Assault on Skylander Academy is the twelfth episode in the Sonic X Skylanders Academy television series, and the final episode of Season 1.
Synopsis[]
When Eon falls seriously ill, the Skylanders must race to find a light energy source to heal him. Meanwhile, the Doom Raiders attack the academy while a mysterious power awakens in Spyro.
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Spyro
- Sonic
- Scratch
- Stealth Elf
- Eruptor
- Jet-Vac
- Pop Fizz
- Master Eon
- Hugo
- Snap Shot
- Ka-Boom
- Bad Breath
- Roller Brawl
- Trigger Happy
- Food Fight
- Wind-Up
- Hex
- Skull
- Dale
- Kaos
- Glumshanks
- Kaossandra
- Golden Queen
- Wolfgang
- Chef Pepper Jack
- Chompy Mage
- Dreamcatcher
- Broccoli Guy
Plot[]
After his first usage of the Book of Dark Magic, Master Eon studied the dark relic for some time and his condition is growing worse in the process, making him pale-skinned, easily tired and falling in and out of consciousness. Though Hugo arrives with food and a smoothie with darkness immunity shots, Eon requests greater help from the Skylanders, before collapsing due to heavy coughing once again.
By the time he is in condition to talk again, the heroes have already arrived, and while denying Hugo's chicken soup, he explains that he needed the light from the Core of Light to combat the darkness now coursing through his veins. The Core is located in The Isle of the Citadel, which even Jet-Vac thought to be a legend, built by Eon and the late Scar after the events of the Great War. While warning the team about its dangers and secrets, however, the wizard's strength wanes once again, and Hugo continues his explanation, giving the Skylanders a flask themed after Eon's helmet while they place him in the nearby sofa. Once ready, the Mabu instructs them to stand on tiles representing their elements in the Library floor, and, after seeing there are not enough tiles due to Sonic not having an element as he is not from Skylands, he and Spyro stay to protect the academy in case of danger as the others quickly rearrange themselves to activate the tile portal and transport themselves to the island. Ready for action, the group quickly follows the nearest path.
In Kaossandra's Castle, the sorceress waits for Glumshanks to arrive, and explains to him that she would be leaving to Skylanders Academy to retrieve her spellbook, and that he had to keep Kaos occupied until she returned to keep him from interfering. Assuring her that he had several methods to distract her son, he immediately leaves to the Guest Castle to announce game night, bringing in several tabletop games. However, in the meantime, Kaos made up his mind about leaving to find the Book of Dark Magic himself, taking notice that its dark magic increased his own power, and is adamant about ignoring the games in an attempt to convince his mother to teach him about the dark spells. Glumshanks quickly tries to list him other things to do, but running out of options, he attempts to physically stop Kaos and order him to stay inside. However, the moment of authority particularly angered the sorcerer, and Kaos used dark electric tethers to throw Glumshanks around as punishment, until the troll gives in and follows him to Skylanders Academy.
Long before their arrival, however, Chompy Mage is already silently moving through the school's courtyard on a bush costume, but before reaching the end of the garden, he suddenly notices Dreamcatcher with a fake cloud taped over her back; and worse yet, just as the Chompy sorcerer called her out, Chef Pepper Jack passes through them, mistaking the disguises for the real thing. As the three call out each other, they discover Wolfgang behind Chompy Mage, and the Golden Queen promptly arrives from under the island, berating them for trying to infiltrate the Academy without her. Though Dreamcatcher tries to accuse the queen of also trying to act solo, she is met with yelling as the statue attempts to assert her leadership, and eventually Broccoli Guy finds the group from above, complaining that they lied to him about going to the beach instead. Just as the team is completed, their arguing is heard by Ka-Boom, who, despite struggling with the call, assembles the nearby cadets and Skylanders to attack.
At the Isle of the Citadel, the retrieval reaches the first trial between them and the Core of Light, taking the shape of a glowing door with a voice recording from Eon. Welcoming the group, the record offers them their first challenge; answering to it the thing they fear the most. However, when the Skylanders attempt to answer with their own fears, the door instead responds by summoning chains and locks to itself, and the heroes get increasingly desperate that their next answers would prevent them from advancing. However, Scratch and Pop Fizz figure out the door wants their current biggest fear, and they successfully answer by saying they are afraid of not being able to save their headmaster. The recording congratulates them and the door opens to another area of the island as the group quickly heads inside.
