"Spirit Of The Forest"

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***"Spirit Of The Forest"*** is the eleventh episode of KOllOK 1991.

## Synopsis

Time for a field trip to Synchroneity. Billy's newfound status as the coolest kid in school leads to "The Midnight Society" pursuing the group. Billy, Mickey, Marcus, Tibby, Terance, Oscar, and Burke find themselves in a dangerous situation from a familiar face.

## Plot

Before the game begins, Billy uses his powers to make his journal to look like a bible.

6PM. March 17th, 1991. Billy and Marcus are in Mickey's apartment. Mickey's parents are absent, apparently deciding to try dating again. Marcus called them together. Marcus explains that now that people remember Rachel and forgot the last few days, everyone is going to be searching for Rachel. And people are going to suspect him first for her disappearance. Billy apologizes for his actions.

Marcus explains that he's been doing a work study with his parents. While at Synchroneity, he heard where "Rachel" and "Linny" are located and saw Rachel's missing diary, which was seized when the group was captured by Synchroniety. He saw someone take the diary down to a lower floor, and heard a security guard discussing Rachel and Linny and about Ms. Wu that seems hard up for them. He has arranged for a field trip to Synchroneity. While there, he hopes to be able to figure some things out. Marcus plans on getting the keys/badge from the guard and then head down to the lower levels. Billy says that he has an idea for a distraction. He can talk to the Stone Masons and see if they can help. Despite their differing objectives, the Radar shares a common enemy with them.

Billy is feeling like everything is a little pointless. Michael Jones has stopped drinking. Mickey is blaming herself for Skye. Marcus is seeking a sense of normalcy, and worries that he will be suspected for Rachel's disappearance.

11AM. Kollok High School. March 18th, 1991. Mr Russell is loading teenagers into a school bus for the first field trip to Synchroneity during his tenure at the school. On the field trip are the following students: Oscar Venkman, Terance Kingston, Billy Baker, Mickey Jones, Burke, Marcus Bennett, Nick Blakely, Mike Mikelson, Em Pegg, Lexi Noff, Sayaka Omari, Tibby Devin, and Mike Hunt (although Mike Hunt doesn't answer roll call). Marcus sits next to Billy. Mickey sits in the middle of the aisle near Tibby. Oscar, Terance and Burke sit together behind Billy and Marcus. Marcus realizes that Billy is now more popular than him.

Oscar is convinced that aliens are involved with Synchroneity. He suspects Marcus, and thinks that's why he's hanging out with Billy. He and Peter insult and irritate Marcus while trying to get in Billy's good graces. Burke tells them Oscar theory about aliens, and Billy says there are some weird things going on there. Marcus says he he worked there with his parents and the place is normal. Fed up with the kids, Marcus picks up Oscar and Terance and carries them two seats back, telling Burke to follow. Marcus tells them that he is Billy's bodyguard. Oscar manages to disarm Marcus, handing him his lunch money and alleviating his anger.

Tibby keeps on inching towards Mickey's chair, apparently trying to get up the nerve to say something. Mickey acknowledges the attempt, so Tibby speaks. He asks if the Radar are all cool again. Mickey asks what he means. Unable to express himself properly, he instead asks if it's Billy fault that she can't use her legs. She says that it is her fault, no Billy's. Tibby expresses his concern. He knows that the FBI got her out of school. He asks if she's okay. Mickey explains what happened, blaming herself for her inability to walk and for Skye not being able to come back.

Tibby tries to convince Mickey it isn't her fault -- that it's Billy's fault for changing things -- but she doesn't accept that. Tibby thinks if he was there, he could have convinced Billy he didn't need to turn himself into a cool kid. Mickey says he can still talk to Billy. The people around him are not cool, they are just hanging around Billy in attempt to look cool. Still angry with Tibby from their previous encounter, Mickey tells him that he can inch back in his seat towards the window.

Mr. Russell asks Marcus to come up and talk to him. He thanks Marcus for setting the field trip up. Security is intense for the trip, and the parents have surprisingly agreed to Synchroneity's provisions and restrictions. Marcus' father will be leading the group. Mr Russell mentions that he's retiring next year and wants Marcus to put in the good word for him to become a lab tech at the facility (lab techs make more than his teacher's salary). Marcus remembers that Mr. Russell and his dad went to college together and that they applied to Synchroneity at the same time. Mr. Russell came to Kollok right away after college. Marcus' dad went to California, then came to Kollok, and still got the job he wanted. Marcus probes into the relationship between the two and manages to demean the science teacher.

The bus pulls into Synchroneity Tech. The bus pulls through the first round of security without being stopped. They are stopped at the second round of security. A guard gets on the bus and collects the paperwork that everyone had to sign. Burke and Oscar think that it's strange that Marcus knows the guard. They think that Marcus is after Billy. That Billy gained powers from being in a coma and Marcus is trying to deliver him to Synchroneity. As they argue about the possibilities, the bus makes it through a third security check and stops at the front doors. They have to cross under a large rectangular shape to enter the facility. The campus is quite large, but they will only visit one of the buildings.

Billy notices the Midnight Society (Burke, Oscar, and Terance) talking and gesturing towards him and Marcus. Oscar rushes up to Billy and asks if Marcus has been weird to him. Billy replies that Marcus is the most boring guy that he knows. Burke starts explaining their wild theories about Marcus. Burke asks if Billy has super powers and Billy says he has super speed. Billy says that he needs their help. He needs them to make an excuse to Mr. Russell if the teacher asks where Billy and his friends are.

The students are greeted by Marcus' father. The students are lead through a metal detector, with the exception of Mickey, who smuggles in a pocket knife. Marcus' father starts giving the students a tour of the facility. Marcus again brings up moments of his and Mr. Russell's past, demeaning the poor teacher further. Marcus' father asks him to stop. Marcus leaves the group temporary to get a "notebook". Marcus instead looks for a badge or keys to the lower area, He finds the security guard that was escorting Ms. Wu into the elevator, the one that was talking about "Rachel" and "Linny". Marcus tries to get the guard to leave instead of waiting for a distraction. He instead angers the guard. Marcus returns to his group.

Billy tells his friends to get ready for the distraction. Mickey passes the pocket knife to Marcus. Billy asks Tibby to help, who gets angry with the way that Billy has been treating him and that he's still been teased while Billy has been popular. Marcus reminds him that Tibby is his "boy", which prompts him to write out a new contract since the last one got erased when Billy changed the perception of reality. Marcus signs the contract, signaling that Tibby is his "boy".

The lights go out. The sirens go off.

7AM. The woods in Kollok, earlier that day. Billy treks through the cold woods on a mission. He calls out to Gerard. He hears something behind him and turns to see Gerard. Billy tells him that they are trying to sneak into the basement of Synchroneity and need a distraction. He tells him that he's seeking Rachel's body (Angela) and her journal. Billy realizes he is surrounded while he talks. Gerard says that they have been busy, getting ready to help Billy. He calls Billy The Diviner, and says that they will make "what is dark light." Billy tries to say that he doesn't want anyone hurt in the distraction, but tells the truth that he wants Synchroneity to pay. But he asks for innocent people to be spared.

Gerard tells Billy "The structure is weak. The wall not sound. Rebuild the feet before it falls to the ground." Billy tells him they need the distraction around noon. Gerard says that in the future, he may need something from Billy.

12PM. Synchroneity Tech. Everyone finds themselves in a dark room. Marcus' father tries to calm everyone. Billy looks out the window and sees hundreds of Stone Masons running towards the building. He sees the security guards exist the building to face them. The Stone Masons grab hands. Everyone in the Radar begins to glow. Anyone with nine fingers begins to glow colorfully, including Burke, Terance, and Oscar. Tibby is a void of color. The same with Marcus' father. People begin to yell. A color starts too seep through the floor.

They realize that everyone that emits a color have made contact with the same things. Nine fingers. The voice in their heads. The Zippers. Marcus is relieved that his father emits no light, and that Tibby emits no light.

They make their way back to the security guard, who is in awe of their glowing colors. Mickey rams her wheelchair into his knees. The guard is frozen in fear at the colors. Marcus helps him up and cuts the badge from the tether on his belt. He hands the pocket knife back to Mickey. Marcus tells the guard to check on the others, which he does. The group heads to the elevator. Something from below speaks to Mickey, saying "help me."

The Midnight Society gets in the elevator with the rest of the group. As the elevator doors close, they hear gunshots. The colors suddenly drop. The chain the Stone Masons made with their hands was probably broken. The elevator comes to a stop, two floors below. The doors open to a long, empty tunnel. Mickey exits the elevator and starts forward. The others follow. They try to calm the Midnight Society.

Tibby steps forward and says he knows what he saw upstairs. He says that the people emitting colors are all evil. He could see the darkness inside of them. When Rachel was taken away, they changed. He thinks they were trying to show everyone how messed up they are, and that's there evil inside of them. Marcus explains that there are some people in town that owe a debt. All the nine-fingered people owe a debt. And the rest of them are somehow apart of what's going on. Tibby is the only one that has a "pure" line. They are here to make sure nobody glows.

Oscar is convinced, again, that aliens are involved. A voice down the tunnel says that he might not be wrong. They turn to see Ms. Wu standing in the middle of the hallway. She tells them that she suggested that they all be rounded up, but her boss disagreed. She thanks them for proving her point. She they know they are there for "Rachel". She informs them that they are there because they are allowed to be. This is the end of the line. This is their home now. This isn't a hallway.

Ms. Wu clicks the button of a device in her hand and they find themselves in a room with no elevator behind them. Ms, Wu is on the other side of a large glass pane. She tells them that she recognized Marcus poking around. This was all arranged for them. Marcus asks for the Midnight Society go because they aren't a part of this. Ms. Wu disagrees; they are a part of it because their parents were. Tibby steps out and says that he is not a part of this. He knows Synchroneity can make him forget. He asks her to let him go and make him forget. Billy notices that Tibby is glancing at him in a strange way, but doesn't understand what his friend means.

Ms. Wu tells them they look terrible, making them realize that Billy's powers do not work on everybody. She tells Tibby to come forward. Billy tries to convince him to stay. Tibby walks up. Marcus tells Tibby to hold on to their contract. Ms. Wu motions for everyone else to stand back. Ms. Wu presses something and a portion of the glass wall rises. Tibby punches Ms, Wu, and tells everyone to go. Tibby starts kicking her and yelling obscenities. Everyone starts running. As they flee, and the lights flicker, Mickey sees Ms Wu behind them and she looks like a body without skin.

Mickey hears the same voice as before saying "help me." She starts heading in that direction. They ruin past rooms with people, or things, within them. People who, like them, have been captured to be studied. Tibby comes from behind and start pushing Mickey's wheelchair at top speed. Everyone else follows. Ms. Wu is no longer behind them. Something is causing the lights to flicker. They all feel something. The colors start to change, enhancing the cracks between the multiverse. They get brighter as they run down the hall. Everyone sees it, except for Tibby, who runs to the voice unknowingly.

As they run, the hallway becomes a vein pulsing around them. Tibby suddenly stops. He sees a light that isn't moving. Everyone else sees a thing, mountains of moving flesh. It calls out to Mickey to help it. The thing has no ego, but it has a soul that projects feeling and impressions that Mickey can hear. It is referred to as the Harvest. It wants to die. Synchroneity has been growing it and taking its flesh for payments.

Mickey touches it. It is warm and sweaty. She sees blood and footprints. The other place their hands on the flesh too. Mickey sees what the thing wants. She reaches out through the multiverse and finds its host, the original. It looks at her, knowing that she is looking at it. She feels like the original is in town, only a couple of miles away. The original is a man in all black. He closes his eyes and nods for her to proceed. The flesh goes cold and starts retract, shriveling up. The lights change, revealing the room as it normally should be. Tibby can now see the flesh.

Tibby points in a direction, and they see two teenage kids: Angela and Tommy. They stand in awe of what just happened. Marcus tries to open the door to their room, but it is locked. Marcus tries to force the door open and fails. Mickey cuts something, enabling the door to be opened. Although Marcus knows Angela isn't Rachel, he is still overcome by emotions and treats her as if she is. Angela backs away from Marcus, her hands up. Marcus realizes his mistake. Tommy starts rambling in Cantonese, and runs off beckoning the others to follow.

Oscar finds a locked filing cabinet marked "paradoxes." Tibby beats to lock with his hands, which falls open. They find the diary inside and a folder. Angela keeps her hands up while moving, and follows her brother. They head back down the hallway. They notice the flesh continues to shrink, and their is an awful smell of death. But there's something off with the smell, something otherworldly.

Another siren goes off. They begin running. A door opens and men in armor come running, carrying devices that resemble guns. They do not pay attention to the kids, and run back to the flesh. There is a piercing sound that stings their ears. The walls begin to vibrate. The world starts to contract around them. They enter the open elevator. The walls shake as the elevator rises. It feels like an earthquake, the sound still deafening them. The cracks in the multiverse show again. This time Tibby sees them too. Tibby says that something is about to happen.

They feel like something pulls them like gravity. As they reach upstairs, it feels like something is pulling them across the floor. A bright light emits. The floor rips out underneath them. Marcus' world starts to go dark. He starts to lose consciousness as his dad crawls toward him. Everyone loses consciousness except Billy and Mickey. Billy grabs Burke, unable to find Oscar or Terance. Mickey grabs Tibby. Billy grabbed the others one-by-one.

Hours later, they are in the hospital. Tibby wakes up and sees billy by his side. Tibby asks what happened to everyone else. Billy lies and says everyone is fine. Everyone else is still asleep. Billy notices something strange, something the doctor's couldn't understand. Tibby was injured at the facility, and Billy watched Tibby heal in the hospital, right before his eyes. Tibby gets some more rest, at Billy's urging.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Andre Meadows as Marcus Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Meghan "Strawburry17" Camarena as Skye Hawkins
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

### Guests

* Liam "HBomb94" Heneghan as Terrance Kingston
* Peter Sudarso as Oscar Venkman

## Rumors

1. The council is holding an election
2. The stonemasons are building something out in the woods
3. Were those tremors? Is something happening in the mines
4. The national news is coming to town, collective amnesia is a big deal (winner)

## Notes

This episode has two guests instead of the normal one, and their interactions lead to more comedic moments than usual.

Mike Hunt is mentioned for the first time in this episode when roll call is taken. He does not respond to it, leading the group to believe his name was a prank. He is confirmed to actually exist in Episode 12, and he appears as a character portrayed by Brandon Winfrey in Episode 15.