(EXPLOSION)
NARRATOR: Ever since the time of the great cataclysm,
the Arkadians have lived deep in the centre of the Earth.
They believed they were the only survivors of this great devastation.
Their civilisation thrived under the power of their sun, the Tehra,
until it began to fail.
In desperation, the children of Arkadia broke the law
and entered the forbidden Archives, searching for a solution.
What they discovered gave them hope.
Anxiously, they used their special powers
and created a messenger to the people above.
They named her Arkana.
# Shine, like the sun that lies beneath the sea
# Divine is the one we call Tehra
# Far from the world we knew so long ago
# Mine is the land Arkadia
# We pass all the stratas in our magic ship
# We're strong for our hearts now beat as one
# Matt and Rebecca believe Arkana
# Brave while the sun still burns
# Go, follow Spartakus
# To the sun beneath the sea
# We're so near to the universe
# Which has long disappeared
# Rainbow dawn of Arkadia
# Shining sun beneath the sea. #
NARRATOR: Traveller,
if you cannot find a path that leads to your goal, make your own path,
step by step.
Arkana succeeded in her mission, but the Auracite still holds a secret.
She and her friends can't restore the Tehra
until they solve the mystery of the Auracite.
Hey, Rebecca, want to come and play with me?
- OK. - That's great.
(BUZZ!)
(WATER LAPS AND GURGLES)
MASSMEDIA: Well, looky what I found. Finally.
You're tuned to Five Pirates. Massmedia at the mic.
Do you read me, everybody?
Operation Monkey Business Phase One
the super geophysical gal's tin can
has been sighted in the stratum of the pyramid.
Man your mini sharks.
- Alert! Alert! Alert! - OK. I want them all alive.
Faster, Terhrig. Head for the light. Maybe we can get out that way there.
- Wow. - Come on, Terhrig.
I know you can do it.
Of course I can. I just did.
(LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS)
# Dance the jig of Bic and Bac
# Bac and Bic, it's log-bical
# It's the jig we call Flashbic
# Tra-la-la-la-la-la
# When you start feeling bad today
# Dance the jig, dance Flashbic
# It's the dance of Arkadia
# Tra-la-la-la-la
# We are inseparable
# Always close together
# We are irreparable when we are apart. #
- Oh, dear. - It's their boat.
They haven't caught us yet.
NASTY MAX: Interstrata-tastic. There they are.
We got 'em at last.
What do they think they're doing? Not that way!
I've got to get out of this maze. I can't keep this up much longer.
If they think they can escape my clutches just like that...
Take the interstrata tunnel.
They will not be able to follow us through there.
The interstrata tunnel? In the shape I'm in.
Have you got any better ideas in mind?
No. Well, if you insist. Next stop, Arkadia, I hope.
You bunch of incompetents! After them! I want every one of them.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Oh, boy. That was some landing job.
Are you alright, Terhrig?
Terhrig, are you alright?
Sure, sure. Phew.
Home sweet home.
Those dratted pirates. I thought I'd come to the end of the road.
I think a few minor repairs are indicated.
Poor Terhrig. Do you think he's going to be OK?
I don't know. He's pretty messed up.
We're lucky we made it back in one piece, aren't we, Terhrig?
Hey, Terhrig. What's up?
Terhrig.
Dratted pirates. You're not going to get in our way this time.
What's he talking about? What pirates?
You know, Shangora, the ones that are always chasing us.
Didn't we ever tell you about them?
Mm-mm.
There's Nasty Max, the chief. After them! I want every one of them.
And Mighty Matt. (IMITATES MATT) He talks like this.
And Sleazeappeal. (LAUGHS LIKE SLEAZEAPPEAL) he-he-he.
And Massmedia.
(IMITATES MASSMEDIA) Your turn to fight.
Alert! Alert! Alert!
Alert!
