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-[opening theme music playing] -♪ Their planet exploded

[chorus] ♪ Thunder, ThunderCats!

-♪ They crashed On Third Earth ♪ -♪ Thunder, thunder crash!

-♪ Gotta beat up Some bad guys ♪ -♪ Mummies, mutants

-♪ And make Some new friends ♪ -♪ Unicorns, robots

♪ Built a big base With a cat-shaped face ♪

♪ And now They're ready to go! ♪

♪ There's WilyKit, WilyKat, Tygra ♪

♪ Panthro, Cheetara, Snarf, Lion-O! ♪

[chorus] ♪ He's a brand-new Lord With a magic sword! ♪

♪ It's Thunder, Thunder, thunder ThunderCats Roar! ♪

[video game beeping]

Time to soup this baby up.

[sighs]

[humming]

Food, food, food, yeah.

Well, let's see, what to eat, what to eat?

Oh. Hello, mac and cheese from last month.

How you been, ol' buddy?

Huh? What's that?

[bubbles popping]

Uh-huh, uh-huh. You're right,

I probably should make a fresh bowl.

But, uh, here we are.

Aah.

[gags, coughs] You win this round, mac and cheese.

[gagging, coughing]

[groans]

Aw, come on, mac and cheese, take a hint.

[grunting]

Get in the drain.

It's not me, it's you.

Just get outta here.

[eerie voice] Beware!

What? Who said that?

[eerie voice] Beware!

Mac and cheese?

-Beware! -[yelps]

The path you choose now will lead to certain destruction.

Ahh! What is happening?

Jaga, there you are.

I guess we can scratch "kitchen" off of our Cats' Lair tour.

You already found it.

[chuckles] I love the pipes.

They go everywhere.

Oh, it's just Jaga.

That old guy that exploded on Thundera

and now visits us from the Astral Plane as a ghost.

Concisely put, Cheetara.

Go ahead, tell my life story, why don't you?

-[yelps] -[thud]

Oh, no, Master Jaga, let me help you.

[groans] I can't seem to get a grip.

Ooh, that tickles. [giggles]

-[laughs] -[laughing] Can't catch me.

Come back here, you little rascal.

[both laughing]

Can't catch what you can't touch.

-[laughing] -We'll see about that.

So, uh, hey, Jaga.

What was that whole thing about "certain destruction?"

What am I supposed to look out for, exactly?

Eh, You know, like,

you got to be careful or bad stuff might happen.

Uh, yeah, I knew

the mac and cheese was "bad stuff",

that's why I threw it out.

Thanks for the hot tip, ghost.

No, come on.

I mean, bad stuff like why Thundera exploded.

What? You know why Thundera exploded?

I thought that was a mystery for the ages.

Of course, I know what happened.

I was there.

We were all there, but I thought no one knew why--

Quiet, Tygra, he's trying to tell us why.

Right, Jaga? You'll tell us the whole story?

Eh, sure, whatever.

All right.

Story time!

Attention, ThunderCats.

[over intercom] Please convene for a Thunderian history lesson.

-Ugh, history. -Boring.

No, thanks.

[Tygra over intercom] It's gonna be really good.

No, it's not. Never is.

[Tygra over intercom] The ghost of Jaga will tell us how Thundera exploded.

-Ooh, wha... -[all] Cool.

-We're coming! -Don't start without us!

This is awesome.

We're finally gonna learn what caused

our planet's dark fate.

Whoo-hoo! Dark fate!

I love history.

Yeah, history's awesome!

Hey, what's the deal?

None of you wanted to attend my previous lecture series

on Thunderian history.

I'm sorry.

That's because you didn't have some ghost talking.

Ghosts make learning fun.

This isn't just some ghost.

You're looking at the progenitor

of the Code of Thundera.

Got to have some snacks

if some ghost is gonna tell you a story.

He's not just some ghost.

Hey. Let me get one of those.

Aw, toots.

I keep forgetting I'm just some ghost.

Now then, let us begin, shall we?

[clears throat] For millennia,

Thundera was a beacon of peace and prosperity.

[all exclaiming]

[imitates woman] We love being Thundarians.

We're so happy and prosperous.

[Jaga] And its technology was...

-[telephones ringing] -...the most advanced in all the universe.

Oh, oh, I know what happened.

I bet all that technology came to life

and there was a robot uprising that destroyed the planet.

[in robot voice] Destroy all Thundarians.

We are the computers.

Kaboom!

[in robot voice] Thundarians eliminated.

Beep, bop, boop, beep.

Hmm, I guess that seems plausible.

All right, history lesson over.

-Beep, bop boop, beep. -What? No Jaga, that's not it.

That's just something Panthro made up.

-I'm sorry. -Oh, yeah.

All the technology on Thundera was super nice.

In fact, I dated a robot for, like, six years.

Here, pass that around.

You guys, no more interrupting.

Just let Jaga talk.

So, you know our enemies?

The Mutants?

Do I ever.

Those guys are class-A jerks.

I know, right?

So, yeah, the Mutants.

They all got in their dumb spaceship

and were flying around until one fateful day

when they found Thundera.

[Cheetara] Oh, yeah, I bet they sent

a thermonuclear mutant missile

to the planet surface and blew everything up.

Kaboom!

[all cheering]

Aw, yeah, we're Mutants. Ooh. Aah.

Come on, what did I say about interrupting, Cheetara?

-[grumbles] -No, that can't be right.

Oh, yes.

The Mutants came down to the surface

and tried to enslave our people.

However, the Mutants were stopped in their tracks

by the greatest warrior in all of Thundera,

who took them on single-handedly.

