Thunder Cats

Grr. Where are they?

I told you, they're looking for a pass through the mountain.

Not Tygra and Lion-O, my hidden stash of candy fruit.

Candy fruit?

Candy fruit? Where? I'm starving.

Snarf, that was all the food we had left.

Now we're doomed.

Aren't you two being a little dramatic?

- Dramatic? - What if they never come back?

What if we starve to death?

What if we have no food and we have to choose who gets eaten?

- What if...? - Enough already.

If you two are so hungry...

why don't you get some food for yourselves?

Isn't that your job?

You know what?

It's about time you learned some hard life lessons.

He's gonna kill us.

I told you he would.

No. We're going hunting.

Today you're finally going to learn how to survive on your own.

It'll be men versus women.

Whoever comes back with less meat has to cook.

You're on. I can't wait to see you slaving over a fire.

Lesson one: Before you can take down your prey, you gotta find it.

That means learning to spot tracks.

Here we go.

Ha. Those are nothing.

Take a look at these. They're huge.

Those are my tracks.

I knew that.

Maybe tracking is too advanced. Let's start simple.

Traps.

Why do we even have to do this?

Because one day you'll be out here alone, cold, starving, no weapons.

You need to learn to survive with nothing but your wits.

Are you even paying attention?

There's something out there.

Just your imagination.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised...

an orphan didn't have anyone to teach him how to survive.

There was someone.

- Papa. - What are you doing out here?

We thought you could use some lunch.

Yay!

Look at this harvest. I can hardly believe it.

Everyone told me I was crazy spending my last shinick on this farm.

Said it was too much labor for one man.

But I wouldn't listen to them, and now look.

I worked hard doing it my way and we survived.

And that's what I want you to learn.

We wanna learn to help.

Yeah, we're strong enough, look.

You're sweet.

But I'm afraid you can't help until you're grown.

But that's gonna take like...

forever.

We just hate to see you working so hard all the time.

You two are always looking out for the family.

But don't worry, one day we'll have everything we want.

Like they do in the city of treasure.

Can you tell us about it again?

I'm afraid I didn't bring the book out here.

But we did.

I should have known. Let's see.

Hidden somewhere in the farthest corners of Third Earth...

is a place where there is always enough food to go around...

even dessert.

Where it's warm in the winter and cool in the summer...

and every family lives happily ever after.

El-Dara, the jewel of the world.

El-Dara.

Why don't you go and find El-Dara, Papa?

Well, then who would stay here and look after the farm?

Maybe when you're older, you can search for it.

I want to search for it now.

If we find it, we'll never have to starve through another dry season...

Mama can quit worrying all the time...

and you can finally have a day off.

Giving up the search already?

Twister's coming!

Just keep running. Don't look back.

Papa!

Look.

When he steps into that loop, bam, we've got dinner.

We can't eat him. He's so cute and harmless.

Cute and har...? Listen to yourself, kid.

That is a meal.

The cute ones taste the best.

He's hungry, just like us.

Sometimes you need to make hard sacrifices to survive.