"Combat of Horsemen"

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***"Combat of Horsemen"*** is the fourteenth episode of KOllOK 1991.

## Synopsis

The Radar tries to help their hometown after the devastation of the South side of town.

## Plot

**10 pm March 18**

Parked above the NW bridge overlooking the destruction, the group see the devastation of the explosion first hand, Bucket purposes they head in to find survivors, but Skye asks if he knows how to hot wire a car. Bucket affirms that he can and Skye gets out of their ambulance to find a valid vehicle, finding one and asks Bucket to hot wire it so she can go find her family. She convinces him that they are only borrowing it and then all she needs is a way to keep in touch with them. Billy provides her with his walkie talkie and Mickey returns Rachel’s journal to her as well before she leaves. Skye gives her friends some parting words and Marcus hugs her goodbye and activates his powers, seeing a memory of when he and Rachel were talking and she spiked his soda with ketchup

           He lets her go and wishes her the best, while Bucket finishes writing a note to the owner of the car and hotwires it for Skye. She peels out and drives off avoiding the other onlookers on the road as well as debris. Back at the ambulance Marcus searches it and finds a tranquiliser gun and six darts which he pockets. Bucket and others make Tibby agree not to bring someone back if they find them, but EmPegg disagrees with the idea of not using his healing to help people. Tibby warns her about the cost of his powers and the others pile back in to the ambulance and continue into the destruction. Heading into the smoke and flames it feels like another world but keeping a lookout as they go they see no survivors or injured, just desolation.

Skye pulls up to the front of her house and runs straight in, starling her father looking at the flames from the south of the town. Seeing her he goes white and falls to his knees. Skye rushes to him and holds him tight, glad to see him alive and well. She informs her dad what has happened and the loss of the shop, he calls for her mother Gwen. He tells Skye that her mom lost hope after she died, and he takes Skye to see her. Skye finds her mom on the bathroom floor, heavily medicated and disbelieving that Skye is really back. Skye pleads to her mother to believe that she is there and working with her dad, they manage to get Skye’s mom to her feet. Gwen points toward the bathroom mirror and Skye can only see her mother in it smoking a cigarette, which she isn’t. Skye breaks the mirror and leaves with her parents, though a look in the broken pieces reveals different versions of herself.

While Skye’s dad packs bags for him and Gwen, Skye talks with her mom about where she is taking them in order to protect them, and that Gwen will have to confront the things she did at Synchroneity. Gwen seems to only see Skye as her younger self but through the medication apologises to Skye. Once packed Skye gets her parents into the car and contact Billy to find out from Bucket where to take her family, and he directs her to the abandoned school outside of town. Skye passes the information to her dad and promising to tell him everything gets him to take the borrowed car while Skye hops into her jeep and goes to look for survivors

The others come across a man in the middle of the road, who they recognise as Karre Bradly, the investigator they met before, and he asks for help getting people out of a collapsed house. He takes them to a small toppled house, surprisingly with a basement for this part of town, ad Billy uses his premonition powers to see if the way ahead is clear. The danger he senses does not come from the basement but in the very air around them. Billy warns the others and Bucket passes several masks from the back of the ambulance to protect them. Those that are able head down among the wreckage and Bucket notices the remains of a drug lab and questions Karre about it. Karre seems dodgy but claims not to know about any chemicals that could be down there, but when further question by Marcus reveals it to be a meth lab.

Billy, Bucket and Marcus begin to move the debris and start to discover bodies, when Billy finds a broken body he uses his power to disguise it, but upon doing so senses that the energy the power comes from is easier to draw upon in the chaos. Bucket asks Kerre to tell Mickey the names of the people he knew were down there so she can use her power to find them. Mickey does so but cannot find them in this universe, confirming that they are gone. Kerre doesn’t understand but Bucket directs him to head to the bridge t safety, as there is nothing more he can do. He does so as Skye shows up in her jeep, Skye has the idea to have Marcus ask Sketchy and his squirrels to help them find survivors. Mickey helps Marcus call for Sketchy to Bucket’s confusion, and the group decide to split up to cover more ground and get through the rubble. Billy, Tibby and Bucket begin to search on foot while Mickey, Marcus, Em and Skye take the jeep to search further on to the epicentre of the explosion.

It’s not long until Marcus spies a squirrel running along the road, when he calls out for Sketchy, it stops and begins to head in the opposite direction. Marcus jumps out and catches up to it, seeing that it has led him to a badly injured Sketchy lying on the ground. At first Sketchy is confrontational but Marcus hurriedly explains that he was dead, and Sketchy tells Marcus that he feels like he’s dying. Marcus lightly touches Sketchy, using his power, and sees the moment the explosion hit and how he barely saved himself. However, his power takes him to another memory to a baby Sketchy, living within the rubble of a home, and Marcus sees a familiar strange symbol upon one of the exposed steel girders, that begins to glow. He comes out of the memory, picks Sketchy up and they have a small heart to heart explain what has happened to the group since last they talked. Marcus confides in him also his fear of Billy and his power and asks Sketchy if he can help them.

Sketchy does agree to help but he reveals that after he got rid of the Cheeto guy who had been feeding the squirrels and has lost a lot of influence among the other squirrels, Marcus agrees to help Sketchy get his position back and fight the new alpha squirrel for him and takes Sketchy back to the others. Marcus finds some painkillers in the jeep and gives them to Sketchy to help with the pain.

Billy, Tibby and Bucket meanwhile have no luck in finding survivors but they do come across The Shoveler, Bucket tries to get his attention but he ignores them and keeps digging. Then they hear the crying of a young woman behind him and find her holding the body of Marcus’ mom. Bucket and Billy realise its too late but seeing the conflict on Tibby’s face and the distress of the young women, they agree that this is an extreme situation. Billy uses his power on Tibby to make him see that Mrs Bennet isn’t dead but just barely alive. Tibby uses his power and though he feels something is off, Tibby continues and brings her back to life.

