Having obtained a set of flying mounts from their previous adventure, the Brotherhoods proceed, though Dally notices how unusually silent and sullen Rubilax is being. Soon they're captured by a mysterious light that seems to target Rubilax and find themselves prisoners of a man in a shiny armor who declares himself the Justice Knight and has already captured and jailed Remington and Grany Smisse. However, when the group's attempted evasion ends up releasing a powerful and dangerous enemy, the jailer and the prisoner have to join forces.
Tropes:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Rubilax realizes that Anathar is about to be dragged through the portal, he begs Sadlygrove to pull him out before it's too late.
- Anti-Magic: This episode introduces the inhibitors, spherical eye-covered machines resembling surveillance cameras which prevents all magic from being used within their gaze. The Justice Knight uses them to keep his prisoners from using magic to escape.
- Arc Villain: Anathar, a greater Shushu and Rushu's right-hand man note , used to be sealed inside the Cape of Shadows but took over the Justice Knight's father, forcing the knight to lock him up until he can find a way to separate the two. Unfortunately, Remington sets him free.
- Badass Cape: Anathar was sealed inside a cape, a tattered, ominous black cape known as the Cape of Shadows, which was the only weapon the father of Justice Knight needed.
- The Bad Guy Wins: By the end of the episode, Anathar has returned to the Shushu dimension, but has dragged with him the Smisse Brothers, Yugo, Rubilax and Sadlygrove, leaving Evangelyne heartbroken as she feels she has lost Dally a second time.
- Caged Inside a Monster: Happens to Rubilax and Grany, who are picked up by Anathar and locked in the small "cage" inside his abdomen.
- Call-Back: The disaster caused by Rubilaxia is the entire reason why Anathar is free and the Justice Knight is hunting down all the Shushu he can.
- Combat Tentacles: During the final fight against the heroes, Anathar uses his portals to summon black pincer-tipped tentacles from his homeworld. They end up snaring him and dragging him back to the Shukrute when he gets too close, though it's not as much as an Hoist by His Own Petard as it seems.
- Comically Missing the Point: Sadlygrove doesn't see why Eva should have problem with taking off her clothes when he already saw her naked before.
- Demonic Possession: Justice's father overused his Cape of Shadows while fighting the hordes of Ghouls from Rubilaxia and Anathar took over his body, transforming completely into his demonic form, forcing his son to put him in jail.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Proving that the Justice Knight's skill at making boasts leaves something to be desired...Justice Knight: JUSTICE calls for...... Justice!!
- Dragged Off to Hell: What essentially happens to Anathar in the end, though it's not at all a bad thing for him. Much less so for the unfortunate heroes dragged along.
- Fan Boy: Yugo and Amalia for the Justice Knight.
- Hostage Situation: Anathar escapes the fortress carrying both Rubilax and Grany Smisse in his stomach pouch, which forces both the Brotherhood and Remington to help the Knight in hunting the demon down.
- Instant Expert: Due to his powers, Anathar can instantly use the Eliatrope portals with extreme ease, and is even able to open up multiple portals at once, something that Yugo can't do.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Justice Knight, complete with gilded equipment and an ego to match.Justice Knight: I AM the good guy! Have you seen the size of my armor!?
- Knight of Cerebus: Anathar is much more serious and intimidating than all the threats the hero encountered in this season. (Rushu doesn't count, since he wasn't physically present.)
- Large Ham: The Justice Knight, as any good superhero-inspired character, is hammier than a pig farm.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Downplayed in that while Anathar is unaware of just how deep in trouble Rubilax is with Rushu, he definitely knows something's fishy going on with Rubilax and specifically mentions he's gonna interrogate him to find out why he didn't try to rescue him from Justice Knight after he was initially freed from imprisonment fighting the ghouls.
- Oh, Crap!: Rubilax has one when Anathar recognizes him and takes him prisoner, stating that Rubilax has a few things to explain (namely, why he left him behind while he was gathering forces for Rubilaxia).
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Rubilax spends the entire episode being unresponsive and missing plenty of chances to insult Dally. The Iop is worried by this behaviour, especially since this has been the new norm from him since the events of Rubilaxia.
- Power Copying: Anathar's own magic allows him to copy the magic of the last person who touched him. As Yugo finds out, even kicking Anathar in the face counts as touching.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Anathar was kept sealed inside the Cape of Shadows, but he managed to possess his wielder, and thus was locked in a prison. By the end of the episode, Anathar's completely out of the can, freed even of the Cape of Shadows itself even if he lost the human he was possessing too.
- Slasher Smile: Normally Anathar keeps his mouth shut, resembling Anubis with a golden mask... then he smiles, showing off some scary fangs that easily doubles the size of his head.
- This Cannot Be!: Tragic version, Eva falls down on her knees, broken, after witnessing Dally being, essentially, dragged into the World of Twelve equivalent of Hell, after all they went through to save him.
- Too Dumb to Live: Remington Smisse decides to open the door of Anathar's cell hoping that he'll attack the heroes... with no knowledge of what it is before, as lampshaded by Grany.Grany: Why did you do that?
Remington: Well... it looked like a good idea on the spot... - Unreliable Expositor: Minor example, though when Justice Knight retells the story of how his father was possessed, he claims that the forces of Rubilaxia attacked them while they were training... while the picture shows he and his father playing cards instead.
- The Unreveal: Lampshaded when Yugo accepts to make one last attempt at blocking off the Inhibitor using his hat... on the condition that his friends don't look until he puts the hat back, with Amalia telling him that one of these days he will have to tell them what's beneath the hat.
- Villainous BSoD: Rubi's been stuck in one since the end of Rubilaxia, apparently trying to reconcile the fact he's pretty much burned all bridges with his fellow Shushus, the only people he can rely on ironically enough are the humans he's been trying to use and manipulate since forever, and he's really not the Card-Carrying Villain he's tried so hard to present himself as.
- Villainous Valor: Remington at first seems to have no motivation to help the heroes retrieving Anathar... but as Justice points out, he really cannot leave his brother behind.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Justice Knight calls out the heroes for letting Anathar out, but he mostly chews out Sadlygrove, believing that his bad skills as a Guardian allowed Rubilax to pull off his scheme in the first place. He eventually recognizes Dally's skills when they battle Anathar together.
- You Will Be Spared: Anathar has enough gratitude to promise Remington he won't be an Ungrateful Bastard and kill him since he freed him from imprisonment... but then adds that stipulation doesn't apply to Grany and since he's hungry....
