Season One Episode 10: Myriad

## Synopsis for "Myriad"

### The Octet Discussing Recent Events and New Plans

The Octet gathers to discuss recent events. Prima encourages Peregrine to be more active, that she herself will also become more active, and assures that necessary actions will be taken. Everything new now passes through her instead of them individually. Money trails will be cleared by her accountants and associates, and she will have her assassin, Maestro, deal with the Mortals with Cleaver's help, while Izo is tasked with expanding their alliances, "taking care" of their enemies as they worry about how they're going to explain Ethan's arrest to them. The plans to eliminate their enemies will now vary; due to interest in the energy that Revnnon has acquired, Kaliyah will be captured while the others are to be killed. The mayor, Drakaina and Revnnon are to continue what they usually do: Drakaina would continue to keep an eye on the mayor; Revnnon would continue to oversee the city's security, keeping an eye out for any hostile forces; and Felicity will continue to hold her influence.

### Ethan Robinson's Hospitalization and Arrest

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Ethan is wearing an eye patch over his right eye while handcuffed to the medical bed. Monica comes in to ask him questions, to no avail.

### Nick at Work

At the same time, Nick is at work, and Ayo, Scarlette, and Kimbrianna are eating lunch at school with other friends.

### Joey, Kaliyah and Kimbrianna

Later in the day, Joey is just awakening in the afternoon at the motel as Kaliyah and Kimbrianna arrive. While they converse and do homework, Joey eats.

### Peregrine and Paragon Enter the Base of Operations Site's Data Center Laboratory and Move Forward from Detritus

In the evening, Peregrine and Paragon arrive at a building that is being constantly monitored around the clock and is owned by the Octet. Inside, as they pass containment units, Paragon, in conversation with Peregrine, questions his motivations, saying that she "hopes what they're doing is worth it", annoying Peregrine to a degree. Peregrine abruptly asks Paragon more reasonable questions about their current situation, mentioning military contracts, and how they can conduct business without assistance.

### Kimbrianna leaves her mark

Kimbrianna, desperate to leave her mark, puts on her gear, takes one of her pills, and then leaves later that night, while Nick and Kaliyah are asleep and Joey is occupied. Wearing her black vigilante clothes, she checks out an abandoned warehouse for more clues, one of the locations the Mortals abandoned, Kimbrianna stumbles upon some of the Octet, who are looking at the damage done to their warehouses and production. Following them, she is led outside a nearby location, where she witnesses a blue van arrive across the street. She also sees an unknown man and woman, who happen to be Peregrine and his bodyguard assassin, Paragon. Peregrine leaves, but Paragon stays behind.

As Kimbrianna sneaks in undetected, she sees Paragon and two guards keeping watch over the area, presumably preparing to restore warehouse operations. With an attempt to put a stop to it, Kimbrianna does stealth and takes out the guards as they inspect the areas. When stumbling upon Paragon, she proves to be a challenge. Kimbrianna manages to temporarily retreat and hides. While she hides while Paragon looks around, Paragon suddenly out of nowhere gets punched in the face, then facebashed into the wall and kicked in the stomach before then being elbowed in the face. Paragon then increases her density and chokeholds Kimbrianna against the wall. After getting out of the chokehold, Kimbrianna traps Paragon, asks for names and then leaves her. However, as the building blows from the fires, Kimbrianna simply can't just leave Paragon to die and quickly puts aside her hatred and resentment of the beaten Paragon, coming back for her.

### Myriad

The following day, Kimbrianna begins the day exhausted. She wakes up late, is tired at school, and appears restless, as if she did not get enough sleep. The scene transitions between days and weeks of the same routine between school, her time out fighting low-level crime, and her time behind a computer assisting the Mortals, who are also aware that something is wrong with her. Up to the end of February, the general public refers to her as Black Shadow, but Ayo complains about the name at the motel, and Kimbrianna decides to come up with a new name. With Joey's assistance, she finds things to reference to, and later alone, she discovers the word "Myriad" after searching for synonyms for a one-man army. Since she likes the moniker, she places some spray paint in her bag prior to going to look for trouble.