Back at the Academy, the Doom Raiders are facing the end of a beatdown from the cadets and the few Skylanders nearby, taken out by their projectiles and forced to flee. With a well aimed tackle from Skull on Dreamcatcher, the villains leave the island, prompting Snap Shot and Spyro to discuss pursuing them now that they have a chance of capturing the gang; however, their absence would leave the cadets as the school's only defense, and they choose to stay and be on high alert. From the teleport pad area, meanwhile, Kaossandra overhears their conversation, and decides to leave without risking an encounter. With the threat gone, Hugo, Spyro and Sonic take the time to check on Master Eon at the Library, but with the corruption still advancing, the headmaster loses his mind and momentarily attacks them before regaining his senses. Seeing that even his assistant was unsafe despite Spyro and Sonic's powers and strength, Eon orders them to lock the building, and to not allow anyone but the retrieval team with the light vial.
The second trial awaits the retrieval team at the Citadel, with Dale the wizard waiting for them at the second door. Though the gatekeeper approaches them with the intent to make small talk, Stealth Elf instead hurries him to get to the challenge, angering him. With elaborate gestures, Dale asks them about something that hides behind the stars, something that could be feared, and would always return when one closed their eyes. With the end of the riddle, the wizard haughtily adds that they only had ten seconds and storm clouds start to gather at the area, panicking the group as they are unable to think of something. As the others give random guesses, Eruptor starts to feel stressed, and fearing that they had no chance of saving Eon, steps back and closes his eyes. As he remarks that it looks dark, the others solve the riddle by guessing it was about the darkness, clearing the clouds and Dale's mood for a second. He happily allows them into the door to another area with a request that they drop by another time to talk, but as they leave, he somberly explains the reason for his loneliness to himself by regretting that he outlived his family.
At the Falling Forest, the Doom Raiders lazily lean against the trees to recover from the beatdown, with Chef Pepper Jack remarking that at least no one else saw their overwhelming defeat. However, he is mistaken, as Kaossandra walks in the clearing, sarcastically clapping and berating them for being beaten by cadets. Before she can mock them any further, Golden Queen steps between her underlings and the sorceress, remarking that the Book of Dark Magic must be very valuable to drive its owner out of the castle to look for it. Dismissing the greedy implications, Kaossandra explains that as valuable as it is, the Academy on high alert means that it would be harder than ever to recover, and the only way for her to get to it would be by working with the gang. When Golden Queen asks for their reward for helping, the sorceress offers them to take Skylanders Academy and everything on it if they take down its defenses as long as the book was hers, and the other Doom Raiders quickly coerce their leader into accepting it. As they make their way back, the golden statue wonders if they'll see Kaossandra's powers in action; but she assures them that it would be best if it wasn't necessary, as they are unstable from their time of being unused. When asked about Kaos, however, she dismisses their concerns and assures them that he can't make the situation any worse.
As the sorcerer was unknowingly right for the wrong reasons, Kaos and Glumshanks reach the Academy Courtyard in their usual minimal disguises to approach Hugo. Though they attempt to enter through a tour of the school by pretending Glumshanks has special powers, Hugo insists them to return another day, only for Kaos to drop the disguise and knock him out with a blast of dark magic. Startled by the sudden attack, Ka-Boom and Snap Shot have no time to react before Kaos fires their next shot at them, blowing up the main hall doors behind them and defeating the Trap Masters. Despite this, the cadets are adamant to defend the building themselves by standing between him and the entrances, only for the evil sorcerer to levitate and attack them with empowered blasts and a magic shield strong enough to knock the last few physical attackers out.
Just as the defenses were taken out, the Doom Raiders and Kaossandra returned, and though Kaos' mother attempts to berate him and Glumshanks, the troll explains that the sorcerer's power had grown to impressive levels. Kaos supports his claim by explaining that he is attacking the school to get the Book of Dark Magic back for her and prove his new might, before being interrupted by Golden Queen as she asks to enter the school. She quickly orders Wolfgang to hypnotize the Skylanders and cadets with his music to prevent them from interfering any further, and as the gang walks into the main hall, Kaos asks Kaossandra about her infiltration plan, only for her to hastily order him to do nothing else and follow her inside; angering the sorcerer as his efforts were ignored entirely.
Meanwhile, Spyro and Sonic are alerted of the attack by Hugo and tell the assistant to call the retrieval team as they lock Eon in the Relics Room while they board up and barricade the library and prepare to fight the villains if necessary, even using Pop Fizz's potion that'll keep them from being struck by Wolfgang's music spell, while hoping for the retrieval team to hurry despite Eon's pleas for them to not fight the villains alone.
