"And Therein..."

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**"And Therein..."** is the eleventh episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

A fun romp through time turns into a paradoxical disaster.

## Plot

**August 15, 1991**

The golden tunnel begins to shrink before the eyes of Henry, Mickey, Tibby and Laura and one by one they jump in after their friends. Time passes before them and looking up they feel as if an eye is watching them, then they see the earth, a small village resting in a frozen and snow-covered valley.

**Jan 1, 1928**

The group all come to standing in the freezing cold outside an old church. Em and Laura attempt to thump Mallory for jumping in but he manages to avoid getting hit. He tells them they shouldn’t have followed him, though they retort with having to be there to look out for him or else he’d be dead, referring back to Tibby saving his life when injuring himself.

Mickey finds Tibby’s change and returns it to him as Henry ponders if they’ve time travelled as the church does not look modern. Looking around, Laura identifies the familiar outline of the mountains around Kollok but notes the absence of the lake. The door to the church opens and the Father of the church ushers them in out of the cold. Mallory asks him the date, feigning that they lost track of time out in the col. Meanwhile, Mickey notes that the Father bolts the door shut as he answers that the date is January 1st, 1928. Mickey tries to get them to leave but the Father asks them where they would go. Though the group tries to make up an answer, he reveals that there is no Sheriff, Mayor, or police station in Stone Valley, and remarks that they are not from here.

The Father brings up Cheese, but Henry explains him away as a doll he requires for separation issues. Mickey looks for a way out, and Em and Laura silently contemplate the locked door as the Father inquires further into where the group have come from. Mallory cuts through the others replies and asks the Father if he’s a member of the Council. The question gets a rise out of him, who states that whoever sent them, they cannot have the Claritys. Just then a loud banging comes from the front door and a young woman calls out for her dad. The Father opens the door and they try to peer around him as the two figures whisper. Cheese manages to roll himself close to the door and overhears the young woman warn the Father about another dream she had, foretelling the destruction of the town.

Cheese relays what he heard to the others as the Father dismisses his daughter to ring the town bell, before turning back to the group. He asks them when they are from and Mallory answers truthfully but The Father seems disturbed that they have come so early and not from the ship. Mallory continues and tells them how they arrived in this time. The Father asks them if Mammon sent them even though they have kept up their part of the contract, then asks if there are still people being born with nine fingers in the group's time. Billy answers by telling him of a recent birth back home of a child with ten fingers, and The Father informs the group of a pending earthquake and that they need to leave, as the ground begins to shake.

They flee outside, the ground shaking even harder and the sound of the town bell beginning to ring out. Cheese starts to feel pain, like the first time he started to grow and the trees around them begin to shake and groan. The memory of Clarity Prime telling them of this day comes to the foremind of Tibby, Mickey and Henry as Cheese somehow knows that another tunnel is nearby, drawing him to it. He tells the group and directs them in to it, each one jumping in as the earthquake continues to rumble. Once again in the tunnel they see and feel an eye watching them as they fall, and realise that there may be more to Cheese than they thought.

**1940 Kollok**

They ask Cheese if he made the hole that they jumped through and he confirms that he did as they look around and see some familiar buildings of their Kollok, but others are different. Mallory suggests that all they have to do is keep jumping through holes and agitate Cheese to do so, while Henry proposes they become time cops and can fix things. Tibby worries that if they become the cause of problems and Mickey tells them to not meddle in time. The group then wonder if them time traveling caused the earthquake and if something bad is about to happen now as well. They hear the sounds of music and look toward a nearby square building. They don’t recognise from their time, the long shadows of the sunset playing across the walls. A figure steps out and lights a cigarette.

The figure wonders what they’re doing outside and invites them in to join in the party. Mallory runs in with Em quickly heading after him. The figure tells them that everyone is here for the wedding of Odell and Tabetha. Laura questions Billy about how he knew about the earthquake and he mentions that he learned it somewhere, but can’t recall if there was anything else they should worry about. The figure puts an arm around Laura and asks her to dance, she agrees and he leads her to the dancefloor, as Laura passes Cheese to Mickey. Looking around the room the others see the Father from before though he looks older and Henry goes over to him. The Father pulls him aside and tells him that he can’t be here, Billy asks if he can help them get back home and instead of answering he asks if Henry knows Phobos

