34: The Return of AKIO

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The 34th episode of The Magical Monster High School Drama! series. While Kiera, Violet and Boris explore the Blimp ship, we catch up with Móts after his "blackout". He, Ishkandar and Yassi opt to explore the Pirate Spelljammer ship and find an old friend, Akio.

## Plot

Móts “wakes up” from his blackout. He sees the Raptor leaving, and begins flying after it. During downtime Ishkandar repairs and upgrades his fibre mesh muscles.

While at the graveyard, with Violet, Kiera and Boris on one of the alien ships, Eric at the helm notes a small unknown object approaching from the way they came. Clarence tells him to stand down and not do anything for now. It gets closer. And closer. Soon, it can be seen that it is Móts. He hails the ship, pleading to be allowed back on. He is let back on.

On his way to the bridge, Móts is intercepted by Yassi. She introduces herself, to Móts’s confusion, and then promptly runs away. He shakes this off and continues. Clarence welcomes him back, and they have a conversation about what happened on the enemy ship. Clarence and Eric are both confused by Móts’s description of all the mannequins and demon dogs. He says there were no people on the ship. Eric snidely remarks that might have been because they were all outside the shiip. Móts asks gormlessly why they would be out there. Clarence cuts this conversation off and explains what’s going on now.

Meanwhile, Akio wakes up. The wooden slats creak. Looking around, Akio finds that everyone else is dead. He doesn’t remember much, apart from that they harpooned a whale and it dragged them close to this star before dying. He finds a lot of limbs, some of them his, bitten by something big. Akio wanders around the ship, visiting the galley, and eats biscuits until he can smash open a can and lick up the goop inside, the Barracks, Colin’s magic area that apparently made the ship go, and stocks up on the few weapon caches around, taking three cutlasses and an arm. He holds a cutlass in one hand, puts a cutlass in the hand of the dead arm, and puts one cutlass through him. Then walks toward treasury.

On the Raptor, Iskandar boots up. He walks over to engineering to put on his combat rig and meets Yassi again, offering for her to come with. She at first shows trepidation, but agrees that she would be very interested to see how the pirate ship works. Clarence messages Ish at this point asking why he is suuiting up. Ish tells Clarence that he is going to the pirate ship with Yassi. Clarence asks that he take Móts. Ish says that the current boarding party is sufficient, but bows to the order. Yassi also asks for permission, and receives it. She takes a gun from her locker that is comically large proportionally, with a long stock like a rifle. To Ish, it’s the size of a pistol. He says it’s adorable.

They go to the airlock and Móts spooks Yassi by activating his Mech Suit, transforming to Cavalier form. She recoveres quickly and asks him engineering questions relating to his suit, but Móts is thoroughly clueless. They all then go into the airvent, Móts going to winged form. They jump from the Raptor to the ship. As they approach they can see the bubble of air, and gravity happens as they approach. They hit it hard enough for both Móts and Ish(with Yassi attached) to go through the wood… but they don’t.

Akio hears two massive thuds above him. He ignores these possible armemants to continue to the armoury. When he gets there… he finds all the gold gone. Instead, there is an eight foot tall golden lizard. They stare each other down, then the reptile rushes Akio and attacks. Akio retaliates with five attacks, some of which hit home. Akio's healing ability takes care of the flesh wound near instantly, and then he teleports away.

On the deck, Móts begins vibrating. Ish asks him to stop, and Móts remembers that he has a detect magic gem that is the source of his current good vibes. He says there’s a lot of magic when something appears next to Móts: A familiar humanoid figure. He yelps, and recognises Akio, and shouts the zombie’s name in surprise. Ish whips round and points his gun at Akio, but doesn’t shoot upon hearing Móts. Móts introduces Akio as his butler to Ish, while Akio points out Yassi on Ish’s shoulder and yells to kill it, prompting Yassi to hide. This awkwardness is soon smoothed over, Yassi tells them that the next floor down is clear, and then Akio volunteers to lead the way.

As they go down, Ish attempts to make conversation. Yassi asks about Akio’s sword. They pass the ship's barracks, an old diving suit and many scattered archaic weapons. Finally they make it to the floor with the treasury, the magic circle, and the lizard. Yassi opts to dismount Iskandar and stand at the end of the corridor, loosening her tiny rifle. Akio says Colin is here and he controls the ship, but he also said he isn’t friendly, so Yassi just stays put. Ishkandar, takes Móts' word that Akio is indeed his "help" but also considers Akio to be a raving madman.

As such, Ish knocks on the closed door to the treasury and staes to the occupant that he’d like to negotiate. After a moment, the door is opened, revealing a wounded golden dragon looking rather angry, but apparently ready to negotiate. Ish and Móts glean that this dragon, who calls themselves “Icarus”, boarded this ship with some of their siblings in order to eat the pirate's gold. He also killed the other crew of the ship after they were proven aggressive towards their boarding, and metabolised the gold. Akio wants it back, but its kind of part of the Icarus now.

Móts offers to welcome the dragon aboard the ship, and the party discusses the proposition. Yassi relays the info to the rest of the ship over comms and Violet, currently on the Blimp Ship, says they shouldn’t trust the dragon. The is party left with a dillemna, whether to leave Icarus be, invite him on the ship or try and fight him. After taking it to the vote, the party side with Violet and decide to simply leave Icarus be. He can look after himself.

## Cast and Crew

* Game Master - Terry
* Akio - Marco
* Eric Withakay - Ben
* Ishkandar - Salem
* Kiereniel - Josh (TheRealWiredUP)
* Lysandryl - Damien
* Mótsognir - Rory
* Violet - Kitto
* Yassi - George (Drake1000)

* Script Supervisor - George (Drake1000)
* Publication Editior - Josh (TheRealWiredUP)

### Production Notes

Despite being present for the Session, Kiereniel and Violet are mostly absent from this episode as they had all the screen time for the previous episode.

## References

1. ↑ He's not completely wrong. Akio isn't the brightest tool in the shed, despite his name meaning "Bright Boy"