"My Friend Goo"

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**"My Friend Goo"** is the second episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

A trip to the video store has some unexpected results.

## Plot

**August 1**

**5am, Undisclosed location, Kollok**

The Tears factory begins the distribution phase; the small capsules of Tears are put into bags of five capsules and taken from the factory outside to a farm and planted with seeds in tilled rows of soil on the Greer farm. Brook Greer sits in a rocking chair overlooking a bank of cameras watching the factory process. She turns to a medical bed beside her, given by fellow council member Dr Ronnie, and places a hand on Clarity 6’s shoulder on it. telling her that they are ready. Clarity 6 cradles her young son AJ in one arm and holds the hand James Greer with the other. Several needles stab into Clarity 6 and they extract her blood and send it into a tube that leads into to the sprinklers outside under the crops. In less than a minute, the fruit crops grow to maturity hiding the Tears packets inside them. The fruit is picked and taken to waiting distributors who mark them with the logo of the farm, a crocodile eating an apple, some of the fruit is bought by a pusher and prepare who takes it into the town.

**3:30pm, Kollok police station**

Eager to escape the Press the group get in Mallory’s car and realising the time Em asks him to take her to work, he agrees though they are followed by several news vans. Iin a short amount of time they arrive at Major Video and inside meet her colleagues Charlie “Cheese” Burger and Charlie Marks. They call out Em for being late and the other notices that all the VHS covers and posters on the walls, are blank but for the titles of them. Cheese and Charlie don’t see a problem but the group try to convince them that they were not like this yesterday. As Em starts to sort through the blank tapes she discovers one with strange symbols with a note in her boss Chris’ handwriting, *For Cassandra.* Mallory takes it, puts it into the store’s video player and hits play. The tape plays an introduction video for new Council members of a place called Kollob, but the group recognise the speaker on the tape as Aran Cedar who visited Mallory and owns the town winery.

The tapes gets caught in the recorder and Charlie pulls it out but it the reel has spun out of the tape and stars to fix it. Em convinces Charlie to deal with the returned videos out back while she deals the front of the store so she can talk to her friends but an argument breaks out between Mallory and Charlie as the group come to his defence and explain to Cheese and Charlie what happened at the lake.

**The Cell**

Mickey and Mickey A still wait in the cages, water dripping from the walls. Mickey A annoys Mickey by tapping the metal braces around her legs and they talk. A reveals that she saw and met Mickey’s dad, so she could get a glimpse of what it was like to have him back. Mickey asks her what happened to her but A refuses to say, but when Mickey asks why not if they’re stuck here, A proposes that they may not be. Her words confuse Mickey as Bob Whitney returns and wants to hear Mickey’s argument for being let out. Afterwards he looks to Mickey A and they talk about letting Mickey take a spin. Mickey starts to hear a high-pitch whine and then things go white and she feels the walls of the cell fall away.

**Major Video**

Mickey finds herself walking into the video store and the others ask about where she’s been and the metal braces she has on her legs. She answers that she can’t remember anything after the lake and Billy goes to the back to get her a drink and pockets the Kolob Council video in his bag while Charlie is distracted. The others tell Mickey about Tibby’s incarceration and Cheese is overwhelmed with what’s going on. He starts to see faceless figures all the tv screens that demand to know why their universes had to be destroyed and mention that Billy is feeding something with their deaths. An old woman comes into the store to pick up the Kolob tape, introducing herself as Cassandra. Billy grabs a random tape off of a shelf but she knows the one she needs is in his bag. Mallory tries to give Billy time to switch the tapes by annoying Cassandra but she pulls down her glasses to reveal she has no eyes to intimidate him. Billy swaps the tapes and hands Cassandra the case with the strange symbols, when Mallory asks how she can recognise what it is she takes off her glasses to she has eyes again.

Em checks out her purchase and she and Cheese see several bugs crawling around inside her clothing. As she’s about to leave Cassandra asks the group what they are going to do about Tibby, and offers some advice in exchange for a movie. Cheese gives her a recommendation and she tells them about a tunnel that goes under the police station from the north-west bridge and mentions that Tibby is the only one who can help Mike. When asked about the tape by Laura, Cassandra refers to it as an anomaly, which intrigues Laura. Cassandra tries to invite Cheese away to watch the movies with her but Em covers saying that he has to stay. And when Cassandra asks if Cheese will be here tomorrow Em says this is his last day, to which Cassandra replies that it is before leaving the store. The group agree to jailbreak Tibby and Billy shows that he still has the Kolob tape. Seeing Cheese freaked out by everything Billy tells him about the group’s adventures hopping between universes - also news to Laura and Mallory - and his theory that the tape and Cassandra are from one of them. Em convinces Cheese to help them.

**5pm, July 8**

A tall slender man dressed in a red suit stalks through one of the rooms in the abandoned school where Dept. C had set up shop. He sniffs at a chair and finds a single hair, before smiling and proclaiming he has found The Diviner, his Diviner.

