Team Plague is the unofficial name for the group of allies Plague Knight has amassed to help him brew the Ultimate Potion.
Members[]
- Plague Knight - Leader of the group, head alchemist and mole inside the Order of No Quarter
- Mona - Second in command, head researcher and mole inside the Village
- Percy - Mechanic, researcher, and philosopher
- Magicist - Supporter and mole inside the Village
- Oolong - Mascot of the group and provider of musical entertainment
- Hedge Pupil - Disciple and mole inside the Village
- Mail Minion - Slightly higher ranking minion and postman
- Plague Minions - Indistinguishable grunts, all-around factotums and occasional test subjects
In addition Baz later was recruited as a Plague Minion of questionable usefulness, after Plague Knight defeated and took pity on him.
Furthermore the Explodatorium staff (such as the Alchemeister), being directly under the employment of Plague Knight, can trace back their origins in this group. They briefly revolted, causing their facility to descend to chaos before being disciplined and put back into place by their boss.
History[]
Due to the study of alchemy being seen with suspicion by the general populace, Team Plague had a poor reputation in the Valley, with rocks regularly thrown at them. As such, many of its members preferred to hide their affiliation with the group, like the Magicist and later on, Mona. Due to her high status within the Village, the Magicist in particular is noted by some Plague Minions of taking a big risk helping them.
Still they continued their experiments undeterred, even at some point tracking down the elusive Oolong for study and then welcoming him as a sort of mascot for the group. While trying to set a separate secret laboratory, inconveniently in an exposed location, Plague Knight and Percy were rudely interrupted by the arrival of King Knight, and after failing to forcibly expel him they were forced to discard the site as a viable option. Still it wasn't all bad, as Plague Knight, invited on King Knight's personal mode of transportation, the airship Glidewing, for a friendly game of Joustus, had the opportunity to directly meet Mona, a person and fellow alchemist that he had long admired from afar, thanks to which they eventually began talking to each other and formed a partnership, with Mona's genius designs being implemented in the alchemic apparatuses. Following the end of the Joustus craze, Plague Knight and Mona were tasked, together with Hedge Pupil, to detonate the now purposeless Houses of Joustus.
After Plague Knight forceful admission into the Order of No Quarter after being defeated by Specter Knight, his reputation further sank, being banned altogether from the Village and pursued by the Knights of the land to arrest him. However after Plague Knight and Mona made incredible breakthrough in their research on Essences following their encounter and subsequent experimentation on a Liquid Samurai, met during their brief but significant entrapment inside the abomination known as the Mirror of Fate, he took this as an opportunity and began planning to harvest the Essences of his fellow Order members and its leader to create the Ultimate Potion, a legendary concoction said to grant any wish its drinker desire and regarded as the ultimate achievement for any alchemist. Unbeknownst to anyone except Plague Knight himself however, the alchemist began desiring the potion in hopes that it could improve him just enough to be worthy of Mona's affection. To this end, Plague Knight and Mona successfully constructed a complex secret base underneath the Village, the Potionarium, accessed from the backroom of the Juice Bar via secretly placed Torque Lifts.
After the swift conquest of the Valley by the Order, Plague Knight set in motion his plan, unknowingly aiding Shovel Knight in his personal quest, and even single-handedly claiming the Armor Outpost for himself. The Enchantress, who had been informed of Plague Knight's treacherous plan even before it began by the same Liquid Samurai that was later eventually captured and experiment on by the alchemist, paid little mind of his actions, confident that she would eventually be able to crush his little coup and make him submit.
Plague Knight had also to briefly visit the Explodatorium which, due to his absence, was plunged into chaos, with experiments running amok and the majority of its staff revolting. After putting his disloyal minions back into place, Plague Knight confronted the intruder who had sneaked into his facility, Shovel Knight and decided to collect his Essence.
He also met by chance the warrior Baz, who was in a really bad mood due to his recent long streak of defeats and disappointments, last of them being bested by Shovel Knight himself. After misguidedly trying to earn the title of scientist by defeating Plague Knight, which ended yet again in failure, the alchemist took pity of the dejected Baz, and offered him a job as a Plague Minion, which the overjoyed big guy immediately accepted. Despite not being very bright, Baz surprisingly fit quite well among the other Plague Minions, even putting an effort to acculturate himself on some more scientific topics.
At some unspecified point, while Plague was traveling towards the Tower of Fate, he alongside Mona, Percy, and a Plague minion, ended up trapped inside the puzzle box known as the Pocket Dungeon, the latest of The Enchantress' schemes. Thankfully, teaming up with the other prisoners, Plague Knight and his allies were able to escape, and the Alchemist resumed his journey.
However, in the final phases of the adventure, due to the interference of Black Knight, who had guessed Plague Knight's plan but had misunderstood its final purpose, Mona felt used and betrayed and left the group, leaving her duties to Percy and breaking Plague Knight's heart.
Eventually, Plague Knight was able to obtain The Enchantress's Essence and brew the Ultimate Potion, although Plague Knight had to first face his inner demons in the form of the Plague of Shadows and the Corrupted Essence unaware that his efforts, united with Shovel Knight actions, had also resulted in the final defeat of dark witch. Furthermore thanks to Black Knight's unexpected aid, Plague Knight and Mona made amends with each other and confessed their mutual feelings. Together they decided to detonate the now concocted Ultimate Potion, causing a massive explosion that collapsed the Tower of Fate, which once again aided Shovel Knight and the now freed Shield Knight in putting an end to the monstrous last remnants of The Enchantress, the aptly named Remnant of Fate.
This action earned Team Plague the gratitude of the people, ailing them as heroes, and letting them practice their studies without fear of persecution. Plague Knight also decided to leave the Explodatorium under the management of the Hedge Pupil, Percy and the Magicist.
Trivia[]
- One of the major reasons as to why the Alchemists are seen with suspicion and disdain from the majority of the Valley population is implied to be because they produce fool's gold from sawdust and mouse skulls and sometime use it in place to genuine gold as they don't see any differences between the two, leading the common folk to see them as cheating thieves.
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