Episode 19 - Flipping the Switch

## **Episode Synopsis**

### **Recap**

Dariun was in the Feywild going through a dungeon to find an old gate to the mechanos plane that resembled a pool. His helmet came off and leaked some black liquid in the pool before being almost killed by a fairy but he was able teleport back before being hurt. He got taken back to the ice cell where he and Dracken had an emotional chat and with Dracken's help, they escaped the pit. Meanwhile, Zippy was hacking into the main system of the mechanos, pushing buttons and ending marriages. They hit the manual overdrive button accidentally which affected Peterson who was running from mechanos. Peterson and the Greeders entered a room filled with mechanos and it seemed when Zippy hit the button, the mechanos were changed and their red orbs changed to blue. They learnt that there are actual souls inside the mechanos and one soul seemed to create 10 mechanos beings. Zippy, Lara and Leslia left the room and were cornered by Auto.

### **Episode Summary**

Peterson has just seen the 80 mechanos fallen to the ground and the giant mechanos form the middle of the chasm looking in asking for help. He looks at the large mechanos and can see there is a lot more magical wiring but he can't discern how many souls are in the mechanos. Peterson turns to Green and asks if they know the layout of the area as they need to find his friends, an eladrin and a lapine. Peterson asks the large mech if they could get them down to the floor of the chasm in a hope to get to Dariun. Peterson goes to the large mech and jumps into their giant mechanos hand. Peterson is carried out of the room and down into the chasm but as he moves down, he feels tremours and shaking.

Dariun has just gotten out of the pit, walking through the ice caves with Dracken. Dariun asks if Dracken knows the way out of here to which he says he knows the way so guides him through before the meet up with Trisha. Trisha is looking at their hands and Dracken tells Dariun they need to intimidate Trisha to get past. Dariun awkwardly straightens his back and tries to look intimidating but obviously does not want to do this. He semi confidently goes up to Trisha and tries to intimmidate her but Trisha is more focused on why her hands are robotic. Dracken keeps giving Dariun words of advice on how to keep intimidating her while he tries to figure out why she is confused. Dariun takes Drackens advice and gets past her before giving her the final blow and Trisha runs off.

They eventually gets to a place where it opens up into the large chasm. He looks up to see the bridges and a giant mech looking into a whole in the wall. There are many mechanos but they have blue lights and seem to be acting strange. Dracken claims he may have done something. Dracken believes he had a large surge of magical energy that did something to the mechanos. He suggests they go to Auto, weaponless and Dariun hesitantly agrees. As they walk, Dariun can see the large mechanos' hand is removed and he can see Peterson on the hand. Dracken suggests they use Peterson to get them out of there as a meat shield. Dracken and Dariun can feel the ground start to shake.

Zippy is in a closed off hallway with Lara, Leslie and the open mouth of Auto. The mouth has spinning cogs and blades with a red glow deep inside. As Auto talks, they can see the mouth is coming closer and closer. Zippy asks Leslie to talk to Auto but he informs Leslie that the only reason he has taken care of him is because it is what the Makers wanted and he is done with this task. Zippy tries to look around for an exit but is struggling. He then tries to convince Auto that he is friends with Felix but Auto informs Zippy that Felix gave him the Greeders as payment for his services. Zippy plays it as Felix gave Auto the bad Greeders like Lara and Zippy is one of the good ones. Lara upon hearing this is in disbelief. Auto is somewhat convinced with Zippy's speech and asks him to show a display of his skill. Auto asks Zippy to summon a dragon but Zippy can't but plays that Auto just wants him to use his spells. Auto still wants Zippy to show his ability and starts to get frustrated.

Zippy tells Auto that the better Greeders get a special cloak and he will show Auto. Zippy stands in front of the face of the worm and cracks his knuckles. He begins by turning himself into a mouse then he uses his growth cloak. A green shimmer envelopes him and mouse Zippy starts to expand and he begins to fill the space.

