sprinklers spew slime, when you flush the toilet, it sends a hundred volt shock through the seat.
(A shock is heard and Junko yells in the background)
Finn: Yeah, it would be nice to get that fixed...
Piper: Stork, you complain about the Condor all the time.
Stork: That's because I love to complain.
==Trivia==
*The episode title is a parody of the 2000 comedy film, Dude, Where's My Car?.
*Stork is involved in actual combat for the first time.
*The 46-digit code to the Condor's timepulse is 19837 65728 94782 74673 89283 75847 36743 65738 75643 8.
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==References==
Category:Episodes
Category:Season 1