"The Weapon"

**"The Weapon"** is the fourth episode of KOllOK. It premiered on March 7th, 2022.

## Synopsis

The Ascended fight an unknown adversary, as the mystery about the Legacy group unravels.

## Plot

We learn from C-Dubb's that she is feeling guilty over AJ killing the pharmacist in order to get her medicine. She feels responsible.

### Ascended

**August 31 2022 8:20AM**

Before Clarity has a moment to respond, she feels herself wrapped in total darkness. She impacts against the ground and immediately feels a jerk, as she’s pulled against her will across the rocky hillside. Awut continues to drag Clarity across the ground, slamming her ribcage into the ground as she goes, disorienting Clarity and keeping her from using her powers.

Clarity realizes the people of this world do not fear her. And because they do not fear her, they do not respect her. They recognize her as a scared, stunted teenage girl.

She comes to a stop, and Awut quickly ties Clarity’s legs. The older woman whispers in her ear, saying “I’ll be back for you when I’m finished with your friends.”

Clarity feels the piercing sting of a metal object in her right shoulder, near her head, and it emits a high-pitched scream. She is unable to focus.

The Ascended watch as a shadowy figure pulls Clarity’s body into the thick, dark smoke. The weight of responsibility comes down on AJ, believing that he’s accountable for all the people that died. And now the reason they died is gone.

Ro realizes that they have a small opportunity while Awut is gone. Ro tells Syd to get Jude down, and for C-Dubbs to help everyone hide. She then asks for AJ’s knife and the permission to use the remaining fuel in the incinerator, as she has a plan for a trap. AJ agrees. Ro slices down her arm with the knife and heads east to the large factory. C-Dubbs and AJ hide within the pile of bodies nearby.

Syd, having nothing to cut Jude down with, breaks a window for a shard of glass. The glass cuts through her arm in the process. Syd cuts Jude down. AJ crawls up and drags Jude into the pile of bodies, to keep him hidden. Syd also hides within the charred remains of their friends. They hear Awut return, as she hunts around for them. Syd uses her Deceptive power to prevent AJ from being spotted. Awut notices Ro’s blood trail and follows it to the coffee factory.

Awut enters the building and hears footsteps across the building. Ro uses the building’s size to her advantage and begins talking to Awut, who cannot discern where the voice is coming from. Awut does not answer, just keeps looking. She gets turned around, the entrance lost in the smoke. Ro continues to talk to Awut. Awut begins to get frustrated, unable to find her prey. She says that she likes Ro, and will leave her for last so she can watch the others burn. Awut hears Ro’s footsteps, but they echo like Ro’s voice.

Awut begins to lose patience. She says, ““I’m sick of playing your game. Clever of you to hide out in building that won’t ignite. But I will find you. And your friend… if she has anything to do with the 12, I’ll kill her too. Fuck the money. Fuck the job. I don’t care.”

Ro realizes that she cannot keep hiding and has to act soon. She takes off her shoe and puts it at the corner of the gangway, covering it with blood. Then she goes around the back and waits. AJ, worried that Ro has been gone so long, hides Jude deeper in the pile of bodies and motions to the others to remain hidden. He then walks out into the open, towards the factory. Although Awut sees the shoe, she realizes that it is a trap. She prepares for an attack. But then AJ calls out,  He telling her that if she’s going to kill them, she might as well start with him.  With Awut unwittingly distracted, Ro attacks the doll on the old woman’s chest. She severs the head of the doll, causing Awut to become distressed. She loses her composure, getting down on the floor while cradling the doll.

Ro sees three buttons by her. She hits the soak button, but nothing happens. Awut hears the noise and goes towards it. AJ rushes forward and hits the “Close Bay Doors” button. The doors close as Awut swings her sword against them on the inside. Ro hits the “Soak” button, and what Awut thought were sprinklers start spraying fuel. Before Awut can react, Ro hits the “Ignite” button.

C-Dubbs and Syd hear what happened and remove themselves from the piles of bodies. As they emerge, they see AJ and Ro coming up the path. AJ implores the others to help Jude. C-Dubbs warns them not to take the arrows out, or he will bleed out. She goes and gets some first aid kits that survived the fire. She aids Jude, as the others dress their wounds with strips of cloth from the bodies their deceased friends.

AJ remembers Clarity and runs off to find her. He finds her with a bag over her head and a device creating a hitch-pitch sound. As he approaches, AJ has trouble focusing. He is unable to remove the device, succumbing to the device. He calls out to his friends to get Devina. C-Dubbs goes to look for the robot dog. She calls out to it, but there is no answer. She cannot connect to it.

AJ runs back to the group and tells them what he found. C-Dubbs follows AJ back to Clarity. She can instantly tell how to remove the piece of modified Harmonia technology. She removes the device. AJ asks Clarity if she knows Awut, but she does not. She knows no one in this world. AJ helps Clarity back to the others.

