Rush Zone S2 E10-11 "Mystery Guardian"

## Plot

At Sectionals, Ash has won for the girls' division and is going to the team championships. Ish is in the lead for the boys' division, but Ricky is a close second. Ricky makes his final kick. It goes really far, but it also drifts to the right, which will cost him points. It's not enough. Ish has won Sectionals and is also going to the team championships! Oh, and Marty was the announcer here too. Mr. Cervantes, Ricky's dad, is disappointed in his son. Ricky points out that he did his best, but Mr. Cervantes wants him to win. A man comes up to them. He convinces Mr. Cervantes to let him train Ricky, but it's really Wildcard in disguise. At the HoK, Ish acts like a gentleman and lets Ash go in first. (Aw!) They're all going to the Superbowl. It's between the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos. OMG! It's Liberty, the NY Giants Rusher! He's one of my favorite Rusherz! I loved him last season! It's also nice to see Steed again too. Glad he got over the whole "corrupted by an evil football" thing from last season. They'll be in New Orleans all week. They'll be undercover, working with Ish's parents. Wildcard is also undercover, training Ricky. He says that Ricky's father reminds him of his own: ambitious and driven. (Plot point!) Wildcard mind controls Ricky to work for him. Ish, Ash, Troy, Tua, and Marty have to help set up, so they spend three days helping everyone out. Then they have some fun! Some BlitzBotz attack the floats. "Enter the Rush Zone!" They defeat all the BlitzBotz, but then Ricky shows up in his own Guardian mode. He can *fly*. He blasts Ish and the two fight one on one. He flies away after awhile. RZ contacts them. He says he wants them "beneath" the NFL experience. A small spider BlitzBot goes under the float. Shandra leads them to a staff only door. It's really a portal to a place that is basically the HoK 2.0, but in New Orleans. Man, RZ thinks of everything! The guys are at the parade. The Megacores are in the floats. They're waiting for Ash. She sees a trailer door open and goes inside to investigate. She finds Mr. Cervantes tied up and unconscious. She tries to transform, but Ricky appears and blasts her NFL-R away. Ish tries contacting her, but she's a little busy at the moment. She tries to grab her NFL-R, but Ricky gets to it first and *crushes* it. She calls him a coward, goading him into untransforming. She knew it was Ricky. After all, it takes one to know one. She was once under mind control too. She tries to get him to snap out of it, but he knocks her unconscious and transforms again, still under mind control. The guys have to defend the parade without her. More BlitzBotz attack the parade. Drop Kick is dispatched to take care of Ash and Mr. Cervantes. Ash wakes up and picks up her NFL-R. It's pretty damaged, but it'll still work. Then they go over a bump in the road. The NFL-R goes flying out of her hand and right next to Drop Kick. Well, this just got harder. RZ has located Ash, but before Ish can do anything, Ricky attacks again. The others have to deal with BlitzBotz. Ash shoves Drop Kick out of the RV, but now no one's driving it. Mr. Cervantes wakes up, but the accelerator is jammed and the brake won't work. They're moving too fast to jump out. Ash uses her NFL-R to contact the others for help. Ricky stops fighting when he realizes that his dad is in trouble. He and Ish have to work together to save them. He can get them there quickly with his flying abilities. They're able to stop the RV just before it goes into a river. Ricky, now free of the mind control, takes off his NFL-R, which Mr. Cervantes throws into the river. The other Guardians defeat the BlitzBotz and get back to the floats. Unfortunately, Ricky explains that it was just a distraction while a saw BlitzBot cut through the float and stole the Megacores. It took them through the underground canal system to the EEL. Drop Kick finds the NFL-R, but before he can return to the sub, he's attacked by alligators. The good news is that he dropped the NFL-R, so at least the bad guys don't have their hands on it. Troy doesn't trust Ricky, but Ash points out that he was under mind control. The only way they can all trust him is if they let him prove it. While he was under mind control, he