"All Apologies"

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**"All Again"** is the sixteenth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Plot

**Prologue**

Tibby experiences another nightmare like the ones he has experienced each night since returning from traveling through time two days ago. His guilt over Mike’s Hunt’s death, the fears of being unable to save his friends and not being strong enough for them weighing down on him. He wakes up to his mom’s arrival home from work as she prepares breakfast.

**Act 1**

**4:30pm, 22 August, 1991**

Mike Mikkelson still trapped underground glimpses through the floorboards that the room above him has changed and the Traveler is less gloating than before and suspects something has changed. He hears a muffled yell above him as the Traveler goes to investigate leaving the hatch to the basement unlocked. Peeking out of the hatch Mike discovers he is no longer at the cabin but in the kitchen of an old woman’s home. Spying a telephone Mike tries to carefully exit the hatch to call for help but in his weakened state drops the hatch loudly and gains the attention of the others in the house. Mike hides in a nearby cabinet and through the crack in the door sees the Traveler in a weakened state, re seal the hatch before leaving. Mike goes to the telephone and calls his old place of work but no one picks up. He calls the operator to get help but they don’t recognize his name but Mike gets them to connect him to his family. His mom picks up but she to doesn’t remember him and hangs up. Mike hears another commotion and hides and discovers a label from Major Video, recalling Cheese and he and the Traveler following Em Pegg there at one point and dials the number.

**12:30pm, Kollok High**

At lunch a nervous Tibby sits down next to Em, missing Mickey who was taken out of school by her Dad, and he asks her how she’s been doing. Em doesn’t feel happy going to school and work having started to live a life back in 1943 and is missing Ven who is staying at Mallory’s with him and Laura. Tibby is worried about Mallory spending time with Billy and they agree that it could be dangerous. They discuss why her future self stopped them from coming to get her after three years, and not before she was interrogated for 6 months, but Tibby tries to stay positive by bringing up a that maybe it was to ensure a happy future between her and Ven. They change subject about the rising popularity of Billy Baker and the floods that have been happening in the town, and wonder if the latter is because of them. They make plans to meet up with the others at Major Video, who have been flooded at Mallory’s and Em offers Tibby a job at there but he turns it down because of an agreement he has with his mom and they talk about the loss of the towns internet and the speculation that it was Mayor Lundt’s fault before they head off to their next class.

**3:30pm**

At Mallory’s Henry and Ven are awkwardly watching re runs, and he asks about her being called Ven but she prefers if he calls her Clarity. Mallory and Laura arrive after picking her up from work and he asks the same question to Clarity that Henry did. Ven lets out her frustration about being trapped in the house due to being possibly hunted and Laura gives her hair dye so she can disguise herself and she leaves to do so as Mallory and Henry end up discussing Ven’s name to Laura’s annoyance. There is a knock at the door and Tibby arrives to Laura’s feigned dismay but she let’s him in, and the group discuss Henry’s options being stuck unable to go home. Tibby brings up meeting with Em at work and Mallory purposes applying for a job there since Cheese is still missing and Henry wants to do the same. Laura helps Ven with her hair dye as the others leave for Major Video.

**4:30 pm**

Mallory hands Em back his application form and she shreds it in front of him as Henry hands her his and she stuffs it under the register as Laura and Ven arrive in a cab. After Em kisses Ven to shut down Mallory’s belief that she is still into him Tibby calls the meeting to order as the phone rings. Em picks up as Mike asks for Cheese and introduces himself. Em explains how they know him as Mike sees another copy of the Traveler leave the garage to go into a room elsewhere in the house. Mike sees the Traveler drag the dead body of Billy Baker out of the room outside who turns and meets eyes with him. Mike drops the phone as the Traveler makes a bee line toward him, Mike rushes toward the hatch as Em overhearing through the phone yells aloud and surprises the Traveler. Mike manages to get inside the hatch as the first copy of the Traveler dissolves into a puddle and another gets inside. Mike holds the hatch closed against the weakened Traveler and calls out to Em on the phone what’s going on. A voice calls up to Mike as Alice appears and offers her help, the Traveler clone dissolves and Mike lifts up the hatch only to find himself no longer in the house.

In the front of the store the group hear a sound in the back and Em goes to investigate to find Mike hiding behind a stack of boxes and a wooden hatch on the floor. Em and Tibby explain how they know him and Mike explains that someone called Alice helped him but looking down she is nowhere to be found. Mike is confused about how they can remember him and they explain that no one has powers. They ask him about Rachel’s Diary and he recalls being sent to meet with Mickey and Tibby, learning about it’s location and stealing it and confronting the group later on in the tunnels. They tell him of its importance and Tibby quickly speed summarizes the important events for Mike, but he passes out in front of them. Ven steps through the group and touches her forehead to Mikes apologizing for what he has gone through and closes her eyes. The group’s memories of Mike, before he got his powers, suddenly returns and Mike wakes up and he tells them that he saw Henry die. Em and Tibby recall not seeing Billy in the last class of the day and Henry has Tibby calls his home to confirm their fears. Mrs Baker hasn’t seen Billy and Henry says to her that everything is fine before hanging up. Em calls the operator to get the location of where Mike called from but the operator refuses, they hang up and while Mallory distracts Em, Henry calls the operator to send an ambulance to the last number dialed. Tibby asks Mike what he can remember about the Traveler as they saw him melt and Laura grabs some snacks from the store and offers them to Mike as they hear the sirens of an ambulance from the hospital nearby starting to leave and they head off to follow it.

