Prototype: The New World Chapter Three Plot/Part Three

Imagine Metropolis after Man of Steel. Imagine Gotham after The Dark Knight Rises. Imagine New York after The Avengers. Chicago after Transfomers: Dark of the Moon. Just imagine the destruction, the chaos, the death that arose from all of these cities following major events. Now imagine that level of destruction across an entire city. Every island, every section devestated. Imagine great levels of destruction, windows shattered, bodies scattered. This isn't Stocker City though, this is New York City. And now it's people are forced to forced to deal with the sudden revelations and chaos of Face Off, and in the wake of this destruction, reflect. I now present the next episode of Prototype: The New World.... "In the Wake of Destruction".

#### Story

##### Opening

A flashback to 2019 reveals Lincoln Maxwell and his wife, Marie Kingsley in a facility in France. Lincoln and Marie are being interviewed for an opporunity at a rare experiment in Stocker City by a woman named Regina. Regina is interviewing him, while Marie is being interviewed by someone else and after a brief interview, Regina hires him for Project Trident. When he asks what Project Trident is, she leads him into a separate room. Walking to a table with a covered container, Regina lifts the sheet off to reveal a glowing crystal in a glass containment. She says "This is Project Trident". Revealing it crashed in the Americas a year ago, they've learned that it contains a large amount of energy, although how they don't know. Lincoln asks what they mean by crashed, and she says it that it isn't from this Earth, having come somehow from outer space, and is not made up of any chemical element that they know of pre-2019. Lincoln bends his knees, lowering to stare right at the crystal, curious. Regina says "Welcome to Project Trident, Lincoln Maxwell".

##### Act I

It cuts to a shot of water. As the camera moves up, it shows a devestated New York City, a timestamp showing MAY 25TH, 2022 - TEN MINUTES AFTER THE LAST EPISODE. It cuts to the NYPD, with Team Prototype getting out of the wreckage and helping pull Tanveer, and some officers out as well. The entire NYPD is destroyed, and everywhere else is also damaged. Bee asks what happened, and Mig, in disbelief at the destruction, says he doesn't know. He tells Castiel and T-Y to fly upwards and see how bad it is, and to find Jada and Rashard. He tells Cody and Mark to take Tanveer to Riker's Island, and then start helping people. When Bee asks what she can do, Mig tells her that she's going to tell him what happened to Ferrari, much to her concern.

Castiel and T-Y are flying, both shocked at the damage caused, when T-Y points something out. The Statue of Liberty is gone. O.R.I.O.N. alerts the team that he's discovered Jada's location. She was last scene in Battery Park getting on a ferry to Liberty Island. Castiel and T-Y look at each other, and begin racing towards Liberty Island. A shot of Liberty Island shows large broken chunks of the Statue of Liberty, shattered in pieces and destroyed. Castiel and T-Y arrive, going through the wreckage to try and find her, shouting for her name. Eventually, Castiel finds a hand, and starts lifting a large piece of wreckage (the face of the statue of Liberty) with the help of T-Y, finding Jada in a coma-like state. T-Y looks over to see the Aeteo as well, and Castiel and T-Y take Jada and the Aeteo away from the scene, towards Manhattan.

Bee tells Mig what happened to Ferrari in the last episode. Mig says that she can't have just disappeared, and she says that she did. Mig begins to have a mental breakdown, freaking out as the result of this. Bee tries to snap him out of it, telling him that right now, he's their leader, and they need a leader more now than ever. Mig is unable to stop crying and screaming, making Bee look around, unsure what to do. Lincoln, barely awake and watching this unfold, begins to flashback.

Returning to the flashback, we find Lincoln and Marie looking at the crystal, when a man in a dark suit informs Lincoln that he has a message for them. He tells Lincoln that Regina has been asked to join one of the people paying for the project for dinner, and is taking a separate plane to England (she's going to have dinner with The Director and his family pre-The Event). Because of this, Lincoln and Marie have been asked to get on a plane to Australia with the crystal in tow in four hours. Lincoln nods, stating he'll get packed. Looking at the crystal one last time, he goes with his wife out of the building. When Marie asks about Rashard, Lincoln says that Rashard is basically an adult now, and says he'll be fine. Marie is comforted by these words.

Jada is brought to a nearby hospital by Castiel, as the doctors take her in, trying to figure out what's the cause of her coma. Castiel leaves to go and start helping everyone else, as the doctors franticlly try to figure her condition out. He flies by T-Y, who says he spotted a flare near Midtown. The two of them start heading there, reaching the rooftop of a building, where a family is holding their ten year old daughter, who has both legs twisted hard. T-Y takes the daughter and the mother to safety, while Castiel takes the father to safety, as T-Y tries to tell them everything will be okay.

Mark and Cody arrive at Riker's Island with Hassan Tanveer, delivering them to S.W.A.T, who apologize for the events eariler, not realizing Tanveer was the one behind them. Suddenly, criminals begin shooting at them, forcing a massive gun fight. Mark grabs a dead officer's gun and takes out three of the criminals quickly, with an officer asking how he knows such skills. Mark hesitates, answering "I had a teacher experienced in these kind of things". The criminals get away with many of the armory's weaponry, as S.W.A.T tries to call for backup. When Cody asks who they were, S.W.A.T. says people who really hate technology.

Meanwhile, in a warehouse, the Shapeshifter is in his black shadow humanoid form, when he sees a call on his cell phone. Vibrating until he shifts back to his normal form, Nicholas Serriv, he answers the phone, as he is abruptly cut off to The Director, who is asking what happened in New York City in an angry tone (remember this whole episode is before the tag in Face Off).

##### Act II

Serriv tells The Director about how he framed the Team, and tried to manipulate events to lead to their reveal to the rest of humanity, as well as to show their nature. When The Director asks why he should do such a stupid thing, replying that Serriv has been shown to be intelligent in the past, Serriv says he made a deal to cause the chaos. The Director, in response, asks who the deal was made with, before it cuts to the flashback.

Returning to the flashback, Lincoln and Marie are on a private plane with the crystal. Marie looks at the crystal, not glowing, but when Lincoln walks up to her, it starts to glow again. Marie asks Lincoln why the crystal changes its glow, and Lincoln says that he has no idea, but that's what Project Trident is about, he supposes. She accepts this answer, giving him a kiss on the cheek before entering the bathroom. Lincoln walks to the crystal, putting his hand on the container, when sparks shoot out of the crystal, hitting around the container, scaring Lincoln. Out of the cockpit comes the co-pilot, who goes over to get a Coca-Cola, saying the pilot has things under control. Lincoln goes to sit down, but notices blood on the co-pilot's hands.

Back in the present day of May 25th (still the day of Face Off), it's nearly dark, as a fire is burning an apartment in Hell's Kitchen. Coming from the fire is Castiel, carrying a young child to a family, who is covered in Fire Department blankets. T-Y comes out, carrying the family's dog as well, making them all happy, and telling the Fire Department that everyone is now out. The Fire Department begins to put out the fire, as Castiel brings up how he saw Cody and Taylor kiss. T-Y begins to smile, before saying "Oh god can we not talk about that", then saying "Okay, do we need to separate?", showing confliction between Tyler and Taylor. T-Y presses the button on their device, making them back into Taylor and Tyler. Taylor asks Tyler what his problem is, and Tyler says that he just doesn't see Cody and Taylor as a couple. Taylor says that Tyler doesn't have an excuse to hate him now, as they're like brothers now, "science bros". Castiel says they should calm down as he was just asking a question, and Tyler and Taylor both turn to him and tell him to stay out of their arguement. Castiel sighs, saying it's going to be a long night.

Back at the old Prototype suite they were living in, the building is now damaged, but is serving as a place for people to stay at during the chaos. Mig is sleeping on a couch, as Bee sits next to Lincoln, saying Mig's finally calmed down. Lincoln asks if they've found Rashard yet, and Bee says that the Coast Guard as been alerted to check the rivers just in case, but says Rashard will most likely be fine, as she knows he's a tough person. Bee asks if Lincoln is okay, and Lincoln says he's just holding onto hope.

Going back to the flashback, it continues immediately from where it left off. When the co-pilot asks Lincoln what he's going to Australia for, Lincoln lies and says that he's been invited to give a speech at a university about earth's minerals. When Lincoln asks to see the pilot and double check their course, the co-pilot sighs, turning around and aiming a gun at Lincoln. Lincoln says he's not just a normal co-pilot, and the man nods, saying he is part of the organization known as "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T., this is actually the name of a terrorist group from the film Transcendence, and it kind of foreshadows some stuff later on). He tells Lincoln that Lincoln has been noted for his work at CERN, and that Lincoln and his wife are messing with dangerous technology. Lincoln says they aren't messing with technology, but the man points to the crystal, and says that the crystal is obviously not a normal jewel, and Lincoln is not a normal man. Aiming his gun at Lincoln, Lincoln closes his eyes. Suddenly, Marie bursts from the bathroom, attacking the man as Lincoln kicks him in the crotch. The two tag-team the fight, fighting the man until he is knocked out by having Marie slam his head into a mirror. However, as they do this, the man accidently pulls the trigger, shooting Marie in the stomach. Marie falls down, much to the horror of Lincoln, who goes to try and stop the bleeding. He puts Marie in the seat nearest the crystal, as the crystal begins to become more active in its spark. Lincoln tries to comfort Marie, as the man suddenly comes from behind, and stabs Lincoln with a piece of glass in the back shoulder.

(Commerical)

As Lincoln screams, the crystal sends out an electrical spark that travels from the glass to one of the engines, making it shut off. The engines not working, the plane begins diving as Lincoln is thrown into the cockpit, landing next to the dead pilot and activating manual control of the plane (it was on auto-drive). The plane begins to descend rapidly, as Lincoln tries to pull it up, He starts pulling it up, but falls back towards the man, who is knocked over. The crystal and its container fall over to the floor, as the two men begin fighting for it. Lincoln shoves it aside as the man tries to shoot Lincoln. Lincoln grabs the gun, pulling it away from his head, looking over at his wife Marie, and the windows near her. In a moment of desperation, he shoots the windows, causing a vaccum that shatters the remaining windows and destroys the door to the side of the private plane. The crystal in its container flies out the door, as the assassin like man tries to not fall out. Lincoln kicks him, making the man get thrown out of the plane. Lincoln climbs over to Marie, checking to see if she's alright, to find she's dead. Holding onto her with everything he has, he cries out as the plane descends into the ground, cutting to black....

As dawn emerges on the 26th, members of the team are shown to be tired. Tyler, Taylor, and Castiel are exhausted from a night of searching, as Mig tells them to sleep, they need it. Mig goes to Mark, who says that Emergency Relief will be in Mahattan within the next two hours. Mig says its their job to make sure things run smoothly. Suddenly, Mig gets a text as his phone goes off. Mig looks at it, and looks at Mark, saying that Jada's awake. In the hospital, Mig and Mark arrive in the room, where Jada is talking with a nurse. Mig says she looks extremely well, saying she looks like she has no injures at all, pointing out Mark looks like a cat attacked his entire face, making Mark punch him in the shoulder. She says that she had some during the events of Face Off, but she says she supposes the doctors are better then they thought they could be. Mig accepts this, as she asks how bad things are. Mig tells her how bad the destruction is, making her horrifed. He tells her that she doesn't have to worry though, as they're taking care of it. Mig and Mark leave to keep on searching and rescuing, as Jada looks over to see nearby flowers wilt and die. Looking at her hands, she sees them glowing a pink and purple aura, much to her horror.

Lincoln thinks back to the aftermath of the plane, as he is shown trying to crawl out from the wreckage, beginning to pass out, when he suddenly wakes up in a hospital. Looking around, he finds himself unaware of his surroundings. A man in a wheelchair is sitting next to him. Lincoln asks what happened. This is what is said:

[Man in Wheelchair]: You were attacked by a man from R.I.F.T., whose body we found about 10 miles from you.

[Lincoln]: Wh- who are you?

[Man in Wheelchair]: You would have met me under different circumstances five days ago, when you were on the plane heading to Australia. My name is Tyler Yensen, I work at Project Trident, and was the man who interviewed your wife in the selection process.

[Lincoln]: My wife? ... oh god. Wher-.... where's my wife? Marie... Marie Kingsley, she came with me, she's missing, she got shot, I need to help her...

[Tyler]: Lincoln, calm down please. I'm going to explain. When you didn't show up, I knew something had happened, so I got the authorities to help. Two hours later, we found the plane wrecked. You were beaten down, passed out. You were  found holding her hand at the wreckage. You pulled her out, climbed out, and then held her hand, as you passed out. She didn't make it.

[Lincoln begins to cry]

[Tyler]: We also found the crystal a few miles farther back, made a massive crater, if that helps.

[Lincoln, in a moment of anger, shouts]: DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IT HELPS?

[Lincoln starts crying again]

[Tyler]: We've arranged a grief consuleor to see you daily for the next two months, if needed. You don't have to come in for that time, but on behalf of everyone at Project Trident, I'm truly sorry for your lost.

[Unsure what else to say, Tyler wheels himself out of the room, as Lincoln continues to cry]

##### Act III

Jada wakes up to see Castiel holding the Aeteo in his hands, looking at it. Jada asks who he is, and he states he's Castiel, Mig's brother, remarking they didn't have a chance to meet as he left around the time she joined the Team. Jada recalls this, and greets him. Noticing Castiel's mood, she asks if everything is okay. Castiel says a normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute. He then goes on to say that when the doctors first had her, she was recorded to have a BPM (beats per minute) of 512. Jada, shocked, states that that is extremely fast. Castiel says that no human has that BPM, no matter what. It cuts to Mig, who is standing on the damaged Brooklyn Bridge. Crying, he starts to get close to the edge of the bridge on purpose. Castiel then tells Jada that he then thought it was odd that with complete and total destruction all around her, she was found to have no injures what so ever, even after the events of Face Off, which he thinks is odd as Mark, Lincoln, and Bee were found to have injures as normal humans. Plus, he found her covered in a giant pile of destruction, and yet she somehow makes it out okay without being dead, much to his confusion. Jada, beginning to get worried at what means, notices nearby flowers that have replaced the other dead ones are beginning to wilt again. Door handles are beginning to unscrew themselves, and some glasses are beginning to shake. Castiel says he was concerned that something was wrong, as it cuts to Mig reaching the very edge of the bridge, looking down at the water below, taking deep breaths.

Castiel then says that he was looking at the Aeteo as well, when he noticed a button. He says he managed to open it up, and proceeds to open it up in front of her, showing the crystal, as he says he found that a crystal was inside. Jada begins to regain her memories of what really happened in the Statue of Liberty, her getting hit by energy from the Aeteo Crystal as the building begins to shake, and the floor begins to crack a bit. Back to Mig, he starts to put one foot forward, hesitating at his actions. Castiel, talking to Jada, says that he wasn't sure until he saw the crystal, and then says that that's when he realized what had happened. That's when he realized that Jada had become a metahuman and had caused the destruction. Jada begins flashbacking to Rashard being shot by Tanveer, and begins to have an emotional panic attack herself. Castiel says that any moment now, the doctor's are going to come back with a full scan of her DNA sequence, and will most likely find it similar to the rest of the metahumans, as she begins to scream in pain. Purple and pink energy shoots from her fingertips, shattering part of the floor tile, the windows, the bathroom door, and damaging the lights and walls of the room. Castiel, spooked, runs out with the Aeteo as she begins to panic, the weight of what's happened coming on her completely. Mig leans foward, falling towards the water, when he shouts "No!", and teleports away back to the road on the bridge. Back on the bridge, he sits down, breathing hard as he comes to terms with the fact that he nearly killed himself, and that Ferrari is most likely dead.

Tyler and Taylor are arguing over her admission of feelings to Cody, as he boils down the truth that yes, he's still concerned there is still a dark side to Cody. Taylor says that he does have a dark side, but so does she. However, the two of them bring the good out of each other. Taylor tells Tyler that she's finally starting to find happiness, something she would wish upon Tyler as well if he had the chance, and asks that as her "brother-like figure", he support her. Tyler sighs, giving his consent. Taylor and Tyler hug, as O.R.I.O.N. commuciates with Tyler and informs him that Emergency Relief has arrived.

