Hashtag50MorePistons (Part 1)

In episode 21 of Wrong Way Up they have to deal with a low polar sun and low battery power. The sun is now perpetually low on the horizon and DE, Splitsie, w4sted, and Capac (still in last week's crocodile spacesuit) are ready to drive on north. Texfire can't join this week so he doesn't know that they just smashed his firetruck against the hilly terrain... 
With the remaining power, Splitsie drives towards snow to refill the hydrogen engines. W4sted crankily "hawks" drones and now carries five hydrogen bottles to be safe. They laugh about jotting down a Wrong Way Down Buzzword Bingo. They realise that they need ice to produce hydrogen power, but are running out of cargo space for ice, but to dismantle components to free space, they need power... w4sted finds out that one of the Assemblers is set to Repeat Mode which explains why they ran out of space. Capac has designed a foldable refuelling arm that is in danger of getting caught in the plane elevator. 
(0:30) After seeing the even weirder "drill hand" that DE has built, Capac feels better again. Splitsie tries to explain his use of sensors in his "wagging tail"-style drill while W4sted convinces us he studied acting at school (especially, acting out and acting up). Splitsie drives a few metres so the drills can reach more snow while W4sted is recycling thousands of overproduced components. W4sted notices he is desensitised to clanging noises, whereas Splitsie still investigates them. 
The Bots spy on them from a plane called High Shadow. w4sted wonders why he cannot open the drone launching hangar and Splitsie quickly removes a newly built button panel with too large a hitbox. They drive yet a bit further and philosophise with Capac "Florida Man"Capac lived in Florida once, gaining him the nickname Florida Man. Amaru about shaky UFO videos. They defend themselves against the complaint that they could have made it here faster walking by pointing out that on foot, they would have no respawn point and no life support. 
(1:00) We hear clanging and Splitsie instinctively switches to Spectator Cam to witness an explosion - but it's just w4sted's drones pulling their rotor reins restlessly. The unleashed drone chases after the spy plane which looks like a B-2 Stealth Bomber. The Bots are impressed by the damage the drone did and the stealth bomber limps back to base. Splitsie drives on and the fire truck loses even more blocks. 
The Bots mention tracking mysterious "rogue signatures" and an operation "inverted goose"Kanajashi reveals later in YouTube chat that this was supposed to be a surprise attack with various fighter planes. in in-game Chat. While the Jalopy races downhill, they spot a Sigourney Reaver signal and notice signs of infighting among the Bots. When exiting his searchlight/periscope, Capac has a bug-induced out-of-body experience and needs to log back in. Suddenly, the Bots' Mustang plane strafes the Jalopy! w4sted hurriedly launches a drone and Splitsie and DE follow in the Neon Pumpkin. They notice a battle over the Bots' runway involving several planes and tanks. The Neon Pumpkin retreats after an exciting dogfight and crashes into Capac's plane on the Jalopy's runway. 
(1:30) Capac compares Splitsie's landing to an aircraft disaster movie and Splitsie feels slightly bad for causing damage, then proceeds to damage his own plane some more on the way to the hangar. Everything is locked down, including w4sted's clanging drones, and Splitsie starts driving north again. They find a route down to a pinkish ice lake, which is dangerously close to the Bots' embattled runway, but they need hydrogen. In the middle of the lake, they pass the damaged B-2 fighter, but Capac doesn't want this "Happy Meal toy plane", he wants five Happy Meals, so he can voltronVoltron is an anime from the 80ies where five lion shaped robots form a large mecha. all the toys together! W4sted has 3D printed four of five drones (named after the Spice Girls) and accidentally gets eaten by DE's drill.
(2:00) All the mined ice makes the Jalopy too heavy to move. W4sted takes the B-2 for a test flight, notices in mid-air it has 2 sec of power left, and plonks down on the lake. Capac gets volunteered to scout a new route north. w4sted would do it but someone has added unaerodynamic passenger seats to W4sted's plane's wingtips... Capac's plane lifts off and anaemically rolls on the ice lake until an admin-cut-and-paste normalises its desynced behaviour. As Capac finally lifts off, W4sted ducks IRL. They drive north again and loot broken tanks and planes (and a stolen drone?) from the Bots' deserted runway in passing. W4sted hawks hydrogen bottles to Splitsie who has run out. Capac declares he found the only route, because the Bots are dissuading him from it, but Splitsie is skeptical. DE detaches the flailing drill hand to make room for the climbing arms. Splitsie needs to rejoin after his game crashes. 
(2:30) Using their by now familiar piston-arm method, they climb the craggy hill in pea soup weather. Capac was still in the air and forgot to land and now the runway is too angled to land. The Bots hint at an easier route by ostensibly driving around in a neighbouring valley. DE gets launched 150m in a rain of clang sparks but everything is under control. Capac almost gets sniped by Jexsam Bot's rocket launcher and shoots back at the scout rover, then lands on a hill. In the middle of climbing, they take a break to look at a photo of a cake that Naburine made and chat goes wild. 
(3:00) Almost at the top, they casually chat about Star Trek and the Halo TV show. Suddenly, the trailers roll and they use everything they have to balance, which damages the runway. Time to build more pistons... Capac inquires about buying one of the hydrogen bottles that w4sted was hawking, then stubbornly walks up the tilted Jalopy on foot instead, and falls into a crevice. They continue chatting about sci-fi show reboots (Chat demands LIGHT ECHOES!) as the Jalopy tilts even more. Splitsie uses rotors on pistons to flip the trailer and the sudden flip startles everyone. 
(3:30) As the Jalopy is clawing its way uphill, Capac gets hit by another mysterious rocket from a sneaky Kanajashi. The TV reboot conversation reaches its climax as they reach the hill's plateau. Capac has (with help of generative AI) invented a new intellectual property called Wombat Knight -- Splitsie is baffled. On the highland, they race on north until the trailers roll again, ignoring all rotor limits, and even more pistons are needed. Capac still can't land on the tilting runway, so he chases Kanajashi in the snow storm a bit, and then lands on the ground. 
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