Robo Force: The Revenge of Nazgar (Part the Second)

(Part the First is here.)

In the last three minutes, a relatively large amount of stuff happened that will be the backstory for a character who will be important for the rest of it. In the next three (or so), it will establish a huge amount of backstory for the world it's set in (which cannot be Earth, by the way).

Anyway, we left off after ten years had passed between scenes.

This subtitle establishes us as being in someplace called Celestia. I think it's a sort of city-state thing, but it's obviously a smidgen vague.

We zoom in on a large, official looking building, which turns out to have some sort of big council... thing in session.

They're calling Councilwoman Dina Squall (or something like that) to speak on matters of security.

Her first statement, that a group called the Cult of Dre(a?)d poses a threat because of its proclaimed intention of reviving a guy called Nazgar, is laughed off because Nazgar lived 2000 years ago. (Obviously, this is where I realized that it's rather unlikely this planet is supposed to be Earth.)

This guy here...

...even insists that he's actually a legend.

This, despite holographic video archive of a conflict that Nazgar was involved in. (There are references to "Zeton" or something, which I guess must be the planet Celestia is on.)

The same councilman accuses her of fakery, so she pulls out a "message crystal" which apparently came from ancient times and which was apparently captured from one of Hun-Dred's hideouts, and spins it like a top on the table.

This shows off a holographic message from ol' Nazgar, who claims that his brain will survive.

The council is still unconvinced, and chastise Dina with a remark that she ought to be hunting those guys Mark Fury and Max Steele, who have been "making fools" of them.

Now, here's another great little fight scene, this time with human on robot but mostly robot on human violence. (The robot is Maxx Steele, who does seem rather preoccupied with making humans look like fools in this bit.)

Maxx's fighting style against humans is pretty simple: He just stands there and ignores everything they try to do to him, while kicking tossing the heck out of them.

We also see Mark Fury...

...who, by the way, was the kid in those first three minutes whose dad was kidnapped.

It turns out that he was involved in a bar brawl because he found an informant, but the informant gave him bad info and/or arranged for him to be ambushed. Protip: If you're going to ambush a guy with a large robot buddy, bring your own large robot buddies, instead of a punk with a purple mohawk.

But where did Maxx Steele come from? He wasn't built by Dr. Fury in the first part, only that helicopter robot was.

Such questions will have to wait.

Remember that suspicious councilman?

For some reason, we see him in some kind of dwelling, and there's an unsettling symbol on his wall that he seems to be paying respect to.

He calls someone on the phone. And unlike the last time I talked about a suspicious person making a phone call, it's not Cobra Commander.

He tells Hun-Dred (who, in case you couldn't tell, is the leader of the Cult of Dred) that Dina Squall has that highly important message crystal, which is one of three that, when used together, will lead Hun-Dred to the brain of Nazgar.

...

Wait a minute, if the Cult has had this thing all along, what the heck are they waiting for?

(Don't think too hard about it, and let's move on.)

So, several of Hun-Dred's robot goons pop out of back alleys and off of buildings in order to surround and ambush Dina.

Push the drama button.

And there we are, a great cliffhanger!

-Signing off.