**August 1, Major Video**

The group plan to split up; Mallory will distract the reporters outside the station while the others go with Cheese to the tunnel and break out Tibby. Laura investigates Mickey’s braces and discovers that they are connected through wires to her spine. Cheese convinces Charlie to let him and Em go in exchange for working his shifts. Billy gives Mallory one of his large two-way radios as the others go out the back and Mallory goes outside. He proclaims to the waiting reporters that he plans to make a large statement at the police station. He meets Kenny, a young camera reporter who is eager to tell Mallory’s story, and through some flattery and quick talking convinces Mallory to let him ride along and asks him questions on the way.

The others arrive at the tunnel as Billy gives Cheese a brief break down of them having powers. They trek down a trail and see the tunnel is actually a grated off storm drain. Mickey’s exoskeleton braces enhance her strength and she bends the bars apart with the force. Em has a sidebar with Laura about how she feels bad about what happened to Mike and is concerned for Cheese ending up in danger. As they head into the drain, it opens up into more like an old mineshaft and Billy tries to use his power to check for danger. Instead of seeing the three-eyed figure that he usually does, it is faceless and blames him destroying worlds but tells him there is nothing ahead that could hurt him.

The group proceeds with Laura voicing concern about if Tibby will be himself when he finds them. They find a former Synchroneity scientist Clyde, in the tunnels next to his campfire. Clyde reveals he was one of the team that researched Laura’s clone body and mentions applying to join the lab and stole one of its fruit, presenting it to them as a god. He offers them one of four remaining capsules from a packet of Tears saying that they made them like they made Laura. His words about experimenting on Laura incites her anger and she punches him, but her fist sinks into his face and the flesh starts to absorb her hand. Mickey uses the strength of her legs and ends up kicking Clyde’s body away from his head, the force dislodging Laura’s hand. The head falls to the ground but still seems to be alive and screaming in agony, Em kicks into Clyde’s campfire and melts into a bubbling puddle.

Mallory radios them and the group realise that they are suddenly a hundred yards from Clyde’s fire with no memory of leaving there after kicking his head into the fire. The blood on Laura is dry and Mickey is holding a note and notices she has scratches on her arm. The note seems to be a part of Rachel’s journal, but it is torn. The page mentions her meeting with Gerard, a member of the Stone Masons at his tent and discussing the strange symbol on some of the buildings around town. On the other is a dairy entry about her and Skye. The group look around and see a small gate blocking a side tunnel, the symbol from the page above it. Mickey attempts to use her power to locate Tibby and does so but finds herself back in the cell. Mickey A opens her eyes and she is now in control of Mickey’s body, she knows Tibby is just ahead and she pushes the gate to the tunnel open and passes through, with the others following after her.

**Kollok Police Station**

Mallory with prompting and support from Kenny gathers a crowd and calls out the police for taking Tibby unlawfully and makes a public announcement for his run for Mayor. His speech manages to draw out several of the police officers including Officer Warstone.

**Underneath the police station**

Cheese discovers a secret button in the tunnel that opens up the ceiling underneath an interrogation room. Laura boosts Cheese and Billy up to the room, Billy injuring his nose in the attempt. Inside the room they find Tibby with his Mom. After a brief conversation with Laura Tibby’s mom allows him to go with them and that she will cover their escape. Tibby jumps and falls into Mickey A’s arms. The group catch Tibby up on events and at first hesitant to use his powers after hurting Mike, he heals Billy’s nose with no issue. Tibby offers to heal Laura but she refuses out of fear. Cheese closes the hidden panel as they hear voices from above, someone stops it.  The group start to run but a large man in uniform jumps down in front of them before the panel closes. Sheriff Cody Bull stands and confronts the group, Cheese and Tibby immediately go to their knees to surrender but Cheese begins to feel strange and looking at the Sheriff, sees his face shift and change. Reaching into his pocket he finds the bag of capsules Clyde had shown them, that he does not remember pocketing but only finds there is now only two in the bag. He takes another and something feels off.

The group blink and suddenly Cheese is standing and in another is on the sheriff’s back trying to wrestle him. He starts to attack the sheriff and forces the last capsule into his mouth. Bull recognises the drug and bites down on it, but seems unaffected and throws him Cheese off of him but Cheese seemingly teleport again and he lands standing. Mickey A uses her power and snipes the Sheriff’s Ego, but as she rips the ego from his body he winks at her as if recognising her and his body falls lifeless. Cheese begins to panic as his body begins to stretch and sag. Tibby tries to help Cheese as he begins to liquify but when he does, Tibby’s hand goes black as if burnt and green puss leaks from it. The group are forced watch as Cheese melts into a puddle before them.

## 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

* Ethan "CrankGameplays" Nestor as Charlie 'Cheese' Burger

## Rumors

1. Recycle
2. Reduce
3. Reuse
4. Reclaim (winner)

## Notes

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