Dariun and Peterson look over and see something shifting behind a wall and a crack appears. As Zippy grows, Auto seems to shift back before Zippy explodes out of the wall as his body can’t fit anymore. Zippy begins to fall and the team's eyes lock. A bridge breaks his fall and they can see Auto starts to looks out of the hole and asks if Zippy was trying to kill him from the inside. Zippy stands on his hind legs and raises his arms while squeaking.

Peterson is still in the hands of the giant mech who asks what is happening. Peterson explains that the mouse is his friend and when he looks through his mask, he sees a large amount of magical power from Auto. Peterson tells the large mech that the red light is the one who has been enslaving them. The giant mech is mad and asks Peterson how they can fight Auto. Peterson uses primal savagery and instructs the giant mech to swing as he does. Peterson swings and the giant mech follows. The giant mech fists crush into the side of Auto's worm body. Auto yells out and tells them they will all die. Peterson stands his ground and swings again and again. The giant mech grabs the worm body from the wall and slams Auto into walls. They let go, throwing the worm into the giant doors of Auto's chambers.

Dariun and Dracken are both impressed and call out to Zippy who responds with a deep sounding squeak. The giant mech puts a hand to Zippy and after another squeak, he walks into the hand. Peterson asks if the large mechanos can tell Brisbam and the other mechanos to meet them. Peterson see that the mechanos are all watching in excitement and gives a rousing speech to help them free themselves.

When the dust settles, they see Leslie huddled around Lara, back scratched and mechanos steel poking up. They get up, move to the hole and look out to the chasm. Leslie waves to Zippy and he responds with a mouse nod before they repel down the wall to meet up with the rest of them. Zippy gestures to the giant mech to throw him to Auto's room. As a mouse, Zippy grabs Dariun's sword for himself and throws Dariun the bone dagger. Peterson decides he will go with Zippy to be thrown to Auto. Peterson snuggles into Zippy as he glares at his location. They feel the velocity picks up and they are thrown into the dark room of Auto, switch blade out stretched. They see the body of the worm come into view and the switch blade sinks into the mechanos worm. The worm body lays still as they land on the floor.

Zippy gets out the tinder soul gem and tries to figure out how to use the sword. Eventually something clicks and the blue orb glows. The switch blade recognises Zippy as his master's pet and agrees to fight for him. Switch activates groovy green tinder soul attack and the sword beings to transform. As it does, Peterson can see that he is not on mechanos steel but is instead standing on small blue gems, resembling what Lara was using to teleport. Peterson picks one and inspects it. The branches starts to grow and the blade has transformed into branches with blades on the end and it grows large. At the hilt, the head and body of a tree ent begins to form. Peterson can tell the gem is magical and can discern he has seen some similar magic related to time long ago. Peterson grabs two fists full and puts them in his bag. The tree ent starts digging their fingers into the worm body but it does not seem to appear to care. The switch blade tells Zippy there is not life here to kill.

Peterson looks around with his mask and can see there is no magic in the worm but looking up. He can see a wave of magical energy coming. They see a red light is starting to come towards them, getting brighter and brighter. Behind them the Greeders and many spurs come in the room. The large mech reaches down to Dariun and he misty steps into the hand. He can see the red light of Auto's room and Dariun asks the large mech to gently toss him into the room with his friends. When he is about to be thrown, they all feel another tremble. Peterson and Zippy can see circular pipes of mechanos steel spreading out above them and they start shooting out into the spurs in the doorway. The spurs try to run but when they are hit, their blue orbs change back to red. Dariun is thrown through the air over the pipes, many of them impale into the large mech. Dariun lands on Zippy's head and the team reunite.

The tree ent looks to Dariun and is thankful he is back. The Greeders are looking to Peterson and he instructs the remaining blue spurs to come to him. The Greeders and blue spurs start to run back, away from the red orbed mechanos. Peterson starts to conjure a wall flame with 20 spurs making it to the team along with the Greeders. Peterson creates the wall of flames as they see the red spurs are walking forwards to the wall of fire and through it. Zippy throws the rest of Dariun's stuff to him and they high five and hug.

