The Beginning of T.H.I.S. Story

**"The Beginning of T.H.I.S. Story"** is the first episode of The T.H.I.S. Heroes.

## Summary

SERIES PREMIERE! Alex discovers a superpower gem that gives him mortal strength, he tests it out after hearing a crime scene at the mall is happening, unaware that two more people are joining the fight.

## Plot

Alex Skandux ,a Hyperion University student and big brother of Nancy Skandux, arrives home after a week of college. Nancy is overjoyed to see her brother back home, Alex then goes to the store. While leaving the store, Alex then fights a criminal who is trying to mug her, using his dojo, takes him down causing the mugger to run away, the female thanks Alex and says "you're a hero". Afterwards, Alex comes home and gives Nancy barbecue chips, which is her favorite. Alex gets a call from Ren (his college roommate), who informs him how he was doing. Alex tells Ren the story but Ren hangs up before he can finish his story, much to Alex's dismay.

Later at midnight, a gem carrying monster storm on the house rooftop, Alex comes outside to discover it causing the monster to fall and disappear on hitting the ground leaving a gem. Alex takes the gem inside. The next morning, Alex and Nancy discover the gem, Alex wants to put this in a jewelry store but the gem glows and possesses Alex gaining him strength.

A news broadcast shows a mall being held hostage by criminals who escaped from prison and robotic anthropomorphic hounds. Seeing this as an opportunity to test his power, Alex runs to the mall with Nancy following. Alex tells Nancy to stay while he fights. Alex fights off a criminal who attempts to stab him, but Alex throws the knife away and delivers a brutal punch to the criminal, sending him flying. The other criminals and hounds fight Alex but they are overpowered by him. Alex was about to leave but is stopped by more hounds.

Two heroes, Groundmover and XLR8 appear and team up with Alex to fight off the hounds, after a long fight. All of the escaped criminals are sent back to prison and the remains of the HOUNDs are taken by the police. Alex meets the two heroes who helped him out who revealed themselves to be Ren Grundy and Kelly Sekai, both of them tell Alex on how the gem chose him and offered him a spot on the hero team. And as such Ren and Kelly teleport Alex and Nancy to their headquarters.

(To be continued in "T.H.I.S. Meeting".)

## Features

### Characters

* Alex Skandux (debut)
* Nancy Skandux (debut)
* Ren Grundy/Groundmover (debut)
* Kelly Sekai/XLR8 (debut)
* Criminals (debut)
* HOUNDs (debut)
* Police Officers (debut)
* Gem Monster (only appearance)
* News Anchor Harold (debut) (YouTube version only)
* News Reporter Okibo Ursula (debut) (YouTube version only)

### Locations

* Hyperion Valley (debut)
	+ Skandux Residence (debut)
	+ Publix (debut)
	+ Hyperion Mall (debut)

## Trivia

* This episode serves as the first part of the introduction story.

### Cultrual references

* One of the police officers says “I’ve seen The Beast fight a bunch of wolves.”. Which is likely a reference to the 1991 Disney film, *Beauty and the Beast*,
* One of the police officers resembles Brooklyn T. Guy from the web series, *SML* (formerly "*SuperMarioLogan*").

#### Error

* The news said that *ten* criminals are seen broke out of prison and hostage the mall but Alex is shown fighting more than ten criminals.