[theme music playing]
If this is some kind of ploy by Skeletor,
I don't even care.
This isn't Skeletor's magic, Dad.
Teela brought me back.
Teela?!
-My King, I-- -You brought my boy back.
Thank you, Teela.
I'm sorry I left, King Randor. I--I was--
You were hurt and angry.
You had every right to turn your back on Eternos.
So many truths were kept hidden from you.
-And me. -Dad?
I should've told you about He-Man.
And I should have told you every day
how proud I am of the man you've become.
Everybody should learn from their mistakes, Adam.
Even kings.
Especially kings.
And how are you, friend 'fraidy cat?
Who-- me? I--I...
It was Cringer who saved us all from Skeletor.
[laughing] What?
[Adam] Skeletor almost killed me, again.
But Cringer here saved my life.
Thank you, most noble Battlecat.
Uh, you're welcome... My King.
And who do we have here?
Hi, Your Majesty, I'm Andra, sir-- sire.
I'm a friend of Teela's and--
And a huge help.
Without Andra,
Adam wouldn't be here right now.
Is that so?
I owe you a greater debt than I can ever pay.
However, I am King,
so I can pay a lot.
Ask of me of any reward, Andra.
And it is yours.
Well, Your Highness,
after my grandfather died, I grew up in the streets alone.
I barely slept but when I did,
I'd dream about being part of a family again.
A-and for the first time in my life,
I feel like I've found that family.
So if you're asking me what I want,
I just want to stay with all of you.
[clears throat]
Look around, young lady, this is a military encampment.
We're preparing for war here.
A civilian can't stay.
Yes, sir. I understand.
I'm afraid you don't.
You can't stay without me making you a lieutenant
in my royal guard.
What?! Are you serious?!
Because-- Oh, my god. Yes!
You won't be sorry, my liege.
Thank you, Your Highness.
No, thank you, Lieutenant,
for bringing my family here to Point Dread.
That wasn't me.
That was Teela.
[Cringer] Teela teleported us here with magic.
"Magic"?
-Uh, um... -[whirring]
Adam?!
Mom!
Adam!
How is this possible?!
It's a long story, Mom, but for right now,
I'm just happy to have my family back together again.
"Long story" my butt!
You're gonna come with me this instant
and tell your mother what happened.
[Orlax groans]
Hang in there. We'll get you help.
[Orlax moaning]
[door opens and closes]
You've gone soft, Man-At-Arms.
Brittle without battle,
as it were.
The most dangerous man in Eternia...
for an opponent we once considered so formidable,
you know seem rather... impotent.
What does it feel like to lose all your power?
You tell me.
How would I know? My powers have only gotten stronger.
I have the power to inflict pain.
[moaning]
Or I can take the pain away.
[groans]
You play with power like a cat with a mouse.
But I've seen how true power is handled.
"Oh, sweet Sorceress..."
I'd long suspected there was something more in your relationship
than a mutual interest in He-Man, was I right?
I knew it!
Tell me about the girl who got away, Man-At-Arms.
You can tell me or, as the new sorceress,
I can simply rip open your mind and read your thoughts.
She was the best person I ever knew.
And the best sorceress.
I will be ten times the sorceress she ever was.
Well, you're off to an impressive start,
bullying the Orlax.
Right after your boyfriend bullies you.
What? You think the whole castle can't hear it?
Even the things down in the dungeons
that hate your guts still feel sorry for you
when they hear him tear you down
and toss you around.
Nobody here fears you, Evil-Lyn.
We all pity you.
Well, you can keep your pity.
I have power.
And what have you done with that power?
Or rather, what has Skeletor let you do with it?
The real sorceress held so much power,
she gave it away.
It was her gift to bestow and withdraw at will.
I am drenched in more power
than your silly sorceress has ever held
in her limp, little hands.
And yet, you've been so beaten down by your boss,
that you can't see how you're his better now.
Any might manifested by the Champion
is only granted to him by the Sorceress.
So if you are indeed the new Sorceress,
that makes Skeletor nothing more
than your servant.
[horses whinny]
We were looking for survivors and refugees
when I heard the alarm and I feared
Skeletor had come for Randor.
