[both grunt]
Still in one piece. That's a good thing.
Where did suits with the Core...
go?
[beeping in distance]
[suspenseful music]
[clanging]
[mysterious music]
Okay, you've traveled way more than I have.
Where are we?
No idea. Better ask someone.
Hope this isn't the line for the bathroom.
[Lloyd] Excuse me. What is this place?
Yeah, I know the Administration can be confusing.
You're in Block AA, sub block 99T 53
stroke 34 dash 7 minus the square root of 453.
Wait. "The Administration"? What's the Administration?
Uh... [snorts]
It's only just the center of all the bureaucracy in the world.
You know, permits, licenses, permits to get licenses,
licenses to apply for permits. Everything.
We're obviously new here and could use some help.
Would you mind showing us around?
No way. Uh-uh. Can't leave the line.
I've been here for way too long.
How long is "way too long"?
Just my entire adult life!
I took over from my dad,
who took over from his dad before him.
Now I'm only a few thousand days away from my turn!
When my grandfather first got in this line,
he knew this moment would someday come!
Wow, you must be in line
for something really important then.
Sure.
I mean, knowledge about the purpose of this line
was lost, like, a generation ago.
But whatever it's for, it's gotta be important,
because we've devoted our entire lives to it.
Are you kidding me?
[agent] Never seen you two before.
You have authorization to be here?
Present your permission forms.
Now!
Forms?
We, uh, might not have--
No forms, no permission. And no permission is...
Unacceptable!
[weapons powering up]
♪ Lost in the unknown So much to see ♪
♪ Together we will rise! ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ We fight! ♪
♪ Be a ninja for what's right! ♪
[electricity crackles]
[Heatwave groans]
Why isn't Heatwave healing faster?
Are you sure the crystal goo is still working, Kai?
Things like this take time.
No, they don't!
Heatwave has to get better,
and we have to get that Dragon Core back to the other Ninja
and this is taking forever! [grunts angrily]
Impatience makes everything worse, Wyldfyre.
It clouds your judgment, and you make bad decisions.
Trust me. I know from experience.
But we can't just do nothing.
[somber music playing]
You wanted to learn some of Master Wu's techniques?
Try this. Moving through forms.
It'll help you focus, to be in the moment.
[dramatic music]
Standing in one place, moving super slow?
I told you, I can't do nothing.
[Heatwave whines]
This isn't nothing. You'll see.
[sighs]
[Heatwave groans]
[groans]
I can't do this!
I can't stop worrying about Heatwave.
He's never been hurt like this before.
When you're worried is exactly when this is most helpful.
You are not your emotions.
Focus on your form,
let the emotions pass through you.
You pass through you!
You're patient, I'm not, remember?
[laughs]
Okay, no one has ever called me "patient".
I'm the hot head, in more ways than one.
But when I lost my sister to the sea...
Long story.
Master Wu had me practice my forms.
I was never as good as the others,
but Ninja never quit.
So I kept going until it worked enough to calm me down.
And if it can work for me, it can work for anyone.
Even you,
because you kind of remind me of someone.
Who? Master Wu?
No! Me! You remind me of me!
[sighs] So if you're ready,
let's try again.
[Wyldfyre sighs]
[uplifting music]
[weapons powering up]
So then the spirit guy told us to go to the Weirdo Garden,
and the snail guy there let us have the Dragon Energy Core,
- but-- - You're stalling.
Stalling is forbidden.
Unless you have a notarized stalling permit.
Your permission forms. Now!
What is that?
They look like permission forms?
Uh, so you are authorized to be here.
- We are? - According to these...
[Agent Underwood] Wait a minute.
Yep, definitely looks like you two.
[Agent Allen] Your papers are in order.
[groans] Now we're gonna have to go file
"suspected some people but it turned out fine" paperwork.
It'll take ages.
That was weird.
Who sent us those permission forms?
Beats me. But we need to find where those other two agents
took the Dragon Core, fast.
[pensive music]
[Agent Underwood] Hold it! Regulation 474 Alpha 1!
Permission forms are supposed to have photos,
not drawings.
[groans] Those two tricked us!
They weren't authorized!
They gave us... [gasps]
...fake forms!
[yells] Wait.
We have to fill out "tricked by fake forms" forms first.
No time. Just fill out a "defaulting of paperwork
to a later date" form.
Excuse me? Has anyone seen a glowing object about this big?
Don't everybody answer all at once.
We are not authorized to discuss objects,
items, gadgets, or any other such whatsits.
- Not without... - Permission forms?
[admin worker] Stamped and notarized.
