Failure's In Our Nature

Failure's In Our Nature is the second episode of the first season of TFAWPS. It is the second episode overall.

Plot
Pink Panther is asked to train Wally, a new recruit to the TFAWPS. While training, Agent Yellow attacks them looking for the shard, beginning their hunt for the Dark Order. Sonic and the rest of the team attempt to control the shard they have. Meanwhile, Pig King plots his revenge.

Synopsis
Wally approaches the TFAWPS Tower in a helicopter with Buster, getting ready for his first day as a recruit. Wally is initially very excited to see the TFAWPS Tower so close, but then suppresses his excitement in order to impress Buster, but Buster admits that it's okay and admits the tower is impressive, and that he was just as excited when he first saw the tower. As they near the tower, the helicopter hits turbulence and begins to spiral out of control, but Buster safely lands them, with Wally exiting feeling uneasy.

Wally makes himself comfortable in his new room where Buster introduces him to Paco. The three then make their way to the common area where he meets Oscar and Phoebe and they help make Wally feel at home. Soon after, Wally explains to them that he's willing to prove his worth to the team and that he is just as competent as the rest of them, but he accidentally leans on a trap door and falls through and is ejected from the facility. As Wally falls he begins to panic, but soon remembers that he is smart and uses one of his many gadgets as makeshift wings. Oscar and Phoebe glide down to save him, but realize that he's already saved himself. They then inform him that Sonic is requesting his presence.

As Wally flies back into the tower, he sits in on a team meeting hosted by Sonic. Sonic informs the team that they may finally have a lead on Zack and tells them that some suspicious activity has been spotted near an old power plant. Before they begin their missions, Sonic tells Wally that he needs a mentor first before he can officially join them. Excited, Ted volunteers to be the mentor, but Sonic says that they already have a mentor picked out.

In his castle, Pig King thinks about how to get even with TFAWPS, but is having trouble coming up with ideas. Suddenly, Gunther interrupts Pig King and directs his attention to Wally, giving Pig King an idea.

Sonic takes Wally to Pink Panther's room where he is training, and introduces the two. Initially upset to be chosen as the mentor, Pink Panther tries to weasel out of it. Wally tries to reassure both Sonic and Pink Panther that he doesn't need a mentor and that if he ever encounters Zack he will be able to take him on. Pink Panther then scolds Wally about being reckless and then reluctantly agrees to train him.

Meanwhile, in Zack's Lair, Agent Yellow and Bart play video games and the two begin argue about who won and who lost and each accuse the other of cheating. Zack then interrupts them and shows them that he has located TFAWPS near the abandoned power plant. Agent Yellow and Bart continue fighting prompting Zack to electrocute them. They keep fighting however and Zack tries to electrocute them again, but Agent Yellow pushes Bart into the line of fire causing him to be electrocuted again.

At the plant, the Sonic, Pink Panther, Ted, and Paco watch as Wally digs a hole looking for a possible new shard. When he comes up with nothing, he asks why he's being tasked with manual labor jobs and Sonic reassures him that sometimes being a hero means getting your hands dirty. Suddenly, the group is ambushed by Agent Yellow. The group get into a minor conflict, but Agent Yellow manages to subdue them briefly and escapes. Wally starts to pursue Agent Yellow, much to Sonic's dismay. As Wally chases after Agent Yellow, he walks into a trap and is cornered by Pig King and Master Robot.

Pig King orders Master Robot after Wally, but Wally uses his gadgets to stop his attacks, but when Agent Yellow shows up, the three team up and Wally and he is cornered. Suddenly, Sonic, Ted, Pink Panther, Paco, Buster, and Mofo arrive and threaten a fight with the group. Agent Yellow then drops a gas bomb and steals the shard and escapes. Before he can get away, however, Wally uses a gadget and causes Agent Yellow to drop the shard while Ted scares Pig King and Master Robot away. The shard fell into a water drain and Pink Panther explains that now they have more messes to clean up, but Sonic thanks Wally for making sure neither Agent Yellow or Pig King got their hands on the shard.

Back at TFAWPS Tower, the team uses their equipment to track where the shard is likely to have ended up and come up with two probable locations. Sonic then decides it's best if the team splits up and covers more ground. Sonic suggests that himself, Buster and Mofo take one while Ted, Paco, Oscar and Phoebe take the other. Pink Panther asks Sonic what the third blip represents and Sonic says that it's a less probable location, a sports arena, and that Pink Panther should take Wally there to investigate.