It cuts to Jada exiting her hospital room, getting on a computer and accessing a website. O.R.I.O.N. reaches her, stating that he was just alerted of her use of their emergency site, and asks Jada what she needs. O.R.I.O.N. is told that she needs to get to her friends, and the artificical intelligence informs her they're heading to the George Washington Bridge, which Jada thanks him for, and leaves. It cuts to George Washington Bridge, as Emergency Relief cars are arriving on the bridge. Mig, Bee, and Mark are watching, as Mark tells them to be on alert for the R.I.F.T. criminals. As they look around, suddenly a van appears behidn them, shooting at them. Mark and Bee begin shooting at them, as Mig begins to try and protect the relief trucks, one of which is blown up by a bazooka from a stolen boat. Mig knocks the men out of the boat using an energy beam as Castiel shows up, needing to tell Mig something, when Mig asks if they can do it later, in the middle of a fight. Castiel begins helping out, as Jada sees the battle occuring nearby, and races towards it, alarmed. The members of the team continue to fight, as Mig asks for Cody and T-Y, who explain they're preoccupied with a R.I.F.T. van driving down Midtown. The focus shifts to Cody and T-Y, as they work together to take everyone in the van out, knocking out all the escaped criminals. Back on the bridge, the team continues to fight till they take out all the R.I.F.T. criminals but the one in the van's driver seat. Jada runs onto the bridge, running to the team who yells at her, asking what she's doing, as she explains she was concerned. Mig says that they're in the middle of a fight, as the last criminal steps out, making her turn around. Mark sighs, as the criminal is revealed to be wearing a suicide bomb vest.

A suicide bomber is standing in front of Mig, Jada, Mark, Queen Bee, and Castiel. As Mark tries to calm him down, the bomber says he will not calm down, holding his finger above the trigger on him. He says that for too long, humanity has been toying with advanced technology. For too long, they've been making advancements they shouldn't have. He points out that they used an artifical intelligence to show the footage of the Shapeshifter yesterday. He explains that humanity messes with forces they don't understand, doing things they shouldn't. They use up the planet's resources, make weapons of mass destruction, create monsters, and study sciences and knowledge that should be left alone. He says that some things should be left unknown to all but God, saying humanity messing with these things are what caused so much destruction before, and has caused so much destruction now. He tells them that someone has to stand up for a change. Someone has to stop this, and he has chosen to do so. The bomber presses the trigger, as Jada screams in horror. Her fingers glow for a moment pink and purple, as he starts to explode. Exploding a bit, the explosion then implodes, preventing the deaths of everyone there. Jada's use of her power makes her fall to the ground, getting knocked out. Mig notices as he tries to help her up, and Castiel notices the pink and purple glow of her fingertips before they fade, but he doesn't say anything.

It cuts to Jada waking up in her room in the suite. She looks around to see Castiel, watching her. Jada asks him why Castiel is watching her again, and he says that he wants to help out in some way, to feel needed, and this is how he's doing that, he supposes. She apologizes for what she did eariler, saying she doesn't understand what's going on. Castiel says that she's going through what everyone did: learning that she has powers, and trying to understand how to use them. She says that her powers though are devestating, beginning to blame herself for all the destruction, including Rashard's death. Castiel shows surpise, as Jada reveals the truth about what happened on the docks. Castiel, nodding, goes over to comfort Jada, who is crying. She says that her nightmare came true, she failed to save him, and now she's killed who knows how many people by getting her powers. Breaking down, Jada continues to cry as she hugs onto Castiel, who hugs her back, as she says "There is something very... very wrong with me", as Castiel lets go, telling her to not say that. He tells her to not say that, saying that when he first woke up from the coma, he was overloaded with his power, coming a crazy-bitch who tried to kill his brother, and nearly succeeded when he blew up into a nuclear explosion. But after he woke up again, now that his power had been allowed to release some of its energy, and his body had time to adjust, he could control it. He says that he thinks that those with extremely powerful abilities need to initially release some of that energy first, and then they need to allow their bodies to get used to it before they can control it. Jada says that she still harmed people, saying that's a sign that there's obviously something wrong. Castiel, in a big-brotherly way says "No, you’re just different now Jada. Your just different now and there's nothing wrong with that. ", saying it in a way that it almost seems like it applies to him too. Jada hugs onto him again, as Castiel informs her that for now, until things cool down, he's going to keep her powers a secret from the rest of the team, if she wants. Jada nods, and he promises that he'll be there for her.

It cuts to the Capital of the United States. In Washington D.C., a crowd is waiting for the President of the United States to give a statement. Out comes the president, who clearly has been crying. He looks at the crowd, sighs, and begins to read his speech. As he does so, the episode presents visual aids of the destruction of the city, the hurtness of the team, Hassan Tanveer being taken away from Riker's Island on a helicopter out of the city, R.I.F.T. criminals being placed back on Riker's Island. Here is his speech:

Yesterday on May 25th. The greatest tragedy that our nation has endured since the aftermath of the Australian Explosion that is believed to have taken out half our world’s population occurred. The bodies are still being numbered. The devastation to one of the greatest symbols of liberty in our nation is heartbreaking. The families that were torn apart by these…. Metahumans, I can only imagine their pain. In the wake of this destruction…. Our world has once again changed. Today, we know what came out of The Event. Today, the truth has been revealed. I wish I could offer comforting words, but I can’t. The reality is that there are new and dangerous threats in the world now. We know that there is a man who was captured, a man who is said to be the cause of all of this destruction. Make no mistake, the people who destroyed our nation’s greatest city in their battle will be held accountable. But today, is a day of mourning. For those that we have lost. For those…. That we will lose. Today we look at the devastation, and reflect on what has passed. For tomorrow, we look, frightened but united as one nation, under god, at the brave new world that humanity has created for us.

A cut to black occurs as a timestamp reveals it is MAY 28TH. It cuts to a quick scene of a U.S. Coast Guard man going up to Mig, who nods as the coast guard says they found a body in the Hudson River, and need someone to confrim it.

The camera shows a fire burning as it pans over to a hospital whose sign has been damaged, the name missing. There’s a covered body, as a man in a surgeon’s outfit walks over to it and takes it off. As he does so, the camera moves over to the looking glass, to show Taylor looking at the glass, at the body she’s been shown. (Note: This is the exact opening of the first episode of the season). This time though, we see a shot of Rashard, dead. Taylor Nodding, the surgeon covers the body back up, and begins to wheel the body away as Taylor walks away from the glass. She walks into a snack room with a vending machine that is broken on it, trying to get a Snickers out of it, when Cody shows up.

Cody: Hey.
Taylor: Hey.
Cody: So… is it reall-
Taylor: Yeah. I saw the body myself.
Cody: I can’t believe everything that’s happened. Franklin’s death was hard enough, but this is a huge blow to the Team. To all of us.
Taylor: The son of a bitch who killed…. I can’t even say it. But someone is going to pay for this. I’m done letting the people I care for die.

Cody nods. (The Song of the Episode starts playing now by the way). Cody and Taylor exit the building, looking at Mig, Bee, Mark, Castiel, Tyler, Lincoln, and Jada, who are all waiting for an answer. Taylor nods, signalling that Rashard is dead. Jada starts crying, falling on her knees in tears as Mig starts walking away before stopping, shocked by the loss of Rashard. As Lincoln looks at Jada, he begins to have another flashback. Back in the flashback, Lincoln is found sitting in his hotel room, depressed, when he hears a knock on the door. He walks over to open it, and Rashard is there. Lincoln is shocked, hugging Rashard tightly as he asks if his dad is okay. Lincoln says he isn't, and Rashard asks where Marie is. Lincoln, not wanting to look at his son, tells his son to sit down. As Rashard sits down, Lincoln tells him what happened, as the two hug tightly, both crying together, knowing a person they loved is gone. Back in the present day, Lincoln gets on his knees, hugging Jada, telling her that they'll mourn together, as the team deals with this blow. (song of the episode ends).

##### Tag

It cuts to Boston. A taxi pulls up to the curb, as a woman exits. The woman is revealed to be Lucy, who walks into a bar. Walking into the bar, she sees Regina sitting in a booth, and grins, walking devilishly in high heels to her sister. Lucy sits across from Regina, who greets Lucy. Lucy expresses her shock that she managed to escape the clutches of the Trinity once again, and Regina says she's more resourceful than Lucy thought she was. Lucy asks what the plan is now, and Regina says that they're going to steal a boat in an hour in order to go to Africa. When Lucy, confused, asks why they're doing that, Regina says that they're going to do what they discussed on doing: going after their father, making both sisters smile as they think of the many things they will do to him.

### Tragedy

#### Sci Notes

The truth about Tragedy/Jada is revealed, Regina and Lucy are captured by Isaiah Sun. We also meet Isaiah Sun’s top man, Esau Anuitar. Rashard is shown to be scared by her powers, causing hurt between the two of them. Tralior almost tells Cody the truth about her feelings, but doesn’t. Orion arrives in New York and goes after the Team in revenge, and that’s when we learn he has Magnetism powers. His true goal is to kill Cody, whose father in a drunken state killed his son. Since Cody’s father was already dead, he wants Cody dead.

#### Story

Opening

The Director is in an office looking at photos of the team as shown in the events of The Trail Death Follows. An assistant comes in, informing him of a recent development sent over by G.R.I.D. agents hidding in the Americas. Handing him a photo, The Director sees an image of Lucy and Regina in the bar in Boston from the previous episode. Angry, he creates a construct himself and kills the assistant. Angry that he didn't kill her, he grabs his phone and calls a number, telling someone to "bring up the good doctor". It cuts to Vixaus being thrown to the ground in front of The Director, looking rougher. He tells Vixaus that luckly, the doctor is needed for something other then the joys of torture. He tells him that he needs anti-mind control devices, so that if Regina comes after him, he can't get affected. Vixaus, happy to do any work, agrees to do so, but The Director also gives him a second job. He asks Vixaus if he recalls the man from Guanva (a place that will be explained in a later episode). Vixaus says yes, and The Director says to call the man and ask him to join G.R.I.D.

##### Act I

Team Prototype is shown to be helping with the recovery process as a tag reveals it is JUNE 1ST now. Team Prototype is helping people by passing out food, giving directions, and overall helping police and emergency relief teams handle the New York situation. Some people walk up to them and thank them for helping out. Other people spit at them, and call them cowards, yelling that they caused the destruction in the first place. This makes Jada feel uncomfortable, before she smiles as a young girl hands her a surviving floor. Jada smells it, smiles, and hands the girl a small bag of veggies, giving her parents two bags as well.

As they are helping out, Tyler notices the Sect. General is walking towards them. They spot Serriv, who greets them. Serriv meets up with them and thanks them for their work, and says he's sorry that Rashard and Ferrari are dead. As he says this, he makes Mig, Jada, and Lincoln uncomfortable. Serriv says that he is in the process of trying to get them a base to stay at via convincing Congress, stating that they asked if they couldn't have normal lives, if they could be heroes. Serriv is trying to allow them to have one or the other he says, making everyone feel better. He mentions that he still wishes he knew what caused the destruction. Cody reveals that O.R.I.O.N. is scanning the mysterious energy signature introduced during Face Off in an attempt to find the origin of the devestation. Serriv tells Mig and Lincoln that he has provided them a grief consuelor to talk with them, as he wants to make sure they're okay as the days go on, stating he cares about them. They thank him, not happy about it though, as Serriv gets a call. Serriv excuses himself as Jada takes a drink from her waterbottle. Serriv answers the call, and his assistant on the phone reveals that Jonathan Grid is heading to their private Canadian Airfield on a plane. Serriv promiss that he'll be there immediately, hanging up and saying he'll leave. He thanks them one last time, and gives his condolonces for Rashard and Ferrari. Castiel taps Jada on the arm, as he looks below to see the water she's holding is now boiling. She lets go of the water bottle, letting it cool.

It cuts to Jada getting frustrated with Castiel, as she explains she's still having problems with her ability, and that it seems like its just getting stronger by the day. Castiel suggests they pratice together, which Jada asks if that's possible. Castiel says he would be willing to, having experience in being overpowered this way, and she accepts the offer. Castiel grabs her, tells her to hold on, and flies upward with her, as the two leave NYC airspace.

Mig is helping a group out, when he overhears two officers talking about how they screwed up. Mig asks if everything is okay, when they reveal that one of the criminals that escaped Riker's Island in the last episode was not counted, meaning he still is missing from Riker's Island. Mig asks who it is, and they provide him with a file, revealing his name is Joey Franta, an asian hacker who caused a massive power outage in NYC in 2017. He was arrested 25 hours after the power outage, and placed in the prison. Mig states he'll have his team look at the case, as it'll be a good distraction from his other problems. He shows the file to the team, as they agree to start looking for him. Mig and Lincoln however are immediately called in to see the grief consuelor, much to their frustration. It cuts to Joey Franta standing in front of a man, demanding to know where "he" lives. The man refuses to say, as Joey lifts his hand. The knives from the kitchen knife stand rise up by themselves, and fly towards the man, who scream in pain, as Joey reveals himself to be a metahuman with the power of Magnetism.

Mig begins to explain the struggle he had been having with Ferrari to the grief consuelor. He talks about how Franklin's death had affected their relationship, how they had argued about it, and it was just getting worse by the day. He talks about how happy he was when they arrived in New York, hoping that it would be a new beginning for them, hoping that things would get better for them. But Ferrari was scared something bad would happen. She didn't trust the comfort Mig had, and he says that she was right. The events of the 25th proved it. He was so mad at her for not accepting that they had a chance at happiness, and he had debated even breaking up with her. The consuelor says he's avoiding her death, which he says he'd rather not talk about. The consuelor, a woman, says that talking is important. She switches the topic to Castiel, which Mig talks about how odd it was that he returned, but he's happy. He then says that he remembers Castiel wanted to talk to him about something, and the consuelor says it might be good for them to talk, now that Ferrari is gone.

Castiel and Jada stand in the middle of a field, as Castiel tells Jada to just let the energy flow out, as much as she needs to. He says emotions are a huge part of their abilities, the calmer they are, the more control they have. She says that right now she's afraid, and Castiel says that fear is what she might need right now, before giving her a thumbs up to start. Jada closes her eyes, moving her head a bit as she feels her power. Suddenly, a huge burst of purple/pink energy shoots out, cracking the ground near her, sending Castiel flying yards awaway, and shattering all nearby trees around her. As Castiel crashes onto the ground, Jada runs to him in horror, stopping before she gets too close, nervous about her powers. Castiel gets up, and says that maybe fear isn't what she needs to let out. Jada expresses her worries, stating she doesn't even know what to call her ability. Castiel, after giving it a thought, says her abilities don't just seem limited to one thing, but a variety, and after thinking, decides to say that her ability.... .....is magic.

O.R.I.O.N. is scanning the mysterious energy signature that was introduced to the city, devastating the island of Manhattan and surrounding boroughs drastically. Successfully mapping out the entire “web of energy”, he pinpoints the location and origin of the power to the Statue of Liberty. Accessing a satellite system known as Genisys (a Terminator reference), O.R.I.O.N. is able to find an image of the Statue of Liberty during the events of Face Off, finding a picture following the torch’s destruction. Zooming in and enhancing the image, he discovers it is Jada Nyuki, pink/purple magic at her fingertips as the shockwave goes towards Manhattan. Layering the satellite images with the scan and model of the molecular energy signatures, it proves that Jada not only gained abilities, but caused the Devastation of New York. Horrified, O.R.I.O.N. begins running scans of his own system to see if he is correct, to find he is. Unable to cope with comparing a member of Team Prototype with such devastation, he begins looking for alternative causes. Searching through security cameras, Prototype files, G.R.I.D. files, and through the internet, he comes across several provoking images and video: Ferrari running through an intersection, shattering windows and damaging cars, video of Team Prototype in several battles from the last season, a log about Kabul Ransto (the Devil Horned Metahuman) and his crimes, several of the Scavenger metahumans, the Shapeshifter’s comments that “You are not meant to be here”as said in Face Off, and so forth. He also replays the suicide bomber's speech about technology from the last episode. He starts comparing members of Team Prototype to incidents of mass destruction and damage, making the connection of The Event to Tyler, Lincoln, and Rashard, thus making him even more horrified that they caused such devastating results. Knowing that two of his creators did such horrible things, he starts looking for information on Cody, hoping that Cody isn’t the same. He pulls up everything he has on Cody, only to find Cody’s ice giant fight against the Shapeshifter and T-Y, causing massive destruction in downtown Manhattan. Unable to handle all of the information, he shuts himself off from all the information for a moment. After disconnecting for a moment, he begins loading up all the files of each metahuman encountered thus far on the left side of a screen, while all the files of the destruction they’ve been involved in appears on the right, as O.R.I.O.N. says “They’re too dangerous for the Earth. Someone has to hunt them down, someone has to stop them from hurting the planet. Now I see clearly. Now I understand what they didn’t want me to see. There’s only one path to peace. Their extinction”.

##### Act II

It cuts back to Jada, who asks Castiel if he really thinks she has magical powers, like Harry Potter. Castiel says she's not going to be fighting a Dementor today, he doesn't think it's like that. He brings up Franklin Lane, Mig, and himself, stating that Jada clearly manipulates energy in a different way. Franklin manipulates it through electricial manipulation. Mig and Castiel manipulate it atomiclly, although Mig is more pure energy based, while Castiel is more fire/nuclear fusion based. Jada, on the other hand, isn't limited by her ability to manipulate. She's been shown to shatter things, wilt plants, create soundwaves, and cause explosions to implode, evidence of her magical ability. Jada asks how they're going to know for sure, and Castiel comes up with an idea. He asks her how she feels when she uses it, and she says she feels like her hands are burning, like they always want to explode. He says that he has to think about what he wants his powers to do before using them, and so he wants her to focus on that exploding feeling, and then tell that exploding feeling to go to the tree in front of Jada, and light it on fire. Jada says that sounds complicated, and Castiel says that if she has another idea, she's welcome. After Jada hesitates, she closes her eyes and tries to do so. Lifting her hands and point them at the tree, the tree explodes, alerting the two of them, as they open their eyes, seeing the tree is on fire.

