Rush Zone S2 E21 "Marty's Mistake"

## Plot

This Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles. Marty says that neither team can compare to the Cleveland Browns, his favorite team. The others remind him that they can't pick favorites while they're on duty, and that the Browns aren't even playing this Sunday. Due to the interstate rivalry between the Eagles and the Steelers, this high profile game is a likely target for Wildcard. Marty points out that the Browns are playing on Monday night. Due to his… excitability, he accidentally spills some of his smoothie all over Ricky, and then he trips and gets some on RZ's console. His energy levels drop, and he disappears. Shandra is brought in to fix it. Marty is incredibly apologetic. She reboots him, and something happens. He cycles through his various avatars, including OT, and even the original Richard Zimmer. He asks them what's going on, and where he is. Wildcard is still berating Drop Kick for teleporting the Dolphins Megacore. Drop Kick points out that they now have the ability to teleport. He teleports a cool looking dragon BlitzBot behind him. Wildcard doesn't want a teleport though. He wants holograms. Drop Kick stops him from destroying the teleporting machine. Wildcard notices how adamant he seems, and wonders if he missed something when he reprogrammed Drop Kick. He assures him that he feels no emotion, and that the device will help them once he perfects it. Richard Zimmer says that the place he's in looks like his sketches for the Hall of Knowledge. He wonders if anything is real. Whoa. Reality questioning line from Liam O'Brien, the voice actor for RZ. Marty feels really guilty about what happened. Before the kids can explain anything to Dr. Zimmer, they have to respond to a flying BlitzBot attack over Pittsburgh. They're after the Eagles megacore. Shandra lets Marty stay to help her. The others head to Pittsburgh and transform. They protect the transport from flying BlitzBotz. Shandra leaves to get some more tools, and tells Marty to not touch anything. He laments that he's always the one who messes things up. Zimmer tells him that even if it seems that way, everyone makes mistakes. He says that Marty reminds him of his son, Warren. The last thing he remembers is the experiment. Marty admits that there are guardians now, but Warren is the opposite of them. Zimmer wants to see his old lab. Marty says that he can only exist in here, but he's not so sure about that. He remembers working on a program for tactile holograms. Basically, solid objects made up of projected light particles. He asks Marty to input a code for him on the keyboard. He's not supposed to touch anything, but Zimmer asks him to help put things right. Marty inputs the code, and Zimmer disappears. Marty tries a reboot, but nothing happens. He sees the one and only Dr. Richard Zimmer standing behind him. He's still just a digital clone, but it's enough to find his old lab, and he thanks Marty. Marty says that he can't leave, Canton has changed, and his house is a mess. The others are at the game. Ricky tries to check in with Marty, but doesn't get anything. Troy says that maybe they're better off without Marty on this one. Ash tells him that's a little harsh. Antonio Brown overhears and talks to them. He's a wide receiver for the Steelers. He tells them that their friend may have messed up, but they shouldn't hold that against him. He's probably being hard enough on himself as it is. He needs their support now more than ever, so he can learn from his mistake. Marty is following Zimmer around town. He asks him what he remembers about his work with creating guardians. He had developed a prototype suit, which would be energized by reuniting the Shards into the Core. Warren was helping him. At the last second, he noticed something, but it was too late. They find his old house where the accident happened. They investigate the basement, where the lab was. Zimmer is looking for something. He says that if it's here, it could solve everything. There's a vault, but it appears to be empty. Zimmer opens a secret compartment and takes out his old journal. It has all his research notes in it. Marty says that they should get back to the HoK, since they have no idea how long Zimmer can be out here. Drop Kick is about to test the teleporter on a flying BlitzBot when it hits the device. The ray hits Drop Kick instead, and he's teleported somewhere. Marty and Zimmer get back to the HoK. They explain things to Shandra. A BlitzBot alarm goes off. Shandra still hasn't been able to re-establish communications. They see Drop Kick by a helicopter. He's after the Eagles megacore. With comms still down, they can't warn the others. The Passage is still down, and Marty isn't very good with the flight app. Shandra gives him a chip to help with that. He transforms and heads to Pittsburgh. He's unable to stop Drop Kick from taking the helicopter with the Eagles megacore in it. He meets up with the others, who assure him that they'll get it back, and that he did his best. He decides to quit being a Guardian, and leaves his NFL-R on the bench. DeSean Jackson talks to him in the locker room. He's a wide receiver for the Eagles. Marty asks him if he feels okay, since his team's megacore was stolen. He says that he's been better, but the game must go on. This probably means that the megacore is still in the area. Marty says that he's made so many mistakes, it feels easier to just give up. Jackson says that he's made mistakes too, but he never quits. Everyone has good days, and everyone has bad days. They just have to learn from their mistakes and get back into the game. Quitting isn't an option. Marty thanks him for the advice, and Jackson gives him his NFL-R back. But… how did he get it? Zimmer is looking over his notes. He says that the calculation had to be precise. One microscopic error would've been catastrophic. Someone changed it. It's what caused the explosion. Someone sabotaged his experiment. He and Shandra wonder why someone would do that, and who they could be. Cue the fade to Drop Kick, who presents the Eagles megacore to Wildcard. He's still mad though, because he wanted two megacores. He decides to take matters into his own hands. He uses the device and is teleported right onto the field, in front of all the players and the crowd. The kids show up to fight him, and Marty flies in. They fight him, but he easily blasts them and tosses them around. He's never been this powerful before. It's because he has the Eagles megacore. Before he can kill Marty, Zimmer shows up, and asks him to stop. He knows that Warren hates him, but he doesn't know the whole story. He tells him that someone else caused the accident that made them like this. He admits that he made mistakes, and he can't change the past, but it's not too late for Warren to stop being a villain. He says it is too late for him though, and tries to blast Zimmer. Marty blocks the shot, and the others hit him with lasers. He loses the megacore, and Jackson picks it up. Wildcard retreats, and says that this changes nothing. Zimmer collapses, having spent a lot of time out of the HoK. The kids bring him back. He's unconscious and running out of time. Marty and Shandra follow the diagram in his journal exactly. RZ is back, and he now has a new body. Marty's mistake somehow made him better than ever. Said mistake was a valuable lesson that they can all learn from. They wonder if there's a chance that Wildcard can change too. Wildcard tells Drop Kick what Zimmer said about the accident. He says that if he ever finds out that someone else was really responsible for taking his father and his life away from him, they will suffer like no one else ever has on this Earth. Now that is dark. Naturally, this makes Drop Kick very nervous. Also, Wildcard is voiced by Troy Baker, and Drop Kick is voiced by Jesse Corti.