The Alliance heads for Planet Fire to convince Prince Pyrus and The Vizier to join. Graveheart, Cryos, and Jade is accompanied by Cryos' daughter, Zera. The Vizier is not willing to join the Alliance and have anything to do with the other planets. Graveheart and Cryos must undergo a torturous 'Trial by Fire' to win Alliance support from young Prince Pyrus and planet Fire. When Pyrus goes to his father's bridge to think, Zera follows him demanding that her father be let go. There they meet up with a patrol of Beast Drones and Pyrus is injured, but, Zera heals him with her nanites. Pyrus has to distroy his bridge to save both Zera and himself. Graveheart and Cryos pass the trial. Seeing what he is up aganist, Fire joins the Alliance.