Episode Data

VR Troopers

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Season 0

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  2: Original Extended Promo

  Originally included on some Power Ranger VHS tapes, this was a promo that was made to introduce the series. Professor Hart is played by a different actor, and different actors provide the voices for Grimlord and Jeb.

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  1: Cybertron (Original VR Troopers pilot)

Season 1

• _{Saturday, September 3rd, 1994}

  1: The Battle Begins (1)

  Ryan Steele gets a strange message on his computer from someone or something named Proffesor Hart saying that he has a message from his father. Ryan is confused by all this because he knows his father has been missing for a few years. He and his two friends Katlin Star and JB Reese head down to Proffesor Hart's lab. Meanwhile just Downtown of Crossworld an sinsiter buisness man who is secretly known as a demon in virtual reality, finds out that his enemy Proffesor Hart has contacted three humans and he is determined to stop them.

• _{Saturday, September 10th, 1994}

  2: The Battle Begins (2)

  As Ryan lays unconscience his he rembers how his farther taught him never to give up he is rescue by JB and Katlin. Ryan's dog is accidently shocked in the lab causing him to speak. Ryan Katlin and JB join forces as they begin the search for his farther.

• _{Wednesday, September 14th, 1994}

  3: Error in the System

  A mysterious virus enters the comptuer system causing everything to malfucion including the hardware surounding inside professor Hart the troopers realize that grimlord is behind it.

• _{Thursday, September 15th, 1994}

  4: Lost Memories

  When a homeless lady wanders into the dojo with amnesia, the kids try to help. TAO cooks herbal food, students pass out flyers, J.B. uses his computer and KAITLIN runs her photo on the front page of WOODY'S newspaper. RYAN also loses his memory when he collides in midair with AIRSTRIKER, sent by GRIMLORD, to destroy him. PROFESSOR HART and JEB try to bring back Ryan's memory in the lab, while J.B. and Kaitlin battle the LASER BOT and GENERAL IVAR'S robot vehicles. The kids win and the love of his dog brings back Ryan's memory. The newspaper photo reunites the homeless lady with her family.

• _{Friday, September 16th, 1994}

  5: Battle for the Books

  ZIKTOR wants to destroy all books that teach about solar energy. He starts with MR. REESE'S bookmobile, as a way of getting at J.B. The boys are getting ready for a doubles Karate tournament when KAITLIN alerts them and they rush to save J.B.'s dad from the attacking SKUGS. The boys win the first round of the tournament, but join Kaitlin between rounds to take on THE ELIMINATOR who is attacking the Central Library. RYAN forgets his virtualizer back at the Dojo, so Kaitlin and J.B. go to fight while Ryan retrieves it. Using the new VORTEX power, J.B. takes the battle with GRIMLORD'S airforce to a virtual quarry. Ryan joins them and the robots are defeated. The boys win the tournament and J.B. gives his father the prize money to fix the bookmobile. Ryan surprises J.B. by adding his prize money to J.B.'s, sacrificing his goal of becoming partners with Tao in the dojo.

• _{Monday, September 19th, 1994}

  6: Oh Brother

  RYAN and J.B. are training two young brothers who argue with each other all the time. ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD decides to unleash two monster robot brothers of his own, the SWORDBOTS. KAITLIN and the brothers stumble across Grimlord's ""Power Diverter"" and the brothers are captured by SKUGS. To track them, PROFESSOR HART invents a ""virtual blood hound"" using a robotic ""Sniffer,"" linked to JEB's real nose. The brothers argue so much the Skugs separate them. Kaitlin and J.B. are able to free one boy while Ryan fights the Swordbot robots and frees the other boy. After this, the boys agree not to argue with each other and they win the tournament.

• _{Tuesday, September 20th, 1994}

  7: Grimlord's Challenge

  A neighborhood policewoman offers TAO and the kids a challenge: turn BECKY into a karate contender in two weeks and win $1000 from the Police Association to help other street kids. RYAN accepts the challenge and KAITLIN commits to help. When GRIMLORD hears about this offer, he issues his own challenge: his robots will compete to see who will face the V.R. TROOPERS at the reality barrier. HAMMERBOT meets Ryan in the Forest of Virtual Reality. SPIDERBOT faces J.B. at the top of the world and Kaitlin must hold back GENERAL IVAR'S robot assault vehicles and fighter jets. JEB becomes Becky's friend and helps her to stay on track and win a ribbon in the beginners division at the Inter-dojo tournament.

• _{Wednesday, September 21st, 1994}

  8: Computer Captive

  Grimlord invents a device that traps anyone inside virtually reality when JB becomes a hostage Ryan must go in to rescue his Friend who is being trained of his VR Trooper powers

• _{Thursday, September 22nd, 1994}

  9: Katlin's Little Helper

  KAITLIN'S cousin, BETSY, comes for a visit. She aspires to be a reporter like Kaitlin and, while on a story, discovers green slime oozing from the grass in the park. Kaitlin and the guys analyze the slime and discover it is a defoliant that will destroy all of the plants and trees. Meanwhile, Betsy is captured by SKUGS. Kaitlin and the guys rescue her and face GRIMLORD'S mutants. In the end, everyone is safe and WOODY loves the article that Kaitlin and Betsy wrote about the slime.

• _{Friday, September 23rd, 1994}

  10: The Virtual Spy

  Grimlord decides that he wants to place a spy on the Troopers so he sends one disguised as a teenager named Jeremy.

• _{Monday, September 26th, 1994}

  11: The Virtual V-6

  KAITLIN is paid a visit by an eccentric young inventor who has plans for a pollution-free motorcycle engine. After showing the guys the plans, they decided to build a motorcycle version in V.R. and put it in J.B.'s Skycycle. Meanwhile, GRIMLORD, concerned that the engine will destroy his (ZIKTOR'S) oil business, sends SKUGS to the Dojo to look for the disk with the engine's design on it. They trash the place after a fight with TAO and take all the disks they can find. The kids come back to find the place a mess. They then hear that a busload of kids has been hijacked. The teens contact the PROFESSOR, who alerts J.B. Ryan and Kaitlin transform. Kaitlin fights Skugs as Ryan battles Grimlord's LEVIATRONS which have broken through the reality barrier. They all win their fights, including J.B. against DRILLBOT. In the end, the invention is turned over to WOODY'S friend who owns a motorcycle company. Everyone is happy.

• _{Tuesday, September 27th, 1994}

  12: No One's Friend

  Grimlord puts a spell on JB and Katlin causing them to turn against Ryan. Meanwhile Katlin's boss hires the Mayor's nephew as Katlin's co-worker.

• _{Wednesday, September 28th, 1994}

  13: Dogmatic Change

  GRIMLORD comes up with the idea of turning dog pound pets (and more) into rabid mutant monsters for his own army. ZIKTOR disguises his voice and pretends to hire Kaitlin to shoot a dog food commercial, knowing that she'll bring JEB, the first subject to be turned into a mutant. Jeb is slipped a mutating agent and turns into a monster! His first order -- destroy RYAN STEELE! Ryan goes to a zoo, where the mutant Jeb is causing havoc. J.B. and Kaitlin are off to find and then destroy the factory that is creating the substance used for the transformation. Grimlord's forces give them some trouble, but they outsmart them. Ryan has PROFESSOR HART send a virtual reality image of a normal dog to the zoo, hoping that the mutant Jeb will recognize what he used to be, and then desire to go back to that state. It works, but not before Grimlord's TOXOID ROBOT sprays Jeb with a disintegrating agent. Professor Hart saves Jeb from disintegrating.

• _{Friday, September 30th, 1994}

  14: Searching for Tyler Steele

  While walking through Crossworld woods they notice someone inside an abanoned cabin Ryan suspects that this person could be his long lost farther.