# It's me, Mighty Matt So watch out for that
# Second in command, I'm a bad sea rat
# Don't make funny jokes, I am Nasty Max
# Leader on this coast, Don't make no wisecracks
# I'm the one to watch, I'm Sleazeappeal
# I'm the one who knows 'cause I'm here for real
# Looking out for treasure is my true aim
# That is quite plain, 'tis my true aim
# We're the pirates upon the high sea
# We can do such incredible deeds
# We have all kinds of dangerous needs
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
# Look for treasure wherever we go
# Finding pleasure in breaking the law
# Hit each other, put on a good show
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh. #
Hey, do you remember the time
that we had to get through the chink in Griffin Rock
and we messed up the pirates' plans, but good?
REBECCA: They had this rubber island,
and they blew it up just like a balloon.
MATT: They were on vacation.
We had to create a diversion,
so Spartakus and Arkana would have enough time.
So we put on a disguise and competed in the Inter Pirate Games.
The Pirate Club extends a warm welcome to our friends,
the Puddle Pirates and our friends, the Brigands of the Fjords.
All these nice people have joined us this year for the games, so enjoy.
I really hope some other pirate of the sea
will try to save our beautiful queen from the scaly claws
of the mean dragons of the fjords.
I shudder to think what might happen to you guys
if someone doesn't get up here right now.
(ALL HUM)
Sleazeappeal, you handsome knight, save me.
Only you could get me out of this mess.
Oh, no, you don't. I hate the water.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
No, no, please don't hurt me.
Hey. What the heck?
Who are you with?
Pirates of the Seas or Brigands of the Fjords?
Well, Pirates of the Seas. Don't you know your own kind?
Yeah, I thought so, but I guess not.
Well, well, looks like we have another brave knight
who's going to try to defend our beauty queen.
It's the knight of the, uh...
He looks like the knight of...
I think he's a...
Hey, hey, Rebecca,
tell Bic and Bac to cool it up there and stop moving around.
You guys are really heavy, you know?
Will you stop being a pest, Matt?
This is the only way we can stretch out this game long enough.
Nasty Max's pirates sure haven't got what it takes,
Spartakus needs all the time he can get.
And you didn't get caught?
No, but it was close.
Hey, I don't get this.
Who's fighting who?
It's that little brat.
Ooh-hoo. How do you like that?
I'm sure I saw that little...
Sleazeappeal recognised me. So we had to get out of there fast.
MATT: Get back to Spartakus and Arkana.
Come on.
Then all we had to do was unhitch the engine.
REBECCA: And untie the inflatable island.
Whoa!
My own ship has been hotwired.
I gotta get it back.
Help me, handsome knights.
Your beauty queen has been brutally dethroned.
Help me! Help!
It's an attack. Man your posts, every last one of you.
Massmedia, sound the alarm.
Alert! Alert!
Alert!
(AS MASSMEDIA) Alert! Alert!
That little pest has escaped.
Alert!
(AS SPARTAKUS) Rebecca, quick, Nasty Max is closing in on us.
But what's he talking about?
Hurry back. Get aboard right away.
Oh, poor Terhrig.
He's really got his wires crossed.
You already said goodbye to them, Rebecca. Let's go back to shore.
Oh, come on, Terhrig, please. Just one more time. Huh? Huh?
- Hmm? - Shh.
Terhrig slipped a major gasket again,
just like when we went down the interstrata tunnel for the first time.
- He thinks he's back... - Where? Back where? Back where?
Think I should tell him the secret?
- No. - It'll just lead to trouble.
I can tell.
Come on, Rebecca, give. You're not supposed to have secrets from me.
Calm down.
Terhrig thinks he's back when you went off to look for a passage,
and then we got caught by the pirates.
Boy, I was really, really starving that day.
(SLURPS)
Chief, that kid Rebecca,
she don't want to tell us where her friends are.
Says she lost them.
The little pest must be hungry.
Bribe her with something. She'll talk.
