Season One Episode 6: Wanted

## Synopsis for "Wanted"

#### Joey at School

Joey is called up to the front office, where there are approximately three soldiers there posing as military. They tell him they want to assist him in learning how to use his abilities, but Joey refuses to join the military or government. Because he is refusing to cooperate, they attempt to take him by force and they taze him, which prevents him from turning into water, aside from the fact that he is unsure of how to use his power and does not want to turn into water and go naked.

Later, Joey's brother returns home after riding the bus, and their parents begin to wonder about Joey, who does not answer his phone. They draw the conclusion that he may be tutoring and decide to wait it out. After about two to three hours, they waited at home and drove around the school, becoming concerned and calling the police.

Elsewhere, as Nick looks down at his phone, he notices police scans regarding Joey's disappearance, prompting him, Ayo, Kimbrianna and Kaliyah to start an investigation. Scarlette tags along, claiming that she should be allowed to search for her missing friend.

### Search for Joey

During the evening, Ayo is out as White Shadow looking for Joey with Scarlette and Kaliyah, looking for clues at the school as to what might have happened to Joey, knowing school is the last place they saw him. Nick and Kimbrianna are in the van waiting for police scans to reveal Joey's location. Needing a codename, Kaliyah goes by "Butterfly" and Scarlette goes by "Tenebris". During the wait, Kimbrianna expresses her desire to join White Shadow's missions, but Nick continues to dismiss the idea.

That night, in the school, White Shadow attempts to log into the computer in order to see what the camera captured during Joey's abduction. Making an incorrect password entry, Butterfly detects which letters and numbers are incorrect whenever a keyboard button is pressed. They eventually obtain the correct password this way. Butterfly begins looking through her eye, knowing precisely what she is looking for; she is able to skim through the files because she possesses a certain sensory and manipulative ability that allows her to "feel" the path of programming through any piece of technology, granting her the ability to override the system and make the device obey her mental commands. Being connected to the computer enables Butterfly to not only locate the video footage and play it for White Shadow to download onto a hard drive, but she also gains an understanding of the technology, or rather, the technology gains an understanding of her and regards her as superior, obeying her commands.

Back in the van, the team makes an attempt to verify the officers identities but is unsuccessful. They'd need a computer with those officers' identities stored inside, which Butterfly does not have because she can only retain knowledge of computers with which she has previously interacted.

### The Facility

The next day, being the end of September 2018, when a local cop, whom Nick trusts, is told by Nick that Joey is with the government in a secret and undisclosed location, the cop informs Joey's parents of the situation.

Joey is now shown in a military base camp "prison" for multiple days, dressed in a tactical liquid armored prisoner suit, while Joey's parents are at the police station, attempting to reason with the military captain for days to weeks. Joey's parents are in a dilemma because the government has essentially kidnapped Joey and is forcing him to become something he does not want to be: a weapon and a member of the military alongside other Altered. After the conversation, the cop personally speaks to the military captain, asking who were the soldiers sent for Joey, but then is told that it's classified.

As Joey's parents appear in court on separate days, the judge stated that Joey must be kept in good health, but according to the government, the military must retain him because he is "dangerous and could be useful to the military in wars and battles." Joey's family departs angrily.

Meanwhile, Liam is being yelled at over the phone by an associate of the Syndicate Industries, who is screaming "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?" due to the facility's attempt to maintain a low profile and avoid pursuing the more powerful Altered, which would be Joey, in this instance. Liam explains that they are not required to keep Joey, and that he only desires his power and that this is the first time they've found someone who can transmute and heal at the same rate. To him, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an unstoppable soldier. He states "We've omitted the kid who can hack technology with his fingers, as he could potentially hack off everyone's collars and have everyone escape, which would be dangerous. We're inside a secure facility, and Joey is unable to use technology or pass through locked doors of this high-impact cement base with an ultra-grade titanium framework by simply turning into water. We're fine."

While on the military base, Joey is completely uncooperative. Additionally, there are others present who are cooperating out of fear, and when they are not at lunch or working on powers, they are housed in steel cells with a window.

