The Goose General

## Premise

While negotiating Master Bear's ransom, Tai Lung and Daniel are taken prisoner. The good and evil masters form an unlikely alliance in a bid to escape, with Zeng as their only hope.

## Synopsis

Tai Lung and Daniel wake up in the pirates' prison cell, having been drugged the night before despite their precautions in the previous episode. They also discover that not only is their cellmate Master Bear, but the three of them are chained together, making escape both far more difficult and - due to mutual antipathy - unpleasant.

Meanwhile, Zeng and Senator Kharrus fly to the desert turtle pirates' lair with a bounty of spice on board as a ransom for Bear. Unfortunately, Turk Falso decides to go behind Hondo's back, since he thinks dealing with the Dark Empire and the Arkeyans would have been more profitable, and has his men shoot down the shuttle to sack the ransom for himself. The pilots and Kharrus die in the resulting crash, and Zeng subsequently gets unintentional command of the surviving clone crew.

With no choice but to work together, the two good and  the evil master try to escape to the hangar, but are caught and re-incarcerated. Daniel then uses the Mind element to compel the guard to let them out and go out drinking. Unfortunately, while trying to pole-vault over a wall, Bear's line is shot; Daniel grabs him, and Tai Lung is forced to hold onto both; they are re-captured by Hondo hanging from the wall.

Turk leads his band to hunt the survivors of the kung fu warriors delegation near the acid geysers. Zeng has the clones jump into a geyser, making the desert turtles decide to let the acid kill them. Zeng is extremely confident, as the local fauna's behavior determines when a geyser is about to erupt, which ultimately saves the group's lives. Returning to the wreckage of the shuttle, they find that the spice ransom is gone. Though the clones think of waiting for reinforcements, Zeng plans to go after the pirates, riding the Rhinos to catch up. They intercept and defeat the pirates, and with the spice back in hand, they follow a series of power supply lines straight to the pirate base. Meanwhile, Hondo becomes increasingly annoyed at the kung fu masters's attempts to escape and tortures Tai Lung and Daniel with electricity, while Bear remains locked in his cell.

Upon his return to the base, Turk lies to Hondo, saying that the Kung Fu Warriors brought an army, and dispatches tanks after the clones and Zeng. Commander Stone sends Zeng to "negotiate", knowing that the Goose's ineptitude will be useful. As the pirates take him hostage, Zeng accidentally rams one tank into another and subsequently shuts down the power grid. The desert turtles attempt to kill him, only for the clones to hold them at gunpoint.

When the blackout hits the base, the Masters and Bear make their escape and go their separate ways: Bear kills Turk and takes off in a ship; Tai Lung and Daniel take Hondo hostage before meeting Zeng outside. Daniel tells Tai Lung to let Hondo go, as they don't have any quarrel with him since Bear had escaped. Hondo commends the masters on their honor, but Daniel reminds him that Bear is likely to seek revenge on him, before the Twilight takes off.