Quake, Rattle and Roll Dragons

This changes everything.

All right, I think one more plasma blast should do the trick, bud.

ZAPPING

Whoo, ha-ha!

Great job! HE COUGHS

Nice! I can see straight to the horizon.

That should definitely make it harder for anyone to sneak up on us.

Now, I wonder how the twins' lookout tower is coming along.

I can only imagine.

Ah, yeah. Oh...

Hey, does something seem off to you?

Yeah. This should have fallen down a long time ago.

Maybe we actually did something... No, that's impossible.

Say it!

-Something...right?

-GASPING

Urgh! I have a weird feeling inside. Is that...

-accomplishment?!

-Whoa!

I think I feel it, too. Quick!

Let's go rub it in Hiccup's face before the feeling subsides.

Hmm.

Ooh, wow, very interesting.

HE CHUCKLES

HE GRUNTS

OK, girl, let's move on

to rock experiment test subject number three,

river stones.

Hey, what you doing, Fishlegs?

Hey, Snotlout. Well, if you're asking me,

I am testing how different rocks make Meatlug produce different flame

and how that changes the projections in the Dragon Eye.

Oh, that's right, I just remembered you're boring and I don't care.

MEATLUG GRUNTS

Yep, couldn't have put it better myself, girl.

Ooh, even more interesting.

Hiccup, drop everything you're doing and bring your face.

Prepare to be rubbed.

Dragon Riders, you asked for it, we built it! Presenting you...

-SHE IMITATES FANFARE

-..with your new rock lookout tower!

Yeah!

You guys never disappoint, do you?

What? No! Wait! It was here a minute ago.

-What did you do with it, Ruffnut?

-What?! I didn't do anything with it!

You lying she-beast!

-You were always jealous of my rock tower!

-Your rock tower?!

THUMPING AND GRUNTING, INDISTINCT YELLING

Ow! Ow! Ow!

THEY ROAR

OK, OK, OK, let's everyone step away from the sharp objects.

SIGHING: OK, look, maybe this job was just too tough

for you to do alone. I can always put Astrid on the project with you.

Uh, Hiccup, let's not be hasty.

But we did build it, honest.

And trust me, H, no-one was more surprised about that than we were.

-FISHLEGS IN DISTANCE:

-Hiccup! Hiccup, come quickly!

That does not sound good.

-Fishlegs!

-Careful where you step.

-Fishlegs, what's wrong?

-Wrong?

-HE CHUCKLES

Nothing's wrong,

except that I may have just made the greatest discovery

in the history of Berkian civilisation.

-Oh, Fishlegs, is that...?

-Mm-hm!

This is a Gronckle and here is the boulder surrounded by water

and the dual mountain peaks.

-Oh, Dark Deep!

-The ancestral home of all the Gronckles.

-It's real, Hiccup, and we finally found it.

-Yeah!

What's so great about this?

-Do I really have to explain?

-Your boring discovery? Yes.

Dark Deep is an island that up until now

we were never really sure existed.

It's not in the Book of Dragons anywhere.

However, in Bork's papers, there is mention of it,

but only briefly and in context to a completely different species.

If you were able to find Dark Deep, you could unlock so many secrets,

not only of the Gronckles, but the entire Boulder Class of dragons.

Do you understand how amazing this is?

Check that(!) I absolutely don't care.

Hiccup, I've taken the liberty of charting a course

based on these encryptions. This island is so remote,

it's further than we've ever flown before.

I've never seen Meatlug so excited!

Just think, I'm going to be the first Berkian to ever set foot

-on Dark Deep. What an honour.

-OK, I get it, Fishlegs,

but Toothless and I should go with you, just in case you need help.

OK, you can come, too. But I'm the first one to set foot, remember?

-You can be the second.

-OK, OK, I promise.

Well, then welcome aboard, Hiccup.

Come on, Meatlug, we need to go pack.

LOUD GROANING

Uh, Ruff, Tuff?

-Nyah.

