“We’re almost there.  We have to be careful, if the Mutants spot us before they see Monkian, we’re finished!  They will blast us of the face of Third Earth with the new lazer cannons that the Lunatacs gave them to attach to the Castle.” Tygra warned as he pushed a reluctant Monkian forward.
       “They’ll never give into you Thundercat, hoo hoo, They won’t care about me, as long as they get you four in the process, hoo.” Said Monkian defiently.
       “That may be Mutant, but if there is even the slightest chance that they will not want to harm you, and will set Bengali free for your safe return, than it is well worth the risk, now SHUT UP!!” Pumyra angrily retorted.
      As they started to move closer, they saw a shadow emerge from the door of Castle Plundarr heading toward them.  It was Pumyra who first recognized the figure as Bengali.
      “Bengali?  Ben?  Thank Jaga!!”  Pumyra sighed in relief and rushed to his side along with Lynx-O to help him.  Tygra let go of Monkian, who immediatly sprinted for the castle, and joined them.
      “Bengali, are you alright?  Did they hurt you?” Pumyra asked, checking his body forany wounds.
      “No, I am fine.” Bengali anwered in an almost robotic tone.  The others dismissed  this as Bengali being exhausted from his ordeal and thought nothing more of it.
      They started to head back in the direction of Cat’s Lair and were soon met with the Thundertank.  The other Thundercats helped get Bengali aboard the Thundertank, and listened to the whole story.
      “...and then, out of the blue, Bengali came staggering out of Castle Plundarr, with no appearant memory of how he had escaped.” Said Tygra.
      “Well, who cares how he escaped, as long as he is here and unharmed?” said Pumyra, a little annoyed by Tygra’s suspicious attitude.
      “I didn’t mean anything by it Pumyra, I just thought it a little strange that he managed to escape a whole castle full of mutants in his weakened state.”
       “Did it ever occur to you that the reason that he was so weak was because of all the fighting he had to do to escape?” replied Pumyra.
      “Yes, of course that has to be it.  I don’t know why I am so uptight.  I am sorry.” said Tygra.
      “It’s fine, just try not to be so judgmental ok?” Pumyra said, placing her hand reassuringly on Tygra’s shoulder.
 
      Later that night in Cat’s layer:  All of the thundercats are sleeping, except for Panthro and Snarf, who had second shift guard duty.
      “This is so boring, and I’m bushed. Snarf, Snarf, can’t we call it a night?” Snarf whined.
      “Cheetara will be here soon to relieve us Snarf, in the meantime we have to stay alert.  Especially since the mutants kidnapped Bengali this afternoon, they must be up to something so we can’t let ourselves be caught unaware.” Replied Panthro with a yawn in spite of himself.
      “Brrrrr, your right.  I just hope Cheetara comes soon, I don’t know how much longer I can keep my eyes open.”

     At Castle Plundarr:  The Mutants are in their meeting room getting ready to set their plan in motion.
     “The Thundercatsss didn’t sssussspect a thing, yessss?” hissed sssSlythe looking at Vultureman.
     “Of course they didn’t, hawwk, they were so haaahpy to have Bengali back, they didn’t notice the trance-like state he was in, haaawwk.”
     “Now it’s time to make Bengali complete his mission, hoo hoo.”
     “Right.” Vultureman agreed, placing the headset on his head. “Bengaaaahli, wake up.”
      At Cat’s lair, Bengali stirs from his sleep and sits up in his bed. “Get your hammer and go to the sword chamber, hawwwk.  Destroy the sword of Omens!!”
     “Destroy...Sword...” repeated Bengali getting out of the bed and retrieving his hammer.
     “Hawwwk, If any of the Thundercat’s get in your way, DESTROY THEM!!”
     “Destroy...any...who...get...in...way!!”
     Bengali exits his room to the hallway and starts toward the sword chamber.  He is stopped when he runs into Cheetara, on her way to relieve Pantho and Snarf.
     “Oh!  Bengali, you startled me.  Are you alright?  What are you doing out of bed?”
     “Destroy any who get in way!!” said Bengali lunging at Cheetara with his hammer.
     “What?! Bengali what are you doing?” said Cheetara using her super speed to avoid the attack.
     “Destroy!!” Bengali repeated and attacked her again.  This time Cheetara was notquite fast enough and took a blow to the head with Bengali’s hammer.  She fell to the floor unconcious.
     Panthro and Snarf had heard the noise and rushed out into the hallway, along with the Thunderkittens who had ran out of their rooms to see what was the matter.  They saw Cheetara on the floor with her head bleeding, and Bengali standing over her about to strike again.
     “Bengali!  Stop!  What in the name of Thundera has gotten into you?!” Panthro bellowed.  Not waiting for an answer, he threw his nunchucks at Bengali.  Bengali easily knocked them away and shot a blue lazer from his hammer at Panthro, causing him to fall unconcious on top of snarf.  The Thunderkittens, shocked that Bengali could have so easily taken out Panthro began swinging their lariats.
     “Calm down Bengali, no one is going to hurt you.” Wilykit said in a comforting voice.
     “Yeah, step away from Cheetara and we’ll talk about it.” added Wilykat.
     “Destroy!!” Bengali insisted, stepping toward the twins.
      The Thundekittens let their lariats fly and pulled tightly as they fell around Bengali. No sooner had they ensnared him, He busted the ropes and shot another blue lazer at both of the kittens sending them crashing into the wall.  Bengali Continued down the hall to the sword chamber door.  As he was about to enter Lion-O came running around the corner with the sword in his hand.
     “I’m sorry Bengali, but I have to take you down!  HOOO!” Lion-O yelled, and sent a beam of energy at Bengali.  Bengali jumped into the air and the blast missed him.  As he was coming down he kicked Lion-O in the head knocking him to the floor.  The sword fell from his hand and was caught by Bengali.  He placed the sword on the ground and raised his hammer high in the air.
     “NO!  Bengali stop!” said Tygra taking out his whip.  Tygra lashed his whip towards Bengali’s arm, but was to late, Bengali brought the hammer down hard on the sword, shattering it.