Witches of the Mist

## Premise

"Sonic and Daniel, sent to track down the mysterious figure behind the deaths of several kung fu masters, soon find themselves on the trail of the monstrous apprentice that Su Wu has created:  Fleck, who has been trained in the ways of the dark kung fu master by Bear.

Bear sends Opress to Toydaria to capture King Katuunko. The monstrous apprentice clashes with the masters, and in the course of the battle he kills the king.  Fleck returns to Bear's flagship having failed his Master. It is then that Su Wu strikes, with  Fleck at her side, against Bear. A three-way battle for dark side supremacy ends with Bear triumphant, Su Wu fleeing, and a disillusioned  Fleck abandoning his loyalties to the dark master. He returns to Mother Talzin, who gives him a new task. To seek the Outer Rim for his long-lost leader...."

## Synopsis

Delta Squad returns to the Jade Palace in the valley of peace with the bodies of Master Halsey and his student Knox from Devaron after the Devaron massacre there and reports to the masters. Daniel and the others immediately suspects the handiwork of another assassin in Master Bear's employ, but the savageness with which the killings were performed mystifies them. Surveillance material recovered from Devaron finally reveals the face of the killer. Startled to see that this brutal warrior comes from the same stock as his long-dead enemy Harry the Lion, Daniel is sent to Dathomir by Masters Oogway and Thundering Rhino to uncover the killer's origins.

Daniel and Sonic travel to the village where Fleck has been raised. Daniel's hopes of solving the matter peacefully are dashed when a group of armed Dathomiri surrounds them, forcing them to resort to "aggressive (but non-lethal) negotiations" until Sonic takes the village headman, Brother Viscus, hostage. Viscus refers them to Mother Talzin of the Nightsisters, and the masters leave under a tense, but non-violent air for the witches' abode. Once there, the two are brought to Mother Talzin, who after some stalling reveals the name of their subject and where he can be found. With things running tight, Talzin assigns Su Wu to join her servant and strike at Bear immediately before the deception is discovered, even though Fleck is not yet ready.

Meanwhile, Master Bear has begun training Fleck in the skills of the dark master. Bear proves to be a harsh taskmaster as he strives to stir Fleck' rage and hatred in order to unlock the power of the Dark element within him, torturing and agitating his disciple with demeaning criticism and dark element. After the first training has been completed, Bear sends Opress on yet on another mission, this time to Toydaria: he is supposed to capture King Katuunko and bring him to Bear alive.

Opress storms the royal palace, slices his way through the Toydarian Guard and captures the king by rendering him unconscious. Daniel and Sonic, having just arrived, try to stop him, but Fleck pins them down, destroys their ship and escapes with Katuunko to the Bear's Arkeyan frigate. However, while trying to stop Katuunko from getting away, Fleck inadvertently kills him via his teeth, which enrages Bear who starts angrily electrocuting Fleck with dark element. Fleck pleads with Bear for forgiveness, to which Bear replies that forgiveness is not the way of the dark side. Just then, Su Wu enters Bear's cabin and, after reasserting her control over Fleck, they attack the Bear in concert. However, during the fight Opress is repeatedly hit and weakened by Bear's Daek element, and as both Su Wu and Bear criticize him for his "weakness," Fleck snaps and turns against them both by choking them. Bear escapes through an emergency hatch, with Su Wu following him in pursuit, leaving Opress to face the two masters, who have followed him with a Toydarian ship.

Weakened and outmatched, Su Wu finally retreats in an escape pod, and DBear sends his Arkeyan battle droids to eliminate Fleck. The masters and Fleck flee Bear's ship. Wounded and despondent, Fleck flees back to Mother Talzin, who sends him to find his long-exiled brother in the Outer Rim to train under his tutelage. With the promise to return yet more powerful, Opress departs for the Outer Rim.