Previously on "Niko and the Sword of Light"...
This is it, Champion.
We began this together, and so shall we end it.
[grunting]
- Lyra: Carondolet. - You are safe now!
Oh, I think not.
[grunting]
- Ahh! - Niko!
- [growling] - [gasping]
- My sword! - Not anymore.
The age of Nar Est has begun.
- [evil laugh] - It can't end like this.
I failed Lyra. I failed everyone.
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I am Niko,
and this is my sword of light!
I am here to free my people and defeat the darkness.
Forever!
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[thunder]
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Your daily report, Lord.
Get on with it.
The marsh monkeys are no longer fouling your statues,
and the sky snails sing only your name.
Meh. Somehow I imagined enjoying this more.
All this indescribable power.
In the end, it's a huge distraction
from my turning princesses into monsters time.
Shadows take you.
They already have. [chuckles]
Perhaps I leave you hanging for 768 years,
like your meddling left me hanging.
Or would that be too cruel?
Answer me!
Niko: Nar Est!
Niko!
Oh, did you hear that?
My subjects are coming to grovel without being forced.
[chuckles] I feel a little better already.
Niko: Show yourself!
They're not very polite about it.
Lord, that's not a bunch of grovelers.
What? Oh, the little champion is back.
And he's brought himself an army.
I have one of those, too.
Rasper, dispatch the night troopers,
and get them off my lawn!
[screeching]
Now or never.
[grunting]
[growling]
[screeching]
Chompsky: Here they come!
[screeching]
Well? Let's hear it.
I speak for all the people of this land, Nar Est.
We will suffer your evil no longer!
That's right, you big bully.
Oh, really?
And how do you plan to stop me?
Like this. Fire!
[screeching]
[rumbling]
Ohh! I just put that up.
[gasping]
[screaming]
- Night troopers, attack! - [screeching]
[grunting]
Army of the light, with me!
Yahhh!
[yelling]
Hahh!
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Deploying froysenshpritzercannon!
- [chittering] - [screeching]
Both: Ahh!
[blubbering]
Ay! [laughing]
[screeching]
Beware, dark creatures! Heeyah!
[grunting] My legacy becomes clearer every day.
[grunting] The heroes of Carondolet fight through me!
[groaning]
I'll say this, the runt puts on a show.
[sighs, grunts]
- Need a hand? - [gasps] Mandok.
How did you get here?
I scrabbled down, and I am not a habitual scrabbler.
You've been hiding in the volcano this whole time?
Right. On the run, living in fear.
Days without food, sleep or loving hands to tuck me in at night.
My whole life I've been preparing for this.
Now, stand back. I have just the thing.
- Is that a feather? - A Firebat feather.
Never store one in a metal container.
I see a little spark in there.
It moved!
Wait. That's my eye.
[grunting]
[evil laugh]
Oh, havoc. He's going to smash them all to pieces.
[metal clanging]
[clanging]
Huh...
[clanging]
[cracking]
Snack time.
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Lyra: Get away from my people!
-[clanking] -[grunting]
[squawking]
[screeching]
[screaming]
Scungilli Fusilliers, commence shelling!
Fire one! And two!
And one. And two.
And one and two, and one and two.
[shrieking]
Stand your ground, cousins!
- [squeaking] - [gasping]
[screaming]
[screeching]
[yelling]
[screaming]
[grunting]
[growling]
[trilling]
- [yelling] - [grunting]
- [growling] - [screaming]
[groans] Must I do everything myself?
[evil laugh]
Now, witness my power!
[grunting] Who threw that?!
[grunts] I'm serious!
Who defies me with such insolence?!
It's the sky pirates!
Fire, Poofhilda!
[explosions]
Fools! You have angered Nar Est,
and you will suffer the penalty!
[crashing]
Let me finish!
Oh, havoc.
That'll teach you to lob steam balls at me.
Now, a little of this--
[grunting]
A little of that--
[screaming]
And a whole lot of this!
[screaming]
Hmm. I'm still missing something.
Of course. Antlers!
[grunting]
[gasping]
This does not look good, Commodore.
Never give up, Niko.
We're all in this together now.
You shouldn't have come back, stripling.
Surrender!
Never!
Ahh! [grunting]
Then I'll destroy you, your army,
then all their lands.
[screaming]
Ay! Better to have nothing than to be ruled by you.
[cheering]
What?! I command you to fear me!
[blows raspberry]
[cheering]
Do you hear them? My friends give me strength.
Even at this darkest hour.
Aww. Then you can all go down together!
- [screaming] - [gasping]
[grunting]
[groaning]
- Ahh! - [thunder cracking]
Nar Est: [evil laugh]
[screeching]
What was that you called me?
- Ragged dust mop? - Get away!
[grunting]
[groaning]
Flicker!
[trilling]
Oh, you big, beautiful bug you.
[trilling]
Come on! The fight's downhill.
[trilling]
[evil laugh]
[sighs]
Not much of a champion without your weapon.
My weapon.
My weapon!
Hi-yah!
[grunting]
Niko. No!
It's okay. I've got this.
No one can challenge me!
Niko: Nar Est!
Least of all, you.
[roaring]
[screaming]
Victory is mine!
[evil laugh]
You are wrong.
And so was I.
No.
The weapon does not make the champion.
The champion makes the weapon!
- [screaming] - Niko: I am the weapon!
