Mystery of a Thousand Moons

## Premise

The fatal Blue Shadow Virus is released, infecting Esther, Leopard, Elida, Sonic and many Clone Troopers - and giving Daniel and Tai Lung just 48 hours to find the antidote on a mysterious ancient ruin from which no visitor has ever returned.

## Synopsis

Tai Lung and Daniel prepare to transfer Dr. Nuvo Vindi to Tower of the Sacred Flame for trial. Leopard and the clones discover that one of the virus bombs is missing the container that held the Blue Shadow Virus, meaning that if the wrong hands have possession of the virus (in this case, Vindi) it can still be released, and they sound the alarm.

Two clones search for Vindi's servant droid in the bomb room. The droid sneaks into the room behind them and inserts the virus into a bomb. Before the clones can stop it, the droid sets off the bomb, and the virus starts to spread through the complex. Rex, Esther, Sonic and the clones manage to make it into the safe room. Sonic briefs Daniel on the virus' release, and he informs Leopard. She sets off with Elida and Zeng in their EVA suits to find Esther and Sonic, and prevent any remaining Arkeyan droids from escaping the lab and releasing the virus onto Gongmen City.

Daniel tries to wrest the antidote out of Vindi, but Vindi taunts him, stating that his job was to manufacture a plague, not cure it. Tai Lung manages to convince Daniel to lay down his sword of fire, and they depart for Tower of the Sacred Flame. Esther, Sonic, Rex and the clones discover that a small portion of the virus managed to get into the safe room before the door closed and they were thus contaminated. Leopard, Elida and Zeng, summoned by Esther, open the door to the safe room, and she and Esther take up the task of destroying the Arkeyan droids before they can ascend to the surface of Gongmen City. During a struggle in one of the corridors, Leopard rips a hole in her Envirosuit after tackling Zeng to save him from blaster fire and is thus affected by the virus as well.

Daniel, Tai Lung and Vindi arrive in the hangar bay, and they meet up with Typho. Vindi is escorted away, and Typho tells Daniel and Tai Lung that he may have found an antidote: Reeksa root, found only on Iego, in the ancient ruin of a Thousand Moons, which happens to be a Dark Empire and Arkeyan place. Typho mentions that it's "suicide", but Daniel and Tai Lung head off in the Twilight anyway.

Daniel and Tai Lung approach Iego, but not before passing through a massive ship graveyard in its orbit. As they land, they find strangely disfigured Arkeyan droids with mixed-up parts, all saying, "Welcome to Iego". A boy approaches them and introduces himself as Jaybo before going over to lie in a hammock strung between the legs of two Arkeyan War Machines, with the retrofitted battle droids attending him. Jaybo explains that when the Arkeyans and the Empire left, they left a lot of their droids behind, and he simply reprogrammed them to serve him. When Daniel and Tai Lung inquire about the Reeksa root, Jaybo mentions that the place is "haunted" and no one gets off the tempel, since Drol, the phantom ruler of Iego, destroys anyone attempting to leave. According to Jaybo, fifty of the best pilots in the kung fu panda-wall tried, and none made it alive.

Daniel and Tai Lung descend a cliff, while Jaybo shouts down to not touch the vines, because the plants "don't like it" and have teeth. A Xandu appears, and the two masters grab ahold of it. It takes Daniel and Tai Lung down to the bottom, and Daniel begins to hack away part of a root while the Reeksa plant awakens. Daniel and Tai Lung manage to fend off the Reeksa and ascend the cliff.

Jaybo leads them to Amit Noloff, who tells the masters that the ghost of Drol is preventing them from leaving the tempel. When the masters don't believe him, he shows them a hologram of Taquito, a friend of Jaybo's, being electrocuted before his ship exploded. Daniel and Tai Lung attempt to leave Iego in the Twilight, but as they pass through the debris field, sensors activate an energy field that prevents them from getting very far from Iego, and they return. Daniel theorizes that the Arkeyans installed the energy field to prevent the inhabitants from leaving the tempel.

As they land, Daniel and Tai Lung receive a hologram from Esther, Sonic and Leopard, all appearing parched and weak. Sonic weakly tells them that they have destroyed all the Arkeyan droids in the compound and that Gongmen City is safe from further contamination. Leopard asks Daniel to promise her that no one will ever open the bunker, and starts to say "I love you", but the hologram is cut off. As they walk out onto the platform, Daniel starts to panic, having realized that Sonic and Leopard are dying from the effects of the virus. He tries to rush and find a solution to getting past the energy field, but Tai Lung has an idea and manages to calm Daniel down.

The masters call a meeting with the citizens of Iego. Tai Lung tells them that Drol is not a ghost, but a Arkeyan security system. He asks if anyone inhabited Iego's moon before the Arkeyans arrived, and an Angel enters the room. She tells the masters that they were a peaceful people before the Arkeyans arrived and stole their home: the moon of Millius Prime, and Tai Lung theorizes that the primary node of the energy field must be near Millius Prime. Daniel notices Arkeyan copter in another room, and he asks Jaybo to reactivate them so that the magic chair can fly them via remote control. The copters are activated, and after Jaybo transfers control of the droids to the magic chair, they launch and follow the Twilight into the of the outskirts graveyard. The laser field activates, and the magic chair attempts to send the Arkeyans copters into the laser emitter, but they are destroyed. Tai Lung fires at the generator, and the energy field explodes. Daniel mentions to Jaybo that he will need new Arkeyan copters, as all were destroyed, but Tai Lung tells them that they are free to leave Iego whenever they choose. The Twilight immediately jumps into hyperspace for Gongmen City.

LAAT/is land at the lab, and stretchers bearing Leopard, Elida, Esther, Sonic, Rex, and the rest of the clones are transported onto the gunships. Daniel and Tai Lung find the others weak from their ordeal, but thanks to the antidote they are expected to make a swift recovery. Glad about the outcome, all commend each other for their achievements.