"Centaur Aiming At The Clouds"

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***"Centaur Aiming At The Clouds"*** is the ninth episode of KOllOK 1991.

## Synopsis

What happens when four corpses come back to life, and Billy makes bad decisions?

## Plot

12PM March 8th, 1991. Principal Jenkins sits at his desk. The idea of being one of the few to sit on the emergency council meeting tonight after the death of four of his students unnerves him, and he has to find a way to compose himself. The people will want answers, but he has none. He considers himself the protector of the students, considers them his children. He doesn't know how a murderess managed to check out four kids under his charge. Changes need to be made. Tomorrow. Today is for grief.

Suddenly, memories flood back to him, a lifetime of lost remembrances. He remembers Rachel Jewell.

12PM. Kollok Funeral Home. Agent Bucket, Billy, Marcus, and Mickey awaken in the morgue, upsetting a woman working there. Skye's body is there, but she remains dead. Skye chose to stay in Undecided. The woman presses herself into the furthest corner of the room, holding a scalpel out to defend herself. She had been preparing the bodies for a funeral tomorrow before they started rising.

Marcus attempts to calm the woman down. Bucket tries to say something, but he is unable to talk. Bucket gets frustrated, but Marcus reaches out to him telepathically. Bucket asks if Skye remained behind. The answer is, of course, yes. Bucket slams his hand on a metal tray, sending tools flying and causing the woman to scream. Marcus again tries to calm the woman down. Marcus begins to take the scalpel out of her hand, but as he walks that way he vomits the embalming fluid from his stomach. He feels weak and tired.

Bucket takes a marker and write on a metal tray "where are my things?". The woman points to a door in the corner of the room marked "Baily Mickey". Mickey knocks on the door. Baily asks Darla what she wants. Mickey replies that it isn't Darla. Baily does not recognize the voice, and asks if Darla is out there. Mickey indicates that Darla is there, but he should come outside. Baily opens the door and sees four bodies standing that were previously not alive. As Baily tries to understand the question, Bucket bangs on a metal pot and points at his message on his tray. Baily says that they are in his office.

Bucket brushes past Baily and starts rummaging through Bail's office with permission. The others try to explain how they are now standing before him when they were previously dead. Blame is placed on Baily's assistant, who screams and leaves the building. Bucket returns, fully clothed, and hands each of them the white scrubs that they had last been wearing.

Marcus asks Baily if has ever seen anything weird like this before. Baily says that he's had his share of weird things happen. On Thursday, he handled Jayna's Grace's corpse. He also handled the body of her husband, whose body went through a wood chipper. Bucket asks Baily who he talked to, using the device to his throat. He asks if someone from his office call him. He asks why he was in the freezer and not being prepped for a funeral. Baily remembers that Bucket's body was kept on ice so the agency could check out the body; they weren't happy with Synchroneity's explanation.

Billy tells Baily that Skye will eventually wake up like they did, so they need to make sure nothing happens to it. They put the body in the freezer to preserve it. They explain to Baily that they have been traveling universe, and when they travelled, their bodies there died. So when they returned, they returned to their bodies. The story sounds weird to Baily, but he says that he has heard weird things before.

Baily goes to get drinks for everyone. While he is gone, Bucket says that he is leaving. He is going to talk to his department. He needs to speak to his supervisor, in person. They discuss what the rest of them are going to do since the world thinks they're dead. Either they need to move in secret, or the information gets out and people go crazy. They decide to try to keep things quiet and find someone they can trust.

Baily comes back and says that he had a weird recollection. His grandmother used to tell stories of how the dead walked in Kollok. She had Alzheimer, and would ramble on about her husband dying and being born anew. Marcus tells him that some people come back to other people's bodies, unlike them, for a price. Bucket says that he owes a debt, for his grandfather. He continues and says that he'll let Baily live if he helps the kids.

Baily agrees to drive the kids around in his hearse. They decide to go to Tibby's house because he will most likely believe them. Bucket threatens Baily again, saying that he will kill him if anything happens to the kids. Bucket will return when he gets the okay from headquarters. Marcus, who has continued feeling ill, uses his ability to make himself better.

Bucket watches them leave, never losing contact with them as they go down the road. They arrive at Tibby's house, and their are no cars in the driveway. Billy sneaks up to the door. He sees Tibby crying into a bowl of cereal from the window. He knocks on the door and Tibby answers, then sees Billy waving from the window. Afraid, Tibby doesn't want to open the door. He thinks he is hallucination. Eventually, Tibby comes to the door and points a shotgun at him. Tibby calls Billy a zombie. Billy tells him that they're not dead, and they need a place to stay and low low for awhile. Tibby still struggles with the situation, dropping the shotgun.

Marcus rushes up and steps on the shotgun. Tibby retreats into the house and locks the door. Marcus begins to finally calm Tibby by appealing to his need to be cool. Tibby quickly creates a contract making him Marcus' "boy", slides it under the door, and makes Marcus sign it. Once signed, Tibby lets them in. Marcus puts the shotgun back where it belong. Mickey and Billy explain what happened to them. Billy asks if he remembers Rachel, and he says he does. Billy tells him that he's the one that made him remember.