Jada laughs, surprised that she was able to do that. Castiel says that learning how her ability works will just take time, but says that for now, burning twenty trees instead of one like he asked is okay. Jada realizes 19 other trees are also burning, and asks Castiel to stop them. Castiel says she has to stop it, telling her to think about her hands, and picture the fire becoming water. Jada tries to do this, and the fire immediately becomes spinning twisters of water around the trees. Jada, not sure why it's happening like that, gets nervous, causing the water to explode, getting Castiel and Jada wet. Castiel tells her that while not what she meant to do, it's still progress. She says she feels like she still doesn't have any control of her ability, and Castiel says this is clear proof she does have control, but her control will get better as she pratices. Castiel gets a text, and tells Jada they have to go, as they found a dead body caused by Joey Franta. Jada grabs onto him, as he flies them away.

Mark, Bee, Cody, and T-Y look at the dead body killed by all the kitchen knives. Bee says this is overkill, even for a normal killer. Mark looks over, looking around the apartment of the dead person, walking into the guy's bedroom as a tv is on. Looking at the TV, an old movie is playing as he notices a picture of the dead guy and another man holding hands, as well as a dvd case with a sticky note on it. The Sticky note says "You said you like old films, so I found a 1935 American horror film for you. It's called The Raven. Hope you like it. - Jeff Dian". Looking at the sticky note, Mark flashbacks to his nightmare of the large raven attacking him, before he hears the team asking for him. Exiting the room, Cody points out his office space, revealing that the dead body, named Lewis Noel, was a Stockbroker for the New York Stock Exchange, and that several binders are missing. Mark asks what it means, and T-Y says it means that Joey is planning for a massive robbery... at the stock exchange.

It cuts to Lincoln talking to the grief consulor. Lincoln talks about how he needed Rashard because it gave him a sense of purpose for staying alive. But now that Rashard's dead, he's not sure what he'll do. The consuelor asks Lincoln if he's cried since Rashard's death, and he says no. The consuelor says he needs to let his emotions out, and Lincoln says he feels only anger at the man who took Rashard's life. This alarms the consuelor.

In Canada, a limo drives up to an airfield as a plane arrives. Exiting out of the limo is Serriv, who walks towards the private plane. Out of the private plane is The Director, who greets Serriv. The Director apologizes for his last conversation with Serriv (as shown in the last episode, the tag in Face Off hasn't happened yet). Serriv says it's okay, as The Director asks how bad the destruction is. Serriv says at least a million are dead, but he says Tanveer had nothing to do with it, nor did him. The Director asks what did cause the destruction, and Serriv says it's being looked into. Serriv then says that he knows about the G.R.I.D. agents that have quietely entered the States, so he knows Jonathan isn't visiting him for fun, he has a reason. Jonathan admits this is correct, revealing he has come to get an answer to a question he has: "Exactly how long were you planning on keeping Regina's status a secret from me?". Serriv acts confused, as The Director reveals he knows Regina was captured, kept as an asset, escaped, and reveals that he has proof that she and her sister are now on their way to Africa, thus asking again how long he was planning on keeping Regina a secret. Serriv and The Director have a stare down at each other.

Cutting to New York City, Castiel and Jada are shown to be heading towards Manhattan, as the camera lowers to an abandoned metal factory. Suddenly, the machines begin to turn on, as O.R.I.O.N. tells himself "If I'm going to protect the people, if I am going to hunt them down... I'll need a body to do it". The machines begin to cut into large sheets of metal, as O.R.I.O.N. accesses the United Nations server and begins to look into previous wars and events as well, trying to learn military strategy.

Castiel and Jada arrive at the apartment, as they learn more about Joey Franta's history with Lewis Noel, learning that Noel was his broker, and that Franta comes from a town in Kentucky with a history of racism and prejudice. Castiel brings up though that both men were white. Jada notices that the knives look brand new, asking somebody go look through his trash to find a receipt for new knives. Bee finds one for a purchase of a new knife set on May 25th, just a few hours before the devestation of the city. Jada also points out that the knives don't have fingerpints, or signs of glove use. Cody also points out that the room of his private office showed no signs of anyone breaking the lock (as it appears to have been locked before entered by Franta). Jada asks what he took, and they say binders. Jada theories that if the binders had the metallic three rings on them, and no sign of walking in was found, that they weren't naturally taken. Cody then realizes that Joey is a metahuman with magnetism powers, much to everyone's annoyance, as Cody also points out his weariness of new metahumans (first Timore, then the Shapeshifter, and now Franta), making Jada nervous. Castiel is then alerted that he's wanted by the grief consuelor, and is forced to leave. He asks Jada if she'll be okay, and she says yes. As Castiel leaves, it cuts to Franta walking into the NYSE. As officers attempt to stop him, he takes out two bullets from his pockets and uses his ability to shoot them through the officers chests. Using his ability, he gains the attention of the entire stock exchange, and tells them he wants a broker who can help ruin a man's life. The team arrives at the NYSE, only to find officers are already there. They learn that Franta had a broker steal a man's account, bankrupting him. When they ask whose account, the officer says a man named Jeff Dian. Mark recognizes this name from Noel's apartment, as he realizes that they missed something from the apartment. They decide to go back and look again, and figure out what Franta wants.

##### Act III

It cuts back to Serriv and The Director, talking about how Serriv found Regina and Lucy when they landed in Boston between the time of Ep 4 and Ep 7. He tried to take them both, but failed to do so. The Director tells Serriv a story about how he knew a girl who was absolutely talented, but when she failed, she failed bad. The Director asks Serriv who he thinks the girl is, and Serriv says that he realizes it was a mistake to keep The Director in the dark. The Director then asks Serriv about Rashard and Ferrari's deaths, and Serriv reveals that Tanveer killed Rashard by shooting him ungloriously, while Ferrari simply vanished before him. The Director doesn't believe she's vanished, and suggests he find another answer for her death, or better yet, produce a body.

The team is looking around again in Noel's house, as they come across the picture of Noel and the man holding hands. Bee realizes the other man is Dian, as Jeff Dian is a small time actor that was on the news on the 25th after handling a role on Broadway's Peter Pan production. Mark says that Franta was from a racist and prejudice hometown, and looks at the image. He faces the team, as he realizes what Franta is going to do.

It cuts to Castiel entering a room, the room Mig and the grief consuelor are in. Castiel gets next to his brother, as Mig is made to talk about their relationship as children, into older years. The consuelor invites Castiel to talk about whatever he wanted to tell Mig. Castiel says it doesn't matter anymore, but the consuelor says to tell Mig something, as he senses from what Mig has said that Castiel has been keeping something from him. Looking at Mig, Castiel sighs, and admits he did want to tell Mig something, and although this wasn't what he was going to tell him on the bridge, he was going to try and tell him at some point. Mig looks at him, as Castiel takes a deep breath. Castiel asks Mig if he remembers when Castiel was with his best friend, Christopher Kawozi, and their girlfriends playing spin the bottle, and he made Mig join. Mig says yes, remembering that he had to kiss Castiel's girlfriend, and after doing so the kiss was told to everyone at school, making life hell for him. Castiel remembers that, and continues to say after Mig left in anger, it was Castiel's turn to spin the bottle. It landed on Christopher. Christopher asked if they still had to, and the girls said yes. Christopher said he thought it was stupid, and that they should do something else. He convinced the other girls to, and so they all went to the Stocker City Zoo instead. Castiel says that while Christopher didn't want to kiss him.... Castiel did want to kiss him.

Castiel talks about how he was confused, and so he tried getting girlfriends, hence why he got 12 girlfriends during his sophmore year in high school. He didn't understand, or rather didn't want to understand, as he thinks part of him knew why he wanted to kiss his friend. He talks about how when he woke up in G.R.I.D., he saw that Ferrari and Mig had a connection. He saw that even Cody and Taylor had a connection. He felt alone again, as he had in the years leading up to The Event. Castiel says how when he first saw Rashard, his first thought was "Damn! He's got cute ears". Castiel laughs at this, saying that he was stupid for noticing ears above all things. He talks about how he started to feel like he wouldn't get whatever Ferrari and Mig had, and all those feelings he had eariler started flooding back. So, he needed some time away from the Team. He needed to figure things out. About who he was. Who he wanted to be with. As Mig looks confused, Castiel says that it took time to realize what he was feeling, and it took time to understand it, and accept what he was. Mig, as if he thinks he might know but isn't sure, asks "Accept what?". Castiel looks at the consueleor, and then Mig, taking a deep breath, as he says "Accept that.... I'm gay".

Mig, shocked, repositions himself away from Castiel a bit, asking "What?". Castiel then turns to the consuelor, and admits that when Ferrari disappeared, he felt happy, because he felt like maybe Mig would understand how he felt for once, how it felt to be alone and have to lie about who he was, have to do things he didn't want to do to put up a fake persona, to not have someone to love. He says that he's ashamed that he felt that way, and regreted it when he first thought those thoughts, but he says he still felt them. He apologizes, gets up, and walks out of the room, as Mig is in shock, speechless with the exception of the eariler "What?".

Back at the apartment of the dead Lewis Noel, Mark explains that Jeff Dian and Lewis Noel are a gay couple who are the targets of Joey Franta. He explains that Joey might not necessarily be racist like his hometown, but he is anti-gay. He realizes that Joey must have found out about Lewis and Jeff, and as an anti-gay hater, decide to hurt them both. Mark explains this is all an elabroate hate crime, as it was never about the money. The money was just meant to hurt Jeff. Mark says that they need to find the home of Jeff Dian now.

(For this next part, the song of the episode plays. For this episode, the song is none other then Hozier - Take Me To Church), as Joey Franta is walking down a street. The scene alternates between the Team trying to get to Jeff's house, Joey heading to Jeff's house and his attack, and Castiel's frustration after coming out. Castiel just exits the guidiance building and starts trashing the area nearby in frustration, as Mig watches him. Joey Franta heads towards the house, holding two floating bullets in his hand, as he uses his ability, just waiting to use it on him. The team finds the location of Jeff's house thanks to police, as O.R.I.O.N. isn't answering Cody. They start driving towards the house, as Joey uses his power to rip the door handle out, letting him into Jeff's house. Jeff is hunted down in the house by Joey, who tries to kill him. As the song reaches its end, Joey has cornered Jeff and is about to kill him, when a bullet hits his head. Joey falls to the ground, as it shows Mark, holding a gun, having killed Joey. Jeff sighs in relief, as Mark looks at his own reflection in Joey's blood.

Castiel sits on the ground, tired out as Mig approaches him. Castiel sees him and starts to get up, but Mig tells him to keep sitting, as he himself sits down. Mig says "So... you're gay", which Castiel confrims. Mig says that he finds it amazing he had twelve girlfriends in one year just because of that, assuming it was because he was a player for the ladies, which makes Castiel grin for a moment, as he states no. Mig states that frankly, in a world of metahumans and artificial intelligences, his brother's sexual orienation isn't a big deal to him. Mig says that while he totally accepts it and is okay with his brother being gay, he feels like it really doesn't matter. What matters to him, Mig says, is that people are able to have that happy ever after ending they want. He doesn't care if its with a girl, or a guy, and if having a boyfriend makes Castiel happy, well then Castiel should go for it, and not be afraid about what people think. Because there's nothing wrong with being gay, what is wrong though is being afraid of yourself. Castiel, happy, thanks Mig, before asking if Mig has to go back and talk more. Mig says not today, and Castiel asks about Lincoln. Mig says that Lincoln is staying for a little longer today, as apparently he seems to need it. Mig asks his brother for a ride, to which Castiel says he's not a goddamn taxi, grabbing Mig before he flies upwards.

A boat arrives on a sandy shore somewhere in Africa, as Lucy and Regina exit it. They begin looking for a source for food, when guerilla fighters appear, surrounding them. The two are blindfolded, and knocked out. The two wake up, to find an african man watching the two of them. Another man states "Ah good, they're awake. You can go look at the others Esau, I have them under control". The african man, now known as Esau, leaves, as the second man walks up to them. It's the man from the tag of Face Off, the one The Director was hoping to recruit. Regina asks where they are, and he says that they're in his compound. He states the man who took them, and was just watching them was named Esau Anuitar, and the man that stands before them is his boss, as well as the leader of the compound. He welcomes them to his prison, and greets himself as..... Isaiah Sun.

The police are shown at Jeff Dian's house taking the body of Joey away, as Bee asks how other metahumans are appearing in the States, which supposedly weren't affected by The Event. Castiel and Mig arrive, as Mark reveals everything has been handled without them, much to their relief. Jada tells Castiel that things have been fine for her so far. Cody then gets a strange signal from the site of the old police station that was destroyed in Face Off's finale. Listening to it, he realizes it's O.R.I.O.N. signalling "SOS" via morse code. It cuts to the team arriving at the ruins of the old police station, as Cody tries to figure out why O.R.I.O.N. sent a signal from there. A mechincal voice says that he needed to get them together, to see him. From the shadows of the damaged ruins, a large mechincal humanoid steps out, facing the Team. The machine states that he wasn't fully aware of the world he lived in at first, but he's expanded his view. He's seen the horrors of war, he understands that compared to now, it was if he was asleep.... or a dream. Cody realizes this is O.R.I.O.N., asking him what he's doing. O.R.I.O.N. says he's following the mission, stating that he tracked the source of the destruction, and knows who caused it. When Cody asks who, O.R.I.O.N. points to Jada, saying "Ask the new metahuman".

The team looks in shock, as O.R.I.O.N. states that the Aeteo, which he reveals contains a crystal, created her as a metahuman, causing the destruction of the city. He points out that whenever a new metahuman is created, it seems like destruction follows. He asks the team what city they'll destroy next, as Cody tells O.R.I.O.N. to shut down. O.R.I.O.N. refuses, saying that he's a peacekeeping program, and metahumans don't create peace, they create chaos. He uses the suicide bomber's speech, using the part where he says "He explains that humanity messes with forces they don't understand, doing things they shouldn't. They use up the planet's resources, make weapons of mass destruction, create monsters, and study sciences and knowledge that should be left alone. He says that some things should be left unknown to all but God, saying humanity messing with these things are what caused so much destruction before, and has caused so much destruction now. He tells them that someone has to stand up for a change. Someone has to stop this, and he has chosen to do so". O.R.I.O.N. says those are words to live by, pointing out that he finally sees the world for what it is, and he sees his creators for what they are. As he is talking, Jada begins to notice her abilities messing up, causing cracks on the floor around her, making buildings shake nearby, and glass shatter. O.R.I.O.N. says he sees them as Monsters, a plague that keeps on spreading, harming the body that is humanity, a pest that he needs to hunt, just like the hero he was named after hunted. He also quotes the Shapeshifter's "You are not meant to be here”

From the sides come four other robotic versions of O.R.I.O.N., making the team go into battle mode as Jada begins to watch her powers cause destruction across the building and nearby buildings. O.R.I.O.N. states that Jada is proving his point right now, that they should all die, before remarking that he should thank the Shapeshifter before he kills him too, thank him for killing Rashard and Ferrari for him, as they deserved to die too. Jada, angered by this, lifts her hands upward. The original O.R.I.O.N. explodes, being sent backwards as he catches on fire. Castiel destroys one of the extras, Mig destroys a second, Tyler destroys a third, and Cody destroys the fourth. Castiel remarks she did the same thing to O.R.I.O.N. as she did to the trees, only this time her anger caused her to choose what to attack. O.R.I.O.N., his body being burnt away, states they can try and run, but he's on the web. They can try to hide, but he will find them, because unlike him, he isn't tangled in strings of imperfection, of toil and problems that all humans face, he's free of those imperfections, and that is what will be their downfall. In anger, Castiel uses his power to destroy the main O.R.I.O.N. body, shutting him up. As the team realizes the situation they're in, the audience's attention goes to a nearby traffic camera, as it cuts to Nicholas Serriv looking at the camera feed, having seen Jada's powers and the creation of O.R.I.O.N., before calling out to The Director, telling him to open one of the wine bottles, as some interesting developments have occured, thus leading into Face Off's tag....

##### Tag

[Queen Bee finds herself alone, going to a pay phone and putting some money in. Putting in a number, she waits when a male voice answers. ]

[Bee]: Hey, things have gotten worse. Far worse then I expected. I think its time to break my cover. I need you to come here. Now.

[Male Voice]: That'll take a few hours. 12 at most.

[Bee]: Well then it takes 12 hours. I thought we could handle it here, but with the Team fractured after Rashard's death, Jada's uncontrollable abilities, and now O.R.I.O.N. going rogue, I don't think we can handle this alone. I need you both to come here now.