As the team prepares to head to their location, Pink Panther talks to a nervous Wally and says that it's okay for him to be nervous, but Wally denies being nervous once again trying to impress his new teammates. Pink Panther asks if Wally is coming with him, but Wally says he doesn't want to mess up again. Understanding, Pink Panther takes off in one of TFAWPS vehicles and heads towards their location. While alone at the HQ, Wally rants to himself about how he was talking a big game but couldn't go back for more. Suddenly, the phone rings and Pink Panther is frantically calling for back up. Wally tries to get a hold of Sonic, but he discovers that they have already left and Wally is the only one who knows that Pink Panther needs help.

Across the city, Paco also gets the call from Pink Panther saying he needs help and as Paco departs he is captured by an unknown assailant.

At the sports arena, Pink Panther is captured by Agent Yellow. He taunts Pink Panther saying that with his help, Zack will get his hands on the shard, but Pink Panther retaliates saying that he would rather die than help someone like him. As Agent Yellow prepares to strike Pink Panther, Wally busts in and knocks Agent Yellow away from Pink Panther. Pink Panther says that he told him he needed to face down his fears, but Wally says that it didn't work because he is still scared. Pink Panther admits that he is also scared of what will happen is Zack gets all the shards. Wally frees Pink Panther from his shackles and the two face Agent Yellow. Wally then uses one of his gadgets and locates the shard in a pipe underneath the stadium. Just as he does so, Agent Yellow begins his attack and they enter a fight.

Paco awakens to find himself trapped in Pig King's Castle. Pig King explains that he will use Paco to get his revenge on TFAWPS. Paco asks how he plans on doing that and Pig King admits that he has no idea as he didn't expect to make it this far.

Back at the sports arena, Wally makes his way towards the shard while Pink Panther fights Agent Yellow. As Wally grabs the shard, Agent Yellow rushes towards him, but the shard activates and shrinks Agent Yellow down. As Agent Yellow retreats, Wally celebrates his victory, Pink Panther tells him not to get cocky because Zack is the type of guy to have a back-up plan. Just then, Zack himself arrives at the sports arena. However, as Pink Panther calls him out, they realize that it's not Zack, but rather some of his robots, who then surround Pink Panther and Wally.

Paco then asks Pig King if he knows where Zack is, but Pig King says that he doesn't know and then the two watch television and drink milkshakes.

Meanwhile, Sonic, Buster and Mofo investigate their location but find nothing. Just as they prepare to leave, a small Agent Yellow runs up and accidentally bumps into them. Agent Yellow decides to use his new size to his advantage and begins taunting the group, eluding them. However, Ted, Oscar and Phoebe arrive and and stop Agent Yellow. Soon after, the real Zack arrives and grows Agent Yellow back to his normal size. Upon seeing Zack, Ted freezes and the two stare at each other for a brief time before Zack teleports himself and Agent Yellow away.

Pink Panther and Wally, still surrounded by the robots, quickly come up with a plan to use sports tactics to defeat the robots and keep the shard safe without touching it. As they do, the rest of TFAWPS arrives and cheers Pink Panther and Wally on.

TFAWPS returns to their HQ after a long day and Sonic congratulates Pink Panther and Wally on a job well done. Pink Panther calls Wally a hero and that he has earned his place on the team. Wally then gets a phone call from his mother telling him that she is proud of him and wants him home to take a bath. As Wally regains his confidence, he leans on the same trapdoor that launched him from the HQ before and once again falls down the tower. Oscar then jokes that it is now Mofo's turn to go get him. Paco then returns home from Pig King's Castle and greets his teammates.

Alone in his room, Ted sits and stares blankly at the wall, contemplating the encounter he had on his mission.

Characters

 * Sonic
 * Ted
 * Pink Panther
 * Paco
 * Mofo
 * Buster
 * Oscar
 * Phoebe
 * Wally (first appearance)
 * Pig King
 * Master Robot
 * Gunther
 * Tyler
 * Zack
 * Agent Yellow (first appearance)
 * Bart (first appearance)
 * Wally's mother (first appearance, voice only)