Book 6: Uprisings

**Book Six** of the Shifter, subtitled Uprisings, is succeeded by Book 7: Rebuild and is preceded by Book 5: Revelations. The book covers events that pick up on where the previous tale of Aiyana's time as Shifter left off, such as: The Great Diversion, Hunt for a Spectrum, Rise of the Union, Game of Elements, The Day Reality Broke, and the Tale of Many Shifters. Uprisings continues the journey of main protagonist and focus character Aiyana Storm while also introducing Kylie Summers, the girl who receives the Spectrum essence instead of Antonio and is taken under Aiyana's wing to get a grip on her new life while evading capture from a dangerous force. The allies of the two serve as the heroic faction with the Union of Elemental Warlords serving as both the main antagonists and villainous faction.

## Overview

A big event of a lifetime goes sideways. Since the defeat of the Red Mist Syndicate and Mass Spec Shifter Units, Aiyana Storm has been at the peak of her career as the legendary vigilante and mercenary called the Shifter. Despite her contributions to society, the multiverse and allies of her late brother, nothing can tear or take her away from her family as she attends the Storm Clan's ceremony that could see the vision of the next Spectrum essence user's rise to the occassion. Things go smoothly until it is revealed that a Storm Clan member; Aiyana's cousin Anthony; shows no signs or promise of inheriting the power as it has chosen an outsider. With her clan's worries about the essence falling into the wrong hands, the Shifter sets out to find out who exactly received the power instead of the young Anthony. Enter Kylie Summers; a middle-class high school student and citizen of New Horizon City who formerly had an untamed admiration for the Shifter and Storm Clan. Because she isn't anywhere near skilled or experienced with her new powers, it doesn't take long for Aiyana to track her down and dig for some answers and explanations. Despite Aiyana's best intentions to help the teenager hone these abilities so people don't get hurt, the universe has other plans. A group of six elemental terrorists, calling themselves the Union of Terra Warlords, seek out Kylie to take her young, raw power for themselves in their quest to become Earth-62's most powerful force. Reluctantly forced to go on a globe and realm-trotting adventure alongside the girl she must protect with her friends, Aiyana has a lot to learn about mentoring and the responsibilties of an adult as she teaches the girl to master her limits and kick the ass of their oppressors. Will the Terra Warlords succeed in their quest or fall short a power to their collection? Can Aiyana juggle her already active responsibilities with the new ones brought about by Kylie? What happens to the Shifter mantle and Spectrum essence in all this? Find out as the Shifter faces a new time of both good and bad uprisings.

## History

#### The Big Day

At the peak of her career, Aiyana hunts down a lead on an Injustice Order cell that has minced its way on to Earth-62 while her family and the Storm Clan prepare for the potential reveal of the next Spectrum essence user.

#### In the Summers

In the wake of the Storm Clan's discovery that Anthony is not the new recipitent of the Spectrum essence, Kylie Summers makes a discovery of her own when her powers begin to manifest while trying to juggle her friendships and responsibilities. Aiyana and her allies begin the search for the mystery recipitent of the power she controls.

#### Link to the Past

Crossing paths with Kylie in the midst of a pursuit of a mysterious phantom with ice powers, Aiyana learns of the circumstances of the inheritance and ponders on whether she should take the girl under her wing. Thea, Bach and Miguel look for leads on the phantom as they believe it might be a deceased ally who has reached a low point.

#### The Theives

Shortly after trying to start training Kylie into understanding her new powers, Aiyana finds that Earth-62 has become a target for higher powers in the form of a new group of advanced Elemental titans called the Union of Elemental Warlords. Thea, Bach and Miguel postpone their search for Juniper when they learn that Aiyana and Kylie are in danger.

#### Aiyana's Annoying Adventure

Now on defense, Team Shifter whisks away Kylie aboard the Night Owl to draw away their pursuers from New Horizon City and the Storm Clan districts, giving Aiyana some time to teach Kylie some basics with the powers. The Union of Elemental Warlords' past is revealed with their connections across realities becoming clear.

#### Summit on Mount Espa

Hiding out on the rough terrain of Mount Espa, Aiyana finds that training Kylie in such a short amount of time is not only putting stress upon the girl but also herself. The team is sidetracked by Miguel's discovery of a run-down monastery in the mountain's shaded region. Anthony Storm, although coping with the fact that he isn't an elemental like his parents had wanted, does some investigation into the Elemental Warlords' origins while digging up some intel on Kylie.

