Episode Title:
The Revenge Society.
Episode Description:
The Guild of Calamitous Intent comes under attack by an insane Phantom Limb, who now goes by the name "Revenge", kidnapping Red Mantle of the Guild's Council of 13 in the process. With a kidnapped Billy Quizboy's help, Dragoon's head is surgically attached to Red Mantle to save the two's lives, with the men alluding they are Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Phantom Limb has formed the Revenge Society, a rival villainous group consisting of himself; a coffee mug he has named Wisdom who is the team's fix-it-man; a toaster he has named Chuck and believes is a master of the nunchaku and trap dismantling; and Lady Nightshade, a black Ferragamo shoe once belonging to Dr. Mrs. the Monarch. Phantom Limb plans to steal the Orb from the Ventures, when Billy reveals he knows where it is kept. Watch and Ward of the Guild inform David Bowie, who they know is the Sovereign, of the two Councilmen's kidnapping, and Bowie heads to the Venture Compound to stop Phantom Limb from finishing his plan. The Councilmen take Billy onto the compound to find the Orb, leaving Billy behind once they find it. Elsewhere, Hank is taking Hatred on a fruitless chase beneath the Compound on hoverbikes, while David Bowie finds Dr. Venture and Dean. In the final confrontation, Phantom Limb demands control of the Guild, claiming his grandfather Fantômas as its leader, when Bowie says the man was a usurper and the true heir to the Guild is actually Dean Venture, as the Ventures' ancestor was its founder, who officially gives it to Bowie. Phantom Limb prepares to use the Orb, but discovers that it is not working. In a flashback, alluded to in "ORB", Lloyd Venture prepares to use the Orb when his bodyguard Sandow is thought to have killed Venture; in reality, Sandow destroyed the Orb, preventing it from ever falling into the wrong hands. Phantom Limb is captured and Dragoon and Red Mantle take the broken Orb for themselves.