• _{Sunday, October 2nd, 1994}

  15: Save the Trees

  GRIMLORD (a.k.a. Ziktor) needs an old growth forest clear for a massive break-through from Virtual Reality. The Troopers confront Ziktor, who lies and says he'll stop. Discovering that the logging is to continue, they try to get MAYOR ROONEY to stop it, but the Mayor's wife thinks the forest is full of savage animals (Ziktor sneakily convinced her of this) and she supports clearing the forest of these beasts. Luckily, PROFESSOR HART recognizes that the forest bugs JEB has picked up are endangered insects, and they can get a Federal injunction to stop the logging. They stop Ziktor's chain saws, but Grimlord sends CHAIN-BOT and GENERAL IVAR to destroy the forest. The Troopers return to the forest, when the earth shakes from Grimlord's attack. They split up, Ryan tackling ChainBot and J.B. and Kaitlin facing General Ivar's tanks. The Troopers are victorious and the forest is saved. Back at the U.V.D., Ziktor is tricked into building a park, the Mayor congratulates the Troopers, and Jeb gi

• _{Tuesday, October 4th, 1994}

  16: A Dirty Trick

  A celebration is held on the tenth Anniversary of Tao Dojo and GRIMLORD sends his EVIL MAGICIAN to abduct the real magician and catch the TROOPERS with their guard down. Using KAITLIN and JB to assist him in a trick, he steals their virtualizers. In the pursuit that follows, JB and Kaitlin battle SKUGS while Ryan transforms and fights the Magician, now in his robot form. Tricked into a fall from a high rooftop, Ryan is damaged and taken to the lab for repair. A plan is set: Kaitlin and JB will use the flying car to locate the Magician and Ryan will transform and fight the Magician for the virtualizers. The Magician is located and a battle ensues between him and Ryan. Kaitlin and JB are caught in a dogfight in the air above. Our heroes are ultimately victorious and the virtualizers- are returned.

• _{Wednesday, October 5th, 1994}

  17: Kaitlin's Front Page

  KAITLIN receives a tip on a big story: a top secret weapons plant and testing site has been set up outside Cross World City. The lead proves to be a trap, set up by GRIMLORD. SKUGS hold Kaitlin as bait to lure RYAN and J.B. into an ambush. The boys are forced to do battle with METALBOT and COBROT, two of Grimlord's deadliest robot warriors. The boys ultimately overcome them and release Kaitlin just in the nick of time from a booby-trapped explosion at the weapons site. Kaitlin's story appears on the front page of the newspaper, forcing the closure of the plant.

• _{Friday, October 7th, 1994}

  18: The Dognapping

  SKUGS dognap JEB when he steps outside for a nature call. They take him to GRIMLORD, who is angered by the dog's wise-cracking mouth. Although some robots want to terminate Jeb, Grimlord has a plan: he will set a trap. When the TROOPERS come to rescue Jeb, the warriors will be waiting. CRABOR promises to do the job. TORPEDO BOT will provide back up. GENERAL IVAR will send the FROGBOT to ensure success. Led by a phone call to the harbor, our V.R. Troopers battle Grimlord's forces as Jeb gives a play-by-play from his vantage point. The Troopers win and are reunited with their mascot. Jeb decides it's a lot safer inside the lab.

• _{Monday, October 10th, 1994}

  19: My Dog's Girlfriend

  JEB the dog is depressed because he's fallen for PRINCESS THE DOG and her puppies, but Princess's owner, MRS. BURNS, calls Jeb a pound mutt and blocks their romance -- even though Mrs. Bums' little boy, TIMMY, is all for it. When Kaitlin does a dog show photo session, Jeb and Princess sneak into the darkroom. Mrs. Bums is furious and the puppies run wild. Kaitlin takes Jeb to see Princess at Mrs. Burns' house and a SKUG appears. During the fight, the puppies are stolen. Jeb promises Princess that RYAN will get the pups back. However, GRIMLORD wants the puppies in virtual reality to lure the TROOPERS into the firing range of his ultimate robot - THE TROOPER TERMINATOR. Jeb asks Ryan to help, so the V.R. Troopers battle Grimlord's best robots to rescue the puppies. WOODY'S newspaper throws a ""Puppy Homecoming"" party attended by MAYOR ROONEY and his wife. Jeb gets even with Mrs. Burns by pulling a thread on her dress, which unravels, as she runs screaming from the party in her white slip.

• _{Tuesday, October 11th, 1994}

  20: Digging for Fire

  Crossworld is baffled by a number of Unexplained earthquakes the troopers are suspious because their have never been any earthquakes in the town before they soon discover that Grimlord is responsible for the earthquakes.

• _{Wednesday, October 12th, 1994}

  21: The Great Brain Robbery

  The military has been robbed of the preserved brain of the greatest military mind in history. GRIMLORD will try to use the brain in his scheme to take over the planet. However, GENERAL IVAR decides that he has had enough of Grimlord's orders, and, using a plan the brain has come up with, plots to freeze all of the power lines in the city. If successful, the military will be helpless when the virtual army attacks. The TROOPERS must recover the brain and stop General Ivar in order to preserve peace in Cross World City.

• _{Friday, October 14th, 1994}

  22: The Dojo Plot

  When TAO is informed that the Dojo is on the verge of shutting down due to financial problems, RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. organize a fund-raiser to bail it out of jeopardy. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD plans to buy the building, demolish it and erect a power plant in its place. Further, he intends to install his new Weather Control Device, a system capable of controlling the world's weather and thereby giving him complete global power, within the plant. When Ryan, J.B. and Kaitlin learn of the device and attempt to destroy it, they must face the awesome power of CANNONBOT. Ultimately, they succeed and obliterate the weapon. The fund-raiser is a success, and the Dojo is saved.

• _{Wednesday, October 19th, 1994}

  23: Grimlord's Greatest Hits

  The teens are going to put on a dance-a-thon so that a student of theirs, BRANDON, can afford to go to a special music academy. GRIMLORD decides to hypnotize everyone so that he can defeat the TROOPERS and play his evil music for everyone, causing them to become ZOMBIES. Grimlord's plan goes awry as J.B. and Brandon are not hypnotized. Grimlord then kidnaps Brandon. The Troopers must infiltrate Grimlord's disk plant, rescue Brandon, and fight the evil DISKBOT.

• _{Tuesday, October 25th, 1994}

  24: The Disappearance

  GRIMLORD plots to overtake reality by making his mutants invisible. At the same time, TAO tries to teach the TROOPERS the importance of stealth in combat. In a comic sequence, they try to attack Tao, but are unsuccessful. They step outside to cool off. While alone in the dojo, JEB is used as a guinea pig by SKUGS and made invisible. He attacks them. RYAN discovers the skug fight and helps the invisible Jeb defeat them. They take Jeb to the lab for treatment, where they learn that Grimlord is invading, using the power of invisibility. The Troopers transform. Ryan meets SPITBOT and TOXOID in a battle where they can disappear. KAITLIN and J.B. take on the skugs. They are ultimately victorious. Back at the lab, PROFESSOR HART is successful at making Jeb only half visible (his front half). Ryan learns to appreciate things in life before they disappear.

• _{Monday, October 31st, 1994}

  25: Nightmares

  KAITLIN starts having dreams about the power and invincibility of GRIMLORD'S forces. The nightmares are so vivid she can't sleep and her work starts to suffer. Grimlord is using his ""DREAMMASTER"" robot to use her worst fears against her. Her condition deteriorates until she is forced to tell the boys that she feels she can no longer be an effective V.R. TROOPER. She is taken to the lab, where they learn what Grimlord has been putting into her mind. The Dreammaster challenges RYAN and he goes off to fight him. Grimlord uses this opportunity to launch an attack to separate and conquer the Troopers. J.B. has to fight a mutant and then a full scale air and ground assault. Things go bad when the Troopers are in danger of being overwhelmed. At the last moment, Kaitlin overcomes her fears and charges in to the save the day.

