"Mother"

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**"Mother"** is the eighth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

The Radar continues their trip through Mallory's past, and meet his mother?

## Prologue

**Kollok Ranger's Cabin**

In the body of Justin, from Undecided, The Traveller is posing as Kollok’s new ranger and sits inside the cabin with Mike Mikkelson as he ponders over Cheese in his jar. A knock sounds at the door and Mike opens it and greet Councilman Wallis Ronnie as if they have met before, though Dr. Ronnie has no memory of him. Dr. Ronnie enters and confronts the Traveller with what happened at the election debate, and the cost that the drugs have had on the town. The Traveller is unfazed and rejects Dr. Ronnie’s idea of trying to renegotiate with Mammon a second time after he already stepped in to help the town. Hearing about the loss of so many people gives Mike second thoughts and he slips Dr. Ronnie a note as the doctor voices his own regrets about dealing with the Traveller. The Traveller threatens him with consequences and demonstrates his power, lifting and holding Mike with his left hand and burning the words “remember the deal” into Ronnie’s stomach with a gesture from his right. After he is done Dr. Ronnie leaves and once Mike is out of sight he forgets whey he is outside the ranger station and is in so much pain.

**Act 1**

**August 9, 0:30am**

In the tunnel underneath the law office the group watch as power begins to turn on and electric lights reveal a worn down escalator at the far end that starts up. They discuss what to expect but only afterwards notice that the old lady and the ladder have vanished. They head down the escalator and Em calls out Mickey, Tibby and Billy for not telling her, Laura and Mallory anything about Synchroneity and the supernatural things going on. As they descend the lights behind them turn off as the ones ahead turn on and a voice calls out to them from below. Waiting at the bottom of the escalator is a young blind girl in a wheelchair who introduces herself as Alice. She enquires if the Program is starting up again and Mallory lies that he is a member of the council and the other are his students. They ask Alice about how long she has been down here and she tells them 18 years, though she only looks 15. They mention this and she says that the Engines keep her and the others in the tunnels young. She tells them about a person called Mother but they are not on speaking terms as Alice isn’t one of her children. She takes the group to her room and remarks that they sound familiar to her. Alice tells them about her past; that her family died in an accident, and when the council needed help she volunteered when Councilman Randy asked. She also reveals that the lights and power in the tunnels only function for council members.

During the conversation they discover that Alice, like Mallory, has thoughts on self harming and that she is starved for entertainment. They try to get more information about the Hearts that Billy saw on the map of the tunnels and Alice corrects them that they must mean the Engines. Her room is full of levers gauges and tv’s that show the homes of everyone in Kollok. Alice’s job is to ensure the signal goes out to the Grotto and to stop it would make them mad. As Alice continues to talk to the group Em notices activity at her house happening on a tv. She watches as her dad answers the door and an armed figure angrily enters her house, draws their gun and forces Jay Pegg into a chair. To go further in the tunnels Alice tells them they will need to speak to Mother at her lab though Alice would rather they stay to see if they would be kept alive by the engines or wither like the others, revealing a tarp underneath the tv’s hiding bones. Laura tries to open the door but it is locked. Alice knew they weren’t Council as if they were the engines would protect them. Alice shows anger at the council and at Mearl for trapping everyone down in the tunnels. Mickey tries to convince Alice to let them go while Laura threatens to pull a switch and shut down the signal. Alice doesn’t care as the town will be punished not her and Laura pulls the switch. All the tv’s in the room go off, the last image Em has is both her parents in the living room, Tiff bleeding from a head wound and her father crying. Alice unlocks the door but when Laura tries to turn the signal back on, the switch doesn’t work, they leave Alice in her room laughing as the door closes behind them.

**Act 2**

Back in the corridor the escalator is gone replaced with a wall as more lights come on leading the way. They discuss Mallory possibly being Mearl as the building lights come on as he moves. Em and Billy get in a fight over control of the map and the delay to get to her parents to see if they are okay, she uses her power, takes the map and pulls his jeans down for good measure. Billy refuses to put them back up when time resumes so takes them off and ties them around his waist. They continue on to find a large domed chamber partly lit with a door in one wall. As they approach it opens and a red-haired woman in a lab coat and sunglasses greets them. Mother hasn’t heard children in such a long time and she offers to make them tea, keeping to herself her curiosity as who among them turned the lights on. To her knowledge only “fellow” councilmen, Synchroneity staff & Stone Masons have that reaction. Mother confirms Alice’s statement about Mearl trapped them and offers to tell them everything during tea. They enter her lab though the lights here don’t react to Mallory’s presence.