Joey has not cooperated with the military for two months, since September, making it November. He is not training with the soldiers or following their orders.

### Joey's New Friends

A month later, December, during Joey's time at the facility, he was introduced to five other young teenagers who he has now been friends for the past month: Kalven King, codenamed "Nomad" for his repeated attempts to flee another facility; Massey Park Adam, codenamed "Warmind" for her dangerous side; Bobby Reign Delgado, codenamed "Solray'' for his ability to use thermokinetic abilities and absorb solar ray energy; Kassie Craig, codenamed "Alpha Tracer" for her ability to track things down as a leader; and Damien Thompson, codenamed "Midas" for his golden touch. Unable to codename Joey, he is asked for a list of nicknames he often receives, listing four, answering: "My coach in seventh grade called me by either my last name or the Miami Heat because I'm a Heat fan, my parents call me Jo, and my friends and classmates call me Jayy Slimmy for J Slim."

Ultimately he is given the codename "Slim."

After weeks of planning, in the cafeteria during lunch, Nomad tells Joey that he already has three escape plans.

### The Team at Base

At base, Ayo and Kaliyah consult with Nick on a strategy for locating Joey. The trio is unsure what would happen as Kaliyah raises a logistical issue: even if they locate Joey, he could be pursued and apprehended again. However, Kimbrianna is finally able to inform Nick about her recent and unexpected discovery of an old location, and she immediately thinks of an old friend who would be the ideal candidate to assist them. Nick approves of the plan, and Kaliyah and Ayo believe that they should be careful, considering Joey's two-month absence as an example of how closely guarded he may be.

### Escaping

Early in the morning, still night outside, when the guards enter the cell to check on everyone, the prisoners attack them. Joey steals the remotes for the collars and releases everyone, causing a riot of all prisoners. Joey is accompanied through the disruption by Massey, Kalven, Bobby, Damien and Kassie, who steal guards' equipment to impersonate them and find a control room after navigating a maze-like path. There, Joey, Damien, Kalven, Kassie, Massey and Bobby; the six gather their belongings before proceeding to escape as planned.

During the escape, the team quietly make their way through the Altered prison with Kassie leading. She puts everyone in the right place to fight and survive.

Massey is driving in a dark blue morning, when Joey and his new friends escape in a stolen military vehicle. She asks about everyone's residence. Kalven believes that returning home is a bad idea because it puts their families in danger if the government pursues them. Joey disagrees, claiming that if they do not return home, the government will arrive and threaten their families, who would have a better chance of survival if they were present. Bobby, Kassie and Kalven inform Massey that they have no home or family to return to, while Joey and Damien give her their addresses and Nomad requests to be dropped off somewhere with the intention of rescuing his sister, while Kassie and Bobby accompany or tag along.

### Aftermath with Liam

Sunrise, in the aftermath of the riot and escape, a guard assumes charge of the facility unit after other guards and allies who are seriously hurt are discovered, and some assumed dead. Liam is startled up by a buzzing phone call regarding the escapees. Later at the institution, Liam is outraged about all of the escapees. He holds the leading guard accountable for both the loss of important soldiers as well as the loss of the escapees. Another guard infers that the escapees cannot have gotten far, since the vehicles the escapees stole were equipped with installed trackers. Liam angrily answers by ordering his guards to find the escapees.

### The Drop Off

Damien and Massey are both currently at the airport. Massey is with her family, preparing to return to their home and relocate again, while Damien is with Vincent, preparing to return to California. Noting the burglar-ninja-like soldiers they often encounter, Vincent and Damien discuss what their parents were involved in, why they died and who is pursuing them, continuing their investigation.

Meanwhile, Joey is at home with his family and is informed by his parents that he has been dropped from his school due to safety concerns following the previous incident. Then Joey informs them that he will be unable to stay with them, having the same reason of safety concerns due to the possibility of Liam's militia mercenaries coming to look for him again. When his parents ask about where he would go, he claims he has Altered friends who will allow him to stay with them and learn to use his powers as well. As a result, he must use the computer to locate his contacts via Google, as his parents do not have Ayo's phone number. Joey calls Ayo on his parents' phone, but Ayo does not answer due to the unknown number, prompting Joey to send him a text message. After receiving the message, Ayo contacts Nick to pick Joey up from his home since he is at school.