[suspenseful music]
[whirring]
Another message?
-"Duck." - Like "quack quack?"
No, like duck!
[Agent Allen] We need to find those form fakers!
Who keeps sending these things?
Someone who knows what they're doing, I hope.
"Turn right and go straight."
[tense music]
-"Quick, hide!" - [grunts]
What are you two doing?
We're gathering pencils. For sharpening.
Got any?
Indeed, we do!
[admin worker] Wow, there hasn't been a good sharpening in years!
The directions say, "right, right, left, right,
then another right to Mail Cubical 45-67A."
- Got that? - Sorry, didn't hear you.
Trying to find a pencil sharpener.
Lemme know if you see one.
[grunts] All agents, be on the lookout
for two suspects carrying fraudulent permission forms.
[Agent Allen] Repeat. Fraudulent forms.
[alarm blaring]
Everyone's on high alert.
No way the "unpermitted" can escape now!
[Arin and Lloyd gasp]
[suspenseful music]
Hm. It'll be impossible for them to evade our constant vigilance!
Aw, man. That doesn't even look like me.
[suspenseful music]
Mail Cubicle 45-67A. This is it.
[music intensifies]
Excellent. You have arrived.
[both] Zane?
[door closes]
Thank you for taking the risk of infiltrating
the Administration to rescue me.
[groans] Uh, Zane,
and not that we don't love you,
but we didn't even know you were missing.
When we left to get our Dragon Energy Core,
you were still at the Monastery.
[clangs]
Yeah, how'd you end up here?
I was continuing my work,
attempting to activate the Teleportation Gate
of unknown origin beneath the Monastery.
[Zane] But I was getting nowhere.
However, my efforts did not go unnoticed.
[suspenseful music]
We've been alerted to too many failed
portal activation attempts at this location,
violation of Code six niner slash seventeen.
You'll be coming with us.
[clangs]
In retrospect, I should not have gone with them.
Their manager detained me here, in a Mail Room,
to work sorting parcels while my violation is being processed.
I've never heard of this place, but they act
like they have authority over everything in the world.
It may be helpful for you to know
the Administration is a region
within the former Realm of Madness.
Okay, yeah, that does explain a lot.
So their forms and permits don't actually affect anything?
The only thing they are effective at
is gross incompetence,
but they take their imagined importance with a deadly level of seriousness.
They speak of a leader called "the Administrator,"
but as far as I can tell,
no one has actually seen this person.
I must ask,
if you did not know I was here,
who did you think was sending the messages
in the tube capsules?
I dunno. It was a mystery.
[Zane] It is unwise to blindly follow mysterious messages.
So you drew that terrible picture of me?
It is actually a very good likeness of you.
I do have a photographic memory.
Why are you carrying pencils?
They need to be sharpened?
[tube capsule whirring]
We followed two agents here
who took the Dragon Core we were after.
We have no idea what they've done with it.
I may be able to locate it.
[suspenseful music]
[keyboard clacking]
Oh, no. The Core has been declared
an extremely dangerous Class B artifact
and is slated for immediate destruction.
- [both gasp] - It is impossible
to reach the demolition level in time to retrieve it,
unless we use the tubes.
[beeping]
Are they safe for people?
- [Zane] No. - [Agent Allen] Freeze!
Under regulation 78-34B,
I hereby detain you for--
I'm sorry, I couldn't find a sharpener!
[Agent Underwood and Agent Allen yelp]
[Arin gasps]
[screaming]
They're headed to the Department of Demolitions.
[Agent Underwood] They could wreak havoc there.
I can't shut the tube down, but I can split them up
and reroute some of them elsewhere.
[hisses]
- [screams, groans] - [thuds]
[gasps]
Arin? Zane?
[tense music]
The Dragon Core!
[thuds]
[tense music]
Interesting.
[groans]
[machine whirring]
[suspenseful music]
There. We've ported them off to wake up in the lands
formerly known as the Cursed Realm,
which is where they're originally from.
[reassignment agent] Probably.
Excuse me. What is this place?
Department of Reassignment.
We deal with Interstitial Space Bubbles.
"Space Bubbles?"
A form of stasis.
During the Merge, some people were shuffled
into pockets of the nothing-space
between what used to be the realms.
And you find these people?
Not on purpose.
But when teleporting, Administration Agents
sometimes bump into pockets
of these nothing-space Merge refugees.
It becomes our department's job to send them back
where they originally came from.
How do you know where they came from?
Well. Best guesses. It's all fine.
Probably. We keep records.