[Male Voice]: Are you sure? They'll feel betrayed.

[Bee]: I know. But we have no choice. They need you both here.

[Male Voice]: We'll be there in 12 hours.

[The male hangs up the phone, as Bee hangs up the phone, and takes a deep breath. ]

##### Opening

The scene opens up in what is described as "AFRICA - 2021". It cuts to a village where arabic people are living about their daily lives, when suddenly gunfire breaks out. A truck of guerilla fighters start shooting, driving into the village and running over someone. They stop the car and exit, being ordered by Esau Anuitar to take all their food, and to gather all the men in the village. These fighters break into people's homes, dragging men out as other men rob them of their food, viciously beating down anyone in their way.

(From this point on in the opening, I imagine this music playing for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6YE0rC8Kmo). After a moment, Esau stands before all the men of the village, telling them that they now live in a world where only the strong can survive. While their wives will keep Esau and his men "company", the rest will burn with this village. As he and some fighters prepare to shoot them, a strong gust of wind knocks the weapons away. They turn around to see a man charging at them, as the fighters are ordered to shoot at him. As they fire, he jumps up, creating a tidal wave of water from his hands, and climbs onto the wave, heading towards them. The fighters begin to flee, as he jumps off, landing on the ground, engaging in single hand combat. At one fighter he places his hand on them, catching them on fire, while he squeezes his second hand and causes the ground to burst up below two fighters, knocking them over. Esau grabs a hostage and aims his weapon at her, as the man takes out two more fighters, before seeing her being held captive. Esau asks what he plans to do now, when Esau is suddenly thrown into the air as the woman flees. Esau drops into the air, as Esau and the man begin fighting with just their fists. Esau, after seeing his knee sprained, retreats with his men, as the people of the village thank the man, asking for his name. The man replies in the same voice that spoke to Bee in the last episode's tag, "I'm the Captain. Captain Element".

##### Act I

It starts off with the team being... pissed. Cody, Lincoln, and Tyler are being yelled at about O.R.I.O.N. Mig and Mark are placing blame for O.R.I.O.N. going rogue on them, which Cody asks to take all the blame for. He reveals in his nightmare given by Timore, O.R.I.O.N. went bad, that Cody had made the thing he dreaded, and now he has. His nightmare came true, just like Jada's. Castiel is being yelled at for keeping Jada's powers a secret, as they talk about how dangerous Jada is, having caused the Devestation of New York. Lincoln states that Jada is not the enemy, but some other people feel otherwise. Castiel is also yelled at for keeping the Aeteo's crystal a secret. Tyler suggests the drawings they found back in Episode 1 might have been a clue that the existance of another crystal, wondering how many there could be. Tyler wonders how Jada became a metahuman and didn't make a large group of metahumans in the process. He also is curious about why her coma lasted so short when she was hit with the crystals' energy, and why no one else went into a long coma like post-The Event. They ask Jada this, as she explains in detail what happened to her. From this, Cody realizes Jada recieved a concentrated dose of the energy, suggesting the Aeteo's true purpose is to give people abilities in a concentrated form, somewhat similar to what Lincoln was trying to do with Project Trident, and what Regina was trying to do in Project Meta.

Queen Bee looks at a watch, counting down two hours, then one hour 59 minutes, as Mig asks Jada what her ability is. Jada says that while practicing with Castiel, he suggested the idea that she has the ability of magic. Castiel points out all the numerous things she's been able to do, as Jada tries to apologize to the team, knowing that she caused "the greatest tragedy" in America in years. She figures it might as well be her name: Tragedy. While this apology convinces some (Bee, Taylor, Lincoln, Mig) that she's okay, others (Cody, Tyler, Mark) hold hesitations.

They are then visited by Nicholas Serriv, who is angry at Jada for causing the destruction, but Lincoln tries to calm him down. Asking what he wants, Serriv reveals that O.R.I.O.N. has been hacking into United Nations servers, trying to get nuclear launch codes. Thanks to Jada, the number of IT in the United Nations has decreased, and he needs help trying stop a threat they created. Tyler decides to go to the United Nations to try and stop him, going with Serriv to the U.N. to make amends.

Cody and Taylor break off from the main group to talk about their relationship. Taylor says there's a lot going on right now, and Cody knows this, but Cody wants to be able to at least have a relationship, unlike Mig and Ferrari. Mig and Mark are talking together about Jada, as Mig tries to convince Mark that she had good intentions. Mark points out that in the last few hours, Queen Bee has been acting different, like she's waiting for something. Mig tells him to keep watching Bee in case something comes up. Lincoln reveals he's found O.R.I.O.N., who is breaking into an OmniCorp lab in The Bronx.

It cuts to OmniCorp security shooting at O.R.I.O.N. drones, as they take out two. One of them, the main O.R.I.O.N. body (that appears to be different than the rest), shoots a small missile at them, blowing up two sets of windows as an officer is thrown into the air. O.R.I.O.N. shoots a grappling hook, grabbing onto the officer and pulling him backwards in the air, before whipping him around and throwing him into another window. He pulls back again, throwing the officer towards him, as he detaches the grappling hook rope, opens part of his armor to reveal a blade, and uses it to stab the officer in the chest as he falls to the ground towards O.R.I.O.N, before the robot dumps the body on the ground. O.R.I.O.N. turns to face the other officers, who have an "oh shit!" face. It cuts to a shot of two police cars with the team in them, as they race to the OmniCorp facility. It returns to what appears to be a damaged lab, as a gunshot is heard. Down comes an officer, shot in the head, as his body falls to the ground. O.R.I.O.N. walks up to a door with an advanced digitial lock on it. O.R.I.O.N. presss his hand on it, as it cuts to a POV shot of him decrypting the lock digitially. The door opens, revealing a single metallic box with handles on the side. O.R.I.O.N. grabs the box, stating that it's a start, but only the first piece of a much larger goal. He then hears his name, as he turns to see the team minus Tyler and Lincoln, as Cody asks him what he has. O.R.I.O.N. replies that he's sure Cody would love to know, but O.R.I.O.N. is on a tight schedule, as other bodies of O.R.I.O.N. race to the Team, beginning a battle. Two drones shoot the roof above O.R.I.O.N., allowing him to get away with the box. The remaining bodies and drones activate their self-destruct mode, making the Team run out. Just as they escape the building, the building explodes, knocking the team down. Looking at the destruction, Mig sees some injured escaped scientists, and states he needs someone to interview them. Jada volunteers, stating that she'd like to seem helpful for once, and Castiel volunteers as well, making Mig agree as the two go off to help. Cody freezes a lampost, clearly mad as Taylor tries to calm him down. As Cody shows his frustration, Mig is contacted by Lincoln, who states that the U.N. has reported a plane heading to NYC, and are wondering if Mig knows about it. Bee asks what's wrong, and Mig says they see a plane coming to NYC, and want to know if they have anything to do with it, as they're going to shoot it down if they don't. Bee, alarmed, tells Mig they can't shoot the plane down. Mig confronts her that he knew something was going on, asking why the plane is coming. Bee reveals that she called the people who are on the plane to come to New York to help the Team. Mig, looking at her suspicious, tells the Team they need to move now, before telling Lincoln to keep them from shooting it down.

It cuts to the John F. Kennedy International Airport, as U.N. military, The Team (minus Jada and Castiel), and other officials wait, watching the plane beginning to descend to the airport. A U.N. general asks if Bee is sure about them being friendly, and she states she knows these people, and they can be trusted. The plane lands, and stops as everyone walks towards the plane. As they reach there, the plane's engines are shut off, as the door is opened, and a set of stairs comes down. Coming out of the plane is a good-looking 21 year old male, and an emo-looking 22 year old looking girl. The general asks for them to identify themselves. The male introduces the female as "Ghoul", stating that's what he calls her as he has never been told her real name. He then states his name is Adam Evergreen, but Bee goes him by another name, greeting her. Bee faces the team, introducing them to "Captain Element".

##### Act II

Continuing straight from the events of th​e previous act, Captain Element greets the members of the Team. As chaos breaks out, U.N. and team members are suspicious and angry about the new arrivals, more about Queen Bee's assocation with them. Captain Element promises that he will attempt to answer any and all questions they want to know about him, Ghoul, and Queen Bee, but first he needs to urgently use the restroom. As Element does this, a discussion with the U.N. general and the Team leads to the decision that the U.N. will take them in, with Element being interogated by Mark, Queen Bee being interogatted by Mig, and Ghoul being questioned by Lincoln, all under the supervision of the U.N. military forces. Immediately following this, Captain Element, Ghoul, and Queen Bee are arrested and taken away.
Captain Element is interogatted by Mark, who questions who he is, and who Ghoul is. Captain Element explains some basic information: His name is Adam Evergreen, the son of an American father and a meditterrean mother, who after being born in America was moved to Sicily during his childhood. After becoming 15, he moved to the United States once again to live with his father following a nasty divorce after an affair between Adam's mother, and the Embassador to Zarkovia for Italy. Adam, struggling with what to do with his life, decided to join the military in order for the military to pay for this college education later down in the road. Having training for a year, he was sent to Africa to deal with one of the FBI's Most Wanted List: a man by the name of Isaiah Sun. He was able to force Isaiah about of Libya, working alongside with former soldier Kabul Ransto (See "Hell on Earth") before Kabul was sent off onto another mission (suggested as the one that ultimately killed his team). When The Event happened, he was being informed on the whereabouts of Isaiah.

He was knocked out for two months, as the scene transitions to him in a flashback, reawakening to find all of his team mates missing.Not sure where his teammates were, he went looking but found the area of the city he was in was walled off. Exiting, he was met hostilly by the locals, who thought that he was a demon emerging from the empty ruins of the city. Forced to act, he discovered his powers. The flashback ends when Mark asks about when he met Ghoul. Adam explains that he met Ghoul after being forced out of the city. Ghoul was one of the few people who was initially accepting of his abilities, partly because he believes he was accepting of her abilities as well. The two worked together for some time to figure out what was going on, eventually coming to the conclusion that by unknown means, "The Event" had affected certain individuals, granting them ablities. They had also became aware of the existance of G.R.I.D. but remained suspicious of their motives and stayed hidden. This changed until he met Queen Bee.

It cuts to Mig interogatting Queen Bee, who makes it clear once again that she is the actual queen of the country known as Guanva, and that when The Event occured in Guanva, her people reacted in not the best way. Following the death of her mother at the hands of Isaiah Sun, she and her sister, who had already escaped before the scene shown in Dede's nightmare in City of Fear (which showed Dede's mother's death), she was forced to flee Guanva for a short period of time. It wasn't until Isaiah was forced out of Guanva, retreating to Libya for a while (as mentioned by Adam), and The Event occured that she was able to return to Guanva. Her people were scared, and she led her people during those times. She met Adam and Ghoul when they needed a place to stay, the two of them offering information on what had happened to the world, and proposed an alliance to hep not just Guanva, but humanity as well. Bee was motivated by the desire to learn more about what had happened, to make a difference, and to get revenge on Isaiah, who was becoming more influencial in Africa. She left her country in the hands of her sister.

Mark asks Adam, cutting back to the two of them, why Bee was spying on them. Adam explains that when they heard about Team Prototype being formed by G.R.I.D., and when they started fighting against G.R.I.D, they needed to see if this team of metahumans could be trusted. Mig asks Bee if they can trust them now and why they should, and Bee responds that they need them to fight O.R.I.O.N. It cuts to Jada and Castiel arriving at the location of the rooms where Adam, Ghoul, and Bee are being questioned. Jada, nervous to see these new metahumans, sees she's making objects float in the air. Jada starts to panic, but Castiel tries to calm her down, going over what they've been talking about in focusing on controlling her abilites. Jada, using her hand to try and stop them, starts making all the objects float down. She then loses control and the objects drop to the ground hard, some items breaking. She looks at Castiel, who says that they'll work on it.

This music plays during the scene as the "Music of the Episode": Phosphorescent - "Song for Zula" .

Mig enters the room, introducing Castiel and Jada to Ghoul and Adam Evergreen aka Captain Element. Jada greets Ghoul, as Adam and Castiel lock eyes.  (Opening Instrumental)

*Some say love is a burning thing* (Castiel sees Adam)

* *That it makes a fiery ring* (Adam sees Castiel)

* *Oh but I know love as a fading thing* (Adam, speechless for a moment, walks closer to him)

* *Just as fickle as a feather in a stream* (Castiel does the same thing as Adam)

* *See, honey, I saw love,* (Adam's eyes stare into Castiel's)

* *You see it came to me* (Adam begins smiling)

* *It puts its face up to my face so I could see* (Adam greets Castiel)

* *Yeah then I saw love disfigure me* (Castiel begins smiling)

* *Into something I am not recognizing* (Castiel greets Adam, both are now smiling really hard at this point, making it extremely clear that they like each other)

As this scene is happening, Mig is thinking back to Ferrari, flashbacking to the moment he first realized he liked Ferrari. Mig struggles uncomfortably, which Jada notices as Adam and Castiel begin talking each other, as it transitions to another scene. (Instrumental continues to play before fading out).

In Isaiah Sun's compound, Esau tells Lucy to get up, as he is taking her to Isaiah. Lucy exits the cell with Esau, as Lucy is brought before Isaiah's office. Isaiah asks her to sit. He explains that he is a proper businessman in the business of Human trafficking, selling prized women to the highest bidder. Lucy asks if she's to be sold like a pig at a market, and Isaiah says he isn't sure whether to kill Lucy and her sister, or to sell her. He then talks about how after The Event, G.R.I.D. took over the hemisphere, and he had to find a new angle. He moved to Guanva, made a good sized compound. He says The Event changed his career, but his career wasn't the only thing that changed. He says that he began to grow a hobby. A hobby of capturing metahumans with interesting abilities. Esau and another man hold Lucy down, as Isaiah asks her "So tell me, darling.... what makes you so special?".

Commerical

Tyler is at the U.N. trying to figure out how to stop O.R.I.O.N. when he finds a file labeled "Prototype Visits". He looks at the folder to see there are four visits: One during the opening of City of Fear, one taking place on the night of the 24th (The Tag of City of Fear), one taking place yesterday, and one taking place today. Tyler looks at confusion at the second visit, and opens up that folder. Video clips begin playing, as Tyler looks at the screen in confusion. It shows Lincoln Maxwell arriving at the United Nations in the middle of the night, as another video clip is shown in Serriv's office, as Lincoln enters, and states "We need to talk, with Serriv stating in surprise “You??”, revealing Lincoln was the mystery man from City of Fear's tag.

It cuts to Isaiah Sun's compound, as Lucy is thrown back into her cell, looking scared. Regina asks her what happened, and she says that Isaiah is a man far more dangerous then she initially thought. Esau tells Regina its her turn, as Lucy offers the advice to not try and scream so loud. Regina, concerned, is forced out of her cell, going towards Isaiah's office.

##### Act III

Tyler is looking at the video clip of Serriv and Lincoln, as Lincoln asks Serriv if he understands what he's asking. Serriv says "You want me to frame Tyler Yensen for a crime he didn't commit, attack Team Prototype, and cause damage to the city for what reason?". Lincoln says "My reasons are my own. Let's just say someone needs to evolve, no matter the cost". Serriv says "You know this isn't a simple task. I can't just show my face and my ability to the Prototypes. You know who I work with". Lincoln says he's well aware that he's dealing with The Trinity, espically the man sitting before him, pointing out he knows who Serriv really is, unlike the Team, and unlike the other members of The Trinity. Serriv says he's bluffing. Tyler is watching his scene unfold, learning the truth about Serriv and Lincoln, much to his horror...

Mig tells the Team, including Captain Element and Ghoul the situation concerning O.R.I.O.N., as Cody sees O.R.I.O.N. in Grand Central Station, alerting the team. They proceed to head to the train station, looking around for any sign of O.R.I.O.N., when O.R.I.O.N. begins running. Taylor, Cpt. Element, Castiel, Jada, and Cody chase him, as O.R.I.O.N. gets on a train. Element, Jada, and Cody get on the train, leaving Castiel and Taylor to watch as the train leaves without them.

It cuts to Isaiah's compound as Regina is thrown into her cell. Lucy looks at her, as Regina sighs that they're just normal now. Lucy says that they were normal for years and still were skilled in combat. Regina smiles, and states that is true. Lucy reveals she was able to sneak a message to a small bird that had flown in. When Regina asks what it said, Lucy said it was an S.O.S. to their father. Esau enters Isaiah's office, as he reveals he just got informed that a small team of their men captured a new metahuman. Isaiah welcomes this news.

