[tranquil music playing]
-[Usagi] O-Dokuro! -[Spot chirps]
O-Dokuro! Where are you? I brought you a book.
[O-Dokuro sadly] I'm here.
Uh, okay, I am made of questions.
A series of surprising events occurred. Do not ask questions.
Just get me down!
Be careful. I'm heavier than you might--
[both sputtering]
[both yelping]
-[O-Dokuro] Uh-oh. -[both sputter]
-[Usagi] I can't see anything! -[O-Dokuro groans]
[Usagi] Whoa!
[Usagi and O-Dokuro] I am stuck!
-[Usagi] Get off me! -Release me!
Oh! O-Dokuro has possessed Usagi!
-What? No! -Don't worry! I'm here to help!
-[yelping] -[crash]
[groans]
[gasps]
-[Usagi groans] -You're welcome.
Oh…
[dramatic music playing]
I'm sorry. I was only trying to help.
I know. I know. Thanks, Spot.
I've been here all day
working on an arm for the defensebotto to protect us from the invasion.
Yeah. Um, good job.
-I mean, it definitely works. -I just want to be helpful.
Now that the Ki-Stone can't talk to me, I feel less useful over at the temple.
-Sure, sure. -[O-Dokuro] You feel less useful?
At least you have a body!
I can do nothing for myself or anyone else.
You could be a doorstop.
Look, I know you've been down, so I brought you this.
Baby's First Book of Ancient Battlefields.
It's all pictures. Look.
This is marvelous!
Look, it's Okehazama!
That was almost 1,100 years ago.
I found so many good bones there after that battle.
My favorite finger is from there.
Wow, it's amazing that after so much time,
people still remember what happened at these battles.
Ah, the Battle of Awazu.
I miss the days when I could wander the battlefields collecting bones.
Big bones, little bones.
People still remember Miyamoto Usagi after a thousand years.
That's the kind of hero I wanna be.
Someone whose deeds are remembered for generations. A legend!
[O-Dokuro] Ooh! Nagakute.
That was a good one.
I got a few ribs from there. They still had some meat on them.
-Ugh. -Oh.
Every time I think you can't get more disgusting, you prove me wrong.
Usagi, Kagehito is asking for you. It seems important.
That's good, 'cause O-Dokuro is talking about meaty bones again.
Wait, could someone turn the page, please?
Anyone?
[slurping]
Aw.
Now the pages are wet.
[Kagehito wheezing] I must ask for help.
-[Usagi] What do you need? -[Tetsujin] I like to help.
[Kagehito grunts] It's a precious object.
A sphere.
You must bring it to me! I beg you!
Where is it?
In my interdimensional craft.
The sphere is golden,
and within it are many tiny particles.
Like a snow globe? Cool.
[Kagehito] Yes!
It is called the Quantum Bubble.
Chikabuma can lead you to the craft.
[wheezing and coughing]
Please find the sphere.
The particles within it
are all the people of my world.
-[high-pitched] What? -They're people?
[Kagehito] They are.
When my world was conquered by the Makkine,
the warbotto came down
and gathered up the survivors.
I was rendered unconscious.
[power surging]
[Kagehito] And when I recovered,
I was taken to face the Makkine supreme commander,
who showed me what had become of all the surviving members of my species.
They had been frozen in time,
reduced to microscopic size.
Trapped within the Quantum Bubble,
perhaps forever.
[dramatic note playing]
[Kagehito] Whoever retrieves the Bubble
will be the savior of my people,
remembered forever.
A great hero.
A legend.
A hero?
Remembered forever?
[Kagehito] Yes.
Can you help me?
-I-- -Yes, I can.
I mean, we can.
[Chikabuma] Yeah, we helped Kagehito dig this thing up.
We stayed away from it since then, 'cause it's spooky.
Tetsujin! Try not to get in the way.
Last time, I had to hold your bags
while you explained quantum entanglement to a pigeon.
Oh! Like you could have explained it?
Ooh! There it is!
Everybody wait out here. It might be dangerous.
Uh, okay, probably not, but…
Look, I really want to be the one who finds that Quantum Bubble.
Ugh. He just won't listen.
So? Sometimes you don't listen.