**Act 2**

**5pm**

Having followed the ambulance the group arrive on a quiet street on the other side of town and through the rain Mallory sees a figure invite the paramedics. They discuss what to do to get inside but Mike is reluctant to go back in. As they discuss the possibility of Em using her powers when Mallory spies only one of the paramedics exit the house, get in the ambulance and leave. Laura asks if they know how The Traveler works and Mike recalls that he can create and destroy flesh with his powers and Henry voices his previous encounter with the Traveler in Undecided when he was in a different body and Tibby connects that he must be able to replace his Ego into other bodies. Mallory pulls into the drive way with the Traveler gone and Tibby voices that they may be walking into a trap. Em uses her power to stop time and feels that her connection to that power is stronger. The silence in the frozen time is calming and Em exits the car and heads inside, taking note that the rain continues to move on contact with her and stops again once it trickles off of her.

Inside she finds the body of the second paramedic with a knife in them and a trail of blood and follows it to a stop in front of shelving unit. She pulls it aside and finds the body of Billy Baker in the space behind it, she pulls him out and drags him out front, the frozen time starting to make her feel detached when she notices a door that shouldn’t be there. Em drops Billy’s body, heads toward it and opens it to reveal a long dark hallway inside a collection of bodies that turn toward her and mindlessly start to come for her. Em snaps herself out of her detachment, slams the door shut and pushes the tool shelf in front of the door. Em quickly scans the house for the journal but can’t find it but does find the body of an old woman. The other copies of the Traveler barge through the door to the garage to block her path but Em manages to get around them and back to the car as she restarts time. The legion of Traveler bodies start out the door after Em but Mallory refuses to start the car until someone tells him what is going on. Mike knocks Mallory unconscious and Laura tries to pull him out so she can change places as the bodies throw themselves onto the car.

Mike recognizes that the bodies are shells acting on instinct as one of them smashes through a window. Em finds a tire iron and begins to hit them back each hit turning them into puddles but they continue to swarm. Laura manages to move Mallory and pull away from the house running down as many as she can on the way out of the street. Em explains what happened and Ven tells them that if the bodies could exist in the stopped time the Traveler must have connections to more than Phobos’ power. Em tells Henry about Billy’s fate as Laura tries to find the ambulance through the rain, she spies it in the distance when a black sedan pulls out in the road in front of them. Laura breaks, hydroplaning to a stop and the group see that Agent Bucket is in the car. Em runs out of the car happy to see Bucket but he tells her that they have to let the Traveler go. He introduces himself to Laura and says that he was sent by Agent Bilfroy and they need more information on the Traveler but they confront him with the people he has killed. Em asks why he hasn’t been around and helped them and he replies that he was the one that sent had Mike collected by the FBI. Tibby blames him for taking Mike away when he could have helped with his powers and walks away from the group.

Laura tells Bucket to deal with the Traveler’s clones but he answers that they already have, Em asks about Skye and he replies that she passed on the opportunity to be stationed at Kollok. Bucket tells them that they need to stand down and let the FBI handle things as they have been doing so behind the scenes, but Em and Laura refuse to be dismissed after everything they have gone through. Mike introduces himself to Bucket when Ven steps out of the car and Bucket pulls his gun on her, believing that they are under her influence. They explain where Ven comes from and that the cover story about the group camping in the woods for a week was a lie and he lowers the weapon. Em points out that he shouldn’t have left and reached out to them, even though it was against protocol. To which he replies that they need to understand that order and structure needs to be maintained. Ven whispers to Em about Harmonia’s infiltration of the US government and Em tells her how she knows Bucket from what Skye told her of her Prime A self’s interactions with him. Ven asks if she trust Bucket and Em says that she can’t anymore if he’s going to keep secrets from them at a time like this. Ven nods, kisses her and turns to Bucket saying that he represents everything she is against before raising her arm, closing her fist and snapping his neck with a thought.

**Epilogue**

Bucket’s body hits the floor and the group confront Ven with her actions. Em picks up Bucket’s body, finding a way to shut herself off from the moment and Henry finds Tibby by the river and tells him what happened. The news upsets Tibby and Henry leaves him passing by the others and announcing his intentions to call the police. Ven justifies her actions by saying she was protecting them, but Henry doesn’t believe her. Ven warns that if she finds anyone else who sides with Harmonia (the face of destruction) she will do to them what she did to Bucket. Laura opens the trunk to Bucket’s car and sees it full of boxes, one of them labelled with the names of the group and she searches through it. Inside she finds files on everyone, Rachel’s journal and records on herself including her life from her own universe up until she left Synchroneity. She hands off the files and journal to Mallory as Em carefully places Bucket in the driver’s seat before closing the door and turning away from him.

Ven places her hand on the car and using another of her powers carves upon the metal “Clarity Lives,” and with that message warns that Harmonia will come for Marcus. Laura tackles Ven and demands for her to explain and she answers that Marcus is gone, that Clarity Prime is in control, so Harmonia will go after them or the Traveler. Laura stands up and fetches Tibby from the river, he tells her a little about what Bucket did for them and she shares her sorrow about Marcus being gone. Tibby still remains hopeful that Marcus is alive and promises if he gets his powers back he could be useful to the group and help them all. Laura tells him that he is useful with or without his powers and Tibby asks her not to leave him alone with Ven as he may try to kill her. They re-join the others and Em voices that she and Ven will walk home if the others take Mallory’s car, and Ven uses her powers to move Bucket’s car into the flooded river. As Em looks at Ven, thoughts of their past playing through her mind, the red dye in Ven’s hair bleeds down her face and arms into her hands.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

## Rumors

1. Something strange is going on at the arcade? (winner)

1. Has anyone seen the librarian since the rains started?

1. The new Principal is cracking down on attendance policy.

1. Mike Hunt's body is being transferred to Kollok for a funeral.

## Notes

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