"EMPTY"

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**"EMPTY"** is the fourteenth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

A meeting with a time traveling Radar member takes the group No Place.

## Plot

**Act 1**

**Unknown Time and Plac**e

Mickey is somewhere in the dark, the ground soft beneath her as occasional flashes of light reveal a large room with vast columns and herself near the edge of a pit. She crawls over to investigate, over what she believes to be vines or roots near its edge that scratch at her skin. Putting a hand into the pit reveals more roots and a sudden drop in temperature, she uses some spare change to test its depth and hears a response. Not like the time tunnels Mickey leaves it alone and crawls away when she catches sight of a shadow in the brief flashes of light. A young girl’s voice calls out to her from behind one of the columns asking if Mickey has seen her brother, as she can hear him crying. Mickey doesn’t hear another voice and asks if the girl is lost like her, she crawls over to the column but the little girl moves further away. The girl warns Mickey about a tall man with a sharp weapon that hunts for the many lost people she has seen since being here. Mickey assures the girl that she isn’t there to hurt her and offers to help find her missing brother. The young girl steps out from behind the column and shows Mickey a gently glowing orange rock in her hand. In the light Mickey recognizes her as the Rachel Jewell she had just seen die in the car crash back in 1980. Asking about the stone Rachel tells Mickey that it helps against not being swallowed by the dark as the man hunts in the darkness.

**Truth’s Study, The House of Night and Day**

Mallory slowly pulls away from the one-armed women in black, as recognition dawns on the group as an older Em Pegg stands before them. Tibby, unthinking, points out her scar and missing arm and fears that they never rescued her from 1940, but Em says they’re not there yet. Her statement causes some confusion and Tibby asks Em about how she knows Truth, but she tells them that they have talked often and she is familiar with where they are. Tibby pulls the others aside wondering if they can trust this new Em, though Henry still seems out of it. To test her Mallory asks her to tell them what happened between him and her dad, which she recalls correctly and they begin asking her questions. Em tells them she can’t answer too much because they find out themselves but she gives them a brief explanation that she has to help them save her past self, and that they can’t save her arm or her scar as she will lose it as they will all lose a lot. Laura tries to get information out of Em about her and Clarity but she remains elusive. Tibby asks her how long she has been in the house with Truth and they all guess at Em’s age but his guess of 522 is the closest. Henry tries to explain time with a loaf metaphor and Laura goes to hug Em after being left with the boys for so long, but Em jumps away surprised. Henry leaves the conversation to play with the 10 Candles of Phobos and Mallory asks about how they should talk to her and she says to call her Beth.

She explains to the group that to save Em they need to find Mickey first which she can help them with. Beth knows where Mickey is thanks to her conversations with Truth and seems disappointed with the others that they didn’t take the opportunity to get answers about their friends. Laura and Tibby rebuff her comment and Laura asks her about her dog tags, and she answers that she is a veteran in the military, Tibby asks her if she has her powers and used them for the military and Em refuses to say. Em gets Mallory and Henry to do push ups and Henry manages to do twenty but Tibby tells them off for messing around and confides to Mallory and Laura that he doesn’t trust Beth as she stayed with Clarity and the Em he knows wouldn’t join the military. Tibby asks Em how she knew to find them at the edge of the universe and she explains that they tell her past self, Henry still seems confused about this time loop. Tibby asks Beth about how Em would feel about her future self and she tells him that she has yet to go through the experiences that will turn her into the Beth she is now. Beth looks at her watch saying that a time hole should be opening soon but when Laura asks about if she knows how they work the others pick up on her lie.

Laura confronts her and tells Beth to be truthful with them. Eventually she tells them that she has been helping them since the ranger station, opening the tunnels for them and she can’t change things as their time is linear. Beth tells them Mickey was knocked out of the time tunnel into a no-place called the Roots and that they have to trust her if they want to succeed. Henry meanwhile experiments with the Candles and finds that they don’t burn his coat pocket and takes his Candle and puts in his jacket. Em opens a time tunnel before them but it seems scary, disconnected but they all jump in.