-Keep it down, will ya?

We were up all night rebuilding the lookout tower from scratch.

Hey, great! Well, I should have a look at, then, shouldn't I?

Get ready to feast your eyes...

OK, so what should my eyes be feasting on exactly?

Well, the tower...oh, come on!

Wait, maybe we're pointing in the wrong direction.

No, that's it. Left of the chicken.

-Hi, chicken.

-CHICKEN SQUAWKS

Somebody keeps stealing our tower!

Oh, come on! You know no-one's going to admit to it.

Let's just go rebuild the stupid thing.

-Can't trust anyone on this outpost.

-Yeah. You're all a bag of liars.

# Dark Deep, at last I've found you

# Dark Deep, the Gronckles surround you... #

CHUCKLING: Fishlegs, I haven't seen you this excited

since Snoggletog morning when we were seven.

Whoo-whoo! I know. I couldn't even finish third breakfast.

I hope I don't get too hungry.

Dark Deep, here we come!

Whoo! Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, Fishlegs!

HE CHORTLES

I can't believe I'm actually here.

-MEATLUG SNARLS

-Sorry, girl - WE'RE here.

# Dark Deep is your home

# Where all the rock eaters roam... #

LIGHT ROAR

# Where Gronckles have fun eating rocks by the tonne

# And the rocks are all...rocky

# With...families of rocks

-# And they're feeding their... #

-HE CLEARS THROAT

I'll work on that last part, Hiccup.

Hey, no, look, I love the song. It's just one thing.

Where are the roaming Gronckles?

-You think we could've landed on the wrong is...?

-No.

That's Gravel Lake

and that's definitely the dual peaks of Mount Grunt.

Hiccup, this is Dark Deep.

TOOTHLESS GRUNTS

Yeah, I'm with you, bud.

MEATLUG GROWLS

Oh, look! Meatlug found some new friends.

I told you there were Gronckles here.

MEATLUG GRUNTS, AGGRESSIVE GROWLING

HE GRUNTS

That's strange behaviour for a Gronckle.

They're usually pretty friendly.

-RUMBLING

-Oh, oh, oh, oh.

That could be what's doing it. No-one likes an earthquake.

See?

TOOTHLESS RASPS

Runaway boulder!

THEY SCREECH

Meatlug!

Fishlegs!

Ooh, ooh!

That was close.

Hey, Fishlegs?

-When was the last time you saw a boulder roll uphill?

-Um, never?

Yeah. Me, neither.

-How is that possible?!

-No time to find out!

We can't avoid it!

Quick, down here.

It doesn't look like we can fly out, bud.

It's OK. I think we lost it.

Then let's move out - quietly.

STOMACH RUMBLING

What?

That's what happens when you don't eat third breakfast.

RUMBLING IN DISTANCE

-Uh, Hiccup?

-I see it, Fishlegs.

DRAGON ROARS

THEY SCREAM

THEY WHIMPER

Impressive!

Definitely a Boulder Class.

Hiccup, what do you think of "Catastrophic Quaken" as the name?

Well, I think we should probably name it later

and focus on not getting killed by it now.

IT ROARS

As long as it's rolled up into that ball, I think we're safe.

Fishlegs, get those Gronckles in the air.

ROARING

OK, on second thought, maybe we're not so safe after all.

Fishlegs, Meatlug, retreat.

I thought you'd never ask.

ROARING

-WHISPERING:

-OK, come on.

Really? More Gronckles?

Just a few stray Gronckles.

-We should be able to handle that.

-"Just a few strays," he says.

Yeah, you should really have a look at this.

LOW ROARING

So this is where all the Gronckles from Dark Deep went.

Can you believe they flew all this way?

Gronckles may be slow, but they are tenacious.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Hey! Don't you put that rock in your mouth.

You have no idea where it's been, mister. Shoo!

Hiccup, these guys are out of control.

We have to get them back to their island.

There might be a problem with that.

