The Dragonlord's flunkies steal a magical stone from the Palace of Power to hatch a legendary evil dragon. The N Team builds a fake dragon to sneak into Dragonlord's lair and stop it.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Badass: Slimes spit acid that can melt rock in this episode. Yeah, slimes, the weak starter monsters in most any Dragon Quest game.
- Artifact of Attraction: The Cursed Necklace from the game shows up, and gets used to make whoever wears it the target of the super-dragon the villain's trying to hatch.
- Continuity Snarl: The Sun Stone, seemingly the artifact from Dragon Warrior, is apparently used to generate energy for everything in the Palace of Power. In the game, it had to be combined with another item to create a bridge to Dragonlord's castle.
- Kissing the Ground: Simon runs out of the N Team's fake dragon and does this when flying in it scares him too much.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Kevin and Lana get a bottle of fairy water from a shop in a town. In Dragon Warrior, that item would keep monsters away for a while. In Captain N, however, it can be used to do things like unlock a cursed item someone's wearing. The Cursed Necklace is also a real item in Dragon Warrior that you can't take off, and Fairy Water most assuredly won't get rid of it.
- Trojan Horse: The fake dragon the N Team uses to infiltrate Dragonlord's hideout.