Unfortunately, while Joey is still at home, the militia arrive before Nick, having tracking the suit Joey is no longer wearing and trashed. Joey's parents are outside speaking with the lead agent, who insists that Joey is dangerous, to which the mother responds, "The only dangerous person here is you." Additionally, Joey's father informs them that they must get off their property without a warrant.

### Ayo and the Others at School

Meanwhile, the school day has ended for Ayo, Scarlette, Kaliyah and Kimbrianna. Knowing they have much to do with Joey's reappearance, they go to Nick's to prepare for Joey's pick up and rescue.

### Picking up Joey

Later in the day, Joey, in normal clothes, and his family are relaxing when Liam's militia show up at the door again, but this time they have a warrant to search the household of Joey's parents. Joey goes to the restroom as they swarm and search the house with a warrant but are unable to locate Joey, having no trace of him inside. Upon their departure, Joey, from the tub, reappears from his water form while also forming and slipping back into his clothes and glasses and claiming that he should've kept the suit, being bothered by the complications of slipping back into his clothes off the floor.

Later that night, Liam's militia are staking out in a car across the street from the house. When Nick arrives to pick up Joey, the milita's car is shut down by Butterfly, who is also in the car with Nick. Then the milita's car is destroyed when White Shadow jumps on the hood with his swords drawn, then vanishes seconds later.

### Project S.A.D.'s Orders

Ordering his employees to leave the lab, Liam approaches and manipulates Steve Waller, telling him that he owes him a favor for saving his life. Liam supplies Steve with equipment through the use of high-tech organic compounds and equips him with gadgets and weapons in order to assist him and the guards in capturing the escapees and Steve is dubbed Project S.A.D., standing for Search and Destroy.

### Getting leads from Joey

After getting a lead from Joey of what the location looks like, although he doesn't know where the base is at, Nick, Kimbrianna, White Shadow, Butterfly and Scarlette follow leads that have White Shadow, Nick, Joey and Butterfly physically look around the outskirts for government facilities imprisoning Altered. Kimbrianna remains on base with Scarlette who didn't go on mission because of her aversion to beaches and the sensory overload caused by the sand. While White Shadow stands guard at the of the facility base Joey was kept in, Nick and Butterfly scavenge the battle-scarred facility for information, where Butterfly comes up on a lead that shows facilities all over the country, although there is no sign of the ones in charge.

Back at Nick's and the base, with the little information Butterfly has gathered allows her to reveal to the public anonymously what the facility has been doing as people thought Altered were being "helped" by the government, but instead, they were being experimented on, using them to be tools for war. So at the nearby bases, Nick, White Shadow and Butterfly begin to raid the other facilities night after night as they are determined to prioritize their focus to destroy the facilities and Liam's militia at all costs. In other states of the country, others who do good are raiding the bases near them just as Nick and his team do.

Liam receives a call. With the aftermath of public exposure to the world, Liam's military clearance and alliance with the Syndicate Industries has been revoked, leaving him with only the G.I.L.T. company business, which means no militia, military experiments or experiments of any kind other than assisting others with limbs and cybernetics at his company G.I.L.T..

While raiding the last nearby base, Joey stayed at Nick's with Scarlette and Kimbrianna as he had only gone the first time to obtain a new suit, greatly one without a tracker.

Meanwhile, Project S.A.D. is staking out the perimeters to see if he can get a lead on Joey. When the Mortals arrive at the base, Project S.A.D. deploys a tracker on the Mortals van.

While Joey, Scarlette, Kimbrianna, Nick and Kaliyah are relaxing, without Ayo who is at home with his own parents, Project S.A.D. is outside the house doing a stakeout, waiting to apprehend Joey alone and without the interference of his friends.

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