Em asks about the changing walls but to her memory it only changed once before, when she was locked down here. Everyone avoids consuming the tea but Billy who happily drinks it. Mother started in Kollok with Project Minos, making “children” using genetic material, and that they are here with her. Laura cuts to the chase and gets Mother to confirm that she makes clones and that Mearl stole her baby. Mother uses her ability to see auras to get a better look at the group but the sight of Billy’s frightens her, as it matches the 9 samples of Council members she has as well as two others she doesn’t recognise, though the dark covers her reaction. When she turns to Mallory she sees Mearl’s aura in him and recognises Mallory as her baby. Laura pushes Mallory to hug her but Em is caught in the middle and Mother wraps them both in a hug. Em voices they should leave still worried about her parents but Mother does not take that well. She can’t and won’t leave her children and she questions them about why they are really here if not to bring Mallory back to her. Tibby lies well to cover up the truth, Mickey asks about what she does for food, but Mother is cryptic, Mickey then offers if they can go if Mallory stays.

Not long after the project got shut down and Synchroneity pulled out she went to the council to ask them to continue, they denied her, but Mearl went to her separately and helped her and asked if she could make him a son using his sample and incubation (not found anyone himself) Mallory was her first success and she got attached, a fight ensued and Mearl took him. Tibby tries to convince her to come with them instead or let them go, but unable to leave Mother is willing to let them go if Mallory promises to return. Em helps him sell the lie that he will and Mother seems happy. Mickey then voices what happened to the children that survived and then they hear laboured breathing and dragging feet in the darkness. The others start to leave and Tibby asks without resources how does she keep them alive. Once again she doesn’t answer instead offering to lead them out as the exit is past her labs. Mallory follows the lights as they turn on for him and in the sudden brightness finds a younger version standing right in front of him. Looking around the others also see other younger versions of people they know all looking hungry in their direction. Mallory runs for it which makes Mother nervous and worried, and the others run to catch up. Mother and her children slowly follow in no rush as they know the way.

Em leads the way and they come to a large spiral staircase but panicking has trouble reading directions and begrudgingly gives it to Billy who has a compass and they figure the way out. On the stairs a pile of decomposing children’s bodies block their way as Mother and some of her children take the now working lift, due to “Mearl’s” presence, to catch up. Tibby gives Mickey over to Laura to help get over the bodies and the others cross safely but while climbing using the railing Tibby falls two stories down into the dark. The others run down, Laura carrying Mickey, the stench of decay getting worse, which faced with so much death affects Billy reminding him of the lives lost with the use of his powers. Mallory gets to the bottom first and as the lights switch on sees Tibby unconscious in Mother’s arms, her children behind her and the floor littered with bodies. Tibby wakes up and panics at the scene around him, and Mother offers him in exchange for Mallory. Tibby uses his pain power on her, breaking her jaw and crushing her head and frees himself from her grip. Mother’s children become angry by her cries of agony and it attracts them from all over the facility. They fling themselves from the top of the stairs to reach Mother and to stop the group while those around Mother surround and try to help her. Mickey gets tagged by one of the fallen children, unable to fight it off, Laura’s shouts to stun it fails and gets all the children screaming in harmony.

Tibby is paralysed by what he did but Mickey’s voice reaches him and he runs to help her and Laura. Mallory, Em and Billy try to force another door open as Tibby gets Mickey and runs to help with the door, leaving Laura behind. With the additional force from Tibby and Mickey they manage to open the door and run through but Em runs back to help Laura. The cloned children grab at her clothes and tear into her legs until she uses her power to stop time. Em manages to get herself free, grab Laura and get them to relative safety when time restarts, and the pair manage to get through the too to the others. Mallory meets Mother’s eyes as her children lift her up and carry her away and she calls out to him that no one will ever love him like she does before they close the doors. Em asks Tibby to heal her, but using the power to hurt felt wrong and he is unable to. As the others try to figure a way out Tibby starts coughing and falls unconscious before them.

## 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

* Chloe Dykstra as Mother
* John Roiniotis as Dr. Wallace Ronnie Sr.
* Naeem Stewart as Mike Mikelson

## Rumors

1. They can escape through the Psychiatric Hospital. (winner)
2. They can escape through the Grotto. (winner)
3. They can escape through the Invisible Law Office.
4. They can escape through The Farm.

## Notes

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