My Way or the Sky Way is the second episode in the Sonic X Skylanders Academy television series.
Synopsis[]
Jet-Vac uses a potential plumbing disaster to teach Spyro and Scratch about the "Skylander way," but they clash over Jet-Vac's strict rules and planning.
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Spyro
- Sonic
- Scratch
- Stealth Elf
- Eruptor
- Jet-Vac
- Pop Fizz
- Master Eon
- Hugo
- Snap Shot
- Ka-Boom
- Kaos
- Glumshanks
- Kaossandra
- Scar (photograph only)
Plot[]
Master Eon tasks the Skylanders to repair the academy's malfunctioning basement pipes. The entire system is violently building up pressure, but Jet-Vac halts any attempt of repair until he comes up with a plan. Regardless, Spyro acts quickly by shooting a fireball at the source of the blockage at Scratch's suggestion, restoring the entire pipe system. Spyro thanks Scratch for her idea and concludes a job well done but Jet-Vac is not amused by their actions.
Meanwhile, Kaos' mother, Kaossandra, makes a rare visit to his lair as Kaos wants to show her a projection of the map to the Core of Light. However, his powers are unable to project the image properly. Dissatisfied, Kaossandra warns her son of eviction to his lair if he doesn't earn a job to pay rent. Glumshanks is ordered to serve Kaossandra in the meantime while Kaos reluctantly begins looking for a job. Subsequently, Kaos is humiliatingly hired to be a mascot of Uncle Merle's Lizard Gizzard. When he uses his powers to levitate and rotate his arrow prop, a pair of Mabu become hypnotized when watching it. After seeing Glumshanks unable to recognize him under his costume, he conducts a scheme that uses his disguise and new power.
At the same time, Jet-Vac makes a surprise visit to Sonic, Spyro, Scratch, Stealth Elf and Eruptor's academy house as he plans to move in while he re-disciplines Spyro and Scratch after their actions to act first without a plan. However, Jet-Vac becomes a thorn in their sides as he criticizes every aspect of their private lives. Hours of unrelenting conditioning, Scratch hides herself outside from Jet-Vac's presence as Spyro soon decides to move to a house away from the academy to be away from the Sky Baron. Master Eon alerts the Skylanders of an urgent issue of the Falling Forest being caught on fire. They proceed to use their SuperChargers to arrive quickly but is again halted by Jet-Vac's plan to read their vehicle's manual first that takes three grueling hours of delay before they are finally allowed to depart. But as they arrived, Sonic and Spyro got there first instead of waiting on Jet-Vac and had asked Snap Shot and Ka-Boom to help them quell the fire instead and an embarrassed Jet-Vac now has to report the reason of their delay.
Jet-Vac is called in for a discussion with Master Eon at the Lizard Gizzard diner. Eon has him reflect his leadership for being too restrictive of any heroic actions without a fool-proof plan, stating that impulsive acting has significance for their accomplishments, even using Sonic and Spyro's decision to go to the Falling Forest instead of waiting for Jet-Vac as an example. Feeling ashamed for his incessant deterrence of Scratch and Spyro's actions, Jet-Vac leaves to apologize to them, with Master Eon following after. When Hugo is left behind, Kaos hypnotizes him to use him as his key to the Relics Room and recapture the Core of Light's location.
At the Library, Jet Vac meets with Scratch and the now-bandaged Spyro and opens up about his past of once being like Spyro, Sonic and Scratch's nature to act on instinct. But one day it costed him something dear to him terribly, which explains why Jet-Vac was persistent of having the team to always plan first to prevent them from making the same mistake. Humbled, Jet-Vac realizes that letting the team follow their own ways to act first without thinking can guarantee them success. From behind, Kaos arrives at the vault as Hugo prepares to open it up for him. He is interrupted by an excited Spyro, Scratch and Jet-Vac, believing him to only be a Lizard Gizzard mascot, as they pester him to perform the Lizard Gizzard Dance. Irritated, Kaos angrily states that he won't perform but inadvertently reveals himself. Kaos tries to escape, but Jet-Vac trips him, which surprises him as he did it on impulse. Despite being battered by Jet-Vac, Spyro and Scratch, Kaos manages to slip away from the Academy.
Spyro, Scratch and Jet-Vac return to the house after their fight with Kaos and resolved their indifference with Jet-Vac also apologizing to the equally-bandaged Sonic for not arriving to the Falling Forest sooner; which is accepted. As a result, Jet-Vac no longer has a reason to stay any longer but Scratch offers him to move in permanently by settling in the house's attic, with the others agreeing as Spyro forgoes his plans on moving out out of the house now that he and Jet-Vac have made up. Suddenly, Pop Fizz appears from the basement, explaining that he has long settled in their basement without any of their knowledge.
Kaos returns to his lair claiming he has followed her mother's wishes to get a job but fails to pay rent, asking if he is allowed to continue living in their guest castle. Kaossandra only wanted Kaos to stop wasting all of his time plotting schemes of overthrowing the Skylanders, but Kaos is undeterred as he chooses to keep doing his villainy. Giving up to persuade Kaos any further, Kaossandra leaves Kaos be, returning Glumshanks as his servant again. Kaos sees that her mother has treated Glumshanks horribly, oblivious that the troll enjoyed his mother's company all day, so he proposes that Glumshanks have him clip his toe nails again.
Transcript[]
My Way or the Sky Way/Transcript
Continuity[]
- Kaossandra reveals that Kaos' Guest Castle used to be the castle's outhouse.
- After the events of the previous episode and coming to terms about her father's death, Scratch has gained a more healthy figure and stronger appearance for the remainder of the series. As such, she is no longer thin and the eye bags under her eyes are gone.
- Eruptor discovers where the Team Spyro Home's bathroom is, which he did not know they even had in the prior episode.
- When he found it, Sonic was taking a bath at the time and was annoyed at the lava monster, causing him to call out to his friend as Eruptor soon realized that he intruded into someone else's privacy and he quickly shut the door after apologizing to Sonic before he told his friends that the room was being used.
- Ironically, he didn’t even know they had an attic.
- Jet-Vac moves into Spyro, Sonic, Scratch, Stealth Elf and Eruptor's school house.
- Pop Fizz is also revealed to have been living in the basement of Spyro, Sonic, Scratch, Stealth Elf and Eruptor's school house for some time.
Trivia[]
- The title for this episode is a play on the idiom "My Way or the Highway", meaning a person adamant in having others follow their orders to a T.
- Spyro says the famous Lord of the Rings phrase "You shall not pass" when he tries to fix The Machine.
- At the beginning of the episode, Eruptor and Spyro mention Arkeyan robots and Drow Elves, though they don't make an appearance as villains in Season 1. In Missing Links however, some have made a small appearance in the nearby town doing other activities.
- Unlike canon, at least one or two of the main characters went to the forest fire.
- Scratch is revealed to eat rats as one of her favorite snacks, but unlike Jet-Vac, they don't give her pungent breath due to her being part feline.
- The controller Jet-Vac throws at Stealth Elf, Sonic and Eruptor resembles a PlayStation controller.
- This episode soon follows the events of the first film; Sonic X Skylanders: Gotta Go Fast.