C-Dubbs joins Ro to look for Devina. They find Devina hanging from a tree with a rod sending current through a cable going all the way up the tree. Devina is struggling to right itself, but cannot. C-Dubbs can disable the rod, but it will reboot the robot dog. The rod creates an EMP, and Devina falls to the ground. C-Dubbs holds Devina, which starts to come alive again. Devina cannot connect to the forums because of some sort of interference. The signal is being blocked. Devina is also blocked from Synchroneity satellites. Some of Devina’s short-term memory seems to be gone, as it does not remember making it to the compound.

AJ apologizes from what happened and his hand in it, but they tell him that it’s not his fault. Jude finally speaks and blames Clarity for the situation. Ro says that they need to leave immediately because the first name will see the smoke and come. Jude motions to AJ to come to him. AJ bends down, and Jude tries to strangle him. AJ apologizes again, but Jude blames him and Clarity. AJ gets up and goes to Clarity.

Clarity, thinking that she is being compassionate, tries to mother Jude. AJ tries to tackle Clarity, but fails. AJ pounds on her back. Jude stops fighting. Ro tells Jude to give them a sign that he wants to keep going. If not, she will let him go easy. Jude signals that he wants to live. Everyone rips Clarity off of Jude. C-Dubbs asks when they became like this. Ro says they have always been this. She once again impresses that they need to go before the First Nation arrives.

AJ picks Jude up in a fireman’s carry, and Jude apologizes to him. Everyone, except Syd and Clarity, take a moment to search for sentimental items left behind in their burnt home. C-Dubbs sends Ro to find something in her room.

Meanwhile, AJ goes to his room, putting Jude down temporarily. Clarity goes with him. Hardly anything is left. He finds a shoebox with his name on it. As he opens it, Clarity sees the name on the box: “AJ Greer”. She recognizes the name Greer. Her sister somehow had a child, and AJ is that child. That is why she felt her sister’s energy inside of him. AJ recounts the story about his “mother” Sayaka again, ending that he found her dead in a bathtub and the only thing that she had was the bracelet that he’s wearing. However, AJ does not relay the story well and talks of the woman in the bathtub as if it was Clarity VI.

Before AJ can fix the confusion, they hear the sound of a car horn in the distance as caravan makes its way up the road, led by a small electric car with two small flags with the number 1 on them. A man and a woman get out of the car. Everyone rejoins at the caravan as Joey Cl1fton greets them. He mentions that outsiders refer to the region as the First Nation. He refers to it as Landback County. He asks for some hand sanitizer after shaking some of their hands.

Joey seems undisturbed by the charred bodies, and asks his assistant what happened. She says some sort of fight happened. C\_Dubbs immediately tries to diplomatically address the situation, and offers Joey coffee, although everything is in ruins. Joey instead recants the rules of Landback County: 1. Be cool 2. And don’t fuck it up for everybody. He says that it seems like something uncool happened. C-Dubbs lets him know that it wasn’t them doing the uncool stuff, and they mention Awut. The assistant asks why the woman was there, but AJ replies that she was trying to take their stuff.

The assistant tells Joey about their possible involvement with the destruction of CXG research facility. Clarity offers to smother Joey and his assistant, to which they all say no.

Joey starts to give them a history of Landback County. Syd interrupts him and asks why he’s here. He tells them that the tribes came together from word of mouth to build a dreamland. The assistant reminds them that the Ascended’s land was “rented”. Joey’s worry is that they will harsh the vibe that they have in the territory. The assistant asks them to leave. She points out the agreement that AJ signed. Since they failed to live up to the agreement, they get to repatriate them. Or as Joey puts it, machinegun them. The assistant tells them they need to leave and if they ever sit foot in the land again, they’ll terminate them as they may have brought war to the land.

Two women come up the road with horses. They were part of a trade deal, coffee for horses. They are Ascended that are unaware of what happened at the commune. The assistant says that they can leave on the horses that are coming up, only because they want them to leave quickly. Alora Evengrove and Rune approach. Alora is devastated by the destruction. They mount the horses, and someone grabs Alora. They ride down the hill on the partially paved road that AJ never completed, passing armed individuals.

The assistant, Terry, scans the environment on a tablet. She notices that the factory is mostly intact. As she circles around, she finds a large square hole carved out of the building.

## Cast

### Main Cast

#### Legacy

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett

* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker

* Mika Midgett as Emily Pegg

#### Ascended

* Danielle Radford as C-Dubbs

* Ethan Nestor as AJ Greer

* YellowSpoonGirl as Sydney Muldoon

* Xu Mason as Rosemary Liang

#### Additional

* Elyse Willems as Clarity Seven

* Joey Clift as Joey Cl1fton

* Kelly Nugent as Chien-Shiung Wu

* Malika Lim Eubank as Awut

* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver