Season One Episode 12: Annexation

## Synopsis for "Annexation"

### Still March 2019 - Nick and Kimbrianna

Nick and Kimbrianna find themselves beneath the collapsed lobby of the motel. While Kimbrianna is unharmed, she discovers Nick with a long piece of ceiling on his stomach. Outside, L.U.C.I., police officers and firefighters are investigating and preventing spectators from crowding the area. As Kimbrianna rushes to Nick's aid, Kimbrianna struggles to remove the debris. Unable to move and barely able to breathe, Kimbrianna attempts to free them by mustering all of her strength, and when this fails, the now terrified Kimbrianna then desperately cries for someone to help him, only for her plea for help going unanswered, leaving her and Nick alone. Struggling and in pain, Kimbrianna regains her resolve, musters her stamina, and begins to painfully hold all the rubble over her head and on the back of her neck. Everyone outside is confused and amazed to see debris rising up. Then, Kimbrianna screams for assistance as she struggles to maintain the piece before dropping it behind her back while Nick is currently unable to stand with his abdomen in pain. Immediately, agents, policemen and medical personnel arrive to assist them.

### Vella's Appearance

Meanwhile, Vella steps outside a smaller ship that exited the mothership and is carrying a large pink bladed scythe, which had been taken from Brenna Vasquez, Scarlette's Ancestor, many years ago.

### Kaliyah's Awakening

At L.U.C.I., Kaliyah begins to emit blue energy in response to the Butterfly Effect awakening due to the presence of the Negative Effect and due to her lack of experience with the Butterfly Effect, as someone with experience would be able to emit the energy on command. Elsewhere, Revnnon emits the same blue energy. Revnnon looks menacing and hungry, whereas Kaliyah is astonished, but also confused and curious, all at the same time. However, this glow is only temporary, as it turns off.

### Vella's Proposition

The mothership lands on the outskirts in a vast, empty area of land to avoid enemy missile fire in the air. Vella, Reyx and Ma'Lora get out and head to the city, and as many L.U.C.I. agents arrive, Vella stands at six feet and five inches tall in front of Reyx and Ma'Lora, who are standing to her left and right, but behind her, respectively. Standing there, they look through the streets of the city, awaiting a reply and the location of the Butterfly Effect, the local authority from L.U.C.I. and the police arrive and approach them, as the military has not yet arrived. L.U.C.I. and the police approach the situation similarly to a robbery hostage situation or a terrorist situation, maintaining a safe distance and discussing negotiations. Speaking to the humans, Vella claims that she can sense a power within the city that she seeks, and in return she wishes for peace between her and Earth, promising to help against any other extraterrestrial threats while helping them advance in technology, but she also seeks leadership and command of the alliance, which causes the humans to reject the offer. Vella requests that they reconsider their answer, but the humans are dead set on their decision. Vella then asks, "What about the power" she seeks, to which the humans respond that it could give her a better way to destroy them if she ever chooses to. Vella, dissatisfied with the response, orders her army to search for the Butterfly Effect, forcing everyone to flee while L.U.C.I. and the police commence a counterattack.

### Mortals Debate

Those at L.U.C.I. headquarters are informed of the attack, whereas the Mortals are in the interrogation room, unaware of what is happening. The Captain asks about the Mortals and suggests placing them in holding cells, but Monica, proposes allowing them to assist and states that they're the good guys. Monica proposes to lead her team and the Mortals into the field together. Meanwhile, the Mortals discuss their next course of action to determine what is going on. Monica returns to the room and requests assistance, but they are also given the option to leave. Kaliyah and Tenebris choose to help; Joey, annoyed, corresponds. Rocky and Maestro are given the same options, as he is not being, and can't be charged with anything because his brawl with the Mortals is merely considered a fight that just needed to be broken up. However, unlike the Mortals, Rocky and Maestro leave.

### Mortals and L.U.C.I. prepare for the alien invasion

Later, in the mission control room, they all, including White Shadow, discuss a plan, though Joey is skeptical. Later in the weapons section, Monica reveals an assortment of weapons and equipment, much to White Shadow's subtle dismay, showing a distrust in firearms, as he favors the sword, but others state that these times call for the firearm's use. White Shadow agrees, and keeps moving forward acquiring two desert eagles. Joey grabs a 5.7 USG Pistol, and Butterfly a Walther Q5 Match Steel Frame Expert Pistol. Joey is also given a codename: "Fang", in reference to the blade construct he creates with his liquid armor. Other names that were considered for his code name include Talon and Tooth Fairy, but since Fang was another option and could be a combination of the other two, as Fangs could be Talons that a Tooth Fairy collects, Fang was selected as the official codename. While looking at his pistol, Joey wonders if he even needs it for the same reason why he doesn't carry a phone, given that it would leave him when he turns into water.

