"Downer"

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**"Downer"** is the eighteenth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

The Radar tried to deal with some internal trauma.

## The Adventures of Skye and Bucket

**May 19**

Walking the beat in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Bucket tells Skye that they have many sources they use as leads here and later on he advises her on the idea that filling in paperwork and mission’s being quiet is preferable over violence and danger. To which she admits that after Kollok she isn’t used to normal, but could get used to it again. Bucket mentions that Kollok is far from normal but Skye ignores it when he mentions that he is her only friend, excited to have him finally admit it on camera.

**May 20**

They meet an informant that attempts to run, until Bucket uses his power to stop her and she gladly offers to help them.

**May 21**

Skye gets action shots for her recordings, tricking Bucket into thinking they were chasing someone

**May 22**

Bucket shows Skye a drop point for informants and picks up their next lead.

**May 23**

Walking through the city, Skye learns that Bucket enjoys music especially "Rainbows in the Dark" by Dio. Later on during coffee Skye asks Bucket about how he deals with people dying during the job and he admits that he doesn’t handle it well, but tries to compartmentalize when he can. When Skye inquires about how to do that with people they care about, Bucket changes the subject.

## Plot

**Prologue**

Tibby’s nightmare repeats as the black rock oozes and swallows a ram’s bones. This time he sees both Mickey’s; A who tries to convince him to trust her and B who asks for his help. Mickey A banishes B from the moment and Tibby tries to reach for her but can’t and begins doubting himself He gives up. Tibby wakes up in the Psychiatric ward of the hospital as a nurse gives him his medicine to help him sleep. He refuses saying he needs to save Mickey, even hearing her voice, fearful that if he sleeps he will sink. He is strapped down to the bed and forced to take the medicine. He sinks.

**Act 1**

Mickey A walks out of the tunnel with Em, past a grinning Sammy, and meets up with the group. She explains to them who she is to Henry’s, now going by Billy, dismay. Sammy realizes Mickey’s different and Billy asks what happened to their Mickey but A says she’s gone, buried in her cage. Billy accidentally spills the beans about Coma Billy that Mickey A recognizes as her Billy. Sammy tries to get them on track to continue their work for him but after Laura asks if she has her powers Mickey A uses them on Sammy. However, doing so she feels several things: that the source of her power has changed, the absence of the multiverse means that she can only take and move ego’s from this universe and Sammy’s Ego is tied directly to Billy’s. She tries to stop the Ego removal but is unable to, and Sammy and Billy’s bodies drop to the floor. Laura grabs Mickey A to explain herself and she apologizes blaming it on the strange situation. Em inquires if she has Mickey B’s memories an answers she does up until she was thought have been permanently locked away, and Em tells her about the symbols changing their powers and the lack of the multiverse.

Mickey tells them about Sammy and Billy’s linked ego’s but believes it to be fine because they can just use Tibby, to awkward glances from the others. Laura and Em wonder about using Em’s powers to time travel as Mallory tends to Billy’s body. They tell Mickey A about Tibby’s situation and while Em and Laura look through Rachel’s journal, she helps Mallory with the body. They take him to the car and Laura pulls Sammy’s body into the tunnel but doing so notices that Sammy’s body begins to glow hot and his skin boil before turning into a grey ash and a small unlit candle, exactly like the eternity candle from Truth’s study. Em makes a connection that Sammy must have bound himself to Billy using the candle, the reason for his confidence that they would do as he said. Mallory drops Billy’s body as he is hit by a realization; with Coma Billy being alive Mickey A could use her powers to get his ego. She also realizes that the Billy she killed is gone for good but the dormant one in Coma Billy could still be used and she expresses her regret for killing Billy B. Mickey A uses her power and makes the switch.

Billy A wakes up on the floor, his last memories of the white room and discussing Skye rubber banding in time before seeing Mallory above him now. Mickey A hugs Billy and after he mistakes Laura for Marcus, Mickey explains the situation to him and the loss of their universe. Billy finally recognizes Laura from when he tricked Tibby in Prime A and Laura introduces herself and she tells him what Mickey A did. The group start arguing amongst themselves over Mickey A’s actions as Billy takes notes of Em for the first time. Laura asks Mickey A what her plans now and she tells them what happened to her world, Marcus and the death of her Tibby. Their discussion is interrupted by a new teacher, Robert, and Billy A realizes that he has no powers. The teacher makes things awkward and goes back inside and Mickey gets Em to explain to her and Billy about the loss of their powers and the time travel they have done and Mallory tells his and Billy B’s parts in the dispersal of Phobos and the other Billy’s. Billy suddenly feels a strange pull toward Laura and he starts walking toward her and pick pockets the eternity candle, now lit but much smaller.

