Follow the Lightning, Part 1

General Information

Number:

6

Season:

2

Premiere Date:

May 5, 2022

Written By:

Mark Henry

Directed By:

Robert Briggs

Transcript:

Follow the Lightning, Part 1 (transcript)

Chronology
Preceded By:	Succeeded By:
"The Tangled Web"	"Follow the Lightning, Part 2"

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“	Remember when Thunder burned that symbol into the wall of the lair? I thought it looked familiar, and it turns out, it's the exact same symbol as shown on this Viking helmet. The helmet is a family heirloom. Somehow, someway, I'm connected to this whole thing.	”
	— Tom revealing his connection to the dragons to the dragon club

"Follow the Lightning, Part 1" is the sixth episode of the second season of Dragons: The Nine Realms.

Synopsis[]

“	Tom and the riders go in search of Thunder and face a gauntlet of dangerous dragons to find their lost friend; along the way, Tom reveals his big secret to D'Angelo and Alex.	”

Plot[]

Tom and his friends decide to spend the day with their dragons in the Dragon's Lair. Meanwhile, Eugene wakes up and discovers that his mom left him a list of chores to do, but he tries to find Jun so he can make her do them for him. He discovers Jun is nowhere to be found and begins searching for her. When the dragon club arrives in the Dragon's Lair, they discover that Thunder is gone. Alex discovers that Thunder has passed the sensors from via his tracking device, and the dragon club goes after him. Eugene asks Carla and Hazel about Jun, but all he can get from them is that Jun is a part of dragon club, which they think is a game.

While the dragon club searches for Thunder, Tom wonders why he would suddenly leave. D'Angelo guesses that Thunder finally found his family, but Tom just wants to know if Thunder is okay. They soon reach the end of Thunder's trail and Plowhorn tracks Thunder's scent through a cave. The group begins hearing thunder, (as in natural thunder) and find an entrance to a dark new realm. There, they see lightning shooting upward and realize its Thunder. Eugene tries to find out where Jun is from Philip, but he sees through his attempts to push his chores off on his sister and refuses to tell him anything.

While dragon club follows the lightning blasts, they are ambushed by Spiderwings. After escaping the Spiderwings, the group takes a break at a lake, but are attacked by Bubblehorns led by Nibbles. Tom defeats the Bubblehorns by tricking them into the lake and having Wu freeze them. The others protest that things are getting too dangerous, but Tom is unwilling to leave without finding Thunder and admits he is also searching for answers for his connection between Thunder and his ancestors. Alex and D'Angelo are upset that Tom and Jun kept such a secret and Tom decides to continue alone. Meanwhile, Eugene tries to get into Jun's room to find out more about dragon club, only to get repeatedly hurt by a bunch of mousetraps she placed around her door.

The other dragon riders refuse to leave Tom to go ahead alone, but they are attacked by a Crystal Whip. Jun guesses the Crystal Whip is acting like a gatekeeper to protect whatever is past it. The Crystal Whip traps the dragon club inside a flaming tornado and Tom doesn't have a way out. D'Angelo and Plowhorn make a risky charge up the Tornado and crash into the Crystal Whip to stun it and disrupt the tornado. The group manages to scare off the Crystal Whip and they find an injured Thunder. They discover that a battle took place between Thunder and an unknown lightning dragon and Thunder directs them to a tunnel his foe escaped through.

Characters[]

Humans[]

Tom Kullersen voiced by Jeremy Shada
Jun Wong voiced by Ashley Liao
D'Angelo Baker voiced by Marcus Scribner
Alexandra Gonzalez voiced by Aimee Garcia
Eugene Wong voiced by Vincent Tong
Philip Baker voiced by Keston John
Carla Gonzalez voiced by Justina Machado
Hazel Gonzalez voiced by Angelique Cabral
May Wong (mentioned)
Olivia Kullersen (mentioned)

Dragons[]

Dragon Species[]

Locations[]

Kullersen Fissure
- ICARIS
- Tom's Dome
- Jun's Dome
- Rakke Town
- Alex's Dome
- Hidden World
  - Crystal Realm
  - Dark Valley

Objects[]

Flora and Fauna[]

Cucumber
Sheep
Sunflower
Rat (mentioned)
Wolf (mentioned)

Trivia[]

The episode's title is based off of the phrase "follow the leader".
Tom and Alex seem to share a liking to rock music, as shown in the beginning of the episode.
The myth Jun quotes from upon entering the Dark Realm is the "Descent of Inanna", the Sumerian goddess of war, love, and fertility who journeyed into the Underworld to attend the funeral of the sacred Bull of Heaven.

References[]

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"How to Start a Dragon Academy" • "Viking for Hire" • "Animal House" • "The Terrible Twos" • "In Dragons We Trust" • "Alvin and the Outcasts" • "How to Pick Your Dragon" • "Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man" • "Dragon Flower" • "Heather Report, Part 1" • "Heather Report, Part 2" • "Thawfest" • "When Lightning Strikes" • "What Flies Beneath" • "Twinsanity" • "Defiant One" • "Breakneck Bog" • "Gem of a Different Color" • "We Are Family, Part 1" • "We Are Family, Part 2"


"Live and Let Fly" • "The Iron Gronckle" • "The Night and the Fury" • "Tunnel Vision" • "Race to Fireworm Island" • "Fright of Passage" • "Worst in Show" • "Appetite for Destruction" • "Zippleback Down" • "A View to a Skrill, Part 1" • "A View to a Skrill, Part 2" • "The Flight Stuff" • "Free Scauldy" • "Frozen" • "A Tale of Two Dragons" • "The Eel Effect" • "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" • "Bing! Bam! Boom!" • "Cast Out, Part 1" • "Cast Out, Part 2"


