Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends/Mission: Save the Guardstar

Mission: Save the Guardstar
3x08
Airdate	1983
Written by	Dennis Marks
Directed by
← 3x07 The X-Men Adventure	— N/A
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends — Season Three

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Mission: Save the Guardstar is the eighth episode of the third season of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and the twenty-fourth episode overall.

Plot Overview

The Spider-Friends are enjoying a fireworks show when they suddenly notice a crime being committed. A woman who calls herself Lightwave is breaking into a building. Although Spider-Man and Firestar labor to stop her, Iceman recognizes her and enables her to escape.

Shortly thereafter, Buzz Mason of S.H.I.E.L.D. stops the Spider-Friends and asks them for help. Bringing them aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, he explains how Aurora Dante was once a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who has now gone rogue. She is stealing components for a quantum enhancer and intends on using it to take control of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s defense satellite, the Guardstar. The Spider-Friends agree to help.

They encounter Lightwave a second time, stealing more components. Again, Iceman erects an ice wall, allowing her to escape. When Spidey and Firestar confront him on the matter, he confesses that Lightwave is his half-sister. Bobby later tracks Aurora down to an amusement park they used to play at when they were kids. Aurora, being controlled by a computer entity, rebels against Iceman. Although her powers reflect off of her, he is unable to stop Lightwave. Iceman is captured and taken back to a secret abandoned warehouse facility. The secret shadowy villain controlling Lightwave uses a similar technique to mind control Bobby. He orders them both to steal the final component for the quantum enhancer. The two fly out and ambush a military convoy transporting the final piece they require. Iceman disables the lead vehicle by freezing its tires. Before Lightwave can steal the item, Iceman distracts her, appearing to stall for time. Spider-Man and Firestar arrive and fight Lightwave, but she traps them both in force field bubbles.

They are taken back to the warehouse where the villain attempts to use his light display to take control of Spider-Man and Firestar's minds. At this point, Iceman reveals that he has been playing possum the whole time, and deflects the hypnotic lights away from his friends. Spider-Man leaps at the control window where he finds that the mysterious villain behind it all is none other than S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Buzz Mason. Buzz electrifies the floor, incapacitating the heroes. They awaken inside of a cell. Spider-Man determines that Mason recruited them only so he could keep track of their activities at all times and be able to warn Lightwave in advance. Unable to break out using physical force, they short circuit the electronic locking mechanism by having Bobby create an ice link between the lock and the overhead light bulb socket. They race back to the control room, where Mason and Lightwave have completed the quantum enhancer. Buzz takes off in a rocket ship that blasts through the roof of the warehouse en route to the Guardstar satellite. The Spider-Friends latch onto the side. Spider-Man webs them to the surface, while Bobby creates a protective dome as they break Earth's orbit.

They break inside and fight up against Buzz and Aurora again. Buzz opens an airlock, sending Iceman out into the depths of space. Spider-Man pleads with Lightwave to break Mason's mental hold over her to save her brother. The tactic works. Seeing her brother dying snaps her back to normal, and she flies out to place him in a protective force field bubble. Spider-Man webs Buzz Mason to the console of the rocket and they bring him back to Earth.

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