didn't know or at least can't remember where Wildcard's base is or the Megacores. And yet he can remember Wildcard's plan to get the Megacores? Ash, Tua, and Marty will go back to the Superbowl while Ish, Troy, and Ricky go to find his NFL-R, which has a homing beacon on it that can tell them where the EEL and the Megacores are. On the EEL, Drop Kick realizes that his identification imprint is missing. Way to go gators! Ash, Tua, and Marty see BlitzBotz attacking New Orleans. Marty uses his teleportation to save two players that have to play in the Super Bowl, Justin Tuck and Von Miller. Ash uses her super kick with Liberty, who bowls over two BlitzBotz and goes through a solid wall. That is why I've always liked Liberty. The Guardians escort the players to the stadium. It's time for Super Bowl 47! Ish, Troy, and Ricky spot Drop Kick looking for something. They're attacked by BlitzBotz. Ish and Troy fight them. Drop Kick leaves. Ricky picks up some kind of computer chip and his NFL-R. He gives the computer chip to the others, but doesn't tell them about his NFL-R. He wants to talk to RZ in the HoK 2.0. The Cardinals are his favorite team. Ish and Troy head back to New Orleans. Ricky thinks he can stop Wildcard, but he needs RZ's help, and shows him the NFL-R. Meanwhile at the Super Bowl, it's halftime, and the Giants and Broncos are tied 17-17. Personally, I'm rooting for the Giants, but only because Liberty is so cool! The Guardians are deployed to the waterfront to fight *a lot* of BlitzBotz. "Enter the Rush Zone!" After a while, the BlitzBotz mysteriously retreat. On board the EEL, Ricky has come back, apparently still under Wildcard's control the whole time. He tells Wildcard that he has infiltrated the HoK 2.0, and was given an NFL-R by RZ, meaning he can now access the HoK by himself. Wildcard's real plan was to attack the HoK. Ish is back at the HoK 2.0. He thinks something's up. The chip that they picked up reads RZ 1.0. That can't mean anything good. This confirms what RZ had suspected, but didn't want to believe possible. Drop Kick was his first prototype. He and RZ 6.0 were created by the same scientist, Dr. Richard Zimmer. Years ago, Dr. Zimmer and his assistants were attempting an experiment to harness the power of the Core, but it went horribly wrong. Zimmer was killed, but his essence was merged with RZ's circuitry. So, what does that mean? RZ is kind of actually Richard Zimmer, just without a living body, although he does contain the imprint of his human experiences. Okay, but what the heck does any of that mean?!? There were two other people in the lab that day. Drop Kick, known back then as Sidekick, and Zimmer's son, Warren. Until now RZ thought they had both died that day. They survived though. Drop Kick is Sidekick, which means that Wildcard is really Warren Zimmer, *RZ's son*. What. The. Heck. Wow, just wow. Cue the obligatory *Star Wars* joke. Back at the Super Bowl, which now seems really boring by comparison, for the first time ever, they're going into overtime. Everyone's enjoying it when what feels like an earthquake hits. The kids have to go check it out. Troy is less than enthusiastic. "But the game's not over! How many bots does Wildcard have?" "But it's the Super Bowl!" I know! I want the Giants to win! A big BlitzBot comes up from under the water. "Enter the Rush Zone!" Wow, they can't catch a break, can they? Their blasters aren't doing much good. Neither is anything else. It changes its form and fires a giant laser into the sky. The laser bounces off a satellite and hits Canton, disabling the Safe Zone. Wildcard has launched his attack. The HoK is under attack, and communications are down. There's no way to get back to the HoK. Ricky comes in, telling RZ that he's under attack. With the Safe Zone down, BlitzBotz start sprouting up everywhere, heading straight for the HoK.

## Review

This was an amazing episode! Ricky's Guardian mode is different. It's blue and can fly. His designation is QB 6. Because he's a quarterback, and the 6th one to join the team. Wildcard's plan is genius. He's a great villain. The heroes are basically on the defensive the whole time. Then again, when are they *not* on the defensive? After all, they were on the defensive for pretty much the entire time last season until the very end.