ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns

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## ISSUE #201: A Hero Returns

### Air date

February 1, 2022

**ISSUE #201: A Hero Returns** is the first episode of *Season 2 of* Raising Dion*.*

## Plot

### Overview

Two years after facing the Crooked Man, Dion tries to carry a normal life while developing his powers. A new classmate is incorporated to Dion's class.

### Full Plot Summary

Two years have passed since Dion defeated the Crooked Man. The Crooked Man's true form has since formed a connection with Brayden Mills, but does not possess him all the time like it did with Pat Rollins. Brayden's powers have increased to the point he can now mentally manipulate people into doing what he wants. At the start of the episode, Brayden is at an arcade, where he uses his powers to make an employee give him a price he actually does not have enough tickets for. Outside the arcade, Brayden is attacked by a man he defeated in a game earlier, but the Crooked Energy interveres and kills the attacker. Brayden decides it's time to meet Dion, so he uses his powers on a passing couple to give him a rid to Atlanta.

In Atlanta, Dion, along with Esperanza and Jonathan, has formed the Triangle of Justice to perform heroics in his neighborhood, but by lack of any real villains or crime, it mostly consists of him doing minor chores like closing the lids on trash cans or properly delivering the news paper. Nicole is not happy about Dion's superheroing.

At school, Esperanza announces her plans to participate in the school musical, and insists that Jonathan and Dion join her. The two are not thrilled about this, but agree when Esperanza invokes their "power of the triangle". In class, their teacher reminds her students to stay away from the sinkhole behind the school, which appeared 3 months ago along with other, similar, sinkholes around the world, all of whom Biona is currently monitoring under the guise of taking care of toxic waste. During class, Brayden is dropped off at the school by the people that drove him to Atlanta, and joins Dion's class as a new student.

After school, Nicole brings Dion to Biona, where he is now training his powers along with several other superpowered individuals, called gifted people. On their way there, Dion learns to his dismay that Nicole is helping with the musical, which he considers embarrassing. At Biona, Nicole discovers Dion has been assigned a new trainer; a former Olympic champion and sports coach named Tevin Wakefield, who has the power to summon forcefields. Nicole is not happy about another gifted man training Dion, but Suzanne Wu insists it was necessary. Dion's previous trainer could no longer keep up with him, and Dion is reaching the age where he becomes sensitive to peer preasure from his friends, so a role model like Tevin could help keep him on the right path. Despite their rough start, Nicole thus decides to give Tevin a second chance. Suzanne also introduces Nicole to David Marsh, Biona's new VP of operations. David is hoping to harness the DNA of gifted people for helping the world, something Suzanne does not approve of.

That night, near the sinkhole, The Crooked Man informs Brayden that he plans to create an army to take on Dion, and proceeds to enter the sinkhole where it causes strange, glowing plants to grow. Brayden is caught in the act by a Biona employer, but uses his powers to make the man fall asleep. When Gary, the security guard at the school, checks out the sinkhole and comes across the glowing plants, the plants infect him with their spores.

Meanwhile, at Dion's new home, Nicole's sister Kat unexpectedly shows up, having returned from a trip to Ghana. While Dion is in his room to record one of his daily videos for his dad should he ever come back, he realizes he left his phone at Biona, and teleports there to retrieve it. He thus ends up overhearing a conversation between Suzanne and David about suspicious activity at the sinkhole. When an alarm goes off because an intruder has entered the building, Dion quickly teleports back home. Security guards rush to the hallway to intercept the intruder, and to everybody's surprise, it turns out to be Pat Rollins. He claims he has come to warn Suzanne of a new, impending danger.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Alisha Wainwright as Nicole Warren
* Ja'Siah Young as Dion Warren
* Jazmyn Simon as Kat Neese
* Sammi Haney as Esperanza Jimenez
* Ali Ahn as Suzanne Wu
* Griffin Robert Faulkner as Brayden Mills
* Josh Ventura as David Marsh
* Jason Ritter as Pat Rollins

### Guest roles

* Aubriana Davis as Janelle Carr
* Tracey Bonner as Simone Carr
* Rome Flynn as Tevin Wakefield
* Gavin Munn as Jonathan King
* J Harrison Ghee as Kwame
* Michael Anthony as Gary Stafford
* Suehyla El-Attar as Ms. Burnett
* David Juan de la Barcena as Fernando Diaz
* Reinaldo Faberlle as Alonso Diaz
* Emily Dunlop as Cindy
* Scott Daniel Johnson as Joe