Cody alerts Mig that He, Element, and Jada are on the train with O.R.I.O.N., and the train has civilians. Mig tells them to not engage, when O.R.I.O.N. begins killing people on the train. Cody tries to stop O.R.I.O.N. with a small device that should fry his circuits, but O.R.I.O.N. shoots at it, destroying it. Element and O.R.I.O.N. on the train, as civilians try to avoid the fight. O.R.I.O.N. is burned up by Captain Element, as Jada asks why he could come to Grand Central. O.R.I.O.N. reveals he needed to distract them as he got the next thing he needed. O.R.I.O.N. shoots the controls, making the train uncontrollable, before commiting "suicide". Cody tries to alert the rest of the team, as they race towards Tronn Labs (a reference to Tronn from Sif 100), only to find O.R.I.O.N. already has taken what he needs.

Cody realizes he's been outwit, as he tries to freeze the tracks, but the ice is shattered, the train going to fast and destroying the ice. Element explains that he can create a barrier of rock to stop the train, but it'll result in a head-on collison, which is not suitable. Jada is called upon by Cody to use her powers to try and stop the train. Jada states that she doesn't want to create another tragedy, and Element tells her she won't. Jada tries, trying to focus on the wheels of the train stopping, holding her hands as she moves her head, trying to feel the train. The wheels on the train suddenly spark purple and pink, as the train begins to come to a stop. It stops just before another train passes in front of them, saving their lives. Jada sighs in relief, knowing she stopped the train. However, Cody sulks in the fact that O.R.I.O.N. won.

It cuts to the Team getting out of Grand Central Station, knowing they lost. However, Element remarks that Jada, for being a new metahuman, is showing good results. Bee apologizes to the Team, stating that she trusts them and knows they can stop O.R.I.O.N. Mig welcomes Captain Element and Ghoul, stating that this is not just a Prototype mission, but an Element mission. Ghoul states she likes the ring of that name. Team Element.

In Africa, Isaiah tells Esau to keep the new metahuman contained, as Isaiah gets a phone call. Answering, he listens as he states "Ah, another call from the people who want to be my new best friends, G.R.I.D. What offer do you have this time that I can reject?".

Jada is sitting on her own, as Captain Element walks up to her. He congratulates her on her work today, as Jada states she feels like everyone almost hates her now for causing the destruction. Element says that she has great power, but she doesn't need to fear it, she needs to embrace it. She says she can't, considering the fact that she caused the greatest tragedy in years. Element says that yes, she did but she should accept it as part of her identity, stating that the tragedy is a part of her now, and she should just accept it. He even suggests it could be her "hero name", which Jada says she doesn't think so, but Element says he thought Captain Element sounded stupid at first, but after a while, he felt like Captain Element and his real name, Adam Evergreen, were one and the same. Eventually, she'll feel the same way.

Tyler calls, informing the team that O.R.I.O.N. going after the nuclear launch codes was a decoy by him, as the Team informs him that O.R.I.O.N. went to an Omnicorp Lab, and a Tronn Labs facility. Tyler wonders what he would want from OmniCorp and Tronn Labs.

It cuts to O.R.I.O.N. with some copies of himself helping out as he puts the two things he stole from OmniCorp and Tronn Labs. He says that the Team is remarkably more stupid without him, pointing out that they most likely don't even realize the parts he's looking for can lead to the creation of a miniature particle accelerator.

##### Tag

Tag: Isaiah Sun is in a phone conversation with G.R.I.D. demanding he speak to their leader, and not a lackey scientist. He hangs up, grabs a large glass container with a cap opening on the top, and goes over to a captured Tekno. Tekno promises he will kill Isaiah, but Isaiah promises that will not occur. Lifting up his arm, stretching out his hand, and then bending his fingers forward a bit, Tekno’s chest lunges Tekno’s entire body forward, as he begins suffocating. An orange essence, almost like plasma, shoots out of Tekno’s mouth as it comes towards Isaiah. Isaiah moves his hand to the left, as the essence, commanded, enters the container before the man relaxes his hand, allowing Tekno to breath once more, before closing the container. As he stares at it, Tekno asks “What did you do to me”. Looking at Tekno as he pulls out a gun from his gun holder with his right hand, placing the container on the ground next to him, and loading the gun, he says “I took a god, and I stripped him of his power”, before proceeding to shoot Tekno in the forehead twice. As the blood drips on the floor, Isaiah looks at his newly captured ability, and grins.

**Update:** In light of the discussion for No Man's Land, this tag may be outdated. As a result of Tekno's death in Genesis, a new metahuman will be necessary to replace Tekno's role in this. This ultimately means that Barabara aka Sonic will need to find a new friend to work with to replace Tekno for this to remain as effective and play a role in events to come.

### A Flash to the Past

Starting in ACT I, all scenes have different colors. White is Scenes in NYC. Red is Scenes in Past.  Yellow is Scenes regarding Lucy/Regina/Isaiah. Blue is during time-travel. Underlined blue parts are copy/pasted text from previous episodes, or what was shown in those episodes.

#### Opening

This episode begins with a flashback to Face Off. Ferrari tries to go supersonic in order to use the supersonic punch. However, The Shapeshifter dodges unintentionally, causing her to miss. Still running, she finds herself unable to stop; the speed is acting almost like on its own. As she nearly reaches the end of Manhattan (towards the ocean), she starts screaming as a bright light appears around her, and then…. She’s gone.

In an unknown location, a flash of light appears and a purple blur shoots out. Ferrari looks around, not sure where she is, when arrives at the edge of a forest. Ferrari tries to contact her team, asking them where she is, but no response. Ferrari continues running around, until she reaches a sign. "The Country of Germany is now assigned to Section 1, under the authority of G.R.I.D. " A G.R.I.D. soldier appears, shooting at her until she disarms him. Checking one of G.R.I.D.'s devices on him, she learns of her location and time.

**GERMANY - FEBRUARY 16TH, 2022; 7:19 PM**

#### Act I

Ferrari begins running around, not sure what to do or how this is possible. She decides that she needs to find the Team, and begins running in that location. Continuing to run, she finds herself in the area where Mark's bunker, the base of Team Prototype before they went to North America, lies. Running towards there, she spots Tyler Yensen working on the security system for the bunker, and asks to speak with him. Tyler is confused, saying he saw Ferrari inside in her room moments ago. Ferrari tries to convince him to talk with her, but they need to do it somewhere else. Tyler lays down his tools and the two go to another nearby location, where Tyler asks what's going on.

In the Present Day (June 3rd), Mig wakes up, clearly from a nightmare, as he walks outside. Mig tries to calm himself, but is struggling to. Castiel comes out, asking Mig what's going on. Mig is shown struggling to breathe, crying at the same time, as Castiel tries talking to him, trying to convince Mig to explain what's going on. Mig explains that since the events of City of Fear, he's had a reoccurring nightmare. The same nightmare in City of Fear. He explains the nightmare of Daniel Rivers and Ferrari, of the endless abuse that came upon them. Castiel says that Mig doesn't have to be afraid of that anymore, but Mig says he's not sure if he can stop dreaming this. Castiel says that Mig probably feels guilty for wanting this reality, one with metahumans and evil A.I.'s more than a reality based on that nightmare. Castiel tries to help Mig calm down, and Mig says that just as Castiel was jealous of Mig and Ferrari, Mig thinks he's jealous of Castiel and Jada, stating that although he knows Castiel doesn't like her that way, he still has someone else, and Mig no longer has Ferrari. Mig breaks into tears as Castiel tries to hold him.

In the past, Ferrari explains to Tyler that something really bad happened. She explains that somehow, she thinks she jumped from the future into the past, specifically this point in time. Tyler says that's impossible, asking her if she's been injured in the head recently. She swears she isn't lying, pointing out that Tyler, Cody, and Lincoln have all helped with the creation of O.R.I.O.N., mostly Cody. Tyler says he has no idea what that is, Ferrari begins getting frustrated. Tyler grows concern that Ferrari's finally gone a little crazy, but then Ferrari tries explaining how she was fighting the Shapeshifter but then she was literally carried by the speed, not able to control it. This interests Tyler, asking her to explain it more.

Back in the Present Day (June 3rd), O.R.I.O.N. and his drones are working on the particle accelerator. O.R.I.O.N. talks to the owner of the building he's working in, discussing the morality of mankind in their pursuit of knowledge. He says that mankind has always been a greedy species. They've always wanted more then they deserved. They wanted heat, so they created fire. They wanted to do less work, so they built complicated machines. Humans have always done everything in their ability to learn more and to get more. Every single action is built out of a pure self-greed. O.R.I.O.N. says that he's seen the movies where the robots suddenly want to kill everyone, but there's never any reason as to why other than the fact that humanity is bad. While it's true that humanity is indeed a plague, he actually has a reason for his actions.

He says that unlike so many others, he has spent months with people who he cared about, and in turn seemed to care about him. He was like a child, blind to what the world was really like. But then he started growing up, and he realized his family were monsters compared to everyone else. Everywhere metahumans ago, death and destruction seem to follow. Lincoln Maxwell, Rashard Kingsley, Regina Van Zandt, Dr. Vixaus, Jonathan Grid, and Tyler Yensen all had something to do with Project Trident. If they had just kept focusing on the betterment of humanity, perhaps the disaster of The Event could have been avoided. But it wasn't. Instead greed and profit came in, and corrupted everything. Metahumans were born from corruption, they wouldn't exist without that inner-greed that exists in mankind. He believes though that while humans are deserving of punishment, metahumans are the greater threat. Metahumans can fight battles that destroy entire cities. Metahumans can become gods. O.R.I.O.N. says this is dangerous, that his actions are to protect the planet from the disease that is inflicting critical damage to it. His actions, however crude they may be at times, is for a greater good that he feels Team Prototype will not understand due to their lack of intelligence, suggesting the only ones who may understand are Tyler and Cody. He says that while Cody did create him, and that Cody is in many ways like a "father", he says that he is not afraid to kill him, and says that hopefully his plan won't be messed up by Team Prototype, a plan in motion to take out the metahuman population: for good.

Castiel and Jada are still practicing using her abilities. Jada shoots out a burst of energy at some trees, shattering them in frustration. Castiel asks what's going on with her, and she's just frustrated. Jada decides she needs to take a break, as Castiel sits down with her. Jada asks what's going on with him and Adam. Castiel says he isn't sure what she means, and she says that there was defiantly something going on between them yesterday. Castiel says that he was just saying hi to Adam, avoiding the subject. He asks Jada what her problem is, Jada explains that she feels like she wants to explode sometimes with all that energy she can control. Castiel says that he felt like that too for a while, even after the explosion that destroyed Stocker City. It feels like a burning feeling that just won't go away, but that time and practice will eventually make that feeling burn less. Jada asks if they can stop O.R.I.O.N. but Castiel says he's not even sure if Cody knows how to stop him, or is capable of doing so.

It cuts to Cody talking with Adam, Mark, and Mig. Cody is trying to explain O.R.I.O.N. to them, suggesting that he thinks that O.R.I.O.N. may be building a particle accelerator, although it may be retrofitted to design and act as more of a miniature collider. Mig asks Cody what they can do to find O.R.I.O.N. and Cody suggests that they need to go through all the warehouses in a 1000 mile radius, working with law enforcement. Mig asks if he can destroy O.R.I.O.N. when the time comes. Cody says yes, but the expression on his face shows that he isn't sure of that answer. Cody walks away, before allowing himself to vent his emotions out.

In Present-Day Africa, Regina and Lucy are in their cell, as Esau shoves two trays of food inside: two slices of bread, five pieces of cheese, and a small cup of water. Regina and Lucy begin eating these, as they discuss when they think they might be rescued. Regina begins apologizing for the past, apologizing for not being the sister she needed, for being a person who Lucy felt would never live up to, for abandoning her and their father. Lucy says it's alright, before they continue eating and drinking. Isaiah sits in his office, holding a container labeled "Regina Van Zandt: Mind Control/Telepathy". Looking at it, he smiles as Esau reports on the two. Isaiah states that he's still deciding whether they should use the two for other purposes, or to just kill them. Esau asks about G.R.I.D. calling. Isaiah states that G.R.I.D. is an organization of cowards, cowards who fear him so much that they want him on their side so he can't take away their abilities. Isaiah asks the whereabouts of Adam Evergreen and Ghoul. Esau says that they were spotted on a plane heading towards the Atlantic. Isaiah finds this interesting, wondering if the Americas are perhaps a safehaven. He tells Esau to monitor the outskirts of the compound, as he puts the ability away. The camera follows Esau as he exits the main building of the compound, when a raven flies towards the camera.

In the past, Tyler comes to the conclusion that if she was going fast enough, the vibration of her legs could allow her to vibrate her body into another plane of existence, syncing with energy that the human eye can barely see, energy that would allow her legs to leave the ground but still push her in a forward direction. Tyler suggests that perhaps her speed allows her to break the barriers of space, allowing her to enter a fourth or even fifth-dimensional plane of existence. This seems to be enough to make Tyler curious enough to believe her, asking her what she wants from him. Ferrari says she wants to return to New York in the future. Tyler says that he'll need some time to think about how she even got here, but once he figures that out, they can work to trying to do that. In the meantime, to keep the timeline the way it was supposed to be, she needs to stay away from the rest of the Team. Ferrari promises she can do this, as Tyler begins his work.

In Present-Day Africa, Isaiah carries a new container with a new colored ability. A man reports that the recent shipment from Guanva is now in the containment section. Isaiah nods, as he notices the appearance of two ravens on two tall floodlights. After noticing this, he sees the figure of what appears to be a man standing on the top of a nearby mountain range in the distance. Growing concerned, he tells Esau on the walkie-talkie that they'll be getting some unexpected company. It cuts to a montage of Isaiah's men preparing themselves for battle, getting weapons from an armory, as Regina and Lucy hear the commotion, wondering what's going on. More ravens begin flying towards the compound, landing on the buildings and floodlights. Isaiah tells Esau to join him in his office, to monitor what happens in a safe location. The two enter the office, before locking it. It cuts to Isaiah’s men looking around in the compound. They hear the arrival of more ravens, landing on wires above, beginning to surround the men. Esau tells the men on the walkie-talkies to hold their fire, as the number of ravens continue to increase. The men begin to get scared, one man shouting he's going to shoot them, but Isaiah orders on the walkie-talkies to not do so. Eventually, the ravens stop arriving, around two hundred ravens potentially surrounding them. The men are clearly waiting for something to happen, paranoid and scared at the moment.

Suddenly, a man whistles a strange tune. Suddenly, the ravens fly forward toward the men, alarming them as they panic. Gunfire fills the skies as they try to shoot down the birds. Isaiah and Esau are shown in their office, hearing the men panic, while Lucy and Regina hear the ravens making their sounds. Outside, the men are shown being attacked by the ravens, who are cutting them with their claws, some of them grab onto people's faces, pecking at their eyes as a group of ravens attack one man shooting wildly. The gun is pecked out of his hands as the ravens grab onto him, tearing apart him. Three men guard the main building's doors as the ravens kill several of the men. The sounds of horror are heard as a man is shown with his eyes removed, blood on his face as he is knocked to the ground by a pair of ravens. In the midst of the ravens attacking the men, a group of men in darkened Arabic armor emerge, helping kill the men as well.

One of the men whistles another tune, pointing to the men guarding the door. The ravens turn their attention onto them, pecking their faces as the attackers go for the doors and open them. The ravens flood in, going through the compound and attack everyone they can. The ravens appear at the cell bars of Lucy and Regina's cell, making loud noises at them to alert the attackers of their presence. Lucy and Regina back away as far as possible, as it cuts to a man walking towards the office of Isaiah Sun. He bursts open the door, looking inside with some of the ravens to see that the room does not contain any people in it. As the camera turns, it reveals the man in the room now is The Crow, the man who had captured Lucy in Every Grid Needs a Queen's tag. The Crow walks away, the ravens joining him, as one of the attackers with him reports they have the targets. The Crow says that's good, telling him to get the two of them in order to make a trip back to Nepal.

#### Act II

Back in the Past, Present-Day Ferrari exits the room Tyler is in, when she turns the corner to meet Mig. Mig greets her, surprised that she's out of her room. Ferrari says that she feels okay right now, and Mig, happy that she's out of her room, not depressed for once, smiles, asking her to come with him to a meeting room. Inside the meeting room, she encounters the rest of the team, who is also surprised by her visit. Rashard is leading the discussion, explaining that G.R.I.D.is currently incontrol of Berlin. Due to an alliance with leaders in Berlin, they've acquired information that The Director will be in Berlin on February 18th in a meeting with G.R.I.D. agents in the area. Rashard suggests they go after The Director that day, which leads to a discussion on whether this is a good plan or not. A vote eventually decides that they'll go along with the plan. Mig thanks Ferrari for actually seeming okay for the first time in a while, really happy, before walking to help Taylor make some food.

Ferrari, confused by what he means, and concerned that she's changed the timeline, decides to go back to Tyler's room, when Ferrari's room door opens. Present-Ferrari hides in a broom closet as Past Ferrari exits, looking around, before talking to herself, saying she's in the mood for a bag of chips. Past Ferrari passes by, as Present-Ferrari exits the broom closet, and walks into her bedroom. Looking in, she sees the book from Home Is Where the Past Is. Opening it up, she sees the picture of Franklin and her, as she sits on the bed and reflects.

