Master Of Illusions

## **OVERVIEW**

Master Of Illusions is the 3rd installment of *The Legend Of Swifty*. The Film tells the story about Swifty and his friends are sent to Kingston to solve the mystery to clear Stonekeeper's name.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film Begins where Swifty and his friends, including Jade, Blaze and Gill, are sent to Kingston. Meanwhile, Meechee angers a group of Cats after falling on top of one, and Swifty and his friends arrive and stop the fighting. The cats soon lose interest and run off. Meechee claims that he didn't need any help, to which Swifty and the gang argue with her until they all realize that Meechee needs their help. Meechee then says that he is going to Kingston where her father, Stonekeeper, is headed. Swifty and his friends agree to help her, and Meechee shows off her ability by transforming into Swifty and then Aladar.

After Zeta blackmails Stonekeeper by using an illusion image of Meechee, Stonekeeper began destroying Kingston under the guises of Donkey, Stella and The Missing Link in illusions of the city's destruction. At the same time, Zeta frames Stonekeeper as an evil yeti by airing a public message and showing edited footage of the town actually being attacked in order to have the town all to herself. While this happens, the real Donkey, Stella and the Missing Link, who serve as the assistants of Chief Bogo, sensed that the city was in danger and began making their way to the town to defend it.

Tinker Bell, returning to the town for the first time in twenty years, was presented with its own crisis, due to that prior to the movie, businessman Zeta discovered Tinker Bell in Crown City, and touched the Time Ripple that was produced due to Tinker Bell's time traveling. As a result of this, Zeta gained the ability to have powerful visions that show him the future, while destroying all of the greenery within the city unbeknown to its citizens.

Meechee drops Morton and directly into Mel's face, lands and becomes... Chuck! Mincing away with its odd little hopping motion like it was a dog running on its hind legs (which it pretty much is!), the Chuck with a tail zips alongside the river, chased by the mystery-solvers. Aladar stops Meechee-Chuck from trying to leap into the river to find "Dad", insisting that must have escaped and is kicking up a giant mess looking for it, and Zeta is the bad guy! They try to keep her "voice" down, but it’s too late, Emile, who tells them he wants to hear the whole story.

Chuck tries to fob him off by suggesting that Meechee-Chuck is his retarded twin brother (seriously!), but the rat isn't fooled, grabbing Meechee by the foot and squeezing it (OI!), causing it to jump up startled and turn back into her regular form. He identifies her to the gang for the first time as Meechee, because Meechee apparently doesn't identify itself by the name of her species, unlike us humans who enjoy being called "human" by other people in place of a name that gives us individuality.

He leads them into a windmill and down into the basement (STRANGER DANGER! STRANGER DANGER!) which turns out to open into an underground tunnel that leads into the old part of Kingston. Emile lights up with Flash and they head towards the city, Emile explaining Zeta's backstory. She's known as The Eagle Who Can See Into The Future, and it seems to be true - she has had a series of business successes that would only seem possible if somebody knew what was going to happen (or was a good businessman?), now controls the mainstream media seemingly worldwide (accompanied by a rather creepy image of television sets forming into a globe that becomes the planet that is held in Zeta's closed fist) and is apparently ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what he wants - odd behaviour indeed for a animal with a monopoly on mainstream media! He doesn't understand what Zeta hopes to gain with this current plan though, how does it benefit him to have Stonekeeper.

Meechee could care less, brattily intoning that she's a bad bird so they need to hurry up. To entice them forward, it then transforms into Blaze, leaping ahead of them and shaking her foot in their faces. Blaze gasps at her not to change into her, while Jade leaping straight for Meechee-Blaze's tail to tug on it and startle it out of her current form (and probably fulfil a fantasy or two on the way!). Meechee-Blaze becomes squat and fat, then transforms back into Meeche and giggles as Blaze grumps, "Good!"

Meanwhile, Zeta had a vision in which she saw everyone try to stop him from touching the Time Ripple. After Stonekeeper had escaped his kidnappers, Debbie later recaptures him by using a projection of Meechee. zeta later goes around town trying to find the countdown clock with the Time Ripple which she saw in his previous vision. Discovering that Swifty is in the city, Zeta has Debbie to find and capture him.

Emile and the gang to climb out before replacing the cover. They follow Zorua through the town and enjoying the pleasantness of the place, where trees and gardens seem to blend in with the houses. The twerps spot a statue of Tinker Bell and Emile tells them that evidently it sometimes visits the city. He tells them about the blight alluded to earlier by Django and Remy, how for no reason all the vegetation in the city died off or was blasted out and blackened. It took years, but humans and animals working together were eventually able to return Kington to its former glory.