• _{Thursday, November 3rd, 1994}

  26: Secret Admirer

  KAITLIN receives flowers from a secret admirer -- GRIMLORD! COLONEL ICE-BOT is developing evil flowers to capture and destroy the TROOPERS. The flowers keep coming and PERCY tries to claim they're from him, but his sneezing demonstrates he's too allergic to have anything to do with flowers. RYAN and J.B. stake out the U.V.D. Office and trail the delivery person who turns into a SKUG and a fight ensues. They hurry back to warm Kaitlin, but she has just sniffed the toxic flower Colonel IceBot sent. She feels very weak, so the guys take her to the lab, where she disintegrates. She has been pulled into an inter-reality prison. J.B. makes an antidote and crosses the barrier to Kaitlin. He tricks GENERAL IVAR and frees Kaitlin, but General Ivar releases the POLLEN-BOT. General Ivar, and his forces, follow right behind J.B., but he defeats them and returns to reality. The Troopers are reunited.

• _{Friday, November 4th, 1994}

  27: Grimlord's House of Fear

  Inside a house in a quiet neighborhood, COLONEL ICE-BOT has penetrated the reality barrier with an ionic cyber beam. GRIMLORD wants him to build a robot to open the reality barrier from the TROOPERS' side so that GENERAL IVAR'S armies can attack. KAITLIN, RYAN and J.B. investigate and meet MANUEL, a young boy who insists the house is haunted. He promises to take a photo of the ghost inside. Kaitlin tries to convince WOODY at the newspaper to do a story on the haunted house, but he's not convinced. When Manuel calls, Kaitlin rushes to the house to take a photo of the robot. Kaitlin and J.B. battle the VACBOT in Cross World City while Ryan tracks Colonel Ice-Bot to the Air Castle and destroys his database and flying laboratory.

• _{Monday, November 7th, 1994}

  28: Three Strikes

  J.B. coaches one of two rival baseball teams for a benefit game to raise money to upgrade the field and to secure the lease. ZIKTOR wants to end the lease and take the land. After SKUGS fail to kidnap one of J.B.'s players, Ziktor orders METALBOT to take the boy from his apartment complex. RYAN chases the robots but loses them. Search parties go out looking for the boy, but the TROOPERS know he won't be in any ordinary place. They transform, searching the virtual pathways. Grimlord attacks the Skybase, delaying them. Ryan is left alone to fight Metalbot in a desperate effort to save the boy.

• _{Tuesday, November 8th, 1994}

  29: Danger in the Deep

  While playing near the lake, Katlin notices some people loading TNT on the dam. The troopers realize that Grimlord is planning on turning Croosworld city into Crossworld lake by blowing up the dam.

• _{Wednesday, November 9th, 1994}

  30: Small But Mighty

  Strickland, Ziktor's assistant shows him his new invention that can reverse the aging process. He decides to use on the troopers so that they will be too young to stop his warriors.

• _{Monday, November 14th, 1994}

  31: Defending Dark Heart (1)

  The troopers discover an army of mutants, as they scan them, they discover that one the mutants is a human being. Ryan suspects that one of them could be his missing father.

• _{Tuesday, November 15th, 1994}

  32: Defending Dark Heart (2)

  Katlin and JB are trapped between a rock and hardplace. When they realize that if Percy discovers who they are, they are in hot water. Meanwhile, Ryan tries to reason with dark heart to discover if he really is his missing father.

• _{Wednesday, November 16th, 1994}

  33: Defending Dark Heart (3)

  A SKUG learns of the V.R. TROOPERS plans to de-virtualize RYAN'S father, TYLER STEEL/DARK HEART and warns GRIMLORD. who decides to use Dark Heart as bait to lure Ryan to his destruction. PROFESSOR HART and J.B. analyze the data and discovers that Dark Heart is literally connected to Grimlord through a specific chemical and electronic link. The only way to break the link is to destroy Grimlord! Grimlord appears on the lab's screens and gives Ryan specific coordinates on the reality grid. There he will find his father. Grimlord threatens that if Ryan does not appear, Dark Heart will be destroyed. Ryan keeps his appointment and must fight several mutants who intend to destroy both him and his father. Dark Heart is shot and Ryan rescues him. The father and son escape on Ryan's Turbo Cycle. However, Grimlord begins a full scale assault on the lab. ...to be continued.

• _{Thursday, November 17th, 1994}

  34: Defending Dark Heart (4)

  GRIMLORD, knowing DARK HEART/TYLER is gravely injured, launches a full aerial assault on PROFESSOR HART'S lab, as this is the first place RYAN will take his father. Ryan, warned that the lab is under attack, takes his father to a long forgotten and secret lab in the mountains. Father and son are about to be attacked by a full scale aerial assault when J.B. reinputs the transformation commands into the lab's computer. He and Kaitlin transform and rush to Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler's aid. Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler decide to challenge Grimlord face to face and enter virtual reality. Meanwhile, Grimlord begins a self destruct system. Father and son escape just as Grimlord's dungeon explodes - supposedly with Grimlord inside. However, most of the mutants were outside, and another battle begins. Ryan fights off DECIMATOR and Tyler returns to human form. Ryan holds his father before he disappears -- as Grimlord takes him back to Virtual World.

• _{Friday, November 18th, 1994}

  35: Ghost Biker

  Local legend has it that anyone who looks at the GHOST BIKER face to face vanishes forever. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR receives two pieces of good news: GENERAL IVAR has found a weakened area of the reality barrier and COLONEL ICEBOT has developed a new weapon, the Virtual Vaporizer, to take care of the TROOPERS. PERCY follows Kaitlin and J.B. to the construction site, but when The Ghost Biker appears, he faints. The Troopers' investigation is interrupted by SKUGS and once they've been dispensed with, The Ghost Biker reappears and vanishes with Kaitlin and J.B. They discover that The Ghost Biker is a computer program, which J.B. programs to help Ryan defeat Renegade and the two robots. The Ghost Biker takes Ryan to J.B. and Kaitlin - and allows them to return to reality.

• _{Monday, November 21st, 1994}

  36: Endangered Species

  KAITLIN'S friend, DANIELLE, beseeches her to write a story about the Animal Sanctuary, where Danielle's father is head scientist. Developers are trying to buy the land and use it for industrial development. When Kaitlin, J.B. and RYAN arrive at the sanctuary, they discover that GRIMLORD has plans for the land as well. Grimlord's SKUGS kidnap Danielle while his MUTANTS try to destroy the rare species of animals being protected on the sanctuary. The VR TROOPERS fight Grimlord's minions and save the animals. Kaitlin's story convinces the City Council to keep the animal sanctuary intact and safe for future generations.

• _{Tuesday, November 22nd, 1994}

  37: Field Goal

  When the Jr. High FOOTBALL COACH stumbles onto GRIMLORD'S secret base, SKUGS shrink him and imprison him in a sports trading card. When the team is turned away from their field, the Troopers go to the office of the ""landscaper,"" who turn into Skugs and a fight ensues. Ryan decides to hold practice at the Dojo, where the Troopers, including JEB, help with the training. Grimlord is determined to ambush Ryan, but Ryan defeats CANON FIST, retrieving it's memory cell. Ryan and Kaitlin work with the team while J.B. uses the lab's computers on the memory cell in hopes of finding the coach. He determines a link to the playing field. At the field J.B. battles Skugs and just as Kaitlin arrives, pulls them back to Virtual Reality, where they battle FOOT-BOT. In a parallel fight, Ryan leads the football team. J.B. and Kaitlin destroy Foot-bot, find the trading card and release the coach. They get him back to the game in time to give the team one final play and the victory.