You're right. We should get daifuku after this.
[groans]
[panting]
[Tetsujin] Found it!
Oh, man! I wanted to be the hero.
Hey, I'm just trying to help.
Be careful.
Of course I'll be careful.
This technology is advanced far beyond our understanding.
-Uh-oh! -[Usagi] Huh?
-[alarm blaring] -What? How could that have happened?
It's okay. It's okay.
[alarm continues]
This craft is, like, a thousand years old. No one's gonna respond to that alarm.
Hey! Somebody's responding to that alarm.
Oh, come on!
Warbotto?
But we already got rid of those things.
[warbotto] Thank you for activating the intruder alert system.
[alert ringing]
I guess a few of 'em got away.
[intense music playing]
[warbotto] You have chosen the direct combat option.
[intense music playing]
[Tetsujin] Do not damage them. I need to examine one for science.
Hey, check this out.
[Spot chirps]
So interesting. What is your skin made out of?
Don't break them!
I can't help fight them unless I inspect them.
Be careful. Remember, these energy weapons can hurt you even though you're a ghost.
I am not a ghost!
[crash]
Aw, come on.
I just saved your butt and you're complaining?
Look, I can be useful if I can just study these things.
I order you all to stop damaging these warbotto.
-You "order" us? -[laser fires]
[Usagi groans]
Usagi!
[Usagi groans]
Chikabuma.
What did I just say about damaging them?
I said not to.
[groans] Tetsujin, you are not in charge here.
Obviously not. If I were, this wouldn't be such a mess.
-Stop them! -No!
Tetsujin, you let them get away!
I keep telling you, I need to study them.
I can't help you out with science stuff if you don't let me do research.
I'll just have to make do with examining this.
One of those warbotto had the Quantum Bubble.
Well, then you shouldn't have let them get away.
You let them get away!
We could argue all day about who let them get away.
-Um, you! -Or we could catch them! Let's go!
Your dad is kind of a pain.
Wait. You think he's my dad? He's clearly a bear.
I'm gonna level with you. I haven't been paying attention.
I'm pretty focused on my hair.
[upbeat music playing]
-How are we going to find those warbotto? -[Tetsujin] I have a plan.
Anybody want some of my super-atomic, popping bubble tea?
If you hadn't stopped for that tea, we could have caught the warbotto already.
The Quantum Bubble made me think of bubble tea.
It's important to stay hydrated, you know.
[hiccups] Uh-oh!
Hiccups. [hiccuping] It's the popping bubble things that do it.
[hiccups]
[hiccuping] So I have discovered that the warbotto
are composed of a protein-based polymer laced with metallic nanowires.
-You see? -We don't see.
No one understands you.
[hiccuping] These nanowires should cause perturbations in the magnetic field
detectable by this device.
By carefully inspecting each square foot of the city,
it should take us only six to eight years to find any existing warbotto.
-[warbotto whirring] -Uh-huh. Or Plan B.
There's one!
My plan didn't involve luck.
-Ikuzo! -Don't break it!
-[warbotto] We will be with you in a-- -[slashing]
Oh.
-It's not the one with the Quantum Bubble. -There's more of 'em!
[warbotto] Please remain calm while we destroy you.
Mmm-hmm. What is your power source?
-Hey! I was looking at that. -It just said it was going to destroy you.
-[newsbotto] Breaking news. How can there be so many?
I can see how maybe one or two got away, but this is nuts!
-I don't know. -[newsbotto] Panic in Sakura Park.
But look at this thing someone saw in the park.
I bet you're glad to be away from the ninja dojo.
Ugh, it's not going great. Fuwa started a rival crew.
-And I've already lost a few ninja to her. -Why?
She lets them rob stores and beat people up.
-Yeah, some people just like tradition. -There!
-[warbottos trilling] -[dramatic music playing]
Can someone please tell me what I'm looking at?
[dramatic music continues]
[Chizu] It's like
a warbotto factory.
-That's what I was afraid of. -Of course.
Shh! Tetsujin!
That protein-based polymer they're made of,
it's an extruded liquid that hardens on contact with air.
[loudly] This is why there are so many of 'em! They are printing warbotto!