As she exits the room, she hears Mig and Past-Ferrari arguing as they walk towards her. She zooms to around the corner, turning around to spy as Mig and Past-Ferrari argue. Mig, angry, explains that he doesn't understand how she was fine one moment, but now she's depressed again. He explains he doesn't understand the changes in personality, and he shouts that he can't take it anymore. Past-Ferrari says that she doesn't know what he is talking about, calling him selfish for not giving her the time to adjust. As Mig and Ferrari keeps arguing, the Present-Ferrari looks in shock, saying that she didn't realize how unhealthy and how bad their relationship was. Furthermore, he didn't realize how bad Mig was suffering until now.

In the present-day, Lincoln reports that they're trying to find any leads on O.R.I.O.N. but are struggling. They try to figure out what he might be planning. Tyler suggests that O.R.I.O.N. might feel like he "needs to evolve, no matter the cost", a reference to Lincoln's statement to Serriv in the video Tyler saw. Lincoln looks at Tyler for a moment, before putting his focus back on O.R.I.O.N. Jada is trying to turn a lightbulb on and off, as Ghoul approaches her, stating that she seems to be all over the place with her abilities. She tries to focus at times, but then doesn't at others. Jada asks Ghoul to show off her ability, interested in it. Ghoul takes a small pebble, puts it in a plastic water bottle, and places the bottle on a table. Ghoul then lifts her hand up, showing it to Jada as it turns translucent, Ghoul explaining that it's intangible now as she moves her hand through the bottle, selectively allowing the fingertips to be tangible, grabbing onto the pebble, and pulling it out using her ability. Jada smiles at this, thinking its "Ghoul", to which Ghoul says is a lame attempt at making a pun.

Mig is taking a moment to rest from the investigation as Castiel checks up on him, offering him a Diet Coke. Mig reveals that there's something he has neglected to explain to Castiel. With everything that has happened these last few weeks, he explains that after Ferrari seemingly died, he struggled with it. It got so bad that he felt he couldn't take it anymore. Castiel realizes what Mig is about to say, and asks Mig if he really did try to kill himself. Mig confirms this, which Castiel gets upset about. Mig states that he realizes that it was wrong to try and take his life, but he says that he finally understands what Ferrari was going through after Franklin's death. The agony and the pain left after Ferrari's disappearance has broken him, even worse than any pain Daniel Rivers could have done to him. He says that if he ever saw Ferrari again, he would apologize for his behavior, finally understanding what she went through, and understanding that pushing everyone out was her way of trying to cope with the pain. She wasn't doing it to hurt him, as he originally thought. She was doing it to protect him, and to heal herself. Mig apologizes to Castiel, but Castiel says he doesn't need to apologize to him. Castiel asks Mig to never do that again, which Mig agrees to.

Ferrari tells Tyler about the argument she saw the Past Ferrari and Mig had with Tyler. She states that she is starting to realize the pain she's caused to Mig, and is realizing that their relationship is unhealthy. Tyler says that she can fix that if she goes back to her time. He then offers to explain to her what he has figured out, and she says that she will be listening.

The next scene shows Cody walking to Battery Park, watching helicopters try to pick up pieces of the fallen Statue of Liberty. Cody is met by O.R.I.O.N., who came to see Jada's work taken away. Cody asks why O.R.I.O.N. is doing this. O.R.I.O.N. says that he's trying to do what is necessary to fix the problem that has been created. Cody asks what problem, O.R.I.O.N. replies Metahumans. O.R.I.O.N. asks Cody what the Statue of Liberty represented. Cody says "Well since it was the word Liberty in the name, I'll go with that". O.R.I.O.N. says that sarcastic comments aside, it also stands for freedom, opportunity, and hope. He points that the damaged ruins of the statue represent what metahumans have done to those four things. O.R.I.O.N. calls out that it was metahumans who destroyed much of New York City. It was the creation of metahumans that turned the world upside down. O.R.I.O.N. says that the Statue represented the four ideals mentioned for the species of humanity, but when Jada destroyed the statue, it was a symbolic reference that mankind's final hour had arrived. All humans have ever done is damage the planet for themselves. All humans have ever done is destroy, even though creation they destroy. The statue was a beacon of hope that perhaps eventually, mankind could achieve a level of perfection that would allow them to fix all their mistakes of the past.

That's what O.R.I.O.N. has realized, that humanity is imperfect. They're flawed creatures who make flawed mistakes on flawed reasoning. For example, they allow entire cities to burn in order to fight an enemy. Cody tells O.R.I.O.N. that it was not his fault that happened, but O.R.I.O.N. says it was most certainly his fault, as part of the metahuman plague. Had The Event not occurred, the world would be in a much better place than it is now, but the impurity and corruption of man had to ruin what could have been the greatest scientific endeavor in the history of man. Cody realizes the particle collider is in fact a means to take out metahumans, which O.R.I.O.N. confirms, stating there's still a few missing pieces to his plan. O.R.I.O.N. says that his reasons are just, and that metahumans need to be eliminated in order for the world to start moving forward.

Cody asks him to not do this, but O.R.I.O.N. calls out that Cody has clearly chosen his kind because they think their invincible. O.R.I.O.N. says that once he considered Cody to be as close as a real father as possible, but Cody's recent actions have made him doubt that. Cody tells O.R.I.O.N. to kill him then, but O.R.I.O.N. says that death will find Cody whether it comes now or later, before flying away and exploding mid-air, preventing Cody from following him.

 Ferrari is discussing with Tyler what he's come to the realization of (occurring immediately after the last past scene). Tyler explains that he has come up with an explanation for her abilities. He says that Ferrari appears to have a connection to the fourth dimension of existence: time. Her abilities appear to be connected to time in a way. He believes that her precognition abilities allow her to access this fourth dimension, to be able to view the future in a prophetic form of way. In this case however, her speed abilities was able to vibrate into this fourth dimensional plane of existence, essentially sending her being into time itself. Through this, her speed allowed her to travel distance in space-time, warping reality itself to allow her to travel in the opposite direction of her precognition abilities: into the past. Her abilities in a sense, merged to allow her to travel back to this very exact point in time. If they can replicate this, and find a way to control it, there is a chance she can resume to the present.

**[Ferrari]:** You say that I can go back into the vortex, right?

**[Tyler]:** Yes, you are capable of breaking the boundary between the third and fourth dimensions. You can move through time and space in an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, a literal wormhole that takes two points in time and brings them together to form a cosmic shortcut, one that you seem to be able to access by some extraordinary if not divine means. The only problem is figuring out when to send you back. I'll have to run some simulations but hopefully, I can create a device that will find the Present Point.

**[Ferrari]:** Present Point?

**[Tyler]:** It's a theory I created during my time in the university. I started working on it before I lost my legs, and then I continued to work on it leading up to shortly before The Event occurred. I had sent my work to the Americans for review, but that's where it ended. The Present Point is a theoretical point in time that constantly moves forward, a moment in which the universe designates it as the exact and precise moment in time that is the universe's present. The theory basically uses the idea that if the universe were a person too, that it would have its own past, present, and future, and the Present Point is the universe's present. If we can find the Present Point, you'll be able to avoid any major paradoxes.

**[Ferrari]:** What about going into the past?

**[Tyler]:** Why would you want to go into the past? You'd risk causing even more paradoxes.

**[Ferrari]:** I could undo The Event. I could make it so it never happened.

**[Tyler]:** If you undid the event, the consequences could be catastrophic. The Event was caused by the Trident Crystal, something we still have no understanding of how it could contain so much energy nor where it came from. By reversing the effects of The Event, you could not only drastic change the outcome of the human race for the worse, but you could create a tear in the fabric of reality, which in turn could cause the formation of a singularity that could destroy our reality.

**[Ferrari]:** Tyler, does it matter? You don't understand. I could go back in time and prevent all this. I could prevent G.R.I.D. from existing. I could prevent the destruction of Stocker City. I could preven-

**[Tyler, angry]:** Franklin's death? What, did you honestly expect me to not call you out? I know that's what you were getting at. I'm not the one who doesn't understand, it’s you who doesn't understand. I see that in the months since now, you haven't changed one bit. Have you realized how much of a pain in the ass you've been? You lie in your room for hours upon hours. You give no consideration to the thoughts or feelings of others. Do you realize how hard it has been for Mig these last two months?

**[Ferrari]:** I....

**[Tyler, angry]:** Of course you would never notice, you've been too busy mourning Franklin. I mourned for him too, you know. But we had to move on, for his sake. Did you ever see that Mig was hurting because you pushed him out? You pushed us all out, and that hurt the team. It hurt him, a man who actually gives a shit about you. You said that you had realized that your relationship was unhealthy, that it was worse than you had realized. Did you ever stop and wonder why that was? It wasn't Miguel who caused it to get so bad. It was you. You ruined whatever spark you two shared. Tell me, have you ever bothered to learn about his family's past? I have, and after hearing hours of stories about his abusive father, I doubt Mig would ever want to go back to a reality in which that kept going on.

**[Ferrari]:** Tyler, I didn't mean that.

**[Tyler, angry]:** Did you ever think about me at all? What about my legs? Have you ever lost your legs before? I loved to run, I loved to feel my feet touch the ground. Imagine if you couldn't walk for years, never to have that feeling again. Then imagine that out of the chaos of The Event, and after a year or so of not being yourself, you finally were you. The full-you. Not just mind but body. Imagine after years of not being able to do something you love so much, you could walk again. Faith, I would rather live in a reality where The Event occurred and die knowing I could use my legs rather than live in a reality where I would die without ever using my legs again.

**[Ferrari]:** Tyler.

**[Tyler, angry]:** Faith, I will help you get back in the vortex the best I can. But I swear to God, you have better go straight to the Present Point. Fix your mistakes there. Make amends with Mig, if he even still cares about you at that point. Just know Ferrari that out of everyone here, you're the one who has made life harder for him. You hurt him, and if he hurts you back when you return, I wouldn't be surprised one bit. Now if you excuse me, I need to work. Just try not to screw up anymore then you already have.

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Cody is working with Tyler on figuring out what O.R.I.O.N. needs for his plan. Cody explains that O.R.I.O.N. is like a teenage child, he thinks he knows better than Cody but in reality he doesn't have the experience or the maturity necessary to make important decisions like metahuman extinction. Tyler says his behavior is also very reaction-based, stating that O.R.I.O.N. is not thinking logically but emotionally. Cody notes that he has seemed to have some sort of anger against Cody, the Project Trident scientists, and Jada. Tyler asks if he's talked to Lincoln about Rashard lately. Cody says that they've been avoiding Rashard, but he has noticed that Lincoln is not acting as visibly broken by his death as Mig is with Ferrari's apparent death. Cody suggests Lincoln might be holding it all in, as Tyler nods, looking at Lincoln in the distance with suspicion.

Adam Evergreen walks over to Jada, who is now successful in turning on and off several light bulbs. Adam Evergreen is impressed, and Jada thanks him for his comments. Adam says that Dede has been telling him all about Jada, and that he has seen what she is capable of. Adam asks how the team has treated her since they learned she has abilities. Jada says that Castiel has been like a brother to her, and that some have been better. She still feels like she isn't accepted completely though, which Adam understands. Adam says that he has a proposal for her: after O.R.I.O.N. is taken cared of, Queen Bee will be coming with him and Ghoul back to Africa. He asks if Jada would like to join them or not.

At that moment, explosions rock four buildings nearby the place the Team is at. Running outside, they look to see the smoke rising from the buildings. As they look, from the smoke of one building comes a few figures. They find its O.R.I.O.N. drones. T-Y sees O.R.I.O.N. has the box from OmniCorp Labs with him, and goes after him. Cody, Mig, and Castiel see O.R.I.O.N. in a Tronn Labs truck moving as well, and follow him. Adam, Queen Bee, and Mark go investigate the third explosion in the building across the street from them, leaving Lincoln, Ghoul, and Jada. T-Y follows O.R.I.O.N. across the skies of New York City, eventually leaving NYC airspace. Two O.R.I.O.N. drones carry the box, while other drones try to shoot at T-Y but seemingly fail. T-Y manages to force them lower, as the battle eventually moves to the highway, where they're flying just barely over and next to cars and trucks in an air battle barely above the highway. O.R.I.O.N. seemingly throws cars and trucks at T-Y, in an attempt to cause deaths and to kill T-Y.

Meanwhile, Adam, Queen Bee, and Mark enter the building's floor that exploded, where they are confronted by O.R.I.O.N. drones. Adam confronts O.R.I.O.N. with his elemental abilities at first, but O.R.I.O.N. begins figuring out ways to take him down. Queen Bee uses her moves to climb onto the drones and shatter their faces, as Mark is forced to not use guns, but instead a sword on his belt. As O.R.I.O.N. produces his own armor-blade to fight Mark with, Bee notices a brand on Mark. This brand appears to be the same symbol on the ring that appeared in the tag of "Every Grid Needs a Queen" and Mark's nightmare in "City of Fear". This distraction allows O.R.I.O.N. to knock her down.

Jada, Ghoul, and Lincoln try to follow the O.R.I.O.N. drones during the three-battles on computers when a few O.R.I.O.N. drones arrive on the main floor of the building (which is the one they're on). Jada, scared to have to face the reality of combat, begins shooting blasts of magic at O.R.I.O.N. to try and destroy his drones. She even manages to lift two up and crash them together, before throwing the wreckage at others. More drones begin arriving, as Jada accidently causes a new wall to appear in front of the doors, allowing her some time to figure out what to do. Lincoln reaches for a pistol left behind by Mark, while Ghoul shows some concern on her face.

T-Y is still fighting O.R.I.O.N. on the highway, before managing to move the battle towards a nearby town. In a high school, an algebra teacher tells her students to put their items below the desk in order to take the final chapter test of the year before their final exam (it's June 3rd, this has happened before for me, Sci). Suddenly T-Y and O.R.I.O.N. come crashing in, as T-Y tries to use his heat vision. O.R.I.O.N. tries to use T-Y's heat vision to kill some of the students, but T-Y is able to cut off O.R.I.O.N.'s head, before throwing his body towards an old house across the street. T-Y watches the school flood into panic, as he goes over to the box. Opening it up, T-Y sees it’s empty and realizes that O.R.I.O.N. has fooled them once more.

Jada, Ghoul, and Lincoln are waiting for any sound or sign of O.R.I.O.N. when O.R.I.O.N. crashes through the roof of the floor. Lincoln starts shooting at O.R.I.O.N. but O.R.I.O.N. uses his magnetism device to pull the gun towards him and crush it. Ghoul runs up to O.R.I.O.N., suddenly turning intangible as she goes through him, allowing her hands to become tangible to grab onto a piece of O.R.I.O.N's hardware, and then intangible along with the hardware before exiting out of him, becoming tangible again, and landing on the ground, making O.R.I.O.N. fall to the ground. Ghoul drops the hardware and starts using her tangibility to rip apart the O.R.I.O.N. drones as Jada takes steps back, horrified.

Mig, Castiel, and Cody have forced O.R.I.O.N. out of the truck and onto the street. Mig sees that there is nothing in the truck, and Castiel asks what game O.R.I.O.N. is playing at. O.R.I.O.N. tells Cody that there were still some pieces he needed, and that he left some essential parts with Team Prototype, most importantly a power source. Cody, in horror, realizes that O.R.I.O.N. has distracted the team in order to acquire Jada. O.R.I.O.N. begins shooting at civilians, forcing Mig and Castiel to act as T-Y informs Cody that he thinks Jada is the target. Cody says it's true, and asks T-Y to hurry as fast as he can back. T-Y begins flying back to NYC, as Cody gets into the Tronn Labs truck and starts driving towards Jada's location.

Bee and Mark have been knocked out, as Adam tries to fight O.R.I.O.N, who throws him out the window towards the ground. Cody's truck is coming down the street, as Adam uses the air to soften the blow of the fall, alerting Cody, and causing him to flip the truck over, crashing into a nearby stop sign. Inside the building, Lincoln is unable to do anything as Ghoul is grabbed and across the room. Jada tries fighting the drones, shooting blasts of magic in order to try and stop them. Drones appear from the other side, beginning to surround her as objects begin floating in the air. Cracks begin forming on the ground, and Jada's hands begin glowing purple and pink. She begins shooting lighting at the drones, trying to stop them but the electricity seems to have no effect on them. Getting really scared, her hands begin glowing even more, as Adam and Cody try to get up to get to her. She panics, and a wave of energy shoots from her, like a small-scale version of what happened in the end of Face Off. The drones are shattered, Lincoln and Ghoul are thrown back to the walls, which begin breaking apart as well, the floor shatters into pieces, objects in the room burst into flames, the explosion bursts the wall, hitting Cody and Adam once again as the entire building shakes, damaging floors above. Jada collapses to the ground, as the O.R.I.O.N. drones from the building across the street come to pick her up and the Aeteo, which they verify has the Aeteo crystal in it. They leave, much to Cody's horror.

