In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 3/5

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In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 3/5 is the third installment of In Search of the Scarlet Griffin series created by The Philmer. It premiered after an over three months long hiatus, on August 13, 2020. In the video, the Journey Squad visits Phalanx facility in Austria and receives help from Arthur, as well as a new ally, Hans, to storm BSoD's base. Their plan is interrupted by the constant attempts of the gang's remainder to boot up the teleport. Due to this, No-Life also steps into the game. 
== Synopsis ==
Spyman's Cosmos arrives at Phalanx facility in Vienna. With the help of a new ally, they track BSoD's base and go save Jenny. On their way there, certain people have a brief moment of discussion with each other. Meanwhile, Joseph and Mad seemingly finish their teleport. No-Life has an unusual meeting.
== Plot ==
The video opens with OkiWan piloting the Phalanx jet and informing his friends that they're going to arrive in Vienna in five minutes. Spy, Phil and Dr Saturn are revising their strategy, with Spy expressing his hope that rescuing Jenny will be worthy all this time and Phil saying that every life would be. OkiWan then tells them to come back to their seats, as they are about to land. Cut to Vienna and Phalanx facility. There are two characters waiting for Spyman's Cosmos to come out of the plane. One of them is Arthur. Spy comes out first and is happy to see his grandfather. Phil, Saturn and OkiWan also join and ask if the agents have discovered the location of BSoD's base. Right when Alice and Lenny come outside, Arthur confirms and introduces Hans, who says the base is likely fifteen kilometres outside of town. After a joke from Lenny, he adds that there's a set of hovercycles prepared for the Cosmos to get there.
Meanwhile, in Phil's Mansion, Joseph and Mad gather everyone in the lab, aside from Rex and Blank Tank, who went digging, to present the first usage of their teleport. Caddict tells Charles to start rolling with the camera to register the historic moment. Mad says he set the coordinates for Sydney National Park and that he's going to teleport one random thing from there. Cut to Syndey, where No-Life's family is watching the local landscape, while No-Life himself is bored. He splits from his family and prays for something to get him out of there, when he is hit with the white beam of the scientists' teleport. He then appears in the mansion and everyone is confused. When he sees the camera in Charles' hands, he thinks it's one of the pranking trio's pranks and immediately knocks-out Caddict, to then jump at Charles, only to phase through him and notice PCus, a computer. He tries searching for something, but is stopped by Pankid and Mangle, who comments that No-Life is the perfect example of technology influence on people. When the boy gets mad, Pankid assures him that they can bring him back where he came from and the two scientists confirm it. Mad sets the coordinates back to Australia, but No-Life says he was in Austria and despite Mad's corrections, he is sent there. Droppy wonders what will No-Life say when he finds out he was close to his home and computer, when the screen cuts to black and a loud falling sound is heard.
Back to Phalanx facility, Hans leads the Journey Squad into the hangar to present the hovercycles, but to their surprise, the room is empty. Hans is shocked and wonders who stole his inventions. Once again in the lab at Phil's Mansion, the remainder of the gang is seen among the wrecked hovercycles, trying to get out. Pankid asks Joseph what happened and the truck responds that the teleport accidentally took something random from the 15 kilometres radius and has to still be corrected. Pankid then tells everyone to start cleaning the mess. Back in Austria, the Squad is thinking of how to get to the base and ultimately decide to go on foot. Outside of the building, Hans hands Alice and Dr Saturn a device with the saved coordinates. He is thanked by Alice who offers a collaboration sometime in the future, but Hans says he works alone. Meanwhile, Spy, Phil and Oki are talking with Arthur, who cannot go with them, as he has other missions to attend.
Soon, the Journey Squad leaves and has a long walk through the forest, during which three pairs exchange their respective problems and views. Phil asks Lenny how does he feel that they'll finally see Jenny very soon and Lenny asks about his own feelings, considering Phil's past crush on her. Phil says that he's not sure, but they both decide it's always worth to tell it, which is overheard by Saturn, who goes closer to Alice. At the same time, OkiWan tells Spy that he's not sure of his actions ever since Belgium and Spy repeats his opinion on saving people, but Oki points its flaws, despite the option not risking too many people. He also reminds Spy that he said he would do the same if one of them was in Jenny's place, which makes Spy look down. Finally, Saturn attempts to reveal his feelings to Alice, motivated by Phil, but once he gets to the point, he is interrupted by a woman's scream. The gang does not know what is happening, when Alice translates that the woman warned them of a wild animal nearby. OkiWan then spots No-Life and the gang comes closer to him. They hear that he met the rest of the gang and after a talk, he tells them to leave and let him continue raging. He then hits the cliff next to him, which creates a hole that reveals a huge entrance gate. The gang deduces it is BSoD's base, especially that the device says the location is correct.
In the main hall, Jack finishes some corrections to BSoD's mobile form and the villains prepare to teleport Jenny to Nisipoulis, when they hear an explosion. They know it's the Cosmos and BSoD tells them to rush to them, while he'd take care of Jenny. Behind the destroyed gate, No-Life smells a computer nearby and leaves, while Spy says they should look for the Gang, when Copper offers "help". The two start to fight and OkiWan supports his friend, who repays him when Oki is in Copper's chains. Phil and Lenny face Jack and after a small discussion whether it's the Cosmos who are bad, Phil attacks the scientist, who dodges it and takes out the laser screwdriver. Lenny tells Phil to release Jenny instead and he does so. However, Jack does not want to hurt his brother and goes to chase Phil with his rocket shoes. Back in the main hall, BSoD tells Jenny to stand still, so he can teleport her, but she messes with him by moving to the sides, eventually breaking the handcuffs by a lever. However, BSoD targets her with a laser gun and tells to obey. Just when she looks like she's lost, No-Life bursts in and approaches BSoD, but recognizes the computer from Kalahari in him and says that he's broken. BSoD electrocutes him and punches away with a giant boxing glove. At that moment, Phil also arrives and rescues Jenny. She thanks him for the rescue and they're about to leave, when they are stopped by Jack.
