"A Neverending"

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**"A Neverending"** is the twenty-first episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

The Radar helps Skye continue Bucket's mission.

## Plot

**Act 1**

**11:30am, Aug 26, Kollok High**

A tired and over caffeinated Tibby joins Billy at a table during lunch and asks if he’s seen Tilly. Billy asks if he has a crush and the two discover that they are both interested in her though in different ways. Tibby expresses that he misses Billy, hanging out with him and Tibby tells him how they grew apart over the past few months. Tibby expresses his loss over his Mickey and the two argue about the nature of people changing and the way the group have treated Billy and Mickey. Tibby apologizes and the topic changes to Tibby getting sleep but he tells Billy about the figure that he saw when he last fell asleep and worries about being killed. Billy jokes trying to relax Tibby, which works and he admits to the real reason he’s having trouble with Mickey A; that because life has changed the two of them he doesn’t feel connected to her. Talking things out Billy helps Tibby realize that even as they are the group, they are all in this together because they are all each other have. Em and Mickey join them and Billy picking up on what Tibby said asks Mickey about her life that continued in Prime A that changed her. She answers that she went on for several months, Marcus using her and her Tibby to his advantage and Em points out the similarity of Mallory using Tibby as well. Billy points out that Tibby should stop letting people use him and Tibby starts to feel that he’s hallucinating everyone, due to his guilt.

Mickey and Em reassure him otherwise and the others continue to insist that he sleep as they will be there for him like last time, but he is still hesitant. They agree to meet at Mallory’s after school - where Skye is - to talk things over, but Tibby worries about Skye giving them up to the FBI. Em and Mickey point out that she is still their friend and Tibby tells them about the lack of police attention while he and Laura watched the Traveler burn, and they wonder if something is up. Tibby brings up some of the rumors about Mickey being called a liar about her legs, which Billy admits to contributing to, and the group discuss the lack of interest in the fires. They figure out that the “normal” affect on Kollok is ending and Tibby asks the others if the events of the previous day happened, and that he has been seeing Bucket everywhere. They assure him that things did happen and Tibby brings up Tilly again, but Em and Mickey tell him that they trust in her ability to take care of herself. Mickey A makes remarks about Tibby moving on already, but he retorts that they never dated in Prime A and that he is still thinking about his Mickey but also can’t get Tilly out of his mind either. Em and Billy change the subject, and their worry about the Traveler still being alive. Tibby ends up making a scene until Principal Cassandra enters the cafeteria and gestures for him to follow her to her office.

At Mallory’s Skye waits by the phone, expecting a call from Director Bilfroy after sending her report in. The phone rings and Skye answers to Bilfroy on the other end. She asks to be able to continue Bucket’s mission but the Director tells her that she is sending an agent to retrieve her. Mallory picks up the other phone in the kitchen to eavesdrop but Bilfory knows he’s listening and he feels a pinch at the back of his head and hangs up. Skye reluctantly agrees to Bilfroy’s request and the call ends. Skye tells Laura and Mallory about the call and her refusal to comply and to continue her mission, Laura is supportive of her staying but Mallory voices otherwise. Laura picks up on the tensions between the two as they start to bicker to Laura’s amusement. Skye asks if the two of them don’t trust her but not knowing them and understands if they feel that way. Laura tells her about coming to help her at the hospital after they found out about the Traveller and the two bond and she even pays Mallory a compliment, to some awkwardness. Skye voices leaving after she finishes her mission as no one wants her to stay anyway but Laura tells her otherwise and Mallory tells her about having Bucket’s files. Laura brings them to Skye to look through, which she does and the three sit and discuss the information inside.

Skye discovers DARPA’s connection to things going on, Bucket’s notes about the Traveler, his clones and the limited energy they have which caused them to fail; and puts together that the reason he was wanting to possess her and Billy was to feed on their large stores of energy for a long period of time. She also discovers that he could have survived and identifies two locations to investigate, the Greer Farm and the fracking site. Mickey, Em, Tibby and Billy arrive to Billy’s announcement that with enough time and effort he wants to be the same Billy they all got to know and wishes to be a part of the team to their acceptance. Laura thanks him for saying what he did and apologizes to how the group treated him before turning to Mickey and saying that they will give her a fair chance and promises to punch Tibby if he’s mean to her again. With everyone being nice to her Mickey tells Skye about being responsible for the loss of her arm, apologizes and is willing to accept whatever Skye wants from her. However, Skye understands her and is appreciative of her trying and offers to always be there for her and jokingly says that they are even after feeling guilty for Mickey losing her legs because of her. Mickey is happy and offers to create a mechanical arm for her with the skills that she picked up and Skye loves the idea. The group manage to talk things out which Tibby finds strange in his sleep deprived state and quietly asks Mallory to help him “keep an eye” on things.