Once more at the Isle of the Citadel, the remaining Skylanders reach the final door, but it suddenly opens on its own to an endless expanse of sky. Confused, Stealth Elf attempts to walk past the door only to notice a forcefield, and Eruptor assumes that they took the wrong path and tries to leave. Scratch, however, is sure that there is no other way to save Eon, and tries to coerce his friends to jump through the door with her. Though at first they are hesitant, the feathercat's assurance that they must test their bravery together changes their minds; and when the group leaps, the sky warps itself to reveal the final path, safely stopping their fall, and Eon's voice recording finally welcomes them to the Core of Light. At first, the group can only admire the great machine that held the world's balance, but Scratch catches their attention by hurrying them to fulfill their task. With Pop Fizz's help, she flies up to the Crystal Eye's beam, and uses it to fill the flask. Just as they obtain the light cure, however, Jet-Vac receives Hugo's call, and is greeted by the assistant's exasperated screams as he informs them the Academy is under attack and Spyro and Sonic's battle with the Doom Raiders, Kaossandra, Glumshanks and Kaos. As a result, they rush to the portals as quick as they can.
Meanwhile, the Doom Raiders, Kaossandra, Glumshanks and Kaos are in progress of taking down the barricaded doors to the Library and begin climbing up to the Relics Room when Sonic and Spyro strike to attack. Despite their best efforts on weakening the Doom Raiders, the duo are defeated when Kaos uses his powers on them but is forced to spare the dragon and hedgehog's lives when Kaossandra orders him to do so as the villains head to Eon.
Though Kaos quickly opens the secret bookshelf, they are greeted by the beard scanner, but Kaossandra takes the lead to destroy the entrance entirely. Reaching the vault, they discover Master Eon, and while Kaos briefly taunts the wizard, the Golden Queen orders her gang to steal anything they can carry from the piles of riches. With the other villains occupying themselves to the rest of the room, Kaossandra immediately guesses that Master Eon's condition was caused by her book's spells, but the headmaster ignores her insult to retort that he used it to help a friend regardless of the risk. Before they can continue to argue, however, they are interrupted by Kaos, who retrieves the previously lost astral recording of the map to the Core of Light, and gleefully presents it to the Golden Queen as his part of their deal.
However, Eon uses the last of strength in his voice to taunt the sorcerer, explaining he used his magic to move the Core of Light, making the map useless. When Kaos nearly fires a spell at him, Golden Queen assures it won't be necessary, as she reveals she found the Book of Dark Magic. Though Kaossandra tries to get it back from her, the golden statue assures her betrayal by adamantly refusing and starting to leave, putting her underlings between her and the sorceress. Kaossandra announces that she is left with no other choices but to strike back, and though Glumshanks quickly ducks behind her, Kaos is interrupted by Golden Queen, who tries to coerce him to join the group and rule as he should. His mother, however, tries to convince him to continue with stern orders, prompting the other sorceress to taunt them by claiming that Kaossandra never allowed him to use his true potential and shunned Kaos from birth; demonstrating by stopping her gang from laughing at him with a gesture.
When he tries to get answers from Kaossandra, however, she stubbornly refuses to explain anything, and even when he offers to stay as long as she teaches him how to be like her, she refuses and tries to justify it by forcing him to take her word for it. He is unconvinced, and now that he is sure she is taking him for granted, stays with the Doom Raiders, regardless of the spell she was about to cast. But before she can respond with a powerful wave of dark magic that would temporarily stop all of them, Spyro and Sonic burst in, battered and bruised but still determined to save Eon. However, Sonic is hit by a dark magic blast that knocks him unconscious once he hits the wall as Spyro is trapped in an illusion by one of Kaossandra's dark spells. The power nearly succumbs the purple dragon, but he overcomes it with a mysterious power, causing his red eyes to glow purple as purple sparks of electricity surround his body, similar to Sonic whenever he uses his own electric powers. He scoffs at villains' comprehension of magic, saying that Kaossandra's powers dwarfs his own strength and he dons himself in Scar's old armor. Golden Queen, now fearful of Spyro's mysterious power, attacks him, but he easily shrugs it off and uses his fire breath to back her and the other villains to a wall. As he vows to show them true power, his glowing eyes become surrounded by a firey-misty aura that is the same color as the electricity. The terrified Wolfgang asks, "What are you?", and moments before unleashing a powerful electric-fire wave that temporarily stops werewolf and the other villains in their tracks, Spyro replies, "I... am a Breath."
This wave of power breaks the cadets and Skylanders outside free from Wolfgang's spell as the retrieval team also witnesses it from the Citadel but decide to put it on hold and quickly rush to the nearby portals.