• _{Wednesday, November 23rd, 1994}

  38: The Littlest Trooper

  SKUGS kidnap BABY BOO from his parents in the park and leave the baby on the dojo doorstep. JEB alerts the kids, who alert the authorities and care for the baby. At the lab, the V.R. Scanner shows the bomb factory and Baby Boo's MOM and DAD being held prisoner by Skugs. Then Percy show up at the cave, gets pounced on by Skugs and is held hostage with baby's parents. Ryan stays in the lab with Jeb and Baby Boo. J.B. and Kaitlin fight Icebot until GENERAL IVAR'S Quantum Cruisers begin to release bombs. Ryan leaves Baby Boo with PROFESSOR HART and Jeb and transforms. Ryan fights the air battle in the V.R. Skybase. After J.B. and Kaitlin rescue the hostages, Ryan targets the bomb factory and destroys it. All's well that ends well, and Ryan hopes that he and his father will soon be reunited.

• _{Tuesday, November 29th, 1994}

  39: The Reality Virus

  GENERAL IVAR and COLONEL ICEBOT stage a battle with the V.R. TROOPERS in virtual reality in order to infect them with a Reality Virus. The Troopers cross back to reality, unwittingly carrying a virtual sludge designed to eat away the reality barrier. By the time RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. discover the virus, it's already infected much of Cross World City and GRIMLORD is preparing a massive attack. The kids discover one of TAO'S plants will destroy the virus, but SKUGS take the plant. As reality crumbles and Kaitlin and J.B. fight the QUANTUM CRUISERS, Ryan must fight RENEGADE and CRABOR in order to retrieve the rare plant that will allow PROFESSOR HART to prepare specialized virtual bombs that will heal the reality barrier.

• _{Wednesday, November 30th, 1994}

  40: Friends in Need

  Two circus performers who are scientists in disguise (MIKAIL and LEAH) are taken to PROFESSOR HART for help in completing their research on a fuel-increasing formula hidden on a micro-dot on a jewel in Leah's necklace. They are beset by SKUGS on the way to the lab, and the scientists are kidnapped, but not before Leah puts her necklace around JEB'S neck. GRIMLORD is furious that the formula has been passed on. Professor Hart is able to help the TROOPERS prepare a plan to find and free Leah and Mikail, while he analyzes the micro-dot. The Troopers transform. Ryan meets Horrorbot in a battle where his powers are weakened and he is caged. Following a high-speed pursuit, Kaitlin leads the scientists to safety while J.B. flattens Terminoid and General Ivar. Meanwhile, Ryan puts Horrorbot out of commission. Reunited at the Dojo, Leah gets her necklace back, along with Professor Hart's information.

• _{Monday, February 6th, 1995}

  41: Good Trooper, Bad Trooper

  KAITLIN is doing an article on biologically dissimilar twins. She maintains that every living being has a mirror image. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR has developed a cloning device from plans originally belonging to TYLER STEELE. He sends his SKUGS to attack Ryan and obtain a lock of his hair with which the device will produce a clone. While Ryan is out jogging with JEB in the park, his evil Clone appears at the Dojo and becomes uncharacteristically aggressive and mean. When Ryan's Clone can't gain entrance to the lab, J.B. and Kaitlin become suspicious. Ryan goes to the lab and is given the Professor's Virtualizer, enabling him to confront his evil twin. The Troopers win the day and return to the Dojo, intent on finding Jeb. Suddenly, Jeb shows up at the door -- only it's not Jeb. It's really his twin. When Jeb's twin exhibits the same characteristics as Jeb, Kaitlin is quick to acknowledge that some twins are equal.

• _{Tuesday, February 7th, 1995}

  42: The Transmutant

  J.B. spars with RYAN in an effort to relax before taking a test to qualify for a scholarship. When sparring fails to work, J.B. tries to relax in the park. SKUGS attack him and draw him into the BattleGrid where they administer the Metamorphosis Pulse -- a weapon designed to gradually change humans into virtual mutants. PROFESSOR HART informs Kaitlin and Ryan that J.B. is under GRIMLORD'S influence. As one of Grimlord's mutants, J.B. forgets who he really is and fights other mutants for position. Grimlord sends the mutant J.B. to fight Ryan, as Kaitlin works with the Professor to recover their fallen Trooper. Ryan manages to save J.B.'s life and, as the Transmutant, J.B. fights by Ryan's side and defeats the other mutants. At the lab, J.B. regains his human form just in time to take the test -- an exam about which he's no longer worried. His experience in the Virtual World has allowed him to put the scholarship in proper perspective.

• _{Wednesday, February 8th, 1995}

  43: Who's King of the Mountain?

  J.B. agrees to help his South American ""E-Mail"" pal, JOSE, with some research on volcano data. Mount Kronos, an extinct volcano near-by, has been vibrating strangely and J.B. is convinced that his computer will give him the answer to why this is happening. Meanwhile, GRIMLORD is building an attack base to breach the reality barrier through the volcano. By eavesdropping on J.B., Grimlord learns that the TROOPERS may uncover his plan. JEB smells a rat and Ryan realizes ""Jose"" is an impostor. ""Jose"" turns into a Skug, multiplies himself and a Skug fight ensues. J.B. transforms, goes onto the mountain and is nearly trapped by GENERAL IVAR and ROLL-BOT. Ryan pulls J.B. back to reality just in time. The Troopers defeat their enemies and destroy Grimlord's attack base. Back at the Dojo, ""Jose,"" short for the beautiful Josephina, arrives. She wonders if J.B. would show her around Cross World City? J.B. is convinced this experience is better in reality than via computer ""E-Mail.""

• _{Thursday, February 9th, 1995}

  44: The Couch Potato Kid

  RICKY, TAO'S visiting nephew, is a couch potato who spends most of his time watching TV and playing video games. The kids are planning an obstacle course for Cross World City and they get Ricky involved. GRIMLORD, reeling from recent defeats at the hands of the V.R. TROOPERS, plans an obstacle course competition for his warriors. The prize: another bout with Ryan. Grimlord's newest robot, COMBAX, kidnaps Ricky and brings him to the games. Ryan finds Ricky and Combax at the robot games. Ryan defeats Combax and rescues Ricky, who no longer wants to be a couch potato. He wants to participate in life. To Tao's delight, Ricky not only runs the obstacle course, he soundly trounces PERCY, despite his opponent's head start.

• _{Friday, February 10th, 1995}

  45: The Old Switcharoo

  GRIMLORD steals DR. UNGER's transforming device, hoping to take the powers of the V.R. TROOPERS for his army. RYAN interrupts the theft and the device's beam is turned on him. JEB jumps into the beam and the two of them switch bodies. Later, J.B. and Kaitlin transform to get the device while Ryan, in Jeb's body, tries to control Jeb. J.B. and Kaitlin fight a fierce battle and when they need help, Ryan tries to transform while still in Jeb's body. Jeb winds up in Ryan's robot body and is forced to fight a MUTANT. When J.B. and Kaitlin destroy the device, Ryan and Jeb are switched back to their own bodies and Ryan defeats his foe. Back at the Dojo, the kids are surprised by one the antics Jeb pulled while a human. He bought out every fast food place in Cross World City.

• _{Monday, February 13th, 1995}

  46: Race to the Rescue

  RYAN, KAITI IN and J.B. are having a blast at a go-cart racetrack. They notice a kid who is being teased by a bully about having trouble with his go-cart. J.B. and Ryan volunteer to help get the kid's go-cart up and running for a race against the bully. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR has come up with the ultimate opposition to the TROOPERS -- melding the powers of all his mutants into one super-robot, ZELTON. Back at the Dojo, Ryan and J.B. get a call from PROFESSOR HART, who needs their help in collecting crystals for some research he's doing. Ryan is busy with the repair job on the go-cart, so Kaitlin and J.B. volunteer to collect the Professor's crystals. GRIMLORD, who orders his mutants to fire upon the two Troopers after they enter an old mine. Once inside, the bombardment causes a cave-in in the mine trapping Kaitlin and J.B. At the lab, Ryan and the Professor try to trace J.B. and Kaitlin's movements, but they are unsuccessful. Grimlord chooses now as the perfect time to unleash his ultimate

• _{Tuesday, February 14th, 1995}

  47: Fiddler on the Loose

  KAITLIN'S cousin from Ireland, KEITH, and his band are in town to perform a benefit concert to help raise awareness concerning the environment. KARL ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD, not wanting the city to realize his company is responsible for harmful toxic waste dumping, needs to prevent the concert at any cost. Therefore, he kidnaps Keith and brings him into his world of Virtual Reality. For good measure, Grimlord decides to imprison Keith in a music synthesizer that will harness the musician's fiddling talent and enable the mutant FIDDLEBOT to play a series of songs that will finally destroy the TROOPERS. RYAN rescues Keith from Grimlord's clutches and returns him to human form so the concert can go on. PROFESSOR HART and the Troopers erase all of Keith's memories of Virtual Reality and he and his band entertain and enlighten the citizens of Cross World City as planned.

