Jared & Friends (Season 9)

This is the 9th season of the Jared and Friends television series, taking place right out of the gate of the new year about a week after the previous finale

## Episodes

1. 'Bela is Back - **We start the season off with some more low-key stuff, bringing back a fan favorite character, none other than miss Isabela Merced herself. Jared gets a vision about her, after not being able to talk to her for a while because of her new life and stuff, until Barney got a letter from her that she is going to visit her old friends, much to Jared's surprise and unsure thoughts. Barney helps calm him down and calm his nerves and that they decided to stay friends and even though it has been a long time, he can still talk to her. Isabela then arrives and gives Jared a hug and has a talk about what they have been up to, including Jared's problems with Maddy last season, but he has been trying to work on himself, even when it is frustrating. Isabela smiles and understands it all, and they continue to be the best of friends and she even decides to stay in the posse this season, because she said she missed their old adventures with the others (So, yeah expect some more low-key Jared-bela content this coming season), however it is revealed she had an adventure of her own exploring the under realm below, serving as a prelude of what's to come.**
2. Rise of the Knight - **At the stroke of midnight of 2021, a power had unleashed deep in the ruins of Walkerhaunt, the old underground fortress and in the Oblivion-Limbo as well. A horrible creature known as the Gryphon of Darkness has risen up from the ashes, but is still kept in stasis. Wicked has escaped from her cell, saying to herself, her heart already has enough darkness, nothing can trap it, despite being trapped for over two years. She attempts to get through to her cousin Harley Quinn, but to no avail, but she soon breaks open her cell. She and her cousin ruminate on their failures from the Season 7 finale and tells Harley that her long hunger and thirst to power is what drove her to become what she is today. They soon find the legendary creature known as the dark lord himself Knight Walker and free him from his slumber, and with his power sending them back to the underground fortress of Walkerhaunt. As a gift of gratitude, he grants them a recharged version of the Gloomix, alongside their witch forms. Meanwhile, the Dream Team are just cleaning up from their New Years Party and reminiscing the fun they had, especially aftet the turmoil with Maddy on Christmas, which Jared still has scars from. The attention diverts from Maddy when Jared and Monique bump into each other and have a double vision of Walker's escape, which both leave them unnerved. Jared couldn't believe what he has seen......and proceeds to take them to Motherboard to tell them a story**
3. The Legend of the Dark Gryphon - **Jared takes them all to Motherboard, who with the help of the Dream Team's new Tracix style powers and wings, tells an old legend passed down in the imaginary worlds about the beginning of the Wonderzone, the main imaginary universe where Barney and the other main imaginary creatures reside. With light, there is always shadow, enter Walker Knight (who is basically this universe's version of Lord Darkar). The evil Ancient Ancestrals (the predecessors to Double Trouble, Wicked and Harley) became their servants to rule the realms but a band of heroes born of the light of imagination soon beat them, but as for the Dark Knight, he was cast into the darkness of the limbo of Oblivion and sent into a deep slumber and his underground fortress became the ruins we first see in The Final Showdown.**
4. Valentine Va-Voom
5. Barney's Big Brawl
6. Attack of the Twonsies
7. Jared's Not-So Lucky Day
8. The Magic School Bus Gets Glitch-ified! - **Barney and the rest of the gang have collected a surprise for Jared, who hasn't been having the best week, to cheer him up. They climb aboard the Magic School Bus to get home quickly, but after taking a short-cut through Wilfrid Laurier University, the bus seems to be having some hiccups due to the nearby vibes of Jackson Mayers and Maddy Cabral messing with the bus's vibe-powered controls, causing it to malfunction, but they keep pressing on. Especially since they have been spotted by the couple themselves. With Barney at the wheel of the famous bus, it's a race to the rescue you do not want to miss! Will the Dream Team deliver the surprise in time for Jared, or will their number be up by Laurier's number-one basketball star? Life is truly a highway when imagination and magic buses collide!**
9. The Return of Double Trouble
10. Ethan's Birthday Bash
11. Saving Sarah Jackson: A COVID Adventure - **In this COVID-19 special adventure, Jared gets the news that his best friend, Sarah has gotten the virus and she will have to isolate herself for a couple weeks and he wishes there was something he could do. Enter The Friz (both Valerie and Fiona) and they give Jared the idea to see what's going on inside Sarah.**
