Una (Silver)

Una in "One Man's Rubbish"

**Una** was the version of Una from the Silver World.

Her given name was Fortuna but she hated being called that.

## Biography

Una was a confident and self-assured girl with a sarcastic personality who did not suffer fools gladly. She was very close to her younger sister Due, whom she often called "Sister Girl," and the two of them spent most of their time together. Una was very protective of Due and would do anything to help her when she was in trouble. The sisters were friends with Melinda and Tiffany.

She often spoke in a slang of her own invention, which Due had to translate for other people.

Una dated Martin for some time as she thought that he was the only interesting person in their version of Werrinup other than Due. Her sister did not like Martin and could not understand what Una saw in him.

She was intrigued by Francis Zapmeister as soon as they met and the feeling was mutual. Having grown bored of her relationship with Martin, she invited Francis to join her for a milkshake, which she described as an audition for a new boyfriend. Una knew the Francis of her world well enough to be able to tell almost immediately that this Francis was not him. She jokingly asked Francis Zapmeister if he was her Francis' cousin, an impostor or an alien. The two of them soon began a relationship.

Una convinced Francis to show her and Due around the Parallax. She did not think much of the Blue World with its more low-tech and uptight ethos and asked to be taken somewhere more exciting. This led Francis to describe her as "a top babe but full on hard to please" when telling Ben about her. He eventually took her to the Green World, which he had never before visited, on Ben's recommendation. Una had not expected much but, somewhat to her surprise, she thought that the extremely tall trees of the Green World were beautiful. While there, Una, Due and Francis helped Melinda and Mundi kill the Krellick swarm using Super Soakers in order to obtain the antidote for Ben's infection. Francis was pleasantly surprised that Una and Due had enjoyed themselves so much given the danger in the Green World and they became members of the Parallax gang.

Some time later, Una invited Francis to come to the Skinky Maze and see the DJ hologram Tangerine Alpha Man perform. When Due pointed out that the Francis of the Silver World would be there, Francis Zapmeister disguised himself as his counterpart so that he would blend in. After Francis seemingly stood her up, she and Due travelled to the Yellow World in search of an explanation. However, Una's anger dissipated when she noticed how scared and atypically subdued he was. He explained that Betti had blandished the Francis of her world after confusing the two of them and that he was terrified that the same thing would happen to him.

After Veronica was taken prisoner by Betti, Ben requested Francis Zapmeister's help as he had all of the best contacts in the Parallax. Although he felt guilty about it, Francis refused as he did not want to run the risk of being blandished. However, Una would not let the matter rest. Having "borrowed" the Gemini 7 that Betti had originally given Francis, she bought four others from Dunkly's Techno-Porium in her world and had Martin set each of them to the same frequency. This allowed the Gemini 7s to communicate across the Parallax. They then recruited both the Francis of the Red World and the Francis of the Green World into the Francis Cam network, a way of sharing information from one world to another. She was occasionally frustrated by the three Francises' bickering and lack of focus and once accused them of acting like the Tiffanys. All three of them were offended by the comparison. The Francises of the Red and Green Worlds became attracted to Una. On one occasion, they both excitedly greeted her when she joined a meeting. A slightly irritated Francis Zapmeister told his counterparts to focus.

When the Francis of the Red World told her that Betti, posing as Veronica, was in the Johnson house looking for signs of another Guardian, Una and the Melinda of the Blue World travelled to the Red World to help Francis clear everything out of Ben's room. Francis was worried that Ben would be annoyed but both Una and Melinda thought that it was better than Betti finding him.

Several days later, Francis almost ruined his relationship with Una when she came to his world unannounced and saw him sharing an ice cream with her counterpart Fortuna. He tried to tell her that people shared everything in his world and that it meant nothing. She refused to listen and returned to the Silver World but not before smashing the ice cream cone down on his head. Putting his fear of the Parallax aside, Francis followed her to the Silver World and apologised profusely. He told her that he had never seriously looked at another girl since they met and had never felt the same way about anyone else. Una forgave him and suggested that they relocate to the Red World as she didn't think that it was likely that Betti would return there. Martin witnessed Francis talking to Una and Due and snitched to Enforcement Officer Garcia. Believing him to be his Silver World counterpart, Garcia was about to arrest Francis on the charge of being a truant minor and staging his own disappearance. However, Stefan Raddic and Jeremy Johnson intervened on his behalf and Francis was able to escape. They distracted Garcia so thoroughly that he did not realise that he was right next to the river and walked directly into it. When Martin asked him if he was alright, Una screamed "Snitch!" in his ear and he fell into the water in fright.

