The Reddest Farming Harvest Ever

**The Reddest Farming Harvest Ever** is the fourth episode of the season one from *The Gear Powers* and of the series in general.

## Synopsis

In China, it's the Red Harvest Season, and the Gear Powers are ready to help Wind Man with his crops. But Marysalis Shimmer disguises herself as an old woman to poison all the fruits and vegetables by turning them red and casting a curse on them.

## Summary

The episode begins with a morning in China, in Wind Man's metal cabin, he briefly trains kung fu with a boxing bag, until the Gear Powers arrive and Bounce Man jumps on him, happy to see him again. Wind Man tells them that he was getting ready for a great start to the country's special day: the **Red Harvest Season**. The heroes are impressed by the hard work he put into growing red fruits and vegetables and are willing to help him with the harvest, except for Tundra Man as he hates getting dirty with earth and mud. Once they have finished, the storm arrives and the Gear Powers run with little difficulty towards the cabin while it rains until they manage to enter with all the harvested red fruits and vegetables.

In the kitchen, Pharaoh Man asks his team if they bring all the harvest on time and Acid Man assures him that they did. With that, Wind Man already has everything he needs to prepare recipes and desserts for the special day. Bounce Man is frightened by the noise of lightning, with Fuse Man and Tundra Man calming him down with a hug, until the latter sees the face of an old blind woman through the window that makes him freak out and runs to Torch Man asking for protect him from that "witch", which the Fire Robot Master doesn't believe him and teases him a bit. Annoyed, Tundra Man activates his Speed ​​Gear by ice staking towards him to beat him, but Torch dodges him only to have the automatic doors open and Tundra falls on the same old woman he saw. She explains that she was simply looking for a safe place until the storm stops and enters the metal cabin with Wind Man's permission. Later, the old woman kneels in front of the table for lunch and the Wind Robot Master brings her shrimp dumplings, but she refuses to eat them as she sees them as a strange menu. Suddenly, Pharaoh Man enters the kitchen suspecting that he seems to recognize her and asks some questions that make her uncomfortable. However, with the last one she replied that she doesn't remember her real name because she "suffers from amnesia", the Egyptian robot laughs at her, with Wind Man believing that he hurt her feelings. The old woman angrily leaves the cabin, only to hide from the others and pulls the hood off her head revealing her true identity: **Marysalis Shimmer**, with a bottle of red liquid that she took from the kitchen to create curses.

Later, the storm is gone and the sun is shining again. Suddenly, Acid Man alerts the rest of the Gear Powers that there is an emergency in Megalopolis and they prepare while Wind Man stays to fix and clean his orchard. Trying to keeping his laughter, Pharaoh Man explains his friends that the old woman has left a while ago because of his questions that made her uncomfortable and that she is not really an elderly person, but no one believes him. As they leave on an important mission, Marysalis hides behind the cabin and tells the Shimmer Numbers through her holographic communicator that her plan worked and asks them to distract the Gear Powers to continue the process, taking advantage of their absence by singing **Red and Cursed** to create a poisonous potion and cast a curse on the entire crop. In Megalopolis, we can see the Shimmer Numbers destroying the city, with Glacier Man and Marine Man arguing about who is in charge of their siblings' team, until the heroes arrived to stop them and began to battle them. Back in Wind Man's orchard, with Marysalis carrying the harvest in a sack, Wind Man asks why she is throwing it on the ground, but she interrupts him and quickly leaves because she is in a hurry to finish her pending chores. Hidden again, the villain speaks again to her creations by communicator thanking them for having distracted the Gear Powers since the first step of her plan was completed.

