Courage to Protect What's Important
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| "Courage to Protect What's Important" (Daijinamono o Mamoru Yūki) | ||||||
| Airdate | 2025 May 14 | |||||
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As Optimus Prime battles Ignite Leo, Hydrophant must come to terms with his fear of fighting.
Synopsis
[edit]Ignite Leo asks if Optimus Prime is the offworlder he's heard about and immediately challenges him to a fight, quickly striking the off guard Autobot from multiple directions. Lightlong tries to step between them and stop the fight, but is immediately knocked down instead. His attempt at diplomacy having failed, Lightlong quickly Wildocks with Optimus and reforms their Lightning Optimus combination to answer Ignite Leo's challenge. They once again charge up and fire their Lightlong Slash attack, but find it quite ineffective against the stone wall Spirituan raises with his Earth Defense. He then mocks the two about Ground Energy being immune to Lightning, saying you must know type match-ups to win a battle.
Ignite Leo takes the opening to leap over the wall for an attack, joining Spirituan in mocking his opponents' type match-up knowledge. Hydrophant cries out as Ignite Leo lands a devastating sword strike and as the lion prepares to end the fight, Hydrophant at last manages to gather up his courage and transforms into his robot mode to join the fight. He fires a giant stream of water at Ignite Leo to interrupt him, and declares to Optimus Prime he will heed his words to rise to the occasion and defend those he holds dear. Optimus's chest begins to glow just as Megatron's did in their earlier fight, and Lightlong says it is from the strength of the bond Optimus and Hydrophant have forged. Optimus asks Hydrophant to lend his strength and is obliged—Hydrophant Wildocks with Lightning Optimus to form the triple combination Lightning Aqua Optimus! Ignite Leo is stunned by the triple combination, which leaves Lightning Aqua Optimus an opening to blast him with his powerful Hydro Thunder Splash attack. Ignite Leo is launched back and hits the rock wall, falling defeated as Lightlong remarks that his fire element can't beat the water element and returns the earlier mocking about type match-ups.
Lightlong interrogates Ignite Leo about why he attacked them and Ignite Leo begs forgiveness for the affair. The two Energy Beasts simply wished to see the strength of the supposed hero of legend, and seek to prevent anybody from obtaining the Element Shield. Lightlong is shocked and remembers Megatron had previously said he was after that very shield. Optimus asks what it is, and Spirituan says that according to the Dinosaur Tribe, it is an ancient wall that hides something that would give whoever breaches it strength beyond anything they've known. He however senses something else within it, something evil. Then suddenly, a bright purple glow flares up in the sky and Spirituan is hit by some sort of energy blast. He feels somebody intruding inside his mind and struggles against it before being dragged off into the air before his stunned companions.
Sometime later, Spirituan awakens and finds himself forcibly Wildocked with Megatron as his left arm! Captain Volca welcomes him as Leafback and another Dinosaur tribesman stand near in dinosaur mode, Megatron remarking that all the pieces are now in place...
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- The "Element Shield" is mentioned by Megatron in "The Hero Who Descends from the Sky!", as shown in Lightlong's flashback.
