When the 5 Planeteers: Wheeler, Links, Gi, Kwame and Ma-Ti joins their powers together, beams shoot from their magical rings, meeting and combining in a swirling nimbus. Thunder and lightning crash through the sky and, as the Planeteers watch, their hero literally bursts from the Earth. Captain Planet, the environmental superhero, is endowed with the powers of the Planeteers' rings in his battle against the destruction of the Earth.