"Deus Ex Machina" -
Kariyahn is fleeing from a large battleship on the planet of Harlequin. After
crashing their ship to buy time, they take a moment to breathe. / Kathris, Hali, Rikan and Summer are jointly married
together in a fantastic ceremony in the Dragon Monarchy. 2 Ryder watches the
ceremony while Hannah stays around to perform a song. 1 / Simba congratulates his son, and momentarily laments about
Arandis. 2 Raoul asks Samantha and Callie how far along they are with the
nanotechology and cybernetics. 2 Wade asks Cloud if she thinks she'd like to
help her and Summer with some of the maintenance, and
Cloud accepts. 2 Ryder tells Kathris he'll keep his ear to the ground and let
him know if he hears anything. 1 / Callie and Samantha wake Arandis up and
discuss the Silence and that they need Arandis to keep Kathris and his friends
busy. 2 Kathris and Hali thank Father Caine again for performing the ceremony
for them. 2 Arandis, Samantha, and Callie talk about their machine army and
Callie's latest plan. 2 (1)
"Second Sight" - During
some construction in the laboratory, Cloud and Wade talk back and forth to each
other and there is an explosion. / Braden and Alora run some scans, and
discover Cloud is blind, and Wade needs a cyber implant to help her see. Cloud
refuses any cure spells, cybernetic, or medical treatment as she feels it's the
will of her gods. 2 Kathris and Hali discuss what they should do about this, if
anything. 1 / Braden and Alexis discuss their professional opinions on whether
or not they should suggest Cloud take treatment. 2 Shrag comes to ask Kathris
where he fits in now that he no longer has Ryder to watch. Kathris assigns him
to help Cloud. 2 Wade looks at the lab and considers they should continue the
work. She mentions the Gateway Project. 1 Cloud walks around as if she could
see, and when she goes to follow Rikan and Shrag on patrol, she fights the
vampires very well. 2 / Simba brings an intelligence
report to Alexis on her people and asks her what she makes of it. 2 Kathris and
Hali plan their delayed honeymoon, for when things are quieter. 2 Callie and
Samantha have adapted cybernetic systems to their bodies, and continue
construction on their machine army. 2 (2)
"New Beginnings" - Summer is slaying several demons and gets into trouble. As
she is almost killed, Adair, Ryan, Pascal, and Finola show up. / Kathris and
Hali wake up after a night of intimacy, and Hali takes a pregnancy test. They
discover she is with child, and share the good news with the rest of the team.
Summer tells Kathris that Adair is back 2 Kathris talks to Adair and tells him
about Arandis. He reacts understandably. 1 / Pascal introduces
himself to Cloud, and he comments on her reflexes even though she is blind. 2
Shrag checks on Wade to see how she has been handling since the accident, and
she tells him she is fine. 2 Raoul sends Arandis on her first assignment. 1
Adair talks to Ryan and Pascal and Finola, wondering if it's worth it to stay
here. 2 / Kathris, Rikan, and Adair patrol together while they talk, and they
are interrupted by Arandis. 2 Callie, Samantha, and Raoul discuss the results
of the first test, and Samantha considers the idea of using Ryan as one of
their test subjects. 2 Kathris, Hali, Simba, and Adair speak to each other, and
Adair decides that he's got to stick around, if only to save his sister. (3)
"Same Time, Same Place"
- Pascal comes back to the Club Amaragne and tells Hannah he's back. Hannah
welcomes him back and catches up. / Ellinia meets Pascal in the library and
kisses him. Adair rags on him for a moment. 2 Kathris asks Alexis and Braden
about what they could've done to Arandis, and if they can reverse it. 1 /
Arandis is spotted by Ryan and Rikan, and Arandis took
Ryan and knocks out Rikan. 2 Pascal tells Ellinia what he's been doing, and how
he's now back to stay. 2 Braden and Alexis take care of Rikan and he tells them
what had happened. 1 Kathris and Adair talk with Rikan, and they try and decide
how the command structure should now fall. Adair is worried about Ryan. 2 /
Raoul tells Callie and Samantha to prepare slowly for
the second phase of this plan. He mentions Godhand. 2 Braden tells Kathris that
the only way they can figure out what is affecting Arandis is by a scan. Wade
and Adair volunteer to get that scan. 2 Summer sits
with Rikan and she asks him if he thinks it is really Arandis. 2 (4)
"Phase Two" - In a lab
in the city, Ryan is on life support and fitted with cyber armor, a cybernetic
eye, metal claws on his right hand, and a powerful rifle with a plasma pistol.
/ Summer stops by Hali's place to see how she's handling after a month of
carrying a child. After some mushy girl talk, they start to walk off to find
Kathris. 2 Callie and Samantha input the data of Ryan's targets into his
processor, and discuss the Silence in greater detail. 1 /
Adair talks about Ryan and Arandis, and Wade tries to be supportive.