           Mrs Bennet hugs the young women as Billy tells them both that Tibby saved her. Billy tells Mrs Bennet that Marcus is safe and that he can talk to him, but she first tells the young women to go and get to safety, and she does. When Mrs Bennet tries to use Billy’s radio they discover that the an interference is stopping it from working and instead Bucket informs Marcus of his smother’s condition through their mental bond. Mrs Bennet thanks them for helping and mentions that this is all “their” fault. Bucket has a private word with Billy about the choice he made to deceive Tibby and tells him though it will cost him, it was the right thing to do.

Back at the Jeep Mickey finds a note suddenly in her hands with no recollection of how it got there or who it is from. It reads: “*I got us out, all of us. You’re like us, you were there that day on the school trip. You won’t remember talking to me so I’m giving you this. Meet me beneath the waterfall at the back of crater lake”* Mickey ask the group if they can head to the waterfall and tells them of the note. Ahead of them, blocking the road Skye sees a group of people, one of which the group recognises as a Stone Mason, who approaches them as they stop. Skye asks if they need help and he replies with yes, to help with the load. The other Stone Masons they see are searching the rubble for steel beams, and even before they see them, Marcus, Mickey and Em feel the energy coming from them materials, the same feeling as they felt at the lab. The mason warns that they have to rebuild before it’s too late, and points to the beginnings of two steel towers they have begun to build, so all can see.

           Em demands answers from Marcus about the Stone Masons being responsible for the disaster at the lab, which the Stone Mason confirms, and further reveals that they wanted the explosion to happen. He answers Skye’s questions about their intentions to show the world the power of the energy so all will gain powers from it as well. The revelations of what the Stone Mason did angers Em and she uses her power to stab him fatally. The others try to explain things to Em about the futility of taking it out on the Stone Mason but she is insistent she can make them pay and uses her power again to disappear, but as she does Marcus uses one of the tranquilisers on her.

The Stone Mason stands back up and warns them not interfere as his mouth elongates and like a snake shedding his skin, another version of himself emerges from it, clothes and all, completely unharmed and returns to the others. Helicopters and search lights begin to fill the sky, a military helicopter lands nearby and the group make the decision to leave before they get caught up in being questioned. Mickey uses her power to search for Brad Avery, her colleague from work and finds him alive on the bridge, afterwards the group decide to meet up with bucket and then head on to the waterfall behind the lake.

Back with Tibby, Billy and Bucket they have been able to find survivors with Tibby using his powers sparingly to help them. Bucket gets the boys attention as soldiers in full camouflage gear approach with their weapons. Bucket shows the soldiers his ID and the soldiers show them a picture of Lexi and question Billy about if they’ve seen her and know where to find Lexi. The soldiers question the other survivors and Bucket mentions to the boys that they must find Lexi before the military does. Tibby panics about what the military may do if they discover what he can do and Billy uses his power to make the soldiers see a abominable snowman, who go off in search of it.

           The others arrive soon after and they quickly catch them up on the soldiers hunting for Lexi. Mickey uses her power to search for Lexi and finds her somewhere underneath the bridge. Skye informs Bucket about the Stone Masons plan and Em and Marcus and Mickey mention the note and the other possible survivors they need to find as well. Marcus hands Sketchy over to Tibby so he can heal him, and Tibby realises he can hear Sketchy as well. Mickey asks Sketchy if he knows where someone could be hiding under the bridge and tells them of a storm drain beneath it. They take the ambulance and head in that direction, during the trip Marcus and his mom have a talk. She tells him that his father was kept in the dark on many of things going on at Synchroneity that she knows as well as telling Marcus that his sister Laura, is alive and in Kollok. She reveals that Laura was never kidnapped, she died in a car accident after arguing with their mother and crashed, and Marcus’s mother brought her back. Marcus realises that she must have mad e similar deal the Juels did and asks if the debt was paid. She answers that it was almost done until she lost her job and had met with Laura earlier that day. Marcus’s mothers tries to explain to him why she did what she did, pleading for him to understand but Marcus remains silent.

They arrive at the bridge and let the survivors off seeing that dozens have made it here also. Mickey, Marcus, Billy and Tibby head down to the storm drain while Bucket keeps the police and worried towns people at bay and Skye takes the other injured back to the abandoned school in the ambulance. As they head down Billy teases Tibby about his crush on Mickey and they start fighting, which Mickey breaks up and put them back on task. As they reach the storm drain, they notice that the river beneath the bridge is flowing backwards up the hill and remarks that if it keeps up it could empty the lake. They call out into the storm drain and a voice responds, before Mike and Lexi reveal themselves, Mike’s shirt riddled with bullet holes and half carrying a tired and upset Lexi. Mike explains to the group what happened and they warn Mike and Lexi of the sliders looking for them and that they have a safe place for them. Lexi shows deep regret at having what happens and tells them that she never wishes to use her power again. Marcus agrees with her and stabs them both with the tranquiliser darts, Lexi fall unconscious but Mike’s skin is impenetrable and it breaks as the dart make contact and he turns on Marcus.

## Cast

* Andre Meadows as Marcus Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Meghan "Strawburry17" Camarena as Skye Hawkins
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

## Rumors

1. Some dude in all black was seen helping survivors
2. Some man in black walked out of the blast unharmed (winner)
3. A person in all black stole a fire truck
4. The man seen around town in all black was talking to the news about Synchroneity

## Notes

Prior to the beginning of the episode, Lucas asks Zac to return Billy's Unassuming power, which he gave away in the previous episode. Lucas successfully passes a dice roll to win it back.