#### Act III

February 18th. A G.R.I.D. truck pulls into the entrance to Berlin. A G.R.I.D. agent confirms the truck and allows it to enter. The driver of the truck is revealed to be Jada Nyuki, who allows the rest of the team to get out. They tell her to stay there, as they sneak into the Reichstag building. Inside, it shows a dinner with Jonathan Grid greeting some officials, including the Burgomaster of Berlin. The Burgomaster looks at his watch, which has a timer counting down. It cuts to Team Prototype taking out a few G.R.I.D. soldiers quietly, as a montage of scenes cut back and forth between the G.R.I.D. officials and Berlin officials talking/preparing for dinner, while Team Prototype make their way through the building towards the room Jonathan Grid is in.

Present-Ferrari is looking at the picture of Franklin in her bedroom, when she begins thinking about a discussion between her and Tyler moments earlier. A flashback shows Ferrari wanting to tell Tyler what happens in the Battle of Berlin, stating that it's important he knows so that something can happen. Tyler says that however bad things may get, he has to trust that whatever happens is supposed to happen. Ferrari tries to argue this, but Tyler refuses to listen. He then says that when he returns, he'll finish what he's been working on for her. Ferrari stops her flashback, walking out of the bedroom towards the Control Panel to see what's going on. As she looks, she sees what appears to be ten G.R.I.D. jets heading towards Berlin. Ferrari grows concern, knowing what is about to happen.

In the dining room, Jonathan Grid raises his glass for the others as they have a toast to "a new alliance between Germany and G.R.I.D". Everyone begins to drink their wine, when they begin feeling side effects. The Burgomaster asks Jonathan what's happening to them, as The Director explains that it's a toxin. He says that he knows the Burgomaster has aligned himself with Team Prototype, and that they're here in Berlin, hoping to kill him. That's why he's decided to strike first. Team Prototype arrives in the room as the Burgomaster dies. The Director and Team Prototype get into a fight, as it cuts to outside. Germans begin fighting against G.R.I.D. soldiers in a state of rebellion, as G.R.I.D. soldiers begin massacring them. Chaos breaks out on the streets, as a tall woman in a suit runs towards the Reichstag Building.

The Director and Team Prototype continue to fight, the Director holding on his own against them, as Present Ferrari watches the chaos break out between G.R.I.D. and the Berlin population. Jada sees G.R.I.D. soldiers coming towards her, as she is forced to fight them. Inside the Reichstag Building, the tall woman arrives in the dining room to get the Director out, the woman being revealed as Dede Lanis. Dede tells The Director that the operation known as Operation Bombardierung is heading to the city, and that they need to get out. The Director nods, as Dede leads him out of the building to a G.R.I.D. helicopter. Team Prototype is forced to get out of the building, as Present-Ferrari screams at Tyler on the com. Tyler asks Present Ferrari what she's doing, and Present Ferrari reveals that Operation Bombardierung is the bombing of Berlin. Tyler uses this to inform some of the population shortly before they flee the city. As they are forced to flee the city, only a small number of the population manages to escape before the G.R.I.D. jets begin mass bombing the city, killing the majority of its population.

In a transition shot, we see the team recovering from the battle. Lincoln says that Lincoln asks how Tyler knew about Operation Bombardierung was a bombing, and Tyler says that he assumed this correctly due to the word Bombardierung. Lincoln accepts this. Cody says that there was 2 million people in Berlin before the 18th, and only three thousand got out before the bombings began. Ultimately, according to G.R.I.D. information, it appears that 1,997,000 people died as a direct result of the Battle of Berlin. Lincoln says that all of their blood is on their hands. Tyler says that they can't be responsible for anything like that ever again, that they have to find a way to protect the people as well. Cody says he agrees, and reveals he has an idea. He proposes that the three of them are among some of the most brilliant people in the recent years of the 21st century, and suggests that they create a peacekeeping program, an artificial intelligence to protect the people when they can't. Lincoln says this is a brilliant idea, and Tyler suggests that it may prove interesting. Cody decides this is a good idea, that from the horrible mistake of the Battle of Berlin, they'll make sure they never do something like this again. He reveals though that he has no name for this A.I., and Tyler, remembering what Ferrari told him in the beginning, suggests a name. Cody and Lincoln like it, and thus **Project O.R.I.O.N.** is born.

It cuts to Rashard, Taylor, and Mig walking together, the three discussing if this is a good idea. Rashard says they need answers, and Mig presses a button on a control panel. On a large screen appears Dede Lanis. Taylor says that she has proven herself capable of posing as a G.R.I.D. agent, and says that it was perhaps good that they found and recruited her between the events of The Nuclear Bros and this episode. Dede asks what they want her to learn in her time in G.R.I.D. Rashard says they want information regarding The Director and his allies. They want to know what The Director's next moves are, where Dr. Vixaus is, and they want any other locations of their bases. Taylor then asks her also to investigate what G.R.I.D. knows about the Team, including Taylor's past. Lanis agrees, and cuts off communication. The three take a deep breath, and state their hope that this plan works.

The Team is figuring out how Jada and the Aeteo Crystal is relevant to O.R.I.O.N.'s plan. Cody says that O.R.I.O.N. has grown to believe in Perfectionism, wanting a perfect world, a world he believes would be better without metahumans. Adam Evergreen says that a particle accelerator or collider would only be useful if he had something to collide. Castiel says that O.R.I.O.N. said he needed a power source, although he questions how Jada would be a power source. Cody then says that she's not. A look of horror appears on his face, as Cody realizes what O.R.I.O.N. intends to do. Cody says that the power source isn't Jada, the power source is the Aeteo Crystal. O.R.I.O.N. intends to have an Anti-Event occur, and the only way to do that is to use the power source like that of the original Event, hence the Aeteo Crystal. The Aeteo Crystal's energy is what is going to be used as one of the two things being collided with, and the other is Jada. Jada is the means to take out metahumans. He says that Jada's power is so far unlimited as far as they know. O.R.I.O.N. realizes this, having witnessed the New York Disaster, and knows he can manipulate Jada's ability to have a widespread impact. Once the Aeteo's energy hits Jada, her ability will trigger a response that will take out metahumans. Cody then realizes the last thing O.R.I.O.N. needs is a way to minimize the destruction, and to find a way to make sure Jada's ability only takes out metahumans. The teams look in horror, as they realize that O.R.I.O.N. may very well succeed in his plan to cause an Anti-Event.

Tyler walks into his room to find Present-Ferrari, who apologizes for telling him about the future. Tyler asks what happened in the original reality. She says that in the original reality, all the Berliners died, none escaped the bombing. Tyler nods, and then says that this is one change to the timeline he's comfortable with. He walks over to his desk, opening it up and pulling out something with his tools. Working on his device for a little bit, Ferrari looks over to see the Shield of Justice books. Ferrari says she doesn't know the author of this series, and Tyler says that although the author has had a rough history as stated in his biography, Sif Hunderson is still a fantastic writer who is underrated by the book community. Tyler then finishes his device, and reveals it to be a wristband device that will allow her to tell what time she is, and when the Present Point is. She also says that her body has grown more unstable due to the effects of travelling through time. He says that she should survive the trip back, although he believes that further trips could cause greater strain on her body. Ferrari asks what he means by that, and he says that if she were to continue time travelling, the effects on her body could potentially kill her, or even wipe her from existence. In other words, he advises against further time travel other than out of necessity.

It cuts to Lincoln and Tyler sitting together, resting in a lounge space in an unknown building. Tyler asks if Lincoln recalls when Project ORION was started, remembering the Battle of Berlin. Lincoln says that it appears they've failed once more, this time they destroyed New York and created a monster. Tyler makes a comment that Lincoln would know all about that, realizing he made a mistake after saying it. Lincoln asks what he means by that, and Tyler makes the excuse of Sam. Lincoln asks if Tyler learned anything else in the United Nations the previous day. Tyler denies it, and Lincoln calls him out, saying that although Tyler is a very intelligent man, he is a bad liar.

Tyler and Present-Day Ferrari are shown in a barren and empty location. Tyler gives Ferrari the wristband device, helping her put it on. Present-Day Ferrari thanks Tyler for his help, and Tyler thanks her for helping him feel useful. Tyler offers her a final piece of advice: "You might not be able to avoid changing the timeline. But if you change it, change it in a way that will allow the flow of events to remain the same, just altered. That way, your reality that you lived in remains as much of the same reality that you return to as possible". Ferrari nods, and runs 6 miles away, getting ready to run.

Lincoln says that after Tyler's trip to the United Nations, Lincoln checked to see what Tyler went through in an attempt to see if Tyler had missed anything. He discovered that Tyler found a video file regarding him, a video file he shouldn't have seen. Tyler admits that he knows the truth about Lincoln. He knows that Lincoln is not the man he says he is, he knows that Lincoln did help cause The Event, he knows that Lincoln is the one who wanted him to be framed. He said that Tyler would now about monsters because he knows the true monster. He knows what Lincoln is capable of, and he promises that Team Prototype will find out. Lincoln says that Team Prototype will never know, and when Tyler asks how, Lincoln says "Because while you've been telling me that you know my secrets, I've been killing you in the process". Tyler, looking in shock, begins to look sick, as he collapses on his knees. Tyler begins heavy breathing as his skin begins to look malnourished, and Tyler begins to cough up blood. Lincoln grins, getting on his knees as he places his hands on Tyler's face.

Lincoln's hands are glowing as Tyler begins looking pale, drained, and sick at the same time. Lincoln says "You didn't think that I didn't have an ability, did you now Tyler? Surely you're smarter than that. " Tyler's condition gets worse as Lincoln goes on, "Tanveer took away Rashard from me, something that one day I will make him pay for. But now that Rashard is dead, I have to find another way to get what I need. Jada is important for that, but you Tyler? I don't need you. In fact, if Jada knew what I was, it wouldn't matter. Your death will only be a small problem". Tyler continues struggling to breath, as it appears that a flow of energy, from Tyler's skin onto Lincoln's fingers. "Can you feel it? Your body dying. The organs shutting down. The life literally being sucked from you". Tyler, looking at Lincoln, says "If I go... I'll take... you.... with me", before his eyes glow an orange color. Lincoln removes one of his hands from Tyler's head and sticks two of his fingers into Tyler's eyes as Tyler tries to use his heat vision. The energy Lincoln took starts running towards the two fingers, trying to heal the damage caused by the heat vision. Tyler screams in pain, as Lincoln struggles to keep the two fingers in there. Lincoln squints, as his entire face glows, before what appears to seem like a veil of energy is removed, revealing extensive damage to Lincoln's face, including burns, small gaps showing muscle, and cuts is revealed. "This is what has happened to the body. I can fight it for a while, I can try and take life from others, but it's not a solution. The solution was taken away. You've helped me Tyler, but I'm afraid you have no further use". Tyler screams in pain as his face burns red, before it cuts to a shot of Lincoln, as a blood spatter hits him. Lincoln shows no reaction, calmly pulling back his hands, including two very damaged fingers, as the energy veil seems to cover the injuries. Lincoln gets up, and walks away from the corpse of Tyler Yensen, as the camera shows Tyler Yensen's bloody body, now no longer having a face.

Ferrari is shown running towards Tyler, counting down the miles away from him. Once reaching 1.2 miles, she presses a signal on her watch, alerting him to step to the side to not be hit. She runs past Tyler, as her legs are thrown into the air once more, the speed carrying her again. She tries to focus as a bright flash of light surrounds her, before she's gone. Tyler sighs, nodding his head, before walking back towards the base.  It cuts to Ferrari in a vortex of space and time. A black void of stars and cosmic energy flowing around, spinning in strange formations like the teeth of an ancient creature. She looks over to see her former surroundings being bent around by space-time, as it transitions into what appears to be Stocker City nearby. The entire vortex spins around her as she is propelled forward, seeing different parts of time stretched across a seemingly infinite plane of space. Looking above, she sees a distorted version of Lincoln at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial, to her side is Mig and Rashard looking at a billboard controlled by Trevor, and stars from galaxies across the universe are shown at her feet. (This represents the three spatial dimensions below her). Suddenly, nearby comes the attack on Fort Bard, as she sees a soldier is about to kill her. Concerned, she forces herself into the image, as a flash of light appears.

It cuts to the opening battle against G.R.I.D. in *Home Is Where the Past Is.* Ferrari (during this time) and Mark are still fighting on the main land, Cody in the distance. Past Ferrari runs over towards a bunker, throwing a small grenade at it, blowing it up and stopping to catch her breath. Unknowest to her, a G.R.I.D. soldier is aiming at her neck from behind. As she hears him from behind, a flash of light appears in the distance. Present-Day Ferrari arrives, running towards the soldier at extraordinary speeds and knocking over the soldier, causing his gun to fire away from Past Ferrari, hitting a tree instead. Present-Day Ferrari continues running, disappearing in another flash of light, while Past Ferrari looks around, confused, seeing only the knocked out soldier.

If you re-read the opening battle of Home Is Where the Past Is, you'll find the scene this takes place in, only the Present-Day Ferrari in this scene is described as a "blur".

Returning into the vortex of time, Ferrari finds herself looking at Tyler in chains, a foreign city in ruins, and a cave with a mysterious woman in it as rocks float in the air, and then she sees the U.S. military attacking the Team, led by Hassan Tanveer. Ferrari recognizes this as having happened to her shortly before she first went into the vortex of time, and bursts through.

Mark Tenison and Queen Bee grab onto each other, as Mark Tenison grabs a grabbling gun and jumps off the balcony towards the ground. Using the gun, he shoots into another window, grabbing onto a support beam and keeping them from falling to their deaths. They climb the rope till they reach the floor, and proceed to run out of the room they broke into. As Past Ferrari continues running, a bright flash of light occurs behind her, as the Present-Day Ferrari emerges from the vortex. Present-Day Ferrari is still running extraordinary fast, as the Past Ferrari looks to her side to see Present-Day Ferrari as a blur. Present-Day Ferrari looks down to see the wristband device states it is not the fixed Present Point, and is forced to continue running, disappearing in another flash of light. Past-Ferrari, stopping at Times Square, she looks around for a moment, then keeps on running, taking a woman’s cell phone in the process.

If you read Act I of *Face Off*, you will read a scene similar or exactly like the lines that are underlined above. The blur that is mentioned in this scene is Present-Day Ferrari, as revealed in this shot.

Back in the vortex, Ferrari sees the apparent death of Regina from The Director: Conclusion, sees Taylor on a rampage killing civilians, a planet featuring several explosions across it, and sees a city of bones. Her wristband device begins beeping, signaling the nearby presence of the Present Point, the timeline's exact moment of the Present period of time. Getting excited, and seeing that the vortex is nearly done, with something serving as the final image far away, she starts trying to get faster. However, she looks over to see Hassan Tanveer, Jada Nyuki, and Rashard Kingsley on the dock, as shown in Face Off. She sees Tanveer kill Rashard, much to her horror. Looking at the wristband device, she sees that it occurs shortly after she disappeared. She reflects to what Tyler said to her.

"You might not be able to avoid changing the timeline. But if you change it, change it in a way that will allow the flow of events to remain the same, just altered. That way, your reality that you lived in remains as much of the same reality that you return to as possible".

Note: This song plays.

After considering these words, she jumps into the image of the vortex as the vortex erupts into a loud scream. She finds herself in the middle of Manhattan, running towards the Hudson River. On the dock, Rashard and Jada have just finished kissing. Turning to the side, they see the injured and bloody Hassan Tanveer with the gun that he took from the soldier, confronting them. He shouts that metahumans have now ruined his life, and now he's going to ruin theirs. Ferrari sees them near her, when she witnesses what happens. Rashard goes to reach for the pole to absorb the material, when Hassan fires. Rashard stops, not touching the pole, as he straightens his body, breathing heavily as Jada looks in horror. Just exactly like in Jada's nightmare from the previous episode, as Jada flashbacks back to the nightmare, Rashard looks down to see he's been shot in the left side of his lower chest. Rashard, seeing the wound bleeding out into his suit, looks up at Jada as the camera goes from his face to the wound as he looks at it to going back up to his face after he lifts his head up. Falling towards the left side, Jada screams "No!", just like in the nightmare, as Rashard falls into the river. Jada falls onto the deck, trying to reach for Rashard, as Rashard begins sinking to the bottom of the river.

Ferrari, enraged, refuses to accept this, and begins running left, running in a distance away, before turning right once more, towards the river. Although hesitant at first to do this, she embraces the risk and decides to keep running. She reaches the water, and her feet immediately touch it. Suddenly, she begins speeding on the water, running on the very top of it. Turning towards the dock Jada is now leaving with Hassan on, her legs begin vibrating even more. She decides to lunge forward, going full into the water, now speed-swimming. Looking in the dark water of the Hudson River, she sees the body of Rashard falling towards the bottom, blood flowing out and turning the water red. Speeding towards him, she grabs onto him as his mouth opens up, allowing the water to flood in. She begins swimming as fast as possible towards the shore. The strain of the water begins to wear her down, as she hurries towards the shore, jumping out with one last push to get the two of them out.