I am Niko!
And this is my sword of light!
[all exclaiming]
I'm here to free all people.
How did you do that?
And defeat you...
forever!
[grunting]
Hyper strike!
[grunting]
But that's impossible!
[screaming] You had no shard!
[grunting] This isn't fair.
Darkness... be gone!
[grunting, screaming]
[gasping]
Keep away from me!
[cheering]
[clamoring]
[grunting]
Flicker. Lyra. Mandok!
[trilling]
Niko, that was amazing.
Truly. But we must return to the curs-ed volcano.
Victory is at hand.
But how? Even with your sword,
Nar Est is too powerful in there.
Nar Est has unknowingly shown me his greatest weakness,
and I will use it to win!
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- [laughing] - Whoa!
[screaming]
Lyra, you must help them.
Be careful, Niko.
We'll be back as soon as we can.
[whooshing]
Rasper, where are you? I-- [groans]
Uh, this is embarrassing.
[groans]
Here's the plan:
You'll distract the little runt when he comes in--
[screeching]
And I'll hit him from behind
with this sinister sword of darkness!
Do you even know how to use this sword, sire?
Must you question everything?
Nar Est,
I have returned to defeat you once and for all!
So prepare to be defeated
by my defeating plan of defiance!
Rasper: [screeches] Hey, over here!
Distraction time.
- [growling] - [grunting]
[screaming, grunting]
[screaming]
- [grunting] - [squawking]
Not again.
[grunting]
Soundquake!
Gahh!
[grunting]
- [grunting] - [yelling]
[trilling]
Surrender, and no one gets hurt.
[grunting]
[screeching]
[screaming]
[grunting]
I'm coming, Niko!
[grunting]
Hah! Hahh!
Huhh!
You are a mighty sorcerer,
but a terrible warrior.
[grunting]
All right, you got me.
I've never been much of a fighter.
But in this place, dear Niko,
I reign supreme.
I draw my power from the well of darkness itself!
Yes. And that is why I have not returned to battle you,
evil Nar Est.
Now I'm confused.
Do you have any idea what this kid is talking about?
[grunts] I dunno.
When last I was here,
you made your greatest mistake;
the mistake that will be your undoing.
Can I get a hint here?
I will defeat you by banishing
the very source of your power...
at its source!
To victory!
[trilling]
[gasping] Niko!
[evil laugh]
[yelling]
Nar Est!
[grunting]
Your determination is growing tiresome, Lyra.
[cawing]
- [Flicker trilling] - Nar Est: [evil laugh]
[grunting]
Darkness, prepare for battle!
[whooshing]
I have thought much about you since we last met.
My true enemy!
Darkness: Many have called upon the light to drive me away,
but the darkness always returns in time.
- One cannot exist without the other. - [gasping] Ahh!
Hahh!
[grunting]
Darkness: Our battle is eternal.
[grunting]
Darkness: Nar Est was hungry for power,
so he summoned me to do his bidding.
[straining]
[screaming]
Darkness: Now he serves me instead.
Through Nar Est's creatures,
I've been given a glimpse of this world.
It is most inviting.
But I'll need some help coming fully into this mortal realm.
Perhaps you can serve me, too.
Not this day.
Not ever! [yelling]
I am the light!
[screaming]
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We are the light!
I stand here for all good people
that suffer under the rule of darkness.
The light shall always prevail!
[whimpering]
- Whoa. - [grunting]
[grunting]
[grunts] Hmm?
Darkness abandons you, Nar Est.
But it can't do that. I command it.
Darkness answers to me.
Apparently not.
Uncle Sargous always said you played with forces you didn't understand.
[squawking, grunting]
[grunting]
What's happening to the darkness?!
[screaming]
[grunting]
Hear this:
Wherever you came from,
you shall return defeated!
No!
Darkness, be gone!
[screaming]
[yelling]
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[grunting]
Hahh!
[screaming]
[grunting] Ahh!
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The darkness is retreating!
[cheering]
[gasps] No!
Look, the crystal!
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[gasping]
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[gasping]
Greetings. [groans]
Princess.
Uncle!
Welcome home.
I was about to say that to you.
Thank you, great warrior.
Lyra was right to put her faith in you.
You are most welcome.
[gasps] Oh! Creatures!
A buttermonk and a ground hondel.
Do they bite?
Not on this side. I've got a loose filling.
Welcome, welcome.
This is all very disorienting.
Uh, tell me, princess, what became of Nar Est?
It's kind of ironic, actually.
He's most conveniently trapped for eternity.
[tapping]
Just stop, you pestilent loon.
[groans]
Great job, champ.
I can't believe we finally--
We did it.
Yeah. We did.
[sighs]
[cheering]
In the name of King Horris, my brother,
the circle hereby dissolves our regency,
and proclaims a rightful ruler of Carondolet.
Long live Queen Lyra!
First among us, first in our hearts.
All: Long live Queen Lyra!
Long live Queen Lyra!
As he said, father,
in your name.
As my first official act,
I present my gift to our hero.
[water rushing]
[cheering]
Amazingness! You may all have a turn.
But the first go is mine.
Wahoo!
Mandok: Eh, why not. Woo-ooh!
Here comes royalty!
Make way for the queen!
Woo-hoo!
[whooping]
[trilling]
[whooping]
Lyra: Oh, havoc!
[laughing]
Yeah!
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