Teela stands before the Tide of Transformation remembering import conversations she's had with Adam, her father and mother, before diving in. As she does she sees that beneath the tide rests a large source of magical power. The magic rises to meet her and Teela says she is ready to fulfill her destiny.
Outside Greyskull that army of Eternian's are facing off against the army of the dead. The Shadow Beasts numbers are proving to be a hindrance, especially when Scarglow appears intending on tasting King Randor's fear.
Inside Greyskull Evil-Lyn picks up Adam with her magic and tells him that she will finally do what he never could; kill He-Man. As she is about to do so however a scarf appears and distracts her causing Adam to fall. Suddenly that same scarf appears before King Randor and Scareglow and Andra and Duncan. The scarf gets longer and longer until suddenly Orko appears alive in well, telling Evil-Lyn that when she raised the dead she raised him too.
Orko opens up a passage way outside of Castle Greyskull so that Duncan and Andra can escape, and the other Orko does battle with the King of Fear noting that his fear must be even more potent. Evil-Lyn says they have both lived up to their names but Orko says Lyn wasn't born evil. A fight breaks out between the two which eventually leads to Orko firing Lyn back into Battle Beast, causing her to lose he grip on the sword.
As Adam grabs the sword Orko leaves to focus his energy on beating Scareglow. Adam calls upon the Power of Greyskull, transforms Cringer into Battle Cat, and turns Skeletor back into his god form. When asked why He-Man says he wants him to experience what it's like to be one of the good guys. The battle resumes with Evil-Lyn against He-Man and Skelegod and Battle Beast vs Battle Cat.
Duncan and Andra make it out of Greyskull and see the fight happening at full force. Noticing that King Randor is in trouble of being overwhelmed Duncan gives his blaster to Andra and picks up a mace, saying he has everything he needs.
Within the Tide of Transformation Teela is being wrapped within the magic and is being dragged into its depths when suddenly she receives a vision of the day that her mother gave her up to become Sorceress. She shakes off the power, not wanting to give up her connections the way her mother did. Her mother appears and tells Teela that casting asside connections is what allows a Sorceress to fully protect the power.
However Teela believes that's wrong, rather then human connections making her weak, she believes that her bonds with her friends and loved ones make her strong. She decides she won't cast away her connections and chooses to use the power in her own way. She gives her mother a hug who disappears, and then says that instead of protecting the power, she will use to power to protect everyone else.
Outside the Castle Andra helps take down severel Shadow Beasts thanks to her new blaster while Orko contains Scareglow within a bubble and tosses him into several of his tropes, knocking him out. Battle Cat and Battle Beast's fight is dragged out to the drawbridge and Battle Cat wins by tossing him over the edge.
Inside Castle Greyskull Evil-Lyn is finding herself on the back foot now that He-Man and Skelegod are channeling the power of Greyskull. However things turn back into her favor when the universe aligns and she channels the power of the apex into herself. She tells Skeletor that she no longer needs the Sword of Power to channel her energy and destroys the Castle's roof.
Suddenly a glowing light appears and Teela arrives decked out in her own Sorceress outfit. Evil-Lyn dismisses this development saying that all Teela has done is bind herself to Castle Greyskull and says all she needs to do to beat her is fly out of the building. However to her shock Teela appears, flying outside the confines of Greyskull's grounds, knocks her away leading to an aerial fight.
As He-Man watches the proceedings, Skeletor suddenly attacks him. He-Man questions what he's doing and Skeletor says that Evil-Lyn's victory is assured and the universe will end. So before that end he will have the satisfaction of killing He-Man himself. As the two do battle Marlena sees what's happening and prepares a special bomb for Skeletor; Ram Man, who knock Skeletor away and he and Adam go off to do battle.
Elsewhere Teela and Evil-Lyn's battle is underway at the very lake that Evil-Lyn saw in her vision. Teela says that they don't have to fight and can still turns things around but Evil-Lyn is not convinced. A fierce magical duel begins.
Back at the battleground He-Man takes down waves of flying Shadow Beasts on his hover pad before it is taken out. He then arrives on the ground and tells the army to form behind him as he charges forward taken down dozens of Shadow Beasts in seconds. As the army's spirits as risen by this sight, Skeletor appears saying he won't be ignored.