[reassignment agent] Off to Cloud Kingdom,
which is probably, almost definitely, their home.
Okay, finishes up that bubble.
Wait. My Mom and dad, they went missing in the Merge.
Did you find them and assign them somewhere?
Young man, we've found so many random people that--
Hey, who are you, anyway?
Do you have authorization to be in here?
Oh, sure. I keep my authorization over there,
and I'll go get it now.
[quirky music]
He's not coming back, is he?
Manager! We've got a situation!
[suspenseful music]
What is it, Sub-Agent Prentis?
Sir! A strange kid was in here, asking questions.
[reassignment agent] He just ran off.
Did he need realm reassignment?
Uh, no.
Then, does this sound like our department's problem?
I...
No, Agent Walker.
Then bothering me was...
Was a waste of your time?
Correct! Now, excuse me, I've got a videoga...
uh, some paperwork to file.
[snickers]
[tense music]
[grunts]
[music intensifies]
[sighs] That was close.
- [alarm blaring] - [sighs]
[agent over PA ] Highly dangerous Class B artifact
stolen on the Demolition Level!
We have him! Move in and get that artifact!
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[sighs]
Okay, I'll admit.
This isn't not working.
[groans]
- Heatwave! - [growls]
You're better?
Of course you are, I can tell.
Oh, you're all healed!
Then it's time to go!
Let's get this Core back to the Monastery!
[core crackles]
Wait, this isn't right.
- [grunts] - What?
It's a fake?
Where did the real Core go?
[both] Dorama!
Surrender that Class B artifact, or I will destroy you!
[tense music]
[engine revving]
[tires screeching]
- [Lloyd] Zane? - [Zane] Lloyd!
I suggest a hasty exit!
[tires screech]
[Agent Denholt] Get that artifact!
[tires screeching in distance]
[Zane] Please disperse!
[tense music]
[weapons powering up]
Intriguing.
[Zane] Most advantageous!
[tires screech]
[Lloyd gasps]
[Lloyd grunts]
- [thuds] - [machine whirring]
I was wondering where you went!
[tense music]
If we want to re-open the portal that brought you here,
we will need a special punch card.
[tires screech]
Activate the energy defenses!
[tires screeching]
[Lloyd] Zane, go get that punch card!
We'll run defense!
[tires screech]
[tense music]
What are you doing? Take cover!
There's a dangerous Class B artifact in a thief's hands!
I need a level 3 Portal Access punch card right now.
Well, good luck.
I can't give you a level 3
without forms A1022 through C1101 filled out,
in triplicate.
[tense music]
[Arin] Get us closer to the grids!
[Lloyd grunts]
[Lloyd] Closer to the laser grids?
[Arin] Yeah. I wanna try something.
[tense music continues]
[loud thud]
[Lloyd] How did you make that happen?
I thought this might be a two-in-one Mech!
I'd heard about these when I was a mech street racer,
but I've never actually seen one.
[upbeat music]
[Zane] Forms completed.
[suspenseful music]
You will find these are in order.
I have never seen form skills like this before!
You're a form genius!
Thank you.
[tense music]
[engine revving]
- [tires screech] - Wow!
[Zane] Portal punch card acquired!
[Lloyd] Lead the way!
[engine revs]
- [beeps] - [portal whirring]
[Zane] The portal is open! Hurry!
[tires screeching]
[explosion]
[electricity crackling]
[tires screeching]
[powers down]
We'll have to explain all this.
So much paperwork.
[rumbling]
[suspenseful music]
[engine revving]
- [rattling] - [tires screech]
[Zane] I apologize.
I did not mean to ruin your work.
[exclaims] Just means I get to enjoy
doing it all over again. [laughs]
[tense music]
Okay, that was a whole thing,
but we managed to get our Dragon Core.
And I'm sure the others got their Cores too.
- We didn't get our Core. - Yeah.
Dorama's probably brought it to the Empress by now.
What about Nya and Sora?
They aren't back yet.
No idea if they found theirs or not.
Rapton tried to get this one and failed.
I have no idea what the Empress would want all three for.
[Kai] Whatever it is, it can't be good.
Her having even one of them keeps us from stopping
the Merge Quakes and saving the world.
The best course of action now
would be to safely leave our Core here
and retrieve Kai and Wyldfyre's Core from Imperium.
And hope Nya and Sora are heading back here with theirs.
[suspenseful music]
Imperium. Can't say I missed it.
I hope getting in and out will be easier than the last time.
[blaring]
[explosion]
[Kai groans]
I'm thinking it's not gonna be.
[intense suspenseful music]