Em explains its importance from what she was told and the history of it from what she figured out from Billy and Sammy. The others notice its shrunken state when a sound gets their attention and see an old man with a rusty wheelbarrow who approaches them and asks if they know the nearest entrance to the sewers, as he needs to run tests. His name is Torkelson and when they say they don’t he pushes past pointing toward the bus barn and heads inside to the hole in the tunnel. The group move away still talking about the consequences of their actions and Mallory voices that he has therapy with Em’s mom at 2. Em pleads with him to not do so warning him that she would have to tell the police and even she hasn’t told her mom everything. Laura refuses to tell Billy and Mickey where Tibby is, not believing Mickey’s words that her Marcus killed Tibby A, which angers Mickey and she explains otherwise and uses her power to find him instead. She locates him at the Psychiatric hospital, which she remembers from the last time she was aware, after running into Bailey Mickey, it had been closed, and Laura realizes her mistake. Mickey A, Laura and Billy A start to walk to the hospital and Em decides to open a portal in front of them which everyone but Mallory goes though as he heads off to his therapy session.

**Interlude**

Mallory speaks through his last journal entry with his therapist, Tiffany Pegg brings up the “Bucket” in his statement. She asks him about it and he confirms that he means Perry Bucket and lets slip that he is in the lake. She takes a break in the session and leaves an anonymous tip to the authorities about Bucket’s fate before returning to Mallory.

**3pm**

Mallory arrives at the Psychiatric hospital with no one waiting for him and the lights are off. He heads inside and calls out, but all he hears is his echo and takes note that though no one is around it is incredibly clean. Ringing a bell at the desk he eventually hears footsteps and someone comes running to the desk. The person who arrives at first seems friendly and asks for Mallory to sign himself in but turns angry when he doesn’t. Mallory changes track and inquires if he can see Tibby; lying that he is Tibby’s cousin Steve Devin. The “clerk” dives under the desk to search for some paperwork but says his name isn’t on the list. When he asks to see it the clerk folds up the paper and starts chewing on it. They ask Mallory to stay while they fetch their supervisor and spits out the paper before leaving. Mallory looks at the paper, sees that it is blank and starts to back away. Another figure arrives apologizing for the patient that escaped their room and introduces himself as Dr Grossman. After looking through some paperwork, he says that “Steve” is listed on the form and says that he can let him see Tibby. Dr. Grossman recognizes Mallory’s car from dropping Tibby off, and says that he can’t let Tibby go as he has been saying that he’s teleported under water and having dreams about the end of the universe. The Dr also inquires about Mickey saying that Tibby has been saying he needs to leave to help her.

Mallory asks to see Tibby and the Dr agrees if he signs the Sign in sheet, but Mallory notices that the last person to sign in was on June 7 and asks about visitors with the Doctor replying that they have been lonely here and they are happy to be able to help Tibby. The patient from before shouts back and Dr Grossman tells Mallory that it was Dr Sweets, to Mallory’s confusion. He asks if Grossman is actually a patient to which he confirms after finding his own paperwork; Grossman buzzes the door open to let Mallory in but he tries to leave. Two large individuals block his way but Mallory manages to escape, get to his car and drive away. Thinking things over he heads to Mrs Pegg’s office at Em’s house.

**Act 2**

Jay is surprised to see Mallory and after an awkward start Mallory tells Jay “hypothetically” about Tibby being stuck and the situation at the closed down hospital and asks for his help. He agrees and after more awkwardness during the drive, they arrive back at the hospital and head inside. Jay goes first noticing the cleanliness of the place and as he takes a step inside someone stabs him in the neck with a needle and he collapses in front of Mallory. The two “orderlies”, armed with sedatives make a move on Mallory. He manages to dodge the first one but the second is able to inject him and he loses consciousness.

**6pm**

The others walk out of the portal in the car park of the hospital and note that the sun is lower than it was before. Em checks her watch and shows everyone that they’ve missed several hours, to Laura’s dismay. Mickey A reminds Em about the cost of using powers and how it became the reason she needed a new body. Laura investigates Mallory’s car and the group discuss why he could still be here and Laura tells Mickey A and Billy why Tibby admitted himself. Laura tells the two of them that they can never replace their Mickey and Billy even if they try, as she should know. Mickey A kicks in the doors to the building to find the foyer empty. Laura rings the bell and soon enough the hurried footsteps proceed the arrival of a patient who asks them to sign in. Laura lies and gets them to open the door for her, but when Em tries to go through he tries to stop her. Em confronts the patient who calls themselves Doctor, threatening them with the groups ability’s. Doctor leans in and says he can make people disappear, by chopping them up into tiny pieces. Believing Em and the others are like him he lets them all in and the door locks behind them.