#### The Lords & Ladies

With their cover blown but their goal to keep the city safe acheived, Team Shifter find themselves up against the full force of three Elemental Warlords who are trying to get Kylie's power to fulfill their own goals. Anthony gets some valuable information on the UEW from the Twin Dragons Syndicate's Tracer only to find that one of them is in New Horizon City's Storm Clan District.

#### Sought After

Anthony uses some gurostone tech knowledge he has to fuse with an old Shifter suit to go up against the Chaos Lord alongside his Storm Clan brothers and sisters. With Raiden, T' Mon and Cordelia thrown off their trail, Team Shifter takes a visit to the City of Angels to help get Kylie past her mental and spiritual block. Viktor and Thrawn judge Raiden for his lack of attention to tasks given.

#### Power of Pain

In the City of Angels' Grand Domo Monastery, Kylie gets some advanced training from the same monks that helped Aiyana in her low point after her victory over the Red Mist. In the wake of his humbling defeat by Griff's hand, Anthony faces consequences from his destruction of one of the Shifter suits while the Extremist Division attempts to track down Griff. Raiden gets help from Thrawn on how to surpass his limits by gaining more power and getting over his pride.

#### The Lost Ones

Through the tether created by Monk Tatsu, Aiyana and Kylie are transported to the Spiritual Plain to help the new Spectrum user surpass her mental block with her powers, giving Aiyana time to reconnect with her deceased family members. Raiden and Thrawn find themselves up against none other than Octavia, the sister of Akosua, of Earth-50 and her friends. Ronny and Anthony's father bail him out of jail to plot some way to help with conflict.

#### An Unforeseen Twist

In the quick aftermath of Raiden and Thrawn's attack upon Earth-50, the allies of the now powerless Octavia alert some friends on Earth-21 to the active threat. With his powers heightened by stealing Octavia's, Raiden begins his rematch against Team Shifter by getting help from Thrawn with wrecking their personal lives. Having to make a quick return to the Terra Realm, Team Shifter is faced with a type of threat they haven't faced since Harlow.

#### Electro Trouble

With Ninja-Spider, Maurice and Luis at their backs to help them with Raiden, Aiyana and Kylie accept his terms on a rematch and make a plan to defeat and capture him. Anthony gets help from Miguel with creating weaponry for his new hero uniform which he's calling "Project Ballistic Boy". Octavia recieves some guidance from members of the Storm Clan while Kyle and Nate give some ideas on how to defeat and capture Griff, the Chaos Lord.

#### Rage of the Elements

Team Shifter begins their big scheme to catch the five other Elemental Warlords by baiting them into coming to save Raiden from his captivity and find that whoever is in charge of the group has a plan of his own. Project Ballistic Boy is finally completed, giving Anthony a chance to prove himself while being formally introduced to Kylie.

#### Back to Where It All Started

With their attempt to take the Elemental Warlords having gone south and caused them more of a loss than any victories, Team Shifter finds themselves divided by Viktor and Thrawn's influence upon the public and the struggles that brings. With Kylie badly injured from the battle, Aiyana, with aid from the Earth-50 crew, hauls her to the Nation of Dark Islanders to seek council from the same caverns that helped Miyagi Garmadon hide out from the Equalists.

#### Rebirth: Part One

The Union of Elemental Warlords amass loyalists from across the realms to help them in their quest to gain more power, with Viktor adjusting to his powers merged with Kylie's Spectrum essence. In the Nation of Dark Islanders, the Earth-50 crew and Aiyana discover that saving Kylie's life won't be as easy as they thought as a Dark Matter hive has nested itself in the Crystal Caverns. Anthony visits the places that mean something to Kylie to better understand her and why she got the powers.

#### Rebirth: Part Two

Thea has a run-in with T'Mon while evacuating a village near a fault line and the two forge an unlikely alliance as he wants out of the Union. Viktor, Raiden and Griff come down upon the Final Realm to turn the advanced beings there to their cause. The Earth-50 crew and Aiyana team-up with two colonies of Dark Islanders to exterminate the Dark Matter hive while Kylie finds herself succumbing to her injuries quicker and quicker. Anthony meets the classmates and friends of Kylie.

#### Trial by Spectrum

While he was simply trying to gain information upon Kylie, Anthony finds himself having to help the Extremist League while protecting Kylie's friends from the waves of Cordelia's surprise attack upon a vault under the Museum of History. The hive is gone but Kylie is on the very verge of dying, leaving Aiyana with limited options on how to save her. Octavia finds that the caverns might be able to help her while the rest of the Earth-50 crew come to blows with a past enemy of theirs. Thea and T'Mon venture to the Cloud Kingdom where he hopes to give her a better idea of the Union's past.