A few hours later, Wind Man, his friends, and human people celebrate the Red Harvest Season, and the Gear Powers returned just in time for the party. The Wind Robot Master finds Marysalis's sack of fruits and vegetables without understanding why the old woman inadvertently hid them. Acid Man analyzes that something is wrong with them and Pharaoh Man tells him that it is old woman's fault, but Wind Man doubts that. When Marysalis arrives in disguise, the Egyptian robot forces her to tell him the truth about who she really is, but she refuses to answer him. Looking at the special menu of the day, she grabs a rice cupcake and eats it, so Wind Man gives her two more to go. However, she undoes them without anyone seeing her, except Pharaoh Man who tries to warn the others, but she shuts him up making him enrage. After people's conversations, Marysalis asks for their attention by introducing herself as a sorceress witch from China who will perform some magic tricks with the harvested red fruits and vegetables and everyone except Pharaoh Man begins to toast their glasses to Wind Man's hard work. Tired of his friends doubting him, Pharaoh rages even more by flaring up and explodes, attacking uncontrollably around him, until Torch Man plays the gong loudly to calm his fury. The Egyptian robot feels calmer but still tries to warn his friends once again not to approach the old woman until he gives up as everyone loves her after performing magic tricks with the harvest and he leaves frustrated. After eating dinner, the others except Fuse Man and Torch Man begin to have a deep sleep, they feel their bodies are hardening, and they fall asleep on the floor. Taking advantage, Marysalis' dark magic causes the giant vines to grow and enclose all of them, which is too late for Fuse and Torch to escape. Then, the villain uncovers her face in front of both Robot Masters to reveal her true identity, leaving them totally surprised.

Not far from the city of Megalopolis, Pharaoh Man leans against a tree with his arms folded, frustrated that he tried to warn the others about Marysalis. He almost gives up until he senses the danger in the Red Harvest Season celebration, building up with confidence in himself that he must still fight for the sake of his friends. Meanwhile, Fuse Man tries to destroy the vines, but they are very resistant to his Scramble Thunder. Since everyone except Pharaoh Man was so inmersed on the Harvest Season celebration that they were unaware of her presence, Torch and Fuse feel guilty that they had not listened to their friend before. Suddenly, Pharaoh arrives just in time to save them, but a furious Marysalis makes the vines grow larger to block their victims and the carnivorous plants to stop her greatest enemy, but he manages to dodge them with acrobatic movements and destroying them with multiple spheres of fire. Then, he runs as fast as he can when being chased by the fire flames and he tries to wake up the others, but there was not result, so during the song **Looks Can Deceive You** Pharaoh performs a secret trick about the "*Mirrors of Illusion*" which he rarely uses it and manages to defeat Marysalis. He changes the color of the fire to cyan and uses it to awaken the Gear Powers, Wind Man, his friends, and human people. Everyone is surprised when they see Marysalis tied by the vines and realizing that she is the old woman. The villain frees herself, takes off her disguise, swears revenge on the Gear Powers one day, and flies away. Pharaoh Man takes a poisoned grenadine and cuts it tightly in half that has a brown liquid inside it, which he explains is a sleeping pill like a curse that Marysalis placed on the others. Torch Man apologizes to him in the name of the Gear Powers, but Pharaoh assures them that he has no hard feelings towards anyone because they already know the expression of appearances can be deceiving.

Fortunately, for Wind Man, the celebration of the Red Harvest Season is not ruined. So, he decided to improvise his recipes with the ingredients and other things that he already has, balancing fruits and vegetables of other colors and they don't necessarily have to be red at all. Also, he is happy that his friends helped him and support him on his special day of the reddest farming harvest ever.

## Characters

* Pharaoh Man
* Block Man
* Fuse Man
* Blast Man
* Acid Man
* Tundra Man
* Torch Man
* Impact Man
* Bounce Man
* Wind Man
* The other Robot Masters from **Mega Man 6**.
* Marysalis Shimmer
* Shimmer Numbers

## Transcript

*See: Transcripts/The Reddest Farming Harvest Ever*

## Other facts and trivia

* China is the second country that the Gear Powers visit/travel to.
* This is the first episode that they don't use the Elements of Double Gear to defeat an enemy.