Seeing how upset the Silver World Francis' parents were by his disappearance, Due thought that she and Una should tell them the truth but Una didn't think that it would do any good even if they believed them.

Betti eventually discovered that Veronica had been using her stave to send coded messages and decided to set a trap. She hid her stave under her hat and told her sister of her plan to send the Krellicks to the Silver World as a prelude to blandishing it. Mundi and Ben heard Betti's plan over the stave and informed Katherine. Equipped with Super Soakers, Una, Due, Ben, Katherine, Francis Zapmeister, Due, Melinda, Mundi, Jeremy and Stefan were able to defeat the Krellicks with the help of the Mr. Short of the Silver World. A senior municipial employee who worked in Werrinup's park, he turned on the sprinklers in the park at Ben's request and the water killed all the Krellicks. Although the Parallax gang had won the battle, Betti won the war as she enacted her plan to infect the Silver World Werrinup's entire water supply with the blandishing substance. Aberrants, including Mr. Short, began disappearing.

Una and Due were convinced that they were aberrants and worried that the same was true of their parents. Francis Zapmeister hoped that Una would be impressed and grateful that he had risked his life coming through the Parallax with a supply of uninfected drinking water so that they could avoid the effects of blandishing. However, one barrel was leaky and he ended up spilling another so he only managed to bring them half a glass of water. He told the sisters that they needed to ration it and more was coming, only to learn that Melinda had already brought them a rucksack full of bottled water.

Several days later, Una and Due observed Mrs. Dunkly's declaration of a Day of Enterprise in celebration of so-called disruptive elements who exhibited discordant behaviour having been routed out of Werrinup. The two sisters objected to Enforcement Officer Garcia ignoring the mass disappearances and unsuccessfully tried to warn him that there was a sinister purpose behind the blandishing of the water.

The gang determined that Betti must be holding Veronica prisoner on an island in the Silver World as she had a boat and neither of the two portals in that world could be accessed via the water. Due figured out that the island in question had to be Circe Island as it was the only one in the vicinity to which Betti could make a round trip without refueling. Una, Francis Zapmeister, Melinda and a reluctant Ben, who was afraid of the water, then travelled to the island on a sailboat in order to look for Veronica. While Ben and Melinda searched the house, Francis and Una kept a lookout. He soon spotted an oil slick on the shore, which meant that Betti had been on the island recently. Although Veronica was not present, Melinda found her wedding ring, which gave Ben some hope as it indicated that she had been there.

As the blandishing of their world continued unabated, Due suggested that she and Una tell their parents about the Parallax so that their entire family could relocate to another world, possibly the Yellow World. Una was worried that this could make the situation worse and told her sister that they needed to ask Ben and Katherine first.

Una helped with Ben's plan to trap Betti in the Orange World forever by hiding the true locations of its portals. First, Ben and Francis removed the stones marking one portal. While Ben and Katherine distracted Betti by getting her to chase them, she, Due, Francis, Melinda and Otto moved her tent, which she had erected over the other portal. The plan initially succeeded in trapping Betti but Katherine insisted that they return as they had accidentally left the Martin of the Blue World behind.

After Katherine fooled Betti into blandishing herself, Veronica and Otto were able to use the Reading Room to restore everyone that had been blandished throughout the Parallax, including the Francis of the Silver World and his father. Mrs. Short was overjoyed to see her husband and son again as she thought that she had lost both of them. Una, Due and Francis Zapmeister happily watched the family reunion.

## Appearances

* "One Man's Rubbish"
* "The Battle of Mundi's World"
* "The Big Sleep-Over"
* "The Martin Crimes"
* "The World According to Betti"
* "The Curse of the Incredibly Bad News"
* "Decoy"
* "Too Many Chiefs"
* "Ex-Ben"
* "Dad Meets Dad"
* "The Krellick War"
* "The Reluctant Guardian"
* "Seek and You Shall Find"
* "My Favourite Martin"
* "Cheats Never Prosper"
* "The Reading Room"
* "It Ain't Over"

## Behind the Scenes

All versions of Una were played by Rebecca McCarthy.

With 17 appearances, she made the most appearances of any version of Una.