• _{Wednesday, February 15th, 1995}

  48: Virtually Powerless

  While at an arcade, J.B., RYAN and KAITLIN are visited by a mysterious man who suggests they play the newest game in the store -- ""Dark Odyssey."" As they play, they are given a shock via the game board, which GRIMLORD is secretly using as a conduit to unleash a lethal dose of gamma radiation on the virtualizers. They turn to their old friend, DR. ULYSSES T. POINDEXTER, the absent-minded professor. With Dr. Poindexter's help, Ryan's virtualizer is repaired. During a test run, Poindexter is kidnapped by SKUGS under Grimlord's order. The evil emperor wants to use Poindexter's knowledge of the TROOPERS as a weapon against them. The VR trio track Poindexter's whereabouts and Ryan sets out to rescue him. In the end, Poindexter repairs all three virtualizers and the Troopers are back in business. J.B. uses a device to wipe Poindexter's memory free from knowing who they really are, thus making him worthless to Grimlord.

• _{Monday, February 20th, 1995}

  49: New Kids on the Planet

  While camping out the gang gets their visit of a life time. Two alien kids asks them for help. They bring them to Professor Hart, where he fixs their piece they needed. While waiting, they decides to show the aliens, Nicoli, and Elajh around. They then get kidnapped from Grimlord's hencemen, and the troopers get them back. The two aliens then return home.

• _{Wednesday, February 22nd, 1995}

  50: Message from Space

  PROFESSOR HART contacts RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. at The Underground to relay a message to Ryan from DR. MONROE, an old friend of the Professor's who happens to head up the National Space Laboratory. Dr. Monroe informs Ryan that while retrieving data from an old satellite he ran across information concerning TYLER STEELE, Ryan's dad. Dr. Monroe arranges to travel to Cross World City to give Ryan the video. ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD learns of this plan and sends his SKUGS to intercept delivery of the videotape. He also plans to lure the TROOPERS into a trap that will destroy them once and for all. Grimlord's Skugs are successful in kidnapping Dr. Monroe and detaining the Troopers. The Troopers locate the real Dr. Monroe and attempt a rescue. Dr. Monroe is released from Grimlord's clutches and the video of Tyler Steele is recovered. Ryan learns that his father is still alive and out there --somewhere.

• _{Monday, February 27th, 1995}

  51: The Rise of the Red Python (1)

  Grimlord invents his own VR Trooper but realizes that he's missing a human inhabit the armor so he sets his sights on Kaitlin's friend Amy. He captures Amy and puts her under his evil spell. Kaitlin is injured causing ryan to make sure that the red python will regret for what she did.

• _{Tuesday, February 28th, 1995}

  52: The Rise of the Red Python (2)

  Ryan and J.B. desperately search for a way to help Kaitlin return to human form. J.B. is sent to fight the Red Python and the Python malfunctions midbattle. They visit their friend, Dr. Poindexter, hoping he can help them with Kaitlin. Poindexter has an extra retroformer and-they use it on Kaitlin, bringing her back to normal. Meanwhile, Amy goes to the dojo, looking for help and passes out. She transforms into the Red Python and is sent to destroy the Troopers. At the lab it is discovered that Amy is the Red Python and is in danger of self-destructing if engaged in another battle. J.B. again meets with Red Python and tries to reason with her. She collapses and changes back into Amy. She taken to the lab where the professor- is able to reverse the brainwashing. She is grateful to the V.R. Troopers and her new friends, unaware that they are one and the same.

Season 2

• _{Monday, September 11th, 1995}

  1: Mutant Mutiny

  As the Troopers entertain offers of commercial endorsements from a competing dojo to get money to help Tao's mother, AMPHIBIDOR, an evil mutant, is preparing a revolution against Grimlord; a revolution which will make this monster the dictator of Virtual Reality. When Grimlord realizes that his wicked empire is under attack, he devises a strategy to solve two problems at once: he will send Amphibidor after the V.R. Troopers. If they don't destroy each other, they will at least be weakened and vulnerable enough that Grimlord's thugs can finish the job. As Amphibidor battles V.R. Ryan, V.R. Kaitlin and V.R. J.B. face the rest of Grimlord's army in a full-out air battle. Together, the V.R. Troopers defeat Grimlord's men and Amphibidor---saving reality and ending Grimlord's revolution. Back at the dojo, the Troopers find out that Tao has worked out a deal with his competitor and will get the money he needs for his mother.

• _{Tuesday, September 12th, 1995}

  2: Trooper out of Time

  Strickland, a skug inventor, delivers to Ziktor the means to destroy Ryan's past-providing the industrialist with a portable time machine. Ziktor sends the inventor through the time barrier. From the data stream, the Professor has pulled Ziktor's plans for the time machine. While J.B. and Ryan build the device, Kaitlin volunteers to find a rare crystal needed to power it. Retrieving the crystal, Kaitlin encounters skugs which she battles and defeats. With the crystal, the Troopers complete their version of the time machine and send Ryan after Strickland while Kaitlin and J.B. go into battle with one of Grimlord's mutants. J.B. and Kaitlin defeat Grimlord's SHARKFIN as Ryan and Young Ryan, joining forces, defeat Grimlord's skugs. Bruised during the fight, Young Ryan doesn't remember anything about the skugs. Ryan sees his father but must return to the future before he has an opportunity to talk with him.

• _{Wednesday, September 13th, 1995}

  3: Secret Power

  A neighborhood talent show is planned at the dojo. Amidst the festivities is little Timmy who is sad because he feels that he has no talent. Our teen heroes are determined to help him see differently. Meanwhile, Icebot has created a new invention, the Power Pulse -- two electro magnets, one at the Magnetic North Pole, the other near the Cross World City power plant. When full current is exchanged between these magnets, the reality barrier will warp and Ivar's robot armies will march through to destroy the real world. Fearing that the Troopers will discover the plot, Grimlord sends the MAGICIAN and several warrior bots to destroy the Troopers. The V.R. Troupers fight off the Magician and his warriors, and destroy the electromagnets just in time to save our reality. Back to the talent show, little Timmy says he has no talents, but Ryan, J.B. and Kaitlin show him that every kid has secret powers inside and lots of hidden talents.

• _{Monday, September 18th, 1995}

  4: Quest for Power (1)

  Grimlord uses Tyler Steels' mind to create an energy prism which will upgrade his powers to a whole new level, he then unleashes a powrful cyborg to attack Ryan...

• _{Tuesday, September 19th, 1995}

  5: Quest for Power (2)

  Grimlord continues to tap into Tyler Steel's mind Jeb voulunteers to infiltrate Grimlord's dungeon to Wolfbot mutant. Ryan defys the wishes ofd Katlin and goes after Jeb and his father, but Grimlord is waiting for him...

• _{Wednesday, September 20th, 1995}

  6: Quest for Power (3)

  Ryan and the Troopers search the mountains above Cross World City for any readings of Grimlord or Tyler with a special device that J.B. has created. They find that Grimlord is holding up in a cavernous temporary dungeon. Ryan must enter the new domain and battle Grimlord's gauntlet of mutants, while J.B. and Kaitlin are trapped in the Chamber of Doom. The Cavern is destroyed and Ryan loses his V.R. powers in the process of rescuing his father and the other Troopers. Tyler is in bad shape. It appears as if there is no hope for him. Or is there? ...to be continued

• _{Thursday, September 21st, 1995}

  7: Quest for Power (4)

  Ryan's powers are gone, and Grimlord's new army is activated, can the Troopers create a new armour and power source for thier leader in time before the new mutant army is put to work?