-[all exclaim] -Awesome.

Jaga, who was that timeless hero?

Oh... [giggles] Well...

It was me, okay? Don't worry about it.

[Panthro] Jaga that's so cool.

[Jaga chuckles] Yeah, I guess that is pretty cool.

Ooh, thanks for believing in me.

[panting] Whee! Crash!

Wah-pow! Whoo!

Stomp. Stomp.

Kick your head. Squash, squash.

Ooh, flippy. Flippy.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

Yahoo.

And I picked one up even

and I threw him at some other ones.

And then I did some, uh, kickies

and then I did more punchies.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

Punch, punch, boom! Kick. Pow.

Ooh. [exclaims]

What's he doing?

I have no idea, but it's probably really cool.

[Jaga] As I bravely battled on,

the Mutants called down their ruler Ratar-O.

[all chanting] Ratar-O. Ratar-O. Ratar-O.

Ratar-O?

The space rat the size of an entire planet?

[imitates Ratar-O] Roar! Kaboom.

[Jaga] Hmm, not sure where you heard that.

Ratar-O was just a normal sized rat-man.

About my height, I guess.

And he was all, like, falling.

Pew, from the sky like, pew!

And the dumb Mutants were super happy

to have their dumb leader.

So now it was time for two champions

to duke it out.

It was just me vs. Ratar-O.

I just stood there looking cool,

ready to do something super awesome.

-[all exclaim] -Oh, man.

What did you have to do?

Fair warning Lion-O, you're about to lose it.

Because the next part of my little yarn

is where I call upon the power of the Sword of Omens.

You mean this Sword of Omens?

Yeah, man.

Awesome!

I know.

So I summoned the Sword of Omens...

[effort grunts]

...and it was all like... [vocalizes] Ah.

[choir vocalizing]

[Jaga] And Ratar-O was all like,

"Meh, I'm gonna fight him with my dumb weapons."

Pew, pew! Ah, epic battle lightning. Ah!

"I'm gonna get you."

"Oh, no, you're not."[grunts]

Ratar-O didn't stand a chance

against the power of the Sword of Omens.

[Panthro] Yeah. You showed Jaga.

[Lion-O] I love that sword.

[Jaga] So he had to call on his own magic sword.

[imitates harmonica]

Bleh, the Sword of Plun-Darr.

Ooh, that sword makes me so mad.

-[all gasp] -This has got to be it.

Not quite. First our blades danced.

Whoo!

Meh.

Crash! Boom! Bang! Clang!

Crash! Boom! Bang!

You know, actually,

I think I was taller than rat-man.

And I think maybe he was wearing an embarrassing shirt.

[all] Jaga, what happened?

[Jaga] So I got the upper hand

and got Ratar-O, who was balding,

right where I wanted him, a corner.

But in one last desperate move,

the wretch plunged the Sword of Plun-Darr

into the ground.

[rumbling]

Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!

Aah, everything's breaking apart!

[exclaiming]

I bet it caused the Thundrillium Power Plant to overheat and explode.

No way, it opened up a big old black hole

and the whole planet was sucked right up.

Ooh, ah, it summoned a giant space rat.

-Panthro, that was my idea. -I'm sorry.

[all clamoring]

Those are all pretty good.

[whistle blowing]

Everyone, just cool it.

Jaga is trying to tell you what happened to your home.

Be respectful and stop trying to throw in your nonsense.

[all] I'm sorry.

Jaga?

Hmm, I could've said, "No onions."

Huh? Oh, right.

Still not done, I guess.

So then...

I just punched the rat man in the face

and took the sword out of the ground.

Our home, Thunder World, was saved.

Whoo-hoo. Isn't that happy?

Awesome.

Oh, so that's how Thundera was saved.

Wait, I'm sorry, Master Jaga.

Isn't this story about how Thundera exploded?

Uh, what?

Oh. Oh, yeah.

In the wrong hands, the Sword of Plun-Darr

could crack planets in half.

So I needed to seal it away forever.

And I knew the only place it would be safe

would be deep inside the heart of a volcano.

So I journeyed up

the largest volcano on Thundera

and cast the Sword of Plun-Darr

deep into its molten maw.

And, I guess, eventually, it sunk into the planet's core

and, like, a bunch of years later,

it made the planet explode.

-Awesome. -That was incredible.

Riveting.

Wait, uh, hold on.

Does that mean you caused the destruction of Thundera?

Hmm, I guess so.

Whoopsies. [chuckles]

And that is why you should never shove cutlery

into unknown chasms.

Because you may inadvertently

cause the destruction of an entire planet.

Oh, cool. Got it.

Great. Jaga out.

So Thundera exploded

because Jaga made a big "whoopsie?"

[gasps] There's a second bathroom?

Just not what I expected, is all.

Come on, Tygra.

That story was awesome.

I loved hearing about Jaga kicking all that Mutant butt.

-Pow! -[laughs] Kaboom.

Come on, Tygra, Jaga didn't mean to blow up Thundera.

He just didn't know how powerful

the Sword of Plun-Darr was.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I wonder where the Sword of Plun-Darr is now.

Eh, probably destroyed in the explosion or something.

Sounds convincing enough to me.

I'm gonna rest easy tonight

knowing that the Sword of Plun-darr

was safely destroyed in the explosion of Thundera.

-Yeah, Sounds good. -I feel pretty good about that.

[Lion-O] Nothing to worry about.

[Tygra whimpering]

[laughs]

At last!

I'm coming for you, ThunderCats.

Ow. Shoot.

Come back here!

[closing theme music playing]