They find her, and manage to get a scan. Wade gets some of Arandis's blood on
her jacket. 2 Braden and Alexis investigate the scan and the blood sample and
notice nanomachines in Arandis's blood. 2 Kathris is speaking with Simba about
Arandis's resurgence, and he seems to be ill and collapses. 2 Callie activates
Ryan, and while Raoul sketches out a plan, Callie disagrees and has Ryan kill
him. 1 / Kathris asks Wade to speed up her work on the
lab, and she asks if she can pull staff from other areas. Kathris says yes. 2
Callie and Samantha begin to program Ryan and Arandis's new missions into them
while they wait. 2 Braden tells Rikan and Summer that
Simba may have something serious, but he's not sure what it is. 2 (5)
"Opening The Gate" -
Wade finishes work on the lab with Shrag and Cloud, and Alyanna shows up and
declares her approval. / Alyanna tells Simba, Wade, and Kathris what she plans
to do with the Gateway Project, and then tells them that she'd like to set up
shop permanently. She would for the most part have Wade run the project. 2
Adair talks to Pascal and Finola, and he says that he has to get Ryan back and
Arandis too. 1 / Alyanna gives Wade and Shrag the
equations for the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge. 2 Kathris, Rikan, and Adair
toss around the idea of possibly using the gateway when it's more developed
later for a tactical advantage. 2 Braden discusses with Cloud that he may need
her to take over for him for a while, and leaves her Simba's files before he
takes off. 2 Pascal and Ellinia continue to talk to each other, and they see
Braden running off. 1 / Wade tells Alyanna that she
thinks that she can work this project. 2 Alexis and Hali talk about Arandis and
Ryan, and who is likely behind all this. 2 Alyanna tells Simba to get healed
quickly with whatever is wrong, and for him to get stronger because they need
him. 2 (6)
"Orchestrations" - Simba
is attempting to figure out who would know how to use all this cybertechnology
and then he collapses. / Cloud, Alexis, and Alora attempt to figure out
something they can do now that Braden's skipped town. 2 Adair walks around and
he runs into Ryan and Arandis, and sees the Espers. 1 / Cloud asks for Alexis's help while they treat Simba and considers
other forms of remedies for Simba. 2 Adair reports what he saw to Kathris and
Rikan, and they ask Alexis what they could be doing. 2 Wade conducts the first
tests of the gateway project with Shrag's help, and they record the results. 1
Hali and Summer are patrolling, and they encounter
Ryan. The two of them are barely able to take him together. 2 / Alexis finds the place where Callie and Samantha are operating from
and warns them through the comm that she will not allow them to go any further.
2 Cloud tells Rikan that they may need to take more desperate measures to help
Simba as technology isn't being sufficient. 2 Ryan follows Hali and Summer back to Vanskar, and Kathris and Adair take over
where they left off. 2 (7)
"Rebooted" - Adair and
Kathris manage to finally defeat Ryan with a little help from Wade. / Wade
hooks into his head and with Alexis's help she is able to isolate what may be
his original personality. 2 Adair, Pascal, and Finola discuss how this may
possibly be the first good news they've had in a while. 1 / Rikan takes some
time with Summer and Cloud to sit around and try and cheer Simba up, while they
brainstorm ideas on how to help him. 2 Adair asks Wade if she thinks Ryan's in
there, and she and Alexis try and touch Ryan through Adair. 2 Hali tells
Kathris what they must've done to Ryan to make him that strong, and expresses
her concern over Arandis. 2 Cloud asks Alexis if she knows how they can help Simba
and how she wishes she could see the future. 1 / Alexis tells
Kathris that he should look for Hikaru and see if she can't help them. 2 Adair
watches as Wade and Summer try to restore Ryan's
personality, and at the end of the scene they succeed. 2 Kathris tells Rikan to
cooperate with Adair while he's gone, and that he's going to look for Hikaru. 2
(8)
"True Colors" -
Kathris looks at the ship and figures it's irreparable. Adair tries to find
them, but the garbled message and erratic readings make it hard to track them.
He puts Ellinia and Alyanna on finding them. Ryan sits in his quarters and
removes the eyepiece, but when Pascal comes in he puts it back on. During a
patrol of the city, Alexis and Shrag find Callie, and put up a brief fight
before Callie leaves. Simba returns to active duty and is ordered by Cloud to
take it easy. Kathris and Hali walk through the jungle, and encounter Angel
before they're attacked by Danika and Sadrian. They get away, but get washed
down the river and over a waterfall. Shrag takes Wade out for a nice dinner at
the Club Amaragne, and they talk for a bit. Callie and Samantha observe the
machine army they've created, and begin testing them in a distant city. Adair
asks Cloud why he loses everyone he cares about, and if he'll ever see Briona.