Phil spots the gang behind him and asks Jack if he's really sure that he will beat them. Saturn shoots a ray towards Jack, but he defends himself with a force field, reassuring Phil that he's indeed sure of that. The gang is then surrounded by Jack and Copper, who's about to shoot them, but is stopped by No-Life, who decided to help, after he heard the villains want to conquer the world, in which he lives too, after all. Another fight commences, but is quickly stopped by BSoD, teleporting Jack and Copper to the Nisipoulis island. He then targets the Cosmos and No-Life with a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and says he could end them all. However, Jenny is confident he won't, as he needs at least one good person to use The Griffin's power. To this, BSoD replies that he can just find a random person in Greece and says he'll leave them in the base, which is about to self-destruct. He then turns off, moving his conciousness to the mobile form.
Spy gets mad at Phil that his plan failed, but when Phil says they don't have time for this, he agrees and tells the gang to use it. He says he's going to defeat the BSoD's Gang on his own and get The Griffin before they do. Phil isn't sure about that, but Spy says they will be better off withouth him and teleports himself. With less than a minute till the explosion, Phil starts running and right after exiting the corridor with Jenny, she notices she lost her fedora in the door. Phil reaches for the fedora right before the door closes and the screen cuts to black. An explosion is heard over the "To be continued" card.
== Characters ==
* OkiWan
*Phil
*Spymankiller
*Dr Saturn
*Arthur
*Hans (debut)
* Alice Marbleford
*Lenny Jester
* Joseph
* Mad Playz
*Charles
*Caddict
*Droppy
*Pankid
*Rex (mentioned)
*Blank Tank (mentioned)
*Henry (cameo)
*No-Life's Mom (cameo)
*No-Life's Dad (cameo)
*Otillie (cameo)
* No-Life
*PCus
*Mangle
*Ryan
*Jack Jester
*Blue Screen of Death
* Jenny Brown
*Copper
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* The first third part of a Rebirth Era series.
*This part features a remix of No-Life's theme - Winner Winner by Kevin MacLeod - with Down Under, a song by Men at Work, which is associated with Australia.
*The memorial rock outside of Phil's Mansion has a sign that reads: "This stone here is a tribute to Team KK's 3rd Anniversary! Long live KK! - 30.08.2014". This is of course another reference to Team KK, which was an Internet creative group, which The Philmer belonged to. The date is actually a reference to actual Team KK anniversaries, which were set on the anniversary of creating the NK group the team was writing on.
**The third anniversary was chosen, as it was the most celebrated anniversary in the history of Team KK.
* When No-Life gets electrocuted by BSoD, instead of the popular cartoon gag of the skeleton being shown, we see his nervous system, which is more accurate.
* Originally, BSoD was going to shoot out all of the arsenal towards the gang, leaving only Phil and OkiWan standing. Phil would then attack BSoD and try to destroy his screen with sai, until being electrocuted.
* The Philmer wanted the timer on BSoD to be adequate to the real time. Firstly, the gang was supposed to have only a minute, which is how long it takes from the activation to explosion in the video. But seeing how little time there was from Spy's teleportation to Phil reaching for the fedora, he knew it wouldn't be reastically possible to run through the base. Especially that it took some time before, when everyone was going to the main hall.
*At one point this part was supposed to have a scene with Dr Rex and Commander Bus calling BSoD to inform him that they're about to enter The Griffin's Cave, as an introduction to the initial idea for Part 4. The scene would be set right before the storm on the base.
=== Continuity ===
* The Rex and BT hole-digging gag returns once again.
* Though it was introduced in The Thunder (after The Philmer's permission), the teleporter makes its first appearance in full form and usage chronologically.
* No-Life calls BSoD "the same one [computer] as on Kalahari", referencing the events of Us vs. Us 4/4.
=== References ===
* During the No-Life scene in Australia, a clasheetsobropodla cactus can be seen in the background. The plant comes from Dr Saturn's comic, as well as animated series PETER.
* When No-Life types on PCus, he searches for "epic fortnite por" and is cut off by Mangle and Pankid before finishing. It's obvious though that the missing letter was "k". He was most likely very hungry.
* One of the agents passing in the Phalanx facility was a reused template of Agent 06 from The Philmer's video about his other universe, Agent 07. The Austrian woman that warned the gang later was actually a remad template of another character, Laura, but it's barely noticeable.
* One of the hovercycles crashed in the lab has The Acrobat's logo on it.
* "The futuristic tree" from The Philmer's series Team Y appears.
* The blue civillian tank has a number 07 on itself. This is a reference to The Philmer's general connection to number 7.
* When No-Life gets punched by the giant boxing glove, it's a reference to the No-Life's Home Alone opening. Not only that, but the glove has the exact same credit from the opening written on it, but it was made invisible by YouTube lowering quality.
*Phil reaching for Jenny's hat is a reference to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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