Dariun pulls out his wind fan and blasts out a gust of wind, causing the fire to expand and damage many spurs. With the continued wind and flame combined, all the turned spurs have fallen and are malfunctioning. The fallen mechanos are being dragged back further into Auto's chambers by the pipes as even more pipes are going further out into the chasm. The path ahead is clear and they see Lara is carrying Leslie. Dariun tries to piece together what is going on as they all run out of the room to get away from Auto.

They all follow Leslie aiming to find a hidden elevator. As they are running, they see the giant mech is torn from their attachment and is dragged into Auto's chamber. They all reach the elevator and activate it to go up. In their moment being lifted, Peterson informs Dariun about the mehcnaos and how they are souls. Dariun asks Zippy to change back to normal, which he begrudgingly does. The mouse form is reduced and he changes into a large form of Zippy. Dariun explains how he got out, claiming Dracken was the one who got rid of the collar. Zippy quickly squashes that theory and tells the team about the anti-magic and the computer. Dariun also learns about Leslie being a crown and he is pretty shocked about it. Zippy starts to shrink back to normal. Dariun continues telling them about going to the Feywild and he brushes over some of the information. Peterson can tell Dariun went through something painful but is not willing to tell them while they are in front of everyone.

When they reach the top, they are faced with two red orbed helacoles and the tree end switch takes the lead. Their tree arms go out and impales them and throws the helacoles away from their path. Once the switch sword kills the helacoles, the tree ent body retracts and the blade becomes its regular form. They all rush out into the open snow area where they see the center spire and the surrounding perimeter towers. There are only a small amount of mechanos and one blue orbed mechanos comes from the tracks and joins the team.

The team try to come up with a plan and Zippy can hear some rumbling. He can tell something is coming from below. There are sounds of clanging metal and at the other end of the mountain valley, they is a large explosion of snow. A giant mech hand comes up them slams into the snow, then another. A head and a torso pulls themselves from the ground. They recognise the torso of the giant mech comes out of the ground now with a large helmet and legs made of the scales of the worm. The giant mechanos holds two whips, one in each hand. The giant mechanos, they all recognise as Auto speaks to Dariun. Dariun asks him if he knew about the death of the Slayer, Caspin. Auto did not know but is happy and decides their deal is over and he has no obligation to keep him safe.

Auto raises his whips and slams them down into the snow, the team all jump out of the way along with the Greeders and most of the blue orbed mechanos. They hear the serrated edges of the whips drag back to Auto. Dariun asks if Caspin was forced to do it and Auto responds saying that he worked for the mechanos like Dariun did. Zippy goes over to Leslie yelling out to Auto that he is the one Auto wants. Zippy looks over Leslie to try and find some sort of switch hoping to find something that will turn him into a super weapon. He searches thoroughly and finds a switch on his left armpit. Zippy flicks the switch with no hesitation. Leslie's voice changes and his eyes shine blue. Lelsie feels in tune with his mechanos side and he looks to the spurs. Leslie raises his arm and the blue orbs glow brighter and they all come to Leslie as they walk to the rails.

Leslie bends down and clasps to the tracks. Their bodies morph together and they all transform into a mini train with a rail gun on the front. They hear a voice from Leslie to hop on and come to take down Auto. Before they hop on, Peterson pulls out his magical ruler and goes to the rail gun. He finds the smallest components of the rail gun and he puts the ruler next to it and the component expands along with the entire rest of the train, creating a large train on the tracks with a very large rail gun at the front. They all hope on the large train and start chugging, blasting off as Auto's whip comes crashing down.

## **Quotations**

* Dariun "*I feel kinda bad...*"
* Dracken "*That feeling will dull over time.*"

* Dracken "*Usually when you're like dracken, things just kinda come to you!*"

* Dariun "*I feel like I've missed a lot...*"
* Peterson "*What else is new tall one?*"
* Dariun "*Absolute primal savegy.*"

## **Featured Characters**

### **Main Cast**

* Dariun Branch
* Zippy Westborrough
* Peterson

### **Returning Characters**

* Green
* Prince Bisbam
* Cork
* Lockden
* Dracken
* Trisha
* Lara
* Leslie
* Auto
* Switch sword

## **Locations**

* Center Spire
* The Storm's Edge