Skye tells the group what disobeying Bilfroy and what she discovered in Bucket’s files, and brings up the Greer farm and J.A. (AJ Greer), who Mickey and Tibby recognize from Prime A, her suspicion that the Traveler being able to avoid death and the link to Crocodile Tears. She says she’s willing to investigate on her own but the others tell her that they are part of a team and going with her. Skye warns them about the dangers and her suspicions that with what he knew, someone could have still been after him and now, whoever had his files. They discuss the strange reactions of the police and Skye tells them about her and Dept. C’s encounter with Sheriff Bull; the centipede reminding them about Cassandra, and they reiterate joining her. Laura and Mickey bring up that Tibby has to be watched anyway, and the strange occurrence of him teleporting through water. With Skye having limited time until the Dept. C agent arrive Skye brings up splitting up to look at the two sights she discovered and the others agree; Team B made of Laura, Mallory, Em and Tibby will head to the fracking site and Team A, Skye, Mickey and Billy head to the Greer farm. Mickey warns them of the storm going on and Tibby tells them about seeing Bucket and hearing voices from the water. Mallory distributes raincoats and torches to everyone, Billy hands one of the walkie’s over to Mallory and with some final advice from Skye that she learned from Bucket, they head out into the rain.

Mallory, Em, Laura and Tibby journey through the dark and Tibby starts to hear whispers in the rain to the others nervousness. Em leads the way, while Laura and Mallory support Tibby making sure he doesn’t stumble. Skye, Mickey and Billy arrive at the edge of the Greer Farm, fenced off by barbwire but make their way past and start trudging through the fields, the three of them hearing multiple voices in the rain. They crest a hill and see a barn and sneak closer peering through a window, inside Skye spies a security camera watching the entrance and the trio sneak past it inside and start searching for clues. They find a gathering of wires along the floor and follow them until they lead directly down into the ground, Mickey uses her knife to dig around the wires and sees through the gap an elevator shaft. Looking around Billy finds a strange medical room with a bank of security monitors, some of the farm’s fruit, and a bright red button. Billy pockets an apple for evidence. Together the three of them push the button and the sound of the rain stops. The lights in the barn turn on, a hidden passage opens leading to the elevator below and the three head down.

The others arrive at the fracking site stopped outside a chain-link and razor wire fence, though no signs of security. Seeing Tibby struggling, Laura ask about the voices he’s hearing as Mallory digs at the wet ground underneath the fence, allowing them all to squeeze through, though Tibby tears his raincoat. Heading deeper inside they discover that the site is actually a quarry and see an active crane lowering something into the ground. Tibby huddles them together and asks them why its dark as it should only be after 4pm. Laura checks her watch and reveals that it is actually 2am, and they have all lost time sometime after arriving at Mallory’s and they wonder why they didn’t find it strange. The crane stops and they see the operator leave and head inside a trailer nearby. Ushered through the rain and the dark by Em they make their way unseen around the quarry to the trailer and the crane and discuss their options but as they do Mallory notices Tibby is gone just before the lights to the trailer go out and hear the person inside come out. Mallory hides and Em and Laura watches as Tibby uses a shovel to knock out the operator. They head inside the crane and Em recognizing the technology from what she used back in the 1940’s operates it. She brings up the crate that acts as an elevator, uses her power to freeze time and set the crane to descend and joins the others inside, restarting time as they are lowered to the bottom of the pit. At the bottom they find a large door into the ground and using keys Laura found on the operator, opens it to reveal a stairwell heading down. They close the door after them and lock it shut from the inside.

**Act 2**

An hour later. to Team A finds themselves in a concrete tunnel where the elevator stopped and hear machinery, and up ahead, see two people talking next to a cart. They quickly come up with a plan and keep heading forward. Skye uses her power to reuse her invisibility and creeps up on the two individuals, however the two turn and see Billy and Mickey. Skye knocks the pair of individuals out, Mickey and Billy don the lab coats they were wearing, get in the cart and drive down the tunnel and arrive at the heart of the operations. Billy gets out and joins a crowd of scientists with Mickey and Skye racing after him, the scientists discuss the change from working with Flesh to something new and Skye moves ahead to see the almost endless size of the facility, with soldiers and countless empty workstations. Skye tells the others and continues to scout and Billy turns off the walkie talkie.