Doctor refuses to let them see Tibby, and lets slip that Tibby is asleep because of the drugs they have him on. Mickey A goes to swing at Doctor and though she hits him in the face he doesn’t move. Instead he smiles as blood pours from his broken nose and he starts laughing and through it mentions that he’s not allowed to see blood because of what he does, and starts to rub his blood on his face. Em puts him into a choke hold until he goes limp but when she lets him go his eyes open and he seem more sane. Laura tries to lie to him but he tells them to run before he pulls out a scalpel and uncaps it with his mouth. Laura smacks it into his mouth and it sticks, she tries again but he dodges and whisper into her mouth again, to run and she does so. Mickey runs after her while being unassuming, Billy ties Doctor’s shows before joining everyone else. Doctor pulls the scalpel free but trips when he starts to go after them and begins to scream.

More screams sound from the rooms all around them and Mickey calls out for their missing friends the screams change to shouting the names. They push a random door open but instead of a person screaming inside, they see it empty which is the same for every room they check yet the shouting continues. The building is plunged into darkness and Billy takes out his candle to offer some light. Dr Grossman calls out to them after he hears them talking, and they ask to see Tibby. As they walk toward his voice the light of the candle doesn’t illuminate anyone else in the hallway and after Grossman doesn’t answer their question, they are left in silence for the sound of stray footsteps. Scared, the group step inside a room and hear the gargled sound of Doctor going past, until that too fades away. Em checks her watch again and is confused as it reads 3am and tells the group. They turn around at grumbling voice as Mallory wakes up in the bed behind them. Mallory tells him about Jay and Em she becomes furious.

Doctor finds them and Laura, Mickey A and Mallory push back against the door but they begin to slide back against the force. Doctor reaches around to swipe at them with the scalpel and Mickey A takes out her pocket knife and stabs him. His arm retreats back but he quickly returns until they all put their weight against the door. They sever the arm and the door closes but the severed arm start to move on its own. Mallory stomps on it and it begins to bleed an impossible amount, until they can no longer see the floor. Mickey pulls the door open into the hallway and they see flickering lights in the hallway and shadowy forms between them. Jay finds the group and Em apologizes as he struggles with what he sees but he disappears into the dark. Laura reaches down through the blood and finds the scalpel, and she leads the group through the hallway, the shadows dispersing as she swings the scalpel through them. Worried for her dad Em splits up calling out for him with Mallory trying to follow, but he finds himself sinking into sand. Mickey A tries to help but when she does finds herself in the same predicament. Laura realizing something is off, takes a moment and stops. When she opens her eyes she finds herself and the others in a room, a man in a long white coat holds Tibby down on a bed as he begins to start shaking. The doctor asks her if she is awake and to help Tibby by talking to him. Looking at the others Laura sees they are in a similar state and starts to talk to Tibby, encouraging him to wake up. Seeing him mouth the word Mickey she goes over to her and tries to snap her out of the nightmare. Inside her mind Mickey is still sinking into sand in the darkness but she can hear Laura’s words and is able to awake.

Laura tells her that she needs to be Tibby’s Mickey, even if she isn’t and understanding she goes over to him and starts to comfort him. In the dark the others begin to see the walls break apart, light filter in and the blood on the floor re enter Doctor’s body who appears before them and they all wake up along with Tibby. Laura immediately gives him a hug and the others ask the doctor, the real Dr Grossman what happened. Tibby tells them that there was a man that caused everything to happen, that pulled them into the black rock, where they all were and confronts Mickey A, saying that she trapped his Mickey there. Mickey A apologizes to him about taking Mickey and killing his Billy, that it wasn’t what she wanted and the others explain what Sammy did. Mickey A voices her understanding that she can never replace Mickey B and Tibby asks to go back to the black rock, pleading to Doctor Grossman to help but he can’t and leaves the room. They group comfort Tibby and as Jay expresses his confusion at the events that just happened, Mallory hugs him and angry at him for putting her dad in danger, Em punches him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

### Guests

* Meghan "Strawburry17" Camarena as Skye Hawkins

## Rumors

1. The Black Rock is in the Desert
2. The Black Rock is in Tibby's Min
3. The Black Rock consumes God
4. The Black Rock is Trauma (winner)

## Notes

This marks the first time Mickey has directly stated "I love you" to Tibby in any manner.