(AL) Session 2-6 - Betrayal

## Plot

Diane Atan is now being kept in the cells at Athena's Library.

Rebecka calls a meeting with the curators and Bagel Squad to discuss what they should do with her, she also tells the other curators that she has put the databases offline due to a hack, likely from The Hand shortly after Diane's arrival. Diane herself is thoroughly checked by Evie and Sergey for any traces of a tracker or such device, she is found to have a camera eye under her eyepatch which is promptly removed by Val.

Rebecka then calls a meeting with Evie, Leslie and Freya and gives them individual jobs to do: Evie is to dismantle and analyse the vehicle Diane arrived in, Freya is to look through storage and the physical databases to find any items Horizon may be after or anything that could help with the hunt for the stingray, and Leslie is to lead the interrogations against Diane.

The three go off to do their tasks. Freya discovers the names and descriptions of some artifacts that may be in Horizon's interests, but is unable to locate them due to deep storage being locked. She goes to find Arthur to see if he has the key but is unable to find him; so instead she decides to go find Evie to see if she could break the lock.

Evie has been investigating the vehicle and has discovered a staggering amount of weapons, ammunitions and bombs (C4). She has also discovered what Freya (when she arrives) identifies as something similar to the time bomb used by Horizon, or the first half at least. Freya then runs off to find Emi so she can dismantle it.

Leslie doesn't get far with the interrogations against Diane, but Diane says to her to "check on your kid" once Leslie starts to leave the cell. This prompts Leslie to go check on Rina, who is sitting in her room filling through papers of the curators given to her by Sergey. Leslie puts together that Sergey is the stingray. Leslie then runs to the cells to find Rebecka but finds her and Emi gone, the cell door is open and inside is Diane lying in a pool of her own blood, having been stabbed in the jugular, likely by Sergey himself. Leslie tries to patch up the wound and brings her and Rina to the infirmary where she and Val work together to stabilise Diane who is now in a coma. Val passes out from exhaustion and Leslie leaves to go find Rebecka, telling Rina to lock the door once she leaves.

Meanwhile, Freya runs into Sergey (who has a duffle bag) after leaving Evie. Sergey tells her that they are under attack and tells her to come with him to where the others are hiding. He leads her to the storage basement where he then proceeds to lock her in. Freya sends a pager to Leslie and Evie but the message is distorted from the poor connection, she also discovers that the artifacts she found in the database earlier are gone, they are likely in Sergey's bag.

Shortly after Freya leaves, Sergey shows up to where Evie is working and tries to tell her the same story about the library being under attack. Evie, in a mild panic over the explosives, asks him to destablise the time bomb but he instead activates it. At this point, Freya's message comes through and Evie quickly figures out the truth. The two have a confrontation and Sergey reveals the second half of the time bomb; Evie lunges at him and after a brief scrabble he accidentally hits the button, dragging himself and Evie into the time stream. Around the same time, Freya hits the button on the temporary replacement Resetter the group had been given and she and Leslie are brought into the same time stream as Evie and Sergey.

The four land in an unknown time and Sergey starts running away and Evie gives chase. Both of them are far ahead of the other two and Evie is able to catch up to Sergey after he stumbles slightly; she tackles him to the ground and punches him, he kicks her off and presses the button again, bringing the group to a new time/place. Sergey begins running off again and Evie once again chases him, ignoring his shout for her to stop following him. Sergey begins to climb a tree but Evie grabs onto his leg and he once again presses the button.

The group then appear in a desert with pyramids in the distance, an unknown time in Egypt. Sergey once again runs away while the group (mainly Evie) gives chase. They follow him into a market-looking place where all four of them cover their heads to try to blend in. Sergey tries to lose Evie in the crowd and runs down an alleyway.

## Featured Characters

* Evie Vinell
* Freya Von Franc
* Leslie Bradley
* Rebecka Rose
* Sergey Tysrulnikov
* Val Namerso
* Rina Garethan
* Diane Atan

## Major Events

* Sergey is revealed to be an infiltrator in Athena's Library
* Diane is critically injured