The group discusses what to do next. During the discussion, Mickey gets sick and begins vomiting. She goes to the bathroom and continues the throw up. She catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror, and begins taking the make-up. She finds that she looks even worse underneath.

Meanwhile, Tibby hears a car pull up. His mom is home. Billy, Marcus, Mickey quickly leave the house while Baily stays behind to talk to his mom. Tibby's mother asks why Baily is in their house. Tibby quickly disappears to his room. Baily says that he is there to sell funeral insurance. The mother asks Baily to leave, upset that he was talking to her son about funeral insurance. Baily leaves.

Billy suggests that they go visit Gerard in the woods. Gerard remembered Rachel when everyone else forgot. They see a storm coming in as they approach their destination. Marcus attempts to call Sketchy before they continue on, but nothing happens right away. Billy directs them around the winery to get to his secret spot (as opposed to through the winery as he did last time).

As they walk into the woods, they hear the sound of chopping. Billy goes on ahead, while Mickey stays in the rear. Billy calls out to Gerard. Mickey hears a twig snap from behind and she sees a man behind her. He says her name, and says he's been waiting for her. Waiting for all of them. He says that she is like Billy, and that he is a Stone Mason. Mickey calls out to the rest of the group, who run back to her. Billy confirms that this is Gerard.

Billy says that he did what Gerard asked, and that everyone remembers Rachel. When asked about the Stone Masons, Gerard says that they know things. He says that there are 33 of them, who are around them in hiding. Billy asks how they go back to normal, but Gerard doesn't know how. When asked about the storm, Gerard says that they brought it by breaking the illusion, by making everyone remember Rachel. He doesn't know what happens next. When asked about how to ask the storm, Gerard doesn't seem to want to stop it. He says that they need to storm to cleanse the "lies" and reveal what is underneath.

When Gerard mentions that there might not be anyone left after the storm, the kids become worried. He says that the entire town has a debt, which is while flowers can bloom all year long. He draws a symbol on the ground with a stick, and says that "they" [the people with the debt] have known for so long and have done nothing. The Stone Masons built Kollok from the ashes of evil. People like Baily's grandfather, in 1941, ripped their flesh from their own bones for Kollok.

Seeing the storm coming, Mickey runs to get home. Gerard says that if they do not stop the lie, the storm will happen again. He tells them to let the town see them; let the people see the evil that brought them back. Billy says that he can't let his parents see him like that. When they look around, Gerard is gone. They hear the sound of chopping wood again. Marcus decides to do the same thing that Mickey did, and starts to head home.

He is stopped by Sketchy, who is upset that Marcus let him think he was dead. Marcus says that they need to stop the storm because it will wash away all the lies and kill people. Sketchy seems okay with that. Marcus says that it may include talking squirrels. Sketchy says he is not part of the lie; he is part of the "truth". Marcus asks him how they can stop the storm, but Sketchy says he wants it all to burn. Marcus says there has to be a way to do this without people dying. Sketchy is unconcerned. Sketchy says that Marcus needs him more than he needs Marcus. The squirrel has stuff to do, and what Marcus wants is against the plans of the squirrels. They argue and are unable tor resolve their differences.

The temperature drops, Marcus can see frost from Sketchy's breath. Sketchy leaves. Baily, Billy, and Marcus continue on their way.

Mickey arrives at her apartment complex. A receptionist at the front sees Mickey. Mickey tells her that she's wearing make-up for a play, and that she's not dead. The receptionist informs her that her mom is upstairs. Mickey goes up to her apartment. At the door, she hears her parents arguing. It's been years since she last heard this. Mickey listens to the door and hears her mother blame her father for everything. Why was she out of school? Why wasn't she sleeping at home? Why was she sleeping at a friend's house? She's furious. Mickey hears the sound of glass breaking, and her mother screaming obscenities.

Mickey tries to hide as her mother approaches. Unfortunately, the door slams into her and hits her nose. She knows her nose is broken, but she barely feels the pain. Something isn't right. As her mother leaves, Mickey catches the door and sneaks into the apartment. She hears her father crack open a can of beer as she approaches. He immediately hugs her before Mickey can begin to explain. He's relieved that she's alive, and he slumps onto the couch. Mickey is surprised that he isn't mad. Michael Jones says he's just relieved she's alive.

Mickey tells her father that a storm is coming and she doesn't know what's going to happen. Mr. Jones says that it's just a freak snow storm, and he doesn't want to talk about it. He wants to talk about what happened at Synchroneity. Mickey explains that Synchroneity didn't kill them. They held them in quarantine, but she is the reason everyone thought they were dead. Mr. Jones instinctively grabs another beer as Mickey explains.

Mr. Jones tells Mickey that he was ordered to follow Rachel. That she was going to disappear and he needed to get rid of whatever was left. He put her shoes in the back of his truck with the others. Mickey says that they make him forget every time. Mr. Jones is unsure how they do that. Mickey, bluntly, tells her father that he has messed up a lot, but he is not THE bad guy. Maybe between the drinking, the lying, and the killing he became a bad guy, but he doesn't have to be. She needs help. She needs her dad. She needs him to be the good guy.