Oh, yeah. That's a good idea, chief.
Come on, eat your soup.
No. Let me go.
Just one for Mighty Matt.
I get it. You let him feed you, and then you...
You told him where we were.
Give me a break. I had to play for time.
So I talked him into a revolt.
You can't grow if you don't eat.
I don't want to grow. I want to get out of here.
This has gone on long enough.
Prepare for immediate departure. Target - Arkana and her motley crew.
We never get any peace.
Arkana, this. Arkana, that.
It's really not fair.
Boy, doesn't he ever give you guys a break?
No way, Jose.
That's the way it is. "Do this. Do that."
You know what I mean?
Hey, come on. Just think about it for a sec.
If you say no, what's it going to do?
Jiminy rogers, she's right. Nothing.
Yeah, it's true.
While they weren't looking. I ate a little.
But you can trust Massmedia to show up at all the worst times.
Yum-yum.
This is Five Pirates. Man your mini sharks.
Everyone to combat stations.
REBECCA: I had to think fast.
I made fun of them for doing what she said, but I was really scared.
You heard her, man your mini sharks.
And don't hang around. Don't waste your time fighting for booty.
That will never be yours.
(ALL COMPLAIN)
Are you sure?
(ALL CHEER)
So, now you'll stop chasing after Arkana all the time?
- We can't do that no more. - We don't wanna.
Alright, men, follow me to Nasty Max.
Let's tell him we don't need him any more.
ALL: Yeah! No more! No more.
(ALL CHANT) No more Nasty Max.
No more breaking our backs.
No more Massmedia.
We don't need ya.
REBECCA: Nasty Max tried to join up with Ringnar to stop the revolt.
Ringnar, chief of the pirates, chief of the fjords.
But did you hear that?
Nasty Max is going to join up with Ringnar against you!
Men, are we going to stand for that?
No!
NASTY MAX: Ringnar here.
I repeat...
Ringnar here.
Come in, Nasty Max.
So, all we had to do was neutralise Ringnar.
Old buddy. Old pal.
Brother. Yeah, yeah, sure.
Will you listen? Put me down! Give me a break.
Hey, guys, for you, I'd put down any revolt.
Urghh...
So then I had to find the way to get out of there
and I had to think fast.
There's nothing like a good fight after a good party
to distract their attention.
Wake up, everybody. I propose we all split the spoils.
What spoils?
You mean even the boss's?
Ho, ho, ho!
What? What, what? What do you mean, spoils?
And do you think you can guess who's going to get the biggest share?
- Huh? - Nuh.
- Me. - You?!
No way. No way. No way.
Yes, if you don't believe me. He asked me. He said.
ALL: Huh?
Well, wait just a second here.
You come back here, you little...
Alert! Alert!
- Oh. - Alert!!
- Look out! - Come on, Bic.
(FIGHTING CONTINUES)
(AS NASTY MAX) All hands on deck. Man your mini sharks.
Oh, he's actually changed into the pirate ship. Poor Terhrig.
Come on, Terhrig. Don't you know who you are?
Bic and Bac, you two help fix him up.
Keep your distance.
One step closer and I'll vibro vacuum the whole pack of you.
But... But don't you remember?
You're our friend, Terhrig.
How do you expect me to repair my circuits in all this racket?
Just go away and leave me alone.
Arkana!
Come quick. Terhrig's really sick.
He thinks he's the pirates' ship.
Come on. Hurry!
He sent everybody away.
I hope they can bring Terhrig out of his delirium. Otherwise, all is lost.
Poor Terhrig.
(AS MIGHTY MATT) Oh, wow. Just check her out, Sleazeappeal.
She don't change. She's still super geophysical.
(AS SLEAZEAPPEAL) Arkana, this time we got you for good.
What's he talking about?
I see. Now I understand.
Remember, you didn't want to come to Arkadia with us,
and the pirates took us prisoner.