• _{Friday, September 22nd, 1995}

  8: Quest for Power (5)

  The Troopers are able to get a crystal to power the new V.R. suit from Tao. They all must battle DESPERA, the ULTRA SKUGS, DOOM MASTER, and the VIXENS in the Quarry. In the end, the Troopers win.

• _{Monday, September 25th, 1995}

  9: Fashion Victims

  When Kaitlin and the Troopers offer to help a young fashion designer, they end up lending a hand, V.R. style. Grimlord brainwashes Andrea and uses her to lure the Troopers to her studio. Luckily, Ryan has to stay behind to help Tao, because while J.B. and Kaitlin are modeling Andrea's designs, they are trapped in cocoons by SILKOID. When Ryan shows up, he wonders where Kaitlin and J.B. are. He decides to look for them, but is intercepted by Doom Master and Vixens. Ryan transforms and drives them off. Returning to the studio, he discovers some silk residue which he uses to create a V.R. sensor in the Blue Hawk to track Silkoid. Ryan returns to save Andrea and defeat Silkoid which broke the spell that he had over J.B. and Kaitlin and freed them from their cocoons. Back at the office, Andrea has decided to scrap her previous line and look for more appropriate models to sport her new designs which are based on the ""V.R. Trooper look"".

• _{Tuesday, September 26th, 1995}

  10: Game Over

  In an effort to keep up their battle skills and practice defending against Grimlord's forces, J.B. creates a virtual reality computer program that possesses all the fighting capabilities to which the Troopers are most vulnerable. Grimlord becomes aware of this ""video game"" adversary and devises a way to launch it into our reality so that the Troopers must face their most awesome opponent imaginable for real. By confronting their fears, they defeat their opponents and are able to destroy GAMEOID and erase the program from existence.

• _{Wednesday, September 27th, 1995}

  11: Watered Down

  Grimlord is developing a substance in his underwater lab that will make it impossible for the Troopers to use their V.R. powers anywhere the substance is applied. When the Troopers spot the substance off shore near the beach, Ryan dives down to check it out. He meets OCTOBOT who has spread the substance into the surrounding water. With Ryan unable to use his V.R.Power and transform, he is trapped underwater with his air running out. J.B. and Kaitlin must find a way to reach Ryan and destroy the underwater lab that is manufacturing the substance before it's too late. With time running out, J.B. drills through the bedrock to enter the lab without passing through the water, and then he and Kaitlin destroy Octobot to neutralize the substance to enable Ryan to transform out at the last moment.

• _{Monday, October 2nd, 1995}

  12: The Negative Factor

  When Grimlord uses a new devise to trap Kaitlin and J.B. in negative space, turning them into ""ghosts"" on earth (invisible to everyone except Jeb), the evil mutant lord realizes his weapon is a success and begins plans to send the entire planet into this new zone - where the V.R. Troopers are powerless - and his power is supreme. Meanwhile, J.B. and Kaitlin who've discovered the location of the negative weapon - arrive at the lab, scare the heck out of Jeb who can see the ""ghosts"", and manage to type the location of the buried device on a computer for Ryan. Professor Hart introduces Ryan to the V.R. Gargantus, an awesome robot created from the V.R. Skybase that will be backup for Ryan's solo mission. Jeb, meanwhile, uses virtual headgear to enter the Negative Zone and lead J.B. and Kaitlin to safety. After a tough battle with SCISSOR FIST, V.R. Ryan succeeds in dismantling the Negative device.

• _{Tuesday, October 3rd, 1995}

  13: Kaitlin Through the Looking Glass (1)

  Grimlord creates a weapon that can duplicate anyone's image but create an opposite of what they are he uses it on Katlin to create an evil image of katlin. who wreaks havoc on her alter ego and the troopers however Hart realizes that if Katlin that if the two Katlin's are not put back into one by 24 hours they will both disappear

• _{Wednesday, October 4th, 1995}

  14: Kaitlin Through the Looking Glass (2)

  Grimlord tries to expand his Virtual Mirror Program with mass production of the compact transmitters. His evil plan is thwarted when Kaitlin Two---pretending to betray the V.R. Troopers---returns to his fortress, only to steal the Master Virtual Mirror Replicator and return to Earth. Professor Hart uses the device to put the two Kaitlins back together, but Jeb accidentally breaks the mirror transmitter. As a result, Kaitlin has a new power; she may transform into two V.R. Kaitlins when a dire situation calls for an additional hand.

• _{Monday, October 9th, 1995}

  15: Kaitlin Goes Hollywood

  When the models don't show up for Kaitlin's fashion layout photo session, she becomes the model---until a famous movie director drops by to place an ad for a casting call for his new movie. Kaitlin is ""discovered"" and wins, not only the role but also the heart of the director. Meanwhile, all this movie business gives Grimlord an idea---he will create PHOTOBOT, half bot, half movie camera. Photobot will not only destroy the V.R. Troopers, he will photograph the battle for everyone to see. But General Ivar decides he wants to be a movie star and secretly uses Photobot to make a movie starring, who else, but General Ivar! Grimlord learns of the ruse and orders Photobot to destroy Ivar's movie set and attack Cross World City. Grimlord's armies march through the reality barrier as Ryan and J.B. transform. But they need Kaitlin and she is about to begin her new movie. Kaitlin must choose between movie stardom and her secret promise to defend all that is good. Kaitlin follows her heart, trans

• _{Tuesday, October 10th, 1995}

  16: Grimlord Takes Root

  Kaitlin's photo shoot and J.B. and Ryan's motorcycles are destroyed when vicious plants come to life in Cross World City Park. Suspecting that Grimlord is behind this ecological stunt, J.B. and Kaitlin take a sample of the killer vine back to the lab for analysis. Meanwhile, Ryan is attacked by the killer vines. The vines later mutate into plant mutants: CHLOROPHOID and VEGBOT. V.R. Ryan battles Veg-Bot while V.R. J.B. and the twin V.R. Kaitlins fight Chlorophoid. The plant mutants must be destroyed before all life on earth is threatened. Once the Troopers are victorious, they give the plant samples to a biological foundation for research. The foundation rewards the teens with two brand new motorcycles.

• _{Wednesday, October 11th, 1995}

  17: The Disk

  A former teacher of Tyler Steele accidently creates a disk that could spell doom for the troopers when grimlord discovers this he sends his henchmen to retrieve the disk.

• _{Monday, October 16th, 1995}

  18: Virtual Venom

  While the Troopers are on a nature hike with J.B.'s nephew Sidney, Doom Master poses as a Park Ranger and gives Sydney a virtual spider to show his friends. It attacks J.B. and Kaitlin, biting them both with a virtual poison that enters their bloodstream and accelerates the aging process. As they begin to get older, Ryan attempts to find the spider so Professor Hart can make an antidote from its venom. Looking for the spider, though, Ryan is abducted by Skugs and taken to a waterfront location where ARACHNABOT, Grimlord's newest warrior, is waiting for him. They do battle, but Ryan sees that he's outmatched and gets away. Meanwhile, Sydney has decided to locate the spider that bit his uncle and Kaitlin on his own, and falls into a deep cave during the pursuit, realizing that the virtual spider is in the cave with him! Ryan once again battles Arachnabot, as Professor Hart sends Jeb to help Sydney. Ryan is nearly defeated by Arachnabot, but Doom Master steps in and destroys the bot first

• _{Tuesday, October 17th, 1995}

  19: New World Order

  With Ryan's help, Kaitlin interviews bikers about an upcoming charity ride. But when Ryan puts on a new helmet, he tries to run Kaitlin over. He then roars off, with Percy handing on. Later, J.B. and Kaitlin fight Skugs who melts away with a bike. Professor Hart suggest the bike might be a clue to Ryan's behavior. On the lab monitor, Ryan and the bikers are seen making havoc in the city. J.B. and Kaitlin track Ryan down, but CYCLETRON materializes from a bike and fights them. Afterwards, Kaitlin finds a helmet with a mind-control device. J.B. and Kaitlin, later, do battle with Cycletron at his headquarters where a possessed Ryan holds Percy captive. When J.B. pulls Ryan's helmet off, Ryan returns to normal and removes the helmets from the other bikers. Meanwhile, J.B. destroys Cycletron and saves the day.

