Le Magicien (1999)

Strange things have been happening, first Duc was chased by two crooks to the Sensa News, then the crooks try to take Duc from Sensa News. Fortunately, Ace was there to save him. However when they go back to the Magic Express, they been rocked by grenades. What's worse is the Magic Express is in fire. The Express goes away, until comes to a cliff, the Express falls into the ocean. Luckily, the Express can still operate underwater. Yet, Duc complains to Ace about him being crazy, but Ace confronts Duc. Duc shows Ace a CD video about a new director in the St. Paul Hospital name John Wosh. However, John Wosh isn't really who he is, his real name is Paul Kelly and was arrested for illegal chemical experiments. Duc gets to the hospital headfirst, only to be taken away. Ace and Cosmo arrive there, they learn that the secret of the hospital is to treat people with a new virus then give a medication for a high price. Ace saves Duc who was about to be thrown in boiling liquid. They find Wosh an

Two dangerous criminals have escaped from jail, Sally Blade and Bodycount. Both sisters worked for Black Jack. Meanwhile, a high technology ship named the Prosperity annouces it's flight. The ships was made for celebrities. The two criminals learn that Mona was one of the celebrites. When Mona is home from Ace's magic trick, the two blackmail, they demand her to help them steal Ace's anti-metal detector sensor so they can take the Prosperity hostage or Black Jack gets hurt. Mona agrees to help for her father's sake, the three goes to the Magic Express and Sally knocks Ace cold and the three takes off. The next day, Mona uses the anti-metal device sensor so she can sneak in a gun. When she gets to the ship, she holds the captain at gunpoint, demanding to take off the protective field. The two criminals take the ship hostage. Vega tries to stop them but gets beaten unconscious. Ace learns he can't page through his friend due to the high securtiy level. Ace also learns that the ship has a

A new restuarant in Electro City opens, Planet Electric. It's owned by Electro City's celebrities, DJ Mickus, Skip Ramsdale, and Ace Cooper. All the money earned goes to a man named Banks. Suddenly, as people were eating them, they get poisoned. Banks is the one behind this, Black Jack hired him. Ace, Skip, Mickus, and Banks are arrested. They go through a lie detector test. All answers were ""no"", but one of employees hired by Banks hacks into the lie dectector. When Ace's answer is negative, the alarm flased and Ace is arrested. Ace can't use his magic because he gets drugged once in a while. Cosmo gets mad, he goes to the restuarant to search for clues. While searching he hears Spade & Diamond talking about the secret of the food and that they plan to poison Banks next. Cosmo runs out while the police chase him. When he arrives at Banks' house, he gets knocked out and drugged. Meanwhile, Ace gains consciousness and escapes from jail. In the meantime, Cosmo is driving a car while drug

Ace and Cosmo are watching a Flppball game when suddenly their favorite player, Skip Ramsdale accidently crashes into Barsky, a player from the opposing team. While Barsky is in the stretcher, he sues Skipper and he is arrested by the police. In the Magic Express, Ace and Cosmo don't believe the fact that Skip was guilty. Ace decides to gather more information about the incident. The problem is that the police won't allow anyone to speak to Skip so they go to their next source: Bob Ret, manager of the Chips Team. Bob explains everything to Ace and Cosmo about the contract Skip received from the Pirates team replacing Barsky. So Ace and Cosmo go to Barsky's private island to spy. After learning the fact that Barsky was actually faking, they are caught. The two must race for their lives.

Sunny Boy opens up a casino and Black Jack is furious. Sunny's henchmen attacks the Croesus Palace Casino while Mona is performing. She is saved by Ace who sits in the audience admiring her. Blackjack retaliates by manipulating the machines in Sunny's casino, allowing everybody to win, nearly ruining Sunny. He refuses to pay the won money to the winners. Out for revenge, Sunny pays an employee from Blackjack to bring him the lucky rabbit's paw of him. He gives it to the sorceress, Scaras who uses the paw to manipulate Blackjack and drug him. While Mona's father's health is deteriorating, Mona turns to Ace and asks for his help. Ace furiously tells her that Blackjack is a criminal and hates him, just like Ace despises Blackjack, and he refuses to help. Blackjack turns worser and worser and Mona comes in person to the Magic Express. She reminds Ace that he is responsible for her father's condition. Suddenly, there's a flashback that shows Ace and Jack fighting on a wooden beam over a rag

Professor Jonathon Surge was visiting his lab when he suddenly disappears. No one knows where went. Meanwhile, Ace has a new trick he performing for the first time in the Ring Theater. It consists of himself getting pulled towards a gigantic magnet, which he then takes out and depletes all of its energy, using himself as a catalyst. While he disables the magnet with electricity, the whole system shorts out, taking all of Electro City's power with it. Nothing works anymore. The Surge batteries, a kind of battery that runs eternally, are all dead. Ace investigates while more batteries fail until the whole city is without power. Friedrich is trapped in an elevator, the Croesus Palace is unable to run its games and Sunny Boy, who first gloats that everything is going according to plan, finds that the Surge Industries is dropping. While searching for Prof. Surge, Ace and Cosmo are confronted by Sonny Boy, who tells them that his father has ""retired"". He never liked his father, because his d

Skip Ramsdale, star of the Strikers team was playing a game of Flippball, when an accident and is whisked off at the hospital. He is diagnosed with Flippball Sleep, a strange illness that is affecting more and more pilots recently. Ace and Cosmo were present throughout the last Flippball Game and Ace tells Cosmo he knew Skip for a long time, though they are no longer friends. Flashback: Skip tells Ace he wants to be part in of his tricks. Ace warns him the performing trick is dangerous, Skip claims that Flippball is more dangerous and he can do it. The trick fails because Skip was locked inside a water tank and he lost the key and he nearly died. Skip blames Ace for his own failure and ever since they were no longer on speaking terms. Ace and Cosmo visits Skip because Cosmo is a huge fan, but his dreams are shattered when he gets to know the bitter and angry Skip, who, to top it, takes vitalizing drugs. Skip treats Cosmo like a small child, insults Ace, and tells them to leave him alon

