Episode 64: Out of the Frying Pan

## Synopsis

Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie fight Molly and her witches for a second time. They are able to give Helena a Bye Bye Bomb to get her to safety. Molly and all her witches are killed. Sammie teleports back to the Fort while Bjorn flies an unconscious Henry back.

## Episode Description

It's time for round two with Molly and her witch posse. This is the final stand. Make or break. Either the heroes succeed, or they will suffer their worst defeat yet.

## Key Events

* Bjorn gets a Bye Bye Bomb into Helena's hand and she is able to teleport to safety.
* Molly is defeated by Bjorn and uses her last act to explode into a raging blast of fire.
* The massive Rift outside of the Fort begins to open.

## Summary

Sammie Bye Bye Bombs straight into the room where Helena is being held hostage. Bjorn teleports in right beside her and puts a Bye Bye Bomb into Helena's hand. Sammie stabs at the woman holding a knife to Helena's throat but misses. The witch turns to her and freezes her in place. Another witch nearby throws a force blast at them that throws Bjorn off balance.

Molly's attention is quickly drawn to the scene. Henry, who's delayed his entry, appears behind Molly and slashes at her from behind with his claws. He gets a good hit in but is blasted back as Molly turns and hits him with a blast of fire directly to his chest. Bjorn takes a shot at a nearby witch and she retaliates, blasting him back into Molly. Molly's attention is still focused on Henry, she advances toward him with her hands aflame. Henry throws up a shield to protect himself - the spell creates a golden half-sphere around him to keep him safe. Molly creates a wall of fire that surrounds his shield.

Sammie tries to buy time for her mom to realize a Bye Bye Bomb is in her hand. The witch tells Sammie that if she makes one wrong move, she'll slit her mom's throat. Sammie realizes Helena is too injured and out of it to realize what she's holding. Sammie breaks the force freezing her in place with a magical burst of her own, pulls her Bye Bye Bomb out of her pocket, and holds it out for Helena to see. Sammie tells her mom to get out of here, that she has what she needs in her hand. Just as the witch starts to move the knife at Helena's throat, Helena vanishes.

Bjorn decides to take on Molly and pulls his assault rifle off of his shoulder and makes a solid hit. Molly creates another circle of fire, this time around Bjorn and herself, closing him in with her. She advances and sticks her burning knife between Bjorn's scales and into his skin.

With Henry and Bjorn both isolated inside circles of fire, Sammie now finds herself alone against 4 witches. She tries to hit the brunette witch in front of her, but her blast goes wide. The witch freezes her in place, allowing another witch to hit her with a concussive force blast. Another witch in the room heats the knife in Sammie's hand and burns her skin, while the 4th comes up behind her and holds a gun to her head.

Henry tries to escape the fire that's surrounding him. He expands his shield to try and extinguish the flames but is damaged by some of the fire. Bjorn, brimming with anger, tells Molly that she doesn't remember this, but they've already fought once today - that they've come back in time to stop her for good - and her reign of chaos is over. He pulls out his pistol and shoots her in the chest at point-blank range. Molly hits Bjorn with a fire blast in his chest in retaliation. She tells him he's not going to get a chance to go back in time again.

Sammie, still on her own, releases a blast of force magic around herself to force back the witches surrounding her. She gets some breathing room, but the man with the gun is able to shoot her in the back of the leg. Henry, now free from the ring of fire, takes a shot at the blonde witch near Sammie. She immediately drops to the floor.

Bjorn, locked in combat with Molly, tells him he only needs one shot. He raises his 9mm pistol again and hits Molly in the neck. Molly reaches a hand up to staunch the blood flow on her neck, looking at Bjorn with pure rage. Cracks begin to form across Molly's hardened skin, glowing like fire. Bjorn, realizing that Molly is about to explode, tries to dive through the ring of fire around them to put more distance between him and her. He shouts at the others that Molly is about to blow, but there's little to no time for anyone to react. Bjorn has just enough time to look over his shoulder and see Molly smile at him.

A large explosion bursts through the room. The explosion instantly kills the man that had just shot Sammie and the other black-haired witch attacking her. Sammie, Henry, and the brunette witch are hit with the blast and thrown, but survive. Bjorn's scales manage to protect him from the explosion. Bjorn looks to where Molly once stood and sees nothing but a crater. The room is in shambles and burning, and the house seems as though it may fall at any second. The brunette witch raises her hand to attack Sammie, but Sammie strikes first. She blasts the witch back into a wall and she snaps her neck, crumpling to the ground.

Bjorn tells Sammie she needs to get back to the Fort with her Bye Bye Bomb. Sammie says she'll help heal Henry first before she goes. As she heals Henry, something goes wrong and Henry passes out. Bjorn helps with Henry's healing, and then they take some time to heal Sammie as well. Before Sammie leaves, she hears footsteps outside. She sees a sniper outside the window and quickly uses magic to block the window and wall with a barrier of earth to prevent him from shooting them. She tells Bjorn to promise they'll make it back safe and then uses her Bye Bye Bomb to teleport back to the medical bay on the Fort. Bjorn carries Henry and takes to the sky. He dodges a shot from a sniper outside and flies toward the Fort.

Miguel begins to help Sammie as soon as she appears in the med bay. Suddenly, they feel a rumbling. The entire Fort is shaking. In the sky above, Bjorn can see a green glow coming from underneath the water beside the Fort. The water is swirling in a whirlpool above the green glow. The massive Rift portal is opening.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Bjorn Olafson
* Helena Overbrook
* Molly
* Henry Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriquez

## Roll Tracker

\*This roll had a +4 modifier. Hannah still failed.

\*\*It wasn't stated what the roll was or whether this was a full or mixed success, but considering that Henry was given damage as a consequence, assuming this was mixed.

## Harm Healed

 Hannah/Sammie
 Andrew/Bjorn
 Andrew/Bjorn