**No-Place, The Roots**

Mickey crawls alongside Rachel through the large, long room, Rachel waiting for her as they follow the voice she hears. As they travel Mickey sees glimpses of shadows, faded people out of the corner of her eye. Rachel tells Mickey about a man watching them but she assure Mickey that though he is scary it is not the man that hunts in the dark. Mickey asks Rachel for the glowing orange rock and feels how hot it is as she passes it to her so she can see. Mickey can only see a pair of eyes watching them and she hands the stone back but as they go to continue Rachel takes a single step and offers Mickey a hand and raises up the glowing stone. A large footstep rumbles the ground beneath them and Rachel indicates that they be quiet as a giant hooved creature with a face like a void, dragging an axe behind him, walks past, unable to see them in the light.

Mickey asks Rachel if the creature can’t see in the light but another voice answers and Sheriff Bull steps into the edge of the light. Mickey asks how he can be here as he’s still alive and wonders if something took his place, to which he answers, maybe. Mickey refers to the place as a sort of limbo for lost souls to which he agrees, though it doesn’t feel like a place at all. Mickey explains that she wasn’t the one that killed him but he never knew as he’s dead. She assures Rachel that Bull won’t hurt her; Bull kneels and recognizing Rachel asks if she knows her name but she doesn’t. Bull has been staying close to Rachel as he knows her light keeps the creature away and that she has been walking in the same direction for a long time, though he has seen the creature multiple times. Mickey voices that she doesn’t belong her, that none of them do but that she is different. Bull tells her that Clarity told him about No-Place but didn’t believe it, it was forgotten and figures that they must have taken an ego of his from somewhere else. He tells her that whenever Clarity made a deal for someone to be replaced it upset the balance of the universe, energy should have a place to go and wonders that whatever is left must come here. Mickey voices that if this is a place for the forgotten that she belongs here.

Elsewhere in No-Place the others arrive in the darkness. Beth tells them that Truth told her how to get here but not much else. Though to find Mickey they will need to think about her and Mallory asks Tibby what he thinks about when he thinks of her. Mickey is his best friend, they talk about school, her love of movies that he sometimes doesn’t understand, that reads the comics he lends her and that he thinks her as funny and tough and looks up to her. Beth warns the others that once they have Em to take her to the demolished community center and that she needs to plead for Phobos’ forgiveness to get them back to their own time. Tibby questions why Beth can’t just open the portal, why it has to be Em and asks to know what Truth told her.

**Act 2**

Beth doesn’t answer and begins to lead them through the darkness, past the columns, the shadow people and the murmuring voices. Tibby tries to follow his feelings toward Mickey but he is unsure though Beth and Henry tell him to trust his instincts. They all reach out to hold hands but when Laura does so her other hand touches someone else and she comes face to face with a faded other version of herself. Em notices the subtle glow of light underneath Henry’s jacket and asks if someone has a light but he doesn’t say anything. Laura sees that her other self is much younger, 12, and they figure out that she remembers the car crash that killed her. Henry asks if young Laura is dead who asks if they aren’t. They ask young Laura if they have seen Mickey but she hasn’t and she wants to go with them so she can be alive again. Henry asks Laura about the car crash and explains that the young Laura is from their universe she was kidnapped to be the replacement for. The young Laura asks about what she means and Laura tells her what their parents did. She hugs the young Laura saying that she can never be replaced and that her dad still misses her. She lets her go and the young Laura steps back into the darkness. The group hold hands again and focus on Mickey and they feel a pull in a certain direction.

Mickey feels that connection and she tells Rachel and Bull, and invites them to join her. Bull says he can’t as he’s made peace with it and forgives Mickey for what she did. He tells Mickey that he knew that when Clarity brought people back they were different, that they lied about it and he kept tabs and files on all of them, the anomalies, Clarity would call them. He warns her to watch out for them and he offers to give Mickey a ride on his back to get her to where she needs to go. Surprised she reaches out a hand and feels that he is solid, but cold like the pit had been. She pulls herself onto his back and Bull picks up Rachel in his arms and follows Mickey’s feeling.

