"The Passing"

* The fight against Xerxes begins
* Xerxes can seemingly make shades of himself as he transports around the battlefield.
* Xerxes marks Steele for death.
* Party converges on Xerxes to try and overrun him.
* Dante slashes a cut in Xerxes sleeve, revealing a large dragon tattoo, glowing the same as his eyes.
* Local Comms occur during battle from Azaria. He understands how Xerxes stole the power.
* The tattoo on his arm is related to it, and the arm is worth targeting to cause his loss of power.
* Steele targets the arm of Xerxes with a blade of lightning, damaging the tattoo.
* The damage to his tattoo causes Xerxes' powers to flicker and he panics.
* In his panic, Xerxes empowers his attack and targets Steele.
* Thanks to a mix of Mia's barrier, Franz's field and Steeles own nanites, the damage is heavily reduced.
* Mia manages to cast a calming effect on Xerxes, allowing her to kiss and transfer poison into his mouth.
* Azaria communicates an idea to Steele, that Xerxes hasn't actually taken Crookshanks' Inexistence power.
* Azaria thinks that he can fix this so long as Steele can transport him to Xerxes.
* Steele transports the team up to the podium where Xerxes has transported himself.
* Steele strikes with an Overload and in the confusion, Azaria grips Xerxes' arm.
* He absorbs the tattoo, saying he also has a continuance.
* Azaria claims he is capable of reverting something that has happened.
* The power of Xerxes' inexistence transfers back to Crookshanks.
* Xerxes then unleashes his true potential as a Deathslinger and claims they've only helped him reform to his old self.
* He cracks the platform beneath the crew and causes them to fall while he remains floating in the air.
* Crookshanks, with his power returned, lays into Xerxes with a newfound vigor, causing great damage.
* Xerxes unleashes a black cloud that surrounds a large area that Steele can't see into.
* Each member of the crew are launched from the cloud, getting up just in time to see it fall.
* Xerxes laughs and lashes out at Crookshank with a burst of plasma lightning.
* It puts a hole in Crookshank, but Crookshank returns fire.
* They exchange blasts of energy and power, before Crookshank falls.
* In his last breath, he gets Franz' attention and claims him his possible successor.
* He transfers his power of Inexistence to Franz.
* Steele claims he's never fought fair and activates his healing protocol, restoring the party to full health.
* He taunts Xerxes, who causes the very ground to shake with his power.
* Xerxes, in his last stand, seemingly absorbs everyone's attacks as they attempt to finish him off.
* Mia manages to paralyze Xerxes, allowing the party the opportunity to hurt him.
* In a final attempt to kill Steele, Xerxes unleashes a final lot of attacks into him.
* Dante Salvadori, captain of women, launches into a flow of pokes and jabs with his Rapier into the weakened Xerxes, killing him.
* Sirena searches Xerxes' pockets, looting his money and datapad.
* She also loots an ornate silver ring from his finger.
* Steele goes to check Crookshanks body for his pistols.
* Azaria takes the data pad and wonders off to decrypt it.
* Steele loots the 2 revolves from Crookshanks: Penance & Justice
* Mia seems upset about something during a talk with C.A.R.T.E.R.
* Franz and Kiara talk privately.
* Datapad contains realtime locations of the Commission members of CARNAGE
* Franz asks the party to not mention a word about his new power to anyone.
* Their next plan is to give the info from the datapad to The Imperium.
* Franz says that Xerxes must have used a ship to get here, so they could find and use that.
* Party begins to depart to find a ship.
* Franz asks the party to go on ahead and he'll catch up.
* Mia and C.A.R.T.E.R. witness Franz going into a frenzy and beating up the dead body of Xerxes.
* Party depart to find a ship.
* Mia stays behind and powers down C.A.R.T.E.R. for a moment.
* Mia revives Crookshanks.
* Mia wanted him to know that she was on Buran when he was and that she is the way she is because of him.
* She wishes for revenge for the many he killed.
* Mia uses a scalpel to flay him alive.
* Mia cleans herself of blood, repowers C.A.R.T.E.R. and catches up with the party.