Henry answers that he does know Phobos and reveals that he killed Phobos back in 1991 and explains how he did it. The Father denies Henry’s statement as the ship and Clarity’s came from further on in time, so he couldn’t have killed Phobos. Seeing the conversation Mallory comes over to back Henry up. On the dance floor, Laura’s dance partner introduces himself as Gerald and mentions that he built the building and after some flirting they do another loop of the floor. Tibby, Em and Mickey join the others with the Father and show him Cheese explaining that somehow, he has the power to help them time travel. Cheese asks what year they are in and the father tells them that they are in 1940, Kollok, named and rebuilt after the earthquake. Cheese asks him as well about his daughter’s vison, wondering if they have met before that night at the church. The father answers that they haven’t and explains his daughter’s previous vision that foretold of the ship crash, though they made the town believe it was a meteorite. Henry also reveals to him about Synchroneity and the retrieval and use of the ship in their time.

A hand falls on the Father’s shoulder and a mid-fifties Clarity introduces herself to the group. Henry starts to ask the father, Shiloh, if he has abilities and where he got the clones, though Mickey calls him an idiot pointing out that they know they are from the future. Clarity ignores the group’s questions turning her father away to introduce a young woman called Cassandra and they begin to talk. Upon hearing the name Mallory yells and interrupts the conversation as the others try to stop him, though they quickly assess that this Cassandra has yet to become the one they know. Shiloh has Clarity take Cassandra away from them and they continue questioning him about Clarity, though he soon realises that they are just teenagers and they can’t help him. Seeing the response from him Henry tells Shiloh about having met Phobos and his power being taken and Shiloh seems to recognise the light that Henry describes being taken.

Looking to see where Laura is Henry sees her dancing with Gerald and recognises him as the Stone Mason he’s met before, and quickly runs over and knocks his cigarette out of his mouth warning him that he will lose his voice. Gerald pushes Henry for his actions and Mallory rushes to his friends side. Henry backs off as Em comes over and slyly informs Laura of the group’s plans to leave, though Laura doesn’t want to leave just yet. Em brings out Cheese which alarms Gerald and he turns to go with Laura asking if something was going to happen between them before he leaves. Henry tries to explain to Laura what happened with Tibby providing context about Gerald’s involvement in the Synchroneity lab incident as well as what the stone masons did in Prime A. Their argument is interrupted by Clarity concerned if they are going to make a scene. They explain to her who they are and introduce her to Cheese, who she sees as some sort of dead animal which angers Clarity. Cheese asks her if she has had another vision of disaster recently, and though she is taken aback at him asking her, she answers that she hasn’t. Confused at what is going on she attributes them to the meddling of her father.

**Act 2**

Clarity tries to adjust to what the group tell her of the future and immediately becomes alarmed at Mickey’s mention of there only being 6 Clarity’s in 1991, and her slip of killing Clarity Prime. They try to cover with Henry telling her that she turns evil but she demands to know how she dies, and Henry tells her that Skye Hawkins will do it. Clarity takes out a small notebook and begins to write, Laura goes to take it from her but she pulls back and a younger Clarity steps in front. The group realise they are outside and now surrounded by 10 Clarity’s, all saying “no” at Laura.

Mickey tries to calm down the situation and distract Clarity Prime by asking about her son, though Claity infers to not have had one yet and not able to by a regular birth. Mickey brings up that Clarity has to let them go so they can be in the future to help Clarence, and Em convinces Clarity Prime to talk with her before the situation intensifies. Mallory interrupts the negotiations which angers Clarity Prime and she demands to know his name, Mallory tells her and that of his father’s name, and she asks Clarity IV to fetch a woman called Meredith. Clarity IV goes back inside and comes out with a young pregnant woman, Meredith Jenkins, who Mallory recognises as his grandmother. Clarity prime introduces her to Mallory and lets her go back to the party, and threatens Mallory that if he runs his mouth again, she will have Meredith killed.

Mallory decides to leave the conversation and Prime has Clarity VII follow him. Prime enquires to the group’s agenda, Laura answers that they are trying to fix things and Em explains that Phobos is gone, and her own belief that they need to bring it back. Like her father Clarity Prime explains that he can’t be gone, with Mickey mentioning that his energy must be elsewhere then. Clarity mentions that Phobos isn’t living but is, one of the foundations of the universe. She brings up that if they killed her the only connection to the town’ protection is her father, which Mickey says that they did not kill but is not around in their time. Clarity Prime says that without Phobos they are all in danger of that which lurks and is kept at bay, only by the balance, and brings up that both Cassandra and they being here cannot be a coincidence.