Cloud consoles him, and tries to reassure. Idania goes window shopping with
Wade, and almost considers trying on a dress. Kathris, Angel, and Hali wash up
on the beach at the bottom of the falls and walk to a rope bridge. Sadrian cuts
it and the bridge starts to break. (9)
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"Blood Link" - Kathris
tells Hannah about Simba, and she offers a suggestion. She says she may have a magical
spell that can hold him over. / Hannah describes the spell to Kathris, Simba,
Rikan, and Cloud, and Cloud admits she's running out of ideas. 2 Callie and
Samantha decide that Arandis has been idle too long and must go after the
group. 1 / Summer and Hali go to get the ingredients
for the spell, and they come across Arandis. They try to stop her, but she
knocks them for a loop. 2 Kathris, Rikan, and Cloud attempt to decide who
should be linked to Simba to support him, and Rikan demands it be him. 2 Hali and Summer get back
and give Hannah the ingredients, but they tell her that Arandis will be on the
way. 1 / Alexis suggests that she should stop Arandis
while they perform the spell, and Alexis attempts to keep her at bay while
Hannah chants. 2 Rikan collapses when he linked to his
father, and Arandis is momentarily herself before she leaves. 2 Alexis
tells Kathris that she felt some of the old Arandis back for a moment, and that
there must be a way to bring her all of the way back. (12)
"Godhand" - Callie and
Samantha begin constructing Godhand, and Arandis tells them their time is a day
off. / Adair fights several vampires and stakes them and complains to Ryan and
Pascal that Arandis was back for a moment and he missed it. 2 Alexis tells
Kathris and Rikan that they should take the fight to her people rather than
waiting any longer. 1 / Callie and Samantha watch with Arandis on the
construction site while they begin a countdown to when the rings will start
spinning. 2 Kathris tells Hali that he is going with some of the others to
fight Arandis and the Espers. 1 Wade gets the gateway working with the help of
two rings, and Cloud observes closely as the technology functions. 2 / Adair
asks if Ryan feels any influence from the Espers and Ryan tells him that he
thinks he's free from them. 2 Alexis speaks to Callie and Samantha through a
viewer and leaves them a warning that they will see Kathris and the others
coming. 2 Simba takes what Rikan tells them of what they heard and begins to
research in a major way. 2 (13)
"Growing Up" - Simba and
Ellinia are in a major research party, and Pascal speaks to her and flirts.
Father Caine enters the library. / Kathris and Cloud talk to Father Caine, and
they discuss Cloud's power and if it will do what it was
meant to do before the Silence. 2 Simba tells Ellinia and Pascal what he found
from the text about the Silence, and how if it is carried out it will end
magic. 1 / Hali sets up a nursery with Summer's help,
and they imagine when Summer will have her own child. 2 Father Caine tells
Kathris to be cautious while the Espers carry out their plans. Kathris asks for
advice from him on what to do, and Caine tells him he is becoming more of an
adult every day. 2 Simba comes to the conclusion that all they have to do to stop
the Silence is smash Godhand, but Ellinia and Pascal point out there is a lot
in the way. 2 Alexis talks to Cloud and tells her how she used to be one of the
bad ones. 1 / Father Caine visits Simba and tells him he's got a good group,
and a story about young Kathris. 2 Hali talks to Summer
and Wade and tells them she's been following the news, and that the Espers
machine army is getting more dangerous. 2 Cloud comes to see Alexis and tells
her that though she may have been one of the bad ones, she's one of the good
guys now. 2 (14)
"Candy Applestar, Part
1" - Fading into the image, a bouncy song plays while Briona, Kathris,
Hali (not pregnant), and Rikan perform on stage. Afterwards, Simba and Arandis
(the managers of the group) congratulate them on their performance. Briona is
met by Adair, and they get into a fight where she sends him away. Kathris talks
to her, but Briona fakes being okay and cries when she is alone. Part of 'Nobody Knows' by the Tony Rich Project plays.
Idania and Pascal recognize Kathris and Hali, and the couple
are friendly with their fans while they talk about themselves. Darren
Van Der Croix takes his primary assassins 'Angel' and 'Caine' to kill the four
performers. Kathris comes to Briona and confronts her about Adair. She admits
her feelings, and they talk about making up. Angel and Caine stop at a café in
Ardek, and ask Wade and Shrag all about the band and where the next concert is.
(15)
"Candy Applestar, Part
2" - During their next performance, they try to assassinate them, but
Shrag saves Briona from being killed, and Kathris saves Hali. Arandis and Simba
hire Shrag and Wade as bodyguards to protect the band. Briona declares she's
going after Adair, and Wade goes with her. Darren meets Caine and Angel and
orders them to try again to kill the band. Briona finds Adair, and they talk
for a while. They work things out and he agrees to take some time off from
demon slaying. Shrag and Wade suggest that Darren and the others will try again
before the next concert. Before the concert, they play a game of hide and seek
with Angel, Caine, and Darren, arguing with each before disposing of them.
Arandis and Simba then declare the show must go on, and Adair watches the
others begin to perform on stage with their latest single. (16)
"Bunny Ears" - Adair and
Ryan are sitting up on the roof of the
"The Road Not Taken, Part
1" - Kathris and Hali are out for a picnic, and there is a massive
shockwave where things change so that Kirsten and Darren are leading an army in
a war. In a protected area, Tigerfox, Miriah, and Kristania avoid the time
alteration. An older Sadrian tells Tigerwolf about how all realities focus on
Tigerfox, and how Hali must die to make sure he keeps his position in reality.
Tigerwolf goes back in time to kill Hali. / Kathris and Hali finish the
nursery, and are shocked when the three fall into their room in the
"The Road Not Taken, Part
2" - Tigerwolf finds himself by Adair and
Ryan, and asks him where Hali is. Kathris and the others hide inside the Club
Amaragne with Hannah, Pascal, and Ellinia. Pascal reels at Kristania's
identity, and Tigerwolf expresses frustration at finding Rikan and Summer rather than Kathris. He smashes up the
"Trigger" - Cloud makes
attempts to trigger her energy, but nothing happens. Alexis comments and makes
light of her efforts. / Pascal helps Adair while he takes care of Arandis, and
he tries a number of triggers to get her to react, but nothing happens. 2
Callie asks Samantha how things have been going with the surveillance, and she
learns there is nothing of interest yet. 1 / Simba asks Rikan if he shouldn't
just let Adair handle Arandis's recovery, and Rikan tells him she can use all
the help she can get. 1 Shrag and Wade discuss the possibility of alternate
uses of the gateway, and Wade shows Shrag the Tigerfox plush doll she was
making. 2 Simba and Adair collectively attempt to get Arandis to come back to
them, and they only succeed in frustrating themselves. 2 Hali tells Kathris
that it's almost time for the baby to be born. 2 / Wade
reports to Kathris that she's found out where the Espers are operating through
Arandis. 2 Alexis sits in while Simba again tries to reach Arandis, and
for a moment he does, but she then slips back into the catatonia. 2 Callie
tells Samantha that their surveillance has been used against them for some time
and that Arandis is now exposed. 2 (20)
"All The Way" - Ryan
goes shooting in the training area, and talks to Adair about the 'improvements'
they made to him and whether he's still who he was. / Cloud supervises
Tigerfox's birth, and Simba is nearby to watch. 2 Pascal comes to Ellinia and
proposes to her, and she agrees to marry him. 1 / Callie and Samantha watch as
the first ring of Godhand begins to spin. 1 Kathris and Rikan are talking, and
then he falters. Alexis confirms that magic is weakening. 2 Cloud continues
with Adair to attempt to treat Arandis and trigger her energy, but they can't
find out how it works. Ryan suggests they try to do what they did with him, but
Cloud explains why that won't work. 2 Kathris, Adair, and Rikan make their
first attempt to approach the construction site, but they are quickly forced
away by Samantha. 2 / Wade tells Kathris and the
others that as long as the signals they're sending to and from Arandis are
working they can't sneak up on them. 2 Rikan asks Alexis if she can keep the
Espers from detecting them. Alexis says she can block passive scans but not the
signals that Arandis is sending. 2 Simba researches some more, and tells Kathris
that the Silence is almost upon them. Kathris tells Hali that he is glad
they've got a son, and she tells him to get Arandis back all the way. 2 (21)
"Spiritual Recovery" -
Cloud's energy releases in the medical bay, and for a
second Arandis is back. Adair, Rikan, Simba, and Kathris talk about this and
agree they need to take her with them. Callie and Samantha discover Arandis was
right, and the window for the Silence has yet to come for 24 hours. Simba takes
a turn for the worse, and they use magic to sustain him. Alexis warns if the
Silence completes, Simba will die. Adair comes to see Kathris in his room, and
recognizes the Bianca Sol on the wall as a precursor weapon. Kathris explains
where he got it, but Adair still wonders how. Adair takes the Bianca Sol with
Hali's permission, and Kathris takes the Diatrix. Ryan and Pascal talk about
how much has changed in the last year. Kathris, Adair, Wade, Cloud, and Ryan
transport into the construction site and head for the location of the Silence.
Callie and Samantha discuss their plan for their arrival. Kathris and the
others arrive and exchange words, and there is a battle. The rings start to
spin, and Cloud smashes the machine. Afterwards, Callie makes one more attempt
to kill Cloud, and the energy activates, washing over every world, city, ship,
etc, washing away the cybernetics and the disease, restoring everything to
normal. (May) (22)