A new kind of music comes to Electro City: Hardbeat. All the kids are wild about it and since DJ Mickus create this new sound, he is coming to town, everyone wants to go to this party, including Cosmo. However, Hardbeat is also blamed for more and more violent outbreaks among teenagers, who aggressively attack innocent people and destroy property after attending Hardbeat parties. Ace is worried about Cosmo and asks him to help on a levitation number instead of going out, but Cosmo says he needs to go out more since he hasn't had any fun for a week. Illegally recording live performance of Mickis at the dance club, Cosmo plays the Hardbeat on his Earman as he rollerblades home and his aggressiveness rises, letting him not only a young couple in a restaurant but also the police. Ace is called by Vega to pick him up from jail. He asks Cosmo not to go to another Hardbeat party, but Cosmo says rudely, ""The last time I checked, you still weren't my father"". Ace decides to accompany Cosmo and

A young girl possesses magical powers and wants to be trained as a magician, is working with a stage magician named Yago as his assistant. She is trying to master of her new tricks, levitating a tambourine while playing it, but Yago tells her that she is bad and will never make it. When she says she will search for a new teacher, he orders her to stay. In Yago's opinion, Ace Cooper is only a second-class magician, pushed to stardom by the media. Mr. Alexandre, the owner of the club gives her the address of Ace and tells her to go and see him. Yago (who thinks he's the greatest magician alive) is furious and he scares his audience with a magic trick that includes a fiery dragon and a phoenix, ruining the club. Meanwhile, Ace and Cosmo are driving by Electro City's bank and discover Spade and Diamond taking pictures of the building. Ace and Cosmo pursue them and the two run into a lamp post. Ace mumbles that Blackjack is planning something. Back at the Ring Theater, the girl, whose name

Ace is busy dressing for Mona's birthday party when a call comes in. It's Mona and she asks him to come one hour earlier because she has something tell him. While on his way, he is attacked by poisonous dart and gets wet by the rain (it happened all of a sudden). He arrives at the Croesus Palace, very wet and still drugged. Cosmo asks him what happened because Ace left before Cosmo and arrived late, but before Ace can answer, Mona walks on the stage. She annouces her marriage to a professor named Max Malden. Blackjack is relieved because it means she is no longer with Ace, but Ace is jealous. He can't believe, he doesn't want to. He tries to talk to Mona, but Spade and Diamond get in his way. He passes them with magic...only to learn that Mona is no longer in her dressing room. Mona and the professor were having an interview at the SensaNews. ""It was 'magical'"" Mona says. Ace turns off the TV and stomps out of the living room, Cosmo tells him that he has to accept it. It turns out that

It's just after midnight when a car arrives at Fred Barskin's villa, it's Zelda a super model. She thinks her contract is up, and wants to leave. But Baskin made her contract that extents her contract unlimited. Yet, Zelda still wants to leave, but she tried, she gets stopped by Barskin's henchman who brings her back to the villa. Later, in Ace's room at the Ring Theater, Cosmo tries to hypnotize Ace, it failed. He wants Ace to show him the trick behind hypnotizing anyone. They prepare for the show, Cosmo notices that is in the audience (since he admires her). Professor Braun informs Zelda that she is now working for the Universal Beauty Institute (U.B.I.) Zelda refuses to sign the contract because she wants to leave the model business. The show starts, Ace asks for a volunteer and Zelda goes to the stage. Barskin tries to stop her but Ace stops him. When Ace asked what of animal she would like to be, she choose an eagle. Ace uses his magic to transform her into an eagle. While distrac

Ace has a new magic show. The magic trick is something to do with weather. He creates lightning, energy suns, and small tornadoes. Mr. Zanoni, the organizer of the open air show, is extorted by a stranger. The stranger blackmails Zanoni, he wants one million electro dollars or he will sabotage the show. Yet Zanoni refused. As the show begins, two volunteers go on stage and the magic trick starts. Suddenly, everything starts going out of control as the extortionist pulls out a small device and creates a large storm which Ace can no longer control. Even though Cosmo reduces the energy input, the storm grows larger. Spectators flee in panic, some are injured but no one is seriously hurt. The media blames Ace for the disaster and Ace decides hold the tour as long as he doesn't know where the error lies. Suddenly Zanoni pays a visit and explains that it wasn't Ace's fault. He had been blackmailed and didn't pay the money. Ace decides to continue the tour to catch the culprit. At another loc

A famous singer named Ritchie Valenti arrives at Electro City for the first time in fifteen years. Vega is at the harbor where he arrived, not happy at all. He leaves a letter in Valeti's car. Friedrich receive an anonymous call about meeting between a blackmailer and his victim in the following night. It's Vega whose meeting with Valenti. Vega smacks the singer, grabs the suitcase and takes off. When the police catches him, the suitcase breaks open and he gets arrested. The next morning at the Express, Cosmo is interviewing Senator Dobbs, when Angel announces Miss LeSage. She's surprised to see Dobbs, but it turns it's really Ace. She tells them that Vega's been arrested. Ace learns that Vega's bail is $150,000,000 Electro dollars. Ace visits Vega in prison and asks him what happened. But Vega remained silent. Ace pays the bail, but is informed that it will take some time for the paperwork to go through. Friedrich tells Ace, that Vega has already been involved in a scandal with Valent