Back with the others Tibby voices that he feels Mickey getting closer as another voice calls out to Beth, she turns around to see her father step from the darkness but he looks younger. He reaches out for her and Beth asks how he got here, but he says that he never got to see her grow up. Em asks what year it was when he last saw her and he mentions that she was just a baby when he last saw her. Em tells him that she remembers him dying old, but the Jay in front of her says he is only 28, though he expected his wife to remarry when he died as they were having problems. Jay grabs her hand and asks if she had a good life and she answers that she did, even playing D&D, that makes him smile. Em asks how he died and Jay says that he confronted Mearl, and told him that it wouldn’t work anymore and he had to be there for his family and they had a fight. Jay tells her about him and Mearl that he didn’t take it well and the last thing he remembers was Mearl turning away and grabbing a fire poker and he found himself here. Em hugs him tightly and he asks if the Jay that raised her did a good job and her answer seems to comfort him as he slips back into the dark.

Tibby calls out that he can see a light and he calls out for Mickey who calls back. Tibby, Henry, Laura and Mallory run to her voice as Beth trails behind. The group pull up short at the sight of the Sheriff but Mickey tells them its okay and Henry uses his ability to confirm that Bull means no harm but he sees a glint off of a large rusted blade as it sweeps over them. He calls out for everyone to get down just in time as it sweeps overhead the very air pushing them further down and away. The orange stone goes scattering to the floor and Mickey tells them to get it as the creature can’t see in the light and she starts crawling towards it. Henry pulls out his Phobos Candle and in its light sees the creature right in front looking down at him. Henry jabs the candle at the creature as the others make for the stone. The flame of the candle touches the creature but as it only a facsimile of light it doesn’t affect it and the creature reaches back with its axe and picks up Henry with the other. The ground changes around Mallory as he goes for the stone and injures himself as Beth draws a knife and uses her powers to stop time and open a portal.

The creature remains unaffected as it continues to raise Henry to its face and prepare to swing down on the others. Beth runs up the creature’s back stabbing her knife into it and pulling herself up. The creature releases Henry and grabs Beth instead, she restarts time and urges everyone to get to the portal. Laura goes to grab Henry as Mallory continues to go for the stone. Beth tries to by them time by stabbing at the Void in the creatures head but when she tries to pull her arm free she can’t and it begins to slowly pull her in. Mickey reaches the stone first and tries to light it up like Rachel did but it refuses to get brighter. Mallory picks her up and Mickey sees Rachel by one of the columns and she directs Mallory to her. Rachel takes the stone back and offers to show Mickey what to do, she raises the stone and it begins to glow and Bull picks her up to lift her higher towards the creature. The pull of the void reaches to Beth’s shoulder and the vacuum begins to pull at her head as she shouts at the others to go. Tibby sees Rachel for the first time but Mickey assures him its fine and tells him that this is where misplaced Ego’s go. He tells her about meeting Jay and Mickey wonders if they should tell Em but he says they can’t as Beth never knew. Mickey asks Rachel to be brave and to throw the stone into the void creature, and though she hesitates she does so. The stone enters the void and Beth hears the voices of thousands of voices cry out and a white light bursts out from it and envelops her, the creature and all the Egos, that blink out of existence. Tibby tells the group that Beth must have known what would happen and he tells Mickey about Beth opening the portals. Mickey switches from Mallory to Tibby as the others pick themselves up and jump into the tunnel together.

**Kollok**

The group stand up out of weeds to find themselves by the resort next to the winery, brand new looking and watch as an envoy of limos with small American flags drive by. They see Em only a little older with two of the Clarity Clones standing next to her by the entrance of the resort, and Mallory feels that one of them is Clarity VII. A large man steps out of the lead limo, who Tibby identifies as President Roosevelt, shakes Em’s hand and follows her into the resort.

## 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

## Rumors

1. Synchroneity was using your computer to brainwash you.
2. They were using your data to bolster their internal research.
3. Each computer had a camera behind the screen. They know everything. (winner)
4. They have what they need, it changes nothing.

## Notes

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