Old Town Dust (episode)

**Old Town Dust** is the eighth episode of the *V2 Universe* television series, and the third episode of the Saturday Arc, which covers episodes 6-11 of Season 1.

## Plot Points

* Jude and Gloria pass along some of their own team recommendations to Callie, but she doesn't vibe with either of their choices much. Callie learns that Tea and Sidney don't belong to a team, due to the recent death of their former captain.
* On her way to the Vincent Five Hideout, she has an encounter with an energetic and dim third-tier agent, Julia Cidel.
* While Asher's Kingdom continues to bully and pester Hana and Saffron, Callie sneaks away to do some homework with V2. When she expresses doubts about being a Captain, V2 starts to tell her a story about the Vincent Five's glory days, telling her a story about the liberation of Mercer's home, the Old Town Road.
* Mercer meets with Pony Oakley and Jane Cassidy, two of the Silver Rangers, and learns that his mentor, Sheriff Atticus Mabo, has been assassinated by Zora Salazar. Zora's team of bandits have taken control of the town, with Zora installing herself as Sheriff.
* Zora publicly executes Bradley Donahue, a Doctor suspected of working with the Silver Rangers. Though Mercer confronts her and tries to force her to stand down, Zora uses his hesitation to kill Dr. Donahue and blow up the Old Town Road's famed 'Two Hands' statue, spurring Pony and Jane into wrath.
* This leads to a shootout between Zora's deputies and the Silver Rangers, backed up by the Vincent Five. In spite of the Rangers and the Vincents' best efforts, not to mention some backup provided by Judy, Mercer and the others are forced to flee from the town. Zora defeats Pony and Jane, capturing them.
* When Zora announces that she's going to publicly execute Pony and Jane as part of a trap to lure in the Vincent Five and the Silver Rangers in one fell swoop, the Vincents and the Rangers form their own plan against her. Jeremiah and Candy sabotage an explosives factory and a supply train; Melissa uses blackmail to stop Meyers, the railroad conductor, from reporting this in to Zora. Saffron takes a page from the CCLA and sneaks around town, secretly recruiting some displeased townspeople and recruiting them into the Silver Rangers.
* As Pony and Jane are brought to the stage, the trap is sprung on Zora, the Rangers and the Vincents assimilated into the same crowd that was forced to watch the execution. With numbers and surprise on their side, the Vincents and the Rangers overwhelm Zora's forces, and Mercer has an intense, climatic fistfight with Zora in a barn. Right before her defeat, Zora manages to have Jane Cassidy assassinated, as the final 'fuck-you' to the rebellion's forces. In spite of Jane's death, Old Town Road is liberated from Zora's control.
* Zora is thrown in jail. Mercer is given an offer to become the new Sheriff, but he ultimately declines, deciding that his home is with the Vincent Five, promising to return home again in spite of that. Judy becomes the Sheriff.
* Out of respect, before Mercer leaves, the incarcerated Zora passes along some critical information about JelloApocalypse, a YouTuber that lost his mind and began working on a mysterious 'Epithet' project.
* In the distance, in the present time, Mercer and Melissa's spirits watch over V2 and Callie contently.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

* 1. Hyde Kido
* 2. Callista Paige
* 3. Jude Vanston
* 4. Gloria Sykes
* 5. Sidney Crawford
* 6. Tea Gardner
* 7. The Narrator
* 8. Julia Cidel
* 9. Yuri Mobius
* 10. Hana
* 11. Asher
* 12. Nikki Starling
* 13. Cindy Rose
* 14. Yukiya
* 15. Saffron McCarthy
* 16. Autumn
* 17. V2
* 18. Mercer
* 19. Melissa
* 20. Candy Clairet
* 21. Jeremiah Gottwald
* 22. Billy Ray Cyrus
* 23. Lil Nas X
* 24. Jane Cassidy
* 25. Pony Oakley
* 26. Donahue
* 27. Zora
* 28. Judy
* 29. Meyers
* 30. Yuri Mobius
* 31. Mira

## Characters Introduced in Order

* Julia Cidel
* Autumn
* River
* Billy Ray Cyrus (first TV appearance)
* Lil Nas X (first TV appearance)
* Jane Cassidy
* Pony Oakley
* Zora
* Judy
* Meyers
* Mira

## Battles and Events

* Zora's Takeover (Instigator for...)
	+ Old Town Shootout (Concluded)
	+ Old Town Rebellion (Concluded)