Meechee catches Stonekeeper's scent and Thunder and Mel begin sniffing about too... and then Swifty as well! Meechee spots him sniffing around (why Swifty, why!?!) and instantly transforms into Blaze again, before.... getting down on all fours and sniffing around with her (Blaze's!) ass in the air! Horrified and angry, Blaze stomps forward as an appalled Mel stares right up the dress of her, and she grabs Meechee's foot and gives it a good tug to turn her back to her real form.

Meechee ran off to find Stonekeeper on her own. Swifty and the gang catch up to Meechee, and Emile is met up with Remy. Hearing Stonekeeper trying to escape his prison on Zeta's ship, Meechee awakens and resumes her desperate search for her father, followed by Thunder, Morton and Mel. However, they find themselves surrounded by a group of angry animals, who were angry at Meechee for what Stonekeeper did to the city.

Before a fight broke out, Tinker Bell appears and calms things down by making the greenery around them bloom into Berries. Meechee befriends Tinker Bell when she agrees on help Meechee find her father, and they resume their search. Shortly afterward, Swifty, Peng, Andie, Eva, Marty, Chuck, Aladar, Jade, Blaze, Emile and Gill have been captured by Zeta. Meanwhile, Thorp is looking through Zeta's archives discovering myths and old stories regarding the town and Tinker Bell. He then reveals himself to the gang while telling them everything he discovered. He tells them how twenty years ago, Zeta not only tampered with the Time Ripple, which in the process gained her visions but she attacked Tinker Bell, reversing the time flow and killing the greenery. Her power, however, is rapidly leaving her.

While Thunder, Morton, Mel, Meechee and Tinker Bell were still on their search for Stonekeeper, Zeta finds Tinker Bell with Meechee and she attacks Tinker Bell. Meechee fights Zeta and Debbie using illusions to protect Tinker Bell, but is knocked back. Before fainting, Meechee sends one final message to her father. This message gives Stonekeeper the strength to break free of his prison and began making his way to where Meechee is.

While on the plane, he is confronted by the real Donkey, Stella and The Missing Link, who are convinced that Stonekeeper is an enemy for destroying the city. Zeta violently attacks Tinker Bell forcing her to call upon the Time Ripple early. Meechee quickly regains consciousness and fights Zeta again, but proves to be no match for them. Fortunately, the arrival of Swifty and his friends counterattacks Zeta in a heated battle, saving Tinker Bell and Meechee before rapidly fleeing to safety.

Elsewhere, a conflict between Stonekeeper and the three animals has begun to get out of hand, destroying Zeta's plane in the process. The battle continues through the town of Kingston as Stonekeeper proves to be too much. She manages to blasts the trio for a short while using her Stones attack before resuming his search for Meechee.

Meanwhile, the gang goes to Django's home. They learn that the guardians of Kingston, Donkey, Stella and The Missing Link are attacking Stonekeeper and are fighting him through town. They also discover one final clock near the stadium where the Time Ripple will appear. They also learn that Zeta has learned of this by using her spy technology. As a race to the stadium progresses, Stonekeeper finds himself surrounded by the trio again, and uses his illusions to trap them in crystallized thorns in order to prevent them from attacking further. Stonekeeper's illusions were quickly broken by Thorp's illusion canceler, and the trio are freed but were still ready to attack Stonekeeper. However, the animals who live in the City appeared and quickly stood between the Stonekeeper and the three, trying to explain to Donkey, Stella and The Missing Link that Zoroark isn't the enemy. Zoroark is confused at this, but stops attacking as well.

However, Zeta arrived and cornered everyone, then began making her way to the Time Ripple. Swifty and Stonekeeper appeared and Stonekeeper charged at Zeta to take his revenge and reclaim his child, but the businessman forced Stonekeeper to stand down by threatening to kill the captured Meechee if he interferes, proving his point by electrocuting the young yeti in front of him. Zeta cruelly ordered Debbie to finish off Stonekeeper as he approached the Time Ripple and began absorbing its power, not caring if the city's greenery would wither and die again.