With Kaossandra temporarily weakened from the display of power, Glumshanks takes her away before Sonic, Spyro or the Doom Raiders could recover, without the Book of Dark Magic; while she helplessly turns around, however, she catches sight of Eon dragging the book near him. Kaos is mostly unaffected by the attack and pursues the two as they break the Library's skylights to escape, asking to be taken with them. Disappointed with his choice, however, she forbids him from returning home entirely and levitates away. Meanwhile, the Doom Raiders can barely walk out of the vault and make a run for it, but Kaos stops Golden Queen, turning to her instead as he proved where his loyalties are. Satisfied with it, she makes him a Doom Raider on the spot, and uses her telekinesis to take both of them away from the building.
Just as they disappear from view, the retrieval team finally returns through the portal, startled by the destroyed state of the Library. Scratch notices Master Eon crawling out of the Relics Room with Spyro (still wearing Scar's old armor) and Sonic's help and quickly holds the headmaster to use the flask, and a few seconds after drinking it, the wizard is completely healed. Soon after, the headmaster is already on his work desk drinking Hugo's smoothie and thanks the Skylanders for their efforts in saving him as Spyro and Sonic recover from their fight with Stealth Elf and Pop Fizz applying bandages on them as Scar's armor is taken off of Spyro. When Jet-Vac asks about the next step, however, Eon announces he will take the book where it wouldn't harm anyone, and calmly asks the group to go home and rest.
Later that night, in the Falling Forest, he makes true to his promise by taking the book with him, but not to hide it - instead, Kaossandra requests it when she notices him, and while explaining that he now knows it's safer for everyone if the tome is in her care, he gives it to her and leaves, asking her to do what needs to be done. Not too long after she makes sure of it by finishing her meditation once again at her castle, satisfied to go through various pages, when a dark red smoke emerges from the open book and envelops the room. The red eyed entity appears surprised to see that she obtained the book again, but with a smile, she assures he isn't going anywhere and promptly closes it, making the smoke with eyes disappear.
Meanwhile, on the roof of his and his friends' academy house, Spyro is wondering of what he did in the Relics Room and how he did it, as his memory of the time is slightly blurred, when he suddenly seizures with purple electric sparks briefly appearing on his body but fade away just as they have begun, leaving Spyro perplexed on what is happening to him as he looks at his paws. His red eyes glow purple one last time before he heads to his room to rest after a long day.
In another area of the forest, Kaos sits beside a fire with the rest of the Doom Raiders at one of Chompy Mage's many camps, listing things that he could do to help. However, the Golden Queen explains that she leads the gang alone and should leave the thinking to her, starting with the sorcerer informing her of everything he knows about the Book of Dark Magic. When he sheepishly asks what is so important about it, she explains that, if Kaossandra risked her own life to it, the tome is the most likely source of darkness to reign over Skylands, and a way to destroy the Skylands forever; and with his knowledge, they would be able to use its evil for themselves. As the other Doom Raiders laugh about their plan, though, Kaos can't help but feel somewhat hesitant.
Transcript[]
Assault on Skylander Academy/Transcript
Continuity[]
- Kaossandra and Eon reveal to have met one another before.
- As of this episode, Kaos is now a full member of the Doom Raiders but now can no longer return home.
- The entity sealed in the Book of Dark Magic manifests for the first time.
- Spyro develops a strange power during his and Sonic's fight against the Doom Raiders, Kaos, Glumshanks and Kaossandra which is not revealed until the second film, which takes place after this episode.
Trivia[]
- Glumshanks uses a number of real-life board games when trying to distract Kaos with a game night. Among these are Monopoly and Cards Against Humanity.
- When attacking Kaos, Skull exclaims, "What a day! What a lovely day!", a famous quote from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
- Spyro's boast about his power while his newly discovered Chaos Energy arrives is identical to Luna's rant from the Youtube fan film; Fall of the Crystal Empire. His eyes glowing for a final time is also seen as a reference to where Luna has her eyes changing to Nightmare Moon's eyes for a final time is shown at the near-end of the fan film.
- Spyro calling himself "a Breath" may allude to how his name; properly labeled spiro, is Latin for breath.
- Unlike in canon, Spyro stays at the academy with the other Skylanders and cadets to ensure the school's safety. Doing so results in him developing a strange new power.
- The wounds that Sonic and Spyro have after their battle against Kaos, Kaossandra and the Doom Raiders and the bandages that they wear at the near-end of the episode are same as those seen in My Way or the Sky Way.
- As of this episode, the entirety of Season 1 takes place before the events of the second film; Sonic X Skylanders 2: Quest for the Emerald.