• _{Wednesday, October 18th, 1995}

  20: Grimlord's Children

  Tao Dojo becomes a temporary kiddie play center when the neighborhood center has water damage. Ryan, J.B., and Kaitlin must learn quickly how to deal with out-of-control kids, especially young Chad, who doesn't tell the truth. Ziktor/Grimlord, realizing that ""kids are the future"", sends OBOTATRON to turn the children into his slaves. Obotatron releases balloons which hypnotize kids who touch them. Adults who touch the balloons become imprisoned inside. Chad meets Obotatron in the park and is chased by balloons. He tells J.B., but J.B. does not believe him. Meanwhile, balloons in the dojo turn the kids into walking zombies and Ryan and Kaitlin become entrapped in the balloons, which float down the street. Tao takes care of Chad and the zombie kids, while J.B. transforms and fights off Obotatron to rescue Ryan and Kaitlin from the balloons. The Troopers defeat Obotatron, returning the children to normal. Chad, having learned to tell the truth, is accepted as Tao's newest karate student.

• _{Tuesday, October 24th, 1995}

  21: The Millennium Sabre

  Grimlord's warriors, led by LIZARDBOT, ransack a museum trying to find the Millennium Sabre. Meanwhile, the Troopers buy a rusty old sword at a garage sale, which Tao recognizes as the legendary ""Millennium Sabre"", a sword which is strengthened by an invincible power one day out of every thousand years---tomorrow being that one day. Grimlord's skugs steal the sword from the Troopers and prepares his attack plan. The Troopers try to figure out a way to stop the sword, though no one in the history of time has been able to do so. Kaitlin discovers that the sword is energized by lightening and when Grimlord's army enters reality and the sword begins to draw it's power. The destruction is to begin when Kaitlin and J.B. arrive to stall the Lizardbot. Ryan flies into an electrical storm in his Blue Hawk and collects energy by being hit by lightning. He returns just as Lizardbot is about to destroy his two fellow Troopers. He blasts the sword with the energy and destroys it.

• _{Thursday, November 2nd, 1995}

  22: Grimlord's Dark Secret (1)

  An Archieologist discovers an ancient doorway to another world what he doesn't know that it also unlocks the information to grimlord's true idenity when grimlord discovers this. he sends doomaster and despra to stop the trooprs from uncovering his idenity.

• _{Friday, November 3rd, 1995}

  23: Grimlord's Dark Secret (2)

  Ryan discovers how to access the pyramid and finds the source of Grimlord's secret identity. Before he can learn the identity, however, he's attacked by Despera. Despera proves to be a formidable opponent, but VR Ryan forces her to retreat. Ryan decides he must save his friends before learning Grimlord's secret. He saves JB and Kaitlin, and they go off to rescue Nebraska. Ryan returns to the pyramid, but must fight HYDRA-BOT. In the lab, Professor Hart and Jeb intercept a message from Grimlord: Oraclon will move the pyramid and seal off the portal, trapping our heroes on the island forever. Jeb races to save his friends. Meanwhile, Ryan defeats Hydra-Bot. He gets to the pyramid just as it disappears in a flash. Kaitlin and JB find Ryan in the cave, semi-conscious. Grimlord's identity has eluded them. Jeb runs in to tell his friends that the portal is closing forever. They rescue Nebraska and race through the portal, just in time! Ryan regrets losing the secrets to the pyramid, but he's

• _{Monday, November 6th, 1995}

  24: On the Wrong Track

  Kaitlin is sent abroad to cover the Pan World Games. Grimlord uses this opportunity to alter the ceremonial gold medals thus transforming the world's greatest athletes into his army of mutants. While the three are occupied fighting skugs, Kaitlin's friend, a decathalete, is crowned with the gold and transforms into ATHLETETRON, the most powerful of Grimlord's creatures. VR Ryan must use all his strength, stamina and smarts to fend off such a strong adversary. Meanwhile, Kaitlin must stall the upcoming awards ceremony long enough for JB to deprogram the remaining medals and save the athletes from Grimlord's evil spell.

• _{Tuesday, November 7th, 1995}

  25: Forward into the Past

  With the help of his old friend KNIGHTTIME, Grimlord sends Kaitlin and J.B. back to prehistoric earth and plans to do the same to Ryan. Meanwhile, the Evil emperor instructs Knighttime to construct the ultimate time machine that will send all the citizens of earth hurling back to a point before the beginning of time, thereby destroying them and making the planet his own. Grimlord sends LIZBOT to dispose of Ryan. They battle and Ryan is victorious. Meanwhile, Professor Hart has learned the location of Grimlord's time machine and also realizes that it's power might be able to retrieve J.B. and Kaitlin from the past. In a race against time, Ryan rescues his friends and then destroys the time machine once and for all. Knighttime, defeated, swears he will return.

• _{Wednesday, November 8th, 1995}

  26: Into Oraclon's Web

  Ryan befriends a mysterious new girl named Alexis, unaware that she is really one of Grimlords minions in disguise. Then, Ryan takes on Oraclon, one-on-one, and defeats him.

• _{Monday, November 13th, 1995}

  27: Santa's Secret Trooper

  When Ryan, JB, and Kaitlin take foster children to the mountains for Christmas, they meet one of Santa's elves, OTTO. Some of the foster kids don't believe the elf, especially young Ian, but Ryan, JB, and Kaitlin do. Otto goes back to the dojo with the group so the Troopers can figure out how to reunite him with Santa. Skugs, however, kidnap the elf to the Dark Fortress and coerce him to grant Grimlord's wish- -""Destroy the VR Troopers!"" Otto won't give in and, instead, tricks Grimlord to wich him back to the dojo, just in time for the Christmas party. Ryan's Christmas wish is granted when Tyler Steele arrives with Santa, having gotten a ride on his sled. Santa has presents for everyone, including a new bow staff for JB. And Kaitlin's wish is granted when it begins to snow. Everybody believes in Santa now, even young Ian, who got to pull Santa's whiskers to make sure they were real.

• _{Tuesday, November 14th, 1995}

  28: The Charmeeka Invasion

  Friendly, little creatures called CHARMEEKAS become the popular new pet in Cross World City. But the Troopers discover that Grimlord has sent them, and soon, they will mature into mutants called CHARMADORS who will carry out his plans for destruction. They must get rid of the Charmeekas before they all transform. JB and Kaitlin fly overhead and draw all the Charmeekas back across the reality barrier...except one which didn't hear the high-pitched lure. Soon this last Charmeeka mutates into a Charmador. Ryan must battle the last mutant through several zones before finally destroying him.

• _{Wednesday, November 15th, 1995}

  29: Dream Battle

  Grimlord uses Knighttime to make Ryan, JB, and Kaitlin fall into a deep sleep where they experience the world as it might be if Grimlord won. If Hart and Jeb can't revive the Troopers, the heroes will remain in the ""dream world"" for the rest of their lives. Hart enters the dream world via a VR Visor interface and manages to tell the Troopers they are dreaming. The Troopers fight a menagerie of robots and airships, including their own skybase and Troopertron, before realizing that they must literally think their way from the dream rather than fight.

