Lego Rock Raiders - Plot

Plot

This section covers only the plot involving the main characters; the events of the PC and the PlayStation games are not covered.

The story starts with the Rock Raiders returning home, from an unknown Solar System with four planets. Only three days left, the Rock Raiders accidentally pilot the L.M.S. Explorer into an asteroid belt. Several small asteroids collide with the L.M.S. Explorer, though they do no harm due to the L.M.S. Explorer’s shield. A larger asteroid collides with the L.M.S. Explorer and takes the shield down. Not much damage is done though,

Another large asteroid collides with the L.M.S. Explorer and damages the signal dishes on top of it. This also causes much damage to the L.M.S. Explorer. As if things couldn’t get worse, an enormous wormhole opens up near the L.M.S. Explorer, its gravitational pull begins to pull it in. Chief commands Jet to set the L.M.S. Explorer’s thrusters at full speed to escape the wormhole, it does not work and in the process the L.M.S. Explorer‘s fuel supply is drained. Another asteroid, larger than the previous two, collides with the L.M.S. Explorer and forces it into the wormhole.

The wormhole exits in a galaxy parallel to the Milky Way, as seen by Axle when he runs a scan to seen where the Rock Raiders are. Chief orders Jet to use the L.M.S. Explorer’s reserve power to travel to the nearest planet. Docs scans the planet and sees that the planet is loaded with Energy Crystals. Chief sends Jet and Docs down to examine the Planet.

Axle, and Bandit join them later. The team examines the caverns and discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization. Docs uses his GeoScanner device to locate a good area for an outpost. While constructing the base, Axle almost falls into a river of lava, but is saved by Jet.

After the base in constructed, Bandit ventures off on his own and Rock Monsters attack the base, stealing most of the Energy Crystals. Axle manages to chase them away in the Loader Dozer, though it is too late, the base has been completely destroyed.

Bandit finds an ice cavern, and is attacked by several Ice Monsters. The Ice Monsters freeze Bandit solid, he has to be rescued by Axle and Jet. Axle, Bandit and Jet find a cave to hide from the Ice Monsters, inside the cave is a Rockwhale that is blocking a lava flow. The Rockwhale moves and the lava begins flowing once again. The three Rock Raiders race the end of the cavern, Bandit starts a cave-in to stop the lava from reaching the base.

Axle, Bandit and Jet are trapped and Sparks teleports them back to the L.M.S. Explorer, however the landslide also gets teleported and severely damages the teleporter, thereby causing some of the events in the PC game. The teleporter malfunctions, and is only able to teleport people and objects down to the planet, but is unable to bring them back.

Chief informs Axle, Bandit, Jet and Sparks that Docs has gone missing. Chief sends Axle, Bandit and Jet to look for him, Sparks stays behind to repair the teleporter. Meanwhile, Docs is defending himself from several Lava Monsters. Axle is ordered to stay at the base to guard it from the Elemental Creatures.

Bandit and Jet take two Granite Grinders and begin searching for Docs. They encounter a Lava Monster and an Ice Monster battling and run past them. They find Docs who is cornered by several Lava Monsters. Jet makes the Granite Grinder jump over to the Monsters and ejects the Energy Crystals to distract them. She and Docs escape while they feed on the Crystals.

Several days later the Rock Raiders manage to collect enough Energy Crystals to power the L.M.S. Explorer, unfortunately the Ice, Lava and Rock Monsters team up to attack the Rock Raiders’ outpost. The Teleporter has not yet been repaired to teleport people back yet, Chief teleports down to the planet and saves the Rock Raiders and Energy Crystals from the Elemental Creatures, with his plasma-blasting arm. While he is blasting away at the monsters, the other Rock Raiders construct a temporary Teleport Pad with parts from the base. All five Rock Raiders teleport back to the L.M.S. Explorer, along with the Energy Crystals.

Sparks creates a map of the entire alien Galaxy, to find their way home, the L.M.S. Explorer takes off at lightspeed. The L.M.S. Explorer’s computer detects an alien life form aboard, the Rock Raiders search everywhere for it, but they cannot find it. The Rock Monster reveals itself shortly after they search for it, the creature collapsed itself into several small rocks to hide. It is unknown what happened to the Rock Monster afterwards.