And now, here's the surprise we promised you.
I soon found out what the surprise was.
Me.
(PIRATES) We want the surprise!
Show us the surprise.
Anybody who can beat Arkana in a fight wins her. She's the prize.
(ALL CHEER)
And if no-one can do it, that means I get to keep her for myself.
And not only that, my friends, it means I get to be president again.
Ha-ha.
(ENGINES REV)
Coming out near the track.
Whoa!
He-he-he.
Yeah.
Oh!
Oh.
Oh, oh, oh...
I wanna go home.
That day, I had to fight an impossible battle.
If you hadn't come, I would have lost.
(TEETH CHATTER)
Whoa.
(CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!)
I'll get ya someday.
Listen to me. I'm Arkana. You know me. And you're Terhrig.
(AS NASTY MAX) Terhrig? You're crazy. I'm Nasty Max.
With Nasty Max, you better cover your tracks.
Everybody knows that.
No, you're really Terhrig. You must remember.
You lived in Arkadia since its beginning.
(AS MASSMEDIA) Since its beginning?
Tell him the story of the great cataclysm.
You remember, after the great cataclysm,
we lived happily here in Arkadia
until the day our life force, the Tehra, began to fail.
(AS HIMSELF) Began to fail.
SPARTAKUS: Do you recognise that story, Terhrig?
It is no good, Arkana.
I am afraid he has gone too far for us to bring him back.
You remember, don't you?
The children of Arkadia created me, and you taught me everything I know.
Sounds familiar.
Oh, it's all coming back to me now.
I made a mistake in my calculations,
and I thought we'd reached the surface of the earth.
Rebecca was drowning, and I managed to save her.
Then I heard you coming, so I hid.
And that is when I saw you for the first time.
When we tried to return to Arkadia,
we couldn't get those dratted pirates off our tails.
And you offered to help us try to restore the Tehra.
The rays of the seven rainbows.
NASTY MAX: Vibro vacuum. Full power.
Arkana. I will help you try and save your Tehra.
Do not be afraid.
Climb up the rope. Hurry, or you will be vibro vacuumed.
Alright. Here goes.
Oh. Oh.
SPARTAKUS: Do not look down, Rebecca.
Help! Help!
I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.
Now you, Arkana.
Too late. Go on without me.
Save the Tehra.
Oh, no.
(WATER GURGLES)
Arkana and Spartakus have been in the Archives for hours now.
What will we do if they can't cure Terhrig?
(CHEERING)
I wish they'd just leave Terhrig alone. They'll tire him out.
Come visit, children.
We'll be leaving for the strata soon.
And we won't return until we've found the Auracite.
REBECCA: It sure was scary for a while there.
I thought Terhrig would lose his identity forever.
Imagine all those adventures we've been through.
My friends back home would never believe me.
It was great to be back in Arkadia,
but now we have to return to our mission.
Terhrig's his old grouchy self again.
And there's a secret waiting for us. The mystery of the Auracite.
# We pass all the stratas in our magic ship
# We're strong for our hearts now beat as one
# Matt and Rebecca believe Arkana
# Brave, while the sun still burns
# Go, follow Spartakus
# To the sun beneath the sea
# We're so near to the universe
# Which has all disappeared
# Rainbow dawn of Arkadia
# Shining sun beneath the sea
# Child of the Earth above the stratospheres
# So wild are the stories that we hear
# Where is the secret of our true desire?
# Deep in the hidden Arkadia
# We live through the legends of forgotten times
# We give all our hope to winds of chance
# Where is the secret of their lost Tehra?
# Deep in Arkadia
# Go, follow Spartakus
# To the sun beneath the sea
# We're so near to the universe
# Which has long disappeared
# Rainbow dawn of Arkadia
# Shining sun beneath the sea
# Go, follow Spartakus
# To the sun beneath the sea
# Rainbow dawn on the universe
# Shining sun beneath the sea. #