Clarity Prime ponders that even if the group doesn’t know why they are here, something does and could be using them. Henry brings up his other self, The Devourer, having tried to kill him which, he mentions as a clone, which prompts Laura to bring up her own clone heritage, which intrigues Prime and makes her wonder if them telling her of the clones in the future is the reason they have clones in that time now that she knows. She tells them that the Clarity’s are the ones who have told her of the future though they are careful as to avoid their past from repeating.

Mallory strikes up a conversation with Clarity VII and learns from her that she was made on a ship and didn’t know who she was until she arrived on earth. Mallory tells her about how they got here, and she whispers to him that if he makes it back to his time to find her so they can kill all of it and make it all stop. On asking about what she exactly means she mentions that Phobos is everywhere, watching and influencing but it only seems to confuse Mallory more.

Clarity Prime brings up that if they are here it must be Phobos’ doing, and Henry tries to figure out the time line with questions about her, she confirms the ship crashed in 1899, the choice to make the deal that her father made and mentions the people inside the party as those that were brought back. She shows discomfort with the nature of the deal indebting them, over 200 years with each new born baby sacrificing a finger. Laura asks the Clarity clones where they come from and they all respond at the same time with “from the stars”. Clarity III specifies that they were all on the ship, with the crew whose purpose was to destroy Phobos, and to stop a cycle from repeating, the crew were successful but not in the way they hoped.

Henry mentions their own “loop” which Mickey and Tibby clarify that they changed in a way. Tibby reveals to Clarity Prime the existence of the Multiverse they were told about, with the change they made creating a separate universe, as did the ship crash, and as Clarity realises, what they have done by telling her who kills her in the future. Henry challenges the idea that killing him won’t matter as he’s from a different universe and Clarity Prime puts his boast to a test, ordering one of the clones to kill him. Laura distracts Clarity Prime as Em calls for Mallory to help. He races over and manages to get in between Henry and the attacking Clarity clone, but he his grabbed by the throat. Em tries to pull her off of Mallory but the Clarity clone has inhuman strength; Cheese leaps onto the clone and panicked she lets go of Mallory. Clarity VII then steps in asking them to stop as Mallory is her friend and “we have secrets.”

Before anyone can say anything screams erupt from inside the building and Prime runs inside followed by the group and the clones. They see the men brought back by the deal begin to pull and tear at their skin, eyes and fingernails before turning on each other and their families. The pulsing glow of the symbols etched onto the steel beams overhead draw their eyes, but within Cheese a great anger takes over and he feels drawn to them. He runs into the frantic melee with Laura following on his heels. The danger around her brings back memories of the Mallory clones in the tunnels, but pushing through Laura stays on Cheese’s tail. Clarity Prime blames the group for the massacre before them all, saying that they brought an energy with them that is causing this. Mickey then makes a realisation that Phobos’s energy must be in Cheese.

The group run in together after Laura; Tibby, Mickey and Henry feel a faint pull from the symbols as they make their way though the now ruined wedding celebration. Laura catches up with Cheese as he begins to burrow into the chest of one of the fallen town’s folk. She pulls him away but Cheese says he needs the body to grow, that he must grow. The town’s warning sirens sound out and Laura let’s Cheese go. He digs into the body, his smaller form wedged inside and she watches as the flesh from the jar attaches to the new body granting him control over it. As the group arrive Cheese stands, situated in his new body and begins to float closer to the pulsing symbols above. The room goes silent as the enraged crowd stop and watch fixated at Cheese.

Shiloh cries out from across the hall that the group are responsible for all of this, but the ten clones of Clarity from a line on the opposite side and say that he is to blame, pointing to the ship metal used to make the building. Clarity Prime pushes through her clones and denounces him for betraying her trust and doing what he was forbidden to do. He argues that the Stone Masons assured him that it was safe, the metal had been cleansed. Another hole through time forms hovering in the middle of the room, below the floating form of Cheese. The skinless and formally enraged crowd now focus on the portal and begin to move toward it. Laura doesn’t’ want to leave without Cheese but Em pushes her and the others toward the portal, Tibby and Mickey go first with Mallory and Hank next. Laura falls into the portal last and as she falls, looking up, she sees Cheese vanish in a flash of light and a pair of hands pull Em away from the portal as it closes.

## 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 / Tibby Devin

### Guests

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

## Rumors

1. Nothing Ever Really Changes
2. Nothing Ever Really Dies (winner)
3. No One Ever Really Tells the Truth
4. No One Ever Really Lived

## Notes

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