Now, March of 2019, while out, Myriad stops some back alley crimes, and, when done, she spray-paints that her "name isn't Black Shadow. The name is Myriad."

She then uses a cell phone belonging to one of the criminals to call the police, but remains silent. The police arrive and see the criminals beaten and tied up, as well as Myriad's message written on the wall behind them, which is then broadcast on the morning news.

### The Day After Myriad's Debut

The following morning at the same time, with Myriad's message on the news, despite the loss of her superpowers, Kimbrianna begins to experience confusion as a result of the pills she has taken.

Kimbrianna is easily angered, especially when fighting. Her repressed rage, hatred, anger, and pain are instantly and uncontrollably released. She loses all sense of right and wrong when interacting with the enemy, inflicting pain and injuries so horrific that the majority of those who cross her path would instinctively run from her. At school, Kimbrianna is in the school office to be suspended for the day after she was involved in a fight and Nick shows up.

During her next fight that evening, the police are called and arrive while Myriad is there. Myriad is cornered and has no chance of escaping alive unless she surrenders; however, as soon as her hoodie is taken down, she is able to keep her head faced down, move fast and defeat the entire police squad, without being identified.

### Two Days After Myriad's Debut

Back at the motel, Kimbrianna feels an addiction coming on and fears for her life, so she decides to stop going out at night and to stop taking the pills. Kimbrianna regains her normal and healthy appearance over time; That is, until she passes out at school.

Although everyone has seen that Kimbrianna has been sleeping "more" and has appeared sick for the past few days, they more try to determine what is actually wrong with her, as they had previously assumed she was simply just sick.

Nick discovers that Kimbrianna is Myriad and is livid as he grounds her and prevents her from assisting the Mortals behind the chair. The Mortals are notified, and Joey supports her, as Joey, Ayo, Kaliyah, and Scarlette understood her motivations, but disapproved of her drug use. Kimbrianna storms out of the motel in a rage to get some fresh air. Joey says, "Let me talk to her", and leaves to talk to her.

As Joey goes out to speak with Kimbrianna, he tells her how courageous she is and that she shouldn't take drugs to do this, while she explains why she did it. He tells her that she is courageous because he himself was terrified and unsure of what to do on his first few missions and on every mission that introduced something new. He also tells her that he still experiences fear and anxiety. Kimbrianna wanted to be able to do what the rest of the team did, especially if something were to happen to her and no one was around to protect her.

### Peregrine and Paragon's Reconnaissance Information, Relayed to the Octet

Days later, after numerous recons by Peregrine and Paragon, the Octet, excluding the Mayor, Drakaina, Wildbrig and Ethan discuss what was salvageable from their old warehouses prior to L.U.C.I.'s takeover and the Mortals' sabotage. Maestro states that the investigation to locate the Mortals, with the assistance of Revnnon and the use of their resources to aid the investigation is ongoing, as there is no known base of operations for the Mortals due to takeovers and sabotage.

Peregrine recommends suspending all attempts to begin new operations in public areas and only continuing to do business with the companies until the situation with the Mortals is resolved. He plans to continue his operations that are already on the outskirts. However, Prima is unwilling to halt their operations because their plans have been in the works for many years. They have faith that everything will still work out for them, and they have faith in their assassins, especially since they pay them well. She also mentions that, despite the fact that their bases have been taken over, their holding companies are still paying for undocumented locations on the outskirts so that they cannot be decrypted by enemies and the government like the others.

### Wildbrig's Departure

Meanwhile, Wildbrig is near the Galveston beach, where he embarks on a journey to discover his strengths, leaving on a battle cruiser yacht. With him is a crew of at least a dozen at least a dozen of his own crew members.

### Kimbrianna's Abilities

Kimbrianna's powers and problems are solved, with Kaliyah and Scarlette concluding that her abilities are permanent. Kimbrianna believes she can go on missions with the team now that her secret is out and problems have been resolved, but the team tells her she can't because they don't know what Nick would say, but they will teach her how to use her powers. Nick enters the living room to inform the team that he has just received a call from Drakaina, who informs him that the Mayor has received a call from the other crime bosses of the Octet with a plan to send their assassins after them, and that they should be more cautious of their surroundings.

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