After an hour and a half of walking, Team B come across a conveyor belt of one gallon buckets of water and hop on to see where it goes, a pain growing in the back of their heads. Wondering about the water Mallory looks inside one of the buckets and sees the face of Agent Bucket staring out at him. He tells the others but when Laura looks she doesn’t see anything, but Tibby does. He mentions Bucket telling him that he isn’t alone, that he isn’t their Bucket. Mallory looks again but this time sees a different version of the Lexi Noff looking back, and once again Laura doesn’t see it. Tibby continues to listen to Bucket, who says that they are Echoes. Em and Laura theorize about why they would need the water as Mallory and Tibby stare into the water. Tibby interrupts with news from Bucket. Someone is taking Echoes from the water, the remains of those with nowhere to go since the multiverse collapsed and using them to create something. Mallory tips out the water from his bucket and he sees many faces within that then vanish into the earth. Tibby voices a crazy idea and suggest they each stand in one of the buckets. Mallory does so and vanishes to the others alarm. Bucket tells Tibby that Mallory is safe further ahead and they each do the same, Tibby sharing his relief with Em that he wasn’t crazy. Em steps in along with Tibby and feels a wave wash over her, hearing the voices of lost souls and they all fall to the ground, naked, in a room before a large machine pulsing with energy, the buckets of water pouring into it. They feel the energy push against them and Laura leads the search for a way to switch the machine off, and Tibby turns to Em and gives her an idea. Em uses her power to create a portal and sends half of the machine elsewhere. It crashes to the ground as the buckets fall and an alarm rings out. Seeing a door at the far end of the room Laura locks it and holds it closed as Mallory hides. Em and Laura come up with a plan and Laura lets the door open and Em stops time. She sees a line of armed soldiers about to pour into the room, and a vast facility behind them with more soldiers and scientists. Over two hours Em starts dragging the others back along the walkway beside the conveyor belt until they are safe.

Back with the A Team they head deeper inside the facility overhearing the scientists talk about water filtration and begin to feel the thrum of a large machine. Scouting ahead Skye finds an office looking over the facility, occupied with people in suits, and waiting for her chance gets inside. At the head of the table is one of the faceless workers from Mammon, criticising that production is low. The debt must still be paid even though Phobos cut off their supply. Though it has taken longer the figure states that the fate of Phobos changed nothing and Mammon will have a fair deal paid in full. Skye recognizes four of the other people around the table as council members but before one of them speaks up, the faceless makes a sound as if sniffing, stands and looks directly at Skye, asking if she will repay Kollok’s debt. Skye says nothing and leaves opening the door as the thrum of the machine stops and an alarm goes off. Those gathered around the table run out past her as the soldiers react. Skye finds Billy and Mickey and tells them what she saw as the scientist’s voice something wrong with The Purifier. Billy radios to Team B, who find themselves back at the bottom of the pit, time having restarted with an exhausted Em. Mallory and Billy rapidly tell each their situations and Team B take the crane back up to the empty quarry and manage to get out safely. Team A start to head out back the way they entered they come across a windowed room filled with rows of bodies, all the same. They carry on but Mickey slips and slides across the floor stopping by the feet of her father, they look at each other and swear.

**Epilogue**

**3am, Mallory’s house**

Tibby, Em, Laura and Mallory are sat waiting, now clothed and have heard back from the others, saying that Mickey’s dad helped them get out. Mallory apologizes to Tibby for thinking him crazy but they discuss his state and ask him how he’s been able to see and hear things in the rain, but he doesn’t know. Tibby puts together where the Echoes have come from; since the Grotto is gone the souls of those lost in the multiverse instead of being filed through the Grotto, have somehow found their way to Kollok. They discuss the situation as Laura leaves to go to the bathroom and finds some sleeping pills. She makes them all them tea and slips the sleeping pills inside Tibby's drink and hands them out. Tibby burns himself on the drink and adds ice cubes to his as Laura gives the others a look warning them to what she did. The others discuss the strange soldiers as the medicine kicks in; Tibby sleepily warns Laura about him dying if he falls asleep, as she hugs him close and he gently nods off.

There is a knock at the door and answering, Mallory sees a woman in a suit, who asks to see Agent Hawkins. She introduces herself as Agent Bell and shows Laura her badge as proof. Em and Laura cover for Skye and Agent Bell remarks about the energy coursing through Em. Bell turns to Laura, sensing something about her as well and asks if Laura wishes to be evaluated. Em curious about what she means by evaluation asks about if Bell sensed her aura and Bell replies that she "only wore it for a brief moment". After some more talk Laura asks to be evaluated and taking her hand, Bell senses a growing power within her, like a seed. Bells asks her about it and Laura let’s slip about what Truth calling her Lucifer. Curious Em also asks to be evaluated but Bell warns against the two of them touching as she takes power from those who have grown into it. Bell elects to wait for Skye outside and Mallory closes the door on the awkward conversation.

**4 hours later**

Having stayed over Em wakes up for breakfast at Mallory’s and finds a note from Skye on the kitchen counter, and one of Skye’s ties beside it. Reading the note Skye says her goodbyes and mentions she has attached a memory to the tie. Finishing the note, Em picks up the tie and Skye's memory of reading the letter Em in Prime A left her after she died, rushes into her mind and she clutches the tie to her heart.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

### Guests

* Meghan "Strawburry17" Camarena as Skye Hawkins

## Rumors

1. I heard voices in the water.
2. The church is going to be lost in the flood.
3. Someone spray painted "Free Devina" on the Synchroneity Gate. (winner)
4. Deputy officers found a burnt out cab and a black Buick with the body of a missing ambulance driver next to the old community center. Why did no one see the flames?

## Notes

The ending of this Episode marks - Michael Jones's 1st appearance since the end of Season 1 Episode 22.