Uh-huh, they've been chased from their homeland

by a giant Boulder Class dragon,

the Catastrophic Quaken to be exact.

Quaken Shmaken.

You let one lousy dragon take over Meatlug's entire island?

-It's not that simple, Snotlout.

-Oh, sure it is. Quaken, one,

-Meatlug...

-IMITATES BUZZER

-Pathetic.

-OK, let's just drop it.

We have a bigger problem here.

We need to wrangle all these wild Gronckles

and since I unfairly doubted the twins, I'm putting them in charge.

Awesome. It'll be nice to get to know these guys a little bit better.

We got off to a little bit of a "rocky" start on our relationship.

HE CHORTLES

-HE SIGHS

-You see what I did there?

I'll explain it later.

My humour can be quite complex.

LOW GROWLING IN DISTANCE

Back in line, Tuffnut Junior.

You, too, Junior Tuffnut.

-ROARING

-What was that?

Tell me you didn't just back-sass me, Junior Tuffnut Junior.

I got you now!

GRUNTING AND CRASHING

-TUFFNUT:

-Bad dragon!

-Don't worry, girl.

I'll figure out how to get those Gronckles back home.

There has to be a way.

Sounds like someone has a problem that needs some solving.

Well, consider this your lucky day, Fishlegs,

because the answer man has arrived.

-Snotlout?

-That's right.

And I'm going to help you get Dark Deep back for those Gronckles.

-You don't understand.

-Yeah.

Look at me, then look at you.

-You're much bigger than me, right?

-Yes.

-Oh, but your boot's untied.

-Huh? Whoa!

Hey, my boot doesn't have laces!

There's only one way to get rid of this Quaken

and that is to push him off Dark Deep,

-and the only way to do that is to fight dirty.

-Ho-ho!

-I don't think so.

-Fishlegs!

Do you want to be you, or do you want to win?

I want to win, but not your way.

Oh, you'll be back!

They always come back!

He'll be back.

Hey, what are you up to?

Uh, just trying to strengthen the iron in this tail piece.

Toothless keeps bending it when he makes turns. Don't you, bud?

-So what's up?

-I was just wondering what the plan was.

-The plan?

-For Dark Deep? The Quaken?

-How are we going to get rid of it?

-Oh, yeah.

I've been thinking about that, Fishlegs,

-and I'm not so sure we should, uh, get rid of it, that is.

-What?

Well, I'm just not sure that we have the right to interfere.

I mean, that's what happens in nature all the time.

The Quaken has taken over the island for now

and, one day, maybe a bigger dragon will come along

and the Quaken will be chased off.

You know, who's to say? I'm sorry, Fishlegs.

Come on!

Follow me, hurry, hurry! This way!

Come on! Keep up!

HE PANTS

What did I tell you?

You'll be back. They always come back.

HE LAUGHS WICKEDLY

HE SCREAMS

-YELLING:

-Nooo!

HE PANTS

HE SNORES GENTLY

I can't believe I'm actually going to say this,

but teach me everything you know, Snotlout.

You came back? Whoa!

Uh, of course he came back.

-CHUCKLING:

-I knew he would.

-HOOKFANG SNORTS

-Hookfang!

Let's just keep this between us.

We don't want to bother Hiccup with any of this.

I feel you on that. Now, it's time to get dirty.

Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm, mmm.

The key to fighting dirty is never face your opponent.

Look at the sky, your boots, anything but their eyes.

Then lower the boom when they least expect it!

ROARING

Come on, girl.

THUD, THEY GROAN

-MUFFLED:

-Bull's-eye.

Fishlegs, stop it!

INDISTINCT SHOUTING AND WHOOPING

SNOTLOUT SCREAMS

Well, well, well,

I didn't think it was possible, what with you being all "you" and all,

but you're actually ready.

Do you really think so?

I knew you were up to something.

Fishlegs, have you been training to take on the Quaken?

-You don't have to answer that.

-Oh, yes, he does. Fishlegs?

-Fine. Yes, we have!