Six months after the Rock Raiders first discovered the alien galaxy, the Rock Raiders have returned to the planet, and possibly the other planets in the solar system. The planet has now been named Planet U, it is never said what the U stands for, but it is widely accepted that it means Uncharted or Unexplored. The Rock Raiders have now set up quadrants around the planet.

Axle is an a cavern in the unexplored Quadrant 14, drilling with the Chrome Crusher. Without warning there is a small tremor, trapping Axle and the Chrome Crusher. Axle contacts Sparks, who is aboard the L.M.S. Explorer, he tells the engineer that he is trapped and his oxygen supply is low.

Chief gathers Bandit, Docs, Jet and Sparks for a mission briefing. Using the L.M.S. Explorer’s onboard GeoScanner, he locates the approximate location of Axle. Docs warns everyone that there is a volcano there, but it is now dormant.

The four Rock Raiders make it to Quadrant 14 in thirty minutes, there were several geysers everywhere. Docs orders Sparks and Jet to take a Granite Grinder and Hover Scout to the nearby mountain. Bandit decides to take a Rapid Rider down the nearby river. Docs takes his Hover Scout and examines the cavern, searching for the cause of the tremor.

Sparks and Jet made it to the mountain fast, they saw the landslide of rocks that had buried the Chrome Crusher. Jet approached the rocks and could hear that Axle was sending them a message via Morse Code. Sparks says that they should not drill, that could cause the entire cavern to collapse. Sparks says they’ll have to dig him out, but they must do it fast, Axle’s oxygen supply is quickly dwindling.

Sparks and Jet got a beam out of the Granite Grinder and used it move the boulders. It was not enough though. Sparks and Jet looked behind them and saw that a Rock Monster was standing over them, holding a massive boulder. The Rock Monster puts the boulder down, and walks past the two Rock Raiders. It begins picking up and throwing the boulders out of the way, clearing a path. Sparks and Jet walked into the newly uncovered tunnel and looked for Axle, but he, and the Rock Monster, had vanished.

Docs was exploring the nearby Quadrant 15, there was a second tremor while he was there. A large crack opened in the cavern floor, large amounts of magma erupted from it and quickly filled the room. Docs raced away on his Hover Scout, narrowly escaping it through a small crevice in the cavern wall.

Bandit was riding his Rapid Rider, he was about to give up on searching. His Rapid Ride flash a message on its screen that it detected an alien life form. Once again, Bandit had traveled into an Ice Monster’s den. The Ice Monster rose out of the water and grabbed the Rapid Rider, the creature threw it and Bandit against the cavern wall. Bandit was not hurt, however the Rapid Rider was slightly damaged, as was his radio.

Back in the mountain, Docs had found Sparks and Jet, and warned them that the mountain was an active volcano. There was pressure building up inside of it, and it was erupt in approximately two hours. Sparks uncovered a large hole in one of the cavern walls, the three Rock Raiders went inside of it. Inside there was a massive cavern, the floor layered with Energy Crystals, the roof was glittered with gemstones, and there was a large lake in the middle of the floor. At the other side of the cavern was the Rock Monster that uncovered the tunnel, it was asleep. Axle was kneeling by a pile of Energy Crystals. Docs realized that this was a Energy Crystal cache, though much larger than any seen before. Axle said he found it when the Rock Monster unveiled the tunnel.

A loud growl echoed throughout the cavern, it awoke the Rock Monster that was next to the Rock Raiders. The Rock Monster ran toward another hidden cavern, inside there were four other Rock Monster defending their Energy Crystals from a Slimy Slug. The Rock Monsters throw numerous boulders at the slug and it leaves.

Docs warns the Rock Raiders that an eruption is imminent, and that they have to leave now. Jet says that they need to save the Rock Monsters too. Sparks develops a plan to save the Rock Monsters, by using the Chrome Crusher to block the path of the magma, the cavern will not be destroyed and neither will the Rock Monsters.

The Rock Raiders race out of the cavern, five minutes later the Chrome Crusher detonates. Sparks uses the Granite Grinder to drill an escape route. There has been no contact from Bandit for quite a while. The Chrome Crusher held in place and stopped the magma from advancing. The Rock Raiders made it to the surface, Bandit sled down the mountain on a makeshift snowboard, made from the Rapid Rider’s parts.

The Rock Raiders return to the L.M.S. Explorer for a mission debriefing.