They've spotted us.
[warbotto] Thank you for making yourselves available for destruction.
[hiccups]
Oh, no!
[hiccuping] My hiccups are back.
Oh.
[dramatic music playing]
We need a plan.
Destroy them all, get the Quantum Bubble.
That's more of a goal than, like, an actual plan.
-[laser firing] -[Usagi exclaims]
[menacing music playing]
[Gen roars]
[dramatic music playing]
I don't say it enough.
These Kaikishi weapons are amazing!
-[hiccups] -Tetsujin, get outta here!
I see how this works.
-[gasps] -Tetsujin!
[warbotto] Thank you for choosing the instant destruction option.
We hope you enjoyed your life.
[Tetsujin yelps]
Tetsujin, I am risking my life for you. Would you please just stay out of trouble?
I'm sorry. I need to understand the manufacturing process so I can help.
You are in the way! No wonder the Ki-Stone is sick of you.
You're infuriating!
Oh… Tetsujin, I… I didn't mean that.
No, no, I understand.
You want to be a hero. That's cool.
I'll let you be a hero, but I need to be helpful, so let me help.
Tetsujin, you are…
[sighs] …right.
[warbotto whirs]
-[Usagi yells] -[sword slashing]
Okay, so how can you help us?
Well…
[hiccups]
I know!
I can stop those machines from making more warbotto.
How?
That polymer they’re formed from, before it hardens, it’s vulnerable to water.
The slightest bit of moisture will cause it to crystallize.
And I brought a lot of moisture.
[blowing bubbles]
[machinery sparking]
[electricity surging]
Ha! Science!
[dramatic music playing]
[chirps]
[electricity crackling]
Bubble tea, bam!
[chirping]
Whoa!
[warbotto] Please hold while we disconnect your life.
Oh, right! Moisture doesn't hurt these things once they've solidified.
Ugh, I got bubble tea on my fist! Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!
So sticky!
Wow.
What were you like as a kid?
A little smaller.
-[triumphant music playing] -[Spot chirping]
Way to go, Spot!
How many more warbotto do you think are out there?
There's no way to know, but at least they can't make any more now.
And we got this.
Hey, Tetsujin, I…
[sighs] I'm sorry.
Uh, it's okay. I know I can be kind of annoying.
-[hiccups] -Ugh.
[Gen groans]
Seriously, does anyone have a moist towelette or anything?
This is so gross!
[Spot whimpers]
-Phew. Thank you, Spot. -[Spot chirps]
Ah! Now I've got tokage spit on me.
[Kagehito wheezing]
[Kagehito] Did you…
Yep.
[Kagehito] At last.
I do not know how,
but I hope that one day, if we can defeat the Makkine,
I may return my people to normal.
Well, maybe I…
Maybe we can help.
Kagehito, the warbotto had machines that made more warbotto.
[Kagehito] What?
Makkine technology must have advanced greatly in the last thousand years.
We destroyed the machines,
but we don't know how many more warbotto may be out there.
The invasion will be even worse than I had anticipated.
We must prepare,
and we do not have much time.
In less than four days, the Ki-Stone will lose its battle with the Clavis,
and then the gateway will open.
I wish we could help the Ki-Stone.
Like if we could just cut the Clavis off of it.
It's impossible. They have completely merged.
It's as if the Clavis were part of the Ki-Stone,
and nothing can cut the Ki-Stone.
Wait.
Willow Branch!
My ancestor's sword, Willow Branch, it cut the Ki-Stone.
You're right.
If I get it, maybe I can be a legend after all.
[Kagehito] But where is this Willow Branch?
My auntie told me it was lost in a battle a thousand years ago,
but no one knows the location of that battlefield.
[Kagehito] There is one who knows the location of every battlefield.
I know,
because he will not shut up about it.
You're saying I can be useful?
Yes, you can.
You can help us save the world.
Ooh!
Can you tell that I am smiling?
No, I can't really ever tell what your face is doing.
Yes, it is quite hard to read the expressions of a skull.
Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile!
[Usagi] Okay, we'll just go find my ancestor's sword, Willow Branch.
I mean, how hard could it be?
[ominous music playing]
[roars]
[dramatic music playing]