Now--now I just wish I could've seen the look
on your father's face when he saw it was you.
Speaking of Dad,
do I sense a little tension between you two?
When you lose a child,
it's like losing the light.
The world becomes too dark to see anymore.
But I'm alive, Mom.
Now, thank Zoar.
But all that time you were gone,
Randor blamed me because I never told him
I knew your secret.
At first, I resented his blame
until I resented him.
We were two broken souls, haunting the palace
like ghosts of our former selves.
We couldn't agree on anything
until I just couldn't go on like that anymore.
I was gonna leave your father, Adam.
Maybe even go back to Earth.
Until Raenius put us in the Talon-Fighter
and sent us here.
Then all hell broke loose.
Then this is all my fault.
My death killed your marriage.
Oh, this isn't your fault, son.
[Marlena] Sometimes people just fall apart.
[Skeletor] If things fall apart any further,
the center will not hold!
Even though I have the sword,
that boy called down the power without it!
The solution to this riddle must lie somewhere out there
in the vast reaches of, uh...
Am I boring you, Lyn?
Come here.
Let me show you something.
Drink it in, Lyn!
The universe is so vast,
yet somehow we still think we matter to the cosmos.
But we don't!
We're simply spider-mites
adrift in a sea of stars.
I give you... the Celestial Apex!
Soon, for the first time since creation,
the planets will align as they did in the beginning.
And Eternia will once again find herself
at the center of the universe!
And since I hold the sword,
this Celestial Apex will imbue me
with not just power over the universe,
but power over existence itself!
[laughs]
And existence could use a makeover.
I mean, just look at it.
It's all just so... empty.
There's no design, so there's no meaning.
It's all just... pain.
Life is nothing but an endless agonizing
free-fall into death, devoid of any hope.
There's no reason, there's no plan--
We are, all of us, utterly alone.
[gasps]
One must be wary of gazing too deeply
into the horrors of the void.
It could get awfully addicting.
The closer we get to the Celestial Apex,
the stronger I become.
So soon it won't matter how Adam managed
to call down the power without the sword.
Because I'll have all the power in existence.
Then what?
What do you mean, "then what?"
I kill this version of He-Man, too.
First he will kneel, then he will die!
All at the hands of Skeletor!
That's it!
That's where all this leads.
You stand on the threshold of
commanding all the power in existence,
and you're going to use it...
to kill He-Man?
[laughs]
[grunts]
How dare you gaggle at me, Witch!
-[whimpers] -Who do you think you are?
Not He-Man.
Oh, but would that I were,
I might finally warrant a modicum of your attention.
You're distracting me from the Celestial Apex.
You don't need the Celestial Apex to best He-Man,
you blithering boob.
With a thought, you could butcher King Randor from here.
And Prince Adam would come crawling to you,
begging you to spare his mother's life.
Well, aren't you an imaginative
-little gutter rat? -[gasps]
[sobs]
[cries]
[Beast Man] He thinks you're his.
But what do you think?
Did I ever tell you how I met Skeletor?
[scoffs] Of course, I didn't.
Till recently I didn't see much to talk to you
as I was convinced you were an idiot.
But now I realize you're the closest thing
I have to a friend in my wretched life.
I was born in the Zalesian slums.
And on my fifth birthday, my starving parents
had no choice but to eat their only daughter.
And since I didn't want to be eaten,
I hid in the gutters.
-Like a rat. -[squeaks]
My salvation was in the sewer, so that's where I stayed...
for twenty years.
-Then I went from victim... -[grunts]
Watch where you're going!
[Evil-Lyn] ...to victimizer.
Hey!
[grunts]
[panting]
Huh?
What?
And just as I began to believe my life
was worth less than sewage...
[grunts]
[grunts, groans]
[Evil-Lyn] That's when he found me.
I hate Skeletor.
But I owe him my life.
He lifted me out of the Zalesian gutter.
He taught me to fight.
He enhanced my magic, he gave me a place to belong.
He thinks you belong to him.
But my people have a saying,
[speaks in native language]
It means "I am my own."
Be your own, my lady.
Leave, or he will kill you one day.
This, I know.
And you know it, too.
You have to free yourself of Skeletor.
