While Hiccup tries out his flight suit for the first time, he and the gang find a wounded Speed Stinger, which they rescue and take it back to Dragon's Edge, unaware of the dangers that follow.
Tropes:
- Androcles' Lion: Because Hiccup saved the baby Speed Stinger, it protects Hiccup and the gang when the adult Speed Stingers return.
- Amusing Injuries: Ruffnut gets paralyzed in different places by the Stinger.
- And Then What?: Hiccup is asked this when he rescues the baby Speed Stinger. His answer is that they'll nurse it back to health and then return it to its native island.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The others think that Hiccup's flying suit is this, since they have dragons (and how "awesome" they think it is is up for debate).
- Body Horror: Ruffnut's paralyzed upper half is kind of grotesque.
- Butt-Monkey: For once Ruffnut is this instead of Snotlout or her brother; the Speed Stinger baby likes to target her.
- Call-Back:
- Once again Hiccup takes in an injured baby dragon and bonds with it.
- Snotlout does not have fond memories of Speed Stingers.
- Call-Forward: Hiccup debuts prototype versions of the flight suit he uses in How to Train Your Dragon 2.
- Cassandra Truth: Snotlout warns everyone that the Speed Stinger is going to go ballistic and sting them. Halfway through the episode, it tries, because Snotlout kept riling it up.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Speed Stinger's foot webbing inspires Hiccup to make another flight suit, one that looks like a flying squirrel's webbing rather than a backpack with wings attached.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Lampshaded.Snotlout: Is he seriously going back?
Astrid: Snotlout, meet Hiccup. He's always going back. - Conflicting Loyalty: The baby Speed Stinger is torn between rejoining his pack and defending the riders from said pack.
- The Drag-Along: Barf gets paralyzed while Belch does not, which means the latter ends up dragging the former around for the rest of the episode.
- Epic Fail: Zigzagged with Hiccup's first flight suit. His first two test runs have him plummet like a stone and require saving from Toothless. Then his third test has him actually glide on a current... then he realizes he can't steer, or land.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Snotlout only starts to like the baby Speed Stinger after they fight the Speed Stinger pack together.
- From Dress to Dressing: Hiccup uses the tatters of his flight suit to create a splint for the baby Speed Stinger.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Snotlout draws the Speed Stingers away from the rest of the group and is then ambushed. He immediately decides it was a bad idea.
- Let's Get Out of Here: Snotlout says this word for word. He wants nothing to do with the Speed Stinger, and proposes leaving it before others join it.
- The Medic: Fishlegs plays this role for the Speed Stinger.
- Oh, No... Not Again!:
- This is Snotlout's reaction when they find an injured baby dragon.
- Ruffnut when, seconds after the Speed Stinger venom wears off, the baby hits her once more.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Snotlout's warnings about the baby Speed Stinger wouldn't have come true if he hadn't kept antagonizing it.
- Shoo the Dog: Hiccup decides to let the baby Speed Stinger return to his family, so that the latter has a proper place.
- Shout-Out:
- The story is loosely based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- The episode presents a juvenile Speed Stinger with an injured leg, similar to the baby Tyrannosaurus in the movie. Plus, both of them were brought back to the protagonists' respective bases and healed by them.
- Like the film's Tyrannosaurus parents, the Stinger pack go after the missing juvenile, which involves them attacking the main characters.
- The story is loosely based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- Signature Move: Hiccup holding out his hand to a new dragon is apparently this for him.Fishlegs: He's gonna do the hand thing, right? Ohhhh, please tell me he's gonna do the hand thing!
- Silent Snarker: Toothless makes his opinion on the flight suit very well known, complete with a laugh.
- Third Time's The Charm: Hiccup tries his first flight suit three times. The first two times he fails to get any lift and has to be saved by Toothless. The third time, he succeeds in gliding around the island, until he realizes he can't steer or land safely, requiring Toothless to save him again.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Astrid threatens to lock Hiccup up if he keeps trying to test his flight suit.
- Walk on Water: The subspecies of Speed Stinger in this episode has webbing between its toes, which, when combined with their Super-Speed, allow them to run across bodies of water.