• _{Monday, November 20th, 1995}

  30: A Hard Day's Mutant

  The Krossworld Kids, a popular, young, rock group, agrees to play a special benefit for the Homeless at the Tao Dojo. Grimlord decides to steal their musical talents with his mutant BONGOTRON. Despera creates a diversion that draws the Troopers away while Doom Master kidnaps the band and their fan club. Jeb leads the Troopers to General Ivar's underground fortress, where they free the prisoners and VR Ryan fights Bongotron. Ryan wins, restoring the Krossworld Kids' musical talents, and they hold their benefit concert.

• _{Tuesday, November 21st, 1995}

  31: Magnetic Attraction

  Grimlord discovers that magentifity can damage the troopers hardaware and decides to use it to against the troopers.

• _{Monday, November 27th, 1995}

  32: Get Me to the Lab on Time

  Strickland develops a love potion Grimlord will use to preoccupy the Troopers, leaving the world defenseless. Strickland delivers a box of chocolates (addressed to Kaitlin) which contains the potion. Percy, however, intercepts the candy and sneaks some for himself, falling headover-heels in love with Kaitlin. The Troopers are puzzled, but when Kaitlin eats the chocolates and falls in love with Percy, they know there's a big problem. They take the chocolate to the lab while Percy and Kaitlin plan their wedding. Grimlord launches CUPITRON against the Troopers. They triumph against Grimlord, finish the antidote, and race to stop the wedding. Just before they say their vows, Kaitlin and Percy drink the antidote and return back to normal, disgusted by the thought of marrying each other. Percy finds his real dream girl and the Troopers reflect on the power love.

• _{Tuesday, November 28th, 1995}

  33: Grimlord's Big Breakout

  Grimlord frees Cross World City's most evil convict, ""NUTSY"" NICHOLS, from prison. Strickland then transforms him into the ultimate anti-Trooper weapon, the NUTSY MONSTER, who is immediately sent after the Troopers. In addition, Doom Master sends JAILBOT to battle VR Ryan as the other Troopers fight Nutsy---keeping in mind that what they're fighting is not a mutant but actually a human being. When the Monster is distracted by Woody's bag of peanuts, VR Kaitlin and VR JB use this weakness to lure the creature to the lab where, with the Professor's help, he is transformed back to human form. Meanwhile, VR Ryan destroys Jailbot and retroforms back to the lab. The teens decide to get ""Nutsy"" back to the prison before he wakes up. At the Warden's Office, ""Nutsy"" expresses his remorse. He feels like a great evil has passed through his body. The Troopers are impressed that even a hardened criminal like ""Nutsy"" can change.

• _{Monday, February 5th, 1996}

  34: Field and Scream

  When Ziktor calls a press conference to announce plans to bulldoze a forest to build a ""research facility"". The Troopers shame him in front of the press, pressuring him to agree to accompany them on the weekend ""Nature Scout"" camping trip which Kaitlin will cover as a photo story for the Underground Voice Daily. Ziktor, realizing that he will be unable to control his evil empire during the trip, appoints KNIGHTTIME to make sure that nothing good happens in his absence. Ziktor quickly tires on the hard work and humiliation he endures and gets word to Ivar to unleash BAZOOKA BOT and RAVAGEBOT on Cross World City--just to bring the camping trip to an end. The Troopers, in order to protect their identities, defeat the monsters in tag team fashion. Back at the Underground, Ziktor comes by to take a look at the tools which will turn the tide of public opinion in favor of his research facility---Kaitlin's pictures. Unfortunately, the photos prove to weaken his position as they portray him as

• _{Tuesday, February 6th, 1996}

  35: The Duplitron Dilemma

  Grimlord, with the help of Strickland has developed a computer-type machine, the DUPLITRON, that can create anything once the name of it is typed into the keyboard. His plan is to manufacture many Duplitrons so they can begin forming a massive army. But when Strickland is taking the Duplitron to the factory, the Troopers recognize him and investigate his actions. They end up with the Duplitron and go the Underground to examine it. There Percy, who is in need of a computer, accidentally takes it. Soon Percy discovers the machine's powers and uses it to create money and girls to surround himself. Meanwhile, the Troopers discover Grimlord's plan to form a massive army, and head out to find the Duplitron factory. They must also destroy Percy's prototype. Using the VR Drill Tank, VR Ryan destroys the factory, then battles Grimlord's DUPLITRONIC monster to save the day.

• _{Wednesday, February 7th, 1996}

  36: Despera Strikes Back

  Despera promises Grimlord that she finally has the secret weapon needed to destroy the VR Troopers: her evil sister, DESPONDA. Grimlord puts Deponda in charge of the Air Castle, and enlists the help of Icebot and General Ivar. Meanwhile, in Cross World City, Tao has left town for the weekend, and left the Dojo in the hands of Ryan. When there's a break in the reality barrier, JB and Kaitlin respond, leaving Ryan behind to keep an eye on the dojo. But when VR JB and the two VR Kaitlins get pulled into the Air Castle, Ryan must put aside his duty to Tao long enough to save his friends. VR JB and the VR Kaitlins wage a fierce battle against Desponda. In the end, VR Ryan helps the other Troopers defeat the evil mutant and destroy Grimlord's beloved Air Castle. Back at the dojo, Tao has returned and understands that Ryan must have a good reason to leave the dojo. Grimlord, however, is not as forgiving with Despera and Desponda.

• _{Monday, February 12th, 1996}

  37: The Ghost of Cross World Forrest

  When the Troopers run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, they must abandon their car and spend the night in an old miner's cabin near the old Ghost Mine where Grimlord is constructing his newest weapon---the REALITY BUSTER. Despera releases FOGBOT and the FOGATRONS, creatures who dispense a deadly fog which takes away a trooper's power to transform. Ryan goes for a walk and is disabled by the Fogbot. JB goes to look for Ryan, transforms and helps from the VR Skybase. Kaitlin falls into a mineshaft when she and Jeb go looking for Ryan and JB. Professor hart configures the VR Scanner to neutralize the effects of the fob. VR JB saves Ryan and Jeb saves Kaitlin by pulling her out of the mine with a rope. Together again and back to full power, the VR Troopers destroy the weapons factory and the Reality Buster. Then VR Ryan defeats Fogbot.

• _{Tuesday, February 13th, 1996}

  38: Grimlord's Dummy

  Woody asks Kaitlin, Ryan, and JB to find entertainment for the annual Underground Kid's Extravaganza. They go to the park, where they track down WENDLE, a young ventriloquist and his dummy, WOODMAN. They hire him on the spot. When Ziktor gets word of the Trooper's mission, he transforms and orders Despera to place a spell on Woodman--bringing the puppet to life. Wendle is first amused at Woodman's unexpected outbursts, but then realizes he has no control over the dummy. When the dummy begins to grow to human proportions, he announces his true objective: to destroy the VR Troopers. Woodman steals JB and Kaitlin's Virtualizers, then runs off. To distract the Troopers, Grimlord sends PUPPETOID into Cross World city. Ryan must fight Puppetoid while JB and Kaitlin find Woodman and restore him to his earlier condition. They recover their Virtualizers, Wendle and Woodman are reunited, and the Underground Kid's Extravaganza is a smashing success!

• _{Tuesday, February 20th, 1996}

  39: Time Out

  Knighttime freezes time and it is up to Ryan (with the unlikely help of Grimlord) to destroy the machine of its source. And in the meantime, J.B. and Kaitlin are sent out to destroy another new monster, called FANBOT.

• _{Wednesday, February 21st, 1996}

  40: Galileo's New Memory

  The Troopers have invented a new robot, GALILEO, to assist Professor Hart in the lab. His memory banks hold all the knowledge of the lab's computer. Grimlord kidnaps the robot and begins extracting information in order to crush the Troopers. But the Troopers have a plan...they follow Doom Master back to the Dark Fortress and rescue the robot. There, they find that Grimlord has stolen nearly all the robot's information. Troopers rescue Galileo and set Grimlord's computers to self-destruct. As they leave, Grimlord's chamber goes up in flames.