### The Octet's Motive Against Vella

Meanwhile, Izo is on the phone with Prima, and they are discussing the current situation, in which they may lose and also lose their city. Prima desires to send all of her cyber ninjas to assist in stopping the invasion.

### Vella and the Aliens

During the battle, the military arrive.

Monica, going by her codename "Black Ivy", her crew and the Mortals later arrive in different vehicles, but most of the city's population has been conquered and imprisoned in buildings by some of the alien army that entered the city upon Vella's orders. Those who refused are transported to the mothership's prisons. While searching for the Butterfly Effect, the aliens have practically enacted their own system of martial law.

### Kimbrianna Doesn't Leave Her Mark

At the hospital, Kimbrianna watches the news in Nick's hospital room and continues to stay by his side.

### Black Ivy's Regroup

On the battlefield, Black Ivy's crew and the Mortals regroup until they are attacked by the aliens. Initially, the teams are overwhelmed until Ruse is able to get to higher ground and destroy their enemies from above with explosives.

They then continue to advance, taking out new enemies as they appear. Once they are dealt with, the two teams advance cautiously as there will be others waiting at the far end. They get into cover from where they can see most of what's going on in the surrounding streets. Further enemies continue to show up, but they approach from a great distance, so they have enough time to take them down from afar or at least prepare for their arrival.

### Mortals vs Vella

After the Mortals and Crew 17 have defeated the majority of Vella's army, Vella, Reyx and Ma'Lora leave the mothership to assist because Vella senses the Butterfly Effect in Kaliyah and her army is struggling.

White Shadow and Butterfly battle Reyx and Ma'Lora respectively, while Black Ivy, her team, L.U.C.I., some police officers and the military battle the army; and Fang and Tenebris battle Vella. As Vella swings her scythe towards the closest opponent, who happens to be Tenebris, Tenebris thrusts her scepter into the ground on her left side to block. Fang emerges from a water form between Vella and Tenebris and attempts to throw a punch, but Vella jumps back and creates a crystal wall in front of her, damaging Fang's fist. Vella then shatters the crystal wall into sharp fragments and hurls them at Fang, but they pass through him and he recovers. Tenebris initiates an attack with a punch, but Vella flips over her and touches Tenebris' fist with her index finger, giving her next punch the same force as Tenebris'. As Tenebris turns around after Vella's landing, she is hit by Vella, knocking Tenebris against the wall and knocking her out. Then, Fang appears in front of Vella after emerging from a water form transformation again, and they exchange blows. Fang blocks two punches thrown by Vella. Then he strikes her with an uppercut and attempts to throw four punches to the face, but she avoids the third punch and touches the fourth punch with her finger to absorb its force. She then throws a punch at him with the same force of Fang's hardened density, but he dodges it and then turns into water again. Vella then alters the surrounding gravity and lifts Fang, causing him to float. She leaves the two and goes to assist Ma'Lora, but White Shadow intervenes, having defeated Reyx. Ma'Lora retreats to assist Reyx, bringing him aboard the mothership. Vella knocks down White Shadow and Butterfly before noticing Ma'Lora and Reyx struggle to retreat. Now she has to quickly decide if she's going to fight the humans and altered humans alone, which she can very much do, or help her brother and sister survive their retreat. She then goes with them.

White Shadow gets up and uses an ability that allows him to paralyze Vella, allowing him to get to her. Both he and Vella end up on the ship with Reyx and Ma'Lora. After five seconds, no one is longer paralyzed. As the door closes, Fang has returned to normal gravity, no longer floating, and goes to awaken Tenebris. White Shadow is taken prisoner on the mothership while Vella's army retreats to regroup with her.

### White Shadow on Vella's ship

While White Shadow is inside the mothership, he is being placed in a cell with others, escorted by two guards; however, before he is put in, and before the prison bars can close, White Shadow quickly fights back, punching one guard in the face, catching him off guard. The other guard gets to White Shadow, but White Shadow is able to escape his grasp and get away.

### Learning of White Shadow's Abilities

Butterfly tries to contact White Shadow, to no avail, having his communications scrambled. During the aftermath and as conversations go on, Fang is enraged that they are merely sitting and doing nothing to save White Shadow. Tenebris and Butterfly attempt to explain to him that they are attempting to devise a plan to save him rather than simply going in without one.

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