No.
I have to free us all.
[engines whirring, shuts off]
Get me to Grayskull, cabbie, and make it snappy!
What are you running from?
Oh, I don't know.
I think I just found out that my parents are human?
Both? Lucky you.
The secret of He-Man, my secret...
split up my parents.
And I feel like it's definitely put a wedge between you and me.
Do you see that?
Our entire lives;
it's been one war after another.
It's not because we wanna fight,
it's because we protect our people.
That's what we do.
You thought sharing your secret
put the people you loved in danger.
And I can tell that you only hid your secret
with the best intentions.
Thank you, Teela.
But I can't tell you your secrets didn't hurt anyone.
There's something else I never told you.
Teela, I should've said it a long time ago,
I tried, back in Preternia,
-but then I-- -I know.
The Sorceress is my mom.
Maybe I've always known.
Or being here in the Mystic Mountains
made me realize it?
I mean, it's right in the name.
They are mystic.
Maybe that's why we wound up here
after I used the Sorceress' spell
to magic us away from Eternos.
My mother's spell.
I'm sorry for hiding it from you.
All these years, you could've known her and...
now it's too late.
She could've told me herself.
Anytime we saw her at Grayskull.
I guess she never wanted to.
Who can fathom the human heart?
Let alone the heart of a sorceress?
Back to bicker with me some more?
Quite the opposite, my love.
Fighting with you is always fun, don't get me wrong,
but you've been back so long
and we've yet to engage in our other favorite pastime.
And what's that?
You know I've always been attracted to power.
But now you're imbued with it and I want to feel it all.
Mmm.
[gasps]
Not like this.
If a mere mortal sleeps with a god,
she could wake up in the afterlife.
No, you must... power down.
Lest you kill me.
Let the power return!
Mmm...
[grunts]
-[gasps] -I'm happy you took my point.
Ah!
That's not the point I came to take.
Gah!
You simple, predictable little man.
You stand on the banks of the River of Chaos,
yet you still don't have imagination enough
to look beyond your foolhardy feuds
and your dark desires.
-You are pathetic! -[whimpers]
You will never kill He-Man!
You wouldn't know what to do with yourself if you did.
He's the only thing that brings meaning
to your empty little universe.
Be reasonable, Lyn!
Oh, it's far too late for that.
You showed me the shape of the universe
and there was no reason.
It was just power unrestricted.
Chaos in a void.
All my sacrifices to bring the magic back.
The magic you lost when you shattered the orb.
And it had all the meaning of a baby bounding on a butterfly.
All because I was missing this.
This silly sword that you value more than anything.
Certainly more than me.
But as I hold in my hands
that which you've sought for so long,
I have to wonder,
why bind myself to Grayskull
when I can be my own Champion?
Oh, no.
By the Power of Grayskull!
I have the power!
[thunder booms]
[Teela] Déjà vu.
Good evening, all of Eternia!
Pathetic, puny, futile fools
crawling in dirt, consumed by the certainty
of your own importance.
You suffer so endlessly,
sure it will be met with cosmic balance.
Look up!
To give your lives meaning,
you strive for an eternal reward
in the great beyond beside your heroes.
But I've come to free you
of the shackles of spirituality.
[roaring]
[screaming]
Rise and take your glory.
There is nothing to live for, merely chaos.
And to chaos,
will we all return.
If Evil-Lyn controls the power,
then she must've killed Skeletor.
She just killed everyone in heaven!
And if we want to live,
we're going to have to fight.
How? Evil-Lyn is beyond our weapons now.
Then the only way we can stop this sorceress...
is with another sorceress.
Teela, with every passing moment,
Evil-Lyn masters her new abilities
and grows even more unbeatable.
Then I have to do the same.
If I can tap into the power, I can stop her.
I just need more time.
Then we're going to need all the help we can get.
I'll fly to the Avions
and the Adrenids and ask them to join us.
[Teela] There's no time, Your Majesty.
Let me try.
I can send a psychic message to all of Eternia
and ask everyone to join our fight.
At this point,
I think we welcome any help we can get.
From anyone.
[knocking on door]
Well, don't just stand there, you royal boob!
Invite me in.
[theme music playing]