cardinal/queen

-Dart only sees his father rarely whenever he comes home late at night from working as a royal mechanic.

-Dart strives to be closer to his dad so he learns to love being a mechanic as well

-One night Dart's father doesn't come home

-He goes out into town to find him

-We introduce the mechtropolis (even Dart is amazed and fall sin love with it. He visits rarely)

-Conflict rises when Dart overhears a royal guard gossip about a mechanic who denied the cardinal's request and was thrown into the dungeon

-dart goes to confront them and get more information

-They refuse to tell Dart anything (mainly because of his status as a country boy)

-Drat goes home in defeat, but as he sits in his father's workshop, he decides to confront the Cardinal himself

-Overnight he adds a mish mash of parts to battle

-Getting to the cardinal is more difficult than he thought and is met by a hoard of guards

-As Dart scrambles to hold them off, he interferes with the 3 mechateers lives(one is scavenging for scraps in a gross alley, another is sleeping in a group of pigeons, another is a street performer)

-Each of them chase Dart

-When Dart finally escapes the guards, he's confronted by the 3 musketeers and is challenged to a duel

-Duel in churchyard—finds out the 3 Mechateers are together, but not on best terms/out of sync

-Dart showing that he pulls them together

-Tells the Mechateers what he knows about the cardinal
-3 separate plans based on Dart’s plan
-Figure if the machine that corrupts gems is in the guards’ barracks, but fail to find it. Caught by guard, saved by the Queen (who acts very upset with them)
-Queen summons them and as soon as the guards are not near, she gives a mission to find the diamond (which they do not know is being used to make Dart’s father’s machine work)

-The 3 mechateers chase through the city-show what makes the 3 mechateers great
-Catch the guy, find out that he was just a stooge of Mr. Big Mobster
-Fight their way into the lair of Mr. Big Mobster, who is English, tells them they are fools for thinking they can stop the oncoming invasion.
-Because this guy is English, they go to confront English Lord/Prince (by sneaking in/quietly disabling guards) to find out what’s going on
-Find out that Cardinal’s underling promised them the technology