#### Resonance

Aiyana makes a sacrifice of her own power reserve to keep Kylie alive until she can activate the Caverns' Spiral Dome and gets a warning from Thrawn who has been watching the group's actions since the battle. With Cordelia having stolen several powerful relics, Anthony recklessly pursues her alongside the Extremist League. Octavia confronts her and her sister's tattered past while trying to regain her confidence. Thea comes face to face with the same phantom and finally learns the truth while T'Mon is persecuted by the scribes of Cloud Kingdom.

#### Tale of Two Pities

Captured by Cordelia and Thrawn, Anthony and the Leaguers that were caught find everything they are and stand for being tested by the complex ideaologies of their captors. With Kylie having disappeared after her assumed revival, Aiyana questions her responsibilities and duties as both a guardian and a savior. While she doesn't gain her powers back, Octavia's new confidence helps lead to a breakthrough with the Earth-50 crew's foe who has taken one of the Islander colonies hostage. With Juniper now working against her, Thea works to find a way to get her friend out of her dark place.

#### Conquest

Through T'Mon's explanation to Thea and Juniper and Viktor's explanation to a renewed Anthony, the full history of the Elemental Warlords is revealed through varied yet merged ways of storytelling.

#### We Came For You

Now serving under the Union of Elemental Warlords, Anthony and his comrades begin bringing chaos to New Horizon City, raising concern from the government and Storm Clan along the way. The Earth-50 crew and Aiyana race back to New Horizon City when news of the Union's expansion get to the Nation of Dark Islanders. Cordelia is stalked by an unseen entity while she helps with the expansion. Thea, Juniper and T'Mon must put up against an attack on Cloud Kingdom from Viktor himself.

#### The E Word

Aiyana and her allies she has available confront Thrawn who is directly responsible for Anthony and the Extremists' turn, with an unexpected connection between the Union and another being discovered. Cloud Kingdom's capital is wrecked, leaving Thea and Juniper with a choice: help the scribes rebuild or go after T'Mon and Viktor. Being revealed as the one who marked Cordelia, Kylie unveils her new abilities gained from the Spiral Dome.

#### The Gathering

The Union of Elemental Warlords' following reaches its peak as Viktor, Thrawn, Griff, Raiden and Cordelia hatch their plan for the Final Reckoning and what to do about their "wayward" brother. Team Shifter comes back together to come up with some kind of plan to stop the Final Reckoning from causing irreversable damage.

#### Viktor His Inner Demons

The Union's five-headed dragon, known as Argo or the Serpent Messiah, is unearthed in the Northern Alps and preparations are made for its revival but the Earth-62's Resistance stages an assault to stall for Aiyana. The Storm Clan councils with Aiyana to consider a solution to their overpowered enemy's vast number and power. Kylie confronts Viktor on the Spiritual Plain through their connection as Energy essence users.

#### Shifterventure

The Union of Elemental Warlords and their followers rain chaos down upon New Horizon City alongside the Injustice Order with Team Shifter, the Earth-50 crew and Resistance springing their own plan into action. The Shifter mantle experiences one of its most revolutionary moments in the heat of battle. Kylie confronts Anthony to resolve the divide between them that's been boiling over.

## Cast

### Heroes

#### Team Shifter

* Aiyana Storm - Aisha Taylor
* Kylie Summers - Hannah Kepple
* Miguel - TBA
* Thea O' Daniel - Teyonah Parris
* Bach - TBA
* Anthony Storm - TBA
* Ronald - TBA

#### Storm Clan Divisions

* Brianna Storm - TBA
* Fredrick Storm - TBA
* Wilma - TBA
* Antonio Suarez - TBA
* Kiki Storm - TBA

#### Twin Dragons Syndicate

* Rian Mitsuko/Zero - TBA
* The Scythe - TBA
* Jingo - TBA
* Lash - TBA
* Lynch - TBA
* The Tracer - TBA

### Villains

#### Union of Terra Warlords

* Supreme Lord Viktor - F. Murray Abraham
* Ice Emperor Thrawn - Dee Bradley Baker
* Mountain King T' Mon - TBA
* Chaos Lord Griff - Brian Drummond
* Storm Baron Raiden - Alessandro Juliani
* Reef Queen Cordelia - TBA