Mr. Jones asks what he can do now that he's been fired. After they quarantined him, he got drunk and riled up a bunch of other people, causing the protests. He doesn't know anything else about Synchroneity. He's not allowed in the facility. Synchroneity said they started a fund for Mickey, and that's why he did the work. Mickey asks about his friend that took something out of the floor. Mr. Jones says he didn't send anyone to the apartment and doesn't know about anything beneath the floorboard. He gets upset over the idea. Mickey suggest that he get another drink, and shamefully takes one.

Mickey says the guy she was talking about said he worked in security with her father, and he pulled a gun on her. He threatens to kill the guy if he sees him.

Baily drops Marcus off at his house. No lights are on in the house. Marcus enters the house, and Baily and Billy drive off. After a brief conversation, Billy calls up his power. The voice in his head tells him that he doesn't need to ask to use his power anymore. Billy uses his power in response. He finds himself on the edge of reality, surrounded by three versions of himself. He tells them that he thinks he brought them together in order to change things, change his life. Billy uses his power to make everyone see the Kollok Radar as normal and to make himself a cool kid.

Billy Baker rewrites the perception of reality, destroying the other Billys because everything comes with a cost. Billy asks to take the decision back, but he is unable to.

8PM. March 8th, 1991. Billy's eyes open to a blue sky. The storm is gone. He is in Baily's car, but Baily doesn't know who he is or how he got there. Billy looks normal to him. Billy thanks him for the ride, and explains that his bike had a flat tire and Baily agreed to give him a ride. Billy exits the hearse.

Marcus stops before entering his house. Time seems to move by quickly. The door opens before him. His mother greets him. She doesn't remember that he died, or that there is supposed to be a funeral tomorrow. She also doesn't remember Coma Boy. She remembers Billy Baker, but doesn't know the nickname. Marcus asks to talk his her and his father. She calls her husband down, and he sits down. Marcus asks to know more about Synchroneity. Marcus uses college as an excuse to learning more about the company. His father agrees, and says that he'll talk to his supervisor. As he flips through the tv, he realizes the football game he is looking for is not on. He believes it is Sunday, instead of Friday.

His mom mentions that she hasn't seen Rachel in awhile. Marcus runs out of the house to the Jewell house. Terra Jewell answers the door. She was about to call him. She asks of he's talked to Rachel. She's had the weirdest headache and acts a little confused. She says Linny is missing too. He asks Marcus to check with Skye if he sees her. Marcus asks to use her phone, so he can call Billy.

Billy walks into the house in time to his mother pick up the phone. Marcus says he's Billy's social tutor, which confuses her because she knows that Billy is not socially awkward. She gives the phone to Billy. Billy tells Marcus that he made himself cool. Everyone in town lost the last five days, and all documents have changed so the last five days are not reflected. Marcus realized that everyone now thinks Rachel and Skye are alive, but will become concerned when they do not show back up. Marcus excuses himself and says that he thinks Rachel is with Skye, and they took Linny.

At Mickey's apartment, Mr. Jones starts looking at Mickey differently. He checks his surroundings, then looks at Mickey again, confused. He asks what day it is. She asks what the last thing that he remembers. He remembers going to the bar. She asks if he still has work, and he says that he does and suddenly realizes that he needs to get ready. He grabs a pair of binoculars and a camera. Mickey realizes that he thinks he's going to follow Rachel.

Baily, quite confused, pulls into the funeral home parking lot. He parks and goes inside. He looks at the calendar at his desk. It says it's Friday, March 8th. He could have sworn it was Sunday. He looks at the papers on his desk, and they're blank. He heads into the morgue and he notices that the pump for the cooler is moving quite a bit. He opens one of the coolers and sees a high school girl with a toe tag that says "Skye Hawkins" with his handwriting. The next cooler has Jacob Jewell, the toe tag with his handwriting. The next has Nathan Kaiser, again with a toe tag in his handwriting. Last, he sees an open cooler. There are four operating tables, when he only owns one.

Darla walks in, asking about the operating tables. Baily says he was going to ask her. She says that someone is in the casket in the waiting room. She says that it looks like Jayna Grace, and it looks like their work. Baily asks about Nathan, and pulls open the cooler. Darla becomes distressed and says that she's going to go. Baily tells her to sit down, he has a theory. Darla refuses sit. Baily says he thinks that someone broke into the funeral home, places the bodies, forged his signature, and left. Darla calls 911 while he talks. She says that she's going to get some water, and runs out of the building.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Andre Meadows as Marcus Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Meghan "Strawburry17" Camarena as Skye Hawkins
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

### Guest

* Jack "Jacksfilms" Douglass as Baily Mickey

## Notes

The cast wore make-up this episode, making them look like they had been dressed up by a mortician.

**Footnotes**

1. ↑ Zac asks Lucas to roll a d20. Lucas rolls an 11.