-SNOTLOUT GROANS

But only because we can't just sit by

and let the Quaken take over Dark Deep.

We all know the Gronckles can't stay here.

This isn't their home, Hiccup.

You want to talk about nature and what's right and who belongs where?

The Dragon Eye, it says the Gronckles were supposed to live

on Dark Deep and we're going to make sure they do.

We're ready for it this time, Hiccup. Look.

Meatlug, battle ready!

MEATLUG ROARS

EXPLOSION

"Battle ready"? Whoa, Fishlegs, this isn't you, it's him.

-I know. Great, right?

-No, not great! You can't listen to Snotlout -

-that has disaster written all over it.

-Hey! I resent that!

When has anything I've ever done ended in disaster? Right, Hookfang?

-HOOKFANG SCREECHES

-Hookfang? Hookfang!

You're all brain and heart, Fishlegs,

not brawn and bragging.

-But, Hiccup...

-You're right, Fishlegs.

They should be back on their own home island and, you know what,

we'll find a way to make that happen,

but fighting the Quaken, no, that's not it.

Um, you didn't happen to see five or 20 wild Gronckles

run through here by any chance?

Not that we lost them or anything. Even if we did, we'd deny it.

-How could you lose 20 Gronckles?

-I know, right?

-We built a whole new pen for them.

-Yeah, out of rocks.

-BOTH:

-Oh...right.

Rocks. Gronckles.

Hey, would you guys mind giving me a lift back to the clubhouse?

Hookfang is otherwise engaged.

We'll give you a ride back, Snotlout,

on one condition.

MARTIAL DRUMMING

I feel bad sneaking away,

but Meatlug and I, we're the Gronckles' only hope.

You did the right thing, Fishlegs.

You can take this dragon and reclaim Dark Deep for the Gronckles!

RUMBLING

QUAKEN ROARS

You never said he was this big!

-What were you thinking?!

-I thought you said I did the right thing.

Uh, yeah. That was before I saw it!

LOUD ROAR

Um, I'm going to, uh, go get some help!

Yeah! Get some help!

Oh, he's really big.

-ROARING, HE SHRIEKS

-Retreat!

Retreat!

Hiccup was right -

-this isn't us.

-ROARING

MEATLUG GRUMBLES

But what other choice do we have?

For the Gronckles and Dark Deep!

MEATLUG ROARS

Oh, dear.

We need to find these muttonheads before they get themselves killed.

Look, there! Muttonhead incoming!

Snotlout! Where's Fishlegs?

You know, that Quaken was a lot bigger than he said it was.

So you just left him?!

Oh, my gods.

-HOOKFANG WARBLES

-Oh, fine!

But my death is on your horns, Hookfang!

Oh, Thor! Oh, Thor!

Fishlegs!

QUAKEN GROWLS

ALL YELL

QUAKEN ROARS, THEY SQUEAL

QUAKEN GROWLS

The Quaken's cave.

It looks like he lives here by himself.

Meatlug, let's get out of here.

What is he doing?

It looks like he's getting himself killed!

Fishlegs, get out of there!

No. We aren't going anywhere, right, girl?

I'm not backing down, I'm not backing down,

I'm not backing down...

CRASHING

I'm not smushed.

QUAKEN ROARS

GROWLING

QUAKEN SNORTS

-It's working.

-It's working.

Hey! I thought everyone said that thing was tough.

Doesn't look so tough to me.

Fishlegs, that was just about the craziest and bravest,

but mostly craziest, thing I have ever seen anyone do.

You were right, Hiccup, fighting dirty isn't me.

-That was me.

-It sure was.

The Quaken was just being defensive.

It was scared and all by itself.

-It wasn't angry at all.

-Oh! Fishlegs, that was awesome!

Just like I taught you.

No need to thank me. Success is its own reward.

Oh, really, Snotlout? Tell me more! Oh, yeah, that's right.

I just remembered I don't care.

-HICCUP LAUGHS

-I taught him too well.