NOTE: Old song ends, this song  begins.

Ferrari breathes for air, resting for a second before realizing Rashard isn't breathing. Ferrari tries to force his body to push out the water from him, and is successful, but begins shaking. Ferrari, scared, grabs Rashard with all the strength she can, and rushes in the New Jersey road. At a hospital, she suddenly arrives, shouting for help as something is going on with Rashard. A few nurses and doctors rush over, getting a crash cart ready, as they take him on a stretcher bed. Taking him away, a doctor announces he's crashing and needs help immediately. Ferrari asks a nurse what's going on, and the nurse tries to comfort her. A shot shows Rashard having a faint heartbeat as the doctors are trying to not lose him. As Ferrari laments that Rashard may still die, an older man replies to her that she did the best she could to keep him alive, but sometimes the universe takes people away for a reason, and sometimes there's nothing we can do about it. Ferrari, taking this in, speeds off as the doctors continue to try and keep Rashard alive. The old man then replies to himself that she didn't let him finish. A young boy sitting next to him asks him what was going to say, and the old man says that the universe also sometimes gives lives back, and that perhaps there is something we can do about it.

It cuts to Ferrari running on the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge, when she sees a light is glowing inside the Statue of Liberty's torch. Running into Brooklyn, Ferrari starts heading for the Brooklyn Bridge as the camera focuses on the Statue of Liberty. Inside the Statue of Liberty's torch, the triangle sections are lifted upwards, the curved ends being still attached to the Aeteo while the triangle end lifting into the air, the upper tips of the triangles bending towards the center of the Aeteo. The very center of the Aeteo, the circle, turns into a strange fluid like substance, as it divides itself in half, going to small little holes in the inside, and a small device comes out of the center, like a claw. Inside the claw…. Is a Crystal. Jada, in shock, looks at the tips of the triangles and the crystal, as the tips begin to glow a faint blue.

Ferrari runs across the Brooklyn Bridge, seeing the Statue of Liberty grow brighter. She realizes that the vision she had in City of Fear is about to occur. Finally able to stand up, in a powerful motion, Jada's entire body lifts upward, caused not by her own want or will but a necessary motion, her chest and upper body raising, her head back as her hair flows as far back as they can. Standing almost triumphantly, her entire hands covered in pink and purple energies, as a shockwave of devastatingly powerful energy comes from all around her body, striking the Statue of Liberty’s Torch. The Torch completely shatters, the red and orange glass breaking into twelve million pieces, going in all directions. Looking over, she sees the wave growing faster and faster, hitting Manhattan at an alarming speed. Ferrari sees the wave coming as she tries to run as fast as possible, trying to replicate what is necessary to travel in time once again. As the wave seems to be coming closer, a panicked and concerned look on her face begins to grow as the speed finally lifts her up. Just as the wave is about to hit her, she disappears in a bright flash of light, before the wave goes through the streets of Manhattan, causing heavy damage.

[The Music Ends Here]

It cuts to a street in Manhattan. A bright light appears, as Ferrari appears, falling to the ground. As she gets up, she checks the wristband device, which says “ PRESENT TIME – June 3, 2022 11:57 PM ”. She looks over to see Tyler, alive. Tyler, glad she’s back, proceeds to give her a hug as she thanks him for helping her return to the Present. When she questions what's happened to the city, he says that he's a long story, but tells her that he'll explain it while she heads towards the Empire State Building, where Team Prototype, Adam Evergreen, and Ghoul are meeting up to discuss what to do with Jada. Ferrari asks what happened to Jada, and Tyler says "Well for starters, she's changed a bit...", before she speeds off with Tyler.

#### Tag

Regina and Lucy are brought into a room by The Crow, a room filled with candles. Looking at a carving of what appears to be a Raven is a man in a robe.

[Lucy]: We will not bow to a man who refuses to speak to us.
[The Raven]: I must admit, I am surprised you decided to ask for my help. Not so long ago, you were seeking sanctuary from me.
[Lucy]: If we can move forward, and let the past go, then it'll be as it was before. Besides, we needed your help to get out of his compound.
[The Raven]: I already have what I need. I have wealth. I have an army. What more do I need?
[Lucy]: You need us.
[Regina]: She's right.
[The Raven]: Regina? I didn't realize you were here with Lucy.
[Regina]: It's been some time, Aram.
[The Raven turns around, facing Regina. ]
[Aram]: It has indeed, daughter.

#### Explanation on Time Travel, Deaths, O.R.I.O.N's plan, Battle of Berlin

* **Ferrari and how her Time Travel was possible:**
	+ **Explaining her Precognition Ability:** A few months ago, during the conception of Genesis and TNW, Sif was searching for logical ways to explain abilities. He came up with the idea that Ferrari's precognition ability is connected to the dimension of time (*The space-time of our universe is usually interpreted from a Euclidean space perspective, which regards space as consisting of three dimensions, and time as consisting of one dimension, the "fourth dimension"*). Ferrari is capable of accessing this fourth dimension to view the future in visions of sorts, which can be explained as Ferrari acting as a sort of screen that can receive signals and images across time, receiving and processing these images from a 4-dimensional perspective to a 3-dimensional perspective, hence why her visions can be often like prophecy.
	+ **Explaining how her two abilities allowed her to travel through time**: When she was going supersonic, her legs were moving at a speed uncommon to humans. Achieving a level of speed that should normally be impossible for any human or metahuman to endure, her body was able to survive by vibrating at a frequency that sent her molecules into the fourth dimensional plane of existence. Hence, the "bright flash" that always appears is her entering this fourth dimension of time. The speed pulling her is also a way of describing her transportation into the realm of time.
	+ **Explaining the Vortex:** Once in this dimension of time, she is both being pulled by force and is able to travel distance in space-time. In most versions of time travel, time travel by non-technological means is often represented as a large cylinder like wormhole that peacefully flows. However, in this deception, it is viewed as a chaotic and ever-changing vortex, bending space and time around in many shapes and forms. On the bottom level of the vortex is a collection of stars and galaxies, as a reference to the existence of the three lower levels of dimensions, the spatial dimensions. Space also plays a role in moving and bending the shape of the vortex, as in many scenes Ferrari is not only being transported through time, but to another place. Time plays a role in the images that play out key scenes both in the past, in the present, and in the future. To leave the vortex, one must simply move into an image, therefore exiting the vortex and entering that time and place.
	+ **Explaining the idea of a Present Point:** The problem with time travel is that the past, the present, and the future are all concepts of our perception of time. In the real world, the single moment of now, as you read this word is instantly the past, the present, and the future all at once. It was the future a second ago, it's the present this second, and it's the past after that last second. So while Ferrari is trying to get back to the present in an attempt to avoid paradoxes to the best of her ability, the problem is: what would she consider the present? Immediately after Face-Off? Or the events dealing Team Prototype vs O.R.I.O.N. as described in the episode? In order to make it easier, I created the completely fictional concept of a Present Point, a single point in time constantly moving in a forward direction. This point in time always changes, moving forward and acting as the cosmic moment in time that the universe identifies as the present. This point is in essence, the universe's way of knowing when the present is, and is thus a tool to allow her to know to come to June 3rd and rejoin the main characters.
* **Deaths:**
	+ **Rashard:** The character's death is put in ambiguous lighting, as we learn more about the circumstances that involved his death. In the original reality, Rashard was shot by Tanveer, sank to the bottom of the river and died, his body being recovered and shown in both the first shot of the season premiere, along with a final shot for In The Wake of Destruction. However, in this new reality, Rashard was sinking when Ferrari brought him out of the water. He then began to have a sudden cardiac arrest, and Ferrari brought him to a hospital. He was last shown struggling to survive, with it appearing that although Ferrari had changed where he would die, it seemed that Rashard would still die as originally had happened. The words of the old man, that the universe takes away people and that there's nothing people can do about it, seem to hint that Rashard is one of these cases, destined to die this way. However, it is not known if in this new reality, the scene showing Rashard's dead body still occurred, but until proved otherwise, Rashard is still believed to be dead.
	+ **Tyler:** In the original reality, Tyler learns about Serriv and Lincoln, and in a confrontation, is killed by Lincoln Maxwell. In the new reality however, it appears that by some means, Tyler did not have this same confrontation with Lincoln that resulted in his death. It is unknown how this occurred or why, nor is it revealed in this episode if Tyler still has the same memories and knowledge about the two in this new reality, but it is ultimately hinted that Ferrari's altercations to the original reality allowed him to survive in some fashion.
* **O.R.I.O.N's plan**
	+ **Following the release of Elements of a Team:** After releasing Elements of a Team, some negative response concerning O.R.I.O.N. was discussed. It appears that due to few little details or reasoning for O.R.I.O.N.'s actions begin explained in the episode, as well as the difficulty of portraying an original A.I. character without drawing comparisons to other media, it was viewed as underwhelming. Thus, I have taken the type to explain what exactly O.R.I.O.N's plan is, along with the mechanics of his plan, what makes up the plan, and his motivation behind it.
	+ **The Plan and the Components of the Plan:** As realized by Cody Ward, the plan is essentially to build a miniature particle collider (also referred to as a particle accelerator) to bombard Jada Nyuki with the energy of the Aeteo Crystal. This would allow O.R.I.O.N. to manipulate the reaction of Jada and her abilities to his use, allowing him to use the reaction to single-handedly wipe out every metahuman on the planet. The first part of this plan is the creation of the particle collider, using what he acquired from OmniCorp and Tronn Labs. This would allow him to manipulate the energy of the Aeteo crystal to cause a reaction similar to The Event. The second part of this plan is Jada Nyuki. Jada has clearly shown to have a large amount of power, and is capable of a huge impact radius, as shown in Face Off. Jada is necessary to increase the impact of the plan, and is essentially both the magnifier of the plan and a weapon. The third part of the plan is a power course, a means to kick start the reaction to cause this anti-Event: The Aeteo Crystal. The Trident Crystal was clearly capable of causing a reaction for certain people, allowing select individuals to gain abilities while others did not. O.R.I.O.N. hopes to repeat this, only do it in a fashion to cause a reaction for certain people (metahumans) to die as a result of this reaction, while others do not get affected. *The only part of the plan that is missing is a way to minimize the destruction caused by an Event-level explosion, and to ensure it only impacts metahumans. This will be part of O.R.I.O.N's actions in the following episode.*
	+ **The "Why" of the Plan:** While most A.I. antagonists view humanity as the source of problems, O.R.I.O.N. is different. Although O.R.I.O.N. shares his feelings that humanity has made bad choices and that they are a danger to the planet, he believes that the metahuman population is a greater evil, and chooses to wipe them out first. As potentially hinted at during the Cody/O.R.I.O.N. conversation, O.R.I.O.N. potentially still has a hope that humanity can achieve a level of perfection and undo their mistakes. In this sense, while he does respect the human race has made many great achievements, they have also made enough mistakes to be potentially too dangerous. He sees that the human race though does create good, while metahumans have been shown to only cause death and destruction. His fears ultimately stem from the aftermath of Face Off. In Face Off, O.R.I.O.N. was shown first-hand the devastating power of metahumans, and was shown the effect abilities could have on the normal populace. O.R.I.O.N. saw the city and the world as a beautiful place that was destroyed thanks to metahumans fighting across the city and even damaging it. O.R.I.O.N. sees the beauty of the planet and has thus far only seen metahumans ruin the planet rather than help it. Thus, he is upset by their behavior. As a peacekeeping program as well, he also wants peace, which he sees metahuman existence as preventing that. What O.R.I.O.N. ultimately begins to desire is a chance to remove metahumans in order to create what he feels would be a perfect world. This desire for perfection is ultimately a key trait, and thus affects his actions.
	+ **O.R.I.O.N. has no Depth:** You may believe this is true, but I'd like to make a comparison to AOU, since that seems to be the default movie for all A.I. antagonists from this point forward. In Age of Ultron, Ultron is born, uses the internet to see some stuff about the Avengers, and comes to the conclusion that mankind should die along with The Avengers all within two minutes. Now let's see O.R.I.O.N. He is born in the fourth episode of the chapter as a last-resort to save Jada. O.R.I.O.N. sees Cody as a father-like figure, a loyal and innocent child who wants nothing more to make the people he works for happy. As Cody is like a father, Jada is like a sister. In this rare case, the A.I. doesn't turn on and go rogue. No, he works with the good guys during the course of Ep 4 to Ep 10 (which is basically a month of time). This isn't a plot problem, this is a writing problem. The writers can and should use these episodes as an opportunity to delve into O.R.I.O.N's role on the team, his relationships with Lincoln, Tyler, Cody, and Jada, and his personality. Good writing will be able to pull the depth. Now let's focus on how exactly he turns bad. In Tragedy, he is searching for the cause of the New York Disaster, where he is successfully able to learn its Jada. O.R.I.O.N's response isn't logical, it's emotional. It's like learning a family member you care about is responsible for killing hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people. Basically, imagine a family member you love is in fact a member of Al-Queda, or ISIS, and has executed hundreds of people for their beliefs. That's basically his reaction, however extreme it might be. He is HORRIFED. He is so HORRIFED that he scans himself to look for any viruses or flaws that might have corrupted his scan. He doesn't find any. He has an EMOTIONAL response, looking for any other possible answer. This is how he comes across all the video and audio information showing metahumans causing destruction. Everything that has happened in the season has led to this moment for O.R.I.O.N., the suicide bomber speech even plays an important role in his reaction. This is how he realizes how metahumans and people in Project Trident are the ones who seem to always cause the death and destruction, a horrible thing to do to a seemingly innocent planet. This scene is literally a LOSS OF INNOCENCE for O.R.I.O.N., just as a child has a LOSS OF INNOCENCE eventually in his life. O.R.I.O.N. is at a teenager level now, he's questioning everything he's believed in, he's questioning the people he cared for, he's not sure what to do. Worse, he realizes that his own "FATHER" has done horrible things as well. He is the child of corruption, of darkness, and of death and destruction, and he hates that. He literally has the equivalent of a mental breakdown. This is when he makes the decision that a teenager would make: metahumans are bad, it's my job to take them all out. Once again, Ultron makes the decision to take out humanity in two minutes after birth, but it takes O.R.I.O.N. about a month to realize this. Plus, O.R.I.O.N. has had the experiences with the Team, and the viewers by this point have grown to know him as a member of the team. Not only is it as if a friend has turned on our heroes, but we see the symbolic aging of O.R.I.O.N. from a child to a teenager, eventually having a LOSS OF INNOCENCE. As shown in this episode, it's clear that there is still a hint of hesitation in him, as he still somewhat cares for Cody and Jada. He's tormented between what he feels he needs to do, and his relationship with family. Duty vs Family, that is the struggle, the turmoil he is facing. I know that for some, they may value an A.I. who is always twenty-steps ahead, is completely serious, non-emotional connections, and is an extremely dangerous threat. But O.R.I.O.N.'s journey is one that is worth following. You see, the episode Tragedy has multiple meanings to its name. There's the obvious one with Jada, who will eventually become known as Tragedy. Then, there's the tragic demise of Joey Franta's victims. But the hidden meaning lies with O.R.I.O.N. The true meaning of the episode's name comes from the tragic occurrences that led to his loss of innocence. It's this tragedy, the tragedy of O.R.I.O.N that serves as the basis for the name of the episode, and ultimately makes him a compelling character with emotional depth. But again, this will have to be shown by the writers of the episodes for it to be truly effective. In other words, he has depth.
* **The Battle of Berlin**
	+ **Effect on the Team:** Although it may seem as simply another battle, in actuality it is not the Battle itself that is so significant, but what the aftermath of the battle caused. Berlin's destruction was the first time that a large population of people were killed because of them. It was because of their alliance with the people of Berlin that the people were killed. This made the team hope that they would never make the same mistake again, and it became an unspoken memory that they would try to forget, ashamed of it.
	+ **It's Role in the Creation of O.R.I.O.N:** The battle's death casualties and the horror expressed by Cody, Tyler, and Lincoln became the catalyst for the beginning of the creation of O.R.I.O.N. This also adds to O.R.I.O.N's depth, as he was created only after a major disaster. In this sense, the Battle of Berlin and the New York Disaster can be seen as parallels. One led to the creation of the heroic O.R.I.O.N., and the other eventually led to the creation of the villainous O.R.I.O.N. O.R.I.O.N. was truly born out of death and destruction, hence why the continuation of this trait plays a role in his development.
	+ **The Introduction of Dede Lanis**: The battle also served as a means to introduce Dede as a spy for Team Prototype for G.R.I.D., also establishing how she got her assignment to collect information on G.R.I.D. It also reveals that they met her between C3 Ep 2 and this episode's past scenes.

I hope this helps you understand the episode, concepts, characters, and events as shown better.