Back at Teela and Evil-Lyn's battle, Teela tries to convince Lyn that she is a good person since she helped bring the magic back to Eternia. Lyn however believes that it was all Skeletor's manipulations and that she has no will of her own. As she begins to overpower Teela she says that she searched all her life for the meaning of the worlds suffering and now realizes there is grand design, the universe has no master.
He-Man tells Skeletor that he isn't interested in fighting him but Skeletor makes it clear he wont accept no for an answer. After firing a massive blast the two begin to square off once again.
Lyn tells Teela that the destruction of the universe will be a blessing, no more pointless fights for power, no more needless death and destruction, no more pain. As she begins destroying the stars above her she says how beautiful it will be to destroy everything where everything was born. Teela however tells her that Lyn didn't choose their battlefield, she did.
She shows her the other half of the vision she didn't see; as good fell to earth and plunged into the lake, it rose again spreading magic to the universe. As Teela notes, while the universe is chaotic and destructive, its is also beauty and light. Lyn realizes that the universe is magic. Finally realizing that her ambitions were wrong Lyn relinquishes the power.
Back at the battlefield Skeletor tries to goad He-Man to use his sword on him, saying that the battle has to end with He-Man and Skeletor locked in epic conflict for eternity. He-Man grabs Skeletor and tells him that this battle isn't about them, before sending him flying.
In a burst of light Teela arrives carrying Lyn. Now that Teela has to full power of the Sorceress she and Adam combine their powers to banish the dead from the planet. As Orko begins to leave too, Lyn stops him, not wanting her friend to die again. With the battle won Adam returns the power to Greyskull.
Some time after the final battle a new Man-At-Arm's ceremony is underway with Duncan proclaiming Andra as the newest member of their family. As Andra celebrates her promotion Duncan tells Teela that he wishes her mother was there to see it, with Teela assuring him she is.
Watching the fireworks sometime later Adam approaches Teela with him wondering if she will keep the secrets of Greyskull with him, but Teela tells her that there will be no more secrets. Adam wonders, now that Teela is the first Sorceress in history that can leave Greyskull, if she still needs him. Teela assures him that she will always need a champion and the two share a tender moment together. Teela tells Adam she finally knows who He-Man really is; her hero.
At a field Lyn teleports herself in, with the new lease on life she gained from Teela she discards her magic wand and leaves to find a new path.
Finally at Snake Mountain an enraged Skeletor attacks the members of the Motherboard cult blaming his defeat on them deserting him. Tri-Klops claims that Motherboard made them do it, causing Skeletor to attack their idol. However Motherboard is far from a mere idol when his attack is blocked. Suddenly Motherboard transforms into a humanoid form as the cultists grab Skeletor and remove his staff. Skeletor realizes that there is something familiar about her now and he is stabbed in the chest by wires and is pumped full of the conversion liquid. As Skeletor slowly becomes more robotic the last thing he, and the audience sees, is Motherboard's head opening up and showing a hologram of the sigil of the Evil Horde, Skeletor's former masters.____
Tropes
- Big "NO!": Skeletor lets one out when Motherboard begins to convert him into a cyborg for the Horde.
- Bittersweet Ending: Evil-Lyn and Skeletor have been defeated, Teela has taken on her mother's mantle, Duncan's exile has been rescinded, Orko's back from the dead, Randor and Marlena's marriage has been restored, Andra's the new Man-At-Arms, and Adam and Teela are beginning to build a romantic relationship, but Preternia is still destroyed, Evil-Lyn has gone to Trolla in exile. Meanwhile, Skeletor lashes out at the Motherboard Cult and tries to regain control of Snake Mountain, only be seized and converted into a cyborg by Motherboard, who is actually an agent of the Horde, meaning a Horde invasion is well on the way.
- Never My Fault: Skeletor blames the Motherboard Cult (his former minions) for his loss of the Power of Grayskull when it was his own fault for giving into Evil-Lyn's seduction.
- This Cannot Be!: Skeletor's reaction to Motherboard when she unveils herself to be a living robot.