Season 1: "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1" • "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 2" • "Imperfect Harmony" • "When Darkness Falls" • "Big Man on Berk" • "Gone Gustav Gone" • "Reign of Fireworms" • "Crushing It" • "Quake, Rattle and Roll" • "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1" • "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 2" • "The Next Big Sting" • "Total Nightmare"
Season 2: "Team Astrid" • "Night of the Hunters, Part 1" • "Night of the Hunters, Part 2" • "Bad Moon Rising" • "Snotlout Gets the Axe" • "The Zippleback Experience" • "Snow Way Out" • "Edge of Disaster, Part 1" • "Edge of Disaster, Part 2" • "Shock and Awe" • "A Time to Skrill" • "Maces and Talons, Part 1" • "Maces and Talons, Part 2"
Season 3: "Enemy of My Enemy" • "Crash Course" • "Follow the Leader" • "Turn and Burn" • "Buffalord Soldier" • "A Grim Retreat" • "To Heather or Not to Heather" • "Stryke Out" • "Tone Death" • "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" • "Family on the Edge" • "Last Auction Heroes" • "Defenders of the Wing, Part 1"
Season 4: "Defenders of the Wing, Part 2" • "Gruff Around the Edges" • "Midnight Scrum" • "Not Lout" • "Saving Shattermaster" • "Dire Straits" • "The Longest Day" • "Gold Rush" • "Out of the Frying Pan" • "Twintuition" • "Blindsided" • "Shell Shocked, Part 1" • "Shell Shocked, Part 2"
Season 5: "Living on the Edge" • "Sandbusted" • "Something Rotten on Berserker Island" • "Snotlout's Angels" • "A Matter of Perspective" • "Return of Thor Bonecrusher" • "Dawn of Destruction" • "The Wings of War, Part 1" • "The Wings of War, Part 2" • "No Dragon Left Behind" • "Snuffnut" • "Searching for Oswald... and Chicken" • "Sins of the Past"
Season 6: "In Plain Sight" • "No Bark, All Bite" • "Chain of Command" • "Loyal Order of Ingerman" •"A Gruff Separation" • "Mi Amore Wing" • "Ruff Transition" • "Triple Cross" • "Family Matters" • "Darkest Night" • "Guardians of Vanaheim" • "King of Dragons, Part 1" • "King of Dragons, Part 2"


Season 1: "The Nest" • "Deep Trouble" • "Boo to You" • "Where There's Smoke" • "Heavy Metal" • "Iced Out" • "Sick Day" • "Bad Egg" • "Home Alone" • "Slobber Power" • "Crash Course" • "Furious Fun" • "Grumblegard, Part 1" • "Grumblegard, Part 2"
Season 2: "Double Finked" • "Divewings" • "Mecha-Menace" • "Summer Holiday" • "Treasure Riders" • "Puff Enuf" • "Hot, Hot, Hot" • "High Anxiety" • "King Burple" • "Charged Up" • "Belly Flop" • "Game of Horns"
Season 3: "Chiefless" • "Crystal Clear" • "How I Met Your Summer" • "Snooping Around" • "Oh, Brother" • "Search for the Sunken City"
Season 4: "Teamwork is Magic" • "The Incredible Burple" • "Flight of the Stinkwing" • "The Big Sheep" • "Rescue Racers" • "Day Without Dragons"
Season 5: "The Inflato-Force Awakens" • "Return to the Sunken City" • "My Dragonguard" • "Gludge-Tastic Voyage" • "Dragon Out of Water" • "Nest Day"
Season 6: "Full Metal Magnus" • "Triple Trouble Tuesday" • "Where's Waldondo" • "The Greatest Showdragons" • "Copy That" • "And You Are?"


Season 1: "First Flight, Part 1" • "First Flight, Part 2" • "A Hole New World" • "Dragon Club" • "Featherhide" • "Fault Ripper"
Season 2: "Uniconned" • "Magma Breather" • "Dragons of the Undead" • "Downpour" • "The Tangled Web" • "Follow the Lightning, Part 1" • "Follow the Lightning, Part 2"
Season 3: "Fire Escape" • "Ride or Die" • "Empty Fireworm Nest" • "Dr. Catastrophe" • "It Flies in the Family" • "Magma Comes to the Surface" • "The Sky Torcher"
Season 4: "Cold Open" • "Uncharted Territory" • "Journey to the Snowcano" • "The Decoy" • "The Night Lights, Part 1" • "The Night Lights, Part 2"
Season 5: "Punishment and Torcher" • "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Dragons" • "Barrel of Vine Tails" • "Scent of a Dragon" • "Sting It On!" • "Deep Freeze"
Season 6: "Dragons Everywhere!" • "Break in Case of Emergency" • "Undercover" • "Webs' Masters" • "Sledkin Stakeout" • "Poison Control" • "In Too Deep"
Season 7: "Hobs and Saw" • "Hearts of Heroes" • "Heart of Glass" • "In the Cards" • "Eugene's Lean Mean Extreme Dream Team" • "404 Alex Not Found" • "Rise of Jörmungandr"
Season 8: "How to Train Jörmungandr" • "The Great Foster Fake-Out" • "Science vs. Nature" • "Of Gods and Monsters" • "Ragnarok: Part 1" • "Ragnarok: Part 2"