Caverns of Horror | |
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Season 2, Episode 7 | |
Air date | November 19, 1994 |
Episode guide | |
Previous Cry Turmoil/SWAT Kats Unplugged |
Next Volcanus Erupts!/The Origin of Dr. Viper |
Caverns of Horror is the seventh episode of season two of SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, and the twentieth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
At a Megakat Metallurgical Co. site, President Tiger Conklin is dealing with workers who refuse to descend into a mine site. Felina Feral and several Enforcers soon arrive in response to miner complaints and reports of missing miners. Unbeknownst to either of them, Ann Gora-disguised as a miner herself-is intent on entering the mines with Felina's team to investigate. The group of Enforcers, miners, and Ann are soon in the mines, where the missing miners have each apparently disappeared after being separated from the other workers.
Unfortunately, Ann soon parts from her own companions to broadcast a news story, which is watched by Jake and Chance in the midst of demonstrating their strength by breaking cinderblocks. A mysterious claw soon seizes her, and the SWAT Kats quickly suit up in order to rush to the mine site. Felina, having also heard the noise of Ann's capture, finds Ann's dropped camera and begins leading her own search for the newswoman. However, another encounter with the claw leads to a cave-in, and Felina's team is only saved from a disastrous falling elevator crash by the timely arrival of the SWAT Kats.
Lieutenant Feral quickly orders the reopening of the mine, but Conklin says it will take weeks. The SWAT Kats have a solution: their new Turbomole digging vehicle. Felina insists on joining the mission, over the usual objections of her arriving uncle Commander Feral. However, the Turbomole's maiden voyage suffers some difficulties, eventually landing the trio of kats in a massive cavern eight miles below the surface. There, they find huge veins of agracite, the mine's primary mineral...along with the remains of several miners.
Felina is then seized by another of the claws, which proves to belong to one of several monstrous scorpion creatures. After the SWAT Kats rescue her, the trio reenter the Turbomole to flee, and T-Bone knocks down a pillar in order to crush some of the beasts. Elsewhere, Ann awakens in a pit filled with more miners' remains and begins trying to make her own way out. Picking her up on a scanner, Felina and the SWAT Kats head in her direction only to run into a pit of what appears to be quicksand that they escape with some difficulty.
In the process, the trio discover large supplies of toxic waste, apparently dumped by Conklin, responsible for the scorpions' mutation into their current monstrous forms. They then come across a bridge over a large pool of magma, which breaks underneath them as they're crossing. Fortunately, the SWAT Kats came prepared with jetpacks but are soon forced to deal with more scorpions leaping down on them as the ascend. Ann finds herself at the mercy of a particularly massive scorpion, while Felina and the SWAT Kats discover that Razor's scanner has led them to a group of bats.
Luckily for Ann, the trio are able to hear her screams of terror and rescue her from the scorpion. Razor tries to send T-Bone off with the she-kats, but Felina insists on backing him up. T-Bone deals with another scorpion by throwing Ann at it and then rescuing her, and the four kats are soon aboard the Turbomole. However, the giant scorpion soon seizes hold of them and proves stronger even than the vehicle's winch and weaponry.
Finally, Razor is able to drop the scorpion into the magma, and the group is soon back on the surface. While Commander Feral and Ann's cameraman are thrilled to see Felina and Ann, the two she-kats soon turn their attention to exposing Conklin's toxic waste dumping. In the midst of the confrontation, the giant scorpion emerges from underground, and leaps onto the Turbokat as the SWAT Kats take to the air to deal with it. Thinking quickly, Razor has T-Bone fly at "the speed of heat", which causes the toxic waste infusing the beast to ignite and destroy it.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Ann Gora
- Charlie
- Felina Feral
- Taylor
Villains:
- Tiger Conklin
- Giant Scorpions
Other Characters: (In order of appearance)
Creatures: (In order of appearance)