As the events that happened 20 years ago started to repeat themselves, Zeta gloated over her apparent victory to everyone, but Swifty suddenly smirked, and time reversed itself. The Time Ripple Zeta absorbed was actually an illusion created by Swifty to deceive her, allowing Bogo and Manny to capture Zeta's revelation of her being responsible for Jamaica's disaster on video. Wondering how come the illusion affected her, Zeta finds that Aladar destroyed her illusion canceler when she attacked Meechee previously. While Zeta is distracted, Meechee and Stonekeeper reunite, but Kodai, furious at the deception, ordered Debbie to attack them from behind, only for Swifty to take the attack to save Meechee. Before he can recover, Zeta cruelly attacks Swifty with her claw, electrocuting and mortally wounding him. Swifty manages to fight through the electrocution, attacking Zeta, destroying her claw in the process. Zeta, now desperate for the real Time Ripple, made a run for it, but is stopped and scared away by everyone, now knowing the true threat to the city.

While Zeta was running away, Swifty traps her in an illusion to deceive her that she was safe atop her plane high in the air. He quickly cancels the illusions out, causing Zeta to fall off the platform she was on and passes out in the stadium field. Swifty then closes his eyes with a satisfied smile, glad he was able to defeat Zeta. In tears, Jade pleaded and cried for Swifty to wake up, then creates an illusion of a beautiful grassy field around them. Tinker Bell then uses the power of the true Time Ripple to heal herself and heal Swifty. As Swifty recovers, Meechee, Thorp and Stonekeeper embrace in a tearful reunion, and Meechee thanking Tinker Bell for saving Swifty. Tinker Bell smiles and then time travels away in billows of light after making the area's greenery bloom.

As Zeta regains consciousness, she awakes to witness all she said while absorbing the false Time Ripple being broadcast all over the news and finding herself surrounded by the entire town. Chief Bogo, now seeing her true nature, arrests Zeta for her crimes as Aladar roars at her, glad to see her brought to justice. Afterward, Stonekeeper and his children board on a ship heading back to their home with Django and Remy. Before they departed, Meechee mischievously took on the form of Swifty and Suddenly Swifty comes rushing up to join his friends, and carrying a bowl of soup. He calls out to Meechee to stop looking like him and is instantly turned back to his original form when Thorp touches her foot, while Stonekeeper took on the form of Peng before transforming back to his true form after his daughter is revealed. As the ship sails, Swifty yells out a promise to them that he will come to their homeland one day as the film ends.

## **CHARACTERS**

* Swifty
* Peng
* Thunder
* Morton
* Mel
* Andie
* Eva
* Marty
* Chuck
* Aladar
* Jade
* Jewel
* Blaze The Cat
* Ryan
* Manny
* Emile
* Gill
* Walter W. Wolf
* Chief Bogo
* Donkey
* The Missing Link
* Stella

## **CHARACTER DEBUTS**

* Zeta
* Stonekeeper
* Meechee
* Thorp
* Django
* Remy
* Debbie

## **VOICE TALENT**

* Jeremy Renner as Swifty
* Jim Gaffigan as Peng
* Brianne Siddall as Thunder
* Seth Rogen as Morton
* Bobby Moynihan as Mel
* Katherine Heigl as Andie
* Angela Galuppo as Eva
* Chris Rock as Marty
* Josh Gad as Chuck
* Matthew Broderick as Aladar
* Heidi Klum as Jade
* Sofía Espinosa as Jewel
* Alfre Woodard as Blaze The Cat
* Greg Cipes as Ryan
* Ray Romano as Manny
* Peter Sohn as Emile
* Willem Dafoe as Gill
* Patrick Warburton as Walter W. Wolf
* Idris Elba as Chief Bogo
* Eddie Murphy as Donkey
* Will Arnett as The Missing Link
* Wanda Sykes as Stella
* Leslie Jones as Zeta
* Tiffany Haddish as Debbie
* Common as Stonekeeper
* Zendaya as Meechee
* Jimmy Tatro as Thorp
* Brian Dennehy as Django
* Patton Oswalt as Remy

## **OPENING CREDITS**

Based On Characters Created by:

Matthew Lyon

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Aaron Woodley

Music by:

William Ross

Edited by:

Lesley MacKay Hunter

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Cal Brunker

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## **SONGS**

01. **Wonderful Life**

Performed by: Zendaya.

02. **You're Welcome**

Performed by: Jeremy Renner, Jim Gaffigan, Brianne Siddall, Seth Rogen, Bobby Moynihan, Katherine Heigl, Angela Galuppo, Chris Rock, Josh Gad, Matthew Broderick.

03. **Kids Like Us**

Performed by: Heidi Klum, Sofía Espinosa, Alfre Woodard, Greg Cipes, Ray Romano, Peter Sohn, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Warburton, Idris Elba.

## **TRIVIA**

* This film was based on *Pokemon - Zoroark: Master Of Illusions*