12. The Legend of Tink-Cabral - **Lord Walker has sent Double Trouble to capture the little butterfly fairy known as Tink-Cabral, a mini fairy version of Maddy Cabral who lives in an imaginary world just a small detour from the second star to the right, in order to absorb her fairy dust to help regain his power. Motherboard gets wind of this and summons the Posse to retrieve her and take her home. They succeed, and at first, Jared doesn't want to let her go, due to how much he misses the real Maddy Cabral, but then soon realizes he's just as bad as Walker and the witches for not letting her go. This puts everything to perspective for Jared, especially with holding on to this inner struggle, wallowing in the mud, waiting for Maddy to just appear back into his life. He soon realizes that it is no way to live life and if he is able to let go, eventually, maybe, one day, the real Madeline Cabral will cross paths with him and Jared will have a second chance and a new start at friendship with her. He then lets the little fairy go and smiles at her, as she gives Jared a quick kiss on his cheek goodbye, before she disappears into the portal. This act symbolizes Jared being able to let go of Maddy and move on, but still have a glimmer of hope that one day, eventually, he will have another chance to become friends again. And that's all Jared needs to keep going with his life.**
13. A Day with Grandma Ivy
14. The Big, Bad Day
15. Let's Go to Jamaica.....Again
16. Wish You Were Here
17. Fungus Among Us
18. One Gloomy Week
19. The Revenge of Jennifer's Body
20. Monique's Magical Mess-Up
21. Jared's Christmas Conundrum
22. A New Year's Eve to Remember
23. Mayhem in Misfit-Land
24. Return of the Deadly Seven - **Knight Walker is on a mission to regain his old army alongside Double Trouble, and this army happens to be the Deadly Seven, to help bring down the Dream Team at every step by feeding on the struggles in their personal lives. The witches steal Pandora's Box and after being chase by the Posse and giving them a fake box and taking the real one, release the Deadly Seven and Walker brands them with enhanced powers. Meanwhile, it is not a good day in the K-W when Jared finds out Spencer Barbosa found a boyfriend, leaving him upset and wondering why girls never like him. This initial anger and envy causes him to get into big trouble when he thinks of making a surprise box filled with slime and confetti as a prank, but after he realizes what he is doing, he stops. However, giving him pain, both physically and emotionally after getting beat up by Spencer's boyfriend after a mission gone wrong, which involved Jared and the team trying to stop a magic box that Jared made filled with confetti and sticky slime that Jared bumped off the table and zapped away by bumping into his wand in his backpack....to Spencer's condo in town and the Dream Team trying to stop it. They do try to stop it when Morgan find it and gives it to Spencer as a gift...but to no avail, causing a big mess and Morgan single-handedly kicking the whole gang's butts and tails, leading to the group getting a rough talking-to from Motherboard about what happened. The witches and newly empowered Deadly Seven catch wind of this and each feed off the respective pain. This revelation startles the heroes and they wonder how they're going to beat their enemies this time. This gets even worse when Jared's clairvoyance power kicks in and his psychic visions show him a future of Spencer filing a restraining order against him, much to his unsettlement......now the Posse has TWO huge problems.**
25. Penwell Peril - **Continuing the arc featuring Spencer Barbosa, even though it has been sometime since Jared had that vision, Jared still wonders if this is the case, maybe Spencer and her boyfriend, Morgan will forgive him for what happened last time and his vision won't come true.....they do not forgive him, saying Jared is only saying sorry he got caught and only doing it for himself, making him more upset than ever. He tries to talk to them and try to ask why they are being so hard on him, but they won't and tell him to leave. This makes him think about the way he has been acting, not just as of late, but for years and how his temper and his emotions can get the best of him and he wonders why everyone thinks he's so self-involved. He has really been trying to change, especially after what happened with Maddy, but he then guesses even the oldest habits take more time than you think to shake off.**
26. Fear Factor - **Lisa Lust and Simon Sloth are back to cause some chaos with some the Double Trouble sorceress duo to cause trouble for our Powerful Posse. Motherboard sends the good guy group to the realm of Labyrinthia, the realm of mazes, puzzles, and...well...labyrinths. However, it's not Motherboard, it was an illusion from Lisa Lust to lure them into the maze and separate the heroes, and envelop them in the darkest fears in order to slowly weaken and destroy them on an emotional and psychological level.**

## Trivia/Notes

* This season continues the trend of bringing back old elements from previous seasons for a nostalgic feel for the 5th anniversary of the series, mixed with the new elements planned since the fourth season as well as the overall tone having a classic and current feel to it
	+ This seasons is more heavily based on character-driven stories, much like the second season of Winx Club, especially how the events of the previous season has affected Jared
	+ This especially documents the growth and development of the characters, especially Jared still learning to grow up and continue doing so and overcoming his weaknesses. Not only that we also see new sides to the characters, like Barney's more self-aware side, Monique's more energetic and athletic side, Myla's adventures, but smarter side, and Professor Tinkerputt's more unsure side when it comes to his machines. Even the villains have time to shine, namely Harley and Wicked and their relationship and individual characters
	+ The season continues the trend starting from the fourth season, using all kinds of stories with different tones, especially with the development of the characters